skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP is saying, I believe, that the corporation's greed doesn't necessarily grow out of the greed of an individual, but rather out of an organization of individuals all trying to do their jobs. Each is responsible for making a small contribution to 'protecting the bottom line,' but as an organized system it makes the organization greedy.

This is why we need strong regulations. I never liked them before, but now I've come to understand that they are required to allow the honest people to behave honestly.

I've made a similar point here before: the same situation is occurring in the US' national intelligence groups right now. There is no 'evil' person trying to 'take away our rights.' There are just people who are responsible for protecting us who have been granted the authority to read our emails.

What are they going to do? Not look? Suppose it was you? And tragedy happened and you later learned that had you looked you would have saved 2000 lives? You would have a hard time getting over it. So you look- trying to uphold the principles you believe in as you do so, but you look.

However, as an organized system, with good people trying to do the right thing in each of their own small part, it's evil. That's why we need laws to prevent it.

We need the laws to prevent evil results of good intentions.
The original word for that is "verisimilitude." I may be alone in this, but I consider "truthiness" to be something that you want to be true even though it's obviously not true.

From where I'm sitting, Mayor Rob Ford being the victim of a "lefty elitist conspiracy" has zero verisimilitude but plenty of truthiness amongst his supporters.
>As a sysadmin, the major problem is if two clients happen to have emergencies at the same time (DDoS, phishing hack, hardware failure, or something else that's hard to mitigate in advance without more money than such a client is prepared to spend).

You resolve this with your 'retainer' agreements. Client agrees to pay a monthly fee, I agree to a certain level of availability, and to prioritize said client over my other clients and/or my personal stuff.

I've also tried to set a schedule when I was available, then if you wanted me outside of that schedule, you had to agree to pay a incident fee to wake me up. But, I haven't had anyone bite on that idea. I think the retainer thing is more traditional.

Even with a retainer, of course, you can't get real 24x7x365 coverage with one person. that's just not how the physics of the situation work.

And in that case, I only had one client that had a retainer. Without a retainer? Sure, when shit breaks, the client is going to call and whine and cajole and threaten, and sure, I'm going to try to help him or her out, but... any pre-existing agreements I have come first.

The bare truth, though, is "I'll get to you after I clear up this other mess" is "good enough" for most things. Especially for employers who are picking sysadmins up off craigslist for $50/hr.
Tell me again how DeepMind bested humans in Jeopardy! or had success on hard publicly scrutinizable objective AI problems.

My point is that all these "deep" X folks shy away from really hard AI problems which other paradigms are solving more easily.
Self-updating Bitcoin price tag shown off in east London
Since it's not very stable yet, production use is actively discouraged. I do know Tilde is using Rust for Skylight (http://skylight.io), but I don't know how far from production they are.
I've been much more impressed with Google Plus's Auto-Awesome videos.
I went in 2008 while in school when I was getting kind of bored with our CS program and thinking of dropping out. I found PyCon really enlightening. It was the first time I was ever near that many other programmers, and I was completely energized. It also was really nice to realize how big the python community is. I came in through Django and webdev, but I got to learn a bit about how CPython and its community work, packaging and distribution, robotics, numpy, etc.

Definitely go if you have the opportunity.
Dreams can come true: a story of happiness (and hammocks)
Kinect based system to monitor Demilitarized Zone
Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days in orbit
There are bad eggs everywhere, but it doesn't help the conversation when you project the minority onto the whole.

By and large the police I have met in the UK are helpful and diligent. And I say that having been arrested, searched and locked in a cell for 3 hours by the police for no good reason, so have felt violated by them before.

I don't live in the US, so can't comment, but I imagine it's the same.
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He was an odd, singular character and I think the quote describes his own philosophy - not necessarily what he thought others "should" do.

One of his points was that if he got a sweet Pentagon consulting gig after his military career, then he would be reluctant to bite the hand that fed him. He could not be objective: if a lousy idea came down the pipe from on high, he might have to rubber stamp it in order to keep cashing paychecks.

This form of integrity cost him a lot - prestige, financial success, family harmony and wellness. I don't know if most people would be able to make those decisions.

To my mind, he's sort of like rms - an extreme outlier who defines success in a very different way from most people, and yet is objectively successful by various measures.
I found it funny, because of the mismatch between the "this is supposed to feel poignant" style of background music and the completely-lacking-in-poignancy material I tend to post on Facebook.
Multinationals will be able to sue countries for their business obstructing laws concerning environmental legislation etc., thereby conveniently bypassing democratic process.

That's a ridiculously stupid idea. We are now all going to be vulnerable to the most gullible among us.
Hi, I'm a fellow student who just had their whole trip to PyCon paid for. You should really look into their financial aid options if they are still available.
Artificial deadlines for the win
When I go to Bebo, it tells me they're currently closed but I can sign up for the new Bebo. The fact that they've had to shut their doors and reboot (like digg and myspace) puts some doubt in my mind as a user. Wikipedia tells me that they've also deleted all user content from the site. I especially wouldn't consider it to be nine continuous years if they're bankrupt and closed for business, even if they plan on reopening. If they succeed, Bebo launched in 2014.
New rule allows patients to get test results directly from labs, without doctors
Awesome..I was smiling when i am seeing my lookback video, remembering the moments.

Still i need to agree that some of my best pictures are missing in the video.
Maybe there should be a public record of the bugs and who found them, something you could point to on a CV.
seems like whatbox.ca offers a way better service. They got way more storage for less money and they are fast as fuck.
Only down thing is no instant completion, but if you got enough seeders on your tracker, than every torrent would be finished in less than 5 minutes
Waste power is heat to first order.

If there's a lot of it and you're not making it go elsewhere, assume that the system and it its environs are going to get a bit toasty.

Sometimes you also get things like radiation and vibration. These mostly show up in meaningful quantities in predictable places - nuclear systems, mechanical systems, high-power A/C or RF systems, high-power transducers.

You'll usually do okay if you guess that the system uses energy at around ~60% efficiency, which is enough to give you some idea of the heat to expect if you know the input power.

Or more generally, assume all input power goes to heat and plan to handle operation at that limit - while being aware that your expectations of power consumed by the system may well be low.
However, it's also had more impact on the utility of the web for most users than almost any other product, save for perhaps Google.

If by "had more impact" you mean "changed it into a medium for idle entertainment".

Seriously, what problem does Facebook solve? Does it even do a very good job solving this problem? Does it have any redeeming quality whatsoever?

From where I stand, it's just another dumb fad that was in the right place at the right time. It's the slap bracelet of this generation.
"If a Victorian gentleman arrived in present-day London, he'd think we'd been invaded by glowing rectangles"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/aug/24/charlie...
Thanks, but I already frequently revisit my most popular posts to bask in the glory days of old. Is Facebook not keeping track when I creep myself?
Tech firms release US government FISA request statistics
Business Intelligence Application Server written in Python (in developing)
I wonder how you'd bleed it?

:)
Many lasers become one in Lockheed Martin's 30 kW fiber laser
A "thermal waste signature" is black-body radiation. We have infrared telescope which can pick up red dwarf and brown dwarf stars, even down to a surface temperature of 300K.

The primary difference would be the lack of spectral bands. That would be pretty easy to pick out, and so I don't think there's an advantage to having a SETI search with this as the primary goal.
I have been using this for right at 2 years now and I like it. I havent tried others but it serves my needs and satisfies whatever attributes I need to feel safe.

At times, it contributes to what I call "log in anxiety" in that it necessitates opening the program, and inputting a password to get my other password. But no one ever said the extra security was synonymous with convenience.

And I dont leave it open, nor do I allow it to store any information in browser plugins as this seems counter productive to the sensitive passwords I use in this program.
And I'd say this is just typical of the quality you'd find in an average New Yorker feature. Also, they have a reputation for having the most rigorous fact checking process in journalism.
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>It doesn't matter whether I download 18GB from http(s) or from a torrent, the data remains the same size

Incorrect. For starters, torrent overhead is much higher than http traffic and so the transfer is actually cheaper for http. More critically is the fact that high connection count, as associated with torrents, results in connection saturation on 90% of consumer routers thus crippling all traffic, especially sensitive stuff like gaming, for everyone involved.

Other than that yeah, but this isn't for people like us. This is actually perfect for people like my father; he comes around every week to grab TV and Movies off me. I could remotely manage his account until he figured it out himself.

The thing that could make this service much better would be a feature to LAN sync content, so that one doesn't need to pull down from the internet when the file is avaliable over the LAN. Kind of like how Dropbox-esque services do it.
Why do I get the impression the security for this will be treated very superficially, and they'll only try to fix it as an afterthought later after many reports of hacking into such systems, just like for everything else? This worries me quite a bit.

Also it's interesting that this comes out almost at the same time with EU's plan to let the police remotely stop cars' engines:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10605328...
Is this generated real time? I had some very recent posts appear and it's impressive if they pre-generate 1.25billion .mp4 files in such a short time!
Even hard disks are not affected by external magnetic field in the way most people expect. Strong magnetic fields interfere with the operation of drive (seeking voice coil) but accidental erasure of data on platters by external magnetic field is relatively improbable.

Generally most of the damage caused by strong external magnetic fields to any electronics are caused by second order effects, i.e. something gets confused and causes data-destroying failure.
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It has mobile counterparts. The copy/paste part is Ok, the syncing depends on the clients. I think syncing is always through some other service, some apps claim a nice integration with dropbox, some are more tedious (I use miniKeePass on iOS and it's not fun to sync), but you won't have any fees other that what you pay for dropbox or some other third party storage.

Overall keepass is far from perfect and lacks polish, but it's good enough for most purposes, and doesn't require an internet connection, which opens more use cases (keeping banking info or wifi passwords for instance)
I'm getting a Michael Clayton-esque vibe from this whole story.
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/unity-powered-games...
Is it possible to use thermocouples to convert waste heat to electrical energy?

Edit: Or maybe one of these bad boys? http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/dec/09/new-gen...
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I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. When I talk about signature, I don't only mean the radiation itself but also position data and other markers that would help isolate the signal from astronomical sources, and - as you said - spectral information.

> That would be pretty easy to pick out, and so I don't think there's an advantage to having a SETI search

So, because you say it's an easy search that's an argument why we shouldn't do it? It's not at all clear that we should have discovered this already by accident, if that's your point. I say it's incredibly hard, and also that it's worthwhile.
It's great to see events like this in Istanbul. I feel there is a huge community out there. Congrats!
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That could be a very interesting idea. I know Google run a Hall of Fame, and Facebook do something similar.
Fast internet is not uncommon in The Netherlands. UPC[1] have 50, 120 and 200 Mb/s internet connections.

[1]: http://www.upc.nl/internet/abonnementen/
Many developers have benefited greatly from either facebook exposure or their platform. It has become kind of a sine-qua-non for web applications at least. It's commonplace however to denigrate big monopolies (ibm, microsoft) and facebook is one of them.
Google could make the paid ads more distinct.

Many people don't know the ads are ads, even though their on a different background colour and that box is labled "ads".

They could also allow me to tell them that an ad has zero interest to me. I don't block ads, but it's frustrating when I get a blitz of car insurance ads. I don't own a car; I am never going to buy car insurance. It would be great to be able to turn those ads off.

I imagine some alcoholics or gambling addicts would like to turn off alcohol and gambling ads too.
1) It doesn't have to be compiled or installed, since it's just a monolithic HTML page with all JS/CSS inline.

The obvious and huge difference then would be that KeePass requires a password or key file to open but an HTML page requires only a browser or text editor. Major, major difference to me.
How many people would read the article if that was at the top?
My video ended with the "Sky.NET" meme image that we were joking about when Microsoft bought Skype. Talk about mood-destroying.
Thomas Paine was British most of the time :)
Spoken like a true gringo.
I visited Changchun and Harbin one winter, as I was on the bus from the former to the latter, I watched the thermometer (ya, all these buses prominently displayed the outside temperature) drop from about -25 to -40...suffice it to say, my digital camera stopped working after about 5 minutes.

When I got back to beijing, it was only -10, I felt like I could wear shorts.
No. I don't see any benefit of using it over java or JVM languages like clojure/Scala which have huge ecosystem attached to them and now even clojure supports Go like concurrency too.
Some of it, yes.

But they tend to have low efficiency, thermally-dependent efficiency, and the need for a temperature differential. They operate in response to a temperature gradient, not just heat.

Using Wikipedia for a quick-and-dirty figure, you can expect efficiencies to peak around 5-8%. And you can't just stack infinite thermocouples until system efficiency reaches 99.99% because of the thermal gradient issue.
> intelligent Solar energy hacks at least for lighting needs

At least during the daytime, it's hard to beat intelligent (but low-tech) ways to direct the sunlight to where you want light -- light tubes, for example -- rather than losing most of the energy converting to electricity then back to light, however you do it.
I was wondering the same. Because there is no "building" or "loading". It just plays.
I'm an IT RETARD - I have no shame about that. At best I know about sudo apt-get install - but seedbox configurations on most providers is click next next next.

They even have 1 click installers, it's really simple.
Amazon is mysteriously absent from any list in the news.

Given the number of virtual servers they have in the cloud right now, the amount of corporate data stored and passing through those, and the NSA's interest in SSL, I would REALLY like to know where Amazon stands.
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12 predictions for the future of programming
Probabbly not:

> However, any claims that an engine can break the laws of thermodynamics deserves extra scrutiny and skepticism. According to Taylor, this ultrahigh efficiency is only a matter of perspective. "There's no free lunch here," he says.

(I should read all the reference papers before commenting in the Internet, but let comment anyway.)

An important point is that not only the energy must be conserved by the engine, the total entropy must increase. The claim this is more efficient that a Carnot cycle is equivalent to a decrease of the total entropy.

They have a squeezing step, where “no energy” is transferred. But in spite of no energy transfer, there can be some entropy transfer. This is probably where they are hiding the difference in entropy, that is “lost” in this machine, but it’s really going to part equipment.
My money is on "slowly tightening the noose", but I guess we will wait and see, won't we?
Why diversity actually matters (examining the Net Awards)
Oops, JavaScript, not Java.
One programming language to rule them all
I think it's impressive how far they've come the last few years. Props to the gov.uk team if any of them lurk here, they even came and commented when the initial designs were posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3811052

Yes, the probably eventually should, but given how we've gone from terrible websites by contractors to decent ones in a short time, I'm not going to start jumping up and down about it yet.

Although if they could get round to redesigning the 'gateway' crap sooner rather than later it'd be much appreciated. I have already been given 25 different gateway IDs.
Whether it is or not (I'd generally say not, but I don't want to speak for true libertarians [1]), this article is stupid.

[1] I'm only weakly libertarian, so I don't want to speak for them. My values are almost entirely left wing liberal, but I haven't drank the koolaid on economic theories designed to justify the status quo and protect party cronies.
At this point, I have to question whether you have read any of the enslaved people's narratives. In them, there are villains and good people across ethnic backgrounds. If you think these narratives are primarily about race/ethnicity, you are incorrect.

I contend that American slavery isn't as much about black and white people per se, as it is about human depravity, which we see across societies and cultures. American slavery is a context in which we can see the highs and lows of humanity. There is much we can learn about people from these narratives--if they are reported fully.

The notion that we should focus on narratives which don't include the horrors of slavery--or that they should be minimized--is just silly. Narratives are the stories of enslaved people and the horrors they lived with are part of their experiences. You prefer to gloss over the horrors they experienced and instead seek to romanticize the institution. Ugh.

Ma Bett (Elizabeth Freeman) came up with the idea to sue for her freedom and hired that lawyer who spoke for her. Further, by taking the matter to court, she was not hoping to rely on ethical arguments for her freedom, she was referencing the State Constitution. This is a far cry from approaching the Quakers and seeking help on moral or religious grounds.

Your initial comment seemed to suggest that blacks were not the primary impetus behind their freedom. This narrative (and many others) directly refute that.

Once Ma Bett was freed, she chose to become a servant to that lawyer. It scarcely needs noting that there is a difference between choosing to serve as a domestic and being enslaved.
Pedanticism poisons discussions, but nerds gotta be right on the Internet.
Haskell has been getting a lot of attention in the last two years too...

I think Go will boom but will take the stage with multiple other languages.
Skylight itself is still not quite out of beta, but iirc ever since reimplementing their monitoring and instrumentation in Rust they've been allowing their paying customers to opt into it (with the alternative being to stick with the older Ruby-based implementation).

For another company currently using Rust despite our frequent warnings, see OpenDNS: http://www.opendns.com/
A little pedantic here, but in Day 4 you say, "1 opinion could be completely wrong."

I was taught that you never start a sentence with a numeral, always spell it out. "One opinion could be completely wrong."
Congratulation 10 years old Facebook!Just wonder how many time Facebook data had been stollen in 10 Years.
What I don't get is why Chromecast isn't merely an Android app? There are plenty of HDMI-out capable android devices already...
As much as web development belongs to Rails outside SV.
I think the primary benefit is plausible deniability. Such a service wouldn't make it impossible to be legally targeted, but it could make it sufficiently unpleasant that they decide to target a more brazen offender. It's a bit like fleeing from a bear; you don't need to be the fastest runner, you just have to be a little faster than the slowest person.

Having the server in someone else's name provides a slight buffer, but is hardly insurmountable. If the server belongs to a company in another country then that could make it difficult for a local court to issue a subpoena that's enforceable in said company's jurisdiction. If you are one of a dozen users of a given server then that could hypothetically make it harder to prove which user was the infringer.

All of that is obviously hypothetical, I am not a lawyer, and I certainly don't have expertise in international law. These are simply the musings of my groggy brain first thing in the morning. Anyone who isn't half asleep care to weigh in?
Agreed. I suggest: "we want it to be so easy that even a USA vice-president could use it" and link to The Tomato Incident.
In Spain they don't threaten to arrest you for taking photos of cops,
they arrest you immediately without any warning.
I wonder what that says about me

For one thing, it says that you are likely young. And I don't intend that as an insult.
Everybody only belive in the free market if they benefit. Nobody wants a free market, everybody wants direct handouts or whatever else.

As long as there is a third party that can be made to help you, you will. The only reason there exists a relativly free market in the first place is that there is a balance between diffrent 'powers'.

Everybody individually would benefit from some policys in there faver but there are few policys that help everybody.

As soon as one groupe gets to much power (meaning political influance) the get a handout (Sugar Farmers, US Steel ...).