skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all know why people don't manage debt, health, relationships and everything else better.

Because they're dumb :)

Debt is just another tool the folks in power have to exploit the poor.

When you have 100 mil, you can hire a smart person to take advantage of debt.

When you have 100 dollars and you live around other people who have 100 dollars, you know what happens, you're the one being taken advantage of.

Everything else is talk.

ps. I am just starting to not be dumb and I'm almost 30 and I've had a ton of support and luck go my way. Most people will hopelessly get exploited and spend their days coping. Just have a look around - don't believe the 'hi how are you' smiling faces, they're pretending and you know it ;)
The court order does not require Apple turn over their private key. What it does is compel Apple to sign something with their private key, under duress.

You're basically making a might makes right argument, far extended from a Hamiltonian position of implied powers.

If public key cryptography can't be trusted, and governments are as a matter of fact not fully trusted and in at least the U.S. we're taught explicitly that it can't blindly be trusted which is why we have a written constitution, then the entire trust model fails and we can just stop with all of this nonsense and go back to pen and paper.
Because the west has been stepping up propaganda.

I remember 5 years ago, most outlets had very pro-China things to say. Now it's undoubtedly taken a very negative turn. Daily stories about China's impending economic collapse, their various 'crackdowns', and so on. Even this article. To be honest, half of the stuff they want to ban isn't even allowable in Canadian media (literally, 3 out of 6 bullet points are strait up illegal in Canada), and we're hardly a totalitarian state.

But when western media and NGOs are stepping up the propaganda and support for violent secessionist groups (Occupy HK took a violent turn recently, some Uighur groups are strait up terrorists with US support), China has to do something. A collapse would be catastrophic, yet that's exactly what the US government is trying to achieve (as evidenced by Syria).

Edit - Anyone want to address these points? Or is the propaganda working too well?
Absolutely. I fully recognize my $2.50 americano every morning could be a couple of cups of free office coffee, but I look forward to it every single day. I also drive a 10-year-old but reliable car, so I don't have any huge monthly expenditures outside of rent and my $150 student loan payment. I'll take the $100 or so hit every month in exchange for me starting my mornings on a positive note. It's not going to positively change my life enough to not have that americano every morning.
Evernote? Yes, it has a lot of flaws, but the OCR seems to work really well with my handwriting. I scan my notes in and Evernote makes them searchable.

I doubt if Evernote wrote their own OCR engine. Any idea what it is that they use?
Not trying to be some literature snob, but GRRM can't hold a candle to the profound impact Harper Lee has had on American culture as a whole (not to mention that she won a Pulitzer and a Presidential Freedom Medal).

It's almost insulting even bringing up a quote from ASOIAF.
I imagine the credit card payment processor pays at the end of the month? So when one accepts payment using credit card, is that an automatic 30 day credit the seller has extended to me?

I didn't think about that. So essentially, the credit card issuer didn't really spend "their money" at all. Wow. The more I learn the more I realize how little I know.
Apache Kafka 0.9.0.1 is released
None of this really surprises, a lot of what meditation is, is controlling stress and focus. By learning to control those, everything from the different chemicals released in your body to the actual neural structures can change.

My startup is actually working on something very similar called neurofeedback[1]. Which is very similar to meditation, in that we help users better control the subprocess of their mind. It's not perfect, but it actually helps significantly with people with epilepsy manage seizures (by helping them realize when it is going to happen)[2].

Other conditions, specifically ADHD and anxiety have also been shown to be treatable (to a degree) using this treatment[2]. Treatment using neurofeedback for depression has also been shown to be better than placebo[3].

Unfortunately, there is limited research funds to study this, and there really should be more. My startup is gearing up to do trials shortly, hopefully to make this treatment more available.

http://synaptitude.me/

[1] http://synaptitude.me/blog/neurofeedback-in-200-words/

[2] http://synaptitude.me/blog/literature-overview-of-using-neur...

[3] http://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/322290
> I wish Mathematica was open source to aid this.

Rather than wishing for this that will not happen, let's work to make Sage, particularly SageMathCloud (https://cloud.sagemath.com), the lingua franca of CASs.
Are exponential functions taught in China?
This is a project I've been working on and off of for the past year. Just looking for some feedback on the UI, the idea, execution, etc. I know the look isn't top-notch.

The concept is to unify inventory, channels management, ticket tracking, warehousing, and CRM under one singular platform. Most important to me, it is completely free and open source.

For right now, I plan to start this with only the inventory and warehousing system, as this project is starting to get very large as it is, and it is helping a lot to focus on one thing at a time.

The code in github has quite a bit more in it if you care to sift through it.

Feel free to edit what you can of it. Not all of the fields are working on this version.
I'm reminded of http://www.theonion.com/article/man-brings-lunch-from-home-t...
I always wondered why the US has never seemed all that concerned with their trade deficit with China. Imports and paid for with exports, after all.

It turns out that the US has been playing a long game. America imports cargo containers filled with manufactured goods, and exports one-way, first-class plane tickets to America (and Vancouver), for use by the Chinese nouveaux-riches.

Brilliant. Devious and brilliant. The dollars never need to be exchanged into yuan, because they come back inside immigration-curious pockets. Export the factory; import the tycoon carrying the factory profits. And if China tries to stop it in the usual way, the brain drain only worsens. It's more like a brain siphoning.

But taking the foil hat off, it's probably just entirely accidental. Not that the US wouldn't milk it for maximum benefit anyway, but it's just too much like the outcome of a cursed monkey's paw wish to have been planned that way.
You can control pointer with mouse button (left button on 3rd row) and ijkl for direction + sdf for mouse clicks. works quite well.
Why? I haven't played with an FPGA since University, so I'm really disconnected from this world. So what does this article mean?
I believe you're making the wrong comparison.

Coal is not to be compared to wind and solar. Coal is to be compared to natural gas. Natural gas produces far less CO2 per MW generated, and can be throttled quickly at combined cycle generation facilities. Coal _should_ be deprecated quickly for natural gas, as natural gas can backfill solar and wind generation. Coal is now down to about 30% of US generation capacity, and will continue to dwindle as coal plants are decommissioned or retrofitted to burn natural gas.

As wind and solar continue to be deployed (which will only speed up with the 5 year production tax credit extension in December 2015), natural gas usage can be reduced (or even eliminated with utility scale battery storage).

> The question the original article raises is why, when energy production is more sensitive to environmental issues, would people invest in coal. My points are that there are developments that could in the future lead to a much cleaner coal. Science fiction can and often does become reality.

Clean coal has _never_ been proven to be cost competitive [1].

[1] http://energy.gov/fe/science-innovation/clean-coal-research/...
> I think this is a good point, but the sort of people who would need a year to save $1200 do not have the sort of credit to get a 10% APR credit card, APR's closer to 20% or higher are more likely.

My credit score according to Credit Karma is 811, which I think everyone could agree is very good. I just spot checked two of my credit cards, and they're both at about 16% interest. Now, maybe I could get a lower rate if I asked, but that's what they gave me by default. It doesn't matter to me since I never carry a balance (in fact, I didn't even know what the interest rate was; I had to go look). But 10% does seem pretty optimistic.

That said, I agree with the overall point. It should be acceptable to use credit in the situation described, as long as you're completely aware of the actual cost and are making a rational decision. Unfortunately, too few people do the math, and even for very educated and intelligent people, purchasing decisions can be irrational.
SV startup culture has been about personal responsibility since at least the glory days of Atari, which ( according to my sources and a published movie ) had an MRD - Marjuana Research Division - built in a small rooftop shack, and sometimes meetings would be in the MRD. Reputedly, people had nitrous tanks in the office, too, and would huff during the workday.

Apple really championed the "beer bust" culture in the early 90's.

I have been in "dry offices" and do find it a morale killer, because there's the sense that the HR department knows better than you.

We have beer in our office, and a bottle or two of hard stuff, but honestly no one ever touches it. We have a hard working and professional culture and know alcohol and coding don't mix. ( Or, as I say, "Don't drink and write drivers." )

Sometimes the inside sales guys knock off at 3pm on a friday and have a can of beer. They start early - calling the east coast - so it's good to see them blowing off a little. More professionally, we tend to troop to the dive bar around the corner, which is honestly more fun than setting up a kegerator.

Having beer and not drinking it is a more solid culture than banning beer from the top.
I had always assumed that it was a matter of law, rather than self governance. I stand corrected.
Debt is useful to change the time between income and expenses; it solves a cash-flow problem. That's the real key: treat it as a time adjustment in flow, and not as a stock. It's not something you can dip into, as it were; it's something you use to move consumption closer in time, in return for reducing potential consumption in the future.

If you're using it to buy an asset that appreciates more than the interest on the debt, what makes you think that you're a better judge of asset prices than the people lending you the money? Why wouldn't they just buy the asset directly, and cut out the middleman?

Businesses use debt for all sorts of reasons; cash flow, tax, paying out profits in a different form, or simply because debt is cheaper than equity.
This is a discussion. Most of the people here are not lawyers. In discussions we generally discuss right and wrong and what is reasonable, which have nothing to do with the law. The law is an ancillary technical concern about what the FBI or Apple will be forced/allowed to do, and has nothing to do with what they should do.
Which is more simple, an if/else block or a terany operator?

if/else:

if i == 0 {

return "foo"

} else {

return "bar"

}

terany:

return i == 0 ? "foo" : "bar"
Or simply use incognito mode and click on Google search result.
> People there are very unsatisfied with the government but they're also afraid of revolution.

Sounds like the west. Yet we're too fat, lazy and complacent to do anything. Bernie and Trump are achieving some success because of this, but in the end Hillary will win (possibly through some sort of shenanigans), continue towards Obama and the establishment's police state, and once again the people will lose.

It's funny how people talk about dissatisfaction in non-western countries, without realized that people are very dissatisfied in the west...
Linux stayed away from including it into the shipped kernel, which is indeed a derivative work. Their argument is that kernel module loaded into kernel separately is acceptable to avoid GPL violation.
Yesterday during a design meeting somebody mentioned there are patents about uploading log files from a device we would be violating with a solution we had cooked up in 5 minutes. Totally insane.

Unless somebody comes up with a simple idea for determining whether a patent is real innovation I think we should give up on patents or make them very short term like 2 years for software. It would require changes to a lot of business models but I think in the long run we would be better off.
Umm...here

- China's total debt risen to 346% of GDP in 2015. http://seekingalpha.com/article/3852886-chinese-debt-problem...

- China exports fall 11.2% in January, imports down 18.8% http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/14/china-releases-trade-data-for...

- China’s $6.7 trillion bond market is flashing the same danger signs that triggered a tumble in stocks http://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2015/10/10/...

- China Capital Outflows Rise to Estimated $1 Trillion in 2015 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-25/china-capi...

- China's Net Capital Outflows Probably Hit $113 Billion In January http://www.actionforex.com/analysis/daily-forex-fundamentals...

- "Chinese banks will lose approximately $3.5 trillion of equity if China's banking system loses 10 percent of assets" (all of its reserve would be gone) http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/10/kyle-bass-china-banks-may-los...
You can also get Amazon gift cards at grocery stores that provide gas points. For example, at Safeway $500 Amazon gift card purchase will give you $30 AMEX cashback + $25 discount on gas if you dont mind bringing a couple of gas cans with you to the station.
> Terminals are now much smarter than the average VT100, and it's high time for a terminal to identify its capabilities with a new protocol that doesn't require server-side state. But nobody is working on that, to my knowledge, because the "Unix way" creates an even stronger disincentive to evolve the manner in which we think about Unix lest we disrespect the past.

How would you write a terminal protocol that could support `vim` with a stateless server?
Not when the HTTP request itself is more complicated to do than actually reimplementing the thing in Javascript.

NOTE: If you are using a library for easily doing HTTP requests, than you can probably use a library for estimating time to read.
308 is an incredibly small amount of LUTs, might even fit in a CPLD.
The Hedge Fund and the Despot
Could this be related to Ricochet getting press?
If you are looking at some repository for Ubuntu's source code, and find that their build process isn't perfectly documented as regards the version of gcc they use, that really isn't a GPL violation no matter how hard you try to claim that it is.

You don't have a moral right to base a distribution on binaries produced by some other distribution. Unless you are going to produce actual evidence of a legal violation you really don't have anything here.
DevSecOps: How DevOps and Automation Bolster Security, Compliance
1. This is quickly getting into the philosophy of law. Every case can be struck down by either appeal or a later case overturning precedent. I think such cases should be thought of as "it was illegal, but now it has been changed by the court". So once someone's lost, we call their actions illegal until they appeal and win.

2. You said that complying would open the door to doing it for other phones. In that regard, complying with an icloud request also opens the door to complying with future icloud requests. The fact that it creates the ability (for Apple) to do it later has no effect on legalities.

There may be a difference on undue burdens, but that's a different point. Your point would still be invalid. " creating new software for FBiOS is an undue burden, but creating new software to download a user's icloud data isn't " is a different argument than "creating new software means we can use it again later". The latter is the argument you made, and it doesn't differentiate between icloud and FBiOS.

If we're concerned the FBI will take the software and use it without a warrent, Apple was given the option to do everything on their own premises and just give the FBI the data/unlocked phone when done.
This is pretty cool, and should remind everyone that the 8088 and even the Zilog80 CPUs are still relevant and used to this day.
Seems to me that these days secure is when it gives NSA pause for thought...
Interactive Music Video: Bad Chemicals
This is an example of an inside view "I see drama everywhere!" swamping an outside view "Freenode is up, ok."

One of the early lessons I needed to learn as a manager, is that my inside view is just one view. Getting the view of others is much more valuable.
Agreed. 57% are women caretakers [1]. So while it is a majority. I would not label it a purely women's issue.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/elcare.nr0.htm
Ask HN: Is anyone working on a browser or search engine/search?
No, CSRF isn't about pulling scripts etc from another site, it's tricking the browser into making malicious HTTP requests. So, it's not trying to grab facebook .com/someinterestingdata.json, it's trying to trick your browser into performing actions on the target domain by making it perform GET or POST requests such as sending Facebook spam. It doesn't matter what the response is, it's just interested in the action. A while(1) won't do much if it's inside an img tag or hidden iframe rather than a script tag.
Text of the message (since the site seems to be down):

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List: openbsd-tech
Subject: [PATCH] No comic sans in httpd status pages
From: Peter Krantz <peter () peterkrantz ! se>
Date: 2016-02-19 16:40:33
Message-ID: AAE82534-AF27-4CC9-B780-38F05596FE38 () peterkrantz ! se
[Download message RAW]

Hi!

For some reason the httpd status pages (e.g. 404) use the Comic Sans typeface. This patch removes comic sans and sets the typeface to the default sans-serif typeface of the client.

This lowers the number of people contacting website maintainers with typeface complaints bordering on harassment.

Cheers,

Peter

? no_comic_sans_in_404.patch
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<	"'Comic Sans MS', 'Chalkboard SE', 'Comic Neue', sans-serif; }\n"
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Not snobby in the slightest. A friend put it best: "George RR Martin is a great storyteller, but he's no great writer"
The latter is barely better though. Gives the "still lives with his parents" or "just out of college" vibe...
I hear that sentiment a lot. Personally I'm glad that we bring important cultural happenings and such in as topics of discussion. What is society if not the most complex project that we've ever feigned to attempt to grok on hacker news. These are the global variables that affect everything.
Ease of Use Spells Doom Only for Slackers
Did you read the article. It talks about how that trick no longer works on a lot of sites because they are now checking User-Agent strings too.
Be nice with the poor server. Text mirror (pastebin):

http://dpaste.com/3E9B7BB.txt
You could say the same about sleep.
Facebook Launches Site to Help Non-Profits Raise Money
In the scenario where you can predict with certainty that your income will increase by tenfold in one year, sure, that's rational. That is not a realistic situation for most people.
In the US they are more likely trying to evade the "credit card company tax". For a small business that has transactions in the single digit dollar range those are quite substantial.
How to talk about your project
How the 'PayPal Mafia' Redefined Success in Silicon Valley
Let's see 8088mph run on that baby.
Watch the video I linked to and others from the same guy (Ajahn Brahm). If you want other perspectives on the subject—which eventually, you probably should—might checkout "Meditation for Beginners": pretty good compilation of ~20 different meditation experts speaking on the subject with different backgrounds and focuses
Using Varnish Cache to Manage Dynamic CDN Content
If you need an attorney and don't have thousands of dollars in the bank, of course you'll need to use a credit card.

Attorneys aren't banks, it's not unreasonable for them to refuse to finance your counsel.
This really isn't difficult to do:

- loader A stores a (PubKey,NextLoader) and has the ability to blank (via actual blanking or deletion of an encryption key) the entire device.

- loader A provides a new-key(PubKey,NextLoader) method which blanks the remainder of the device.

- Loader A also provides a update-loader(NextLoader) method that doesn't, but also doesn't update the PubKey. Before accepting the new NextLoader, it verifies it against the stored pub key.

Could also allow things like updating the PubKey if the update is signed by the previous PubKey

Spec presumes only access is via the loader A api, PubKey would really need to be stored somewhere safe (HSM, TPM, etc) to discourage direct hardware access.

Probably also could use the PubKey to encrypt the NextLoader.

New phones ship either:

- without a pubkey or next-loader, and require initial provisioning to do anything (fairly inconvenient)

- ship with a flag set that prevents updating the loader, ie: requires updating the key (less secure, probably need to specify further how this occurs to avoid the security hazard from un-updated phones from being too great).
Your assumption about someone understanding your position based on rational arguments is flawed. The reason it's flawed is because of the same reason we're currently arguing whether or not Apple has the right to challenge whether the FBI can compel them/us to write software for the government so they can "protect us better" from both real and fictitious threats.

This type of reasoning leads to cognitive dissonance (believing two logically conflicting things at the same time) in the general population, which is caused by people applying double bind[1] arguments to conversations. Those double bind arguments end up creating additional cognitive dissonance in others and the vicious cycle is repeated, all the while being accelerated by our ever increasing connectedness. There's a going theory that these types of meme-based arguments are actually thought viruses[2].

One way to stop these types of arguments is to take a quiet moment and identify arguments or language structure that lean on speculative unknowns and which encourage equally speculative rhetoric which is dissonant in nature. In other words, let's all start to learn how to identify dissonant speech and reject it as a truth when we hear it. Let's tell others we think the conversation may be dissonant in nature to help stop the cycle.

One thing to consider while approaching solving these complex problems is setting the goal of removing rules of conduct as technology becomes more complicated. All this talk of creating new rules (and seeking new rulings to establish them) is creating an extremely complicated house of cards for all of us to thoughtfully manage. This is because we're basing our arguments on a fundamentally false premise, which is it's the government's job is to completely remove all suffering from society. That's actually not their job, nor is it achievable, so perhaps it's time to question why they think it is and figure out a solution that isn't in disagreement with itself.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viruses_of_the_Mind