skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paranoia is a specific thing. It requires irrational, unjustifiable fears and a sense of blame or persecution. You're not "paranoid" if you've changed your behavior in the wake of the Snowden documents or if you're cautious regarding the amount of information you share with third party services and devices.

I'm not being pedantic, I've seen a lot of arguments recently from actual paranoid conspiracy theorists that feel smug in the wake of Snowden. I'd hate to see people start to confuse real paranoia with informed caution.
So check out this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10384020

Freudian theory is the basis of pyschodynamic therapy. I'd encourage you to try a different type, as I don't think all are equal.
The only thing the Supreme Court has done is "interpret" the word "privacy" into a document where it doesn't appear.
Please don't propagate the "omega-6 fats are bad" myth. Meta analyses of many studies done on linoleic acid intake and inflammatory biomarkers show that they aren't pro-inflammatory in humans (the most common issue food bloggers raise) and they have been shown to be a strong negative risk factor for heart disease in epidemiological studies.

With that being said, refined oils high in omega-6 fats should be avoided, as all the anti-oxidants that keep them from going rancid in their whole food form are absent.
There are some great things going on in React / Flux, but the part that needs to be emphasized about Flux, that Facebook doesn't address explicitly anywhere, and that most people eager to always be on the cutting edge will never admit, is that this stuff was designed to solve problems for very complex applications. Complexity is relative, and the solutions that reduce complexity and friction in the development process for Facebook may increase it for another organization. That is to say, Flux / React et al is by no means simple. Not even a little bit. But it probably simplified a lot of things for the Facebook team. However, YMMV for your 6 person startup engineering team.
Peter Norvig's Economics Simulation is informative in this case. Without forced redistribution, most OECD nations will become 3rd world eventually. It's a mathematical certainty. Even with forced redistribution, the rich still get and stay rich.

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Economics...
Let's produce more. Let's make a rich world for everyone :-)
I actually read an article on Medium that goes into this in-depth. It's not published anymore, but I had it in a G-Doc, which I linked here:

https://docs.google.com/a/freelanship.com/document/d/1pnuE_b...
Ok, do you have the statistics at hand? What do they tell us?
> But with most jobs are already meaningless from the viewpoint of economic productivity

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just wondering if there's any research that's quantified this idea. I have no idea how you qualify meaninglessness and economic productivity.
I have upgraded a couple of machines myself, and the key thing here is to choose the "Upgrade this PC" option on the downloader instead of having it create the installation media. By having it Upgrade using the automated procedure, there is no worry (as long as the host machine's Windows is already activated). Nevertheless, you will need to activate Windows 10 after install, which can be done Online or over the phone (talking to a computer). Also, be sure to choose the bit-depth that corresponds to your current Windows -- unfortunately there is no up-bitting (that I am aware of).
There are grey scale emoji fonts, but as far as I know there is no way to render full color images as fonts in X11.
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wtf?
The ribosome, DNA replication complex and ATP-synthase (and other complex enzymes) qualify as precise molecular manufacturing, if you relax the definition a little.
Ribosomes are already being engineered, see expanded genetic code.

How far could we go by modifying existing biological molecular machines? Probably quite far.
> It's not "exceptional."

The problem here is... well, I'll make an analogy.

I have a safe. The government gets a warrant to search that safe, and since I refuse to help, they get a professional locksmith to open the safe for them.

Now, let's say I have a safe that the government can't figure out how to open without destroying its contents. In response, the government tells the safe manufacturer to start making different safes that the government can open.

Hopefully you see the problem with the second case.
I'm not sure it's that easy... At least in the UK, the employer will sooner or later find out about your previous employment, because you'll need to give the new employer some PXX tax forms.

In any case, I'm not sure being unemployed is actually that much better.
Why would you write off people who think torture would be acceptable if the trade off is big enough. Most choices are a trade off.

If torture really doesn't work, it's an amazing argument against torture.
In my opinion just knowing that your activities are monitored alters your behavior. Which for me is enough to be seriously concerned...
I'd prefer not to live in an area controlled by battling warlords, thank you very much.
I agree it's corporate speak (to a degree; there are certainly worse examples). But the claim in this thread is that he didn't put the decision first. He at least did that.
In this case, the government has a warrant to search the device. So what in the 4th amendment "should already be plenty for this?"
I've tried, all right; that's what led to the understanding that it is a waste of my time. Months of work on a marriage-equality activist group built up a lot of public support, and then the whole thing got co-opted by the existing political establishment. All the energy disappeared, the work was wasted, we were nowhere closer to achieving our goals. The wheels continued to turn, but very, very slowly. It was eight more years before marriage equality finally happened. I'm really glad I didn't waste all that time working on activism.
See this paper rejecting the technology for the Trident missile program.[1] Also this harsh critique from Djkystra.[2] And this writeup on HN last year.[3]

I encountered HOS back when I was doing proof of correctness work, and didn't really understand how it got beyond very simple problems. But I thought, at the time, that was my fault. In retrospect, it's an approach for a certain class of control problems dominated by required relationships between certain variables. That's what flight control systems are all about.

Control problems are typically expressed as a set of "laws", equations which define what's supposed to be happening given the inputs and perhaps past inputs. Some of these are equations, and others are constraints. Checking those laws for contradictions and turning those laws into code is partially automatable, and that's what HOS was trying to do.

HOS only seemed to work well with the founders driving it. Somehow, they were never able to express clearly what they were doing. Sometimes that happens. Norm Hardy, who came up with capability-based systems and created KeyKos, a capability-based OS for IBM mainframes, had that problem. The system worked great, but nobody understood what he was doing. He used to have an "explainer", Susan Rajunas. In both cases, the startups went bust.

Trying to get people to understand a complex formal system is very hard. Harder than developing one.

[1] http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a198753.pdf
[2] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8736450
Its not despicable if you come from a country that is not in the western hemisphere.

Tesla will never sell its cars - in africa.

And lets not forget that america was built on blatant coping of IP from europe for over 100 years !

Paradoxically this blatant copying is actually going to lead to strong IP in china in the future.

A country can go so far by copying others - they will always be behind america by 10-20 years.

Anyway China is not a real threat to american interest - the american govt is.
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Where did your data set come from? It contains at least one error:

WOF2, tungsten(VI) oxytetrafluoride

that correct formula is WOF4
I'll tell you one of many, this one is a bit of mindfulness/meditation: one of the best ways I learned to deal with anxiety or depression is to commit wholeheartedly to feeling that feeling. I use the analogy to strength training a lot because once you start looking at anxiety as a form of stress you can adapt to (like weight training) rather than as an uncontrollable thing that just happens to you, your relationship to it changes dramatically. It was difficult to do this: one of the key exercises I did was when I wasn't feeling the anxiety, was mentally committing to the idea that physically it really wouldn't hurt me. Then when it happened I was able to say "ok we've already decided this wont kill you, so what happens if you try your best to feel it, rather than run from it?" Then you start building a tolerance to it. Do I still feel anxiety and depression sometimes? Absolutely. But I've learned to change my expectations around those emotions: I don't look at them as signs that something is broken, they are just regular emotions to go through like any other. In a weird way, I almost look forward to them because they are an opportunity to train again, and to test myself.

In general mindfulness and meditation are great, and if you can't afford therapy as well, they can be great on their own (and are free!).
I don’t see posing for men to jack off to your body as empowering.
That minor point has major implications if true, so I definitely think it's worth reading into, at least to decide whether it's correct or not. It's the difference of whether your Google map searches, and possibl\y web searches are contained within Google, or are accessible to others.
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Dear human resource,

Twitter no longer requires the services of 336 current employees. Twitter must do what is best for Twitter and what will lead to optimal financial measures over the next 12 months.

The executives of Twitter chose who to fire based on the belief that the remaining employees will lead to the best products and therefore greatest profits.

HR will provide people getting fired with a list of open positions elsewhere. Twitter will give fired employees some money to help them survive and make non-fired employees feel better about their own situation.

Firing people is unpleasant for the executives of Twitter.

Please believe that you can affect the decisions that are made by executives at Twitter.

-Twitter
Roger.

Why do the thing Spidler described in his comment, rather than the thing I described in my comment?
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When I was younger I wanted to program games and later searched for a better programming language I stumbled on Python. Later I had a hobby where people are in need of special software and scripts. Since some years I'm coding such things for <1h per week in average. So basicially this is a hobby of mine. I never participated in any open source project or coding-related forum.

I'm currently studying "buiness information science" but I only learned about Java and a little bit of HTML/CSS/JS there, so nothing special.
I suspect Apple's blocking the US News app in China preëmptively so that the PRC Government don't get mad at them and use the Great Firewall to block the News servers.

Consider many Chinese users might try to fool Apple into thinking they're U.S. users. If you make sure that anyone in China – rather than anyone apparently Chinese – can't access the app, then China won't cause Apple trouble.
> should damage these guys

Is G. Bush Jr still alive? Seriously, dont do any harm to these people. They need to have a fair trial, which will fairly convict them of war crimes, followed by lawful solitary confinement for life and/or inmate carelessness and/or family bankruptcy for life, and I wish them a long, long, long life.
Is there a site that tracks these sorts of policy changes (like http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ does for UK laws)?
I knew Hamilton's achievements in the Apollo program were remarkable...but I hadn't known that she had started while being as young as 24 -- and being a mother. That's just incredible. I can't even imagine going through school as a father and being able to balance my time, never mind having to carry child. Nevermind being a star programmer at MIT. And her husband was going through law school at the time, which means not only did she not have a stay-at-home husband to take over the parenting duties, she was the breadwinner.
> Absolutely, too much sodium, sugar, etc etc is unhealthy, and this absolutely not nonsense.

But "too much is unhealthy" is a tautology. There are a number of studies that show that sodium-restricted diets may increase all-cause mortality. So "too much sodium...is unhealthy" is not nonsense but completely meaningless and unhelpful as advice.

We generally know much less about nutrition than is commonly portrayed.
It is more than that.

most traffic condition on map rely on Toll Tag to measure travel time and speed between points, on normal highway.

Unless you have a detachable tag, otherwise your tag ID will appear on every single major interception, with time, speed between blocks. Most of Tag will ship to your house, and/or auto fill by credit card once the balance is low.

People probably imagine they will be erased after few years, but $sudo happeneds.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/17/1412811/-AT-T-and-N...
A video is just a succession of images. An image is a video with only one frame. You could use the exact same system that protects videos to protect an image, by making a video with one frame of very long (infinite) duration.
I reason it's a preëmptive block so China won't try to block the servers to prevent Chinese users pretending to be U.S. users and reading US news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10384070

This would be consistent with that hypothesis.
Really? There's no way I would install any of those theoretical apps. Hell, I probably wouldn't install any app that requires mic permissions period.
Does anyone know why LAN Sync is normally turned off by default?
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What is so great about this that hasn't already been done by all the other 3rd party keyboards on the market?
And all the tracking cookies - http://s13.postimg.org/64047bamv/track.png
I don't think you have to pre-notify every lead that they've been selected but having an interface where leads that are interested in seeing that information, and correcting or removing it, would be ideal. I won't have anything to do with Talent Bin due to how their system works and I would probably not have cared as much if it was easy for me to see and update my information. I honestly believe they make it difficult intentionally as without the profiles of all the people they find via social media, github etc they wouldn't have a product.
That seems unlikely: government planes were being shot down in the area starting in April (22/4 to be exact), months before the incident. Those planes were delivering military supplies and shooting at and bombing the separatists, so it's not like there was no reason to shoot them down. Before the MH17 incident, 17 planes were shot down in that area. As the report puts it "But none of the parties involved made any connection between the military developments and the risk to civil aviation". This is in fact pretty unfair because it doesn't mention that it was (and is) under the authority of the Ukranian government exclusively. Neither Russia, nor any of the separatist organisations could have closed the airspace if they wanted to.

The report is quite clear : the Ukrainian authorities were aware of the threat, and had good reason to close the airspace BEFORE this happened. This is in fact one of the few pieces of blame being laid out here.

That means the only real remaining question is whether the Ukrainian authorities were using commercial flights, and the lives of thousands of passengers as human shields to safeguard their military aviation in the area, were they trying to provoke Russia into shooting down commercial planes or was it merely a monumental fuckup ?
Being taught to be ashamed of your body and to keep it covered all times isn't exactly "empowering".

This is a common feminist talking point. While I agree in this context it could be argued, ultimately it's about the woman having full authority over her body and how its portrayed. That includes the authority to display it in the nude and not be shamed into covering up.
Open Source was the capitalist response to Free Software, capturing the cost reduction of shared and unpaid voluntary work and reselling it as closed systems. If anything, it underlines the point that any change will be subverted and used against its originators.
Home solar converters will need to synchronize to the mains power supply like any generator before connecting. The power supply capacity of the grid is orders of magnitude more powerful, so connecting it out of sync will still cause it to sync, however, it most likely won't be pretty. Once it's connected, the grid will force it to stay in sync.

Here's a video of a generator who's synchronization system is being "hacked": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJyWngDco3g
Although the article doesn't mention it in specific, that's what the comments say is happening.
If you are a sci-fi fan, an interesting new trilogy to read is the Imperial Radch trilogy by Anne Leckie starting with Ancillary Justice.

One of the interesting themes is that everyone is surveilled totally and intimately down to even their feelings, but it's not the point of the book and the protagonist treats it as totally normal and it's never really discussed nor is there any suggestion it would be better if that wasn't the case.

I really enjoyed the trilogy but as someone who's pro-privacy it was a strange read.
First mistake with that site is that it defaults to the "new" page instead of the "top" page.
That's the problem though. It's not about you. It's about the average user who doesn't understand all the implications of actions he/she is asked to take or permissions he/she is asked to give to a third party.

It's not about "us" the HN readers. It's about everyone else, and that's what's scary.

Just because I'm a really good driver doesn't mean I won't get into a car crash.
Voting for the lesser evil at the end of the day is non representative. It devalues the vote. It sends a wrong signal to establishment and to candidates.

The undecided voter is constantly bombarded with this "get out the vote or the republic will fall" fear-mongering line to push elections one way or another. At the end of the day it's a form of gaming the system.
And the live demo here: http://huytd.github.io/azeroth-js/
Isn't this problem better solved by watermarking anyway? People want their work distribute publicly but want attribution to attract users. Buyers need a redistributable license most probably as they are interested in the media most probably as part of some communication effort.

Drm is not going to help after buyer redistribute the purchased work in any way, especially if there is a medium conversion involved - i.e. printed issue.
> The jobs did not go to robots in America, they went to workers in China.

They went to robots in China. There was a very good video documentary on this in (I think) The New York Times not long ago, but I haven't been able to find it. This is close, anyway, and provides context: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robot...

> The city of Dongguan plans to finish 1,000 to 1,500 “Robot Replace Human” programs by 2016, which (if done on a similar scale to the example above) would vastly increase production and improve quality while putting nearly a million people out of work.
He's being straightforward and honest, which you label "bullshit doublespeak".

I have seen many demos and such where Steve Jobs and the like talk about how they want to make the best product possible for users and so forth. According to you, they all have saying "the task of our company is to build the best product possible, subject to the overriding concern - profits for the billionaires who own a majority of our stock".

I have never seen this. They don't say this. That's the real bullshit doublespeak. Stallman is honest and straightforward about his goals, and you use that honesty to not only attack him, which is fair enough, but to use his honesty to say he is being dishonest. It is you who is being dishonest. Why aren't you attacking companies who don't say "Our #1 priority is making profits for the billionaires who own a majority of our stock, the quality of our products reflects this concern". That's the truth, that's the agenda, but you say nothing about this. Stallman is honest about his agenda, and you use his honesty not to attack him because you disagree, which is fair enough, but use it to call him dishonest, which is ridiculous.
Expecting to provide for a spouse is outdated now that women are in the work place. They increased worker supply, driving down wages.
..uh well with a defeatist attitude you've just validated a self fulfilling prophecy without even trying.
Politics, of course.
Isn't this basically Readability mode in Safari?
The fact that they are not is the whole basis of targeted advertising.
One of Gabor's grad students, Alan Nichols, gave a half-hour talk (Learning Quantum Mechanics: Machines versus Humans) that was previously posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8912703
I think it's because the examples are so plentiful.

Big leaps forward seem to broadly cause people to either significantly underestimate them (the home computer mid 1980s), or to significantly overestimate their near-term impact (the state of all things stem cells 15 years ago).

It occurs almost every time there's a big headline about growing organs, curing HIV/AIDS, curing various forms of cancer, curing alzheimer's, and so on. It occurs with almost everything to do with gene therapy right now.

Robotics has been under an almost constant state of overestimation for more than a century, while the industry has still delivered amazing technology in that time. Artificial intelligence has been treated the same way for decades. I think these two instances are heavily caused by fear, people are projecting far beyond what's rational.

You see it in batteries a lot. Solar suffered from it for decades. Storage / memory seems to see the effect in action with nearly every breakthrough (the gulf between the date of first public awareness and reaching a commercial economy of scale representing that typically huge gap of time).
Web apps not in the normal sense. You get to design a desktop application that takes advantage of web technologies, but gives you full native access with projects like Electron and NW.js so it's really native apps built on top of web technologies, which a browser is pretty native. Instead of having to download Qt or another C++ toolkit and worry about the lincensing, you download a 30MB browser (or however big it is) that is MIT licensed, and comes with Node.js out of the box giving you all of Node without having installed Node to begin with. It's really interesting in my opinion.
How missile guidance systems work
More than 10. Emacs is my most used software.
> Give me sincere, honest news and discussion, or else shut up.

There are plenty of sources for what you desire it just isn't what's popular... is that a problem?