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Why shouldn't an episode of CSI be detailed? I'm an (inactive) Wikipedia admin, and that meets my criteria. I don't care at all about the show, but it's factual material that can be described neutrally from reliable sources and verified by anybody who cares to take the time. It's also the kind of thing that people provably refer to.

More broadly, I think pop-culture topics are great material for Wikipedia because they serve as a gateway to deeper editing. Most people find editing Wikipedia intimidating. But if you ask, "Hey, can you improve something about the article on your favorite show?" that's a lot less scary, because a) they're comfortable with the material, and b) it's pop culture, so they're not as worried about getting it wrong.
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There's no better place than any oversaturated labor market to get cheap labor! How uplifting.
Does Australian Ebay have a different security team and different management?

5 days to fix SQL injection seems quite slow.

SQL injection at all is quite embarrassing. Why was it not caught and fixed by routine QA or auditing?
Thanks. We added that to the title.
US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe
How Chinese triads smuggled students and intellectuals after Tiananmen
Eventual consistency in the Wild West
I think this is definitely a cool concept for the future. A goal of making it so that articles have sequential and mutually hidden content. Click on "introductory" and you see an article written using less jargon and more high level overview information. Click on "academic" and you see an article written for someone at a sophomore level in college. Some math, some jargon, but without an expectation of prior domain expertise. Click on "expert" and you see an article with domain specific jargon, appropriate as a reference for someone who already has a great deal of experience with the subject matter.

It seems to me like that kind of end goal would also provide a better balance between editorial choice on how much detail is appropriate and providing a smorgasbord of information that potentially overwhelms the audience.
Not sure what you mean? What children?

You think the only worthwhile risks to take are the ones where you risk your life? Or do you mean you always risk your life anyway?
"There was once a time when a person could obtain a bachelor's degree--in virtually any field--and be employable."

As you make a nod to later, there was also once a time when a student could work their way through a university or college degree (and that includes not piling up significant debt). This was once true of MIT, let alone public schools.

That is now only a nostalgic memory, and with a rate of inflation that comfortably outstrips the CPI, the primacy of economic concerns cannot be avoided.
As a software developer, I appreciate the urge to systematize processes. But I generally think that's a mistake for Wikipedia. The formalization and top-down control of work processes is an artifact of industrial corporate thinking. It can work adequately in that context (although there are other models, like Toyota's, that I think are superior). But there's very little reason to think it will work in Wikipedia, which has almost nothing in common with industrial corporations.
"but are they eavesdropping on every single conversation of entire nations?"

China is, almost certainly. They have legions of hackers, spies, and sniffers in a constant state of attack on almost every communications system in the industrialized world.

The only difference between our program and theirs is that theirs isn't (yet) as effective. But it'll get there. In the meantime, their authoritarian system controls for leaks more effectively than our government does. There are fewer would-be Edward Snowdens in China, and any that do exist are locked up in camps somewhere.

I'm not here to justify any of the charges you're (quite correctly) leveling against the US. But let's not be naive. Any of the things you mentioned we're doing -- surveillance, corporatism, internet protectionism, etc. -- China is doing, and Russia would do if it had the capability.

Nobody's hands are clean here. I think that's your main point, and to a large extent, I agree. But we shouldn't weaken that point by attempting to argue degrees of it. Especially when those degrees are largely a matter of technical capability, not ethical inclination. Any dirty deeds we're doing that Russia and China aren't, Russia and China can't yet do. They would if they could.
Yes, so $300k puts you in the top 3%, $380k puts you in the top 1% of earners nationwide. The median salary of presidents of private Universities is $400k. If you start at a salary of 150k and get 0.15 raises annually for 5 years, yes your will make 300k a year, but I'd be very surprised if this is the experience of general employees. Google has 50,000 employees. If you paid them all $100k, that would be 5 billion roughly equivalent to Googles costs.
This is slick, especially the API explorer, but my biggest gripe about these orm's is that once you get past the very basic CRUD, you need to execute custom sql.

Does it support custom DB types?

For example, I want my primary keys to be bigint on Mysql, and not have to override the underlying dbdriver to do the mapping. I'd prefer to set the appropriate dbtype in the model, and have the driver pass it along directly.

Also does it support dbdriver level SQL query execution?

I have custom aggregation query across a self join, and that's not easily represented with static methods on a model.

Today I use node-orm2, with a custom SQL script that updates the identity columns to be bigints, and it supports executing raw sql queries (with some basic parameter sanitizing).
Contrast this with my recent experience at the 14th Street and Fifth Avenue Apple Stores in New York.

Two weeks ago my Mac stopped booting. Made an appointment at the 14th Street Apple Store. Arrived 15 minutes early. Discovered there was a line to check in. That put you into a second line, the line to be seen by a "Genius". Forty-five minutes after my appointment time, I'm seen by someone with no intimate knowledge of my device. Laptop is checked in overnight.

Two days later, I receive my "fixed" Mac. SSD replaced, problem still there. Take it to the Fifth Avenue Apple Store at 4AM. This time I'm seen within 30 minutes of my appointment. "Genius" asks me to call phone support. Phone support insists Genius can solve the problem, asks to speak with Genius–nobody at store can find him. Thirty minutes later, phone support tells Genius what to do. Genius disappears into a back room, emerges 20 minutes later with the right tool. No clear answer as to what went wrong provided.

I am willing to pay for fast, smart solutions. Sometimes the brainpower is not available, and I accept that. Curious that I feel that brainpower would have been more amply available in the streets of Shenzhen than New York.
Nah, I think you're overreacting. It seems like every pop-sci article on CS research reads like this one (e.g. "breakthrough in cryptography", "scientists solve quantum computing", etc.).

Usually it's just weak journalism rather than researchers trying to overinflate.
What's AMD? I keep seeing that acronym but searching it just returns "Advanced Micro Devices"
I said, "the enemy is at the gate". I dismiss no one. Literature and art are the first things the enemy either takes or destroys, ironic isn't it?
Ironically, the Wired link which is the meat of the revisiting, is broken: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/05/tarnovsk... (No redirects? Good job, Wired! Here's a working one: https://web.archive.org/web/20130923065353/http://www.wired.... )
What's in a pen name?
You're allowed to write it, sure.

But if you try to distribute it, it'll be deleted off of people's kindles, and they'll be added to the NSA watchlist.

We have a control state with a mostly-working "free" economy.
You just read an article by a SEAL proudly talking about their training in terms that had nothing whatsoever to do with violence. That's what I meant earlier when I said you were taking things out of context to rebut arguments I hadn't made.
Why do people pull out quotes by globally recognized people in ordee to prove their points? So what if Albert Einstein said that? Are you implying that everything Albert Einstein says is true?
Isn't that what the Times did with its interactive feature that accompanies this article?
jqm here...

There is likely one that can beat *most humans alive right now. What could a 2 billion dollar military grant and a sense of urgency produce in the 3 years?

We have driver-less cars. Exponential development. The robot army is coming... like it or not. Sure, humans will always probably make key decisions. Your point is good. There are areas humans have an advantage over machines. But, the robot army is coming and coming fast. My point is... this renders a bunch of the qualities mentioned in this article, qualities designed to turn man into a machine, obsolete. And it means other qualities become more important. Failure to recognize the future and plan for it will mean defeat on the battle field. No matter how much belt buckles are shined.
Wow, this is very cool! I take it your business model is basically consulting?
So fork. The content isn't proprietary.
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Read Jeff Hawkins (Palm founder) book, On Intelligence, then maybe contact the research center he set up for brain and AI research.
Casey's posts on the development of The Witness are all really good reads, I recommend reading them all.
Always has been. The difference is now we can see inside the sausage factory.
Asynchronous Module Definition[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_module_definition
Ask HN: Prospective technical cofounder. How do I find a biz guy with an idea?
I've been a developer for ~13 years. I work on really big websites (names that you definitely know) for my day job. My job is great, but at the end of the day, nothing I do is ever going to be world-changing.<p>I'm looking for somebody with a great idea that they're really excited about. I want them to sell me on their idea, and then I'll spend the time developing it in return for a share of the company.<p>This seems like it should be a really simple task, but I'm having a hard time finding somebody like this.<p>Am I looking for the wrong thing? Or am I just looking in the wrong places?<p>PS. If you're reading this and you're seeking a technical cofounder, let's talk: my nick @gmail.com.
Technically yes, there's nothing stopping you from that. However you have to find a suitable display assembly of the same size and with the same connector.
Do I absolutely need to get a degree in this area to participate in this kind of research?

Nope, but you do need credible and convincing signals. (Google "signalling theory".)

Do they need software development expertise?

Yes, yes!

Is it difficult to adjust my skillset from being just a software developer?
How does division of labor usually work in groups like these? I imagine there
are always some biology- and some software-oriented folks in one group. What
could be my first step in that direction?

I don't know; "difficult" is a relative term. I do know that if you're skilled, curious, and willing to learn, you can probably find some collaborators to work with. The catch is probably they need you to be committed and a net positive (i.e. don't drag them down), and they probably won't be able to pay you right off the bat (or ever).
Thanks! I was just scanning the comments from your non-DupDetector account so I could provide more info here.
It's easy to demonstrate that this is a huge advance in AI. All these guys need to do is start entering Kaggle competitions and win, and win, and win, and win...

That said, given that Google et al. are scraping every corner of the bottom of the barrel in search of advances in search, I think the good times for AI peeps will continue for some time...
Yes. I'll have a cleaner website with that going up next week. I just got done running a 20 node cluster on amazon training a few different datasets, it hummed ;).

The overall idea is a support, services, training model.

Support: Install/Infrastructure

Services: Help with data etl/onboarding, tuning

Training: How to use deep learning, how to think about it, and how to run/setup clusters. This will be run through the machine learning academy I teach at[1]

[1]: http://zipfianacademy.com/
Hi - there was a comment put in from the blog: "Weird, you built two prototypes but you have based your decision on theory. Any benchmark of the two prototypes which could show that your decision was the right one ?"
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Last time I used them was years ago, and I got scammed for it, although that actually isn't the reason I stopped using them.

It's because Amazon is just better, and they're up in my face about PayPal.
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Hooks would be nice for this. It's what Kinvey does and I think it's the best option. Want to run a special query or a special function? Have a hook that listens on the related queries, alter anything you like. You should also have direct access to raw database connection there, which is again, what Kinvey does.
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This comment really resonates with me. It is what I think of when I hear that quote,
"Technology has the shelf life of a banana". It demotivates from starting new side projects when the old ones take such efforts just to set up again. Code can give the impression that it has some timeless value like some truth that has always existed and you have captured, but in reality code cannot "exist"(or fulfill its purpose) in isolation.
Here's why I find it interesting. We live in a world (in the west) where our gadgets are a big part of our lives, and yet we're pretty helpless when anything goes wrong with them. We use these pocket-sized supercomputers for the most mundane tasks, and compared to the rest of the world, we live a life of leisure.

This piece is interesting because it's a nice short story that gives a great sense of place. To me, it feels like Blade Runner. There's a society of people that can repair a $500 smartphone like it was reattaching rubber to a boot. They possess advanced repair skills, but belong to a class that would be doing menial labor here in America.
I'd say Ehren Watada did. If enough had done the same, who would've invaded?
Hacking the DSP-W215, Again, Again, Again
> I would only have a vague idea of how to do a integer => string conversion with base N without googling it. So am I shit?

It sounds very much like it I'm afraid. This is trivial problem solving. Your overconfidence + lack of problem solving ability are big red flags. If you're as good as you claim you are then you should know foundational principles. It gives you a far greater insight into programming than just grinding away with other programmers 'snippets'.
> The entire point of the Nuremberg trials (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials) was that "I was just following orders" is not a defense

That's precisely why the relevant articles of the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice relating to "disobeying orders" explicitly requires that the orders be lawful for a crime to have been committed.

U.S. servicemembers not only have the right to disobey illegal orders, they have the explicit and positive duty to disobey illegal orders.

The catch is that ambiguous situations/"judgment calls" tend to break the tie in favor of an order being lawful. But beyond that the issue is not at all as complicated as you think.

E.g. with Lt. Calley's company, they were clearly guilty of not only crimes, but war crimes, yet there was a concerted effort in the U.S. and in the military leadership in Vietnam to cover the incident up. The issue there wasn't about "just following orders", the issue there was that the U.S. never attempted to put the criminals on trial in the first place, and that the eventual justice process that was meted out was so watered down. Even worse the Army and U.S. leadership tried to (and did) ruin the careers and lives of the 3 who actually followed their training as soldiers to put a stop to the massacre.

But you'll note that Lt. Calley was eventually court-martialed, and despite consistently claiming that he "just followed orders" was found guilty, sentenced to life, and his sentence upheld on appeal. Of course, U.S. leadership gutted that too, and effectively commuted his sentence, but "just following orders" was very much put on trial in the U.S. system and shot down again.
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The point here is the guarantee -- as specified by the language standard. There is no guarantee for TCO in C. The ES6 standard only guarantees the TCO for certain constructs which rapala's example showed (informally).
The three times I've broken phone screens it's always the OLED/LCD display that popped and the digitizer just sat there and grinned at me having protected sod all. I've replaced them all myself and it's been pretty easy on all devices and very cheap. The OLED/LCD displays all came from ebay.
How many distinct objects are around you? It's a small pool, so there aren't many prefixes available (maybe 100), so the entropy if an attacker guesses the items around you wouldn't be very great.
it can be irritating, but you can just as easy parse ", " to "|" or something, by simple string replacing, pre parsing..
Ask HN: Anyone implemented SETI Code in Lisp?
While I appreciate BOINC, I'm looking for something in Lisp (any variation, Emacs, Common, etc) that takes SETI data and analyzes it against search/analysis criteria the user can modify. Cheers.
Ah ok, clear. SEALs are all about violence, I can see how some parts of their training have other applications but at the end of the day we're not talking about boy-scouts or pool guards here.
This definitely appears to be the most in-depth and fleshed out Node framework yet. Fantastic docs, too!

Awesome work.
Steven Levy's "Hackers" [1] is a great book, which begins at MIT at the middle of the last century, with the kids who loved model trains, and going out and messing with traffic lights around Boston.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer...
Before you form a strong opinion about "deletionism", it's a good idea to skim a few days worth of AfD discussions (AfD is the most important step in the process of community-deleting an article on WP).

Here's yesterday's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

What logs like this tell me is that if "deletionism" is really a force on Wikipedia, it has a clear cause. Note the sheer volume of marginal (or sub-marginal) articles WP is dealing with, and also the degree of attention each one of them gets. Click through to the article on "Samarqand Restaurant", and then back to the AfD debate, and note that WP people actually find reasons to stick up for it.
I trust Numpy a lot for CSV handling. It deals with lots of edge cases including missing data, weird delimiters (pipes '|' are popular in astro for some reason) and massive files. If in doubt, whack it into Excel which has been doing this stuff for decades now. I prefer using Numpy to Python's CSV library which I find a bit clunky.

Very little data is actually true CSV.

The code isn't particularly long (~900 lines), it's Python (hence readable) and it's well commented:

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/v1.8.1/numpy/lib/npyio.p...
The CoAP protocol does exactly this and is designed for the exact kind of restricted requirements you specified. It uses similar concepts to Restful HTTP to make the transition easier, but uses a binary protocol instead. You can even get gateways between it and HTTP should you need to use that for some reason (client side JavaScript etc).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_Application_Protoco...
"Ask them if they feel like they were taken advantage of." ... Not sure what is your point here ? Because, there are lots of angry veterans out there who don't receive the support and help they should get.
I sometimes do serious work from my Android phone and the keyboard is extremely important ... I haven't found anything that approaches the convenience of this keyboard: http://www.meritline.com/logitech-tablet-keyboard-android-92...
To avoid confusion, the "Code" in the question is generic software "code", not referencing "the SETI code, a interstellar simulated message from Gliese 581g". A mistyped capital "C" :-)
Why do there need to be limits on what topics Wikipedia addresses? Is it somehow wrong for your local public library's reference section to have a book about the CSI television series? If not, why is it not OK for Wikipedia to have that content?
Context: DSP-W215 is a 'smart plug' - something that allows you to control an outlet's on/off state remotely via your LAN. ( http://www.dlink.com/us/en/home-solutions/connected-home/sma... )

This is the 4th vulnerability found in this unit. If I remember correctly a patch was released after each reported vulnerability. D-Link's software unit (or whoever wrote the software for this) really needs to step up their game it seems...
Look up Thinking Machines :)

My point is that mixing business goals and scientific truth is dangerous if not handled carefully. That said all the best with both your goals.
No part of the article we are talking about appears to be about violence. Moreover, the comment of mine that you replied to draws this point out specifically, attaches "pride" to the non-violent aspects of their service, and suggests that many of them feel the same way about violence that you do. That was the point of the book I suggested; it is largely about the damage that engagement with violence inflicts on the psyche of servicepeople.
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The fraud continues today in China. Those exchanges were caught several times faking volume and placing phantom orders. I think the game now is: fake price hike in China, sell coins for real money on Bitstamp, buy cheaper, repeat. Just look at the recent hike - no news, no reason for 30% jump from $440 to $580 in a week.
The tool is apparently at http://levan.cs.uw.edu/ but seems down at the moment.
I think you're absolutely right on impact and self-promotion, but I don't think Wikipedia's brand is about quality. Or at least, not primarily about quality.

>Wikipedia won the reference race because of its quality.

Weren't convenience and quantity important factors and more important ones? To me the value of Wikipedia is that virtually any topic is discussed reasonably consistently with reasonable quality. If I specifically need quality, I'll look to the article's sources or find my own.
Wikipedia is your source? LOL.
I didn't call anyone crazy, it's the idea of copying and pasting code into a professional project that I think is crazy.

That's how I was schooled by senior devs, whose opinion I have profound respect for. The reasoning is sound to me, I'll stick with it. Unless, someone has better reasons why I should copy and paste code, I would consider it.
Loopback is built on top of Express, it'd be sad if they had to reinvent the wheel I reckon