skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Criminals isolate, target, and research individuals based on this information. This includes everything from simple identity theft to murder. You may also recall numerous yahoo email address "hacks" based off easily locatable answers to security questions of public figures.

There are some basic lessons here that are applicable to anyone using the internet, even just for casual reasons. That includes your parents or grandparents. What do you think the chances are that they would be able to proactively defend themselves against someone tearing apart their private lives based on information they didn't even know was public?

-Not sharing/linking email addresses an alias

How is this relevant? This could be as basic as not wanting to link your persona as a member of the town council to your postings in a World of Warcraft forum.

Even if your life is mundane and none of your hobbies are embarrassing this is still important. Forum posts, which most users treat as casual chat, along with many social media interactions are permanent, public, and searchable.

There is no compelling reason to allow anyone in the world to know an enormous amount of personal details about you. At least on your Facebook page, if Zuckerburg hasn't recently screwed with your privacy settings, you are narrowing the number of people who can look at these things.

I'm not going to endorse any particular services, but many sites allow you to search accounts by email address. Amazon, in particular, can reveal your public wishlist based on email address (rossulbricht@gmail.com shows an account but not a wishlist.) You can figure out a lot about a person from their wishlist + reviews.

Quite frankly I think this all is very relevant and mass marketable to anyone building tools and products to firewall personal information.
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Legal rights don't exist, but natural & human rights do. Out of curiosity, are you in favor (in principle) of world federalism? That would eliminate the international state of nature that we have today.
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Recommend you have a look at how Apple does DHCP negotiations. http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do
There is a discussion with the author of the article and an employee of the company at: http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/1o23bl/avegants_head... which is where the tidbit about the micromirror and 4k resolution support came from.
Thanks for mentioning retroshare, it is a VERY decent system. Still, I reckon there's quite a bit of mileage in doing -one thing- right; retroshare's fix-it-all-in-one-package may not appeal to everybody.
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As a professional programmer, I spotted the error on my first read through, but it wasn't a fair test because the code wouldn't have been there if there wasn't a problem. Had I just been scanning the code quickly without being in a state where I was alerted to look for an issue I have no idea if I would have seen it.

In any case, this is something a competent lint tool or static code analyzer would warn about, which makes a good case for people using such tools as part of their normal process.
Due to the second law of thermal dynamics, I question the battery status of your friend's CO detector, as CO will fairly quickly equalize throughout the area.

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21536403

(This came up in a previous discussion about the Nest smoke detector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441343 )
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Certainly some of the facts are true. I read one of the quotes and thought, "Oh, I remember that email."

But the ways those facts are connected is just the author's interpretation. I propose an alternative, less sinister interpretation:

Although the history of Twitter includes hurt feelings, it's mostly a history of rational decisions to put the right team in place to keep up with rapid growth.
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Performance. Rust is able to provide its desired expressiveness without forcing you to make that tradeoff every time you use it.
> "And I do mean worst."

I am not convinced that throwing INTERCAL at a candidate is a good way to roll. ;)

But seriously, I think that you are spot-on with this approach. Interviewing, done effectively, is about getting a fleshed out idea of the capabilities of the candidate, not just getting correct answers. Perhaps the best response to give or expect, when the interview gets stuck, is "I don't know, but..." Even on questions that aren't coding questions, these are often good responses: "I don't know, but [this is how I would find out]" or "I don't know, but [this is a topic or problem that I believe is related]" .
I'm not disputing that. But I've read a ton of studies about piracetam, and I've always had the impression that its primary mechanism was cholinergic.
With the difference that you're presumably much more intelligent than a rat. Even if you don't feel anxious, you can reason on a purely logical basis as to what might be a bad idea. Even if you stopped feeling fear, you'd probably still be intelligent enough to look on both sides before crossing the street. I do agree that it can, and probably will increase risk taking, though. The risks I took on MDMA were social risks, things I don't actually deem to be dangerous, things my fear stops me from doing but that I should probably be attempting more often.

I find that MDMA makes it very easy to "open up" to people and tell them what you think. This is probably one of the reasons why people are looking into using it as a therapeutic aid for PTSD and rape victims. In the context of a party though, this can translate in you being very comfortable telling your friends what you really think about them, even if it isn't a good idea. I found I'm still able to ask myself rationally "is this something I should be telling this person?", "could this be hurtful to this person?" and stop myself from saying stupid things. This is different from alcohol, which makes you both less anxious and less intelligent. I can tell you that on MDMA, I actually feel extremely sharp, more than normal (better recall, better verbal fluency, etc).

I can tell you that people have said stupid and offensive things to me while high on MDMA, however. One girl told me that she disliked my new hairstyle (thanks, I like it just fine), and also told me that she frequently had sex dreams about me, but that nothing could come of it since she had a boyfriend. Both of these were things I didn't want to know. I will say though that this same girl has said more offensive and annoying things to me while sober.
Would suggest to anyone concerted with noise (not you I understand you have another issue as well) to get custom fitted ear plugs.

Can be done by an an Audiologist.

Make sure to also use the lubricant as well (helps with comfort and importantly blocks more sound). Price I paid was under $100. Bought a 2nd pair. They are great much better than the temporarily sound plugs (not to mention cheaper in the long run).
Talk to a sleep specialist.

You may be suffering from any number of medical problems interfering with a good night's sleep.

Things like CPAP machines are transformative for sleep depth
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WhatsApp is a very shady application. They are most likely are being 'compansated' for their 'cooperation'.

Btw, google translate's dutch is very good.
Fastest "reasonably complete" boot I've ever seen was on a BeOS setup I had on a 600 MHz laptop (~2000?). ~4 seconds to the login prompt, and another 1-2 seconds to finish "thinking" after login.

Man, that thing was fast.
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Since the last time I had used Arch, not only had they added systemd, but they had also killed AIF (Arch Installation Framework). Most of it is easy, like partitioning, but I had to figure some stuff out that I really didn't want to figure out, like the command for getting Grub working.

But between the official and unofficial install guides, I got it working.
"This notion that reductionism is a one way street is stupid."

I never said reductionism is a one way street.

But in simulations you usually work bottom-up (in abstractions). Of course, sometimes you can't do that, because it's overly complex.

My field (electrical engineering) has a lot of physics as well and I don't mind if those who invented the techniques I use were physicists or engineers (or something else), or if such and such things are in the "engineering" domain or the "physics" domain, I just use them. The point is moot.
The espionage game has always been about being clandestine, many new techniques attract attention (tor for example) because of their honeypot nature. The old adage of hiding in the crowd will always be more difficult to notice.
Switching to dhclient instead of dhcpcd will usually help that. Once it has an address it will go into the background during that check if the ip address is actually available. You can stop that by running it with -d if you're debugging a bad network.
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wow this all sounds so familiar and I wonder if this explains certain parts of my personality. I did Ecstasy A LOT for the summer of 2000, and then randomly here and there after that (now it has been a couple years since my last time). I was already generally easygoing and a people pleaser before then but it probably enhanced it.
Well, yeah, the prize is political because all who get Nobel Prizes in Economics are keynsians of different sort. When you take guys like Krugman - who has Nobel Prize in Economics - and just look at their track record and what they are in favor of like this 2002 piece in which Krugman advocates the FED to create a housing bubble:

http://www.businessinsider.com/krugman-in-02-greenspan-needs...

You really start wondering why complete idiots and morons like this are worthy of the Nobel Prize.

And then his response to this piece when asked about it in 2013 is even worse than the original piece. Krugman says in 2013 about his 2002 article: "What I said was that the only way the Fed could get traction would be if it could inflate a housing bubble. And that’s just what happened."

Let me me repeat here for you this Nobel Prize Genius: "The ONLY way for the FED to get traction in 2002 was to INFLATE HOUSING BUBBLE"

Really? Like really, really? That's the ONLY way? Go to a bubble, so it bursts and destroys the US economy for years? He really, like really, really repeats that nonsene in 2013? You must be kidding me! If he can't come up with better idea to finish a crisis but with creating a bubble? Wow! Just wow!!!

And that's your Nobel Prize Winner in action. He's a moron. Yet, a professor and nobel prize winner. Economics has nothing to do with science, it is too rooted in ideologies. Left or right. But still, having prize for it is asking for trouble. And that's just one example of Krugman saying nonsense. I could go on and on.
Funny how everybody says that he should have done this and not done that. It is really an overwhelming experience to speculate and comment on past matters but don't forget that it was him who actually did it. Who actually ran the market place. Who cashed out and probably has reserves here and there. Who pressed that "submit" button on stackoverflow. You weren't capable of doing so. You think you have better ideas about it. That you could "disappear" and never get linked to the real "you". I am not daring you to do try it, as it can land you behind bars, but I am just saying that unless you actually experienced and lived all of this - the commentary is nothing more than a theoretical shim which will never become reality.
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it is not lack of violence-driven knowledge about the ones that got caught.

It is the lack of self preservation forward thinking of the ones not caught.

Crime syndicates usually have insurance for families for people caught, and assurance that when they came out they will keep their share. If they didn't have this benefit they would be talking the same.
Since you seem to know about this field, any chance you can share you opinion on the working going at DE Shaw Research? Does developing custom hardware for molecular dynamics give them any sort of qualitative advantage? Are the systems they're simulating significantly larger or more useful than what other groups work on?
The NY State AG is used as a stepping stone for higher office. They have more money than god and Schneiderman is loving this fight. Airbnb is not going to win here.

A judge will decide it but he will probably get the info on all the people that have rented their places for under 30 days.
I work on translation technology, and have seen some pretty bad examples of companies choosing names that have bad connotations elsewhere.

One of my favorites is Evite, which means "avoid!" in Spanish, not exactly a good name for a party invite service.

The all time winner for badly named tech products was the Commodore Pet Computer, which was launched with great fanfare in France (and elsewhere). The only problem is pet means "fart" in French.
> A "good" IQ test simply tests your logic facilities.

You can dramatically improve your logic facilities by taking a course in logic. Your boogles, quinks, and flets question is trivial if you know even rudimentary set theory.
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Sigh, I guess I was not clear enough with "If you take that as a given prior".

If you do have the assumption, axiom, belief, whatever, that drugs are moral and ease suffering, and that releasing data on these people will lead to long lives in prison, causing a chain of disastrous effects on many families, then yes, stopping the person that is trying to harm these other people may be considered.

Many people die each year due to the USG's war on drugs policy, and it has a violent affect on many of the countries to the south of Texas. Just for a bit of context/scope.

Edit: On second reading, I actually dislike your rhetoric even less. You can rephase anything as a series of immediate actions. It's not the harm of "reporting to law enforcement" it's what happens next.
Are you asserting that HTML/CSS/JS is not at all viable/desirable for making apps, or just not your personal preference? I'd like to know what you feel is best if the latter (and what you feel stops the former - having a standardized high-level platform has advantages!)
> You're not speaking to the important question, which is whether there is any way for the recipient to tell the originating IP of a bitcoin transaction. I am gathering the answer is "no".

Correct. There is absolutely no way whatsoever to determine the originating IP address of a bitcoin transaction, short of global network surveillance.
not in my experience of scotland, though i do know geordies and irish who say pants.
IPython is catching up with the Mathematica frontend, slowly but surely. And that Julia demo is nice -- though I don't think a procedural language like MATLAB is the best model for a scientific language in this day and age.

We (Wolfram) are working on a web frontend for the Wolfram Language that will make the language "effectively" open, even if it is still proprietary.

And after the next version, we're going to be concentrating hard on defining a typed subset of the language that can compile via LLVM to all kinds of targets, including the browser.
I can't help but feel you did not bother to read the linked article, since the whole thing is about wondering why you can't make a person smarter, and with not just one, but a number of arguments all far more sophisticated and grounded in science than what you just tried.
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I was actually able to play last night for the first time, so I consider that progress. It was a bit laggy, but I presume this will be improved in time.
Could you be more explicit

I'm afraid I don't remember the sources I read (other than Poundstone's book) and don't have time to dig into it just now, though given what I posted I suppose I should. FWIW, my memory is that he was asked about it more than once in the 1960s, denied that he'd said what he'd said, and then responded evasively when presented with evidence of it. On the other hand, my memory is that he'd advocated for a nuclear strike in print; and given the debate you linked to, that seems unlikely.

Edit: My conscience wouldn't sit still until I did dig around a bit. The question is more controversial than Poundstone's book made it seem, so I definitely shouldn't have said "definitely". When will I learn :) On the other hand, there's a lot more material than that Economist article made it seem (the editor of Russell's letters who was defending Russell in that piece really comes across as disingenuous for not mentioning this), and some of it is pretty unpleasant.

The consensus seems to be that Russell advocated threatening the USSR with nuclear strikes to force them to change their policies. Whether he advocated pre-emptive war itself is controversial. He made many comments about this in the 40s and 50s. From a BBC interview in 1959:

BBC: "Is it true or untrue that in recent years you advocated that a preventive war might be made against communism, against Soviet Russia?”

Russell: “It’s entirely true, and I don’t repent of it.”

Other comments were ambiguous (he thought it necessary to "bully the Russians" with the threat of bombing them but hoped it would not lead to war, etc.) Later, he claimed that he had simply "entirely forgotten" that he had ever advocated this. At least two serious biographers, Ronald Clark and Ray Monk, do not find this credible. Here's Clark:

[Russell's] explanation that he had simply forgotten what he had said [...] would be more acceptable if applied to one speech rather than to a long series of articles and statements [...] It might be possible to argue that his disavowal of advocating preventive war was based on the most academic interpretation of the term: that advocating the threat of war unless a potential enemy submitted, even though being prepared to have your bluff called, was not advocacy of a preventive war. But even this questionable escape-route is blocked by Russell’s own statement to [the BBC] and [by] his earlier suggestion that “a casus belli would not be difficult to find".

This paper (a long and convoluted defense of Russell) shows up in Google and contains the salient quotes: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

My conclusion is that what I wrote wasn't far off, but it was unfair to lump Russell in with von Neumann, Lemay, and the rest of the Dr. Strangelove set who were advocating for nuclear war outright.
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Which makes it amazing news to people who weren't programming back in 1992.
It certainly is, although I will check skel at my next chance. I also found a bug report about it (it was causing some kind of conflict with MySQL) here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1012842

In any case, I know it is for systemd because if I dig down into the directly, it eventually ends into a dead systemd symlink for a directory in ~/.config, which doesn't yet exist. I think it is suppose to provide the ability to add and run end user units, but I am not sure.
Thanks, found the edit icon.

I honestly wasn't expecting to find it in the title line though. Maybe you could add a button with the text "edit" below the description to the right of the constraints? That's more where I expected to find it. That or just make it stand out more.

One final suggestion for the UI (please keep in mind I'm not a designer and therefor you can freely ignore my opinion if you want), the left side is a lot more content heavy then the right side of the screen on the entry page. Maybe move the "Got a cool name for this?" section underneath the listed names on the right side?
Actually GNU make is not a good target. Historically make has been extremely careful about backwards compatibility. The "bug" here is that the Makefiles were relying on an undocumented feature.

In general yes it'd be good if developers paid more attention to backwards compatibility.
When i'm awake i don't either. But when asleep it turned out i was sometimes not breathing for up to a whole minute.
So he didn't know enough about Jobs prior to reading the book to know the general perception of him, but he believes enough of what he read (possibly getting it confirmed by others perhaps) to dump a stock holding.

I wonder therefore to what extent he researches the other companies that he invests in that don't have celebrity owners to ascertain whether they are also "mean"? He must not or he would have uncovered that common knowledge about Jobs that's been around forever.
Management culture is a big part of corporate culture. If the management culture fosters an environment where people spin their wheels on "everything's a crisis" projects and then see that their hard work is being ignored, that filters down into the personnel culture as well.

If all (or even a significant portion) of your managers need to get training on how to be effective managers, you have a cultural issue.
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If you bought the original G1 with Android on it (mine is still hiding in the back of my desk), it's not much different. You have to start somewhere.
> it’s not too surprising that human medicine may be largely wasted effort or harmful 13 (although most - especially doctors - would strenuously deny this).

This claim requires evidence, but the citation is to a blog post about nutrition, not medicine.
Which still doesn't make it right.
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I think logical reasoning can be improved by training too.

In my first year in CS at university, we had a logic course. I was definitely better at solving that kind of problems after the course. They usually become easy once you formalize them and you start to recognize patterns once you've seen enough.
It is not an OS, it is a browser.

All applications are behind SaaS walls.
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Try Power7/8; IBM loves decimal math.
>Blog. If you make great content, people will read it and share it.

This reminds me of a jwz quote, except I would rewrite it as such:

Some people, when confronted with a marketing problem, think "I know, I'll blog about it." Now they have two marketing problems.

The whole premise of an article like this is that a great product won't draw in users by itself, but it's assumed that a great blog will draw in readers magically. I'm not saying you can't build a large readership. We've seen it done many times. But I'm skeptical that you have to do any less work than you would just to promote the product in the first place. The internet is filled with blogs that nobody reads... I'm writing one myself.