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121.
by conover 13y ago
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6963365
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Rapgenius Uniques Fall 90%(quantcast.com)
62 points by conover 13y ago|118 comments
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by conover 13y ago
He/she's an EPA administrator doing undercover work for the CIA.
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by conover 13y ago
49ers...
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Interning at Google vs. Microsoft(reddit.com)
1 points by conover 13y ago|0 comments
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NSA Director: Defending America in Cyberspace(nationalinterest.org)
3 points by conover 13y ago|0 comments
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by conover 13y ago
True believers are scary -- on any side.
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by conover 13y ago
Meta: Is that the whole article? Three short paragraphs in which the author admits that he hasn't actually read Brooks' book then goes on to restate the premise? Maybe I should get into writing for Slate... Edit: Slate blog, I sup
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by conover 13y ago
That's a staggering amount of code. Nearly unbelievable. To put that in perspective, Windows XP was 45 million lines of code[0]. [0] https://m.facebook.com/windows/posts/155741344475532
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Cookie Clicker(orteil.dashnet.org)
2 points by conover 13y ago|0 comments
131.
by conover 13y ago
688 Program Technician III... 88 Associate Gov. Program Analyst... 73 Office Assistant... Numbers are FTE
132.
by conover 13y ago
Looks like a sound application of the "make it as easy as possible for people to give you money" principle. Well done.
133.
by conover 13y ago
So you're saying that government shouldn't attempt to identify and prosecute those who it believes "breached laws against false advertising and deceptive business practices."
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by conover 13y ago
Latency is going to the hurdle there. You can have the fastest connection in the world but if it takes 400ms to pull up someone's contact info, no one is going to give a fuck.
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Why We Must Act(nytimes.com)
27 points by conover 13y ago|12 comments
136.
by conover 13y ago
Missiles could be in the air right now...
137.
by conover 13y ago
Really? The Community Party? Seems somewhat quaint. I would assume now they ask you stuff like, "What do you think about the war in Afghanistan?" "Have you ever traveled to the PRC?" etc.
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F.B.I. Said to Find It Could Not Have Averted Boston Attack(nytimes.com)
17 points by conover 13y ago|9 comments
139.
by conover 13y ago
Wow. Nothing like a little character assassination. "We don't have any evidence, but unnamed sources tell us that he might be Hitler."
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by conover 13y ago
At a glance, it seems that the whole opinion turns on the word "shall" in the statute. Turns out, "'shall' is ordinarily 'the language of command'". This leads to conclusion that as long as the gover
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"We can never make enough money..."(nytimes.com)
9 points by conover 13y ago|27 comments
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U.S. Navy Earmarks $900m for Cyber Warfare(militaryaerospace.com)
2 points by conover 13y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Government Continues State of Emergency Declared in Response to 9/11(whitehouse.gov)
11 points by conover 13y ago|1 comments
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by conover 13y ago
"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." - S. K.
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Lawrence Lessig AMA on Reddit(reddit.com)
3 points by conover 13y ago|0 comments
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NSA Surveillance Programs Come Out in Court Years Earlier(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by conover 13y ago|0 comments
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by conover 13y ago
It will be extremely interesting to see the government's reaction to all this top secret information being leaked. I'm sure orders are being yelled into telephones right about now.
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by conover 13y ago
"...switching on the microphones and cameras on webcams and cellphones." http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html They've been doing it with cell phone microphones for years apparently.
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by conover 13y ago
Is there really that much Python code out there that is not IO bound (obviating the GIL)? Scientific computing is the only area that comes to mind where I can imagine problems.
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by conover 13y ago
I'm torn on the fire code thing ( http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/us/after-plant-explosion-t... ). It's one thing to eschew regulation but fire codes?

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