skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Jersey's Position is laid out in their 3/7/2014 filing. https://www.eff.org/files/2014/03/07/njs_memo_in_opposition_...

Here's the relevant parts (lightly edited):

The Division issued the Subpoena and Interrogatories in furtherance of its investigation into an entity called Tidbit. Tidbit is a group of students who developed a software code that may have hijacked the computer resources of consumers within the State of New Jersey and improperly accessed and/or used such computer resources to mine for bitcoins for the benefit of Tidbit and its customers and without any notice to, or obtaining consent from, New Jersey consumers, in possible violation of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act ("CFA") and Computer Related Offenses Act ("CROA"). Bitcoins are a digital medium of exchange that can be traded on online exchanges for a dollar value. Bitcoins are "mined" through the use of computer resources to solve complex algorithms. Many times, consumers' computer resources are unknowingly accessed by entities through software code or otherwise in order to mine for Bitcoins.

Plaintiff's own description of its services strongly suggests that the code it developed is, in fact, designed to hijack consumer's computers. .... Further, contrary to Plaintiffs allegations in its brief, the Division specifically found Plaintiff's code on the websites of entities located in New Jersey. Furthermore, the Division determined that the code was active.

The following representations, among other things, are made on the Tidbit Website: "Monetize without ads"; "Let your visitors help you mine for Bitcoins;" and "Built on the bleeding edge." The Tidbit Website further provides: "How does it work? ... [1] Make an account - Sign up with your Bitcoin wallet ... [2] Paste the code - we'll give you a snippet to put in your website ... [3] Cash Out! - We'll send a transaction to your Bitcoin wallet." ...

E. The Division's Undercover Investigation

On February 7,2014, the Division re-accessed the Tidbit Website and "Sign up" button. While on the Tidbit 'Website, the Division submitted Sign-up Information to Tidbit using an undercover e-mail address and an undercover bitcoin wallet id. In response to receiving the Division's undercover Sign-up information, Tidbit sent the Tidbit Code to the Division's investigator via a confirmation page on the Tidbit website ("Confirmation Page"). The Tidbit Code that the Division received includes the Division's undercover bitcoin wallet id. Additionally, among other things, the Confirmation Page states: "Your embed code - Paste this at the bottom of your HTML page, and your visitors will start mining Bitcoins for you!" (emphasis in original).)
CLR not hipster enough for you?
> I think his accounts got hellbanned, because he posted a large number of non-sensical comments.

A lot of his comments are "words direct from god" as determined by the random number generator in his OS.
Greenpeace accepting Bitcoin donations
So true. If you aren't in the "clique" you're just another employee no matter what your talent and potential is. If you aren't networked (pun not intended) with the right folks, you miss out.
This is probably true for most big companies.
This looks like it would be very good tech for MMO games.
It has been discussed before: https://github.com/purescript/purescript/issues/396

The reason I have been against the idea so far is that an integer type is easily accomplished using the FFI and user code. Here is one example (not quite what you're asking for, but hopefully instructive): https://github.com/darinmorrison/purescript-int64
If it's trivial, it will probably undermine the utility of video in legal circumstances more than it impacts the people depicted in the videos.
Whilst you're browsing what are you using the other 7GB for?
The source videos they used as examples are about 600 frames each, which is ~40 seconds of video. For a politician or professional actor this would be easy to achieve. Likewise if you wanted a good 3d model of yourself or a friend you could do it cheaply using this method.
I know they weren't technically slaves, but it's not like they really needed those when the Pharaoh could basically invoke anyone in Egypt to work on his Pyramid.
How come his rants have a lot of racial slurs? Am I missing something? http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/Rants/TAD/2014/09/Ra...
Terrifying would be continuing to take everything we see as fact in 5 to 10 years. I think we are in a special time where if you see a video of pretty much anybody, you can usually tell right away if it's fake or not. Sometimes it's hard, but it can usually be debunked. Before that, you really couldn't fake any videos without it being obvious.

In 5 to 10 years, hopefully we will have learned to never ever ever take anything we see as fact, because we absolutely will not be able to distinguish rendered video from the real thing.
But isn't a pointer already provided by controllers like those made by Sixense already?
tl;dr: NJ thinks the tidbit code hijacks computers for a bitcoin-mining bot-net.
Yes, risk preference is the other important factor.
Bureaucracy and frivolous lawsuits end up being minor nuisances for large firms, but dangerous to smaller businesses.
It's interesting to consider this in light of the opening quote on the language's homepage (which still refers to it as Nimrod):

The most important thing in the programming language is the
name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I
have recently invented a very good name and now I am
looking for a suitable language.
-- D. E. Knuth

http://nim-lang.org/
TL;DR... Most important reason that this is a good thing for Bitcoin:

> Since Greenpeace does not accept government support, individual donations are of paramount importance in the fight for pollution control, nuclear arms control and wildlife protection.
> Bitcoin and Greenpeace go together as a terrific pair, with a similar goal
Advantageous for whom, though?

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/sep/22/phones-4u-closu...

My understanding is that phones4u was paying out dividends while increasing its debt; effectively an equity-for-debt swap. The difference is that this transfers risk from the owners to the creditors, allowing the business to collapse after it's been looted.

I think there's a case to be made for a rule "always pay your creditors before your equity investors" to avoid this kind of thing.
So bizarre. I remember listening to Groove Salad when I was probably 14 years old. Now here I am, 11 years later, living in SF, and I get reminded of it on a random HN post.
Also interesting in regards to Bitcoin donations:
"Greenpeace, Inc. is a non-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(4) organization. Donations to Greenpeace, Inc. are not tax-deductible."
It's very sad to see Aviary go and didn't choose to continue pushing their web editors to a more advanced audience and photo hobbyists. If they're abandoning plans moving forward in the web, Polarr (https://www.polarr.co/) might just be the last player trying to push web photo editing experience. It always seems like the web has not done with photo processing yet though companies are all jumping into mobile these days or moving on to video processing.
Cudos to the publication for allowing half the article to become figurative flourishes describing the qualities of music.
I think a factor is that critical thinking is a skill that has been eroding in society across all levels for quite some time on. Even if more technically savvy, the "educated" are not better prepared to resist propaganda than the "uneducated".

What the first group is, is more comfortable in processing and manipulating abstract ideas. This factor makes you more vulnerable to propaganda because of the natural tendency to dismiss data that does not confirm your working hypothesis as "noise". I am pretty sure highly focused propaganda will exploit specific cognitive biases of the "educated" too.

The second group thinks in a more concrete fashion, so it is harder to dismiss conflicting evidence for them. So, they will get a gut feeling that there is something wrong with the hypothesis/propaganda, though they not necessarily can pinpoint what that might be. Attempts to make sense of these strange Rorscharch patterns provide the raw material for plenty conspiracy theories, too.
After quickly reading the paper, I think they did nothing special for the eyes; it's probably just the result of the final refinement step. The result looses a bit of its magic, though, when you read in more detail how it works. But it remains impressive.
I agree the jurisdiction issue is an interesting one but the US as a whole has a long history of overreach (eg I know someone who worked in the UK who was issued with a bench warrant for his arrest by a state judge in the US because he worked on a site that "enabled" Americans to gamble online).

I also agree that (5) is an odd argument. From [1]:

> Know this, however: There is no Fifth Amendment privilege to refuse to produce subpoenaed documents on the ground their contents are self-incriminating; courts hold that such information is not "compelled testimony." However, as explained below, there is a crucial corollary: In certain circumstances the act of producing such documents may indeed be entitled to protection under the Fifth Amendment. - See more at: http://www.callawyer.com/Clstory.cfm?eid=920910#sthash.NmnSC...

On the last point, by a strict definition of intent [2], you are probably correct. However, recklessness and negligence can constitute criminal intent.

You can argue that it's not reasonable to hold someone accountable for what someone else does with their program. It's easy to fall into what I call the "engineer's trap" here.

An example is "you can't prove someone else didn't use my Wifi to distribute [pick your poison], therefore you can't find me guilty". While strictly true, the law doesn't work that way. Subjective standards and tests are applied in situations like this. So if law enforcement can show [bad activity] was happening only when you were home, stopped when you went on vacation and happened on many occasions the balance of evidence will suggest you're responsible even if you can't strictly prove it.

So if you designed and distributed a Windows program that was a RATing toolkit that worked with the click of a button and the only real purpose is [illegal stuff] then an argument like "I'm not responsible for what people use this for" will fail before a judge and jury as not being "reasonable".

[1]: http://www.callawyer.com/Clstory.cfm?eid=920910

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea#United_States
doesn't matter if you post photos of yourself online, very likely it will be others that do so. And your image is being digitally captured constantly, if you travel on public transport or go through an airport, or do anything in a public place your photo has been captured many times. Figuring that it's you is also pretty straightforward. All it takes is a DMV hack or Facebook (where one of your coworkers tagged you in a photo, or instagram where your niece tagged you by the bbq on july 4th etc etc etc...
My understanding is that he is mentally ill. I wouldn't read too much into that kind of stuff.

His technical chops are impressive. If you can filter out the racism/RNG-God stuff then he frequently has something interesting (although not always on-topic) to say.
Signul: The world's first personal beacon system
I mean the guy is mentally ill. Is he really a "racist" if he's not in complete control of his faculties?
So is there any truth to the "africanized/killer"(I dont know any other way to state it but I dont like the term) bees being more difficult to manage and more aggressive? I live in Texas where they arrived in the early 1990s. I would be leery of keeping bees that were not as docile as the european variety. I am not too worried about getting stung once or twice, but I have heard that the "killer" bees go ape shit once the stinging pheromones have been released and you can get stung hundreds of times in a short time span.
Apple Still Has Plenty of Your Data for the Feds
Why do trolls still try to sue Rackspace? They publicly proclaim their anti-troll policy. If 88% of these cases kill the troll when they go through the courts fully, I would stay well away from them if I was a patent troll.
There are so many scalable (and often free) databases out there. What do you that can't be done in Cassandra or Mongo or Vertica?
It wasn't even odds but I agree about "picking up nickels in front of steamrollers".
Sounds just exactly like the "can't find enough skilled engineers" whining in the tech sector. The other half of that thought, "at the price I'm willing to pay" is almost never mentioned.

This country has a deeply embedded, cultural and in my opinion entirely unhealthy bent toward deference to the wealthy and connected that borders on obsquious.
In fairness, both of them do have composed symbols; ⍟ is ○ + *, 走 is 土 + 正, and so forth. But since the compositions aren't really meaningful, I take your point.
Somewhat off-topic, but I wonder why facial recognition/modeling experts seem to persistently ignore ears and jawline. As someone who works in film and does some picture editing (though it's not my primary skillset), ears are just as individual as other parts of the face, and they're one of the trickiest things for makeup artists to work on. As CG in movies and videogames keeps improving, my suspension of disbelief is often broken by noticing problems with the ears, eg watching a CG anime film and noticing that everyone has the same ear shape.
It is rendering the eyes as geometry, take a look at the limitations at end of the video, that gives a good demonstration of what is going on.
No need for the edit. Disregard early downvotes.
If you read through his "rants" section of his website, you will see he's not a racist, he doesn't call black people "niggers", just people he doesn't like.
Do we know how much power the Pharaoh had in practice? How absolute was their rule?
Technology likes this makes me wonder how long of a shelf-life video "evidence" has.

Or perhaps these same algos will also provide utility in detecting / decoding "fakes", sort of like edge-tracking / error level analysis etc today.
> Blosc comes with a pre-filter (also called pre-conditioner) called shuffle which rearranges bytes in a clever way for the compression stage.

This sounds like the Burrows-Wheeler transform, which bzip2 uses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf...
What happens when you take two "integer" fields and add or multiply them? The compiler would need to check that the result still fits in an integer.
I can speak to you as a black guy in tech ... and just let you know that what you're feeling is not weird. Being black in tech can be very isolating, and being an entrepreneur can be much much worse, I know because I've been there.

I've know the feeling of going to conferences and having to be super friendly and way more jovial than you feel is normal just to get conversations going, all the while feeling like a phony inside. I know how it is to have coworkers stop inviting you to lunch after a while not realizing, that from the outside you've been excluded from a 'clique'. I know the feeling of people either thinking you're not friendly and avoiding you, or that you don't know shit and avoiding you, or worse being patronizing to you.

I remember trying to be friendly with everyone and having people kinda just ... ignore me. It hurts and can make you retract into a shell. At work, that makes things worse, because then you get tagged as "not a team player"

It can really really suck, but what you have to do is not let that beat you and make a strong effort to go and find people that you can get along with and cleave closely to them. The gift of the situation is that you can actually get some really close friends, because people that vibe with you probably don't vibe that well with others in your field. They'll probably share the same frustrations and fears as you and they'll look out for you.

So pick your head up and go back out there and do it all over again, don't stop doing what you're doing, but instead of spreading yourself thin trying to befriend everyone, think of yourself as an acquired tast. Be more selective with the people you approach, try to build the deep friendships that will first help you not feel isolated. then from there you can go on to just be yourself, and everything should just work out.

cheers
Open circuit scuba gear is noisy because you are regularly exhaling gas. The regulator makes a little bit of noise, but the exhalation is generally what spooks animals.

Lacking the need to exhale/vent gas (very often), Closed circuit rebreathers are extremely quiet. Some serious underwater photographers moved from the much cheaper (and arguably much safer) open circuit setups to rebreathers entirely to avoid spooking subjects. A rebreather probably can't quite compete with a freediver for silence and agility, though would certainly have a lot more time underwater to make up for it.

At least some organized whale shark dives are freedive-only, probably partly to protect the animals and partly due to the time and noise required to put scuba divers into the water.
Do you wear a mask in public spaces?
I may be misreading the paper, but as far as I understand you need a collection of photos in addition to the video.
Great language, but javascript code is clean, why not only keeping javascript style and adding typechecking and es6 by default..
How to Cry at a Startup
i) perhaps he's a massive racist

ii) perhaps he has an illness that affects inhibition

It's a bit rude to just gossip about someone, especially when he reads (and posts to) HN. I always feel vaguely uncomfortable when this topic is discussed on HN.
True, but the downside of this is that anyone caught in the act will use this as a defense of first resort - it'll be the 2020's equivalent of 'my twitter account was hacked' until we establish some sort of reliable ELA tool to grade source material.

Indeed, as there are more and more cameras around (including autonomous ones of increasingly tiny size) imagery of the videographer will probably become a major authentication factor.
Just signed up and find Polarr is probably a much better on-line photo editing platform for me. It is what I call Lightroom-on-demand!
Plus, there are much more potentials for its intelligent personal style learning.
> If debt is priced too cheaply, HF will push companies to lever up to buyback stock. This is a socially useless form of activity, which increases business risk based on capital structure theory. Short term payoff, the debt will never go away.

Aren't stock repurchases generally a more tax-efficient vehicle for providing return to shareholders than dividends?

Also, why would the debt never go away? Companies usually raise debt by selling bonds with maturity dates.
Fantasy sports betting, the new hero of the online gaming industry
It looks most of the successful MPP analytic databases are based on PostgreSQL (e.g. Greenplum, Redshift). It's sad to see that InfiniDB could not make MySQL work for them reliably.
This might have changed with iOS8 - apparently some of the vulnerabilities have been closed: http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/10/security-researcher-says-many-...

The researcher does recommend never surrendering your phone unlocked however - that guarantees someone can just hook it up to a USB connection, and tap "trust", and then proceed to pull all your personal info and credentials out.
If you do this, please document it. The environment looks great - I love how he navigates through the debugger.
> If it's useless then why does it make them money?

Is that really a line of reasoning? I can make money by drug and arms trafficking, helping other skirt the law, take advantage of legal loopholes, using violence where competitors cannot to strongarm others into submission, exploiting labor, etc.

If a hedge fund makes its money just by being faster in transactions in a way that gives no real benefit to actual creators of value, then it is of no use to society.

Thus far, the argument for liquidity seems shoddy, at best.
Jack Ma's Original Sales Pitch (1999) [video]
Ask HN: Is Startup School worth it?
I'm a student and very involved with the startup scene in Seattle. I
m just wondering if it's worth it to spend ~$200 on flight, and ~100 on housing/food for a weekend for the event.

Anyone has experiences to share?
Nav Canada leads global effort to prevent lost airliners
Nautilus is taking over the HN frontpage. I love it – their content is very high quality and thought-provoking, and often interesting to a large subset of HN readers
Thats really the definition of "cant"
That would break the Web, because you would introduce data races into JavaScript. (Think about the granularity of synchronization on the objects you would need.)
Stroll through a few blocks of midtown Manhattan and you'll end up on hundreds of security cameras and in the backgrounds of a handful of tourists photos. Add a few more years and your image and gait will be continuously recorded by a swarm of 3D camera phones, self driving vehicles, and police drones. Authentication of a crime may require not one but a diverse set of recordings from multiple entities. Validating that the person you are talking to on Skype is indeed your mom may require a cryptographic key exchange (and a damn good reason it won't be Skype but a tool that can be verified by third parties.)

For those of us who grew up reading Neuromancer, Snow Crash, and other cyberpunk yarns: that is today, we are living in that world at this moment.
It can be perfectly evident that a crime has been committed, without it being evident who committed it. So the evidence potentially found by examining the contents of a suspect's devices is not at all necessarily evidence of thoughtcrime.
Neat, subscribed.

I make a point to read TempleOS' comments. Looking past the frequent nastiness they're sometimes interesting and even poetic, in a way that's as sadly familiar as the intonation in these videos.
Because they also flease institional investors. While not talked about there are huge incentives for here funds to bribe money managers at pension funds etc. A hede fund managing 100 million that lost 50% of the money over 10 years makes well over 10 million, break even and there up 20 million.
Okay, "average" then. If you have a trust fund or live in a very rich enclave, your experience is not representative of the median.
IIRC we Brits also have/had some sort of reconaissance aircraft by that name too.

Also, wasn't there a living-metal future-sentinel type thing in the X-Men stories that was called Nimrod and was pretty terrifying?
In this case it is likely because ears can be obscured by hair. If you notice this technique has some difficulty just with shadows so they limit it to the face.
I see, thanks. I didn't know these things about the Moto X. It's really a spectacular feat of engineering!

But in the broader picture my point stands, he still made a number of false assumptions regarding voice tech ("right now it's good at x y z," and it's not by any means). It's as if he were imagining today's voice tech to be at the equivalent of capacitive touch screens when in reality it's not, they aren't quite invented yet and our current level of tech is still resistive. So of course sensitivity is poor and multi-touch hasn't been implemented. It's not design oversight, it's technological limitation.

This isn't to say things aren't changing -- that's what the Moto X represents, improvement on the bleeding edge :)
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112... This is the original article that the APS published in April. Someone posted the PDF here: http://www.slideshare.net/joseluismoreno9235/sliding-frictio...
This will be huge for VR.