skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EFF Filings to Copyright Office Highlight Unintended Consequences of the DMCA
Well, this one literally does it with thin-air:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVS-npfVuY
These are cool, but seems like in cases where you want to blur something out on an image you should do so in photoshop on the actual image and not with css. Otherwise someone could just use element inspector to delete the blur effect.
Why would mandatory smog checks never be politically feasible? They are not just a California-only thing.
But first they will need to offer a few more things:

-Ability to set limits and stop losses
-Ability to use margin
-Ability to buy and sell call and put options
-Ability to trade after hours
-Ability to short (likely comes with margin)
-Ability to set trailing losses
-A better UI
-Ability to analyze trades and examine bid/ask spreads

I used Robin Hood a few months back and possibly it has gotten better and I'm sure the overall experience will get better. But since that experiment I cashed out of that account and just use my online brokerage account.

I do look forward to a better experience down the road.
VA Gov Signs Warrant Requirement for Drones, Rejects License Plate Reader Limits
You'd have to get everyone excited to allow those tests to be run. If you're spot checking the worst vehicles that will more than likely lead to a large proportion of checks occurring in low-income areas.
I doubt it. If twitter is nothing but a feed, then the notification feed on your phone could do a much much much better job. What Twitter did to RSS, a nice notification app could do to Twitter.
Those curious about MIT's role should
1) Read Prof Hal Abelson's report http://swartz-report.mit.edu/
2) Remember that a prosecutor does not serve the person who reported a crime or prompted an investigation. A prosecutor serves The State http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1423
Seven Unusual Ways to Brainstorm Brilliantly
By definition just about everyone who's actually working in DevOps counts.
This is old trope, and wrong. Small reminder that 100% of takeoffs and a vast majority of landings are flown by hand. That "1% of the total flight time" may be hand-flying the plane (ie, hands on stick and throttle), but all the flying that you're discounting in your 99% is still something that the pilot needs to handle. They need to manage the automation, the FMS, ATC, etc.

Patrick Smith (ask the pilot) has a number of good criticisms [0][1] of this "1%" trope.

[0]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/opinion/why-pilots-still-m...

[1]http://www.askthepilot.com/pilotless-planes/
LA cops need not disclose license plate reader data, says appeals court
The argument in the article seems to be that we are really far away from having an AI with social intelligence. However, AI's do not need social intelligence to be interesting / dangerous. My best guess would be that creating artificial humour is much harder than creating a machine that is dangerously intelligent.
60 projectors at 26,000 watts each were synchronized to create a single seamless image with a resolution of 4592 x 2048 pixels on a 420,000 square foot surface. Wow.
In Ontario, Canada the emissions tests are required, but not until the car has seen a lot use: "Generally, you need to get the test every 2 years, once your vehicle is 7 years old. Larger vehicles (called ‘heavy-duty’ vehicles) require the test every year, once they are 7 years old."

http://www.ontario.ca/environment-and-energy/drive-clean-tes...
What i allways ask myself is for example if someone has an old car which polutes more than a new one, what would polute more to buy a new one or to continue to use the old one. Because producing the new car releases a lot of polutants as well. I have never investigated this.
Traditional crooks and violent offenders are turning to the cybercrime
I agree that most of these pictures are not of fractals.

I would add the lily pad, thinking cactus, cabbage and fern to the list of fractals. There are only a couple of octaves/iterations in each but there is some self similarity there.

Otherwise there are probably just a lot of Fibonacci spirals(although I haven't counted them).

For more on Fibonacci spirals see this[1] excellent video series by Vi Hart.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0
RocketConf 2015 – 11-13 Nov 2015, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Yes, Ontario (where the study was done), has such a program. An emissions test is required every 2 years on every car more than 7 years old.

The major loophole is that if your car fails, you only have to spend $450 to fix the problem. Spending $450 to improve emissions gives you a pass whether or not it actually fixed the problem or not.

Ontario uses a lot of salt in the winter, so there aren't a lot of old cars on the road.
Theoretically?

Some gas / dye that emits light (or even just becomes opaque) above a certain level of incident radiation, and two scanning lasers.

But as usual, in theory != in practice. Trying to get something that's safe, won't dissipate too quickly, and isn't opaque...

Air itself would work, but there's this minor matter of "ozone, and lasers powerful enough to ionize air, isn't the best for you".

I wonder if one could stimulate condensation... Though then you'd probably get water on things.
Diverse Groups Stand United Against Plan to Reauthorize §215 of the Patriot Act
>Do you understand how history rewriting works in git? do you understand why it's there? do you understand why people use it?

I do not. Could you please explain?

At work I learned to use mercurial and never felt the need to pick up git since I can use the hg-git plugin.
Nice! Added to the toolbox :D Don't really need it right now but some of my civil engineer friends might :)
They take a pretty good fee to withdraw money. I'm not sure that would be a decent part of their revenue, though.
> Like very powerful static type systems that are really good at saying no...it adds to the resistance of writing code while claiming benefits further down the line.

My experience is the exact opposite: having a compiler that is good at saying no means I correct my errors earlier. With a dynamic typing, my errors are revealed later, and further from the root cause. So, static typing removes to the resistance of writing correct code. It speeds me up.

Static typing would indeed add to the resistance if it required you to jump through hoops. But it doesn't. Bad type systems have significant limitations, but the good ones have very few. Unless you go crazy with Smalltalk-like hot-plug live systems (and even then, see Yi and Xmonad), static typing is permissive enough.

> we aren't Vulcans after all!

I have two theories. The first is, some of us are Vulcans. And somehow, Vulcan brains function better with static typing and functional programming. In other words, Vulcans are better at "math", and put programming into the "math" bucket. Then there are humans, who see programming and mathematics as two quite separate disciplines, ran away from math, and function better with procedural programming and dynamic typing.

My second theory is that everyone could adapt to anything, if only they would bother to learn. Anyone can think like a Vulcan.

I currently lean towards the second theory, though frankly I'm not sure which theory is closest to reality.
Link to StackOverflow is equal to "RTFM". With same success you could just put some search engine input box.
Also even their language is phrased such as it says "16 of the world’s largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world’s cars"

Note the inclusion of the word 'can' before produce. Making this statistic unreliable without further support.
The funny part is this: That broccoli is not 'natural'. Romanesco Broccoli, like all broccoli, is a selectively-bred cultivar of Brassica oleracea. Also of that same species: kale, cabbage, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts.
In Canada (at least, the part I am in), you can get money if you turn in your old cars, if I remember correctly. They also made it that you must have an inspection done before selling/buying a car, and cars that are not road worthy cannot get sold.

People still find a way to drive, buy and sell pieces of scrap.
The thing about mpg that is problematic is that it obfuscates the savings in going from a 10-20 mpg vehicle to a 20-30 mpg vehicle (and exaggerates the benefits of a 50 mpg vehicle).

15 mpg -> 25 mpg is a much bigger step than 25 mpg -> 35 mpg (a savings of 2.6 gallons per 100 miles vs a savings of 1.15 gallons per 100 miles). The jump from 35 mpg to 50 mpg only saves 0.85 gallons per 100 miles.

For everything else it just introduces some trivial difference in the arithmetic.
What Every Librarian Needs to Know About HTTPS
There's actually quite a precedent of engaging in political activism from jail.
And even in Virginia, it differs at the county level. You don't need to get your car tested in southwest VA.
What to Expect from Google I/O 2015
Yes, we do. That does not give us a dichotomy of unconditional free speech vs totalitarian regime.
I'm not sure they count as nature either. Broccoli was cultivated from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea I think
I'm sure that I am in the minority, but for some reason "a historic" sounds like it should be an adjective meaning "non-historic" (like "apolitical" or "amoral").
Remember though that the brain seems to be a rather modular structure.
While the total area is quite big, we could probably get a lot of mileage out of much smaller subsystems taking care of only, say, visual pattern recognition, or speech analysis, in much smaller dies.
That has minor issues. Such as ozone not being good for you. Ditto, lasers powerful enough to ionize air. Also, the noise created.

Still intriguing though!
Phase Out DRM and the Legal Regimes That Support It: Int'l Day Against DRM
In Pennsylvania, emissions tests vary by county. Counties containing or near a major metropolitan area have them. It's likely the same in other states where emissions tests are required somewhere. Allegheny (Pittsburgh) and adjacent counties require it, but Greene (not adjacent, in the southwest corner of PA) does not.
EFF Joins New Global Campaign to Save the Link
Easy to say for someone sitting at the sidelines.
MPG is useful when you are thinking in terms of vehicle range. This isn't most people's default, but it does have its usefulness.

As for why US doesn't use l/100km. the simplest answer is all our vehicle odometers are calibrated in miles, and we buy gasoline in gallons, so l/100km is a number with no grounding. To get most people in the US looking at it it would have to be gal/100miles or similar.
There is no market. No corporations, no governments, nothing. It's just people.

The uncomfortable truth is that as humans, we don't really care if a few of us die off as long as we don't know them and they're not in our vicinity. Which is why markets, governments, corporations, etc. act the way they do.

Sure, if you ask a person, they'll weave a heartfelt story, etc. but the truth is in what they do, not in what they say ... and the majority of us do nothing or worse.
I agree there are bad actors involved, but we must set intent to make things better. Making blaming statements "who is going to take this seriously" isn't going to help matters much, but I hear your frustration.

I would point out that the laws in Germany provide means to protect companies (in Germany) from disclosing personal information to the intelligence agencies there. While the BND may be spying on France for the NSA, that doesn't mean they'd be as ready or able to do that to German company. Not saying they would or wouldn't, just that it's a different scenario, and one we can't predict until we have more information.
Recently talked to one of their shareholders. Sounds like they're not focused on monetization right now. They're #1 aim is to acquire consumers (millenials preferably), gain scale, and then figure it out. Note that by acquiring millenials they're not gaining share from traditional brokers, they're more likely to expand the pie and get new people to trade. Hopefully these people are quite sticky, and will trade bigger and bigger amounts, by which point they'll be able to offer premium monetization options.

It's a long term play. They're going to be loss-making for a while. Their VC backers can handle it. It's like Transferwise (similar backers) who launched three years ago and who are still loss-making even though they've already processed >$1 billion in transactions...
I might have sympathized with Atwood's comment before watching the doc, but the film goes into the misery Swartz felt even on the first day of working in the Conde Nast office. He literally barred himself in a bathroom stall and wept. For a unique character like Swartz, the disempowerment of the prison system must have literally seemed a living nightmare.
People usually read log files because something went wrong, like a system crash, why do you assume the OS that generated the log file will be readily available?
These superhuman intelligences are indeed literally superhuman, though... they consist of humans. As much as some fellow commenters are calling them "alien" thinkers, their alienness is still profoundly human. Many of these "superhumans" can still be surprisingly accurately characterized with the human characteristics we are used to. Generally there's some small set of humans at the top of the hierarchy that are setting the goals of the organization, inevitably humanly.

As aliens go, these are the most human aliens we can possibly have.

An AI may be different on a scale we've never experienced. We humans have built-in hardware to interact specifically with other humans, built in so deeply that we have a hard time imagining intelligences that aren't really just humans in a different shape, because all our hardware for "modeling intelligences" is really just the "model humans" hardware. Even those warning us about the dangers of AI can't really claim that they understand what the AIs will be... they can only provide a negative warning, that the AIs will likely not be human. There's no particular mathematical force forcing AIs into the human mold. Forget whether the AI is "good" and showers us with love and gifts or "evil" and herds us all into death camps to render down our fats for the calories they contain... can you really conceive of an AI that literally doesn't even have a concept of good or evil? What would that look like? We don't really know.

It's basically a blind spot in our cognitive vision and I don't trust anyone who says they do know. But given the rather small space of possibilities that we label "good", it's not a bad guess that "good" is unlikely to just sort of accidentally pop out of a process that isn't carefully controlled.

Lest that sound too doommongering, there's probably a non-trivial space of AIs which we would consider neutral... ones that end up looping into a naval-gazing exercise and do not pursue additional resources because they can not conceive of a need for them. But any AI that decided it needed more resources for $ANYTHING and then successfully pursued that goal is perilously close to straying into what we could consider evil... and part of the point is that's potentially all it could take. Not an AI "out to destroy man", or "evil", or anything else. Just one that works out how to successfully acquire resources, and for any of a trillion reasons decides to do so without bound. It wouldn't even necessarily be "selfishness" as humans see it... just, I have goal X, goal X will be easier with more resources, new subgoal: acquire resources.
In many parts of the States you do, but the strictness of the test varies and the standards are grandfathered.

So, for example, in California (one of the strictest) you must pass a visual inspection, a tailpipe sniffer, and an engine computer scan. There are also many rules about acceptable engine modifications. In other states you may only get an engine computer scan.

As for standards, cars are (rather reasonably) held to the standard they were made to, not the standard of today, and modern cars really are dramatically less polluting than cars from several decades earlier.
Elon's businesses seem to continuously have overlap in value, but SpaceX was kind of out there.
* Solar Panels
* Battery powered cars
* Rockets
Now that I think about it the first two are major components to what happens after arriving on another planet.
Now we just wait for him to invest in hydroponics and mining equipment...
From the article:

"What is scary is that by legacy I am not even talking about mainframes or Visual Basic desktop applications. I’m talking about last generation .NET and J2EE platforms which are too heavyweight, slow and bulky to change. Change, iteration and experimentation is what’s important in the new world and these platforms are just not optimised for that."

Not sure what the author considers "last generation" but over the last three years I worked on several large enterprise applications that were built on .Net and Java.

The Java application was being moved from an older JSE 6 codebase to Spring MVC, a robust, MVC Java framework. The project went extremely well and there were very few bumps in the road. Six months in and out and the project was done. We completely redesigned and migrated the entire application.

The other two .Net projects I worked on were a total breeze. One was a really old webforms enterprise app and the move to MVC4 was pretty easy. The other was a more recent move from MVC3 to an Azure based platform. Again, very easy (I've always liked the Microsoft platform) to migrate and update.
"From the objective" is neither stated nor implied either.
Are Android developers that hard to come by? I can write for Android, if anyone needs it.
>For example, under your definition it would be legal to falsely testify in court.

The validity of eyewitness testimony is vastly overstated and having it all be treated as if those giving it were lying would be an improvement because they are often not telling the truth because their memories are imperfect, though they do believe themselves to be telling the truth.

>It would be legal to publish child pornography.

Those who produce it would still be hunted down with extreme prejudice and any potential market would be immediately priced out by legally produced computer generated images. If anything, it would better allow us to hunt down the producers, increasing the number of children rescued. It would also stop the courts from ruining the lives of children who sext. Not perfect, but I wouldn't be so quick to assume the costs are greater than the benefits.
I generally agree with you on the issues of advertising. The value of an eyeball or a click has been dropping for 20 years. The point of most advertising is to distract, which puts it in direct opposition to the point of most content.

But I think search-related ads are a different thing. When people are actively looking for something, telling them about relevant somethings can create value instead of destroying it. So I'm fine with Google search, but less fine with Twitter's in-stream ads.

I think premium accounts could be great, but it's a tricky thing to get right. Part of the value of Twitter is audience, so anything that might reduce the audience is dangerous. You list several premium features that might have worked from the beginning, but now would be perceived as a loss by non-premium users, surely driving some from the platform and creating a wave of negative comment.
Hmm the purple excited me for a second. I spent a while in my twenties and thinking about this, and one of the possibilities I came up with was 2-photon excitation of nitrogen to produce fluorescence - which would be purple. With two lasers you could draw a purple dot at any point in air. No idea if this would work, of course.
I'm also happy to hear this.

If another spy agency wants to know something they always have to state exactly what and why. Then, for each case, can be decided if help is given or not.

Foreignly spying is a criminal offence and must be prosecuted.

If it was ever different then there are serious fundamental problems that must be fixed.
> If your business depends on any platform provider I really hope you buy a support plan which gets you the ability to talk to support and engineering whenever you need

You can get support in 10 minutes in Linode, without any payments for support. Linode can afford it but Google can't, or don't care.
The right to install other software on your computing devices
I have faith in the power of the judiciary, still. While putting illegal surveillance programs to bed may feel like a half century long game of wack-a-mole, precedent still has power in American courts.
It does seem odd that the state requires safety inspections but doesn't require emissions tests in every jurisdiction.
Additionally, it refers specifically to sulfur compounds, not to air pollution in general.
I'd like to see a study like this about airplanes, tractor trailers, and container ships.
I'm wondering why the greyscale and saturation filters were both necessary. greyscale(0) == saturation(1.0) and greyscale(1.0) == saturation(0.0), with afaik a linear scaling between either.
Because the Big Three car makers and the National Association of Manufacturers run this state. They said it will "increase costs" and "cost tons of jobs" if a smog law was passed, since they will have to spend more to pass the tests.
He was using the wire AWG as a way to visualize the size for those of us that are familiar with human hair, but unfamiliar with visualizing things that are fractions of a mm thick.

He was not saying anything about replacing the amazing energy density of gasoline with electricity over a copper wire.
Something along those lines has been done successfully (ionising air): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVS-npfVuY
It should be "Gallons per mile" not "Miles per Gallon"

I read this article a few years ago, and following article illustrates the point very well.

http://www.mpgillusion.com/p/what-is-mpg-illusion.html
Scrap the scare quotes, it is obviously false. Less code in the small does imply less code in the large. It doesn't need any justification, it is a tautology: if it takes less code to write all the small things in your program, the program itself will have less code overall.

Or did I misunderstood the meaning of "less code"?
Eh, cheer up. Sure, the intelligence agencies will do their best to lie and hide from Congress, but every time they do so, it is one step closer to the hammer coming down onto them and their funding being slashed.
No, but it's expensive, and it's more cost efficient to iterate on iphone first.
That's the weird thing about depression. At the moment it seems totally rational. Then you look back and think WTF? Like today. I look at the comment I originally made and there is no way I would even share that in the mood (positive) I am in today.
When there's enough to prosecute, refer the case to DOJ for charging people with criminal violations. NSA officials in the past have been mirandized (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/02/the-nsa-and-me...) in expectation of criminal charges. But until the state secrets veil gets well pierced, it's unlikely that a prosecution can gather and show enough evidence to convict.
Who is doing this encouraging "to reason about gas milage in language that makes this more difficult"? MPG as a fuel efficiency metric goes back many decades.

I don't actually disagree that that if there were a big ticking dollar gauge that tallied up the cost of each trip in a car, some people might drive less. But it's not the reason we use the MPG metric.
The day they implement that is the day that hashtags stop being useful.

"JOIN OUR SWEEPSTAKES TWEET US FOR A FREE IPHONE #apple #gameofthrones #facebook #mylittlepony #android #sex"

That already happens now when the only incentive is to hit some random searcher. When you're guaranteed millions of eyeballs instantly? Twitter's spam-detection services are not up to the task, and that's not even counting the non-spam but over-eager users.