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>Snowden outed the US Government as ever conspiracy theorist's worst nightmare minus lizard people

Not even close.

For one, many non-crackpots (IT/infosec professionals and academics) strongly suspected NSA possessed capabilities similar to these and were probably exploiting them for many years before Snowden. Most details weren't known, but many people were not remotely surprised by the revelations.

Actual conspiracy theorists tend to believe far more ridiculous scandals. Most of them believe mass homicides are orchestrated by governments to achieve political goals (Bush destroyed WTC to invade Afghanistan and Iraq; Obama murdered Sandy Hook children to pass stricter gun control legislation). If any conspiracy like that were ever proven in the same way NSA surveillance was, the shitstorm would (justifiably) be 1000x worse.

But it is true that history almost definitely will not treat NSA's current actions kindly. It's only a matter of how far away we are from that time.
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This is about a particular new product, so i'm not 100% sure on posting it, but it does seem rather useful for makers etc in our communities.
...similar to spack...

Isn't this effectively equivalent to version-controlling a shell script that contains a set of 'curls' or 'clones'?

What I had in mind would be more invisible and self-contained within the VCS.

It would effectively be a meta-VCS.
Because Scott Walker asked
>rest of us who enjoy sweet foods

I'll wager there are more on HN, who cut down or take no sugar.

I left it about 10 months back. And recently in a movie hall, I had to take tea with sugar (as their machine could only serve with sugar, very strange!) . So I grudgingly took it. But when I tasted it, it felt yuck! I could barely finish that. So I can say that the GP was not exaggerating greatly, perhaps slightly.
Depending on how it's pixelated, I seems that there is a trend of making more pixels because it looks cooler but also reduces the masking power of the process considerably.

I would think that a 64 by 64 grid could be sufficient for pretty high level of confidence matching. And matching doesn't need to be perfect it often is far from it it needs to be good enough to provide a basis for elimination.

It might even work with considerably lower resolutions because with video pixels aren't static and they change so you get considerably more data than what you would get out of a single frame, once you account for things like lighting and video compression you can get quite a bit of data out of it.

This is not that dissimilar from analysing aerial or geospatial photography you can have features represented by a single pixel sometimes and you need to identify them with high enough confidence so you develop models based on how the pixels would "change" over time, or how would the effect nearby pixels at the end this what allows you to distinguish between a tank and an SUV or between a man holding a gun and a man holding a cat, these aren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination but we have put decades of work into this.

I would assume that you can both extrapolate directly and indirectly apply a lot of those methods onto facial recognition of pixelated images.
What I'm learning so far is that these DNC people are quite sophisticated in their data analysis of donors. Fascinating.
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The competition angle isn't what scares me, it's the incentives created by the appearance that Monsanto, an entity whose primary income streams come from utilizing, manipulation, and corrupting the common-sense understanding of IP laws (even unto victimizing farmers who experience pollen drift from nearby farms which use Monsanto products [0]) has generated an exit at over 20% bump in share price.

IMO, the IP legal structure surrounding Monsanto's activities is no different than a direct government subsidy to that company, and given its downright evil actions, I don't think most voters want to subsidize it.

0: https://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.displa...
When you're amazon, you can negotiate anything. They're probably the single biggest online credit card merchant.
The ability to create seeds that can only be controlled by your own pesticides and/or medications could be interesting. and scary. Politics aside, can that be an antitrust issue?

[edit: also, is this another "quiet" inversion also? US loses another business for tax purposes?]
The whole blameless postmortem is kind of laughable coming from a company well known (at least in the Boston area) for a culture of abuse towards engineers and a high turnover.
The article says The tie-up, which will give the new company control of more than 25% of the world's supply of seeds and pesticides, comes amid a wave of mergers in the agriculture sector.

I'm skeptical that there is any particular public benefit to allowing the merger, but it seems a bit exaggerated to talk about the new entity owning the market.
Trying to cram in your relaxation time during your commute is, like, the opposite of relaxing.
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And they don't care so long as it makes more money--and is more or less required by the investment model.

By way of analogy, I know some tech events that the organizers keep deliberately small to maintain the feel of the event. But it's a lot easier to do that when you don't have investors looking for hypergrowth.
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Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12484104
I wouldn't think of "people who purchased this also purchased" as an ad. An ad is characterized as not relevant to the current activity, but these recommendations usually are (except when they are hilarious, but that's another thing).
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While raw "existence" is free, a sheltered existence is most certainly not. In many areas it is illegal to live in a tent or in a car, for example. It is also illegal to camp in a national forest for longer than 2 weeks.
'We need human interaction': meet the LA man who walks people for a living
Oh, he's always hated Google. During the original Oracle vs Google case he was shilling so hard I just assumed he was getting brown paper packages full of cash from Larry.

Of course some of his criticisms are valid and Google is guilty of some of the accusations he levels - but there is zero attempt to provide any context let alone any balance.
25% seems very generous for Obama. He's been very pro-intelligence community from inauguration until now (at least that we know of). But I'd agree he's definitely the only potential hope.
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Thanks for the tip. I'm hunting around for alternatives, and will try a few to see if I prefer them to Lavazza.
This chart from the bureau of labor statistics shows where our time goes. Work is the # 1 activity, followed by sleep.

http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/
People often think this sort of expiry is due to some shocking technical deficit - but it's actually more often due to things like organisational change (people not handing over responsibilities correctly) or important information (e.g. on parts of the CDN infrastructure) not making across a migration to a new internal wiki.

My app [1] actually has users who use Let's Encrypt - which has totally reliable email reminders before expiry - but still like the idea of having a long list of backup contacts and a company that will follow up on them to prevent an expiry in production.

[1] https://www.httpsmonitor.com
Thats why I mentioned "have been". But such drugs are still being sold.patented and used.
#5 is the root of #3. Police should be well trained in the operations of their firearms, but at the end of the day the vast majority never draw their weapon outside of training.

My state police force specifically uses the phrase "paramilitary organization" to describe itself. They do not view themselves as civilians charged with protecting other civilians (which is what they are). They view themselves as a higher subset, with different rules and laws.
I would think that you would look at in in terms of the (for example) corn market rather than in terms of the Agglomerated Monster corn market. So the Agglomerated Monster corn would just be a product in the corn market, not a monopoly in the Agglomerated Monster corn market.
Even aside from social stuff I don't really finish everything I hope to every week. I don't know about everyone else.
I agree. It's like he wasted his efforts.
I've known that I've had an internet addiction for years. I've tried to break it multiple times but always relapse. Something that makes it hard is that there are real, tangible benefits to spending time online, even just aimless browsing and stumbling into things. I would not be the person I am today if it weren't for certain random links I clicked on at certain times.

The important thing is that I need to always remember that it's an addiction and I need to get it under control. I think limiting myself to a half hour or hour a day would be best.
New Twitter App Streams N.F.L. Games and Other Sports
Not sure why you're getting downvoted; the point around these services being opt in seems valid.
I think Trump is in favour of Snowden being executed, isn't he?
> I don't understand how an American citizen could be afraid of exercising their free speech rights -- if they are violated, then one can vocally draw attention to their situation. I'm really not afraid of repercussions as a random American.

Because some random American has no practical recourse in such an event.
Looks amazing, I wonder how much is possible without writing code?
> I like to think people are generally good

Any study of history will almost immediately dispel you of this view.
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The U.S. border security has been monitoring social media for years.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Buntin...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/us-custom...
So true about value types.
However this will flip flop the whole memory experience in JDK9. I mean even if a LocalDateTime could be represented as a Value Type would be a significant amount of memory saving on our backend. And there is other stuff which adds a unnecessary amount, too. I mean we still get a lot of Long / Int boxes. Hopefully Java 10 will reduce that.

We are on Scala and I guess Valhalla will also make Scala even more awesome with Value Types. I could consider that half of the case classes could be real Value Types.
Yeah, if you "choose" to be a hermit living in the woods I suppose you can cross off the 40 hours a week for work too.
The hope behind learning paradigms, like OO or functional, is that you can transfer what you learned in one language to another. So if you're just looking to level up your OO, your best bet is to pick up the most interesting OO book you can find and just follow along. I like Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz.

It's going to be difficult to find excellent OO resources for every conceivable language and stack.
As a European, I don't find it being decided in the US any better.

And that's where most of the companies that make the decisions are...
Out of curiosity, is there any reference that breaks down the costs of approval process? Like how much goes to fees in trial, staff, etc.
>Bayer has been involved in controversies regarding some of its drug products; its statin drug Baycol (cerivastatin) was discontinued in 2001 after 52 people died from renal failure, and Trasylol (aprotinin), used to control bleeding during major surgery, was withdrawn from the markets worldwide when reports of increased mortality emerged; it was later re-introduced in Europe but not in the US.[0]

Can't wait to see what "pharmaceutical" solutions they will bring up together!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer
By logging into "hacker news" regularly, mentioning the NSA (and probably other key terms: data collection, US citizen) I'm sure you are already on a list.
That's what I was thinking too. It seems to me that a certain intelligence might be a requirement for having good social skills, i.e. a good "theory of mind" of individuals around you. Therefore, it would make sense that social skills and intelligence must co-evolve. Total conjecture, of course.
I saw this covered first in the BBC documentary: The Secret Life of the Dog [1]. If you can find a copy online then it's definitely worth watching; super interesting.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pssgh
I've never seen this behavior with my own devices, and cursory searching turns up similar results. Certainly I could be wrong, so can you point me to any references that describe the "proximity not required" behavior?
Furthermore, the Maps TOS is one that demands the sort of indefinite total picture use rights that everyone complained about to have changed for fb, Flickr etc.
They have solved everything in Scandinavia. They've just about solved black vs white racism too. Yes, go look it up.
I think this is more of a maintainability/readability case. Your suggestion sounds like premature optimization to me.
This makes it quite clear that these devices are intended and used for the routine disruption of a licensed radio system ... which is Federal offence in the US. The interesting question here is; why? Why would someone working in law enforcement risk a year in jail just so they can do warrantless wiretapping? That suggests a certain level of desperation.

One answer is that we to a certain extent make it impossible for law enforcement to do their job any other way. We have a lot of laws on the books where none of the people violating those laws are likely to go down to a police station and file a complaint. The prohibition on illegal drugs is a good example. It's like asking a friend to help you with your diet while forbidding them from looking in your fridge. Your friend is likely to look in your fridge if they don't just refuse to help at all. We are sending mixed signals.

Another answer is purely economic. It is very expensive to have law enforcement people sitting around on stakeouts and/or following people. It saves a tremendous amount of time and effort if you can find out where people are going to be. If warrantless surveillance becomes technologically impossible, then we are going to have to pay a lot more salaries to have all our laws enforced.
That's part of the reason I guess (density).
Agreed. But I'm still using domain-based blocking on my router as an additional line of defense for clients that cannot malware-block.
Check out Robert Nystrom's Game Programming Patterns:

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html
I remember stumbling across this book in my university library back in 2000, that really helped me understand the principles when all the other books were talking far more about syntax and functionality without really explaining the "why" part.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Object-Oriented-Programm...
Interestingly, that prompt has made me more likely to take pictures of the outside of a location to share. I think that suggests it is likely that it is working for their purpose, which is to add tons of photos of obscure locations.
I thought that was a very reasonable "ask." There are likely a variety of factors that may affect the make-up of a candidate pool. If there aren't any options then that is the issue. I think it's worthwhile to discuss that. Once you let people know there is an imbalance in your candidate pool you might see a shift.

I have been in the room when an all male team voted to not hire a woman - just in principle. That team was had a myopic view and an emphasis on their "comfort level." To be clear, their arguments were ridiculous, and I was the only one to make the argument for that inclusion.

Unfortunately, if you just work off the stats you will get little diversity because of deeply embedded social biases.

Diversity has value. Acknowledging that, and identifying it when you see it improves an organization.
But Apple is about as bad and invasive in its data practices. You prefer their controlled integrated system, but that doesn't make Apple any better wrt data snarfing.
The same could be said for your comment. (And mine too...)
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That's what we do, this generation buys drugs for the previous generation. We take advantage of economies of scale though by pooling a bunch of money together and paying some people to coordinate it for us because that's more efficient and effective than expecting 150million do it individually.
There you go, some people obviously even have trouble looking at the comments :)
Truly doing much with little data may simply be impossible; its not a magical black box after all, but just as ideal a learner as possible - but if small data cannot give it confidence to confirm the existence of some subtile pattern, on what grounds is even an ideal learner supposed to believe in it?

For example, no smarts would ever confirm the Higgs in the tevatron in its 10 year run even though the machine produced thousands of Higges; its a subtle signal and you just don't have the sample size to be more than 3 sigma sure there's something there (nor where exactly).

What is key, however, is being able to leverage more than just explicit training sets, like with transfer learning and unsupervised learning, as well as making algorithms scale well with more data. The latter seems promising with deep learning, the former still a research thing.

"more data beats better algorithm" is obviously false when the algorithms don't scale with data as well, as deep learning has convincingly demonstrated, being just as mediocre as anything else on small datasets, but being leaps above everything else on sufficiently large ones.
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It works ok for me with docker images. It only works for languages storing dependencies in the environment (e.g. python), so it won't work as well for C++.

I can download any docker image. Docker image contains all external dependencies and I can inspect those dependencies.

I assign a version to each Dockerfile. Docker image version is in the source control. Image with each version is stored in docker image registry. Version bump triggers update of all packages (either system level or language packages). This lets me revert external dependencies to state from any point in time. Or check out any commit from source control and run it in the same state as it was running in prod at that time.
The whole thing is also a living example of lessons about project and product management: how uncontrolled requirements made by the major stakeholder (in this case, king Gustaf Adolf) changed the project scope (so many guns were ordered to be fitted that the ship had to have two gun decks, with too high center of gravity) which then caused a major technical disaster (it capsized in wind). And then starts the hunt for a scapegoat.
Swift 3.0 is really nice but I backtracked out of Xcode 8.0 for now. I am used to Xcode but this one still vomits Apple internal debug messages into the console, that's really too rough for me. I'll wait for the .01 or the .1 before upgrading all my projects.

Funny thing is I downloaded one of the first if not the first beta of Xcode 8 and it already migrated my projects flawlessly (where possible). It's all the other stuff that's broken.
Nearly every car maker offers it as a $2,000 to $5,000 technology/driver assistance package.
I'm skeptical about whether the video drivers are the culprit for poor web browsing performance. Yes, there's WebGL, but do Firefox and Chromium depend that critically on OpenGL for rendering ordinary web pages?
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Only thing worse is CMake XD
I googled "Agglomerated Monster corn" and came up with nothing. Is it a scare term for GMO?
An 'interpreter per thread' [...] your memory foot print [...] limits the number of concurrent requests the server can handle

So, in this situation, it would be useful for the interpreter to be lightweight in terms of RAM usage as well as code size. Presumably, though, it is still not necessary to be as frugal as MicroPython, which can get by with as little as 8KB of RAM and is commonly used with 128KB [1]?

A lot of people who use python would expect your implementation to act like the mainline. [...] it would almost be better to create a new language than to always be explaining "no, that functionality doesn't work" [...] just don't call it [Python]

In order to work within tens of kilobytes of RAM, MicroPython does some things differently from CPython [2]. I wonder if its developers spend much time explaining the differences between the two implementations? Or do users expect differences in the language runtimes because of the obvious differences in the hardware on which they run?

On the other hand, I imagine MicroPython would have significantly fewer users if it were advertised as "a Python-like language" rather than as "an implementation of Python".

[1] https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/FAQ

[2] https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/Differences
Does this mean that web browser apps will be able to use their own JS engines etc. ?
"Well, it turns out that you don’t need reverse in a spaceship because of its ability to maneuver in three dimensional space. Once you understand this, you’ll never miss reverse again. In fact, someday, you’ll think back at how limiting the car really was."

And perhaps sometime later, as you're expending delta-V rotating your spaceship around one of it's high-moment-of-inertia axes to do a retrograde burn you'll recall how the salesperson insisted you totally didn't need RCS jets in that direction because you can maneuver in 3D space.
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which you can finally delete:)
Think of it a different way. We fill up our time, subconsciusly, to avoid the existential angst. Especially if you are an atheist.

Many religious people find time to pray three times a day and still be very productive.

Today, corporations have happily made this situation they own your time for 8 hours a day and you are afraid to lose your steady paycheck, so in many jobs, you pretend to work those 8 hours, refuse to build anything of value for yourself or others for fear of getting fired. It is a bit of an infantile mentality that's conditioned for 40 hours a week. Sweden has just moved to a 6-hour day!

In the past, people didn't have netflix or facebook. You'd see photos of people chilling outside, and in real life. More people were out. Playing sports etc. That's not on your list!
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Um, that was actually illegal? I worked at a place where, once the candidate left one of the guys remarked "Last thing we need working here is a woman". Somebody overheard. That was on Friday. On Monday the department was gone - everybody fired, function outsourced. As damage control, to save the company from lawsuit.
I would argue that any invention is a discovery of sorts. The inventor of the electric coffee maker didn't fundamentally alter the universe to cause it to be possible for a device to brew coffee.

And even if you don't buy that argument (it's admittedly tenuous) the fact that it's a discovery wouldn't convince me that the discoverer shouldn't still get exclusivity rights, given the amount of research involved in discovering new molecules and shepherding them through the approval process.

Could you possibly find something a little less conspiracy theory looking? Also something a little less manifesto.