skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This random generator is found in some versions of Windows:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/dual_ec_drbg_a...

I don't know if it's in Windows 8 or not.
Yes - sending a clear message to other people who refuse to assist them in the future.
...because PRISM is not about protecting Americans it is about protecting politicians and rich people. Sound simplistic but Empires fall abruptly and their arc downward is not like a rainbow - it's a car crash off a cliff:

Harvard professor Neil Ferguson has an article about how economics drives rapid empire collapse.

http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2010/07/28/sun_could_...

Rome fell in 30-years. The French Revolution took just three years after France became insolvent. Russia fell in about a decade. Egypt in a few short weeks. Is Greece next? Severe economic disparity is what they all have in common.

USA politicians must utterly fear the people they govern and with mounting USA debt, robots & software crushing jobs, it may be unlikely that the US would collapse but economic travail are the seeds that would make it happen and PRISM is the watchdog in my opinion.

If the US collapsed imagine the court trials politicians would be subjected to: War crimes, financial crimes, congressional and senatorial insider trading scams exposed, selective enforcement of laws so as to hurt specific individuals and political competitors...
Perhaps the "intense pace of work" is the organizational equivalent of the myriad situations where the marginal returns of an additional hour of work are negative, but it feels like they should be positive, so we work/hack/study a bit more.
..you can whitelist gmail.com
There's another nice cookie manager for Firefox called Cookie Monster:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monste...

It allows you to maintain a white-list of sites that are allowed to set cookies and allows you to pick whether the cookies the site sets are persistent or discarded at the end of the current browser session.
How about using a stream of true random numbers and putting it through a set of deterministic functions that "multiply" the quantity of random numbers.

e.g. make thousands upon thousands of functions, where the function names are sequential. Use the data itself to determine which of the functions will be called. Allow functions to call each other based on the random number values it calculates from its true random input. To figure out how much random data to produce, simply add an extra bit that is passed along to all the functions that indicates depth (how much show the true random data be processed before returning it to the program that needs a random number). This approach would produce a lot more random data that could only be determined if you knew the original true random data input and the amount of entropy that was required at the time since you'd need to know the depth used to know when to exit the functions.
Actually, I think the going medical opinion is that, except for new mutated strains (and they'd have to be heavily mutated), anyone who contracts HIV today is never going to develop AIDS if they have access to modern treatment options (for the rest of their life).
I add the websites I care to the whitelist so they can benefit from the ad revenue.
> Is the problem that it's implicit? Would it make a difference if all page loads went to a landing page that said that said "This page is funded by in-content advertising. If you choose to opt-out of this you are not licensed or permitted to view this content." and required you to click to accept make a difference? Because at that point there IS a contract if you continue, and it's not implicit.

Would you agree, that as long as it is implicit I'm free to filter out ads in any way I like? And use any tools that can do that for me automatically?
Why would Google fundraise for Sen. Jim Inofe?
Here is how I am using this:

1. Install the add-on.

2. Panic that it has deleted all "not open now" websites' cookies.

3. Choose the option to "Suspend Operation" via the add-on icon.

4. Repeatedly "Undelete" all cookies until it's all done.

5. Keep the add-on suspended.

6. Now, for the next few days, I will browse like normal, but will remember to "whitelist" the websites I like to stay logged-in (Hacker News, Webmail, etc.) by clicking on the add-on icon. Remember, it is still "Suspended".

7. After a few days of usage (and when I've re-visited enough number of my regular websites), I will "Resume Operation" on the add-on, where it can start destroying the rest of the cookies like anything.

I think the "Training Period" above in point 6 should have been by default. Somehow.
I can understand the burnout. I personally love it, but I don't think I'm the norm. It doesn't look particularly sustainable, at least from a traditional HR overview...But I still think they get enough of the masochistic super-geniuses to keep the company moving along at its sometimes mind-boggling pace.
the addon places an icon below in the browser, in the addon bar; there you can fine-tune the cookie policy for the current site, it's a two clicks operation.
Once you had setup your common sites you can completely forget about cookies.
That licensing (GPLv2 & commercial) is pretty permissive. It's open-source. They didn't even pick the AGPL, so you probably don't even have to share your source code if you're feeling selfish and running your / your business's own web app. (But seriously, share. Being open source boosts your reputation even if you don't actually care about paying it forward.)

(The commercial license doesn't allow private modifications, though it does give a perpetual license. Perhaps it could use some improvement if they want to make more sales. http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/license/Wt%20License%20Agreement... )
It's certainly possible, but it largely depends on how you do it (separation of concerns and all that). You can have a rats nest of header files in C or C++ as well, but no one suggests the solution to that is to only have one header file.
I reckon it could be stored and shared via a distributed hash table such as Kademlia. This has the advantage of anonymizing the data. When your computer connects to mine to get rankings for a site, it doesn't know if data I provide is based on my decisions or the aggregate decisions of millions of people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia
"HTML5 apps assume that you have coverage, don’t work with the camera or GPS features of your device, have no local data and require the server or website to drive the app; this is just fine for booking airline tickets, but awful for the technician fixing your dishwasher, the sales representative doing a call or a nurse delivering homecare."

How would a native app be any better for the technician, sales rep or nurse? I almost make the assumption that anybody building an app to serve those markets would not be hosting all the content on the device. The device needs to connect to the internet to get the data.

Location services and the device camera are also both available through the browser, though location is not as reliable as GPS, but fits a large volume of use cases where general location is all that is needed.

The article also misses the fact that most enterprises can't afford to develop a Java and Objective-C version of the app (ignoring Windows and any other upcoming platforms). Any enterprise that is doing that for their internal tools is likely throwing away cash.

Native has it's places, in games , but enterprise IT isn't. it.
Would you agree that today many people ascribe consciousness to dogs and other mammals? Keeping in mind that most mammals don't speak English, I'd assume that many people would befriend this hypothetical technology in the "dog phase" or earlier.

Also, as a group women and other races have been considered more different, then less different, without actually changing from one to the other. The same couldn't necessarily be said about AI projects.
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There are several problems when it comes to gulf states for your anecdote.

The problem isn't a stable country like Saudi having the bomb, the problem is triggering an arms race. If Iran gets the bomb then what does that mean for Lebanon? If Iran gets the bomb what does that mean for Hezbollah? If Iran gets the bomb what does that mean for Syria?

If Iraq had the bomb in the 80s what would that have meant for the Iran/Iraq war, or the first Gulf war? Saddam Hussein may have felt that nuking Kuwait as part of a scorched earth policy would've been valid. After all, he used chemical weapons against Iran (and his own people).

I can't speak for asia but in the middle east nuclear bombs change the balance of power substantially.
> If you execute well you succeed.

That might as well be a tautology - if you don't succeed, obviously you didn't execute well.

Unless money has gotten tremendously cheaper, $500 seems at the absurdly low end of out-of-pocket to get a business loan/etc.
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Lua has always supported integers, as a compile time setting. Instead of having a full numeric tower, it has a LUA_NUMBER type that can be changed (doubles, by default), and also makes adding new numeric types at runtime (such as libGMP bignums) easy via metatables and dynamic linking.

While this may seem strange, keep in mind that Lua is designed for scripting code in another language. It tries to assume as little as possible.
> I'm not saying I agree with it. But at the same time I think that as long as it is not abused (to be addressed below), it is intended to prevent the new class of "independent journalists" from writing baseless stories without getting their facts right.

Who decides which facts are right and how does paying $50,000 prevent someone from publishing false information?

> From the linked fact sheet: The new Licence provides greater clarity on prevailing requirements within the Class Licence and Internet Code of Practice, and explains what MDA would consider “prohibited content” in the existing Internet Code of Practice, e.g. content that undermines racial or religious harmony.

Literally everything said by US civil rights leaders during the 20th century could be construed as "undermining racial harmony" (in the US). Why is preventing this kind of thing important?
To state the obvious. Enemy of the USA is not the same as being enemy of the people of the USA, its more like being enemy of the government of the USA.

What constitues a country to be an enemy of the USA, and who gets to decide who is the enemy of the USA? On one side, 15 individual from Saudi Arabia was involved with 9/11, 2 from UAE, one from lebanon and one from Egypt. One could argue that so many of the terrorists and their organization originated from Saudi Arabia, they should be considered as the enemy of the people of USA. Yet they are not. To the best of my knowledge, they received no rebuffs from the USA government.

Why is Venezuela and other so called socialist latin american countries enemy of the USA? What did they do to harm the people of the USA? Nothing, yet they are considered the enemy of the USA. On the contrary USA over many decades wreaked havoc in latin america, caused many economical, political and human misery.
I saw a patch he wrote for copying coroutines, for those who miss multi-shot continuations.
Unused nuclear fuel has very low radioactivity. It is the fission products, which are the problem regarding radioactivity. Were it a used fuel bundle, they wouldn't be standing there.
In no particular order here are some subreddits that I enjoy. I've omitted ones that have too many image macros (memes) or little traffic. I aimed to include as many that are easy to "surf".

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience

http://www.reddit.com/r/theoryofreddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/

http://www.reddit.com/r/frugal

http://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads - has a lot of image macros but a must if you're into hip hop

I don't regularly peruse iama but the quality of amas have been getting better. You should search for the high profile ones and check them out.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/
Alan Kay: How Simply and Understandably Could The "PC Experience" Be Programmed?
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...which is a built-in Firefox feature.
There's a lot of comments citing only engine and exhaust heat- don't forget about significant heat dissipating from the brakes as well. Brake heat is even more pronounced in underground train stations like penn station. Heck, there's even heat in the gas tank from fuel that pumped through the rails and got returned!
See also this excellent article at The Volokh Conspiracy:

A Real Live Third Amendment Case:

http://www.volokh.com/2013/07/04/a-real-live-third-amendment...
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Congratulations, cop. You figured out that the Constitution exists---by design---to make your job harder.
The police and the DA are afraid of this kid being a real threat down the road. They imagine that if what he said really happens, they will lose their jobs and have some very bad publicity (because the US society expects that it can avoid all and every crime so it moves the machinery in that direction adding more stupid laws, more law enforcement, more spying, etc, etc, etc). So for the Police and DA it's much easier to throw this kid in the jail and, if it was a mistaken, then 1) they can say they were overprotectice and 99.999% of the population will thank them for it and 2) the fat paycheck for this kid will not come from their salary.

If the police officers and the DA to get booted from their jobs for this mistake, then some other public figure / wannabe politician will use the current society paranoia state to point at the elected officials and say they don't care about people's security and blablabla.. the masses let it all happen and the policitians need the masses.

We're in a sad state of affairs these days but I suppose it has always been like that since before humans even started to talk.
There is absolutely no way for anyone to report the illegal activity of the NSA without committing any crime or breaking any laws. The law of the land is so severely in favor of NSA protecting its ass, is that the only way to reveal it is to absolutely destroy your life from a legal point of view.

So to concentrate on the legality of the whistleblower's activity, instead of concentrating on the NSA's activity seems a little suspect.
This is the same thing Rails does by default. I much prefer it to server side stores. What on earth are you keeping in the session that actually causes it to be a problem? If it's more than an auth token and a bit of flash scoped data, it may be time to rethink how your managing state.
The other day a Lyft driver in SF told me that he's considering renting an office space in Chinatown to live in. Gym membership to shower.
Firefox does allow you to keep a white-list of cookie-enabled sites, but you have to go to the Options menu to do this. Cookie Monster let's you set cookie permissions for the page you're currently visiting by clicking on an icon in the status bar. The icon also gives you a visual indication of what the current page's settings are. It's essentially a nicer user interface on top of the built-in Firefox functionality.
I use this but it does have the disadvantage of being difficult to disable when you are getting issues because of blocked ads.

I also use Fanboy's adblock list ( https://www.fanboy.co.nz/ ) in Opera which requires no browser add-on, it's a feature of the web browser (RIP).
I'm trying to remember if I parked underground when the parking was empty. I always thought the reason was because there's no windows/ventilation.
It also depends on the fundamental resilience of the system, whether or not single failures compound, whether or not the fail-safes themselves have failures or faults within them, and how personnel (and management) respond in the event of failure.

Known, simple, redundant, and stable systems which tend to return to modes of stability, which don't tend to experience runaway failure modes, and whose staffs are trained in known (and unknown) failure modes, tend to work well.

Unknown designs (they or staff are new, they're poorly documented, they're acquired from vendors or through organizational acquisition, etc.), whose staff aren't trained in normal and abnormal operations, which do tend to go into runaway failure modes, whose safety or management systems themselves have (known or unknown) bugs, etc., all tend to compound failure modes.

I've had direct experience of this at several levels myself. More frighteningly, I've interviewed senior management of a nuclear facility who candidly admitted that it was poorly managed.

Realize that a 4GW nuclear power plant is producing about $360,000 worth of retail electricity ($0.09/kWh) per hour, and that downtime costs over a million dollars every three hours. Keeping that plant online and operational has a very high priority -- sometimes to the point of cutting corners to do so if short-term objectives may be met at the cost of long-term sustainability.
nobody else has a platform like Google search where text only adverts are enough to overcome costs and provide viability

Without endorsing the 'payola', something to bear in mind that Google chose to go with text-only ads instead of allowing advertisers to control the format. At the time people thought they were crazy and that text-only ads would not last very long for them. Turns out google was correct and its critics were wrong. Any of the other major search providers could have done this, but they didn't try it - and as a result their brands became hopelessly diluted by the garish advertising content, instead of the ads being part of the branding.

I manually enable adwords and google tracking on things like Ghostery and other software because adwords is the only platform that I don't find obnoxious and ugly.
I started adding wt, but i'm not yet there
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is it possible to somehow convert the power gathered during summer and spread it out for use during winter (when there is less sun), by say, electrolysing water to produce hydrogen and then use that as a chemical store of fuel?
You're definitely wrong there. The process is not a hassle, it rarely takes weeks and yes every update has to go through the same approval process again (as you would expect). And yes you can download some files to your phone but they only exist within the app's sandbox.

The reason iOS security is so strong is because (a) there is no side loading, (b) system updates are regular, simple and apply to almost every phone and (c) apps are heavily sandboxed. It's not magic. Apple simply chose security over openness and flexibility. Android vice versa.
I love Revel. I won't even hide it. I completely agree with the statement that while vanilla Go does provide a lot, its worth the cost, if you're able to organize code into understandable, differentiable chunks. I understand the whole plug-n-play philosophy of node, but when it comes to finding and understanding documentation, it is so much easier to just look at the framework's docs as opposed to looking on each library's website for the docs (most of which are usually outdated).

Keep developing this awesome framework.
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the fear is that we would consume too much now, and not leave enough behind to facilitate the research/development needed to find/create better sources of energy.

E.g., you used up the fuel in the car too fast, and can't reach the next gas station.
I don't necessarily agree that some of the best college students graduating each year are inexperienced. A lot of them have been working for 10+ years on their own stuff and have interned 3 times or so.
I'm gonna keep it real for a second. Feinstein is an evil corrupt POS. She profits from her allegiance to the war machine. I despise her.
The little dirty secret of the tech industry is that if you put yourself in the right time at the right place and get the strategic advantage you can make so much money that a lot of mistakes can be hidden.

Warren Buffet says that when the tide goes low you can see who is swimming naked. The opposite is true, when the tide is high you cannot see who is swimming naked, so one should not make too much assumptions about their clothes.

In the late 90's everyone thought that microsoft had found the perfect way to manage programmers and run a software company. All kinds of companies would try to emulate microsoft methods. But in reality, that clever fox Gates guided Microsoft into the perfect strategic position. Once microsoft had to compete in fields that were outside their monopoly the results were not as dominating.

Similarly Amazon is in a great strategic position nowadays, because they have built out the infrastructure that the US uses to shop online. Their stock is flying high, so everyone assumes they must be doing something right. And they undoubtedly are.

But that does not necessarily mean that their practices of managing programmers are optimal or even good. In fact if you look at Amazon's finances you are stricken at how little profit they make. It is unclear why, because their financial statements are very opaque.

But it is entirely possible that they are hemorrhaging money because of the way the hire and fire programmers but the whole thing is hidden by their strategic position. It is not like a company that does software development better can come in and beat Amazon at selling things on the internet.
where do these neutrons come from?
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If it is using 1j/g/degree K, then it is doing it wrong. It's a question of Psychrometrics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrometrics

Air is humid, the Enthalpy is significantly higher than the specific heat of dry air. Latent heat is the major factor in the real world. And car exhaust is loaded with water vapor (and CO2).

See examples here: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/enthalpy-moist-air-d_683.h...

Latent heat is why auditoriums get hot, when filled with people.
You said advertising can be unethical at times. Can you illustrate your point with an example of advertising being ethical ?
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<troll>Wordy of a patent ? :)</troll>
Think people didn't care enough and where thinking inside the box ? Or maybe nobody wanted to do the hard work.
If this is added to the core (and simplified as mentioned by dotmanish), it can eradicate the chrome fever for good. The same reason why people are using DDG these days(btw, I do. for all my searches other than blockers while coding).
In the footer of the page, there is a lists link. The lists page links to the best page, and a few others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
Now why would I assume that? There are times when you need to generate a big report, and just the SQL can take that long or more. But typical web requests for typical applications are not like that. DB queries shouldn't take more than a couple hundred milliseconds for "typical" application requests.

Even counting that, the comparison is also not necessarily correct. In some cases, perhaps the C++ code would have taken 0.1s, where the ruby code takes 5s. In fact, 50x is about the slowdown you used to see for ruby in the programming languages shootout, and it is still pretty bad. [1]

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...
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