skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They claim they'll be able to make better music recommendations (curated by humans rather than algorithms) and on-the-fly playlists than Spotify.

From http://blog.beatsmusic.com:

>We tried to remember a time a robot found us magic but all we could find were the times the robot made us laugh: “You like Pantera? Have you heard of Black Sabbath?” “You like Mumford and Sons? Here’s another song with banjos!”

>Just tell Beats Music where you are, what you feel like doing, who you’re with, and what kind of music you’re looking to hear and we’ll take care of the rest by delivering you an endless playlist for your context, be it real or imaginary.
I guess I didn't understand the previous then. The NSA isn't just discovering exploits, they are an exploit factory. They develop chips and hardware, coerce internet backbone corporations to create exploits, generally have broken the whole game. While we were arguing about cookies, they were recording the whole conversation, breaking the encryption, reducing privacy worldwide to a sham.

Competition implies some sort of level ground. But they gag the communications suppliers as they subvert the networks. If not for a whistle-blower this could have continued undetected for decades.

I wish I were some sort of conspiracy-theorist spouting hyperbole. I know this sounds like one.
Flying Jellyfish
>and also shouldn't trigger the camera for exactly the same reason they won't trigger the light-change cycle.

I have a similar problem on my motorcycle. There are many lights which are not triggered by my being there. But the camera's always know. I wish they used the same loop / detector!
Be warned that network-based TM is extremely unreliable. (Just google time machine synology failure).
I wish we could add: "Pardon Snowden"

But I suppose that's in the realm of fantasy?
ESPN: because who doesn't like some rape apology with their sportzball news?
Using DTrace to profile zfs:

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/files/2011/02/DTrace_Chapter...

I'm sure other more experienced DTrace users can offer tips but I remember reading this book and learning a lot. And I believe all the referenced scripts were open source and available.
This is actually quite the opposite of my fairly substantial experience with the London squatting scene. The vast majority of them seem to be well-meaning, anarchist or at least hippyish artistic young people. Most of them don't smoke or even drink very much. They're very good at caring from their property, especially historic buildings. One group I know paid for an expert to evaluate and do some repair work on some antique wallpaper, which had originally been left to rot by the absent owner. The friends in commercial spaces will keep them tidy, clean and free of vermin. They use the space, as opposed to letting it sit, rotting and empty in the heart of a city on the cusp of a genuine housing crisis. They put on workshops and host events, trying to bring life to often wholly non-residential areas. They make themselves part of the community. As far as I have seen, they're a wholly positive force for good.

Here's a counter-example to your article: http://londonist.com/2009/01/temporary_school_of_thought.php
"Pretty much a bad IBM culture fit is a person who's passionate about something in life."

I had to pick out this quote because it's hilarious. :)
There is a fixed amount of land available in a city, and a city is responsible for servicing it. If you've a property that's gobbling up some of the city's carefully-managed land and creating an eyesore that's a detriment to your neighbors, then it's perfectly reasonable for the city to take action.

You are a part of civilization. Accept it.
why don't you move to a more reliable hosting, like AWS?

As a fairly heavy ($x00,000/month) user of AWS, this is the funnniest and most-misguided thing I've read in a long time. AWS is horrible. It's extraordinarily bad, with all sorts of insanely complex failure modes to account for. There are some reasons to consider using it, but reliability is most definitely NOT amongst them.
This guy makes me so angry. I will never believe anything he says. Also, he has a greater strategy, and doing occasional flirting is not gonna make me trust him.
Google Now in Chrome for Desktop
A Cray-1 does 80MFLOPS. 80GFLOPS is around what a current i7 CPU can do. You can't emulate a 80GFLOPS machine in javascript right now. A Cray X-MP is 800MFLOPS and a Cray 2 is 1.9GFLOPS. These are not PDP-11s we're talking about here.

Bellard's x86 js emulator, which is as good as it can get, has a performance comparable with a 486. A 486 is slower than a Cray 1. It seems that even today you can't emulate a cray in the browser at native speed, nothing can come close to that 1000 times faster idea.

Please also remember that these system had massive memory bandwidth, and supported non-sequential workloads better than current computers which rely a lot on caches. Even if you can get the emulated peak performance of Cray 1 in javascript, for real tasks that this computers was used for it would be slower.
Note that most talk about marginal groups are based on selection bias. In the case of a squatter, the selection bias is usually towards the graffitying, punk who steals, dopes and vandalizes. The comment above was just presenting an anectode against the prevaling prejudice (which in turn are based on other anectodes).
Just the ones described in the article then.
What makes you think AWS is more reliable?
I'm reading "exploit", "chips", "hardware", "backbone", "cookies", and "encryption", but not seeing a coherent argument or evidence that we mean the same things when we use these words. NSA is not getting "backbone corporations" to create "exploits".
Why's it a factor at all? Because I wouldn't want to work with an organization that half-asses things. I don't understand the second half of your comment.
2) The constitution does not directly state that foreigners have rights. That does not mean the President cannot state that he views foreigners as having rights X, Y, and Z, and that he is directing the forces and agencies under his command to respect them.

5) It most especially means "stop pushing the use of compromised encryption standards". If there is a weakness for the good guys to exploit, the bad guys will find it as well - it is better that we strive to be secure. Attempting to break encryption standards the world has come to through legitimate processes is an entirely different thing, and totally compatible with that striving to be secure. Backdoors into equipment sold internationally are less of an issue - and the more targeted, the less of an issue - I'm not sure what the right call is there, once we're generally respecting point 2.

7) The president can state that he doesn't believe it is appropriate (bully pulpit...), and can instruct the Justice Department not to rely on it. He could also ask for legislation that closes the loophole explicitly - we already do that for HIPAA.

I'm not saying any of these are politically expedient (though I would prefer the political environment to be such that it is) or likely, but "the President can't do this" is wrong, and "it is not politically expedient" is reason not excuse.
I'm interested to see you show that determinism vs. randomness is a false dilemma. Not that it isn't - it's just that you haven't explained HOW it's a false dilemma. You just skate right onto the issue "more important for you".

Along the same lines, how is determinism vs. randomness any less of a false dilemma? You say "if my choices are not deterministic, they must be random." But the concept of free-will is another (well established) alternative to determinism.

We have already entered into an old metaphysical forest here, so why not go ahead and think about what exactly randomness is? From the way you describe the "more important" dilemma, randomness is a sort of determinism - when viewed at a systemic level. That is, we often speak of randomness in the terms of probability, as though the mathematical probabilities of a phenomenon are the a priori governing laws that determine that phenomenon's taking place.

An alternative way of seeing random probability is that the laws governing a system are simply unknown to us - though they are determined. We can calculate a-posteriori probabilities of a phenomenon, but it is not the probability itself that governs the system. This is the crucial point.

For example, assume that humans have free will. My favorite sandwich shop serves Reubens on average once every 18 days. But let's further say that the shop owner has some idea to sell Reubens 20 times a year.

Whether the universe is truly governed by random probabilities, or whether the real will (shop owner's) governing the system is just a black box to me, the calculated probabilities look the same.

So I suggest perhaps that yours is also a false dilemma. There seems to me no necessary implication of non-determinism and randomness, because I view randomness from an epistemologically humble position, i.e., that it is an a posteriori description of our lack of understanding.

Maybe in so much as randomness solves the false dilemma of free-will vs. determinism, free-will solves the false dilemma of randomness vs. determinism. A trilemma, perhaps?
The numbers are citations on the J Edgar Hoover's wikipedia page. The comment (you speak of) is copied verbatim. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
A Prediction Engine for the Planet
you make a good point, but adding the word nazi pretty much ruins it.

if you want to win an argument - particularly over issues related to the holocaust - you have to remain polite and avoid abuse like that. there's no alternative. if you don't, you'll lose the argument.
WoW is scripted in Lua, and the UI is done in XML. (I'm a former WoW mod dev.)
There's a collection of Wikipedia pages of Saarinen's buildings and structures at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eero_Saarinen_structur...
2014 Oscar nominees
I sympathize with the developers because I face this maddening argument every day between convenience and security, but storing passwords in plaintext on local. Geez.

Make a token on the server after initial login and store that! Not much more secure, but then this story wouldn't be news.
What's the point of the dollar bill? An epitome of democracy?
The Netflix bit is not completely true; the number of films/episodes available is lower but you get quite a few high-profile movies unavailable stateside eg. Argo, Batman + The Matrix trilogies, The Departed etc (http://www.moreflicks.com/home/movies?utf8=%E2%9C%93&provide...). Blame licensing arrangements.

Netflix is pretty VPN-friendly from my experience, so if you have a US or Canadian one you can still watch what you'd like.
Defining them as licensees instead of tenants strikes me as something that won't stand up in court. They're tenants in every function other than name.
Luckily I've left Chrome for Firefox nightly. I'm moving all my nontechie family members over to Firefox too. Google thinks they're being cute playing these stupid games, but it'll just hurt them in the end.
Programmer would be the best term.
Rights? Entitlement? How does that have anything to do with it? Your sense of justice cannot be translated to the real world. If someone's willing to face society's punishment, then there's nothing you can do to stop them.
Hoe maak ik mijn bankstel weer als nieuw?
"If you grab someone's phone, you can effectively go through this log and see effectively where this person has been," Wood said. "It's a bad thing for user privacy"

Compared to what? The implicit assumption is that Starbucks gathering and storing geolocation data is not a potential invasion of privacy or a meaningful risk. The person who steals my iPhone is very unlikely to do so for the data it contains. Their goal is to flip it for cash and a datum ain't worth much to anyone other than the PI my wife hired to find out if I'm sleeping around or an attractive lab technician in CSI: Miami.

No the real risk to privacy is when Starbucks' servers are comprised. Today's Willy Suttons are still bank robbers not pickpockets. Spreading the data out spreads the risk and reduces or eliminates the probability of a catastrophic breach.

Of course it will be popular sport to pillory Starbucks for not following the conventional wisdom because it allows us to ignore the fact that passwords are broken. There's no technical fix for poor password hygiene among iPhone owners and an encrypted password will barely slow down a determined attacker with a couple of GPU's and physical possession of the phone.
Chrome: Text fields and boxes seem to have reverted to a beveled look
Earning money is one thing. But teaching someone how to budget has drastically better chances of using their money more effectively.

Besides, once they get old enough to work (maybe throw in chores) they'll already have plans on what they want to do with the money that goes beyond drinking, games and consumer goods.
> I ran this with newly installed MacTeX from the TeX Collection 2013.

Then this:

>Unfortunately the Ubuntu engine that converts PostScript to my

So Mr. Knuth's using a Macbook and Ubuntu at the same time.
Netflix picks up an Oscar nomination for “The Square”, a documentary
And there are numerous examples of squatters who don't leave when given a good reason. Squatters who have the consent of the landlord aren't really squatters in any meaningful sense.
NSA finding exploits is good. NSA keeping those exploits secret, for use as tools, is probably good; NSA disclosing those exploits to vendors and getting them fixed may or may not be better. NSA convincing vendors to insert bugs (or features) that can be exploited is bad. I don't know a whole lot about how much they do each of these.
Email done right on the iPhone
If the building is insecured-enough for squatters to take up residence, then it's insecured-enough for anybody else who wants to come and visit and do some damage.

And if you had 5, 10, or 20 squatters... how long do you think it would take one jerk to ruin the place top to bottom.

Squatters don't need to be all bad to destroy properties. Only a tiny percentage of them have to be destructive, and then building will look like a hellhole by the time the owner sees what's been done.
Or rehabilitate an old payphone with an in-house PBX, and then phreak it with a modded Radio Shack tone dialer. http://www.citizenengineer.com/
Humorous cartoon photography
A nice and funny cartoon pic of a duck that can shoot a person easily!
Indeed, nice to see our small country on HN. Ordered 2 of those..
Being the sysadmin on a site frequented by sysadmins has to be frustrating at times.

Thanks for all you do!
IBM mainframes were the same way... installing the OS required a compile process.

If you're interested in experiencing the joy of setting up OS/360 first hand, it's more possible than you might think. Here are instructions for building OS/360 on the Hercules emulator:

http://www.conmicro.com/hercos360/

None of the steps in the process is all that involved, but some of the mechanics are very different. 60's vintage OS/360 on an IBM mainframe is very unlike the Unix model that most people are used to these days.
MIT University Website Defaced by Anonymous Hackers in Honor of Aaron Swartz
It already does, just take your pen and some paper and you're set.

Oh, and don't forget the aspirin, you'll need it...
I learned/used TCL for the first time not too long ago... in 2013. It's still used in the healthcare industry.
Earhorn demo
UltraCart now accepts bitcoin payments with Coinbase
So, another words, you have no realistically achievable plan either, but you're angrier and more pessimistic. How about this: if you want measurable change, start with a goal that has somewhere greater than a 0 percent chance of succeeding.

It also might help if you could point to why some particular congressperson was objectionable, like if you actually had metrics for what you were trying to achieve so we would all vote in bunch of people that were worse that the status quo. Like a scorecard.
Now that I search for it I can't find any evidence of it, but I swore it was there!
> there's every reason to believe this is happening again with the NSA

No, there isn't -- there is no such evidence that our elected officials are being coerced by the NSA.

Let me say it again, if such proof is revealed then it would be absolutely terrifying for everybody involved and all over the news (be it MSM or social or whatever). As it stands now there are only claims, and there is a distinct lack of evidence and facts surrounding such claims.

Now, with regards to blackmailing our elected officials, I think we can put it simply as such: the fear of just the possibility that we might be blackmailed is enough to cause self-censorship. This is a historical truth and accepted as self-evident.

That said, our elected officials are no less victims than we are. They are spied on as much as -- if not more than -- us.

Please acknowledge this one thing, if you will acknowledge anything in my post: our elected officials are no less victims than we are.
Not just your current family, but your children and their offspring with the three generations punishment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaechon_internment_camp#Human_r...

So you’re entire current family is sent, and then the next two generations will be born and live and know only the internment camp as the world.
I'd like to try figuring this out myself as an exercise, and therefore haven't read past the introduction of the article.

Does anyone know where I can find either the application in question or some other program that will at least encode this format?
It's hardly a charity when it creates real value for ycombinator.
How to turn from STEM to STEAM
> It's like most things in life, you can tell them "it's hard to [earn/do/learn] X," but the actual exposure to X develops a different level of appreciation.

How about just making/letting kids work, and not make such a big deal out of how hard it might be? (work in general; some people think that 'kids should be kids', but I'm not so sure that is optimum. Maybe it would be great if no adult had to work, either, but that is impractical.) No wonder how many people have such a hate-relationship to work when we try to shield children from work\* all the while complaining about work ourselves.

People say that you should do work that you like, work that gives you a purpose etc. But who can blame them for having a hard time with that when all they've heard growing up is how miserable work (in the general sense) is?

I don't know psychology, so this is just a theory I have.

*\ I'm not a proponent of child labour
Math is not necessary for software development
To be fair, T-Mobile doesn't advertise their plans as "unlimited", they advertise them as 500mb/2.5gb/5gb at 4G speed. It's only $10/month more to bump up to 2.5GB.
"Positive reinforcement" would be a bar which gives some food to a rat who pushes it three times. If a rat is hungry, he pushes the bar enough times to get as much food as he needs. "Intermittent reinforcement" is a bar that gives some food after a random number of presses each time. A rat will push the bar frantically until he's exhausted, even if he's not very hungry. The technique works pretty well on humans too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Intermittent_rei...
BoxCar 2D: Car evolution using genetic algorithms + Box2D
this is really easy:
define goal, context and measurement.
assign to dev.
discuss with dev if needed.
check and collect on ready.

if he is a good developer this is enough for him.

And for you? you are delegating, you have nothing to do about that fking task. except answering questions and collecting results.

Forget it. And if it comes back to your mind forget it again. Until the dev comes to you with a question or with a result.
Ads are completely unacceptable for me so I've always used it with a subscription. To be honest I hadn't realised the free version had other restrictions.
And if you paid the extra $20 a month, you would have the Unlimited LTE plan instead of the Unlimited 2G plan with 500mB of LTE. $70 is still reasonable in my eyes.
Wow, thanks for sharing this, will definitely read it.
Storing a token isn't really much more secure than storing the password itself. (If I steal your token, I'm buying coffee with your account even though I don't know your password. A token that authenticates account access is a password.)

But it seems much more secure (which, it turns out, matters) and it does somewhat protect people who reuse the same password everywhere.
I agree, but try to keep the terminology clear. The things you're saying are bad aren't "exploits"; they're "implants". There are modes of implanting code that I think are clearly bad, but even more modes where I think "well, that's SIGINT for you."
I was under the impression part of that is because of how Opera Mobile worked, they have some kinda "Turbo" mode that compressed websites and reduced downloading times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mobile
It's the web user's own crontab judging by the lack of username in the file.
The Basics of Security Awareness Aren’t Sinking In
Don't Be Alone and Clueless: First-Time Founder Advice
In the UK, most cameras allow 10% + 1mph. So in a 30mph zone, 35mph is the speed at which you'll get prosecuted.
So because it's written in LISP it gets a free pass in other areas? That seems like a dubious claim.
Before the cloud we just called those backups.
HN is not a charity, it is a marketing platform for YC with some community aspects.

There is a very strong bias to everything YC.

The HN community has also outgrown the software HN was built on you can see this in threads like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051091

but even that thread is an extreme many front page items that gain traction are hard to go through because of things like lack of foldable comments. Other things that are extremely noticeable are expiring links which pg has said he doesn't think are important enough to fix. There are many small UI issues that won't be fixed for the community.
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With a static key? I mean, sure... but that's just obfuscation.
As I see it, if you consider the universe to be a series of states[1], either the next state is perfectly determined by the previous one, or there is a (finite) set of possibilities for the next state. The latter therefore exhibits randomness.

I'm happy to be challenged on my philosophical disposition though, because I'm aware that there are whole schools of thought that seem like vague informal nonsense to me, and I'm not so arrogant as to assume I'm simply smarter than them.

[1] I don't understand relativity well enough to adapt my argument to it, so I'm happy to accept a counterargument there.
That'd be a pretty easy ticket to beat. Telling the cop it's a sensor light you can't trigger is going to work on any reasonable officer, and if not it's going to be pretty easy to contest in traffic court.
Adobe brings 3D printing to Photoshop CC
Well, if you throw the halting problem at it then all of your static analysis goes away since you can use general recursion to write arbitrarily typed expressions. That's why things like Idris have termination checkers.
Firefox returns: (Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap) via https
They are running BSD. I don't think BtrFS is an option and ZFS can do pretty much every trick BtrFS can.

The data corruption on the first machine seems like a hardware problem.
Learn code the hard way
One motive for it was so they could work together on projects without worrying about the employees getting poached. It doesn't seem like such a clear-cut wrong.
I agree, I'm not sure what relevance the girl's weight had to the paragraph.
only 1 remaining, out of stock soon :D
The day we fight back - Februrary 11th 2014
Thanks! Any feedback would be welcome.
That is part of what a government's reason for existence is.

I don't disagree, though I'm not so sure that the only possible alternative is Mad Max.

That said, historically, setting rules for how property should be used is as much a part of the State's existence as protecting its owners.