skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know that this is one of the oldest constitutional laws.
Based on the french constitution, the 4th amendment in the US,
and the Art. 10 Abs. 1 Grundgesetz in Germany, and everywhere else.

And even if the UK has no written constitution, they signed the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights (the “Convention”) into UK law. Article 8(1) of the Convention provides that “everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.” See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_in_English_law for more.

Obama does not care a shit about his constitution anymore, and consequently his poodle in the UK neither. So they should just waive the Human Rights Act, and consequently leave the European Union. We pay enough for their cows anyway, and they are way above their tolerable abuses of civil freedom anyway.
I can't edit my post due to being a new user, so I'll add that the incentive for foreign countries is not just financial; it's VERY helpful for countries to have a source of black funds that Congress or whoever is supposed to be accountable for it does not "need" to "see". This is Jack Nicholson in a Few Good Men all over again - the public enjoys the "blanket" and doesn't ask about what it takes to maintain it.

It's also helpful in inter-agency rivalries, as whoever has the most resources, particularly black resources, can be the most efficient. Believe it or not there are several factions in France, aforementioned DGSE is the "official" actor outside the borders, but the DST has their own agents as well (yes, outside the territory) and then you have the military intelligence apparatus which competes against the other two and is in theory supposed to run the "mercenaries".
on the contrary, what use is a model where you assume perfectly rational actors? it will clearly bear no relation to reality!

actually, i object to the term "irrational", it's only irrational if you assign zero value to the "feel good" incentives driven by basic human psychology.

one interesting thought experiment, for instance, is that most people would neither pay someone else to do their housework, or do someone else's equivalent housework for the same amount of money. from a "purely rational" economic standpoint, that makes no sense - either you think the money is worth less than the cost of doing the housework, in which case you would pay someone to do yours, or it is worth more, in which case you would do yours and then take the money to do someone else's as well. but add in the psychological difference between doing your own work and doing someone else's, and the whole thing is perfectly rational in the understood, if not the technical economic sense of the word.
Do you think YC represents the general VC industry?
GM's Chevy Bolt can go 200 miles on a single charge
Because he hasn't used MFS. ;-)
Doesn't the legend on the map translate as "UN and African Union Missions" ? That's not the same as the English text, which describes that map as "French military bases in Africa".
what's the use of assuming rational actors if it means your model is fundamentally flawed?

Take the assumption that labour will migrate rationally to suit a changing job market. I.E. if your state doesn't have any jobs, but there are lots of jobs across the country, you'll go there. When I was last studying economics, this was treated as a rule. In what I've seen of the world, it's completely ungrounded. For certain people, facing certain classes of hardships, this might hold true, but it doesn't even begin to account for things like family or for a sense of home and/or community, or for being in love, or for being comfortable, or scared of change, or any of the other massive number of "irrational" things that influence people's behaviour.

Any model that just ignores these fundamental things isn't just useless, it actually leads to conclusions and policies that do not relate to the reality of peoples' lives. This is a really really big problem.
I think the largest hurdle is designing a GPU that can do both ray tracing and the current system without being absurdly expensive.

You need to be able to handle existing games as well as the next generation to sell the hardware.
I'm not a defender of France or what they did.
I'm African born in the Ivory Coast and simply wanted to clarify a few things from the article.
I'm surprised you think so. Perhaps you believe The Magic Market Fairy somehow assembles products without human help?

Last time I looked if you took labor out of the process, all you'd have left were assorted piles of raw commodities and disappointed wishes for the future.

Not even marketing can save you from this terrible fate.

(Unless you work for Cards Against Humanity, in which case - well played over Christmas.)

>This is a group of students railing against something that they don't understand.

Indeed, for assorted values of 'students.'
And macs don't get viruses either! :)
Keith Baggerly and Kevin Coombes of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center tried to replicate the work and were instrumental in getting the investigation going. They have a very helpful synopsis here: http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/Supplements/ReproRsch-A...
Samuel Huntington's thesis about the Clash of Civilisations has been thoroughly criticised since he originally proposed it, and yet in some ways the world is increasingly taking the shape he imagined. It would have been wise to treat it as a warning and take precautionary measurers instead; perhaps it is not too late.
I hear what you are saying but I think you go to far with your rant. An hour of time from a surgeon might save my life one day. An hour of time from a cashier will let me pay for my groceries ~12 times. We can certainly disagree about the precise relative merits of those two things but I think that almost everyone would agree that the former is more valuable than the latter.
Having done the corp-dev dance a bit, I can promise you that grabbing a million dollars with both hands realistically looks way more like "selling your product to people to make money" than it does "sell your company to corp-dev".

PG's quote about the offers only being surprisingly low is correct, from what I can tell.
Find the companies you want to work for and reach out to them directly. Even if the company doesn't have a current opening they may be willing to create a role for you or put you on-top of the pile for when a role does open up.

It's more hard-work than submitting CVs but it gives you a much better chance of finding a job you love.
True, but you have to download the malicious app from the app store. Here Google has a good track record of removing them from their store. Also, the user can exercise some common sense by not installing apps from untrusted sources. If the users does not pay attention to the app's permissions, any app could be harmful without needing a browser exploit.
I think the more important advice is: If you do talk to corp dev, insist on a breakup fee upfront, payable if no minimum price has been offered:

"We can talk but I am looking for at least $xxx million and will need $xxxK / $x million if you walk away during or after due diligence, to compensate for my time."

It's only without a breakup fee that Corp Dev can smoke you out...
This is simply incorrect - not only is there still much active debate and work done using the LTV, but Marx's economics is perfectly capable of explaining the differing in quantity between price and value (socially necessary labor time). This is not to say that Marx's theory is perfect, far from it, but it is far from the naive theory posited here.

It's amazing how many people who have never read Marx or seriously thought through his economics posit and then proudly refute this sophistic and extremely naive strawman argument. This is a wildly incorrect reading of the LTV that can be eliminated by simply reading Capital: Volume 1, Chapter 1 - Where the LTV is spelled out in detail.
>The question is whether driver-less technology is ready to subsume humans

No, not yet. However, we have enough smart people putting in enough effort that we will get there eventually. Maybe not for another decade.
I do not believe vandalism is covered under freedom of expression.
The problem with economics is that its trying to make sense of the single most dynamic, difficult problem ever contemplated. Its basically an attempt to model the entire world's behaviour.

There's 7 billion people in the world, we're all connected in various ways, and we all buy, sell, engage in work and other economic activities multiple times per day. Oh and nothings reproducible, so good luck trying to recreate experiments.

That's one huge model to attempt to simulate.

And if any programmer/engineer thinks they're smarter than the people currently working on these problems, I'm sure some hedge fund will pay you millions to 'solve' the problem of modeling economics.
Off-topic, but Blindsight kicks ass on any number of levels. Scientifically plausible vampires! In space! And the only genuinely creepy aliens I think I've ever come across in fiction.
pg has talked about how his main exercise is running.
Outsmarting the Airport During the Holidays
You hit the nail on the head, he does expect things to work almost exactly as they do on Linux. The thing about Linus if you've ever spent any time on reading the Linux Kernel mailing list is that he is extremely explosive and at times has really harsh analogies. But...he is usually right.
US Central Command Twitter Apparently Hacked
Yes. And to finish off for aragot, few movie theaters use actual film these days.
> Because the last notepad++ version (6.7.4) named "JE SUIS CHARLIE" !
> So you think that Islam is terrorist !

I don’t understand the transition between these two lines.

You’ll also note the space before punctuation marks, which is typical of French speakers writing in English (e.g. “something !” instead of “something!”). This is not a surprise, since those who defaced the site claim to be from Tunisia, a country where most of the population speak French.
Happy to answer this. At the very top of the story, I linked to my own family history, which I wrote a year ago. I am both white and Asian and it's true that my parents and grandparents worked incredibly hard to get to where they are in Silicon Valley -- through both poverty and war. However, the point of this story was to dissect exactly how there are substantially different structural barriers that face both African-Americans and Latinos in post-war California. I don't think pointing this out takes away or diminishes the things that my family had to overcome to succeed in America as immigrants.
It's easy to blame Marx for the Labor Theory of Value but that was just the economic theory of his time. For example Ricardo, who Marx largely based his economic theories on, was a classical economist who was also subscribed to the LTV[0].

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ricardo#Value_theory
Which part? The iCloud part or the OS install part?

I just finished reinstalling Yosemite an hour ago after wiping the HD of a friend's new laptop. It would not allow me to get past the eligibility check until I logged in with a valid Apple ID.
Yes, that was my mistake about the airport and I corrected it.
If you want C# for the JVM, take a look at Kotlin: http://kotlin-lang.org/
'An hour of labor from someone with a 130-IQ might carry a higher price on the market than an hour of labor from someone with a 90-IQ, but that doesn't mean our society should perceive the former as being more "valuable."'

And an hour of time of a person who studied hard, got good grades, and went through college should be compensated same as high school dropout? Your logic while nice in a "we are all equal fairy tale" way, immediately breaks down society because it devalues education, intelligence, and hard work tremendously.
The Science of Inherited Nostalgia
Or, concisely: there's a reason GDP/capita is a widely used metric.
Are you really looking to limit the speed available to wireless clients, or are you just trying to limit the impact a wireless device can have on the performance experienced by the wired devices? Reserving some external bandwidth as wired-only is a pretty crude way to accomplish the latter.

Any time you have a bandwidth sharing issue, the first step should be to rate-limit the router to just below the modem's speed (thereby preventing the modem's bufferbloat from kicking in) and apply an advanced qdisc to your router's WAN interface (preferably fq_codel if your software is new enough). That will keep latency from going sky-high when the WAN connection gets saturated, and ensure fair mixing of competing flows.

Only if that is insufficient should you move on to more barbaric strategies like overtly singling out certain clients or protocols for special treatment, since those policies are high-maintenance and often prevent the second-class citizens from getting full performance even when the network is otherwise idle.
>I suppose they were exercising their right to freedom of expression...

I'm sure they would be offended. freedom of expression, freedom of speech, was first declared an inalienable right during the French Revolution of 1789. http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_...
Is it worth it for robotics startups to invest in big expos like CES?
Live mics. Live guitars, bass & drums. One take. Play loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iaINsgFHVs&spfreload=10
> It looks like this dialogue is already framed in "regulation vs no regulation" without much depth

If you read even the news articles on this particular proposal you'd see that's not the case:

(1) There are people who are simply set against regulation,
(2) There are people who believe regulation is necessary, and favor the status quo of state-by-state regulation without federal regulation,
(3) There are people who believe regulation is necessary, see value in federal regulation, but are concerned that federal regulation may be counterproductive if it fails to be as good as some of the existing state regulations and preempts them,
(4) There are people who believe regulation is necessary, but that patchwork state-by-state regulation is itself counterproductive, so that it is important that consistent regulation be adopted at the federal level.

And there are fairly sophisticated arguments for all those positions.

> I think that a long drawn-out discussion among professionals would be more effective (if slower than) sound-byte politics.

This proposal is one of the products of the decades-long drawn-out discussion among professionals (and others) that have been going on about this issue (which has intensified in the last 1-2 decades with the growth of online commerce, but started long before that.)
Some people are hard at work making it reality. Conflict is profitable in so many ways.
Startup? They are called Lawyers
Distinguished? I don't think thats what the author was getting at. Just that living in the suburbs is a different experience than living in the city. Thats what I took out of it anyway, I could be wrong.
Obama’s Plan for Free Community College Could See Some Competition
I happen to trust AWS with my data.

Yeah, so let's host everything in the world on the servers of a single company. What could possibly go wrong?
Stay the Fuck Away from CloudFlare
I'd warrant the girl quoted in the article's view of "it's the labour that matters" is a lot closer to Marxist normative view of the significance of the LTV, than Smith's notion that the exchange value of a particular good should under normal circumstances be broadly equivalent to the cost of the labour to get someone else to make a new good instead.
(Not that Smith's notion exchange value is much use for valuing designer handbags, mind you.)

The additional Marxian "embedded labour" in the sewing machines and even the ad agencies reponsible for building brand equity doesn't even get close to identifying why Prada handbags cost more than artisanally made ones though...
Well put.

However, I'd add that what sucks even more is that this is not just a kernel issue. Every single application needs to worry about this.

In this particular instance, the vulnerability is caused by git not handling aliased names correctly.
When will hackers learn web design beyond geocities?
Slight OT but I think relevant. The latest cover of the Charlie Hebdo magazine has been published [1].

[1] http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2015/01/12/mahomet-en-une-d...
Only if AAPL acquires/merges with ORCL.

3rd-party: there's the non-FUSE port https://openzfsonosx.org/
Value based only on hours of labor is far too simplistic and leads to perverse conclusions.

E.g. Is it just as valuable for a farmer to till his fields by hand with a hoe and produce food at a subsistence level as it is for another farmer to use modern equipment and provide food for 100 other individuals? This is a rough approximation - pre-industrial farming population was >90%[0] and modern farming population is <1%[1] in industrialized nations.

[0] Based on a figure from this article which gives a figure for 1862 in the US http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/trouble/timeline/

[1]http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/ag101/demographics.html
I fully expect to see this dismissed as a stunt that abuses public transit and hurts the poor sometime in the next hour.
But Google doesn't control push to the end users, it's phone manufacturers/cell service providers that do that. If it was a Chrome for Android, then yet, it's part of Google Play Services that is pushed independently. So, bottom line, there is no real need to use Android browser anymore, and IIRC it's not even included to the Lollipop release.
1 Week, 150 Users, and 880 Books
For long-term (at least, how they did last month) is not in the top 5 (for 3 locations I checked, at least).

No problem with that; nice interface.
This site compares various "weather providers" and compares how they did: http://forecastadvisor.com/

"Past Performance is Not Necessarily Indicative of Future Results"
>Did I just miss the previous nano-electronic era?!

You probably made that post using electronic components less than 30nm wide.
If I would've been a "Je Suis Charlie" person, right now I'd feel pretty cheated and disgusted, because I would first think that I'm marching against attacks on free speech, only to find out later that my march is used as an excuse to crack down on online speech.

I do not agree with speech that incites violence, but does anyone really think these governments will only stop at censoring that kind of content? How many times do we have to be proven wrong about this?

As for UK, the worst offender regarding this, it's the same government that arrested Miranda, the partner of a journalist, over "terrorism charges". Maybe next they'll arrest OTR developers for being "terrorist sympathizers" and creating "circumvention tools" against their new surveillance laws. UK will soon stop being a safe country to visit for anyone who works in security (although Skype developers will probably get a free pass - they're part of the "good guys").
NY ATC hates giving VFR clearance in the area. Too much jet traffic to deal with. If you can get a word in edgewise, they'll often let you out over NJ (watch out for the Teterboro jets!) but I never see anyone heading out over Manhattan. You need to be above 2000' to be legal because of the height of the buildings and then you're starting to get into the altitudes the jets are using on approach to JFK or LGA.

Over the Hudson River (East River too) is VFR (uncontrolled) airspace up to 1500 feet [edit: this was changed to 1300 feet in 2009, after the accident referenced below] bank to bank up to the George Washington Bridge. My flight instructor told me that the radar shadow of the buildings makes it difficult to control, but I don't really know if that's the reason. You don't need ATC permission to fly there.

It's a zoo, though, pretty dense helicopter and small plane traffic, and everybody's looking at the big buildings, not the other planes. In 2009 a small plane and helicopter collided, killing 9 people. I've flown up there once, and it was totally worth it, but I probably wouldn't do it again.
The __builtin_ methods mentioned by the grandparent are functionally identical to the associated libc methods, so they can be #defined away as well.
Even twenty years ago when I worked in radio (89-93), the song playlist was determined 2-3 weeks in advance. The station had software that ran on a TRS-80 and I had a printout to follow every shirt.
The only objective way to determine the value of something is to observe what people are willing to give up in order to get that thing. And because money is the convenient means by which we exchange value, it's how we can observe how much people actually do sacrifice to get something. And price is just the expression of that money value.

As mentioned elsewhere, hours of labor is pretty thoroughly discredited. It implies that I could cause something to be worth more just by using inefficient methods. It fails to capture the idea of marginally decreasing utility. Basically, the value of something is in the eye of the beholder, and tying value to production labor just completely fails to see that.
Setting Up Ubuntu Server for Running a Single Website with Node.js and MongoDB
Level Money Acquired by Capital One
This is very disturbing. I had thought the days of dirty financial politics were getting over, but it seems that the fight is just getting more intense. I can see why though: if France or US does not take a side, China will (used to be Soviets earlier). So its always this stupid game which others play and the common Africans are haplessly caught in the middle wondering why their countries are so impoverished.
Well, Marx distinguishes between price and value. He then argues that price is a feature of the capitalist system, with the consequence that you can only build a theory of capitalism on price dynamics, not a more general theory that would be able to talk about different economic systems. He then goes on to argue about necessary work and work that is spend beyond keeping just the status quo - the surplus value.

And besides, your argument about expensive handbags is flawed, since they are status signifier because of the work of PR people.
This was an interesting read, and highly concerning for me. While I am formally educated in computer science I enjoy psychology studies and collect research articles about group behavior, which I use as a basis for building simulations.
For my purposes it doesn't really matter if the research failed to account for all the variables or makes weakly supported conclusion. I'm not trying to publish my own research, I just enjoy the reading and inspiration for projects.
But fabricated research is another matter. The data isn't just inconclusive, the conclusion is made up. It may be reasonable, it may even be true, but the suggestions from the article are false and so contribute to an inaccurate model to understand the world.

How can someone like me, who enjoys the research but doesn't want to make a career out of it, keep up with it?
Where can I go to find good, to the best of our current understanding, research (in psychology or other fields)? How can I identify meaningful research from the fluff?
What resources are available to help me learn when or if research I read is found to be questionable or fabricated?

Or is scientific research out of reach for the common man? If I can't find the time to read all the citations and critically evaluate each article, am I better off just staying away?
Were you at the scene? Were you there as a witness? Are you a ballistics expert? How much do you know about spatter patterns? Can you tell the exact angle the victim's head was at when he was shot?

Ya know, don't even bother answering.