skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article has a very peculiar comment: http://theweek.com/article/index/246703/the-worm-that-regrow...

I hesitate to copy and paste the entire comment, lest I be flagged by an algorithm for spamming, but it uses Latin-like characters to write some typical spam about making money from home. Then, it has a link to the following site:

viewmore------------------------------------------.qr.net/kkEj

After that link, the comment continues with an extremely interesting tidbit that relates to the article, full of manual line breaks. I can't find it anywhere else online:

We replicated the results of a
similar experiment in a class I took in 1976, and also another one
that's even stranger. We trained planaria, killed them, dried them, and
fed them to untrained planaria. The training times for the untrained
planaria were shortened. Our experiments used planaria reactions to
light and subsequent electric shock, not food-finding behavior.

Is someone being paid to come up with original, relevant-sounding content to post alongside spam? That text does not look machine generated.
Congress can cut funding without asking anyone else for permission.
> That means that for an individual, a 28% income tax rate means income is above $97,850

Actually, its a lot higher than that, because marginal rates aren't overall rates.
Tasker is a great, mature alternative that will tickle the fancy of most hackers.
Interesting. More specifically, the company built on shrinkwrap and preloads is facing a world where neither is generally accepted.

This leaves business and government markets, as well as gaming, and possibly services / online platforms with advertising-based revenue.

Meantime, Microsoft still have to support their legacy. Even some of the EOL products, which, despite best efforts, still live in places which have the power to command fixes.
I think its killer feature is how it's an all-in-one OS. In you pocket, it's a smartphone; docked, it's a complete linux desktop environment.
Why do you not hate SQL. I suspect the answer is the relational model.

As a language, SQL is terrible. But it (poorly) implements enough of the relational model that it's still incredibly powerful.

What really puzzles me is why, when there is constant innovation in system and application programming languages, databases are still stuck on the equivalent of COBOL. Why isn't there a modern relational language?
So is it ethical for universities to reject applicants on the basis of their past/present/future employers being unethical in the selection committee's eyes?
He's not embracing google because he thinks they don't also make money from advertising. He is "embracing" them because although they also use advertising, they at least have a superior product.
Github has a git wrapper that adds commands for their extra functionality. Pull requests can be done from the command line.

https://github.com/github/hub#git-pull-request
Alexander has been confirmed to address Black Hat
since mid-May, before the Guardian and the Washington
Post, relying on leaks from ex-NSA contractor Edward
Snowden, revealed widespread NSA surveillance on
Americans' phone records and the online habits of persons
the NSA believes to be non-Americans living outside the
US.

Alexander will certainly not be keynoting with all the public scrutiny on him and the NSA now...
Quinoa, famous for protein and fiber content, still contains less protein and fiber than, say, oatmeal. It's okay - hyperventilating paleo bloggers have raised concerns about saponins -- but the whole "superfood" frenzy about quinoa is just a tad off base. It's okay, not bad for you, probably better than white rice or processed food, but most of what quinoa has going for it is simply that it is real and unmodified. If it "took over the world", it would be sweetened, boiled, extracted, and fried into chips with none of the nutritional benefits people are seeking therefrom anyway.
Why the hell are people arguing about a tautology? That statement is so incredibly vague, it could mean anything.
This would only work against very low level / amature phishing operations.

Most of these systems not only validate user login information (often in real time) but also place live authorizations on cards to make sure they are valid.

For example, the "credit card generator" you found probably just uses MOD10/Luhn to generate 'random' numbers, starting with 3/4/5 depending on the card type you select.

If you're looking to simply add friction to low level identitiy thieves, it'd probably work, but the real question is what is your motiviation?

Your time would be better spent contributing to existing phishing prevention projects, or attempting to coordinate with network providers to get these sites taken down more quickly, the majority of victimization occurs from large scale data theft or professional phishing / malware operations like IceIX/Citadel, not Joe Blow's Wells Fargo phishing page.
At my last company, I earned myself the unofficial job of Employee Advocate because of this philosophy. The company (which I won't mention by name, but can be easily determined) was set up to be a great place for developers to work, and for the most part succeeded in that goal.

But as time went on, there were some failings in a few areas, so I decided that I would be the one to push the founders to continue realizing their goal. I know I became a thorn in their sides on several issues, but I could also tell that other employees appreciated me speaking up, especially the non-technical staff, which often did not receive the same benefits as developers.

I always figured that if I got fired for speaking my mind on an issue, that would be okay, because it would be a clear indication that the company was too far gone and it was time to leave. Fortunately, for me and the company as a whole, that never happened.

Despite being a thorn, I remained on good terms with the founders. They seemed to understand where I was coming from, even if they did not agree.
Quinoa is popular for the same reasons greek yogurt is now popular. It has a bit more protein than the alternatives, so health nuts decide they must have it at any cost.

Never mind that nobody wants to eat plain greek yogurt, so it winds up with the same or greater sugar content, and really only has a little bit more protein than regular yogurt.
> #2 property on the Internet as measured by the time users spend on the site.

#1 being...? I get it that it's from 2009, but surely even back then Google Search wasn't king "by the time users spend on the site". Maybe GMail ?
A social, elastic model for paid content
"(INVADING) YOUR PRIVACY IS OUR PRIORITY"
Beware of "also want to find employees ready to take risks, make decisions, try new things, move fast and even break things."

Doing the above can be a sure say to get the bad kind of fired from a job, especially for large corporate environments. I have worked at places where they claimed that innovation was rewarded, when in practice they were so risk adverse any out of the box thinking was punished.

By all means push the boundaries but don't claim that your issues of climbing the ranks or being overlooked for interesting tasks is because you are a square peg in a round hole.
Microsoft violated your trust and privacy, says newly leaked NSA documentation
Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t.
I like how this image:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000/719/044/5881e3534d86...

totally rips off the Sparrow icon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sparrow_icon.png
I totally agree. Sure there where similar things a in the funcional world before, but LinQ had some important pros:

- deferred ejecution by default, saving memory and time

- step by step syntax, each new operation is at the end, not the beginning

- excellent type inference and intellisense, js? ruby?...

- it works with the same syntax on the database!!! Haskell?

- map and filter where there, but groupby and join where not so common in previous query comprehensions APIs.

- the most important: it's actually usable in jobs you get paid for, not experiments you can make at home or university.

There are however two things that doesnt make it 100% perfect:

- expression tree lambas are identical to non expression ones, making it hard for developers to know if one step is going to be translated or executed. I would have chosen => for non expression and -> for expressions for example or something like that.

- having two syntax, method chain and query comprehensions, produces a frequent anoying back and forth since some operators are better written in one (let, join, group by) while others are only available in method chain (take, toDictionary...)
Yeah, looks like they took it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sparrow_icon.png
First off, it depends on your area of interest. Do you love data and want to do some interesting algorithm work? Then I'd say go with Python or Java.

If design and interaction are more your thing, then go with Javascript/HTML/CSS.
Personally, I'd focus on Javascript as 271... mentioned, doing front-end code gets lots of glory if you're making things beautiful and engaging. But it also let's you focus on one language and bring that language to the server-side with Node.js.

It lest you work with 'apps' in the app stores by using a packager like Cordova, giving you the 'I have an app in the app store' cred.

It's becoming the one language to rule them all. There are great frameworks to learn like backbone, angular, ember, etc. Learn to use d3 and learn to do some cool stuff with charts. There is just so much you can do with the one language and you can show it off!

I'm currently in the job market, and I've got a background in PHP, Rais, and Javascript, but most of my coolest stuff that I'm most proud of was data-specific internal tools and systems, so when people say 'show me your portfolio', I don't really have much of one.

For that reason alone, I'd get into Javascript.
Perhaps someone has a malware infection that inserts spam into the comments they make online without them knowing. That would be a pretty slick way of getting around CAPTCHAs and possibly spam filters.
Bitinstant recently laid off all of their support staff and has gone quiet for nearly two weeks on support related matters. Their CEO, Charlie Shrem, used to constantly tweet several times per day. He hasn't tweeted in 9 days now and seems to have vanished (https://twitter.com/charlieshrem). Over the holiday weekend, their $8/mo SquareSpace account used for hosting their blog was suspended for billing issues (though they have since scraped up the $8).

Bitinstant is taking money from new orders and allocating it to old orders (aka Ponzi Scheme). I suppose that means that as long as new orders continue to arrive, customers will be made whole and eventually they could earn enough in fees to cover up whatever they did that caused the mess they are in. That's if someone doesn't complain to the FBI first and get them shut down.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128314.8180 (that is one of the most recent pages of a thread containing ~411 pages of complaints). The last few pages are especially disturbing.
Well rounded means often not focused because, only top notch developers really grasp more skills efficiently.

Average developer will mix up everything and won't be able to work without google search. Don't spend much time with learning JavaScript. Every monkey now learns JS and do you know why ? because it's dead easy. JS leads to Front-end development and that's often pain in the ass.

I vote for solid knowledge of SQL, Java and maybe Python or Ruby but don't learn everything in one time. Step by step e.g. each year one new technology or language.
Most, if not all, of the SIC members are the politically powerful members of the Senate, who will only be replaced at the polls if they screw up in an unrecoverable way (usually a sex scandal - people remember those). At any rate, because it's a rotating membership, there's no guarantee that anyone with any shred of decency toward privacy will wind up on it.
> OK, yes, but what's going to keep it a tiny fraction of the GDP? The BI's natural "lobbying organzation" is the entire public...

Er, no, its not. The natural lobbying organization is the people whose have an expected positive net utility from an increased BI. That's not the entire public, as both increased public debt and increased taxation have negative consequences for members of the public. (And as, empirically, its been shown that increased income has a declining, and beyond a certain point, immeasurably small contribution to experience utility.)

> You have to think about the 18th year, when people who have never lived in a regime other than having BI exist start voting themselves. Are they going to understand that it's a bad idea to listen to the politicians promising to make it larger?

Sure. They'll probably understand the effects of BI level changes a lot better than people in the first year do.
Ugh this fear mixed with cynicism is so gross!

Ordinary Citizens have always been the driving force behind every major change in this country. Talk to everyone you can about this and for Christ's sake try a little positivity!
The slide itself says 117675 records, not active surveillance targets.
"Learn" as in "learn first"? I would probably pick Javascript for its ubiquity. But good programmers who know just one language are probably as rare as accomplished musicians who know just one instrument.
Wireless energy management controller runs Debian
I think it's one of the more popular, but Feedly -> Pocket is brilliant. I used to spend ages in the morning reading through feeds, now I spend a few minutes flipping through Feedly, saving anything I want. When I want to read something later in the day I just open up Pocket and everything's there.
Even potatoes have a complete animo acid profile. Not in the most optimal ratio, but 10 potatoes/day gets you enough of all the essential amino acids. In fact you can live exclusively on potatoes if you add in a source of Vitamin A (like carrots).
I prefer chia. I mix it in with oatmeal and it tastes great (actually its more the gelatinous texture than taste).
What do you want to build? You'll get a lot out of something like javascript... but if you really want to build an iPhone app, you're nowhere. Having something you really want built is the best way to learn for me and many people I've talked to about the topic.
I completely agree with going one by one through list, and focusing on what you're most interested in first (for whatever reason maybe curiosity or maybe straight economics) maybe for years at a time. But I don't believe that being well rounded is only for the elite or in stopping before you see the range of possibilities. The hardest problems are usually solved by looking at them from another perpective - and all of these languages gives you another lens to look at things through.

And for that reason, I don't agree with skipping on low economic value languages just because they don't make cash. JavaScript is currently a vital part of the web programming ecosystem and if you are interested in that ecosystem you should have a familiarity with it…
Indian government, BlackBerry end dispute over interception of BB devices
This is interesting in contrast to other articles saying that Western demand is making Quinoa unaffordable for those whom it is a staple.
http://au.businessinsider.com/western-quinoa-demand-raises-p...
If by "go there" you mean revolution, I agree - we don't want to go there.

In terms of whether the US could legally establish a BI without constitutional amendment, I am inclined to agree that it's allowed.

I think there is some argument for avoiding a simple majoritarian decision for how the rate is determined; I am not certain whether it is a sufficient one, but I don't think there's reason it shouldn't be part of the discussion, and constitutional amendment is the most secure process to elevate something above majority rule in the US.

I disagree that it "often takes a revolution" to amend the US constitution - if there is enough popular support that amending by that means would be practical, amending without it should be - and indeed, only twice of the 17 times we've amended the constitution has it involved a revolution (once successful, once unsuccessful).
Nice to hear that it worked out for you! Thanks for the hint on SEQUENCE, it didn't occur to me while using CCL.

90 seconds to render 30 seconds is much faster than on my computer! :)

In case you come around trying to import a WAVE file (using WAVE-SIGNALS): It does not work on all WAVE files out in the wild(yet?). Turns out reading WAVE files is much harder than writing them, because the format is specified very ambigiously. The temporary solution is to rewrite existing WAVE files using audacity for example. Audacity will produce clean WAVE files.
Are flight-crew salaries such a major component of costs that they really need to do that...?
Even if the "feds" aren't officially invited to run a booth and take applications, they're gonna show up anyways probably three weeks before the event to install facial recognition cameras and audio recording bugs in all the hotel rooms (;
I'd say its pretty close to rice in terms of texture and flavor. Just depends how you prepare it.
Def Con has asked the U.S government to stay away this year
The bigger deal here to me is the data sharing. Who cares if one agency isn't allowed to spy on Americans? Or if another agency has this or that court oversight? All the data collected is shared between the NSA, FBI, CIA, foreign intelligence, etc. This means regardless of who you are or what you are doing, there's someone who has the authority to spy on you, and now they have all your data as well.
It is better than oatmeal or wheat?

It looks a lot like white flour to me:

http://skipthepie.org/cereal-grains-and-pasta/millet-flour/c...

Some say goitrogens in millet is bad for you (if you eat large quantity)

http://www.womentowomen.com/hypothyroidism/goitrogenicfoods-...

http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/beware-of-millet/
Surprisingly down to earth and insightful.
Kind of off topic and cynical, but I wonder how this product is making any money. It's free, the iOS app os free.
>So in the past each part of Microsoft seemed to operate both as a independent business (and sometimes competitor with other parts of Microsoft) and part of the whole. This re-aligns the company as a systems company focused on delivering a specific solution.

that is a MBA speak. The reality is that horizontal partitioning is periodically replaced with vertical, and vice versa ... that is MBA action.
Wow, almost all of the results of 'google nsa lawsuit' on bing are negative against google.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=google+nsa+lawsuit

1) Maryland Attorney Mike Slocumb Comments on Google Privacy Class Action Lawsuit and NSA Surveillance Case (negative)

2) Google surveillance far surpasses the NSA, author says - CBS News (negative)

3) EPIC files FOIA request over reported Google, NSA partnership ... (negative)

4) ACLU sues Obama administration over NSA surveillance (neutral - not even really about Google, just prism)

5) Lawsuit Could Find Out If Google Working For NSA? For a long… (negative)

6) Conservative activist files lawsuit over NSA surveillance | PCWorld (neutral)

7) Maryland Attorney Mike Slocumb Comments on Google Privacy… (negative)

8) Lawsuit filed over NSA phone spying program - Computerworld (neutral - not even really about Google, just prism)
In Utah specifically these are typically referred to as "Jack Mormons", those who are officially members of the Church and raised so, but no longer actively participate.
And, as last time this topic was brought up, I feel obliged to point out that HN rank is more than a function of votes, flags, comment total, and time. The quality of the comments, likely determined by the speed and voting patterns, is also used. This, or a similar system, is also reputed to be used to hide the "reply" link during suspected flamewars.

So sure, you could blame some perceived Google bias on Google shills flagging Microsoft articles. You could also blame some perceived Anti-Microsoft bias on Microsoft shills being abrasive and causing comment sections to become toxic (for example, by filling the comment sections with comments complaining about HN rank compared to Google articles).

I see little to no evidence for either, I am not in a position to inspect the complete data to determine what is causing any perceived phenomenon (nor are you, I suspect).
You might be cooking it wrong. You need to rinse it a bunch to remove its bitter taste.
That appears to be a different company.
Meng's point is that getting fired is a good thing, if it happens because you did the right thing. It shows you that the company you work for does not share your values, and hence you shouldn't be working for them.

His point isn't that you won't get fired, it's a different way of looking at getting fired. A lot of people assume this is a universally bad occurrence. He's telling you that it's an important opportunity to find the place where you can act in accordance with your values and climb the ranks.
Alien planet's color detected for the first time
I love that! All the more reason why the search should function properly with cookies disabled.

Just disable cookies in your browser, load Blippex, and search. I searched for "shakespeare" in Firefox 22 (where I have cookies turned off), and the result (below the fold, incidentally), was

> Nothing found
> We're all like "What the blip, man?" too. ...

Same search in Chrome 28 works fine (and interesting, too).

This is my pet peeve on the web, and so common with HN posts that I don't usually bother to point it out. But this seems like something you'd want to know.
It is curious that his religion would come up. If an individual is Catholic or Protestant, no one brings it up. If you're Mormon it suddenly becomes a topic of conversation.

I take that to mean that most people have heard of us (Mormons) but don't really know much about our belief system, other than we send out young guys in white shirts to knock on your door.
Shipping costs, which are significant when dealing with bulk products.
Do you have netcat compiled for Cisco IOS and JunOS? If so, please send them to me, and let me know how to get them into the devices firmware.
Or, you could just work for a company that won't fire you for doing the right thing. I've turned things upside down a number of times, but if the outcome was correct, I never felt even remotely that I would be fired.
You take a file an xor it with the pad. It's like five minutes work, tops. The user interface on top of that might be very interesting, but I honestly find it hard to imagine that the underlying algorithm could be messed up and that you'd still have something that could use the keyfile on something encoded to produce a readable plaintext.

Not wishing to be a drag here, but it's been done over and over again in every intro to cryptography class I've seen.

Sorry ^^;
"If they are net consumers of the staple, they must be net producers of some other crops."

Again, those other crops are likely more expensive per calorie. That means there is no mix of consumption that will get them the same amount of calories they previously consumed, which for subsistence farmers will often mean malnutrition if not starvation.