skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
suspension of disbelief aside, it is totally plausible that he is ssh'ed into a remote linux machine and is listing the contents of a directory called "evil_windows_binaries"...
Interesting, and probably somewhat closer, though I reiterate that here it is neither that he simply set up the process nor that he simply selected outputs. He did both, and both were creative portions of a single creative act.
Video cannot play with your current setup. On my Linux box. Aaaaand we're done.
I'm not so sure. When i facetime with family (on phone or laptop), i find the experience is strictly superior when in horizontal mode. There is something about gaining the peripheral context that makes the entire experience feel more natural.
The belief that work is an intrinsic good is a variation of the Protestant work ethic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic).

Even though only certain groups of Protestants (Quakers, Mennonites, etc.) believe in the original version of the ethic, that work is a route to religious salvation, weaker versions still persists in many places where Protestantism is or was common -- including much of North America.

These weaker versions manifest as the idea that work is intrinsically good; or the reverse, that not working is intrinsically bad.
Universal access is usually implemented as build-out requirements in an ISP or cable provider's franchise agreement. The exact terms vary by municipality, but build-out requirements are the general rule.
>> The system is still available if your ring gets an acknowledgement of receipt

This is the equivalent of (as per my example) yelling out "I hear ya! Coming..." and then take 15mins to reach the door. I never said that low latency implies anything about the level of availability; I merely meant that arguing about the availability of systems is incomplete without a thorough discussion of latency.

In the case of Bitly, I'm just curoius about the systems that are highly available but "require" low latency vs systems that don't require it. As ryanjshaw points out, the system may have a degree of tolerance for lossy click events. If you have a heterogeneous mix of systems with different tolerance levels, that surely affects the architecture does it not?
This was famously in the news as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

(where anti-Bush folks mocked Team Bush's supposed irrationality, ignoring the aspect that truth in human sociopolitical issues is not independent of actors' choices)
Two other interesting recent articles on crowd behavior:

1) Why can't we be better at predicting successes? (movies, music, etc.)

Turns out when the crowd has social information thrown at them (previous number of downloads shown in listing) the ability to predict a success based on quality gets very unpredictable. http://www.filosofitis.com.ar/archivos/experimentalmarket.pd... Social data is a strong force.

2) Rice vs. wheat.

Wheat farming might be a reason why the industrial revolution started in Britain vs. China. Even though China was highly educated, people working in rice farming depend on large groups working collectively. A culture of collectivism then forms. Collectivism has been shown to breed less innovation than cultures where people are more individualistic (wheat farmers). http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/wp-content/uploads/20...

Thought a discussion of Wisdom of Crowds might enjoy those if you haven't seen them.
I wouldn't say "Tint a random photo sepia, and then set an arbitrary unrelated variable to blue" is a possible interpretation of the text "Tint a random photo blue".
it's only available if you watch the embedded version on their site

http://www.vincepergolizzi.com/2014/01/how-to-download-priva...
If you load U-Boot onto an SD card, the rPi can be configured to use that to boot over Ethernet. It's not a completely "pure" network boot, but that's impossible given the hardware. (There's simply nowhere for a bootloader to live besides the SD card.)
Those exe files look like payloads destined for Windows machines. Although the screenshot is surely staged, I could imagine seeing output like that in a USB Linux system for physical-access cracking, or if someone was collecting cracked executables for distribution or examination, or if they went ham generating exploit containers in Metasploit.

Security work/pentesting is one of the few situations where you could legitimately find yourself working with a lot of EXE files in Linux, because your targets are typically Windows systems.
I've been told by some of our devs here that there are more Drupal jobs than Drupal developers if that's your kind of thing.
That man is not dead. Look again. He is carefully balancing being sure to make no sudden movements. In the original photo there is a bottle of talcum powder nearby. The dead don't need talc.
Just use AOL keyword INBOX.
does anyone have a direct link to the vimeo or youtube version? Original site is very choppy.
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The important bit for most people:

> Put it all on one box if you can. If you don’t need a distributed system then don’t build one. They are complicated and expensive to build.

For most businesses that aren't about massive scaling, your time is probably better spent on marketing, new features and so on.

Interesting for me: they are, or were, users of Tcl.
EDIT: replaced * characters that were causing format problems.

> While I understand that mono uses the .exe suffix, not many other things do in the -nix ecosystem, but the screen shot they use shows what appears to be ls -l output and all the files have a .exe suffix.

So? "ls -l" means you have something that provides -nix style command line utilities, which doesn't mean you are on  -nix -- plenty of people have that on Windows. And, of course, there's no reason you can't have mono executables -- or Windows executables, for that matter -- all in a directory on a  -nix machine, as well.
No, that's the message I get in the embedded player when I open the homepage.
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This is quite dense to unpack but it does remind me of a main theme from those Adam Curtis documentaries: That overarching master plans, especially social ones, are overconfident by nature and generally lead to large unexpected consequences — many of which are catastrophically bad (ahem Nazism).

My napkin explanation is that governments and organizations (and so on) 'bite off more than they can chew' by implementing theories into policies before really understanding them. They see "this will optimize X (prosperity, civil rights, public health)" without fully understanding the larger system.

However, that's just about the implementation details. In the end, it all comes down to what a society wants and its values. The hard part isn't the intellectualism and engineering of how to 'fix' a society, it's deciding what a 'fixed' society looks like, short term and long term. I think we as technical people need to be reminded often that the social world isn't a machine with an easily identifiable telos.
Meh, not so much.

Look at it this way: schools are political systems. Therefore, they exist and will continue to exist entirely based on the perceived value the voters are getting.

I seriously doubt voters sit down debating complicated metrics. Whatever the criteria that causes voters to vote one way or another is, you can be assured it is a simple one.

Sure, the nerdy, pointy-hat discussion is way down in the weeds, but that's not how political systems operate -- unless you're just trying to blow smoke up people's asses, in which case you can line up a dozen experts for and against anything you want. It's back to clanning and politics. This ain't engineering.
The fact that price goes down as the application goes
from server to desktop to embedded is very telling, in
several ways.

The fact that you've fallen for a very simple marketing trick? The name "server", "desktop", and "embedded" are marketing terms. They're all the same CPU. The main difference is the number of GPIO pins between the board numbers.

Basic marketing trick. Always name your products as "good, better, and best" in some form. Unfortunately, it feels slimy to me, and I don't like it.

That said, I do like the idea of the Epiphany chip they're offering. But based on cost and performance alone, its clear that a $120 AMD R7 260x graphics card will be superior to what they offer here. (With its 14 compute units at 1.1 GHz, can do 896 SIMD integer or single-precision floating point operations per clock). R7 260x also has Windows / Linux drivers and OpenCL support included...

Epiphany is doing a disservice to themselves if they are trying to compete against "desktop" and "server" computers. Their niche is in their performance / watt. GPUs, with their 5GHz+ GDDR5 RAM, ~GHz clock speed, and super-parallel architectures will continue to dominate supercomputing at the ~100W to ~500W levels.

Epiphany IV is a supercomputer design at ~2W. Anything more is settled by the current laptop market. (AMD Kabini hits 150 GFLOPs at ~25W for only ~$60 CPU on a $30 motherboard)
It seems to me like you're saying "mobile phones can never be secured, security is all-or-nothing, and any attempt to secure mobile phones is futile". Is that accurate?

Because it seems to me that, sometimes, not leaving your doors and windows wide open, even though "they can always be broken into", is a good idea.
And unfortunately, just about every one of the osmocombb capable phones are euro frequency only, so even this route is not available to those in the us...
Designing with Forces: How to Apply Christopher Alexander in Everyday Work
"No subscription. No automatic renewal."

As if...
No, the article suggests that teachers can't raise scores in heavily impoverished unstable areas fast enough to meet demands. That's a much narrower thing than "schools are useless"
Let's face it: besides its high price and average specs, Blackphone is a normal phone with a proprietary AOSP-based ROM. That's it. No hardware mic/wireless switch whatsoever, no open hardware, no open baseband, not even open software! This is appallingly bad, and if they make bank, it means very bad things for all of us.
No, we're not saying that.
interactive web maps...

http://geoscore.com/
Did I interpet something wrong, but isn't "confidence" here something like "inverse herd mentality"? As in, while herd mentality[1] is "Herd mentality, or mob mentality, describes how people are influenced by their peers to adopt certain behaviors, follow trends, and/or purchase items.", here "confidence" is exact opposite of that, right?

This is very interesting though, because for example in some subreddits score of a comment (or submission) isn't shown right away, but after a defined delay. This is to combat herd mentality, so that people do not vote something just because others have voted it so-and-so. Instead, it sort of forces individuals to make up their own opinion and vote based on it, thus it sort of forces individuals to be "confident". It doesn't let them delegate the opinion forming to the herd.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_mentality
Regulation serves the public when it ensures a level playing field. Through the law, protection of property rights, a fair and impartial judicial system, the right to petition your government, etc.

Regulation harms the public when it thwarts those democratic institutions. By protecting incumbents, limiting liability, forcing litigants into arbitration, hiding important information, etc.

Some things only government can provide well. Clean air, fire fighters, standards. Matters of public safety and health really shouldn't be (wholly) privatized, because profit motive is in direct opposition to the public good.

Maybe some day government can provide good (enough) internet service. Perhaps after the technology and rate of change settle down. But not today.
"back in the day, the startup delay for programs using
large shared libraries could be quite noticeable.

The start up delay for programs caused by relocation of shared libraries is a problem big enough today that the Google Chrome team jumps through several hoops to mitigate it. They collect DLL startup addresses from the systems where Chrome is installed and calculate an optimal address for chrome.dll so that the likelihood of relocation is minimized.

Or maybe I dreamt all of this, because I couldn't find the original article where I read it.
I love the requirements, 266MHz processor, 1gb ram recommended. That processor speed makes me think it hasn't been updated really in nearly 20 years.
This is something like a textual search engine - only queries are static in the form of article titles, and the answers are pre-computed. Ideally Wikipedia should have a system which would allow answering questions of this form - and trace results to original data. In other words, Wikipedia may have "kernel" articles and "derivative" articles, and be able to generate second from first, both as a compression and as a convenience.
Yes. AssumeGoodFaith: http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/AssumeGoodFaith
Time [turns out there *are* 2 types of people]
Seems like in this study though there is no incentive for those "who know nothing" to bow out since there is no penalty in guessing wrong.

I'd say that the population that constitutes the prediction market should be "confident", while the population that guesses right in this study would be described as having opinions not influenced by the opinion of others (or at least its mean).

I guess that the two are very similar but you can be also very confident in an opinion that you have changed based on the opinions of others ;)
> Not sure what projects needed more pins but not complaining.

The added pins include a couple of important ones from the SoC that were previously not available, or were only available on a secondary connector. You can now get JTAG over the expansion port, for instance.
It is a html5 video player; I don't understand ._.
An UberX driver said the same to me and I was surprised as well, but after thinking about it, it started to make more sense. What could Uber really tell them beforehand that they wouldn't already know, or learn very quickly from driving around?

The driver thought Uber didn't provide the information because they want to be able to charge surge pricing, but that cannot be right. Uber doesn't want to charge surge prices unless they absolutely have to because they reduce the number of rides people take.

Considering how much money Uber invests in giving away free rides and temporarily reducing prices to increase ridership, they clearly see a lot of value per ride, especially for travelers who are more likely to be at an event, try Uber for the first time, and then bring that demand home to their own cities.

Surge pricing only makes sense in situations where drivers need additional incentive to go out in the first place.
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Why is it that only government can provide some things well? Can you prove it both logically and empirically?
Fair point. I hack LaTeX because I like to, but it's a perishable skill and requires fairly regular use. But that's not really the way (in my opinion) you should be using it. When I designed the layout for my lecture notes, that was a couple of months of on-again off-again tweaking and building a style document and macros. Now, I have a trivial to use template that any of my colleagues could use. After a few years, it's pretty stable, but I still tweak it from time to time and note (pleasantly, given how rare this sort of thing is with code) that my decade old documents still compile just fine with the tweaked version.

When I wrote my thesis, I didn't hack LaTeX - I downloaded the style file and template and just started writing. Someone else maintains those files, and hundreds of Masters' and Doctoral candidates use them without major issues (other than those who've never used anything by Word, but who the hell wants to design for them?)

That person who mastered it? Get them to spend a few dozen hours putting together a bullet proof style. That's how you do it.

Final note: I don't think something built by someone smart can't be improved on. But I do think you need to have a pretty solid understanding of why they did it the way they did before you get to call what you're doing an improvement. And an awful lot of critiques of TeX/LaTeX seem to come from a place of ignorance (frequently the "why isn't it like Word?" ignorance that tend to end the conversation for me).
I don't think that they are putting 1GB or 4GB modules in their boxes.
Wikipedia says it was released at the end of 2011.

Their target market for that application might have extraordinarily low-end computers (non-tech people who haven't bothered upgrading).

It looks like they still support Windows 98 users and computers with 32 MB of ram: http://daol.aol.com/software/90vr

For comparison, Chrome requires 512 MB minimum. I only have 4 windows open and it's using about 4 GB of memory, and this is a very light day.
You are right, this is a better demo in my opinion though

http://www.polymer-project.org/components/paper-ripple/demo....
I would like to see the outliers from the experiment, see if there was a large group of individuals who were overconfident and made their estimates way off compared to the crowds.
Is this it? https://vimeo.com/100672072
Yeah, AOL also owns HuffingtonPost. They've definitely shifted their focus to content.
Annoyingly, for something designed to scale as much as Bitly does, it has some very odd wrinkles.

Whenever I visit my stats page at https://bitly.com/a/stats it shows me the stats from the last time I visit, and I have to do a hard-refresh with Ctrl-F5 to get the latest version.

Or possibly this is part of how you scale - only retrieving the latest versions of stats when you need them. And not with any accuracy (clicking on a given day pretty much never gives me numbers of clicks that add up to the total for that day).
Paying for the privilege to speak could deter less qualified speakers from leading the discussions, though. It would keep the quality of conversation high I think. Thoughts?
Good point. I'd be interested in knowing as well.

I stopped drinking sodas, alcohol and milk. That helped a lot. I also physically moved and started working from home. This combination has almost stopped the symptoms.

It seems like a combination of my diet, stress and overworking are the biggest factors for me.
Do you have the codecs installed? https://vimeo.com/help/faq/watching-videos/playback-issues#w...
flikdate.com is down for me as of right now.

I signed up for a free trial on Ozolio and they emailed me asking to call for a demo and included nine links to customer pages that included live webcam footage. Seems legit, although not necessary a smokin' hot game changer.
672 million Tweets sent about the #WorldCup
I was talking about the word processor/text editor, since the things created by them are still just the output of some program (with heavy human influence along the way).
> I tried Primadophilus Optima and it wrecked me.

How can you be sure that taking probiotics for your IBS is the cause of your IBS getting worse?
Looks interesting, but it would be nice if they had some kind of documentation on their site. I can't figure out exactly what they do.
The Go Gopher (The Go Blog)
That looks great! Performs much better.
Good news we've got IPv6 support coming by the end of tomorrow (hopefully). All existing clients will get an IPv6 address and all new clients will obviously get one.
Looks like it! Compared the length and first and last parts of the movie - its a match.
This is definitely true. We're always on the lookout for Drupal devs, although we don't hire remote workers.
To me, Feynman's example of the plates is something that you do in addition to Adleman/Hamming's advice.

Of all the problems to work on, work on those that have have a reasonable angle of attack (Adleman/Hamming), that you have the ability to solve (Feynman). And in addition, make sure you plant little seeds instead of just working on big problems after you've succeeded (Hamming in 'You and your research'), which amounts to being able to play with spinning plate problems (Feynman)
> If you don't want you picture copied, don't put it in the public domain.

Most of my pictures are prints, hanging on walls. But you need a portfolio to attract (paying) clients, so images have to exist!

> I understand your perspective: you'd rather buy a proprietary microsoft operating system and a proprietary microsoft webserver so you could run a proprietary Oracle database to keep track of your DRMed photos.

So if I said I'm an ex-Debian developer who's released a pile of open-source software, for free? And does so regularly?

Seriously you're getting too personal there, and just wrong. Photography started as a hobby because I love people - in the same way that woodworking is a hobby because I like doing things with my hands that are "real".

But there are costs involved, I've probably spent close to 10,000 in camera-equipment, to have people steal your work, means that stuff doesn't pay for itself any more.

You mention proprietary software? How would you feel if you wrote open-source software and people abused the licenses? That's copyright infringement, and the same thing is a huge deal in the photography world.

Sure everybody has a camera, and fly-by-night people will take money for pictures. But that's like hiring a self-taught PHP-programmer instead of a kernel developer. There are skills, styles, niches, and similar involved that clearly differentiate photographers.
I'm sure they were asked by Apple to do this.
For what it's worth, it played just fine for me on Xubuntu 14.04 in Chrome. It's just that the acting was difficult to watch..
Honest question from a non-citizen about this line "But he is fighting against very powerful lobbyists..."

I do not understand lobbying? Is it a euphemism about bribing a bunch of politicians? If yes, then why isn't it illegal? If no, then can someone please throw some light on it.

I was not born here in the US so I am always confused by what "powerful lobbyists" can do to deter someone like the chairman of FCC who can literally make the rules (right?).
That is a poor analogy (unless you are suggesting that human being have no inherent value). Cells are not people and thus do not have the right to make their own decisions. If some of my cells are not useful I have no problem killing them off. My cells only exist to serve my existence; they have no inherent value.
"A single avocado would blow a third of the budget for the whole day!"

Depends on location, season... I bought 4 last thursday for 79 cents a piece. Two make about "one meals worth" guacamole for four hungry people as a condiment so that's about 40 cents per person not $1.66 or whatever. Possibly in the depths of winter avocados are $2 each.

Take that guacamole, smear some on a tortilla, shove something into the tortilla like shredded carrot and heavily seasoned fried green beans, and its pretty tasty. Of course the stuff that goes into guacamole isn't free. Still a decent meal for maybe $1.50 or so, maybe $2.

Lately I've been using spicy guacamole as a condiment on meats. Strangely tasty on a burger.
It used to be the former, now it is the latter.

Newspapers, big online sites that should know better. They take pictures and half the time you never even know unless you use tineye, or a friend/colleague will share a link with you "Hey nice work getting included in the New York Times", etc.
Depends on the flexibility you want and your product's strategy. Bitly could do the same thing with objects in S3, served by Cloudfront, and get their analytics async using Cloudfront's logs. 2 engineers minimum, 3 for good measure. But that doesn't leave you much room to go anywhere else with your business.