skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A signals intelligence agency conducting intelligence operations on foreign signals?

Stop the presses!
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It might be nice for us less formally-trained persons to include a small description of what an LR(1) parser is. I tried looking it up wikipedia, but the article isn't that clear either IMHO.
excellent writeup!

what I found is, that while we are engineers we like technical solutions to our problems. the problem is, that writing software is a team effort where social skills are required to produce good results- a non technical skillset we do net hear very much about at university...
The simple answer is the browser as a platform stalled for ten years or so (the "Flash Era"). It's only very recently that real work was put into adding new capabilities like video playback (See the WHATWG conflict). Beyond that, I would add that the natural complexity of video encoding and the legalities which surround it complicate things. The video playback implementation bundled into the browsers is simpler than what you might find in something like VLC, making it a bit less capable of handling all the potential oddities a video can have. You have to actually encode your video in multiple formats, and even then be very careful, to get it to actually play in every browser at the moment. Hopefully these things will stabilize in the near future, but it's early days.
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I find it funny that they are rumored to be releasing the Nexus 5X today with only 32GB of memory and no SD card slot.
I mean, I get that... but that's not what "boycott" means.
Spying on other spying agencies seems like 100% fair game even if they are our allies. I don't think the NSA should be collecting massive amounts of data on ordinary citizens in a way which violates our constitutional rights, or that they should collaborate with other intelligence agencies to effectively do the same thing, but I think they should still exist and they have a real reason to exist.

Not enthused about this leak.
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

But seriously, is this not what the NSA is paid to do?
One other thing, try this in Haskel (GHC):

round (1/0)

I would have preferred if it failed with a runtime exception, instead of giving the result that it does.
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Perl golf is meant as a thought exercise. Code should be human readable. The compiler will cope with verbose code just as easily as terse code.
The other side has no argument. You can't give something away and then dictate how it is used.
I wish people wouldn't take offense on behalf of other cultures they don't know much about.

Nobody much considers "let a hundrend flowers bloom" (as a phrase) equivalent to the "final solution", not even in China. This includes people who know all about Mao, the cultural revolution, the power plays and the executions that happened at the time.

It's actually a stock phrase in journalism and writing in general in lots of European countries (I know that's the case of its use in at least 4 countries/languages).

This looks more like someone in the US, several times removed from the events (by ethnicity, nation, time, etc), delivering a paternalistic lecture on foreign history.

Examples of casual use in both US and UK:

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21581984-inner-city-sc...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/11/03/we...

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/16/national-ant...
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Nice post, congratulations and all the very best for your venture.
I'm from Chennai too and at some point plan on starting a company there, it was nice to read through the planning, experience etc. Thanks for sharing!
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Yes! Some Donald Knuth person even published an algorithm for it. :)
> "Business Insider has set new standards in digital business journalism globally"

I guess that's one way of putting it...
His How to Fold a Julia Fractal (http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/) is an example of someone who understands how to teach a topic, teaching a topic. And to his point, the visual and interactive pieces definitely help with regard to learning. I believe that textbooks, based on html/epub, with this type of interactions would help with education.
Might actually be a per package/delivery rate that they estimate to be $18-25 per hour. I highly doubt Amazon would pay an hourly wage when some people might only do one delivery per hour. It's just marketing to attract people, just like how Uber advertises to drivers that the average Uber driver income is $90,000/year.
Taking money directly from end users has never been a really good strategy for individual content creators. It effectively turns each piece of content into its own little product, each requiring a marketing strategy, distribution, payment. The overhead adds up too quickly.
Well, they should just be doing it for you on the back-end. In fact, all you should have to do is upload an APK with all high-res assets and google should downsample them as appropriate for the downloading device. But they don't so...
Wow, people are solving it fast! Took me a few hours the first time. Granted I was 10. :)
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If I take a free newspaper and don't bother to read the ads, the publisher has still been paid for the ad spots, so why should it be different for a Web site publisher? The advertiser should pay a negotiated, fixed amount and the consideration that site visitors may or may not use an adblocker to skip the ad should not enter the equation.

In a similar vein, if I take a free newspaper, no-one follows me round and refuses to let me turn the page unless I confirm that I have looked at all the ads on the current one.
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I agree and I like the way this author words the "fight". It has always baffled me how an entire industry can build up around the trust system because in the end that's what the majority of online advertisement is. You send me data, my screen chooses what to display.
The "I'm shocked, shocked" meme from Casablanca is most appropriate when the speaker is themselves hypocritically complicit in the wrongdoing being described.

So... I think it's up to the German Minister of Security to say they are shocked, shocked that the USA is spying on the people Germany uses to spy on the US.
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It guess but it depends a bit on how you define 10x. If you do it by business value added by some programming it could be as simple as someone saying don't do that do this at the right point.
You're right, it's not that bad from a delivery perspective. We're getting some stuff faster than before. To some degree my frustration is in the semantics. It does get practical when bringing someone onboard who has worked in a traditional Agile shop and it's like re-learning everything to figure out what we're doing.
I had a family member who nearly died from end-stage liver disease caused by Hepatitis C. He received a life-saving liver transplant with probably only days left to live.

From the article:

There’s a drug called Sovaldi that works astonishingly well to cure people with the liver disease Hepatitis C. The rub? It costs $1,000 per day for all 12 weeks of treatment.

12 x 7 x $1,000 = $84,000

I saw the bill for my family member's liver transplant. The total cost for the transplant was over $500,000 and that doesn't include the pre-transplant and post-transplant treatments and hospitalizations. At $84,000 for a cure, Sovaldi is an absolute bargain.

Of course, not everybody has $84,000. That's why we have insurance. Unfortunately, the payers in this article, state Medicaid programs, are in many cases heading down a path to insolvency. That's the bigger issue.

In private insurance markets, most drug makers provide significant discounts to incentivize payers. These discounts often amount to 50% or more. So you can't address the issue of access to treatment without acknowledging that insurers, not drug makers, ultimately decide which patients have access.

Gilead has a program that provides Sovaldi free of charge to patients who are uninsured or have been denied treatment. For those who cannot obtain Sovaldi, there are a variety of other Hepatitis C treatments available, so it is unlikely that somebody with a need will go untreated, even if their payer won't give them access to the treatment they prefer or which may be most effective.

This is a much more complicated issue than the article here suggests, and it's easier to find a scapegoat than to honestly address the complexities of this market.
All information might as well be completely free and open to the public for the security the practice of counter spying provides us. Additionally, the reason this level of infringement of privacy is so damning is that it completely absolves any notion of trust the German authority might have had towards the US. Attempts to form a more cohesive alliance in international politics will not be fruitful with this strategy.
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I used DO for a few years and had wild network performance swings at various times. Vultr has been much better in that regard. I also prefer Vultr's administration panel over DO's. They have more datacenter locations, too.
Seems like a non-story. The NSA was in possession of a couple of documents created by German intelligence. There's no evidence how they got them. Perhaps there was a leaker inside of the German intelligence service who posted a copy of these memos to a pastebin? They have no idea how the Americans got it.
Hopefully they pay for car mileage in addition to the $18-$25/hr... (should be 57.5 cents per mile for business miles, apparently)... because that alone could easily amount to $18/hr.
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Start with other questions as a reply.

* Level / Reporting structure / promotion prospects (left behind, or upcoming)

* Scope of work - especially relevant when getting hired up, or into a newly formed team

* Exposure within the organisation

* Medical care

* Relocation assistance

* Housing allowance

* Travel and food allowance

...as many as you can think of

Be straight that you'd like to save salary to the last thing to discuss. That does nothing other than to show you're focused on the opportunity. Ask these in interview if possible. Establish first, for yourself, this is a move worth making. And by doing so, it is not a jump for cash.

Then, when asked again, ask what a reasonable expectation would be. If asking a hiring manager, they might be nervous as they don't actually know the salary bands, if asking HR, they might not want to disclose as the hiring manager hasn't made it clear enough to them how much they want you. Information asymmetry exists within an employer, too.

The rest, what jonnathanson said.
So maybe a more apt classic movie paraphrase would be "Hey! There's no eavesdropping in here--this is a SIGINT room!"
There are a multitude of things you can do to reduce inequality at birth, from prenatal care to childcare. Statistics show that inequality certainly matters when correlated among other first world countries with social problems such as crime, teenage pregnancy, illiteracy, health, etc etc. If you're open to new ideas, I suggest you watch this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson?language=en
Isn't that their job?
What is Germany supposed to do, align with Russia? They really don't have any choice.
JavaScript is typically implemented with small integers that overflow into doubles. Higgs is very effective at eliminating type tests on numerical values. It's difficult to eliminate overflow checks in general, but Higgs uses BBV to do some primitive overflow check elimination that can take care of the "for (i=0;i<n;i++)" case.
The argument about that Common Core is bad because it comes from the Federal government is also based on fiction. Common Core was created by the states (specifically the National Governors Association) as an effort to have consistent standards across multiple states. The only Federal Government connection I'm aware of is that adoption of Common Core standards is one way that states can score extra points for Race to the Top grants.
Privacy should be the default. But playing the long game, it might have worked better if DNT defaulted off, MS and Mozilla lobbied to give it the force of law (like "do not call" lists), and then defaulted to on.
Having actually spoken to some of the people who work on this stuff at the BBC, they don't want to. They want to make as much quality television accessible to as many people as possible.

In fact, internal systems already exist for accessing any BBC programme from the last (n) years. There's also a system for schools and universities that gives you access to the last year or so of programming. It's pressures from external production companies that prevent these from being rolled out to the public.

However, there will always be rights issues until the state has complete ownership over all TV production - which is never going to happen.

(Also - what's 'evil' about content creators wanting to protect their intellectual property and income?)
Thanks! Assume it was easy to at-least understand the value proposition? Thanks for taking the time to take a look.
That same logic goes for anybody who has already earned the maximum possible punishment for their crime. If there was no death penalty, and kidnapping+rape earned you life without parole, why not kill the victim too? That way you have a better chance of getting away with it.
Ha yes, very good point and thanks for the kind words. Was a busy week I can tell you!
Since they've tapped pretty much everything then isn't it physically impossible that they cannot spy on everybody?
Mostly it was all the terrible code that got written in Perl by the first wave of non-programmers to start building web apps.
This article is terrible. No, a "Bubble" programmer couldn't have made Facebook back in the day. The vast majority of the difficulty in programming doesn't lie in the representation of code, but in the actual underlying problems you're trying to solve -- and in knowing whether computers can solve them at all, and how. Textual code is not the problem here.

Bubble is either too limited (meaning no, you cannot build the next Facebook with it) or simply a visual skin over the fundamental problem that is software development. If Bubble is powerful enough, then not anyone will be able to use it to build complex systems, no matter how fancy the colorful UI you slap over it.

It's as if the author of the article thought the complexity of Facebook lies in choosing which color to use for the "like" button...
I think you have something here. Piracy was a problem due to high cost and poor availability of content. Now there are multiple paid-for content aggregators that will serve music and video on most devices at reasonable prices, worldwide.

So it sounds like what we need are text content aggregators that work. What we need is easy syndication: RSS with money. But people have been trying to build paywalled text aggregator sites since Compuserve and not really succeeded.

Maybe the people paying should be the link-discussion sites. Reddit lets you give "gold" to users, but not to the websites hosting submitted links ...
nothing wrong with one year last commit when project's pretty mature
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At the very least, it would make it that much harder for some governors to be elected President.
Running Firefox 43 here. Either I'm doing something wrong or it's not compatible with my installation of Firefox. I've opted in for HTML 5 video, but when I attempt to play a news video, I am still prompted to install Flash Player.

As an aside, am I crazy, or is it weird that neither the blog page or the opt-in page embed a video for testing or even link to a video for testing? I don't know where to find an instance of "iPlayer" on the BBC site (on the off chance that's different than the video player they use for news items).

I searched for what one might call a traditional television program on their home page, but that didn't work either. I clicked the play icon on the "Featured Video" on the home page and was again prompted to install Flash.

I'm happy to hear about the effort, but not yet thrilled with the results.
> who would ever join again?

well if it's 'join the army or starve', the choice becomes a little clearer.
You make it sound like Sovaldi is not available in markets with fixed pricing and government buyers. That's not true, it is, and it's recommended treatment.

https://www.nice.org.uk/news/press-and-media/nice-guidance-r...
Updates to Xcode added what Android's tools have had for years, which is the notion of generating multiple binaries for different devices/profiles. Xcode then signs those independent sections and packages them together in an archive, while Google has you send them up separately, each signed separately.

Apple sort of presented it like the App Store is picking and choosing, but it's the enhancements to Xcode that actually enable the functionality. Google could add some tooling improvements to make it slightly easier, but really they've already done all of the hard parts.

Expansion files were a hack, and remain a hack. They are necessary for large games obviously, but really 100MB encompasses the enormous bulk of apps with ease. It would be ideal if Google simply abolished expansion files and folded the sizing into normal APKs.
It's not about the "authority" (yes, Smith and Wesson always beats four aces) but about the international understanding of the universal human rights and the effective position of the US in the context of the whole world regarding that understanding.

The human rights and the world.
When I click the "Beta Sign Up" button, it opens TWO modal overlays. I noticed this because it broke tab order when I was filling out the form.

Happens in both Chrome and FF 41 on OSX. I was able to close one of the overlays and successfully submit the other one.
From a users perspective Do Not Track should have been a opt-out process, as in all users are protected by default and can white list sites. In that scenario Ms and IE were right. It was the obvious reaction by the ad industry to this that showed their true colours; they predictably threw their toys out the pram and began ignoring Do Not Track requests. It was the advertising industry's response to the obvious needs of users that was the death knell for DNT.
Thanks for the paper, I'll take a look.

> the burden of proof -- IMO -- lies with those who claim that their super-feature-rich language will not meet the same fate.

All you are doing is reducing the discussion to something so hand-wavey that it can't be argued anymore. I'm interested in how much is too much and what type of features increase tihs load. I assert that some features don't increase errors, but in fact decrease them (e.g. Java's automatic memory management), and if that's true, than the statement "more features is worse than less features" is trivially proven false. Is it really that hard to move the argument beyond the simplistic point of view that "features" are the problem?
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Quality of the paper looks like a good read, notwithstanding the terrible acronym for the name.
Sad to read, but thank you :)
The process looks about as bureaucratically complicated as I would expect.
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You mean aside from saving the HTML and CSS and reproducing them on their blog?
That's right, there's also really large supply of air freight, which tends to be obscured when small shippers get hugely inflated quotes.
When you ship 40,000 boxes a day, those little boxes are bundled into giant pallets, most of which get shipped as belly cargo on passenger planes with excess space. A quick search shows trans-Pacific rates are quite reasonable these days! http://www.aircargonews.net/news/single-view/news/drewry-air...
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Jesus fucking christ if you're relying on adverts for medical education of your clinicians they system is horribly broken.
I'm not a big fan of the NSA, but isn't that kind of their job..?
Here is a reasonable link - http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/07/ll-and-lr-parsing-demyst...
Great Strangelove reference!

But I should be more clear. I'm not saying what you said isn't funny, it made me smile! I'm just trying to share that under certain circumstances, it's even truer to the original scene and thus funnier.

:-)
I don't think that's the reason - Amazon is incredibly unpopular in Seattle and anything they do there is certain to generate massive amounts of vitriol, so they wouldn't lose anything on that front by going to SF instead.
So is Snowden still a whistleblower? Honest question, not trying to be snide.

If you abscond with 1,000 legitimate mission-oriented documents for every 1 document you leak that pertains to something you think an agency shouldn't be doing, are you still blowing the whistle? At what point are you no longer able to use that title as a defense? 10,000 documents for every 1? 100,000? Can he be both a whistleblower and a criminal or are the two mutually exclusive?

I don't have answers to these questions so I hope someone else does.

Try not to downvote for simply disagreeing with the question, as though it were even possible to disagree with a question.
People seem even less willing to cross paywalls than they do to accept ads.
Couldn't care less about karma tbh.
Hum very tempting, may have to spin up a few boxes and see how it looks
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We were just joking at work today how Cloudera's new Kudu "fast storage system"[1] compares itself to "fast" HBase. At least there they were talking about random access (something that HBase is reasonably ok at), and put HDFS on the "slow" end of the spectrum when talking about storage.

This system claims:

Experiments show that WTF can qualitatively outperform the industry-standard HDFS distributed filesystem, up to a factor of four in a sorting benchmark, by reducing I/O costs

They benchmark a sort 300GB of data. You know what's fast at sorting 300GB data? My laptop.

Sort a PB[2] much faster than Spark+HDFS and then it might be worth looking at. Even 100TB[3] is an interesting size.

Maybe I'm being too harsh? What am I missing here?

[1] http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/09/kudu-new-apache-hadoop...

[2] https://databricks.com/blog/2014/10/10/spark-petabyte-sort.h... (note that this was on disk with HDFS, not Spark in memory).

[3] http://sortbenchmark.org/
Probably not but I don't see any reason why this kind of information needs to be sourced through spying rather than through a formal declaration between intelligence services. Not that that process need be transparent, just that the act of willing participation by the German administration would likely produce a more amicable friendship.
I guess I should have expected a number this high, but I didn't. 750-999 national security requests in half a year? Not warrants, but national security requests. That just seems insane to me.