skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny read. Got me thinking that at any given point in recent history, at least I can vouch for the past couple of decades, there's something terribly wrong in the money industry. At least one thing at any given time. This industry seems to be just hopping from one terribly wrong thing to another.

Is it because there's too much money in the hands of mostly random, clueless people?
Harlan and Me
Disclaimer: I own an ipad 1 (and love it!)

On an iPad1, your best choice is indeed to disable JavaScript. (Note that the ipad1 has 256 MB of RAM. That sounds enough, but it is not! May be because of a poor optimization of Safari on iOS5)
Cool game! Here are some of my thoughts from playing the first 5 minutes:

- really like the visual style. Consistent and distinct

- it was annoying that I had to sign in via github and THEN sign up again: I just want to play the game!!

- The coding aspect seems really well integrated and exciting

- The tutorial ended kind of abruptly. I was lost about what to do after destroying the first base

- The options between 'python' and 'javascript' doesn't seem that impactful. I know they're different languages, but does it have an impact on how the game plays? IF not, there's potential to use a language's strengths/weaknesses as part of the game

- why does the 'speed up construction' button exist??? (as in, why would I not want construction to go at full pace?)

Best of luck with the game!
The title makes me immediately think of Robert McElwaine.

"REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED"
You're right, but in practice, what other ideologies are behind attacks? Perhaps a few from "eco terrorists", but otherwise?

Targeting religion is not quite fair, to be sure. It's the general war on rationality that is causing so much damage.
A setback for science, but a large ethical step forward.

I am a bit unsettled by the idea that even non-invasive and neutral research will stop; this means that some of the work I did on SIV vaccine efficacy (for the purposes of learning in service of making an HIV vaccine) a few years ago might not get the ethical approval to be performed today even though we were using macaques instead of chimps.

I anticipate a chilling effect on primate studies in general after this policy change as the review boards attune to the new current of cash flow from the NIH. Monkey trials have always been exorbitantly expensive, and non-chimp studies will probably see cost rises in addition to reduced funding. In our trials, the monkeys were given harmless vaccinations, and had blood draws every once in a while, then retired to a sanctuary at the end of the study... not remotely unethical, but probably not consistent with the highest standards of animal rights that are coming into vogue.

A lot of these monkeys are very well cared for-- not loved, but definitely attended to. There are federal IACUC regulations on how many toys they are allowed to have, and how to rotate their selection of toys such that they only have access to their favorite toy/food/drink some of the time so that they don't get hedonic desensitization. These monkeys even have privacy rights regarding their medical info in some niche cases.
Back in 2012 someone stole worth of $1M bitcoins in today's prices from project I had. Do you think you can help me find who did it? Since if we could - there is certainly a case and enough to pay lawyers and for beefy server and whatever else.
That's not my definition of modern capitalism, I call that corruption. A corruption enabled by government agencies that enforce monopolies that no consumers want to exist.
c++ is one of the most widely used programming language in the world. It's already "happened"
Empathy is a killer skill for any job, technical or not. The good news is that it can be trained. Many of the best tech leaders I know are very emphatic.
Also, I'm editorializing, but this was a fairly poor execution of sarcasm.
Sure, but once the thing knows my ssh key, I don't have to bother with GitHub anymore. My ssh key is on all my computers, but I'm not always logged into GitHub.
BMI is such a stupid, useless metric.

I can basically guarantee that the low BMI cohort in this study had significantly reduced lean body mass (skinny-fat), which greatly predisposes you to injury by things like falls and what not as you age.

Being lean is healthy, being frail is not.
> Terrorism doesn't need money laundering, they just need the money.

You're absolutely correct. The whole thing reeks of security theater. Those people need money for logistics -- food, clothes, lodging and so on while they plan their crimes. I don't believe that there is anything safer than cash for such purposes. Even gold would be to suspicious. I'd imagine you'd want as few people to be in the know of the activity before it happens.
Well, that's not a technical problem.
OpenSSH supports "~" as an escape character when it's the first character on a line. So try "<return>~?" to see a list of available commands.
That would actually be a nice reason compared to what I believe. I see this as their opportunity to try and stop Bitcoin for it's actual uses, anonymous payments, not paying taxes etc. etc.
It's risky to draw too many conclusions from Square. Jack Dorsey's situation is unique; it's hard to think of an example before (or ever again?) where a CEO decides to take on another CEO position of a struggling company weeks before an IPO. Think what you will about his capabilities but it was always going to create real drag on their IPO; if only because there wasn't enough time to know if he can pull it off.

One thing that is rarely discussed is how bubbles burst. Stock markets have incredible visibility and liquidity so they'll burst in a matter of days (minutes?) and weeks. Housing markets have strong visibility but less liquidity so they're measured in weeks and months. Private valuations have poor visibility ("show me a valuation and I'll tell you the terms") and very poor liquidity; IPO'ing, being acquired are rare and difficult events.

So if there was indeed a bubble it was in the private capital markets and the only way we'd know is when those companies leave that market for another market (public market/acquisition by company) There are so many variables but right now Square is telling us that the private markets were overinflating prices by at least 50%. That's bubble stuff. The thing is it'll be a slower/gentler correction due to the above issues.
Ranking High Schools – We're Number One We're Number One
I heard on CppCast with Dmitri Nesteruk, that CLion is macro aware when doing refactorings, but it was a very complicated process to make it work properly.

Since I spend most of my days in JVM/.NET land, I don't have experience how it really works.

They keep in memory the whole macro -> expanded C++ code transformation.
> why do you think this is so hard to analyse?

Why do you insist it isn't.

1) bitcoin to cash or cash to bitcoin is pretty hard to trace unless you catch the actual handover.

2) As for the 'connections'. Anyone who knows what they are doing would spin up a wallet per transaction making connections non existant.

Of course mistakes can and will be made, at which point using bitcoin can become a bigger liability than cash/banks because everything is public. But given perfect usage, it is extremely difficult to ascertain any information.
Here's the source that I was attempting to recall (I need to reread it myself):

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/316/5825/736

I can't find a link to back up 28 miles, but the site you referenced has two or three in the 17-22 mile range that look encouraging. I'm not certain that those numbers include forest roads in the measurement though; it might be just distance from public roads.

The River of No Return Wilderness looks amazing - thanks!
Nobody got a criminal conviction. How are we OK about this?
If a tumbler is used by 1 person, they get their own coins back. To work, it needs as many users as possible. Therefore a researcher doesn't scan transactions looking for "possible tumbling", they look for the tumblers, use them and follow those transactions.
Idiot's Guide to Radio Technology and Frequing [repost]
The human race as we know it today, doesn't have dozens of generations. We'll be a radically different species in just 200 to 300 years, through self-controlled evolution that has already begun.

Before the end of this century we'll be directly editing the genome of every child born in the first world. Human evolution is no longer in nature's hands, and it will never be again unless technological progress rolls backwards drastically (at the rate it's accelerating, that is possible but unlikely; it's more likely we're about to achieve lift-off in regards to rapid evolution; if you think CRISPR is interesting, just wait until you see what we have in just 30 years).
They (Daesh/IS) are accepting donations in bitcoin, I don't think it is beeing used for something else. I recently read an article, describing how a teenager was scentenced to prison, because he showed how such a transaction can be done.

http://www.dw.com/en/us-teenager-sentenced-to-prison-for-sup...
May I ask if your comments in this thread were made in an official/"on the clock" capacity?
Sure, I'll give it a shot, although I'm not amongst your downvoters.

There are two ways to build a system like this: one requires no training and uses a heuristic. That is, you come up with a formula that you think will rank candidates well, plug input variables into it, and sort candidates based on the score. Such a system cannot learn, it is fixed; it can only be improved by a human tweaking it. The fact that we have no way to measure our success is irrelevant.

The other way is to build a learning system, and a learning system needs to be trained. This means there must be either a set of training data (of positive examples with specified outcomes) or an objective goal function that can be computed on the output over which an optimization can be run.

Without these things (i.e., when the results are too subjective and we're unable to assign a reliable score to the outcome), machine learning is impossible, and the algorithm can never be trained to perform better than a human.
Relativity and Faster Than Light Travel (1992) [repost]
Most decent explanation. This is worse than slavery.
why can't NYCT/MTA have something like this?
Aye in the end I don't think the protocol itself matters as much as the concept of doing (asymmetric) auth in the browser rather than layered over http. Yelling "but it already exists! client certs!" is kinda unproductive, like you said there's a reason nobody uses them.
Challenge Accepted! j/k

This is a great example/demonstration of graph hopper (which I had never heard of before). Traveling salesmen problems are always incredibly challenging.
I do. Many companies still require having one around.

But it is disabled by default.

EDIT: It crashes for me.
For sports it looks like there are some online, subscription type options. Still, I'd say that sports and morning shows would fall under the 5% not covered, but if those are super important to you then I could see that being an issue.

Hulu is pretty good about getting new shows up pretty quickly, usually the day after. I'm usually able to live with not seeing a show the minute it airs.
Ubuntu 15.10 review: Wily Werewolf leaves scary experimentation for next year
That was my first question too. If they ever published live train positions I'd build something like this immediately.
You're focused on lots of hypotheticals whereas I'm talking about what they do. Currently, the NSA and FBI are looking at hundreds of millions of connections trying to find needles in stacks of needles. They admit, outside these political debates, that they're drowning in data. FBI's metadata investigations are producing jack and missing major attacks while targeted investigations following actual evidence are resulting in convictions. Speaking of perverse incentives, the current model is so ineffective and broken that they're actually creating terrorists to convict while claiming the arrests are due to successful, post-9/11 power. Even have a number on the incentive: $100,000 per terrorist created and arrested.

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/15/fbi-informant-stung-fbi/

So, I'm pushing for more than an arbitrary limit on number of investigations. I'm pushing for them to switch their focus back to pre-9/11 where they leave most of America alone, keep good red flags, and focus their investigators on those. The barriers to intelligence sharing have been knocked down and local LEO's are integrated so dots should be connected faster than ever. With this focus, the limit will be the number of cases they're working simultaneously rather than on the books in general. It can be a multiple of the number of agents they have. Because it's hard for me to imagine one investigator effectively working ten, time-critical cases simultaneously. That's just overstretched although exceptions can be made for elite, multitasking, savant investigators if and where they exist.

So, we start with non-hypothetical stuff: the current surveillance dragnet that treats a whole country as guilty and watches every communication/association is an utter failure, a waste of money, and imposes chilling effects on democracy. The alternative is the original model of presumption of innocence, trained investigators following leads, prioritizing for most serious, and following through with good policework. Interestingly, the alternative already exists and runs in parallel with the surveillance state. Most convictions come from the alternative method. So, I don't have to justify it so much as point out that one is field-proven, it harms fewer innocents, and its cheaper. Ditching the failed method for that one is a no-brainer.

Unless, it's about money for defense sector and power over dissidents/competition for the nation that wields it. In that case, they'd try to keep the surveillance tech while continuing to lie about its purpose of protecting citizens from stuff it can't catch. Like we're seeing. ;)
partially valid point. corporations are still subject to federal tax tho.
>I would hope not, because by a similar argument adblockers and userscripts would also be illegal.

Does not follow. Ad block is set up by the user to block connections. Your work doesn't change; the user just doesn't see the full work. Kinda if I gave you glasses that blocked the color red and then you went and looked at an art gallery wearing them. The art hasn't changed, but the item I gave you, which you willingly wore, just stops some part of the art from being displaying into your eye.
That's only because the antivirus/firewall products have access to your machine and install a root certificate on them, or more likely, are just using a browser extension to rewrite the dom on the fly.

More succinctly, the phrase "man in the middle" kinda loses meaning when the man in question is your own computer.
Paul Graham at the MIT Spam Conference 2003
Windows turns 30: a visual history
Taxi-Booking App Technology
For those who don't know, Robot Turtles is a board game that teaches programming concepts aimed at young children that you can pick up at Target or Amazon for like $25, for those of you who are balking at the high price of these robots.
Promising cancer therapy dismissed in ’70s earns second chance
I would argue that your premise that science and ethics are mutually exclusive (they must be if you can say good/bad for science but good/bad for ethics) is completely, utterly false.

science := 1) the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment; 2) a systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject

ethics := 1) moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior; 2) the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles

To take an either or approach to endeavors which touch on both science and ethics is to immediately set out with a means to ends vs ends to means approach depending on where one's priorities lie.

I'd argue that ethics is pervasive and pertinent across every and all human endeavors, including ethics, and that the task is to work the scientific process in an ethical manner. Not to put the two at odds.
And that is the root of the problem. Normally when a business has the kind of terrible customer service and can't-be-bothered attitude, I just take my business elsewhere. But in the last 15 years I've never had a real choice what to use for Internet service. A couple of places I've lived I've had one additional choice that was even worse. Lack of choice and diversity in Internet providers is the problem here. I'm not sure what the root of that problem is, but I suspect it's governmental corruption and lobbying to maintain status quo.
That's a good point; I can see and understand people rationalizing like that. It's unfortunate that many will never experience the reality of being a minority in police situations.
As far as I'm aware, all the Berlin S-Bahn and U-Bahn lines use absolute block signalling.

FWIW, automation is actually mostly tangential to absolute v. moving block signalling. As far as I'm aware, most automated systems still use absolute block signalling.
Hacking your own company (to teach some good practices)
It amazes me that people still use this. Or has it gotten better?
Ask HN: How to stay 'stealth', but get enough user/market feedback?
And me explaining something: http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2003/01/17/10-07-09-sm.h...
Agreed. I recently decided to give Comcast another go because my current provider has some horribly bad upstream speeds, but even with brand new service, I seem to be having issues where my connection drops 4-5 times a day. It is not too big a deal when you're trying to work from home, but it can be a massive pain in the neck when you're trying to play anything online. I've been trying to resolve this issue with their customer support but I've gotten nowhere so far and feel like I'll probably just go ahead and cancel out of the contract before my first month is up.

They do advertise that they spend millions of dollars on improving their customer support, but I've yet to see anything happen on their end. Amusingly, our Comcast business contract at work has at least a couple of issues every week, too. We only don't notice them if they are to happen over the weekend, but when CRON jobs that require internet connection haven't run over the weekend, it's easy to figure out who needs blamed.
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Transferwise accepts payments from debit cards or to their eastern European bank (Latvia or something), and then they pay from their US bank for example.

They do ask for ID documents and perform AML checks, but then again so do all proper bitcoin exchanges with the exception of the shady btc-e from Russia or thereabouts.

But its not like bad guys are afraid of using fake IDs (as seen in Europe this last week) which brings the obvious question as to why they would bother with all that when they can just use cash and traditional banking.

The whole article is click bait of the highest order based on fud.

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If the powers to be want to hit ISIS where it hurts how about destroying their oilfields, oil refining and transport capabilities. A few armed drones can do this on the cheap remotely. Make it clear that any oil extraction, processing or transport equipment in the area controlled and sympathetic to ISIS will be destroyed and grant these scum their wish if living in the middle ages.
That comment doesn't make any sense to me. Did I missing something?

There are iterators in C++, but not in C.
The weirdest WebGL scene you will scene today: Weirdo Animal
Submitting Emoji Character Proposals
Yeah. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393338827
I have type 1. In an emergency situation, when demand outweighs supply for life-saving drugs, I would think it useful that there be recipes available online for ambitious DIYers. I think about this from time-to-time since since reading Alas, Babylon in which the diabetic characters are the first to die (maybe I'm too paranoid).
I think Bitcoin is slowing the demise of cash- I think the powers that be will prefer the devil they know (cash) over the devil they don't know (cryptocurrency).
How much funding is really needed? They talked about this after Sept 11, but that always seemed like a rather cheap thing to pull off. Certainly "bootstrappable" given a few dedicated people. Some flight sim time, perhaps a few lessons to get some insight into ops, and uh, go? Really, the creative spark and meeting of a few collaborators was the only hard part.

How much funding did Breivik need?
The story of one latency spike
Your comment is:

_strident/emotive_ very valuable resource, even afraid to ask, prohibitively expensive, etc.

_melodramatic_ "cladestinely test any crucial biotech stuff directly on humans"

_fantastical_ "cool and useful stuff like implantable high-res-and-bandwidth brain-computer-interfaces"

_hyperbolic_ "wipe out the whole goddamn human race"

Meanwhile back on planet Earth some higher primates in one corner of the world get to not be experimented on.
Yes. Unless you are a savant you won't get hired without a degree. If you are really 'getting offers at mid-high sized startups and a few "mainstream" companies' then you might just be one.
PowerShell + Set-PSReadline = awesome terminal!
The Importance of User Research in UX
Making Elm faster and friendlier in 0.16
Ask HN: What is the biggest problems that startups have?
Is there a way to pipe output to another program the way buserror described?
This is a great idea. The legitimate users will have to find someone to offload their bitcoin to, and since the legitimate outlets are shut down, they'll have to do local, difficult to trace trades. And since the only people buying bitcoin at that point is going to use it for illegal purposes... wait this is a terrible idea
great tip
Uf you don't fit into any of the categories of people that would normally measure their own Body fat percentages (athlete of some description, normally), your BMI is probably a good estimate of your "shape". Sure it's not perfect, but it's a perfectly good estimate for a large number of people.
I don't think you understood the post (admittedly the title is unclear).

If the title were "Comcast injects ... to show notices of reported copyright infringement against their account," there would probably be less confusion in the comments here.
"This hybrid approach allows a maximum of sixty hidden service instances being simultaneously available."
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Bitcoin's usage would go down, legitimate businesses would disappear. Legislation like this is not likely to happen, but this techno-hubris "Governments can't touch us, because we use smart technologies!" is quite ridiculous.
It asks me for my location but shows me places in London. That causes me to exit the page.
You're right, there's no obvious cure like for a broken leg. Perhaps cancer would be a better analogy. There are various treatments, sometimes they work, but they mostly suck and it's never certain. But regardless, "just don't have cancer!" isn't going to do it.
Or too much technology in the hands of people who have no idea how to run a business. Cut a deal to process payments for Starbucks and manage to lose nearly $100,000 a day? Every day? For three years?
Zerocoin/Zerocash have no implementations, they are vaporware.
Wow that is very cool, not super accurate where i live
but cool.

BTW the map cant handle unicode stuff properly there is a boat line called "Sjövägen" where is live and on the map it is named "Sj?"
Does "this strat" work when your father/mother/son/daughter is in the hospital?

Or are you (and I include in "you" any human being with the choice) going to want every antibiotic available for your loved one?

Maybe I miss the point of your comment, but if not, I doubt it is a viable strategy.