skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ISIS example is far more complicated. It's part of information warfare. ISIS is of course partially supported by the US government for the purposes of destabilizing the Assad regime. But we don't want it in Iraq - just Syria - and its message as proved to move it farther than we want it to.

Much of the information warfare has to do with controlling the movement - stopping it from spreading where we don't want it to and letting or encouraging it to spread in Syria.

The State Department's "War of Ideas" and Congress's "Jihad 2.0" are higher level concepts that round down to the use of these capabilities to direct movements. Of course nothing can get done without some sort of conventional capability as well.

I'm sorry that you aren't aware of it. The allegations, I hope, and there's plenty of both evidence and anecdotes and law that supports it, will pique your interest.

I don't think its right to compare to China. I do think it's important to note that both need to fight against one another's propaganda.

Again, if you drop the case that it's like the Chinese, and just ask whether it is done (especially overseas - it is done in huge amounts overseas) then yeah there is pervasive Internet censorship and propaganda.

I encourage you to look up "strategic communication": http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/ADA476331.pdf

Here's part of Jihad 2.0: http://minerva.dtic.mil/doc/samplewp-Lieberman.pdf

The US works with media executives to develop foreign aimed propaganda: https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/133736

(And if you hadn't caught it that's what the SONY hacks were all about).

I've also read quite a bit of scholarship on the Chinese program and it doesn't look so very different from the US side (from a technical perspective): http://gking.harvard.edu/files/censored.pdf

There are certain things that get thwarted. Facebook's 'anti-spam' feature blocked the organization of this past year's MayDay protests. Whoops.
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I'm a big fan of a basic income as a replacement to our existing welfare system, but this:

>its been proven that its cheaper to give the homeless housing than to pay for the resulting issues of not providing housing

is misleading and inaccurate. First, you could never prove something like this as the comparison is highly dependent upon the larger institutional framework a particular society is operating under. Second, even if it were demonstrably true in a given community at a particular point in time, there is no guarantee those same conditions would persist over time. That's not to say there aren't good arguments for providing housing or other forms of welfare, but we don't need to engage in overly sweeping or simplistic arguments to make that case.
America's love of the automobile is waning. Miles travelled per capita has already peaked in several states, starting as far back as 2004:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/16/t...
If there's no cell network it will store everything locally (status bar turns purple) until the cell network comes back up. This happens automatically and I'm already working on making it more explicit in future versions
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Hiring skilled labor in the cabinet business is quite difficult, also. In many ways, our industry now relies on what are essentially apprenticeships where you start as a basic worker and learn skills on the job. Unfortunately, the "learn skills on the job" isn't necessarily part of the employment contract, but an unspoken perk. And the employers frequently need part-time work, or can't afford to maintain full-time employees under training.

Having a system that produced trained woodworkers would make this labor market much better, since most small businesses can't really afford apprentices. They could, however, likely do well to have fully trained employees available. Of the handful of cabinet makers I know, all but one of them were hobbyist woodworkers first. The one who wasn't is Swiss where he grew up and was trained in cabinetmaking instead of university.
It doesn't help that there are different varieties of radiation, with different energy levels, and different ways to damage living tissue.

This is why grays/rads are different units from sieverts/rems.

For instance, iodine-131 is a beta emitter. Most low energy beta emitters basically have zero health risk. Your internal organs are adequately shielded from it by nothing more than your own skin. The danger in I-131 is that if you are iodine-deficient, you will readily absorb the iodine into your body and concentrate it in your thyroid. Once there, it can zap your thyroid with high-energy electrons because it is sitting right there inside of it. This type of radiation can be protected against by swallowing a pill of nonradioactive KI prior to exposure.

Radon-222 is an alpha-emitter. Alphas are positively charged, so they too are stopped by very light shielding. The greatest danger is from ionization and scattering, like a high-energy cue ball hitting a triangle of billiard balls which all plow through the back rail of the pool table. The greatest danger is when the emitter is inside your body, such as stuck to the alveoli in your lungs--which is what would happen if you sat in a radon-rich spa for a while.

But in any case, the dose makes the poison, and if a radiation hormesis effect exists, good luck to the people wanting to prove it. As for myself, I fear radiation itself far less than both the human who fears it beyond what is rational and the human who does not sufficiently respect its dangers.
What's funny, is I think there's a company that does a lot of those hyper-local sites... iirc,roadside guerrilla marketing was involved.
In Switzerland it's common to start an apprenticeship after 9 years of school if you have an idea what you want to do. Turning just sweet sixteen I did one myself as an "Application Developer" in the airline industry. This lasted four years and gave me some kind of diploma - not exactly a degree in CS, but I gained enough experience to get a well paid job with some responsibilities afterwards. During the apprenticeship the salary is more or less symbolic.
Now at the age of 30 I've almost 10 years of experience in the real world, and never had any debt to pay off (although higher education is also very affordable in Switzerland). The nature of software engineering (e.g. contributing to open source projects, learning by doing, etc.), a sense of responsibility and a natural hunger for wisdom is in my experience enough material for a good position. Many of my friends, including myself, never did a bachelor or master degree but became great engineers and project leaders nevertheless. What often matters more than deep theoretical understanding is actually doing things such as dealing with pressure, deadlines and customers, getting along with a team and solving complex problems in an pragmatic way, because that's what actually happens in most of the jobs. I don't say this is the better way to go, instead I want to say that having a certain academic degree should not be seen as the only promising career path.
Click bait title, still interesting.
I agree with the others.. why is your writing so hard to parse?

If you knew "a" girl, it doesn't necessarily mean she'd want to date you, or that you'd date her girlfriends (what if her friends were all guys?)

The idea is that you have a female to vouch for you, which is social proof.
I've read the spec.
In fact, i'll go further. I've built multiple election systems that use SMS to send data around :)

Every carrier tech i've talked to tells me the same thing - the order of messages is not guaranteed nor is it recoverable.

So while it's not that i don't believe you, it's that "in practice, it seems everyone thinks and does otherwise".

"This is sufficient for correct reassembly."
Except, as you prove later, it isn't when the unique ids can match other messages :)
Nice writeup. If I.P. is even an issue, it should be advice given to them about copyright, NDA's, trade secrets, and patent protection. They should be better equipped to utilize them during and after the hackathon to protect their stuff. I could see maybe a shrink-wrap agreement like what's built into, say, Apache license that just CYA's the host against BS. I can see it because trolls are on the rise in general and might start pulling crap with hackathons. I can also see an explicit agreement by host giving up any claims on the I.P. as an assurance for participants.

Truth told, any startup producing something must absolutely control their intellectual property to achieve best results at deal time. I'd call out any group undermining that as irresponsible or predatory. I'd probably not go soft about it as you did, either. Not critiquing you rather than saying an I.P. transfer agreement at a hackathon is so obviously bad and scheming I'd call them out without hesitation. If they tried, it would be the shortest libel lawsuit ever lol.
Exactly. Reminds me of this parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q
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Definitely buying this once it comes out for the ladies in my life.
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That one kind of surprised me, I expected Altman to be above that.
Gevent will probably never have a strong dependency on AsyncIO. Their disagreement is very deep and it's unlikely you could do things in a philosophically gevent way with the asyncIO tools.
Core values never changed. You can ask the Firefox development team at their mailing list why they decided to go with Pocket instead of building their own solution based on
Firefox Sync (which is now called Firefox Accounts).

If the ToS and practices from Read It Later or any other partner are beyond what you consider valid or good, you can always reach Mozilla through the user voices channel and the development mailing list. The Advocacy group would also probably want to hear more about your concerns. One can direct criticism into positive changes. Mozilla is what we make of it, you can help make it better by helping the processes if you don't agree with them.
A battery is very literally power storage. That's its only purpose.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9877189.
actionscript (the flash programming language) is pretty much the same as javascript, the main reason why flash is often a lot faster than html+js things in a browser is it is not constrained to a slow, broken DOM for building uis.
Specifically, he wrote a computer program to look for primes.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.math/AZD_CalO7as

I am not an expert, but it seems he wrote some highly optimized code to do it:

> The search was conducted over 10 days on a AMD 1800XP and checked
> about 20,667,931,547 Potential AP 22's per Second.
Apologies for the really short comment, I was just pointing out you've got a typo on the page:

>iTerm2 respsects ssh_config files, but only a subset of the commands are understood:

Just trying to be constructive!
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And what is their baseline risk of leukemia? And are we talking across their lifetime (a whole lot of crap can kill them over their next 70 or so years) or within the next year?
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I admit, that's laughable (and I did get an honest laugh, and upvoted you for the pleasure), but that was taken at Oral Roberts University, which is a fundamentalist college founded by one of the most notorious ex-Pentecostal televangelists my fair nation has ever produced. And that's saying something.

In other words, about as representative of Americans as a Le Pen rally is about French.

[Contra another comment nearby: due to the venue, I believe it was a genuine chant, not ironic, although probably a bit giddy. If it had been a more mainstream university, I agree, that would have definitely been a goofy ironic chant.]
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Yup, that was my idea. Or to have NH itself fire off some very tiny instruments that might weight little enough to not go off like an atom bomb when hitting the ground. A GoPro, for example. (I KNOW: NOT AN ACTUAL GOPRO. A small armored camera.) Or a thermometer.

The constraint there, though, might be designing equipment that is both very low mass and also capable of talking back to either Earth or the rest of NH as it zips away.
We have a really bad problem with potholes out here. That's a great example as I could see both bicyclists and motorcyclists possibly making use of that. It could straight up save their life on a motorcycle. I think a iPhone and Android compatible mobile app that lets you log one based on location data would be relatively straight-forward. Someone should take a stab at it.
Congrats Yuri! Well deserved.
I find most interesting that the charm and anti-charm do not annihilate. That would not happen with non-quark particles.
Is it? Does not matter. It is a biased source.

I am constantly astonished at our human tendency to take what we damned well know are a biased sources and build that up into what we want to believe.

Best way to be: get sources from all angles. That includes moderate.

For me, FYI, "gamergate" and the "men's movement" crap is nothing more then a strange curiosity I have run across from time to time on more established technical forums.

Not something worth thinking about besides in terms of 'the weird things people will believe and become'.

One of the strangest cults out there.

It has has really bad results for the belongers. It guarantees disastrous relationships with women. And these are heterosexuals.

But, the reason why this has come up is obvious, as well: women are coming more and more into the tech workplace. I applaud that. Thankfully, most places I have worked had some female presence. The diversity is deeply welcomed.
>She looked at him angrily, and wondered why she should be doing that. It's all about giving women something else to buy, another way to protect themselves.

I wish I could look at her angrily. Her solution, after being angry with the cop about "giving women something else to buy, another way to protect themselves" was to create something for women to buy so they have another way to protect themselves. The hypocrisy is astounding.
Huh, funny, I have completely the opposite standpoint.

I see the point of semantics as capturing what programs mean. Denotational semantics does this in the most direct way, by giving me a mapping from programs to some abstract domain I can reason about and manipulate. It's literally a function from program to meaning.

It exposes a simple and natural model of my program—or, in the case of imperative programming, perhaps not so simple. As a facetious example, what should the program "1 + 1" mean? Adding two numbers seems like the most natural choice. But this can actually scale up quite far, producing simple models even for complex behaviors[1] as long as the language and libraries are designed with some taste.

Having simple denotational semantics captures exactly what it means for a language to be truly declarative, where we can think about what the program means and not how it happens to be executed.

Operational semantics is the next most direct option. It captures the meaning of a program by how it gets executed. Not quite declarative, but still reasonably easy to follow.

Axiomatic semantics, on the other hand, are really indirect. I mean, yes, I can see how you can capture a program's whole meaning by how preconditions are transformed throughout, but that's pretty far from what I think a program means. It's certainly useful and good for answering some very specific questions about a program's behavior, but it feels like a really unsatisfying answer to the broader question of semantics: what does it all mean?

[1]: A great example of how it scales to domains that are normally incredibly difficult to work with is functional reactive programming (FRP), which has a simple denotational model for working with time-varying values (ie reactive code). Unfortunately, as is too-often the case with nice abstractions, it has been hard to implement in general without compromises—but the nice thing is that we can know exactly what the compromises are by comparing the more complicated semantics of those libraries with the simple ones that we'd really like.
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> As for priorities, you know that there are many teams each one focusing on a different task.

I am well aware. Like you said though, pocket was released internally because it was "easier". That should have never happened. It should never have left the aurora builds in that shape. This is a focus problem; you prioritized releasing Pocket in the state it was in, over... not doing that.

What else could the Pocket team have focused on? How about Firefox Hello? Part of why it is being received so poorly is because of how unpolished it is. And yet, it got released; and now it's giving a good idea a bad name.

I'll give you that hindsight is 20/20, but Mozilla is not fixing the situation. You guys should know when to backtrack, when to apologize (your users are angry at you!).

As for Persona, well yeah, it's hard. It's one of the hardest and most critical problems we have on the web. So is building a web browser, though. I don't remember Mozilla ever giving up "because it's hard", and I definitely don't remember Mozilla ever abandoning something because it didn't get enough traction. Did you turn into Square Enix[0]?

[0] http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-26-tomb-raider-has...
> Do you ever see US immigration politics talking about anything else than Mexico?

Yes, there's quite a lot of immigration politics around employment based immigrant visas and the dual-intent H-1B and related immigration issues, which is mostly not about Mexico.

Its true that much "immigration" discussion centers around addressing both the current population and the ongoing influx of unauthorized immigrants, where the majority are from Mexico (largely, as a result of an immigration policy based on country-of-origin based quotas, that has guaranteed that the countries that have the largest pool of otherwise-qualified applicants have the longest lines, and the fact that that Mexico, as a result, is one of the hardest places to immigrate to the US legally from, particularly in the family-based categories, while, because of geography, being one of the easiest places to immigrate illegally from.)
The Russians had some amazing firsts with Venus, depending on how you define "visit": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera

"Among the other results, probes of the series became the first man-made devices
to enter the atmosphere of another planet (Venera 4 on October 18, 1967), to
make a soft landing on another planet (Venera 7 on December 15, 1970), to
return images from the planetary surface (Venera 9 on June 8, 1975), and to
perform high-resolution radar mapping studies of Venus (Venera 15 on June 2,
1983). The entire series could be considered highly successful."
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I suspect that the biggest thing that scares people about radiation is:

A. that you can't sense when you are being exposed.

B. it penetrates most things that would stop say a harmful gas.
You'd expect longer numbers in larger bases. The estimate at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydivisible_number#How_many_...) can be generalized: let F_k(n) be the number of n-digit polydivisible numbers in base k. Then F_k(n) ~ (k-1) * k^(n-1) / n!. This gets bigger as n increases up to n = k, then it gets smaller. If I'm doing the asymptotics right you have F_k(ek) approximately equal to 1 - so in base k the largest polydivisible number should have about ek digits.

The length of the longest polydivisible number in base k is in the OEIS (http://oeis.org/A109783) along with this conjecture.
I took that as meaning that either the seat was occupied by a rock, or perhaps by McCain.
> Out-of-the-box slow response times. My Lambda function with two simple DynamoDB queries often takes 3 seconds to return a result when its route is hit.

This is something I've also noticed. Even their official examples are really slow [0]

About auth: I've been researching API Gateway + Lambda and auth via Amazon Cognito. As of now the best example for auth I've found is LambdAuth [1]. I'm trying to add the API Gateway in the mix, it looks possible to integrate it.

I also agree that docs and more explicit examples are needed.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/the-squirrelbin-archite...

[1] https://github.com/danilop/LambdAuth
It isn't irrational, it is emotional. The difference being that people have a harder time reasoning about their emotions than they do about facts (or even the facts that lead to the emotions).

I've had similar conversations with people about radiation, I've pointed them to the excellent radiation chart, and I've gone over papers and articles and data galore. But if they are afraid, they are afraid. And deciding not to be afraid is often challenging. It is no different than people who are afraid of germs and are incessantly cleaning their living spaces or sanitizing their dishes in an autoclave. They know germs can kill them, they know they can't see or feel or taste germs they might be ingesting or coming into contact with, so they spend all sorts of time and energy on eliminating germs.

Is it irrational? No, not in the strict sense, germs really can kill them. Is it emotional? Absolutely there is a very real fear response there. Is it proportional to the threat? No, and that is where folks need to have a discussion in terms of proportion rather than real / not-real or threat / not-threat.
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> but I know where my money is.

Do you mean that metaphorically, or did you used to spend money for Reddit, and now spend it for Voat?