skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. I know it's a small subsection of their potential customers, but in markets competing (or about to compete), the subscription process for UVerse's gigabit service (contractually 300Mbps until September then 1Gbps) is quite reasonable. I paid a $100 installation fee that included my first month's service, and I got a $50 Visa card for signing up. Meaning, in the end, my installation cost -$20. It's the same price as Google Fiber, but there is a 1yr contract with a decreasing cancellation fee that makes sense considering the connection process is lengthy and equipment heavy.

And, for the curious, I chose AT&T over Google because Google won't be in my neighborhood for, at the very least, 6 months. I'll take a year of AT&T until Google can get their fiber laid on my street.

Oh, and I only have their internet service. No TV. Although, the deal for that was relatively nice too ($30 a month more, free HBO/HBO-Go for 3 years, free Galaxy Tab 2).
Suppose you have an earthquake at a known location, or you set off a large underground explosion at a known location. This causes several different kinds of waves to radiate out from that location.

Seismometers can detect those waves. How fast the waves of a given type move depends on the kind of rock or soil they are moving through. When we measure how long the wave took to go from the point of origin to a given seismometer, that tells us a little bit about the kind of rock or soil on that wave's path. The wave might have passed through many different kinds of rock or soil, so just looking at one wave doesn't tell much--just that the path had some mix of rock and soil overall that gave that speed.

We aren't limited to one wave, fortunately. Every time something generates detectable waves, we get a little more data on the composition of the rock and soil on the paths between that source and every seismometer that measures those waves.

The more data we get, the more constraints that puts on what kind of rock and soil can be where and still be consistent with all of the observations.

For things reasonably near the surface the deductions from seismic wave analysis can be checked against observation from tunnels and wells to verify that the methods work.
It's a false dichotomy because there's a possible world where you don't have to resort to that crap to get control of the device you bought, where you're in charge at the start (looking back, I wasn't explicit about this, sorry). That's what we should be working on, not holding back the state of the art of programming languages. That's the wrong place to attack the problem.
Also, it's possible that the various proxy wars that have been fought since WWII have killed more people than a hypothetical knock-down, drag-out WWIII would have. But the point stands, you can argue both ways.
I'm surprised that the article don't mention watching porn. I doubt rich people are immune to the main internet activity of the masses.
I expect it is only a matter of time.

Using the same kind of volunteers who contribute to OpenStreetMap it should be possible to update routing based on temporary road-works (which might last for 3-5 days, here in Scotland), which would otherwise catch drivers out by surprise with detours.
> but most of the large enterprises (banks, Telcos, etc) I've visted in my consulting run WebSphere or IIS and have never heard of HAproxy or Ngnix.

WebSphere is an app server rather than a straight http server. The equivalent to Apache/Nginx from IBM would be IBM HTTP Server, which is an extension of Apache.
Out of curiosity, try running the same link through a URL shortener and send it again. A brief local test seemed to work.
And contribute further to the customer's unhappiness? "I got hacked near Christmas, and then Amazon wouldn't help me so some of my presents didn't get delivered right."

I don't see why anyone cares if Amazon is liberal in replacements. So long they're not somehow hurting your account standing with Amazon, it's Amazon's choice.
Am I missing something? That book seems very politically focused, and more about the power-elite structures than about what affluent people do online.

The question's context is a fairly simple "...and how can we effectively market our goods & services to them".
This is painfully uninteresting. Git is the most used library? Why not just say "The Internet" is the #1 technology of billion dollar companies.. All billion dollar companies use "The Internet"
Reading your parent, I decided to (on Android) dl and try "Spectrum View" (there's an SpectrumView for remote control of a spectrum analyzer) and "Spectrogram", both from the same publisher. I would say both are useful and fun, particularly Spectrogram. Nice, barebone apps that are free and no ads, while apparently very well made. (no, I have no affiliation with the publisher).

Actually, I got so mesmerized during my bus trip that I missed my stop :) Fun facts: the brakes have a very sharp 5kHz resonance sound, while the beeper ("I'm closing the doors") were spread out over a few fairly sharp bands. Very fun! When I get home I'm gonna check what the freq contents of my infant daughters laugh and yelling looks like. :)
> most of Twitter’s value is not tied up in following celebrities

Are you sure?
The report lists activities that wealthy people have a higher than average propensity to exhibit (index of 100 is average). It makes sense that the propensity to watch porn wouldnt depend on whether you are wealthy or not.

Also, here's a direct link to the report if you don't want to fill out a bunch of info - http://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/reports-d...
Yes, but countries like Russia and Pakistan can hardly be called liberal democracies. If there is no free speech, then it is difficult for citizens of those countries to take action. That is where corporations challenging the government can be helpful.

I don't see why we shouldn't expect corporations to take on the role of challenging the government. It is in Twitter's interest for governments not to crack down on free speech. So when governments do crack down, it is in their interest to stand up to those governments, especially when they don't have any employees or assets in those countries.

One worry would be that the Russian government could threaten Twitter with cyberattacks.
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>THIS AUCTION DOES NOT INCLUDE THE BITCOINS CONTAINED IN WALLET FILES THAT RESIDED ON CERTAIN COMPUTER HARDWARE BELONGING TO ROSS WILLIAM ULBRICHT, THAT WERE SEIZED ON OR ABOUT OCTOBER 24, 2013 (“DPR SEIZED COINS”).

Seems to me that only BTC that are directly linked to SR that are sold.
But we won't know how long time it takes to wind up to constant speed and without running for a while this will attribute to a fairly large error. From the audacity FFT plots we see that it takes a fairly long time (100's of ms) to get to the target speed (ie the rise time of a step response).
If the biblical account is accurate, then no, there won't be another worldwide flood, because God promised to never destroy the Earth with water again.

http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-11.htm
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> could it be that this is where all of the water has gone? Could this water some time in the future "rise up" once more and create a second worldwide flood?

Science answers questions like this with evidence, but the inherent premise in your first question is that there was a world wide flood to begin with and there is no evidence other than religious anecdotes to support this.

Assuming that there was a world wide flood just doesn't make sense when there is no compelling reason to think there ever has been such a thing. However, what kind of process would you imagine would bring enough water out from under the Earth for 370 days and then make it go back. We are talking about an enormous amount of water. If you wanted to build a pump that could move such volumes of water out of the Earth, and then back in you are entering the realm of fantasy. Of course if you're willing to assume the work of supernatural powers that's where you started from.

There are a great deal of many problems with a world wide flood story, the origin of all that water is just one. Kangaroos making a trip from Australia to the Middle East and back for a boat trip is another.
First, they'll be negotiating TLS in nearly all cases.

Second, they were not defining the acronym. They're just stating they have software to help secure things, and as an side it's called SSL. They mention SSL because some users may have heard of this and it signals that Amazon's doing the right thing.
i thought it was a good presentation, however, I recently watched a Netflix one, published by Matt Marenghi, which to me was infinitely better.

I think the description of events as just another collection, albeit a time based collection flow was nicer ( Observable === Collection + Time ), and also that this collection must have the ability to tell you that it has terminated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRYN2xt11Ek
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It's a fair question.

Observing how waves travel through planetary bodies is one of the most useful methods for looking into the interior of these objects. On a fundamental level, it's an advanced version of knocking against a large metal silo to determine if it's empty or full.

However, detailed findings can be tricky sometimes. In this case, the geologist calculated beforehand what the frequency absorption fingerprint of "rock containing water" would be, and then he found a matching signature in the measurements he took.

Indeed there are several things that could have gone wrong: the signature of the substance might be different than previously assumed, or the seismic measurements themselves could be faulty.

Over time we'll get more measurement opportunities and we'll refine our models as more scientists will work on this. There might be more evidence from other sources available if we know how to look for it, too. So the confidence level in this finding will be modified in the future.

Right now it's just an intriguing but singular result that deserves further study.
It helps the companies cost of entry, but rarely does it translate into a benefit for the consumer.
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It's interesting to think of an insubordinate dev being tasked to write some horrible locked-down system in Rust and going, "yeah, this thing has to be in an unsafe block because xyz, oh, woops, I guess I introduced a jailbreak opportunity".
That's false.

> 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%207&vers...
The following is a related paper by some of the same authors:

"The resource theory of stabilizer quantum computation"

http://m.iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/16/1/013009/pdf/1367-2...
They make the phone heavier, thicker, and uglier. In my case it's for zero benefit, since at the end of the day I usually have 30-40% charge left.
(Shameless self-promotion) I just finished by thesis on a new programming language called SolScript, which is reactive and based on "math".

It's a hard real-time language for avionics software, BUT it has type inference and duck typing (everything is "symbolic"). SolScript is supposed to look familiar to anyone with a basic knowledge of mathematics. It's also a literate language, because every SolScript file is a Markdown file (and SolScript code is inside Markdown code blocks).

[link redacted]
Amazon almost certainly has many customers using shipping forwarders. In Central America, I see banks advertising cards with a US shipping-forwarding address, specifically to buy from Amazon.

Amazon would have to be taking in huge amounts of losses due to fraud to consider killing off all these customers.
I'd say it's the quotes that are noisy, not the angle brackets. But it's a minor nitpick, the F# one is fine.
Civil forfeiture. From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture#United_States
"In civil cases, the owner need not be judged guilty of any crime; it is possible for the Government to prevail by proving that someone other than the owner used the property to commit a crime. In contrast, criminal forfeiture is usually carried out in a sentence following a conviction and is a punitive act against the offender."

Or if you're up for a long read:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_...
This smells of mitigation and not patch. Simply require the supreme court to publish all their opinions, rulings and changes so that they are available to the public.

We can review them... We have the technology.
> Maybe companies / corporations with enough power to actually challenge the governments of the world isn't such a bad thing after all. Or, perhaps it would be better to say "maybe corporations with enough power to challenge the governments of the world" is, at least, not a universally bad thing.

Please review the history of the various "East India" companies. I think you will find it an enlightening read.
Is there any hope that startup performance will get on par with native Android apps? It takes a good 6 seconds to start a trivial Firefox web app on Android.

I found a bug [1] mentioning that gecko has to be loaded in the web app's process and that takes much of the time. But it got closed because no one seems to know how to improve it.

It's better than nothing, but it's hard to send the user to Firefox on Android knowing that their experience is going to be plagued by this.

Chrome's "Add to homescreen" is faster but not quite there yet (2 seconds for launching duckduckgo).

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779974
I don't understand why people keep trying to frame BTC as some sorts of criminals tool.

Fast, nearly anonymous and free long distance transactions are a pretty big deal for non-criminals as well.

Did you ever try transferring a bigger amount of money to a country outside the EU and US? You'd be astonished by the fees and timescales involved.

Services like Western Union and Moneygram are not just used by criminals.
Amazon probably won't suspend the account because they don't like losing customers. Same reason they're generous with the returns.

Verifying via a few cents is enormous in terms of ease-of-use. Holy crap, now I have to log into my bank and check transactions just to buy some stuff? No thanks.

And, I know this isn't great logic, but I hope Amazon does nothing like PayPal.
"Firefox OS is the first device platform built entirely to open Web standards, with every feature developed as an HTML5 application."

Palm WebOS has that title.
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"its not about pitching JS versus any language"

vs

"flashback of Obj-C here and Java there thing"

?
Seriously, this doesn't seem to be common knowledge yet:

DO NOT GIVE YOUR ENCRYPTION KEYS TO ANYONE

This is just a scam.
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This is workaround but the main problem is still present
Liberty reserve was structured similar to your idea, you could get it only via exchanges, not directly. That didn't help to protect from US government.
Not entirely. It's necessary to encourage any reasonably open and informal exchange of ideas. Upvotes should be enough to endorse and promote the minimally good ideas, or at least the well articulated ones, for discussion.
How safe is Google
The Resource Theory Of Stabilizer Quantum Computation [pdf]
I would love to know your opinion about ARX ciphers.

Direct implementation of AES from specification can be attacked using cache-timing side-channel. ARX ciphers are much easier to implement in software and also because they run in constant time, and are therefore immune to timing attacks.

What is your opinion of ARX ciphers Chacha20 (from Daniel J. Bernstein ) and Threefish, Skein hash (Bruce Schneier, Niels Ferguson) ?
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You know that this is a presentation, right? And that the symbols will be defined in the talk?

There are better ways to ask someone to define their symbols.
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Comment to claim in that large scale democracy automatically
becomes more partisan.

In large scale democracy partisanship is not necessity.
American system has some specific methods to cause it, compared to Finland where it isn't really a problem. And its really these TWO issues that make the american politics more partisan than rest of the world.

A) Election system is strongly geared towards creating two party. When new party has gained enough support it replaces one of the previous two parties at the control, and there is new TWO parties which compete each other. Compare that to systems in which allows smaller parties to get seats. For examble in Finland there are 3-4 big parties that total 60-70% of seats and rest goes to smaller parties.
That means to pass anything you pretty much have to have two big parties agreeing on the matter and either third big agreeing or some small parties agreeing.

B) Executive branch is Winner takes all.
In Finland the parliament(legislative branch) selects Executive branch and because no party has half or near half seats there is need to be enough parties agreeing on the matter. So if you are REALLY uncompromising you NEVER get to be part of executive branch EVEN if you become the biggest party of elections, since you didn't get more than half the seats anyway in multiparty system. The biggest party gets first attempt to create the cabinet, but they still need to get enough others onboard. The cabinet pretty much needs majority of legislative branch to support it. They need a program which over half the legislative branch supports and usually give seats in the cabinet to enough other parties that have over 50% of parliament. If biggest party fails to create agreement of the program the responsibility of trying to form the cabinet goes to next largest party. And if all else fails parliament may agree a minority government OR even putting some professional bureaucrats instead of politicians in top positions of executive branch. Both are extremely rare situations in here.
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You can "Optimization of HTML" through minimization: remove spaces, new lines. Also you can remove it entirely if you don't need SEO or pre-render on the server side.
Why I'm happy to be a web developer
You may not realize it but we, as web developers, have special powers. We could control the Web. Here are two annoying things that I was able to workaround just because I know how to use DevTools.
Two-Way Data Binding
I'd argue that democratic governments use populism to stay in power in a similar way as corporations use marketing to make profit. In both cases they seek to make masses happy enough to maintain their status quo.

On a related note, if we look at corporations as nations with citizens being their employees, then actually they work in a more similar way to a government - they usually provide healthcare, define certain laws (as in, rules and dependencies within the corporation itself) and seek to make their employees happy (or else employees will go to other company). And additionally people don't get so zealously protective about their corporations as they do about nations, so maybe rather than waging wars they would choose to simply change the corporation they are in.

Well, I certainly don't say we should make a change in this direction though; it's simply a thought I find interesting, how corporations provide to their employees some of the things similarly as the government does (and sometimes provide even though the government should, but doesn't).
It's a basic arbitrage trade.
As I said, a "functional cure" might arrive after 10-20 years of training.

In the meantime, most children with ADD will develop depressions, suffer social problems, beat up on their peers and achieve much lower, academically, than necessary...
Stefan Wehrmeyer tried this for Germany: http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2012/12/13/bundesgit-german-laws-on...

It's a solid idea. The problem is there's so much fiddly data-munging work, so it's a lot of effort to run such a tool.
It is -- there's a whole area called Information Geometry which treats the parameter spaces of statistical models as Riemannian manifolds under the Fisher information metric.

As an example application, when sampling from the posterior of a Bayesian model it can help to take this natural geometry of the parameter space into account, e.g. via Riemannian Manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo [1]

Then again, from what I've seen most Manifold Learning only uses the word manifold in a loose handwavey sense to motivate what they're doing -- the added abstraction level of differential geometry doesn't always add very much you're just interested in learning smooth functions from R^m -> R^n.

[1] http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/publications/PAPERS/9149/RMHMC_MG_B...
Ah, i see. It's a shame that no descendant of Postgres-R is open source, but i'm still pleased to hear that there is one, even if it's proprietary. Thanks for the information.
A slap is no where near as hard. Surface area of an open hand vs surface area of 2-3 knuckles. Think hammer vs fly-swat.
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With the Americas running out of IPv4, it’s official: The Internet is full
The Memcache plugin in MySQL 5.6 provides a neat way to do NoSQL into RDBMS storage: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-memcached.html
I would instead suggest the subsequent "Think Python - How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" by Downey: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html
The article should be more accurately called "what do the mass affluent do online"; especially since two paragraphs talk about how the "mass affluent" are not that high income and older people living out of savings.

I get it - a person who has property worth a half a million is arguably not rich in the USA, but that is a whole different (political in a wider sense) discussion and I didn't want it sneaking up on me like that.

Edit: the "mass affluent" are essentially upper-middle class retirees and older workers who have some property and savings.
I do not think Apple is an exception to the rule that "ALL public companies are out to make money first and foremost". Remember Jobs was outed because they couldn't see his vision? What happened was they then failed and were later sold on his vision bringing them more money so they put him back in charge. So while individuals have a vision, the corporation only sees green. Everything else is a strategy to achieve it. If you believe that, it follows that internet companies sue each other not because they aren't adults, but because patent law is broken and they are, by their nature, obliged to take advantage of it.
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The series is also about distributed systems where he tests how they fail. Call me maybe is suprisngly apt for what he's doing.
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I definitely wouldn't mind watching more of his presentations. He's pretty good.
That's exactly what's happening:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/12/5804890/bmw-confirms-that-...