skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The German list is a bit odd, particularly #1. I guess there's some edit war over the war since there are quite a few German speaking folks from all over the Balkan living in Germany, Austria etc....

* Croatia

* Scientology

* 9/11 conspir
acy theories

* Fraternities

* Homeopathy

* Adolf Hitler

* Jesus

* Hugo Chávez

* Minimum wage

* Rudolf Steiner

Interesting that Chile is #1 for es, Opus Dei #3
Narenl's comment is invisible due to a hellban. I don't agree with the comment, but it bears scrutiny.

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IMO This is not targeted towards individuals applying on their own.

I went to a walkabout of a similar online education company's office and asked them about the high cost for an online degree. The answer I received was

1. there is demand for this and

2. Most of the demand comes from people in the military serving in remote locations or people working inside other large organizations which foot the cost. and

3. They provide online infrastructure to courses of schools like UC-B, UNC etc and the colleges set the price so as not to dilute their "brand" because the online degree does not mention the fact that the degree was obtained online (this could have changed).

All in all, my initial shock was a bit tempered after hearing the realities involving all 3 parties : the school, the student and the online enabler.
I actually find lame edit wars kinda heartening. It suggests that the people running wikipedia have principles regardless of the topic; that it doesn't matter if it's silly; that if you want to talk about it, it should be done right.
41 here. I have found the same thing. There are so many things in languages, paradigms, tech as a whole that are familiar... problems that took too long to solve 20 years ago are easier now because I know the feel of the problem, how to approach it, etc.

Pretty sure I cannot put in as many hours though. Wish I had learned to put in fewer earlier.
How are you going to check in with the backup server if you don't have a working wi-fi connection?
I'm assuming the online nature doesn't change the admissions standards. That's 90% of the point of going to Harvard.
Crap, sorry about the down vote. I fat fingered my phone.
I don't really feel a huge change between 24 and 34. That may be because I don't like children, so the normal get married have kids thing isn't happening. I guess 34-60 or so is roughly the same then as well, except maybe with more medical issues, hopefully tempered by advances in medical science and increasing personal wealth.

Most age discrimination seems to be more birth year discrimination. I don't think 34 year olds now are treated as the incompetents that we treated 34 year olds in 1999, because back then, there really were not as many 34 year olds with Internet/tech/etc experience. (Obviously some, who are now largely the not accomplished people, but it was a small percentage of the population.)
Though I can't speak to they're adoption in actual hardware, thermal noise generators are apparently a common way to generate random numbers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generat...). I would be interested to hear details on how the pi's generator works.
The difference is that I don't want my programming language to take me a lifetime to become reasonably skilled with it. There are many languages that are simpler than C, and easier to use as well.
I got a job. With real customers who needed real solutions. That opened my world.
Show HN: I'm a solo founder and I need testers for my routing/place finding app
Heh, there was a company that offered just such a beast, basically a network socket and an API to fetch a random number. I thought it was a really subtle joke (like that time I carried around a Diet Coke as my Halloween costume) but once people connected the dots between "Ok, you care so much about a cryptographically secure random number generator you buy an appliance that does nothing else, and then you talk to it over the network..."

As I was building IR beacons for mobile robots at the time, it led me to suggest an IR LED that was connected to a thermal emission source, then you could pick up random numbers by sampling the IR spectrum for a some period of time in your area. At least that way you don't know when the randomness was sampled (well not exactly), and your sniffer has to capture all radiated IR in all directions to ensure it has a complete history if it wants to back correlate it. Harder but still not as simple as just putting it in your machine. (which if you care enough you will do)
A good number of Intel processors have hardware rngs.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-digital-rando...

Of course they're not on $35 boards, but the server machines you are using may already have this.
I'm sure a few linear-esque metrics could be teased out, but yeah, it's more complex than that.

I'm definitely a party pooper:) I'm often suprised by the amount or racism that can be directed at you in places where there aren't any black people to be angry at, though.
Also:

- remove crufty alternate syntaxes such as trigraphs and K&R-style definitions

- a multiple-pass compiler which removes the need for explicit prototypes/header files
You can measure how much the students learned. I know that's not very easy though. You can also take feedback from students which could be useful, if you know how to collect the feedback.
Wow. This is like a much more sinister version of that "awesome, incredible" Apple keynote.
No, assembly languages are not simpler, except for a few processors, mostly didactic.

Programming in assembly generally requires understanding registers, how the processor works, lots of branching variation, a few other ways to loop, memory organization on the processor, and at least tenths or hundreds of different opcodes, some with surprisingly subtle differences between them.

So, no, ASM is not simple the way C is.
This was really enjoyable to read. I didn't know too much about Chrome's web auditor. Does anyone have any other suggestions on bench marking for server or client performance?
It may well be that small hardware could be better for generating keys, as it is much easier to audit the total system, and I'd trust it more than an Intel processor with known remote patching capabilities.

If you're security-sensitive then it could be good having a small, dedicated system like the Pi, and make sure that your private key never leaves it.
As hard as it can be to imagine, you don't have to discuss every aspect of something while making a point about a single aspect of something.
I agree. I desperately want to go back to school (didn't attend college in my youth, and feel I am hitting the limits of self-education), but I'm not willing to put half the value of a house on a 4 year program.
Decrypt encrypted backup on the new device how? What password / key would you use, and how would that be backed up / made known to the user, which it does not do now?

If it's a device password, enjoy re-encrypting if they change it. Or handling two device passwords.

If it's a user password, then how do you change encryption everywhere when they change their password? Only option there is to have Google decrypt and re-encrypt it and push it to every device, since otherwise you losing connection means corrupting your backup, at which point they have it in plaintext, no difference.
I'm interested. Make sure to see color.
Does anyone have a link for a spec for the RNG? Specifically, where does it get its entropy from? Couldn't find it in the source link. Only mention I could find is a vague mention of "thermal noise" which could mean anything.
Investors: Don't talk to any lawyers or think about corporate structure so we can fleece you :P

I kid, I kid pretty much spot on. Talk to customers, make sure you got the right ones and solve painful problems -> code. Talk to customers again to make sure your code actually allows them to solve their problems/ease their pain.
My company runs a large dataset that includes construction companies and government contractors. Contact me via my profile email if you're interested in talking more about this.
Tech firms, liberties groups demand more sunlight on NSA surveillance data
Tolkien, not Orwell, understood today’s spying best
Apologies for the parataxis.

I was just clarifying because when you said 'my', I assumed you were referring to the precinct. Senators are Congresspeople, and if you'd said "Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer" I'd have probably read it differently.
I am thirty one and just started a BA in mathematics and I am usually the sharpest in the class filled with 20somethings .
time is going by faster as I get older

I've noticed that too, and it terrifies me.
I know, but I think it is more universal than it used to be.
The potential downside here is that you have to pay to exercise, which is lost money if the company folds.

As long as the strike is low this makes total sense.
The highest bin does not necessarily a majority make. Right now that bin is less than a third.

Just clarifying the facts. Not disputing your conclusion.
https://www.tictrac.com do a good personal dashboard too. They normalize the data from different sources allowing you to, for example, compare stress levels against exercise and productivity etc allowing you to spot negative working patterns and other personal insights.

Not affiliated with them.
and for the "philosophical" parts of nazism, even decades ago, e.g Nietchze, Wagner, Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, and tons of lesser intellectuals

Whoa, that's way unfair, particularly to Nietzsche, who deplored anti-semitism and mocked it (along with Germans in general, for that matter—if there's any group he picked on it was them), and who would surely have been the first person to repudiate his thuggish sister's Nazification of his work. Nietzsche's sensibility was far too refined for him to deserve lumping in with Nazi intellectuals. I'd go so far as to say that anyone who understands the first thing about him would have to agree, though I'm far from a Nietzsche scholar and shouldn't say such things.

Wagner you can have.

Heidegger is a complex case. As far as I know the jury is still out about the relation between his philosophy and Nazism. It's certainly not obvious. (And his personal behaviour is a different question.)

Schmitt, sure, except he was born in 1888 and hardly predates Hitler.

The majority of German artists and intellectuals weren't aligned with the Nazis, so I don't think your argument is very strong here, though of course it's not true that Hitler was a lone bad apple or whatever.
As I see it, we need more explicit rules about privacy that encompass both gov't and private parties. Whether we get rid of FISA or the NSA will ultimately not matter (fat chance, of course) -- if it seems important enough, gov't will always be able to entice the private owners of data to "voluntarily" share with law enforcement.

This car location database is just the tip of the iceberg, and it happens to be absolutely unambiguously legal for gov't and corporations to do whatever they please with this data.

I am not actually paranoid. I am quite confident that the norm is for the police to have reasonable procedures in place -- the last thing a police department wants is for a police officer or former police officer to be accused of using police resources in a creepy manner to stalk/spy on an ex-spouse or similar. They want an explicit paper trial of Officer X asked about car owned by person Y for reason Z. Even if the norm is pretty good, the public should have clear expectation that can be understood.
Link to the PDF being referenced: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1305/1305.5566.pdf

My favorite is the top result in Hungary: Gypsy Crime.
That's not always been true - lots of 'bonus tracks' and the like. Lots of content was only released for a single media type.
That's not too bad. But consider "My six-year-old finally got anal. I'm exhausted."
On Solaris, its trivial to simulate lower bandwidths using VNICs:

https://blogs.oracle.com/JeffV/entry/virtual_network_part_4

Or, alternatively, using flowadm:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1458/gfkci.html

If you want to simulate latency, that's a little harder, but can be done using hxbt:

http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6625-Less-known-Solaris-fea...

http://web.archive.org/web/20130517125147/http://hub.opensol...
CDs are a standard storage medium containing audio encoded in a standard way. There are a multitude of ways to get that content (the audio) off of the CD and playable in a multitude of ways, because the music is in its pure digital form.

An iOS or Android app, on the other hand, is architecture-or-platform-specific code, depending on a particular OS-sized API and all its UI libraries, all of which are expected to become obsolete and unusable in a relatively short time.
The comparison isn't between one million and 5 million. The comparison is between one million and 5 trillion dollars.
It's chemically inert [...] so it works as a mechanical filter that adsorbs [...]

Because adsorption is a consequence of surface energy and weak bonding, I believe it's considered to be a chemical process, not a mechanical one.
That seems like the direction that would be less vulnerable to copyright/patent claims. I could easily see Apple raising hell over the compatibility layer Apportable ships with their "ports". Android, itself being an open-source project, would be immune to that.
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[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-bookmark...
SpiderOak is the best solution ... client side encryption and fully secured with zero-knowledge policy ....Bye Bye Drive, Skydrive & DropBox :)
License Plate Readers Track You for Profit
Yahoo Buys AdMovate
Half the value of a house? That's barely a down payment in the SF Bay area, where Berkeley is.
What makes the metric system appealing is that each physical quantity has exactly one "base" unit, and you can make easy conversions– just multiply or divide by 10.

The thing about time is, there are two important 'natural' units that aren't going away: the day and the year. Whatever system you devise has to include them somehow. And unfortunately, the conversion factor between them (365) isn't a multiple of 10.

That said, we can do a lot better than the status quo. Since we've already given up on the idea of having a single base unit for everything, why not express time in fractions of days instead of multiples of seconds? Counting time up to 1.0 days is a lot more intuitive than counting up to 8.64 myriaseconds. The second is a unit of time which isn't tied to anything intuitive (actually, it's entirely arbitrary). If we're going to shake things up, let's at least use days instead, yeah?
I think I understand what you're saying - I don't think it sounds silly, really, I just slightly disagree.

I think it's about abstractions and where you draw the line of 'different thing' - I see 'If you own an iPhone 4s it will play the apps for it until it dies' and 'If you own an Android phone with 4.x on it, it will play the apps for it until it dies' as being equivalent with 'If you own a cd player it will continue to play CDs'.

You're blurring the lines between CDs, Vinyl, Cassette, Hi-CD, SACD, DVD, HD-DVD, and BluRay audio as being all entirely unique 'universes', while smooshing all of the smartphone world into one 'universe'.

I see the difference between an iPhone 4s and an iPhone 5 as more like CD->DVD: similar, but distinctly different. Sure, lots of content works on both, but then, lots of content doesn't.

It's just now, with software-based (primarily) differences, that people even THINK about backwards compatibility/etc. as a feature to offer. CD players didn't offer backwards compat. with vinyl albums, for example (although, this argument might be flawed in that most future optical-disc drives did compat. back to CD).

With software, we CAN provide backwards compatibility, and you're argument (if I do understand properly) is that because we can, we probably should. I am torn by that, and can see strong arguments on both sides of the fence.
I hope it doesn't come with the privacy intrusion of a Jay-Z.
I don't actually use the feedly browser extension, it mucks my pages up. I use normal web page feed links, and Firefox (the first time) will ask where you want to direct that rss feed, and if you have feedly open in a tab it proposes feedly as an option, and you can set it as the default so links always go to feedly. No extension required.
Here's a problem with something like
data science:

First, the field is not professional
like law, medicine, or even some parts of
engineering. So, there's no licensing,
board certification, recognized
professional continuing education credits,
professional job performance peer-review,
legal liability, etc.
Instead, you can just say
that you have a Master's in data science
and know some programming, database, statistics,
etc.

Second, the degree isn't really a direct
approach to business or entrepreneurship.
So, the degree is aimed at making a person
an employee. This means that somewhere there
must be an employer including one ready to
create a job, recruit someone for that job, and
pay $120,000+ a year for the person.

Now, just
who is going to create this job, e.g.,
put it in their budget and partly bet their
career on it? And just why? I mean for
what the program taught in programming,
database, statistics, something else?
And where will the real money
actually come from, i.e., who with real
P&L responsibility will actually cough up
the $120,000 a year plus benefits, office space,
travel, etc.? Or, let's think about the
$120,000 a year: Ballpark, the full cost
stands to be twice that, $240,000 a year.
After two years on the job, maybe the person has actually
delivered some value or is ready to start.
So, the two years is $480,000. Heck, guys,
even in Silicon Valley, that's a large
seed round or a small Series A for a whole
company and not just one employee slot!

I don't know but can ask: Are there some
people at Berkeley smoking funny stuff?
I love how it says "stand on glass". All I can think about is how it would make the Safety Police of 2013 cringe so hard. Back in my day, we stood on glass and rescued people who were being electrocuted
It leaves the _future_ behind too. Or a less paradoxical way to say that.

In 15 years, I bet I'll still be able to listen to my mp3s, no problem at all. If I still have some CD's I haven't ripped, I bet I'll be able to rip them without too much trouble, even 15 years from now. I'll probably still have my turntable and be able to play my vinyl, even.

Will I be able to listen/play to Bjork's app/album in 15 years?
Ouch.
That impacts a lot of physical definitions, like joules.
-edit- On re-reading, I guess you weren't proposing changing the second, right?
Interesting. There's one bug though, when you select another country like Colombia, for instance, you have to enter the value in its currency. When you do, in that case 1k usd is 2 Million, the calculation seems to convert that to millions of dollars. Its not entirely clear which money format you should use.
This could be solved on AWS with Elastic IP's or OpenStack environments with Floating IP's.

Adding this to Docker would be a nice way to allow new machines to be created but to keep the same IP with automatic switchover.
How do you handle basic agency issues?

In a lot of larger deals developers expense what are arguably personal expenses. A lot of the work that institutional asset managers do who manager real estate is based on dealing with those agency issues.

Further, how do you compete with a large real estate asset manager. I'm not talking about REITs, I'm talking about managers for pension funds and accredited investors?
Negotiate additional compensation to pre-exercise?
> Why does the following code return 0 and not -1?

This questions appears twice in the article.

Note that shifting a 32-bit integer (no matter the sign) by 32 is undefined behavior (§6.5.7, 3). I'm using Clang, and its `int` has 32 bits even on a 64-bit system.

C is deceptively simple.
to make this a bit clearer, android, apple, etc devices send back wifi BSSID+GPS coordinates to the mothership for AGPS purposes. Im really suprised there hasn't been more concern about this.
Excellent point. I'm 30, with 12 years of experience. I still learn something new everyday, but I make sure to earn as much as possible doing it.
Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure From the DOD
I'd really like to see this kind of analysis in the non-western wikipedia sites. From the little I know, some languages have very different focuses on wikipedia compared to the west.

IIRC Japan has massive info and edits into pop culture, celebrities and manga/anime, and comparatively little in areas like politics, history and science.

(one of the longest lasting edit wars there is with respect to the lead singer of the band *l'arc en ciel's (hyde) height, which by urban legend is said to be 156cm, which in netslang is now a unit of measurement where 1 hyde = 156cm)
> Personally, I'm of the opinion that "public space personally identifiable data collection" should be regulated similarly to HIPPA.

I don't think that's possible; I don't think regulation can work here. Things like HIPPA and PCI regulate a very small number of providers. Regulating the general public at large from getting a picture of you in public on their Google Glass type device just isn't really technically or socially feasible and that will be where the majority of this type of surveillance happens. Beyond that, the next generation doesn't have the privacy expectations that you do; they see you as an old man clinging to old ways.

> I _don't_ expect people(/corporations/tlagencies) to be recording everybody in public spaces and archiving them permanently in ways that allow all archived recordings of me to eventually be crossreferenced and de-anonymised.

Then adjust your expectations, because that is the future and it won't and likely can't be stopped. Have a look at the movie A Scanner Darkly to see a more feasible solution, anonymous masks worn by those who don't want to be seen.
Podcast describing it:
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/freakonomics-radi...

Link [word doc]:
http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/defense_ethics/dod_oge/eef_complete...
I disagree with your first point. Everything you learn is not dependant on the outcome. There is much you can learn in a startup that may not be negated by the company failing: how to wear multiple hats, individual tactics that alone weren't enough to save the company, etc. etc.
However it's going to take some time to learn all the gotchas in string functions... Failing to zero-terminate strings (strncpy), potential buffer overflows (many), global internal buffer and overwriting an argument (strtok), etc etc etc etc
Yes and no. You can, but if you wrote your runtime in e.g. Haskell or Python you'd lose most of the advantages the article describes - debugging and tracing would be much more complicated for anything that called into the runtime, and profiling would become very difficult.

As a linkage format C is both too high-level (it provides a lot of facilities that are irrelevant to this use case - so while C may be ubiquitous now, I suspect it's much easier to implement an interpreter from scratch for something like LLVM bytecode) and too low-level (it exposes the host machine's memory model, making it inherently unportable). Use the right tool for the job - programming languages for writing programs in, intermediate representations for code for representing intermediate code.
Do hw rng's get a test suite certificate(NIST's?), like a Swiss watch, or like a optical sextant's `Certificate of Errors'? Tables of mean, standard deviation, etc, for expected physical dependent parameters(what: speed? temp? ...)?
In most countries the caller pays, not the callee. So he is saving his callers money, not himself.