skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Howard ended up counter-suing for unauthorized use of his name and likeness on a website that Masck used to sell products".

Similar, but he wasn't suing over the copyright to the photo.
Well, the utterly exposed stack of FORTH makes it nearly impossible to write clear and maintainable code.

I've been going through some old papers and ran across the version of FORTH that I wrote in 1979. I had thought it was pretty whizzy; it compiled to inline machine code, had a screen editor a little like Emacs and some other neat stuff. And the FORTH code was utterly unreadable compared to the kernel of Z-80 assembly that provided all the primitives.

I've had other experiences with FORTH and other exposed stack languages (usually little domain-specialized engines used as extension systems), and the result has been uniformly horrible. As in, "I wish I had done something else." Or worse, "I wish my cow-orker had chosen some other language, because I want to kill him now." Argh.

There are concatenative languages that have real expressions and real memory management, but I've never tried them; I imagine they're a real improvement.
We become less digitally-savvy after 16
I'm also looking for this.
Great work. I'm always excited by attempts to marry the centralized nature of the web with all we've learnt about P2P. Best of both worlds. Just gave it a try. The video was a bit choppy for me, on a ~3Mbps connection, but I'd like to see how it works with a larger swarm (it's remained fairly stable at 8). I'll take some time to look at the code, too, though it's likely beyond my immediate grasp :)
$10k?
This is too much. You can train yourself to induce OOB experience (as lucid dreaming) and have experience in first hand. Without paying anything.
Whatleads.to – collaboration tool based on theory of change
Here are two nice posts by physicist John Baez with some reasons to be skeptical about the "reactionless drive":

https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905/posts/WfFtJ8bY...

https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905/posts/C7vx2G85...
Agreed, but it's the fluid flow bit that complicates it. We absolutely understand lift in the Newtonian sense of a reaction, but wings, we're still learning about. If we weren't, we wouldn't have developed winglets and other such adaptations, as we slowly but surely assemble the theoretical particles into a coherent whole.
I think of Snowden as a naive young man. You know how all kids at some point want to be vegetarian not to 'hurt animals', believe in socialism, etc.

The rumor has it that Snowden was under KGB influence (without noticing it) as early as his Swiss days.

All these people watching RussiaTV, talking about US bankruptcy, horrible US wars, 911-truthers -- I bet dollars vs candies - this is all great KGB work on the US ground.

Tea Party movement -- who benefits from their agenda?

Russia, China, Iran, etc.

Alex Jones, Ron Paul, etc -- with all they 'extreme right wing' views -- why they are on RussiaTV day and night? They are very useful KGB tools. They might be perfectly not aware of the harm they are doing, but that's what so great about KGB. They work and have success thanks to operating well on human element. CIA seems operate on the idea that their success comes from the technology.

I.e. most extreme right wing parties in Europe are sponsored by Russia. Wouldn't be surprised at all to learn the same about US Tea Party. The ideology is great from Russian perspective: don't care about external affairs focus on the economy only. Close all the bases. Yeah, right, so we will wake up one day with Putin's Russia stretching across whole of Europe all the way to Portugal one day. And then what?

Russia/USSR has worked extremely hard to infiltrate US colleges, universities and campuses with Marxism and socialism in the past. They have been doing it continuously since 1945 with great success. Because they knew that after years it will pay back big time. Like it does right now with Marxist President (product of US Universities) not doing anything about growing Russian threat.

Never underestimate Russians intelligence and its influence on our elites.
The West.
That's only if it's the LGPL and they modified the original library. If It's GPL licensed, then yes, if someone asks for the source code, they have to make it available.
What a bizarre world are we living in where you need a specially colored and printed piece of paper to travel and where it is this piece of paper, and not the technical problem of traveling thousands of miles, is the real challenge.
I don't think so - there are builds being released frequently: https://twitter.com/FactorBuilds

But the creator went to Google, and he was the main force in really advancing Factor in the early years, IIUC. Of course, after a few years you expect a software product to stop changing that much anyway.
except they removed checkins now. you can't depend on users using a second app
Why would tracking someones movements be an extraordinary achievement for CIA? And if he would travel under his own name, why should it be hard for them to know where and when did he booked a flight?

Both tasks should be business as usual for such huge secret service.
The point of markdown is that it's supposed to be perfectly readable in "unrendered" form, so in a sense you can already use markdown in any plaintext context.
Pod machines make terrible coffee though.[1] I'm no coffee snob at all and even I can agree that the coffee that they produce sucks.

I've never had pour over coffee (or even heard of it until just now) but I gotta say I'm very curious now. Is it common at coffee shops or do you have to buy the stuff and do it at home if you want to try it?

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Business/11-best-pod-coffeemakers-buck...
That looks pretty good. Is there a way to filter by language, or can you just order by language?

And it'd be good if he got rid of the greengrocer's apostrophes[1].

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greengrocer%27s_apostrophe
Pretty slick experience allowing you to build up a tree of cause and effect and brainstorm as a group around problems, ideas, solutions, vision.

I especially like how you can add a node at any point in the tree, and "focus in" on any particular node.

Disclaimer: this project was instigated and came out of Geeklist #hack4good which I coordinate globally. I am really impressed with what this team has built!
At the paper. And it's crazy simple.
With pilot wave when you measure (impossibly accurately...) you get the position - bit a statistically derived one. Pilot wave does imply a clockwork universe - albeit one so complex that it cannot be deterministically predicted, thus statistical QM works just fine.

Is argue that understanding the "basement" is very much physics - sure, it can err into the philosophical, but it's still definitely a "real" physical process which drives this.
I imagine it's tricky for any EU member wanting to take him due to the EU having an extradition treaty with the US and the fact that Europe wide arrest warrants are a thing.

It's worse for UK residents[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%E2%80%93US_extradition_trea...
A European country could give him a permit, the problem is that doing so would cause a massive diplomatic incident with the US, and most countries would rather not have to deal with that fuss. Russia (actually also European, just not EU European) had nothing to lose in that department, though.
By "we", I mean humanity as a whole. Nobody would contest that there are a lot of widespread misconceptions about how an airplane - or, for that matter, anything - works.

A nice blog post on the topic is Sean Carroll's article, "The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood" (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/09/23/...).
As far as routes, Russia doesn't have the best access to the ocean. He'd definitely have to pass through waters claimed by nations not friendly towards him. The 3 best options are:

Vladivostok, which is very close to Japan, and would be nearly impossible to not go through either South Korean or Japanese waters. Neither of which are friendly to him.

Sevastopol, Which requires going through the Turkey, and then either through the straights of Gibraltar or Egypt.

St Petersburg, Which requires passing through Denmark.

If I were in his shoes, I'd probably try to charter a Jet coming out of Vladivostok. If that wasn't possible, I think I'd choose the Sevastopol/Gibraltar route by sea.
Hmm - do you pour directly into your cup?

With the Aeropress I brew directly into the cup, then I move it over the garbage can and press the thing to throw away the compacted paper filter and coffee.

Then just rinse the Aeropress - which you could even skip if you're really lazy/green.
Why are we discussing Snowden's ability to travel? I mean, does he need to travel? Is that essential to him continuing what he is doing?
The embargo's probably just reacting to the various sanctions put on Russia by Ukrainian allies.
"correct" w.r.t. what ? A checkout (or a tarball as offered by GitHub) of the repo is all those files, which is probably what most people want.
That's a genuinely interesting statement. If you don't mind me asking... how many times have you failed? Two successes is seriously brilliant, and rare, but the idea that what you'd take away from that is a preference to take on all the risk yourself is surprising. One of the key things I believe I've learnt over my entrepreneurial career to date is that it's a hell of a lot better (well, safer) to risk someone else's money.
I didn't think about tags. That's a fair point.
But they also prioritise speed right? So if you have the same site served both in HTTP and HTTPS, which one will win?
Silverlight Crashing when using Time Warner TV on Windows 7 64bit Laptop
But in space a few micronewtons per Kg is pretty usable.
Alternatively, the US government is simply not as evil and powerful as you think it is. While the US would like to capture Snowden and make him face a jury of his peers to enforce the law and (in their mind) deter future leakers, it's simply not that huge of a priority. The horses are already out of the barn. The US interest is limited. The US government is content to hassle Snowden in ways that don't involve any substantial investment of effort and power.

Occam's razor, and all.
That's completely different.

Even if you take the time to sift through the list of permissions, you haven't installed the app yet, so it is completely unclear what the app needs the permissions for.

On iOS, you are using the app already and will be prompted when it tries to access a resource. Given the app context, it is much easier to understand why that permission is being requested.

I have a bunch of apps on Android that I haven't updated precisely because they are asking for new permissions and I have no clue why. Maybe if I could see new functionality I'd be able to understand why they need more permissions now.

I am a developer. An ordinary user will either not care or not understand this.
In the case of the wing, all of the underlying physics is completely understood. It might be difficult to calculate and have complex behaviors.

By contrast, this "reactionless drive" posits both a completely unknown underlying physical mechanism and a major violation of physics-as-we-know-it (i.e. action without reaction).
Leaving aside the question of whether their response was reasonable (I see the arguments either way), it turned out that using their service to secure your website was not free.
Current top comment:

I think the answer is fairly straightforward: create a guaranteed minimum income. Tax all income after that. As productivity goes up, you increase the guaranteed minimum income. If you want more than the minimum, you go out and work, and the people who have only skills that can be done by a computer/robot more cheaply than a minimum wage work just leave the work force. Should productivity go down (say we run out of fossil fuels without developing a cheap alternative or all our productivity starts going to dealing with run-away climate change) then you just decrease the guaranteed minimum income. --Mark Russo

This.
Ask HN: Recommendations for malware analysis books
I'm currently a sysadmin, with limited c/python programming (mostly scripting if im honest) however recently my job has been dealing more and more with very nuanced malware threats to our infrastructure (we are a web hosting company). I'd like to be able to understand these threats better on a fundamental level, and as with anything i'd like to get some textbooks to help round out whatever practical things i attempt in a VM. What are the good "go to" texts for this particular area of security?
If cloudflare start offering free SSL certificates we'll start seeing so many with HTTPS if it actually gives a SERP boost.
This is a serious and interesting subject which requires a better treatment than emotive words like "hand-wringing" and "worriers", and a conclusion with more depth than "in the long run, we're all dead." All the author really says is that experts disagree on the effects of automation (who would have guessed?) and that this might lead to lower pay and fewer jobs (again, hardly news).

Meaningless assertions like "the education system has to change to prepare young people for a world in which most of today’s jobs are automated" don't begin to answer the real question - how are we to be prepared for this change? What are we expected to do with our time without paid work? How does an economy run if a significant number of people are not earning more than a basic wage?

Fascinating subject, superficial and unhelpful article.
> Openstreetman community

Admittedly our gender balance could be a lot better, but I think that's a bit harsh.
there does seem to be some overlap with stream fusion -- which was all about exploiting the optimization opportunities when separating the collection operation from the kernel performed on each element.

We called the bits in the middle "step functions" , which could be combined with "consumers", "producers" and "transformers".

And the algebra generalizes hugely (not just collections) but to things like concurrent processes, data flow programs etc.

http://metagraph.org/papers/stream_fusion.pdf

Things to think about in a non-Haskell settings: how do you prevent reordering side-effects? Can execeptions/non-termination being reordered be observed?
You are? ETA?
"They're claiming to see a force one thousandth as big as the Chinese - probably because they are doing the experiment one thousand times more accurately. And still, some people are excited about this. "

I think he's slipping from skepticism to cynicism here.
> "I have no idea what something that lies between those two would be."

One example is the small nuclear reactors that have been used in orbit already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPAZ_nuclear_reactor
Oh. I thought I would find a search engine for fast cars. Sigh.
Given the incident linked above, it may not be as easy as it seems in movies.
Is it intentional that "cloud" is omitted from the submission title? Because I bet many would've never clicked on it otherwise. I mean, a text editor that you need to sign in into? How crazy. I'll stick with Emacs.
Addressing brokenness in OpenType
that is why there's a variety of customization options present - feel free to customize it as you wish. Also, there are two "blank" inspirational presets already build in, much inspired by blank black old terminals.
He seems to be makings some mistakes as well. He says: This is baloney too - but now it's graduate-level baloney. "Quantum vacuum virtual plasma" is something you'd say if you failed a course in quantum field theory and then smoked too much weed. There's no such thing as "virtual plasma". If you want to report experimental results that seem to violate the known laws of physics, fine. But it doesn't help your credibility to make up goofy pseudo-explanations.

The original description might be clumsy, but the idea of empty space being full of virtual particles is not wrong.

Here is Dr. Laurence Krauss's description of empty space:

especially the idea that what we think of empty space is really not empty, correct?

KRAUSS: That's exactly right. Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them. Now, that sounds of course like counting angels on the head of a pin; if you can't measure them, then it doesn't sound like it's science, but in fact you can't measure them directly.

But we can measure their effects indirectly. These particles that are popping in and out of existence actually affect the properties of atoms and nuclei and actually are responsible for most of the mass inside your body. And in fact, really one of the things that motivated this book was the most profound discovery in recent times, and you even alluded to it in the last segment, the discovery that most of the energy of the universe actually resides in empty space.
Cool! If you are interested in docker and databases, my company is working on an oss project to simplify the deployment and migration of databases and their volumes: https://github.com/ClusterHQ/flocker It's aimed more at production use cases where things like moving volumes around for db upgrades are a requirement, but you might find it useful. Its open source so would love your feedback and involvement.
Or maybe FoxIT was behind cryptolocker all along and once the ransom money stopped pouring in they released their database to look like good guys..tinfoil hat
> We're on track to roll out SSL for all CloudFlare customers by mid-October. When we do, the number of sites that support HTTPS on the Internet will more than double

To be secure, won't this require your customers to set up HTTPS between CloudFlare and their hosting providers, which will require additional manual setup with their hosting provider, assuming they even support HTTPS? It seems rather optimistic to assume that enough customers can/will do this to result in a doubling of sites supporting HTTPS on the Internet.
Why does number 7 say a superconducting version of this drive does not require energy to hold things up?

Are they just referring to how superconductors can float in an external magnetic field? That doesn't seem to give general purpose hover boards.
Is in this case recipent also the user of the infected computer?
I used the Extended MAPI API for years ... I thought there was something wrong with me as I struggled through the insanity ... until I saw modern APIs.
I don't think they're quite competing with directly with Walmart, but only due to the targeted demographic.

Walmart targets everyone, which usually results in more of a sway towards the lowest common denominator. Target's marketing (Target's target marketing?) is seemingly always geared towards upper middle class, or whatever makes up that income level now. It even shows in their branding. Take a look at how Target specific brands are expressed (Archer Farms, Market Pantry, etc) and compare them to their counterparts over at wally world.

Here's an excellent example of this: Starbucks embedded cafes in Target stores under the Starbucks brand. They did the exact same thing in Walmart, but ran under the Seattle's Best marquee in order to provide the lower priced option.
<nerd hat on> No, the impulse drives (according to the Haynes manual for the Enterprise) are standard reaction drives, with weak warp fields around them, so they can eject propellant faster than the speed of light.
https://github.com/lo-th/3d.city/blob/6d206e4df362444d4c2a36...

Before the for loop it "smooths" the policeStationMap 3 times. And this is reset every 15 cycles and in the first 8 cycles it re-populates the policeStationMap before performing the crimeScan.

(https://github.com/lo-th/3d.city/blob/5827c3be180c6b7b39076d...).

So a cursory investigation it doesn't look good and any policeStation needs to be within 3 to have any effect.

What the simulation should do is never clear the policeStationMap. The policeStationMap is constantly cooling and diffusing and it is only by refreshing where the police stations are is how new energy is introduced into the system (policeStationMap). The simulation doesn't even need to reset the spot on the map when a Tile.POLICESTATION is removed because the value will on its own cool. As an added bonus the simulation doesn't need to waste cpu cycles calling smoothStationMap three times in a row, but only needs to do it once.
"The decision could encourage more sites to turn on encryption, which makes them less vulnerable to hacking".

What? This is entirely wrong. It makes them more vulnerable to hacking. There is a whole lot more complex software and configuration to get right, and we know SSL doesn't have a great recent history of that....

Of course it help secure the communications which presumably is what they meant but it's 100% wrong with the statement the article actually says.
This is what Netflix and the like need to use, too.
Great news IMHO. It seems like many webmasters needed a push in the right direction, beyond "its the right thing to do".

Now if only we could address the CA trust/cost problem...
Baez is right, there's no such thing as "virtual plasma". Just Google the phrase.
I live in Midtown. I take ubers to Washington, the CBD, Montrose, and the Rice Villiage regularly. I've never spent more than 10 bucks on a trip.
>because the stigma associated with the industry has discouraged bigger companies from getting involved.

I don't believe it is stigma.

Marijuana business is incredibly risky and can be technically illegal. Big companies tend to be risk adverse and have shareholders to answer to.

I think if the legality was definite a lot of big companies wouldn't be reluctant to join in.

On another note I think a few of these companies can improve their image to the mainstream if they get rid of the slang that only current pot smokers identify with.
Yes, but the person I replied to raised the alarm about spinach being toxic.
This is great! Nice implementation too.

I'm seeing no such file or directory on .dropbox_inj.dylib is that normal?
https://github.com/tkonolige/dbignore/issues/4
If the UI of tree is just like in that http://causehub.io/words/introducing-whatleadsto , I feel it little bit cluttered..)

Otherwise its nice idea.
I don't see a way to get there, for most nations. Big nations would have the most trouble introducing this. And what about immigration?

Immigration can't be effectively regulated by any means available to a moderately democratic state. Should immigrants receive the BLS? If yes, you go broke. If no, the immigrants are essentially second-class citizens who have to work for an extremely low wage (because they would have to pay indirectly for the BLS).
Are you writing from prison in Russia? If not why haven't you supported Alexei Navalny and criticised Putin until you were arrested and thrown in prison for it? If you consider the reasons why you have not protested enough to be imprisoned in Russia, Snowden's reasons for not speaking out from his vulnerable position are probably very similar.

Also, for the record, he has openly criticised censorship in Russia -

I’ve been totally open about the fact that I disapprove of the majority of the recent laws in Russia on internet censorship and surveillance. I think it’s entirely inappropriate for any government in any country to insert itself into the regulation of a free press.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snow...
I legitimately do not believe that this would work in the US before an extreme collapse of the current system - including but not limited to a civil war.

I believe this because we have a hard enough time pushing through cursory and very basic social welfare programs. Quite literally guaranteeing someone a basic income with 0 work involved would be as palatable as thumb tacks to many individuals in the states. Logic doesn't really carry that far anymore, and I'm not sure why.