skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like how I am currently programming, but I consider myself an FP novice. In Python, I avoid writing classes until I need a data structure too complex for a dictionary of tuples. In C# I have to have more classes, but I am still aiming towards a more functional style by preferring passing parameters and returning values over manipulating instance variables. I would like to learn F# and start using it for my .net work, but I haven't had the time yet.
Well, if all software was free, you could run your own base station, not just a phone. Likely other people would do the same thing. With a free and open cell network, tracking an individual cell phone would become much harder.

Another option might be for your phone to check into a different tower, or only check in at intermittent intervals, but I'm not sure that that would be enough - signal strength would probably give you away.
NPR had a good piece about how the Chinese looked at the Japanese and wondered the same thing when hey had so much price gouging and looting themselves during their last major earthquake.
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In part, it's the Yakuza. In the neighborhoods they control, no one commits crimes they disapprove of. It's much better for it to be peaceful for the gambling and other revenues.
Yeah I'm from St. Johnsbury but now I'm currently living in Burlington, VT. I was in total shock seeing the caledonianrecord.com domain on the front page. They used to have the actual articles online so I'm surprised to hear that they switched over to publishing the pdf's instead but that probably makes sense as the staff doesn't have to web publishing skills (as easy as that seems to the people that are reading this.) The switching of the username and password baffles me but perhaps they gave out generated usernames and passwords to begin with so it wasn't such a big deal. Although I'm really questioning the logic right now.
>Apple created the iOS platform as a closed, proprietary, curated, walled garden from the very beginning.

What about this new rule about subscriptions then?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209580/Apple_s_new_A...

>iOS devices are selling at a startling rate despite arguments that open is better.Stop and consider for a moment that maybe we're the ones who are out of touch with what users want. The numbers certainly appear to support that position.

Same argument can be made about the Windows monopoly. After all, people seem to buy it right?

How many users know about how and why Readability was rejected from the App Store?

http://blog.readability.com/2011/02/an-open-letter-to-apple/

How many users know that the Reader feature in Safari was done using OSS source code taken from Readability?

How many users know about Apple rejecting Pulitzer prize winning author's app? How many users know about Apple rejected a magazine app because it was an Android magazine?

However, the bigger failing is the failure to recognize these even among technical people, most of whom seem to have something akin to devotion for Apple. No wonder Gruber's posts are so popular here.
Global health risk studies (by the world Health Organization) compiled many other health impact studies. It was easiest for them to analyze and correlate particulate matter (10 micron and 2.5 micron)

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/global-health-risks.html

http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHe...

In the year 2004, outdoor air pollution in urban areas was responsible for almost 1.2 million deaths (2% of all deaths) and 0.6% of the global burden of disease

Exposure to particulate matter, including metals, has been linked to a range of adverse health outcomes, including modest transient changes in the respiratory tract and impaired pulmonary function, increased risk of symptoms requiring emergency room or hospital treatment, and increased risk of death from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases or lung cancer. Particulate matter is estimated to cause about 8% of deaths from lung cancer, 5% of deaths from cardiopulmonary disease and about 3% of deaths from respiratory infections.

The impact of outdoor air pollution on the burden of disease in the world’s cities is large, but an assessment of sources of uncertainty, including the fact that only mortality impacts of exposure to PM were estimated, suggests that the impact is actually underestimated.

The coal pollution deaths are increased heart attacks and lung disease and more hospitalization from asthma and other illnesses.
Most software companies will put security bugs on a uber priority fix list. Everything else goes to the back of the line :).

One of the best ways to get any bug fixed in any Library, OS etc... is to find a way to exploit it.
Hoax: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322401
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Apple forgot? With their so called obsessive attention to detail, that's hard to fathom. If this was about performance in native games, they would've rushed out a patch by now.
"It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating."

-- Roy Fielding @ http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...
Yeah, that's great, but my point was that HTTP+JSON solves the easiest part, not the part that actually needs to be done: creating an agreed upon format for the content being serialized (via JSON) and transported (via HTTP). When that was attempted with XML, it ended up with multiple query methods, multiple schemas, new and obscure transport wrappers (SOAP over SMTP, for example).

Maybe we can avoid a Second System Effect now going forward... if XML was the Second System.
So it's an HTTP-based API rather than true REST. Move on. shrug
That would be really interesting if true. Do you have any sources to back that up?
Japan, like Germany, is a society that has been bombed into submission. They went straight from feudal society into Empire mode. There's nothing particularly peaceful about their history.

60 years ago they sure didn't see any problem with looting the entirety of Asia and were about to continue into the Hawaii and the West until that pesky little thing called World War 2 got in the way.
I was just in there listening to his talk and wasn't 100% clear on what #1 was supposed to mean.

"As one rule-of-thumb on how to judge whether your idea is disruptive enough, Hoffman said it should take $10 revenue and replace it with$1 of revenue, because that’s creating opportunities for new ecosystems."

Anyone have any good examples of this in action?
The 4000 people have not started dieing yet. Otherwise the two years of lifespan reduction from air pollution

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-DW9Uoz93Cvo/TXZo0dHQDNI/A...

http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHe...

Would be applied to the shorten lifespans of billions of people.

Air pollution increases the cost of public health by about 30%. The effect is so widespread that people do not know it because it is constant and pervasive
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This actually happened. When we were living in Tokyo my wife lost her wallet. A day later she found that it was sitting in the basket of her bicycle outside our building. This was a busy street in a business district (Nihonbashi) with hundreds of people going past it and it was a large new coach wallet with at least a few hundred in cash.

Not that someone wouldn't have eventually stolen it though.
Sigh.

The brownouts a couple years back were because the State deregulated only one side of the market, leaving the sellers of electricity in an untenable position. Essentially, they had to compete to sell on the one hand, but were forbidden from competition on the purchasing side. The problem was entirely (and it's not often one can point a finger at one single cause, but here it is) the fault of ham-fisted State regulation.

The federal rail system is not inexpensive, it's heavily subsidized. Don't start with the per-passenger-mile comparison to highways, because it's wrong: the study failed to account for capital cost in the railway, while counting for it against roads. On the topic of rail, the network of rail in the US was subsidized and built using eminent domain -- yet all of those railroads failed or were merged into others. The one exception, the one railroad that stood on its own without federal strongarming others into supporting it, is the only one that managed to survive until the present day.
I think it can but you have to have the right data. Coming up with the right data seems to me to be the hard part. But I also realize that, like with anything, it's a case of "different strokes for different folks".
I came here to quote Feynman too, but a different part:

This question of trying to figure out whether a book is good or bad by looking at it carefully or by taking the reports of a lot of people who looked at it carelessly is like this famous old problem: Nobody was permitted to see the Emperor of China, and the question was, What is the length of the Emperor of China’s nose? To find out, you go all over the country asking people what they think the length of the Emperor of China’s nose is, and you average it. And that would be very “accurate” because you averaged so many people. But it’s no way to find anything out; when you have a very wide range of people who contribute without looking carefully at it, you don’t improve your knowledge of the situation by averaging.

It seems to me that they asked a bunch of people in the US why they think there is no looting in Japan...
There was a major power outage in much of the northeastern North America, affecting tens of millions of people, and almost no looting (aside from isolated incidents in Ottawa and Brooklyn) there either. There was a major terrorist attack in New York in 2001 and no looting. There was a major earthquake in San Francisco in 1989 and no looting. This statement that "looting is something we see after almost every tragedy" is simply not true.
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Agreed. What you lose is about 99% ads or games or overly complicated restaurant websites UI's. For cases where its like a Flash video player, i just click on the NoFlash/ClickToFlash placeholder rectangle, that then allows the actual Flash asset to load, and I partake of it. I've generally seen less freezes, crashes and memory use since switching to this approach.
This is probably a presumptuous or naive statement, but the very first thing that came to my mind was: if you have ever been to Japan, you wouldn't even think of asking this question.
No, they have not. Roman Briton was a different society than pre-Roman Briton. The Anglo-Saxons came about 1500 years ago and nearly completely replaced the Britons, genetically and culturally. The Norman invasion was about 950 years ago and greatly changed Anglo-Saxon culture, although not as much as the AS changed post-Roman Briton. There were several other invaders (Danes, etc.) as well.

By contrast, the Japanese are perhaps 3,000 years old as a distinct ethnic group on the island.
No. The Yakuza generally do not participate in civilian affairs, nor are they interested in "policing", except where someone becomes a personal nuisance to a higher-up or someone disrupts their business.

Their primary interest lies in the financial side of mizu-shobai type establishments, gambling, and money laundering.

They also offer thug-work-for-hire, which is helpful when the police aren't, but you've got to be careful dealing with them because there tend to be hidden costs to their "help".

* whoops. replied at the wrong level :P
I really love the idea behind this article, but I didn't like the execution. I was confused and intimidated after the "scales" section (and that's the first part).

Also, I don't know what the difference between a key, note and a few other words mean.

Trying to be constructive, I hope the article gets edited because I'm genuinely interested in learning these things.
It's not quite equivalent due to differences in the semantics; a functional language can far more easily do loop fusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_fusion . An imperative language is likely to not even try in that situation, or in the case of a good C compiler, end up failing to do the optimization at the slightest hint of pointer use. In Haskell it's robust and can be composed many times.
A REST API should be simple to use. However, it is frequently not easy to build a simple REST API.
Aside from the strong cultural values and homogeneity of that culture, I would think socioeconomic factors must have a major impact. I don't know how the statistics stack up in Japan, but looting is generally an activity of the poor and disenfranchised. Anyone have data pertinent to this?
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I agree you that this article has nothing to do with salting, and I don't know why the grandparent comment was even made, but there are a few points I would like to make about what you've said.

> when really there is absolutely nothing wrong with hashing.

Hashing is millions of times better than storing the plaintext. Adding a salt probably increases the workload by about as much as going from salted hash to bcrypt [constant time lookup in rainbow table -> exponential time in length of password -> higher constant factor exponential time]. But I must disagree with you saying there's nothing wrong with hashing, however. There is something wrong with hashing, and that is that it's possible to brute force many passwords. However you're perfectly right that going hash+salt to bcrypt doesn't do nearly as much as going from plaintext to hash+salt.

And you're also right in that the simple passwords will fall anyways. You could have it take 30 seconds per password and an attacker could still get the passwords a couple percent of your users (who picked '123456', 'password', etc). If I pick '$yN3,A%2vq{-', no matter if the server is using MD5-crypt or even scrypt, you won't be getting my password.

> you're going to become CPU bound extremely quickly

This is one of the only valid criticisms of bcrypt, and it is a significant one. One of the nice things about it, though, is you don't have to use the 0.3 second time. That's just chosen arbitrarily. If you think that's too high, then go with 0.03 seconds, or 0.003 seconds. Surely you can deal with that requirement. Granted, brute forcing is now 1000 times faster -- but hey, it's 1000 times slower than bruteforcing a hash.

Anyhow, I don't disagree with most of what you're saying. I just wanted to point out that it's still possible to go with bcrypt by just decreasing the workload to a reasonable level for your application; I'm not trying to say you're wrong.
Woah hello from Bethlehem NH
I don't know about other countries, but in Greece the fruit that's in your garden (when a branch of the neighbour's tree extends there) belongs to you, and fruit on the branch in the street is public property.

Just the fruit on that branch, though.
Apples and oranges.

On the one hand, you are talking about a program to privatize a previously-public program. That has nothing to do with the question of whether public entities should enter markets that are already serviced by corporate entities.

Indeed, if anything, it seems to me that your example argues against government getting into business, because of the danger of it being corrupted or subverted, as in your example.
I can vouch for this based on my own experience, my wallet seemed safer by itself on the train than in my pocket in any other country.

OTOH, every school girl gets felt up on the train.
I'd personally think that it's because the japanese have a greater sense of 'us' than in countries where looting occurs. Nobody thinks to loot from their family, only from other people.
This is something that really surprised me about Japanese culture. I went there in 2008 for a study tour and one of the things that really impressed me is how different their attitude towards shared property and public space is.

On numerous occasions I saw things where I thought: wow, in my country (The Netherlands) this would totally get abused, vandalized or stolen. Not that my country is not safe or dirty, just that it is individualized to the extent that people place more value on the well-being of themselves and their stuff than that which they share with others or the public space.

Some examples:

Vending machines are so ubiquitous in Japan that they are an icon in itself. Trash cans, on the other hand, are not. However, you rarely see trash on the streets. Not because there are exorbitant penalties for this, people simply don't do it. People simply drag their trash along until they get to a place with a trash can (maybe their home or office) and dispose of it there.

In crowded areas, there are always plenty of public toilets and they are generally free to use. Not once have I seen one that was dirty or vandalized.

At one point, I found myself in a packed bus that had one of those old-fashioned destination "tickers" made out of a roll of paper with the names of all destinations printed on it. When we still had those buses in my country, they were encased in industry-grade steel enclosures, lest people break the thing or change the destination. In Japan, one could just reach out and do just that, yet nobody did.

In six week of traveling through Japan, visiting dozens of places and most major cities, I saw one wall that had graffiti on it. This was so special that I took a picture of it.

I think it is too easy to "blame" this cultural difference on a "shame" effect, as is often done. I spoke to a lot of Japanese people and my impression is quite different. I would say the major reason why there is so little looting in Japan, is that rather than thinking about their own petty interests first, Japanese consider the quality of the public or shared space to be just as important to their personal well-being. In other words: when western people throw their trash on the floor, they think "Good, I got rid of my trash"; for Japanese people nothing changed, since it is still in "their" space, so they better dispose of it properly.

Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert on all things Japanese. I was just there for six weeks and this is my impression, I might very well be totally wrong :)
Hah! You should visit Greece sometime. If it's not bolted down when your shop closes, it won't be there next morning. I've heard of people stealing couches from cafes just because they were drunk out of their minds.
I went there in the 90s and remember leaving my wallet in a store, then walking down the street a man tapped my shoulder from the back and when I turned I saw the store owner giving it back to me. Man I was touched by that gesture. A couple of stores down the road we entered a jewelry and my gf tried some expensive pearl necklaces just for the fun of it (like Y3M a pop ($30k back then)) and she forgot to return the last one she tried. A couple of blocks down we noticed and looked at each other with that weird sensation and the urge to return it, like if we were guilty of something we really didn't do.

And we did, they guy thanked us like a million times. We felt the most honorable people on earth. Honor is something we can't describe but japanese people carry it in their blood.
If the government wants our data usage records, today we have at least a hope that our (corporate) ISP will protect our privacy, at least until the government comes up with a subpeona.

If the government is our ISP, do we have any hope of avoiding the scrutiny of government?
it is the best at handling mathematical notation

Honest question: What makes you say that? I've never completely understood why TeX is considered the best at handling mathematical notation. Personally, I've been very happy with the equation editor in Word 2010. I'll certainly acknowledge that there's likely better solutions than Word 2010, but before I invest substantial time learning something like TeX I'd like to understand exactly what it is I'm missing out on.
Iconoclasm and Heresy? Is that an Advanced Civilization reference?
Japanese vending machines also have a safety lever (of sorts) that makes all the beverages free, in the event of a catastrophe.

I don't know how it works specifically, but I'm sure there would be better ways than to vandalize the machines in order to obtain the contents.
nor are they interested in "policing", except where someone becomes a personal nuisance to a higher-up or someone disrupts their business.

You are "disagreeing" with me by saying exactly what I am.
That was very honest, informative and really helpful. Thank you very much for taking time to give us advices.
3000 years of writing bad Chinese poetry.

edit: It's a JOKE, people.
That Wikipedia article appears to give the same definition. What difference are you trying to call attention to?
A classmate of mine (Junior-level EE) used the Lantronix with an ATmega 8-bit controller. Lantronix sent him some Java, and the thing just worked.
Thanks.

Although without HTTP STS or similar I could still MITM the landing page.. :)
As soon as you decide to create two URLs such as /user/1.json and /usr/1.html you are creating two distinct resources. The litmus test for determining if two URLs refer to the same resource is you do a GET on both and only one of them returns a 200 the other returns a 303 with the Location header set to the URL that returned a 200.
Appreciating the 4.9 release song right now. http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#49 (links to the MP3 and OGG in this page).
But the question isn't who is being extreme in which direction. The question is, who's right? If the facts in this article are accurate, then they're not being extreme, they're just plain right. If the facts aren't accurate, then they are wrong.

This isn't a "(D) say -10, (R) says 10, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle" situation. This is engineering and reality. If the worst "nuclear" injury that has occurred is a dose equivalent to a year of background radiation and another of 1/10th of a year, the right answer is that nothing resembling disaster has happened, heck nothing you could even notice without sensitive instruments has happened, and it's not an "extreme" to say so if it's true.

Applying the political template to the story is immediately a fail, at least in terms of understanding the truth.