skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that you are expecting something out of the relationship. Friendships have to be formed serendipitously.

Networking is totally different. I would not spend more than two minutes of someone else's time unless I knew that I could immediately provide some value to them by referring another contact or providing asked-for advice. I wouldn't recontact them unless I had a referral or information they would find valuable.
> Are you asserting that these nations have broken into non military infrastructure of some other nation they are at peace with?

I'm not sure people understand how huge of a deal that is to a) accuse and b) be guilty of.
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The central point of that comment is that cyber espionage may not be strategically organized by the central government. China is a large country with complex power structures, while Chinese cyberspace is also underregulated and chaotic. Evidence of Chinese hackers being related to CPC or PLA doesn't imply the decision bodies in CPC and PLA all have such political or economic motives.

Edit: Here is the conclusion of the report:

In a State that rigorously monitors Internet use, it is highly unlikely that the Chinese Government is unaware of an
attack group that operates from the Pudong New Area of Shanghai.

This is likely false and demonstrating the authors do not understand what the Chinese government is monitoring. The Chinese government monitors Internet speech and content. It doesn't care about how many viruses or hackers are there.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6201/amd-details-its-3rd-gen-s...

Two generations away, but eventually we'll be seeing AMD processors that are denser and thus cheaper, but with potentially lower clock speeds. I suspect Intel's got the resources to do a much better job of laying out a chip, but it's hard to say whether that's a process advantage or a chip design advantage.
Though the white-black situation doesn't apply to me here in India. After coming from a poor background, I can attest to the spirit of your post. Especially:

>>whilst I succeeded in breaking the cycle of poverty that disadvantage creates, I am indeed 10 to 20 years behind my peers who were born into a better situation.

and

>>Those born without privilege have a mountain to climb. Those born into disadvantage have an ocean to swim just to find the mountain and will get lost along the way.

Life for me so far has been only one thing - "A ocean's distance to swim just to find the mountain".

Every time I see some one born into a rich family wasting time doing small work, chasing small time goals and living the everyday life- I pity them, I pity them for not knowing what a gift they have/had and what they have made of it.

>>It's a real blight on the Western world that we collectively abandon and condemn so many able and smart people who want to do better.

This is true anywhere in the world and not just the west.
To me the problem is the delivery system. Everything is completely untraceable up until the very second you enter your home address. Is there really a feasible way to evade this liability? Maybe there is a market for truly anonymous "po boxes" or something? How else do you keep the last step anonymous?
could you explain this further? I re-read this line a few times but didn't understand. How would logging into their FB and Twitter accounts get them around the Great Firewall?
But patent law exists largely to balance the needs of the innovators with the needs of the public to create better generics over time. This is far more the case, regarding the creation of better generic products, there than with copyright, but copyright serves the same balance as well. An additional aspect includes the rights of the consumer and balancing these as well.

The problem I have here is that the patents are being used in a way here which serves only the innovator, and precludes better generic products over time. This fundamentally unbalanced by corporations which are greedy for both power and money, and in an area where the rights of the consumer are particularly important, namely food supply.

So it isn't enough to say:

> If the creation of this sort of tech is desirable -- and I'd argue that the market really, really wants this stuff -- then there's nothing weird about creating legal mechanisms that support it.

I think one also has to add, "provided that the rights and interests of other parties are respected and supported as well." That's what's wrong with Monsanto in this case (as well as Prometheus in their failed case last year, and the breast cancer gene patents, etc).
I started working on exactly your last suggestion. We have employees that were doing this, I said it was a waste of time, they said to have some of our devs in India do it.

Instead, I created "Amir" which is effectively a Selenium/CasperJS runner performing pre-recorded tasks each day and checking for outliers. Once it fails, emails go out.
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SYNOPSIS
ln [-fhns] source [target]
ln [-fs] source ... [directory]

Not to mention the detailed description as well as informative examples.
Criminal lawyers make 1.2 million in a month?
So you're saying those working closely with Steve Jobs thought to themselves "man, that guy should pick a new polo shirt every now and then".
Any irrationality on our part can and will be exploited using false flag attacks. A third party who is not a friend of either US or China would benefit perhaps from hacking Chinese infrastructure then use it to launch an attack on US infrastructure -- a false flag attack.

Same applies to lower level stuff. If there is say a hypothetical an irrational policy for mandatory arrest of anyone suspected of terrorism, one shouldn't be surprised that neighbors will start reporting each other over the color of fence or wrong type of shutters installed.
I used to do this to random things I had on my desk, then a rubber duck (that I lost...), and eventually My Little Pony toys - http://pic.twitter.com/sijtDFZh ...turns out that doing a question/reply in my head with a MLP toy with their respective in-show personalities would sometimes help me figure things out.

But I recently adopted a cat, and now my cat is who I talk to when I need to talk a problem over :D http://www.flickr.com/photos/chix0r/8419684010
Thanks, that video was great. I,sometimes try to talk to friends and family about how our economy will contract after QE2 and other financial scams fail, and to hear Kunstler talk makes me more confident in my own thoughts on how society needs to become more local, less energy dependent. Good stuff.
Ask PG: Do you ever get overwhelmed?
I just saw the story "Y Combinator-Backed Zenefits Gives Small Businesses A One-Stop Shop For Finding And Managing Employee Benefits" on Techcrunch, and was quickly reminded how difficult I found my short stint in that line of work to be (office side of managing employee benefits). YC is investing in such an incredibly large variety of startups, and getting into many different big industries. I can barely imagine the kind of work it must be to research everything so you can make good decisions

Between maintaining HN, being a VC who many founders look up to for advice, etc., doesn't it ever get a little too much? If yes, what do you do to keep your composure?
It would be nice to be able to search for parts of words. For example, typing "metamorphium" isn't enough to bring up my profile. I have to type the full "metamorphium.com"
What's the target age for this? The imagery is very juvenile, and although can be thought of as nostalgic, comes off as either condescending or not serious.

Some blunt feedback: the premise is there, sure, but nothing about this gives me any inclination that there is something worth purchasing here. There's no explanation of how you "build your best future," what that entails, etc.

A few misc. thoughts:

--Future self sounds very "Matrix-y" and is overwhelming
--The imagery is just too young
--The "pay what you want to" model is interesting, but the foundation is providing excessive value. You have to make the case first that this is worth it...
--There is a bug where if you scroll past the "add name" shot you can't go back. So, I got stuck there and am not sure what actually happens.

The self-help market is big and there is opportunity, but you need to clarify the message about your "system" or whatever it is that's going to work. This market is made by building a brand around your advice -- think about Atkins Diet, Tae Bo, 7 Habits -- and while the web component and "exploration" components are interesting, there's nothing that sticks or stands out, especially to an adult.
About that Google retail store
number of sellers overall increasing over our measurement interval. http://www.hqew.net
It's very annoying that the back button doesn't work on your site.
What "merely"? That's exactly what I said she was doing.
Actually I disagree. The court has been surprisingly good in patent cases at least since Bilsky. As recently as last term, the Supreme Court ruled that interpretations of drug test results couldn't be patented (that works heavily against Myriad in the other genetic case before the court btw).

I am pretty optimistic that we will see a ruling in these two cases saying:

1. Yes, you can patent transgenic organisms, but the patent is exhausted after first sale, and

2. You can't patent genes in the abstract or what it means for a gene to be present.
What the fuck are they thinking with that name. Wii as well, for that matter.
Just had a conversation about this tonight. The lack of "new" encounters - including expanding a network of friends and new experiences. The reason it is hard to make new relationships is because we don't spend enough time bonding.

Technology - E-Mail/Texts/Facebook/Highlight does not build a new relationship. Technology only bridges the gap of communication.

If you think of your strongest relationships, they were built after lots of time spent with the person. In other words, bonding. And bonding takes time.

What's the longest amount of time you spend with a new person? An hour? Maybe ten minutes, multiples times a week? Try a weekend with someone, and bonding will naturally occur.

The reason good relationships are harder to develop is because we don't spend the necessary time to bond the newfound relationship. It's not one meetup or coffee, but it's doing it enough until that person is apart of your life.
That was my first thought - when I read "IQ" I already hit the back button. Genes alone are not enough to explain _anything_ - Gene expression, influenced by upbringing, environmental factors etc., better hits the target.
>there are much simpler and better-priced places to get those online than SR

for example?
> Be sufficiently large that quantum effects are irrelevant ...

This misunderstands the role of quantum theory in macroscopic systems. There is never a scale so large that quantum effects can be safely ignored. All that happens is that the specific effects, and probabilities, change.

The Heisenberg Uncertainly principle doesn't build a wall between the microscopic and macroscopic realms, it makes a probabilistic prediction about quantum events at all scales -- larger scale, lower probability.

But a macroscopic system that has a very low probability of exhibiting classic quantum behaviors as a whole, will nevertheless show quantum behaviors at some level. An easily understood example is a radioactive sample -- let's say a kilogram of uranium. The sample isn't going to behave like Schrodinger's cat, but its constituent atoms certainly will.

In one sense, the uranium is a classical mass with no contribution from quantum theory. In another sense, it's highly influenced by quantum theory -- were this not so, there would be no nuclear disintegrations.

An observer can examine the sample and, intent on demonstrating that it's a classical system, use the half-life equation to predict its future --

a' = a 2^-t/f

a = activity level at time zero

a' = activity level at time t

t = time, consistent units

f = half-life factor

-- And the outcome looks very classical, but only because the sample is large. But the timing of the next disintegration is quantum-deterministic. So the uranium is a chimera -- part classical, part quantum. This is an example that makes the point very clearly, but all classical systems (and scales) possess quantum properties, usually not so obvious as it is with a radioactive sample.

> Rely on quantum mechanical effects (which are non-deterministic, but can still be simulated inside a computer if you trust a computer's opinion of "random").

Quantum effects aren't merely random. What connects an event to quantum theory isn't its randomness, but the nature of the randomness -- its genesis. No matter how carefully I design a random number generator, I won't be able to imitate quantum entanglement unless the system is actually capable of this specific physical behavior.
Art is a means of expression, whether you can see meaning in it or whether it had any meaning at all or even if you think it wasn't particularly creative. Art serves no other purpose other than to be art. In that regard, yes, this can be considered art. I thought it was quite creative in a relatively unexplored medium, your IP, instead of oil paint.

And I vehemently disagree with cormullion's comment :
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239734

Consider Malevich's work : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Malevich.black-square.jpg

Yes, that's in a museum. And it wasn't made "these days" either.
I didn't know you could diff against a stash. http://www.hqew.net
Myriad's an interesting case. I suspect their lawyers have their work cut out for them given Prometheus v. Mayo (recently decided). I don't see how Myriad's patents can survive Prometheus.
And as long as the poorest in the US are richer than someone in the world that is somehow satisfactory?

I'm fairly content to talk about happiness, it's fairly fundamental.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_o...
Silk Road's cut of the transactions is a lot less than $1.2 million.
Interesting, but wonder if the tweeting part of the population is representative for the population as a whole.
I am being honest here and have no desire to come off as trolling:

What is the difference between a convicted felon and an illegal immigrant?

Why can someone pack up and leave the only country they've ever known, move to a new country that is by all measures hostile to their plot and speaks a language that they do not know at all, and end up bettering themselves?

Why can't a felon do this?

If an illegal immigrant can wash dishes for a restaurant, pick crops from a field, mow lawns in the sun, or paint homes and install carpet, what is preventing a felon that

* Has work authorization

* Speaks the language

* Quite possibly has a stable family structure already in place

from making something positive and productive of themselves?
I assumed that this meant the attackers logged into their own social network accounts while they were "inside" (i.e. using) compromised machines in the target locations.
It would be interesting to see how the results would differ were this method used with groups of adjacent words instead of just individual words.

Analysis based on idividual words might miss a lot of subtle context, especially since English is such an idiomatic language. For instance, focusing on individual words (or even small groups of adjacent words) may lead to mistaking a morbid joke for sadness, while a sarcastic insult might be mistaken for happiness.

Still, this is an ingenious way to measure happiness, and I'm looking forward to reading future research that builds on this work.
That was news to me as well. I've always done the following:

$ diff -u <(git stash show -p) <(git diff)
One word: SSL. Works well, and reliably with websockets.
this is a great supplement for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En_2T7KH6RA a close up demo. His product Xanadu space, I hope it comes to light but the websites aren't looking too hot.
Yet it still looks like it has a glossy screen...
Oh, I don't care if it eats my root install. I've got a "reinstall everything and reconfigure everything" script that gets me back to 99% after a new install. Plus, I keep my home partition on a "totally stable TM" RAID10 BTRFS array, so I don't mind a bit of risk.
I am also completely against the new-age, spritiual, self-help 'industry.'" I experienced something that one might call "spiritual" (I don't believe it was) or whatever on many awesome shroom trips and don't go bragging about how I gained some powerful knowledge of the multiverse, and I laugh whenever others make those claims too. But.... I don't think the author is advocating anything and trying to convert someone to a cult. Hell, there are many studies around meditation associated with other CBT studies for depression and other issues that help give cred to practising meditation. Think you might have judged the guy a little harsh. Besides even if he did do that, attacking him likely won't help you change his or anyone else's belief. Try using a strategy from this http://www.skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-now-freel...
I happened to read that their password was "whopper123"
Kirby is very cool. I tried it out by converting my old blog to run with Kirby (I was using wok a static site generator). Kirby was a really nice blend of the things I like about static site generators with easy to integrate features like pagination, tag clouds, etc.

All that being said, I went with wordpress myself because it was braindead simple, full-featured, and easily extendable.
I believe that Chinese hackers are the scariest thing in the world today. I think that the threat from cyber warfare might be slightly overblown (though the next pearl harbor will most likely be a cyber attack). The real threat is the fact that no digital information can be kept secret anymore. If Chinese hackers want what's on a given hard disk, there's no way to stop them.

People absolutely freak out when they suspect the US government of spying on a citizen. But chinese hackers, state sponsored or not, seem to be able to roam with impunity. Several US companies have had their ip stolen and their businesses ruined. Companies have lost as much as a billion dollars in ip in a single night. [1] There are so many of them with such diversity of skills that almost no one is safe.

I'm not trying to rattle sabers here, just pointing out that the world is facing a threat to privacy and secrecy that is greater than we have ever known. Chinese hackers have more power than the CIA, KGB and Gestapo combined, and nothing short of WWIII can slow them down.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/opinion/how-china-steals-o...
> execution several times slower by a standard JS VM is no better than no execution

Having worked in games for a while I disagree. From a user perspective, I've found that when games don't work at all players often feel the developer is too blame, while if it runs but just unplayable slow they are much more open to blame the system they play it on.

And let's be honest, if this is important for any sort of app, games are indeed one of them.

Additionally, I'd much rather all my features work, but have to scale back on visual effects, rather than have to write both a high-performance, and a low-performance version, and still be required to scale back effects.

From my perspective in game development the asm.js approach seems to be a significant win.
The best part about this is how they calculated happiness from each tweet: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.5120.pdf

> we avoid stemming words, i.e., conflating inflected words with their root form, such as all conjugations of a speci c verb. For verbs in particular, by focusing on the most fre- quent words, we obtained scores for those conjuga- tions likely to appear in texts, obviating any need for stemming. Moreover, while we observe stemming works well in some cases for happiness measures, e.g., havg(advance)=6.58, havg(advanced)=6.58, and havg(advances)=6.24, it fails badly in others, e.g., havg(have)=5.82 and havg(had)=4.74; havg(arm)=5.50 and havg(armed)=3.84; and havg(capture)=4.18 and havg(captured)=3.22.

That is something I came across myself when I was working on a similar data mining project. But this was a surprise:

> In terms of methodology, our hedonometer could be improved by incorporating happiness estimates for common n-grams, e.g., 2-grams such as `child abuse' and `sex scandal' as well as negated sentiments such as `not happy'

I can understand ignoring n-grams but a simple no-X or not-X is a necessity. In common parlance, 'Peace' > 'No war' > 'No peace' > 'War'. If you assume the simple happiness values of 'Peace' = 1, 'War' = -1, 'No' = -0.5, then the scores end up: Peace=1, No War=-1.5, No peace=0.5, War=-1. Clearly 'War' is worse than 'No War' yet the scores don't correspond. The correct order should be something like: Peace=1, No War=0.5, No peace=-0.5, War=-1. To make this work, 'No' shouldn't be a fixed negative value like -0.5. It should be -(next-word/2). Then 'No Peace' = -0.5 + 1 = 0.5 and 'No War' = 0.5 + -1 = -0.5.

PS: I typed 'War' so many times in the above sentence that I had to check its spelling to confirm it was a real word. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation strikes again.
Remembering the right to be forgotten
That makes sense, thanks. I didn't think they would be silly enough to do that.
I used something similar to differentiate between users on http://wrd.skot9000.com/
It's a hairline from Eugenics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
It seems that in your new server and also latest pushed code, I can't do `like` anything. Honestly it's not a new bug and I got used to that, don't think about that.
Your options are:

1. A layer of indirection a.k.a. finding someone who will receive mail for you without giving up your name.

2. Owning the distribution channel, and using addresses that are downstream of you while diverting your packages to their intended destination.

Note that if the USPS is involved, both of these are federal crimes...
Nice write-up of your experience. I've often wondered why those who stick with app engine do so even after the crazy price increases last year. It seems like a limited environment with lots of "gotcha" quotas built-in. It'd be nice to hear from some people who are currently using app engine and have solid rationale for it.
Do not let this man fool you. Our president has every intention of developing a My Little Pony MMORPG once research is finished.
>I believe that Chinese hackers are the scariest thing in the world today.

I'm much more worried about nuclear weapons, Authoritarianism, and biological warfare.
Read http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm in particular section "10.6. Is ECHELON suitable for industrial espionage?" and the following "10.7. Published cases", then remember that's 10+ years ago. If you truly consider an in-depth report commissioned by the European Parliament combining the intelligence agency resources of multiple European governments untrustworthy, then perhaps our perspectives differ too far to communicate on this issue.

(Edit 1: Changed link from Cryptome's still-hosted draft-form to the final-form report.)
(Edit 2: Added section reference.)