skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The base power needn't be a Congressional power given the section I highlighted.

That doesn't change the answer. There's no other Constitutional power to which there is even a colorable argument that the AUMF is "necessary and proper" such that it would be supported independently of Congress power to declare war.

> It could be an Article II power, such as the CinC power.

It's doubtful that any such power exists -- the designation of the President as Commander-in-Chief of the military in Article II is a limitation on Congress' Article I power to regulate the military (specifically, it prevents it from dividing the roles that the founders saw as having an executive character by creating a separate C-in-C of the military, which its Article I powers would otherwise permit). But its not a power of government -- the designation of the President as CinC doesn't give the government any power that doesn't come from some other provision of the Constitution, it simply limits the manner in which other Constitutional powers may be exercised (it distributes some powers to the President to the extent that they already exist within the federal government, but for them to exist within the federal government, they must be grounded elsewhere in the Constitution.)

> In any event, to end this sub thread, at least for my part, whether we are at war or not still doesn't answer the question because declaring war is not a carte blanche to ignore the rest of the constitution

The answer was offered to the question of when did we declare war on the targets of these actions, and was not intended to say anything more about the Constitutionality -- and, even more so, appropriateness even if Constitutional -- of the actions, which is, I think, a much harder question that can't be answered without a thorough application of principles to the changing factual circumstances of technological means and realities of modern warfare.
Interesting how different people have vastly different experiences. I've been using .NET since pre-release 1.0. Once I ran into my first reactionary "we might get left in the shit again" change I stopped using anything that wasn't in the core framework. I don't go near ORMs, and I don't touch LINQ either. I have code running in a project now that's 7 years old, and I cannot improve it, even after revisiting it many times. I love using Visual Studio, and I love writing .NET code. I try new things when I hear about them, but nothing has compelled me to change.
Just to clarify: a beginning professional player (as in, a player who is considered of professional rank in the Go world, but just in the beginning of their career) will beat any top Go player with 99%+ certainty at 4 stones. The difference between professional players are far less than 4 stones.

If you meant a student studying to be a professional, then 4 stones would probably be true for an even chance game.
While it looks like you recognize the irrationality of posting bogus reviews for your competitor's product, buying some Adwords for "[their product name] reviews" and "[their product name] alternative" is worth looking into. Of course check out the search trends and the PPC numbers to see if it makes sense, but it just might. If they're on Twitter, get a few tweets sponsored targeting their followers. A bit underhanded, but totally legit, and not an uncommon practice (and will help satisfy your thirst for revenge). Anywhere else you can find their customers, make sure you're there, highlighting what makes you the clearly better alternative. If your product truly is more valuable then you're not stealing their customers, you're rescuing them.
Not sure why he put atheism bit but considering how many pills Ray Kurzweil takes per day(200?) to increase his age by keeping himself young, it wont be surprising if he has a genuine fear of death.

Some of his claims are quite ridiculous and PZ has done a good job of pointing out why so :

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/21/kurzweil-
still-doesnt-understa/
Not to stray too off topic but what does TDR stand for? :)
TLDR: Scientists discovered that human fat extracted by liposuction contains adult stem cells. Those could be used to repair heart and damaged joints, but since these particular doctors are cardiologists, they want to repair hearts. It is still not ready for general usage and needs more testing and experimenting.

You should not try to get fat to create a reserve of stem cells.
Ha, I actually read his last sentence as sarcasm initially and thought "haven't I heard this joke..." only to find that you had already referenced the one I was thinking of:

"A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"
Totally - I usually give my nickname in those situations, it's easier for Anglos to handle
I understand your distinction, and I stand corrected in my use of the term "enemy" when it doesn't apply, but my point still stands. There is a minor sliver of an exception to your loophole, because the US has declared that some things are not of themselves causes for "enmity", one of which is adherence to the Muslim faith.

If you say that being in the militia is a requirement of Islam (and a quick search of a Koran does not find that to be true), then it was equally true when the US signed that statement; and I have no doubt that some Muslim somewhere was involved in a public crisis even at the time it was being signed in the Senate.

But change one single iota of your premise away from specific treaty terms, or clarify that the US has the ability to declare someone to not actually be a Muslim, then you're golden.

You also need to be careful to not trounce over other treaties, like the UN Charter. That's not hard, if the last 50 years of US military interventions is any indication, but it's not so easy as only using the language of the loophole.
The article is actually about fatty deposits containing stem cells - the benefits come from using stem cells.

That's if the automated summary linked to elsewhere is to be believed.

Long articles prompt people to react to headlines rather than the substance of the article. That's why I suggested that a summary was needed, yet was biffed in the head multiple times for.
Oh, Ruby. What else.
I can't wait until code is no longer seen as this mechanical and mysterious thing. Stuff like this will no longer need to be explicitly be "Art with Code", instead it can just be "Art made by describing it"
Welcome to San Jose!

I assume you'll have a car, because public transportation is awful here. I won't mention too many SF attractions but I definitely recommend you head up there at least one weekend.

Here are some of my absolute favorite places to eat:

* korean food? -> Jang Su Jang or Omogari
* vietnamese food? -> Tofoo Com Chay (vegetarian), Ca Mau, practically any Pho place in SJ
* mexican food -> La Victoria
* burgers/fries -> In n Out is a must if it's unavailable where you live, St John's Bar & Grill
* indian food -> Gulzaar Halaal
* falafel -> Falafel's Drive In
* pizza -> Pieology (build your own pizza)
* donuts -> Psycho Donuts (crazy donuts, people from Portland often tell me that they had it first)

Some tech fun:

* Computer History Museum is a must
* checkout meetup.com for your favorite technologies, one of the advantages of living here is that there are so many to choose from for almost every niche technology
* Hacker Dojo throws events every day
* BioCurious, like Hacker Dojo but with an emphasis on bio-hacking (their "hello world" project is transferring Jelly fish DNA into bacteria to make the bacteria glow!)
* TechShop, like Hacker Dojo but more oriented towards hardware/electronics. There's one in Downtown San Jose
* (cheated, this is in SF) California Academy of Science throws NightLife every Thursday night -- it's science + alcohol + music
* (cheated again, sorry!) Nerd Nite happens once a month, awesome talks on very niche topics

For drinks/culture:

* check out Campbell's Boogie on the Bayou, May 17/18th -- http://www.downtowncampbell.com/events.php
* downtown San Jose, Mountain View, Palo Alto have good places to grab a drink. Singlebarrel in San Jose or Steinsbeer in Mountain View or Old Pro in Palo Alto
* some coffeehouses frequented by developers: Coupa Cafe, Red Rock, any Philz
* try out some Boba drinks if you haven't had them before!
* Stanford's Art Museum is free (if you plan on going, I'm a big fan of Ike's Sandwiches located on campus)
* San Jose has the Tech Museum and Museum of Art

I hope you enjoy your visit! As someone who was born/raised/lives in San Jose, I'm really sad most people recommend just heading to SF to most visitors (sad because it's mostly true...) But I hope you'll spend at least a few days south of SF.
this post is crap
Apparently, it is a feature where Windows detects that a video card is unresponsive and resets it.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3335/~/td...
Http://www.apache.org/ down?
Tesla arcs playing Mario Bros (2007)
Yep.

The email itself is actually a call to action, it's telling you your new matches. And it's actually weekly. It looked like this before:

Hello yournamehere,

Thank you for signing up on MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS XM.
Remember your password is *****.

http://www.plentyoffish.com is larger than all other free dating sites combined.

View your latest matches here --> http://www.plentyoffish.com/viewmatches.aspx

1. You can now easily check your messages via a cell phone.
2. Latest signups -- > http://www.plentyoffish.com/lastsignup.aspx
3. Users online in your city -- > http://www.plentyoffish.com/lastonlinemycity.aspx
4. If you have found your match you can delete your account in the help menu.
5. Read your new emails here --> http://www.plentyoffish.com/inbox.aspx
6. Who checked out your profile? -->http://www.plentyoffish.com/whoviewedme.aspx
7. Compatibility Test to Measure Chemistry --> http://www.plentyoffish.com/poftest.aspx

http://www.plentyoffish.com

At some point the password line was just replaced with:

http://www.pof.com is larger than all other free dating sites combined.

So they didn't even have to make it a login link.
git-annex avoid all except (2), by simply encrypting each file using GnuPG, and applying an HMACSHA1 to the filenames.

http://git-annex.branchable.com/encryption/
confirmed (Los Angeles)
I love that public directory feature! I ended up using seafile and just maintaining a copy of a public directory there using the command line client. Works like a charm, very easy to setup.
Try CrashPlan:

http://www.code42.com/crashplan/

It's free for peer-to-peer backup and is designed to do exactly what you want.
You have to trust that router delivers your packet to an endpoint. Encryption doesn't prevent that. And unless you're delivering extra packets to mask your control packets, it's trivial for the router to make drop decisions on packet flow data.
Use GPG to keep your Rails secrets secure
What would happen if you lost your domain?
How important is your domain to you or your company?
> to get any reasonable graphics at all at your native display resolution, you have to live with an incredibly complicated (and unreliable) graphics stack.

Actually no. OpenGL in no way deals with setting up the display or creating a window on the screen. That has always been the responsibility of the underlying graphics infrastructure (KMS, X11, GDI, etc.)

> Purely CPU based rendering (which was fast enough in the 90s) is no longer a choice really.

In fact on Linux you can use KMS and the fbdev without making use of OpenGL. Heck, mplayer and ffmpeg even support do operate on the fbdev without going through a windowing system – just naked writes to the graphics framebuffer.

> I find it sad that we have no modern standard akin to VESA / VBE

Actually there is such a standard, it's called EGL. However EGL by itself is graphics stack agnostic and has been designed to be usable on a wide range of plattforms and graphics infrastructures. So you still have to use some kind of operating system dependent API to open the display device, but then you can use that display device handle with EGL to create abstract surfaces that OpenGL, OpenVG and other API can use to draw on.
New Robotics Camp in San Diego
The NSA is intercepting shipments of routers, and installing their own... stuff in them. I don't know if the stuff is hardware or just software/firmware.

How would 'open source' protect you from this? If the 'stuff' is firmware, then reflashing your own firmware after you get the device would protect you from it, but it doesn't particularly matter if the firmware you flash is open source or not. If the 'stuff' is hardware, then only someone inspecting the insides who's qualified to detect such hardware would protect you, and it's still got not much to do with open source.
I'm pretty sure you can't install " install plugins/extensions " in the expres editions of VS. Unless, Express SKU is something different ... ?
Linux Kernel up to v3.15-rc4 local privilege escalation exploit
You clearly have outdated software, my computer is a pro at that one.
Based on computing power alone you may be right, but human brains are idiosyncratic to say the least. While on one hand we are simple neural net algorithms, on the other we are dirty hacks woven together throughout evolution. Even given the former, if the latter lags behind AI will continue to feel distinctly unhuman.

I bet we'll produce a really interesting brain within the next ten years that doesn't seem human at all.
this is pretty loud too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30
My guess is that a cheap programmable thermostat would have done that for you just as well. An A/C unit has to be off for a large chunk of time per day to save $100 per month.

There's the other element here which is just plain being lazy and wanting to be comfortable 100% of the time. No, I am not calling you this. Just making a general statement. I've walked into my home when it is 80 to 85 degrees F. I don't need the air conditioner to turn on an hour before I get home to get it down to 72 degrees (or whatever). I am perfectly fine getting home and turning it on (if the programmable thermostat didn't) and waiting 15 to 20 minutes while having a cold glass of water as it the temperature goes down.

Yet another reality is that the cooling process is far more efficient the longer you can wait. What I mean by this is that a good air conditioning unit is cycle limited to somewhere around a 50 degree F delta between outside and inside temperatures. That's governed by the physics of the heat exchange circuit. And so, in simple terms, if it is cooler outside your A/C unit will be able to cool your house much faster because it is able to pump cooler air into your home. There's a huge difference between trying to cool a house with 60 degree air vs. 50 degree air.

Finally, one thing you can probably do as a renter is to install a misting system around the A/C condensing unit (usually installed outside the house). Wet air has greater heat capacity than dry air and so the system will operate more efficiently. It is easy to rig a 12 or 24 volt solenoid valve to open when the compressor runs so the mister can provide moist air to the heat exchanger. This alone is bound to produce results significantly better --again-- than a Nest. And, of course, it wouldn't cost much more than $30 to $50 to implement.

In places where people can't be bothered to at least attempt to understand the situation and at the very least spend some time programming their thermostat, setting reasonable temperatures and taking five minutes to open windows at night, well, yeah, Nest might serve in a range from placebo to small savings.

My key argument is that a single thermostat isn't a solution to a systemic problem. Most homes are not designed to be efficient in this regard, which is sad.
I'm not sure what you're asking.
If you can get over the jetlag, the Maker Faire is that weekend, up in san mateo. really crowded but chock full of interesting DIY/Tech

http://makerfaire.com/
not here (southeast)
We already have other plants that can target arsenic and lead. [1]

Japan planted millions of sunflowers after Fukushima to attempt to absorb radiation, as previous studies had shown they could absorb cesium. [2] However, they underperformed.

There is an ongoing challenge with hyperaccumulators of what to do with the plant material. When the plants decay or are ultimately destroyed, many toxic compounds are re-released. The cost of planting, harvesting, maintaining, transporting, and safely destroying toxic plant material can often be higher than simply stripping a few feet of soil off the ground and burying it in a landfill.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hyperaccumulators

[2] http://www.care2.com/causes/sunflowers-fail-in-nuclear-decon...
Why Apple Is Buying Beats | stratechery by Ben Thompson
I don't think there is. Joey Hess ended up having to support inotify, kqueue, hfsevents and ReadDirectoryChangesW for his git-annex assistant.
Drone quadrocopter has 14MP camera, runs Linux
Which iBeacons have the most consistent signals?
Keep in mind it's only the "Top" professional players who have spent hours every day for several years studying the game.

The best "Bot" when I last checked was 5dan level; at this level it can probably beat > 90% of human go players? (I don't actually stats ..)
This is true. My last name is Thomas but people will sometimes refer to me as Thompson, Thomason, etc. I get a lot of people asking how it's spelled,too (even native English speakers).
Manipulating people into buying a product is called "sales." It's not necessarily a bad thing. If you truly believe in your product and in your heart believe it's the best solution for the problem it solves, you do not have to be deceitful in selling it.

Your argument requires one to believe that advertisement is immoral. One could easily make another argument that selling anything for money that could be given away for free with ads hurts the poor who then are denied access. It wouldn't be true, but it would be built on just as much of a foundation (read none) as yours.

Show me some strong statistical studies showing that "90 to 99% of ads" are deceitful. I've watched a lot of ads. I don't think that number's even close to correct. Slick? Sure. Deceitful is a strong word.
This article goes out of it's way to create hand wringing 'what-if' scenarios. Completely ignoring the fact that car accidents would be practically eliminated with autonomous vehicles.

It's perfectly reasonable for a group of cars to all take action with their owners self-preservation in mind first and foremost. If your worried about 'greater total number of deaths', look at human drivers.
Speculative hearsay with no hard evidence.
I completely agree. It is every individual's responsibility to protect themselves. The police have no obligation to protect the public.
More information:

Discovery - http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/12/3

CVE - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0196

Patch - https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git/...
For context, here's a photo from last year's Assembly: http://assembly.galleria.fi/kuvat/Assembly+Summer+2013/Aleks...
GameStop is not a competitor to Valve unless you consider 'sells products to customers' a single market. Their competitors are services like Direct2Drive, Impulse, Humble Store, etc.

If someone actually wants to go out and pick up a box, they're not going to do that on Steam.

It's true that digital distribution in general offers lower costs than brick & mortar, but that's not specific to Valve. At most they were leading the charge on digital distribution with Steam, but even when they did that they were still selling copies at retail.
So he favors exposing a standard set of distributed data models instead of having APIs.

What a horrible idea.

Exposing implementations is bad because implementations change.

Exposing implementations is bad because as you expose the intricacies of your data model to your client (which he claims is a benefit) you in turn obscure and hide the intricacies of your business domain, which will surely not allow you to patch a service's distributed data tree in an arbitrary fashion.

It's in essence like having SQL as your underlying data model, and replacing your API with an open read/write/delete access to your SQL server to the entire world, and hoping everyone will run the right queries and all will be all right.

It won't be all right.

APIs will become more asynchronous and eventually all APIs will be seen as protocols, that don't necessarily follow a simple request/response pattern.

But they'll remain in the form of abstract commands and queries modeled after the business domain of the application, and not the underlying data model of it.
Yes, about 3 months ago. On 16 HP DL380s. Testing a number of vendor apps in our engineering lab.
Sheesh, has it really been the same for that long? I dropped out (only) about 5 years ago and had a similar thought. I enjoyed how the author didn't name names but made it pretty obvious to anyone who's dealt with this stuff before, even tangentially.
My usual quip in retort is: "But not every hammer is used to hit a nail, and not every nail should be hit by a hammer."
Is Microsoft scanning chat URLs and doing stuff with them?
"you can git your hands dirty and try to fix it and submit a patch."

Typo or funny wordplay?
I wonder how this distribution is skewed based on company size, sector, and region. (I.E…Large established financial companies in the Midwest primarily prefer X. Small social media startups on the West Coast primarily prefer Y).
Analyzing Forged SSL Certificates in the Wild [pdf]
Decisions don't create agency. My router makes decisions about what packets to route (and where) and what packets to drop. It does so based on a policy I set and those decisions are an extension of my agency. If I configure my car to prefer saving me to saving 100 schoolchildren (or pick a car with that configuration over the alternative), I'm responsible for that.
> A huge, naked pile of nuclear waste has sat beneath Oklo for billions of years; why not put a bit more under the Nevada desert, in shielded canisters no less?

Most of our nuclear waste is nothing like the nuclear "waste" in Oklo [1]. The primary danger comes not from the reactor but from the enrichment process and uranium hexaflouride (UF6). During enrichment, fissile uranium atoms are extracted to make "enriched" uranium while the rest (over 90%!) of the UF6, which is very toxic and reacts with air and water to form extremely corrosive compounds, is stored in gas cylinders as "depleted" uranium.

Think about that again: we use metal gas canisters to store toxic waste, waste that reacts with some of the most abundant molecules to form more chemicals that slowly destroy the canister. Depending on how these containers are stored and maintained, the UF6 leaks into the air or, even worse, into our ground water reservoirs, taking the non-fissile but still radioactive uranium with it.

Injecting our nuclear waste into the Earth like we do carbon sequestration would be great, but we just don't have the millions of years to wait for the uranium to pass through the ground water system or the technology to figure how and where our reservoirs interconnect (or even how big most of them are). Until we do, storing waste like Oklo is just a step shy of giving everyone some old Fiesta Ware.

[1] http://web.ead.anl.gov/uranium/