skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
all the time is strong.

I find them useful when conjoining function A with produces a sequence of results and function B which consumes the sequence†. Without coroutines you either have to turn one of the functions inside out to use it as a callback or break into threads and pass data between them.

With coroutines you can leave the functions in a more readable form and keep your cache footprint small by consuming the result as soon as it is produced.

␄

† I don't mean that I call A or B for each element of the sequence. A and B may have internal state and fill produce or consume the whole sequence in a single call. They could be organized to have a create function, a context structure, a "do one" call, and a destroy function… but that is a lot of noise and a lot of places for someone to make a mistake using them. A coroutine is cleaner.
This is all very unclear to me. There's quite a bit indignation here which may be clouding people's rational assessment of the situation.

The Guardian has clear motive to play up any interaction like this with the government. That doesn't mean they would, but I'm not going to suspend critical assessment of the situation just because it plays to be beliefs.

The ratio of verified information to editorializing rants is very low here, at the moment.
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Yeah, I realized my mistake, but Tor is not very useful against the NSA since it doesn't protect against a global passive adversary.
Maybe you should not so easily judge an operation you know nothing about. I will assume until proven otherwise by sufficient insight into the groklaw project that pj is an honest agent who sincerely feels that what groklaw does cannot be done with the nsa snooping in place.
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MSRP*1 as low as $19,185

Price after federal tax credit. Net price shown includes the full $7,500 tax
credit*1. $26,685 MSRP* †,† without federal tax savings ranging from $0 up to
$7,500.

So, I can buy a Spark for only $20K and let the rest of America pay the other $7,500 for me. Sweet. I love an overbearing government!
This post highlights some of the reasons why I don't like Google+, and dislike it even more than facebook.

> Posts are crawled and indexed almost immediately

I used to use RSS feeds for quick indexing. Well, I guess we all know how that turned out when G wanted more users for G+.

> Add Google authorship information to your online content

The technique for this really disgusted me the first time I read about it. The easy method is basically linkbaiting to G+, not to mention that no other provider of authorship info is supported. Why do we have microdata again?

> Make your content easy to share on Google+ with relevant social sharing buttons

Yes, no, thanks. More intel and links for G.

> Completely fill out your Google+ profile with relevant and engaging information

Yeah, because people should rather publish good content on G+ than their own sites.

> Make your posts public

Of course, you only get all the benefits if your stuff is public on G+ and generates more traffic for them.

All in all I have to say well done Google. Good for you anyway. And good for people who want to hire a social media.. err.. ninja. Not so good for people who want to publish their own content on their own sites or even other social sites.
Demo Day lolz
The reddit thread about this talk says the same. It seems it's describing many many of us.
Mayors Endorse the Sharing Economy
> why not? is not the core of "hacking" finding alternate ways to solve problems working out side the rules meta gaming if you will.

Politics is about establishing/modifying/eliminating rules that we all live by. Like the 4th amendment, to name something germane to an ongoing controversy. Going outside the rules often leads to bad things. That's why it's called "the rule of law".

> How is not propaganda and direct action not hacking the political system.

Because there's nothing particularly clever or unique or "hacky" about it. It's what groups like the NOW, NRA, EFF, Sierra Club, ACLU, etc.... etc.... do, and have been doing for years. It's a slog and involves lots of work, and money. That's how politics works when divisive issues are involved.
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I don't see any progress toward fixing this from within the system. Snowden and WikiLeaks are more analogous to an exiled resistance group than to people trying to work within the system. MLK stayed right here and got arrested and murdered.

Surveillance won't be a major political issue unless it tangibly affects a lot of people in a negative way. That's just not happening now. Most people don't care. But there are other things they do care about because they feel the effects.
But the sites aren't really _broken_. There will be a warning displayed to the user, but the user can always say, "give me the site anyway". And users do hate it when they hit a web site which trashes their machine with malware. So they might be in favor of more stringent blacklists as well.

It might be a bad assumption that users will demand a more liberal blacklist. That's certainly not how e-mail blacklists have worked out. Sometimes the people most in favor of the blacklists that hit all sorts of innocent mail senders are the users sick and tired of spam.
Trying to blackmail the NSA ? please let us know how it goes, it could be an interesting story.
I think you mean Yet Another Open Source E-mail Project.
Fast? IE6 was released in 2001 and people didn't start "dropping support" until 2008 or 2009.

Unencrypted email is like unencrypted telephone calls. Imagine how to get the world to switch to using encrypted handsets.
I notice that you avoided answering the direct question…
400 miles? My normal, gasoline-powered car needs the tank filled up about every 250-300 miles.
Actually, the link you've posted is much simpler than the parent post: no assembly voodo required and no longjump shenanigans. It's also much easier to debug under a debugger. I've successfully used this in production code. It effectively boils down to these 3 defines:

#define COR_BEGIN(stateVar) switch(stateVar) { case 0:;
#define COR_END(stateVar) }; stateVar = -1;
#define COR_RETURN(stateVar) do { stateVar=__LINE__; return; case __LINE__:;} while (0)

void dofunc(int* pstate)
{
COR_BEGIN(*pstate);

while (computation1)
COR_RETURN(*pstate);

while (computation2)
COR_RETURN(*pstate);

COR_END(*pstate);
}
But what are the alternatives?

1. True segregation where the rich go to a separate school all-together / have separate planes, etc.

2. Everyone wears the same lowest-common denominator clothes / travel in the same travel class?

Each of these alternatives is economically inefficient, and the poor suffer more as a result as their fares cease to be subsidised by the rich.

I'd rather fly $500 return to Tokyo, because some rich guy upfront is paying $4000 for a flat bed, than pay $2000 because some left-wing loon demands everyone has the same class of travel.
>1)Groklaw doesnt' depend on anonymous tips. The site could simply put up a huge disclosure statement on a web form that THE NSA might get what you say. Or not accept tips except via public comments but still operate.

That's what confuses me. The majority of Groklaw's content comes from PACER filings, which are public(at a cost). To my knowledge, they never posted anonymous rumors, and instead focused solely on the facts of the cases they cared about as presented on court. And honestly, if it's comments they are worried about... those are hardly private.
Just Falcon Wings. Calling them doors would be an understatement. :)
Admittedly my airline experience is not with US airlines, but space-available upgrades for our valued frequent fliers are very common in the rest of the world.
An Open Source Riak UI for us stuck on Windows 8
I believe that having self-selected teams results in the best results at hackathons -- at the expense of having a bi-modal distribution of results (i.e. the best teams do better, and the worst teams do worse). In general, considering the externalities involved in hackathons, I expect that most organizers will prefer to have the bi-modal distribution than one in which everyone produces equally mediocre results.

With regards to your other points -- they seem reasonable, but your post would be more useful to hackathon organizers if you instead focused on how to run a hackathon (i.e. what things they should do to keep participants and volunteers happy -- like having lots of food and/or clear expectations about BYOB).
You are oversimplifying it. REQ/REP is not the same as TCP, unlike TCP it works with multiple requesters and multiple repliers. Same with other patterns.

The main distinction between L4 and scalability layer is that L4 works between 2 nodes, scalability between arbitrary number of nodes.

There's the special case of UDP multicast, but the multicast itself feels more like a hack rather than a real L4 protocol.
FoundationDB 1.0
First, I don't see you really addressing my point, which is that this behaviour dates back a long time (Carnivore was public knowledge before Snowden even worked for the NSA), and it doesn't even take a very powerful entity to implement it. (Jeez, I regularly get customers sending me traces of their customers (metadata+voice contents) just for troubleshooting purposes.)

Advances in massively deployed array microphones aside, I don't find speaking in a park to be remotely similar to transmitting over a large public network. On the Internet, you are willing handing your data off to multiple third parties. You have little control over which third parties, or even which countries, your data flows through.

I'm not insulting anyone's intelligence. I'm simply questioning why anyone assumes they've got privacy other than "because it feels like it should". And, hey, that might be a good argument and something to get enshrined in law. (Although, I'd be surprised if the USG backs down at all, except perhaps to concede to some more oversight audits.)

Snowden's "hard evidence" is great because it gives bigger, solid ammunition to argue against mass surveillance. But it's not like anything has suddenly changed, nor should anyone's behaviour change (other than to use encryption when possible).

P.S. Your comment would be better without the sarcasm. I'm being honest and serious in my attempt at commenting here.
Nordic APIs
Am i the only one who finds that far too many pages look alike thanks to bootstrap and co?
Honestly I'm not sure who would win.

One estimate I found was that there 150 million iPhone 5's shipped in the first year, and each one was about 25 GFlops. If 1% of that CPU was spent encrypting & decrypting communications to and from the iPhones, that is about 37,500 TFlops, which is just over the Rmax listed for the top supercomputer, Tianhe-2. Some numbers for the cost of that supercomputer are around $100 million, but the estimated cost for the Xeon Phis alone could be as high as $250 million. Giving the defenders the advantage, let's round up to $1 billion.

So the NSA needs to spend $1 billion per year to counteract the top smartphone in the world. Their budget is estimated to be as high as $10 billion / year, so they could do it. But how much of the total pie are iPhone 5's? I think to be competitive we need to push the cost to the NSA up towards $30 or $100 billion per year. $1 billion is trivial, $10 billion Congress will swallow and move on. They still fund NASA to the tune of $16 billion, and no one in Congress even cares about NASA anymore. But $100 billion per year, then you're talking real money.

So what fraction of total personal computer sales are iPhone 5's? If they're 10%, we'll be hard-pressed to keep the NSA out of the game. If they're 1% of personal computer sales, I think we have a chance of keeping ahead of them.
I tried learn programming since I was 11. First I played around with graphical programming in Game Maker, Construct and RPG Maker. Later I tried out VBasic but quickly felt it was boring. After that I bought K&R and tried learn C, which was way too hard to program games above simple parsers and text adventure. After that I played around a little bit with Python and Scheme. It never got too interesting since I wasen't able to write any "real" programs. Later, when I was 15, I got invited to a private IRC network of cool and friendly programmers. One guy did a Haskell course and sent the slides from the lecture to me. I did some exercises with it and everything I didn't understood I looked up in LYAH and RWH. After I was able to complete all exercises, which by the way was very simple ones, I started reading Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours. It told me how more about the practical use of monads, I learned how to use external libraries (Parsec in this case), and basically how you design a program from scratch. After that I tried to implement macros for it but failed, I wrote a simple IRC bot that used my Scheme implementation to evaluate expressions, I wrote a simple blog powered by Scotty and Blaze-HTML. Now I'm contributing to a recently released game engine which utilizes FRP, written some really small games with it and have contributed a little bit of code.

What I think made Haskell stick was that it was fun and easy to start write "real" programs with. :-)
I don't know. That is kind of like asking what if you try to teach a 7 year old calculus? Should you teach them calculus with math? Or try to just explain it through word problems? It makes no sense.

Sure you can take short cuts by skipping discrete math and teaching the "act" of programming without the understanding. But in the end the seven year old isn't really learning programming then, is he/she?
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Just cause it doesn't target the entire world doesn't mean it's not terrorism. Terrorism can be local. That murder is very clearly meant to control and coerce people. The definition of terrorism.
> There's two things to consider regarding 9/11 conspiracies - is it true that they would want the benefits that fear of terrorism has lead to, and if so would they actually have killed people for that sake.

No, there's three things: (3) Did they actually kill the victims of the 9/11 attacks for that purpose; this differs from the second because it isn't just would they, in the abstract, be willing to have killed somebody, somewhere to do it, but did they actually do the particular acts that the conspiracy theory accuses them of doing.

> We're seeing more and more that the first part of that is true, i.e. proving the motive.

That they wanted the powers they were granted after 9/11 was evident before 9/11, since they were largely powers that had been overtly sought prior to 9/11 (some on "terrorism" or similar national security grounds, some to fight more regular crime -- notably the War on Drugs.) So evidence on that point is not really significant; its not the point that was in question.
A different perspective is that we have never been as free as we are today, proven by the fact that we now know exactly to what degree we are not free, a luxury which is historically unique.

Not saying that's the case, just that i think we have never had a truly free society ever anywhere.
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I spoke imprecisely... I mean as far as spending. People had to die to continue fighting in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan; we determined that the death toll wasn't worth it. To break crypto, we have to fund STEM research, buy hardware, and create good middle-class jobs. Good luck creating a public outcry over that.

We're not winning the war on drugs, but there is no indication of giving up on it at the federal level. Law enforcement spending is not slowing down.

I was thinking more of the USSR. There didn't seem to be any amount of money we weren't willing to spend. Lives, yes, but not money.
That's what happens with extraordinary rendition, not FISA warrants.
Of course, for personalized results, Google+ activity can have a huge impact on rankings. At times, it can trump any other factor. For personalized results. Important caveat, but then again, we're probably at the point where more people see personalized results than don't.
Not mentioned in the article, but since you asked:

Cognitive training outperforms crossword puzzles:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

Crossword puzzles aren't protective against cognitive decline:
http://portalsaudebrasil.com/artigospsb/idoso068.pdf [PDF link]
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The author acknowledged ITT that the site probably did serve malware. The right thing was done IMO. Wouldn't it be worse if the OP was blamed for infecting his users?

"Probably both sites were infected at some point. Again, I never saw the malware message myself but the guy that alerted us first copied the message he got and it was explicitly mentioning the demo site: “Content from demos.shapingrain.com, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your Mac with malware.”"
You sure do mention your wife a lot
Thanks Jagat, I have had a great experience as an Android developer and working hard to make a product that people like has been a fun thing to do. Getting emails every day from users that like the app, even though they usually ask for a feature or two, is a great motivator.
> Incorrect, he refused counsel.

If you aren't permitted counsel of your choice (and he wasn't) but only counsel selected by the police (which he was offered), then you are effectively denied counsel.
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It is not as though she was just some random school girl:

"In early 2009, at the age of 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls. The following summer, a New York Times documentary was filmed about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region, culminating in the Second Battle of Swat. Yousafzai rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by South African activist Desmond Tutu."

As sad as this shooting is, it is not a refutation of the claim that terrorists have political motivations.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't anything under .5 considered extremely weak correlation?
> Our expectations of privacy are valid in private contexts, like a home or business. Public contexts, like a busy shopping center or the internet, do not contain inherent guarantees of privacy. Even though one can normally assume that no one dangerous is listening in, it's a risk you always take when you engage in any conversation or behavior in a visible location.

Or even if you talk in your house with your door wide open. Does anyone else remember Star Trek VI?

But either way we also don't expect every conversation we make outside to be monitored as a matter of course. To the extent that NSA is doing this we are right to be very upset.

The flipside is that even before email there were few options for communications between third-parties that could not be intercepted at all (without a full warrant) by the U.S. government within the U.S. Probably USPS was it (though later telephones received that same protection). And there were about zero methods if you were talking international communications (maybe diplomatic pouch was safe, probably nothing else was). So in that regard modern comms are still an improvement.

But I do agree with you that things people need to have private, need to be encrypted, as there are more threats out there than just the NSA.
Yes, at university they thought us that this is what you'd refer to as a "weak correlation".
Groklaw's main work wasn't revealing how broken tech IP law was, it was revealing how stupid one company was for trying to manipulate the system. In the SCO vs. IBM case, I'd say that the system worked pretty well. Coverage of which didn't really include much (any?) help from confidential sources.
Recruiters bombarding you with crap jobs.

I wonder if there might be a market for a recruiting board that has a "Do not contact me about" feature...
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Then all the NSA knows is which mail server is talking to which mail server

Unless they have backdoor access to one of the mail servers themselves (e.g., apparently, gmail).

Even without that, knowing "which mail server is talking to which mail server" could be enough to get a good amount of information. This would be especially true if you're using a relatively small mail provider (like Lavabit) or especially so with your own dedicated mail server.
> My contention is that it should be possible to devise software which solves this problem: everyone secretly reveals what they would be willing to pay

Riiiight. And what on earth is going to convince the wealthy folks to type "$100" into the system instead of "$3"?

> How can you avoid people gaming the system? The price each parent pays could theoretically be kept confidential, but in reality would not remain so.

What does that even mean?
This, sadly, is the ultimate truth. We may have already lost this battle for one simple reason: the average person is too apathetic to care what their Government is doing to them.

Its not "By the people For the people" anymore. Its By those in power (who aren't elected, by the way) For those in power.
If i ever commission a biography, i'm coming to you to write it for me ;).
Has anyone tried running foundation db in production?
Practically speaking, Google isn't going to do anything besides blacklisting. Can you imagine the stories in the tech press if they sued someone for breaking an interview NDA?
My guess is that that hard part in PRISM is actually building it. You have to have tons of money and cooperation from big powerful companies and government because it's illegal(unless you're NSA).

The blueprints are probably the easy part.
Care to give an example? I am not aware of a single programme outside of the US that offers this.
And I personally hate flying Southwest and avoid it if at all possible. Not only have I on multiple occasions bought a cross country first class ticket from Delta for less than Southwest's Wanna Get Away fare, but I almost always find US Airways and Delta offer cheaper fares than them. Plus I don't have to deal with the frenzy rush of pick you own seat, I feel like it's a bunch of cattle being wrangled into a plane.
My two points were about "could it be true" not "is it true". If you include "Did they do it" then any other points are irrelevant after that.
Funny, I feel the opposite.

$100/trip for a subway ride? Preposterous, and the economic system is somehow broken that such an income disparity exists.

$10/trip? Eh, if I cut out the Starbucks latte, I could do that. But, I really prefer flavor coffee to sumptuous subway seating.

I guess I'm really a socialist at heart.
You said it yourself with 'history of violence' - for the most part, all the Christian religion(s) seem to have left it in the past. A few fringes have hung around, but that's probably to be expected.

I think it's more to do with Christianity being the majority religion in the west, where we have a cultural history of tolerating (even celebrating) differing opinions. Under a different set of circumstances, I could easily see Islam being more open and liberal (see how it used to be) and Christianity being more... like modern day Islam in many places? But that's not where we ended up.
If you read the article, he did mention that his wife wasn't very happy that the server was taking 20-30% of the app's revenue. Then later on in the article he mentioned that he took the server cost from an average of $10 a day to just the free tier.

Based on this information I deduced that the revenue hovers around ~$1,000 a month? Not sure if this rough calculation is accurate though.