skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I think is dangerous is confirming that he got the Xmas card. Depending how that was sent, he has confirmed that he hasn't relocated his home and that puts him in danger. If Fly wanted revenge, he wouldn't want to hire a hit on the wrong house, now would he? Confirming his family is still in that house makes it a target for a hit or arson if Fly seeks revenge.

Even if Fly was not already a criminal - merely a troll - there are now seeds of revenge planted. He doesn't need to have been a criminal or done any criminal actions for him to want to seek revenge. People who are seeking revenge can be dangerous - to deny that is to ignore millenniums of history proving otherwise. While it has been pointed out this wasn't Krebs first and likely won't be his last - and that he's likely accustomed to such things. The danger is still there.

I am not trying to argue "because he is criminal, he will try to kill" I am saying "because he may seek revenge, he may try to kill". This has nothing to do with his criminality - and my bringing up his criminal behavior was more trying to shed light on "anyone can hire a hitman. they just need money and enough motivation to want someone dead." because it's a commonly held belief that only the rich and powerful (kingpins, political leaders, etc.) have connections or can hire hitmen.

The motivation aspect is covered by "revenge" and "need enough money" can be covered by "criminal activity".

Anyways, I'm done here. I hope he stays safe and I hope his confirming he got the Xmas card doesn't bring him or his wife/family(?) into harm.
> just like bitcoin

You mean like many bitcoin companies right?
"...there have been multiple other apps that required me to use my Facebook credentials to log in. Facebook, it seems, is now core to the mobile Web experience."

Most social networks provide very little that a blog and an email address don't, and for that modicum we pay with our privacy. Personally, I don't think the convenience of OAuth is worth what the networks earn from selling my data. I wonder what'll happen to their market share when smartphone OS developers start including authentication layers in their kernels.
I think using sshkit and chef-solo you could easily achive the agentless model ansible provides with a more mature toolset and community. I never really understood peoples aversion towards agents though. You literally can create a golden image with chef-client and your done. There is very little cpu or memory overhead from the chef-client and it only runs when requested unless you run it in daemon mode. I think Ansible capitalized on people's wariness/lack of experience using chef rather than there experience causing them to look for an alternative.
8 was really, really similar to 7, except for the start menu. The start menu made little difference to me because I just create taskbar/desktop shortcuts or press the Windows key and type what I want. People bitched about the new start menu because they weren't willing to see that there were better ways to find their programs.

10 is really, really similar to 8 as well. The only noticeable difference is, again, the start menu. There are small things here and there (and a much nicer graphical design), but otherwise it's pretty much the same.

If you have enough storage, I'd suggest just trying Windows out as a dual-boot option. If you don't like it, you can always remove the Windows partition, no harm done.
> Obviously, DNA contains far more information than fingerprints, to the point where it literally contains an entire copy of you.

No, it doesn't literally contain an entire copy of you.
Didn't you know? Familiar DNA is only useful when the cold case victim is a woman or child. It's not actually any good if the victim was a man. That's just like, basic science, man.
nobody at Twitter really has a feel for exactly why the core product was successful

My 2 cents...

When twitter launched, Facebook was still closed to the general public, personal "blogs" were popular but somewhat out of reach of the general public (setup complexity), and a lot of people realized that while they had things to say, those things weren't enough to fill a blog.

Twitter allowed people to converse publicly, put micro-blog style opinions out, and do it without needing to register any domains or customize a page (MySpace).

IMO, twitter primarily filled a time-sensitive gap that has now mostly been overtaken by aspects of Facebook, Linkedin, etc. Much of Twitter is kind of paparazzi-like, and if a company came along that really leveraged the celebrity and sports icon base Twitter would fade away to a bunch of "SEO and Marketing Experts" all tweeting pre-scheduled thinly-veiled promos at each other.
Entertainment has value.
Well, considering that the Windows 10 upgrade is only offered free for the first year, I'd think that it'd make more sense not to automatically upgrade people's licenses for free if it could be charged later down the road. So yeah, I could see how this would actually be a mistake.
Again, in Europe, it's considered a little weird that we have an exclusionary rule that applies to any branch of government.

But the reason is: judges aren't abusing the Fourth Amendment; they're the arbiters of it.
It's not so much broken as designed to fail for political reasons.
Firing people over mistakes is a very stupid thing to do. Mistakes is how you get experience.
That's a great point. It's almost as if they're trying something new for the sake of trying something new rather than taking the risk to make the bold change where it could actually matter: their core product.
I'm only seeing an image, with no explanation, and it took me a while to realise what it was showing; so, in case anyone else is puzzled by it, each image is the sum of the previous one with a new factor (indicated by the "wheels upon wheels").

I think that the reconstruction of Homer Simpson's face (which I think I originally saw thanks to OP ColinWright!) may be a more convincing demonstration of the power of Fourier transforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVuU2YCwHjw . There's a Nautilus article about it, too: http://nautil.us/blog/the-math-trick-behind-mp3s-jpegs-and-h... (EDIT: and an HN post discussing that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6683866 ).
YMMV if you're on a laptop, though. Some models lose control over screen brightness with the 7 -> 10 upgrade, locking it to 100% all the time. Microsoft doesn't have an explanation or fix.
I have something similar, though it posts random links from HN rather than the entire frontpage. I have it set to run with a cronjob every 4 hours or so.

https://github.com/ctrezevant/hackernews-bot
> But, I would never, ever send them my DNA attached to my identity.

Your DNA IS your identity, and sending it to them is sending them all the information ever needed to identify you. For an encore you are also helping to identify your parents and your children and other relatives to a lesser degree depending on how far they are removed from you in the family tree.

That there is a name and a social security number attached to your DNA right when you send it is a convenience, not having that information is not an obstacle if any of your family members are also 23andme customers.

The only way this would work is if everybody sent them anonymous samples and 23andme would destroy each and every sample after receiving and processing it and destroy any and all records created as a result of processing that sample. No way they'll do that, and you could easily argue the only reason they exist is to build up that database.

I wrote about this a couple of years ago in some more detail:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/your-genetic-information-is-not-j...
Whoops, re-reading this I realized it should be a 0.04 deg C change - I slipped a decimal. The point stands though.
He might believe that it's good for corporations and what is good for them is good for him.
There is no need to jailbreak anything. Just download the apps with iTunes, unzip the ipa, and voila... you can do all the static analyzing you want.
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An Apple shaped like a booty is God's gift to the internet
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Maybe this will help get the Poles to hurry up and start digging on the Nazi Gold Train.

What an awesome year for buried treasure a head, Nefertiti in Egypt, Nazis in Poland and now Ancient Romans, at least one of them should contain some pretty awesome stuff
Thus ruining what made it great.

I am really not liking this newly interventionist moderation regime. It's not just that I disagree with many of the individual decisions (though I do). It's that it's thoroughly capricious, and that makes HN a really unpleasant place to be.
How was/is your experience using Clojurescript for a project? Is it worth it? (besides learning it)

How sane would it be to go full nodejs/CLJS instead of nodejs/JS?
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According to my lawyer, the funding amount for an E2-visa has to be appropriate for the planned business. So no clear minimum, but the ultimate decision is in the hands of the official who reviews the application.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)
Twitter could make a lot of people happy by re-opening the API access (e.g. third party apps) and adding access control (e.g. teams and channels).

Twitter has so much untapped potential, a bit of which you can see in the new Moments. For comparison, Facebook is doing a fantastic job IMHO at highlighting stories, groups, events, and friends that I want to see.
I get random connection suggestions on FB that make me scratch my head as well sometimes, but most, if not all, are people that are 3-4 degrees removed from me. So they are friends of a friend's friend somewhere in the chain. FB makes some guesses based on how much you interact with certain people on the platform. Judging by that it makes weighted judgments of who you may know. So the more you use FB and like/share/comment with your friends, the greater your chances of seeing random friend recommendations that you may not realize there is connection to.
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Sure, that makes sense, I was more meaning why you started it in the first place. I have Andromeda in my big pile of sci-fi series, but it's wayyy down the list.
I submitted this link to HN but didn't upload the text to archive.org. I was doing some research on marketing and advertising methods used by politicians in their campaign material (just general interest, no particular party or conspiracy theories).

I don't know which article linked to this text (I had opened many tabs as I was reading) but it appeared interesting enough for a submission to HN. It didn't generate any interest initially, but I received an email from HN that it appeared to be an interesting post and that I should submit it again, so I did.

The second post has made it to the front page and generated some discussion, I was going to post a link to the downloadable formats provided by archive.org, but after checking the archive.org page I see that the text is actually a published book [0] (1956, by Joost Meerloo (1903-1976)) uploaded by someone with an Obama conspiracy theory that may not have the permission to release the text to archive.org under a Creative Commons license (there are links from Wikipedia to other online versions).

There's a Wikipedia page for Joost Meerloo[1] with links to online versions of this and one other of his books - Delusion and Mass Delusion (Meerloo 1949) [2], the Wikipedia bibliography list some other interesting titles authored by Meerloo.

The book is available on Amazon (and goodreads.com) but the publisher (Progressive Press?) appears to have many conspiracy-related releases so I don't know how reputable they are.

[0] The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (1956, by Joost Meerloo (1903-1976))
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Rape-Mind-Psychology-Brainwashing/d...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6736285-the-rape-of-the-m...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Meerloo

[2] http://www.lermanet.com/exit/mass-delusion-meerloo.htm
The USGS learns about earthquakes in regions without censors via Twitter. [1]

I'm of the opinion we have only scratched the surface of what is possible to predict by analyzing realtime data from social networks, user groups and message board communities.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/2015/usgs-twitter-data-earthquake-d...
> Certainly all modern democracies are stable and not threatened with catastrophic failure.

What would you call climate change, or coming energy crisis, or degenerating trust of public in authority leading to things like anti-vaccination movements? I consider them existential threats to technological civilization. Those problems are issues of coordination, and they play right into failure modes of modern democracies. In this sense I consider them not "working".
I was just being brief. It contains an entire blueprint of your biological morphology to a degree of accuracy that given appropriate measures could be used to construct an identical twin with identical susceptibility and predisposition to disease, ability, intelligence, to the extent that those are determined by genes. That includes a number of very private things, from everything to susceptibility to certain mental diseases to penis size.

And no, the government shouldn't get to know any of that about you without a fucking court order.
Right. You'll use bitcoin! They won't know anything about you, except your gender, eye color, hair color, and that you're definitely related to Max Schubert, Adelaide Schubert, Jane Schubert, and Bob Schubert, all of whom reside in Little Rock, Arkansas and who did the "normal" DNA kit a few years ago, or a few years from now.
That might have been the spark that lit the fire but I believe that people who are NOT celebrities that tweet actively, do it to reach a broader audience and engage in conversation with others in their vertical. This is in stark contrast to the network you would have in Facebook which is much more intimate.

Twitter is the internets water-cooler conversation.
Facebook is the conversation you have at home with your family and friends.
Short story is because people are willing to pay 15 dollars for a movie ticket and willing to pay like 5-6 dollars for an online stream, if that.

Broadcast TV and Netflix have devalued video entertainment at home. A lot of people feel like 10 bucks a viewer is a rip off when netflix is 10 bucks a month.

So why not just offer it anyway, even if most people won't buy? Because movie theaters are the best DRM money can buy. Good CAM's and TeleSyncs are terrible compared to DVD or BlueRay.
PSA: For people with Windows 10 installed, I've found the following tool quite useful in shutting down the large amount of information collected.

http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
In that case you also send over your entire identity any time you touch something, or even when losing some skin or hair.
TN? Doesn't that require a job offer and a degree for it?
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Thanks for this incredibly detailed and useful response! It seems there is a common theme here - and the burn out has taken me by surprise because even in university working 24/7 to keep my head above water and taking on other jobs, I was fine.
So reaching burnout in my job, I couldn't understand why.

What's clear from reading this and other posts, forcing me to look at the environment it's less about work and more to do with the fact I was simply not happy and not mentally stimulated enough.

And then when I became more burnt out I stopped working on the things I love doing, my side projects, the projects I hope that will have a positive impact on people.

This seems to be what excelled my burnout, now I have a greater understanding. Thanks a lot!
Apple also had the attention of more than the tech press, thanks to being the de-facto standard in media production.
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> is it true

No. If you're really nervous about telemetry, etc. then maybe. Otherwise, Win7 looks ancient if you get used to 10 -- it's faster, it has better display scaling, better multi-monitor support and window management.
That my friend is called Democracy. When a majority rules..
Book scanning is essentially a variation of format shifting, and debate about the legality of format shifting has been going on for as long as modern digital technologies have existed. For better or worse, it is definitely a grey area, and definitely subject to variation between jurisdictions. Large scale rightsholders have been doing some unpleasant things to try to defend their profits against the push to legitimise/legalise format shifting in Europe, for example.
Joost Meerloo
"If all goes well, Intel may"

"will likely be the iPhone 7"

"sources don’t believe Apple has officially signed Intel as a supplier"

"it could be just the beginning of a much deeper Intel involvement in the iPhone"

So this article is basically rumor and speculation. The only factual thing about this article is that Intel is working on a SOC (no surprise) which they hope Apple will buy.
I was reading up on Gene Roddenberry, recalled that Andromeda is based on his scripts and decided to start watching on the spot. No comparing with other options happened - it sort of occured to me that I want to finally watch it, and I went with it.
Developing C, JS/Node, Go, Python, and Ruby on Linux rocks. I liked it way better than using OS X, but then again, all of the apps I used were cross-platform. Is there anything on OS X-only that you think you'd miss? For example, you should definitely investigate any RDBMS GUI that you use on OS X, because there's nothing great in that area for Linux.

Audio production is... another matter. Linux certainly has hardware weaknesses, even in areas that have been massively improved (like GPU drivers). I've also done kernel upgrades that randomly broke drivers and had to revert. So honestly the audio/CNC/laser cutter/3D printer thing is much more iffy.

Consuming media through the laptop is another sticking point. I had tons of bizarre issues with Chrome/Firefox and streaming video sites. It was just a mess.

I'd be very wary of Arch, as well. If this is your primary work computer, I strongly suggest a distro with a well-funded corporate backer. Arch is also going to give you cutting-edge updates, but sometimes (theoretically) at the expense of breaking things.

Have you considered a Hackintosh? And what's keeping you off of Windows? Since Vagrant/Docker, developing on Windows doesn't require huge sacrifices, and driver/media support on Windows is better than any other OS.
"And yet one day men will have to grow up. Compared with the long ages of human existence on earth, our civilization is in its infancy. Sooner or later we must be ready to leave the dreamland of childhood, where imagination finds unlimited scope, and take our place in a world of limited freedoms. That world however, can in the long run give us something better than any vision conjured up in childhood." – Total War and the Human Mind, 1944.

HN discussion of his book "The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, 1956" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10400678
Twitter isn't developer-friendly? Hmm, perhaps not to client developers.

But the wide variety of (non-spam) Twitter bots suggests they are quite friendly.
It is rooted in the Suckless Stali [0] stuff. It is a community trying to build their personal dream Unix. So primarily desktop and server is the goal.

[0] http://sta.li/
> I find it fairly unfair to all those devs that spent years making open source tools that are used by every single sysadmin to say that you want to write "software that sucks less".

I am one of those systems administrators. The fact that my job exists at all is 100% down to the fact that software sucks. If it didn't suck, systems would administer themselves. It does nobody any good to pretend otherwise out of some kind of abstract politeness.
It's not for Apple, it's for Microsoft.
Perhaps TeMPOraL finished binge watching Hercules and wanted to watch more of Kevin Sorbo's oeuvre.

(Edit after seeing T's responses - I was close!)
30 second clips (which would be about 14% of most songs) wouldn't be the equivalent. Since google is only providing less than a handful of pages in a ~300 page book (1%).
Women are at about 3x the risk of men for intimate partner violence, which includes sexual assault -- see http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolenc... for extensive background.

While I strongly object to mass DNA testing of the type proposed here, the DA's comment should be read in the light of the huge backlog that exists for testing rape kits. Denver, CO's clearance rate is only about 30%, and there was until recently a strong bias towards testing cases involving stranger assault but not assault from family members: http://www.endthebacklog.org/denver

So without endorsing the DA's call, it us based on a legitimate public policy issue rather than purely emotional grandstanding.
Any idea how secure and effective it is?

Got to be honest, I'm pretty terrified at what Win10 lets them collect. They are pushing really hard to get people to install Win10 and the fact that they backported all the data collection stuff and crammed it into updates all the way back to Win7 is very telling.
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Haha, good one :D. No, I haven't watched Hercules at all, but binge-watching is indeed my preferred way of consuming TV series.
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The Windows 10 upgrade process is what finally pushed me to Linux on the desktop. As with any upgrade, I figured I'd wait a while for the dust to settle (Ars' articles on the privacy-invasive nature of Windows 10 made me a little nervous, but I figured that'd get fixed with time).

Unfortunately, Microsoft have been extremely aggressive about getting users to move. The 8.1 update that encourages you to upgrade also downloads a copy of Windows 10 -- which, on a small SSD, was frustrating. So, I removed and blocked the KB-x update that added the upgrader.

Microsoft then added another, differently named KB-x update which preloaded Windows 10 -- even if you'd blocked the other one (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/micros...).

Which, for me, was all a bit too much. Originally I figured I'd come back after some time, but the massively expanded Steam catalogue on Linux is making me question that too.
Getting rid of Flash on iOS was the best decision Apple had ever taken. It is a fact that Flash is a pretty unsecure platform. Companies should stop using flash and put an end to it mess.
Wired story is crap.
No. That junk shop had every opportunity to evaluate their stock prior to sale. Not my problem.
DNA is a subset of your identity. It would be extremely challenging to differentiate two clones who had been raised in similar conditions. This may not be an unrealistic situation in the future.
The groups studied all live and are genetically from within 20 degrees latitude (S). USA is from 30--50 deg N, and genetically probably higher. I would be willing to bet that higher temperatures and longer days tend to make your sleep shorter.
This really reads like a computer generated text.
A rape of your mind?

Wow. Well, I'm glad you have your feet anchored down here in reality and aren't exaggerating at all.
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