skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a legitimate request, and it shouldn't be even necessary to ask for it, for any project that accept donations or publicly funded. It's annoying, but it's important.
Oh, but it could be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_(programming_langua...
This is only true for tourism, not true for the job market inside the EU.

If you are a French national and want to come work in Italy: no problem, you are treated exactly like an Italian (except for maybe a couple of national security jobs). If you are Romanian you still have to get a work permit.
Yet another reason for why electric cars have so much potential in the long run compared to gasoline-powered cars, and that's besides the fact that batteries themselves can double the storage capacity every 10 years or so, and therefore the range (or same range for lower price), or that electric cars can be charged for free with energy from solar panels.
Said it true sir.
You've taken the analogy more literally than it was intended.

I didn't mean to say that "if everyone (including guilty people) is honest with the police then guilty people will be caught." That would have been naive. My point is that talking to the police is a prisoners dilemma when considered as a game played only between innocent people.

My point is that the police can't do their job without information, and almost all information given to the police is volunteered by innocent people. Far fewer crimes would be solved if everyone clammed up when the police knocked on their doors, and that'll inevitably lead to more crime.
I said two hours of usage. For me usage is something that requires serious burn rate. Why would I play temple run when hiking?

And you could always bring juice with you if you have to use intensively for long periods your phone outside of civilization for some reason. Just pack eight 2700Mah Eneloops and you are fine. You need very simple transformer and usb connector.
I'd say it's very relevant. The "Motivation and Scope" section bemoans the over-abundance of library choices and then declares that there should be one standard library for all developers to use. That's literally the situation in the comic.

> How many cross-platform 2D graphics libraries are there?

The document itself points out 4 cross-platform libraries. A simple Google search for "cross-platform 2d library" yields at least a dozen more.

> Also, the purpose is pretty obvious if you look at the use cases of Cairo and it's obviously not meant for (serious) game making ...

They explicitly state that they want to serve rendering of any type, including games.
Personally I cannot wait for my own robot car, so much free time will be given back to me.

However the irrationality that comes into play with a robot car killing a human means that the creators of such cars are going to go above and beyond to do what they can to prevent it. By virtue of human irrationality we get safer robot cars.
We should figure it out. Some cryptography obviously, safe but recoverable.
No. The correct response is. "I exercise my right to be silent. I do not consent to a search. Am I being detained or am I free to go?" And if you are arrested, "I demand to speak to an attorney."

See for example https://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform-immigrants-rights-racia... .

What you listed here might make you feel better at the moment, but it doesn't express that you want to exercise your rights. If you don't express that you want to use those rights then the police can keep on doing what they want.

Do not claim you are innocent. You don't know all of the things they are investigating, and lying to an officer is illegal. The rest of what you said is easily interpreted as bluster.
If the users intend to use some site only once but the site forces the users to make passwords, this is unsurprisingly what the passwords will be.

The users are actually quite smart in deciding how much effort is adequate for the realistically expected risk to them. Unless their perception is manipulated.
The port change is a cosmetic difference that does not alter the security of your box one iota. All it currently does is reduce the number of unauthorized attempted logins.

If your box is more vulnerable on port 22 than port 22221 then your problems run orders of magnitude deeper than which port your ssh server runs on.
Brilliant. The press loves a typical "love at first sight" story, and over time all we remember is the survivors. Psychologists call this the survivorship bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias). I think in tech startups someone ought to name this habit the "Techcrunch Bias".
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Sorry, but it absolutely does also apply during traffic stops. Many a routine traffic stop for a broken taillight or some such other nonsense has turned into something else as soon as someone said "sure, no problem" when the cops asked, "You mind if I just take a quick look around?"
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But innocent people would have no obvious reason to know the existence of each other in relation to the investigation of a crime - in fact, investigators would tend to think that indicated some knowledge of the crime and make that person a viable suspect, in which case you are not suspected innocent and it's not in your interest to talk to the police.

The prisoner's dilemma is specific for a reason - nothing in its description is ambiguous. Please do not call this situation a prisoner's dilemma when it is not. The prisoner's dilemma implies a game with specific rules, and by applying that name to some other situation, you are changing the rules of the game and making it into something else entirely.

Information to help solve crimes can still be provided to police with a lawyer present, which is something that everyone should do when being questioned. Full stop. It's not about being moral or immoral, it's about basic self-preservation.
Thanks for the excellent, in-depth explanations.

I think that the TAL episodes were great at exposing the fact that there are patent trolls, and that there are problems with the current patent system. But your descriptions and analysis do point to some serious flaws with their reporting and explanations.

And yes, I remember first hearing the episode about the patent invalidation, in which everything hinged on someone's handwritten notes that happened to be written down. That didn't point to the fundamental issues here.

I think that a lot of engineers, especially HN readers (and including myself), are interested in the world of software patents, but lack the legalistic training to think through things the way you described.
I'm glad you're being open minded about responses.

While I completely agree with you on the massive backlog of problems that could be solved with very simple data analysis (this is the reason I am in the field), your thoughts about data modeling techniques are very much off the mark and sound like something read from a dated statistics textbook.

First, on logistic regression:

-I can tell you with certainty that logistic regression is not vastly underused, and is consistently among the most popular machine learning algorithms [1]. From personal experience I think it's likely the most powerful model there is.

-People are excited about Bayesian models and NN because they work. Actually, most logistic regression in practice is Bayesian by nature (regularization much?). More so, logistic regression is actually a piece of what powers NNs, and it's incorrect to directly compare the two. To put it more blunt, these are drastic improvements to logistic regression that allow the technique to solve greater problems.

-You are trivializing the amount of training needed to properly apply a classifier by calling it simple.

Second, there are plenty of basic questions in the data field to answer [2]:

-Doing anything with large amounts of data is still complicated and hard

-Unifying multiple data sets

-General model comparison

-Most modeling assumptions and as a result conclusions reached from them are wrong

-Communicating results to people. This is the most underestimated. One of the reasons we have such a backlog of problems that haven't been touched by simple data analysis techniques is the difficulty involved in explaining results. P-values are fucking meaningless and massively misinterpreted and misused. I won't start on frequentist statistics.

1) http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-top-10-data-mining-or-mach...

2)http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/90/
Wait... they started harassing people about a trademark that is not yet granted but in a phase where people can object to its granting??

That sounds like a monumentally stupid thing to do... wouldn't the sensible thing be to keep as quiet as possible about it exactly during this step?
Very cool, but at the same time I can't help but think, "Gee, now that is one less personal device in my life that is under my control".

Would be nice if these updates were open-source and cars ran open source software on open source designs. Unfortunately it's going to be a while before we see this.
Light Table is bigger than Jesus now.
I guess it's cool that San Diego will get another accessible airport out of the deal, but it seems like this will otherwise just kill off another good thing.

I bet that guy saving $1,000 on his flights doesn't mind the hour of extra work it takes him to do so, and that the people taking advantage of this little arbitrage are all fine with it too. But it's plain to see that on Day One of the new bridge thing, airfares will adjust so that now it costs exactly $12-$19 less to fly out of Tijuana vs San Diego (adjusted based on whatever silly fee they put in place to walk across that bridge). No more $1,000 savings. No particular reason to use this airport in favor of the old one if it worked for you.

It reminds me a bit of the big push in the late 70's to put as many Diesel cars on the road as possible because "Look at how cheap Diesel is!!! It's like half the price of Regular!!!". Which was indeed the case, until four days after all those diesels hit the road.
I went self-hosted Jekyll blog. Octopress is pretty nice too and I will migrate to it soon.

Wordpress requieres maintenance and you probably will use few things if you go corporate blog.
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But wouldn't I have a "x mutual friend(s)" displayed on Tanja her profile page, if we would have a mutual friend?
Nest’s only European Investor is France’s Super Angel Xavier Niel
Given the following passage

> There are many able and eminent physicists [...] Some of these persons are practical physicists--with a very thorough knowledge of creative as well as theoretical physics and of the scientific world--not mere mathematicians as is the case of theoretical physicists.

(these people, if one reads on, being considered by the author as better candidates than Feynman) I'd have guessed someone with a less theoretical background than Teller. It could just be an attempt to appear impartial, I guess.
Sadly journalism these days means more often to copy press-releases and exaggerate dumb statements, then to dive into a subject and getting to the bottom of it.

In this case 1% of 7-8 billion are roughly ~ 70-80 million people, which holds 50% of global wealth is really not that hard to believe, then the reported 85/7*10^9 ~ 1/10^8 = 0.000001%!

But on a second look, i think it's more an error of the choosen title of the OP. I couldn't find his/hers statement in the BBW-article.
In cop shows, because it serves the plot better; in real life, because humans are not very rational creatures and the intuitive need to try to explain yourself is strong, especially if you're in the company of people who know a couple of psychological tricks on how to make people talk.
Where is that Immortal Technique quote from? Love IT, have you seen his documentary? (of course now I've asked that, it will turn out to be that the quote is from the documentary :)
I can't speak for the OP, but I'll give my own perspective.

Many of these items are nothing but restatements of "if I want to stick to my own (racial) kind, it helps to be in the majority." Since I have no particular desire to stick to my own (racial) kind, I'm fine with them not being true.

Of the remainder, I assert they are not a big deal. In a few days I'm travelling from a location where they are true (UK) to a location where they are not (India) and it was not a significant factor in my decision. I've devoted far more thought to things like the the weather, consistent running water or a gym than I have to anything on this list.
The request was in my initial question.

If someone makes an argument that asking for legal counsel has a reasonable chance of leading to being killed or imprisoned for life, I would expect them to backup that assertion with some evidence upon request.

Stories about people being killed by police in other contexts don't provide any evidence to support the initial assertion.
1+ to this. The value comes from the skill set, not the gender. If you take this, tomorrow it will be another controversial topic, like race, and next week can be another thing. Just hire the best people, that will make the product awesome.
http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2006/04/immortal-technique-rock-t...

From back when that "Stop Snitchin'" campaign had everyone all uptight.

And yes I have. IT is amazing!
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You say all the software is open source, is it available for download somewhere?

I've never seen code intended for space missions. I guess they don't share it as most of it can't be reused for other missions so there's really no point in doing it.
Trademarks apply only to a specific class of goods or services. Unless Crush has a trademark on "Games and playthings; gymnastic and sporting articles not included in other classes; decorations for Christmas trees.", there can be no infringement.
Well put.

Personally, I have to use the skills I gained learning rhetoric and analyzing literature to make sense of some code bases. I've seen some shocking ball-o-mud code bases, and the only way to make sense of it was to understand the author(s), though never having met them. And to understand the subtext of the syntax, despite inconsistent application (poor naming convention and mixing ladder and structured text is like reading illuminated medieval engravings). There's code smells and slight variation in copy/paste blocks that belie the history of edits. There are threads woven through multiple volumes, where deprecated interlocks and crossed wires lead to bizarre plot twists. It's easy to think of certain machines as having personalities (or mental disorders, as the case may be). And there's never just an atomic dozen lines of code; at best you can reference five subroutines across two PLCs to describe what may be going on. And like good literature, you can't spoil the ending, as the joy is in the retelling of the story (of how you tracked down what was really happening).

It doesn't have to be a fascinating travesty, but I've yet to see a boring, dull, straightforward control system. Perhaps industrial programming logic just naturally turns out that way.

But it sure feels like Moby Dick, both in size, depth, and the unreliable narrator.
What about sugar? Caffeine? Computer games?

If you legalize drug usage and still criminalize distribution, there will be black markets and the associated externalities of militarized gangs.

But fundamentally, I think we have different assumptions about free will and personal responsibility.
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But at some point during the day, the key has to be loaded somewhere in order to decrypt and play.

Although it might be only in protected memory and must be requested online during playback. Maybe even uses multiple keys during playback.
Brains of elderly slow because they know so much
That is interesting. Most exit nodes that were tampered with are in Russia. I wonder why that is so. I expected that it would more or less mirror the geographical distribution of exit nodes.
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And yet you don't find any of the other companies we associate with "tech giants" there, nor on Freebsd's donors page [1], whereas Google is there every year.

So no, I really don't think it's that easy to dismiss it (even though that wasn't exactly what you were doing).

[1] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors (click 2013 or 2012)
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Don Norman: Solve the Right Problem and Find Your Own Solution
They wouldn't be using the library code. They would just specify what have to be implemented based on the library. They have been doing this with all the libraries that they include in the standard (such as part of boost) and most of the time the resulted specification is way simpler and limited than the original inspiration. Also this is a design for implementation, once done each implementer have to decide how to make it real.
Please add `man -k' to the list of unix commands worth memorizing
For some reason ubuntu's network manager crashed and I was in a spot as I couldn't access google to figure out how to fix it.

Playing around with `man -h', I discovered `man -k', which lets you search the linux command documentation. `man -k network' brought up nm-applet, the command that restarts the ubuntu network manager. I just wish I had known about `man -k' earlier.
Not really. It basically generates a number of type (in)equalities and outsources finding the solution to Microsoft Z3 theorem prover, which you cannot use for anything commercial.
Time to consider - "Height Media Queries" in responsive web design
I had the same experience, would not have expected to be so pleasantly surprised by an init system :) And writing unit files for systemd was fantastically easy.

systemd actually looks like it was designed based on experience. "Worse is Better" as a development philosophy works for getting stuff up and running and finding out what the real problems are so that you don't make solutions for non-existent problems. But when enough time has passed, and enough glue and pieces of string accumulated, it's time to take a step back and consider a redesign.
What a sad loss...

AGG is amazing and I always thought Maxim was a little bit of a genius.
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Maybe you used a new, fresh and bloat-free profile when running the Nightly?

Could perhaps explain the speed difference.
You'll love the Laundry files.

Also check out Accelerando.
What alternative is there? When it comes to authentication, there are only a few categories:

1. Something you know: password, secret question, mother's maiden name. These can be forgotten. If the information is generated by the user, it has the potential to be something easily guessed.

2. Something you have: SSH key, GPG key, RSA token, Yubikey, Google Authenticator. These can be quite secure, but hard to use. Losing a physical auth token deprives the user of access. SSH/GPG key pairs depend on the security of the system(s) they're stored on.

3. Something you are: fingerprint, retina scan, face recognition, voiceprint. These are irrevocable and anathema to privacy. Worst of all, they're not very reliable or secure. Fingerprint scanners are stymied if one has recently been lifting weights or rock climbing. Face recognition is affected by lighting, makeup, glasses, hair, sunburn/tan, age, etc. Voice auth is a joke. It can fail due to emotional stress, sickness, or background noise.

Combinations can be used for more secure authentication, but so far nothing has been as simple or as convenient as a password.
Teambox is now Redbooth
Teambox is rebranding as Redbooth, and simultaneously releasing a new version of its collaboration and communication platform. The new version of the platform includes enhanced tasks (with simple sub-tasks), better reporting capabilities, improved HD video conferencing, and new releases of mobile apps.
You can now sell on Spotify as an artist
"Most other languages" seems like an exaggeration. I don't think you can do any of the things you list easily in Python, PHP (you wouldn't even want to in PHP), JavaScript or Haskell.
> we cannot attach comments to the evolution of code

I guess Google has spoiled me. When reading code, I constantly look at its development history - commit messages, diffs and line-by-line "blame", linked bugs and code review threads. If you have good tools for that, there's much less need for inline comments.
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yes, from the esa science portal.
The projects are funded in parts from public money, so the results belong to everybody who pays taxes. That includes the source code. Sometimes there is a link for download (if a community of scientists uses the software, for example). Sometimes you may have to ask.
But there are usually no secrets.
I connect to many SSH servers that aren't under my control. It's pretty annoying to remember an arbitrary SSH port for my own.

Binding to IPv6-only is more effective at reducing log spam: IP scanning 2^128 addresses is impractical, and scanners often cannot connect because of misconfiguration/incompatibility or lack of a routable IPv6 host address.
You are right. What I meant is don't be a dick to cops if they are pulling you over for speeding. If they ask you how fast you were going, don't start reciting the 5th amendment. If they ask you if they can look in your trunk, just say no, you have nothing to hide, but unless they have a warrant or probable cause, they can not look.

I say that because I had a friend who got arrested at one of those sobriety checkpoints. They stopped him and asked him if he has been drinking. He said no, and he hasn't. But then to prove his point he started yelling that he demands that they test him because they wasted his time, so now he wants them to breathalyze him. They arrested him on a suspicion of being high on drugs instead. He wasn't, but I still had to bail him out of prison in the middle of the night. The charges were dropped, of course.

The lesson is, be firm but polite and respectful. Know you rights, and exercise them, but don't be a dick about it.
I think there are many opportunities for 'consultancy' in this area. Design is not just about working in photoshop at your desk until 'it's done'.

A few examples:

1. Nathan Barry's latest photoshop course is akin to 'consultancy' in that he is providing an educational service to others. He is charging for access to this course which means it can continue bringing in revenue whilst he works on other projects.

2. Luke Wroblewski and Gabriel Svennerberg are both accomplished UX Designers who consult for companies. Much of their time is spent advising clients by asking questions rather than simply designing the answer.

3. Clarity.fm and AnyFu provide a consultancy marketplace for designers (amongst other professions)

[1] http://nathanbarry.com/photoshop/

[2] http://www.lukew.com/ http://www.svennerberg.com/

[3] https://clarity.fm/browse/search/design http://anyfu.com/
Is there a free trusted vmware image with Ubuntu preinstalled?
In my country (UK) I believe the chance of being killed in either way is so close to zero as being something I can entirely ignore.
Seems like the type of problem that will be solved in order to sell products to those too lazy to plug in their phones, but in doing so open up entirely new possibilities in medical devices, remote sensing, and other areas.
http://rssportal.esa.int/tiki-index.php?page=Open%20Software

They also seemed to run their own summer of code in 2013: http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2013/
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