skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you bother reading the article? Because it specifically says that not only are the usual soft targets like psychology a problem, but so are hard STEM targets like cancer research.

Also, what's with the capitalising of Science like it's some kind of club or organisation? "Science" is not a proper noun - making it one is facilitating dogma.
There are certainly problems with the federal civil service, but how could a return to the spoils system be better? And to a large degree, the civil service still operates very much like a spoils system under the hood, despite all the documentation and attempts to the contrary.
Not yet. I have a name picked out, but I haven't had the ability to hire the creative talent to start working on a decent identity for it, and that's not where my time is best spent right now. The plan is to sell another and then put aside some of that for the branding and website.

The first working version was just wrapped and went live in the past couple of weeks, to clarify the timeline - we've just begun, but this is something I could turn around and sell, I just need to start spreading the word.
Robots are already figuring out your personality
I can handle "what did that actually mean?" types of shows, but only if the mystery had some internally logical consistency to it, i.e., it's not just a mindfuck for mindfuck's sake.

A good example would be early-series Lost: lots of interesting mysteries left open to interpretation, giving the impression of more to come, and of a consistent logic to the way things were going to unfold. Bad example would be late-series Lost: it became pretty obvious they'd written themselves into a corner about halfway through the series, so they started making up increasingly convoluted ways to tie it all together, eventually winding up, as far as I can tell, somewhere in the Dr. Who universe.
Micro Video Quadcopter [video: DARC22 Eirik Solheim]
Lesser people now wants to work at Microsoft and Facebook compared to 2012
The crashplan JARs decompile pretty easily - I had a go a few months ago, and they weren't obfuscated.

Highlights:

The crypto is pretty bad - it's using blowfish in CBC mode with a static IV of 0c22384e5a57412b (convert each byte to decimal...).

The client-server protocol use 32 bit nonces and MACs, which is.

License key validation works by decrypting some packed data from the key after converting the alphabet back to hex. The key is blowfish-cbc encrypted data and the only validation done is verifying the padding - about 1 in 256 randomly generated ones will have valid padding, and the length is not checked.
I can relate. I've only had two "all nighters" in my life, and felt utterly miserable each time.

Towards the end of both, I would develop minor visual hallucinations (seeing little things in the corner of my eye, etc.). 14 hours is a bit silly, though. 24 hours is probably the minimum for most people.
NASA raised thousands of jellyfish in space that were unfit for life on Earth
Or tech provides its own commute infrastructure a la GBus.
As far as I know, the Indian govenrment gave an ultimatum to BlackBerry to place servers in India and provide a mechanism to read messages or to leave the country. BlackBerry caved in and was forced to do so. So even BBM isn't as secure. Anytime you trust a third party with your data, there is always that element of risk involved.
That's true, but don't forget, in the context of the product that I'm working on right now - it was built at the request of a client, and their system integrator saw the results and was seriously impressed, enough to suggest we try to resell it and offered to help through referrals, though I'd much rather have him on board in a more formal capacity to reach out to other integrators he knows (he's got a good-paying gig and has no reason to move on quite yet from it)
I don't wear a politics hat. I keep a brain where that would be.
Ask HN: Is there a point to learning ASP.NET? Is it dead?
>"every Rush Limbaugh in the world advocating for elimination of government"

As far as I know a strawman, unless you can come up with some telling quotes.

"Conservatives want to eliminate as much government from people's daily lives as possible."[1]. I suspect you'll claim the "as much.. as possible" means the OP is wrong, and I'll claim that the OP said "every Rush Limbaugh" - clearly making a rhetorical point rather than claiming Limbaugh wants to eliminate all government.

But then we'd both be missing the OP's point.

He has proposed (albeit in a rant) a solution that both progressives and conservatives should agree on: Incompetence should not be excused in government.

I'd suggest a fruitful discussion would be to concentrate on that rather than come to the predictable conclusion that people have different views on the role (and hence size) of government.

[1] http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/01/14/obama_and_moder...
I meant using dodgy langugage in future statements. They may not have received a NSL yet, so one doesn't know if their strong language could poentially be tempered by a NSL.
I don't think one can conclusively argue this point either way.
And per the article, that statement can be true at the same time this statement can be true:

"Apple can intercept the creation of new conversations between users on iMessage or FaceTime if compelled to do so by a valid court order."

English being as fungible as it is, leads to this sort of mess.
What makes this special is the fact it uses real encryption instead of just a password protected zip file.
You're right, it was overstatement. I've corrected to "most other fields".
>>I clearly remember how all that WMD stuff was obvious propaganda at the time.

Interesting, do you have references?

To me, it seems really hard to distinguish "obvious propaganda" from low details due to protection of intelligence sources.

You would naively/cynically assume that if the US army/etc knew they wouldn't find any remaining WMD programs, they would be planted?
Awesome. One very (very very) small step closer to creating a pill to help the flushing process so we may sleep less, or not at all.
Why should the stores along the route buy-in? They'll get the benefit of the route for free even if they don't buy-in.

As for giving the stores a portion of the tolls, that doesn't help, because you're still trying to recover all the costs of construction from a subset of the people who benefit from the road. Think about the math: say drivers benefit X from the road and stores and developers and employers benefit Y. Total social benefit is X + Y. With tolls, your incentive to build roads is F(X), insensitive to Y. So whether Y = 10x or 0.5X doesn't change your incentive to build the roads at all. In other words, the incentives aren't aligned with the social benefits.
Thanks Matt! That's very detailed advice, I greatly appreciate it!
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Observations and models are repeated and challenged far more in climate science than most other fields.

You're kidding, right? Please show your work. [Edit: I saw your correction, and have adjusted my quote above, but my response is still the same: please show your work.]

science does not require every paper to be accurate (in fact, you need a few extremist ideas to try to shake things up).

I quite agree, and I wasn't trying to claim that all, or even most, papers published in other fields are accurate.

Climate science's problem is non scientists misrepresenting, misinterpreting and misunderstanding. The science itself is exactly what you'd want for every scientific field.

I disagree, but I doubt we're going to resolve the question here.
Climb down. . .I'm not accusing anyone of lying or fabricating. And yes, I'm well aware of the prevalence of hubris. I find it hard to believe because, having worked on both sides of the fence, I've never known or heard of any agency of any size, even DoD, doing the integration themselves. They almost always have contractors doing it, though they may manage the contractors and call themselves integrators. I believe they may have referred to CMMS as integrators without giving any thought to the contractor who actually performed the integration - at the contracted direction of CMMS.
Personally, I would rather a useless comment (which I will ignore if the endpoint signature is self explanatory) than no comment at all.
Restoring F. P. Ramsey
Actually, this would work. But O2 isn't the problem, the CO2 is. You'll need a process to filter the CO2 out of your blood, as that's what causes your body's breathing reflex to occur. If you could filter the CO2 from the blood stream, while also providing O2, you would literally not need to breath.

"Intravenous Oxygen Injection For Patients Who Cannot Breathe"
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/247295.php
And sit in some horrendous bumper-to-bumper traffic.
You "scaling" is just a syntactic sugar to the underlying package/module solution. In js/coffee the syntax just don't care about it, and you use package/module with a library.

Most of the semantics or environment stuff are translated into function calls at last. Then the difference becomes the syntax again: how to use that function? Call it directly or translate a syntax?

I like coffee because it is practical scripting: Need code completion? Don't repeat yourself. Can't code without IDE? Make the language easier to use then you ain't gonna need it. Some people just can't believe a language can be that good without IDE, but remember: you interact with IDE through a language on keyboard/mouse too.
On roads and bridges paid for by the government.
We're already hearing about backend nightmares. Can't find the Washington Post article where I first read it, but this UPI one citing them has the details I remember (http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/10/12/Obamacare-website-...):

"Several industry executives told The Washington Post the daily reports on new enrollments since the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act have often included duplicative information, such as people enrolling and canceling several times in a day."

And you left out e.g. connecting to Experian to get the consumer's credit score, which is part of plan pricing (a general trend with deductibles going up). That one, I've noticed, pretty much requires the registration ... but doesn't explain why the site forbids under penalty of perjury playing "what if" to determine how you might best arrange things for you and yours.
I will always remember watching the first moon landing on TV as a young boy. Very special.
I wonder if the requirements had already been finalized and it's just the "final" signed off documentation that was delivered so late. . .yes, still broken/no process.
Is that open source? I'd be interested in taking a look.
In general, why would a vendor sell more of any drug? I'd think that getting undersold is far more common than getting free product.
I thought there were numerous laundering services?
Please reveal what it is you did to disable those notifications.
The TypeScript compiler can be used as a library, I believe.

The Closure Compiler has a whole type system that lives in doc comments:

https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/js-for-c...

and I believe there's a command line option for doing type checking. Alas, Closure Compiler is written in Java rather than JavaScript so you can't use it quite as seamlessly as TypeScript's compiler.
My Frustrating Upgrade to Windows 8.1
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There are actually animals that sleep half a brain at once: all the marine mammals. A dolphin can't just fall asleep underwater (it will drown), so it sleeps half at a time.

There are creatures that sleep very little (Giraffes, etc.) But there's large benefits to sleep, and for most animals it's worth the cost, especially since you don't want to burn piles of calories during non-peak hunting/foraging hours anyway.
I totally agree. After years being a lurker online I've decided to change my outlook to be able to get like minded people's ideas and opinions. I totally understand how it is. It's always easier to be alone then to get to know people as you have to make an effort to make first contact.
On that post about a bird that fly for 6 months in a row there were a discussion about the sleep in animals. Some of them are able to sleep alternating one half sleeping and the other aware of the environment. And there is speculation if that bird could sleep while flying.

I think half brain awake is not enough to have a fully functional life. I also heard about people losing part of their brain and adapting to deal with it. But that doesn't mean a brain doesn't need that part. It is like the fallacy of using only 10% of the brain. The brain is very well used and optmized for performance, if you lose part of it, it would adapt to compensate what is missing, but it will not be optimized anymore.

Disclosure: just guessing here, I have no scientific knowledge or background at all to support these claims of mine.
so are hard STEM targets like cancer research.

Yes, that's true; I shouldn't have singled out social sciences.

what's with the capitalising of Science like it's some kind of club or organisation?

It's meant to convey the fact that climate scientists basically tell politicians "look, Science says you have to do X, Y, Z or we're doomed". They are claiming that their results are good enough to drive policy choices that have huge consequences, and politicians believe it because it's Science--they see it as the same as if astronomers came to them and said "look, we've calculated that asteroid A is going to hit the Earth unless we do X, Y, and Z; we've checked the numbers every which way and there's no other option." But climate science as a field is simply not accurate enough to justify that.
> As an economist I assure you that if I noted a correlation between head clubbing and capital accumulation I would take offensive and defensive steps to protect my head.

With what? You're an economist, not an MMA fighter.

> In fact most would, leading to a nice little equilibrium where head clubbing is not a worthwhile strategy. They may even form a protection racket, and call it "Police".

Right, so the nerds get together and beat down the MMA fighters and create laws against "murder" and "theft" and pretty soon you've got government. We're living in your nice little equilibrium.
At least, as you indicate, there are some who care and work hard and people groaning and performing the tasks of your GS-14. . .but I feel your pain. . .I've worked on both sides of the fence.
Erm, no, he's not proposed a solution, nor do I think he thinks he has.

He's proposed a necessary tactic, mass(ive) firings, which I agree 100% with, but he hasn't proposed how to change the system so that all those ... deserving people could get fired.

I've put something on the table, the spoils system, however problematic, that will enable his desired tactic. I'm all ears for others.
Beautiful work, thanks for sharing.
a Koch-backed study has actually determined that climate science really is science

Reference, please?
Good to see an article about real engineering, not the usual web app / JS bull...
Forgetting to change the code that consumes the API means that things don't work, which is visible right away. Forgetting to change the comments will be visible gradually and cruft accumulates. Also, sometimes comments wind up being non-local and just aren't noticed. I agree that in some senses it's "no excuse" but that doesn't mean it won't happen. Documentation that can break visibly when things change is better than static documentation.
The initial load is slow. VS is a huge system with a lot of plugins. But I think it's still quite fast. I generally do VS on the fastest computer I own, which sucks, but oh well... it's still more usable and faster compare to Eclipse.
>Virtually all trading volume today consists of buying and selling old securities.
>I'm not sure having so many of our best and brightest minds going to Wall Street (and into high-frequency trading in particular) is a good thing, from a societal perspective.

Your so wrong. Cash Equities account for notionally c. 50% volume at best the rest being made up from exchange traded derivatives. HFT, MM and Prop firms by speculating and posting contra liquidity lower transaction costs for other market participants. Society benefits from having a fluid and well greased market which reflects all known information.

Also get your Keynesian BS out of here.
The author claims that shelves weren't being stocked because the employee mix had been shifted towards part-time workers.

OK, accurate or not, it says nothing at all about the total number of available 'worker-hours' just that the full/part-time mix had changed. It simply doesn't follow logically that there would be a shortage of labor just because the mix changed.
I wrote a little tool to do that, http://github.com/adamsanderson/when-files-change .

For instance

when-files-change -- make

In general, it has the same underlying mechanism, but simpler to remember ;)
Thanks for sharing. I believe the experiences you have learnt can help me along my way building my own startup.
I cannot believe that any strain of "no government!!" libertarianism still lingers on in any outlet that supposedly is a place for smart people. I mean, come on, it's basic math people, it's not that hard to figure out. And anyway, it's been completely decimated by the likes of John Rawls in the academia. I'm befuddled to see that we still keep running into this though.
It actually boots on Chrome.

On Android.

Then it usually dies for low memory - and I can't enter anything at all without keyboard (which doesn't pop up) - but still. The fact that I can boot up a x86 emulator in javascript in browser on ARM mobile phone is crazy.
A grand unified theory of exotic superconductivity?
$94 Million. Still bad, but get it right.
I remember this hilarious reality check from the Iraq Body Count project. I never saw it answered... Do you have a link?

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/beyond/reality-checks/

This was also quite funny:

http://lancetiraq.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html

>>stubborn disbelief

I thought it was fun how many people on the left knew how it was, with so wildly varying data.

But of course, it never happens that researchers cheat on research papers. Or interviewers in another country "fix" the answers. Or a hundred other things.

If I have a thesis in life, it is that paid shills and idealists lie. The idealists "know" how it is, so the problem is how to get people to think "correctly".
Imagine one day you can just loan Windows Azure server and launches a build when you click a button on VS web edition. I think that's an attractive feature. Or pair programming on web over VS with co-workers.
Ethical to ask interview candidates to solve your company's toughest problems?
The company I work at evaluates candidates using problem-solving rounds where the candidate is asked to spend an hour solving a problem, and another hour presenting the solution.<p> The catch is that the questions we ask are directly related to problems our company is facing. Whether we ask about storing data locally vs on the server, or how the candidate would gain exposure for a payments feature, the answer will be valuable to us, whether we hire him or not. Is this unethical or completely reasonable?
Good luck getting through the bay area when everyone is driving
Can a game teach kids quantum mechanics?
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Even disregarding Apple's control over the software, the system depends on Apple as a trusted key distributor. This is the vulnerability which the article is concerned with, as far as I can tell.
I would pay cold hard cash for a modern UI toolkit that leveraged all the new stuff in C++11 and used OpenGL as a rendering backend. All standard containers and algorithms plus leveraging lambdas and C++11 concurrency tools. Most of the C++ libraries out there now have a ton of legacy cruft.
The NSA recruits at some of the best graduate schools. In some quarters, the joke is that if you have a PhD in math, comp sci or software engineering and you're not teaching or doing post-doc work, you must be working in the black world, which includes NSA.
Why the Hell Are We Teaching Excel to 11 Year Olds?
What about meditation? Does mediation allow for "asleep" like cleanup activities whilst in the "awake" state?
The version I linked to is about half the size of my work-in-progress, and I'd be happy to share the draft with anyone interested in 25,000+ words on doing stats wrong. My email is in my profile.

Right now I'm a first-semester graduate student in statistics, so my writing has slowed down a bit; once I get some confidence in what I've learned I'll try to wrap it up. I'm not sure how or where to publish it, though.
Try casual carpool if you need a ride into SF in the morning. It also works for some routes on the way back to the East Bay in the evening.

http://sfcasualcarpool.com/
How is the spoils system better?
Well, if it really operates very much like one, why not make it explicit?

As for how it could be better, as I said about, accountability.

Let's take a recent partial example: when George H. W. Bush became president, he immediately got rid of every "Reaganite" in the politically appointed/staff/whatever parts that a president has control over.

And the nation didn't like the results and fired his ass in the next election.
Nope, $196 Million as of 5/15/2013, and it appears to be well on its way to $292 Million:

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/53309356/#53309356
And make the tragedy of the commons that much more tragic.
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Here are the most current numbers - $196 Million as of 5/15/2013, and it appears to be well on its way to $292 Million:

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/53309356/#53309356
Silk Road was using PHP also. I tried some SQL injections in its earlier days (mid-2011), and got back full error reports including the mySQL commands (I never successfully exploited it because I wasn't able to get a closing parenthesis ")" past the sanitizer). They changed the server config shortly afterwards, and stopped printing the debug messages.
> I want those principles to be about protecting the rights of the individual.

Seems like a concept that most Americans can get behind, but the rubber doesn't meet the road until you ask which rights of which individuals need protecting.

Is abortion law about the rights of the mother or the rights of the fetus? Is campaign finance law about the rights of the rich person or the poor person? Is business regulation about the rights of the employer or the employee? Etc.

Different people will answer these questions in different ways, so if everyone just sticks to their principles, nothing will ever change or get done.
Their lean is far more center than right, and their right-wing nature is more in the European liberal style (think the German FDP, not the CDU/CSU and definitely not the Republican party's views on environmentalism). Very pro-business, but not socially conservative or anti-environmentalism.
Thanks for commenting!

And you are absolutely correct about the bar charts. Not exactly sure why I chose line but they have been replaced now.

The testing didn't use the built-in benchmark mechanisms but it did use the *testing.T mechanism. It's basically runs of different algorithms on the same set of pre-loaded integers. And then I recorded the time (ns) it took to run compression and decompression (time.Since(now).Nanoseconds() where now was time.Now()).

The caching effect should be pretty similar for all the algorithms since they work off the same LARGE slice of data, afaict.

I will update the article to reflect the testing methodology (may be a few days before I can get to it though.)

THanks