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The Man Who Crafted the Patriot Act Now Supports Your Right to Encrypt Data
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> VISA, MasterCard and SWIFT have damaged their own brands...

Do you honestly think anyone outside HN and other very tech heavy crowds knows about this? Do you think they'd care?

If this has done anything (and I kind of doubt it) I would say it's helped them politicaly a little tiny bit.
The article is pointing out that governments like to increase the money supply every year and Bitcoin doesn't allow that.

But a purely digital currency need not be a distributed cryptocurrency with a limited supply like Bitcoin.

From electronic transactions with the Fed down to direct deposits and debit and credit card purchases, US currency could function without paper bills already.
By that logic, private ownership of gold should be forbidden. That did happen once, during the Great Depression, but that policy was abandoned in the 1960s and nobody has made any attempt to reinstate it since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act
You mean like the shit-show that railways, telephones, and the internet as it stands right now are?

edit: In addition to down voting me zaroth, would you mind including examples of how common carrier doesn't work for the examples I provided? I'm genuinely interested.
So, when heating up leftovers, you have to clean up an extra pot. That is what the microwave does for me. (That said, I also love my kettle.)
Yet you walk around outside in 428-750 terahertz radiation at 120 watts per square meter without ill effect (mostly).
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

-- George Santayana

The unexamined life is not worth living.

-- Socrates

I've done a lot of journaling. I frequently recommend it to others. Among other things, it helps me keep myself out of my own way.
Human-induced stress makes me eat more too :/
Or boil in our Keurig machines.
Prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9119364
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Interesting, didn't know about the interpolation. Watching the xiph video right now. Out of curiosity, do you have any links that explained how this interp is done?
>The article is pointing out that governments like to increase the money supply every year and Bitcoin doesn't allow that.

But that's nonsense. If anything a sovereign digital currency would give governments even more fine-grained control over the money supply.

Of course governments shouldn't use Bitcoin, but a sovereign altcoin is a very interesting idea.

Sure, they couldn't use Bitcoin itself, but in a hypothetical world of government-backed cryptocurrencies Bitcoin would be more of a reserve commodity, like gold, than a circulating fiat currency.
Free isn't weird, but it was no where to be found in that response.
dry heat-sensitive paper won't work; microwaves work by resonating with water molecules to vibrate them and cause them to heat up.
I don't get your last example - getting antidepressants to people with suicidal thoughts sounds great to me.

In any case, while I have no doubt that people have and will continue to make such decisions, I doubt they will become the norm - they're too prone to lawsuits, and too inefficient. Instead, Google et all will continue to develop algorithms that detect and exploit those correlations from raw data, so that no one will be able to tell why your profile was selected to be shown diet pills. Which is much more insidious, since it diffuses the moral responsibility.
If you are disciplined, and separate data into training and testing sets, you can try as many models as you want without fear of overfitting. Indeed, optimizing over the parameters of a model on the training set is essential (pruning parameters in a tree, regularization weights, etc.) and can be thought of as training large number of models.

If you aren't doing this correctly, then you can't really interpret the performance of even a single model. Seen people screw this up in so many ways - my favorite recent one that was quite high on HN was someone using the full dataset for variable selection, before doing a training-testing split afterwards.
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Some techniques, e.g. random forest, give variable importance indicators for free. If you can test it out, give it a go - don't have to use the random forest as the final model.
I'd be careful, the more expectation you load onto a child, the more they push back in the teen years.
Yes and postruptive for when the company runs out of ideas.
I don't think its the same, but there is a high-quality implementation in Julia that is registered: https://github.com/dfdx/Boltzmann.jl
Curated probably wouldn't make sense on this list because it's used a lot outside of the startup world as well. Plus, curated is usually used to mean exactly what it does mean.
If you find the "classes" section makes no sense, it's because the heading column is one line out of sync with the other columns.
Hey, I'm the CEO at Paddle.com (mentioned in your initial post). Wondering what we can be doing to make withdrawing your Paddle earnings easier. We opperate in a very similar way to Fastspring - in that you sell your products wholesale to us and we become the merchant of record (and it seems you're already familiar with us).

Would love to see how we can help you out (we're a little cheaper than FS too if that's a deciding factor for you).
This kind of thing tends to happen to historical terms. Groups that trace their lineage from group X call themselves X, especially if the name has positive associations. This happened with, to use a somewhat controversial example, the term "liberal" in the US but, curiously, not in Europe. In computing you could say that this happened, and continues to happen, with the term "hacker" ("growth hackers" are a recent example).
"Like living in Paris, there is satisfaction in the very idea of pâtisserie: so romantic!"

Where I live, I have a local Pâtisserie. My own observations: each piece of food is the result of precision; hard work; tradition; and the best locally sourced ingredients. The owners are French, so I go there to touch-up my language skills, order a montainard, café, half a dozen croissant for later and sit down.

The produce in the shop window, mirrors the seasons.

The article nails the daily grind of production. If you look at the photographs, [0] you will see each item is identical, neatly presented and fresh. The selection is seasonal because most of the ingredients are home grown. I marvel at how locals ask for, 'Low-fat' versions of what-ever they order. The shop is out-of-step with the mind-set and rhythm of the locals, with the exception of the festive season. At certain times of of year, you have to order or get in early as things sell before ten. Opening hours are nine to four. Saturdays are busy, as is Sunday. Monday is the day off.

The best description in the writing [1] is the transplanted Japanese, busy copying the local French cuisine readying themselves to go home and open their own Pâtisserie. I see this at home, mostly with Vietnamese who also absorbed their cuisine through French occupation.

Go to a Pâtisserie, slow down, savour the produce then order in French. You'll never think of eating a soggy croissant again.

[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/7215762249855945...

"To make chocolate mousse, enough for 150 people, say, first whip the cream — liters and liters of it."

[1] Minor quibble. When I read something from an Oxford graduate and I come across 'liters' it jars. Litre in both the Uk and Fr is 'litre'. Re-edited for the American market?
If I know what the state machine/protocol looks like, I can have a better idea about how much stuff should be present.

For example, if the vendor claims that the product is limited to a regular grammar (a “plus” for security), but the implementation contains extra stuff in the data section, then an audit can flag it since a finite state machine should (theoretically) only need code.
It think this answers it:

https://courses.platzi.com/frequently-asked-questions/#perma...
Hi! If you haven't already found it, a good way to start is to lurk around the IRC #ipfs channel on freenode (logs: https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/). If you have any skills in Golang go ahead and check out the issues labeled as "help wanted" https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/labels/help%20wanted. Those ones are generally easier for newcomers to tackle. If you have other talents go ahead and ask in the IRC channel and we'll point you in the right direction.
The curious thing about chariot warfare is that nobody seems to have a very clear idea of the tactics. The book The Coming of the Greeks offers a picture of the spread of Indo-European languages through a military elite that has mastered chariot tactics, but can't say what they were or how they declined. Homer is pretty shaky on chariot warfare. And when Darius tried to bring back chariots with scythed wheels to defeat Alexander, it just didn't work.
Hey - CEO of Paddle.com here. Really sorry one of our sales guys was a little overzealous :( we'll make sure we do better in future.
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It's free. It is free. We have a subscription plan for long courses on big topics, but haven't launched that yet. This class is free and it'll be free forever. The recorded version too.
Thanks for the "Insert, HTML" trick. (Though I fear I might not remember that. I would never have expected or even tried that.)

URL in statusbar: Sadly no, not in the editor. Do you?
The idea is not bad, set of topics is interesting and seems to be enjoyable. I do reading everyday during my lunch break so I look forward to this.
This is the same reason that no government allows or encourages the large-scale ownership of property, land, minerals, gold, or anything else.

Except that they do. All the time.

Because governments are not evil machines that only want to steal your money. That's just a Dunning-Kreuger / nutjob interpretation of reality that is often repeated by a certain kind of broken individual.
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Pretty clever comment, made me think if this is the exact same thing as human stress eating.
In this case, I think the LA Times is giving the Staples Center team enough rope and pointing out a handy beam and chair.
I wish it was not doing like search on technology. You choose "C" and everything with letter "C" comes, *sigh.
Remember when, on the internet, no one knew who you were?
Argpfhh! I didn't scroll down to the update. I just saw "measured at" and took them at their word.

So vapor again. sigh. At least until they actually measure it.

Good eye, sir.
Nothing prevent nation-states from adopting their own altcoin and altering the supply as they like.
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Can't you just coat them lightly with oil? That ensures that they get heated up more evenly.
Actually laughed out loud at this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_y...
Swift has internal now.
xkcd had a nice what-if on this recently (http://what-if.xkcd.com/131/). He points to the way ice and water react to microwave radiation as one of the main culprits for uneven heating (of frozen stuff).
Yeah, might be good to explain the reasoning. Coming from the UK, I've never heard of pricing to receive a message, we just don't have it, and I believe it's actually banned, as the user doesn't have the choice in receiving a message (unlike a call which they can just not answer).
I can't find an accompanying article or anything for this. I'm curious as to why Microsoft would put something like this out? Why make the comparison in the first place? Why compare it to Swift?

Also, the code at http://aka.ms/scspostercode is nice.
It's 100 times a Bluetooth channel. So for deployment, that rounds down to "bad". It might makes sense for tightly controlled point-to-point.
The problem is that unlike the CLR, static compilers have no idea about the common case. This technique works only when you have some information about how the different code paths are being used.
Point #7 is just referring to the magnitudes (or absolute values) of the coefficients. You can still determine which features are relatively important using the coefficient p-values if those are available. This of course is dependent on the necessary assumptions of the regression method that you are using being satisfied, as otherwise the p-values will be biased.

In terms of explaining this to non-stats people, you might want to avoid explaining the p-values directly to them (as it's very easy for people to get confused about what p-values actually mean), so instead you might simply show them which features are "statistically significant". In other words, try to explain the results in a qualitative way rather than a strictly quantitative one.
You might be interested in the 15th episode (of the 4th series) of Person of Interest, "Q & A" (Aired at February 17, 2015), in which depressed and addicted people were targeted with special adds to drive profit up. I won't spoil the whole episode, but it certainly made me think about our implicit, almost tacit trust in search engines, social media sites, and other services we don't fully understand (as users, because we don't have access to the source or data), but which we use daily. I can only imagine our dependence on these services to grow in the future, while our understanding of these complex systems does not grow at the same rate (or at all).
> All else is not equal, so it is reasonable assign a high probability to spy agency involvement.

This requires determined effort to ignore the level of sophistication on evidence in the same reports of nation-state level attacks which you cite. Everyone who's read them noted a consistently high level of attention paid to making sure that attacks were both targeted and concealed.

Using “super” as both a username/password for a million devices is the kind of thing you'd expect from incompetence; with the NSA I'd expect something like what they actually did with Dual_EC_DRBG, where the device would show every sign of appearing to be secure but someone with knowledge of a particular constant could save significant effort when cracking the crypto. The last thing they want is for you to notice & patch the hole because some random spammer started exploiting it.
You can use correlation or the coefficients of a linear model iff the features on the same scale. Another method is to train a model leaving out each feature once, then you see how much accuracy drops.
Atheism is not a doctrine any more than not believing in Santa Claus or the tooth fairy is a doctrine. It is possible that there are doctrines within atheism but atheism itself is not one.

I'm not bothered about the term free thinker and wouldn't necessarily have linked it with atheism.
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it was submitted two years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5572765

and yesterday too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9122788
It's user content but it's your company. You need to jumpstart it http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
The react series is definitely something I am interested in. Do you have a newsletter I can sign up for?
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those arn't liquid assets. who's suffering from dunning-kreuger effects now? nice puppet account you got there with 1 karma. also land and property are taxed so... yea
Because Swift is perceived as cool and C# is not.
Are we alone? Do we want to know?
Because c++'s type system doesn't make it possible to determine the actual implementation in most cases. Concepts would allow rust-style monomorphization, but they aren't part if the standard yet.
I think we are two different threads. Signa11 already has good headphones, even amp and DA. Question is what headphones, DA and amp is best for upgrade. I am sorry, I just disagree that mac book pro is the answer.
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Clinical Depression Awareness/Testimony: http://youtu.be/ItXH1AArL0k
Link has an extra space or %20 appended to it, can anybody fix that?
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I have a toaster oven for that, but since I cook 6 days out of the week unless I've very busy it's that big a deal. I got sick of the uneven heating and other well-known microwave problems and realized the only things I ever used it for were soup and popcorn, both of which are just as easy to do in a pot.
Both NCF and JPAKE require a communication channel between devices. Neither fit the bill if the goal is user friendly, accessible from anywhere, and backup in case of loss (what they are proposing).

Extreme key-stretching (w seed) mostly mitigates weak passphrases (I mean extreme stretching, 60s+ of CPU time for each guess). Even a 6 char password would take 100k years of CPU time to brute force. I'm aware if they use "12345" or "password" it'll be crackable, but it's a balance of user friendliness and security.

Am I missing something, genuinely curious.
Why should anyone be interested in openSUSE?
no it's not. it's more like, the most common dispatch pattern used in C++ (and most other OO languages) as a factor of 7x performance penalty over the less widely embraced alternative. The popularity of the former methods is partly due to the ignorance of programmers to its performance implications. I have seen huge code bases that had to be retired because of their over reliance on OO, and dynamic dispatch.
Returning to fraud detection, high order interaction features like "billing address = shipping address and transaction amount < $50" are required for good model performance.

I agree, that non-linear models are often able to beat linear ones, but if you have limited amounts of data feature engineering will always beat clever algorithms.
Do you disagree that most people want a government? I think not.

Do you disagree that most of those people want a government because they want government to intervene on social and economic issues?

Do you disagree that most of those people want a government because "otherwise we'd have to make every decision" and they like to delegate some decisions to representatives so that they don't have to bother to check for themselves if their water is clean, so that they don't have to bother having to contract with a garbage collection company, so that they don't have to bother to check if restaurants aren't poisoning their customers, and so on? In other words, so that they can trust things will be taken care of and don't have to manage every aspect of their lives?

Do you disagree that because most of those people seem to want to abstract away certain aspects of their lives, namely those they want government to take charge of, that they also won't be as willing to discuss those issues, seeing that the reason they delegate those things to government is because they don't want to think about it, let alone argue about it?

Do you then disagree that maybe, because of this unwillingness to engage in these discussions, that if a group of people, namely individualists, that believe governments cause more harm than good, would like to see things changed towards freer markets, that it might be fruitless to think the way to achieve those changes is to engage in discussions with those people who are unwilling to engage in discussions because they are in favor of not thinking about those issues and instead abstracting them away onto government?

That's all I'm arguing. Coarsely put, one side wants to debate. The other doesn't. The side that wants to debate usually uses logic because that's the fundamental tool of debating. The side that doesn't want to debate uses emotion because that's the fundamental tool of avoidance.
100 MHz is a lot. It's wider than the entire 2.4 GHz band and each cellular carrier has less than 100 MHz of spectrum. http://www.fiercewireless.com/special-reports/how-much-lte-s...
How does it differ from HHVM REPL or PsySH? I'm not a PHP dev so I may be missing some finer points of this project - care to elaborate?
You can get the same with Google Voice.
New 28nm Bitcoin ASIC delivers 0.2 joules-per-gigahash
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I've heard that electric kettles don't work as well in the US as in (say) England because our mains voltage is much lower -- and I guess a transformer would be too bulky.
For a currency to take off, there must be a large market that requires you to use the currency (such as paying taxes to the IRS). This creates a base market which can be used as a springboard for wider adoption. BitCoin managed to take off because, IMHO, the novelty of the "cryptocurrency" and some of the problems it solved.

For a fiat currency to work, there must be faith in the currency and the governing bodies that support it.
The US dollar used to be tied to the price of gold and silver, then later entirely to gold, then it was turned fiat in the Nixon years.[1]

BitCoin, in particular, does not allow a central bank to "print" currency (which is a tool used to control the inflation rate). Without the ability for a central bank to regulate the creation of a fiat currency, there would eventually be an erosion of faith in the currency. Alternatively, a digital currency could be tied to a gold silver / other commodity standard, but then it's not much different than any other commodity.

The Canadian bank is experimenting with a digital currency, but it won't replace the paper+coin currency, only augment it.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
[2] http://business.financialpost.com/2013/09/19/canadian-mint-p...
Why are they bothering to teach a class on it before writing the documentation?
They are trying to get you to use Xamarin. See here: https://twitter.com/masters3d/status/571785335702626304
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What threat of violence are you describing?
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digital/analog really makes no difference for fiat currencies. What matters is the way their managed and peoples belief that they will continue to hold value for the long term. I doubt any states will go digital for awhile due to purely cultural/psychological reasons.

Humans like physical objects even if they're worse, just ask any vinyl record enthusiasts to explain why they like vinyl and you'll see this dynamic.
Petrocurrency mercantilism: why and how central banks fight each other
They're angry because this is a copyright infringement to them. The US wanted this first, so nobody else can use it.
What advantage does this have over the built in REPL you can find with php -a (assuming readline instead of libedit)? They fixed fatal behavior a few versions ago, which was my last gripe with it.
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This is the best advertisement Mega could ever receive.

it's also a ringing endorsement that Mega can keep your data out of the hands of Five Eyes countries. that just earned them my business.
DNA Evidence Can Be Faked
You -> dublinben -> you -> me is a very coherent thread.

But yes, it's not worth arguing about unless we could all sit together and test some equipment.
You are 100% spot on with this comment. In this day and age of click-bait titles and buzzfeed articles, it is unfortunately becoming more and more prevalent.
I don't think there could be anything more middlebrow than this.
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Only some margarines contain trans fats and soy is not without its own health risks.
I have often, especially in the comment sections for regional newspapers, seen the claim that yes, the government should step away from food safety.

The food producer's freedom from inspection trumps the citizenry's ability to eat with minimal risk of food poisoning, so goes the thinking.
That was exactly the episode I was subtly referencing in my comment. BTW. after watching it, I thought that the way the data was collected in that episode is a writer's fiction. Imagine my surprise when I learned few days later that it's actually true, and it's what Apple and Microsoft do.