skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In your example that would be preemptive imprisonment if there was a greater than some probability you were a criminal. I don't like the idea of preemptive imprisonment, but if that was the case, then I don't see how adding more data to make the predictions more accurate would be a bad thing.

That position is utterly untenable. It's so obviously wrong to imprison someone because some signals indicate they might commit a crime based on who they're friends with on Facebook! There's a difference between being buddies with a gaggle of career criminals and actually committing (or conspiring to commit) a crime!

> If there was a 99% chance of you becoming addicted to them, then you probably shouldn't be given pain killers.

If that person has a history of abusing painkillers, yes. If their friends do? C'mon, you can't possibly justify that position.

> There is no rational reason that the world would be better if we just gave loans to everyone at the same interest rate

I didn't argue for equal interest rates for all. It makes sense for interest rates are tied to risk, but it's only reasonable to make an assessment of risk based on an individual's performance and ability to pay, not their friends' or peers' performance.

> or if we intentionally excluded useful data points from determining the risk of things.

I'm not sure whether you've thought this through. Let's say, for example, it's determined by someone's payment history that they're not good at managing their money. They learn from their mistakes, improve their payment behavior, and subsequently lower their risk of default. On the other hand, what if it was determined that Asians are more likely to default on their debt. What can you do to stop being Asian? What if gay people were less likely to default on their debt and then irresponsible people who happen to be gay find it easier to get debt? Your thesis breaks down very quickly and I truly struggle to believe you agree with the position you're making.

Neither one of us are making novel arguments now, but thanks for the interesting perspective and debate!
I wonder how long until the first merchant to take the money and run? Alice buys something from Bob, Bob sends a tracking number for a rock in a box and chuckles his way to the bank.

Or vice versa, of course, Alice buys something, Bob ships it, Alice never pays.
That's a good point - PG is essentially decision engine.

All YC investments are public and some investor could go through and build PG's model using videotapes of all those founders. Collect all this data, put a few data scientists on it, and build a virtual PG.

The connections don't matter if you're a huge fund, you can buy your way to a meeting with Presidents, silicon valley types are puny in comparison.

This is a golden opportunity for oil tycoons (tesla and google are going to be demolishing them in the next few years with electric self-driving cars, they better get in the tech game, and so far PG has been most reliable at it).
> What the heck do people blow their money on.

The interest on 130K of private student loans, to start.
Did The TSA and JetBlue Deny Travel For Looking Muslim During Ramadan? No
The obvious question is how is "occupation-ending" defined, in particular for knowledge workers who could quite possibly continue working with even severe physical disabilities?
Listen to Khan Academy videos (if you consider Sal's pronunciations as good as any American's).
The speechwriters.
If you look at what we could have got versus what we actually got, two things will happen:

1. You'll drive yourself mad.

2. You'll start to appreciate the Right Thing.
Not to be confused with Jeremy Allaire, who did not. :)
As with the TCP/IP variant, DoS is much more useful if you can somehow amplify the effect of your traffic.
I don't really know anything about NLP, so I can't comment on the analysis quality. What I meant to say is that a full-on Linux container seems a bit overkill for distributing what is essentially just a python app.

If I just wanted to run an instance of this locally to play around with, I would probably want to git clone it, make a virtualenv, run "pip install -r requirements.txt" or "python setup.py develop" to grab the dependencies, and then run some python script which starts up the web server.

And if I wanted to deploy the app to EC2, I would probably just grab an AMI and launch an instance off of that.
If the function name or docstring is descriptive enough, I'd just go for

(defn square-halve-add3-to-string [n]
(-> n
(#(* % %))
(/ 2.0)
(+ 3)
str))
I reworded that bit. You're right that it made me sound like an ass.

How does the stock sendmail setup behave that assumes www.foo.com?
That's the way to do it. Settlers of Cataan is a massively successful game, probably more than most videogames. Lots of lesson to take away from that article.
Rails is Cobol. There is a lot of excitement in, for instance, AI, geoscale graphics or biocomputation.
Not to detract from your point, but it wouldn't affect home lines, so they'd still be able to contact 911. As for cell phones, if someone, say, collapses in public, I've witnessed 5+ people try to contact 911. The likelihood of everyone having the same network and thus being knocked out is relatively low.

And finally, many doctors use pagers/beepers, which wouldn't necessarily be knocked out in the same way a GSM network would.

But that's just me talking on a few details; I agree with you, it should obviously be illegal and could be deadly.
flickr is actually quite popular amongst my photographer friends; artists and doodlers seem to use deviantart.

Facebook is a place for photos of people's faces, really. If the artifacts prevent you from seeing someone's face, the picture is probably too small to begin with. Putting other kinds of photos on Facebook (like, say, Cinnabon(TM)) always baffled me, but people do it anyway.
Not to disagree with you, but those bodyguards would be subject to the same surveillance, and the thought experiment is meant to explore that too.

But as for what this would be like, most likely it would be a society like the Borg (TNG Borg, pre-queen, not VOY Borg).
Tesla Model S vulnerable to hackers?
I found the patents for the blouses / refrigerators, but it seems to me that this was more of a hobby of his, not a serious startup endeavour.

My imaginary scenario is more like this: let's assume that there is something like the relativity theory of programming, i.e. in order to build programs of a certain size and complexity you HAVE to use the relativity theory, otherwise you'll fail. Now, could Einstein have built a software company that takes advantage of this?
The thing about nostalgic recursion is that it's never what it used to be.
Google plans to launch Driverless taxis
I guess you're entitled to use whatever standard of proof you want. But "random guy on the internet doesn't like it" is not the kind of thing you should expect to persuade others. For me it certainly doesn't outweigh the opinion of professional scholars.

The reason we know Romans had money is that we still have some of their money. If they did have money and you're asserting it was gold, then it should be up to you to come up with some of their golden money. There are certainly plenty of other artifacts from the era.
5 common content marketing myths busted
Love your Small Empires show. Most people when interviewing entrepreneurs don't go into how their product/service looked like at the very beginning. It gives great insight. Keep it going!

http://www.theverge.com/video/small-empires
He brought up compatibility because compatibility and novelty are often opposites.
And if you couldn't find the right AMI or if you wanted to use a different provider, you could use Docker.
> If you would read the footer

You can't, the "Twittern" (you made a typo) button is covering it.

I don't understand the point of Pltts. The top 20 colours are just ColourLovers top 20 colours. Why not browse ColourLovers that has the exact same stuff, plus much MUCH more?
Baseband processors will probably be the top future exploit target, now that mobile is exploding. These processors are the central interconnect between microphones, the GPS and a bunch of other periphery on a smartphone (any phone, really). They run propietary binary blobs on mostly lower end ARM-SoCs, and due to their nature, most any exploit will be remote, and you will have a high-bandwidth uplink to share the spoils.

The binary blobs are usually some variant of a homegrown RTOS system, written in C. Given the low end processors used, there is no isolation between processes (no MMU), and the complex 3G et al signalling has lots of nasty error paths and interrupt goodness.
"week long verification process"!? I really have to call B.S. on that one. I setup a coinbase account a few weeks ago and was verified within 3 days.

I can't comment on their customer service as I have yet to need it.
It doesn't have to be a consensus. The point though is that with some common ground we can talk about issues and over time this can help people evolve their beliefs on both sides.

The problem with the political tribalism is that since we believe we have very little in common we ally ourselves with those who do not share our interests on the basis of manufactured agreement. I think it is only once one can attack that process that we can come together to update beliefs.

I consider myself fairly far right of center (not in a tea-party way, in a Distributist way). One of the most useful things i have found is that if I start off with a critique of the right, I can often get the left to listen to me on the rest.
Release the gate security video and we can make our own determinations.
I think you are stretching the hammer analogy well beyond its useful limit. I've no idea what php function you think has a redundant left and right version, but to humor you, sure there are lots of nail pullers that have two similar sides or ends to attack different sizes.
eg http://s.shld.net/is/image/Sears/00938076000
There are also lots of physical tools that completely reasonably do have exactly duplicated sides or ends because they wear out, but I don't see how you want that to apply to software.

Talking about == is not trivial or apologetic. That's the way I expect comparison to work in a loosely typed language. I expect 0, 0.0, '0', '0.0', -0, 00, 0x00, null and false to be logically equivalent most of the time. If it also means that if I don't validate input from an http request 0=='0 foodle fish' also evaluates as true, then that's a cost I'm willing to bear.
Also a recent EMT episode of dishwasher lasagne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S9AmtH19o
4chan.org/v/
Damn, I need to watch more Alton Brown. And more Mythbusters.
All heap access must be synchronized. Using pooled buffers may actually be faster because you can ensure that only one thread is accessing a specific pool. Just create a new pool, when a new thread is created.
I also find the graphics to be a little bit difficult to read.

It is hard to tell where the lines lead, so I need to rotate the globe. Also for European nations, it is very messy because some of the countries are tiny and all trade with each other. There is also no way to see arms trade over time, which would have been quite useful since the data has a time-series.

Very pretty looking 3D graphic though.
But whatever line you grab is a socially constructed line. Legally dead is a social construct, right? We could have said that braindead is not legally dead if we wanted.
> I believe the immigration people would give people americanized versions of their names so they wouldn't experience as much rejection or racism. (edited for spelling).

You were hopefully thinking about refugee immigrants when you said this?
Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords
The chemical weapons of Syria | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Ha. Methinks you doth protest too much. But I'll be very precise. Show me the equations and code that Krugman wrote in 2009 that predicted the unemployment curve over the last four years. OMB (full of economists!), to their credit, at least essayed a quantitative prediction. As the first graph showed, it was completely wrong.

So: what "very old" models performed "very well"? You must be thinking of something here. I'm not talking about a Krugman blog post where he says the stimulus was too small. I'm talking about an actual scatterplot, a time series prediction with the X axis as time, the Y axis as the dependent variable, and actual empirical measurements plotted vs. the predictions of theory.

Here is another example from a different field:

http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-the-forecast-for-2...

http://www.nature.com/news/499139a-i2-0-jpg-7.11335?article=...

You can see the graph halfway down the page, with theoretical predictions as the red line and actual empirical measurements as the black line. The Nature article admits they don't match well. But in other fields they do match well. For example:

http://physics.info/projectiles/practice.shtml

In ballistics the predicted time series match experimental results very closely. So I ask again: what "very well established models" in economics performed "very well"? Which of them nailed the curve?
Or, you know, each thread could allocate only when it needs something and handle its own recycling. Node.js has a particular advantage in that it isn't concurrent in any way (which, of course, has many other downsides.)
I didn't read it as implying that you are Ryan Holiday in disguise, but rather that your sticking up for his book is evidence of the success of his clever tricks.
California Rim Fire showering ash on key San Francisco water reservoir
Sorry I've been out of the Facebook app game for a while, but isn't there a Facebook API for photos? Couldn't anyone do what Facebook is doing here, leveraging the Facebook userbase and their unrivalled quantities of photos? Of course users would still have to discover the app as opposed to it being part of the stock FB experience, but this doesn't necessarily sound like the death knell for every startup who wants to build a social/collaborative photo album service.
Absolutely fascinating method. I need to try this.

I have an actor friend, who is well-respected professionally. I once discussed how he approaches the new play that he is working on. He said that at first he just rote-learns the play, so that he can keep all of it in his head.Only after that he starts to analyze and think about the role, deeper themes and emotional flows in the play.

I also used a somewhat similar tactic to get better at public presentations. I studied and watched two presentations over and over, making notes about structure, pausing between words, content of the slides, etc. It really helped and I managed to create a presentation that people liked a lot and I was asked to give presentations afterwards in several events.
Many times there is an exception for pre-existing conditions if you had continuous credible coverage.
Well, you have a lot to learn about a Jewish mentality :-).

I hope no one takes this offensively (as I am a "Chassidic" Jew), but Jewish people do (and I am generalizing here) have a certain inferiority complex about being accepted by people around them. This probably has a lot to do with being such a minority, and the fact that they have been persecuted many times over the generations, from the Cossack pogroms to Nazi Germany.

I think, again, that you can take the point about churches per se in context, that is many Jews have lived in mostly Christian countries for most of recent history, so the church is just an illustration as far as the article is concerned.

Concerning the age of the universe, it would seem that an honest person can take a theoretical approach, where science remains in the lab, and religion affects one's personal life. Science is after all, the study of truth. It would be paradoxical for someone to claim to be a scientist, while imparting a religious bias on everything he studies. I think that is the point the article is trying to make.
Are you understanding what's happening? The site uses client side less so that it can do some of the dynamic stuff. YOUR site, using this theme, won't have to do that.
Something else that's a bit different is that you have to create an invoice/order number to send along to Coinbase, then mark that invoice as paid later. With Braintree/Stripe, the server makes a call to the service with the amount to charge and it gets back a success or fail which I can then immediately display to the user showing that the purchase went through.

With Coinbase I haven't found a way to have that tightly integrated experience.
> Mr. Mukerjee appears to have been flagged by the Behaviour Detection Officer (BDO) while in line for what appeared to be unusual behaviours.

Well I'm sold. Serves you right for looking suspicious in front of the Looking-suspicious Detection Officer!
Sorry I am still taking his side.

This writeup is not only just nit-picking his story - it's using the TSA as witness against itself.

I am most certainly not going to the take TSA's word for what happened. That would be like taking the NSA's word to congress for example. What do you think happens by lesser agencies on non-sworn testimony when they see what their big-brother can get away with?

And the "behavior detection" has already been outed multiple times as a huge pile of poo. It's identical to the signals cops can give their dogs for false positives to search someone anyway just because they want to.

By the way, if he was so dangerous and already being watched YOU LET HIM GET INTO A CROWDED TERMINAL WITH LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE WITH HIS LUGGAGE AND BACKPACK.

Morons. So someone is only dangerous if they get on the plane, not in the crowed terminal eh?

I feel so safe now at your crowded checkpoints.

Prove to me they didn't search his home without serving him a warrant and then we'll talk about the accuracy of this story.
There were a number of PC Unix clones at the time, though most were relatively expensive (especially if this was just your hobby).

Eric S. Raymond maintained a buyers guide FAQ, though for some reason, he stopped maintaining it around 1994 ;-)

http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/clone-unix-guide.txt
The more cynical outlook would be that the baseband firmware has been reverse engineered and broken long ago, the fruits of this effort kept from being aired due to the high price they could command on the black market.
Report: Russia harbored Snowden in Hong Kong
I believe Instagram's rapid growth was greatly helped by leveraging access to Facebook's social graph. By the time Facebook catched on and tried to limit access, Instagram was too big.

Facebook likely won't make the same mistake of allowing something similar to happen again.
Why does "keeping in mind that false positives with ETD are not uncommon" sound unsettling to me?
> it wouldn't affect home lines, so they'd still be able to contact 911.

First: Land lines, not home lines. My home line is a cell phone. Many others can say the same.

And this only helps when a land line is available, and when someone thinks to use it. Being out in the boonies is an obvious failure mode, but the other one, which can also be deadly, is people getting panicky and forgetting that the phone what hooks to the wall can be used to make calls.

> As for cell phones, if someone, say, collapses in public, I've witnessed 5+ people try to contact 911. The likelihood of everyone having the same network and thus being knocked out is relatively low.

Maybe I'm too used to living in the boonies, but I doubt most of the towns I've been to have any more than one network for the entire community. Simply not cost-effective to build-out in the flyover states.

> And finally, many doctors use pagers/beepers, which wouldn't necessarily be knocked out in the same way a GSM network would.

I know for a fact there are towns which are cell phone only as far as hospital personnel are concerned. You're right that pagers would likely be immune to this, but that only helps if they're actually being used.
"Mr. Mukerjee appears to have been flagged by the Behaviour Detection Officer (BDO) while in line for what appeared to be unusual behaviours. [...] it is impossible to assess what caught the Officer’s attention, but the TSA source indicates Mr. Mukerjee was already on someone’s radar before he chose to opt-out."

What 'unusual behaviors' led to him getting flagged? While maybe Mr. Mukerjee had suspicious behavior I'm skeptical of saying that his looks did not contribute to the heightened harsh treatment. Would a Caucasian male get the same treatment?
> The Department of Homeland Security simply is not organized enough to create one collaborative story.

Not withstanding the original article, the above statement alone should be enough for us to question the pervasive use of the TSA.
And more importantly: archive.
Needed at Microsoft: A Catch-Up Artist
It's expected. Even in the most optimistic of circumstances, you have to believe that innocent people will get caught in an anti-terrorism net. Same as most things- innocent people get arrested far away from airports, too.

The question (and failure) is what happens after that. But false positives in themselves isn't surprising.
if the TSA want to screw you, you are screwed Period

please read yesterdays post
Detained in the US for “Visiting Thailand Too Much”
http://www.richardbarrow.com/2013/08/detained-in-the-us-for-...
discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6276939

read the last couple of sentences

"Be careful about what you have on your laptop and memory card in your camera. They could search everything. The pictures of your kids taking a bath maybe interpreted in a different way by immigration officers. .... And certainly don’t buy any porno DVDs here in Thailand to take home. You have been warned. Don’t take this lightly."

edit: removed the context about pirated goods
Feross: 'Remember: the point of programming is to make things'
I know it won't happen, but I wish this blog post would go as viral as the original. Not that I accept this post as the complete truth, but because people deserve to hear two sides of the story. Often times all people will hear is the accusations of something like this and accept it as fact and the eventual acquittals (or explanations) never get as much publicity. Like Mark Twain said "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Some people have to find operating systems with earlier epochs.
This reeks of the most cowardly pandering to proto fascist mission creep I've read in a long time. I mean take these key quotes for instance:

>Mr. Mukerjee appears to have been flagged by the Behaviour Detection Officer (BDO)

>Mr. Mukerjee became verbally aggressive

>Mr. Mukerjee becoming further agitated and aggressive after testing positive for explosives, as well as him repeatedly reaching for his not-yet-manually-searched bag.

I know a lot of you HNs live in America and probably arnt familiar with dictatorial or cold war communist institutions but these kind of articles are classic examples of the publics refusal to acknowledge injustice perpetraded by a power hungry government institution. The sooner people realise that their government is not all good the better. In the meantime articles like these and those who write them continue to facilitate the decline of public freedoms and personal liberties.

Flying Fish should feel ashamed.
Somebody got aggressive after being detained for hours on end and having their flight cancelled, at expense? Holy shit! Pack your bags, men: we found ourselves a terrorist.
I'm not exactly fond of Bitmessage. But in this case, it seems much better alternative.