skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UPDATE: I'm getting downvoted, most likely from people who don't know what I'm referring to. So let me clarify: The platonic ideal of a traditional drug or medical treatment is something that works the same way on EVERYBODY. When you do a controlled double-blind study, you specify one specific treatment regimen - use dose X as a function of unit mass or of condition severity - and test whether that (a) has a statistically significant effect which (b) beats the control.

Now imagine a drug which has this effect: half the time it makes people better (often quite a bit better). 30% of the time it has no effect, and 20% of the time it has a NEGATIVE effect - it makes people WORSE along the metric being measured.

(one example of a treatment that has this sort of outcome pattern: exercise. If you measure blood pressure or cholesterol levels, it helps many but hurts some (about 12%) and has no effect on others(about 20%))

A double-blind study of THAT sort of intervention will find a low AVERAGE effect because the AVERAGE includes the nonresponders and the negative responders.

In contrast, a "quantified self" personal science study where somebody carefully tracks their statistic and tries out an intervention while doing some A/B comparisons, is likely to discover whether they ARE or ARE NOT a positive responder. If they ARE, further experimentation can help find the best dose regimen for their particular situation.

(of course, if we knew and could measure exactly which factors make some people positive responders and others negative responders, then we could test in the traditional way. But until we DO know that, studying at the individual level is often the best or even the only available way to figure out how to help individuals.)

As for my "IF the effect is sufficiently strong and consistent" bit, I'll just note that big controlled studies are sometimes abandoned when an intervention is SO successful it is deemed unethical to deny the treatment to the control group.
When using Bitmessage, everybody receives all the messages in the blockchain. How is the timing attack going to identify him?

Maybe Bitmessage helps receiving messages anonymously, but the timing attack might still be possible when sending messages. I2P can mitigate the problem, but I don't think Bitmessage has any nodes in I2P.

I would say that, if you don't trust Poulsen, don't talk to him.
if you're going to make an argument that the old back button is better than the new one, then include images of BOTH versions, not just the old.
> It's a shame that the standard terms in the Bitcoin world are now 100% paid 6 months in advance preorders.

It's not "a shame" because it's what individual market participants each chose to tolerate. If you don't like it, offer better terms and steal their business, but don't complain about other people's voluntary acceptance of transaction terms.
OS X has smart card support for FileVault 1 but not FileVault 2. It only includes enough drivers to support US DoD CAC cards, and other NATO countries that have standardized on our stuff.
Maybe Crockford was onto something when he added the "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil" clause to JSMin's license.
Count me among those suspicious of Lamo and Poulsen. I don't care for them.
There is no incentive not to work. With or without guaranteed basic income, you stand to lose tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in compensation by quitting work. So there is no financial incentive at least (except e.g. the cost of commuting, which is generally small in comparison to your lost salary/wages).
In most cases, it was awesome for those people.
More than possibly those numbers could be from the increased numbers of people who've had to take up part-time work who would've been otherwise unemployed.
I built one that runs on WordPress:

http://wpdrudge.com/
Well, the big question for me was, “Why would anyone expect either of these options ever actually work?” and your site does not seem to address this fundamental question.

There are a few little things, too, like the ASCII arrow "bullets" and cheap-feeling graphics, that just make it seem less trustworthy. Contact me if you’d like me to donate a wee bit of time to upgrade your look & feel.
If you use Firefox, since about version 17 or 18 it adjusts the amount that Page Down/Page Up/Space/Shift+Space scroll by if it detects a fixed header. It doesn't always work (non-full-width headers it doesn't typically catch) but it's absolutely marvellous to have.

It's the funny thing about floating navigation; usability testing and A/B testing show that it's good for conversion/engagement/whatnot, but until Firefox fixed it I absolutely hated the pattern for this very reason.
That's a positive for Ruby only when you're not running on a cloud server, or when you are cost-conscious about the amount of electricity you're sucking in a data center somewhere.

That being said, that Ruby is 10x slower than Go isn't that much of a surprise. It's not a string-interpreted language like the BASICs of old. It's interpreting byte-codes, and anyone who's ever written a 6502 or Z-80 emulator (essentially the same thing) can tell you, on average, most byte-codes take 10x as long to run as the corresponding function written in in-line C.

Computer science -- it works!
Your good and evil are not necessarily (almost certainly) not mine.
Possibly. I wouldn't count on it.
Spot on, the issue that people have with the concept of everyone always recording (or at least being able to obtain what they saw over the past N minutes) has to do with an implicit part of the human social contract up until this point.

Basically you could go outside in "public" and within legal bounds do what you wanted with minimal repercussions or lasting impact. But if someone with these devices records you, now there can be a permanent record of you doing, say dancing crazy at a street corner because you felt like it, and that can be associated with you forever.

Yes you did this action in public, but up until these devices are ubiquitous, you likely had the ability to spot people recording you. In the future, anyone looking at you becomes a potential data broker. I don't foresee this doing anything but causing people to curb somewhat abnormal behavior in public for fear of the repercussions.

Or who knows maybe everyone will start doing crazy stuff like dancing for no reason really badly and nobody will care because it doesn't matter and eventually blurs the line of "normal in public".

eh, back to other stuff.
http://xkcd.com/1181/

"If you want to be extra safe, check that there's a big block of jumbled characters at the bottom."

:)
Does feel more modern, but much less clickable. IMO, slight faux 3D effects are still quite helpful on the web
I2P has protection against timing attacks.

Bitmessage has deniability, but if the receiver end is compromised or untrustworthy, then the deniability is gone, and the timing attack might be possible.

Combining Bitmessage and I2P would be solution, I think, but I don't know of any Bitmessage nodes on I2P.
+ Quadcopter delivery for the last mile.
1. I've actually tried not to read too many other entrepreneurship books -- something Zach Weiner taught me (he doesn't read many other webcomics) to encourage creativity. That said, some books that have helped me be he entrepreneur I am today are (in no particular order) Masters Of Doom, Founders at Work, The Lorax, Drive, and White Man's Burden. Oh and PG essays of course.

I also really didn't want to waste my reader's time (my writing is pretty conversational and there are even some jokes in the book along with doodles) so I advertise on the back that the book can be read in 5 hrs (or a crosscountry flight).

2. Yep! They asked me to read it (I of course said yes, since Christopher Walken wasn't available).
Downvoted. Not for the disagreement but for the offensive and degrading tone which I see having no purpose here in HN.

As many have pointed out, the USG has the power, and the USG has abused that power numerous times in the past(Pentagon Papers for example? Lies/misinformation related to Iraq war and the whole War on Terror? Aforementioned Watergate scandal?). Because with power comes the responsibility, and the past has shown that the USG has not been able to live up to the expectations of the said responsibility, it is naive to believe it won't happen again. Of course it's not only USG, but probably every single government out there which has ever existed which has been corrupt in some way and which has abused it's power in a way or another when it comes to political regards, let alone other personal benefits of those in power. This only strenghtens the belief that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
"Sure, but who decides what the right number is for a basic income?"

I addressed a very similar question in an earlier thread on topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5658967). It's short and directly applicable enough I'll just copy:

Like any policy question, the answer is:

Ideally, the level will be set to what will produce the best outcome based on our current understanding of the world, where the precise parameters under which 'best' is determined is negotiated through a fair political and/or economic process.

In practice, the question is how we best approximate that. The shape of that should be informed by economics, and will likely depend on the particular country.

All of that said, I agree it's a key factor to look at when assessing a particular BI proposal; I don't think it's an unanswerable question.
What's a bit amusing is that when I was at Savvis just before CenturyLink acquired them, the snarky comment was that they only offered the fog, because it hadn't quite taken off yet. Also, despite that #1 Gartner assessment, it certainly doesn't mean that it's got #1 market share for their sector either (Terremark was acquired by Verizon and I'd bet a lot of money they're making more than with Savvis' cloud services).
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Sure, but you could come up with a license that's more specific, like "The Software shall not by used by any government agency or contractors for surveillance purposes" or whatever the equivalent legal speak is.
The "government" has been able to collect far more data via the tax...

The government might use the IRS to harass their political opponents?

Nah, that's just crazy conspiracy theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_IRS_scandal
Colo is great if you do enough work to justify the cost. Most of the cloud free-tiers and low-end machines are far cheaper if you are just doing one-offs and short-term development work on projects.

I've found that using the cloud forces me to be more responsible about having scripted operations procedures - which is great when clients come back after 5 months wanting minor changes - I can spin up a prod/dev server for their project with almost no overhead, and it wasn't cluttering up a colo server somewhere.

Nonetheless, if performance/cost ratio is a definite concern, colo is definitely the right decision.
Tangentially, I'd like to note that giving affected people a handout is not only providing for their needs, it's also making sure there are people with the money to buy my products.
IMO, you should state this possibility and your own sentiment directly on your website. Let the people decide!
And growing authoritarianism everywhere too where there are economical and social problems. This probably includes many, if not all western countries to varying degree.
It's not just Silicon Valley. Basically all work on big data, NLP, computer vision, etc. is making spy tools.

If you think that's not true, consider that major funders of academic research into these areas are orgs like DARPA, IARPA, the NSA, and others. Consider, too, that even if this research isn't funded or done by groups like these, the fruits of that labor will be exploited by said organizations.
This is a general trend you can see at work in lots of venture-connected industries, and it's not just about surveillance.

Lots of people take gigs working on 'cool', 'interesting', terrifyingly profitable projects at well-funded, fast-growing startups that the press and investors both love. It looks great on their resume, they get to tell their friends about the cool work they're doing, and they learn lots of new stuff. Great, right?

Of course, on the other hand, lots of these startups are directly preying on the uninformed, the mentally ill, and groups that simply can't make good decisions, like the young. Over time eventually controls and safeguards get added to reduce the damage done, stop those 'top customers' from paying TOO MUCH, and staunch the blood loss from horrible churn and counteract the consequences of short-term focused designs. Ideally, by the time these fixes start happening and consequences start destroying revenue, these startups have IPOd or exited and the founders and investors all exit happy and wealthy to move onto the next gig.

Here's the thing - that whole last paragraph was describing games startups, not the obvious evil of surveillance companies. It's almost like we gleefully allow ourselves to be blinded to the consequences, both short-term and long-term, of our actions, and pretend that whatever we're working on is innocent and harmless, just because it isn't directly selling rifles to terrorists. It's easier not to think through the consequences; to think about where our money is coming from, to think about who's buying our products, to think about what using our products does to people's lives, and to their relationships. To think about what those viral acquisition pathways do in the long term, to think about what those retention and churn metrics really mean, to think about WHY those metrics are going up or down. Most people don't think about what the unanticipated consequences could be from storing users' address books, or their call histories, or leaving a camera/microphone on all time, or automatically logging conversations. It's easy not to do those things.

Because at the end of the day, the person with the clean conscience doesn't have 50 million dollars, and if you somehow come face-to-face with the consequences of your actions, well... lawyers don't cost that much, do they?

It's easy to look at the whole venture-funded startup industry and find the big picture kind of exhausting when viewed with this perspective. Most of the people starting these companies, and working at these companies - they're not objectively bad people! Their actions, in a short-term context, are wholly defensible - there's no reason to question them. But somehow we keep ending up in this situation, and we're looking back, and saying, jeez, that sure hurt a lot of people, didn't it? Or wow, how did they do something that stupid? Why did anyone invest in them? Why was anyone stupid enough to go work at that company that did those awful things?
There is more to it than what you see.

The NSA is known[1] to be able to take advantage of weaknesses found (or planted) in crypto algorithms, however, not in PGP[2] and other strong ones.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography#NSA_involvement

2. http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/faq/faq.html (3rd question)
Political coalitions and minor parties have been very effective in Australia with no ill effects.
FPTP is also a terrible way to elect people, the US should move onto Instant Runoff Voting.
FIPS 140-2 hardware encryption module - Generate your keys on an IronKey.
Right - Kindle and nook!

http://www.amazon.com/Without-Their-Permission-Century-ebook...

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/without-their-permission-ale...

Would that suffice?
What firmware update process are you talking about?
So why did they do it?
There's a 'secret' URL in there that anyone able to decrypt the message will be compelled to click on, at which time the creator can claim either to have contacted Snowden, or to have empirical evidence that the NSA can crack 4096-key RSA PGP messages and none of us are safe.
As framework code, it was certainly written to be dual-mode. It's possible to write code that behaves correctly with both GC and reference counting. It's a minor pain in the ass because you have to satisfy both sides at once, but it's not all that hard. Because the frameworks can be used in both environments, all (Mac) framework code has to be written this way. There would have been no changes needed to the code when moving it to iOS, at least not related to garbage collection.

They just forgot an autorelease. This would cause the same problems on the Mac as on iOS for non-GC apps (which is, to a decent approximation, all of them). Given that the API in question pre-dates Objective-C garbage collection by about half a decade, and the code in question probably does as well, I really don't think garbage collection can be related to this in any way beyond one GC-related call being near the bug.
He publicly stated he isn't trying to hide from authorities.
Privacy is about choice of who is privy to what information. Facebook can be used for xyz non-pervasive feature, or it can be used for spying. If I build a chainsaw and it's used in texas for some massacres, it is acceptable for me to be outraged without having to defend my position on the usefulness of chainsaws and benefits it provides to society.

I suppose by the article's line of thinking, we shouldn't have any big data analysis and just stay in the dumb world of anecdote, after all, a tool can't be abused if it doesn't exist right?

EDIT: I've been drinking and the original wasn't as coherent as I thought upon third read through.
Dear NSA - Let me take care of your slides.
Actually not a redefinition, as that function has had the same behavior since it was introduced. It's just code that's incorrect when run with reference counting.
Porting SimBlob(OS/2 game) to the web
If you take a look at how QAM works mathematically, it's getting such wonderful results because it's using two carriers with phase differences to do everything. It lets you do some really cool things depending on how well you can recover that phase.
The milk and packaged seafood are clearly showing Kroger's brand, so perhaps they quietly struck a deal with Ralphs/Kroger.
It's a little bit silly imnsho, and it's because JSMin exists to minify JavaScript, which is generally divorced from direct "evil".

And what "evil" developer is going to respect that clause in the license? They wouldn't be evil then...
People are already criticizing alpha-quality software icons. These are the current ones, and many of them are still going to change: http://9to5mac.com/2013/06/14/apple-website-mistake-reveals-...
When someone submits a form with invalid data, and the server marked it as such, the record in the transaction will have the isValid flag set to false . Your controller then acts as a proxy between the model and the template. Because controllers are long-lived, the content of that controller will contain the invalid record.

Now your template can have a {{#unless isValid}} and you display whatever error message there. The user keeps interacting with the form, and every time the submit button is pressed, the cycle repeats again until the record is valid, for example. The thing is that it is the model that has the to be responsible for persistence, so it is the one that marks the record as invalid. The controller would handle decorating the template, (show the error message).

Now if you want to do client-side validation, you'd write a view (which really should be called component in my opinion) which would handle that logic. Notice that for the last example, all we used were templates. The view only came into play when more complicated handling of events is made (client side validation).

To coordinate multiple models, you can use controller.needs (which calls another controller into play, letting you access its model and use stuff like nested resources much cleaner).

http://emberjs.com/guides/controllers/dependencies-between-c...
And if I ever get a glass, that little feature is being hacked right out one way or another. Many others will do the same. In the meantime I get to watch and laugh as people forget there are billions of people in the world. People who are afraid of being "The Guy" because once upon a time your small social group was your entire world... Yet the vast majority of people in the world have no idea who Lena Söderberg is or have even seen her picture.
> isn't safe because of timing attacks

What about that it isn't safe because of who is running many of the exit nodes?
This is awesome. Whoever did this a should add a bitcoin address for donations.
The solution is obviously to watch the average standard of living get significantly worse, then elect the one promising a chicken in every pot, and a chicken-cooking robot in every kitchen (pot and kitchen sold separately).
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The Guardian is not "walking back their claims:" the NSA slide claimed "direct" access. Now, does it really matter if the NSA has root on the server or if it's just some sort of mirroring/splitting scheme?

You seem all too happy to adopt the loaded language of the naysayers for someone claiming rational forbearance.
So, I can't use this computer vision library as part of my government program to prevent Rhino poaching in Africa?
Pond would be the thing to use if it were ready.

https://github.com/agl/pond
Except this clause is completely and utterly meaningless, legally.

I have trouble seeing anyone, anywhere, ever, enforcing it.
>psychedelics like LSD or DMT are caused by a unique cocktail of selective agonism of serotonin, dopamine, and adrenergic receptor subtypes, and so on.

LSD breaks down almost instantly in the body yet the effects continue on for 10-12 hours. Receptor binding might be a trigger for these states but it's a stretch to say it's central to the bio-molecular cascade that then produces these states.
baring an incredible amount facts backed up by references

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

Just because someone sticks in a heap of footnotes doesn't validate their claims. Climate-change denialists do this as a matter of course, but that doesn't make their work academically rigorous. Facts and data points taken out of context can be enormously misleading.

He might very well produce the most academic political writings ever.

LOL no. I read legal opinions and law review articles for fun. I have an intense dislike of Chomsky because I am the sort of person who reads all the footnotes and consults the cited reference works, and doing so on Chomsky's writings has led me in every instance to conclude that he habitually misrepresents his source material by selective quotation and omission of equally important countervailing facts.

When I first encountered Chomsky's writings I was tremendously excited, thinking that this was a guy who Tells It Like It Is. But the more I read and analyzed, the more disappointed I became. Not being American, I wasn't bothered by his challenges to conventional wisdom or the fact that he held a radical viewpoint. What bothered me was his near-constant manipulation of his readers.
Fair point.

Your comment would benefit from elaboration. Are there any of the criteria you think are strong candidates for dismissal as elements of a hypothetical "perfect voting system"?
(I'm not talking about the US govt by itself, although I bet if you dug up all the stuff like the Tuskegee syphilis experiment you might get close even in the US).

You don't even need to look into the past in the US - as far as I know the war on drug users continues.
Bitmessage doesn't have forward secrecy.
What about a pager? Can that somehow lead them to you? I'm not talking about tactics, but about the device in itself.
Are you an investor in Instacart? Or otherwise affiliated or connected with the company?

If you are, you might want to disclose that fact when speaking publicly about them.
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