skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So essentially what happens if your AI turns out to be like Dexter? I suspect that in early forms that might be almost MORE likely since the character (and the theory he's based on) is essentially human with a "bug" in dealing with morality. Which leads to another point, you determine your self aware AI is likely to commit murder based on a debug session. Are you allowed to wipe it without having a trial first?
haha yeah.
It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e., slavery and genocide.

Energy is recognized as the key to all activity on earth. Natural science is the study of the sources and control of natural energy, and social science, theoretically expressed as economics, is the study of the sources and control of social energy. Both are bookkeeping systems: mathematics. Therefore, mathematics is the primary energy science. And the bookkeeper can be king if the public can be kept ignorant of the methodology of the bookkeeping.

All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control. Beyond this remains only one issue: Who will be the beneficiary?

Since energy is the key to all activity on the face of the earth, it follows that in order to attain a monopoly of energy, raw materials, goods, and services and to establixh a world system of slave labor, it is necessary to have a first strike capability in the field of economics. In order to maintain our position, it is necessary that we have absolute first knowledge of the science of control over all economic factors and the first experience at engineering the world economy.

In order to achieve such sovereignty, we must at least achieve this one end: that the public will not make either the logical or mathematical connection between economics and the other energy sciences or learn to apply such knowledge.

This is becoming increasingly difficult to control because more and more businesses are making demands upon their computer programmers to create and apply mathematical models for the management of those businesses.

It is only a matter of time before the new breed of private programmer/economists will catch on to the far reaching implications of the work begun at Harvard in 1948. The speed with which they can communicate their warning to the public will largely depend upon how effective we have been at controlling the media, subverting education, and keeping the public distracted with matters of no real importance.
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> reputation systems could replace much of their most important functionality.

I'll start believing this once you show that a "reputation system" (don't these already exist?) actually does anything to stop quacks from peddling diluted water as a cure-all.

If you relied on reputation alone to regulate the medical market, feel-good snake oil treatments would prosper at the expense of legitimate medical advancement.
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If I have no choice but to get my coffee at a Starbucks, I will always order a "brewed coffee". The order is filled by the order-taker and therefore not subject to any of this barrista bullshit..
You are being cynical.
The real headline here: "Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?" If a headline asks a question, the answer is virtually always "no" or "not yet," but the paper wanted to run a story anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I posted a couple of comments to the blog to the effect of focusing on the marginal seats.

Consider this: In 2010 there were 40+ seats with margins of 1000 votes or less. And Labour lost the chance of cobbling together a coalition (whether or not it'd have worked is another matter) by a handful or two of seats.

So a campaign like this, if well run, is a big threat of upset to all three of the big parties.

But as I wrote on the blog, you can get that same effect by focusing the effort on, say, the 100 or so most marginal seats and using any extra resources on advertising an PR to explicitly make a point out of spoiling it for the incumbent in those seats unless they take a principled stand on the campaigns issue.

For many of these seats, the margin would have only required a swing of <1% away from the incumbent for the runner up win, and many of these seats remain close in election after election.

Also, in these seats it's not only criticising their policy and getting votes that would upset the big parties, but any campaign that'd focus on telling voters "the big three are all just the same, so it doesn't matter which one wins" would be an issue for them in marginal seats as winning those seats depends so heavily on getting people to actually go out and vote as well - voters who decide that they don't give a shit about this campaigns issue but find themselves agreeing it doesn't matter if their seat goes to Labour, the Tories or the Lib Dems might very well stay home even if they'd otherwise vote a specific party out of habit or overall sympathies.

First past the post systems are very prone to big upsets from relatively modest campaigns due to effects like this, and that's one of the reasons why you see so extensive lobbying, but this is a quite interesting approach to it and as much as I loathe the current coalition government, I'd love to see it attempted (and I fall in the category who think that while they're not all the same, they're all so far from what I'd like that I don't care all that much).
I couldn't gather much additional information from the slides, but do I understand this correctly that this substrate vm is an alternative jvm implementation that is faster and requires less memory? Would it be possible to port the usual jvm projects like Clojure or Scala to this in order to claim the same speed/memory gains as the described ruby implementation?
Because most people in the first world have absolutely no direct experience with less affluent parts of the world. Do you? I don't. Given that they have no experience with it, is it even a reasonable assumption that they have it subjectively better, as in leading a life that feels overall better than 90% of the world? No. Partly it's because they assume that they lead a superior life to people in the rest of the world. Partly it's because some places in the world just plain suck. Is it better to live in a war-torn run down village, where you have to fend everyday for your life, than to live in the first world? No. Is it better to live in the first world than be a subsistence farmer of a part of an Amazon or African tribe? That's debatable. But isn't 90% of the world a war-torn shit-hole? I don't know. That's what the news keeps telling me.

We have become great at having more than enough food and shelter, ie. surviving. Great. But have we learned to live a fulfilling life? That is shrouded in mystery to many people, still. Some people want to live, not merely survive (even comfortably so).
Sure, it would be a poor name for a new soda you plan to market in Russian-speaking countries; but probably not really worth mentioning here. I'm sure you realize, but lots of Russian words/phrases sound funny (or obscene) in English too - this is true of every language and vice versa. Naming things is hard enough already without trying to cover what it might sound like in every major language.
Note the 'if' at the beginning of the sentence.
... or maybe they like the idea of democracy, and recognize the fact that voting isn't the only democratic power they have to control their government.
This depends a bit on the jurisdiction. In Germany for example we have a right to a Privatkopie (i.e. a personal copy of something we bought in case something happens to the original that renders it unusable). The problem is that this is trivial for CDs, books, and other non-DRMed media, but there is a conflict in case you have to break copy protection first which itself is illegal. Technically however, this is only legally pursued if you do that on a large scale and distribute the copies, so de facto you can still make copied for your own personal use.

For your right to a private copy there are numerous fees on devices that can make copies as well as media that can hold them, so we have to pay 17 ct per blank CD and something close to 10 € per DVD writer, etc. Basically you're paying for your allowed breach of copyright there, irregardless of what you actually use those things for.
Sorry but I was only quoting this one because of the name (vegeta, goku, same cartoon). I actually only knew Revel prior this post, and didn't know about golang being filled with web frameworks.
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It does. Coffeescript is not involved at any point in the current compilation process.

It did not originally however.
In the US some vendors will send using UPS to USPS. I don't know what they save, but I think that the system loses a day or two compared to just UPS or just USPS. This is annoying if it is something that you need soon.
Why not to let start-up founders decide from whom they want to accept money or not?
> Unfortunately, due to misinformation (IMO) the plan to reform the voting system failed. I think that would really have helped.

I'm ambivalent about it. I'm Norwegian, so can't vote here anyway, but my feeling, partly because of seeing the Norwegian system, I think that while the proposed system would've been a big step forward, it was also a quite poor stopgap measure, and if it had succeeded it would likely have killed the voting system debate for the next 50 years as anyone trying to lobby for further reform would have just been met with "but we already did enough".
I think the biggest problem is that single-issue parties never gain widespread support. I may be interested in internet privacy and technology issues but I might also be interested in education, transport, housing, the economy and many other issues. If these subjects are secondary (or presented as secondary) to your party's main focus, how can you ever gain broad support among the electorate? Unless the real goal of starting a party is to make the main political parties sit up and take notice of the issues you're campaigning for.

The alternative to creating a party is to create a campaigning body or organisation - which of course may struggle to get noticed.

Raising and highlighting important public issues, questioning official claims is also the role of the press, but we can never expect that from the utterly abysmal UK press.
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While I agree the guy is a scum and deserve a good kick in the ball, I feel that people here (even me including to some degree) condone what we are criticizing the NSA for.
I also agree that this behavior is also destroying not only whatever remains of groupon reputation, but is also hurting Yelp as well (which should detect this kind of abuse but wont , because an inflated number of reviews is more trusted than a few verified ones).
Only reason GIF is still alive is its animation support. APNG and WEBP+animation are not there yet.

8-bit palette and crappy compression do not matter when you offer exclusive features.
Ask HN: GET /public/data/AppConfigurations/175/logos.png?
Hello

Looking at the weblogs for a site of mine, I see a lot of requests for /public/data/AppConfigurations/175/logos.png . Occasionally also some variation, like /public/data/AppConfigurations/61/shandrani-web-.png

Does anyone know what this might be? I'm curious, and google gives me nothing.

These have been happening long before the site officially launched, and as far as I can tell, the requesting hosts only do this one GET request, nothing else.

I see a few referers, like "http://es-mg42.mail.yahoo.com/" and "http://webmail.mundo-r.com/". This adds confusion, as they are Spanish webmail sites, and my site is Swedish only.

Does anyone know what this is about?

thanks
Except adding arrow shapes to look like Vim (it's genuinely pretty though), I couldn't tell.
I've seen and heard that from folks who are moving cross-country or even cross-continent. So far it's mostly been students with smaller apartments, but it's not unheard of. (I'm in Germany.)
Correct. Sorry, didn't mean to imply it was hard to obtain this value (the switch to vanity URL part was more of an anecdote) but just to describe what happened in the video of the exploit.
Downloading from a torrent won't be legal, because you'll also distribute the movie in the process.

Distributing copyrighted material is generally forbidden, even in countries where owning and creating private copies is allowed.
I would be very interested to see people running the numbers on past elections, and seeing what the results would have been under different voting systems.

The UK has a weird 'first-past-the-post' system, and it'd be neat to see what the different results would have been.
The Swedish Pirate Party definitely campaigns heavily on those issues, and less on "sharing culture". It took a few years for them to get through that phase.

I guess the UK Pirate Party is in need of more members who care about these issues?
I see what you mean regarding namespace collision, but if we always set a standard based on the lowest common denominator we'll end up being stuck with practices that were followed because there was no reason not to.

As for the universal XSS, this can be solved at the browser and page level. First the gTLD as any other level should be explicitly declared in the script URL from the open page and second the browser blocks all the rest.
> If I'm bored, I need to be social and hang out with someone; I can't waste time playing video games or watching TV. (I'm fortunately pretty sparse with my computer use — GChat, vim, and music mostly.)

Why are other people the magic fix for everything? Hanging out with people can be just as much of a waste of time as watching Paradise Hotel, or whatever. If you walk over to your friends place for three years and hang out with the same three people every day, what has that given you? Maybe it was fun, but did you grow as a person and expand your mind? Or did you crack the same old jokes and references from the same cult movies that you've always done, and whine about the same problems that you had yesterday and still are doing nothing about, and bicker about something on the comical Seinfeld-level of pettiness?

"But it is it's own reward". Yes, but the same can be said for video games, computers, TV, or whatever else we've decided to label as "bad", probably because we are either 1. know nothing about it 2. did it in excess and now think it is the devil.
It would be interesting to do the same kind of thing with airline luggage, or at least international freight.
And to go further, Facebook has an office in Dubai. [0] Are you telling me if language was not a barrier, they could not find a single Arabic-speaking employee? They could even save money on the collect calls, if Facebook was not an option.

And hats off to Khaled. Hebron is not a fun place to grow up, and making it that far, a B.S. that is, is an accomplishment. I grew up with far more privilege and I am still not smart enough to come up with Facebook exploits.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/dubai
Next up: north is not really up, and south is not really down.
I care about this issue quite a lot, and the central idea - Kickstarting a new party - is a good one.

Having said that, there are an enormous number of problems with this suggestion.

" There should be no need for local campaigning. I’ve never had a politician knock on my door to discuss who I’d vote for, but I have had plenty of leaflets and fliers put though my letterbox and they end up straight in the recycling. "

Good - because everyone else thinks the same as the OP, right? If we promote on Twitter and YouTube, everyone who matters will learn about the party?

Not so much. A project like this is going to need a marketing budget, and a big one - as well as volunteers on the ground, whether the OP likes it or not.

Most people don't even have a Twitter account. Most people don't follow YouTube particularly closely.

And as many, many marketing professionals over the years have noticed, you need to tell people about your product a lot more than once for them to buy into it.

"There are 650 constituencies in the United Kingdom."

And for each of these, you're going to need a candidate. That's 650 people you need to find, who can appear credible to the media (so, they'll need to be skilled public speakers who can handle a debating environment as well as a media interview focused on soundbites), who don't have any skeletons in their closet or non-standard lifestyle choices that the other parties can use to discredit the entire organisation ("GEEK WHO WANTS TO BE PM IN BISEXUAL ORGY SHOCKER!"), and who are willing to give up their current careers should they win.

One of the biggest problems the mainstream parties have is finding qualified candidates - and they've got 100+ years of experience and network to do so. For an upstart party like this, it's going to be a far, far bigger problem than finding the money.

None of which means that this idea should just be disregarded, but it definitely needs more consideration.
... and a bit more trivia about the name ... for the folks from the ex-Yugoslavia, when you say Vegeta it means this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegeta_(food)
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"There’s a single protest party, the UK Independence Party, but UKIP and I don’t really see eye-to-eye, due to the fact that I am married to a naturalised British citizen and together we have three mixed-race children.".

Rather than cast an unpleasant slur on UKIP (what nasty visions your comment conjures up) it would be helpful were you to identify the perceived problem. As far as I am aware, UKIP are not planning to discriminate against my own UK naturalized marriage partner or my child.
Why didn't your coworkers reply back asking for more info? This is like the first thing security engineers should do. Look how serious Security Engineers at Microsoft reply back, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/12/15/10247...

The right thing to do is add Khalil to the white hat list, and pay him what he deserves. He doesn't speak or read English as you have noticed. Your TOS for white hat page is NOT even translatable.

He used real accounts because your team did not care what he had to say. What do you think he should have done? Sell it to the black market?
The relationship between corporations and governments can be seen as roughly analagous to that of the King and the Church 400 years ago: both colluding and competing for power.
or hire the guy.
"Job : unemployee :/"
Here's something I whipped together in 45 minutes

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That's an excellent point, and one that I've not really considered before. Those two common memes do indeed clash in an interesting way.

And on this subject - it's worth noting that one of the most popular books on how to be rich of recent times, "Four Hour Work Week", devotes a substantial section at the back of the book to a discussion of how to cope once you are rich - talking about depression, search for meaning, and similar things.

That's pretty good evidence that being rich, in fact, does not automagically cure all problems, and that there's not a one-sentence answer to those problems remaining.
All the stuff I have,
-Herman miller chair
-army cot
-2 blankets
-small foldable table
-mbp
-iphone
-casio f91w
-10 pairs of dress pants and dress shirts (custom tailored in SE Asia), a black suit, 2 jackets, 2 pairs of shoes
-two pelican cases
-a cup, a pair of chopsticks, a spoon and a small knife

One thing I do really miss is my piano.

Not owning too much stuff feels really great. I get this strange anxiety whenever I have too many possessions.
Moving is a pain in the ass if you have too many things and I don't like staying in one place for too long.

At the end of the day, it saves money and you can spend that on traveling, good food and other entertainments.

I'll never understand why more people don't live like this.

Most people wouldn't have to work so much if they didn't waste all their money buying useless stuff. Hell, they might even save enough to retire early.

Some of my buddies in college had a whole kitchen of utensils, giant tv, desk, couches, humongous bed, piles of clothes, etc.

When it came time to move out, it took me an hour to pack up. It took them days.

One occasion, I helped a friend move out after his lease ended and he was taking a vacation in Taiwan.
He took me to his storage unit and I was in awe at the sight, piles of plates and cups (I had no idea why he needed all these plates), brooms, fans, old tv, etc.

I think it costed him more money to store this stuff than the values of the stuff itself. In the end, he ended up never coming back to the US.
They were pretty well done over in the threads for the original posting of the Tesla/SpaceX team's Hyperloop concept on here.

I tend to agree with the "it's not that big a deal" sentiment. Usually you're not allowed to go to the toilet for 30min before landing on a commercial jet either. And on a smaller regional jet it's unlikely there's any serious medical help available. Help is only 30min away, and that's assuming you got sick right at the very START of the trip. I think allergic reactions and choking are probably the biggest risks. One to think about, but probably not a reason to write off a game changing transport method!

I do think it's funny that the most common question when someone proposes a super efficient super fast transport solution is "How will people go to the toilet?".

I guess people who have real trouble can still take the bus or a plane. I'll go before departure, and cross my legs if need be :-)
Nothing could compare to the positive publicity and support that Sauce is getting from the community for going public about the extortion instead of seeking private compensation. No way could Groupon could have offered them any "deals" that would bring them as much good publicity and customers as this event will. And it would be unethical for Sauce to seek compensation for keeping it private.

What you suggest is more like extorting Groupon back by insisting on compensation for keeping quiet about the extortion -- instead of warning other businesses and customers about Groupon's criminal activities, and preventing it from happening to others in the future.

Obviously Sauce is not the only company who suffered from Groupon's extortion, and I'm sure Andy Johnston is not the only extortionist working at Groupon. Sauce keeping it under their hat in exchange for a free Groupon deal would be unethical and idiotic.

Groupon deals don't even work well, and Sauce already wanted nothing to do with them.
IANAL, but I believe that it is actually cloudy, since you have a license for the content and a copy of the file. ( Actually I believe it comes down to the precise wording of the license, the exact implementations of 'fair use' in whichever jurisdiction you are in, and probably if the distributor replaces a broken Dvd...)
Now if the SVM is to have a very fast FFI I think it would have the potential to be awesome. Especially as the SVM seems to be easily embeddable...
Agreed, Facebook will not be safe anymore. All these white hackers will sell their exploit to black hackers.
Actually,'bout that: The USPS has banned the mailing of batteries, not because they're worried someone will disguise a bomb as one, but because they have a habit exploding in atmospheric changes.
I found the keyboard and plastic exterior to feel "cheap" on the recent model I tried. They used to be rock-solid though.
I have been working on a two-factor authentication system. It needs a cookie to keep the user from re-authenticating every time. For one particular user on Chrome, this cookie is getting cleared everyday and they're not sure how to fix it on their side. This could help restore the cookie without requiring needlessly a second factor.