skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite the same, but I used to live in an apartment catty-corner from my university's property. It was short enough of a distance to walk home, and yet there were stretches of it without sidewalks, and people would assume you're lost if you walked along it and offer you a ride out of sympathy.
This site is absolutely excellent. There are a lot of things in math that I sort of had a handle of the mechanics of, but less so the intuitions for, which this site fills in well:

I really liked the explanation of sine as something that makes things 'circly'.

http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding-...

Does the site take external contributions?
Rudolf was an NSA plant. That red nose should have been the giveaway.
Yes. Notably, this doesn't preclude the ability to both alleviate symptoms and work on the root cause simultaneously.
Actually, we're both wrong. Just because you have not been caught does not mean there hasn't been loss of anonymity. And if you mix enough coins you can decrease the chances of being pinpointed exactly as the source, but you cannot definitively remove yourself from the bucket of suspects.
IP addresses associated with the attack were traced to the US National Security Agency (NSA)

I demand plausible satire!
White elephant
In the FB vs Orkut example, not only is the Orkut Free, FB is inaccessible to Orkut users. What do you think will be the outcome then?

You are also assuming that if not for Free Basics, there will be nothing done to increase the internet spread in India. As those opposed to Free Basics have repeatedly pointed out, there are other better options available.
Our understanding is that "Skype for Business" is the name of the current client. The client still talks to the Lync server, for all intents and purposes.

We just released an integration with Lync 2013 (https://sameroom.io/open-a-tube/signin/proxy?type=lync), so we're learning a lot more about this space. Will consider updating the chart :)
That's probably fair. The quest for personalized news predates most people being on the Internet [1] and I think it's fair to say that no one has really come up with top-notch, personalized curation that blows people away. In practice, it's easier to let social media, RSS readers, and sites like this one provide you with a river of potentially interesting content that you skim and dive into as appropriate.

I'm also not sure how much people would be willing to pay even for really good content curation even if such a thing exited. And the reality is that curation is hard because my interests on a given day depend on so many factors from how busy I am to my mood to some event that piqued my interest.

[1] http://news.mit.edu/1994/newspaper-0309
My main criticism of systemd is that the project doesn't seem to have any bounds. They are actively trying to re-implement everything instead of having a clear definition of what problems they're trying to fix. That tends to end badly, usually in a unportable web of dependencies and components being shoved in the wrong places (D-BUS inside the kernel just doesn't seem right to me).

Having said that...

It does have some nice things. It's very easy to create robust service startup definitions (units) without resorting to brittle shell scripts checking PID files and whatnot. Also, services start in their own resource groups for better resource allocation between them.

These alone have changed my opinion about systemd. These solve real sysadmin issues.
>> When you see a voicemail (or tweet in case of Twitter) from HR around Friday afternoon/evening or early Monday morning.

Not quite - layoffs usually happen on Thursdays (so that any problems/issues can be sorted out on Friday), last week of the second to last month before the end of the fiscal year (so that severance pay is booked in this fiscal year), but never on a payday week (too much work for payroll).
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> Nothing else uses Tau, so teaching you Tau does not prepare you for further education.

Nitpicking, but that is a self-defeating argument. If everybody used Tau, there would be no problem in teaching it.

Not that I disagree that doing the bootstrapping its usage and reaching there would be a problem, but all by itself is not a reason to not try changing it.
It wasn't. The company I'm talking about was based in a suburb of Dallas and only had the one office. In fact, I believe that after the layoffs they actually got rid of their office for a while and worked out of the CEO's house for a bit before they could afford to rent space again.

Much smaller and lower-profile than Crytek, though they still have their own Wikipedia article.

By the way, even before the layoffs, the CEO was notorious for firing anyone he felt had a "bad attitude", including a world-renowned living legend of a developer who was suffering from severe depression and had been previously hospitalized for a suicide attempt.

He was known for working his employees to the bone, developers regularly slept at the office, and the company was a caricature of every overtime-happy game developer. One of my friends took up smoking and was addicted for a few years because the only way she was allowed to leave her desk was to go on a smoke break and sitting in one place for so long was getting physically painful. They also had a policy where no matter how late you stayed the previous night, even if you were there until 3am, you had to be in by 10am the next day or they'd dock you a vacation day.
> the mostly universal opinion ... downloading and investigating people's private data that was illegally obtained and distributed is okay

[citation needed]
Interesting. Once we were laid off and invited to the Xmas party. ;)
UBC's Zite (after sufficient training) was consistently excellent at surfacing high-signal content from a variety of sources. It declined after acquisition by CNN and has become nearly invisible after incorporation into Flipboard's "Cover Stories". Now that Flipboard has turned off the backend which powered the Zite app, the next best options are:

- manually curate Twitter lists for reading in Flipboard
- manually curate RSS feeds

In the age of burgeoning AI and powerful clients, it is tragic that we have such little investment in automated filtering where all data is private to the endpoint and portable between devices. Or public sharing of training data for news algorithms. Where is the GPL-equivalent for data at risk of being orphaned?

We need standardized legal clauses for startup founding engineers to deter "Orphan Software Works". E.g. source code is escrowed at the time of each acquisition, and if the acquired technology disappears from the market because all acquirers have closed or abandoned the product, it must be released to the public as open-source, with or without patent grants or training data.

Code and learning from dead startups can fertilize research fields for future crops, instead of disappearing into legal black holes.
Gullies on Mars sculpted by dry ice rather than liquid water
Guess this is where the intro scene of Tron: Legacy was inspired ;)
This comment reminds me super strongly of the Black Mirror episode on humans having memory recording devices turning their every experience into a recorded session to be replayed and analysed at will.

It's very well done and wonderfully dystopic. Soon™
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It's interesting to look at? I don't think most people looking at the leaks are trying to profit (exception of people exploiting people based on the data). Ad systems however, are always looking at the data as a way to increase profits.
15% is disappointing, but then the number of racist xenophobes that equate Muslim with terrorist is disappointingly high so what are you going to do?

All an internet discussion group tells you is what those particular people on that specific discussion group thinks. Anyone who believes otherwise is beyond help.
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Or you get that call telling you not to come in the next day. Then a day later they call you telling you need to bring the computer back in right now.

What follows is a back and forth exchange of "I'll bring it in when I feel like." "That's unprofessional." "You mean unprofessional like having someone do something for you when you're not paying them or laying someone off by email unprofessional?"
Personal experience: when you are working late and you hear suspicious noises in the executive quarter. After arming yourself with a nice long bar of metal you come across the CFO who is hurriedly packing all the expensive computers into the back of his car. When confronted he offers to pay you your outstanding invoice cash in return for your silence...
We all know Santa is deeply embedded in the FVEY surveillance alliance: https://twitter.com/sigint_santa/status/545966850253664256
I hypothesize that it is because we can predict the astronomical days centuries in advance, which in particular means that we can print calendars with "start of $SEASON" days on them with no fear that weather or something will contradict them.

I live in Michigan, which has a highly unstable climate. In practice as it happens right now, we're really more in "late Fall" than what we'd usually call "winter". Other years, winter has come in early November. Only the astronomical events are predictable in advance.

I offer as evidence the fact that the primary place I encounter these dates is on calendars. And once they are there, I think we have very little left to be explained; trusting words that appear to source from an authority even over the direct personal experience of our own eyes is a very common problem.
I just had some issues with my Dutch bank because they totally switch to the model of "mobile client + internet + paper letter once a year". They deprecate walk-in procedures. They close branches. I did not visit them for 5 years and I would not visit them for another 5, but something happened, so I had to.

My Russian bank is mobile+internet from day 1. They have no branches. They don't even have their own ATMs.

I am not sure what is the current trend in US, but my personal experience certainly contradicts your thesis.
Distributed Information Processing in Biological and Computational Systems
This is absolutely untrue. Even in the US's manufacturing heyday we had strict environment laws. In fact, this all happened because people were seeing what industry was doing the environment in the 40's, 50's, and 60's. Some light reading here:

http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-history-1970-1985

China isn't doing much of the above, if any.

Excerpt:

During this period a great many new environmental laws were passed and some old ones resurrected and refurbished as well as energy legislation that impacted on the environment. Other environmental type laws were enacted, such as the Coastal Zone Management Act (1972), the Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act (1972), the Endangered Species Act (1973), the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (1976), the Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972), the Deepwater Ports and Waterways Safety Act (1974), the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (1974), the Water Resources Planning Act (1977), the Water Resources Research Act (1977), the Environmental Quality Improvement Act (1970), several amendments to the Food Drug and Cosmetics Act, and the Environmental Education Act. There was renewed enforcement of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.

The Rules and Regulations issued under these laws numbered into many thousands. In its early years EPA alone placed about 1500 rulemaking notices in the Federal Register annually.
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This is the same guy that uncovered the MacKeeper user database as well, which also used MongoDB. From what I've read, he just used Shodan to uncover these instances. This isn't meant to discredit him, but it interesting how we're calling people like this "security researchers".
That's why I'm asking. Are they planning ahead or just playing financial chicken?
Per capita the US is still pretty lousy.

http://www.wri.org/blog/2014/11/6-graphs-explain-world%E2%80...

The US is still in the top "energy use per capita" countries.
Why can't we simply have a regular desktop Linux on a tablet form factor?
The attack you just described is semantically identical to a "double spend".
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> a post on Santa’s blog said that his NON-database is, actually, a non-database – a decoy, in other words.
>There may be a time when we think of computer power as money — Bitcoin is pushing us that way — and we give back by donating a few calculations at a time.

Actually, can't we think of a low/competitively priced resource as a donation? Why can't contributors be compensated? Not thoroughly accounting for value contributed to networks is part of the reason for decreasing employment prospects. Users are taking risk (by spending their time creating value) and uploading it without compensation.
We need a Manhattan-like project so the people in the technology industry can collaborate with the United States to allow the authorities to access the NON-database. A backdoor isn't the right door but there has got to be a way. They can figure it out.
My postman can't even be bothered to properly fill out the current one. How adding more questions to the thing will help that problem is unclear to me.
A former coworker of mine has made a lot of contributions to a project called sovereign: https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign

> "Sovereign is a set of Ansible playbooks that you can use to build and maintain your own personal cloud based entirely on open source software, so you’re in control."

It makes use of all the techniques described in the article for e-mail, including dovecot/postfix, DKIM, encfs.

I decided to give it a try a few weeks ago. I went and bought a $10/month linode instance and a domain name. By the end of the day I could send and receive e-mail. letsencrypt was a big help here, because it allowed me to get TLS for free.

I always assumed that hosting your own e-mail was virtually impossible but my friend has been hosting his personal e-mail and the e-mail for his company for around two years now, with linode and sovereign. He says that the server requires maintenance about once every six months.

This doesn't really protect you from the three-letter orgs, as other commenters here have mentioned. But it does put you in control of your own data, and prevents analytics of your own inbox by corporations like google.
Santa is a hypocrite. His army of Elves who break into homes to monitor the occupants [0] dwarfs any misdeeds of the NSA.

http://www.elfontheshelf.com/
He wasn't a communist?
What do you mean by "current form"? I seemed to have haunched quite some time ago...
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The trig part was intuitively obvious for me, but the % part was wow!
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Well, it seems it's only fair. I never knew my login was not on the sudoers file
>The data is clearly sourced it the wikipedia article. Your data is either old or just wrong.

Point me to the line in that article that says that.

Here is a quote from the 2nd paragraph.

"The overall median personal income for all individuals over the age of 18 was $24,062[6] ($32,140 for those age 25 or above) in the year 2005.[7] The overall median income for all 155 million persons over the age of 15 who worked with earnings in 2005 was $28,567.[8]"

Where are you getting 56k from?

>Where is the evidence the increase in earnings is the result of the degree rather than selection bias? Correlation is not causation.

That is entirely possible, but many studies have attempted to correct for this. Here is a good summary of several.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/upshot/the-value-of-colleg...

There are also a few other problems with your formula. $30k is way too high for an 18 year old just out of high school. And again, 20k per year is closer to the average total yearly cost of a public school.

Let's say 20k per year in income which is much closer to the median starting salary for an 18 year old. Let's also say that if it costs a college student 10k a year to live that it only costs a non-college student 5k to account for extra costs for the college student.

So we have 20k a year in lost income and 15k a year in costs over what the student would have paid had they not attended.

That's 4x20k + 4x15k = 140k. About half of your estimate.

That also doesn't take into account that college students are free during breaks to work, or take paid internships.
College only takes about 30 weeks per year, while the workers will be working about 50 weeks out of the year. (Also Engineering and Computer Science internships in particular pay fairly well.)
This sounds like such an obviously great idea that I don't know how I haven't heard it before. Can someone who understands how databases are built explain why this isn't an obviously great idea?
You don't crank it up and down all day. You put it up and get a tall chair. Problem solved. ;)
Cost Disease
The bounded L2 curvature, to find possible for solutions to Einstein's equations
Good podcast interview with Scott Hanselman [He's done other things since Visicalc]: http://www.hanselminutes.com/379/the-future-and-past-of-comp...
I don't think anyone is assuming anything.

The author of the article went into detail as to what possible harm there could be, and why he thought they were avoided or null.

Your stance seems to be summarized as: 'what if parents are thoughtless, naive, and too forceful?'.

In this case, the author was none of that, and really shouldn't be compared to this hypothetical worst case scenario.

> developing language skills early stunts development of more visual skills

This seems incredibly unlikely. I'd in fact bet money that developing any skill young will not stunt the growth of another skill, so long as a normal amount of time is spent invested in that other skill comparative to normal children.

> too much structured time has drawbacks

Indeed, but according to the author all they did was read to the child before dinner, and have them sound out words as they pointed to them. Does 30 minutes to an hour of reading and pointing count as too much structured time?

> Opportunity costs could also include relationship capital (pushing your kid to do unimportant things means you can't push as hard in other areas).

This sounds like a problem of methodology, not of aims. If teaching a child anything causes alienation, then you are doing it wrong, especially if that thing is a basic skill that they must learn.
If there trying to unify platforms then it should not need to be a UWP app. Until then there just adding a new standard. https://xkcd.com/927/

I mean the laptop / phone divide is not all that wide in terms of Ram or Gflops. So, why not just run windows on everything?
I find it frankly shocking that someone on the naughty list is permitted to purchase a handgun.
"Harden against attack". You mean "correct defects in design". The phrasing here implies that the state the drones are in is an acceptable one for most situations, just not this one. But it's an unacceptable state for any drones to be spoofable at all.
I don't know who Vickery is but could he not be a security researcher who uses Shodan?
The only difference is that this is what you willingly signed up for right by inviting Santa into your home on Christmas Eve?

Well, at least there must be some parent consent that is.
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They were in the range of 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255, well known NSA addresses.
That's right. A MacBook user would want to know how this daemon would affect the longevity of his or her device.
My own guess is that heat cycling is more detrimental than relatively constant (but below thresholds) usage.
The dangers of a rogue social network
And how bloody hard it is to make the wiggler change the ID to look like any old mouse? Or one gets kitbashed out of a existing mouse? Or a new one comes to market that is not part of the IDs systemd have on file?
I'm all for ending the horrible consequences of prohibition, but people often ignore or gloss over that a lot of the war on drugs was requested by poor communities who had to deal with the consequences of high levels of drug use. When you're poor and can't move elsewhere, you turn to the police to get the heroin junkies off your front lawn or out of your apartment complex hallways. Which is too bad because it is really a job for social workers.
>And if you mix enough coins you can decrease the chances of being pinpointed exactly as the source, but you cannot definitively remove yourself from the bucket of suspects.

Not in my understanding. I have some coins X that are tainted. I send them to you, Y. You, Y, happen to have other coins completely unrelated to the address I sent my X coins to, and you send them to me at address Z. There's no blockchain link between X and Z.

I suppose physically tracking you down, assuming you keep logs, could hurt me, but if I trust you not to keep logs then I'm safe after you delete the logs.
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LOL "Military Grade". Anything that is labeled "Military Grade" means it has gone through a long, bureaucratic specification and procurement process. The spec is obsolete by the time it actually gets anywhere. With the pace of progress these days, "Military Grade" means "5 years old."
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Swap the languages around and see if the statement doesn't sound a bit elitist to you. I feel like the parent could have chosen more neutral words if they wanted to. Their particular experience with irreverent/careless programmers just rubbed against my experience with technology fans I guess (the word fans used in the same sense as in my previous comment).