skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also naive to think that the terms of the order are "contradictory" and indicate a failed attempt by the judge to clothe political action in legal terms. The judge is just applying the legislation passed by Victoria's democratically-elected parliament. It specifically requires the judge to identify the "purpose"[1] and "grounds"[2] for issuing a suppression order.

[1] http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/num_act/oca201358o201...

[2] http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/num_act/oca201358o201...
All the examples you gave were in countries with important historical, cultural, legal and political differences from Australia.
It is in fact Markov; Markov just means that the probability distribution of the future depends only on the present, and so the past adds no additional information in conjunction with the present. That's certainly the case here.

This is an example of a Markov chain that is not aperiodic; what that means is that, given a starting node, at any point in time in the future, it will always be the case that it is impossible to be at a certain node. This ends up meaning that the Markov chain never ends up reaching a steady state; rather, its behavior is periodic!
Well, this was a horrible way to discover that I'm not a people.

If I stop collecting books, can I become a people? Is there like a specific process or licensing body?
People do collect books.
This reminds me of David Brin's book Glory Season, where a common pastime for the characters is the play a competitive version of the Game of Life.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Season
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Great point -- that is 101 of any serious security equipment validation. It is not that this software package/app or that card and so on are certified. The whole package from ground up (hardware components down to analog bits, EM emission... up to top level application get certified as secure) has to be.

I can't buy some mathematically proven secure software, install it on a Chinese tablet and claim it is secure and expect it to get approved.

This is a funny market as some domestic analog components are hard to find today. Micron, I think, makes some but heck most are sourced from China.

This makes 'secure' hardware ridiculously expensive. As in $50k+ for switches and routers and there is a whole market specializing in it.

Now, one can look at it another way -- some security is better than no security. I can see the argument on both sides. At least if NSA can record my phone calls maybe the local cops can't and so on...
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This is a valid point. The reason is that there is a manual process of getting the book shipped and then shipping it. This cannot scale very well. I can may be trade 50 books a day but that is the upper limit. I don't want to invest too much time into something that can't scale. By opening it up to the world with a monthly membership, I can take a vacation and still make money from this.

Does that sound good enough?
I don't recall wanting to revisit most of my school books. Certainly not my elementary or jr. high school books. I did in college buy a used copy of a different version of the American history textbook I used in high school. So I think the utility is rather small.

Here's a report on school text books in Ireland: https://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Education-Reports/S...

It's from 1993, and exists because curriculum changes in the 1960s-1980s meant that the books, which in "the early part of the century served students for generations, in some cases up to the 1960s", were now more freely selected by the teachers, while the parents pay the bill.

Some quotes:

"Between 50% and 80% of books sold in certain subjects may be recycled. The volume of recycled books in circulation makes the cost of the annual book bill to parents difficult to estimate."

"It is the conclusion of this Report that book rental schemes offer the most practical method of curtailing the cost of school books to parents in Ireland."

Related to this thread: "Students were found to treat books with vastly different degrees of care within areas, schools, and classes, whether they owned the books or rented them." So no, ownership isn't a key factor in how the books are treated.

Oh! Here's a more recent report ( http://www.barnardos.ie/assets/files/Advocacy/2012-School-Co... ), with details about the current cost breakdown. Regarding books, "[t]he majority of parents are spending ... over €250 for a secondary school pupil." "An ongoing criticism by parents has been the inability to pass books on between siblings due to new editions being prescribed by the teacher." "The reliance on workbooks as a pupil resource is also often criticised by parents as being wasteful and expensive because they cannot be reused. "

This suggests there is a non-trivial overhead to the secondary school book market in Ireland. (The hope is that the new the Code of Practice for the publishers may change that a bit.)

Even more info: http://www.labour.ie/elenasecas/news/13983441786294822.html from April 2014 reports that "20% of primary schools do not currently have book rental schemes" and that a new €15m School Book Fund will provide seed capital to start them (the 1993 report talks about the need for such a fund). As a result, they expect to "see the average book costs per child fall from about €100 per year, down to just €20."

This fits with my estimate of a 5 year depreciation schedule.

All of these suggest that purchasing books in Ireland is not "much, much more affordable". However, I can't find equivalent numbers for other countries, so I could be wrong.

Still, I get the idea that it isn't as rosy as you paint it.

BTW, why do so many Irish schools require a school crest on their uniform? How do they justify that extra cost?
While genetic algorithms are highly iterative and often computationally expensive approaches to randomized search, they are vastly more efficient actual brute force methods. It would be better to say "it is more of a 'randomized search' method", especially with the connotations associated to actual brute force techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_search
http://xkcd.com/1053/ (everything is new to someone)
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Probably not exactly what you need, but as far as inspiration is concerned, it doesn't get much better than this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

Check out Bret Victor's talks in general (worrydream.com). He is quite interesting.
I whole-heartedly agree that it is highly dependent upon the burb. Something as simple as a grocer and a hardware store in a town center can make a world of difference.

Transportation alternates are also highly variable and make a huge difference.
Not only do people collect books, but in fact, more people collect books than read them. A lot more!

I'd bet your average book consumer, with rows and rows of beautiful, trendy, or important books on his shelves, has read maybe 10% of those tomes. If that. 10% is probably a generous figure. Even true bibliophiles have read maybe 25-50% of their books.

There is a long and well-known phenomenon in the publishing world, which I'll call "trophy collecting." It's the process by which someone buys and conspicuously displays popular or well-regarded books on his shelves, mostly for the social esteem of being seen to have them. This is, more or less, how most literary fiction and wonky nonfiction gets sold.
The idea of having to learn "spells" in another language in order to use them strikes me as a fantastic mechanic.
Are you ready to hack? But isn't hacking an illegal crime?
I've been really impressed by the TV show Halt And Catch Fire in this regard, the sales guy is slightly incorrect as a sales guy would be, but the engineers are bang-on.
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You can still permanently delete things. It's just harder.
The rock would not work as a cold sink - the cold rock is too far from the probe. The rock right near the probe is at almost the exact same temperature.
I think that pain will become a major part of the design in learning robots of the future.

This is something that Hollywood has been warning us about. We do not want to program robots to "feel" pain. We should build in avoidance algorithms, but not pain.
This looks like a great service!

Is there a way to sign up for a paid account or a credit system? I don't want to burden you guys with the costs of my API requests.
It seems very accurate to me, when we consider how many non-permanently attached machines we already use. A smart phone, the Internet, search engines, prosthetic limbs, and cars would certainly allow for a powerful cyborg. Is the only major distinction that these are not permanently attached? Or does a cyborg also require neural interfaces?
If we're to the point where we're even considering this, presumably we're in a position to obtain the materials from either local sources, or possibly asteroid sources. This presumes a level of tech much higher than our current one since at our current one we can barely land probes that can drill semi-aimlessly into rocks. (And don't get me wrong, that's a hell of an achievement that gives me the Warm Science Fuzzies that we can pull it off... but it's also a long way from being able to do this sort of probe on other planets.)
I wasn't disputing the reasoning, or claiming something about the judge. My point is about the consistency of the document itself. It says a) we're doing this for political reasons, and then b) and the grounds are these other completely different things. Whatever Her Honour's reasons are, is it OK for me to expect her to express them in a cogent and consistent manner in the order and not a blatantly inconsistent and unsound manner?
They've got money in the bank. $19B in current assets (assets which could, if needed, be converted to cash in a short timeframe) as of Q12014. Compare this to their recent losses of $510M and $146M and you understand why they aren't really worried about those losses.

IS: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=amzn
BS: https://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=AMZN
Thanks, it's even focused on web data. Just got it for Kindle.

Some nice irony too: There's a typo in Jonathan Schwabish's bio with visualizaing.org instead of visualizing.org
See sjy's reply for more details on the separation of reasoning and grounds.
Is it really that simple? You can't have any active electronics - they would melt.

And the tungsten is touching the cobalt, with no air gap (i.e. to opportunity to harvest power from the electrons returning to the cobalt to neutralize charge).

How would you harvest the electrons?
People don't have business relationships with software, apps, content, games, photos, websites. People have business relationships with people.

Ever "follow" someone on social media because you like their writing? Collecting books from an author is like that, except that you're also feeding the author, so they can write more books for you to read. So you get 64,000 words in a book instead of 64 words in a tweet.

A lower starting price increases the initial pool of people who are exposed to an author's fiction or non-fiction worldview. Authors need more input into the price curve which modulates growth of their community of readers. Neither publisher (old boss) nor Amazon (new boss) is maximizing the use of technology to improve relationships between reader-people and writer-people.
I don't have any particularly large sampling with which to draw statistics from, but here's an article which uses Forbes lists to draw some stats: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/magazine/summer-2013/bi...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2013/09/18/how-self-...

I'd guess it's harder to poll millionaires since most don't own enough of a public company for it to be reported.

Regardless, stats do a poor job of presenting possibility, and my guess would be most poor stay poor, if for no other reason than a defeatist attitude they inherited...
You wouldn't necessarily read the actual patent, but it could happen that you read a conference paper, or attend the presentation, and then learn that the technique described in it is the subject of a patent application. The paper will still be a better source of information than the patent.

I don't know how often this happens, but I have seen it.
I wouldn't be all that surprised if we found viable water-bears up there that had been blown off the top of the atmosphere, waiting on some water and some heat.
I am really glad I was not the only guy with that reaction. I chuckled out loud and clicked immediately.

It is more puzzling he could not pull off the idea. Now that I know it is real, I definitely want one fo these.
Keep with the colour model as you have it now, it reflects reality better as mixing paint is nothing like mixing light.
Can I use this for my class? Creative commons with attribution?
Tor received $1.8M in US fed funds last year, while the NSA tried to crack it
It's the steam model.

"Why not buy this game if it's only $5?"

20 minutes, 10 purchases, and $50 later with another set of titles to stale in the library.
FYI: it would be crazy if each round diluted you by half. I've never heard of that happening.
I'd just like to point out, their loss was pretty much solely the result of a $158 million dollar compensation expense.

"Net loss – GAAP net loss was $145 million for the second quarter of 2014 compared to a net loss of $42 million in the same period last year. Twitter's GAAP net loss included $158 million of stock-based compensation expense."

Thats probably why the "loss" is mostly irrelevant to the stock price increasing. Depending of course on what you think that business action means for the company.

As well, growth is accelerating (increasing at the margins [i.e. The derivative of growth is increasing]).

... Make of it what you will, that's the magic (investing) part.
I think you should stick with the existing scientifically accurate color scheme for the mixing of lights. I have a young child and if he were confused by it I would find it an excellent opportunity to explain something new to him.
they can, and many try, but for the most part people don't buy books outside of their chosen e-reader platform (ibooks, kindle store, kobo). Amazon has significant value to add that they've built up over time and that publishers can't easily get: recommendations, integration with e-reader devices, a huge amount of traffic, and a huge number of people with one-click purchasing already set up.
Couldn't you build that into Pinboard (via Dropbox or similar).
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It could be that so many people are positing it on FB (since the article is about FB) that it's gotten flagged. But you could be right too.
Awesome service, can't wait to use this.
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We should do an Ask HN about this :). Would love your feedback on what makes most sense.

People have messaged me asking for pricing tiers based on rate limits / usage, or purchasing company machines to run all apis from, or even paying for extra privacy (like on github).

What's most fair / makes most sense for you?
Since both college and grade school texts are more expensive in the US, as you report, it seems more likely that there is a common cause for the difference in book prices rather than the price difference for grade school texts being due to school districts buying them.
Sure. I buy books by the bushel at $1 each (from ebay). I buy almost none at $14.99.
Pinboard is one of a few services I happily pay for. Honestly, I'd probably pay a subscription price for it. I've got 1041 bookmarks, it's fast, searches and tags flawlessly, the unread functionality is super useful, and I've got some (unofficial?) android app that makes it a snap to use with my phone. Keep up the great work.
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CloudFlare offers DNS for free, or $20/mo if you want to pay them.

https://www.cloudflare.com/dns
There appears to be strong - IMO, conclusive - evidence that compulsory bicycle helmet laws reduce the overall quality of life (with the main mechanism being reduction of physical activity, and resultant deterioration in health).

But repealing such laws seems hard, politically. Any ideas on how to support such a repeal?
> The idea is to track everything you take in and track what you spend through exercise.

Wouldn't it just be easier to weigh yourself once a week, and if your weight goes up, eat less calories the following week and/or do more exercise? Unless your memory is that bad, or your eating patterns that random, it should not be hard to cut out things you know are high calorie and you can do without.
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> Arguments against widespread surveillance are pretty much always founded on the assumption that the surveillance will be inaccurate.

That assumes that there exists some objective, mutually agreed-upon measure of "accuracy".

For example, Glenn Greenwald has said that there is no definition of what constitutes "terrorism" that is not inherently based on race[0]. This isn't saying that the measures we take to prevent "terrorism" are racist; it's saying that the actual pursuit - the goal itself - is inherently racist, albeit implicitly.

The argument in support of that claim is too long to go into here[1], but suffice to say that, if you believe that the word "terrorism" is simply a euphemism for rationalizing racist behaviour or suppressing legitimate political dissent, then no, you're not going to be happy when people find more accurate ways to target those individuals.

[0] You may or may not agree with this premise personally, but that's not the point.

[1] though easy to find online
Did the seller use an agent? If so, did the seller's agent receive the full 6% commission that would normally be split with the buyer's agent?
Some mini-dp to HDMI adapters also pass audio through (including I believe the Apple branded one as well as one I bought after confirming reviews on Amazon), but I've also bought a couple that do not
Appearance of money on film isn't usually a legal problem for the production company, though. The filmmakers and the prop owners don't necessarily have the same priorities - if it cost the film more to rent authentic-looking cash for whatever reason, that's just a line item in the budget. It can even be worth hiring the real cash at a premium because the armored truck, hawk-eyed security guards, on-set audits etc. may be worth it in marketing terms.
If being bugged presents risk to your life or career (i.e., you're no average Joe) then you should just buy a new machine. If they bugged your hardware, bios, or other equipment, you might never know and it might not be removed after reformatting.

Also it could be that with a super custom and nice gaming machine, thieves didn't want it as it's too easy for you to recognize on the black market. And additionally, they might have worried you had a GPS or software which will phone home after it's been stolen.

And take a peak at the system logs too and your wi-fi logs.

Btw, a system lock won't keep any determined criminals out of your machine if they have physical access to it. Although, an encrypted drive and system locks would help, but maybe not in the case of a hardware bug.
This kind information (and a lot more) is effectively public already via KDP Pricing Support (Beta):

https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A22DBITFA52H1S

I imagine there's some sort of non-disclosure agreement attached to specific results (which is why I said effectively), but the universe of people that have access is so large (every KDP author), I don't think that matters much in practice - especially for general data points like this one.
I think they can prevent publication in other states actually. Under s 2 of the Australia Act, State legislative powers can have extra-territorial operation. So even though there is no physical connection to Victoria, I think the situation would be the same as if a non-Victorian committed a murder (or any other offence) in Victoria.
Well, isn't that git or any other sane source control system do that for you? You are maintaining your own repositories of these external dependencies anyway. So why split pieces of your project on two different repos each with their own versioning, network protocol, authentication etc. What exactly are you getting in return for the added complexity?
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Losses != failure. Just a cash balance sheet. They keep making losses deliberately for tax and other reasons BECAUSE they have investment to grow.
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> No one interprets paleo literally

I have done crossfit in the past and have many friends who still actively participate. The majority of them do take paleo literally.

The reality is, I think, that it varies from box to box, community to community.
Use separate devices: one with SIM/baseband, one without (wifi only).

Only encrypted traffic goes through the mobile device, e.g. cheap Firefox phone. Decryption takes place on wifi-only "media player" device in the form factor of a phone.

This is still exposed to DMA attacks from wifi device, but it's a smaller attack surface. Next level of protection is a hardware IOMMU on Cortex-A15 or x86 VT-d, plus a Type-1 hypervisor to isolate the wifi device.
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Not exactly. Turns out you can sell via Amazon, or you can sell directly, but if you use the undocumented Amazon-only tool to construct your .mobi, you can't sell that directly. And Amazon is now blocking the output of many/all other ebook construction software so you can't use Send to Kindle or email. USB is the only option to load a book.

http://devblog.avdi.org/2014/04/02/why-does-amazon-hate-eboo...
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Arguably, the Wikileaks summary goes too far in claiming that the order "forbids any discloures (sic), by publication or otherwise, of any information relating to the court case by anyone." The order is limited to disclosure that "reveals, implies, suggests or alleges" that various specified politicians received, attempted to receive, or were intended to receive a bribe.

It is not really clear that the orders themselves (sans the Bird affidavit) "suggest" that bribes were attempted or intended. It's also unclear whether the explicit inclusion of "the terms of these orders" is supposed to resolve this question or merely state that disclosure of the orders themselves could be an offence.

Perhaps this explains why the affidavit itself wasn't leaked.
From browsing the source, it looks like the graphics are rendered in D3 and the sliders are connected to the graphics using Angular.
Lots of companies and teams are exploring deep neural network with all kinds of application. Rekognition API is the only one I found that provide open API service right now. You could train classifier using your own images. But you need to create an account and upload your images using their web application.
People have asked for Javascript and Perl. Any other languages you'd want me to add?
This is a good one on version control:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 (Linus' Git talk at Google)

And as far as the business of software, especially the internet, surveillance, trust, and marketing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3NJ-Ow2Lvg (Bruce Schneier talk at Google shortly after Snowden revelations)
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would love to hear more. numbers, juicy details, etc.,..