skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's plenty of anger to go around, but my understanding is that it's more productive to direct your efforts at legislators who approved the bad laws and the executives who take full opportunity to abuse them -- and not the judges who have a narrow role in this whole saga.

For example, if you live in California, perhaps you could call Dianne Feinstein, who when asked about this program today said, "It's called protecting America."
In the spirit of Euler's formula, I find

pi*sqrt(163)
e = 640320^3 + 744 - 0.00000000000075...

to be much more beautiful, only because it invokes very deep, rich mathematics in number theory. Note that the above is very close to an integer, and it's no accident that 163 or 640320 show up.
"In the Off position it does absolutely nothing, allowing you to use your iOS device as usual, but twist it into the On position and it mutes all sounds coming from the device apart from alarms you have set manually."

Those sound like exceptions to me.
Good catch, and it's important to understand when dealing with the law that every single word has a specific legal interpretation. This is where Clinton's famous "it depends on what your definition of 'is' is" came from. Re-read those questions and realize every single word in each sentence has a few pages of legalize that defines it. 'NSA', 'intercept', 'Americans', etc. Each word.
I think this is a misassumption of what the military's Cyber Command does. It's not about arresting domestic criminals, but countering attacks (or perpetuating attacks) from other nation-states on our infrastructure.
Okay, say you have the following scenario:

1) super secure server which handles only the processing of credit cards, handed off to it through a carefully specified API

2) webserver which talks to that server

Obviously, the webserver needs the public key. There's no reason to delete the public key from the private server, but not really any reason not to.

Now, let's say that, under certain circumstances, system 1 itself needs to add encrypted records. Now you need the key there too. You could 1) generate a different key-pair and track which key touches which, but for records generated by system 1 you're generating a keypair that might as well be a symmetric key, which you've objected to; or 2) you could encrypt those records with a symmetric key, but now you've got additional code paths to audit and maintain; or 3 you could send off a request to an external server but that seems to add more complexity and vulnerability not less. Just using the existing public key to encrypt those records doesn't seem like a bad idea - it's a message to the server in the future from the server now, and messages to someone get encrypted with their public key.

Now, you've got a system where you have the public and private key sitting on the same server (and being used on the same server), and if someone does manage to get into that secure server (never impossible) the description I initially complained about would be equally applicable to this setup as to the setup Linode had.
Over $1 Million In Sales For The 15-Year-Old Entrepreneur Behind Fish Flops
Should we add the story date to this title? 3/20/2012
Show HN: Custom Infographic Resume after failed startup
Continuous deployment principles do not fly in businesses where IT/programming departments are considered a cost center. We are seen as 'burning money' rather than 'generating money.' Our opposing view is: without our programs, we would go from 140 employees to 5000-15000 employees to handle the workload.

My business's happiness is not about the IT department's happiness. It is about meeting quota. I'm a big fan of TDD (test driven development) stuck in a waterfall.
Not surprise this is happening at all.

"Obama administration spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen"

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-admin-spied-fox-new...
Well, this equation is really a consequence of the more general e^ix = cos(x) + isin(x). This, Euler's Formula, enormously simplifies sinusoidal equations. Most common trigonometric identities can be proven in only 3 or 4 steps if you spend 2 of them converting to/from the exponential form, but are far more complicated in the trigonometric form. Many problems in electricity, magnetism, and basic quantum physics would be drastically less wieldy (more unwieldy?) without it.

I don't know of any cases in which it makes things possible, but there are plenty of cases where it makes things practical.
Windows 8.1 Start button demonstrated fully in new video [bad audio]
And as it turns out, you get low-quality links when you pay $5 on Fiverr. Who would have imagined!?
It has a forex fee, just called about it before a trip. Something like 2.5 or 3.5%; my CapitalOne card didn't so I just used that instead.

Haven't found the ShopSafe numbers yet; I'm going to look for that now that you mentioned it.

Overall great card to have, because besides the 2% back on all purchases (if you deposit the money to a qualified Fidelity account) it has a bunch of the perks like rental car coverage, theft insurance on recent purchases, and doubled warranty, up to 1 year.
There's complex technical work, and there's complex social work. The programmers who use a speech recognition API to solve a human problem - say, hands-free in-car navigation - are doing work that's every bit as difficult as building the speech recognition API in the first place. And they're often more highly compensated for it, if they succeed - it's just the risk structure of trying to match known technology to unknown problems is a lot more vague than trying to match unknown technology to known problems.
Pfft if you haven't written binary then you ain't nothin.
Buyer beware if you have a case on your phone - it states in the FAQ on his Kickstarter page that this will only work with low-profile cases (which is hard to gauge qualitatively).
One of the core points of the article and the parent comment is that many instances of "muddled thinking" are actually mis-communication due to the nuances of real human language, or interpreting sentences too literally.

A sentence "all skeptics are assholes" does not mean that the speaker literally asserts that the conditional statement "you are a skeptic → you are an asshole" is true. Someone saying "you are an idiot" to me does not mean that they literally assert that I have been medically diagnosed with IQ less than 30.
In both cases, it is more likely that the true meaning of the sentence is an subjective expression of frustration at some behaviour they experienced.

There is no useful place for pointing out logical fallacies by name in a real discussion among people. Instead of rejecting "arguments", a good discussion requires asking questions to understand each others' viewpoints, empathising with each others' concerns, trying to convince the other party of your viewpoints in a persuasive way, and being open to changing your own viewpoint. Pointing out a logical fallacy by name will not persuade the other party, any other readers/listeners, nor help you learn anything about their actual views.

If somebody says "you are an idiot", the interesting topics of discussion are: what did I do, and whether what I did was wrong. Debating the logical truth of the literal sentence is completely pointless, because the literal interpretation of the sentence is wrong.
How many computers running P2P software does it take to write the software?

You can only talk about the "all but 0" marginal cost when you can produce a piece of software that really does have an all-but-0 marginal cost. And, therefore, doesn't require the computer running it to be always on, or run on a dedicated VM, etc. Sure, such a thing may be possible, but you have to produce it first.

Unfortunately.
Software engineering has not yet gone through a true manufacturing disruption. We cannot put software on the kind of assembly line/stamping process we can with say door hinges or other metal works that used to require a skilled blacksmith. That doesn't mean it won't happen some day.

We also can't do this with writing. Is software more like writing prose, or more like manufacturing? That's the heart of the issue as I see it, and to me it looks more like "writing."

It is possible that AI software will eventually produce better writing than human writers, but that seems unlikely without human-like AI and also seems far enough into the future to be highly speculative.
You found it ugly that the approximations used by computers to model real numbers are approximate? What's that got to do with the equation being ugly or not?
The tiresome dietary politics of Don’t Starve
What's the Matter With Metadata?
Not excusing the collection of private information, I would be interested in knowing the extent of the analysis done with the data.
A response to Linus Torvalds on C++ (2007)
It had nothing to do with the floating point approximation of things. I don't think I said that anywhere. It had more to do with the syntactic transformation while remaining precisely the same.
Of course they do. All governments do.
I'm not sure I understand how this relates to the Guardian article. My understanding of that is that there's an NSL ordering Verizon to give electronic records of the calls to the NSA. The NSA isn't collecting, intercepting or monitoring anything. They're being handed the data by VZ. What's the relevance?
And the problem was the private key being on the server running the web front-end, and that's what should be criticized. Presence of a public key does not a webserver make.
Back when huge companies were being made thanks to viral games on Facebook, the CEO of Arkadium came and gave a talk at the NY Gaming Meetup.

He said, do some potential users get annoyed with all the gifting and invites and requests for help? Sure! But those are not the users that are going to get your viral coefficient over 1 (each user brings in more than one other user) and trigger geometric growth. So even if you miss out on some users because you write a game that is very social, you are still doing the right thing, because the social users are the one who make you a hit.

Same thing here. Are a few privacy minded individuals like the author going to abandon the service? Sure. Are they worth as much to the company as users that will revel in social graphs and drag friends in? No way. Is it a mistake to add social graphing in this case? No it isn't.
Google is hot; Apple is not. Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve entered bizarro world
President Obama’s Dragnet
Since he hasn't mentioned it on DF, and the website is only a splash page, and it's the Friday before WWDC, I wonder if Macworld broke their press embargo early.
> Instead of seeing the woman's statements as a logical argument, one should see them as the expressions of emotion that they are, and try to engage in talk that connects to the emotions and experiences underneath.

Why not afford to the men and women who respond to her that same privilege?
I don't know. Ever since we set up encrypted disks we haven't had an unplanned reboot. I was simply pointing out that this is a possibility that we've considered.
He's also a ham, I'm looking forward to using JRX once my buddy sends me back my Icom PCR.
I don't really believe Apple's going to make a watch, but if they did, I would expect it (for third party apps) to simply be a UIScreen that would launch the app on your iPhone if you tapped it.

I wouldn't expect much interaction beyond that since Apple killed the watch face size iPod Nano. I wonder if that was an experiment to see how people took to interacting with a screen that size, and that it was ultimately a failure.
What authority does the Whitehouse have to force congress to hold a congressional investigation?
Try saying that on any of the "freethought" or skeptic blogs and you will be mocked, banned, comments deleted, in that order as a "tone troll." On the other hand, if you insult (or insult back!) one of them, you are deemed a regular "troll". Leave without further comment and you are a "drive-by troll."
Where can one look up the actual legal definition for any given word?

Have you heard the claim that your name in all caps is different than your name as you would write it? What is your opinion on that claim?
Do you support comments? The whole props/kudos/like trend is replacing meaningful interaction between users and creators. It's so much easier to click a thumbs-up icon than it is to formulate a clear opinion and articulate your thoughts, but the end result when you take the time to do so is so much more fulfilling for both parties.
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Look out HipChat. Build a multi-user chat app using jQuery Mobile and PubNub
It strikes me as silly to act as if individual presidents are reigning like kings and deciding much of this either way. We construct systems and these systems take on lives of their own (I don't mean AI, I'm for example thinking of capitalism). Individuals get shaped by those systems and get ideas that they're acting 'n shit, and of course it does make a slight difference who exactly is president, but what matters much more are the bigger structures and the dynamics inherent in them.

We're dealing with monsters made up of many people who I am sure are actually trying to be decent people as individuals. And even if they were ALL ranging from jerks to really evil, it's not them that makes this suck so much, it's the combination of billions of people being mediocre and incredible technology. That alone is enough, no super villains needed, sadly.

TL;DR stop playing into the hands of the cancer that is taking figureheads as the substance.
Is the issue that you somehow believe "stored with" is not a commutative relationship?

Edited to add:

"It doesn't matter whether there's something stored with the private key, both because that location should be secure and because the private key can used to recover the public key."

Right, it doesn't matter in what should be the overwhelming majority of cases where "the public and private key are stored in the same directory" so it's a piss-poor test for whether things are obviously being done horribly wrong.
Of course Verizona caved to the NSA: It does a lot of government business
That's not possible. Even if you fool the kernel, you still can't mount the encrypted disk. The fact that the encrypted disk is not mounted is proof that there has been an unplanned reboot.
That's the problem.. A few vivid examples shouldn't influence a view on this. Data should.

A little finance 101:
The longer you hold an investment, the higher the return demanded. The riskier the investment, the higher the return demanded. To judge the wisdom of an investment strategy, one needs to weigh these against the potential return.

A successful small early investment (for example, Peter Thiel investing in Facebook in 2004) will return much more on a percentage basis than a successful large late investment (for example, Yuri Milner investing 200M in Facebook for 2% of the company in 2009), but they are also much risker and take longer to see a return. Even though Thiel made a billion dollars and Milner only made a few hundred million while investing 400x more money, based on these numbers alone it's hard to say which was a better investment on a risk-adjusted basis. We don't know what the expected value of each investment was (probability weighted terminal value of Facebook). We don't know what their cost of capital was (what else they could have been doing with the money). All of these matter.

My point is that it's hard to figure this stuff out. Real academics have a tough time coming up with definitive answers to these questions. Furthermore, the answer can change over time. The fact that chili tastes better when it's cooked slowly is of no consequence to this question.
DF has posted quite a number of links over the last couple of months, highlighting how poor sync on iOS currently is (iCloud in particular). I'm pretty sure Brett Simmons has posted quite a few of them too... My theory is they tried to get sync working in as polished a fashion as they wanted, it didn't work well enough, so they dropped it for v1. If Apple fixes iCloud sync at WWDC they'll add it back in a new version. If not, they can just say it's not something they feel the app needs.
Videos, Games, Siri can/do make noise when "ring/silent" switch is engaged. I usually don't have a problem but sometimes Siri launches when I don't expect her to - quit an app... wait... pling-pling-pling!
It's new - but I'm not decided whether it is better. It feels like the loss of the 'metaphor' of a physical page/tile takes away something... but I'm not sure if that is just preference.
There's a disconnect between what people want, what they want to want, and what they say they want. This seems to be universal to humans; the connection with capitalism is tenuous, at best.
They're most definitely on the upcoming list, but probably default off.
If you want to do something where such a degree is an entrance criterion, then sure.

If you want to hang out at the uni and the topic interests you, then why not?

Otherwise, I'd suggest self-study.
Having met quite a few brilliant minds who worked for NASA, Raytheon, and other defense contractors, including a few women who do work like writing missile guidance code, I think your bubble is clouding your view on this one.
Misleading headline! Alert the media! ... see what I did there?
I spent a good amount of time in those mountains, I have family with property in Mt. Judea.

Wonderful place.

If I did what this man did (which I often contemplate), I would likely do it on their property--I have an open invitation.
Every few months? Well, a six months surveillance using his cell-phone, kinect, or laptop camera should provide for adequate "leverage" material.

Oh, like you don't think the U.S. government knows how to turn on your cell phone camera without you knowing?
Verizon is sending them call metadata not actual calls.
are you referring to what the Wired article stated?
There won't be an "enough is enough" pushback in the U.S. because the kind of privacy we're discussing is not valued by the public. The average response to hearing news like this is something like: "Unbelievable. Typical rotten politicians, I tell ya. So anyway, are we still on for seeing the new Iron Man movie this weekend?"

The segment of the population that feels strongly about these issues is small and ineffective. In fact, that's how it works with many negative government decisions. How many of your non-developer friends would participate in an uproar about software patent policy? I wonder how many other niches are facing similar situations.
Your caveat doesn't apply if they aren't helping markets be more efficient. HFT is basically a latency arms race ripoff scam. Whoever pays more for faster lines and closer access to the datacenter takes the cake. Thousands of PHDs are working on this instead of real stuff.

Say this is the makeup of market participants: all of them are normal merchants buying fruit for their shops but 2 are latency arbitragers. Shipments of fruit don't always come in because sometimes the sail boat crashes into something.

The latency arbitragers hire high speed skiffs to go scout for the ship before it arrives. If one of them sees that a shipment of oranges are missing, he rushs back to game the unsuspecting others in the market: orange prices are going to go up so he buys them on the cheap.

Because nothing gets better with two competing arbitragers. They simply compete with each other on hiring out more skiffs and paying for elaborate faster ones. Or signaling by latern along a chain of ships.

None of this helps the market; all other participants lose out. With competition between the two arbitragers they end up wasting most of the money buying faster ships. Ships that could be used for.. rescuing crashed orange ships? Many other things as well. The worst government bureaucracy couldn't be more wasteful.

Markets aren't efficient even in theory if there is an information asymmetry.

I hope you can see the analogy between my example and things like:

* deploying more and more servers to literally turn our energy into waste heat (they could be simulating protein fold or something)

* paying trading exchanges extra for in-house servers (this is just a complete scam)

* Digging hundreds of miles of new fiber line to save 2ms of latency over the existing line (with no plausible consumer benefit because the old lines had plenty of dark fiber and the new line is monopolized by whomever pays the most)

* Setting up microwave (lantern?) relay towers to get from New York to Chicago a millisecond faster

* Making markets more likely to have a major crash by forcing developers to use C++ to eek out a couple milliseconds over safer alternatives

You can make a little bit better case for electronic market making.
Why your current monitoring system is broken
Usually a little higher than that, actually:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
It should be mentioned that it was written by the Editorial Board of NYT.
I've heard Mormons live outside of Utah too.
Why America Will LOSE the Cyberwar
THE PROBLEM:

* Hundreds of millions of inquisitive and bright foreign youth whose only exit from poverty is
to become programming literate with agile keyboarding digital fingers.

* Lax piracy makes freely available tech eBooks, such as latest Oreilly titles found on their state legally sanctioned piracy file-sharing sites, and with the growing skills of their friends and acquaintences helpful mentoring, and with the surfacing competition of their immediate peers, this daily pedagogical and pragmatically harsh environment is more conducive to learning and excelling than any familiar culture imaginable in the USA.

* Reduced to less options than American youth, therefore, affording greater available productive hours, and as their only goal is a minimal environment to support staring at a screen with a keyboard -also now more affordable- this well-defined, state encouraged and sponsored, computer hacking and cracking people's army, quickly evolves into Cyberwar's flame-chastened `sharp end of the stick'.

SOLUTION:

* ???
Feel it could be a valuable addition, specifically to technical analysis, confirming reversals etc.
With those exceptions it wouldn't have prevented something like this famous example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/nyregion/ringing-finally-s...
A former coworker of mine.
Weellll, as long as it's only a thought-crime, you probably can't really blackmail the person. It's only when they act on things that they become vulnerable to negative social consequences, and hence blackmailing to avoid said consequences.
I was kind of expecting a piece about how stone-knives-and-bearskins mathematics was before The Wolfram single-handedly brought fire down from Olympus.

This wasn't that far off, though, so full credit, Wolfy.
oh man, i don't have a good answer for that, but i'll give you the next best thing -- a bad answer. :)

I don't think its fair for me to assume steady growth at my previous 4 months trajectory. I would love that, of course, because, uh, i like money, but it seems improbable.

So the next best thing: last month, RL made ~$1500.

I try to track every dollar I spend, so I just grepped my expenses sheet for every dollar ever spent that is tagged with RL.

$95,225.20

So, at 1500/mo, I'll break even in 63 months, assuming a cost of capital of 0%. :)

However, that number is really tagged based on what my accountant tells me is valid for the purposes of IRS reporting -- meaning, whenever I have drinks or dinner with other founders and we talk business, marketing, strategy, when I park in a parking lot and have to pay a fee, purchases that can be attributed to the business, etc. so the total invested number is probably non-trivially lower than 95k.
Pretty positive all the apps like this were either just random data or fake. I could be wrong, but I believe that none of these apps ever actually worked
>> what is it with these Apple fanatics not wanting to write any software ever for Android, Windows, Linux

Perhaps the answer to your question is inside your question itself.
As soon i get my moped i am gonna go you. /John from Funplanet :)
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