skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a company whose presentations have used the word “fuck” on more than one occasion

Hey I understand your position, but she is criticising the "bullies" (whom I gather are audience members) in that statement, not the company.

The irony of this is she goes on to mention Adria Richards who became infamous for tweeting the private conversation of two people whose language was also inappropriate, and suggesting it was a difficult time for Richards.

So I am confused by the messaging in the post, it is ok to say "Fuck" but wrong to criticise someone for saying it, but it is ok to criticise someone for innuendo for forking a repo.
Values, statues, cashews... rhymes with Hacker News
I'm a native English speaker who learned Mandarin 10+ years ago, and I can honestly say it has not added a cent to my income as a programmer.
If we had something like incognito mode for the operating system that would be ideal.
It also means submitting to the authorities when you break the law; MLK spent a lot of time in jail. In fact, he often pointed out that the segragationist, who were also breaking many laws, were cowards because they wouldn’t risk jail time.
I'm thinking that some people would attempt to send text messages, which would be queued and automatically sent when the phone was in range of a tower again.

It only needs one person to do this, out of hundreds aboard, to give us a clue what happened. Nothing has been reported. If anyone had received a message, we should have heard about it.
Agreed, but imagine how many more math problems you could solve if you were allowed to do that :D
My journey to start a blog
Now that I written some articles around my journey to start a blog I think it might be very useful to have a short summary of my journey.
9 crazy conspiracy theories about Malaysia Airlines flight 370
I think to really get visual coding to work it would need to start from circuit design; Vin, Vout, ICs, logic gates etc.

That doesn't really get you towards end-users writing code but I'd find it pretty useful when trying to look at a complicated process.
> what was the point in getting a basic cable TV package then?

Because people would still pay for it.
Didn't the founding fathers of the United States break some laws when they were under British rule?

"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." - Thomas Jefferson
Actually, no, he didn't -- while that's the title of the linked article, the actual quote said that he said that VC has a pathetic success rate if success rate is all you are looking at, but he doesn't say it is pathetic compared to development. He says that the criticism of it as pathetic makes the same mistake as criticizing the low success rate of development projects.
Totally agree with you assessment, but I am just curious; how many of 2.) have ever happened?

2. Pilot suicide and the plane is in the ocean.*

I am not informed in any way on this one - but what has been documented around propensity of pilot mass murder?
Your fallacy is...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
I think hijacked is a high possibility, though the only question remains is why hasn't anyone actually claim the responsibility? This is so unlike terrorist group out there.

From what I understand, no terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the recent Kuming massacre in China the week before the missing plane.

Uighurs separatists/terrorists are not that shy; they did claim responsbility are few times.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China)

If this were a hijack, it's either targeting at the Chinese (most likely Uighurs separatists) or an upgraded terrorist attack. Maybe I've watched too much 24 and Sherlock Holmes.
Distributed consensus algorithms in general, including all blockchain systems, could solve the registrar issue. Then you just need to solve the squatting problem.

Governments have never been required, they are just what grows out of a geographically delimited, naturally re-occuring monopoly on violence in human societies.
> Governments have never been required, they are just what grows out of a geographically delimited, naturally re-occuring monopoly on violence in human societies.

Governments aren't what "grows out of that", governments are that. You are presenting the definition of government as if it was an explanation of the source of government.
The most famous alleged case is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990

Wikipedia has a relevant category:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Airliner_accidents_an...

That category includes hijacked or stolen planes that were thought to have been deliberately crashed, not only suicide attempts by the official pilot of a scheduled flight. There are also seemingly cases there of suicide by passengers not involving a full-fledged hijacking but involving a crash.

EDIT: I tried to go through all of the Wikipedia articles in this category and subcategorize them according to perpetrator and circumstance.

* Passenger suicide resulting in crash (1)

* Passenger attack against pilots resulting in crash (6, including all Sept. 11 attacks)

* Suicide attempt by pilot resulting in deaths of others aboard (1)

* Suicide by pilot resulting in deaths of others aboard (2)

* Disputed suicide by pilot resulting in deaths of others aboard (2)

* Suicide by pilot not during scheduled flight, with no passengers aboard (2)

The latter cases both involved disgruntled pilots who wanted to get back at their employers. Unfortunately, in one of the two cases the pilot also succeeded in murdering, not passengers, but coworkers on the ground. (One of the fatal passenger-attacks-pilot cases also involved a disgruntled airline employee who was not a pilot.)

I imagine there might be other cases of general aviation pilots deliberately crashing their planes to commit suicide without intending to injure anyone else. Many of those cases may never have been identified as suicides by crash investigators.

... yeah, apparently there were 16 identified general aviation suicides (typically killing only the pilot) in the U.S. between 1993 and 2002 and 8 between 2003 and 2012.

http://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oamt...

http://avstop.com/March_2014/aircraft_assisted_pilot_suicide...
Instead of hash cash, could you charge 10 dogecoin?

We abstract out the computational requirements into a sub-penny but not insignificant payment.

Then again, how much would spammers be willing to pay?
The problem with media is that they always have "some official", "someone close to X."

I wonder if they could just make this shit up since they are not going to write down the name and put it in a safe for record anyway.
How is that not bitcoin?

I've long been a fan of a "bounty" system -- you attach digital coins to a message, with the recipient specifying how many coins must be attached (maybe higher for voice, lower for email, mid level for SMS). If the message was unwanted (not merely spam, but even just a stupid request), the recipient collects the coins; otherwise, the sender gets them back.

This nicely aligns incentives. If the recipient takes coins improperly, you stop sending him mail.
Linux gets frozen, what do you do? I remember to press nine buttons on my keyboard, duh. and why? Because a hard reset will "make you a lot of problems?" I am not convinced, and I am not impressed.

This is a laughably awful shortcut for anything. Why make the supposedly safe stuff so out of reach? I would have to use a separate computer to look up how to type this command. Even if I knew the command off the top of my head, what if my keyboard lacks a PrtSc (SysRq) button?

When folks are pointing to Windows for design cues, the open source community ought to reconsider some aspects of how it has implemented certain features.
But if true then there is hope these people will be well treated, because if you wanted to just kill them, they would be dead already.

I bet you could get $500,000,000 ransom for the safe return of the plane, the crew, and the passengers. The plane alone is worth $100 million.

Half a billion buys a lot of military hardware on the open market.

Odds are they are dead, at the bottom of the ocean. Flying low enough to avoid radar will significantly shorten the range (denser air at low altitude, etc).
XKCD "What If?" is Amazon's #2 best seller
I'm Spanish and I'm curious about what you said. I feel that English has much easier grammar than Spanish (just think of the verb conjugation in both languages!), but much more difficult phonetics (just how many vowels do you have? Is there really a difference between "backwards e" and "upside down v"? Half-kidding only); so I can write in English far better than I can speak. I expected that a native English speaker learning Spanish would have the same imbalance sensations that I had, just reversed.

By the way, I found that learning German was far easier than English. I wish I had time to keep doing it.
I figure this will change soon enough, now that $15 minimum wage laws are becoming popular causes in this neck of the woods. The broken-window fallacy is about to get really expensive for Oregonians.
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I am very happy that you get the point! :-)

To address your criticism: Internetworking fundamentally required new hardware, Interactivity and Hypermedia depended on advances in display technology, and Virtualization and Transactions benefit substantially from hardware acceleration. However, the OS, the PL, and the GC were all independent of any new developments and hardware. Our display technologies are already way ahead of the computational features they should be able to support. Same goes for telecommunications. And the hardware acceleration that powers virtual memory and memory locking is versatile enough to be applied to more advanced abstractions as well (although the advanced abstractions might later benefit from more advanced acceleration).

I spent a few years at MIT trying to design revolutionary hardware systems and left with a deep respect for Intel. Much as I'd like to have a PC based on the Lisp Machine or the Connection Machine, I've come to believe it's we software folks who really aren't keeping up, rather than any kind of stagnation in the hardware world.

In fact, Intel comes out with a whole pile of new machine instructions every other year, and they probably never get invoked once on most PCs: most binaries are effectively compiled for AMD Opteron (the first x86_64 processor, released in 2003) so that they'll run seamlessly on anything since then.
The calculation the Economist Intelligence Unit uses is very different from the one presented in this blog post. For instance, the price of a car is not factored into the blog post as the author assumes a "student lifestyle."

For instance, in Singapore, a new Toyota Camry costs almost US$150,000 while the same car in Seattle costs at most $30,000. The difference is worth the downpayment to an apartment in Seattle. A public transport pass in Singapore (EZLink Season Pass) is $134, which is more expensive than Seattle anyway.
Which leads to the question of what the quality of cell service is like over/in that area. It may be land, but if there aren't any cell towers they may be SOL.
The valuation is $50M.
It is an interesting and plausible theory, although the altitude data is not seen as completely reliable

“A lot of stock cannot be put in the altitude data” sent from the engines, one official said. “A lot of this doesn’t make sense.” - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/malaysia-milita...
LIVE VIDEO: Malaysia PM press conference on #MH370 missing plane
Nrrrdcore vs Github
How about we increase energy costs? Huh guys?
The secure flight deck seems under some scenarios to be little more than a trap door. If you let in a foxy South African terrorist for example, you can't get back in again, as I understand it, if access is restricted from within the flight deck.

There's no failsafe way to allow entry from the cabin, even if a system of multiple secure coding for override is instituted in the cabin. And you can't depend upon ground based authentication for a number of reasons as things currently stand.

A dead mans switch, where a member of the flight crew must override a timed flight deck door release, would only work if the crew themselves were willing and capable.

And an Air Marshall who has overriding authority and perhaps access code is yet another security issue.

There are three scenarios with a dead mans switch.

Firstly, the flight deck crew may be unable to code against entry. This works as intended.

Secondly, the flight deck crew is friendly, and codes against entry. This works as intended.

Thirdly, the flight deck crew is hostile, and codes against entry. This last possibility needs a solution.

A solution might be that all flights ping ground stations at timed intervals, and that all flight deck dead man switch override code entries are transmitted to ground, instituting cross reference queries against flight deck and flight cabin personnel. All flights of a certain class would therefore require satellite communications capability.

Any dead man switch override event would be classed as a possible emergency.

[edit] Forgot to say that turning off transponders and or phone homes turns dead man switch into a coded entry switch. This of course can allow entry for hostiles into an already hostile flight deck.
Agreed. There is a lot of really good stuff, especially internationally.
Huh, now I'm wondering how much you'd have to do to make the import keyword a build-time command-line argument
Monetizing social media matters
The phones will ping just by being in range, you dont need to queue a message. Nothing in your argument makes (say) hijacking more likely than mechanical issues.
Yep just fly over the completely unsecured China/India border, the perfect crime.
You certainly got that sense of entitlement, that the users MUST be able to access all artists' creations. Why? Maybe the creators are fine with giving access only to those who pay? Some users will choose to pirate, of course, and some will not buy. Fine - why fight for it? This is not limiting access to food or fresh air, just some freaking movies you can live without.
We implemented the "Depixelizing Pixel Art" Algorithm by Kopf & Lischinski [1] in Java and made an Android Pixel-Painter App out of it.

At some points we departed a bit from the original paper:

For the (approximate) Voronoi diagram we do not use a lookup table but look at the orientation of each neighboring edge to determine the resulting pixel shape because of that we have a special step that makes cell containing a single pixel surrounded by another color a bit bigger, as otherwise single pixel features appear too small (e.g. the dolphin from the original paper would otherwise get tiny Howard-Moon-Style eyes) we use Catmull-Rom Splines instead of B-Splines.
As CR Splines go through their control points, we do not need the correction step for spline positions mentioned in the paper.

We have not figured out how to add the shading for non-contour edges yet. SVG (which is our target format) only allows Radial and Linear Gradients. We thought about using Mesh Gradients or diffusion curves, but they are not part of SVG yet... Also, the energy minimization step is still quite slow. We use local relaxation as recommended in the paper, which works but is not very fast. We want to try out some global methods that will hopefully speed the process up.

What do you think?

[1] (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/)
I've been a user since 2003 :)
Oh well in that case it's all in good fun.

I didn't mean anything by it - only an industry observation.

Happy to play along :)
Stop giving interviews and focus on perfecting your craft
interest bearing loan has nothing to do with the "reserve" you need.

if i borrowed 1 bitcoin from you, and then i default, then how are you going to pay back that bitcoin to whoever deposited it?
Storing, transmitting and reading spam consumes energy as well.
The answer to every geometry question I run into is now 7.
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A politician that can use Git! In for $100, and good luck.
I'm not sure how stored hashcash makes sense for preventing spam and DDoS. Won't services pop up that mine away, accumulate successful computation tokens, then sell them cheaply to spammers and flooders? Or spammers and flooders can simply leave their computer running a week in advance of planned attacks, and acquire a bunch of tokens all on their own.

We already see this kind of thing in CAPTCHA farms.
an infected vm is no victim. Lets say you downloaded a pirated game which also has malware in it. You play said game in a vm specifically made _for_ that game. So the malware only runs when you are actually using the vm.

You'd have a vm for each specific piece of software that is untrustworthy, and sharing of files can occur thru sanctioned channels (such as a local, safe temp directory shared by each vm, or read only mounts).
Malaysia and Thailand are relatively densely populated. Coverage is very heavy along both coasts of the countries, but much less complete inland.

This is a coverage map for one of 4 Malaysian mobile operators.

http://opensignal.com/networks/malaysia/my-celcom-coverage
Still unannounced but happy to share details privately.
It's a profoundly non-technical problem, I think. People who care about content creators get screwed over by DRM and complain loudly. People who don't care about content creators take advantage of the lack of DRM to pirate stuff to their heart's content. You have this vicious three-way cycle that forms among pirates, fans, and creators.

Then there are the assholes who claim that if you don't torrent your films and games you're not enough of a 'hacker', or that there's no problem with piratical torrenting at all because all the people who torrent would never have purchased the album/film/game legitimately if the torrent hadn't been available (as if even a small fraction of those people would willingly admit otherwise).

I don't know what the solution is. If I ever became rich (not going to happen), I would seriously consider becoming a patron of the types of arts that I enjoy. But that's a pipe dream, and even if it did happen it wouldn't scale.
There is at least a theoretical logic to banning words like this: if being called bossy is causing girls to lose leadership skills then maybe stopping this artificially (even if people still think it without saying it) could lead to less girls being affected, and therefore in the next generation the stigma has disappeared. Obviously it's not that simple, and I have no idea to what extent, if any, this actually works, other than in theory.
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> openssh has support for full-blown certificates

Well, yes and no. Do you mean the new cert stuff that's in standard openssh? Which has stuff like:

The marker is optional, but if it is present then it must be one of “@cert-authority”, to indicate that the
line contains a certification authority (CA) key, or “@revoked”, to indicate that the key contained on the line
is revoked and must not ever be accepted. Only one marker should be used on a key line.

While certainly simple, it doesn't strike me as very manageable.

Or did you mean the x509 patch?

http://roumenpetrov.info/openssh/
Scored 21480 and won the game. It' nice.
Ask HN: What are the language/OS choices for low-latency
Hello,

For purpose of an academic research, I need your inputs on implementing the following software so I can give better recommendations to a friend.

The software will display images in frequencies ( Images are flickering between the image itself and a black screen).
When an image is shown a trigger will be sent to an external device, and another trigger will be sent when the image is no longer visible (black screen appears).

The frequency of images is about 50Hz, meaning that for 20ms an image is shown, and for 20ms the black screen is shown.

The synchronization between the code, the visual output of the images and trigger sent to device is very important, it should be as close as possible to real-time. (<5ms delay).

(For the moment we are not bringing the latency of the external device in to account)

As this is a research project, choices of the tech would highly impact the results.

So far the options for the language are:

- C

- C#

- Matlab (and external toolboxes or Matlab’s realtime workshop)

- Python (and external libraries)

1 - Considering the performance, development time, availability of external libraries, etc. which of the above languages you choose to implement the system, and why?

(Python and Matlab are preferable because ease of use and faster development, but doubtful about the required low latency)

2 - What would be your pick for the OS for such software? Which allows the software to have a high priority execution thread. An OS with low latency.
(Probably a RTOS, Real Time Operating System, is not needed)

Any opinion is much appreciated.
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It is Bitcoin. I was just trying to present some of the ideas behind Bitcoin without all the baggage of the word.
When culture changes shouldn't language that reflects outdated culture also change?

Racial slurs aren't acceptable anymore. No one thinks that change is what brought about the civil rights movement, but it's obviously a consequence of it that also contributed to the whole movement in a positive feedback loop.
Which script in /etc/acpi/ corresponds to the thinkvantage key?
I remember this genius edu. researcher (Alan Kay) talking about his dog: "...and my little dog, Watson..."
I wondered why he would emphasize the diminutive nature of his adult dog. The closest guess I came to was: Even though this guy had no kids, his mind/body still is "programmed" to respond to baby-like features. That might explain why your cute pictures calm the trolls. Then again, I'm no neuro-socio-biologist.
To play the devil's advocate, there is an opportunity cost to your child learning a new language, which is he can't communicate and understand mildly complex things in preschool until he learns the language. During that time he could have read stories about things he never imagined, learned piano and understand music playing, learned to swim or discovered storytelling etc.

My son is right now in the transition phase in a new language, and it's mildly sad to see him struggling with very basic concepts ("can I have these pencils? What is the teacher telling me? why is everyone moving their arms ?") when he otherwise would be learning what's the conductor's role is in an ensemble.

Learning a second language lays the base for learning other things, as learning any of the above would also have oppened doors to to better understand other things. Time is finite and choices have to be made, not everyone might prioritize learning languages as much as other things.
Advancement in Speech Synthesizer
What company has the most natural speaking speech synthesizer?
Except psychopaths and suicides are on opposite sides of the spectrum. You do have edge cases where psychopaths choose suicide over being caught, ie Hitler. But to commit just suicide there literally thousands of easier ways to do it. You don't even have to leave home to do it.
There's something funky with your QR code. My reader doesn't recognize it as a URL (it seems to be just the plain text type). There was also a space in the URL that I had to delete before my browser would recognize it as a valid URL. (fyi I'm running Cyanogenmod with their stock browser and the Obsqr QR scanner).
"making the cockpit too secure"

How so? If you don't trust the pilots to the point where you want, who, the FAs? taking over the plane, you've got far bigger issues. An override system should be a remote-control thing requiring keys from multiple people.