skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article explains, the main rule of civilized war is to attack only military targets and not civilians. The authors think robots will be worse at this: "Technical limitations mean robots could not reliably distinguish civilians from combatants, particularly in irregular warfare, and could not fulfill the requirement to judge proportionality."

On the contrary, I think robot soldiers will be much better at not hurting civilians. Human soldiers are actually very bad at this, as a century of televised atrocities have shown. Robot soldiers are:

- capable of waiting to be fired upon before returning fire

- auditable, so mistakes can be corrected or avoided next time

- have a clear chain of command, so the military can't deny responsibility for war crimes

- not motivated by fear, revenge or cruelty
Referrals, especially from people you trust, and lots of legwork. The healthcare system is indeed complex, and providers vary greatly, from excellent to terrible to downright quacks.

Start with recommendations and referrals, and get further referrals from the docs you end up liking. You may have to visit a number of specialists (depending on your condition and situation), but it makes a world of difference to have a good doc, who listens to you and you can trust.

You only have one you, and one family. Don't settle for inferior care.
Don't get too discouraged by its corporate cooties. It's true that the language doesn't have a lot of sex appeal (no dialect of BASIC ever does), but it actually has a lot of cool stuff that's worth exploring. All told, you're actually pretty fortunate to be getting taught in one of the few languages a you might see in a high school curriculum that has decent support for interesting things like functional and asynchronous programming. All in all, VB.NET can take you a lot further than you might expect from its reputation among people who don't know it very well or are still sore about losing VB6.
"Real deployment is teaching us important things. For example, Navia found that once in operation, teen-agers would deliberately throw themselves in front of the vehicle to test it."
I was older. I distinctly remember struggling with English when we first moved to Hawaii. I could NOT talk to the other kids. I also remember my older cousins catching on much more quickly than me. I think I finally grasped English when I was about 4, when I started going to kindergarten.

I believe you. One of our friends has a kid who is, I think, really smart. He's only a toddler (2 y.o.), but he is really talkative and has a good vocabulary. He could start talking before 2. I wouldn't be surprised if he has some recall of his toddler years. I will have to keep abreast of this as time goes by.
Is that the interest rate of bank accounts in india?
There are a few startups that are letting investors fund student loans. People pay 7% to sallie Mae, so I think these investors get about 5%.
Pleasure for BMW, not for the drivers.
Depends what you are trying to do, your question is not narrow defined.

If you want to do electronics you will end up with mostly with some variant of SPICE, which is quite an old simulator.

Let other people give you other solutions.
Yes, the unlimited data plan is the horseshit, despite what that playboy is telling me.

After getting throttled on day 3 of the month with my new phone, I'm down to approx 70 kbits/s. I can't even watch youtube without a 50% duty cycle.

and T-Mobile is far from sucky. I've had them for ~10 years and had numerous problems with various aspects of their company.

When I bought my last phone through them, their website failed to let me transfer my old phone number to it. Instead, it started a new account for me. Three calls to customer service and it's not resolved.

The first call the operator couldn't figure out what was going on. The second, the network quality to Asia was so bad, there was no communication possible. The third, I was hung up on while I was transferred.

Last time I filled up my monthly card, their web page said the fill up failed, so I tried again and it failed again. Next thing I knew, the charges had gone through twice.

The year before that I signed up for a data plan, but it wasn't compatible with my phone and they wouldn't cancel that plan - until I used a lawyer.

There have been many bumps in the road prior to that, too. I only use them because they have the right balance of coverage for the price. That is to say, second best coverage in my area and second highest monthly price.
There are going to be a lot of appropriately downvoted Bitcoin comments, but consider what effects the true believers being correct might have on traditionally safe investments, like bonds.
Basically, if you accept that your first 10 games will suck, and you don't try to make your first game fantastic, then your first 10 games will suck. Worse, you might get good at developing sucky games. For most developers, not just game developers, it's likely that their first some number of projects will suck.

I always thought that the mantra about your first 10 games will suck was a way to take the pressure off you and get you to develop a game. The problem is that we psych ourselves out; we don't develop anything because we're too fearful about making a bad game, and we procrastinate, and we hem and haw and never develop anything.
What’s the Matter With Kansas’ Schools?
http://www.plainsite.org

The API hasn't really been tested much.

http://www.plainsite.org/api

Feedback welcome.
India's inflation is almost as high, making the real return much lower
yes, already did.
How would you block it? Any packet with the source port of NTP should be dropped?

No. ISPs should not get into the business of default block rules. This gets into all sorts of problems. At what point does a block become unreasonable? What if a tenant needs multiple sites in sync -- they must run NTP between them (or PTP) in order to determine their drift from one another.

If you really want upstream blocking of traffic, the best thing to look towards is BGP Flowspec (RFC5575)
http://www.dogsoftheseason.com/

Is this true?

If not, please explain why not?
Agreed - a well diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds across sectors and geographies is the right approach to maximise return versus risk.

I'd keep a little aside for investing where you have an unfair advantage versus Wall St. That might be getting into a tech stock early, or investing in an early stage company through friends. For the latter don't expect to get your money back soon, if ever.
I'd buy a small newer (post 1979 construction so no rent control) rental property in San Francisco. With that much down you should be able to get it cash flow positive plus increase your equity at the same time if you needed to liquidate.
I've been pretty lucky with Canadian bank stock.

In Canada, there's pretty much zero competition in the banking industry because of how it's regulated. The risk is generally minimal (not factoring macro economic risks) and the returns somewhat steady.

These stocks typically will return a 3% dividend plus some minimal growth. Add it all up and it's fairly easy to get a 5% return if you diversify a bit. I personally own BMO and RY. It has worked well.
They don't, but Judicata does (http://www.judicata.com). I don't think their product has been released yet.
You could invest in my startup.
Well, on the one hand, there are positive effects of the technological development such as easy communication for people, which in turn might help strengthen social structure, which I would think, though, do not technically depend on such a centralized structure, but could instead be implemented as federated or peer to peer systems with much the same benefits but without the centralization, using cryptography where possible to protect information from eavesdroppers.

Then, well, yeah, arguably there are areas where lots and lots of centralized data collection in principle might be useful for solving real problems. For example, I would imagine that epidemiological studies would be much easier if researchers had access to all medical records of all people, and possibly that could be useful for fighting certain diseases. But then again, we do have some rules in place that allow collection of such data for the really bad stuff, and statistical analysis of anonymized data, so maybe we aren't really losing all that much.

I think the overall effect is more at the catastrophic end, though I would say it's more of a cold war than a nuclear war, at least in the short term: Surveillance does not directly kill you usually, but it can blow up with horrible consequences.

BTW, your anti-vaccination example might be chosen badly: If the anti-vaccination movement were to gain traction with a majority of people, that could indeed be pretty close to the end of the world, at least the world as we know it. It's only a relatively minor problem (on a societal scale) because relatively few people are taken in by it.
I imagine you're suggesting most ISPs implement BCP38? A lot of organizations implement BCP38, but the overhead of BCP38 can actually be a lot, especially once you get far above the DSLAM / CMTS.

Not only is it not free, it is not straightforward. In some more complex network architectures, you don't even know what the sources of downstream packets might be (case: downstream has two transits, and they don't want to bring ingress traffic via transit B, because transit B has ridiculous pricing).
KRS-ONE!

http://rapgenius.com/Krs-one-hip-hop-vs-rap-lyrics#note-1317...
Does anybody know how much energy, i.e., Joules or whatever per Bitcoin earned through mining?
In some texts, there are insane attempts to not change numbers between versions. If pages are removed, those page numbers are not used. If text is added, they add sub-page numbers, like sub-bullets in an outline. Some legal tomes are in binders, not hard-bound, to accommodate this.

This leads to page numbers like 247.1151a-iii. Which is then the canonical page number for a block of text.

It's enough to make the Library of Congress filing system seem simple and rational!!
Perhaps the paper needed to be slightly wider on the right-hand side?
Its value is way higher than its overhead, but the overhead is paid by the guy who essentially doesn't benefit from it.
I have had a smell trigger a memory from my pre-seven-childhood. It was a smell that I hadn't smelt in the intervening years.

It was upon meeting a distant relative that made a dish the first time I met them and then again when I met them in my mid-twenties.

The second I smelled the smell of the dish I remembered an incident that I alone witnessed -- getting jalapeño oil in my eye when I was sneaking some of the dish.
I'll preface this with a disclaimer: I don't have a million dollars and I am not an investment professional. That said, as an amateur investor, my gut says that with the fed keeping interest rates low for the short term, you won't see 5% without taking on some risk. With the 10 year treasury at about 3% [1], that's about the best you will see for the time being as far as low-risk investments go. Slightly more risky but still pretty safe would be AAA corporate bonds, which are currently 4.6% [2]. To get to 8 or 10%, you'd have to get pretty risky, and go with junk bonds, or high yield dividend stocks like REITs (I've gotten 11% returns over the past 3 years with these). If you want anything higher, then you'd have to take on more risk than I have the appetite for, like angel investing.

1. http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/in...
2. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/AAA
It's not absolutely slower in SF than Verizon. It's absolutely faster. I switched from 3-5 mbps Verizon service to 30 mbps T-Mobile service. Sounds like an iPhone problem to me.
I wouldn't disagree, except I'd only recommend putting a small percentage, like 1%, into it, unless the OP is a big believer. In that case, maybe 5% max. And in all cases, only put in what you can (really) afford to lose without losing too much sleep.
Ummm... yes? Sometimes you have to. I was looking into a bug about a year ago that was caused by the compiler I was using (Intel) wasn't properly saving the return address in some situations. This led to seemingly random crashes and thrashed memory.

So yeah, "correctness of implementation" is something to worry about, you just haven't had to (yet).
I think that the only way that these protestors will be happy is if people who work at Google or Facebook just curl up in a ball and die.
Disclaimer: I'm not a financial advisor, I don't play one on TV, and I don't have a million dollars or equivalent.

Take $10,000 (1%), and accept it as money worth spending. Network well, contact friends, family and ideally successful professionals and discover a financial advisor you can trust. Get empirical proof of this, as many may just be out to fleece clients - and worse, think they're actually doing a good job.

In terms of getting good advice, accept that money will have to be on the table. People have to make a living, and if there's nothing to gain, then why should a good professional waste their time? My hunch is that a good financial advisor will be happy to take a lump sum consultancy fee, rather than a percentage management fee, just to give you general advice - especially one that knows their clients are your friends and will react to any stupidity the financial advisor says.

With that money set aside and taken as ceded to the task of figuring out how to manage your money, take some time out and learn enough to make reasoned decisions. Research, study, understand the basics and importantly - understand the absolutely stupid and worst options, and the worst that sound like the best. It won't get you that much time, but it gets you more than nothing.

Given you're making 5% minimum, a 1% loss can be fixed in a year and regain you access to any of the funds that you fell below the minimum for. But the time and effort spent now is better than finding out in ten years that the risk-free 5% growth option was actually highly risky indeed....
I'm specifying those numbers because I expect they will each come with different risk levels. 9% is fine too.
Just began to play, very addicting.
CocoaSPDY: SPDY for iOS / OS X
isn't that valid ES6? http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:maximally_mi...
Doh! Overlooked that, but you're right that it deserves to be on the list. Knew I'd forget about something big ;)
Nice advice! I've been an 'aspiring indie' for 6 years now [1], definitely not doing enough to promote my ideas, but like you said, I need to make something and release it.

[1] http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/author/jplur/
No, OpenBSD also likes to advocate for free software, e.g. grep for instances of "free software" here:

http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html

However, as you well know, all BSDs really hate the GPL.
Yes, most definitely introspective. In fact, I used to think about life and death all the time as a kid. And, it would get me depressed thinking that my mom would someday be dead, and that I would be dead too. I realized at a very young age that if I had the decision to be born, I would haven't have been. Even till this day, I often think I would rather not have been born. But, before anyone intervenes, I'm not suicidal. Just not into the whole circle of life thing.
Very useful Site - Thanks!

Reminded me of an old favorite "Shields Up" https://www.grc.com/shieldsup - Great way to quickly test your Router
Just make sure to only mine during a polar vortex. If only there were a bitcoin heatpump.
Buy a flat in Battersea, London, get some letting agency to manage it for you and reap the rewards:

http://www.londonpropertywatch.co.uk/average_rental_yield.ht...

Who cares if you are pricing someone else out of a place to live in London? Seemingly nobody cares. The government love it that there is rampant house price inflation. The ride should be good for a while. Wherever you put your money it will not be immune to the next big crisis of capitalism, in London property you will be well insulated.

As well as the return in rental, you will also have a property that will appreciate in value over time. Sure you might have to sit things out when the property market is depressed, but I would be surprised if your $1M flat is worth less than that in 5+ years time even if the whole housing market goes 2008-style again.
India's inflation is around 11%. Plus after taxes you're down to 6-7%. (Indian here)
Not much more than 1 bitcoin's worth...
ETFs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fund
and
REITs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_investment_trust

Are other investments you can look into. A mix of some blue chips that pay out dividends in combination with some ETFs which trade in commodities or specific growth markets might be a good idea. Balance out that risk with bonds or other instruments.
Saying it's already made its way to laptops is a bit of a stretch - the article you linked to said they'll be available mid-2014. This Dell monitor is available in a couple of weeks.
You asserted that the douchebags with popped collars saying stupid shit are "channel[ling] black culture." You further asserted that the primary objection to "'wigger' culture" (wow) is that white people "acting black" makes other white people uncomfortable.

Your assertions are objectively false.

You also suggested that the negative reaction to the objectionable behavior of the Rap Genius founders is in fact not a reaction to specific behavior by specific individuals, but part of an "undercurrent of hatred for baller/rap/black (so-called 'douchebag') culture". I don't even know what to do with that.

>>The problem I have with this whole argument is that even if a guy had a popped collar, was wearing dark sunglasses inside and kept saying everything was "baller", I'd prefer him infinitely over the guy that looked at him and declared him to be "moronic" and a "douchebag"

Good for you. I know plenty of black folks who wouldn't.
He doesn't say how to choose the right stocks. And I assume he's choosing them after the fact for his graph.

I'd be curious to see a random sampling of S&P 500 in autumn vs. spring. That would give a better idea of if it works.
Use it all to buy shares of DNP. At today's closing price of 9.34, the monthly dividend of 6.5cents will net you 8.35% per year (not counting compounding, higher if you have a divident reinvestment plan). After taxes you should still be above 5%.
But possibly less, if there's some sort of arbitrage going on. Also, the energy requirement can't fluctuate as much as the price of bitcoins does.

Note I'm not trying to be argumentative. I'm actually genuinely curious. Even just order of magnitude. Folks in the media talk about the energy cost, but never with any attempt to quantify it.
The best and only way is to educate yourself, so that you won't be at the mercy of financial advisors (who are just salesmen) or flawed financial products.
> In terms of getting good advice, accept that money will have to be on the table. People have to make a living, and if there's nothing to gain, then why should a good professional waste their time? My hunch is that a good financial advisor will be happy to take a lump sum consultancy fee, rather than a percentage management fee, just to give you general advice - especially one that knows their clients are your friends and will react to any stupidity the financial advisor says.

Perhaps if OP consults a sworn fiduciary? I've not much experience with either of these, but theoretically a fiduciary is supposed to legally act in your benefit at all times where as a financial advisor isn't really.

I have no idea, though. I don't have much money. This is something I read somewhere.
No, I got the CAPTCHA when I logged in. I paid above average and sent it all to the EFF.
Ok, this makes sense. I pretty much invariably call the hip-hop/rap music I listen to "hip-hop". De La Soul? Hip-hop. Jay-Z? Hip-hop. The Roots? Hip-hop. Run DMC? Hip-hop.
For Fixed deposits, Yes. Senior citizens get an additional 1%. Savings accounts are at around 4%
No, the term "free software" was not invented by RMS. He's certainly championed it the most, but back then there simply was no other common term for this kind of software. People were already using it long before he started using it or wrote the GNU manifesto or uttered a word about the topic.

The term "open source", however was coined Eric Raymond and the Open Source Initiative. Nobody before OSI ever said "open source" to refer to software. The term was coined during a brainstorming session prior to the release of Mozilla. There is an unrelated, older occurrence of the term in "open source intelligence" which is about how to spy on people using publicly available sources, but nothing about software nor all the other things people mean with "open source" nowadays.

As a marketing term, open source has met its goal admirably: it is a far more popular term than "free software", being used to describe many things and situations other than software, and many of them almost completely unrelated to anything that OSI originally intended.
Public not sold yet on Colorado marijuana law
I wasn't talking about GPL, but the combination GPL+copyright assignment.
LinkedIN Are Scum. They are only interested in corporate recruiting accounts, and beyond that they feel like they can treat customers poorly. Bad customer service has caught up to their technology, and bad customer service is eating software.
I have been curious about this too.

Unfortunately though, my guess is that it is very very tough to estimate due to the sheer variety of hardware that is being used.

I am sure that a large number of people are still mining with GPUs which consume more power/mhash than ASICs.

I came across someone last week who was mining with a CPU, I am confident he's not the only one.
If you use Wealthfront (www.wealthfront.com), a risk score of 6.5/10 supposedly has a median return of 5%/year.

Pretty risky, though. Over 70% stocks.
As someone with decades of Lisp experience, I can assure you that macros can devolve into madness. They have to be applied judiciously -- just like, say, operator overloading, and for similar reasons: you're not just adding new APIs to the language, you're adding new syntax.

So there will be newbies who make messes with macros. It's happened in the Lisp world for decades -- though not as often, probably, as some people fear -- and it will surely happen here. Some people will overreact to that (as they have to misapplication of operator overloading) and prohibit their teams from using them. Eventually, knowledge of how to use them well will spread wide enough that most people will be able to be trusted using a language that has them, even if that means, in many cases, that they know they don't have the experience to use them properly and so avoid writing their own.

In this vein I'll close with a quote from the great Lisp hacker David Moon: Functions compute; macros translate.
You're conflating two issues: "Unpaid overtime, unpaid internships" with "unpaid working interviews".

OT and internships are post acceptance of a work offer. Interviews should be used by the individual to find the best fit for themselves. If you think spending 10-20 hours making sure your top choice really is where you want to spend the next several thousand hours of your work life is "free work" I think you misunderstand the value that the individual gets out of the diligence.
I realize this is San Francisco we are talking about but the idea that $1,000,000 is merely a down payment for a small living space is mind boggling to me (yes, I live somewhere much less desirable and much cheaper).