skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps not, but if you know (or reasonably should know) that a crime is being committed and then don't report it, now you're an accomplice to the crime.

It's hard to miss all the ads for drugs on SR2.0, so it would be very easy to prove that charge at the very least. And as we've seen in the past, Federal prosecutors tend to be very inventive, and the law tends to be rather expansive for these types of things, it wouldn't surprise me at all if there are other charges that would be possible.
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It's unfortunate that WatchKit probably won't allow you to build fully native apps until WWDC, but I'm looking forward to taking advantage of Glances and actionable notifications in the meantime. Hopefully Glances will allow enough interactivity to compensate for not having full apps.
Authors of hyperpolyglot.org?
Does anyone know who are or how to contact the authors of hyperpolyglot? I'd wish to correct some info on their great, useful web site. Thanks.
I love "labor of love" projects like these. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting that they would call it an old-school watch. Might not be a bad thing for Apple if they are able to compete with the real old-school watch Brands like Rolex like this article explains: http://www.bobswatches.com/rolex-blog/rolex-news/new-apple-w...

Very eager to see what society will do once the Apple watch hits. Will they embrace it or stick with the accessory and status symbol that the old-school watches represent?
Very impressed with the codename.
>Just because Skrillex likes them

"Just because Skrillex got paid to like them" - and this is the genius of those two, they took something medicore, pimped the shit out of it and created a strong brand.
I own an AMD system because I wanted many cheap cores. That was the Bulldozer USP, in my opinion. And it delivers. So why not drive the ecosystem around applications that gobble up cores? Not all compute workloads need a GPU e.g.back testing trading strategies, parallel searching and sorting, iterative machine learning etc. If I were you I would also fund the creation of some industry standard benchmarks in each of these application areas that benefit from many cheap cores.
Hey skdoo! I waited for version 2 of this and was about to pull the trigger on the dual+ 10 minutes ago when i saw that you don't currently ship to Europe. What's the estimated timeframe for shipping to Europe?

How does the board feels if you don't use the motor in case of empty battery. Are the motors braking per se or do they spin freely if no power is applied?
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If you own an european passport I believe you could apply for a job at concordia, the most remote south pole station! It is 1100km inland in the coldest place on earth and 3233m above sea level!

Job board :
http://www.institut-polaire.fr/ipev/l_institut/travailler_da... (job offers are pdfs)

More info :
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Concordi...

You may want to read about how to get there (if you know how to drive a truck you can apply to the heaby payload team that cross antartica once a year with haevy duty tractors, doing the travel from coast to concordia in 10 days)
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Concordi...

wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia_Station
Yup. Many facebook games have a "watch this video" or "visit these sites" in an iframe in exchange for extra points, more seeds, a better pool stick, etc. Just as useless as bot traffic.
no bad publicity
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As a (very happy) boosted rider as of July, I'm a little concerned about the "single" model. I've blown through three belts already, and find that it's usually while breaking that a belt will fail. Having two is safe and redundant, but having only one is a double whammy since you double the breaking force on that single belt while also relying on it entirely.
A part of me wonders if cases like this are legitimizing bit coin by having the US government acknowledge it.
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Antarctica Tour: http://youtu.be/P5lQ9DCXIbs. You can see the data center here for few seconds.
Even shitty ipcams will upload images to FTP (old school, right) upon motion detection, or can upload whole videos. In fact I'm syncing my ipcam's video stor on my vps. A dumb lftp script that just works.

If you buy cloud-enabled ipcamera and then complain your ass is online, you're a prick.
BeagleBone cape eases access to the Sitara SoC's PRU
Yes, it MUST have an open API!

"Alexa, dim the lights."
How long is the selection process? I have applied, but have not gotten a reply yet.
I'm not in the target market for this, so the only feedback I have is that I think "6,00,000+ jobs accross India" should be "600,000+ jobs across India".
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Yes, over the past few years we've had winter-overs from Sweden and Chile, and (as mentioned above) one of the outgoing WOs is Norwegian and one of the incoming WOs is German.
We usually ride at the same speed as others in the bike lane. It works well around bikes and doesn't need any additional infrastructure. It was originally designed for a campus but we learned early on that users in dense cities love it in part because it's faster than any other mode of transport they've tried.
Clearly Zillow is quite dominant, but I'm not sure that I agree with the final sentiment of all traffic becoming mobile traffic sooner rather than later.

Mobile is growing like crazy, but there is a saturation point where your phone is not the best device for certain kinds of activities. Tablet isn't necessarily the best device either.

I don't think that an app store strategy is going to be the next big thing for Zillow or Trulia. I think that handling mobile well is important, but I wouldn't bet the farm on mobile when it comes to real estate.

It's jut not a foregone conclusion that desktops and laptops are totally disappearing anytime in the next 5 years.
Hm. Alternatively, they could serve the same js to everyone, and (assuming sites use the CDN) it would be cached across pages, so users would only pay for it once. Zero fanciness needed on the CDN.

How big is the "full" set of polyfills anyway? Probably small enough that a single download isn't an issue on even dialup?

--

That aside, polyfill ALL the things. Hopefully making it easier makes it common, which lets devs use a nicer version of Javascript.
How do Ada (or even SPARK) open opportunities for timing attacks? How are they less portable than any other gcc frontend (modulo the quite tiny runtime)?
Actually, the sweater covered in eyes at 2:52 is subtly reassuring. It represents how the device is always looking out for you.
Random thought: Would it be possible to incorporate a resistor directly into the board stackup -- eg. the "board" part itself becomes a large carbon resistor?
My assertion is that, with the backing of enterprises raking in 12 figures annually, it's within their operational capability to obtain all the necessary parts to do exactly that.

To be fair, I think it's entirely possible that there are enough savvy businessmen in the cartel to realize that it's wisest to prepare for any number of likely outcomes of legalization. Just imagine Goldman Sachs with more beheadings.
Link shorteners are pretty heavily penalised in email since spammers use the same trick to bypass the same filters.
Whoa... that is quite a bit. I wonder if 3rd party vendor's username and password really mean someone forgot to change the default login credentials some where.
One of the fun 'first' projects in most FPGA classes is building a simple VGA display. What is interesting is that a period specific graphics display for the Z80 would probably be something like Cromemco Dazzler[1] with its 32 x 32 pixel color display, or the Super Dazzler.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco_Dazzler -- yes I owned one of these boards at one time :-)
Taking advice doesn't mean to follow them but open up your range of choices I think.
If people buy and use this, I imagine a future version will work hard to detect if your questions are being directed at it without you having to prefix the request with a keyword like "Alexa".

E.g. If you ask a question and it doesn't hear anybody else respond within a certain amount of time. Or it could use additional sensors to detect if you're alone when you say something out loud, and whether or not you're shouting to somebody else in another room. It wont be perfect obviously and will sometimes look stuff up when it wasn't supposed to.
Here's a PDF of the actual court opinion: http://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca6/14-5818.... It includes the dissenting opinion by the third member of that panel as well, and makes for an interesting read.
Reading through this whole article was really interesting. The mention in the article of mathematician and magician Persi Diaconis prompted me to search previous Hacker News threads about him. Quite a while ago, another participant posted a link to an article from 2011 in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Diaconis, titled "The Magical Mind of Persi Diaconis,"[1] which didn't gain much karma or discussion at the time of submission but is also an interesting read. Different conjurers can have very different personal styles and techniques, each to fit their own personalities, and the best conjurers admire the work of other conjurers.

[1] http://chronicle.com/article/The-Magical-Mind-of-Persi/12940...
I feel like this information might make some deviously smart individuals think they can get away with it by not screwing up where Benthall did.
Probably too late to get noticed, but here it is:

http://reeborg.ca/world.html is a "Karel the Robot clone" with advanced features. It's completely free (no login required) and I have no plans to monetize it.

It enables programming in Python, Javascript or CoffeeScript.

The home page links to some programming tutorials.
I would love to see this video. Would you and your family be willing to put it up on Vimeo, Youtube, or some video hosting (self-hosting too) service. Maybe edit it down to the highlights or something.

Or maybe since you're doing your own trip down there you can put together a video of your trip, spliced with your grandfather's trip.

Just some thoughts

I want to travel some more.
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> Or you can just get a new set of bearings for $10 or so

Swapping out the bearings is still a lot of maintenance for a piece of equipment that otherwise requires very little.

> If you're in the market for their product, you can probably afford it.

You make it sound like they're ridiculously priced and only those with lavish lifestyles are their target market.

For the convenience that you get out of the product, it's well worth the price. It costs no more than a mid-range bicycle. With the recent price drop, they're even more affordable.
Thanks for your input. Actually, I've been considering making this shift, at least temporarily. I'd like to do something different for a while. But it probably won't happen anyway.
There must be something in life that really floats your boat. Blog about that. If that something is new to you, then blog about your experiences. My blog is usually a way for me to record experiences [1], ideas, techniques and even resources [2] I find useful. I don't rate my writing skills that highly but do reference posts heavily in my resume, which gets positive results. It amazes me how quickly I built mine up. And it doesn't get read. Even today, two years after I wrote it, my experience activating a phone is the most popular post [3] (it's the only post that gets more than 10 hits a month - every other post that even gets a hit gets no more than one).

[1] http://bit.ly/1tgHUcD

[2] http://bit.ly/1tNqWmF

[3] http://bit.ly/1EmJopn

In closing, the part of my site that gets 1000's of hits a month is just plain text with some crappy design that I threw together in 1998, about off-road driving and vehicle recovery techniques. That's not even part of my blog.
Nearly all NBA players nap before games
I enjoyed how simple this was to use!
The only difference I see is that the battery of a smartphone would drain rapidly if it was constantly recording and uploading the recordings to the cloud. But you are right, a smartphone is a device used to monitor you and people whose freedom depends on that knowledge, like radical political activists are aware of that. And yes laptops are exploited. To give an example: The German government has developed a number of trojans for Windows over the years and the BKA routinely uses them for targeted surveillance.
Whilst that quote is about targeting and not fraud, it fits rather nicely. It's actually attributed to a number of people.
I face a similar issue with my honda civic hybrid: they have worked to let you pretend it's a regular internal combustion engine (it looks nearly identical to the other honda civic trims, down to the instrument panels), but you _must_ actively pay attention to the battery level if you don't want to be surprised when trying to pull into traffic (if the battery is under half, it's _much_ more reluctant to boost your acceleration) or trying to brake (if the battery is topped out, it does not assist your braking _nearly_ as much).

In general, if you're trying to evade (either with braking or acceleration), you have to know the state of your battery or else the car will not perform the way you think.

I don't know if all hybrid/electric cars are this way or if it's specific to my particular year of the HCH or what.
In praise of oligopoly
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The economy of the Middle Ages has been studied (here, for example: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mkohn/orgins.html), and it had one distinguishing feature: there was no small coinage; the smallest denomination that people would generally accept was a day's wage.

One can guess how people dealt with this: they extended credit to each other. A village's general store served as its bank. Tools and workmen's boots had to be ultra-reliable. In generally, the economy back then looked surprisingly modern (Cicero talks about letters of credit in his letters, the risk in long-distance trade was spread by buying shares in a voyage), the only thing that was missing was advertising.
Enjoy: http://youtubedoubler.com/dOPY
You are also, by nature, associating with people with a vastly higher than average risk of being arrested independent of your own conspiracy, and hoping that they will not mention your conspiracy for leniency in problems they got into without you.
May I ask why groups are limited to seven people?
That doesn't seem boring to you? My experiences seem to be among a few lines:

1. "This person said this, and I agree". Note how much my earlier post is this category.

2. Huh, this thing isn't great, or is confusing, but I have no real solutions.

I wouldn't read anything at all like this. Maybe it's something I do need to push through, but it's rough when I don't know what I'm aiming for and don't like what I'm making.
People didn't just abandon their children (which I don't think is a revelation, just saying it conversationally).

Knitting and animal skins are both pretty well known as ways of obtaining cloth (or skin as it were), and getting skins wasn't such a big deal in times when there was no one saying that all the animals belonged to him.

I think it is less well understood how straightforward felting is; still not necessarily fun, but available to many people in an agrarian society. Also, we don't see weaving every day anymore, but a loom can be a very simple thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VerticalLoom.JPG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp-weighted_loom

(Simple especially in the materials necessary, I guess I wouldn't want to promise to build you one tomorrow)
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My wake word is going to be 'bezos'
Classrooms look the same way they did in 1960. Help fix that at Clever (YC S12)
There’s a lot of great educational software out there - think Oregon Trail, Math Blasters, and Carmen Sandiego - but teachers can’t use it in schools. Teachers would love to use programs like these, but synchronizing data between their school’s database and external software applications is a huge problem that results in wasted time at the start of class and frustrated, bored students… which leads to software being abandoned entirely. 80% of K-12 teachers would use more software in classes if getting students logged in weren’t such a hassle, and a quarter of all class time that’s supposed to be dedicated to software is wasted on logins alone.

Developers have a similar problem: they love clean APIs, but in the education industry, they haven’t had one. Most K-12 schools house their student data in ancient legacy databases that make integrations a nightmare. If you’re a five-person startup and you’ve built an app that revolutionizes the way third-graders learn fractions, there’s simply no way to get your product in front of students.

Clever (YC S12 - clever.com) is solving these problems by building a modern, developer-friendly API for schools… which we give them for free. Developers love being able to plug into schools without having to write a complex integration for every single district they’re working with, so they pay us for access to the platform. This business model has helped us grow quickly; we’re now in 1 in 5 schools in America (over 29,000 schools), and our product is used by millions of students every day.

Our goal is to become the education identity company. The first step in that direction is our Instant Login single sign-on platform: a universal login that allows students to access all of their learning applications in one place. (This is a big deal if you’ve ever seen a second-grader try to manage fifteen different usernames and passwords.)

Right now we’re a team of 35 people (17 engineers) based in downtown San Francisco. We’re looking for full-stack engineers who can hack in Node, Go, and Python (or are willing to learn), but more importantly, we’re looking for people who share our passion for improving education. If you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you.

Other stuff we like:
-Tech talks. Every other Tuesday, we do “Clever Talks” during lunch where one of us will give a presentation on anything he/she’s interested in. Recent talks have covered exoplanets, neuroscience, hacking big-company customer service interactions, and what’s wrong with American high school history education.
-Bughouse chess. We play pretty frequently, although not always with Magnus Carlsen: http://screencast.com/t/xD7umWfo
-Picking up new skills. We offer unlimited Amazon credits for learning.

Check us out: https://clever.com/about/jobs

At Clever, we want to work with the best people - applicants of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcome to come improve education with us. We're committed to making our office a safe and comfortable environment for all employees.
Take a look at what Microsoft is doing with their newest mobile IE browser - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/07/31/the-mobile-web...

Basically they're crafting the UA to appear like Chrome or Firefox.
it still befuddles me to see that most ad dollars still haven't switched to cost-per-action (CPA), i.e. only paying for actual conversions

This assumes that ad networks with useful returns offer such an option.

I have no idea what Facebook have been playing at over the last month or so, but I do know that the new system seemed to charge us about 4-5x as much per real visitor to our site as the old one, despite having what appears to be the closest equivalent set up for click-based charging in the two systems. Of course, even that is only Facebook's idea of clicks, which includes non-conversion clicks such as people liking your ad itself or your page, not just the conversions you actually care about.

We pulled all Facebook advertising within a couple of days as a direct result of this and asked them what was going on. They claimed nothing had changed, and I'm told they suggested the dramatic difference was just down to "increased competition". Our theory is that a lot of other small/niche advertisers were also confused by the new model, but many didn't realise what was going on and continued running their own campaigns at the vastly higher cost per click, at least initially.
out of curiosity, what does the 'r2' stand for? does the two indicate that it's a rewrite of the original lisp code, as in r(eddit)2?
I'm trying to reconcile this with the Keith Rabois statement: “I don’t know of a single successful CEO or entrepreneur who blogs regularly.”

http://blog.asmartbear.com/ceo-blogging.html
For Julia, I believe a moving GC would clash with the FFI.
Your statement sounds like the doublespeak to me. At the end of the day, it's government that physically enforces things with relative impunity. The "power" of corporations in this context is just the power of government being used for corporate interests; it doesn't work the other way around.
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Vry wll don. I trid working out a rspons th sam way but it provd mor difficult than xpctd.
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I'm going to guess, google image search and take the most common colors from the 1st couple of images?
Not boring. In fact quite the opposite. I go back to my posts often, especially when I'm doing something for work (documentation, for example), and need ideas.
No, you blame the actual person with the gun, i.e. the group of people who physically enforce rules. That's government, not corporations.
Same with the microphones on your computer, external monitor, tablet, and soon smartwatch.

To be effectively paranoid like the grandparent commenter, one would have to opt out of a _lot_ of convenience. If you're actually a person of interest to the point of being surveilled with an Echo, you'll be surveilled with all your other digital devices as well.

Hell - the Echo would be incredibly limited relative to those other devices. It only captures specific rooms in your home. Those other devices follow you throughout the day.