skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems pretty similar to the situation when analog sattelite TV was shut down. You always have a big amount that will only switch over when the old standard gets shut down. Why else should they if the old standard is good enough for them?
I have a little problem believing that Garden City PD was actually able to make contact with someone at fb who could do that, but I'd at least hope that fb has a system in place for law enforcement to make contact with a fb staffer who could expedite proper law enforcement requests. I don't have any problem believing that fb would take a page offline after some sort of "administrative subpoena" or other similar sketchiness. I also don't have a problem believing that a judge could be found in a small Midwestern town who would sign off on something like that. But I don't see anything to indicate that's what has happened. If I had to guess, I'd guess that Banda consulted an atty who promptly told her to 'shut down all the things' lest she make her legal defense much more difficult and expensive.
Ardour 4.0 released
Is Mark Zuckerberg a Douche-Bag?
I don't know why you're getting downvoted without anyone challenging your argument. I completely agree that the parent comment about being "unverified by science" is bogus(is it? where? citations, links?). However, I wouldn't dismiss this meditation effect outright - after all, even placebo medication can have effects compared to no medication. As long as it doesn't try to wear the trappings of "scientifically tested", it might be a neat "works for me" trick.
Most of the time the antenna is missing for the fm radio
Or they could be a clever publicist attempting (successfully) to get exposure for Banda's issue.
Whoa there. I think there are a certain, countable number of fundamental questions to answer about the universe. And you can count them with your fingers and toes. They are the fundamental constants, and they're already known to 3 or 4 decimal places.
Is there any evidence that machines are actually causing significant unemployment? Articles of this type are composed of anecdotes. Machines can now do this or that, several individuals lost their jobs to machines, etc. Do we know that jobs aren't being created as fast as they are being destroyed?

The siren song of the hype machine is very tempting. But it would be comforting to know that there's some substance to the implication of this article before we start taking baseball bats to technology. There are several compelling social, economic and historical reasons to believe that people will continue creating jobs for other people, for as long as humans exist.
It's actually called the Smart Extruder, you should find more results if you search for that. Rumour has it they knew they were dodgy, shipped them anyway, and then quietly redesigned them a few months later: http://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/2ovd27/makerbot_...
I wish it were 100% legal like beer already. So many people use it, and it harms just as much as alcohol. Stop putting normal people in prison with murderers and rapists.

I've never done drugs before in my life but I know a ton of professional that do. These are lawyers, doctors, accountants and the occasional taxidermist. Do these people belong in jail? Fuck that.
This is illogical. Some people will just enjoy "doing nothing", like watching TV or meditating. Does drinking booze and shooting yourself in the process count as "doing whatever you want"?

Either you pay unconditionally, or you hire and pay for specific work.
You can only ask yes/no questions.
Your implication that religion properly understood is separable from political concerns is a very recent -- and very Protestant -- idea. If you look to other historical epochs and other cultures, you will find this idea rarely applies. No need to single out Islam in this way.
Massive industrialization in the 3rd world could just kill the climate machine, the biodiversity and damage the planet beyond repair for all of us.
Programming isn't "writing software". It's "understanding humans and translating what they want into algorithms". I don't think it's possible to automate that without general AI (at which point, writing software is just telling the robot what you want).
This article only mentions Facebook in one sentence. No supporting facts or links...?
Very cool I'll check it out. There's so much great content now via podcast. I want to consume more but in a more efficient way.

How do you find new content now?
If you can ... train people to live without appeals to status, then perhaps. This is only true is we don't continue to descend into deflation.

A paycheck is more than just a paycheck; it's also an estimate of the value of service to others. I feel it's reasonably important to have some mechanism to steer activities by. This is difficult; it's easy to get trapped in careerism.

What I am seeing more and more is that the technology can get in the way. Corporate IT just seems to get worse year by year.
> The last 'over the hill' is space."

Now we wonder, which hill to go over next ?
and I feel that his opinion is based more on politics than rigorous medical study.

He might also be worrying about the chance that if something bad did happen, he could be in a lot of trouble. In general, doctors can be quite risk-averse.
How do you know which profile is hers? I noticed a bunch of Shona Banda related fb pages, but none that I can confirm are affiliated. I am wary of opportunist scammers who would pose as her and try to shunt donations to accounts they control.
Hard work is not defined by the paycheck. The satisfaction loop is nowhere near the paycheck in the flow diagram.
>North America and Western Europe are near the top of it.

When North America and Western Europe are near "the top of it" (I don't know, if I completely understand the sentence correctly, but I guess you mean, that they are best in integrity ...), than this is not a good sign in my opinion.

I see an enormous decline in democracy, freedom and integrity all over the world. And as I live in Europe, I see it very drastically here. Of course I am worried about developments in countries like Russia or China, but I am even more worried about the state in which the countries are, which should be role models of freedom and democracy.
Only "calling for class action lawsuits", in the way that enthusiasts spurned do.
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cool, I never saw the fun way books. but I remember buying the kits with pocket money I saved up. I still have one I built in a box somewhere..
"Advertising doesn't work on me" -everyone

But it does, lots of smart people spend lots of money on it and recoup their investment. People spend a lot of time and money figuring out exactly how impressions drive sales. Do you think no one measures ROI on ads?
Old timers remember when you paid by the ride at Disneyland (E-ticket the best rides). Or when you paid your ISP by the hour to access the Internet. Single all-inclusive fees simplified purchase and maximized economy if you were a big user.
Linux kernel memory management, part 2
A lot of trial and error, mostly error, and Forrest M. Mims III books.
Fundamentally, Bitcoin is about not having any of that info. If it were a responsible financial institution, then there would have been federal regulations regarding reporting, reserves etc. But the miracle of bitcoins is, somehow it isn't subject to any reasonable oversight.
The code will fail to compile because the implementation no longer matches the interface? Duh.

Maybe I should have written extending the JDBC classes instead.
Is there another source that is neutral?
http://www.walletexplorer.com/
Fair is hard to tease out in situations like this, but not everyone is able to use Adderall and get the same effects; those with ADHD just come up to normal, and there are some folks who will have very negative reactions.

What method would you propose to ensure those who did not get the net positive effects of a wonder drug were not negatively affected in the work force?
Do you actually think people will buy a new 15.000+EUR car just to get a digital radio in it? Most of reasonably modern cars don't really have user replacable headunits (and even if you do replace it, you usually lose all stalk and display functionality).
Maybe impressions don't 'drive behavior'. But being aware of a product WILL change the chance that I will purchase it.

Still, I'm in charge of my device; I'll browse/block/ignore whatever I damn well please thank you.
I like the sound of this, and its something i might try out... I am using FAKE in the office for automated builds on local desktops... Bud could be a replacement...
Do you have, or know anyone, that has experience using a JVM in a safety critical application? I'm trying to decide if I want to use it in a medical device, or go the more conventional MISRA-C on QNX route.
Um, no, the headphones act as an antenna.
Show HN: Broadcast your making xxx friends requests
I happened to be listening to Electric Wizard while I watched this, would recommend!
I'm curious, how do you rationalize protecting yourself while supporting it done to others?
If none of the variables on the stack are smaller than your desired alignment size, and the stack starts out aligned (which it should), then it will remain aligned.
Why hasn't Mt. Gox disclosed what they know about the attack?
Gordon Moore on 50th Anniversary of Moore's Law
Fiverr is a good place for translation and copy editing services, FYI.
I agree, in fact, my intuition is that meditation is probably beneficial. And I suspect that might be demonstrable scientifically, though it would be tough, and probably quite vague at best. I was only reacting to the over-hyped claims about this modality. The downvotes I think are because the people who are reading are more likely to be invested in it enough to trawl through the comments, and anything that suggests disbelief, even if not read properly, is automatically anathema.
I think, partially you made a good point. We have a lot of talents and also a lot of sense for integrity in our countries. But when we look at history, even societies with good starting and a lot of sense for good and right things, can fail very, very fast! I say that because I am German and I know what happened in our past.

>If things in the US started falling apart ...

What exactly do you mean? Technically or society?

I think "falling apart" does not go by a click, but comes incremental. I see a lot of incremental decline in western societies at least from the 80s.

I also hoped, that people will go upset and demand changes. But I guess it is like the boiling frog. The frog feels comfortable in the lukewarm water and when it incrementally gets hotter, he does not recognize and when he does, it is just to late. We all are the boiling frog.
The point is, the value of your activities to others is approaching zero for a good portion of the population. Automation etc are producing goods without the need for people. The majority of people no longer need to be 'steered' to do anything.

In old stories it used to be called Utopia when people didn't work and robots did everything. Now we call it Unemployment and make it a bad thing. This will have to change.
Ask HN: What's the hardware (read: laptop) that has lasted you the most?
For me it has been the ThinkPad T510 which I got in 2011.

Still running great and going strong as the first day I got it.

I'm surprised the fan and battery are still intact.

I expect it to last a few more years.

It runs Arch Linux.
If you have not read the sci fi short story "Manna" by Marshall Brain, then you should. It is a 20 minute read looking back at the automation revolution that pretty much destroys and then remakes civilization. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Well, Erdos was the guy who came up with the definition of a mathematician as something that converts caffeine to theorems. He also claimed that without the speed he could produce no math at all, so for him it was essential, not just an enhancement.
Excellent question.

I believe the self-reflection you're referring to is pretty much impossible to cultivate in an online community. Especially one that has entered into the public sphere, like a default sub-reddit.

If what you say goes against a pillar of the culture of the community (or offends a sizable portion of said community), you're likely to get castigated, and maybe even outcasted. From the perspective of a moderator, perhaps the best thing to do is to cull the excess negativity and triumphant navel-gazing that perennially afflicts the more idealogical forums.
Me? I would laugh at him. Everyday FOD [0] will do far more damage than an impact with a .22.

[0] Foreign Object Damage. In this case, at-speed impacts with grit, ice, and whatever.
Of course. But the paycheck encourages you to do work that benefits others (or otherwise they wouldn't pay for it, right?). Isn't that a good thing?
This seems exactly like the same worries that have always surrounded automated production and have always resulted in long-term improvements in quality of life. The article claims that AI could be different, but suggests no reasons why.
If you are around northern Colorado, they give tours of their place.
I think the idea was to pay unconditionally ("welfare").
Reportedly because the police is still investigating the case and publicizing everything could harm the (slim) chances of finding the criminals.
Show HN: Datageddon – convert your digital files to VHS/film/records
and what about other services? graphics, development?
It's one thing to unobtrusively investigate a suspicious person, but actually interrupting their life just because your heuristics aren't good enough sound like a ding to free speech. If everyone joked about hacking planes, that would no longer be a risk factor.
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Proper archives > screenshots.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://twitter.com/Sidragon1/...

https://archive.today/ysTzt
Plus many people wont upgrade, because internet is just fine. It is replacing obsolete technology with slightly less obsolete technology.
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6 Entrepreneur Mindsets That Lead to Real Innovation
Currently, I run OS X on a 2013 Macbook Air. I also run NetBSD inside of VMWare Fusion.
Agreed that it will be an interesting study. 3DR needs to cross the chasm into mass acceptance before their cost-conscious hobbyist base migrates. (Consider this in the light of Anderson's comparisons to the Apple II.) As others pointed out, MakerBot's tech couldn't make the leap, and 3D printing doesn't have a mass market on the horizon.

If 3DR drones are more expensive, it's not only because they're not made in China. Manufacturing in Mexico is cheap enough, and buys you lead time, which suits their extremely fast iteration. A good idea in this gold rush.

People will pay more for the brand, if it stands for great support and integration. China is traditionally poor at those. 3DR started with a community, and regular people diving into drones will appreciate this comfort level.

TL;DR: To fight cheaper, make it better.
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I've driven in quite a few remote locations in Norway, and it's very rare not to have a 3g or at least an edge connection.
I can stream music no problem while driving over the mountain between east and west (over Haukeli).
Trying to listen to FM in these areas is a test of patience at best.

Moving to use DAB is a mistake though, they should just remove them all and rely on regular internet transport.
But the whole point of Haskell is to make claims that confuse the unitiated, isn't it? Because that's excactly what every tutorial that claims "Haksell is a pure langauge" is doing when it then goes on to say "Haskell can do I/O" without explaining that unlike every other language the unitiated reader has ever encountered, Haskellers have chosen to define "the langauge" in such a way as to exclude "the runtime".

I really don't get why this point is not made clear in all Haskell discussions up-front, but instead Haskellers insist on repeating the empty mantra "Haskell is a pure language" as if they were using the term "language" in the standard way rather than redefining it in a carefully constructed way so as to make their claim true.

This is terrible pedagogy on par with people who introduce negative generalized temperature or resistance without first explaining that they are generalizing the concept. And it obscures one of the coolest aspects of Haskell, which is that it is an impure language (using "language" in the standard way, which always includes the runtime) that has very cleverly packaged its impurity such that reasoning about the code still gets most of the advantages of purity.

"Haskell has a pure syntax that is interpreted by an impure runtime" is more accurate and far less confusing.
We put a chip in it
Early DAB adopters is the UK - we do not have DAB+ and no plans to introduce it. It is a mess.
Wow! FpG mentioned on Hacker News. Whoda thunk?

Unique is one way to describe it. I have an archive of some (sadly, not all) of our stuff, but after looking through it just now there's a lot that isn't exactly, um, appropriate? I guess the whole point was to be shocking but, if I'm honest, the tables have turned. A lot of it offends and embarrasses /me/ now.

Older, wiser, less acid...

Were you a regular?
I have an early 2011 13" Macbook that has been really good to me. I changed out to an SSD and put in 16gb of RAM, and it has been really good. This is my current everyday machine.

I also have a Toshiba i7 with 8gb of Ram that is running Windows 7. I have had that machine since before my Mac, probably at least 1-2 years as it was one of the first i7's Toshiba released in a laptop. That machine has also been awesome, and other than needing some extra cleaning of ports and the fan from dust to prevent overheating it has been super solid.
Arch Linux privately. CentOS 7 for work.

Toolchain: private; clang + gold linker. For work; GCC + gold linker. Emacs as editor/IDE in both cases. Privately i use Scons as my build tool, at work we use CMake. Debugger == gdb.
As for languages, I do 98% C++, 2% C.
Besides drafting, EDH is a good format if you don't want to spend too much. When you have a 100 card deck with only unique cards (except for basic lands), people generally don't want to spend $10 on any single card.
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I think the book used a bread board - eventually we moved the radio to some stripboard which is where the 40's soldering iron came in
What ever happened to the utopian dream of a world where nobody needs to do work because intelligent machines do all the necessary chores for us? People are freed from labor but may chose to work if they enjoy it, or focus on art, philosophy, or simply leisure.

While there's much to be criticized about such a naive idea, it seems to me sometimes that despite the tremendous productivity gains we have seen since the industrial revolution, it's not the common man who benefits most from technical progress. Of course, it's indisputable that the quality of life has improved dramatically across the board, and we have more spare time in our lives now than previous generations. But society is still such that you need to work 40+ hours every week if you want to be part of the middle-class.

Machines are not freeing men from labor. They're used to create competitive pressure. At the end of the day, the gross benefit goes into the pockets of a few, while the majority are kept in the same dependence structures as always.
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I think others have given you some pretty solid answers. Find work at an interesting company and make friends with the people you admire there.

What city are you in? I might be able to introduce you to a few startups in Delhi/NCR (or a couple in Blr and Bby as well) if you're looking for a job after graduating. Send me an email.
Quirky needs your Wink Hub back after a botched security update
Gnu/Linux Debian Jessie. Development vim + YouCompleteMe. Php/python/golang whatever.
Work: OS X on 2013 MacBook Pro (13")

Home: Ubuntu 14.10 (used on all our servers as well)

Tools: Sublime Text 3 + SublimeLinter + GoSublime and when I'm forced into it.. Visual Studio 2013 on a Windows 7 VM
That's because of "extreme" societal pressures to get a "good" job though engineering is often seen as third best behind Medical and Lawyers.
The Frontline is pretty interesting. The US military left hardware including vehicles and weapons undefended which ISIS simply took. Then some time passed and ISIS decided to attack an oil town in the north that the military actually cared about. A fighter jet was deployed - the pilot hit a button that deployed smart guided missiles - and that was the end of that idea. Not a threat to the US. But some soldiers raping people and chopping peoples heads off.
I wonder if it's possible to use a USB cable as an antenna.
Good luck getting people here to believe that. This is a site full of people who think that programmers are engineers.
Latest TPP leak shows systemic threat to software freedom
Ubuntu 14.04 with Gnome 3.12 on a full tower desktop, with a multi-monitor setup. Sublime Text 3 with IPython, golang, etc.

VMWare Workstation for running Windows, when needed.
Right - it was a move of desperation. Perhaps Osbourne could've marketed/distributed their way out. But it's hard to position yourself as the brand that no one gets fired for buying when someone's already got that spot.

With MakerBot, another issue may be that the market is approaching saturation. As they're being eaten by cheaper competitors, they haven't been able to create a new market to grow into. I suppose the Replicator is an attempt to do that - how has that done?
> I'm also not sure French culture is preserved that well in France. Sir Colin Davis was a better Berlioz interpreter than any French conductor I ever heard (and I was born 50km from la Cote St Andre), and even traditional Haute Cuisine is better abroad (particularly in Tokyo - see Apicius).

You can't drop assertions like that while hoping that being French makes you automatically right about French culture. You have a right to your opinion, but please just don't proclaim them as if they were universal truths.
Neither link is clear about the methods used to manufacture the clock.
Work that benefits others does not necessarily pay. Work that pays does not necessarily benefit others. I don't know what world you live in.
Yes, almost all of the advantages of Bitcoin are because it currently has practically no regulatory oversight. If it was to get mainstream usage, regulation would also grow, and at least if you want to play in licit channels, it would be almost exactly the same as what already exists. Being your own bank is much too hard and risky for the average consumer, and payment systems that provide useful consumer protections like chargebacks would be formed, so in the end, most people would be doing their banking at BitChase and using a BitVisa credit card.