skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all about Realpolitik. Can't really get around that. With regards to slavery, it was rampant all over the world. On paper some had begun to illegalize it, but the only ones not practicing slavery in one form or other didn't because they couldn't (it was unprofitable) To this day we have what is essentially roman style slavery in ME counties. Few bat an eye at the official policies.
I like http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/ , which covers a different set of features.
I understand that to mean that they do normalization between different versions of the test in a given year, not that they do not do normalization across the SAT population in that year. It would surprise me if they didn't do population-wide normalization, otherwise too many scores would be at or near the upper limit, making the score uninformative, and also you could not compare the rank of students between years.

Regardless, because the point of the SAT is ranking, your score is irrelevant. What matters is how you do with respect to your peers. If everyone does better the test has become "harder" because you need to do better to get a higher rank.
Oh that's a good spot I missed the 299. But still $30 is the cost of a chromecast or fire stick, to the gp's original point.
Same kind of people who write 1338 instead of 1337, for the lulz
Russell's paradox and the Y combinator
How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds
But a lot of arguments about surveillance tech seem to be really arguments about people not doing their jobs. If they get overwhelmed with the data, it's not the fault of technology. So preventing them from using new technology doesn't strike me as a right solution.
> The classic decidable problem is "the halting problem".

The classic undecidable problem ...
Are we sure its FBI and not some bigger 4 eyes operation? "Mystery Plane With No Callsign Circles South London For Hours":

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/22/mystery-plane-no-...
The USA Freedom Act that passed the House and Senate extends the Patriot Act until December 31, 2017. This article is complete horseshit.
sadly with NAND even reads contribute to wear.
>The US civil war was large enough that it was tantamount to another country (the North) overthrowing the South to end slavery.

Only slavery was just a pretext for that war.
Does it have it's own sim card inside the OBD2 or a smart phone must be in close proximity?

If latter than I do not see much value in what can be achieved by buying a $15 OBD2 bluetooth adapter from Amazon and a $5 app from Google Play/iTunes. Then you own the data too.

Metromile did it right by embedding a sim inside their unit. Thus allowing you to take advantage of it's remote monitoring capabilities and alerts when you say park your car in a variable parking zone.
Could this finding explain why I (and many other people) get migraine headaches as part of an allergic response to certain foods?
The list of Wunderlist shareholders currently celebrating the Microsoft deal
Not an expert but there's a "PowerShell in 10 Minutes" here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1...
I might have missed it somewhere, but I'm curious as to what cities they were flying over. Does anyone have a link/list of the cities that the FBI has been flying over?
This is hilarious in a gallows humor kind of way.

They get articles trumpeting that they "did away" with Section 215, they get articles claiming they "reigned in" Surveillance by passing a new bill.

The reality is nothing changed for all this theater, its just been dressed up in different clothes to put the bad publicity behind them.
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I honestly can't tell from the article if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Everything you mentioned has been possible for several years now: with eyewitnesses, ubiquitous CCTVs, etc. The change will really be in that clearance rates on crimes will shoot upwards when these technologies are invented. Or criminals will find ways around the technology, as they have done for much of human history.

The bigger concern is the possibility of misuse and abuse of such technology, both by the government and by unscrupulous individuals. That is what will make the future dystopian. In fact it has been happening for many years now: think lie detectors and cell phone tower tracking- both demonstrably bullshit, but widely abused nevertheless!
Do you have any (anonymized) stats for the largest key sizes you encountered? I ask as the owner of a comically-large key.
> Much stronger legislation is needed.

Make sure you let your legislators know this via a phone call or written (not email) comunication. Might not change things overnight, but it's pretty easy to do.
I did find an open source implementation here:

http://pash.sourceforge.net/

Don't know if it's any good --- never tried it; it says it's about half complete, but I don't know if it's a useful half.

After looking at the docs, you could do a lot of what Powershell does with Unix shells; you'd need a different set of conventions, where instead of using unformatted text as an intermediate format you used a streamable table format with support for metadata. Then you could have commands like 'where', which would be awesome.

$ xps | xwhere user -eq dg | xsort -desc rss | xtop 10 | xecho "rss=@.rss cmdline=@.command"

...or something. sh syntax is a bit lacking; PowerShell's got lots of useful builtins, including having native support for the format so it knows how to present it to the user. An sh version would conversion routines back and forth from text.

The tricky part would be bootstrapping; getting enough functionality quickly enough that enough people would start using it to make it sustainable.

I'd still rather use this than faff around with awk, though. I've done way too much of that. And if I never have to parse the output of ls -l using cut again, I will be a happy person.
Such doublespeak in the title of this article.
Thanks for the info, that's why I added the qualifier about if, because I suspected it might be BS.
The pulse of the federal .gov space
I use flexbox for http://killermatch.com/ (the app part, that runs in the browser, and on iOS and Android as a Cordova app).
Symbolics & LMI were founded by MIT people (and a few others) to commercialized the stuff they developed at the MIT AI Lab. The commercialization of the Lisp Machine technology was a joint decision of the sponsor (DARPA), the university (which licensed the stuff) AND the original developers.

Other than Stallman, most people were happy with the decision.
I see you are part of the "written word only" style of ethics. This is where you declare only those things prohibited by written law or contract to be unethical, and then grant inventive persons the status of geniuses when they find new ways by which to exploit you.
That seems to be a textbook case of people failing to apply Bayes' theorem properly, not a fault of tests or technology. They, just like doctors analyzing cancer tests, need to remember to multiply one more number...
> .NET is excellent, but the lower level APIs look horrible.

It is, more or less, what it is. lower level APIs cannot change without breaking backwards compatiblity. Microsoft as an organization is all about backwards compatibility. So this is just not going away, like you say there is stuff in there from DOS that will just not ever go away.
They are two related terms A dystopia is a particular society like Metropolis in the 30's Fritz lang film film. Dystopian is how you describe say ubiquitous CCTV cameras.
"There's already been silent failures"?
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For anyone interested in Dwarf Fortress, here are the chronicles of Boatmurdered, a legendary Something Awful thread:

http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introductio...

Highly entertaining read and somewhat of an internet classic.
Fulltext: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2mmdmty3nxfe5u8/2015-louveau.pdf / http://sci-hub.org/downloads/e18c/louveau2015.pdf
I have read so many articles over the past week about various bills and efforts to further them or block them and I have no idea what's going on at this point. I still read this and do not understand.

> the Senate voted on Tuesday to curtail the federal government’s sweeping surveillance

> the passage... will lead to the reinstatement of government surveillance efforts

Did we stop the surveillance? Did we continue it? Is this really going to do anything at all to change the culture of mass collection? Who is counting this as a win? Who is against this and who is for this?
> We go on to consider Diffie-Hellman with 768- and 1024-bit
groups. A small number of fixed or standardized groups are
in use by millions of TLS, SSH, and VPN servers. Perform-
ing precomputations on a few of these groups would allow a
passive eavesdropper to decrypt a large fraction of Internet
traffic. In the 1024-bit case, we estimate that such com-
putations are plausible given nation-state resources, and a
close reading of published NSA leaks shows that the agency’s
attacks on VPNs are consistent with having achieved such
a break. We conclude that moving to stronger key exchange
methods should be a priority for the Internet community.

From: https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf
The Counted: database of police killings in the US
And unlike passwords the extra overhead of maintaining multiple keys is virtually frictionless.
No, it's not the case.

The point may be to rank students, but they don't give lower scores if everyone does better. It's possible for everyone to get perfect, or for no one.

>I don't quite understand what the discussion in the link is trying to say but I take it to mean that they normalize between different versions of the test in the same year in a way that doesn't depend on the ability of the cohort that took a specific version. That is still consistent with the fact that they do normalize across the entire test taking population.

That's not what's happening.

There are different versions of the test. ETS (the org running it) wants a score to mean the same thing no matter which version or year you took it in (well, besides for when they make major changes, like 1995.)

So every test includes one section that doesn't count. You don't know which one it is. Let's say everyone who took Math non-counter-A gets an average of 540. The same people get an average of 520 on Math counts-B. So we know that 520 on B is just as good as 540 in whatever year A was given. So we scale, and anyone who got a 520 on on B is given 540 instead. This is extended for other scores, using math.

(Actually, this is probably done before converting away from raw scores.)

If everyone does poorly, that will make the average go down for the actual test, and also make the average go down for the non-counting section. Those factor out completely, meaning others' performances have zero effect on your score.

Hope that helps.
Ask HN: What are other 'Fizzbuzz' type interview questions?
As a tangent from this article: http://www.gayle.com/blog/2015/5/31/the-problem-with-the-fizzbuzz-problem

What are some other similar type of interview questions that employers might ask to test an applicant's coding competency? Regardless of the oppinion of article's author I do like the 'fizzbuzz' problem as one that takes 'just enough coding knowledge/thinking'. Here's another example from the article: 'Given a list of people with their birth and end years (all between 1900 and 2000), find the year with the most number of people alive'

Please list other similar type questions. Thanks!
Freedom Act Passes: What We Celebrate, What We Mourn, and Where We Go from Here
Perhaps the better question is, how can we enable people to continue to contribute to open source in a sustainable way?

Gratipay and basic income come to mind. I'm interested in hearing what others here think.
I actually wouldn't be surprised if it were.

"Hey $ATT_EXECUTIVE - see what happened to [Qwest's CEO] Joe Nacchio? Good. Now go splice me some fiber or you'll be joining him."
> But Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said while he is "always worried" about having the votes he needs, he was hopeful amendments to the USA Freedom Act would pass.

> "What I'm hearing people say is that the amendments produce good policy and they actually strengthen the underlying bill but we're afraid the House will not take any changes, which is just absolutely an abdication of the Senate's role as a co-equal branch of the legislature," he said.

No, what you are seeing is how our legislative system works. Nothing is forcing you to sign the bill in front of you (except maybe your constitutions and/or chances of re-election). I'm sure the Senate has held the House "hostage" on bills before and will do so again. This is nothing more than a child crying because they didn't get their way.
"The passage of the measure, achieved after a vigorous debate on the Senate floor, will lead to the reinstatement of government surveillance efforts"

What the heck does this mean? Should the title of the article read "Senate votes to keep the NSA doing almost exactly the same thing?"
When Should You Move to Silicon Valley?
Realtime location sharing at your wrist: Pathshare for Apple Watch
It is because there is absolutely no reason they shouldn't be public. You can generate as many ssh key as you want and if they are long enough they are secure.
Long press on an article should bring up options such as 'mark read to here' and 'mark read to bottom' and probably some sort of starring feature, similar to RSS readers. I other to do a first pass to triage the entries and then deep dive when I have more time.
> If I make a single penny from the invention I'm donating it to charity.

How about use the money to invent the next cure?

Once you go that far you realize you can do a lot of good by having a business that helps people. Unlike a charity it's self sustaining.
Aurora is from Twitter, but Mesos is not. They hired some of the team that developed Mesos while in academia, but still. Mesos is external of Twitter.

Disclaimer: I use both Mesos and Aurora.
Fraud detection in retail with graph analysis
Pinterest Brings E-Commerce to Social Bookmarking
Every day there's another reason to feel good about my recurring donations to the EFF and ACLU. I highly recommend the investment.

https://supporters.eff.org/donate

https://action.aclu.org/secure/fight-back-against-attacks-ou...
Beautiful. What did you guys use for the charts?
Oh wow, that could be scary. How is data entered or modified?Is the schema changing too much to put this in an actual relational DB? Are you using versioning or backups?
We now know there is at least one tube, and perhaps much much more.

In terms of mostly figured out I think we are still below 1% of what we may know in 2100 about the body.

Michael Murphy wrote a very interesting book "The History of the Body" in 1993 http://www.amazon.com/The-Future-Body-Explorations-Evolution... curating a number of observations on the potential extent of our capabilities.
The Senate rejected all the amendments, and passed the same version of USA Freedom that the House did, so this round of legislative battles is over. Barring anything unexpected, the next fight is 2017 over FISA renewal.

[All the amendments they voted on would have weakened the protections. Paul and Wyden weren't allowed to introduce their amendments to strengthen it.]
Given that 215 had already expired, and (as I understand) that was the one thing in previously-existing authorities that USA FREEDOM Act restrained a bit (while expanding others), is it accurate to say that USA FREEDOM Act actually reins in anything? Or would it be more accurate to say it is a pure expansion of surveillance powers?
Deadlines and exams make you do wonders. I really worked through this book in two full nights. You just need to focus really hard and deadlines help you do that. I was familiar with the material before but needed a refresh. There are not that many proofs and the book dimensions are small. There is not that much text per page. Totally doable. Good intro book.
Of that list, I can only see downsides to the middle ones: "emacs, vi, netcat, shell option for vi-mode, rc-file with preferences". Who uses vi-mode in the shell? And Windows already has a boatload of editors.

Windows could do a lot better than curses by providing easy means to pop MFC dialogs from the shell to prompt the user.

Zip and unzip are already available, in https://pscx.codeplex.com/
"Developers live for tricky puzzles to solve and startups are one place that you can get them. Startups aren't the only place where you can find challenges (as you've noted)."

Ehhh. I jumped from research to the startup world, so maybe I have a high bar, but most startups are doing pretty boring, predictable variations on bog-standard systems work. You see this in the way that these "exciting" companies keep re-inventing the same wheels in different languages. How many javascript frameworks are there, again? How many different ways have people found to "replace" relational databases?

If you're right out of school, everything is challenging. Give it a few years. Eventually, it becomes downright boring to watch people needlessly re-solve problems that were solved in the late 1960s because they don't know history, and/or don't want to learn some boring old technology that their older brother used last week.

If you want interesting problems, go into research. If you want to do interesting problems and get paid, go to companies that are large enough to have the resources to fund things that aren't directly on the critical path to profit. Startups are a really bad place to go if you want tricky puzzles.
The FBI is charged with collecting this data, but there's no laws requiring individual state or local police forces to report it, so the quality of their data is exceedingly poor, as documented here: http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5260&utm_source...

It's pretty depressing that a UK Newspaper does a better job of both collecting and presenting the information than a government agency.
So I have MS. I go to any link that has to do with the Immune system. Recently I see tons of "discoveries" and attempts to link it to MS. Which gets me excited but than I start to think how much of this is truth and how much is bullshit? Or that MS and others like it are so complex that all of the findings are true... Either way starting to have a hard time finding hope in any of these articles.
Big difference:

1. You have to import/export every time a change is made!

2. Visual Studio takes like 6 hours to install.
How is a public key revealing your identity? You can generate as many pair as you want. If you want your identity on github to be masked just generate a key specifically for github
Wonderful, and I am a bit interested in seeing how well the Microsoft guys and the OpenBSD/OpenSSH team is going to interact. I have no doubt the the Microsoft developers are nothing but professional, but still the OpenSSH people seem to have pretty high standard.
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Some would argue it won't make much of a difference what the public thinks:

http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fil...
Will Cap Table Transparency Help Your Startup?
As long as the ROI is good for patent trolling, people will do it. As long as the ROI is good for SLAPP suits, people will do it. It's fun to make fun of the individuals filing these stupid suits and patents, but reform of the incentives is what's needed.
I'm pretty sure you can't get a 2015 model LG that's 50" or larger that's not a Smart TV.

The cheapest 50" TV they have is $799 has interactivity.
http://www.lg.com/us/tvs
And also designed by people who have no business doing UIs in the first place, which makes them crappy. It's a similar situation as with printer "value-added" software from printer vendors.
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Slightly better fit. Not looking forward to pre-order requests at the register.
React Native with all the components being developed for it looks unbeatable.
Also forgot to mention scalding.
Oh anything really. Ranting on HN. Telling off sales clerks. Pushing to the head of the subway line. Anything you get away with because its anonymous. In the old days, you'd know every clerk, everybody in a line, and get harassed if you were antisocial.
Or you could use the PowerShell command line.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/03/1...
> It would surprise me if they didn't do population-wide normalization, otherwise too many scores would be at or near the upper limit, making the score uninformative, and also you could not compare the rank of students between years.

Be surprised. http://research.collegeboard.org/content/sat-data-tables http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/sat/data/archived/...

You can't compare percentile, which is why they're released anew each year. You can compare scores.

>Regardless, because the point of the SAT is ranking, your score is irrelevant.

That's a better point, perhaps. Your race also matters (minorities can get into Ivies with much lower scores than other people). Besides, if people get better, colleges might have more room.

(For people with perfect scores, it doesn't really matter.)
"Send the TAG link to another Fuel Book user and get to know their position, be it a a race or travelling as a group, stay updated."

Forget grammar and spelling. Did they really just suggest this can help with street racing? That's not going to go over well especially when this happens:

"Stuck in an Accident ! Need an Alibi ! With Fuel Book you can reveal your driving speed and survive the predicament."
I went in person to my local reps office. demandprogress.org had a letter I could print to provide [I didn't use their letter; I provided my own]
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If you don't do anything, it will certainly not make a difference.
If lawsuits and not supporting something you like makes you dislike a company, I'd guess that almost all corporations would be on your 'hate' list.

My dislike of MS is quite simple. I simply don't like their products. That doesn't mean I automatically love OSX or Linux. IMO OSX is a mediocre product with a polished user experience and Linux as a desktop is just broken. Unfortunately, I can't say there is a single OS that I like at the moment.
Don't get me wrong, Musk would be my first choice as well. He might legitimately be the best man for the job, not just among tech CEOs
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Don't MSI packages help?
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Why not just do away with port knocking and use keys?
I think we are just beginning to scratch the surface of the link between our immune systems and things like MS. I think the fact that we have so much coming to light bodes well. I do think much of it is overstated; but that there is so much activity makes me think we'll start seeing real progress.

In case you didn't see it earlier (a week or two ago, perhaps in a comment somewhere?) http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/january2015/01122015reset... Apparently reseting the immune system can halt MS to a certain degree. And that's what I think our real progress will be: by degrees, because those things are complex.