skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could always send information using javascript by loading images, hidden iframes etc. (You would not get a meaningful response though). This applies to dark old days even before JS..
The roof of a condo is often considered common area, which is excluded from the linked law.

OTOH, parent can (and should) work with the HOA to get those CC&Rs changed. In the uber-green region that is the valley, it should be pretty easy to get a group of like-minded owners together to approach the board, or even get a member or two elected.
I use this exact method for fraud detection. 99% of the time, carders " " will simply load up a proxy in Firefox/Chrome (usually a socks5) and fire away. They typically don't tunnel their whole connection through the proxy, just their browser.

If their request IP doesn't match up with this IP, there's a very high chance that the order will is fraudulent.
Move your goalposts to get around an inability to finish projects
These test the framework and look rather incomplete: https://github.com/aurelia/framework/tree/74176a5a6389b304d1... :)

It doesn't really cover testing the application, right? Or, is the implication that app writers should do the same thing?
If you believe the company which gave us the Global Financial Crisis, by giving junk investments an 'AAA' rating, you'll believe anything.
Failing to take Google's offer is proof they did over value themselves, so his analogy quickly falls on it's face.
Despite the claim of supporting "WebComponents" I can't see any evidence in the source that it actually does.

There are no calls to document.registerElement() in the framework or templating repositories, and it looks like any element registration is happening against a proprietary registry, so that Aurelia components won't be available in standard web pages outside of the Aurelia framework, which would be the exact same situation we already have with Ember, Angular, React, etc.

Can someone from the Aurelia team clarify this?
You can see it in: chrome://webrtc-internals/
Wonder are they using any of the open source tools for mesh networking like Commotion Wireless
This seems likely. SF supervisors are innundated with citizen complaints about poor Muni service on a daily basis, and seem to be unable or unwilling to do anything about Muni itself.
There is a hack to turn a Kindle DX into a monitor:

https://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html
Police think Waze's traffic app puts officers in danger
That's kind of it for me too; I looked at all the work I was doing and I figured it was all for a better future, we were never going to stay in the city we were in much longer and "just one more year" of learning and working and everything will be for the better.

We finally moved all of our stuff this weekend to move over to a new city, but not the way we imagined it.

It's never too late to change and start new memories with friends and family, and I've already started doing that, and hopefully you're doing the same.
It wasn't always like that. If you go back to the early days of science the writing is actually quite different than what you encounter today. Terms are explained before they are used and data is given where possible.
"As a linguistics major, you're no stranger to the idea that a person is only capable of having thoughts and ideas that can be expressed in their language"

Also no stranger to the idea that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is not at all supported by things like 'evidence'.
The article says it is not allowed to connect to the larger internet, so you can't access it from outside Cuba.
As with any warrantied product there are likely provisions for that in the warranty - you should either get cash value compensation from them or an equivalent modern panel.

Just because your first attempt resulted in a 'no' doesn't mean you are without recourse...
Warning, not all noodles freeze well.

Lasagne freezes well (in my experience) but we once tried freezing fresh Asian noodles, and they were mushy and inedible when thawed -- I'm guessing the water content was sufficiently high that the ice crystals tore them up inside.
> besides ever bigger and more disruptive hacks

I hate to say this, but there's your answer. Or at least an answer. If the goal is to reach a massive audience and convince them that their existing Internet usage is insecure, there are ways of doing that.

In the same way that Firesheep showed websites that they needed to use HTTPS for all sessions communication beyond just login, a demonstration or series of demonstrations could exist that show hundreds of millions of users and/or the media that they can't rely on websites to adequately protect them, and such demonstrations could explicitly bring user-side encryption to the forefront of the conversation.

I seriously don't condone the above and typically view Anonymous-like groups as misguided and self-absorbed. I'm just pointing out that it is possible to reach laypeople. Hopefully there are better ways to do that.
What does Silk Road case have to do with bringing down dictators? Everything
Yeah that's a great paper, and I definitely used it to learn more while I was writing this post up. If anyone else wants it, here's a direct link: [http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~mturk/Papers/mturk-CVPR91.pdf].

I really should add a section of resources that I found useful. Thanks!
The author mentions he keeps his money in a foreign bank that I presume the MA department of revenue cannot get at. Does anyone have any recommendations of overseas banks that are easy to open accounts with without travelling to said country.
Make better posts.
Interesting stuff, but there are financial assumptions being made here that should be examined.

1. The 25-year ROI is tied to the projected price of electricity moving forward. It is simple market issue that if and when more and more people start using these systems, the utility-based kW price will (must) come down and therefore, the ROI will change, perhaps dramatically.

2. What about the opportunity costs of such a significant financial commitment? Have they been examined in any way?
I'm committed to freedom and requisite privacy. Bitcoins interest me primarily because they can (with some effort) be used anonymously. I advocate the compartmentalization of activity among multiple online identities. Each identity has dedicated VMs, and each VM reaches the Internet through some nested chain of VPNs, JonDonym and Tor. Consequently, Bitcoins end up in multiple VMs. Some VMs are associated with particular identities. Others are as anonymous as fresh Whonix instances can make them. I could transfer wallet credentials between VMs, but that would take about as much time as moving VMs around.

Anyway, that's what using VMs as wallet holders gets me.

My host machines all run Linux with dm-crypt/LUKS, and I have good physical security. If I were on the road, I'd buy a notebook for cash from some random shop, and boot Tails.

If I had to, I could operate without local storage, using information that I had encrypted and archived online. But a Trezor, even fresh and charged with recovered wallet credentials, could be found and taken.
This is so freaking cool. They are much faster with the sword attacks than I would have imagined.
It's assumed that strong AI will be able to improve itself, in an exponential fashion according to Moore's Law. But an AI still has to overcome the same very real challenges that we humans face in trying to build ever-faster computers. A strong AI can only work magic on the software problems; it can't make ultrapure silicon crystals grow any faster and it can't make electron leakage just disappear. It still faces the same risk of silicon semiconductors being fundamentally unable to scale to the performance level required, forcing humans or AI to start over with an alternative computing substrate. It can't solve any of these hardware challenges overnight because they require physical experimentation.

So I think it's reasonable to think that the development of a strong AI won't change things overnight and we could see decades of lag between first having a computer capable of strong AI at any speed and having a strong AI that outpaces humans.
It gets even more fascinating when you dig deeper.

In Australia, your income covers your healthcare, education, etc. etc.

In that states, you have to pay for that yourself.. so if you take that off "income", you have a good chunk less to spend on a mortgage.

(I'm not saying houses in Australia are anything close to affordable, I'm saying it's much more complex and nuanced than "income vs. mortgage")
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Our restaurant also uses Groupon's POS and payments system. "Moderately successful" is how I would put it, although version 2 has improved things considerably. There is pressure to find a better POS, but I have yet to see one that I like. Most other point-of-sale systems that I've seen either fall short on everyday things like splitting checks, or they're technologically terrifying. The last demo I saw was of a cloud-based system with online reservations, and it looked alright up until I realized that the terminal was running Windows XP. This was last fall.
Antiseptics have been in use for at least two thousand years now.
I think Amazon is quite the opposite, no? I'm really curious...

Groupon receives the money then pays the owners in 30 days. Amazon does not have to pay its suppliers before and sell and receives money after?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory
> to describe a phenomenon there's already a perfectly dreadful word for.

Gee, in high school I was taught that a
preposition is a bad word to end a
sentence with!
It would be a good thing because following the principal of maximizing profits is what is most socially beneficial, in the absence of externalities. And jobs are not an externality.

You have only calculated one side of the equation. You haven't considered how investors would have reinvested that money, and the jobs that this would have created. We can and should develop a theoretical framework that allows us to predict both sides of the equation. Such a framework exists and is called general equilibrium theory, which predicts that profit maximizing companies maximize social utility.
I've noticed that a lot of message queuing systems have an "delivery at least once" property. What exactly does the possibility that a message could be delivered more than once buy you?
Just want to add the NSQ wire format looks pretty efficient as well. Seems to be defined at the binary level which was one of the biggest wins for MQTT in terms of memory footprint. Although would be nice if a standard protocol was used instead of creating their own.
> (For example, the sample design on contracts leaves out crossing responses, a very common event in where rejection or acceptance of a contract is sent after an offer has been revoked but before the revocation has been received.)

I tried Googling it, but I think my terms are wrong. How is this typically dealt with? Does one stricly supercede the other (i.e. revocations win over acceptances), do postmarks come into play, or similar time of transmission evidence?

This is all off topic, but I never thought about this scenario before.
This section confused me -- can anyone explain?

> I was so unprepared for this deluge that it stunted what was already going to be a banner month as I simply did not have enough review copies and tokens to go around. I ended up having to wait-list over 30 prominent blogs which hurt my momentum severely.

He's selling software, right? It sounds here like he hit problems that simply shouldn't exist for a digital product.

Is this an AppStore-specific problem? If so, why in the world should it work that way?
If these routes were profitable, the MUNI could run more buses on these routes and not need as much subsidies, right? Win-win for both: MUNI makes more money, and people get better transit.

Most of the riders who suffer daily on MUNI are monthly pass holders anyways, so the MUNI already has taken their money; there is no economic incentive for MUNI to provide better service.
I agree. I went through it a year or so back, and it helped me go from knowing very little vimscript, to writing a 200-line plugin, to modifying it to take advantage of vim built-in behavior (like filetypes and <cword>) to be about five lines.

If you're thinking of doing any vim scripting, I'd absolutely recommend it!
And given how that worked for cultures before the modern age, I'll stick to those who choose to study medicine. Not those who simply prescribe whatever they felt worked once, for a reason unknown to them.
U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars
Haha, that obituary is kind of funny. I do graduate level research in quantum chemistry, and I still didn't understand most of what they were talking about. Then again, maybe that says more about me than their ability to communicate to non-mathematicians.
A couple things bother me about this article.

First, in the author's story about her project she mocks "Ms. Red Dress" but seems to provide no more value herself. I guess the author brought extension cords and snacks? What did she contribute to the project? Hackathons don't seem like a good way for nontechnical and non-design folks to showcase their skills.

More importantly, though, the hackathon-as-interview concept itself has problems. Requiring a lot of time from your candidates is disrespectful, and ensures that no one with other (likely better) options will talk to you. It also biases the hiring process towards people who thrive at hackathons, which are notoriously biased toward presenting over producing as well as toward typical "hacker culture" types (remember that titstare app from techcrunch?) over minorities.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/university_of_life
Interesting, thanks. The idea that Chrome is moving to garbage collected C++ is... a bit surprising to me, though I suppose it makes some sense given their focus on security.

I can see why you'd want to get away from C++'s compile times, though they're a lot more manageable if you can avoid templates like the plague. Have you considered a coroutine library for C or C++? I'm using libco right now for my hobby game project and much like "goroutines" would, it's significantly improving the clarity of a lot of systems (though of course I don't get the "free" parallelism because it doesn't handle scheduling across threads or anything like that).
I don't doubt that, and they're probably very valuable in locations that don't get a significant amount of sunlight (near the poles), but I can walk into Costco and pick up enough solar panels to power my house.
That really depends on your definition of success. Is it going to build a lasting sustainable corporation that will benefit humanity through long term research and development? Unlikely. Did it do well for its employees and initial investors? A very emphatic yes. In a world where we accept limited purpose prototypes and one-off solutions to get things done in the software and process worlds, why can't we we accept it from a business?
I'm given 100 "tokens" or "review copies" to give away for free per every single release via the MAS.

Essentially, I ran out and couldn't give free copies for review for big name blogs and news sites and thus lost a lot of opportunities for free press.
Any more references here? It looks like you just mean the price for natural gas futures is $0.03/kWh. I am hesitant to believe that includes production and transport. In addition, are you including the efficiency at which natural gas is converted to electricity?
I hadn't thought about the ground vehicle potential. Is that meaning in current use?

Edit: I just saw the sibling comment that mentions SpaceX's drone ship. I guess that answers that.
Almost seven years ago, I opened up my MacBook in downtown Havana and was shocked to find dozens of wi-fi networks appearing up. This makes so much more sense now.
Fantastic read.

I wonder how hard it is to acquire a computer in Cuba.
At the end of the article the author brings up that D is competing now with Rust. Could anyone who has used both D and Rust comment on the advantages of each?
This will give you a good idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_rule
Basically not IE.
And people have been told to avoid egg yolks since the whole Ancel Keys debacle.
In 1991, I worked for Daimler (Mercedes) in their Advanced Vehicle Research group. We had an abandoned section of Autobahn a few miles outside Stuttgart available for our use, but we also had authorization to test on public highways in autonomous mode. We just had to have a driver seated and paying attention, and had a red panic button on the center console. Pushing the panic button reverted the vehicle control to fully manual. (This was in a large bus-like vehicle, based on the Vario platform, a little larger than a current Sprinter.)

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/a-short-history-of-mercede... is an image of the actual vehicle I worked on.

So, while we couldn't test in no-humans onboard mode, we logged hundred of miles in fully autonomous mode.

Technical notes: the programming language was Occam. I'd have to look through my notes to see what the network size was, but the vision system alone (my main focus, no pun intended) was in the low double figures of processors, with most of those being dedicated to variance calculations to find prominent horizontal edges. I seem to recall we processed the video stream at 15 frames per second by the time I left.

Best. Internship. Ever...
I think Gruber is definitely unique and if he "disappeared" it would be hard to replace him.

In other words, what makes DF "work" is Gruber... and if he wasn't there... it wouldn't really work. It makes you wonder about the sustainability of "people-centric" companies.

I have thought often about this in terms of my own projects... how many of them would be sustainable without my very explicit presence?
I thought "cloud" had a pretty well defined meaning, either as a fluffy moist thing in the sky, or a short way to say "I have no idea how this internet service actually works."
In Citizenfour, Snowden had a copy of the sequel, Homeland, while he was in Hong Kong. Kind of a surreal moment.
> Anybody that thinks the banking system is going to let a decentralized service pull money out of people's bank accounts...

I don't think that's completely clear. There will certainly be co-ordinated resistance from many entrenched interests, but that resistance also creates a profit-opportunity to break ranks to provide the service to customers who want it. It's more likely we'll see a split amongst banks and their policies to digital/alternative banking services.
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So random that this has popped up now. I should post an update, but I can do a quick one here. This is resolved, but here are the bullet points of what happened and what I learned:

- All of my assets were not frozen. 99% of our assets are with Barclays, and we just use Chase so that we can have a local checking account. (Barclays doesn't do that in the US.) So everything tied to Chase and our credit cards were frozen because of the tax lien.

- The source of the problem was my former CPA. He just screwed up. He's a nice guy who does a solid business in the decent-sized midwestern city where he's located, but for whatever reason of inattenion and/or lack of good enough training/information, he had me file in the wrong state. He also doesn't have any insurance (not required where he practices), so if MA hadn't been cool about waiving penalties and interest it may not have been possible for me to recover that from him by the time I paid legal fees, etc.

- I got a great MA tax lawyer (Philip S. Olsen, now of Burns and Levinson), and he worked with the Mass. tax authorities to help them understand that I wasn't some seedy tax dodger and that this was the fault of my CPA.

Now, here's what I learned:

- Ask your CPA if he or she has insurance, and for how much. Don't be shy, because this kind of thing could happen to you. And don't think that just because various professionals and bigwigs in town use them, that they're either not going to make a mistake or that they have insurance.

- There is no bank or credit union, no matter how foreign or local, that would not have frozen my assets in response to the merest hint of a request from MA. Every financial institution in the world is going to roll over for a state government like that, and leave you to sort out of if the request was legit or not. There's no place to hide. So Chase isn't actually the bad guy here.

- MA isn't really the bad guy either. The states are strapped for cash, and they're turning over every stone for revenue. What caught my CPA was a wrinkle in the tax law about where to file that for decades many CPAs ignored because the states didn't have the ability to find and go after such things. (MA was claiming that I owed "Massachusetts-sourced income" because Ars Technica LLC was technically headquartered in Malden.) But in today's world of desperate state governments and networked databases, no CPA can afford to be lazy about anything. To their credit, MA let me re-file and did not penalize. I had to pay state taxes twice for that year, though, because IL's books were closed for 2007 and they refused to even consider giving me back the money I erroneously paid them.

- This stuff drags out. While our assets were unfrozen pretty quickly, it was the first week of this month that I finally got a letter from MA telling me that the tax lien was officially lifted and that I'm in the clear.

- There is no statute of limitations on taxes. If they find something from literally 20 years ago, they can load it up with penalties and interest and absolutely crush you. So see the point above about making sure your CPA has a platinum-plated insurance policy.
Well, for websockets it's up to the server to check if the connection should be accepted or not. Same as in CORS whnere the server sais who is allowed to access the resources, not the browser.
I dislike subsidies for solar; I'd much prefer if we were to tax the things we don't like and let the market take care of the rest. I'm not sure I trust a legislative body composed of people who are very nearly statutorily prohibited from having much expertise in the subject to be able to figure out the best alternative energy source. The market, on the other hand, at least has a fighting chance at getting it right.
inertia. Getting started is the hard part. I really have to force myself to do some things, then once the ball is rolling there is inertia to do more things. Then I can fall into the zone.

It's sort of like reading a novel. When you first start reading you see the letters on the page. It's a chore and not fun. A minute or 2 in you no longer see letters, but pictures. You are in a dream state like watching a movie. Welcome to the zone!

I would like to extrapolate and say that Lisp programming environments lend themselves to "Zoning" better. The ability to eval as you write makes it easier for me to gain inertia needed for the zone.

Little optimiztions such as key-bindings help. Gross motor arm movements to the mouse breaks my zone.
Who was your provider/installer? Were you satisfied with them?
I'm not passing judgment. I disagree with those statements but I have a pretty hard time giving any actual reasons for why.
You can have "at most once", "exactly once", or "at least once" [0]. Each has a different tradeoff in terms of implementation complexity, speed, and other availability/consistency concerns.

For different applications differently delivery QoSes are tolerable. For instance, if your messages are idempotent (either by design or nature) then "at least once" is equivalent to "exactly once" and may be much faster/easier.

Generally, "exactly once" demands the least of the application and the most of the broker.

[0] I suppose you could have "any number of times" as well, but that's no guarantee at all.
You save the bookkeeping of "exactly once" and worrying about what happens when a node has been sent a message but not acked it.
really like the loading spinner, a fun extrapolation