skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with contemporary taxies is that a large chunk of the money you pay goes towards paying the driver.

Think about it; You need to pay a driver something like $40k each year; While the car itself may cost $40k to purchase and will last for 5-10 years.

Having human drivers also modifies the way you deploy your taxies. The driver must return home at the end of each day, so intercity trips don't happen. The driver needs to be paid even if the taxi is just sitting waiting for a passenger, so you want to closely match the number of active taxies to the number passengers. This also means electric taxies are unattractive for for manned taxies because your taxi shouldn't be stopped for long enough to charge between rides.

But if you move to self driving electric taxies you get rid of idle costs. It costs almost nothing to have a taxi which doesn't have passengers, so you can overstock the taxies and give time for them to charge between rides. Since you have extra taxies, you can also afford to leave them in remote areas where you know you will have return passengers in the future.

Basically, a self driving taxi doesn't have the same cost model, so it is reasonable to expect a change in the usage patterns.
A.D.H.D. Experts Re-evaluate Study’s Zeal for Drugs
Great revolutionary short - filmed in under 5 hours
How are the hurricanes?
Wasn't the head of Louis Vuitton threatening to leave France if this passes? Will be interesting to see if he follows through.
If someone rubs you wrong personally, why in the world would that not be relevant, especially on a small team? Sure, you don't have to be besties or anything, but being able to at least converse with someone makes any work relationship go a lot smoother, and inability to do so can cause serious problems.

I'd never let a good culture fit override a poor technical interview, but I've seen the consequences of hiring a brilliant programmer that happens to be an asshole, and it's not pretty. Am I misinterpreting what you're saying, or do you really think social skills should be entirely ignored when it comes to hiring?
I don't think they'd always be given the choice to. Especially something like Netflix, which directly competes with cable companies and their online offerings.
It takes 10 minutes to destroy a 512mb VM?
The basic offerings should be secure. You shouldn't have to know what all the bits and pieces of a custom interface mean before you start using a service in order to use it safely.

Seriously, there should not be an option "Shall we pass your latent information onto the next user?" left active by default. If people want to save that trivial amount of money, then let them turn off safety themselves.
This huge Russian IT manager I know (6'3 / 250 lbs) was robbed at knife point in the doorway of his hotel in San Jose, CR in 2007. When he went to ask a taxi driver what to do, the driver handed him a knife and suggested he get his own wallet back. He did so and recovered his wallet, as the robbers failed to leave the scene. Street justice FTW.
> Why isn't anything being done

Because you're not doing it. Nor him, nor her, nor I. Because somebody has to actually do it, not just muse that somebody else should do it.
Yes, this used to be how you flashed a BIOS for a bricked motherboard, when BIOS chips used to be socketed: boot the good board, pull the BIOS chip (while it's running), put the bad/blank one in the socket, and flash, then power everything off again and put the good one back.
This is starting to get really bad. Why aren't there demonstrations in the streets? I tried to sound out my relatives over the holidays to see what they think about Snowden/NSA and nobody seems to care.
>Seems like an impressive conference, and getting a paper published in this conference should be a big achievement on any student’s resume, right?

No, absolutely not. Looking at the web site immediately raises two red flags:

1) It's a multi-topic conference. Usually these fall into two categories: Undergrad conferences and money-making scams. Participating in neither of them is "a big achievement"

2) The submission deadline is 9 days before the conference starts and three days before the registrations deadline. This would give them 2-3 days for the peer review process? That's is close to impossible.
It is "present in the ops center" I believe , which is the same standard as for ordering other strikes. I'm not as familiar with the backend, I just know the launch/recovery of UAV part, and the terminal part.
It depends, both consoles had some great exclusives over their 7ish year lives, and they can almost all be had for $15-$20 a pop. At the same time, PC game specs have been held up by a lengthy cosole generation to the point where it's pretty likely that your current machine can play anything you throw at it.
Reminds me of when Alan Sokal wrote a paper full of buzzwords and co-opted scientific language and name-dropping then submitted it to a prestigious cultural studies journal [1]. Thesis: quantum gravity is merely a social and linguistic construct.

Accepted.

The humanities are still trying to recover from that one.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
> Or at least an open source BIOS.

http://www.coreboot.org/

I remember when most motherboards would have a physical BIOS write-protect switch, which would've prevented all software from modifying it. These days it's been eliminated from most if not all, for reasons of cost and "but it'll require the user to open the case to upgrade the BIOS!" -- and apparently, the automatic updating software for some laptops will update the BIOS in the background without warning, which is even more disturbing to me...
More abstractly speaking, WWI was the breakdown of a alliance system that guaranteed peace in an earlier era. On this level, there is certainly a lot more going on since the end of the cold war, than between the crowning of Friedrich-Wilhelm and the outbreak of WWI.

About your specific points:

1) Cultural attitude of "eh, war is not so bad and
higher tech means we'll be home by xmas".

Ever visited r/worldnews ? Additionally the fetichization of the military in the US is for European eyes frankly absurd. Starting with "thank you for your service", the dedication of NFL games to the military and not ending with the picture of the military in movies.

2) Germany surrounded [...] paranoid lash out.

Except the Sea-Air-Battle doctrine of the Dod is carefully designed for conflicts without a staging area. ( And they are actually not that shy about the target of this plan.) [1][2] China is rightfully paranoid, the largest military in history is currently pointed at them.

I will skip the 3rd point. ( I am not sure why the Ottoman empire should be the root cause, so its hard to comment on a analogy.)

4) The article skipped several points WRT the German/British alliance thing, [...]

Great point, but if a US foreign policy like [3] takes hold, basically the idea that the US should preemptively prepare for a China-Russia alliance, then the US will create a China Russia alliance. Much in the same way Friedrich-Willhelm did create the Russian-French-British alliance.

Skipping 5,6,7, since I do not really view these as essential; I think that there are a lot of similarities between the eve of WWI and the current situation. This does not mean, that we are in exactly the same geostrategic situation but that there are enough similarities to start worrying. Or to quote Mark Twain: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

[1] http://complex.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/08/20/surrounded...

[2] http://warm-oolong-tea.blogspot.de/2013/10/the-truths-and-my...

[3] http://www.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/12/02/2013-the...
Is 'free as in libre' hardware really any protection if the NSA intercepted your device at the border and planted undetectable MITM malware/hardware? Are you really gonna take the whole thing apart and check every chip for modifications?
When I was at Caltech in the early 90s the general belief[1] seemed to be that we'd stolen the cannon from Harvey Mudd originally and the concept of MIT stealing it from the Flems[2] was hilarious. The Flems would be flustered, the Mudders would have to get it back from Massachusetts, and the rest of us would applaud and go back to setting things on fire, painting on the walls, and lock-picking. Inter-house rivalries were more of a running gag than an actual conflict - especially since there was heavy overlap between house memberships (you could and often did join more than one) - but it played into the continual pranking/stacking.

[1] Short institutional memories confusing the issue further.
[2] Fleming house members, basically stereotyped as Caltech's jocks at the time. I can't throw stones, I was a Mole and there were plenty of jokes about us, plus I almost dated a Flem.
The Yes Men could launch Bitvote - vote trading platform using bitcoin
> The value of the transactions over this period are equivalent to "roughly $1.2 billion in revenue and $79.8 million in commissions" and involved 146,946 buyers and 3,877 vendors.[13]

That was the value transacted on the Silk Road. Quite impressive numbers, given that it was a single site and much of that growth occurring in Bitcoin's less user-friendly days.
After sitting through an embarrassingly awkward 2 1/2 hr talk by Richard Stallman at SJSU last month, I think he actually is a little... off. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't take his message to heart.
Top Five Mobile Apps That Help You during Emergency
Tests and static analysis
> That's nice and all but don't let your boss hire multiple cheaper "developers" and expect you to train them.

I would avoid filling a company with too many learners and not enough teachers, but some teaching will generally be a necessity. The more they know:

- The fewer mistakes they'll make for me to run into, have to help clean up, or otherwise suffer

- The fewer mistakes of mine will go uncaught by their reviews, for me to run into, have to clean up, or otherwise suffer

- The fewer tasks will fall on my plate by necessity, giving me more flexibility in what I work on or when I take time off

And hey, cheaper hires means bigger potential raises, right? :)
Though I am an avid gamer, I'm actually more excited for Xbox One to be a media center in my living room than a gaming console.

I really like the fact that they have an HDMI-In so that you can plug your cable box into your Xbox and be able to watch TV without having to switch inputs. Sounds simple but it goes along way in making your content that much more seamless so you can switch between web browsing/games/TV on a whim. Its something that the logitech Revue got right two years ago but unfortunately turned out to be the only thing they got right.

The living room is the next frontier and to me it seems like Microsoft is currently in the best position to conquer it. I was hoping the next iteration of Apple TV would have dropped on the world but the more time passes the more I fear that whatever blue prints Steve left behind that "cracked the TV code" are becoming dated.
I am currently in Learning phase of DATA Science. I have used R(More Proficient) and Python extensively for my Current Data Science Projects. Well i can say R is more of a functional language than one would think, but it's certainly not a great general purpose language. So as of now I have used R as Functional Programming For Descriptive analysis and on top of it used python for Making Data Science/Analytics Application, but aging there is a library name "Shiny" Which makes R programmer to make web App so easy as writting code for Descriptive analysis in R. And i am also interested in getting finger tight with Haskell and Julia.
You know, I'd actually be less outraged if the NSA's backdoors weren't so damn buggy.
>If some Chinese or Russian 'freedom' fighters decide to train militarily in US with the goal of toppling current govt of China/Russia and did actually cause deaths/damage in China/Russia, would US govt sit back and let them train in US? Probably not.

The line of argument is so simplistic it boggles my mind. Lets get few facts straight:

a. Goal of terrorists is not to topple US government. You can't draw parallels between things without understanding their motive. Primary goal of a terrorist organisation operating out of Islamist state is to flex muscle and create terror. Often it is - revenge killings so as to deter state forces (of US, India, NATO). So far with each drone strike - make no mistake US is creating more terrorists. As a Indian, I detest each time our government kills/arrests a law abiding citizen of India - for just being a Muslim. Terrorists win each time. If you can accept those innocent people as collateral damage, you should be ready to accept 9/11 or Mumbai bomb blast victims as collateral too?

b. Deep down I believe some US citizens simply do not understand how terrorists work. They think, if you drone strike a bunker with important terrorist leader - problem will simply go away.

c. Look up Operation Cyclone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone). CIA trained and financed Taliban when it suited them. Did Russia drone strike key CIA administrators? India is similarly accused of training LTTE (http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2013/07/28/india-armed-tr...). A terrorist Organization which oddly enough killed our prime minister. Did Srilanka drone stike India?

The truth is - there is power and power allows powerful countries to make rules and let them get away with it. US uses drones strikes against Pakistan because they know they will get away with it. They dare not do the same against, Russia, China or even India. Assuming that drone strikes help reduce terrorism is just too naive.
Of course there are regional IEEE conferences. But in general, the international IEEE conferences and journals by the bigger societies are probably the best ones out there.

I have published quite a bit in the physical sciences/engineering field and in my experience the IEEE journals have a far better peer review process than AIP, ACS, Elsevier and even NPG. The same goes for the conferences.
It's just sad - they're taking an already bad situation and making it even worse.
> self-signed cert for all the people who can access the admin.

This is what I do. The browser generates a warning on first use, and I then put the domain in the "ignore" list (since I trust my own domain). After that, it works fine.
"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich." - Peter Ustinov
Maybe I'm being too cynical, but it says the tax only applies to this year and the next. It seems like there is an easy workaround - don't take your salary until afterwards, and/or pay yourself in advance now. It's just lip service, really, to keep the public happy.

The massively wealthy can afford to wait a couple years for tax laws to revert. And they don't mind waiting - the general public, unaware of reality, believes that the rich are paying more than their fair share of taxes.

Meanwhile, new tax incentives and loopholes are created all the time, in every country. You won't know about them, but you can be damn sure that the expensive CPAs do.
I think msandford is thinking that you think that this system would charge-cycle a car more than once per day, and if you do think this, he's addressing it by pointing out that the car would be charge-cycled only once per day, or less given that the system wouldn't need to utilize every car on a given day. So this extra <= 1 charge cycle per day shouldn't "murder" the battery longevity (or at least murder is way too strong of a word) compared to normal daily driving.
It's much faster and there are certainly people who don't care because the data is worthless to anyone but them.
It seems kind of silly that something has to literally be "new news" in order to be worth broadcasting or discussing, even if it hasn't before.
I don't think this operation is very unreasonable if highly targeted. If they did this to computers bought by Iran's nuclear program, or known watched mid level jihadis , the only problem I'd have would be I don't have enough money to buy an open bar for everyone involved. No one is arguing this was pervasive.

The dangerous area IMO would be domestic law enforcement or political use (well , not so gray), and attacking innocent third parties with this to gain access to systems to attack actual bad guys. ( eg Belgacom)
You can read more about how React combined with immutable data structures provides great performance in this blog post by David Nolen
http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc...
You may not always have the chance to scrub it yourself, for example when your VM has a hardware issue.
I agree that there are ways to implement this. And perhaps they should (mind you from experience not all SSDs do this properly).

I simple can't blame them for delivering what they say they are going to give me, even if they could have built their infrastructure better.
You troll, then insinuate I troll. Classic trick to blame others for what you do yourself -- someone browsing will just see two people calling each others names.

You wrote this weird garbage:

>>Communism isn't worse than anything no matter how bad.

That is typical left wing dishonesty, motivated with some Western country (usually USA) being dependent on and cooperating with an unpleasant dictator that is opressive and/or did mass murders.

If you have some other way of explaining that (drugs?), please do.

>>You've also skillfully defeated arguments I have not made (e.g. blaming millions of deaths or lack of democracy in communist countries on the US).

See previous paragraphs. You also wrote this:

>> It's hard to determine how bad some of the less nasty communist regimes such as Cuba and Vietnam would have been without massive economic sanctions from the US.

I can only read that as: "These enslaving juntas would have implemented human rights if it weren't for USA". Stupid.

Also see the debate history:

You changed the subject from war to realpoilitik complaints (which all countries do and lie about). It was stupid of me to comment on that and asking for examples post Cold War (which you didn't acknowledge you lack). Then you got weird (see above).

But ok, you might just lack a clue and not be a troll.
Because the GPL is the best defense against an adversary that gets to redefine laws as they see fit?

I'm all for FLOSSing all the things, but it wouldn't help one bit here.
Worst cost-saving measure ever.
This capability already exists for counter drug and other interceptions. I'm sure it was FBI asking ups and fedex to hold a suspected drug shipment and let them look at it briefly; it is entirely possible no one at the shipper, and certainly not on the line, knew it was NSA. They might have said terrorism, too, but probably not. Maybe just "a law enforcement matter" with no questions asked.
I personally find that people who admit their mistakes more trustworthy because it shows they can at least learn from them. In this case, the jury is very much still out on whether BTC will succeed as a currency, and not as a protocol that's useful for some other thing (or many other things), which seems to be the crux of Krugman's argument.
Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters and Pearson are just some of the extortionists of academia, education and training.
Anyone else here also signs up for these courses, then never logs in?
in other words, the only people who are affected are those who don't know the importance of scrubbing their data?
TAGFS: Tag based file system wrapper
Much as I wish that were true, its very not the case. Money talks.
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The problem is there is no guarantee that it will be only for these two years. It can easily be extended.

It will very interesting to see how much extra tax it will bring in and how it effects the decision making of the big French companies in regards to salary incentives.
You can put the key on the disk itself too--you just need to zero out the space containing the key when you're done. That's how phones with encryption and remote wipe features usually do it.

In fact, a lot of SSDs, e.g. Samsung's, already work this way, transparently AES-encrypting data before it is written. (With AES in hardware, the overhead is negligible, even for high-performance drives.) The "Encryption" feature they advertise actually just lets you set your own key for the encryption key container--it happens either way.
I agree that the real problem is the review system. Apple doesn't make it easy for the user to make a review. So either you end up with a lot of empty 5 stars "Great App" reviews or with one star "I hate you" reviews. And in both cases they don't really rate the app correctly.
Well, in a way this is a similar kind of right as the people have to not be prosecuted after an un-warranted search.

Can we get a warrant to search every portion of the government for illegal activity? We just have to find some sort of suspicion that they might be doing this...
The really interesting thing will be to see if indeed as a result, the economy will collapse. (people really were making that argument: big-shot CEOs will leave the country and take the businesses with them).

While I think this tax is ridiculous, I think those kinds of counter-arguments are even more ridiculous.
The randomly generated talks here are just as hilarious:

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/#talks

But the sad thing is, you could probably show stuff like this on a TV series as a "this is what research produces" and the majority of people wouldn't know any better.
That's true, but it's missing my point. The whole "drone war" is being cast as robots killing humans, mostly ignoring the fact that humans are making every decision about who to kill. This puts the focus of the debate on the technology instead of where it should be, which is on the people who have decided that it is ok to kill other people. So people protesting the program are demanding "Stop using drones!" when they should be demanding "Stop murdering people!"
Something like a mockup of the main user interface you have in mind, but in code.
My skin has always had issues with shaving creams. The creams for sensitive skin don't case as much dryness and irritation, but shaving oils have worked the best so far. They also work better for me when I use my straight razor. If I could grow a solid patch of facial hair, I'm sure the clear oils would make shaving clean lines easier too.
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Does anybody have the links to these internal documents on which this allegation is based?
Another red flag - Is it just me, or is the header image on the conference website an image of Las Vegas?
Because the average person is short sited. They don't do anything (or don't realize how terrible it is) until it directly affects them.
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Everyone else, apparently: http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/12/27/moocs-inflated-expectati...
The amazing thing is that for all the globe-spanning political vitriol this has provoked, the amount of revenue involved according to the proponents is only €200-€300 million/year, out of €1.3 trillion/year in tax revenue total:

"Hollande says the 75 percent tax he plans to impose would hit about 3,000-3,500 people and raise around 200-300 million euros a year."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/10/us-france-election...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_France
What are we looking at in your screenshot? I've been Where's-Waldoing it for the word 'destroy' but can't find it.
The problem is the NSA has shown itself to be indiscriminate in its targeting for other methods of info gathering. So trusting them to 'use responsibly' is a bit like trusting a bunch of teenagers to 'use responsibly' with a case of beer and the parents away.
When you have n-hundred-million people's personal information at stake, 'currently non-existing (but multiple-times previously existing)' is not very reassuring. There's nothing wrong with multiple layers of safeguards.
Definitely LV. Caesar's Palace, the Rio--pretty distinguishable buildings. And you can see the light beam from the Luxor.