skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Invention of the Military-Industrial Complex
Of course it doesn't. This email service doesn't do anything that other email services don't offer
Well, they conquered all of China.
He basically wants an off-the-shelf Litecoin mining rig, I guess. You can find those on Ebay etc.
every server passing email to the next server in the hop has the same problem..

The security is what controls exist not only in the severs between you and your email provider but also what controls are in place with the email provider.
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Nonsense. This is the same mentality that prefers EJBs and other complexity for its own sake.
> I don't really understand the objective of those like Kurzweil.

I suppose AI will one day be able to explain this to us?
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Hi HN!

We're throwing a conference and hackathon in April and we need to find a space. If anyone has been to a space they like and wants to throw the name our way, let me know. Thanks!

dan at techendo dot co

(for the curious: http://hackendo.techendo.co/)
If you get the chance, absolutely worth it to visit. Very solid talks, a great group of people that's otherwise very hard to find in Japan (especially outside of Tokyo), and always good drinks/talk afterwards.
The hoped-for outcome for 3D printing is that it will bring the cost of a custom faceplate to maybe 5x times that of a generic faceplate instead of 100x. Of course the hardest part would be the software to turn the room layout into a 3D printed faceplate.
If people are interested in getting traction, SFHN is having a meetup 01/29: https://next-step-growth.eventbrite.com

Free as usual, food and drinks provided. Come out, meet someone new, maybe learn something.

Cheers. :)
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This is probably the funniest table tennis match you’ll ever watch
His chipset will melt in 3...2...1... bzzzzzzzz
4-strokes inline 6 engines are well balanced harmonically.
In my experience, from a working culture perspective, the UK and Ireland are most decidedly in America more so than Europe.
(For those missing the reference, "tits or gtfo" is an internet meme.)
You could try rigging a cheap metronome to the sensor. Or even an led that lights every few minutes.
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I see; that would indeed be a change since the original Affero GPL. But I note that it only goes into effect upon modification, so mere distributors or SaaS offerers are not affected if they do not alter the program.

This means, effectively, that something very much like what I said still applies; If the program did not originally have a facility for downloading source, and you did not modify it, you do not have to add any such facility.

> The current view of RMS […] is that a mere distributor of a version which the distributor has modified must make an effort to have the distributed version comply with that requirement if it did not do so previously

If this is so, I would like to hear the reasoning behind it; Do you have a link or reference?
Apple Preparing For Push Into Mobile Payments For Physical Goods, WSJ Reports
Not a great comparison. Capital investments needed for IT production are actually much smaller than other industries, and IT just doesn't really scale well at all with respect to company size. Large and small companies alike are limited to the talent they can attract and pay for.
He did the AI for Black & White? My respect for him has just increased by an order of magnitude. Black & White's creature AI was nothing short of amazing.
>just that ZH has proven itself to be built upon a pile of rumor mill excrete.

…that everyone from cnbc reporters, economists, peeps at nanex and billionaires have felt the need on occasion to participate with to varying degrees. So now that's out of the way, what do you really want to add to topic at hand?
Isn't this really a problem of corporate/investment taxes so low (and full of loopholes) and taxes on everyone else so high?

For the average person once you add up federal income tax, state income tax, social security, medicare, medical, sales tax, gas tax and all the other government fees we end up paying its like 50% of your income going to the government.

We could essentially double most of the countries pay overnight which would have a stimulating effect on the economy as a whole creating more consumers for more products and thus more jobs and more returns on investments.
True. That's why you should use end-to-end encryption for your mail.

There's a reason I'm sceptical about these things: over here in Germany, the government is trying to establish a nation-wide email service (DE-mail) that is supposed to be so secure that you can even use it for government interaction such as filing your taxes. They even argue that they are using encryption to protect your mail. However, they explicitly say that encryption of course only happens between servers and that your email can of course be read on the servers, making all security useless.

This might not be the same as xfsmail, but it doesn't feel secure to me. In general I'm less worried about some random attacker trying to hack into the providers' servers than into provider employees reading my email.
I read (in a random book, while standing in a bookstore) that handwriting is an integrative activity, where tapping a screen or typing on a keyboard is far less integrative.

The book said that people have input (reading, viewing, touching, etc.), processing, and output. When the outut has a focused kinesthetic element (like handwriting does), it integrates the conclusions of the processing into memories and neural connections much more deeply.

Can someone who knows about this stuff confirm or deny?

Personally, I find writing notes by hand to be satisfying and flexible. Yes, I have a gadget in my pocket and I use it where I know I don't need anything but text or photos. But my first choice for write-once memory is my blank book and a pen.
I'm sorry, but you're committing an error in your reasoning: one doesn't need to assume that markets are perfect to oppose regulations; one just needs to consider that, as bad as free markets can be, they're never worse than the political system that creates the regulations.

Arnold Kling endorses free markets not because they are foolproof or flawless. They aren’t. Arnold supports them because the alternative is generally much worse: an especially flawed institution that fosters unusual amounts of foolishness.

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/klinging-to-reality#ax...
We had a similar competition on the Programming Puzzles & Code Golf StackExchange (that's a mouthful; I think I'll just continue calling it »cgse«) three years ago: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/1956/15

We should probably start summarizing some of the better tasks in blog posts.
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I never used map for parallelization in Python, but I in .NET II used PLINQ. It's fantastic for exploiting data parallelism and very easy to use (or refactor to from sequential code).
It works exactly as it's supposed to: as the primary instrument of white supremacy in a war against racial minorities. That's why the Drug War figures so prominently in explaining why we have a higher rate of imprisonment than any other country in the world, and why minorities are so disproportionately targeted in the drug war for petty offenses like using and selling crack (despite it being less pure than coke) or marijuana (itself a term that Anslinger brought to prominence in the 1930's to racialize the drug and the war against it).
Again, why one switch one light? In my lounge, the 1 lightswitch turns on 4 lights, and in my hallway, there is 2 lightswitches for 1 light.
In what year was your grandfather 31?
This reminds me of the Marx's theory of Surplus Value, which implies that "profit" equals the "stolen" labor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value
"this t-shirt is ammo" is an American cultural artifact.

there was some support for the projects (the PGP source scanning thing, extra-US hosting of crypto software, ...), but other than that, this was the US being stupidly paranoid as usual.

That "you" couldn't sell products with crypto in them was a great business opportunity for a number of European vendors, by the way.
The age of the fighters is truly impressive. In the U.S. it would be kids.

That makes it look a whole lot more serious to me.
On a slight tangent; does anyone else think that Docker is probably a better solution than virtualenv in most cases? I never really got on withe virtualenv.
My product is a tool for conducting one on one customer interviews. I used it multiple per day to interview our customers after they use the product. Its dogfood eating dogfood.

http://www.discuss.io/
By eliminating all personal taxes? Yeah, easy win ... Unless you like crimes to be punished, fires to be put out, kids to be educated, people not to be dying of poverty, and oh, a couple of other things.
Well thanks for the inquiry.

I think the take on ZH's reporting seems rather correct. If the controls only apply to Citibank then the phrasing of the the article's headliner is a bit much. As for the meat of the subject Citibank has been a laggard[0] entity for some years, after the great recession and all.

[0] http://www.google.com/finance?cid=662713
It was a gamecube game that was ported before it came out. so there was a parallel period, but originally it was a gamecube game. If you wanna look stuff up for discussions, look it up better. BTW they even mirrored the entire world for the wii version so link could be right handed btw (like the worldmap is mirrored even), it's pretty neat if you wanna go read about it.

gamecube launch was delayed to help sales of wii version for fairly obvious reasons. you're telling me things i already know and then concluding, based on a quick (and careless) reading of wikipedia, that you know better. your own link even says stuff like motion to swing sword in wii TP is cuz they ran out of buttons.
Taxing Cross-border eCommerce – Japan to tax foreign digital products
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I love "Design of Everyday Things" but this floor plan light switch design always irratated me.

Essentially you are sacrificing a high efficiency, low cognitive load task (that happens to have a poor first time experience) for a complex glossy UI that is intuitive but high cognitive load. (Suddenly you have to engage your visual system and import your full object recognition library where previously it was a finger twitch task.)

We've struggled with this a lot at Lockitron. My personal belief is repetive actions (locking/unlocking) should be mechanically efficient while complex actions (inviting guests) should be more visually intuitive.

For another light switch concept see the Goldee.
Getting larger groups of people to agree on things is where scaling becomes a problem. Especially if some of the group is ideologically opposed to others in the group.
I am super glad to see Soothe being used / well loved. Thanks for using it.
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Bret Vitor's talk is great, for those that still don't know it,

http://vimeo.com/71278954

I like to dig computer history, and when I look everything that was accomplished at Xerox and other places and what we got. The industry really moves at snail pace in some areas.

At Xerox the GUI systems were developed in Lisp, Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar, the later being a systems programming language with automatic memory management.

Those systems had networking, GUIs, multiuser capabilities. Object embedding capabilities, the precursors of IDE and REPL environments.

Today we are still trying to re-invent those systems. How further would have we managed to be today, if those systems had been picked up as starting point.
Meh - no TLS on oubound email, no DKIM, no SPF.

Received: from mail.xfsmail.com (MAIL.XFSMAIL.com [46.32.252.200])
by mx1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68701F20E80

X-Spam-hits: BAYES_80 2, HTML_MESSAGE 0.001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.473, LANGUAGES unknown,
BAYES_USED user, SA_VERSION 3.3.2

At least it used TLS on the return email:

Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28])
(using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
(No client certificate requested)
by mail.xfsmail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 348821446D7

And noticed the DKIM and SPF on my email:

X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2 tagged_above=-999 required=6.31
tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1,
DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001]
autolearn=ham

----

It didn't send me an SMS after signup, or appear to have any method to stop a botnet signing up few thousand accounts and going on a spamming run. It happens to us all.

I do wonder how they are planning to fund their hobby if it gets popular.

(disclaimer, I've worked for FastMail for nearly 10 years - I have a decent idea what goes into running an email service)
The subset of problems that virtualenv solves that are also solvable by Docker is pretty tiny. But sure if you have problem that can easily be solved by Docker, then Docker is probably a better solution.
What I was really taking issue with is the dismissiveness with you treated the suggestion that this might be an NSA attack. I was responding to what I saw as a slanted and unreasonable framing by doing the same thing from the other end.

I was dismissing the linked blog post as much as the suggestion of NSA involvement. The blog post took a single tweet with a single screenshot, screwed up half the facts ("tracking details for a computer Shepard ordered" — uh, no, it was a used laptop keyboard), sensationalized the other half ("it moved another four times around the military and industrial belt" — uh, no, it moved from IAD to Alexandria), and tacked a pile of rhetorical questions and conjecture on the end.

I somehow expected better from an ACLU chapter.
The price seems quite low, goes to show how bad most technologists are at bargaining.
Yes definitely. I personally see this as a key ingredient in order to make a project really work. Of course this doesn't work for things like an X-Ray machine, but for a SaaS company like CloudPelican it does.

We currently use it to investigate root-causes of disruptions, track down bugs in the development and staging environment, and most important: monitor our entire infrastructure. This is also in line with our company vision that should allow users to have a single overview on their entire stack of servers, websites and applications. This will reduce time spent on digging through log files, switching between lots of fragmented SaaS tools, et cetera.
Don't worry, I'm not shooting for anything like perfection. I released another library that this builds on just last week: https://github.com/lann/builder
The US government defines poverty in terms of income before (some) transfers. E.g., social security is included, section 8 is not.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/measur...

People on the left generally consider this definition to be the important one and dismiss conservatives when they point out that consumption poverty is nearly a solved problem. See also the obsessive focus on income inequality rather than the much lower consumption inequality.

Don't get me wrong - I agree with you that we should define poverty this way - construct a fixed basket of goods and declare that anyone who acquires it or has the ability to do so is not poor. But I'm very much in the minority on this.
I have been doing a little cold calling recently. One thing I have understood from the various introduction statements is

1. Ask for the person's name or company's name first thing: this tells the person you are indeed looking for them

2. Do not sell in the first 20 seconds. Tell them you are looking for someone in their line of business and ask them if you can ask them a couple of questions

3. Ask them questions relating to their business

Only then do you explain how your business solves the problems. I have found that this recipe almost always makes it impossible for the target to say 'no' and cut the call. Once they answer your questions, they are interested to know how exactly you come into the picture. This process seems more successful than anything else for me.
> female guards falling in love with inmates and sleeping with them are not being "raped" in any conventional sense

Wrong person being raped. It's always the guard doing the 'raping' because of the power at play. Even if the prisoner consents, it may have been under a lot of pressure to avoid problems with the guard later.
Strange definition of a "monitoring" tool. It essentially requires a human being to run the tool, look at the graph, and make a decision on the data. There isn't even a baseline to compare the data to. This isn't really monitoring, it's equivalent to typing df and looking at how many bytes on disk is being used, and doing this every 5 minutes.
I wonder how anyone here would feel about signing contracts with a key pre_generated on their government issued card...
When I read Xerox PARC papers it always amazes me at was already possible, during the days I had a ZX Spectrum to play with.

The hypertext and embedding capabilities of their GUIs, the use of system programming languages with automatic memory management, among many other inventions.

Sadly, for many reasons the historians can talk about, the industry ended up going the AT&T way instead of Xerox PARC way.
alias edemon='/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs --daemon"

will give you a more helpful alias.
It also stands for Great Tanzanian Flying Orangutans and thousands of other things (in the sense that it forms an initialism of those words), but the standard definitely uses General Termination of Future Operations.
I find that keeping a ziplock with pieces of papers (one task per piece of paper) solves most of my task planning.
Really? I was thinking you just set up a new Docker env for each python project, then you don't need to worry about conflicting with libs from other projects.

What am I missing?
Yes, an Allan Kay "child". :)
Really, though, we can only examine the sample space of failed cartels.
The people in control of the company have a legal duty not to waste shareholder money. Giving everyone a raise without a good reason would get them in hot water.

There would need to be a fact-based reason to give that raise out to the entire workforce. For example, workers would need to be leaving for better jobs, or the workers would have to go on strike.
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I know this is older but just in case some one experienced the same thing, the above mentioned is true.

I experienced this on iTunes on my PC quite a while ago. And since then I have not made any purchases from the iOS device itself. I buy through the PC and then sync to my devices because of slow internet.

So now, basically when I tried to make an IAP, I got the same popup. I first thought it was the app that wanted to know my details but it really is Apple. I got this out of the way by purchasing a small, 99ct app directly from my Device. So I went into the AppStore, bought the app and the same popup came up. Since this was now in the official Apple Appstore app, I answered two of my questions, downloaded the app and now, this popup is gone and I can make IAP all I like.
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This would be possible with regular PCI which is bus-based, but PCIe is a star topology with ports on the upstream switch needing to be configured into an active state for the newly plugged in device to communicate with the rest of the system. I haven't looked at the specifications but I imagine it's the same for Thunderbolt - the controller itself has to be enabled first.
Just checked the top 50 list from 2013 and 1960. The number of companies I didn't recognize by name was about the same.
I've been working on this too, but only with an iPhone client to start (though still with the data "in the cloud"), and only targeting Japanese to begin with. Anki runs into trouble when you need to customize it to suit your material - and then when you download any shared decks, each one uses its own scheme of representation. It's great software but not very friendly.

There's no excuse for you to use Leitner though. Anki is based on the SM-2 algorithm which is well-documented (though only a starting point).
My second-hand impression is that Richard Evans is responsible for most of what actually shipped in the game's creature AI. As the Wikipedia article says, Demis only briefly held the title of Lead AI Programmer on the project.
Apple started this war. They are the original billion-dollar patent troll of the mobile industry.

If you're supporting them, you are by proxy supporting and funding patent-trolling and global abuse of software-patents.

Apple are the reason others have to resolve to (bad) means like this. I'd hardly call them out as an example to follow.
I first made a camera game and then a stopwatch. The stopwatch I do use everyday.
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507 Mechanical Movements has animations with canvas that seem to have a higher frame rate than the animated GIFs on this site. However, all those diagrams are something that SVG would be a perfect fit for and you can actually animate SVG in a more natural way by saying »This object should rotate« or »this object should move there« instead of drawing every frame by hand (with the occasional pixel errors). Plus, it'd be vector graphics.

(Edit: Just read the explanation how they do it, and notice that even the CAD program doesn't make it any easier, if they have to manipulate everything by hand, but at least the SVG process would be pretty much identical while allowing for arbitrary framerates and higher quality output.)
Something about this reminds me of RTP...
> or even CPAN
? Cpan, particularly cpanminus is excellent.
I'm cringing currently. It seems funny now, but in ten years, it'll be as funny as a Java class file's header being 0xCAFEBABE is.
Has Goldee ever shown details on user input yet? I can only find concept photos with it lit us showing status, and vague mentions of gesture detection.
I think that makes it even more interesting when you think about them in the context of their peers, and considering it has been a cyclical bear market since 2000, would you say this is a one off or a sign of more things to come in general in the current environment in china?
When I develop something for my own needs, most of the times I'll make it into a product. That includes mostly small web apps like disposable email, short URL, a guestbook service, a blog software, a CMS.

One of my projects (online appointment scheduling), though, I started using only recently for a reddit cake day reminder. People register and the software sends them an email when their reddit cake day is coming up.
Interesting. AFAIK, it depends on the oils and from what you're telling me on the countries too. For instance, olive oil that stings in Greece is a no-no. Tell a greek that the olive oil you get in other european countries stings you in the throat and he'll most likely tell you you're getting ripped off, especially when you also take into account the price.
I can't believe it! All around the world people buying "italian" oil, when the best is the spanish oil, with similar price, more quality and less fraud.
This is what feminism has to offer, segmentation.
Similarly &> works for redirecting both stderr and stdout to a file. >& is the alternate, less preferred syntax.
A 1983 video demo of Windows (two years before Windows 1.0 shipped)
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Just a pet project, but i use playlisteverything.com every day to listen to music from soundcloud/youtube (and hopefully soon spotify) in the same queue.