skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it looks like everyone in India is searching for only a few terms continuously : http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?nrow=5&ncol...
They are apples/apples. You literally just compared them.
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It's not always the case. But sending a witness questions in advance: a) increases the odds you can nail them for perjury and b) takes away the opportunity to say "I haven't been briefed on this and I'll get back to you later."

This came up about 10 minutes ago with FBI director Mueller's Judiciary appearance as well. Chaffetz wanted to nail him on geolocation surveillance and sent questions in advance, and Mueller said he ignored his aides and didn't read the briefing. Bad form.
This is untrue of large private enterprises, which are quite capable of throwing good money after bad, engaging in wishful thinking, and all the rest of it. As another commenter pointed out, the difference with the public sector may rather be that private failures can be more easily hidden.

I did one stint at a BigCo, during which they blew over $100M on a "platform of the future" project on which all their disparate software products were going to be developed going forward. It was obviously never going to work, yet they kept funding it and kept pushing it on all their software teams. Even though this was a massive failure, it was never announced as such or even explicitly canceled. It just crawled off to die alone somewhere. Official rhetoric was that the project had succeeded, and the executive who had championed it was promoted to run the entire software division of the company.

Edit: so I think the salient difference here is not private vs. public, but large vs. small.
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> Whether you happened to like the final product

And then the rest of the post assumes you like the final product.
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How many engineering graduates end up being Sal Khan? Or writing something like PGP or Tor? He didn't say all engineering graduates should go into public service, he said that more of them should. It takes working from both sides to create a better world. Without reasonable people in government, Tesla would have been crushed before it ever got off the ground (without even talking about the subsidy buyers of its products can get).

One good teacher is, perhaps, less valuable than Sal Khan. But we only need a handful of Sal Khans, at most. So one good teacher is more valuable than one more person trying to be another Sal Khan with basically zero chance of success. Am I saying that no one should try to be another Sal Khan? Nope. I'm just saying that most people won't, even if they try, so they should have a good backup plan, like becoming an awesome teacher. Really, it's the same type of advice people give to promising young athletes, shoot for the top, but have a plan to land on your feet if you miss.

The hacker skillset is a big lever, but it isn't magical, and most people will never change the world in a big way. So if a few more engineering grads decided to go into public service instead of writing database apps or starting another mobile social network, I think the world would benefit.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ios-vs-android/
And the github repo at:
https://github.com/MailCore/MailCore2

I did use in the past libetpan and MailCore for some iOS app development, and this is a great news to see that it's moving forward even after the Google acquisition for Sparrow.
I perceived fsckin’s comment as disapproving of Schmitz’s arrest and/or prosecution. In other words: ‘First they came for the pirate/embezzler/blackhat and I didn’t speak out’. That’s a line of reasoning I object to, and the original quote is far too serious for that.

Your comment is about the militarization of police forces, which I agree, is scary and should be objected to, even if it were only used against the scum of the earth.
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Hackers tend to be passive, arm-chair, activists. Twittering on the internet and feeding outrage to each other, but never actually getting engaged to solve real issues. How many hackers do you know that have dedicated their entire careers to causes in the public service?

That strikes me as a false dichotomy. There's a spectrum of ground between "passive, arm-chair activist" and someone who "dedicates their entire career to causes in the public service".

How many hackers do you know that would turn down a job at Google or Facebook and instead try to break into the (often insanely competitive) job market of public service?

Is that even relevant? A job in "public service" isn't the only way one can strive to make the world a better place to live. Creating innovative new technologies in the context of a private, for-profit company is still contributing to the overall public good. Likewise, creating a technology startup that creates jobs and provides employment for people, is doing good. Hacking on open source code and democratizing access to powerful computing technology is still serving the public interest.

I may be mis-reading you, but I feel like you are suggesting that if someone doesn't choose to go to work for a charity / non-profit / govt. agency, that they aren't concerned with real issues. If that is your position, let me say that I disagree wholeheartedly. I've I've misread you, then feel free to ignore this.
assuming the parents understand the contract in which they are entering.
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Americans hate the UN? The US subsidizes roughly 75% of the cost of the UN. That should emphasize the US commitment to the UN and international community.

It may be fair to say Americans are skeptical about relinquishing State Sovereignty, such as the US refusal to sign the Rome Statute and come under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, but most Americans would agree the UN is of great importance to the World.

>Do Americans really believe the rest of the planet even slightly trusts the US government? No

I think if you took a poll at any given time a majority of Americans would not trust their own government. American history teaches us to have a healthy skepticism for government. That skepticism would certainly extend to the UN, whereas at least the US is a democracy, in all its imperfection, which includes terms limits and elections, it only makes sense to be skeptical of relinquishing sovereignty to a UN that includes States represented by authoritarian and repressive regimes.
"There are...better financed tech companies."

Unlikely. And given the secrecy surrounding their budgets, how could you know for sure? Even if you did, the dollars themselves are only part of the picture. The dynamic surrounding the money also has a big influence on how it can be used. A private company needing to post a profit operates under a set of constraints that are dramatically different from those that govern R&D in the military.

Also, unlike private R&D teams, the military can unilaterally classify and restrict entirely categories of hardware (e.g. GPS units that function over specific altitudes or above certain velocities). And they can seize (in secret) any instances that threaten national security.

That's a set of competitive advantages that the private sector, almost by definition, can never hope to match. Or at least not independently.
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See my post above: they were treated unfairly because of this little thing called aristocracy, which was still dominant all over Europe; the fact that in some countries it was losing some of its powers doesn't mean that it wasn't still holding most of them. Removing aristocracy was an extremely radical act in the XVIII century, even for countries were the productive merchant classes had dramatically risen in relevance; it took another two centuries for most European countries to follow suit!
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Now you get lawyers and a social worker doing so! (well, after they spent ~30 years in Washington mainly fundraising).
As explained in the comments here, it's difficult to tell what is and isn't a "software patent". Remember that the famous Unix crypt() patent was described in terms of a circuit, and then also mentioned in passing that software implementations of the same logic would also be covered. (A dependent claim, I assume? I haven't read the patent.)

It seems to me that what we need is not immunity from granting patents on software, but immunity from enforcing patents against software. I propose a very simple test: if a system with its software erased would not infringe the patent, then the system should be considered not to infringe the patent. Thus, arrangements of machine parts, formulations of coatings, and non-programmable circuits would be subject to patent litigation; but entire machines that wouldn't function at all without software would not be.
Is this hacker related at all or is it that hackers end up with (loads of) this sort of information more often?

If I had in my possession delicate information about government, military, or public sector misbehaviour I would need a really, really good reason to keep it secret. And I would assume that most people would face the same dilemma, regardless of hackerdom.

They might, as well as many hackers, choose to do so because they want to keep their jobs and feed their kids but they still couldn't get over the issue. Young people are more likely to leak because they have less to lose.

There are Stallmans of non-hacker origin, too. These are people who see a problem in society and set out to fix it. Civil rights groups, civil liberties groups, charity organizations. Stallman just happened to be a hacker so what he saw was a social problem in his own domain.

I do recognize the libertarian sentiment among hackers and I subscribe to that myself, too. Just wondering if it's really hacker specific.
Very definitely years. It wasn't just for finished programmes (i.e. ~ number-of-channels*24 hours of footage/day): it was for all rushes. All the footage that was filmed in the course of making the final programme.

We're talking stupid quantities of data here and I've never seen a detailed answer to how it was all supposed to be stored.
Actually, it appears that it's from all over the world.

https://twitter.com/paulocoelho/status/341991902704459776
Off the top of my head I can't speak to Facebook's program, but Google's terms include "substantially affects the confidentiality or integrity of user data". A login page that shouldn't be exposed is a marginal finding and might not qualify.

Also: obviously I don't speak for either Facebook or Google, but I strongly recommend against brute-forcing login prompts to try to prove the point that an exposed console is a real finding.
Instead of saying it again, I'll just link to my original comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5869340
That's what "Big Data" is for!
They offer the same amount of RAM for less than Linode, but they offer fewer cores, which makes me suspect they're putting more VPS's on a single host. I haven't yet run any benchmarks, but I think Linode gives you more CPU and Digital Ocean gives you more memory. It's a little more complicated than "better service and better hardware at a cheaper rate."
In what sense is it "their own money"? The programmers at a private enterprise are not doing anything with "their own money" besides collecting a salary. The same detachment from the outcome that happens in government work can happen in businesses, and it does all the time.

The people at the top of a business software product might be stockholders, so they could have some risk. The people at the top of a government project also understand that it will be their photo in the media along with the public outrage. And both understand that the consequences - whether public anger or a dip in the stock price - are temporary and will go away in a few weeks.
I wonder how he deteremined the top wp sites? Is that via alexa, some other ranking? It's not clear.
I'm continually surprised at how short sighted people are when it comes to research and new fields. I'm sure these are the same people who couldn't imagine how a computer could possibly be useful for anything other than mainframe applications 20 years ago.

I get that the complexity of even understanding human biology is overwhelming[1] much less fixing it when it goes wrong. The reality is that the human genomic project kicked off a revolution in biology that has brought the price of sequencing down 100,000 fold per megabase of DNA [2] and that has opened up a whole host of applications. All life as we know it is based on DNA, many human diseases such as cancer are genetic diseases.

Have some vision, don't be like Senator Chuck Schumer who said that releasing DARPAnet (basis of internet today) to public domain would be a wast of taxpayer's money [3].

[1] http://www.genomicglossaries.com/images/shenemangenome.gif
[2] http://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/
[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/16ztsk/til_in...
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I didn't know who Kim Dotcom was before this ordeal, and that certainly wouldn't strike me as a last name if I didn't already know.
Because it's a good source of lead generation.
NIST:"System security should not depend on the secrecy of the implementation..."
I asked them about IPv6 in January and they said "coming later this year". I'll certainly give them a closer look when that happens.
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Is it possible to learn both at the same time?

Hard to say. My guess is that it depends on the individual. I'd probably try to master one thing at least reasonably well, then move onto something else. But that's just me.
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It's definitely production ready. We are using it everywhere in Close.io (http://close.io/)

If you're building a complex web app with it, just be sure to checkout all the Flask extensions so you don't have to reinvent the wheel too much.
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> Reinhart-roghoff was not submitted to a peer reviewed journal.

Yet among 400+ other citations, it was self-cited in a paper to the American Economic Review (see google scholar,) which is peer reviewed and appears to have a code submission policy since 2004 (see wikipedia.)

Perhaps if they submitted the paper directly it would have been turned down? That would make it an even better example of how to game citation count like SEO/PageRank.
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Arghh not working for me! Shows a Google login page.
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Depending on the size of your existing DB and the workload getting a larger sized VM - 16+GB you should see significant performance improvement.

Because it's hourly you can spin up and test and if it doesn't suit your needs will be a minimal charge.

We also made a promo code : NEWSYC10 - so you can get a $10 credit to test with before incurring any charges.
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Perhaps, an alternative: "In the long tale of history just following orders is wrong."
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I'd suggest Javascript: the good parts, and then the traditional "Take a small page and recreate it" trick until you're ready to just start a project that interests you. Start with bootstrap to lay it out, and go deeper as you need to. Make it into responsive design. Put some touch events in.

jQuery really does smooth out a lot of the cross-browser incompatibilities, but it doesn't excuse you from knowing javascript. Javascript: the good parts is old, but still a good place to start.

To cement your JS skills, do the project in node.js. I think that really helped cement how I think about JS, and it's not too far out of the way for a backend developer to understand, callbacks aside. (Using a noSql store will help in this environment, as there's no great SQL ORM solution right now and your purpose isn't to get bogged down there.)

As mentioned, Mozilla Developer Network is one of the best documentation sites.

From there, you can turn your jQuery site to a backbone or ember or angular solution to see how that differs. Don't bother with all of them. :) If you can do all that, you're going to be in pretty good shape.
I've known quite a few twenty-something hackers (including my younger self) that are absolutists about things... everything black and white.

From the preliminary details though, it looks like the government has significantly overstepped its bounds. This is the kind of thing that absolutists won't tolerate, and for that I am grateful that they exist.
Didn't know he switched. That's disheartening. The Firefox developer tools sadly aren't anywhere close to what I like to use. Although it's been quite some time since I checked. I always miss the ability to do xpath queries directly in the browser (which is a rather hidden feature in both Firebug and Chrome though).
Security through obscurity came to mind when I was watching US Cyber commander, Keith Alexander, testify at the senate hearing yesterday. In this clip (http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4455801) he seems to be making an argument for secrecy of the NSA's programs saying that it makes them more secure. From a purely engineering standpoint, this seems wrong to me.
I know of a private newspaper with a circulation of around 30,000 that spent $3M on a failed Print software system.

How does that compare to the BBC's viewer & listenership numbers for $150M for a Audio/Video production system?
But how does it know which trips will be father's day shopping and which will be for some other purpose? Assuming you use your car more than once that week.

The result it likely to just be constant annoying spam.
Quite an awesome whirlwind tour. Didn't know about core.unify, which seems quite impressive.
I think the patents there relate to the combination and use of genes, not the genes themselves, so it's not.

The famous case about that didn't actually hinge on whether GM crops had turned up on a farm unexpectedly, but on whether the farmer had then deliberately selected seed from the GM plants to replant the next year's crop.
I've also had the pingdom monitoring on a droplet for the last 2 months and the only downtime I've been alerted to was my fault. Maybe it's on your end?
Interesting. This is why Macs have the webcam light hardware-enabled; if the webcam goes on, the green light goes on. That way, at least you know it's started recording.
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I'm amazed you stuck with a host that lost your data. That would be a complete deal breaker for me; I've never lost so much as a byte with Linode over six years.
Don't they have something like this in the main entrance of their mountain view office? I could've sworn it was not filtered too, that i vaguely recall seeing something like "how to kill yourself" scroll by when I was standing in the lobby once.
It's just like political debates, really. Java is a Franz Kafka-esque dystopian bureaucracy, while PHP is a Monty Python-esque anarcho-syndicalist commune.
I've been on DO for several months now and love them. And as far as reliability, I've had binarycanary pointed at my sites for about a month now with one outage that lasted about a minute and then resolved itself. To me, for the price/benefits, that's amazing.

One other thing people rarely mention with hosting, that's SUPER important to me, are the FAQs/Docs, and DO really comes through in that area imo.
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I actually agree with your opinion, sorry if it wasn't clear :) I was just pointing out that, generally speaking, many movements who were "fighting for our oppressed fellow man" were in fact produced not by the oppressed, but by dissenting elements of the oppressing classes. Not all of them, of course.
I know you meant well with your comment, but in general, it's best to avoid well-actually comments. This is one of Hacker School's core rules; they elaborate on why it's a good idea to avoid these types of comments at https://www.hackerschool.com/manual.
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In combination with the recent Monsanto case, it'd be consistent that the individual would owe licensing fees for each additional reproduction.
May be in a decade they will launch Google You. Your virtual avatar modeled after you that does all your jobs for you including calling your friends and family('s avatars).
The video below the post is a must watch for AngularJS developers. Great set of enhancements in 1.2. Also excited about that changes to docs & tutorials.
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Why would the NSA think that data in the Netherlands was covered by US legislation!?!
We're actually working on that now.
> I don't know if our behavior can really be predicted on such a fine grained level.

There was a project in the MIT Media Lab something like a decade ago where they stuck about 100 graduate students with Bluetooth-enabled cellphones (this predates smartphones) and tracked many of their behaviors over the course of a semester. Things like phone calls, personal interactions, movements, etc.

A very interesting result from that study was that they built a model for predicting daily behaviors for their subjects with up to 79% accuracy [1]. The whole project was groundbreaking at the time, and they have some very interesting papers.

[1] http://realitycommons.media.mit.edu/pdfs/eigenbehaviors.pdf
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I think that this is right. I also think that storing configuration information in environment variables doesn't scale past a handful of settings. I'm also not sure that it's the best way of storing secrets. If you're working in a real SOA environment, you may have dozens of external services to talk to, and possibly secrets for each one. At that point, you probably can't use environment variables. And, even if you do -- you'll be managing them in some sort of persistent storage, probably with versioning.
That's an interesting scenario given the recent ruling in Bowman v. Monsanto. If planting the offspring of synthetic Monsanto seeds infringes Monsanto's patents, then by extension, conceiving the offspring of a person with synthetic DNA could infringe patents as well.

In practice, this would be limited by the 14th Amendment. The prohibition against slavery trumps patent law, period. But I'm curious how far biotech companies would go before they got shut down.

EDIT: As pointed out below, 13th not 14th. My bad. Although due process in 14th would probably kick in as well.
They were selected because they are the most credible; as the ones responsible for developing the most advanced cryptanalytic and signals interception capabilities possible they are also the ones best suited to identify attacks against which the U.S. must defend themselves, and provide suitable countermeasures.

For instance, NSA fixed a problem in what became IBM's DES crypto standard before the cryptanalytic community even knew what the attack was. So there's at least evidence that NSA takes that part of their mission goals seriously, and that NSA required the knowledge/skills/abilities of their "other half" in order to properly carry out those duties.
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