skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Macs have by far the best build quality for the price, with great displays and hardware as well. They can run most all of the dev tools that you can run on Linux(yeah there is always going to be that one person yelling about X specific thing that doesn't work as it should).

Recently I'm doing iOS dev and you have to use a Mac unless you plan on emulating. iOS strikes me as a platform that so-called hackers would like, seeing as how mobile is a fairly new frontier with unique and undiscovered uses, and Apple is always putting out new iPhones with interesting new hardware and APIs, unlike boring old CRUD webapps and desktop apps which have been stale for years. I was just blown away this week with the amount of insane stuff you can do using GPU hardware acceleration on the newer (5+) iPhones, its like everyone is carrying these little powerhouses around in their pockets. Though I guess you could also say that the closedness of the platform and ecosystem would be repellent to hackers, I personally don't get my panties in a bunch about this, I just like making cool stuff.
I think this should already be possible under linux via udev rules.

It just needs to be wrapped in a convenient tool.

Might be worth it to at least extend the time span that an attacker would need if he had physical access to your laptop/smartphone.
Feature requests should be made using the link at the bottom of this page [and many other HN pages].

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Mars could be a laboratory for learning to do these things. As a species, we might feel more comfortable trying exotic methods of controlling the climate on Mars than we might here on Earth. Though I am not sure what the ethics are for terraforming a planet which does not appear to currently have life, it might be less ethically and practically hazardous to experiment with global-scale climate alterations on Mars. Such experiments might have fewer severe consequences on Mars (in terms of flora/fauna extinctions, human deaths, etc.) than a similar experiment on Earth.
As someone in the mid-30s and up range, many of us were shaking our heads at the over sharing and privacy implications of those younger - at least here in the states.

Not sure where you feel 30-40s care less about privacy than others.
> You only ever need it to be able to think faster about certain advanced topics

This (and pretty much only this - you don't need rote learning to become fluent in a language, as evidenced by the way people learn their first language). Rote learning is what in tech we call caching things.

I very much prefer calling it like that, because it immediately highlights some benefits and drawbacks of the method:

- you cache things for quicker access, therefore it enables you to think faster

- the biggest benefit comes from caching things that are most frequently accessed; therefore learning multiplication table makes sense, it significantly speeds up every math you do in your head explicitly

- rote learning basics of a given field can help you learn it faster as again, the basic facts you need will be readily available in cache

- this matters because a lot of thinking people do has timeouts (aka "power of will", "energy", "patience", "curiosity") - if figuring out some connections between pieces of knowledge takes too long, you will get frustrated and give up early

- rote learning of history dates usually makes little sense because you end up caching vertices of a graph, while what you really care about are edges and traversing

- there is only so much you can fit in cache without losing its effectiveness, so memorize what matters, not everything

- rote learning is caching things, not developing understanding

- spaced repetition is a hack to force your brain from removing a particular information from cache prematurely; after few iterations it will understand that this piece of information you keep repeating is important and should stay cached

Also note that various memorization techniques are basically very fancy names for data structures optimized for human brains. For instance, "mnemonic link system" (aka. "chain method") is basically a linked list, where you use stories to build cons cells. There are variants of this method that are essentially doubly-linked lists or skip lists, and then you have other methods that implement association lists ("memory palace"), hash tables, etc.

This is important because you can apply knowledge about those data structures to evaluating those memorization techniques. For example, the reason it's difficult to insert another item in the middle or at the end of the list memorized with "chain method" technique is that you have to first traverse linked link to the place of insertion and then re-cons it there (develop two additional stories). It suggests that a/ maybe try to add new elements to the beginning of the list, and b/ you shouldn't use the "chain method" for remembering things you'll need to have random access to.
I don't use either. I build my stuff manually, and that way I also contribute upstream if there is a problem with some software not building on Mac OS X out of the box.

Macports was perhaps necessary a while back, when most people didn't realize Mac OS X was just another BSD based UNIX. Now that the word is out, most software builds without a hitch.

And honestly if you can't download a source tar archive and compile it yourself with your own customizations, then don't call yourself a hacker.
There's an easier way than climate control - it's called a pipeline. I'm quite astonished that the richest state in one of the richest countries in the world can't sort this out.
It was much the same for me with quantum physics. The theory was fine, but the maths was just so much memorisation that I completely lost all enthusiasm. I still get the chills thinking about 4 hour exams with only a single question on them that we pretty much just had to memorise the answer for in advance.
Well that's the weakest excuse for ordering someone to be murdered I've read today
An interesting side effect of this is that it shows once again why (naive implementations of) international domain names presented such a large security risk. Just draw an "A" and look at the results...
I'd say the prime proof of true learning is to have taught someone else to put in to action what you have learnt.

The "put forth" in the above is not entirely clear to me but I imagine that fits in there as a sub-division.
The mutation was subtle—only one nucleotide removed from the typical FOXP2 sequence—but the resulting language impairment was substantial.

I wonder what kind of superpower-like abilities we're just one nucleotide away from.

OK, maybe "superpower" is too much. What I mean is this: what if the "normal" version of FOXP2 was the one without the nucleotide? People with that extra nucleotide would be seen as geniuses.
Surely good content being upvoted is what should happen? From
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity
While I understand well how Bitcoin works, I do not understand what are practical ramifications of going with Straight instead of Bitpay.

Selling BTC manually on some exchange? Some AML/KML stuff?
California is the only US state where it's completely illegal to own an assault weapon. Something about that doesn't sit right with me, though you can take that with a grain of salt cause I'm from Michigan.
> Looks like you've deployed more electrons to complain about my choice of phrase than I spent writing it. Does that qualify as irony, hypocrisy, or both?

Oh sorry did my comment also "violently offend" you? People are offended by a lot of things these days. I think it's worth pointing out when the word is used frivolously - because it's an important word.
What do you think could be done to improve the UI? And did you check out the tutorials? https://www.loggur.com/tutorials
>> I switched to Applied Math and aced it.

What sort of integration and differentiation were you doing originally that is not included in an applied math curriculum?
How is this not front page with 63 votes and only 7hs? (Better than several FP entries)

One thing was to put below fold the flagged stories, but this is plain censorship.

We have to learn about the bad sides of the startup industry to grow. Else this will keep repeating.
Yes but the parent comment is about installing in minutes vs hours vs days. I proposed my story where it took hours to download Xcode and eventually days to fully get my system setup.

I also once had Fibre then moved to a bigger city without Fibre.

Who doesn't say linux doesn't take days to setup?

I say my OSX took days to setup, if you have a counter anecdote then elaborate.
MOBILE COMMERCE: NEW FRONTIERS FOR BUSINESS
I'm gonna trust this and put a couple of these players on my team for the weekend!
RaiseYourIQ Launches Four New Brain Training Games
This is useful advice. Thank you.

How important are references or building a portfolio? And what do you tell clients to convince them to pick you and your rates?
A social fix would probably be cheaper than a technological fix.

They stated the real core of the problem at the beginning of the article: they cannot afford to move and they cannot sell their house. If you could restore that option, you wouldn't need to solve drought.
Infosys Visa Fraud Whistleblower Files New Lawsuit Seeking Damages
I think he has several other charges though, including multiple counts of solicitation to commit murder.

Nope, most were dropped before the indictment. Only one (in Maryland) remains: http://freeross.org/correction-of-our-report-on-the-indictme...
I used to joke that they had a big can of "mensa spices" that they put in everything, making it all taste the same, no matter what it was originally.
76M Households, 7M Small Businesses Affected in JPMorgan Breach
I know it's anecdotal. It's just based on personal observation of my relatives whenever I travel back to the u.s. The oldest and the youngest seem to be the most paranoid about making information public and I think for different reasons. The youngest probably don't want their parents and relatives to know what's happening in their private lives and the oldest are just paranoid of technology.
What do you think of nciku.com?
How Airbnb Used Amazon Web Services to Conquer the Rental Market
The FBI owes me 1 bitcoin.
I might be wrong, but I believe most passenger airlines currently have it onboard.

It's supposedly required to be on board in the very near future.
Nicaraguan Sign Language, spontaneously developed by deaf children http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language This was a community; whereas individually isolated children have not developed language independently.

A module can be functional, in that it behaves as a module even if not implemented as one (and certainly need not an isomorphism between genes and anatomical or behavioural features).

Chomsky argues for theories that make sense; whereas Norvig accepts impenetrable machine learning model as theories. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/norvig-vs-chomsky-and-the-f...

Unfortunately, biology is messy. But I think we should at least try to decompose it into what it is trying to do.
The tourist map of laptops
Some other useful unicode websites:

http://www.amp-what.com/

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/index.htm

(I've added the above as search engines in Chrome with short mnemonics for the keyword.)

There's also:

http://unicode.johnholtripley.co.uk/ -- mobile unicode support tables

http://unicodinator.com/

http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode -- emoji :D

http://character-code.com/

http://panmental.de/symbols/info.htm

and of course:

http://copypastecharacter.com/

Want more unicode resources? There's a list of other resources here:

http://joewlarson.com/blog/2014/01/01/useful-unicode-resourc...
In the past I used to but have since moved on the ElasticSearch.

I found the scaling not to be as easy as they led to believe. I also constantly bounced against the 10mb limit of the aggregation framework.

My biggest gripe, however, was data storage. It uses way more data then it should and it doesn't free up disk space if you delete data. For my use case (web analytics) it was a dud.

Supposedly TokuMX fixes many of the problems but I had already migrated to ES when I found out about it.
I first understood symbolic derivation after implementing code to apply the rules we'd learned (then I derailed completely and turned the expression evaluator I'd written for it into the core of a compiler).

All through primary school and most of high school, I stayed well ahead of the curve in maths because I could figure most things out from what we'd already learned, and finding algorithms was easier than memorisation.

E.g. I remember being given the task to sum all numbers from 1 to 100, and figuring out the algorithm for summing any series from 1 to n in time to be able to be intolerably smug about how quickly I had the result (I must have been 14-15 at the time so it was nothing out of the ordinary - the teacher assigned the task explicitly to see if anyone would find shortcuts or the formula). I then proceeded to spend the rest of the lesson figuring out how to modify it for all odd numbers, even numbers and various other classes of numbers. Up until then, that was how I spent most of my lessons, and my teachers tended to encourage it.

I lost most interest in maths when the teaching turned to become more about memorisation, and I was not taught the skills needed to figure out the underlying rules to be able to compensate for not memorising. If I'd been more interested, and invested the time in finding suitable resources myself, I'm sure I could've kept up, but it was still "just school" to me, even though I enjoyed math lessons until then.

It went from being my favourite topic to being something I actively avoided because of this.
Yeah, I just tried it with the inverted question mark (¿) and interrobang (‽) -- both attempts had the correct glyph for the first result.

Maybe we're training it?
Was this a product of Amtrak hiring writers? http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/feb/27/amtra...
Introducing Modelling by Example
The zettabyte datacenter is public info afaik
After the same amount of time I'd say our code is of the same quality (ie, after say X days working on something new).

I'll have written lost of lesser quality versions first and slowly approached an optimal solution. He'd never write anything until he understood it well enough to write the optimal solution first time.

Sometimes getting lesser quality versions done quickly is a good thing - certainly I was much more useful at getting a quick messy mostly working solution done (and sometimes that's all that is needed).

OTOH, if there is job big enough to amortise that startup cost and important enough that it had to be of the highest possible quality then I'd often give it to him.
Ok, let's think this through. The chip is embedded in the card, and works if you bring the card physically to the POS terminal.

The chip is not part of the equation for online transactions. So if everything but the chip is stolen, the bad guys are going to use the card online.

Check out http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/the-target-breach-by-the-..., particularly his "by the numbers" section:

0 – The number of customer cards that Chip-and-PIN-enabled terminals would have been able to stop the bad guys from stealing had Target put the technology in place prior to the breach (without end-to-end encryption of card data, the card numbers and expiration dates can still be stolen and used in online transactions).
>advising criminals on how to avoid law enforcement is obviously illegal and carries prison sentences.

Please see: 1st Amendment to the US Constitution.
Thr prohibition of drugs and organized crime are highly linked. Look at alchohol as an example. For all intents and purposes the war on drugs is a war against poor minoritites. All research has shown that it is not only innefectvie, but detrimental to families and communities.
> This is unlikely to have happened under a system of legal drugs. I've never heard of Walmart -- where legal products are sold -- putting out hits on people.

> The drugs laws are broken. They create perverse incentives.

So... when the laws are wrong, it's ok to murder people. It's the government's fault that you murdered people because they created perverse incentives, therefore you shouldn't go to jail for attempting to murder people?

[Edit] parent post responded to "tried to have people assassinated" with some rhetoric about perverse incentives. Sure with better incentives, it might not have happened, but the parent post comes across as giving DPR a free pass because the incentives were perverse.
What about gun-manuals? How about teaching people to drive? Teaching them to use a knife? Makeup classes? Wig instruction manuals? Zipping files with encryption? SSL?

The list goes on and on and on. All those things help criminals evade capture, or to commit some sort of crime. You've just drawn some arbitrary line (drivers education ok, tor setup advice bad) because you have absolutely no idea what makes one worse and the other not.
I'm wondering if the entertainment industry is the reason for which Hyper-CDROM[0] is not commercially available. If so, something is very wrong with the way society incentivises development and commercialization of new technologies.

[0]- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_CD-ROM
Or Phabricator, which has much more features: http://phabricator.org/
I liked the small amount of hot yoga I tried, but I was put off Bikram by learning about the man and decided I didn't want any more of my money to flow in the direction of such a sociopath/megalomaniac. I wish there were more non-Bikram hot yoga classes around, particularly in my neck of the woods!

Edit: for example, http://www.laweekly.com/2012-07-19/news/Bikram-yoga-greg-gum...
It is extremely dubious that even if we had the technological mean, we should do it. Because altering the rain pattern in California will have repercussions elsewhere we can't probably assess very well. There are already plenty of tensions when a river is used for irrigation in multiple countries. People downstream are usually unhappy if there are not enough water left...
You Are a Writer
This strikes me as the "right" response from aggrieved taxi drivers - instead of trying to quash competition via legislation, innovate in the space and use your key strengths (i.e., The Knowledge) to make your product more competitive.

I understand that The Knowledge is a big differentiator in London taxis, so it should be used as one. It shouldn't be decried as a hurdle.

If given the choice between an Uber driver who might not know London but will get me around cheaply, or a black cab driver who will know the way but charge me more, I might take my chances either way. But if the black cab driver can compete on price through a shared ride, then Uber isn't getting a look in.
> Several times I was planning to buy online, but since I found out on their site that their price is competitive and I can get it today, I ended up taking my car to a brick-and-mortar shop.

This is strong competitive advantage of brick&mortar stores. I actually buy more locally than on-line for the sole reason that I'm impatient and when I need something, I need it ASAP, so I prefer to just go and buy it instead of waiting few days (same-day delivery is not common in Poland yet).
> significant benefits over PS/2

Being able to unplug a keyboard and plug it back in again while the PC/server is on without the PC/server freezing is a pretty significant benefit.

Also... though not a tech limitation... the only access point for a PS/2 plug being at the far back of the PC case can be really annoying (though I wonder what would happen if you had 2 PS/2 ports on a board and you actually plugged in 2 keyboards... probably a small explosion).
Well, as they wrote, the mice have this slightly-different FOXP2:

> just three amino acids distinguish the human version of the FOXP2 protein from that of mice. When he engineered the FOXP2 genes of mice to produce proteins with the two human FOXP2 amino acids, it resulted in functional differences in brain areas critical for carrying out fine motor tasks and controlling muscle movements, as well as altered function in regions involved in sending and receiving reward signals. […] mice with human FOXP2 learned faster than regular mice.

I found it quite funny that there's been all these news reports on FOXP2 being "the language gene", and then someone goes ahead and makes mice with human FOXP2. Unfortunately the mice did not learn to speak :-)
Agreed, additionally in the common case of users behind http proxies, dns caches would commonly be populated.
Orleans is more of a distributed RPC framework using message passing than a true actor framework.
Take a look at BeeHive:
https://github.com/aliostad/BeeHive
You didn't respond to what your parent post said. You just opened up some canned rhetoric and dumped it onto the page.

Are you in agreement that it's ok for people to commit drug-related murders just because the War on Drugs is "bad m'kay?" Or should people be held accountable for their actions? Just because there are incentives to become a drug lord due to immoral laws doesn't mean that it's all of the sudden moral to become a drug lord. You seem to want to use your "War on Drugs is bad" opinion as an excuse for the choices that people make.
I can't understand how anyone would decide to lose their social life for anything. But then, perhaps I am simply not the right person to become a scholar. Sure, I can put an hour or two a day of personal time keeping up to date, but I wouldn't see myself going "alright, let's waste an entire year of personal time for non paid formations" ... If I really have to do some learning, I'm going to try to do it through projects which I am paid to do.
Scientists twist radio beams to send data at 32 Gb/sec (x30 faster than LTE)
Fake bomb detector husband jailed for three years
Outsourcing, nearshoring, remote team, the best choice for your startup?
"As a society, we literally force some of the most life-changing decisions on the people who are almost universally unprepared to evaluate their full set of options correctly."

Well said, but maybe part of the solution here is to stop treating teenagers the same way we treat infants and acknowledge they have an active and capable mind which we too often fail to encourage.
From the Brian Krebs article I referenced in another comment in this thread:

1 million – 3 million – The estimated number of cards stolen from Target that were successfully sold on the black market and used for fraud before issuing banks got around to canceling the rest (based on interviews with three different banks, which found that between 3-7 percent of all cards they were told by Visa/MasterCard were compromised actually ended up experiencing fraud).

So clearly they were able to use the cards.
> My point here is, if you're in the military now, you're volunteering for war. If you're an injured soldier, I'm sorry you got hurt. You didn't deserve it, because nobody deserves war and mayhem. But you volunteered for it. We need to stop saying "support the troops". We need to start saying "prevent kids from joining unjust war".

A thousand times yes! About a year ago I was flying in the US for a conference and I noticed a soldier in uniform getting bumped to business class. Apparently this is standard AA policy.

This led me to ask some questions about the military to some coworkers which turned into some sort of a fight. My position is exactly the same as yours: American society forces its most vulnerable to join unjust wars and then rather than provide them with welfare, social and medical services relies on this kind of obscene corporate brandwashing and cheap respect and support from the public.

I refuse to support the troops, we have to stop kids from being duped into joining the military altogether. But apparently this is a rather unpopular position, especially with those who have family members in the military.