skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you play videogames, you may have noticed the phenomenon where you lose the game because you failed to press the button at the right time - but you are 100% sure that you did in fact press the button at the right time.

Apparently this is a well documented phenomenon (even though you pressed the button a few hundredths of a second too late, your brain is persuaded you pressed it correctly), and it blew my mind when I first read about it. Now when it happens to me I'm deeply aware of it, but it's still a little surreal (and frightening) to realize that our brains are indeed very fallible.
I don't disagree with you. (Although Perl exhibits exactly the same issue.) Unfortunately bash is the lowest common denominator on Linux and is often chosen on that basis.
The Wayback Machine has an archived copy of silkroadmarket.org from 2011.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110304201806/http://silkroadmar...

It's signed by "-Silk Road staff" at the bottom. If this site was really owned by Karpeles, then he definitely had something to do with Silk Road, whether or not he was DPR.
Using C or Python or Perl does not automatically keep people from failing to check whether some code that reaches out into the environment to prepare for later action actually succeeded.
Why are we still running bash scripts? The only thing worse might be DOS batch files.

It's not like python isn't available on every major linux distro. It's a little harder to ensure it's on windows, but when Steam is installing every point release of the Visual C++ runtime that has ever existed on my system, why not bundle python in there too?
a larger population than that of the Netherlands, mind you.

from wikipedia,

new jersey: ~9 million

Netherlands: ~7 million
the new VS 2015 preview uses Roslyn for typescript. honestly I prefer VS 2013 better right now, the VS 2015 preview crashes regularly, plus is missing important extensions (and the Web Essentials plugin for it misses features such as TSLint)
Just Effin Do It?
An open hydraulic system is more lightweight.
Well with regards to the post I answered, some have the idea that you locate certain features like eye corners, mouth corners, etc. and then do recognition based on the measurements between these feature locations.

One of the earlier successes of face recognition as described in Pentland and Moghaddam's paper was to use simple PCA on the images of faces normalized by eye position. This PCA would use all the pixels of a vector made from an image. Obviously there's been a lot of progress since then, but all pixels are getting used for information.
Wikipedia doesn't cite any examples or references for the claim that it's illegal to blame somebody else. In the US, you have pretty wide latitude to say what you want in court.

The closest example I can think of is Amanda Knox, who was prosecuted for slander for suggesting that the police investigators didn't do their job properly as part of her defense. That happened in Italy, however.
From one of his tweets:

> Hydraulics are usually closed, but that adds mass vs short acting open systems. F9 fins only work for 4 mins. We were ~10% off.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/554023312033341440
i love resharper for C#, but it's typescript support is... lacking. Easier (and better intelisense discovery) to use the official VS plugin for Typescript (and comes built into the newer versions of VS)
The most common way to do this in Clojure is to use an EDN file. EDN is similar to Clojure syntax but the EDN reader (intentionally) has no arbitrary runtime execution functionality - it just reads a data structure and returns it.
With nearsightedness, you can have nearly normal vision 1 foot away even if you have much worse vision 20 feet away. With this system I suspect you can see things better when they're closer just because they encompass more of the visual field, but you probably can't see something 1 foot away nearly as well as a myopic person with 20/250 vision.

On the other hand, you might still be able to read. The vOICe people published a paper (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627312...) that shows that regions of the brain that are activated by letters/words in normal individuals and by Braille reading in the blind are activated by vOICe after training.
No I'm not saying that any do, or that they will just that it could be the case in a theoretical situation.
Stopping distance scales with v^2 (unfortunately)
Here's a fine that might catch their attention: All companies involved should receive no new H1Bs for a duration equal to the time they had this illegal arrangement.
You mean like Redhat?
So you believe incitement to violence, death threats, defamation, and false advertising should be protected, and the FCC is unconstitutional?

And even more specifically, anyone who doesn't agree with you is either a weasel or has ulterior motives?
Actually seems like it'd be a decent use of what became of the ill-fated super collider project south of Dallas. A quarter of it has already been bored.
pluralsight.com
Years ago, when I was doing laboratory programming, I wrote a set of c++ classes for numbers with units. It tracked units through the calculations (and managed significant figures). It even allowed for such stuff as dividing mass by volume to return a density or generating a volume by multiplying three lengths together. It was very useful for the task at hand, which was flowmeter calibration.
It would be an alternative but it wouldn't be a basic income. Rather than type it all in again I'll include by reference my previous comment on the subject (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647882). To summarize, after a lot of reading and research I believe that there is some merit to the idea, and some of the more common arguments, like everyone would just stay at home and sleep, are not well supported either by research or experience.

I'd love to see it tested for 'real' though.
>Elon has specific role in "production". If his work/energy/decisions are going to spawn new factory, new technology or new product that is going to improve productivity of millions then by all means his income is justified by his productivity.

A new technology, a new product, and improving the productivity of millions are not activities or goals that are achievable by any single individual. Elon must utilize additional human capital to achieve any of these goals. Thus there is a limit on how productive a human can be and in turn a limit on how much wealth he or she deserves.

>This is not true. Emphasis on "all cases". If you create money at exactly the same rate as the economy's produce grows than money has it's background in actual "things" that have value.

My bad, I meant most cases. Sorry.
Hopefully this inspires change within Microsoft's development processes. Security issues are a big deal. While 90 days is difficult for them (and other companies), I'm sure with some investment on process improvement and or hiring more staff, they can get these fixes out faster. They owe it to their customers to do the right thing.
>Programmers have worked very hard through the years to create the current liability-free environment; people die because of health care programming bugs, pilots crash because of avionics bugs, and people lose fortunes -- or welfare checks -- because of finance programming errors, but programmers just throw up their hands, and say that programming is hard.

Yeah, we've all noticed the rampant mass deaths of millions because of software issues...

/sarcasm
Sometimes being a martyr can further your cause more than you could do alive.
The entity of DPR put out a hit. Proving out who/whom is DPR is part of the important consideration of charges.
I don't whole heartedly disagree with you but I think its grayer than that.

Maybe there were time constraints. Maybe the coder explained that this code was dangerous to his boss but was not grantee the time to fix it.

I think we agree that said code should never have been written, but there are any number of circumstances that place the blame squarely on management. If he explained the dangers of doing it that way but wasn't granted time to fix it (or no manifest was kept), theres little that johnny coder can do outside of their own time.

None of us write perfect code the first time, and we all had to start somewhere. What's important is how far youve come and what you've learned. I think.
Reading "A Pattern Language" immediately changed the build-out plans for our new office. We're truly putting these ideas in practice.

We have a large-ish, well-lit open space, surrounded by several conference rooms. The open space is oriented in the overall space such that it's farthest from the door to minimize traffic. We're going to let each team (4-8 people) build out their own workspaces in the open area. They will organize the furniture, control how they physically interface with the rest of the space and other teams, etc. They'll have enough types of furniture to build walls, alcoves, desks, conference tables, social spaces, etc. As projects and teams change, adjustments can be made immediately.

I must say it's an exciting yet terrifying prospect, particularly because as with many existing spaces, it's not always possible to follow the prescriptive advice 100%. Additionally, almost no one has ever worked in an office space that is like the Alexander describes, which makes it somewhat of a leap of faith (in Peopleware we trust) that it will all work out.

If anyone else out there has already gone through this process, I'd love to hear how it's worked out for you.

This is the web page that got me into his work [http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/Chris.furniture.html].
>Why should that be Turing complete? What purpose would it serve?

Ever see an Emacs config file?
It's a start, from here on out this can only mature and other use cases can start being considered.
Seriously surprising to hear that money-conscious lawyers might agree to such a piddly amount ($415M) from 4 companies whose collective market cap is over 1 trillion dollars. This is palatable only if it comes with significant sanctions and admission of wrongdoing, which of course, is highly doubtful.
in terms of productivity produced by human capital, we are all bounded by our physical form and intelligence.
Detailed speculation on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2s1lq9/my_guess_abo...
Right, I believe the grid fins are the primary roll control method (the other being friction and secondarily tilting the ship and making a precession around center of mass). If this force was lost while the control loop was expecting it to work things can go bad I guess.
it would if you accidentally left two guns pointing at each other.
you're right. my mistake.
In another news, google stop fixing security bugs which cover 60% of the current android users (4.3 or older). Not saying microsoft is right, but they just dropped windows xp support last year (that is >10 years of support).

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/google-wont-fix-bug-...
An upstart charter school is challenging the status quo in Clayton County
I don't appreciate your tone. You are jumping to conclusions about my opinions on a complicated and controversial matter.

>But I also don't think that each generation gets to re-do the constitution in the image of their own principles.

I never said that. But every generation does have that power, because all other generations are dead and don't get to make amendments anymore. I don't know what it is about what I've said that makes you think I would support some _other_ means of modifying the constitution.

Those who are alive have all the power. I don't see what is so objectionable about that; it's one of the great benefits of not being a corpse.
What's a narcissistic douchebag to do for attention, now?

https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/posts/1015157966444465...
From the glass-community forums they are not shutting down and will still support existing warranties etc..... My understanding is that there are some exciting things in store for the platform.
Show HN: Pure SASS mixins for FontAwesome (reduce your library bloat)
I got a check from this (I was in the 'Google' class) so I wonder if they will update that, or if by cashing it I released my claim. Interesting.
Mobile Ads and Mobile Analytics for about 500 million devices world wide.
I think it was related to Italy prematurely collecting the coming years' taxes.

I've watched and read so much of your stuff I can't even find which one it was in.
I see hints of them using Matlab and Python, anybody know what they're using for the heavy lifting?
If valve doesn't do code reviews, and if pull requests are actually blindly accepted (is that actually a thing? Do people ever actually blindly accept pull requests?) I don't think I have the wherewithal to give a useful response.
It's been awhile so I don't remember the full specifics, but it was bundled with a specially configured version of Internet Explorer in a mode much like kiosk mode, but even more locked down. No right click menu, navigation, etc. Just basically a full-screen browser with no chrome. Administrators had to hit a special key sequence to exit.
Even assuming that the govt fund behaves just like private Chinese VCs you'll see the bulk of the money going towards startups that try to replicate US/International innovation success stories domestically. Xiaomi is not a threat to startups. It's a threat to consumer electronics manufactures with higher cost bases that are slow at innovation. China is good at globalization plays, but still bad at innovation. Startups don't need to worry [yet].
GNU rm defaults to failing on /, but this behavior can be overwritten with the --no-preserve-root flag.
Reminds me of a shell trick I saw many years ago for short circuiting accidental 'rm -rf's by issuing a 'touch -- -i' in a sensitive location. In bash (and others), the glob operator inadvertently feeds the '-i' (now a file) into rm as an argument which then interprets it as its "interactive" flag, causing it to prompt for continued removal.
My understanding was that in a pressure failure, the pod could stop too fast...
Browsing through other dates it was cached reveals that it was regularly updated with details about the SR registration being closed and server outages.
Or Novell SuSe? Being "enterprisey" isn't an excuse for weak security.
I just wish they would stop attacking google products. I have a China legal enterprise, we pay China taxes, employ 15 people, expect to double size again this year. But since January 1st I had to scramble and buy VPN service for all our employees just to continue using our email. I've dealt with a lot of frustration to get started over here in Chinese system but right now is probably the most pissed off I've been, this is ridiculous.
I've done something like this before, with my own build scripts. Except I was running as root (a requirement for some parts of the build).

Part of the scripts installed a bunch of files into what was supposed to be a fakeroot, however I did not have bash's 'set -u' configured and an incorrectly spelled path variable was null, meaning something like: "${FAKEROOT}/etc" was translated into "/etc". Before I realized it, it had clobbered most of my /etc directory.

When the build failed, I was puzzled. I only noticed there was an issue when I opened a new shell and instead of seeing "myuser@host ~]#" I got "noname@unknown ~]#". Uh oh...

Needless to say I know do my development of those scripts from within a VM.
They fixed those issues with 4.4.
> Better deployment of filters would do much to improve the situation.

No, it wouldn't. People have been calling for an to end spoofing for 15 years with virtually 0 progress.

Filters don't help in volumetric attacks.
Good points. But the reason why software being sold should have a higher standard of liability is because in the case of open source software, that's generally just posted on some website and anyone can download it, modify it, and run it on any platform. The authors don't have any control over what anyone does with it, and never received any money for it in exchange for their liability. With many open source projects, there's a feeling that it was created for the author to use themselves and anyone else being able to see the source and possibly get some benefit from it is just a bonus.

With a bunch of random people just making a bridge that collapses, then unless it's on their own property, they know that other people will use it and expect it to not collapse and so liability is justified there. (If it's on their own property, then morally there shouldn't be any liability unless they invited someone to use it, but legally is another matter.)

If this was ANY product other than software, there wouldn't even be a question of Valve being liable, and that's just disgusting to me.
Kale: CFL vs. LED over 3 months
Investigating Higher Quality Software
Thank the carriers for being jerks for that one. I know on the last time this article came up I took a hard line on them, but upon further reflection, it's not like they can just write a patch and have it out in a week. Heck, it takes months for point releases to go through acceptance testing at the carriers, and probably not insignificant amounts of cash.

At least they're starting to own more of the ecosystem. I wouldn't expect this to be as big of a problem on newer devices.
Somehow I foresee Microsoft trying to rush out a security patch to a hugely complicated piece of software so it can be distributed to hundreds of millions of devices running countless hardware configurations just to appease Google ending very poorly for everyone but Google's marketing department.
the crux of the issue is that you, the licensed operator of the automobile, have been trusted to identify possible hazards and adjust your speed accordingly.

if you're driving to fast to stop for a pedestrian from a crowded sidewalk, you shouldnt have a license.
Well HN needs links to be submitted, and then voted up. So I guess to answer your question is that no one at HN cared?
It's possible that Karpeles knew that a mainstream dark market that used bitcoin would increase the adoption of bitcoin. He may have tried to make that happen by registering the domain and promoting it.
This project is not a plugin API though, it's in a completely different universe.

If you must complain about a project called "Jetpack", point your arrows towards Wordpress[1].

[1] http://jetpack.me/
> Would this have stopped things getting deleted?

No. "${STEAMROOT}" will contain something when the "rm" command runs. It just might not be what's expected.

> STEAMROOT="$(cd "${0%/*}" && echo $PWD)"
Oddly, if it was a 'stupid' mistake I'm pretty sure they would own up to it.

But lets look at what the these things do. During descent they provide control authority over roll, pitch, and yaw of the lower stage. Even though the center of gravity is near the bottom the rocket, the system is trying to keep it vertical. It is travelling down range and needs to go from moving sideways, to coming straight down. Earlier versions of Grasshopper used hypergolic thrusters on the sides but they were scrapped in favor of the fins system. So once you run out of hydraulic fluid, you're limited to the ability to gimbal the Merlin engines for controlling pitch and yaw.

If you watch the video you can see that the fins are used all the way to the point where it lands.

So my guess is they knew they were going to run out of hydraulic fuel and brought the rocket in "hot" (at a higher than planned approach speed) and didn't manage to get close enough before the fins stopped working.

If that really was the only thing that didn't work correctly, then we'll know on the 29th.
I'd like it if this would force you to pay based on how long something was going to take. I want to install freenas in a virtual machine so I can test the web interface accessibility before spending the money on a server to run it. I'd gladly pay $10 or $15 to have someone walk me through the install by me pointing my phone at my laptop screen if that were possible but don't want to ask someone who's expecting to spend 30 seconds reading a label spend 30 minutes walking me through an OS install instead.
I don't know. I think the main problem with the parent idea is '...and lose'. Perhaps they should be sued (presumably as a class-action), but whether or not they lose is TBD. The parent wants them to be sued only so that they necessarily lose.
> the radiologist had just measured from a different point on the image.

I had a similar experience when I was having a spinal curvature corrected. After a particular xray, several people -- a couple doctors, the xray guy, a med student or two, a mix of a couple people like this -- had measured my spine's then-current curvature and had come up with a huge range; to one, I had gotten worse... to another, I had some improvement... to the third, marginally the same with a smudge of improvement.

In the end I got the most improvement I was going to get given my specific situation and I'm happy for//with that. The point is, it was literally three measurements on the same xray from which three mutually exclusive conclusions//opinions were [literally?] drawn.

I'm therefore not surprised that there is similar with tumours.
someone should add this to

http://learnxinyminutes.com/
Fyi: the -d option is specific to the BSD implementation of rm, it's not available in the GNU coreutils rm.
Is it really a net improvement? There are a number of developers out there that have pulled out of the app store (off the top of my head, Atlassian for SourceTree, and Panic for Transmit) because the sandbox restrictions would force them to remove functionality from their applications.

As far as Apple's implementation goes, sandboxes are for kids, not adults that need to get work done.
I still assert it's only a matter of cross-correlating that data with something else.

I don't know what kind of data you're working with, but for the sake of example let's assume you're handling buying records from supermarkets. You obviously hashed people's ClubCard/credit card numbers. But let's say I get hold of the data from an ALPR on a street near one of the markets. Would correlating that with your database not help to deanonymize a lot of your data?

My point is - as the data collection of every kind increases, for every dataset you have anonymized, there will be a lot of other data sets of all sorts that can be used to deanonymize back yours.
There's just no sense in telling a hobbyist what to do with his personal time. That means its no longer a hobby, it's a charity exercise.

I think the problem is EULAs. Foss Eula's are pretty straight forward - no warranty: use at your own risk. Corporate software takes the same approach, and I think that's cowardly and underhanded because they are a profit driven entity which, if not incentivized properly, would literally rob you blind.

Corporations are profit driven. No profit, no corporation.

If your going to profit off of selling me something which then burns my house down because it was cheaper for the vendor to not build to standards (best practices), shouldn't they be held liable?

If someone made a lamp for themselves that wasn't up to standard, and then left it out on the curb for garbage pickup when you came along and took it home, plugged it in, and burned down your house, who's fault is that? They didn't sell it to you. There was no purchase.