skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the Nazis felt as secure from internal challenge in Germany during their rule as they appear to have been in retrospect. In any case, whether it was really unnecessary or not, they seem (from the little I've read about this) to have been past masters at controlling potential domestic opposition using the rapier rather than the bludgeon, using a combination of bribery and conciliation, isolation and media control, divide-and-conquer, obfuscation and legal hoop-jumping, and judicious applications of extreme violence. Instead of flattening German "civil society" outright, they won the tug of war with it, dragging it along with them instead of having it pull them back. There was in fact open (though of course not, in the end of the day, effective) opposition to T4 from inside Germany, notably from the Catholic Church which was one institution the Nazis had to handle with some care, and Cardinal van Galen was invoking the German Penal Code against it as late as 1941. So legal changes were probably all part of the minuet.

I also don't think it's inevitable that the T4 perpetrators would have been punished if the Nazis had lost power at some point in, say, early 1941. The western world had been increasingly heading in that direction before the war, and to a large and increasing extent it's arriving back there now, as evidenced by, for example, the mysterious absence of Down's Syndrome children in many places these days. Come to think of it, many of the people implicated in T4 didn't in fact end up facing justice after the war either.
Pen and paper can never beat computer games at combat mechanics because the rules have to be human-friendly to compute. Pen and paper lives and dies with storytelling, which is why I prefer simple rules a la World of Darkness (apparently mages are really complicated, though).
This appears to be a fan port with no credit listed for the porting process[1]. It's interesting that it was released 10 days after the old new thing article was written.

Hopefully it's clean.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20130127144603/http://mspinball....
Are you planning on making a Firefox version soon? I love the concept!
Well, most people out of the 56% that actually own a smart phone: http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/06/05/smartphone-ownership-2...
> All youngsters need to believe that they have a stake in
> the future, a goal worth striving for, if they’re going to
> make it in school. They need a champion, someone who
> believes in them, and that’s where teachers enter the
> picture.

The author then goes on to throw out all attempts to measure and improve education and say it needs a personal touch everywhere. When I was a student I hated all my teachers because I just read the books, aced all the tests, and ignored the the homework. I skipped class as much as I could without violating official graduation policy and read books under a tree or at a rest stop. Teachers just got in the way. Any personal touch by the teachers would have just slowed me down more than they already were and made me hate them more.

Let's stop with this touchy feely nonsense and measure and improve. If you go out and run every day you may feel good about yourself, but you'll never turn in good times unless you measure your time and work on improving it each time. You'll do even better if you compete with teammates and rivals during practices and meets. I think this article is what happens when you let an English major or similar comment on process, something they really didn't need to get their near worthless degree.
Cool findings. It's encouraging to see that Science published a paper based pretty much only on sequencing data.

The next step is to find out the mechanism of how mRNA gets transferred from parasite to host. How does the mRNA exist stably in the inter-cellular space? Are there specialized transport proteins? How does it get through the cell membrane? Are the mRNA actually getting actively translated? Is codon usage between host and parasite similar?
The card trick referred to in the article is likely the one developed by Alex Stone and described in his book Fooling Houdini, [1].

He knew the most important part of any act is showmanship, and he knew that performing well at top-level magic contests required both showmanship and less known tricks, tricks that an expert audience wouldn't be able to puzzle out quickly or easily.

It took him weeks (months? been a while since I read the book) to memorize the sequence of cards in his prepared deck (sequence generated by computer) and weeks (months?) more to go from being to do the trick to being able to perform the trick.

It's a good read - and what I just described only comes in at the end, after his intense and occasionally life threatening research into the world of magic.

[1] http://foolinghoudini.com/
Yes indeed.

Firejail adds easy seccomp - right now only about 4-5 syscalls are blacklisted, but it would be gravy to specify a whitelist of syscalls and arguments on the command line to firejail.

Other security improvments to do is to run with grsecurity, or just use alpine linux - it has all binaries compiled with stack-protection position independent code.
"a sympathetic friend would have been the obvious remedy"

This, I think, is what a lot of people need. I've had times with absolutely no one to talk to, I'm sure others are the same. Luckily my situation is better now.
"Let's assume since you're reading this, you are, or plan to be, a Dungeon Master. By now, you should be familiar with the rules in the Player's Handbook. You've probably already noticed things you like or things you would have done differently. If you have, congratulations. You've got the spirit every Dungeon Master Needs. Curiosity and the desire to make changes, to do things differently because your idea is better than the other guy's -- these are the most important things a Dungeon Master needs. As you go through this rule book, I encourage you to continue to make these choices.

Choice is what the AD&D(r) 2nd Edition game is all about. We've tried to offer you what we think are the best choices for your AD&D campaign, but each of us has different likes and dislikes. The game that I enjoy may be quite different from your own campaign. But it is not for me to say what is right or wrong for your game.

(...)

Take the time to have fun with the AD&D rules. Add, create, expand and extrapolate. Don't just let the game sit there, and don't become a rules lawyer worrying about each piddly little detail. If you can't figure out the answer, MAKE IT UP! And whatever you do, don't fall into the trap of believing these rules are complete. They are not. You cannot sit back and let the rule book do everything for you. Take the time and effort to become not just a good DM , but a brilliant one."

-- Foreword to AD&D 2nd edition's "Dungeon Masters's Guide", David "Zeb" Cook, 2/9/89

Sadly, very few people paid any attention to that foreword (players because the book was off limits, of course ;-).

It's a shame WotC/TSR didn't go forward with the idea of an open rule set, rather than going back to the more traditional model. It is nice to see them borrow some ideas from White Wolf though -- to this day, if I were to recommend a [edit: single] rule set for role playing, it would be something between the old and new World of Darkness rules (aka the Storytelling System).
I'd love to see someone who knows Exilir/Phoenix to submit it to the Web Framework Performance Shootout [1].

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

Edit: typo
It seems it would be a lot of fun to hack on these with some version of Lua. A reference counted variant might be more suitable.

Havent had a chance to watch the presentation, perhaps its already answered there: Are these totally locked down or is it within realms of possibility to take out the SIM card from an average GSM phone and start poking around, adding one's own applications.
For the repair, I used a simple piece of solder wick to replace the blown trace, stiffened with solder to prevent it from flapping around and possibly shorting to the ground island in the middle

Never heard of someone using solder wick in this way before. Can't decide if brilliant or insane.
Nice! Would these tools (firejail, mbox) finally allow some user-friendly per-application firewall like Little Snitch on Linux?
There was a time when exporting strong encryption was a crime. Now anybody can export network intrusion malware.
I use HN RSS feed with https://www.feedsapi.org/ to get all the stories in full length forwarded to my email inbox and read them in full length in theoldreader reader. I now and then use http://www.ihackernews.com on the go (on my smartphone).
I certainly hope the alternative isn't between the pirate bay on one side and google/facebook on the other, but that there will be some middle ground, both decentralized AND respectful of sales law and private properties.
Nicaragua canal would be 120 miles long vs 48 miles of panama. But canal travel is much much slower than open ocean travel. Panama takes 8 hours to traverse the canal, imagine one 3x as long would take almost 3x as long to cross. So 24 hours.
This has been one of the reasons why I'm not currently doing anything for Google App Engine, they still lack Python 3 support. It feels awkward to code in Python 2 after Python 3.
Because you have a support network, so accumulating treasure matters less.

My extended family had a pretty happy life in NYC when they all lived a few blocks from each other. Proximity, shared community through the church parish and schools all reinforced those bonds. Their friendships extended to their neighbors and some even endure today -- 20-30 years later.

Today, we're all scattered and distance relationships require a lot more work for a lot less benefit.
Allowing HTML and Preventing XSS (2007)
Parent comment said a guy called 911 and was assaulted for his trouble. I asked what to do instead. What's the non sequitur?
Transplant Brokers in Israel Lure Desperate Kidney Patients to Costa Rica
wow, very interesting. Thanks!

Looks like mbox doesnt use file system namespaces to isolate a process from fs, but instead combines seccomp and ptrace.

Hm, Ill try to use this to record a programs interactions with the network, tcpdump listens to _all_ the traffic and I havent found a good way yet to filter only on a certain process.
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Man, I skimmed that way too fast. Basically just MITM for non-SSL connections.
I agree with the above, and additionally you can check out http://ionicframework.com/ to build once for web (with backend REST API) and then port it to iOs and Android pretty easily. They offer nice-looking UI elements as well specially suited for mobile use cases.
I found porting a simple angularjs based webapp to android and iOs pretty easy (thought only tested it as development prototype).
Should be worth checking out.
Calling it a render engine at an early stage is disingenuous. It's a prototype browser engine. By that notion WebKit or Blink are just text renderers.
It's one thing to say that it's illegal. It's another thing entirely to shut it down.

So, the Pirate Bay's servers are in countries that either don't care to enforce or aren't able to enforce copyright law.
To this day, IE is still typically ran in its 32bit variant due to plugins. There are probably dozens of included executables that are 32bit only.
Giant companies using their cash is a market force. How did they get that money? In the market, through their massive user bases.
Audio, Think Inside The Box: Diodes
Indeed: http://www.pouet.net/
I still remember fondly the MID files that shipped with Windows 95: PASSPORT.MID, CANYON.MID, and the easter egg CLOUDS.MID.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtoHxMWw354

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIW4F285QjA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyfYP-KrNIM
That's just a matter of fine tuning. You may very well imagine an inteface which lets the gm adjusts computed bonus or even cheat the dices.
But imagine having precise maps of every places your characters go into. How many times have you heard a player say "but he can't hit me, because i said was behind that wall ! But the wall isn't there, it can't cover you, etc.."

Or the GM drawing shite last minute maps...

With a table, you have unlimited possibilites for in-game accessories, drawings, sound effects, automation, etc. Then buying a scenario would actually mean something ! You would buy tons of assets, that you could later reuse, etc..

Your concerns ar valid, but seing the table as a helper rather than a simulator would avoid many pitfalls i suppose.
You make it sound like the acquired companies themselves have no choice in the matter.
Has anyone ever made a successful claim against a surge protector warranty?
The necessary background: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/the-comandantes...
>> "willing to put $300 million of his own money of $50 billion required into building infrastructure"

I would expect his funding expectations are based on what he could borrow in China to finance this. Based on the number of "ghost cities" that have been constructed - not just buildings, but entire cities with no occupants or revenues - it's not out of the question.

I think this gives us a sense of how bad banking problems are in China.
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Thanks for the nice words! I appreciate it!
Not just that. I'm pretty sure i read somewhere that they employ a very decentralized and redundant architecture, where almost nobody is in a position to compromise the entire setup. They had to evolve this way after it became clear that Swedish authorities were after them. From what I understand, even their own admins often don't know where their servers are anymore.

This resistance to physical attacks is why countries eventually started blocking it at the consumer end, through ISP-enforced bans.

It's a shame they can't talk more openly about it, I'm sure they could teach some valuable lessons in reliability.
Old pre-PC data systems which had COM (RS-232) ports could
be directly connected to (dumb or smart) terminals by a simple RS-232 cable.

To remotely communicate, each device would need to add a
modem to interface across regular ordinary phone lines. One modem would dial, the other would answer.

To use a "leased line" having no dial tone, then the dial and answer were replaced by other modem AT commands, or DIP switch settings to change default modem behavior.

Using a PC in place of a terminal was a drop-in replacement
with a terminal emulator program like Hyperterminal.
By the late '90's most PC's had an internal modem occupying
a COM port# in addition to a regular serial connector identified by a different COM port# than the internal modem.

From Hyperterminal you could choose which COM port to communicate with, your serial port could be a local device, and modem was expected to be remote.

When the lesser laptops arrived having built-in modems but lacking serial ports any more, then you could no longer directly connect to a local RS-232 device. Serial to USB adapters, like USB itself, was not well developed, and drivers were not available for all operating systems.

A good solution for me was to use an early '90's external fax modem attached to the local serial device, even though it was going to be a local connection.

Then connect the phone connector on this modem to the laptop's phone connector locally using a simulated leased line.

IIRC the best simulated leased line I came up with had a couple 9V batteries in series to provide activity voltage, and the DC was blocked from the other end by a small
capacitor which still allowed the signal frequencies to pass in both directions.

Analog lines will still support 56Kbaud, but many phone company lines are not high enough quality,
so modern modems down-negotiate automatically.
Now I only need to send that link to http://www.gfycat.com/ for it to load fast.

Full circle!
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I'm sorry I must of misread.
It would be pretty funny to mail one of those travel chess and checkers sets, one piece at a time. The result would be something (potentially) useful and it would be obvious if any were misplaced.

Only if you view this case as being worthy of civil disobedience, of course.
Here's a question on a slightly related note. It is widely known that Gottfrid Svartholm (anakata) is not provided access to books as opposed to Peter Sunde. But, Gottfrid is allowed to receive letters. I was wondering if there is any legal restriction on the content of the letters sent to such prisoners. If not, would it be OK if books are sent by the page via letters either as-is or paraphrased?
I think the game has been updated, now the opacity of both colors are the same (255) but you can sum R, G and B parts. The highest will be the brightest.
The companies have a choice; their users don't.
And yet another name collision for the D language. It should have been Mars.
Fastmail.fm supports plus addressing as well

https://www.fastmail.fm/help/receive/addressing.html
It's simpler to just use a hosts file for blocking ad domains. A HTTP server serving replacement ads is optional. An adblocking proxy only becomes necessary once you start rewriting the contents of pages.

I used to use AdBlock but nowadays I only use a hosts file (one from http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/
) and I haven't noticed any ads that don't get blocked, while memory usage is lower and performance higher.
as soon as Mr. Ude retired, plans to undo what he did were set in motion?
Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation
"Coding is not a crime." -- ye olde eff of yore
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I won't suggest "traveling", but I suggest moving to and living somewhere very different from where you grew up/went to school. Especially if you're a US citizen, because you have a lot of global geographic flexibility.

Living in a new country by yourself will make you pick up a lot of skills like those suggested here: cooking, staying fit, managing your sleep, etc and also what you suggest you would like to learn: be social.

Use online tools to find people to meet, or just walk out into the city and strike up conversation with strangers. You'd be surprised, in most parts of the world, people are happy to talk to a stranger who genuinely wants to learn from them. It takes a bit of getting used to, but you'll eventually get there. You may pick up some essentials of the local language, learn about how people can lead different lifestyles than what you're used to, and in general become a better person to deal with a shrinking world. You will also have fewer social obligations to friends and family while away, giving you a lot of freedom with your time, something which I personally valued a lot during my time alone in new cities.
(You must be careful because this probabilities use the normalization \sum(p_i)=1, but in quantum mechanics you must use \sum(|p_i|^2)=1. I think that it's an important difference, because it leads to interference and other interesting phenomena.)

The idea is that all the quantum values are complex, and the measurable things are of the form f.f*=|x|^2, you have a symmetry. If you multiply all the universe by i (where i ~= \sqrt(-1) :) ) nothing changes. In general, you can multiply the universe by any complex z such that |z|=1. The global phase is irrelevant. This is the global U(1) symmetry of the universe.

But this symmetry is local. You can choose the phase of each point of the universe independently. The problem is that to compensate the arbitrary picks you have to introduce a new field that compensate for the differences of the local election of the phases. This is just the electromagnetic field. (I'm hiding a technical detail here.) This is the quantum version of the old electromagnetic field of Maxwell. The particles of this field are the photons.

I can't find an "easy" information source (for someone with a math degree), but you may start reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics#Mathema...

The U(1) group has dimension 1, so you have only one "type" of photons. (This "type" is not related to the usual color of the light.) I think it's possible to extend this to the quaternions group of module 1, but it's a 3 dimensional group, so you would have ¿3? photons "types". If all the new "types" of photons are massless, this should be measurable in the experiments. (If the new "types" of photons are heavy, you need to get a bigger particle accelerator to see them, or a theoretical physicist to prove that this idea is actually impossible.)

More technical details: The arbitrary election is called gauge theory, this is a local gauge theory because. The other symmetries of the universe is the SU(3) "color" symmetry that is behind the strong force. It's the color of the quarks inside the nucleus it's not abelian so it's more complicated. The associated particles are the gluons, and there are 8 "types". The other symmetry is the SU(2) that is the cause of the weak force, and the particles are the W+, Z and W-.

Actually the SU(2) symmetry is mixed with the U(1) symmetry. So the real U(1) group create the a version of the electromagnetic field that is related to the weak-hypercharge, and the photon and Z particles are a mix of the particles of the two fields. The mathematical idea is nice, because you have a copy of U(1) inside SU(2), so you can mix both U(1) groups and mix the particles. As an introduction, you can read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_interaction#Formula... but if you don't want to dive in the technical details you can think that the U(1) group is (almost) the electromagnetism an live more happily.
Sister Acts
Obvious solution: only use services that have public statements promising not to be acquired. From the sound of HN comments, that would be quite the market differentiator. The dearth of such companies perhaps reveals something about what all the world changing services you like are really about.
Well this certainly sheds some light on Google's decision to try to force SSL encryption by factoring that into their page ranking algorithm(s). Among the speculation was the idea that it was a way of flipping off the NSA, and like-agencies, by making their job harder by encouraging others to encrypt their traffic. In my opinion, this speculation now has more sturdy ground to stand on.

It's a shame that we're reduced to posting our outrage on the internet and left with no real actionable moves on the issue. We can fight it by working towards encrypting our data/traffic, but we can't force a public conversation on the issue that would result in stopping the all-out effort to collect an analyze the actual data. We'll forever be in a cat-and-mouse game over the issue. With the people involved in this having a significant leg up over the global community and always being one step ahead.

I get that this sort of thing can, and likely is, used to protect the general public from nefarious actors. What's a shame is that at this point we assume it's also used against the general public, an assumption that comes with good reason.
Yes, because if the only way such service can get any profit is via mergers and acquisitions, then that's what's going to happen.

And I'm not even talking about ad-block. Ads are one way to have some profit, but they are not optimal in any way.

Microtransactions should be possible. May be Bitcoin will allow this in the future.
Disclaimer: it's a joke.
Scratch is rewarding... And since you dont have to type The commands...
There cant be typing mistakes.
Vocation and Passion: Letters to a Young Creative Artist (letter #2)
If Hitler had just left Stalin alone the latter would have been happy to let the capitalists destroy each other, and Germany could have conquered all of western Europe.

The USSR was initially part of an anti-fascist pact but made amends with Germany after the western allies' betrayal of Czechoslovakia.
What a coincidence. Just learnt about Elixer and Phoenix this morning, and I see this :-)

Love it so far and the fact Jose created it.
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