skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jon Ronson has a fairly decent book called "The Psychopath Test" that you may find interesting.

It will basically reinforce your intuition though.
How do the implementation language and LOC counts tell you anything about the capability of the developer and the quality of the software?
They list the implementation language for many systems, e.g. for Oracle: http://db-engines.com/en/system/Oracle
Lines of code are typically not disclosed by the vendors; could be done for open-source databases, but then it's not obvious what really should be counted (eg. third party libraries/frameworks).
That still leaves a server that can be attacked, and a way to inject code into people's pages through the compiler.

I'm not suggesting it would be in any way easy, it may be nearly impossible, but not having a database isn't the same as being "unhackable."
GIMP no longer distributes binaries on sourceforge because sourceforge's installer "bundles third-party offers with Free Software packages. We do not want to support this kind of behavior, and have thus decided to abandon SourceForge."

http://www.gimp.org/

http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourc...
Interesting read, btw in Russia from January 1, 2013 there is a law that bans adoptions of Russian children by United States citizens.
I would use it to heat up my swimming pool instead of the 400,000 BTU propane heater I have on it now.
Yahoo! is hiring seems to be the most clear message here..
[Show #] 847 Asthma and Infection [The People's Pharmacy - public radio]
>buying anything with Bitcoin

>2013

Why would anyone do this? Tomorrow you could buy two of the thing you bought today. At this moment in time Bitcoin is not a viable currency and you would be foolish to spend it like that.
There's a difference between blinding for purposes of protecting subject privacy and blinding for purposes of preventing experimenter bias.

In blind trials of new medications doctors can break the blinding at will (patent seems to be having an adverse reaction, was their treatment real or placebo?) as long as they record having done it and exclude the subject from the final results.

If the scans were required to be anonymous for subject privacy, they wouldn't have kept the records needed to break the blinding.
What would be the use case for this? I don't see it.
You can use an ephemeral key system to encrypt communications. Knowing who you're talking to, to thwart active MITM, can be regarded as a separate problem from using encryption to thwart passive MITM. We need to solve both problems, but we don't necessarily need to solve them simultaneously.
There was some anecdotal evidence to support the prediction,

“I’m obnoxiously competitive. I won’t let my grandchildren win games. I’m kind of an asshole, and I do jerky things that piss people off,” he says. “But while I’m aggressive, but my aggression is sublimated. I’d rather beat someone in an argument than beat them up.”

I think the takeaway is that sociopathy might be more normal than we thought.
A few earlier discussions, for those looking for backstory:

3.0 release (Oct. 2012): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687455

4.0 release (Dec. 2012): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4959417

5.0 release (Mar. 2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5422950

6.0 release (Aug. 2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6270446
I've always viewed psychopaths as a sort of social predator, Something that would naturally spring up in any kind of environment subject to evolution. If you had a planet of sheep, you're going to eventually get sheep that eat other sheep. Morality is never involved in a strategy to survive. Likewise in a social environment, preying on others is effective.

With no moral aversion to such behaviour, I had basically assumed all psychopaths would establish some kind of predatory behaviour in their lives. Manipulation, plagiarizing, discrediting, blackmailing, ect.

On one level, it's not surprising to me to see an outlier such as Mr. Fallon, but I can't shake it. When you have those tendencies as part of who you are, then the question really becomes "why didn't you act on them?" Oh your mother loved you a whole bunch? I see. The human spirit is just indomitable isn't it? Uh huh.

I suspect the simplest answer is: "he did."

It would raise my spirits to know that pro-social psychopaths exist. Seeing as the incidence of psychopathic symptoms on average is about 1/100 people. I've also learned not to believe something because I wish it to be true.

I fall on the nature side of the debate. It's a scary world.
The browser extension is the missing link. That's what makes it impossible for malicious code in a frontend's source code to go unnoticed.

I wish you had an example of a custom application that uses your storage, so people can see how easy/hard it is to use and customize the frontend for their own applications. How would the browser plugin properly attest the frontend code hasn't been modified if an application dynamically generates custom frontend code per user?
Actually as someone who looks after a couple of wordpress based corporate sites l, keeping WP up to date and performing well is a pain in the ass.
Just found this: http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com/

Basically a mailing list of merchants who accept Bitcoin and are doing special Black Friday sales end of this month. Probably of interest to people in this thread.
"Psycopath" has no clinical meaning. The closest equivalent is Antisocial Personality disorder. In extreme cases, an antisocial can be a Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, but that's not always the case.

It's worth pointing out that there is also such thing as an Antisocial personality style, meaning that a person has antisocial traits, but can keep them in check well enough to function in society. They tend to do well in roles that require aggression, and can make excellent entrepreneurs, attorneys, and politicians. In fact, people are frequently surprised to find out that some of their most prized traits are Antisocial, they have some antisocial friends, and that they probably have one or two Antisocial heroes. Martin Luther King Jr and Mother Theresa leap to mind.

TL;DR - It's simplistic to say "Trait A bad, Trait B good". There are plenty of narcissists, sociopaths, and paranoids that have done great things for society.
I don't want to take the time to watch that video, but I actually do think that 99% of hatred of America historically has been due to the moral inferiority of the haters.

For example, fundamentalist Islamists, and all those who wish to sympathize with them, are "right" to hate America. Socialists are right to hate America--the American constitution fundamentally stands for the opposite moral code, and American prosperity is evidence that the American morality is the right one.

That said, the GOP is opposed to that very morality, and the Democrat party even more-so, so the country is being rapidly destroyed from the inside (and has been on that path for almost 100 years, just accelerating or decelerating occasionally).
Many tweets would not rise to the level of creativity required to earn copyright protection.
Code completion is a godsend.
Very true, but it's a hell of a lot more secure than Wordpress.
I hate it when these blog journalists don't event know how to read scientific papers
With logic languages it goes from wrong, wrong, wrong, x100 ..., aha I got it and it is beautiful and short.

In my experience, it only works like that when you are fairly new in the language. Later it works like most other languages: build small and understandable predicates. Compose and refine.

Another reason that it's usually easy to move to a working version in Prolog quickly is that the tracing capabilities in most implementations are excellent. So, it's really simple to see if a predicate works as you expected to, since you can walk through a proof step by step.

What's harder in Prolog is that it is relatively easy to mess up predicates such that they are not 'steadfast'. In the words of the inventor of this term: "Steadfastness basically means that you cannot force a predicate down the wrong path by filling in output arguments wrongly."[1]

[1] http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi/month=2009030...
:)

Thanks for the solid advice. I agree with you on having social tact but still holding people accountable.

Technology is a neutral force depending on who is using and what for. I agree that making useful things and getting them into people's hands is the best career choice for my world outlook. Sci/tech has improved quality of life for centuries and deepened our understanding of everything. The value of science is incalculable.

Governments of today have so much power and money coupled with apathetic and distracted populations. That's what it looks like to me at least. I totally agree with you that we need to exercise our rights as free citizens to shape the course of our home country.
I caught the second half of this show, and it corresponds with my own experience with regard to sinusitis and congestion.

I post it because I find that physical health is enormously important to my cognitive skills as well as productivity. I think this is a very important factor and message for others concerned with high achievement as well as just being happy with themselves.

Once again, "The People's Pharmacy" highlights a medical trend that is not yet "mainstream". This isn't... "alternative hokum pokum"; rather, it's... "leading edge" medicine.

Perhaps benefit from it now. Or, wait 10 or 20 years until your average doctor is finally clued in.

For those of you who suffer or know someone who suffers: Hope this helps.

P.S. Further, I find it of general interest in better understanding our physical relationship with micro-biota and the broader world.
Are you serious? Are you stuck in 1997? Have you ever heard of wp-supercache or wp-totalcache? Or even setting up an nginx server with built in cache? C'mon dude. Static followers are so few and they're just hard core people. Stop wasting your time.
That brings it down to $59.90.
It's worth pointing out that there is also such thing as an Antisocial personality style, meaning that a person has antisocial traits, but can keep them in check well enough to function in society. They tend to do well in roles that require aggression, and can make excellent entrepreneurs, attorneys, and politicians.

Just because somebody isn't a serial murderer doesn't mean they are beneficial to society. Ruthless businessmen and politicians can cause far more damage than Ted Bundy ever did.
I have not read the book in question, but I have read Pinker's previous book The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature. In it, there is a section on the same topic where he argues that our belief that indigenous peoples lived simple and naturally peaceful is just a Western romanticization. After spending several chapters elucidating the origins and extent of this incorrect belief, he provides statistics on why indigenous societies are actually much more warlike than they are today. Since the section is too long to fit in here I've linked to Google Books. Just keep reading the text until you reach highlighted stopping point.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ePNi4ZqYdVQC&pg=PT95&dq=tha...

From looking at the graph, it is quite clear that modern society is much less violent than many other indigenous societies. It seems quite reasonable to conclude that societies are becoming increasingly nonviolent. I wish that the author of the review addressed this in his article.

[1] In the first paragraph of the section, Pinker references a Thanksgiving editorialist quote from Chapter 1. Here's the quote:

"I would submit that the world native Americans knew was more stable, happier, and less barbaric than our society today.... there were no employment problems, community harmony was strong, substance abuse unknown, crime nearly nonexistent. What warfare there was between tribes was largely ritualistic and seldom resulted in indiscriminate or wholesale slaughter. While there were hard times, life was, for the most part, stable and predictable.... Because the native people respected what was around them, there was no loss of water or food resources because of pollution or extinction, no lack of materials for the daily essentials, such as baskets, canoes, shelter, or firewood."
Version 7 now installs as an app on OS X.

It is heartening to see the icon in the task switcher: http://twitpic.com/dmc8pb
> If our food supply was cut by 1/3 during half the year, that could be a big issue.

That would also be a massive issue for Brazil to lose their largest agricultural trading partner. It's a competitive marketplace. Their industry, law enforcement agencies, and courts are sufficiently incentivized to protect it, or risk losing it to other countries.

I'm amazed that people view the need for some World Police to control and monitor our economic interests abroad, when there has been no clear failure of markets or democratic processes at protecting them historically.

These rationalizations sound border-line schizophrenic and paranoid. With scenarios comparable to conspiracies theories.

Are there really economic threats that necessitate secret intelligence agencies intercepting private communications of citizens within friendly sovereign nations? And a threat to whom? The representative population? Or primarily the special interests of the government - from where these secret orders/intelligence are held, classified, and acted upon in secret?
That's how these things are calculated. It's nonsense, but it's the best we can do, or something. It's the same with GDP figures. But no one seems to be able to find better metrics to use...
They are all interconnected and my gut tells me that our window of opportunity to act is this decade, maybe a little longer if we're lucky. Our society has a need for constant growth (economy) and that is destroying the planet (ecology). You can't confront one without the other.
What could replace capitalism? Serious question.
Tbh, I thought Bitpay did all that for you.
The Afghan Village That Saved Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell
Not really. Satoshi may have intended it as a temporary measure, but he underestimated just how hard it would be to change a lot of things about the Bitcoin protocol. In particular, changing the maximum block size will result in a hard fork of the Bitcoin network - since existing Bitcoin clients will reject any block over 1 MB, everyone has to be convinced to move over to the new block size at once. This is unlikely to happen. We've never had a successful hardfork of this kind (I think there was technically a very minor one at one point due to Bitcoin being too dependent on the internals of BDB, but that was to remove an unintended - and previously unnoticed - protocol rule.)

Also, at least one of the main Bitcoin developers is strongly opposed to the idea of increasing the block size - he believes that the 1 MB limit is essential in order to avoid a race to the bottom that would end in miners not making enough money from fees, and that small transactions should be done off-blockchain by Bitcoin institutions analagous to banks.
It's the Fixie bike of the internet - so if you're not a coding hipster don't worry about it.
+10 for the tulip reference.

For those who don't recognize the reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
A prop list can be used as a mapping too. What about integers being keys. Or say de-serializing a nested JSON document to clauses. How does a 3 level deep map work with clauses?

>

assert_unique(parent(X,Y)) :-
retractall(parent(X,_),
assert(parent(X,Y)).

Maybe to you that looks like an example why maps are _not_ needed as they just reinvent the wheel or something. To me it looks like an example why maps _are_ needed.
The question is, would the recycled aluminum (I'm in the US) Range Rover cost less than what?

1) Less than a Range Rover made of aluminum which came straight from bauxite? Assumedly the answer is yes, otherwise the motivation for recycling would be unclear.

2) Less than a Range Rover made conventionally, that is, out of steel? Very unlikely, steel is really, really cheap.
IMHO "brain scans" are not quackery but how they are represented can be.

In a scan like Dr. James Fallon (low frontal lobe activity) he could be impulsive and absent minded but not psychopathic. It all depends how the imaging data is normalized and interpreted. Also the PET scan doesn't show connective activity between neurons.

Disclaimer: I'm not a PhD neuroscientist.
And a mine, and a smelter... If you had to start from scratch, could you even make a nail? I couldn't.
About once a week I'll settle up with friends using BTC out of convenience and, to be honest, novelty. For example, at a restaurant instead of splitting a bill across 6 cards, one person will pay and the other 5 will send btc for their amount (cash's divisibility is a problem).

About once a month I'll use Gyft to buy something on Amazon to get the 3% back.

I also buy a VPN, PrivateInternetAccess, using bitcoins.
JsHund - A tool to find unreferenced local variables in JavaScript source code
I am uncertain as to which part of this argument rationalizes arresting an employee for 'trespassing' as he is carrying out his duties. As a glance at HN any day of the week will tell you, American LEOs have more legal tools at their disposal than ever before, to lawfully investigate a suspect. This is not one of them.
When the topic of psychopathy comes up for lunch room discussion, I sometimes go into depth of what I've personally learned on the subject (just something I'm interested in). When I go into it, most people I've talked to immediately ask me if they are psychopaths. It's funny how consistent that is.

Maybe, despite the evidence pointing in that direction, he just didn't manifest a psychopathic brain.

maybe.
Where's the API for this? I want to build the first VSAAS (Virtual Sex As A Service).
It's great that you point this out. Personality styles happen along a spectrum. You have some people who fit in well in society and do good things. Then you have some borderline cases where people can minimally fit into society albeit with many problems. Then you have people who just can't fit into society unless it's to cause damage. Depending on a person's background and talents, sometimes they're white collar and sometimes they're blue collar.
It would obviously be far from perfect, but for a LDR, the basic question would be whether it was better than phone sex, right?
He broke the blinding on a study? The monster!
Brave new world is a surprisingly benign place. You could do whatever you like there if only you had the idea to. Compare that to 1984 or "We".

I can totally see them accepted into galactic equivalent of EU having only to replace lower castes with robots (what they totally could). Not so fast with the current messy state of Earth.
I've always been really interested in a claim made in the foreword of Brave New World by Huxley that sexual freedom is inversely correlated with economic and political freedom:

> As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do well to encourage that freedom.

I'm not aware of what historical (as of 1946, when it was written) examples this was premised on, and I've never seen it expanded on anywhere else (though I have looked).

I'm curious if anyone who cares to defend Huxley's dystopia has any actual rational basis for this claim, since it forms a core component of the world he builds.

More generally, I am not terribly sympathetic to the overall world built in Brave New World as a possible future. It definitely seems to me as if the 1984 predictions are much closer to reality than BNW's.

We live in a constant state of readiness for wars that have unclear purposes and the governments we have seem much more interested in tearing down ideas like full employment or sexual or narcotic freedoms. So it's surprising to see people think that Huxley got it right and Orwell didn't.
True but I see it as having eliminated actual corruption. I think it would be much harder to swing things against the interest of people on a continuous basis. Fool some of the people some of the time... etc. I think paying for advertising eyeballs is fine in any case. If someone is dumping 100's of millions on issue voting then you should probably be paying attention to the issue. Whether for or against.
While the concept of psychopathy is interesting, people shouldn't be lulled into believing that this category is more well defined than it really is.

E.g. people often associate psychopathy with criminality, and yet only the part of the psychopathy test that directly relates to past criminal behavior, is predictive of future criminal behavior.

I feel like psychopathy as a category is almost made for people who want an easy answer for the relationship between science and morality.
I bought an Oreck vacuum once. They are decent, but for what they cost I expected better. I think they succeed not because they are exceptionally good, but because most other consumer vacuums are utter crap.
> I love seeing elegant solutions to complicated problems in 10 lines of code

It's great for those kinds of problems, because backtracking search is built-in to the language. But it's a terrible language for doing anything bigger.

Mercury (http://mercurylang.org) is a very interesting successor language that has lots of modern, Haskell-like features like strong typing and type classes.
Seems like I wasn't the only one who thought of sleeping in the server room when the weather was getting too cold.
if morality is never involved in a strategy to survive... why do you think it exists?
You asked why anyone would buy something with Bitcoin. Imagine you buy something on Amazon, you can buy bitcoins (with a 1% fee) at coinbase, and use Gyft which gives you 3% back. You end up getting (1+3%)/(1+1%) ~ 2% back.

You can also always replenish your bitcoin holdings at the end of the day, if you want to maintain a certain amount of bitcoin exposure.
This is exactly why I find the field of epigenetics[1] absolutely fascinating -- we are so much more than just the sum of our genes. Everything in our lives matters: our childhood, the stuff we eat, how much we sleep (or don't), how much physical exercise we have (or don't)... all these things have an influence on the levels of gene expression and that's what decides everything.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
I don't think BNW has anything to do with libertarianism. I read it to be primarily a criticism of Western apathy. People in BNW are so obsessed with their empty lives, chasing pleasure after pleasure, that they are completely uninterested in (and therefore removed from) the big picture. They are basically animals, and are governed and manipulated as such.
No idea what "RequestPolicy" is but the widget has DocumentCloud's name/logo (which links to their homepage), searching DocumentCloud for the title of the document SIGINT strategy[1] yields this as the first result and when you view it on DocumentCloud[2] (as opposed to the widget) it includes a link to the PDF.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/SIGINT%20strateg...

[2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/838324-2012-2016-sig...
Gotta point out, the whole cool thing about this is that he initially diagnosed himself using concrete patterns in brain scans. So, maybe the term "psychopath" is vague and handwavey, but there're real brain patterns which correlate well to groups like serial killers, that can be identified in brain scans. We might need a less loaded term to talk about these patterns with.