skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"recommending we throw out any pretensions of objectivity or science or knowledge in favor of "do what you feel"."

Not so. Mental agility, weight, blood pressure are all easy and inexpensive to track.

A person's perception of how well they slept, overall feeling of well being, etc., can also be tracked if they are careful to quantify and record them.

I think you underestimate the power of carefully recorded data, which is at the core of the quantified self movement.
they offer a valuable break in the day to interact with people.

I laughed when I read this. I'm an introvert, so meals offer me a valuable break in the day to NOT interact with people. :)
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Agreed. I don't think people appreciate that running a bounty program is not an easy task. The vast majority of the reports you get are invalid, and you have to actively search for the signal in the noise. Mistakes happen, but the correct response is for the reporter to provide more information and a better demonstration. Breaking the rules of the program, however, should never be inbounds and I certainly don't think it should be rewarded.
That he will not be able to receive because no-one bothered to check that the service they used cannot pay out to people that live in countries where PayPal doesn't service. Which doesn't include Palestine.

PayPal for non-US -> https://gofundme.zendesk.com/entries/22590777-Is-my-country-...

No Palestine -> https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/

Not for years -> https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Getting-started/Palestin...

I'm surprised that gofundme didn't stop it before they have to reverse all the charges. I guess they like the free publicity.

So everything will revert, everyone will forget about him and he is back to square one.
Clearly you are only passingly familiar with young children. ;) As @mathattack implies, one cannot predict an infant's near-future need for diapers with the same confidence with which one can predict e.g. when a furnace filter needs changing.
Knowing when an email is opened might alter how you interact with email forever?
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One burrito bowl can contain something like 75% of your daily sodium intake. The calorie:vitamin ratio is also terrible.

Go play around with their nutrition calculator [1]. It's fast food.

[1] - http://www.chipotle.com/en-us/menu/nutrition_calculator/nutr...
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Bitcoin have different facets. For people leaving in places with a variety of banking choice, some of them may come unnoticed.

Bitcoin is great when:

1. You want to accept or make payments from a country where CC fraud is high or banking is rare/expensive.

2. You worry about high inflation rates in your home currency, and your government creates a lot of obstacles to move your money to other currencies (like today in Argentina).

3. Or you want transact in a grey market tax-free. E.g. a guy selling his IT consulting services.
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If I had to guess, I think he's talking about coroutines that allow you to pass data as well as take it out.

Python's PEP 342, which expanded python generators into truer coroutines, has a decent discussion on the differences.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0342/
Hubspot released a freemium tool to the world today called Signals. It is a chrome extension that essentially pops up a notification on your desktop when your email is read.

Is this a good thing? If this gets widely adopted it could potentially change how we treat email. Dynamics might shift with information like this. 'I know you know etc'

Discuss :)
I'm sure there are other ways to get the money to him through a proxy individual.
This is true only if you are hired for a generic role. Most people are, but for sufficient specific jobs (like mine), you will know exactly what team you are joining.

Also, with decent performance you can transfer after a year, occasionally even earlier if another team really wants you.
1) These people who will be accessing the internet from these channels are going to bring in ~$0 revenue. You think advertisers are want to target these low-income areas?! This is a specious argument at best -- attempting to create this lame binary "Google = good, Facebook = bad"

2) He said the 'dumb fucks' statement when he was 19 -- I'd hate for shit I said when I was that age to be held against me for the rest of my life =/

3) Given that their mission is "Making the world more open and connected," this project is just in line with that.
One could argue that even those in the USA do not understand or cannot avoid these risks, making them (as you said) "vulnerable to unprecedented levels of tyranny".
"Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition." ... you sir must live in the same age that your username implies.

Also, your argument here is silly. This guy's diet is not "above average" in quality by any means and a Chipotle Burito Bol is not a "legit meal" based on what one would consider to be a healthy lifestyle. The amount of sodium alone in those things is enough to make me and some of your organs cringe - literally.

Go to the grocery store. Pick up some raw foods. Cook them on a Sunday night. Put them in the fridge. Pat yourself on the back. You've just managed to prep your lunch/dinner for the week and you did it all without having to find a stay-at-home wife.
This is how the charade will unfold:-
India will ask the IMF to bail them out again and I see this happening within a 4 month period.
IMF will start dictating terms and the common man on the street will face the brunt.

God, save my country from my countrymen who run it.
So why can't, let's say, German citizens sue Google and alike in Germany? I am pretty sure many foreigners feel that some NSA programs are unconstitutional according to other countries' constitution.

What if many foreign citizens from many countries sue internet companies for assisting the Big Brother in spying on these foreign citizens?

Will that force Google to stop assisting the NSA?
This leads to a German article. Sorry I did not find any English article on this topic yet. So here the short summary (actually my translations of selected passages):

[German] government experts warn, Windows 8 is an unacceptable security risk for governmental offices and companies. The so-called Trusted Computing might be a backdoor for NSA.

[..]

According to their [expert's] opinion the operating system contains a backdoor which cannot be closed. This backdoor is called Trusted Computing and might have the consequence that Microsoft could control every computer remotely. And therefore NSA could do it as well.

[..]

Three points are decisive: First the [new] TPM, in contrary to the existing standard, is active from the time when you switch on the computer. As soon as you start the computer you cannot decide anymore if you want Trusted-Computing (Opt-in). Secondly it is not possible to deactivate in future the TPM (Opt-out). Third the OS takes over the control over the TPM, in the case of Windows OS it means that the computer is controlled by Microsoft.

----

In the light of the current situation on spying, I have to say that I am happy that it goes in this direction.
I don't get how gofundme works.

How do gofundme knows which address to send the fund to/verifying the receiver, etc... when the campaign ends?

What's the purpose of the campaign creator in here?
>This contradiction between user-experience and reality apparently forms the basis for many user/developers’ belief that the keyboard is faster.

Interesting article. I'm sure the $50M in studies were of non-power users, though, and so irrelevant for developers with sufficiently powerful keyboard shortcuts.

I can guarantee it doesn't take me 2 seconds for my top 20 keyboard shortcuts, any more than it takes 2 seconds for me to hit "return" at the end of a line, or to move around with arrow keys. That said, I frequently use the mouse as well, and always prefer to work in a GUI instead of a text-mode editor.

What I found most revealing, though, was the admission that part of the problem was the awkward location of the command key. Whenever I'm on a Mac I end up remapping it so that I can hit Control (in the corner of the keyboard) -- Control-ZXCV are all easier to hit than Command-ZXCV.

Which just goes to prove that most studies are wrong [1], or at least can't always be generalized.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
It's an interesting point.

We've actually stopped buying fresh produce from online groceries because the quality / freshness has been consistently poor or in some cases (meat) even declined.

We've only had the opportunity to try Coles Online (Australia) because they're the only provider that delivers to my suburb. I'm sure others have better experiences, but it's interesting that the initial concerns played out.

We use online groceries for dry foods, nappies etc.
This is of a large enough magnitude that I'm suspicious it could be something created out of the Project Loon announcement in terms of timing.

Also, given that Facebook's mission is to "Make the world more open and connected," this is just the next logical step to me. Not everyone has extra billions hanging around that Google does, and therefore FB + partners need another method to pull it off.
No.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248089

Given what you know, you may recuse yourself. Others are not afforded that decision. Even at a cost.
Rewarding this guy for demonstrating an exploit against an innocent person is the exact wrong thing to do. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good anti-facebook circlejerk as much as the next guy, but nothing this guy did should be applauded. He should be told to go learn professional ethics before doing any more security research.

While I think the developer in question has probably learned his lesson, the message this sends to others who may be in a similar position as amateur security researchers is that his actions are okay and facebook is the bad guy. That's just wrong, and it will lead to exploits being used against innocent users instead of people learning how to submit bug reports and how to conduct ethical security research.
It's really not possible anymore. Everyone has lost their trust in the U.S. government, to the extent that even if a high-ranking official makes a claim (e.g. "We do not spy on you"), you can no longer believe them.

The same can be said for U.S. companies, since they are given secret gag orders that they aren't allowed to mention, that also tell the companies what lies to say.

There's no going back. If you care at all about keeping information from your competitors, government, or anyone else who might get their hands on it, you need to host it physically on your own local internal network. No cloud.
Except gofundme will not be able to legally do that.

Who would insure a process like that? They will just refund everyone and forget about it, not their problem.

They should make a statement one way or the other if they can accomplish this, I am pretty sure they cannot. Many companies are restricted from business in Palestine by Israel, Palestine is not even allowed to send mail internationally.
Apart from being calorically dense and salty, fast food is still food. Ordinary food, even fast food, contains an abundance of complex nutrients, some of which are only poorly understood.

Companies with actual dietitians and biologists and millions of dollars and labs and decades of lead time haven't been able to create a total replacement for food. There are too many variations in what different people need, too many as-yet unknown conditionally-essential nutrients. That's why all the existing replacement formulae are marketed as being for temporary use only.
Probably will be possible to use Western Union to send the money over. Online money exchange is super hard in some countries though (I've experienced it first hand in Haiti.) It's a shame because it really holds the people there back. I sent an inquiry to Paypal once asking them about their plans to expand to more countries (specifically Haiti) and got this canned response:

The primary reason is the challenges and complexities associated with the worldwide financial network which becomes even more unique within each country. It is not a reflection of the status or reliability of individuals in these countries.

We currently support services in nearly 200 countries across the globe. The global financial marketplace is unique and varies locally between each country. PayPal always seeks to ensure compliance with local and international laws before unveiling any new service. This is why we cannot offer a firm date or timetable for expansion of specific services.

Though we can't provide an exact date for coming to your region, we can promise you we're working hard to get there.
For more information, just go to the PayPal website and click the "Worldwide" link at the bottom of the page.
> I want to be able to take a good fuel for my body and indulge in great food whenever I want.

Then eat some meat and some vegetables.

> I want to be able to back-pack for a week with only a 4-pound food supply.

Then take trail mix.
Certainly no doctor or nutritionist would advise it for a healthy person. If it's not safe to live off of carefully formulated enteral diets, then you would definitely not want to try it with Soylent.

Still, people have survived poor diets and near-starvation throughout history. If the body was that fussy about nutrition, we'd be extinct.
I do enjoy seeing women's facial structure highlighted by these awesome kinetic displays. Reminds me how little I see an actual female human face making a broad gesture in public. Am I on that social upvoting site for jailboats?

I think we know why this is here. A design choice like "do we want a bigass arrow?" would have made all the difference for this UX.
Business owners the world over are hoping this becomes a trend. Outsourcing your QA to the global market, but better than the current model because it's free. Why pay out when other (completely uninvolved) parties will do it for you? Bizarre that people see this as a positive.
You're right. I hesitated with that line, and should have said "we suspect" rather than we know.

Constant macronutrient ratios treat the body as a linear system. I doubt the body does best on a constant injection of the same nutrients. But I don't actually know that.
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Seems familiar.
Except they don't bother to mention Western Union and WU has a $1500/month limit in Palestine.
I don't know either, but I strongly, strongly suspect the laws of thermodynamics are more important than the nuances of human biology, such as they may be. Human biology has done exceedingly well in ridiculously varying conditions. I really doubt that a long lasting lack of X nutrient is going to kill someone. The defining characteristic of human biology is that we live despite tons of variations in diet, activity level, and exogenous conditions like water purity, temperature, humidity, etc. The human body is damn good at figuring out what to do with an incredibly diverse array of energy sources. It is not fragile AT ALL.

But again, my beef with Soylent is that they make wild claims that might not be accurate. And so what, really? Every other supplement manufacturer does the same damn thing - and worse. See also: Any "growth hormone" supplement, deer antler spray, etc.
Rights do not exist. "Human Right" is a modern synonym for power. In absence of power, a right is meaningless. In the presence of power, a right is superfluous.
They have a service called "Fulfillment by Amazon" (FBA). You don't even have to be a huge merchant to use it, I have tried using it just to learn how it works to ship one item which was worth about $10. It's totally automated, no need to talk to a person.

On their website you can add new items that appear on Amazon if they don't already have a listing for it.

When you want to send the items to their warehouse, there are two pieces of info they need. One is a way to identify the shipment when they receive it, another is to be able to identify each individual item in the shipment.

For the shipment part, you list the items you are going to send them using their web interface and then get a document to print for sending along with the shipment, which has a barcode they scan to know what the shipment is when it arrives.

For the items, if they don't already have suitable barcodes that help them know which listing each item is related to, you can create barcode stickers and attach them to the items, also through that web interface.

After they get the shipment, they appear in your inventory on the site. If people buy the items through Amazon, they will ship it for you. They also have an API for dispatching an item to an address you desire. There are some options for removing Amazon box branding too, if you want to just use them to handle shipping for you.
Civilians in Syria have been protesting every Friday for years now. Before Assad unleashed his military neighborhoods and entire cities would take to the streets in peaceful demonstration.

From January 27 2012 in Zamalka Syria: http://youtu.be/M6GyEm3_uqA

As Assad called in regular military forces, even before "National Defense" militias, the crowds in the streets were gunned at, chased down, killed.

Here is an image I stitched from video showing a BMP chasing people in the streets during Assad's "referendum" when the pretense of elections were used to kill more[1].

This brings me to Zamalka[2], this neighborhood is in Rif Dimashq which is the Governorate just outside of where Damascus is located. During the time just before the military was unleashed upon civilian centers, there was massive swells of demonstrations, mainly in more rural areas of Syria like Talbisah. For a short while Assad was able to shrug off the start of military action in these rural areas as his core supporters are from neighborhoods like those ringing Damascus. The enemy was simply banging on the gates, never mind the enemy being civilians. Now Assad's forces been bolstering Homs in sectarian slaughter while even letting ardent neighborhoods come under fire.

Alawite citizens are being shipped in to areas purged of Sunnis in Homs. Repeat, population cleansing, dispersant, resettling[3].

So it seems that Assad is burning areas even closer to Damascus than Jobar, while setting up an Alawite shield for the wealthiest supporters towards Latakia in the west. Not good.

Some more on Talbisah, here is a very good account that uploaded videos from the early phases of demonstrations to bitter battles against the military base that neighbored the residential neighborhood. Watching the videos from oldest uploaded to newest is a painful descent into madness[4].

[1] http://i.imgur.com/prkBmh.jpg

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamalka

[3] http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/syrian-army-ren...

[4] http://www.youtube.com/user/talbisah/videos?flow=grid&view=0...
Exactly! So the problem is political.
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It depends on compiler / librarian / linker. I'm talking from experience here, not from deep knowledge or understanding the problem.

So basically what happens, is that if you have a lone variable globally instantiated, but no one refers to it, it might be stripped from the final linking, and as such any constructors/destructors associated with it would not be called.

Now if you are linking directly to the .obj file where the variable is declared it most likely would be put into account, but if the .obj is in a .lib (.a) then it might not.

Again, do some experiments, try it out.

There is another nastiness with globally initialized variables, that one should not expet some kind of order when the things are initialized. We've had code in the past (Dreamcast) where globally initialized variables, which were assigned the values of other globally initialized variables and then some operation on them would not always work: e.g. this at the top level:

float x = 10;

float y = x + 20;

It worked most of the time, and then if someone started moving variables to other object files, it stopped.

Check the http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ for more gotchas.
>Things like Python's generators do not conform entirely to this definition, but you get people calling them coroutines anyhow

What's python still missing these days?
... consulting and "enterprise" support?
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I dont get why they don't use a more secure form of email (say, a GPG implementation from end to end)?

Unless the problem is its not practical - which i think is only a matter of familiarity.
I'd have health concerns about that; what if someone has an ear infection and then returns a pair?
You are about a decade too late.

NSA has virtually unlimited funds now, what congressperson is going to defund them and risk the blame for the next incident.

If 60TB HAMR drives become a reality this decade to replace the 4TB per drive limit, they will archive the entire internet for decades until they can decode it. Why not since it costs them nothing, it's "only" taxpayer dollars and the taxpayers aren't worth saving unless they can know every detail about their existance.
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Yes, he's a dick and he missed copper. I'm going to assign the dickishness to passion and the missed copper to missing copper in the list.

But his general point is still correct: a mix of foods trumps a formula, especially given population variations in requirement and uptake.
jacques_chester, The Dream Killer.

P.S.: I am currently eating Chicken I made with a side of snap-peas from my garden. I do what you say already -- I just also want an alternative which has incredible shelf-life, portability, cost-benefit, etc. etc. etc.
If you have a function that can suspend its own execution and return data, you have a Python generator.

If it can also receive data when it is resumed, you have an ES6 generator (or the C macros above!).

If its subroutines can cause it to suspend, you have a full-blown coroutine.

If it can be copied, you can build call/cc.
I'm sure the problem with liquid protein is that they're concocted for weight lifters, but over-zealous dieters use them as a substitute for food.
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I have as well, and it is a very powerful thing to see. It actually hurts me to know what people around the world have to struggle for.

That being said, I think you are only hurting your own reputation by getting mad that other people are fighting for a different, less primitive or dire, cause. We want people to be fighting for all of the great causes in the world, don't criticize them for not fighting the one most important to you, commend them for their effort to bring more good into the world.
You should turn that scroll bar back on.
> By that argument, if you believe in any human rights, if a worker is needed to enable it they also are slaves.

This is why many people object to so-called positive rights. Positive rights oblige others to action. Negative rights oblige inaction.
What's the craziest thing in your field that you suspect is true?
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OSX/iOS hiding the scrollbar is not that big of a deal. You can tap the trackpad/touchscreen to get it to re-appear again so you know how far along the page you are when you need to.

It's not a problem that needs solving. OSX/iOS users are very used to this and it is second nature.
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No one would say "the mail has raised $10k for ... "

These are just people using tools. The internet is not a person or subset of people, it's a utility open to anyone.
Thank you. Not only a good real world example of server provisioning with Ansible, something I've been meaning to try, but a pretty well chosen set of services to install and configure. I'm already using Postfix and Dovecot over SSL but will surely learn from the rest of the setup.