skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's life, though. People have different information, different education, different intelligence, different upbringings, and they make different choices than you or me. I make the best decisions for myself given my experience and situation, and you do the same for yourself, and everybody else does the same for themselves. I'm not going to force my choices on you, and it's not your place to force decisions on me.

Nobody makes the absolute best decisions every single time, but in general they certainly make better decisions for themselves than a stranger.
Yeah that's definitely true, and it is what makes me question a lot of why they do what they do and distrust it generally. But would it be better if a company was vastly more powerful than the government?

Actually, I think some companies kind of are in some aspects. They may not have the military, but some definitely have a hand on the reigns.
Slightly off topic, but has anyone had luck with a (preferably intel) 3x3 wifi adaptor? I want one for a desktop. The linked one is 2x2, and amazon has a m.2->pcie wifi adaptor for $17.

I have a 3x3 broadcom now, but it occasionally disassociates with the access point (and the box suffers from undiagnosed kernel hangs whether I plug an nvidia or amd video card into it...)
Electricity Prices in the U.S. Are Capping Their Worst Year Ever
Likewise, Caucasian cultures place immense value on signaling status by bloviating about things you barely know about on the Internets.

Somewhat less sarcastically, if you're going to attempt to apply "Oriental" concepts here, I'd go with wa here: there is a set order here and it's not the junior's role to disturb it.
But Russia and China don't go around enforcing human rights and their morality on other countries. So it's not just superpowers playing their advantage. It's become a recent American diplomatic tradition to push hard on this stuff (externally) where it's convenient.

Not just the state department but Human Rights Watch and similar orgs often push an American agenda, where it often seems to be in coordination with the CIA.

Human rights include electoral freedom yes - but also freedom from unjustified violations of privacy by the state, free media, freedom of speech (silent all-seeing eyes chills people's speech via self-censorship).

That's why there is more of an irony or hypocrisy when America calls out a country like Russia which doesn't do this type of preaching. While simultaneously operating the largest and most effective sigint and hacking operation in the world, along with the rest of the five eyes. Their access goes far beyond what Russia or China could ever do thanks to all of the Internet backbone, mobile companies, and tech companies within their (and UK, Australia, etc) geographic range. Along with the five eyes having wayyy more money to spend on defence. While Russia's economy is the size of Spain.

So let be honest the only reason this charade works is because most people are oblivious to how this all works. It's just complicated "computer stuff". And those that do often rationalize it away as "everyone does it", regardless of unbridled scale - uncomparable in access to anything during the cold war - or the moral agenda being pushed by their countries.

Also the US seems much better at not getting caught (publically). When they do it's 3yr+ old malware, that their adversary was able to play catch up enough to catch, or no longer needed to hide the fact they had it. Old hacks are far less newsworthy and people move on.

The question is how long this one way street will be viable without blowback.
OK, so I added other source. You can find more sources yourself.

My impression, after all these years, that Saddam stopped production of new batches of mustard gas and sarin, and switched to develop new, advanced versions of CW, which are hard to detect, so they are easy to hide from inspectors and transport across. Maybe, few hundred tons of binary CW are hidden in the desert, but real threat was that new type of CW. Imagine few hundreds of drones, each with highly lethal chemical bomb. Cheap drones has very limited range, but if a terrorist will be able to import components of CW legally, and then assemble a bomb with them, then drones will becomes WMD.
You've never used a business thinkpad for more than 15 minutes
Guy McPherson is a denialist of a different stripe (2014)
Why does it need to be an entire car. I just want a drone I can hook a seat into with a range of 10-20 miles. Is that impossible? Lifting 200 pounds for 20 miles is probably doable with current technology right?
In common lisp, during development, you can fix a surprising number of mistakes before the browser times out: especially mistakes involving things like typos.

The other advantage of the condition/restart system is that it makes your libraries more reusable: rather than having either to choose one error handling strategy or to construct a system for choosing an error handling strategy, the language itself provides a construct for making several error handling strategies available that higher-level code can choose between in a straightforward manner.
You could always get one of the new MBPs without the Touch Bar. I think I agree with you, though. I also touch-type, use vim, and the Touch Bar breaks my flow.
I'm curious to know if this type of data could be used to track infidelity. I'm thinking further than domestic trouble and more towards blackmail, espionage, etc. I can see how this type of information could be useful for the wrong reasons.
>Provoking a great power makes little sense for obvious reasons.

It makes great sense for an autocratic-esque states. See Iraq (Sadam era), Iran, Russia, ISIS, DPRNK, Lybia, Grenada, Philippines, Al Qaida, Somalia. Instead of looking at your cruel leadership, you can blame all your problems and rally all your citizens against the US.
politicians are mere servants. need a better open data set on the people and corps they serve.
Not really. That little chip is /still/ about the fastest chip you're gonna get for any sort of hardware hacking project for which you want a display, and the ability to prototype using one of the super cheap pcb makers.
IMO the broad ranges of gender and sexuality makes the definitions explored here relatively pointless and draws lines where the benefits are not scientific but catagorical and ultimately exclusionary.
Yep. Kudos to them, I remember thinking this was one of the dumbest acquisitions I had heard of, until Whatsapp. But Instagram has been a huge success.

The thing is that the Instagram and Whatsapp acquisitions are responsible for fueling this idea that all you need to do is create growth, and Facebook and/or Google will pay billions to acquire your company. Snapchat would never have gotten funding if there wasn't this dream that this could happen. We'll see if Snapchat is worth the $25B that is purported for their IPO, but I think those two acquisitions were the catalyst for all of this.
There is nothing more "good" or "functional" about deep travel keyboards. They're just a matter of taste. You can type just as fast on something like a MacBook keyboard once you get used to it.
I read have read an enormous amount about this subject, from all angles and viewpoints. And I actually give a sh*t about getting the answer right, not just confirming any biases. And from reading and personal experience, I changed my mind on this subject, I used to be much more liberal in my beliefs about crime.
Nikon and Verily team up to fight diabetes-related eye disease
I really like this guy, and I'd probably answer the last two questions in the same way (wife coming soon!).
Does this guy have any credibility left? Why do we care what he says, to me it's akin to a random person on the street espousing ramblings.
"They represent a testament to hard work, even in later life, that few cultures manage to exemplify quite like the Chinese seem to do."

Really? I can't think of a culture/society where people that need to work hard don't do so...even into old age. Even as migrants to America, the first and sometimes second generation bring a strong work ethic with them. I'm sure the Chinese are very hard working...but they're hardly an exception if you look around the world.
Why does your US bank need to know that you are in Japan?
There is much more to that article than the introduction, but in case anyone is wondering why Krauthammer doesn't cite a source for those surveys, it's because they're not real: http://www.snopes.com/language/document/school.asp, or search "Discipline List" here http://ece.dallasnews.com/archive/

A bit later in the article, Krauthammer really succinctly sums up a major flaw in his own argument:

> As part of this project of moral leveling, whole new areas of deviancy–such as date rape and politically incorrect speech–have been discovered. And old areas–such as child abuse–have been amplified by endless reiteration in the public presses and validated by learned reports of their astonishing frequency.

Yes, perhaps the reason rape seems so much more common is that people in the 1940s didn't understand what rape is. Apparently some people still don't.
> the fan always runs

Are there laptops where it doesn't? I've had 4 different models from 4 different makers, including a MacBook Pro, and every one has run the fan 100℅ of the time.
I'm not exactly sure I understand what you're saying but my plan is 100% to, when I become an adult that needs to settle down, buy a catamaran instead of a condo and live and work from there!
Oh absolutely, it isn't that small teams can't create secure software, it's that product liability isn't the way to do it. Because when the lawyers come for the bad coders they just turn their pockets inside out and then go back to writing bad code, while all the HMOs carry on using OpenSSL and vulnerable XML parsers.

> Doesn't solve the DDOS problem which can also be used for extortion, interfering with government operations, etc. My approach targeting root cause handles that, too.

Can you be more specific about your DDOS solution?
I've had an accountant do my taxes since I was 19, and feel like I've probably saved a pretty substantial amount of money --- not by doing elaborate things to structure my income (there are accounting tricks that do that, and I agree with you that exploiting them feels skeezy), but simply by ensuring I'm doing them correctly and, more importantly, on time.

Legal expenses are, as you say, a question of personality and risk tolerance. After we sold Matasano, I talked to people who'd been operating other large consultancies, and was shocked to learn that there are big firms that just sign every contract their clients give them. We got every contract reviewed, one by one, at significant expense. They just signed and started working. Our outcomes were comparable!

We still get everything reviewed at the new company. It costs money, but not so much that it changes the economics of the work, and I've had enough close calls over 20 years of working that it's worth it just not to worry. But reasonable people disagree about this all the time.

I do think you're wrong about the sole proprietorship thing, though. An LLC is extremely cheap (you don't even need a lawyer) and protects your personal assets from business liabilities. On the other hand, your legal strategy probably just involves fleeing the country to hide amongst the penguins along the 70th parallel.
Most of them probably live with their children, so they do not pay the rent.

For Most of the old people collecting bottles, when they were young, China is very poor and have to work very hard to get enough food. I guess they are in the habit of hard working.

Do something and get some reward, even it is so small, is very different form do nothing.

In the article, "June" get a way to communicate with the neighborhood, and the people are kind to her. In this kind of mutual kindness, She feel her life.
Imagine if non-state actors could make relationships between any two states bitter. They could do that conceivably now. For whatever gain. For instance country A attacks third world country B. country B's sympathetic hackers hack country A from country B and force them into a confrontation. Who is working for whom? Who actually knows. We're in that sort of cyber punk era. Like for instance hackers from the Ukraine could do some shit to Russia as retaliation via attacking US targets from Russia or vice versa. Whatever two states are suspecting of each other could be exploited. Major actors have already been playing these sort of games, now they are available for pretty much anyone to exploit.

tl;dr You average Joe hacker can now potentially start wars from his mother's basement.
Can an architect add a comment on that, please?
Google Research recently published a paper in the JAMA on using Deep Learning to detect these same eye diseases: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/258876...
What I like about working from home with regards to socializing is that I get to choose when, where and with whom I socialize. I didn't have that control in an office setting. While most of my clients and colleagues are in other cities, I make sure that I have several local if for no other reason than to have some professional socialization opportunities. And of course there are a dozen groups that I could choose to participate in - actually more than I'd ever have time to do.
Depending on the ground rules that you set, I don't think eval() or Function() would be that bad considering they both evaluate in the global scope and you're working with strings in the first place.

My first guess for the chopping block would be the functionality of franken-objects like Function.arguments (especially properties like arguments.callee).
I've also lived in crappy new houses/apartments and it is not that much fun either. I guess YMMV?
It's just sort of a shame that TS is winning out over Flow. I remain convinced that the latter is better.
This is the same man who admitted to lying about the Apple FBI dispute earlier this year to "get a shitload of public attention" (http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/john-mcafee-lied-iphone-apple...). I'm not interested in hearing anything more from this chronic attention seeker.
I can comment to the extent that I can confirm there are 6k/day consultants, and most of the ones I know aren't doing the kind of work where their 1-2 weeks of work generates 1-3% uplift on sales --- which is the kind of work Patrick did, and which a moment of thought will confirm for you pays for an extremely high consulting rate.

6k/day is high; quite high. But it's not implausible.
Is that thesis publicly available? I'd love to read it.
The second link is also from World Net Daily.
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I know, but I don't think very many people know this even exists. That's the worst part about this practice -- it's so horrible that it's too horrible to even share. As much as I hate it, I know I can't share pictures of this on Facebook because people will likely hate me more than they hate what's going on.
Anybody have a cached version or something to get around the paywall?
> Not just the state department but Human Rights Watch and s similar orgs often push an American agenda where it often seems in coordination with the CIA.

I would have disagreed with you until I watched the horror of Aleppo unfold quietly on the back pages for months, and then suddenly become breaking news the moment the 'wrong' side started winning.
> Talking about how Putin is a dangerous autocrat?
> That's sabre rattling.

Yes, that is indeed sabre rattling.

You should also be unhappy with Obama putting sanctions on Russia because he is unhappy that some dirty laundry on Hillary was released to the voters, even after Assange and many others have assured us that this was an inside leak, not Russia related.

You should be unhappy that Obama has been sabre rattling against Russia for years. There are many who believe that his motivations to topple Assad are to deny Russia it's only warm water port in Tartus, Syria. This would explain why he keeps sending weapons to extremist groups that tell us they're not ISIS affiliated but still end up burning and decapitating people. Obama is already engaged in a proxy war with Russia, which is pretty much the ultimate form of sabre-rattling.
How about these cases?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_in_the_United_Sta...

And this list doesn't even include us tapping the German prime minister's phone line. Imagine our reaction if another nation tapped our president's phone line... Absolute double-standard.

I think both sides agree that security is tantamount. However, the disagreement is on whether the solution to cyberwarfare is being more offensive capability or more defensive capability.
And someday I might read about this case behind the paywall.
The Chinese who are in their 50+ probably is the most hard working people, even in China. If you check history, when they are young, china is very poor. A lot of them may have a memory of starvation.

You are right, the Chinese in the young generation are not as hard working now. (Maybe I am geting old)
Just because China and Russia do not go around talking about human rights doesn't mean that they are not forcing other views on other countries. Russia is quite busy in eastern europe.
He's complaining about the dishonesty and obfuscation of information from a democratically elected government. How can a democracy survive when they don't even know what's really going on?

It's a legitimate gripe, but delivered poorly.
I can't imagine Snapchat not being worth $25b. They should be (in theory) minting money with all the native ads they sell.
Date is "Dec. 25, 2014"
That's my sentiments here also - weird outcome would be cool, but I expect that we'll find experimental error. However, there is also the possibility of something in the middle - meaning no laws of physics are broken but the experimental error is itself an interesting engineering discovery.
Harvard Biologist Retracts Groundbreaking Diabetes 'Breakthrough'
Couldn't get around the paywall, but I found a New Yorker article that disputes the WSJ: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/astrobiology-made-cas...
> The Carbon X1 is made from carbon fiber. It super-robust and light-weight at the same time.

If I'm honest I have no Idea why there is an ad for the X1 on hackernews today. The page itself is 404-ing for me.

That said, I held an X1 carbon last september when shopping for a new laptop with my girlfriend. It was a fucking glorious machine.

In the end we wound up buying the lenevo yoga because it comes with an i7, SSD, & 8gigs ram (the three checkboxes I need on a laptop) - this was the cheapest with all my boxes ticked.

X1C was a lot more expensive, but you could feel why when you held it. What a beautiful machine.

(Again, why is it listed as a link on HN? Just so we can moon over it? Fair I guess)
So this document was written by security professionals. It's intended for an audience of security professionals. We read it and say, "wait a minute, this is basic script kiddie stuff, this is how the Russian intelligence services operate?" - the breathless description of how advanced the basic tactics are is something I would expect from a security firm who trades on fear. Maybe the unspoken message here is "it's just script kiddies." After all, a major political party is a hell of a get, especially with the amount of dirt in there.
> I had a policy then that, no matter what, I was going to get a full night's sleep. Period. Full stop. I think it served me very well.

I'm exactly the same! Unfortunately, sleep is extremely underrated nowadays.

Someone on Quora asked Jimmy Wales (yes, it's a thing) what he regretted not doing enough during his youth. His answer was getting enough sleep. His argument was that, as you grow older and get more responsibilities, you'll get less and less sleep, so why not get the most rest while you can?

> Even if I didn't know an answer, it was a lot easier to stay calm and rationalize something that often turned out to be right or good enough.

That's a very valuable skill in my opinion, and I think it carries over well to stressful situations in general.
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> Shark fin was considered a delicacy, but in fact not tasty at all.

What a meaningless statement - that is as subjective as can be.
I will let Lawrence Krauss, who is thoroughly more qualified to speak about what science "says", do some talking:
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/astrobiology-made-cas...
Best way to do various sensors around a farm, sending back to a RasPi?
I have no idea how to do this, but the family farms want a couple of sensors (water tank levels, soil moisture, etc) sending back to a screen inside showing stats.

I've done various small arduino and Raspi projects, including ultrasonic water tank sensors that read out on an LCD display, but never anything that needs to send data back to a hub.

Each sensor could be anywhere on a 200acre or 300acre farm (two farms), so need to be solar+battery and wireless.

What hardware and software stack should I be looking at?

Original idea was arduinos sending to a Raspi but I'm open to other ideas.

Keen to learn this stuff because we own a few farms and have lots of uses for "x sensors sends to hub" ideas.

Thanks in advance (unreliable sat net so I'll check back when I can!)
That's been done already: it's called C#.
You can google the title and avoid the paywall
For F-500 corporations, a $10k day delivering a training course with assessments isn't unheard of. But nobody is close to 100% utilized doing that work.
>or even something illegal. (It is the lack of security that results in break-ins, that should.)

Wat

Does this mean stealing from people's houses is not only legal if they don't have "proper security", but that the victim should be punished instead?
I'm not excusing him, but he is a solder and a soldier follows orders. A team has to do what their commander orders, otherwise it would be chaos[1]. I think that whole thing was a fiasco, not only to go in it, but the gross mismanagement of the entire war.

[1]There are of course limits, al la Nuremberg trials.
No, science is about disproving things. You come up with experiments to test if method a or b are wrong. The more experiments that fail to disprove a theory, the stronger the evidence for that theory is - and any new theory has to Either match the old results under the same tests, or give a good reason why it doesnt match.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which is why every good scientist expects this effect to go away (regardless of hope as to whether it is a real effect or not).
I don't think police are the right agents to enforce societal change though.

I mostly agree, but I do think the police could do more to crack down on the most brazen instances of gangs being the de facto government of various neighborhoods.

It seems like a lot of criminals, start off rather young charged with crimes like shoplifting etc, and that record haunts them forever, by shutting off a lot of opportunities forever.

That's not my sense from the various ethnographies I have read. Where are you getting that from?

I found it rather surprising that such kinds of conditions exist in a developed country like the US; its usually something you find in less developed countries

There is a racial element to this. When I was traveling in Brazil, the black favellas of Brazil had a lot of similarity to the black ghettos of the U.S., and the white areas of Brazil had a lot of similarity to the white areas of the United States or of Europe.
Not a bad idea if there is good team dynamics. Probably more effective than firing everyone and starting again.
for those who can't get past the paywall... the article says 'since we haven't found life in the universe in the past 30 years, god must exist'. you may now ignore the article.
To get around the paywall, google search the article URL and go through the search results.