skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The beauty of the example I provided is it would be almost almost impossible to prove. Shooting a guy in the head, as opposed to arresting him raises more questions, and investigations. Your solution is a product of an unskilled mind. Though the competency of government is weak, the competency of the TLA's is anything but.
Upvoted you. We need more insights like this than the document itself. The concept of state machine, PIM (processing in memory) and parallelization is the core, looks like Micro has some implementation now. That's why they call it an Automata Processor (AP).
For what it's worth, that's exactly what the rule is for journalists at The New York Times. To quote the relevant section from the handbook:

"No staff member may own stock or have any other financial
interest in a company, enterprise or industry that figures or
is likely to figure in coverage that he or she provides, edits,
packages or supervises regularly. A book editor, for example,
may not invest in a publishing house, a health writer in a
pharmaceutical company or a Pentagon reporter in a mutual
fund specializing in defense stocks. For this purpose an
industry is defined broadly; for example, a reporter responsible
for any segment of media coverage may not own any media
stock. “Stock” should be read to include futures, options,
rights, and speculative debt, as well as “sector” mutual funds
(those focused on one industry)."
This is great news, but what I'd really love to see is the Chrome team focus on their memory footprint. Chrome < 20 used to run great on my 2GB ultrabook, now Firefox is my only option. Chromium on my Raspberry Pi can barely handle 1 open tab, while Firefox can handle several before the system starts to thrash.

If Google was smart, they create a group like Firefox's memshrink to get this situation under control.
This is absurd. Why would we ever let regulators of the market be active participants in it. Certain jobs in the government require for one's assets to be in a blind trust for there to be no conflicts of interest. If anyone in the government is doing it, it should be the SEC.
So when a company fails, the CEO deserves little/none of the blame?
I understand where you are coming from but if I was at a bar and someone was wearing a Google glass I'd be pissed too. There are just some activities you would like to enjoy without feeling like there are eyes on you (yes there are security cameras in the bars). Hopefully the real dive bars won't see a glass patron for another year or so.
I don't believe anyone would define it as a branch of the government. It is true that it is not under the Legislative, the Judicial, or Executive branches (source http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm), but it does not constitute some fourth branch of government.
Why not? Unless I'm missing something, constructive interference is still additive and power loss is still inverse square.

Of course batteries also have power transmission inefficiencies. My intuition though is that wireless power has potential to be more efficient than batteries for two reasons:

- While building out the infrastructue is an enormous proposition, I'd guess that it is much more sustainable to maintain than batteries.

- When the application is propulsion, not having to carry a fuel source (e.g. battery) is huge. On a Tesla Model S, the battery is more than a third of the weight (450kg of 1235kg, according to Wikipedia).
I was thinking certain employees could deal with certain sectors or something.
Looks great - impressive feature, and congrats! We tested it a bit and you're off to a solid start. We were having a few issues with multiple tabs and such, but we'll post github issues when we have repeatable results.
Could you expand on this point? I'm under the assumption that employees wouldn't know the portfolio of the blind trust, hence the blind.
> Just imagine Apple without Steve Jobs

Ironically, Steve Jobs is the best counterexample, IMHO. He took a failing company and propelled it to market leader, launching several great products (the iPod, iPhone, iPad; disclaimer: I'm not a particular Apple fan and don't own any of these devices, but I have to give credit where it's due). We'll see where Apple is going from now on, but my bet is they're never going to have huge hits like the iPhone again; instead, they'll just keep doing incremental updates of their current products.

Another good example is Bill Gates. Regardless of the man's moral qualities (or lack thereof), he was great at running Microsoft. After Gates left, Ballmer has only been dropping the ball on everything except consoles. Apple and Google are slowly but surely taking Microsoft down (how many people own Windows Phones, versus Android or iPhones?).

It may seem easy to keep a profitable company going as usual, but it's really hard to take a failing one or a startup and make it succeed.
And it would also only be for a specific user, rather than the dragnet surveillance (biggest fishing trip in history) that the NSA, et al, are conducting.
Yea I guess not. I fall asleep watching videos. To this day it's very difficult for me to fall asleep unless there's some tv show playing in the background be it on an actual tv or a computer monitor.
Lawrence Lessig – Only You Can Get This, So Where Are You?
I think we're using different lenses. The WorldBank stats you reference are very restrictive, being limited to central government employees in the 90s. But today's actual government cost is more than that.

If we look at recent OECD and local numbers for what one would more expansively consider the "public sector" the proportions are much higher in e.g. Sweden [1] and Greece [2]. Further, I would suggest that to measure the full impact of government on society, one should include the pension costs of retired public sector employees (one of the major driver in the PIGS crisis in recent years) as well as public works contractors (e.g. hundreds of millions of dollars for recently failed IT projects in the US). One could also argue that the cost of mass unemployment caused by government policies should be factored in as well (e.g. contrast Spain and Germany).

[1] http://www.oecd.org/gov/pem/OECD%20HRM%20Profile%20-%20Swede...
[2] http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/seesox/pdf/IordanoglouPatronageandP...
OK, what about Sikhs and the dagger they are "required" wear at all times? I can't up and decide I must wear a knife (even if I put glue on it), then expect schools and the TSA to allow me to do so. The fact is that my "flippant" remark, while mentioning peyote specifically, applies to other such cases. Another example: conscientious objector status (which now has the religious part removed, but required a supreme court case to do so, AFAIK).
6 out of 56 doesn't seem "incredible" to me.
Hustle: A column oriented, embarrassingly distributed relational OLAP database
Hey men, OP here. Thanks so much for the feedback, we are really looking for honest feedback from guys like you.

Yes the wife finding out is a consideration. What has been weird though, is the wives we've talked to love the idea. A random gift is better than no gift at all, I guess. My first thought is ask your wife what she thinks about it.

We are looking into customizing the experience later down the road, but up front we hope to take the hard part out of giving gifts, followed up by making the gift experience better and better.
Is there any trick to getting a beta to try this out?
I wish I could upvote this more than once. Aligning government employees interests with the nation's should be #1 priority. Talk about an incentive to do your job well.
I recall reading about Amish men and why they grow a bead but no moustache apparently it was a protest against military organizations where a moustache was mandatory.
Oh, there's room for improvement. I guess we just used different standards for `mess'.

I think something like http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1446 could be the way forward. (And would be achievable from Haskell with enough work.)
Yeah, case-sensitivity in programming languages is a sad artifact of the past, I believe (just my opinion).

There were research studies showing that folks made less errors with case-insensitivity, and it's something that would help novices without hurting "experts" at all (in fact, save time). Even Guido van Rossom thought it might be a good idea to make Python case-insensitive apparently, but folks revolted (NIMPY - not in my python!): https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/03710...

Ultimately, who cares if python or javascript (excuse me, Python or JavaScript) are case sensitive. That's just how they are designed, and they weren't designed for beginners. Maybe future language designers though might not do something solely because it is the tradition, the cargo cult practice.
Truth. I've learned quite a lot about the nature of money since becoming interested in Bitcoin.
At least on the enforcement side, most potential employees will be private practice attorneys whose ability to trade is already restricted by conflict of interest rules. Many therefore prefer to use passively managed investments anyway. I doubt it would be a big deal.
Why is Scheme unusable for production?
The assertion was "not a mess," not "usable in production." ;)
China issues report on U.S. human rights
360 Product Visualizer using CSS sprite animation
GoxCoin Thought Experiment
People who get an invite get three to give away.
I like how you can't just be "a dude who wants a thicker beard." You have to be a "hipster wannabe" so we can properly establish who deserves mockery and who will be delivering it.
Apple could mitigate most of the security concerns listed in this thread by listing the trusted devices which you're encrypting against. This solves the "extra encryption key" angle. You'd still have to trust your recipient to be just as mindful of this as you to prevent the vulnerability in the other direction though.
No, Apple has definitely done worse than what we have expected. Worse, they haven't provided what they claimed. That being a secure end-to-end messaging protocol.

This discussion about backdooring applications isn't even interesting or relevant here. The protocol itself is not secure.
I've been using a userscript [1] for the past year that adds the feature to search results and the like. Huge improvement, and with a little custom CSS styling the additional pages are appended more seamlessly.

The feature I appreciate about this particular userscript is it's clear where the page breaks are, and adds links to each newly appended page, allowing the user to link directly to them - which would be useful to see in more infinite scroll implementations, and seen used in the main HN link.

[1] http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121191
[1a] http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/164782
Thanks! Currently sessions are scoped to a window, so you may have better luck opening another session in a new window. Do file an issue, we should certainly fix this.
I honestly hated this when I read it the first time. I've gotten a lot of intuitive advice in the thread for which I'm very thankful. I'll try variations of most of it.

But this... I read it 5 to 6 times. I have no idea if it will work, but it can't hurt. My next scheduled workday is Saturday and I'll absolutely put this into practice.

Other suggestions to take time off, get outside, etc are great and I will do them (as the Boston deep freeze allows), but I will try this ASAP and see if it helps. Even if it produces a day or two of output, it will be extremely useful. I will respond with results after saturday.
If you read the article, the SEC states that the reason they sold is because they were forced to by law, as they were soon going to being regulators of the securities they were going to regulate.

However it does appear to be a good indication that something is coming down the line if SEC people sell...
Kerala has a dearth of manual labor. There are 2.5m Northies working in Kerala as manual labour today - I am talking about their wages only.
"With this technology, it's conceivable that 5G wireless could displace both cable and DSL connections within a few years, as is claimed in the presentation."

A few years?! This statement should give landline data providers, like Cox and Comcast, some serious pause.
Congrats on being YC's newest nonprofit! The scalability of in-person training is a concern that I have with my education /consultancy business, as well. I look forward to hearing more about how you expand to hundreds of thousands!
If you add your email to your HN profile, or at least a hint to it, I can send you one. Or you can email me. (See my profile.)

EDIT: all out :(
Inverse square law does not apply to this as usual (although it does if you fix the beam configuration) -- but you can take your tin foil hats off (I guess this would indeed make a good scenario for tin foil hats) since you need real time channel estimation and feedback.
Hmm. Given that in order to retire in the US you must invest in the stock market that would be a big requirement. Don't get me wrong, I am all for solving this problem, but simply not allowing the SEC employees to participate in the market would be a pretty good way to ruin their retirement.

An alternative would be to instead provide pensions. I don't really see how that happening given the "no handouts at any cost" attitude of the majority party in the House.
Netflix and Net Neutrality
How about let them dump it all in a broad market ETF ?
Google offers webmasters help with new Scraper Report Tool
Aren't the employees' sales a useful contribution to the stock market? They're turning private knowledge about upcoming SEC actions into public information, assuming that the public bothers to correlate stock sales with SEC employee lists. (If either of those pieces of information isn't publically known, then an SEC employee selling stock doesn't contribute any more information than any random shareholder's sale.)
Yes, the current extension model is rather limited in that respect, but what if extensions could also interact with the renderer instead of just the page (DOM) contents? Could make for some more... extensive capabilities.
Any more fuzzy platitudes for us, Geee?

The best encryption we have today is still bound to time and technology. Without a threat model, it's pointless to discuss security. To the NSA, not much of anything is secure on the Internet. There is a lot you can do when you have total visibility into all traffic. But your psychotic girl/boyfriend who barely understands what Wi-Fi is? They probably won't be eavesdropping on your iMessages.
> If you wanted to do things in equivalent lisp style, you'd just compile a Config.java/Config.scala file and add it to the classpath.

That's really not equivalent though. With Java and Scala, there's a sharp divide between what's code and what's data. Even if you create a Config.java class, you can still point to some bits and say "that's Java code" and other bits (like primitives or array literals) and say "that's data". Java doesn't know how to treat the code bits like data, or the data bits like code.

This means that there's a whole load of cool stuff that you just can't do with your Config.java that you could with a config file holding Lisp code. For one, you couldn't use macros to easily pre-process your config file. Or, as Yegge pointed out, you couldn't just turn the tag names (in an xml like structure) into functions that transform themselves.

Newer versions of Spring use Java for configuration. As you said, it's pretty cool to be able to compile and type check your config. As cool as that is though, it's not at all the same as putting your config in Lisp code.
I wonder if wireless power like this could be used to provide power for launching spacecraft and this avoiding the tyranny of the rocket equation?
There is plenty of room for prose generated by godoc in a package's documentation. (Which precedes the `package ...` line in a source file.)
Update from the Guardian:

"Section 8 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) permits GCHQ to perform indiscriminate trawls of external data"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-insists-op...
I hope my clarifications help explain what I meant in my parent comment.

I believe the following are potentially bad consequences of Grayson's/Mikey's claim spreading:

- People work on insuring others, at the expense of other activities that they would otherwise believe to be more valuable.

- Insuring people (or the ACA) is deemed a failure because mortality rates do not come down as "expected", plausibly leading to the ACA's repeal.

- A developer expends time working on the project expecting mortality rates to improve; when it doesn't, the uncritical idealist becomes an uncritical cynic, rejecting any future promise of saving lives/improving things.
> Mockery is not concession.

If half the population becomes slightly over than half the population out of random chance (or say, the "ignorant" having a few more babies as they are wont to do), mockery would be political concession.

It's far better to convince who you deem ignorant of your own views. This means treating their arguments seriously in the fashion of http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html .

Mockery is unlikely to succeed (as are downvotes), and pretty much fails pg's 1st test.

Your next claim, that "200 years of judicial interpretation and case law" ends the debate fails pg's second test. It's an ad hominem attack, that any disagreement with legal precedent (admittedly strong in this case) should be ignored.

By the same token, legal precedent prior to the civil war dictated that human beings could be property. I presume you are glad that some individuals within that society begged to differ.

Debates should be conducted on first principles and supported by objective evidence. I myself agree with Rayiner in that there is no constitutional dictate either way, only saying that the debate is valid on the grounds of 1st principle regardless of how old the arguments are.
One of my co-authors likes IDEA. After trying Android Studio, I have have to say... I'm not bowled over.

I could write a book full of Eclipse annoyances. I could build up a real hot hatred over it being a fraud of a GUI. The architecture is ridiculous and is the root cause of much of the UI suckage. But a lot of the sharp edges have been knocked off and the Android refactorings have become very impressive. I'll never love it. But I can use it.

NetBeans, IDEA, and VS used to all be markedly better. Now they are just maybe somewhat better. Yes it's a shame Google can't use NetBeans. But. Meh.

Back in the day, I even got a contract for writing a book on Visual J++ before Sun sued it out of existence in part because. at the time (what was it? 15 years ago?) I was pissed at how awful Sun's toolchain was and I thought they deserved to lose control of Java to Microsoft.

Now, I can't get too excited as long as code completion, debugging, and refactoring work smoothly.
Medicare does a good job with hospital visits but has some serious holes in the drug buying.

Those in their 50's should have had some cash built up from earlier savings, but they spent it all on premiums instead of building up a hedge. Lifelong illnesses are something that we should just acknowledge as bad for insurance and deal with otherwise. Insurance should be for events and not continuous medical conditions.

We have not dealt with the price of medical care in a sane manner. I don't think the political will exists to break the current insurance scheme while at the same time not overreaching with government.
He was also a founder of Bitstream. Quite the career.
Why we made a Flappy Bird clone
What do you expect in a perfect libertarian free market system??? Oh. Wait.

Sorry, I had to after reading all the bitcoin hate in other threads.
Intercepting FBI and Secret Service Calls via Google Maps
It seems like this should extend to many other roles as well. If someone in the EPA has investments in energy or manufacturing, for example. If someone in the FCC has investments in tech or media conglomerates. Pretty much anyone who has access to information about changing regulations, enforcement, etc. before the public.

Congress has been known to have above average returns on stock investments, making the congressional salary increases we quibble over look like chump change, if they are using their unique knowledge of policy direction to the fullest.
Wait. How do I get down-voted for saying this a fascinating idea? Does that even imply that I support it? Lame.
Haven't tried it myself yet but the latest Support Library includes a supposedly full-featured ActionBar. That would make it suck much less. Just in time for 2.x to start fading away.
I would argue that the people regulating the stock market should not be allowed to own stocks or any other sector investment, like an ETF focused on the health care industry. THey should still be allowed to own index based investment vehicles like an SP500 ETF.
Wolfram Language demo
I believe it is a zero sum game to try and have "no conflicts of interest" in anything. At least the SEC is now forcing a system that A) Allows their regulators to be transparent about an activity that they have done their whole life (picking stocks) B) A system that forces them to opt out of explicit conflicts of interests.
The TSP (fed retirement) plan has 5 basic funds: Large , Small, international equities and corporate and government bond funds. Perhaps allowing a similar mechanism to invest a private portfolio in these funds and allowing re balancing once a year would be a good policy. Investments and withdrawals will be weighted based on selected allocation.
What app developers must do to stay ahead of competition
Index fund or blind trust, problem solved.
Cryptocurrency Pump and Dumps
> you can think of a poly MAC as a thermonuclear CRC algorithm

Funny you would put it like that. You can turn the regular CRC algorithm (which is essentially a polynomial division) into a secure Wegman-Carter authenticator (like polynomial-evaluation MACs): the secret key key2 would be an irreducible CRC polynomial, and the scheme would loosely be PRF(nonce, key1) + CRC(message, key2) (see Shoup [1]).

Wegman-Carter authenticators, unlike hash-based ones, are information-theoretically secure. This means that they resist an attacker with infinite resources. In a way, they're the analog of the one-time pad for authentication. They also predate hash-based authenticators by decades: the first secure construction of this kind of authenticator goes back to 1974 [2]!

[1] http://www.shoup.net/papers/macs.pdf

[2] http://www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol53-1974/articles/bstj...
No, it's a combination of allowing hash refs to be automatically created on access or assignment for complex data structures where it's implied.

# False, key doesn't exist, doesn't print and doesn't create anything at that key location
my $h;
say "foo" if $h->{foo};
# Creates an empty hash ref at $h->{foo}, so $h->{foo} now evaluates to true in boolean context.
$h->{foo}{bar}
# True, prints "foo";
say "foo" if $h->{foo}
# creates empty hash refs at bar and baz.
say "what does this do?" if $h->{foo}{bar}{baz}{quux};

Works with array refs as well.

Personally, I find once you understand it, it's fairly easy to guard against (even if it requires more code. e.g. say "foo" if $h->{foo} and $h->{foo}{bar}; # Assuming we know $h is a hash ref already.

Edit: Typo and code block formatting
Why the hell does this matter?
This looks decent but I think it could be made a lot better. Right now it's kind of messy with all the functions and all the lines and numbers on the circle there at the same time. It would be better to be able to select those functions you wish to view.
Hiring is basically public information.
What technology knowledge are required?
Very good idea, and one that I hope they had brought to the table (I wasn't at the table and I would love to know if you were). I have to imagine that something like this was brought up as an option, and it was struck down due to a counter argument that these are former stock traders and to disallow the stock traders to do what they love to do, would not allow the SEC to get the best talent.