skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a stage name, as you can easily see from his Wikipedia page. Inspired by the equipment he was using.
He "remained" just as ignorant as the rest of us. You're still implying that if he had done more research, he could have found out that those seeds, in his condition, could kill him. He could not have.

Yes, he took a risk. But I don't think it's a significantly different risk from other risky activities young men in their early 20s do, ranging from unusual sports to the military.
Given that this is caused almost entirely by anti-vaccination hysteria, and that this in in turn caused mostly by a combination of ignorance and bizarre religious beliefs, it's hard to imagine an effective response. It's been said that you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into, and that seems apt here. Perhaps an attempt to shame people by presenting the young, innocent victims is best (e.g. little 8-month old Suzy died because XYZ Church members refused to vaccinate their children).
Unfortunately, the scanner would need to reverse an md5 hash, if I understand correctly. This is not impossible, but not very practical.
> passed away / passed on ... native English speakers

Native English speaker here. I've told my wife and kids that my obituary is to say simply that I died, not that I passed away, or passed on, or crossed over, or went to meet my Lord and Savior (a common formulation in the South), or anything like that.

(My wife's response: "You won't be here; I'm going to do what I want.")
How do other WebKit-based browsers like Luakit get flash to work? I thought they were always using the NS Plugin API for Flash. Is that being deprecated; is PPAPI a replacement?
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because he's going to have an IPO soon? and his trademark in anyway can be conflated with twitter's?
C# would need to be citrus-y (C and sharp). It would go very quickly but might take a while to build.
Wow that's a pretty amazing machine, thanks for sharing that video. There are very few things in terms of web engineering that I think I wouldn't be able to figure out, but when I look at stuff like that, that one guy just built, I am so impressed.
There's also a strange obsession with bacon, which as a vegetarian, I just don't get. But that's alright, I figure I make up in drinks for what I don't eat of the bacon!

But seriously, every conference I've been to has always had 'birds of a feather' or 'gray beard' meetups at night where there's moderate drinking and very good discussions.
>pay more for your attention than you will pay to use things.

I don't think we're given the choice very often. If there was a Facebook Premium that was no ads, no status filtering, and opted you out of the backend data-selling, would you consider it? I would.

>I remember when popcapgames did a kickstarter to make all of their games ad-free

I don't! That's awesome! But I didn't hear about it at all. See, that's an example of being given a choice, but not even knowing about it. (Pop Cap was probably not very serious about it - if they were, they would have pushed an ad)
I feel like Dell had a great idea with the developer Linux laptop http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt.... Having a mainstream PC linux alternative to Mac is likely good for the market.
My thought was that the privatization move was part of a plan to offer more products like this and less of Windows, but the MS investment to support them makes that argument less viable http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/05/michael.dell.r....
Cool Block phone.  Exemplifies the free market.
How do we know that that's true? If you were under a gag order, you'd have to say that, right?
Thanks!

But icons we didn't make, we found from icon libraries ;)
Just out of curiosity why didn't you give up and order elsewhere? There are countless sites to buy computers from, even dell computers like the one you eventually received.
Coincidentally (or not), I just received the invite to beta test Sync.com [1] today. Seems a Dropbox-clone, for the privacy conscious user. They claim that all files are encrypted, and they don't have access to the keys. The encryption algorithm is still private, but they say they'll open source it soon.

While I like the approach a lot more than Dropbox (that fights to obfuscate its own algorithm), I still don't feel safe. Anyone with access to the server could intercept your keys, and thus have access to your data.

TrueCrypt over some cloud-based solution is still the ideal option, but the lack of support for sparse images makes me hesitant.

EDIT: no affiliation with Sync.com (or Dropbox, for the matter). Just trying to find a decent cloud-based storage solution that fixes the exact problem exposed by the OP.

[1] http://www.sync.com/your-privacy
There's actually a campaign on the same subject running in Sydney at the moment. Although the difference in execution is pretty amusing. Ours is called "get your hand off it": http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/no-more-excus...
> Even worse, you go by yourself.

This. A lone human is many, many times more vulnerable than even a couple. There is a reason why we tend to stick together.

In this particular case, the article seems to be trying to exonerate McCandless because the poison that killed him was unknown at the time. But if he'd gone with someone else, or even organised someone to drop in occasionally, he'd have survived. His loner instinct made his death almost inevitable, dumbass or no.

Interesting aside: given the high price of loner genes, we still have loners. Evolution is an amazing process.
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Ask HN: Paired USB keys for 100% unbreakable encryption?
Just a thought:

* 2 USB keys that share a securely generated amount of random data.

* Share one with somebody you'd like to communicate with.

* The two keys can encrypt/decrypt messages to each other using that random data as a one-time-pad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad

* You can then transmit messages across the net in plaintext. You can even tell your partner which part of the pad you are using.

Technically, one-time-pads are impossible to crack. You'd only have to watch out for observation attacks and that sort of thing (perhaps the keys would could be bootable for extra security?).

The keys would only work for a certain amount of time before needing to be "paired" again, their pad data would eventually run out. But with modern keys holding many GB of data, this would take a while.

Obviously this is only for the super-paranoid (or the geeks) who want to chat 100% securely among friends. But hey, 6 months ago only the super-paranoid were using encryption at all and look where we are now.
I always wondered about this and always came to the same conclusion: the old java-based and the new QNX o/s is just not going to fit with the MS ecosystem. I don't think they are compatible at all.
The recent elance, odesk, etc discussion[1] had a very good rundown on the positive, and negative, aspects of the freelancing sites you mentioned, along with some additional niche sites.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6350201
Get a job in the industry and spend 20 years learning your craft? Look at it from the other side - why would you let someone with no experience touch the core of your multi million dollar business?

Alternatively find a new industry in which no one has 20 years experience and use your native intelligence. If I was starting now I'd probably look at biotech or robotics somewhere.
While Vaccinations are certainly something you should get, let's not go down the slippery slope where we blindly consume physically refined food.

Don't let big pharma abuse your trust of actually necessary vaccines
Two months to the day after Amar Bose...
> Look no further than the evolution of the video game industry - since it is so new, it also shows this effect strongly, where the biggest titles like the CoD games can see 80% of their budget spent on advertising (cursory google search to get these numbers on the latest title, Black Ops 2, turned up nothing citeable). If you spend $28 million making a game, and $120 - 200 million on ads, your economic model must be fucked.

I highly doubt your 80% figure is anywhere near the mark. Even movies don't spend that much in promotion in %. You shouldn't bring out numbers if you cannot back them up, because that just makes the rest of your post less credible as well.
Do you have a source regarding the technical details of the Snowden leaks? Not doubting, I'm just interested in reading about it, nothing I've seen from The Guardian/NYT/WP covered this.
who do not evenly reinvest this capital into the economy

Huh? Do most rich people have their money under their mattresses?

Rich people try to maximize their returns as much as anyone else, which typically means a mix of stocks (that's capital for businesses to grow) and bonds (capital for cities, states and nations as well as businesses).
Physicists think God is a physicist, since everything runs according to simple laws.

Engineers think God is an engineer, because He created order out of chaos, and that's what engineers do.

Programmers think God is a programmer, because where do you think the chaos come from in the first place?
I've commented on how it's less safe - blah blah blah. But I think you're right. This is no bigger deal than the face unlock option in Android, which is coincidentally also very insecure. The difference is, in the case of Android, nobody inflated the security implications, it was simply a neat trick to open your phone, that smart people won't use.
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...this in in turn caused mostly by a combination of ignorance and bizarre religious beliefs...

It's actually better/worse than that (depending on your perspective). People were mislead by a fraud. And not fraud with any kind of a noble purpose - it was for money.
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Patent troll claiming playlists and podcasts scores license with SanDisk
i dont think its ever going to pay off.
The big difference is that a consenting adult can drink raw milk and endanger himself without harming anybody else, while anti-vaccination nutjob parents endanger both their own offspring and everybody else's. (Feeding raw milk to your kids is halfway in between; at least it's not contagious.)
would you mind describing in what way(s) you use twitter?
Why Apple's 64-bit iPhone chip is a bigger deal than you think
It's not just their laptops. It's all Dell computers. When I started working in IT as a college student they were 5 digits, but I think they're all 7 digits now. I believe the service tag also brings up warranty information and the specs of the machine as ordered if you are logged in as an account with permissions (i.e. the one that ordered it).
>the rise of advertising has emerged from the collapse of disposable income.

No way. The rise of advertising to pay for internet stuff stems from a) the inherent network effects present in the most successful internet software, and b) the historically difficult problem of ubiquitous, safe, secure online payments.

Network effects: if you offer a paid and a free version of a product, more people will take free.

Online payments: if payments were really easy then people would pay for more things. Currently, solving this problem requires captive audiences (App Store, iTunes, in-app purchases, Facebook). But YouTube, for example, only hurts itself the more closed it becomes.
NFC/IR or even just USB? A little Raspberry PI would do nicely for this.
How is Docker.io different from a normal virtual machine?
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Ask HN: Is underestimating a chronic IT project problem?
Normal A&D time allocated in my department is 6 hours. That may be enough, if you know what is going on, the code involved and potential dependencies affected. But sometimes you are given 6 hours to A&D for code you've never touched or seen. This happens a lot to me - 6 hour tasks which turn into week long mini-projects. Saying "yeah, sure that can't be too bad" only to realize that I have no idea what is going on in the 35 files, 3 namespaces, countless methods I am supposed to understand.

Do you encounter this in your work, and how do you deal with it? Do you estimate A&D work using the "usual" hours or realistic estimates, no matter how out of "norm" they are?
Thank you for the response. Is there any reason why you can't just take those clauses out?

You also say that you might change the terms at any time. Go ahead and change them. :-)
I loaded my Jeep into a shipping container and ocean freighted it. It's much cheaper (~$800) and easier (~1 week) than you might think, and well, well worth it.

My report is: http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-...

And there are much more up to date reports and costs at http://wikioverland.org/Pan_American_Highway

If you're serious about this kind of travel, http://wikioverland.org has everything you need to know.
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Awesome post. About the "fantastic two-gene change": can't there ever be a force pushing for a species to obtain two independent mutations more or less simultaneously? What I mean by that is pressure on a species to maintain / promote a few existing mutations in the population (each individual may carry one, or the other, or none, but the offspring of carriers is likely to end up with more than one). I imagine in very narrow bottlenecks this could be the case, e.g. tough ecosystem forcing early humans to a. become bipedal and b. think/plan better. Such bottlenecks could also be caused by inter-species dynamics, climate change, etc.

Actually the more I think about it, the more I am convinced that multiple interacting species introduce a serious argument against the blind hill-climbing view of evolution. Essentially what you have is not a single point on a landscape blindly climbing in the direction of the gradient, but a probability distribution with a given mean point that could jump to another mean currently at its periphery given enough pressure / interference. E.g. a newly migrated predator eating away 90% of variance of the distribution of some existing sheep-like species, leaving only its tough "tail", thus severely relocating the centroid. Maybe this is something trivial I'm just realizing, I'm not a biologist.
Yea and nay - as always with IT, the answer is "it depends". My background is with telecom giants. 'Round those parts, ain't nobody B'ing their own D. If a company does anything for the government, it may as well do everything for the government; almighty Compliance is a jealous god.
Ray Dolby, founder of Dolby Laboratories, dies
Yes, I've heard about the API issue. I don't really care anymore. It's wasting Twitter's money to give free access to every dev, and yet they do anyway. If they want to set limits that's their issue. The only real downside I see is that if someone wants to use a FOSS Twitter client it might be harder.

Yes, I know Twitter grew because of these developers. But think about all the good Twitter does, sponsoring the Apache Foundation, not giving into the NSA, etc. They have much higher standards than most mainstream tech corps, imo.
Can you clarify what A&D is?
No worries - it's not that big of a deal. But I think you're right that leaving that character alive at the end of the finale seems messy. I assume that they'll keep playing out the Governor as an enemy for a while. Or maybe he'll just come back in after a season or two hiatus... hopefully that.
> If you fail in banking, you take a two-year timeout at Harvard Business School and raise a search fund before you're 30.

Uhh, what? How many people can get into HBS? I don't think it's that simple.

OTOH, if you fail in software, you just find another job - that's what the market is like right now.
You and others have read more into my comment than is there. I wrote, "If you're the CEO of a startup, you should be focused on your own company. Period." Maintaining an appropriate level of focus on your company does not require that you work 16 hours a day, neglecting your own health and personal relationships in the process. Burn out is a symptom of working too much. But working too much is usually the symptom of an inability to prioritize and filter.

In my experience, the difference between successful entrepreneurs who have a healthy balance between their personal and professional lives and those who don't is that the former prioritize and filter and the latter don't.

There are 24 hours in a day and each hour is precious. As the CEO of a young company, you probably have a significant amount that needs to get done each day, and you and your employees are counting on your ability to "get it done." If you're spending an hour on an "argumentative" phone call about startup philosophy with somebody who has an idea, you're trading an hour of time that can be used to benefit you or your company for an hour of time with a person who clearly prefers conflict to counsel. Let's talk about you, not your company, for a moment: in an hour, you could easily fit in a vigorous workout, take a power nap, enjoy a lunch with a friend or relative, or cook a meal for your significant other.

In reality, of course, the decision to give an hour to an individual who won't even reveal what he's working on sans NDA doesn't mean that you have an hour less work to do. It just means that you'll need to make it up, today or tomorrow, increasing the likelihood that you'll be "working late" and reducing the likelihood that you'll be able to fit in a vigorous workout, take a power nap, enjoy a lunch with a friend or relative, or cook a meal for your significant other. Activities that it should be noted benefit your overall well-being and are thus likely to have a positive impact on your performance as the leader of a company.

Obviously, I'm not saying "never take a phone call" or "don't be willing to provide advice." But as the CEO of a company with employees, you are important, and your time is valuable. Being unreasonably generous with it is not of benefit to your company, or you.
I dont believe a profit seeking entity can (ever) be "benevolent", in the sense that it would forgo profit in an altrustic manner to help "the world".

If the profit generating actions of such company also align with the interests of society, then good. When they aren't aligned, they will chose profit over the welbeing of people, unless laws come in to "re-align" them.

Perhaps when a company is private and small, they can be benevolent, but when it grows big (which is usually when they IPO), the share holder's expectation of a return (as well as various other market pressures to make profit or die) forces companies to behave in a sociopathic manner. Despite all good intentions of the CEO, employees, etc.
Your accent come from where?
Recently I learned that DDG donates a portion of profits to Trisquel http://trisquel.info/ (bottom of page) and probably other projects. That's pretty cool.
https://crocodoc.com/customers/

Crocodoc is likely generating web previews of your documents.
True, but they arrested plenty of conmen peddling raw milk as safe to the same religoius communities that don't get vaccinated. It wasn't until an outbreak of E coli that killed a kid that they discovered a vast network of raw milk stores run by foaming at the mouth conspiracy theorists and neo hippies.

Diptheria also made a comeback, something even more terrifying than measles. What's wrong with people, damnit stop listening to Jenny McCarthy
I don't think that's accurate at all. Startups are just a small subset of companies that require office space. On top of that startups looking for office space are an even smaller subset, and those who have founders or employees lurking on HN an additional step down the funnel. People who "want" to start a startup are even further removed from requiring office space. This is rounding error stuff.

The reason the companies I mentioned have actual and natural 'hn marketshare' isn't because they're b2c vs b2b (which is incorrect anyway), it's because they actually do provide tools, services, platforms etc that HN users in enormous numbers need/want/use.
Yeah - if it were just religious beliefs, those would be rare (although concentrated) enough to preserve herd immunity, I think. It's Jenny McCarthy and Andrew Wakefield who have turned this into a matter of national security.
Or they tie it up by purchasing the 6th largest island of Hawaii, massive yachts, and mansions that benefit few people other than themselves.
> My personal impression is that the rise of advertising has emerged from the collapse of disposable income.

The rise of the advertising industry actually happened in the 1950s and 60s, when the American middle class was at its peak.

Advertising today is just moving to the Internet, and by dollar amount that means it is falling. Advertising on the Internet is way cheaper than on TV or even in print.
Well, I can't disagree with that.
Analysis & Design? Looking at the problem at hand, looking at the code we have, what can be done to implement what the business wants, access the impacts to other layers of the application, document everything, set up reviews
Maybe I've just been lucky?

That about sums it up.

making the process easier could obviate their job, so I suspect they like the way it is now.

Wow.
It sounds like we're implying we should all either do something off the scale epic (like Hillary, or Felix jumping from space, or Amundsen) or we should all do mundane stuff for our entire lives.

I personally think people need to get out there and have their own adventures. For person 1 an adventure might be getting outside their comfort zone and talking to a stranger they find attractive in their apartment building. For person 2 adventure might be doing a 5 mile day-hike in a National Park, where-as for person 3 an adventure might be sailing around the world.

The fact all of those have been done before doesn't diminish the scale of the adventure for the individual, nor does it give us any right to comment on whether we think it's a worthy pursuit or in fact "adventure" at all.

Everybody needs to do what's right for them, with the level of planning and preparedness that's right for them.
its an acquisition for clients. A market share grab.

Honestly though, if they have no good patents, ms wouldn't give two shits about them.
There is a clear race to the bottom in so many technology industries, but advertising has been a major cost for most industries for some time, especially premium brands. I recall how surprised I was to learn that 1/3 of the cost of making a box of Tide detergent was the advertising getting you to buy it. Then again, you could just not click the ads. I think I've clicked one in the last 12 years.
OMG - that electron microscope picture, as long as it is genuine, just blows you away. it's a picture of a gear - cogs and teeth and - wow ...
He was starving even without the seeds (it was only because he was starving already that the seeds did him in) because he did not actually know how to survive in the wild. Neither do I, but I am smart enough to know that and not attempt living in the wild.
Here is my nomination, based on the criteria of having spent significant time in it: RPG-III. The opposite of awesome.

I would much rather program in assembler, such as Sigma-7.

But difficulty is kind of a vector, really.