skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His claims included:

* That he was simply very optimistic about the business he was running that that he believed there would be an uptick in the stock long term after the company weathered the downturn he knew to be coming.

* That he was "set up" by NSA: yes, he sold at a high price anticipating a sector-wide downturn, but he did so because he'd been assured that Qwest would be part of a multi-billion NSA modernization program called "Groundbreaker", led by CSC, which contract would surely rescue Qwest's stock and even out his sale.

* That his board had demanded that he sell his stock, and that such sales were routine at Qwest.

* That he was distraught over the suicide of his son and sold the stock as part of an effort to immediately disentangle himself from the CEO position which he hoped to leave.

Against that, you have the black-and-white record of his trades and the testimony of numerous high-level Qwest executives all saying they'd been urgently warning him to revise Qwest's targets downwards. He not only maintained the unrealistic targets, and participated in channel-stuffing-style schemes to fake up earnings numbers, but profited personally by trading against those bogus numbers.
At least he managed to say, if only privately, "I'm not going to be a party to this" (most likely leaving a significant pile of cash and/or equity on the table in doing so). Which is way more than many CIOs/CSOs do in similar situations.

Of course you or I might like to believe we would have taken a more overtly defiant stand (by going public for example). But then again, we weren't there, in his shoes - now were we?
Fractioning the prize off to me seems silly. A half, a quarter, and a quarter. Why not just have three winners? Is this purely to deal with prize money distribution? Surely there's a more elegant solution.
It's quite a nice touch, but it's not evident at all from their marketing material for the most part. It's pretty noticeable if you hold the actual device.
Nope - read up. The (unverified) claim is exploitation by the game studio.
> if she destroyed documents to cover up wrongdoing.

If she destroyed any documents covered by the FOIA, period.

Which she did. Saying "i did it for convenience" allows her to say that she didn't intentionally destroy them; she changed her email policies and that happened to have the "undesirable side effect" of destroying documents covered by the FOIA.

She had a duty to preserve all those documents, and she didn't. It doesn't matter whether the documents showed wrongdoing; they were documents used by state officials in their duties.
How are economies that literally have no monetary policy a better alternative, though?
I love MapD. I got to see a demo of their tech at a meetup at Nvidia's HQ this summer. I thought their graph / chart rendering backend was pretty neat.
Do you have any evidence of Russian involvement? It would seem to me that a state actor would have the sophistication not to leave fingerprints on the data.
Hi Isammoc & thank you for your feedback!
What do you mean by that items didn't work anymore? Currently it's a (bad?) feature that when you select something on the right, it adds that code into the left editor window, so one can just paste. Also, if you type something into the Options Filter which doesn't match anything then the options will be empty as well. I'll need to add text with something like: please change your filter :)
You're correct that it's not dishonest to get something wrong, and I regret targeting my comment as directly as I did.

However, I think places like the Guardian are being dishonest: they're telling stories with those numbers that the numbers don't really justify, and presenting those figures as if they're meaningful and carry some sort of utility, rather than just being random mishmash numbers that were easy to cook up.
A dystopian data center just became the most glamorous runway in fashion
It's referring to cause of the symptom. Paraphrased differently: If the government can hold a gun to any organization or individuals' head for information, then the privacy distrust doesn't stop with just corporations.
I said it was some GitHub experiment.

He said "...with photos?"

"No.. some sound thing."
If you think the logic is faulty, could you actually rebut it with some specificity?
Squad is the company that made the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squad_(company)
Wow it's kind of amazing that USA-based coders signed up for a $2400 annual salary!
Yea--I'm just saying this is a product of being a business, not Meyer. One can fight it and still give information over. You can't take the sign of struggle as a sign your data is safe.
Small discussion of a previous routing algorithm implemented in a similar way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12187275
"is the problem with the technology, or is it the unnamed antagonist with that judgmental snark?"

Um yeah. I thought that was the point? No one seriously thinks it's Javascript's fault that there are a lot of frameworks and stuff. It's the culture around it.
That's Bryan's talks in a nutshell. And it is glorious.

Standout moments from his talks:

-"The Lawnmower"

-"Nazis in Oracle Allegory"

-"AWK"

-"Architectural Review Board (Keep your compiler people in little boxes)"

-"madvise MADV_DONTNEED writes lazily to disk?"

-"A piece of on-the-fly software engineering (or: you're f*ked)"

Also, from Brendan Gregg's lighning talk in 2013:

-"SO LET's JUST CUT THEM OFF!"

-"Their reporting software also couldn't handle decimal points"
This really overstates things, there was regular contact between Europe and China back several thousand years before Rome. It's not actually that far on foot, and rumor can easially travel both ways even if few people make the trip.
CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

Detailed discussion of how to get the most out of your memory cache and memory bandwidth, focusing on games development. It's full of examples of how understanding both the problem and the hardware, and working in a straightforward way, can give you huge performance gains over using poorly suited abstractions. It shows how low level thinking is still important even with modern compilers. I recommend people interested in performance optimization watch it.
> Rome’s Asian contemporaries completely dwarfed Rome in almost every respect: heritage, population, cultural diversity, technology, architecture, medicine, philosophy, poetry…

> it’s always made me sad to think of the Romans being largely cut off from the main action on the world stage.

This is incorrect because the Romans knew about Greece - in fact they ran the place.

The Romans were barbarians, in a sense, I suppose, just compared to Greece. They didn't do anything that could compare to the Greeks in math or philosophy, for example. And by, say, the fall of the Roman Empire, India had far more interesting philosophy (sadly little known because not very accessible) than Rome, so sure, "Asia" had better philosophy than Rome (really India specifically). But it turns out that Indian philosophy was heavily inspired by Greek philosophy (highly recommend The Shape of Ancient Thought for anyone interested in Greek-Indian intellectual exchange), and I wouldn't say it was better (though I wouldn't say it was worse either). Rome wasn't cut off from the best of philosophy - they were just too practical to care much about it - and they knew it and said as much.

Philosophy I know something about - I dropped out of the PhD program at Harvard after studying quite a bit of it. But some of the other parts seem dubious or of questionable importance. Architecture? The Romans look pretty good to me there, and I mean they even used concrete. Medicine? Let's be serious: almost all medicine before the 1800's was placebo. Population? So what?
$2400 a year? What US dev works for that in this market? You are better off at burger king.
That's a custom label (ie. not stock from USPS), and is likely generated by the shipper's shipping software.

Apparently they chose to leave that field off the label, but it's still sent to USPS by the software.
Russians attacking U.S. election systems? Here's the real risk
I feel like we are overdue for a Sony A7 upgrade announcement
I am using https://bazqux.com (paid). It is crazy fast (it is written in Haskell), has a very bare interface and it supports Fever for mobile app integration.

Edit: There's also support for youtube channels: http://blog.bazqux.com/2015/06/subscribing-to-youtube-feeds....
> Prior to Ferguson, nobody was collecting data on police shootings across the US. Now the press and some nonprofits collect it.

---

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-ex-cop-keeps-the-coun...

> When Talking Points Memo, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post needed data on how often police officers are charged with on-duty killings, they all turned to the same guy: Bowling Green State University criminologist Philip M. Stinson.

> Stinson, 50, has become an indispensable source for researchers and reporters looking into alleged crimes and acts of violence by police officers because he has built a database tracking thousands of incidents in which officers were arrested since 2005. His data has shown that even the few police officers who are arrested for drunken driving are rarely convicted and that arrests spike for cops who have been on the force 18 years or longer, contrary to prior research showing it was mostly new officers who were acting out.

> The whole data-collecting operation is powered by 48 Google Alerts that Stinson set up in 2005, along with individual Google Alerts for each of nearly 6,000 arrests of officers. He has set up 10 Gmail addresses to collect all the alert emails, which feed articles into a database that also contains court records and videos.

---

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_unrest

> The Ferguson unrest (also referred to just as Ferguson) involves protests and riots that began the day after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014
"Design is not a matter of personal taste. It either achieves the goals of the designer or it doesn't. "

But, what if I like/dislike the designers goals? In other words, if the designer painstakingly crafts a detail I don't care about, does it mean it is a good design?

Not trying to prove any point. Just trying to understand your perspective.
> Large new apartment buildings in the Shaw neighborhood in Washington have priced out longtime residents.

Really, now? Or has more demand priced out longtime residents?

EDIT: That said, the rest of the article is very good. My guess is, the author didn't caption that photo.
Original, long title:
Russians attacking U.S. election systems? Here's the real risk, from a man who fought Soviet electronic attacks during the Cold War
Cold weather is definitely a consideration when designing outdoor public spaces.
Give it a few years and affordable PCs will be able to power VR just fine. A device like the Rift will also become much cheaper over the next few years. Given how easy the Rift is to set up (pretty much just plug it in along with a single webcam that sits on your desk), I don't see any other major impediments to it going mainstream once the prices fall.

Mobile VR still has an important unsolved problem too (absolute positional tracking throughout a room). Google and Oculus's John Carmack are working on this problem (independently of one another), and hopefully we'll see some of their work make it into commercial products in the next few years. But for now it's a real limitation of mobile VR devices.
That's really weak.
It is according to Alfred Nobels' will. It can not be divided further than half and half of one half.
I missed this one. I should go watch it. Anything that bashes on GNOME is fine with me.
I know your politics are not the same as mine (I think we're both left of center, but you're way more left than I am), but I have to ask:

Why are you skeptical that Russia had anything to do with this? Serious question!

* Russia is notorious for doing stuff like this online.

* Three threat intelligence firms --- including the two most reputable firms in the business, one of which is run by someone who hates Clinton --- publicly attributed the attacks to Russia.

* The basis of that attribution includes IOCs that weren't even publicly known before the attribution occurred, and would be difficult even for an expert to forge.

Clearly, anyone could have hacked the Clinton Foundation.

But I'm surprised people believe that it would be straightforward to hack the Clinton Foundation in such a way as to leave a trail of IOCs leading back to Russia. I think? you have to be an expert to do that.
Padder – A one-time pad software implementation
Sure, it's absolutely something to be aware of as a patient.

But there is a big disparity in information between browsing cancer.org and being a surgeon that has looked at an MRI and biopsy.
This is ancient news. Apple macbooks have had this form of copy protection since 2008. There are hundreds of anecdotes like the one submitted all over the internet.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2008/11/apple-brings-hdcp-to-a-...
Interesting. I didn't realize, before trying to figure out what this means for KSP just now, that Squad is not first and foremost a game developer: they're basically a marketing company, for which KSP was originally a 20%-style project.

I hope this development is not so much a product of internal company bullshit, but now I'm very worried it is. KSP is one of the most genuinely important games out there right now. I would be surprised if many less than 100% of the next generation of spacetravel-involved scientists and engineers counted KSP as part of their journey.
Maybe not to trust the government? Yahoo is not your personal lawyer to defend you from NSA.
Squad isn't a games company they are just awesome and backed an employees drive to create the game. I suspect the staff who work at Squad are attracted to all kinds of projects they're contracted for. As ksp peaks and slumps perhaps they don't want to just be in the maintenance game.
From my [not extensive] research, ATOM open source libraries have better support for authenticated feeds.
Training. There are already training sims for surgical assistants using consumer hardware. Extend that to any job that involves highly skilled work away from a keyboard and mouse. Nursing, mechanics, maintenance, construction machinery, etc...

Design and simulation. The auto and oil industry have paid millions for whole-wall, multi-user, 3D display systems because they want slightly better visualization tools for people doing car design and oil exploration. Spending on that saves them 10X on avoiding wasted effort. Commoditize that to fashion, gadgets, furniture...

Real estate. In the near future, you would be considered an idiot to pay for a building to be built without walking through it first. Very soon when shopping for a house, you will walk through 50 prospective houses in VR before bothering to visit 5 in meatspace. Architects already call VR visualization "cheating" because it is so much more effective --even for professionals-- than drafting and CAD on flat media.

Education. Firing full-scale catapults is a much more engaging way to teach physics than staring at diagrams of catapults.

Tourism. VR won't replace going there. VR will replace not going there. To say that most people don't go to most places is a comic understatement. For people who can't travel because of personal/financial/health constraints, being able to get out of the house/hospital bed/nursing home for just a while would be quite a boon.

Socialization. The telephone is basically lightweight social VR. Social VR is like the telephone but more intense. The phone will not be replaced by VR. VR opens up more intense options for being with other people you couldn't be with otherwise. Instead of just sitting in the same room having a chat, you can hike through Minecraft mountains, play D&D, paint a sculpture, or shoot catapults together.
MEDIjobs
Just spent 9 hours in a conference arguing about how we are going to implement 12 months worth of features which are slated release in 3 months.

Quote hits very close to home.
This is $200 a month; unless you work part-time, it's likely illegal.
Peter Theil: My Biggest Fear Is That the Machines Won’t Take Over
>“$2,400 was my yearly salary working a full time eight hours a day, 40 hours a week job.”

Why would you ever choose to work there in the first place?
https://arkos.io/

https://www.seafile.com/en/home/

https://syncthing.net/

https://owncloud.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Whisper_Systems

...just to name a few off the top of my head.

I agree that the excellent integration that Google or Apple products provide is not seen through the entire ecosystem of these other products, but it's being worked on and, to me at least, the progress being made is impressive.
Have you tried this with A* and seen any performance differences? This is very fast in the browser with a small map, but I imagine with a much larger map the difference would be noticeable.
Plain text passwords pertaining to each email are included in the dump.
> The icon-based home screen is showing it's age and will need a revolution rather than an evolution.

Well, perhaps they can license Live Tiles from Microsoft. There are definitely things to like there, and Microsoft's certainly not using them on phones anymore - at least not as far as real-world usage can show.
That doesn't exist on the iPad anymore.
https://github.com/stepan-mitkin/drakon_editor seems to be where development is though.
Agreed - love their meetups!
What Snowden revelation are you talking about? I remember when everyone was up in arms about PRISM, but that's just a pretty interface on more focused requests of data for specific users.

This is the first instance, to my knowledge, of the government requesting carte blanche realtime search of all incoming and outgoing email for all users.
Material is a just a design language.

Apps that follow it will all have a similar look and feel on a platform... however, you can still make both good and bad UIs within that (or any other) framework. It doesn't alleviate the need to work with a UI designer.

There are certainly a fair number of developers who will just download a Material-styled template. But please don't assume that you can't do much more.

Take a look at some of the showcase designs on the Material Design Lite site for examples: https://getmdl.io/showcase/index.html
Your argument in paragraph 2: the police are too violent and "shoot first and ask questions later".

Your argument in paragraph 3: only the police should have guns.

Umm ...?
Macro lenses were more useful with a longer focal length, in 35mm terms, 80-100mm or more longer was desirable to give more working distance to the subject at high ratio, like 1:1. For example, for my MFT system, the macro is 60mm equiv to 120mm for a 35mm frame.

As I understand, lens design in the digital era has changed due to the characteristics of the sensors vs. film. Mirrorless designs have also changed requirements and eliminates some restrictions due to flange distance. I'm not an expert in that field, maybe you know more in that regard.
Yah! Add it to the list of dev kits. My question is who gets it integrated a phone or headset first so it can have widespread adoption?
I don't agree with this. It is the same as iOS: design an app with the barebones, you will have a soulless app. The OS doesn't matter. What it matters it's what devs do with the visual kit. There is few innovation in app design in Android and this will be like this until the Android market turns out more profitable.
Just reading their report quickly, it doesn't look like they're controlling for a lot of things, and are measuring non-target cultural factors which skew their correlation. (Of course, they don't even mention their methods, because it likely would be such an obvious source of criticism with their conclusion.[1])

Which isn't to say I'm right either, and certainly raises a bigger question about it, but back to my point: we just can't tell, because there is a lack of detail in their analysis.

[1] http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/2015/
Linguistic drift if fast, try reading the canterbury tales from an original document. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English#/media/File%3... Sure, is looks somewhat similar but this is only Middle English from around 650 years ago it rapidly gets much worse.
Niche, maybe, but we're talking about integration with 3rd party stuff and that's exactly what this is.
> I'm curious: is anybody else here applying deep learning, or any other subfield of AI, to healthcare?

> If so... do the challenges listed in this post resonate? Do you believe the shifts identified are the right ones to focus on?

I'm applying deep learning in a healthcare application and certainly the points you raise resonate and are generally the right areas to address for utilizing AI (for points 2 and 3 really any innovative technology) but let me expand on them a bit.

#2: Deployment and the Outside-In Principle - Very often new technologies are coupled with business model innovation to bring about change. The complex and often perverse mechanics of the healthcare system in this country make this exceedingly difficult. I agree that models that more rationally couple risk with reward (e.g. Accountable Care Organizations, Bundled Payments, and payer/provider organizations like Kaiser) provide the right incentives to reduce cost while increasing the quality of care. This is an environment where technology can make a difference; not so in the fee for service model. I think the software "deployment" model is much less of an issue.

#3: Regulation and Fear - This is actually a significant challenge. The FDA has significant incentive to be very conservative with their approvals (lives may hang in the balance) and for them the risk of failure (i.e. a death caused by a device/test they approved and likely makes the news headlines) is MUCH more traumatic and negative than the rewards of success (some costs are reduced for a specific treatment or diagnostic that almost no one will ever hear about). Additionally the FDA, Doctors, and medical administrators suffer the same fear of formulaic decisions that most people do. We simply don't trust an algorithm to make decisions and so will resist them or hold them to significantly higher standards than we hold human driven decisions. This means even if you get through the FDA you'll potentially have resistance of doctors and patients.

If we export some of the other posts about radiology I can just imagine a patient's experience in a hospital. I'm sure a doctor or radiologist will share an anecdote like the one in this thread (radiologist saw an occlusion due to a poor image and detected a tumor) and scare a patient into thinking a radiologist is better than an algorithm at reading an MRI/x-ray despite statistics that will (eventually) show that the deep learning algorithm will be more consistent and accurate. To be clear I'm not arguing that a radiologist not continue to be involved and review the diagnosis but that it will be difficult for this technology to be established in high-stakes applications due to fear.
Decision to store plain text user passwords must cost someone's job.
Hmm.. I thought I included my project. https://hackaday.io/project/12985-multisite-homeofficehacker... . Look further down on Tor configuration, and I include seamless .onion resolution.

I do agree that a technological solution(s) are needed. I see things like Zero-knowledge Proofs, Homomorphic encryption, plausibility networks, and other types of software are essential for freedom.... But I think this is also a governmental and societal issue as well. Of course, there's no reason to attack both fronts :)

And I'm also very much interested in Government as a Service, ala what Estonia is doing. The US in antiquated... I don't see it thriving much longer, as it's not staying ahead with technology in government. The spying on citizens however.....