skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're assuming that what we call psychopaths have no empathy and no guilt. I realize that this is the stock definition, but I find it unconvincing and dangerously misleading.

Humans are good at rationalization, and bad at self-reporting. "No guilt" and "no empathy" can be explained by bravado and self-delusion.

Instead, my model goes something like this: there's a spectrum of selfishness. The people we label psychopaths have certain selfish desires that outweigh (for them, sometimes) your human rights. E.g. in an extreme case, an abuser's desire for sexual gratification is more important to them than your right to not be molested.

Dialing it back, consider people who text while driving, or who rush through a yellow light when they could easily stop. In that moment, they aren't seeing the vehicles around them as being occupied by people with all the same rights as themselves. They see vehicles ... nuisances ... obstacles to be routed around. They temporarily lack empathy.

If you go looking for it, there's a lot of sociopathic behaviour on display in daily life, from people who we would never label psychopaths, nor completely lacking empathy.

So, I think that psychopaths are people who are extremely selfish in some specific ways, but that they are not fundamentally "other".
Definitely true a bitcoin-related app is going to have a much greater percentage of hitting people with bitcoin wallets than, say, a crack for photoshop. But, the point being that any software from an unknown or untrusted source should be installed with great caution.
>Maybe rootkits and malware can infect that?

If you can infect the BIOS, it seems pretty likely. On the other hand, if you can infect the BIOS, why bother?
> I mean, the dual-use of a as both anchor and link has always been bizarre.

In the original Ted Nelson "Xanadu" conception of hypertext (which inspired Berners-Lee and others at the time), all links were bi-directional.

We now use <a name=""> as a target and <a href=""> as a source but the original idea was that every link would be both a target and source – you'd link from one page to another then travel through the bi-directional link backwards and resume the original page.

Yeah, it didn't happen because it was grossly impractical didn't serve any real-world purpose. But that's why they share the same tag.
> It is kind of ridiculous how the police manage to damage their computers. As people in positions of power, they really need better training on security and handling equipment. I've seen Toughbooks with severe physical damage

They probably just don't care because they're not paying for it themselves. A construction manager told me once that the rate at which his workers' phones were breaking dropped significantly when the workers were made to pay for the new phones themselves.
Looks interesting. I see you build on webkit among other things -- what are the messages? json docouments? Any provision for attachments? Any range for size of messages (eg: a 700mb attachment -- would that make sense with this)?
most therapists are utter garbage...

I don't have data on "most" therapists, and neither do you, but some therapists can immeasurably change your life for the better.

As for the cost, would you rather work on your inner life (which might bring professional success) or buy that new BMW? Only you can make that decision.
Hhahaha - come on Matt... when Heaven's Gate was doing their search spamming, Larry was posting this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.java/aSPAJO0...
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Wow! Does anyone know more about the author Vijay D.? Is this the person: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vijayd/
GoldieBlox viral video turns tables on little-girl princess fantasy
My pretend empathy and guilt is as good as the real thing.
The starting point is to google:
cacioppo loneliness <smoking>

These searches turn up a bunch of widely-cited papers.
After trying it, the worst part has to be the fact that it lives in an extension. It takes 1-2 seconds to render the command box, which is a huge perceptible difference for any Alfred/Launchy/Quicksilver user (all of which respond in milliseconds). I like the unique concept, though.
I've really got to force myself to learn these data structures. The circular, doubly linked list is one of my favorite structures, I oddly find myself reaching for it all the time. Which is funny, because when I first had to implement it at school, I thought I would never ever have a use for such a thing. But now, years later, I don't know what I'd do without it!

I wonder what I missed out on by glossing over things like red-black trees.
How Google Sold its Engineers on Management
How does this effect the ability users have to embed Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook posts? If someone embeds a Tweet that contains a photograph is that considered fine under Twitters policy?
I don't see any indication the troll is destroyed.
In poor countries, like India, you have no privacy at all. The overreaction, in rich countries like the US, is to buy privacy the richer you get.

But Americans take it to extremes, buying huge houses that allow them to go days without interacting with another person. In fact, not having to deal with other people is considered a desirable luxury. Sit at home and eat and watch TV and shop. I know people who drive (down their very, very long driveway) just to get to the front gate and mailbox.

The Indian situation is probably closer to our evolutionary roots.
Sorry, didn't mean to say it is any less of an offence.
Ask HN: Why hasn't Google put Android voice recognition into Chrome itself?
It would be useful and aid in accessibility to have voice recognition entry into any input field in Chrome.

Chrome's Google search box shows they can do it.

How can Joe Random Public convince them to do this?
Definitely - one of the all-time classics. Before the Euro, Saint-Exupéry used to be on French money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:50francstexupery.jpg

I hear that the new translation (from French to English) is not as smooth as the original.
For anybody confused, this is from Spock's death scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. Youtube link of the "kaaaahn" exclamation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54
Right after the mass suicide we took over DNS for heavensgate.com.

We pointed it at aolsucks.org until their t1 melted.

https://web.archive.org/web/19990429131245/http://www.aolsuc...

We took control of DNS for two weeks. http://linbsd.org/geek.mp3 details the rest of the fun we had from snafu.org.
The person who did the hack put himself as technical contact...

Glad we got away with it...
I think maybe I just had a nerd aneurysm.
Bakunin used the term in "Statism and Anarchy" (a literal translation from Russian). If the left doesn't talk about statism, I think it is a testimony to either their pragmatism or their shortsightedness. If one sees the state as the wielder of the monopoly on "legitimate" violence, then conceding to its existence makes it rational to expect that such violence will be used in the interest of one's self within the vaguely agreed constraints of moral conventions. Thus the poor can expect the taxing of some real estate as a way to keep housing affordable, while the rich can expect the police to keep the homeless off their property. True anarchists see a compromise in both instances, and a form of short-term progress in the first one.
1) it's baked into operating systems as features that most people don't use:

http://lifehacker.com/215764/hack-attack-make-your-macs-spee...

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/set-up-speech-re...

2) there's already an ecosystem of dictation / voice-assisted software that the overwhelming majority of the world doesn't want:

http://alternativeto.net/software/nuance-dragon-naturallyspe...

Joe Random Public can convince Google they want this as soon as someone convinces Joe Random Public they need this.
Also regarding cost, I found the cost with insurance to be very affordable. Perhaps my insurance is better than average, but I just paid the same copay I'd spend going to any other doctor ($20). And like going to any other doctor, when you're in pain (mental or physical), it's almost always best to just go and talk to them. The longer you delay the greater risk of it becoming worse, and a small fee to find out that you're ok or not ok is worth it. And when it's something like anxiety or depression, it can definitely get worse. Until you've accumulated more experience with it than anyone really wants (speaking from experience here), it's next to impossible to pull yourself out of it.
Grey skies for 7 months will do that.
Messages are JSON, limited to 65536 characters. (This is a limitation of AMP protocol in Twisted I am using). There are no attachments. This is a text–only protocol. I'm trying to minimize the bandwidth requirements of running Aether.
Don't forget non tail-call methods and funky parse_transforms!
GILT originally had the same approach but changed it as curiosity grew. By locking out purchasing to registered users only - my wording was vague. Allow users to see what you have, even if it's faded out with a box above showing users how to gain access to what they see behind the "Registration Wall." GILT did this best.

3. I didn't see it. Using lazy registration is better viewed through the lens of "What information can I use to grow." With Google+ , Twitter - what information does it give you to help you grow?

Facebook gives you a large amount of information about the user, their connections and more - but the network isn't as hip as it once was - therefore, make both forms of registration equally accessible.
- Promote connecting with Facebook after registration for those who chose not to in the beginning. Show the benefits such as connecting with friends, showing what's popular etc to help. Also, beware of relying on facebook data as email address are now "@facebook.com" by default and others have unreachable college email address. Give them the option to change their email address while keeping their Facebook UserID intact.

I'm a designer/developer. My email is in my bio, if you need help just hit me up.
So what? Right now the USPTO is approving hundreds of other useless patents of marginal value and expects the courts to figure out their validity. Without reform these wins are just morale boosters and nothing else.
So lets say you have to be so inept with computers that literally 98% of the population is more competent on them than you. If you hire 40 people, you have a better than 50% chance of getting someone that inept.
Satoshi carefully concealed his identity

Or her.
No. What the GP is quoting is "security bits" a measure explicitly designed to mitigate that difference. Bitcoin addresses have 160 bits of security, 128 bits if the public key is known. This is directly comparable to symmetric key sizes.
Wow, this looks like really cool stuff.
How can I put items in an XAML combobox/listbox using Ironpython code?
Not enough people care about this issue that your strategy would work. Plus the fact that they probably earn huge amounts of money that, to them, would more than compensate for their bad reputation.

Fighting and winning court cases seems like a much more productive strategy, though it is not something we can all engage in.

Also, as a matter of principle I don't think HNs title policy should be violated in order to spread a political message, no matter how much I agree with that message.
This is fantastic. My dad and I would go around yelling this all the time when I was growing up.
The reason she had to rely on awkward legal maneuvers involving the DMCA is that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives websites like this one pretty broad immunity from legal action over everything except copyright infringement and federal criminal offences. Basically, she had to resort to a copyright infringement lawsuit because copyright holders are the only group with more lobbying power than online service providers.

The courts have apparently interpreted it broadly enough to bar people from getting an injunction requiring the site to take down the offending content when they would otherwise have a basis for doing so. There's a whole bunch of entirely legal online extortion businesses built on this simple fact; the most prominent lawyer fighting these revenge porn sites - Marc Randazza, who advised her - is actually doing so on behalf of one of them and so has incentive to preserve Section 230 of the CDA.
Lose 10% of QoL or be murdered with probability of 0.00001%? Is there a probability point in which your answer changes?
Jquery.com down
hacker news should be renamed to 'bitcoin updates'
According to her Businessweek profile [1], she's the President of The Hillcrest Group, Inc. Anyone have any idea what the hell this company does? I can't find anything on Google.

[1] http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/pe...
Our vocab is usually a mix of US (we're next door) and UK (Commonwealth represent) but in this case most of us use the American "aluminum".
Most likely not.

The FOSS culture is not part of the gaming industry.
More than the early adopters, I am more worried about the unfair advantage that the creators of Bitcoin enjoy. IIRC, just one individual already owns ~25% of all bitcoins that will ever be mined!
No it isn't! Empathy and guilt are signals that you won't put a physical or social knife in my back!
There seems to be a lot of btc stuff on here. Would love to see a little more altcoin coverage.
>A vimium that doesn't suck

...is called Pentadactyl :)
>Steel is relatively easy to machine Aluminum can be even easier.

Mechanical engineer here. This depends heavily on the alloy you're dealing with. Many Aluminum alloys are so soft that they'll actually melt and subsequently bond to the tool surface when they're being cut/ground/sanded/etc.

Also Aluminum tends to have a very low shear strength which means it won't hold a thread the way most steels will - this is why you typically see rivets in aircraft skin.
As a recent college graduate in the US, this is exactly how I feel.

In college, there was very little privacy. I shared a room with a roommate, and that room was one of two in a shared suite, with two other people in the other room and a common bathroom shared by all four people.

I now share a 2br apartment with a roommate. I have a private bedroom, but a shared living room and kitchen.

My apartment happens to be in the shadow of a very rich neighborhood, and the grandest homes here are secluded far off the road, often completely invisible to passersby, hidden behind dense foliage. They signal their existence to you through their formidable and ostentatious gates, but beyond that you have no glimpse of the private estate of the totally unknown and unseen owner. The owner has spent a vast sum of money--enough for most people to retire on, if not doubly or even triply so--just to build a completely private oasis in the heart of the city.

For a lot of people here, that is the end-game: make millions, then spend most of it hiding yourself from the rest of the world.
I agree that the argument that metals have intrinsic monetary value is rather strained. I tend to believe that the "metal has inherent value" mindset comes from the fact that you can take it anywhere in the world and you'll still be able to trade it for goods and services, which is not true of government-issued notes. That will also be the difference between silver and wampum, but it's entirely empirical; there's no theory that explains why one is inherently different from the other.

> Under such a system, silver would be used as currency because people would need to acquire enough to pay their taxes (and other metals e.g. gold, platinum, copper would not be used as currency).

This is false. Read some history.

> Once upon a time silver was used as currency, and I would say that it is no coincidence that back then silver was a way to pay taxes (among other things).

The history of Chinese taxation (and currency) is quite interesting. I'm only minorly informed, but here are some things that seem relevant:

In what I'll call "phase 1" of the chinese economy, farmers conducted transactions in copper, merchants conducted transactions in silver, and taxes were assessed in kind (grain). This led to major logistical issues in collecting taxes; there was a point where the government announced a tax increase because the ships were arriving at the capital empty. (After a successful effort at reforming delivery, the increase was canceled!)

In "phase 2", farmers still used copper, and merchants still used silver, but taxes were assessed in silver. This was an enormous boon to the logistics of collection, but occasionally beggared farmers when the exchange rate swung against them.

At some point in all this, the government started issuing paper notes. (Notably, these were very common as "reciprocal gifts" to trade missions.) Merchants in the capital would accept these, but silver was far and away the dominant medium of exchange.

It all suggests to me that silver was a way to pay taxes for the same reasons that it was used as a currency, but not because the government needed to have silver available to spend; clearly it didn't. Instead, silver was fairly dense (in terms of buying power per unit volume) and didn't spoil like grain does.

I'm not clear on what you think the difference is between using silver by weight and using silver by face value. The whole idea of a mint is that coins have a standard weight. (Also potentially of interest: over the whole period I've described, China minted copper coins, but never silver ones. This didn't stop silver from being the metal of large-scale commerce and tax collection.)
* This is from the scene where Khan has caused Kirk (along with his son David, David's mother Carol, and his officers McCoy, Saavik, and Chekhov) to become apparently marooned without hope of rescue inside an artificially habitable cave on an otherwise barren planetoid. The scream is (well, maybe not "is", as the entire explanation... but at least in some large part, not entirely unintended, is) meant to sell the idea that the Enterprise is too badly damaged to survive Khan's coming attack, and communicate Kirk's supposed anguish at the fulfillment of Khan's plan to maroon Kirk on a dead planet, as Kirk had previously left him and his wife (a highly debatable sentiment [0]).

Spock is alive on the Enterprise, hiding on the other side of the planet from Khan, and dies later in the film, after retrieving Kirk and participating in the ensuing space battle. Right youtube link, though.

You might be confused by it's counterpart in 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' (also represented by this service), where it's said by Spock on Kirk's death.

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[0] but one which is explored more fully in a set of recent "prime universe" comics: http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Khan:_Ruling_in_Hell
Same way the mafia does it: with a front.

"Oh, sure, some guy came in and placed a huge catering order. $10,000 worth of food. Paid in BTC. I never saw him again."
"An armed society is a polite society." Not wisdom I personally agree with, but I'm kind of surprised to see HN dissent from the ideals of one of the patron saints of American libertarianism!
Google's search by image pretty much removes all privacy if you've publicly used a picture elsewhere on the web.
No it won't. There's lots of problems with doing that.

1) you need to -at least- check the disk for updates. On linux, you need to update access time. This will take time. In memory has no such obligations.

2) you still need to compress the file in memory. You can cache the result of the compression, but that won't buy you much. Specifically it'll be too large to ... see point 3.

3) Because in practice pages are generated from very little data (the template is -way- shorter than the filled in sent out text), the ability to work with the data in little pieces without allocating large buffers in memory will avoid trampling the cache, which is going to get you an insurmountable advantage.

And this is ignoring the elephants in the room:

1) Because it's a static file, you'll have to send more data to the client side in total to achieve the same result (e.g. look at how GWT does it, and even there).

2) Because you still want to show customers "their" page, you'll need several more roundtrips to achieve the same with javascript that you wouldn't need with server pages (Note how one of the GWT pagespeed optimizations is to dynamically generate the page initialization data using the webserver to avoid an initial roundtrip).

3) Pure static files lose you a lot of features. Comments, scores, ... none of that. That may or may not be acceptable.
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I don't know if it's immoral, but I find the idea highly distasteful.

But it probably depends on your view on religion. Some atheists consider religion to be vague platitudes and fairy tales, and so for them going to church is a meaningless act. I consider Christianity at least to be a very compelling and plausible worldview (although still false), and so for me going to church would feel very wrong. In fact I go out of my way to avoid participating in any religious acts, although I'm happy to visit a church that accepts tourists as tourists.
There is an incredible story of this nature on This American Life (this episode is very hard for parents to listen to, but very beautiful)

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/317/u...
RedBean, a lightweight configuration-less ORM for PHP
I am aware of the usage of like in the simile context. Thank you for your concern however.

Due to your link also using an IPO as an example, I was wondering if there are any currencies which have operated in such a manner, namely rewarding first adopters. This question arose because, as you astutely point out in your second paragraph, most new currencies are pegged to either their replacement or alternatively to a basket of commodities or external currencies. I don't believe that there are any currencies, which when launched, were purely floating without any bands or a peg.

Continuing the question, are there any currencies that are pegged to a basket which includes commodities? I'm not sure if you were referencing the Kuwaiti Dinar as one of those, or if you meant that people make and lose money speculating on it but in either case, it appears to only be tied to a basket of currencies.

Very sorry if my English was not clear enough to express my question in the initial format. In the future I'll be sure to elucidate the question better rather then assuming the reader is able to follow along with the simile from the parent comment.
This is the same sort of argument that functional languages keep making. It can work in certain manufactured examples, but in practice it falls on it's face because of the amount of data you need to keep track of, and the features you're throwing out are not optional for the vast majority of problems. Even then, doing this will blow up the data size by necessity and you'll lose time, first to cache trampling, then to virtual memory.

And frankly, the moment you hit virtual memory, you won't even get to 10 qps anymore without an SSD, and 100 with an SSD.

Static serving is a trivial optimization, and like all such things, it has huge qualifiers, and only works in the case it's intended for. It will only have a speed advantage in the obvious, simple case. As soon as you want to use any sort of dynamic element, extra round-trips will kill whatever advantage you thought you had. If you actually have large amounts of repeating elements (e.g. a table of some sort, article list, pagination, ... what have you), the extra memory usage will kill your advantage.
Aha, thanks for the clarification. It's good to know SF is only doing this under the consent of project leaders; I was under the impression that they were sneaking it under the radar.