skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add more water to this article: for anyone reading books, papers or recordings dating before the very last years it is obvious that public morality is changing, rapidly and a lot.

A simple qualification of an human group (think women, Chinese, Jews, kids) was just a good joke yesterday and is now an offense. Contrary to what we may believe, our times are not more free than before on many topics, and many books (eg. Trois filles de leur mère) or movies (eg. Going Places/Les Valseuses, but even 007) could not be created today.

So keeping indefinite records is very dangerous for this reason too: you may believe your behavior is proper today but who knows what public morality will look like tomorrow?

(Just as a thought experiment: maybe watching horror movie will be considered a completely crazy thing to do and horror movie watcher will be asked to cure themselve in special detox centers. I, for one, have never understood what kind of pleasure one can get from watching an horror movie.)

(Thought experiment 2: In 20 years the animal defense movement become prominent and crazy, gets over the top, becomes the governement, and start legally killing human who showed disrespect for pets in their past life, checking the "logs". As a reaction a bunch of less crazy humans pull them out and instigate a defensive law against "over-loving animal", and then any blogger who's sent a caturday pic is suspitious forever.)

(Ok, that's imagination, but some recent event did show reality can be worse than imagination.)

edit: fixed a few words
My personal favourites from the list are:
Nerd
Zen
Tools
Unix
Zip
Bob
and last but not least the most sinister word in the world: "the".
Good man! I shall try it ASAP.
Having won both I think that the only real difference is DCSS takes such a ridiculous amount of time for a 15-rune win that you just don't care by the end. I felt like I had to go through the same amount of spoiler reading, overall. And both are easy once you have a solid build strategy.

Have you played Brogue? That is really something special. It's a really stripped down game inspired by the original Rogue. There are no classes, so your build depends on the items you find. Rather than experience points, you'll find a finite number of scrolls of enchantment to spend on items. The tight food supply forces you to descend, which in turn prevents you from saving scrolls of enchantment for too long because you'll need to spend them on your items to survive. But the longer you can delay the better, because if possible you want to spend them on top-tier items.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
> Can you ask LLDB to never stop at certain functions or files?

LLDB has a setting named target.process.thread.step-avoid-regexp, the value of which is a regular expression defining functions that step-in won't stop in.

> Can you wrap a class with some user defined script to simplify its interface for debugging?

LLDB exposes its entire API to Python, so you can either embed Python scripts in to the LLDB debugger or embed the LLDB debugger in to a Python script. There's an introduction available at http://lldb.llvm.org/python-reference.html, but for more detailed documentation you'll need to use the help functionality within lldb's built-in Python prompt.
He's actually not like Colbert or The Onion.

We also have lots of comedians doing that kind of political satire, but most of them just scratch the surface and comedy often blurs the real issues.

Jordi Évole is no longer a comedian, though he started his career as one. Now he does serious interviews and, even if comedy is still present (he's just funny and charismatic), his programme is actual journalism and not just satirical interviews and puns.

I think what gives him the edge over traditional journalism is how he approaches interviews. He looks like the average Joe and is not very knowledgeable, but he asks the questions that matter. Being very charismatic and polite, their interviewees feel confident with him, which he uses to his advantage (lots of slips from interviewees).

He also questions like a lawyer would, asking again and again until he gets an acceptable answer instead of the common PR crap that politicians are used to vomit.
This is solved in a distributed fashion. The end user machines know which apps they have, and the ordering of the top 11 doesn't change if you already have the first one. So you ship down identifiers for top 20 or 50, which, even with metadata, is going to be smaller, bytewise, than the average apple.com homepage. When you go to display them, you remove the ones the user has and display the top 10 of the remaining set. If there are none left, request another block of apps. The size of the first block to send can be honed in on over time based on the number of subsequent blocks requested by clients.

But even doing this server side isn't that bad, calculating the difference between two sets, the top 100 apps and the apps a user owns, iterating with more if the size of the result is less than 10, is a lot less work on a per-user per-request basis than a lot of sites do to customize their experience.

Of course, Apple most likely doesn't want anyone to know which app is the 11th or something, which means a lot of server side processing to customize the exact list of 10 sent to the client. Sites like Facebook already do this kind of stuff for calculating the timeline for hundreds of millions of accounts.
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Revealing such a recording would enable the government to prosecute him for "targeting" such information without a warrant. Of course he has bigger worries than whether they try to tack on such a trumped up charge...
the NSA can't, but GCHQ can
I held a part time job at Staples as a sales associate for the technology section. We were always told to make recommendations to people based on what they need and not what they think they need. Although once you "down sold" them you were told to offer insurance and other extras which is really where Staple's margins are at, so it makes sense. In a way it helps the customer but at the same time it was deceptive because the insurance rarely ever made sense to buy unless you thought you were saving money.
The day we stop kidnapping, murdering and eating animals will be the day we stop kidnapping and murdering each other?

I honestly don't think the "animals have conscious thought" is the most effective way to change agriculture, but I will struggle to deny that gorilla whose eyes I looked into at Aspinalls was not looking back at me with the same understanding and knowledge.

Yes they are as conscious and thoughtful as humans, but humans are as unthinking and hard-wired as animals
Which bits do people think are padding? That game's basically perfect AFAIC.
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That is actually the best summary of the current state of consciousness research that I've ever read.

That said, they don't talk much about whether they can prove degrees of conscious awareness. There may be homologous structures, but are they as large as in humans? If they're not, then perhaps you'd expect the animal to have a comparable and yet less-detailed experience.
Why does Java consume more memory than you allocate?
You might want to take a look how Windows Phone 8 does it. WP8 has different size tiles and moving them around is a piece of cake.
That is why it is annoying that people used to say that the only reason Apple is popular is because of marketing. Apple does so many things well.
People might also be interested in the Request Policy addon, it acts by blocking all content that does not come from the site you are visiting.

https://www.requestpolicy.com/
Is it programmed into us? If not how do we feel it? If it is programmed in, can it be re-written?
The card version looks nice and usable, but the test flip has some issues. Works nice in IE10, but in Crome, the font gets ugly and has drawing artifacts (see http://imgur.com/aXwvVr8 ), but that's chrome and not your fault :)

Also, in IE10, the input of the card is a bit off, where you can't read it properly ( http://imgur.com/NF7lXbQ ) and the update button doesn't work...
Hacker News is called Hacker News because it used to be called Startup News. The only mention of the word "news" in the Hacker News guidelines is in the line stating that "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
Getting the MBA with only 4GB is a mistake even for web browsing, if you open a lot of tabs.
> Both. Some are stupidly easy, eg. God of War "Load Game. Face Plant Controller. Finish Game. Get Star!".

God of War was not easy at all for me on Hard.
Obama's Soft Totalitarianism
D'oh. Of course.
Ghostery claims 8 million users are opted in to "share" their data. From the informal polling I've done of Ghostery users (I work on an anti-tracking alternative called Disconnect), I believe less than 1 in 10 of those users know Ghostery is selling their browsing data to advertisers.

If Ghostery cared about being more transparent than the ad industry, they'd have to do a lot more than fix their FAQs. They should opt out all of the 8 million users who opted in without being told their data would be sold. Then Ghostery should re-onboard these users with accurate messaging. Quite frankly, Ghostery should also send checks to the 8 million users for all the money Ghostery made off their data.
What!? I was not consciously aware this was a news site!

What if there was some way to discuss things ?
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You get my vote simply for the domain name.

Perfect - an elevator pitch in a URL, with self-selection filter built in.
Well, then, what's the point of signing a declaration 40 years later?
> Another thing I don't like is if you have two different functions with the same signature but different implementations meant to give swappable functionality, there's no way of specifying that explicitly. As a user of a library, you just have to realize the functions can be swapped out with modules.

Haskell is possibly better in this regard than many other languages, as you can make existing functions become polymorphic without modifying them. (say for example, in most OOP languages, you would need to add an additional interface to each class where you want to use a method interchangeably, which you can't always do.)

In hask, you can just create a new typeclass for the particular functions you want to be swappable, and add an instance definition for each.

eg, http://pastebin.com/9RVMZyz1
the people designing systems based on what they read in _Applied Cryptography_

I realize this was a side remark in your post, but should I understand this as that in your opinion (maybe the consensus, even?), Applied Cryptography is outdated? Or just that when somebody needs AC to implement their crypto, they don't understand crypto enough to do it well? Or something else entirely?

(Asking because although I don't use crypto much, I do still use AC to get a handle on the high-level concepts; it was _the_ recommended book when I bought it in the late 1990's)
This is a great initiative. But it might need way more customization and polishing and set rules before it can help founders with problems at hand or direction or anything that matters.

Good things where even VC meetings can't help:

1. Founders have better on the ground idea on petty things but important in a way and tedious to solve.
eg. food in office or affordable monitors that are great, a specific case of an employee etc

2. Founders can relate to problems, help solve or collaborate in solving together. eg. technical issue in infrastructure or log processing say.

3. Boosts morale and can provide some light even after a week of bad sales or VC meetings. Some can even make you see the truth or accept it if the situation is truly negative

4. Business opportunities - VCs most always connect startups to pilot with portfolio companies and other startups. This can bring early clients and introductions

However I see some critical issues with this model:

1. People need many sittings to understand the product landscape, persona of the founder or the team to provide relevant suggestions or advise - which means either known people have to meet or it needs the same set of people to meet again and again

2. Moderation can be an issue. With known friends who are founders it is easy to converse & open up on issues - but with a random group it might become chaotic or a silent dinner.

3. The moment the meeting is unpredictable (not consistent week on week) in terms of value the zeal to attend would fade over time.

4. Given the unknown value of such a meeting you do not have a measure to value this time against a release you planned to do or an interview or even some mundane task at hand which has to be finished.

I am a startup founder in India. Given we lack the ecosystem even when VC/angels are involved it is only founder-networks to bank on here. These meet-ups have worked well only with founders who are friends/ex-colleagues.
I know that on Xilinx's FPGA toolchain, x%y cannot be synthesized unless y is both constant and a power of 2, in which case it just takes the n least significant bits as though you'd written that in the first place. Are you sure the tools you were using don't do the same thing?
Ugh - I am constantly at the limit of my 256GB SSD and it is very annoying. Unfortunately in the MB Air there is no way to swap the SSD for a bigger one... So I'd go with the 512GB any day. Before the Air, I used to always upgrade HD and memory at least once in my computers before getting a new one.

True, the main problem might be photos, and presumably even 512GB would fill up quickly these days. But external HDs just seem like an ugly solution. Also I already have an external HD attached for backups most of the time, which means I should carry two external HDs (one for backups, one for photos - and backup for photos is especially important)?

Maybe cloud services are the only solution? Have to look into that 1 TB option on Flickr...
I agree.

Most attacks on secure systems involve attacking the engineering - the implementation of the system, rather than even attempting to break the crypto, even if it is only DES.
The only option for the MBA is between different sizes of SSDs.
Thanks for the explanation.

On the face of it, it would then seem that the system is rigged to reduce the honest preferences of the more informed or politically engaged portion of the population through technicalia (forgot a box, wrote same number twice, etc.).
I had a similar experience in a Sony Center last year.

I walked in to buy the most expensive and pimped out Sony Vaio S at the time, and the salesman tried to convince me that I didn't need the higher specs and could be fine with a cheaper, lighter model that was coming out a few weeks later.

I bought the higher end machine though. I do use the faster CPU and large memory capacity - shaving 10 minutes of an Android build is worth a little money, and being able to run multiple VMs concurrently is also something I'm willing to pay for.

The salesman didn't fully understand why I needed the resources, and insisted on getting a lower end machine.
Thanks for your explanation.

There is a lot missing at least from the media here in the UK. It seems to be being spun as a bad thing to appease us because in the major cities in the UK, it's exactly the same by the sounds. If someone drew a comparison, shit would kick off.

I do get the feeling the UK is declining into exactly the same situation at the moment.

I mean we had riots kicking off all over the place a couple of years ago.
Pg referred to this as Maker schedule and manager schedule

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

It's true all over
I don't get it. It's mobile computing. Call it mobile.
Just like desktops are still called desktops and laptops are still called laptops and servers are still called servers and google glass still doesn't have a category name (wearables?) and and and and..

This feels like a pigeon-holed argument.
I'd expect cognitive dissonance to have the higher effect - "I paid so much for this, it must be good".
I am using http://multiplx.com for the last 2 months and pretty happy with it. It has its own engine and most of the google reader features.
Although I don't necessarily agree, many consider the "native" (C-ABI) tools and libraries to be sufficient.
You know better than the Apple guy, but if your sis does not trust your opinion and did not tell the Apple guy what she needed then what do you expect?

Or maybe you were wrong?
12 great Wired interviews
I stumbled across this the other day - http://www.getinspired365.com/wired - shows off 12 really inspiring Wired interviews.

I was a particular fan of this Jobs interview - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html
Clickables - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html and http://getinspired365.com/wired
PAUL: Americans who cherish freedom must push back against surveillance
AMD details Open Compute server ecosystem
Storage. How do you define it? Apparently, any way you like, even in international agreements.

Here's an example from the European Union agreement to pass traveller information to Australia (they have separate agreements for the United States and Canada):

the airline PNR data are temporarily retained, but not stored

On the face of it, it would seem that when you mix this with probabalistically presumed intelligence agency interception, it means 'stored'. Can we please have a journalist cover something related to this at some stage, anywhere, ever? Thanks.

Full FOIA response @ http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/information_on_pnr_agreem... (PS. Great site, recommended some time ago by Wikileaks. Use it!)

Current summary (please help expand from above) @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record#Internat... ... also please help expand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record#Internat...
Between this and your crypto-cage-match with Colin, I think that HNers should chip in and send you a whole shit-ton of Dayquil on the regular or something. Been enjoying your comments more than in recent memory. :D
Isn't it the same cause from a different perspective? She thought people (you) were talking about her.

We've a natural tendency to be egocentric because whenever we look around... we are at the centre. Happens at all scales e.g. geocentricism, anthropomorphism.
The difference is that the second is science and the first is every thing else. They are signing it to give the idea greater credence outside of their community, not within it. Obviously they hope to influence the world at large.
Want to File a Motion in the FISA Court? First You Have to Find Them
Another option is to fix algorithm used to sort the top-list. It's similar to search results, in that a purchase from the top list should be attributed to two* factors: 1) the app's quality, and 2) its current position in the list. Basically, you can separate the effect on purchases of the position in the list from the effect of the app's quality, and then sort apps based on their quality rather than raw purchases.

*Maybe I should say, at least two factors. You can go really deep when constructing rankings.
An excellent question, and my speculation is this: the NSA likely has civilian employees, civilian contractors, and military personnel. Someone like Snowden would not be subject to the UCMJ, but other non-civilian employees may be.
It is funny to see how the internet "folks" concentrate on the internet/virtual data being collected and analysed.
What about all the real world interactions driving? walking? shopping? talking in public places? The (inter)banking traffic?

Scanning the license plates of ALL cars moving through New York? Reconstructing their paths? Why not, right? That's probably even less raw data that the facebook chit-chat.

I believe (no way to "know") that those infrastructures are in place and working 24/7.

Misused? Seldom.
A huge problem as any large data/info store. For sure.

The "balance" between utility and the price tho pay for it for us all ... in the end that is politics.
About to change?
Hello, OP and guy who is tracking down the FISA court for you. Happy to answer any questions!
Sure. Also, according to recent quotes from Snowden, this is the primary mobile communciations key the NSA maintain records and search by... not phone number.
Well, that's interesting, because there's no good scientific definition of consciousness.
New SolusVM exploit
I cant disagree with you more . I am long time hn lurker and this is my first post. I have been religiously watching Charlie Rose for the last decade . He is one of the best interviewers in the game . I learned more about the NSA surveillance program from this one hour interview than every other newsgroup ( tv , reddit , hn etc ) combined over the last week.

He really is a genius . He gets more out of the guest than anyone else. People sometime think that interviewer should be aggressive try to catch the interview off guard , make home slip etc. This approach doesn't help anyone.The guest just become defensive and tries to pick and chose every word while the interviewer just comes off the as dick.

I takes a long time to appreciate Charile's Rope-a-dope style of interviewing.He just keeps sucking up to the guest lets him get through all of their talking points they have memorized and then the magic happens.
tl;dr

- there are too many laws to keep track of - we could potentially violate any of them

- even if you have a squeaky clean record you can still be targeted for blackmail through your circle of friends and family - if they did anything bad - drugs, etc - you are at risk too

- it's a reversal of the presumption of innocence; we are now all potential terrorists plotting in secret
Humans adapt to the moral system of their society. There is no set of "universal morals" that all humans have.

But do realise this, since I'm not a moral relativity apologist. I'm going to say that moral systems are not equal and some backward societies need to get their systems fixed.
"Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Rocks have Conscious Awareness"
Until this is done, we will stay where we are :D
> People who complain about nulls are either lazy or incompetent programmers

ad hominem - there are valid complains against nulls.
Nitpick: DotA has existed for a while now, nearly 10 years.
I remember playing the imbalanced 5.5x versions somewhere around 2004. The modern versions of DotA were the 6x, started in 2005, and they are basically the basis for all modern DotAs (Heroes of Newerth copied heavily the map layout and some of the heroes ; it was pretty successful until DotA 2 came out). DotA 2 is basically an engine overhaul of DotA.
What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know an answer to this question means to be religious.

You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question?

I answer: The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

- Einstein (as quoted in Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934)