skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'no cartoons' link leads to a cleaner search page:

http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html
Thanks for the references. Only the first, rather old, study refers specifically to the active ingredient in Ritalin. Ritalin is proven to be helpful. But Ritalin has its downsides.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylphenidate#Adverse_effects

The second refers to the active ingredient in Adderall, which is also helpful, and also has downsides.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine#Overdose

Both medicines do indeed have helpful effects on concentration for many people. But they have sufficiently narrow therapeutic dose ranges and sufficiently dodgy safety profiles to be put on Schedule II under federal regulation in the United States. (Once amphetamines were an over-the-counter drug. That didn't prove in practice to be a good idea.) Dosage matters with these drugs, and should be checked by a physician regularly, preferably a physician familiar with the symptoms of mania.

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/163/7/1149

P.S. See

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

by Google's chief researcher for tips on reading research reports.
I did read his comment. Since, he is not refuting the issues I (or, for that matter, the guy who did the analysis) raised, I didn't respond. You don't need to have further forms or any other input. Just the list of account numbers, educated guesses about filenames like resume.pdf or resume.doc, then digging out info from such filenames, then social engg techniques, etc. could cause enough havoc to the individual. The same line of arguments can be applied to businesses as well.

Plus, anyone who has read my post properly (than asking me to read the comments here properly) can understand that I never said that their security is weak. I only told that their approach to resource enumeration offers an easy way for hackers to get started. I am not sure if you understand the argument I am making here from a purely security point of view. But, if you are familiar, I invite you to think along these lines and see if it is a good practice to have this kind of sequential naming system.

PS: Regd you second paragraph, I don't respond to childish talk. If you restrain and talk like an adult, I am happy to discuss this issue. This is not about me or you or Dropbox people, it is about possible issues such an approach can cause and its impact on cloud computing, in general. Since, I evangelize cloud computing, I care about issues like this and try to highlight it in my blog posts. If you are open to mature discussions on this topic, feel free to drop by my blog post and we can discuss further. Otherwise, this will be my last response. Thanks for your time anyhow.
Trust me, I've known him for 10 years. His last name is Bobic. We had a few long chats this past summer, but then he went radio silent. I just thought it another of his long rests wherein he sits back and thinks. I know he was at his cottage. But the snow is falling and he's always been back in Ottawa before the snow falls as I don't believe the cottage has been wintered.
From the border agent's perspective anyone can be a threat. You should approach these situations avoiding any actions that may confuse you with a lunatic or criminal. Not sure if that was the case here or not. Hopefully it was on camera so we can know the true story.
Oh dear. I had hoped that the satire of the first two grafs was self-evident [1]. Helpfully, wiktionary includes for quaint the definition:

"quaint, adj., 3. Highly incongruous, inappropriate, or illogical; naive, unreasonable -- usually used ironically."

Edit: While sarcasm in writing is a generally bad idea, the tradition of thoughtfully written irony and satire goes back a ways (c.f. A Modest Proposal). It of course does require the reader to reflect intelligently while reading, but that is what we expect in this forum. Since my final three grafs made my position pretty clear, I was rather unsure until your response below whether you were intentionally trolling.

[1] My statements are likely true, paradoxically, but we react strongly to the fact that they shouldn't be.
Run headless Firefox+xvfb+Selenium. Selenium has java, ruby, and python clients. This is working really well in production.

You might also have luck with AppleScript/RubyCocoa/MacRuby+Safari. I've tried a couple other options like HTMLUnit (which google uses with GWT), and Mozilla Java Html Parser, which Dapper.net uses. I couldn't get them running, but YMMV.
Maybe he should've bought Microsoft Backup Server 2010
Inventing DropBox isn't exactly new. Lots of software products can synchronize files. Remember XDrive? What about that Briefcase thing in Windows 95 that almost no one knew how to use? And all these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_ser...

DropBox did make an easy-to-use service, and also got the timing right. Owning more than one computer is no longer just for geeks.
I have had incidents with the Canadian guards at the Windsor border... Not as extreme as Watts' case, but I did nothing more than take a call on my cell phone for 5 seconds (to tell the person I'd call back later), and then say "This is bullshit" when the car was turned away from Canada b/c of the phone usage.

This was before 9/11 and I am an utterly harmless, good natured person who is about the most obviously non-criminal one could possibly imagine. It is absurd any border guard anywhere would feel the need to ramp up the testosterone in response to me.
So the correct response is to supplicate before the guard, avoiding any visible signs of irritation, hurry, etc. It is generally preferable to put on the most benign facial expression one can muster to avoid threatening or annoying the guard, who has the power to waste several hours of your life on a whim, and can cause far more harm if he chooses.
I think you are 100% wrong. Do we really want to live in a society where being hurried or annoyed at the border guard will result in searches, detention, or worse?

Pretty soon simply giving the guard an annoyed look can land you behind bars for a few hours. This is the opposite of the rule of law, it is giving way too much power to the whim of the guy with a gun.
Oops I should clarify: "script using ruby s3sync I wrote a while ago"

I wrote a bash script that uses s3sync (not written by me). You can thank the s3sync community for that! :-) http://s3sync.net/wiki
Let me put it this way. If I am a business and if I knew that there is an easy way for a hacker to reach the documents I am sharing to selected few publicly (the key point here is the EASY WAY TO GET to my account), I will be worried about sharing my documents through that service. I do agree that any publicly shared document in any service is vulnerable but the question here is the ease at which it could be found in a service.
I've seen some clips on YouTube, and there seemed to be some Uncanny Valley stuff going on there, but maybe the half-assed resolution was mucking up the overall effect.

Just how real did the footage look?
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The American Who Manages the Decline of a Japanese Hamlet
"I have never understood the legal doctrine by which inalienable rights suddenly become quite, well, alienable at the border. "

I bet that's true for a lot of people, and may explain some of the confrontations.
This Nick Bobic from Ottawa?

Nick Bobic is a researcher at University of Ottawa focusing primarily in experimental algorithms, neuroscience, evolutionary algorithms, cryptography, bio systems, wireless computing, and P2P technology. Bobic is the primary developer of Cryptobox which is a secure decentralized application platform. Cryptobox was the first P2P system to use bio principles. More recently, Bobic is working on a new self-sustaining bio system application for the financial sector along with three researchers from Japan.

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2002/view/e_spkr/1162
> It's bank's responsibility to keep the system running and secure, not mine.

As others have pointed out, it is your responsibility to check your bank statements to ensure that all is secure. But also, with banks you're dealing with money that is easily replaceable. If your card is compromised that money is gone but if it's their fault (or criminal) the bank will replace that money. Your data is not replaceable -- when it's gone, it's gone.

"Many of us host something somewhere. How many do backups? How many of us check the backups? How many do check the backups checking process?"

True you do have to stop somewhere -- but there is due diligence and there's negligence. Making sure you are making offsite backups and periodically testing them is due diligence. On the otherhand, completely relying on someone else to backup your critical data is negligence. If your data is at all important to you, then you need to have a copy. But at some point you have to accept that you've done enough.
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I see a few Nick Bobics around. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2002/view/e_spkr/1162 and http://www.gamasutra.com/view/authors/148/Nick_Bobic.php seem to refer to the same person. The Ottawa reference makes me suspect that this might be NickB.

No search hits for accidents and Nick Bobic though.
Nothing like getting angry at facts, it's true. People have been doing it throughout history and that's not going to change soon.
Thanks, but I was referring to the srp, not the home page.
Asa responds to Schmidt's quote in more detail here:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2009/12/followup...
slide 116 "bash-like" key mapping means emacs-like (right?)
I don't just simply fall asleep, but Ritalin and Adderall have had relaxing effects, enough to make sleeping easier.

And I've never felt as calm as when I took basic uppers (black beauties, i.e. Adderall without that annoying timed release thing).

So, anecdotal evidence tells me different brains react differently to stimulants.
The Terminator, Terminator 2 and Aliens are his best in my opinion. The Abyss is also quite good but not as much of an action movie.
Upvoted for clarification; remember that sarcasm and the Internet work great together.
Probably because the alternative, cheerfully waving everyone through, is unacceptable from a national security standpoint.

Security theater does not equal actual security. If someone actually wanted to drive a bomb across the border, I'm sure they'd find a way.
No, but it isn't as simple as that nowadays. My only point is that, when there are people out there who are trying to blow you up, dealing with a certain amount of bullshit from law enforcement is an acceptable tradeoff for putting a stop to that. It's not optimal, but neither is dying in a terrorist attack. Neither extreme--fascism or doing nothing--appeals to me as much as the middle ground. YMMV.
This is the interesting thing about ADD: Why do some drugs help some, but not others, for what appear to be a common set of symptoms?
And they're a registered U.S. non-profit.

The paranoid still have FreeNet and Tor, btw. Failing that, you can always roll out your own peer to peer anonymous google-based search engine, but good luck securing it or keeping spammers away.
Another point:

There appears to be a growing disconnect between what we consider right and what we consider practical. It seems right that you should be able to peacefully question any non-emergency procedure, expect basic respect even if you're not being the most pleasant person, and retreat a step or two reflexively if you feel threatened.

Of course, we know that the practical approach to take is to be docile, passive, sickeningly submissive, and compliant nearly to the point of being patronizing.

The border guards train and drill repeatedly on how to behave aggressively and militantly in this situation. Most adults have no corresponding practice at acting completely flaccid and defenseless on command, which is what it seems we've come to expect.
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Someone here mentioned the Bubblemark[1], I forgot which thread, and I tested it myself:

Javascript in Chrome and Firefox is faster than Flash or Flex. But slightly slower in Opera and Safari, and much slower in IE. All on x86, 32-bit Win XP.

FWIW.

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[1]http://bubblemark.com
Makes perfect sense, really, if evil is just the most local scope of self-interest…
It might potentially be worth it if such security theatre actually worked.
Having wasted $65M of VC money and failed spectacularly on my first startup because I managed to execute flawlessly on a flawed business plan, I can completely related to this video. Time is different now. What I have learned from my second and successful startup is that entrepreneurs need to defy Silicon Valley VC myths. Instead of innovating, we need to "nanovate". Instead of vision, we need to have peripheral vision. Instead of thinking outside of the box, we need to think inside the box. Instead of supersizing our business with VC money, we need to sacrifice growth by making sure that our early-adopter customers are extremely happy. VC's always want us to aim high, but for bootstrapping entrepreneurs, it is best to shot low. Focus on our current customer base and make sure everyone is happy. The cost of acquiring a new customer is extremely high in a down market. A perfect defense is our only offense. We must ignore our competitors and focus exclusively on our existing customers. Don't look for the knee of the hockey stick. Instead, wait for the pivot that would get us onto a different game. No sailboat ever won a contest by staying in the dry dock. Got to stay in the game before you know what the real game is.
The best explanation is this:

Law enforcement of any kind (police up to military) are trained to be 'in control' of their situation. When you start asking questions (or getting out of your car or whatever) you are being proactive for yourself. You're trying to take control of a situation so that you understand what's going on and that you don't have to accept everything at face value. But this contradicts all of their training that they need to control the situation. Even though you might be unarmed and they are armed (meaning that no matter how verbal you might get they still have control... they can f-cking kill you) they react to gain complete and utter control over the situation.

I'm not saying I like this. To be truthful, I absolutely hate this. But it is the way it is. Their training is f-cked. (or at least there are a majority of people that take the training past the point of (un)common sense).
The author is using a rhetorical device called "humor". Many humans take pleasure from humorous statements.
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Some info is listed under the NewMogul.com domain records, not sure how accurate it is though:

New Mogul Inc
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Should we try contacting him? This is getting a little stalkerish, however it'd be nice to confirm he's OK.
> My only point is that, when there are people out there who are trying to blow you up,

The smart ones make the bombs inside the country. When has anyone ever tried to drive a bomb across the border? Hell, this is the same thing as airport security. They could just drive the bomb into the mess of cars at the border before being inspected and it would have the same effect. It would be even a more spectacular effect if done on a bridge (i.e. Ambassador (Detroit-Windor); Peace Bridge (Buffalo,NY); Rainbow Bridge (Niagara Falls)) because then it would strike fear into people about not being caught in the blast but being on the bridge that is collapsing (Hollywood milks this one all the time).
I'll be the first to write a comment in agreement with Dotzler. I don't think what Eric Schmidt said is good, but could have been better. I think this is bad.

When he says "you shouldn't be doing it in the first place", to me, it has strong moral overtones. He didn't say maybe you shouldn't do it because you might get caught. He said maybe you shouldn't do it and you might get caught. If he'd said it the first way, it wouldn't have sounded like he's making a moral statement that if you're doing something the government disagrees with, what you're doing is almost certainly morally wrong.
No Fight Club fans I guess.
Mr. Irish moved to Japan in the 1980s after studying the language and history at Yale. He landed a job at Japanese construction firm Shimizu Corp. in Tokyo, rising through the ranks to become a vice president in the New York office. But he wanted to see a different part of the country: the vestiges of "Japan of the past."

He left Shimizu and moved to a fishing village of 1,000 people in Kagoshima prefecture at the southwestern tip of Kyushu. He spent the next three years on a fishing boat catching mackerel, sardines and squid, an experience he described as "an anthropological field study."

After publishing a book about life in the fishing village, Mr. Irish landed a job writing a column, in Japanese, for a local Kagoshima newspaper. Having decided that he wanted to live in a farming community, he hopped on a scooter and rode around the prefecture until, in 1998, he came across a hilltop cabin with breathtaking views in Tsuchikure.

Always good to see someone make a career out of being interesting.
> According to the police manuals, in the event of non-violent non-compliance, non-lethal force should be used such as pepper-spray or taser until compliance is gained.

If this is the case everywhere then it should be make public knowledge. Because there are a lot of people that feel they have the right to argue with an officer as long as they are not being physical.

I have a suspicion that if that ever was released as knowledge to everyone there would be a lot of political movement to limit the extents of it.
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It's Friday night, my brain stopped functioning correctly hours ago, I have no idea why my goddamn Javascript is blocking on a call to the backend, and I need comic relief?

More seriously, I think that's the way a lot of entrepreneurs think, and we sometimes need a slap in the back from each other. Something awful like this. Call me weak and boorish, but I shamelessly enjoyed it. It reminds of the life I am trying to avoid. The life of some relatives. The lives of friends with six and seven figure salaries with their trophy wives.
All US-Canada border crossings are mired in video cameras. (If they say the none of them are actually recording then I'll call 'cover-up.')
> It's not just Cory Doctrow vouching for him, but also Charlie Stross and Neil Gaiman.

No offense, but "I know the guy and he's a stand-up guy," doesn't mean that he's incapable of lying.
I realize that under some circumstances the training is beneficial, but I have seen way too many examples of various armed officials using excessive verbal/physical force with obviously harmless people.

I think of it this way: If you're in law enforcement, the real bad guys are very scary, so you would start to feel like a real wimp after a while. The way I think many of them deal with this is by over-controlling obviously harmless, law-abiding people.
In my situation the guard actually said "you have no rights here". (in Canada)
Hmm...

http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/bugbear_2037_155503...
Has anyone checked the cottage?
when stopped by a police officer I always act like they already have a gun pointed at me. I keep my hands visible and answer everything with a 'sir'. maybe there's lots of good cops out there. But if I get the one asshole who gets off on power I'd rather appease his view of the world than challenge it.
What I did with the Met Office temperature data
it still sounds like dune for simpletons.
Since the prefecture owned the property, he negotiated with government officials a yearly rent of 2,500 yen, or $28

What
wealth creation with fixed currency causes deflation. deflation means you can now buy more products and services with the share of the currency you do have. so you're wrong.
Maybe they're (also) counting down to the end of their code freeze?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...