skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This remains a great idea with a ton of utility for people with real concerns about privacy (such as those living under oppressive regimes).

That said, I tried this from my iPad Air and it did not work. I typed "test" as my text to encrypt, generated the link, and followed the link. The text that was outputted was "TextText".

Keep cooking though. Maybe your version of this idea will be the one that takes off.
What you're proposing is the status quo, which leads to environmentally and economically bad situations. You're basically describing the false claims of suburbia. Giving everyone a half acre, a car, and the infrastructure to support that would cause deforestation and a lot of pollution. Not to mention the encroachment on the habitats of many animals already under stress due to loss of habitat. I'm sorry, but a backyard (with the noise of your neighbor mowing their lawn, blowing leaves, etc) is not similar to being in a remote area with a great view. As with suburbia, this research seems rather outdated.
He claims he's building the first functional 3D printed house, but the Chinese seem to be way ahead: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27156775. Still pretty cool though.

I think this might be a better system than 3D printing for houses though: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2683192/Could...
For s sense of community, perhaps your local hackerspace has a channel that can help. If you don't have a local hackerspace, consider starting one, or at least occasionally participating in something less local.
Technically, he did not file a complaint with the office of civil rights. He should file a formal complaint with health and human services since he discovered a HIPAA breach, and since they decided to be assholes about it. They aren't likely to stumble on an article and take action based on that.
Can you explain in detail how you achieved this? How is it that you "designed" the trip?
Swift is a lightsaber.
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> I think when losing some of the progress, I would just give up on the game.

I don't think anybody really dies while he's actually playing, in the sense that you can easily salvage your character at any point by just deleting all tasks.

The point of the game is to motivate you into doing chores; a low health bar should give you the motivation to reassess your priorities, get a reality check, and rearrange your tasks so that they can be dealt with more realistically. If you can't do it right away, take a rest in the Tavern and come back later with a better plan and a simpler approach: chuck all the "deep red" items, and start with ONE OR TWO VERY SIMPLE TASKS you can reliably achieve. Once you've got your health back, get more adventurous and start adding hard stuff back in, slowly.

In most RPGs, if you can't defeat a monster, there is no point in immolating yourself; it's better to run, hide, grind out easier enemies, and come back when you've leveled up. The real-life equivalent is a honest reality check about what you can and cannot do right away.
The 'tmux' plugin for oh-my-zsh (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh) does this. If you want to avoid bloat you could just extract the script.

EDIT: though I believe you'd need to have that on the server side.
Boring old styrofoam is a major one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_polystyrene_concrete
I think the thing to be careful of here is the method(s) one uses to reveal a vulnerability.

Think of a brick-and-mortar analogy. You queue up at airport security, you go through, and you notice that their procedures are such that one COULD bring a banned item through and potentially not get spotted. You inform the appropriate authorities that you think there might be a weakness, and you say how and why.

This is probably not going to get you in trouble.

Another scenario: You go through security and make a mental note (as above) of a potential vulnerability. You (as above) report it to the appropriate authorities. Now some time in the future you are going through airport security and you wonder to yourself "I wonder if they fixed it". So you decide to test it out. You bring a banned item through. You get caught. You are in trouble but you say in response "but I was the guy who informed you of the vulnerability and I was just checking to see if it was fixed".

Good luck with that.

My feeling is that if you notice a potential (or actual) vulnerability as part of a everyday, normal use case of a website, or a web service, or network, then fine, you can report it, and you likely won't get into trouble.

On the other hand if you additionally decide to test the system in such a way that could be misconstrued as an attack, then you will probably get into trouble.

Another analogy: you walk into Macy's and on your way in you notice that the security system they are using is outdated, and you know it is vulnerable --- (made up silly example) you know that if you break in while holding a tuna sandwich, the alarm will not go off. So that night after the store is closed and locked, you break in, while holding a tuna sandwich, and you take a pair of $300 shoes. The next day you go to the store and you say "look guys, I was able to break into your store and steal these $300 shoes." You think they will thank you? or will they call the police?
MATLAB is a trebuchet.
Ach.. "Pseudo"!
I wonder what would lua be...
The common sentiment has been that self-driving cars are just around the corner. The reality is quite different.

The remaining problems to solve such as navigating the elements or obeying construction signs or interacting properly with pedestrians or police are orders of magnitude more difficult than the problems that have been solved thus far. These problems are fundamentally different in that they can't be solved by current AI techniques and vision algorithms. The progress made so far has been quick, but it relies on technology that Google has already mastered. We'd be mistaken to think that the remaining challenges will be solved as easily.

It's a repeat of the classic mistake that has plagued the field of AI since the beginning: we underestimate the difficulty of problems that humans solve easily. We simply aren't aware of the incredible complexity involved in our simplest decisions, such as pulling over to allow an ambulance to pass. This is simple right? Just slow down and move off to the side of the road. But when is it OK to move off to the side -- what if there is something in the way, what if a pedestrian didn't expect you to move there, what if the car behind you suddenly gets in the way while it's pulling over, what if you're on a bridge, what if the ambulance behind you turned already and no one expects your car to suddenly pull over? Similar or more difficult problems arise when there's debris or potholes in the road, other poor drivers, bad weather, jaywalkers, policemen giving orders, road work, detours, etc.

What you find is that the last 5 or 10 percent of the capability required to make self-driving cars feasible represents a category of problems which we don't know how to solve, requiring a level of sophistication far beyond the current state of the art and perhaps approaching general intelligence in some cases (such as interpreting signs).

Better approaches involve shooting for more modest goals instead of full autonomy. Car companies are making investments in these more practical, incremental improvements, like automated parking and advanced cruise control.

But unlike car companies, Google isn't in this game because it thinks it can make a profitable and successful product. Instead, it's obvious that the main function of developing self-driving cars is as a PR tool (and the same goes for the rest of the Google-X projects). Google has gotten a lot of positive press for their self-driving cars, and they even use it to attract new employees.

However, I predict this positive press won't last (this article being an early example) because people's expectations are way too high. As years and years go by without much progress, Google's self-driving cars will increasingly become a PR liability and will be compared to the promised flying cars of yesteryear.
If the linked recitation in any way corresponds to reality, and it seems to, the professor has a legitimate complaint, but he should have consulted an attorney before publishing his responses to the various parties involved. The reason I say this is because, even though he appears to be in the right and has a reason to be outraged, he could be sued for libel himself.

As one example, if he describes a named or identifiable person as a "liar" online, the subject could sue for defamation of character if it turns out that they didn't know what they said was false (which fails the definition of "lying"). That's a simple case where an extreme, emotional term places someone in a false light.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_light

Remember, in this litigous society, no one is immune from legal actions, even those clearly wronged, as the facts seem to indicate in this case.
In addition to map transducers (which are 1-to-1) and filter transducers (which are many-to-1), flatMap transducers (which are 1-to-many) should be fundamental.
Might as well estimate 8 years then, you'd probably still be right.. but is it still worth talking to you?
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There are exceptions, but to the best of my knowledge most PhD-employees in the Netherlands have not chosen their own topic.

This is nonsense. Although my PhD was in a project with a predefined topic, many of my colleagues were doing a PhD in a topic of their choice. The faculty would have N open PhD positions every year, and people could submit proposals.

Also, the primary argument set forth in this post is financial. If you avoid paying income tax (through scholarships), you can spend your money on other things. No shit. If you change the amount of the scholarship to $500 per month, you can also spend more money, but you'll only get garbage. You have to find some level of compensation where you still get good candidates. In some fields, candidates will go to industry at the proposed compensation level (I would).

Another problem that is not taken into account is how government budgeting works. They won't see a switch to a bursary system as a way to save money to hire more faculty staff. They will see it as a way to save money, period. Especially in economically difficult times where we have to increase our military spending because of conflicts in Ukraine and the middle east.
Assembly is a big block of iron.
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I have also considered this. It allows you for a lot more freedom and control.
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#django is one of the active channels I've tried. Lot's of people willing to help.
I like your first analogy. Your second analogy, on the other and, seems to me to justify the action. I think Macy's would thank you rather than call the police, but that's just my opinion.
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Maybe even a government agency? It could notify the company, follow up on whether they fixed the issue and sanction it if nothing has happened. Then it would allow the researcher to publish an article and protect him from retribution.
I see this as a symptom of something different. Security researchers have treated press coverage as a desirable commodity for a while now. Journalism has changed though, and so now we are seeing people like zdarski calling out journalists for reporting failures.

The fact is that journalists today are too busy writing linkbait headlines and getting page clicks to bother with details like accuracy or ethics. Researchers need to look at stories like this one and realize that journalists are not your friends, even if they write nice things about you or hang out with you at parties.

This journalist probably thought he was doing this guy a favor by writing about him.
Same for me. There is no way that I'm going to break my 96 streak in "cleaning up kitchen after kids breakfast", so my wife can reliably find the kitchen clean every day and I have a routine to start the day productively rather than going through Reddit.
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Too bad you need to join the dark side to use it.
This isn't just about a difference in the choice of loss function to optimise. It's a difference in what sort of guarantees you seek about that loss function.

Bayesian analysis seeks an estimator which minimises posterior expected loss, conditioning on the data and with the expectation taken over the parameters under a particular prior.

A frequentist analysis might seek an estimator for which uniform bounds on the worst-case expected loss are available, which hold in expectation over the data, given any value of the parameters.

Both approaches fit into a decision theoretic framework and there are good reasons why you might care about frequentist properties when making decisions. I agree that this isn't only about average case vs worst case -- as you point out it's also about whether you take expectations over data given params or over the params given data, and that's important too. But I think the average case vs worst case aspect of this is an important part of what this is all about and gets to the heart of what the trade-offs are when choosing between these methods.

I disagree that the sampling distribution is "irrelevant for making decisions", that's quite an extreme view which I don't think many applied Bayesian statisticians would take. Frequentist properties are something people often validly care about when deciding on a statistical procedure to use in an experimental design context, i.e. before collecting the data -- and especially if you're choosing an estimator which you intend to use many times for many experiments, even if they're not all exact replicates of each other.
Thanks! That was at the back of my head too
One of the stronger ideas behind the Internet that seems to be fading is that it could connect people together who would otherwise be strangers.

There is nothing wrong with talking to co-workers, but it can become an insular experience. You're also limited by the specific quirks of the workplace and the demands of maintaining a level of professionalism.
What is the point of this:

"${STARTED_TMUX:-x}" = x

vs.

-z "$STARTED_TMUX"

or

"$STARTED_TMUX" = ""

It's always seemed like a legacy method of testing to empty string from a time when "" wouldn't be parsed as an argument. Is there any real reason to still do that today?
I want a GIF of the Death Star blowing up Alderaan, under the entry for Common Lisp.
Bad press about a few VA clinics does not mean that the entire system is garbage. In fact, as recently as last year, veterans rated their satisfaction with VA care higher than the general public rates private care[1]. Also according the the Inspector General, while no one denies that delays in care happen at the VA (it should be noted that delays happen in the private sector as well), that the deaths at those hospitals can not be directly linked to the delay in care[2].

Finally, my anecdotal evidence: I am highly satisfied with the care that I receive at the VA. I have 20% disability due to a significant loss of peripheral vision in my right eye. I am scheduled yearly for an annual physical including urine and blood work, a field scan with my eyes to test regressions, and two general appointments with an optometrist. I also have free access to nutritionists and weight support groups since weight management can be an issue for veterans. Is it perfect, no, but I have never felt that I didn't get the care that I needed in a reasonable amount of time.

[1] http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2537

[2] http://online.wsj.com/articles/no-deaths-caused-by-delays-at...

edit: formatting
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I'd be grateful for a pointer to some fundamental background reading; I can only follow enough of your reasoning to be intrigued and committed to learning more :)
I have about 15 "deep red" ToDos sitting there at the moment. Over a certain threshold, they don't really affect your character very much (you get wounded mostly by failed Dailies and Habits); but when you finally get around to striking one or two off, the satisfaction is immense.

One thing I really like of HabitRPG is the leniency: unlike a lot of similar systems, it's not trying to punish you, but rather to nudge you in the right direction.
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maybe they would thank you. Imagine though the day after, they had noticed security camera footage of a masked intruder wandering the store, and then taking merchandise out the door. They can't identify the intruder. They call the police. There is an investigation. They spend $$$ on a new security system. People are fired. Then some time later you wander in with a smile on your face and tell them how you were the one who cracked their system. I can see a scenario where they are furious with you and call the police, telling them that you have just confessed to a crime. Then police then say, hey buddy you committed a crime, you confessed to it, and now you are trying to say you did it "for a good reason". Good luck with that.
> There is a good chance a judge would find that the reporters are guilty of libel. Then the professor would be in a pretty good position to defend libel counter-charges.

That's true, but in many cases like this, on weighing the evidence and seeing evidence for mutual libels, the judge will throw out both actions. The professor should have consulted an attorney before calling people liars -- all the subjects need to do is show that they didn't publish statements that they knew were false (thus failing the definition of "lie"). Failing a reasonable test of due diligence may be deplorable, but it doesn't make one a liar.

> I thought you'd get more meat from his reference to their crimes. Libel is civil.

All true. One of the ironies of modern times is that a civil action can do more to undermine one's life than a criminal one, depending on the circumstances.
Given how stable the compiler is at the moment, pretty sure that lightsaber would accidently take off a few limbs.
We have deployed HabitRPG at work and use it to manage our sprints.

As far as we know, it's not really free and open source. There is hidden stuff to enable "Diamonds" the item that lets you do every single fun thing in this game.

So we have developped The HabbitRPG Black Market. It integrates into habbit RPG and lets you buy diamonds: https://github.com/titilambert/Habit-Black-Market

I may be wrong and it may just be badly documented.
Sure. If they want me to review specific projects or even specific files, that's fine. I understand there is quite a bit of code out there that is truly experimental, and therefore not up to production standards.

It's also OK for the candidate to tell me that the reviewed code has some problems, which lets us discuss what should be done to fix it.
What is the difference (or what is gained) from transducing a reducer over mapping (filtering, etc) a list and reducing it? Is it a clojure-specific optimisation?
Next time, set a mind-frame of doing the interview for the experience of the moment, to realize that it's okay - that the universe is still here and nothing has changed, rather than for getting the job.

As a matter of the course, know full well that you are not getting the job. Even if you don't fumble it, know that you'll refuse their offer.

The point is that interview does not matter at all to you.

Go in fully knowing that you are not seeking anything, nor trying to prove anything, nor trying to make some statement about it all. Put this all in your mind, and everything else out.

If done and practiced, this should take you out of your obsessive introspective... To the point of laughing about it all when you walk out - after not being able to answer a single question because it was all over your head and experience level!

Later on, you'll be able to go even further by putting yourself into a buyers inner perceptive (you're shopping for the right employer), rather than a sellers inner perspective (you're selling yourself to an employer).

* As always, this is easier said than done, and will require at least a few minutes of meditation every day.
FORTRAN is a cannon if you know what you're doing you could take on the world, but no one knows how to operate the darn thing (anymore).
I would say that funding and grants (or lack thereof) is one of the biggest determinants in the sciences in the US. You can choose your own PhD as long as what you choose is something your advisor has the money to support and agrees that it is an interesting direction to go. That's very different from choose whatever you want and more in line with what he thinks European PhD's are like.
I'm thinking of doing some volunteerism work and travelling, something out of my comfort zone.
##c is pretty nice in my experience. I've answered a few questions on there and hang out in there fairly often.
Elisp is quite old and lacking some modern features like lexical scoping and tail recursion as far as I know. I recall a project for replacing Elisp with Guile: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs
Looks like an argument that C and Ruby are the only languages that you can use repeatedly without unintended consequences.
A bayonet for the M1 Garand standard issue rifle?
If self driving is otherwise compelling, police and construction can use electronic signs (radio, networked notifications, whatever).

The robot drivers will do better than humans in that case, they will reliably obey the signs (imagine how easy it would be to detour a car that communicates with a regional traffic management system, compared to a human that thinks they know better).
As a past PHP developer, I don't think of PHP that badly.
As a current PHP developer, I do. :-)
Now that's a reassuring yes :)

What I meant is it seems (I've never used or seen it before) to be closer to a message broker than a bus - http://www.udidahan.com/2011/03/24/bus-and-broker-pubsub-dif...
Bad analogy in this case because the school had no idea that their FTP server was even attacked in the first place.

Better analogy to what happened:
Imagine you steal the $300 shoes with your new fangled trick and the mall security do not notice at all. You come back the next morning with the $300 shoes in-tow and then they call the police.
A lawyer can do this. But then _you_ must pay.
> Can you accuse someone of libel if the accused is unnamed?

Only if the unnamed person can be identified. If a person is unnamed, or given a made-up name, and readers cannot associate the name with a real person, the it's not libel.

Many legal actions revolve around this issue. A plaintiff says, "I'm the person this article is about!" while simultaneously claiming, "The article doesn't describe me accurately!" Only one of those can be true.