skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we assume that the code really comes from a member of the "Equation Team" and we trust the conclusion from Kaspersky that those people are among the upper echelons of NSA hacker groups it is maybe a good point in time that we give our expectations a reality check.

What counts in the real world is that it gets the job done, unfortunately no time for fancy pythonic delicacies or experiments in functional coding paradigms.

Sorry for the little rant and nothing personal, I just find critizicing other people's code without considering the constraints under it was created an extremely annoying habit among my fellow coders.
Do I hear "arbitrary external input"? Yay, let's go hack me a row of green lights! (In other words, this sort of input needs to be sanitized ten ways to Sunday)
Optical Adjustment – Logic vs. Designers
Valérian et Laureline for Star Wars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline
> As a tangent, I remain impressed by manpage's staying power. GNU tried to move ahead with Info ...

1. man something

2. discover that something is a gnu utility whose authors decided to support by pointing its minimal manpage to an info page.

3. info something

4. ?

5. /search

6. ctl-g (trying to "Cancel the current operation")

7. alt-g

8. win-g

9. shift-g

10. ctl-shift-g

11. ctl-alt-g (I got a "Quit" message!)

12. ctl-alt-g

13. ctl-atl-g

14. ctl-z

$ pkill info
How much sugar is in each bar? in grams?
SkinVision – An App That Take a Picture to Access Skin Cancer Risks
I remember a lot of US centric hate in my public US education. "Trail of tears" is not exactly nationalistic propaganda. Handing out diseased blankets to conduct large scale germ warfare. Only nation to use nuclear weapons, conducting disease experiments on prisoners. Corruption, racism, etc etc.

I could go on, but I don't think most people got US #1 outside of being an economic powerhouse.
Getting Cloud Out of a Fugue State
Goldman Bond Trader Made Customers Feel Guilty for Nothing
You are correct. He cut and pasted MySpace then spammed beyond anyones belief to voyeristically spy on chicks he could not get while at Harvard. Facebook will go the way of Compuserve, AOL, TheGlobe, Geocities, Friendster, MySpace. Too boot, the founding team called their users dumb fucks? How does a company like this even exist. Google is orders of magnitude more valuable in terms of real technology and real revenue. Some privileged Harvard kid figured out how to create the worlds biggest Black Swan, aka Bubble, based on shallow shit.
Where are you seeing the bottles on Amazon for $28? I see the same price as Soylent.com ($34.00 without a subscription).
The core insight here, while interesting, ended up being much more generic than I was expecting it to be after the initial examples. It seems to boil down to "There exist mechanisms by which a small group can either grow to dominate a larger group, or have their behavioral norms spread to outside of their group, or otherwise punch above their weight. These mechanisms involve a rule or circumstance that is asymmetric."

It is an interesting principle, and useful to keep in mind, but I do not think it really supports all of the points he makes with it, or justify some of the language used. For example, I do not think that all drinks being Kosher, or a high prevalence of halal butcher shops, merit being described as "dictatorships". In the examples that would merit such strong language, such as the possibility of an anti-democratic religion dominating a democratic society and culture, I do not think that the Power of Asymmetry Principle leads where he tries to go. Specifically, he says that we need to be "more than intolerant with some intolerant minorities". However, if we examine the situation while keeping the power of asymmetry in mind, all we need to do is look for the asymmetry that would give this group its power, and take that away. In this case, the ability to use violence to enforce religious rules, specifically the death penalty for apostasy. Without the threat of violence, fundamentalist Islam would look much more like fundamentalist Christianity, trying (with various levels of success) to enforce its norms through political and interpersonal channels, but far from an unstoppable juggernaut.
Sigh, you've overlooked the fact that he built a hugely profitable business so now he can now throw money into "building the future". AI, VR, etc.

Google was probably the 20th search engine. They make most of their money selling ads.

Microsoft just rebuilt CP/M and bought many of their big apps.

It's what you do after you build a great business that matters.
That's because part of education is learning to think critically, which specifically means learning to overcome those biases you mention. You say "in reality" as if those supporting education are't aware of human nature, but it's precisely because they are aware that they want people to be better educated, it helps overcome the petty tribalism inherent to the uneducated.

You're incorrect about what it presumes; valuing facts is something most people need to be taught. That's why there's always a push for education, otherwise you end up with Trumpism.
Uses soy protein, making it a non-starter for informed people wanting to build/maintain muscle mass. A McMaster study[1] demonstrated that 20g of soy protein (S20) was as effective at muscle protein synthesis (MPS) as 0g.

This bar contain 12g of soy protein, making it about as effective for MPS as plain water.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22698458?dopt=Citation

"RESULTS: Whole-body leucine oxidation increased with protein ingestion and was significantly greater for S20 vs. W20 (P = 0.003). Rates of MPS for S20 were less than W20 (P = 0.02) and not different from 0 g (P = 0.41) in both exercised and non-exercised leg muscles. For S40, MPS was also reduced compared with W40 under both rested and post-exercise conditions (both P < 0.005); however S40 increased MPS greater than 0 g under post-exercise conditions (P = 0.04)."
> They say they have a great plan for user acquisition.

Do they share speechwriters with Donald Trump?
> The natural example is that you hear a lot of "ah it's like <blah> all over again" where blah is something like winforms or activeX or CORBA or lisp or OSGI or what have you, but it's frustrating to come into everything with that baggage.

This is why I have changed my thinking on this. I have used technology, I have seen technology fall apart at certain points. So I just poke at pain points. If I can't poke holes, that's good. Less worries on my mind. But otherwise...

"Ok when we used this we had problems with X when doing Y, your're using X and you're doing something that's very similar to Y, but you're not pushing it as hard as we did. Have you tested this?" Aww, your stuff fell apart. 10 minutes well spent, hah.
He gave away, or atleast appeared to give, 99% of his wealth away. I can think of better PR stunts for much less money. He is still a net positive person for me, who inspires me more than most others.
If you subscribe and save it works out to $28.90 (updating original comment)
Probably he can't talk about it without lawyers first, because remember, Mark isn't a single founder.
Yup. I made the jump reluctantly after running Windows 7 Pro workstation for years without issues. I did the upgrade to version 10 and have since had to recover or completely rebuild the install 3 times in 6 months. Each time after an update

Each time that Windows update comes in and forces me to update and shut down is a day I dread. This hardware worked so well under Windows 7 and causes headaches under Windows 10.
The Very Strange Writings of Putin's New Chief of Staff
Is it feature-compatible with Lambda? Like can I take a Lambda and run it via this stack? As a Lambda user the reality is, sure, at the moment there is a bit of vendor lock-in, but I don't think at all about hardware, which is the point.
They'd have to solve the "hole in the screen" problem the "camera a bit above center" thing creates. You're not wrong.
Please not that McDonald's is only able to offer that type of kcal to dollar ratio because of the massive subsidies the usa has for meat production.
>Hangouts on Desktop though is horrible

Can you please elaborate on why you think so? I feel the exact opposite I guess. Maybe it is because it was horrible before and I', using a newer version?

It is one of the most unobtrusive and great apps I've used. It sits in the corner of my screen[0] and I have no problems at all even when I'm chatting (texting too! Google Voice!) with someone[1].

[0]:https://imgur.com/a/szw0C
[1]:https://imgur.com/a/g0VsZ
As a cyclist that loves to do long solo rides, I often look for nutrient dense foods that are easy to carry. Thirty grams of carbohydrates is better than most energy gels and snacks.

$2 per bar is a tad steep considering my normal costs. I might purchase a box if I hear that the flavor is decent (and my current supplies run out).
Agreed. Lots of goodies announced, including taking Nearline Storage to near-realtime (versus 3+ hours on Glacier) and an increase in IOPS for some persistent disks.
The Soylent drink is silly. Easy, shelf-stable food is not hard to acquire. For a good meal mix the following into a drink. A no-bake bar recipe shouldn't be too difficult to create either.

[pea protein](https://www.amazon.com/Now-Foods-Pea-Protein-Pound/dp/B001DB...)

[mct oil](https://www.amazon.com/NOW-Foods-MCT-100%25-Oil/dp/B00KPZXER...)

[hemp hearts](https://www.amazon.com/Manitoba-Harvest-Hearts-Shelled-natur...)

[peanut butter](https://www.amazon.com/Peanut-Butter-Pure-Pure-Fresh-Ground/...)

[banana](https://www.amazon.com/produce-aisle-mburring-Bananas-bunch/...)

Take a vitamin separately:

[vitamin](https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Light-Active-Multivitamin-Tab...)
Can you explain with an example that would apply to Go how introducing generics to a language was making a mistake? Be specific.

These things are epiphenomenal, and have to do with what happens in large codebases over a long time, with lots of programmers. It's a fallacy to suppose that neat StackOverflow sized examples are some kind of a evidence gold standard. The problems I've encountered with C++ templates have to do with the interaction of several things at once, in places I'd have to dig out of version control, in codebases I can't share. So no, I'm not signing up for doing that work for you for free.
It may be a pragmatic approach but thats part of the issue in the Olympics in general - building a lot of stuff (on the public dime) that will likely never have a use again. We're "lucky" enough that we always need more prison space but a much better (and in the long term, more pragmatic) case would be to need less prisons by not incarcerating so many non-violent minor "criminals".
All of their employees are fanatical about their service. I've asked the same question and usually it boils down to a hip je ne sais qois.
Isn't that the point? It's not Muscle Milk or other mass-building replacements.
That is a really interesting question I think. Hedging for the presumed inevitable? Article mentions that other states had already been assessing such a fee.
According to Wikipedia, Zermelo formulated the axiom of choice.

I think it makes sense though; if I (claim to) have a thing, I should be able to choose/pick/select/point-to it (seems to be almost[?] tautological).
Link to 8.5 on x64: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/8.5.0/amd64/iso-dv...
>that 'fearing for their safety' didn't mean Prohias thought his co-workers might be beaten up: it meant that he was worried that they (and possibly their families) might be shot.

Not sure where the parent got this supposedly superior "information" from -- right wing circles/books, for which every non-right regime change is an anathema?

As far as mass movements and revolutions go, this was one of the least bloody ever.

Of course for an cushy westerner in 2016 it's difficult to fathom a movement killing even 10 or 100 persons (of course those are way less than what the police kills in a year in some countries), but for people that live in places with actual turbulent history and bad governments that were toppled (were left or right wing) those things are par for the course. There are a lot of collaborators with the previous order, people the masses hate, ex-police -- including some generally innocent people caught in the comment.

That's true whether it's Romanians rising against Ceausescu or Cubans rising against the Batista regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba#Political...

>"According to Amnesty International, death sentences from 1959–87 numbered 237 of which all but 21 were actually carried out. (...) One estimate from The Black Book of Communism is that throughout Cuba 15,000–17,000 people were executed."

So here you have both a low estimate, and the extravagant numbers from the well known anti-communist cold-war style book.

>"The vast majority of those executed following the 1959 revolution were policemen, politicians and informers of the Batista regime accused of crimes such as torture and murder, and their public trials and executions had widespread popular support among the Cuban population. Scholars generally agree that those executed were probably guilty as accused, but that the trials did not follow due process."
Show HN: CMS Airship – Simple and Secure CMS
Viruses 'more dangerous in the morning'
>I LIVE WITH Depression

The word 'depression' is so over used by everyone from a angry teenager, a new mom or a dying old man that it doesn't hold any meaning to me at all. I now mentally equate Depression with attention seeking self-importance. I feel absolutely no sympathy for anyone 'suffering from depression' these days because I've heard it so many times.
Or for added peace of mind, you could just sign up for a cheapo Mover.io account, and auto-sync your Dropbox once a week to an S3 bucket.
40/40/20 carb/fat/protein seems to suggest they didn't really know where to go with this. No point to have the fat for endurance sports, probably too little protein for sports that care about that, no information on the glycemic index for the carbs.
Startup Aims to Commercialize a Brain Implant to Improve Memory
It's been a couple of years since I read @War, but ISTR it described interactions between public officials and private industry that were explicitly more about politics and marketing than they were about security or risk management. E.g., NSA set up public-private dialogues with tiered access, then tantalized executives with off-the-record-but-in-a-meeting-also-attended-by-other-companies reports of server pwnage, to motivate them to sign up for the next, more stringent tier of cooperation. If the idea really were to improve security, the same information could have been distributed in truly private fashion. Also, NSA could acknowledge that private security firms are generally more helpful to companies than NSA is, and simply transfer their knowledge, when appropriate, directly to one or more NSA-vetted firms. The public actions of TLAs described in that book were far too entrepreneurial, in the sense that they didn't care what they did or what effect that had, so long as they were in the middle of everything to demonstrate their budgetary importance.
I think that could also improve morale in your office. Might be worth your while giving it a try!
Doesn't seem to handle DST. Otherwise, great thing! Makes me want to use it everyday!
Have they ever addressed concerns about endocrine/hormone disruption from using soy protein so heavily? I steer clear of the stuff with a 10 foot pole.
I thought of Make Room! Make Room! / Soylent Green when I saw the title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Room!_Make_Room!
> For desktop usage many prefer GnuPG 2.0, because they fear compatibility issues that the new 2.1 key storage format could have with 3rd party software

Any idea what this will mean for Yubikey users? I've been wanting to set up my Yubikey 4 for GPG for a while, and have been... daunted.
How is this different from leveldb?
The data plan was insane. Year before I had a Palm and it cost $45 vs. $20 for the iPhone. Sure it was 2G, but the things you could do were so compelling.

Being on the road, starting a download for an app at one stoplight and being able to use it by the time I got to the next stop light... that was an epiphany.
So would you say reading the book affected you more? How has your life changed since the first bout?
> True, but with Android's market share, it's pretty compelling to be able to do a "FaceTime" with anyone. That's the larger opportunity.

Assuming it ends up on all Android phones. Which is a big assumption.
> There seems to be some issue applying privileges that I can't seem to figure out. Your lambda function will fail to execute because API Gateway does not have permissions to execute your function.

This stuff is definitely confusing. I think I "reverse-engineered" from applying things via the web interface and then looking at the policy when I created Gimel[0] - an AWS Lambda A/B testing backend. Take a look here[1] for the policy. I think that's what you're looking for, but I can't say I'm confident it is... (it's confusing).

There are some more general-purpose tools to help you deploy to Lambda. Kappa[2] and Apex[3] are worth looking into.

[0] https://github.com/Alephbet/gimel

[1] https://github.com/Alephbet/gimel/blob/master/gimel/deploy.p...

[2] https://github.com/garnaat/kappa

[3] https://github.com/apex/apex
I've been using Linux on most of my machines since around 1999, because of perceived stability issues in Windows. I continued using it because the development toolchain on other platforms seemed crippled in comparison.

I have an OSX machine for creating mac packages & a windows machine for playing video games, but those machines are limited to those particular uses; my general-purpose machines run linux.
Konqueror is still included in current versions of KDE Applications (effectively 5.x, but the term "KDE 5" isn't really used).

Also, it's not so much a Konqueror thing as it is a feature of KDE's URL-handling subsystem. Any KDE application that interacts with URLs can retrieve HTML-formatted man pages. If you don't like Konqueror, you can always use Rekonq. Or you can open the source code in KWrite or Kate. Or you can browse man indices in Dolphin as if they were directories (though the actual pages will open in Konqueror).

KIO slaves are wonderful, wonderful things. It's the same technology that lets you use fish:// to access files and directories over SSH in every KDE program that deals with URLs (and since the file open/save dialogs are URL-based, this means it'll work with anything that uses those dialogs).
Point well received. I think there's some kind of correlative regarding even bringing such an attitude into one's home...as in, the Echo. Yes it serves many purposes but I think it's germane to point out the origin and, ahem, probably preferred use in a consumer context.
I'm excited to try this out. It'll be fun to compare to some of the data I get by using RescueTime[1].

[1] - https://www.rescuetime.com/
I get that, but I'm tired of the excuses when everyone knows the real reason why talent is hard to get.
> I heard this story recently that at this conference where

> someone has built a machine learning application where you

> can take a picture of a lesion on someone's skin, and it can

> detect instantly whether it's skin cancer with the accuracy

> of the best dermatologists and doctors in the world. So who

> doesn't want that, right?

I wonder what that app is? Is it SkinVision[1] or IBM's proprietary medical techonology from T.J Watson Research Center[2]?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12299930

[2]: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2860758/ibm-detects-ski...
Major NSA/Equation Group Leak
I think this might be one of those times where the title might lead to confusion in the comment section and leads people a bit astray.

I saw this talk in person at Nordic Ruby, and it was one of the best talks I've seen (and I've seen a bunch). Strangely enough, I don't really think back and think much about "optimism" when I think of the talk, though, even though the talk is about optimists.

My takeaway was the type of tooling and thought processes that are advantageous when approaching problems and conflict. In many talks — mine included — people will say something along the lines of "be nice to your teammates and leave good feedback", for example, but that's really vague. Reg's talk helped me understand what that type of feedback might be, how it can be explicitly phrased, and how I can give concrete feedback without being antagonistic. I think it makes for a more effective argument, especially when building product, but also it just makes for friendlier humans.

Yeah, this does lead to "optimistic people", hence the title, but I just thought it was weird to see discussion here about the merits of positive people versus negative people. I think the talk's a much bigger dialogue about interacting with humans and, possibly more importantly, yourself.

Anyway, I really liked the talk, and as much as this Markdown is great at getting the point across, this is one of the talks I'd suggest actually watching. \m/
One of the first buildings completed for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics was the Atlanta City Detention Center.[1] It was in preparation for arresting the homeless in bulk.[2]

[1]: http://www.atlantaga.gov/index.aspx?page=201

[2]: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/01/us/as-olympics-approach-ho...
What to do if your employee is worried about team culture and their depression
Geez, why have an advertising department when the online tech community will do all the heavy lifting? /s

If you went by Ars stories and HN links, you'd think the software industry was fueled by Soylent and insect protein.
Yeah, maybe. But there's a bigger point here and that's that software engineering is starting to become more of a "there's a way we do things" craft profession (like medicine, law, or architecture) vs. a "everything is from first principles all the time" endeavor. There's just too much stuff to know. You can't expect people to have deep experience with more than, say, 2-3 databases every decade.

So we have to rely to some extent on the experience of others and our own intuitions / less than perfect inferences.
Google isn't a new gatekeeper, there's tons of documentation on their domain already that instructs developers to use/not use certain features for the sake of pagerank. Go look at PageSpeed for example.

It would be great if we didn't have to worry about performance, I hope WebRender gets us there some day, please do continue your work and hopefully the fact that some subset of news sites aren't using features doesn't hold you back.

In the meantime I'm going to avoid using with(), use requestAnimationFrame to prevent dom thrashing, put my scripts at the end of the body, and do all of the things maybe some day I won't have to do.
Connectivity, AI, VR?

You don't have to be a billionaire to see those being important. Hopefully we'll have a more benevolent entity than Facebook bringing us into that future.
The only problem is that you need to maintain and enhance that MVP for the next several years -- unless it's just a hackathon.

I've spent way too much of my life trying to optimize Ruby performance and memory usage, switching from one web server to the next, then fixing threading issues in dependencies, and so on. It's not fun. All that upfront productivity is lost in the end.

Quite happy to spend more time upfront investing in a reliable end-product.
Is this your recipe? Would be interested in the instructions.
That's like saying "I don't use wheels, because I don't live in the prehistoric era when they were invented."

Some tools are fundamental. A tool to solve the problem of executing dependant tasks is one of them.

Solutions to these fundamental problems tend to be implemented early on. Some of those early solutions were poor, and have fallen out of use. Some of them were good, and have been refined in the intervening years, and hence are still with us.

A good tool to solve a fundamental problem is still useful, no matter how old it is.