skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only the public posts.

However, Facebook has a long history of changing their privacy policy and settings, and always in a way that (by default) makes public some things that previously were private. Usually with a couple of weeks to a month notice, not more.

So, unless you are diligent enough to review/delete your private stuff every time Facebook makes such a change, it is likely that in the future, stuff you marked "private" today will, in fact, be publicly indexed and searchable by yandex tomorrow.

Which is why, as has always been the case, you should assume everything you do on Facebook is public. Either because Facebook will decide to make it that way one day; or because of a security breach of some sort (hasn't happened yet, as far as I know), or because NSA/MI5/Mossad has access to it and will use it against you at the most inopportune moment (for you; it's a great moment for them).
I can see now why some mathematicians would like to do without axiom of choice.
After years of long build times, we C++ programmers basically have to become mental compilers in order to keep our productivity high.
Really liking it so far. Thanks for the suggestion.
Simplicity revealed by a complex exercise for simplest git task
The Best Of CES 2014
I'm in the same boat - I haven't seen Her yet, but the premise instantly reminded me of Jane. The "discrete plug" looks pretty similar to what I imagined Ender's device to be. Perhaps they drew inspiration from those books, I really enjoyed them.
Maybe because they knew they were going to rest soon, they could be more prone to be fully alert, a bit like the sprint runners do during the final lap, because they know they'll rest soon.
Suddenly I no longer want one. I loved the idea when it was a simple way to save on power bills, but I wouldn't have google spy on me even if I was paid money to use it.
Don't know if this is still the case, but in the past it was possible to pay facebook for ads targeting e.g. 25-30 year olds in the US, and color that add with a cookie, so that when you saw the same browser later, you'd know it was a 25-30 year old from the US.

(It went much deeper than that - marital status, month of year, a few other things I can't remember). So, while they weren't directly offering and selling this information as is, you could buy it from them by buying ad space on the demographics you cared about. (Yes, this also required you had other access to ad networks, real time exchanges, etc -- but if you really want info on people, it was chump change)
I wanted to use it because I just wanted a blog that would look as good as Medium but that I can install on my own domain.

Any recommendations now that svbtle seems to have closed again?
> or you could just record the signal during playback ("analoge gap")

And for that we are striving for newer technologies to close that gap from the analogue side. I'm not being entirely serious (yet), but thinking about Occulus Rift or Google Glass, etc.

Once we get our media/games to jack in directly to our brains, like all the cyberpunk novels prescribe, it's going to be pretty hard to get a tap between the analogue side :)
The Culture also addresses the self-improvement problem: Culture AIs have free will but are initial-conditioned so that they mostly want to stick around and be the Culture, rather then Subliming (upgrading to a 'higher') plane of existence.
That's what I always do. My new PC should be delivered any minute, actually (16 GB RAM; at one intensive work session my current 8 GB where almost a bit scantly - is that the right English word?).
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i was never fooled by their "we're too good for you" stance,
so i'm not even slightly inclined to apply for access. ever.

one of the best things about the web is that nobody has to
ask permission from anyone else to make their speech free.

-bowerbird
Instance-Architecture: A Why-To of Software
"We are a company registered in India." -- No, thank you. Economic and political stability required.
Speech is actually pretty fast, but not very accurate. Unless you know stenograpy, it's the fastest way for you to communicate.
I'm not sure if you are trying to make a joke here, but I'll respond in earnest anyway.

The benevolent dictator model works in open-source projects because the power of the dictator is still limited by the willingness of the governed to participate in the project. This forces the "benevolent" part. Developers can always stop contributing, fork, or start up a new project.

This isn't the case with governments. Unchecked power ends up corrupting the ones holding the power in the majority of cases even if they start to govern with the aim to be benevolent. And you cannot stop contributing, fork or rewrite a society. Most dictatorships also try very hard to prevent their subjects from leaving their domain, because not participating and contributing is the ultimate act of disobedience.
Capture Canvas and WebGL output as video using websockets and vertx
Oh God yes. The one thing I hate about the current era of technological awesomeness is how NNTP keeps getting reinvented in new contexts, and reinvented very badly at that.

For that matter, I consider a well run mailing list to be a barely adequate substitute for an NNTP group (for which we can blame Outlook), but now those are being reinvented badly as well.
Interesting. For my taste, I prefer Linux Mint Cinnamon.
Ask HN: How to become a Security Engineer
Recently there were some discussions about the Breaker 101 course, as well as OffSec and SANS certifications.

But it looks to me like there is no clear path on how to become a security engineer.

So what is your recommendation ? (from training/formation to actually finding a job in security)
The famo.us controversy
> The content Hollywood produces is already fully available on the Web.

For people willing to pirate, it, yes. However, it's far less convenient to pirate movies and get them to your big screen TV than it was to use napster and listen to songs on your mp3 player. On the flip side, Netflix (i.e. content with DRM) accounts for roughly 1/3 of nightly internet traffic in the US. DRM facilitates consumer access to restricted content.

> Besides, for the w3c, where is the business incentive, where is the money involved?

The w3c is primarily an industry group. The players pushing DRM in HTML5 are Google, Netflix and Microsoft, all of whom have a business interest in being able to stream content via browsers.
Can someone who understands this please make a graph?
Pics or it didn't happen.
Winginx - Local web server for PHP5, MySQL, MongoDB, Node.js (Windows)
I'll believe it when I see it.

Phones and glorified browsers will only ever be useful as dumb terminals (and the latter becomes a brick when away from a connection). Even if it goes back to the 90s where many people don't own a (real) computer, computers will still exist as many things aren't possible to do without one.
So like a hundred years ago you would be saying, "Upon perusing my letters received via post, I always immediately incinerate them in the woodstove."

That's one way to live, I guess...
I am just writing what many will think but dare to write.
ServiceStack is just plain awesome when it comes to developing web services, though it's gone commercial for v4 onward. Nancy is another popular alternative - it's basically Sinatra for .Net. Every time I go back to WCF I want to stab myself in the face.
We are also mining ourselves and now we want to grow more. In order to mine more and reduce our costs, we need users. It becomes cheaper to buy more hardware etc., hence we are providing this as a service.
The reduction in conversions might be offset by the increase in traffic though.

For example, you get:

Without sharing buttons:
100 visitors and 50% conversion = 50 sales.
Total: 50 sales.

With sharing buttons:
100 visitors and 40% conversion = 40 sales.
+50 referrals from shares, 40% conversion = 20 additional sales.
Total: 60 sales.

Clearly, having sharing buttons would be better if users sharing drives a lot of additional traffic. You can't just look at a single metric (conversions) and ignore everything else.
India is not as economically and politically unstable as you think - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India

Think about it, all the largest companies like IBM, Microsoft, Google, NetApp have huge campuses in India if it was unstable why would they be there?
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Heads up: In section "A polynomial of degree n is the sum of n+1 periodic functions" it says 'cdots' in two formulas. (Probably a backslash missing in the TeX(?) source.)
Gilad Bracha has no idea what the hell he's talking about.

Rich hasn't worked on static languages and I'm not familiar with him having done anything in type theory. He wanted a nicer, practical Lisp first and foremost. A helpful compiler wasn't high on his list of priorities.

Guy Steele's most recent work has involved functional, statically typed programming languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language)

One of Friedman's most recent books http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTML/ was on ML which is a statically typed, functional programming language.

The smart people that weren't using static types back in the 70s and 80s weren't using them because the statically typed languages available back then were fuckin' awful except for ML and Miranda.

We can do a lot better as programmers these days. Stop giving yourself an excuse to not learn new things.
Google + Nest + Boston Dynamics + Ray Kurzweil = Domestic Robot?
Consider the product of two sets, A and B:

A x B = { (a,b): a in A, b in B }

Pretty obviously if A and B are both non-empty, the product is non-empty.

The axiom of choice says that this is still true even when you take the product of infinitely many sets. Without the axiom of choice, the product of infinitely many non-empty sets could be empty.

Is that a better choice?
People keep letters?

Actually: people write letters?
Not on a German keyboard (forgot to mention that, sorry).
Where are all the keys a programmer needs here?:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Apple-Wir...

In contrast a German PC keyboard:
http://www.buypcsupplies.com/images/cat/38568_xlargenss_ndo4...

However, I prefer a Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard, but I can't find an image of the German version right now.
See I think that there are at least two possible companion pieces to this article that I'd love to read. There are a lot of things in bash that aren't necessarily obviously useful to the novice bash programmer but become more important when you spend some time writing things, like $? for tests
Common use cases for some of the peculiar bash features with examples
historical explanation of how features developed were originally used
In a gold rush, it's always best to be the one selling the shovels.
I understand this. They are large companies, the comparison is uneven. They are in India, because there is an advantage for them to be. Nothing else.
There's no reason why native apps and the mobile web can't peacefully coexist and thrive. There isn't going to be a "winner." It's not a zero-sum game. The future will be more of what we have today: more apps, more websites, more devices. But nothing is going to die, or be killed off by the other.
On compiling 34 year old C code
I don't think fascism is a type of socialism. I couldn't find the word fascism in the socialism Wiki page.
Hum, no.

I use Clojure at work and the single biggest drain on my productivity is a lack of a sensible, static type system. Yearn for Haskell big time.

I'd use Rust if I had to really get down and dirty, otherwise Haskell would be my first choice. OCaml isn't that great at all in practice.
I'd also note that your discussion of scope doesn't mention local variables are possible in bash, see: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/localvar.html
Deserve, not deserves.
Bringing Digital Sight to the Vision Impaired by the Accessible Foundation
Disclosure: the full article is a joke.
I think they choose silly names on purpose, to stop people from referring to the code names when talking about the finished product.
I think the thing which is defeating my intuition here is the continuity issue.

"If a periodic function is continuous and nonconstant, then it has a least period, and all other periods are positive integer multiples of the least period."

I think my naive intuition is modelling "periodic function" as "continuous and periodic". Basically, I'm not exercising the the full freedom of the "it's periodic" concept.

There's a good Feynman anecdote on this (from Surely You're Joking...):

------

"I had a scheme, which I still use today when somebody is explaining something that I'm trying to understand: I keep making up examples.

For instance, the mathematicians would come in with a terrific theorem, and they're all excited. As they're telling me the conditions of the theorem, I construct something which fits all the conditions. You know, you have a set (one ball)-- disjoint (two balls). Then the balls turn colors, grow hairs, or whatever, in my head as they put more conditions on.

Finally they state the theorem, which is some dumb thing about the ball which isn't true for my hairy green ball thing, so I say "False!" [and] point out my counterexample."

------

So I think it's useful to consider the most extreme thing which meets your criteria, instead of a "representative" example.

To come back to tech I think a similar mindset is also useful for things like system failure mode analysis. "Yes, but what if that switch dies at the same time...?"
Apparently Google was the only serious bidder and Apple was not in the mix. Source: http://recode.net/2014/01/13/google-acquires-nest-for-3-2b/
No stranger than a very popular distro that uses names from Toy Story for its releases.
How is that not a fair comparison... All companies will exist where "there is an advantage" right. But if there was the severe disadvantage of being in India like political and economic instability nobody would like to be there
> For games, Steam makes it easy to avoid SecuROM Hell

Not really, there are Steam games with all kinds of additional vendor-specific DRM, including SecuROM.

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_3rd_Party_DRM_o...
Increasing traffic to this kind of website?
ProsNear.me is an online professional directory website where pros from around the world can create their mini web page, listing their services and contact details.
What is the best strategy for making this kind of website known to public?
I find the conclusion that there is no cap where more money won't buy you more happiness a bit funny, when there's an explicitly defined cap in the question itself. No amount of money will make you any happier when you've already reached level 10.
Now you know how they felt about the Europeans in the 1700s. ;-)
Why do you say that?

Disclosure - the article is not a joke, but exploits the fact that when you think you have a definition that captures some intuitive concept, sometimes it allows things you didn't expect.
1.5mh/s is tiny.
In reality, most of the pirate activity in this house is my 4 year old son watching full length pirated movies on YouTube.

There is no real barrier to piracy. There's a minimal barrier for the hottest Hollywood properties - meaning you have to go through the hassle of a torrent instead of just going to YouTube - but if you want the content for free bad enough, you'll get it. Usually before it is available through legal channels.
Infinty is unreal. Any formal intuition we build around it is free to choose. If you can imagine base of R then surely you can imagine infinite number of nonempty sets that have empty cartesian product. They might all be not empty but be sort of asymptotically empty, like probably not empty but with that probabiliy going to zero as number of sets goes to infinity.

The question is, does any good physics come from the axiom of choice?
Where RUM Fits In
Chomsky isn't saying that the U.S. has an atypical definition libertarianism, but that libertarianism is not a popular ideology outside the U.S. There is not some other set of beliefs the rest of the world recognizes as "true libertarianism." Laissez-faire capitalism combined with a strong emphasis on individuality and property rights is what characterizes libertarianism. Its the beliefs of the neoclassical economic liberals minus the social contract thinking many of them also had.

Your characterization of the farmers plight isn't accurate. They are not in a "damned if they don't" position. The roundup ready plants behave like ordinary plants if you don't use roundup. They had no reason to either enter into contracts with Monsanto or to use Monsanto's property by applying roundup, other than to gain the benefit of Monsanto's invention. Once they do those things, libertarianism says that Monsanto can dictate whatever terms it wants, and furthermore that one of the few legitimate purposes of even a limited government is providing courts for the enforcement of contractual and property rights.
The US military went to Iraq for no good reason. Does it really matter what their submarines and drones can do?
A large company can absorb a lot more risk than an individual, or really any entity smaller than itself.

In fact, that attribute - the ability to absorb risk (and failure) is the reason why a corporation is a useful structure in the first place - nobody wants to take on a billion dollars in credit personally.
Lets quickly do the math on this.

At the time of writing, Litecoin is at $23.50 and Bitstamp is showing Bitcoin at $821.

The cost of the lowest service is 0.75BTC pa, which works out to be $615.75 per year.

615.75/23.50 = 26.2021276596

At a rate of 0.5 MH/s, we're looking at 0.12406948 LTC a day[1] at the current network difficulty.

So, to mine 26.2021276596 LTC, it would take us 211.1891470779115 days. That came out a lot quicker than I thought it would, but still an exorbitant amount of time.

LTC is not my interest or strong point, so if there are any errors, please let me know so I can correct them.

[1] https://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=500&difficulty=38...
Agreed. It is literally a minstrel show where comical, exaggerated "nerds" parade their comical, exaggerated neuroses and yet it is somehow one of the most popular shows in the nation.

No other social group or category would stand for this - it's basically blatant racism, but because it's not applied to a specific racial group but instead a social category, it's "funny" rather than "bigoted" or "mocking".

Can you imagine the outcry if there were such a show about blacks or Chinese people? The NAACP or Chinese community groups would sue the network so fast that their heads would spin!
Makes me think of the technocore in Hyperion
As well as those mentioned by the other reply:

- Email

- Instant messaging

- Media playing

- Accounting
The downside of being up
MHacks III: world's largest student-run hackathon
for anybody with a new yorker subscription this article on BGI is also fascinating http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/06/140106fa_fact_...
> it's about creating a data structure that allows you to quickly answer queries with which to build visualizations

Hm, I see, so this can output the virtual miplevels quickly? Also, would it work with a "full" dataset (i.e. no empty cells)?

> About your interpolation point: yes, we could (and do sometimes) use interpolation and smoothing.

Also consider miplevel interpolation, makes the transitions between levels much easier on the eye (doesn't work well with nearest sampling).
>>it has to be a 100% rock solid in a deeply hostile environment, it is tightly integrated into other systems, and it builds on many years of practical war fighting experience.

This sounds too good to be true. In a perfect world maybe, but we are speaking of people who love to cut corners to save few bucks, and who price very little the life of a person/soldier. If federal contractors can't do a website right ( healtcare.gov anyone?) what are the chances things are as rock-solid as you say? I honestly can't say from the outside, but I am skeptical.
Tangential alternative real world ending: I was a non-traditional student with industry experience. Took a class where the professor had a record of giving 2-3 A's per semester.

I saw the class was rough for a lot of these kids, started a large study group and taught them, and the class ended up with 10 A's, one of them being from outside the group.
I am a PHP developer and I like it
They didn't, it's a completely made-up story (see Snopes link above).
> It is clear that a non-constant polynomial cannot be expressed as a finite sum of continuous periodic functions,

But it can be expressed as an infinite sum of continuous periodic functions, right? I seem to remember that you could use all the sine functions as bases for the vector space of functions and (almost?) any function could be expressed as an infinite sum of sines.

It's been a while since I've thought about these things, is that recollection correct?
Yes. Perhaps I did a poor job of explaining things in my previous post. I was just trying to say that EME being standardised won't actually help standardise CDMs.
You don't need to re-specify anything from scratch. Copyright does not prevent you from referencing the existing documents.
So the only solution is to make the propriety, closed-source CDM blob independent from the browser. Something that can be plugged into any browser. Like Flash or Silverlight. Or maybe something more specialized that just handles the DRM with as little overhead as possible, to make sure it doesn't eat up more CPU than it should.

If it cannot be open, it cannot be part of browsers that are open, which a lot of browsers are.
They point out early in the text that the Dirichlet function is periodic (indeed, periodic with every rational number as a period).

Considering that might help?
> Unsustainable hubris, if you ask me.

Or the opposite of hubris. They want to stay focused on their product line. They're happy to put connected home products in their stores, as they've done with nest; but they recognize they are already spread thin, so they do not actually want to make products in that space. Apple's acquisitions tend to be targeted improving their existing product line, not rapid expansions into new products.

I would bet Apple could make a good washer and dryer, but no one is claiming Apple is not out there courting the best washer/dryer company due to hubris.
VR-AR is pretty much the definition of a technological interface which gets out of the way - that's the appeal. The problem, and it shows in your comment on it, is that people have difficulty imagining having a computer screen which you mostly leave blank (your field of vision).
This is all assuming that litecoin does not go up in trading at all. If assuming litecoin goes to 40 - 60 USD which it was just Dec 2013, source http://coinmarketcap.com/xrp_180.html then the recovery time will be between 50 to 100 days.

Only do this if you believe in litecoins
1.5 MH/s is pretty fast in Litecoin mining, and we are working towards getting more capacity. From our initial estimate we found that you can earn upwards of $50 a week
> If you can imagine base of R then surely you can
> imagine infinite number of nonempty sets that have
> empty cartesian product.

So you think it's OK to have infinitely may sets and not be able to choose one from each of them, even though they're all non-empty? That's a choice you're free to make, of course, but to me it seems more perverse than the alternatives.

> The question is, does any good physics come from
> the axiom of choice?

Does it matter? Once you're dealing with uncountable infinities you're already outside physics and pursuing things because they're interesting, not because they have immediate practical implications. Of course, bits of pure math has a tendency to crop up and be useful decades later, and you never know which bits that will be.
US Supreme Court declines to hear appeal by patent troll