skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds very similar to a warrant canary - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
No, my point is that "what is great" is random and not inherently reflected by what becomes mainstream. In fact, it's very possible that age influence the process due to younger inventors have less resources like capital, investors, network, etc.
>Unfortunately, this police officer spent a ridiculous amount of time tracking down someone with no real op-sec skills simply because he wasn't trained to track someone on the web.

No. This isn't about someone without OPSEC skills.

This guy was actively trying to get caught, livestreaming these swats and publicly taunting LE on twitter. And even then it took LE disproportionate amounts of time to get to him.
There are tricks you can do to draw attention to things. The Portal and Half-Life 2 Episodes developer commentaries include quite a few discussions of how they designed their environments to nudge players into noticing stuff.

For example, in HL2 Episode 1 there's a scene where you're walking across a bridge and a huge helicopter comes up beside you. To ensure that players were looking the right way to be surprised by it, they put an enemy in the distance firing (ineffectually) at the player to attract attention.
Physical property rights aren't natural either. We depend on the government to prevent theft. Without that, anybody strong enough could just break into our house and take what they wanted.

What may be natural, is the human feeling of ownership. But that isn't always aligned with the legal definition. For example poor people feeling that their gentrifying neighborhood is being taken away from them, even when they didn't "own" any land in it. Plagiarism too - we don't like to see others take credit for our work or ideas (which aren't copyright).

For-pay copyright sounds like a good idea. I wonder though if it would prevent many lucky great work getting off the ground. You'd have to predict in advance that it might be successful before paying the fee. Poor creators of work would lose their right to copyright because they didn't want to take that gamble on everything they produced.
I feel reasonably confident that there aren't karma rewards for people with more karma than me, although there should be some kind of sick reward for it.
I guess once we have thrown away universal empathy we may as well throw away the natural numbers, the concept of a line or using categories to designate things we have never seen. I mean what's the point of calling a table a table if I will never be able to hold all existing tables in my head?

More seriously, infinite concepts are usually really simple to conceive for most human minds, it's much more complicated to look at real life objects clashing with mental objects and extract new meaningful concepts that may help solve those inconsistencies.

>And then the pendulum swung back. People do care, newspaper editorialists and social-media commenters granted. But they care inconsistently: grieving for victims of Brussels’ recent attacks and ignoring Yemen’s recent bombing victims; expressing outrage over ISIS rather than the much deadlier Boko Haram; mourning the death of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe while overlooking countless human murder victims. There are far worthier tragedies, they wrote, than the ones that attract the most public empathy.

>[...] If we recognized that we have a limited quantity of empathy to begin with, it would help to cure some of the acrimony and self-flagellation of these discussions. [...] We must begin with a realistic assessment of what those limits are, and then construct a scientific way of choosing which values matter most to us.

For example in the above paragraph the author seems to extract that the meaning of those criticism is that we should feel bad about ourselves. I don't think that's the point, I agree that self-flagellation is improductive, but we can rationally examine those kinds of inconsistent beliefs and emotions. Is the way we look at those other people influencing how we act towards them? Do those actions affect how they act towards us? Is there any chance of reconciliation?

The author also seems to blindly accept the belief that personal intervention is the only way to reduce misery, with no place for cold restructuring of society in a way that avoid generating that misery in the first place, done in a cold calculated way, with no need to deplete our precious, finite, empathy.
Yeah, technical solutions alone are not the answer. There's still the $5 wrench, or in the government's case, the threat of jail time for contempt of court should a real encryption bill pass.

To really protect the right to free speech we need both technical tools that are easy for everyone to verify, and a society who believes laws banning encryption are worthless.

Anything short of that is a risk that we flop into a state that is afraid of words.
Could find a way or should find a way? I don't think anybody has found such a way. We might not be able to.
Rich Hickey is definitely an interesting person.

The questions for me is that do we actually want to master a bare bones instrument (for example a violin) or do we want to make music.
First of all we are only hearing the parent's side of the story. For all we know there may be other concerns.

These parents broke the law. It is against the law to hit their children no matter the reason. When you move to a foreign country you need to follow the law. You don't expect the service to leave children in the homes of potentially abusive parents while they investigate?
Such as? I'd say that's the bare minimum starting point for something that deserves the name democracy. That doesn't mean it's a panacea.
That's not the point. A lawyer advocating for a client will often genuinely believe in their cause. They're still advocating. Unlike an academic article, the lawyer's brief will be entirely one-sided; the lawyer will leave out valid, well-supported arguments that don't strengthen their case.
Where are you going to host, then? None of the Five Eyes countries, so that rules out the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia. (Indeed, New Zealand is ahead of the totalitarian curve here, with proposals to give blanket exemptions to any law broken by the security services as long as they claim they had a good faith belief they needed to).

France? Much worse history on encryption than the US.

Germany? Officially better, but the intelligence services have been revealed to be essentially ignoring German law when it gets in the way of working with their US counterparts.

And so on and so forth.
Personal opinion: Because Java was all the rage when these people (the programmers) went to college, and so that is what was drilled into them.

Many universities, too, are working on out-dated development practices, because the supervising professors either have never worked in Industry, and so are stagnated in terms of tool selection (I'm working on a project right now that still uses SVN), so the students think that that is the correct approach.

People are slow to change.

Last possibility: perhaps Java is a good choice given the nature (cross-compatibility) and relatively fast speed of the modern JVM.
That sounds about right. More word play and characters would entail more processing needed for comprehension.
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Some protectionism helps poorly developed industries grow locally until they're competitive enough to compete globally (eg postwar Japan). However, other protectionism maintains inefficient industries at the expense of poor people in other countries who could do the same job cheaper (eg US agriculture)
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I completely disagree.

Yes, we need to quantify tradeoffs between models mathematically, but that does not not require knowledge of the mathematics behind the models themselves. With cross validation, I can estimate the effectiveness of many black box models, without looking inside them. This step is called error estimation, and comes before model selection.

I can arrive at a pretty good model by a combination of correct methodology and brute force. It is this methodology that makes up much more of the overall picture. You could give me a black box, a rough range of parameters it takes, and I can tell you how likely it is to work well. This approach doesn't scale well to bigger problems, but I doubt tackling Big Data problems is the intention behind this course.
That sounds like a great technical solution.

I still think MS should pursue their case but I wonder why they have not set up the system you're describing, given that another commenter's link suggests it is legal [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
Wow, OSC is a gay child molester, nobly suppressing his individual desires for the benefit of society, other humans and his moral code? We need more men like him in this world.
These would probably be fairly difficult to detect. The vast majority of the radio messages we have leaked into space over the last 100 years or so weren't focused. By the time they reached a neighbouring star they might be hard to distinguish from background noise. Also let's say someone did manage to detect these signals and they were 80ly's away. They might not have detected them until say 2000, and if they immediately send back a message, we would not receive this until 2080.

I think our best hope is that an Alien civilisation has begun the search for extrasolar planets, like we have. They will be able to analyse the composition of our atmosphere using spectroscopy.

With this information they would either decide that life either exists or is very likely to exist here, and so would begin transmitting a constant and unmissable signal to us in the hope that we would eventually detect it. Providing we manage to monitor the right frequency and look at the right point in the sky..... as life has existed here on earth for Billions of years, perhaps this signal is already been sent to us and we just need to find it....

It's a long shot but perhaps it's the best one we have.
Absolutely, just the other day I was reminiscing about playing J2ME games in my little phone while I was growing up. There were some true gems in there.
I have no idea, but I know that I will face this exact situation in a few years.
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I've always been impressed by the Nintendo dev kits I've read through and sometimes used.

http://n64devkit.square7.ch/

http://www.chrisantonellis.com/files/gameboy/gb-programming-...
Thanks for sharing, perfect Saturday morning reading for a fellow SEGA nut!

Some great anecdotes and info I had never read about before - I might as well further support these translation efforts via patreon!
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The things that make connections fast or slow are sometimes opaque to users. For the market to really deal with these problems we'd need to give participants better information, either through technical or legislative means.

For example, say I'm paying for a connection with a 20 Mbps upload speed but when I upload to backblaze my upload only runs at 10 Mbps. The problem could be my hard disk, filesystem, CPU, software, wifi, router/modem, ISP, or backblaze themselves.

Currently we don't do a particularly good job of giving nontechnical users the information they need to make rational decisions about what they need to change or upgrade.
I am not sure that would count as working on the set. It looks like iteration.

From the article:

a) 1___ 2___ 3___ 4___ 5___ 6___ 7___ 8___ 9___

Thinks of them as a set or subsets of entities and operates on those, or specifies them with plurals. Example: Buy all of the books that are red.

b) 1___ 2___ 3___ 4___ 5___ 6___ 7___ 8___ 9___

Uses iteration (i.e. loop) to operate them explicitly. Example: For each book, if it is red, buy it.

In your case it looks like you are operating on each item and not on the set.
They also have much smaller constituencies, which makes their seats safer. Madigan's 22nd is 1/8th the size of Danny Davis's 7th Congressional.
Mozilla developer revealed, Pale Moon developer decides to make it public
Some update to the conflict between Mozilla and Palemoon.

The maintainer of the Palemoon project seems to be willing to give away at least the name of the developer in question which was responsible for the - claimed - attack:

"The "desk jockey trying to save his job" (your words, not ours) was nobody less than Al Billings. I don't think his job is in any danger. I'm not sure if you should bother him with questions to verify what has been discussed in private between us but you're free to do so. I just don't see it as good form to publicly post our e-mail conversation.
And FTR, I can really do without something like this so I wouldn't post it unless there was a reason. We don't need any posts to "cry for negative attention".

But of course anyone is free to continue to think I would pull this out of my hat."

Found here: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=11810&start=20#p83307
+1

Also Apple has abandoned it. Last update was 5 months ago.
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Yeah, I'm from Europe and definitely see him as a dictator who has stolen the country elections and is about as corrupt as Berlusconi or or our Spanish counterparts.
Nothing special I guess. Mostly the rust book and reference manual + duckduckgo search which bring up the odd blog post or SO question.

But I think it depends a lot on your previous experience. If you have experience of other languages, particularly c/c++ and some functional style thing like Haskell there isn't that much of a mental barrier IMHO.
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> We don't have any control over the fact that medicine and physics are complicated because they reflect nature.

I don't agree that this is all that different.

In physics, some phenomenons can be either simple or complex to describe, depending on what formalism you use to describe them. And sometimes, complex formalisms can be hard to understand at first, but help producing simpler description of the phenomenons your looking at.

For example functions and derivatives are hard to understand at first, but they drastically simplify the description of classical physics.

So in programming just as in physics, you just need the right conceptual tools to describe your problem.
And while boolean logic may be hard to understand at first, it really helps specifying complex behaviors.

In that sense, I think I agree with GP: over simplifying the conceptual tools may not results in better problem descriptions.
Traditionally in American politics (and doubtless in other countries too) if someone cuts your budget or doesn't increase your budget as much as you'd like, you can put pressure on them by announcing you're being "forced" to dump something useful and popular.

Local government wants more money? Threaten to close libraries. Air force wants more money? Threaten to retire a plane famous for its effectiveness in a recent conflict.
Actually, most mods are not closed source anymore and most modders moved to CurseForge over adf.ly (which is not perfect, I admit, but much better). This is not 2012.
So what is a “pure programming language” anyway?
IC2 never stopped development, it just became... different.
I would agree that there's plenty of theory that isn't necessary to know, but anyone using a machine learning algorithm should at least understand what the mathematical machinery can and can't do.

A big part of this this knowing how best to fit a model to the data, which usually requires knowledge of mathematical obscurities to avoid things like overfitting, local optima, etc. It's not glamorous stuff though, so it usually isn't brought up in presentations like this one.
Elite universities are not for expanding the gentry class. They are so that the elite can meet other elite as they are extremely distributed geographically, get married and continue on the class system. The lower class people that go there are aiming to join the elite, but the vast majority of them simply become highly paid servants to the owning class. We like to think that startups made by dropouts establish that anyone can make it big, but for the most part these startups are children of millionaires living off trust funds until they break through; like Trump, no one should consider these rags to riches stories, accomplished though they may be.

The main point is that for elites, their schools are so that their girls can bring a nice boy home and not some trash from main street while their boys can find a wife that actually stands a chance at domesticating them.

It's really just that most geeks are so focused on their projects that they forget that there are more important things, like their family. Hence why we constantly hear incredibly talented but socially awkward people call for the repeal of school. Because social things don't mean anything to them. They generally become tools of the elite class.

I generally agree with the idea of creating environments where people can meet their future family because finding a quality spouse is extremely difficult without expensive and fool-proof filters in place. Connecting it with education is inevitable because children and young adults are nearly useless in a modern economy. We can't make it excellent education because there is a lot of economic and social pressure for truly talented individuals to abandon academia in favor of the market. My main complaint is that the elites are no longer virtuous so they do not deserve to exist anymore.
Gatling is my preference.

http://gatling.io/

It's the successor to JMeter, self-hosted on a server (or multiple servers), and provides a lot of useful features. Some very nice reporting, full useragent control, path of access if you want (visit /index then /post then POST a comment then reload /index then...), and lots of other stuff.

It's a bit of a pain to learn to script, but it's also much cheaper if you're testing frequently than the various SAAS solutions.
I don't disagree - but this sentiment can easily mislead. While it's folly to think any set of rules will be perfect, it's also folly to conclude that just because a rule has absurd corner cases that it therefore has no value overall.

Ironically (given the complaint Mr Ackerman voiced) one way to encourage imperfections in rules is to allow lobbying, which biases the decision making process towards small, focused groups that have a lot to gain by affecting the rules over large, general benefits.
There's a really great book, now out of print, called Tolstoy's Bicycle, which is an encyclopedia of the ages at which people achieved notability (not always success) The title comes from Tolstoy riding a bicycle for the first time age 67. Reading that, you'll see that success can come at any age.
> I doubt they have to do this stuff

Perhaps they do not have to, but they should if they want to retain and grow customers in the future.

Anyone who's been bitten by data theft will tune into this. I imagine that includes any major business. MS is jumping on the bandwagon before it falls behind in the PR campaign. This could be the next campaign similar to environmental friendliness or human rights. It's not enough for tech companies to be "green" or have good factory conditions. Now that they hold so much user data, they must also demonstrate their commitment to security and transparency.
Seconded. After I saw and heard how blind people use screen readers (with experience), I started accelerating audio. You can train your brain to become better at understanding — I started at 1.25x and slowly worked my way up. I am now at 1.75x - 2x (plus Overcast's silence removal) and I have no problems, even though English isn't my native language.

Two requirements: headphones (you need much more processing power to deal with crappy speakers and poor audio in general) and lack of significant distractions (you can't afford to think about something else). Also, some apps have crappy audio acceleration algorithms. Overcast does it so well that I use it also for listening to audiobooks.

I also think the article is misinformed. You can speed read by regularly training your brain. Just don't expect miracles and don't believe the "experts" who try to sell you miracles.
Do you mean linking C++ .so built by gcc5?
the past-querying sounds a lot like reactive programming, doesn't it? you lay out an expression (and you would be typically using set/aggregate operations there as well) and the expression kinda just sits there quietly, accumulates events until a certain condition or threshold is reached, when it fires a signal further down the chain...
Correctly, but the state must say what accuse you of ...

If I do something wrong, take me (to prison or whatever), not my kids ...

PS: I'm not part of the family, but I support the parents.

Note: Imagine that you are a parent, have a kid and it's at my kindergarten. I didn't finished a psychology school, but I think something is wrong on your family and make a complaint about you.

They first take the kid and after try to see what is the problem, but won't say you exactly ... for the children protection.
Sorry, honestly, it doesn't make sense for "democracy".
And I disagree with that.

Tuning parameters and selecting features needs (a) understanding of the model(s) used and (b) an understanding of the data.

'Brute forcing' these steps can grow exponentially in time (eg. feature selection out of n features takes 2^n combinations) and makes your approach not only very inefficient but also doesn't predict if you have a good model. Your approach makes sensitivity analysis makes very very hard.
While I see your point, there is also a difference in kind between no one buying your painting at $1000 because it isn't worth that much, and no one buying any painting for $1000 because they are afraid and being extra causcious with the money...
Empathy =! Compassion.
I do not know why this is downvoted. It is correct.

There is a very important context to the 'he called him a goat fucker': The - admittedly very crude - 'poem' he made is embedded in the context of basically explaining what the German law is about, and what you can not say.

There is also another part of history: Erdogan complained about another, earlier satire show on German TV. Boehmermann was referencing this and the earlier attempts of censorship by Erdogan, and basically said 'look, we could call you this, but we didn't, we just clearly expressed our opinions and this is our freedom of expression here in Germany'.
I didn't activate two-step verification cause the process was a little bit of a hassle (I'm lazy). But when upgrading to last iOS update I was prompted to activate two-step authentication and I was a really smooth process. Already experienced the 6 digit & map over last weeks so I didn't figured out at all this was new.

I guess they first roll-out the feature on people like me who didn't activate old method. If everything goes fine I guess they will prompt everyone to switch to the new method on the next update.
Good to know. What sysrems has that company built that resisted nation-state or top-tier effort to break the security? Probably nothing? Further, is this one time or will they review in parallel with each code submission?

These kind of questions should lead you to the conclusion they'll merely find and patch some flaws. Others will remain or be introduced.
Apparently a TCS employee consulting at a US hospital running Epic's software employee created a false employee account and used it to access massive amounts of documentation cf. http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/consultant-stole-tr...
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Not true. The EFF lobbies, for example. I think this is OK. But I'd like the times and minutes of their meetings to be publicly available and searchable.
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