skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second article is undoubtedly flawed in several aspects, that's why I put clifton et. al. first, which I think lays out the case for studying non-formal models.

Regarding

"""This also, however, ignores the fact that most statistical inference drawn from such queries will be nonsense even without differential privacy."""

This is not true. Just because the number returned by a count query on a very large dataset (~100 Million visits) is very small (~100) does not automatically means that the result is nonsense or can be disregarded as error. Doing that requires understanding the query and a hypothesis with good prior on expected outcome. E.g. intersection of two rare diseases. Where you would otherwise expect it to be very small, but there might be an underlying genetic reason / physiological process which might lead to higher prevalence. Or a group of hospitals using tainted batch of medicines leading to unexplained increased mortality.

Consider this paper where there were only 1000 cases (only 248 strokes) per 1.6 Million patients (even larger if you consider the entire 20 Million patients present in the data). However in spite of the small number the authors showed that the increase was statistically significant by comparing with same period a year later.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1311485

Again I am not denying what you wrote in the blogpost. But in medicine and the analyses for which such databases are used, the investigators have access to very good priors.
I love the thrust of your argument, but I think we all know how pragmatically, this will never happen any time soon. Could you imagine a "Bureau of Software Fidelity" or somesuch? We can't even get the post office to deliver mail regularly in some parts of the country, and that's been their primary function for over 100 years.
I was personally told this once, and I also extrapolate it a bit from insight into the differences that often exist between actual and stated beliefs and how the latter serve more for social signaling. I generally find literalist interpretations of belief shallow.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11004716, hope they try to enforce that.
Diplomatic relations.

US LEAs might have a hard time harassing people like me if EU countries stopped coöperating with them.
Honestly, if you're running on a simple Apache config, you almost certainly don't need to worry about any of the technical issues the article raises.
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whichever the reasons, I should take the toll by typing www every time? life is too short.
I think the carbon keys have much better travel, and best of all, dedicated Home/End/PG Up/Down keys. Those are priceless to me.
It applies to US citizens who are wanted in the US for crimes.
What does the I in CIA stand for again?
It's a civilian criminal offense. The fact that he was a defense contractor doesn't make it a military offense. That would have to be a charge under the UCMJ.

@ryanlol: I very much hope that laws and treaties are never interpreted via "common sense". Tech is not the only field with a technical argot, and it is good that specific words have specific meanings. If laws were enforced by "common sense" then every time you had an interaction with a contract or government agency would be subject to the whims of whatever moron happened to have power over you that day. Even though that is sadly frequent in practice, it shouldn't be, it isn't law that it be so, and I feel much better that we at least aspire to better.
There is no Superfish anymore, not to mention I'm running Linux anyway. Besides, rest assured you are not safe with anyone, anywhere. Everyone is spying on you, and they are all very keen to know what you're up to. Knowing that, I am happy with the Lenovo.
In the US, sure. Not anywhere else in the world.

(I'm not sure where you got the idea that citizenship bears any relevance at all here)
For very little effort you can simply redirect your main domain, and gain the technical benefits/simplicity of having a www subdomain, all while not inconveniencing your users. This pretty much makes the parent's point of hosting actual content on the main domain for customer convenience moot.
TCL/EXPECT was a huge help when I needed tp automate data extraction from a health clinic practice management system. The available interfaces didn't give all the data. Decoding the custom data formats, file layouts, etc... wasn't going well. Scripting the character based UI with TCL/EXPECT was pretty cool including the error handling. If a bit hacky.

I was surprised to find out my temporary solution was still running without a hiccup 5 years after I left. Yes, I was younger then and hadn't learn to appreciate the life expectancy of temporary solutions.
does anybody know why Secret Video Recorder needs Identity and SMS access?
> You basically have to believe that all US foreign activity or all secrecy is inherently bad to say that that the Manning dump moved us forward as a democracy.

I think this hyperbole is no more helpful to the conversation than your original one ("patently childish").
I really am liking these Microsoft projects. FFMPEG on Windows would make so many thing MUCH easier for my Audio and Video Projects. Right now ffmpeg on Windows is hit or miss for me currently.
Maybe in the US. Scandinavian courts use common sense much more liberally (sometimes even too liberally) than US ones.

>@ryanlol: I very much hope that laws and treaties are never interpreted via "common sense". Tech is not the only field with a technical argot, and it is good that specific words have specific meanings. If laws were enforced by "common sense" then every time you had an interaction with a contract or government agency would be subject to the whims of whatever moron happened to have power over you that day. Even though that is sadly frequent in practice, it shouldn't be, it isn't law that it be so, and I feel much better that we at least aspire to better.

You can hope, but as someone who has a plenty of experience with Scandinavian legal systems I'll have to assure you that's sadly not the case.

Anyway, here I am sitting with a money laundering conviction for receiving a wire transfer of some 6000 euros from a Chinese bitcoin exchange. The prosecutor could never find _anything_ explaining the origin of the money, but as an unemployed person convicted of (not financially motivated) hacking crimes the judge figured it was "common sense" that the money had to be the proceeds of a crime.
I'd love to see some non-game software written in Inform 7. Like, a web framework. Seriously!
The "D" in "BSD" stands for "distribution"...
The argument about retroreflectors is right there on the page, although it's buried if you don't have the arguments raised previously in the Wikipedia article.

The main argument is that the lunar landings weren't manned for one or more of the landings. And indeed, right there on the page, it says:

> Smaller retroreflectors were also put on the Moon by the Russians; they were attached to the unmanned lunar rovers Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2.

The existence of the Russian retroreflectors shows reflectors could be deployed without human intervention.

And further:

> Lick Observatory attempted to detect from Apollo 11's retroreflector while Armstrong and Aldrin were still on the Moon but did not succeed until August 1, 1969.[197] The Apollo 14 astronauts deployed a retroreflector on February 5, 1971, and McDonald Observatory detected it the same day.

The argument here is that if the retroreflectors were deployed by Apollo 11, they should have been detectable within the day, not 10 days after their supposed human caused deployment.

Again, this is just the argument presented, not an endorsement.
I used to make a living programming in Visual BASIC and ASP before the Dotnet era had changed them.

I have a Windows XP Virtual machine with Visual BASIC 6.0 on it and IIS with ASP 3.0 on it.

I wrote a few sample programs in VB 6.0 and ASP 3.0 but I don't have any clients to develop for it. I call it legacy programming to write for older languages.

The problem is the people and businesses using the older technology cannot afford to upgrade to the latest technology and cannot afford to hire a programmer to write software for them.

I also heard that NASA uses older computers like old 8088/8086 PC clones because of the legacy software they have that runs on it that won't run on modern systems. They buy them from eBay because they aren't made anymore.

Ironic that they could use a virtual machine with DOS on it emulating an 8088 to run the software, but I guess they need access to the serial and parallel ports that don't exist on modern systems since USB replaced them.
If your service requires scaling because it's expensive dynamic content, then apache could easily be fast enough and not the bottleneck requiring a switch to something else.

It doesn't matter if nginx/whatever can handle 1000+ reqs/sec if your app consumes 300MB of ram per request and takes 1 second to process.
How much motor and battery can you get in a competition bike frame?

How much advantage can that provide, after taking into consideration the extra weight?
I still don't think this makes sense. You can just get a static IP and point it at a load balancer.

How would this help if your site fails? You can cname undfecarriage services like api and blog.

What do you gain from www?
BJP is right-wing hindu but the only party in the country to demand uniform civil code.
Network management is a legitimate use case. Ripping off users is not.
Aesthetics aside, one benefit of naked domains is that shorter URLs are better for sharing in chat programs. 'www.' takes up a nontrivial amount of space in certain environments (e.g., a gchat window within gmail).
It doesn't seem like '/.' is an operator. Do you mean './' vs '.\'? That tends to match my intuition.
It isn't a clone of "yo." It's based on it. It has a superset of its features.

I'd go into detail, but my point is your tone of authority when you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
From what I remember TeX dumps the processed macros into a binary file. Later, TeX loads those preprocessed formats quickly, without the need to parse again something as big as LaTeX.
But... why? I maximize all the windows I use. Less window management hassle.
Usual NYT hitjob painting Indian pagan/heathens as horrible people. Somehow NYT links this to BJP which is barely in power for last 2 years.
PHP rules!
Apple Watch is fantastic. It keeps introducing me to new features...like I got a phone call and took it from the watch. That was unexpected (I didn't bother to read up on it before buying-- I just wanted it for fitness tracking.)

Hell ,yesterday I wanted to take a picture of the underside of my car with my phone. Turns out the watch works as a remote camera display... very happy with that!

The watch is slowly taking over a big chunk of the stuff I used to use my iPhone for...

I didn't like having to take the sport band off every night, so I got one of those knockoff link bracelets from Amazon- it looks just like the one Apple sells at 1/5th the price.

I've decided that if they release a new watch this spring I will buy it. Even though I was late to get mine, It has more than paid for itself in 6 months. Whatever the new features of the new watch will likely make it worth the upgrade to me. (The workout app alone is worth $350 for me. I've already saved $30 in gas with the navigation reminders I expect... the watch just keeps paying dividends.)
You're describing a world where everybody expected a website to end in .com, and if not that, then maybe a handful of others. That world is changing; what will people's expectations be in the future?
And LFE, Lisp Flavored Erlang brings the BEAM and OTP to Lispers!
I play with LFE, so I can not say I use it, but it fits your unfashionable descriptor.
It is extremely unlikely that any other TLDs will be created.
Where is the extra latency? You can do DNS queries for example.com and _http._tcp.example.com concurrently so that you get both answers in the time of one round trip to the DNS server.

If there actually is a SRV record and the target isn't locally cached then you would need to do another query, but that is faster than establishing an HTTP session with example.com, getting the 301 redirect and then having to do the query anyway.
I can assure you that I did not spend a full semester making graphs. I know it's not the first deterministic concurrency model. Thank you for making me realize that the concurrency model described can be modeled using CSP. That's neat, considering all the analysis tools available for it. Determinism is not enough, however. The space of all thread state combinations need to be reined in, not least because while deadlocks & co. can be found using automated tools, subtler errors can't. Additionally, threads compete for resources, and you need to account for hidden sources of indeterminism like that one. Two logically independent threads that can be modelled and trivially shown to not interfere with each other will definitely interfere with each other on a single-core system.

I realize that this is an unusually strict approach. I'm also terribly embarrassed if there's something I haven't considered.
Ironically this probably illustrates the difference the best making the same comment in Iran (and many other countries in region) would've gotten you into a heap of trouble including putting your life directly at risk.
http://www.vivax-assist.com/en/produkte/vivax-assist-4-0/viv...

“This model has three settings,” he explained. “It produces between 50 to 75 watts for about an hour and a half, does 150 watts for an hour and in its highest setting, produces 250 watts for up to 30 minutes."

It can provide a substantial advantage at the high levels of competition.
Name an illegal US activity that was unmasked via the Manning dump.
> What's there to understand?

I can't sleep with one on, and I don't understand why it doesn't bother others who can.

> You can just wipe the watch every now and then.

Even if I could sleep with a watch on, not having a sport watch means that I would have to take it off every morning anyways, so why not just take it off at night?
If they are requiring this kind of stuff you are not a contractor you are an employee. Ask them to send over a benefits enrollment package.
The www serves as a clue that it's a URL. Most people would recognize example.com as a domain even if given no other context. Contrast that with example.design. I think to most, www.example.design would be more recognizable.
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No you shouldn't, the article suggests server-side redirection so you don't have to type www in front of the url. Many of the highest-traffic websites already do that, Twitter being a notable exception.
I write a fair bit of Apex for salesforce. I can't say I enjoy it, but it is the only game in town. My org uses salesforce for a lot of day to day stuff, and there is a lot you can do with users on cheap licenses if you're willing to write custom controllers for it.

I'm not sure if this is so much old or unfashionable, as Apex is pretty similar to java 6, but it is just not what I would call a "fun" language.
It's one-based indexing combined with length being defined as the number of entries, IIRC. There was a blog post on here a few months ago that explained how you need one or the other to minimize the need for off-by-one corrections, though I can't find it now.

I'd consider switching to numpy (ignoring organizational issues) if it didn't take 10 times as many characters to describe all the operations. If you're spending you're day doing algorithm development having least squares and every linear algebra operation you can think of as first class citizens is a huge plus for readability and code cleanliness.
What data center was it?

I can't remember the last time there was a power outage at a Tier I or II data center -- they're all N+1, from the cabinet PDUs to the distribution units to the UPSes to the diesel generators. Some even go so far as to connect to multiple in-feeds from different utility providers.

At my company, every piece of server, storage, and network equipment we own is connected via redundant power supplies to different circuits (except for nonessential equipment like monitors; we can simply re-plug them into the functioning circuit). I can't imagine running a datacenter any other way.
That may have come across stronger than intended. I didn't mean to imply that Apple doesn't innovate, just that what many would consider their largest and most well known innovations are less innovative than many believe. Even those those, are still innovative, as they always include their own advances to the state of the art when producing their new polished, iteratively leaping products. Indeed, it would be hard to successfully employ as many people as they do in the industry they are in without coming out with their own innovations.

That said, the Everything is a Remix video TeMPOraL linked in a sibling comment is good, and highlights my point of view quite nicely. Apple is good at taking mostly existing technologies and putting them together, as well as providing a high level of polish to existing combinations.
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I saw what you did. I don't think it is particularly productive nor mature. Aside from that, I don't care enough about either JADEs to contribute further to the debate.

Edit: I meant productive in the context of the current litigation. I am not supporting any side in this argument. I am, however, supporting the right of the JADE company to try to enforce their trademarks.
Beat me to it! :D
You correct. Perhaps that is why you are being downvoted.

Indeed you can trivially get a rough idea of political leanings of European parties from the university of Bergen. For example http://www.nsd.uib.no/european_election_database/country/uk/...

Obviously googling will quickly show each party's stance on any issue of interest. There are a finite number of significant parties in the EU and they are not secretive about what they stand for.

And it's hard to imagine anyone being unaware of a US politician's alignment or the difference between say Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump on say the issue of xenophobia. But perhaps chimeracoder is such a person.

I do not know about India but chimeracoder only mentioned Europe and the US

In fact, the US definition of left vs right is nearly identical to the European understanding of that difference. What differences there are would stem from the prominence of far right ideas in the US: In Europe, parties form all sides generally agree on issues such as firearm regulation, climate change, the wisdom of the metric system and the right to medical care
I've got a Time, battery's longer on that one. I do like it, though I'm not sure it was worth the $200. Price dropped really fast after the Kickstarter.
> What do you need an ssl cert for if you can't deploy a website anyway?

SSL certs are used to secure TLS connections, not just websites connections. So you can host a mail server, a mumble server, an XMPP server, or really anything that speaks TLS.

Let's encrypt has been explicitely created for websites, but that doesn't mean its certs must be used for websites only.
I maintain a code base at a multinational bank written in Brainfuck. Just kidding.
Two reasons are listed:

- DNS records

- Cookies

Both of these things seem to have been design with "www" in mind.

So the reason boils down to: original specs of various technologies are optimized around the assumption that your site will have a www (or more accurately: a subdomain rather than a naked domain).

I find "www" aesthetically unpleasant. If one must use a subdomain, how about "web" instead? It's still three characters, but much cleaner.
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Why not just use a reverse proxy and virtualhost entries? A straightforward proxy will take care of the hostnames, and SNI will handle https.
Why is this even news? Does it actually surprise you all that the CIA would have a plan to catch Snowden?
Hard to speak generally over a large audience. I bet one qualification most would ask for would be that it come from a trustworthy, 3rd party's telescope or satellite. That could certainly sway many doubters. Out of curiosity, which pieces of evidence did you find compelling or how did you come to trust its source?
> The group’s findings are detailed in a [paper published in Science Advances][0], Jan. 29.

There are some great visualizations in the PDF[1].

[0] http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/1/e1501119

[1] http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/2/1/e1501119...
Justice is not a binary thing. For example, given a same crime committed by 2+ different persons, punishment can't be the same because of the personnalities, the reasons that led each one to do what they did.

I've read that for 20 to 30 years, the US tried to make justice somewhat automated by providing some kind of grids the judges had to stick to. They stopped in 2005 because it was really not working.

You should read "Practical Wisdom" for a starter. There is more in this book than justice but everything is worth reading so you won't waste your time :)
Can anybody explain to me this push for everyone to be a programmer? Is there a belief floating out there that everyone in 10-20 years is going to have to know how to program? I just don't understand it. Who's going to teach computer science to kids? How many software devs do you know how quit their jobs to teach at a high school? If not them, who's qualified to teach this subject?

This will ultimately end up with unqualified teachers teaching computer science while kids are fucking around and playing computer games. What an atrocious waste of money. Why not spend $4B to fix piss-poor American education system so that we can produce graduates who are ready for college and not trying to catch up taking Algebra I or basic reading /English.
Your point isn't wrong, but there was no "technical purity" motivation for not implementing it from the start. It's just difficult to do well, so we only implemented the easy case (DosBox), and only the easiest of the easy cases (only one saved filesystem, no disk swapping, no ui, etc).

It's the same as printing. Everyone writes hilarious complaints in the comments on the word processors about how printing didn't work. Of course you can't print! It's an emulator running in JS in your browser!!!1! But we have ideas for how to implement it, so maybe one day it will work after all.

Saved games and networking are higher priority and are further along though.
Damn, sorry to hear that. It is however a solid argument for specificity of both requirements and interpretation and for relying less upon the judgement of individuals.

Outside of our discussion here, I honestly hope everything works out in the best way it can for you. On the bright side it's not a hacking conviction in the US?
Since you can clear it it's not a supercookie.
But this is text. Black ink.
There was also an article in the Guardian on the submitted paper.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/29/speed-reading-c...
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Not exactly a programming language, but some early mac users would know: 4D - 4th Dimension
Agreed. When I work, IM is turned off and phone is set to silent. E-mail/Twitter notifications are set to silent at all times. I still find it strange when someone's phone rings and they drop everything (sometimes literally) to answer it ASAP as if the world would end if they had to call back.
And then a site adds a sidebar and it all breaks.
This story is heartbreaking. Who is looking out for these downtrodden women? Who is looking out for their rights? It is admirable how these women continue to fight and have hope despite their problems.