skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminded me of something I read in a book about perfume.

"Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute......"[1]

[1] Turin, Luca, and Tania Sanchez. Perfumes: The A-Z Guide. London: Profile, 2009.
It's seen as important that real estate prices go up because a significant proportion of the population have borrowed money to invest in houses. If real estate prices fall, the wealth of people with houses/mortgages is reduced.

One way of looking at this is that a significant proportion of the population have a 'vested interest' in increasing real estate prices. Some would also argue that continuously rising house prices are economically beneficial, as if house prices fall, then the homeowners/mortgagees who lose wealth from the fall will spend less, reducing consumer spending and hence 'harming' the economy.
Let's take a look at a single bank in China which had a 22.49% bad loan rate in 2002. The government just bought the loans with some electronically printed money and everything just kept chugging along.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=apBRO...

"Bank of China said it had loans and overdrafts of 1.74 trillion yuan ($210.3 billion) at the end of 2002. The bank's bad loan ratio stood at 22.49 percent or 409 billion yuan at the end of last year. The Beijing-based lender in 1999 transferred 352 billion yuan of bad loans to China Orient Asset Management, one of four companies set up by the government to dispose of banks' bad assets, and has disposed of 63.7 billion yuan of those."

Now in the U.S for that bailout to take place the government would have to borrow that money from the Fed and the taxpayer would have to pay it back eventually. In China, nobody borrows it and nobody pays it back.
You do realize that it doesn't matter for an importer of US goods if the high prices for US products are a result of high labor price or high dollar price.

The importer just sees that the same product produced in the US is far more expensive than somewhere else.
With aalib, you can even render videos on the terminal. E.g. on Linux:

mplayer -vo aa video.mpg

Will use aalib to render video.mpg inside the current terminal/console.
The quality is not great though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5JLjfCi0mw (Here with Vlc.)
We could have had the royalty free H.264 baseline we were originally promised if people didn't keep doing the web-tech equivalent of negotiating with terrorists.

If you really want to use their tech on the web, stop letting them dictate terms.
In reality there is more risk with simply cooperating, with no risk for exercising your rights. In both cases they could arrest you, but in the first case they may now have evidence they can use against you.

Simply inform the officer you cannot answer any questions. You can be a nice person and still exercise your rights.
That's exactly the right approach!
This really underscores the value of capital wealth. Once you own your own home, actual living expenses are quite small.

Personally I budget and save for big expenses like insurances, new car and holiday's. When you are forward planning like this you end up saving a lot of your income for those once a year items.

The person you are replying to probably isn't investing all of that 10k, but he's putting it into a saving account on a regular basis knowing that in month 7 he'll be paying out 500. The interest and habit of saving probably means that a big chunk is going on long term savings.
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I did exactly that many years ago, also with a X60T. The redirection works perfectly.
It's documented it here:
http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?module=Wiki&actio...

Also, in Blackhat 2014 Anibal (one of the original core researchers) will present a complete reversing of the computrace protocol.
I think people downvoted that comment because they thought it was wrong, was based on a completely hyperbolic worldview, and had a very high excitement:substance ratio.
The amount of RAM that's required to browse tumblr because of the gifs is slightly insane.
It's worth noting the Ukrainians and the Russians are not the only parties with vested interest in the conflict.
Sure benefits rates are set by the government but there's no corresponding measure to ensure the market will provide properties at that rate. The government has just cut 14-25% off the rates they'll pay with their "bedroom tax" policy, hoping that people will reallocate themselves to properties more efficiently. But after a year of the policy being in effect, 60% of people affected are in arrears with their rent, i.e. most people have just stayed put and hoped for the best.

I'm not sure benefit fraud is as prevalent as you state - a TUC survey from a couple of years suggest it's usually overestimated: http://www.tuc.org.uk/social-issues/child-poverty/welfare-an...
Strang's book is superb. I'm switching back and forth between his videos and book. And I prefer the latter for content and using my hours efficiently. I prefer the videos for his laid-back style of delivering the lecture.
Just as an anecdote regarding your statements of feeling inadequacy as a developer: When I was 16 it took me a year to complete the relatively simple w3schools tutorials, it was only once I started building things that my knowledge really started to grow. 5 years later and I work as a developer for a BAFTA award winning company building applications I really believe in. We learn differently under different conditions, try applying your knowledge on a project instead of just doing the tutorial.
I don't note which username I'm replying to when I post a comment because it seems many HN commenters use many different usernames, but I can avoid replying to yours if you like. As for my deep issue or axe to grind, nowadays I try to avoid talking about my personal motives because in the past people have used that to deflect attention away from tech issues and timelines and use cases and the stuff that matters, so I'll decline your invitation.

I post comments about and replies to stuff that interests me such as Groovy, including the org.codehaus.groovy implementation. You mentioned your take on Gradle and the simplicity/complexity cycle, and I was giving my opinion on it.
What kind of encryption do you use at Matasano?

You use the build-in disk image encrypted volumes (AES-128/256 IIRC), or some proprietary software? Do you have a standard policy (e.g. FileVault) or no?
This article has a section on Mummy - apparently it had become an accepted treatment for a wide selection of ailments.
http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brow...

Mummy, or “mumia”, was typically the ground-up body, or body parts, applied topically to be rubbed on, or mixed into drinks to swallow. Its medical benefits were proclaimed in standard pharmacopoeia and extensively promoted by physicians, apothecaries and barber-surgeons [18]. By the 16th and 17th centuries it had become one of the most common drugs found in the apothecaries’ shops of Europe [19].
It's not bad per se. But it's badly designed (no digital signatures whatsoever in binary or protocol), and it has complete control of your machine.

A very dangerous piece of propietary software preinstalled in all corporate laptops that you cannot deactivate, uninstall or even patch. It may not be a rootkit, but surely can be used as one.
I am in no way familiar with american law, however Miranda rights state that you have the right to remain silent, the Fifth amendment says you have the right not to self-incriminate.

They are asking questions in a leading way, its how they are trained. You just have to be diplomatic and nice about it.

I have been stopped before and asked how fast I was driving. I simply said I was not sure but I thought it was at the speed limit. Unless the police have evidence they can only have a talk with you.
I think that if you can master the art of Lean Customer Development/Understanding you'll be OK regardless of degree or coding ability. Might be an easier transition than to a coder/engineer, especially given background in marketing.

As an engineer pairing with business types is an easy find.

Those two need the third leg of customer zealot who talks to customers every day and yells at Biz and Tech about what the customers want. Many Lean books talk about this role. Many say that the Tech and Biz need to "get out of the office" and I agree. But after some time the company needs this Customer Expert to be the internal voice.

How you can prove that you are this person I don't know. I've heard the claim before but never seen the evidence. Evidence I think is things like recorded customer interviews, complete customer stories, built persona and things like this. A moderately successful team with you in that role may serve as a good demonstration too.

HTH
I call BS on the reindeer on St Matthew Island story.

There's evidence it was a natural disaster, which makes much more sense -

http://www.weatherwise.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/2009/Nov-D...
Could you please list literature/papers that you found especially useful while making that renderer? I plan to do the same thing for education purposes.
If you think about it, many modern CPUs have as much cache as XTs had RAM.
It's no surprise that a I7 can work perfectly with no DIMMs attached to it and actually for a brief period of time, the BIOS does exactly that until it starts the DDR memory.

Another interesting thing, no matter how many cores the CPU have, it always starts in single-core mode and you have to switch the other cores on.
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In only a couple steps and mere seconds, and you'll be able to get hi-resolution photo quality 3D scans.

That is pretty vague, and it's listed under a picture also showing a DSLR. Does this mean you can use your DSLR with this app somehow or is it rather marketing (trying to make you believe a phone camera is in the same quality department as an SLR)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

"shot down by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988," "All 290 on board, including 66 children and 16 crew, died"

"The Fogarty report stated, "The data from USS Vincennes tapes, information from USS Sides and reliable intelligence information, corroborate the fact that [Iran Air Flight 655] was on a normal commercial air flight plan profile, in the assigned airway, squawking Mode III 6760, on a continuous ascent in altitude from take-off at Bandar Abbas to shoot-down.""
...or just downvote me for even mentioning it :(
this passage hit android right in the face for me. hopefully we can get rid of it now in less than 30yrs...

"
In the 1980s the functionality of a microcomputer was determined at least as much by its firmware in ROM as by its hardware. The Apple MacIntosh might have had a similar hardware architecture to the Atari ST, but each had its own different operating system in ROM.

Of course there were those brave people who would replace the ROM chips inside their computers by ROMs they had programmed themselves, so they could regain complete control over their machines, which was lost when the front panel had disappeared. Coreboot is just such an endeavor.
"

it's nice that everyone can compile an android rom, but with closed drivers and proprietary boot managers we are in that precarious state...
But it's absolutely not more robust! What if all the 'servers' having your files go into limbo at once? Dropbox will make a big splash and you know who to go after, but with filecoin you're on your own. :-)
For an AI course we had to write a solver for a puzzle using a heuristic. We had a reference solution step count to aim towards. After many hours of tweaking I still could not solve it. I had writ and rewritten quite complicated heuristics but to no avail, until at one point I stumbled on a nearly optimal solution. Upon reading my code again I noticed that a stray parenthes and a forgivinv lisp parser had caused most of my heuristic's code to be ignored. The simplest thing Just Worked :-)
labor participation rates, rampant poverty in some part of the country, economic opportunity, happiness index...

something different than the GDP, U3 unemployment, minimum wage, house prices...
Maybe you are right, maybe you are wrong, but you'll have to come up with a proper and more in-depth explanation or article to convince anyone on HN from your standpoint. Now you are just laying down some buzzwords.
I actually approached Kobeissi with this point in the meeting in Noisy Square right after the talk, suggesting he integrate a TPM into his key management system (like how you can call out to one in Firefox for SSL with libpkcs5.so or some similarly named library). He responded that the specs were open enough that anyone could add that in. As to a centralized place your guess is as good as mine. Also can MacBook users even access their TPMs?
Product Manager or Program Manager, depending on the org, probably makes the most sense. There is a lot of overlap with marketing. I see people go into that role from the development side from time to time--people who don't really enjoy coding or have grown tired of doing it as a job. More often, though, they come from disparate backgrounds.

If you emphasize your strengths on the customer side, and develop your capabilities on the product side, I think you'll be in good shape. It might take a while, and concerted effort, but most good things in life do. It sounds like the PM role puts you right where you want to be.

Study the lean startup materials (Eric Ries and Steve Blank). Learn about different agile methodologies, like Kanban (but don't become a zealot). Learn about continuous integration, configuration management, and get your feet wet using issue trackers and source code management environments (Github, Bitbucket). You don't have to get into the details, but at least understand how they work and what the state of the art is.

With your background, I'm sure you can find a role that would allow you to transition. It might not be right away. Just be clear about what you can bring to a position now, and where you would like to go in the future. If you're working with a good company, or good management, they will try to make it happen to the degree possible.
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I have a tool that pings the USPTO, ~300 social networks and 600+ TLDs to check for the availability of a name.

I'm not ready to share with the world but if you contact me I'll give some access (contact via: http://edoceo.com/contact)
We designed Permacoin with the goal of being rigorously secure. Our design addressed a bunch of problems that aren't (yet) addressed by filecoin.

- Erasure coding (over the whole dataset) guarantees that you can't just drop some of the filed and make them unrecoverable.

- Preprocessing the entire dataset to be full entropy guarantees that it isn't cheaper to store one portion of the dataset than another (for example a segment with just all zeroes).

- Outsource resistance: it would be a shame if someone just runs a cloud service to store the file, which would be more efficient than using local hard drives. Arguably this is already happening with Bitcoin cloud mining. Permacoin and the follow up work on nonoutsourceable puzzles address this.

Without these features, the concern is that selfish miners might find ways to earn more filecoins without actually providing the useful service. Incentives are correctly aligned only when there's no way to game or cheat the system.

Filecoin provides a richer interface (get and put for individual files) than Permacoin (which only guarantees recovery of the whole dataset at once). We would have supported this interface if we could figure out how to, while maintaining the same standard security properties! This is difficult (but hopefully possible) future work.

On the other hand:

- Maybe it will be a long time before practical ways to game filecoin catch on.

- if filecoin builds a community that values altruistic participation like Tor (and even Bitcoin to some degree) it will be useful anyway

- it could be possible to improve filecoin with features from Permacoin

- there's a lot to learn from the actual launch of a system like this with real users
Photos page just crashed iOS on Ipad 3 completely, wpthink it mirth have been all the hexagons. First couple of pages look OK though.
Sure, manual labour is cheap. But if you want to buy computers, electric equipment or high quality machines then you have to buy the same stuff that us rich westerns buy. I. E. You're paying western prices.
Reminds me of this prank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhMASNNjl0s
> Perhaps the people in the slums will riot because they're tired of watching the empty ghost cities rot

Despite the recent price inflation of luxury goods, the cost of rice and noodles has remained constant. Workers can still eat for 12rmb (us$2) a day, or 20 if they want vegetables and some pork. The water and power supplies are still reliable, and the governments in China are investing in infrastructure to keep them so. Construction and its flow on industries is what's keeping a large chunk of Chinese workers employed. Whereas there's problems with the luxury property market and other high end industries, the Chinese are carefully watching their social bottom line, such as ensuring cheap food and water for workers. There's still a long way to go in health care, education, and clean air though.
We're talking really poor people here. They just build a few shacks out of corrugated steel. Shanty towns are cheap to "build".
Oh and to the other points:

Business names are not very exclusive. Defending these names (in USA) requires at least a Trademark. Although a Service Mark may have some sway.

If there is some conflict but the room for confusion is small (and your brand is not dominant) there can be co-existence. Like 'Mikes Hot House' is a sauna company in Minnesota but 'Mikes Hot House' also has the best gumbo in Louisiana.

However, if the brand is dominant it changes (mostly due to legal budget). That is how Microsoft gets up in everyone's face about Microsoft or Windows - or even similar names like Lindows.
Thanks; I thought it looked familiar, and didn't want to bookmark the same page twice. :)
Wow, very nice links, thanks. No idea why you're being down-voted.
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> This happens today also. Strangely, I observed this more in the us than in India.

That makes a perverse but common amount of sense: by being strict in their adherence to their original culture (where in the old country things are usually more fluid) they aim to show they haven't been swayed/corrupted by the one they're now living in.
I get this all the time with russian, I can understand basically all russian but my ability to speak it, sucks. So Russians will tell me to just say it in English bec most have a better grasp of English than I have of Russian, they'll speak to me in Russian, and I to them in English.

About the Phone thing: When I get someone from South East Asia for customer support, I ask them to speak phonetically in the most courteous way possible, this was after yelling at a few reps who just didn't understand a word I was saying, nor I them. I felt there had to be a better way than to berate someone for just trying to do his job (somehow the women were easier to understand, probably just the luck of the draw). Anyway I highly recommend it to everyone who complains about bad customer rep phone calls, learn the Phonetic Alphabet (I have a copy taped to my wall for easy access) (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, etc). It may be a little slower but if they don't like it they'll just transfer you to their supervisor or to someone with a better grasp and no one feels bad at the end of the call.
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From testing this on iOS 8, I'd say you released the app too soon. Taking photos took very long, it crashed, I don't know what happens to the photos I take (where they will end up) and UI needs lots of polishing. The 3D tech side of it looked cool, though.
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That just the thing, though; video file formats do not intrinsically have any of those limitations, which is exactly why he wrote this article: it's a false dichotomy.

Files are just files, and video ones are typically smaller.

Imagine, if you will, a GouTube where animated GIFs were rigorously checked against existing copyrighted material, removed by DMCA requests, hosted around the world. How would it be mechanically different than Youtube, except for changes surrounding the Flash player?

Thusly, imagine Tumblr hosting WebM/H264 files instead of (or in addition to) GIFs. Mechanically identical.
With all due respect, you've only been on HN for a couple of months.

Why would there be an "exception" to the policy of discouraging submitters from editorializing headlines? Even if the submitter had a personal connection to the material (which isn't unusual), the guidelines should be respected.
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Sounds like the boy got what he deserved. What kind of psychopath does that to a cow?
Maybe he was living with an actual (or suspect) terrorist member?
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I didn't say they were a government. They are a resistance movement in an occupied territory. I suppose you could consider then a stateless government, but they most certainly aren't running a state. They're running something closer to a semi-autonomous reservation. Yes, they've violated international law, repeatedly, and so has Israel.

Negotiations take place between two or more parties and they result in changes to what they're all both doing. If you predicate negotiations on capitulation, you aren't negotiating - you're demanding. Israel refusing to talk to Hamas until Hamas has managed to stop all the rocket fire (I'll point out one of the early targets in this round of Gaza shelling was the Gaza police chief, so the idea that the political wing of Hamas even could stop the rockets requires quite a bit of faith in their wartime occupation political integrity!) would be just as boneheaded as Hamas refusing to talk to Israel until Israel agrees that refugees can return and not live as second class citizens in the land of their ancestors.

Hamas has put forward proposals for medium to long-term cease fires and/or peace agreements before, and has agreed in principle to focusing on the creation of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders. Meanwhile, Israel proclaimed East Jerusalem as annexed and routinely states that Jerusalem will remain an undivided and eternal capital of their state, all while expanding settlement construction in the West Bank.

"We have no-one to talk to because the other side is doing bad things" is a position both sides could take on reasonable moral grounds, but practically, it's stupid to think that any sort of peace could come from a refusal to talk.

Talking isn't the last step, it's the first, and Israel certainly has no less blame for the absence of talks than Hamas.

Also, re: use of human shields, despicable behavior, and not unique to a side. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/israeli-sol...
I think it could be because of education programs, where available of course. I'd guess most of the country enforcing mandatory schooling do it for people below 14~16 years old. For instance France is 16, India is 14, Japan is 15. I'd wager in these countries there is more resources spent and more reliability in tracking the children below the minimum schooling age.
There's also Google NaticeClient (NaCl) which tries a similar static approach, but on the assembly level.