skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget the "we need a balance" statements, even though it's the U.S. government that has long moved away from that balance, and now just wants to be able to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants it, to whoever it wants, with no oversight.
> Just don't forget to say how much you love SW and George Lucas while you rip.

What's the implication? If you really love SW you shouldn't complain when the brand is ruined?
I use an inexpensive USB audio interface daily, and that part isn't bad at all. I'm able lto run two DAW against it; one for cue mix with VST plugins and another for recording.

If you're careful with part selection and systems engineering on the host side, it works extremely well.

I'm also loath to throw too many rocks at the SOC boards - they make fine prototypes that can then be adapted to something more appropriate.
Programming languages are interfaces too. Google saying MD should be the universal design is like saying Java should be the universal programming language.
I'm sorry if I missed the humor. But yeah, interactive Java is Android Java. It might have been WFC. It surely was never going to be AWT or Swing.
This is an interesting idea but sorry, it's too much for the app to become a separate feature.

We will have export in future and you will be able to match data from Qbserve and data from Spotify to see which tracks create the flow for you.
The difference is these lies survived for years and were repurposed all the while no one actually bothered to verify them.
It's also a jarring experience if I switch from using Google Maps on Android to using Google Maps on iOS and it's totally different. Granted this is less common.
Information that's mostly true with a few lies thrown in is very hard to verify. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
It is a probabilistic thing. If your photon arrives at the same time as another photon, then you can have two-photon absorption (which wouldn't have occurred without your photon). Ditto if your photon arrives at the same time as a thermal vibration or any other carrier of energy. This is why semiconductors can still occasionally absorb photons with energy below their bandgap. Anything in a thermal environment has some chance of being excited, and adding extra radiation will only increase those chances.

Furthermore, if we want to get really technical and into even lower probabilities, photons don't have single well defined energies. Wavelengths are not singularly defined for waves that don't extend to infinity. Therefore, even radiation that is emitted around, say, 500 nm, still has a small of chance of being absorbed by a 499 nm transition. Obviously these probabilities get tiny as the difference gets large, but they never drop to 0, technically.

I'm not saying any of this is medically relevant, but practically everything that is quantum mechanical is probabilistic.

(I have a PhD in physics, focusing on experimental quantum mechanics)
Cross the data with last.fm scrobbler? (Connect your spotify to last.fm, sync timestamps with data from tracker)
That's great. I love how myths can still be created and spread in this Internet age.

Another example : around 2005 someone made a playlist for himself of some Mars Volta b-sides and called it "A Missing Chromosome" [1]. Somehow it spread on P2P networks, was even listed on Wikipedia in the band's discography section with a back story etc.

I still have it in my collection under that name with the art etc and don't see the need to correct it.

A forum I'm in maintains a list of some fake things they put in Wikipedia. It's harder to do these days but some are still there and we joke that some parts may have found their way in some student school work.

1. http://forum.thecomatorium.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=105...
Yes, very confusing. The key is at the bottom, but it would help if each bar was labeled.

The bars are ordered 5-1 from top to bottom.
Open source software projects can get a best practices badge
Is it? Most of us are one major medical disaster away from being bankrupt. And losing your job generally would throw all that out the window.
Thank you, I will add an exception.
I am the "guilty" party. sorting-algorithms.com is my site. I have actually been working on a complete refactor of the site and open source the codebase so that others can contribute and add new algorithms. Feel free to reach out - olson {{dot}} ericd {{at}} gmail {{dot}} com
I haven't written much yet but I'll nevertheless take the opportunity to shamelessly link http://jonaseinarsson.se especially since I would love to hear what the HN crowd has to say about http://www.jonaseinarsson.se/2016/biological-computer-graph-... but the submission to HN pretty much fell right through :)
Yes, was certainly possible to dupe people in this way before the Internet. This Wikipedia page contains some relevant examples:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

As a side note, it'd be funny if one of the stories on that page turned out to be made up.
Don't put faith in that Chinese pollution study. Their "statistically significant" discontinuity in life expectancy only happened because they chose to fit the data with a strange third order polynomial plus step function. Take a look at the data behind that China pollution study and see if you would draw the same fit line: http://andrewgelman.com/2013/08/05/evidence-on-the-impact-of...

There's so much bad science in the world. :(
The future of financial technology – part 1
What I think is most interesting is the people who all claim to "remember" these lies. Are they knowingly claiming to remember something they never saw to appear more knowledgeable or is their memory shaped by these lies they read? The latter is scarier.
Seriously... geothermal has been around for a long time.
Some links, from HN. None were particuarly helpful. But if anyone finds this later in the same situation, I will try and make it a bit easier for them as this sucks.

1. What to do about ID theft (2 comments / 2009)
2. MS Phone scam(1c, 2014, not very useful)
3. Phone Scammers(3c, 2013)
4. Guardian link about Indian callcenters/phone scamming(0c, article)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=695415
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9241168
3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8136782
4. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/18/phone-scam-india...

edit: will add more useful info, as I find them
Is there some ~concise guidelines or post about how the Linux kernel developers use git?
PayPal Limited Blackberry and  Windows OS Users from  Accessing Their App
This is especially true if you can fit all the data on a GPU. GPU is really really good computing cosine distance fast and in parallel.
`try!` seems like sufficient sugar to deal with the ergonomics part.

> and there's no sane way to continue

Would like to hear more about this.
Interesting that the author mentions disclosing financial performance data but not capital structure. Many startups attempt to induce employees to trade salary (or time) for equity, without making it easy or even possible to understand the company's capital structure, i.e. how many preferred shares have been issued, what the preferences are, etc. I was recently recruited by a startup that made noise about my trading salary for equity, but had been through four institutional rounds. I wanted to know what the preferences were and what would be left for the common if the company sold tomorrow at various valuations. They brushed me off and I haven't heard from them since. If you're going to ask me to basically invest in your company by either working for less money or working longer than usual hours then you had better be prepared to disclose your capital structure. As a former founder myself, and someone who is probably older than the average startup employee, I know to ask these questions. The majority of younger colleagues whom I have discussed the issue with don't even know what I'm talking about.
Try with static site generators if you do not need very dynamic site. They are super fast and highly customisable. Try lektor, my fav.
I'm 54 and Cars is one of my favorite Pixar films (no, I'm not a NASCAR kind of guy). I never understood why it received such poor ratings.
squirrel :)
I agree there are some fundamental building blocks they might pursue. There's already a parallel story to follow - SES and Mailchimp/Mailgun/Sendgrid. Competitive at the basic level, with Amazon actually validating the market and sending the clients off when they're ready to go beyond "simple".
$ wc -l /etc/HOSTS
220572 /etc/HOSTS

Not only doesn't it have any negative performance impact, it makes most websites 10x faster.

(And no, there's no dead weight in there. Every single one of those is still resolvable as of a month ago.)
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> Why? A license is just a contract, no? Can't the clauses be arbitrary?

You don't need to abide by a copyright license if you aren't doing anything for which permission of the copyright holder is required in the law -- a copyright license is only needed to do things which would otherwise be prohibitd as within the exclusive purview of the copyright owner.

As the GPL isn't a sale contract that you must agree to as a precondition for receiving a copy of the software, when you receive a copy of GPL-covered software you can do anything you want with it as long as that isn't legally within the exclusive prerogative of the copyright owner (or contrary to the law for some other reason), and the GPL itself is irrelevant. The assertion by the FSF that particular uses of GPL-licensed software are constrained by the license is, therefore, necessarily an assertion that those uses are within the scope of the exclusive rights provided by copyright law.
This doesn't hold up because homes are made to be accessed by one person or a specific group of people.

It is more like having a store with lights on and an open sign then arresting someone for breaking an entering when they go inside.
You can always re-use the hard-drive after you've created an image of it - but the image gives everyone peace of mind if you ever need to recover/investigate something after the hard-drive is wiped.

This way you can also put the image on a flash drive or Blu-Ray so you don't have to keep physical possession of hard drive/data which sounds like it is important.

I believe tcpdump only helps you if the attack is ongoing, since this is after-the-fact, having an image you can analyze later is probably your best bet.
Can I Stiff Uncle Sam?
Will Mozilla finally make ad blocking the default or do we need yet another organization that can stand up to corporate pressure and money going forward to do so? That's my only question: who if anyone will bring a web browser to market that blocks ads and thereby malware by default?
Struggling to Integrate AccountKit with Swift? Here Are Six Steps
It's funny they show the northern Midwest in the maybe zone. When it is hot here, it is usually also quite humid.
Yeah common Scandinavian name, same as Thor, essentially.
This reminds me of the time some fangirl invented an entire season of Inspector Gadget with her fan character in a prominent role as a love interest for Gadget -- and tried to pass it off as if it really happened, replete with faked screenshots of Gadget and her invention. The IG fan community actually took the bait for a while before she was outed.
> With North Sense, you’re given back an ancient sense of direction

Please go watch "The Embrace of the Serpent" right now.
Interesting, but ridiculously goofy looking. You'd think glasses would be a better form factor to hold the sensor.
Thiel is willing to fund an effectively infinite number of lawsuits, and he is willing to lose large sums of money doing so. To destroy Gawker, none of the lawsuits have to win in the long term. The particular merits of Bollea's case are a red herring.

Also, this is clearly wrong: "All Thiel did was help Bolea." [sic] Thiel clearly imposed conditions. The suit was specifically structured to exclude the insurance company, reducing Bollea's risk-adjusted odds of a payout.

Bollea also turned down settlement offers, presumably at Thiel's behest. That clearly suits Thiel, whose goal is not helping anybody, but destroying Gawker. It's not clear it was really in Bollea's best interests; there are reasons most of these cases get settled. Far more of us now know about Bollea's adultery than if this had been quietly settled, which increases the reputational harm that's supposedly part of Bollea's reason for suing. And Bollea has had to actually go through a trial, which increases the emotional suffering that again was a putative problem.

Thiel doesn't care here about helping people. Or even helping people who have been harmed by tabloid journalism. If he did, he would have structured it as something like the ACLU: transparent donations to a group of independent lawyers with a stated purpose, who then get to pick their own cases on the merits. What he cares about is destroying Gawker. Which is why he spent a decade secretly plotting and executing a series of lawsuits aimed to driving the company out of business.
Hillary Clinton Wasn’t Adept at Using a Desktop for Email, Inquiry Is Told
There is no fighting the future, by political processes. There is only subversion.

Run your own mailserver, in your home or a semi-trusted local colo. Full disk encryption, fully encrypted offsite backups. Cabinet door reed switch triggers immediate power-down in the absence of a cryptographically signed override.
Get fired from microsoft and are sour about it?
it reminds me of /.
I agree with you completely that 'special tax breaks' are BS.

I think there could certainly be enough housing to help a bunch of people at the margins, especially if density were allowed in a lot of the greater bay area.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7868166

A link to a BBC Radio programme that contains a bit about a woman who responded to telephone scammers. She lost £15,000.
Introducing Go 1.6: asymptotically approaching boring [video]
Install Disconnect or Ghostery right now and spread the word.
I'm still wondering if its really the malleability of human memory or our need to fit in / social pressure to conform ?
My guess is that they're filled in by low-paid (or unpaid) interns.

I'm especially wary of anything that has even a touch of marketing involved with it. Especially on social media. You know how all those photos with words are made - be it dietary advice or philosophy quotes or whatever? I had some ideas, but wasn't really sure until my SO did an internship with a social media marketing company.

It's literally: 1) Google for some keywords on the topic you need, 2) take the first article or blog post that pops up, 3) find a good enough quote or idea on it, 4) pick a random picture from the Internet, 5) stick the two together in Photoshop or Paint.NET, 6) spam the living shit out of all your channels with it.

It's that. Zero research. And preferably done by unpaid interns.
I know this is only tangentially related to the HN content here, but does anyone have a sense of why the FBI would choose to respond to this sort of case with a dozen agents and weapons drawn? Rather than, say, two guys politely ringing the bell and asking him to come with them?

Unless there's a lot left out of this article, I wouldn't think most "unauthorized computer access" suspects tend to be heavily armed. (Particularly if the company actually reported the context of the "crime", including the fact that he had voluntarily notified them of the problem.)
You and others proved my point. I wasn't even criticizing GMOs myself, only talking about the dialogue about them, and still downvoted immediately and responded to negatively. There is no other tech on this planet with the same rabidly fervent support as GMOs that disallows even discussion about discussion.
I don't understand the connection. What do chatbots have to do with scrapers? Are you saying that the chatbots will need to use scrapers to harvest the information they present to users? Might be true in some cases, I guess.
You shouldn't, but that doesn't mean you have to be unhappy while doing it.
They WERE tracking you already. Now they're throwing ads at you.
It should be mentioned that there are multiple "norths." And while it's generally not a big deal for most uses, if you feel that you need a compass so bad that you have to implant it into yourself, you probably want the most accurate system that you can have. I don't see anything about this on their website. Such as how do you set Magnetic declination? (My guess, you don't).

The earth's magnetic filed is an incredibly complex system. I know this is more about the "implantability" rather than the compass, but still, something to keep in mind.

For more information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_declination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_field
At least he had the stones to post his opinions under the flag of his own identity.
> you can encode any proof to a few hundred lines.

Yeah, I misread that. The sentence implies the existence of a proof. So I was clearly talking about something different. Thanks.
uMatrix blocks all those things by default. At least 50% of sites I go to have facebook and twitter embeds. If a site doesn't load properly with cross site links blocked, most of the time I won't bother with it.
It's why the wikipages on hot button issues that special interests care passionately about (Scientology, Abortion, etc) are so heavily moderated.
Yes, that's exactly the sort of racism-denialist burden-shifting that I am talking about. Thank you for demonstrating it so neatly.
> You're being very dramatic

Sorry about that. I'm trying very hard to be sober about this.

> the comment hasn't even been deleted

It was. I undeleted it.

> Perhaps you believe I shouldn't have that choice

Of course you should have that choice. But you wrote:

"So thank you, community, for saying that if someone wants to make any more "cogent claims" about the validity of my existence, they're welcome to do so, elsewhere."

That sounded to me like an oblique endorsement of censorship, and that's what I was objecting to.

> So I'm not going to tell you you have to be on my side here

Not knowing anything about you besides what you've written in this thread it's hard for me to know what your side actually is. (One of the things I've learned after years on the Internet is to never try to extrapolate someone's beliefs beyond what they actually say.) But I'm pretty sure I'm more on your side than you think. Please note that the reason I undeleted wtbob's comment was so that I could rebut it. I'm sorry if that caused you personal pain. But I really believe that the best way to fight bad ideas is to expose them to the light of reason.
The objection is not to controlling TLS on a private network. The objection is to using a method that can silently intercept connections to devices you don't administrate.

If someone doesn't want to install the root cert, then "use your own network" is a perfectly fine response.

If someone is upset that the TLS security model is broken in half, then "use your own network" is not a valid response.
>The only way is to consider evidence based in its own merits

Bingo, which is what I did. Note the post you reply to has a paragraph starting "Any intelligent person will look at the two sources, note differences..".

I posted the comparison between sources in reply to DannyBee claiming one was niche, when both decent. One simply subsumes the other.
Decentralized Arbitration and Mediation Network Proposal
As a current founder in a startup, these comments are hilarious.

Yea, I'm definitely a trust funder, my parents know the Kennedys, and I have at least 10 shell companies set up. /s

In reality I'm broke because I've been taking an extremely low salary for almost a year now, my parents are about as connected as a pair of sea turtles, and my rent/next meal is a daily concern.

Lot's of undeserved hate for 'founders' here it seems.
A take from one of my favorite medical bloggers:

>Where to begin? I didn’t see any sample size calculation, nor any discussion of what they expected to see. One of the reviewers did a power calculation for them (page 37) and found that based on 90 rats per group, the power was about 14%. This means that false positives are very likely. The cancer difference was only seen in females, not males. The incidence of brain cancer in the exposed groups was well within the historical range. There’s no clear dose response. Why schwannomas? Schwannomas in other locations than the heart were not significantly different. These are rats. I don’t know how this compares to real world exposure. And one more thing – the survival of male rats in the control group was relatively low, and if these tumors developed later in life, this could be the whole reason for the difference.

>Cell phones are UBIQUITOUS in the United States. If they were causing cancer, we would expect to see rates of [brain] cancer going up, right? That’s not what we’re seeing. They’ve been decreasing since the late 1980’s. At least when we talk about vaccines and autism, the rates of the latter went up as we increased the former. With cell phones, there’s an inverse relationship. What’s going on?

I suggest reading the whole post.

Personally, I am unconcerned by this single study of rats, in groups of only 90, that found barely significant correlations out of many possible correlations looked for.

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/none-of-you-can-...
Fair enough, but posting that you have a movie that never existed recorded on tape because you presumably liked it so much - that's a completely different thing. That people are willing to do this - for what? Internet points? - saddens me deeply.
How I record my own conference presentations
I have a family member with Parkinson's. She was able to work in a thought-requiring field for almost 10 years. It's gotten much more treatable in recent years. You friend might still have to get used to working at 60-80% rather than 100% though. It doesn't go to 0, but it's not 100 either.
You are somewhat correct. In principle the system is quantized but due to the sheer number of degrees of freedom (or quantum states) the spectra may still appear continuous.

Take for example a single water molecule in vacuum: If you calculate the QM vibrational (motion of the nuclei) and electronic frequencies you would conclude that there is no way that microwave radiation can excite a water molecule. This is because the nuclei interact with three discrete (quantized) frequencies in the infrared (IR light), whereas the electronic degrees of freedom only interact with much higher energy photons (UV and above).

However, if you now move into the bulk, you will notice that there are is also an interaction energy between the water molecules which causes rapid changes in the water conformation at room temperature. From the quantum mechanical perspective, you now get an explosion of possible states including states which excite the hydrogen bond network between the water molecules. You can now induce translation and rotation of water with respect to each other. This is why water absorbs across a large spectrum of frequencies including radiation in the microwave region.

For DNA, the situation is similar. You will also find a continuous broadening of states. BUT how well you absorb energy at a given frequency still varies. Cell phone bands do not carry enough energy to break electronic bonds directly (unlike UV light). Instead, you can only induce thermal motions of the nuclei (heat). Luckily, our DNA transfers excess heat very rapidly (~picoseconds) to its environment, so no danger of local heating to the point of bond breaking if you don't climb up a massive cell phone tower.

In the end, its very unlikely that cell phone radiation alters chemical bonds in our DNA. However, beware of the sun while talking on the phone! I would guess that outdoor usage of cell phone significantly increases the dangers of cell phone usage. ;-)
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