skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting!

It seems to me that the shared fiction of the dollar is based on the shared fiction of America. The fiction of America creates a real American government that has a strong interest in maintaining the fiction of the dollar.

From what I can tell, Bitcoin does have a similar pair of shared fictions, the idea and the currency. But I'm not seeing the thing that America has between the two fictions: a powerful organization with a strong interest in keeping the money useful as money.
Joe Hahn has composed with it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK6Hs-qHh84

As an ex-DJ I could definitely find use in something like this. The core music program has to be good, but a complimentary keyboard like this one would certainly enhance the experience -- especially for live Performances.
You could almost turn it into rapGenius styled annotation of your own post - comments and pseudo code read as a part of the post, inextricably linked, but separate.
Capacitive touch screens are incapable of measuring pressure applied to buttons. This thing allows user to press buttons with different force to produce sounds of different volume.
By way of simple argument: would anyone advise using a source control system that only kept the last few hundreds of commits? Why do we treat our data differently?

All mainstream database products allow you to retain the entire history of every change ever made in the form of transaction logs. With those logs you can recover your database to any specific point in time, and to unwind specific transactions.

Of course most discard transaction logs because the volumes tend to be huge in many mainstream, operating databases. I worked on one system where the main database barely pushed 10GB, but there were 100s of GBs of transaction logs generated daily.

However the core reason that mainstream databases discard with historical data is performance, not size -- if your current users overwhelmingly only care about the current state of the data, and it is rare that you need to go back into the past (which is what transaction logs and snapshots provide), paying an extremely high performance penalty to retain all of that historical data does not pay off. And there are no immutable products that offer similar performance to mainstream products under most usage scenarios, instead forcing you into extremely confined uses.

It'd be nice to not suffer scornful surface criticisms from people who base their career around the status quo.

This is a garbage non sequitur, as an aside. It is a disgraceful attempt -- as so commonly happens in such discussion -- to try to attach agenda to an opinion that one doesn't like.
>> Even if you use nothing but white-hat and above-board SEO strategies, you're at risk of your page getting penalized or delisted

> This rather suggests that what you're calling "white hat" is a slightly less white shade than you may think. After all, who exactly is defining what "above board" is here?

We've had a lot of proof by vigerous assertion in this thread. I particularly like the protestation of lily-white innocence by marketers writing "great content" in "guest posts".

A thousand words on "10 things to bring on your next business trip", or "5 things to ask when choosing an online university" isn't exactly Woodword & Bernstein on Watergate, Joyce's Dubliners, or even Michelin's Guide to Paris restaurants.
I liked this JS function one of the JS files in that page, specially the name of the cookie "Gabbar":

function fun() {
var new_dte= new Date(2005,1,1);
setCookie("Gabbar","#!#0",new_dte);
setCookie("hitsscore",hitsscore+"~",new_dte);
}
How does upgrading the video affect latency?

Drones already have long latency times, their "flight" which is the bit that requires potentially quick response times is already "AI" controlled.

People don't move so quickly you can't handle latency in terms of targeting. Vehicles can be identified and the weapon system can handle tracking them - latency doesn't come into it.
Additonally, bandwidth needs to be taken into account. Even military satellite uplinks are slow and in many cases feeds are being sent to a ground station and then converted into digital for uplink.
It's time to use complex, un-rememberable passwords that are unique for each system you use.

"unlock" them using a master password that's secure and you can remember (not 'correct horse battery staple') and that you use FOR NO OTHER SYSTEM.

If a site is compromised, you will lose your account on that site regardless of how strong your security for your account is.

However, the main problem at the moment is the chain of compromise -- people who use the same credentials and the same username on multiple sites and on 'core' systems like their e-mail account. One site gets compromised, which leaks the same credentials you use for your e-mail address, and all of a sudden they have access to your entire online identity.

I use LastPass (http://lastpass.com, stores your encrypted passwords remotely so you have to trust lastpass.com) and pay for a premium subscription ($1/month?) with a master password not used elsewhere.

But there are other alternatives like http://keepass.info/ (stores your passwords locally, can sync with dropbox. No trusting an external service required.)

Also https://agilebits.com/onepassword (1password), similar to keepass, but not open source (I don't think). Better UI.
> In what universe is striking a convoy carrying a suspect but also carrying innocent (or even if not innocent, not deserving a death sentence) civilians, deemed acceptable?

America.
Math expression: a(8b^2+1)+4bc(4b^2+1)

In LISP: (+ (* a (1+ (* 8 b b))) (* 4 b c (1+ (* 4 b b))))

Oh, that silly operator precedence, lets just jam our heads in a vice while we unravel the nesting.
Do drones have a higher false positive rate than human-piloted air support? Numbers are going to be hard to come by -- the military doesn't want to reveal anything. Qualitatively, the Collateral Murder video that wikileaks posted a while back (in which a US helicopter gunned down a pair of Reuters reporters because they were carrying objects that could have been weapons) sounds very similar to what's described here.
Does anybody think there is space for a "CS Students against Weaponry" alliance? I go to Umass Amherst, and there are tons of people who end up working for Raytheon upon graduation. Sure, the 100k / yr is quite tempting when you just came from community college and a retail job just years before, but perhaps some education may stop students from agreeing to internships and careers at Raytheon, etc. It's oftentimes good students who are mostly oblivious to why their skills are being exploited. Maybe we could affect this mindset and bring a larger student audience into the ethical discussion. It is becoming harder and harder to distinguish your contributions to the indirect damages caused to innocent third-parties. And with CS, it's not like there is a shortage of jobs. But that may be a misguided view--it's obvious that students take these jobs because they 'have to' or risk suffering anywhere from 10k to 300k of debt, depending on the school and their financial background. It's all very much a shame.
People won't accept Bitcoin for actual goods and services if they don't believe it will hold its value.

The same applies to any type of money. Google "hyperinflation".

Also, how much of an effect this is depends on how long people expect to hold money in between transactions; see below.

they will require you to pay x% more in Bitcoin (at current exchange rates) where x is a premium to account for the expected loss in value over the period they expect to hold the Bitcoins, plus a margin for risk.

People do the same thing with dollars and other currencies based on the rate of inflation they expect, i.e., the rate at which they expect dollars to lose their value.

Also note that qualifier: "over the period they expect to hold the Bitcoins". In other words, people need enough cash to cover current expenses for some period of time; but that amount can be pretty small compared to their total wealth, and it gets smaller as technology advances and economies evolve. People used to get paid quarterly, so they needed enough cash for a full quarter's expenses. Then the payment cycle became monthly, and now many people get paid biweekly or even weekly, so they need to hold less cash to cover expenses. (More precisely, they need to hold less as a fraction of their total wealth.)

I'd see "governments have a huge incentive to outlaw it" as a pretty major inherent inferiority

It's "inherent" only in the sense that we're not likely to get rid of governments any time soon. Is that a problem with Bitcoin, or a problem with governments?
Do you disagree with my claim about the text editor, or do you think that's just a bad example, or what?
I would trust this post if you could at the very least provide some evidence that he did contact you and that you are leaving because to me, it seems like you're just a employee trying to pin the blame on him and do a little damage control.

The fact that you're the Marketing Director at Expedia makes it even worse (if you are lying).

EDIT: Okay, I just did some research and this person's company is extremely fishy but I would still like to see some evidence.
Have a separate work space dedicated solely towards working. You don't play there, you don't eat there, you work there. It's important to have boundaries when working from home.
> Americans feel this way, sure.

I'm American. I don't feel that way at all.
the browser is switching from webkit to blink soon, and will continue to be improved a lot
I don't know anything about graphic design, but the marketing and legal fields approach recruiting differently, at least at the entry level. Companies hire people that they think can be trained, and train them using the extensive institutional knowledge companies hold and pass on internally. There's no belief that say the best marketing folks were the ones doing neighborhood projects as teenagers. Marketing folks usually are subject to very intensive internships or entry level jobs that teach them everything they need to know. The prevailing model in law or banking or consulting or accounting is to take people with aptitude and train them to do things "the firm's way."

There's a lot more similarity at the level of experienced hiring obviously. And this model of hiring is expensive. But it also has benefits. Firms create new professionals from raw materials. They don't have to wait for trained professionals to walk in the door.
Rrethi i Hasit është njëri nga 36-të rrethet e Shqipërisë. Rrethi i Hasit ka 21,500 banorë (sipas 2004), një sipërfaqe prej 374 km² dhe kryeqendër Krumën.
Hasi është një krahine etno-gjeografike me kufij te përcaktuar shume qarte, i rrethuar pothuajse rreth e qark me lumenj. Në veri dhe në lindje, Drini i Bardhë dhe dega e tij Ereniku që e ndajnë nga Krahina e Rekës dhe Podrimës (Rrafshi i Drinit). Ne jug dhe në perëndim kufizohet me krahinën e Lumës dhe Maleziut me të cilat i ndan Drini i Bardhë dhe i bashkuar dhe sot liqeni i Fierzës, ndërsa në veri-perëndim përroi i Skatinës e ndan nga Butyci i rrethit të Tropojës.
Rrethi i Hasit duke u ndodhur në verilindje të Shqipërisë bën pjesë në Qarkun e Kukesit (brenda territorit të Shqipërisë ndërsa pjesa tjetër e Hasit është në vartësi të Komunës se Gjakovës dhe një pjesë në vartësi të Komunës së Prizrenit).
Hasi që ndodhet ne Republikën e Shqipërisë nuk plotëson njësinë etnografike te Hasit. Krahina e plotë e Hasit u nda padrejtësisht pas luftërave ballkanike në fillim të shekullit XX, kjo ndarje u sanksionua ne Konferencën e Ambasadoreve në Londër në vitin 1913. Mu në lindje, Hasi i Shqipërisë nëpërmjet Gjymtimi i territorit të Hasit gjatë shekullit XX nuk krijoi vetëm një izolim të paparë, por, më thellë akoma, një ndarje shpirtërore, kulturore dhe etnografike me vetveten, ndarje e cila u përjetua jo me pak dhimbje. Sot pas 100 vjetësh gjysma e Hasit rreth 371 km² dhe popullsi rreth 40.000 banore bën pjesë në Republikën e Kosovës. Ndërsa në R. Sh Hasi ka 374 km² me popullsi 21.500 banore i gjithë Hasi është 645 m² me një popullsi prej 61.500 banore pra është zona me popullsinë më të madhe në veri lindje në raste se nuk do ishte i ndare në dy shtete. Shtrihet në mes gjerësive gjeografike veriore 42° 05’ 45" në Fshatin Brrut dhe 42° 17’ 57" në veri ne majën e Krajlicës si dhe në gjatësinë gjeografike lindore 20° 13’ 11" në Kosturr (Bregu i Drinit) dhe 20° 32’ 50" në majën e Pashtrikut në lindje. Ka një sipërfaqe prej 393 km² gjatësi e vijës kufitare është 85,8 km, nga këto kufij tokësor 27,8 km me Hasin e Rrafshit, lumor 14 km me rrethin e Tropojës dhe 44 km kufij liqenor me rrethin e Kukesit (Lumen e Maleziun).
kufitare të vëne që në vitin 1913 (që ndau Kombin përgjysmë) kufizohet me Republikën e Kosovës, përkatësisht mund te themi me vetveten.
No - the alternatives are air-strikes and artillery.

Drones have the advantage of loiter time, they can spend ages in situ gathering intelligence and analysing whether to shoot or not. This does generate the mental health problems for the analysts the articles describes - the same as for snipers, they watch the person they are going to kill.

Aircraft and the infantry that call in air strikes and artillery do not have loiter time, usually the enemy know they're out and about (certainly in Afghanistan) and thus they are "reactive".
> viewpoints such as yours are contagious diseases

Way to take an even-handed comment like mine stating facts with minimal value judgements and attempt to turn it into fuel for your idealogical steamroller. The only problem is you didn't really read and comprehend what I said.
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Google does NOT only use the algorithm, and manually bans sits algorithm may have misses as it was in the case of RapGenius. I don't buy the argument that search results would be lonely, if Google somewhat punished Expedia for this, it would force them to change behavior. They would fall inline as well as others that may be using these questionable methods.
Your killer is a straw man - someone who seeks to only kill more, to become the most murderous possible person (s)he can, a "Hannibal Lector" of vengeance w/o the epicurean instinct. Then you've further demonized him/her. This is paranoid idealization. But some notes:

fit2rule: "when you are in the business of killing, murdering, maiming other human beings, you're no longer really part of society"

Soldiering sometimes requires killing. So soldiers are no longer part of society? What about the executive branch of our government (which issues the orders to soldiers)?

fit2rule: "we in the 'normal' society don't have a clue what those in the 'murdering business society' really think about us"..."This is a contagious disease, not some 'normality' about human existence..."

Murderous thoughts run through the minds of people everyday. They don't usually act on them but they are there. It's part of our nature: we've always done it. Here's a famous quote:

"I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me."
- Terence

For a history of killing and how the responsibility has shifted from the individual to the government:

"Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist" by Richard Rhodes.

fit2rule: "the 'official killers' really don't care about human life"

Categorical nonsense. People love their spouses, children, family and friends. Soldiers are people as are Presidents. Even psychopaths love and protect their children (usually). All will protect the ones they love from those who they fear will cause harm.

fit2rule: "if you get up in the morning with the intention of taking a human life, if ordered to do so, then you no longer belong to the human race." ..."Anyone who claims to have the right to kill others - for any reason whatsoever - should be treated by greater society as anti-human"... "anyone whose job it is to murder, maim, kill - officially, with sanction from the state - and who chooses to do this as a career is a very, very sick individual."

You're out on a limb here- this is simply a rhetorical blast. I fail to see how being a killer makes you inhuman. I don't know how you would treat someone as "anti-human" - possibly kill them?!8-\
I bet people used to call rifles "weapons for cowards". And before that, muskets. And cannons. Before that, I'm sure people thought bows and arrows were "for cowards". Or spears. Or just plain pointy sticks.
Yes, if I can trade them for something else I need. Cashing out is a hassle anyway.

It's true that dollars are more liquid. Does that mean you wouldn't accept a ton of free stuff if you couldny trade it for dollars but only other services?
Yes. However, nobody is interested in funding these types of drones. The military has the budget to really kickstart drone development and take us to the next level.

As alwasy, the military leads the way in science with their limitless budget, funded by fear.

Peaceful spinoff project is where the benefits for everybody will come from.
Apple's operations, net of capital investment, generate north of $40 billion a year in cash flow. The $146 billion cash pile it declared in its last 10-K [1] earned a 1.03% weighted return. This is the motivation for returning cash - shareholders can likely earn more than what Apple is earning on its cash.

But $111.3 billion of that $146 billion is held overseas. Repatriating it is expensive - around 40% of the amount. The present dividend programme costs $35 billion annually. This effectively consumes the U.S. cash pile and cash flows. Anything more would require borrowing.

Why borrow? The bet is that the interest paid on the borrowing is less than the gap between what investors could earn on their cash (~6.45% long-run S&P 500 return less a risk premium) and what Apple presently earns (~1%).

>Spending down a cash pile is one thing, gearing up to finance one something of a different question.

This doesn't make sense - borrowing to repatriate cash isn't "gearing up to finance [a cash pile]." The cash is there, it's just overseas. If push came to shove it could be used to extinguish the debt through some other anti-tax vehicle or by taking the I-didn't-plan-sufficiently penalty.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/00011931251341...
This article discussed one of the solutions proposed by psychologists to relieve drone pilots of the stress and guilt that comes with launching an attack: http://io9.com/psychologists-propose-horrifying-solution-to-...
The common trend we see with the US government is total lack of restraint. It acts as a tyrant and a bully.

1) The government acquires drone technology. Rather than use it to kill a few known terrorists it operates massive drone programs which result in the deaths of 100's of innocent people in multiple countries.

2) The government develops advanced surveillance technology. Rather than use it on a few identified potential threats it decides to scoop up virtually all electronic communications of both its own and foreign citizens with regard for neither the letter nor the spirit of the US Bill of Rights.

3) The government enacts ridiculously heavy penalties for "crimes" whose negative impact is debatable then uses these laws and its virtually unlimited legal resources to terrorize individuals who engage in activities it doesn't like.

I would like to think that some of the better president's in this nation's history: FDR, Kennedy, etc., would have acted to reign in these abuses but in any case that isn't relevant to our current generations which seem devoid of any concept of collective well-being or spirit of disinterested public leadership.

The beast is clearly out of control.
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You'll have to take the word of the people aiming rust, really.

Refcounted pointers are just one option in rust. ~Obviously~ you can use anything from C-style pointers and your own custom allocator that calls brk() directly to atomically refcounted and/or mutexed threadsafe smartpointers to manage your memory.
This Guy Just Bodied Every Gangsta Rapper In The Game
Google had a monopoly and exerts market power over the internet. They legally do have a responsibility to the public.

I'm getting pretty tired of the attitude that they have no responsibility to anyone other than those who buy advertising from them since it's blatantly false.
Knee-jerk? There's nothing pretty about having every single semantic of your language need to wrap. That's called, syntax hell. And it's useful for when you want to refer the AST self-referentially, like in live editors, ie. emacs & overtone (music production.) Otherwise, it's water trash. Maybe it was cool in the 80s when the only other kid on the block was Fortran or QBasic - but we have better languages now, so we don't need to write our program as a big nested list..we can make it easier for ourselves, and we can be way more productive..well unless..we're some old dude from the 80s..that's stuck on the LISP bandwagon. tears
I am being sarcastic, right now. Please tell me you live in a world of grown-ups where progress and sacrifice go hand in hand.
Drones may cheapen war in the way that you describe, but that still doesn't negate the fact that they kill less innocent people than the weapons and tactics that we used to use.

You seem to argue that the expense of a war can act as a deterrent. And yet, history is filled with bloodbaths that have failed to bring an end to war as we know it. Vietnam was horrific but it didn't keep us out of Iraq. I don't think getting rid of drones and forcing people to fight mano-a-mano will help prevent war. Deterrence only seems to work when the costs are astronomically high (e.g. nuclear weapons).
Are you playing the we never declared war game? We didn't declare war in Korea either. It was the Korean Conflict.

Anyway, let's try not to run into the weeds playing games. It adds no value to the conversation.
A related point is that we used to have conscription and it was much harder to get elected if you didn't have a good record of service. This meant that leaders thought much harder about going to war and there was a genuine political cost in that the masses had a better grasp on the implications.
That sort of standard works when the executor has massively more power than the executee. For the US versus an ordinary criminal, we can do it. Facing something that looks more like a war, applying standards of justice generally results in losing.
There is little Jake Appelbaum (one of the listed authors of this piece) won't do or say for media attention and public credibility.

Documents would be plausible. "Trust us, we've read them" from someone widely known to lie and steal is another matter entirely.

Entirely unsubstantiated rumors on the internets suggest that Jake got a talk pulled this week from the CCC hacker conference presently underway in Hamburg (which he keynoted last year) that was due to explore his motives and relationship with the US government, as he is the only US citizen publicly affiliated with Wikileaks and has not yet been charged, arrested, or imprisoned (and Wikileaks has not really done anything damaging to the US government since CM/Cablegate).

Don't believe everything you read.
NSA Spying on Europe-Asia Undersea Telecom Cables
What exact system are people 'abusing'?