skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without a doubt this. Why would the NSA not say thank you to a foreign agency bugging their own citizens so that they can collect the data on the way out without having to do all of the meatspace effort?
How much unprofessional and unnecessarily aggressive behavior would be necessary to warrant a response in kind?

An overly diplomatic response would only allow him to rationalize his own behavior.
Good thing OSM doesn't lock you out of the data at any level, so if you (or your company) want to write a better geocoder, do it. OSM is no walled garden.
Not sure if you're just joking around, but nuclear weapons and material from Pakistan and Iran are likely to end up in the hands of terrorists sooner or later, either intentionally or unintentionally. The same is not the case for nuclear weapons controlled by France, US, UK, Germany, and Israel. So there is a huge difference.
The AMA large model program information is available from here

http://www.modelaircraft.org/files/520-a.pdf

In summary, a model weighing between 55 and 100 lbs needs to comply with FAA, FCC and AMA rules. It needs to pass an inspection, and there are a fair few details, like receiver backup batteries and wiring quality that will be checked.

The model also needs to pass a flying test.

I doubt any organisations other than the AMA, or one of its subgroups or special interest groups will be recognised by the FAA.
Or they might do something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_%28journalist%...
Information has been lost and reconstituted for as long as civilization has existed (and longer).

Short of preserving the actual experience, all of what we perceive to have experienced is filtered through a lens of one kind or another (be it historical, memory, or something else) and reconstituted.

I trained in school as a photographer, and it took me a long time to learn to set my camera down and experience life as it happened around me rather than to preserve it for later. Do our Instagram photos preserve anything for us, or do they just facilitate a flawed reconstruction of our past that we somehow value as "better" or more accurate than our memories provide?
Wow, I hope you write about what you find out. The situations like that I've heard of, and admittedly that's mostly from following the press, is that the old shares are traded for shares in the new entity. If minority owners aren't protected, it's a crack in the foundation of silicon valley.
I think you miss my point. Given de Sade's premise (that there is no God), his conclusion seems to follow. (If you think you can show that it doesn't, go for it.)

And many people accept de Sade's premise. They are then left with his conclusion. (Not necessarily sadism - that's just what de Sade felt like doing. The part that people are left with is "Whatever is, is right" - that is, there is no basis for a "should" or an "ought"; there is no basis for morals.)
9^(9^9) = 9^387,420,489
Who is Greece? The politicians which promised its voters too much, borrowed from eager usury of the (mostly) German bankers, and thereby pauperized the nation -or- the people who were thereby fooled and taken advantage of? One should keep in mind that while in some legal sense they're one and the same; but not so in a sense of social justice.
Does the agency need to have 3 letters in its acronym for the attack to be that effective?
You seem anthropomorphize "The Universe", as some God-human like creature?

Structure (and the immense variety), life, mutations, and the known universe that exist rather than infinite disorder and an entropic void seems more than just "indifferent".
Are you saying all Frank Lin products are made with the same grain ethanol and just different flavourings? I'd be astounded if that's the case. I thought things labelled as for example 'wine' or 'rum' had legal definitions. Can you really sell flavoured grain ethanol as unqualified 'wine'?
Shoegaze has also wormed its way into strange places. See, for example, the unexpected smash success of Deafheaven's Sunbather, a year ago.
O'Connell et. al. showed you can put an entire macroscopic mechanical resonator in a superposition. How is macrorealism even a thing?
No. Nobody serious uses pgrouting.
You are not wrong, Greece is a deadbeet right now. They already are living on life support from the EU-IMF, and have been for more than a year.
What's wrong is that, we gave them money and forced them to do reforms (reforms that France and Germany [mostly] designed). A year and a half later, Greece is still on life support (on our money) but the reforms we forced them to do made the situation worse.
Greece has a giant problem with corruption, I don't think they have a really modern state, neither can they be really productive (I mean, look at all of these small islands). But the issue is now political. I think we (France and Germany) should be ashamed of what we forced them to do, not even because we mothered them (if it had them then maybe...), but because we made their situation worse. We should find a way to losen our requirements and let them breath a little because clearly, we failed to help them so far.
It's the same old problem, either the EU becomes a real political union and we can start thinking about helping each other as neighbor states, not as economic partners, to maintain the stability of the union, either we keep thinking about the money we don't have, and nothing really improves.

PS: the day that the US collapses because of its giant debts, I hope you will think again about this: "shouldn't the government and people be accountable for it?".
Comparing the Greek economy now to where it was in 2008 is disingenuous. The Greek economy was thriving last decade due to a program of systematic fraud by the government; complaining about the decline since then is like bemoaning the fact that you have to take the bus after the police seized the car which you stole.
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> In what sense is the BB sequence even well-defined if we can prove that it can't be determined?

Every BB number can be determined. However, each one must require zillions of special cases which require their own reasoning---this is the only way to prevent the BB numbers from being computable.

So, if you consider, for example, the proof of the four-color theorem (which amounts to checking many special cases), as mathematics, then mathematics surely can determine BB(n). It's just extremely hard---as hard as doing all of mathematics (in the sense that if you could easily get BB(n) you could then take a logical proposition you are interested in proving in some axiomatic system and construct a TM to derive the statement using those axioms. Then, count how many states that TM has, and start running it. If it runs for more than BB(# states), there is no proof from your system of your proposition).
Glitchy? Awkward? How so?

I bet you a nickel that the same situations that would cause SysRq+[S,U,B] to fail to properly sync and mount ro would cause systemd's unwedge-the-world emergency reboot to fail to properly sync and mount ro. Notice that the release note says "[Emergency reboot] should not result in fsck being run on next reboot.".
How can folks help this effort out if so inclined?
we (France and Germany) should be ashamed of what we forced them to do

When did France and Germany force Greece to do anything? I was under the impression that the Greek government negotiated the terms of the bailout which they're now talking about repudiating.
"Greece the country didn't borrow all (or even most) of that money, private borrowers borrowed it from German banks (or Greek banks that borrowed it from German banks). The money ended up as public debt because the banks got bailed out."

In the US there was quite a series of legal moves requiring banks to lend mortgages to people who didn't previously meet the banks criteria. Were German banks similarly compelled or was it just bad judgement of the banks?
> the United States post WWII is downright benevolent

You must be joking. Read what ex-CIA agent John Stockwell has to say about that: http://www.serendipity.li/cia/stock1.html

The CIA went into foreign countries and purposely destabilized them and started civil wars. It continues to this day: see the Arab Spring. The Soviet Union's actions were quite tame by comparison.

For every Soviet or Russian invasion, there's a corresponding US one that is just as bad: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the US interferes with the internal politics of many more nations to boot. See Pinochet in Chile, the Shah in Iran (although the British had a big part in that too). Russia threatens its immediate neighbors, yes. But at least they oppose the US. Think they are all bad? They keep Snowden safe and sound. The US threatens any nation in the world that doesn't fall into line. When they thought Snowden was on board an official government aircraft, they had their cronies in Europe force it down in violation of international law. Think that the European nations make their own decisions? Think again.

This is the threat that the US poses to the world, and most of the world is already under their control. Iran isn't, so they are threatened with war. They've been threatened with war since Bush's idiotic "Axis of Evil" speech. Since before that. You think they don't have the right to try to defend themselves? To prevent that? Nuclear weapons, in this world, bring freedom. See how North Korea has never been invaded. See how the US knows better than to engage Russia in outright conflict. Nations that have nuclear weapons can have actual independence.

With the Trans-Pacific Partnership, they are trying to force their laws onto the entire world, and that is just one of many such agreements. Canada is already a puppet state of the US. The current state of the world is that no nation can try to free themselves of US influence without getting an internal revolution or even an outright invasion, and that is a much bigger threat than Russia is, or China, or Iran, or anyone.
> Sony hack was blamed on NK.

With no proof showed to the public.And Obama put another set of sanctions on north korea as a result of this.

This episode is no different from the WMDs in Irak during Bush era. At least Bush tried to make a case. Here no case,no smoking gun,just the Obama administration saying NK did it, but what is frightening is the total absence of reaction from the american people.NK is bad, but what the Obama administration did is bad too. Even though, again, NK government is horrible, what happened here is just frightening. Because tomorrow it can be country B or D that did nothing yet gets sanctions from US because the US administration said it did something?
Unsolicited commercial email ("cold emails") are spam; specifically, legal rules -- both state and federal (e.g., CAN-SPAM and its implementing regulations) -- designed to fight spam target unsolicited commercial email generally.

The definition you post reflects the original, Usenet-era, definition of "spam" when the term was being applied to newsgroup posts (not always commercial) that depressed the signal-to-noise ratio on newsgroups. However, once email harvesting, often combined with superficial personalization, began being used to send cold commercial emails, the term was applied to unsolicited commercial email generally -- and this was a bigger concern for the internet community (and the public at large) than the old kind of "spam" ever was, resulting in various legal efforts to control it.
One thing I know from playing serious Bridge: An expert player makes far fewer mistakes than the average player. He does not make zero mistakes.

I read one tournament report, where an expert player revoked.

When an expert plays good or average players, he does not need to be brilliant to win. He just has to play competently, and wait for his opponents to make mistakes.
It says it uses a 3rd party service. Can you clarify why OSM isn't dogfooding it's own router? Though I'm a huge fan of OSM that sounds like a bit of a let down.
It seems I got it completely backwards then, I feel kind of silly.
I think people are getting a bit hung up on my (admittedly poor) phrasing and less on the substance of my comment. Yes, philosophy wants to find out something "true", but reality as a whole is to complex to think about head on. Any philosophy with the goal of being completely factually true has to deal with a lot of information that isn't really relevant, e.g. physical (meaning atoms, etc.) interactions.

Since that is too much information to deal with you have to selectively ignore parts of it. A useful philosophy lets you get rid of essentially all the irrelevant information while keeping and fitting into a mental framework what is relevant. So in a sense it is a lie, but it is one that hopefully preserves the important parts. My argument was that Bostrom's philosophy ignores too many of the important parts by dismissing his critics' viewpoints as unfounded. Hopefully that clears things up a bit.
What is the NSA is doing here is more subtle and I do not think they fully realize it. They are heavily financing and accelerating the speed of damages that people on the dark side can do.
They are "inspiring" a bunch of curious teenagers (in the best case) or a bunch of cyber criminals (in the worst case) to create another malware like that. They are putting out there first of all the ideas, second the conviction that it is possible to do so, and third sample code to study, improve and deploy. This race to being the "smarter" spy is unfortunately leading us in a very risky world to live in. A lose-lose preposition.
The press and the antivirus researchers are also not being too smart here to make this public available.
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If the poets taught us anything it's that you cannot quantify that which you cannot count and you can't rationalize that which is irrational. We are wholly absurd in this regard; able and enfeebled at the same time. Perfectly capable of realizing that we're trapped in these meat-bags sailing through time to an inescapable doom.

And what do we do about it? Science and engineering life-extending technologies. Write about our memories and discoveries. Make music and art. It's absurd and it seems to work for us.
Lots of books will have pre-release and the author asks the reviewer to comment on Amazon on release day.

Take down your anger level a bit. The world ain't so bad.. :)
Well, they expected to make a good profit borrowing a huge amount of money to Greek institutions. They took the risk, they lost.

It's not black and white, but from all the people who has responsibility in that failed business, I don't think Greek citizens should be on top of the list.
There were serious repercussions to the Chinese hacking US companies, including a US Justice dept indictment, Google pulling out of China, and publicly embarrassing the Chinese Government.

>Seems that everybody hacking everybody is just an implicitly accepted practice these days.

My view is that:

1. this area is so new, no one knows what the limits should be (disagreements even within governments and agencies),

2. but that there are red lines,

3. that it is likely that the US and other actors have crossed a few of them,

4. and that the world is in the process of reacting and establishing norms of behavior.
No one thinks the rationale for the free and open laptop is crazy. Just the cost and capability.

That said, right now there is not a single hardware manufacturer in the world who is not open to government pressure.

Perhaps the only answer to all this is to make our institutions irrevocably open - that there are open publicised hardware standards and means of verifying the circuits are the design expected.
Well, some of these guys are also riding single-speed fixies over a century after the invention of the derailleur and freewheel. I'm not hip enough to know if (extraordinarily dangerous) penny-farthings are coming back yet.
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Yes, but it's hard to remember, and it depends on Sysrq being enabled. I think the Ctrl+Alt+Del thing makes sense. Since everyone is adopting Systemd, maybe at least it will be ubiquitous. :P

It does have one advantage: You don't have to press all keys. If you system is just locked up cause it's swapping like crazy, it usually gets usable after the e (terminate all tasks).
Wine is fundamentally different from liquor, but he's probably referring to fortified wine, which is cheap wine with neutral grain spirits added to it.
<sarcasm>Great. Programmers talking as if we were economists. Here we go.</sarcasm>
I've heard it as "You don't really understand how programming languages (and/or computers) work until you've written a compiler.", which I believe is more accurate. Otherwise you get into that "no true scotsman"[1] logical fallacy, wherein we argue what being a "real" developer means.

[1]: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman
Now the contest for programmers:
Write the biggest number in one line of code (80 characters, keywords count as 1 character, whitespace - 0) using computer language of choice(standard library with infinite integer type)
that any reasonable programmer can prove that it is actually a finite number.
Could you be specific about these legal moves? Are you referring to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)[1]? Most of the subprime lending was done by banks that weren't held to those standards [2]. And CRA conformant loans have had better repayment records than the bulk of the pre-crisis securitized subprime lending.

I believe it was bad judgement^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H a business decision on the part of the bank(s).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act
[2] http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/most-subprime-lenders-w...
Not sure I get the call to action here. What does it mean to "stand with Greece"?
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« Assuming Anand and Carlsen’s blunders were independent events, what we saw was a 1 in 10,000 occurrence. »

Are they independent events though? In a game between mediocre players, if there is only one move to take advantage of a blunder, the computer analysis will repeatedly cry "blunder!" each turn until either that move is played or the initial blunderer defuses the opportunity. As for grandmaster play, I have no clue.
Cars? Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! ;-)
I didn't see that part.
Sorry, please remind me of when the US invaded Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, or Chile?

Our involvement in Vietnam was in fact, at the time, conducted with the full cooperation of a sovereign country, the Republic of South Vietnam. To be fair, US forces definitely did violate the sovereignty of Laos and Cambodia during that conflict.

I believe I understand your general point here, but can we at least get basic facts right when we have these discussions?
Re where should I go to fix this:

* https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/

...which is still only in alpha, so don't expect much. Read their posts about the data sources (https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/about/docs) to see why this is in such a bad state.
Honestly, I don't care what the title is, the books are great. I've recommended them a number of times as newer resources than "the good parts" and raganwald's, and not one person has asked if I thought I was implying that they were dumb. If anything, the title serves as a compliment, since anything I do not know is something that I can learn. If you know everything already, then why are you looking at books which serve to teach?

That said, from a marketing perspective, they've got a great unique cover and a solid series title. If more than the original 5 come around in the future, they'll be easy to identify.
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If you look at their site, it's all college rot gut, and well liquor level stuff. It's the brands that you go and get a giant 1 Gallon handle for 10$. Which makes sense given their business model.

This is the stuff you'll get at a corner bar when you say "I don't care." When they ask what kind of vodka you want.
The "problem" that basic income is trying to solve is the massive increase in productive capacity due to automation, of which the increase of unemployment is a symptom. It's not so much that supply would meet demand (and so prevent prices going up), as that basic income allows demand to keep up with supply even as automation makes more with less labor.
Really interesting. Not about wild speculation and crazy theories but actually interesting which is kind of rare. I guess the huge storm would be the most interesting one if true, since it's not been observed at the past. Not at this level, at least.
I agree. Also the reality is that most of us are working hard trying to accomplish our own goals.

As long as the central bankers and whoever else is in power doesn't turn up the heat too high too fast this isn't that relevant to most of us.

We're all pretty aware they can get our data so this isn't surprising. Just search NSA on LinkedIn and you can see their army of programmers on there who care about real threats and not people who read hacker news.
Depending on how much the husband had to drink at dinner, it might not be so random after all.
Thanks, appreciate the answer. Do you know of any more modern example of a western country devaluating? I'm under this non-productive impression that there's a great sense of entitlement which is resulting in massive debt being accumulated and passed down to the next generation. My home province is such an example [1], which, in my mind, is the same ballpark as what I thought of Greece (more or less, Canada has a lot more flexibility and capacity to handle the challenge)

[1] http://business.financialpost.com/2015/02/05/ontario-gouging...
I think that I'm arguing on a different level than that link. If all we are is matter obeying the laws of physics, then you can't say "It was wrong to do that" because I couldn't have done anything else. Each of my atoms is just obeying the laws of physics; that's driving my biochemicals according to the laws of biochemistry, and those are driving my neurons according to the laws of neurology. At no place in there do I have anything that looks like free will, or any ability to make a non-programmed choice.

As Sam Harris said, either I'm a deterministic machine, or I'm a random machine, but in neither case do I have moral responsibility for what I do.
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Does that make Safari the last browser without a preload list for HSTS?
You can see it that way: the main goal of the agreements that have been signed until now between Greece and the Troika was to protect the interest of the big fortunes even if that mean misery for the citizens.

Lets be clear, big mistakes have been made and someone will have to pay. The opinion if Syriza is that is not the poor who have to assume the consequences.
See also the papers by IM & PhD Kenneth Regan on "Intrinsic Chess Ratings" such as
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/papers/pdf/ReHa11c.pdf .
Is there a reason "allowed" is in quotes? I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but I don't know what. Without that [possible] missing piece, couldn't Greece just have opted not to buy any military hardware?