skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a Razer mechanical keyboard. To use the macro keys, you have to create an account with Razer and login before they work.
Much of it was better explained a few years ago at https://www.quantamagazine.org/20130425-perpetual-motion-tes...
I deleted my Twitter account, removed my Instagram and Facebook apps. I trimmed my Facebook account down to only my local table top gaming groups while deleting friends and family(who aren't associated with previously mentioned groups). I've disabled all notifications on my phone other than SMS(and the people who have my number is a small group). It's greatly reduced the amount of time I spend on my phone(and on social media off the phone too) now that it's not constantly alerting me to look at it. I won't be replacing it with a dumb phone because there are still plenty of times it's a useful tool, but now it's a tool that stays in my pocket until it's actually needed rather than a focus of activity itself.
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Thanks, what an obvious miss.
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I don't use a cellphone, AMA. I have a "Nokia 101" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_101) for emergency situations tho.
Bitter much?
I think there are a few instances of medical science bringing back persons from comas that may help with identifying what would happen to a fully formed brain that was completely shut down for a decent period of time. Presumably, reproducing the physical structure of such a brain and giving it similar inputs would lead to an experimentally similar result.

The question I would like to see answered is what happens if we do this to someone with a grown brain and wake them up in a simulation of a space ship that traveled to a far away planet. Again presumably, the person would need nutrition and care and education for some time, but then would they be able to carry out significant advances on behalf of humanity. Would they even want to? What if they feel betrayed by their fate and creator? Then again, who doesn't? Someone write a book about this.
As far as I remember the feedback was a lot like cool project!, which is also nice but nothing compared with the previous front-page of HN as it was the same positive sentiment but with a lot of useful comments. About filters I use Gmail, so mostly use the stock ones which are good for bot SPAM, but not for user-generated comments.
I'm trying to get my Kobo E-ink reader, which runs linux [0] to cooperate with an usb keyboard as an mobile work notebook. The problem lies in serving power to the keyboard, because the kobo itself can do USB-OTG but doesn't serve power. And together with an y cable and usb akku doesn't work either, because their won't deliver power to my keyboards. (Didn't have the time to solder my own power yet)

[0]: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222123
How was Turkish astronomy at the time? Physics were a great enabler of machine building.
Taxes work the same way. You pay money (or, if you wish, you work for money you don't get to keep) but don't get money in return. Rather, the money goes toward societal improvements. You can debate whether they're societal improvements you personally care about, but it's not a very interesting debate, because societal benefits aren't meant to be uniformly attractive to everyone.
Sounds like they did.

> "We also reported the child exploitation images that had been shared on our own platform. This matter is now in the hands of the authorities."
Dunno if you are still checking this thread, but I had a followup to this question.

It seems to me that certain cryptoviruses function in the following way (e.g. certain variants of ransom_vxlock - I will see if I can find a specific example):

* The virus functions like other cryptoviruses, encrypting local data and holding it for ransom

* However, in addition to holding your local data ransom, it archives certain files that are likely to hold passwords (e.g., the chrome password store), and then emails them to the C&C server

If this is the case, would local encryption of the chrome password store be a protection, or would the decryption of this store be trivial the the virus author? Again, assuming that the virus author is a script kiddy.

So, basically, I am asking that if the characterization of the virus described is accurate, doesn't that mean that the threat model I describe also actually occurs in the wild? I'm not trying to be facetious here - I am trying to get to the bottom of this.

I will try to find links to support the above.
I think the bigger issue here is why have these radio nuclides escaped into the environment?

Has there been an incident, a fire? Have these been dumped, or leaked into the water?

Surely this shouldn't be happening.
While I haven't gone cold turkey with my iPhone, I started to take the first steps a couple years ago. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and any other social app thing. All gone. Deleted the accounts.

I've blocked ALL comments, except for essentially Hacker News, in all of my browsers.

I disabled all notifications on my phone, except for actual incoming phone calls.

All sounds are disabled, in fact the phone runs on mute permanently.

The phone gets plugged in a couple hours before bed time, in the other room. I don't check anything on the phone, until I get to work.

Even the Kindle has been relegated to be ONLY for flights. I've bought tons of hardcover novels in the last two years.

I don't think getting rid of smart phones is necessary, just much better management. They've definitely saved my ass in more ways than one.
Hmm...I did give citations, the WHO reports among many others. Where are yours?

> I'm going on about Chernobyl, not Fukushima.

Yes, and the WHO reports clearly state in unequivocal terms that the mental health effects were the most serious effects.

Note that this does not mean "there were no effects and people were just imagining things". No, it means that there were significant effects, just the the most significant effects were mental health related, which then caused other negative outcomes.

And I'd agree with you that Chernobyl was much more significant than Fukushima, which means that the relationship between actual radiation effects and other (mental health etc.) effects is going to be even more lopsided in Fukushima.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755082
Well, to add a counterweight to his assertions, the NHS advice directly contradicts Spiller, they say only 1 smoothie OR juice counts towards your 5 a day. And they assert that it does release the sugars.

And they've actually reduced this figure, they used to say you could drink up to 2 of your five a day as a smoothie (mention of it in this article[2] for example).

[1]http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/5ADAY/Pages/FAQs.aspx#juices

[2]https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/ma...
Yes, but it's nice to be able to predict what your compiler of choice will do, or at least to know that all of the things it might do will have similar performance. When you depend upon certain optimizations, you need to diagnose the compiler's failure to do them. This usually means knowing both how to read assembly, and how to force the compiler to do what you want.

This doesn't matter when any correct program is "good enough," but it matters a whole lot when failure to perform specific optimizations makes a program unacceptably slow.
More of the same idiotic thinking - produce ludicrously electric energy where it's not necessary
Me, too. When I was younger, I liked being an early adopter. Now I am turning into a curmudgeon. IoT? Who needs that crap. I want things to work for me, not the other way around. This is one of the reasons I still maintain a wet darkroom--it is one of the ways I can be completely disconnected. (Even being out on my bike doesn't do that-- I take my phone with me and use the GPS maps instead of paper maps.)
Right, but I believe I have seen the threat model I describe actually functioning in the wild - cryptoviruses that archive files on your local drive that are likely to contain passwords and then mail them to the C&C server.

Would local encryption of these password stores be a (potentially) effective protection against this?
Turns out the May 2017 budget has been announced and the headlines are:

`The federal government has given the go-ahead for a scheme in which the private sector would be given access to cheap capital in return for building more community housing.`

So no alteration to stamp duty, negative gearing, or capital gains tax discount.

Oh well....
While I seriously doubt this is the case here, there is precedent for such things. See the FBI led TOR sting for example. However 'darknet'=/=Facebook.
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Same here. It avoids the difficult part which is going to sleep hungry
If you re-read mpweiher's comment, you'll see it doesn't use the presence of the boars to argue for the lack of danger to humans. You're responding to something he didn't say.
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> Japanese television frequently runs pieces conflating opposition to nuclear energy with a lack of empathy for those who suffered in 3/11

Can you elaborate? I don't get it.
Sorry, in retrospect that was very unclear. I agree with your second statement. There are definitely fewer women and people of color even applying for STEM jobs, although there are so many other factors such as quality of education, harassment, visibility of role models, etc that I think calling it "the pipeline problem" is an oversimplification.

What I think the original comment I replied to was saying though (and what most people in the industry with hiring power that I've talked to about this have said) is that "the pipeline problem" is the main thing preventing them from hiring a diverse team. That's bullshit though; there have been a million and one studies showing implicit biases in the hiring process, for one. We definitely need to improve the pipeline — the "pipeline problem myth" I'm referring to is that that's the extent of the problem.
>"Unfortunately, we do not yet have the techniques to also reconstruct the i/o function, neurotransmitter type, ion channel type, I/V curve of each synapse, etc. of each neuron. But even if we did, just as in the case of the processor, we would face the problem of understanding the brain based on its connectome."

For the processor I can see the properties of individual transistors being (near) constant, but do you have a reason to think so for neurons in the brain as well?
There's nothing cutting edge in lowering the living standard of citizens. Fascists and communists mastered that decades ago
Concerning the general problem of captchas:
What about paying a small fee instead of filling ever increasingly complicated forms.
Say 10 cents.
You could set up a service where the website's owner could decide whether the money goes to them or to, say, a foundation of their choice.
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A new Mac Book Pro with all the optional extras (e.g. bigger SSD, better graphics) costs more.

(at least in the UK)
"Facebook's rules forbid convicted sex offenders from having accounts.

But the BBC found five convicted paedophiles with profiles, and reported them to Facebook via its own system. None of them were taken down."

This tidbit in the article didn't so much surprise me exactly as pop out as something that seems unreasonable upon consideration even if it looks like a good idea on its face.

Key points for me regarding this is that recidivism rates are greatly affected by successful integration back into the community after serving time, and sex offenders have the most difficulty integrating already. While there's certainly reasonable concerns around the risk of these people accessing Facebook, by the admission of the company itself it's a new type of influential global community. By banning sex offenders outright they're being othered in a way which is a significant impediment to being reintegrated into society.

That aside, at least in the US, you can end up a sex offender for life for things as innocuous as stopping on the side of a long stretch of highway to empty your bladder. There's also no unified worldwide or national database of sex offenders to check against, nor are their uniform standards between states and nations on what qualifies. This means it's both difficult for Facebook to enforce this rule at all and practically impossible to do so in a way which would only apply to people convicted of offenses we can agree qualify (molestation, rape, sexual assault).

I find it extremely odd that Facebook would willingly put itself in the position to police accounts this way and that there'd be public support for the idea of banning people outright without any basis in their activity on Facebook.
> Raise council tax and make the owner pay for it (not the occupier) and use the proceeds to build more homes.

> Eliminate mortgage interest tax deducations

how do these help? increasing landlord costs would result in them raising their rents to cover the difference

> Raise interest rates

this would result in lenders requiring higher deposits

(the others make sense)
Reading between the lines, I think they may have been expecting the BBC to send them links to where the images could be found on their site and were sent actual copies of the images instead.
I'm looking for someone to build a team with. The discussion forum isn't helpful, is anyone here interested?
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Honestly, I just don't install Facebook, Twitter, etc. so I only open the mobile or desktop sites when I want to read them (not every time I get a notification).

Otherwise, I just keep notifications off for most things other than work email and leave my phone on silent for the vast majority of the time. I still get calls and messages but I'm not constantly being pulled away from what I'm doing because my phone is beeping again.

As an ADHD-type person, it's one of many ways I've found to reduce distraction and interruption when I need or want to be doing something else. I do leave a charger at my bedside (and my desk, and my car, etc...basically anywhere I plan to be sitting for more than an hour at a time). This is probably just a throwback to the early smartphone days when you needed to keep your device topped off whenever possible since you never knew when you might need to (gasp) use it and kill the battery in a few hours. Not really an issue nowadays but the habit remains. Still, silent/quiet hours make a big difference.
They do, and it's for this reason that the really important stuff isn't in the web page at all - it's behind the company's API. The "business logic" that you can safely push out to a browser or hybrid app is somewhat limited, which means there is a hard upper limit on the real code sharing savings you can get with hybrid apps versus full native.
Right - you are describing a very well written worm up at the top of your comment.

However, in my experience (disclaimer: the plural of anecdote is not data, I am very well aware of this), the frequency of worms and viruses that are released by script kiddies using commercially available malware is on the rise, and these are malicious and effective but not terribly sophisticated. Check my other thread for more on this.

In other words, what I am saying is that you are describing a very nasty theoretical worm - I am, however, describing to you a family of worms that is currently out in the wild and causing a hell of a lot of damage, and, as far as I know, actually does function in the way I describe. Filecryptor viruses can be made / purchased by any script kiddy jerk these days, and it seems to me that they do not function in this very sophisticated way you describe, but instead may actually be stymied by local encryption of files with passwords in them. (Or, rather, the distribution of your passwords to the virus owner would be stymied.)

I would very much like to know if is accurate or not. I understand that the devil is in the details, but if it is true, then I stand by my point that it seems unwise (borderline indefensible) not to encrypt local password stores - as there is a known valid threat. If it is not true, then I stand corrected - which happens all the time.

Either way, I am deeply interested to know.
Is this a testable claim? Were, say, sheep progenitors easier to domesticate than ibexes or antelope or okapi?
Exactly. Your neighbor doesn't need to report on you, because you do it yourself with the bug in your pocket that records every word you say and every move you make.
There's this study https://web.archive.org/web/20131008051216/http://www.consad... , which Wikipedia summarizes as:

> when controllable variables are accounted for, such as job position, total hours worked, number of children, and the frequency at which unpaid leave is taken, in addition to other factors, a United States Department of Labor study, conducted by the CONSAD Research Group, found in 2008 that the gap can be brought down from 23% to between 4.8% and 7.1%.

It's not 77 cents on the dollar, but it's still significant.

Also, if you want to control for time off and experience, you should also control for the second-order factors of involuntarily taking time off or involuntarily having lower-quality experience. If you leave a company because of harassment and don't immediately find a new job, you'll have a gap on your resume that probably translates to lower long-term salary. If you don't get the job out of college you're qualified for because of bias in the hiring process, you'll be a little bit behind in your whole career.

If women are making 77 cents on the dollar because they're more likely to be rejected from higher-paying jobs but making the same as men in lower-paying jobs, or because the glass ceiling is keeping them out of the C-suite but wages are the same if you exclude the C-suite, or whatever, that's still a problem worth fixing! The ways in which you'd fix it are different, so it's important to get this data, but there's still something to fix.

This blog post from the Department of Labor has a bunch of links to other research: https://blog.dol.gov/2012/06/07/myth-busting-the-pay-gap
> citations ... among many others.

I must have missed non-WHO citations about how the mental health impact of the Chernobyl disaster was greater than the actual physical affect.

For many people in Belarus, Chernobyl was a very real, very physical health disaster.

> Where are yours?

Linked in the article I linked. Google trivially returns all kinds of well-documented health impacts in Belarus and neighboring areas.

Also, as reported, an eye-witness account of the suffering that Chernobyl brought to so many people.
All of them are freely available.
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I think they meant 'support' not opposition.
Differentiating user-generated comments can be a pain; I would hope ProductHunt sends notification emails from the same source!

Thanks for filling in the additional detail.
If it's for a specific niche, probably best to contact newsletters or news sites about that niche, and try to get them to feature it, that's better than showing something to HN or similar sites. If you pick news outlets targeted at your subject area you get a specific audience who is already interested in your idea and is a much easier sell, and you might get far more useful feedback - you want to talk to potential customers ideally. You don't say what you want to showcase, it might help if you did as then people could give specific suggestions.

If it's Go related (written in Go or about Go), it's welcome at https://golangnews.com
I knew HN stripped symbols pretty arbitrarily, I just checked a few non-letter Unicode blocks (Enclosed Alphanumerics[0], Mathematical Operators[1], Misc Symbols[2]) and checked which one HN strips.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosed_Alphanumerics

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Operators

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols
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1-3 years is pretty good going considering what happens to them if they are not wild.
In those cases it's usually better to check out fecundity rather than life expectancy deltas. Has live birth rate declined or infant mortality increased?
Well, there were minicomputer disk drives: http://i.imgur.com/7VVFXEg.jpg
You can buy ketone strips that will indicate whether you are experiencing ketosis. They react to your urine.
ok, he could use google cdn in fact.
For reference, the short story this is based on is "Story of Your Life"
> couldn't they say they no longer use them and disconnect them when someone comes to check?

I would (naively, perhaps) think it's better to try and change the system than to game it.
This is clearly a personal preference/weighting but one of the reasons I've always leaned toward Android is not so much because it "succeeds" better than iOS but because I find that it "fails" better, in that they both do what you want for the most part when using as the OS or app developer intends.

But when I want to make a device do something other than the default behavior, I find that easier to do on Android. iOS has made some real leaps in this realm over the past few years and no longer do I need to jailbreak to make most of my common changes and alterations, but it's still been enough to keep me leaning toward Android.
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Carbs are just more complex sugars than what we usually refer to as dietary sugar. I think the real problem is refined carbs and refined sugars, at least in my own anecdotal experience.

I don't seem to experience the same effect from eating processed carbs like pasta vs rice or potatoes.
the average pig in captivity only lives for around 6 months, so them dieing at 1 or 3 gives them plenty of time to procreate.
> But that's where public transit can't solve the problem. Zoning and building also needs to change. Without that, people might still have to walk 30 minutes to the office.

This is my point. There is no amount you can add to the cost of driving that will get people to take a bus to a place the bus doesn't go.

And once you build high density office space next to a train station, people will take the train all on their own without any need to waste resources collecting regressive and privacy-invasive road tolls.
Bacon used here a more expansive definition of "herb": "a plant derivative that has flavor" rather than "something you'll find in your spice rack". The fact that coffee comes from beans wasn't relevant to his argument.
I've realized I spend way too much time in front of the computer and decided to focus on getting out doors more.
I've already purchased a fishing and hunting license for my state and plan on fishing as much as I can this summer. I'm also excited to give deer hunting a try again this fall. I hunted when I was in high school and have not done it since. It's been 32 years! I miss spending that time in the woods.
most pigs die early, but from humans.
They famously omitted documents that showed corruption from the Central Bank of Syria to a state-owned bank in Russia. While Syria was under international sanctions, their central bank transferred 2 billion euros to VTB Bank -- which is where Putin has most of his stolen money (e.g. His friend and Cellist has a $2 billion account there).

When the Syria Leaks came out, none of the mentions of VTB were released even though Wikileaks published other emails from the same accounts on the same day.

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-...
Do you want orks? Because that's how we get orcs.
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The Closure Compiler is open source and can do this.
Are you talking about "Time out of Joint"? He wrote a novel about it.
I remember when they advertised it with "you just need to click a checkbox". In reality, I always have to solve a streetview captcha, possibly several times in a row.
I don't think information is generally ever illegal, but rather the distribution of it is.
Exactly, it's a very short read, and I encourage anyone to read it!