skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's considerably easier to physically tamper with a car, such as the good old Hollywood standby of cutting brake lines.

It's only hard to exploit a serious security flaw the first time. Until they close it, it's relatively easy to exploit it thereafter.

The relative lethality seems likely to favour the software option too. Personally I doubt I'd get above 10mph before I tried using my brakes - (manoeuvring into and then out of my road.) Compared to, 'Wait until you're on the motorway and accelerate as hard as you can into oncoming traffic.' I don't see too many people walking away from the latter case - the closing speed would be something like 190mph, disregarding braking on the part of the oncoming traffic.
Linux Performance Analysis and Tools diagram
From http://www.joyent.com/blog/linux-performance-analysis-and-tools-brendan-gregg-s-talk-at-scale-11x
Absolutely, every day. I can't imagine great products being built that aren't used by at least the core/founding team on a very regular basis, if not every day.
Are you seriously comparing pop music to heroin and slaves???
From http://www.joyent.com/blog/linux-performance-analysis-and-to...
I wonder why people find this surprising. This is how pop music has always been done and it even used to be more in the open. Bands/singers didn't have to get people to (ghost)write songs/lyrics for them - they used to just be performers.

Many of the important names are on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductees_of_the_Songwriters_Ha... and a really obvious example is a guy like Paul Williams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Williams_(songwriter) who made The Carpenters and Three Dog Night famous.
The technical and content quality issues are fairly minimal these days. It glitches and can't find content now and then, but no more than Netflix.

Related: I'm currently watching True Detective on my AppleTV, using HBOGo.
Most crapware can be disabled. Not a great UX, but at least you can do something about it without rooting or flashing.
What have you done to be proud of? I say hes made quite a dent in the world of music.
> primarily known for his production skills

I think nowadays he's more know for his overpriced headphones tho.
Your point is irrelevant to this discussion.
This is quite similar to my comment in the last sentence.

But more importantly, the broad counterfactual that before WWII, broadly speaking, people were more married and less wealthy.

Furthermore its highly plausible that (so-called) breakdown of marriage (in the post-war) is correlated with non-wealth effects, such as the sexual revolution fostered by hormonal birth control and the spread/use of class A drugs (ie: culture, technology). So, in addition to wealth not explaining marriage rates (broadly) at the scale of long- time, in the short term it has competition as an explanatory variable in the micro-analytic sense. Thirdly, and importantly, the relationship of marriage as a utilitarian tool for <gaining> wealth is an altogether diferent layer of abstraction. It may be, for example, that people (in the jane austen era) married into wealth as a tactic of wealth-creation. Or, alternatively, people are for-going marriage (as in the "cant have it all generatinon") as a means to facilitate of wealth creation (or, even: protection). But these are wholly different effects/causes than the broad relatinships of wealth to marital status. They involve the precise staus of marriage itself. Furthermore, they may or may not have any bearing on the develepment of Children...so far, children haven't even been a consideration in the determinants of marriage (ei, access to sex, wealth acquisition, weath protection). The status of children may wholly be an emergent phenomenon (of marriage) or it may actually be linked to the quality of the principals (absent special instituyional support).

So, in the big scheme of things, waving around macro stuff is a bit hand-wavey. It's quite a bit more important to look at the micro-analytics and actually (a) assess them; and (b) apply them to the context at hand.

On that, I think I agree with the author of the linked essay.
Only 9 states still have common-law marriage, most that have historically recognized it have since thankfully abolished it.

Of course if you have kids, you still have to worry about child support, which can be very problematic in several states, but that is a whole other can of worms.
You've missed the truly important Gospel:

Those who are in despair are most beloved by God. Those who so abused by their own minds, or by others, that kill themselves would be the first to be shown mercy.

Willfully destroying God's creation is indeed sin, contrary to your hermeneutics, but please understand - God knows the troubled heart and has promised His infinite mercy to His people.
My main project is to build an online environment [1] for writing and using mathematical software, and I have been building it from within itself since April 2013. Thus I basically use my main project all day every day. [1] https://cloud.sagemath.com
They suggest that you have a problem because this way of thinking questions their way of life. You can always keep your controversial opinions to your self or share them with a group of close friends. No need to make other people feel uncomfortable.

BTW, I agree with the author's assertion, you should try as much as possible to be your own master and not be the slave of other people opinion.
SAP would have most of the items you care for. Probably the recent acquisitions like SuccessFactors would be a good place.

Disclaimer: I am a hiring manager at SuccessFactors.
Yes, we are all just guessing.

And I think you misunderstand. I am not arguing that it "could not be" the NSA. And I haven't see anyone say that. I am simply arguing that it is extremely unlikely.

It's a guess, yes, but it's an informed guess. It's a matter of looking at probabilities and seeing what's more likely. Shippers screw up all the time. Packages make crazy detours because somebody tossed a box in the wrong truck. A label falls off and a mixup occurs. Somebody typos a tracking number.

On the other hand, for this to be the NSA, several unlikely things would have to be true:

1. The NSA would need to be intercepting computer equipment destined for certain people and modifying it to spy on them.

2. The NSA would need to be targeting the person in question for this program.

3. The NSA would need to have set up this program in such a boneheaded way that it shows up on a package tracker. (If I were in charge of this program, I'd just set it up in FedEx's sorting facility in Memphis and then ensure all the relevant equipment uses FedEx. Simple, fast, and no chance of the target finding out.)

4. The NSA would need to have set up this program in Alexandria, even though it has little to recommend it for such a thing.

Now, we know that #1 is actually true. So that's one requirement fulfilled, out of several. But what about the rest?

I'm somewhat skeptical on #2. It's possible, but it seems unlikely. Why would the NSA target Tor developers? The security of Tor falls apart in the presence of an adversary that is able to monitor the entire internet, because you can just correlate traffic that enters with traffic that exits. The NSA can presumably monitor enough of the internet to defeat Tor right now. So why bother spying on Tor developers? It's possible as a belt-and-suspenders maneuver, but this person just doesn't strike me as a likely target.

I'm really skeptical on #3. It's about as believable as having the FBI spy on me by parking a van outside my house that says "Flowers By Irene". It's possible, but really unlikely.

And #4 doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Again, possible, but unlikely.

So we have one thing that's true, and then several other things that are individually unlikely, and combine to be really unlikely. It looks to me that people are committing the basic fallacy of thinking that the truth of #1, since it's unlikely, somehow makes the rest more likely too.

It comes down to this: is it a screwup by USPS or Amazon or a third-party reseller, or is it the NSA screwing up royally while trying to plant a bug? In the absence of evidence, we are stuck guessing, but we can guess intelligently by realizing that one is vastly more likely than the others.

"When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras."

That doesn't mean zebras are impossible. But it means you should prefer the more obvious explanation unless there's evidence to the contrary.
People that don't understand the problem pretending their incantations work.

In the words of a great man, it's a jolly hard problem.
I work at Microsoft on the IE F12 web dev tools and use IE and F12 both at work and at home.
That axis of awesome video reminds me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
by Rob Paravonian.

Also, the article reminds me of a parody video about the prolific nature of Bob Dylan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MumScDIZMJc
> I sincerely believe (as a computational scientist) that a combination of a high-level language for real-time interactive exploration and prototyping with a fast language like C for doing the actual gruntwork, is the best.

Converting to C can take a LOT of time, and is an order of magnitude less enjoyable than Julia. What about maintaining the code, making improvements, integrating with other code? And what if the prototyping needs too be fast too? It can become a massive pain in the ass. Why should I undergo that if I can just use Julia?

> Attempts to combine the best of C (speed) with the best of scripting languages (easy to do things fast without having to pay attention to what you are doing) in my opinion end up merely joining the worst of both worlds rather than the best of both worlds.

I've used both Julia and C and I think it's the exact opposite, it combines the best of both worlds.
I use my project http://www.followletter.com to read my favorite newsletters every day before bed.
Why should someone that is mentally/physically unable to contribute to society live in poverty?
Look here: https://github.com/whily/yalo/blob/master/doc/GettingStarted...
Yup... I think he is... Haha! :/
It's possible, because the tax code is complex, but married-filing-jointly has a lower tax rate.

For example, let's assume you both have 40k taxable income:

Single, taxable income 40k: tax is $5,935

Married, taxable (combined) income 80k: tax is $11,864

Double the tax on "single", because you would file two returns, and you get $11,870. So you actually saved $6!

Taken directly from the tax table: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040tt.pdf
When I read the headline, and the comments here before reading the article, I was expecting to see tracking data that went from the seller to the buyer with a mysterious stop near the NSA.

Then I read the article. The tacking data shows a delivery to a destination near the NSA.

Does anyone here seriously think that the mechanism the NSA uses if they want to tamper with a laptop on the way to simply change the destination address to be the NSA? And that no one has noticed this before?

If they are intercepting and modifying domestic shipments, the mechanism would be something that is executed AT the shipping carrier facilities or possibly during the final delivery, and would be completely transparent to outside observers, including both the sender and the receiver of the package.

Watch the "Modern Marvels" episode on package delivery for a look at how the automated package movement systems work at the major hubs, and you'll see how a package could be diverted for special treatment and then re-inserted into the system transparently, with most workers at the facility having no idea something special is going on.

The best chance at detecting this from outside would probably be to look at next day delivery orders on items that would be the most time consuming to modify, to see if those are more likely to miss their delivery deadline. The idea is that with such a tight schedule, the chances are higher than an interception will blow the delivery schedule. For items ordered with two day or longer shipment, the delay in modifying the item could be made up by upgrading it to one day delivery in the system when it is re-inserted. That's why observing one day delivery items is the best bet.
Dropbox may have been a startup 5 years ago, but it seems like just a tech company to me nowadays. One that may stay independent, might sell to someone else later, who knows, but not really a "startup".
It's common practice that the 'expected' values of a chi-squared test should be 5 or higher, with adjacent groups to be merged until this is the case (at UK A-level this is strictly required).

This is a slightly conservative correction and Wikipedia agrees that no correction is required in this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson%27s_chi-squared_test#P...
As with most thought experiments, it's a little far-fetched though. How often, in the run-up to a crash, is it really possible to make oneself safer (or less safe) at the expense (or benefit) of another car?

A more common scenario might be driverless cars that don't communicate with each other and therefore try to "optimize" a crash without knowing how other cars are going to respond – potentially far more dangerous than the magnanimous AI you talk about.
"Someone once briefly explained to me why it is that chocolate chip cookies have 37% chocolate in them." -Someone once pulled your leg mate.
Didn't Neil Diamond write several of their hits?
The Danish GDP number you quote is based on the Danish Kroner to US Dollar exchange rate. This does not take into account the much higher cost of living in Denmark. This is why it is generally preferred to use Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) to compare incomes across countries. This tells a very different story:

Per Capita GDP (PPP) 2012
USA 51,704 USD
Denmark 37,324 USD

So after taking into account the much higher cost of living in Denmark the per capita GDP in the US is actually 38% higher!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...

Edit: Accidentally hit submit before I was ready to post...
The cause of low marriage rates is obviously not economic poverty. It's obviously social poverty: lack of social cohesion, punitive child support and alimony laws which incentivize single motherhood, super high incarceration rates, so on and so forth.
The last 20 years begs to differ.
Slots have the highest rake, and penny slots the highest rake of the slots.

The term fish in a barrel comes to mind.
Apparently, they do. Until Snowden releases something along the lines of "List with 1.500 gadgets that Amazon released that were bugged". Then suddenly we'll be like "Oh Jeez, I thought but it but I never really believed...".

The thing is "Would the NSA wanna bug a TOR developer's computer"? and the answer is "Damn, sure!".

So it's not as far fetched as many here believe imho - and NO there are not many better ways than this, I can't think of any.
Noot: Spaced repetition flashcards
Snowden says 'significant threats' to his life
I enjoy Ted Nelson when he's sharing historical context, but I hope he realizes that most of the salient points he is making are perfectly obvious to rather a lot of technical people. Affecting meaningful change or progress will take more than impassioned pontification.
Also another product that recognized / created a market & built a product that seems acceptably priced to those who bought it.

They might be overpriced to you, but to the thousands of people who've bought them, they seem worth the value.
http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
What you see of narrow thinking is just complete disagreement on how companies like this are structured.

For example, I live a couple of miles from the headquarters of Exxon Mobil. Yet it's about the last place I'd look if I wanted to find a trustworthy person to drill an oil well or build a gas pipeline.

Also, I'm not refusing to consider that Alexandria might be a viable destination for this. I merely think it's unlikely, especially compared to the "military and intelligence belt" language used in the post.
It's extremely difficult to write a great melody, much less produce a great song. While I don't often listen to his tracks for "fun", I have to give him that he's a great songwriter.

Same with Diane Warren.
Regarding the old canard that low marriage rates cause poverty: Iceland is a pretty solid counter example. High rates of single motherhood and low rates of poverty.
Yes, we're building http://goldplugins.com to encapsulate some of the most common features we find ourselves building for custom WordPress websites into reusable plugins.

As a result, we use the plugins themselves quite often, including on the website itself. Its definitely a great motivator to fix bugs!
Sort of a real life example of the 80/20 principle as it relates to the entertainment industry.
Not a song writer, but Rick Rubin has been the producer of many of the largest musicians for years.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin
Useful, tricky and beautiful things in Objective-C/iOS
Because Facebook doesn't let you get the install referrer, their mobile app install ads are nearly useless to me.

There is no way to correlate a user who installed via FB with your revenue, if you have In App Purchases.
If you absolutely want a 99+% chance it would last the first 90 days, then really the chances are that's it's going to last a lot longer. I actually don't think it's a typical quality tradeoff. Because you have to meet a high initial reliability, you end up with higher probability of hitting a endurance beyond your minimal requirement for the device.

I'm also guessing w.r.t the structures, you'll have to build to withstand a worst case environment during the launch and landing. Once you've survived those you're "overbuilt" with respect to rolling around the surface, but the strength was needed to survive getting there.
> Is there a particular holy grail magical formula for mobile and web apps that produces more hits than losers?

Easy,make something really usefull that solves a real problem and people will pay for it... Unlike Pop music there is no formula,but knowing the right people helps I guess.

Pop music today is about using the same recipes that have been used for 30 years+ ,and i'm including "rap" in it, remember when rap was about something else than Btches and Bttles ? no? me neither...
"Full time job" -> "side projects". I appreciate the shift.
Thought experiments cannot be used to prove real points.
Even if "ghostwriting" was a common thing in rap, I doubt anyone would consider anyone other than Eminem wrote his lyrics. His style has always been very unique and complex - and hardly ever imitated well.
I give it about 50/50 odds that a followup article shows up along the lines of, "they received the laptop and the tracking info for this package shows it coming straight from the warehouse nearby and this is clearly evidence that the NSA is screwing with USPS tracking data."
There are a handful of known ghostwriters in hiphop (who've even used ghostwriters themselves like Nas and Mase)... Sauce Money, Jay-Z, Eminem, Rakim, Pharoah Monch, Royce Da 5'9, Smitty, Skillz, TI, Cardan, but it's so taboo that most times you'll never know.

It's far more commonly known that people buy beats from producers.
To be fair, Mike Nesmith did write a hit song, but it was a big seller ("Different Drum") for the Stone Ponys.
And famous security analysts are ALWAYS on that side of crowd, isn't that weird?????
Only if you use a "partner" analytic service. If you use your own, or a 3rd party like Mixpanel, you cannot track where an install comes from.
I haven't been following the Hastings case, so I can only reply in general:

Following the recent Snowden disclosures, you should question yourself at disbelieving conspiracy so easily. You might be right (probably are, for all I know), but you have no reason to believe so other than pure faith.

Ask yourself this (and answer truthfully): A year ago - did you believe that the NSA is actively sabotaging standards, intercepting shipments in order to modify the software to be under their control, etc? If you didn't (and I'm sure you've had the conspiracies mentioned), then why on earth would you believe "the official word" on anything like remote control of a car?

You might have a lot of faith in the official status-quo for no reason at all.
It's Scott Storch[1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Storch
It's not about who did and who didn't change the world, but the fact that the people who did change the world are not above (some pretty ruthless) criticism.
You missed the "virtually" in front of every. That dramatically changes the context & meaning of the sentence.
People were saying the same thing about Bitcoin a year ago.
Sure. Heroin and slaves are really, really bad. Pop music is just mildly bad. That's a comparison.

The point I intended to make is that there are markets for everything.

I don't even think pop music is that bad, but being successful in a marketplace is never cause alone for accolades. Blindly worshipping people who are successful at some business venture blinds us to the ethics of whatever they're doing. Success shouldn't disable critical thinking.
"Bitcoin é foda, o resto é moda." a rhyme in Portuguese which means "Bitcoin is awesome, the rest is fashion."
When someone close to me had kids, I came close to loading up an iPod with all of Weird Al's music, so that they would hear his versions first, and they would think that he was the prime musical force of the past 30 years. I didn't follow through, though I regret that sometimes.
He keeps his hair long to hide the little pair of horns.
Yup, all of application level instrumentation and performance metrics/exception reporting is also available for python developers with https://appenlight.com.

No server monitoring as of today though.
Addressing your point directly, is pop music a good thing? Well, is music a good thing? I think yes. What makes pop music different from non-pop music? Probably something about ease of consumption. Does ease of consumption effect what makes music good? Possibly to a degree. I think its fair to say that pop music is more disposable, and also far less likely to challenge the listener - and that sometimes challenge is good.

That said, it still brings all sorts of benefits of music, and the sheer popularity of pop music makes the shared experience so much broader and possibly more powerful. So in balance, maybe pop music isn't -the best- type of music for people to listen to. But I don't really think it's -bad-. We can't really expect for everyone to wish to be challenged in all their activities and all the experiences they consume.
His $250 million net worth begs to differ.
Your numbers are even more in favor of Denmark. (Denmarks 51,704 USD vs USA 37,324 USD) so what's your point?
Regardless of how much writing I do on my laptop, I am never without a sketchbook and pen. Indispensable tools.
Wow, this is a wonderful product! I've searched for something just like this.

On previous projects where geolocation/locali[s/z]ation was a high priority, we've had to rely on either a hodgepodge of VPN credentials or poking someone on Skype! This is 100x better. Great work!
Most rappers write all their own lyrics, but there are definitely exceptions. Kanye West, for instance, semi-openly writes collaboratively with others[0]. It is also widely known that former labelmate Consequence wrote the first verse of Jesus Walks.

[0] Look at the writing credits on Yeezus. http://www.stereogum.com/1385792/yeezus-credits-revealed/new...
Continuously! We make men's clothing (jeans, shirts, etc.,) - the team always wears our own clothing to test and just do life in general. http://www.weargustin.com
All cryptocurrencies are being manipulated.
You would be naive to believe otherwise.

(and Dogecoin is for lulz anyway!)
The reason we're discussing this, is because of the laptop's/keyboard's owner: A TOR developer. If this was uncle Joe no one would even care, because probably his Facebook data is all that matters anyway.