skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it news that Google goes encrypted?
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I love to hate on TSA as much as the next guy, but the "technology difference" to this medical device is the difference between a nerf gun and a sniper rifle.
Nope. If you setup a separate account with any of the same personal information, Google will disable your account just before you are supposed to be paid out for your app sales. They detect that your new account is related to your banned account. That's the exact case for the individual referenced in the parent post's help forum link.
> Going through this was a big level-up for me.

That's a very nice way of putting it. I too feel a lot more confident about an entire class of problems thanks to HTDP. The only problem I have with the book is that the generative recursion stuff is not as well done as the structural recursion portions, but I guess that could be because generative recursion portions are inherently more creativity requiring/difficult than the structural portions. Anyway, that portion is being revamped for 2e so I'm looking forward to relearning it.
This was discussed almost 6 months ago but it seems that is a real option today. How would that could affect the search experience from the point of view of the normal user? And how could that affect the overall efficiency and speed of Google search in a let us say global scale?
Well luckily that's not even a remote possibility even in an alternate universe. They should stick to stuff they understand.
There was one comment in particular that struck a chord with me. I felt it was necessary to quote; it's a hard feeling to articulate.

"We are here to live, we are here to die. Time is short, time is long. One has many friends, one has few friends. When we find a paradox, rejoice. It means that we have found a normal and real aspect life. We humans think we can plan and have answers. We can. And we can’t."
Having fast turn around on data of this size is immeasurably important and a significant competitive advantage. I have worked on large search-engine systems up until very recently and I can say without a doubt that turnaround time is more important than overall dataset size.

Our not-so-awesome mitigations were to have strictly defined preprocessed pipes to plug into. This meant having to either rigidly define queries or suck it up and wait hours, if not days for results.
Yep... I never quite bought the NoSQL hype.

The only valid point was to relax some of the guarantees (like consistency) in order to achieve better scalability.

In the end once cannot escape the CAP theorem (http://www.julianbrowne.com/article/viewer/brewers-cap-theor...)
I think it takes a mixture of product quality vs hackability vs popularity. There's little point in being huge in any if you don't have all three.

Kinect is insanely popular - by its sales figures. It appears exceptionally hackable - given how quickly and how many hacks have come from it. Finally it appears to be of exceptional quality (at least for the $ value) for these hacks to actually be using it so innovatively.
I'm pretty sure that those that are beautiful are well aware of how fleeting it is, I just can't see it is a justification to put them down like that.

Should people that are born in to money discard it so they can live an average life in order not to offend? Should those that are beautiful spend their lives in burlap sacks lest they give offense to those less fortunate (Burka's?).

People don't 'depend' on their good looks, people simply use the tools that they've got and beauty in a society so focused on beauty is a very powerful tool.

The interesting thing here is that everybody else makes it in to a powerful thing, not the person having it, they just use the power granted.
I completely agree to this...nothing comes as close to Adsense in terms of everything.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1485515 by vog 178 days ago
I didn't even know people pair programmed full-time. It sounds... awful.

My idea of pair programming is a ~monthly "Hey coworker, you want to do sitdown this afternoon and figure out (in code) this bug/feature/design?"

Doing it fulltime sounds inflexible and impractical.
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why the downvoting? I implemented this and did the experiments. That the photo blur is harder to control when you use the volume button to activate the shutter isn't my untested opinion.
The other thing the Windows ecosystem has that makes it more hospital for executable file viruses is a culture of user-to-user sharing of binary executables. In the UNIX world, sharing source is the usual vector for copying programs user-to-user.

This was particularly true back when executable file viruses were at their most prolific - back in those days, if you copied a game from your friend at high school, that binary was quite likely to be several tens of generations removed from the original source. Each generation was an opportunity for a virus to climb aboard. With internet distribution of illicit wares, you're much closer to the original source.
"I was introduced to the ”Hot Girl Effect” by a girl I dated once. This girl is an absolute knockout, and very smart too."

Pics or it didn't happen.
I realize not all HN readers support Wikileaks. I used it as an example b/c it is one of the few controversial entities left to support (or not). Pretty much everyone opposes slavery, hunger, etc.
He didn't say that he was providing a full explanation, and he didn't blame it on Google DNS. He just shared what he did to fix the issue on his network.
in addition, the iphone camera has a rolling shutter, not a physical shutter, so if the camera is not held still then motion issues are further exacerbated.
The paper describes the algorithms, implementation and operation in several real-world scenarios. The essential routines are described using pseudo code in the appendix.

Not really seeing the problem here. This is actually more useful than a dump of some source code.
> Yes, but "Android" is not a phone manufacturer.

This discussion was never about that. Again, another clue as to why you're being downvoted.

Next time, just spend some time reading and understanding the article you are commenting on, especially if you are going to be using a harsh tone.
It is amazing how brilliant this guy was. Too bad that right after his death FBI busted into his apartment and confiscated much of his papers and research. Who know what work of his is still lingering in government archived waiting for rediscovery.
>'Buy from these ads.'

That is enticement to click-through the ads and in contravention of the Google policy. If this guy were to provide a great service and in response have a massive level of sales from ads because of such an enticement then he could be banned. Quite silly I'd say.

It seems that the advertisers should have the control - "use sites flagged as having an unnaturally high CTR? [ ]" "use sites having enticed users to click-through? [ ]" - then let the advertisers choose what gives them the best return.
My experience at amazon would fail the Joel Spolsky test:

Do you use source control? yes
Can you make a build in one step? almost
Do you make daily builds? I think so
Do you have a bug database? yes
Do you fix bugs before writing new code? not usually
Do you have an up-to-date schedule? Hard to tell
Do you have a spec? a vague one
Do programmers have quiet working conditions? no
Do you use the best tools money can buy? not even close
Do you have testers? users
Do new candidates write code during their interview? yes
Do you do hallway usability testing? no

The computers that Amazon provided were so old that they weren't even in current production (I checked the serial number for the laptop I had there, and it was according to Dell 3 years old -- and low-end even when it was new)
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True, but I think it's easy to start speculating other malicious causes for the problem in an article with "iTunes" and "Google" in it. Would be nice to tell the readers the why as well and not just the what.
A corollary to this that I've heard from the sales end, is that one actually doesn't want to "pump buying temperature" to maximum.

The argument I've heard is that it's more effective to sell someone on you or your product being appealing yet practical rather than convincing them that you or your product are the hottest thing on the planet (but there's always the "expensive decoy product" mentioned in the link yesterday).

This is generalization too, of course, but it seems reasonable.
Is there a NoSQL database that claims that? I don't know of one. Rather, they attempt to implement different facets of CAP. Also, the CAP theorem, as it stands, is showing its age, Brewer himself has said it needs to be updated.
Understood. But we're not talking about a Tier-1 CEO, and we're not talking about an established company.

Rather this is someone with no journalism experience at a nonprofit startup. If we were talking about a first-year startup in a failing industry with $5mil in total funding there wouldn't even be a suggestion of a CEO salary close to that.

But my larger point is that this is an organization that needs public support to succeed. Burning through all of your funding in the first year while paying top-level executive salaries in a down economy doesn't build public confidence.
I have no idea how to give you a negative rating (i only see a ^ button) but yeah, -1
The problem is that Apple's CDN is being extremely naive about DNS — 8.8.8.8 is not "Google's DNS server" at a particular geolocation, but many servers distributed around the world, with different routes advertised to different destinations depending on the client network (anycast).

Even without anycast the DNS server's geolocation is going to be way off for a lot of ISP defaults. Why look at a cached second-party side channel instead of the real routed packets from the client anyway? Anycast is the right mechanism for distributing this stuff — Apple's keying off of DNS is a bad idea, implemented poorly.
Does attention and interest == hype?

I've seen many articles about NoSQL, but few that insisted it was the shit and the True Path for all development.

Mostly the articles explained what this or that DB was, or how this or that company solved a problem using some NoSQL tool.

It's new (for many people), interesting, and worth talking about.

If anything seems over-inflated to the point of hype, it's the idea that there's all this hype about NoSQL.
One of the biggest costs of a NoSQL solution in an early-stage startup: what's hot today may be abandoned by everyone else by the time you're a real company, leaving lots of effort inventing clever solutions to novel problems created entirely by your data.

It's much more feasible to start with a solid database and add caching for hot data than it is to try to build a company and a brand new database technology at the same time.
Intellectualism is a luxury; those who are able to practice it should be aware that many people are just trying to make ends meet.
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What is the point of escalating privileges past "user" on a single-user machine? You're thinking like a Unix geek.
I'd love to have a TV that could watch an alternate reality and just see the hilarity that would ensue if this passed.

Step 1: All US hosted sites facing regulation would simply move host to anywhere but the US, collapsing US hosting companies (Why do I feel the people likely to vote for this legislation are the same people who have the moronic "Out of a job yet? Keep buying foreign!" bumper stickers on their 1997 Fords and Chevy's)

Step 2: US government follows suit of China and Middle Eastern countries and builds its own Great Wall to filter the internet. This creates huge political problems when everything from ecommerce to email becomes difficult between US and foreign countries.

Step 3: The US government that instituted the Great Wall ultimately gets kicked out of government for causing internet prices to hike to well over 200% original price instead of including it in the tax budget.

Step 4: The Great Wall ends up a multi-billion dollar kiddie porn filter.

Honestly I don't even comprehend the reasoning behind regulating the internet, given that you have to pay to use it - just like you have to pay to watch HBO or an R rated movie.

Here's where regulation for the internet should start and end: All customers subscribing to internet services should sign a waiver saying they understand that the ISP and US government is not responsible for content on the internet, but that the content creator is and any concerns about content should be addressed to the content creator and not your local government representative.
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It mentioned that there is a light field that is supposed to show where the radiation will hit, but the mount blocked it - but didn't block the radiation.
" following a telephone survey of 1,000 "likely voters." "
I can definitely attest to having this type of experience. My first time trying to rent a movie was quite miserable. I first tried renting it from iTunes like I do TV shows which apparently doesn't work. I then started streaming it from the Apple TV and was greeted with these wait times a couple times during the movie. I can't wait to try experimenting with this to see if that was indeed the cause.
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I use Level3's DNS servers also, but they're also distributed with anycast routing and would likely suffer from the same interaction.
- Use a distributed version control system. Set up f.ex. a Mercurial repository on bitbucket.org and start using it right away. You can commit changes offline (locally) without access and have control over your source revisions even if you don't push it to the repository. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, toread: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_revision_control and http://hginit.com

Revision control is not technically needed to work, but you'll need it anyway ;) so start using right away

- Set up a local server, possibly a popular one for your technology of choice (keywords: localhost, apache, nginx, etc.) Set up database systems of you choice (mysql, postgresql, sqlite).

- Commit often, push when sure.

- On your remote server, grab code from your repository (clone it) to your working directory. Pull/update changes manually or set a cron job to do it from time to time, so you got your working copy online (better update manually if it's on production).

- Always keep a separate file for your localhost project settings, which you don't commit to the repository (ignore), so everything works fine with your settings locally, but works with another settings on the remote server.

good luck
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It is not just the students that are pissed off. Walter Rudin wrote the classic book in advanced calculus, and when the publishers started playing games and jacking up the price, he fought them long and hard, and (as I recall) at considerable expense to himself.

And having taught calculus out of the umpteenth edition of one of these books -- they often introduce mistakes! I taught out of the eighth edition of a mainstream calculus book and they got the statement of Taylor's Theorem (which is a big theorem) WRONG. I think it could not be more obvious that all these revisions are useless to students and teachers.
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One of the most obvious benefits open to small business owners through the Internet lies in online payment processing and ecommerce systems. Business owners can establish an Internet presence as a marketing tool, but few go that further step to embrace actual online sales, despite the positive effect that can have on lead generation and ultimately on profits.
When your injury rate is 6 out of 37.9 million [1], there's not much of a policy change you can enact to make something safer. You're thinking "seat belts are more safe, therefore they are better." The rational argument is more along the lines of "Adding a drop of water to the ocean makes it more wet, but not in any way that matters."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States
It's the same text BTW.
Two hours vs. instant streaming isn't a localization issue, you can easily stream 1-2mbps (or much more) from half way around the world. ~100ms in latency is nothing with a fat, non time sensitive stream like recorded video.

It sounds like the specific POP the google DNS server is being fed is overloaded with traffic. It should be fairly easy for Apple to resolve the problem on their end, by simply not resolving to overloaded pops (they shouldn't ever anyway).

Other video cdn backed services (like netflix) don't suffer POP overloading on public DNS servers like GTE or open.
Some NoSQL solutions are general purpose, and some aren't. I think the analysis is accurate for those which aren't (Cassandra), but way off for those which are.

The advantage of NoSQL for the average folk isn't their speed, but rather it's their dynamism. This is especially true if you're coding in a static language. You also gain from the shift to map-reduce vs group by.

There seem to be two other points to the argument. First, someone made a funny Youtube video (and it was funny!). Second some people failed with NoSQL. Not especially good arguments.
I've had a pretty good run at cleaning up after botched database jobs, so caveat emptor...

Two things:

1. Most day-to-day problems involve relationships among entities. It's not stodgy or wrong to use a good RDBMS when that's the problem you're dealing with.

2. Many NoSQL adopters wind up building a relational database on top of something else. That's a fun job, but not everyone can afford to ditch 40 years of R&D and pretend they've invented something. I think a lot of the allure in implementing these solutions comes the hype, promise of a silver bullet-like solution, and the opportunity to dabble the intricacies of creating a database.
Then again, the entire western intellectual tradition was started by a stonemason.
Sorry for the late reply (was a bit busy today), wanting to preserve a bit of my anonymity, I essentially found a position fusing both my previous master's subject area and my programming skills (in academia). Since it actually pays less then a regular development gig I've toyed around with changing careers, but it has other perks (flexibility, freedom, a nice office etc).
That's a browser issue. My browser asks if I want to download, or if I want to view internally (and if so, what mime type; to which I replied image/png).

Don't blame your poor configuration on the author of web pages. Ultimately clients should control the web experience, not servers.
And a haskell version (not the shortest possible one):

takeWhile (< 100) fibs
where fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs $ tail fibs

I don't think fibs can be expressed as a list comprehension in haskell, can it? It's cute that perl6 is able to use one, but OTOH I can't think of
many other lists I'd want to use that trick to calculate.

And, despite having written perl for 15 years, I find the haskell version much clearer, and its use of laziness and infinite lists (zipping them up in particular) much more advanced than perl6's.
Lawyers are just programming in a language that looks like English.
TSA scanners are focused more than a traditional x-ray, because they target skin tissue to produce the image.
My understanding is that when tense, you're more likely to resist the way your body is going to move, causing more injury. The forces involve are such that you can't actually make a significant change in where you're going to go, but if you tense up you may end up putting a lot of force in a little area. Like, say, you tense up your leg, which puts all of the force into your knee or ankle.
>>It's extremely important that the person who saves your life doesn't think of it human terms. They need to be thinking in absolute terms because those terms will give them the power to save your life.

>I think you're right, because that reminds me of when I had to save Grandma. [...]

You didn't fail to think of your grandma in human terms. If you had assessed things logically you'd have realised that the world is overpopulated and that your grandma is going to take resources that could be used "better" elsewhere and simply allowed her to die screaming. Even if you don't buy the overpopulation argument you can ask if grandma is decreasing infant or juvenile mortality; if not then she's not aiding proliferation of the species but hindering it.

Acting calmly and collectedly in a first-aid situation doesn't mean your not acting as a human being first.

I've done life-saving first aid in 2 situations (in as much as if someone had failed to act both people would have died; I think someone would have acted eventually in both situations) in both cases I've helped to save those who's genes should logically be removed from the gene pool through them having "defects".

Don't get me wrong I'm not at all saying that you acted wrongly, you acted as a human.

When you say "absolute terms" from what axioms are you starting?
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In the example of this post, the male is perceived as being higher status because he has a desirable woman with him. The woman herself in this position isn't holding anyone by the balls. So the relationship is tenuous at best.
It seems contradictory, since startups thrive on making radical departures from the status quo, but I think there's a strong case to be made to build your foundation (the stuff nobody sees, but plugs along silently in the background) on tried and true technologies, as opposed to the hot new thing.

Of course, in 5-10 years, some NoSQL solutions will be the tried and true tech, and we'll be arguing whether DoublePluSQL is really worth all the hype it's been getting.
Most people don't know what the FCC's charter is, what its position is in relation to other governmental entities and lets not get started on the Internet itself. Most people just think of it as this magic black box (and why would they not?).

Asking random people to decide on what they do or do not want the FCC to do regarding the Internet will inevitably result in answers based on flawed premises.

Take the Campaign to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide as an example here.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dihydrogen_mo...
You can make opinion polls say what you want to say.

Look at this comical example from yes prime minister:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gMcZic1d4U
Some of the most murderous dictators in recent century were celebrated by Western intellectuals - Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao. There's nothing about being an "intellectual", whatever this means, that makes you a better judge of reality.
The point is that medical professionals can't properly handle a sniper rifle, do you trust TSA employees with any level of radiation deployed on a massively larger scale?
Here you write: "Two (or more) ECDSA signatures were generated with the same secret nonce."

On the blog you write: "In DSA, the k value is not a nonce."

Is it any wonder people get confused?
>A similar phenomenon occurs in social network rankings: For any given person with a reasonable number of Facebook friends, their friends will be, on average, more popular than the original person (popularity defined by number of friends). Almost everyone is one of the least popular people in their own social network.

Is there a name for this phenomenon? Or supplemental reading material?
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I would suggest making it $1 a month, and billing monthly.
Another rambling, incoherent account from the master of propspeak.