skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A shame no info on testosterone - that's the one I'm most interested in both from physical and psychological perspective, I know a few people who used it but they are in physical/service jobs, I wonder how it would affect programming productivity.

Any throwaways here willing to share their experiences ?
Most of the major stores are like Best Buy... they don't get commission.

...but yeah if you go to some small boutique in NYC that might be the case I suppose.
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>> Dark fibre, so named because of its composition — a single optical cable with no electronics or network equipment on the alignment — doesn’t interfere with quantum technology

Isn't dark fibre either unlit capacity or leased fibres?
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Not the parent poster, but I think it's as simple as "unlikely" NOT "extremely unlikely"
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Until someone reads them and their meanings collapse. :)
Keeping a daily journal isn't for everyone - although I do recommend it - but I have found that by recording my day's thoughts it gets them out of my head, and by writing down my next day's planned tasks ahead of time, I am more likely to get a good nights sleep, wake up at the right time, and get to work on those tasks.
Maybe it's just me, but I kind of find this a bit creepy. It seems to me that it would be similar if the phone companies allowed you to listen to someone calling you while it was still ringing for them.

Maybe it's not quite what I am thinking though. I can't tell if the video preview is live or if it's something recorded before the call is made.
> Dr. King was monitored by the NSA for "thought crimes". Is that "100% tinfoil hat mode"?

Probably 'yes' for you, 'no' for him.

Sorry, but a random HN commenter is extremely unlikely to be targeted for the level of surveillance and treachery that Dr King was. If he feared it, he had good reason. If you are some random IT worker building the next smart pillow you cannot expect them to prioritize spying on you, that's all I'm saying. Mass surveillance isn't the same as targeted.
I use Julia. I work in Computational Logistics but some of the code I write is personal.

This week I have used Julia for running SQL against SQLite, manipulating dictionaries, raytracing, statistical analysis, engineering problems, simplex optimization, processing data from Excel, k-means clustering.

I'm pretty sure none of these would be classed as high-level math exactly, though some math is involved.

Any it's not as strongly typed for writing code as you seem to think

function fred(a, b)
return a * b
end

would work to multiply its numeric arguments or concatenate string arguments but it would throw an error on mixed string / numeric arguments

It also supports duck typing

function jule(a, b)
return a.value * b.value
end

will work no matter the types of a and b so long as they have the required attributes
I watched the first one being A/B tested on the UES Mom's group on Facebook.

I'm convinced that it is the first proto-useful thing to come out of New York's Upper East Side in the 21st century.
It's an arms race, but we can in principle stay mostly ahead in it. Evolution is not a perfect solution finder, and in the future, we may be able to constrain it by reducing the probability of a mutation we can't handle to arbitrarily low values. We know how the optimization process works here, what we lack today is enough control over the problem space to screw that process up.
> it's designed to give all children in Finland, no matter what background they're from, an equal start in life

So nice to read this! It's a pity that ideals like these are things from the past, completely gone in our western, capitalist culture. Words like those now mostly invoke feelings of cynicism and snarks about socialism or communism.
How about all cops required to carry video and audio recorders during all times they are on duty, and the videos to be made available at any request of a defendant's lawyer, plus occasionally analysed by independent groups?

Also, for any such public cases, they should immediately fire the policemen responsible, no questions asked, not even a trial. In the same way a company owner would fire an employee that doesn't make the company look good and there would be no trials, ifs and buts about it.

Policemen fired in such a way should be prohibited to seek work in any private law enforcing, security, etc capacity too.

"Missing" hours of recording should also be regarded the same as a lost gun, and punished accordingly, including with firing the person for a repeat offense, or when the missing hours are related to a case that was brought to court.
The apt user experience is terrible compared with brew.
So what's recommended then? Signal, Wire and Tox?
brew update --force

(if update errors prevented the migration)
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I did not mean that as an insult. I apologize if it came across that way. Others have made a better explanation of what I was trying to convey.
Whatsapp wasn't on the web not too long ago. They also started with Chrome only which was annoying.
That's one of the hardest possible things for us techies.
The rest of points are not addressed by this sort of encryption because the keys are on disk too. Google employees have access to the keys. It's like leaving the keys into the lock and claiming it's more secure because it has a lock. In practice the data is protected only by ACL. Encryption is just a marketing keyword in this case.
What gives Linux users the right to expect that Linux will run on any given PC / laptop?

Nothing. It's very well possible that in future, we have Apple devices that only run iOS, Google devices that only run Android/ChromeOS/Whatever and Microsoft devices that only run Windows 10 - and a large server market with a tiny consumer segment of devices that run linux.

We'll all be fine in that world. We just won't have any control about our devices anymore.

Perhaps Linux, BSD, etc. users should be creating their own PC standards doc and asking OEMs to adhere to it instead?

That's actually a good idea in theory - so far that "standard" had been the x86/x64 IBM compatible PC. Except that I fear they lack the market power to actually make such a standard more than a stack of paper. You'd need an OEM network the size of Microsoft or enough capital and brand trust so you can make your own devices. I see neither for linux.
The percentage of Americans who say they are in the middle or upper-middle class has fallen 10 percentage points, from a 61% average between 2000 and 2008 to 51% today.

That number is still too high. It should be about 33% (but then about 80% of Americans consider themselves "above average" drivers, too).

That devastated American remains counted as "full-time employed" because he still has full-time work -- although with drastically reduced pay and benefits.

Nonsense. 2015 saw the largest income increases ever recorded at each of the bottom four quintiles.
Invisible meaning not represented, not invisible like Fussell's "top/bottom out of sighters" - which I thought the article was going to be about

<That devastated American remains counted as "full-time employed" because he still has full-time work -- although with drastically reduced pay and benefits. He has fallen out of the middle class and is invisible in current reporting.

<More disastrous is the emotional toll on the person -- the sudden loss of household income can cause a crash of self-esteem and dignity, leading to an environment of desperation that we haven't seen since the Great Depression.

I would challenge the author to prove, expand and support this.
Because encryption can be decrypted with the correct key. A hash can't be reversed once you've hashed something with the pepper.
> Also, I don't think any security would be overkill

Thats just nonsense. After a certain point, more security makes little sense. Would you advocate 5 trillion rounds of sha512 for each password?
The ZDNet article above got an update, an offical response from Lenovo. I copied it from there:

UPDATE 9-21-16 7:25 PDT: Comment from Lenovo:

"To improve system performance, Lenovo is leading an industry trend of adopting RAID on the SSDs in certain product configurations. Lenovo does not intentionally block customers using other operating systems on its devices and is fully committed to providing Linux certifications and installation guidance on a wide range of products -https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd031426. Unsupported models will rely on Linux operating system vendors releasing new kernel and drivers to support features such as RAID on SSD."

So no Microsoft involvement, just a lack of drivers on Linux's part. Although Lenovo could offer a method for owners to switch the SSD from RAID to AHCI mode to improve compatibility.]
I don't think this interpretation is improbable, otherwise I wouldn't be suggesting it.

And my points have not changed, all I've done is clarify them.
I briefly managed to access their dated-looking Facebook clone, "Friend," and was attempting to register for an account when apparently it either went down due to traffic from the leak or they noticed the external access and blocked it. I checked from various different IP's (AWS, home, work, other proxies) and suddenly none could access it. Felt strange to get a brief glimpse into some of their internal web presence.

In case it's still down here's a screenshot just prior to losing access: http://i.imgur.com/dAeuozr.png
It is, but I don't see why it can't have a different meaning for people on a different technical/theoretical area.
Google Talk was perfect. PER-FECT. Of course they killed it!
Or fibre that isnt on maps because it belongs to the government. At this point it has so many different meanings what is one more /s
Cryptography isn't a computer science field. It is an extension of math. It's the exception to the rule, not the rule itself. Cryptography as a field of study has existed long, long before computer science was a twinkle in anyone's eyes. Modern day cryptography only centers around computer science in the practice of implementation.
"if you’re a photon, you might want to keep reading."

So, i stopped reading :)
Great idea. I think in US, we can build a warby parker model for this.
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Agreed. In other new: water is wet

Sharing data is what these companies do. The only way to keep your data safe is to use open-source, e2e systems
How does a legal action involving a public business have anything to do with privacy? This isn't someone trying to take down embarrassing vacation photos from a FB page, this is a business trying to hide their misdeeds that were significant enough to be reported on in the first place.
This is the exact meaning of quantum teleportation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

Changing the title to "Researchers quantum teleport particle..." would make it clearer.

On the other hand, as far as I understand quantum mechanics, there is nothing about the "original" photon that was not teleported/transferred to the new location. It would be impossible to create an experiment that could conclude that the "target" photon was not in fact the original photon. When looking at it this way, it is not so unreasonable to call the process teleportation :)
I read somewhere recently that smart phones have essentially become random gratification engines in the same way as slot machines. Sometimes on a slot machine you win the jackpot, because of this every pull gives you an endorphin kick, each time we pick up our phones or get a notification it might be an important/interesting thing, therefore we get a little endorphin kick that keeps us checking.

Because of this I turn off all notifications apart from phone calls and text messages. I don't have app badge counters or notifications for email either, if it is that important the person would ring me.
Both of these sound very effective. May I also recommend using earplugs? There are many varieties available and they're inexpensive. I used to do the covering ears thing but it's not super comfortable.
I use baking soda. On old batteries there's sometimes a little bit of acid leaking out around the terminals, and the base counteracts it. It's also a great abrasive, and washes away with water.
Microsoft: "You can't change the operating system on the computer you bought. But we can." (ref Win 10 forced installs)
At least we have a link that point to where this comment is at any time. ;-)
Can you just get the nutrition supplements from the drug store or are those all no good? I want to supplement magnesium since I am sure I am not getting enough.
nah, you stomach is already full of a way stronger acid.
I would describe land redistribution as radical revolutionary upheaval of established order. In my view this is not worth the damage to the social fabric it causes. It's an intrinsically violent thing to do, even if no shots are fired. It can only ever occur under conditions of extreme duress. "Give us your land or we kill you". Not a good approach to positive social change.

Taxation is the more reasonable way to do this. It is also confiscatory but it does so in a way where the level of duress is much reduced, and representation, agency, and participation are possible.

I would offer a provisional definition of a social spending program as a program with humanitarian goals that is funded by taxation. Land redistribution is not taxation (just pure confiscation) and so doesn't meet my definition of social program.

Maybe you think I'm just making a semantics argument and splitting hairs but I think its a meaningful difference. Land redistribution is the classic case of "peasant uprising gone bad".
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Thanks for the reminder. You could encode with a "base255" algorithm that just excludes the null byte to retain more entropy within 72 bytes.
Both of those other memes are on the decline right now: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=creepy,cree...

You'll find they peaked in 2014, and it took them until 2010 to become popular.
I have no idea, but I'm hoping so.
Np.

The defense lawyer says otherwise, but he's the defense lawyer.

Always good to have the source of info so that context can be applied correctly.
Live in the US. There's no way you'd make that kind of money anywhere else in the world as a SE.
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That's another factor that's unlikely to change.

However, as fewer and fewer young people choose to have kids, we could at least expect those people to take a risk if they knew what they were doing.
You're describing a problem with the prosecutor's office, not the police union.
Well if you trust Google you don't need on-disk encryption in the first place. SSL already solved the transport issue.
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There are acidic things considered healthy that people eat all the time. The problem with Coke and any other soda is the massive quantities of sugar, which has been proven bad for you.
Just to give a concept of how difficult this is:

> “The challenge was to keep the photons’ arrival time synchronized to within 10 pico-seconds,”

> “Since these detectors only work at temperatures less than one degree above absolute zero the equipment also included a compact cryostat,” said Tittel.

The dark fiber seems like it was important for synchronizing the clocks. And while they claim this could be used for encryption keys, that is really a roundabout way of saying that very little information was actually transmitted/received, although the article doesn't say exactly how little.

If this technology was refined, you'd just use this system to send secure messages without the need for an encryption key.
I could care less.
You'd have to recalculate hashes for every user?
Hmm. Ok. That's true. Thanks!
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I've always kind of thought a better system would be one that lets you assume a new identity. This is a war that laws won't win. Data will get out, and once it's out, it's near impossible to get back. And people do make mistakes that shouldn't haunt them for the rest of their lives. A better system is one that lets you disassociate with that data.
Does the teleportation happen at the speed of light? Was inspired by Regetti's Startup School talk and have almost zero background :p
Eh, I know hating both/all is trendy now but at least both Whatsapp and Telegram add all your contacts that are on the service immediately.
nice take on newsjacking
I found the writing style and organization made it hard to get anything out of this, but maybe it is just a "laboratory" notebook?
Is this before, or after, Condoleezza Rice uploads them to the NSA?
> In his world it is usually not hard to know what it is the right thing to do, bit it can be very hard to do it.

Yes, that is indeed one of the major themes of the book. Related to that, I love how Gandalf says (quoting from memory here, might not be word-perfect): "We cannot choose which times we live in, but we can choose what do with the times that are given us."
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Ask HN: How do you manage your personal software projects?
I am a solo developer who loves to work on side projects in parallel his regular job.

I am REALLY struggling to manage them, I need some system that:

- does not require more work to keep updated than the project itself
- it quickly gives me the ability to understand at what point of the project I am. Often pass days or week from the last time I have been able to work on the project, and I need something that helps me having the general view of the status I left the project last time and what are the next steps.
- improves my ability to track the different aspects of the project. Whatever they are different functionalities or other more broad aspects as marketing strategies....

I know are hard requirements, but I am not looking for a tool suggestion, but a method or some suggestions to find the right path.

Developing software products has a lot of facets (technical, and not!), and I am losing among them, I need someone who can show me the way :)
"I used to be a human being": I like this phrase.
It captures, poetically, the existential despair of losing the conditions of humanity. Regardless of if the author's particular conditions necessitates the implicit drama, each of one us, I'm sure, have felt like we lost what made us "real" or "authentic" at some point or another.
It's just an if, not an iff ;)
That's interesting and would help a bit, but its probably not going to help the man falsely accused of murder very much.

In the relationship case its basically pretty much impossible to legislate norms of behaviour in any reasonable period of time (it would be multi-generational if possible at all). For the job applications we all know hiring managers discriminate even when its against the law due to either their explicit or implicit biases. They can find very reasonable and legal explanations for rejection that they probably even sincerely believe themselves.
“Defensive” BGP hijacking?
Totally agree - there should be some friction. I'd say this should put more pressure on search engines, but not on the content archives, so that potentially damaging information could be found only by precise search of the events in the specific period and location regarding the person of interest, not just by name. However, direct search in archive must remain unrestricted.

Probably, there should be a legal mechanism similar to US FoIA regarding the personal information collected by non-governmental entities, in accordance to which it could be possible to request the dossier collected by a company on you and use it as a protection from discrimination (as in your first example).
It's nice to store passwords securely, but it's also important to remember to, you know, actually verify them afterwards ;)

https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-...
Didn't know about that ! Interesting.
> it would still be feasible to crack a single user's password if it was weak enough

I'm sorry, but how? You'd need data centers worth of effort for many years.
All my friends except my parents and siblings and a single group of people that includes some old ones have already moved after Whatsapp went "free".
Reality is many don't even care :(
This "promise" model of security needs to end. I "promise" I'll encrypt your password, honest.
I don't know whether or not it helps me fall asleep, but I've been using f.lux or redshift for years now and it completely stopped my headaches from looking at the monitor at night.

Anecdotal, yes, but it worked for me.
I've done the same. Facebook was closed last year, Reddit this year, Twitter never really used, but deleted the app. I've added comment blockers in all of my browsers to get rid of all of the negativity on websites, especially YouTube. I don't use any other social apps besides the occasional Instagram for business purposes.

My phone goes into Do Not Disturb about an hour before bed, and I place it face down on the nightstand.

I read daily before bed to wind down.

I've considered revisiting psychedelics, but it's been a long time since college!

I exercise daily, mostly high intensity aerobic, pushups, pullups, situps, indoor rowing, or hiking.

The phone stuff is really getting out of control, and I'm not sure what the solution is for less disciplined people. Dating sucks, going out socially sucks, going to concerts sucks, all because of the pervasiveness of the modern phone.
Ok let's kick things off with mixed content security warning. You must change all http resources to https. Just look at browser console.
For those thinking that this is a step towards faster-than-light (FTL) communication: As far as I know it's fairly certain that quantum entanglement will not allow for FTL communication. Basic principle is that while measurements between both sides will be correlated, it's not possible to tell how they are correlated until both sides compare measurements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superluminal_communication#Qua...

http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/203893

Given that, it seems like the touted benefit of using quantum entanglement here is in securing communications, since your measurements will no longer correlate if a third party is also measuring? At least, that's what I gathered.
Was it really expected in the first place that the ordinary messages don't get saved on Google's servers? As someone with a passive interest in Allo but who hasn't been following it closely, I never assumed the "smart AI" messages were anything other than simple hangouts-type messages that get stored on Google's servers. I'd even expect (/hope) them to be someday accessible on the web or transferable to a new phone.

It's the incognito that are end-to-end encrypted and I expect are secure from Google's prying eyes. And I don't think anything has changed there.

This is a non-issue for me, anyway.
Having a publisher decline to publish your unsolicited article isn't censorship. It's business.

Why do people not understand that their right to free speech does not obligate (oblige?) others to give them a soap box or even listen?
I find the argument for HTML/CSS being a programming language as more of a status issue. People want to be called programmers.Not every language is a programming language.
Few years back when I used OS X I used Homebrew, but also used pkgsrc. It had a few packages that I wanted that Homebrew did not offer. From what I remember it was not a smooth ride, but good enough.

How does Homebrew compare to pkgsrc these days?
Isn't this the company that authenticated all production users without checking passwords for a few hours, a couple years back?