skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "... when I type "aunt", readers have no idea how I pronounce it ...".

From the language survey, there were quite a few questions dealing with word choice (e.g., coke, soda, pop). There are also algorithms that can predict, with varying levels of accuracy, the writer's gender [1]. Combine these with browser font identification [2], geolocation [3], and other comparable data, and lying or omitting data isn't going to provide much in the way of anonymizing you or your data.

[1] http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php

[2] https://panopticlick.eff.org/

[3] http://html5demos.com/geo
Love the approach of this article, but the design itself is problematic.

The absurdly large fixed header takes up 20% of the page. Fixed headers, in particular large ones, are the herpes of page design. You're forced to always see it even when trying to look at other parts of the page body.

edit: the author of the article sent a thoughtful and kind reply to a snotty message I sent with the above thoughts. newfangled must be a top-notch company.
What do you mean? If you know Clojures syntax for Java interop, reading Java API's shouldn't be much of a problem. Searching for java howtos on how to use sockets and such should also give you a fair amount of results...
There are plenty of people looking for just that, and most sites I've seen dedicated to housing news focus around nice places to retire, places to raise kids, places to live cheaply but with no jobs (this house only costs $280,000 with an average city salary of $38,000!).

I live in a medium sized Midwestern city with a burgeoning job market and plenty of restaurants/breweries/nightlife. I have a two bedroom apartment for less than $700/mo and it takes me less than 10 minutes to get downtown at 5pm. Meals for two cost $30 at a local restaurant with local beer. What I make isn't a lot, but it's a good deal over $38,000. That has to exist somewhere else too. I love my city, but I'm looking for new people and cultures (and I'm tired of -25F winters).
Their twitter account is here for those interested! https://twitter.com/_thedevelopment
Hilbert space [0] cited on p. 23 (bottom).

[0]: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гильбертово_пространство
Jagsemach.
the same quote and facts are repeated no less than 3 times in the first few paragraphs of the article.

why do journalists do this? it's incredibly annoying to read because i'm just reading the same thing over and over, restated. it makes me feel like i'm a 6 year old with a big-print book.

do certain paragraphs get chopped off in syndication? are they going for a threshold word count by repeating things? i can think of no other reasons why this style of writing would be popular.
LightTable and Emacs's SLIME (through swank, for clojure) likely provide much better lisp integration than what vim has available. I've got no idea what's available in vim so I may be wrong, but here's SLIME: http://www.cliki.net/SLIME%20Features
I've already said before that it's the best to drop the term "hacker" altogether, unless you define it beforehand or are in a setting where it already has been implicitly defined (like in a hackerspace).

There's too many of them, some contradictory.
Looks like a mix of Quake and Liero. Sweet.
"Fill in your name, e-mail address, and mailing address. "

A great way to build a database of dna! To be used for
other reasons.

While I am not seriously thinking that this is some plot
to do this it reminds me a bit of the scheme that the authorities
use to round up people wanted on warrants by sending them
a message that they have won a vacation. Then they all show
up at the convention center to collect their winnings
and are arrested en masse saving time and trouble.

In a sense this is really (or I should say really I should say
"could be") an example of social engineering.
According to this article[0], most of their economic numbers are severely distorted by manipulation.

0: http://www.theage.com.au/business/china/is-george-soros-bett...
That seems like it should violate medical records confidentiality rules (I don't know if it does, but it should).
So... name, home address, and DNA sample for a $10 gift card?
I'll let the accountants and economists weigh in on that. But I'd rather rely on data than the argument "they all play accounting tricks therefore it must all cancel out". In other words, I'd like to see a similar analysis of the US's trade numbers and see if the resultant 'trickery' adjustment results in a significant shift in the trade numbers.
That's cool so many of these companies are fighting for users' privacy rights in Congress. I was surprised to see Comcast alongside Google in fighting for privacy rights in courts as well.
Something like https://www.eff.org//deeplinks/2013/11/encrypt-web-report-wh... ?
I'm of an European descent and I'm not talking on behalf of Japanese nation. Just my personal thoughts.

Japan (Tokyo) is my permanent home and I feel unease with all the economic developments of our immediate neighbor.

I'm more than happy that they could lift themselves up from poverty and I'll be happy if we could be good mutually respecting partners.

But I'm also quite concerned about my future in the next 10-15 years. Quick economic success can lead a nation to feel they are better than others. History tend to repeat itself.

Here is an outlook for the coming Great Siberian War:
http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/International_security_affairs/c...
He's not really asking for a 1:1 comparison though, just a mapping of common constructs (and a note when a construct makes no sense) in order to get his bearings.
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Just a heads up, the FBI's jurisdiction is within the USA. But that's a great question.
Yes... but reading api documentation isnt a tutorial. I was asking for a tutorial for common java api stuff. If a tutorial goes through some common apis then you can get a feel for how to read the documentation through a clojure lens.
Liero is distinct though in that it's balanced for 1v1. This creates tremendous differences in terms of the cat-and-mouse mechanics, the long reload times, the tricks to digging and covering your exit.

Once you switch to a deathmatch-style, the time-intensive mechanics of cat-and-mouse fall apart because DM requires you aggressively chase the next kill above all else. This makes them very different games.
Who is their institutional review board?

Their entry at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/scanadu-scout-the-first-me... says:

> As soon as we enter the clinical studies, the measurements relative to each study are collected to be part of the study data. This happens within the framework of a well defined Institutional Review Board - approved clinical protocol.

The page linked to by this HN post says "...to be a part of the first usability study and then clinical studies for the company’s road to FDA approval."

Since the page says they just wants saliva samples, not usability feedback, that means they are in stage 2 - a clinical study.

But I find nothing about their IRB on their web site or elsewhere.
Having grown up in a poor rural area without access to the internet until the age of 18, I get pretty pissed off when leftists judge me based on my genitals and skin color. Where do they get off assuming that I've had everything in life handed to me because I'm a white male? When did it become acceptable behavior to say that to a person's face?
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With four times as many people as the US, isn't passing the trade per person a more notable milestone? (If you have to define one).

I'm a bit leery of announcements like this since it's really hard to compare economies to each other (like comparing apples to oranges), but as a US citizen, I can tell you that I'm much more concerned about the state of our political system than our economy.
Great talk! Excellent introduction to the language and a must see for anyone wondering "why Rust?".
Fun and canny optimization for a canny edge detector
>Am I the only one that noticed that Maxwell Equations are looking like a weired simplified sets of Navier Stokes equation in a case of a very weired perfect gaz? (viscosity = 0,

Faraday's original approach was the "flow" of the field
( that was later mathematized by Maxwell).
Why would you trim the majority of my comment which is essentially in agreement with what you have written?

I get that you are just elaborating on data leakage, I just don't understand the style you chose to do it in. "identity characteristics leak out all over the place" isn't exactly a brazen declaration of how easy it is to stay anonymous.
True. Get them to be an investor in your firm, and that risk is reduced.
Based on the interaction, I could obviously deduce that there was someone else with the same four data points that saw the same doctor and was 30 years older. I don't know if that, in and of itself, is breaking confidentiality.

If they had started entering my data into that person's record and subsequently realized the error, then they might have had to break some confidentiality in order to clean up our conjoined record.
Perhaps he was angry at his captors.

Or convinced he was doing the right thing and that resistance was worth it according to his value system.

I can't say, otherwise, never been tortured.
Hmm, I traced this story to http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/35868077/BSidesSanFranc...
and you're right - this account makes them look very bad.

Hmm. Damn.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...

Transparency in government activity is different from disclosing support to an organization.
More specifically, the point of my comment was to give several reasons why opt-out was okay, and in return I was hoping to get a contradictory perspective providing reasons why it's not okay.

A discussion that never goes beyond "I (dis)agree" isn't much of a discussion.
i found the Clojure koans useful. (http://clojurekoans.com/) they're aimed at beginners so they would be a good companion/followup to this
From the article, that seems like the most accurate description you can get in one sentence, especially since the conversation will go,

---I'm a programmer at "hacker school"

---Cool, what's "hacker school?"
Does it really matter if I'm not anonymous online?
Thanks!

I forgot about indie game... is that the one about fez and super meat boy? That was fantastic.
It's also true if you are selling original software that borrows one line of code from somebody else's software.
I plan on adding that to the book. In the mean time, I have a series on Java for Clojurists: http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/how-clojure-...
Very cool! Engine development is fun - I liked programming the 3D hardware on the Nintendo DS using the raw hardware register interface. Thinking back, it was a lot of BS hoops to jump to! I should look into using C# and DX to maintain my sanity.
Also, you of course do not need purity to get monads to “work”. You can do them in SML or OCaml, for instance, which are not pure by a long shot; by the definition of “pure” which I employ, Haskell isn’t either.

Lack of purity is a defect which bites you whether or not you have monads: so if you're perfectly happy dealing with it in your existing code base (like most of us are), making explicit the “monadic” patterns in your codebase will not make it worse, and may improve things a bit.
There are several dynamics all intertwined.

1. Increased need for advanced statistical tools beyond just Excel and more affordable (and more modern) than SAS. This means that R is getting more and more attention from business analytics folks, just as Python is as well. If someone lives only in one of these communities, it's possible to misinterpret this overall expansion as being specific to just their language/ecosystem.

2. More heterogeneous data streams and increased data volumes mean that traditional the data warehouse pipeline model of ingest -> clean -> structuring/modelling -> analysis is breaking down. (Cloudera, for instance, acknowledges their evolving customer needs in the DW space by branding their Hadoop stack as being an "Enterprise Data Hub".) However, most people are not sold on the idea that there is a Single Unicorn Vendor that will sell them a single silo or comprehensive BI suite that fixes everything. Instead, in the face of increased demands for agility and increased heterogeneity, ad-hoc data munging is a real need. This is an area where Python truly excels.

3. The author of this blog post is squarely focused in the world of stats. This is R's home turf and of course, R and S have been the de-facto languages of academic statisticians for decades. By the time that a user like him would consider turning to Python, then R's days will truly be numbered. That has not happened yet, nor is it the contention of the original blog post he was responding to. Instead, it's the idea that there is a huge diversity of statistical and analytical needs in the world, and Python is rapidly being adopted in those spaces because it's easy to pick up and it is a very polyglot tool.

The author of NumPy has commented that, "R is still king in the statistics department (and some social sciences). Everywhere else in the university - engineering and sciences - people use Matlab, C++, and more and more, they are turning to Python."
From what I've read, with current Chinese growth trends, that won't happen for another 100 years. Unlike other, smaller East Asian countries (Japan, Taiwan, South Korea) that have grown on the back of export-based manufacturing, China is far too large to base its growth on exports alone.
No free version is definitely an interesting decision. If they market it as heavily as it sounds like they will and they can convince normal people to pay for this like they would cable or phone service it would be a game changer for the music industry whether it is significantly different in features from Spotify or not.
Great suggestion. Thank you!
That makes more sense. My dad's car has dynamic leveling with braking and acceleration. I noticed it in conjunction with hills for that reason.
False positives are an interesting case, where things can definitely get messy. That doctor may have used the same system for decades without ever seeing a name collision, but if the receptionist hadn't noticed in that instance, both of you might have had significant problems in the future. Likewise, if someone decides to track another person with malicious intent (say, "that guy I saw my ex with in the restaurant who was wearing the [university] shirt and talked about being in [field] and growing up in [place]") and they end up locating the wrong target, things could get ugly. Or if a company starts sending potentially offensive material to someone they've misidentified, it can trigger family drama or even retaliation.

So it's a two-edged sword. People aren't very anonymous, but mistakes in the de-anonymization process can wreak havoc.
Am I the only one who spends 16 hours in front of a computer (mostly) working 6 days a week, managing staff exclusively through email and oDesk, and loves it? Maybe it's because I view the entrepreneurship stage as the filling between two sides of the cookie sandwich, with tons of partying, debauchery, and socialization in the years before I got into it, and tons of it on the other side once the damn thing's finally making enough money to hire a real management team to watch the stables for a while, while I go out and take a years-in-the-making vacation to end all vacations... then come back and get to work until I don't feel like working on business anymore.

I also don't use Facebook, Twitter, or anything else along those lines... if you want to reach me, you can email me, and I'll respond when I check email once every few days, or if you're one of the very few people who has access to my phone, you can call or text me and we can chat or grab dinner. No cyberstalking or hours lost to staring at social media inanity wondering why I'm not a part of all the pretend-excitement people portray themselves as engaging in for me. Wonder if this vicarious living through people's puffed up social lives on social media isn't a big part of why the author feels so left out.
Google added a permissions manager in Android 4.3, but it was removed again in 4.4.

I never got to try it (went from 4.2 CyanogenMod to Nexus 5) but there are apps which do the same in the Play Store. They supposedly break a great deal of apps, though, and that may be why Google removed theirs in the first place. Hopefully just for the time being.
I'm quite fond of Bitcoin, but to say it's usable is a bit much. I feel a lot more comfortable in a world where I am insured verses sorting money in paper wallets and exchanging through websites with crazy security theatre and not much else. The crypto is strong but the community and support is weak to non existent.

The end point is that Nieman-Marcus' breach won't financially effect a single person thanks to insurance, had it been a bunch of Bitcoin private keys compromised then we'd have a completely different, more disastrous situation.
I read your comment as saying that you could lie in text about identifying information and things that might betray you in a f2f interaction, such as regional accents, weren't as important in textual interactions.
Short zen clojure enlightenment
Slime has been completely replaced by cider.

https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider
I remember reading these two tweets:
https://twitter.com/jacobian/status/416719991963009024
https://twitter.com/jacobian/status/417776560603549696

and thinking that the second one (in response to some people telling him he was factually wrong about pg, and should maybe cool down) in particular marks him as a toxic passive-aggressive douchebag. Do you think these are fine, too?

I didn't know he was head of Django, which I don't use, but wouldn't go as far as assuming his personality leaks out to the project. It may well be that he's doing great things in Django, people often compartmentalize.
At my doctor and pharmacy they look me up by birthdate only in the computer. I assume they only need more data if there is a collision.
Libtrading, open source C library for high-speed, low-latency electronic trading
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I guess one factor in this "1000 times more efficient" scam is the higher photon output per surface area. LEDs efficiency drop a lot when maximizing photon per surface area. Edge emitting blue lasers have a much better power conversion rate than LEDs when driven at higher input power.
The much better photon/surface area plus higher input power create a much narrower and brighter beam. Therfore only ~10% loss opposed to ~30% with LEDs...

http://m.phys.org/news/2013-11-laser-diodes.html

http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~crose/capstone12/entries/Soli...
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also nrepl
A bit outdated though e.g. for the first one, since 0.0.2060 cljs has grown (enable-console-print!) which sets print-fn to a wrapper around console.log. As a result, one can use all the usual clojure printing functions[0] and the output will be sent to the browser console.

[0] http://clojure.org/other_functions#Other%20Useful%20Function...
So, instead of having the possible risk to the seller that a buyer could do a chargeback (which the seller can fight on PayPal with proof of delivery, though I'm not claiming how well this works), bitcoin shifts all that risk to the buyer (with no recourse at all). It's as risky as sending a money order through the mail. How does this make bitcoin better than PayPal for the overall transaction (for BOTH buyer and seller)?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/253099/how-do-i-print-th...
I think this might possibly work for the core dump? I don't have time to check now myself...
With three times as many people as the US, isn't passing the trade per person a more notable milestone?

That's certainly notable, but not interchangeable with this one. The total size of your economy reflects certain opportunities for scale, regardless of your population and/or productivity.

If we think about corporations, when you have certain purchasing power, you can extract certain concessions from your vendors regardless of how many employees you have. When you manufacture and ship a certain number of products, you can profitably invest in infrastructure, again regardless of the number of employees you have.

I feel that the same argument extends to trade on the scale of countries. Which does not devalue the milestone you describe, just that they have different consequences.
Thanks for the feedback! I should add a link to Light Table, but I don't think I'll end up writing instructions for it as it seems like the existing docs are pretty good.
(not= "Clojure" "ClojureScript")
who ISN'T leery? do you think a single person reading that is thinking some objective ranking has been established?
Grayrest explained why something like LightTable is so nice, but it's probably worth mentioning that LightTable has a built-in Vim keybindings mode as well, so it will hopefully not be too unfamiliar.
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I have been doing a lot of SSL/TLS research the last few days and found the following to be great resources from Qualys too:

- https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2013/08/05/c...

- https://www.ssllabs.com/downloads/SSL_TLS_Deployment_Best_Pr...
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You could conceivably try to claim fair use, in that case, although it would undoubtedly be easier (and easy enough) to replace that one line with something original.
For some people ot really does matter.

They are releasing information to the outsode world about an oppressive regime.

They are whistle-blowing in an industry that has weak protections for whistleblowers.

They found some horrible criminal material online amd want to report it without being arrested by law enforcement

Etc etc.

Sadly there are things that most people could do to help the few who need anonymity, but because these things are a bit fiddly and provide no immediate benefit most people do npt bother.
Show HN: My Internet life
But when I think of governments, the largest ones are almost always the most corrupt and inefficient.

Compare US to UK. California to Washington (state). EU to formerly more independent nations.

In each case the larger state delivers services less effectively, with more waste, arguably more corruption, and more useless nanny state rules.
Show HN: Rainbow Parentheses Highlighting on GitHub (Clojure etc.)
Run it in console (i.e., devtools or other) on a github source view page. (E.g., https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/blob/master/src/lt/object.cljs)

If someone wants to make this into a Chrome Extension, that would be cool. I realize the code is terrible; I just threw it together in dev tools.

var rainbow_parens = function(jq_el) {
var html = jq_el.html();
var processed_html = "";
var nesting_level = -160;
var color;
for (var i = 0; i < html.length; i++) {
if (html[i] == '(') {
nesting_level += 160;
color = 'rgba(' + Math.min(Math.max((nesting_level % 510) - 255, 0), 255) + ',0,' + Math.min((nesting_level % 510), 255) + ',1)';
processed_html += '<span style="color: ' + color + '; text-shadow: -1px 0px 0px ' + color + '">(</span>';
} else if (html[i] == ')') {
color = 'rgba(' + Math.min(Math.max((nesting_level % 510) - 255, 0), 255) + ',0,' + Math.min((nesting_level % 510), 255) + ',1)';
processed_html += '<span style="color: ' + color + '; text-shadow: 1px 0px 0px ' + color + '">)</span>';
nesting_level -= 160;
} else {
processed_html += html[i];
}
}
jq_el.html(processed_html);
};rainbow_parens($('.code-body'));
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I agree with your overall point but I think your corporation analogy is slightly flawed. To my mind, the appropriate analogy with a corporation is a comparison of citizens to customers rather than employees. That is, the original commenter would like to see a number more like ARPU. Something like Average Trade Per Capita (ATPC)?