skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically it's saying that removing the names and addresses isn't sufficient to anonymize a data set. Didn't we already know that 10 years ago?

Yes, but businesses that trade in aggressive data tracking and/or analysis have been quite successful at downplaying the meaningfulness of their data in the common person's eyes. Anyone who doesn't understand working on the datasets has to rely on the press, and they've largely listened to the fox standing next to the henhouse. Why wouldn't they? He's got a nice suit and a mastery of language that makes nay-sayers look like conspiracy theorists.
Ah, the American way: Why work when you can get the same pay from the taxpayers pocket without having to?

I rather work at McDonalds for half that @dminor and still have my pride, than to be a burden on society.
I suppose. Colloquially "an affect" means a put-on or, sure, an affectation. Affectation is just such a clumsy word, though.
> But if you have an inertial frame which is falling into a black hole any signal sent from beneath the event horizon will not reach any other point until that point has also fallen beneath the event horizon.

Problem is, the escaping particle never falls beneath the horizon. So an inertial frame in which that particle is at rest cannot extend below the horizon at all. That's a violation of law K for a frame falling into a black hole. By violating law K, the latter frame cannot be inertial. Note that law K is about allowing inner frames be extended to fill all of an outer frame.

Let a cloud of particles straddle the horizon. Let all the particles above the horizon be escaping to infinity. According to GR, such cloud must be splitting apart. The particles below the horizon must move inexorably inward, toward the singularity at the center of the black hole, whilst the particles above the horizon move ever outward, away from the black hole. Then a frame falling through the horizon of a black hole cannot be inertial, for in an inertial frame the cloud needn't be splitting apart (since law K applies). For example, in an inertial frame in Earth's atmosphere you can have a cloud of particles in which half the particles are given to be escaping to infinity, and the cloud needn't be splitting apart (just let all the particles escape in formation).
I went to check out one of the companies mentioned http://www.leadschat.com/ - the website scrolling was so unusable that I struggled to learn about the product or look at screenshots... I hate to be that guy, but can we just let most pages scroll naturally?
Because if you're buying this car you can afford to valet it.
A state couldn't benefit from the Marshal plan without reforms, including collecting proper, truthful national statistics (through the forerunner institution to the OECD). The US didn't just hand out money willy-nilly. In the case of (West) Germany, they had lots of troops stationed in Germany who could accidentally break something if the country didn't happily reform practically everything.
Yep. To glimpse the potential for this, people should check out Peiris's demo vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-7J5OaSag

If anyone is interested in working on something like this, there's a very small community germinating in http://www.reddit.com/r/HMDprogramming/
Meh, this is not a problem that needs addressing.

When people say they "don't like sports," what they often mean is that they don't follow any teams.

I played baseball growing up, still play tennis and row. I "understand" the rules of most sports – except cricket but c'mon. I can have a good time drinking a pint with friends and listening to them discuss sports. In fact, my ignorance often leads to great conversations, as they explain some backstory about how the wide receivers played on rival college teams or the history of nation's soccer team or whatever. It's fun. Sports are inherently dramatic, and it's easy to be drawn into an evenly matched contest. Given the right context and group of peers who are passionate about the outcome, pretty much everybody will enjoy watching sports.

However, I just find the whole process of following a team to be a colossal waste of time. All of the time spent reading about drafts and trades and injuries and stats, they add up to hours every week – even without watching any games. I personally would much rather be cooking or reading a novel or playing video games or hiking. Some people would find those things to be a colossal waste of time. That's okay.

There's no reason for us all to be so defensive about what we like and don't like. I like sports, but I choose to spend my free time on other things. That doesn't make my hobbies better or worse than Joe Football's. Just different. End of story.
Marines are not soldiers, but both are "warfighters" (at least if they're at the sharp end of the stick); ditto SEALs. Perhaps the word is used to avoid getting Marines angry at you ^_^.
I believe that was the point. The article title makes the same mistake.
o man i would love to try "brothers" :) does the offer still stand? i am one of those "controller" pc gamers...

(i am "fat0wl" on steam too!)
I agree that seems to be a common pastime on discussion forums, even such a fine one as this. However, I was happy to see that the blog post simply focused on what the author could do to improve, rather than lambasting others.
i had couple of embarrassing situations like that, the latest one seems to be researchgate.

now i wonder if this javelin guy took my address book too sending emails to others saying I recommended it
This is the sort of future I have expected for awhile now. Fewer multi-million-dollar celebrity-making hits but far more people being able to make a comfortable living off of serving a niche audience. Now that distribution is worthless, creators don't have to chain themselves to "publishers" who skim almost every penny the creator creates. Back in the Bad Ole Days before the Internet, distribution was such a titanically difficult problem to solve, they earned that skim... but they really have no call to it now. That opens things up dramatically.
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Redis 3.0.0 RC3 released, more on clustering
Er, the Soviet Union took small private developers out of the market earlier and more completely than the US, so I don't think you can rationally claim that any disadvantage the US has was grounded in that.
I don't understand why a Microsoft-compatible code signing cert costs around $200/year. I'd be completely in favor of a one-time identity verification fee, or maybe even $100 for a five year cert if you want to make sure everything stays current.

But the current structure makes zero sense.
What do you think of Regan's "trust by verify"?

How do you define "a real test of their capabilities"?

While we start the hour long skills test off with some fizzbuzz weeders, we quickly move into harder questions pulled out of issues we've resolved in the real world that are likely to be of the same shape of future work.

If people are offended by fizzbuzz, they don't express it often during interviews/employment/exit interviews. The most common reaction from someone who can solve it is a bit of a wink and a nod as they slay it and move on to the "real" stuff.

I've never had anyone ace our test. No one is a 10 everywhere. I think there's a lot of value in how you approach things and react to a blocker or limitation. We watch this closely too. It isn't just about saying "Every answer is correct, so hire me".

Lastly, we're out of Houston, TX. I'm guessing the culture is very different in CA and perhaps that's the mismatch.
The No Man’s Land Between Like and Dislike
I recently started a podcast about the financial side of the indie game business. On our debut episode Neven Mrgan (of Panic and co-creator of The Incident and Space Age) to open up about his sales figures. http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidGalindo/20150129/235301/How_...
No, the "austerity" was very half-hearted and almost exclusively hurt the little people, i.e. those who relied on state pensions, health care, or unemployment benefits.

Still, I hope Greece suffers hard and suffers long.

Portugal, Italy, Spain, and France need all the encouragement they can get...
Anyone else wish people would stick with "disinterested" == "impartial" rather than "disinterested" == "uninterested"? Yeah, I know, language changes, so deal. I guess so, but is there no value in fighting the tide of sloppiness? Where do you draw the line? Probably way too late on this one.
Reaction Conf (Corporation-style open source)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZ-P-ZI6W4

Look at 10:00 ... that sounds very much like what we were going through and building at the exact same time

http://platform.qbix.com ... self contained components, completely parallelizable etc. Also in PHP and JS :)

And it all works!
We've used both Bonsai and Found in production with some fairly heavy read loads. They've both been a joy, with better support, stability and pricing than what I'd expect out of other database providers (Redis in particular used to be troublesome for us.)
There's also the fact that the parent comment went on beyond simply linking the relevant comic. Even being today's comic doesn't make it a useful comment if that's all you say.
Anyone else think deliberately pumping noise into the car is mindbogglingly stupid?
You can get through the class either way, but if you refuse to use pointers, say negative things about them in code reviews, etc., you're eventually going to get everyone frustrated at you. If you can suspend your beliefs enough to use pointers, then you can absolutely get through it, and maybe once you graduate you can figure out how to write a kernel in Python. (I'm not being sarcastic here; there's a python.efi that one hardware vendor is using in production.)

Maybe a better example is monolithic kernels and microkernels. You can believe either opinion, but if you're wading into Linux kernel development now and keep complaining about the lack of microkernel sensibilities, you're going to neither turn Linux into a microkernel nor get people to keep listening to you. If you really, truly believe that Linux's monolithic design is bad for the world, start your own kernel. (Andy Tanenbaum, for instance, had this argument right when Linus Torvalds announced Linux, and since then has been working on MINIX, not showing up on LKML.)
My experience is the exact opposite. I find that CS removes a lot of the JS gotchas, and I'm not clear on the many ways that CS let's you do something, especially in comparison to JS. If anything it protects you a bit, by trying to enforce some of the "good parts".

http://arcturo.github.io/library/coffeescript/07_the_bad_par...

To each his own, but to me CS has been and continues to be a complete and obvious win over JS. 9 times out of 10 the benefit outweighs the annoyance of requiring a preprocessor for me.
I only experienced it secondhand, so I don't feel right leaving a review, but one of the projects I inherited used Bonsai Elasticsearch when I first took it over.

We experienced a couple of overnight Bonsai downtimes that were unexpected and brought the site to a halt, so we moved off of them to a pure AWS implementation. Their support during those periods was top notch.

From what I hear, they're better now about downtime.
I totally agree with Chomsky. It is indoctrination. I always found the routine military displays especially troubling. The American version of the communist dictator's military parade.

And then there's the weird government/corporate partnership on stadiums. And the protected monopoly status.
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Sports aren't a healthy part of society. They are games mean to occupy the less curious people of our culture so they don't get bored and dissatisfied with their existence.

You could say the same thing of any form of entertainment that humans have ever engaged in.
Semi-related: http://fileperms.org/high-frequency-malware-communication.ht...
Google now integrates more services from third party apps
Where indirect access attacks include Mallory asking Alice if she can run her calibration program on the laptop or facility device before Eve strolls by.
Wikipedia's Guangdong page reports the total provincial population as 106 million so perhaps 63 million is the correct number. When the newspapers in China about 3 years ago first reported plans to merge the city administrations and infrastructure of Guangzhou, Dongguan,Shenzhen, and some nearby smaller cities, they estimated the population as 43 million. The extra 20 million must be from the non-urban areas in the region pictured on Wikipedia's Pearl River Delta page.
Up: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ochackernews
Sports will always fill a niche in that it's the one type of entertainment that's truly live and not predictable.

Drama is predictable in a way that sports aren't. Seeing it live doesn't change that. Live theater has benefits and may be enjoyable, but it doesn't address predictability. Even if the viewer doesn't know the outcome, the outcome is fixed. And it falls within a predictable range of acceptable usually-happy endings. (Not strictly, but very commonly.)

Drama is great, of course, I love it. But sports does offer something different to complement it.

Sports has some outcomes that are narrow (win vs. lose) and others that are open-ended (the arc of a player's career, a unique play that's never been seen, off-the-field drama.) They couldn't be predictable or else betting on sports wouldn't be sustainable.

You have to get yourself to care about an outcome in order for its unpredictability to be interesting, and I can see how it seems contrived that anyone would care, but the point isn't to take it seriously.

(I guess you could call improv also live and not predictable, or find other more obscure examples.)
Professional sports are anything but healthy, as soon as competition is even remotely recognized and praised illicit drugs come onto the scene.

As for a more idealistic world and my choice, I never even hinted at trying to legislate your ability to do what you want, but if you want me to clap and jump up and down and pick a favorite team because a bunch of grown people make ridiculous sums of money doing absolutely nothing for our future, well, count me out.

I get it, it's comfortable to be in a vocal majority. I understand that in many conversations I'm not welcome if I don't have a favorite team. Humans are tribal creatures. Being in a majority doesn't give you some right to an unopposed position. Just because most everyone around you will agree with you doesn't make what you're doing right.

If you would like to define some criteria and have a discussion about whether sports makes this world a better place I will gladly show you the fault in sports.

Also to the person commenting that you could say the same for any type of entertainment (regarding it being useless). That couldn't be farther from the truth. I love aquaponics, for one. Finding new interesting ways to feed people is entertainment for me. It's not uncommon for people to enjoy creating and learning. That type of entertainment becoming more prevalent could have a significant impact on our future as a species.
Why not change the design before they ask, in order to not make a clear copyright violation?
> There is a reason a lot (most?) NFL players go bankrupt shortly after their career of being paid far more than will reflect their contribution to the future of mankind.

Is the reason because a very large number of them grew up in poverty or with rough family lives and therefore never had the chance to be trained into proper financial management as you were? Because that's a reason for a pretty solid proportion of athletes in the NFL at least.
The problem with this analysis is that it's irrelevant. Modern 1st world military capabilities are devastating beyond all reckoning from history. This is easy to forget because in every conflict involving such capabilities they've significantly pulled their punches for one reason or another. But in an all out total war things would be much different.

Of course there is the issue of nuclear annihilation, which should not be easily dismissed, and still poses an existential risk for human civilization.

Beyond that though, conventional military capabilities are quite potent, and if they were ever leveled intentionally and with ferocity toward, say, civilian populations we would likely be shocked at the outcome. Modern militaries are capable of killing millions per day using only conventional weapons.
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There is a difference between playing sports and watching sports. I would never think negatively of anyone doing sports. I think it is a very healthy attitude.

On the other hand there are people who watch or read/talk about sports for many hours per day ignoring other aspects of personal growth.
There are a lot of "pistol-caliber carbines" (which are also by definition rifles) that aren't sub-machine guns. For example civilian versions that are semi-auto only ... and very useful in home defense, since they're more easily aimed thanks to the stock anchoring them on your shoulder (see e.g. dccoolgai's comments, some of his fellows on the firing line were using handguns). Or the WWII M1 Carbine, which not coincidentally was the first weapon system we fielded with exclusively non-corrosive primers.

Then there's the new Personal Defense Weapon category, with my favorite (in theory) being the P90. Not intended as a classical SMG, but more for people who's main weapon is not a small arm but say a tank. Short and compact to allow easy bailing out of a burning tank, with ballistics intended to give the bearer the best chance once out in the open.
I think the author might have conveyed their point more accurately using the word impostor, rather than fraud. It would also better fit the documented phenomena: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

I've seen third-hand quite a few instances where people are publicly challenged, even harassed, for their not performing their core competency to someone else's (or even everyone's) standards. Recently one public figure announced they were now seeing a therapist, presumably due in part to that overwhelming negative feedback.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/nflexempt.asp

Specifically, "Claims that the NFL is using a tax exemption to avoid paying the tax due on these revenues are simply misinformed. The confusion arises from the fact that there is one small part of the NFL, unrelated to all this business activity, that is tax-exempt: the NFL League Office. The league office is the administrative and organizational arm of the NFL and does things like write the rules of the game, hire referees, run the college draft, negotiate the collective bargaining agreement with the players, conduct player safety research, and run youth football programs."
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Developing new firearms is surprisingly difficult and expensive. If there is a large, free, and robust civilian market for them, there is a significant place to try out new designs, tweak them, and generally let the public pay for & field test new designs. With the 1934 & 1986 machinegun bans in place, the only customers are national militaries, which tend to want _one_ design, want it to last for decades, and while willing to pay a lot for R&D are incapable of the orders-of-magnitude more $$$ and design cycles that the civilian market is capable of.

As a consequence, there are effectively no new designs available, meaning US national security (as far as small arms go) is stuck with a 50-year-old design improved only by minor tweaks (and most of those, to make the point, are the result of the civilian market for the closely related AR15 rifle). The US military keeps trying to improve over the M16/M4, but can't because there's nothing out there so deeply tested & known, and nothing with a comparably large infrastructure supporting it.
The total area of the Pearl River Delta is about 40,000 km^2... The total area of the Greater Tokyo Area is about 4,000 km^2... Seems like a pretty arbitrary comparison if you ask me.
Yes, and there was once a Tempest-qualified DEC VT100 terminal. Fine wire mesh over the CRT face, an RF-tight metal case, and fiber optic I/O. It looked much like a regular VT100.

The US military tests their gear for this. Their test facility: (http://www.epg.army.mil/e3tf.aspx) has RF anechoic chambers big enough for a tank. They're interested in both "can it be eavesdropped upon" and "can it be interfered with".

Modern electronics is much RF-quieter than older stuff. This is because so much of it has radios inside. If your device generates much RF hash, the WiFi, Bluetooth, and cellular radios will all have much-reduced range. In the early days of personal computing, some devices were very noisy. A Radio Shack TRS-80 and a Milton Bradly Big Trak toy would both crash if operated near each other. We're way beyond that now.

The FCC's requirements on RF noise from electronics helped a lot. There was much grumbling at the time from hobbyists about RFI compliance requirements interfering with their freedom to tinker. The FCC was right, though. Today, almost no consumer electronics interferes with other consumer electronics. You can use a cell phone inside a data center and receive clear calls. Cell phones themselves have several radios, all going at once.

This is a remarkable achievement in RF compatibility. For a sense of how bad it once was, see the Marine Radio Society, (http://www.radiomarine.org/), which has restored an abandoned ship-to-shore radio station in Marin County, CA. All the receivers are in one building. The transmitters are in another building, several miles away, to keep them from interfering with the receivers.
The Alfalfa Club: still a place for the powerful to see and be seen
Electric cars are definitely affordable. But your situation just exemplified the problem. A lot of people don't have a wife or they would be using their car and the hassle/cost of renting an ICE vehicle is pretty prohibitive.

Why would I buy an electric car when I can just a "normal" one that has no downsides ? That's the question hybrids can have an answer to that pure electric can't.
Another self promoting "evangelist". Please save us from their spam. The way to get your stuff noticed (and hence the approval of your manager) should be posting stuff with actual valuable content. Not tabloid meta teasers like this one.
Trust no one. Ever.