skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, it depends on what type of testing and what technologies you are using. For performance testing and other testing that requires large data sets, I prefer to have a "golden" copy of a database that is simply restored to the testing environment as needed. For smaller integration tests the database is usually seeded dynamically, I've seen it done through fixtures/bootstrapping (Django, Grails, and other frameworks support this) or through SDK calls in custom code (using your own code base to populate the database).

Are you also trying to seed your production environment?
Is this mainly written in Groovy? I tried to look at the github repo source but only saw a bunch of install shell scripts.
Breivik was most certainly part of a movement. They have web forums and everything.
Here's a video presentation from I/O that has more background on the doodle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttavBa4giPc&hd=1
This is a silly viewpoint. I say this not out of some white-guilt self flagellation, but because if we hold these silly Star Wars level beliefs about Islamic extremism, we will not be able to effectively fight them.

Young people join ISIS not because they are "evil" (what, are they Darth Vader?). They join because ISIS makes a compelling case that the world would be a better place if it was rid of western domination. I'm not saying we should try to prove them wrong by being really nice or something, I think it's too late for that, but it helps to understand this.

ISIS gives them a clear path to rectify the situation. Terrorism is pathetic militarily, killing 100 civilians is no accomplishment. However it is brilliant strategically.

Terrorist attacks cause the western world to completely fly off the handle and give the terrorists everything they could ever ask for. So far, we've gifted them 3 countries (there's no way they could have ever invaded by themselves, but we did it for them). We've also gifted them with a huge number of weapons, which were originally intended for such entities as "the free Syrian army" and "democratic Iraq".

All of this is made possible by the cowardice of western morons whose entire education on geopolitics comes from Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Please stop helping the terrorists.
That's fair, I think I see where you are coming from now. I do think, however, that we have to be careful not to remove personal responsibility from the equation. Circumstances can certainly motivate behaviour but we are still responsible for our actions. Suggesting otherwise seems compassionate on the surface, but it can also be incredibly disempowering and corrosive.
> but even then you have to look at who the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are watching to understand that Christian extremists are individual actors who target specifics like abortion providers.

No, they aren't. Christian extremists include organized extremist groups, including those that have been behind or sheltered abortion clinic attacks (e.g., Army of God), and also much of the militia movement (large segments of which are Christian extremist groups with apocalyptic views.) Sure, there are apparently lone wolf attackers (just as there are among Islamic terrorists), but they generally turn out to have both pre-attack affiliation and post-attack shelter from organized extremist groups (just as is true among Islamic "lone wolf" terrorists, though fewer of them have the opportunity for post-attack shelter.)

And there have been a number of investigations and arrests connected with these groups and specifically addressing them as organized, active, violent extremist groups. However, unlike international Islamic groups, they don't get reported in the media, in part due to media bias, but in part due to the fact that the FBI (and DoJ more generally) don't put out press releases for the arrests the way they do with Islamic terror investigations and arrests, and on the occasions when they do, they don't highlight the organizational links in the cases.)

This may, for the government at least, be part of a deliberate strategy to avoid aiding the growth of homegrown domestic terror groups by avoiding giving the specific groups visibility, but it has the added effect of misleading the general public about the nature of the sources of organized violent extremism threatening the United States.
A todo list that helps me figure out WTF to do, maybe by generating checklists from a corpus of facts, sources trusted via web of trust, social collaboration, etc.

I'd input "trip to Thailand" and the service would break that down into:

1 check your vaccines

1.1 hepatitis A most important

1.2 try local clinic X, click here to dial

2 check your insurance

2.1 click here if you have home insurance

2.2 click here to purchase trip-specific travel insurance

3 decide dates

3.1 week? two weeks? month? click to specify

3.2 pick a flight, click to browse curated list

And so on. (These should probably be in reverse order but I'm too lazy to change the numbers.)
I have one. I used LastPass browser extension for Chrome which autofills my (unique) login credentials. This is incredibly convenient, but obviously opens up the possibility that if someone sits down at my unlocked computer, they can visit any site I have an account on and login as me.

Having 2FA within the Google Auth app on my phone prevents this from happening, effectively turning my password into a rotating 6 digit key instead of 32 character nonsense.
I think it's important to remember that a lot of muslims are just as "ignorant" of their own text, as many Christians and Jews are. For example, music is strictly forbidden in Islam, except for the beat of a drum.

Modern Christians and Jews often fall back on the excuse of interpreting their books as metaphors as opposed to the literal word of god. It's a great cop out.

Islam isn't compatible with an open society, but neither is Christianity or Judaism(see part on homosexuality, yeah that's still in there). All religions are bullshit. Can we just end em all?
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That's only true if you routinely log into those services. If they pop your Mac, they get all your 1Password passwords. I like 1Password, and this isn't a flaw in 1Pw, it's just the limitations of relying on your computer for secret storage.
Blaming culture is easy, because it lets you ignore history. Islam was once the height of civilization, but it fell apart because the Mongol empire was within range.
It does, it looks random (hight entropy).

Yes, measured data and unmarked compressed data have this same property, as do actual random data. But is does not look like 9 nines of false positive rate are a concern to those people.
Also, who puts it above the flame? By the coals is where you want to be.
120 years ago, people thought that experimental results on wave propagation in continuous media could be used to make statements about wave propagation in electrodynamics. That's how we ended up with ether theories, which were eventually falsified with interferometric experiments.

To my mind, we should take this as a lesson that the notion of analogue systems (e.g., using results from fluid dynamics to make statements about gravitation) is bogus. The ether episode seems to indicate that if we want to make statements about gravitational Hawking radiation, we need to do tests on a system where the gravitational dynamics are important (e.g., a black hole), not an unrelated system that just happens to be governed by an identical set of equations in some regime.

Another example of people incorrectly conflating properties of an analogue system with the real system of interest is the Nature monopole paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7485/full/nature1...
The actual result contained in the paper is that you can make a BEC whose vorticity field has regions of nonzero divergence. It is mathematically similar to (but fundamentally unrelated to) actual magnetic monopoles. Nonetheless, the paper contains the phrase "Dirac monopoles" in the title and then spends half the abstract talking about actual magnetic monopoles, as if the result is somehow relevant to actual magnetic monopole searches (which it isn't).
Well, we know from the Snowden disclosures that the NSA gets about $50 BILLION a year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black...). Neither CIA/NRO nor FBI are included in that, I think, and we know that both run extensive/expensive surveillance.

So, the USA may spend around $100 BILLION a year on various surveillance activities. Spy satellites are pretty expensive to develop, launch and operate.

It's also pretty clear that some of the surveillance is turned inward, against US citizens inside the USA's boundaries. That would be the FBI part of the surveillance picture.

Given that US citizens are supposed to be presumed innocent, and protected from unreasonable search and seizure, we have a binary decision to make, and I don't see how anyone can say that dragnet surveillance of all/nearly all US citizens lies within Constitutional limits. At the very least, we should change the rules, and make performances of Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American" some kind of mild federal crime. You know, just to be honest and consistent.

On a sociological level, we know that being under surveillance all the time causes some psychological effects (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2412564, but it's easy to find lots of serious stuff about those effects). Do we, the citizens of the USA, want those effects? If we all go about censoring ourselves, how does that affect the technological and social innovation that we depend on to keep our civilization running? Keep in mind the fate of the Spanish Empire after the Inquisition, and China's "one eye open, one eye shut" enforcement.

Let's also keep in mind that surveillance will be used against politicians and potential politicians, and leaders at all scales. Do the citizens of the USA want that?

Do we want the market distortions that secret knowledge gives some people (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...)?

We haven't discussed any of this openly. Hardly any of it has an easy cost to calculate, but it's probably not worth $100 BILLION a year.
Wouldn't it be better to have your "infinity key" not reveal the secret data, using a smartcard or similar technology? That way if the computer that it's connected to is untrusted, no further damage could be done after removing the card. That + TLS client certificates stored on this card seem like it might not be the worst user experience, while still remaining reasonably secure. From my brief Googling it looks like the US military uses something like this.
This link implies that the NYT is backtracking about a piece apparently "blaming encryption." The NYT article referenced did not at all focus on encryption, and it didn't go so far as to definitively blame encryption.

The only paragraph discussing encryption is buried in the middle of the article.
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The attackers are believed to have communicated using encryption technology, according to European officials
"""

The lede did not mention encryption at all: "The attackers in Friday’s terrorist assault in Paris communicated at some point beforehand with known members of the Islamic State in Syria, officials on both sides of the Atlantic say."

https://web.archive.org/web/20151115191248/http:/www.nytimes...
It's not a straw-men. It's not of the problems with the rationale.

Terrorisms won't use legally-mandated software for they illegal operations.
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Requiring registration to view even a limited number of articles is a great way to get me to never read your articles.
Thanks for this! We will update the graph.

The graph is open source, btw, if you understand .ai (I don't): https://github.com/sameroom/history-of-chat
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This is nice, but isn't SIP/Simple missing from there?

Isn't Lync based on SIP?
No terrorist attacks either.
China nearly triples number of supercomputers
I agree with your take on social with Rdio & Spotify. Rdio was the strongest in this category.
Still, Rdio could have done more to emphasis finding your music "friend" - someone who has the similar preferences. It was the differentiator.
You don't have to use your own phone number. I use a Google Voice number for similar purposes. It also works online so I don't need to worry when my phone is out of battery.
How do you respond to openly barbaric group that wants to commit genocide against you in a civilized fashion?

You can try to negotiate and they will kill your ambassadors.
You can try to ignore them and they will slaughter your innocent civilians.
You can try to attack them and they will hide amongst their civilians.

What do you do.

When they openly tell you they want to nuke you out of existence, it is a matter of survival for not just you but for your civilization what do you do?

You have a button to kill the threat now or you can wait for them to get the button to kill you and you know they will have no hesitation to press it.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fD4utpl...
Well if you ditch the color chart and add a burning New Testament and Chumash, I don't see the problem.
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I was going to say much of the same, but I won't echo you.

I just recently watched this really interesting video from London Code Mesh 2015 on the Apollo Guidance Computer where the radar antenna-generated interrupts were discussed (among other interesting bugs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY45YE7ggng
ISIS kidnapped 4 French journalists long before any foreign intervention by the French authorities in Iraq or Syria but were freed after 10 months held in captivity reinforcing my argument that them who started it not the other way around [0]

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/kidnapped-frenc...
Ugggh. That's as bad (worse) as when 'literally' was redefined to mean 'figuratively'
It was sarcasm. Encryption was used in all the listed attacks.
> it makes it sound like these actions could be expected from anyone at anytime

They can. A neurotypical person's brain could spontaneously generate a violent psychotic episode due to a stroke or adrenergic tumor or somesuch. Just like any area of the sky could spontaneously throw a lightning strike at you at any time. It's low probability, certainly, but murder is a low-probability event to begin with.

The important point is that a model with "non-deterministic" people in it has more predictive power, epidemiologically, than a model where it's impossible to become a murderer without "warning signs." It's not at all "writing human behavior off"; the fact that the model includes randomness can actually help you prevent murders more effectively, by leading you toward strategies to cope with unpredictable murders—e.g. building education toward methods of "de-escalation" for psychotic episodes, crimes of passion, etc. into your society—rather than simply trying to reinforce policing and social work.
Google has a very good onboarding process (I worked there as a contractor in 2013). They have classes where instructors teach you how to use the infrastucture and codelabs that you can do at home or at work to learn more specialized things.

So, I think that they open sourced TensorFlow more as an advertisement/inducement to hire more ML people.
Sorry, won't register just to view the article. I also really enjoy how the full site link takes you to a full site of ads and clickbait with zero content.
I'm happy to see that Uber is not releasing dropoff data. It's not terribly difficult to de-anonymize someone in a dump like this.
Thanks for both starting this thread here on hn, and this extra link. Its interesting to see how this functions as a field of study within academia, and its been ages since i last looked at what happens there.
Which is more likely:

1) Brighthouse has a problem with cards that decline a $100 charge, but won't decline two $50 charges.

2) Brighthouse has a problem with customers that have a $100 bill but less than $100 available on their credit/debit card.

I think the answer is the second. There's no reason for the first to occur. If a bank's fraud filter mistakenly identified a regular monthly bill as suspicious and blocked the charge, it'd probably block the followup charges from the same company too.

Then, the goal would be to collect as much of the owed money as is available on the card, not to split a payment into chunks. If the 100% charge wasn't declined, they wouldn't have attempted the 50% charge. If the 50% charge wasn't declined, they wouldn't have attempted the 40% charge. There's no possibility for multiple charges going through and creating extra overdraft fees if they do it that way.

That said, I've never seen this practice before.
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GitHub project: https://github.com/spinnaker/spinnaker
I've a HP-41C, but the screen is a bit busted. I know it's a different format, but I wonder if they're similar? Do these feel like the old ones? The keys had a really nice feel to them.
In a nutshell, yes. I think there is some variance in what precisely they do, but that's the essence.

If you don't like the postprocessing the TV does, which I often don't, "game" mode is often a good solution.
Big difference for Christianity at least is that the New Testament/Jesus came along and basically said be good to one another and love your enemies, sinners, etc. Doesn't mean people don't do terrible stuff in Christianity's name, but pointing to "The Bible" as same as Quran is not really accurate, as there's no moderating "New Testament Quran" yet.
I disagree. Let me go point-by-point.

> A friendship maintained solely because of an entry in a database is not the same as one driven by the memories of the participants.

First of all, Facebook isn't about having friendships "maintained solely because of an entry in a database". There are other social networks for that (e.g. Twitter, Instagram, etc.). Facebook is designed to mirror your real-life social network (and the company itself actively pushes against deviating too much from that use). It's a tool that helps you maintain existing frienships, keep weak ties and incubate them if needed so that they may grow to real friendships. But the difference between "weak ties" and "actual friends" is very much dependent on your off-line activity.

> You are not extending your ability to make friends.

That's why I corrected myself to shift the focus on keeping friendships. Because that's what Facebook really is - a self-updating address book that lets you pull regular updates on what people you know are doing. It doesn't really help you make friends out of strangers. But it helps tremendously in keeping ties to people you know.

> You are engaging in something fundamentally different from friendship.

True, but I'd say it's something more. It's an enhancement, an additional aspect. At least that's how it works for my (real-life) friends and me.

> Look at the effects--- facebook depresses people, but meeting real people in real life makes us happy.

This I strongly disagree with, because for me it's the other way around! I'm an introvert[0], I find too much face-to-face interaction depressing and even irritating. But I do get a lot of fun from talking with people on-line, especially in an async mode. So e-mail, Facebook and Hacker News are a big win for me.

> You will say you need facebook to know where the next party is and meet those people, but that's like saying you need to smoke to meet people at bars.

It's all context-dependent. People who use Facebook to communicate will organize parties by starting events on Facebook. People who use other means of communication will utilize those to organize the same parties. When you see someone saying that they need Facebook to be aware of social gatherings, it only means that they and their friends are all prefering Facebook as a tool for coordinating those gatherings. It's a lock-in effect, true, but it doesn't mean its bad.

> Friendship isn't a token. It's a continued process of communication and exchange.

Indeed. And Facebook is an awesome communication and exchange tool that works perfectly for a great subset of population.

[0] - people don't believe me because I like to give public talks and have pretty well-developed social skills, but that only means they don't understand what being an introvert means; I love people, but in small doses, with enough time off to recharge. See [1] for explanation.

[1] - http://imgur.com/gallery/sZmXr1J
Yeah, it's still not the rape, enslavement, and murder of everyone who believes differently.

Threatening to close your border to incoming foreigners is nothing like like closing your border, enslaving locals trying to flee you, and murdering them systematically.

And there's a difference between a leader being elected once on a wave of fear and the leader declaring themselves god's representative on earth - let the slaughter begin.
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What new standards would be required? All modern browsers that I'm aware of support TLS client certificates, there's even an HTML5 <keygen> element that causes the browser to generate a CSR and send it to the server for signing.
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How humans evolved supersize brains
I don't see the point to inserting a philosophical debate about good and evil here. What nuance are you trying to keep?
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i hope he has security
That's more like a train conductor sim (along the lines of Densha de Go! on PSP). I just ran across a puzzle game along the lines of the submission on gog the other day: http://www.gog.com/news/release_mini_metro
This is basically the goal, right? When Tesla opened their patents and spun-off their battery division[1] that was the big takeaway - to see more of this sort of thing. The interesting thing about this case is that there seems to be at least some cooperation with the German utility companies, which is a huge boon. If they don't get a piece of the pie, it can be hard for individuals or small communities to go up against them.

1: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/tesla-energys-goal-ch...
They were not using encrypted channels for their operational control. The security forces had no trouble listening in on the calls and text messages being sent between the attackers and their command and control infrastructure.

The issue the security forces _did_ have was in identifying where the calls were originating. The actual content was not encrypted though.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

"Defense Intelligence	$80.1 billion[12]	3.3%	Because of classified nature, budget is an estimate and may not be the actual figure"

Something makes me doubt another $20B into the intelligence budget would have changed the outcome for the better.

More sauce:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/1...

https://en.zamanalwsl.net/readNews.php?id=5696 (translated)

http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/u-s-backed-syrian-group-joins-isl...

> This smacks of conspiracy claptrap that adds nothing of substance to the discussion.

Well, did you have anything to discuss, or just wanted sauce? Because I am not sure "src pls!" replies add much to the discussion.
Except the two groups are starkly different in every way but irredentist and domineering ideology that the analogy is useless.