skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a UMCP student, this isn't surprising.
The NSA even takes out interest ads in our newspaper. However, Vice seems to be mixing statistics for UMUC (a commuter campus with a big online program) with UMCP (the state flagship school). Same state system, very different schools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
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1) The problem with that is trusting the code you download to actually encrypt the data. If it could be linked with the file upload button or some such functionality solely reliant on the browser to get right, it could work.

2) You mean something like keygen[1]? (yes, I know it was removed from the standard.)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ke... (
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> I too find acts of violence upsetting, but it's dangerous to buy into the propaganda around the word terrorism, since it's used to justify abandoning diplomacy and dehumanizing the enemy.

And it's used to curb the rights of your own citizens.
My first internship, while I was still in college, was with just this type of company. We did e-Learning materials; our products were basically self-contained websites, with video content and scripted subtitled text, distributed on CDs. This was 2002 or so, so it was super bleeding edge then.

It was a great company to work for. The product was really interesting. I got to learn so many random things - how tires are made, the warning signs of traumatic brain injuries, how the propellant for the Space Shuttle's SRBs was mixed, etc.

But the best part was the family atmosphere of the company. The owner was a business professor full time and this was his side project. We were always small - just a few interns, a few part-time people (mostly students) and just a couple full-time employees. Him and his wife always took an interest in everyone that worked for them. Getting a home-cooked meal and a night of poker once a week was a nice perk for a poor college student.

After my internship, I was hired on part-time, then full-time after I graduated until I left for a different opportunity. But to this day they're still one of the favorite companies I've ever worked for. It was such a positive experience for me and has caused me to continue to seek out companies with that type of atmosphere.
Two things come to mind: gnats uses wildcard topics, very useful to create filtered subscriptions. And gnats is pretty good at dealing with backpressure; the stated aim of Mist is to silently drop messages if clients can't keep up.

I would also say that gnats is mature and has been proven in production for several years, which might not be the case with this project.
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People tend to be over concerned of risks that they feel that they have no control over. This is why the very real risk of driving a car is considered acceptable, but the much lower risk from something like a random pesticide in food is seen as much worse than the risk warrants.

Someone like your wife (or husband) needs a way to feel like they are in control. This is hard to do with terrorism hence why it is effective is causing terror despite the absolute risks.
These generalizations are not helpful actually. If you walk a deserted road every day it would not matter how many miles you walk every day, you should only get 0 micromort, which is not the same as walking just right next to a highway.

Context is everything.
"Where are you seeing discomfort in this thread?"

In every one of your responses, for starters. ;-)

"Others may try to replicate this and start their own cargo cult, which has applied its own secret definition of those words, in order to work the magic sauce."

As I mentioned I would like for more investors to try to behave like YC, even if they're unsuccessful in the attempt.

And, there are already many investors cargo culting the YC process. I don't think that's a bad thing; they aren't as successful (I guess TechStars is the nearest analog so far), but they're trying to replicate the winning formula. They may fail in a variety of interesting ways, because it is cargo culting in many cases, but by trying to do things more like YC they're likely making the world a little better for early stage founders.

"What is so hard about the concept/metric being applied here that it can't be put into words?"

Again, I would guess pg doesn't understand it, and so can't quantify it, but trusts that Jessica's correct more often than not. It doesn't seem like pg was even trying to show everyone how to do what Jessica does, just to clarify that she does many things within YC and that she has often been forgotten in the telling of the YC story; explaining that does not require him to explain how it works.
Actually, Intel's BLAS (in MKL) is probably an even better product. [On Intel hardware] MKL makes an enormous, borderline hard-to-believe magic level improvement even over the other tuned BLAS libraries like ATLAS.

Gfortran is OK and ifort isn't insurmountably more advanced, but Intel definitely has the mindshare in the HPC market locked down and they do a lot to promote their technologies in that community. That is what really gives them the vice grip on the market. IBM is really the only other company with the same cachet in that market.
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Forgive my ignorance in cryptography. If a series of pseudorandom numbers can be trivially replicated by figuring out the counter and hash algorithm (seems simple with open source software), how can the psuedorandom numbers be said to be of high quality?
Well, in the case of Rdio vs Spotify, Rdio is way better, UI-wise.

But that has nothing to do with our 15-y-o — she grew up with Rdio and it's the only streaming music service she's ever known.
Die hard audio people using the desktop application surely must have been turned off by the fact that the desktop application could not even do gapless playback, even after years of subscribers begging for it over their forums.

In my experience the Android application, while able to do gapless, was not able to consistently _stay logged in and play music_. Or feed back track identity through bluetooth devices to cars and the Pebble.

The only "improvements" made to either the desktop or the mobile application seemed to be about making it harder to see or filter which songs you had added to your Favourites.

I wanted it to work out, but it became so frustrating that I gave up a bit under a year ago and went back to Spotify.
> Not anyone can grow it to a userbase of hundreds of millions of users.

Yep.

> Scaling wasn't an issue; once you have investment and users, you just throw money at the problem.

Yeah not really. The CAP theorem is going to bite you if you just buy more servers. Twitter suffered huge growing pains as it tried to scale after becoming mainstream--remember the "fail whale?" Facebook completely re-engineered PHP to address performance and scale issues.
YouTube shouldn't autoplay videos. I especially hate it when you click on a channel profile to check out what they're about and some promo video starts up at max volume (my computer happens to be sensitive to sound differences, too). At any rate, YouTube should only play a video when the user presses the play button.
The diary itself will be out of copyright, the book "The Diary of Anne Frank" - an edited version of the diary (by excision and addition of preface only, it seems) - will still be in part copyright protected.

Except possibly in some regions - I think France has an ongoing right to be named as author/creator of your own works - once copyright expires then you could plagiarise the work without committing a legal wrong; though it would be morally reprehensible IMO.
Even more so, an the relative difference of |70% - 50%| / |%50| = 40% is gigantic. A very misleading statement.
It would take a horribly misogynistic person to think that's the message of PG's post or what happened.

The message I'd take out of it: a woman is one of the most influential and successful people in tech. And she does it all behind the scenes while being kind and compassionate.
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You're welcome! Let me know if you need any help with the setup.

We're likely to build something that works with S4B (Lync) soon. Working on a Jabber bridge now, which is similar, deployment-wise.
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Even on HN, where we never tire of self-praise, I think the article is more helpful to the average reader than the paper itself. What percentage of us are in a position to critically examine the experimental methods? I don't know, but my naive assumption is that a conversational presentation of the publication and its consequences is more welcome than the publication itself. Regardless, the primary source is one hyperlink and university subscription away for all who care to read it.

Of course it's absurd, that was my point. And obviously I disagree that Stanford has nothing of value to say about its researchers' work: I think they've managed well in this case.
Oh hogwash.

Bombing innocent people simply isn't right and isn't effective. If you're honestly sympathizing with these people or justifying their actions (which you seem one skip and jump from doing), you should at least want them to do things that are effective at getting the change they want.

Then again, maybe their entire motive is to bring global sharia law and secure their place in heaven by killing as many innocent infidels as possible. As far as I know, ISIS has made no claims that were less extreme than this. I have no problem dehumanizing someone with that sort of motivation. It's barbaric; it's monstrous. They have made no attempt at diplomacy, and there is no chance.
Mandatory conscription was developed by revolutionary France, and after being smashed by the French, the Prussians (whose military was arguably the highest quality in Europe) adapted the system into the form generally known today (every adult male has to provide N (usually 1-3) years of mandatory military service). The US never had anything like this system: there was mandatory conscription during the civil war, and the draft (a lottery-based system rather than universally compulsory) was enacted in peacetime in 1940.
>That's the point to PyPy. You get fast speed of development and fast CPU performance. Best of every world. That's why we use it and not CPython. It's already bigger than you think.

What you use it for, where you need the speed and don't have a C based module to rely on? I don't mind having a bit more speed for 'free', but every time I tried, pypy hasn't been hassle free due to some module compatibility, and yet pure python code has never been a bottle neck. I have been using Python for +10 years.

Anyway, the above question is for curiosity sake, it doesn't change the point that CPython is where new language features are added. If Guido adopts pypy tomorrow, I would be happy, but otherwise, it will always try to catch up, so I don't see how it can be the future.
it is a common misunderstanding that Terrorism's goal is to generate Terror.

The common misunderstanding has allowed it to become a self-fulfilling prophesy in a way - the social media campaign from ISIS and orbiting groups has focused on using scare-campaigns to amplify the power of smaller offensives by vowing copy-cat attacks. They've observed the social and operational inefficiencies that come from being fearful and trying to preempt future attacks. If it was a misconception before, it's reality now.
My pleasure. I find many of the works most worth reading are in the public domain.
Politics aside, if targeting and killing civilians indiscriminately is not terrorism, I don't know what is.

ETA: I'm talking about the Paris attacks specifically, not giving a formal definition of terrorism. If you don't count those as terrorism, I don't know what you would count. This semantic mumbo jumbo is ridiculous.
So, Jessica is the Socrates for YC, and YC is the Socrates for YC start-ups.

Successful founders are usually doers that often make bold adventures and can execute plans efficiently and ruthlessly, but they need consultant guidance from a wise person. I guess this is the YC's success formula?
I think they are helpful. Sure, they are not especially detailed or accurate, but the point of the 'micromort' is to give some broader context to the scale of the risk to aid in understanding. Much like the "banana" is a radiation unit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

The Micromort is not a very precise or accurate unit, but it does a reasonable job of communicating the broad 'order of magnitude' context. The disproportionate emotional response undermining rational thinking is directly countered by this frame of reference, which in turn addresses the disproportionate impacts of terrorism.
Terrorism is psychological warfare aimed at a civilian population. It could be an expression of frustration; an act by one who doesn't care, or cares exclusively and consumingly. And it is horrific, disgusting, and morally reprehensible.

The word is not merely propaganda, it is a word whose extremity exactly conveys the revulsion and moral judgement of the speaker. As with any label, you run the risk of superficiality and preoccupation with simplified narratives, but "terrorism" is NOT just propaganda, and it deliberately conveys more than "acts of violence". (A clinical term with its own problems of distancing audiences from the immediate reality.)

I wrote this because your last sentence seemed to imply something that I've noticed crop up in these kinds of discussions: the (typically Western) assumption that there is legitimacy to both sides of any conflict, and that, recognizing this, a diplomatic solution can be achieved. I've yet to see concrete evidence that this is the case. Short of deprogramming, how do you reason with a group of people brainwashed to be fundamentally unreasonable?
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Interesting to see this resurface after it died yesterday. Dang working his magic again.

What I find most frustrating about this story is that the panelist recognises that whole process is not able to determine which grants should be funded (basically they are all good), yet he still continues to try and do so. If you can’t tell which of the good grants is better than the other just put all the good grants into a lottery and fund as many as you can - every other option is worse.

Edit. I should add that my experience of being on committees like this is that excluding yourself when you have a conflict is a highly effective way of getting your grant funded. The people left in the room can hardly decide to not fund you to your face when you come back into the room. This is why the competition to get onto these committees is so great despite them being very laborious.
These generalizations are not helpful actually.

Perhaps not for walking, but for an activity like taking an ecstasy pill it is.
FYI, beginning a dismissal with "that's cute" kind makes it seem like you don't have a strong point and are resorting to name calling.
Sounds a bit like like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Ok then! Why aren't we terrified about obesity, which is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing over 300,000 people a year. (See https://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/obesity/mortality.htm)
Was it terrorism when the US dropped the nukes on Japan?

Psychological warfare aimed at a civilian population, right? Even if you agree that it was, you have to admit that is not how the history books are writte, because we don't use the propagana term "terrorist" to describe our own actions.
I think it's a good idea to leverage technology . . . that just might not be the right idea . . .

How about an app you can choose to run if you're in a terrorist/robbery/hostage situation. That will allow the authorities to use your mic and cameras to get a picture of what is going on.

How about using interconnected sensors (around towns/large crowd areas) to detect when a vehicle's weight is abnormally large (car/truck bomb). Then alert authorities to the vehicle.

A type of bomb proof enclosed area you have to walk though to enter a stadium that sniffs for explosives and uses imaging to determine if you are a threat, you could be detained inside if wearing an explosive vest for example or have a gun. This would prevent bombers from being in a crowd when detected.

Keep thinking outside the box.
By the definition you gave above:

* Bombing of Dresden: Terrorism

* Nuking of Hiroshima: Terrorism

* America's Drone strikes: Terrorism

Context and motive is everything. You cannot boil it down to an easily digestible soubd-byte to base your opinion on.
I think tnetstrings are a pretty reasonable improvement, too

https://github.com/rfk/tnetstring/
For the longest time, there has been Kashmir-related terrorism all over India, sponsored by Pakistan (which received "aid" in the form of money and arms from the US for decades prior to 9/11).

So, yes, terrorism is indeed very, very bad.
Sounds like a cool project! I'm not sure it's necessary for you to use a No-SQL db - in fact I'd avoid it until you have a good reason to use it. Postgres is great but you might already be familiar with it.
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I find this fascinating. It's easy to see how this would have a cascading effect in a competitive environment. I wonder how they manage to do this without attracting attention from the authorities. I know Texas has a reputation for being a bit more individualistic, but I presume they have compulsory childhood education like the other states.
Hmm. 9/319e6 = 0.028 micromorts

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

https://www.google.com/#q=population+of+the+united+states
> A couple of years ago Spotify rewrote their clients to use CEF

Eh. And not to sound like a cranky old man, but that shit sucks.

It's ridiculous that their "app" needs 20-30 seconds to boot on a modern computer. It's a damned music player. Plus, when the machine is under load, it skips like a 1993 disc player. And the damned thing crashes routinely.

Pre-CEF I was terribly impressed by their mac client. It's been a pretty ugly cliff they've fallen off though. They did a developer blog post some time ago detailing how teams are all using separate JS routines and libs... and I have to say, I wasn't surprised. It's rare that a popular app regresses in performance and usability quite as much as they have.
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The propaganda message we're supposed to believe is that the groups doing terrorist acts are bizarrely religious and brainwashed, completely irrational, with pre-enlightenment values. I don't think there is any evidence to support that.

It's a really bizarre amplification and dehumanization of the enemy... I realize this is a part of war propaganda, but it's particularly distasteful because it amplifies the environment of fear the terrorists were trying to create in the first place.

The goal of any tactic in war is to break the other side's will to keep fighting. Terrorism is an effective tactic because it can usually be carried out at convenient times and doesn't require much logistics, sophistication or funding.
Rdio co-founders sold Skype (twice). When they co-founded Rdio, they weren't hoping to build their life's work, they just wanted to try something new (I guess), in the US. Rdio was run by VPs.

That's OK when things are going great and there's lots of money in the bank. It's not OK when the ship needs some founder-inspired steering in a storm. It's not OK when the ship is taking on water. It's not OK if there are signs of mutiny. It's not OK if pirates are about to board.

And it so happens that most startups tend to spend their lives navigating rough waters with not enough money in the bank and pirates in tow.
Things have changed a bit since then. How many ISIS members adhere to the Geneva conventions?
Actually, your way is awfully more verbose, but you didn't notice it because you ellipsized the verbosity.

If you actually take the time to translate OP's code with your own, you will soon find yourself indented six levels with "if (a != null) { ... if (b != null) { ... if (c != null) {...

You get the idea.

Monads (the type class that Optional belongs to) flatten all this boiler plate with a function called... flatMap! And you don't even need to know about it, all you need to do is chain the calls like OP did:

Optional.ofNullable(paramater)
.filter(...)
.map(a -> ...)
.map(b -> ...)
.orElseGet(() -> ...)
.orElse(defaultValue)

without having to check against null every step along the way.
Thank you for the explanation!
Exactly. The drones flying over Pakistan and Afghanistan are intended to make the populations of the border regions worry constantly about being fired upon. It's what terrorism looks like when you have an essentially unlimited budget and don't have to resort to crude munitions like IEDs or suicide bombers.
Doesn't this, if effective, encourage terrorists to up their game as well till enough micromorts register on our radars?
Terrorists can skew things: they have raised the chance of death in an attack when you are participating in things they don't approve of (death to all the party goers.) This must be seen as an attack on society, rather than individuals.
Reminds me https://medium.com/matter/shitphone-a-love-story-a44e6643480...
I wasn't familiar with Hank, but I always find these tragic premature deaths quite sobering. In a subculture where we have so much to do, we are continually distracted from thoughts of our own mortality. Like a morbid holiday, these occasions call attention to the absurdity (in the Camusian sense) of our priorities and efforts in life. I think it would be a fine memorial to use this incident as an inspiration for personal reflection.
Ugh, no. Skip Scala, which is on the decline and headed fast toward obsolescence, and pick a post-Scala language such as Kotlin or Ceylon.
The key(s) used for the cipher would need to be randomly seeded in some way that an attacker could not easily guess (e.g. with a different CSPRNG).

Edit: And for hash functions, you can generate some random bytes that you append the counter to before putting it through the hash algorithm. The same as above, if those bytes are hard to guess then the construction should be safe.
Actually Scala uses =>, so Java went the opposite way. Kotlin also uses ->.

Doesn't matter much in the long run, you'll get used to whichever your language favors after just a few days or writing code in it.
Is it really that cheap? I was just looking into this a little and I thought it was more like $10-20k for a dozen large-ish CMOS process. Got a link to pricing details for stuff in the ballpark you gave?
The problem is terrorism isn’t like car accidents. In another thread somebody commented that more people die on the roads in a single day then died in the terrorist attacks in France. Sure. But the volatility in car accident statistics is tiny while the possible volatility in terrorist attacks is huge. One well executed attack could kill hundreds of thousands or possibly millions if nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons are used. Car accidents are a bell curve, while terrorism is the long tail. And while I’m not really afraid of a terrorist attack, underestimating or dismissing a large group of people trying to actively kill you is naive.
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Do they disable it globally or selectively enable it?