skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No but you are abusing my rights

UNHCR # 12 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

As well as my rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

No valid reason exists for individual salary's to be posted just as with the blackmail scam with mugshots proves.
Always important to remember that different people are affected by different modes of communication.

I am impatient and I want to consume info quickly, so I don't like videos. Give me the facts.

Many people find reading and parsing factual statements to be a chore. They want to play the video and sit back and eat a sandwich. They want that horrible hipster acoustic guitar intro with the gratuitous close up of the tattoos. Factual statements are like homework. They want emotional response. I am suspicious of same.

Also I work with Israelis and they consume spoken English much easier that written. Reading is cognitive load for many folks.
I've been creating a couple of blogs over the last week using Jekyll, It's pretty easy and I was not aware there were so little. Might have to make some templates.
It's a bit more than syntactic sugar - as luikore said, eliminating the need for a tool like jslint is a win. Not having to worry about trailing commas, hasOwnProperty checks, semicolons, etc. is a big win. Getting rid of a shit-ton of symbols and boilerplate code also makes the code more readable, in addition to the saved keystrokes.

That's awesome that Dart includes those features, and I wish that I had lexical scoping in CS. But closures are a pretty easy workaround.

> TS and Dart also reduce the number of keystrokes though. They allow you to auto-complete pretty much everything.

That sounds like an IDE/editor feature, not a language feature. Setting up macros/snippets/etc in an IDE/editor will save keystrokes for most any language.
> "Homo is the genus of great apes that emerged around 2.4m years ago and includes modern humans."

This implies that we are apes.

Quoting Wikipedia:

The composition of a genus is determined by a taxonomist. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera.
This opened my eyes, thanks. I'll see how to set up backups that I can create but not delete.
Thank you - and apologies for the late reply.

ps if you ever do come across this I would love to know if you have either a really good memory, do a lot of research on the spur if the moment, or have an impressive filing system? cheers
I definitely prefer direct links to research publications over news outlets.
This happened to someone I know (really, it wasn't me). Not only did it encrypt the local drives it also hit all of their network drives. As reprehensible as it is to pay the ransom they really had no choice since the encryption happened the prior night before the last backup.
Why there is no valid reason for individual salaries to be posted.
Coming up with an algorithm is not hard. It is just time consuming and annoying because brute force is stupid to people. So, gluing code in some brain dead fashion (wtf do I do here? Oh no better solution so I will patch this patch that with stitches) is hard because it is like brutcing. There are too many "libraries" and none can do everything easily. Complex system is the end result. Then engineers spend most of their time reducing the complexity. If there was a framework that could reduce in the first stage then it is easier, not harder.
I've found the bug. For now, try Chromium. I'll fix this tomorrow.
the usual HN climate-change critics are in this thread, pointing at and yelling about how science is "broken".

I don't think the current situation in climate science shows that "science is broken". I think it shows that climate scientists have been too quick to claim the credibility of Science when their work does not measure up to that standard. (Climate science is certainly not the only field that does this: much of what passes for "scientific research" in the social sciences doesn't meet the standard either.) That's not to say we shouldn't be trying to figure out how the climate works; it's saying that you don't claim the mantle of Science until you can back it up.
Exactly. I closed the page when that thing popped up.

Besides, it didn't have an option on it saying, "I don't HAVE a business, you insensitive clod!"
> No. What you can take away from this is 'while no one doubts that at 100μg and higher one gets dramatic psychedelic effects, the suggestions that at tiny doses like 10μg there are non-psychedelic genericly positive effects, may not be true'. Don't confuse your hypotheses here.

What?? No, you can't take that away. In fact, what GP said still makes a lot more sense. 10ug didn't work for you, thus the dose was too low. Have you tried 15? 20? 30? It would almost certainly be sub-threshold when it comes to the psychedelia (unless you are a true freak of nature), but, who knows, maybe you would get an amazing nootropic effect!

Why did you decide to abort your experiment after trying only an arbitrary dose of 10ug?
EBay, Ellison Embrace Microgrids in Threat to Utilities
And you've merely tried to change the subject. Something can't be front-running if it happens after a publicly disseminated market event. Understood? Flash orders = front running. Trading ahead of client flow = front running. Latency arbitrage != front running. HFT market making != front running.
Agreed. At a previous job, I set up a multi-terabyte SMB/NFS file server (Solaris, ZFS) with snapshots taken every 5 minutes. This was incredibly useful. The snapshots (in .zfs directories) were even accessible to end-users so that they could recover from their own mistakes without the help of sysadmins.

With such a setup, the only situation in which sysadmins are required are when end-users accidentally copy sensitive data to the file server, remove it, and need sysadmins to also remove the snapshots to permanently remove the sensitive data.
Oh, they know. They just don't respect him.
If you don't sleep for long enough (about 7 days), you'll start to have visual and auditory hallucinations and also delusional thinking. You'll also experience severely reduced effectiveness of just about every system in your body. You might not die if you don't sleep for a year (say), but you'll probably get permanent brain damage.
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"Netflix makes 0 additional marginal dollars from an existing subscriber watching an extra hour of video. What they care about is producing something "must see" for a particular niche that would convert a non-member into a paying member."

Netflix makes 0 marginal dollars on a hit show, but for Netflix, this isn't about the marginal dollar. This isn't even about adding more subscribers per se. This is an attempt to preserve subscribers in the face of a rapidly diminishing content library.

As I mentioned in the article, a lot of the networks and movie studios are raising their rates on Netflix, or pulling their libraries altogether. In the long run, Netflix risks becoming a "dumb pipes" commodity business, no more special or different from Amazon, iTunes, and all the rest, if it doesn't have something exclusive to keep viewers interested.

That's why they're betting the farm on original content. HoC won't appeal to everyone, but it signals to Hollywood and to tastemakers that Netflix is a serious buyer, and that it's in town to buy a lot more where that came from. Hollywood has a strong signaling / social proof system in place, and moves like this are often great ways to break the ice and establish credibility in a town that will shut up and listen to money. :)

"That means a rabid fan base and buzz is far more important than broad popularity. That's why shows like Arrested Development and Orange is the New Black have been so good for them, because they have an in built audience they can bring reliably."

Correct, and I don't see us in any disagreement here. This is what I mean about Netflix's home-field advantage in "audience development." Netflix knows its niches better than networks know theirs, and furthermore, it can afford to be in the niche game, because it's not dependent on mass advertisers. This is a significant advantage Netflix can draw upon.
Nice, but does it update automatically or require a refresh? Hung out on the page for 30 seconds and didn't see it change.
Have you considered meetup? There are many tech-oriented meetups near Vancouver:
http://www.meetup.com/PolyglotVancouver/
http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-social-media-nonprofits-soci...
http://www.meetup.com/HackerNestVAN/
I use Consolas every day.

I'm on Linux, so that might also impact something.

Perhaps the line drawing characters are extra-small or something? Fire up Rogue and try it out...
Nice job, very professional and modern theme. I will definitely be using it - thanks in advance!
Hm, interesting. So I really should have said that bond markets are vulnerable to the disease I described as well.
Well, there is no good reason why the effects should be similar, because the mechanism of action of SSRIs and LSD is very dissimilar.
Theoretically yes, but in practice mixing services make this much much more complex.
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Disappointing. In a world where hunger remains an issue, it's sad to see fear-mongering preventing us from using the best technology available to produce the most food with the least negative externalities.

Oh well, I guess if we just dump a lot more pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers, along with using more fresh water for irrigation, we can almost replicate the results of GMO seeds.
It does update automatically, however Bitcoin prices change pretty slowly, so it's not uncommon for the price to stay the same for awhile.
"neither technology is likely to change me in to a player of any kind of games" - if the article writer is not himself a gamer of any sort, why should anyone listen to his opinion on forthcoming game technologies?
You could imagine the Bitcoin community deciding to blacklist any wallets to which funds like this were demanded and disbursed. That seems like a great idea until you then realize that this would be a way of denying anyone access to their own funds, by specifying their wallet as the recipient even though the attacker doesn't control it. There really doesn't seem to be any good countermeasure to this.
I know connections between people can be quite awesome and important. It is even more awesome if they can discuss about something important and give their opinion and listen to your opinion without starting a fight. When there is a problem it is good to have someone to ask help from.

I maybe have one true friend and we mutually keep our friendship active. Then there are those who may drink coffee or have a beer with me now and then, but we never really talk about anything important. Then there are those so called social media friends who really do not care what you do. Then there are these few people who use my kindness quite often for help as they have found I will most likely help them anyway I can.

Seriously I have tried to keep in contact with people who may some day become great people. The problem I have is that I lose motivation to stay in one way contact when the other does not seem to care a shit how my days go even though I try all kinds of things to get them active even though I am not in need of any kind of help at the moment, but in future I might be.

It's not like I want to be liked, but maybe a call to a bar and have fun once would be nice. Why it always has to be me who initiates almost every damn discussion or happening where I could take part in this tiny circle of my so called friends. These days I don't even care to try and just let them be and answer them if they have a problem.

When talking about these connections with famous people you could take advantage of I often do not even press the send button because I've realized my own stupidity after explaining my problem in the email. I'm not looking for help. I'm just stating that lonely people can solve problems and have fun too, though if someone would see me having fun alone they probably would say I'm going nuts.

Good Friday from Finland.
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Sadly, you're suggestion will be mentioned if this happens I'm sure. But instead of a physical step before the gates, it will be a mental one. What place could you check people prior to them being physically checked before boarding?

When they think about using an airplane. When someone thinks about travelling, the TSA will locate and travel to them, and direct the citizen through their thought crime machine. If you refuse, then the TSA strip search you and inspect your orifices in public, which will also be the next step from private rooms. /s

Security is a feeling. Also, there are events and odds. The events and odds don't make me feel like policy is needed for me to feel safe travelling IMO. What happens happens. If someone tries to logically attempt to cast blame upon a party for something like a bombing for not preemptively stopping it, then I'll just point to the math surrounding the TSA. IT MAKES NO SENSE.
Does this integrate with the GitHub editor for jekyll posts? I pushed (with the rakefile) and it doesn't appear to – but I pushed to master not gh-pages.
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I made a two person desk with my co-founder by buying a 8ft long counter top at ikea and 5 metal legs. Looks pretty slick and has held up for a year now.

Ikea countertops (i believe we have numerar) : http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/kit...

Legs (we chose the Vika Byske which were on sale half off):
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?query=leg

We sanded the surface and used mineral oil to finish it.

We'd recommend it to anyone looking for a good yet cheap desk!
125 kB compressed JS
262 kB uncompressed JS
9765 lines of uncompressed JS

Wow.
This is precisely the problem. "Policy on the run" becomes ill-designed red tape.
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Just for reference's sake this does vary a fair bit by computer and browser - mine never drops below ~8kIPS and runs mostly at ~15kIPS (and up to ~23kIPS).

Whilst this is nothing like the several orders of magnitude required for more capable interactive behaviour, it does make my load times noticeably faster than those claimed on the page. :)

(I'm Chrome on Linux, i7 4th Gen, incidentally)
This just looks really bad. If even the maker of windows phone considers it the last platform to develop for, we shouldn't blame or expect more from other app developers. This just adds more reason for me to replace my windows phone with an iphone/android
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Looks useful. I think the spinning animation could be removed/shortened (it might be a bit distracting in its current form), but other than that you did a great job!
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Too bad the government makes that choice. I'd assume that if people, or consumers of travelling via airplane, were as you say, cautious about travel, a free market alternative would be better than the TSA.

That said, you're right. But lines, inspections, and "lists", are largerly unnecessary. You have guards walking around, and a federal agent on each plane.

All that I'm saying, is that I'd rather not have to subsidise security for air travel. Let the market sort it out.
The point of science is to never fall back on claims like "you'll probably get permanent brain damage" unless it's known what brain damage you may get, along with bounds on a confidence interval. Otherwise we're just philosophizing.
Emails are like Watermelons
The word "toxin" has become a signal for pseudoscientific medicine, so I also furrowed my brow at that. But the original use of the word is much more clear in context. From the abstract which tokenadult kindly linked to:

Thus, the restorative function of sleep may be a consequence of the enhanced removal of potentially neurotoxic waste products that accumulate in the awake central nervous system.

Also, regarding the dangers of sleep deprivation, the first paragraph of the paper are relevant (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/373.full):

Sleep deprivation reduces learning, impairs performance in cognitive tests, prolongs reaction time, and is a common cause of seizures (3, 4). In the most extreme case, continuous sleep deprivation kills rodents and flies within a period of days to weeks (5, 6). In humans, fatal familial or sporadic insomnia is a progressively worsening state of sleeplessness that leads to dementia and death within months or years (7).

Reference 7 is http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-44..., but I found the Wikipedia article more consumable for someone who is not up on medical research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia
Mechanical Nun Parses Sins, Dispels Guilt Via API
Hacker News has climate change "denialists" because climate models are terrible at predicting global temperature[1][2]. Once scientists gain the ability to make accurate predictions, more logic-minded hackers will go along. Hackers like predictive models with a good track record, a la Nate Silver. They dislike emotional bullying.

[1] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/14/90-climate-model-proje...

[2] http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2157446...
Well, I think Valve would disagree with him.
Thank you for these links, I wish the BBC article included them. Here's the press release from the University of Rochester, where the study was conducted:

http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/index.cfm?id=3956
It makes sense, though. AGW denialism is very much a part of "pro-business" ideology, because it's uncomfortable to accept things that don't align with your worldview, even when there's a mountain of evidence behind it.

HN has no particular attraction for fundamentalist Christians.
Most imoportant things in life too.

Be yourself.

Be concise.

Be demonstrably committed.
sorry, let me add: /sarcasm.

I hear ya. I'm just being a realist. If I was dictator of the world, I'd ban all taxes and let the market figure it out.
Rats die "within a matter of weeks" if they do not sleep: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01664328950...
My biggest comment is that its not fully immersive. The occulus VR and castAR are drastically different in that sense. As a gamer, I don't want to see anything but the game, thus head mounted is perfect in my mind. I don't want to look at a surface, I want feel like I am inside it.
I read years ago (and can't now find the article) that the TSA screeners didn't really care about catching these guns. The TSA tested them by slipping one (or a few) fake guns into luggage. If I recall, a screener said something along the lines of "we don't have to catch all guns. We only have to catch those guns."

Sigh.
Thanks! What was the bug? I'd be interested.

Also, any plans to implement GPF handling? I tried booting a test environment I have on it (which runs Python as part of the GRUB2 bootloader), but it failed primarily due to lack of support for trapping GPFs. (There are a few other issues I'd have to work around to make it work, but that's a major one that I can't easily work around.)
It also depends on your tolerance for not 100% correct. I've got a ton of stuff i put together that's functionally perfect but doesnt look like it belongs in a showroom anywhere (unless its abstract art!)
Disabling or limiting your use of JavaScript and Java in the browser will go a long way towards protecting against delivery of this as it is likely delivered by an exploit kit. If you do hit an exploit kit, Microsoft EMET (free) will probably mitigate the exploit/s.
Well, it's hard to set up an legitimate scientific experiment to prove/disprove something like climate change. The best we can hope for is observations over time.

Another issue that's problematic is that when you look at the archaeological evidence, the earth has actually been through several heating/cooling cycles. I mean, the last glacial period was fairly recent, we know the earth is warmer now, and we strongly suspect it was warmer before the glacial period.

Furthermore, no proper experiment is possible to explain why the earth is warming at the current rate, if the rate is natural or caused by humans, etc...

Questioning the human causes of climate change doesn't automatically lead to creationism, it's simply a rational question to ask.
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Heck, how to classify even existing living and breathing specimens is not always clear. Genetic sequencing has resolved some, but not all, such questions.

Fundamentally, there is no obvious and unambiguous definition of "species". It is a functional definition that is highly useful, but it is not exactly predictive is every case under the sun. There will always be confusion on the margins, because the natural world is sometimes messy that way.
Malware developer can make 256 valid developer IDs, compute 256 signatures and switch them automatically and randomly during the propagation of malware. Once Apple blacklists one developer ID, another one pops out, and so malware continues to propagate.
Apple's claim of unbreakable iMessage encryption is a lie says researcher
I have very little idea what this article is trying to say. I can't even decipher whether it is pro-Oculus or against it.
"Totalitarian Touch"
I know a customer that got hit by this Tuesday morning. Unsurprisingly, Avast did nothing. I just told her the bad news and clean-installed Windows.

I have tried to find the private key with sample files, using known file byte headers, the public key and brute force on the private key. Sadly, no luck yet.
My understanding is they changed that and by default it wants admin rights. Then if that fails, it asks if you want to continue without. (At least, this was my experience the last time I had to install Chrome on a machine without admin rights.)
Experience Stop And Frisk Thanks To This POV Video
It expects one of the standard formats (720k, 1440k or 2880k).
I'll add switching disks some time in the future.
Hey Chuck. I love the show. Long time reader, first time asker here.

>That is an insanely stupid thing to do, it has huge risk.

Do you think huge risk is always insanely stupid?
The way this ransomware works still requires a centralized command and control server; without one, it would be possible to trigger the "unlock" codepath in the client without paying the authors.

The authors run a key-storage service which notifies the client (and provides a private key) once payment is received.

In this case the authors are still at a substantial advantage, though - as long as enough unlocks work that "just pay up" is the advice given online, they don't have to care if their C+C server is down half the time or the feds take it down, because the money rolls in even when the decryption isn't working.
It's a weird article.

"Oculus is good, but CastAR is much better"?

I don't see them as direct competitors. People developing for one provide some benefits to people working on the other.
> Modern humans are not that diverse in size. An adult males weigh 50-85kgs.

Or a little less, or a lot more.

> If you find a population of individuals weiging 120ks, you will conclude that these are probably a different species.

Assumign "ks" is supposed to be "kg", it might just be a gathering of NFL players. [1]

[1] http://www.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=merron/041124_r...
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Low interest rates encourage investment in the whole economy, so it's misleading to claim that the tech boom in particular was caused by easy money. The government pulls a lever that effects the whole economy equally. It didn't funnel money directly to silicon valley vc's.