skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't read the study, but lots of cultures in the US attach stigma to suicide(weakness) and to gun accidents(stupidity). Families in these cultures sometimes feel that they share the blame for not properly securing the firearm or not effectively mitigating the suicidal ideations of a depressed family member.

Consider a family with a youth who accidentally shot themselves. Rather than state that it was an accident, the family tells authorities that it was a "suicide".

Consider a family with an adult that chooses to commit suicide. Rather than state that it was a suicide, the family tells the authorities that it was an "accident".
Hackers breach Twitter and 250,000 accounts compromised
Really wish they used Pandoc Markdown or some other form of extended Markdown... then I could consider using it for real stuff,
Cyber Attacks: A Growing Threat to the U.S. Economy
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Yes, I avoid them because I am afraid I will kill myself by walking off a cliff or getting in a car accident while trying to look at an email, text, or cat looking cute while doing something stupid...
I'm not affiliated with them, but I know Naughty Dog, the developers behind the Uncharted series, Jak and Daxter, Crash Bandicoot, and the upcoming The Last of Us, have long used Lisp dialects in all their games. The game engine driving Uncharted uses a port of MzScheme for the majority of their development pipeline and game logic.

They've talked about how it improves their workflow for years. You can find some of their articles and presentations if you look for references to GOAL (game-oriented assembly language) and GOOL (game-oriented object language), their in-house Lisp dialects.
You don't lose any constitutional rights when you accept a plea bargain, but you voluntarily give up many constitutional rights.

To suggest that the only reason people take plea bargains is because they don't expect to win in court is hardly reality. Many, many people take plea bargains because of the cost of a protracted legal battle, not to mention the stress.

You're right on one thing though: we have had this discussion before. But if it was a clear-cut as you implicate, there would be no reason Aaron Swartz shouldn't have accepted a plea bargain.
That's the problem. The only way to guarantee serving a reasonable amount of time instead of "he murdered his family and wore their skins to work" time is through plea bargaining, which perverts the justice system.
Consumption might go up between the monthly prebate and the lack of income tax deductions from paychecks. Although this would be a one-time boost, it would be a pretty significant one. A 23% sales tax isn't as awful as all that; the average rate of VAT in Europe is about 20%, on top of income tax.

I've been rather skeptical of the fair tax proposals before, but I wasn't aware of the prebate concept which is the old idea of a guaranteed basic income under a new name, and somewhat reflective of the existing incentives. This bears further consideration and I'll spend some time this weekend playing with the numbers. It's interesting to me that it's engineered to be progressive, which a flat tax most certainly is not. I also think the mind-numbing complexity and warped incentives of the existing tax code create a huge drag on the economy. It's monstrously inefficient.
What do you mean by fair?
Cool cool. It'll probably take me longer if it needs to be rewritten. I guess it's not tile-based?
Extinguishes currency where it will have the least amount of negative impact.
The lottery system is no gamble, and with it also means creating a uniform receipt standard, which further simplifies our current system as well. My taiwanese relatives keep every single receipt, and they even ask for my receipts when I go back to visit. At the very least it'll have some sort of positive impact because both the Taiwanese and American economies have a number of similarities, one of which is that both economies have a huge percentage of small business owners, and they are the ones most likely to benefit from tax evasion in the case of a single-rate federal retail sales tax such as the one proposed by FairTax. However, a lottery system would force consumers to demand receipts from these small business owners thus preventing them from doing sales off the books.

Also, the grand prize for the lottery is 10M NTD (New Taiwan Dollar), which is ~$337,781 USD, and overall they might pay around $1-2M USD which is a fraction of any estimated potential losses in tax revenue if such a lottery receipt system was not put into effect.

Also, our current tax-system is most definitely not holding our economy together, it's pulling it apart. Implementing it into our current tax system might also work too. At the very least, I hope it'll teach Americans to keep their receipts which is a huge improvement in itself.
My son plays several games online including Minecraft, League of Legends, Clash of Clans and Lost Saga. Minecraft is the only one out of these which doesn't have any pernicious "in app purchase" or online game credit system. I totally admire the fact that Mojang haven't stooped to this level of trying to gouge money from their customers pockets.
Sorry about that! Can you email support@tinfoilsecurity.com and I'll take a look? It's 11PM here and we've taken a few hours to rest. :)
Expected value gives you the "If I look at 5000 shower-takings with a 1/1000 probability of a shower-taking resulting in death, I expect to see 5 deaths on average". Of course when applying it to a single lifetime, the correct thing to consider is "If I take showers until I have taken 5000 showers or died, what is the expected number of shower-deaths I will incur", which is .9972.
Any remote chance from other country?
If you're on a Mac and are rather addicted to these sorts of websites, SelfControl (funny name) can be used to block sites for however long you want after some tweaking. I use it when I notice myself opening a new tab in the browser and instinctively going for the "r" or "h" keys.

I too notice that when I block these sorts of websites, even though I still have access on my phone, I start reading a lot more and getting more stuff done. Now that I think about it, I should try the 30 day challenge. The most I've gone is 15 days. Peace out!
You could say the same thing about email. By that logic why would they bother with gmail? I can't believe that google doesn't build ebay because systems with spam are somehow evil.

There are low quality goods for sale definitely but there are also many reasonably priced quality items.
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I received this today, too. Does every Facebook member get one of these or only a subset (e.g. only US residents)?
Great analysis. Though, odd choice of numbers. In the "carbonated water" chart, they assume 2 liters/week (i.e. 104 liters/year), yet further down they mention that the average American consumes 170 liters/year of soda each year.

I don't really drink soda. But I love carbonated water, as probably anyone with a sodastream probably does. I drink 2 liters of Sodastream per DAY, and thus my breakeven point was at 90 days, not 90 weeks.
Harvard Forced Dozens to Leave in Cheating Scandal
Doesn't Apple's quality control only apply to hardware? I hear people complain about bugs and just shear ugliness of their software pretty often.
That means https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?user_id=12 13 14 were hacked too. And those must have been accounts of interest if not of others' and the gentry.
I've got mixed feelings about that. If you spend with plastic (which most people do most of the time) then all your purchasing is trackable already. And frankly, I wish I could get my receipts in a standardized electronic format - my bank statements tell me where I've spent money, but not what I bought. Retailers have that information about me, but many don't share it electronically.

For example, my wife and I both like cooking and after we got a house we have almost stopped eating out because we were having so much fun in our own kitchen. With $20 of ingredients and our cooking skills we can whip up a meal that would have cost us most of $100 in a restaurant. There's an app/website where we can control all our grocery coupons from the local supermarket and make our shopping lists, which is fine, but we can't look through our previous purchases that way. I can scan and OCR the receipts easily enough, but that's a waste of my time. So I look through the paper copy, but I'm missing out on some useful longitudinal data.

In Europe, by contrast, privacy laws mean you can ask any company to hand over the data they keep on you to peruse it for yourself. At present this is viewed as an administrative burden but it has the potential to add tremendous value for consumers if implemented right.
Is Streaming Music a Viable Model in the Arab World?
Presumably his lawyer will explain the true situation to him.
How do you turn it off globally? Even removing the AppleSpell.service directory and quitting the accompanying process doesn't seem to work.

Also, are you sure you're both affected and doing it right? It only affects 10.8.x and you have to capitalize the "F".
“…going to be used for purposes other than their intended one.”

I used to volunteer in an improv troupe sponsored by the local family services organisation. Part of that was doing issue-oriented shows, AIDS education, that sort of thing. We quickly learned that you can only hand out condoms to people in “serious mode”—if you do it right after a comedy sketch, there are slippery balloon animals on the horizon.

“…they make sex less fun…”

Depending on the individual, of course. I like condoms because they mitigate some of the sensitivity from multiple rounds.
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HighLoop is an online one stop store for Japanese items. Especially Phones, Fishing reels, Audios, Cables ,Watches, Health and Beauty
I'm immediately skeptical of anything from Forbes these days. They have about as much publisher credibility as Tumblr.
I never felt need to upgrade my snow leopard. This bug is not happening in Snow leopard. I am going to Apple store and try this on one of the display laptop. :)
Yes, but for less than the cost of the SodaStream, not even counting the adapter to attach it to arbitrary tanks, you can build your own DIY setup [1] (which involves screwing some parts together) which you can attach a standard tank to and which you can adjust the pressure on.

[1] http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2012-06/how-make-your-own-...
It seems to me that going too long without touching the controls would come with a significant risk of the plane doing something uncontrolled and undesirable, such as entering a spiral dive or simply exceeding its design speed. The converse seems to be a high probability of an inexperienced person overcontrolling and making the situation worse.
There is also CodePen ( http://codepen.io/ ), and dabblet ( http://dabblet.com/ ) now seems to have (alpha) javascript support, too; the more, the merrier :D
>You can get a 1.5L bottle of perfectly nice fizzy water in Germany for about 20 cents if you recycle the bottle and get the deposit back.

That must be nice, but in the US (at least where I live), a 2L bottle of seltzer is 80 cents, minimum.
>>>Stalin worked at TX/RX?

You have conflated the two uses of the word "they" in the gpp. And you are maddeningly close to having your pedantry card revoked pending discovery that you are in fact a native english speaker: so consider yourself on notice, [as they say](they refers to Steven Coldbear). Let's begin.

>>>As they say: Quantity has a quality all its own.

The word "they" occurred twice in the gpp. The first time was in reference to "The guys at NASA who came to TX/RX". The second occurrence of the word "they" occurred in the phrase "As they say" which is an idiom, or a turn of phrase [as they say](they refers to "people who use idioms"). Therefore it clearly was not referring to the only other use of the word "they".

A native english speaker would know this...but maybe you aren't a native english speaker! Watch your posts friend, maybe spice them up with some "ethnic" flair. Also, do not get into a land war in Asia, [as they say](they refers to the writers of The Princess Bride, as they wish).
You seem to say that the implementation of a lottery would smoothly go. I disagree: the system has worked in TW but was it implemented in the same conditions?
Do you remember when the US tried to implement the metric system? There were only positive things about it... I can see a lot of folks opting to go to a blooming "grey market" where they get everything at 20% discount (3% markup from OP tax rate) where they wouldn't get receipts, or a second hand economy rise and not enough revenue being generated. In either case, any drastic change is a gamble,but we're so far down the hole that it might be our last option.
Landon is a really nice guy, by the way. He is the author of PLCrashReporter library and helped us out making it work with MonoTouch.
The clock's probably derived from GPS or NIST or USNO anyway, so it actually is the government's clock.
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The word is out so it's only a matter of minutes for people to come up with this Safari DOS in Javascript:

https://gist.github.com/4696484

(remember to change to File)

Chrome survives, while Safari either crashes or behaves erratically up to being unusable. Firefox requires slight modifications to the event, but I'm bored.
Some quick tips. “intersperse ", " >>> mconcat” is “intercalate ", "”, and I would prefer “.” to “>>>”. Even though left-to-right composition reads better to me, right-to-left is the style.

Gratuitious pointfree version (imports omitted):

go :: (Show k, Eq k) => Map k v -> Map k v -> String
go = orNone . intercalate ", " . sort . map show .: (++) `on` keys
where
orNone [] = "<none>"
orNone e = e
f .: g = (f .) . g
infixr 8 .:
Anyone else wasting a lot of time typing "File:///" into every input in every program...? Just because they were told not to.
He should have. 6 months for a case where he was caught red-handed was a good deal. He would have been in a minimum security prison with white-collar criminals and possibly been a candidate for early release after 3-4 months. Forget about JSTOR; it's obviously against the law to secretly patch your computer into someone else's network wiring closet and repeatedly circumvent the security measures designed to keep you off the network.

Something that has bothered me about the HN debate on this is that people think that because the MIT security response was weak and easily bypassed, there was no real offense in doing so. This is equivalent to saying that that only those with fortress-like security deserve legal protection from criminal access. Numerous people have objected that because the MIT wiring closet wasn't secure enough then there can't be anything wrong about plugging into it; essentially they're arguing that 'because I could' should be a valid legal defense.
This isn't true. It's cheaper than lots of small bottles of sparkling water, which is what we use it for. Big bottles of sparkling water, meanwhile, lose most of the fizz before they are half empty. Don't buy any sodastream flavours; use double-concentrate sugar free cordials from the local supermarket instead. Sodastream isn't really a replacement for things like cola, the flavours are too low quality.

The CO2 is overpriced, but tolerable.
Looks like it is on github now...

https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2
Week Reload : Cyber Attacks, critical vulnerabilities and Accounts Compromised
I read the indictment, and indeed, it appears that they charged him for sharing a link to a pastebin of credit card numbers from Stratfor customers on IRC. It's an absurd charge, and I hope it gets dropped.

What he's in real hot water for is threatening a specific FBI agent, that agent's family and law enforcement in general. I also seem to recall reading that he posted something along the lines of "if any heavily armed people dressed as law enforcement show up at my home I'm going to shoot them because they're probably zetas dressed as cops".
I'm from Europe ... and yes I get funny looks when I ask for club soda at bars and restaurants. I stopped drinking Soda with sugar/HFCS/fake sugar about 2 years ago for health reasons. I like the carbonation.

There are quite a few people I know personally that drink it as well (non-Europeans), mainly because it is better for them than regular soda.
Twitter hacked
Simple JSON to standard HTML table converter in fastest way
Using Scala Macros to Teach Scala
I'm sure there are lots of buggy NTP implementations out there that "adjust the clock every hour", but the way it's supposed to work is by continuously varying the speed of the clock (for example, using adjtime()) to correct any discrepancies. At no point should the clock jump backwards or forwards, or even have milliseconds that are more than X percent longer or shorter than usual.
The US prices listed on that diagram are at the pump (i.e. they include taxes). If that diagram is accurate, why isn't Europe, where typical pump prices reliably exceed $8/gallon, already running on hybrid cars?
Do modern large aircraft simulators fail to properly account for what happens when you land too hard on the main gear? That seems like exactly the kind of mistake they'd want to simulate accurately.
There is a hack/virus where your account gets hijacked and messages are sent to your contacts with wording like "I found this pic of you" or "and embarrassing photo of you!"... and anyone who clicks is themselves hacked.

Thing is... this spammy virus has been around for a WHOLE YEAR

It's AMAZING Twitter hasn't analysed those messages by now and worked out a way to detect them

Especially because the account spams rapidly until you reach your message limit.....

WTF Twitter?!
And in many static languages...
I drink 3+ liters of carbonated water a day, easy, so my break even point would be much sooner from the looks of it.
Why the BlackBerry Z10 is on sale in the U.K. firs
If I am currently paying $1 per bottle of store bought (2L) club soda, and I get make 2 L of water using Sodastream for $0.80, I will make my money back in no time (considering I drink 3+ liter a day).

Sure it might be cheaper to go food grade and do it that way, but I am more than happy saving even a smaller amount of money, because it adds up quick.
I still killed all my oauth tokens, since they can be replayed
I'm not aware of any such public documentation. Given the sorts of highly capable threats Google is up against, I imagine they want to do everything in their power to slow down attackers.

Also, they don't even allow the codenames of various parts of their infrastructure to be leaked, much less how the parts relate and how they're protected.

I'd really like to see LOAS open-sourced. I imagine that, like Kerberos, it's based on Needham-Schroeder, but I've never seen its source code or any design documentation.
Yes, I'm aware of the Who's Hiring thread. I sort of have an idea of what companies I want to apply to. I was more interested in other details. Thanks anyway.

There are no other kind of visa available to citizens of my country. Even the green card lottery isn't available to me (being vague to keep my anonymity, sorry).
And graphene is made of carbon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene
just got my log in
On overflowing stacks
| Suicide is an option, but I'm mediocre also in this area.

Thankfully, you are mediocre in that area.

There must be something you enjoy doing, which if you work hard enough on, you can achieve some level that you can proud of. Within that area, you just might find some niche where your mediocrity is useful for others. As I've mentioned above I right mediocre software for the command-line (my niche is commandline and ncurses). Some people like what I do, some don't.

As far as suicide, besides the normal medical paths, please also try meditation seriously. There are enough threads in HN on that -- there are great secular meditations such as mindfulness or just breath watching -- so i won't elaborate.
Because of Linux kernel, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and countless of successful high-quality open source projects done remotely?
You might want to look into Colemak, which keeps some shortcut keys in place, is easier to learn than Dvorak and has similar speed/ergonomic advantages. Of course some shortcuts like vi's hjkl break but it keeps zxcv in place.
I sent an iMessage (from iPhone) saying File:/// to my iMac and it crashed iMessage on the other end.. and now messages app crashes every time I try to launch!

Also Sent myself an email (from the iPhone) with File:/// as the subject (and in the body for good measure).
The Mail.app won't crash on the incoming email, but it won't open that message.
Thank you for the detailed comments.

> For the past few years, the visas haven't run out until after October, so you can really apply anytime.

Well, last year it ran out in June. I was interviewing at an American company but we stopped the process because of that.

I'm aware of L1 but that would be extremely hard to pull off. I live in Japan (though not a Japanese citizen), and it's very hard enough to get a programming job at a good American company here in the first place. Mostly they hire in sales & bizdev etc, not much for software development. Then I would have to hope to be transferred. I have heard of companies hiring specifically to transfer but that's quite rare.

The other visas aren't available to citizens of my country (E3 etc), or I don't personally qualify to them (O1 etc).

2) and 3) are reassuring.

And yes, I'll be in touch!
The Porsche Boxster and Cayman have no service hatch for the engine at all, and a tiny section under the hood that has a few reservoirs for fluids.
He's a great writer especially on aviation. For example, his writeup of the mid-air collision of an Embraer regional jet and a 737 over Brazil (http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/air_crash200901) was nothing short of fantastic. It's well worth a read.
There's an aviation academy that posts various videos of their A320 and 737 simulators, and doing different things in them. Including this one, where they talk someone with no experience (playing the role of flight attendant with an incapacitated pilot) through landing the A320:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkOT3fbc1O4

And one for the 737:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7WMQUDGDD4

(there are some other fun videos in there, like making a water landing, recovering from an engine failure, etc., that I find fascinating just for the sheer number of things that A) have been thought about and B) have had procedures actually decided on and written down in checklists)
I've considered that too. I'm sure Canada is great place to live, but IMO there aren't nearly as many "interesting" companies in Canada. Of course, "interesting" is subjective...
> Apple has a nasty habit of disregarding backwards compatibility

On the hardware front, every single major update runs better than the one before here (Mid '09 MBP 13", originally under Leopard). Only issues were the battery on Lion an Mountain Lion on both .0 and .1 minors, which was a bug that affected everyone.
Hmm. Then to go with your double-standard argument, am I not supposed to support your plight because men keep watching emotionless action movies or something? I don't get it.