skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They would actually have a consciousness instead of scandal after scandal because people would not just accept the system blindly

Well let's not get too high on the general populations' ability for independent moral authority. We know the results of the Milgram experiments. And we also know about the massacres of Vietnam, caused by units of mostly drafted soldiers. The ability to break from authority is not as strong as we like to think. And I include myself in that group as well, I know my primate psychology.
You pair them randomly so as two co-conspirators can't arrange to work together. You make sure the ones who are paired don't trust each other. You tell them that they are expected to report any suspicious behavior -- like someone mentioning the constitution -- and that they will be tested. You do test them. They get paired with an incognito auditor whose job is to offhandedly mention that what they're doing is violating someone's rights. If they don't report him, they're disciplined.

Of course, all these things also make it hard to convince them that they're the good guys.
I have 2 remarks :
1) I'm pretty sure either they are lying or they are going "blind", because an IT infrastructure project this big always fail on the first trial.
2) They are just borrowing time, with such a complex system to manage, the "computer" will get smarter and smarter. When it integrates Plato, the Snowden case will just be a footnote, the computer will directly kill the agency director for being so far from moral values.
Blind acceptance leads to reliability, which is a core feature of a military force.
Regular people do not give a fuck about DRM. They just want to watch good content. As long as the DRM is non-obtrusive it does not matter. Why is it important to have DRM free content?
Wack job ideological frenzy: the cultural revolution

Increase population growth: One of Mao's slogans was "The more people we are, the stronger we are". Some graphs here: http://www.slideshare.net/isc/china-population-policies
It's still silly season, then. Am I right in thinking they basically topped and tailed a bloke's blog post?
Boffins follow TOR breadcrumbs to identify users
I think you would be well served by actually reading the New Yorker article that I linked to instead of making up your own scenarios that are completely unrelated.
This passage :
"As the conflict has gone on, more and more foreign powers have supplied their side of choice with aid, both tacit and direct. Whether it be Hizbollah joining the side of the Syrian regime via Lebanon, Russia, China, North Korea and Iran delivering the regime military, political and financial support"

is complete BS. Syria is an historical ally of Iran. It dates way before the protests, and the proof of that is in its control over Lebanon via the Hezbollah (which has been financed by Iran for more than 20 years).

If you want to understand arabs war in general, look at who's Shia and who is Sunni (and from time to time, when sunnis and shias don't fight each other, look at who is a jew).

Now for a quick sum up on the situation : Iran is trying to become a nuclear power. It's a shia country. Sunni don't want that (mainly saudi arabia and qatar). Syria is ruled by shias but the population is mostly sunni, so the ruling party is allied with Iran.
Rebels are sunnis and mostly financed by saudi arabia and qatar.

Until there was chemical weapons involved, most occidental countries were quite happy to see iran fight saudi arabia using a proxy war in Syria. They sell weapons (Russia sells to Syria, US sells to Saudi Arabia), and enjoy seeing radical islamists and dictatorial regime kill each other instead of joining forces against Israel or bomb european cities.

But since Mr Obama said there was a "red line" and now that that "red line" has been crossed, US is forced to take side.

On a sidenote, the US has helped islamists gain power recently in Egypt, against dictatorial regimes, hoping for a middle term transition to democracy (a bit like what is hoped for Turkey), but that failed very recently with egyptians wanting islamist party out. So the whole US strategy in the middle east right now is a bit of a mess anyway.
I'm just imagining the NSA sending an NSL to Amazon to get engineers to do their magic...
You don't have to use the same function to solve every problem.
Surespot app - free and open source encryption for everyone
Are you saying some people are too stupid to do any job except the job they happen to be doing right now? It sounds to me a) pretty condescending and b) plain wrong just because there's a lot of jobs not requiring particularly high qualifications or a lot of training.

>>> only marginally capable of employment as it is.

This of course is a damning statement about our government-run education system (which I have no illusions about - in best-of-breed big cities it now produces people that finish the school not being able to read their own diploma) but I still think even for those there's plenty of jobs if you bother to look. I'm paying someone to cut my lawn, for example. And the federal government pays someone to deliver my mail. Both don't really need a doctorate to do.
So detector tests are basically "security by obscurity"?
I still think Netflix is sapping some of the fun and vitality out of their original series by putting all the episodes up at once. Is binge-watching great? Of course it is! A huge library of great shows to binge-watch is one of the Netflix's biggest selling points.

But getting it all at once is like peeking at your Christmas presents early: you think you want it, but it spoils some of the fun, the eventy-ness of it, and the social context created by a shared timeline (the so-called "water-cooler effect").

Anyone who doesn't want that experience can still wait until the whole thing is out, probably just a few months, at which point it will still be available in the binge library, presumably forever. (I know some who prefer not to start a new series at all until the entire thing is finished, which is also okay.)
> I do not claim to know what is true and what isn't, but I do know that I can't even read or understand the language of the majority in Syria. I have no insight into sunnis and shiites.

If the above is true, then:

> it's just very likely to be very poorly researched.

Is just a strong assumption with no factual basis.

I just watched the documentary linked in the post and found it fascinating ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E_oOuqsuQs ). I agree with you that it is a westerners introduction to the conflict but that does not necessarily mean it is untruthworthy, incorrect, or poorly researched. It simply means it is seen through the eyes of a westerner.

Think of it as the same photo shot by two accomplished photographers, one 5ft tall, another 7ft tall. Neither is fabricating anything, just looking at the same thing from a slightly different point of view. Just because the 7ft tall photographer is not a native like the 5ft tall photographer, does not mean the photo is unreliable.
Speak for yourself. I'd much rather pay $7.99 a month for a subscription that provides me streaming access to everything rather than $20-$30 buying new music every month.
That story can't possibly be true -- he would have only had access to metadata, and I've been told many times that metadata surveillance is completely harmless.
Storing documents in git a code repo can be difficult. Isn't that just storing documents in plaintext? I haven't really used git so I'm not sure...

I've been using confluence as a wiki and it works ok. My biggest issue with it is that it cannot be access it offline - like evernote.

I guess what I'm looking for is an offline wiki that has good syntax highlighting.
> This is ugly and annoying but it's better than getting magic unexpected gotos sprinkled throughout your code at unpredictable places.

The proper analogy would be not GOTO, but COMEFROM, no? A catch block is basically a COMEFROM. :)
Beside not being written in ruby, how is this different than keydown?
Pakistan RTI draft promises to hold defence department accountable
An impressive application of the C preprocessor is the Boost.Preprocessor library [1]. It basically implements a primitive (and bounded) version of Lisp inside the preprocessor.

I used it once to write DSLs to define data structures, where a few lines of code were expanded to hundreds of lines of templates, (de)serialization code, etc...

[1] http://www.boostpro.com/mplbook/preprocessor.html
> Before the change, "what we've done is we've put people in the loop of transferring data, securing networks and doing things that machines are probably better at doing," Alexander said.

Proving once again that the NSA has absolutely no fucking idea what it's doing at the absolute highest levels.
No I didn't. But I must admit I didn't expect any depth of analysis from a socialist - if a socialist were capable of depth of analysis, he'd stop being a socialist. Socialism if a very natural feel-good idea, but it completely disintegrates as soon as one considers how it is actually supposed to work. That's why the only way it can exist is to be a parasite on capitalist systems in some rich country. Given to its own devices, socialism produces North Korea.
Thank you for the explanations! I learned about Hilbert curves in part from your website before constructing a "color clock" some time ago:

http://justinpombrio.net/show/color-clock.html
Makes me wonder if the NSA will routinely use entrapment as a technique to catch would-be conspirators. Sounds like the best environment to serve ones country…
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I really need to write a much longer essay to develop my argument here. I was trying to express its broad outlines very succinctly. That tends to work only with a sympathetic audience.

My reference to drug patents was intended as an example of a typical case, not an exhaustive exposition of how all such inventions are made.

> It looks like you want patents to have an additional burden of proof of non-obviousness.

Actually I want to shift the burden of proof. Instead of the PTO or a alleged infringer having to prove that a patent is obvious, I want the burden to be on the applicant to prove that it is nonobvious. I also want objective evidence to be required so the question isn't just a judgment call.

The suggestion that publication could serve as prima facie evidence of nonobviousness was also an example. (For more examples, look up "Graham factors".) That said, I don't accept your criticism. I think courts can tell the difference between well-established, prestigious journals and fly-by-night operations.

Do you have a counterproposal? What do you think should be done, if anything?
Atleast your brain is absorbing knowledge through HN vs facebook, instagram, snapchat, etc. where it adds little to no value
TANRI VE BEN - hagmwp
ghsswa-ghwstb. .08.
This summer I was talking to my wife's cousin, he wanted to be a programmer but his English was poor and he struggled. That was a long time ago, now he is trying to learn English again and is also learning Java.
Sorry, you are confusing "perverse incentive" (as in the incentive itself is perverted) and "incentives to things that are perverse" (as in having incentives to do things that are socially considered to be perverse).

It is a simple innocent ignorance of the term. Look up what perverse incentive means and you'll understand.
brilliant: bright and radiant.
Not a part of the dark side.
> Multiple values make the most sense, but those are ad-hoc product types, so you're eschewing the type system in favor of informal invariants.

Maybe the right approach would be to enrich the type system so that it can express those invariants.
Can you give a citation for the MapReduce and Spanner predecessors?

I've seen similar papers that predate MapReduce (I'm curious if you will find the ones I have). But I've also noticed that most people who think MapReduce is old hat have never used it and/or misunderstand what it actually is.

And if it was already so well known, there wouldn't be hundreds of CS researchers continuing to publish both theoretical and systems of papers about it.

The MapReduce paper has 7992 citations so far, and the number continues to increase every year! http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl...

What paper should they be citing instead? It's hard to believe that 7995 sets of authors would ignore prior research, especially since some of those authors are a decade or two older than the MapReduce authors.
You're only thinking about syntax. Look deeper.
One novelty restaurant != all-around automation. Computers are unbelievably, mind-bogglingly stupid, compared to pretty much any human capable of putting his pants on without outside help. So I wouldn't count on robots replacing humans in actual customer service - on the contrary, I expect companies that do not provide proper human interface start losing customers to those who do.

>>> Except of course, a very small minority that is interested specifically in the human interaction.

It's not like pubs/bars are universally known as places where people go to socialize... No, of course nobody actually needs any human contact, everybody is a hikikomori nowdays.
That's not basic mathematics, that's biased mathematics.

Look at this dude, he's not exactly the kind of guy to be making panties drip:

http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-thumb-2823937-200-GRqXw590pc...
Will we see a Silicon Boneyard by 2020?
The US has outlawed encryption in the past, and tools they once touted as promoting democratic freedom in oppressive regimes are suddenly seen as evil, so you'd probably need to remove all signs of TrueCrypt on your laptop as well.
This post is seriously flawed as it completely forgot to mention the previous chemical attack. It happened a few months ago and there was a huge uproar by western states, specially US. But the media suspiciously quieted down as soon as many organisation including UN and French investigations proved that the rebels were behind the attack. No actions were taken then by any countries.

And now this article claiming to provide info on the conflict has not a single mention about it. I call BS!!
Hammer dropped on a toe.

Instead of investigating process and even validity of hammer use, promptly removing all toes.
"We'll just build God"
"But who's going to build the God-Builder?"

IT'S TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN
And who said the 'NoOps' fad was over? :)
At LiveLoop we've gone insanely deep into COM

I can say this too and we do stuff not even Microsoft thought was possible.

while the interface is powerful there are mysteries at every level.

The interfaces are indeed powerful (not to leave out annoyingly inconsistent). That said, there are only mysteries when you go oh so far. If play by a few safe rules, you should be mostly safe unless you have very long lived processes which starts mixing COM code with other code digging beneath the API for things which isn't otherwise possible.

It can be argued that both the best and the worst part of the .NET Framework is how it makes COM interop seem so utterly seamless. It's bound to land you in a trap sooner or later.
Just as interesting are some of the visualisations, the author (of this ipnb) has done for some of the media houses in India. Done using powerpoint, but for a print publication, as good as it could be.

(which are linked within this ipynb.)
Sure, I don't buy music just because it's new. I buy only what I need, and I surely don't need "everything".
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You could argue that none of the listed utilities are 'needs' if we're okay with the entire populace living in the equivalent of the dark ages, and only having a ruling noble class in the US that are the people who were rich enough to afford to keep their utilities and thus maintain access to the modern economy, while people on basic income only get 'necessities'. It would certainly solve our labor problems without needing us to fix immigration!

We'd save a lot of tax dollars if we denied them money for gasoline to drive a car to the hospital, money for natural gas/wood to run a heater in the winter, and money for funeral services when they finally die from neglect!

It's simply not possible to argue at this point that urban living is a 'luxury'. Non-urban living is not a realistic option for a large portion of the US population. If you dislike this reality, that is fine - I'd certainly be in favor of efforts to change it - but you can't just willfully disregard it and pretend that people who live in urban areas are greedy or spoiled or something. Living in rural areas in the modern United States comes with dozens of hidden costs, some in the form of actual money spent and others in the form of lost opportunities, impaired health, etc.
Without a doubt, SA is the go to resource
"Buys you time" for what? For fixing it? Why not do it right in the first place?

The danger in this line of thought is that security breaches only have to happen once for real damage to ensue. For software companies, when it happens, I always expect to see a clear explanation for why it did happen and in case of stupid architectural problems, I tend to avoid that company in the future.

Of course there's a difference between software and real world undercover operations performed by government agencies. Placing an agent undercover is both a gamble and a race against the clock. The government knows the risks involved, the agent knows the risks involved, human casualties can happen but that's part of the contract so to speak. Nobody willingly enters such operations without knowing the risks involved.

But if you're gambling with customer's data, be prepared to explain that to the angry customers when the shit hits the fan.
Hey cool, thanks for helping me along! Q42 sound very cool indeed (and not at all too far), so I'll be checking them out.
With a basic guarantee many people who are marginally employed would stop working.

Why do the rich work?

a person living in poverty is probably better off than all the but the richest people at any time in human history

I'd imagine that hunger feels much the same now as it did a thousand years ago.
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None of the systems listed are very complex. One or two lines, or a loop of track, with very few level-grade crossings. Most of the ones in the US are just airport shuttles. Sure, that's easy to do.

I wouldn't move the subway systems in New York City to UTO operation, though. Not a chance.
I agree entirely but that's what makes Netflix's choice all the more interesting. They have the opportunity to serve the long tail but thus far they haven't (with their original programming at least). Instead they've spent 100 million on 1 show on the belief that it would pay off big - in both attracting new customers and retaining existing.
For Mac users, setting an Open Firmware/EFI password[1] will prevent this exploit from working. On newer models, OF/EFI passwords can no longer be reset by swapping out RAM modules[2], though Apple and authorized service providers apparently have a tool to reset them[3].

Of course, if the machine had to be rebooted or turned off as part of the OF/EFI password reset, the sought-after encryption keys would be lost anyway (barring a cold boot attack[4]).

[1] http://www.macinstruct.com/node/507

[2] http://tinyapps.org/blog/mac/200605110700_open_firmware_pass...

[3] http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3554?viewlocale=en_US&locale=e...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

EDIT: The Inception page links to a method for disabling firewire DMA without a firmware password: http://ilostmynotes.blogspot.com/2012/01/os-x-open-firmware-...
Syntax is undoubtedly important, but primarily as a means of elegantly expressing the unique semantics of a language. The visible ugliness is the language being explicit about low-level details.

So what else? Rust isn’t a huge innovation in terms of language features, but it does take advantage of relatively recent advances in language design (e.g. typeclasses) and has an excellent combination of defaults. The important ones are memory safety, an ownership model (think unique_ptr/shared_ptr), immutability, and isolated lightweight threads.
Anyone who doesn't want that experience can still wait until the whole thing is out, probably just a few months, at which point it will still be available in the binge library, presumably forever. (I know some who prefer not to start a new series at all until the entire thing is finished, which is also okay.)

Likewise, I could say that anyone who doesn't want to watch them all at once doesn't have to. You can choose to watch only 1 episode a week.
This is a wrong submission... How to delete it?
Even if the US's population was half its current total I think you'd be hard-pressed to actually have everyone support themselves on independent farms in the countryside.

Farming is HARD WORK, the expenses are numerous and unpredictable, and profit margins are slim. If you want to understand this more you should read up on the various farm subsidies and other programs currently in effect in the US, and maybe talk to some people who've lived in rural areas or actually operated farms.
What's wrong with national security? At least as an Vietnamese I don't want Arab Spring comes to our country.
Holy moly, you could not pick a worse control comparison than a city-state financial center when trying to discuss economics of large diverse countries.
The Le Monde article makes a strong case that there have been previous chemical attacks by the Syrian Goverment.

http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2013/05/27/chemi...

Can you share a link substantiating that French investigations proved rebels were behind some of the chemical attacks?
Fundamental UI issues are so irritating.

For example, when I click on a subscription, it STILL shows either videos ive already watched or that users recommended viewing. Is it not bleedingly obvious that this should always have their 'latest upload' as the first thing for you to click on?
That is very easy to answer: Other than churches and castles, pretty much all buildings up to the 17th century were made of wood, and did not survive. Only a few buildings predate 1800.
Yes, but can you advance or are you hamstrung by living hand-to-mouth?

If you felt you had to get an advanced degree to get a better job, is that an option or would you be economically devastated by working fewer hours to fit schoolwork in?

If you had to move to a different city, is that an option for you? Would you be homeless when you got there?

If you got seriously ill, is that it for you? Could you recover economically?

In short: Relative poverty the way I used the term involves running as fast as you can just to stay in the same place. Advancement is impossible. Any major disaster sinks you.
Do people actually care about the EU cookie directive? I haven't seen many sites obeying to it.