skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original studies of Baumol Cost Disease were based on the idea that the production of symphonic performance has had no productivity increase since ... well, ever.

When asked why there are no "variety" shows on television, Glen Campbell ( of the "Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour" ) stated that they were verging on economically infeasible while his show was on, and you certainly couldn't do that today. My understanding is that "The Carol Burnett Show" had this problem and it only ran as long as it did because it was CBS' flagship program. "Carol Burnett" was not a classic variety show using ... a dozen artists per program so it was probably less expensive than Campbell's.

I'd expect the same has happened in aviation. Now, is that the same thing as "we got stupider"? I can't say.
Um, a master key, presumably from the factory, was used to break into multiple installations?

I think I would be sending a nice legal letter to the security company for not telling me that such a master key existed or how to disable it. And sending them the bill for replacing their broken security system.
Boo to that. I hope they stop/you manage to block them!
It's very interesting that the project has some advanced notice about a threat.

My first guess would be that a nation has made some demands of the project that the project won't comply with, and that country has suggested they will seize the directory authority servers located inside it if the demands aren't met soon. [Edit: a new comment by arma on the original story, "To be sure to keep our source safe, we're not providing more details quite yet", makes this seem less likely.]

Or perhaps an insider has leaked some plans to the project.

Along another line of thought, if the US government wanted to further complicate online privacy, I imagine they'd choose a time like now, when headlines about the "cyber intrusions" of 2014 are at a peak. I wonder what other actors could have large enough power over their directory authority servers for the project to post this message.

Edit: Indeed, from a post below by paralelogram [0] and by checking https://atlas.torproject.org , it appears 4 of 9 are in the US. There are also two in Germany, one in the Netherlands (as well as another there that is only for bridge relays), one in Austria, and one in Sweden.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8775009
Assuming it's a legal entity that will be performing these seizures, I'm curious to know the case against these servers. To my (albeit somewhat limited) knowledge of the Tor network, these DA's exist solely to maintain the integrity and structure of the network, and to provide a list of known relays to clients.

I also understand that this list of trusted DA's is hardcoded into Tor clients. Since this is the case, I'd be curious how the network could be restored if there is a coordinated action on these servers.
Here's a non-paywalled link to the paper, though I'm not positive that it is the final version:

http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001792

They give a game-theoretic formalization of their theory but I'm not sure that the formalization adds much beyond the summary in the article.
This is my first thought every time I see a Buddha used as a charming icon for something.
s/ideas associated with zen/tacky cultural affectations/
While I acknowledge, and generally believe in the evolution of language, I refuse to succumb to the trend of colloquial usage coming to mean the opposite of a word's original intent.

To illustrate the point better, "literally" has now also been defined to mean "figuratively" in the common parlance, which means that, sadly, there is no appropriate word for literally that is unambiguous.

Similarly so with decimate. Its originalist intent is to reduce by one tenth, so, colloquial adoption aside, I reject any definition that resembles its polar opposite.

Clearly, the colloquial usage, as tptacek has done, is acceptable to many, but if words are intended to actually mean things, instead of just send an appropriate contextual vibe, then there should be some degree of rigidity to language that pushes back against its less meaningful and more ambiguous adoption.
Government shouldn't optimize for "users" (esp. when it's not human) but instead it's constituency. Is the country best served by timely transport of goods (which, at-best, fares poorer to trucks) or by timely transpiration of people?
I'm not familiar with Amiga and the surrounding culture, but I was surprised to learn there is modern PowerPC hardware and an updated OS. What can you do with an Amiga in 2014? Why would someone pay $3000 for an AmigaOne X1000 workstation? Is it purely nostalgia?
>Tor remains safe to use.

What are these not-so-rare reports of mass unmasking of people then? I'm genuinely curious, not begging the question.
My own experience is that it's easy for that to become either a source of a lot of regressions or an infinite death march. It's key to thoroughly understand the part to replace before getting involved in that kind of wholesale replacements.

The amount of tests available on the previous implementation can go a long way towards lighting the way and bounding the level of required efforts. Code that is deeply embedded, untested and "ugly" is just a recipe for pain however.
There is absolutely no way that Hydrogen would be produced via electrolysis. The process is horribly inefficient but more importantly the cheapest way to produce hydrogen is through steam reformation of coal (or organic material to a way lesser extent). You spray coal into a hot stream, methane decomposes from the mixture, then the methane is converted to Hydrogen. It's by far the cheapest way to produce hydrogen and would easily cost a fraction of hydrogen produced from electrolysis. This process is also extremely CO2 intense.

I really have to wonder if this is just a show put on by Toyota. The viability of H2 production is dubious at best, and at worst if you consider our drive towards a low carbon economy.
"ZenDesk, this is your Moment of Zen"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Daily_Show_recurrin...
Why was North Korea included in Bush's famous Axis of Evil speech?
Or the requirements massively shift over time.

Not mutually exclusive with what you mentioned, but can exacerbate the situation or leave a codebase with even an adept programmer a mess.
What reports? The site seizures?
>putting aside the debate over free market theory for the moment...

But this is the central point, whether a person is interested in investing locally, or investing in small businesses. I already addressed the issue of investing locally in my top level comment.

>If small businesses and the Main St. economy matter to you, then so should Local Banking.

Free market theory says that there is no reason to prefer small vs large businesses. Which ever is most efficient will win in the market place, and will produce the most total welfare. And if income distribution is a concern, taxation and redistribution is a better way to address this than funding small businesses.

The term Main St. economy is misleading, because both small and large businesses contribute to the economy in exactly the same way. There is no way in which big businesses don't affect or benefit ordinary people.
What I learned during and after code school
I think this has the potential to be a great business model for Tinder.
Staples: Breach may have affected 1.16M customers' cards
you only "think in language" when you're thinking about talking to someone else

Dealing with other people is probably the biggest part of most people's cognitive burden, though. And it's likely that the ability to make complex inferences when on one's own (solving a mathematical problem, writing a novel, or whatever) derives from the experience of communicating complex ideas through language.

I have a pretty close relationship with my dog and he has a fairly elaborate mental world, but his capacity for abstraction is limited. I taught him to find a ball that I had hidden or that he had dropped and forgotten about, and he has particular toys (including particular balls) that he knows are 'his' and which he doesn't like other dogs to play with, or that they are only allowed to play with within certain strictures (eg not taking it out of my dog's sight). I normally bring two identical balls for him to play with, and it turned out to be a lot harder to get him to go find the ball if he already had one on the ground - he would keep trying to give me the ball he had, and seemed unable to conceptualize that he could have a ball and not have a ball at the same time. Eventually he got the hang of this, but I have doubts about his ability to consider more than 2 states at a time, ie if I take him out to play with 3 balls and I don't see him having a ternary model of their location, but rather something along the lines of 'ball(s) I already have' and 'ball(s) I need to find'. Likewise he has a notion of pack hierarchy involving myself, himself, and several neighbors' dogs who he plays with regularly, but I think that's a fairly one-dimensional affair. Right now he knows it's raining when I open the front door and doesn't feel like walking around in it, but he'll still want to investigate the back door in the hope that the weather there might be different. He knows the diference between inside and outside (verbally as well as physically) but I'm not sure he has an abstract representation of a unitary outside.

EDIT: turns out playing with balls >> getting wet for the third time in 3 hours. Bang goes that theory.
Indicators of Compromise for Malware Used by Sony Hackers
I agree with this: "well, its my body"
but not with this: "I don't find it moral to prevent somebody from doing something today, because $HYPOTHETICAL_BAD_THING might happen tomorrow"

Let me start with an extreme example: You can't go around setting up landmines. We prevent people from doing something today because hypothetical bad things might happen. I think that the implication of your argument is that for antibiotics, the $HYPOTHETICAL_BAD_THING is less bad and less likely than the extreme example of landmines, but I think you need to make that point. How much danger can you put other people in in the future before it becomes unacceptable?
Tesla's first Model S battery swap station opens next week
These unmaskings have been performed through (usually egregious) opsec failures on the part of the user, rather than performed by attacking the Tor network directly.
I'd like to know if these sounds are learned, instinctual, or a mix of both. IOW, if you placed a monkey raised elsewhere into this environment would it know and/or adopt these sounds.

Isn't assigning meaning to otherwise-arbitrary symbols/sounds a key aspect of language?
Out of curiousity, does anyone know any serious or credible infosec figures who believe the attacks were perpetrated by North Korea?

All I've heard confirming this is from MPAA "cyberterrorism experts." And George Clooney, whose statement regarding the Nixon origins of the name "Guardians of Peace is also unverifiable.
She had written an account of the onset of her illness in The New Yorker back in 2003. [1] Full text. [2]

I had never heard of her before but found it one of the stranger, more haunting pieces I'd read. If you enjoy OPs piece you may also like this other one written by Hillenbrand herself.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/07/07/a-sudden-illnes...

[2] http://cfsresearchcenter.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=it...
Wired.com site broken, too much partiying? :
Apparently, your career.

But I'm sure the boost to the careers of the people you sacrificed for will be worth it!
I've used Doorking systems to gain entry before. It's not a "master key," just a factory default that you are supposed to change.

If you notice in the video, she has her phone in her hand when she comes in. Most likely because she added herself as a new tenant into the system. If she didn't remove it after she left, her phone number should still be programmed in.
PHB: This situation is so embarrassing... We are so fired!!!

BOFH: We can blame North Korea. Aren't we about to launch a comedy about their supreme leader?

PHB: Genius!!! (and left the room)

BOFH: Let me change the locale to Korean and recompile my virus!
16.2M tourists now have access to a Bitcoin ATM machine near Disneyland
193.23.244.244: Germany, Chaos Computer Club e.V.

194.109.206.212: Netherlands, XS4ALL Internet BV

154.35.32.5: United States, Cogent Communications

131.188.40.189: Germany, Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen Nuernberg

199.254.238.52: United States, Riseup Networks

171.25.193.9: Sweden, Foreningen for digitala fri- och rattigheter

128.31.0.34: United States, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

82.94.251.203: Netherlands, NAH6 BV

86.59.21.38: Austria, SILVER:SERVER GmbH

208.83.223.34: United States, Applied Operations, LLC
>And if you think about the amount of gasoline infrastructure that exists, we'd have to pretty much duplicate that, or convert that, into hydrogen shipping infrastructure, which is a pretty tall order.

Imho, the only way to do this would be to have solar assisted charging stations in parking lots across the country.
Thanks for the advice :)
Irony? Absolute trademark stupidity. Unless the other zen* companies are offering a helpdesk software, there should not be ground for a legal dispute.
To demonstrate that hackers have no interest in suppressing speech, quashing controversy, or being intimidated by vague threats, we ask that Sony allow the hacker community to distribute "The Interview" for them on the 25th of December. http://www.2600.com/?q=content/offer-sony-2600
I guess this proves you never should name anything "Final".
Staples Says 1.16M Cards Affected in Breach
>a misuse of tinder according to its current usage

So is the supposedly ingenious idea you mentioned of assuming the burglar is a Tinder user and swiping through thousands of people (using bandwidth, making themselves a fake profile, etc.) to find the correct one. They offloaded the work of 1 second per thousands of people, rather than hours onto a single or small group of people... for which there was no guarantee of success and no real 'end.'

I think that their idea was pretty ingenious, especially if they are successful in the end.
Based on my understanding of the TOR network, it currently cannot function without directory authorities. The directory authorities provide a signed list of all of the TOR network relays, and that includes the set of encryption certificates used for each relay and all of the configuration information about it.

The TOR clients come hard coded with a list of directory authorities. Without the ability to query the directory authorities they cannot find a usable TOR route. I don't know if there is some caching involved, but if not then this would effectively stop the network for anyone trying connect to TOR.
"I also understand that this list of trusted DA's is hardcoded into Tor clients"

forgive my ignorance, why would they do this in the first place? fear of MITM?
Zenprise founded 2003 acquired by Citrix 2013, product now called XenMobile.
People who are into timekeeping are like, really, really into timekeeping. I've been skating by with improper timekeeping, too (whatever that means), but I only need to correlate web log entries and not hadron collisions.
I'm pretty sure they need to use the term "alleged" until the person is actually convicted.
It says it is 46 degrees here in Grenada. I can assure you that is a bit off.
I'm a strong believer in the placebo. If it works, then stay with it...
I don't know. Lua (the non JIT version) runs circles around Python -- without compilation.

And when adding compilation into the game, I don't see CL as any less dynamic (probably more) than Python, and yet it goes to near C speeds too.
The Amiga culture is absolutely great, if you are interested then reading up on it then http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/ is highly recommended :)

And yes, $3000 for an AmigaOne X1000 workstation... that takes a special kind of will.. Especially seeing as the nostalgia aspect would be far better served by getting an original A1200 via eBay equipped with a PPC extension; that way you could run newly released multitasking OS with Firefox and co. on a essentially 23 year old computer!
The 'Of Course' side of me is disappointed in this whole thing and how our freedom is very weak when put on CEOs/corporations protecting self interest first.

However the 'But Maybe...'and cynical side of me says Sony and the studios will use this to attack file sharing, and a new cyber crime law somehow out of this (http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/19/7420823/mpaa-decries-goog...).

Our hysteria at times just turns into loss of rights and freedoms for us, we have to stop this manic, short-term thinking behavior.
Google Files Lawsuit Challenging MPAA-Funded State Subpoena
(Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Tor, I'm just poking around their source code. My conclusions may be totally wrong.)

You can see the list of trusted directory authorities in Tor's src/or/config.c:

https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/or/config.c#n...

There are nine of them (actually ten, but one is just for bridges), so you'd have to disrupt at least five of them to prevent them forming a majority vote on consensus together. Looks like the countries that own the IP address allocations for each dirauth are:

Austria, Germany, Germany, Holland, Holland, Sweden, US, US, US

If the above is all correct, a US<->Germany collaboration - to pick the largest set from two countries - would be one way to cause a large problem.
This seems to be a key reference (article titled "Complementarity and uncertainty"):

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v375/n6530/pdf/375367b0...

In particular, they have a description of why they find the traditional connection between uncertainty and wave-particle duality to be unsatisfactory. Unfortunately the technical details are beyond me, but hopefully someone else can sort them out?

Edit: Okay, some more digging suggests the following story:
(i) We have wave-particle duality => Heisenberg uncertainty, but not the other way around
(ii) With entropic uncertainty [1] (stronger than Heisenberg uncertainty), the authors show that we can obtain wave-particle duality

Again, can somebody more knowledgeable can clarify? :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_uncertainty
Serious NTP security holes have appeared and are being exploited
Dev version of popular blocker extension µBlock for Firefox released
Boo indeed! Seems like he/them got tired of it for now.
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Any plans to implement feature like complete server monitoring? Like Google analytic's for Server monitoring?

This is simple yet helpful tool. Those who wish to stay away from nitty gritty of configuring complex apps to monitor their server this can be helpful.
the most recently restarted dirauths appear to run Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha-dev, including four of the five US-based dirauths (moria1, Faravahar, urras, dizum). gabelmoo, tor26, longclaw, Tonga, and maatuska appear to be running Tor 0.2.5.10. dannenberg is running Tor 0.2.5.9-rc.

roger's dirauth (author of the post) moria1 (US) restarted ~1d ago and shows a blip in traffic earlier today, which may or may not have something to do with the post: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/9695DFC35FFEB861329B9F...

peter's tor26 (austria) restarted 12h ago: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/847B1F850344D7876491A5...

dizum (netherlands) was also recently restarted 16h ago: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/7EA6EAD6FD83083C538F44...

Tonga (netherlands) looks mostly normal, restarted ~7d ago: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/4A0CCD2DDC7995083D73F5...

sebastian's gabelmoo (germany) restarted 2d ago: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/F2044413DAC2E02E3D6BCF...

CCC's dannenberg (germany) restarted 3d ago: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/7BE683E65D48141321C5ED...

jake's urras (US) is showing relatively low bandwidth & restarted ~2d ago: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/0AD3FA884D18F89EEA2D89...

Faravahar (US) restarted 4d ago: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/CF6D0AAFB385BE71B8E111...

riseup's longclaw (US) restarted 9d ago: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/74A910646BCEEFBCD2E874...

linus's maatuska (sweden) has been up for 30d: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/BD6A829255CB08E66FBE7D...

recent activity in tor's commit log may also offer up some clues: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/log/?showmsg=1
People in these positions (e.g. Torvalds) are generally extremely opinionated (which is good, because it can provide direction to a project in its early days), but have also spent years listening to people without sufficient skill or experience attempting to provide ideas, patches, or commentary that they're not qualified for.

At some point, the effort of letting someone down gently fifty times a day gives way to a curt but efficient form of communication.

In this case, GvR is just laying out what he sees as issues, take them or leave them. If you don't care for his opinion, fine, if you do, there you go.
Well, since he's upset that Americans don't give Russians enough credit for their WWII contributions, such as the gift of a Stalinist government to the Korean Peninsula, he's probably blaming the US for "creating the current situation" in which the South Koreans have been denied the benefits of life in a Stalinist Workers Paradise.
No, human children resulted from organic processes beyond the control of the individuals who set the cogs in motion, so to speak.
I've seen tons of horrible Java apps/applets over the years, but I've also seen tons of horrible C/C++/C#/Delphi/VB/Python/Ruby/PHP apps too.

Java is just more noticeable. It's the new client-side business app platform, and there are a ton of UI toolkits that scream "This is a Java app!"

But on the other side of the token, some of the best software I've used has been written in Java. Tons of Android apps, along with all the JetBrains IDEs (I love PyCharm), and Mirth Connect - software for processing HL7 that one of my company's products relies on heavily.
Sources would really be nice with this.
Grab an SDR and start hacking. http://www.rtl-sdr.com/

I currently have 6 Pi's in my home and office with SDRs, each grabbing interesting stuff off the public airwaves.
You need to pressurize the hydrogen to 5-10 kpsi which requires a compressor in every home, this cuts efficiency. Electrolysis is also very inefficient (%65 is usually cities as the upper efficiency[1]). Most importantly the cheapest way to produce hydrogen is through stream reformation of Carbon based fuel (high CO2 emissions req), making electrolysis cost prohibitive.

Hydrogen is not a great way to go, especially when you consider that batteries and electric motors are already very efficient. Working on energy density in batteries would be more cost effective then chasing after H2.

[1]http://gcep.stanford.edu/pdfs/hydrogen_workshop/MacQueen.pdf
Similar to Go IIRC, the binaries aren't slim, but it's one push away from deployment and was advertised as a feature.
I'm not aware of network faults just "user errors".

Allowing js and plug-ins to run puts you in the "low hanging fruit" category.
That's pretty much what Nuitka is. Unfortunately, PyPy is only fast because it can take advantage of runtime information in the JIT. AOT compilation loses that advantage.
The Amiga was initially used to create the effects for Babylon 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seznQmDp2pU

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/effects.html

http://www.geek.com/games/cgi-first-introduced-to-tv-in-baby...

I thought JJ Abrams mentioned that he used the Amiga for something in the 1990's but I can't find anything in Google.