skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens when armed pirates board a manned ship? The crew is unarmed and is supposed to lock themselves in a secure room, which is exactly the same as a computer would do.

The unmanned option is better in case of piracy, since due to lack of hostages there is less pressure for ransom and it's safer to re-capture the ship before it can be delivered to a pirate friendly port.

The real vulnerability of unmanned ship is against small-scale theft (a rubber dinghy boarding, opening a container and stealing a few TVs), but for large cargo ships thieves can do the same without the crew noticing; so it can be covered by insurance probably.
> What makes trading any harder than programming or engineering or abstract mathematics or physics?

That's easy to answer -- if you're very smart, you will do better in math and physics, and the positive correlation between intelligence and success actually has meaning. But in equities trading, being very smart does no good at all, and might even represent a handicap. The reason? Equity pricing is mostly random noise, very high entropy.

Many very smart people have tried to model and then beat the market, and (apart from chance outcomes) no one has succeeded in the sense that they located a reliable, describable "method" for it.

Also, if in principle someone discovered an actual winning system, by publishing the system he would destroy its effectiveness (because once a "system" is put into practice, once everyone uses it, it loses its effectiveness).

Obviously for a random collection of investment schemes, half will do better, and half worse, than the average market, but the half that do better will naturally enough claim the outcome resulted from their investment genius -- even if they're smart enough that they should know better.

I can use a computer to model a random market and random investors, using random price changes and random trades, and not surprisingly, half the investors will do better than the average outcome. What is surprising is that, when the above-average investors are humans, they invariably try to claim this chance outcome resulted from a winning system that they will sell to you for some princely sum.

More here: http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths

> Pointing that out X is hard and most people fail is a tautology, it's true of all difficult professions.

Yes, but there's a qualitative difference between "hard" and "impossible".
You are proposing a false dilemma.
A San Francisco Woman Claims She Was Attacked for Wearing Google Glass
Stuff created by our defense department in conjunction with our universities certainly is American. To this day, ICANN operates under authority delegated from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Great The Smiths song!
I fail to see how this breaks even the US Internet. Comcast will never cut off the flow to certain parts of the Internet for the sake of charging you to go there. They'll always let you go to those places, they just won't let you go there as quickly if you don't pay extra.

I don't think I have to tell you all how shitty this would be, but it's not a "broken" Internet. We can sit here and concoct all kinds of worst-case scenarios, but we could also do that with anything. Your babysitter could feed your kid a bottle of aspirin - this is within the realm of physical possibility, just as it's within the realm of physical possibility that Comcast starts shaking down websites.

And before anyone even brings it up, Netflix and Comcast's peering agreement has nothing to do with net neutrality. Without peering, Netflix's path to consumers was long. With peering, it's not, which leads to faster speeds. That's it. Peering agreements have existed for many years, and will need to continue to exist for the Internet to continue to exist. It'd be much worse for the Internet to abolish all peering agreements in the name of neutrality (wtf?) than it would be for the FCC to have no teeth in enforcing net neutrality.
So this is why Never-Ending Language Learner thought that computer files were baked goods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never-Ending_Language_Learning...
Hmm. Looks like the site is suffering a DoS (friendly, I hope?) at this moment

Interestingly, I got this message when navigating to a secondary page:

> Cannot GET /get-involved

So true.
Yea, that's how I did it personally, but I figured the URL bar required less explanation for non-technical people. But you're right, on HN that was probably unnecessary.
NYTimes: Defending Bitcoin, Andreessen Says Mt. Gox Is ‘Like MF Global’
Why doesn't GPU hardware do native path tracing now? People (well at least 1 person) is/are using general purpose GPUs to do path tracing at almost real time. If they created GPUs with cores specifically for path tracing then we could have real time path tracing as soon as that was engineered. Whoever made this brigade 3 thing, I wish nvidia or ATI would hire him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abqAanC2NZs
>When Flickr for instance was aquired, what percentage of users were paying users?

Probably a lot more than there are now. As a former paying user of Flickr, Yahoo really stopped all development for about five years. Now, I have no reason to upgrade to a pro account.
To add another datapoint: It works fine here.

Browser: Iceweasel-libre 27.0.1

OS: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre (i686)

GPU: Integrated Intel (specifically, device code 14c0:005a)

Driver: 'i915' module

I sort of suspect that it is a "crappy driver" that works fine in all common cases, but has a bug in a seldom used feature.
> Even given a simple thing like foo:: int -> int -> int, there's really no way to tell what it's doing.

Ahh, this is an important point. The reason you can't tell what it's doing is because it is quite concrete. One really cool thing about this kind of type system is that the more generic your functions, the more you can tell about what it's doing. Consider this function:

foo :: (a, b) -> a

There's only one possible thing this function can do! And there's only one possible implementation--the correct one. This is the case because the types involved are completely general. Type signatures can communicate a lot more than one might think.
> one way to deal with this may be to have engineering teams on stand-by, ready to helo to a broken drone ship and do repairs.

Very few helicopters have a range >600 nm one-way. That puts a lot of places a ship could be in the shipping lanes well out of range.
Andreessen: "Mt. Gox has been obviously broken and possibly outright crooked for months."
Anyone want to give a total count of wrong assertions in this article?
Show HN: I built a PHP wrapper for the FancyHands API
Hmm, interesting to see such different approaches.

I just don't see how one can guard against regression bugs without having automated tests, especially when software gets complex.
And these days, all software is complex :)
I for one welcome this change, on stylistic grounds. Browsers are used by many people around the world from all ages, all of what they tell to their users must be carefully edited to avoid misunderstandings and anything not necessary needs to be removed. A joke or half joke like that was prone to misunderstandings and unnecessary.
As a 23 year old new employee at a company transitioning away from a website built with FrontPage, Comic Sans, and 1x1 gifs, this is all too real.
Thanks! Informative.
I'm particularly excited/proud because I not only got around to open sourcing some of my code, but because I find this code quality enough to share with the world no matter how basic the wrapper is.

I certainly encourage all criticism, comments, and suggestions!
No references to the "Long Pig" food store chain in Transmetropolitan?! (Warren Ellis)

Some of the best stuff he ever did, imho.
MasterCard will protect credit card purchases using your smartphone's location
To all those who say "it was so easy to spot", congrats on finding the flaw and letting us all know first thing. /s
come to think of it, i don't even remember the last time I validated any page i built.
QLOUD
maybe you have?
The weird didn't fall far from the tree there did it. It was an interesting concept but I kind of found myself not caring about the movie fairly soon into it. Given the advice he can get at home though I'm sure his future work will only improve considerably.
Hey, those are the same two points I came here to say!
For a while, the Something Awful forums apparently word-filtered "I'm not racist, but" to appear as "I'm extremely racist, and"
If you don't mind me asking, at what price did you buy them at?
I don't see any particular reason why bitcoin thief could not be dealt with using existing legal systems. Yeah, you've got the "find the thief" problem, but that is nothing fundamentally new.

I mean, the US legal system seems to be handling the "bitcoin drugdealer" problem fairly well.
Your understanding of the claims of EMH are flawed. On the other hand, the true claim is not easily tested. The best test exists in the form of looking at how easy it is to turn a consistent profit from transacting in open and liquid financial markets. Answer: not easy
When you get right down to it, is it any different than Twitter?
I do though. Down you go.
Although I figured it out, the url you provided doesnt "actually work". Nice article though!
Yes!

Not burned-in: Escaping stuff on HN. :)

Anyways, I don't recall the details, but there's was a browser (I think) that didn't recognize the named entity so I had to use the numerical form. And after that I used that form all the time when I needed the forced spacing.
This is incredibly well done :)
I dont even know what that would mean, to make an existing vulnerability 'unacceptable'.

Vulnerabilities of all kinds exist. We need to find them, learn from them and we need to fix them.

Getting hung up on whether or not they are 'acceptable' is just kind of weird.

Bad stuff happens, incompetence happens, mistakes happen. None of that is 'acceptable', but it happens just the same.

Creating an environment where some kinds of mistakes are 'unacceptable' doesn't eliminate those kinds of mistakes, it just causes people to stop reporting them.

Complaining about their release cycle makes some sense. complaining about the existence of an existing bug is basically just howling at the moon.
I would have thought that was to define a new sub-class
- If you're about to get on a plane and you use Gmail it will let you know when you need to leave where you are, also will tell you if the plane is late

- Daily weather updates

- It's picked up the stocks I have from my google searches and shows me them

- The time to get home from work is great if you've got google traffic monitoring, it can let you know where a crash is and suggest another route
By that same logic, all websites are European (Swiss? French? German?) because HTTP was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN.
i'm guessing you're talking about a discrete graphics card right?

i can't really give you an answer on this, but if i had to guess i'd say it works better on anything but radeon cards(but then again are radeon cards supported on macs nowadays?)

also, not exactly the same, but still interesting measurements.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu130...

valve worked closely with nvidia and intel to improve the performance and compliance of the drivers. check this out for example http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/
Well, in this case it is. lol.
Trading liquid and open markets is much harder precisely because its way more competitive and the barriers to entry to compete are non-existent. And the financial rewards for those who compete well are incomparable.
Bitcoin partisans seem to have an overly categorical approach to the concept of first-mover advantage and network effects. These effects are real, but it's a matter of degree.

Creating a viable new credit card for instance, would require dozens of billions of up front dollars invested in marketing, incentives, and infrastructure rollout. It would still be a risky bet that customers would see a need. These are network effects and first mover advantages in extremis.

Creating a viable crypto-currency only requires a funny picture of a dog, and/or a good story. For all the hype, the spread of bitcoin into the real world economy is a rounding error. For the 99.999% of the world population that has never held any crypto-currency, who's to say that any of them should prefer bitcoin over any other? If the benefits of bitcoin are every bit as disruptive as supporters claim, then what makes bitcoin immune from the disruptive effects of new improved crypto-currencies, or for that matter innovations in nation-state-backed currencies?

What makes anyone think that 99.999% of the world's population will hand over a portion of their wealth to 100,000 cool nerds, because those cool nerds decided for everyone else that bitcoin was their one and only?
Whether or not they are unrecoverable has yet to be seen. The blockchain is public, if something can be identified as stolen, there may be a strong disincentive to accept bitcoins which have that mark. If all stolen mobile phones had giant signs attached saying "stolen", the market for those phones would be greatly reduced.

Bitcoin's anonymity and extra legal nature have been greatly exaggerated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_Zealand
The demographics of New Zealand encompass the gender, ethnic, religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the 4.4 million people living in New Zealand. New Zealanders, informally known as "Kiwis", predominantly live in urban areas on the North Island.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_populati...

A little googling suggests that most kiwis live in relatively dense urban areas. I find your wording confusing and perhaps we mean two different things but my general impression is that cities in New Zealand are generally more "urban" than where most Americans live.
We already make ice cream out of human breast milk. Granted, it's not cannibalism, but it's close.
This idea is taken from "Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" by Samuel Delaney.

http://www.amazon.com/Stars-Pocket-Like-Grains-Sand/dp/08195...
You mean like using kites to pull ships to generate hydrogen by electrolysis? http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/hydro-paraplant/
> That's a pretty bold claim. Given the financial crash of 08, from what I can tell the EMH has been thoroughly debunked.

Not at all. The EMH isn't falsified by people engaging in widespread cheating, and it isn't falsified by big market reversals driven by public psychology. It could only be falsified by the market's inability to accurately set a price on average, across all equities, perpetually.

Does an airline disaster contradict the claim that air travel is safe? No, that can only be contradicted by average flight outcomes. It's the same with the equities market.

> Markets are not efficient and all data is not priced in.

This claim is obviously contradicted by the fact that people are willing to use equities to raise business capital. If the market wasn't efficient, they would think of another way to raise capital -- something more efficient. That's hardly controversial.

> If EMH were correct, the systematic risk that crashed the market could not have occurred.

The EMH isn't falsified by cheating. Does the fact that insider trading takes place contradict a hypothesis that a market without cheating is fair and efficient?

> Remember, it's a hypothesis, not a theory.

Yes, and it can never be a theory in the scientific sense -- there's no way to gather objective data in a controlled way. It will probably remain a hypothesis in a pseudoscientific twilight zone forever. But given all the alternatives, the fact that people invest in the equities market argues for the truth of the EMH -- in an unscientific and dubious way.
Can you elaborate why you believe self-driving trucks would reduce theft?

They feel like the easiest thing to rob on any low-traffic road - you need two people in masks, one walks in the middle of the road in front of the truck so it stops in order to avoid "traffic accident", the second one takes whatever he wants from the back, and both leave through a side path too narrow for the truck to follow. Even if you get a cop car there within 10 minutes, all you've got is a video without faces.
Then we Danes would like our ice cube bags back, please.
Why be embarrassed? He is a virtuoso freak. Primus could have been one of the all time great bands if wasn't for Claypool's singing and lyrics, but his bass playing and the instrumental sections of their songs are awesome.
Ask HN: Sci-Fi novels?
Just finished "Ready Player One".

Do you have any other good Sci-Fi books suggestion ?
Tesla Model S costs $63k after tax rebate, and you'll save $3k per year on gas and oil.
Illness sparks entrepreneurs interest in Synthetic Biology
That's why I was very precise in my statement.

The great thing about Haskell is that for many purposes, you don't need to understand the math or have a tutorial to use a new library.

and

But a complaint that you can't use most libraries because they involve math you don't understand and don't have any tutorials? That's one of the silliest things I've ever heard.

Note the word "library" in both of those. I was very precise. Library documentation isn't lacking the way some people complain loudly that it is.
40% returns seems like a lot. Your quote, "FX.Machine builds profitable trading strategies by learning from historical data", is true for most of the strategies. What makes your strategy different? I would think that many people have tried both statistical and machine learning methods. I do not hear about any 40% returns from them. Your claim of 40% returns makes me doubt your testing strategy. Your forward test shows only 7.9% increase till now. There are a whole set of backward tests missing and a lot of information missing to consider your strategy seriously. For example, how is the risk being measured? Is it drawdown, Sharpe ratio etc?
I'm not sure Portal qualifies as low-stress.
This is about the original soylent, the green one.
Seems ironic that of all the patches that don't get served over SSL, the "SSL is meaningless" bug is the one where you'd point out that SSL should be available :P
I've said this in a different argument, but it bears repeating: The "internet" is merely a software abstraction. It doesn't exist. What actually exists is a loosely-coordinated group of private networks, subject to the whims of the owners of those networks. Nobody "broke" the internet, because there was nothing to break. All that's happening is that the abstraction is becoming less representative of the reality, for various quite predictable reasons.
If I eat any of this, will I still be a vegetarian?
Technically, bs is not a form of human meat but instead the excrement of male cattle.
Lol, all of these items brought back memories. I used to be a master at the 1x1 shim.gif. You should also include the crazy table layouts we had. Before the days of div tags we had to use multiple nested tables with 1x1 gif spacing within them to produce a complicated design accurately on every browser. Sigh ... I feel old now at 32.
> We are, as far as we can tell, the only thing that actually notices the universe!

Note that the dung beetle uses the Milky Way to navigate! :)

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/24/dung-beet...
I believe OS X has graphics drivers provided by Apple, not by the hardware vendors, so that likely has something to do with it.
How do you disguise the nature of the traffic without also changing the route taken by the packets?

I would be inclined to test this with/without a VPN connection, but then I wouldn't know whether the improvement was due to avoiding throttling/whatever, or just that my VPN server has better quality routes to the VoIP endpoint.

I guess if you VPN to the VoIP server itself, then it would be a fair test.
It might be ideal for moving commodities like iron ore, scrap iron, all sorts of recycling scrap. Agree with you about gCaptain btw.
Did you read the release notes? There were several arbitrary code exec overflows and a sandbox bypass that were patched as well. Nobody is freaking out that these took days or weeks to ship...
SanDisk's 128GB microSD: The biggest, smallest storage on the market
The movie "12 angry men" sounds like a Bayesian inference, starts with some assumption and then changes over new information.
> most people are using trustworthy ISPs

Have you not seen the news, at all, for the past several months? There have been a few revalations that perhaps some ISPs are not entirely trustworthy, to say the least...
Is this real ? It can't be can it ? Isn't it illegal to sell/process human flesh ?

Edit - Never mind.
Also, the metric amuses me since it implies most of the value of a tech acquisition is in the users, not the actual tech or talent being acquired. Or the timing and context of the acquisition. Is this trying to say Whatsapp was a good deal? lol.
Every State's Favorite Band
To be fair, I was starting from approximately "here is where the pins go" in the types I wanted, and "here is how the pins are arranged" in the form of the libraries that could solve it.

The complaint I was addressing was that math-heavy libraries that lack tutorials are nearly impossible to use. I provided a constructive proof that it's not hard at all, if you understand the type system.
A couple months ago, I decided to write a very short tutorial/introduction to the program `telnet`. I ended up deciding to use the <blink> tag to make a cursor that blinks similar to how it blinks in the terminal.

Hilariously, I discovered that <blink> is actually no longer implemented in Chrome.

The one legitimate use!

I ended up mocking it with JavaScript. EDIT: it's here if you want to see how the cursor turned out! http://blog.nullspace.io/day-208.html
I began doing web development in the early 2000s and I remember a lot of these things, so it's not just for 90s web devs.

I did love the 1px gif though, that sucker was useful.

How about doing rounded corners with images? The bigger the radius, the more padding your content had!
Indeed, the chicken paper inspired the work of Mazieres and Kohler. They should have cited it, maybe that's why SCI rejected them.
Is there anything else (comic/graphic novel) quite like Transmetropolitan in the 'cyberpunk/post-cyberpunk' genre?
I don't understand why Mt Gox isn't able to pursue the thieves. You can only withdraw funds if you have a verified account. For verified accounts they would have proven the users identity.

It must be possible to work out which accounts have withdrawn more money than deposited.

Obviously the people who did this would have covered their tracks. However that being said, there should be ways that they can account for which user accounts stole coins. Go from there.
Bite labs
> I also wouldn't be surprised if there were some DirectX specific stuff

Shouldn't be, Portal 2 was released for OS X the same day as the PC release.
Ah, thanks for correcting me. I didn't have time to go through it yet.

https://github.com/facebook/KVOController#usage

By controller does the readme refer to the KVOController instance?
I assume this is a property on the class that uses it, and once the class gets dealloced, its observer also get dealloced?
FBKVOController

Hmm... I think this is a much better idea! Much cleaner than what I current got going, but then again we don't offer the same api. Thanks for correcting me!
This is all pointless handwaving; the update package itself is signed and will not install if tampered with, regardless of TLS certs used to download it.

TLS is not used to authenticate the update.
Ghostbusters, the greatest movie ever made about Republican economic policy
ART+COM should look at the comparison photos in this article. Google Earth blows ART+COM out of the water. And that's besides the fact that they're both trying to represent real things, so of course they'll look similar if both do a relatively good job of representing real things.