skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harvard is a private institution. The US government does not (and cannot) control the actions of Harvard. The first amendment protects our rights to say what we like but that guarantee does not extend to your place of employment. There is no irony or double standard in that.
I think the solution for this problem is a single blockchain of network traffic. If your libernet is isolated from the rest, then the computing of the network traffic wouldn't make it into the shared global blockchain.
Given the current state of policing in the US swatting someone has a non-zero chance of getting someone severally beaten, tazered, tear gassed, or just shot. I don't know of any deaths, but there have been some really close calls reported in the press and and injury plus property damage. I don't think that really qualifies as a good prank, more of a harassment/endangerment tactic.
It really just depends on how much of a computational surplus you have. Some tasks have become so incredibly easy relative to today's computational horsepower, that we can afford waste 90% of it if it means we can be 10% more productive.

But this isn't true everywhere. Imagine if Google's servers cost 100x more to run, if they didn't spend time to make their code efficient. Imagine if your video games ran at a frame rate 100x slower than they do now. Imagine if your phone sucked 100x more battery power, and lagged 100x longer after each tap.

Sounds like I'm making extreme hypothetical examples? Not really, when languages like Python and Ruby can be over 100x slower than other high level languages (e.g. Java, not to mention C/C++).

And of course, the counterpoint is usually "But most of the time is spent in the database/[some highly optimized library], not the high-level logic." To that I reply: You're absolutely right. Guess what those subsystems were written in? C/C++/Java, most likely.

If you're fortunate enough to have all your performance-critical components already highly optimized and written for you by experts at bare-to-the-metal efficiency, you probably don't have to think about this. But if you're working on a technology truly new and unique, chances are you're going to have to "get your hands dirty" at some point if you want to avoid paying 100x more than is necessary in server fees.
"If you think so, take it to court (as is being done in this case). "

I think you are entirely missing the point. You shouldn't have to. This isn't even a close case. It's not even a case.

Also, this one hasn't been taken to court yet, just appealed administratively, since you must exhaust all administrative remedies before you can bring a court action in most cases.

"It is quite possible that when they think about it, they will agree with you. "

Who is they?
There is a reason we call the USA a representative democracy, instead of a direct democracy. The government can keep secrets from the general public, because the public elects individuals to make decisions on their behalf, and these individuals to have access. There are plenty of concerns over how well our representatives do represent our own interests, but in concept there is no reason that the fact that our represantatives know more then us invalidates anything.
Do you have any data about what the bottleneck was?
"NYPD are saying that they are legally prohibited from disclosing these documents due to attorney client privilege. Because they are legally prohibited from disclosing these documents, they are exempt from being required to disclose them under the FOIA."

I am a lawyer :)

This is false.

They are not legally prohibited from disclosing this, as they are also the client. They are also not claiming they are prohibited from disclosing it, contrary to what you say. They are claiming they are exempt from disclosing it, i.e. they claim do not have to disclose it, and aren't going to as a result.

They can certainly disclose it if they like. They may not want to, however, because it probably contains things they don't want others to see, probably in the area of "we are doing things we shouldn't be with FOIA requests". The last time the NYPD lost a lawsuit related to FOIA was about releasing records on how often they were profiling, which turned out to be "all the time".

"They could wave their right to attorney client privledge, but that would likely require the consent of every intended recipient of the document, which is a lot of work, and still exposes the NYPD to a large amount of legal risk relative to the risk of not disclosing the document."

This is also wrong.

1. It does not require consent from the intended recipients, only a single person authorized at the department (which would usually include the lawyer who wrote it, as well as the person who rejected this request, along with a cast of probably thousands who could authorize it).

Authorizing release of the document is not the issue here, and they don't claim otherwise. It is quite literally the job of the person who rejected it to authorize the release of these kinds of documents. They simply don't want to release it, because they incorrectly claim it falls into an exception that allows them to withhold it. See above.

2. It exposes the NYPD to no legal risk, unless they are already doing something illegal, and the document discloses that. If you believe otherwise, i'd love to see a single citation to law or case authority that makes you believe otherwise.

Additionally, they are not even claiming they can't release it

"This seems like much more of a case of lawyers being lawyers, and wanting to avoid unnecessary legal risk and costs, then any attempt at not being transparent."

Actually, it seems exactly the opposite, given the actual facts on the ground.
"The concern would be that someone within the department could, in theory, sue because privileged documents got released."

No, they can't. There is no claim they would be allowed to make here.

Don't take this the wrong way, but you keep making all sorts of claims about what their legal position, risks, etc are, with absolutely no basis to do so. If you are going to do this, could you please at least cite whatever authority is giving you these ideas in the first place?
I'm not even sure where to begin, because, with all due respect, what you are saying is "not even wrong"
You must be confused. I'm not claiming anything at all. I'm saying Google something and I'm saying someone wrote something 13 years ago. Any conclusions you draw are your own.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/easing-brain-fatigu...
Interrupting Google's Wisdom 2.0 on "Mindfulness"
Then it isn't "unconditional" to have a fine just for entry, then...
i would just love to see that exo kernel from MIT in practice some day in some OS.. i think the research is from the nineties, isnt?

Also, netmap from freebds was the first thing that come to my head, as a relief from the IO bottleneck from moderns systems..

As in the original C10k, freebsd to the rescue here.. since it was the first OS with the kqueue interface.. and now is netmap.. the numbers from the speedup in the original paper are astounding
Most of the time your time is better spent adding feature to an application then trying to tune performance in the ways he talks about on the site. Most of the time it is easier to scale across multiple machines and pay for the hardware then it is to put in the time to make a program this efficient.

But there are applications like Snort (which he seems to reference a lot) that can't be split onto multiple boxes easily, so tuning for max performance is very important and is a key feature of the application.
Penguin India is also a private institution. The book isn't banned, simply withdrawn by Penguin for what are likely commercial reasons.
All of these statements might be true, but they neither imply nor advance one another. They are all non sequiturs. Also, there is less to the left/right brain thing than most people seem to think.
Wondering so far there is no mentioning of Chromebooks.
Big Nerd Ranch RAC sample is just a nonsense. Non-idiomatic RAC code, using nested callbacks completely defeats the purpose.
> As a developer, once you have worked with some PSD efforts a few times and then worked with real dynamic content then worked with a real client to get the thing to actually convert sales, then worked with the client stats you have got a good grasp of when something is right on the design front.

Most designers do not use photoshop these days; its all Illustrator vector format for anything but touch up. There are still some pixel junkies left, but these are mostly programmers pretending to be poor designers.

> Designers are completely out of the loop after go live, they have done their 'lorem ipsum' stuff.

Only in a failing company that doesn't have real designers or doesn't know how to manage designers.

> Proficiency at UX comes from delivering the deliverables, testing, testing and testing. Listening to the client and the customers. It does not come from a few static designs.

So you are saying designers are bad at UX because they don't conform to your narrow minded idea of what designers are?
That one depends on how long Coinbase manages to stay around. They are registered as a money services business with FinCEN, but they do not seem to have registered with the states.

It's possible that they did FinCEN registration first (as that is the easiest and I believe is free, whereas the states require that you have a bond), and state registration is in the works, but I've not seen any evidence of that. I'd expect that if they were actually in the midst of getting that done, they would be trumpeting that fact widely, as it would be a great way to make themselves stand out from all the illegal-with-no-intent-to-become-legal Bitcoin money transmitters.
I'm going to guess, based on a lot of observation, that most casual Monopoly players of any age don't play strategically. They rely on the dice, negotiate badly (if at all!), buy everything they land on without any master plan in mind, and ignore cash flow until it becomes an issue. These are the opponents most kids will play against in ad hoc games of Monopoly, and in these games, kids will have a grand old time. When the outcome of each dice roll is the most decisive factor in a particular session, a child is at less of a disadvantage.

Also, fwiw, 99% of casual players I've seen overvalue the marquee properties like Boardwalk, etc., and undervalue the oranges, light blues, and reds.
No, irony does not abound.

No court or executive or politician or big business intervened to stop Swamy from teaching at Harvard. Instead, its faculty voted [0] to remove his course after he wrote this hateful diatribe [1].

[0] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/12/12/swamy-racism-di...

[1] https://janamejayan.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/how-to-wipe-out...

Edit: corrected minor typo
I've seen some crazy shit go down on CSPAN, but definitely nothing as crazy as senators pepper spraying each other.
The news from India these days is rarely cheery.. This sentence pretty much sums up my feeling about my country, these days..
I agree with you on the hypocrisy of US media on this one. But I still don't understand what Dr swamy finds so objectionable in the book. I've started reading it, and it seems like a very scholarly treatment of the ignored sections in the history of hinduism. Surely Dr swamy understands the importance of protecting controversial academic works?
"what are likely commercial reasons"

Well, yes, the probability that you will get sued into oblivion because the system of laws doesn't offer free speech protections could be seen as "commercial reasons". The article states as much.

A private institution censoring its own is very different than an outside entity forcing censorship via threats of lawsuits.
Great article. Reminded me how amazing it is to explore a "world" online. Often, a world you never knew existed.
How accessible is the book to a layman?
Projects such as the Erlang VM running right on top of xen seem like promising initiatives to get the kind of performance mentioned (http://erlangonxen.org/).
It's going in circle atm: http://www.flightradar24.com/ETH702/2ba40ab
What you have to understand is India is in someways many little countries pushed together. Different languages a religions. So politicians play this up and do BS such as banning books.
Question as an outsider: How does this interact with your right not to be discriminated against in the workplace based on religion or political views?
Exploiting Local File Inclusion, leveraging it into gaining code execution
My friends keep asking me what it's like to hack, probably envisioning some hollywood type of scene. I made a video demonstrating what it's like to exploit a Local File Inclusion vulnerability, leveraging it into a shell which we can type commands in. All done manually, only with the help of the web browser and regular shell commands.<p>My video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEU8w3h1u1o
You know, regardless of whether MtGox is built on trading-card code, it's still pretty mockworthy that a supposedly serious monetary exchange chose to open and operate under an initialism whose only meaning is "Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange." Domain names are not expensive, at least not if you're already willing to settle for something like "mtgox.com."
Actually, Khazan is losing the plot. The whole point of the research she's referencing through 3 levels of indirection (the Atlantic, NBC News, Nature News, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) is that key breakthroughs in Phyiscs are occurring at ever increasing age with time.

Granted, the research looks only at Nobel Prize winners in physics, but the general reason stated: that there's more information to learn and assimilate, suggests a general principle of increasing complexity and decreasing returns to innovation, which is a key point raised by Joseph Tainter (The Collapse of Complex Societies).

See Weinberg & Jones: "Age dynamics in scientific creativity" http://www.pnas.org/content/108/47/18910

Also highlighted in an earlier Nature News item on W&J is the increasing reliance of breakthroughs on expensive equipment, not always accessible to the most junior researchers, an observation also consistent with increasing complexity and diminishing returns with time:

Other experts in scientific creativity welcomed the study but note other reasons why the age of laureates might have increased, such as improvements in health or the fact that, in many fields, research now requires expensive equipment. "21- and 22-year-olds simply don't get access to this kind of equipment," says Paula Stephan at Georgia State University in Atlanta, who provided some data for the Nobel study. She adds that it isn't always possible to pinpoint "one magic date" when scientists made their discoveries.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111107/full/news.2011.632.ht...
Collating some information in this globally editable Google Doc https://docs.google.com/a/yencken.org/document/d/1uxcXrdPVau...
Probably because your feeling is based on news?
So I take it that you also opposed Reddit's decision to ban clothed pictures of teenage girls, as well as teenage hentai, which was due to the threat of a slanderous smear campaign from Something Awful users[0]?

(Remember that, despite what SA falsely claimed when making these threats, nothing posted on /r/jailbait and the like was actually illegal under US law, and that most of the pictures were in fact reposted from sites like Facebook where they were originally posted by the owner of the photo).

[0] http://www.policespecials.com/forum/index.php/topic/126893-s...
>Having two somewhat non-orthogonal features for branching undoes a part of the easier learning curve argument. You end up having to educate people whether to use bookmarks or branches and in what situations.

Like most things, it depends. But mostly no, it doesn't impact the learning curve issue, especially if your team uses the git branching model, you never even have to address Mercurials named branches.

I'd also say all the other advantages of Mercurial far out-weigh something a conceptually simple as "use bookmarks for git-like, non-permanent branches; use named branches for permanent branches." Done.
Back when my friends and I played Catan a lot, we developed a simple way to avoid the spoiler effect: running point totals. Games are still played in regular fashion, but your victory points for each session are added up over time. Winning a game gave you an extra VP in the running totals. You can set the constraints to whatever you want: a year's time, 6 months, 10 games, whatever it may be...at the end of the time frame, whoever has the most victory points wins. Put some money down at the beginning, and you've got great sustained competition.

Obviously it only works if you play with the same people regularly, but in my experience that's actually the norm.
It's hard to know, really, what to make of the stuff in this article. On one hand, functioning society, business, and government requires a relatively uninhibited flow of information, and it is particularly dangerous when a government, which monopolizes force, also decides to restrict dialog about issues.

But on the other hand, the limits of free speech are ones that must be decided close to those affected. Brandenburg got off with calling for (and stating he wanted to be a part of!) genocide against African Americans at a KKK rally not because this speech contributed anything to the public discourse worth saving but because the US government had made a series of serious overreaches in prosecuting Communists. Since one couldn't draw a principled line between arguing for eventual genocide and arguing for eventual overthrow of the government, Brandenburg had to be set free.

In the end, I think, that communities have a right to make mistakes, and since free speech can't be unlimited (handing someone a gun and saying "I hope someone shoots so-and-so" isn't protected speech anywhere in the world), the peoples affected get to make this discussion.

One thing that bothers me though: there are a number of fields, like historical linguistics which are malaigned by some in India as colonial (and in fact historical Indo-European linguistics arose from the colonial experience historically) but are argued against as straw men (thinking that the Indo-European hypothesis means Europeans invading India, which it doesn't). I do have a concern that by moving towards a more insular culture in this regard, that it is harder and harder for Indian scholars to make their voices and perspectives heard internationally. It would be tragic if in the interest of protecting the Indian cultural experience, these sorts of things lead to the denial of an Indian perspective in these sorts of disciplines.
I am having two problems with your site. In FF the data isn't centered. In chrome and FF I don't see anything in the preformatted code block. Newest version of FF and Chrome on Win 8.1. FF is on the left, Chrome on the right.

http://i.imgur.com/udHv4pH.png
Let's figure we can get 10 WiFi links at half of full speed across the country, 10 x 30Mbps. That's 300Mbps, or roughly 1 bit per second per person. About 10 letters per minute.

Good luck. Even the very first modems offered 300 bits per second, so you would need 3,000 simultaneous non-colliding WiFi links across the country to have enough bandwidth for everyone to enjoy the speeds of the very first modems - a cool 40 letters per second.
Should that matter? Even if he finds something objectionable, it's not his business what others should think. Let others make up their own mind.
Sounds like you've been hanging out too much on /r/worldnews.

Don't let that distort your mental model of the country.
Show HN: [gif] Fencing simulator with motion controls (Leap Motion)
This reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Basically, theres research showing that for knowledge based work, you just want to get out of the way and pay enough that they dont think about money. Increasing pay doesn't increase productivity
Internet fumes after Bode Miller is driven to tears by Christin Cooper
Airline has confirmed hijacking. passengers and crew safe

http://www.ethiopianairlines.com/en/news/default.aspx
Kickstarter Acknowledges a Breach of User Data
If you'd like to follow the development of this game, I've got a mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/OyPsr
Hijacking confirmed:

http://www.ethiopianairlines.com/en/news/default.aspx

all pax and crew safe.
For immigrants from relatively underdeveloped nations,add another 10 years.
Did you build your own tDCS device?
This article is a little dated, but it conveys the flexibility of Mercurial branching.[1]

I don't know why git users get so hung up on named branches—you never have to use them if they don't make sense for your project.

[1] http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-me...
I should also point out that if you are serious about tracking, you should probably look into disabling Sync and "Signed In" feature of chrome. Though there is no proof yet, but theoretically Chrome update can start tracking based on logged in user.
Most countries with socialized healthcare systems that I am aware of actually has a longer life expectancy than the USA. This is true for Canada, Germany, Norway, etc.

I do not know if life expectancy is a measure for quality of health care, but it is at least an indicator of how good the general health is.

On a personal note I would say that my experience with the US health care system has left a lot to be desired, and I experienced the care as better in my native Norway. That said, my girlfriend is a doctor and her health plan seems a lot better so my experience can be anecdotal.
Linux will often still schedule kernel threads to run on those cores so they are not totally isolated. Also cache effects. If your architecture shares caches between cores, sometimes it would be worth "wasting" a neighboring core to avoid ssh and gdb thrashing your cache.

Oh and also don't forget to set up IRQ affinity to avoid any of those cores to handle.

There is an interesting research done by Siemens, that takes this kind of isolation a step further and uses virtualization extensions to isolate resources (cores for example):

https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse
Trouble reading long articles. Download this android app for reading short news.
Reminds me somewhat of the old okcupid posts on statistics of love, attraction, dating, etc.
People don't use actual exokernels; they just use Linux like an exokernel. Aka "1975 programming".
I really enjoyed their posts. I wish there were more of them / current versions.

http://blog.okcupid.com/
Those are fundamentals of design but a) they're hardly universal, and b) they only serve to anchor the debate.

A person with that list can't answer you which color the buttons should be, or say, whether a certain button is more like a confirm, info or cancel. They don't tell you how wide is too wide, or whether the hero needs to be above or below this particular content. It's a good starting point, but hardly anyone will be satisfied to be told, "well, the golden ratio is preserved when we make the content area 700 pixels wide" -- again, in the end these discussions always come down to trusting a person's taste.

I've worked with plenty of properly trained designers, whatever is supposed to be proper.
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At least it wasn't an ET961 situation this time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961

(Hijackers were too dumb to understand fuel loading policies; aircraft ended up ditching into the Indian Ocean. Amazingly, 50 pax survived.)