skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd prefer this discussion continue on this site rather than the other, if you've no preference. ;)

>The value offered by religion has absolutely no bearing on the truthfulness of the religion
I don't disagree, but I argue that the value it offers is more important than the absolute truth of every ideology. Faith, by definition, transcends evidence. If that's not OK with you that's fine, but I also doubt that every word you've ever uttered was the complete and total truth. Also if you can causally link those statistics, I'd love to read it. But from where I'm sitting, I see only correlation.

The fact that religion has been used to cover atrocities does not mean either that they were caused by religion nor that they would not have happened without religion. As evidence I point to atrocities divorced of religion.

I am not fit to debate the problem of evil, but my point again is that this isn't a silver bullet for atheism. There are faiths or interpretations of faith that circumvent the issue entirely, so I don't view it as an overly effective argument.

I can't debate the aspects of the qur'an because I, you know, respect others' beliefs, but for the Biblical aspect I'll quote something that another commenter on hn brought up:

>Joseph Campbell: "These bits of information from ancient times [myths], which have to do with the themes that have supported man's life, built civilizations, informed religions over the millennia, have to do with deep inner problems, inner mysteries, inner thresholds of passage. And if you don't know what the guide signs are along the way you have to work it out yourself. "
>See http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/perspectives1.html
Very few people read the Bible literally. To pretend that they do is the essence of strawmanning.

>I get the feeling that the author feels it's ok to reject the scientific account
N-no? Why would I think that. I don't defend people who deny scientific fact. But again, it's fallacious to think that that represents the whole, or even the majority, of religious folk.

>Unlike Jesus, I don't think we should enact thought-crime legislation
Tipping your hand a little bit there. I don't ever remember Jesus saying "Let's not let others have freedom of thought."

Again, I DO NOT advocate ignoring science for the sake of religion. I never said that, and your and others' persistent insinuation that I am saying this is exactly the sort of behaviour that motivated me to write that in the first place.
Yamakasi is one of the Korean screen makers.

I bought 2 Yamakasi 30" screens. The design of the case meant that the DVI plug, when inserted into the socket, would exert sufficient force on the socket to permanently damage it after a few months (which is what happened to me).

On the 2nd Yamakasi, my father and I manually cut a channel for the cable into the plastic to prevent the 2nd screen becoming unusable in the same way as the first.

In the meantime Yamakasi stopped making that model (I guess 6 months is a long time) and I was forced to buy a different brand. Guess what? Same poorly designed case! Plus the electronics are different and, having very cheap components, it has since burnt out some small components, rendering that screen inoperable. I emailed the seller asking if a replacement PCB could be purchased. No answer.

For those keeping score: I have bought 3 Korean 30" screens. Of which 1 is still working after 6 months. And that one only still works because of modifications made to it.

At the time, the other Jacques active on HN (Mattheij) gently remonstrated me for gambling on the huge discount I was getting vs Dells or HPs. I now wish I could take all my smugness back from that point in time and bottle it for sale to Harvard MBA students.

My next purchases will probably be smaller Dells, to be arranged in a portrait configuration.
Morally--Comcast has abused their customers for years. It's
time to bust up their monopoly. Morality, trust, and honestly have steadily declined each decade, at least in
my eyes. Just because it's legal doesn't make it O.K.
I'll repeat, just because it's legal doesn't make it O.K...
Nexus 5: 69.17 x 137.84 x 8.59 mm [1]

Nexus 4: 68.7 x 133.9 x 9.1mm [2]

It's wider, taller but half a mm thinner.

[1] http://www.google.com.au/nexus/5/
[2] http://www.google.com.au/nexus/4/
Yup. But even that takes a long time to run in Postgres if you got millions of rows. I usually run User.last.id - User.first.id, and that usually gives me the # of rows (give or take)
Just a tip: Make sure you are logged into your Google account. Until I logged in it was showing as "Out of Stock".

32gb black was available when only the 16gb white was available previously.

Also note that mine is a Google Play Dev Account, which may or not affect availability.
This also means that programmers can document what they require, and eventual standards can emerge, which would be a good thing.
Okay, I appreciate that. People generally refer to me as “he”, and I usually don't say anything, but sometimes it bothers me. But that's neither here nor there. I appreciate that you made an effort at least.
It's not just four stacks (or more, because the article also mentions Apple Macs and BSD) that you have to "mess up". You also have to mess them up in such a way that you can exploit them without a disk even being mounted. That four/five/six stacks are all exploitable to this extent because of buffer overruns (or similar) seems implausible.
They vary voltage in response to a magnetic field. Among other things they're used to detect current in a wire without interrupting the circuit.
uh; if you are in russia you are subject to russian law..
I would. The pertinent point then becomes; is this for every content provider, or just a single one?

And also; Does the service then track me? Am I replacing a known evil for another?
So it's perfectly okay for the government to play the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" and other nonsense games, but here it is "emblematic of how annoying nerds like us are when it comes to public policy"?

I also really don't think a goddamn website stands in the way of affordable universal health care. Implement a Weberian bureaucracy and have it run on good old paper and mail, that is how its done everywhere else, and by the looks of this IT disaster we'd come out on top, jobs and everything!
Measures ambient magnetic fields, presumably to work with accessories such as cases or docks, etc.
The short answer is: you.

Obviously there is no objective universal criteria for legitimacy or morality or anything like that. It will come down to what your personal politics are, a fact which will itself be hugely influenced by your material position in the web of power relations that structures your social reality.
Anonymous hacked Straits Times for "blasphemous lies"; demands apology
I say that an old washboard and a bucket of nails can be the equivalent of an orchestra. A computer is no different an instrument in a musicians hands than any other instrument.
No. In a competitive marketplace (not saying Comcast is operating in a highly competitive marketplace in Seattle particularly) the corporation is incentivized to do what is most pleasing for its customers. And that's a good thing.

Unions aren't exactly geared toward the best interest of its members either, even though they pretend to be.
That painting hangs in pretty much every independent coffee shop and cafe in probably 50 countries.
Do you ship internationally? - Malaysia
Ironically enough, when I first saw this title I thought it was going to be a piece about the astronomical cost of living. Oh well...
I am not talking about idiots. I am talking about malicious users. The issue is a security issue. What happens if you have a windows server attached to a local printer and I upload a file called LPT1.html which contains malicious postscript instructions?

You can't have security without a set of common assumptions regarding allowable input. This occurs on any shared computer system.
A harpsichord pretty much fails your "test" for "instruments with souls".
I would rather people not pipe to shells at all. It doesn't sound very secure. But if you have to do it, there are ways to avoid half-executed scripts:

foo() { ... }
So basically the upper class uses iPhones, and that is bad because...?
Actually, no. Again, read the book. It doesn't work that way. The more competent workers will want to rewrite everything setting the whole project back. Many times, staying with the incompetent crew is better even if it means things move slow as molasses and the final product is buggy as hell.
Well when I look around my room and see the things that I use: Television, computer, telephone, lights, etc... are things that I purchased from corporations.

Whatever their interests are, I'm certainly not knee-jerked opposed to them since I like their products and I like the effects that companies with good products provide to the economy.

At very least I think that corporations serve as a contrast to the inordinate megaphone that politicians, celebrities, and the mainstream media have.

Really, I don't think that the protestations against corporations contributing to the political process are all that well thought-out. Should Michael Moore no longer be allowed to make his documentaries? They're blatant political commercials. How about Sean Penn? Should he be muzzled from being a political spokesperson since he has such an inordinate amount of influence vs an individual citizen?

How about news organizations? Every single one out there has some sort of political bias. Should they be allowed to blatantly support political parties and candidates?
That would be great, but it would not have done a thing against the most recently revealed NSA attack vector. NSA compromised the private fiber intranet connecting Google's datacenters. Perhaps those should have been encrypted but at any rate, client-server encryption isn't going to guard against that sort of attack. It's really appalling.
What I can tell you is that these engineers believe that the NSA does not intentionally spy on Americans. This is something that the NSA constantly tells itself. They have various controls and procedures to minimize the data of US persons. They go to meetings about how not to spy on US persons.

Do any of the Snowden revelations contradict these beliefs? Having the capability to spy on millions of Americans' Gmail accounts is not the same as unchecked use of that capability. It's interesting that in all the leaks, we haven't (to my knowledge) been given a single example of true abuse of access to intercepts that wasn't caught and punished. Were they just really careful with that information while careless with everything else Snowden made off with?
I've also played wooden spoons, a TB-303, TR-808, TR-909, Classical Violin, Appalachian fiddle, Classical Cello, Classical Piano, Piano Moderne, Three kinds of Organ, Several Synths, Tracker, Marimba, Xylophone, 북, 장고, Kazoo, Slide Whistle, Pot and Pan, 5-gallon drum, Hang, Recorder (modern and classical), flute, penny whistle, Appalachian dulcimer, Hammered Dulcimer, 꽹과리, 자바라, and on and on and on. I'm not even uniquely qualified to comment on this because music is a universe, not a spectrum.

If you can't create beautiful, soulful, music on a Kawai MP10, or even a bag or sand, then I question your authority on music. You rely on expensive instruments as crutches to fill in your musicality, when you need to develop your own. Start with simple instruments and when you can put soul into a pair of wooden spoons then you can move on to more expressive instruments.

Somebody who can't perform with soul on a Kawai MP10, then any discussion is more than meaningless because you've limited soulful musicality to such a tiny fraction of music and instruments in the world that you definition is effectively useless.
Obamacare enrollments got off to very slow start, documents show [video]
I don't think Bunnie would contemplate replacing a $10 CPU and a $20 FPGA with an integrated one that costs $4K - $20K. :)
My standard joke is that Google's idea of a worldwide rollout is "Now including Oakland!"
Wow. That is the best example of regulatory capture I've ever seen.

I love the rationalization: "If there are too many hospitals many hospitals and doctors my recommend unnecessary hospitalization or overcharge existing patients to cover their overhead".

Amazing.
Where is my $500 25600 x 16000 30" monitor :)?
Hm. A 784kb PNG image downloaded on my phone when i tried to view that :(
I'm a little confused, in the US everyone (including the self employed, and I want to say people receiving unemployment) pay into social security but very few people in the tech industry expect to live on that alone, at best it would be a supplement to retirement savings.

So are you saying that instead of paying into a retirement insurance plan you are just going to depend on Hartz IV to support you in retirement?
More engineers make a project later. So this is bad news.
This is really smart of Google and Oracle. By lending their engineers over to Healthcare.gov, their engineers are going to get the best healthcare systems training possible. It's the best domain knowledge enhancement program available. Healthcare.gov is attempting something no other start up in the nation has the opportunity or capacity of accomplishing, because of the sheer scope of it.

If I worked in a healthcare start up I would be making every effort to get contracted.
Can you set it up? I've always been able to install the APK, but if you don't already have a GV number, it wants to send an SMS to a real phone number as part of the setup, and that number needed to be American.
How do countries in Europe blacklist someone who files for bankruptcy? Do they do background/credit checks upon company formation in some countries?
Good luck! I think "a" is ideal, but tough to find, I'm going with "b" for a while longer I think, because I don't even think that being a back-end developer for a place that is doing simple CRUD (99% of businesses) will be any better than what I have now.
How can we disrupt incumbent piracy inefficiencies?
The amount of projects that do this is absurd. People have been saying this for ages and nobody seems to listen. You could have all sorts of fun based on the user agent, as well: if it looks like a normal browser, send the harmless script. If it's curl or wget, prepend "echo 'I hope you are not going to pipe this into /bin/sh'; exit 1".

BTW: If you want ULTIMATE BRAVERY, you have to boot an arbitrary kernel over the internet: http://ipxe.org/ (scroll to the bottom, where it says `iPXE> chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php`)
Right. Related to this, I feel like a couple of frameworks are cheating on the plaintext test because they aren't actually testing string... serialization. They encode the "Hello, World!" string into bytes once, retain those bytes in memory, and send those bytes on each request just to avoid encoding the string again.

It's such a small, silly optimization. It doesn't bother me because it's not going to affect the overall results much, but I do feel it's against the spirit of the test. That kind of thing would be prevented if we made the test echo a request parameter, as was suggested elsewhere in the comments.
EFF Asks Court to Review California's Warrantless DNA Collection Anew
Hacker leaves behind encrypted message after hack. Any clue?
this is the so-called encrypted message:

22 66 5e 7b a8 68 c9 0d f3 f0 47 c9 d2 e5 4a 33 02 be 20 f4 15 29 5e 7b 76 12 8d 5f 1f dd 59 44
I can imagine that's a very common scenario, but for a project as big as this one, and with people who are very used to working on massive projects, I would hope they wouldn't try and rewrite everything and would just try to get everything into a working and stable state.
Even at Google's scale, at this point, I think it's a negligible cost.
Are you going to be paying taxes this year? I don't know who people think pays for the NSA, but its the money we pay in taxes every year.

I encourage all americans on here who will owe taxes for 2013 to take a stand and stop paying taxes until the FISC is dissolved as a matter of principle.

It's ridiculous the number of HN members ready to cast the first stone because they judge someone else's leverage to be sufficient that they should be taking a stand. It's the exact same phenomenon that gives us zero approval for congress yet astronomical rates of incumbency every election.

If you aren't willing to withhold tax payments, clearly you at least recognize there is some line at which you can actively support a government that is engaged in something very wrong because the benefit of not doing so would be tiny compared to the harm. Now imagine that instead of funding a tiny, tiny portion of the government, your support would instead be helping millions of people to find insurance coverage.

- We cannot allow our rights to be ignored.

- There are millions of people forgoing medical treatment every day because they don't have insurance.

- There are thousands of people going into personal bankruptcy every day because they don't have insurance.

Luckily we can work on fixing more than one thing at once. The idea that we should ignore one until the other is fixed is ludicrous, and I would argue a net immoral act if put into practice.
This reminds me a bit of Russell's teapot[1]. Basically, you're saying, imagine if there existed “certain information”, which nobody can tell me about, but if they could, it would change my beliefs? Okay. Given what I do know, I think the chances of these programs being legitimate are about the same as the chances that there is “between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit”.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
There must be a lot of us for this question to receive so many up-votes. I was expecting maybe 2 or 3 at most!
The .net benchmarks, the http listener one in particular, uses threadpool tuning that actually hurts performance.

In my own testing there was another ~60% performance to gain with better tweaks.
I always imagined using dual 27" screens like that too. However, I have found that I prefer to stack a tall-ish browser window and terminal on the portrait monitor and keep 2+ panes of code on the landscape monitor.
AT&T is already exploring a potential Vodafone takeover
I think it's pretty easy to separate - this is a place where people like patio11 might tell you why you're doing it wrong, that's the value of HN. If all you want is traffic you're just wasting this opportunity.

Not to mention this is bad traffic for most purposes. There was a site that posted followup numbers the other day with I think 70 trials and 1 paid customer out of 15,000 visitors... you can't build a company that way.
NSA ex-contractor Edward Snowden to start website job in Russia, lawyer says
Distributed Systems Archaeology
How is that going? All I could find were some old blog posts and this wiki: http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page
What's the difference between piping to a shell and running a random executable or installing a random ppa? All 3 could do massive harm to your system.

One difference is that piping to a shell is a lot easier to inspect. So you could easily argue that piping to a shell is safer.

Heck, even downloading a source tarball and compiling it yourself isn't any safer unless you actually inspect that source. And who does that?
The Hebrew term "Yom" translated "day" is mentioned before the sun and moon.

Also, there's an unspecified amount of time between Genesis 1:1, when "God created the heavens and the earth" and 1:2, which says "But the earth became waste and emptiness."

These two clues tell me the text is not meant to offer any information about dates and times.
Yes, we do ship to Malaysia. Shipping does cost an extra $5, though.
In a large minority of states, they can't. In North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, and 16 other states[1], state law prohibits any form of municipal broadband, including acting as a common carrier.

The reasoning is that municipal networks can be (but usually aren't) funded by local tax dollars so it represents a theoretically unfair advantage relative to private corporations. I find that reasoning specious especially considering I can look out my window in Texas and see a city water tower standing right alongside a private water supply company's tower, yet both departments are funded solely by ratepayers, not out of a general tax fund.

1: http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Stricker1.pdf
and costs 200M$+

because, you know, static HTML and some CRUD/lookup logic behind-the-scenes is just that hard
Just FYI, Hall Effect sensors are pretty actually old school[1], simple sensors. The kind of thing that's easy to play with via an Arduino, for example[2].

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect
[2] : http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/HallEffect
It's pointless to jump to another webmail provider. You will still be at someone else's mercy.

A VPS is better, but only slightly better, for the same reason.

If you really care about privacy, buy a low-end server and install Roundcube (or Mailpile when it's ready for production).
This had me suspicious. The methods of propagation ranged from the difficult-but-plausible all the way into Stieg Larsson territory. And all the Google results pointed to Dragos Ruiu. There was no other researcher who had encountered or studied this malware; all the major ones were just saying "check out Dragos Ruiu's research, this is serious" or similar.

For now the signs point to the very first case of computer Morgellons. I suspected at first that this was an elaborate troll in order to convince the netsec community to get serious about fact-checking and research-doing before propagating BS, but the theory that he is paranoid is beginning to sound increasingly likely the more I find out.
You mean compared to the outstanding amount of privacy and security we have from private corporations like AT&T and Verizon, who repeatedly assure us that none of the data we use for personal business is ever wholesale disclosed to or split off to a shadowy government agency?

Never mind that this is dark fiber capacity being leased by a private company. They're using the glass in the ground and attaching their own equipment to it.
Don't quit until you have an offer. Start giving the interviews which surprise you little bit. Interviews are mostly different from what you will be working on.
I am on the same boat. My case is other way around. Trying to do a transition from backend to front end.
Best of Luck.
Vert.x was in our original batch of tests (round 1). At the time, its documentation showed that using the persistor and event bus was the standard intended mode of communicating with a database. If someone can point us to documentation showing that is no longer how you're supposed to use a database with Vert.x, we'd be happy to accept a pull request that changes the test. Otherwise, I think it's valid as is, and not misleading.
It's basically a magnetometer aka a digital compass. It's particularly useful when orienting your map the right way.
Zynq, the Xilinx equivalent of this cost from 50 u$s up to u$s 4000. Also the Zynq was already available by the time Bunnie started his project, that's why I never like it.
OMG, do not go back to school. As for "I have some things I can point to in my work experience [...] but not that much.", just put your spare time stuff in the cover letter (or under experience as "Personal project") and the employers you want will recognize a True Enthusiast(tm).
Somalia is actually very tech-savvy and entrepreneurial considering 20+ years without govt. Most services are provided by the private sector and NGOs. As there is no Central Bank, considerable amount of money comes into the country through transfers from the Somali diaspora. Somalis have disrupted disruption!

There are so many problems in this country and startups can definitely contribute to solving some of these problems. Piracy just like any other organised crime is sophisticated and has international players.

In case you are wondering, I am a Somali. And no, I am not a pirate.
I believe corporations are recognized as people due to Citizens United.