skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the very least, you know their IP, so you can search your logs for it to make sure they aren't being evil.
Clickberry Live Tagging Camera
Camera apps are all the same - filters-shmilters, looping-shmooping:) We've built something special, no one really did before. At least there are no evidence of the opposite. We shoot video because there are people and objects we care to remember or share. We've made an app for people to hold a finger on a screen on an object while shooting and share this object (it will be cut out). It calls "live tagging". And we do believe it is a game changing for making videos. No more filters-shmilters - live tagging! We need your feedback even if it is "What a crap!".
"Getting Android to run on Nokia’s hardware was not a Herculean engineering effort, according to the people familiar with the project."

No shit, Sherlock...
A microcontroller actively doing the current negotiation would be nice (for things like working at the maximum power of both android and apple chargers) but a much simpler and dirt cheap solution would be to hook the data lines up so that they go through a simple filter that filters out everything other than the DC bias so power negotiation would work normally for chargers but no data could cross the cable.
pyyaml provides the option of using the cyaml loader, but I dunno about the dumper.. if you're experiencing delays with reading, try setting Loader=cyaml or whatever.
Let's doubt technology that doesn't exist for the simple reason that it doesn't exist!

If the first computer would have been Macs where you couldn't change the pieces at all, everyone would be doubting the person that would come up with the idea of a PC that you can change the hard drive, ram, graphic card. "But, it would be slower! And bulkier!"... Yep, pretty much describes what everyone feel about the whole PC vs Mac war... and a lot of people use the argument that PC are easier to customize, which makes them superior even if they are not as pretty or user friendly as Macs.
Even if nuclear winter took place, it seems unlikely to me that humanity would literally go extinct. We're an incredibly resilient species.
The Conversation is one of the classics of 70s cinema, really worth a watch. To match today's paranoid times, Tony Scott's spiritual successor film "Enemy of the State" is also worth a watch. It's updated more as a star vehicle / action flick, but it's also pretty good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)
Having multiple people on the lease is not a strange practice in Australia; it's normal and not as you described. When signing the lease you're not signing for a room, you're signing responsibility for the rent and condition of the whole house/unit (excluding responsibilities remaining with the landlord, e.g. maintenance). Each of your housemates are too.

Rents are expensive. It makes no financial sense to live by yourself.

Even in my home town - which has no substantial university - it's generally assumed that if you rent and do not have dependents, you almost certainly have housemates.
The use of malware in police enforcement is truly a unique event in society. At what other point in history has police distributed a completly illegal tool onto unsuspected and non-targeted civilians? It feels like a total unexplored area of liability laws, so I look with excitement to when the first lawsuit starts.

Some people have compared malware with guns. This is to me a very bad comparison, since guns actually have legal usage like hunting or self defense.

A better example would be a under cover cop, selling real drugs to real people with the intent to impress a local drug cartel. It has to my knowledge never happen, but it would be interesting to know if the cop could be held liable if someone dies from a overdose from those drugs.

Let say that a police virus spreads out of control, and infects millions of computers. What if this specific firefox exploit get copied by a botnet, and is used to execute credit card stealing software on unsuspected users. How liable can the police become when millions of people are effected? I really have no clue.
This looks like a potential solution:

http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/112

Don't know where to buy just the shield though...
Thanks man. Really appreciate the positive thoughts=).
Not true. A "CSS class" is where you go to be taught about CSS.
Lovely Bicycle 3 Wheels and a Box: the Christiania Cargo Trike
Why not use a quantum random number generator? It is truly random, and ones based on photon path output bits.
Caltech to Offer Online Courses through edX
Hiring - Fast and Slow
Evolved creatures are a strange mix of clever hacks and design-by-committe horrors.

http://threepanelsoul.com/2010/07/05/on-design-by-committee/
> then someone else replies with a casual implication that population control would be an effective remedy.

I hope you aren't talking about me. Population growth is the problem, but there is no solution, at least not one that civilized people would or should accept.

Maybe you should read my first post again. I don't wave my hands at population as though control is an easily applied remedy -- I state it as an insoluble problem.
What if Motorola created non-Android phones?
Survey: State of Package Management
These were, without a doubt, the best articles that Cracked has put forth. I've never been in poverty, but I've seen it from a near distance. I've been poor, but if push came to shove, I always had a middle-class mother I could move back to. That's a 'safety net' that many in poverty simply do not have.

And so it annoys the shit out of me that when a friend in finance got a $10k raise, all she could talk about was "but I lose half of it to the government!". In some strange world where 30% equals half, she's more concerned about what she lost than the fact that her gain was almost equal to a poor person's annual income. She couldn't even frame her payrise as a positive.

I was discussing poverty with a colleague yesterday, as we were discussing the concept of Basic Income. I mentioned that when I was on welfare, it still wasn't quite enough to keep me fed and housed. His response was "then move house to where it's cheaper". My counter was "firstly, the point of 'social security' is to keep people socially secure, at least for short stints, which means not kicking them out of their homes for a handful of dollars". Secondly, of course, was the ignorance of the fact that moving house is expensive (fiscally and socially), from the hunt, to the security deposit, to the day of shifting furniture, to having utilities hooked up. Thirdly, if the point was to give me welfare in the short term until I get a job, moving house to where it's cheaper is going to make it harder to get a job.

Discussing poverty is difficult, because unless you've been close to it, you won't understand the limitations of being in it. And conversely, if you're currently in it, it's hard to view it in a 'big picture' sense.
Argentina arrests teen hacker who netted $50,000 a month
> Earned income tax credit is amazing. It is one of the few government initiatives that is an unquestionable success. It is such a good way to redistribute wealth without creating the negative incentives of welfare and the like.

EITC, because of the phase out, has the same negative incentives as any other means-tested social benefit program which has a benefit reduction at less than a 1:1 level for additional income. (Its true that there are some other social benefit programs that have worse negative incentives at some or all points because either they are flat benefit with a sharp cutoff or because they have some range in which the benefit decline is greater per additional dollar of other income than EITC has, but its simply not the case that EITC doesn't have "the negative incentives of welfare and the like".)
What situation would falsify the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming? Or the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic ocean acidification?
For reference, we are currently at approximately 394 ppm [0]

[0]http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/global.html
/fit/ on 4chan is an interesting place.
> If the investing public believes that the stock market is nothing more than a con to take rubes' money capital will stay away

No way - now 401ks are the only retirement savings vehicle aside from striking it rich through lottery or stocks. Guess how many people translate their investment in a mutual fund to the actual stock market shenanigans?
That's actually a good quote-analogy.

I'm not the most pragmatic person ever, but let me pose this: If you can't tell the difference, do you honestly care?
This is in the NASA contract under "Purpose":

"The Alpha Jet aircraft owned and operated by Partner offers unique capabilities due to its performance and altitude range, coupled with the proficiency of the pilots in high-performance and formation flying. The combination of aircraft and pilot capabilities allows ARC to design unique sampling profiles to study the Earth's atmosphere from the surface up to 51,000 ft in very tightly defined columns. This sort of profiling is valuable for comparison with satellite observations and for exploring small-scale phenomena at various altitudes."

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/pdf/675605main_SAA2-402663....

The Gulfstream flights to Tahiti are less credible.
The maps transforming how we interact with the world
I've tried using Certificate Patrol, but Google and Facebook use loads of different certificates for the same URLs -- I guess it's a side-effect of large CDNs. Guess which websites I read the most? I ended up clicking Yes without reading, defeating the purpose of the tool -- a bit like what usually happens with NoScript.
I did not invent the nonsense, it was implied by the existence of the article itself. If this flea had used some hitherto unknown chemical reaction, there would have been no article. But use a toothed gear-like structure instead, and suddenly it's an article and a post to HN, no less. This implies that it's something special with gears, which I tried to assume in my comment. I tried to present the inherent contradiction in assuming that gears are special by arguing from the reluctant viewpoint of someone who thinks it is true.

Many commenters seemed to think I was asking a question of which of the possibilities was the correct one, and (correctly) answered that the fourth one was correct. This was not my intent, I merely wanted people to reflect on the possibilities and come to their own conclusion.
Two reasons why crypto needs randomness:

1) You need to generate keys that nobody can guess.

2) Much of modern crypto is built based on probabilistic encryption [1].

[1] http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~cis/pubs/shafi/1984-jcss.pdf
Rents in Australia have followed the exhorbitant house pricing, and these days if you want to rent, you either share a house, be a well-salaried person, live in a dog box, or live in the boondocks. There's no such thing as a single person on a median or lower wage renting a house in a nice area anymore.
I am very cynical about Google these days after the revelations about its cooperation with the NSA.

Thanks for your work and I hope you don't take my remarks as any kind of criticism of the work you do.

Put more cautiously, I think indirect corporate benefit is the main impetus for Google's philanthropy and lobbying programs. There is not necessarily a specific business outcome associated with the philanthropy... it's more like "branding" and "brand awareness" campaigns. The payoff is far into the future and is extremely hard to measure.
Actually, your passwords are gone if Apple resets your Apple ID.

If Apple resets your Apple ID password and you restart your device (remember: the Apple ID is kept decrypted in RAM while the device is running), you lose the entire keychain and must re-enter all passwords.
I used Stupeflix for a project (needed the generate videos from set of pictures) and their API works really well. Simple, does the job, developer-friendly.
When you are poor condoms are fucking expencive and don't work long term. There is a reason people sell cheap 2l soda despite the fact a 2l bottle coke is 'Realy Cheap' to 95+% of HN posters.
On Using SQLite and FMDB Instead of Core Data
The unlikely story behind the phrase 'American exceptionalism'
Laughing My Ass Off
My father is an attorney in NJ, and told me growing up as the system was first implemented in the tri-state it was off the table once this started to happen, on a large group of lawyers were vocal about making it very painful for the NJ and tristate DOT groups once they went too far.

I am not sure if I remembered this incorrectly but I am sure there were serious lawsuits in the tri-state, and lawyers were lining up to stick it to the states for it, but I could be wrong. Anyone find/know of data about this?
>The idea that executives were unaware of the vast amount of fraud that was endemic in the mortgage industry is laughable.

You can't prosecute someone on the idea something is laughable. You need some kind of evidence.
Correction: with no MMS text messaging (I think? I've never had anyone try to send me an MMS in the year I've had it). LTE is a go, for the same $45 a month[1].

[1] http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-57602923-251/straight-t...
Or... he's playing it safe, since he doesn't know what he doesn't know.
'Beer goggle' study wins Ig Nobel award
Tinfoil as sarcasm would have made sense if what he feared (the extra tracking) was NOT happening. You know, like we used to mock people fearing aliens reading their mind and such.

Yet, this very news proves that it DOES happen.

So not only was the sarcasm misplaced, but he is in the right. Sure, one might believe that "well, a little tracking never hurt nobody" but that's another matter altogether.
I work at Stripe and just sent you an invite. Let us know how it goes.
>At what other point in history has police distributed a
>completly illegal tool onto unsuspected and non-targeted
>civilians?

For quite a while. Law enforcement have installed physical surveilance and tracking devices since as long as they have existed - and unsuspecting innocents have been caught on those tapes and recorders.

It's also a question of whether those tools are illegal - there may be laws against them , but the government can get special permissions
IANAL, but I'd be surprised if the police was allowed to raid me, launch tear gas through my window and shoot me in the head. Even with a warrant. I'm not worried about this happening, because it doesn't. If it did, I'm sure it would blow up into a huge scandal.

I am worried about government agencies intercepting my traffic / communications because it does happen, it's really hard to find out unless you know what you're looking for, and they don't have a warrant on every American citizen that happens to get caught.
OK that's good to hear. But read about the history of eugenics if you'd like to know how other people might misinterpret your argument.
I'm sympathetic to that argument. It's tough to write one comment that addresses two audiences:

(1) person who wants some simple, clear guidance

(2) you and me who are debating at a slightly different level what advice we should give to #1.

So here's maybe a better way of making my argument:

1. Eat fewer carbs.

2. If you want evidence/science/logic, read the Taubes book.

[Addressed towards #2ers only:] I agree that too often people make great the enemy of the good. But I actually think it's just unhelpful to say "Eat less or exercise more" relative to "Eat fewer carbs". The amount of energy your body burns is dramatically influenced by hormones and the type of food you eat, that's by far the easiest lever to pull to lose weight. The Taubes book talks at length about the flaws in the thermodynamic metaphor. I confess I'm doing a poor job of communicating the argument.

Also thanks for the feedback, the good vs. great thing is a bit tricky.
"It's warming" is not falsifiable because any immediate developments can always be written off. An actual scientific statement is on the lines of "using methodology X, the recorded temperature next year will be between Y and Z". The climate models were scientific in this respect, but they did not predict events accurately. So the scientific certainty is simply not there, and it's all down to subjective interpretation on both sides.
It's not mentioned in the article, but people need to understand that the most useful Reddit content, the content that shows the most insight and practical knowledge, is often the least upvoted. Upvoted content, and educational content, are almost but not quite orthogonal.

I left Reddit after a forum moderator contacted me privately and threatened me with banning if I didn't adopt his views on a controversial science topic (and one about which he was clearly wrong). It was an outrageous gangster tactic and abuse of moderator power, and as soon as I realized there was no remedy, as soon as I realized that I wouldn't be able to speak freely, I stopped posting to Reddit.

More here: http://arachnoid.com/psychology/reddit_psychology.html
Trapped in 1999? Buttons render ok since IE7/8.
wiretapping normally require a specific target, with a specific reason. Going after the tor email service, is like wiretapping the US postal service for a fishing expedition.

It sounds to me as being outside the FBI's legal wiretapping abilities.
Interesting. I would guess that the general economics have forced the landlords to accept and perhaps even promote this scheme, as it's the only was they can find a market for their services.

I wonder if this acceptance will keep once the economics changes?
They also said

> We are going to be extending this to more ports, such as FTP and SMTP. Soon, we should have weekly scans going for about 10 ports. I'm moving slowly forward to resolve abuse complaints, like this one generated for port 22. We plan on publishing the results, such as the anonymous counts above, in a nice weekly report for the public.

So, weekly, not daily.
Those are not two theories; they are more like complimentary consequences.

The ocean absorbs excess CO2 from the atmosphere. If it absorbs it as fast as we produce it, there will not be any warming, but a lot of acidification.

If it absorbs it much more slowly, then there will be a lot of warming but little acidification. The truth is somewhere in between.
Twitter's IPO Plan: Don't Do What Facebook Did
Some agencies and contractors handling classified materials use air gaping sometimes as well.
Poor Alaska, forever uncharted territory :(
It may have been true that our lives as hunter-gatherers were better in many respects. But the problem is that civilization inevitably defeated hunting and gathering. And it always tends to, throughout the course of human history. Major technological advancement seems inevitably to outcompete the alternatives. While that advancement may or may not produce better outcomes, it always wins out. (For poignant examples, see: "Guns, Germs & Steel," "Why the West Rules (For Now)," and other large-scale historical analyses of this topic).

This doesn't mean Dr. Harari's point is invalid, but it may mean that the point is moot in praxis. We can't return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, so the only practical alternative is to continue on the technology treadmill, even if it diminishes quality of life in various ways. Over the last 30,000+ years, we don't seem to have found a way around this issue.
Tan, cotan, sec, cosec have practical value in calculus.

It might be a little unfair to expect your trig teacher to prove that to you.
Even simpler, black is slimming.
Non sequitur to follow.

There is a French band called Stupeflip. Briefly, I believed this was going to be about them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdaAHMztNVE
You can derive the identity 2 sin^2(θ / 2) = 1 - cos(θ) mentioned in the article from the double angle cosine formula,

cos(2 Φ) = cos^2(Φ) - sin^2(Φ)

Since cos^2(Φ) + sin^2(Φ) = 1, substitute 1 - sin^2(Φ) for cos^2(Φ) in the above and you have:

cos(2 Φ) = cos^2(Φ) - sin^2(Φ)
= (1 - sin^2(Φ)) - sin^2(Φ)
= 1 - 2 sin^2(Φ)
2 sin^2(Φ) = 1 - cos(2 Φ)

Let θ = 2 Φ and the above becomes:

2 sin^2(θ / 2) = 1 - cos(θ)
Unusually Effective Debugging
Memories created and erased in a lab
To be fair, it's not obvious for every audience.
I thought planned parenthood type places gave condoms away.
Thank you! That's an awesome suggestion! I'll be adding it to the roadmap. Thanks :D
The issues list might be better than the actual project. "Java version is too new", "Strings shouldn't be hardcoded", and "Inject Output Stream into Printers".
You increase prices, yes. You might trim the workforce too. But so does every other business that has a large contingent of low skill, low pay labor. This means that most things that are "made on the cheap" become more expensive. So now, the cost of living goes up for everyone who consumes from that pool of resources. This squeezes middle income families and hurts lower income families. Does the cost of living for which a minimum wage worker rise higher than the wage? I don't know. But with a higher cost of living and potentially greater unemployment, I'm not sure that raising minimum wage is a win.

I'm not aware of all the complex reason for why the following is the case, but my brother's mom (I know how odd that may sound) was able to rent an apartment when she was 18 working in fast food without tips. There is _no way in h-e-double-hockey-sticks_ that that could happen anywhere in America today. I'm not convinced that raising minimum wage is the solution -- it could be part of the problem. Models of human behavior and economics can get tricky and counter-intuitive. It is a hard nut to crack; I'll just stick to writing software. Now, if someone wants to pay me to make and become familiar with those models....
I change my login grace time to 3 seconds, you either have the key or you don't :) No password entering
I really like this article. There are a lot of good insights I will be mining over the next several weeks.

One interesting thing is how it connects with John Boyd's concept of OODA. Boyd talks about "stacking" the opposing force's OODA loop and injecting it with misinformation to get it going. It more or less describes, for example, the predatory loans. It's also interesting to see this kind of dynamic play out in the TV shows, Burn Notice and Leverage.
UP TO 2x faster CPU and GPU performances.
That's a great example - Your friend sounds exactly like the people I mentioned who "work out how to transfer their skills to other fields". I think that these kind of people are outliers who underestimate the difficulty involved in doing this for others, probably because they're very talented people. What most people want to get out of their degree is a straightforward path to a job, not a stepping stone that they can use creatively to build their own career.

I suspect that the issue with that particular talent shortage might be similar to the software engineering one - it hinges on the definition of "good mathematician". If I graduated with good grades from a top university with a degree in mathematics, will I automatically have a good chance of being hired by a financial institution? Or do I need to somehow acquire domain-specific knowledge first and have the right personal network?
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Actually no, they exploited and stole data from any user visiting any Freedom Hosted site. Get an education about what FH is rather than jumping to "save the children" to talk down to people.
Did you notice circus arriving recently?

1. FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack (wired.com)
2. NIST "strongly" suggests dropping its own encryption standard (arstechnica.com)
3. No more CSS and HTML, just JS (ojjs.org)
"These people", "producing children". He doesn't see that these are humans. This is a result of a combination of logical, and irrational situations.