skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guy who claimed responsibility for this mentioned that they basically had an open root console exposed to the entire web on one of the development servers, and even named a subdomain. Guess this was why.
I thought this article was a new use-case of FB's Flux initially.

Great name, but perhaps the headline could have read "Netflix Flux: ..." or "Traffic Flux: ..."
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Another list of "accidentally Turing complete" languages is here:

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...

Edit: Oops, I see this is already linked in the main article as “accidentally Turing-complete”.
Security and anonymity will be paramount here. The last thing you want is for ISIS to get a hold of submitters identities.

I think it's quite possibly a great idea though. Optimize for mobile web and keep the bandwidth requirements down. Even if the service provides just one or two tips that make a difference in the fight it would be worth while.
Sweden Simulator 2015
Thanks. Forgot to change to cdn version. Fixed now.
An interesting approach to this would be to scrape social media for ISIS content and extract EXIF data from images.

I remember reading sometime last year that USSOCOM was using a similar strategy to direct fire missions.

I think, however, that a more realistic strategy would be a mass trolling campaign where everybody poses as disenfranchised women seeking to marry jihadists. The goal is to get them to spend money on plane tickets, bribes, and accommodations without actually producing results.
Unless you're starting from the ground up...
I argue that they can eliminate risk. What happens is the top 10% of the people who cost insurance get the boot.

Now, unless they choose just to not pay out, they can still reduce their risk levels below threshold of the industry. That's what actuarial science is founded on.
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So, you're arguing that measuring other data points doesn't add value? Just look at someone and if they are overweight that's enough of a data point?
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> Health insurance will inevitably start to care about what you eat and how much you exercise.

This is already happening, I met the founder of http://wesavvy.com/ recently which uses your phone to track exercise and reduce your insurance premium.
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This puts me in mind of Slavoj Zizek on charity.

http://www.vice.com/read/youre-single-because-there-arent-en...
> Not very useful without data about cost of living in those places

That data is freely available elsewhere. Salaries are harder to get.
My understanding is you have access to total monthly credit usage vs. credit availability, not what I'm spending money on. I would think there's information to be gleaned from whether the distribution of spending across categories looks like a deliberate household budget, whether purchases include luxury items, etc. that would let you spot people likely to bury themselves in credit card debt before they actually do so. Just as people's social networks might tell you about their attitudes towards money when influenced by friends.
Oh I had no idea you were the author. Very cool; thanks!
Haven't run across this. What sites?
These days, I am judicious about marking people like this as spam. Because they are. I'm hoping they will hopefully eventually get blacklisted.
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How to never pay Uber's surge rates
Double taxation is the price you pay as a shareholder for protection from liability for the corporate debts. If you don't want double taxation, you're free to choose a structure that doesn't shield you from liability (i.e., a partnership), though in the US and most of Europe you can now get the best of both worlds (liability protection and no double-taxation) though the LLC or limited company forms.
> if they make an unpopular decision, any lawyer could opt to run against them by simply campaigning as not the other judge

In many localities there is no requirement that a judge have any prior legal training or experience.

So anyone, not just any lawyer.
Probably not in the next few decades. But if you want extrapolate way out into the future, perhaps you don't even need a internal sensors. Give it 2 or 3 hundred years.
I have an é in my first name, many automated systems still choke on this, and the email looks something like: "Hi Name<GarbledCharacter>EndOfName"
Most of the time I just shunt everything that has the word "unsubscribe" in it to the trash.
while i dont have much of an opinion of js in a spreadsheet except "neat!", the website design and text is spot-on in that I understood in an instant what the project does! Kudos.
> even Stallman would've advocated something like the MIT or BSD license for something like this

Almost, Stallman (well, the FSF) advocates Apache 2:

Some libraries implement free standards that are competing against restricted
standards, such as Ogg Vorbis (which competes against MP3 audio) and WebM
(which competes against MPEG-4 video). For these projects, widespread use of
the code is vital for advancing the cause of free software, and does more
good than a copyleft on the project's code would do.

In these special situations, we recommend the Apache License 2.0.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html
I did at "Data"
Highly recommend people look for photos of the French Catacombs if you want some ideas of what to do with around 6 million skeletons. It's a very surreal day trip o_0
No, its not normal.

I have signed a couple papers where my employer owned all of my ideas.. even developed outside work.

Signing an NDA is normal, this is not.

This is not good. Do not sign it.
Not quite a book, but you might find the materials for this MIT course on Game Theory and Social Behavior insightful: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-11-insights-from-gam...

"We will apply insights from game theory to explain human social behavior, focusing on novel applications which have heretofore been the realm of psychologists and philosophers—for example, why people speak indirectly, in what sense beauty is socially constructed, and where our moral intuitions come from—and eschewing traditional economic applications such as industrial organization or auctions."

I learned about signalling theory in this course, among other insights into why society acts the way it does.
On SQL Injection, I usually rate myself a "5;DROP TABLE USERS;"
Looks like you got the same email as I just did. How weird is that!
Personally, I make the most of it. I try to see how far I can push the recruiters while still having them respond to me. Here's one such exchange. (I went all-caps because for some reason he emailed me in all-caps. He went back to normal but I decided to stick with it.)

Recruiter:

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Hey Aerovistae, THIS IS A GREAT POSITION FOR YOU IF YOU WANT TO GET IN THE FIELD OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT. take a look please!

I am a technical recruiter and have a great job opening in Waltham that I was wondering if you would be interested in! Ive included some details on the position below, drop me a line if you have any interest! Thanks

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Me:

I WOULD LOVE TO GET INTO THE FIELD OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

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Recruiter:

Hey Aerovistae,
Would you like to speak over the phone this evening sometime?
-Eric

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Me:

I DO NOT HAVE A PHONE

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Recruiter:

Hey Aerovistae,
My phone recently broke also, so I feel your pain, but will you have access to a phone in the near future?

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I HAVE RECENTLY ARRIVED IN SRI LANKA AND THE BROADBAND INTERNET HERE IS VERY GOOD BUT THE PHONE IS VERY EXPENSIVE, CAN YOU ACCEPT COLLECT CALLS?

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After that he finally stopped responding. I have a whole folder of these. I think my favorite one is the time I tried to get the recruiter to do a CAPTCHA to prove he was a real person and not an automated bot.
> Namely the impossibility to solve Halting problem.

Also the possibility to compute anything possible computing with a turing machine. The fact that you can embed this logic into a style description language accidentally is a meme worth propagating, in my opinion.
You have given all the budding recruiters the perfect email template to work with.
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Every single spreadsheet software has been able to do this for years, but using Javascript makes it better amirite?

What makes this better than Excel (VBA, Python, probably half of the languages on the planet.), Libre Office, Google Spreadsheets, etc., aside from Javascript ? The only point I could see would be integrating this into a page, which is of dubious utility.
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Nice work!

I noticed that you're using a web-worker, does all the heavy lifting happen there and the main thread is used for purely rendering?

I'm noticing some lag when I just press enter into a cell twice (once to get into edit, and then again to get out). Any idea what's going on there (I'm interested technically)?
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> I have a whole folder of these.

PLEASE SHARE I WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR LAUGHTER
Hey, Aaron here, cofounder Zube. We really hope it does! Zube makes it super easy to keep your cards up to date, even if some of the people on your team continue to only use GitHub issues. We'd love some feedback after you've had a chance to try it out.
There is also Vitality UK from Prudential, and Beam - the wifi connected toothbrush. Telematics is all the rage in risk.
My worst experience was a recruiter who would send me an email every day and call me 5 minutes after sending it. Literally every day. Even though I never took her call she would try again the next day.

It went on for 2 full weeks before I lost it and finally replied to one of her emails with a simple "Stop calling/emailing me" and it stopped.
They missed some my favorite cliches: "Rockstar", "Full-stack", "Startup mentality", "Outside-the-box thinking" and "Customer focused"

Very funny and completely true
That is AWESOME. I wish I had your sense of humor. You should start a Tumblr with these emails.
why would apple want you to block ads in apps? ;)
Ask HN: Anything better than Tableau for data viz, dashboards?
I am in charge of implementing a web-accessible dashboard to visualise some data we are collecting on behalf of a client.

I am currently planning to use Tableau. However, my (admittedly very limited) exposure to the platform has left heavily underwhelmed. Tableau dashboards appear expensive, slow, ugly, and completely lacking in statistical tools.

Can anyone suggest a platform that can improve on any/all of these issues?

I am experienced with Postgres, JS, Ruby and Objective-C, and also with Stata and R, so I'm not afraid of some coding. But I am looking for something considerably quicker than coding the thing from scratch.
It's a little sloppy, but I don't think "got sold" is actually incorrect.
The New England Journal of medicine did a study with "doubly labeled water" which made it possible to determine _exactly_ how many calories a person ate.

In a study of people who claimed to be "diet resistant" (some of whom were taking medication based on what they reported to their doctors) it had been determined that each and every one of them were underreporting their calorie intake and overreporting their exercise to the doctors.

Here's the study (PDF)

http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM199212313272701

It's been duplicated again and again.

The last paragraph says:

"In conclusion, all the obese subjects we studied who had a history of self-reported diet resistance had appropriate energy expenditure, but they misreported their actual food intake and physical activity."

It's sounds shocking to me, but people would rather lie to their doctors, and get medication they don't need, than count calories accurately.
I've been using it for a while in Chromium (a lot), Opera (not as much), and a bit in Safari, and have not had that issue.

Sounds annoying, though.
Ireland is not more efficient a government; it was simply leeching off of the rest of Europe through a tax-evasive taxation regime that is now illegal. The gist of it was that companies could locate their European headquarters in Ireland for tax purposes, but then Ireland wouldn't actually tax the companies if they legally headquartered themselves in Bermuda. The latter part of this was the tax-evasive portion deemed illegal. Furthermore, Ireland didn't require the companies to actually move their management to Bermuda--it was sufficient to hold a board meeting once a year in Bermuda, and many of these companies were for practical purposes managed from London or New York.
Where sound goes to die
uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.
I think it's the most interesting because it immediately turned me off to the project. Releasing this only as GPL basically means it will NEVER be adopted en masse :-(
They're always about "touching bases". What does that even mean in this context?

No, I don't want your completely irrelevant position. When I tell you that I don't think your company should hire me to the role because you'd be overpaying me for something I'm overqualified for I mean it.
How would this compare to Algolia ? Does anyone have experience with elasticsearch and algolia to shed some light on this ?
BMP is free isn't it????
The situation here is that people did not read the docs. Do you think they will start to read the docs for the proxy pass?

Aside of that, you cannot securely detect this because what it actually does is passing in a header which if not reliably set can be forged.
Can I drop in any .js file I want that defines appropriate functions?
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Recruiter here, and one who is publicly critical of this kind of behavior in the industry. I write about career topics frequently and try to expose recruiter bad behavior. (1)

I completely understand frustration about being contacted for jobs requiring skills that are far out-of-date or that you don't have, the laundry lists of technologies, etc. On behalf of some in my industry, I apologize.

Although criticism of recruiters and their approaches are frequent, I don't see nearly as much guidance that might help recruiters in what information to share in an introduction. If you don't want to hear from recruiters at all, mentioning that on a LinkedIn/GitHub profile might prevent some of these unwanted contacts.

The signal to noise ratio from recruiters is terrible, and it makes it incredibly difficult for recruiters with a targeted and applicable message to get heard. I enjoyed the days post dot com bust and in the recession when inexperienced or ineffective recruiters had to leave the industry.

Instead of parody, I'd like to seem someone write something that they think would be appropriate. What type of approach might get you to reply to a recruiter? What would get your attention?

(1) http://jobtipsforgeeks.com has multiple pieces exposing recruiting tactics.
I have a question that might be related to the topic. I have found that often, when solving problems related to probability theory, it is more convenient to think in terms of combinations than to think in terms of probabilities (perhaps because I'm a programmer). Would it be possible to devise a programming language that allows me to program a filter that selects the desired outcomes out of the complete set of combinations, and to have the compiler automatically deduce a closed-form formula for the probability (without enumeration)? If this is not possible in general, what would the restrictions on this programming language be, to make it work in practice?

So for example, given the question what the probability is that, when throwing 4 coins, 2 of which will be heads; I could write a function that generates all possible outcomes "TTTT", "TTTH", etc. And I could write a filter function that returns true for "TTHH", "THTH", "THHT", etc.
Most negative reviews there list Google perks as a pro.
I assume managed account means it's hosted by someone else. Unless it's Atlassian themselves they're probably being cheap and giving it as little resources as possible and it not being on-prem probably contributes to the feeling of slowness.
oh little bobby tables we call him...
Yeah it's not really "new". Lotus Improv was doing this 25 years ago, for those of us old fogeys who remember. 1-2-3 was for the secretaries, Improv for the power users.

Also, I know know of plenty of financial institutions that have mod'd Excel with Add-ins to the point where the Worksheet integrity is better than 95% of the RDBMS' I've worked with. Version controlled, full audit trails, access control lists, type validation...

Hell out of the box, you can get an out of the box Excel + SQL Server BI to essentially make an off-the-cuff Line of Business app, completely sync'd, with a Silverlight front similar to (this)[http://www.infragistics.com/uploadedImages/Content/PRODUCTS/...]
I think they realized how stupid that was, so they are looking into finding another provider...
Thanks to Google, those full-screen app store ads are going to go away soon: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/09/mobile-fr...
Heroku's implemented a streamlined version that they support called Data Links. https://blog.codeship.com/heroku-data-links-postgres-redis/
Would it not end up penalizing the exceptions? I have a friend who grew up in a ghetto area. Most of the kids in his neighborhood didn't do much AFAIK. If it was assumed he would behave like the average person of his neighborhood he might not have made it out.
> - No peer-reviewed paper published yet?

While there's no paper there's a full Github repo which I'd actually say is quite impressive.
LibreSSL and the new libTLS api
This is one of my very favorites.

Recruiter:

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[Long email from "Steve" looking for Rails dev for a place called CustomInk]

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Me:

I only work for companies who recycle 100% of their paper and plastic and who have plans to run on solar power by 2017, could you tell me CustomInk's stance on these matters?

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Recruiter:

Unfortunately, I do not have this information. It is a fantastic company to work for, though.

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Me:

Okay, I might make an exception if it is really so fantastic. Could you please let me know whether there is a tactical obstacle course on the company grounds? I am used to having this available for exercise to break up coding.

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Recruiter:

Aerovistae,

There is not.

S

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Me:

This is sounding less fantastic by the minute, Steve.

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Recruiter:

I wish you all the best in finding an employer that offers you everything you require.

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Me:

Steve, don't take that tone with me.

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After which he stopped responding.
Pretty much all countries have the no claim bonus for driving. (It's in the earliest actuarial exams.)

You can clock up several years of no claims bonuses, and the discount increases with each year.

Interestingly, the no claims bonus can be insured. Now, generally only risk averse people will insure their no claims bonus - and these people also tend to drive more risk aversely and hence have less accidents (or perhaps less likely to make claims - who the hell knows).

So, the very fact that somebody wanted to insure their no claims bonus should in theory give them a discount on their premiums. But you cannot offer a discount for an extra feature! This means you have to dive into your generalized linear model and fiddle with a couple of parameters to make sure there is some sort of nominal charge for the insurance on the no claims bonus.
> I was under the impression that the local IP leak was an unintended side-effect of webRTC, not a 'required component'

Same here. My understanding is that the breakage of Hangout is unintended, as the original Chromium issue for the IP address leakage states[1]:

> This change causes WebRTC traffic to be forced through the same path that HTTP traffic would, i.e. the traffic follows the default route to the destination site.

In other words the purpose of the setting is strictly to prevent IP address leakage, not to prevent WebRTC from working.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=333752#c...
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"Your demographic" is just a feature of your model though. Just because your methods are not very sophisticated, doesn't mean that others can't be upset that you arbitrarily group them by whatever rules you decided to come up with.
> he wasn't speaking as an owned slave, but as a future sociologist/historian.

Then he's optimizing for his value. Which is a really narrow-minded way of looking at the situation. One would hope for a sociologist/historian to be more broad-minded than that.

But I'm not sure to what degree Oscar Wilde was really a sociologist or historian. He was mostly an author, and he specialized in saying things that were counter to society's values. I'm not sure to what degree he believed all of the things he said.

But in the quote in question, his position essentially is "do evil so that good may come". That's a pretty dubious sense of morality.
Please don't be mean and dismissive in response to new work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Is the Network Turing-Complete? [pdf]
I appreciate the Penny Arcade/Pokemon reference.
The fact that science changes and people used to disagree is a testament to the difference between the two fields. Testability is where science gets it's credibility so it's not surprising that it doesn't have much credibility among scientists. How many times has philosophy made a prediction about how things worked that was observable? I'm not saying it should have the reputation it does but it doesn't surprise me at all.