skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using your TVs energy profile to determine what you were actually watching
Your post was in reply to someone asking about Taleb's Black Swans so I assumed you were talking about 2008 in reference to that.
Like anyone ever in any kind of law enforcement position:

"it's okay when we do it"
I'm agains the NSA spying as well, but saying they haven't cited anything isn't the same thing as proving they haven't stopped terrorist attacks.

Please don't read more into this than what I said.
Ideally, we elect them to do what we would want them to do if we were fully informed and had time to think about each issue. In practice, both sides of the question are easily used and just as easily alleged to be used as political cover for unsavoriness.
Let's look at TimBL's statememt:

[I]f content protection of some kind has to be used for videos, it is better for it to be discussed in the open at W3C, better for everyone to use an interoperable open standard as much as possible...

But EME is non-interoperable because different browsers use different DRM systems, and none of those DRM systems themselves are open standards. (Open standard DRM like OMA DRM does exist, but AFAIK browsers aren't interested in it.)

...and better for it to be framed in a browser which can be open source, and available on a general purpose computer rather than a special purpose box.

EME is kind of a shell game, moving the closed-source component outside the browser into the OS.
I'm not a Starbucks regular so I may have missed a detail. Transferring money from a stored bank account to the app seems to be a server action, so the server should be doing the auth. What then is the point of storing the password on the client? If it's just to confirm possession of the phone, a token would be better for usability, as well as in all the other ways a token is superior to a password. TFA says the password is also used to activate the app, but a token signed with a timestamp and emailed to the user would be better for that.
To be clear - The Square wasn't created by Netflix. The Square is an independent documentary started a few years ago, boosted with a successful Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/noujaimfilms/the-square-...) last year, and finally picked up by Netflix. That said, much credit goes to Netflix for recognizing and promoting independent documentaries.
my answer: i always worry about it.

i dont think its a great way - teaching indirectly via worrying - but it has some value in that they know spending it has to be done with some thought because there is only a finite supply and we like a nice warm house.

i try to counteract the negativity of 'not spending by worrying' by occasionally making small purchases that are purly for enjoyment - a toy, a dinner out, a weekend at the beach.
This strikes me as an instance of "The Blind Men and an Elephant"

It's very hard to pin down either necessary or sufficient skills for a developer, so we all focus on the things that have been relevant to us.

I'd add the following to the list: problem solving, critical thinking, social skills, egolessness
OK: once he got in office, it turned out that watching everyone seemed like a good idea.

But here's the thing: it's unconstitutional. It's illegal.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized".

Meaning: 1) You can't read my email without a warrant and 2) you need specific suspicions of me to get one.

Any interpretation that says the grocery list in my pocket is covered by the fourth amendment, but every electronic communication I make is NOT covered, is insane. "Houses, papers and effects" was the writer's way of saying "everything I can think of belonging to that person." Email and phone metadata and GPS location weren't imagined, but can you seriously say they would have been excluded?

So: balancing security with privacy is a hard thing. It is. But pooping on the constitution isn't a solution.

You want to surveil everything? Say so openly, explain your case, and try to repeal the fourth amendment. We're America: we decide by voting.

Secretly discarding the highest laws of the land is tyrannical, whatever the justification.
People might also be interested in http://try-hy.appspot.com/.

Does anyone know how they do sandboxing in there? Judging from the source (https://github.com/hylang/tryhy/blob/master/main.hy) repl.eval is called on each expression. I'm guessing it just uses App Engine's default python sandboxing.
This is a good point. We have this fetished ideal of the POTUS as this mastermind, but I imagine a great deal of things are purposely hidden from him or hidden via apathy/politicking/corruption and "lets not involve the president on this," kind of thing.

I'm also curious what would happen if we had a president who was strictly anti-intelligence and anti-military. I imagine that's a quick way towards impeachment or getting deposed. There are way too many powerful people and way too much money in intel/military to just reform it. Can you imagine moving to a military budget on par with Russia? Ever?

If anything, we're a military power first and a democracy last. The fact that we can casually lie about war justifications, end the lives of 130,000 civilians, get into almost 1T in debt for it, and have it considered uncontroversial by American citizens and politicians speaks a lot about our values and our system.
I'm biased as a non-technical analyst with an academic history, but I'm concerned that the curriculum doesn't meet the most basic needs.

Quoting the section 'An Academic Shortfall':
"Academic credentials are important but not necessary for high-quality data science. The core aptitudes – curiosity, intellectual agility, statistical fluency, research stamina, scientific rigor, skeptical nature – that distinguish the best data scientists are widely distributed throughout the population."

In my estimation, none of those aptitudes are covered by teaching technical skills like databases, NLP, ML, graphical models, and the other topics this curriculum covers.

The "core aptitudes" generally boil down to asking the correct questions, establishing the correct answers, and correctly defending them. Academia doesn't automatically instill these skills, but it can do a great job of doing so.

Either way, inside or outside the ivory tower, an ace programmer who masters NLP, ML, Hadoop, and everything else could easily still come out without the required core aptitudes, and be thoroughly unprepared to do what data scientists are really expected to do: answer questions.
That's a bit like saying "You can throw a ball in the air and catch it again, so you must have an understanding of celestial mechanics, fluid dynamics and geometry."

Using a database is working with set theory, but that's very, very different to understanding set theory.
"It also does not matter what schools anywhere teach if your children do not attend that school."

How do you figure? These people eventually enter the workforce. Maybe they become politicians, and base their political direction on misinformation. Even if they remain in the private sector, someone that is the product of a misguided education will lack the tools necessary to impact society in an informed way, and will have an artificial ceiling on their potential due to lack of knowledge. Education has a massive impact on the world around those who are educated. Considering knowledge to be an isolated, personal thing isn't remotely accurate.
Evolution is a theory that is almost self-evident. I hope that the pupils in these classrooms can determine the truth for themselves.
There are tons of "developers" out there that don't know much about security or really care about it. This is especially true in the mobile space where anyone that has published a Hello World app to the app store can get a job working as a contractor.

This makes me think though that there could be some good money to be made by opening every single app like this to check it's security then offering services to said company to secure their application. Of course the way the world works today; instead of taking me up on the help they would probably just contact the police.
This is one the reasons I like parsing HTTP requests through TCL. Everything in HTTP is a string, there are no numerals. Typecasting arguments from query strings is the source of many ills. It isn't much of a problem with TCL since like HTTP, everything is a string.

Everything else about web service backends in TCL is pretty sad and frustrating, though. Unless it's embedded, anyway.
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> At least two of those are crimes, so yes they are criminals.

You have made some logical errors here.

The fact that there is a hole in the wall is not ascribed to squatters and could equally be attributed to general disrepair.

I accept you might say: "there has been at least some crime, so there has been at least one criminal"... but you still don't know if that one criminal was a squatter or how many squatters there were who were not committing such crimes.

In the end, this anecdotal/circumstantial evidence teaches us nothing.
I went to a private school in PA, and we were taught evolution. The teacher made a passing remark that creationism is a 'competing hypothesis' and left it at that.
First, as the second answer points out, the terms "strong" and "weak" shouldn't be used and are confusing.

Second, having a type system makes a language very different! Language subsets are different languages.
Hm, doesn't let me reduce the number to zero.
And how do you guarantee the validity of your snap shot? has your process been writing corrupt records for the last n hours and not notice?

Do you even have access to that snapshot if the system is down?

the cloud simply exchanges know levels of failure with unknown level of failure. You pay someone else to think about it for you.

If there is a massive data loss at amazon, and people have been backing up to glacier, the recovery times will jump from hours to days even weeks, simply because there aren't enough drives to recover from.

The cloud may be more reliable, but when it goes down, it'll gown down hard, leaving you high and dry if you don't have real backups.
Ghost is nice, but it doesn't quite fill the same niche. Its ease of use comes from its dynamic parts like the editor. Certainly can't use those if I only want static output without some steps inbetween and especially not if the server doesn't run any interpreter.
I've never understood the sentiment of "I need to find a cofounder" (especially the seemingly ubiquitous seeking of the technical variant).

If someone doesn't already have a long list of people (friends, former colleagues, friends of friends) whom they could possibly reach out to, what does that say about that person when seen from the potential partner?
Yes, his Black Swan stuff is a completely separate issue from whether he has or hasn't predicted anything.
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>"Tweets posted on weekends and Wednesday have more number of retweets on average as compared to rest of the weekdays"

People spend more time on social media during weekends it seems , unlike me.
I'm disappointed this isn't something similar to psdoom [1], as I originally imagined it might be. What could be more natural a metaphor, for the cognitive sink of heavy and mostly superfluous inbox traffic, than headcrabs and headcrab zombies?

[1] http://psdoom.sourceforge.net
The alternative is to knock it down and build something banal. At least the developers are trying to preserve it and preserving this type of building is really really tough. It's not a house, and it wasn't built with hand tools.

These buildings are vast. Every $1 per square foot of renovation is a lot of money. It is further complicated because the historic features tend to include long since discontinued manufactured items. Often these components were custom designed because the products were cutting edge, needed in large quantities, and the client's were such as to see the benefit and to afford them [e.g. Pyrex tubes at Wright's Johnson Building and the ceiling tiles in Bunshaft's Cigna Hedquarters].

Finally preservation is tough because these buildings were designed at a time when energy was cheap. Van der Rohe' Segram Building ran all the lights all night for architectural effect. All that glass which allows daylight in also creates a greenhouse. Technology can mitigate some of the effect but until we get a thermostat on the sun, the physics will remain the same.

Developers come in all stripes. Any neighborhood or district you love and enjoy was built by one [or more]. Sure, they might be lying scumbags and just paying lip service as a precursor to a Power Center in a sea of asphalt. But probably not.

That this developer is trying to preserve the building means that they are valuing history and aesthetics over the bottom line. They may not be successful. They may walk away. But to me, it sounds like they are instead dreaming unreasonable dreams, and that's the fabric of amazing places.
Politicians are public figures by definition. There is plenty of information out there to make informed decisions with or without the existence of honest campaigns.

The only reason there is "no meaningful chance for popular support" of an honest candidate is because the voting population doesn't reward it; and perhaps more importantly, the voting population doesn't punish dishonesty.
I had to digest after reading this article for a while. (I've also shared the link among my Facebook friends, so that they can help me digest this.) On the whole, I like the author's take that charter schools are a good idea, a good enough idea that while Texas limits the number of charter schools to 300 statewide, it is important to make sure that each charter school offers a sound curriculum. And I think the author is correct that the Responsive Ed charter school curriculum is simply unsound both as to science and as to history.

Regulation of schools is the job of state governments in the United States by default. Political forces in the state legislature in Texas make it hard to fix this problem solely by state legislation, because the Responsive Ed curriculum does represent the point of view of some highly motivated and politically active Texas voters. The article author points out that federal constitutional principles ban teaching religious doctrine in the guise of teaching school curriculum content, so that is one possible response to the skewed curriculum in these charter schools. Another, too little considered in most articles about school choice in general, is simply for other schools to boldly proclaim that their curriculum is better, and explain why it is better. The Responsive Ed schools surely find agreement among some parents shopping for schools in Texas, but they would also be embarrassed to have to defend point by point all of the ridiculous things they say in their curriculum. In particular, it would be good for other schools to specifically mention the many lines of evidence for macroevolution[1] as they promote their curriculums. Comparative advertising is still an under-used tool for promoting school reform, even in states like mine with pervasive public school open enrollment.

I think John Stuart Mill got the policy balance correct more than a century ago, when school attendance was not compulsory in Britain nor in most parts of the United States: "A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."

John Stuart Mill On Liberty (1859)

[1] http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
The public can have an opinion about a secret program when details of it have leaked, as is the case here. But more to the point, if the public don't know how little they know then that's also an area for activism. All of these topics ought to enrage everyone, but they don't because of a lack of awareness. Yet the tech crowd starts the debate assuming everyone is angry.

I have no idea what point you're making with the concentration camp comment.
i agree. we have taken customers from $x0,000/month AWS footprints to $x,000 month managed hardware footprints. an order of magnitude.

aws is a lot of things, but cheap and reliable aren't on that list.
If theres ever a time to do the right thing, it's in the President's second term: it's all downhill, what the pundits say doesn't matter to re-electability, since there is none (unless you plan on going to another office later on...)
This is probably going to be the coolest thing I will see all week.
Don't panic - I was taught all sorts of daft stuff in school - when I think back on it a staggering proportion of (say) history or geography was completely untrue. It helps in a way that some of it was so crazy it got me questioning the basis for the rest. Thats when you stop being taught stuff and start researching and learning.

Not suggesting that every pupil taught creationism will respond in this way - many are probably pre-programmed by the religious affiliations to believe it anyway - but the intellectual health of the pupil body is not a lost cause.
The terms are nearly interchangeable[0] but programmer is more widely used[1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer (see first sentence)

[1] http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=coder&...
And I must admit, the accusations in this article are outlandish. I found them hard to believe.
As someone who got into programming late in life - and, with the exception of geometry, began sucking at math starting with algebra - I never graduated beyond Algebra 2 and trig (and barely passed those classes).

The biggest stumbling block I run into with programming relates to the adage "There are only three numbers in computer science: 0, 1 and n". I can easily deal w/ the '0' and '1' cases, but struggle making my programs work with the 'n' case. I've attributed this to my poor math background, so have begun to pick up where I left off with an aim to learn Pre-calc and then Calculus.

However I'm wondering if this isn't a mistake and rather I should focus more on logic and, perhaps set theory (I'm not even sure I know what that is and whether it requires higher level math)...?

If the above is true - I'm curious to hear from those with more advanced math backgrounds - then it may lend at least some credence to the author's point.
Pretty off topic, but I submitted this story last night [1] with the exact same URL and title. I thought whenever duplicate stories were submitted, it just upvoted the original submission without posting a duplicate story (that's what's happened to me in the past).

I originally saw this, and thought the URL was just different (even if just slightly), so I wasn't even going to say anything.

But since the URLs are identical, was just curious how the HN logic works when submitting duplicate URLs like that. Is it that too much time had passed, considering them "different" submissions?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7068298
Your experience resonates with me and I hadn't seen it into words until now. It's a fate that still drives me to work harder so my future kids wouldn't ever go through it.
I read that some investors have a word for it "PSD": grown up Poor, very Smart and Driven.

I agree that the article talks about more well-off families since kids whining is mostly a tactic to get what they want. If the tactic never works it wouldn't be employed.
I haven't used F# much but my impression is that it came from an OCaml background and thus perhaps sits halfway between C# and OCaml. Many of the useful type system features of Haskell are missing, but the module system of OCaml has been developed to be closer to the object system of C#.
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So are passwords broken or not? (Hint: they are.) You can't use the inherent drawbacks of passwords as an excuse for introducing even more vulns.

ISTM the location data is stored client-side not because of some wise decision to spread data out (and then what, include it as query data in future reqs to the server?) but rather because their error handling module wasn't configured.
This is a relatively obscure feature of Tcl, but it has some great ideas on how to safely execute user-supplied scripts in a sandbox.

Pretty cool.

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/interp.htm
As I understand it, our current understanding of physics suggests a probabilistic system, but I don't think we know enough to assert that a deterministic model is impossible.

This comment goes into more detail about what we do know: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069261

Also, if we were being obtuse, we can describe any (finite) probabilistic universe as a deterministic one with enough rules.
Including caching of optimized content.

Which played hell with the localization logic for many sites.
Sigh! Another child left behind. From this child's point of view, because "people who are good at math are good at breaking problems down into parts, recognizing patterns, and applying known formulae to those parts to arrive at the one right answer", they rarely come up "with a new way to solve a problem." So that's how a good Software Engineer uses Logic to reason. You need to take math more seriously in school or you may go to a wrong school. There are more than one way to get to the solution you are just too lazy to discover a new way to do it. And if we rarely come up with a new way to solve unfamiliar problems then we all died out long time ago.
They're waiting for you Gordon, in the spam folderrrr.
I agree. You don't have to mention how hard it is, but through the exposure they will naturally realize that it isn't easy and will give rise to a sense of hard earned money.
I think the only way to do it is to move out of Austin and start converting.
doesn't the blog post explain why? the tool doesn't aim for inbox zero (seen as unrealistic) and the decay-equation doesn't answer for zero because it's an exponential.
I don't understand what's with people and email. My inbox is always zero, I get the seldom update email from Google/Facebook/whatever, but that's it. If I have to contact someone email is the last thing I use, first I try Facebook, text and calling.

I disabled mails from Facebook, Amazon et similia.

I guess the only thing that I do that most people don't is that I don't subscribe to all kinds of crap and I don't put my email address online. In fact, I have had my gmail address since 2009 and I have had exactly 0 spam mail, and that's not hyperbole.
Yes, its app engines default sandboxing in use.
Doomsday clock remains at 5 minutes to midnight
Developer here, would love to answer any questions you might have.
If you are still in Texas you have some control. The state board of education determine Curriculum and instructional materials. Board members are elected so your vote and campaign contributions would have an effect.
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Well said. I think the deceiving part is the compiling/sandboxing environment phones have. New developer don't really know what's happening when they hit the 'Build & Run' so they can't understand that the key value they are storing are in plain text somewhere in the phone easily extractable.
I've seen a trend lately of my friends increasingly referring to "this documentary XYZ that I saw on Netflix". It seems to be a great way to build mindshare in a segment that isn't as interested in mainstream TV shows (somewhat akin to their approach of producing critically acclaimed TV Dramas)