skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The security features seem to be more about protecting users from themselves and other users on the same machine than remote exploits though, which may be OK for "average users" and terminal-server type environments but definitely a negative for advanced users/developers who don't want the OS thinking it knows better than them, and are probably the only user.

Remote exploits that don't require any user action (i.e. simply be connected to the network and get pwned) are the really important ones to worry about, but are thankfully very rare. Newer versions of Windows come with more network services that only add more, unknown, attack area; and they are seldom actually needed because I have no use for those features.
Your first month you spend 140 hours of pounding the virtual pavement looking for clients outside of the markets for lemons that are the freelancing sites.

This is the part many people have problems with, myself included. Any tips?
SSG is only "mildly impressive"? By what metric? Those positions put you squarely in line for mega fund private equity jobs. If thats par for your course, you must be in some pretty rarified air I guess.

The merits of those candidates is debatable, but the prestige of those positions really isn't.
This appears to basically be an analog optical computer - it inputs some 2D data using an LCD, puts it through a bunch of optical transforms, and then captures the output with a camera. This probably does have some kind of obscure use cases where it makes sense, but it's very hard to compete with modern silicon for raw compute using some kind of hybrid method - moving data in and out of the optical part is just painful compared to keeping it all digital/electrical. The main problem is that computers today aren't actually slow =)
The highest law of the land grants the President (for which these people are candidates) the power to pardon people for the breaking of other laws and face reduced or no punishment. That's evidence even enshrined in our own law that there are times that simply applying the consequences of laws can be unjust.
>I'm glad that male crying is socially acceptable because it is a healthy thing to do and should have never been a male/female differentiator.

Outside of celebrity, it's not: that's why articles like this are written about it.
my work requires that I write JavaScript. Vanilla JavaScript, not JavaScript that interacts with the DOM.

Does he means he only uses JS for scripting CSS and producing information?
Please explain to me how I don't "understand statistics." In no way was I addressing or defending the wholesale scanning or mining of data; I was simply addressing uhtred's statement.

Politics is largely the use of emotional appeal in a democracy -- you don't get elected on a stance of "well, if we understand the data."

>Third, "pedophile" or "sex offender" are terms you can get saddled with very easily in the US for a whole range of behaviors including things like giving a child a lost child a hug to comfort them (oops: now you're a pedophile) or taking a whizz in public (congrats: you're a sex offender).

Please, link me to a case in which a person giving a lost child a hug led to charges. I would earnestly like to read it because I think you're being clumsily dishonest.

>Finally, even the worst and most guilty among us deserve to have their rights protected because those are OUR rights when WE get accused of something heinous of which we are not guilty.

And now you're just using a truism as frosting to your argument. You're framing this in a "either you care about paedophiles or you don't care about OUR rights."
Absolutely no sources.
That's not quite true. They don't need expensive clinical trials like a drug developer would, but there is a regulatory process for getting FDA approval for diagnostic tests that lets companies self-regulate, as long as an FDA approved "lab manager" signs off on the internal validation process run by the company. They would only have to fall back to regular approval processes if there is no "golden standard" diagnostic test which to compare their test with.
There was only one candidate in the first Democratic debate that had the courage to say that Snowden should be brought home a hero, because the government was breaking the law, and that was Lincoln Chafee. He didn't equivocate.

And he gave one very stupid, but very honest answer to a question on Glass-Steagall. And he is being mocked for it.

Wolf Blitzer took the opportunity to kick him when he was down [1] . If you look at Lincon's Twitter feed he was so excited to be on Wolf Blitzer's show, because he thought he was going to be able to talk about his ideas.

He was naive, and that makes him a bad politician. But he had interesting ideas he wanted to talk about even if he knew he couldn't win, namely pardoning Snowden, ending drone strikes and the benefits of switching to the metric system.

The only legitimate criticism I can level against him is that he didn't assemble the proper campaign staff that would have prepared him for the debate properly.

His answer to the Glass-Steagall question was unfortunate, because we did have one candidate that could have brought attention to Snowden, and the cruelty and futility of drone strike warfare.

He hasn't tweeted since the Wolf Blitzer bullying episode. An article has been written that he has disgraced the legacy of his father. [2]

I think he deserves thanks for bringing some attention [3] to the response a democratic nation should have to heroes like Snowden.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SExMtNDS5hk

[2] http://wpri.com/2015/10/15/john-chafee-loyalists-anguished-o...

[3] https://www.thenation.com/article/lincoln-chafee-adds-a-prop...
Yes, but jury nullification will only happen once there is a trial. He must be prosecuted under the law he broke and found innocent.
> You cannot say "yeah, he broke the law, but...." because then, what is the value of law? It is possible to agree with Snowden's actions while still accepting that he broke laws.

What if the laws are wrong to begin with? Slavery and segregation were both at one point in time laws but I would never say the people who enforced them were right simply because it was a law.
> You cannot say "yeah, he broke the law, but...." because then, what is the value of law?

I can and will say that, and then I will say that the value of the laws in question is low (negative, really). You seem to be painting this as a contradiction, as if disliking one particular law implies disliking the fundamental concept of laws. There is no such contradiction.
As a parent of 3 boys, the biggest challenge today are personal electronics. Every parent I know has immense challenges setting guidelines on screen time. In this new tablet/smartphone era we are really in new and unfamiliar territory. Yes, we had our nintendos and our handhelds. Yes we had tv. No we didn't have networked devices in our pockets and incredibly addictive games like clash of clans, etc.

I don't know what it all means - I just know it's a big factor of discontent in most families I see.

Helicoptering of course has it's issues - but I think it's secondary to this new tidal wave of screen time.
> The user experience is an upgrade from my perspective, but the upgrade has been anything but painless.

Especially the spying experience is an upgrade. Thanks to the excellent relationship between the NSA and Microsoft. Nice try, Nadella, to make us believe Microsoft has changed.
What fraction of the speed of light are electrons moving at in the most advanced silicon chip we have? Trying to understand how much speed is left on the table for us to pick up in serial processing?
> Couldn't we have said the same thing about Objective-C with regard to C?

You do, in fact, have to learn enough C before you can learn Objective-C though. The smalltalk part of the language is completely bolted on top of C and you work with C APIs all the time in Cocoa development (even when you use Swift).
Regarding your last point: in my state (Michigan), the laws surrounding distribution are designed to protect incumbents.

Though we have managed to produce quite a few world-class breweries. I'm fortunate to have Founders just a short walk away from my office.
You should check out this podcast about impostor syndrome and cultural conflicts that occur when two opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum meet.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/550/t...
Robot Slams
This reminds me of mtr: http://ss64.com/bash/mtr.html
>Nobody wants to be the parent of the most mentally stable Starbucks Barista... Get them into Stanford, then they have the rest of their life to "fail"

Surely you are joking.

"Do everything for them during THE developmental phase of their life, then throw them to the wolves once your have produced a helpless little Stanford graduate" is your vision of good parenting?

The whole of life before the age of 21 is irrelevant to you because it is just a means to getting into Stanford? Have you thought about the implications of your viewpoint?

A parent's relationship with a child is determined by the place where the child works?

Words fail.
The point is the GP's highly simplistic conception of law and the judicial system does not pan out in practice. Also the "shaky path to anarchy" is such a pathetic jab that one is strongly tempted to yell astroturfer.
I grew up with parents who worked all the time and barely took part in their childrens lives. We cook dinner by ourselves a majority of the time. My 10 year old brother has to mow the lawn and do his own laundry. We get yelled at all the time like in the first column of the comics. At first I felt mad for it but now I'm realizing the benefits. I can take care of myself so well. I can cook, I keep my room clean, and I am on track to a great career that I like. Not to mention my brother and I have both solo travelled to some crazy places like Nepal, Peru, Norway.

My 21 year old friend has had his parents take a big part in his life. He has upper middle class parents who watch his every move, sign him up for SAT tutors, force him to take piano lessons. Has no clue how to cook, found freshman year comp sci too hard and switched to communications and now philosophy major, has not really gotten good at anything in life. If I majored in Philosophy my parents would probably yell at me and not help with tuition. Probably will depend on his dad's connections to get an office job.

On one hand having a nice, loving parent would be nice. I am not as socially capable as some of my other friends who had loving parents. I am not as loving or caring as them. On the other hand, my parents' harshness and indifference helped me get used to the grittiness of real life and I'm glad for it.
This is such bullshit. Smart, motivated kids will excel no matter where they are, and there's almost* nothing a Tier 1 state school won't be able to provide that will make a substantive difference in their career. Even Tier 2 public schools will be a-ok, and a lot of those kids will receive large scholarships at tier 2 privates... and they'll end up just fine, also. I think I'd separate your statement into two parts: 1) if you can't get into a decent school, consider trades. 2) god forbid anyone pay list price for a private college education. You & I apparently just disagree on the definition of "decent".

* In all honesty, the only thing I can think of OTOH is if you want to go directly from undergrad into investment banking or elite law, where the vast majority of new hires still come from Ivy League (plus a few others: Duke, Georgetown, Stanford, ...) pipelines.
This is a great comment, and succinctly states a point I've been trying to make for a long time. You either have to work for a living or you don't.

The term "middle class" simply means you're N+M paychecks away from ruin rather than N paychecks away from ruin. When we say the middle class is disappearing, what we really mean is the percentage of working class people with a savings cushion is disappearing.
>The exchange began with host Anderson Cooper asking Lincoln Chafee, a former governor of Rhode Island, “Governor Chafee: Edward Snowden, is he a traitor or a hero?”

The answer really should be "both." Snowden supporters readily tout his commendable whistle-blowing of unlawful domestic intelligence gathering while at the same time ignoring, denying, or outright excusing stuff like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-ch...

Snowden fled first to China and then afterwards to Russia with as much as a terabyte of classified information, at least some of which--specifically information concerning intelligence operations the NSA conducted against Huawei--we know for a fact he shared with them.

Even William Binney, another NSA whistle-blower (who, by contrast, did not seek asylum in two separate major geopolitical adversaries of the US), criticized Snowden's subsequent leaks:

>But now he is starting to talk about things like the government hacking into China and all this kind of thing. He is going a little bit too far. I don't think he had access to that program. But somebody talked to him about it, and so he said, from what I have read, anyway, he said that somebody, a reliable source, told him that the U.S. government is hacking into all these countries. But that's not a public service, and now he is going a little beyond public service.

>So he is transitioning from whistle-blower to a traitor.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...

While Binney has since referred to Snowden as a "patriot," he has yet to publicly disavow his past criticisms of Snowden:

http://www.businessinsider.com/william-binney-and-edward-sno...
The linked map is not very detailed. This one lets you zoom in:

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.310701,-121.9917256,8z/data=...

Significant portions of the Oregon coast look like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Heceta_H...

The Willamette Valley is a plain, but no one would consider it coastal.
As a follow up - I like Lessig a lot and agree with most of his ideas. The tragic thing is that politics isn't really idea driven at scale, it's more controversy and 'alpha monkey' driven. Lessig comes off as a quiet and reasonable academic - he needs somebody as his front man that can be more forceful that the media will give more attention to (though I do think his presentations are really good).
They're really doubling down on the whole "the way to be a man is to act like a stereotype of an effete new york times reporter" shtick.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/fashion/mens-style/27-ways...
While I'm not a big fan of big-beer and somewhat a fan of micro-brews, I think you are absolutely right. This is not a bad strategy.
Might be worth reading up to understand how much the speed Electrons can move at matters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity

TL;DR: "The speed at which energy or signals travel down a cable is actually the speed of the electromagnetic wave, not the movement of electrons. Electromagnetic wave propagation is fast and depends on the dielectric constant of the material. In a vacuum the wave travels at the speed of light and almost that fast in air."
The majors can't stop what's happening, short of a new prohibition to kill all the independents like they did last time.
Information we move around using electrons moves much faster than any single electron - because electrostatic field changes move at speed of light obviously, so the electrons at the end of wire start moving as soon as the electrostatic field change gets to it.

You don't have to wait with processing for the electron from the beggining of the wire to get to the end?

So, the difference between photons and electrons speed as measured by the time it takes electronic and optical signal to move through the same distance - is insignificant.
I am so grateful to my parents for putting so much trust in me while I was seemingly going out of control during my teenage years.

Seriously, it took me years but I now realize how much self-control and discipline it took them to stick to their philosophy and let me explore things on my own.

I come from a very middle class background, but I had the chance to experience a lot of things. Some I regret, some I don't. But the important is that I know how it feels, and I know what I don't to be. That's also the very way I found my calling in Computer science, and what drives in life.

They have trust me, when empirical evidence was screaming them not to. That's, I believe, the most beautiful proof of love they have ever gave me.

When my turns come, I hope I will be as good as a parent, as they were to me.
As always, there is a tradeoff. Like the gp mentioned, type systems allow you elliminate much unit test code that would otherwise be required.

Personally, I do love me a type system. Even if you have to think harder about how to architect your code, I think this kind of thinking is required for software to be good.
How a startup that makes fake meat caught the attention of Bill Gates
You're replying to someone who replied to statements that I didn't make and hoped to argue using both using emotional appeals ("our rights as people) and against emotional appeals -- "those statistics I read on wikipedia 'win the conversation' because I brought them up first (even though they're not related to your point), which means it follows that I can state my opinions as fact."
Better to be a Harvard dropout (Zuckerberg) than have a CS degree from Humboldt State.
"Lythcott-Haims argues in her book “How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success.”"

Here are some similar articles in suitably similar publications:

http://time.com/3910020/the-over-parenting-trap-how-to-avoid...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-lythcotthaims/helicopter...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/books/review/how-to-raise-...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-how-to...

It reads like PR, focusing on one author and their opinion (expressed in a recently released book) rather than a spectrum of writers / researchers. This is unfortunate given the historical references to 'helicopter parenting' and other writing that has covered the issue.

I'm not saying it wasn't an informative and interesting read, on the contrary, it was. I was merely pointing out the PR nature of the article.
The point is that bold, italics, underline are all a property of the style, but not intent. The intent is "emphasis". How emphasis is rendered is dependent on the stylesheet.
Windows 7/8/8.1 Enterprise don't have the upgrade option. I installed Win8 Enterprise over a year ago, it's never mentioned an upgrade.
Can confirm. Had a paper rejected by Nature with the suggestion to send it to Scientific Reports instead. Scientific Reports accepted it.
I'm not sure what your implication is with the linked article about Huawei.
Paedophiles only enter popular conversation in response to one doing something unredeemable (acting on their urges). Of course I'd people to get treatment before someone is hurt.
You seem confused about cause and effect. The GOP started their policy of total obstructionism (no votes for any Democratic policies, period, regardless of merit) in December 2008, immediately after the elections. There were caucus meetings where this plan was laid out by leadership and agreed to by all members.

I don't think you can blame the passage of the ACA in 2009 for an obstruction policy begun in 2008. Time only flows in one direction, as far as I know.

If you were less ignorant about the subject, you would probably realize that the ACA passage without much Republican support was the result of Republican obstruction policies, not the cause of them.
I read this paragraph

> "I think Snowden played a very important role in educating the American public ... he did break the law, and I think there should be a penalty to that," Sanders said. He went on to say that the role Snowden played in educating the public about violations of their civil liberties should be considered before he is sentenced, and that as president he would "absolutely" end the NSA spying programs in question.

and I would have disagreed with the analysis

> To read between the lines: Bernie thinks Edward Snowden did the right thing, but hey, laws are laws. If elected, though, it sounds like he'll make sure Snowden gets a really nice jail cell.

and said something along the lines of "the political system pardoned President Nixon without even going through the trouble of actually charging him with a crime. If a man like Nixon deserves pardon, I'd say Snowden does as well." But I am not Bernie Sanders and I can't put words in his mouth. He urged Snowden to come home and face trial. This may be a comforting thing for the people at home who watch the 8 PM news but this is not the right thing to do. Not in a nation that pardons people before they are convicted of a crime. No, I don't mean we should dig up Nixon's grave and hang, quarter, and draw his body (I wouldn't oppose doing so to Margaret Thatcher as the UK a historical precedence of such actions but that is off-topic). I don't even want to charge Nixon. All I am saying is there is a way to grant Edward Snowden the same amnesty and immunity that we gave President Nixon. Not because what the the two did were similar but I bring it up just as a demonstration of the things we have forgiven and forgotten as a nation.

Edward Snowden did is a huge public service and he deserves our thanks for it. I am not the person above but this is why I am a little disappointed. I am a little concerned about Bernie Sanders saying as president he would "absolutely" end the NSA spying programs in question. Does the POTUS have access to everything that goes on in the NSA? Can't the programs continue/reboot under a different pretense? Worst case, if a president can put the program to sleep, what is to stop the next president to reanimate it?
It's not that easy to define because were talking about semi-conductors after all;)

They don't move at a constant speed like say in a conductor (which isn't the case either because electric field causes resistance e.g. eddy currents, but lets say a super-conductor)

You have quite a few concepts with semiconductors primarily saturation velocity (which in most cases is the peak velocity, but not necessarily attained in actual operation) which is also affected by the drift velocity due to any electric fields in your components.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_velocity

Light speed in vacuum is 29979245800 cm/s
Saturation velocity in Si based SC is 10000000 cm/s

So there's quite a bit of difference there ;)
Common sense violation in airline pricing
Some risks to this plan, based on my own (admittedly anecdotal) experience moving in hipster circles.

#1. Create your own quasi-craft brands.

Definitely the worst. I actually don't mind getting an 8-pack of Coors from time to time for parties but I will not touch Blue Moon or Shock Top now because it always sparks off that awful "You know this is fake craft beer right?" conversation.

#2. Snatch up craft brews that’ll sell out.

Not bad, especially if you can keep them mostly the same and avoid plastering your name anywhere on the bottle. Runs the same risks as #1 otherwise.

#3. Defend macro brews, bash craft snobs.
Mostly neutral or high risk. First of all people who are into craft beer don't give a shit about Anheuser-Busch ads during the super bowl. Secondly craft beer has nothing to do with pumpkins.

#4. Control distribution.

This could actually work in the short term, but has high risk of antitrust action.

#5. Merge and overwhelm the marketplace.

I don't know enough about the market to say whether this would work – but I suspect they will blow a lot of money on advertising and not attract enough people.

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I would like to suggest #6 to these companies:

#6. Draw consumers into your beer

Make a documentary about how it is made. Say the stuff that goes into it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser#The_beer). A Bud Light can be pretty refreshing during summer. Basically try and do something akin to what PBR did (http://worksdesigngroup.com/pbr-brand-repositioning/).