skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original Russian report is typically fractured by Google Translate:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

I think this is something where shipments specifically headed to Russia were targeted. But that's not to say it can't pop up elsewhere. [typo edit]
If nobody is buying into this, the most likely reason is precisely that it doesn't make any money because it doesn't provide enough excess value vs. what we already have to support any profit.

A guy can get up on stage and promise to save the world pretty easily. Investors, however, have to live in the real world where they actually have to manifest the promised tech. If they don't think they can, well, odds are they are correct.

Incidentally, cancer researchers aren't profiting off of human misery... they're profiting off of reducing human misery. Is there a better thing to profit off of? The ones you have to watch out for are the ones who wish to extend your misery for their own gains, but that's not required for profit, and in fact is often against their own long-term interests anyhow.
There won't be much unsecured stuff to connect to on the inside.
Try to import that pea.psd into Picozu and you will see the difference (no layer effects).
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> Humans suck at predicting stuff.

But surely humans beat randomness at many if not most tasks. This argument is not as much about whether we get sharper teeth or not, as it is about possibly saving a kid about a genetically inherited disorder. You may consider human suffering to be what defines humanity, but those who suffer most certainly don't.
DevOps treats me like a terrorist at a TSA checkpoint
How would a person bring cash into the country?
GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE!

Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies. And, even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail.
The OP is right that Vitamin D deficiency is common, and D3 supplementation is a good idea for almost everyone. It's super-easy, too; if you don't like taking it every day, you can actually take a big dose once a week because it's fat-soluble. (Vitamin D's fat-solubility means that there's a theoretical possibility of overdose, but in practice this almost never happens. You'd really have to go nuts with the dosage to be at risk.)

Last year, prior to beginning supplementation, I had my blood levels checked for Vitamin D (per the recommendation in Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Body). I was amazed to discover that my levels were at the low end of normal, despite a diet rich in Vitamin D and regular direct sunlight (including frequently wearing a "suntan shirt" to let in the necessary UV). (I live in Pasadena, which is sunny year-round.) After supplementing for a couple of months, a second blood test confirmed that my blood Vitamin D levels were in the ideal range.
I did FizzBuzz at an interview, years ago, using only addition and comparison. I mentioned, at the time, that years of 6502 assembler when I was a kid conditioned me to avoid multiplication and division whenever possible. My interviewers looked at me like I was crazy. Oh, well... >smile<
Maybe they should have shown a bunch of children around the iPad brainstorming enthusiastically on how the next move to program on the robot?
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There is no way that this attack method is profitable if the attacker is fronting the cost of manufacturing. This leads me to believe that this article is incorrect or fabricated, or that this is a seriously interesting attack on a iron manufacturer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awning

Awnings are perfect for this problem. In a pinch, Aluminium foil works as well.
I prefer the Pi Day celebration hack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNPisyK43Lc
Common Lisp is a modern Lisp with static typing, too. For example, here's compile-time type checking performed by the SBCL compiler:

* (defun test (x)
(declare (fixnum x))
(the string x))
; in: DEFUN TEST
; (THE STRING X)
;
; caught WARNING:
; Derived type of X is
; (VALUES FIXNUM &OPTIONAL),
; conflicting with its asserted type
; STRING.
; See also:
; The SBCL Manual, Node "Handling of Types"
;
; compilation unit finished
; caught 1 WARNING condition
STYLE-WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::TEST in DEFUN

TEST
* (test 1)

debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR:
Value of X in (THE STRING X) is 1, not a STRING.

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

(SB-C::%COMPILE-TIME-TYPE-ERROR (1) STRING #<unavailable argument> ((THE STRING X) X))
0] 0
You did not watch the accompanying YouTube video where these things are mentioned as being needed and could be accomplished using auxiliary automation techniques.

EDIT: They also show visual demonstrations of techniques as to HOW this would be accomplished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbJP8Gxqog
Now only if I could find suck hacks in physics.
Careful with the "in your shell of choice". Someone, perhaps me, will inevitably point out PowerShell, the shell without a proper Terminal app, but with native support for .NET-based programming languages and libraries, including useful well, let's call them "macros" because I've forgotten the official term. http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/06/powershell-command-li... It's really quite powerful, but it's a shame the Terminal tools haven't kept pace on Windows. (And yes, I know of cmdemu, chocolate, but it's not the same as built-in.)
The problem, as I see it, may be that only one or two entities have a legal right to build and operate that last mile of connectivity. So, customers are "owned" by one telco and one cable company (maybe two cable companies in some places). Those companies are territorial, even when they are legally bound to share the line.

But, yes, more regulation would be one way to solve it. Another way to solve it may have been to not create massive monopolies on that last mile so many years ago, or not allowing those monopolies to simply print money at the expense of consumers and any competitors. I'm not sure about which is the better approach. But, the current approach of government picking one company to destroy all others is a truly awful middle ground.
Yes, it's enforced by the government. Same goes for those travelling abroad. You get a maximum of $2500 per year for travel.
The govt office in charge of the control is called cadivi.
> What makes you think you know what is better for your off-springs than random chance?

The same thing that makes me think that I am better at building a bridge than random chance -- while the correlation between my predictions of the results of my actions and the actual results of my actions is not perfect, it is definitely greater than zero (which is what the correlation would be from random chance).

> If we all had sharp teeth and powerful bite, we wouldn't drive cars, we'd chase furry animals and bite them with our powerful jaws. Occasionally stopping to hang around in the trees and eat fruits.

[citation needed]

Humans already are better long-distance runners than just about any other animal [1]. As a general rule, we don't spend all day running, despite the fact that we probably could.

[1] http://discovermagazine.com/2006/may/tramps-like-us
Because of the aforementioned problem where it takes 100MB and the better part of an hour just to record a new snapshot when literally nothing has changed since the previous snapshot. Deduplicating gets rid of that 100MB overhead, and being able to explicitly do it with hard links instead of having to rely on the filesystem to discover the duplication on its own takes care of most of the running time overhead.
In IE11?
This seems to have been broken for me unless I add DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes to my .zshenv. I'm not sure if it was an update to ZSH, oh-my-zsh, or Ubuntu that causes the issue.
I'm having a hard time believing that they detected some of the microchips by comparing the listed shipment weights with the actual shipment weights.
I really appreciate you posting this information. I had considered Gandi in the past and would not have read their ToS; I'll stay away now.

As for our friend jjblue, you can safely ignore his citation trolling. The rest of us appreciate the warning. There's no point in waiting for victim #1 before telling your friends about danger. Thanks again!
I was actually looking at building a site like that a few weeks back. Discovered the .io was taken and was what I wanted to build. Thanks.
> What do you do when you have to use a computer without your customization?

As someone who has used an increasingly customized *nix command-line environment for decades, I'll say that this corner-case occupies a vanishingly small amount of my time. I just doesn't make sense to optimize for it. I currently use zsh, which is frequently not available by default. This implies installing a package, and I don't see how that's any worse for fish. I freely admit that my workflow as a developer vs. (e.g.) a sysadmin provides a greater degree of relative control over my day-to-day working environments.

I do have to work in non-customized environments from time to time. I find this no worse than using Someone Else's Keyboard -- maybe there's some clumsiness at first, but you soon get the hang of it. If you switch environments frequently, the switch becomes unnoticeable.

That said, I've also put continual effort into portability and ease of deployment of my customizations over the years. I can run one command on a networked host and have my rcfiles land there and be ready to use. This is pretty easy to do with a git-managed homedir repo, especially on a provider like GitHub where you can fall back to grabbing tarball if needed. I currently use vcsh[1] & mr[2] to manage my repos -- for that I use a bootstrap script hosted in an orphan branch of the same repo.[2] An efficient setup process of this type also makes it easy to integrate with provisioning tools, e.g. Puppet, Chef, or even just shell scripts.

[1] https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh

[2] http://myrepos.branchable.com/

[3] https://github.com/jwhitley/vcsh-root/tree/bootstrap
The problem is that all of those are things that would affect other people, not you. You may be perpetuating racism, classism, etc. by genetically tailoring your baby, but if you're in a position to do something like that odds are you're not in a group that's disadvantaged by racism or classism anyway. So you hurt others, but from a pure self-interest perspective the only impact on you is that your baby is even more advantaged than it otherwise would have been.

Self-interest is the prime motivator of human behavior, so if we want to avoid a future like this there will either have to be objections that speak to it directly ("It's too expensive!" "There's a 5% chance of horrible complications!" etc.), or laws will have to be made to prevent it in the same way that we prevent people from other forms of self-interested behavior that hurt society at large.
His SAD is due to a lack of sunlight and not cold temperatures.

I also need sunlight. When I lived in Denver I loved the winters. It got cold, but the sun was shining bright almost every day. It was refreshing to walk out in a nice chill while the sun blazes down. I've talked to friends who lived in the midwest and it sounded horrible. Months of overcast and cole weather. No thanks.
Congrats to Abhi and the rest of the Airo team! Nice work guys.
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"You mean, set national standards and leave the implementation to the states within those standards, with feds only stepping in if the states refuse or fail?"

No, that's a modern bastardization of the idea, where the Federal government claims to be following the letter of the idea but steps in with all sorts of central mandates and requirements even so. They've got some pretty good rackets going on with "optional" compliance to programs tied to truckloads of money, too.

Federalism would be... let the states handle it. No Federal requirements. No Federal interests. No Federal laws. If Vermont wants full on state health care with no private option and Texas wants full private healthcare with little more than disability assistance, let them. Washington DC interferes with neither.

The PPACA hasn't got a drop of Federalism in it.

Whether you consider that a problem is up to you. I'm just explaining that it doesn't have any.
So, you, as venture-capital-extraordinaire, spend all your money on helping the poor. Maybe you do better in the short term. But what do you do once that money's gone? There's no long-term in that picture and charity for developing nations is not a short-term endeavour.

Meanwhile, trivial enterprise and consumer products may not be going to uplift a country any time soon, but they can be recursed upon, and the technologies involved in those industries - which have a wide range of potential applications, including some charitable potential - continue to advance.

It doesn't make any sense to build a system based on what you would like people to be rather than what they are. And for better or worse people's relatively direct purchasing of utilions for others tends to be both fairly rare and inefficient.

#

I'd be interested to hear how you think CAM and computing technology would have evolved without funding for 'stupid consumer gambles,' and the need to compete with other manufacturers in that regard.
What is it about an open connection that would drain the battery? It's not like it has to consume a thread in a busy wait.
fizz = cycle ["","","Fizz"]
buzz = cycle ["","","","","Buzz"]
fizzbuzz = zipWith (++) fizz buzz
fb = zipWith (\n cs -> if cs == "" then show n else cs) [1..] fizzbuzz
mapM_ putStrLn fb
> the woman

...minor child...

> was deported because that false name was from someone in Colombia.

My mother-in-law is a US citizen whose actual name is shared by lots of people in Mexico (and probably quite a few in Spain. And probably a number in other spanish-speaking countries. Its a common name...)

Does that mean if police pick her up for whatever reason, and she gives her actual name, she should be deported?

Or, maybe, should deportation have a slightly higher threshold than "the name you've given happens to match the name of at least one citizen of a foreign country, so we are going to deport you to that country on that basis."
"The Zuckerberg Files is an open-access public archive" ... "Scholars wishing to gain access to the full archive should email access@zuckerbergfiles.org with their name, affiliation, and a brief description of the research project or purpose for which the materials will be put."

Open-ish.
I have had the same discussion with my team mates who use ubuntu. Me being a front end dev and needing graphic tools, means i have to use mac. But to get the ENV up an running it took a while. However, now the environment is exactly the same. When they do apt-get I do brew install. I really miss your point regarding "ability to solve problems effectively" .
If you are proficient with a mac, and you can achieve the same tasks more quickly, then setting it up is the least of your problems.
I agree with what you said regarding windows, as getting the tools up to date there is a nightmare, but OSX is really up there, and works fine. No real reason to run everything in a VM and waste memory
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>Its the old tradeoff between using long-winded existing constructs or paying a complexity cost and forcing the reader to learn a new abstraction or DSL.

Yeah, that's definitely true. When macros are used to add to the language, you're acting, by definition, as a language designer. You can make good or bad choices. I normally think it's good to eliminate boilerplate (e.g., the lambda calls in the examples) and to simplify things (passing bare symbols instead of strings). To my eye, the new coder actually has to learn less than if they had to remember to wrap with lambdas, or use strings: you code just like other parts of the language. And that's a win.

However, bad choices with macros can definitely be made. Some people consider the loop macro ugly, because it's a hairy ball of special cases with new syntax.
As I understand it, this isn't really a money loop.

The 6:1 exchange rate really only applies when you're a tourist going to pesos from dollars through a bank. You could also go to pesos from dollars at 10:1 on the black market. However, going the other way is really difficult -- to exchange at a lowly 6:1, you will need to have a receipt indicating that you purchased at 6:1 and to fill out some paperwork... and even then, there are no guarantees. With bitcoin, you'd run into the same problem since nobody will sell bitcoin at the implied government exchange rate.

For this to actually work as a money loop, you'd need to find someone willing to sell dollars at 6:1, which is unlikely since they would be losing money.
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Yep, the gulf stream.

Being in California I was very surprised on a trip to Kansas City once, went from beach weather to snow drifts. A warm ocean nearby makes a huge difference.
Good comment, but I wouldn't say never.

As an instructor of programming on a university level, I like to think that I have enough sense to know that particularly for "trivial" assignments, some similarity is expected. However, as I've encountered, a great deal of similarity over multiple assignments (and exams) between two students of the same nationality who sit together in class provides additional evidence of plagiarism.

So, yes, I agree a single data point of similarity is insufficient, but a history of similarity, particularly in complex projects, becomes more damning.
Looking forward to the torrent. Tragic that this is what we are reduced to as a society.
Deserting the Digital Utopia
Awesome solution, but it breaks if you change the iteration range.
The eye-color part of the article must not be factually correct, unless there have been some very recent developments in understanding genetic influence on eye color. Craig Venter, the first human being to have his genome sequenced, pointed out in interviews[1] that even after the sequencing, no one could tell for sure from the sequence that he has blue eyes. Just in the last day, an article following up on last week's American Society of Human Genetics conference[2] pointed out that genetic studies have continually overpromised and underdelivered, and there are still many very basic issues of human genetics that are embedded in deep uncertainty.

As the article kindly submitted here points out, people are already demanding designer babies. They used to try to get those by looking for sperm donations from the Nobel laureate sperm bank,[3] but that project had disappointing results, and the sperm bank is no longer in operation.

Researchers on human genetics I know locally (who analyze the data from the Minnesota Twin Families Study) use a photograph of two identical (monozygotic) twins from Germany[4] (from a different source, I think the original medical journal source, rather than the blog I link to here) to show that although genes are certainly very influential on human development, environment, including differing choices of lifestyle, matters too.

[1] http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2007/09/11/cra...

[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_genom...

[3] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4700156

[4] http://thesameffect.com/check-out-identical-twins-otto-and-e...
I feel like I may be able to give you some perspective. I took an idea to Startup Weekend in June and our team won 1st place and crowd favorite. I've been working on the startup full time ever since and my team has been part time on top of their day jobs. It's been 4 months and we're in our 3rd incubator / accelerator program.

I can tell you finding part-time consulting gigs is just as distracting as having a full-time job. Figure out a way to pay your bills and decrease living expenses for about 6 months.

I can also tell you that you shouldn't try to do it alone. Find someone else on your team (or outside) that's willing to go all in on the idea too.

Congrats on the win!
Wouldn't an SOC + battery in an iron be fairly prone to overheating issues?
Dude where’s my API?
That's what I think of, sure, when I think of where programmers could best use their talent for the advancement of mankind. Not curing cancer or AIDS with protein folding, not probing the mysteries of the universe at the LHC, but finding new ways to make people click on ads.
Blaming regulations for your decision to get a crappier warranty or SLA than you could demand elsewhere is like blaming your car manufacturer for the availability and price of fuel.
Meanwhile, the amazing Nokia, was traded by bananas (7B) , while Twitter has a market value of 11B ?? WTF
This is pretty funny. I doubt its authenticity but confess that when I worked at Intel (a looooooooooong time ago) and Andy Grove suggested there would be an 8086 in every Toaster I thought he was nuts, because the minimum system was about 4 sq inches (I had one as a demo board Intel sold) and who would want a CPU in a toaster anyway? A timer and a heating element, how hard is that?

Flash forward to today when playing with an Electric Imp[1] and noting that you don't need 4 sq inches, you don't even need 1 sq inch and you can network the damn thing.

So it certainly becomes feasible to do this sort of thing but I'm unable to construct a non-targeted reason why it would be worthwhile to do it. Now if you said, "A shipment of toasters headed for the US Embassy" or something where there was some actionable intelligence to be gained by snooping the network, perhaps. but randomly? Not so much.

[1] http://electricimp.com
Well written. This was the first algo we were taught in our algorithms design course from CLRS. Blew my mind at that time.
Yeah, is the problem here that Obama has a policy of aggressively pursuing deportation proceedings, or that the deportation system has too low of a standard of proof that the individual affected is actually subject to deportation?
Click to inspect is in, they even have an example of using it in the linked introduction to developer tools. [1]

/works at Microsoft, but not on IE

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2013/07/29/debugging-and-...
Analysing and improving consistent hashing
I think this is a very big conversation for me to fire off a quick HN comment. I'm mostly ignorant about this, and my Christian faith probably clouds my judgement, so it's difficult to say whether I'm being objective and rational.

However, I'm not convinced that medical science is there yet, so my child is just an iteration for big pharma. Perhaps we produce a whole generation of intelligent children who develop Alzheimer's when they're 25. I realise that argument is made against every new technology (especially medical), but making an active choice somehow makes me culpable and it would be harder to live with it.

Also, there's the idea of what happens if this becomes universal. Since some traits seem universally desirable, all parents will choose to grant them. So if everyone is given the genes to be massively intelligent, is that a good thing?

Then there's the quality of life argument, which makes me deeply uncomfortable. Essentially, choosing a fully-sighted embryo over a partially-sighted one implicitly says "partially-sighted people are likely to have lower quality of life than fully-sighted ones", and that sounds wrong both ethically and practically.

This is a really difficult debate, though. Put in the hypothetical situation of having to choose, I guess I would end up choosing the best possible embryo, but I'd rather not have to make the choice to begin with.