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""typing less makes me more productive." Guess what; it doesn't."

That statement may or may not be true, but its converse ("typing MORE makes me more productive") is nigh-certainly false.
pocketsphinx.js looks amazing, but there's definitely a barrier to entry if you've never worked with speech recognition before. That was my biggest goal in porting this tool - a nice, abstracted API. Glad you like it :)
You may be able to get a MBP with 32GB RAM now (actually I just checked and it doesn't look like you can still), but I was never able to get more than slightly-above-normal memory loaded into the MBP from the factory. As new MBPs have irreplaceable RAM modules, expanding the memory aftermarket is no longer possible (instead of just a massive pain that required ordering several special tools, like various sizes of Torx screwdriver heads, and a few hours of assembly/disassembly time).

Besides the hardware issues, there are many reasons not to buy a Mac. Macs are cool, and I'd like to have one lying around just for fun, but they're pretty expensive toys and I'm not that rich. I can, in general, only justify that kind of expense for a real computer.
Regardless of what other folks are pointing out, maybe, confusing or not confusing, some layman child reads the article (or your comment) and somehow decides to go into Physics.

That would be great.
I want to understand what this is, but the headline doesn't quite make sense and the link is totally incomprehensible.
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It's basically a huge collection of documents, mostly scientific with a FOSS codebase for serving. It comes with metadata. It is mirrored a lot thanks to bring completely open. It originated in Russia and has had quite the history. It is a great step into the direction how documents (especially scientific) should be available to anyone in bulk without restrictions.
And we've probably seen way more incidents where a mini-mob of cops decided it was good to pummel on someone, just because their blue brothers are doing it. Point being, we can't just judge something by the ways in which people will end up abusing it. Almost all things can be overdone and abused by the determined/misguided/malicious. Sure, having a "mob" on speed-dial might be a bad idea, but at the same time we could be throwing out a perfectly valid crowd-source solution to crime. Which is not something I think we should be throwing out lightly in our society of "don't get involved" mentality.
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The USB standards board has a unique opportunity in front of them: the upcoming Type C plugs — which, as I understand it, can replace the Type A sockets on the computers themselves.

The standards board could coincide the release of the new plugs with a “repaired” standard (call it v3.2 or even USB4) for the communication bus. This would break some backward compatibility on old computers, but the new plugs wouldn't exactly fit in them without assistance either. (Perhaps C->A adaptors could include bridges that, while themselves prone to the vulnerability, would provide a compatibility layer.)

It would be a rough pill to swallow, but the inevitable disruption of both changes to the standard (new plugs, and a backward-compatibility-breaking security update) would be condensed to one event, and consumers would be able to easily identify safe USB devices. That's a huge win.
I use the empty dock too - well, nearly. I have emacs, terminal and browser on there permanently, for quick access to my 3 most-used programs. For quick access to everything else, I've got a shortcut to the Applications folder too. (Sort by Name, Display as Stack, View Content as Automatic.) To reduce clutter, you could alternatively make yourself a ~Applications folder with a reduced set of shortcuts in it, and add a shortcut to that instead.

I'm certain OS X was set up this way when I first got my computer, but I've used some people's Macs and they don't have it. So... maybe it wasn't? But anyway, default or not, it works well.
But you are guessing what the users intent is, but you could be wrong.
incidentally, I heard about the potential for this vulnerability in a security session last year. I could hardly believe my ears.

I don't recall if the instructor described using unknown USB devices as akin to unprotected sex, but that was my impression at the time.
I’ll investigate this, but I think I excluded the preamble’s for trigram creation. Sure, the words will be a bit similar, but it’ll be a lot of work to compile 380 fixtures from other sources.

I’ll investigate that too. But it’s lots of work, this already was, give me some time :)
Yes, don't worry too much about fancy samples textarea would still be great. Nice work.
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You don't know what the users intent is. Maybe they meant to enter "buy milk" twice, maybe they didn't.
Yes and notice how few have used it even here. Most replies are plain text.
It sounds like someone figured out how to use the silicon vendors firmware flashing methodology. You would be amazed how trivial it is to get into most ICs out in the wild. (I have experience in custom IC development.) I'm sure that we will see many more hacks like this out in the wild as time goes on and general knowledge about how ICs with custom state machines + integrated processors really work.

And, of course, got a copy of the software either via reverse engineering or some other method of questionable legality.
Establishing the the provenance of USB devices is going to be hard. People are going to continue to use USB keys for the sneakernet. Infection rates are going to be high. This has the potential to be pretty impactful to everyday people in a way that, say, shellshock is mostly not.

I wonder how long it will take for someone to come up with an inline hardware dongle that tries to mitigate / block this.
I can't speak to Chicago because I don't know the market but in general you'll get a lot more out of working in a space with other startups and freelancers than you will working alone in a cave, er, your own office. Networking alone is worth it. Once you grow to a large enough size that getting your own office offsets the lost opportunity cost of networking sure, get one.
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Correct, to have the instance itself running under HVM virtualisation, the AMI needs to have been registered with --virtualization-type hvm.
Doesn't have GPU options.
Because most servers that a user might want to connect to only have IPv4 addresses.
> /usr/local is wher you install your own packages. For example, if I'm installing something from source, that's where I'm going to install it.

Right, that's what it's for, it's also why a 3rd party package manager shouldn't use it.
>> Strangers that rescue you are rewarded.

IANAL, and everything I'm about to say varies with location - I'm in the US and it even varies by state. People using this need to understand self-defense laws very well because the way you defend yourself may give the attacker the legal right to press charges against you. If you are licensed to carry a concealed firearm, you may need to take a course where they teach you stuff like this, but you can buy knives and batons that have the same legal implications and no one warns you. If someone attacks you, and the attacker can prove that you escalated the situation, or put them in danger, you may be the one facing criminal charges. This device opens up a dimension I'm not familiar with and I doubt has much case law behind it. If someone shows up and injures the attacker and the attacker makes the case that it was all just a misunderstanding or that it was an overreaction, where does that leave you and your rescuer? I'm not saying it's a bad idea or trying to start FUD, but the fact is self-defense is a very complex issue and you need to understand the implications of your actions very well before you're in a position to have to take them.
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Get yourself some headphones and learn how to focus. It takes a little getting used to but isn't hard and this is coming from someone with ADHD.
They're pretty much at the peak of price. I'm interested in a non-Apple product as well, mainly because of high prices and the mess my MBP 2007 logic board ended up being, as well as the high priced accessories (power cord that frayed and they woudn't give me a new one for free, bloated battery, every other LCD backlight going out giving the spotlight effect). I've had issues with other Apple products, and although I've loved using them, my experience getting any support from Apple has never yielded positive results (because I'm not paying for Apple care?). They replaced my first gen nano that merely had a malfunctioned hold button with an eighth generation that died in less than a year (started not turning on and heating up when I plugged it in), which I accidentally dropped before I could attempt to complain to Apple about it. There's more...but I digress...

I love using their products, but I always get this feeling that they have a lot of planned obsolescence built into them. That or they are just so cutting edge that they push the boundaries of hardware failing. Not sure, but I've spent hundreds of hours trying to debug hardware issues with their devices and there is also a lot of fud on the internet making it more difficult to do that. They never respond to any of these issues on their forums, you always just have to wait until it becomes widespread enough that they will make a service announcement.

I know that these sort of problems are not exclusive to Apple and lots of other companies have issues, I just have not been happy with the way Apple deals with them. That MacBook Pro is the only laptop I have ever owned (besides this Chromebook I'm typing on now) and I am very interested in hardware alternatives. I actually love running Mac OS, but to get away from their expensive hardware that I seem to have horrible luck with and their horrible customer support would be worth dealing without it for me. I admit, though, that I brought a lot of pain onto myself by trying to solve problems rather than just letting Apple deal with it. That's why I'm starting to get the feeling that Apple isn't for a computer hardware geek like me. I want something that is designed to last, that has survived the most brutal quality tests, and that I can maintain myself by replacing the parts. I also admit that I am still tempted to stick with the Mac OS world and get another MBP... I just want more options!!
It is possible in userspace. After all you don't need any special privileges to program USB firmware
It sounds like a very interesting project, but I think the reward system is unnecessary.

A special "helper list" (one or two people from friends and family) should be mandatory, because sending the signal to everyone around you might not result in any help due to the Bystander Effect (Darley, Latané).

For more information -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
I particularly liked the DHCP server on USB hack for DNS hijacking.
That seems overly nitpicky. It's about a new technique for beam lithography and achieving a smaller feature size than previously possible.

The "1000 TB" is just PopSci extrapolation at this point. If it does happen, it'll be neither a CD nor DVD.
What a great overview!

Thanks for putting the time and effort into collating and normalizing all this data, and making it accessible to the rest of us.

One peeve though, it seems you've missed what is probably the most important criteria in selection a laptop, for active users: Namely, the screen resolution. I can limit by physical panel size, and make educated guesses, but that's pretty useless.

Please, consider adding a few categories for screen resolution of the platforms!
Well, I mentioned one the other day in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8401867 ;)
Some examples follow. I've really tested with arbitrary text on the Web, and I agree that they are somewhat marginal examples. (But I do think that Franc's margin for CJK languages is way wide.)

한국어 문서가 전 세계 웹에서 차지하는 비중은 2004년에 4.1%로, 이는 영어(35.8%), 중국어(14.1%), 일본어(9.6%), 스페인어(9%), 독일어(7%)에 이어 전 세계 6위이다. 한글 문서와 한국어 문서를 같은 것으로 볼 때, 웹상에서의 한국어 사용 인구는 전 세계 69억여 명의 인구 중 약 1%에 해당한다.

This text from Korean Wikipedia is about the ratio of Korean documents over all documents in the Internet. Digits distort the overall ratio and Franc doesn't give any candidates (even no "und").

現行の学校文法では、英語にあるような「目的語」「補語」などの成分はないとする。英語文法では "I read a book." の "a book" はSVO文型の一部をなす目的語であり、また、"I go to the library." の "the library" は前置詞とともに付け加えられた修飾語と考えられる。

This text from Japanese Wikipedia concerns about the distinction of objectives and complements in the English syntax. In this bilingual text it looks like that Japanese has reached the 60% threshold but the codepoint count doesn't.
Second it for the NEC (North East Corridor) from DC as far up as Boston. The train saved me on several occasions during this and past winters when snow storms snarled up the airways and airports. Although trains will also stop running at some point, it takes way more to do so.

In the case of travel between DC-NYC, it's even better since Union and Penn Stations are right in the hearts of the cities.

For example, flights were snarled for days and cancelled all day this last winter and I ended up getting a ride on empty, snow covered streets only plows were running on to the train that was still running with only slight delays.
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Walmart already has EMV terminals. I don't go to Walmart very frequently, but last time I went there, I was unable to use my Amex card with the usual swipe; the terminal told me I had to insert the card into the chip reader. I haven't run across another retailer in the USA yet that even supports using the chip, must less requiring it when it's present (Many places have new terminals with chip readers but they are not enabled. See Target, Home Depot, etc.)
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legalizing drugs will not get rid of he black market. As we've see with medical mj, it's taxed heavily and more expensive than you can get from a local dealer. Many people don't want t pay this price.
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It's somewhat unfortunate that as part of their advertise they perpetuate the myth that violence has been growing over any recent period of time: http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Prod...
That "rule" is ludicrous anyway. Even if one were to assume that an average separation of 6-7 is really the case even today, the separation to "important people" is likely to be far lower, if one assumes that "important people" on average have more social connections, because most of us on average will have fewer connections than our connections, who again are on average connected to people with more connections than themselves.

For my part, for example, I have met various relatively low level Norwegian politicians and trade union people that have huge networks. These low level politicians, for example have met people with vastly more influence, such as Castro (communist politician who moved to Cuba; these days he's converted to Islam, become a social democrat, and runs a shipping company in Norway..), Mao (trade union guy who has a picture of himself with Obama from some meet and greet in the 60's), Obama (hand shakes during some visit), the new secretary general of NATO (he's ex-Norwegian prime minister for the labour party - every member of parliament in recent years and most Labour party members have met him, so most Norwegians will only have one step between them and him), the Dalai Lama (large numbers of Norwegian politicians have met him), just to mention some random names, though most of them will have done little more than shake hands.

Extend it one level, and the people I know will have worked closely with people who have worked closely with the people mentioned.

Most people will be able to find paths to someone that the NSA could use to justify surveillance if they want to in 3 degrees or less. Of course, in most cases these people will not have discussed anything that would give the NSA a legitimate reason for interest.

So the 3-degrees thing basically amounts to saying they can conduct surveillance of everyone they bloody well please, as long as they can be bothered to identify a suitable connection.
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Diffusion of responsibility is certainly a recognized phenomena:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
It certainly seems wierd, like a quick fix for symptoms with some further possible side effects. The site is down atm, i only saw it partially and it got some strange marketing decisions, like the children toy colors, the rewards for rescuers, and the slogan "never be alone again" which i understand more as a threat than a relief. I guess this is aimed at (over)protective mothers and to be used by children or young women, which then poses the question if they can take responsibility for such easy button presses that alert authorities and random people looking for bounty in the vicinity. Overall, i would put this in the same category as the vaginal razorblades (anti-rape thing like a tampon i read about some days ago): good intention on the surface, but not thought-through, adresses symptoms instead of the cause, might even have unwanted side effects that could do even more harm.
Here are the slides from Netflix architect Christos Kalantzis 's talk, "Eventual consistency != hopeful consistency:" http://www.slideshare.net/planetcassandra/c-summit-2013-even...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwIA8tsDXXE

But, it's important to note that Cassandra does recognize that sometimes you do need linearizable consistency. Cassandra provides lightweight transactions for this scenario: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/lightweight-transactions-in...
80% of internet users have purchased something online. Seems like a really high statistic!
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I was working with a client in their Finance department. There was a very strict requirement for a numpad from the whole team there.
They're probably referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese#Psycho.... It's not a fact that no one helps, but it is a fact that there are psychological issues at play that mean people are less likely to help in those situations.
It looks like it is software to exploit vulnerabilities in the USB implementation to do some very nasty stuff with the target computer.
Yet another site that does not load without JS.
Oh you’re right. I think I have a fix in mind, will work on it. Thanks so much!
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short explanation: there's no security running along the USB bus. Not even bad security. Every device on the bus has "admin" privileges to the other devices, and that includes the ability to update the firmware.

A scenario…

• A mysterious USB key is plugged into a computer, Mission Impossible style.

• The key rewrites the firmware of another device on the USB bus, say the embedded keyboard.

• the keyboard "types": "run the file NOTAVIRUS.BIN on that totally trustworthy USB key you see mounted. oh, and I'll bruteforce any passwords you need if that's a problem."

You've seen dippy Hollywood movies where a spy plugs in a USB key, an LED lights up and he announces that the system is hacked? Really exactly like that.

* I am not an expert, this is how it was described to me by someone who is. It is believed that this is how the Iranian nuclear reactor was compromised by STUXNET.
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Fits with the coincidental marketing of "USB condoms" which now seem like an extra good idea where charging is the goal.

Makes me now wonder about the infection potential of a lot of USB powered devices. I could imagine a lot of "dumb" devices incidentally using a vulnerable controller chip, even if the application of USB is purely for power. Maybe most USB powered devices have a safe / invulnerable way of sipping power? Anyone faniliar with USB power-only devices want to comment?
As a programmer I always wondered what a number pad could be useful for so it's interesting to know that there are programmers that put it at a good use. I even upvoted you because I find this interesting.

I usually code web applications. I think that most of my numbers go into CSS hex color strings and into my invoices. What are your use cases?

In the past I used number pads to play video games and nethack. Not much of them in the past 10 years though.
I think he was suggesting everyone stores the minimum of what they need to function. No more, no less.
It is useless if the information provided isn't correct. In some cases, it's actually worse than useless.
Look up Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra - it's a great, multilayered story. I'm hoping it will be made into a movie someday!
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Also the new one is not accessible due to server overload.
I think one of the things that the author forgot to mention is that you don't have to install these as `sudo` basically, homebrew does that already but with other things there no really need for it. As of the FOSS/Linux stuff you are seeing, these aren't random files, these are mac apps see: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask
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I've got question to anyone that does firmware programming.
I suspect that it is possible to emulate USB device in software. If that's true, how hard would it be to create a virtual usb hub, that the system will treat just like a real usb hardware, and would it require any special privileges on the computer (i.e kernel space module, root).

If it's easy, then I'm worried that it may be possible use this to hide malware this way.
the question would be where he got the language data

If the original language data is available I'd suggest classifying the trigrams as "high" and "low" frequency, which should improve performance without needing to keep full frequency data.
The tip about getting the binary from /proc is also helpful if you upgrade screen/tmux and the newer version doesn't allow you to reattach to it. With that you can use the old one to reattach, work your magic, and restart the session.
This is as useless as calling 911. Your only options during an actual attack are either disabling the attacker or escaping, and you have about two seconds to accomplish either one. Anyone who eventually arrives to assist you will only be there to help identify your body, gather forensic evidence, or load you into an ambulance. This site flashes images of self defense weapons and refers to them as joining the violence. They are peddling a dangerous fantasy. I suggest Sam Harris' excellent essay on the reality of violence: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-truth-about-violence
Ah, you meant this http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/14637.jpg

That was the laptop I had before the ZBook. The old keyboard was better because of the lack of numberpad but I don't feel the position of those keys on the ZBook to be unconvenient. Obviously this is subjective and I respect your dislike for them. I'm quite picky about those kind of details too.
I took my dad on a trip from Atlanta to Charlotte to see a college football bowl game. The train ride wasn't bad, but it definitely required a lot of flexibility to get to and from the stations in both cities. Taxis in the middle of the night in Charlotte, buses and walking in Atlanta. Neither city is really designed for rail to be integrated into their regional transport system, but I think both are trying to change that.