skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come join Humanity and change the way we do Civilization. :)

Well, kind of a joke in response to a heartfelt question, but not really.

If you're just a human, as opposed to some sort of world leader, the best thing you can do is to be out in the world, pointing out that bad things are bad and we shouldn't do them, and do good things. Don't give leaders and people a pass when they do bad things, or promote bad things, or when they don't speak out against bad things.

The most powerful thing we have is our voice, and propaganda works both ways. In your daily life, be a propagandist for good, both to people around you and to your leaders. Hold people accountable, but have a sense of scale. Be forceful and angry when necessary with leaders, but gentle and helpful with people around you. Don't be a dick. We're all leaders with those around us, but that kind of leadership is best accomplished by example and encouragement, not anger and force.

As for technology:

1. Technology is just a tool, and most tools are good. If you're working in technology, you're already helping civilization.

2. Don't work on specifically bad things. It's good to be a network engineer. It's bad to build or operate systems specifically meant to spy on people and violate the Constitution, for example. [Are you listening, NSA spy?]

3. If you want to be more pro-active with technology, then sure, help build secure systems, don't build or use or promote insecure systems. Show people when they're unnecessarily exposing themselves technologically (there's that voice again). Help people use technology more safely.

4. If your career and interests allow, get involved with the security improvements to standards that are just now getting underway.

Technology is just a tool. It's good to use those tools in defense of liberty, and to make it harder to violate liberty with them. But a more fundamental problem is the people who are using technology and other tools to do bad.

We as people need to control our governments and institutions more actively. We need to be the oversight that we want to see. It's the people that we allow to govern us that's the problem, much more so than the tools they happen to use. We've allowed them to wallow and profit from laziness and greed.

We can choose a better government. We did it here in the US in our revolution, and we've more or less chosen to continue and grow it by peaceful means, not counting the occasional civil war and other unrest. It's being hijacked now, and it would be best to bring it back under control peacefully before it's destroyed by another revolution or dissolved by apathy.

Use your voice.
Sorry mate, off to the gas chamber with you. Genetics is destiny, and we have to think about national security, the children, and what the insurance companies think.
Ask HN: How would you respond during an interview to a founder who says
“What space we are in does not matter. We would be the same tech company if we were in the restaurant business.”

Coming from a healthcare start-up. Personally, this lack of passion for their domain floored me, but during the interview I chickened out, nodded and smiled.

How would you respond? Is this a common belief, that you are a tech company first, that just happens to be in whatever space or is true, honest genuine drive for market disruption still a real thing?
So cynical.
Users are seeing your source code, whether directly or indirectly. Your source is your product.
It's not that those things are bad, it's the way they are used by the society.

The drugs are used to avoid confrontation, emotional hurt, and to keep people content with the status quo.

Everybody is employed... Yes, but they are conditioned to be content with their class and job in society. You can't move up or down in class, you are born into your job.

Nobody is hungry because everyone gets enough to survive, but only because everybody is conditioned to enjoy their jobs and be content with their place in society.

Sex is treated in the exact opposite manner of what we have now, sex is only used for recreation and encouraged (even forced) from a young age.

I don't see how you can view any of these ideas as being "good." I would trade our fucked up world over what they have in Brave New World any time.
Basically, instead of hosting a database on your server and using php to generate the pages on every request, like Wordpress does, you just create a text file for every page, and precompile your entire site into raw html files, so that it's really fast because there is no processing on the server.
Your comment paints an amusing picture in my head, of a future in which greenbacks are the underdog preferred currency for underground dealing and political refugees, rather than the Big Brother Bitcoin...
See also the economist at Valve, who had an article about the Team Fortress 2 online economy: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/arbitrage-and-equil...
Related question: How do you all earn bitcoins aside from mining?
Make that the 5S' home button/TouchID sensor. Plus the outermost element of the rear camera lens is rather sensibly sapphire, IIRC.
out of curiosity, do you take paypal?
you have definitely asked the right question.

all my thoughts boil the answer down around three problem areas:

1. violence -- the willingness to hurt (or even kill) other
humans and animals, up to and including poisoning the planet

2. greed -- the desire for "more", no matter how much you have

3. competitiveness -- the desire to have "more" than others,
even when that means you might have less than otherwise

these three are interconnected, of course, and i don't know
if it would even be possible to separate them into a single
"root cause", nor would i think that would be wise anyway,
because they'll undoubtedly need to be treated as a _whole._

as for how to do that, i do have some ideas, but i'm not sure
that "some ideas" will be enough. so my main suggestion is to
_increase_human_creativity_, because that's the only way that
we will ever solve the overall problem, in my humble opinion.

and yes, in many ways, our creativity is the thing that got us
into this pickle in the first place. but i just can't think of
anything else with even the faintest chance of getting us out.

i might add that time is running short.

most large mammals will be extinct in 10-20 years.

and you know that us humans are "a large mammal", right?

-bowerbird
Here's a potentially much better idea. Build server farms near greenhouses and pipe the heat over to them. Heating is the single largest expense for greenhouses, more even than labor.

If the servers were in modular units such as semi trailers you could place however many you needed for the size of greenhouse range. Since greenhouses tend to be grouped in regions such as Cleveland, OH and Kalamazoo, MI you'd have your servers in a small enough area for a single person to be able to service them.
Hey #swogden folks, I showed up and created an account for this. Is this where we are posting now?
[fair enough] hahaha

We're at Startup Weekend in Ogden and a few of the people here are being very generous.
I followed their Get Lean program religiously for about 3 months, but I was already a daily runner to begin with so there wasn't much weight to lose. Although, I did get ridiculously toned. The cardio circuits in Nike Training could get downright challenging for a "game" and I followed the program on a schedule of 5-6x/week so the change was quickly noticeable.
Most people don't wake up in the morning with the urge to fight someone, a lot of people do wake up with the urge to have sex. Sex, like voilence, will always happen. We need to find a way to work with what we've got rather than trying to suppress are human needs.
Fight Capitalism tooth and nail.
Gyft.com is a great place to buy gift certificates with bitcoin. Massdrop.com has some great deals on electronics, including Yubikeys, 3D printers, and audio equipment.
We can take Paypal. Send us your contact info in the Contact form on http://statiq.io
we've had a couple of requests. working on it.
Cryptocat was and is open source too:

https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat

That doesn't solve the problem. No one is going to manually view source and compare it every time they use the damn thing.

> To address your points 1 and 4: Since all data is encrypted BEFORE leaving your browser (this was NOT the case with lavabit) even if our servers were compromised your data would still be secure.

At rest. Yes, at rest it's fine, like I said, but if someone logs in while the server is compromised, it would be trivial to decrypt anything they post or access during that session. Same as Lavabit.

> We'll be releasing [..] a browser-extension, that will help confirm that the code you've received on the site is the same as that in the repository.

So it'll download two copies of the code, one from your servers and one from GitHub, and check that they match? Doesn't seem to me that that buys you much. And unless it's mandatory, you'll be leaving the users that don't install the extension unprotected.

See here for a long list of other reasons in-browser crypto is problematic: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
Unification & resolution makes this work like a 2-way map.

In portable Prolog code, you can only really make the assumption that the first argument is indexed, if it is an atom or a term (in the latter case the functor and arity is used).

In other words, if you have many parent/2 facts

parent(patricia,X).

will be a constant-time lookup, while

parent(X,shelly).

will not be. Another thing to keep in mind is that there can be multiple clauses that unify with a goal.

Real-world story: in the natural language generator that I co-developed, we rewrote every grammar rule with term expansion, such that the attribute-value structure for the syntactic head was the first argument. In this manner, lookups of grammar rules are much faster, since you only have to try to unify with the rules with the corresponding syntactic category.

tl;dr Prolog facts can be used to create mappings. Don't use them as a two-way map without extra precaution if you have a large number of facts.
Well, it's a part of OTP, which is, I believe, "the true" stdlib of Erlang.
InForm: physically interact with objects through a screen
Reddit gold.

About to use some on Adafruit products.
Unless the 'boy' is an African-American. Then the word boy is verboten.
When will we have dynamic pinning?

I'm ready right now to try either TACK or crypt.io. What should I do if I want results over the next 24 hours?

Also, and I mean this for both TACK and crypt.io, is there a self-contained, easy example someone can run and understand that shows if TACK and crypt.io work?
There's nothing about why you're moving your clients to static blogging engines, except maybe because you're trying to sell themes to them. I'd downvote this, if my karma was sufficient to render the downvote.
As a continuation of this, it's worth watching Gattaca if you never have. Great film in it's own right too, pity Andrew Niccol's been off his game the last couple.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
"Never worry about getting your site hacked. Since there isn’t a database, there’s nothing to hack."

Please. Seriously statiq.io wants prospective clients to believe this is their view on "hacking sites"?
Wild-ass guesses:

1) Someone at the NSA
2) Barack Hussein Obama
3) Me

I hope the national-security apparati have a handle on this -- wouldn't want the evidence of a smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud...
Back in the days of good old Delphi IDE I found some cool addon which had some very cool feature. It was using machine learning to detect some repetitive actions. Like when I get code:

var poo =
[1,
2,
3,
4];

and I start changing 1 to '1', 2 -> '2', then the addon all of sudden suggest me completion of other two cells.

It was amazing, too bad this feature did not come back in any of modern IDEs.

I love IntelliJ autocompletion while writing Java code, it increases my productivity so much that I can't imagine coding without it, however it could be better, always:)
I used to spend them at Silk Road, when I was regularly using Ritalin to perk my mind up a bit after a close bereavement that decimated my capacity for mental work.

Also bought a domain name at Namecheap, which I was going to use for a Bitcoin mixing service which worked by moving such transactions through SR's mixer.

But then when SR was shut down I was left with a few BTC that I had no reason to use. Just cashed out at ~$800/BTC, which paid for all my drug purchases and the failed mixing website experiment - with a very small profit.

I think I'm done with Bitcoin now. It has no use to me as a currency as everything I'd want to purchase now I can use real money for.
The way this article is written is very misleading.

This is not in any form or fashion the "oldest body of seawater yet found" nor is it unusual to find ancient trapped seawater.

"Connate water" is water trapped in sediments at the time of their deposition. Whether or not connate water is preserved in large quantities depends on the local permeability structure of the sediments and the regional hydrology. However, it's very common for connate water to be preserved more or less indefinitely (particularly in shales).

In other words, there's a _lot_ of trapped seawater almost everywhere you look.

What's unique about this isn't that there's trapped seawater, and it's certainly not the oldest connate water discovered (nor do the authors of the actual article claim that it is).

It's unique because:

A) it's direct evidence that the Central Atlantic had a very high salinity even long after it opened. (The authors are using the term "north atlantic" for some strange reason, but this segment is more commonly referred to as the "central atlantic")

B) The connate water survived a metorite impact without being highly disturbed.
Hmm, interesting. At first seems more hygienic but on second thought, it might make it extra-aromatic when depositing bodily excretions into the hot water. Perhaps not a big deal though.

But given that water has a high specific heat, that could be a way to dispose of a lot of excess heat.
A PBS show on a few nights ago had a history of aluminum and its uses. In the show it mentioned aluminum is too soft when pure so copper was added but the discoverer found even after copper was added it was still too soft, he got fed up went away for a few days and when he came back the alloy was harder; age hardening.

My phone was damaged and I wondered if my keys scratched my SG3 smartphone, Gorilla Glass has a hardness from what I have read anywhere from a 3 to a 6 but corundum (oxidized aluminum) has a Mohs hardness of 9. Then I found out scratch resistance is not hardness. I think the SG3 screen's scratch resistance is significantly inferior to the SG2 screen.
I guess this is what talking to hundreds of psychopaths does to you...
I dug into the professor's work a little deeper and he does not assume periodicity for his observations in general but goes on to say they have periodic tendencies.
+1, I ordered dinner using Bitcoin from a nice Greek place via lieferservice.de when I was staying in Berlin—perfect experience.
I know... Is there a server? Are there user accounts? Is there something generating the static pages? Then there's something to hack.
I want to agree with you. 'Brave New World' did seem a better designed vision of a society. But there's no society yet that resembles it quite as closely as North Korea resembles Oceania. As Christopher Hitchens said, 1984 was published in the same year that the Korean war ended. It's almost like Kim Il-Sun read the book and thought, 'I think we can make this work'. And he did.
I'm the other way around - have used BTSync for a while, not sure if I should make the move to AeroFS. The use case for BTSync seems to be closer to Dropbox - you give someone a secret, and that shares the folder with them. AeroFS seems to assume trusted environment among all participants, from what I can tell.
Compromise the S3 bucket that holds my site, then.
Solid answer.

Most large mammals will be extinct in 10-20 years?! Enlighten me. I am aware of cetaceans and big cats facing major problems, but mammals as a whole is another thing altogether.
Life of solitude: A loneliness crisis is looming
You generate the pages on your local machine, or on our cloud service that is coming soon.
with chips like these - who needs criminals
It's also about optimization.
This seems to propose that the namecoin block chain could be used as an alternative to root certificates, but without the client needing to participate in the block chain. But this means you have to trust a third party service (and your connection to it) to serve you correct information from the block chain. How exactly does that work?
He just went ahead and broke the blinding to look up who the scan belonged to? Is he allowed to do that even if he knows it belonged to a member of his family?
There is nothing unique about Bitcoin's jump from any other asset price bubble other than possibly there is little leverage involved (30:1 leverage at investment banks during 2008.)

I have nothing against Bitcoin. The concept of programmable currency is great. To use the word investment here is a mistake. Buying bitcoin for the purpose of holding is a speculation that the price will continue rising.
I learned nothing from this article but that neuroscience and psychology don't really have any concrete definition for psychopathy and they don't seem to have much predictive insights on it at all. Fascinating.
The only server involved is the one that runs the compile process. Once the site is built, we push it to S3, and your site is up… Nothing else is needed to view it.
That's a great solution.

I agree with you that people have to co-evolve with the technology. The problem I see is that most people are so distracted with entertainment and 'socializing' that bigger, more important aspects of life are barely examined.
Trusting your team
Intriguing article, but I feel that Fallon might be a bit too hard on himself: once you think X you start interpreting everything so that obviously it corroborates X. "I forgot my wife's birthday" suddenly implies "I don't care about other people's emotions because I'm a psycho" instead of the explanation that is probably more sensible, namely "I can be forgetful sometimes".

Maybe he should revisit his initial hypothesis that brain scans are quackery...
Wrote this blog post from my notes from the Google Ventures Summit. Would love to hear feedback.
Show HN: 10Finds, a better way to browse Amazon Best sellers
I'm not sure this really does diffuse the cash that much. You still pay for eyeballs to convince people to vote the way you want them to.
How about first deciding on a problem?
So now he is a candidate for Special Ops :-) More seriously, its another data point in the nature vs nurture debate and one where even he points out, he is very competitive and can be rude even to children. Advice, don't cut this guy off on the freeway :-).

One wonders how many people "discover" they are psychopaths when they do something psychopathic and it gives them a huge endorphin rush and then they want to do it again? If this guy got into a competitive situation and ended up literally beating his opponent into a bloody pulp, would his brain chemistry make it feel to him like the best sex [1] he had ever had? And then would he be able to not do it again? That is the interesting bit for me, while I am a big fan of the nurture hypothesis, can nature override it? And does it?

[1] Pick what ever primal rewarding activity you want here, sex seems to be a fairly common one.
There was a Reddit post about this not too long ago. A mom of an adopted child posted. She described how many parents, including her, had no idea what they were getting into adopting a child coming from a troubled background. Things that child did, as she described it, were very disturbing, and would bring many people to their brink.

So one can argue it starts with ignorance. People think raising a child is a walk in the park, playing baseball outside on the front lawn, going to football practice and all the nice stuff people see on TV.

From there it moves on to lies. Overseas adoption agencies can be very shady. They want to close the deal. They will hide and paper over medical histories.

Then once a child with severe psychological issues (some which manifest themselves 6 or more months later only), become apparent. The despair starts to take hold. Then someone knows someone who heard about his online "marketplace" and so on. It puts an idea in their head.

Then, a loophole in the law is used. The idea behind having laws to transfer guardianship is to get kids to stay with family members and to keep them out of trouble if say immediate parents create an unsafe environment. Unfortunately that same provision the way it is written allow pretty quick transfer of guardianship and it is exploited in this case.

I would want to believe some of these children end up in home that try to help them, parents who know how to handle such issues better, but unfortunately quite often that is a market for predators looking for victim. The article has a few disturbing details on that, I won't reiterate here.
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For me it's out of necessity.

This is the third thing I tried to buy in the last few weeks, where my card was declined. All three were using Stripe to process payments.

The sellers all tell me they can't get any detailed errors from Stripe, and I should just check with my bank or try another card.

This is why I often choose Paypal when offered the choice. No bullshit errors about my card being declined or my address not being just right.

Why can't I make a buyer account at Stripe already?

I'll give you my credit card and address info once, I don't have to type all that again, you can verify me once and be done with it. You don't have to provide any wallet services, just let me give me damn money to all these businesses relying on you.
"Budoucnost patří aluminiu!"

-- Jára da Cimrman
Register the copyright on all images you post. Sue for statutory & punitive damages. The reality of US law is you can probably make more money doing this than from your main business model.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing all that information.

I'm going to do some more thorough research, all I know about banking right now comes from Netflix documentaries. :)
Your argument is a bit like the "Well this old existing language is Turing complete, so why bother with anything".

Except that he is right that Prolog facts (and other clauses) can be used as a mapping. At the very least, modern Prolog implementations index on the first argument (compute the hash code and look that up). So, you get similar properties to a hashmap: you can look up in O(n) time and get an associated atom/term/...

However, multiple clauses can match a query. For instance, given

foo(bar(x),1).
foo(bar(y),2).

the query foo(bar(_),X) creates a backtracking point (both facts unify, so X will be bound to x and y subsequently). SWI-Prolog's new maps behave more like normal maps in that there cannot be duplicate keys. However, you could enforce that with Prolog facts as well:

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

assert_unique(parent(jack,john)) will ensure that any parent(jack,_) facts are removed before asserting the new fact.
Except with Bitcoin, there are valid reasons to conceal the source and destination of money from the public besides criminal activity. The money being "laundered" isn't necessarily "dirty" to begin with.

The same logic applies to encryption. People have a right to privacy.
Yeah, but you have to pretty much turn that money back into cash ASAP if the value of BTC is dropping, or else someone pays you 1 BTC for something and that's worth ~$800 one day and $100 another. If it's just in an account, you've lost a lot of value, right?
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