skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much wrong with this post:

> There is a testable prediction here of course: either bacteria outrun human antibiotic development or they do not. I'm confident that more bacterial lineages will be wiped out before human medicine is seriously compromised by natural selection of bacteria that are resistant to most antibiotics used in human medicine.

Do a dumb test. Walk into your nearest hospital, I don't even want to know which it is. Ask how many patients are infected with mRSA. Collect your jaw from the floor when they give you an answer that's 15% if you're lucky, 60-70% if you're unlucky. We have lost the fight with bacteria. It's over. We aren't "about to" lose it, we lost it ~1 year ago, and medicine is fast losing the ability to treat bacterial disease. We lost the fight with viruses a decade ago. If you get infected with a deadly viral disease, like rabies, it's curtains. There's nothing any hospital can do for you except sedate you until you're dead.

We are in fact well on our way to transform hospitals into deathtraps.

> Evolution is actually a really crappy optimization algorithm. The reason it has worked so well is not that it is so effective, but because it's the only game in town.

First of all, the obvious advantage of evolution is it's running time, 3.5 billion years. Second you probably subscribe to the naive notion that evolution, in 3.5 billion years running time, somehow failed to realize that mutation + natural selection is very, very slow. It didn't. The algorithm that, today, controls evolution of pretty much any species works entirely different from what most textbooks teach you. There are very, very few species that evolve through mutation and selection. We evolve through copying of other's genes, simulation and symbiosis (yes, genes can simulate the effect other genes will have on them. Also, most "life" functions of a human body, like breathing, metabolism, ... are actually performed by symbiotic bacteria on our behalf. Human cells can't actually do it themselves).

Unfortunately, if you study how evolution actually works you'll realize what it means for resistant bacteria. Once a fully resistant bacterial strain evolves, a process that takes between decades and centuries, all other species of bacteria will quickly copy the resistance, in a matter of months to years. Which is exactly what we've seen happening.

You'll also quickly realize that no matter how well-intentioned your use of bacteriophages is, it is very, very likely to make things worse, not better.
Change.org adds politicians to the mix: Is a change gonna come?
You may not have noticed it, but it prompted you for your password as part of the installation wizard. I assume that after that, it saved your password where the boot program could find it. Other full-disk encryption programs have similar capabilities, where they'll automatically unlock an encrypted volume if so configured. This is totally insecure, of course, but in the context of the Mavericks upgrade, it's temporary so I guess that's OK.

The interesting question is this: How well did Apple sanitize whatever bit of disk or flash memory ended up storing the key through the two reboots Mavericks needed to do to complete the upgrade?
> Anyone can send email as anyone else anyway.

Many emails are signed with DKIM now, which does help with verifiability.

> but I would hope this is still stored encrypted

Encryption is pointless when the keys for decryption are on the same server. Given their hack in 2012, I doubt there's any protection at all.
Hey there! So this set up will catch all of your EC2 instances and find all the associated logs. It actually is a "run once catch all" deal. One of our engineers would be happy to give you more technical detail if you want. Shoot an email to support@logentries.com.

Also, is you want to give it a try yourself, we have an unlimited free version for 30 days available on our site that has le_aws available, so you can try it for yourself. Check it out: https://logentries.com

Note: The first picture in the blog post is an actual screen shot of the script discovering all of one of our engineer's EC2 instances automatically.

Thanks!
Does this mean that for a simple email : See you in 5 minutes or Let's go to lunch , ... it would actually download a full Linkedin profile with it ? (Hidden with the CSS, but still downloaded). If so, it seems to be wasteful.

All the privacy issues it raises are already discussed.
1. Bravo, this is a really well-done content-marketing campaign. It's original/greenfield, provocative, interactive, and you intentionally made your idea list screen-shot so low resolution it's impossible to read unless we tune in :)

2. Broadly I agree with you open-sourcing ideation does a lot more benefit than harm. I have a similar list that frustratingly keeps getting rows added where I'd rather see an idea validated by someone else's execution than die on the vine.
Might be good to have landing pages directly targeted at people with Crohn's disease, people on the diet of the month, etc.
There is a problem with the readline emulation of libedit that causes python 2.7 - 3.3 from python.org to crash under 10.9
http://bugs.python.org/issue18458
I get Segmentation fault: 11 if I enter more than one line in python3.3 running interactively in Terminal, but ipython3 seems to work.
For some reason I read their name as "Intellectual Vampires."
That one is...a little trickier. There is some evidence that it works for controlling bacterial growth leading to gingivitis - suggesting there may be some utility for it. But its ubiquity in consumer products makes me a little skittish.

So I don't know if I'd want it gone from toothpaste, but I'd like to see it gone from the many products where its useless or nearly useless, but included so someone can put 'Antibacterial' on the label.

Like soap. Soap is already antibacterial.
There are some really neat technical stuff at linkedin, it's just a shame the site is a pile of spamming shit. If they overhauled it and got rid of all the annoying things then it would actually be decent.
Oh yes it is, you can virtually "not" run out of money there. Sandwhich costs $3, you can a really big room with a double bed for $600/month.
The issue is any antibiotic that could be used to cure humans should be used for nothing but curing humans. Every use of it rolls the dice that the bacteria will evolve an immunity to that drug. There isn't any "safe" use. Bacteria will eventually evolve and we can only reduce the amount of evolutionary pressure being applied.

So in short, yes the problem is giving it to animals.
I'll complain about it, I'm not a gamer... Ubuntu won't even suspend/sleep properly under LUKS for crypting out loud!
Hypochondriacs everywhere rejoice.

Seriously though I think it's a cool idea, might try it myself.
I haven't read the article yet as Google+ is blocked at work.
I'm coaching young kids for First Lego League tournaments this year and witnessed that the Legos Mindstorm robot platform (http://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms) makes the kids really excited about programming. Here, one is introduced to programming through very easy graphical environment and can progress to high level language based programming in C, Java etc over time.
What happened to them? Legal?
Thanks for the feedback. I could see all of those features being useful and integrating well into the rest of the app, though setting up edges to work within might require a bit to much UI compared to the gain in typical usage.

I went back and forth on the number of taps required to open up the brush or tools menu - the current implementation will open the menu directly if you already have that tool selected, and switch to the tool otherwise. Ex if calligraphy is selected then you touch brushes -> menu opens. If calligraphy is selected and you touch tools, then the eraser (or the MRU tool) is selected and the menu does not open.

This flow works really well when you switch are switching between 2 types of anything, like between calligraphy and the pencil, or calligraphy and the eraser and (I like it because) it doesn't have popups flying in your face constantly. It works less well if you switch between 3 (ex calligraphy->eraser->pencil.) A second downside is that the logic behind when 1 or 2 clicks is required is somewhat less than obvious.

(You can delete drawings, press and hold on the thumbnail in the homescreen)
Given how quickly an explosive shock wave travels through hydrogen, I doubt anyone near the car would be alive long enough to even register a mild temperature increase when the tank blows up.
This is a really cool hack but I would never hand over my email creds to someone like LinkedIn after their history with emails. They might decide one day to "help" you by inviting everyone you have emailed or has emailed you or they could start added a "Connect With Josh" link to the bottom of my outgoing emails that links to my LinkedIn.

Again, VERY cool how they did it but it requires quite a bit trust in a company that I don't find very trustworthy.
But you do have to take into account the context of what they are doing. Yes on a technical scale it is similar to a mitm attack, and yes in theory they do have access to your email content, but I don't think that by using an interesting trick to add a useful feature should put them in the same category as sleazy hackers secretly trying to steal your credit cards and such.
According to the linked document:

• passwords are stored for a minute, maybe up to two hours

• emails are stored for a few minutes, maybe a few hours

Most clients will poll for emails every few minutes, which means that the storage of the passwords is for all intents; permanent.
Let me know if you have other thoughts or disagree!
Based on limited experience with younger kids and http://scratch.mit.edu/ the "cuties" (i.e. cat image etc.) are a distraction. I have a hunch the real browser apps idea is not as crazy as it sounds for kids who can type.
What's drowning people in C and even more in C++ is not the logic of the language, but the sheer number of tricky concepts and the pure accumulation of information (it is reflected on the size of the specs).

I agree, and I'd add that C/C++ is a bit of a leaky abstraction layer over assembly. It aims to be portable, but true portability means that the C/C++ developer really shouldn't have to know/care what assembly instructions the compiler/linker is emitting, because all of that stuff depends on which chip architecture you're targeting.

Basically, coding in C/C++ requires an intimate knowledge of how the compiler works, and sometimes even how the target chip works. C/C++ software projects of notable size oftentimes cannot be simply recompiled/linked to a different target architecture without changing things like compiler flags, the makefile, and even the application code itself. That makes it a non-portable, leaky abstraction, and dramatically increases the amount of knowledge that's required of a C/C++ developer.
Data Security Throughout History
As for cross linking and affiliate programs, I think the sky is the limit. Target a group of people (programmers, for example) ask for some basic info (programming language, type of equipment, etc...) and present offers based on those responses

I've always used unemployment time to further my education - you can only look for a job so many times a week. I'm looking to further my education in Obj-C during my time off to expand my possible application pool. Take all of that into account and offer me programs on how to learn Obj-C or etc...

If you can take a cut of those offers - awesome!
Choosing between vegetarianism and pandemic isn't a hard choice=).
I've thought about doing this too (a "dev-venture" model), but unfortunately I haven't found the time to flush it out legally or look for good deal-flow. Maybe one of us should write a blog post about our concept in case someone else wants to execute on our good idea :)
What? How did you make that leap from "nobody's gonna beat a vet with a rubber hose" to assuming I'm a hardcore libertarian? I'm for the reduction of antibiotics through government regulation. I think business should be restricted when it comes to doing harm to society.

With such a leap, I can only logically assume you replied to the wrong comment.
I'd be really surprised if Apple will let them use all of these hacks for long... Still great way to get full access to all email from many users.
Not only does it obliterate users' security but it introduces a potentially unreliable point of failure. Sometimes the hack is worse than the problem it solves. I hope they're being extremely upfront with users about how this works, not that most users will really understand the implications...
we're not really venturing into "consulting" per se; more of a franchise sort of setup, where everyone interested in growing ensures their product and growing space meets our internal standards, which meet or (in most cases) exceed the requirements listed in the Controlled Drugs & Substances Act. We're cooperating at every step with Health Canada to keep our product and facilities as safe as possible, in order to deliver directly to customers come April 2014, when the MMAR/MMPR switch flips.

While we've met many people looking for a legal loophole to commit crimes, we're only really interested in those people willing to be in harmony with the government's new MMPR program, and are focused on growing medicine for sick people.

We understand there's a massive Blue Ocean of legal consumer cannabis product opportunities that will be opening up here in ten years, but weeding out (sorry) the criminal element is of paramount importance to us before even thinking of expanding our scope to cover those markets.
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Which is why the key should be physically given to the system when it is started and then only stored in memory. The key file should not be available on any network-attached machine. Of course there's still potential for exploits in this scenario, but it does help minimize the attack surface.
Might not call it bad, but you should really also learn JS - as brilliant as jQuery is, it can't really do everything.
It's also much better to know js in order to debug stuff that misbehave (you can also download the un-minified jQuery code and just step into to it ... can save a few hairs off your head)
Thanks for the time. (I never read the 2nd Knuth book at Univ. :-) )

OK, obviously the obfuscation algorithms using entropy are equivalent to some form of hashing/encryption function.

So if I understand this:

To just keep every Xth bit (where X varies over time) of the generated data doesn't help (it adds a little obfuscation to the algorithm?). And to combine multiple algorithms with their own sources of entropy is not superior to e.g. just using the three entropy sources to get better data?
Sorry, I'm a little confused as to how you think Microsoft has historically made products that are "irrelevant to the end user", when Microsoft powers the majority of computing activity worldwide and has for more 20 years.

What it feels like you may instead be trying to say is "I don't like Windows 8 and think Linux/OS X are better", which is certainly a valid opinion statement. I wouldn't, however, labor under the misunderstanding that Microsoft doesn't care about users - hyperbole aside, do you actually think that of a company of about 100K people doesn't care about other people?

If you've ever worked on a big tech product, you know that agonizing amounts of attention are spent worrying about even the smallest details. Ultimately, that might mean that we don't always make the best possible decision, but I think it would be tough to say that Microsoft "half-assed" much.

It makes sense that you don't like the product; not everyone does. But it seems foolish to equate your dislike with a) it being objectively bad, b) it being half-assed, c) it being irrelevant (particularly when it plays a huge role in the world), or d) that the people creating it don't care about it or you. Indeed, d) is particularly important - isn't it grand that you live in a tech world where someone like me, who works at Microsoft, cares about your thoughts and feelings, even though you don't use Windows?

Microsoft (and many other companies) don't just care about the people who use our products...we also care about the people who don't.
Same here! I'm a technologically educated person, I use command line Linux for all my VMs and servers, I love it...but nothing "just works" when you jump to a UI powered by Linux.

So, I run a Samba share on my VMs and configure my desktop to be friendly.
According to "Pledge of Privacy"[1], no. It seems they will also modify your outgoing mail to remove the profile info.

So in addition to reading your incoming mail they can also modify your outgoing mail as well.

Suppose that user B gets mail from A, then forwards it to C. I'd see why this could be valuable info. for a company like this (and also has a high potential for abuse).

[1. https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/privacy ]
I get the impression you've never actually used the software.
Why not use OSM as the mapping layer? It's good enough already to avoid depending on Google.
Android has millions of casual consumer users, and the state of that ecosystem is unmitigated shit. Worse free driver support there than the traditional distro scene for desktop computers had a decade ago.

Striving for widespread desktop adoption is a mistake. I see no reason to think that an influx of clueless users would improve anything at all. Selling steamboxes to the 'unwashed masses' may incidentally improve the situation for users desktop linux, but getting more users onto desktop linux should not be our goal or our strategy.
This was the topic of Prof. Balaji's talk during startup school and was one of the more intriguing talks given by any of the speakers. He brought up the point that failure to exit can often be considered as a vote of approval and that this applies to many choices that we make whether it is in the programming that you pick (or watching TV in itself) or supporting a particular technology.

That said, the conclusion he drew regarding Silicon Valley and the US is not one to be taken lightly.
> * LinkedIn (hence, the NSA) gets full access to your E-mail,

What if I believe that Google (hence the NSA) already has access to my Gmail? What's the cost to my privacy if it's already lost?

My major concern is that if I provide Linkedin my credentials, I now have doubled my attack surface for intrusion by non-governmental actors.
Gartner: By 2017, the hybrid cloud will rule
> Intellectual Ventures spent $310,000 to influence federal policy from July 1 through Sept. 30, up from $165,000 the firm reported spending on lobbying during the previous months, according to a report filed with the U.S. Senate.

What does this mean exactly, and how is this different from bribery and corruption?
If by calling themselves "hackers" they're announcing their intent to release the code publicly, how does it follow that they also intend to conceal their role? You can't have it both ways, right?
Acer C720 Chromebook Review
I wish they post a link to the previous version's icons page, most of my websites are using font awesome v3, and I dont see a way to quickly find an old icon classes right now, unless somebody can help me out with that?
I wonder if this gentlemen believes in his heart that Microsoft has built and released a better tablet for people than Apple.
I was in Berlin. What I've found is that the most famous startup in Berlin is a todo-list. Jawohl! Make sure to visit the c-base if you're there.
To be clear, Ayn Rand didn't write about economics. So, you can't take my economics views as representing her views.

> your mind is already fucked. I'm done with this conversation as it's impossible to reason with anyone who thinks highly of that insanity. The only thing Ayn Rand is a good starting point for is how to brainwash young minds with terrible writing and an idiotic philosophy. She's a joke.

That's completely untrue. I'm a very intelligent and very well-educated person, and I agree with Ayn Rand. And there are a lot of people like me.

Ayn Rand's views are actually quite intuitively reasonable---and there is a lot of techincal philosophical work that has been done to show that they are true.

(a) there is an objective reality

(b) we can gain knowledge about it

(c) we should act self-interestedly in the pursuit of happiness

(d) we need freedom (in the classic liberal sense) to do that

Which of these views causes you to automatically dismiss me out of hand?

If you want to make a cogent criticism of Ayn Rand, I will tell you why I think it fails.

> That's a religious statement, not a factual one

It's not a religious statement. I realize that you are accusing me of believing certain things on faith, and I completely reject that. I am a scientist.

I definitely suspect we probably disagree on what "always work well eventually" means, though, which I left undefined.
I'd been looking for Paper/Sketchology type apps for desktops but the only solutions looked to be overly complicated vector apps like Illustrator and Inkscape. Had never heard of Mischief before thanks.
What happens to your cluster when your network experiences intermittent packet loss and your random UDP messages get lost? Nodes just start going down and up randomly? (For those of you going "So what, that's normal", this not a quality of an HA system)
Yea, but it's a perfectly good "why wouldn't you".
> In a perfect world this company would exist to invent and license new ideas.

No, in a perfect world this company wouldn't exist at all, and its founders would be jailed for racketeering. In our imperfect world these thugs claim they are a "legitimate business".
"Oh and before anyone gets their panties in a bunch..."

I assume that was meant to be ironic, because otherwise, um...
The real reason is most likely because if things are too loud, then you get annoyed.
Tiny Sensors Put The Squeeze on Light (DARPA)
Since this only works with Gmail, Google Apps, Yahoo, AOL, and iCloud, the email is already with a third party.
I've got the impression that the D programming language is gaining some popularity for game programming but I'm not really sure about that.
I like how he makes reference to the "Reality Distortion Field" and then goes on to immediately state a half truth; that the Surface comes with Office. It comes with hobbled versions.

The fact that Microsoft felt the need to respond to the announcement in this way tells you that they are concerned about it.
This would really benefit from a "how does this relate to zookeeper". I think this is an entirely new service, with different technical insides, and trying to provide a higher level solution to what people usually cobble together with ZK.

But I'd be interested in comments from someone knowledgeable.

Edit: I see this is addressed at http://www.serfdom.io/intro/vs-zookeeper.html but it would be nice to have something more "just the facts" rather than arguing the serf is good.
This is very exciting
I've worked with a lot of languages and a lot of frameworks over the years, and the ones from Microsoft are always hands down the most needlessly complicated and poorly documented of the bunch. PHP may be a double claw hammer, but at least it's a really well documented double claw hammer. MVC includes at least 5 different kinds of double claw hammer, a normal hammer, a combination hammer/chainsaw, a mislabeled jar of nitric acid, and a swiss army knife, and half complete and half accurate documentation of 2/3rds of it.

You like MVC because you've basically spent the time to find all the good bits and just pretend all the tons and tons of horrible bits don't exist. Good for you, but that also means anyone new to basically any MS tech has to spend years learning where all the mines are buried, when instead they could use basically any other tech stack in the world and not have to worry about navigating a mine field in the first place.

Oh, and just for fun every 5 years or so MS deprecates that particular mine field, lays a new one, and forces everyone to go play in the new minefield instead.
Nvidia's G-Revolution