skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By giving the entity money to enter their gym or use their money to pay for a house, aren't you saying, "I accept the terms you've set, even if they're absurd"?

Yes, that's precisely the point. At that point it's a contract playing out the way the contract was worded. In the case of the mortgage, the bank gets the keys and you don't get to keep living there.

Why should you both give up the house and continue to make payments on the loss of value that the house incurred between the purchase and what the bank eventually was able to sell the house for? That's what a secured loan is; the bank is betting that even if you default the security for the loan has value in excess of the loan balance. In this case the bank lost that bet. There's no morality involved.
Huh. works great for me in Safari on OS X - and normally I'm the first to complain about poor site behavior (particularly animated gifs which Safari is terrible with).
> why only hacking? What is true for a cyber-attack is true for a physical attack as well.

A couple reasons. One is that 0day vulnerabilities have no defense. There is no way to defend against certain vulnerabilities.

The second is that there are no international rules of conduct that apply to cyber warfare. After the Georgia/Russia event there was an effort to pass agreements in NATO but AFAIK nothing came of it.

The third is that that a successful attack usually means the victim remains in a compromised state for months or years (look up advanced persistent threat).

Finally, it's also usually the case that cyber attacks go completely undetected.

> the reason for defending something is because something is worth defending

Right, well the NSA does engage in defense as well. There's just less that can be done. There are hundreds of millions of devices in America with an extremely long tail of software/update state and configuration, saying nothing of networks. There's a ton to protect and even protecting small amounts is costly. This is one of the main reasons companies (and governments) are looking to the cloud - you can consolidate your threat area if you concentrate operations and run broadly the same configuration/state across many systems.

> thing being defended often includes a higher-moral-ground

But this is espionage and sabotage. It's dirty business. I don't think it's a good thing. I don't really advocate for it. I'm just here explaining the broader context of the Snowden disclosures and this article. If you missed it there was a link containing 37 other countries that have cyberwar programs (the list is not exhaustive).
Trite. A good a CS education will help you understand the relationships between abstractions like these and the physical circuitry that makes it possible. You don't get to just write the significance of this design pattern off because you can't grok it.

Playing the violin takes hard earned, tactile expertise to the specific end of being able to pay the violin (not required: the ability to read music, compose original pieces, or know how to physically construct a violin).

Separating implementation details from performant, coherent, composible abstractions is not just another skill to specialize in, not just another programing language specialization to acquire- it's the entire pursuit of our industry.
Long term memories are distinctly different. Rather than existing as patterns of potentials within a recurrent neural network like short term memories, long term memories are stored in the physical arrangement of the neurons themselves.

Long-term learning is an inherent property of any neural network, but short-term storage of patterns, and more importantly interpretation of those patterns, has quite a bit of overhead.
I wasn't claiming that he would definitely win, just that the failure to explore this issue gives a probable avenue of appeal. IANAL, of course, so I could be wrong.
I used to have the quad-S on all of my boarding passes from 2006 until around 2009 but I never committed any crimes. I never understood why it started or ended. I have a very ethnic last name so maybe that was why?
Please god of good urban planning give the force to Street Art the tagline "BUILD NARROW STREETS" everywhere
They went through the proper channels though, didn't they?
It's not my excuse. It's the NSA's (really the US Gov's) excuse.

I don't know where they draw the line.

If you didn't see it, there's a link on another branch of the conversation containing (at least) 37 other countries involved in cyberwarfare.

It's happening. I'm not excusing it. Honestly, it really sucks.
I was responding to someone who had been praising Ulbricht (who really looks like an awful person), so in that context I was questioning how one would compare him to Aaron Swartz (who I admire).

I think I was incorrect about the child pornography claim, though that was only one item in a list.

While we should also be looking at the Feds. who are certainly no angels, we shouldn't pretend that everyone the Feds. prosecute is a martyr. The problem is that the legal argument that the server was protected under the 4th was made poorly by the defense, and their arguments against the Feds. haven't been very strong. Perhaps there will be more time for the Feds. to ...clarify... their story of how they managed to get the IP, and if it's shown that they used illegal means then that evidence should be dismissed. So far the defense has looked as amateur as Ulricht's PHP programming, but we'll see. Their claim that since Ulricht wasn't actually engaging in the transactions personally, that he wasn't involved in a conspiracy made them look like they were, um, morons. There's even a chance that the Feds. can convict with the many other pieces evidence that they have that isn't hit by the Fruit of the poisonous tree (esp. in the pending case filed against Ulbricht in Maryland).

I'd like to see justice served on all fronts, with the Feds. nailed for their wrongdoings, and people like Ulbricht nailed as well.
Or it doesn't belong to him and he was still using it to break the law?
I agree [3] looks that way, but [4] certainly doesn't. The thread is filled with people who saw the debugging screens. I think this user's post history is the most informative:

http://www.reddit.com/user/sjadhdaskjd/comments/
Do you pay your interns? I'm deciding which position to apply for.
Pretty sure that kid in the blazer only ate desert!
I realise tastes do change as you age, but it was refreshing to see honest and polite food critics. Also hilarious.
Google helpouts too
Its still illegally obtained evidence even if the server belongs to him or not. Illegal evidence is still illegal evidence.
Adobe responds to reports of their spying (Digital Editions 4)
A month ago I was in San Diego and a homeless guy walking past me told me he was trying he kill himself and was looking for the path to the bridge. He kept walking, passing by a police officer. I told the police officer he might want to keep an eye on the guy and told him that he was trying to kill himself. The officer just said, "He should try harder." I was shocked.
You sure don't think much of the intelligence of the average German, Dutch, or... Emir..ati... person.
Winnipeg has the same thing.

My walk to work was about 3.5km, half of it inside. Winter? What winter! I laugh at your winter!
I wonder what's in the tip of the pyramid, shaded in black. Somethings I like to imagine:

- Kennedy was assassinated by CIA

- Aliens transferred technology to US government

- Former strongman of South Korea was assassinated by CIA

- List of other assassinations by CIA

- Iraq WMD was made up and knew about it but went ahead with war anyway.

etc...
I prefer the concept "easy to play, hard to master"
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The problem with the expanded freeways is that they create traffic. People that previously used public transportation now take the car because it's just faster. Then other people take that job on the other side of the city, or buy the house further out in the suburbs because the new lanes makes driving faster (for a while).

Of course it is good for the economy that people can commute effectively. But by building more lanes we are choosing spread out cities dominated by highways where no one wants to live and instead drive to work from the suburbs.

And there are alternatives. We can choose more densely populated cities where the streets are dominated by pedestrians and people commute shorter distances mostly by public transport. Much better for the environment, and most importantly, better for people.

And we are making that choice whenever we chose between using the land for new roads or using the land for new pedestrian buildings and railways.
The most important figure to monitor though is not mortality/car-distance, but traffic mortality/population. Let me rephrase that in plain English. Care about creating a safer car driving environment, but care even much more about your loved ones surviving traffic in good health.

In addition to lowering mortality/car-distance, one can reduce traffic mortality/population in two significant ways: shifting traffic from car to safer means of transport, and lowering total car-distance. This holds true both on individual and society level.

I'm going to deliberately provocate now by comparing to a very sensitive number. Just hoping it will wake up at least someone.

Improve road infrastructure safety to Dutch standards? Prevent over four 9/11's per year (12850 deaths).

Improve transportation culture to Dutch standards? Prevent up to eight 9/11's per year (24007 deaths).

data sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_September_11...
Las Vegas is perhaps the worst city on the planet for the carless. I've had many amusing incidents of attempting to walk places, where not just sidewalks, but roads simply do no go through.

LV, LA, and Miami are particularly appalling examples of US cities which have terrible pedestrian access.

That said, I've never seen as many people talking on their phone while driving as I saw last month in Reykjavik.
When I see concepts like transducers I'm always torn in two:

my theoretical side is really excited: reducing (pun intended) a bunch of different operations to a minimal set of basic, composable operations is an awesome intellectual challenge. I imagine how succinct, reusable and multipurpose could become my code.

my pragmatic side is skeptic: in functional programming it's a little step to end up with incomprehensible code, for me and my coworkers:

var inc = function(n) { return n + 1; };
var isEven = function(n) { return n % 2 == 0; };
var xf = comp(map(inc), filter(isEven));
console.log(into([], xf, [0,1,2,3,4])); // [2,4]

vs

var inc = function(n) { return n + 1; };
var isEven = function(n) { return n % 2 == 0; };
[0,1,2,3,4].map(inc).filter(isEven); // [2,4]

The latter is comprehensible by everyone (and no additional library).
Ok you iterate twice but if you really (REALLY) have performance problems, maybe you'd end up with something like this:

var input = [0,1,2,3,4];
var output = [];
var x;
for (var i = 0, len = input.length ; i < len ; i++ ) {
x = input[i] + 1; // map
if (x % 2 == 0) ouput.push(x); // filter
}
That's actually very incorrect.

Bond breakage is ALWAYS endothermic.
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZOm8L9oCwLMC&pg=PA202&lpg=P...

Edit: Sorry, I hate leaving one-sentence rebuttals.

The energy required to break the bonds are so low that in comparison, the energy released when the products of the reaction are formed is very high. This giant disparity in energy released at the same time creates a sharp increase of heat and light (boom).

Also, your company is pretty neat. Any way for me to directly contact you?
I agree that 8% is unrealistic, but it's what many pension plans are using. [1]

The article I linked to (found via a quick Google) discusses using values of 6.25% to 6.75%. But IMO even that is unlikely, because one of the traditional investment pillars for pension funds is "fixed income" aka bonds, and those are way under that. Thirty yr US Treasury paper is just over 3%. A moderately risky company I follow (low investment grade) recently issued thirty year paper for 5.75%. [2]

[1] http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy-policy/2014/04/17/public-...
[2] http://www.enscoplc.com/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Press-Releas...
Wonder why an Apple product wasn't on that target list. I'm sure it compromises a good sized population and likely valuable targets for compromise.
Exactly what I came here to say. Syncing services can be great, but should not be a replacement for proper backups.
SENTRY EAGLE and the 13 page draft (summarized in the article) is new.

SENTRY EAGLE is the protection program outlined jointly by the NSA and the U.S. Strategic Command.

The first line reads:

"SENTRY EAGLE... compartmented program protecting the highest and most sensitive level [by] NSA/JFCC to support the U.S. government's efforts to protect America's cyberspace."

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/10/10/natio...

The document goes on to specify the broad U.S. cyber protection strategy broken down into Sentry Hawk, Sentry Falcon, Sentry Osprey, Sentry Raven, Sentry Condor, and Sentry Owl - all of which are new.

Add on top data about infiltration into (allied) South Korea and Germany. Not a good day for the NSA.
I remember someone posting on HN about this, a month ago. Can't seem to find the link.
Why on earth would it take 30 seconds to factor a random 50 bit number? You just check all numbers between 2 and 2^25 (about 32 million). This should take less then a second, maybe two in python.

The parent poster likely was thinking 100 bit number (200 qubits), which, while technically tractable, is quite a bit of computing power (assuming that we don't end up with huge coefficients with quantum computers).
There is an argument that car drivers are more careful when they see cyclists not wearing helmets.

And also the overall health benefits are better, when you consider that more people will ride without helmet rules.

Only Australia has this requirement.
Right. This is a definitional issue. As with most definitional issues, one can spend much effort on it without getting closer to an definitive answer.

"Life" has the same problem. Bacteria are definitely alive. Whether viruses are alive is a definitional issue. (The argument: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-viruses-alive-...)
New Vision Wards actually cost 100.
Separated bike lanes are absolutely wonderful. More of those and I would probably ride my bike more places.
That feeling when the eff labels you as a newb.. :/
How? How!?

How is it you always have cool and relevant stories!?
It's very typical for people in demanding positions to learn that even really good ideas are quite common and not even that valuable. Good execution of good ideas is however extremely rare and is also extremely valuable.

The above recommendation is really really good. Anyone can start ambitious projects but only a rare few actually can finish them.
Would be interesting for you to share how many takers you get within the first few days (and then ongoing) of this post.
What do these rectangles mean?

There are lot of different looking maps of this war in Internet, a random one: http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6214/33778531.0/0_733c6_77420...
The names are certainly new, but AFAIK the names themselves aren't classified. What's behind the names is classified, but more details about such actions were already published. We just learn more names, that is, how they call these actions internally. And we get a nice summary of the previous disclosures. Written by the authorities who otherwise denied the parts of it even as the specific documents were published. It's that everything is written together that's new. The new potential to embarrasment of the officials is in having it all in one document, which makes the denials much harder.
Apps to Watch: Here, Flic, Readability and Others
"There is confusion among the good guys on the internet between anonymity and privacy. I don't think they are the same. I think that you have right to privacy but that doesn't mean that you have the right to anonymity," he said.

The increasing trend towards greater encryption of online communications is not acceptable, he said.

Yet another attack on anonymity and just basic security online.

And he, of course, hates to talk about backdoors because that sounds terrible but what he really wants is backdoors.
Ah, so you're saying as this is network bound, you want to launch much fewer wimpy nodes in exchange for a few bigger ones (those w/ SSDs -- over 1PB worth!). If it was memory-bound, you wouldn't care how they're spread as long as it was still in-memory.

Another way of looking at this is performance per watt or dollar. The r3.2 has 60GB, so comparing to that, Spark cost the same ~$1.4K while giving a 3X speedup. (Or on host that charges per minute, it'd be the same performance at 3X cheaper.)

This is me not knowing the space: would MR (or more modern things like Tez) perform worse on this HW setup, or is this a reminder that hardware/config tuning matters?
It takes at most 5 minutes for you to make some sort of recording and share it. Why would I spend potentially hours gathering MIDI files and setting up a development environment without at least a small sample of what to expect?

Edit: better yet, just set it up as a web service.
Have you considered alerting the police to the most frequent times that people are blowing through it at those speeds so they can catch the people doing it? That's an incredibly unsafe experience, especially if you're meant to cross at a cross-walk (jay-walking is something different, of course, depending on local laws).

You should certainly look both ways at a cross-walk anyway, again because multi-ton vehicle; but, they should also follow those signs that say "stop here for crosswalk"
While this might be a good idea, but if you want the truth just post it to Reddit or Hacker News, those motherfuckers are brutal and won't take it easy on you, anyways, i wish you luck.
Hey get on www.instaedu.com

You can learn 20$ an hour teaching computer science in your part time.

You can easily make more than 60$ a day.
If I wanted brutal honesty from my friends, I would ask them for it.

If they're not being brutally honest with me, it's typically for a good reason, and they'll do it on request.

I have no idea how a random software engineer on the other side of the world is going to be useful in regards to giving me brutally honest advice without seeing any perspective but my own (the only information he will have to go off is what I tell him).
I'm curious to know more about
>Years ago I was convicted of an activist-related property crime. The government deemed it “terrorism.” My “weapon of mass destruction” was a small tool purchased at a hardware store for under $30. My crime resulted in a loss of profits to several businesses. No one was injured. And it wasn’t even a felony.

I'm not trying to minimize his experience without this information, but I'd love to know more about the aforementioned infraction.
Does anyone for the love of god understand this?
http://www.bayfronttechnologies.com/mc_tutorial.html
Rice, beans, ramen, potatoes, etc. There are many inexpensive foods that can keep you alive. But you have to buy in bulk, i.e. 50 pound bags.

I think you would also want supplements, vitamins, etc.

Plus I think that while your body can theoretically make all the protein it needs from rice and beans, I think you'd also need to have fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet. I certainly wouldn't want to risk it without those. And unless you grew your own, they would probably cost more
than the rice and beans.

But you shouldn't need to buy meat, which is comparatively very expensive.
So it's an online psychic. No idea if $10 is cheap or expensive for psychics.
> The pay-per-laugh system was adopted to fight fledgling audience numbers

Offtopic, but is "fledgling" the right word here?
Willy Wonka and the core.async Guidelines
Web monetization – How and When
Awesome. Thank you both!
Where in San Diego were you? I am wondering if there is a place in that beautiful city that is rubbish strewn. It's got horrible public transport though, agreed.
Keepers of Prometheus: The World's Oldest Tree
Yes absolutely. If I can get a single machine with 200TB of SSDs, that'd have been great :)

But as soon as we have more than 1 node, then having more nodes is better. We can actually demonstrate this quantitatively. We are required to replicate the output, which means 100 TB of data would generate 100 TB of network for replication, and 100 * (N-1)/N TB of network for shuffle, where N = num nodes. That is the overall 200 - 100/N in network. Assuming each node has 1GB/s network, then you'd need (200 - 100/N) / N seconds just to transfer the data across network, i.e. the optimal number of nodes is the one that gives you the lowest (200/N - 100/N^2).

The problem is with last year's MR run was that it wasn't saturating the network at all. It had roughly 1.5GB/s/node HDDs, and the overall network throughput was probably around 20MB/s/node when they were using 10Gbps network (I'm assuming only half of the time is doing network. If they were doing network the full time, then network throughput was at ~10MB/s/node).

Had we been using the same HDDs last year's entry had, our map phase would slow down by about 2x, and the reduce phase shouldn't change. This would mean a total run time of less than 30 mins on ~200 nodes. Still way better.
Cheat: A minimal unit testing framework for the C programming language
This question ties into what Chamath said in one of the required background videos for the growth lecture.He talked about how the primary focus should be on creating substantial impact as a result of which your company lies further along on the value chain , which in turn results in the company making more money.

I think what PG meant was that given the odds, one is more more likely to get rich if you go work for a google or Facebook than starting your own firm. Besides revenue coming in from a startup can hardly be "counted" as your own.
Or The Alliance of Pacifist Scum from RoboWar, a game I played back in the 90s.

http://robowar.sourceforge.net/RoboWar5/Theory/theory.html#A...

"Essentially, the idea behind the Alliance was a simple recognition that the scoring system for tournaments up to that point made no award at the time for killing one's enemy, only for surviving the battle. It mattered not even if the enemy was still alive, so long as you were alive at the conclusion. So in the Eighth Tournament, someone came up with the screwball idea that maybe they shouldn't bother even fighting at all unless they came under attack from their enemy. Either it was amazing coincidence or there was an active conspiracy of communication going on that I was unaware of to build these horrible things, because a few more of these guys showed up at once than coincidence would seem to warrant in the Eighth Tournament.

"I refer to this bunch as the Alliance because that's essentially what it is. The robots agree not to fight each other so that each gets full credit for all of their battles. When Allied Pacifist Scum are in battle with each other, both get 100% points for their battles. If they fought it out, each would get 50% if they were equally matched, and both might well get less than that, since a double kill doesn't benefit either one of them."
Ikea is now selling a seat/stand desk, no hacks needed
Is there a need for Android/iOS style app permissions model for Desktop OSes?
That's odd. On the page with the signup box look for the id "__w2_LG4FatW_modal_signup_wrapper" and delete the whole div, that'll get rid of the box allowing to you to continue reading the top answer but not the others.