skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The analogy with a diary is a good one, except that humanity has never been addicted to publicly carrying around a comprehensive all-encompassing diary, until now.

For many of us, these mobile computers record all of our thoughts, intentions and actions. They're really extensions of our minds. And our minds belong to us, not the government.

The government can build their cases as they've always done, without forcing us, or our extensions, to testify against ourselves.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "close to even odds," but he paid out on average 1:5.
Why does Fareed Zakaria still have a job?
How is checking basic stuff an implication that everyone should be an expert in everything?!

Someone learned enough to start up a computer, log in, access their web browser, navigate to an online storefront, select products they want to buy, navigate through the checkout process, and enter their details to effect the purchase has already demonstrated the pattern matching skills and knowledge necessary to answer the easy question "Is the picture of the lock there?" and the slightly more involved question "Do the words up match with where the page says I am?"

I'd be willing to bet your grandma can understand "When you're shopping somewhere, make sure the lock icon is in that bar at the top of the window before you put your credit card in". This is stuff that's been drilled into people since the early 90's when eCommerce began to become a thing.

It's not arcane knowledge, hardly "expert" level, it's a basic skill that anyone who shops online should have.

The idea that we can advocate against users having that skill provides dubious benefit to systems security and a handicap to what is the weakest link in any secure process, the human element. Anything we can do to make end users more skeptical is a Good Thing.
Here's some more background: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1buh8c/the_c...

And more still: http://terry.davis.usesthis.com/
Yes, for example the founding fathers might not have thought of growing plants for personal consumption as interstate commerce, or building a private office towers as a public purpose, thankfully we have the SCOTUS to realize that growing plants for your own use is interstate commerce and that private office towers are public purposes.

Whatever you're doing is probably illegal if the government wants it to be illegal, and legal if the government wants it to be legal.

As most lawyers say, don't talk to the police, so I assume the best advice would be to encrypt your documents to the maximum extent possible, and have your lawyer sort it out in court.
> Does "everyone else" include progressive wonks like Matt Yglesias?

Its kind of odd that the only people I ever see positively citing "progressive" Yglesias are doing so in the context of using Yglesias's support for an economic position to bolster the idea that its not a particularly conservative viewpoint.
I'm not sure I agree with "Aviary was the main, visible competition to Adobe." Yes, Aviary offers image editing apps for mobile, but that's a very competitive market. There are lots of image-editing and image-sharing apps for mobile.

Aviary's special sauce is something I don't think Adobe even has: a way for developers to quickly add a photo editor to their app or website (i.e. a photo editor SDK).
I think that is the more interesting question: why don't practices get better over time at managing this? There are places I go: hair salon, doctor, the vet that are always 30 minutes behind. As a one-off that makes sense, but as a pattern stretching over years it means they don't adapt to account for this. If, on average, appointments take 2 minutes longer than they think then change the appointment times to account for that. Do _something_.

It annoys me, as a process-oriented thinker, that so many offices never get better at handling average daily volumes.
This sounds like some trivial code, not even fully functioning, that was written during a hackathon. Why does New Jersey care?

It wouldn't even make sense as a business model anymore, because asic miners are so much more efficient than GPUs, but I heard many people talking about building this kind of service years ago.

NJ could pay a software developer to write them code to let people generate small amounts of bitcoin in a browser. Why would they possibly want this MIT student's code so badly?
Nimrod was a character in the story of the tower of babel, which explains the diversity of languages in the old testament. Hence its relation to programming languages.
I think you're making an analogous comparison, which is not necessarily the right one.

Aviary needs to compete not on features so much as audience. If Aviary can do 80% of what Adobe does for some % of users and it convinces those users to eschew their CC subscription, they are a competitor.

In other words, it's less the product and more the people.
They generally come with morality and concept of equality ;)
Some math on this assuming the article is correct. He was offered 5:4 odds so the juice was 2.8% given what he should've won vs what he got. The 5:4 odds mean he had to be at least 44% (+2.8%) confident just to break even, moreso to make a profit.
I think the competition is Sketch and Pixate.
I'm still not sure why APL and Kanji are not examples of the same thing. They are not spoken languages, but neither is sign language.
My 2 cents Jonathan - I've done this, and it might help, but I don't know you (yet) so maybe not:

There's people who make you feel better, and others who make you feel worse. Spend more time with the former, and less time with the latter. One by one, more people like Michael will help you realize you that you belong.

Yes for screaming! There was a super-dark time in my life where I literally did not know where to go. I was in my car, on some off road, being totally crazy and screaming and crying out loud. Did I have a choice? Actually no, it was unbearable. I don't know what would have happened if I didn't have a safe place to go wild in this way. After this, I was glad to know someone to call then.
How Photoshop is used doesn't really matter - it's intended as a photo editing product. Adobe already has an illustration / vector product and there's a reason they're separate.
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Unless this bet is the last one the author ever makes then the Kelly criterion will still apply.
I can't believe I read that whole thing, it was written so well. Quite informative and very interesting.
He has some kind of autocomplete window here: http://i.imgur.com/DqeJKNN.png. The contents has some partial tokenizations that seem pretty characteristic:

'Sblood
'Sdeath
'Snails
'Swounds
I have heard this theory before, and I understand it is made by reputable sources. But it's always baffled me. I would have thought even a freshman geology major could tell the difference between a man-made stone and one cut out of natural earth. But then, I don't know any geology.
shine on you crazy diamond.
I think we should view crypto in the same way we view very strong safes with catastrophic tamper-proofing. While it is possible to gain unauthorized access to my imagined safe, it's quite difficult. If the government has a strong case for access a safe-owner can be held in contempt for not providing physical access. While I understand there is not a perfect analog between physical key and password, I think it's unlikely that the court will treat them differently.

I'm having a hard time finding case law, but I would imagine that people have been held in contempt for not providing access to a rotary dial (password protected) physical vault before.

edit: As an aside, an encrypted drive should not be cause for action by the law, however that is covered by the 4th amendment.
This does happen partially with escape analysis within a function. Objects/primitives could be allocated on the stack instead. I totally agree that this should be an area that could be explored more in depth.
He still posts now and again, but whenever he makes new accounts they tend to get hellbanned fairly quickly so his audience here is mostly those of us with showdead on.
I want to build in some kind of primitive networking into this OS - just so one machine can talk to another... it's on my side project list. Anyone had much experience with the code?

Also - Love the positive comments in this thread. Proud of this community.
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Nothing on their GitHub yet.

Their Facebook page header has what looks like some F# on it.
Money pouring in to tech like its 1999
I think his accounts got hellbanned, because he posted a large number of non-sensical comments.

Objectively speaking, the comments were low-quality as published. To reach a larger audience, they would need some volunteers to separate and clean up the good ideas, and discard the nonsense.
Is he this for sure?

Sounds like a fundamentalist and racist to me :\
He still posts from time to time, but his posts are auto dead. It's one of the reasons i set show dead posts on.
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I think it would be quite a bit of work to integrate the H-H model or any model of a biological brain with this visualization.

This is because the visualization is basically just a graph, with axons as edges and neurons as nodes, and then signals are propagated with extremely simple graph-traversal style logic. On the other hand, the H-H model tries to deal with the physical reality of the human brain so it is much more complicated and relies on some data (like axon width) that simply doesn't exist here.

It would be possible and potentially interesting, for sure, but probably more work than you might think.
Sorry I can see how this is confusing, but it's basically what mpthrapp said.

I've got a unbranded version of android suited for my phone with an optimized kernel (lean kernel).

It runs a lot faster, the battery lasts longer, and I don't have to deal with 200+ bloatware apps on the phone...

Here's the page for C-ROM. See if it's compatible with your device.

http://www.c-rom.org/

lean kernel for note 3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2488233

Your best bet is to just get on xda-developers forums and go to your device's section.
Another article (annoyingly undated, but I believe ~3 years old): http://9ol.es/LoseThos.html
Ack! How did we miss that? Thanks!
> Shine on, Terry, you crazy diamond.

This is clearly a statement of adoration, but even still, it is anti-helpful to perpetuate the use of the word "crazy" in conversations that touch on mental health.
A strong customer service agent would help answer all of customers' concerns once the marketing has gotten them interested

Often that "strong customer service agent" is a salesperson.
If we're trying to introduce robotics, getting the robot adapted to the environment as it stands now is only one approach. Getting the environment to be suitable to the robots is at least as important. I wonder what other infrastructure we'll have to provide to robots... it seems like a lot people are working more universal solutions to charging up robots at they go along.
It remains to be seen which companies will be the “Blockbusters” of textbooks and which will emerge as the “Netflixes”, but it’s certain to be an exciting ride for those of us in the industry.

The analogy is a little off since Blockbuster and Netflix for the most part just distributed the content instead of producing it. In the movie industry the cost to produce the movie is shouldered by the studios and paid for by theater runs, and by the time it reached Blockbuster most of the profits had been made.

Textbook publishers create the content and keep it up to date year after year, so while there are indeed opportunities for price reduction in the delivery, they still have the same expense to produce the content in the first place. There is no textbook industry equivalent of a theater run to pay for content creation, unless you could roll that price into college tuition or MOOC course fees and then later offer the books through discounted subscription or rental services.
Restricting the argument to only those cases where the government gets a warrant seems a bit beside the point now that Snowden has revealed mass warrantless secret surveillance.
Linus could have named it basically anything. He didn't have much of an uphill battle to get people to pay attention to his project due to its attachment to an existing superstar codebase.
Is the IPSEC implementation based on existing code?
I think part of the game plan of that physical world disruption is not actually giving states a choice in the matter.

It's an interesting sort of revolution action -- to merely will a free market into being and ignore the existence of the state until you become big and rich enough to break its back.
That and redirects.

I phrased my submission rather bady, I guess I should have said 'why are centcom.mil's DNS records broken.'. I am just wondering if it's bureaucratic oversight or low-intensity cyberwarfare, since Centcom is managing military operations in the Middle East against ISIL.
"Ordinary people" is a meaningless term.
It parallels the emergence of verbal pidgins -> creoles very well. "Recently born" languages frequently lack the grammatical structure that "mature" languages do. Sometimes levels of phonotactic structure are absent as well.
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Those taxes are not avoided - it's just the current tax law. Money put at risk is taxed as capital gains. You don't automatically get carried interest - if you don't perform, it's zero.

Think of it as a portion of their salary that they are contractually bound to invest in the fund, with deference to the limited partners.

Do we really want to have fund managers without skin in their own funds? Carried interest is the only way to do that that does not favor the fantastically rich - who have enough advantages already. Ask yourself what might happen to the private fund industry (VC, PE, hedge funds, real estate, etc) if managers were not able to get carry. How would their compensation change? Which funds would benefit? Do we really want that?
iPhone 6 Plus operates perfectly after being dropped down from 3 floors height
Having been the victim of several hacks I am paranoid to the extent I never keep my passes together, or online. but yes manually recording it somewhere would have been wise.

Better yet coming up with a good protocol myself for password generation!

I solved it by a combination of rebooting the PC to stop the "You have tried too many times" catch and then essentially guessing different permutations from would I thought it was. Eventually I cracked my own pass = )

Funnily enough I type so fast I had to go through this process 2 times before successfully resetting it
he's racist as hell
I have no specialty in signed language linguistics, but I would say that perhaps Location/Handshape/Movement could be considered similar to phonemes, or at least similar to subconcepts like 'place of articulation'.

Similar to spoken languages, the individual sounds/shapes may or may not mean something on their own, but they tend to be regular enough to be able to be described in a writing system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokoe_notation (note that Stokoe notation is described as a 'phonemic script' here).
Has anyone here personally lived, worked, and saw the dot com boom and bust in Silicon Valley? More so, do you happen to currently live and work here still?

I have, and although I don't think the current tech boom is as bubbly as the late 90's, I do see a lot of similarities in the area. Traffic, though, is no where near as bad as it was back then. But, it's getting there. However, construction is at an all time boom. I have never seen more cranes nor construction in SF ever. I think we are back to heady times, and I would be really cautious as an investor in the next 2 years.
I believe it is. His old one had more technical content: https://twitter.com/losethos
Can somebody explain in a few words what TempleOS is?
I had a conversation with Terry on freenode a couple years ago, back when TempleOS was "losethos".

I was convinced, given the context, that losethos was just computer malware, and he had a hard time articulating why it wouldn't be, and ended up just getting frustrated at the most cursory of questions.

A few days later, somebody who had witnessed the conversation informed me that he was a well known probable schizophrenic, and it really bummed me out that I didn't know or handle the situation better.

While he hasn't convinced me of anything other than that having nice uniform names for types can be helpful(U64, S64, F64, etc.), that conversation gave me some perspective on what it means to be schizophrenic.
Self-incrimination is highly compelling evidence in all crimes. Interesting to note, however, is that a confession is one of the lowest and most unreliable forms of evidence.

But in speaking of thought crime, I'm merely speaking of crimes which are entirely inevident (which admittedly is a term I just made up) save for self-incrimination. Likewise, if it is evident that a crime has been committed, then by definition it is not a thought crime.

If there is evidence beyond self-incrimination, by all means find it and produce it at trial. For example, bitcoin theft by definition must effect an unwilling 3rd party, therefore there's at least a human who can testify their coins were stolen. It's evident in victim testimony, on the blockchain, in access logs and source code of the central service that was hacked, or in malware left behind on the victim's computer, etc.
And what deployable algorithm does that?
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I think the complaints are fair based on the title of the HN post which indicates that this is a visualization of a biological neural network, which it empathetically is not (it's not a true representation of any kind of neural network, at least not that I know of, but a visualization of graph traversal where the graph happens to look like a brain).

So, it is cool -- extremely pretty -- but fairly misleadingly named in my opinion. It could be more accurately titled, "An artist's rendition of a brain".
The same applies to other JVMs in the embedded space.

For example, J9, http://www-01.ibm.com/software/wireless/wece/features.html

==> jar2jxe: A utility for converting Java class and archive files to the native J9 JXE file format.

Or JamaicaVM Builder

https://www.aicas.com/cms/sites/default/files/jamaicavm_6.3_...

The big difference between these JVM and Dalvik, is that they are certified JVMs, whereas Google tried to workaround the licensing issue for embedded Java deployments.
I too have paid for spotify for a few years now.

It's great but it doesn't interface with Siri like iTunes Radio does. Once Apple allows me to tell Siri to play "x" song or playlist I will no longer use Spotify.

I stream music in the car daily and prefer the safest experience.
Very cool. Worked like a charm. And the best thing in demo: I don't have to register anywhere to try it.
Particularly after the whole hoopla about exporting RSA crypto counting as "munitions".
Someone aught to tell Pink Floyd then
Nice! I made something similar a long time ago — create your own Mondrian painting through the medium of Tetris (warning: sound you can't turn off and bad graphics): http://www.kongregate.com/games/pete205/mondriaan-tetris
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yeah you're right, but i suspect that sound is a couple orders of magnitude quieter since it isnt a rapid expansion of air directly into the water. i bet regulators exist that cut even that sound down significantly.
It's an operating system. http://www.templeos.org/ I run it in an VM.
it's kind of telling that he posts about alienation rooted in this community excluding him and most of the responses here are telling him how he can change himself
> I avoid editorializing in the title field for HN, so I stuck with the published title.

In this case, though, the title was linkbait, so you would have been well within the guidelines to change it.

When doing so, we always look for a subtitle that is less baity, or (failing that) a sentence from the article that neutrally describes the topic.
It is an operating system and associated infrastructure (editor, compiler, etc) written by one man who believes he is doing the word of god.
This is useful, thanks.
>> We are still fighting some of the trolls that have come after us and we expect to win those cases too. Without changes in the law we believe that the only way to end the plague of patent trolls is by fighting every troll that comes at us – and we encourage all others to do the same.

Needless to say, Rackspace can afford this strategy whereas smaller companies, who have no full-time attorneys on staff and little funds to retain outside counsel, generally cannot. A change in the law is needed to legislate patent trolls out of existence is still needed, basically yesterday.
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The pyramids were not built by slaves, but by hired workers. The workforce generally consisted of farmers during Inundation periods when their farmland was underwater.

Edit: I swear I wasn't trying to be pedantic Internet one-up guy. It really was meant in an "Oh hey, that's a very common misconception but the real story is actually more interesting" way, sorry :/
Well, he has some issues.
I was given a beta account very early on, and the remarkable thing was how much variety was in there. This was before it was publically launched. Huge amounts of ethnographic records, lots of European good electronic music (Mille plateaux etc), thousands of vintage country artists and somehow even merzbow and his massive box set. Slowly the catalog has gotten stripped down.
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> algorithms to determine quality and relevance that we use to display up to four highly ranked facts from those data tables.

Are the selected facts related to the user's query or search history?
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I think you meant Purescript vs Elm. disclaimer: I have used neither.

Elm has its own package manager, not sure if that is good or bad!

The biggest difference is that Elm is almost incidentally a similar strongly typed functional programming language and its biggest focus has always been on FRP (functional reactive programming) to simplify UI programming in the browser.
Very impressive. How large does the photo collection of the individual have to be to achieve results like those in the video?
Is "Just take an Uber" going to be the new "Let them eat cake"?

If the NSA can siphon data between Google datacenters, who is Google going to complain to when a government severs their fiber? They don't appear to be doing so well in China, so clearly it can be done.
Could be, haven't looked at it for a while and all my C=64 stuff is stashed in a place where I can't check it right now. But it definitely was a professional product.
In some important ways (clean code, performance, metaprogramming) the engineering is way ahead of the competition. I'm actually amazed how quickly this has gone from a little-known project to something that leading engineers are putting in their tool belt as an alternative to Python, C++ and other languages for a wide variety of tasks.
Wow, I thought I was the only one who felt that exact way. Luckily I live in Yorkshire, UK, where there's beautiful windswept hills aplenty.
I've seen discussion of this, but is it really different than producing (or failing to) a physical key for a lockbox?
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There are a lot of new TLDs with that property (obscurity). For instance, .camera, .moe, and .plumbing. For other examples, consult the wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
I remember getting up early on Saturday mornings so I could get connected the to the local FreeNet before all the lines were busied.