skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an American, I'll be a little surprised if that mistrust runs deeply in Britain

Why? I don't approve of the NSA behaviour, and I don't approve of the GCHQ behaviour in conducting mass surveillance either. The fact that the latter is theoretically done by my government for my country's benefit doesn't make me think any better of the spy agencies or those in government whose laws and tax money allow it.

I would rather take my chances with the terrorists than put up with all the nonsense done in the name of fighting them today. Not only do I think that as a practical matter the nonsense is far more likely to harm me or those I care about, and not only do I strongly disapprove of all the time, money, media attention and other resources I consider wasted on most so-called anti-terror measures when much more deserving causes could have used those resources better, I also think the current culture of rampant paranoia and fear-mongering is helping the terrorists to win anyway.
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Weird I can't get into the security system..
Argonne scientists are first to grow graphene on silver
Yes, when there is a recession it's because the cost of money is too high. See:

http://www.pkarchive.org/theory/baby.html
Heh, Kinect. Microsoft's Speech API is over a decade old now.

I remember using it on XP - it worked rather well. Both speech recognition and synthesis have significantly improved since then.
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I will ignore what I do for server backups, and I will focus on my MacBook. I run my web development business and my personal life off of this system.

The software I use: CrashPlan, Arq, DropBox, Carbon Copy Cloner.

CrashPlan: I have backing up my data, configuration /Users, /Library. I have a bunch of regex restrictions to not backup various files such as caches, VMWare images, etc. Crashplan backups up to their cloud servers every 15 minutes. When I am at home (where I work from) it also backups to a local copy of CrashPlan on a server.

Arq: I am doing daily backups to Arq. These are now being done to Glacier for long term / last resort backups. This only backups my /Users with heavy restrictions on which files.

DropBox: I have many of my documents stored in Dropbox with the PackRat feature to keep copies of every version and deletion. I don't consider DropBox to be backup by itself, but I often find it is much faster to find and restore something via Dropbox than other methods. I also take care about the types of data I put on Dropbox.

Carbon Copy Cloner: as I mentioned in another part of this thread, I think SuperDuper is better for most people. However, I do use CCC's ability to remotely do a boot able bare metal backup to my home office server. When I travel, I typically take an external backup drive with a current mirror of my system.

I don't use Apple's Time Machine. I think it is a good choice for most home users. As Apple has added more features to Time Machine, I do think about adding it to my mix.

That covers most things. I do have somethings under SVN or Git which could be considered another layer of backup.

Currently, the biggest pain point for me in backups is VMWare images. I currently have 4 Linux and 3 Windows images on this system, and they can cause a huge amount of data needing to be backed up every time they are used.
Hi btilly, I am not an expert in property law in general. I understand it is a contentious issue in much of Latin America, Hernando De Soto's area of focus. I can tell you that many Zidisha borrowers do have formal legal title to farming plots and homes, but they do not use this property as collateral for loans because they cannot afford the risk of losing it.

More broadly, I do not think any one service - property reform, or business growth capital, or health or education for that matter - is a cure-all. All of these services are needed, and each works optimally when the others are present.
The Me 163 didn't fly terribly fast during combat. In fact, it was a glider during the combat stage of flight. It took off using its rocket motor, climbed very quickly above the flight level of the bombers it was attacking, then switched the motor off and made one or more attack passes while gliding, before finally gliding in for a landing. It was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a dogfighter. It was designed purely as an anti-bomber platform. Think of it as a piloted SAM (with guns and rockets, rather than a warhead).

The jet powered Me 262, on the other hand, was a reasonably capable dogfighter, and did suffer from the issue you describe (being out turned by just about everything...)
Perhaps that's why the OP used a simple example. Complex examples are pretty hard to get your head around at first glance; even sane systems can be perceived as a 'hot mess' upon a quick read without any context.

I disagree that re-assigning a case belongs in the case model. It is a complex interaction between several models. Extracting it to a command object allows all of the rules to be easily understood.
Read 'Getting to Yes' and 'Bargaining to Advantage' for more specifics about this discussion. I think everyone should read them. It doesn't hurt to include 'Influence.'
I am sure there are some who claim the small amount of oil that went into the production of a grocery bag is a problem, but my impression in general was that they were being legislated away in many places because of littering, hazards to wildlife, etc., and not so much that they are wasteful of fossil fuels.
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I believe it was a reference to the fictional communication system in Joss Whedon's short-lived TV show, Firefly.
These people also don't understand concepts like exponential growth, I think a lack of fundamentals is a symptom not a cause.
Why not just give the entrepreneurs the $200?

The money they would be paying back they could use to build up their business.

I doubt anyone would do this investment for a return.
> Interesting comment, calculus in its modern form took around two hundred years to get a firm logical foundation.

That's true, but while it languished in limbo because of some technical misunderstandings, it still produced practical and useful results, and people who used it could accurately say they understood the topic.

Calculus was eventually analyzed in depth and the various issues and objections were addressed, but these changes had little effect on those who applied it to technical problems.
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I suggested two underlying real problems in the U.S. here very recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7315440

I don't know what all the solutions are but I am confident that one of the problems is Peak Oil. Some of the solutions for that include passive solar design, living closer to work, shopping closer to home, improving pedestrian-friendliness of built environments and improving public transit.

The health issue: I don't like Obama Care. Making people pay for insurance just shifts who pays. It doesn't make people healthier. Some of the solutions for making people healthier include: Pedestrian friendly built environments which promote more walking, better education, less pollution.

I don't have all the answers. I am applying the answers that I know work to my own life. I gave up my car several years ago. Most of the time, I walk everywhere. I moved a location with good public transit and I use public transit when I don't walk. I am getting myself healthier. I know these are things that work because I am applying them to my own life, though I was just told that my personal example is irrelevant and doesn't generalize. That sort of dismissiveness is something I am commonly met with. If people don't want to believe me, they don't have to. I will continue to do what works for myself because I know it works, regardless of how many nay-sayers I run into. It is getting results.
Absolutely fantastic site! Wow!
> most are down for a reason which only they, internally, can change - and won't

Do you know what that reason is? Do they know how to change whatever it is?
Will Bringing Big Data into the Classroom Help Students Learn Better?
This website is horrible: image replacement for most of the text. It's 2014. Seriously, Apple?
I think there's a decent gap where it doesn't make sense economically to download and run your own OSM tile server. Especially if you need worldwide coverage, the costs of keeping a tile server with a full dataset running plus a redundant spare can easily exceed the cost of paying someone a couple hundred dollars per month to do it for you.

There are hardly any services like what MapBox and CloudMade have. The closest seem to be the various consultancies that will design and host a map for you.
> How does it benefit the rich?

I guess you are vastly more likely to own a treasury bill if you are rich.

If you are poor Fed buying treasury bills does nothing for you.
The whole "disincentive to work" idea is preposterous. If you get $2000 a month for free, do you still want more money or not? It goes without saying that you do. People will always want more money. If this "disincentive" actually existed, businesses would simply fold up upon receiving tax breaks.

What it certainly would do is free people from wage prison - people who would rather not participate in the work force but are forced to for reasons like obtaining employer's healthcare. Obamacare will free many people from this trap in exactly this way - and one of the most pronounced effects these types of things have is allowing older workers to retire who were forced to stay employed, making room for the younger generation.

And people leaving jobs who don't want them but are forced to take them is a good thing. Right now we have 3 people looking for work for every 1 job opening, which drastically skews labor markets in favor of employers. It would be good for everyone if this balance shifted in favor of workers.

The people who want to work will still want to work even if you hand them cash for free. The people who don't want to work shouldn't have to in order to avoid calamity.
Well the article's talking about having a way to safely install software - my general view is that while UAC and firewall-type mechanisms mean malware authors need to be more careful, they don't provide any firm security guarantees. So if an attacker can get you to run an executable they've provided, even as a non-admin user, they win. If you download executables over HTTP, and run them without taking steps to verify them, you are likely vulnerable; signature-based virus scanners are not to be relied upon, and any malware scan run after you run the program could at least in theory be defeated - if nothing else, by a Blue Pill-style hypervisor.

Now, how realistic a danger a HTTP MITM is it depends on your threat model; I don't think anyone's doing this on a large scale (other than governments in places like Iran and North Korea). But if you're worried about attackers targeting you specifically, then I think this is a valid threat vector.

MS tried to address this in earlier windows with digital signing of downloads (you get a warning if you try to run an unsigned executable, and a different warning identifying the publisher for a signed one, assuming the executable in question is marked as having been downloaded from the internet), and by integrating an app store into windows 8 (I think?). If done correctly, this would prevent this kind of attack - if you only ever run signed executables, and you trust the signers, you're safe. But the fact that even PuTTY, supposedly a piece of security software, is an unsigned download, suggests that this approach hasn't really spread through the windows software ecosystem yet. (The other approach that might work is extending UAC into some kind of full containerization approach, and isolating applications more fully from each other).
There's no reason you can't have both. "Fiscal UBI" (what would come from Congress and be regular) addresses things like progressive automation and the need for a long-term trend away from employment-based survival in a world with progressive automation, "Monetary UBI" (what would be run by the Fed) is about providing monetary stimulus, where needed, in a manner that avoids being an upward redistribution of wealth (and, also, because it goes to people with a higher propensity to spend and thus has an initially higher velocity, also produces a greater stimulative effect per dollar.)
No offense, but what you're proposing would be a huge step backwards. All of those examples you've given are extremely special cases of a general concept, where the concept is relatively easy to understand (two points make a line, we only have one point, so take the limit) although the implementation is complex (requires either understanding algebra or knowing lots of rules.)

If you try to teach a little kid the power rule right off the bat, they will both be turned off of math (because it's just pushing x around for no clear reason) and have learned absolutely nothing of the important bits of calculus.
There's this iOS app that generates very similar images, but with some interactivity.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/rgb-petri/id423126001?mt=8
I did, didn't want to go change my flight back to France and go to court, so I plaid guilty and sent 25$ by mail. Never received an answer so I did change my flight and went to court to be told that I had already paid and didn't need to be there.

My friend who was drinking went there without paying and they told him he could spend the afternoon in a "session" with other people and not pay the 25. He did it, it was mostly people sharing their experiences about how they got there.

One guy got into an argument with a cop so the cop convoked him for peeing in the street, another one had a restaurant and his table was too far on the sidewalk... stuff like that.
http://duply.net/ no gui but fairly easy to set up.
" and deal with the boys"

Well.. that started out pretty sexist.
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I kinda had an idea once to implement a data/wifi-less messaging system. They're probably going for P2P Wifi (ad-hoc) or bluetooth distributed messaging system. Basically the idea is...at some point people bump phones with each other...and given enough time...the message could be bumped to its intended desitination
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Speaking from firsthand experience is well and good, but the experience should have some bearing on the issue at hand. You presented it in support of your position when it has literally nothing to do with it - that's what I was objecting to. Your other points are relevant, and I wasn't speaking to them - though they've been well addressed elsewhere I think.
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Honest question: If you don't care about the coffee taste, why not drink a glass of water and pop a caffeine pill?
Oxygen has little market value, nor does language.

Market value is a measure of many things. Net benefit to civilization isn't one of them.
Anonymous commenting systems without strong communities and moderators behind them will lead to far more bad than good.

This seems like a great fit to use facebook authentication.
But you could just post on their facebook wall. Who wants statistics on their praises anyway?
Your TLDR was longer than the original three sentences...
Networking with pulseaudio is a pretty useful feature indeed. I've unfortunately never managed to make it work correctly with flash vids (e.g: youtube).

Any success story would be greatly appreciated!
The problem with bootable backups is that you need root access to do the types of low level disk writing required. Thus, you need a very trusted environment.

That said, you can also use CCC and SuperDuper to backup to a disk image file. This would not be directly bootable, but it can be copied to a new hard drive which would then be bootable. Backing up to remote disk images is much slower than the root method to drive method.
I wish this article had gone more into lessons learned about how to avoid this in the future.
Oh wow, I made a comment the other day about how Wave always made me think of Firefly. I had no idea that it was true.

In retrospect it makes complete sense.
I hope Microsoft can really turn things around. Funny to see Satya spell it "synch" without a [sic] tag. I guess that would be too much to ask for.
> On the other hand teaching a kid math has to at some level at some point revolve around taking some numbers and getting other numbers out...

Yes, but perhaps not the very first thing. To me, the first thing should be interesting, aesthetically pleasing patterns -- images -- that have mathematical meaning (http://arachnoid.com/mandelbrot_set/graphics/title_image.jpg). Then, when the student's curiosity has been aroused, we can "open the machine" and show its inner workings.

> I cant really see how one can do algebra without knowing arithematic.

But that's easy. I'm not necessarily recommending it, but one can easily have algebra without numbers. Remember that the most useful algebraic equations are those in which the numerical values are irrelevant.
Well they could have called it the Red Queen, but that probably wouldn't be as well received :-)

More seriously, the answer to your question is 'lawyers' (well they don't come up with them but they make sure they are trademarkable/protectable)
I don't know what Google does, but at AppNexus (where I work) there are teams of people working very hard to keep malware (and related badness) out of online ads. We perform human audits of ads and websites (not the whole internet, obviously), in addition to running a lot of automated systems that scan for malware, etc.

I don't officially speak for the company or anything, I'm just an employee, but I wanted to let you know that there are people working very hard on keeping this stuff out of online advertising.
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People are living creatures with minds and wills of their own. They are not merely cogs in the economic engine. You can't control what they do when you decide to just give out money and money only represents value. You don't create value by printing money.

In countries with low birth rates, you see that government retirement programs are killing the economy. Government retirement programs are based on the idea of older people having earned this. But someone has to do the work to provide the goods and services being purchased. If no one is required to work, a lot of people won't work. People who win the lottery are typically bankrupt within 5 years (about 2/3s of them, IIRC, go bankrupt). A lot of people, if given money, 1) promptly quit their jobs and 2) promptly fill their empty hours with consumptive activities, not productive ones.

I do not see this fixing anything. In the long term, it is likely to bankrupt the system because of disencentivizing productive activity and turning people into consumers with an entitled attitude.
> Financial problems grow out of real problems.

Yes, one of those problems is that the labor based distribution of resources is going to fail long term because we simply won't need all that human labor. Jobs are not simply being replaced with different jobs; they're being eliminated entirely.

Nothing you've said addresses that problem and that problem is what a basic income is trying to address.
I don't think anyone here has been proposing $2000/mo - the article said $2000 as needed (by my reading, "needed" in the judgement of the Fed for macroeconomic reasons). For the record, I agree that $2000/mo is highly unlikely to be sustainable in the current (or near future) situation.
This is the most ridiculous comment here. You are literally arguing against the premise of preventing the destruction of the world. Screw that, I don't want to die, I don't want humanity to die, and I know few people who do.

Nothing is going to replace humanity if we kill ourselves first. Gradual evolution isn't want these people are talking about anyways, and there is no reason evolution is inevitable. Soon we will have the technology to control DNA however we want.
Thanks. The campaign ended a while ago but here are the answers:

1. We weren't featured by KS but it was on the "popular projects" page throughout the life of the campaign. It initially got there by a combination of backers finding it through "Recently launched projects" + backers who signed up on our website to be notified of the launch (the former being the majority). By the end of Day 1, it was #1 in its category and stayed there for a while. Here is a link that shows the trend of the project funding if you're interested: http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/yathletics/silverair-odorle...

2. Remaining 20% found it through our own marketing efforts + other websites/blogs writing about the project

3. Sure thing - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yathletics/silverair-od...
The question is - would you continue to do science if you could remove all of the current broken system? Is doing science what you love? Is it possible that there can be a way to continue doing science without being a part of that machine?
What's next, GLaDOS on our Steamboxes?

"GLaDOS?"

"I hate you."

"Bring up Team Fortress 2"

"Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess? Or how about 'Pass the Hot Deadly Neurotoxin'?"
Look who's homeless in San Francisco. What comes around goes around
Here are Google's results for "putty" (first two links are the official website): http://imgur.com/SVWJhmg,UV3UT1w#1 ; Here are DuckDuck Go's results for "putty" (first link is putty.org, second is the official source): http://imgur.com/SVWJhmg,UV3UT1w#0

Granted, DDG does give better results for "windows ssh client".

I don't use DDG because it's awful for users not living in the US. I'm not talking about the interface, but about local results. It also doesn't get the context well - when I search for Ruby or Python on Google, I get different results than my wife does ;-)
Don't you need to pay a ton to actually get your data out of glacier?
'Gravity' inspired Nasa pictures released in honour of the Oscars
The more things change, the more they remain the same:

Back in 1995 I "cracked" Cisco's router password "encryption":

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.dcom.sys.cis...

Strikingly similar 'security', which is extra funny as Linksys is owned by Cisco. (EDIT: Not anymore! Thanks for the correction)

Back then net admins would regularly post their configuration files (with 'encrypted' passwords left intact in most cases) to usenet to get help/tips on how to better configure their routers, which was an unaddressed (by Cisco) security nightmare.
They've been doing some really cool stuff for a long time.

Check out this real-time translation of spoken English into written and spoken Chinese (in the same voice of the speaker):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-nlQqFCKg
There is also a small fin + rudder below the v-tail. It's possible the 'V' parts are elevators only. They are at a rather shallow angle and therefore wouldn't contribute much to the yaw axis.
Given that the U.S has one of the highest total health care expenses in the world,* I suspect that a lot of Americans are ill and we are handling it wrong and that is, in fact, one of the things very wrong with the economy. Sorry if you think that is irrelevant. I don't.

* http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS
> More like an attempt to give a concrete example on a small scale that perhaps people can relate to more readily.

This style of reasoning by anecdote is the problem with public debate, it's an appeal to emotion rather than reason. It's really not useful. Statistics are useful, anecdotes are not.