skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CGI Federal is a big-ish Fed contractor in the U.S. and, though a subsidiary of a Canadian firm, for various legal reasons is owned and operated as an American firm. It performs quite a bit of tech work for the U.S. government, work won in generally open competition. Because the U.S. Fed space is such a big market, it's not unusual to have locally owned subsidiaries in the mix e.g. BAE, Quinetiq, etc. all have similar groups.

My understanding is that CGI was already handling various health care related work and was selected to do the work without a proper competitive bidding process. But having seen these processes, they definitely wouldn't have resolved the kinds of widescale technical issues.
I sent a tweet to @usmint to find out. I'll update my post accordingly.
Ask HN: How do you calculate the value of Bitcoin?
Brevity is the soul of wit.

Omniscient? Well, I'm not very creative, but you should be able to get off at least half a dozen lottery picks in that.
Sure you can. You may not be entirely correct, but there is nothing wrong with stating an opinion based on personal experience.
I think it is a legacy issue. All the new executables are named with a pg_ prefix. Maybe someone should suggest a patch which renames the executables and adds symlinks from the old names.

EDIT: There was a discussion and a patch 5 years ago, but I am not sure what was the final result other than that it was obviously not changed.

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/47EA5CC0.8040102@sun.co...
Urgh.

Ctrl+A
Ctrl+C
Ctrl+L
data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
<ENTER>
Ctrl+V

phew
Chaitin's constant gets my vote for most valuable number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin's_constant
There are financial holdings worth 100+ times that bitcoin wallet. Likely protected by a lot less than 100 times the security of a 256 bit key.

Apple's hedge fund, Braeburn Capital, likely qualifies. It's arguably the largest hedge fund in the world. Gain access to their network and you could wreak serious financial havoc.
I tried this out, but I haven't been credited in my account for the past few days. What's more, these guys have a giveaway with a company called Snapswap, where you get XRP for making a transfer through Snapswap. I transferred $10 through Snapswap, was not credited, and my pleas to customer support were ignored.

This looked pretty cool, but now I think I've been duped and taken for a ride.
You do know what the 'compliance defect' was, right?
Nice.

4.5 -> 2.7 seconds on my machine when using 'quot' instead of '/'.

2.4 seconds when hinting ^long in argument of collatz-length.

1.6 when also hinting ^long in collatz-next. Interestingly, when I hint only in collatz-next it takes 1.5.
No he couldn't. Microsoft shares have intrinsic earnings, and while the stock price might go down, I wouldn't expect them to go down far enough to generate predictable excess returns. Lots of people want predictable excess returns and they have enough money to buy all of Gates's shares and then some.
From that NASA website on mission logs - anybody else noticed that the success rates have dramatically increased after 2000?

I am wondering if this has got anything to do with significantly enhanced computing power we have nowadays.
It should be noted that the title on the actual blog does not contain a question mark.
Science Reporter Emily Graslie Reads Her Mail — And It's Not So Nice
James Altucher may be a closet sociopath, but the man is fascinating and his blog is full of great insights.

http://www.jamesaltucher.com
Bath-water video game touchscreen makes a splash
How many on the planet have at least one bitcoin?
Clearly less than 12 000 000... Indeed most of the seven billion people alive now will never be able to own one bitcoin.
I didn't realize Upworthy was a spinoff from moveon.org, but now it all makes so much sense. I actually have never ended up reading anything from Upworthy, because before they show you any content they ask you questions like, "Do you think it's not not wrong to kill puppies? (YES) (NOT YES?)"
Colluding with e-book publishers to raise prices? It's a textbook antitrust compliance issue.
I appreciate the lengthy exposition; however, I've found that 320 kbs with cross channel bit sharing (or whatever it's called) is where I'm finally reasonably happy, at least with rock/pop.

Perhaps as with eyesight and the "fourth type of cone", we'll eventually measure/document that not all listeners are equal.

P.S. Also, pay attention to the subsequent analogue amplification stages, not to mention speakers. Your digital metrics will prove less important when your analogue pathway suffers.
Unless you think bitcoin is going to disappear in the next 6-12 months, it's worth a lot.

You could easily liquidate out of that entire position over the next six months without crashing the bitcoin market. In fact, the added liquidity might help lessen the volatility.
Yeah, that's probably the easiest way to 'link' content when you try to click it. I also want to know where they come from in general.
""We have a single money, the euro," Mr. Feye says. "We should have a single language, Latin.""

We do. Its called English.
> it might be as simple as that he isn't interested in feminism's battle to redefine acceptable language

Huh? Singular they has been in use for over five hundred years (it shows up in Shakespeare) and is standard for modern technical writing and in most other contexts. It is not a conspiracy of some sort.
If I had to pick one reason for that, I'd say it was because Hawaii is an island. Island cultures are notoriously laid back and friendly around the world.
Yes. Very clever: they provide content to test on their servers and begin to be known for great tech tutorials.
There seem to be a lot of hyperparameter optimization software packages, presumably implementing different algorithms.

Is there some software that will run all of them, and pick the one that gives the best results?
Sure. So compliance has to do with specific kinds of deal apple makes. Not arbitrarily interviewing executives without counsel.
Just run those apps in a Windows VM. VirtualBox seamless mode is quite nice.
That also sounds like a pretty undesirable attribute in an employee, especially one who is hypothetically in a prominent position in a major open source project.
egypturnash isn't endorsing what you're opposing here.
I don't think they have much stuff preconfigured on most of their images - maybe drivers. Articles are keeping a general style thought.
By example. Seriously.

I've been plenty of places where the edicts are passed down to the... "little people". They/we can end up jumping exhaustedly through endless rounds of process.

Then, the shit hits the fan, or a senior manager simply can't be bothered, and process is suddenly out the window.

Imagine the impression that leaves on everyone who's been running the process maze.

Demonstrate that it matters and serves a purpose. And keep it sane.

All the rest is just talk.
Unlimited money? In academia?

Umm... no. Even for the very best people, at the very best places, salaries tend to top off below $150K. In places with high costs of living, this isn't a cushy life.
Well, what if you just ransom it? Targeting it is hardly destructive.
It's a quixotic dream, but one I think is quite beautiful. In terms of 'revived' languages used today in everyday life, the most successful one that comes to mind is Hebrew (and there was a strong desire for national cohesion for a newly created state that in part drove its revival). I don't think anything remotely similar exists in Europe today to drive the widespread adoption of Latin, especially as the drive for further European integration in general has been battered in recent years.
Let's look at the numbers:

99% of open source developers are men (http://people.cs.umass.edu/~wallach/talks/2011-04-05_JHU.pdf). It appears that women just seem to have better use of their time than writing code for free :) (free seems to be the operative word - not use of gendered pronouns in open-source vs commercial software world)

So let's mutilate english language (which is what referring to one user as 'they' really is - let's be honest) for the sake of some percentage of 1% (and probably larger number of men who feel bad for these individuals) who are unhappy to see a gender pronoun.

Now - I am not saying that one way is better than the other. I merely want to frame the argument honestly.
Fast And Furious Death In Fiery Car Crash
That's a good point. You'd have to restrict to information available to someone at the current time, and not based on future randomness (like winning lottery numbers). Otherwise, you could make (effectively) unbounded money by just specifying the stock symbol of a company that gains the most in value in the next year.
man scp
Good point, I hadn't considered that.
It is probably the case that there are multiple cryptographically-secured security layers standing between an anonymous internet user and the innermost layer of such a system.
Lol this is the way the entire world is headed as JOBS IN GENERAL become scarce.

i.e. see every third world country.
Two notes on the Anchorman 2 marketing push from an amateur marketing nerd:

1. This isn't the first time Will Ferrell's pulled something like this. Previously, he recorded a series of Old Milwaukee Super Bowl ads which only aired in North Platte, Nebraska and I believe Sweden. (Naturally, they went viral and hit millions of views fairly quickly.)

2. The man who coordinated Will Ferrell's extensive (and I mean extensive, over seventy different spots were created) cross-promotion with the Dodge Durango is Oliver Francois. He's also the man responsible for the "Imported from Detroit" Super Bowl spot, which for my money is one of the best commercials I've seen in the past five years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKL254Y_jtc
You don't. Bitcoin exchange markets do it every minute of the day the world round: Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Bulgaria, Calgary and local Satoshi circles.

How does one estimate the future value? By taking a position in it, it is you that creates the future...
Barack and Michelle Obama Meet With Illegal Alien Activists
> Misogyny is supposed to be an abnormal thing.

I'm not sure why you think it has to be necessarily. By analogy, would you say that racism is supposed to be an abnormal thing? We have plenty of examples of societies where racism is or was the norm.
Yeah, I've been wanting to make a high order yagi antenna for FM for a long time but have been daunted by the construction. All I need with this is a piece of cardboard, a ruler and a nub to compress the traces when dry for better conduction. :-)

They did some experiments with HF antennas like for WiFi or cellular and it didn't work so well but I think there is a HF limit with it that FM should fall far below.
exactly his point
So you want a optimizer for hyperparameter optimizers? This is getting quite meta.
You have a speed
Was having a casual convo with another Deva few days ago about IDEs. Always a fun topic but I related to him how sick I am of eclipse after all these years and how even though say xcode is not as good an IDE that being written in C it let's me work at my speed.

This is an odd thing to me because I don't want to confuse operational speed with delivery speed. I'm not and would never claim to be a "fast" coder.

But if you have been writing code for 15 years its pretty reasonable to assume you get faster at the mechanics.

My bad days at work are not about finding the right solution. They are bad because I merely have to wait 2 seconds after I click on ANYTHING.

While 2 second push to pain is a standard for shitty websites, I can't accept that for an IDE. I guess vi wins.
Props to his co-anchor on this one. I think if I was doing the news with Ron Burgundy, I'd have a hard time not bursting out laughing...
TPM chips are designed to enforce the rules of whoever controls the TPM chip over the will of whoever is sitting at the computer.

This can be good or bad, depending on who those respective parties are.
I've been having a good experience with Mint 15, I like Cinnamon, and I plan to install Mint 16 Cinnamon on my next laptop.
How does the headers of a real massage (from your server) looks like? It’s strange that the bounced messages in Pastebin only have one “Received” header, without IP information.

I just looked at the last message I got and it has 10 headers with Received, X-Received or Received-SPF, with a lot of IP information.

If they are spoofing the email, then “DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)” may help http://www.dkim.org/ . I never deployed it to a server, so you must seek advice from someone with real word experience.
I'm assuming you wouldn't try to go after their network from an anonymous Internet user.

Rather, stuxnet comes to mind. We're talking about $150 billion after all.

Of course the other issue is, I'm betting they're holding a lot of short term government securities. It simply isn't plausible to steal $70 billion worth of short term US paper and do anything with it.
It's not a choice you are given for proprietary desktops. New features are almost always the domain of point releases. The linux distros have just decoupled that so you know what you are missing if you wait.
"He" (or sometimes alternation between "he" and "she") is stipulated in some older style manuals (I think the New Yorker still uses the latter, say).

There are also some people who seem to be under the impression that singular they is a neologism created by an imagined political correctness conspiracy (of course, they're wrong; it's been in use for over five centuries).
Security Provider Websites are Hacked by Strom Shadow
Looks like she came close a couple times!
Google Nexus Phones Vulnerable to Denial-Of-Service Attack
EIDM is the consolidated Identity and Access Management System in CMS which is one of the largest Oracle 11gR2 Identity and Access Management deployment in the world

...

Services available from EIDM have been grouped into four main services areas (registration service, authorization service, ID lifecycle management service, and access management service). [1]

Optum/QSSI used the EIDM to make accounts. Their part of the system crashed, and they blamed it on the feds, for making people register to compare plans.[2]

This reddit post describes the infinite loop:
i'm now stuck in some infinite loop where it can't identify me, asks me more questions, verify fails, repeat. [3]

1 - http://www.civicagency.org/2013/10/learning-from-the-healthc...

2 - http://www.inforisktoday.com/obamacare-website-security-ques...

3 - http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1oq0ds/has_anyone...
I'd feel better about believing the content if information sources were supplied. I mean, anyone could just have made up any old graphs and produced such a video. Always source.
Back in my English classes, The Elements Of Style was our bible. It says that singular-they is not correct, and that "he" is the correct pronoun for a subject that could be of either gender.

So, if someone were to argue, "we should switch to singular-they because 'he' is old-fashioned", then sure, I would totally be on board with that. Something I didn't know until today, is that singular-they is actually a pretty old idea with a lot of precedent.

But some people (like Joyent) seem to be saying, "anyone who uses 'he' instead of 'they' is being sexist," which is just going totally overboard. Lots of well-regarded style guidelines say the opposite, so quit with your witch-hunt logic.
Mozilla Developer Network Holiday Calendar
Deflation != hyperdeflation
The article is hardly glorifying the period. It's simply making an observation of the difference between the two polls. Neither the author, nor the researchers, nor the interviewee are baby boomers so I'm not sure where that criticism comes from.
There's this app...

http://www.ortisoft.de/en/accessmenubarapps/

Essentially, "knock" the top of the screen twice with the mouse, and it'll switch to this application which has no menus. "Knock" twice again and it'll go back to your app.
Singular 'they' has been in use for far longer than gender-neutral 'he', and is more inclusive. It is also used in virtually all modern tech writing. I'm really not sure what people have against it.
Why might he be a sociopath?
I've never heard of Spirulina, but oat flour is my own personal super-food. I use it as a meal replacement, mixed about 3 parts oats to 1 part protein powder mixed with water. Maybe some dextrose thrown in if you need it a bit sweeter. I love the stuff and I'm glad the guys at Soylent are making it a large part of the formula.
That is the mindset, put off doing anything important until the media tells you that you MUST do it now.
That could be hard to do freehand. There is a KS plotter project, the WaterColorBot, which is very inexpensive and should be easy to adapt to this. Then, over-tracing and creating multiple overlapping parallel traces could be rather easily achieved.

With regard to this question they responded,

"2. There are ways to reduce the ohm rating when dry, simply rubbing the trace with a hard, smooth surface like a rounded pen cap will decrease the resistance by increasing particle to particle contacts
3. The ink can support a maximum current of about 175 mA on standard copy paper. Higher currents cause joule heating and a subsequent drop in resistance due to sintering the particles (up to around 8x decrease in resistance if controlled). Currents exceeding 400 mA may break the trace on standard copy paper. High currents can be achieved with photo paper, near 800mA.
4. Currently, the ink will only be available via rollerball pen, but this can be adapted to be used in various plotters. We will have videos and demos of this shortly.
5. Conductive adhesives will work with the ink"
This looks nice, though I feel like this is one of those cases where it's easier to code it yourself than to learn and use the library API. At least until the BOA stuff is implemented, and perhaps even then.
What's nonsense is to claim "the policies that were cancelled basically didn't give any coverage anyway." The ACA added several minimum requirements to private insurance plans, such as maternity and prescription drug coverage, which people could reasonably choose to forgo in exchange for the lower premiums.

FYI, not having "prescription drug coverage" does not mean insurance does not cover any medication. It is a pharmacy benefit, in other words, over-the-counter medication. In my personal experience, I pay significantly less without the coverage than with it. I also don't have to worry about formularies, prior authorization, or generic swap-outs.

To give you a specific example, in 2013 I paid $107/mo for a private individual policy with a $2,700 deductible, $5,250 max out-of-pocket (inclusive of the deductible) and unlimited lifetime benefits. Next year under ACA I'll be paying $283/mo for a policy with a $4,500 deductible and $6,350 max out-of-pocket (inclusive of the deductible) and unlimited lifetime benefits.

The most important clause in the ACA is limiting the rating factor due to age to a maximum of 3x. That clause alone makes it the single largest tax increase ever passed on young middle class families with children. By my estimates, it will cost families like mine about $50,000 in increased insurance premiums over the next 10 years, because the least we can now pay is 1/3rd the rate of unhealthy 64 year-olds.
I found it (and still find it) very weird that Dropbox has an actual setting for choosing the color depth of the icon.
Complexity of concatMap operations. Nested things don't always fuse.

If you want to use fusion, the best place is the `vector` package.
Just about anything by bell hooks. But if you want a specific starting point, try "Feminism is for Everybody".
How do you threaten to destroy gold?
> Refering to someone as "they" or "them" is an even worse offence.

Singular they is rarely used for a specific person; it's generally used for an unknown or abstract person.
Famous academics make a lot of money besides their salaries. And there was a Hacker News thread recently that said that Terence Tao's salary (which I guess is public information, because his salary comes from a public university) was above $400,000 a year. (I imagine he has the flexibility to travel to conferences that he desires, as well, among other nonsalary benefits.) Medical doctors who are professors of medicine also have total compensation packages well north of $150K.

AFTER EDIT: Of course, I was specifically disagreeing with the specific dollar figure ("$150K") in the comment immediately above mine. The grandparent comment, referring to "unlimited money," is of course using the literary device of hyperbole, which academics in the disciplines I studied in my higher education know better than to take literally. An academic who writes a widely adopted textbook can make serious money in quite a few different disciplines, and academic employment in general offers more opportunity than most forms of employment to take on side jobs.
It's the private key associated with the address that has value.
Way to treat your team like a bunch of monkeys.
> What's with the trend of obsessively using "she"?

Some people who for whatever reason refuse to use singular they will alternate between he and she instead.
Well, there is such a thing as hyperheuristics, which are related to what you're saying (perhaps the name metaheuristic would've been used for this, but it was already taken). While theoretically possible, I don't think it makes much practical sense.
> TBH, blindly substituting "them" and "they" everywhere will result in sentences that are incorrect

If done blindly, potentially. If done properly, no. Modern tech writing tends to use singular they anyway.

> It doesn't take a huge lack of empathy to suggest that it's better to write in a way that's grammatically correct

Singular they is not incorrect.
One thing Microsoft learned is to empower your developers...but also assume they're absolute dicks. Since Vista, MS has learned to make the OS work around all these terrible habits. Tray icons auto-hide. The start menu is scrollable and searchable and actually digging through it is kinda discouraged. Apps that require admin permissions get annoying uac pop-up messages.
You're right. I though OP gave the value to the address. :s
Well, yes. I see your original point... it makes sense if you look at it from a perspective of communicating the information rather than a security perspective, which is what I was focusing on. Of course, that all assumes that the receiver knows a priori they are receiving a key and what the key corresponds to. And assuming you wanted to set something like that up, there are a lot more dense ways to go about it. It reminds me of this: http://killscreendaily.com/articles/articles/we-went-looking...

In other words, bury massive inheritance in the desert. Issue a list of 1,000,000 GPS coordinates. Then you only need 10 bits.
I prefer KDE. Unity has a mix of in-house, mac-style and Gnome design. I can't say it provides the best UX. It does provide consistency which makes it the most popular distribution and desktop environment.

On the other hand KDE is much more versatile and perceptive of user's choice. It has a rich set of software which includes a full productivity suite of KDE PIM (personal information management) and all Qt apps fit pretty well in KDE. KDE heavily uses widgets which makes your overall experience better.

You should give OpenSUSE 13.1 or Fedora 20 KDE a try.
Relevant: http://www.macbartender.com
I see, okay did not know "undefined behavior" was part of ISO.
It's pretty unfortunate that I have to pay $30 to see the ISO standard...

http://isocpp.org/std/the-standard
> Isn't using "them/they" in the singular to avoid gendered pronouns still considered grammatically incorrect?

No. Singular they has never been grammatically incorrect. The frequency of its use has simply varied throughout the years. For what it's worth, singular they seems to predate gender-neutral 'he' in written English.
after you're a professor, you can reach the top, the president of a university. look at john hennessy.