skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did you just go from creating a straw man to a "well, actually paedophiles are kind of redeemable" stance?

No, but you went to a straw man very quickly. In addition, it's clear you don't understand statistics.

First, DNA is often far from definitive. So, if the error rate is 1 in 30,000, you're very likely to get quite a few hits of innocent people when the perpetrator isn't in the database.

Second, people who use "women and children" or "pedophiles" as justifications can generally be considered to be engaging in dishonest behavior. Something that has a logical justification doesn't have to hide behind emotional appeals.

Third, "pedophile" or "sex offender" are terms you can get saddled with very easily in the US for a whole range of behaviors including things like giving a child a lost child a hug to comfort them (oops: now you're a pedophile) or taking a whizz in public (congrats: you're a sex offender).

Finally, even the worst and most guilty among us deserve to have their rights protected because those are OUR rights when WE get accused of something heinous of which we are not guilty.
So you write it as Speck, but you pronounce it as bacon? Nice.
You seem to be considering only one of the commodities involved in the exchange; if men controlled substantially more money than women, you'd expect exactly the imbalance you refer to, all other things being equal.
We actually know quite a bit, author of book on the subject defending his account against Hersh's:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/mark-bowden-bin-laden...
This looks pretty sweet!
(On a sidenote, I'm trying to figure out whether making the documentation look like daringfireball.net was intentional or not.)
Fun fact: Lyft is the only top 100 app I've heard of using Swift
[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3050266/tech-forecast/lyft-goes-s...
[2] http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/17/the-lyft-ios-app-is...
Reminds me of a terrible old Cold War era joke:

Russian worker sees a queue to buy sewing machines at the local GUM (department store) and joins it. Eventually he gets to the front, and the sales clerk has run out of the machines, but offers to take down his name for when more come in. After he takes his name, he asks for his address and workplace.

When the man gives his workplace, the sales clerk stops him. "You work at the sewing machine factory. Why are you here? Just smuggle out parts and make your own at home."

The man shrugs. "I tried that, but each time I end up with a submachinegun."
Can anyone explain what is meant by this:

> During the Iraq war, reporters informed us that a mob of jubilant Iraqis toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square. Never mind that there were so few local people trying to pull the statue down that they needed the help of a U.S. military crane.

Here's an (edited) video of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snyz8sn2-z4

I'm 90% certain I watched this live at home in the morning when I was home sick from school. There were a smattering of people trying to bring it down and then the crowd got bigger and then the U.S. crane came in and helped. This happened over the course of an hour or two. I remember thinking it was cool that U.S. military helped out.

Where does this claim of the false narrative come in?
Yep, Ashley Madison taught us we can't trust any company with our data.
Have you looked at Webhook?

http://www.webhook.com/
I'm not sure that I agree with your policework there. The "security community" here almost certainly refers to a private security researcher or firm. I can't see why it would have been a government source.

In general direct information sharing is one of the most important things in information security, but the government has its hands tied in this area in a way that private companies do not.
The first "dynamic" website I ever built, circa 1998, was powered by an Excel spreadsheet. It was for an online gaming league, and I needed a fast way to create HTML pages with the various league tables on them.

The way I built it was to represent my information in spreadsheet cells, then add a final column with a formula that concatenated together a string of HTML using the content of the cells in that row to create a <tr><td>...</td><td>...</td></tr> chunk of HTML.

Then I just had to "fill down" the formula, then copy and paste the resulting lines into the "PASTE HTML HERE" section of my HTML page and FTP it up to the server.

It worked surprisingly well. So much so in fact that I reused the same technique with a Google Sheet for a small internal web page just a few weeks ago.
They can make showing their ads a condition for API access.
So, interpreting "different" as "multiple"? Seems unnecessary to use an ambiguous word. And then an ambiguous word that is not actually the main point of the study.
U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered
I'm not really willing to ascribe motive; I'm sure there are plenty of technical reasons to push people to an upgrade too (like reducing support burden).

But -- there's nothing like an unwanted OS upgrade (repeatedly) burning through your data cap and spare disk space to suggest that maybe you're not in control of your computer anymore.
It is commonly said that there is a 1-in-a-million chance of falsely matching someone else. I don't know where that is from, but if you're 1 in a million, there are 318 Americans just like you.
Batterymakers See a Big Break Coming – No, Seriously This Time
> There is no technological solution to the government compelling cooperation from any developers who venture to protect privacy.

What about formally proven security? can we expect in a near future to have communication software for which adequate security is guaranteed by a formal proof?
Doesn't solve the issue of needing a C compiler for third party extensions, and definitely qualifies as a work-around for the existing toolset.

Yes, it helps. But you can use Docker with Go programs as well (and drop a lot more of the base image in the process).
Is the 3 months in the US while working on your OWN company legal?

What do you tell the immigration cop if they ask you if you're going to work in the US? Would you explain that you're going to work on your own company? Would they accept it? Or would you just say you're going for a vacation?
Pakistani rulers play on different tables, not unlike the Saudis (and the US). They used Islamic extremists in Kashmir and in Afghanistan to pursue their own goals, so they wouldn't just drop them like a hat the day the US came knocking. There is ample literature on the mutual distrust between US and Pakistani security services during the "war on terror".

In many ways, Pakistan is like Saudi Arabia or Turkey: countries the US cannot afford not to be allies, but with very different strategic interests, often conflicting with US ones. I don't find at all strange that they might have harbored Osama all along, just as another bit of leverage in the eternal game of foreign policy.
"Mob" != "smattering", perhaps. It makes it seem like there was more Iraqi popular opposition than was actually occurring.
i enjoy using ocaml a lot, but the lack of a good orm and the bad windows support are indeed very painful. the tooling used to be bad, but at least under linux i'm pretty happy with it these days for my small hobby projects. it's one of those languages that i'd love to be able to use at work; i miss the type system when i'm doing c++.
I think in the U.S. it's just fingerprinting and a photograph, not a retina scan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Biometric_Identity_M...

(I'm not trying to minimize or legitimize this -- I find it very offensive and have planned my own travel to avoid visiting countries where I would be fingerprinted. I'm just pointing out that US-VISIT doesn't currently include a retina scan, at least not routinely at all ports of entry.)
This is Hersh's publication: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-...
Men and women, on average, have dramatically different experiences in an open sexual marketplace: a few men are having quite a lot of sex, many women are having a fair amount of sex, and quite a few men are having very little sex. This is consistent with an underlying ugly darwinian dynamic: a single dominant male can produce thousands of children, while a single female can produce perhaps ten.

So for a few men and most women, the VF article is reasonably accurate.
Should you use Reddit to promote your company's content?
Why You Should Get Back in Your Box
Unless works under copyright are fortunate enough to be picked up as educational material/insanely popular, they usually vanish. Scanning helps with discovery and recovery. The gap in our cultural heritage is huge[1]

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140114/10565225874/copyr...
StackOverflow Careers has a lot of remote jobs.
These all seem like issues you'd run into with any task scheduler. Error emails, overloading a central resource with many tasks. Most of these aren't particular/limited to cron at all.
If you like this, you might like this post I wrote a while back: http://datasyndrome.com/post/69514893525/yelp-dataset-challe...
Nice! I've been using

sort -r | head -n100

but obviously this requires the entire file to be shuffled before printing the first 100 lines.
Sounds more likely to me that some people within the Pakistani intelligence knew Bin Laden was in the country, similarly individuals within the US intelligence community knew and had known for a while that he was in Pakistan if not specifically where/how to get him out. The idea that someone sold him out is certainly plausible.

The idea that there has to be some black and white distinction between the US cooperating with Pakistani authorities to enter the country and kill him vs the idea that they had no knowledge at all I think is probably not accurate. It sounds possible that US authorities alerted Pakistani authorities that they were going to be conducting a raid and Pakistan could comply or face much bigger problems. Since they didn't want to be portrayed internationally as being complicit in housing a well known terrorist, they ignored the radar signatures of the helicopters just long enough for the raid to happen.

It's too bad they didn't bring the body back to the US. I wouldn't consider Bin Laden to be a Muslim and therefore not deserving of a proper Muslim burial. I see no reason they should have disposed of him and prevented some sort of public verification.
FreeNAS 10 alpha
Twitter has been ruined by the tech bull market. Their valuation went too high too fast, and now they are constrained by Wall Street's lack of imagination and being measured by Facebook's chosen KPI.

Does a monthly active user of Facebook equal one on Twitter? Public conversation happens on Twitter—it is where celebrities and intellectuals put ideas into the public sphere. When you watch television news you constantly see tweets mentioned, when have you ever once seen a Facebook post? Twitter is like the Beat Generation, and Facebook is like a scrapbooking club. Even if Facebook wanted to make themselves relevant for public discourse (which they don't because Wall Street doesn't have a metric for that), it is incompatible with their current rent-seeking post promotion model and feed tax.

Meanwhile, no one, even within Twitter, can quite define what it is. Wall Street hates that, but what it really means is that there is still untapped potential there. Last I checked Twitter was 1/5th the size of Facebook. It's a bloody travesty that being 20% the size of the biggest social network ever is not considered viable, especially when it has so much unexplored potential.

Twitter would have fared much better in a bear market where they managed costs, and let the API flourish. Who knows what apps could have come out in 2015, 2020, 2025 if the fucking bankers hadn't gotten their mitts all up in the oven before the baking was done.
I've been using Dead Man's Snitch[0] in production for a few years. It's been a life saver. Not affiliated, just a happy customer.

[0] https://deadmanssnitch.com/
So my little 4" wide quad needs to be registered? What a joke.

I don't see why registration is necessary if they have laws in place around airspace and make the consequences of violating those very clear. Make a few examples and the problem will go away.

Registering doesn't solve anything as people will "illegally" build their own if they want to do anything malicious and this won't prevent that. It just adds another nuisance and more tracking.
Lol, classic Soviet Union story.

I have been thinking about this.

In general people tend to work on greed and fear.

Could we build a system that is based on peoples goodwill or it would be doomed?

I still blame the shit government

Quote: "The cadres determine everything."
Although the visa discussion in this thread is healthy, nobody has yet answered the question. OP wants to know what visa do founders currently use, not available options.
Yeah. It makes sense to some extent because those laws are regulating highly technical fields where legal certainty about details is important. We all benefit when public companies have that certainty.

But so much of the complexity is from politicians abusing the tax code to support their pet social projects, to benefit some company in their constituency, to protect some industry from competition, etc. Then they have to make it even more complex and technical to undo the unintended negative effects of their original abuses. Everyone involved should really be ashamed.
> I don't have one, but have been working professionally in this field for 4 years (I'm 22), and thus would not be eligible.

My understanding is that the quoted figures are indicative only and not backed by black-letter regulation. Of course, consult a lawyer. Or have a potential employer pay for you to consult a lawyer.
I agree, but that's the only 1 in 400 number I could come up with.
Perhaps but the discovery is still significant. Until now there was no such correlation with Alzeimher's and Fungi.

This has significant implications in terms of direction of future research.
Or: We are more selfish than we believe or say.

Few people want to believe that they are selfish.

Sadly, the paper hasn't been published and 'identifies more strongly with' is rather vague in definition.
It's hard not to exaggerate the implications of this study if fungal infection does turn out to be the cause of AD given how huge this would be for humanity. Just off the top of my head I can say this disease has effected my family (1 set of grandparents effected by this disease so far) so I'd like for the conclusion to be correct.

I guess the next step would be testing the hypothesis with more people with AD to see if it holds up and then somehow getting approval to do drug trials (and I'm sure there will be no shortage of volunteers.) I can almost see a clamouring of families trying to get their hands on anti-fungal drugs in the future in the hope that it helps their loved ones but we simply won't know if this will help until there's more data.

Hoping for a break through. It's certainly not without precedent that we find something extremely simple / obvious that turns out to be the key. On a side note: it's interesting to think that the crack pots you see writing about candidas infections being the cause of numerous hard-to-treat illnesses -might- actually be right (in a sense.)
What Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts
Schools for Wisdom
I just started using AWS Lambda for a cron-like job I needed. It supports scheduling now.
Yesterday I downloaded a sample of "Ball Four" (one of the books mentioned in the article) from Amazon. No doubt Amazon has permission to do such a thing, but it is pretty odd for some authors to be worried about one type of sampling and not another kind.
The article doesn't say it was developed in Russia, it says "The computer itself was developed at a research institute outside Moscow, and production was transferred to the German Democratic Republic"
That doesn't sound unique to the USSR lol
The essential problem is that governments treat elimination of private and secure methods as a game of whack-a-mole. As soon as a new service/software/protocol pops up, the government either bans/eliminates it or forces a backdoor. In this environment, we should expect that any service/software/protocol which survives for a prolonged period is insecure, regardless of proofs, because it probably would not have been allowed to remain secure by the 'authorities'.

This is, again, a political problem, because the populace supports Stasi-like surveillance.[1] The people are getting exactly what they want, and what they want is a horrific system. As H.L. Mencken said: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard".

I understand that this seems a bit conspiratorial or paranoid, and I wish it were. If you want an example of how our expectations of surveillance have changed, please watch the 90s conspiracy-thriller "Enemy of the State".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
I don't think this is the right way to look at this. They both transform to the most sensible html given the input.

If you want to use an underline for emphasis instead of cursive, this is more of a style concern than anything else, so the appropriate place to change this would be in the stylesheet, which is perfectly possible.

If you specifically want it to output the <u> html tag, I agree that this is not as convenient.
I would not do it if I was in their position. I'm a US citizen, so I believe in upholding the constitution, which includes a prohibition on unreasonable search and seizure. Whatever the lawyers and judges have made "unreasonable" out to be, NSA dragnet surveillance is way beyond "reasonable" and on into "police state" territory.

Also, I'm not a pervert who gets kicks from listening to others' conversations. They apparently are.
Other than being fake in every photographic sense it's also scientifically fake.

Obviously icebergs don't have that much under the water and they look significantly different in the underwater section.

I couldn't see it getting much faker.
I bought a kit from 23andMe a few years back and was quite keen to get information on my genetics and health factors. However, I realised by submitting my DNA to them, it would probably go into global dataset for law enforcement. I was ok to do this for myself, but putting you DNA into a dataset like this can also potentially affect your family which is something I didn't want to do.
Beavers: A Potential Missing Link in California's Water Future
> How can a millennial ’trep with no lofty urban-design credentials even consider proposing such a bold idea?

What is a "'trep"?
I wouldn't. Why would you have paperwork to be in the US for 3 months to 'negotiate a contract'.

Its a serious crime to lie or misrepresent to a Federal DHS Officer
Eleanor Roosevelt defends feeding Germans 1500 cal/day (1946)
From what I recall, the results in a study showed that the primary care giver of an alzheimer's patient was more likely to get alzheimer's themselves. The argument against transmissibility was that primary care givers tend to be related to the patient.. therefore the more likely reason for caregiver alzheimer's is genetics.
Exactly, we have lots of instances of other parts of the body becoming infected but brain sicknesses I think go untreated probably because they are hard to detect and the brain is so resilient.
The author seems very proud of the automatic-rendering JS they've written, and it's kind of cute but personally I'd much rather a batch-conversion tool.

On the other hand, that ASCII-art-to-SVG conversion is golden, and I'd absolutely love to have that supported in my API docs and blog-posts.
The busy and creepy artwork at the bottom of the page isn't doing you any favors - do you have the rights to it?

The text on the landing page is also maddeningly vague. It could describe almost every social media startup in existence, and all of the text tends to be obscured by the background art for me. Other than that, the site seems decently well designed.

The "explore" link doesn't really flow with the look of the rest of the page and it seems too easy to ignore.

Also: Share your thought's with the rest of the world! <-- remove the apostrophe here.
> The allocation of visas is quite odd

It's based on a formula. Regions which saw fewer immigrants are granted more visas.

Because Australians have access to the E-3 visa, relatively few of us who live and work in the USA become immigrants for the purpose of the Diversity Lottery calculations.
Federal Judge: "Can I see which specific individual or entity has expressed intent to invest? Oh, there isn't one.. yet? Goodbye!"
Meanwhile, no one, even within Twitter, can quite define what it is.

I must try: Twitter is RSS Feed. Twitter is a notification app for updates.
Hey, this is Josh Kalven (I wrote the piece above). One of the benefits of the spreadsheet, over a wiki, is that the numbered row structure could match our numbered slide format. This made it very easy to keep everything organized, particularly when assigning transitions, images, sources, etc. to each individual slide.
Thanks for all of the sources. I remember listening to a talk on NPR about the same subject a while back in my car but I couldn't find a link to it.
This is the visa Microsoft uses to get devs into America.

They work in Vancouver for 12 months and then get an internal company transfer using the L1 visa.
That weird split is how most languages with modules work.
They still haven't decided for sure if dietary cholesterol is bad for you, or salt for that matter.

The best minds of our generation are too busy selling ads to be bothered with trivial stuff like this.
There's a reason he didn't provide a source: because it's not true.

In 2007, 1,640 women were killed by male partners, and 700 men were killed by female partners. [1] and the stats are far, far worse when one looks at non-lethal violence.

The notion that women are more dangerous is a commonly spread mysoginist lie. It's designed to get upvoted by other anti-feminist, anti-woman "men".

1: http://opdv.ny.gov/statistics/nationaldvdata/intparthom.html
...That he's dead? Do we really need to know more than that?
> Suggesting people in Black suits need to show up when

But that's exactly what I'm trying to say. I was responding to:

> What would you do if someone held a gun to your head and ordered you to either give them a backdoor, go to jail, or be shot?

Which is not reality. That's not the kind of coercion you experience. The government applied (in this case direct) economic pressure, and Lavabit made a business decision that a fine of $5000 per day (and potential future legal problems) was an unacceptable operating expense. Goodbye, Lavabit.

And once again, a protocol (like SMTP) that doesn't inherently protect agency is, in my opinion, a technical problem. That email requires SSL for confidentiality is a security vulnerability. You don't fix that by taking on the political system (I mean you could, but good luck). You fix it by engineering a protocol that isn't vulnerable in the first place.

My point is that we need to stop waiting for the politics to change, and solve the problem ourselves. That's going to mean questioning some very entrenched protocols, like SMTP. So be it.
If it turns out to be the cause too (maybe similar to cervical cancer), it's a huge discovery.

Asimov's book on science history is an interesting read, full with similar discoveries that were ignored for many years.

http://www.amazon.com/Far-Human-Eye-Could-See/dp/155817107X
Wait wait wait. Does this mean I can buy a quantum computer?
Given that there is a low incidence of AD in India, i'd suspect that fungal infection is partly a cause. It would be interesting to plot food spiceyness vs AD rates and spiceyness vs fungal infection rates in the world population.
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Linux is designed like a 1970's mainframe.

TempleOS is designed like a C64.

I don't see cron as useful for a C64 user.