skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ministry (synth pop/industrial/Alternative metal) frontman Al Jordison in his song "gold diggers":

"You know, they say it takes a whole pack of wolves to take down a moose, cuz one-on-one, that moose would smack them down. It’s like being in the music business — you got your managers, your ex-managers, your ex-bandmates, your ex-labels, your ex-wives, your lawyers, your tax attorneys … hell, that sound more like a pack of hyenas to me. You know, I was once told by an ex-manager, “Son, you’re worth more dead than alive. Cuz when you’re dead, we can sell you off in pieces.” That’s the way it works around here. You don’t believe me? Why don’t you try asking Jim Morrison, or Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin, or Kurt Cobain, or Amy Winehouse? I’m pretty sure they’re gonna take my side of the story. Sometimes I think they’re the lucky ones. They don’t have to deal with these douchebags"
Why is it so hard for us to do nothing?
It's just an empty statement. A dead millionaire has a lower life expectancy than a living welfare recipient. True, but irrelevant - the fact that you choose to add details to even things out means that you had some cause in your perception of their relative baselines to decide on the direction of your adjustments.

> Poor people can be healthier than rich people. If wealth was a dominant cause of better health then that outcome would be unlikely.

You're mixing possibility and probability, and the entire point is that it is unlikely.

edit: I feel like I have to be very explicit here, because this is very basic: A particular result of a comparison being unlikely to be true for any pair of individuals does not mean that if you find a single example of a comparison going the other way, you've proved something. People are very unlikely to be on an airplane at any particular time. That doesn't mean that no one is on an airplane, or that anyone anywhere being on an airplane is an uncommon event.
It absolutely would be unethical to use that knowledge in any way. Are u kidding, this provides a huge loophole creation of unethical research.
It depends how you look at things.

You can look at it as mere circulation of money. And let's be clear, this is circulation of money, not redistribution of wealth (as they are merely exchanging one asset for another at market rate)

Alternatively, you could see it as this individual making a decision about what humanity should do with scarce resources.

Should we direct them towards helping those in need, or to manufacturing luxury automobiles?

With great wealth comes great responsibility.
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I believe for CrashPlan, this ONLY applies to CLOUD backups. If you backup to local media or across computers, there is no "auto-delete" timeframe.
Fault injection and elastic partitioning for QA of distributed systems
What I've seen is that the Internet intensifies the power of gatekeepers in the long run. It overloads people with too many choices, and in choice-overload people fall back to relying on a few filters to tame it down.

The information age is numbing. There is too much of everything, so it's all debased.

The Internet also flattens everything. You get a market with no barriers anywhere. Power and prestige accrete to the winners due to network effects.

Put those two things together and you get an extreme power law market with one or maybe at most two or three winners who own each vertical. I expect Apple Music and Spotify to be the only two "record labels" on Earth here in a few years.
Debate Intensifies Over Dark Disk Theory
> many people support this distinction

Really? Maybe I travel in the wrong circles, but most of the time this comes up most people just roll their eyes.

Also, that blog post is terrible, and highlights why the FSF fails so miserably at it's mission. Referring to Windows as "freedom-denying, user-controlling, surveillance system" ignores the fact that most people don't care because it works.
From what I heard, working hard is like 10% of the effort to get into over-hyped shit schools like MiT. The rest is who you know, what you can pay, and what you're willing to do to get in.
From Wikipedia[0]:

> Social engineering, in the context of information security, refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional "con" in that it is often one of many steps in a more complex fraud scheme.

Honest question: When you take a look at the "manipulation of people into divulging confidential information" part, wouldn't this, by definition, incriminate the vast majority of the modern ("Internet 2.0") web, WRT unremovable-cookies, tracking, "analytics", and so forth?

I fully admit there is a difference between downloading a random AdobeFlashPlayerUpdate.exe or MacKeeperApp.dmg from a malicious site and having all your personal data and information about you sent off to a 3rd party company......but where do we(or Google, here) draw the line?

Just last week, Facebook started gleaning contacts from my phone and injecting them into the "People you may know" page - these were people I did NOT want on my Facebook - ranging from business contacts to tinder matches.
I knew this was (sadly) standard behavior for users of the Facebook App, or users of "Facebook for Mobile", but I have never given my phone number to facebook, not once, and I only access it via a mobile browser.

Is it social engineering to see my recent searches in the Amazon app on mobile reposted on Facebook on my desktop Web browser?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
Do you know anything about the case? They said he shouldn't even use the phone and spent time in solitary because they said he could cause a nuclear war. The entire case against him was horrifying to anyone that cares about human rights.
It's obvious you've been using ad blockers for years. Turn it off for a few days and you'll see a bunch of malware Ads mimicking anti virus warnings with words like 'Scan your computer for viruses' or "1789 viruses found on your pc, click here to remove them"

>>explain why this is a bigger threat than email/Reddit/Hacker News/Twitter/etc.

Trust. A fake email that looks like its from your bank directing you to a website that looks like your bank's site is usually successful

In the same vein, an attacker utilizing trust and habit can gain access to your email account or/and get you to install anything

Of course "you" won't be fooled but many others will be
I don't see why we should be relying on the emotional responses of people rather than on cold hard policy. I mean, to be fair, we already have the policy, but I think we should address why it's failing to be implemented. I'd guess that it's only a small part that due to an underestimate of the amount of harm various police tactics cause targets.

This particular post clearly points out that that this is common and that there is a pattern, which IMO points to management rather than officers being the root cause.

An officer should be thinking, "Wow I'm going to lose my job or face criminal charges if I do this search", not "Hmm I don't think this person is going to enjoy this search very much". And it's pretty obvious to me from the terrible epidemic of police brutality that this attitude is not common, nor encouraged.
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> Gemalto

Ah yes, Gemalto: the apex of security
I'm not saying an ad-blocker IS the solution, but it works on blocking not only ads but making websites faster and safer.
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> I don't know how you set that bar, maybe it's obvious.

Perhaps you feel it's obvious to you, but do you trust the arbitrary judgement of some company's random employee? What if the employee or establishment decides that this is a case of "some guy who wishes to get into the women's restroom" but the patron disagrees? Should we always implicitly trust the word of the patron? Should a line be drawn? If so, where? Who can we trust as the arbiter of "genuine" gender identity? Is there any criteria that a reasonable person could use to ascertain if someone is using the "wrong" bathroom? Should we even care in any capacity who uses which bathroom?

What about situations where someone with a political agenda intends to deliberately make things difficult by doing their best to straddle the gray area between honest expression of gender identity and calculated abuse of our good faith? What about a scenario where someone's gender genuinely feels fluid and they find that they can identify as both genders at different times?

As an anecdote, I have a trans-woman friend who normally uses the woman's bathroom (without issue as far as I am aware), but who sometimes (when drunk at a bar) has deigned to use the men's room at times when the line to the woman's room was really long. In her own words "why should I make the line longer for women who can't use the urinal when I can be in and out of the men's room in a minute?". We have jokingly accused her of just not wanting to wait in line, and none of us care at all what bathroom she uses, but I could envision a scenario where this behavior becomes very controversial (if she can use a man's bathroom, why should she ever encumber the already heavily trafficked woman's room, some might argue)?

IMO, the best way to go about this would be to just have unisex bathrooms or urinal & stall bathrooms and allow people to use whichever they prefer. I don't see how any system that is contingent on someone's gender can work in this political climate since that requires determining gender in the first place.
Yes, I would move. Impossible to do without the data, which is why it was the biggest takeaway to me.
I don't mind looking for women who are different from me. Some of my previous girlfriends were very different from me and we got along very well.

I wrote my reply based on the claim that I should join some social groups or something to heighten the chances of randomly meeting someone new.

If you assume that is the way to do it, then the dilemma is (a) it's not very efficient because most people doing the activity aren't really a good match and are just trying to do the activity, and (b) all the activities that actually make me happy are male-dominated and even anti-correlated with popular depictions (depictions that are borne out in the data too, e.g. when OKCupid posts their data) of what women want in a man.

If you disregard the suggestion of needing to use social hobbies as a means for finding a date, then I agree with you, and finding people who are different from me has been the primary way in which I have had previous relationships.
> The difference between the (admittedly pretty amazing) VST's and the real deal is the difference between sounding good and sounding great.

Honestly I think mixing and mastering each make a much bigger difference with recorded music. In my experience the "amateur aesthetic" usually comes down to these five things:

1) Timing

2) Tuning/intonation

3) Variation or lack thereof

4) Mixing

5) Mastering

The old adage applies to music too: Beginners care about gear, professionals care about technique, masters care about sound.
So, how is a tiny smartphone-sized probe supposed to transmit data back to Earth from 4.37ly away?
In case you are also wondering what a T-38C is, it is a plane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_T-38_Talon
Markdown formatting on Faceboko
I see what you did there.

The question is a good one. How does one differentiate themselves from the pack. The same goes for just about any art form today. There are so many artists and so many works, many of them good enough to tickle your fancy and yet the majority of them will only get a tiny fraction of the consideration they deserve.

I would love to publish music or books, but I know that given my dysfunctional relationship with social media, that I am just about wasting my time doing any of the above, even if I had a shred of talent.
More along the lines of virtual bootcamp for a semi-realistic sci-fi sword and gun play sandbox world.
Does this mean that the 5 cert/domain/week limit is being lifted?
How significant are the relativistic effects at 0.2c (the probe speed they are aiming for)?
I've been trying to buy a place for awhile now. On Zillow, as a matter of fact. I can attest to the fact that it seems bloody impossible to find a place. I've had people in my neighborhood tell me that they bought their townhouse for $200k or so ten years ago and putting it up for sale now at rates of $350k or higher.

The nice thing about Zillow is being able to see the pricing history. The vast majority of houses I have looked at are approaching their 2005/2006 prices, before the last bubble popped.

I'd say we're due for another one soon. I will begrudgingly bide my time until then.
Firefox 45.0.1 on Fedora 23 running Gnome 3 on X. Renders fine on Chrome on the same OS; renders fine on FF on a different OS.

But I've seen it break on other platform combinations too, though. If you google around stackexchange and the mozilla forums, you'll find others.
Orinoco: V8's new jank-reducing garbage collector
The US have been complaining a lot about the UK not meeting NATO defense spending.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/07/uk-sends-more...

Also the UK is failing to control banking financial fraud at home and in it's tax havens.
Shitposting?
The health department will kill this so fast, they will win the Breakthrough Starshot prize.
If you can't rely on a platform/browser to properly render a font as popular as Open Sans, it's really not worth working around it... I run firefox on Linux as well and don't have any issues. It's very likely on your end somewhere.

Edit: Do you get the same issue on https://leclan.ch/ ?
But it's already illegal to sell organs and yet this harvesting still happens. Anything people will pay enough for to push providers past the fear of getting caught is going to generate a black market. If the money received by the organ registry on a highest-bidder basis were earmarked exclusively to research on synthetic alternatives, I believe would probably get to a better world faster than the current state of affairs.
Read up on next-gen nuclear, especially liquid fueled thorium reactors (LFTR).

They will be extremely safe, including being completely meltdown proof. They also represent no threat of weapons proliferation.

Although the focus is on China, this article touches on many other developments:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/542526/china-details-next...
Who wants a 3D printed dragon on his door?
It COULD cost that much. But actually it doesn't. See http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/07/05/137530847/how-m...

$78k production
$1m in advertising
So the choices are:

(1) Hardware designers need to do much more to speed up general memory accesses, so that a CPU cache is no longer needed.

(2) Programmers need to accept that if they use pointers (either explicitly like in C, or implicitly like in Lisp or Java), they will have to tolerate the performance hit.

(3) Programming is made much more difficult by requiring programmers to take into account memory layout, which is almost like a return to the bad old days when you had (by today's standards) tiny memories.

(4) Memory is distributed over multiple CPUs, each working on a different part of the problem.

There aren't many problems where users (who today, are almost everybody) care about raw speed. What they do care about are response times.
Ford hasn't had great CEOs for a while. I think they're all just connected military and intelligence goons now. "National Security" and all.
You indirectly put your finger on the real problem with OOP, and that's that a lot of people using it in the wild are frankly not very good at it. Bad object design, not seeing what should be objects in the first place.

I always felt that people who had never used C before C++ or Java, nor any other procedural language, aside from some scripting tended to some of the messiest OO. Seemed they'd want to create a sea of objects and patterns even when something simple was staring them in the face.

OO is harder to teach, and clearly harder to understand. That's the top and bottom of most issues with it.
This is quite an interesting proposal, although there are some major technological challenges to address:

To achieve that energy would require an array about a mile across combining thousands of lasers firing in perfect unison.
I'm pivoting the discussion so that we can look at the actual consequences of (putting limits on) speech, instead of categorizing "free speech" as a silly absolute. I showed how true unlimited libertarian free speech doesn't exist and cannot possibly exist in an unequal society. This is separate from Free Speech as a legal concept. The government should never silence dissenting voices, no matter how abhorrent. In this sense I'm a free speech absolutist.

It makes no sense to blindly apply free speech principles based on majority/minority. By that logic we ought to amplify the voices of neo-nazis and other undesirables simply because they're a minority that would otherwise go unheard. To the contrary, I believe we're better off banishing them from the campus instead.

I completely disagree with your characterization of hate speech as speech that causes "subjective discomfort". Specific types of speech can do a lot of harm to e.g. individuals who suffer from mental illnesses or PTSD. So organizations have to choose. Either you ban the speech that will predictably harm individuals or minority groups, or you allow all speech (including hate speech) and the more vulnerable people will be forced to leave to protect their mental health. That's the reality of the situation. I don't think this is a difficult choice.

In practice free speech restrictions on college campuses don't restrict scientific work or scientific debate (in the broadest sense), so I don't think there is any cause for concern.
... and in Sweden
I prefer Celery for Python. Far more light-weight, and intended for distributed task processing.

http://celery.readthedocs.org/
Doesn't this sound like something a startup can come in and alleviate? Anyone have any recommendations for identity verification as a service?
Indian software products foraying into IoT, AI, drones and more
Slowly and very carefully.
I didn't realize it was supersonic:

Maximum speed: Mach 1.3 (858 mph, 1,381 km/h)
Non-consentual sex acts are rape. My ex did porn for years and no aspect of that was non-consentual.

There's also plenty of amateur porn on xHamster.