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"When you have children, you can have exactly one hobby. Anything else is an exercise in futility, self-deception, and ineffectiveness. Cooking healthy food is a hobby. Exercising is a hobby. Maintaining a website is a hobby. Writing a blog is a hobby. Bringing work home is a hobby. You have time to do exactly one thing after your kids go to sleep, if you want to do it well."

Yes. Ugh. And I cannot pick one.

He has OFTEN been awkward and offensive. I do not censor him nor feel any obligation to do so.

@scuzzlebot uses them... by the fact that he is an implementation of MegaHAL (http://megahal.alioth.debian.org/).

He's out of order right now. I plan to fix him when I've got time. For a while he ended up tweeting tons of nonsense with no spaces between words... my fault. Anyway I will fix him up again soon, but hope to (in my copious free time HAHAHAHAH) redo him in a more exciting way.

For the past few years I've been happily envisioning us all being chauffeured around in robot-driven cars preferably before my 2 year old is 16... imagining they must be safer. And, I still think that generally, auto-automobiles would be safer. Then I thought more about Michael Hastings (whose murder I incidentally nearly witnessed, traveling down Highland about 10 min after the crash, I could see cops, crashed car, and was diverted onto Melrose)... anyway - that, and then the murderous rampage at Venice Beach over the weekend... I thought - oh GOD! People are totally going to remote control cars as murder weapons. OBVIOUSLY. Ugh.

Also, google "Boston Brakes Michael Hastings" and you'll find a lot of speculation along these lines with a lot of significant support for the idea. Strikes me that a top result was an article from the Atlantic about how the FBI doesn't buy this "conspiracy theory" - but what if the "big story" Hastings was talking about being onto right before he was killed was the one that just came out about the FBI + DEA spying on people. Hrmmm.

Something similar to this stuff is possibly how Michael Hastings was assassinated in Los Angeles, June 18, 2013.

There is a current HN thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6162450

EXACTLY. He was a JOURNALIST. The point is to kill someone who might be about to disclose something you don't want disclosed, and create a chilling effect preventing others who might consider disclosing, whistleblowing, leaking, or simply reporting such things from doing so for fear they too would be murdered. This WORKS. Killing someone in secret only performs the first function. This is the essence of the idiom "killing two birds with one stone." In this case, it's killing 1,000 (or more) journalists with one rigged car.

maybe he was onto the story that broke over the weekend about the DEA spying on people:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/08/05/more-survei...

"But the most significant missing evidence was the absence of any skid marks—even though the car made a 60-degree turn into a palm tree.

Research of this topic reveals a new angle to this story, namely —Boston Brakes.

This theory was explained by a former Marine Gordon Duff who refers to the “Boston Brakes” technique, in which “drive by wire” cars, specifically a Mercedes Benz, can be manipulated remotely to simulate an out-of-control accident, according to his Veterans Today story (The 2010 story is a must read). The story details are eerily similar to Hastings fiery accident scene as there were no skid marks.

Adding credence to the possible car-hacking scenario is former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke. After news broke on the Hastings car accident, he confirmed the “drive by wire” concept.

Clarke told The Huffington Post that a single-vehicle crash is “consistent with a car cyber attack. There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers — including the United States — know how to remotely seize control of a car.”

Another significant detail pointed out by some members of law enforcement, is the intensity of the fire inside the car. It’s highly unusual since gasoline generally doesn’t burn that hot. Reviewing video footage from the scene, the intensity of the fire resembles a “thermite” burn.

Despite the LAPD’s categorization of the Hasting fatal accident as a “no (evidence of) foul play” accident, LAPD refuses to release the accident and toxicology reports, or make the Mercedes available for inspection which only fuels speculation.

LAPD on the case as usual."

from this: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-09/elusive-details-mic...

he's making a list, checking it twice; gonna find out who's naughty and nice...

it is not necessary to imagine this. we give it to our children. it is called adderall.

I have no words. There is just nothing

like some have already noted in this thread, this and other real estate crowdfunding concepts are limited to involving only accredited investors. there can be ways to get around this, i think. what if the organization is a non-profit educational / community improvement corp, and people participate as designers and as investors (truly a crowd/swarm of investors, where there are MANY MANY individuals giving very small amounts of money) and the money is given for "rewards" - like getting to stay for a night in one of the rooms for free after the, say, hotel! is finished being built. .. so that at least some of the investment capital -if not all of it - is coming in because people want to participate in building long lasting high value structures. this would be attractive to architects and designers and the general interested public more than as a way to make a killing in real estate - it would not be about that.

I'd like to see a real estate development swarm sourcing site that bootstraps a real estate dev deal from concept through site acquisition, design, build, and monetization (management if it's a rental / keeper and/or sales), so that it's basically super-interested parties collectively swarming around a chosen site until a fully crowd- (or as i prefer, swarm-) sourced building is realized. There are a lot of different ways I could see this going. I want to close the disconnect between designers/architects and financiers/developers, such that they operate together as a swarm to their collective benefit from concept through completion.

We can no longer trust Microsoft?

Crazy. I've been trusting Microsoft all this time, and now, what to do!?!

Do not choose a language first, and certainly don't make a big list and try to learn each language on your list in a vacuum.

Choose a project, and then research the best language to do that project in, and then learn that language by doing your project in it.

this kind of memory is likely stored throughout the worms nervous system / body, rather than centralized in its brain.

Thanks for clarifying. That was the case. I shed a tear due to the incredible emotion conveyed in such a brilliant manner, and agree it is just a beautiful "I love you and am proud of you, son" type of letter... and historic, too. I was not sad or "sorry for myself."

Ok, wat? Ok.

Wow. I cried a bit.

The End is Neigh.

You might consider using photos that have more than the target object in them. It is easy as heck for a computer to determine the bounds of an object in a photo, and increasingly easy for it to know what that object is. It's certainly no challenge to a bot to determine the bounds of the "coffeemug" when it is the only object in the photo.

Also, CAPTCHA of any sort just sucks. As a user, I only will bother with a site that uses CAPTCHA if it is providing something I absolutely must have. If it's something I may or may not use, and I'm presented with a CAPTCHA (of any kind), I leave.

You'll find your "A players" allright, you'll find them politely completing your interview, and then declining any offers you might make. You might consider researching the company where they end up working for tips about how to find your A players, and, crucially, how to get them to actually work for you.

And what do people think about this thing anyway?

Will we be able to evolve beyond our bodies by 2045?

http://2045.com/

facebook has gotten old.

Let's make this now.

no

But it has already happened... nearly 15 years ago it got pretty bad, and it continues to get worse. Anyway these "backdoors" already do exist in routers.

None of the big companies with statements (denials) about PRISM say anything about protecting data that flows through its networking equipment, only that they do not provide access to "stored" data on "servers" (without a warrant).

Here's how to configure a Cisco 7600's LI (Lawful Intercept) "feature":

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/7600/ios/12.2SR/conf...

* Note the cute assumption in the naming of this "feature" - it almost implies that the use of "Lawful Intercept" is necessarily lawful as the feature itself has the word "lawful" right there in the name!

Nothing stated in the Rackspace or other ISPs posts says anything about the routers in place at these facilities. They're all quite careful to say how secure the customer's "stored data" is safe on the "servers" - nothing is said about data flows through routers.

What is it about PRISM that is so shocking to people?

This (knowing the NSA/CIA can and may actually listen to, record, and data-mine ALL electronically mediated communications) has been the default condition since the late 90's when CALEA came about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5858538