skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing the reliability of the message transfer, and the consistency of its contents declined with the increase of distance.
It's like the kids game where you whisper something into someone's ear, which is passed along the same way along the line, and you find the end-receiver wound up with a completely different message.

That's probably why they sent our messengers with wax-sealed letters.
If they were to build and use such an important infrastructure, it would surely mainly be used for military/political purposes. The criticality of those messages would inherently demand that the message would be delivered in an unaltered state.
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There are lots of guys who don't like guns. I've only lived in a few liberal US cities so maybe my perception is skewed, but I (as a Canadian) thought the gun-loving american stereotype largely represented a minority.
Could you talk some more about this? I've heard the counterargument about an overwhelming number of incompatible regional dialects too often.
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Interesting. I hadn't considered the Great Wall. I wonder how often (if at all) it branched? Sending a message down a line should - eventually - lead to sending messages through a network.
What did this article have to do with Lean and Agile?
I remember he mentioned once. I am looking for jobs in Dubai. He lives in Pakistan.
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I have known a fair few people over the years who have had security tokens to be able to login at work.

They all keep them on their key chain so I don't agree with your premise.

The only thing I never understand is why, like the device pictured, they're designed with strings and thin plastic instead of chains and a beefy case.
Part of this discussion should be how a very large organization called the US Military solved this problem with smart cards. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card.

Those of you how own Dell or HP Computers - you may notice that most of the professional grade laptops have smart card readers built in. My guess is this is due to DoD purchasing requirements. Of course, the MacBook doesn't have a smart card reader and thus you start to look for solutions like the YubiKey.
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Sometimes, you need to strike lucky (like me... that a guy with the money and the same idea as me found me and offered me to code)

Or do like I tried to do in the past: work in a normal job, and in your idea on the side. (this resulted into this: http://www.abril.com.br/blog/campus-party/2011/01/19/fanatic... )
The Roman "internet" was "roads." The extensive network of roads allowed for much faster communication along with the ability to actually act on it with speed.

Maybe Rome was the first Amazon.com ;)
What DIY projects he can do which will generate meaning for some company so he can apply?
the solution is simple, don't put anything online you don't want anyone to see, this should be known by now.

Also this is the most wretched and terrible website layout I've ever seen, I couldn't even finish the article and will never return to this site.
Well if you read through the post, especially Linus's follow-up comments, you'll find that his very point is this distinction between the truth of these technically correct, weasel-worded statements and the bigger picture.

Sentencing is ultimately up to the judge, and the truth is that Ortiz used the threat of "up to 35 years" to try to force a plea bargain. When Swartz refused a bargain which would have branded him a felon, as is his right, Ortiz's office drummed up additional charges.

Ortiz is likely technically correct when she says she never explicitly sought the maximum penalty for these extra charges she piled on. She is also deliberately evading the point by saying so, which is that her office absolutely threw the book at a kid for downloading some PDFs.

Imagine your kid comes home reeking of smoke. You ask him, anger in your voice, whether he was smoking with his buddies in the woods out back again. Kid cooly replies, "I wasn't smoking cigarettes."

Then you find a joint in his pocket. Kid was technically correct when he said he wasn't smoking cigarettes, but he was also "lying" in the sense that he sought to obfuscate and create a diversion from his wrongdoing by making such a statement.
The caveat would be that titles and qualifications vary widely from state to state in the US.

She was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. In Florida, where we were, this meant that she was qualified as a psychotherapist based upon testing, education, and work experience under clinical supervision.

The non-caveat is that we went together as a couple. The first time, although I bought into it, my wife brought it to the table. The second time, I was already forty-five miles down the road in my truck at the rest area, when I made the decision to go home suggest it.

It wasn't a magic pill. The therapist didn't fix us. She pointed each of us to some behaviors which would facilitate healthy responses in each other. And in ourselves.
I don't know if I would blame it on Fox. They practically function as the media arm of the Republicans, and it's not just Republicans pushing the buttons for fear of terrorism.
Just noticed that as well -- the articles are linked to the wrong ID. I fwd'd to the bloomberg.com team so they should fix it shortly.
> TSA stands for Transportation Security Administration. Transportation...

Well the S stands for security and we are still waiting for that...
I fail to see the draw to the argument that, because some people are bad developers, the rest of us should be handicapped. Making the worst developers better at the cost of making the better developers worse (productivity-wise) doesn't seem like a valid tradeoff unless the gain on the lower end far outweighs the loss on the upper end.
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I just altered the Google query to only send a q= field. My search URIs look like this: https://www.google.nl/search?q=test.
Lawyers don't write the "code" here, and that's a very important distinction.
And you think at the start of the Industrial Revolution there was a perfect rule of law in UK & France? There were lots of thugs back then too.
Exactly! We don't know what Aaron would have been sentenced to, and it would probably have been a mere fraction of the maximum penalty. There was something else going on in his life that we don't and most probably won't know or ever understand that lead him to take his own life. Regardless the world would have been a better place with him around, and it's a sad state of affairs that the rules and laws regarding computer crimes are so out of context and maybe even unjust. That being said, it was Aaron who took his own life, not the justice system regardless of how fucked up we believe it to be.
Yes and no.

Lean and Agile act as a "hill-climbing" algorithm. You start at point x and take an action in some direction. If you improve, continue. If you don't, change directions. Keep doing this until you can't improve any further and you've hit a local maxima.

The important concept here is that you hit a LOCAL maxima. There could be other vastly superior outcomes, but whether or not you reach these outcomes depends on your starting point.

I think Lean and Agile are fantastic for making improvements to a product. However, in order to change the game, you need to take risks by jumping to a new starting point and beginning again.

I think Google, as the article points out, espouses both philosophies. They take massive lateral jumps (Driverless Cars, Project Glass, etc.), but once they make that jump, their development is Lean and Agile.
My fundamental question is: what exactly is innovation? We throw this word around all the time - but is there a way to quantify it? Perhaps the number of people who use or rely upon a given technology? Even if something is widely used, is it necessarily innovative (i.e. is that part of the definition)?
Set everything to private, don't let your profile show up publicly and don't add anyone from work - problem solved?
Where does Orwell suggest anything like the Internet in 1984?

His 1984 does have quite a lot of high technology (machine generated media content, telescreens) but nothing that I would see as being incompatible with a totalitarian state.
I'm actually not a fan at all of the OAuth craze.

What happens when you want to leave Google services?

You will be locked in. I remember the days when everyone had hotmail. At some point you will want to leave gmail or google apps. Genius move on their part though.
Well in this case I subclassed them so I could have the backing data source only weakly reference the items in the dictionary/array and because I subclassed them I can use them wherever NSDictionary or NSArray is an accepted parameter.

Apple's documentation also gives some examples:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa...

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa...
The common framework is to extort people into taking a plea bargain by threatening them with huge prison sentences by throwing every single felony they can think of at them. When you threaten someone you have to be willing to back up your threat if they call you on it or it wont work in the future, so I am not really seeing how this makes her not a liar.
The Romans were too busy inventing sanitation, medicine, education, viniculture, public order, irrigation, roads, fresh-water systems and public health.

So like others have said, infrastructure.
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Linus probably has a similar amount of domain specific knowledge about being a prosecutor as Ortiz does about kernel hacking.
When I was younger I could enter the zone regardless of office noise.

Now that I work at home I find I often have to add noise.
Feels like an analogy to what Ortiz is did to Aaron.
From what I remember from the excellent Turing's biography by Andrew Hodges, the Polish broke the first (pre-war) version of the Enigma and Turing broke a newer version (naval Enigma which gave away positions of U-boats)
Removing / blaming Aaron Swartz without reforming the corrupt system of copyright laws that caused his offense in the first place was exactly what Stalinist Carmen Oritz wanted.

It is a fact that Carmen Oritz is a snake and is not fit to serve in the United States government.
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In this case, the website design is so horrible as to render a discussion about the topic impossible, since the design has made it impossible to read the damn thing.
That's very interesting (especially the whistling language). I suppose what divides Roman watch towers from the Internet (from my POV) is that they could only carry a fixed messages. They weren't able to send general communications.

That said - the geography aspect is not to be overlooked.
I described 3% as conservative. Over most long periods 4% and even 5% would be fine, but you only have one life and you don't want to fall into an unfortunate period.
You should read up on this too then. His lawyers did manage to extract a plea deal with no jail time, but then MIT wouldn't sign off on it.

Let's be specific, are you trying to claim that Aaron stood a small chance at actually be sentenced to 35 years, or are you just talking about jail time at all?
But apart from that, what have they ever done for us, eh?
Very likely, combined with, honestly, men often close ranks when a woman is "too opinionated". I don't think they do it consciously, but it does happen.

I am considering writing a blog post related to your inquiry. I have been intentionally not commenting on that in this thread and would prefer to leave it be for now.
Hi, this is a side project that grew into a main project. Change.is intended as a useful tool to motivate and educate; a resource to push each of us to build whatever it is that we need to build, and to use best entrepreneurial practices in that process for better outcomes.

The starting point for the project were the videos. Each quote was sourced from a video, and has a citation linking back to the actual video performance by the entrepreneur. Content comes from approx: 80% Youtube, 15% Vimeo, and 5% other embeds.

The quotes are mostly aphorisms, meaning they are concise, memorable, actionable statements. They are all from living breathing, active entrepreneurs.

After finding the aphorisms, I figured the site could be a more general home for anything inspiring in tech or human endeavor… so we built out the /videos section as well. Right now videos can be uploaded by any registered user, whereas the quotes are currently curated by me.

Would love to get some feedback on what's good, bad, fast, slow, ugly…
A couple of specific questions:

There is an easy way to navigate the quotes and a less user-friendly way. Did you find the easy way off the bat?

Is it clear enough that you can click on a quote to load the video?

Is the videos sections too hidden away?
> Judges don't have to respect plea agreements or prosecutor's promises to the defendant

This is only up to a certain point though. Plea bargains can be made conditional on the sentence not exceeding a certain limit.
There's a great early science fiction novel about the possible effect of semaphore communication technology on the Roman empire — L. Sprague de Camp's "Lest Darkness Fall", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lest_Darkness_Fall. In the novel, de Camp argues that a time traveler with this technology (and foreknowledge of history) could have prevented the Dark Ages.
That's just their small device (NEO). I have two of their normal sized one that I use for several sites already for 2-Factor. The YubiKeys are actually pretty robust and safe enough to keep on a keyring.

The key to this is to still require something that you remember like your username (and/or a password), they will get stolen and it is too risky for these tokens to be the only authentication factor.

As long as users are educated that these tokens should in all ways be considered a set of keys then security can only be improved with them.
I'm gonna be a dork and not read the article and just say this:

There is no magic bullet "methodology." Agile, Lean, etc. are sets of ideas and methods and some of them are very good, but they cannot be applied without thought. Think of them as management design patterns. You still have to look at these sets of design patterns and decide which ones work for your particular situation, or adapt them to your peculiar organizational needs. I've seen too many shops that apply Agile/Scrum/whatever slavishly and unthinkingly with poor (and often extremely annoying) results.
The article says as much with its "Context" link near the bottom.
> It's similar to how going to the doctor with something embarrassing seems like a huge deal for most people

Except the doctor serves a purpose and the TSA is just a jobs program and waste of money. Remind me how many of these caught terrorists per million dollars spent.
nullbasic? honestly sounds like bullshit... im starting to think that all of this AIDS "research" is bullshit. theres too many declarations of cures.... also where are all the people with AIDS in the developed world... if this is a huge epidemic and millions of people remain untested... then there should be a huge amount of people getting the weird AIDS illnesses they did in the 80s (an untested person should progress to AIDS... this is not happening with any regular occurrence)... condoms, treatment, or not... there should be lots of AIDS patients. especially if millions of people are dying. I've been to African slums. i don't see that. something is super fishy with this industry.
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Well, the most innovative company of all time was AT&T back in the monopoly days.

They gave us the transistor, Unix, and the C programming language. They hired people like Claude Shannon and Dennis Richie.

Then they broke up AT&T and now "innovation" at AT&T is peddling an inferior DSL service and trying to figure out how to get you to pay more for your cell phone bill.

YCombinator-style startups might make something like AirBNB, but they won't make something as transformative as the transistor.

As for lean and agile, these are both profoundly conservative forces, in fact, that's really their strength. At their best, they improve the odds of project success by squeezing out risk. However, they also encourage people to keep their heads down and not ask the kind of fundamental questions that can lead to 10x gains rather than 10% gains.
I've worked with someone before who had this rule.

It was great for company culture. /s
> Which other more serious cases did Ortiz choose not to pursue and why?

There were a bunch of pharmaceutical cases where Ortiz used her discretion in favor of the defendants.

> Perhaps there wasn't good enough evidence to pursue them?

Perhaps.

> I really don't think she's an idiot... I know we're honor-bound not to like her, but we're calling her an idiot because we have no proof to the contrary? What...?

Notice the 'If' at the beginning of that sentence please.
I also believe that web development doesn't really benefit from functional programming. That said there are two good FRP projects out there:

Elm: http://elm-lang.org/
and to some extent Meteor: http://docs.meteor.com/#reactivity
Consider an analogy. When we reason about the performance of algorithms, it's important to know both the worst case performance and the typical case. They're two separate bits of information.
A more charitable (and possibly more far-fetched) interpretation is that Ortiz has a different agenda in talking to the press than she does when negotiating with opposing lawyers.

Maybe she intended to make herself look merciful when agreeing to the much smaller punishment. The argument that the experienced defense lawyers were influenced by press releases rather than what they were actually being offered by the prosecution seems a little weak.
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> That means no political views, no off-color humor, NOTHING that I would not say or post in public

Yikes! I totally get not posting things on public websites that you wouldn't post in public. But you really shouldn't be afraid to make your political views public, and even off-color humor has its place. I don't share the same political views as my employer, but we have mutual respect for each other.

I guess if you're a holocaust denier or a birther or a 9/11 truther or something you may not want to make too much noise about it. But even if your views are somewhat fringe, you shouldn't be ashamed of what you believe.
Yesterday I was complaining a bit about Go, so let me partially balance the scales by observing that in terms of examining this for use at my work, I absolutely love this and consider it a major plus point. Dealing with "fmt" is annoying, yes, and I sort of wish I could exclude that module from the rules. But I currently live with a huge code base in Perl, which is as far away from Go on this matter as it is possible to get, and after years of cruft buildup, it's virtually impossible to ever remove any imports from a module. You just can't tell what will happen, ever. Removing a "use X" from module Y may in fact break very-distant module Z because it happened to directly invoke X::function without ever having loaded X itself, it was accidentally depending on X being loaded by Y. Yeah, that one's easy enough to find and diagnose, but these get arbitrarily subtle.
Intermittent reports of thwarted terrorists plots (Richard Reed shoe-bombing type stuff), plus the fact that we're still at war in Afghanistan, in a standoff with Iran, occupying Iraq, and still hounding Al Qaeda everywhere we can.
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It's not OAuth. It's a standalone, account-free app that uses a QR code as the seed for a two-factor with token.
Because they're expected to be kept on a keychain which is commonly kept in one's pocket and which you'd rather not have filled up with chains and bulky cases?
It's not even nefarious. What else is she supposed to say about the sentence when charges are initially filed?

She can't say what a judge will do. She can't say what sentence the defense team might argue for. She can't even necessarily give a formal pronouncement of what she might argue for as that could tamper with negotiations between the prosecution and defense attorneys!

The only factual statement you can make about the charges when they're filed to give an impression of the seriousness is the statutory maximum, so-and-so can face up to X years in prison based on these charges.

I swear it sounds like a lot of the people here are either blissfully unaware of legal cases in general or are deliberately being hyperbolic now that it suits them. The former you can blame on ignorance I suppose, but the latter is disgusting.
It makes me question humanity seeing the opposite. In these comments are many "work-arounds" (this word is so negative; what about workflow-diff?) listed and I bet if you are smart enough, you can even come up with many more, more beautiful work-arounds. Using a language for one week hardly qualifies someone for qualified criticism. :-)
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A tablet with a stylus (eg: ThinkPad Tablet) would work well for that. Just grab it, fire up your drawing app (eg: LectureNotes) and start drawing. You get easy colour selections, box and oval drawing, and full page duplication or element copy/paste.

If you don't want a full tablet just for wireframing, maybe one of those stylus peripherals (eg: Bamboo tablet) would work well.

I'm surprised that you didn't mention element linking though. I would add to your list some feature that allows me to put basic actions onto an element - like a click action opening a new wireframe page.

It would be great to see one of your beautiful wireframes using only those features. Sounds like a great idea for a competition. Most appealing wireframe using the fewest features wins.
Every language has is fair share of incomprehensible dialects. Yes Brits and Germans I am looking at you.
Depends on your situation.

While we all want to think its nice we have political freedom and can make jokes among friends, if the information leaked to the wrong person (anal boss out to get you?) it isn't anymore about where the information comes from, its about protecting your rights and (possibly) source of income. If everyone played by the rules and kept their nose out of everyone else's business this wouldn't be a problem but I'm sure you know just as well as I do that there are always people out there looking for ways to bend the rules.
One thing I love about GiveWell is that they publicize and learn from their mistakes, this one included. http://www.givewell.org/about/shortcomings They're really, really good people. Like everyone, they did something dumb. Unlike most, they learned from it and spend their lives trying to improve the world.
Some people might like this from Numberphile which describes the flaw in the enigma machine that British code breakers used to eventually break the code.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4V2bpZlqx8
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Gun ownership seems to be in the high 40% range according to Gallup data.

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