skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a real-world problem seeking a solution, video that is verifiably stored (in multiple places) and encrypted but accessible via the judiciary when a court order allows it. It's not that the pieces aren't there, but rather that someone would need to package it well and sell it to local governments.
They asked to install wire-tapping hardware on your servers because it is cheaper than hidden wire-tapping. If they do not ask again, it may be that their hidden wire-tapping hardware is in place. Or maybe, this is only conspiracy theory ?
I lost my hope when they removed the "access to the Internet" permission from the list of privileges. Now you take for granted that all apps will try to do that.

I use AFWall+ and CyanogenMod's Privacy Guard to control everything, but it's sad that the data of most people I know may be stolen without their knowledge after they install yet another Subway Surfers-type game or "vintage photo effects" app.
Any citations? I can't find anything when I search for "apple zero day sharing program" or "apple zero day nsa".

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/14/nsa-gets-early-ac... doesn't mention apple.
Thanks. I will go with number 3. ;-)
I'm not sure that a mention of a finger magnet and a single "grinder" who temporarily had some body sensors qualifies as a whole cutting-edge transhuman movement in Pittsburgh. It's certainly interesting to reflect on the possibilities and to marvel at those quirky enough to experiment on themselves. But this article seems more like a basic review of sci-fi from the last 60 years rather than a peek into the transhuman movement, to whatever extent such a thing actually exists.
Most people are forgetting the rest of the story:
On 2013, March 13th, Clapper sent a private letter to congress, getting their agreement that what he said was the "least untruthful" thing he could have said.

and got away with lying to congress.

Everyone should learn from Clapper's example, when they're in front of a judge, court, or other tribunal.
So Voyager 1 is 1/6 of the way to the Sun's gravitational lens focus, a point in space past which the Sun itself acts as a gravitational lens (with a very small field of view) in the opposite direction. Those points can be exploited by space telescopes for direct imaging of extrasolar systems and for interstellar communication.
Thanks what_ever.
Why do you feel the log is way too large?

If log entries take up too much disk space, switching to a different system will not help; you will have to do something with the data. You can either archive old years (export in some way, compress, put in cold storage) or throw them away, either partially or fully (do you need to keep debug logging around forever?). Using partitions can help here, as it makes it faster to drop older data (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/ddl-parti...)

You also may consider compressing some fields inside the database (did you normalize logType and userAgent or are they strings? Can your database compress descriptions?), but that may affect logging performance (that's a _may_. There's extra work to do, but less data to write)

If, on the other hand, indexes take up too much space or querying gets too slow, consider using a partial index (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_index). You won't be able to efficiently query older data, but if you do that only rarely, that may be sufficient.
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Wow that landing was really incredible!

This link starts with the approach (5m:52s in):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1lYG...

I wonder what it would feel like scaled up to a regular plane.
I agree. I've been generally following WordPress news since 2004 (the beginning of its popularity) there's been no serious security problem in many years, as long as you had open user registrations turned off. Why you would allow a complete stranger access to your admin panels in the first place is another debate, but basically: don't allow user registrations on your blog and you're safe.

If you look back in history, the so-called "WordPress hacks" in the news had nothing to do with a flaw in WordPress. What actually happened was, like in the case of the Media Temple hack, the hacker got access to the MySQL database and obviously all the blog data stored in MySQL was vulnerable. There was never any indication that WordPress was the attack vector when all those big hosts were affected. So what can you learn from that? Don't use shared hosting. Shared hosting was never that reliable in the first place. From my perspective, the shift to VPS was a big leap forward in terms of uptime for most websites/blogs.

Another big problem was the "timthumb" plugin. But from 2004 onward, that was really the only plugin that caused widespread problems for WordPress blogs, as far as I can remember. Yes, some plugins are dangerous and maybe you want a service like sucuri.net if you're really concerned about bad plugins. But bad plugins are rare, IMO.

Also weak passwords, again not a WordPress-specific problem. People using FTP carelessly, I bet that's the issue most of the time.

I'm not saying security is easy, I'm just saying WordPress is generally not the culprit. If there was ever any major hack that made the mainstream news that I missed, please post the link.
CyanogenMOD's PrivacyGuard is pretty close to this, I don't use stock android anymore due to this.
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this is what subpoenas are for. Let the court force them to provide it.

and if the camera "turns out" to be on the fritz, they can provide the IT support ticket, complete with dates and times entries were made.
Yeah. C++ has so good tooling that despite what new language I try, I always hit some implementation, ecosystem or tooling issue that always leads me to conclude I would have been more productive with C++. Which sucks monkeyballs as aesthetics go.
Where I worked salaries were the same, but everyone above line manager generally got a 100% bonus. So while engineers might get $25k in stock, a line manager would get $150k, director $300k, and VP could get over a million for successful projects, CX0's 5-10 million. This makes perfect sense when you consider that management is setting salaries and bonuses. Of course no one out of the loop knew it. Engineers generally got disappeared when the project was over.
Hmm. They do seem to have some big/good names on their speaker list though!:

https://collisionconf.com/speakers

I guess their kind of thing is suitable for enterprise startups. Where, you know, BS is a way of life and cash is in plenty.
>A tiny number of people filter ads.

"41% of 18-29 year olds polled said they use adblock ... In some countries nearly one quarter of the online population has it installed"

-- http://blog.pagefair.com/2014/adblocking-report/
How the world is coming to Nepal’s aid
Seven books in one evening? I cannot fathom such a thing. Were these "books" of the comic variety perchance?
The package includes a microAptiv CPU (MIPS32 Release 3) written in Verilog, a getting started guide, and various files for debugging, simulation and synthesis (free SDK, tools from Modelsim and Xilinx, etc.)
I find it interesting that I can't find the NY Times quote they've splashed all over their advertising about being a "conclave of tech's high priests." I can find other people quoting the quote, but I can't find any NY Times article that actually includes it (or even mentions this conference at all).
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Some places categorize new grads as people who have graduated in the past 2 years. If you graduated in an off cycle (like in the late summer or fall), that can smooth over some of the resistance.

You will get rejected by some but do yourself a favor by having a good story of what you've been doing since you graduated, also what you have been doing to make yourself more marketable or what skills you've learned.

Good luck on the search.
Now I'll ramble a bit for why I love this essay so much– it's such a powerful reminder that so many of the bloody conversations we're having all the time about what the Apple Watch is going to do or what AR is going to do, and how our kids are going crazy with texting and lolcats, etc– it's been played out over and over and over throughout the generations, and this time isn't particularly unique.

I guess I often am hopeful to encounter other people who realize that we're in this loop of entertainment, that everything fits within a broader context, and that we don't need to get so worked up over little details about little thing so often. [1]

I wish we could spend more time getting to the end of these conversations quicker, because the end of each conversation is the start of a new one. It feels so tiresome and tedious to have to go through all the details over and over again.

I suppose that's a necessary "evil", or just human nature– we're always going to want to talk about current affairs as though they're somehow Truly Novel And Significant– and I suppose at the opposite end of the spectrum, nothing is, so... what then?

I don't know. The more I read, the less I know. I just feel like there ought to be an alternative between becoming apathetic/nihilistic, and getting caught up in every "new" piece of news. I think this essay sorta-implies it, but stops there.

Would LOVE to hear from anybody who's grappled with this themselves– I'm sure there are some of you!

___

[1]I'm aware of the possibility that something might actually be of dramatic significance– see quote about Romans talking about Barbarians– but I'm thinking "I read 4 books this year, ohnoes" isn't all that crazy/groundbreaking. "I spent a year away from social media"– ugh, seriously? Can't we get past that stuff? What comes after that?
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Sorry, I downvoted you by accident, I have a habit of clicking randomly while reading :/
All those things are better than being attacked by police, framed by police, and having nothing to show for it.
That would be horrible for normal developers.

People would use it all the time, and then complain that the app doesn't work.

The actual problem is the "all or nothing" security model that needs to be replaced with contextual permissions (like "This app wants to access your photos right now. Allow?", see iOS).

The "all or nothing" model defeats its own purpose by effectively leaving no choice for the user.
You have been constructively dismissed[1]. You need to be talking to a lawyer immediately to begin your wrongful dismissal lawsuit. Don't wait until you're fired. start finding a lawyer now.

if the lawyer you talk to doesn't want to do it, or drags his feet, find a lawyer who will. You have a straightforward case, and your odds for settlement will be rather high.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
Identical experience here with Collision. They set up a 15 'pitch call' with me, asked a couple token questions and then blazed through a script about what their conference offers. I was magically approved for a 'free booth' package provided I paid the $1,995 for tickets.

It is clear they don't have the entrepreneur's interests at heart.
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I'm not trying to argue that they're not; I'm just saying why people could support police body cams and disagree with all video recorded being public.
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also avoid the keiretsu forum. total waste of time and money.
Wish I could read that fast...
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should

The sort of approach you're describing is not suggested or used by anyone with half a clue what they're doing.
I don't know how someone develops a patentable idea without practicing the related art. I don't think NPE means actual original inventor by any stretch -- but I could be wrong and would be curious if you can point me in the direction of examples where a court or even a reliable pundit has made that stretch.
USGS Aftershock Forecast for the Magnitude 7.8 Nepal earthquake
A very simple solution is to generate a 3D point in [-1,1]^3, regenerate if it's length is >1 and project it on to the sphere otherwise.
Your issue appears to be with bounties arising from a security vulns, which is a special class of bug that should be treated with a much higher degree of care.

The bugs expressed in this post, such as the duplicate account creation one, are not going to impact a company's bottom or top lines, so it is questionable whether it warrants a small merit award which is the idea that spawned this thread.
As Patrick said you should delete absolutely everything you have written so far, and ideally all evidence that you were working on anything.

If you do a reimplementation it will go much, much faster because you now know what you're doing.

Get a second hand laptop or a Chromebook or something. If you're able to get a job programming you should be able to afford something.
The easiest way to generate random points on a (hyper)sphere, at least with respect to most sampling APIs, is to sample from an isotropic normal distribution of the appropriate dimension (for a three-dimensional sphere, just call randn() three times), then normalize the result to be on the surface of the sphere.

This works because the normal distribution is rotationally symmetric, so each sample is essentially a random unit vector scaled by a random (normally distributed) radius. Once you remove the variation in radius you just get back the random unit vector, i.e. a point on the unit sphere.
Good chiptune!
I want to play the tracks myself.
USGS Aftershock Forecast for the Magnitude 7.8 Nepal earthquake of April 25, 2015

(as of April 26, 2015)
In the coming week, USGS expects 3-14 M≥5 aftershocks of the magnitude 7.8 Nepal earthquake. Additionally, USGS estimates that there is a 54% chance of a M≥6 aftershock, and a 7% chance of a M≥7 aftershock during this one-week period. After this, in the following month and then the following year, USGS expects several M≥5 aftershocks, with a significant chance of M≥6 aftershock (greater than 50%). The potential for an aftershock larger than the mainshock remains, but is small (1-2% in each time period).

Felt earthquakes (i.e., those with M≥ 3 or 4) will be common over the next weeks to months. Based on general earthquake statistics, the expected number of M≥ 3 or 4 aftershocks can be estimated by multiplying the expected number of M>=5 aftershocks by 100 or 10, respectively. The expected location of the aftershocks will be in the zone of current activity and at its edges. Currently aftershocks are occurring in a zone extending approximately 200 km away from the mainshock epicenter.

This information is preliminary and subject to change.

from http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002926#...
Upvote.It's getting over complicated each update and not for simple development.While language like c# get more easier like old days php.
Yeah, my article is a bit of a quickie and not very good, I didn't expect people would post them here and on reddit. Moreover, it isn't a big picture post.
Xiaomi's MiUI has also had this feature for quite some time. They call it the Permission Manager - http://www.androidbeat.com/2014/08/use-permissions-manager-m....
Substituting personal definition for standard definition is the bug here.
I'm still slightly skeptical.

Let's see how it actually performs in a real situation. Of course there might be something (the public) we still don't know about it, that makes it more efficient.
I wrote total Artificial Intellicence. Very short but evolved by itself in super recursive selfmodifying way. I totally understood how it worked, but I knew already I do not when I wake up. So I tried to construct simple images to give me some clue. The image was a tree which branched when stimulated various ways. Sometimes branches joined together -- this was the key property, but sadly do not understand what it means. :-(
Is now the time for D? I really wonder, I am not really sure. Certainly a lot of languages go thru a period of obscurity before success, but I'm still uncertain.

The one issue that sticks for me was the dual standard libraries. Just seems so messy.
Something doesn't add up in your observation. (x,y,z) can't all be uniformly distributed in [-1,1] because of the constraint x^2+y^2+z^2=1.
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This post seems to barely scratch the surface of the problem. First you really need to specify by what metric you want the distribution to be uniform. Euclidean 3d distance? Arcs? The way I would do it would be to generate a lot of random points by some easy scheme, like long/lat, then feed them into a kdtree (k=3), find all neighbors for every point with an overestimating metric, then check them against the real metric and remove the too close ones.
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Why would you regenerate it if the length exceeds 1? Can't you just normalize the vector regardless of its length (excluding 0)?
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What about squatting on valuable ones? But probably not a big deal unless it relates to Pages.
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This is not quite correct. Generating a random vector using three calls to rand() is the equivalent of picking a random point inside a cube. If you normalize the points, you're effectively squishing the corners of the cube in toward the center to make a sphere. Points near the corners of the containing cube will appear more frequently than the top, bottom and 'sides'.

@ginko's comment is correct - you can fix the algorithm by throwing out any points that lie outside the sphere before normalizing.
Like others I will say don't do this, however if it's the only PC you have access then why don't you boot up a live Linux DVD or USB distro and do your work in that and save to the cloud?
when did eventual consistency equate to race conditions, or even increased susceptibility to race conditions? I don't follow. could you explain your reasoning further?
I like that the early prototype consists of a Car-HiFi-Amplifier and something made of Perfboard...

[but of course, makes sense, in the end the HiFi Amp is just a pair of H-Bridges anyway, probably quite useful to pump rather low-frequency energy out]
Near the poles the surface becomes very flat and therefore there is as much surface area in a slice of constant height than anywhere else. Archimedes was a clever fella :-)
> But then, it wouldn't be Arch any more. There'll inevitably come a user that wants a different partition scheme not contemplated (nfs /home? LUKS? LVM across all present drives? etc).

The old no installer way could still be present. Just give people an option, is what I'm getting at. I'm pretty sure you can manually configure everything in the Debian installer if you choose to.

Your point about networking - there being multiple tools and letting the user choose which to use - is more understandable. However, it's still something I've come to expect to configure once and never again (apart from choosing which wifi to connect to when I'm at a new place).
They are only individually distributed uniformly in [-1,1], not jointly.
Police body cameras dont, an wont matter as long as old corrupt judges LET GO murderers recorded killing people.

I mean what does it take to put a cop in prison when a video of him strangling someone to death is not enough?
unfortunately other providers, like DigitalOcean, don't seem to support rumpkernels or unikernels.
No one I know knows what these are. When I message a coworker about what I'm doing, and later talk about my dev team, they almost always pronounce the word "plan-e-meter" instead of "pla-nim-e-ter".

I love the tool, though. So I named my volunteer contributor team after it.
http://www.andrewmcwatters.com/planimeter/
This is the problem I have with the recent surge of popularity of "long-form" articles. Most are long on form, but short on content. People get excited about this form of writing (often pulling in whole ideology of distraction-free reading), but I find it hard to get excited when the actual meaning is scarce.

I don't have that problem with good books, so don't put me in the "modern civilization problems" drawer.
More important than maintaining WordPress, you want a secure server. Here's a not-comprehensive list...

- Use a VPS. If you talk to Olly, author of "wpCop" http://wpcop.com/ and the VPSBible, he recommends CentOS. I believe it has a good reputation for security, for web hosting. Also Ubuntu & Debian are about as popular as CentOS for web hosting and they're probably just as secure, but choosing your distro is a big deal because they're all different.

- Automated backups of everything, and make sure you know how to restore everything. Backups of backups and offsite backups. So even if something goes wrong, you're not completely screwed. You need "offsite" backups because there's a million ways onsite backups can be lost, stolen, destroyed, etc.

- Configure MySQL to ignore remote connections.

- Don't use "admin" users for WordPress or MySQL. Is this really necessary? Probably not but it's fairly easy to setup.

- Don't use FTP, use ssh.

- I know a guy who was on vacation in a certain country and they totally destroyed his server. So be aware of your environment.
> That video is from 2012. By now, it would probably have an autopilot and camera.

That makes the landing even more impressive :)
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The server requires a Java JVM (it's a single jar), no other dependencies. Just run it and you're done.

On the client side, there is a perl script that uses graphicsmagick and mozjpeg. I intend to roll that into the server-side eventually.
Last year, I read four books.

Last year, I read 25 books. And the year before, too. And the year before. Then I stopped reading this blog post.

The number of books is a weak benchmark, because I read books as thin as 100 pages up to 1,300 pages. I read blog posts that have 50 pages and some that have 140 characters.

Reading is enjoyable, but still a form of consumption. There are only so many ideas per week you can think a lot about and thus, you can read only so many books that really benefit your life and make you change your mindset.
I don't really want a desktop environment + applications installed - as long as networking and disks are in place I can install what I need and set up my configs.
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The dual library issue ended 7 years ago or so.
That would lead to the distribution being non-uniform: there would be more points in the corners of the cube.
For those who are interested in this, you may also be interested in ZeroVM[1].

To be clear, ZeroVM isn't a Unikernel. Instead, it is a virtualization technology based on NaCL[2] that is designed to quickly create throw-away VMs. The idea is that the VMs is created to service a single request, and disposed of afterwards.

Obviously this model has challenges, but it is similar to the model proposed on slide 24 of the OP slidedeck. The security benefits of this are real, even if the programming model is challenging.

[1] http://www.zerovm.org/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
I don't totally understand the math, but davmre is suggesting calling randn(), not rand() -- so sampling from a normal distribution instead of a uniform distribution.
Oh man this is such a bummer. I have been working on a sync feature for my side project app Mindscope for a few months now and Dropbox's Datastore API was the only one that "just worked" for me - iCloud was a major pain to develop for.

This means tens of hours down the drain for me, which are not easy to come by.
Antergos looks promising, I'll try that next time.