skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes that's about it.

I disagree about the likelihood that messages or phone calls were exchanged prior to installing TextSecure. And restoring the SMS database after purchasing a new device is not impossible. But I agree that names and addresses wouldn't work, although I didn't suggest so.

My point was that it would improve on the status quo, at least for people you care most about (the ones you've talked to, the texts you didn't delete). And once the hashes are hard enough to reverse, you can have a federation of TS servers, because it becomes less risky to share them with an untrusted party. Maybe the improvement would only be marginal after all.

Anyway thanks for the discussion.
I do want the ISP's to give away data to those organisations and I do want those organisations to go legally against all of us that are downloading pirated stuff. Its only like what 10-15m people in the UK? Go on sue us.
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> Embedding Jetty just means that now you have to restart every time. You could just do the same thing with standalone Tomcat instance.

So now either I need to figure out how to hook my deployment script into the host system's init scripts, or I need to package tomcat as part of my app (and worry about its shared library linkage). With embedded, my app is just a program, not at all integrated with the host system; it runs like a program and stops like a program.

> Why is it difficult to do any of those development things without having the server embedded in your application?

Because the tool needs support for the server and often it has to be done in a server-specific way. How does one use JProfiler on an app deployed in Tomcat? One edits one of the internal Tomcat xml files. How does one use JProfiler on an app that embeds Jetty? One runs it with the same command line arguments one uses for running any other app with JProfiler. And it's like that for every tool - the way to do it with Tomcat is slightly different, the way to do it with an embedded server is standard.

> Pretty much every Java build tool (Maven, SBT, Gradle, Lein) makes those things easy to do without specifying an XML file for your server.

If you're building a war you need a web.xml (or I'm seeing some speculation it can be done with annotations? Either way, much less clear than just making a servlet in code).

> Also, they will frequently let you reload your application, which is faster.

Not in a way that matters. If you're just doing day-to-day dev then IDE hot code replace is faster still. If you want to be sure you've cleaned out all traces of the old version and are definitely running your latest code then reload isn't reliable enough.
Mono has had a C# repl for quite some time: http://www.mono-project.com/CsharpRepl

Good to see the same thing coming to vanilla .Net!
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TL;DR: It doesn't work.
Now is anyone surprised by this?
Did anyone not expect this?
Well you should have. Because it had bullshit written all over it from the start.
"Funny you brought the 40% up. The Chinese government doesn't like foreign investors controlling financial companies in China."

In the US the threshold to become a "bank holding company" is 10% equity ownership. Becoming a BHC subjects you to the regulation by the FRB or state banking boards.
As an aside, a way to perform well on the 'tracing-the-star-in-the-mirror' exercise: stop watching what your hand is doing, and instead feel what your hand is doing. Your vision keeps you inside the lines for the most part; where people screw up is making a decision at the vertices. If you look, you'll screw it up, but if you were drawing the star with your eyes closed, you'd know which way the pencil should go.
Beats is EXTREMELY WELL positioned to be a major iTunes competitor without the overhead of computer hardware and software divisions. Not only that, but while Apple is cool, Dre is much, much cooler.
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Maybe my visual capabilities are just more limited than yours :) That said, I wouldn’t call things like ‘end of statement’ or ‘end of this block’ noise. They have very real effects and using ; and } over "\n" and "\t" seems a decent choice. Natural languages have ".", "," and ";" for a reason, too; although one could argue for paragraphs to be roughly (but only roughly!) block-equivalents and inherently whitespacy.
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Not very often you find a hedge fund behind an open source project. I guess it makes sense really, as many quants will be happy to mess around in a python shell, having a C# shell will probably play nicer with the rest of the companies infrastructure.
Interesting, seem similar to annotations/attributes. Also some similarity with AST handling in other languages.

Now I have something to play with on the upcoming weekend. :)
To me, it seems the same as the distinction made in SICP.

As for DP, I think it also comes very close to being the same as the above two. The one difference I can think of is that with DP you often have access to the entire build-up data structure you are creating, rather than only the latest (previous) level you have with an iterative process.
Is there something else you'd rather they call it?
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Have hacked around GMail and the DoneDone issue tracker last night. Check it out!

Blog post: http://www.savio.dimatteo.it/blog/entry/6

GitHub: https://github.com/darksmo/gmailToDoneDone
The types of memory you're referring to are (more formally) declarative and implicit [1].

Please be wary of 'pinpointing' any regions involved in higher-level functions. It borders on phrenology and despite the vast interest in consciousness, no-one had claimed to have identified regions.

If you haven't come across it before, I'd recommend The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks. Following that, Descartes Error by Antonio Damasio might also be interesting (if you're interested in emotion and reason).

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory
I could see one way that would make sense: To fix the iPhone 5C debacle. You want to reach lower level customers without tarnishing your main brand...

Beats could fit that profile. Just make the colors a bit brighter and the successor to the 5c cheaper.

Or sicking with the beats brand (style over quality): Why not use 4s internals ;)?
This is exactly what i need to test out if some code behaves how i want it to, without having to create a new test, open a new project or running code in actual project.
Depends what your needs are. If you're mostly using one browser on one machine you're fine.

Need something that's cross-platform, cross-browser with arbitrary tagging and suddenly you're looking at third party service.

Add to that the discover side of shared bookmarking tools (Gee - I wonder what everybody else has tagged with "foo") and a third party service is the only thing that will help.

I was a really happy delicious used before the post-yahoo rewrite. Then they lost about 1000 bookmarks of mine so I moved to pinboard - where I'm not quite unhappy enough to go write my perfect system ;-)
That and the ability to indent text.
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For a website to pass the usability test it must include all the necessary UX design elements. A website must be able to retain a user and owing to technology, our short attention has made it impossible to consume time on something which is not user friendly.
"Conscious memory" and "unconscious memory" aren't really well-defined concepts; the actual classification is as follows:

Explicit (declarative) memory
- Semantic memory: knowledge of facts and meanings
- Episodic memory: autobiographic memory of past events
Implicit memory
- Procedural memory: motor skills, implicit attitudes
Then, do you ask for permission, or do you ask for forgiveness?
Well if that was the case, then one result would always have 0. The indexes are used to find what something wins against
You could subscribe via RSS. I had a bunch of delicious feeds that basically just fed me new sh*t on exactly the topic I was interested in. Because they had been tagged by humans I trusted. It was great ;-)
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Support for copy and pasting from ms word is the biggest issue I currently have at my day job. We are creating online learning environments where the majority of the content has been created in other formats and is copy and pasted into our systems. We currently use TinyMCE but it is a pig to work with and I'm desperate for a better solution.
Lawful intercept gives access to all communications going through the BB in clear, as well as position. On top of that a BB exploit could in theory (with no IOMMU protection) provide access to the full system memory, and I agree with this. But my point remains: there is no need to single out the BB there. And putting a backdoor in the BB doesn't make sense to me from an engineering point of view (and doesn't match my experience in the area either).

We're talking about integrated BB where the BB is on the same die as the rest of the system. Just put the backdoor function at the system level, accessible from any interface. Why do a special case for the BB? There's no point in that, as there's no gain. If anyone goes to the trouble to insert such a backdoor, isn't it better to make it accessible remotely thought any interface, and through all local interfaces?

Even better, call it a secure remote management function, with remotely upgradable firmware, and make it usable for professional use cases. And still being usable as a backdoor. What's better than hiding in plain sight?

So I don't dispute the notion that there could be backdoors in chips. What I find illogical is to single out the BB for this. Any interface with bus master ability and a local CPU (WiFi, BT, cellular...) can on principle be exploited in the same way, on a SoC with no IOMMU protection. So instead of making juicy story with backdoored BBs and nasty telcos, why not address the general case and insist on having systems with an IOMMU controlled by the main CPU? Then an open source system can protect the main CPU and system memory against bugs in any peripheral behind the IOMMU.

That won't protect against a "security/management function" designed to bypass the IOMMU of course. At some point there is no substitute for trusting (or not...) the chip maker. But at least that would protect against a whole class of bugs, which is a win IMHO.
So let's look at that. Wikipedia's statement expands on the cited reference by specifying constant consumption, but let's accept that as standard practice in energy reserve estimate statements:

Dr. Anthony Hayward CCMI, chief executive of BP stated in October 2009 that proven natural gas reserves around the world have risen to 1.2 trillion barrels (190 km3) of oil equivalent, enough for 60 years' supply if consumption is non-increasing, and that gas reserves are trending upward.

A quick check turns up a Motley Fool piece stating that global NG consumption is growing at 2.2% annually, or doubling every 32 years. The ten-year average has been 2.7% for a 26 year doubling.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/05/09/growth-in-g...

That's reflected as well in BP's annual review for 2013:

http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/energy-econom...

The "gas reserves are trending upward" comment is consistent with the passage immediately preceding in Wikipedia noting that new discovery estimates are hard to establish, so they're often amended upwards. The increasing reserves noted by BP's CEO aren't the result of new finds, but of revised estimates of old finds. And new gas field discoveries peaked in the 1970s, 40 years ago. We're not finding new gas, we're simply recognizing how much was already found.

Fracking also isn't turning up new gas fields, but is allowing known plays to be further extracted. Again, it's digging further into what we'd already known about.

So: given BP's 2013 report of proved reserved of 187 trillion cubic meters, present consumption of 3,314 billion cubic meters, and an annual growth trend of 2.7%, we'll actually exhaust reserves by 2047. With a 2.2% growth trend, we'll last until 2050.
You mean the source code? I compiled it from their github.

https://github.com/atom/atom
Manual import/export isn't really a useful option when you are using multiple browsers on multiple machines, let alone sometimes wanting to access things on public machines.

You were also, at that point, restricted to arbitrary hierarchies rather than arbitrary tagging. The ability to slice bookmarks over multiple categories is stupidly useful (for me anyway.)
Can something exist without identity?

Can something exist yet have no nature?

Can something exist without being (anything)?
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I think they own it more directly, as the holding company is new. But they have had issues in the past.
Procedural memory isn't really best termed as 'unconscious' memory. It's memory laid down through practise of a task. There's a lot of different flavours of memory, though most people think of memory as 'recall of factoids'. In terms of 'unconscious' memory, there's a semantic but salient difference between reacting automatically/unconsciously to something (being fearful of dogs because you were bitten once), and voluntarily doing an action but performing it better because of practice (playing a musical instrument).

Regarding anatomy, there's no one part of the brain that is responsible for self-awareness or consciousness (both of which a philosophically difficult to define in the first place), though the frontal lobes (just behind the forehead) are usually implicated in complex thought, concentration, or expressions of personality. There's a lot of overlap in functionality in the brain, when you look at it from a viewpoint of "what bit does this task?" - broken down into its constituent bits, most tasks require a variety of functions to be handled.

"What bit of the brain is involved in waving hello to a friend when we meet them?" would touch on most of the parts, for example - pure perception, pattern recognition, emotion, motor control, decision making, and a few others. The task sounds simple, but it's really quite complex once it's broken down.
Stalin was the worst mass murderer in human history, with Mao not far behind.

Between them they enslaved almost all of Asia and half of Europe, with no sign that they were content to stop there.

They had a nuclear gun pointed at the West's head for several decades.

But you think the "rhetoric" was "funny". Just paranoia, no doubt.

I've encountered this attitude before (generally, though not exclusively, among those who are too young to remember the heydey of the Marxist slave state), but never quite understood it.

So, tell us: just what more could they have done that would have made the threat serious?
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This is simply untrue. The best headphones, speakers, and amplifiers, are designed to faithfully reproduce the recorded signal. Anything that does something other than that is a poorly designed product, or a product that is intentionally misleading the consumer. Most cheap products accidentally fail at this goal. Beats products are intentionally designed to be cheap to manufacture, while being bass-heavy and overly bright on top, to disguise their poor quality.

A flat response is always desirable to the listener (whether they know it, or not). If the listener desires EQ (for a bass-heavy and bright experience), they can apply it before it goes out to the transducer. Old stereos used to have a "loudness" button to slap this kind of curve onto the audio, but all modern playback devices have EQ and such available. But, I'd recommend using good quality headphones and listening as the engineer and artist intended.
> I'd be interested to know about how memory affects ones sense of identity. I'd also like to know if there has been any work that pinpoints the part of the brain that might give insight into self-awareness / consciousness.

Not exactly answering your question, but one neuroscientist (who got a Nobel Prize... if I remember correctly) who worked on phantom limbs, did a lot of work on damaged brains and one of his patients could not recognize his mother when meeting her face to face, but instantly recognized her when talking with her over the phone. The "wiring" between different parts of the brains was involved to link the memory of the person with the sensory signals, and for that patient the "link" between the visual stimulus and memory was somehow broken while the auditory one was intact. Very interesting.
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Really? Android and Gtk is just nuts?

Of course, you can still create your ui in JS, just as you can create Gtk and Android applications without markup.
It depends on how you define 'good'. They may not be good for listening to certain genres and they may not have a very balanced sound which a lot of audiophiles desire, but the sound they produce is clearly a sound people want and that is proven by how well they sell. They are not an impulse purchase, they are ridiculously expensive. If people really hated the sound most of them wouldn't buy Beats even with the marketing and fashion aspect.
Looks to me like the description of `System.IO.IOException`, which is the possible exception.

I would guess the tool tips are slightly broken in that it doesn't list the exception class name or put it on a new line.

There you go, simple thing to contribute a fix for!
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Depends what you want it for.

I would. I would pay $10 pm for the current pinboard service quite happily - and there are a bunch of things I hate about it!

I'd probably pay more for something that wasn't ugly as sin, had good support for team sharing, better historical browsing, etc.
That's what an IOException means. I suspect the hint text stems from a very minimal XML parse of the documentation.
I've just started using scriptcs (http://scriptcs.net/) and this looks pretty similar.

I'm not sure about the name. CShell implies C not C#.
Apple is reportedly close to buying Beats for $3.2 billion
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Seems dead - last commit ~1 year ago?
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I don't know of any ISPs similar to A&A, particularly in terms of giving uncensored internet and no monitoring.
Steve Jobs's death 'made' Samsung attack Apple
A colleague of mine had a grandmother who was affected by Alzheimer's. One time she was out and about with her husband and had an episode and couldn't recognise him. She ran off to get police because she felt lost. He found her and was trying to convince her to come with him, but she claimed to the police that he was a stranger and she was frightened.

At this point her husband sang his own name in the manner in which she had during their entire name - this 'got through' and she recognised him again, simply because he sang his name her way, instead of just saying it.
> It's hardly a fair market when they're forced to compete with free though

Surely, as a member of an entrepreneurial-focussed community, you can trivially see why this argument isn't valid? The content holders are only competing with free if they're offering the same service as the free service.

The games industry has managed to cleverly counter 'competing with free' by making their paid services such as Steam value-added over simply providing the same content as the free content. The rights holders just have to find something that they can add that pirates cannot. As Steam gives community and ease of storage, and Spotify gives recommendations and playlists, so too must Hollywood find something that they can give.

Netflix already goes a long way to being the Spotify of the film and television industry, but it's hampered by only being allowed to show out of date content, and having its content culled fairly often. If the film and television industry were to introduce a Netflix+ with all the newest films and television shows, then I expect that they could attract a much larger number of people at a much larger price.

Of course, they could always just sit around whining that they "can't compete with free" and stick ever greater restrictions on the public until the public finally grow sick of them and force politicians to move decisively against the film and television industry.
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"Postmortem" refers to the project, not the product.

The project has ended, but the output from it may live on.
Case. In. Point.

It's not really about gender, but rather a confrontational style of communication that can sometimes be not very productive.

I have a tendency towards this style of communication myself, but I've worked towards communicating in a more effective way and it's improved my life (and the lives of the people I interact with).

If you don't believe it, just see how my comment history has changed over the years... haha.
Most of my internet traffic doesn't flow through Google's or Facebook's infrastructure (at least not to my knowledge). All of it goes through my ISP's.
That is not an accurate TL;DR. The DIY crowd report highly subjective improvements but the scientists are still in the early days of research (with one even ripping to shreds his own work when he discovered fundamental flaws). Some scientists are worried that the DIYers might push this into 'kook' territory and thus give a negative impression to the real research, which many believe has promise.
Do you suggest that every company will either be building its own moddable game + engine + mod store or being reduced to a mod-builder?
So now the availability of your production service relies on the availability of your (development) repository. Another (pointless) point of failure.

And you can't see why this is a bad idea?
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So your production application can potentially run in an untested configuration because someone has pushed a new version of XyzLib.

Again, for what advantage?

I mean, fine if you want to do that. But I wouldn't call it Modern Java or recommend anyone else do it.
Rob Pike seems like the last person who would design a Smalltalky system.
[OT, sorry]

Is this done with the standard *TeX font ("Computer Modern"?), or some other? I'm not sure why, but it looks somewhat not typical-LaTeX to me; if that's because of font, could somebody possibly shed some light how I could get similar effect? TIA
Phew, I spent far too many hours on Katabatic. :)

Tribes is a great game favoring mechanics over realism.
> Apple products are synonymous with quality audio

Are they?

I like Apple products but the headphones really aren't great, certainly not for what you pay for them (looking at the prices for the headphones alone).

In that sense you might argue there is a certain synergy with Beats...
Looks like uppercased CS is a play on a file extension and a shortcut sometimes used for C#. Personally, I read it as CS-hell.
Indeed! Their active noise canceling headphones actually retain the bass while removing the external noise. Other active noise cancelling heaphones tend to blunt the bass.
Thinking Java EE is primarily about EJB and JMS is pretty old school.

These days CDI is the centrepiece of Java EE, along with services like Interceptors and Bean Validation. JPA, JSF and JAX-RS also play pretty important roles, which are all things you don't find by default in Tomcat.

Actually, nearly every time I see people using Tomcat they add many of the things mentioned above. You might as well start with TomEE then and work from there.
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