skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you actually insane enough to believe that the (tiny number, 3% quoted below) of privately run prisons are managed by companies who are somehow colluding to ensure that the prisoners all re-offend once they finish their sentences? Because there isn't enough crime to keep them in profit currently?
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If that's the case - then why does the alt-text show the text [1]? Kind of defeats the purpose theorized in the rumor...

[1] yes, it's for section 508 compliance, I know
It might be a bit more painful, but it is totally doable. You could parse that field into a generic interface, and check the type in your code, or you could create an interface which requires an `AsInt` method, and implement it for both options.

I personally struggled with the json parsing issue a fair bit, but persevering resulted in me having a mostly static typed setup which has ended up being much better than when I've used JS or Python.
It could be that the point of pricing it much higher is to make the other one feel affordable and cheap by comparison? Also, this extracts more consumer surplus from the folks who are price agnostic and want the latest and greatest.
The honest truth about all of this is, even if Apple were handing over information because of back doors, custom database interface applications for the NSA, they wouldn't tell us and would probably be gagged from doing so anyway, have we all forgotten about Lavabit? I hope not.

I think we are all intelligent enough to know that even if Apple were handing over information, it wouldn't exactly be good for business to admit you've been complicit in handing over personal details to the Government, would it? "Yes, we have been giving away your information, but we promise not to do it any more. Hey, we just released a couple of new iPhones, want to buy one"

Anyone else notice the page is cleverly worded and any mention of security seems to be limited to iOS 8 context? "In iOS 8 your data is secure", "In iOS 8 we can't give law enforcement access to your phone" - maybe I am just overanalysing things here, but I have learned not to be so trusting of companies as big as Apple considering the amount of information that they hold.

You know we're living in a new kind of world when privacy is being used for marketing purposes...
There's lots of new work going on with UDP based protocols. CurveCP has some good ideas regarding blind amplification, non-blind amplification, blind memory consumption, unauthenticated memory consumption, CPU consumption and backup requests or instant failover, as well as decongestion (http://curvecp.org/decongestion.html).
Quite honestly, I wish I could downvote for this very case. This post provides no actual details or tangible evidence of how LegalZoon fails their customers. Furthermore, the post being on a corporate lawyer firm site doesn't exactly give it credible and unbiased opinion.
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> If Apple provides an interface to request user-data to law enforcement / NSA, that's not a back door in the product or the service.

I consider that a back door.

>We have also never allowed any government access to our servers. And we never will

Makes it clear what he means in the first statement.

I've known Apple to engage in hyperbole to a significant degree, but never -- in nearly 40 years-- to lie publicly.

They haven't denied providing information under warrant. Basically, every US company is going to do that.

But that's on a case by case basis, not wholesale.
I formed my LLC for consulting with LegalZoom. Of course a different company might require representation. I'd surmise that if you don't know the difference, and you just go the attorney route out of default, you probably don't have a deep enough understanding of your company for long-term success.

There's also the issue of illusions of grandeur: spending big dollars in legal fees is its own form of cargo culting.
I've spent a solid amount of time with both Python and Go, and I encourage you to make the jump. Services I write in Go are just much simpler and easier to maintain than in Python (or Javascript).

I haven't had an issue with code duplication at all. If you do, you might just not have gotten deep enough into how interfaces work yet.

When you use the standard library it's clear it was designed by people who have been programming computers since the Plan 9 days, I consider it much more mature than Python's equivalents.

In terms of tooling, having go fmt run on every save is wonderful, your code is always and instantly formatted perfectly. Beyond that, I haven't needed much.
QUIC has some great ideas: 0 RRT connection time, support for roaming IP addresses, and most of all multiplexing streams onto a connection without a dropped packet in one stream blocking another stream.
Automation will come to all industries, legal counsel included.

Completely self-serve is not necessarily the right answer. But some level of self-serve combined with an expert matching system would be quite interesting. It's not just founding C corps with standard Bylaws and Certs, but everything you can get a good handle on, like;

Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, Offers, Purchase & Sale, Warranty, SLAs, etc.

And it's not about generating some obtuse document which you hope no one will truly read and understand... you could generate, essentially what amounts to truly usable and human friendly documentation, backed by fully automated document generation.

Like any problem it comes down to defining the inputs and the outputs. How dynamic do you make the documents? How complex do you make the user inputs?

I think the one point the article makes is, how often is an automated tool appropriate to use and will the user know if that's not the case? Even in the cited case there's a lawyer involved who messes up.

I've found that if you prepare a document in advance which, lays out what you hope to achieve, and it's not fatally flawed, they will use your docs and ultimately charge you less.
From what I've read I don't think it's possible to get 120 Hz @ 4k due to bandwidth limitation with HDMI 1.4. I read that with certain monitors and recent NVIDIA drivers you can run the monitor in Y:U:V 4:2:0 mode to reduce the bandwidth and then get 60 Hz but the color quality would be poorer (assuming it even works). All the things you propose would be very interesting, but I don't have the time or expertise right now to do this. I got one of these monitors that was shutting down randomly and this work was primarily motivated by debugging what was wrong hoping I could fix it. I ended up sending it back before I started this work hacking the firmware.
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An interface to request data wouldn't be a back door, as that falls under the "request/response" model. "Here is our warrant for Person X by judge Y in district Z" != "sudo apple-get * /mount/nsa" The important distinction there is that each request is an individual request and can't be automated / done in bulk / wholesale.

I'm very interested to see how the device vs. account data-request ratio maintains/changes with the release and adoption of iOS 8.
"language"
Where is the “new” 4“ iPhone?
Any pointers on what blogging setup is being used at jerf.org for writing this post? I found the page pretty tasteful.
So you're saying you want programming to be hard because that means you get to work with smarter people? I think what Go is striving for is simplicity, not elegance. And that change makes the code easier to write and maintain for everybody involved. At 10AM I might feel like writing Swift, but at 3AM I'm sure as hell glad I used Go.

Or, less anecdotally, I maintain about twelve services in Go, including web services, proxies, and an analytics engine, and I have never been woken up in the middle of the night with a failure. That was certainly not true when I was writing Python or Javascript. Erlang or Swift might offer comparable reliability, but it comes at the cost of a lot of complexity.
> We can go with the initial assumption that there is nothing special about you, as a sample, and work on the principle that you are representative of the footwear buying public as a whole.

That's an absolutely terrible assumption. A sample of one is never ever representative.
TCP has well-documented failings on high-bandwidth, high-latency links. (referred to as LFNs (long fat networks) or "elephants"). The congestion and flow control algorithms in TCP are excessively conservative and end up massively under-utilizing the available bandwidth. Once a TCP connection has reduced its transmit rate (due to dropped packets indicating possible congestion), it requires successful packet receipts to increase its transmit rate (depending on latency).
Have you looked at this? http://howistart.org/posts/go/1
I really wish there was a new DX model, with screen size between old DX and the standard version
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I am from India and I really feel that these technologies are decreasing the grey cells from the minds of the youngsters. Using FB, Twitter and Whatsapp like SNS is a must have for a 10th grade student. This is the time when they have to learn the basics of science and the life. If you will ask someone about Newton, they are going to stumble . However, if I ask them about FB they are going to tell the full form of acronym and as well as the use of the SNS.

The time they can spend on improving themselves and their gray areas, they are spending that time on FB and other SNS and wasting it.

As Patja said, email is really a big NO for them. Just two days back, one of my friend who is in her high school asked me to edit her pics. I said her to send here pic as an attachment in an email. Her reply was amusing. She was saying that she has to do extra work. I just didn't know how it is an extra work to send the same stuff over email rather than on whatsapp.
I can give you insight into my perspective. Go has made programming better. It is genuinely easier to build reliable things in Go than in Java or C or Python (from my experience). I didn't know that, until I invested a good amount of time building things with it, souly because everyone seemed so enthusiastic.

It's fine to say for economic or organizational reasons you're not moving to Go, but don't say it's because you need exceptions or generics unless you've spent a serious amount of time trying it the other way.
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"If I can get a job in the games industry, ANYBODY can. Not at my company of course. I would never hire somebody as unqualified as I was!"

Reads to me like he got ahead because somebody took a chance on him but he refuses to do so for other people now. Isn't that the core reason the younger generation hate baby boomers?
It's available now http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/09/16/android-4-4-4-kernel...
Maybe their mobile site doesn't have any images? The article is full of pictures.

1. http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/624_351/images/live/p0/26...

2. http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/624_351/images/live/p0/26...

3. http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/624_351/images/live/p0/26...

4. http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/624_351/images/live/p0/26...

5. http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/624_351/images/live/p0/26...
Could have just posted the HTML link :) http://misko.hevery.com/code-reviewers-guide/
PR bollocks. Apple does what its told. So does google.
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On the contrary, I'm saying they are popular views accepted in public and I'm told I'm wrong. I live in India.
I stopped upgrading my Kindle at Kindle 4. There were three things wrong with the Paperwhite:

1) no physical page turn buttons,
2) weight,
3) worse typography.

They seem to have fixed (1) in the latest model, but I still need to check if it's as heavy as the paperwhite and whether they improved they way text is displayed.
tup does perfect instantaneous dependency tracking: It monitors file system access to see which files were accessed during build (you don't have to tell it). It does not depend on tool co-operation, and it's the only build system that will figure out that you've upgraded your compiler (e.g. if javac or gcc was replaced) and thus a rebuild is in order.

redo is explicit; it doesn't automatically do dependency tracking, you have to tell it what went it. But it's fast and incredibly elegant - it's extremely easy to make it track any dependencies you know about, and it's built for easily rebuilding just a part of your system.
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I'm not really surprised Saccharin isn't great for you personally- but this isn't so damning there are many other artificial sweeteners to choose from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_substitute#Artificial_su...

I'd of course like to see them all studied in this manner.
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1oz lighter (7.6 -> 6.6), 4x density display (not sure if that deals with your typography issue).
Stories are not exceptional by their nature. There are plenty of daily routines and ceremonies carried out throughout the day that operate on an intrinsic and perhaps unconscious level.

What you see as uncommon is an event that breaks the regularly scheduled narrative but there is more to storytelling than entertaining novel experiences.

Stories are not anomalies. They guide us through almost every action we take. We are creatures of narrative and constantly hear, tell, act out and create stories, calling them either fact or fiction depending on the circumstance.
>> It's a tiny community

> in total contrast with... Nimrod community?

He _was_ referring to the Nimrod community here.
Chrome 37.0.2062.120 m (latest version) for Win7 x64 has some sort of validation problem upon entering a perfectly valid gmail address in that signup field. Hitting subscribe just makes it highlight red. Works in IE though. PS: I'm looking for the android version too! Anki is great but clunky.
lambda functions and the auto keyword aren't new either - in C++11 already.
I can instantly taste the difference between US Coke and European Coke (And cola made in turkey, but that was becuase it was vile).

I am not sure if they change the recipe apart from the sugar but it is noticeable.
"For the first time, you and your family can access and easily share not only your own Kindle books, but also books from the Amazon account of a spouse or partner"

This seems like a really nice feature that was somewhat buried in the Kindle Voyage description.
When I read the article few minutes ago the there were several interesting images of the "fairy circles".

Their origin is still a mystery. In a way that's comforting, that nature often doesn't yield secrets so easily and we can be astounded and fascinated by the beauty of the things we discover.

The recent idea that the circles are the result of grass growth limitations due to water and nutrient availability, it still doesn't account for the circular voids. Similar conditions exist in S. Arizona where I grew up. Plants were sparse in the desert, there were native grasses too, but no fairy circles.

Maybe there's something about the root system of the grass that makes them chained together, but such regular circles at regular intervals wouldn't be explained by this mechanism. I wonder if the circles move, that might tell something. Maybe the circles are too small to track by satellite, or too remote to warrant keeping track from space.

Well many have speculated about the phenomenon, tests have been done and theories discarded, and all we have to show for it is more speculation. The mystery will be revealed some day...
I am not that much strong in mathematics but I know what he has found. (y)

If his theory can predict the bounded gaps between two prime number then it is really a huge milestones. The article that you have shared is really very insight full with great citations and hyperlinks.
For each quote, I wondered whether the journalist selected the worst part to make them look arrogant/ignorant. Later in the article there are more reasonable answers they could have used, saying there has been research (and funds?) allocated to this topic and they had found nothing, saying that there are several levels of peer review until a scientific study acquires the credit of trust, that further research and counter-studies are necessary before anything is confirmed, that based on the current knowledge there is nothing to worry about.

The obsession of dodging the issue of the PR people quoted in the article raised red flags all around my mind.
You should operate under the assumption you could lose your computer at any point, for a variety of reasons. It's far more likely you'll drop it, spill something, lose it, or have it stolen.

I keep everything important elsewhere. Code is in source control. Documentation is alongside code or on the wiki. Personal email and work email are in separate Google Apps accounts. There's nothing I care about residing solely on my laptop.

For security against theft, I use FileVault.

If work wanted me out right now, I'd turn off my computer and walk away. Without my password they can't decrypt anything on the drive, everything the company cares about is elsewhere, as is everything I care about.

Ignore this advice at your peril. I know countless friends who have freaked when their laptops were stolen in SF. I just get a replacement and set everything back up.
Really don't see any patterns in this image, there's also overlapping and merging going on: http://lh6.ggpht.com/-4Dqlhnj1wkM/UV1et2rxyTI/AAAAAAAAm5Q/P-...
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You know that by publishing this now YOU will have to write the challenge programme for the next candidate, right?;)
Given this, what is the best first step? Best we can tell, he was running root in a VM that was running as an ordinary user. What more can be done, aside from running it on a throwaway machine? Running on a cloud instance, perhaps?
Hehe. I was in DevOps and it was intellectually challenging but not really an exciting gig. I find more excitement in creating new tools for the public consumer over locking down servers, building scripts, setting up automation testing and doing configuration management. I do recognize that all of that is critical to being able to scale your operation but I'd rather have someone else do it than myself. That being said, I would still do it, if no one else knows what they're really doing--I just wouldn't apply for a job with DevOps in the title.
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Looks pretty useful. Unfortuantely, (or rather fortuneately from what I have heard) my shcool just switched from Blackboard to Canvas.
How about FTPS[1]?

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS
In downtown San Diego, there are very few public toilets. And the ones that exist are so dirty that there's no way you'd want to use them. A few years ago, I made the mistake of going to the public library, which had a restroom on the third floor. When I opened the door to the stairwell, a distinct odor hit me right away. As I climbed upward, it grew in intensity, and by the top of the staircase, it was unbearable. I (vividly) remember the poor librarian sitting behind the counter, holding a rag over her mouth and nose! I had to go, but I couldn't take it, so I went back down, and ran to my hotel room, which was many blocks away.

During that uncomfortable jog back, I would have gladly paid a few bucks for a clean restroom. Given my experience, I think it's insane for anyone to expect other people to clean bathrooms for free.

In major urban areas, this is something that has to change!
You are looking at this like it is a single-variable problem. This "test" should be easily solvable by a candidate. It is also a very bad one if it involves lying to the candidate. These two factors are not mutually exclusive.
This is really great but is there a way to get it to not show all the crazy domain hacks before the actual requested domain?
I doubt the companies running the prisons are actively doing anything to 'make' prisoners recommit crimes after they leave. They can just not spend more than legally required to house, educate, care, and support them though...
This book is great, even if you don't use FreeBSD. I remember that I learnt how a TLB/MMU really works by reading this book, and not on an Operating Systems lecture.
If that was your best link, then it kinda proves his point and not yours.
I would also recommend checking out "StreamToMe"[1] and its server/transcoding app "ServeToMe". The client app works on iOS and Mac, while the server app works on both mac and windows.

The good support for most audio and video formats (including the ability to stream the original file or transcode it to reduce bit-rate) and the dead simple set up are great.
I am quite impressed with how it works, and find it much easier to work with than Subsonic and other Java based media.

[1] http://zqueue.com/streamtome/

(not affiliated, just a fan)
It almost seems like it's a feature of iOS8.
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This reminds of this quora post. A nice one for beginners like me. The guy reverse engineered Sublime Text to remove the nagware of registration.

https://ericjang.quora.com/Reverse-Engineering-Apps-a-Step-b...

PS- You should buy ST, it is one of the best code editors out there in the market.
> The initial report of PRISM implied that the NSA and FBI had direct, unfettered access to providers' "central servers", but that has been since walked back a bit.

Really? I haven't been able to follow every report, as the Snowden leaks generated a lot of content over the past year. Can you give a source to where PRISM's central server access has been "walked back a bit"?
Cool, even Sony has been working on the similar technology quiet from a while. They are working on a gesture and facial recognition based security system.

Sony’s gesture and expression based security system is combining different authentication methods to avert security breaches. It is combining facial recognition, voice recognition, facial expressions, gestures, and IR sensing. In short, I can say that you can login into your computer or can enter into your office by smiling in front of the camera.

You can check about it here - http://greybmusings.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/sony-forget-pas...
The termite theory makes a lot of sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_circle_%28Africa%29#Forma...
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For the U.S., It is not hard to create an LLC, and it isn't worth paying legal zoom hundreds of dollars to do something you're tax dollars are already supporting. For example, in California, go to this page

http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/be/filing-tips-llc.htm

You can get an LLC-1 and fill it out (very minimal). Nolo is a good resource for the rest of your options

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-form-llc-3...

If you are prone to blindly handing over your money whenever someone tells you you're too stupid to do something on your own, you shouldn't be running a business in the first place. Be resourceful damn it.
> it was to see if I acted like an ass when I didn't know stuff

Surely there's more efficient ways of evaluating that.
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You reckon? It's basically surrounding the thing with chicken wire. How expensive could that possibly be?

Expense can't be the reason. Maybe the reason they don't do that is because the guards want their phones to work.
I understand that many people like to read fiction and the like on the Kindle.

How useful would the Kindle be for reading technical books?