skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've probably user-tested this, but would you want bubbles, or ridges that appear around & outline the buttons that would guide your fingertip?
When I read the opening paragraph, I immediately thought of the author as a Blub programmer [1].

"The problem with most programming languages is they're designed by language geeks, who tend to worry about things that I don't much care for. Safety, type systems, homoiconicity, and so forth. I'm sure these things are great..."

Yes, those things are great. They ultimately aid in helping the programmer tackle the inevitable complexity that arises when building systems in a maintainable way.

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Ten lessons from a maker
I'd take the climate scientists more seriously if they could offer a comprehensive theory on ice ages. As far as I can tell, over the past 250 years the best they've been able to come up with is 'multi-factor', which of course means they have candidates, but no winner.

That, for me, would be some real science -- not politically charged, not funding-driven, not in the pocket of a lobby or an industry and frankly fascinating. It kills me that there is this fatuous back and forth when the most interesting question of the the planets climate goes effectively unanswered.
Which is terrible science. Job #1 of good science is reproducability. Crapping out black boxes and claiming "I've proven my theory" in a way no-one else can analyse or reproduce undermines the fundamentals of the scientific method.
I really don't understand the all or nothing argument.

Can you genuinely not envision a situation in which we would need secrecy for at least a time? If for nothing else, to protect the people who are looking out for our interests overseas? Like it or not, covert operations and intelligence is important to the long-term operations of a sufficiently large entity. How else will we know what our enemies are planning?

I would argue that your view of 'no secrets at all' is just as ridiculous as the government's current approach to our data. It's incredibly naive and comes across as sophomore-level debate. Saying that we can have no secrets is giving up embedded operatives dealing with people who genuinely have bad intentions. Saying that we can have no secrets would have dramatically changed the outcome of the landings at Normandy and WWII in general.

That black and white style of argument is ridiculous; that's what I'm saying.
There are plenty of optimizations that are only available when you know the types of the objects you're dealing with (mostly relating to aliasing). See:

http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10...
If everyone was to use Kickstarter in this way, Kickstarter would lose the appeal it has for hosting niche / innovative projects. Diminishes the tool for the rest of us.
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Billions of dollars aren't spent to modify a vaccine just to mollify a small community of questioners, who weren't even that great in number at the time of conversion. If anything, it would benefit the vaccine makers - fewer side effects to impede sales, and more sales because more boosters are needed (though I doubt there's anything that nefarious at play in this specific case).

Here's a post-marketing study about the increased safety profile of the acellular vaccines vs. the cellular vaccines: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8620224
You can hit Esc before the combination to fill in for M and then it is just C-S-5 for me, which is certainly doable?
Hah! Agreed.
A search warrant is a particular type of court order; a subpoena is another. As far as I know, there isn't really any overlap: search warrants authorize law enforcement to conduct searches, subject to fourth amendment restrictions; subpoenas compel parties to deliver documents or testimony, subject to fifth amendment restrictions.
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> all the major CC companies have it in their contracts with businesses they must sell stuff the same price regardless of using a CC or not

Those clauses were recently struck down due to a class-action lawsuit. Retailers are now pretty much free to set different prices for any payment option as they see fit.

http://vizant.com/news-item/vizants-perspective-on-new-rules...
Running Shell Commands from Julia
I used to work on the AIR-2A. It a was a thing of simplicity. Any airplane within a mile that survived had to land immediately. This is before modern guidance systems. The military imagined masses of bombers with fighter cover attacking similar to WW II. Perhaps its a bit of fighting the last war, but it was a simple, effective answer to a real threat.
The terms around IAP state that "content, functionality, and services" used in an app must be purchased using IAP.

Further, you may not complete a checkout process by linking to an external site.

Critically, if an app uses IAP to purchase goods or services to be used or consumed outside the app, it will be rejected.

Bottom line if you want to sell socks, sandwiches, or massages for USD in an app, you can, but your checkout process must be native.

Competition with IAP is not at issue here.
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I'm sorry but calling it "work" as if doing something mentally fulfilling is a dirty word and implying that employees need (or even want) to work intellectually meaningless work is just ridiculous. A young person (your dreaded millennial) with valuable skills is not magically worth only menial labor by virtue of their age or your own entitlement. The quickest way to destroy a valuable creative mind is to throw it at menial work for minimal pay. So, a great method if you want job security if you're already at the top; however, worthless if you innovation or technical progress.
This article makes an important point about the brokenness of CFAA sentencing, but it (or Wired's editors) do the point a disservice by making an absolutely hyperbolic claim.

The "War On Drugs" has imprisoned literally millions of people, and done so in a fashion that is both racist (minorities are far more likely to be imprisoned for a drug offense) and classist (wealthy defendants are unlikely to be imprisoned for casual offenses). Furthermore, persecution of drug users targets actions people take that cause debatable harm to society.

If[f] Keys, who is accused of deliberately enabling Anonymous to vandalize the front page of the front page of one of the largest newspapers in the world, is shown to have done the things spelled out in the warrant, then prosecutors will have shown that he:

* knowingly damaged the computer systems of Tribune Corporation

* actually caused 5 figures worth of damage

* did so by abusing a trusted position at Reuters

Keys, who as we can see has exceptional attorneys working on his case, is far more culpable for his actions than a large fraction of drug offenders.

It is indeed a very serious flaw in the CFAA that sentences can "scale with the iterator in your for loop" as your actions cause seemingly spectacular amounts of damage despite no change in your actual criminal intent.

But it's worth pointing out here that that flaw plays a minimal part in Keys potential sentencing. The base level for CFAA crimes (like most larceny and fraud charges) is 6, which merits a 0-6 month sentence. The damage "accelerator" in Keys charges adds 4 points to that level, bringing him to level 10, which is a 6-12 month sentence where conditional probation is allowed. The damage accelerators aren't what's ramping up Keys' sentence --- it's the combination of damage (at any level), cost to remediate, and abuse of his position of authority.

Here's Popehat with a fantastic post on how the sentencing guidelines actually work (I don't think they disagree with Keys' lawyer, except that Popehat goes into more detail later in the article on how sentences are reduced in practice) ---

http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence...
Does a child receive a bicycle so as to get a glimpse into the variety of the world of human-powered locomotion?

Remember, "The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work."
Because Google doesn't really pay attention to things that can't be handled in an automated fashion.
There is a difference between assuming that they are expecting you, and having your enemy know your every.single.move.as.you.make.it.

EX:
If I'm going to punch you in the back of the head, I'll sneak up behind you. You might know I'm there, you might not.

Now, if I come up behind you at the same speed while yelling, "I'M COMING UP BEHIND YOU AND I'M GOING TO PUNCH YOU IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD," you'll definitely know I'm coming, and I should expect a countermeasure.

That's pretty-well the difference there.
This is my BIGGEST problem. I have 1000+ people in my professional network and I find it impossible to manage all of those relationships. Really cool how you can filter your contacts based on the last time you emailed them (<30 days, 30-90, >90) - probably the most useful feature I've found.

Are you guys planning on selling this to enterprise for use in sales, BD, etc? I wager they'd pay for this service.
You can announce it whenever, but it needed to close within their quarter to be included.
I've taken a 100 pound suitcase to Australia. Had to pay an additional fee to United Airlines, but with wheels it's no problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Munit... says the W54 was half that weight, 50 pounds (22.6 kg).
Your comment does not explain why you doubt that the book will be educational. So anyone that doesn't see a reason still won't see a reason.

She's certainly very good at marketing

You're certainly very good at suggesting your criticism should be taken seriously, because you preceded it with praise.
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I love Coinpunk, but don't care at all about Apple and their ecosystem. Maybe this is not the most effective way to ask for support.
Shhh. Here you go:

www.reddit.com
A test to determine if a robot will take job X in the future. Ask: would this job be automated today if hiring a human cost $500,000/year? If yes, then the clock is ticking. Over time the robot will only get cheaper and the human will only become more expensive.
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Thank you.

(Just clarification that I'm not involved with this project but I have talked about it with Linda in the past. So my views are my own views, and not necessarily Linda's.)
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You should only do that if you have a very good reason, such as noting the same behavior multiple times on multiple topics

A top level comment seems to be the only appropriate place to discuss the overall tone or tenor of a conversation. Responding to each dismissive/negative/unconstructive comment seems redundant and annoying.
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You should expect it and plan for it, but when you know it your actions have to change. If I know you're about to kick down my door, I have far more options than if I know "in the next hour they'll probably kick down my door". The information completely alters the dynamic. Even in games with no hidden information (such as chess or go), you don't know what my next action will be (except in few cases where my options are severely limited), you only know the probabilities. What if we're raiding a house for some reason (like in Munich), and there are 4 doors and a dozen windows. 5 gunmen inside, if they know which doors we're about to go through and which windows we're ignoring, they can either effect an escape or a more effective defense. Our raid is going to be fair less effective if we announce our plan to the opponent instead of making them guess at it.
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It is a very hard (and well known) security design problem to make system that the system builders and maintainers themselves can't access. Its possible, but few do it even today.

Russia intelligence is an external threat, and its threat model is well know. Whistleblowers are an internal one.

So to me, its not difficult at all to see why external well know threats are today less likely to happen, while new internal ones are missed. I have the same view of Windows security, in that Russian hacker has a hard time to break in, but a Microsoft employee would have a much easier time.

Different threat models. I assume you are well familiar with the concept so I am a bit baffled by your baffledness.

side note: After they identified Robert Hanssen as a rouge entity, were the NSA unable to provide evidence after the fact? This is after all the question I originally made.
> The government gives harsher sentences to hackers than many rapists. This is because it is actually afraid of hackers.

There's a simpler explanation for this. Hackers are getting harsher sentences because the crime is a more recent concept. The law prides itself on its trial-and-error approach to life.
But in that case you don't benefit much from it... (afaik)
Unless they figure out how to use hackers to justify frisking random minorities for the crime of walking on the sidewalk, then this is not really the new War on Drugs.

The War on Drugs is a "solution" to a "problem" that white suburbia America, and their police departments, perceived. At the federal level it was driven by people attempting to protect their political interests by criminalizing the behavior they associated with groups that they felt threatened by.

Hacker Panic is working at a different level. I think that it would be more accurate to say that it is our new War on Terror.
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> everyone would benefit from robotic efficiency.

I think we are just seeing the start of everyone enjoying robotic efficiency. 10-15 years ago a rapid prototype machine cost in $30-60k, for small objects. Last year the news was filled with 3D-printers in the range of $500+.
Wow, I didn't know about the Palmer Raids. Thanks!

"In June 1919, Attorney General Palmer told the House Appropriations Committee that all evidence promised that radicals would 'on a certain day...rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids
> Until about 1990, anti-aircraft missiles were horribly inaccurate.

That's precisely the point. It's a bit like arming a SWAT team with tank rounds in their guns. Accuracy matters a lot less.
> I'd assume the megacorps will take it up once the instability gets smoothed out a bit.

Why would they care if they get paid through bitpay or coinbase in USD anyway? It doesn't actually matter the current exchange rate for btc because they get the same USD anyway.
That's all well and good, but why do you think that an independent candidate can make a difference? Particularly in an entrenched 2 party system, that would likely marginalize them to the extreme, and can barely make progress on its own? If we could somehow vote to have more than 2 parties, I'd be all about that, but it seems highly unlikely given the current state of things.

I agree it would be a change but how can you be certain that independent 'party' person will be any better than the previous crop of Rs and Ds? Especially (and some may call this tin-foil hattery) if there is a massive surveillance regime in place that is digging up (or can dig up) dirt on any politician for blackmail?
I've been in Germany a number of years now. If you are freelancing then get a good accountant is the one tip I would give. The Germans take tax matters very seriously.
How good is the interactive plotting experience?
Agreed completely. I'm more saying that I don't see any similarity between BTC and the Indian independence movement. It would be like me quoting Elie Wiesel when my boss is being a dick.
* CONTENT-SECURITY-POLICY So, other than sloppy sanitation, what's the use?

* X-FRAME-OPTIONS I feel like the number of times this has prevented a useful action vs prevented a bad action is many:0

* X-CONTENT-TYPE-OPTIONS So, instead of browsers actually honoring the Content-Type header, we have to ask with a "pretty please"?

* STRICT-TRANSPORT-SECURITY Doesn't prevent problems on a first connect, but definitely a good idea (if your site supports SSL that is:)). Blanket TLS is a good thing.

Just my 2¢
Have you looked at godep? I have been using it lately and it has been working pretty well. https://github.com/kr/godep
That's not really a sign of ambiguity.

Vaccination for varicella is tricky - if you're going to vaccinate against it, you need to vaccinate hard. It's a great working example of what's known as the "Paradox of Moderate Infection Control" - getting a handle on it just a little bit will cause worse outcomes than if you did nothing at all.
The WHO then, making recommendations for the entire world, logically favors a single "Do it and be done" shot that piggybacks on their incredibly intensive campaigns for MMR vaccination.

In the U.S., a varicella vaccine is a co-occuring part of the recommended vaccine schedule. It's a question of one shot or two, and managing slightly worse side effects for the MMRV vaccine, and thus absolutely sensical to leave it to the clinician and parent to discuss, because the likelihood of the child getting one and never getting the other is quite low, it's just a question of how.
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> Nor should there be a Twitter feed giving up-to-the-minute location data on US special forces teams. These examples seem farcical,

Ahem ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldo_Rivera#Fox_News_to_pre...

"Controversy arose in early 2003, while Rivera was traveling with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq. During a Fox News broadcast, Rivera began to disclose an upcoming operation, even going so far as to draw a map in the sand for his audience. The military immediately issued a firm denunciation of his actions, saying it put the operation at risk; Rivera was nearly expelled from Iraq. Two days later, he announced that he would be reporting on the Iraq conflict from Kuwait."

Somewhere between the generality of Murphy's Law and the specificity of Rule 34 is an observation that states that an idiot will always arise to complete an idiotic possibility.
Unfortunately, as the web stands today, for our developers I do advocate including it by default, unless a specific use-case comes up to not include it.

While for a simple content page allowing for framing should be okay, the truth is very very few pages are actually purely content. As soon as you have something like a comment form there is a chance that framing it could be used to reveal some private information (autofill / password manager leakage).
And who is going to manage what pages are framable and what aren't? The customer would need a UI and training and developers can't always see what will be hosted on a page.

Also, as an advertiser I would very much like you to visit the full page instead of trying to view it through some limited frame, cutting off the sidebar with ads.
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Without presuming to speak for Evan --

Julia's target audience is technical computing, and a large fraction of software in this space is built to solve a particular problem that only might matter for 6 months or a year. You might be trying to simulate the behavior of an experiment you just designed, for example, or trying to analyze a very specific property of a data set. These codes are often very tightly coupled to the scientific problem, and are only ever used in the context of a particular short-lived project. You do the experiments, write the paper, and move on with your life.

To be clear, I don't think Julia itself encourages this pattern any more or less than another language. But it's a very common pattern for scientists, so they often don't care about long-term maintainability.

Granted, this sometimes comes back to bite them later, if they discover the old code is good for a newer experiment, or they need to go back and re-validate results. But this doesn't always happen, and it's not like they're running a live service with customers -- when they finish a given paper, it's actually not unlikely that no one will ever need to use that software again. It's not easy to argue that they should care about maintainability when there's a decent chance this is one-off code.
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When out with friends recently, one of them mentioned how awesome Julia is. I was surprised to hear someone talk about it, even from another person in science. She turned and gushed about how awesome it was, how supportive the community was, even though she was "not really someone who likes programming." And she liked it so much she was telling her friends about it at a bar!

If you make a programming language that people who don't like programming love enough to spread by word of mouth when not near a computer, which technically-oriented people also love, that's a lot like the OSX terminal + nice GUI blend.

That's a pretty rare thing. And for collaborative science it's pretty important. Often, you'll have people in a bio lab who are very proficient in their area of biological expertise, but who would be solving the wrong problem by spending 2 years trying to become C++ hackers. On the other hand, there are a lot of people who write computational libraries, but know they have to translate them to matlab, or write a matlab wrapper and pray that their users can get it to compile which might sound simple to folks here, but is really frustrating for less computationally oriented people when something goes wrong.
Note: author is being sincere. It's easy to read the comment as ugly sarcasm, inspired by whatever -ism comes to mind.
Didn't know that. It does mean, though, that these companies need to pass the savings on to the consumers. And if they are using coinbase and taking out fiat they aren't saving as much as they could going strict btc and only paying a 0.01% or whatever fee to get expedient confirms in the blockchain. Or hell, wait the hour and don't ship until payment is confirmed, and pay absolutely no fees ever.
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Ebay or amazon would be more useful. I bet it won't be long , after all, since they won't use it as reserve, it's just extra convenience.
Just made two loans. I really love this idea and Zidisha does a great job of giving you all the information about the project and the person you're making the loan to. Congrats on the launch.
We could be closer to the ideals of Star Trek Federation society than we think, where accumulating money is not that necessary and work could be for the sole purpose of self fufilment.

A notion of a minimum guaranteed income would be necessary in addition to all the robotic automation.
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I'm usually pretty sympathetic to these stories of people getting screwed on "unlimited" data with, say, 5 gig or whatever caps, but in this case... cry me a river, man.

I'm stuck in an area where my two options are Time Warner Cable, which I refuse to use due to terrible experiences with them in the past, and AT&T DSL (old school DSL, not U-Verse), which works fine but is slow and has 50 gigabyte caps (you can go over the caps but they will bill you for extra usage).

I really wish Google would put more pressure on the US ISP market (maybe partnering with Netflix and others who stand to lose on the current sorry state of ISPs here), because clearly these companies need a lot more pressure put upon them, but 77 terabytes a month is by any measure a huge outlier and I don't fault Verizon for getting involved in this particular case.