skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It sounds like you're saying that reported loneliness isn't unreliable because we can't externally test it. I'd think it's just the opposite; if we have no external tests, that's a great reason to assume it's unreliable.

I'm not disagreeing with you on that--there's always the possibility someone's lying to you, and that has to be designed into your study as best as possible. It's difficult. My point is more that we don't have any other choice if we want to do a scientific study of things like loneliness. Or anything else that only exists within the context of one's own head for that matter.

> That said, I'm not as confident as you that it's not externally testable.

Perhaps it is. I'm only wary of these things because it's very easy to find correlations. Studies of depression are full of this. You can find a certain brain region or gene or hormone level or whatever correlated with depression, but then you find someone who also feels depressed who doesn't exhibit those symptoms. So do you tell that person they're not "really" feeling depressed? Of course not. And fMRI studies are open to abuse too; I'm sure you've heard of the "dead salmon" study, but if not: http://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/

I'm actually optimistic, as you are, that there will be better diagnostic tests for a whole range of mental conditions/experiences/illnesses/etc., but the core criticism still holds: if you want to trust a diagnostic test of a mental state, ultimately, at some point, you will also have needed to trust the self-reporting of that mental state.
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That's fair - although I can't imagine letting someone rename my project and deciding to collaborate on it together while still trying to retain my own copyright notice on files. I hope we hear the other side of the story. My point is just that the MIT license itself isn't necessarily the issue here.
That's true, but then there followed a long time (18 months?) in which VW denied any wrongdoing, and nobody could really prove them wrong. If the source code were available, the investigators could have quickly gone from "this looks wrong" to "hey, check out this really sketchy source code!" It might also prove that it was deliberate, rather than a complicated accident.

Also, I have a hunch that they wouldn't have done it in the first place. If you know your code is going to be public that's an incentive not to do bad things, even if there's a chance nobody will ever read it.
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Failure to provide decryption keys is I think not currently covered by the 5th in USA.

In the UK the punishment for failure to decrypt a device when the police ask is pretty much the punishment for whatever they accuse one of having on the device...
I think Xi meeting with Silicon Valley business executives before meeting with Obama wasn't any better.
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Super useful!
Relay is actually a pretty simple specification that sits ontop of graphQL. As far as the server is concerned, just look here[1]. Don't be alarmed if there's not a lot to read. There isn't much to the spec[2][3][4].

Also a great place to ask questions is in the GraphQL slack [5]. #python is where the discussion for the python port is happening.

[1] https://facebook.github.io/relay/docs/graphql-relay-specific...
[2] https://facebook.github.io/relay/graphql/objectidentificatio...
[3] https://facebook.github.io/relay/graphql/connections.htm
[4] https://facebook.github.io/relay/graphql/mutations.htm
[5] https://graphql-slack.herokuapp.com
This has been an odd dynamic through my entire lifetime.

The president has never been the one pulling the strings, and I'm not sure why everyone blindly blames the person in that position.

There are people whose names the general public has never seen that have a great amount of influence in our legislative process.
Got it, thanks for the explanation. I generally trust that the authors of such studies know what they're doing when they design an experiment with a certain n value in mind. Agreed that the insufficient n argument does crop up a lot around HN.
Thankfully, in the US we appear to have some level of fifth amendment protection for encryption keys.
Sure, if you don't mind gardening and have space. But at commercial scale? Much harder.

Our CSA farm has commercial greenhouses for their tomatoes and cucumbers, so they can have a good supply of those even when weather becomes a problem. They seem to build a new greenhouse every years. But scale? That's a handful, a little ten acre farm selling directly to consumers.
Don't forget lithium mining, processing, and battery creation/disposal.
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I know of only one Solaris Zone escape CVE in its entire existence.

http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-5689/

I also know of only one FreeBSD Jail escape CVE in its entire existence.

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:03...

These were years ago. Jails and zones are everywhere. You're kidding yourself if you think people haven't tried to attack them.
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Well, true, any information is useful, I guess.
I bought a pair of over-ear headphones because they provide a clearer I'm working right now signal than earbuds.

They also have a better audio signal, but that was really secondary.
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> The quote that shows the futility of war games is “No Battle Plan Survives Contact With the Enemy” from German military strategist Helmuth von Moltke

How does that show the futility of war games? War games are one venue in which military leaders develop skill in adapting to the unexpected. The accuracy of von Moltke's quote certainly suggests that planning can't completely substitute for skill in execution, but it doesn't mean that planning is unnecessary or that war gaming is not valuable.
Well, tmux gives you a bit of features if you have to do anything else other than editing a file (ie: connecting via ssh)
The escrow there would make me very nervous, as it becomes a very juicy target.
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A 3rd key would have to be kept secret forever but still available easily. How long before this gets leaked? One thing everyone can learn from the Snowden leaks is that governments are rubbish at keeping secrets for long periods of time. Bear in mind that the 3rd key would have a serious financial value and could be sold semi-anonymously.
I like the backpack better as I can bring it with me on the last 100 ft and into my building where I shower and change, where if its pannier's I either need a backpack inside of it, or I need to carry my stuff around.

Also people steal stuff, so I don't like leaving things on my bike.
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Why do companies, security companies even, do something like this...
"
Below are the document checksums for Project_CAMERASHY_ThreatConnect_Copyright_2015.pdf

MD5: b12f118840d0aa0d5ab2fb9aa052ede3
SHA1: dbd710751a6c32ba91401fb5e5623f46b4d2475f
SHA256: da6b105f1e58f860ce67b2ad2db7b15ff7b637cfb37f7d0680a20eb633bcc741"

... when you are then providing both the PDF, and the list of its supposed hashes, over an unencrypted connection! It renders it meaningless. I can't trust those hashes or that document. And creating megabyte long PDFs with colliding MD5 hashes is not even a difficult challenge anymore.

The irony here is this page is say "hey open this document, it's safe, trust us" when the document is all about APT attack methods, which often involve compromising people's computers by opening untrustworthy documents! I doubt that's what's happening here, but still kind of silly when you think about it.

Please, all the companies out there. Stop adding a list of hashes to appear more legitimate when you clearly don't know what you are doing.
The general idea behind a successful CEO is that he's got a trusted team of executives who he delegates to. He isn't personally making changes, but he/she is good at identifying talent and motivating them.

At the end of the day, his people also need to be good at identifying people - so on and so forth. It absolutely can have a big impact, but most of the time it doesn't.
Why do they need that?

All they need is for a policeman to physically seize a device while it is unlocked.

Or even while it is locked with encryption keys stored in memory, and some custom tech to read the RAM from a running device.

I'd wager that people with sufficient physical security to prevent this are very rare, and it works against any sort of device that doesn't have a dead man's switch.
The quantity thing isn't about famine-level food, though - it's about industrial scale cost. The cost of food relative to income has plummeted worldwide for over a century. With it, the labor requirements of farming plummeted.

In today's world, anyone going hungry is a political problem, not a supply problem. So the answer of growing yet more food, using yet more industrialization, is absolutely the wrong solution. We need to get less efficient, closer to the food again.
For end to end usage samples and somewhat comparing to other DBs I can recommend my kitchen-sink project NERD-stack: https://github.com/Xantier/nerd-stack
"A group of automobile manufacturers said that opening the code to scrutiny could create 'serious threats to safety and security.' And two months ago, the E.P.A. said it, too, opposed such a move because people might try to reprogram their cars to beat emission rules."

Oh, the irony.
For this article? Most of it, because the animations annoyed all the human readers so much they closed the tab.
I hadn't considered this approach. It seems potent for revision history, but frustrating for reading and review within the source files, or do have vim configuration aids to html/markdown wrap and navigation?
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Unless opening a tab in the browser generates a singularity which can be harnessed to provide free unlimited energy to the entire world there's no reason to award a patent for it.
> They looked into whether it could be done

Before that, they first had to deliberately ignore that that the government already "looked into" trying to require key escrow. At least that time they had an actual proposal (Skipjack/Clipper Chip) instead of dissembling about "golden keys".

A lot of people in government have been acting as if the this is a new argument, when the backlash already happened. The idea that someone needed to "look into" this to find out if there would be a backlash only makes sense if they were somehow ignorant of the 90s crypto wars.
Yes, but you don't have much other choice. Security through obscurity can and often is practical, and in this case a full, open solution is an AI-complete problem (i.e. equivalent to creating a superhuman artificial intelligence), because it would need to understand motivations behind actions, and not just actions themselves.
I wonder how true that ia - you could just get hired by a powerful company and sidestep all that. Pottering would be a classic example of this.
They have added years of lower quality of life because they have focused on the wrong thing. I doubt, no matter how much research we do, that we will get a higher than 100-120 life expectancy unless we focus on actually reversing aging, instead of spending money on curing all the diseases that come with aging. It's not very smart. Aubrey de grey has some very good talks about it.
> had violent confrontations with cars.

If this happened between a motorist and pedestrian or even other motorist, what would happen? That's right, they'd take away their drivers license, which should be happening more often. This isn't a bike problem, not even sure why you brought it up.
What framework doesn't have a runtime?
> Whenever a change is made, that is 7-10 seconds the watch command is running and I'm not testing my changes in the webapp.

Compared with C and C++ build times which are measured in minutes or even hours, 10s is nothing.
Note that all a psychiatrist does for adults to determine whether they have ADHD is give them a self-reporting questionnaire. You can find sample questionnaires and diagnostic criteria for interpreting them in a couple of places online. In other words, if you're honest with yourself when you answer, you can know exactly what a psychiatrist will say without having to go.

The one thing that might not be mentioned on such sites is that people being tested for ADHD are also given an inventory for anxiety disorders, sometimes mixed into the ADHD questions. Anxiety looks like ADHD in some ways but is treated differently; effectively, in order for an ADHD diagnosis to "count", you have to be not-overly-anxious.
Is that watching using `tsc -w` or watch(1) [1]

[1]: http://linux.die.net/man/1/watch
You are taking a strawman position. Take a look at the bigger picture, my other comment, and reevaluate.
There are some problem inherent to coordinating anything on a multi-billion person scale that are monumental. You could even narrate a history of people on earth using ability to coordinate at greater scale as your x axis.

I've heard an interesting theory about homo sapien "victory" over neanderthals and other archaic humans. In some versions it's upper paleolithic culture over lower paleolithic culture of which neanderthals, early sapiens and all the grey arrears around those groups.

In any case, the theory/hypothesis/narrative is that the difference between anatomically modern humans and their close cousins and homo sapiens sapiens was their ability to coordinate on larger scales than the biologically determined "band" size. Chimps, Gorillas and presumably earlier hominids live socially in groups that vary in size within a range determined by their biology. There are no chimp kings, tribes or limited liability companies, just troops and bands. Their bonding and cooperation mechanisms are based on biologically determined behavior. Environment and even culture play a role, but 250 chimps controlling a territory that would otherwise be controlled by more smaller troops is not in their repertoire.

Imagine a population of archaic humans who, by use of language, religion, symbolism, abstract concepts of some unknown kind, oral history or some other means were able to coordinate 500 individuals, with 200 fighters. In a lot of contexts (the most obvious being war), that group would be at a huge advantage. These are our ancestors. It also suggests a gnarly explanation to the genetic bottleneck question.

This process continues through history. Mega bands become clans and tribes and super tribes and nations and all sorts of affiliations. They get bigger and more effectively coordinated. Economic and political dynamics emerge. We get ideologies and organized religions, feudalism, socialism, slavery, capitalism, monarchy, nation states, empires, manchester united and political party nomination betting odds (BTW, Trump is at 3-1).

Anyway.. food.

Based on current grain prices, the daily caloric requirements of a person costs cents, ¢10-¢50, depending on what you plug into your back-of-the-envelope calculator.

I'm not bringing this up as proof that caloric deficit is easily solvable, I mean the opposite. The fact that it persists in the face of this fact means that it is simply very difficult to do anything on a entire species scale. "We" here is a very tricky concept. There is no real "we" yet in the practical sense of an actor with agency.
I enjoyed the use of the term 'minicomputer', being old enough to remember minicomputer actually meaning something somewhat larger than the size of a modern day internet router :)
Shh... youre ruining the "MS and the NSA will pay for their crimes" circlejerk here.

The reality is that MS is not going anywhere. MS sold 200m copies of Windows last year. Its difficult for organizations to move off Windows, and especially Office and IE, considering how much infrastructure expects those things to be available. The 10 year Munich linux migration wasn't much of a crowd pleaser either, considering that city is thinking about going back to Windows:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/after-a-10-year-linux-migration...

MS still knows how to play this game well and arguably the desktop is something of a natural monopoly.
Thank you! I've been looking for this since the first time I found it I don't even remember how long ago! I found it really interesting.
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(a) No.

(b) You don't need even most of the instructions to get to a useful, fun place.

I was surprised by how easy it was to get to that place. Take my word for this. Read this:

http://reocities.com/SiliconValley/heights/7052/opcode.txt

and just start coding.
I was with you until the last line:

> but it probably means that teenager who get into trouble often grow into adults who get into trouble.

I don't need to be the one to disprove it because the loose terminology is just so ludicrous. You're clumping ADHD in with sooo many other outside factors that influence what is 'trouble' and it's causes.
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I think a point here is that NAT isn't long term sustainable. We seem to be teetering on the point where NAT Traversal becomes almost impossible to reliably do and the concept of a single internet breaks down, one NAT black box network at a time. Already there are systems that really can only communicate via HTTP to the global internet and then only if they initiate the request. To some people that is a "feature" and the future of firewalls, but I don't want to live on an internet where you have maybe one reliable protocol and a pull-only view of that one protocol at that...
Yes, that's true. Overemphasis on aesthetics above functionality tends to result in buildings with quirky problems (the recently new mit buildings) and can stick out like an eyesore once the avant guarde aesthetic falls by the wayside, but I think here they have a point in that many times contractors and other builders go for mass production and so don't often optimize for recyclability or energy usage, etc.
This analysis seems based on preventing congestion. But congestion, while ugly, isn't a bad thing. What matters is total journey time.

Imagine if you replaced all the trains with trek-style teleporters. Rather than 100 people all getting onto a train and being whisked away, they would all wait in a line outside these devices. That would be an increase in congestion, more people standing around waiting rather than moving. But if the teleporters get them to their destinations faster nobody cares that they had to wait in line.

It's a matter of perspective. The city/transport planners see people standing around not moving as a bad thing. But the people don't care. Standing on the slow train or standing in the line waiting for the fast train is all the same to them. What works best for the people isn't the an elegant system of slow trains to ensures nobody ever stops, where nobody ever suffers the evil congestion. What works best for them is getting to work as fast as possible. If that means crowds at bottleneck where in-feed is slightly faster then out-feed so be it. Slowing things down, having more people spend more time standing in trains rather than on platforms, doesn't help them get to work faster.
Far superior to what? In what way?
If you're going to compare metro areas, you should do the same for San Jose: 6,979 km2.

This is in fact even larger than the Randstad (4,300 km2). I'm not going to bike from Amsterdam to Rotterdam (in fact, I find that too far to commute no matter what method of transport I have). If the housing problem in Silicon Valley is really so big that it's hard to find a house within 10 km of the office, I can see how it's going to be hard to get people to commute by bike.
Cycling in the US really is more dangerous than in Europe. I see two main reasons: 1.) Drivers are not aware of cyclists and don't know how to deal with them. When I cycle on roads with considerable car traffic, it regularly happens that cars drive dangerously close to me or that they cut me off. In Germany, drivers know what distance they should keep and to look for cyclists when turning. 2.) The condition of the streets is incredibly poor in the US. Potholes are a real problem, not just for cyclists. Some ptholes in San Diego are a foot deep and this is of course super dangerous for cyclists. I've never seen potholes like that in Germany.
I'm a fan of go sublime but vim-go is also really nice :)
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Yes. Cyber criminals put people in internment camps for thought crimes all the time.
i.e. incompetence and not malice

The primary revenue source of many of these sites are ad clicks (impressions often don't matter). If the function paying the bills are ad clicks, and site stickiness really isn't a thing anymore (nowadays we're all directed by social news, Facebook, etc. Few of us visit specific sites), why not abuse the users that do come by.

A principal web design facet in the past was the notion that you pre-size all of the elements, such that the content layout is static. This basic facet has largely disappeared -- despite being monumentally simple -- and the only rational explanation is that moving content is profitable.

And for sure it is a terrible long term strategy. But the problem is that it's a tragedy of the commons -- your ad payout on most networks is based upon the group norms, not on your own site norms. So if everyone else is click tricking users, your own per click payment drops, so the only viable solution is to join the race to the bottom.
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With all of the metadata you're leaking onto the internet there are far better ways to track you than by IP.
> Comments like this break the HN guidelines about civility.

Understandable.
I take that comment back, I respect the opinions of people here on hn more than that of other forums.

> Obama's birth certificate surely also qualifies as a "classic flamewar topic", so you've broken the guidelines there too.

Not trying to start any flame war, just wanted to know if anyone validated these variables, just as you would ensure a class was properly initialized before calling its getters. Purely after the data.

> We ban accounts that do that repeatedly, so please read and follow them when posting on this site.

Very well. Thank you for the subsequent information.
"Fixing" things on global scale with expectation people won't exercise their legal rights against the "fix" without any external threat (I'd say influence, but threat brings more results) is a fairy tale, utopia to be precise.
These things mimic biological systems. Fraudsters are disease and as you have noted threaten to kill the host they rely on. But the whole reason Google has survived is because they have built an immune system (ad fraud team) and antibodies (fraud detection systems) that keep it moving along. Over the years there have been plenty of ad exchanges that succumbed to the disease and died.

That's not to say Google will survive in perpetuity. Disease has a way of iterating and evolving. But big G won't go down without a fight.
- "Meat is simply one of the few things left that really have flavor"

That's an odd statement, considering the fact that most foods (including meat) are seasoned with herbs and spices. Meat without any seasoning has a pretty weak taste.

What gives bacon its taste is the sweet/salty seasoning and the smoked fat, which has been reproduced remarkably well in some plant-based commercial foods. As far as I'm concerned, the taste problem has already been solved (it will keep improving, of course), but it will just take time to change, due to the sheer size and influence of the animal industry.