skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is literally the first time I've ever heard of this company.
WikiLeaks postpones revelation of 2nd country X where NSA is recording all calls
It's an excellent eggcorn, at any rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
No. "LTE does not require or even help IPv6 deployment." http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/v6ops/current/msg15116....
[1] I never stipulated the law was defensible. Laws are weird like that though, we don't get to pick and choose which ones we feel like following that day because of how defensible we think they are.

[2]You have a very US way to look at Government. UK intelligence services have no powers of arrest and carry no weapons. We certainly would not send military forces into a civilian news office so we would, in line with UK and EU legislation, ask the police to intervene once a legal mandate had been proven.

The Guardian knew GCHQ had an airtight case, it is why they complied. No men in black with assault rifles were forthcoming. What would have happened is, the place would have been closed, a thorough audit of IT and Magnetic Media would have been conducted. Everything with anything classified on it would have been destroyed. The building reopened.

The Government was doing the the Guardian a favour by saying "Look, we only want these specific info dumps. Carry on business as normal, just give us these or we go to the law and take everything."

Exactly the same way a policemen might let you off with a caution if you are caught speeding and apologise. If you fight him, he impounds the car on the spot and uses the full extent of his legally provided powers. Do you honestly think two guys from GCHQ wanted to be standing in the Guardian on camera watching HDD's being grinded for hours??

The issue with cloud computing is separate and distinct from recovering a known quantity of classified information. I really am struggling to comprehend why people are failing to grasp this point.

Just because X quantity of classified material exists does not mean you can ignore N quantity that can be removed from circulation. Also, you have no evidence to support that the material destroyed at the Guardian HQ had been already released in full, had been copied or transmitted to another location. You have to take each incident on it's own merits. It is what you know to be the facts at the time, not what you hope to be the facts so you can avoid being diligent.
There is a big difference between courses teaching computer languages (intro CS) and courses teaching algorithms (advanced CS and mathematics). Courses dealing with quantum computation are in the second category, they teach much more than "a programming model that has zero application today", and they are already present as math, CS or physics courses.
The US Navy was hacked by its own nuclear aircraft carrier
Australian Police arrested Two Anonymous Hackers
I don't think a court would have found those hours to be very reasonable if you were asleep or still getting dressed.
That's a weird attack...

[1] I posted the link to the AMA on HackerNews. Stop acting like you "uncovered" it. It's in my submissions. I also don't think a single one of my replies on that AMA counts as a Derp - if you do, please post the replies in particular. I had a number of PM's from Redditors saying they thought it was actually very clear and interesting.

Unlike your book on Programming Android which currently has 35% of it's reviews listing as terrible. http://www.amazon.com/Android-Application-Development-Progra...

[1] "Whatever your Android programming level is, this book is a complete waste of time and definitely doesn't worth a single penny. "

[2] "I am an avid Oreilly fan. I write software in a number of different languages and environments. This has got to be the absolute worst coverage of android I've seen. It was less informative than the books covering beta releases. There are typos, not just normal sentence typos but method signatures in the examples. I feel pretty ripped off having bought this book."

One of the worst rated books in O'Reilly history it seems. Congratulations. If you want to get into personal attacks Zigurd let's do it, let's get the rulers out and do some measuring. Derp derp.

[2] The AMA was cancelled because I redacated the names of individuals from my documents (Managers etc) so the Reddit Team decided it was not valid since it could be forged. That's fair enough, it's their platform and I was not willing to provide any other than my assessment reports. I can provide you the email chain if it bothers you that much and you present a compelling enough reason to want to verify it. However some very diligent Redditors actually did find my full details and contacted me to continue the ama offline.

EDIT TO ADD: It was all very friendly and the AMA Team kicked the concept around for a over a week before they said that the evidence was not in line with their guidelines of total transparency. One of the guys actually apologised shrug. At no point was there the insinuation of lying.

[3] Unless you can counter my citations of the law with evidence that they are false then your opinion ranks a little bit below that of my daughter and she is not even 5. Last time I checked RIPA, Data Protection, HMG Security Framework were all perfectly readable right here on the internet and the Joint Service Publications were viewable under certain circumstances.

I would expect better from you than this ridiculous cheap shot making me out to be some sort of liar when we have never met and you don't know me. You could have even messaged me on Reddit with your concerns. Hell, I have the same username.

Would you mind furnishing us with your experience of UK Legislation and the UK intelligence community?
Qutip is much better adapted at that (also in python).

https://github.com/qutip/qutip/
Against The "Internet Of Things"
I've met a lot of Tier 1 contracting consultants. Smart people, excellent communicators, well presented and great at generating ideas, but with zero problem solving experience they were no better than a fresh graduate.

You need a few seasoned professionals who have seen it all to keep the children in order. Reminds me of my year 12 chemistry teacher who was out of the class for a minute and on returning had the class evacuated within seconds. He recognised the smell of mercury vapour from a burst thermometer the second he walked in.
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I don't think it is as simple as that as people do win in East Texas [0]. I found it interesting that the latest troll shopping location is Delaware.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/east-texas-courts...
Oh the irony.

ZenPro must be lying because he referenced publicly available legislation and discussed the rationale behind destroying Guardian magnetic media. No one involved in the Intelligence Community would do such thing.

Thank God Edward Snowden leaked all those documents.

If you have evidence of me being a Walter Mitty by all means publish it. :-) I would love to see the evidence that mitigates my entire career, genuinely.

Go ahead. For each evidence you publish I will upload 1 x Annual Report and a link to 1 x professional publication in my own name and links to the intelligence reports I wrote which were later published on Wikileaks during the Afghanistan disclosures.

Go.
Without wanting to get into parsing the word 'cure' imho this is a cancer cure. The reason the treatment kills the B-cells as well is because that is how it identifies the cancer cells. It is the marker that enables the T cells to recognize the cancer cells. But the fact that it kills the B cells does not mean that it does not successfully treat the cancer cells. It appears that it does. And hence it seems fair to call it a cure.
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If troll files bankruptcy, can't the winner claim their assets, i.e., junk patents as payment? Isn't this even better because troll now loses the weapon itself to cause more damage?

Lot of tech companies are sitting on mountain of cash. There is absolutely no reason for them not to go after trolls with 1000% vengeance and eik out every possible cent from them even it cost 10X more to them. I'm dumb founded that no one other than Newegg had this attitude even though these companies keep playing victims.
fta, what does this mean? Bonobos is going to sell in-store or on someone else's site?

We’re on the record as saying that we’ve raised the last capital we need to
get to profitability.

The irony is a big part of how we’re getting there is by exiting standalone
e-commerce.
So the decision is, even though there are many good Go frameworks for web development (they forgot some, like beego), to invent their own micro-framework? I think basically they just re-invented a small aspect of some of the frameworks they dismissed.

I have made similar decisions before, and it is more fun and certainly gives a sense of freedom and less to learn, but I think that is generally an incorrect decision and in this case it is particularly obvious. There are many existing Go web frameworks, and I am sure that some existing Go web frameworks are good enough for Square.

This sort of thing is why I prefer to work alone. Because those types of incorrect decisions are very common. There is always more than one way to do something. It is just surprising to me how often engineers carefully select the ways that are inferior (more work, and/or less sophisticated). Of course, as I said, sometimes I make wrong decisions, but in those cases I can always change my mind. An organization or another individual is harder to change though, and bad design decisions can become solidified.
Heroku is planning an NPM mirror according to job posting
Ebay: Copy/Paste passwords disabled because "not secure"
Are you sure you are right about this form of treatment being a non-starter for solid tumors? It seems that researchers are making progress in this area. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/breaking-down-cancers-def...
Google deserves a shout-out for embracing Docker in a really constructive way. In addition to building cool tools on top of it (like the one linked here), they are also contributing real engineering effort into the upstream Docker project itself. For example Victor and Rohit from the Google LMCTFY team are now active maintainers of libcontainer (https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/pkg/libcontai...)
New Middleware Technology Quadruples SSD Speed?
Its gives you an excuse to remind someone that you exist in their friends list. Socializing/Networking is actually more important on LinkedIn than on FB, because people usually have (or have had) social relations with FB people IRL, but on LinkedIn you need those excuses because otherwise you msotly just have business relations
Typically troll maintains pool of patents. If they file bankruptcy, its an opportunity to shave them off clean and flush out their pool. Even if they had just one patent, it is still worth pursuing this because it puts strain on their legal resources to continue trolling. This is advantage to large company who practically have far more legal resources to spend then individual trolls.

The bottom line is that if all tech companies pubically takes oath like Newegg that they would never let patent troll walk away like that I suspect trolling would continue at the current level if at all.
The virus isn't used to fight the disease, is it? Isn't it just used as a vector to introduce the treatment?
Just a reminder: the employees they chew up and spit out during this process are human beings.
I love it how they even include a link to info over their hack together with their "homeopathic" "security" measures.

It really disappoints me that Ebay are this clueless, and it's making me worry about PayPal..
You're misinformed. "Radical" in "radical feminism" doesn't mean, has nothing to do with, "ultra"; it means a very specific strain of ideas, far from third-wave feminism.
Yes, that's the big caveat that needs to be added when someone tells you that XOR and AND are enough to implement arbitrary functions. What that means is, for an arbitrary function you can write a program that takes that function plus the input size, and generates the (XOR/AND-only) boolean circuit that implements the function for that input size.

Note that the output size is fixed too. So yeah, any program you actually try implement this way is going to involve a very roundabout (er, circuitous) process. If-branching? Hah! That just means you get to designate half the remaining portion of the circuit to one branch and the other half to the other branch. While loops? You get to unroll each step into another set of gates.

Here's my post from when I first discovered the FHE paper: http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2013/05/i-added-your-numbe...
Has Valve come out against Oculus for taking Abrash and others? I haven't heard anything but was curious what the story was there since Valve had been working with Oculus very closely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
Is this calculator very specific to the American market, or would it also produce accurate estimates for, e.g., France or the UK?
Apart from people like Edward Snowden of course. They signed no such agreements obviously.

However, to demonstrate the breadth of your naiveté in your little witch hunt - here is the first line of that document you linked to.

ensure they are appropriately protected; support Public Sector business and the effective exploitation of information; and meet the requirements of relevant legislation and international / bilateral agreements and obligations. It applies to all information that government collects, stores, processes, generates or shares to deliver services and conduct business, including information received from or exchanged with external partners.

This is nothing to do with the Official Secrets Act. We disseminate these documents freely and at industry conferences to ensure List X companies are in compliance and also because the Intelligence Services have a vested interest in ensuring our economic and commercial IT infrastructure is robust. So struck out on the Official Secrets Act claim. Let us see how you do in reviewing policy...

You will find on Page 15 the extant legislation that I referred to in my original post above. So far so credible. It is almost like the intelligence operators were obeying that law or something...

...oh wait, the very next page.

This document should be read in conjunction with the detailed standards and guidance set out in the HMG Security Policy Framework (SPF).

Pretty sure I said that in my original post.

And then the gem of gems - Page 18. Destroy / sanitise to prevent
retrieval and reconstitution followed by Guidance about the management and handling of security incidents is available in the SPF documents 'Security
Breach Management' and 'Leaks Procedural Guidance' Relevant ICO guidance should also be consulted.

You are 0 for 2 there. Thanks for playing though. That's what happens when you attempt to position yourself as someone qualified to question a process you have neither been trained or educated in.

You will also find above this comment 4 other HN posters who confirm that US and Australian security procedures are the same and another poster confirming that the procedures are the same for civilian IT engineers working in commercially sensitive environments.

Are we all lying?
It's a TABLE!

I believe that's because it's a table semantically. I mean, look at it - three columns, fixed width, sometimes columns 1 and 2 merge together. That's a table any way you look at it.

I never understood people's fear of tables - they're awesome, they're easy to control the lay out of, browsers support them just fine, they can be as flexible as you want.

And if you feel sick every time when you type a <table> tag, you can specify them in CSS nowadays.
In respect to SW patents isn't the recently renewed US legislation more a problem than a solution. As I understood it, it is no longer who wrote a piece of code that exemplified an idea first, but who first filed for the patent for it?
I've seen something similar: in middle school a classmate tied the rope around themselves to anchor the back of the line. He was pretty badly injured when the other team pulled him over and dragged him across the field, pulling the loop tight. I never thought about a rope snapping, though.
That method doesn't get around the limitations of writing the plainfunction directly as FHE operations. The FHE interpreter still acts on the equivalent of opcodes, with known behavior corresponding to each code, every bit as apparent as knowing that you're ANDing two HE values. It's obfuscated, but no more than you can do with plain ol' obfuscated code.
I guess what Matt said to Haughey: your site looks like a content farm, lot of posts have poor content, filled with lots of links, none of them have backlinks so it was hit by Panda. Even if there is a lot of good pages on the site according to someones, it is enough to have also a lot of shallow pages to get caught.
You don't need antibacterial soap to remove bacteria. Soap, as a surfactant, combined with mechanical rubbing against your skin will remove dead skin and bacteria.

Furthermore, to quote a microbiologist friend, an antibacterial soap that kill 99.9% of bacteria (assuming you take the percentage at face value) will just result in the remaining bacteria dividing until your skin has returned to stasis of the microorganisms living there in just a few hours.

Use a normal soap. Wash your hands. Don't freak out about it.
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Infant and child mortality is down _and_ we're living longer.
Nope, no mention of Etsy in that article.
I don't know anything about the focus on the chips in particular. I never did anything like that in my destruction and I cannot comment credibly on that part of the story.

I can only comment on why the magnetic media had to be destroyed. The how they went about is fair game for people on HN to speculate and question. I am not trying to stop anyone.

I also never said people should not be paranoid. I actually wrote a recent article saying that people should question their intelligence services. However, they also have a responsibility to read the answers that are provided via legislative and parliamentary vehicles.

If the majority of the HN audience were invited to a tour of GCHQ, given free reign to explore and then access to the myriad databases and tools - they would be bored within hours, look up and say

"Now take me to the real secret stuff."

It honestly is not that exciting. It is just a massive bureaucracy with various departments, some of which are doing bleeding edge stuff. When it comes to security it is all very routine and in line with standardised frameworks.
The frog video made me laugh. It's a great experiment and this is something really new about wild animal behavior.
And yet cannabis oil, which is non-psychoactive and an effective treatment for a myriad of issues including ADHD is still illegal at the federal level.
Well from people outside of US, it is not only the legal system. It seems to me US itself is largely broken.
> we should strongly prefer female programmers

this sort of mentality will encourage (and validate) concerns that female programmers are hired (and retained) because of gender rather than ability.
Maybe http://www.lightsail.com/ ?
Your comment lacks of math though.
> _and_ we're living longer.

This is mainly due to the improvement of hospital facilities and the end of life treatments. we are not living longer better - the older you get the more cripple you are likely to survive. What really matters in life expectancy is the ability to live longer in good health.
Why make yet another markup language without any real improvements to the widely adopted markdown? Curly-braces are usually used to bind data, so you actually loose a great advantage that markdown has with it's syntax. Let's improve markdown instead
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>bacteria that are less prone to washing away

The only reason a bacteria will be less prone to washing away is if its useful for our skin in some way and has a symbiotic relationship with it. In which case its highly unlikely if it will turn out to be harmful in the long run.

In any case, is there any evidence that we do have some skin microbiota that sticks even after good soap wash?
Version control is not enough for binary files. Binary files need access control since changes can not be merged. Older centralized version control often provides access control as well. Distributed version control can't do this by it's very nature
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Doesn't have the fancy d3 visualization, but here's a better analysis over the long run (30 years). It even stacks the deck against owning at the start by assuming 100% financing. There's a few missing components (mortgage insurance etc.) but even if you add those numbers into this rather detailed analysis, the conclusion doesn't change. It's actually a good enough analysis that you can just added or subtract a few other scenarios from it yourself and until you're describing some very bizarre circumstances, the basic conclusion holds. All the calculations and reasoning are provided here. Buying is unambiguously a better use of your money over the long term. It's not even close.

http://assayviaessay.blogspot.com/2014/04/rent-or-buy.html

Lots of people here describe renting as having an upside because you can remain location mobile, but that's true of owning as well. The only option at that point isn't to sell your home and then buy one somewhere else, you can also rent out your current home, and buy a second one. You can continue doing that ad nauseum, except now you've convinced other people to pay for your mortgage instead of you. In the end you'll own a few properties and all the people who rented from you will own nothing.

Something mentioned in my link but not explicitly in the OP, rent goes up, mortgage payments stay the same or can go down. Over 30 years, your housing burden goes down significantly providing you with increased monthly liquidity.

At the end of the day, you own the property at the end and for all years >30 you effectively live for "free" (minus taxes).

I urge everybody reading the OP to take a few spare hours and run the numbers themselves and see if the easy conclusion here holds out for them.
I think we have a misunderstanding here.

I am not saying "every statistical problem can be solved efficiently, numerically stable, ... in clojure" (and I realize you may read my comment like that), but rather most of the critical stuff is provided by incanter and the rest you can do yourself in clojure.

As a side note:
Incanter also has some fortran dependencies, sot he critical stuff is also not done in clojure.
The big companies probably don't worry too much about the "trolls", and the current legislation reflects that. They have the legal and financial resources to defend themselves. The Trolls make life hazardous for smaller companies who might go bankrupt because of them. For big companies it's probably just good that smaller disrupting innovators get out of business sooner rather than later.
I've got an open mind to all this; I'm just skeptical of some things. The article made mention of greasy hair but offered no solutions whatsoever. Another big thing that was overlooked is menstrual blood. Are we supposed to believe women are going to be happy with not using any hygiene products during their period?
How can I tell if my sysadmin is actually working or just slacking off?
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Just wanted to make N = 2: I haven't used soap or shampoo since 2010. My skin and hair feel and look great and nobody's ever said anything about my smell.

I honestly think I won't use soap or shampoo for the rest of my life.