skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They would of course "figure it out". Actually, there wouldn't even be anything to figure out in the first place, it would be painfully obvious what had happened and they would strike out at you for doing it. Your bitcoins are transferred out of your wallet hours after you are arrested but before you give them the passphrase to your wallet... what is there to figure out?

You seem to be entirely misunderstanding what I am proposing.
> when cash is exchanged it's hard to believe you're getting authentic service

This doesn't even make sense. Are you a Communist or something?
Judging from the exchanges in his blog's comments, he's a guy who knows his copyright, and has been careful about using the MTA's logo only in situations where Fair Use allows it to appear, and not using in situations where it doesn't.

I can see why he's so pissed, by the way. Having taken the time to understand the rules and operate within them, he's going to take an especially dim view of others who should have, and didn't.
Don't forget that they need to paint their enemies into a corner by defining what 'spying' means.

Permanent offense is the best defense.
Is this same as Gambit-c or Chicken scheme, but for CL?
Notifying the world (and hence Snowden) that his passport is revoked is by definition telling secrets that aid the enemy.

The government has got to.
In the grand scheme of things, you've got three crappy choices:

1) No regulation. I.e. the moneyed corporations do whatever they want.

2) Regulation, staffed by professional bureaucrats. Less conflict of interest, but that results in a bureaucracy that has no idea what industry needs. This describes a lot of European countries before the liberalizations of the 1980's and 1990's.

3) Regulation, staffed by people from industry. Creates conflicts of interest, but you have people who actually know what they're doing.
I too would love this, but I think it's not going to happen until 1.0 official/ ember data stable. It's really hard to pitch ember as a viable framework until it becomes stable.

The closest thing right now, though, would be Discourse.
>>I agree. But, we should not be surprised since Jefferson told us
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

What if SCOTUS decides to interpret this as "the price of liberty is eternal surveillance"?
I'm calling you the pot simply because you smugly called someone else smug. That didn't have anything to with whose side you're on, or whatever.

> This is the warning shot. They are coming. Prepare.

This is just some incompetent corruptocrats. This is not the warning shot. This is not the crackdown.

But yeah, I fully expect the US government will, more likely than not, try to shut down Bitcoin. I think most people who are not naive teenagers do.[1]

One complication is that the US government only truly controls one country, and there are 200+ countries around the world. Bitcoin is useful, and the cat's already out of the bag.

To be clear, I'm not naively saying that it's going to be a successful currency in the long run; we just don't know.

[1] I expect it to be a legally drawn-out process that does not criminalize bitcoin overnight and may not even fully succeed. Also, it's worth noting that the Feds have been insanely pro-Bitcoin so far. Rather than making it illegal overnight, all they've done so far is to release the most pro-bitcoin regulations conceivable.
Yes, but it is still very much in the research stages, not quite ready for real-world deployment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_homomorphic_encryption

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-party_computation

There is a huge amount of interest among cryptography researchers and from DARPA and the NSF.
"I thought it was a city made map."

Probably because you didn't actually read the post.
> I like to imagine a bizarro literature based Hacker News where a person is saying "Do you really need a full Comp Sci major to write code? Seems like one or two classes would do."

Just such claims are made in the "You need to have a degree" / "degrees are worthless" debates held hereabouts on a bi-monthly basis.
> U.S. drones do more for General Atomics than they do for U.S. citizens!

Understandably nobody wants to think their own country, that they have been taught to love and idolize, would deliberately target and kill goat herders without too much evidence. "Well of course these are all accidents" everyone replies with a unified voice. But are they? How do we know? There is no transcript, court record or transparency in the process.

I believe there is not a single shred of _written down_ evidence that shows targeting of innocent civilians to be taking place. But large bureaucratic systems always evolve hidden channels and vocabulary (using double meaning words) to exactly indicate what is do be done while also allowing for plausible deniability.

(For example think about at-will employment states and racial or sexual discrimination. If anyone can be fired for any reason any time, but oh, one cannot discriminate, companies evolve language such as "personality fit", "restructuring", "not a team player" to indicate internally what they mean when they want to fire someone whose race they don't like).

I believe there is such a language / channel (hell, there maybe even open discussions, wouldn't be surprised) between contractors like drone builders, NSA, CIA and other government agencies that signal and encourage targeting of civilians. Why? Because it is simply too profitable. Every new terrorist cell, every IED, every phone call captured that mentions "revenge", "jihad" or Arabic version of "the motherfuckers killed my 13 year son when he was out with the goats in the mountain" is linked to money in the bank for everyone involved -- drone manufacturers, drone maintainers, logistics, all the hire-ups, government departments, pilots. Everyone in the chain gets paid the more severe and persistent the threat gets.
Thanks -- I'd previously read a passage where Feynman talks about the idea of "negative" colors, but I somehow had missed that there was a whole chapter in the Lectures about vision!
I wrote a C++ compiler back in 2000. It took me couple of years to polish that. And it was not even the full compiler: parser and semantic analysis, but no code generation in the usual sense. It did, however, support several idiosyncratic compiler dialects.

C++ is an ugly, ugly, _ugly_ language. Even C language, the base of C++, is context-dependent, which in practice means that you need to intermix parsing and semantic analysis. Consider for example this code 'T*t'. If 'T' is a type, then this is declaration of variable 't' that is pointer to 'T'. If it is identifier, then it is non-assigned multiplication of 'T' and 't'.

C++ added its own quirks on top of that. You have, for example, parse class definitions two times. First, just the declarations and only then inline method bodies. There is no other way to do it correctly.

And don't even get me started on semantics.
Although he is a vendor, so who knows: http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1gxiv7/srrelated_b...
One or two classes would do, for the vast majority of tasks people accomplish with code. Lots of the more `advanced' topics aren't really that hard to learn on your own.

Besides, when was the last time you looked at the curriculum for a CS or CSE major? There are some code courses, but also lots and lots of of writing, math, and physics.
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If anyone is curious, the guy seems to be the SR vendor 'Casey Jones' http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1gxiv7/srrelated_b...
I've been guessing that W, Cheney, etc.
knew quite well that the Patriot Act
was unconstitutional but estimated,
apparently correctly, that it would take
years for the SCOTUS to strike down the
law and in the meanwhile W, Cheney, etc.
could "take the gloves off", go after
the Jihaders, and teach them a lesson,
not to mess with the big, bad US, that
would last 1000 years. Why is it
always 1000 years?

However at this point it appears that
W and Cheney were not the brightest
bulbs on the tree because we really
have not exactly roasted all the Jihaders.

Indeed, OBL could laugh that just
a few wacko Muslims sucker punched
the US into wrecking its commercial
airline system, trashing its Constitution,
blowing $3 trillion (net present value)
on absurd foreign adventures, killing
4000+ US soldiers and seriously wounding
tens of thousands more, and still got
run out of Afghanistan like so many
before.

You know, there's good liberal stuff,
good conservative stuff, some places
for genuine argument, and then there's
just plain dumb stuff. We blew it.
The issue is that FB has many ex.gov employees - they are showing a long history of this, with what appears to also be a revolving door policy between both parties.

At this point, as has long been suspected, the word of FB cannot be believed in any respect with relation to any users' personal privacy.

Even seeing the supposed interface between FB and the USG - the station of the employees within/without are highly in question.

The relationship between these groups is very obvious.
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A friend of mine runs a repair shop in Miami. He told me that a few of his competitors were raided by the DOJ for doing unlicensed repairs using Oem parts from china. Apple apparently didn't want anyone other than official stores doing repairs. Guy whose shop was raided had thousands in parts confiscated.
> Do you really need to study a full English major to learn to write properly?

It's not clear to me that majors are things that are studied, especially English ones.
I wonder if this problem is particularly acute for Eastern European companies who often sell their products to despicable despotic regimes.
Education is what has declined.

The humanities merely show it more, because they aren't particularly useful for the non-education function of university, namely, serving as a hoop which when jumped permits your resume to survive the first and most impersonal culling.
I think he understood the risks, but basically took it as fact that the US was beholden to decent privacy laws restricting access to private (and encrypted) communications like email.
One of the main arguments for using Google apps in the past is the technical level of Google's security, and protection from being hacked. But the NSA/prism leaks have raised a new question in peoples minds, in favour of keeping things in-house or at least in your own country.
>I put a (stupidly unnecessary it seems) moratorium on my children eating rice because of this scare story

Meh, it's hard to undo heavy metal poisoning. You can lift the embargo against the rice with no permanent harm done.

I'm surprised this guy didn't catch his error. He should have known something was up when his control sample also tested too high, or changed.
How would that differentiate them from Western companies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinFisher
Huh? This doesn't make any sense. There is no IP right that lets you prevent non OEM parts to be installed in a product. If that were the case mechanics would all be out of business. There must have been another issue here.
C sucks. C++ sucks++.
Do you need the degree to learn the technical details about how to write in English properly? No.

Do you need the degree to learn a small sampling of the breadth of English literature to draw on for examples, metaphors, similes, tropes and what-not to use in written communications? Probably not, if you're quite well-read.

Do you need the degree to learn how to craft an argument and the differences among presenting it as an essay, a dialogue, a monologue, or poetry? Probably not, especially if you've got the Philosophy degree.

But, if your goal is to communicate effectively, with a wide audience, it doesn't hurt.

And it does not necessarily prevent one from excelling in I/T.
You're confusing the process of drafting or modifying laws with the process of defining exactly what those laws mean in practice. Criminal courts only get involved once there's reasonable suspicion that a party has committed a crime (so far as the current legal understanding of the law), not before. You can't just say "so and so violated law A", the courts need some evidence to back up that claim. At best you might get a detective to go out and ask some questions, look around, and try to figure out if there's anything there to follow up on.

Now civil court is another matter, but the state doesn't prosecute that, so it's not really relevant to this discussion.

The court (and particularly the supreme court) is involved in interpreting the law, but they don't get to ask people to prove they haven't broken the law unless they have some kind of evidence that they did in fact already break the law. Simply claiming they "think" someone is in violation of a law based on no evidence at all falls so far short of the legal requirements to bring a case it's laughable. If somehow the government did prosecute based on no evidence at all I'd imagine there's a whole horde of lawyers that would line up to get a chunk of the wrongful prosecution lawsuit that would come of that.
| you cannot have a query string without sending
| your scheme as well, but I may be wrong

I don't remember reading that in the RFC.

Also, I'm curious for examples of URLs that break RFC 3986[1].

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986
I don't follow you. To complete a major you take a certain number of courses in a subject. Or are you suggesting that English majors don't learn anything?
Nor does listening to that loon Chomsky...
Paul Krugman recently had a blog post that touched upon a somewhat more general trend: the decline of "human capital" as it was, for some decades, associated with a broadly liberal education:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/devaluing-human-...

"Nancy Folbre suggests that the golden age of human capital – roughly speaking, the era in which the economy strongly demanded the kinds of skills we teach in liberal-arts colleges and universities – is already behind us. She may well be right: after a long stretch when both technology and trade seemed to be undermining only manual labor, it does look as if many skilled occupations are now under threat by Big Data, Bangalore, or both."
> One more point was, one of his tear jerk cases said that due to her existing bad health she couldn't get insurance. Nonsense: All she had to do was move to a state with 'community rating'.

That's actually one of the points Justice Ginsburg addressed in her concurring/dissenting opinion about the Obamacare case.

In the long term Obamacare systems have failed in individual states that have tried to impose it, because the inevitable result is that neighboring states dump their unhealthiest people into those states using a community rating.

It's the same problem as any other actuarial scheme like life insurance or fire fighting. Having a lower whole-community rate for everyone only works when the most-expensive people can't unilaterally decide to arbitrage against the least-expensive community.

With Obamacare the incentive for that type of arbitrage is drastically reduced, as wherever you are moving from will have some form of community rating as well.

Of course with the old scheme it is likely that the state using community ratings would have moved to establish a firm time-based residency requirement. But then it would not be possible to claim that all someone has to do is move to the right state. For that 12-24(+?) month window that person would be essentially screwed.
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Apple notifies iTunes users of $100M in-app purchase settlement details
I guess I don't really buy the characterization of #2/#3. Where I live (Denmark) is mostly still staffed by professional bureaucrats, and they are generally quite far-sighted. So I don't get the view that they are somehow out of touch. Their job is to organize a bureaucracy to serve the public needs, which includes balancing several competing interests. The system should serve everyone equally and fairly: it should enable business; it should protect the poor; it should advance science and knowledge; and it should maintain social stability. That's not easy, but one can make a go of it.

Meanwhile, I have absolutely no confidence that the people from industry "actually know what they're doing", especially in a broad sense of knowing how to balance all those interests, rather than just maximize profits. The purpose of government is not just to make Maersk or Carlsberg richer, but to make the country as a whole prosper, which includes thinking about things like income inequality and scientific progress. Do the people in industry think about those? Usually, no. I tend to think of them (perhaps unfairly) as mostly being comprised of opportunists trying to line their pockets, while telling us all that they're acting in "our" interests (i.e. the stock-market's interests). I have much more confidence in the civil service than in the idea that we should just put all the Maersk managers in charge of the country.
My wife had a growth removed from her brain a few years ago. Apparently it had quietly sat around since she was a child, not doing anything, until it decided to get its shit together and try to kill her.

ElongatedTowel ought to go to the doctor and deal with a few weeks of feeling like an embarrassed jerk by demanding that they scan his/her brain.
1) Close eyes.
2) Point flashlight at eyes.

I observe that the intensity of the "Eigengrau" depends on how tightly I close my eyes. With the flashlight, the image is clearly more red than gray. This could explain some reports of "brown", to the extent that brown is a dark red.
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Much like how they're running the Wall Street Journal down the toilet with all the puff pieces in it lately?
Terror and murder count don't go hand in hand. They are rather orthogonal.

There were murdering regimes that murdered without sowing too much terror through the population because they were good at hiding and squashing the news. As people disappeared news did spread but it was always rumors that could be dismissed.

Then there is terror -- a single death using a particular technique or weapon withe the particular amount of publicity could be very terrorizing. It is is always attacks on small-town America. Imagine this news story "Cuban drone killed a young family in the small town Idaho because it was believe to be the hiding spot of (Luis Posada Carriles)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles], a known terrorist sheltered and protected by the US government"

Ok, so one family killed. Now imagine the terror, the talking heads ("experts") on TV, the news channels, the presidential address, declarations of war, additional security checks etc etc.

See the difference?
Wow! Some of that may also be in the
last half of 'The Art of Loving', but
what you wrote is new to me. You are
right -- just from what you quoted,
he had something perceptive and important
to say.

And on India, he's right: I refuse to
pay attention to India, and for essentially
just the reason he said.
I think he's saying: don't avoid Texas simply because of the number of poor people here.
UT press release for those that don't trust SciendeDaily http://www.utexas.edu/news/2013/06/20/particle-accelerator-t...

This opens up the possibility for a huge number of measurements and experiments that would be too expensive to do at a national lab.
Reasons given:

* Avoiding things like the supernode crash from December 2012.[1]

* Supporting the growing mobile share, which can't contribute as supernodes.

[1] http://blogs.voxeo.com/voxeotalks/2010/12/23/skype-outage-i-...
This a very good point. I wish the policy were more to fix bad titles rather than ones that are merely different from the source's. It would be a lot harder to do, and there would be differences of opinion most of the time, but the current policy (at least in implementation) is just taking the lazy way out.
"What many undergraduates do not know — and what so many of their professors have been unable to tell them — is how valuable the most fundamental gift of the humanities will turn out to be. That gift is clear thinking, clear writing and a lifelong engagement with literature."

I seem to have acquired all three of these gifts, and I majored in computer science.

Also, if English dies as an academic discipline, it may very well be due to the lack of people who are able to teach it. As tenured professors retire and are replaced with poorly paid adjunct faculty who need to work part-time at multiple colleges to scrape together a meager living, the number of people who enroll in graduate programs in the humanities will probably decline.
The parent said it was OEM parts.
Rather than lead, we should be very concerned about arsenic: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/11/arsenic-...

secondary commentary on the article:
http://chriskresser.com/arsenic-in-rice-how-concerned-should...
> but are repository updates even atomic?

No, they are not. During the push, there will be a short amount of time in which some parts of the website will be operating on new code, while others will be operating on old code. If many components are in play (ie using libraries) you may end up breaking things if a new request comes in at the right time.
Honestly, you're unlikely to get your hands on any data sets (or paychecks) that could really be considered 'big' without (1) an understanding of how to translate research questions into code & (2) the ability to tell your client why the results matter in any way. Why not just do freelance dev work?
> easily checksum and cryptographically sign

Just as small nitpick: Your VCS should support this, too. (Git does, for example.)
Ha! I guess my negative bent around becoming a PM bled through. I have considered going into a PM role as a future career move but the reality of it usually depresses me into sticking with engineering.

It is pretty depressing that in most software companies, engineering makes little to no decisions about features, market strategy, or operational efficiency. You really have to get out of engineering to have any influence in those areas.

With engineering being so lucrative, you see a lot of self-selection where the weaker engineers end up making these transitions, which only makes the whole situation worse.
Looks like you forgot to attach the link?
Something something pots and kettles and allegations and blackness.
This is such a silly meme. It IS a high performance data store, forget what you THINK it is/was designed for or what people say about it in that respect, rely on actual data to see if it works for your data & load. There's no competition if you want to compare it to an external data store it'll beat the alternatives easily. Comparing to other embedded data stores and the 2 main forks (basho and HyperDex) and alternatives like MDB is a different matter and this is where the nature of your data, the way you access the store (single thread? multi?) and your real load are much more relevant than heresay and benchmarks that bear no relation to your actual needs.
Are you really offering up the CEO of Enron and a doctor who prescribed up to 1.6k pills per day to a single patient as victims of the big bad US Gov?
I agree. Education means bringing out that which is within. Training means to pull something along. The one has no particular end state in view, the other is about ensuring specific behaviors or, if you want to be cynical, producing followers. What we call education is really training.
The question people typically ask a student about what he/she is studying: "What are you going to do with that?" is more meaningful than it seems.
Everything is in this pull request, including the guides/samples.
An executive of one of the US's largest private social graph repositories ends up working for the largest US spy agency known for maintaining their own "Big Ass Graph (BAG)" for many years longer* and it's "just a coincidence"?!

Let me guess - NSA couldn't find anyone else who knew how to manage Hadoop.

*Binney - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-3K3rkPRE
Change the old passwords?