skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe for the rare cases you might need an extremely high rate of random numbers? I'm trying to think of applications where you need both the security and high rate but it's quite hard indeed (simulations and things like procedural texture/art gen are high rate but non-secure, while secure things are all low rate).
A 667 x 1000 tracking pixel no less.
Yea, the arms race against laptop thieves is ridiculous.
Their sales are very sporadic so it's not as reliable as you would think. Sometimes they need cash to pay for a new house, hitmen, etc. Other times they let the stock vest for longer because they don't need the money.
The complexity of searching a sorted list is only logarithmic if you have positional random access (it is implemented as an array or an array-like structure). If it is a linked list, the sorting doesn't help; you have to traverse all predecessors of an arbitrary item in order to access it, and that is linear: the sorted order doesn't help.

Usually when we say "list" we mean "linked list": a flexible structure with poor random access, though sometimes the word is an implementation-agnostic designator for any sequential structure.
see: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2327
I would contend in response that it's unnecessary to play whack-a-mole with countless subtle variations on the same theme if there are refutable core claims shared by a plurality of those variations. For example, the idea of a young earth is easily refuted, as are some sects' claims about the nature of human gender. Other broadly held claims, such as an unerring divine origin of scripture, lack any evidence, and thus can be dismissed, if not strictly refuted.

With regard to identifying essential claims, I'd propose that any claim that is believed by a good number of the sect's adherents is an essential claim, as refuting it invalidates those particular adherents' beliefs.

Beyond that, the question is what epistemological value can be derived from the remaining religions? What reason can be given to accept them? The burden of proof should be on them to demonstrate that they together, or one of them alone, should be accepted as accurately describing reality.

P.S. Thanks for the interesting discussion.
A very good character count tool
I think they just haven't updated the README yet.
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I'm pretty sure the key provisions of the STOCK Act were repealed the same weekend as the Boston Marathon Bombings. See the amendment section of the Wikipedia article you linked to.
For me, this the single most insightful / unsettling quote from the article:

> Thunderstrike 2 doesn't make use of any new zero-day
> vulnerabilities -- these are all older vulnerabilities
> that had been previously disclosed and fixed on other
> platforms.

The 'other platform' bit is a tad ambiguous, or simply overly generous, if you consider (U)EFI to be the platform.
As has been said elsewhere, this is not the cost need to achieve innovation, this is the cost needed to avoid paying others who have already invented something before.

And as often it is with patents, the outcome is more invention. All those workarounds are also innovation.
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Misleading title, if you read the issue link that drunkcatsdgaf posted (https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2327).
(Guessing) it is a signal to the community that node 'belongs' to the community -- hence renaming it after the community/nonjoyent fork.
Since no official statement has been made, I will just assume that they're arranging the repo.
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> As a Debian user, I'd like to draw a parallel between these measures and the default requirement for GPG signatures on packages installed by apt

Said parallel is imperfect. With APT, you can add custom signatures (say, if you run a private or organization-specific repo). AFAICT, Firefox offers no such capability.
Someone with business sense would rarely, if ever, kill a hot brand. Guessing that this wasn't really all that well thought through. Either that or there's some legal or trademark issue.
Future Node.js releases will come from what is current io.js. That is all. The name is not changing. This is nothing to get excited about--this has been the plan all along.
The official name is Node.js. That repo is the combined source of Node.js 0.12 and io.js master and future releases will be coming from there.

I think the next major release will be "Node.js v4.0.0"
I'm also curious about this. It seems like the ASL drivers are a bit of a loophole. What happens if later Rethink decides to relicense their drivers as AGPL with a commercial option for businesses? Can 3rdparty drivers be ASL or is that a violation of the AGPL?
And this is the reason why you use PostgreSQL, not Oracle.
http://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/W...

Basically, you need to get a job offer from a company in Sweden with a competitive ("normal") salary, and you are in.

IF your line of work is on the shortage list, such as IT work.
OK, good idea. Let's make insider trading legal... now NSA employees win and everyone else loses. Seems like a sensible economic system.
First of all let me say I'm glad my comment reached you, I am not sure how many people here get notified about replies to their comments.

Now, I don't strongly believe anything but I wasn't implying that the smaller cost is because of the speed at which the "sex" happens. I believe that people consider it smaller than before because even with the regular dating sites you had to sign up, upload photos, fill in your profile details, etc etc, to even get something started. All tinder asks for is a facebook account and a couple of swipes (or maybe just one :D). Sure, a match might not end up as an erotic partner but at least there was something.

Hope I made my point more clear.
I can already see the jokes about this change from the Node Haters Club.
Nixon advisor John Ehrlichman told a journalist that the main purpose of the War on Drugs was to attack Nixon's "enemies" and that they knew the WOD was based on lies about drugs:

> "You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/the-war-on...
Are there plans (heh) to write an optimizing planner that can automatically evaluate which indexes to use?
Continual sales, I mean -- large owners of big companies often have recurring monthly sales of x number of shares. Deviation from this is notable, and a possible source of information.
They are not renaming anything. iojs is now the official source code of nodejs.

I'm happy that the fork , led by the real maintainers of nodejs, is now the original project.
Not really. Any user is welcome to edit any page. The problem occurs when people don't follow the rules.
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
Relevant section quoted below:

THE INTERCEPT HAS A POLICY of not publishing the names of non-public intelligence officials unless there is a compelling reason, as with our naming of Alfreda Bikowsky, who oversaw key aspects of the CIA’s torture program. Withholding Socrates’ identity presents certain problems in the age of Google, however. If I quote from his blog, or give its name, or provide other search-enhancing morsels, like the name or location of his graduate writing program or where he was born, I might provide the sort of data that could instantly reveal his name with a few keystrokes.

So I am more or less trying to do what the NSA and a large number of agencies and corporations do with the personal data they possess — stripping away names and other identifying information to “anonymize” the data before sharing it. The beauty of anonymizing data, according to the (very many) entities that do it, is that nobody can be identified — citizens and consumers do not have to worry that their privacy is violated when petabytes of data are collected about what they do, where they go, what they read, where they eat and what they buy, because their names are not attached to it. The conceit is that our data does not betray us.
I have some old lab notebooks of my dad's from the 1950s. Also the india ink pens and lettering stencils he used to label figures in his thesis and other papers. All very high quality stuff and must have been pretty significant purchases for a grad student in those days.
Thank you for clarifying, but I am still very skeptical.

I would have no problem with signature verification if, as with apt, users can decide which keys to trust. (And you don't have to download a whole new copy of apt to do it!) But the intent of this announcement seems to be that Mozilla will prevent users from doing that, on the theory that they will make bad choices. Well, some of them will!

But it's far more dangerous to take those choices away from them — that guarantees that they're trusting the wrong company.
I'm not sure this is really much more of a problem than POV pushers in general. Usually it's pretty obvious when someone is pushing their own agenda, and easily solved (assuming people are actually watching the page in question).
As per the article, the quality of content is moderated by editors who patrol the edits frequently. For example, you can go to a random wikipage and make some insane edit right now and there is a good probability that it would be reverted within few hours. This probability decreases over time when number of articles doubles but editors patrolling them decreases. Eventually you will start seeing lot of low quality edits sipping in and stay there for very long time.
That assumes you're going to just sit there and get caught. Which is certainly what's going to happen if you mouth off instead. Someone who goes out with the intent to commit murder (i.e., malice aforethought or premeditation or whatever language your jurisdiction relies upon) by definition has plenty of planning time to minimize the risk of capture.

I'm not interested in the moral issues. The assumption is that you've been wronged and are angry enough that you've decided to do something about it (the fact that the man in this case supposedly has a mental disability is not relevant). I mentioned numerous other ways of dealing with this kind of problem that do not involve violence; each has its merits. If, however, you've decided that violence is the answer, the way to move forward with that plan is to implement it, not discuss it with others. That should be obvious, and is the point I was making.

There's no excuse for slipshod planning or halfhearted execution. Whether something is morally or ethically right does not alter the basic imperative that it be done well, or not done at all.
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So if the malware has the capability of finding that switch and flipping it, what's stopping it from patching one's Firefox binary to skip the signature check?

In other words, if malware can open up the configuration of a separate program and alter it, then malicious browser addons are probably the least of your worries.
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I'm surprised at downvotes too. I suspect there are lots of n00b on HN who thinks downvotes is way to express disagreement. I use downvote for not-nice and spammy comments. If I want to express disagreement, I would just put that in reply. But apparently new HN population does things differently.
For those wondering, this was a premature posting. Node.js is the name still, it's using io.js' source code from Node.js v4.0.0 and on. The Readme hasn't been updated yet.
As someone with glaucoma and bilateral amblyopia (I had congenital cataracts in both eyes) the answer to this interests me greatly!

I'd also add:

Will this kind of gene therapy allow protection or regeneration of the optic nerve?
To simulate iridescence at this level would require a tremendous level of computation that we just do not have yet.
> but I think the reason there's no override is that any malware installation routine would simply activate it and continue on its merry way.

And what's stopping said malware installation routine from patching my firefox.exe or /usr/bin/firefox or whatever to bypass the signature check? Or patching the running program in-memory? How would it even access that checkbox? This concern seems a bit far-fetched to me.
Computer science is also not hardware engineering. A computer science student has no idea how to get trains to report their position, because that requires hardware. For example, sensors laid along the track at reasonably closely spaced intervals which read an RFID transponder carried by the train, and send a message to some concentrator which forwards it to a data centre. It's okay not to have all the answers; transit systems are not a one person job.

A good answer to the question is "I don't really know the specific technology for sensing the positions of trains. If the sensing is used to make automatic driving decisions, it is of crucial importance that it be accurate and reliable, for safety reasons. If trains are automatic, then the system must not only know their positions, but the trains must know that the system knows their position; if a train's computer loses touch with the system, it must come to an emergency stop. A rogue train whose position isn't known must not continue moving, for obvious reasons. I think I would survey how all this has been successfully done in existing transit infrastructures around the world and borrow the best elements from the existing designs".
Is anything even new here? The io.js README was last updated 18 days ago.

Back in May, the two projects announced they were merging, and several things have been done in that respect:

* The io.js project joined the Node Foundation (https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1664#issuecomment-1018...).
* Joyent transferred ownership of nodejs.org to the Linux Foundation (http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=nodejs.org).

It seems like the future-facing work is being done in the io.js repository.. that doesn't mean an eventual release from there will be called io.js. Can anyone link to anything more authoritative than a probably-not-updated README?
Long ago Neal Stephenson wrote a long rambling meditation on operating systems called In the Beginning Was the Command Line. At one point he compared Unix to the Hole Hawg by Milwaukee Tool, and found that other OSes were like Black & Decker toys in comparison. Nathan Myhrvold (later of Intellectual Ventures infamy, but then with M$) was moved to send him a different interpretation of the drill analogy. In the second edition of ItBWtCL (which edition it seems is not online in any form), Stephenson mentioned Myhrvold's disagreement, but declined to compare the analogies in any detailed way, considering such an exercise undignified.
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I am mentally ill. I am non-violent. When my coworkers discovered I was mentally ill, I was picked on, bullied, and harassed. I don't take things out on others, instead I hold anger in and it made me sick. It made me so sick that I ended up on disability. I was only having depression when I was picked on and I developed schizoaffective disorder from the stress I was under.

I don't know what went on in that workplace, but if it was like my workplace and they discovered he was mentally ill and picked on him, he made the wrong choice to make death threats.

Not only should there be a mental health screening but a teaching of empathy and compassion for mentally ill people so they are not picked on, bullied, or harassed.

I don't know how many public shootings we have to go through where they could have been prevented with mental health screenings and teaching people not to pick on the mentally ill.

In my case I am high functioning, have empathy and compassion for others. Not everyone does.
Now I have to change my pinboard tags...
One way to get this would be to develop a Teiid translator (plugin) for Rethink.

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-3303
http://teiid.jboss.org/

The normal use case is to use the Teiid JDBC driver (or Postgres ODBC) to connect with the Teiid server and then that handles talking to your datasources via the translators.

I think there was some work done to make a standalone MongoDB JDBC driver using an embedded Teiid server, but I'm not sure how much progress was made there. Mapping document to relational can be tricky.
This is unbelievable. How the hell did things get to this point? How much worse are they going to get?
Hackers is a movie that I thought was terrible when it came out (even as a youngster!), but now seems like a wonderful 90s period piece. It snapshots the whole hacker/raver/"burner" techno-counterculture axis of the 1990s really well, and the schmaltz and cheeze is actually pretty clever and entertaining. It sort of makes fun of itself in an also very 'period' way.

I sort of like movies that start bad and then age well.

Sneakers is also incredible. It's far more objectively cinematically good than Hackers, and it snapshots a slightly earlier era in hackerdom. Sneakers is about the time immediately before Hackers, basically before the youngsters flooded in and started hacking web apps and doing 'E'.
Not Intel ME, Intel Boot Guard.
As a non node/io user, I fail to compute your contribution to the discussion.
Also you will begin to see more bias as the few editors who remain will be unchallenged when they remove information they don't like.
Yes. There are a couple of proposals floating around -- check out https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/4150 for details.
Most startups should be deer hunters
Is pg a n00b? Long ago, he said, "I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
The way that typically goes is first your VPS gets exploited somehow and used to serve illegal content, send spam or scan other hosts. Then it gets DDOS-ed by someone who doesn't like the content or attacks initiated from the VPS.
Caching: What could go wrong?
Someone ping me when JS removes mutability.
The amendment makes it significantly more difficult to detect insider trading (since financial disclosure reports are not available online), but I wouldn't describe it as a repeal of the law's "key provisions". See http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/177496... :

"Still, two major elements of the law remain. Insider trading is illegal, even for members of Congress and the executive branch. And for those who are covered by the now-narrower law, disclosures of large stock trades are required within 45 days."
We guarantee that we'll grant anyone who wants to release a driver a more permissive license. We're also happy to do it in writing, both for driver developers and users.

Theoretically we can stop doing that in the future and keep changing the protocol, but that would alienate all of our users. That would be an insane decision, and we'll never ever do it.
Yeah, usually there's defined windows in which employees can trade in the companies shares.
Technically, we were just getting started with solving the easy to fix problems with gene therapy over twenty years ago.

The field was moribund- for a number of reasons- for quite some time. New results are great, but nothing truly transformative, and basically as hard as delivering classic pharma or biotech treatments.
We detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043822 and marked it off-topic (though agree about the word isomorphic).
Yeah, if you believe code is more important than people, rather than code existing to serve people, this isn't going to go anywhere.

There's another assumption you're implying but leaving out: "The set of people who show up and contribute under those conditions will inherently be the best and produce the best results". And that assumption is subject to a lot of confirmation bias; if you don't set out to question that assumption, you'll tend to get results that give you no reason to doubt it, precisely because it's harder to notice the absence of something.
This is a dumb posting with a really misleading title. Nowhere on the linked page does it say "Node.js/node is now io.js". Perhaps the maintainers should have updated the reamde before switching repos, but I suspect they're concentrating more on coding than on marketing.
The "unitary executive" concept amounts to the same thing should a president choose to simply order all elements of the DoJ to refrain from investigating something. Except it's got a fancy name and some future John Yoo will no doubt lawyer it to suit any task.
The thing that confounds the situation a bit, for a large quantity of people, is that in certain industries and in certain roles, a huge number of people are considered insiders. For example, anyone at a corporation who can access sales or booking data is an insider ... including the poor CRM administrator in IT or the exec admin in the Sales office. Beyond that, though, in financial services firms it's entirely possible they might consider all employees insiders on all equities. Fidelity does this, for example, and they additionally require all employees' equity holdings solely to exist in Fidelity-managed accounts so they can actively audit for insider activity.

This second case seemed more nutso to me than the first, but both are true -- I've lived them.
It's harmful to the industry overall, since it prevents people from executing trades to help correctly price companies.

We should still discourage and ban it. Outside of what the market as a whole does, there's still the question of who benefits from it. Insider trading incentivizes some shitty behavior and some pretty major principle-agent problems.
I would say that being imprisoned for life is about a million times worse than being fired. Thus unless you can guarantee that your odds of capture are literally a million to one, that's not the way to go. (And judging by recent mass shootings, the chances of escape seem to be pretty near zero.)
You missed the part where I said "extended families"?
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> Having someone post things in a public place where they identify as a member of a group can reflect badly on the group. It is in the group's best interest to enforce that people who identify with a group on a certain medium do not say/do things that would not be allowed on official group channels

If a black person tweets something I disagree with, and I let that lower my opinion of blacks as a group, isn't the best response for people to call me out for being an idiot and possible racist rather than to ask the black person to curtail their speech or to remove indications from their twitter account that they are black?

Similar if a woman tweets something I disagree with, or a member of a particular religious group, and so on.

I don't see why it should be different for associations that are formed around an open source project.

You are essentially advocating running open source projects as if they were religions, where converts are expected to uphold the religion's values in all aspects of their life rather than just in church. That makes sense for a religion, since those values are the point of the religion. It makes no sense for an open source software project.