skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks; in which case, SkyDrive is a backup.
Exactly. Most people's arguments are "you say that X is unethical for these reasons, and you therefore avoid X, but Y has similarities with X and you don't avoid Y - that makes you wrong to avoid X" which is plainly ridiculous. This shouldn't be about absolutes.
>pandering to powerful middle class votes.

All government policies on both sides for decades has been designed around the intentional, orderly destruction of that group. So basing a business model on a group the government is trying its best to destroy is not going to work out well.

>Something like 50 % of students are expected to attend college

More like 100%, if we're merely talking about expectations. A third or so graduate, and about a tenth or less have a job actually benefiting from the skills taught, aside from supply and demand credentialism.

Most likely future appears to be rather than emulating the rich and brilliant by going to school, thus the middle classes send their kids there to try and become rich and powerful, we as a culture will just find another "rich and powerful" thing for our non-rich and non-powerful to try to emulate. Perhaps evangelical religion, or ownership of smartphones, or living in a fashionable neighborhood (SV?) or some paid social media "friends" or something like that. I think it highly unlikely that shifting social trends merely result in fine tuning of a bubble. Think of womens high fashion clothing... that never varies in minor shifts of the exact tone of mauve, but dramatic changes in type, shape, color, and texture. Its very unlikely that a giant bubble/fad will pop with mere minor tinkering.
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The page loads jquery from google cdn, so at least google could inject js in the page and read the message before it gets encrypted.

I know, for a contact form this is very unlikely, but just from a security point of view, if I would write something like this, I would host js loaded by the page on my own server.
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We already know that we can't trust most major US companies. What compromised CAs mean is that we also can't even trust non-US companies due to our dependence on US CAs for TLS to actually be usable.
> If you're just iterating over a directory and checking some files

Unfortunately, I very frequently see this in shell scripts...

ls $SOME_PATH | awk...

I even once saw someone use ls to figure out if a certain file was a symlink by looking for "->"! That kind of stuff doesn't typically happen in other languages.
Presuming the private key for the messages is not on the server, then old messages will not be compromised.

A kind of perfect secrecy for messages.
Most programmers never heard of Fizzbuzz, the point of it is merely to screen out candidates who can't come up with their own solutions to problems.

A lot of so-called experts aren't capable of doing more than copy other people's solutions. Fizzbuzz offers a simple but new problem for candidates to solve.
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it adds not much. it does make it more complex to intercept because you need to serve diff js. il also means cleartext isnt on the server at all til compromised.

but yeah the design is bypassable. thus not really safe. clients should do it natively i guess.
I should say that I don't think college sports should exist in their current form at all. However, coaches making millions of dollars while players make nothing leaves a bad feeling in my stomach.

If college sports were not about making money, I would have no problem with student athletes not making money. But college sports are all about making money, and they are making it off students who have such a time commitment with their chosen sport that they cannot afford to major in something that will lead to a decent career afterwards. Sure, there are the stars who will go on to the NBA or NFL, but for the rest of the student athletes I'm not convinced that this is a great investment in their future.
"These anthropomorphic arguments tend to be the result of emotional immaturity, something you find in small children."

Oh, the irony in this sentence!

It's anthropomorphic to think that dairy cows would choose to bear their immense suffering for the sake of the perpetuation of their species (EDIT: because they're not aware of such a concept; survival instinct is all about the individual being pain-averse in an immediate sense), and it's immature to resort to name-calling in an argument.
I have used now a longer passphrase at work for my ldap login, and afer two days it didn't bothered my anymore with it's length.

(Passphrase was around the sime size as your first paragraph and was used for login, ssh, svn, git, email 82 and internal websites like bug trackers and wikis).
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Because ios isn't 90%+ of a single market is why. It only exists on apple devices.

It really isn't an apples to oranges comparison (no pun intended). It also comes up as a security reason, which it both is and isn't. You're skipping nuances of things here by equivocating a browser install in an os.
> Yes, the DB server needs a firewall

Does it?

My recently-built DB machine has 4 listening network sockets that are bound to non-local interfaces: tcp/22:sshd (so I get in), tcp/5432:postgresql (because it's DB server, huh), udp/123:ntpd (so clocks are in sync) and tcp/443:nginx (serves some static pages with performance data).

I don't see any place where firewalling's needed.
I am playing with an idea to rewrite Alpha Centaury.
College sports undeniably have their benefits, creating university pride and an identity that no philosophy or classics program will ever match.

Right there is the failure of the American experiment.
I'd prefer the other way round. JavaScript is better than most popular programming languages (including Python). It is not perfect, so I consent there might better languages out there.
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You can't simulate being broke. Actually being broke is only part of it. The larger part is not knowing when, if ever, it'll end, and therefore having to plan your life around being perennially skint.
What if JS is the best tool for the job?
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I guess you could call this another one of those "blowbacks" that US has been creating by being too aggressive with certain things or people.

When tons of documents start to become "classified", when they shouldn't be, this sort of thing is inevitable.
"it is about the time it takes for the sun to be in the same position from one day to another."

How else would you define a day?
As part of my research on estimations I've been working through Edward Merrow's book Industrial Megaprojects. It's based in part on a large database of megaprojects that his firm consulted on.

He considers Monte Carlo-based methods to at best pointless, at worst harmful to outcomes (p 324):

The average megaproject cost estimate when Monte Carlo simulation
was used overran by 21 percent, with a standard deviation of 26
percent and with a sharp right skew. When Monte Carlo simulation
was not used, teams were actually more sensitive to basic risks as
they set contingency.

... The use of Monte Carlo simulation has no relationship to success
of megaprojects or any of our other five figures of merit of projects:
cost growth, cost competitiveness, schedule slippage, schedule
competitiveness or production attainment.
What's extra over standard Markdown? I haven't seen the headers with IDs before, so that's probably new, but everything else there seems standard.
JavaScript is rather minimalist as well. It has some warts, but they are easy to avoid.
I'm not sure baseball can be held up as a model, given that the minor leagues are "minor" because they are under the boot of the MLB, due to the antitrust exemption [1]. Also, it's noteworthy that college baseball does exist and it goes deep into the summer. Pro basketball has an official minor league, the NBA D-League, but college basketball is still out of control.

[1] http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/12/3/678134/the-histor...
Sports are democratic and egalitarian? Tell that to Messi or Lebron James ;)

Anyway, that sports and education are so tangled is purely a national oddity of the US, maybe stemming from its tradition of great, and expensive, private universities. During the 19th century, if I recall correctly, it was a sign of distinction and wealth to practice sports; I conjecture that's what got it started in the universities, and then it spread in the early 20th century, when those colleges started courting new talent, intellectual or otherwise, from the up and coming middle classes, helped by the New Deal and the GI Bill.

That could also be why Oxford and Cambridge are relatively so keen on sports, i.e. rowing, as compared to other European universities. Sports were quite the posh thing back then. But, of course, I'm just guessing.
What is strange is that the government used the classification of information as a way control it. But what stops others from conducting the same research? In fact I would argue that classifying info will result in people pursuing that info even more than other non-classified research. The Streisand effect all over again.
If you pay cash, its unhinged.

On the other hand, if you are J6P and borrow the money you don't pay the cost, you pay a (fixed) monthly loan bill.

To about one sig fig, in constant dollars, at 20% interest aka 1980, you can borrow $30K for the same monthly payment as $150K at 3% aka 2010. Doesn't matter if they're "profit" or "non-profit" they're not leaving money on the table. Then factor in perhaps a factor of 4 in real world cost of living and nominal wages, and you can easily go from $3K in 1980 to $60K in 2010 without any "unhinging" happening at all.

Those are multi-generational extreme interest rates. It'll be "fun" to watch them revert to norms over a long enough run.

Its the same deal with property, for obvious reasons. The median dude will get the median education and live in the median house. The bank will get a constant median monthly payment. The centrally controlled interest rate will control what the providers get, but it won't affect joe6pack at all.
Great young men have thought alike:

http://ia600808.us.archive.org/17/items/GuerillaOpenAccessMa...

sigh
Let's not forget that the majority of student-athletes don't have scholarships at all.
Will you have an API?
That's not exactly an obvious conclusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism
> Take a feature and break it down i to big rocks. Further break down the big rocks into little chunks - each that you estimate would take you less than a day to complete.

Experimental psychologists have found that decomposing tasks increases estimate accuracy, regardless of how or why the task is decomposed. It's called the "unpacking effect".

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103103...
Thank god because the next day is GTA V.
I've been wondering about web crypto, and how you can actually be protected from say Google getting your content before it's actually encrypted in the browser. Could Chrome's recent "packaged apps" help with that? Maybe if that part of the web app/extension was actually native/offline (but still inside the browser), it would be secure against that. Of course then you have to start wondering whether Google didn't implement a backdoor inside the browser itself...but maybe the fact that Chromium is open source can help there.
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Exactly a 360 degree rotation about it's axis.

Edit: Which 1 minute after posting I realize is the same thing, so forget that half-baked response and instead look at these different ideas of the measure of a day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day#Astronomy
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I'm no expert, but ZFS support on FreeBSD seems to be pretty solid (more or less on par with Solaris). FreeNAS seems to be quite popular and it's based on FreeBSD and ZFS.

If you have a question about a specific ZFS feature, drop by the FreeBSD forums (http://forums.freebsd.org) and ask; the FreeBSD community is generally quite friendly and I'm sure you'll get a good answer to your question.

For general information about FreeBSD + ZFS, check out these links:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/fi...

https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS
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What is more detrimental is the uselessness of the phrase "classified" in the after math of leaks. When leaks show that a lot of classified documents are not really that important it will desensitize people to the word classified in the long run and when really important and classified info is leaked, it will be treated with carelessness.
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My main takeaway from the McConnel's book has been not to provide an estimate as a single point number (say something like it will be done in 5 weeks) but rather as a range (say something like 5-8 weeks), as providing a single point number would give the impression that it is the target date (while it is not). But unfortunately most of the
times all I have got is blank stares when I give estimates as a range and a question why don't you give me the time it takes to finish :(. Wish more number of people who do project management read at least 1st two parts of McConell's book on software estimation.
I like what he's written here in day 2.

"The distinctive ripping sound of someone biting into a fresh apple; the maracas-like percussion produced by a canister of Planters’ peanuts; even the change in a person’s voice that occurs when they speak with a lifesaver in their mouth – I was hyper aware whenever those around me consumed. At about 6:25 p.m., I even broke down and paid 40 cents to a colleague for a small handful of peanuts, and soon after, handed over a dime to another for an Atomic Fireball. For those keeping score, I’m down to $5.05 remaining to supplement the groceries I bought at the start of the Challenge."

It reminds me of a trip I took with some friends where we had planned all of our meals as military MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat). We figured that we were very clever for having the military do our nutritional research for us. After a few days of almost exclusively eating these wretched things, I found that I could smell cucumbers being sliced over a mile away. Obviously, things like bacon and hamburgers frying were much stronger even than the cucumbers. I had the same experience as Shalch describes that I found myself marking time until the next meal, and I imagine that I was getting a lot more calories than he is (I was probably burning more too), because we brought some extra food and coffee, and weren't limited by our budget.
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I have to disagree with you there. It's a zero-sum game. College athletics aren't significantly expanding the national pool of college students. Without them, colleges could use much more mundane, direct (read: far cheaper) forms of advertisement. In most cases, athletics programs are public money and tuition money being poured on something with absolutely minimal academic merit.
Programming (for me) occurs at the apex of an extended Maslow's type hierarchy, and traveling often destroys the very foundations of it. The code I write when sleep-deprived, hungover, hungry, sunburnt, and sitting on a bumpy Thai train wondering if I missed my stop and wishing there was internet & coffee, is strongly inferior to what I write in a well-lit, quiet environment, fed, rested, fueled by engineering conversation and mental/real bandwidth, etc. That's not a proscription of adventure so much as an acknowledgement that the whole nature of adventure is disruptive: multiple variables in your equation are changing at rapid rates, and they are important variables: food, shelter, language, currency. Over our two-year stint in Asia, we usually found ourselves in one of two situations: 1) blissfully immersed in the culture and outdoor activities of <x> country but contending with unreliable internet, limited work time and near-nonexistent attention spans, or 2) sitting on a nice nondescript hotel bed somewhere with A/C, good wifi and our tiny MacBook Air screens, and feeling like we may as well have not left the US at all.
FWIW, here are some tech focused universities that usually have pared down athletics programs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Independent_Tech...
They get sent right to trash! ;)
No need to do this on the client side then (that was my point)
I wouldn't call that part of "the news", even if they're both journalism. And people do write such reports about poor people, so the observation wouldn't make much sense.
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I used to run FreeBSD on my Toshiba Satellite C660-180 and encountered no issues. Everything seemed to work out of the box and performance was on par with version 3.2 of the Linux kernel.

I keep meaning to switch back to FreeBSD, actually. This alpha may prompt me to give it a shot.
Yeah, that's a point. Maybe i should really do that...
We call them technical schools here. You get highly focused professional degrees in two year schools and more versatile (but more expensive) degrees in four year schools. One of the local technical schools just broke ground on a new campus down the road: http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-06-25/barrow-schools...

The main campus for Lanier Tech (2 year school) is right next to the four year Gainesville State College, and they have a credit transfer agreement. They rarely have sports programs on the level of a university.
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1.- As a string of length 3. :P

2.- When we talk about the longest day, we are talking about daylight. That changes according to time of the year because of the inclination of the earth. This is what I originally thought they were talking about.

3.- The usual way to define a day is exactly 24 hours. But this is a little bit different. It is not even exactly a turn of the earth of 360 degrees.
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Sports also serve to keep alumni connected to the school, and thus increase donations.

You can't justify "student athletes" as having any value to the community other than entertainment, but from a fundraising and marketing perspective they've got some uses.
Your first answer wasn't wrong, it just defines a "siderial day", using other stars as a reference point instead of the sun. After rotating 360 deg with respect to the background stars (which we assumed fixed for our purposes), the earth then has to rotate a few minutes more to get the sun back in the same position.
I hope you'll keep insisting on giving ranges.
I think that method was just added in response to this vulnerability:

https://github.com/django/django/commit/aae5a96d5754ad34e48b...
> I ask again: so what?

>> And I'm telling you that nobody gives a shit, because they just want to listen to music.

Sure, you Just Want to listen to music, but that doesn't mean musicians/producers/record-companies should then just give it to you for free. This is what you're still missing.

I Want to have sex with hot women, but that doesn't mean they should then just automatically stop and spread their legs at me where ever I go.

> Musicians don't need producers--in fact, this has been a role only recently filled in the 20th century. They don't need them to perform, they don't need them to record, they don't need them to make money. In fact, you can very easily find examples of producers doing more hard than good...just ask any fan of Streetlight Manifesto.

Sure, traditional record companies are increasingly unnecessary, but people still need to somehow become aware of an artist's music - otherwise no one will buy it. In other words, there's still a need for "awareness middlemen" and/or advertising, even if home studios have made record companies unnecessary on the production side.

But see, when you declare that you just Want Stuff For Free, you're not making a distinction between those evil record companies and their poor abused slaves, the artists.

You can download the shit out of an independent artist's music, but he too wants you to pay for it. Gracing someone's music with the attention of your ears doesn't actually put food on his table.

There are songs available for purchase. If you want a particular song, you should pay for it, because the song has value to you. If you download it for free, you get something of value, but the music producer gets nothing. That's simply not a fair trade. To be more exact, it's not even a trade. It's you by-passing the trade.
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Or perhaps Mactart for those that like flashing their devices publicly.
True, but there's a pretty good chance that you have a local football club to root for. College athletics is the American equivalent of that.
Your issues are exactly why that story is a great parable for poor project planning.
The thing is, it's mostly the smaller university athletics departments that take the losses. Of the top 40 public university athletic departments (by expenditure), only 5.2% of income is from University subsidies. The top 10 receive only 1.2% of their income from subsidies. The rest is from ticket revenue, direct donations, TV deals, etc (usually with football heavily subsidizing the other sports).

For all 227 Division I athletic departments of public universities, subsidies provide 30% of the overall budget, other revenue 70%. So when people complain about this issue, it really probably isn't any of the universities that they think it is.

Check it out yourself: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/story/2012-05-...
My father did something like this in his later years and I never heard any of the complaints in the article; then again he had an RV instead of a 44 liter backpack and mostly stayed in the USA rather than crossing the world. Connectivity was the main problem I heard about. I guess its much better now.

Also its not a binary decision. Its a big planet and you can select whatever tradeoff you'd prefer in a nearly pure analog fashion, its not exclusively binary "Poland OR Vietnam". For example there must be tens of thousands of places to park a RV in the USA that are similar enough not to be strange but different enough to be an adventure on time off.

Some people set the thermostat to 72F and leave it alone 24x365 (that's me!). Some people alternate setting the thermostat to 85F and 60F every couple hours and complain constantly of freezing or burning up (I work with people like that, it is such a pain to be around). That doesn't mean a third option doesn't exist of setting the thermostat to 67F, or 77F, or randomly varying from 70F to 74F from week to week, etc.
You haven't been paying attention.
Julian should not lie on his side like that to use a computer. You can end up with awful back problems and numb fingers.
So in other words, you are totally free to remove the freedom others.
GPGTools (https://gpgtools.org/) can store your passphrase in the OSX keychain. It comes with GPGMail for Mail.app, which makes it very easy to encrypt email.
MIT has sports, but they're hardly overshadowing the academics. The Ivy League was founded with the very purpose of combating the out of control expansion of college football [1]. None of them offer athletic scholarships (although it is known that strong athletic ability can help get you admitted). A lot of top universities, such as the members of the University Athletic Association [2], have chosen NCAA Division 3, which also does not permit athletic scholarships. Spelman College, a very highly regarded historically black college for women, just recently dropped their interscolastic sports [3].

Plenty of examples exist, but it's clear that the periodic backlash against college sports is not a prevailing trend.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Athletic_Association

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/sports/at-spelman-dropping...
I think this is a bit of a pivot from their business at Quote Roller