skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There has never been a 25 year period"

Just be aware that saying used to be 10 year period, until it broke. It hasn't worked in the last decade or so, therefore roughly speaking durations keep expanding to reach the eighties. I suspect in 2030 the phrase will be something like ... never been a 50 year period ...

The part that worries me is hearing about all those boomers having to cash in equities and real estate over the next couple decades to pay off the medical sector... Who, exactly, is supposed to step up and buy that stuff at current prices / PE ratios? AKA where's the demand?
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Misleading headline. The study is more accurately paraphrased as 'where you grow up.' The authors found little difference between those who moved when they were young from a low mobility area to a high mobility area.

I would love to see a deeper investigation into how mixed-income neighborhoods positively impact mobility. It's a relevant point when discussing housing subsidies and future infrastructure projects. Many of the low mobility families in the NYT article have no car or only one car. In modern cities which depend almost exclusively on private-car transportation, this is a serious obstacle to higher wages.
You can start a company, but you can't work for it. Unless you transfer your visa to that company, but then things like funding become very chicken and egg- you don't want to transfer your visa until your company is viable, but investors are going to be wary until you can prove that everyone can legally work for the company.
Wow never heard the parents' employers. It's worse than I thought.
Why is Oracle pushing ASK.com with every Java update?
Good idea. And this patent can be one that hasn't received any answers for sometime and is overly broad.
Those groups exist, and do contain some anti-industrial proponents, but they have very little influence on policy. They get the same token gestures from the Democrats as the Republicans give the pro-lifers, only far, far less.

If there's a corruptive element to climate change policy, it's a cash grab from green energy companies. After 2000, the Democrats know that the green voters won't dare vote third party again (sadly), so don't care about appeasing them beyond gestures.
Clearly. The question is whether shouting 'Do something! here's a list of ideas and we'll check everything else you can come up with. DO SOMETHING!' counts as intenting to do policy as the parent says.

The data is very scary. Seeing the conditions of the distant past makes me not want to repeat them. Before a scientist, I am a human being.

Parent - seriously, what do you want us to do? Sit back, take more data, calculate more models, write some papers that only other scientists read? You, everyone, pays us for doing this, and it's our responsibility to make you listen.

(Now, I'm quite young. My professors seem to have given up, one even said so. I sincerely hope it's not as bad as it looks.)
> I'm not criticizing you at all.

Be aware that this seems very much like criticism, even if it wasn't directed at the author:

> ...seems to be the only way posts devoid of value push forward around here.
That's absurd. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
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At 40,000 software patents per year, it would require 110 posted patents per day to actually stop them, or a significant fraction of that to make a serious dent.

One a day would be less than a 1% reduction in software patents. We need to shut them ALL down.
>It works, at a huge scale, and poorly.

If it manages to push 1 billion apps and 1 trillion notifications, billions of songs, TB of video and such, with no major complaints other than "it takes 12 hours for an app to appear for everyone" that's doing great in my book.
Citation please? I want a good laugh to the irony.
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Lenses are a way to try to minimize that effect, because it does "kind of" happen. This is one end of what Wadler termed the expression problem, essentially most languages are structured such that either the nouns or the verbs are complex since if they both are then you have n^2 interactions.

Haskell chooses to make functions complex to enable simpler data types. This means there's a lot of drive to have useful, abstract interfaces, but it also means that you have to protect against the kind of complexity you get when expanding your objects.

Lenses help to do this by abstracting "views" on objects so that you only have to update the lens... and that can be done automatically.
I understand that often, metaphors are useful. However, I think this metaphor is both very poor and in very poor taste. For example, a government program could never experience any of the other effects of sexual assault[1] that are part of what makes rape such a heinous crime.

I know that saying 'rape' and feeling like one can hide behind a literary claim may make one feel 'edgy' or whatever, but it just comes across as excessively childish.

1: http://www.rainn.org/get-information/effects-of-sexual-assau...
hows the camera for you? I use the n4 with android and the camera digital blur / tearing is pretty annoying. did you get around that or not use the camera much?
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This is really interesting. I wonder why the US has not encouraged this more.
I ordered one, but there's absolutely no way this is going to crack 10 million, let alone 32.
>Also past records shows that the Apache Struts team is incompetent at security

Compared to Rails, PHP, what?
The video that auto plays on that second channel (I don't know if it will change in the future) 'Stalking Cat' is awesome. Really funny.
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+1 for ngrok. It is more recently updated. Some would say it is easier more flexible for the rest of us. This is a recent blog post about it: http://www.elcoderino.com/tag/ngrok/
Ask yourself this: if you've never heard of startup culture in Canada, what is that indicative of? :)

(Saying this sadly, as I'm a Canadian)
"roughly 40 percent of the net farm income for the country normally comes from the 17 Western states"

I thought this stat was kind of weird. Those 17 Western states would be huge, so the net farm income per square mile wouldn't be that impressive.
Why do we do that? if you are interested commit, if the project fails you get the money back for sure.
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Micromort: A unit used to measure riskiness of day-to-day activities
I'm writing to ask... we consider....

Assuming the posted letter is complete, a lawyer can't really do anything at this point. The letter (or is it actually an email?) doesn't invoke any requirements one is bound by law to obey. One might even say that it's careful not to do so, so I suspect that even though the "Director of Operations" signed it, it was originally written by a lawyer. This would actually be a useful form letter for people who have their underpants on a bit too tight: even if they send it five times a month, it doesn't create any sort of SLAPP liability or anything else that will damage Snapchat in a legal sense. Of course, giving someone 12 hours to comply with anything looks like amateur hour. tlack isn't the only party reluctant to run up billable hours.

IANAL. If I were, I would recommend you start paying me or one of my colleagues to talk with you immediately.
It would, but people pull it off. Here's one example, also from Harvard. http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-im-leaving-harvar...

I think it's much easier in Computer Science than other fields - say the humanities, or biology or chemistry.
To answer your question, those attributes are not all required on the form element. From the docs on ngApp[1]:

Use this directive to auto-bootstrap an application. Only
one ngApp directive can be used per HTML document. The
directive designates the root of the application and is
typically placed at the root of the page.

The ngController directive gives behavior to a scope. So, in this example, the behavior of the LoginController is available to everything within the form element. ngController could be placed on a div that encapsulated the form and the result would be the same.

The only thing really required on the form element for this example is the ngSubmit directive. The other two tags can be placed elsewhere.

[1]: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:ngApp
I've been wanting to try them. Does this security breach have any implications for the US data center, or was this pretty localized to the European arm?
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What do you consider as a tech director role?

Outsourcing works if you have all of these:

- solid understanding what technology you are using and how the contractor party will provide you the implementation

- solid understanding what the business requirement is and how you will communicate with the contractor party

If you have a single person who is able to communicate both, the outsourcing should be OK. Another consideration is the know-how: if your services are easy to copy, handling out the implementation part to a third party might not be a good idea at all.
It wasn't a joke. I create a 60+ character random password for every website. There are many tools available to help you manage your passwords.

I do have an ubuntuforums.org account and I DID use a random password so I WAS glad that I didn't have to rush to change all my passwords.
There is a startup visa; I believe half a million or so is the minimum investment required.
or use plowshare for free
https://code.google.com/p/plowshare/
I think you just love your 3D printer - which is totally cool, but I actually think the comparison is quite apt.

There's a lot of people who love printing photos, flyers, etc. at the click of the mouse. We shouldn't demean that - there's a lot of real uses for 2D printing.

The own/rent/outsource question is a big part of the future of digital fabrication. See my article in MAKE:

http://makezine.com/2013/06/24/what-is-the-new-industrial-re...
It will be interesting to find out how many real hardware people have had input on this. As an example, the battery is going to be "silicon-anode" - I didn't even know that was a thing, and Google only turns up weeks/months old articles on how researchers are trying to make them out of rice. Yet they're going to stick it in a phone.

If each hardware choice has been made like that, there's a huge risk with the project. If the battery doesn't come up to snuff mAh-wise, how long will that 4G RAM / beautiful screen / 128Gb SSD actually last day-to-day, including phone calls?

There doesn't really seem to be much information about the people doing the hardware, and why they think they can stuff so much new stuff into a small package in the space of a few months.
Idea : Create a 'pictures of cats' site, and voluntarily put it on the ISPs' 'must be blocked' list.

Then, people that want uncensored internet access can simply state that they liked to get to the innocuous cat pictures site - and that porn access wasn't part of their opt-in reasoning. Minimal-plausible deniability...

Of course, if someone is attacking this plausible deniability thing, then the question is "What do you gain from knowing I dislike censorship?".
So this is basically Gumroad with BTC as a payment option?
That's right. I was not specific. How then could you have possibly derived that very specific accusation from my own non-specific offering?
From https://www.paypal.com/webapps/helpcenter/article/?articleID...:

"If you paid with your debit card or credit card, your payment is refunded to that card."
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One of the reasons they went with IndieGoGo vs KickStarter is probably that they know they may not reach $32M. So they'll take what they can (IndieGogo gives you what you make, vs kickstarter that you need to make more then you request in order to get it) and do what they can.

As far as I am concerned they may have just typed in a random number in the millions as people like goals.
So mainly UNIX systems.

Apple II does not count, as I don't remember virus for 8 bit systems.

Mac OS < X did had quite a nice list of virus, but it depended on the software source, as I mentioned on my previous post.

EDIT: Just to add my own experience.

Timex 2068 and ZX Spectrum 48+ at home, followed by all Microsoft OSs starting with MS-DOS version 3.3. Also used DR-DOS 5.0.

Friends had ZX-Spectrum +2(A)/+3, Amiga 500 and Atari ST systems, which we used together in computing parties.

Novel Netware, AS/400 and Xenix at the technical school before going to the university.

My first Linux version used the kernel 1.0.9.

The university had Macs LC II available.

But for the 16bit systems used at home, everybody I knew had an AV to check floppy contents before running anything.
Hopefully never. :-D

The video games industry is pretty difficult to cut your teeth in though. It's highly technical, it has a ridiculous amount of competition and the software produced has a very short shelf life. If you can make it there, chances are you can make it anywhere.
Wow, did not know the US spent so much on healthcare, considering that it is not free for all. In the UK we spend about 10% GDP and it's free for everyone. Different set ups I know, but seems crazy to spend more, and then ask people to spend loads on health insurance.
The government of Canada isn't doing this to set an example for the United States to follow. They're doing this because they want to grow the Canadian economy.

In fact, they'd be quite happy if the United States doesn't follow their example, because that will help Canada compete. See, for instance, this billboard in Silicon Valley:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/photos/2013/20...
Based on personal experience (small sample size), Phds in Computer Science can find homes at consulting firms (hired for "being smart"), and software and hardware firms that utilize their speciality, and even hedge funds. It can be hard to unlearn habits over 6 or 7 years, but I've seen it happen.

The real point though is it's a lot easier than many other fields.
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Doubling the fee would further disadvantage the little guys.

Maybe the fee should start low and then increase by some percentage with each new application you submit.
He said it better, but I said it before he did: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=318563.

The root of that discussion was http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=318257 which I think is interesting in its own right.
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> pointing out these simple facts generates lots of very aggressive resistance.

This, a thousand times, even from my own family. I've simply stopped trying to give advice.
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I don't get the impression that Ubuntu is targeted for geeks, that non-geek marketing speech has been there for a long time.
All of the AR5 findings are based on published peer reviewed research. Working backward from the AR5 report deadlines, there is a deadline for appearance of the research in order to be potentially included in the final consensus report. In this sense, it is all open.

I think the issue in this case is that you can't take a graph from such a paper, or from a draft report, and interpret it in the absence of its context. This is a complex topic and there is a reason why they get the experts in a room to argue it out.

In particular, lay people tend to be myopic. With every piece of information, they tend not to ask, "is this true?"' or "does this fit with other related physics and phenomena I know in depth?" They just cut right to the end, and ask, "does this favor or disfavor my prior conceptions about climate change?"

To make a crude analogy, lay people tend to treat this like sports and not like science. So, that's why you let the process work and look at the final result. Unless you're a domain expert, you won't know how to interpret the arguments that lead up to the result.

I know several contributors to the AR5 research, and slightly know a couple of people in the IPCC working group.
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While this is possible with IndieGoGo, they selected to only receive funds if the project is fully funded. This is detailed under the "Contribute now" button.
You are not correct on this one. Intent is greatly meaningful in life and under the law. Commercial intent with a derivative work is not inevitable, nor is their growth inevitable.
I agree, those releases are meant to cover up more than actually reveal anything. If it stops at that, then they will achieve nothing. But I have hope that it will go farther than that for the first time in a decade.

I watched the entire Judiciary Committee hearings and they were more than just the normal political posturing. There was a lot of that of course, but there is an undercurrent of deep concern that congress has been had by the executive and judicial branches. That is a good thing. The more documentation that comes out, the more likely there will be real change. Especially if Congress becomes convinced that thousands of analysts across the intelligence community have the technical ability to bypass any legally required procedures and do what Snowden said they can do, and that the technical auditing of that access is less than complete. Looking at the architecture of the system that the NSA has built, and hearing that the number of system administrators with access similar to Snowden's is in the "hundreds", then I suspect the truth is that there are hundreds of people who have total access to all the data the NSA has and that they can access that data in a way that would be very hard to detect unless someone in command was looking for a specific case of abuse. And even then, how could you trust the audit trail when at some level at least some system admins have to have full access to that data too?

But that will not really solve the global problem for the tech community since Congress will never prevent the NSA from monitoring foreign traffic. It will be interesting to see how Google handles encrypting Google Drive. The only hope they have of gaining back the trust of international users in the long term is to make it easy to ensure that this sort of wholesale surveillance is much less likely to bear fruit. Google has conflicting incentives in this area though since they want to be able to read the content to serve relevant ads.

I still think it is highly unlikely that we'll get any real reform. But I have more hope than I have in years, and that is great.

At the end of the day, we need more tech like Tor. And we need the tech community to actively resist restrictions that governments will always want to place on the effectiveness of such systems. I personally would like to see a requirement that data centers in the US must allow users to host Tor relays and exit nodes on their networks without hassle or restriction. That is unlikely to ever happen, but that would go a long way in really protecting users since it would allow users to fund a network that would actually protect their privacy. At a minimum, there needs to be legal protection for users who do choose to host relays and exits. Short of a requirement that all DCs allow Tor exit nodes, as a community we need to actively support companies that allow users to host Tor exit nodes. And we should set up a legal fund to fight any battles that result from the hosting of relays and exits.
Earning money needs a wealthy country to support you and your business. Why shouldn't you support the country that provided your wealth? And if your answer is that you will give to charity, then please answer the rest of my question above.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

There's the statute, for you armchair quarterback-lawyers out there.
No, the password should now be considered compromised regardless of how it was hashed and regardless of how many other sites you used it on and how annoying it would be to change them all.
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If only some sort of prior art could be found...
Carmack didn't invent fast inverse square root.
It is a Fixed Funding project so if they don't gather the entire sum it won't get funded.
And Gumroad is basically a link shortener with a payment option.
What I mean is, should we allow scientists a couple years to interpret the data from their experiments and models before forcing them to share it? Should we (as taxpayers funding the research) require them to disclose results before the peer review process?

I hear you on science being wrong. One of the best things about science is there is a self-correcting mechanism, though it takes a while. As one physics professor said, "A change in paradigm doesn't wait for the old masters to retire, it waits until they die."
When I last read about Ubuntu Phone, they were offering two choices for UI, QML, and HTML widgets, but perhaps QML is their preferred option? If so that's a shame but not a huge issue for me. All these XML markup languages for views (xib, XAML, QML) offer very little over html IMHO and end up tying you in to one set of tools provided by the vendor. I'd rather they just focussed on improving the OpenGL backed performance of webkit animations to bring it up to scratch instead.
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My clients are already using Google Webmaster Tools and Adwords and want everything integrated, plus they want the reliability of Google.

But another FOSS analytics platform is Snowplow (http://snowplowanalytics.com), and while it wouldn't replace GA for them, it might replace another commercial analytics package. Few high volume ecommerce sites use just GA these days.
Ottawa is a tech hub, as that's where the federal gov't is.

Waterloo is also important, as that's where our "MIT" is, and Google etc have offices there.

All the easy money's in Calgary due to oil.
The 64-bit block length is more of a problem than the 112-bit key length.

For instance, if 3DES were used in OFB mode, one would expect on average to have a unique 64 GB keystream before entering a repeating 32 GB keystream. If the attacker is able to choose the data being encrypted, CFB could have similar limitations. With CBC mode, you'd expect only 32 GB of encrypted data before you got your first self-collision in ciphertext. CTR mode with perfectly random IVs does much better, at 64 exabytes. Even 64 EB isn't as big as it used to be, especially for a key that can't be changed.

For many uses, you'd much rather have an ideal block cipher with a 128-bit block and 112-bit keys than an ideal block cipher with a 64-bit block and 512-bit keys.
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forked. 80+
Testing your UI is what most people would call prototyping, though. You've already decided on what you want to build, just not what the interface to what you're building should be exactly. An MVP is for deciding what to build or whether to continue to build.
That news makes this news all the less surprising.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewbender/2013/07/22/layoffs-...