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Where have you been for the last few years? What resources exactly do you think they lack? Why do you think the NSA just built a 1,000,000 square foot data center in Utah?

https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/buildi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
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In German (not the same words, but pronounced the same):

Bismarck biss Marc, bis Marc Bismarck biss.

Translates to...

Bismarck bit Marc until Marc bit Bismarck.
We detached this trainwreck of a subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11654881 and marked it off-topic.
I appreciate your reply, and I understand your point. A misdiagnosis in either direction along the organic/psychogenic axis will have unfortunate consequences for the patient. Fair enough.

I don't know if I agree with this, though:

> [T]hese people are suffering terribly, in dire need of help, and when we expend our resources chasing new diagnoses (in the absence of good reason to believe there's a new illness), we're "validating" them at the expense of actually helping them.

Was trying out nasal implants on ENS patients "validating them at the expense of actually helping them"? Because the implants apparently turned out to help in many cases.

And: what constitutes good reason to believe there's a new illness? That's a hard question, which I'm sure can and will be debated forever. But I think that the condition turning out to respond to a novel treatment -- like nasal implants, in this case -- has to be considered some degree of evidence that there's a novel illness.
This is a PR move, they won't be able to stop them completely.
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Comparison with TCP is forced. What ants actually do is regulate how many workers to send based on how quickly they return. TCP does this, but also much more.
Defaults matter. Having to assert a defense at all is a huge chilling effect.
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What's the difference between 'the stingray told us' and 'we got an anonymous tip-off that you were in the house' which is then verified by interviewing all the neighbors and only the interviews are presented to the court?
Ford's API could be copyrighted. Sure. Why not? Every car manufacturer has their own software. Why would you even want Ford's version?

The braking API isn't "bool braking;". And acceleration isn't "float accel; // [0,1]". Those systems are wildly complex. Ford's copyrighting of their API does nothing to prevent another manufacturing from making their own.
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No, I'm thinking of the landlord making that size deposit. I know of no one walking around with $3000 cash to go pay rent let alone the landlord walking even two blocks to a bank to deposit that from everyone in the building.
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Personal attacks are not welcome on HN, and the internet thing of beating on Stallman like this is distinctively unsavory. Please don't do it here.

(Obviously this has nothing to do with agreeing/disagreeing with his views.)
Well, getting five 6's in a row is 1/7776 , so I suppose it is debatable if one could establish the dice are loaded from such a small sample set.
> Who do you think is going to read that and say “some random Internet commenter is right and Google/Facebook/the NSA/etc. must all be incompetent”?

That depends on one's experience level, to have the requisite experience to recognize a solution which one should do one's homework on, when someone mentions it, and so will anyone else who has been doing this kind of work long enough. For example, the NSA has been both using and modifying (Open)Solaris for decades now; you can find their papers on securing it with IPsec and locking the OS down, as they've been released to the public. They are still relevant, both in illumos / SmartOS and security context today. Now with virtualization, cloud and containers, moreso than ever. NSA was prescient, or at the very least had common sense.

Apropos Google, Facebook, trendy... two things:

"if a hundred million flies all eat shit, surely they can't be wrong?"

I've been doing this container, virtualization and UNIX long before Facebook and Google even got the idea, even before those companies existed (;-)
When you dedicate every waking moment of your life to studying and mastering UNIX, not only professionally but privately, in time you obtain the insights needed to understand and evaluate what is and isn't good technology. Put enough priority 1 incidents and sleepless nights behind you, and you will know what works, and what doesn't.

As Paul Graham so aptly put it, "When you choose technology, you have to ignore what other people are doing, and consider only what will work the best."

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Surely the right to the drug was only worth $11B in the first place because of $84k possibilities at the other end? If it was only ever going to be $1500, that $11B would have been adjusted accordingly.
This journal also is also encouraging and rewarding good software development practices, such as documentation, licensing, having the code in version control and testing. These practices are sadly not common in scientific software, partly because there is little academic reward.
Yes, but is it really that absurd to think the govt could monitor all twitter traffic and form a superior analytical tool if it wanted to?
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This is purely speculation -- I have no reason to favor any belief about the actual state of reality here -- but it might also be subject to import restrictions.
I don't know why this got flagged. There were two links to Anthony Colpo. I tried to read them and get his point, but his style is borderline unreadable. No scientific arguments, only vitriol / straw man with lots of overloaded images. Feel free to Google him.

The flagged post was in this tone also, calling lies and requested we do not discuss the sugar hypotheses here. So you could interpret this as "The call for censorship got censored" ;)
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The outcome is not at all poor if you consider what it's optimised for: profit for the prison operators and their suppliers.
We've asked you before not to make troll accounts on HN. It's time you stopped.
Thanks, that makes sense!
Yes, it amounts to single payer healthcare for drugs.

It's different from the government buying individual doses on the market because the current price is set to achieve the fair market value of the drug by treating a small subset of infected patients. Manufacturing costs are so small in comparison, we could treat everyone for nearly the same price.
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Japanese subtitles are hard to find for various reasons, one of which is that Japanese DVDs and blurays often come without them.
There is lots of IDE vs emacs discussion in this subject.
I have been using primarily (IntelliJ+IdeaVim) and sometimes (Emacs+evil) for the last few years.

If I want to write big, complex change in a codebase in Java/Scala/Python/Javascript I would use IntelliJ. Yet IntelliJ doesn't work well in many corner cases, like very big codebases, projects in C/C++ or languages not officially supported by Jetbrains, cross language projects (even with IJ Ultimate), remote editing or just quickly opening some github repo without spending time on any project setup. And extra emacs packages like magit and org-mode are irreplaceable.

Given the emacs flexibility I was able to configure Emacs to implement majority of IntelliJ keybindings. There usually is an equivalent emacs function of package for IntelliJ behavior, e.g. M-x and IntelliJ "Find Action". Emacs helm works a lot like fuzzy matching in IntelliJ. Sometimes I only implement the "similar" behaviour, e.g. "Show usages" vs "Grep for text at point in current project" in IJ. I will be writing a blog post about it at kozikow.wordpress.com, but if you are interested now now I can send you my .emacs.d.

In this setup I can just setup "fast, always works and easy to set up, but not too powerful" code navigation using ctags/ggtags, grep/ag and projectile in emacs and avoid packages like EDT, eclim-emacs or Jedi that are more powerful, but sometimes require custom per repository setup, or are slow. I usually have both emacs and IJ opened and switch between the two. I have a keybinding in both editors for "open current file in the other editor" (emacsclient + external tool in IJ).

So in the spirit of motto of Spacemacs - "The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim nor IntelliJ, it's Emacs and Vim and IntelliJ!"
Yes, the paper won't take long to write if the software already meets the criteria in the Reviewer guidelines http://joss.theoj.org/about#reviewer_guidelines

Most scientific software probably doesn't already have all these components in place. It would be a great problem to have, to have a flood of submissions!
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An old HP Touchpad Bluetooth keyboard. It works fine though not having a meta key on the left is a bit of a pain.
It may not be that they are commercially oriented, but that they have adopted startup-like mentalities regarding "growth".

This in turn leads to all kinds of changes to appear more fashionable and appealing to the masses.

Frankly i think thats a fools errand. Seems to me that when it comes to fashionable in relation to computing, we are dealing with a Giffen Good (or perhaps even a Veblen Good). Meaning that to be a fashionable computing platform, it has to be an expensive one.

But in the process you end up with something similar to New Public Management for FOSS projects. Trying to evangelize and drum up attention as if they were pitching a for profit product, much like NPM tries to put market forces into public services.
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There's also this one, which seems to be a bit more of a structured approach: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilebasi...

The trouble I always wind up having with these though is you quickly discover that it's a huge pain in the ass trying to type code on an Android touch keyboard. Even in the days you could still get physical keyboards it was hardly pleasant. I just wind up writing a couple basic "Hello World" programs and get bored.
I wouldn't call cancer, heart disease, alzheimer's, ageing etc "the rarest disease puzzles", yet I'm not satisfied with the status quo of medical care for these problems.
Thank you for correction; grant me at least that I knew I'm commenting based on prejudices.

Note however that I don't view the American prison system as "our" ("mine") either (I'm not from the US).

And still, what I read of Indian prison is just way, way worse than what I read about the American system. Overcrowding, horrible delays in trials, abysmal hygiene. I doubt that the HCV treatment there is very good, despite there being a counseling centre.

"In India, overcrowding has aggravated the problem of hygiene. In many jails, conditions are appalling. At the tehsil level jails, even rudimentary conveniences are not provided. Prisoners in India are not even tested for specific infectious diseases, although all prisoners undergo a medical examination when they begin serving their sentence. No studies of the prevalence of viral infections among prison inmates have been done at a national level. India’s prison manuals provide for segregation of prisoners suspected of having contagious diseases. A few jails have established informal contacts with medical and social organizations for counseling of inmates to prevent the spread of infections."
Like it feeeels wrong.. but I can never articulate what the problem is with parallel construction. Can someone give a quick explanation of why?
I'm more understanding of it now that I have children.

I know that I can deprive myself in order to avoid unethical work. But my children? I think I could, but it'd be bloody hard emotionally, and I have more sympathy for people who fail that test these days.
Let's not single out the US for that. There are quite a lot of places (many even worse than the US) that use imprisonment for punishment and as a deterrent, rather than rehabilitation. It's society's dirty little secret, that some members of it just want "Bad People" to be punished.
I'd be interested to know this as well. The UK has plenty of suburbs, and it's both got a fairly unpredictable climate and much smaller amount of usable land.

Does Russia not have them or something?
As a software developer, I am inclined to trust the surgeon more.
It's in their interest since they have an open alternative in .net core
On your first point in my experience if you use a net with logistic output nodes and you feed it an input that looks nothing like any of the (labeled) training examples I would expect to see low values for all outputs. I would add the caveat that there may be the odd input that is not an example of a class that still provides an erroneous high confidence output but this is not common. These are the types of nets that I have the most experience with. I don't have a link for this, only my recollections from when I was working with these types of nets. I did once see a paper that proved the relationship between P(C|x) and logistic output values trained with the squared error loss but I don't remember if it applied to the case you're talking about and I doubt I could find it again, it may even be behind a paywall I no longer have access to.

I don't think this holds with a softmax output layer because I think that provides an output vector that is implicitly normalized across all classes. It also obviously doesn't hold if you explicitly normalize the sum of the output vector to 1.

For your second point I'm not sure I disagree with what you're saying, certainly not on the basis of the example you provided before since I would never expect to see 0's and 1's in the output of a net.

EDIT: After thinking about this some more I realized that I may have been mistaken in what I said above. It may be that for an unknown input you would expect to see a high entropy output distribution whose sum is close to 1 but where the average output value is about 1/N (ie. the number of output classes). If this is the case then the logistic and softmax cases would be similar. This still indicates a low confidence though, I wouldn't expect to see outputs in the upper quartile, unlike for a cleanly recognized input where you might see 0.8 or 0.9. I'm going to try this with a net I've trained for mnist using random inputs to check but unfortunately I have to retrain the net since I didn't save it and my laptop's busy with another task that I don't want to stop now so it may take a while.
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Suppose that instead of the secret cell phone tracker evidence and the parallel construction, it was an undercover witness and a random bystander witness. Instead of having the undercover officer testify in court and thereby reveal themselves, the cops instead use the undercover witness's information to locate the bystander (e.g. the undercover witness remembered seeing the bystander and gave the police his description to help them find the bystander), and they have the bystander testify in court instead of the undercover witness, and they never say at the trial how they found this witness. Are the police allowed to do this? Should they be? If they are, is it any different from "parallel construction"starting from secret cell phone evidence instead of secret witness testimony? (I'm genuinely curious. I don't know the answers to any of these questions.)

Edit: I guess in order to make the analogy more accurate, I would have to specify that the undercover agent knows they did something illegal that would make their own testimony inadmissible as evidence, and this is the motivation for finding the bystander.
Remember why there are govt protections for these things in the first place.

Imagine a spectrum - on one side, there are no protections, and people can copy ideas, implementations, etc. For some industries this is no big deal, but for others it would seriously harm the production of new ideas/products, because it remove any financial incentive. Take writers for example: While I think the US copyright terms are stupidly long, I wouldn't want to live in a world where the only books written and published were done so as labors of love.

On the other end of the spectrum is a collection of hard, strong rules governing the use of any other ideas. On this end too few new ideas/products are made, because it is in the short-term financial interests of those that have the lock on any market to prevent competition or disruption. We have several industries quite close to this end of the spectrum.

The happy place for society is in-between these areas. Lower barriers of entry for potential competitors, so that they can compete. Does this mean that some of these competitors would benefit from the hard work of those that came before? Absolutely! But the alternative is making the barriers to entry too high, so that no competitor can gain traction because they can't be better in all ways and produce an industry interested in compatibility overnight. (Witness Linux and device drivers for a good example)

The reason govt offer protections for various areas is NOT to benefit a small number of companies or individuals (in theory) - it's to benefit the whole of society, in the long-term (which should include those companies and individuals, along with future companies and individuals).

It's not about protecting that which is _that good_, but about pushing us towards _even better_.
I think it's because there is more gas in cold water. This results in ice that has more bubbles in it and conducts heat more poorly, and prevents the latent heat from being removed from the yet unfrozen parts of the water.
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Lisp is getting on a bit, but even the greyest of Lisp hackers haven't quite racked up a hundred years of Lisp...
A price is changed by fluctuations of supply and demand. If demand is rising or supply is shrinking, price goes up, and vice versa. Since real estate brokers don't hold onto any real estate, they don't buy it, they don't affect supply or demand, and blaming them is as crazy as blaming weather forecasters for bad weather.
The main reason is not present in this implementation, which is that clients could execute arbitrary lower-level code in a separate process which the browser was powerless to make secure.
> As an example: I've never logged into a Solaris / Illumos machine which was current on security updates because the admins didn't have the confidence which Debian admins have had since the 90s that updates won't break things.

I want to adress this separately: UNIX and Solaris, from which SmartOS stems, practically invented the concept of backwards compatibility, the guaranteed not to break application binary interface, and paranoia about end to end data integrity. The system administrators' concerns are themselves disconcerting: imagine you need to have a brain tumor removed, and the surgeon who is to remove it is not specialized in neurosurgery? You write about sysadmins who are unfamiliar with the subject matter... and as professional system administrators, they well should be. With this in mind, would you trust them to know what they are doing?
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That statistic seems a little misleading to me, because very large parts of the world don't consume any prescription drugs at all, because they're too poor to go to the doctor.
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Your first link seems to not work.
I followed this a bit during the GSOCs. Seems to have stalled unfortunately?
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Come on, it's not like they're commanding people to do something. They're making an argument why doing it would be beneficial. What's wrong with that?
It short-circuits the fourth ammendment, which protects against unreasonable searches. The way this is enforced in the real world is that evidence is thrown out of court if it was obtained in an unlawful search. With parallel construction, you render useless the only enforcement mechanism for the fourth ammendment.

Not to mention the deception. In order to use parallel construction, the police need to make up a story about why they began investigating. By definition, parallel construction means that they will lie in court about this.

The courts really need to wake up, or they will continue to be impotent lackeys of the executive branch.
Note that mapcodes are patented while MGRS references are public.

And you should have a look at the criticisms of Ireland's recently introduced Eircode system: http://www.techcentral.ie/eircode-and-the-geographical-forma...
The position I stated in my post above I do hold and do endorse as a good philosophy for life. However, the conclusions you have drawn do not follow logically from what I stated. All I said was that one should not discriminate based on innate attributes. I said nothing about other forms of discrimination. You have made the assumption that the inverse of my statement is true: that because I denounce discrimination based on attributes outside of people's control that I must support discrimination based on attributes within their control. This is not a logical conclusion of my statement and is not true.

Generally speaking, I reject discrimination against people based on any attributes, within or without their control, except those attributes which directly pertain to the subject in question. So, for example, in a job situation, ideally, the only attributes we should be using to discriminate between candidates are their experience, knowledge, and ability to fulfill the duties of the position. If the job requires lifting heavy weights, discriminating upon your ability to lift heavy weights is fine. Discriminating based on sex (maybe justified because statistically most women are not strong enough to perform the duties) is not fine, because it is an indirect attribute. If this women meets the requirements it is irrelevant what other women can or cannot do.

In this case with Uber and Lyft the city/state has the right (one could argue duty) to take steps to ensure the trustworthiness/safety of drivers operating commercial transportation services within its jurisdiction. Race does not say anything about the trustworthiness or criminal nature of a specific person. Even if, hypothetically, you assume that statistically one race is more prone to violence than another that does not speak directly about this candidate. It is an indirect measure like the example of sex above. An accurate background check, however, can shed light on facts in a person's past that are directly relevant to that question.
So people do pointless work to "earn" their bread? This is not a society I would like to live in.
I don't think such retaliation will ever happen. Many lobbyists will be waiting in the hallway of US Senate before ink of the signature dries.
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