skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since giving up cable, twitch.tv has more or less become my HGTV -- somewhat enjoyable, minimal attention requirement; decent background noise to help keep me from going insane.

I cannot for the life of me, though, understand the appeal of Day Z. Perhaps I've had the misfortune of only seeing the "slow" parts, but, from what I've seen, it's a lot of running around in large environments and then... hiding out? sometimes? Then there are zombies? I really don't get it. I tend to fall in love with niche market games, but this one doesn't do it for me.
Some of the perceived "stigma" may be just guilt as well. At my last job, I took a week off, and felt guilty.. I said something, and was reminded "It's you're time, that's what vacations are for". If my boss hadn't told me that, I may have just perceived that guilt as stigma.
A Speck in the Sea
Thanks for the response. I have to be honest and say I'm probably not going to dig through a bunch of the makefiles listed in the third repo in feeds.conf (at least right now).

But at least from you even mentioning deterministic builds, must mean that the thought has crossed your minds? I know the Tor project has to deal with concerns like that, and I figure firmware providers for mesh-networks will increasingly have to deal with the same.

These sorts of things have piqued my interest lately and right now I'm in the middle of digging through the linksys e1000 firmware[0][1] (from yesterdays hubbub, too bad the script didn't work for me :/) and my cousin telling me about open ports (10080,1780,51000) on 192.168.1.1 on his network with some interesting traffic (his words). So, if I hear any stories relating to traffic on ports from postings online relating to this firmware, I'll probably take a look for fun (though there are probably many other people better at these things like yourself).

[0] http://support.linksys.com/en-us/support/routers/E1000
[1] http://i.imgur.com/jWebamh.png
I imagine that the palsy is the result of not tuning the node to match the component perfectly. But it may also be subject to a theoretical limitation due to what frequencies can be interfered with before the air stops behaving properly; I assume there's plenty of control left for tuning, but it may just not be possible. I am definitely out of my technical depth on that; may be fun to look up papers on the topic, assuming few with paywalls.

And yes, it is likely wildly inefficient. I could still see it being used as a touchless guidance/placement device, but it would likely need a hellaciously fast camera system to work in tandem as components stream between speaker sets. (I'm referencing something like the system that rejects bad potato chips, but with the ability to route/align components.)

Is there an application that needs touch-free interaction? I assume so, but honestly can't think of one, let alone needing this level of control. It definitely feels like a technology in search of an application (like GorillaGlass).
If they're "good people" in your mind I would do the opposite. I would wholeheartedly encourage them to apply. Same goes for the intelligence community ( CIA etc). I might look at U.S. spy culture as unappealing but I look at individuals like Valarie Wilson or John Perkins as very interesting. If your friends don't fulfill the role someone else will.
Snapchat said on Thursday that it knew for months about a security loophole
Nothing. It's exactly how the US works and our legal system is constructed. Until pleas and plea bargaining are (rightfully) considered duress/forced confessions, piling on charges to force a plea is commonplace, and will continue to be commonplace.
If all you read is Hacker News, you'd be forgiven for thinking that everyone considered Edward Snowden was the second coming of Jesus.
So the US should stop prosecuting crimes if there is a worry that person might be mentally unstable?
That was the first reason that popped into my head as well. It is also a possibility that iPhone users are more comfortable with transmitting their payment information through cell towers (I do not know if this is true, but as an Android user with an aversion to "shopping" on phones I am led to speculate it at least).

Responding to the article directly: I hardly believe that the absence of shopping on a phone turns it from smart to dumb. There are in fact far more interesting activities to engage in on a phone than simply buying items (i.e. reading a book, browsing the web, taking photographs, emailing/texting, etc.)
If you are the aggrieved party, and the punishment the law is meting out is ridiculously out of proportion to the harm done to you, you have some responsibility to speak up.
I always assume that you can figure out the needed FFT for a result, but having never actually tried, I have no idea if it's a fallacious assumption left over from working with lasers for a bit.

Some EE out there should have a strong opinion on the topic, might call up a friend about it.
Exactly. I think just about everyone knew that "the government" spies on people. It has divisions dedicated to that exact purpose. This was public knowledge.

But, much like war, when people are fully informed, that tacit acceptance goes south. When people realize that "some unelected, uanccountable government employee has access to my phone calls and my emails including the ones to my (lover/bookie/doctor)", or put another way, "The government spies on ME" that is a much more powerful thought than just "Eh, the government spies on people".
I know some of the people who run MIT's networks. They deal with a lot of ignorant jerks who would deserve to be turned into an example by an overzealous prosecutor. That's what makes the Swartz case baffling. I think someone got starstruck dealing with Federal Prosecutors and became a toady.
A friend of a friend works at Netflix and told me how they use some of this data.

House of Cards was basically a data driven production. Based on Netflix's customer preferences, they knew that a political thriller, starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Fincher would maximize the number of views based on the habits of its customers.

It would appear the data was correct!
Ask HN: Paypal Horror Story Selling My Bitcoin Miner
What can I do?

I sold my Butterfly ASIC 60gh Bitcoin Miner on Ebay late November and shipped it overnight Dec 2nd. The buyer has had it for a month and just now decides to open a claim saying the unit arrived DOA. He said it was the power supply so I immediately offered to replace it and he comes back saying that he actually doesn't know what is wrong with it. I immediately call BS because he's probably been mining for a month, probably made 1k and see's the miners have dropped in value. So now he either wants his money back and will take his 1k profit or will take his profits, get a refund and purchase a miner at a discount. I refuse his refund request and say that I will offer him the market value of the item because he has had it for a month or he can have Butterfly replace it and I will pay all associated costs. He replies that he will accept the price less $300 because he mined for 10 days and that is what he earned...I immediately call BS again and point out he originally said it arrived DOA. He doesn't respond and takes it to a claim.

Now I am left for Paypal to decide on who wins and who loses which I am sure they will side with him because he has a credit card company on his side and I have nothing. And to add to the fun, I just got an email from Paypal saying they are requesting that the buyer sends proof it's damaged. So now, I'm sure he's going to have some fun taking a hammer to it and that will be an easy way for someone to agree with him and say, "yeah, it's broken".

I am going to be out my money and out a working miner 100% thanks to crappy Ebay/Paypal.
I'm still more disturbed by the laws in play.

Aaron was facing a cumulative maximum penalty of 35 years in prison.

The roommates of one of the Boston bombers was only facing 25 years in prison[1] if found guilty of helping Dzhokhar Tsarnaev dispose of a laptop, fireworks, and a backpack in the aftermath of the bombings.

I understand it's not a straight comparison, but no matter how I try to re-arrange those numbers in my head, I can't reconcile the impact to punishment.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombings#Dias_K...
You're arguing that it's obviously unconstitutional, but the logical inverse of that is not that it is obviously constitutional.

There is a very wide gulf between those two positions, a gulf where the constitutionality of those programs is up for reasoned debate (e.g., with Sen. Wyden's question).

But Clapper would have responded the way he did since disclosing "methods & means" of electronic surveillance is also illegal, and given the direct nature of the questions by Sen. Wyden could hardly have been properly evaded by the standard "can't confirm or deny" excuse the government always gives. In other words Sen. Wyden employed the same logic as the "warrant canary" you guys all find so fascinating :)
The definition of the market rate for a unique item (such as a parcel of land) is what both seller and buyer agree to; thus you can not be paid above market rate.
The prosecutor had to dig around to even find a crime with which to charge Aaron. JSTOR, the so-called victim, did not even want to see the prosecution move forward and had to be subpoenaed for evidence against Aaron, with whom they had already settled matters. The prosecutor's case was based on an extremely expansive interpretation of the law, and additional charges were added in retaliation for Aaron's decision to actually exercise his right to a trial.

Basically, this case embodied almost everything that is wrong with the criminal justice system in America.
That... sounds like it might actually work.
But the article and the whole hype is not purely about the science of linguistics. While I do think that randomly quoting some not-so relevant research is a bit discomforting it's still a super interesting topic. Almost anyone that has knows at least 2 languages very well will notice interesting differences in using them. Just as in that Nabokov anecdote. It's not necessarily a statement about some inherent properties of a language. It's something many individuals consistently experience. That using different languages yields different results even though their goal might be the same. I myself experience that almost everyday. It raises interesting questions. I don't know anything about linguistics, much less about what linguistic relativity means. But I would love to find explanations for this phenomenon. And I guess that's where they popularity comes from?
>> it provides a reasonable excuse for the delays, since nobody was able to take his succession immediately

> Huh?!? Open Source model not working or what?

I guess its only illusion and crazy lawyers who like to add anti-poaching clauses in employee contracts. If a company can't handle loosing their top engineers, clearly its the the proprietary model that is not working.
Not an argument. A reaction. Quite appropriate.
Right. And how is that different from taking some time away and coming back more productive?
Libertarians (at least consistent ones) call out intellectual property for what it is: government monopoly.

In libertopia... Aaron would only face life in prison if he entered into a contract with MIT agreeing to life in prison for accessing the systems in the way he did.

In libertopia... you cannot consent to terms you cannot negotiate (IE accessing a website does not magically enter you into some agreement).
The fatal flaw with physical keys is that the image IS the key. As 3d fabrication and photography become ubiquitous, it becomes more and more absurd to use these locks to protect anything. In essence, anyone who has seen a key gains the permanent irrevocable ability to bypass that lock, until the lock is replaced.
As a 'bottom up' interviewer, I'm often criticized for the same approach you're taking. You might do well to start at the highest level (and pseudo code) and work your way down to the clock.

In fact, I'd start with bad examples of temporal messaging and work down from there: ("Debit 250", to "Debit account A 250", to "Debit account A for 250 at timestamp Y", to "Debit account A for 250 at signed timestamp Y") -- showing bad is often more effective than explaining good.
Simpler: tiny glass sphere, with RGB lasers mounted on the base tracking it and making it glow with different colors and intensities in different positions.
There is Shark which is Hive implemented on top of Spark instead of Hadoop.
Wage cuts make any debt you still have harder to pay off though.

Devaluation makes exports more competitive, which will attract investment as sales increase.
I'll raise you an induction coil and leave off the battery. Or a small LED powered by a maser pointed down on the field. I mean, if you're gonna make something like that, go all out!

(Fun experiment: stick some Christmas light bulbs in the rim of a disposable bowl, fill it with a cup of water, and microwave it for a dozen seconds :)

Probably easier to just use a fluorescing material though. One might approach it as an optimization, using a scanning light to illuminate the particles, but the sound waves to keep the particle densities high where they need to be and low where no illumination is needed. It would make the apparent hologram easier to see through while maintaining brightness.
> Why do you like that theaustralian article so much when it supports lines like "you can't have 100 per cent security as well as 100 per cent privacy in the digital age" and "NSA chief Keith Alexander revealed that the NSA programs leaked by Snowden had helped thwart more than 50 terror plots"?

What's incorrect about either line?
thanks for share a video.. It was help my trouble

By: http://malemarkets.com
Do you even understand what I said? The conversation was about (alleged) discrimination against Soviet education in Western countries. I said I graduated from Kerosinka and was not discriminated against (in the US), on the contrary, my 5-year course of education was counted (in the US) in as an equivalent of an MS degree in Applied Math. Don't play a fool.
I think it's because it has appealing gameplay. It's all about PvP that drives the fun of this really engrossing survival action genre. It helps that the lead developer/creator, Dean Hall, is very obsessive and meticulous about really doing this right. I'd love to hear more thoughts.
I for one like a vacation only policy.

Why does it matter to you or the employer why you are taking a day off?

What if I don't get sick? I would have to lie to my employer or let paid time off go unused.

As long as the sick day count is rolled into the total vacation allowance, the only change is not having to lie when taking a day off.
This Developer's Life - Space
Not at all unlikely. Plenty of places to put adjustment bits to correct into a hash collision, like in comments, firmware blobs, unused files. One of the md5 collision examples from earlier was two postscript files that both parsed fine but had different messages.
It's not hugely complex to create interlocks such that the cabin occupancy is monitored and the locks are opened when the cabin has fewer than two occupants. I can't immediately think of a completely failsafe version, but I suspect with a bit of time this could be readily achieved.
Submit documentation of your conversation with him, including e.g. screencaps of the appropriate emails where he demonstrates that he, in fact, used the product successfully after delivery. Then wait. You may win and you may lose.

If Paypal finds you in the wrong and this is a $1k+ issue for you, time to speak to a lawyer. You presumably delivered this to an actual person at a real address in the United States, right? If FedEx can find him once to a deliver a miner it can find him a second time to deliver a nastygram and a third time to deliver an ITS (intent to sue) letter.

By the way: "is interested in Bitcoins" is a red flag for fraudulent customers. For a reason. You may wish to take this into account in your future business endeavors as on factor in your risk management.
> You really are overthinking it. Context and intent will always have a place in the law.

But there is a difference between the definition of a crime and the intent to meet that definition.

Let's try an analogy. Suppose I go to a local retailer and tell the clerk that I'm a professor at the local university and ask her to record the name, address, credit card number and other information of everyone who buys something in the shop for me today because I want to collect some statistics. There are now two issues here.

The first issue is whether the clerk agrees to provide me with the information. The shop owner and the credit card company need for her to not agree to this because it is clearly a security vulnerability. Even if I really am a professor collecting statistics for my research, she can't know that for certain, and I could be a scam artist out to commit credit card fraud. But let's suppose the clerk hasn't been properly trained and she gives me the credit card numbers. The obvious analogy is to a misconfigured web server.

At this point it matters quite a lot what I do with the credit card numbers. If I'm a scam artist and start making fraudulent charges to the cards, there ought to be significant penalties. But if I really am out to do statistical analysis on local retailer purchasing behavior, should there be? Or should the retailer just take the opportunity to retrain the staff? There is a strong case for a lack of penalties -- because intent does matter. Which is the fundamental problem with the CFAA. It doesn't require the intent to commit a malicious act, only a vaguely defined lack of authorization to commit any act regardless of whether or not the act is malicious.
You are splitting hairs hereIf I say I am taking a vacation and am going to come back refereshed and you say "no, it is because I am going to enjoy life", If you still have to come back to work then the difference is moot.
I try and look at it this way when I feel that guilt: WHat would I think on my deathbed? Would working that one day really make any fucking difference when I'm about to go? 99% of the time it won't.
It was Aaron's choice to kill himself. He wasn't a victim of anything but his own mind.
To be honest, git dates back to 2004, when SHA256 was a fairly recent invention.
What I would love to know is if Mahout works out of the box with Spark or if there's a third party library that bridges the two.
The closet was not locked, so there was no need to break into it.

This is common knowledge about the case, also found in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR
ORIGINAL SONG Hope you enjoy as much as I do
Cautious writing is usually bad writing
No, but the US absolutely should stop using plea-bargaining as a way to bully people into not going to trial, and then retaliating against people who dare to exercise their right to a trial by adding additional charges against them after plea bargaining. While we are at it, we should reign in the cost of actually exercising the right to a trial -- Aaron lost his fortune defending himself from the government, which is more than most Americans could hope to do.

See, the problem here is that we are talking about giving aid to overly aggressive prosecutors, whose entire careers are devoted to undermining civil rights and destroying their targets. If that is the sort of prosecution you are aiding, yes, you should share in the blame for what happens to the prosecutor's victims.
I suppose to me it seems pretty intuitive that holding all else equal, the person who puts more work in (days per year) will have a better outcome. There isn't always a trade off, some people can just work more before losing capacity. There are those people in every industry; and that is my point, the mere existence of these people as your competition means they will be able to outwork you if you have a lower stress tolerance.

The standard counter is that some X-factor like a creativity multiplier comes into play that the "overworked" person doesn't have. I have also heard/read the "Over x amount of hours worked per day productivity drops." I think that holds for most people but not for the outliers who choose not to take vacations.

Interesting interpretation as well about markets as all of the examples I gave were decidedly not entrepreneurial in nature so I don't agree with your assessment that I made that "bold" claim, however I would probably extend the theory there as well.
A Connection Between Prime Numbers and Quantum Mechanics
AKA Vacations are for the WEEK!
And I for one am glad about that!
You're not punishing the organization though, they'll exist regardless. You're punishing anyone who relies (knowingly or not) on the services provided by that organization.

Or put differently, would you force an electric company to shut down operations for 3 days if they were discovered to be overcharging their customers?
Thanks for the kind words! Really appreciate it and always happy to bump into folks who know my work. My name on here comes from one of my 5 favorite locks, the Emhart interlocking pin system: http://www.lockwiki.com/index.php/Corbin_Emhart

It was invented by Leo Raskevicius, who sadly passed away years ago. In his original patent he actually made provisions for a magnetic version as well. Brilliant guy. Sadly the lock isn't made anymore.
I think I speak for most folks here when I say, "Go Away, Kanye!"
Amazingly, jkh is talking about bringing More parts of Mach to FreeBSD. To make it more like OSX.
It's pretty much the same thing as detecting unintentional changes - very important distinction!

Something like CRC32 might catch some 99.999% of the cases of unintentional corruption. But you could probably figure out how to generate a collision using pen and paper, without being a cryptography expert of any sort, in which case CRC32 will only catch the cases where you forget to carry a one!

EDIT: SHA1's naturally a bit tougher to beat than CRC32, but there's plenty of whitespace and comments and identifiers to rename without affecting the execution of a program. Your typical binary format will have plenty of uninitialized padding bytes to tweak as well. Plenty of room to change unimportant data to generate a collision.
When I was a kid, a Dum Dum rep told me it was a blend between all the flavors.
Definitely related, and datagram & I covered the basics the year prior as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-PqzkoQQ7s
Then perhaps I'm thinking of "rm -f `find ...`". In any case, thanks for pointing it out; I learned something new today.
MIT killed Aaron. I don't even use their public key database anymore.