skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The act of being sued is plenty of punishment.

This is so true and so many people don't realize it.

It's easy to be idealistic about these things until it actually happens to you.

Being "in the right" doesn't mean you'll win ("right" according to your morals/ethics and "right" legally are often two completely different things) and it doesn't mean that the costs of fighting - financial, personal, etc. won't ruin you, especially when the plaintiff is stubborn, vindictive and has deeper pockets than you do.

More often than not, you'll end up settling civil cases, and the tangible and intangible costs that you accrued while fighting your case are usually victory enough for the plaintiff.
It feels like a wrong analogy - the large matrix operations are not really want a deep neural network is doing, it's an implementation detail, an artifact of how it's efficient to represent a large number of neurons and their connections.

The results of those tensor operations (not in their total, but each particular output number) may have some very rough analogy to the changes in a particular single synapse "connection strength" caused by various biochemical factors as a result of neuron operation, but the whole tensor operation doesn't map to any biological concept smaller than e.g. "this is a bit similar to how a layer of brain cells changes its behavior over weeks/months of learning". A machine learning iteration updating all of the NN weights is a rough correspondence to the changes that, over time, appear in our brains as a result of experience and learning (and "normal operation" as well).

I have seen an interesting hypothesis on how the particular layout of a dendritic tree and it's synapses can encode a complicated de facto "boolean-like" formula out of all the "input" synapses (e.g. a particular chain of and/or/not operations on a 100+inputs), instead of essentially adding all the inputs together as much of artificial neural networks assume, but I'm not sure about if how such hypothetical "calculations" actually are used in our brains.
Ask HN: How common is part-time development work?
How common is hiring/contracting developers with fewer than 30 hours/week work loads? Does it even make sense for who is hiring?
At this point I don't think Wordpress is going to change their codebase into something more modern and secure. Is there any other easy to use blogging platform like it? PHP based because PHP is everywhere, based on a modern framework (symfony2, laravel, etc), jinja-like template system, support for databases other than mysql?
I'm not sure how you got eye-terator, but I can sort of see where 'car' came from. I guess I'm lucky here, because I learned to always say:

'char' : as in charcoal

'car' : pronounced like a car, used as (car (cons 'a 'b))

'cdr' : supposed to be 'could-er', but I flip between cee-derr and could-er

'cadaddr' : prounounced 'why'

I kid a little, but it's funny to hear these things, especially when it's from somebody from a foreign country. It wasn't until grad school that I realized there's so many different ways to pronounce keywords.
Apple fights call to block Facetime and iMessage
Another safety tip: don't install any plugins unless you're very, very sure that they're safe. Most security problems with WordPress originate in badly written plugins, not in the core product.
I was always a little bit weirded out by features for ease-of-use that required you to go against what the documentation described as security best practices.
Whether that's true or not, part of the reason why things seem bad now is because society tells high schoolers that if they don't go to college (for any reason and almost any major) they're failures.
why not "switch user", hah
> But we seem to understand the processes by which cell mutations, and subsequently cancer, and produced.

We certainly seem to understand many of the processes by which cell mutations are produced, but that's not the same as all of them, and, perhaps more importantly, what we do understand about how cancer is produced is that there are lots of factors besides cell mutation involved, and those of them that we do understand in general terms aren't understood in detail, and aren't sufficient to explain the entire process.

> But the probability of this study having failed to control for some other variable is higher than the probability of an as of yet unknown process allowing microwaves to produce changes in the chemical bonds holding together DNA.

That seems more like a statement of subjective plausibility than a supportable statement of quantitative probability, and, moreover, in order to be relevant to the result seems also to falsely assume that it is necessary to "produce changes in the chemical bonds holding together DNA" to alter the incidence of cancer. We already know that even when a potentially-cancer-inducing genetic mutation exists, various other non-genetic factors in the body (including qualities of the extracellular matrix around the cells which have the mutation) play significant roles in whether cancer actually develops. Its quite possible that if there is a cellphone-to-cancer link, that the mechanism doesn't involve changes in the frequency of genetic mutation at all, but affects on the body that affect the whether cancer manifests when a potentially-cancer-inducing mutation has arisen through other means.
Is it me, or does the JS tool ecosystem have the same problems encountered in some functional language frameworks (LISP for example)? I'm not comparing the languages here (I'm not a fan of JS), but how they are lacking the 'Batteries' and toolsets other languages have grown up with. Since you can do practically anything with JS (or LISP), if something is lacking simply write your own solution ... repeated 1,000 times. This is why there seems to be a gazillion tools/solutions/framework each doing something similar but different enough to cause massive confusion to newcomers. This is one of the reasons DART had appealed to me, the language came with a framework and tools that helped you get started right away, instead of getting bogged down trying to figure if you should used Webpack or it's numerous alternatives.
I could not get this site to fully load even after (or maybe because) my adblocker blocked 68 requests.

However, loads great in lynx!
Come join us in beautiful Boulder, Colorado! Or if you prefer, work from your present location.
Gitlab only has English version?
Pinegrow home: http://pinegrow.com/
How did you realize that? Most people on there were making ~10k/month full time last I was on there(a couple months ago).

I did one small project, about a week's worth of time, and was paid $3k.
If you're not going to install plugins, doesn't it neuter one of the big draws to using WordPress in the first place? Ideally there would be better separation between the plugin and core stuff, but oh well.
This is a useful discovery though, as it points you towards the fact that as well as running as super user (the default) sudo can run a command as any target user (e.g. `sudo -u zofrex dosomethingevil`).
Wordpress is still massively popular and after 13 years, I hope this still isn't true:

<azonenberg> wordpress is an unauthenticated remote shell that, as a useful side feature, also contains a blog
What was your biggest business pivot?
I don't think "be wary of lies on the Internet" was the message, more "I did a funny thing and the Internet is dumb sometimes" - I was in tears laughing at some of the stupid episode summaries. And the irony that free-for-all Wikipedia was the only accurate source was pretty good too
I honestly don't understand the animosity towards the author.

I consider this sort of mischief to be a healthy thing. If you are exposed to true facts constantly, all facts are true, in the same way that a TSA X-ray tech who sees ten thousand not-bombs might miss the one actual bomb.

I think of lies and disinformation as good for a mental agility, and an adjunct of storytelling. Is there no space for the trickster in our lives?
Every conjecture that is provable can be proved by the proposed program of length (conjecture + constant) in finite time.

That was the original statement:

> you can encode any proof to a few hundred lines.

This type of encoding is funny of course. You can not determine from the encoding of the proof whether the encoding is the encoding of a proof (as you point out). But if you have a proof, and thus know that a proof exists you can "encode" it very succinctly in this program for whatever that is worth.
Study: 9 hours a day of cell use likely causes cancer in rats
5-19-16 Study released by US National Toxicology Program: http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055699.full.pdf

My synopsis:

All RF exposures were conducted over a period of approximately 18 hours using a continuous cycle of 10 minutes on (exposed) and 10 minutes off (not exposed), for a total daily exposure time of approximately 9 hours a day, 7 days/week.

Study conclusions:
Under the conditions of these 2-year studies, the hyperplastic lesions and glial cell neoplasms of
the heart and brain observed in male rats are considered likely the result of whole-body
exposures to GSM- or CDMA-modulated RFR. There is higher confidence in the association
between RFR exposure and the neoplastic lesions in the heart than in the brain. No biologically
significant effects were observed in the brain or heart of female rats regardless of modulation.
I think Rox->Roxie is a pretty plausible confusion even without "malicious" interference, so I'm not sure those parts prove anything.
By "burden employees with more data" I assume you mean:

"Give employees concrete information that they can use to make financial decisions."
Think I'll put together a blog post about it when I get time. Link in the bottom right takes you to the source if you feel like tinkering with it. Happy for others to use/adapt this project of course!

I'm honestly surprised we're not seeing more stuff like this now that the web is such a powerful platform. I want to inspire people into making more of these kinds of things :-)
> and secure

Given it's popularity , i would assume wordpress is (by sheer force of Trial and error ) the safest choice.
I have 2 clean compatible ddr3 ram caches and a new HD which I originally installed post breach (what I would do if my system) but I swapped back to orig hardware short term as she couldn't figure out new OS. Do you think it is likely that they installed backdoor(maliscious code)? I am not super familiar with PC but i would want to run the tcpdump equiv for powershell ect. I am just not familiar enough to know wheere files/daemons/ect are and how to diagnose it. Even if I would never reuse this HD, I would like to verify what happened. For me it would be i guess the same result but it would be better to know: if the computer was likely running malware or certainly running malware.

in terms of actual actionable steps, they would really be the same fix. however, if i found active system processes sending data to random IPs, i would obviously excalate my concerns.
Inkjets and lasers = new precision 3D printing system
Isn't this exactly what Andrew Auernheimer was charged and convicted with?
I recently spent a few days investigating Gitlab, thought about replacing my old Redmine installation.

Everything looks fine until I realized Gitlab was written for only one language, English. It's hard to believe you don't do i18n/gettext/whatever for multiple language support for software like Gitlab. Further search said adding multiple language support is very intrusive.

Quite surprised and I will stay with Redmine.
I haven't dug into any of this stuff, but wouldn't a smartly designed plugin system give plugin code fewer permissions to prevent precisely this sort of issue?
I am pleased they might move forward with this prosecution. Keep in mind the legal costs incurred to do this, in addition to the already employed 12-15 FBI agents who were probably paid overtime to heroically rescue that poor family from this monster was already well worth the cost. Spending more money and resources here is obviously the right thing to do. Really, the resources expended to handcuff this man in his boxers in front of his 9-year-old daughter were a very well allocated by one of our most important government agencies, the FBI.

I'm also very much glad to see the incredible foresight and knowledge that the FBI is displaying here. What better way to show us why we should not responsibly disclose data vulnerabilities than to arrest and raid someone's home for doing so?

Stories like this really influence me to put my faith in the capabilities of law enforcement. What that means for our individual rights and freedoms, and for the future of the US economy is sure to be nothing but excellent! I would never think about moving away from such a country!
More like, "I used lies about a cartoon to convince some people online that history is meaningless on the internet." Nothing was proved, and I wonder how long that deception lasted. Edit: Title has since been changed.
Can't find any fault with the argument.

If he did that for fun, tons of others can do it for fan, more with malicious intent, even more for profit, even more than those from idiocy and repeating misinformation, etc.
Spinning "more evidence" into "better evidence" is just as stupid of a bias, IMHO. The only way is to consider evidence based in its own merits. But of course it's easier to count links and judge the size of names.
If you want plants to do it, you need water, and there isn't any. The solar wind blew it all away.

Not just because "plants need water", because the chemistry is CO2 + H20 => O2 + carbohydrate
Who knows, man? If you aren't a Windows system administration/Windows internals wizard you can't really hope to untangle it all.
Apple inflicts their design on Android? They only have three apps in the play store and they all look like modern Android apps with material design.

Example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...
Interesting past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493926
Maybe you remember https://xkcd.com/978/
or, seek-light
This is a jawesome playbook of how "facts 2.0" get created.
Sanity check: This was 9 hours per day exposure equivalency for their entire lifetime. Consume or use almost anything at the same cycle over your lifetime and one can expect blow back.
I don't think it's the internet's fault. In 1941 a couple of friends made a few phone calls to newspaper sports desks and concocted a college football team:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/sports/ncaafootball/the-41...
good idea. is lifelock worth getting? also, the random 888 number likeky is disconnected, their website is just nginx which i think dynamically creates temp sites for whoever they are scamming ect, and then disappears, the payment was made to a canadian acct. is it worth trying to report this? there isn't real data to hand off to identitytheft.gov.
Ah, thanks. I parsed that as "authority", which is a different thing altogether, but yes, I've heard "astonishment".
Meh. I see this more as god-tier trolling. We have no way to easily tell if this piece is a total lie or a long delayed admission of truth. I'm certainly not ever going to research this to determine if it is valid. And that is what makes the troll god-tier. The nugget of truth he alludes to is then instantly suspect for everything now. Though I may forget that the internet of made up of dogs impersonating people from time to time, upon reflection I will remember the Street Sharks guy and be brought back to the 'center'; that everything on the net is a lie. The commentary on epistemology and nihilism aside, this guy is a god-tier troll. Soberly, I'll never trust a thing on here again.
Plants can't photosynthesize without water. No hydrogen, no water, no photosynthesis to take CO2 out of the atmosphere.
Would the energy from the impact of a big asteroid be enough to heat up Mars to that point? If so, maybe we could try to change the course of such asteroid to make that happen :)
If a photon doesn't have enough energy to knock an electron out of it's orbital, then it won't. This is not a probabilistic thing.

Do you have a source for the blood-brain barrier thing?
But they DON'T. That's the amazing thing here.

Apple does on Windows, which everyone has known sucks since the early 2000s.

But when they released Apple Music on Android? It followed platform conventions. It actually made news in the Apple community because Apple DIDN'T make the Android app look like iOS. The Apple people I follow were actually surprised that Apple decided to be a good citizen instead of going with the usual "We know best".
Clover Health nabs $160M in Series C funding
I was merely theorizing that in 1986 when the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was written that was the reasoning behind why it was written in that way. I assumed that the readers here understand the underlying tech involved.
I usually want to push it somewhere, to maintain a backup in case of hardware failure.
Google wants to automate the design process as much as possible. They have so many products that if they want to achieve any kind of consistent branding in their interfaces, they have to do this.

They've probably gone to far. I have, more than once, logged into a Google product I haven't used before and been confused about which product it was because it looked so similar to 3 other products.

Their efforts to automate whatever is possible to automate is laudable, however, and I think they've pushed the field of interaction design further than just about any other web company in the past decade.
But that's not what this is, really. It points out the greater danger of the propagation of those lies. It's entirely reasonable to assume others might similarly lie and this article demonstrates how such lies can propagate through the internet in certain cases.
> From reading that link, it doesn't sound like those are "smart" devices?

You are correct; they are not. The compass device in this story isn't implanted either, it sits atop some piercings on the chest. No smart device is being put under the skin here, either.

Food for thought: I met a guy who made an earring that vibrated when he got an incoming SMS. That was a 'smart' device that sat atop a piercing too...
Like the Agile Manifesto it's all about balance (IME).

One of the (many) ways I failed as a manager was to not trust my gut. To want to enable my team, even when what I thought they were pitching was questionable. I'd hoped that some technology, or this particular team would prove my own previous experience wrong. That through the power of team work and ambition it would turn out differently this time, but most of all, I couldn't figure out how to present a convincing argument to the team why I was skeptical and I didn't want to leave it at "because I said so".

On reflection, a cure might've been to ask for further analysis, both rewards and risks, balanced against costs. But that often comes with it's own cost and what I really wanted to say was: "We're not doing this because the solution in hand is good enough and better at any non-trivial price doesn't serve our business interests."

Of course being a developer myself that's a difficult message to internalize.

I guess it comes down to: I'm still not sure how to handle this situation, but experience definitely needs to be weighed heavily IMO and if your processes (and management experience) are lacking in maturity a lack of leadership in preventing a less experienced team (though very technically skilled, enthusiastic and hard working!!!) from making bad decisions can be devastating as well.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that, through my own mistakes managing teams, I think a lack of confidence and projected authority can be just as bad as any of the sins listed here, and is an important balance to consider on the flip-side of Arrogance.

That said, the rest of the list here is spot-on. The only nit I'd pick is Sloth. A description closer to my own experience might be one where the requirements are known, but not communicated thoroughly and clearly.

When a developer can say: "Show me where I was told this" and you can't respond with a URL to an Issue, instead relying on a months old email, Slack message that wasn't acknowledged, or no proof at all, then you have a big problem. Knowledge that isn't communicated, or analysis that's only half done, can mortally wound any project where the developers don't have the authority to decide the success parameters (time, budget or scope).
This should simply read: TSA Has Made at Least 70,000 US Travelers Miss Flights This Year

Cut them all.
It's been a while since I took chemistry and physics so I could be wrong, but I think you may be incorrect due to quantum effects. Specifically, the quantum in quantum mechanics refers to various phenomena which are quantized, a very common example of which is an electron moving to a different energy level. It's entirely discrete what energy levels an electron may orbit an atomic nucleus at, it's not a continuum, and for an electron to receive enough energy to be free of the nucleus (causing the atom to become an ion) requires some minimum energy level. Energy is directly proportional to wavelength in the case of em radiation, so there in fact is some minimum energy required for something to be "ionizing".

It is possible that other mechanisms cause cancer, but your conjecture is almost certainly false. Someone who does this for a living please let me know if there's clarification needed.
I think you are both right :)

Both seem to me like strategies that you'd intuitively hit upon. I think bubble-sort is a bit more mathsy but a certain type of mind would hit upon it. Because bubble-sort is "Go through the list swapping adjacent items depending on value, Keep doing that until you get no swaps." which is pretty trivial as well.

I remember heap-sort kind of blowing my mind when shown to me. When this kind of topic comes up I am always reminded of D. J. Bernstein's Crit-bit Trees: https://cr.yp.to/critbit.html
I think the problems you're bringing up cannot be solved.

Information (re: "Information Superhighway") is information. In this utopian idea of "quality control", who does the quality control? Houghton Mifflin[1]?

If history is just a set of lies agreed upon[2], I'd rather have the consensus of the Internet than whoever it is you purport should be in control of quality.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/...

2. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/n/napoleonbo161968....
>... such as email subject lines and other metadata ...

How could subject lines possibly be considered metadata? It is quite clearly content.
Is Everything Wrestling?
> Bluetooth and WiFi cause the blood brain barrier to become 10-100x more biologically leaky, letting more chemicals into your brain.

Can you recommend a good source on this? It seems like 10-100x more "leaky" BBB would have some pretty serious consequences.
http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/wikipedia-hoax-yuri-ga...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724350
Yet the Panama Papers thing happened.
See update (added footnote).
> Or the way I look at it, it was once nerds' playground, and those nerds are now an unwanted minority of the growing software field.

I assume you have to be talking about some very specific subfield, because the practice of 'writing software in exchange for money' is over half a century old.
After doing this, on the technical side:

1. Disconnect the hard disk, and image it using a clean host machine. Since the attackers had full admin-access, you'll want an image in case they deleted anything (and to perform forensics if you care).

2. Wipe the hard disk and re-install Windows 10, there is no other best practice here. As others have said, there are too many places to hide trojans and malware, and all bets are off now that the machine was compromised.
I still say 'car' out loud and in my head because the "char" type is short for "character", and the first syllable of the full word is pronounced 'car', not 'char'.
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