skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ExtJS didn't lead shit...there is a reason hardly anyone uses it.

One major reason is it's just so freaking large and unruly to do anything simple. It's one of the few frameworks I've used that even after moderate use, I still had to keep the docs open on one screen even during routine development. The error messages weren't very helpful, either.
> The DoT was not forthcoming about what exactly was read from the passes or how long geolocation information from the passes was kept.

Listen up kids. Even if your goals are entirely pure and innocent, this sort of BS just makes you look shady. If you wanna do traffic analysis, sanitize your data ASAP, and purge it as soon as you can, and then when people ask, you can answer questions like this with a clear conscience.
Legally? No, there's no such idea as, "anonymous in public", and no, someone recording you in public isn't harassment. Ask celebrities. The paparazzi get in trouble when they enter into private spaces, but public spaces? Fair game. Always.

And what exactly is your moral argument against it? That your public movements would incriminate you somehow? That's a slippery slope argument - there's no connection between tracking your movements and necessarily indicting you for breaking some law. Besides, if you break a law in public, what the fuck were you thinking?
Two words: Detroit [1].

Houses there are so cheap that this kind of plan would probably work as long as you had enough human will and intention to make it happen. As far as I can tell, that is where these things break down. It's hard for groups to form this kind of collective dynamic and trust in the absence of some cohering force - religion, a focal point like a cult leader, or similar influences.

[1] Well, OK, two syllables.
I think port knocking is really silly, for what it's worth. Disable password authentication in SSH, minimize the number of systems you expose SSH to at all, and leave it at that.
Here is the article I was quoting: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/health/panel-finds-no-bene... and the study it was quoting: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22110105

It looks like I had my high end off, it was actually > 7000mg / day.

> Another study, published in 2011, followed 28,800 subjects with high blood pressure ages 55 and older for 4.7 years and analyzed their sodium consumption by urinalysis. The researchers reported that the risks of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and death from heart disease increased significantly for those consuming more than 7,000 milligrams of sodium a day and for those consuming fewer than 3,000 milligrams of sodium a day.
Academics Launch Fake Social Network to Get an Inside Look at Chinese Censorship
I am using 8192 bits, just in case ;-) also applying one time pads when I can.
You should let us know exactly who has the right to reproduce. Poor people don't?
There are some places, I'm not sure how common but my guess would be "rather common", where it's illegal to have > x (where x is usually 2-4) amount of non-related people living in the same residence. This exists where I live (but it was recently put into effect about a year ago, so it hasn't yet been enforced).
I don't. Doublign every six months is nothing to be embarrassed about but it's not especially epic. Contrast, say, Vine - which grew about 4000% in the first 6 months of this year: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/06/twitter-vine-growth/
I know what you mean about having the conversation at two different levels.

> 1. Eat fewer carbs.

I don't agree. I could cut out all the carbs I'm eating and still be eating well over 3000 calories a day (in fact, I do that right now, personally). Eating fat-soaked deep fried junk is the bad one. Carbs are no the enemy. Calories are.

I also never say to a beginner "eat less calories" because people trying to lose weight have a very, VERY big emotional attachment and reaction to the word calories. That's why weight watchers hides that with their points system. They just say you can eat x points today, we don't care how you do it, go nuts. (The formula is points = calories/50). Eat a whole loaf of white bread or a massive pile of pasta today for all they care. As long as you stay under your points allocation, it doesn't matter, you will lose weight.

In the long, long run, you can tweak that.
My point was that for the current ISS, you're talking about designing, building, launching, and attaching more infrastructure.
> You are making a straw man argument, conflating a bad map with supposed bad science...

The map was bad, and the science was worse, but there's no meaningful connection between them, certainly not in my presentation.

> Japan's own testing showed contamination even in 2011, by cesium isotopes, some 2000km out to sea from Fukushima.

Yes, measurable with specialized equipment, but not significantly above the natural background radiation level.

This is not to diminish the seriousness of Fukushima -- it is very serious -- but it's not going to render the Pacific's fish unsafe. That's a fantasy.

> The answer is, that you don't know.

The figures are easy to collect and easy to interpret, and they have been. The claim that the Pacific's fish will become inedible is not connected to reality.

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=83397&tid=3622&cid=94989

Quote: "By the time tuna are caught in the eastern Pacific, cesium levels in their flesh are 10-20 times lower than when they were off Fukushima. Moreover, the dose from Fukushima cesium is considered insignificant relative to the dose from naturally occurring polonium-210, which was 1000 times higher in fish samples studied, and both of these are much lower relative to other, more common sources, such as dental x-rays."

> The answer is, that you don't know.

You're the one who doesn't know, even though the information is easily accessed.
Ray Dolby, creator of Dolby Surround Sound, has died
I think issue is specifically complaining about it going to the government, where the implication is that it's going to be squandered on "lesser people." With no sensitivity for the fact that the taxes on her raise make an enormous difference to someone on welfare. The complaint in this situation is not "I wish I had made more" but "The government should take less."
https://www.superbetter.com/
You seriously don't see any economic value associated with the education of a child from age 6-18?

We can argue about what specific subjects are best to teach in school, and what a teacher ought to be paid, but don't you think that, broadly speaking, educating children provides some economic benefit to a nation?
I'll gladly tell you whenever I buy things. My checking account and credit card statements are private, however (this isn't an argument against privacy, don't mistake it as such).

Here are the last... 10 things I bought:

EZPass - $70.00
Roll20.net - $9.99
Potbelly - $4.98
Gold's Gym - $19.99
Potbelly - $4.98
Potbelly - $4.98
Pearl Dive (it's a bar) - $12.90
Chipotle - $3.13
Big Hunt (bar) - $8.00
Madhatter (bar) - $13.90

If you want more, come follow me around a bit. You wouldn't be breaking any law, after all. The fact that I go to potbelly each day, have a Gold's Gym subscription, and went to 3 bars over the last few days isn't private. None of it.

I value privacy, but I also know I don't always have it.
I just call them all radix trees.
We kind of have to. Journalism is under siege(1). The rise of the unashamed surveillance state makes it much worse. There's been a sort of "journalism is dead, who cares" kind of attitude floating around. It isn't. I do.

We need to think about what we're about to lose.

(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/world/europe/britain-detai...
Like I said, that's just a guess based both on the severity of his crimes and the tendency of the United States to overreact to anything that involves a computer.

I could very well be wrong.
This isn't an argument against privacy, this is an argument against absolute privacy.

You're not private all the time. Stop pretending like you are, it just doesn't mesh with reality. I can fucking see you walk into that night club, you did that in full view of the whole world.
Please, a new UI. That homepage has turned me off and I will not be using it.
The prevalence of pro-early marriage, pro-birth, anti-condom social and religious values probably has something to do with this, as well as the fact that it's an evolutionary given that everyone wants to have children (or at least sex). Hard to argue with biology.
What revelations that they do? So far all revelations have been surveillance related, and not arrest and conviction related.

No one's been provably put to jail because of the NSA's programs.
Wow... The root cause of poverty is incompetent education? What about the college educated poor? What about the failure of the voucher program in Milwaukee?

Why are public schools with the same "limousine liberals" operating them more successful than poor schools? I think your theory has a few holes.
Illinois has IPass. IPass definitely works at tolls taking EZPass; I don't know if the reverse is true.
It's a point not everyone considers. A lot of people have a comical view of what an unfree society looks like. They imagine oppression at every turn.

In reality, it's usually subdued pressure or tacit awareness that someone above you can make things go badly and you have no recourse.

I'm not sure the comments will stop, unless there's a policy reversal.
It's anecdotal of course, and correlation doesn't equal causation and all that, but the people I'm close to who seem to really have addiction issues seem to be people who had addiction issues a priori.

e.g. I can't even conceive of a scenario where I could find myself thinking about willingly even trying heroin or cocaine. But I have a few family members and (former) friends with addiction problems so severe that pounding a case of beer before snorting lines is what they call a normal Thursday afternoon and heroin is considered a weekend recreational sport. Something predisposed them to the notion that this was a valid idea whereas I can't even conceive of it.
Or conversely, sine and cosine are just labels attached to quantities expressible in terms of coversine, versine, etc.
Often, these things start at such a young age that it's impossible to separate and find cause and effect.
Doesn't really work if you have a family, but roommates are pretty common in some parts of the US, across a wide span of income levels. Popular Southern California apartment listing company Westside Rentals has a whole roommate matching service, for example.
Having kids is a human right. That should be the end of the discussion. Anyone, rich or poor, is

* entitled to have children [1]

* entitled to financial and other aid to raise those children safely and securely [2]

[1] UDHR, Article 16, paragraph (1) http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/#a16
[2] UDHR, Article 25, paragraph (2) http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/#a25

Since the US has signed these treaties, and unless it intends to back out, there can be no government policy that does not follow these articles.
...didnt that just happen? check the data post 98

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
I think the web will always be more about delivering content, rather than manipulating data. Apps are all about data, documents are all about content. HTML and CSS are not fading away, they are actually getting bigger, and breaking into the desktop. I love javascript, but its more likely of being replaced by another scripting languange to work with HTML and CSS, than actually being a replacement for HTML & CSS.
> Jesus man, nature, at least in the context discussed here as evolution, is not smart.

You mean, speaking as the product of random, undirected evolution by natural selection? My remarks were meant to suggest that evolution sometimes produces results that are so fantastic that poorly educated people are tempted to attribute the outcome to supernatural forces.

> I've heard of no convincing explanation of natural selection that describes it as an intentional force.

Who said anything about intention? Evolution by natural selection is a totally random process that selects the most fit genotype during a random selection process. We are the result -- everything we are, results from a process with no goal or even complex rules. What's truly amazing about evolution is how much results from such simple rules.

> On the contrary, nature is about as dumb as a rock.

Quite true -- and the smartest person, the most beautiful creature, the richest works of art, all sprang from nature "dumb as a rock". Which means nature is smarter than us. Maybe this time you'll understand what I'm trying to say.

No God, no designer, no wizard behind a curtain, just natural resources and natural selection. With the results that we see around us.
Every thread that discusses whether it's reasonable to expect the government to do the right thing needs to cite the NSA disclosures. Sorry.
I can't say whether the addictive substances caused the addictive personality traits or vice versa, but it's definitely a facet to consider.
Maybe some men in black visited google and told them not to.
It was taken at the Monterey Bay Aquarium: http://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/59698680553/heade...
The author must not realize that Google's "customers" are advertisers, not Web searchers or Android users. Why is the government having the data more scary than just Google having it, if we're going to be upset about it ...
In #1, use keys at least 2048 bits long.

Last time I talked about the subject, I didn't think it was worthwhile to point that. Now it clearly is.

Also, I don't see much advantage in #4.
How Americans are different
Bruce Schneier is not a reasonable person about his own computer security any more than a virologist is a reasonable person over her own infectivity.

He knows too much to be a reasonable person.
32 Discordant Metronomes Achieve Synchrony in a Few Minutes
Zod's Axioms: 10 Principles of Engineering Management (2010)
Wikipedia Will Fail in Four Years (2006)
I didn't read the post as saying "be happy with what you have!" or "you're lucky you're not poor! I read it as the friend having ambition, and making headway, but demonstrating exaggerated pessimism about the headway.

That said, I mean, I don't know this person or their friend so it could be a flippant comment the friend made that's being overblown.

Who knows
I don't think the word "fascism" means what you appear to think it means.
You're really equating apples with oranges with 'it might not be called AOL today...' All of your arguments are conclusory instead of evidence based, eg 'people are afraid to leave FB' - really? Afraid? Bullshit. Facebook has utility for them; if something of similar convenience and greater utility comes along, they'll use it.

iTunes Store, Mac App Store, Windows Phone Store, Google Play Store, console software, etc etc. So called "post-PC" devices like the iPad have adopted the walled garden approach, that's not something to be argued, it's a fact.
Do you have any counter-examples, or just wanted to insult my response with the content-less reply of "nonsense"?

Yeas, but your claim was that this is a new thing. Go back and look at home computers in the 1980s or networking hardware in the 90s. Walled gardens have been around for ages: it was the basis of the AT&T monopoly that existed until the 70s (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_(technology)) and used to be the norm in the motion picture industry at one time before antitrust actions forced the studios to divest their theater holdings.

Really, it's up to you to back up your own claims, not up to me to falsify them. You have a bad habit of drawing your conclusion first and then looking for evidence to support it. I personally find it helpful to begin by assuming I'm wrong and trying to falsify my hypothesis.
SD cards have a physical switch you can flip for read-only.
Physics SE
Child care workers who watch children when parents aren't present make $19,000, that's maybe more appropriate.
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/personal-care-and-service/childcare-w...

Where are the proper studies (with 1000s of participants) showing teachers can do a better job than babysitters who hand out an ipad with learning software to every student?

The teaching system is a 19th system. It's like if the tech industry continued on with using telegraphs and morse code for everything.
I think most PC companies would give their left foot to have margins large enough to describe as "thin"
The more you know about surveillance, the more paranoid you become. And I don't mean paranoid in a derogatory way, but the more you know about these things, the more you have to sacrifice some of the easier things in life because you are spending more time making sure everything is private. The phrase "ignorance is a bliss" never matched anywhere else more perfectly.

Great movie BTW.
Do you think those values are wrong ?

Look at the fertility numbers : if the rich were made responsible for producing the nation's offspring ... well there wouldn't be a future for America.

Furthermore, there is nothing that increases happiness half as much as having a child.
It's not really the MOOC that enabled this; it's that principal who deserves the kudos.
Thoughts on Tyler Cowen’s Average Is Over
Hey, you never know. What if Nokia never put in a MMU in their phones?
The Apparently Curious Case of the iPhone 5C: What the 5C is, and isn't
You're in denial on quantum random numbers. How about nuclear decay. Fucken niggers, not scientists. Get Hawking. Nuclear fucken decay. fucken niggers.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/secure_generate.html

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17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after
whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto
them throughout their generations.

17:8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the
house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that
offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice, 17:9 And bringeth it not unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the
LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.

17:10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I
will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will
cut him off from among his people.

17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it
to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is
the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

17:12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you
shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you
eat blood.

----

Gordon Ramsay serve meat a little too rare and God threw a fit. LOL. Thou shall not eat rare steak.
Automated tools already won't get into your machine if you disable passwords. And they can easily adapt to non standard ports if the authors see any worth in doing that.

Setting a non-standard port to ssh is akin to adding a wood plank to the door of a safe with state of the art locks and 20" steel walls. A very annoying wood plank, by the way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation#Formal_definitio...

A function f(x) is a member of the set O(n) iff there is some M,x0 such that for all x>x0, |f(x)|<=Mn. This means functions like lg n, n+30, n+1e999, 1e999n + sqrt(n), sin(n), and 7 are all members of the set O(n).

It is difficult to give a formal proof that O(n) + C = O(n) because there isn't really a formal notion of what is meant by O(n) + C. To me, that looks like the result of adding a real constant to a set of functions. It is common to see people do algorithmic analysis and replace terms in a runtime with a set they belong to, in which case an expression like O(n) + C might appear, but what this means is just "some function that is in O(n) plus some constant," and it is simple to prove that the set of all functions that can be described in this way is equal to the set O(n). O(n) is closed under the operation of adding constants, and the "adding constants" operation is its own inverse.
"build websites with objects"

Why not start with some content instead?
"as the global warming movement collapses"

...

"Remember Marcott et al?"

Sorry most of us dont frequent bonkers climate denialism blogs. There's nothing there to the foaming at the mouth over Marcott:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/climate-science-once-...

Unfortunately, almost all of the controversy was completely off-target, and a lot of it displayed a significant misunderstanding of the claims of the Marcott paper.
Reasonable expectations of privacy underpin a huge number of functions of modern free society including journalism as noted above. NSA actions have called all of them into question. We need more comments an analysis on that front, not less.
Sabu had his identity compromised for a few reasons:

1) Old whois info with his real name on a domain (prvt.org) that he linked on IRC. He had long since changed it but someone looked it up.

2) Mistakenly logging into IRC without a VPN/Tor.

More: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/doxed-how-sabu-wa...
Check out Sneakers, great crypto-thriller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)
Perhaps they're produced before the system has had a chance to gather much entropy?
It is literally a story that changed everything. Everything we knew about journalism now has to be done with the confirmation that certain things some fringe groups suspected the government could be doing are actually being done. Hence everything to debate about journalism has to be updated.
Classic Sculptures Dressed as Hipsters Look Badass
Perfect... bring up the NSA every thirty seconds, until everyone is utterly sick of hearing it and automatically ignores anything related to the NSA... we can't thank you enough noonespecial, you are doing God's work.
(Android spec doesn't forbid it. The cheap LG Optimus V had a camera button; super useful.)
+1

Plus. Having a marriage and children, and getting all financial assistance needed to achieve that is a human right.

The US has signed the treaty enshrining that principle into law ... case closed.
The funkiness is really that []["filter"]["constructor"] is a function that behaves like eval(), or rather, it returns a function that when called executes the string that was passed to the constructor function. That's how they're actually running the code.

> []["filter"]["constructor"]("alert(1)")()
Didn't realize that. States and regional transportation centers make their data (from carriers and road sensors) available as well.
13-Year-Old Makes $100K Reinventing the Scooter Wheel
I hope he's using one of those USB condoms with his memory stick.
On the subject of MIT and MOOCs, it's pretty interesting that he's taking solid-state chemistry (3.091), because this semester MIT is experimenting with substituting problem sets and exams with proctored mini-assessments done through MITx in addition to traditional (in-person) lecture and recitations[1].

I haven't met Battushig, but I'm another MIT freshman in the same chemistry class. After just the first full week of school, it's probably wise to reserve judgement with regard to the 3.091 experiment- but it's been plagued with a few problems (largely expected). For instance, MIT's administration isn't ready to approve a fully-online credited class (and apparently hundreds of upperclassmen were enrolled in the class in spite of schedule conflicts and no intention to attend), so they're starting to take attendance. The testing location is embedded within a kind of labyrinthine series of halls, and there's frequently long lines because everyone tries to take the assessments at the same time (they don't have enough Chromebooks to pass out, nor enough seats available).

Anyway, I think the space of MOOCs is exciting, and so is the possibility of meshing it with the traditional college experience.

[1]: http://web.mit.edu/3.091/www/3091.htm
This seems like the Perl-based web of 20 years ago.