skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The firm involved, "Multi-State Lottery Association" (http://www.musl.com/), is a non-profit which lists 37 US lotteries as members (http://www.musl.com/musl_members.html).

California is not listed, but MUSL also apparently originated "Powerball", which is available in California.

Sounds like they might offer some great jobs for hackers and security professionals! Alas, their 'Careers' page (http://www.musl.com/musl_careers.html) reports:

"There are currently no positions available."
A link or something would be useful...?

edit: http://blog.getbeagle.co/
Oh yes, you did say that, sorry. I only responded to your first point and then remembered the second myself.

PERT is taught as a time based planning tool but it also has a earned value element. The tools for that have moved on too.

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

I suppose the unpacking effect does make more sense though, over CPA.

"How long will it take?"

"6-8 weeks"

So what do you put in CPA - 6, 7, 8 ? PERT says 7.
No, we are not.

My instinct during a stabbing attack I witnessed was to run towards the danger. But I'm not sure what that has to do with the fire drills you mention, those are a vestigial leftover from wars-of-attrition scenarios.

In my opinion not freezing up (or unfreezing faster) is a matter of experience and can't be replicated with country wide training. Sounds about as useful as duck-and-cover videos from the cold war era.

Also, living this way is not desirable in and of itself and "your societies" are not in proximity to war zones. Just control your firearms.
Yes. Witness the "audiophiles" who claim that wooden knobs somehow cause the sound to be better. One outfit was selling these magical knobs for five hundred bucks or so.
Your domain has been hellbanned presumably due to spamming. Using self-posts to sidestep that generally does not help.
I love Ampache. While the web interface is not that great, it really shines with its multitude of backends: Subsonic, Plex, DAAP, UPnP/DLNA, and also WebDAV access. I'm mostly accessing Ampache via the Subsonic and UPnP backends, and it works really great. There are excellent mobile clients which work pretty much out of the box with it (DSub, BubbleUPnP).
This is just a little story related to this topic that you might find interesting. The TLDR is that the olive oil business is equally pretentious and deceptive as other "artisanal" foods.

My wife an I attempted to start an olive oil company last year selling French extra virgin oil we make at our friend's olive farm in Provence.. If you think the artisanal chocolate industry is full of deception and lies.. allow me to introduce to you the wonderful world of olive oil. Our production cost for 1 liter was almost double the retail cost of so-called high-end "Italian" extra virgin olive oil you'd buy at Whole Foods -- which basically means it is nearly impossible to source actual, 100% extra virgin olive oil at the prices they're being sold for at the stores, there are some exceptions -- a few oils out there are actually the real deal. But a high percentage of grocery store oils aren't what they claim to be (even at Whole Foods-type stores.)

Through a quirk of Italian law, oil that is bottled in Italy can be labeled "100% Italian" -- so there is a huge amount of inferior oils being passed off as both Italian and Extra Virgin and being priced accordingly, despite it being nearly impossible to wholesale Italian-grown, Italian made extra virgins at the price they're selling it for. That's even accounting for economies of scale.

My favorite label-scam is when I see "First Cold Pressed." Absolutely zero oil you buy at grocery stores is ever cold pressed. Pressing actually creates inferior oils. Olive oils are extracted in large centrifuges. They haven't been "pressed" in probably a generation, but "First Cold Centrifuging" doesn't sound as "artisanal." Producers know good and well they aren't pressing anything, yet they (correctly) figure that that particular wording is going to attract a customer who imagines images of an old dude dumping fresh olives still moist with dew into a large, wooden handled press to squeeze out oil just for them. Basically your stereotypical hipster-type that wants to opine about the importance of "hand" crafting. I know probably a dozen olive oil producers here in Provence and every single one of them hand-craft their oils using state of the art, stainless steel equipment in spotless production facilities. Some of this facilities are located in a converted barn, but that idyllic image of the "craftsman" using "traditional" methods is just a myth. Though, playing off of those ignorant imaginings means that companies, using the right wording, can charge champagne prices for malt liquor.

I suppose if we just took Tunisia or Turkish oils, bottled them as French oils, put a ultra-premium price on it -- and grew some beards and distributed out of Brooklyn, we might have been more successful.

My point is that the artisanal and premium food business is rife with deception. If anyone is interested in the olive oil industry this book is exceptionally good: http://www.truthinoliveoil.com/extra-virginity
Is Startup Validation Bullshit? (2013)
PIFX: a library to control your LIFX smartlights through Python
This (anonymity) is impossible in my opinion. Research projects can be so focused/narrow that anyone who is following the conference proceedings/papers could narrow down at least some of contributing authors in some papers fairly easily.
If you talking about 5 or fewer people being involved then it's not exactly a mass shooting. And at that point you might as well start looking into car accidents or even jaywalking and realize untreated depressed people are younger and simply do less stuff. So, even a successful treatment without side effects is going to look bad on a lot of violent crime statistics.

something something heatmap. https://xkcd.com/1138/
Like all things, it's not a panacea: https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/07/debunking-ccache-myths-red...

Of course, if you're rebuilding the same code over and over it can be a net win, but -in the comments- it is mentioned that the obvious things -that one might end up doing somewhat frequently in C/C++ development- invalidate the cache.
SSD is an odd case, it is the simplest yet most impacting improvement to a computer.

Graphic card needs fast buses, if your mainboard gets behind you won't have access to the latest. I remember struggling with this long ago (pci -> agp; pcie 2x -> 4x).

It may be less an issue nowadays, so my point was off.

ps: It's funny you consider 2011 vintage, my most recent computer being from 2009 and I find it modern :)
I think the last version I used was 3.5.4, it looks like a lot changed since then. I'm glad to see MusicBrainz support got added. Ampache was definitely a nice way to organize and stream stuff.
I worked in java for 6 years before moving to clojure. Your experiences don't remotely reflect mine, I can't think of a single reason I'd ever choose java over clojure anymore (as tooling matures) but I appreciate you taking the time to comment!
I'm tired of the media (NYT in particular) acting like mass shootings are actually a significant danger in the USA today.

Going back to 2010, there have been 182 fatalities[1] in the United States due to mass shootings.

In the same amount of time, there have been about 158 fatalities due to being struck by lightning.[2]

In 2013 alone, there were 611,105 fatalities due to heart disease and 56,979 due to influenza and pneumonia.[3] The stats are a bit out of date, but from 2005-2009, ~3,500 people drowned (in "non-boating accidents") each year.[4]

If you're worried about yourself or a loved one dying, don't worry about dying in a mass shooting. It's about as likely as being struck by lightning.

[1]: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-m...

[2]: http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/fatalities.shtml

[3]: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

[4]: http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Water-Safety/wa...
How could anyone have the ability to install a rootkit undetected on the lottery computer? Computing systems that aren't properly secured are like bank vaults left unsecured, but in many cases they also are remotely accessible.

People shouldn't be any more shocked at these exploits than the 'exploit' of an employee stealing cash from an insecure bank vault. We should expect it. It would be a honeypot if we took security seriously.

For some reason people don't take the security of digital assets as seriously as security of physical assets; we don't invest the significant resources required to secure them.. How secure are voting machines, as an example? Given the enormous stakes of elections, we know what to expect.
I agree with you about the idea of public records. At the same time, it is not clear to me why someone would need the physical address of someone with a pilot's license. Why is "where this person lives" part of "public record" once you are licensed to fly a plane?
The consensus opinion among cryptographers is converging on "no"; that the only reason to use a PKRNG is if you want key escrow.
these guys are working on optical hardware for significantly faster random projections.. looks interesting

https://sites.google.com/site/companylighton/home/press
There is some degree of mathematical guarantee that one can provide, if one is only releasing statistics and not individual records. The technique is called "differential privacy" and it was invented in large part because of a few high-profile data de-anonymization stunts, one of which was in the health industry.

At the very least, this allows one to quantify the tradeoff of security and specificity in what is released.
If your compiling time is slow, you should work at improving it while it's compiling.
I spend way too much time on it.
As I live in France, Mast Brothers chocolate isn't all that compared to the stuff we get in normal grocery stores here for 3 euros a bar.

I'd love to see how well Mast would do in blind tests against the Swiss, Belgians, Germans and French. My thinking is they'd get squashed like a grape.

Mast is "good" if your benchmark is Dove or Hershey's. It's absolutely not $10 good.

However, to each his or her own. Eat what you like! However, that being said, the Mast bros seem like such pretentious pr__ks that I'd rather just not eat chocolate than give them the money.
This is precisely what happened; CISA was an afterthought in his letter to Time. The crux of his argument is that he wanted to reduce the size of government by 15%.

http://time.com/4154635/rand-paul-paul-ryan-omnibus-spending...
Abstraction, Or, the Gift of Our Weak Brains
I assure you that access to firearms in Israel is not easier than in the US.
God, I hate that stuff. I don't understand why everyone is nuts about it. It tastes to me like spoiled milk mixed into dirt (and I know there's no milk in it).

The comments surrounding Mast Brothers are making me feel less like my tastes are wrong. Maybe bean-to-bar small-batch artisanal chocolate just isn't that good of an idea.
Usually it's because you only have to read them once, and you're uncertain about the most compatible way to encode bignums. You're often generating parameters on one system or in one language, but then using them in another.

ASCII is slow but everyone interprets it the same way.
There are High West products I love --- Midwinter's, for instance --- but most of what they sell is forgettable. But I mean, I agree that there are some good MGP users (Angel's Envy is another) --- the problem is, most bottlers who resell MGP aren't good.

Wait wait what I meant to say was yes, next time I'm in SFBA (probably mid-Jan), you can definitely buy me whiskey.
Do you not find that the recruiter noise gets in the way of keeping in touch with people you know though?
And for those of you just tuning in (like me) -- noprocrast is a setting in your hackernews profile (upper right corner). Turn it on and it will only allow you on the site for a maximum amount of time (maxvisit) before preventing you from using it for a minimum amount of time (minaway). It has to be turned on manually. The maxvisit 5 and minaway 240 would let you visit for 5 minutes every 4 hours. I just turned mine on and set it to maxvisit 10 minaway 240.
I am admittedly just repeating something Cowdery says.
Taking a look, they don't produce milk chocolate hence the vast difference in texture, and their chocolate appears to be a minimum of 50% cacao (50% dark) and goes up to 87%. Simply put, if you're primarily used to chocolate bars based on European techniques, you're in for a big surprise.

My guess is there's a very distinct fruity aftertaste to anything past 65% or so. It's unavoidable when the percentage of cacao is that high. Moreover, it looks as if they source beans from different geographic areas for certain bars, so they should all have a distinct taste even someone whose only ever eaten Hershey's bars can point out.
I look for the D.O.P and/or organic farming mark, along with a production date, a best before date, and the region of Italy. I'm pretty sure it's ok, and it isn't cheap.

I've heard that the best way to understand the olive oil business is to consider the fact (needs citation) that Italy exports twice as much oil as it produces.

Did your business work out? What happened? We bought a very nice AOC olive oil from Aix-en-Provence once.
Mexican chocolate is a mystery to me as well. I've had it as hot chocolate, but even then it tastes like chocolatey sand. Mexican Cokes on the other hand..
The article hints that the US dropping to # 4 when using deaths per capita is a statistical artifact caused by large incidents in small nations. There's a blog posting somewhere (also discussed here sometime back) that goes into more detail.

Are you intentionally dishonest or just plain stupid? Then again, it doesn't matter, you should know better.
a) At my uni 15 yrs ago. Write a code that listens on certain input. You upload the source code, a bot compiles it, runs a bunch of functional test, then it tells your score. It didn't help what you missed, just a score, like Your solution passed 225 test out of 250.

b) Find a bug in a source code. Describe the end-user captured bug, and measure the time and the quality of the solution.

c) Simulate a distributed code review and measure the found problems. This can be extended to UX as well.

(These are just quick examples.)
My takeaway on this was that no laws were broken and a few hipsters got their noses bent out of joint. I'm just not seeing any legal wrongdoing here.
I agree that most are systemic problem and could be fixed with enough care and attention. But I would propose that a few are side effects of a healthy urban area, namely your last few: roadworks, security, carpark prices, and coffee prices.
(1) According to the article, disabling the wireless camera itself may be a crime in the US. If so, there are a host of ways the participant could face criminal liability under the described facts.

(2) Civil liability does require, generally, causation--cause-in-fact and proximate cause. The cause-in-fact test is a simple "but-for" assessment: but-for our guy disabling the wireless, would the robbery have happened? In this case, yes, in the absence of our guy disabling the wireless, the bad guy would have still robbed the house. Disabling the wireless did not cause the robbery, the criminal was acting independent and without knowledge of the wireless camera's being disabled. Proximate cause is a more complicated legal standard, but since cause-in-fact is missing here, our guy isn't liable, and your second point is probably incorrect.
I wanted to get some code down so I wrote this out to make a statement to the world for me to focus on code.
A few months ago I started a project with a similar vision but never got on to taking it to fruition: http://github.com/theideasmith/automata. I'm definitely going to take a deeper look at Dexter. Good luck to you guys!
I wonder, did it occur to the author that problems he is talking about have nothing to do with Scala? It's about setting company standards and managing people. Assuming that adopting more restrictive and less expressive language will solve the problem of сurbing "loose canon" developers is naive at best. The only result of such transition would be loosing good developers. Talented people are very hard to tame and that's what management is supposed to be about, not about getting bigger paychecks. So the company will eventually degrade to the very average level, where competitive advantages are hard to achieve. Of course in many cases competitive advantages are unrelated to development per se, so such transition is not necessary bad. But in what way it says anything about Scala or Go and programming in general?
interesting, but from 18 months ago. any productization or patents thus far?
Reverse Engineering the Gameboy Boot Screen
For what it's worth, Paul was one of only 8 Republicans who voted against rescinding funds from Planned Parenthood.
It's not like the Debian bug, because that would be something everyone can detect and exploit. The interesting case with of this backdoor is that it can only be abused by the person who has the secret points used to generate the parameters.

There's been quite some research about the exploitability of this construction:
http://dualec.org/
https://projectbullrun.org/dual-ec/
If the publication includes source code, must the copyright information be scrubbed?

If the publication concerns a software project, can the publication link to where to get the source code, on a site with the authors' names? Or is the program name and/or author names also be anonymized?
For the benefit of the class, the Lawrenceburg facility is roughly:

1. Seagrams Seven Crown (most of 20th century)

2. Pernod Ricard (itself one of the biggest names in whiskey) briefly in the 2000s

3. LDI (even more briefly)

4. MGPI (very recently)

It's a serious whiskey operation. The rap on them isn't that they make shoddy product; it's that you're almost always overpaying for it, because high-end brands relabel it.
Great idea but the 'Fahrenheit 451' allusion is against the HTTP spec. 400-499 is for client errors. A client requesting a resource from site that can't show it for legal reasons is not the client's fault.
> It's not even clear the framers intended for the government's national security activities to be subject to any form of judicial review...

It seems very clear to me that The Framers would have expected that actions taken by the President or authorized by Congress in the name of national security concerns that are unconstitutional -or otherwise illegal- should be subject to Judicial review and subsequent termination.

I mean, the alternative is to let the Executive and Legislative have immunity from consequence and freedom from scrutiny, just so long as they make the claim that their actions are for "national security". This would make The Constitution absolutely moot.
What about, and this would be entirely unconstitutional, but what if they were BOTH the president?

Like, not one the president and the other one the vice president. If they were just, dual presidents. Both the singular president. ( if either died, it would be counted as the president dieing, and the vp would take the place)
Not at all. As my profile states I work as a BI consultant. If you want to consider the entirety of an organization's ETL processing as a monolith, then overnight is really the longest execution time frame I'm allowed to talk about. I can also guarantee that if I were to propose a full 8 hours of ETL, I would be required to put up some serious justification.

That being said, my focus in my company is more on the front end. In this case there's a range of acceptable timeframes, but we've had clients with a strict requirement that any report with exposure to VPs or higher has to have <=2 second response time. Even outside of that organization, more than a minute for a report is usually pretty much a non-starter.

The problems I'm referring to have nothing to do with a BI guy implementing complicated logic; this is just a part of the job description. Let me quote the section where it becomes clear that there's a huge problem.

> The main database was IBM DB2 9.7 on RHEL and it had about 3 months (800GB) of data in it (we pruned it nightly). We had a "reporting" database that was postgres 9.3 or 9.4 (can't remember). It was the same schema but was never pruned. It had about 15 billion rows total and about 5TB of data. About 700GB was indexes. The same query when ran on DB2 took 12 hours, on postgres (5x more data) it took 24 hours.

Emphasis is mine. They're reporting on an OLTP schema. The reason that the query is many pages long, and that it takes 24 hours to run, is because the CTEs are being used as in-line ETL. Their "reporting" database is nothing of the sort, it's just a replica of their operational system.

That poor BI guy is either out of his depth and doesn't know how or is simply not allowed to build the appropriate solution. Both are problems, and both extend far beyond the BI guy.

Edit: Extra word word.
Starting stretching to improve flexibility (2012)
This article: http://motls.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/first-batch-of-9-pheno-p... also mentions that spin 1 is disallowed by the Landau-Yang Theorem. So it's most likely spin 0.
..the best way is really just to taste it! If you ever get the chance to go to an olive oil expo, so you can taste a bunch of oils from various producers. It's incredible the range of characteristics of oils. For example, if you taste high quality oil, you'll likely feel a slight to moderate burn in your throat from the oleocanthal. Pretty amazing stuff, olive oil.
It is likely this was intentional. If you don't want to be present for a vote for some reason, you can find someone else who would vote the other way (usually reaching across the aisle) and both agree not to participate. Happens all the time.
Reading it now, so that technically counts.

"Say this not that." by Carl Alasko

I've gone through a metric shit ton pile of self help and relationship help books in my time. But I think this one, while it repeats some well worn wisdom, it presents them in a concrete enough way that the advice is finally gaining traction in my own head. I think the key is that it presents the advice in real world vignettes as both bad and good idea formats. Like that bone guy on Animaniacs.
What is the point of learning to identify those higher quality items though?

If I can derive just as much pleasure from regular, mass-produced chocolate (perhaps because my taste buds aren't adjusted sufficiently), what exactly is the incentive to train my taste buds so that I have to spend more money on chocolate to gain the same pleasure?
I think the Visitor example is a mistake. Couldn't you replicate the Clojure version in Java by having a "Formatter" singleton that has a function for each of the different item type/format type combinations?
It could be that the client is in a location where showing it is against censorship laws. In this case, the client is at fault.
Oh yeah it's obviously a hoax. I just wonder if there is actually a message that can be decoded, or if the numbers are just random and made up.