skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While working for YDN I was the one who spilled the beans about the top-secret Pipes _callback parameter, which turned your JSON reply into JavaScript. The service fell over instantly, of course, but far from being upset with me, the team was thrilled with the exposure. Viva Pipes!

Any word on whether YQL will live or die?
Interesting, this looks slick. How does the performance overhead compare to htop?
As much as people agree, just like every other currency.
My male Montana cousins always had cheaper car insurance than I did (also a male) so some companies must be using a different table. Everything else about us (age, grades, miles driven, etc.) was similar.
There is little assumption needed to know there is collusions between powerful corporations and government spy agencies.

Open source isn't fully trustable either, especially by the vast majority of users who are unable to review the source. But it is better, and we should not let perfect be the enemy of better in this case.
All the non violent muslims have access to the same book and teachings, so why are they non violent?

Any religion can be distorted. There's a buddhist army and two buddhist terrorist groups currently operating, yet most people would rate buddhism as one of the most pacifist religions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/969_Movement

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodu_Bala_Sena
And we could teach them correct use of adverbs too.
Journalists, however, released these documents. Snowden brought a trove of documents because there was no single document that acted as a smoking gun.

If you are upset with the leak of international material you must be upset with Greenwald.
Awesome. Thanks for clarifying.
Any plans to add public transport support?
Lower cost of access to space is SpaceX's big goal as well. So far they're doing much better at it. I wouldn't be surprised if SpaceX could meet Virgin's price for a suborbital trip, if they felt it was worth their while. But they have vastly larger fish to fry.
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Can I read about this storage engine somewhere?
Is Translation an Art or a Math Problem?
its all you need to self host. check out the chef repository. it should be all you need to throw it up on aws
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Quick hacks on napkins can be pretty awesome, e.g. UTF-8. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
> Funnily enough, the NSA has a dual mission: spy on their communications, protect ours.

Even more funny, if the NSA succeeds one part of their mission, they fail the other.

Therefore it's an impossible mission... so they've just seemingly resorted to only the spying part...
That's not true. These kids aren't stealing necessities. It's more for amusement and status.
They still don't require anything more than an email address for either.

Given the communities willingness to artificially inflate[1] any metric they can find. I have no faith those numbers are anywhere near real. When they release MAU figures I'll be impressed.

[1] reddit.com/r/bitcoin/about/traffic check out the new user subscriptions chart for an idea of what happens when someone shuts off/turns down their bot(It's less easy to see now but new subscriptions were constantly around 250-300 and then they dropped to ~100 overnight)
I don't understand why you're talking about this like yours is the normal way and his isn't, or something. Symbols are "real" too.
This is in the Portland Oregon traffic-safety context.
You're missing the fact that the leaderboard dataset is not made available to the contestants, so they cannot memorize it.

The only way they can determine anything about the leaderboard dataset is by submitting a model, at which point they are told a single scalar score for that model.
'Their' includes anyone outside of the NSA. Not just other nations. Not just normal US citizens and corporations. But also others within the US government.
There is a way to fix the problem that you are observing:

1. Create a "subweb". It is composed of the following

1A. A new specification for the publishing of information in complete form ( read structured content published together with templates to present them )

1B. Both server and client systems that implement the new specification over some sort of modified http but without using current DNS

1C. A free distributed un-filtered un-policed distributed DNS alternative

1D. A complete hierarchical index of all content existing in the new system

1E. A free distributed search engine allowing submission of content within the new system.

2. Make it clear the new system is for free content only

3. Disallow advertisements on it entirely

4. Tie in accurate hashing and allow people to dedicate as much hosting power as they are willing ( either to the content itself or index data to what hashes represent what )

5. Make it entirely secure with a public/private key system allowing people to establish meaningful identities within a system where their content is copied eternally.

6. Use the new system yourself to publish meaningful non-shit information and encourage your friends to do the same

By the way I really like your article and I think you are pointing out a crucial problem spot on that most people are oblivious to.

The easiest way to think of what must be done is just to look at what libraries are. Organizing information has been done by libraries for thousands of years and has a fairly established sensible process. ( which is being ignored by the internet )
I work in digital advertising (sorry, world), and use linear algebra often. ... I suck at it, so I usually get somebody with a math degree to help me out.
It's not particularly, it was an answer to the question "I thought UK taxes + TV license where paying BBC."
What is FOIA?
I'm only medium-tall (6' 1") and it doesn't bother me that I have to be a little uncomfortable and change positions every once in a while. I'm actually more uncomfortable when I don't recline because then I have fewer positions to change to.
Yes -- if you're at State of the Map US in NYC this weekend, we'll be demoing it live. Stay tuned.
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Haha, tunneling IS boring! Pun attempted, pun achieved.
Try it for some routes you are familiar with:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&rout...

It varies around the world, for the US (which I'm more familiar with) intercity is pretty solid, last mile stuff you might be missing a street.

Searching for a specific address can be an issue, but road data is pretty good.
UX is great. Like others pointed out, it is of limited functionality. You would need to add pre-made elements to be able to wireframe things. Then ability to link those.

But UX is a solid foundation to continue developing this idea.
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Sure, but this is Sourceforge itself doing the taking over, and they're offering the same downloads (plus their wrappers and what-not) rather than reusing the name for a different project.
Satire is not your strong point?
Paul, thanks for keeping it running for so long. Pipes was the prime mover behind "suddenly, everything is mashable."
Of course it's not racism. You can absolutely discuss the negative aspects of a culture. This bending over backwards to be PC is truly absurd
The fun thing is this is a designed fabric. There are very few other designed materials designed in this way. Kevlar, nylon and those such things come to mind as designed from chemistry up - miracles of the chemistry of the '50s & 60s. This is different in that the design is done using a much more standardized and modifiable plan - genetics.

A huge difference, is these fabrics are protein based, and as such, can have productive & useful variants made simply by changing the genetic code from which they were produced; monumentally easier than researching nylon into kevlar, chemically.

This is an entirely different R&D schedule. And the bounds are what can be found in nature. It's not so much that they can produce spider silk, but that they can relatively intelligently direct their efforts to produce spider silk that also does <insert biological property here>.
maybe www.busit.com can replace it for that matter
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This is way above my head to answer your question coherently. One way to look at it is, that the possibility of colonizing the solar system is low, maybe impossible. Without this, at some point all energy will simply evaporate into all directions if we can't reach other suns. The Great Filter is an interesting study in this regard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

Besides, I found another interesting article regarding earths future: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Earth
I don't think so, as far as I know a garage door opener has to be activated (you press the button) so that exact attack won't work.
It's obvious "0.05% of the US population" is a valid ballpark estimate that is very conservative: assuming there are 2.5 million global Bitcoin users (your lower estimate) and assuming they all belong to the top half of the richest people of the planet (3.5 billion, which covers all of North America, all of Europe, all of Japan, all of Oceania, most of China & India, and more) then: 2.5 million / 3.5 billion = 0.07% of them would be bitcoin users.

However ForHackernews's idea that Coinbase barely has 4-digit active users is dubious and likely false.
As the one person still using Yahoo Pipes, I'm rather saddened by this. Does this also imply an eventual end to YQL I wonder?
The problem with your honking analogy is there is a right way and a wrong way to honk. Saying "never honk" is certainly incorrect.
The value of a given collection of bits is whatever you and I agree the value of those collection of bits is. It's a one to one relationship.

The value of USD is not what you and I agree the value is, it's what the government tells us what the value should be. This is not a one to one relationship.

One is based on a transparent mathematical equation between you and I and the other is based on 7 non-elected and appointed board of governors between you and I. That's the difference.
Checkout https://github.com/olviko/RssPercolator.

RssPercolator is a .NET library used for downloading, aggregating, and filtering RSS feeds. Developed out of frustration with Yahoo Pipes.

- RSS and Atom feed formats
- Asynchronous multi-feed download
- Multiple sources and multiple destinations
- Feed filters (string match, wildcards, and Regex)
It has been explained many times users tend to leave their coins on exchanges. So 1 exchange address containing 100 BTC could represent 100 bitcoin users each owning 1 BTC. Therefore your upper limit estimate is invalid.
Like other commenters have said, it depends a lot on what programs you're writing. You might want to know some harmonic analysis if you're writing audio software. On the other hand, if you're making user interfaces, knowing a little bit of geometric math (vector algebra, trigonometry, calculus) can go a long way.
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I'll take this one further and add that selective timing of votes, polls, and application of law are all ways to 'rule by law' but game the system so that the rules have favoritism.

Take the recent Visa application process in the US. Let's pretend - and I'm not so sure we would be pretending - that the Visa process isn't 'random' but is prioritized for political purposes. This is one way that the appearance of fairness can be ridden for the pursuit of interests.

Even prioritizing police cases (parking tickets) to 'subjects of interest' or prior offenders is a skew of justice if these filters are correlated to any significant degree with political outcome or race/creed.

The US will poll citizens in other areas of the world until it is ascertained that the population would vote a certain way - at which point they will call for a vote to be held. This gives the outcome of a vote a sense of legitimacy to those just paying attention to the outcome of the vote - but those who can watch the process of repeated polling alongside influence operations understand just how fine an instrument this can be for deciding political outcomes.

This isn't to say any of this is 'wrong'. There's an undercurrent in the language - that's unfortunate. It's first enough to realize that these things are done and they are done sometimes explicitly with a purpose and other times by accident. Being aware is the first step to deliberation.
You need to verify phone to actually do much. Does an account that never did anything count?
Excellent, thanks. Just wrong browser for me.

EDIT: just tried it. It won't let me select a piece of text and automatically find the user who wrote the comment. Instead, I have to select the user first, then type my tag myself. Still, pretty good.
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Sad to hear that. I guess Pipes was the first and probably the last innovative product ever shipped by Yahoo!
I'm on Firefox 38.0 on Linux, my laptop is pretty cheap, but on Chromium everything's super smooth.

Beside that, the app is very slick.
Amerikkka, home of the brave, land of the free . . .
DEC/Compaq/HP is really hard to top in the area of mismanagement.
Why not just post the NYTimes article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/hunting-for-hackers-nsa...

This is CISPA-type shit. The NSA is sucking up tons of data with no controls or minimization whatsoever for anything unrelated to terrorism investigations. Lawmakers don't get a pat on the back for "surveillance reform" after passing the USA Freedom Act and limiting phone metadata spying. Clearly that stuff was just the tip of the iceberg, and the NSA needs to be reigned in, significantly.
It's possible she wasn't thoughtless and selfish, but that she simply didn't know better.
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Yes, that's correct. Except for the first 100 feet or so, the deeper you go into the Earth the warmer it gets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_gradient

So while the tunnel is at surface level at the entry and exit points, for the majority of the distance it's many thousands of feet deep. It's about 15 degrees F per 1000 feet, so if it's 5000 feet below the average height of the mountain range then you might expect the tunnel to be 75 degrees F warmer than the surface.

If the average surface temperature is say 50F then adding 75F gets you to 125F which isn't enough to boil water or generate electricity (efficiently) but it's definitely hot enough to warm a lot of things in a meaningful way.
Thanks for the reply. I love SongKick. Keep up the good work.
The media focused almost exclusively on the domestic case and the PRISM program, leaving both the legal and the illegal surveillance programs focused externally to "new media", bloggers and forum commentators. So it's not really hard to understand that most people overlook the full nature of the Snowden documents.
DeMorgan's laws. (You'll probably end up negating a boolean expression at some point. Don't screw it up!)
That sounds interesting, but where can I read up on BAM? Even the paper they linked to did not give too many details about the intervention itself.
Since most routing software is proprietary, I think it would be good to combat it by using a strong copyleft on the Valhalla components. GPLv3+ for client software and AGPLv3+ for server software would be awesome.
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The whole "Bitcoin as magical Internet money with no restrictions" thing? Not going to happen. We have banking laws for a reason: people need to trust that the money they entrust to others will be there when they want it back. It's not good enough to rely on the honor system, because to someone who has lost their money it doesn't matter if it was through fraud or negligence. So governments ensure that businesses dealing directly in money at least have enough money to allow their customers to cash out.

But I am curious about the interpretation. The IRS considers Bitcoin to be an asset like any other. I personally don't consider Bitcoin to be a currency: by far its strongest use case is as a digital store of value that can be exchanged for a real currency. It's closer to a digital equivalent of gold in that regard.

But regardless of the classification of Bitcoin, this is not an insanely stupid move. Money transmission companies can be notoriously shady, and you don't want a situation where you give them money to transfer and it never arrives because they spent that money on hookers and booze. Coinbase isn't in that category, but if wire transfer companies catch on that they can use Bitcoin to evade the holdings laws. Some of them will be shady.
Just commented on that issue. As you point out, most pure software implementations of AES still use S-Boxes, for better or worse. It's a risk to switch to a less standard and more complicated implementation to mitigate these attacks. Of course if you did TripleSec your data, the cache-timing attack is mitigated by the independent Salsa20 stream.
Thanks for the reply. I'll definitely reach out. SongKick is dope. Keep up the good work.
Ultimately, equity math is less about math and more about psychology. Startup success is binary so the fine details of the split end up not mattering at the end of the day. What's important is that the process you use to assign equity leaves everyone feeling it was more than fair.

You could start with a team of talented people and arrive at the same equity numbers via two different processes and one will result in a billion dollar company and the other a million dollar company because the founders are motivated in the first and discouraged in the second. What's ideal is that each founder believes they got way too much equity and is glad to be a part of the team. Put in that perspective, dicking over 5% isn't something that should be encouraged.

This is why founder chemistry is so important. If you're considering co-founding a company with a person, run this hypothetical in your head: You have both just sold the company for a billion dollars and you get 70% of the sale and they get 30%. Are they happy that they're now worth 300M and even happier than you're worth 700M or are they jealous that you got the way bigger share of the pie than they did? If it's the latter, run away immediately, there's no good outcome possible there.
Hey Pasha, thanks for your pioneering work!

We (Webflow) are actually considering building a Pipes alternative in the near future, and I'd love to sit down with you and brainstorm some ideas. If you'd be willing to make some time to see a very rough demo, I'd love to get in touch - my email is in my profile.
Reading this back, I didn't phrase this in the right way to get across my meaning.

I'm totally not taking the extreme and naively idealistic position that ease of access won't make bad things more likely to happen. It will in almost all cases by some margin - I guess my real argument is that margin might be small enough that it's not really a big deal in practice.

And this is definitely my 'optimist' argument. It's what I want to believe is true, and I think there's some rational justification for it, as I've discussed. However, sadly I can definitely see the opposite case as well, and totally accept that it's not only possible, it could be the more likely outcome.
FBI: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else’
Not criminalizing people over virtually anything would help reduce "crime" and many useless arrests, too.
Except there are also the number of users with multiple addresses which given usage trends from people describing their setup accounts for a large number of active users.

The claim that there are uncounted millions of users hiding out on exchanges only doesn't map up well with the reality of the usage in the ecosystem either and is in my mind a weak excuse for weak growth numbers.
And you'd need to claim that less than .1% of accounts created are active if you think there are under 1000 accounts. That seems unlikely.
Bottom line: You're constructing and executing math and likely do not realize how much math you are constructing and executing on a daily basis. This includes formal and experimental advanced theoretical mathematics, probability, statistics and number theory in some cases. Some academics do not like to hear this, however, you deal(industry term) in functions, variables, minimums, maximums, rates of change, statistics, probability and overall, symbols. If you're duplicating the next facebook (as facebook did with myspace and myspace, friendster, etc etc), snapchat or yo app your likely not directly engaged in much math or innovation compared to inventing something on the algorithmic level like Google. If you are creating or inventing something new on the software engineering level including the algorithmic level, then you are certainly creating a lot of theoretical math and perhaps without even knowing it. This is key.

Here's a good book to understand how you've leap-frogged certain aspects of mathematics via true and real innovative Computer Science: (the Einstein of India. Every country and family has their very own Einstein, you might be one of them.)

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Knew-Infinity/dp/067175061...
Just in case you don't get it. This is the typical train of thinking on Twitter. You say something intelligent looking for conversation, and eventually you are going to run into the crazies on the platform just looking to broadcast thoughts that have nothing to do with the original point and then quickly turns into negative, abusive slop. (the blue cheese remark should have clued you in.) I understand fully what you are saying, but respectfully disagree. Clearly tales of abuse and outright ugly human behaviour turn millions upon millions of core users off the platform. This has been said a dozen times by Dick Costello himself. That being said, I can see your point, and will pontificate on it.
Actually as of the Android M preview you can get the user email address without any permission guarding.

This is because GET_ACCOUNTS is under PROTECTION_NORMAL, and so it is automatically granted at install time.
The petty cynicism of Millennial whiners who are so deluded that they actually think they are achieving something whilst not having an inkling of actual suffering or sacrifice make a joke of an entire generation. Enjoy your slacktivism.
When I click on the image I am taken to this page. There seems to be no way to go back to the main page ...

https://i.imgur.com/aZPWk6Q.png
Given the whole point of the numbers is vanity and not an accurate representation of usage I would guess it would.
As Ta-Nehisi Coates has pointed out succinctly and repeatedly, there's nothing wrong with black people that the complete destruction of white supremacy would not fix.
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Checkout https://github.com/olviko/RssPercolator

Pipes would often get blocked by 3rd party data providers, which motivated me to roll my own library.

No graphical interface. Personally, I found Y! Pipes UI hard to work with when I needed to build large pipelines.
You are asking for a phone number! Why? Why this feature will make my experience with your app better? First you ask for email or Facebook for login, then for a phone number! Total anti-UX!
I'd say its really high school math. There are a number of concepts I use from 9th-12th grade math on a regular basis [e.g. DeMorgan's laws was in 12th grade iirc, most of the Algebra I use was also from 9th-10th grade] and I'm not in any of the niches you mentioned or any of the niches I'd consider "math heavy".

I'd agree that college math is really only relevant to specific niches in the industry but I think the niches are larger than you mentioned. [e.g. Distributed systems, flight guidance]
I think you are projecting "egomaniac" on people who are likely ignorant of the problems they are causing.
The compiler is to blame for everything
Twitter shut down a site that saved politicians' deleted tweets