skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly government does not care at all for fairness of the law all they care for is control and funding. The former feeds back on latter you see, if you don't have right kinds of guards in place.

As such I don't see government making any move to make for fairer laws - because they would have to work harder and incidentally they will get less clout/control of the populace. Computer Trespassing act is just that a wild card in hands of police to persecute nearly anyone who dares to cross them in the way they do their business.

my 2c.
Can a watch save your life? Breitling's answer is http://www.breitling.com/en/emergency/

For a different need, your idea is great. GPS + camera for informing on the location and case, hence deciding what kind of emergency it is. Also, preserving battery should take place to have multiple updates.
I think if you're going to be a paranoid, Marsh, you might as well be an equal-opportunity paranoid and not exempt the algorithms you happen to like (or need, professionally). I think you're obligated to provide a real rationale for why we shouldn't all switch to Camellia.
I think there is an enormous difference between accessing a public website and what weev did. He walked into an unlocked house, copied personal documents, and published them. Just because he didn't use a crowbar doesn't make it any less intentionally criminal.
The problem is not fruit juices, smoothies or sugar. The problem is that if you drink calories in addition to meals, you get too much calories and you will fatten.

I've been drinking fruits, fruit juices and smoothies instead of most other carbs for a year now and I feel great without being fat. It's just about calories.
Well, I didn't know that a smoothie was worse than the fruit it's made of. (Not that I drink smoothies anyway.)
Fruit juices maybe. Smoothies are a much more complex issue.

I make my own smoothies, 3 or 4 a week.

I know what goes in there. I put 1, sometimes 2 cups of fruit or berries. No added sugar, no fruit mixes, no "smoothie mix" stuff. I also add Greek Yogurt, protein, and all sorts of other mostly glycemic-neutral items.

I've also seen pre-canned and restaurant smoothies that I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. Some of these things are sugar bombs. Incredible amount of glycemic impact. You'd be better off just getting a milkshake.

But for me, two cups of fruit a day is not a significant health risk at all. While I completely agree that fruit juice and smoothie consumption can be just another sugary alternative to soft drinks, they don't have to be. Unlike store bought fruit juices and soft drinks, with smoothies the entire purpose is that the drinker is in control over exactly what they're consuming.
Google in fight over content that appears in search results
GCP - cp with a progress bar
Nifty, lightweight copy tool. Completely replace cp with: alias cp="/usr/bin/gcp"
Well, here's the problem I found: LLCs are not treated consistently by all of the states, and I will be doing business in more than one state (actually having a physical presence in multiple states). Therefore, that is the reason for a DE incorporation and my thoughts on using an S Corp (which I can at some point check the box and change back to a C Corp). The "credibility" issue I spoke of also applies not just to investors, but bankers have also been more hesitant to loan to an LLC. I saw this with a previous LLC entity I was a partner in.

Also, benefits paid to employees through an LLC are fully taxable income to them, whereas with a Corp (either S or C) they are tax deductible (for employees owning less than 2% of the company).

Furthermore, the stock ownership ("units") situation with LLCs is awkward at best, like you said, so forget about incentive stock options and the like. I understand the simplicity and have used the LLC structure before for other reasons, but never for a multi-state entity.

Great input, thank you.
Agreed

I drink water, black coffee, tea, vodka and terribly illegal moonshine.

If you've ever made jam (jello to our American cousins) before adding the sugar to your stewed fruit, taste it. Definitely lots of sugar in there!
It's obviously silly. No one could possibly read and understand every single law and regulation everywhere, let alone the legal systems' exact interpretation of them. People get punished all the time for things they had no idea was illegal, let alone wrong.

On the other hand, if you did accept ignorance of the law as a defense people would abuse it. You could just avoid reading the laws and then not have to follow them until someone explicitly tells you.

I think we should compromise and require the government to reasonably inform people what the laws are and make it simple enough to know whether or not you are complying with them short of hiring teams of lawyers.
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You can narrow your search scope to specific URLs, and assign different tags/keywords for each individual target.
Better title:	Smoothies and fruit juices are THE new risk to health
Obama is Commander-in-Chief of the DoD, which the NSA operates under.

Literally speaking, the president /is/ the highest commander of the NSA.
Diabetes too. That's a huge problem in the US. And many people who are diabetic are not excessively over-weight. Those who are not diabetic, are pre-diabetic.

"Over 25 million people in the US have diabetes, and close to 80 million are pre-diabetic." - From American Diabetes Association

IMO, this problem is way larger than the former cigarette health problem as more people consume sugary drinks and foods than smoked cigarettes.
He was freed but Bradley Manning got 30 years in the clinker. I understand that Bradley's disclosures were more or less about bureaucratic processes.

Never the less whisleblower is freed 10 years after. Bradley will spend rest of his life in jail.

I don't think Chinese government is democratic in any way, even repressive. But one can't ignore how this plays out in public media - contrast and all that.
This proposal prefers AES-GCM. Interestingly, Adam Langley (Chrome) is against AES-GCM. https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/01/13/rwc03.html
It's often quite surprising to read the ingredient list on these smoothies. They consist largely of apple juice concentrate, and rather small amounts of the fruits advertised on the front.
It's a different type of error that's possible, though.

Manual entry errors happen at predictable rates, and with good processes you can get them down quite low.

Software error rates are not so predictable (unless you have full control over all variables... and that's surprisingly hard to get). You could deploy this software in the context of a slightly different version of the radiology software which used a different font in PDFs (or whatever) and find that all 8's are now read as 3's; no human would do that.

If a human started getting input that wasn't sufficiently readable, they'd talk to someone about it. Could the software do that?
The problem also seems to be portion size related. On the larger end of the spectrum some of these smoothies can be over 20 ounces.
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> The money isn't going to research and it isn't going to manufacturing so where does it go?

I don't know about Ritalin, but with Adderall, the reason for inflated prices is that the DEA artificially restricts the supply (hence the 2011 disaster[0][1]).

It's simple economics: if it were possible for new companies to enter the market (or for existing companies to produce more), supply would increase, prices would fall, and markets would clear at a (lower) equilibrium price. However, because the US is waging a war on drugs (including psychiatric medicine!), ADHD patients have to suffer the burden of increased prices (that is, when they're lucky enough to even find any in stock).

[0] https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=adderall%20short...

[1] http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=adderall#q=adderall%2...
> Maybe there arose an enormous threat and he was desperate to stop it.

Even an existential threat - an actual one like another nation-state pointing world-ending numbers of nuclear weapons at our country - is less harmful than dismantling the mechanisms of the state internally.

What could even possibly justify this kind of thing?
I like the Discourse approach.
http://www.discourse.org/

Instead of nested replies, it encourages "Creating new threads linking back to a post", which I find to be way more orderly than "conversation trees". They're also aiming for feature-parity with mailing lists, allowing people to participate effectively with threads by e-mail alone.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zeon-Limited-BIGTRAK-Bigtrak/dp/B003...
.. and then send it to the NSA?

This was the first thing I thought when I read the title.
Am I a paranoiac?
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DNS is not a free market.

Even so I highly dislike this attitude that free markets are inviolate, perfect silver bullets.

Real estate is bad example as things such as zoning, HOAs, and eminent domain will force you to use / not use / or sell your property
GMO does not force one to use monoculture farming techniques. In fact, there is work being done on using GMO to develop better polyculture species (like the three sisters).

The future of farming is polyculture, organic, and GMO.
> Good Art and classic cars do way way better than the stock market, long term.

Hindsight. You don't want to rely on hindsight to guide your investment choices. Also, if the claim was actually true and exploitable, everyone would get into art and classic cars, and these niche markets would collapse.
How often are good startups born from co-founders who meet each other in this way?

I myself am looking for a good partner to work with, but am a bit hesitant about looking outside my immediate circle of friends and acquaintances for partners. How does one get over the initial hump of building rapport/trust?

Assuming this role-call is for the upcoming YC batch, have there ever been any teams that were accepted who were introduced this way?
Off topic.

Can you recommend any good meetups/groups for node/js guys in Atlanta. I have looked at the meetups but would appreciate any personal opinions.
How long do you think it's going to take before program formal proof becomes the new standard in commercial applications quality standard?

Today is focused on unit-testing and test code coverage, but formal proof seems really even better.

I only have heard about Coq , which i think implies code has to be written in OCaml , but i suppose the same kind of tool exists / could be done for Haskell or Scala. What about less strict and more used languages like C or Java ?
> jello to our American cousins

I think you mean jelly.
This site uses the 'Globalsign Organization Validation CA - G2' certificate, which I've removed from my trust list. It's is a certificate that can be theoretically used to sign any domain (i.e., it's MITM-capable).

I semi-regularly see it on Cloudflare sites because their customers haven't bothered to send their own keys to Cloudflare.

I thought it was ironic than article about SSL security was doing something that is less secure than possible (from the end user's point-of-view).

Just to be clear, yes, I understand that the operator of brainsmith.org isn't gaining any more security by sending CF the private key to their own cert vs. using CF's G2 cert. With the first approach the end user of brainsmith.org has better security since he can view the site without having to trust an MITM-capable certificate.
That was "Email validation for pedants".

Practically speaking, the following regex -

/^[_\.0-9a-z-\+#]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]*\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/i

coupled with a DNS check for domain name is yet to generate a single false negative in years that we've been using it across multiple projects.

(edit) Do read through the thread below before getting all downvote happy.
Well yeah. The health benefits of fruit are generally oversold anyway. But this will be met with mockery, "I can't have soda and now fruit* is bad for me too?! Scientists are dumb."

* this is where they miss the point.
Ah, not this stupid argument again.

It's really easy to talk about decreasing genetic diversity when you have never known hunger. In India alone, the work of Norman Borlaug and his co-workers saved at least a hundred million lives. Before his intervention, large-scale famine and starvation in India was widely considered inevitable. Those are real people, whose lives you seem to weigh very little when you consider them against the still theoretical disadvantages of modern selective breeding.
If what Weev did was criminal, then why isn't AT&T guilty of some sort of criminal negligence for making it so easily accessible?
I initially thought that you were trolling, because Bromium sounds insincere, but it appears to be another startup funded by Andreessen Horowitz http://www.bromium.com/ and it's not a Browser you've linked to, it's a hardware-software-policy solution for enterprises. Still interesting to know about.
> The best advice I can give you is to ignore everything in this thread, and talk to a financial advisor that you trust who understands your goals and risk profile.

The Wall Street Journal Dartboard Contest proved over and over again, to the point of exhaustion, that investment counselors aren't worth the money.

Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732450470457841...

Title: "Darts Top Readers in Final Print Contest"

Quote: " The darts have beaten the readers with 30 wins out of 49 contests."

Any questions?

More here: http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths
I gonna give you couple of links that were already around on HN:

- http://openhatch.org/ a list of issues in open sources project waiting to be fixed

- http://duckduckhack.com/ you can add some plugins to duckduckgo (it's a search engine)

- http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/
>I'm kind of surprised that ballast water isn't somehow sterilised

Ballast water probably has too much mass to be boiled cost-effectively. We're talking thousands of tonnes of water in some cases.

UV isn't a bad idea, but probably wouldn't work well for well-protected species like bivalve molluscs. Unfortunately, those are some of the most invasive species that we have -- see Zebra Mussels, for instance.
> Why is a percentage bad?

Because undesirable investments are frequently offered with enticing deals, and good investments aren't. It seems consumers aren't aware of this, only investment counselors.
Gluten causes absolutely no health damage for 99%-99.5% of the population. If you are trying to avoid it without being diagnosed as a celiac, you are an idiot, as it is rather healthy unless your immune system has an adverse reaction to it.
I'd suggest instead talking to the people who actually make buying decisions, and find out what other purchases they have approved recently (and how many other people needed to give approval -- e.g., the IT department), and why. Unfortunately I suspect the news will be discouraging.

Don't just try selling something that interacts with medical data unless you have serious quality control (you may need various ISO certifications in place) and a good grasp of privacy law. That's what many of the frustrating hospital purchasing rules are trying to ensure.

The reason that the healthcare world has so many problems with obvious software fixes that haven't been fixed is because they're very rightly paranoid about using unsafe software, because sometimes it kills people even when it's designed by a corporation with lots of quality control (cough cough THERAC-25), and not just a side-business with a doctor and a hired coder.
NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data, previously thought secure
> This was a really bad example.

Yeah, fair point, I don't cut coupons or sign up for every loyalty program, but I've still always been sort of underwhelmed at TJs.

Maybe Aldi would have been a better example.
http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

This should help. Best of luck!
I was confounded and disturbed when I started seeing mobile games advertising "addictive" as a positive trait. Most addictive game ever? Why on Earth would I want to play that? But somehow it's become a badge of honor for games, with people not even realizing they're being told that they're being manipulated.

Of course this is not at all limited to games -- the article speaks to many industries, most of which are more insidious about this -- but it's the one that comes to mind most readily, because it illustrates an appalling lack of consumer awareness.
> Maybe there's some issues on your network at the moment?

Nope, none. It is specific to your site. I am across the Atlantic though.
The first time I was paid for a programming job was writing relocatable 6502 assembly to put into a string and call from Atari Basic.

What did it do? Computed the X-modem checksum of a block.

Why? Because when 1200 baud modems first came out, the BBS I was a member of couldn't compute the checksums fast enough (directly in Basic), so 1200 baud transfers weren't much faster than 300 baud. And if you just paid several hundred bucks for the new 1200bps modem, you wanted to get some benefit. :)

How much did I get paid? $20, which was about $0.50/byte. (Man, how I wish I got paid $0.50/byte for code I write now!!)
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People use the word jam in the states. I first saw the word used at Denny's.
Everything will be killing us in the future. Now it's the smoothies and fruit juices. I don't know what this health-society pretends, if ending all kind of consuming substances or really wasting time producing FUD. No offense to anyone.
I am not sure the President is in the loop here

NSA is the presidents game.
> though it's true, some work no more effective than a placebo

Do you have a citation for this? What drugs on the market today are "no more effective than placebo?"
I agree: industrial uses seem the most promising. It seems unlikely we'll convince half the world to start loving jellyfish. But it seems plausible we can convert jellyfish into useful substances or derivatives.

Even still, the article addresses deeper problems. Killing back the jellyfish won't stop the conditions that we are causing in the oceans -- conditions that are extremely suitable to jellyfish, and seem suitable to little else. Acidification, warming, pollution, etc.

One little-heralded fact, for instance, is that we're coming dangerously close to driving sharks to extinction in many of the world's ecosystems. An ocean with fewer sharks in it? It's tough to find people who will shed a tear. But killing off the keystone predators in an ecosystem throws the whole thing into chaos -- and as it turns out, paradoxically, killing off sharks is a fantastic way to kill off most of the fish sharks feed on.

The point of my digression is that doing something about the "jellyfish menace" is probably necessary at this point. But it's not sufficient. It's a band-aid on a bullet wound.
Ask HN: Dealing with a huge MySQL database - help
We have been dealing with a huge MySQL database on one of our projects.

Total byte size: > 150GB, Record count: > 100M (and growing daily)

Primary issue is of performance (this is a live site), currently hosted on a (fairly powerful) VPS.

Not having had in-house prior experience with such data volumes on MySQL, we hacked our own table partitioning architecture of sorts and also optimized the queries, table structures etc. to the max of our abilities. All this has been working reasonably well for us so far.

But now, with rising traffic levels, things are beginning to slow down again.

At this point, we're considering the following 3 options:

1) Throw more hardware resources at it
Pro: Instant gratification :) Cons: Cost + vicious cycle(?)

2) Try to optimize the database/config, table structures and queries further
Pro: Always useful Cons: Time + Effort

and

3) Migrate to PostgreSQL (or something else?)
Pros/Cons: Still studying

What do HNers with experience in such matters suggest? We're open to all suggestions. Thanks in advance.
The fruit has fiber and a lot of other ingredients that slow down absorption of sugar. Not to mention, you wouldn't eat as much fruit in one sitting as the number of fruits you've extracted into a cup.

So you're consuming (1) just the sugary liquid extract of the fruit, and (2) getting much more of it from more fruits than if you were eating whole pieces of fruit.
Sorry, just broke your regex.

hello@visit.melbourne.

Yes, that's a valid TLD now.
It could have been backwards compatible and reversable—two micro usb ports next to each other, rotated 180 degrees.
Because what are the lives of hundreds of millions in the Third World, compared with the fears of entitled (sub)urbanites who have never produced their own food that we're twisting our connection with "Nature".
I am now rather confused in my ignorance... So the parameters (for ECC) were chosen "at random" theoretically (and so here lies the trust inherent to these?). Thanks for the info.
"Natural" food is not necessarily good. "Unnatural" food is not necessarily bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
From the Wikipedia article:

Of environmental lobbyists he stated, "some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things".

Apparently, people like you existed even then.
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Very nice. Run a spellchecker though, the number of mistakes really broke up the immersion, which is otherwise nicely done:

r/dieing/dying

r/exaustion/exhaustion

r/meaningfull/meaningful

r/fleating/fleeting

r/James'/James (multiple places)

(Couldn't find how to contact author...)
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I realize that this is aimed at a popular audience, but describing brain structure and function with imprecise words like 'circuits', 'controls', 'connected to' and 'involved in' without being clear as to a specific physical, biologic mechanism completely undermines his point.

Additionally, appealing to one studies which have not been independently reproduced, which are not double blind does little to dissuade me that the bulk of neuroscience is an exercise in confirmation bias.
using fossil fuels

Can you explain what does fossil fuels have to do with this?

And with genetic modification, we're always taking something away when we substitute something else

What does this mean? Really. I don't understand this at all.

Rendering our food supply more brittle, because we've created plants which need a very precise, artificial environment filled with external inputs

Can you name examples of this "brittleness", how it is caused and how it has affected the food supply when compared to another way of farming (and what that other way exactly is)?

making it so 80% of our food supply shares the same genome, we're really setting ourselves up for a fall

Can you explain how having 80% of our food supply sharing the same genome is setting ourselves up for a fall?
You should probably ask the people who've been promoting these ideas since at least the 70s :) "No time soon" is my best bet

As I understand it, creating a proof becomes increasingly more complex in proportion to program size. You'll notice in this project, their proof only covers a few hundred lines of code. That's not because their program just happened to be a few hundred lines of code, but because they designed it to allow a practical proof.
Read wintermute's quote.

ggp probably meant the word "jelly" instead of the word "jello".

No one is contesting the word "jam".

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