skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another time line graphing library without things like moving averages that I want. :/
Rockton IL, population (at the time) ~3,000. They knocked, we knew who it was, we ran/dumped. I didn't stick around to see them at the door.
So just to start, I hope you watch the SyFy series Continuum[1]. The basic synopsis is that in the future, governments and economies collapse and the "Corporations" bail everyone out. I mean, you trust your personal information to FB way faster than you do with the GVT.

Anyways...

So, my very limited understanding of civil/city/state governments is that they are already special forms of "Non-Profit Corporate Entities" in most states, "Municipal Corporations"[2]. All other "private law enforcement entities" derive from some variation/bastardization of these laws depending on the state. So yes, most private citizens/corporations, what ever definition of the term[3], can obtain any of the weapons described in the article, with limits/exceptions. For instance, the SWAT team of Dallas, TX is part of the Dallas Police Department (Dallas being a Municipal Corporation). I chose this as an example because, when you google Dallas SWAT, you either get a reality TV show or a Facebook Page. In most smaller counties, it is part of the county Sherifs Department. In most states, the only person that can arrest a Sherif is the Governor or Agent of The Federal Government. Stay with me. This is all an argument of semantics from the beginning.

US entities operating outside the US borders obtain literally what ever equipment they, or their clients, can afford. Further, they are either bound by US Military rules of conduct (rules of engagement), beholden to local law, or either/neither seemingly as the parties see fit [see current US military advisor rules in Iraq vs. Blackwater authorization in Op. Iraqi Freedom].

My reading of this article is the scenario last referenced on US soil. A claim that a local SWAT team is both and neither. The power of a government law enforcement agency with the "loosely defined rights" of a private corporation (individual.) It is "risk management" in the corporate sense. You structure yourself for greatest legal/financial protection/benefit.

Grey area -- rant. Expand this to the Federal Government... The FBI is the only organization that is authorized to investigate wrong doing within itself[4]. In addition, the federal government can chose whether or not you are aloud to sue them in federal court (all courts by proxy.)[5]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_corporation
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Elec...
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/us/in-150-shootings-the-fb...
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unite...
1. Computer History Museum:

http://www.computerhistory.org/hours/

2. Fry's Electronics (Sunnyvale or Palo Alto are near Mountain View):

http://www.frys.com/ac/storeinfo/storelocator/

3. Halted (Santa Clara):

http://halted.com/commerce/info/contactinfo.jsp

4. Weird Stuff (Sunnyvale):

http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=sunn...

[#2 has new stuff, #3 and #4 surplus]

5. Sawdust Shop:

http://sawdustshop.com/

6. Tech Shop (San Jose and San Carlos locations are closer to Mountain View):

http://techshop.ws/locations.html
Hello from Gandi.
The scenario you're describing sounds like a result of a change we made in 2006 when we added a new domain contact type. If so, we _can_ do something about it. Either way, we're not in the habit of messing up and refusing to fix it. If you have a ticket number from your previous exchange, we could go from there, or you can email me directly (aj@).
I'm not suggesting they would change the protocol, the can with benefit continue to use MT-files, but the communication _channel_ could easily be replaced with The Internet (which is quite heavily tested), instead of the SWIFT network.
The 11/45 has a 16-bit address space optionally expanded to 18-bits with an MMU so could do 256KB of memory. With the MMU, you could take advantage of split instruction and data memory, which gave a pair of 64k address spaces mapped into the 18-bit space.

No PDP-11 AFAIK have a separate, dedicated stack space. You're thinking of the 8k dedicated I/O page.
You forgot to turn off your hipster vision.
Phusion Passenger author here. I'd like to say: if anybody is still on Passenger 3, you should upgrade to Passenger 4. Passenger 3 is very old, over 2 years now. Passenger 4 has received tons of improvements, as documented at "Recent Technical Advances in Phusion Passenger": https://vimeo.com/85970704

Honestly, I'm surprised anybody still talks about Passenger 3 nowadays. The improvements in 4 are so huge that 3 shouldn't even be worth looking at.

Also, the tests don't seem to say how the servers are configured. Passenger's out-of-the-box configuration is designed to conserve resources, not performance, because a lot of our users are on low-memory VPSes. It needs a few minor tweaks to optimize for performance like Unicorn is. With settings like these, it behaves almost exactly like Unicorn:

# 'x' is whatever your Unicorn worker count should be
passenger_max_pool_size x;
passenger_min_instances x;
passenger_pre_start_url http://yourapp.com/
[author here]

It's difficult to have meaningful discussion (w/ regard to randomness) when involving more philosophical principles. For those who believe wholeheartedly in a deterministic universe, the concept is utter nonsense.

That's why it's important that pragmatic folk focus on practical and statistical randomness, rather than universal randomness.

By practical, I mean that the information required to predict generated numbers is simply not available. It may exist; it may not; but regardless, it's inaccessible to those in need of it.

In this case, I'm not certain if sufficient thread-scheduling information is available to derive accurate predictions, or if separate processes could be of effect without altering the speed at which RNG state mutation occurs simultaneously. Being interdependent on other thread & process CPU usage, my approach might be another case of "the act of observation changing the thing observed".

But then again, I'm know little of both cryptography and CPU scheduling. This comment, like this project, is largely speculative.
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thanks derwildemomo, what you're saying makes sense.
There are plenty of extant languages that don't have an alphabet either. They will be "lost" in every sense of the word.

The # of languages currently spoken is typically pegged somewhere between 3000-6000 and it's thought that we lose around one a week. Most have almost no documentation whatsoever, and even so a couple papers written in the 1970s aren't going to capture any potential unique aspects of a language let alone allow for reconstruction at a later point.

The analogy to code is way off.
> The objective of a speed trap is to make drivers slow down, not punish them. If it's hidden and the driver does get ticked it means it failed at it's goal because you had a speeding car on the road anyway.

The objective of a speed trap is money. Speed traps are a safety hazard. Causing drivers to slow down suddenly and then speed up again as soon as they pass the camera is significantly more dangerous than them driving at a constant higher speed. It also causes more pollution and consumes more fuel. Jurisdictions not interested in generating revenue don't install them.
I'm not a KDE user (at the moment, though I have been in the past), but I have to say my first reaction to those screenshots were: "it looks like a shitty windows 8".

I'm not saying that's the truth, that was just the first thought that popped into my head looking at those screenshots.
A Physical Description of Flight; Revisited [pdf]
Six entries is complete?
In this particular instance though, according to the article, some negotiation was done between the two governments to reach a no-spy agreement.

As no agreement could be reached, an American company cannot offer the service required by the German government. Thus is it not reasonable for the contract to be cancelled?

This is not a shot at an innocent third party, this is the third party being constrained by American laws to the extent that it cannot offer a required service. Sure, it is unfortunate that a third party is adversely affected by this, but it cannot be portrayed as a deliberate act against them by the German government.
Researchers Discover Vulnerability in PayPal's Two-Factor Authentication
surprisingly, the title is not 'click-bait'--this bbc post is actually about a herd of hippopotamus--all of which the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar brought to Columbia (or else they are off offspring of those Escobar brought directly in to the country.

i highly recommend reading this; at the very least it's worth scanning just to see the photo of a Colombian vet examining the teeth of a hippo whose mouth is wide open. Underneath that photo is the caption: "Carlos Valderrama may be the only vet to have castrated a hippo in the wild"
Why?

I'm a European and I like this policy.

I like that individuals have the ability to have things that are no longer relevant forgotten about them so that their ability to have social mobility isn't compromised. I like that young people who make mistakes are now given the chance to move on, mature and change.

The opposite to this law is a view that a person can never change, and must always be held accountable for their past in their future.

No, I'm really happy this exists.

"To err is human", otherwise translated as "everyone make mistakes". Life and potential shouldn't halt when it happens.
The fifth bullet point on the page has a link to the examples directory.

http://svn.code.sf.net/p/chapel/code/branches/release/1.9/te...
You get warned about caps lock being on before you enter your password, so it's not a security issue.

Before OSs did this, when I mistakenly had caps lock on while entering my password, my thought process after each password attempt went something like this:

- oh, did I mistype my password?

- I'm sure I typed it right, are the key presses not registering?

- oh ffs, did I change my password? No. Wait, is caps lock on?

- yes, that was it, argh

It just stressed me out for no good reason, and I'm glad I get warned about it now.
Little known ways to cheat duplicate content detection
> It's like a prostitute saying she's not selling sex — she's only selling information about her willingness to have sex with you

LOL, no. A woman's sexual acts are not city real estate. A woman owns her body, and only that woman can decide what happens to that body, a pimp or the nanny state notwithstanding; someone parked on the street does not own that street.

Its more like a pimp using Craigslist to purportedly sell the sexual services of another--and then charging Craigslist with pandering.
If someone is memorising your password from watching you type it in, caps lock being in an unexpected state is not going to hold them up for long.
12 years isn't that long. That's less time than XP was around to put it in perspective...
Actually I think only rent and public transit are more expensive. Food and entertainment are cheaper than in mainland western Europe and flights from London are pretty cheap as well.

But it's true that the overall cost of living is still much higher than anywhere else in the EU (save maybe Copenhagen or Zurich).
I'm wondering if they got nailed by out-migration charges and how much that was. I assume a bunch of their images were in S3. Amazon charges a pretty penny to take things out.
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Google should be telling Europeans the truth about what their governments are doing.

How is the current notice not telling the truth about what the EU is doing? You mean you think they should make a value judgment, which is a different thing.

Personally, I don't mind calling it censorship - I'm wary about this law too - but it would be hypocrisy after allowing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of pages to be censored by just sending a DMCA takedown, without calling it the same.
Except this only makes information disappear from Google, not from the web. If a news site has an articule about that time you were arrested for drug dealing, it will be there and you have no right to make it disappear.
Should Auschwitz Be a Site for Selfies?
> Why is that a problematic question in the first place? It's physics.

It's not that simple. Example: Just before rush hour a significant number of cars get on the highway. If they travel at a lower rate of speed, fewer of them will have reached their destination as most businesses start to let out, which means there will be more cars on the highway rather than at their destination and therefore more traffic congestion. And traffic congestion is a primary cause of highway collisions.
Very funny to be downvoted on a renamed title....
> "... when the government has required Google to lie to you."

Google already decides what to show you and we have little visibility as to how that decision is made (there's even an entire industry that tries to game it). To imply that that those search results are somehow 'pure' or better represent 'the truth', is completely ridiculous.
iPhone or Android: it's time to choose your religion
How Firefox persists your data without explicit flushing
On other pages of this website people are being lectured how they should adapt to the website etiquette. I would like to learn how you guys expect Europeans to behave in this context. Should we say what we think? Do you want us to cheer you on? Do you expect us to shut up? How do you want to see this? Just be honest, use whatever language you feel necessary, I'm not easily offended. Here we all thought you would stop eventually, that there would be an end to this. But it has been 34 years now. We've tried pretty much every kind of response. Non of it was what you liked to hear. So, I think it is a fair question? If it isn't, If you think I'm out of line for asking, could you explain why that is? What is the correct behavior for people like myself over the last 34 years. Just your personal opinion, I understand you don't speak for the whole country.
Which is how things are in the non-digital world: you have, say, a police record, but it doesn't follow you wherever you go, attached in big flashing letters to your picture for anyone who asks "who is that?" If someone does a record check, they'll still find out--but it doesn't haunt you as "the most relevant detail to know about X."
Goal is to provide the complete list.
This is just starting...
>[P]aradoxically, it’s easier to build robust, fault-tolerant systems from unreliable components[.]

Giving this some thought, I think I see a parallell here to how most the rest of the nature works; the "components" that make up a creature appears to often be as simple as it can afford to be.
> the value of Android,for most people, is in Google services... not in Linux.People dont care what os android is running,the fact that it is Linux is irrelevant for them,(but not for google).

This is what most people fail to realize.

Google could just swap Linux with BSD, QNX, VxWorks,.... and no one would notice, besides those that hack around the official APIs.
I'd also rate Opera Mini as an alternate web browser... if you can install it sans Play Store.
So I'm paying $9.99 every 3 months so that years into the future I will be able to prove I sent a document?

I can see the value in proving you sent a document, but I don't understand the cost structure here.
Doesn't this match the real life societies have learned to deal with over the centuries? Your stupid mistake 20 years ago will probably be remembered by someone. Someone might even have a picture of it. But it will not be the first thing a stranger will learn about you.
No, public healthcare makes sure you get on your foot again an then tries to get their money back as any other insurance would.

So, the public makes sure the damage of you being hurt, unable to work and maybe turning out to be a case for social security because of being maltreated is avoided.
As always, LWN publishes great articles, a proud subscriber here.

Android is used in more and more fields other than phones and tablets these days, in those fields Google service is deemed not helpful, and totally unneeded. A working AoSP plus a few specialized apps will do that job perfectly well. I hope Cranogenmod will provide a viable approach in that space(non-phone and non-tablet market segment)
That is why the languages of OS vendors (C, Java, C#, JavaScript, Objective-C, ....) get adopted over, sometimes better, alternatives.

It doesn't matter how one likes them, or how easy they are to learn, they are what is supported out of the box without additional integration pains.
Wow. Even starting to explain generative algorithm that can predict a sentence completion or estimate flight of a ball to a dunderhead like me is a tall order - but they have started well
> There's research showing that almost whatever you do (short of charging), congestion will remain the same. More roads makes for more drivers. More public transport takes cars off the road? Others will replace them due to the increased convenience.

That's clearly incorrect. Cars aren't going to magically appear in North Dakota just because you put in a twelve lane superhighway to nowhere.

What the data in question is actually explaining is that traffic congestion reduces traffic. When you remove the cause of the traffic congestion you get more traffic. But this isn't Zeno's Paradox. There is a finite number of lanes capable of handling all the traffic you would see when there is no traffic congestion.
What's with the terrible names in Bitcoin land?

When deciding what to name your Bitcoin site, anything with the word "bit" or "coin" in it should be avoided. Please! Otherwise, you just join the list of other unmemorable bit/coin sites.

And, this goes without saying, pick something that, when you google it, google does not say "Showing results for Bitstamp".
This is true for very many things, the act of making it searchable is to make it follow you into the future.

The example I used in the other conversation about this when it first emerged is a real one, I know a girl who was the victim of an attack and chose to contact the police. The attacker was young and the court scrubbed his name from public record, but the local newspaper reported the victim's name and profession. Now you have a victim with a permanent smear against her created by an easily accessible record of fact (the newspaper, not the court record). The problem with the patriarchy and an unequal society being that woman who are victims of attacks are frequently met with doubt and victim blaming, "Was it something she wore?", "Did she act in any way as to provoke it?"... and so a victim is punished by the availability of information. Her peers have remarked how they've seen it on Google, because in her profession researching your peers is what you do.

The courts aren't wrong to record things.

The newspapers aren't wrong to report things.

But neither action was intended to be a permanent cross for the person to carry.

The girl in question? Her view is that if she knew it would end up on the front page of Google for her name, she would never have gone to the police.

Now ask yourself, is that the world you want to live in? I'm very glad the EU legal system agrees that it isn't, and that the EU politicians enshrined that it isn't. It makes me glad to be European.
Is tying up sometime, stabbing him on the stomach and beating his head with a hammer past of those mistakes that young people make? Because an European Court has already decided that the murderer also has a right to be forgotten under this law.

You mustn't judge a law only by its best results, but by all of them, and particularly by its unintended consequences.
I am using Nexus 4, so no touchwiz. Only way (or the one in my knowledge) is to disable Google Contacts Sync. The problem with this one is if the switch somehow gets enabled one day, there goes your privacy.
It's the one that is used on that awesome site.

A better metric is actually trying all the alternatives.
> I've had occasion to think a lot about the relationship of quality to long term productivity. The remarkable thing about building software quickly is that if you focus on speed, cutting quality where needed to "move forward", you end up slowing down after a while, due to the build-up of technical debt. A continued focus on speed will typically result in slower development, and a low-quality product, a sort of worst of both worlds scenario.

We're a typical "launch in 3 months!" start-up that is now 7 years old, and we've were so focused on growth and feature development to meet the market that technical debt just accumulated and accumulated.

Eventually, technical debt began to have a real impact on business feature delivery, so we talked about it with our business team and came to an agreement that 30% of development time was ours to reduce this major risk.

The end result is that over time, as quality improved, our business feature delivery has gotten better and faster - less bugs, and more features per sprint. We're very lucky to have our business team, I think.
So can people request globally or just in Europe?
Scribie launches Advanced Transcription Editor
Apple almost went bankrupt and had to be rescued by Microsoft during that period.
Ask HN: Best VR headset for iPhone or Android?
Google Cardboard has inspired me to look at these in more detail. It seems like the uses cases are:

- Watching a 2D movie as if it's on a larger screen

- Watching a 3D movie from Youtube/elsewhere

- Playing a game

- Experimenting with interesting demos or UI ideas

How should I choose between the myriad of options:

- Google Cardboard

- Vrizzmo: http://www.dejetworks.com/vrizzmo

- vrAse: http://www.vrase.com/

- Davyci: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=37702997767

- Some random brand: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=37702997767
It's funny how libertarians think that once you remove government, all human interaction will be voluntary.

Humanity is barely keeping itself in check in a complex system that has developed over time, with multiple forms of organization, and multiple levels of checks and balances. Most attempts at massive restructuring has failed horribly, either if it's been in the direction of socialized organization, or private organization. Both were supposed to lead to flatter structures and less abuse, but in fact lead to the polar opposite.

But at the quip of an internet comment we're expected to realize in a flash of insight that "oh! it's so simple! if we just do it like this it will all be perfect."
Facebook has AAAA records on the main https://facebook.com domain, so you don't need the v6 part anymore.
I guess you can a) because its the new default browser on Nokia X devices, and b) Opera have their own Android app store:

http://apps.opera.com/en_gb/opera_mini_51.html
Startups in india to start as a freshers
Hii i am just graduated from the university and placed in TCS . Is it good to do a job with this service based mnc or should i try for any other startups?
tell me the startups to start my career as i am good in coding and also want to learn something productive.
>[T]ypically in a production context you have RAID for that, and failures tend to be for the entire disk[.]

Does QFS run in addition to other file systems on the storage nodes or does it manage disks directly? You see, I was thinking that maybe ZFS + QFS might be a good idea and would like to know if it's possible. Also, is QFS available for FreeBSD and/or SmartOS storage nodes and clients? How about CoreOS and Debian, are storage nodes and clients available for those?