skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting idea, but I wonder if people would expend the effort to accurately log their symptoms/recent behavior without some sort of reward. A paper published earlier this year investigated using machine learning with Twitter data to try to do something similar to what you suggested, though. (the paper: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~sadilek/publications/Sadilek-Br...).
I had been taking concentrated cherry juice which is high in natural meltonin.. made no discernible difference to me.. so I will try to see if melatonin tablets are available here (in New Zealand) and give it a go.

One thing I would love to know is (I may have missed it in the article) is whether melatonin supplements help with staying asleep. I fall asleep just fine (10-15 minutes, often earlier) but it's when my brain gets into a routine of waking up at 3 or 4 am that I find particularly hard to deal with. I've simply not worked out strategies around it yet.
It would be more accurate to say that there is a lower bound on dilution with convertible debt (if the debt converts at the valuation cap) but there is no upper bound on dilution (if it later converts at much lower than the valuation cap).
Actually, it is a pretty common Indian name (Sandip or Sandeep). The 't' at the end is probably the first letter of his surname.
I think it is time to reverse the nvidia driver v295 to make way for an open source nvidia driver which supports upto n screens.
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It's a question of opportunity cost. The NSA has extensive resources, but it's unlikely that they can employ overwhelming resources (such as would be theoretically necessary to break tor) for every situation where overwhelming resources specifically directed are a theoretical weakness. At the moment, implementations are a much easier target, and so I don't necessarily think that it's surprising that they do have trouble with strong but imperfect systems like tor.

Perhaps once all implementation issues are removed from the security equation (I'll hold my breath while I wait...) it will be necessary to think up better systems. But right now, what's hard for us is hard for the NSA, and so that should be the guiding principle for strengthening current systems and developing new ones. I find that an empowering idea.
I don't routinely visit their forums, either. In fact, this was my first visit, and less than five minutes of browsing was sufficient.

Why would you assume that the NVidia logo was a default avatar when most posts on the forum appear at first glance to have a question mark as the avatar?

How are you still unwilling to conclude that he's a NVidia employee when a post of his about the status of NVidia's internal bug tracking system is corroborated and followed up by a post from a moderator whose signature identifies him as another NVidia employee? Yes, Sandip might be only a low-level employee who has nothing to do with NVidia's business strategies with respect to Linux, but he's clearly not just some random poster. (And for you to suggest that NVidia might let a volunteer have access to an internal bug tracker suggests you know nothing about how NVidia does business.)
Your problem here isn't with government, it's with Republicans (and conservative Democrats) who do believe that arresting pot smokers is a greater good.
I was surprised at this, so I did some cursory Googling. It looks like these states allow polygraph evidence only if both sides agree, and further limit its use in various ways. So even in these states it's not treated as real evidence. However, I don't think pseudoscience should be admitted even under these restrictive conditions.
> That's not liberty. That's criminal behavior that stems from criminal thinking. If government has any legitimate function at all, it's to prevent injustice from criminals and other predators.

I think you're missing a fine point here. You've already said that contaminated meat is criminal, presumably because it's very dangerous. Are bath salts very dangerous? Meth? Low quality meth with contaminants?

How should we permit the sale of narcotics while disallowing poisons? I think that a lot of people can answer that, but how can we do this in a reasonable way? Let's think it through... I don't have time to keep track of which things are safe. I'd probably rely on some organization to help me decide. It's reasonable for me to rely on the government because they're democratically accountable to me. In that system, I'd prefer them to really err on the side of caution. Erring on the side of caution, is heroin poison?

Do you want to live in a world where buying a simple OTC sleep pill at Walgreen's exposes you to the risk of ingesting heroin or some other decidedly narcotic substance?

I really support the legalization of certain drugs, but I'm advocating for a per substance approach. (Actually, I'm saying that it's functionally impossible to just "legalize drugs".)
am i the only one to against the pledge?

here is the reason: if there was such kind of mechanism in browser, we probably already had snapchat years ago on browser instead of Apple's safe guarded garden.

there is no evil technology. it just depends on how to use it. i'm surprised so many are blindly naive.
> "We aren't born anonymous. In the "state of nature," without government, we are in no way anonymous."

Using "natural states of being", however defined, to articulate rights in unnatural states of being (i.e. modern society) is a fallacy. It presumes that a natural state of being naturally endows people with all their rights, and that the arbitrary social systems that have evolved on top of that natural state have systematically deprived people of those rights. In some cases, this has happened, but it is not an inviolable law.

For example, in the "state of nature" women are born weaker than men, but that doesn't mean that men have a right to drag them back to the cave and do what they want with them.

> "Society has weighed the pros and cons and decided that this particular set of technologies is on the whole good. That it might in fact want to limit the level of anonymity on the network seems reasonable, in the same way that making people put license plates on their cars is reasonable."

"Society" is not a monolithic, homogeneous organism whose will is absolute and omniscient. Society is composed of many subcultures with differing ideologies that change over time. "Society" has not decided to "limit the level of anonmymity" on the internet; it is only some factions within it that believe that should be done. The worrying aspect is that these factions often promote it as a public good (using the same "societal consensus" language you have invoked) that only fringe groups like terrorists and pedophiles oppose. As long as indifferent factions (which most ordinary people fall into) are more swayed by this kind of fear mongering than by a desire to prevent the machinery of the destruction of their rights from being built, the minority faction that argues that privacy is unnecessary or even dangerous will exert a disproportionate level of control over our entire society.
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If it's not sexist, it sure is still apropos of nothing given the context. Whenever I watch Twitch, I'm rarely looking at somebody's face on the stream (because there isn't one). If there is, it's surely not a face made to "look cute". It's usually a guy with his mouth hanging open because he's concentrating on a game. Using "cleavage" intimates that it's only women (or typifies women as some "other") that try to use their looks on Twitch to get far because they don't have any personality or ability. OP could have just said "good looks" to get the point across.
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I so wish that pricing was available for any of their supported hardware :/
For what it's worth, none of the 2-character domains listed are available.
Be less eager to bicker. All I did was try to cool all the Microsoft/Nvidia conspiracy talk.
Yes, they should, though not you uniquely...
In most other VCSs, revision numbers apply to the entire repository. In RCS and CVS, they apply to single files, which can be more convenient if you're maintaining a collection of files that are largely independent of each other.
Hah, of course not. I don't do naughty things, I just like thought experiments. And anyone who does do such things would be pretty stupid to draw attention to themselves on Hacker News by posting a proposed method for avoiding surveillance.
While this is very neat, the thing is most people who are productive on the computer, tend to never look at the keys they strike.

Mechanical keyboards are great because it imparts a tactile feel, this keyboard on the other hand displays something off from my vision.
:) a "surprise me" button for http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monsieur/monsieur-the-ar...
Worldwide global drug market is estimated to be around $350B/year. SR did around 1.2B over 2.5 years. So yeah a tiny amount, but a huge amount considering it just started couple years back and needed technical sophistication of bitcoin + tor + pgp to use.
Unless you put a lot of effort into the integration, I'd advise against doing that -- the Firefox included in the bundle is specifically set up to avoid leaking information, while a standard Firefox or standard Chrome will phone home or do something else (like make a DNS request over the public network) that will quickly compromise any security you thought you had.
No problem... but based on your response I'm not sure you understood what I was saying :D

He holds the copyright to the book's text, and didn't license it under a permissive license, so crediting him is not enough. Copyright means you need to get his explicit permission for whatever it is you want to do. If he wants to charge you money for that permission, or require you to follow some set of conditions he specifies, it's in his rights to do that.

In other words, the next step would be to contact Hartl, describe your project and ask him to give you an OK, preferably in writing. Without that OK you'd be violating his copyright. Which isn't an academic matter -- if you violate his copyright, it would be trivial for him to get your project taken offline by your Web host just by filing a DMCA complaint. That's something you can do with a simple email to the hosting company. So you want to be sure you're in compliance to avoid pouring a lot of time and money into something that gets nuked five minutes after you publish it.
The US has defaulted before
Decriminalization of drugs does not answer the entire question - other illegal commerce was taking place there.
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Wouldn't those people have used encrypted communications over Usenet[1] or burner cell phones? Or sometimes even anonymous remailers?

And all those are just as tricky. De-anonymizing alt.anonymous.messages (http://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html)
I agree with the other comments responding to your question. I don't think time-keeping is itself a bad thing, or that the things that happen to a company once they start keeping track of time is a bad thing, but it's definitely painful to go through the transition.

Time keeping ends up being more important in some kinds of companies than others, but all growing companies end up doing it in some way eventually. For example, Google finally started keeping accurate track of what different services were actually costing them to keep running and the result has been pretty painful for lots of people who use Google products and services. Some example, GAE hosting prices jumped thousands of percent overnight, Google Maps API became so expensive that numerous companies built around it shuttered or moved to other technologies completely, Translate API was shuttered etc.

In aggregate Google was making loads of money, despite having huge money losing parts of the company...and those weren't acting as traditional loss leaders either (meaning they lose a little money in one place to bring customers in to make more money in total).

In a B2B company, you often end up with contracts to manage, and contracts usually have strict labor hours that have to be accounted for. Even if the contract itself doesn't specify the hours (some kind of firm fixed price deal), you still have to internally manage hours to make sure that you're making money on the contract instead of losing it to salaries. The only way to really do that is time keeping.

In most early stage companies, the ones that are still building their products and have lots of investment money to work with and no particular contracts or anything to worry about, the assumption is that they're going to lose money for a while anyways, so there's not a lot of reason to keep track of it. And even as they grow, so long as money coming in is more than money going out things look pretty good.

But eventually somebody will want to squeeze a bit more efficiency out of the company, and time-keeping is the signal that that is happening. It means the end of the loose structure you had been working in and the introduction of metric tracking. With time-keeping comes head counting, more rigid delivery dates, more rigid tracking of every aspect of the business process.

It's like a switch gets flipped and the organization suddenly becomes a regular old company. Which is fine. It usually also means more job stability. But you usually see lots of flight out of the company as people move on to a less rigid environment. And the introduction of very stable personality types who don't mind being a development drone. The culture just...changes.
You may also consider trying different medications. Ritalin/Concerta types have always had weird effects on my sleep, but the Adderall/Adderall XR ones have always been neutral/helpful when it comes to sleep.
The main issue is it being a JSON document store, and our application being designed around that and using the very specific MongoDB queries that involves.

Any wrapper would likely be worse than just keeping MongoDB.
Why? Because it seems that Tor actually does what it says it does. One of the biggest issues with it is that using it singles you out; if we could get more people using it then it would be less useful as a differentiator.
I've worked at one of the largest Bank's in the US for the last fifteen years, and I pretty much agree with the author. I first discussed this with a co-worker ten years ago and at that time I took the contrarian position but looking back now I think he was right even then. This is a huge shift in culture and focus but its recognized pretty much across the board, even I think by the majority of people who will not be able to adapt and will be left behind.
don't forget that Tor publishes their exit nodes--they make them freely available to anyone. So a simple membership test on a client IP against that list of exit node IPs identifies that client IP as either having come through Tor via the onion router or else they are an exit node themselves.
Why should you only do things with positive outcomes? Is that what life is about, only trying to do things that end positively? The ultimate outcome of your existence is your death anyways.
Sigh. I should know better than to call these things out on HN.

Hey, does it not seem at all odd to you that he focused in on the stereotype that women trade on their looks in broadcasting, ignoring that men do the same? Does it not seem passing strange that he brought it up when nobody was talking about appearance in broadcasting in the first place? Like the thread wouldn't be complete without a negative comment on women?

If I randomly said, "Some women are gold-diggers," in a thread unrelated to gold-digging -- say, a thread about amicable divorce, which we have had on here before -- it would be a) true, b) irrelevant, and c) probably sexist. Do you understand that? If not, I would say you are probably suffering from an over-abundance of privilege and a serious deficiency in empathy.
The disheartening things is, though, we don't really have novel technologies (quantum crypto?) to guarantee security anymore and the existing ones will soon be exploitable on a mass scale. This is bad for internet commerce, and for internet itself as a medium. In the eyes of the layman, the internet is untrustworthy. I won't be surprised if in the future we will see closed, privately owned physical networks that guarantee security to their customers.
... by introducing equally unreasonable speculation in the opposite direction, without even putting forth a few minutes effort to gather real information. Being an apologist isn't really a good way to try to steer the conversation back toward more reasonable explanations.
I suspect there are a few three-letter false positives too that Domainr didn't pick up on
Send me an e-note if you want me to fork some "repos."
it's still unclear where the audience will capp off as far as esports goes.

soccer has been around for most living people's entire lives, whereas esports only spans 1-2 generations at most.

The growth in soccer audience could be largely attributed to tech making it more accessible, whereas with esports people are completely new to the notion of competitive video games.
Congratulations !. With great raise, comes greater responsibilities.I hope this might be a great inspiration to the team and they just rattle the stars !
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Show HN: Multiplayer poker game from web ported to iOS + Android
I have a multiplayer poker running since around 3 years (4 million play sessions).
Now i have ported it to iOS and Android using Adobe AIR. Would love if you try it, give me feedback or just ask anything.

I will post clickable links below.

Web: http://mugalon.com/Game/Play/Poker_Texas_Holdem

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id698602860

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.MugalonPoker
Bringing a COW (Cell on Wheels) in seems like a reasonable precaution - you have a presentation with lots of people showing up, you want everything to work correctly.
Web: http://mugalon.com/Game/Play/Poker_Texas_Holdem

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id698602860

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.MugalonPok...
I would highly recommend going through Ruby Koans: http://rubykoans.com/ prior to the Ruby portion of the interview.
Yes, good idea. I will open source it on Github.
The 'superbowl' of the game mentioned in the article -- League of Legends is happening tonight at 8pm PST. Watch the event here: http://na.lolesports.com/

I've been a gamer all my life and this game keeps hooking me -- I've been playing consistently for 3 years now.
I doubt that. If you don't care (or know) about anonymity or security, it was extremely easy to access the Silk Road through a web proxy with a simple Google search.
Solid point, but I do think most actions start with the intention for positive outcomes in some manner, and in at least someone's interest.

Passive aggressiveness specifically - I do think is a waste of time, stress, and efforts all around. I'll stand by that.
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It was only a matter of time. Interesting to me is that a few of the 394 units are set aside for non-Facebook employees and low income residents. Things like this are one ways that the big players can address the lack of affordable housing for support staff and people who work at area businesses.
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I wonder what the size of the combined Colorado+Washington marijuana marketplace is. Maybe not $1.2 billion, but I'd bet it's pretty sizable, and the DoJ decided not to enforce federal law there.

The main difference in my eyes is that the DoJ is ultimately not worried about Colorado or Washington doing something "crazy" and legalizing all drugs, because they're part of the U.S. and ultimately dependent on the federal government. Silk Road was independent and sizable, and thus a threat.
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If the piracy is happening on a large scale, it should be easy to find the unauthorized stream. If the piracy is happening on a small scale, then it's not a big problem for the stream source.
Catholic prayer meditation has been around for many centuries. By "western approach" I think you just mean the secular TED crowd yuppies. They could just as well go to very old Christian monastery retreats, but Christianity makes them uncomfortable.
i included that line for context, i was referring specifically to the "displays 5 bars regardless of actual signal strength" note
>> It's like we know that eating fresh vegetables is good for us, but only when it is proven to us are we convinced that we should go ahead and eat fresh.

How exactly do you think we came to know that eating fresh vegetables is good for us? The answer is science.

I mean, sure, humans have preferred fresh vegetables over non-fresh ones for ages, but that's because fresh looks, smells and tastes better than non-fresh.
> the Silk Road wasn't truly anonymous because buyers had to disclose their address to at least one person.

Did they really? I never used Silk Road so I can't say from experience, but it seems like it'd be more likely that they had to disclose an address, not necessarily their address. Like, "ship it to this P.O. Box" would qualify as disclosing an address, without necessarily giving up their actual place of residence.

If Silk Road (or sellers using Silk Road to connect with buyers) was actually verifying addresses and then requiring people to post their real, legal place of residence, that's just... wow. I'm trying to imagine how dumb you would have to be to agree to that when you know what you're about to do is illegal. Pretty dumb!

EDIT: Though now I'm wondering, if the DEA were able to track a drug transaction back to a P.O. box, how hard it would be for them to get the name and legal address of the person who took it out. Would they need a warrant? Are there anonymous mailbox services?
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Tried this service but only thing that keeps me back is that 5 gig. Will wait and see whats next for Loom.
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My sister probably would have trouble finding and installing firefox, and then wouldn't get more out of it than she would Safari. I'm not sure what websites you have problems with, but I can't remember the last time I had Safari crash on me (anecdotal I know, plus I bounce back and forth between Safari and Chrome).

And I agree that there are better versions of Apple's free software, but it's free, and does exactly what it should, which is lubricate the novice user's experience. Once you pass novice, it's easy to go find software that fulfills your needs.

And I would disagree that most other people are of the same opinion. My guess is that you live in a bubble of mostly experienced computer users (as do most of us on HN). Go spend a day at an Apple store somewhere besides the Bay area and you'll see most of the people that make up the bulk of Apple's user base. They, like my sister, probably don't even know there are other options out there (some are using iPad and iPhones, sure, but plenty are still using iMacs and Macbooks).
It was only a matter of time. Interesting to me is that a few of the 394 units are set aside for non-Facebook employees and low income residents. Things like this are one ways that the big players can address the lack of affordable housing for support staff and people who work at area businesses.
They continued to fake it (though not to the same degree) right up to the iPhone 4 when it bit them in the ass by making the antenna gate thing seem worse:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3821/iphone-4-redux-analyzing-...
If it leads to a net increase in QALYs yes.
It kinda does. New FF versions will play back h.264 if the system has the codec installed.