skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If my husband were to come home from work today and say someone found my information I would be open and honest with him about it"

Right, honest but not too much haha.
Inside Wilson's tennis ball factory [video]
Devs, 'Simple and Cheap' Is Your Friend
Sure, but that is incredibly weak from a typing point of view, and not compiler-checked in most languages.

You have no clean way of describing multiple pre-conditions (refusal reasons), or to evolve those over time in existing systems, without assuming that developers will somehow correctly read your API documentation, and manually write the code everywhere to handle all possible exceptions, with no help from your compiler or your language's type system.

This is how to indicate exceptions in the 1970s. The world has moved on since then :-)
How 'Artificial Judgment' Could Change Your Career
If you are in SF, this is partially due to how the tech industry distorts the sex ratio there:

http://pics.city-data.com/agegraph/2455.png

(This is for residents of SF only, so it won't account for any differences that might arise due to commuters who live outside SF)

Edit, source page: http://www.city-data.com/housing/houses-San-Francisco-Califo...
"On the other hand, why would anyone dedicate most of their waking hours to something which has making money as its sole objective and output?"

Because they're being paid a significant portion of that money?

"You can quite easily argue that growing revenue is not the reason for existence of say Nike."

I really don't think you can. Otherwise they wouldn't be charging as much as they do for what they sell, and wouldn't be spending so much on athlete endorsements.
Now, if only he could convince them to move some of their hardware work here... :P
Tried out Privacy Badger and had some bugs early on, refused to block certain domains and did not block things by default which I would expect.

I prefer noscript.
I saw "(github.com)" next to the article title and thought that maybe Github was spear-heading some sort of effort to enable folks to more easily set up PGP and sign their commits. Alas.

That said, +1 to calling out that we ought to be signing and verifying git-commits.
> If governments were actually useful to us, they wouldn't have to take our money by force. We'd be happy to pay for their services voluntarily.

Not always, take a look at tragedy of the commons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
This is the study of human nature in all this that I find most amusing. For $249, there are much more straight forward and guaranteed ways to have an affair. Even if affair is not insinuating sex, which I'm pretty sure most guys would assume, how is this not paying for sex in their mind? One would also assume the few real women are most likely prostitutes/escorts anyways.
I'm wondering if there are freelancers out there who hire somebody to find new programming jobs for you?
> Are the judges blind to all the media releases in the past two years, or just pretending to be?

Judges are supposed to act on the law and the information presented in the cases before them, not on their biases formed from consumption of outside sources like the popular media.

> Where does it say in the 4th amendment that it's okay to seize and search all the documents without a warrant, as long as there's "no harm"?!

Injury of the type necessary to establish standing is a concrete, particularized violation of a legally-protected interest. Actually having one's own documents searched or seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment is such an injury, whether or not it results in additional harms. The problem here is that the court found that the plaintiff had not done enough to demonstrate that their data was seized.
Showing likely irreparable harm is a requirement for any preliminary injunction. A preliminary injunction is an extraordinary remedy issued before a case is heard and decided, in order to prevent ongoing harm during the course of the case. When there is no likelihood of irreparable harm, courts are not supposed to issue a preliminary injunction before hearing the case. In that situation, the court can afford to wait for the full case to be heard, with a proper evidential record, etc., before making any decisions.
I've been happily married for 25 years, and haven't dated for longer than that, so what do I do.

But I think a site that actually verified profile photos and height/weight would go a long way to getting a better balance of both men and women.

You'd go to a kiosk local to you to get a "standard" photo taken, where everyone gets the same mugshot from front and side, and full body, and a verified height and weight.

And then, to log in, you need biometric proof that you're the same person in the photo, so you can hire a non-obese or fit person to have the picture taken.

I think this may appeal to both men and women.
Extensions are specific to profiles. Rather than toggle a bunch of extensions on and off, just switch profiles.
Flood Map: Water Level Elevation Map
"If you can't follow someone who leads through vision, why aren't you starting your own gig, with your own vision?"

Cause working for a company offers health insurance. Starting my own doesn't give me that.
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I just live here. Come from somewhere else.

(How do you get that inormtion out of interest?)
Community Social Network- Slabbered
That encoder is less for bypassing AV and more for replacing characters which cannot be transmitted in the payload (eg. null bytes)
Yes, if you eliminate extrajudicial death penalty for drugs(Taliban) then more people will take the money by growing the crop.
See previous reply. You get both.
> She's not the most technically apt lady in the world

Perhaps you've realized the unintended "pun" in the "apt" word :) (hint: apt-get)
Baby-sitting and also verbal/demonstrative knowledge before written language was a thing.
Can't say much about the details yet, but I work here: http://www.reactionhousing.com/
:)
Read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
That's a good point. But almost all services that ask for credit card info before starting the trial automatically charge your card as soon as the trial period ends. That's the problem I have with this model.
There really is a difference between NSA staff and the average American. For that matter, there is also a difference between a federal judge and the average American. This "well next time be sure to vote for a good candidate!" horseshit is tiresome.

[EDIT:] Apparently this is not clear to everyone, but there is a logical difference between the proposition that two sets differ in some salient respect (e.g. that only those in the NSA may "illegally" spy on other Americans, with impunity), and the proposition that they differ in every respect. A careful reading of the previous paragraph will reveal that I have claimed the former.
Right, I know personally of more success stories from Everquest and WoW (and maybe one eHarmony story) or other random online communities than actual dating sites.
Could you give some examples of places you mean?
5 Fastest Growing Media Platforms from the Inc. 500 List
Real realities. Can you believe it?!
Thread, the U.K. Online Personal Styling Service for Men, Scores $8M Series A
On doing things other people can't
It looks like this might be something they threw together in a weekend. Boilerplate MVP for the purpose of getting a job interview or something?
Several livestream sites (like twitch.tv) depend on flash.
I don't know. I have lived in a few places. Mexico scared the shit out of me in some ways. Got robbed at gunpoint on my second night on a night bus. Bandits caused problems in teh area I was living.

I feel a lot safer in Europe where guns are no where near as common or accessable.
My immediate reaction too, that was such an awesome game.
Xkcd: Engineer Syllogism
Couldn't the government just say whatever documents presented were obtained illegally or are 'state secrets'?
The Age of Homes in All 50 States
> can someone familiar with both Elixir and Erlang explain what Elixir provides in comparison to Erlang.

The syntax is nicer, but that's just a bonus. The real game-changer to me about Elixir vs Erlang is its macro system. This gives you runtime code execution and runtime code generation, similar to what makes LISP to powerful.

There's a large amount of boilerplate involved in creating an OTP server, as you know if you've done any Erlang. Elixir's macro capabilities completely eliminate all the boilerplate.

The source to both Elixir and Phoenix are quite elegant and educational to browse, and demonstrate this runtime code generation aspect very well. It's straightforward in Elixir to introspect code, represent that code as data structures, manipulate those data structures, then generate or execute that code, as you can in LISP.

Elixir also gives a number of excellent tools that streamline the support process over vanilla Erlang. For example, Elixir's runtime tooling automatically manages dependencies for you (similar to node's npm), and automatically maintains the application string that you need to provide for all OTP applications. It also has improved capabilities for testing, which are also made possible by the amazing macro generation capabilities.

> I'm looking into using Erlang for a new project that requires extensive scaling and concurrency and am coming from a functional background so may be more comfortable with the traditional Erlang syntax

Elixir's syntax is still just as functional. They support a regular if statement, unlike Erlang, but generally it's just as functional as Erlang. Elixir eliminates a number of needless chores from Erlang, such as having to end some lines of code with a comma, and others with a period, and then shuffling punctuation around whenever you add or remove lines of code. That's a task I used to do literally a hundred times a day in Erlang that I don't have to do at all any more.
Linux here.

I've got a set of scripts for updating and toggling hosts files.
I've asked this question before on HN and was down voted mercilessly, so I'll try to rephrase.

Why does everyone point to Zen as such a significant work? I've tried to read it on 3 separate occasions now, and I'm not "getting it". I'm fully willing to be completely wrong about this, but it frustrates me that Pirsig focuses so much on what I read as "the absolute value of quality" when - IMHO, it's merely a relative term.

I get the point he's making early in the book about "doing it yourself" vs "buying it", but as the book goes on I get more and more frustrated with what appears to me to be the central premise.

Can you point me to a "guide to reading 'Zen'" or something similar which can show me where I'm going wrong?
The Supreme Court's interpretation of the first amendment has gotten much more protective of speech over the last couple of centuries.
Here's a different angle.

I'd recruit ex-AM employees. Their business model is brilliant even if is basically illegal! Imagine what they could achieve in an organization with even moderate ethics!

The users? That's another story. I'm checking each applicant against "the list". On the list? We could probably do better in that position.
"At some point you're going to have to accept that the vast majority of scientists accept that climate change is real and that the vast majority of people who deny the reality of climate change are not scientists and have misunderstood the science."

Like I said, I never said Climate change isn't 'real'. The dispute is how much the climate is changing and what is causing it.

The vast majority of climate scientists:

1) It would be career-suicide to express any other opinion about climate change besides the current narrative. Many have already been fired for doing so. I was in Academia for many years and pretty much everything has to do with politics.

2) Rely on the same sets of data. Confirmation bias is a real thing. If you even bothered to look at the website I mentioned, you would see that some of the main studies used for climate change proof are not peer-reviewed.

If 'science' means research without peer-review, completely invalid studies, the refusal to admit studies that are wrong, silencing opposition, and using politics to bully the opposition, I will agree.

However, this isn't science and if it was just science as you say, we wouldn't have politics, lying, and outright fraud involved in so many instances.

Al Gore, for instance, is now a wealthy man for essentially getting laws passed to force companies to buy carbon credits from his own companies. He pushed 'Global Warming' as 'Settled science' and the science community accepted it.

The pope came out a few months back and backed climate change. Everyone pointed to this as some sort of proof. They ignored the fact that the pope also talked about how trans-gender people are not seen as human in the eyes of god.

If you can't see the problem here, you don't really understand science yourself.
With it being understood that what works varies a lot from person to person - I've found that doing one thing I really like, and one thing that's mundane, works for me. Over the course of a project, if you consistently make progress against the mundane, by the end there usually isn't much of a wall of it left. It's a compromise with myself, this way I avoid doing nothing but mundane work in a long-stretch.

When I was ~20 years old I'd make the mistake of pushing the mundane work off to the end, so all that I had left at that point was work I didn't enjoy. That made it a miserable grind to get to launch.
Basically, this is a GNU vs BSD misunderstanding. On BSD, only wheel members can use su to become root after entering the root password. On GNU/linux anyone can su to root by entering the root password regardless of whether they belong to wheel or not.[0]

The confusion with respect to these guidelines is because some BSD-inspired GNU/linux distributions confugure their sudo to use a "wheel" group.

> once your user account is compromised the attacker is root as well

... but only if they also know the root password.

Anyway, the long and short of it is that on GNU/Linux, wheel is only relevant on distributions that use wheel in their default sudo config.

[0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4460/why-is-debian-...
I agree in principle, but why does that end up being embodied by the likes of Rick Perry and GW.
I agree that any time based billing has that incentive conflict, but how does it fundamentally change when increasing the minimal unit? In the end you have to balance your efficiency and quality with your rate.

For me there are many aspects of a project/client I try to select for before the billing increment. I would not turn down a cool project that sounds great just because they do not agree to daily billing.
Back when I freelanced, I had the opposite problem (saying "no" too often), but I don't think it was my skillset or the project-type that was the problem as the author suggests. I have a real self-confidence problem that makes me pretty bad at freelancing. I've worked on that a bit, but in the end I ended up going back to FT work. I'd eventually like to give it another whirl if/when I can learn to get self-confidence where it needs to be.
As it happens, I learned my own behavior because I once struck a bicyclist who wasn't as predictable as you. I went to a 4-way, stopped, saw a biker approaching the intersection who hadn't stopped yet, and pulled into the intersection.

The bicyclist didn't stop, was struck by my car, fell off, went to hospital. She was okay in the long run, but sued over the incident; the police officer who wrote up the event determined that I was at fault (despite eyewitnesses to the contrary) based on the claim that I should have stopped for the bicyclist.

At this point, given that bikes are known to do this I really don't have any choice in the matter. I'm glad I didn't kill anyone - head trauma can be really tricky. I'm concerned that I was the victim of insurance fraud (she really did run out in front of me). My insurance company just settled the complaint - didn't want to get deep into litigation over a matter of hearsay and he-said-she-said.

So, what should I do? If it's a car approaching a 4-way, I assume they will follow traffic laws. If it's a bike, I'm not so certain. My experience isn't just that one time in berkeley I hit someone, now that I live in SF, there's plenty of times when I've observed bicyclists taking their lives into their own hands and dodging traffic without obeying stop signs and red lights.
This was covered just the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107009
I don't think the unethical part of their business model can really be separated from the brilliance of it. The site is basically a scam. If you remove the scam, there's nothing of substance left.
One wonders how many of those 2000 are actually women.
I'm a new dev at Linode, and this is the first product I helped ship. It was very fun to work on - we used Node to write all of the glue that gets noVNC to talk to qemu behind the scenes. LMK if you have questions, I can probably answer them.
I don't know why I like this so much, but it looks great!

I will be using this in my current project ASAP.
"Do you not see the broken incentive system here? The more efficiently you work, the less you get paid."

Changing the unit of time does not change this. You're just making it easier for yourself to justify charging a full day even if it took you 2 hours. But you could just as easily apply your methods using hours or half-days or weeks.

If you're working 2 hours and charging 8, you should simply raise your rates, and for the next project, give a more accurate time estimate.

The first couple years especially, freelancers should be doing this from project to project. It negates the "broken incentive system."
Other comments have touched on most of the reasons why Ubuntu is a good choice, or why it would be a bad choice in some situations.

For me, it was the OS I was used to. And, as I've had to deploy a few CentOS and OES servers as well, I much prefer how Ubuntu/Debian configures things.

Apache, PHP, networking, cron, etc. All much easier to configure and harden on Ubuntu than on CentOS. Only thing I've found CentOS does better is starting and stopping iptables, and that's solved with a quick apt-get install iptables-persistent.

Most of this opinion comes from writing Ansible roles that work on both Debian and RedHat systems. Ubuntu was always easy to get right. CentOS always had some weird thing that required an annoying amount of work to work around. (Like it doesn't run Postfix smtpd in a chroot while Ubuntu does. Meaning I had to have different Postfix settings in master.cf on CentOS than I do on Debian.)
I'm curious what percentage of Tinder profiles are fake as well. Furthermore, I'm curious if anyone has done any studies about how all these fake profiles impact the male psyche. Does cause men to greatly over-estimate the quantity of attractive and available women? If so, what impact does it have for those women that are generally attractive, but may not seem so relative to the glut of fake very attractive women? Does the presence of fake profiles actually increase "dating liquidity" in real life or does it merely increase service engagement, improving numbers to sell to investors? After all, dating sites are one of those products where success means churn (unless a trend towards polyamory and open relationships continue to increase)?
Among the reasons I'm posting hosts is to show how concentrated OVPs are. A small number of entries wipes out nearly all instances. Plus it puts pressure on providers.
Homeland Security’s Peculiar Prosecution of Rentboy.com
Granted, sudden changes to the environment would kill off the less fit individuals. So I'll change my argument a bit:

Suppose you've overcome infant mortality, and have also solved the problem of adult mortality, so all subsequent people are immortal. Suppose moreover that young adults insist on having more than zero children (that's likely to continue, you'll agree). Now you've got a population that won't stop growing. Resources are finite, and there will be mass starvation.

What are your options in such a scenario? Should you kill off old people, kill off young people, or prevent all future babies?

Suppose you prevent all future babies. Then you end up with no more sex, no more genetic variability, and now the whole species might be susceptible to a sudden environmental change.

So my argument is that old people must die to make room for genetically-different young people. Without natural death, there will be less room for evolutionary adaptation.
The first site that can reliably filter this stuff out before it even gets to the target will probably make enough money to form a small black hole. As a moderator, were you just responding to reports from users, or were you preemptively checking into messages, or something else?
Started using this on my work and personal Macbooks, very nice. One oddity is that command+C copies but command+option+V doesn't do a Move (as it does in Finder). Otherwise great so far.
I've seen studies that most women in affairs or who ended up in one said they don't go seeking them, at least not outright. They start innocently enough as a relationship with a coworker or platonic friend that they start to feel a connection with, start developing feelings, and it snowballs from there. Based on that pattern, I doubt many women go "I want to have an affair" and just go do it so the dedicated website model is probably not where online affairs start for women. Probably more likely FB reconnecting with an old flame or talking with someone at a point where they at least convinced themselves it was innocent at first.
Why don't you just finish reading the book or just leave it alone? I understand there are books that are hard to read, but this is very much a do-or-don't thing. How can we help you finish a book? Just read it or don't.

Edit: I'm getting down-voted so let me put a fine point on it. Reading a book is a pretty low risk commitment. You could be reading dozens of a books a year. The book we are talking about is considered to be a "great American novel" and less risky still. No one should have to convince you to finish it. If you don't like it enough to finish it, then don't bother. http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
It would be deliciously ironic if the final shipping machine uses itanium processors.
Aging is caused by damage accumulation.

There are very good ways to model how that works, see for example reliability theory [1].

There is little difference at this level of modeling between a human and a car. It is just a complex system of redundant components subject to breakage. If you repair it well it enough it has an indefinite mean time to failure.

The important thing to appreciate about medicine is that no present medicine does anything to repair damage. All advances in medicine and related technologies relevant to control over disease that have led to longer lives across the board have only modestly slowed accumulation of damage. Slowing damage accumulation more deliberately or via engineering metabolism is very hard and the best of approaches can't beat the outcomes of exercise or calorie restriction, they aren't moving the needle any further. I don't expect them to, either.

Fortunately, there is the alternative approach of repair, with the outcome of indefinite healthy life spans for sufficiently comprehensive repair.

The future is one in which the root cause damage is periodically repaired. Lines of research related to SENS for example, such as senescent cell clearance. Other than some forms of stem cell replacement, there are no implementations of damage repair today, but that will change very rapidly once things get going.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_theory_of_aging_an...
Totse anybody?
Building a custom docs app falls somewhere below "Getting 1.0 released" on the kanban board, if I had to guess.
Thanks, I'd not seen an HTML5 video blocker previously.