skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nicotine is less addictive than heroin only in one measure of addictiveness. There are others, e.g. reinforcement, in terms of which, both heroin and cocaine are more addictive.

And with regards to the article, this is nothing new. Who hasn't caught onto the fact that anti-drug materials exaggerate everything and are full of lies (LSD is bad apparently).
"Hold them accountable" is doing an amazing amount of lifting there. Who is "them"? For what are they being "held accountable"?

I do think the transition of the investment firms from partnerships to publicly traded companies was a bad move, but I have no reason to strongly believe it would have stopped the previous financial crisis. Goldman Sachs made a lot of money betting against the bubble, remember.

Lehman wasn't bailed out, while other companies were. There was little rhyme or reason do which companies did and did not get saved. This wasn't necessarily bad, as it seemed that firms had gotten the expectation of a bailout and were continuing their risk-acceptance behaviors, but the collapse of Lehman is generally considered to be the immediate cause of credit drying up nearly instantly for everybody. The rulebook had changed and people snapped from way too risk-accepting to way too risk-averse.
Good point - that's why I really want to go and see for myself, and talk to people who have. Also, I'll be watching the FirefoxOS marketplace for apps that aren't ported from other mobile platforms, but built around grassroots needs.

In the same way that the likes of M-PESA enabled a group of tech founders, like in the pan-African transaction networks for example, there are untapped needs in food distribution and other "last mile" inefficiencies where tech could help. My feeling atm is that we can borrow lessons from vertical accelerators like HealthBox, for example, and speed up the time to get to a rapid field trial.
I'm really excited that Facebook is stewarding in a new era of PHP. I would love it to see some of these framework maintainers (particularly fabpot and jwage) push their frameworks towards interop with HHVM.

The sooner we can abandon the backwards php.internals mentality of "Do things easy the easiest way possible," we'll see a much stronger language.
The simplified view given in the documentcloud link begs a question: just which CA certificate(s) is/are controlled by NSA?

Because in order to pull that MITM off, they either need to have the target service's CA - or they have the ability to fake any certificate. My guess is on the latter.

And that means at least one commonly accepted CA certificate is effectively compromised.
Why does this need to be the case?

I guess for most people it is more like "there's so many movies about this stuff and famous people take it, it MUST be good, I need to try".
Foreclosure "fraud" is when a bank cannot produced the signed promissory note in a foreclosure proceeding. Proving actual fraud requires proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, fraudulent intent: that the the bank intended to defraud the homeowner by foreclosing on a property it knew it didn't own. But in these cases it's clear that there was no fraudulent intent. It was careless filing of paperwork. In this electronic age, transferring a mortgage still requires handing over that signed promissory note. It's obvious to anyone that what happened is that when banks bought millions of mortgages from loan originators, the electronic records showed the correct transfers but a bunch of the paperwork got lost along the way. Certainly, that explanation is plausible enough that there's no way you're going to convince a jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it isn't what happened.
Right now, I think documentation would be futile and also suffocating. Considering the stability of HHVM and its steward (Facebook), I expect things to break/change.
Fingerprint scanning + smart kitchen appliance = trouble
This. People assume that all opiate users are crackheads committing armed robbery. Many are highly skilled, highly paid professionals.

I must confess a certain amount of cognitive dissonance seeing middle-aged men in tailored suits scoring heroin on the street!
And it's presented in a visual quality - mimicking the "act as if" sentiment - which is enough to make some people trust it as a source of information.
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Also...

Microsoft Research announced on Wednesday that Mr. Gates, who purchased the rights to the videos privately from the Feynman estate, BBC and from Cornell University, in cooperation with Curtis Wong, a Microsoft researcher, has created a Web site that is intended to enhance the videos by annotating them with related digital content.

Project Tuva
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html
MintBox 2 Mini Computer Officially Unveiled, Powered by Linux Mint 15
Why Young People Don't Want To Own Cars
I haven't seen a PHP codebase that didn't run on 5.2 in years. If you don't support 5.2, that means your code is at least eight years old at this point, with no effort at all to upgrade.

That's kind of scary. It'd be like captaining the SS Swiss Cheese.
Interesting concept. Not going to sign-up though without seeing some samples first or at least a demo/video etc.
lol Are you a lawyer?
I intended to make some code check-in at work today as token of celebrating this day. But the task slipped. I should be able to do it by tomorrow evening though :)
Why I’m excited for the Twitter IPO
SymPiosis – porting our Symbiosis hosting environment to Raspberry Pi
when did convenience become an excuse for ignoring contract terms? They broke the terms of their contract, that were clearly spelled out, so they should face the consequences.

I'm not saying you should always follow the terms of contracts, there are plenty of business reasons to ignore a contract, you just have to do so with the knowledge of the potential consequences.
Samsung will go 64 bit - what about Android?
Best KDE distro of 2013
I've work with names and other demographic data darn near my entire career. I've also had name issues due to the length of one of my names.

Things are better and more accommodating than twenty years ago when every byte was precious. But some cultures and individuals get ridiculous. I'm not allocating 400 characters of space in a standard name field just because you want to include your family tree, PGP key, DNA sequence and homeland geology in your name. (I will put this in another table, and link it relationally so the software and the people can access your true name.)
problem w/ that is that regardless of how good yr intentions are, you can't prevent unconscious bias from coming into play.
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You're wasting your Internet time..
just download postgress.app
they've been found in airports before, but I can't remember when, so don't ask me for a cite.
Homonym misuse on the homepage. On a resume that means it goes in the garbage instantly, and these people are supposed to represent others professionally?!?

Skipped.
1 in 5 sounds pretty good to me. You could hire someone new every ~1.5 weeks.
Motion Detecting Baby Monitor with WebRTC
Guide how to build Motion detecting Baby based on webrtc and all opensource.

Good example how to integrate webrtc with other apis.

Code:
https://github.com/webrtcHacks/webrtc_baby_monitor
Fair share? Abuse? It is a criticism made against a corporation. It deserves scrutiny and a critical eye whenever it fails, regardless of what it's competitors do.

I hate to say it because I abhor the word, but this reeks of fanboyism.
>and often illegal

Really? Our government does it.
Nifty idea. If you want to make it even better, have it simulate the iPhone/iPad charger ID circuitry so that I can charge my iPad off any old USB charger (provided it's rated high enough).

Edit: Actually, scratch that. Leave the data lines connected, but "short" them to the V- line (or shroud, should hopefully be the same thing) with a small capacitor to act as a low-pass filter. I don't have the specs in front of me, but it should be easy enough to filter > 1Mhz down by 3dB and still keep the DC "slew rate" enough to properly ID a charger.
That isn't obsfucation though.
Get used to brands using tragedies as the basis for ads
Without the use of software like Start8, I admit that the UX experience would be inferior to Win7, even including the greatly improved SSD and overall performance.

With the use of something like Start8 (or 8.1), the experience is largely identical and the extra performance and improved ui (task manager, etc) become highlights.
In high-school I went to - Edward R Murrow, in Brooklyn, back in 90's, we had non-regents classes for really poor students (I took bio non-regents), regular classes for regular students, and there were AP courses for smarter students. It was possible to take AP Calculus (smart) and non-regents Biology (not smart) and regular English (average).

My daughter is in 3'rd grade. There are only 7 students in her class, and they get individually assigned different homework, based on their abilities.

Back in Russia, I finished 5 grades, and we had a "smart" class, and a few regular classes for each grade.

So basically I already see separation by IQ or similar in classrooms.

Putting kids with different age groups will create issues. Although it could be that an eight year old is just as mathematically advanced as a ten year old, the ten year old is very likely to be a lot more advanced socially. Could probably manipulate 8 year old into whatever - I'm just talking about embarrassing them, nothing horrible. The social discrepancies are probably going to create more issues, than solving the "I'm too smart for my age group" issue.
Shame on you Report shows users lazier than ever about security practices
But should we really worry about the 0.01% outlier who has seven different names, each consisting of some kind of personal scribble that changes depending on the phase of the moon?

More on topic, why should official systems allow for names of arbitrary length? Obviously your 1800 character preference for last name is not going to fit on all standard forms of identification. A standards-compliant name should be issued and you can use your preferred name for personal matters.
> Jaguar, Land Rover, and Volvo

I'm not saying it is indicative of anything, but having been released from Ford those brands are now doing very very well.
Love the idea, would love to invest (not an accredited investor, so would have to wait for the JOBS act to go through, or to find another way to do so). SaintSal, I've just emailed you about this.
Inside Counsel | Social Media: Boon to Business or Compliance Death Trap?
Vim-polyglot: A collection of language packs for Vim.
- It won't affect your startup time, as all files are loaded only on demand.
- Language packs are merged, not submoduled. It significantly speeds up installation time.
- No support for esoteric languages (there is for modern ones like slim though).

Currently 30+ languages are supported. I'm open for pull-requests.
>I'm not sure it's a translator by that definition. The input and output are legal Javascript. It's moreso a demonstration of a functionally complete subset of the language.

Well, okay, so it's still strictly speaking javascript but if we consider the functionally complete subset to be our 'target' language we end up in the same place, methinks :).
Man hoping to cross Atlantic with cluster of balloons lands in Newfoundland
Mass. lawmakers agree to repeal software tax
Government's job is to regulate and legislate. Within that frame work, all if fair. The regulation and legislation failed. Government failed. That's where fingers should be pointed.

Same deal with tax avoidance.
As a designer, this is how I got my current day job(not using recroup). I didn't send a resume, I designed a book that walked the employer through my accomplishments.
According to these guys, if the data lines are shorted according to the "dumb usb" spec, you should be able to draw whatever the port can provide: http://www.portablepowersupplies.co.uk/portapow-fast-charge-...
The problem isn't limited to WPA2. As far as I know, in and of itself it's actually fairly secure.

Most of the problem is that passwords are either easy for computers to crack or hard for humans to remember. The middle ground has disappeared as computational power has increased.
There are a number of devices (say, USB thumb drives) that run off the power provided by the USB spec, so, no, that wouldn't work for those devices.
Does Twitter Have a Growth Problem?
NAND flash has at least another decade of life
Ratings are done at a bond (tranche) level, not a collateral level. Rating them at the collateral level would be incredibly stupid as some bonds are specifically designed to take loses in order to bolster the ratings of the senior bonds.

Also, the entire point in creating these structures is to introduce the multiple and very different risks. You start with collateral that is exposed to a bunch of different risks, and you end up with bonds that have only 1 specific and unique risk (in theory). Then whoever buys the bond only has to worry about hedging that one specific risk (or using it as a hedge for that specific risk) instead of trying to balance 5 or more different hedges.
> the 0.01% outlier who has seven different names, each consisting of some kind of personal scribble that changes depending on the phase of the moon?

I cannot adequately express my dislike for this kind of mockery. Seriously, fucking stop it.
scribbles a note to himself "who the f__k would need a name field in UI longer than 32 symbols" is not a valid argument.
> The problem with this view is that the financial crisis was not the result of individual actions on an individual level.

Come on. Is the 2008-09 time period already so distant that we've forgotten that, yes, firms & their CEOs did individually misrepresent/lie/fudge their investments and operations.

Sure there was a "structural" issue like you say, but it was fanned by an orgy of company-specific actions. Some of them, to jog our collective memory:

- The use of 'Repo 105' transactions to conceal $50 billion in loans on Lehman's balance sheet [Source: http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/news/1934026/-sued-lehmans-...]

- A series of obsfuscations to hide the true value of stock options awarded to executives. In one instance Fuld claimed he earned $146 million via stock grants when he actually earned $409.5 million. Also, Fuld made $469 million from stock sales between 2000 and 2008, compared to his claims to have hardly made any money that way. [Source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b41770562...]

- Bank of America hiding $5.8 billion in bonuses it authorized for Merrill Lynch executives before taking over the firm [Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8240633&page=1]

- Citigroup understating its subprime exposure by $40 billion [Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/07/29/the-secs-citi-complain...]

I could go on.

I'm not arguing for jail time for each of the CEOs of these companies. But in most cases these companies and their executives have gotten off through settlements and fines, paid for by their shareholders.

Which brings me to your strong conclusion:

> You will never see these people prosecuted because by our standards of justice there is nothing to prosecute

I beg to differ. There is TONS of stuff to prosecute. But perhaps, there is no desire or will. Cue, the SEC's Revolving Door: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-04/sec-door-spinning-m...
Please. You are being deliberately thick. I didn't say you literally wrote "vi is lame" or I would have put it in quotes. You figuratively say vi/vim are lame/terrible/antique/broken over and over. Anyone reading this thread gets your opinion of vi and vim and will agree that "vi is lame" sums it up even though you don't use those exact words.

You can dispute the presence or absence of control keys on early terminals, sure. But find one that was in widespread use after vi was released in 1976. I asked you already to show an example of a terminal that didn't have a control key that you used vi on. It's irrelevant, really, since vi was designed specifically for terminals like the ADM-3A that DID have a control key. Bill Joy's original vi docs support that statement.

The possible existence of some early terminal that lacks a control key doesn't change the fact that vi wasn't designed for such terminals, so it shouldn't be surprising that vi didn't work well on such things. Supposing they existed. I posted links and screen shots. What evidence do you have?

I haven't made anything up. I posted your own quotes verbatim and cited my sources for early terminals and the history of vi.

Give it a rest. No one is interested in this anymore and you are just making a fool out of yourself.
Thanks for the link.

I'm really glad he's made this available on line. And at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, I wish it didn't require silverlight.
On a tangent - NP really need to obfuscate those ID's better. Pixellating is pretty readily reversible - you just need the base card image (find it or shop it), and you can then brute-force by iterating through numbers/letters as needed for each field, pixellating, and comparing the outputs.

Edit: in fact, as they've included two images with the same info, pixellated differently, you could almost certainly heuristically solve without brute-forcing. Eigenvectors, baby.
The web is _very_ churny; waves of people move from service to service over 5-10 year adoption cycles. Eventually people will declare twitter "uncool" (perhaps as a result of abuse problems?) and move onto the next thing.
Oh, sure, I don't doubt there were a few joyrides that may or may not be counted among the science flights but it's a far cry from, say, a Gulfstream doing a wind-speed measurement at 20000 ft. on the way between SF and NY, and calling it a meteorological experiment.
The only ipad I have to trade is a first generation one, which they don't accept. Oh well...
Hint: if you leave off the word transgender, it should still describe who they are; Audrey's a woman. Audrey's transgender. Audrey's a transgender woman.
The documents mention the DigiNotar hack explicitly. What I do not understand is that the hack was detected when (afair) Iranian authorities tried to MITM Google connections, so the hack was claimed to come from an Iranian hacker. This begs the question whether this is wrong and the NSA hacked DigiNotar genuinely or they just used the breach (perhaps then only known to them) to fake certificates themselves. One may also take into account that DigiNotar was responsible for Netherlands public key infrastructure. This made DigiNotar possibly an even more valuable target.
As a smoker, I wish it was illegal tomorrow. Then I could buy one or two smokes every now and then, but I would have to go well out of my way.
Nitpick: It's current negotiation, not voltage negotiation. As for voltage - 5V is universal with USB.
And as for current - I wrote about the matter in another reply to the OP: The problem will be a well-behaved USB device simply won't take more than 100mA. I.e. it will use the "flat" charging curve, even if the host could deliver more.
We might ask why it is still broadly assumed and expected that women will scale back their career hours so much more than men within a given profession. To suggest instead that women doctors should have become medical assistants is astonishingly blinkered.
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The flat Google logo redesign appears legit: It’s spreading across Google
I nearly spit my coffee out when I read: Über Chrome Dick

Sounds like robot porn.

At my last startup I actually got to choose my title and chose Lead Guitar. It just confused the hell out of people so I changed it to Lead Developer.
True, but I was thinking more along the paranoid lines of someone who would think it was a huge scandal that Google might know your wifi password. If you distrust Google enough to be really worried about that, then I'm not sure why you'd trust an Android phone or a Chrome browser to not capture your plaintext password. There are all sorts of ways that Google might have access to your password, but those are a couple of ways in which they must. It's only trust that lets most of us not worry about it.
"JSFuck is an esoteric and educational programming style"

How exactly is this educational?
Probably time to adjust your meds.
To accept payments from other companies, must I be incorporated?
My last step is to implement a payment system and open my service to my mailing list users. The service is aimed at large(er) companies, and the users who will sign up will be buying their own membership with a company card.

Do I need to incorporate?
I am 31 years old. When I went to college in 1999, jobs which were considered to be high-status and high-pay: medical doctor, lawyer, engineer (I almost hesitate to include it because American society doesn't bludgeon you with the "engineers are all rich" meme like it does with doctors and lawyers.

Computer programmer is not one of them. In fact, we were constantly being told by the media that the future for programmers was bleak due to outsourcing.

The point I am making is that medical school and law school are viewed societally as risk-free, guaranteed paths to wealth. This is of course turning out to be a myth for law school. They are huge magnets for smart people who are following the standard path of university to job.

The "not enough women in tech" concept never took off until tech became consistently viewed as a high-status job. The vast majority of construction workers and mechanics are men, but you don't see a huge societal uproar about it. This is because these positions are low status in our society.

I can't find a male teacher in my son's elementary school, and yet a highly talented male teacher I know was turned down for a position at his school which was given to a young woman. While this issue (including the self-reinforcing feedback loop that deters men from becoming elementary teachers) has been well documented and discussed in niche circles, its not something that graces the cover of newspapers and magazines like the women in tech issue does.

Now that tech is a high status job, instead of just a high pay job, this will correct itself just like it did for law firms and medical practices.

I can tell you this: anyone who thinks that artificially shrinking the pool of experts which you can pick to speak at a conference won't affect the quality of the presentations is deluding themselves.
I wonder if Dell is trying to pull a Jobs, comeback and turn the ship around, and do something wild like neuro interface computing... Or take the game market by storm start producing XBoxOne/PS4 style consoles.
So you are saying that Putin's point is only for short-term gain while ignoring the long term goals (supposedly bad) that Putin/Russia has, right? Ok.. makes sense and it's playing the fear of something card.

Since being short-sighted is bad and we clearly should be looking at it from all sides/perspectives, please enlighten us as to what impact Obama's short-term plan (to bomb Syria) will have in the long-term plans that he might have? While at it, please share what's Obama long-term plan for Syria what why American should have one at all.
WPA2 is fine for what it's intended, provided you're using a long random key, otherwise the number of key-strengthening iterations could use some beefing up.

There are a few problems with all PSK schemes that make internal attacks problematic. Anyone who sniffs your initial handshake and knows the master PSK can read your traffic. There's a lack of mutual authentication. Having a scheme where each device registers its own password with the AP would probably be better.

Other than that, it's generally a good solution, why do you feel it needs replacing?
last time a priest tried this from brazil. Never to be seen or found again. Had all the proper tracking gear too and beacons. When you land in the middle of the Atlantic most of that is no good unless you have a raft.