skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing the rather well placed claim that people should not run the script blindly but indeed read the comments of the script, and only use the parts that they want to. This is an Administrators' script - most admins worth their salt read the scripts they're about to run, especially if bold claims are being made about their efficacy.

There are lots of great things to learn in the settings being tweaked in this script ..
Looks interesting, but FAQ requires login???

Also, isn't it a problem that the testers are likely not motivated in any way similar to potential customers?
Calculator division, and lab instruments divison?
Let me add some current history. Verizon's entire FiOS network is based on a Title II, common carriage, telecommunications classification-- that's right, for those following Net Neutrality, while Verizon et al screams about Title II, their networks are ALL Title II.. why?

The scam is simple -- by using title II, they get to charge local phone customers rate increases to pay for the fiber optics. Verizon also dumps the construction budgets into the utility networks for its wires to the cell towers and even the 'special access wires' -- which are also classified as Title II. – Title II, then is a cash machine.

And Verizon never told the FCC, the courts, or the public about this.

But the revenues don’t go back to the utility—they appear to go into a “black hole” accounting…

In tracking Verizon New York, we found that there were actually statements made about raising rates for the ‘massive deployment of fiber optics’ in 2009, which was the third increase since 2006.

The increases, including the additional taxes, fees and surcharges (many of which are also either revenues to Verizon or ‘pass-through’ taxes that are on Verizon but charge customers), and the increases to all calling features, etc – came to about $4.5 billion extra since 2006.

However, the data – Verizon stopped publishing its SEC-based state reports in 2010, the FCC stopped publishing the data in 2007, but NY State required an annual report – but it only shows the revenues and expenses for the utility.

The ‘black hole’ funds were uncovered when comparing the state-based SEC reports with the State-filed annual reports; in just New York, in just 2009, there was an additional $2.7 billion in revenues – but no extra construction costs to this ‘black hole revenue.

Verizon then, shows losses in the utility, claiming the networks are uneconomical to upgrade. But the losses are created based on this flow money—the ‘affiliate’ companies, like Verizon Wireless or Verizon Online or Verizon Business, pay less than market prices and have the construction budgets dumped on the regulated side—lowering revenues and adding expenses and creating manipulated losses.

Verizon NY alone showed about $11 billion in losses, about 2 billion a year from 2008…about $5 billion in tax savings… Ie, Verizon New York paid no income taxes since 2008 or earlier.

This is happening in every Verizon state, and we assume AT&T as well but they aren’t required to supply basic data anymore. AT&T stopped publishing its SEC reports a decade ago or more, and most, if not all states, don’t require the level of financials needed to examine this flow of money.

This new financial shell game started to pick up speed after the networks were closed to competition around 2005.

So, on top of the original ‘commitments’ and the extra money that’s been collected since the 1990’s, as no state ever went back and got the money or refunds to even stopped the excess profits, this new financial-game puts the original overcharging customers as a very low number as it doesn’t account for the steriod-based, Title II, cash machine.
Encrypted drives typically store the literal en/decryption key (derived from your password or credentials) and whatever salt is necessary on a chip. Nuking that information effectively makes your data unrecoverable, because it's no longer distinguishable from noise.

I assume "flipped" is a translation error for "cleared" or "randomized", especially given typos like "instantaineously".
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Expanding the functionality of the app. The first iteration will be very simple with only a few features.
Evernote looks light on the wallet next to such prices:

Free
Starting at 20 notes
Up to 70 notes (10 notes per referral)

Pro
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Starting at $9.99/month

Src.: http://www.voogla.com/pricing
First, I'm not working on the startup while I'm "at work" (even though that entire concept is kind of bullshit nowadays with 24/7 work)...I'm certainly not working on it on company equipment, using any company resources, or talking to company clients.

Second, the startup is not in the same business as my employer. My company doesn't sell stuff like this. My company is a big enough behemoth that it's conceivable in the future that they could sell anything, but they don't sell anything like this now and their current direction isn't anywhere near this.

The contract states they own anything related to my work or what the company does. It's be a HELL of a stretch to say what I'm working on is related to my work or what the company does (or plausibly plans to do).

I'm sure a lawyer will gladly argue in favor of the company, but clearly the spirit of the contract is that I don't steal company time, resources or clients to end up competing with my company -- that's not at all whatsoever what I'm talking about here.

So, to answer your question, if I found out an employee was doing things which had nothing to do with my company on the side, I wouldn't give a shit -- and furthermore, I'd expect it because that's what happens in silicon valley.
Friendly reminder: don't embed images from other people's websites, especially if you're looking to get on HN/Slashdot/reddit/whatever.

First, it's rude. The owner of the second website has to deal with the burden of hosting traffic on your site and gets nothing in return. In this case, the blog kept downloading an image from siliconpr0n.org, effectively DoSing the website and taking it offline. Horrible. Hopefully tomorrow everything is back to normal and the owner of siliconpr0n.org isn't stuck with a massive bill from his host.

Second, there's no guarantee the image will stay online. Maybe the directory structure on the site will get reorganized or something. Maybe the website will go offline for good, only to get picked up by a domain squatter. Maybe the owner of the website will decide to change the direct-linked image to something else you weren't expecting. You have no idea.
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You are correct, and downandout is wrong. The same fixed point calculation that he/she makes with fractional reserve banking is true of the p2p loans marketplace as well. Your original calculation (reserve requirement of 10% -> $100 of deposits becomes $90 of loans) is correct.

Edit: Downandout isn't wrong, it's the GP userbmf that is, since he/she said that market lenders aren't banks and "cannot use fractional reserve banking", which is a ill-defined statement. I erroneously assumed that the two users were the same. My apologies.
My father worked for DEC; when it got bought out by Compaq, he worked for Compaq; when that got bought out by HP, he worked for HP (and still does).

He's an enterprise-level field-service tech. He's the go-to guy for most HPs largest clients in Minnesota (UHG, USPS, 3M, UMN all come to mind), and in the Upper-Midwest.

He's always said that DEC did the most incredible stuff out of all the generations of hardware he's seen.
Folding could be partially automated based on language grammar. It could also try to learn from your own manual folds.
Interesting that the flags are stored like the other registers. I had always assumed that the flag bits would be "spread out" across parts of the ALU, and only combined with the accumulator into a virtual register when you read the AF register. In fact they are stored in the register file and copied to and from the ALU on every(?) operation.
25 years ago, billions of people could place international phone calls.
You're serious? Mark Hurd is a bean counter, not a technologist. Meg is not perfect, but she's vastly better than Hurd.

(HP employee)
See A Short History of HP:

http://www.icanbarelydraw.com/comic/365
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Lexicon-based approaches are better than all these approaches. The difference between MaxEnt and NB is similar (the same?) as a binomial/multinomial regression. They have all of the drawbacks and only a few of the benefits. A decent word list would be about as accurate as a regression (70% or so). Account for syntax and it will get you higher.
Nice things, but i'am still thinking that it's a kind of masochism to do that?
It's Blue Screen past 4.
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Mandos can be configured to be not automatic by setting the “approved_by_default” option for a client to “False” in the clients.conf file; See mandos-clients.conf(5): (http://www.recompile.se/mandos/man/mandos-clients.conf.5).

You also need to adjust the “approval_delay” setting.
Since I started being a digital nomad 10 months ago, people have wanted to hear more about my travels. I always wanted to start building something like this, because it's nicer than saying "Singapore for 4 weeks, Hong Kong for 2 weeks, Seoul for 9 weeks, ..." Just show them the map and they can learn whatever they want to! Thanks so much for building this and keeping it open source.

Will share images or data when I compile mine when I get the time.
As of right now there's a 28k sell wall on bitstamp which might be forcing prices down a tad. Looks like someone's trying to buy some coins on the cheap, but I'm no expert in these things.

http://i.imgur.com/lmcu15f.png
You mean KeySight?
Also wondering if VTOL multi rotor/fixed wing hybrids could be scaled up
I'm pretty sure Apple never claimed to be able to stop the NSA. Walling off any obvious back doors both for itself and anyone else that may want access through said door is not the same as saying that what was once a house is now a reinforced bank vault.
Yeah, the OS should already treat any archive-type file as a filesystem automatically. So you can "cd" into a .zip, .tar or .ext4 file (no mount -o loop necessary). Applications have some support for this (MC and emacs in UNIX or Windows Explorer), but it should really be in the OS.
Can anyone speak to SSD in OpenBSD? My understanding is that trim support is not supported in OpenBSD (http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?p=51377). That makes me a little worried about the potential to wear out an SSD drive in a workstation. The thread I linked discusses reducing some writes by using softdeps and the like, is that enough to make this a non-issue?
> downandout is wrong.

Did I say that it didn't apply to p2p loans? It, of course, applies to any money that can be a new deposit. And how exactly am I wrong? The concept of the money multiplier is pretty well documented. There's even a chart that I linked to.
Pretty although unsure at this point on how practical it is, but definitely a great idea!
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What you are describing about banks is outright theft, which under any system would be punished.

Even if courts did not exist, very few business would be that dumb to steal from their customers, because once details of it were known to the public, all rational customers would take their money out of the bank and it would eventually go out of business.
Nice! :)

The only suggestion for improvement I can offer is to think through if it makes sense to "renormalize" the heatmap when I move the map or zoom the map. The current "normalization" has two for me unexpected effects:

a) My home and office is not colored "warmer" than many other places in my home town, although I bet I spend 90% of my time in those two places, and

b) I can see that I've been e.g. to Vienna, but when I zoom in I can't see anything - presumably because I've spent so little time there compared to my home town.

Some sort of "renormalization" of the heatmap would probably "fix"/change that.
Vertical integration makes good sense, but I don't think that's the situation HP is in. This is more of a horizontal split up. It does mean they can apply less collective pressure on component providers, but only to the extent that those business have overlapping needs. So one way to clarify the parent's point is that businesses should split up when they sell to different markets. I think the previous hesitation to take that step was the degree to which HP actually did have some (not hugely convincing) sales synergy between its server and printer businesses.
Might not be the best think to take with you when you board a plane.
No. Deposits are what are used to "lever" up in the first place. If a bank lends out $125 for every $100 that it gets in deposits, where is the other $25 coming from? The answer is that it comes from equity.

Banks have two sets of inputs:

(1) Equity (i.e. the owners of the bank put up capital. This is great because it requires them to have 'skin in the game')

(2) Incoming debt (i.e. depositors give them money.).

They have two outputs:

(3) Outgoing debt (i.e. the loans the bank makes out to people, in the form of mortgages, small business loans, lines of credit, etc.)

(4) Reserves (money they have to keep on hand)

Notice that as an accounting identity, we must have that (1) + (2) = (3) + (4).

Leverage limits essentially limit the ratio (2):(1). For example, a leverage limit of 9:1 means that a bank lends out $100 has to source at least $10 of that from equity, and at most $90 of that from incoming debt.

Fractional reserve limits essentially limit the ratio (3):(4). As "user downandout shows in a sister thread to this one, this can be used to determine a "multiplier" for the economy as a whole, since for a nonzero limit, there is a closed form fixed point solution maximum multiplier ratio in the economy as a whole. (Although in practice the "true" multiplier can be lower since people might stuff their mattresses with money, or have lots of loose change lying around, etc.).

Note that the fractional reserve limits are something that is enforced on banks by the government to limit the multiplier. This restriction doesn't exist on P2P lenders (as of yet), and so if any thing, it means that P2P lenders are even freer to do bad things (such as have no reserves on hand at all).
1. Use a GSM yammer to prevent self-destruction by SMS.

2. Steal the laptop and get out of the range of the token quickly to prevent self-destruction via the token. I could not find how drive and token communicate but you can probably jam it, too, for example Bluetooth.

3. Keep the battery charged to prevent self-destruction by low battery level and set up a femto cell - without connection to the real GSM net, of course - to prevent self-destruction by GSM starvation and SMS.

Now you should at least have all the time you need.
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why would someone have so much of patience/energy/motivation to write it all over an answer to a question in Quora?

He/She has certainly done a wonderful job but just curios at alternatives and reasons for choices they made..

Why not just refer to an article in the series of ... 'What every programmer should know about ...'
I know, and that is kind of my point. I am not saying that money remittance is impossible without BTC. I am saying that it makes it so much easier and accessible that it's impossible to ignore.

Sending money overseas today is possible, but comparing Paypal/Western Union with BTC is the same as comparing AT&T (the original one) with Skype.
Thanks a lot!

Craiglist has this stigma associated with it so I generally try to avoid it. But maybe I will give it a try!
How to make an oscillator: Create a triangle out of XOR cells. It will all be white. Put a power cell next to the triangle.

A simpler oscillator consists of an XOR cell in the center, with a power cell below it, and two OR cells: one above, and one above and to the right.
These people who don't have bank accounts and credit cards have internet and computers though (and the knowledge to harden these computers against attack)? Is there a problem that Bitcoin solves that isn't better solved by M-Pesa?
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I always wonder why this kind of drive-internal encryption comes up in serious discussions. To me it makes no sense whatsoever: I have no way of checking if the drive actually encrypts the data, I don't know what happens to my password, where is it stored, who else gets access to it (or my data), etc.

How can anyone consider this "transparent" encryption to be secure?
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There's a trick for those side-by-side stills without a flicker. If able, go cross-eyed focusing between them to converge upon a 'third' image. If you've done stereograms, you'll know. Differences will show up easily as hazy and not so static if you gaze around a bit.

This is also related to how horrible eye witness testimony can be. There are good demonstrations of change blindness on Youtube. The human brain is incredibly awful at visual recall like this, regardless of advanced warning to concentrate. The longer a delay, such as by inserting a black frame in between, or diversion, the harder it is to spot differences between scenes. Here's a classic:

"Test Your Awareness : Whodunnit?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QNEQLA
John Carmack trying to figure out how to get Samsung to believe him on display technology fills me with confidence. That dude is clearly thinking very hard about how to make everyone happy to encourage technology to push forward.
Very simply done. What were the lessons? What was the design process like?
That would be very interesting indeed. Even Plan 9 requires you to mount tar files with a special command instead of simply typing "cd file.tar".

The Plan 9 developers were conservative about preserving the semantics of commands like "cd", so that the system did not diverge too greatly from Unix. Instead, the equivalent of double-clicking on a file in Windows Explorer is handled by right clicking on a file in Acme. Acme sends the filename to something called the "Plumber", which then uses rules to decide what to do with the file:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/using_plumbing/
From my light experience of watching this Bitcoin thing for the last year, yes, you're right on target. Merchant "adoption" of Bitcoin for purchase is mostly hype. If I recall correctly Overstock.com does about only 10% of their sales in Bitcoin.
The former is in reality the same. It's just splitting the consumer division off (selling it to current share holders) is much easier than trying to find a buyer for it.
Hey, not everyone can keep up with the pace of their name changes. It's a moving target.
Yea, I was kind of surprised when he said college students shouldn't start startups.

This could be partially because 10 years ago, PG thought startups were undervalued in society and wanted to preach them as a valid alternative route to success. Now startups are the new Pogs, with everybody in Intro to CS wanting to be a part of their college's official startup program. So maybe now he thinks they're overvalued and wants college kids to know that even if they could reach that "The Social Network"-ian dream (which, by definition, a majority of them can't), it wouldn't be worth it and they should enjoy their carefree life a little more before they bite off more than they can chew.

Or, like brudgers said, maybe it's a sign of personal progression. The overactive young PG wanted people to live the obsessively fast lifestyle like he did, but now the older and wiser PG thinks it wouldn't have done him too much harm if he spent a couple of more years crashing in random hotels around Beijing. Certainly the more amusing of explanations, I guess.
Well, it's more likely to get in given that nobody is really pushing aufs any more. overlayfs is less ambitious and less featureful, which can of course be a big advantage when trying to get it in to the kernel.
Further more, at the end the author say he has started a blog on Quora about chip architecture. No idea why anyone would post this stuff on anything other than their own domain is beyond me.
And that's why we must understand that at executive level gender does not matter. What matters is strategy and ability to execute. When HP announced "Meg Whitman" as CEO everyone was so voraciously attacking how HP is is being in bad condition because of male CEOs.
Being male does not matter. Whitman has failed tremendously. Not only HP has laid off thousands of people from US ( some of them I knew personally very well ) and increased offshoring in India and Philippines but also they now seriously lack true culture of invention.
I studied APM at Stanford and HP case study was presented repeatedly as how it went from Inventor's Org. to control structured Org.
I was recruiting at major ( top 20 ) universities and from many places I got feedback that young people deliberately avoid joining HP. Those who have left in HP are in survival mode and always worrying if they are next in round of layoffs.

So when feminists advocates claim that female CEOs are better than male CEO answer is simply NO. At highest level you want someone who can not only steer the ship but take everyone along with you without loosing them.

If I was major investor in HP, first thing I would ask is Whitman be removed from CEO position. Get new energy in. Since cultural changes don't happen overnight implement strategies to go from Operational ( Control ) based Organization to Inventor's Org.

I will certainly not consider next CEO based on gender and would not bring someone in just because she has vagina.

PS - Sorry if this came as too bold but I could not resist myself.
> The post is attacking a straw man.

It's a straw man, but not his straw man. Pull up popular press articles about iOS8's disk encryption and you'll find that a disturbing number of them uncritically claim that it's meant to thwart the NSA. It's been driving me crazy.
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This is absolutely what I wanted an DK2 for. To see exactly how far we are away from this application, and think about improvements for it.

My dream is a world where we eliminate physical displays from our computers altogether.

But we're definitely not there yet - it's going to 8, maybe 12K displays in a Rift to get the necessary resolution. But once it's viable, yeah, I hope to never buy another computer monitor again.
That world is several years away, if it ever exists. Even then, it's a cash equivalent unless they do business with vendors that stop denominating in USD or hold BTC long-term.
Well, that at least sets a minimum financial barrier. The main problem with that plan is that you'd have to know that your target has this kind of protection beforehand.
You're assuming I'm not affiliated with siliconpr0n.

I'm actually one of the main contributors to the site and took a lot of the photos on it, just not that particular one. John (my friend who actually admins the server) is fully aware of the situation and just raised the resource limits to counter the DoS. If either of us uses an image somewhere that we expect to stay online for a while, we make a point of leaving it in place when reorganizing directory structures etc.
VR enabled FreeCAD would actually do something like this. Everything in that is represented as Python code.