skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The exact opposite should be true, and Anthrax is the perfect example. We should be building great shit because great shit betters humanity, agnostic to possible criminal misuse of said shit.

Anthrax has no utility beyond criminal activity, and honestly I would consider anything that utilizes anthrax in that way to be criminal at all; thats terroristic. Crime is extrinsically motivated, terror intrinsic, and the use of Anthrax can only be physical harm, there is no greater reward to the applier.

But Megaupload is a tool that lets us share ideas and forms of art that people in some parts of the world may not have had the opportunity be exposed to otherwise. Even if it can be used for crime, that is not the only function it is capable of performing. Megaupload is exactly the model for products we should be building, because the sharing of ideas helps elevate us as a society. The minor and short term side-effect of piracy is irrelevant.
A Recap of the First Meteor.js Unconference
As I hope TFA makes clear, "republic" is not a synonym for "democracy." [1] If it's possible to build something useful and effective with "lots of online voting," I don't know of any examples.

Successful multipolar/federated systems (which are republican enough for me, anyway) have existed. Like Usenet.

As a Usenet veteran, I have a tough time with the idea that Google killed Usenet. Google bought DejaNews in 2001, and Usenet was already pretty dead in 2001. Yes, some Usenet groups survived and have become effectively Google groups, but without Google I suspect they'd just be dead.

The conventional wisdom, which seems right to me, is that Eternal September killed Usenet (with the assistance of alt.binaries). It would be interesting to see an argument against this theory.

You also seem to be suggesting that Usenet died because it wasn't profitable enough. I suppose it wasn't profitable enough to carry alt.binaries. But its costs, for regular text posts, didn't seem extreme even in the 90s.

In fact, not to get all commie on you, but one of the neat things about Usenet as a digital republic was that no one owned it, and no one profited from it. The positive social value of this principle is seen in a variety of institutions. Compare to Burning Man, for instance. Who would show up for burningman.com, a subsidiary of Ticketmaster?

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

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Hardware weaknesses are being exploited right now by High Strength Attackers in intelligence services and stealthy contractors. The TAO supports this. Additionally, there were even malware in the past that used CPU errata for obfuscation. So, we can't ignore this.

On top of it, there's dozens of designs in academia and even less risky options in industry that counter most of this stuff with various tradeoffs. So, anyone that wants to build something better has quite the options. The problems are literally there for backwards compatibility and avoiding costs. Far as I can tell.
RFC 3514 could easily be adapted from IPv4 to whatever radio protocol these drones use.
No one helps, everyone just points to an site like code academy or just says go learn HTML and JS. Is not that easy.
The second most valuable startup in the world is in trouble
Since I'm no sociologist, how do these researchers go about determining whether correlation = causation? I myself would tend to come to the opposite conclusion, that healthy motivated people with good vitals are more likely to put more effort into their marriage, because being healthy just makes you feel better in general. I've been married for 10 years, 2 kids, and I look forward to seeing my sexy wife because she makes an effort to keep herself looking good, and I put in the same effort. I think having the good vitals mentioned in this article improves your outlook on every aspect of life, but of course it's just one factor coming into play with money, time, other relationships, etc.
Exactly. School is a much better environment for repetition anyway - you can oversee students doing the chores and explain things to them individually if they get stuck. It also seems better to use the "high-grade" time (home) for learning new things and "low-grade" time (school) for repetitive chores.

If you have to assign something to them to do at home, stick to just making them read a book instead. Right now they have to do both, and there isn't enough time for that.
The dystopian society had an incentive to have a placated and numb society, in a Brave New World sense. I would argue that Makishima is the true hero in the story, because he is "awake" while others are asleep.
30min to 1 hour of homework is too much? If they have seven periods a day and we assume they only average homework from each class once every few days, then the kids only have 20 minutes of homework per class. That should be the minimum for a homework assignment, not the maximum. Less time that than and no knowledge reinforcement is happening because the homework is too easy.
Well, that doesn’t work everywhere, though.
I use edge for email, no web browsing or apps.
waaay too slow these days, too much data to transfer even with images off (it used to work ok when 2G was a first world thing)
or simply use https://about.me
Oracle's Ellison nails cloud computing (2008)
This seems to be incredibly cruel. Poor ants.
Did you not read what I wrote? The skill-set you need to succeed in the business world directly correlate with those in the sports. Homework assignments do not teach this.
It's certainly a tradeoff which admits no perfect success. Yes, any network that isn't hosted on the FBI's own servers can be used for some sort of crime. Fortunately, in our real republic as it stands, there's a relatively wide margin of safety between government-pwned networking on the top, and a darknet on the bottom. Let's hope it persists.
> you would need to swap SIM cards on the cellular-wifi router almost every time you change locations

Assuming the user can get an anonymous pre-paid service (which I agree isn't certain), why would they need to change SIMs? The cellular provider only sees an unknown person sending encrypted data to a VPN hosting service.
What Coworking Is and Is Not
The bad effects of sugar on teeth are almost invariable. So even for healthy people there are downsides.

ALSO, the general effects of sugar on aging and immune system are not so good either in general.
Twitter Shares Slide on Revenue Concerns
I was extremely lucky in my work life, I am successful as entrepreneur and I believe it is because of the way I was raised as a kid in Spain.

When I went out of the school I was free to do whatever I wanted to do. I never did homework but was good student, not brilliant, because I considered the extra effort was not worth it, as the extra effort for better grades was not linear but exponential.

I took school seriously when I was in the school but when I am out, I am out. I rode my bike, I played soccer with my friends, I did swim in lakes or pools, I climbed mountains, I camped in the forest.

All those experiences gave me probably as much as the school and trained me for free environments.

I see the world as an environment I can change and I do routinely. Most people can't and I believe it is because they were trained to be good in controlled environments but just can't "think out of the box" because of their education that was so controlled.

I have seen miserable kids with not a single moment of freedom in their day. A girl of my class graduated with honors in the University, got tenure and suicided. She was miserable if she did not made perfect exams, her parents were like crazy "life is work and sacrifice" nazis.

They were not expected to choose their own paths, to make decisions, but were expected to follow others to be good guys.

Most of the best entrepreneurs I know of had problems in the school. Most of them wanted to do things on their own early on and the adult response was repression.
To get past the paywall just google "Twitter Shares Slide on Revenue Concerns"
so...not a "US centric problem" then
JHDF5[1] seems to be a high-level abstraction that has a nice API from what I can tell. Can't speak to deployment or prereqs, but they seem to have a JAR[2] you can just throw in.

[1] https://wiki-bsse.ethz.ch/display/JHDF5/JHDF5+%28HDF5+for+Ja...
[2] http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/java/hdf-object/##DOWNLOAD
Karma: How Open Source changed my life
This critique is a bit broader than the specific complaint about structuralism (which leads us to garbage like Joseph Campbell's Monomyth/Hero's Journey):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism#Structuralism_in...
Lol. You are using logic to refute logic. :D

Not a sane choice.
This is why I laugh about people here that laugh about backdoors in their TRNG, etc. Intel's been backdoored for AMT, etc for a while. Those circuits, due to NRE costs, have to be in most of their chips whether they advertise them or not. They have deep read access into everything in the system with who knows what write access. We also know some of their chipsets have radios in them which might be in the others, permanently or temporarily disabled.

Just a huge black box of interconnected black boxes at least one set of which is definitely a backdoor. And worst thing is I heard it can work when the machine is entirely or somewhat powered down. (!) I don't know for sure because I won't buy one lol. The old stuff less likely to have those features works fine for me with my builds.

Gaisler's stuff and RISC-V are best hope as they're both open hardware plus getting fast. Gaisler's are already quad-core with as much I.P. as people could ever use. Anyone wanting trustworthy hardware knows where to start on building it. CheriBSD on CHERI capability processor is also open-source and can run on a high-end FPGA. So, there's that for use or copying in a Gaisler modification.
Do Facebookers never venture outside of cities? Because maybe the UK is weird, but getting 2G even in developed areas isn't that uncommon for me. Sure there's 4G in cities and 3G in many places, but there's plenty of places with poor signal or outdated transmitters (like the town I live in).

(This is especially noticeable if you're in a train or a bus where you're frequently changing cells.)
Indeed, I have read that women can be the most rigid and cruel sexists.
This is only true if you know that you are sampling from the underlying population fairly, and you can't conclude that from just looking at the sample variance unless you know the distribution you are sampling from.
You're right, it is possible that people started with good intentions and sincere beliefs, then got desperate. That does happen. I do feel bad for the many innocent and even idealistic people who will suffer the consequences along with the true miscreants. On the other hand, there are others who had information the rest of us don't have, and a specific duty (to their own investors) to blow the whistle early if they saw anything amiss. It's a lot harder for them to claim innocence.
Yup. Repetition and rote memorization are useful tools, but should be viewed as putting data in L1 cache, and just that. Memorizing the multiplication table or solving equations ad nauseam gives huge speedups which can not only improve learning harder subjects but even enable the whole new sets of knowledge and skills that are unfeasible to learn otherwise.

But turning entire learning experience into cramming stuff into cache memory? That's a recipe for disaster, it leads only for data to be quickly purged, and the time being wasted on re-entering it instead of letting the brain to generate connections and new insights in the main memory. The result is basically what you described.
Sugar is addictive. It is therefore a drug. Like it or not.

Stop eating it for a few weeks and you will find food with a lot of added sugar disgusting (eg: coke).
Your landing page takes 15 seconds to load on a simulated "Regular 3G" connection in Chrome. If you'd like I could walk you through fixing some of the most obvious problems, my contact info is in my profile.
Thanks for the response. I can see how it could be misleading to compare the React SPA version of my site vs the WP site based on an AB test, however, the results are there to show you the benefits of the React-rendered application are not only between pages (which you can easily see and experience the speed enhancement) but also the fact that you get to "First Paint" first. By limiting the server overhead (I could've enabled compression for the React Express server, but I didn't), you get to the page sooner. And although the "fully loaded" times appear about the same in the links you provided, the perceived speed by the user is much faster on the React version. Do you not agree?
> What little there is that is of worth ends up getting baked into laws and regulation, so again, I don't have to worry about it. (e.g. mercury is bad for you.)

I largely agree that "nutrition science" does not have rigorous standards. One of the reasons for this is that it's very hard to test hypotheses, legally, on people. And there's an over reliance on self reporting.

Now, I personally find your tolerance for what would be considered unsafe way too low. High doses of mercury will kill you very quickly. Low doses of many things, legal things, will kill you slowly.
the extremely poor quality of this study and the irresponsible PR campaign that has accompanied it is enough reason not to take him seriously.
This here is some of the beauty of linux - psql simply pipes the output to less - a tool that is made exclusively to handle these sorts of "look at a bunch of text on a terminal" problems. Most of the problems less exists to solve would likely be deemed out of scope for a single-purpose utility like psql.
EDGE is semi-usable with Opera Mini.
This is the real future for EVs. Quick refueling means you can actually take a proper road trip (at least when fuel stations are built), and it may actually be practical for a country like Canada (big, sparsely populated). Also it needs less batteries, which is likely to reduce its ecological footprint.
Whether they want to collaborate or not is trivial. What is important is that they possess the information and tools for easy dragnet surveillance in the first place. Moving towards more distributed network tech like Mesh Networks is the only viable solution to dragnet surveillance I know of.
I'm not the author, but I do work for Urbit.

Sure, success is impossible without survival. But survival without e2e crypto can't be success, which is why it's baked into the system. Some risks are avoidable while some aren't.

How do we mitigate this risk? Don't give the FBI any reason to worry about us in particular. Don't market to unsavory types. Be above board and make a useful service that lots of people use. Nothing more complicated than that.
> Is this different from Intel ME processors with their "hidden" Sparc core?

Minor quibble: The IME is not Sun's SPARC architecture, it's ARC International's ARC, the Argonaut RISC Core, which has its origins in (of all things) the Super Nintendo's SuperFX chip.
Though it may often be, open source software does not have to be free of cost. As the FSF says: free as freedom, not free as in beer.
No, use Gaisler's stuff:

http://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/ipcores/soclibrary

Also SPARC but with plenty GPL. Has a quad-core, too, with all of them designed to be easily modified and re-synthesized. :)
Giving people a button that would make a drone fall out of the sky sounds like something that would need more regulation than the drones themselves
Since this is a C# thread, there are a number of ways to navigate through the interface to the implementation in Visual Studio:

1. Right-click, Go To Implementation (Ctrl-F12)

2. Right-click, Find All References (shows the interface and impl)

3. (Resharper) Navigate, Dervived Symbols (Alt-End)

Even the new method info in Visual Studio 2015 (2013 Enterprise) is able count and show you the usages as a tip through the interface.

I don't experience any issues with this pattern; the tooling is built around it.
The ones who know what they are doing are doing great, yeah.
hopefully this isn't an example of a biotech startup embracing the silicon valley 'fake it until you make it' mentality.
That's nice, but is there any real advantage to hydrogen over batteries, or have batteries at this stage left hydrogen in the dust?

Cost? Weight? Overall efficiency? No numbers are given for any of these, but they've all traditional weakpoints of hydrogen.

Hydrogen also requires a lot of fancy infrastructure, whereas batteries can be charged (slowly) practically anywhere.

One advantage is that you could refill your tank in a long road trip, hypothetically, if you found a hydrogen filling station, faster than you could recharge your electric car. But that's a rare use case.

Anything I'm missing? Or is hydrogen just a zombie technology?
This analysis seems to be done with a goal of promoting a specific view point
I really do not care about the upgrade costs.

However, doing the reduction in assets means that people using their devices in places where speeds are not great also get a benefit.
> Location tracking is my biggest concern ... but I don't see much way around it when you're using the cell network for backhaul

If the cellular provider doesn't know who you are, why does it matter if they track your location? Under my proposed plan, they won't know who you are because the prepaid cellular service is anonymous and all your data on the wire is encrypted and going to the same VPN host.

> Getting on the PSTN anonymously seems like a completely different problem, and I'm less interested in solving it

Is there a VOIP service that will take bitcoin or some other anonymous currency? The problem is that you have to give people your name and phone number (unless you do only outgoing calls); inevitably they will become associated in many databases.
Very similar stories on my side... I used to need a lot of food to feel "satisfied" or "full". Now, a regular meal, like my wife who has always eat small portion and healthy food, and I am good until the next meal.
Scholarships for Female Developers
Indeed I believe in Python's motto of "Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced."

I think that Javascript's silencing of wrong parameter counts, Perl's (non-strict) allowing string concat, and non-well-founded implicit coercions (i.e: ones that change the semantics of the value) are all terribly horrible.

I believe that those who value convenience over safety deserve neither and will lose both.
This is the very reason the US has workplace rights that were fought for by unions. The weekend, forty-hour weeks, vacation, sick leave - unions fought hard for every benefit. Without regulation and oversight, companies will gravitate towards just this kind of disregard for their employees in the name of profit. Unions have their own set of problems, but given one group that's allied with protecting employees and another group that's allied with profit, I'll pick the one on the side of the employees every time because the alternative benefits a much smaller group.
I'm American, and I took a road trip last month from Dallas to NYC and back (going through Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and tiny bits of a few other states).

Unless I was in a city, I only had 2G signal, and in a few places I didn't even have that (but those were rare).

Edit: for reference, my carrier at the time was Simple Mobile, an MVNO of T-Mobile (I'm no longer with them anymore: I just activated Project Fi today).
Sift4: Fast and accurate string distance algorithm
Cambrian Genomics?
Who is going to pay for the uniform access to everything you want?
I graduated from high school recently. Homework was the true bane of my existence. It gnawed at my every waking thought and put a tinge of anxiety to my every moment. Am I doing it? Did I forget some? What do I need to be doing that Im not? The entire school experience is a depressing prison of course but homework is how it goes from an seven hour affair to a twenty four hour project. More than anything else it makes sure youre always at school, always worried about the evaluation of unrespectable teachers and disgusting sadists.

You start to wonder if theres a way out, like any prisoner examining the prison with obsessive dedication. You follow the vine to its end and back pacing your room going through the mental anguish of knowing youre trapped and theres nothing you can do about it. (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.fr/2008/10/programmers-view-of-u...) I used to have this fantasy where Id go down to the school building in the middle of the night when nobody is there with a barrel of kerosene. Id douse the schoolhouse walls with the fetid substance and light it ablaze, laughing as the walls go up in smoke before throwing myself on the tickling flames crying and screaming and laughing in agony as I burn.

Im so glad to be free.
Even if you aren't young or don't work at FB. I remember how 2G was, but if you asked me to estimate how fast would any modern website work on it I wouldn't have a clue. Except maybe for HN which I would expect to work fast.

Websites have accumulated so much bloat while our speeds have gone up. Facebook loads the same for me now, on 20x greater speed than when I started using it and similar story can be told for other major websites.
Firefox for Android supports many addons, including uBlock Origin, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript, etc. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/
> The sample size only needs to be large enough to capture the variance in the response for the population.

And you need a representative sample to capture the variance of a population. The smaller the sample, the less likely you will be in capturing the actual variance.
> And I'd rather not pay for a cloud server to use as DNS when I'm on the road, plus I think Android will use Google's DNS server if other lookups fail. I discovered this when my parent's internet stopped working for their computer and their iPhone, but my Android worked fine. Their ISP DNS was offline.

If your phone is rooted, you can just set your /etc/hosts file to send requests to ad domains to /dev/null (figuratively). That's basically what Android ad blocker apps do.

If you're not rooted, you can use Firefox for Android, which lets you use extensions like uBlock and Ghostery[0] on your phone.

[0] not an adblocker, but related, and also helps speed up sites that load lots of crud
If someone were very rich in NYC, between federal, state, local, sales taxes, etc. they would pay ~60% of their income in taxes. Now, many of them pay capital gains, have wealth managers who set up different financial vehicles, and whatnot. But this is exactly the point: individuals will pay as little tax as possible, and the rich spend more money than most getting around these punitive taxes. Further, it should be noted that the wealthy are the most mobile; if they don't like tax policy in a certain country, they will move their assets off-shore (see the original article). What I'm saying is that on a "practical" level, these high taxes don't work! (Hence the consistency in the tax revenue coming in per year despite tax levels, as I cited.) You're better off having lower taxes and actually having the rich pay them.

Practically speaking, high taxes are not an effective way to tax the wealthy, but they are an effective way to send capital overseas. If you want another example, look at the $2.1 trillion in U.S. corporate cash being held abroad, which hasn't been repatriated because companies refuse to pay the high U.S. corporate taxes, and use it to buy foreign companies/assets like Minecraft for a couple billion instead.[0]

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/u-s-compan...