skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right in that case.

However in the case of trying to get a customer to buy something more powerful than they need, the product will work just fine from the perspective from the customer; it's just that it still would've worked fine for them and they would've retained more money if they went with something less powerful.

There may be some economic dynamics I'm missing out on (aversion to buying Apple products in the future for being too pricey, maybe), but it seems like it'd generally be in a company's best interest to try and get their customers to purchase their most expensive projects. That is why the article linked seems so unusual yet refreshing.
Evidence that the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata
One of the articles here stated that FISA is not a court but a group of judges that have signed up to do this FISA court thing. So when there is a request for wiretap/search - they get called up on the phone and they have to be in reasonably secure location to answer and either allow of disallow search verbally.

Sounds kind hokey doesn't it.
This is neat.

I'm always worried when people mention steganography because often they've just read something about it, and coded up a nice proof of concept toy to play with, and they put it on a bit of webspace somewhere.

These toy systems often use things like manipulating the LSB in gifs. But these are trivially easy to detect and are not a safe form of steganography.

I'm a bit surprised we haven't seen more steganography now that many people have fast Internet connections. Traditionally bandwidth is too limited to cope with the huge amounts of cover text you need to hide the plain text.
This isn't in F#
New Features of Dreamweaver CC
Here is a new Adobe Dreamweaver CC for web design and developing application for creating websites and applications for use on multiple targets including browsers, devices, and tablets.
Are you at liberty to expand on what the other metrics are?
Are the ppi the new megapixels?
If you look his Orwin Gambit start it would happen. It's because this the first move is done freely so you end up with one area ahead of it's paths (ie full but with only 8 path already taken).
But not individual instances.
Programs to "prepare the nation’s K-12 teachers" are probably terrible at doing that because it is not their purpose.

The purpose of teacher qualifications is to lend status to the profession, and to serve as arbitrary yardsticks for promotion.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/10/pdf/teacher_e...
"traditional measures of teacher qualifications, such as completion of a preparation program, number of degrees, or years of experience... [serve as] the basis for making decisions about hiring, tenure, licensing, compensation, and selection for leadership roles... current measures for evaluating teachers are not often linked to their capacity to teach"

If ability to teach is not relevant to teachers' career prospects, there is probably not much pressure on universities to offer training that improves it.
http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporati...
They are compiler engineers as well.
I think you can get sent to a full board only if the game started on that board.
This "experiment" is garbage. No description of test methodology other than "then outputted the compressed file back to plain text."

Last time I had to use Omnipage to convert some highly compressed .JPEGs, it blew me away with it's accuracy. Not only did it get the text nearly 100%, it often got the tables right too. The only thing it struggled with was advanced mathematical symbols.
Exceptions can be used in strategic places to ensure that a value returned can never be null. Ex:

public Person findPerson(String name)
{
for (Person p : personList)
{
if (p.getName().equals(name))
{
return p;
}
}
throw new PersonNotFoundException(name);
}

We can be sure that the return value of findPerson will never be null, as it must either return the correct value or throw an exception. Whether this is better, worse, or the same as a null check is debatable.
"Can a free market naturally produce a safety net?"
When Margaret Thatcher was asked before she succumbed to dementia if she would do anything differently, she replied that she had believed, that making people rich would mean that they would help the poor, but now she realised that they don't.
I recall seeing this before, called "crazy" tic tac toe:

http://tictactoe-cssi.appspot.com/
via: http://neil.fraser.name/news/2011/07/16/
>So, they're tracking telecom metadata and storing content because they can.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but to theoretically record every single phone conversation in America would require unbelievable amounts of data storage, would it not? Even if it's stored in a highly compressed format.

The metadata I can believe, but I find it kind of unlikely they have the means to store the contents of every call.
You can communicate with humans. Can you convince them to stop killing each other?

Why do you connect consciousness and not killing? Not killing all humans is fairly new concept for us and we always knew they were conscious.
I'm old enough to remember the cold war. One of the big criticisms of Eastern block countries was that the courts were subservient to the government, that the government was not constrained by the law and that trials were secret.

Have we forgotten this already?

If courts have found that national security concerns override any law and something is a national security concern merely on the say so of the executive branch then is there any constraint on executive branch power at all?
There's no definition of consciousness that is 1) not subjective (= is scientific) 2) matches our intuitive understanding of consciousness 3) doesn't contain logical inconsistencies or circular reasoning.

And there are good argumnts suggesting that there'll never be such definition (summary: consciousness is inherently subjective).
> 5. There are four different "stringish" types in Haskell: List, LazyList, ByteString, LazyByteString. A function like splitStringWith works on one of the types, but not the three others for which you need other functions. Some libraries expect Lists, other ByteStrings or LazyByteStrings so you have to keep converting your string to the different types.

I guess you mean String, ByteString, Lazy ByteString, Text, Lazy Text?

> 6. Most Haskellers seem to content with just having type declarations as the api documentation. That's not a fault of Haskell per se, but imho a weakness in the Haskell community. For example, here is the documentation for the Data.Foldable module: http://hackage.haskell.org/p ackages/archive/base/latest/doc/html/Data-Foldable.html

But there's more documentation than just type signatures on that page! Anyway, being able to rely on type signatures as documentation is testament to the expressivity of the type system, encourages small reusable combinators, and is a great strength, in my opinion.

> 7. This is very subjective and anecdotal but I've found the Haskell people to be less helpful to newbies than other programming groups.

Strange, I've always heard they're one of the communities most helpful to newbies. I don't have any evidence one way or other though.
It might be worth considering what other countries besides the US take advantage of data packets that happen to travel through their country for surveillance. One would imagine that the US is not the only country who does this.
I'm very happy with my Samsung NP900X1B (other than the ridiculous name). It's super-light, very tough (survived a >1m drop onto concrete - which put a bit of a dent in one corner but kept it fully working), runs my large collection of old windows games, has a very handy microsd slot for extra storage, and does HDMI out without an expensive apple-only cable. What's so good about the air?
I am the CEO Bitch
That particular instance isn't an example of doublespeak ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak ) it's just jargon.
The closest ruling I can find on something like that is that sending drug sniffing dogs into a house without a warrant is illegal: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/drug-sniffing-dogs-...
Supporting the EFF hurts your chances for a security clearance
I have a 2010 MBP17 8/512(aftermarket ssd) and a 2011 MBA13 i7/4/256, and it's amazing how much better than 8GB machine is. I got 8GB because of VMs, but now what I use a desktop box for most VM stuff, I still get much more consistent performance for Chrome/Firefox, Lightroom, etc. For editing RAW files or video, more RAM is also nice, as is fast disk. Xcode mostly seems to do fine in 4GB though.)

(I also have a late-2008 MBP15 4/500 for home theater/hooked up to my projector, and it's obviously far far sadder than the MBA, mainly due to the drive. Once it starts swapping, it's game over, whereas on an SSD, swapping just sort of sucks.)

I pretty much wouldn't buy a Mac with less than 8GB again. Certainly true in a year, so buying one today with 4GB cuts lifespan a lot. I tend to buy fairly loaded machines for anything built-in, then upgrade to max all the aftermarket stuff a bit later once prices have dropped, and keep machines for ~3-5 years in some capacity.
A lot of people who will never buy an Apple product just because they are on the flame bandwagon will miss out on this type of experience. There is a reason why Apple beats out all the other companies in customer satisfaction. I use all types of products from Apple to Microsoft as a majority of people do. I can honestly say that Apple has the best customer support I have experienced so far.
Zermelo's theorem[1] says "yes," although I don't know which it is (between draw, p1 win, p1 lose).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%27s_theorem_%28game_th...
STAND OUT with a companion mobile HTML5 app for your BLOG
Cleartrip, India's premiere Travel site, gets a fresh design.
Random cookies probably wouldn't suffice. Evercookie[1] uses thirteen different storage mechanisms, making it almost impossible to delete.

[1] - https://github.com/samyk/evercookie
JetBrains Earth Day Celebration Helps Plant 80,000 Trees
I started a reddit thread once, "who here has absolutely no secrets with their SO?" While there were a number who couldnt imagine that kind of trust, a multitude said that living that was is incredibly freeing. I know I agree with that.
No, machines cannot feel pain.
6 Tips to Cure Burnout
At that age bracket, I would not have gone with the Air as that would have been a pretty bad choice. Most kids like to game a lot. I would have gone with the MBP solely because of the graphics card not because of the CPU. Most kids play the graphics intensive games that the MBP can handle.
Overall, the development of politics in Hungary over the past few years has been disturbing. Right wing populists with fascist tendencies have been voted into power, large rallies of uniformed believers in the streets of Budapest, overt and unapologetic antisemitism, overt and violent threats against other minorities, pointless nationalist posturing towards neighbouring countries.
I think the core of this double speak or contradictory and obfuscatory vagueness solely is a function of not having poor Snowden under wraps. ie. they don't really know what he knows or what he could say. So the gov't has to be coy.
If they arrest or grab him up (which it seems well within their capabilities to do) you will see the subtle tightrope dance Obama and company are doing change as they are now free to become positional and can control the dialog and the message. The message is we are telling the truth. He is a liar and a traitor. There will be no one out there left to refute it. Incidentally folks should read the USA Today account of the three former NSA workers who tried to raise alarms about all this years ago within the system and got treated pretty badly as a result.
Javascript, hands down. You'll have a harder time going from CS -> JS than you will from JS -> CS, and knowing only CoffeeScript really narrows what you can do
My Dad, a physicist, taught me that game as a kid. I have great memories of him producing a pen at any restaurant we might have been at, and he and I passing any waiting time playing sprouts on napkins or paper scraps. I since play it with my kids.
Well, if these motions ever do find their way to the court, the court's statistics for rejected motions should improve considerably.
The existence of underseas cable taps has long been an open secret, you can find articles dating back to at least 2001 about it (http://cryptome.org/nsa-fibertap.htm).

I think Snowden's distinction between "policy protection" and "technical protection" is ultimately meaningless and naive - technical protections can be changed at any point just as a policy can be. All checks on government power are "policy protections", whether that policy is set by the Constitution or law or just regulation.
In fact, it can't be a p1 lose, because the extra piece p1 gets can never be a disadvantage (you can prove this more carefully). The question is then is it a p1 win, or draw?

A similar situation arises in the game 'hex', except in that game there is no draw, so it has to be a p1 win!
They use the word "collect" in that way because surveillance laws use the word "collect" in a very specific way, and making distinctions between "collect" and "analyze" and "intercept" is important to delineate exactly what actions people are talking about:

A few definitions: to "collect" means to gather and store; to "analyze" means that a computer or human actually does something with the records; to "intercept" means that a computer or human actually listens to or records calls.

http://theweek.com/article/index/245228/the-fbi-collects-all...
what exactly forces them to use Facebook instead of something remotely private and secure?
I think we are fairly close to achieving consciousness in silicon (graphene or whatever). We will improve algorithms, increase computing power and achieve system of consciousness of a mouse, then just by tossing in more computing power and optimizing speed of algorithms one of consciousness of a dog, then monkey, then human and then we'll be surprised that when we toss in even more computing power we'll get even more conscious system because there's no reason to believe that evolution that gave us consciousness we recognize is capped in any way by some objective limit. It's more likely that our level of consciousness is just accidental value nowhere near theoretical upper limits.
Apperian Creates New Enterprise App Remote Control
>> Right wing populists with fascist tendencies

They are patriots. They are being called fascist because they want to stop the current practice of paying 2000$ for Roma families for raising children, while Hungarian families get 1/20 of that for the same task, all this while the average Hungarian works for 400$ a month.

Don't believe everything what you see on TV.
Go figure.

A Hungarian
Science was a poor choice of word. Mathematical discipline is a better one. Science implies empiricism, cryptography is mathematical. The falsification you're talking about applies empirical, observable phenomena, rather than mathematical theorems.
Latte Printer - print your pictures from the mobile phone onto your coffee
Ever dreamed about having a full customised experience when drinking your latte, see what Let’s Cafe come up with in Taiwan.
I would LOVE for all politicians to be spied on in this way, I think it is perfect. It is the only way to keep power in check.
Xeer: The P2P legal system of the Somalis
Did you ever learn about the variant called 'Brussels Sprouts' and the trick to winning?
I think it starts in July.
I've been thinking about this for a while - you think they would have figured it out by now, right?

Then I took a look at how my clients use their Windows (Dell) laptops.

When they got the first laptop ever, their trackpad was a hilarious joke. Take a look at what we considered normal back around 2000-2005 - you were lucky if you got something larger than a postage stamp.

Fast forward to today (though only through one or at most three upgrades), and the average non-technical Windows user believes the trackpad is an accessory, an emergency device only to be used when your Logitech's batteries are dead. I've seen people outright refuse to use a trackpad, most likely out of a lack of experience.

If I was a PC maker, I'd know this, and wouldn't bother spending a dime on making things any better. Hell, I'd sell matching mice right next to 'em in the store.
I think that as developers, we'll need to be very careful to update things incrementally to not jar users. But overall, it should be a win in that just like with a website, the user is always using the latest code. No need to maintain several old versions of web service APIs, which should have a good effect on reducing bugs.
If you communicate with anyone who is a "U.S. person," then I assume that that U.S. person's communications are now "legitimate" targets.

So just as Europeans are thinking about removing data and business from the U.S, Americans might want to consider not communicating with Europeans to maintain their supposed "U.S. person" immunity from surveillance.
They are not responsible for the actions of the military. Just because they are born in US doesn't make them responsible for the actions of the US military any more than someoe born in Canada, Brazil or Japan.

People who have power over the actions taken are responsible, pretty much the person itself and also the higher chain of command for the said person who commits whatever act to be held responsible for.
Traffic/Audience is everything.
The hive mind, unfortunately.
Petabytes/day, certainly.
Krugman telling us it's bad for people in power to be under public scrutiny. Oh, Sweet conflict of interest.
PyQt 5.0 released
There doesn't seem to be any upside to this, long-term.

Don't sign the consent: You get fired.

Sign the consent: In the short-term you get to keep your job, but you and your spouse get spied upon and you potentially lose your job one day anyway. And probably face criminal proceedings because you did something someone else didn't like.
Because if you are trying to reach a mass audience, you have to go where the audience is. If no one sees your message, you are wasting the time and effort used to communicate that message.
I’ve been watching Charlie’s interviews since I was in middle school in the late 90s, and his interview style can be roughly broken into two categories as follows:

1. (If the guest someone powerful and mainstream of high status and inside access, someone like a business tycoon or politician or beltway pundit.) Ask inane softball questions, talk the guest up, agree with everything said, and generally make himself seem like an enormous ass-kisser. Praise the guest’s wisdom and insight. (For the most obnoxious examples of this, see his numerous interviews with the invariably clueless Thomas Friedman.)

2. (If the guest is a more marginal figure, e.g. an academic or an activist, or really anyone with an opinion that Charlie hadn’t considered before or doesn’t want to hear.) Interrupt the guest, ask inane questions, when they answer in a way he doesn’t want ask the same question over and over again until they’re thoroughly fed up. Condescend as much as possible. Intentionally chop off their interesting sentences halfway through and redirect the conversation back to whatever “setup” thing Charlie is thinking about.

The occasional sports star, movie director, etc. ends up with a somewhat better interview, because in those cases he’s not spending all his effort trying to push his own point-of-view and sometimes he even listens to the guest.

Find any week when the same guest was on both Charlie’s show and Fresh Air. Listen to Terry Gross’s masterful interviewing in delight. Listen to Charlie’s awful awful interview and bash your head into the wall until all that remains is a dent and some bloody pulp.
Which part of TFA is incorrect? It seems from your commentary that the BBC covered the issue well.

Edit: removed 'very' because I'm sure it didn't cover every possible aspect.
Google, IIRC, does not let you search from TOR either. If they can't track you, you're no good to them.
Unfortunately, I don't think so.

It's pretty easy to eyeball your ciphertext and think it's sufficiently garbage-looking, but it's difficult to predict what an attacker can do with access to your running system. Seemingly innocuous flaws can lead to complete plaintext recovery or the ability to forge arbitrary ciphertext. (Here's a fun way to get a taste: http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/)

@cperciva is right that cryptographic security is something that needs to be proven. Since I'm not smart enough to do that, I avoid designing my own crypto systems, and I recommend clients do the same. Lots of risk, little or no reward.
There's currently a Google summer of code project implementing overloaded record fields (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/a...) - which should kinda solve problem 2. You still wouldn't be able to define a field `map` for the same reasons you stated, but you would be able to have multiple record types sharing the same field names.
North Carolina Startup Resources
A local collection of resources for startups in the Charlotte NC and surrounding area.
Differences between PyQt4 and PyQt5: http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/pyqt4_differences.htm...
Consciousness is not solely a matter of computation. Even if we are able to simulate the brains of lesser beings, doesnt necessarily mean that there will be self awareness in the simulation. I think this is one area where we still have a lot of catching up to do.
I think the Orwin gambit can be extended to win the game every time.

- Force opponent to fill center miniboard, as he describes.

- Force opponent to fill (e.g.) northeast corner in the same way. Opponent now has taken two miniboards, and you have none, but you are one turn away from taking each of the remaining seven.

- Pick SW corner of SW corner. You have taken SW corner miniboard. Opponent is forced to play in same SW miniboard, already won by you.

- Pick SW corner of S. You have taken S miniboard. Opponent is forced to play in SW corner again, already won by you.

- Pick SW corner of SE corner. You have taken SE corner miniboard.

- Done. You win.

Like regular tictactoe, there is an advantage to going first. Unlike regular tictactoe, the advantage can't be compensated for. Otoh, the second player can use the same strategy with a little more carefulness, as long as they start early.

So either player can force the other into a protracted certain loss, unless there's an agreement or a rule against it. That's no fun.

EDIT: actually, you can win every time, in far fewer moves, and not using the Orwin gambit at all. It's not necessary to force your opponent to fill any of the miniboards, not even the center.

I think this will win in ten moves and never lose driver control (excuse the notation): C/C, C/SW, C/S, [opponent takes C], C/SE, NE/SW, NE/S, NE/SE, [opponent takes NE], SW/SW [you take SW], SW/S [you take S], SW/SE [you take SE, and win]. A variation can be used by either player early in the game, but whoever starts with control would be foolish to lose it.

If this is a game played by mathematicians, either I'm wrong, or there are additional rules. :)

EDIT2: C/C (first move above) is unnecessary. Nine moves. Perfect inning.
Is this still true or was that only while Apple were paying for Google Maps?
Ah, the "if you don't like it - move to Russia" doctrine. Rather than racing to the bottom, why shouldn't the glaring problems simply be addressed?

Being grateful for health and freedom is one thing - being so grateful as to not put them to use, or let them slip away, is another. If Facebook has made a change for the worse, it's worth talking about.