skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two e-mail replacements that aspire toward secure communication with little actionable metadata are Bitmessage and I2pbote (runs over i2p net). Both are very much alpha, and Bitmessage has some significant work to do on how to scale up. But both are also p2p, and both automatically encrypt and decrypt all messages by default. If there are any other e-mail replacements that aspire toward security and anonymity, I'd love to hear about them.

I'm really interested in seeing one of the recently peer-reviewed secure, anonymous DHT e-mail systems (such as [1]) brought to life beyond an academic paper. I think such systems are pretty promising (i2pbote is similar).

1. http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2668

EDIT: It occurs to me that I don't know enough about i2pbote to confidently call it "alpha" or "beta". So on retrospect, I'll just call it relatively new. But both i2pbote and bitmessage are definitely worth keeping an eye on.
100 calories of oatmeal is 26g. 100g of quinoa is 83g. Research [0] shows that portion size is important in controlling obesity.

[0] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/76/6/1207.full (note - this was just a quick google, I'm no expert in this area)
Given recent events, what this kid said was foolish - but did it really merit imprisonment? The government would have a field day with users on services such as Xbox Live and just about any online community that reaches a wide demographic.

The mainstream media basically left this kid to rot, save for a few blurbs on the 'fourth page' news. Had it not been for user-generated coverage on the net and the generous person who bailed him out, he would have probably rotted in jail for who knows how long. No, instead we're more interested in hearing about celebrity babies being born or some has-been mobster in his twilight years.

The system is broken - well, at least it's broken for anyone who respects human rights and civil liberties. To put my hand over my heart and pledge my loyalty to the 'land of the free, and the home of the brave'. What a joke! Thinking that we have any say in the supposed 'democratic process' is laughable. What does voting even do now other than make the slicksters in Washington play musical chairs? What is it going to take to actually create reform and install a government that cares about its people - a government that is the common people?

Apathy is imprisonment.
It's the poverty!

People in other countries get healthcare when they need it. They get assistance when they need it. Therefore, they have extra mental cycles to use to consider the reality of politics.

In the US, we make sure our poor people have to work two jobs so they can't stop to do a damn thing about how screwed they are by participating in our democracy.
Look at how powerful America is today, and imagine how powerful it would be if it was run pragmatically every step of the way. Long term, the world might be a better place because of people like Orrin Hatch.
I'd love to know what you found has worked the best for you, if you feel comfortable sharing.
> the most likely reason for its existence is unreasonable paranoia

Spoken like someone who's never walked across a minefield ;)
True, but my ~$120 quadcopter has about 80% of the power this thing needs to climb to 3m. There are people out there building human carrying scaled-up hobby quadcopters (well, hexa or duodec or hexadec copters).

I suspect there are (other) people out there now thinking things along the lines on "Hmmm, made from balsa and foam covered in poly film, prepreg carbon tube, kevlar tow, epoxy and cyano. All pretty common high-end but regularly homebuilt model plane techniques. 10m long rotor blades are big - but only 2 or 3 times longer than pretty common competition rc glider wings. There's a very reasonable chance that the right group of comp rc glider builders and quad rotor hobbyists could build something that weighs maybe only twice what this does, and has 5 or 10 times as much power available - probably for a budget of not much more that $10k."

I don't think "hardcore hobbyists" will be pedaling one of these anytime soon, but flying something similar electrically is certainly not an impossibility.
There's actually a TED talk with a group of freeform jazz performers explaining something similar to this called "There are no mistakes on the bandstand":

http://www.ted.com/talks/stefon_harris_there_are_no_mistakes...

Shows how even when you do something against the rules / on your own, you still need to remember you're part of a bigger unit.

I agree that people should know when to and how much they can break the rules and it takes experience to know that. But, I feel like you have to make mistakes to get that experience, and that there should be some room for experimentation and failure for those willing to take these risks.
Yeah, true. Thanks for the informative comment.
I agree with this for the not-quite-Ivy schools where financial aid is largely non-existent, but given the incredible financial aid programs at many Ivy League schools I don't think this advice is well thought-out. If you are middle class, say earning $80k per year, I doubt you will pay more than ~$8k a year for your child to go to Harvard. The article does not address this, and explicitly says you should not consider these if you learn less than $40k (yet you pay nothing at Harvard if you earn less than $60k, I believe).
The ADHD craze is rampant on the USA, but fortunately not in Europe, where I'm from. I'm so glad of that, even if I'm more or less on the opposite side of ADHD when it comes to focus and behaviour.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not denying that ADHD is a thing. However, it seems that in the USA it's heavily overdiagnosed, and even worse, the educational system seems to be especially harmful to people with actual ADHD (some people argue that it's because of that system being focused on certain skills, but I honestly don't think it's so different here). It seems like some kind of ADHD-phobia that pushes schools to find a huge problem whenever any faint symptom is found, immediately resorting to medication and severely punishing those who don't comply.
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Yes, there's a chart that shows power and height vs. time, and it certainly looks like that was the case. I bet it didn't feel like coasting though :-)
It's important to remember that DEF CON is not banning the feds, but instead asking them to not participate this year. There's a big difference here. The former is mandatory, unilateral; the other is an invite to pause and reconsider the relationship.

Now I'm curious on how government agencies will respond. They may go anyway -- and have to deal with a very unwelcoming mood, or respect the request and give some space for the sec community to discuss the case more openly.

I, for one, fully support DT's request, and really hope the feds understand that the problem is not who they are or what they represent, but their tactics and methods recently exposed.

They can't expect to be welcomed anywhere, given the obvious abuses that are happening against U.S. Citizens (and everyone else, for the matter), under the excuse of "war on terrorism".
This whole event feels like an enormous waste of time and money by and for everyone.
So basically what it always stood for then
As described in the article, "correlation does not imply causation" would hold true even if you take "imply" to mean "is weak evidence for". This is due to Simpson's paradox[1], which says that correlation can be inverted when you take into account an additional distinguishing factor in your data.

A specific example. Look at [2] and take the "y" axis to be "cigarettes per day" and the "x" axis to be "life expectancy in years". The overall trend is that more cigarettes leads to a shorter life. However, if we find that the blue group are people who do not inhale, and the red group are people who do inhale, the correlation is reversed for all smokers -- smoking more leads to a longer life.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Simpson%27s_paradox_conti...
I phrased that poorly: I'm vouching for the general case, not for Facebook specifically. I've not worked for them or on their systems.
A predictive model and Bayes theorem.
From the pdf linked upthread by iandanforth:

"This attempt was made in accordance with the regulations of the FAI Sporting Code including the provisions of 5.2.2.3 on Unsporting Behavior."

and googling for that reveals:

'5.2.2.3 reads:
"Unsporting Behaviour. Cheating or unsporting behaviour, including deliberate attempts to deceive or mislead officials, wilful interference with other competitors, falsification of documents, use of forbidden equipment or prohibited drugs, violations of airspace, or repeated serious infringements of rules should, as a guide, result in disqualification from the sporting event."'

So I'd guess for official World Record attempts (and probably for the prize rules) doping is out. (Sounds like the pilot has enough other sporting pastimes that he'd be unlikely to dope just for this project too…)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imply

I prefer merriam-webster.
I think the recent Australian equivilent was much better handled:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/teenager-arrested...

"[The Police] spoke to him, they fed him and someone was there making jokes with him. They just thought he needed a kick in the bum and that’s all he really needed,"

He's facing charges because the management of the venue wanted to place charges, but I expect he'll end up with something like community service and nothing that will ruin his future job prospects.
Thank you. I am tired of people telling developers to stop making things, especially other developers. This is how evolution works. You have to try multiple approaches and see what works. If you have the money and developers to scratch an itch the way you want to, do it. If it works out, everyone benefits. If it doesn't work, everyone benefits by learning what went wrong. Those advocating that everyone pick one standard and stick to it are missing the point of distributed development.
Doesn't that depend on how you authorize the client certs themselves?

It's one thing to _issue_ a cert. It's another to _approve_ that issued cert.

If you're blindly accepting certs, you've got other issues.
The can be revealed by other means (trojan/virus on the client). But yes, the anti-phishing aspect is a good one.
I'm not sure why people bring up axing the courier as a negative thing. It was always a niche concept idea than a product that could survive in the market.
He was placed in jail for 6 months, so no matter what the technicalities are that seems a lot like a de-facto guilty verdict.
The design groups at Microsoft are highly respected within the company.
Well those aren't actually stacks but a kind of unordered heap called a pile.
Actually, wrong: that's called the median (they are the same for distributions which are symmetric around the average like the normale distribution, but not in the general case) EDIT: not "only" symmetric
Don't get into a war of resource attrition with the most well-funded military on the planet.

Wars of attrition seem to have worked very well for a lot of people opposed to the best equipped military on the planet. Actually I think asymmetric warfare is a great analogy here; it's far harder to defeat a war amongst the people than to defeat a standing army, and part of what makes it difficult is there is no central point to attack, no clear lines of control, and no organisation(s) which you can shut down.

Re a buggy amateur crypto app, I'm sure some of them will be buggy, and some of them will be hard to break or use existing crypto which is hard to break. It's a tough subject and not one I'd like to tackle, but I absolutely don't object to others trying, because the alternative is for us to use products from large companies who we have seen will do whatever the US government asks them and call it legal.

Your attitude seems to be that we should just roll over and let the NSA/GCHQ/etc take whatever they want. I disagree.
Instead of clicking each individual bubble, I wish there was a line which u can drag on top that will show the articles on the right as it passes the bubbles
This is an awesome project. But by far this is the most amazing and innovative part of the article:

> If cooking instructions are posted for a 1000W microwave, you can request the instructions for a 700W microwave, and the cooking times will be automatically adjusted
Not really. Perhaps you have confused different methods of "averaging" (average, mean, etc).

Imagine an "education" scale of 1-20.

If you have 3 persons with 12 and one with 20, then the average is 14 -- and you have MORE than half of the people below average.
Exactly what I was going to ask.

Consider reaching out to some cooking / DIY bloggers that fit your target and sending them a bottle to try.
I am a programmer in Norway for a company making a digital asset management software. It is very interesting and challenging. Before that, I was a coder in both healthcare and e-learning.

I love what I do every day!
There are judicial elections. Don't know if this particular position is subject to election.
Mathematical logic for why abstracted code is maintainable code.
I shall be adding some killer features tonight (JST): grouping, windowing AND pivoting from inside Tables with a couple of clicks on average.

Please raise issues and let me know if you face anything. Glad to iron it out.
Sure bring whatever you want. The build quality of iphones is attested to in scores of independent reviews and it's not the same thing as drop test resistance.
Javascript, Python, Clojure and C.
This.

But yr just a neural net.
I agree with you on this.

I looked at the site for about 10 seconds and I didn't realise it was a store until I flipped tabs and read the first comment.

My initial impression was that it was some kind of recipe site.
There is no date on this post. Best I can figure it was around 1999 (he mentions 1 USD = 0.69 USD, and his latest reference is a study about graduation rates from 1999).

He concludes that UCLA is a great deal on education at state school prices. This may have been true in 1999 (that's the year I started at UCLA), but I would definitely check the numbers before sending children to the UC system these days. They have hiked the price multiple times in the last 14 years, and it's starting to graze the price level of expensive private schools.
How to Choose a Best Free DVD Decrypter Program for PC/Mac
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The only Android manufacturer that seems to care at all about camera quality is Sony, and even they haven't really put their full emphasis on that lately.
Note that Telstra was once owned by the Australian government. Recently their stake was reduced to about 10% (according to wikipedia) but IMO the Aussie government still dictates a lot of what Telstra can do.
This article is largely focused on epidemiological studies. These are a very well-known type of scientific investigation, particularly among the tech crowd--because it is tech-intensive to manage and analyze large volumes of data.

But, epidemiology is not all of science, it's just one way to do science. So this statement is wrong, or, at least, not complete:

> The standard scientific answer to this question is that (with some caveats) we can infer causality from a well designed randomized controlled experiment.

The more general scientific answer is that we need an hypothesis that can be tested and disproven by observation. Such observations can come from a randomized controlled trial, but a surprising amount of important scientific observations do not. For example, a major confirming test of relativity was to measure the apparent displacement of stars due to gravitational lensing during an eclipse. Obviously there is no way to create a random double blind study of this. (Unless one were to stare too long without eye protection! [rimshot])

But wait, I could hypothesize that saying "blutarski" when flipping a coin will make it land heads up, and if I only do the observation once, my stupid hypothesis might get confirmed. Right?

In this case, yes, a lengthy trial would help provide much better observations. But the more general answer is that a reasonable hypothesis must propose a physical system that could plausibly cause the predicted result. There is no known physical system that connects "blutarski" with coins, or Facebook traffic with Greek bonds. But there is a plausible physical mechanism by which smoke inhalation could lead to lung cancer.

This is what scientists are talking about when they say things like "there's more to science than curve-fitting." But most people do not understand the difference, and that's why we see things like global climate circulation models get mixed up with historical climate reconstruction, or paleontology get mixed up with evolutionary biology.
Apparently, they see advertising as a means to an end. At least, that is what one can deduce from comparing their mission statement with their activities.

Google Search, Google Scholar, Google Books and Google Maps are what they want to do to collect the information, and they think they need mobile phones and self-driving cars to make it universally accessible (that, or that is on the fringe. A mission statement has to ride between being too vague and only barely describing parts of the business)
This is great news, but I really have to rain on the parade: what took so long?
Where do hypotheses come from if correlation isn't weak evidence for causation?
Code Rules are not just about Clean Code
Science reporting in the news sure is broken. Do enough studies and eventually you'll happen upon one that gives the wrong (and newsworthy) answer, just by chance.

Here are some studies asking the same question that weren't mentioned, and their reported effect on academic performance (in order of my encountering them on scholar.google.com):

1. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/pha/9/2/163/ (positive)

2. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/70/2/320/ (positive)

3. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.... (positive)

4. http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1993-46419-001 (positive in short term, neutral in long term)

5. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00925819 (positive)

I stopped there, but I think the trend is obvious. One thing I think is worth noting is that the short-term studies very directly measure academic performance by actually observing the patients. The long-term study cited in TFA - and I suspect most other long-term studies - relied on questionnaires instead. It seems probable to me that the problem here is that questionnaires are simply too noisy an information source to obtain a statistically significant result, given the additional noise created by overdiagnosis.
I've always found the "letter of the law" types to be the most dangerous sort around, and that's not at all limited to programming. They're the ones who make authoritarianism work, the ones who tattle at the first sign of "not following the rules", the ones with absolutely no imagination, no curiosity, and an unwillingness to think for themselves.

If there are too many of these around or too many in your management chain you should get the hell out. But maybe that's just me.
Rwanda has a basic universal healthcare system. Everyone pays an amount according to their economic status, and everyone gets basic healthcare.
As if we needed another fight to defend yet another constitutional amendment in peril... Now we've got to make some noise about the 8th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

(Excessive bail: Yep, founding fathers thought of that too.)
Wow, that porsche analogy is so apt. That's exactly how I feel most of the time.
> Six uses of three formal variables, including the bewilderingly confusable countedWords and wordCounts, plus nine uses of the delightfully generic "x".

I totally agree with you on this.

>Even in the more compact C# example from this thread, consider:
var top = (from w in text.Split(' ')
group w by w into g
orderby g.Count() descending
select g.Key).Take(10);

> This variant refers to the temporary variables w (for "words") and g (for "groups"?) six times. Both authors felt the need to reduce the repetition of variables, but the best they could do was to choose single-character names.

> This is the real power of ->, .., ->>, doto, and friends: eliminating names for things. By thinking about the composition of transformations, instead of the intermediate results, you can make an algorithm easier to understand and change.

You lost me somewhere along the way....are you saying the "from w in text"... snippet is bad, and something more along the lines of "This is the real power of ->, .., ->>" is more appropriate?

I ask because that code seems extremely readable to me. Personally, I don't give a shit if it's 30% more verbose or runs 50% slower, for 99% of code (written in the world), optimum performance doesn't matter. Maintainability does matter though. All of this software being written today has to be either maintained by someone, or replaced by something else. And the top ~2% of programmers like you sure as hell aren't going to be taking maintenance jobs any time soon.

I'm curious what the thoughts of a technically smart person such as yourself are on the subject of what companies will be left with 5 to 10 years down the road when consultants have come through and implemented using the currently most optimum platform/language/algorithms?

And I honestly don't mean for this question to be disrespectful. I'm just coming from a situation where I'm a former developer but on a project where I'm not coding, and I ask for features and the developers say they can't do it, or it will be a performance problem. And I know these guys are far more like you than me intelligence/education wise, but the things I ask for I've done tons of times in the past with 10 to 1000 times the data size, without a problem, on far older hardware.

I'm just curious what kind of a support problem you ultra smart people are leaving behind, or if you ever think about the idea that almost no on else is as smart as you?
Yeah, it's begging for an "adult" to step in, smack everybody involved upside the head, and tell them to stop being ridiculous and get on with things that matter.

It's really baffling that this is actually happening and a real kid is having his life ruined over that.
>>> What concerns me in these responses from Microsoft is the distortion of the term lawful

This seems really important to me. I grew up in a totalitarian regime and this kind of re-defining common language was one of the most powerful tools the regime could use to retain power and keep people in constant fear. For example the crime of 'disruption of public order' could be used to put basically anybody to jail because the term would be twisted to fit any behaviour that the regime did not like - for example when you criticised some official or communist party member or complained about something publicly.

Actually I believe that ability of the government or any other group of people to redefine common language and inability of people to force government to use their version of language means that the power distribution in society is seriously skewed and therefore is a strong sign of failing democracy. It's really scary to observe that in the US.
Are you authorizing the card when you receive it? Stripe added a capture attribute to their api a few months ago allowing you to authorize a charge and then "capture" / charge the card when you ship the product.
Would you mind explaining, since your readme doesn't, precisely what modifications you've made to the core game?

Also, now I've got an urge to submit a patch allowing sub-fora for squads and factions. I can't believe it only hit me yesterday what fun it would be to wreak politics on a game of HvZ!