skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall one study that showed that simply the pressure of marriage was the source of many divorces. Perhaps the pressure that comes with marriage has changed over the years and couples of older times felt less of a need for divorce?
Our infrastructure is designed from the ground up to handle the kind of spikes and massive loads that viral and social sites tend to generate. A million init- requests costs us very little. We can cover the expenses with paid products that are introduced later: these paid products allow private posts and custom branding for example.

The features you see on our site now will always be free.
I'm not convinced that what this world needs is research into keeping sick people alive longer. We have lots of people as it is.

When I was a kid childhood leukemia was a death sentence. These days survival rates are in the 80% and up range.

The goal isn't non-dead sick people. It's well people.

Attacking that problem doesn't mean that you can't attack the problem of too many people too. Hopefully in a more productive way than having a horrible, lingering, painful disease solve it for us.
Savoring First Experiences
Your experience using any new product or service can teach you a lot about user experience.
Correct. If the 3rd party js properly sanitizes user input, this xss attack is moot. However, browsers love to eval stuff (http://html5sec.org/), and sandbox iframes provide good defense in depth. Secure programs like qmail have been using separate, sandboxed processes forever, but this secure design model has only recently been possible in the browser thanks to iframes and postMessage (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~devdatta/papers/LeastPrivileges....).
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SimCity’s first free DLC is a logo-plastered Nissan Leaf charging station
Yes, I think that is more likely.
Vdio: Rdio Puts Its Social Muscle Behind Movies and TV
More than half of Chinese rivers suddenly disappear?
I can't see Mozilla abandoning Rust. If nothing else, it's valuable as a learning experience for all involved.
If this is truly as described, then it seems like it's ripe for use by privacy advocates. Kind of a robots.txt for data miners and snoops.

New ToS: "You may not view any material on this site if you are in any way affiliated with [irritating corporation or agency]"
I don't understand why this is "wildly unprincipled." Doesn't it have all the guarantees that Weinberger and Shi et al papers describe?
>I believe that both of these things are equally possible - that is, not very possible at all.

I believe it's incorrect to claim that the probability that a cryopreserved brain has some information about the brain structure is equal the the probability that a fully decomposed brain has after decades of decomposing (which is the scenario I have in mind).

I just don't understand how someone could make such a proposition. If we dig up a decomposed brain, it's just pretty much completely destroyed (e.g. fully decomposed) if we look at it with a microscope. I'm assuming that we're not talking about rare niche cases of fossilization etc.

To have an idea of how much information vitrification preserves, you should know that a kidney can be frozen and thawed, and replanted to a live animal.

We can also look at neural tissue after vitrification, like here: http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/braincryopreservation1.htm...

After you've looked at this probably new evidence presented to you, do you still seriously claim that it's exactly equally as possible to retrive information from a cryopreserved brain as it is from a decomposed brain?

I don't believe you actually think that. I think that you've made the mistake to take two extremely unequal yet different and small probabilities to mean exactly the same.

If you assume that the probability that cryopreservation is 0.1%, then you should think that the probability to retrieve information from a decomposed brain to be lower than 0.001%. They're both really small, but they're not unequal.

Do you think that the probability is exactly the same? I rate such beliefs as not only wrong, but ignorant of empirical evidence.
Ah, I see. I'm sorry about that, but I don't think that there's a solution to fix Swing font rendering in IntelliJ itself. Unless, of course, you dive into the source code.
> We are convinced that nobody is buying Bitcoins right now to sell it for a profit before the music stops (in which case it would be a bubble).

I'm not sure where they got this impression. I've been buying BTC explicitly for this purpose for a bit now; just disappointed that I didn't buy more, given the insane increases I've seen. I know dozens of people buying BTC just to make money from it before the next crash/dip, and that cycle will continue for a while yet.
The next example was of Rep William Jefferson. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-05-29/news/060529020...
Multinational corporations use foreign currencies as a hedge against exchange rate fluctuations. Speculators win and lose big on bets re: exchange rates. Owning foreign currency can make sense for a variety of reasons.

And while I don't live on the Internet, I do conduct some of my economic life on the Internet: buying, selling, consuming, and creating.
I think I average 15 min per fill up when you include how far out of the way I need to drive. The gas station I use is only about 2 miles from my house but there are a lot of stop lights between here and there.
Understanding the new CSS supports rule
That's a good way to get yourself the CA death penalty.
Technically, isn't this copyright violation? People who inject ads into a page are creating a derived work without permission of the rights holders. I'm sure Apple didn't okay that addition to their HTML.

It would be interesting to see a lawsuit along those lines.
> In what way is e^i*pi = -1 a metaphor for anything?

Its a metaphor for taking the unit length vector [1,0] represented by the complex number 1+0i and rotating it 180 degrees to -1+0i...

> Mathematics is funny because it is presented in
> "reverse", i.e. not the way it was derived.

Its usually presented in both ways in most curricula, sometimes depending on where you read about it or who teaches/tells you about it. Most mathematical books include historical contexts and non-formal accounts of the way results were derived, specially for classic and old results such as Euler's Formula. In most modern topics sometimes the historical context for a theorem is not easy to understand (i.e. discrete signal processing or optimal control) and is only briefly mentioned.
Wow, seems to cover a lot of use cases. I wonder how it compares to discourse.org

What confuses me a little is the part in the manifesto, where they basically claim, Moot will reduce trolling and memes and make conversation more meaningful. I think that any technical platform can be compromised, no matter how sophisticated. Sure, you can reduce trolling by voting etc., but how is technology supposed to help if the users themselves are not providing enough meaningful content?
I wrote a 'book' (it's about 50 pages) you can read online called "Rust for Rubyists".

Two things: It's for 0.5 (I'll be updating it to 0.6 later today/tomorrow) and 'for Rubyists' means I assume you don't know anything about systems programming, there's very little that's Ruby-specific.

http://www.rustforrubyists.com/
The first time I accidentally push down vote instead of up...Sorry.

>I read somewhere that possession of CP is like possession of cocaine - both are crimes purely because you have them, regardless of intent:

Possession of drug charges are not strict liability - in fact possession is actually a much greater legal analysis than one might think - for example, the are different types of possession legally (constructive or actual). Additionally, do not think you can beat the legal system by having someone else hide drugs in a vehicle and then you drive it not knowing you have possession, because there is a doctrine that prohibits someone from denying criminal intent under a willful blind eye (Willful Blind Eye Doctrine).
No but their hostnames generally call out "comcast" somewhere therein. I've called out some affected clients elsewhere.
Introducing the new ooomf. Yes, again. This one’ll stick, we promise.
I was thinking just yesterday about how much piracy has helped Windows in becoming the dominant OS on PC's. I think a very small percentage of the population would've bought Windows in poor countries, including big ones like China and India, but also many other smaller ones. The rise of Windows happened in parallel with the rise of PC.

So if using Windows without paying in these countries would not have been an option, there would have been a big push for Linux on PC's in these countries 15 years ago. And the Linux from 10-15 years ago would've looked a lot better than it did, because the PC manufacturers themselves would've invested billions of dollars in making it better for those markets, and it wouldn't have remained just a "hobby" OS that they would use in those markets, just like they are doing now with Android.

But since there was an option to pirate Windows, the OEM's just took the easy way out, and didn't bother "fight" the trend of everyone wanting to use Windows on those PC's, and having to support it on them.
"The commodity value of bitcoins is rooted in their currency value, but the more of a commodity they become, the less useful they are as a currency."

Yep..
There hasn't been any shadow of a doubt that asm.js works -- and it's ok for a blog post to help explain what a piece of technology is about. It's a less-technical post, yes, but if that's what the author wants to write about, so be it.

The better question is if it's the right approach, which is what mraleph has been arguing, and it's a much more appropriate argument.
One of the coolest things I had come across was an old watch repairman in town who pivoted his business to fixing Apple products when the iPhone came out. Now he fixes cracked iPhones, replaces MacBook motherboards, etc. He had all the tools and the fine motor skills from his years of watch repair. He still does watches, but I'd say from the looks of it 95% of his business is now fixing Apple products like the iPhone and iPad.
I think you're a bit too fixated on corporations. There is nothing magical about being incorporated that suddenly grants you wide control over your elected official. In fact, any legal entity (individual, corporation, or otherwise) that holds sway over a large swath of votes will possess considerable influence over their representatives. This is the way of democracy.
I'm a little foggy since I haven't been in school for a few years, but I remember that anyone with a technical degree from a college could write a series of exams rather than enroll and get a 4 year Eng degree.

I'll see if I can dig up a source but I'm pretty sure this is accurate as I actually know someone who has done this and is a practicing P Eng right now.
The original title is misleading.
What do you think has changed lately in the mobile ecosystem?
I have nothing to gain, so I think it odd that you would accuse me of doing this for political gain. I'm curious what political gain you think I could gain. I'm much more concerned about my kids growing up in a world where they can't escape sugar and HFCS being added to everything (including meat!) and the impact it will have on them and their kids.

Right now, there is no peer reviewed literature that definitively proves the sugar/cancer link. At best, there might be correlation.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get any funding for anything that might imply sugar is bad. The US, under pressure from the sugar lobby, threatened to pull $400M in WHO funding if they published a report saying "Too much sugar has bad side effect, you should limit consumption to 10% of your calories"[1][2][3]. The report was never published. This is made worse by 30 years of dogma, the fact that the FDA won't regulate substances that cause chronic diseases, and the conflict of interest the USDA has with coming up with what we "should" eat when their charter is to sell more crops.

I'm also not saying that if you don't eat sugar, you won't get cancer. Statistics apply to populations, not individuals. All I'm saying is there is probably a link between sugar and cancer, and, given sugar provides no positive nutritional value, cutting it out is probably a smart thing to do.

My heart goes out to Mr. Banks and his family and friends, just as much as my heart goes out to every cancer victim. As a society, we can do better.

1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/apr/21/usnews.food

2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC156706/

3. http://www.cspinet.org/new/200401161.html
The DOM should have been a cursor based or perhaps a pull-based API. Everything being an in-memory tree was OK a decade ago but not today the node count in the millions across browser tabs.

Dom funcions could have been generic ala C++ STL style for iteration restrictions
I know, but still makes the code ugly to my liking.
I'm not a fan of hyperbole or stretching the truth, even when it is in service of a noble goal.

In this case the eye-catching headline is directly undercut by the actual state of legal precedent, which is that individuals are explicitly not a criminal just because you violate terms of use.

There are a lot of good arguments to fix the CFAA...why rely on a bad one?
It is interesting how many of these newer languages clearly try to improve upon a specific older, established language (at least imho) (take with a grain of salt).

C++ -> Rust

C -> Go

Java -> Scala

Lisp -> Closure

Erlang -> (Go or Scala)

Javascript -> (Too Many; Dart, et al)

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The client obviously strips out any SCRIPT/HTML tags from the input but I guess your're talking about something more clever here. Can you provide an example attack that could potentially pass our security?
A significant chunk of DRAM latency directly relates to the speed of electricity so there is only so much room for improvement without drastically changing how motherboards are arranged. However, when you compare how long it takes to update the CPU cache vs the first bytes coming back there is a little more room for improvement.

@800ghz you get do do a round trip of around 12cm per cycle so your stuck with 2+ cycles out of a 5 cycle delay.
> according to http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/gate-to-hell-f..., it was in the 6th century AD

...Wouldn't that fail a reasonable definition of "early Christian"? At that point Christianity had been the state church of Rome for 150 years.
Is this built on OpenStack Swift? It doesn't seem to be.
If it's not a bubble?

Well then by all means everyone pile in now and let's make it one!
I agree with #12 and although it is important to enjoy your work, I find it is very useful to take initiative and really think about "Why" you are doing something. The "Why" helps me get past many hurdles, keeps me motivated even during boring tasks, and almost always ends in a result I can be proud of.
>Please stop calling it child pornography. These are images of child sexual abuse.

Under the law, what is defined as "child pornography" extends far, far beyond actual images of child sexual abuse. A teenage girl taking a nude picture of herself in a suggestive pose, for example, is not a child being sexually abused. But the law still considers that child pornography.

>and how this abuse causes no harm, and how it should be fine for people to make and possess and distribute these images of abuse

Can you show me one example of someone on HN (with an un-hellbanned account) claiming that child sexual abuse is harmless, or that producing non-simulated images depicting sexual abuse is fine?
Is it possible that he did not had a chance to go to college because he grew up in the midst of the cultural revolution? He seems a middle age man, who could be in his late teens/early twenties in the late 1960's, when for the regime any academic degree was suspicious.
While I believe it is a bubble, I have very little evidence that it is and I fully recognize that it may not be.

As an outside observer, I'm comfortable not profiting from it, and I'm even more comfortable not taking a loss on it. That being said, proclaiming bubbles is the newest trend ever since the housing bubble. It is the easy place to argue on the side of emotion.

I remember 6 months ago there being a VC bubble and an engineering bubble, neither of which have materialized. If you have to wait 5 more years for them to materialize, you were wrong for too long.
Don't patronize me. Please, explain me what is wrong with my concept.

Basically, I agree with these guys: http://jwegan.com/growth-hacking/autopsy-of-a-failed-growth-... and http://www.aginnt.com/post/46854446756/interview-a-growth-ha...

That's where my concepts come from. If you think that me saying "customer development" is BS and that I should be trying to grow like hell and not wasting time with delusional customers interviews, or something like that, please explain why.
Thanks, tpsc! Another great source for book recommendations is "Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012" thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4966230.
Unimpressed by the "Unreal" demo. Just a simple scene flyover, no dynamic lights or scenario, characters, particle effects etc. etc. I bet one can put together a demo of similar quality with vanilla JS and WebGL.
Show HN: A Space Strategy MMO (MVP)
I dunno...

A democratic government is a government that rules through the will of the people rather than by the might of an institution.

A democratic currency, then, would be a currency which derives its value from the willingness of the populace to accept it as tender rather than from governmental fiat.
It's too bad there isn't a subscription option. I'd like to see more competition in that space.

I'd also love to see the ability to download locally and watch offline like you can do with Rdio.
A friend is building this Space Strategy MMO. At the moment he is gathering pre-launch sign-ups and building the game. Game design mechanics being discussed here: http://evosolaria.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

I guess in essence this is a MVP to gauge interest to decide how much effort to put in to the project. There's pretty heavy emphasis on viral sharing for future reward. Above link is not referral link, but here is mine should you wish to use it: http://bit.ly/10yKpVn

See what you think...
I prefer https://github.com/jed/domo to create DOM elements in browser. Its output is a real DOM element whereas in pithy.js, its string.
"I think it's premature to start making a roadmap that makes Servo a competitive product in N years; apart from anything else, such a roadmap is going to be pure fantasy" -- also from that post, from just 6 weeks ago. Curious.

That said, having an ARM backend to Rust on Android phones means big things for the potential of mobile web performance. I'm hopeful!
That statement was based on the common sentiment that 'let me keep out of this stuff it might crash anytime', particularly since everyone has seen Bitcoin crash before.

Your data point proves that this assumption could be wrong. And there is no way we can find out if you are in the majority or not.
If a specific good becomes cheaper because the means of production become more efficient, that's awesome.

If everything is becoming cheaper because everything is getting more efficient, that's super awesome.

If things are getting "cheaper" because the currency is becoming more valuable, that is a disaster. You have society-wide rent-seeking instead of wealth creation.
This is a great question. The "unprincipled" part comes in the application of hashkernel. For example, any integer-valued fields encountered in structured data are treated as categorical features (whereas floating-point numbers are treated as continuous features). Of course, it's possible that some of these integer-valued fields should be treated as continuous features. When using techniques in ways they were never intended to be used, like treating continuous features as categorical, many of the assumptions that make something "principled" no longer apply.
Thanks for responding. I would argue the opposite, that the browser is the safest place to sanitize because it better understands the context where user generated strings will be inserted.

An example where the server may not understand the correct context occurs in this utf7 attack (http://html5sec.org/#charset). The server sanitizes the user input as utf8 where it passes. The client forces the browser to interpret the input as utf7 instead, and the string that was harmless as utf8 now becomes active js.
Chromium is 5 years old. WebKit is 7 years old. Do they count?

KHTML is a bit older (14 years).
How Big Business Makes Food As Addictive as Cocaine
At my bank, they won't touch you without a parent if you're under 18. A lot of 12-18 kids "have" savings accounts but they're custodial - they're the child's in name only, and only parents have withdrawal privileges. The tellers seemed confused every time I had to tell them that yes, I do have permission to withdraw my own money.

Only one of my friends was allowed to use their bank account - for everyone else it was college savings only, and all spending money had to be cash.

With my parents' permission, I was able to have a debit card (which processes in the payment network like any MasterCard but has no line of credit) attached to my checking account at 17.
The Disney effect on pets
There are no smartphones
TimeJump brings deep linking to HTML5 audio and video podcasts
IANAL but I don't think those pictures would qualify as CP under the law (in the US), unless they are "suggestive" in nature.
How to analyze 10 terabytes of data on a $10,000 machine
Reselling Digital Media
Sure, though the more important part of the exercise is the analysis. Same thing with the Drake Equation. And in both cases the terms aren't immune to new information, nor can you expect to honestly get away with assigning anything you want. You might have a different list of criteria or different probabilities, but the point is to lay them down and give a reason why you think it's unlikely enough not to pay the small sum of money. It also lets others argue with you over your estimates, because they might have information you don't, now or in future years. Several of Hanson's criteria can have their probabilities increase towards 1 or decrease towards 0 depending on what humanity does in the coming years.
How is it factually false? Standard english has in fact changed since Shakespeare's time. The link that derleth gave documents this fact.
Am I correct in assuming that the introduction of ASIC systems will cause a drop in bitcoin price (at least temporarily) due to a sudden surge in mining ability and thus a surge in bitcoins introduced to the market?

If so, would this trigger a crash?
Until recently, Servo has been labeled as an experiment, and they've claimed that it isn't intended to replace Gecko. I'm skeptical about this claim, but it does suggests that replacing Gecko isn't its primary objective. If nothing else, the insights gained from developing Servo will provide insight into future development of Gecko.
That... is an actual anomaly from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Amazing.
I use that number advisedly. In LA (TSLAs biggest market, really) it really is more like 15 minutes. And think carefully before you employ the word "idiotic"--it does not reflect well upon you.
North Korea Vows to Restart Shuttered Plutonium Reactor
They'd have to have their certs installed on your computer, or be an existing CA. Schools and corps (including the one I work for) can do this because they have admin control over destination machines.
Looks like Sonic only provides service in CA.