skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of an incredible story about jazz guitarist Pat Martino. The gist is, he was a brilliant jazz guitarist who had a brain aneurism and lost virtually all of his long term memory, including how to play the guitar. He spent several years after this relearning everything, from old recordings and stories from other people. Eventually, he was able to regain his stature and virtuosity! He is a really amazing person, and I'm suprised so few people have heard his story. See http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=29896#.UmL6vZ... for a summary
> There is no way to make a value judgement "from a scientific point of view."

I'm not sure if your familiar with Sam Harris' other writing, but one of his shticks is applying a scientific approach to morality.[1] Not that I necessarily agree with him, but wanted to point out that there's a bit more substance there than some off-the-cuff remark.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris_(author)#The_Moral_L...
You call it a sick way to mess with people, governments will refer to it as cyberwarfare. I'd say that the US / Israel's attacks on the Iranian uranium enrichment facilities (Stuxnet) was just a tame and reserved trial, and that most modern countries have plans in place that will unleash a devastating cyberattack on loads of internet-connected devices.

I'd say routers are particularly vulnerable, if only because they are smart (Linux) machines, but in most cases users will never check them for anything odd going on. As this article shows, it takes but a simple command for them to execute stuff, and given how Linux is a general purpose OS, they could install and perform any kind of task - like install backdoors and whatnot on the PC's behind the routers, which can then in turn be disabled or used in a massive botnet to perform a DDoS or other attacks on other systems.

Just think about the implications of there being a backdoor in every internet-connected computer system, or the consequences of all-out cyberwar.
And that doesn't necessarily contradict what I've said at all. You just have less choice which is an undeniable truth. The more choice you have the easier it is to stick to a particular diet, because all dieting involves reduction of choice at some level.
Ask HN: What is the best advice you have ever given to someone?
John McAfee on Obamacare: ‘This is a hacker’s wet dream’ [video]
The consumption of plants is unethical, they're living organisms too!
Fat is not the enemy.

My once-inflamed pancreas says otherwise. :-) I guess there's no one-size-fits-all solution to that.
Because browsers are for documents.
How good is your team? Break production and you’ll know
I'd settle for a really good vacuum cleaner. I've been holding out for years now. Shouldn't that problem be easier to solve? Killer robots always garner headlines but there are a still a few practical robots away from the real revolution. The real revolution happens once consumers enter the picture.
I just hope no one brings up the dangers of owning guns vs. pools in this thread, please.
Staying away from FB doesn't prevent some stalker from creating a fake account using your real name and adding your friends.
I think that's an excellent quality (if used with care), and it's probably related to whether you're the type that is happy to accept critique of your code, or get offended and upset when someone points out your mistakes.

I'm happy if someone finds a way to make my code better, because I can now easily improve it and hopefully learn from my mistake. I don't place much self-worth in the code I write; I care more about the end result of what I'm trying to create.
It seems possible to me. I know Sucralose is actually made from sugar as a starting point, then they chemically alter it.

As for can it be harmful, maybe so:

"A Duke University study[35] funded by the Sugar Association found evidence that doses of Splenda of between 100 and 1000 mg/kg, containing sucralose at 1.1 to 11 mg/kg (compare to the FDA Acceptable Daily Intake of 5 mg/kg), reduced the amount of fecal microflora in rats by up to 50%, increased the pH level in the intestines, contributed to increases in body weight, and increased levels of P-glycoprotein (P-gp).[36] These effects have not been reported in humans."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose#Other_potential_effec...
Rackspace basically do the same. I've had a Rackspace Cloud server null routed due to a plain vanilla SYN flood DoS attack (note the single D).
I thought the third was extremely solid, and I was surprised he wasn't accepted on the spot. The other 2 were underwhelming imo; I was confused by the first one getting accepted on the spot, but I'm sure pg and sama have info on them that we do not.
I don't think power is relevant here, because the GPU is being used to reduce latency when running queries interactively, so it's only on for a small fraction of the time.
There are open source (Linux based) firmwares such as OpenWRT [0].

[0] - https://openwrt.org/
Read it carefully, think about extrapolations and polemic. "no safe level" (as in oxygen?) Think about the assertion that this is a Moral issue.... Sure, if you are going to live forever, or if you can identify the childhood cancer as being caused by the fire, rather than f*ing bad luck or simply "things we don't understand".

This is not the work of somebody trying to find the truth, or help others come to it.
Ask HN: Pay Rent With Micro Equity?
We thought there might be under utilized property asset holders (commercial or residential) that may be interested in filling them with start-up entrepreneurs in exchange for equity. So, we are building http://BootRent.com as part of the RailsRumble this weekend to test the idea and see if folks find it valuable.

Find a place to live or work and give a small slice of early stage equity (for now with a simple contract that is similar to a convertible note type set up -- still working on the legal aspect).

What do you think?

1) Would you use this as a start-up? Why / why not?

2) If you have a spare room, office space, etc. would you be excited about supporting a start-up?

3) Why will this fail?

4) Why else will this fail?

5) What should we add? What else should we do?

Also, we'd love beta users and feedback. The beta will be live on http://BootRent.com

PS -- we've reached out to "The Rent Is Too Damn High" Party founder and NYC Mayor Candidate Jimmy McMillan about being our spokes person, but are still awaiting a reply ;) (seriously)

http://bootrent.com
Admittedly I do think it probably is unethical to eat animals.

However one thing I've always wanted to ask a vegetarian, these animals I'm eating would not exist without demand for them. So so long as I make more efforts to buy organic and well treated animals - is this still unethical? If I had a choice, be born as a chicken on an organic farm or not exist at all I'd definitely pick the chicken option.
After being a Native Oberon user, I become convinced that doing OS in GC enabled systems programming languages is quite possible.

I keep looking forward to the day it becomes mainstream.

Sadly only people like us, that experimented with ETHZ's work seem to share such enlightenment.
feature detection happens too late, if you want to serve fast.
That actually doesn't explain anything: "quirks" mode just emulates IE's old behavior and changes the user agent string to match. Old IE renders Google fine, so simply being in quirks mode shouldn't cause anything to break.

Disclaimer: Work at MS, I can't even see IE from my building, etc, etc.
I'm sure hydrofracking, coal power plants, cars, switching power supplies, paint etc.. all have absolutely no carcinogenic or other disease causing potential in your home.

I have burned wood in a highly inefficient, toxic way to heat my home, as I only had an inappropriate furnace. To put things into perspective, in our town, the junkyard is essentially perpetually smoldering, giving off quite potent fumes.

When burned properly, both wood and many types of garbage should not create carcinogens, I think. Burning typical coal releases uranium, which will be radioactive, unless you scrub it, put it in a nuclear reactor or so.
Kinda puts a new spin on whether RMS was too ideological with the tivoization clauses in GPLv3.
Wow, apparently so. Thanks for telling me about this!
I wrote http://gitignore.io and I saw a lot more traffic and traction by posting a link to my website in Reddit's /r/git than I did on Hacker News. Have you tried posting on different mediums and comparing the results?
I can imagine an fpga-cloud with an attached marketplace: you need performance for a certain algorithm, hardware engineers will compete and customize to your needs. I can think of quite a few engineers who'd love to participate.
Pirate Bay’s Anti-Censorship Browser Clocks 1,000,000 Downloads
There's DD-WRT, and of course a ton of free routing software. But I think you mean open source hardware, which would be very difficult, considering the need for high-performing ethernet hardware and the like.
So much truth here. You may have a perfect landing page and still have less than 1/2% conversion. An HN traffic spike is a vanity metric unless you're selling to developers (with the very outside chance you'll impress upon a VC or someone else that provides value to your business)
We're going to deploy the beta features to the site Sunday 23:59 UTC. Please excuse the bootstrap-ness, we don't have a designer on team (and if you're an interested designer, we'd love to talk to you, please get in touch samer.buna@gmail.com)
This looks really handy. I know they're working on the design, but it would definitely need to be a lot more ergonomic and more attractive. I also hope they improve the buttons and the size/contrast of the text. If the watch buttons are anything like typical watch buttons, extended operation of the oscilloscope will be really annoying.
Being a Swede in Sweden, last I heard was that everyone was giving critique to LCHF due to high risks of cancer[1][2].

[1] http://www.kostdoktorn.se/aftonbladet-varnar-for-lchf-cancer

[2] http://www.metro.se/nyheter/lakare-varnar-for-lchf-cancer/EV...
I did grow up with a fireplace, but still did not feel the slightest inclination to clench my fists at this new information.

Based on it, I wouldn't install a fireplace in a new home, but I think I'd still like to sit by one once or twice a year. I think my lungs can take it.
Respectfully, you are simply wrong.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/environ/wood-bois-eng.p...
I have a feeling that most people on either side of the debates Harris are involved in are more in your category than logic-driven or emotion-driven. People are inertia-driven; we're comfortable with what we carve out, and accept change if we are sufficiently comfortable with the process and/or the results. Many religious people are likely religious because of choosing to follow tradition. Many irreligious people are likely just apathetic and not inclined to believe in an organized belief in the supernatural.

At the end of the day, I don't think it's about getting people to overcome their emotional attachments, or convincing them with logic. It's about stirring them out of their apathy. Both believes and nonbelievers will have to confront the third category.
Just finished reading "The Moral Landscape" -- to me it's clear that morality is just as much a science as medecine or economics is.
As a perhaps unnecessary (for HN) reminder: This is a primary reason that "anti-circumvention" legislation, that "outlaws" e.g. decompiling and/or reverse engineering (1) machine code in proprietary devices (in this case, for research purposes), needs to be permanently put down.

Without examination, existing circumstances repeatedly demonstrate that we more than a bit likely to be subjected to hidden weaknesses and exploitations we are uninformed about and have not agreed to.

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(1) decompilation/reversing, as in the referenced, recent D-Link case, or perhaps even simple extraction of a compressed fileset
What about your loved ones? Run into a tree and break your neck and life is not too rosy for them is it? Also your argument can be stretched to eating: if I eat some bread, it is harming you... because you can't eat it, so you starve, also their excreta might suddenly overwhelm and drown you (as you sleep).

This is the trouble with silly polemical arguments - they run out of control really easily!
Animals experience suffering and pain on a far more visceral level than spinach. To suggest otherwise is dishonest.
This is the 21th century, but I'm afraid the message hasn't quite arrived yet: no, your generation of (heat|power|motion) through combustion or burning of things is not ever going to be healthy, efficient or sane.
I'd add to that list XSLT:
http://www.unidex.com/turing/utm.htm
All I'm saying is that we go to great lengths to get companies OFF the CV list. If they're on it, it's for a reason. We can't update their code for them.
So bummed I couldn't make it in. Love that the talks are always live-streamed, but there's something about being in a room with a bunch of awesome individuals. Maybe next year.
I disagree that it is different. Not every theoretical harm to property is a violation of consent. In practice, one has to demonstrate harm and be able to assign blame to an entity. In most cases, short term exposure to burning wood won't cause any demonstrable harm. (Just ask the residents of Providence, RI on Saturday nights during the summer.)

Therefore, it's not just that "burning wood" causes harm, but that a certain level of exposure to burning wood causes harm.

You may think me a pedant, but consider the top post in this sub-thread:

> Drinking a warm cup of coffee or hot chocolate next to a wood fire during
> a cold night is possibly one of the most enjoyable and stress reducing
> activities I can think of. Life isn't about evaluating every risk.

Which is clearly talking about recreational wood burning. I would argue that one cannot (typically) demonstrate harm from such an activity, either because the exposure is too short or the blame cannot be laid on any one particular entity.

Therefore, I would say that they are indeed not different at all, at least with regard to a practical implementation of property law. Otherwise, nearly anything could be misconstrued as harm. (e.g., I have dependents and snowboarding could cause me to break my leg and put me out of work, which would cause harm to those relying on me.)
I'm another South Florida to Bay Area transplant here, and I gotta say, I hate the Bay Area's weather. The winters are cold and rainy (an awful combination), and summer evenings are way too chilly. I'd take Florida weather any day.
Why so obviously wrong? Seems reasonable to me that chimney smoke – defined as air with heavy particulates created from burning wood – might fall back down to the ground (and thus into surrounding buildings) once it has cooled.

I'm not saying it's right, but it doesn't seem obviously wrong to me. Regardless, I'm sure whatever "research" there is must be based on something! A citation would have been appreciated so we could judge for ourselves...
Nahh - they can't, because there is no body of exposure, lack of study power and no control (due to the shortness of time of the technology use and the vast set of confounding factors). It's rubbish.
If you don't need a beefy server and can manage with a mid-range VPS (or two), some VPS providers have <$100/mo offerings that come with reasonable attempts at DDoS management.
It's somewhat apt that a snarky, non-factual comment attacking the author like this has risen to the top once again.

> One of the annoying parts of this article was that the author dismissed the comment as "non-factual" without providing any evidence or explanation.

He didn't dismiss the comment as non-factual without providing any evidence or explanation. If read carefully, he:

* stated the other commenters called it out as non-factual (it appears at least one commenter did do that[1])

* claimed half of the dispute could be attributed to not reading the post carefully

* provided an example of where the top comment was mistaken or misread (commenter focused on Bangkok when the original story explicitly stated Bangkok was a bad place to live)

* offered up an example of a comment that he believed to be factual (the second-to-the-top one[1])

> Apparently whenever someone writes something that the author disagrees with, it is automatically categorized as snark.

No, it isn't. But this sentence here—where an author's attentions are sarcastically and baselessly mischaracterized off of a misreading (or lack of reading?) of his or her post would definitely qualify as snark.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6541956

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6540371
$1000/m? Bah, you must be spoiled. I'd put that at $500/m or so. (Or perhaps it's just me being a reclusive hermit... :-))
But less life will probably have to die in order to sate you if you're a vegan, if you add up the food that the livestock would have to eat (most of the calories that a herbivore animal will eat will not be translated into calories for the animal that is going to eat that herbivore; last I saw only 10% of the calories consumed carries over to the next animal).

Unless the livestock is grass-fed or something... I don't think anyone is that concerned with the life of grass.
Kind of a novelty, but cool. Looks like they're going to hit their goal.
>It's not accurate to say that sedatives and stimulants were widely available in the 1950's.

What? False. Read this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377281/

The US has been a drugged nation since the 20's ..
Working in the enterprise, with off-shored project modules, will restore your faith in static typing. :)
> According to you I'd be overwheight and dying of diabetes, cancer, metabolic syndrome and whatnot.

Nope, not sure where you get that idea from.

> Exercise daily, provide adequate protein intake and watch out the calories. That's it.

So I can eat a few chicken breasts a day, and then 1,500 kcal of mars bars? Sounds great!

Alternatively if you're trying to lose weight, you can simply cut out the sugar. Exercise is of course important for a host of reasons, but for weight loss it's probably just about the hardest way to do it. I'm in despair when my severely overweight friend relays the advice from her doctor and nutritionist:

"Eat less calories, and get on the treadmill".

Doesn't sound fun, or easy at all. There are other ways.
Here is how inflation encourages investment. Imagine a simplified world, wherein you are choosing whether or not to invest in a company. The company is able to produce 5000 utils of value later, with your investment, and is willing to give you 10% of the proceeds in exchange for your investment of $300 now.

If the going rate for utils is $1/util now, consider the following situations and strategies.

Situation 1) Later, the market is clearing $0.50/util:
Strategy a) Stick money under a mattress:
You keep your $300 now.
It becomes $300 later, and can buy you 600 utils.

Strategy b) Invest in the company:
You give your $300 now to the company.
The company produces 5000 utils later.
The company sells the 5000 utils for $2500.
You get 10%, or $250, which can buy you 500 utils.

2) Later, the market is clearing $1/util:
a) Mattress:
$300 now -> $300 later -> 600 utils.

b) Invest:
$300 now to company
5000 utils later (for company) -> $5000 later (for company)
10% is $500, which can buy you 500 utils.

3) Later, $2/util:
a) Mattress:
$300 now -> $300 later -> 150 utils.

b) Invest:
$300 now to company
5000 utils later (for company) -> $10000 later (for company)
10% is $1000, which can buy you 500 utils.

As you can see, in the setup given - which is clearly a crude abstraction but shares some dynamics with reality - when there is sufficient deflation you would do better not to invest in the company, whereas with no inflation you do a little better to invest, and with inflation you do a lot better to invest. That's how inflation motivates investment. The key point is that investing now translates into some amount of value created that doesn't (in most cases) change with prices, so when you turn it back into money at the later rate (by selling what was produced) its relative value compared to not investing is lessened.
Correct, the customs brokerage business reminds me of Asseta (YCS13) in that there's less competition, and is an industry that people do not naturally enter for lack of knowledge or sex appeal. Recipe for a money maker.

CodeCombat's novel, and given YC's history with Codecademy and One Month Rails, along with the founder's previous business venture - getting picked up wasn't a surprise.
The prospect of an entirely robotic war is interesting to me. No more bloodshed, the winner is determined by the amount of technological progress they manage to achieve and put into use. Wars could actually become somewhat useful for humanity as means to improve technologies (they already do, but the death toll that comes with them is kind of a shitty side-effect).
Nftables code merged, expected in Linux Kernel 3.13
Groundhack day.
Dr. Robert Lustig agrees, from http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301280900

"Processed food is fiberless food. That's basically what it comes down to. Processed food means that you've got to take the fiber out for shelf-life. And there are two kinds of fiber. There's soluble fiber: which is the kind of stuff that holds jelly together, and pectins, and things like that. And then there's the insoluble fiber: the stringy stuff, like, you know, cellulose, like what you see in celery. You need both. What I describe in the book is like it's kind of like your hair-catcher in your bathtub drain. Um, you have this plastic lattice work with holes in it. So, if you take a shower and the hair is coming down, it blocks up the holes, but only if the hair catcher is there. So, imagine that the cellulose is the hair-catcher, and imagine the hair is the soluble fiber, blocking up the little holes. When they're both there, it forms a barrier on the inside of your intestine.

You actually can see it during electron microscopy, that it's a secondary barrier that reduces the rate of absorption of nutrients from the gut, into the bloodstream. And what that does is that it actually keeps the liver safe, because it reduces the rate at which the liver has to metabolize, the stuff. And if you overload the liver, what it does is it has no choice but to turn extra energy into liver fat. And that's what drives this whole process. Is the process of liver fat accumulation, and the thing that does that the worst is sugar, especially when it's not teamed up with fiber.""
http://www.internetpulse.net/ and http://traceroute.org/ are two sites I used in addition to the usual unix tools like traceroute.
So, how exactly would your startup handle costs such as insurance if your entire revenue is all theoretical?
signal hacking could be mitigated by having them be truly autonomous. So they will still attempt to complete their mission without communication to the base.

Broadcasting a message also may compromise their location.

Maybe we'll start to see more weaponized EMPs.
This is the umpteenth time I've seen this on HN. Is there a flaw in the HN algorithm that allows the exact same article of be recycled several times thru or is that a feature. Is it a way to get lots of Upvotes? Just resubmit an article that did well before?
It's not dogma if it actually works for them (though it might be dogma if they are very insistent that it definitely will work for everyone).

> Exercise daily, provide adequate protein intake and watch out the calories. That's it. No need to blame food but yourselves.

That sounds like a nice middle ground, but there's no reason to take a middle ground if something more radical works better for you.
the thing is facebook is taking too long to listen to our reports once it took forever to remove a page because it was not in English and the reviewers didn't understand, that's something that should not happen in a globally used service like Facebook