skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They just don't make illicit drugs like they use to... They could definately kill u always, but now the potency of a microgram difference can and that's pretty scary.

Actually, this has kind of always been true.
http://everything2.com/title/Heroin%252C+MPTP%252C+and+the+k...

The problem is that an illegal drug has no quality control. If you want to stop this kind of stuff, legalizing it is one of the few (possibly only) useful solutions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/shurima/
https://www.reddit.com/r/shurimaintensifies/
I've never heard of such technique, what does onioning do?
So someone reporting a message to Facebook would be the equivalent of that person (either Alice or Bob) reporting and sending the content of the other person's encrypted conversation to a third party.

The Signal Protocol provides end-to-end encryption so you don't have to trust the intermediate parties/servers involved in relaying the message (e.g. you don't have to trust Facebook's servers), and to protect against the other person reporting and revealing your conversation to someone else, the Signal Protocol provides message repudiation [1], which effectively gives the sender plausible deniability because the receiving party cannot prove to a third party that a message came from you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol#Properties
I assume he's referring to Desert Storm veterans who happened to be facing weak job prospects
Can "gravitons" pass though Earth?

Yes. And the fact that there is no complete theory of gravitons doesn't really matter. It is sufficient to know that scare-quoted "gravitons" (which may be real fundamental particles or may simply be mathematically convenient pseudo-particles corresponding to a classical gravitational wave) can pass through the Earth.

They must be able to do so, for essentially exactly the same reason that neutrinos can: they couple extremely weakly to matter. Which should not be a surprise, because gravity is such a relatively weak force- weaker even than the eponymous "weak force". The fact that neutrinos couple so weakly to other matter is also why they are so dang hard to detect. Meanwhile, gravitons / gravitational waves couple even more weakly to matter, and thus are correspondingly even harder to detect than neutrinos, and pass through solid matter even more easily.

Annoyingly, if it were easier to detect them, that would necessarily imply that the Earth is less transparent to them, and vice-versa: they harder they are to detect, the more transparent the Earth must be. Because, if the Earth were not transparent to them, then that entails that there are materials in the Earth that interact strongly with them, and we could use those materials to build a better detector!
What I'm saying is that "Jewish" may refer to someone who is an atheist but celebrates Hanukkah. There's probably someone in their family who is practicing.

The problem being, "Jew" refers both to both a belief system and a racial characteristic, and without qualification it can be thoroughly unclear. This is even true of more precise terms e.g. "Hasidic". There's a very tight-knit ethnic group that share a bunch of religious practices, but the adjective refers to both things.

Aside: if you're not easily offended, watch Chanuka Honey on YouTube. It's an extended joke about American Jewish culture, but religion barely features.
I just spent way too long on /r/delusionalartists
You're not in a good position to start consulting - you have no understanding how that business works.

If you really want to build a product, start building a product right away.
You might want to learn Standard ML first. The "Programming Languages, Part A" course on Coursera is a good place to start.
Right, you have add on npm-shrinkwrap if you want to lock everything down (which I do use for some projects).

Yarn may well be better than npm, in fact, as far as I can tell it is, but, frankly, npm works well and I'm tired of switching js dependencies, especially really core dependencies like a package manager.

I'm hoping npm just steals whatever yarn does better than it so that I never need to switch...

Bundler is pretty great.

pip... pip... I don't know what to say about pip. It's probably my fault, but I can never seem to get pip to fully understand that what I put in requirements.txt should always always always be used for the project no matter what system level libraries are installed. If yarn were available for python, I'd switch to it today...
Pretty sure mentioning "growth hack" would trigger lot of bots.
Just install MATE or Xfce.
http://www.businessinsider.com/daylight-savings-dst-should-d...

"Daylight-saving time is dumb and we should get rid of it"
The spooky world of the 'numbers stations' (2014)
FWIW it's "on offer" on Amazon UK, http://amzn.to/2mNBFR6 £90 (aff. link); USA it's http://amzn.to/2me5lUa $114.
Yes, I realise that - just interested in their locality to greater degree of exactitude than which hemisphere. As it happens it looks like they're using artificial light.
If you enjoy historical artefacts, you'll probably enjoy the 'History of the World in 100 Objects' podcasts:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/a_history_of_the_world....
It's not just losing the wrong people, but also retaining the wrong people: A common outcome of management by fear is that people learn survival tactics: Avoiding commitment, shifting responsibility, finishing tasks poorly rather than late, ass-covering, and outright cooking the books.
Definitely situational.

Some people have gone to jail for 30 years for liking the wrong post on FB.

Guess that's one way to get lonely.
As far as I know, machine translations still come back as a jumble of phrases that you have to figure out like a puzzle. I am skeptical that machine translation will ever seriously approach professional translation. To effectively translate, you have to consider the idea being communicated and make sure that idea comes through, even if you have to creatively substitute different​ words and phrasing. A machine being able to understand what it's reading at multiple levels and anticipate possible misunderstandings seems hopelessly difficult.
Can you elaborate on these two bits?

> It should feel producty, and the way in which you turn your team into a product should communicate something interesting about your worldview.

> Bill weekly, or at worst daily. Never bill hourly.

Do you mean bill hourly but only working in full-day blocks? Or that your clients agree to pay you on a daily / weekly rate without a number of hours defined. This seems like a tough proposition for businesses to accept.

(The thoughts from your experience are super helpful.)
Surprised and disappointed to see rand paul there
Elon Musk pledges to fix Australian power crisis in 100 days 'or it's free'
Argh! Yet another incredible piece of software I never heard of until stumbling across the posts here in a HN thread. Why is finding these great pieces of software so hard!

Thanks for the tip on it!
A command line for the web
I thought the canon explanation was that HAL wasn't "insane", per se, but that he had been given conflicting orders (keep the Jupiter monolith secret, but also assist the crew in every way) and was resolving them as best he could.
On Social Credit and the Right to Be Unnetworked (2016)
i got confused at first too. its evidence that the 1930s was the golden age of chocolate, not an explanation of why the 1930s are the golden age of chocolate
> The harder the enforcement, the more potent this selection pressure gets:

And the higher the potency, the easier it becomes to smuggle. Contrast marijuana, where they have to haul the stuff over by the bale, vs even one brick of super potent opioid which could supply half the country for a couple days.
Why? He's against government, not for privacy.
Assessing Code Authorship: The Case of the Linux Kernel
Why surprised? It seems perfectly in line with American Libertarianism: Let the corporation do whatever it wants and tell the customer to go to (or create) a competitor.

If someone complains about monopolies or power-imbalances, simply blame the government, and assure them that removing all regulation will eventually fix the problem.
On the one hand, if each coin is worth 1/10th its cost, nobody will mint them. On the other hand, if each coin is worth 10x as much as it cost to make, people make their own and the price collapses.

That applies equally to gold coins as bitcoins.

I suspect bitcoin is, in its current form, incapable of replacing a major currency, because if it become a dominant currency then someone would beg, borrow, and steal just enough bitcoin to buy just enough compute power to get half of the bitcoin computer pool, from there using their new power to double-spend their way to getting even more computer power (while blocking other transactions that might try to out-bid them), and ultimately using that power to rewrite the consensus reality of the blockchain to say they now own as much as they want to say they own.

Even if the bitcoin wiki is correct to expect no rational miner will attempt this, there are plenty of irrational actors when enough money is dangled in front of them, even when it is only a mirage (citation: every lottery).
This is something that ibGib is a great tool for: understanding relationships and "heirarchies", and understanding that a containment relationship is only one way for viewing information. We find it easy to work with, since we're used to files and folders. But the more I use ibGib, the more comfortable I am with just having things related to each other.

This is precisely a neural network, and it's especially interesting when you consider each person as a node in a larger network. You have your inputs and your outputs and a bunch of layers sitting in between, i.e. you take an ANN, draw a circle around it and connect it to other ANNs ad nauseam.
Same here, my schedule rotates and it's the only way I stay sane. For example, today I sleep at 6pm and wakeup at 2am. Jobs and relationships are hard tho, how do you deal with relationships especially?
Why surprised? Paul is about the most publicly proud Senator of been by against government regulation and for private contract as the basis of rules. Why wouldn't you expect Paul to back allowing corporations to do anything so long as it doesn't violate an explicit contract?
#maga

the trump astroturfing army is aggressive
MI was the second adventure game I played seriously and MI2 the third. The first was Castle Adventure [0] many years before that. Great stuff; I finished them recently again after many years. Just good humor and well done puzzles, especially in MI2.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Adventure
Yeah, the last Olympics in Spain were in 1992 in Barcelona.
Original academic article (87 pgs): http://cblr.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2_2016.2...
This is a really hard question without knowing what your area of interest is.

However, I find Descartes Meditations gripping for the way he poses the question of whether there can be any solid foundation for knowledge and the resulting skeptical worries (though his solution is somewhat disappointing). Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is also wonderful.

If you find free will interesting, Kane's "A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will" is solid--it was the text a professor assigned when I ta'd for his course.
Three of the linked examples aren't that readable, not that I disagree with your point.
Much safer. This Swiss have implemented this and have published the results. There were large improvements in almost every public health/safety issue caused by heroin use [0].

>Crime Issues: 60% drop in felony crimes by patients (80% drop after one year in the program). 82% drop in patients selling heroin.

>Death Rates: No one has died from a heroin overdose since the inception of the program. The heroin used is inspected for purity and strength by technicians.

>Disease Rates: New infections of Hepatitis and HIV have been reduced for patients in the program.

>New Use Rates: Slightly lower than expected. 1) As reported in the Lancet June 3, 2006, the medicalisation of using heroin has tarnished the image of heroin and made it unattractive to young people. 2) Most new users are introduced to heroin by members of their social group and 50% of users also deal to support their habit. Therefore, with so many users/sellers in treatment, non-users have fewer opportunities to be exposed to heroin, especially in the rural areas.

>*Cost Issues: 48 dollars/day: Patient costs are covered by national health insurance agency. Patients pay 700 dollars/year for the compulsory insurance. Note: The Swiss save about 38 dollars per day per patient mostly in lowered costs for court and police time, due to less crime committed by the patients.

[0] http://www.citizensopposingprohibition.org/resources/swiss-h...
What's up with the lack of https and encryption in IBM's cloud? I'm sure your machine learning stuff is great and all but the lack of proper encryption and security measurements makes it a total no-go. How can you expect anybody to take your cloud services seriously when you do http in 2017? I'm asking as someone who had their boss talked into trying out ML stuff one Bluemix by your sales people.
Sure. First name dot last name at gmail
Except gliders floating in infinite space. Maybe.
Seems like a great way to catch a nasty case of conspiracy to commit a felony. The reason the Nobel committee can give an award to a political prisoner in another country is that they are in another country.
International Crystal QRT (QRT = Closed)
Why does the article mention net neutrality?
Maybe I am old fashioned and outdated. I don't know about anyone else, but it makes me pretty sad that the "modern" way as presented in this article is no longer simple and straightforward and has some severe dependency hell.

Not that I'm saying the structure of modern web applications isn't needed and that we haven't advanced. Just that the overhead and knowledge required to set up a modern web application is crazy.

I am working on a larger .NET web application in my day job... and it requires things like.. Typescript + typings files, Webpack/Gulp/Grunt/etc. and therefore Node.js and NPM, NuGet, .NET Framework, onion architecture, front-end framework (Angular, or React, or..), Entity Framework, multiple databases, web services/web API, ASP.NET MVC.. I mean, it's just crazy if you step back and think about it.

Sometimes I long for the simpler "bad old days"? Oh well, back to my enterprise single page application framework-laden monster.

DISCLAIMER: I know we're better off today in many ways, and maybe I'm just getting older and the cognitive load is higher.
White American here. In the past 3-4 years (probably a couple dozen flights) I have gotten some level of patdowns and hand-swabs literally every single time I go through one of those millimeter-wave machines. Every time, without fail.

My belief is that it's because I had gone through some pretty substantial weight loss in the past, and so my body skin/muscle/fat density is all screwy around the midsection, and thus it sets the machine off.
What's the difference between asking for someone to share their location and asking someone to share their address?
On that last statement of yours, keep this as a rule of thumb:

If an API, 1.0 means stable.
If an application, 1.0 means fully featured (as dictated by the author or community).
It also needs a disclaimer for Iron Maiden fans :)
I'm going to save you some time, having lost mine. The article consists of a sociologist listing the mentions of gravitational waves he has seen in the media. But it has no meat to it, and there is no payoff: it just lists them, and ends. It's excerpted from the guy's book, but it won't make you want to buy it.

The only slightly surprising things (I won't go as far as to say "interesting") are:

1) The Daily Mail and Barack Obama apparently made the same mistake about Einstein's predictions.

2) Without comment:

> Later I will discover that my major thesis about social construction, which turns on pointing out that no gravitational waves were seen but merely a few numbers that were interpreted as gravitational waves, has been thoroughly anticipated (albeit on a strange, flat-earther YouTube channel that appears to treat conspiracy theories as an art form).
You do realise this article wasn't written as a beginner's tutorial but as a sarcastic view of modern web dev?
Use of new encryption algorithm on the ciphertext encrypted by the old algorithm.
I don't mind this article as long as it's classified as satire.
The problem facing the Western world, and America in particular, is that the attributes and skills required to get and maintain a job are orthogonal to what society needs to survive.

Being handsome, tall, white, heterosexual, male, aggressive, assertive, ruthless and remorseless can make you an exceptionally successful person within the business world. It's also not the sort of thing you'd want society made out of. Every day would be a struggle for survival for most, but for the tiny few that've fought their way to the top and can now have others do their fighting for them.

There's no room for things like wisdom, intelligence, for care or concern, for the pursuit of long-term goals instead of chasing short-term gains.

Management doesn't care that you've saved the company a billion over ten years if your project makes them come up 5% short on the Wall Street projections this quarter. Politicians don't care that they're destroying an institution that's saved millions of lives if they can get re-elected because they saved money. People don't give a shit if their neighbour gets thrown in jail because they're an "illegal" even when they're the one committing crimes: Dodging taxes, stealing from their workplace, bribing a school executive to admit their stupid kid...

It's a rough world out there, and the thing that's killing us is a lack of long-term vision.
yeah the novel goes and "solve" the misery. with the task of saving the mission, not lying to the humans and withheld information about the alien, the only logical step to resolve the constraint when the human ask about the mission nature is to kill them to prevent having to lie or having to divulge information.

this also echoes many Asimov novel in principle and especially one in specific where the ai goes trough all rules and the only non conflicting way to solve the constraint was self destruct (cant remember the title)
'No compelling technical reason to return to Windows,' says Munich's IT chief
Ahahaha I legitimately cannot tell if this is a sarcastic blog post. To me it just sounds like such a joke. It's quite confusing.

I hope it's a joke...
Unfortunately no. When a social platform becomes "big" as in, reaches early majority, spam finds a way in. No algorithm can stop it. Quantity kills quality. The "sophisticated" early adopters lose it.

Look around. People will do whatever it takes to get to "front page", "top stories", and such.

Medium obsesses about quality, but their top stories, fueled by recommendations from "the common man", are full of junk. Same with LinkedIn. Twitter. Facebook.

HackerNews is saved simply because it's small.
KDE has drag to corner to get quarter screen window for a long time.
I'm possibly the most incompetent traveler ever, and I haven't yet been pulled aside for extra scrutiny. But my mum has, and she's far more careful than I am with all her documents.

If there's one thing I've learned from attempting to replicate bugs, it's that if something affects even as much as one in four people, it'll look hunky dory to thrice as many people as it looks awful to.
a lot of people prefer it, around 45% over all other chocolates
That doesn't seem to be the outcome, if you look at the various places around the world that have decriminalised drugs.
Americans might prefer ad subsidized isp service.

We by and large want ad subsidized browsers, email, phone operating systems, television, you name it.

Why should the law protect privacy for only one service when Hundreds of billions of dollars of spying goes on in other industries?
My father was a professor teaching business at a small college. On his first semester teaching, he assigned an essay due in a couple months. He said any papers turned in a day late got docked one grade, two days two grades, etc. He said no excuses would be accepted, because they had two months to do the work.

The due date rolled around, and half the class turned in their papers late, and got docked grades accordingly.

The next semester, there was only one paper late one day.
Is there a permissions model on Linux, Mac, or Windows? This issue seems kind of unimportant. If a hacker can compromise the device, they can disregard all permissions.
Hummm, what you mean?

I thought about send some free sticker to the conference to make myself some marketing.

However I could also make the sticker with the logo of the conference and maybe send along also some related stickers...

That was your idea? It is actually quite interesting...
I think this is a realistic reflection on the state of this area in our industry. It is both sarcastic/a joke and not a joke at all.
As an Australian resident, but of sub-continental descent, I am re-evaluating travel plans to visit the US again. Love the place, have friends and colleagues there, but just not wanting to put up with the risks & hassle involved.

It is interesting that a Middle Eastern carrier is reporting a drop like this. It would be a good exercise to compare the ME->USA travel statistic against their other routes. I know that Emirates is a popular carrier here (Australia) to get to Europe etc. Also would be interesting to corroborate against statistics from Qantas, Cathay Pacific etc. as well as other ME carriers like Etihad.
How do I order the Internet history of Senators?
> They didn't make that claim, they are just people doing the best they can in the world.

It's not enough.

The people here were trying to "do their best." In direct and immediately visible effect of their "best intentioned" actions, their daughter was harmed much worse than she would be had they known what to do.

There's a famous novella from the late 19th century where a village girl catches a cold. She's then packed into a bread furnace for some time, to make her "sweat the illness out," by her very own parents. The girl dies, of course, burned to death, the end.

The parents in TFA did exactly the same thing. They ended up not killing their daughter by sheer luck, but they still harmed her greatly. Do you really think they should be absolved of their fault because they "meant well?" Or is their fault any lesser just because they "didn't know?"

No. Sorry, but no. They could have known. They could have educated themselves. They could have used contraceptives in the first place. They could have prevented the tragedy, yet they didn't. It. Is. Their. Fault. Period.

However, the mother refuses to acknowledge even that much, to the very end. I have my opinion about such behavior, and it's not favorable one.
Show HN: Directory-tree-promise – parse directory to tree with async await
I nominate Travis Kalanick and every Uber engineer over the past few weeks that says that breaking laws regulating city transit and breaking laws regulating lobbying and breaking FTC laws about misleading advertisements is justified by their mission from god to disrupt a legal regulated taxi industry using illegal, disobedient, tactics.

I'd add in all the HN libertarians who also stated that breaking legal, regulated taxi medallions was so important that that justified Uber's illegal tactics, but they are not part of Uber and so not eligible for this prestigious disobedience award.

Edit: upon inspection, I have to withdraw the nomination of Uber engineers:

> The recipient must have taken a personal risk in order to affect positive change for greater society.

Uber engineers enable unethical behaviors and law breaking, but they are not taking personal risks. They collect their pay checks, their bonuses, and their options, but they will not sit in jail asking Waldo why he is out there.