skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, maybe not. Web of Trust has serious scaling issues.
https://bitcointalk.org/oldSiteFiles/byzantine.html

Blockchain based key distribution may let you anchor trust to a decentralized process.
Auroracoin: Cryptocurrency for every Icelandic resident
Wow, a market cap of about $10 billion. From a company on the verge of collapse to a company that is now doing pretty well for itself, very inspiring.
I don't think you can get away describing trig in a sentence without using the word 'circle'. Really I'd argue trig is at its core more about the circle.
While cool, technically, I've never seen a more first-world-problem hack. :)
How pragmatic.

Personally, I don't see a reason why ads HAVE to be manipulative or misleading. What if it was in my own interest to see them?

Consider that I'm blocking them because I perceive them as a threat, and the fact that they can't stop me creates an incentive to reform in a positive way.

There's no reason ads can't be mutually beneficial. A company around town is looking for a programmer? Here's my resume guys! Future shop is having a clearance sale on HDD's? Let me get my coat!

You should install adblock! Increase that incentive! Why suffer ads? join me and push them towards being useful!
> Hospitals don't let uninsured people die

They don't do as much to stop them from dying. (Other than public hospitals -- of which there are a limited number with limited capacity -- they are only obligated to stabilize them in the ER and then, if they have further medically-necessary care but are stable, they can discharge them and/or transfer them to a public hospital if one is available, whereas those that have resources, insurance or otherwise, to pay would be admitted.)

> insuring people doesn't magically save their lives.

Strictly true -- it doesn't do so magically. It does so, instead, but the relatively mundane mechanism of providing them the ability to pay for care other than emergency stabilization, which reduces the probability of them having such care denied or delayed.
FDA Preparing to change the Nutrition Labels
Pardon my ignorance not being a security expert, but given that all endpoints here (software and hardware) are Apple-controlled, just how trivial is spoofing a keyserver? Genuinely curious.
Even a custom-written third party client still doesn't eliminate the requirement to trust Apple. They're delivering your closed source operating system, which could very easily include hostile behaviors like key logging and screen recording.

At least with iMessage, the entire ecosystem is managed by one company, so you only have to trust one company.
An expansion of social security / medicare (particularly if they were paying into a health savings account throughout their low risk period) to cover drugs and such would have been quite a bit cheaper. The youth already are paying for the elderly with taxes, we shouldn't run a con job on them too.

The concept of insurance we use for healthcare is broken.
If you don't want politics, feel free to refrain from talking about them.
It's now the third most valuable cryptocurrency according to http://coinmarketcap.com/mineable-all.html
It's still way better than SMS, and Facebook loves to use that kind of information to sell ads.

This is actually more secure than I expected.
Seems like he won on a very niche loophole here. I don't think people should be holding their phones to use Google Maps whilst driving. We have enough distractions as it is: radio, passengers, people driving with headphones in...

If you want to use Google Maps in your car, get a phone dock and program your destination into the app before you leave your departure point. Simple.
What are you trying to clarify by distinguishing between AAA titles and "puzzle/casual" titles?
Right, the article in question is just pointing out how C++ is implementing a specific monad. In this case the values of futures and then the futures library implements all the functions require for them to be a monad. The C++ spec certainly doesn't call them that and don't provide a generalized monad.

I think the main point to take away is that this is a case where a monad is the right abstraction and can be implemented very logically, but since C++ doesn't and cannot really speak about monads directly, there comes a lot of boilerplate and you lose a lot of "free" utility functions you'd get in a language that can talk about arbitrary monads.
Hi Dan,

good points -- but they're not the scenarios I'm referring to, and they're extremes around a perfectly usable for 90% of use cases & users.

If Joe wants to stream to Barney and a handful of people then his laptop is fine. If he want to push 10k, then obviously he'll need some help, the maths doesn't stack up any other way. Your original example (and my response to it) mentioned a pair of users with a need for low latency. 10k is obviously going to be different, and we both know that. Let's not be disingenuous here.

PPSP-TP (the tracker protocol) doesn't force Joe's laptop to be the seeder for the entire 10k, it can be managed as discrete swarms, and the tracker protocol can segment or insulate the seeding peer from a larger community if required. But as you rightly point out in this case, help is needed. There's a limit on how much can be streamed based simply on packet size & transfer, even though PPSP is much more efficient than existing protocols due to the way it handles hash management (merkle trees and munro hashes) bandwidth is bandwidth, (latency & asymmetric aside).

Again, PPSP is a transport protocol, not just a live video stream. There are applications even in areas where bandwidth is 100Kb/sc or worse.

If you're really interested in this, please read up on the protocol and contribute some much-needed real world feedback to its development. The next IETF session is, as always, publically accessible, https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/89/agenda/ppsp/ next Tuesday 16h10 GMT. It would be great to have you join us!
> You're talking about EMTALA, which is an act that prohibits turning away uninsured patients away who are in need of emergent care. Once the patient is stabilized and either discharged or admitted, they are subject to payments.

More importantly, as it only requires emergency stabilization and not further care to be provided without regard to ability to pay, once they are stabilized they can be discharged instead of being admitted.
Included an alternative to new/delete's form of allocation that covers a good range of its use cases and is less prone to screwup.
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> "I'm <fill the blank> disney character"

I don't understand. Do your friends mostly read fan fiction (no insult intended: that's my best interpretation)?
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Yes - what the heck happened there?
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Seems trivial because the user has to be wearing a device which monitors your vitals. Well, yeah, probably not too difficult to guess if someone is asleep or not. Do it without forcing me to buy a device to wear and I will be thoroughly impressed.
> An expansion of social security / medicare (particularly if they were paying into a health savings account throughout their low risk period) to cover drugs and such would have been quite a bit cheaper.

You act as if an expansion of Medicare to cover prescription drugs was an alternative to the more recent reforms, rather something that already happened prior to them and did not, as you suggest, address the problem that the more recent reforms were aimed at.
" It does, however, suggest to me that the savvy Al Qaida conspirators of the next decade will hold their covert meetings in the nude, on Yahoo! video chat, while furiously masturbating. "
No one read the damn article. You will not be spied on while using this phone BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BUY THIS PHONE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language [video]
Can Physics Solve Child Custody Battles?
It's possible he isn't revealing everything he's doing. I know I'd leave a few surprises waiting for people.

Also, it's possible (I'd argue, probable) that security services of his country of residence have assigned people to watch him and prevent agents of other countries getting near the files. So anyone coming for the Snowden files probably has another agency to get through first.
Coming from a background of using cryptography regularly (far from an advanced user), this revelation seems... Not surprising. It's practically the equivalent of using SSL for viewing webpages. I say practically because for some mind boggling reason, using standard crypto practices seems to be novel for messaging services on the Internet.
> Even a custom-written third party client still doesn't eliminate the requirement to trust Apple. They're delivering your closed source operating system, which could very easily include hostile behaviors like key logging and screen recording.

It does eliminate the requirement to trust Apple actually. That's the point of (real) end to end encryption. With a custom client, you could use them as a conduit to deliver your message without using any Apple software on either client if you wanted to. As long as the users can verify the keys.

> At least with iMessage, the entire ecosystem is managed by one company, so you only have to trust one company.

I just explained at least 3 different reasons why that is not true. You can fully "trust" Apple and still compromise an iMessage conversation.
No end-to-end no bueno.

Standard SSL even when done right isn't enough to guard against our current privacy-abusing GO's.
NSA's Legal Compliance Still Breaks The Law
You missed the point, they all come from mathematics and their meaning in the context of programming is precisely related to their mathematical context.
Public comments are apparently open but it's actually not clear how one can add a public comment:

http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm387114.ht...
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When you say risk deferment, which type of risk are you discussing specifically?

I see cryptocurrency use as being largely automated and transparent to the consumer in future. I think Bitcoin may have a place, but other more popular systems will provide solutions to many of its more gaping issues (rapid local settlement suitable for point of sale, complexity of implementation, lack of chargeback/cancellation channels, initial counterparty trust bootstrap, reputation management, etc.)

I started having a think about how these might come together over here ... comments/thoughts/collaboration welcome. http://ifex-project.org/
Yeah, I've been there. For me, the solution was just setting a new, completely outrageous annual revenue goal. Having that seemingly unattainable number scrawled on a sticky note put me back in the right mindset.
This could be more interesting if there were pictures in it...
Are you aware of sh? http://amoffat.github.io/sh/
Apple is able to do this today because instant message services not (yet) covered under CALEA. ( Carrier assistance for Law enforcement agencies.) If CALEA is updated to include instant messaging services, Apple would be legally obligated to have a method of intercepting these messages, possibly with a separate public key as discussed in other comments.
Because they can be used against you and you won't be able to deny the message has originated from you, which is a desirable security/privacy property in a messaging app setting. OTR, and mpOTR[1] in particular, try hard to remove non-repudiability from messages.

[1]: http://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/mpotr.pdf
My god I wish my company would instigate Rule 2 !
> Just like US did not fail in Vietnam but failed in the public opinion

This is self contradictory. Failure of national morale in war is actually how wars are normally lost, not somehow something different than normal defeat. And its relevant to the analogy, in that...

> ORM are doing a good (well, at least passable) job of doing what they are intended to do, but are generally hated.

If that's true, its because what they are designed to do isn't what the people hating them need done. It indicates a gap between what is available and what is needed; intent may be interesting, but in the end not all that important.
That is the gist I got from the presentation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_memory
Look, unless you're a billionaire (and really, even then) life comes with tradeoffs. If you want to live in a super-expensive area, you're going to get a smaller/crappier place. If you're willing to put up with a longer commute, you'll get more for money in terms of housing.

The point is, you have the luxury of being able to make those choices. What about the people who sweep the floors in your office? What about the people who work at the trendy cafe where you eat lunch?
Agreed. I found this bit about Touch ID interesting:

> With one finger enrolled, the chance of a random match with someone else is 1 in 50,000. However, Touch ID allows only five unsuccessful fingerprint match attempts [...]

I assumed it was more accurate than 1 in 50,000. Then again I don't know what a normal fingerprint sensor is capable of. Does anyone know the accurate of the sensor in the new S5, or the sensors that IBM/Lenovo/etc. have put on laptops?

Also:

> The 88-by-88-pixel, 500-ppi raster scan is temporarily stored in encrypted memory within the Secure Enclave while being vectorized for analysis, and then it’s discarded after.

I wonder what kind of neat stuff people could come up with if we had raw access to that kind of sensor data.
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The App Stores are not “long tail”
Well, I could do it with a Kinect if you'd prefer. Or probably with a phone accelerometer - if you actually keep that in your pocket while you're sitting on the couch for an hour! But at some point the data has to come from somewhere.

If you're using a Fitbit anyway, an on-body sensor is going to be more accurate than not, and it's there.
Yes, we're using Express.js. QUnit looks interesting, I think I'll start with it. Is it pretty standard to just have an HTML file that runs all your client-side tests?
Correlation is not causation, but given people put their trousers on successfully, cross the street and go to work it's likely that they tend on aggregate to have a view of the world that matches reality. You can't use popularity of a view to ensure it's valid, but I don't think it should have zero sway, either. Or, to put it more precisely, I bet it's more likely that something the vast majority of people believe is true, is actually true.

Note: this does not mean I'm saying God/the tooth fairy/the loch ness monster/santa are real. It means there are more true things people believe than false.
Wonder if this is what the talks between Apple and Tesla were about?
I disagree with you... but we'll see how it plays out with MtGox.

In the eyes of the law, I don't think bitcoin is your property anymore than buying a special weapon on Eve Online with fiat-money is your legal property. Maybe it should be, maybe it will be, but today that's not the case.

Or maybe I'm completely wrong... Has anyone sought legal action on financial loss related the value of an item inside Eve Online? Or any virtual item in any system?

A straight scam I understand, but say you purchased a bunch of rare swords & armor in some online game then next month the server crashes and all players lose their virtual items and the gaming company goes bankrupt. Is the company liable?
Nah man, you're not enlightened. He's not saying don't build a new editor, just that you had better think long and hard before you decide to foist another learning curve on the world, and act like you're doing it a favor.

Also, https://xkcd.com/927/
(I'm working with Brandon)

To clarify, you don't need to be able to commit long term-- if you can take leave from what you're otherwise doing for a few months, that's enough.

If you want to work on something with real impact and help change the culture of government technology, email Brandon above! We're actively looking for a few good people.
My wife and I often watch in bed (bad for the circadian, we know) with an iPad, so the accelerometer would work great.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

The wealthier our societies, the more numerous and lucrative the government positions, relative to the population median. At some point, the social fabric is likely to rip in awful ways.
If you see security as boolean, you're going to have a rough time...
Such console games "get" this effect just because they look more and more like movies, not because they are better intrinsic games than what we had before. And the examples shown by the author show her clear ignorance of PC games in the 80-90s, so it's not surprising he didn't feel "much" in front of consoles games. We basically had to wait for late SNES games and PS1 games to see more and more games on consoles with deeper storylines and character development. But this occured on PC way before it happened on consoles, and you had actual strong female characters way before on PC too (hey, come on, the Roberta Williams games had almost always female protagonists, and were hugely popular!).

The idea that "we had to wait until 2014 to feel something when playing games" is what I considered the most painful. Because it's preposterous.

Wired has really become an over-hyped tabloid.
Case-sensitivity is the past trolling us
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Uh, no.

That wasn't his own language features, he used Moose in the last example, it is the standard OO environment in Perl. To simplify a little, most new Perl code use Moose.

The author did discuss a bit how Perl is extendable, which is where Moose comes from.
Defense attorney says charges against client are improper?
Well, there's a dog-bites-biscuit story...
India submarine INS Sindhuratna: Navy says missing sailors are dead
Are you arguing that women are so limited in imagination that they can't enjoy works of fiction in which the protagonist is a different gender?

Anyone who argued that men couldn't enjoy The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins because the protagonist is a women would be laughed at.
If the conversation isn't worth having then why are we even talking about non-profits at all?

What's the point of having YC support a non-profit venture?
Oh ... I completely missed that interpretation (maybe I'm too close to these techniques). In any case, it's probably better to think of the system as a giant state machine in which the data are states and the operations are transitions. Its processing and memory co-mingled. You'll notice that it's got a very wide data width (not a new idea) that speeds it up tremendously for parallizeable tasks, but it's actually slowing down the "clock" since the memory itself is still the slowest part.

(I also upvoted you ... you shouldn't get penalized for an honest question)
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I use Scotiaitrade in Canada, and they are similar. You don't pay any commission if you have more than 50k invested with them (as far as I remember).

I feel happier letting a major bank hold onto my shares, do my trades, calculate interest and balances, etc. rather than some startup. I also use scotiabank for my banking, so it's very convenient.
Get married. Sharing expenses and having meals at home more often could help you save more and this in turn could change your perception of life, universe and everything.
The changes made are woefully inadequate for, among other things, cancer drugs. They didn't fix or even make a good attempt at the problem.
> The wealthier our societies, the more numerous and lucrative the government positions, relative to the population median.

Evidence?
> Although women make up nearly half of all gamers, only a fraction of videogame characters are female, and fewer still are playable.

Double false claim. Women certainly don't make half of gamers (unless you consider people playing Tetris and phone games real gamers, and that's a very different subject altogether).

Fewer are playable, false claim as well. Tomb Raider, Bayonetta, Most adventure games from Roberta Williams, Lots of japanese games have female lead characters too (too many to list here), and a lot of these games were very much liked by male gamers as well. I'm personally a huge fan of Bayonetta, and the fact that the character is a female had a huge part in this preference.
>computer science & IT people tend to be nerds/geeks who like to tinker in their free time and as a percentage of the population they stay relatively the same from year to year

Why do you say that?

I think you may be thinking too much in the short-term. I was actually wondering what programmers in their mid-20s today are going to be doing when they're, say, 70. How many programmers in their 70s do we have today? Very little, because computing was in its infancy 50 years ago. With every generation, more and more are being exposed to computing/programming at an early age.

You also have to remember that there are tinkerers in not just the computing field. Think about the weekend woodworkers, car guys, model aircraft enthusiasts; could many of them be tinkering with software if they were exposed and educated in it at the right age? I say yes. On the macro scale, we are only at the dawn of computing and the internet, and there are going to be MANY more people working on it in the future.
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Admittedly, lessons from the SF housing market aren't broadly applicable, but due to rent control, the booming home prices, and bizarre property tax rules, it's much cheaper to rent.
By all accounts, these secret court orders often come with gagging clauses - which would likely extend to even gagging one employee from telling another. For all I know the guy next to me could be under a secret court order forcing him to insert backdoors.

Of course, as there's no way to disprove this hypothesis, and there's no proof of it, you can still err any way you like :)
And here I thought it was private enterprises running these mega privacy breaching operations.
Assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that Apple does not use certificate pinning for their iMessage servers, and the adversary controls a trusted CA (likely for secretive government agencies), and the adversary controls a router somewhere between the device and Apple (also likely for government agencies), it's very trivial.

It's a simple matter of redirecting traffic using something like iptables.
the author is talking about a AAA title.