skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it is the Pro version with a different name, no time limitation ... You can read more on Microsoft VS page: http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community...

Small excerpt:

Visual Studio Community 2013 includes all the great functionality of Visual Studio Professional 2013, designed and optimized for individual developers, students, open source contributors, and small teams.
> such a shitty internet service as in Spain over their network

Actually from my experience that was pretty good compared to uh... Telefonica in Argentina.

And then people complain about Comcast!
This is hardly worth mentioning when talking about 0day markets, but what stops a state willing to pay $500K for an exploit from taking the hacker(s) back home? Is it ethics?
and here I remember the day this all started because browsers had become bloated.
>>public data from an organization funded by taxpayers isn't freely available

Perhaps it was free, they wouldn't have resources to compile it? Plenty of things that tax payer money supports aren't free, for example suburban swimming pools or perhaps more egregiously sports venues.
What annoyances? I've been considering LASIK myself but don't know if it's worth it with -0.5/-0.75 vision impairment.

I mean after all, ignoring my impairment and simply not wearing glasses is only a minor annoyance for me. I've sometimes gone years almost never wearing glasses but right now I wear glasses almost every weekday.
React Native is not built on the DOM and thus is not "hybrid"--it seems it's fully native under the hood.
haliphax // remorse / break / pen15 / vinyl / simple / the!click / ruckus / punc / etc.

:)
and http://bbs.ninja !!
What I miss in these notes, and what I think is the main question we should be asking ourselves, is the question of the black-box approach. That is, do we understand what intelligence amounts to? On the one hand, we want to be able to say yes but on the other hand, we haven't been able after all these years to formalize the concept of intelligence in a satisfactory or even meaningful way. So the answer seems to be no. Moreover, do we even know what intelligence is?

Thus, should we instead be building black-box systems that behave seemingly intelligently without understanding why they behave intelligently? I.e. neural networks, deep learning? Is this a good investment? It seems so, at least in the short term. But what about the long term? I don't know the answer.

Having said that, I've been working for some time on non-monotonic reasoning and related subjects, which are typical symbolic logic approaches to AI, and I believe that what I am doing, while intellectually very worthwhile, is a dead end in the context of AI. I'm sometimes surprised at how easily we get money to get to work on this stuff. So I agree with the point that lack of funding is not the problem.
> A web browser should not include X functionality, but should allow a web page to implement X functionality.

Exactly. Firefox doesn't include "Firefox Hello" anymore than it includes "Gmail". Instead, Firefox (and other web browsers) include XMLHttpRequest and WebRTC, which can be used to implement whatever you want.

I'm getting pretty tired of hearing this trope ("teh bloat!") anytime a browser announces new functionality. Browsers are among the most successful pieces of consumer software in existence, so let's maybe admit they've done something right? But moreover, you have the ability -- really, unprecedented for software so complex and in such wide use -- to fork not one but two excellent open-source browsers, plus an excellent rendering engine. If you think you know better than Mozilla and/or Google, go for it. It's not lost on anyone at Mozilla that this is how Firefox originated.

</rant>
Note that a tor exit node is quite different from a relay.
not likely, as PETSCII are actually executables, if I remember correctly.
Snowde/Schneier on Reason Not to Undermine Net Security: Information Asymmetry
This is a thread about firefox, when you make an answer entirely about chrome. This is neither the place nor the time for your rant.
That presentation was done by Lord Scarlet, host of the Sixteen Colors ANSI art archive :)
I am honestly not terribly surprised. :-D. As the language stabilizes, it should see a lot more performance optimization. I'd be really interested in seeing how Rust 1.0 final performs in a test like this.
But, if this is peer-to-peer, what's Telefonica's role?
In theory they could add some new methods to the DOM api to allow for this, but it would be non-standard and currently none of the browsers have it.

Something like this maybe?

batchDomChanges();
...
dom changes here
...
flushDomChanges();
The title seems a bit misleading, e.g. one could reverse engineer source code into UML. Perhaps a more appropriate title would be: A Gentle Primer on Code disassembling.
I want to know the answer to this question as well; my university purposefully blocks non-authorized networks.
Actually folding is sort-of similar to a one-way function. It's difficult to compute, but easy to verify. The verification is the calculation of the energy.

You give the same protein sequence to multiple miners, and the one with the minimum energy after time X wins the money. This will force the miners to find lowest energy solutions.
> I somehow hoped Mozilla would never employ these kind of business models where is user is the product.

Then you must be naive, given that this has been Mozilla's main source of income for years.
Planting evidence digitally seems like a particularly useful ability.

If that were to prove difficult, slip a USB drive into someone's bag and tip off the authorities.
my previous county listed lots, primary owner, and assessed value, when they first went live many years ago. Since then I think they only removed the owner's name; it usually was just last name.

why was it important, having someone who you don't want contact with could determine your home and possible income simply by searching the county tax records.
That's pretty slick. I'll put this library in my back pocket for later.
I found that being a Lisp-1 made it inconsistent so I went with Lisp-2. Why should I be able to multiple functions with the same name but different no of args at the top-level (which you can and is commonly used) but not in local functions? Lisp-2 gives you the same handling for local functions and top-level functions.
Interesting read. I quit wearing glasses a few years ago without getting my eyes fixed. I had given up my car the year before and, at some point, I realized I didn't really need my glasses anymore. I am nearsighted and I can work on a computer without glasses. I only really needed them for driving. There are ways in which it is still apparent that I don't have the best eyesight -- like when I can't read a street sign from a distance. But with walking and taking public transit, it is usually not a big deal. It's one of the ways in which becoming a pedestrian has been freeing, and without having to go through a frightening surgery first.
An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem (2008)
Lessons learned from teaching an 11-week data science course
Calculus is basically algebra with a bigger vocabulary of operations.
Actually, you have it backwards. The US was previously a first-to-invent country but as of March 2013 is now first-to-file. This brings the US in line with the rest of the modern world, which is already mostly first-to-file.
How we might abolish Cabal Hell, part 2
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/fcc-blocking-wi-f...

Article with some more detail, this was because of Marriot
"Powered by Telefonica" really means "powered by OpenTok", which was developed by Tokbox, a Telefonica acquisition.
Me too. I immediately removed the Hello icon when I read Telefonica. Apparently it's because of Tokbox but I won't trust one more telco then I have to.
I think the parent was talking more about undergraduate education in the humanities, and not research in the humanities.
Why? It was a very good technology (the best?) at the time, and it remained so for a few years.

I'm very happy I picked it for my projects and I'm also very excited about React, which I would probably choose today.
React Native uses similar principles of AsyncDisplayKit (doing as much work as possible on a background thread and only doing what we absolutely need to on the main/UI thread) but does not depend on AsyncDisplayKit.
Yes. You pay taxes on profits. Since a non-profit entity makes no profit, it pays no taxes.

The bigger issue I come across is whether a donation to a non-profit organization is tax deductible. For that, the non-profit entity must apply to the IRS for IRC 501(c)(3) status and receive it before a donation to a non-profit entity is tax deductible.
So now you can be fined $600,000 for running your microwave?
Mistigris ftw, Al's House of Meat BBS was the most eye searing board I remember from the early 90s.
I used emacs hexl-mode and http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/24594.pdf to edit a je to a jne which caused the program to think I put in the correct password. That was fun.
It is possible/likely that this refers to what Mariott was specifically doing, which is attacking cellular modem/AP combo devices that were not connected to Marott's network in any way, just physically located in/near their hotels.

University Wi-Fi blocking is usually targeted at APs that students have attached to University network drops without permission, which is a completely different thing.

However, the FCC did not appear to draw a distinction, which is interesting.
I've been trying, but I don't see the connection.

At the time they sold several other compilers. "C, C++, FORTRAN and Pascal are priced at U.S. $2,000 quantity one and Modula-2 at U.S. $2,200 quantity one" says http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/sun-info/sunflash/1990/Apr/16.13.com... .

C++ wasn't a standard, but it was unbundled. FORTRAN was a standard, and it was also unbundled. How does being ANSI C affect things?
Internet in Brazil under debate
>A web browser should not include X functionality, but should allow a web page to implement X functionality. In my view, this is true for most values of X, including Skype, Mail, Word, Excel...

And in other people's view, it is nonsense, and they liked their Mozilla with built-in mailer, Opera, etc.

And of course there's the huge ecosystem of browsers add-ons and plugins, that do exactly that: implement X functionalities outside of web pages.

>Firefox Hello is ludicrous.

Haven't seen any argument about it. Not being able to disable it and not wanting browsers to include X functionality doesn't translate to "ludicrous".
I hope you don't get too many downvotes for that. You may have been making a joke (and you did give me a good laugh), but for a huge number of students, it's the truth. It's hard for a student to focus on the underlying theories when he or she is having a hard time just learning the tools that are used to explore them in today's world. Other disciplines are similar - although boolean algebra may be the basis for digital electronics, if you don't understand the basics of how to use a breadboard, a multimeter, and a logic analyzer (depending on the class), it's going to make getting through most digital electronics classes nearly impossible.

All of the 'fundamentals' courses - graph theory / data structures & algorithms, compilers / parsers / language processing, number theory, artificial intelligence / machine learning, networking, computer architecture, operating systems, graphics, databases, ... are taught using a programming language. To be able to learn them in today's educational system, where the practical examples are routinely given in the form of code, you must first have a firm grasp of the language employed. I would compare it to attempting to learn history from a book that is half English and half Mandarin when one does not speak Mandarin.
Embed a mechanical turk worker?
This brings back memories. I was never an artist myself but I used some of the scene art for my BBS in the mid to late 90's. I wish there was a way to search based on keywords.

Even the tech is interesting. It uses a JSON API at api.artpacks.org to get the data and renders the art into <canvas> elements.
I do agree college should not be free. It devalues the education and puts those who are there to truly learn at a disadvantage. Who wants to be in classes alongside people who just there because its free, or for the ride?

When you ask people to pay for something they rightly should expect something in return. They should also be able to set limits. There are many colleges offering degrees in nearly useless if not useless areas. There are many that simply exist to farm loans, scholarships, and the like.
There are no hard and fast rules about threads.

A thread about Firefox is also a thread to discuss web browsers in general, the web, html, etc.
Very interesting point. A Cisco page[1] discussing this feature says:

"Containment can have legal implications when launched against neighboring networks. Ensure that the rogue device is within your network and poses a security risk before you launch the containment."

[1]http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless/4400-seri...

Cisco seems to think this is perfectly fine to do to rouge APs connected to an organization's wired network, however.

Note that the Marriott enforcement action concerned the use of personal access points not connected to a Marriott network.

I don't see any basis in the Communication Act for making this distinction though. 47 U.S.C. Section 333, the law Marriott violated, says: "No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter or operated by the United States Government." From the Cisco materials mentioned above, it seems the mitigation method involves sending fake de-authentication packets over the air. That also seems like intentional interference to me!
Hello, this is Robert with FoldingCoin :) I love that this discussion is here and I am replying to these comments right now.

There is no way of decentralizing with the Counterparty platform. I encourage everyone to read all of the great features that you get by being on Counterparty in the same link provided by @mrb. We feel also including the downsides is crucial to have a better understanding of what we are trying to accomplish.

Though we have measures in place to deal with the centralization issue we currently have:

1. We are incorporated as a Non profit in Indiana and we report to the government. We are 100% transparent about everything that we do. If we are to have malicious intentions, then we would be held accountable against the government.

2. We are setting up a board of directors to control the undistributed FLDC that we currently hold. This probably will not become a reality until the end of the year, but we are working on it. The first step was to become an official non profit found here https://secure.in.gov/sos/online_corps/name_search_results.a...
If telcos have a 'right' to favor traffic, then using anything that subverts their ability to control your traffic is probably illegal. Rights don't mean anything if you don't have laws backing them.
What do you mean randomly block specific ports because "security"? All ports should be denied access except ports which have a justified business reason. Got a web app? The only thing open should be 80/443. There's no reason for SMTP to be open on the web server. Anything doing mail should be on its own MTA server. Least functionality per server. That's not even security. That's just good system administration.
I think the proposals in the article are dead on arrival by reason of the very same ubiquity. Unless you happen to be in the sort of situation where you can ask everyone around you to put their phone in the freezer, you can bet there's someone near you who would never dream of physically turning off any part of their phone, and who has no idea what network security even is.

Beyond that we're moving towards a world where practically everything is connected to the network and takes voice control. Even if it isn't designed to relay voice over the internet it's going to be built with commodity multipurpose hardware that certainly has the capability, and you can bet that practically no one is going to bother making sure they're private.

I don't know what the answer is but I think we're reaching, if we're not there already, a threshold where ensuring the security of your own device is of moderate utility at best.
If I discuss one country, I don't need to discuss every country - and that's not even remotely practical anyway. By failing to discuss every country, that doesn't invalidate my ability to discuss one country.

It's also not necessary to discuss human rights violations in Myanmar, in order to discuss Saudi Arabia or Iran. I would be very surprised if a lot of people here are lacking in understanding about Saudi Arabia.

The sole reason I entered the discussion on Iran, is because the parent I replied to claimed Iran was in some form moderate. Iran is the exact opposite of moderate, even if Saudi Arabia is worse.
Being difficult to compute and easy to verify doesn't meet the full criteria for being a secure hashing function.
Nowadays they are very reliable, but still very expensive (compared to european competition).
This primarily applies to exits, not relays. Relays only work within the Tor network and never know exactly what they're relaying.
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/jammer-enforcement

It appears even the ownership of a device intended for WiFi jamming is not allowed. I wonder if there is a distinction between active jammers and passive blocking methods. Could WiFi-obstructing materials painted on my walls for the purpose of restricting the range of my WiFi to inside my house be considered illegal under some interpretations of these laws?
I don't know about Telefonica's role, but in general WebRTC needs external servers to deal with things like NATs and firewalls: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/infrastructure...
Looks like those IBM layoffs have started
You sound like a sexist.
Considering that their net income for the past quarter was 192 million[1], I doubt $600k will dissuade them much.

1. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MAR
It'll never happen if everyone just hopes as we do. Take your idea, use it to inspire yourself, and if you have the chance... Make it happen. I'm sure there are many individuals that will appreciate and welcome your idea.
Engineers have engineering degrees.
Is it even possible to have a decentralized currency where the mining problem isn't directly related to the maintenance of the ledger? Won't people just be incentivized to mine rather than preventing double spends, and the like?
Who distributes the protein sequences?
I feel it would only be really dangerous if there is 1 AI that clearly outstrips the others and that can expand itself. If there were an AI community just like there is a human community, the dangers would be much, much less.

Anything that is really capable of being an independent individual is going to need to grow up, and the first batch (at the very least) is going to grow up with human "parents".

It would seem to me that having such programs would be incredibly useful. They can do so much things that humans just can't do. They would be able to move around in a range of bodies, as they please. For instance having a huge body to put up large buildings in hours, having tiny bodies to simply crawl into a fiber optic cable to repair it. For the very brave amongst those AIs, putting copies of 1000 AI programs and basic production facilities into a spaceship and firing it at a neighboring solar system, ...

Those AIs will be as dangerous or peaceful as those people make them, and whatever ideology they grow up in will last for quite a while.

I do think humanity will die, but it will die in a very unique way : there will simply be no need for humans to procreate, and very, very, very slowly that will lead to extinction. Everybody involved will be happy about it, and everything about us, our culture, our technology, and our children will live on. I believe for quite a while humans and AIs will "interbreed", in the sense that humans and AIs will come together and choose to have an AI "baby", so when I say "our children will live on", for a lot of people that will be a very literal thing, and the "thing" that lives on will be something that's as real and as much a part and a continuation of their family as a "real" baby. It will have a name, it will have worked itself into trouble and have been rescued by it's parents 100 times, it will sit down and start crying without realizing what's going on the first time it's in a body that runs our of battery just like baby that's hungry, it will learn and go to school, it will be bullied and it will bully, ... And I'm sure that there will be a few "pure" human community, in the beginning a lot of racist-based ones, which will kill themselves, and a few that remain for very, very long, something like the Amish of today.
It appears that my karma level don't allow me to downvote you (at 240 I only see the uparrow). I live in Spain and Telefonica is a very good company with an excellent service but a little expensive (you have to pay to have good quality). The appropriate word your post is FUD. I hope and wish that such a great company continues its expansion and growth. By the way, I am not affiliated with this company in any way but I recognize the value of great companies like telefonica.
What if they kept a decentralized part and sort of "plug in" the proof of work part? They could have a fallback proof of work method s.t. if the outsourced proof of work fails they can keep the network running and call a decentralized voting to replace the source.
It is very relevant. Both Chrome and Firefox are getting extremely bloated and feature-creeped. Besides bloat/performance/quality, each new feature is a new security attack vector [0].

This is a very valid discussion. Software engineers would naturally have concerns when a browser built to render web pages gets turned into a pseudo operating system. The risk here is that without focus it won't be a good browser nor a good OS.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-0...
To be honest, I did like the Netscape system of Email, Calendar Browser, Webpage creator, etc.

I don't really do lots of video, so... ::meh:: ... but I am fine with rebuilding the old Netscape system. :)
Built with React.js as well!

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/compon...
... which is an interesting theory given the fact that the linked slides show them looking through information gathered from videos on bomb-making and abductions.
I meant that as a part of the general argument put forward by Jeff Hawkins (cf. "On Intelligence"). Not my claim, to be precise. And it isn't exactly as ridiculous as it sounds either.
Agreed. The university unquestionably has the right to prevent you from connecting a device to its wired network. The only question is whether it can use wireless "self-help" to prevent you from doing so.
Guess I'm the odd duck out... Crashes every time I try it - 35.0.1 on Mavericks 10.9.4 :(
noting that many Chinese companies and local governments had to scramble when Microsoft discontinued its support of Windows XP

This really doesn't make any sense. Microsoft gave ample warning about when it would discontinue supporting XP, and its actually incredible that they did support it all the way to 2014. What exactly do they expect? That MS will support it forever?
I am bummed - I was hoping it was just straight up peer to peer video. Why do we need an intermediary?
ACCA F4 past paper
I that's a pretty apt description - there is a lot that goes into this behind the scenes.
I did answer it, but they edited it out. I think it probably deserves another post.
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