skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why stuff like this isn't considered bribing in US boggles my mind. They're receiving money for voting a certain way.
How much is a high deductible?
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Mine is pretty similar. I have a high deductible ($2500) plan Wellmark (BCBS) and it's around $70/mon. I'm pretty sure I've read that it will be illegal in in 2014 because my deductible is too high.
I don't know if I could explain it much better myself. Kudos.
> If anything, Western people should buy products from poor countries. It's the best aid they can get.

So given equivalent products built in Detroit and Somalia, you would go for the one built in Somalia?
Another way it cuts crime dramatically: it neuters the drug cartels by removing at least half their market (plausibly a lot more, as their infrastructure including manufacturing would be eroded). That didn't seem to fall into your two examples.

At least 60,000 people were murdered by organized crime just in Felipe Calderon's six year term.

One more way: by legalizing and taxing it, there properly should be more money available for treatment, helping to eliminate dangerous lifestyles that often cross over into crime.
It does the correction feature too. Try it :)
in general, this sounds good (particularly the big data approach - gmail.com v gmali.com based on stats).

but i am concerned that they don't mention RFC 3696 when describing their grammar. it's all there (and implemented in - the now unsupported - lepl).

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3696.html

http://www.acooke.org/lepl/rfc3696.html
The wealthier a country becomes, the better standards will become. In short (understatement), because there are a finite number of people in the country (you cannot hire an infinite number of "low-cost employees").
> Past some level of safety, intersections likely hit a floor where no amount of further investment will actually make them safer.

That point is probably called "driverless cars."
Building a staging environment on Heroku
yep agreed. if you're comfortable with nginx and just want to test something quickly, this is many times better than downloading a framework, setting up, routing, etc.
For the folks with privacy concerns: we are actually planning on open sourcing the entire service as well as our MIME handling library. So if you have privacy concerns, you'll be able to run it locally.
Because the people being bribed are the ones who vote on the laws that define illegal bribery.
and badly-behaved apps will simply refuse to run without all the permissions they (and their ad services) request.

With any luck, those apps will (rightfully) die do to lack of user base. Of course, the cynic in me knows that the unwashed masses will never go to the trouble of dealing with all those permissions, even if they know about them.

BTW, what do you consider "badly-behaved"? I've seen so many "good" apps ask for so much it boggles my mind (as someone else mentioned, WTF does a music player need access to your addressbook?).
I am going to be working with my small child (almost 3) to teach him how to read and program at the same time using:

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/658960/

Hopefully my "tests" will go well and will video document.
American prohibition covered that ground. There's a short spasm by organized crime as they fight to stay alive, and then the system goes into cardiac arrest. Ideally you have a government that simultaneously hammers organized crime at the same time their funding is drying up.
from the article, Daniel Newman sums it up nicely: “How can we trust legislators to vote in the public interest when they are dependent on industry campaign funding to get elected? Our broken money and politics system forces lawmakers into a conflict of interest between lawmakers’ voters and their donors”
Because you'll probably have more people who accidentally type gmali.com instead of gmail.com then people who have an actual gmali.com email addresses.
What's the story with Rep Moran, the only top-10 defense $ recipient who voted for the amendment?
> Can I assume you're doing a tcp scan on mail ports?

Nope. We're an ESP ourselves. Mailgun has delivered (and accepted) many billions of emails since our launch a few years ago. We have a lot of data on 99.99% other ESPs in the world and the most common misspellings for them. We also have ESP-specific data on what kind of RFC-compliant email addresses they do not allow.
It sounds to me like they are saying that they don't care about the economic and social benefits. (S)he would rather those benefits go to people worse off.
I think it was Feynman who figured out that most combination locks actually have a +/- 1 digit slop on the dial. Between that and peoples' habit of leaving the last digit of the combination set, and you can open it in no more than 25*25=625 attempts for a 50-digit dial.
Here's a thought: permissions shouldn't be asked for until they are needed, and one that should be disabled with no option to override is to spam your entire addressbook.
I wondered the same thing. Why not handling the connexion and serving the files through a regular event-based server like nginx, and handle the specific business logic in java or any other popular language inside Google.

I guess that some details on the slides would answer those questions, but if anybody here know the answer (some slides were pretty obscure if you're not already familiar with file serving and/or google architecture).
The two examples do not represent the same thing.

This is a claim I don’t understand. They are both simple examples of representing an algorithm that maintains state in their respective languages. Of course you could write it as a one-liner using a different style in Haskell, and in various imperative languages for that matter. However, my point was that making these monadic abstractions explicit everywhere in Haskell does add weight to the code. That continues to be true for more complicated stateful code that can’t be rewritten as a one-liner or expressed more elegantly using recursion anyway.
But what if you transcend into something like modern day Britain? You let people start tweaking with some aspects, others will want to "modernize" its notion of free speech. It could be such a slippery slope.
as a PIH and a father, I have to chime in and mention that my lazy & unethical self gets to spend a great deal more [quality] time with the family now that I'm no longer working 24/7 at a startup. sadly, no one ever gets man of the year for being a good parent.
To me it also means "stable API", which means published APIs are neither removed nor their function signatures changed (cough Ruby).
From the looks of it, they wanted support for putting files in place before a release date and easy per-file header/caching/access control. Add in a few other miscellaneous features and make it available to everyone and you're at a point where an HTTP server probably won't cut it.
Why can't some permissions be prompt-based, instead of always giving access to apps? Say for contacts, if you want to invite friend you'll allow access to contacts just now.
It doesn't matter. The real cost of heroin, once supply is up and running in the huge, safe, FDA controlled factories that makes all the other pills we take it will cost less than a bum can get in an hour. It is completely generic. How much does an Aspirin cost?
I think this is showing that the awareness of the military-industrial-complex is really starting to hit the zeitgeist of the actual mass public.

While these types of issues are completely bvious and known by a very large fraction of the populous, it was still a fraction - now it is simply inescapable by anyone just how much control the defense/intelligence industry/military has over the USG.
If the alternative is a failed state, and breeding ground for terrorism, or anti-west propaganda, then sure. Assad would be the lesser of two evils from a certain point of view.

If we could get a full-blown democracy, and freedom for the Syrian people, that would of course be even better. But I fear someone else is exploiting their hopes and dreams for a better future to serve their own interests, and any intervention by the west would only fuel that exploitation. But then again seeing civilians getting caught in the crossfire is very painful. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
When widespread Internet censorship started in Iran, they promised it will only be used for porn. Being a religious country, no one protested. I don't say everyone agreed, but because of all the stigma attached to porn, no one said a word or lifted an finger. What started as a porn-only filtering system expanded exponentially. Little by little, the number of unavailable websites grew. Nowadays, most of the internet is inaccessible from Iran. To name few instances:

YouTube, Vimeo and all other video-sharing websites
Flickr, imgur and all other photo-sharing websites
WordPress, Blogger and all other blogging platforms (and every blog on them)
Facebook, Google+ and all other social networks
BBC, CNN, NPR and almost all foreign news agencies
...
And also HTTPS rarely works. They have limited the HTTPS bandwidth so much it's impossible to use Gmail without a headache, in an effort to encourage everyone to disable it, thus making it easier for surveillance.

Dear British friends, it's a slippery slope. Don't let the same thing happen to you.
Then I apologise; I didn’t mean anything by it. I can’t edit the post any more, but please read something like “position I’m challenging” instead.
This is great. Any chance the source code can be made available on GitHub?
There may be something that the United States can do to help your country in this area, but there are also things that your country can do to help itself. Why have your lawmakers decriminalized or legalized the growth and distribution of these controlled substances?

Supply and demand. Your response only tackles half of the problem - demand - while ignoring the half that hits closer to your home.
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let me know when i can order one for my car! wait... i only commute by bike now that i'm a lazy PIH ;)
I'm willing to be that many of the applications requesting odd and unnecessary permissions will be rewritten to simply not work when any one of those permissions aren't granted to them.

Good. Let them die. If there's really demand for them, better alternatives will pop up.
Why would heroin junkies run all over the place stealing stuff if they could get heroin at for low enough prices that it'd be easy to finance on a normal job?

And yes, a heroin junkie can hold down a normal job especially if they have a steady supply of heroin. Many do. The biggest problem with living a normal life for a heroin junkie is the time and effort spent chasing down heroin supplies and cash.

You might very well know heroin junkies without knowing it - someone with sufficient cash to not have to worry will most of the time appear completely "normal".

That's not to say that heroin doesn't have a lot of problems, but clean heroin, used with clean syringes, is still fairly safe. What isn't safe is the alternative - what we see today: products that have been mixed with all kinds of crap, of varying strengths, dirty syringes, and price levels that drive users to crime because it's the only way they can afford their habit.

And do you really think that lots of people would suddenly decide "oh, cool, heroin is legal now - lets shoot up"? Heroin junkies are hardly top of the totem pole, and being able to go to a pharmacy and buy it would hardly make it cooler.

What affects the families, the kids, the neighbourhoods the most is when we treat users as criminals because of their addiction, and force many of them to carry out crimes to meet needs they have minimal control over, as well as make it risky for them to seek help when they need it without facing legal threats.
Either I'm having deja vu, or despite the date on the presentation, this is at least a year or two old
Merely "conservative"? Are you sure? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/25/democrat...
Oops...apologies to Myles if I mis-read this - I thought he was mocking the PIH, taking the side of the startup guy.
"The tar from cigarette smoke is similar to that of marijuana smoke"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(tobacco_residue)
People and organizations like Lawrence Lessig and Democracy Matters have been on this issue forever. It's the root issue. The revolving door too. Pass Fair Elections in NY state this year, and then every other state. That's a start.
I have heard this argument a lot and I don't buy it, because if there were some other thing they could do to make more money easier than drugs why not do that now? I mean it is not like they couldn't stop trading drugs today if that is what they wanted.
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Yeah, if somebody wants a domain, the thing to do is send a badly-forged fax to the registrar initiating a transfer.
It will be. "Security" and "child protection" are two most effective weapons of the tyranny right now. You can pass nearly anything on a wave of moral panic in the name of security or child protection.
That's a great solution. Looking forward to trying it out. Thanks!
I don't know if its that old, but there was definitely a talk on this presented some time back. From what I remember, there was a lot of HN discussion around "well that's great but its just a download server" and some other people saying "yeah but its a complicated download server".
The only problem with that narrative is that it doesn't agree with the evidence. The article begs the question that defunding the NSA is what voters want. But the polls, while they're pretty much all over the map, don't support that conclusion. E.g. the latest Pew poll of whether people "approve" of the NSA program basically matches the margin by which the Amash bill lost: http://www.people-press.org/2013/07/26/few-see-adequate-limi....

How can you conjure up this narrative of politicians choosing between their donors and their voters, when the evidence suggests that the politicians are voting the way their voters want? Especially considering that because of gerrymandering, conservative rural voters have a substantially greater representation in the House than they do in public polling.
From the article, for the commenters who don't seem to have read it and have a side discussion going about "how do we know Dell or HP hardware isn't compromised?" (answer: nobody knows that, but that's not the reason for the article)...

The ban [on Lenovo hardware for classified networks by multiple western intel agencies] was introduced in the mid-2000s after intensive laboratory testing of its equipment allegedly documented “back-door” hardware and “firmware” vulnerabilities in Lenovo chips.
It's on this slide: http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#13
@gmailcom is invalid but doesn't suggest @gmail.com, might be another improvement.
Files also apparently come from some central repository and need to be synced.

I think the biggest reason would be that almost any off-the-shelf server software would struggle in a Google server environment. They have solved scale at the machine level, and he alludes to this on one slide:

... why aren't you using the cluster file systems like everybody else?

... cluster file systems own disk time on your machine, not you.
Am I required to respond to people who contact me if I want to keep my domains?

I've been approached by someone who wanted a domain I have, but I usually just don't respond, lest my words be seen as "bad faith".
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Exactly. Couchdb is preferable to this for so many reasons. The author is effectively using the Nginx configuration language for server-side scripting. The result ends up looking a lot like a bad PHP crud app. With couchdb, the REST API is already built in.
Slide 62 mentions the proprietary bits: ACL policies and RPC storage access. Does an off-the-shelf httpd support ACLs? How easy would it be to make them support google storage instead of a file system?
Tokenfield for Bootstrap - elegant jQuery tagging plugin
I couldn't find a tagging plugin that would support copy-paste and keyboard properly, so I built one. I was actually inspired by Gmail's and Sparrow's To-field :P

It's still a very early release, so it probably has bugs, will eat your cat, etc... but I hope to get some good feedback.

It will soon also have autocomplete support and allow you to edit existing tags, plus a few other things.
That's especially true because their design seems upside down. While they're 18 feet in diameter at the ceiling, they are just nine inches across at the floor. How something like that could hold 60 tons is a small bit of Frank Lloyd Wright magic. But that's exactly what they do.

This sentence irked me. How something that is 9" across can hold 60 tons is not magic, it is pretty straight forward engineering. Doing the code required design calculation for this column gives a nominal capacity for this column of around 100 tons. Buckling of this column would most likely not be a an issue due to the generous taper of the column if one were to actually do the math.

This is not magic. This is basic engineering.
I think there is a time for everything. Early in your life (professional or otherwise) the heuristic to grow/progress/move forward makes a lot of sense, because you have limited resources. So whatever are your goals, you are better off if you start moving ahead in a somewhat general direction as soon as possible.

But as you make progress, you hopefully gain experience and insight. You learn what it's like out there and what role you want to play in it. Otherwise, the world comes and tell you who you are and who you should be. At this stage, course correction and precision triumph over raw speed. There's a song I like a lot which says: "I don't know which goes faster, the mountain or the crab".

At the end of day, every life form starts with rapid growth. Some of those reach stability, others reach the carrying capacity of their environment.
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It is actually a very common practice. Usually one family member will compose the plate, but everyone will share it.

It is amazing that the corporation did not take the simple route of removing the single serving limit instead of the route of removing the salad bar all together.
Uhm, yes, that, precisely. Most of Android is on a level playing field - core framework services get elevated permissions under the system group but they're still apps. If you let the user uninstall them, all hell will break loose. It's like removing the svchost.exe process in Windows. Or removing /bin/sh in Linux. The rest just doesn't work without it. Things like Contacts, Calendar storage, Bluetooth, Play Store, Google Backup, etc, etc, are all in /system/app, where manufacturers also put their apps.

If you ask me, manufacturers should be prohibited from adding to /system/app but that's not how the Android licensing works. So, we get un-uninstallable apps (vote with your wallet - buy only Nexus experience!).
Edward Tufte says Bret Victor [1] is someone to watch out for. I am curious: can someone who is into usability look at the site and comment on whether this is considered usable? I mean his site is incredibly innovative and beautiful. However, I find it kind of hard to navigate?

[1] http://worrydream.com/
> but most of the carcinogens should be in both

Hm, I don't think so. While it's true that inhaling burned plant material is never a good thing, there is no evidence so far that smoking cannabis causes cancer.
Search for Dr. Donald Tashkin who has done extensive studies on this subject.
Afaik tobacco smoke is also radioactive due to phosphate fertilizer [1][2] so I assume this is also a major factor leading to its carcinogenic properties.

[1] http://www.epa.gov/radiation/sources/tobacco.html

[2] http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/radioactive-tobacco.20...
Brilliant! Thanks for that :)
To me the bigger question was the "captions" - and whether it's possibly for them to be almost always working.
CPU programming on the other hand, especially with OpenMP, is hard to get into at first, but once you have the right formula you can apply it pretty easily to most common tasks.

My guess is that you've spent a lot more time trying to understand CUDA and NVIDIA hardware. Or maybe all of your arrays are dimensions that are multiples of 16.
Grabbing a domain via this method does feel slimy. The main reason there are so many inaccurate WHOIS records are because spammers scan the records and inundate you with spam/phishing.

My registrar "accidentally" put my real mobile number from my billing info (instead of my Skype number) in my WHOIS record once and I had to get another number it was so bad.
This was my first response too; there's been a CLI tool (called vrfy) for a while that I've given up on using because it almost always says "send some mail, i'll try my best". That tends to be the ultimate test, which you can probably already do pretty quickly with a backend for a web form.

EDIT: That being said, making a potential customer wait for thorough verification, on top of "spamming" them before they've (technically) bought from you would be unwise; I can see how this would have merit.
With 4.1+ Jelly bean, you can at least disable the system apps. That way, the only thing you are losing is some storage.
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There are lots of conservative democrats, especially in rust-belt states. E.g. only 2 of Illinois's 12 democratic Congressmen voted for the Amash bill.
I've put in a request to my boss to attend his one day seminar last year. However, recent reviews of attendees say his views haven't caught up with modern times and he just sticks to visualization techniques from years ago.
It's not about the website, it's about the content. If you read the articles, I think you'll be suitably blown away. Example: http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction
Watch his presentations, they are incredibly inspiring and impressive.

https://vimeo.com/36579366
https://vimeo.com/64895205
https://vimeo.com/66085662

All are required viewing for the HN crowd.
The former is what we are doing, but coupling it with some basic statistical financial methods (and some stuff I've come up with myself!) that you can rely on if you'd rather not send the information. That's also what the cheapest plan for our hosted version relies on.

The entire premise is personal finance software that learns your habits to make it easier to use :)
It appears from slides 14, 21, and 24, that copying all of the static files that needed be served onto a single machine could take over 12 hours. Another way to say that is that the totality of content that is served from that single host is too large to put on a single machine. The "groupcache" abstraction lets the http-serving machines dynamically serve the hot subsets of the larger file set (represented by "storage svc" on slide 55).
Learning the nexus lesson slowly.
On iOS, if an app crashes or doesn't function when permissions are denied, it won't get approved to be in the app store.
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I see such back doors as less of a problem for the general public than it is for intelligence agencies because because even a single malicious device could result in a major security breach and so randomized testing mightn't be as effective. If trying to snoop on the general public on an ongoing basis though then it would be hard to avoid randomized testing (presuming someone is actually doing such testing).