skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Naive response on multiple levels. An ad hominem implies that the criticism is superficial or irrelevant to the main issue. Money is the main cause from a realist point of view, not an accessory. Money waiting to be made is the first item in the chain of causation for many (most?) government projects.

The outline: problem in government that can be solved -> contractor group identifies problem -> contractor group contacts their lobbyist -> lobbyist lobbies government at right points -> contractor group gets contract to solve problem for far more $ than the problem is worth (usually) -> lobbyist can now find another job for the contractors as soon as they identify another problem.

Ask qui bono, ruthlessly. Follow the money from branch to root. Do some research on where the money is ending up, and you'll find who set the process in motion via corruption.

On a side note, Americans will never feel safe because there is a pervasive circus of media and behavioral memes which encourage fearfulness and paranoia. Have you ever seen the nightly news? Have you ever talked with a mom? We could be sitting alone in sterile jail cells, and people would still worry that the jail cell being cold might give us pneumonia.
There's a section in the article about how they use dashes instead of dots to separate octals in the IP. That way the wildcard cert covers those subdomains because they are only one level deep.
So the analytics I got pretty much show that it worked more as promotion than bait. I posted my purchase to facebook mocking the stupidity of the domain (there are a bunch of different ways to misspell that lengthy domain). The day I posted that status I saw 9.38% traffic but the analytics is treating the miley cyrus domain as a referral and isn't recognizing if that click came from facebook or direct. realized I need to add tags to recognize that now
One of the things that gets some of the anti-HFT types going is that it's possible to subscribe to direct exchange data feeds.

All exchanges are obliged to contribute to the SIP, which offers a market-wide view of quotes (prices) and historical trades. However, because the SIP must aggregate data feeds from all exchanges and then republish this information, it's possible to "predict the future" if you subscribe to the direct exchanges feeds (which are more-or-less what they send to the SIP) and avoid the added latency of a hop via the SIP's aggregator and redistribution.

These direct exchange feeds are expensive, and getting more so (ie. NYSE UltraBook is $11,000/month for the data, plus port fees, plus connectivity). The argument is that this segments the customers such that unfair advantage is available to those who can afford to subscribe to the direct feeds.

More recently (last two? years) it's been possible to get a microwave transmission of the data, rather than fiber, which is both lower-latency and more expensive again.
Well, one I can point out is Nancy Powell (former US ambassador to India). She failed to assess the popularity of India's current prime minister on time, for instance. You can search for it on the net.
> You definitely get a feeling but I can count numerous times when I've stood in front of the tutorial class and asked if there are any questions only to get no response back.

When I realized I was understanding subjects better than my classmates, I'd take on the task of asking the "dumb" questions for them. It was partly selfishness, I was tired of answering those questions for them outside of class. But it really did prove helpful to my classmates. It really helped that, when I was sitting with the students, I got to hear them mumbling and grumbling about what they didn't get. So I knew exactly what questions to ask to get the professor/TA to help my classmates.

I never TA'd myself so I have no idea if this would actually work, or at least work consistently. But, if you have a couple students that really seem to be getting the material, you could try talking to them one-on-one and ask them to help you out in this manner.
Well, this is nothing new. Most widely-accessible/affordable physical security is only there to introduce enough of a hindrance so insurance companies will actually pay out if when the worst happens.
> Seems like a ridiculous waste of money.

The people paying for it (US citizens and those who travel into or through the US) would surely see it as a waste. But the people profiting don't, and the people profiting are the same people who make the laws mandating them.

I opt out of the naked scanners every time I fly. Just tell the TSA clown trying to herd you into the naked scanner the magic phrase "I'm opting out." After a 5 minute wait, some other clown will come over and molest you, and then you're free to go.

I do this as a little protest against a system I see as stupid and illegal. If everybody opted out, the system would get so backed up that they would have to change their policies. I'm doing my part, and I encourage you to do yours next time you fly. (Unless you're not white, in which case you should probably just keep your head down :-/ )
Baidu Launches Digital Assistant to Take on Apple, Google and Microsoft
“These Are the Gothic Cathedrals of the 21st Century”-Lawrence Krauss on the LHC
Interesting, do you think these ideas will have applications in CS ?

I mean type theory is obviously useful, both to things like formal proofs and the definition of typed languages but do you think that thinking of types in terms of topological spaces and homotopy will lead to new insights in these or related areas ?
GraphDB is not related to Neo4j.

GraphDB is an RDF database.
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Modern computer models which are typically viewed as the edge of computational intelligence are very susceptible to getting tricked into incomplete models by their input data.

What?!

A human person lives for years figuring out how the world works before they can even talk. Our trained-in-one-month AI systems aren't yet approaching anything training for years over real-world, mobile, 3D inputs, can approximate.

Your objections are being filed under "not enough future vision."
Does anyone know why Android devices don't video inputs, or even aftermarket way of getting video in cheaply? They would be super useful as small screens for various applications
Thousands of Boston license plate numbers scanned and uploaded to public website
So luggage handlers can open my suitcase, put in some drugs, and at the other end I can get caught for having drugs in my luggage?

They should setup a service where you checkin your luggage, they check it for drugs or illegal stuff, they seal it, and at arrival you get your suitcase with the guarantee that it had no drugs at checkin.
That's the equivalent of a front-end developper going into back-end, saying "screw this!" and hardcoding everything.

Urgh.

Also, you cannot use numbers as classes. That's not allowed and may mess up some browsers / devices.
It's exactly the same here, unfortunately. I pay less for my gas/electricity and phone bill for paying by direct debit.
I just found this in a magazine, but when I realizes it was IEEE magazine I couldn't believe it.
> The STM and concurrency features of Clojure are what brought me in, and they certainly haven't been "done before". Common Lisp's concurrency story was always poor.

It's the JVM that does most of the work here for Clojure. You get the same features when working in Java if you wanted them.

Most CL implementations provide access to native threads and kernel polling facilities (kqueue, select, epoll, etc).

If "modern," means, "leverages the libraries and implementation of a well-funded ecosystem" then I suppose you have a point. Clojure is quite modern. And that is confusing.

> You could also argue that the effects of lazy evalutation and transducers could have been achieved before using SERIES package, but then you surely haven't tried to actually use and debug SERIES code.

I'd much rather debug CL code any day. Even at its worst it is still far ahead of Java's tracebacks and having to mentally map them back to where the error occurred in your Clojure code.
My google-fu is lacking, but recently (last year?) an inmate escaped thanks to their cellmate who was a master jeweler & had a full kit in his cell. A photograph of the guard's keys was smuggled in and the jeweler cut a key for the inmate to escape.
When reading a lot of the comments from the ad-blocking people I hear this:

"I want to browse every website for free, I don't want to pay for any of the sites that inform me, entertain me, help me to better do my job.

But god forbids if someone touches a cent from my salary..."

In the end it's just a question of entitlement and don't wanting to pay for things.

If you are annoyed for seeing some ads think about the anoyment of the people generating value for you without seeing a fucking cent.

Don't be so selfish, please.
Definitely a way to find a silver lining hehe. Maybe we're getting better at shining a light on things, and they'll crawl back into the slime over a generation or two.
The counter argument is that they do provide a benefit, by providing liquidity and/or making price discovery more efficient.

Whether it's "good" liquidity or not, and whether the discovered prices actually reflect true value or not, is a discussion that seems to fairly rapidly head down an acrimonious rathole.
Edit: This post is just terrible on my part, leaving it here solely for the fact it has a response below it, but I apologise for it's existence.

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I think I'd rather just let you visit with an ad blocker than try to convince anyone that that idea would work

You're effectively trying to take America's tipping system and apply it to your ISP and apply that to the world?

Do you know how many ISPs there are in the world? They can barely agree on where to route traffic sometimes much less a system that wouldn't benefit them in any way

I think you're proposing the impossible to put yourself in a morally good position. "I'll never view ads because <impossible request>" like the people that claim piracy is fine because they wouldn't have bought the content anyway so nobody loses out.

It's just a lie, it'd be more honest to just say "fuck content creators, I'm not watching adverts. Who cares if they can't make money" than this method of remuneration you've come up with
Yes, that is quite a strange recommendation and the recommendation of "until the swap space used exceeds twice the physical RAM" is really crazy. The best recommendation for production servers is to disable your swap/page file completely then just let your entire system crash on OOM.

Often times it's better to have a dead system (you do have HA and auto-failover, right?) than to let difficult-to-track-down "slowness" into real time systems.
Ask HN: What should concern a “guest poster”?
I've been asked to do some writing for a site, but I don't know who the person is doing the asking and his guidelines are rather amateurish. It really makes it sound like a fly-by-night operation, but then, many popular sites were originally started by naive go-getters who just kept cracking the pavement until it worked.

What sort of question would you be asking, what sort of things would you be looking for, to figure out whether or not becoming a contributing author or a guest poster on a new blog is worth the effort?

I mean, beyond just the time effort. Is there a potential to harm one's own reputation if one gets involved with a site that goes sideways? For example, there are lots of articles that talk about the best way to run a blog that accepts guest posts, how to avoid spammy content, how to avoid getting penalized on SEO, etc.
I use RPis for bespoke installations for clients. One of the problems has been offering an easy way to make adjustments to the apps the RPi is running without a keyboard/mouse/monitor setup or having to SSH in. This is a great way to offer the ability to make changes. Looking forward to trying one out
Real Estate Is Accessible and Easy to Navigate Thanks to These Startups
Blog post about the service: http://blog.pivotal.io/labs/labs/sslip-io-a-valid-ssl-certif...
HTTPS Client Identification Using SSL/TLS Fingerprinting
Yeah, but I'm not naive enough to think this will get passed soon. The problem with the US is that its manufacturing base has been so hollowed out it has become reliant on its treasury bonds + QE money printing fed (backed by its military) and financial hegemony (think Goldman Sachs) that results from it. The ftt got passed in the EU because Germany (which runs the EU, mostly) actually still makes things. They don't need the world to transact their bonds in order to stay liquid.
Actually, unless you're deliberately looking at the companies who like to invent their own proprietariness, they're more likely to have standard connectors and protocols; consider laptop displays, for example. The ones designing the laptop want to be able to use displays from different manufacturers, and the display manufacturers want their products usable in as many laptops as possible. This leads to standards, both normative and de-facto, and there being only a small number of variations.

I'm not as familiar with mobile device displays but given that standards like MIPI DSI exist, I suspect it's a similar situation.
>And all along, you're using a Lisp, which PG shows[2] is the most powerful kind of programming language.

This is too hand wavy for me.
It took me a moment to realize why I was stuck in the internet revisionist mindset even though I know many of the early computer crime stories. It's because the security game has played out generationally - the publically known techniques used to break into systems in 1995 were less sophisticated than those seen now. This a war that has quietly been fought since the first secret messages, on a battlefield that is now shifting with increasing speed and is tilted heavily in favor of offense. The common advice one had to take control of one's information in the 90's just isn't any good now - there are critically failing holes in the infrastructure that make individual defense a Sisyphiean task.

But relative to now, gaining unauthorized access to a valuable system in the 80's or 90's would still be challenging, as the bag of tricks would be different, less widely known, and you might need more expensive equipment.
Perhaps coming home hours earlier from work and/or calling a neighbor would increase their odds of survival.

I find it odd that people are questioning the value of this life and death information while there are plenty of frivolous IOT devices.
Apple brings ad-blocker extensions to Safari on iPhones
If you're using sass you just extend alert inside alert-danger. No need for two classes.
Couldn't find easy to use news apps – so I made apps for that
Yes, but "alert" simply means "this is an alert" (so, it may be a box or a popup, depending on where it is on the app/website). "alert alert-danger" means that this alert, whatever shape it is in, is also the alert for danger. It may be red, yellow, blink, have javascript attached to it, etc.

However, it is not "alert alert-red"... What if your client wanted to never use the colour red again because his competition is branded red? You need to go through all the CSS (a few lines of :red needs to be changed to :yellow). You however also need to go through all your view, templates, possibly some hardcoded parts of the code, to change "alert-red" to "alert-yellow"... simply have it "alert-danger".
Docky makes Xubuntu look pretty
That's vert interesting. Thank you.
Widespread censorship in effect at Reddit
vice.com is the same kind of clickbait trash as a Gawker site or Vox or whatever. But this is what journalism has become now.
Don't give them anymore business model ideas.
My guess is that the entire display circuit is tightly coupled with the SoC, and it would cost a bit more to get something into the circuit that accepted, decoded, and displayed a digital signal on top of the current SoC talking directly to thee display.
This is standard usage. From googling "define: fast":

2. (of a clock or watch) showing a time ahead of the correct time.
"I keep my watch fifteen minutes fast"
An Interview with Alex Gibney, Director of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Our garbage trucks are spying on our cars via license plate readers. This is "necessary for public safety."

Pretty good, right?
Top (Ridiculous) App Ideas
I loved the BBS era. For those of us kids who saw Wargames at the movie theater it was almost like magic.

My first modem was 300 baud. You haven't lived until your mom ruined your 5 hour download of a sweet 300-500k game because she picked up the phone. Good times.
Is anyone using a pedal in addition of a keyboard on a daily basis? Do you really think this could be a significant help when typing code?
Just ordered, what a great shopping experience. Huge plus when I saw the Bitpay integration. Relatively inexpensive shipping to the States. Will definitely keep you in mind for the future.
You make some good points regarding quality, but there are a great many things where that doesn't matter. Yes if it's a major medical issue where a life hangs in the balance quality matters tremendously. But a huge range of medical care is about quality of life or other more minor things.

I also think that if prices were available to people they might choose the preventative care themselves versus waiting until things are so bad that a major and costly intervention is needed.

People talk about externalities as if they're the devil when it comes to climate change, but when it comes to medicine nobody bats an eye. Right now the consequences of people smoking, eating poorly, drinking too much, etc are generally externalities for individuals because either their insurance eats the cost or the public does. I'm not suggesting that people should be forced to bear that cost entirely on their own without insurance, but with no pricing available GPs have one less tool to "scare straight" their patients.

I think what's especially galling is that the hospitals do have all the pricing information available in a database that they use to turn patients charts into bills. It's just not published publicly so patients can't make a slightly more informed decision on the front-end, they only see it AFTER care has been provided.
That's a great answer, thank you.
"Creators and makers should have the right to determine how and where the work they own is distributed."

This is a debatable proposition.
Was it ever possible to have a secure lock held by tens of thousands of people with a secure master key, even if the authentic master keys were never revealed?
Why China's slowing economic growth isn't a bad thing
The State of Front-End Tooling – 2015
At least then you can claim someone tampered with it. What if they steal your laptop from your baggage. Can you still claim you had it in there? Unless they open it right before the cameras (and they'll know where those are), you won't be able to do that.
Actually that's where the new Cadillac's are strong. The ATS and CTS tend to score at the top of their respective segments in handling and the V series versions of both cars typically win performance comparos.

Where they fall down is in the interior styling and materials.
Some friends recommend docopt over argparse. My major reason against docopt is that my code has several options and arguments that are determined at run-time. As a simple example, consider a "--format" argument which must be one of list of supported formats, and which may depend on your environment (eg, have you compiled PIL with/without jpeg support?).

With docopt I think I have to basically re-implement a templating system in order to build the help text, and this system has to be aware of the parse rules. I can do that, but it seems easier to just tell argparse the list of options directly.

Click definitely looks interesting, and a quick read of the documentation suggests it might 'fit my brain' better than argparse. For example, I don't like how argparse supports automatic expansion of long arguments because I think it leads to forward compatibility problems. That support can be disabled in recent versions of Python, but I agree with click that it simply shouldn't be supported, except through an explicit alias list.
Well, yes, that's what the article says, but highlights one hospital working to change that.
Not long ago you could buy special air-mail letters. These were thin blue paper, with an envelope front printed on one side and a gummed trip on the other. You'd write your letter on the back, fold them up and stick them down, and post at reduced rates (because they were guaranteed to be light, having no enclosures).

I haven't seen one for ages. I hope they haven't vanished completely; they were a really good idea...
To the extent transactional taxes retard market-making and drive spreads back towards where they were in the 1980s, those taxes do in fact harm retail investors.
Maybe if you cut it, but that's not even necessary

https://youtu.be/zMTXzQ0Vqn8?t=106
I feel the readme is lacking; I would hope to see something about its use case, what makes it lite, etc. How is it like/unlike Kafka? It seems like it is only available as a c library and does not expose a protocol. Is this just a single instance of a producer/consumer and a transaction log with topics available to the one running program? It would also be nice to see results under the benchmarks.
The idea of pricing out hospital procedures as if they're widgets or oil changes is ridiculous to begin with.
It was perhaps disappointing to long time fans, but the general public liked it. And Human After All got pretty bad reviews, which brought the average down.
I had a TSA lock and it lasted exactly one trip. They searched the bag (found a note inside) and didn't lock the case back up, I never saw the lock again. Ridiculous.
I don't understand this. I googled for a few things but only got some stories about her meeting Modi when he was in charge of Gujarat but nothing particularly interesting or related to what you said
Consumers have a lot of "skin in the game" right now between being uninsured, or having significant co-insurance, or high-deductible/catastrophic plans, etc., but they do not generally have the information to make informed decisions about their own care. Some research suggests patients with these kind of plans do spend less, but largely by foregoing preventative care: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/05/consumers-health-costs

As for the cost-benefit thing, do you think insurers are not doing it?
About two year ago, I read a blog post by someone who tried to work on a centralized payment service with german/swiss/austrian publishers. Unfortunately I can't find the link at the moment, but as I remember his conclusion was, that they were not willing to try something like this at all. Everyone wanted to have the precious user data for themselves alone. Which correlates with the experience I had working for a big publisher: News papers aren't just competitors, they are antagonists.

My prediction is, if centralized content micropayment service is ever going to happen, it won't come from the publishers, but a big player with enough leverage like Amazon, Google, Apple, etc. Then the publisher will write outrage articles about how unfair and anti press freedom the cut they get is. Until they adapt silently.

Maybe I'm a bit pessimistic, but I doubt that the proud traditional companies have learnt much from what happened in the music industry. Which on the bright side might be good for new media startups and different approaches to journalism.