skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for a tiny fraction of $88 million. There's something about throwing such a large amount of money at a project that causes it to bloat into failure.
The only bookstores I want to save are the ones that closed 15 years ago.
How? Because if the OS-manufacturer has access to my backup, that's not secure? What?
Sounds like it could fit perfectly with NYC's current "See something crooked" campaign: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/6f91a149db2641cc84c25c...
Original article in German:

http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Microsofts-Hintertuer-1921730...
As a complete aside... I like linguistics, so..

Amen is actually a Hebrew contraction word that is "Ayl Melech Ne'eman" (AMN) in its lengthened form. What is means is "It is true, and I believe what is being said."

So it albeit true that current US culture thinks of Amen in religious roots, however in Hebrew it is a powerful affirmation of the individual. Frankly, because you believe him/her.
Having been involved in long, arduous government procurement processes, I can assure you that it will leave you shaking your head and wondering how ANYTHING in government gets done.

The trip from RFP to signed contract is maddening and has probably driven more than one government worker to an alcoholic stupor, wishing for the sweet embrace of death.

On a side note, I'm no longer a government employee. My name is Greg and I'm an alcoholic....
> send them cash

Or Bitcoin, for that matter.
I've noticed that to correlate with local population. E.g., University towns having plenty of great Dover prints on Algebraic Topology versus my mid-Michigan industrial boomtown mostly having a huge Spiritual/Christianity section.
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10-50 installations

How is that even possible? Less than 50 installations in two years?
It's all in the language they use. They are scooping up all the phone calls, emails, etc. they possibly can. They then go get a warrant to process that information or so they can use it in court and what have you. And like you said, getting a warrant is a joke. Especially through the FISA court.
If you want to learn more about music theory in a nerdy way you may like:

Dave Benson's "Music: a Mathematical Offering" [1] or my own "Music for Geeks and Nerds" [2]

[1] http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/mth192/pages/html/maths-music.ht...

[2] http://musicforgeeksandnerds.com
Been reading 2p2 for 10 years and was a mod at one point. I would say its about 500000x more valuable than reddit poker.
Pre-9-11, I spent some time doing some high-level analysis, talking to users and administrators, of a nation-wide EMS system for an entire country (Sorry, can't say which) It was a U.S. firm interested in figuring out exactly how much it would cost to create a national system so they could bid on it.

This does not have to be a very complicated system at all. It's basically a real-time workflow system. Information comes in, is assigned a type and other data, and depending on the values is routed to various other people, which also tag and update it. In a way, it's almost like a bug-tracking system. Tickets get made. Tickets get worked on. Tickets get resolved.

Now combine that 10K problem with a large rollout, lots of administrative BS, and $2 Billion? It's wonder the damn thing works at all. A group of hackers could cobble together something over a week with better uptime and more reliability than I'm inferring from this article.

The technical complexity of the problem has nothing at all to do with the political and legal maneuvering required to get and execute a large government contract.
The problem with bacteriophages is that they require identifying the specific infection, and then identifying a bacteriophage that is suitable for just that infection.

In comparison, part of the reason we're in this situation in the first place is because doctors can't even be bothered to figure out which antibiotic is suitable, or whether or not you actually have a bacteria infection, but often just prescribes first-line antibiotics and tells you to come back if you're still ill afterwards. That means 5-10 minutes per patient many places.

If we were to try to switch to bacteriophages, on the other hand, it'd mean blood tests and lab work to identify the specific infection and strain for every patient, with resulting massive cost increases.

In it's current state, it's a last way out, but it's far away from being a viable large scale replacement for antibiotics.
This is generally not true. What it generally boils down to with government contracts is a really sweet dog and pony show from the RFP process. Generally people lack the critical thinking skills necessary to determine if a company can really fill their needs. They don't know the difference between a COTS system and one built from the ground up. They don't know the difference between a hosted solution and one running on their own servers.

I would say very rarely does it come down to simply being the lowest bidder or nepotism.
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As someone who has never done any development in Ruby. I loved the idea and wanted to use. However what makes it not accessible is that you give no instruction initially on the structure of Ruby syntax. This means that I would need to follow another book or tutorial. Please consider drip feeding the player a syntax cheat sheet that will help with each level .
I'm a fan of distributed separately-evolving defenses, and identical ImmuneBoost(TM) given to everyone, that has the same effects in everyone, could I suppose create susceptibility to some HIV-style pathogen that triggers and/or hijacks the specific boosted aspects of the immune system. HIV is very careful (i.e. has evolved) to stay dormant for a long time... it probably didn't start out that way, and suffered as a result. Any sort of pathogen that targets the immune system has to be similarly careful; otherwise it suffers the same fate of all extremely lethal pathogens: killing the host population faster than it can spread.

Another promising research avenue is bacteriophages. I don't know why it's being pursued more in the former Soviet Union than it is in the West. I suppose even with targeted bacteriophages there's some risk that they could mutate and start targeting beneficial bacteria, which would be a problem.

A cute CS-inspired theoretical approach would be to throw variable layers at the problem. With genetic engineering, create bacteria that function as a supplemental immune system, but in a very narrow way; the bacteria would, possibly in collaboration with the host immune system, generate specific bacteriophages for any pathogenic bacteria they come into contact with. Obviously it wouldn't work against pathogenic viruses, but other than the (perhaps impossible) difficulty of having a cell able to generate novel bacteriophages, it doesn't seem so outlandish. If we get to the point where we can write code for a wide variety of biological activity and get it translated into DNA, then such a bacteriophage-generating bacterium might be possible.

I realize there are pathologies imaginable with any possible solution. The question is how likely is it that natural or engineered pathogens will target whatever new targets are available. Bacteriophage-generating bacteria could be hijacked by viruses, mutated by gene transfer with harmful bacteria to do bad things, or even give their bacteriophage-generating properties to pathological bacteria which might then gain mutations to generate human-targeting viruses... wouldn't that be fun.
Also the chrome dev tools has an "Audits" tab which will reveal unused CSS rules. It's not perfect, but it gives you a good idea.
This seems to have been the plan all along, and it's working brilliantly. As Greenwald said in the recent Majority Report interview [1] we are still "near the beginning of the revelations," so I think we're going to continue catching high officials in the middle of lies.

[1] http://majority.fm/2013/07/25/725-glenn-greenwald-the-impact...
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"This does not have to be a very complicated system at all. It's basically a real-time workflow system. Information comes in, is assigned a type and other data, and depending on the values is routed to various other people, which also tag and update it. "

So basically SharePoint?
"Prism is an attack on American citizens" -Chomsky
Hint for all new language projects going forward: show your Hello World on the front page. A picture is worth a thousand words.
Right. On the PC I started off with STSC. I had a brief exposure to APL on mainframes but the PC version was far more capable and useful. I liked some of the direction taken by IBM with APL2 (nested arrays and other primitives) while keeping to the concept of notation being just as powerful as abstraction.

Also, our 10K LOC workspaces is potentially equivalent to hundreds of thousands of lines of code in something like C. Another way to put it is that a single programmer can do the job of five or ten programmers in another language. And do it faster.
Costing too much as in companies folding as a result of this alleged increase in labor cost.
Are robots with analog AI the future?
>There are years of ...

Yes, First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Sorry, I know it's trite, but there's some truth there. Being ignored for years is not necessarily a reason not to do something. In some cases it's the very best reason to do it.

[EDIT] - would those people down-voting please explain why?
Video of the interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMvFj7KeGs8
Nope, the domain is always visible on HTTPS, due to SNI. They can just block it.
I've had nothing but good experience with the definitley typed library

https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
Python wasn't cryptic when I first encountered it. There are many things wrong with python, but using ordinary words for operators ("or", "in") was one thing it got very very right, and I wish there was a more functional/typed language that took the same approach.
> Well first he has certainly not taken safety into mind when doing this project.

I'm sure he took the safety precautions he though were worth it. It might not be worthwhile for him to use an additional 20% of his time/money/whatever for the slightly reduced risk.
> While the language is wonderful I would not use it for production systems today. It is my opinion that the language came to be too early and, as a result, has not seen innovation for decades.

What APL need that only more modern languages have?
X-ray your brain by just typing your name
I don't see how you could develop such a system without partnership from some government. How would you test it?
> Over the past several days, commentators have burst forth with a cacophony of competing ideas for your revival. The following list contains some potentially promising options for you to consider:
It sounds like CoffeeScript violates the principle of least surprise [1] for you (and me too.) On the other hand, when I use a language like C# (whose author is also behind TypeScript) I often find myself thinking "it should work this way" and then finding out is does work that way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...
Well, not that I endorse fictionwise or whatever that service is, but if you want that content you can likely just proxy your traffic into the usa with a VPN or similar.
I opened the link and didn't pay attention to the URL. Saw the API, the page design and what it does and thought to myself, "This must be TJ's work".
The answer is obviously Europe, not only could be under surveillance of their own country, but are for sure under US surveillance too, like the rest of the world.

So who spies more? US, that targets the entire internet population, not just their own citizens. Also, is not just spying what does, planting backdoors for future action is something not very discussed.
Alt+. does the same and (at least in Zsh) allows you to cycle backwards.
When I was freelancing, I did some government work. I was flabbergasted by the slow pace at which things moved, and that I had to create accounts in 3 separate systems to submit and get paid for even very basic invoices.

Government is a place that is ripe for disruption, but the walls around it are so high, I don't know how to really breach them. There is a huge machine in place of contractors and lobbyists which essentially maintain a strict control over all IT contracts that come out of the public sector. Massive corporate entities with an entrenched web of influencers at every level of government, ensuring that only a select few even have an opportunity to realistically compete for the jobs. The amount of overspending that could be eliminated with the disruption of those entities probably represents a significant portion of local, state, and national budgets, not to mention the likely better solutions that could be presented by folks more accustomed to working efficiently.

I'm not necessarily saying the 20 somethings who were going to make "Snapchat for dogs" could do a better job as government contractors. But certainly someone who designed infrastructure for Twitter might have some interesting perspective on how to manage 911 traffic.
The real problem is that all oranges are clones - genetically identical. That means anything that can overcome one orange tree can overcome them all. Shuffling genes around will just delay the next killer. It will be interesting to see if they can come up with a way to cause sexual reproduction to happen again. The resulting genetic diversity will make oranges less of a target.

Somewhat related is how they and much other modern agriculture is done - huge fields of exactly the same species only - a monoculture. This too makes it easy for invaders. The fix of multiple species being grown together is often shown to work, but makes the farming and harvesting considerably more complicated and expensive.

Recommended reading is Michael Pollan whose books and articles about food are great http://michaelpollan.com/articles/
Because they have ties with NSA.
Your post adds far less value. Please leave the snark at home.
I second this.

UPDATE: The gif here seems to be an animation of this comic but I don't know how updated it is or if it's updated with the newest frames of the comic automatically: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1190:_Time and this one: http://richardwestenra.com/xkcds-time-animated-time-lapse/
> How _dumb_ must one be to continue to trust these agencies

Taking a deep breath for a moment, if you look at TFA it contains two contradicting allegations, from sources that appear to me to be roughly similarly credible.

On what evidentiary basis have you decided one source is more reliable than the other? And why are the people who believe the other source "lobotomized"?

I am not really sure what is going on here, but I do not feel that this article alone presents a sufficient basis for a reasonable person to form an opinion.
The Federal Reserve is owned by private interests with aspects of a public utility. It's the worst of public and private mixed in one package.

As Justice Brandeis said, it's a private corporation in which the government has an interest.

The Fed of SF has an interesting summary:

> "Is the Federal Reserve a privately owned corporation?"

> Yes and no.

http://www.frbsf.org/education/publications/doctor-econ/2003...
It is a good course.

However, you will learn a whole other approach of how to break all things crypto from the Matasano course.
And this is why he has done this and you haven't :-p

Though seriously, when was HN ever about health and safety?
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>Sklansky is a pariah because of every book he's written other than Theory of Poker

I was thinking specifically of his personal life and how it bled into the strategy forums. For example the whole Brandi debacle, and before that the Sue revelations (remember the pictures with the little girl and the birds?). Many people who read that stuff were so creeped out by it that they discounted Sklansky's strategy talents entirely. So forum people -- who were a sizeable portion, probably a majority, of strategy-conscious online players at the time -- became unlikely to find out that Sklansky wrote at length about 'ranges', creating a gap for someone like Galfond to fill.
Are you coming from java? That's my background (at least one of them), and felt that way too. Interface === API contract == safe.

But that really isn't the only way to do things. Read up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
And if they have that, imagine what the more clever sysadmins can work they way into without proper authorization...
"The only way to apologize is to list a step you've actually taken to actually prevent it happening again."

Sometimes you need to issue an apology before you have time to take any concrete action. In fact, in crisis management, time till expected response is often more critical than noodling on precisely what must be done. You're in a triage situation, and the first thing you need to do is stop the bleeding.

This is why "promises" get made, because they're the first step in figuring out a genuine series of restitutive actions. Often the first thing people want to hear -- and need to hear -- is a simple acceptance of responsibility. The acceptance should be followed by a legitimate demonstration of understanding: of the damages caused, of the seriousness of the issue, etc. This is followed by a pledge to investigate, or to take serious actions.

Now here's the important part (to your point): 9 out of 10 apologies just leave it at that. There's no follow-through or followup. This is why people have been desensitized to the standard-issue apology as detailed in this article. They're used to seeing boilerplate and empty promises, but the devil is in the details. Listing a concrete action taken is a great way to go, but sometimes you don't have time to take such action (or fully consider the ramifications) before the apology needs to be issued.

In summary: 1) take serious stock of the issue ASAP, 2) state sincere apology demonstrating accountability for the fuckup and responsibility for the fix, 3) maintain communication as fixes are implemented, and detail them.
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This is weird:

"In Clay, all arguments are passed by reference."

Looks like a nest of bugs waiting to grow as new users try out the language.
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You have just read a perfect description what this program needs, from there it's just attributes ..
In most political philosophies, one of the main purposes of government is to tackle collective action/free rider problems.
You're forced to subsidize everyone's education because although it's rational to subsidize it up to a point, if you can continue to accrue the benefits without paying, then why do so?

So everyone benefits from better education, but after a certain point any individual is better off not paying into it, which breaks the system if you lack consequences.

This is even more of an issue for healthcare than education, since people have wildly differing costs, and the mix of things you can control (healthy living) and things you can't (genetics) make it clash with lots of Americans' underlying political ideals.

In stark economic theory, health care would be very simple if we just let people who couldn't afford it die, because then nobody would bear the costs of catastrophic care. We as a society (thankfully!) don't do that, so we end up paying for it anyway when a poor person goes into the ER. Given the baseline that you don't let people die who can be saved, it's a short jump to a collective action problem, especially given the wildly varying income inequality and the fact that health care is demand inelastic and price insensitive (you'll pay any amount of money to not die, and for the foreseeable future people will always get sick/injured). I'd argue that it's better to internalize those costs - Insured people are cheaper overall, so everyone gets insurance and it gets subsidized by everyone, with transparent-ish rates, than externalize them (the hospital has to cover the un-negotiated costs of a poor cancer patient, so tylenol is now $17/pill)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem
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Twitter can handle north of 4k tweets per second on virtually entirely open source software and these morons can't record phone calls. If this is not a glaring example of government mismanagement and waste I don't know what is. Where are the criminal indictments?
It's kind of fascinating, to me, that internal combustion engines won the car war for so long. Electric motors are so much simpler to build, and so much more efficient from an energy usage perspective. I understand why electric lost out (energy storage, range of vehicle), but I think it could have gone a different way had there been just a couple of nudges in the electric direction at the right time. And, what a different world we'd live in, if those nudges had happened...
The technical complexity of the problem has nothing at all to do with the political and legal maneuvering required to get and execute a large government contract.

Or a large contract with any organization, as far as I can tell. In universities, the whole education-ware thing is a mess, with huge piles of contractor dollars going to junk like Blackboard, who manage to sell things to high-level administrators. By far the best education-ware software I've used is stuff that was developed for almost nothing by comparison: 1) a course-specific tool a student made as a senior project; and 2) a wiki. In industry, I have some third-hand knowledge of a large procurement project at a petrochemical company that spent somewhere in the 9 or 10 figures on document digitization and didn't deliver any document digitization.
sorry, working with some sleep deprivation here.

substitute "frequencies" for "pitches" in this sentence:

The good news is that with Overtone (the Clojure interface to SuperCollider) you can specify individual pitches rather than MIDI note numbers.

since you have access to the actual frequencies, you can build any arbitrary abstraction on top, including any tuning system known to humanity. (and since it's Clojure that abstraction can be unusually concise.)
> it's not an evacuated tunnel

Really? I thought it was already established that the Hyperloop is a vactrain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain). Using small cars (say, six passengers) accomplishes the "leaves when you arrive" and putting solar panels on top of the tunnel accomplishes the storing energy part. I wonder what the alternative would be and what its advantages over a vactrain would be.
I don't have a Nook anyway.

And you cannot buy from outside the US even with a proxy (you need proof that you have a house, or a bank account, or something like that in the US).
Hate my job funny - wish I could do that...
+1 for using Twisted
a bit here http://ria.ru/spravka/20130725/951995567.html

more here http://iseg.yandex.ru/

(use google translate or http://translate.yandex.ru/ )

It's not too late because "time of death" was just yesterday after several days coma.