skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haskell Game Server – Part 1
Steam allows access to others' accounts, personal info
> Only a crazy person would think they have the power to block all code entering their network.

Every other mail system other than Outlook and Notes (and I say this having started my career as an NT4-era Windows person) has been incredibly successful at blocking executable code in email messages in comparison. Safe defaults are hard, but they're also a minimum expectation of software these days.

To further back this up, I'm sure newer Outlook apps (eg, the iOS one) definitely do not have this issue.
A password manager on your smartphone isn't a bad place if you always have it with you. I think backing up to an encrypted HDD and my phone is redundant enough for me.

If you have a password store in the cloud, I recommend KeePass's keyfile feature. With a keyfile (again backed up, but never in the cloud), you can make sure that it takes more than just the master password to get in. If e.g. Dropbox ever gets compromised, and for some reason they can guess your password, keyfile will keep you safe.
How to think like a child
This is OT but I wanted to ask before: what does the "Jacobin" in Jacobin Mag refer to? Presumably not the more genocidal fraction of the French Revolution which was my first guess?
Most good web-based editors have none of the drawbacks you've listed. I'm not familiar with Tinkercad, but http://clara.io has:

- traditional-style menus

- infinite undo. Checkout the history tab -- you can see your entire history with a timestamp and an icon saying who made the change. Click on any change to undo that change.

- backspace is captured

- it's continuously saving, so it's almost impossible to lose your changes. If you lose your internet connection, it uses the browser standard onbeforeunload dialog box to prevent you from leaving before they are saved.

There are some significant advantages to choosing a web app: collaboration, change control, access to cloud computing for CPU-intense tasks like rendering, as well as the avoidance of not having to install license dongles or license managers.
It seems that you get BOTH science and religion wrong. People are free and influence each other. That's a basic assumption we should take into account when understanding social phenomena. Start of story.
edit: levine article provides some good info.
Interesting read, especially for those of us who have no idea what technology is available for candidates these days. Clearly every one of us exists in these databases (I assume the GOP has such a thing too) and are connected to other data like what we buy or what we belong to. Seeing this data is shared between candidates I wonder how easy it would be for people to manipulate the data for the benefit of one candidate or another. All it takes is poisoning the entries and you could mislead a candidate's plans.
I misread. 10 days income.
THANK YOU !!

My original comment wasn't intended to be a complaint about the pay-wall, nor a claim that it was off-topic, although I can see how it may have been taken as such. Having already spent 10 seconds on something I clicked on just out of curiosity, I wasn't then going to spend another minute or five constructing a mini blog post.

However, I will now write something - I think people don't realise the effects caused by some of the web page interactions I see. But a comment buried in thread on a topic I don't care about is not the place to create any kind of fully reasoned position statement.

Thanks for the link - I'll go read that thread when I have some time.
Pure snobbery when you consider the actual day-to-day work of a typical CS graduate. Oh look another intranet, another shopping cart, another way to show people ads. A new Javascript framework to learn, woohoo! Who says being a plumber or an electrician isn't more intellectually satisfying than that?
Downloading a webpage, for example. Sending an email, giving someone an upvote, making use of a caching service.

Basically any sort of payment you would want to do at the machine level. If I'm uploading a file to you, I would want you to pay per MB because I'm not sure if you're going to leave after you have 50% of the file.
It's become more of a broad term in politics that was at first mostly critical (implying much the same of what you're saying here) before being later adopted by the people who see themselves as _very_ left.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_(politics)
Another way to approach it is to drop markers using a preprocessor after indentation. A group of friends and I were hacking on something similar and were trying to allow Lisp syntax sans parentheses. We created a preprocessor that would wrap indented child lines with the appropriate parentheses. Here's the OCaml file below:

https://github.com/udaysinghcode/superscript/blob/master/src...
There are two dimensions in meditation.

1. Samadhi/samatha or single pointed focus that calms or concentrates the mind.

2. vipashana/mindfullness/awareness that is looking inside the functioning mind and gains insight.

These two are not completely orthogonal. Even those who do pure awareness meditation develop the ability to keep their mind focused in this moment. In many traditions practitioners start with concentrative practice until they gain the so called 'access concentration' where they have the ability to stay in present moment without mind wandering too much. This access concentration is what I would call 'the flow'. You can go much deeper in concentration or use the flow to look into your mind. The flow itself is not the task. It's the first step.

In many/most Buddhist meditation traditions dedicated concentration practices are seen as tools and insight meditation seen as being more directly towards the goal of Buddhist meditation.

In Mahayana tradition developing deep concentration states is called Sharpening Manjusri’s sword. Using the sword is different than sharpening it.
A message from George Orwell – your digital rights
Why would you send someone from a submission with comments to a submission without comments?
You're ONLY 24. I went back to college at 26, got a BS and an MS and have changed paths many times. Get that "no reason to live" nonsense out of your head and get it together. You have many, many years ahead of you. Like others have said, doors are shut only to those that give up. I agree - get a job and practice coding and build up your portfolio.
I'd hardly call hacker news "mobile friendly". It's almost a cruel joke how unfriendly it is on mobile devices.
Amusingly, there's a similar database sold by the Georgia Secretary of State. Recently they accidentally included the social security number of every registered voter in the database they distributed. If I recall the news article correctly, they mailed it out on CD to 6 different customers before noticing the mistake.
Of course the biggest problem is not coming up with a better (mathematically verified) scheme to run stock markets, but instead it is getting it accepted and implemented. Given the interests, I suspect this problem could be, for example, of the same level of difficulty as reforming gun laws in the US.
A tech lover’s perfect obituary: ‘Bill’s app has been migrated to the Cloud’
The words of George Torwell:

Tor is peace.
Prism is slavery.
Internet is strength.

This is what a Tor supporter looks like :)
i couldnt get it plz simplyfy
Sorry to be pedantic, but I do believe the daily cost of mining is closer to $250,000 - $750,000. Not a small number, but also not millions per day.
How on earth is stuff like that legal? Being interrupted in my life by robocalls, cold calls, calls from "statistic polls", people arriving unnoticed at my door to waffle about politicians, mail ads... that's intrusive-as-hell advertising. If I were a US voter, I'd do everything but not vote for anyone intruding in my life!

And why is it legal for ANYONE to (ab)use the public voter register for ANY kind of gain, be it personal, commercial or political?

(note: I'm from Germany, where politicians aren't totally crazy)
I'm continuing the project full-time at Oracle Labs, where the project started as an internship. I'm leading a small team working on it now, and we hope to be running Rails by the end of 2016.
I remember reading a"theory" that they might have been alien. Arrived on a meteor or something like that. Would make a cool animated movie with characters.
No disrespect intended, but somehow I doubt you're minimizing your opportunity cost every minute of every day. You've got ten minutes to spare. It takes repeated practice, but after a time I think you'll notice results.
Wow! That was incredible. Must read for anyone and everyone at any level. If only we could get honest AND self aware posts like that from everyone.

Critical quote: "I think, to be frank, I was also deeply selfish. I wanted Moz to be the kind of place I wanted to work, not the kind of place most likely to succeed with the team we had or were hiring, not the kind that fit best with what Sarah wanted, but my own little creation where things were weird and different and Rand-like."

I really really appreciate this. I think if you want to become a CEO you have to first (critically!) a) figure out what makes a successful culture and then b) become a person who enjoys and thrives in that kind of culture.

Do you have be born that way for "b"? I don't think so, though it probably helps.
> TSA was giving her all of the trouble, not the airlines.

Yes, since Sept-11-2001, all harassment of passengers was outsourced to the TSA, making airlines look like the good guys. But the ID requirement was enacted and enforced before that - I am not sure when, but at least in July 2000, I was told that I won't be able to fly without an ID.

> Then why was the OP able to get a boarding pass without ID in her story?

Assuming the story is true and exactly as told (which I have no reason to doubt on one hand, but no reason to take as gospel on the other) -- because either the TSA were violating their own rules, or because they were able to satisfy the ID requirement through some procedure which is not general knowledge among the population.

The TSA procedures are, in fact, secret: See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilmore_v._Gonzales
7 out of 10 most “influential” people on GitHub writing in JavaScript
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation." - William Paley
It worked even if their email provider didn't supported it because in such cases there was a fallback Mozilla IdP. You can try it right now on MDN or MozillaWiki.
Numericable has been offering 800 Mbit cable in several cities in France for over a year now :-) Oh, and unmetered BTW :)
Feminism is a fucking religion at this point. It even has its own clergy that should be consulted before making important decisions.
Most orders are cancelled: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-08/why-do-high...

>Exchanges advance the interests of traders by sponsoring esoteric order types, which for hard-to-understand reasons receive the approval of the S.E.C. An example is the New York Stock Exchange Day Intermarket Sweep Add Liquidity Only Order. Regular investors have no idea such an order type exists or what it means.

Then they have no need to use it. Does anyone think we should cut out little used parts of programming languages, because "regular programmers" have little need for them?
When did "it's complicated, therefore it's unethical" become a valid argument?
Record and change unlimited number of voices and keep them forever
AngularJS and MongoDB: Goodbye middle tier?
Filtering by sensor size would be useful.
First of all, forget the "success is taking in a huge salary". In fact, forget the whole BS "winners and losers" american mindset which is not the case in most other parts of the world.

None of your "failures" are that much of a failure or even unique to you.

Dropped out of college? Millions of Americans never even been there.

No job, no money? That can be fixed.

No friends except one guy? How many real friends do you think most people have? You can always meet some new people anyway.

24 and still living at home? Not too uncommon either. In fact in some places in Europe you could be 30 and still living at home, or even worse, 40 and coming BACK to live at home because of the crisis.

First get a job and some apartment. It doesn't have to be your dream job, but should be easy enough to do so you can hone your coding skills further and try to get a coding job. Even McDonalds are nothing to be shamed for.

Oh, and millions of people rebooted their lives after much worse situations, from wars that left them with no family, friends, money AND country, to accidents that cost them their job and life savings to medical bills, to prison...
This article is pretty terrible. First it talks about high cancel rates (95-97%), as if this is somehow evidence of bad behavior. It isn't. Matt Levine has a nice article with simple math showing that a 95% cancel rate is unavoidable.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-08/why-do-high...

Then it talks about selling order flow to HFTs as if this somehow harms the little guy. It doesn't - it lets HFTs offer liquidity (potentially at better prices, and never at worse prices) to the little guy that they would be too scared to offer to big guys.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/fervent_defense_of_f...

Following all this FUD is a bit of shilling for IEX. Why is this nonsense here?
Optimal measures of bottled/mineral water for a coffee device? Is this reality that is worth getting out of bed for?
A delay of 350 microseconds may very well make the market less turbulent and reduce the prevalence of "flash" crashes. Though the method of implementing the delay might not succeed, a forced delay would alleviate the arms race to lower latency algorithms. Lower latency means fewer computations and less memory, which means the strategy space is smaller. With enough players crowded into a small strategy space, the market becomes more frothy as periodically too many players collide on the same strategy.

Placing a lower limit on latency allows a better balance between algorithmic complexity and latency. The strategy space will be larger and hopefully will be large enough that there's room for most everyone to try different strategies, making the market calmer.

To get a sense for the mechanism of this phenomenon, check out the El Farol Bar Problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Farol_Bar_problem).

Unfortunately, IEX's proposed implementation of a delay is probably not as good as simply changing the precision of the exchange's clocks. If the exchange decided it would measure time only to the nearest second and orders occurring at the same second would be processed in random order, I expect that would be a better solution. Adding some randomness to the processing order at the 100s of milliseconds scale would go a long way to reducing front-running and overly simplistic momentum strategies. The latter are the main cause of market turbulence.
Meditation isn't solely or even primarily a method for treating things.
The author may present her case inaptly, but she comes off as very dislikable.

So she wrote an article about Lolita and got a comment:
"To read Lolita and ‘identify’ with one of the characters is to entirely misunderstand Nabokov"

I haven't read Lolita, don't have any literary criticism training and don't have the slightest idea whether this assertion is general consensus, debatable or total lunacy.

But it is certainly civil. And there is no indication at all that it was posted because the author is a woman.

Still, the comment is supposed to be a prime example of "mansplaining".

I think the author just can't cope with criticism. And since her peer group seems to be radical feminists, what better way to discredit it than by asserting it is against feminism.

Have I missed anything else in this posting? There was lots and lots of ranting, but this comment thing seemed to be the only thing of substance.
I don't want to send him a public personal message and the one I sent didn't generate any reply.
Ask HN: Pivoting my startup, how should I submit to AngelList?
I'm in the process of pivoting my startup, and for this new product we'll need to raise money. The product was half built some years ago but the timing was bad and it was shelved. Today the timing is excellent for it.

I started filling up an entry in AngelList about the new product, but it's asking for questions about the operation of my company, for which the answers would show we been running for 4 years, while the product even though we built part of it ages ago, it's not in operations and it's nothing more than a landing page.

The reason why I wasn't creating the profile with my company name is that if someone look at our company's website, we have other products, including some experimental, lower profile stuff that really doesn't need the funding I'm trying to raise.

What should I do? Any advise?

This is my company: https://CarouselApps.com and this is the new product: https://Glycast.com
No, the point about HAL 9000 being named after IBM isn't true:

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index.html#slot7

The video game company HAL Laboratory (maker of the Kirby series)... they did name their company so each letter was one before IBM:

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/iwata_explains_wher...
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Basically, it's just another person who doesn't want AI meddling in the stock markets. Sorry folks, that ship sailed a very very long time ago. Short term, all of our markets now belong to AI consuming alternative data (think weather, satellite pictures of parking lots, etc), economic releases, etc. If you want to trade the markets and not program AI, your best bet it is to make longer term bets where AI doesn't perform so well.
It's never to late and definitely not at 24hs. Read some biographies, yes, some people were rich by 19th, but some struggled for years and years not finding their success or happiness until the 40s, 50s, etc.

Do you like coding?
LR parser on JavaScript (which was created for declarative data visualization language)
Drugged Gut Microbiome Cuts Heart Risk in Mice
Not sure that's right. The threshold I've seen feels closer to 30ms, as in, needs to be under that even for casual users.

Note that even at 100 ms, most of the editors in the final graph are disqualified.
That's very neat, and yes, you're right, when doing it with a movable shadow mask it is 3D printing. Totally missed that option when I gave the examples.
Lots of good news. But we should be careful not to misinterpret one point.

The Ebola virus isn't "defeated." It has gone back into hiding in animal populations. It may well appear again.
Sounds like Yik Yak
Crazy is relative.

But I do find it incredibly worrying how much data campaigns can get their hands on in the USA - I'm pretty sure Australia's rules regarding access to the electoral roll pretty much prohibit it ever being used to target voters in a campaign.
In Sweden, a Cash-Free Future Nears
It does not, it is just pair creation by photons. So two photons react to a electron positron pair. (The inverse process of anti-matter anhilation.
Indeed, although I said it this way to avoid starting another debate – obviously, that failed.
Elastic Beanstalk – python application server structure and celery installation
Voter registration databases are available from the Secretary of States office in each state. Anyone can request a file dump; however, some states often charge a small fee for the file. GOP and NDP use different tech stacks, but both are tied to companies (like NGP) that have built processes around obtaining and updating voter registration data yearly from each state. They then tie in historic data they have from door to door canvassing, voter turn out, and any other touch points to build a profile about the voter. Typical data points include voting history, gender, various voter level flags indicating if the voter supports causes/activism, and any other notes or voter related data.
Assuming that extreme HFT and massive amounts of cancelled orders are BAD (there are people who argue that market liquidity etc. outweighs the drawbacks of short-term focus and billions spent on making algoritms ever faster and moving datacenters ever closer to markets. Let's assume they are wrong).

How does one change the rules to promote longer term investment and promote quality in trading algos over speed? How do we putting data centers where it's cost effective rather than across the street from the market?

Adding a random delay to orders which will execute it some time in the next few minutes is one alternative.

Having a mandated minimum transaction fee/tax is another. What if it's 1% (and a nonzero amount for cancelled orders)?

Changing the tax structure so that profits from instruments held for less than say a few hours or days are taxed at nearly 100% and then slopes down to a much lower floor for longer term investments (months or years).

Obviously any measure has to have wide international support, no market wants to scare the money across the border.
not to forget some of the sh*t that leaked into archive.org without any whistleblower involvement.

[0] http://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2015/05/20/misconfigurat...
There are some common connotations for the type of people who call each other "bro", e.g. the muscle-bound narcissist who still smells like last night's kegger, where he got to feel up three different blackout-drunk girls. Of course, that isn't actually representative of the population of bro-sayers, so it's just as much a bigoted stereotype as anything else is.
Would like to add to the list Person of Interest, a show I discovered earlier this year.

Started pre-Snowden, it's a series about a world where the NSA has a "machine" with absolute access to all networked devices, all data, etc - and they built an AI that can process all the data and successfully warn about crime.

In other words, it's about a world where crime prevention through unlimited data analysis is possible. It started off as what I thought would be another cheesy "criminal of the week" procedural... quickly jumped in quality from there.

There's really good commentary on the morals and ethics of mass surveillance, the technical scenes are believable (Mr. Robot quality), and the series beautifully transitions into the science fiction genre in the later seasons in a way I've never seen on TV before.
Which is why the parent mentions "cross platform" repeatedly.
Airships are indeed possible, I hoped it was obvious I was referring to the hospital part of the idea.
If we do, it wouldn't be Apple but in name, just like with SGI's NT machines.
Imagine someone develops a really big A* algorithm with many clever optimizations, gives it a goal of choosing actions that lead to maximum paperclips, and sets it loose upon the world. Let's call it Clippy. I hope it's clear that Clippy will read the Bostrom book and use the information to maximize paperclips, rather than do something it wasn't programmed to do like "help humanity".

I'm not interested in arguing whether Clippy is truly "intelligent", let's leave that to the dictionary makers. But there's no law of nature saying you can't make Clippy, or that it won't be dangerous once made. All the evidence we have right now says that it's possible.

The big problem right now is that many organizations are working to develop the moral equivalent of Clippy, they are making visible progress, they are in an arms race with each other so we shouldn't hope for restraint, and we have absolutely no idea how to make it safe.
not only is it important to have "emotional intelligence" with others but will save you a lot of headaches with family relations
The kind of market failure that got sold for half a billion.