skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first paragraph:
> Dem Chaos Computer Club (CCC) wurde Schadsoftware zugespielt, deren Besitzer begründeten Anlaß zu der Vermutung hatten, daß es sich möglicherweise um einen „Bundestrojaner“ handeln könnte. Einen
dieser Trojaner und dessen Funktionen beschreibt dieses Dokument, die anderen Versionen werden teilweise vergleichend hinzugezogen.

Translates to:
> The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) received malware, whose owners who had reason to believe that it could possibly be the "Federal Trojan". One of these and its function is described by this document, other versions have been used for comparisons.

I guess they won't publish any more information to protect their sources.
Well, it's been said. He seemed cool with it. A bit disappointed but trusted me when I said it would take over a year to really be proficient enough in coding for this to work and that it wasn't fair to either of us for all that.

I still feel terrible about it. It's a lesson learned I guess.

I don't think it'll hurt our friendship or anything. I hope he doesn't take it personally, as if I don't trust him or think he's smart enough or something. Because ultimately it's just out of his control... I assumed, incorrectly, he could learn the necessary skills far sooner than is reasonable for anyone (no matter how intelligent) could learn them.

Anyway, I appreciate the advice. All of the advice and some further reading I did really helped me make this decision. Hopefully it was the right one and all works out well.
By "just fine" do you mean "not quite"?

You missed the part about the first job of a parser being "check for correct syntax":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parser

Parser

In computing, a parser is one of the components in an interpreter or compiler, which checks for correct syntax and builds a data structure (often some kind of parse tree, abstract syntax tree or other hierarchical structure) implicit in the input tokens. The parser often uses a separate lexical analyser to create tokens from the sequence of input characters. Parsers may be programmed by hand or may be (semi-)automatically generated (in some programming languages) by a tool.
Here's a list of parties that make up The Greens – European Free Alliance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greens%E2%80%93European_Fre...

Interesting from a UK POV is that as well as the Green Party, the SNP and Plaid Cymru are included, as members of the European Free Alliance.
That's a bug, not a feature. I leave my phone on vibrate all the time, and when I had an iPhone, the hardware switch would cause it to constantly go back to ringing as I took it in and out of my pocket.
The moment we make a robot capable of reliably fetching a sandwich it will no longer be ethical for us to order it around (at least, not without paying a salary).
In this particular case, protecting itself (Apple) could mean protecting iPhone developers.
Definitely. I have a 3GS on AT&T, but I'm switching to the 4S on Verizon to get back on my family's plan. I was tempted to wait for LTE mainly for using voice at the same time as data, but it looks to be another year out, so for now I get the higher res, a great camera (which is ready quickly), and the rest of the 'up to date' kit.

The 2 year contract time puts everyone in a nice 'tick tock' cadence. You either get the brand new shiny tick, or you get the revised and refined tock every 2 years.
The part that really interested me was the process by which a robot orders a sandwich and pays for it. Unfortunately, the video fast-forwards through that bit. The way the cashier looks at the cameraman suggests that there was some human assistance there.

My point is that encoding probabilities about locations isn't enough. When the robot knew that the fridge was a probable place for a sandwich, it also knew how to open the door of the fridge, and that this was a required action to obtain a sandwich in that location. "Open the fridge door and look for a sandwich" is analogous to "Talk to the cashier and order a sandwich", but it seems like the robot can't do that yet. Subway also sells drinks, and if the person had asked for a drink, and subway had been found to be a probable location for a drink, the actions needed at the subway would need to be different to get a drink rather than a sandwich.

It's cool research, and very useful, but it's worth pointing out that this robot can't yet actually fetch a sandwich from subway unassisted.
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This kind of thing never goes well for the companies profiled.

Earth Class Mail, a Seattle-based postal to digital mail interface, did another reality show ("Start-Up Junkies"), and I heard nothing good about the process from them.

It might be a good choice for someone who just wants to be known as a "personality", vs. actually doing anything (Paris Hilton style), but nothing good would come of every up and down at a startup being documented (and distorted).
I think it's also possible that some of those safeguard provisions were left out of the software so that in case the malware was detected, it could have been attributed to standard hacker groups as opposed to German government organizations who play within a specific set of rules and regulations. Obviously, this plan failed and it has been identified as government-sponsored malware.
The press release and the analysis are unfortunately poorly written and make it appear as if a couple of overeager teenagers wrote this, although their conclusion is accurate given the information given in the analysis.

Releasing the binaries alone to back up such a statement might be good enough for the hacker community but if you want to persuade the public you need to be more professional in your choice of words.

Even though this is a great achievement and I hope that this will have significant impact.
Kevin Rose also posted a full copy of the letter a couple days ago:

http://twitter.com/#!/kevinrose/status/121724449551687680

http://twitpic.com/6vp80w/full
Experts are clueless.

Customers cannot tell you what they need.

Jump to the next curve.

The biggest challenges beget best work.

Design counts.

You can’t go wrong with big graphics and big fonts.

Changing your mind is a sign of intelligence.

“Value” is different from “price.”

A players hire A+ players.

Real CEOs demo.

Real CEOs ship.

Marketing boils down to providing unique value.

Bonus: Some things need to be believed to be seen.
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To clarify.

Activity monitor does not show a bandwidth usage on a process to process basis.

Since the app in the link is a list of processes and where they are connecting it would be nice to see how much bandwidth each of these connections is using.
| And just because they're operating at a different scale as you doesn't change the fundamentals.

What? Which fundamentals?

Google licensing the data from the provider doesn't make it less expensive for anyone else, it makes it more expensive. They get exclusive licenses that allow them to resell access, thus removing a potential vendor from the pool of possible vendors, and making Google ultimately the only vendor available as they tie up the access points.

I suppose as long as you're okay with Google controlling your access to the information you require, full steam ahead.

That still doesn't change the fact that you no longer control the future of your business. If that's the path you choose, Google owns your business. If they decide to deprecate the very data your business depends on, you're done.
"That said, any major ISP who claims it costs them more than a few pennies per gigabyte to move traffic is flat out lying"

Not lying, but confused (see my comment below) and measuring at the wrong margin.
A standard hacker group would have working safeguards in order to remain in control. Nobody wants his carefully created botnet taken over by someone else.
I'm going to be somewhat direct here.

I allege that what Paypal is doing here (holding funds over 10 days) is illegal.

In order to do what Paypal does in the USA, you need licensure. They point out that they are not a bank. Indeed, they aren't: in many states they are classified as a money transmitter. In 8 states, they have no license to operate.#1

What is this money transmitter stuff? In essence, the law in all the locales I have checked (I have not gone through every one), indicate only a short holding period (5-15 days) and only allow holding of money of a known crime.

So indeed what they do is absolutely fraudulent. In other words, if you have a patent troll corporation with many lawyers, target Paypal for their illegal behavior.

#1 Source: https://www.paypal-media.com/state_licenses.cfm
I am not sure I understand the distinction you are making between achievements and value.

I think he means instead of saying "I delivered X project" or "I am the go to guy for architectural questions" you would say "X project which I delivered now earns the company $Y million" or "my expertise at X system saves the company $Y dollars in support contracts". You want them to see that the money you save or earn the company is worth more than the raise you are requesting.
The article mentions both 18 months and summer 2013. That's not entirely consistent.
I found this Economist piece on Samsung's strategy of "swapping infotainment for lifecare" really interesting: http://www.economist.com/node/21530976
This sounds pretty groan-worthy - I'd be much happier to see more shows like Bloomberg's TechStars reality show or a software-focused Dragon's Den/Shark Tank than "The Real Silicon Valley Young Professionals".
The Green Party has been notoriously flaky when it comes to individual rights.

One example is that with their help one of the largest scale surveillance acts were pushed through the German parliament in 2005 ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Großer_Lauschangriff GER).

Makes me really sceptically if this is is a heartfelt issue for them or just some attempt to win voters of the pirate party over.
I think you completely missed the point. The point is this: nobody cares why you failed, just that you failed, so put your energy towards finding a way to turn it into a win rather than coming up with an excuse for why it all fell apart.
Square (https://squareup.com) is pretty cool. I have an account with them and can charge credit cards through my iPhone. They even sent me a small swiping device for free, which you plug into the headphone slot. No monthly charges and mobile capability are great, but I haven't had big sums processed with them yet so can't compare the customer service.
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Ladner's theorem established that if NP != P, then there exists "NP-easy" problems which are in NP but not in P.

It has been shown that if P != NP, then GI is in that valley.
Oh, give it a rest already. rms was actually pretty tactful. Did people actually read what he wrote?

> Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.
There are a lot of simple heuristics (like score sequences) which get close but can't handle a lot of annoying corner cases.
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I think apple has the potential to be Disney, which reached its peak well after Walt's death. The key is to have everyone be in awe of the founder's legacy. Apple's failures in the 90's were because they went the opposite direction of asking "What would Steve do?" It seems likely that for the next 50 years, everyone at Apple will ask this question.
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I didn't really consider gcc or much of the other GNU stuff very viable back then. Emacs, sure. But most of it seems to have matured after Linux's popularity grew.
Any pure-python WSGI server works: gunicorn, cherrypy's server, wsgiref/werkzeug.serve, probably Aspen.

I'm pretty certain mod_wsgi does not work with Pypy (it uses Python's embedding API, which Pypy does not implement), I have no idea about uWSGI although messages like this: http://lists.unbit.it/pipermail/uwsgi/2011-March/001641.html make me thing it should be possible.
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The bandwidth suggestions are good, but rather than suggest more, I'll just say I really like the way you've laid things out. The UI lets me see data via the angles I'd want to see it.
It's an observation about the universe. Yes, things about the size of his brain appear to to have deterministic behavior, but so do mountains, oceans, moons, planets and stars - which are, needless to say, nowhere near the size of his brain.

The appearance of "randomness" at very small scales can be explained as non-determinism, or as a deterministic effect of some property that we haven't yet detected.

The point being that the universe has not been shown to have a "fundamentally non-deterministic nature".
I don't see how. "Not predictable given what I've observed so far" is a long way from "not predictable".
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I just wrote this,
http://text.krona.tm/post/11195455994/realtime-stats-with-go...

Its cool, but it needs more work.
The outpouring of emotion we've seen over the last few days is not due to nostalgia. It's because a person many people have admired and looked up to is gone.

Steve Jobs was a hero for a lot of people in technology, especially for entrepreneurs and it's ok to grieve when your heroes die.

Nobody is claiming Steve Jobs was perfect, he had flaws like any other a human being. But he was a damn good entrepreneur and for many people that's no small thing, it's what many of us are dedicating our lives to.
unless their load is /way/ more peaky than average, they are most likely lying. The people running ISPs know this stuff. I mean, unless their margin is so high that bandwidth costs don't matter, getting different customers with different peaks is what ISPs /do/ (well, it's what transit providers do, and any ISP of sufficient size eventually starts acting like a transit provider.)
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Our take on this case: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002249.html

Also, we decided to detect it.
Can you explain why the new Apple campus is the opposite of Pixar's? I see mostly similarities: A central courtyard open to everyone in the center, no corner offices, a shared cafeteria for all types of employees.

In fact, quite often the shared atrium will be the fastest way from point A to point B, which will lead to many chance encounters across teams.
Obviously each group would try, but that doesn't guarantee perfect success every time. Afterall, if every botnet were perfect, then they would never be discovered by researchers and taken down by authorities.
I can't follow your logic. I know about the discussion and the statistic reports but how does that proof that this every-day-trojan actually is controlled by the government?
Whatever happened with Nantero?
"I know I could probably whip together a decent email client in C++ within a couple months from scratch and maybe a week or two if I used any number of libraries out there."

Want to know how I know that you've never written an email client?
The Swedish Pirate Party is a member of the Green Group in the EU parliament. It's not really that strange that the Pirate Party has a huge influence on the Green Group's copyright policy. Rick Falkvinge (the previous leader of the Swedish Pirate Party) declares this as a huge victory for the Pirate Party.

http://falkvinge.net/2011/10/07/huge-pirate-victory-as-eu-pa...
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Yea. So they got it from people who believe it might be the federal trojan. No proof.

I'm not saying it unlikely to be the federal trojan but if they had real proof, that would be so much bigger and could really damage the surveillance efforts.
The German Green Party is only a part of the European one, it could very well be that the European and German Party have different opinions on the matter.
Typo: "As I was feely sorry for myself..."
F-Secure will detect the malware according to their blog post: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002249.html
Just did a crappy summary : http://blog.aarvay.in/brain-is-the-most-complicated-data-str...
Why do they only want to legalize non-commercial file sharing? Why not all?
My point is that if the only "legitimate" purpose of patents is to counteract the illegitimate purpose, the proper solution is to do away entirely.
Amazon no longer has an affiliate program in Illinois, despite not having a physical corporate presence there; affiliates in the state were considered (incorrectly, IMHO, but my opinion doesn't really matter) enough of a business presence to tie them here for the purposes of taxation and regulation.

Merchants physically located in Illinois, and directly selling goods, using PayPal to accept funds from Illinois residents and businesses and dispense those funds to Illinois businesses...that's a much stronger argument for tying PayPal to state regulation.
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How odd. The author's name is David S. Warren. The Warren Abstract Machine is named after David H. D. Warren.

I've actually checked out this Stony Brook page before and assumed this was the WAM guy.
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This one got my kids a bit interested but not enough to get them really engaged in trying to solve it. Anyone have fun puzzles for middle-schoolers?
I doubt HP itself will exist in 18 months.
That would have been completely difference advice from "VPs have to do what it takes to get it done."
These tactics seriously make me wonder why everyone is treating Steve Jobs (yes, his death is sad of course) like some kind of Oracle?

Apple has over the last 5 years, become EXACTLY what they were making fun of in their first famous commercial.
Twitter is good creating awareness, but not the best at driving traffic, right now Stumbleupon is if you have a credible account, engaging content, and a little bit of luck. Many blog posts receive thousands of views from that site daily.
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If by customer, you mean both buyers and sellers; then you're right. I hate doing anything related to either EBay or Paypal for that reason. I typically exhaust my other options first before I use either service.

Even traditional banks have way better customer service and terms.
GP is presumably referring to George Bernard Shaw's use of the term. "Reasonable people," wrote Shaw, "adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
I'm pretty sure this is the correct answer too.

Visualization tip: Consider the possible nets of the rectangular prism that makes up the room, and find what the shortest path on one of them would look like.
As it so happens, I am now implementing a load balancing solution on the JVM using the hybrid technique you recommend, lots of threads and some asio coming soon. However asio support on the JVM is poor. You are correct, in that using asio does not preclude you from using threads and viceversa; while node.js does not let you use threads. Your argument is valid, but this is very different from the argument ted is making viz. a CPU bound task will make the server useless. This is demonstrably false, and ignores the fact that typical web workloads are io bound.

The C++ solution you posted is probably a hybrid solution as you described, but it has its own set of restrictions. The environment does not guarantee run time safety, functional programming support is poor and coroutine support is non-existent or weak(I noticed there is an unfinished Boost.coroutine library that must heavily depend on #include <functional>). While node shuts out threads it enables other solutions more suitable for a heavily I/O bound server. I only want to draw attention to the fact that almost all solutions available today involve some kind of compromise and hybrid solutions are possible in almost all of them.

As for the "deductions", I thought that they were obvious. You need threads rather than processes, so that you can share memory and avoid the serialization/deserialization complexity when communicating between threads. Or less often, you need a more elaborate synchronization mechanism such as reader/writer locks. As for asio extracting maximum performance, I think I will be better off writing a blog post about it.
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Nice, I'm really not surprised by this haha. Most of the famous stories even break down into 12 basic elements from what I've heard on tvtropes. Choreography and the art of fight scenes must also be organized in a similar fashion.
Most of those people are relatively unknown now, outside of specialized fields.

viz. Bush, Venter, Roberts, Shockley, Stallman.
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Uh. The difference between writing a 'probability map' that says fridges and subways are good places to find sandwiches, and telling the robot to go to the fridge and to subway, are not so clear to me. Having the robot modify that probability map with no guidance--now that would be cool.
Lol. That's out of the box thinking!
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It's an estimate not an exact length of time. 18 months takes us to April 2013, so maybe they rounded April into "summer" or maybe they rounded 20 months to the nearest .5 of a year. Or maybe they class April as summer anyway.

It's not like those two times are way different.
The specific quote was "We’re planning to put a replacement chip on the market to go up against flash within a year and a half"

and "We have a lot of big plans for it and we're working with Hynix Semiconductor to launch a replacement for flash in the summer of 2013 and also to address the solid-state drive market"

June 2013 is twenty months away, so "a year and a half" is a very reasonable approximation, which it looks like the article writers then approximated again as "18 months"
No. You should care.

If it's your own team/project/company, odds are very good that it's not the things you're doing right that are in the way, it's the things that you're doing wrong, or that are going wrong. A systematic analysis of failure modes ("5 whys" in Scrum) is going to help.

Education is learning from other people's mistakes. If the it's another organization's problems or failures, then learning from them is a great way to avoid making the same mistake yourself. When forwarding the recent AmEx information disclosure story to my team, I added the question "do we have a '?debug=true' feature?"

comp.risks has been one of my go-to reading sources for a few decades. There's a reason for that.

To point on the story: identifying causes (and corrections) for injuries has been a big part of professional sports in the past decade. Moneyball is a story of doing highly systematic analysis of what it takes to win (and avoiding the mistakes leading to losses), in a manner any scrappy startup can appreciate: not enough money.

And much of the story of early industrial organization (and risk management) was taking a statistical approach to production (and loss) and realizing that though both were based on stochastic principles, this did not mean that the conditions or outcomes were unmanageable.