skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a famous case in LA of a couple of doctors working impossible shifts (more than 24 hours in a day, or 24 hours a day for over a week straight):

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/26/local/me-kingdrew26

Eventually the facility was closed and some of the administrators were canned.
First, let's assume the ball is shaped like a sphere...
Also picobit for scheme goodness: https://github.com/stamourv/picobit

Doesn't support full numeric tower (no floats), but does implement 'unbound precision integers'. See §5.1 of this paper: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/StAmourFeeleyIFL0...
You mean Chelsea.
The sixth mass extinction is here
for the last few decades, the kinds of really smart geeks who in the 50s and 60s would have been building rockets or something have been moving to Silicon Valley and creating startups to make little apps.

Ouch! So close to home. So true. But now we've automated the process - http://tiffzhang.com/startup/ - those people can get back to something more useful, like finally learning IPv6 to allow us to build mesh networks for swarming spacecraft to evade inbound asteroids.
Note that in Australia, we do use electronic counting in the Senate. (cf http://easycount.mjec.net)
Didn't (mechanical) voting machines cause the Florida 2000 debacle?
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They have an itemized list of all countries relating to leaks on their wiki, which includes (the remaining few) Russian allies.

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Countries

Wikileaks has released a number of Syrian leaks in particular, both before and during the current situation.

https://wikileaks.org/syria-files/
It is very sad that we destroy the planet... :(
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Please excuse the ugly App Engine URL. If people end up showing interest in the app I'll put more time and effort into cosmetic stuff.

I built this because I live abroad and didn't realize until too late that the exchange rate back to USD had gotten really high.

Any feedback is welcome.
So here's what medical fraud looks like: http://i.imgur.com/jMvUqqK.jpg

Sorry, crappy excel graph, but, it was meant to be a quick and dirty look at 12 GB of prescription data that got analyzed by a few programs I wrote back in 2009, give or take a year. Took days to crunch numbers after it was written. Anyhow, looks like an imaginary city skyline, right?

Going from left to right, lets call it the X axis, are various diagnostic codes used to prescribe medication. So on the left side it's like code 400, on the right side 500. In between is 401.3, and so on. Been awhile, so can't remember the exact numbers but bear with me. The drugs range from opiates to diflucan for yeast infections, to whatever else. So you kind of see a distribution range that's normal.

On the Y-axis, are years. Here's the slightly confusing part of the graph: I striped 4-5 clinics worth of data on that axis. So on that axis, only 6 years of data are shown per clinic. What shows up after the first 6 long rows is a different clinic, and so on.

The Z-axis is a frequency of prescriptions. Like, how tall a tower is means how many prescriptions were written for a particular medication, by a particular clinic, on a particular year.

If you look at the nearest 6 long rows, that's 1 clinic, 6 years of operation and you see nothing but flat lines. No yeast infections, no eye drops, no steroids. Just some really insanely tall towers. One of the towers gets clipped from the graph because it's that insanely taller.

The tallest towers were the most expensive drugs and treatments that the government reimbursed the clinic for, so they took a shortcut and just went for those. The kicker is that they only got caught when we started investigating. There was a tip. Someone reported something weird about the clinic. So, we went up to the state and asked for an anonymized data dump of the clinic in question, and then absolutely nothing happened. The state stalled for 6 months before finally giving the data up. Turns out, they were only alerted to the fraud after we asked questions about the clinic, and they wanted to take corrective actions before disclosing anything to us so that it didn't seem like they were sleeping on the job.

I don't know what to say. I get it, this stuff is complicated, the data sets are huge, and there are more blindspots than you'd think. Lack of oversight is too strong of an accusation for me to wield, but there was definitely a fear of criticism. What I'm trying to say here is that computational detection is only a small fraction of the real issue. The bigger issue is the guarded cultural environment in which all these agencies exist, and without intimate knowledge of how they work and what is possible, there's no silver bullet.
I assume the implication is that Wikileaks is somehow in cahoots with Russia?
Very likely considering they've also split out PayPal to make eBay more of a single-focus entity (read, easy to sell off).
Swift uses annotations (reflection) and generates bytecode on the fly. This fits much better with modern Java development practices and tooling than source code generation. Is such a thing feasible C++, especially in an idiomatic way? Or perhaps I am misunderstanding your question.

To my knowledge, our C++ Thrift code is here: https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift

(I work on Presto and occasionally Swift at Facebook, but am not at all familiar with modern C++)
Saudi Arabia is at the center of a lot of stuff going on in the middle east right now (their support for ISIS, their involvement in Yemen, the chess game with Iran, etc. etc.). It would be interesting to see what these cables turn up, once translated.
Yes, they've released a lot of leaks from India. Russia and India are fairly close friends.
Worth remembering that although Athens was a large city, only 30-50k people had the right to vote (out of a total of 300k). Your other example of Australia has only 24 million people and I'm sure it suits the country's needs well. However, in larger countries like India(1200m) America(322m) and Brazil(202m) an electronic solution might be better.

If implemented correctly (ie without fraud), there are huge potential benefits

* Cost savings. India's general election cost the taxpayer $600m and state elections will cost a similar amount. If there are early elections, the cost is repeated.

* Turnout. Right now certain sections of society in any country are more likely to turn out, to the detriment of democracy. A large part of election campaigning is getting people to turn up to the booths. This is so hard that rarely are the turnout percentages higher than 60%, which is a pitiful number. If we could make it simpler and quicker to vote, this would be less of an issue.

To be honest I don't know how we would implement such a system. Certainly today's machines that rely on secrecy for security are a joke and should be replaced.
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We need more studies on the effect upon sleep, of blue light in tablets and smartphones. What will it take for mobile operating systems to build color temperature control (like f.lux) into the native OS? It's surprising that no Android vendor has used this feature to differentiate their devices. It's already built into some apps.
The title can stop being a question. MSA has confirmed that this is their code, but they say its a copy from earlier this year, and that they have been working on it, so it's already old:

https://translate.google.com.ar/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=http...
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Might want to implement networking for PilOS first, before putting it on your router ;-)
I've played with GA for a while, bought a couple of books, enjoyed the math, experimented with writing my own library. But, as TTProgram's comment, I've yet to find an application where it clearly improves on high-school vectors.

I'm aware that Geomerics purportedly used it for doing global illumination calculations, but there was scant specifics (understandably) about the actual implementation. So we don't know in what capacity it was used.

I've heard it praised for physics applications, but I haven't seen anyone walk through, say, a simple rigid body simulator and show its improvement.

I've heard it spoken of as the future of ray tracing, but again I've not seen anyone willing to put an implementation (even a toy) up against a ray tracer that you could write in an hour with Gibb's vectors.

On the contrary, when I've tried to use it, the complexity of GA just makes it impractical. The problem with 4 or 5 dimensional GA for doing work in 3D, is that we end up dealing with 16 or 32 values per object (if you unify vectors, bivectors, etc), or else having five or six specialised forms of object plus their combinations (if you keep them separate), with potentially hundreds of specialisations of basic operation. This isn't just me, the GA libraries around have this bloat. I've just not found an application in which that massive increase in storage, computation and implementation complexity is worth it.

Which makes sense. In a regular vector based system, we might use vectors and quaternions (2 things) to model rigid bodies. We can do a lot with those. But it isn't clear what thing is difficult or inelegant to model with them, that a trivector/scalar would be the right tool for. So that extra flexibility to be able to store such exotic mathematical objects is a waste for computer and programmer.

I came to the conclusion that GA-advocacy at the moment is mostly a true-believer type thing. True believers will tell you over and over how important it is to modelling 3d space, but rarely show you a worked example of it being easier. I am not cynical enough to think it has no killer applications, but I've yet to find them. And I would dearly love to.
Ahh, the parts I read make more sense now that you told me the goal. I did do work in program synthesis, although we called it "automatic programming." Best of it is in ASIC development right now. I'm keeping this just because you said that. Might help someone working in the field who asks what resources I have on that topic.
Yeah, somehow I suspect Manning and Snowden didn't have access to the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
Maybe, maybe not.

I worked with a guy as a contractor where he swears he was a Steve Jobs. Realistically, all he was is a guy with lots of ideas and no follow thru. So he wasn't a Steve Jobs at all and most all his visions totally violated good design principles. When I would point that out he would say because his thoughts were visionary and not yet known.

Yea, and I fart unicorns dancing and rainbows.

In the end, you have to evaluate for yourself, but in general if people don't have a loyal following, but expect that type of respect they are no Steve jobs. I have had some AMAZING leaders, and they inspired us to do great things. They would never spend only 4 hours on a project they believed in, and they would expect more from us. I am not saying you should quit tomorrow, but I personally refuse to help feed anyones ego like this.

And I am sorry, the idea of just doing it without getting some design guidance seems really stupid. I know the stuff we read about Jobs says he didn't need mock ups etc, but I totally think that is BS. He was a smart ass guy who likely had tons of mock ups before he ever said go to the next step. Reading his book, he commissioned projects and prototypes that showed design but weren't yet functional (IIRC), so no that isn't a Jobs type mentality, that is a God mentality and is just idiotic.

BTW no real leader publicly humiliates his team, it is counter productive. Yes some great visionaries have done it, but in todays world we know that is a bad idea and to nurture not humiliate people, so its just BS. BUT that doesn't mean you don't push them hard (which can be a fine line) and demand better from everyone.
Does anyone from Denver also find that the relationship is overstated? I don't know of any Denver offices for Apple, Facebook, or Amazon. The only Twitter or Google offices I am aware of are in Boulder. Boulder and Denver are connected by a single highway and the commute is bad enough to effectively separate the two tech hubs. I don't see how anyone can claim that the 1200 employees attributed to Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook (which I dispute is an accurate number for Denver) could possibly have any measurable effect on a city of 600K / metro area of 2.6 million.
I have no idea. I discovered this researching secure OS work such as Flask. It does have plenty of documentation [1]. Maybe that will help you.

[1] http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/html/oskit-www.html
Mostly benign leaks. Wikileaks party has shilled for the Iranian gov. It also visited the Assad leadership.
Seizing on the opportunity to use this supranational directive to overturn a democratically-enacted law

The directive exists pursuant to action of the European Parliament* which is also a democratic institution, as someone with Jeremy Malcolm's outstanding education is surely aware.

* http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...

I'm not expressing an opinion on the merits of European copyright law; I'm not familiar with this case or the details of EU regulations, and I'm not suggesting the EFF is wrong to oppose this provision of EU law. I just get irritated as a citizen of the EU when people dismiss anything that comes out of Brussels as 'undemocractic'. Why does the EFF keep pandering to lowest common denominator like this? If I want xenophobic arguments I'll buy a tabloid newspaper.
I don't think you know the numbers even after the fact. Knowing what worked doesn't tell you what probabilities you should have assigned.
http://blink1.thingm.com/ Blink(1) fits your requirements.
Do they have anything? Russia was relatively ok in the last 20 years (except the wars against Georgia, Chechen wars). They never really hide their actions, like annexing Crimea was communicated way in advance to the NATO, like in years. The western media barely mentions it. There was an earlier agreement between the NATO and Russia that we are not expanding to the east direction in the EU and we do not interfere with Russian interests in ex-soviet countries. Anyways it would be good to see more information from WL on these, I am really curious what went down exactly.
It seems reasonable that if a person wants to donate to charity, that person might also want to expend some mental energy to optimize the way in which she does so.

For example, if I know that I can afford to give only $5 to charity, it does not seem particularly like a "dick measuring contest" to hope that, with a little thought, I might be able to make that $5 go further. Imagine that I can either give the $5 to a charity with an 80% overhead, or I can give the $5 to a charity with a 20% overhead. All else equal (i.e., assuming the two charities do approximately the same good with their non-overhead dollars, by whatever metric I wish to apply, including some abstract sense of personal fulfillment), my $5 seems self-evidently better spent on the 20%-overhead than on the 80%-overhead charity.

Consider the zoo for which you're a donor; if you could spend a few minutes on some activity that would double the amount of money you could give to the zoo each year without otherwise costing you any money, would you not do it? In other words: do you actually care about the outcomes of your charitable work, or are you just doing it because there is some minimum level of action at which you feel good, irrespective of the outcome?
erm "their support for ISIS" citation?
Possibly. But just as likely they are running their own Hadoop platform and have hired some data scientists.

Most large organisations these days are running their own analytics platform.
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Craigslist has been in decline / shrinking for the last couple of years. I don't think it's a strong signal either way.

EDIT: see http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/10/as-vertical-marketplaces-ri...
Really loving this. I hit random and saw an Ask YC thread for Duck Duck Go, my search engine of choice.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142
This idiotic decision will not stop one single CD from being ripped in Europe.
Well, I read all the documents in the first page here https://wikileaks.org/saudi-cables/search and sadly didn't find anything interesting but there are thousands of documents so, hopefully someone will parse them and report on the interesting ones.

Aside - might be interesting to some: The OCR on these documents is completely botched, I found a couple of words that were right but that's it.
While I don't live on the Front Range anymore, I did for 20 years. Denver to Boulder is ~25 miles, and I use to make the commute in 25 minutes (not during rush hour). It was quite common to refer to the Denver/Boulder metro area. I know things have changed, but ~1hr commutes don't seem to me to be significant enough to be called separate.
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Good old greed. The speed CDs and the music industry is disappearing probably will solve this issue going forward. Music is getting more and more fragmented and smaller and smaller styles show up that are very specific to a particular location. This will help to dismantle the music industry lobby probably.
It's worth noting that RT, the propaganda arm of the Putin Russian government, has a strong interest in destabilisation of Western currencies. And of driving further rifts between Greece and both the EU and NATO.

Though you'll find substantively similar stories from other outlets:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/13192504/1/stock-market-today...

Greeks withdrew more than 1.0 billion euros ($1.12 billion) from their savings accounts in one day, as they lack confidence that a deal will be reached.

Meanwhile, Russia has announced that it is considering providing emergency financing to Greece in return for "investment projects and trade"...and eventually full sovereignty, Mr. Putin?
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Good response. Still feel that SEC has more important things to do than fine unfunded startups in a garage with 2 people
The greatest good will be accomplished by developing synthetic labour (AI). This will generate so much profit that even a tiny taxation rate (0.001%) will allow everyone to live as billionaires do now and allow us to solve all other problems caused by (relative) poverty.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/saud...

> Although Saudi donors and other private contributors were believed to be the most significant funding source for the original forerunner to ISIS, the importance of such donations has been marginalized by the group's independent sources of income. This income, which is now estimated to overwhelmingly exceed private donations, is generated by activities such as smuggling (of oil, weapons, antiquities), extortion (e.g., the group levies around $8 million per month in "taxes" on local businesses), and other crimes (e.g., robberies, counterfeiting). The group's June 11 seizure of Mosul's central bank alone netted tens of millions of dollars (though U.S. officials note that the $400 million figure often cited in connection with the heist is not accurate).
OK, someone inform the courts: we can officially discount video evidence now.
It's not just Lisp, but it includes pilog, a built-in Prolog, a database and coroutines. PicoLisp is an amazing piece of work by essentially one man, and has been used in real-world database applications since the late 1980s. They were trying to build hardware to run it, hence PilMCU, but too much inertia has lead now to PilOS. Yeah, PilOS!

Now to get Shen running on PicoLisp after Alex adds networking!
Can someone please tell me why this matters?
Highest paid doctors in the world, and it still wasn't enough for them. And in case you believe their sob stories about Medicare not paying them enough, read this:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/23/chart_us_gove...
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> annexing Crimea was communicated way in advance to the NATO

Wait it was? I am genuinely interested. Can you please link to something more about this in either English or Russian?
I agree with your overall frustration but metrics are important. How much does that 'something' matter to you? How often is it repeated? Is the problem, that matters to you, getting solved effectively or is the problem getting worse?

For example, if I want to feed the homeless and I volunteer to do that but the problem is metrically getting worse, there is a greater conflict at large. The house is burning and you're only throwing a handful of water at the problem.

Context and effectiveness are important.
It's like an F1 pit stop.
I don't disagree with what you said because it doesn't appear you said anything of substance. Perhaps that is why people downvoted.
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"Races larger questions" was in the original (which is still in my browser tab). "Euphimism" does not appear, instead the awkward phrase "sanitized term" is used.

The "conclusion" is not a conclusion, but apparently the main point. It's not addressed until the very end. The article reads roughly Support->Vaguely Related Idea->Announcement of Unrelated Item->Argument. It's all over the place.

1. The article is about censorship and you're castigating Facebook for something else entirely.
2. Twitter, specifically, seems to provide much less information. The information you personally are expecting is, in some cases, information that should be protected, or that may be legally protected through court order or statute.

If Facebook must publish this information, the EFF should be both specific in its criteria and consistent in its application of judgment of whether the criteria has been met. This particular article is neither specific nor consistent. It does a poor job of comparing Facebook to other social media. It does a poor job of even mentioning where Facebook gets it right. It uses poor examples of where Facebook gets it wrong.

> The criteria of "It's better than competitor X" is not a criteria, it's a comparison.

But claiming competitor X is good and competitor Y is bad, while providing evidence of the opposite is at best inconsistent.

> how do you define "3rd party"?

This cannot be a serious question. But if you want to play semantic games, how it is defined in the Facebook ToS is what is relevant.

> This requires proof. What is Facebook's process in proving "guilt"?

Does it require proof? It may be entirely at Facebook's discretion, which is also reasonable. In any case, it should not be difficult to prove that a Facebook user account showing changes was not legally changed by an inmate with no official/legal internet access.

Your statement implies there was no proof, which you do not substantiate and the article neither argues nor implies.

> How do you define "likely"?

If you are running a website and frequently get emails about the same violation of your ToS, setting up a reporting form makes a lot of sense. Are you suggesting Facebook did this "just because" or for nefarious reasons?

> This is an offtopic non-argument.

Hardly. The linked article demands nebulously defined and sometimes inconsistent amounts of transparency.

> Your argument here...

Has been mischaracterized by you.