skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Psychopath" absolutely has a clinical meaning. While not formally defined in the DSM ...

Would that be the same DSM that's being abandoned by those who know it best? Consider this position taken by the sitting director of NIMH:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

Quote: "While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity."

Given the present widespread changes in the field of mental health, it might be better to find a more reliable source for views on this topic -- if they exist.

As to psychopathy, the linked article says it all -- a researcher finds out he's a dangerous person by reading a brain scan, with no other supporting evidence and copious contraindications.
How about slut rewarding; http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/15/elina-desaine-uks... ?
ZZT will never die. It will just #END
Kids Like to Learn Algebra, if It Comes in the Right App
AR-Rift: Stereo camera rig and augmented reality showcase
Only in the startup world do you get 3 person companies where everyone is a CxO.
From the NIRA (which governs .ng domains). You violate section 4.9 "Premium"

4.9 Irrespective of the above NIRA shall reserve the right to maintain the following list of domains
that SHALL NOT be available for registration or will be withdrawn if registered already
• Offensive ames: This list shall contain words as determined by the NIRA board to be
offensive first to the Nigerian community and then to the global community. ALL requests
for domains under this list would be rejected.
• Restricted ames: This shall be a list of domains that may give a wrong impression if used.
This could pertain to military, government or other related words. ALL applications for these
domains would be rejected.
• Premium ames: These are domains with generic words ONLY but command premium
value. These domains would be made available to registrants though a competitive bidding
and auction process.
This looks funny, because there are too many options. Most chosen numbers are even in higher range.
وظائف اليوم بجريدة الاخبار والاهرام والجمهورية الاحد 24-11-2013
The astounding thing about this case is how little due diligence Getty and AFP did. In my capacity as a Wikipedia admin, I've handled copyright-related issues with images and text.

We put an enormous amount of volunteer labour into tracking copyright violations and removing them: if a photographer complains that someone has uploaded a copyright violation, our volunteers will go and forensically examine EXIF data, look at upload metadata on sites like Flickr, check for digital watermarks, check on Google Images and other search tools to try and trace the upload history of the image. And even after all that work, it still feels like it's not quite good enough.

On image licensing, I've emailed government lawyers to verify that our interpretation of their national copyright policies is correct.

Meanwhile, I've worked with people in the commercial sector whose modus operandi for producing social media campaigns is "open up Google Images/Flickr/YouTube and pinch all the things!"

If I can trace the copyright claims on an image by using tools like Google Image Search, so can AFP and Getty. Not just for copyright purposes, but due diligence to make sure the metadata checks out with the photojournalistic claim made of the image. That they aren't doing so ought to give one pause before trusting agencies like AFP to report the news.
Nothing to do with anti Americanism. To 'us' (in the EU in this case) it just seems weird that when there is acted sex and fuck-and-such in a movie during daytime on normal (not pay tv) television, in the US this is considered porn, is beeped away or not aired in the first place. You don't call that prude; while no-one here would blink an eye, young or old, over there it needs to be censored? How is that anti-Americanism and how is it not weird?
The author, Andrew Farmer http://www.ittc.ku.edu/csdl/fpg/users/andrewfarmer.html , is the author of Scotty, http://hackage.haskell.org/package/scotty, a wee haskell lib for restful services (and the focus of the linked talk)

He's also the primary hacker on HERMIT, http://www.ittc.ku.edu/csdl/fpg/software/hermit.html, which is a toolkit for adding custom user optimizations to GHC and a tool kit to experiment with compiler passes.
Poll: How would you rate your own skill as a hacker?
For those of you who are hackers, how would you rate your ability in comparison to other hackers on HN?

(The question was carefully worded to yield an interesting experiment, not to be fair.)
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Ask HN: For what reasons did Oracle start degrading MySQL
Can you please explain in more detail, how come Oracle started degrading MySQL even though it made public commitments to advance it for the next 5 years, while he was interested in acquiring Sun? Thank you in advance!
Depending on the headphones, that may not be practical.
the wires can be ludicusly fine on some of them. I've tried and failed more than once.

Plus the 2-part snap together plugs are so much bulkier than the originals.
Moore certainly seems in serious need of psychological help. But the victim-blaming reaction of the other protagonists (the principal, the local police department...) is just terrible. Clearly, Moore and his followers are not the only ones with a clear lack of empathy.

What I'm surprised about is that there did not seem to be any consequence to his lack of response to a DMCA takedown notice. Is this not enforceable short of a lawsuit?
Sarcastic. You are replying to an sarcastic comment.
I haven't come across any DIY formulations that can produce the same texture and properties (strength and flexibility) -- especially in gallon-size quantities (for robot parts). If it really "isn't anything special", then please share your homemade formulation(s)!
You should really get out more. And I mean out of America.

Nobody likes private pictures of them posted without their consent, but in countries were topless sunbathing is the norm and nudity is a non-issue, women would be upset as in being pissed off, not as in "oh my god, my life is ruined".
ctrl-I should open the text box in a proper editor.
I saw these videos recently as part of Captain Murphy's Duality[1]. Almost seems like something from a movie; it's hard to believe this really happened.

[1] http://vimeo.com/53603603
"Now you must work. You must return to your engine. I will be waiting for you here. Come back tomorrow evening . . ."

(...)

"I am glad that you have found what was the matter with your engine," he said. "Now you can go back home--"
Bitcoin Gem for Rubyists
> I would trade our fucked up world over what they have in Brave New World any time.

That's certainly a valid opinion. Still, I suspect it's easier to see BNW as an utter horrorshow if you've never known real hunger or oppression or torture or watched loved ones die of treatable diseases. I'm in the same boat myself. But there are many millions of people in our world who would be genuinely much better off in the Brave New World. It's hard to know what to think about that.
Even my high school computer science text book taught me HREF= Hypertext REFerence...

Though I didn't know the A stands for Anchor, so there's that.
16 products that Microsoft has killed off
If you're down for a bit of light reading: http://www.legalaffairs.org/printerfriendly.msp?id=923
your raisin rolling expert?

you reside nt roll in gex per t?

This doesn't make sense, in what other language besides English would this be parsable?
I've heard Alimin(i)um referred to as "frozen electricity" and "solid electricity" - the real "value" in Al ingots is based on the electricity required to separate it from the oxygen in bauxite.

Another alumin(i)um/electricity anecdote - apparently the smelter in the mountains behind Portland, which was built to take advantage of the cheap hydro electricity there, closed down when Google and Amazon built datacanters there and outbid the Alumin(i)um companies for the electricity…
> ...we are fortunate enough to have an OptiTrack optical motion capture system in our lab. The 12 cameras capture at 100FPS, and the Motive software computes position and orientation...

That part of it seems a bit less feasible for home use. This is one area where a native AR system like the CastAR wins.
Yeah, through a centralized UK-based service. No thanks.
Photojournalist uses DMCA against corporations, is partially successful.
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How does this comment further the discussion?

I'm pointing out the title doesn't match reality. The patent is "destroyed", not the company. There's nothing to suggest the company is in trouble. How significant is this patent being smacked down in court? How many patents does the company have? Is this the only one? Do they have 50?

Maybe you could contribute some answers and further the discussion?
Yeah, I just assume that today's 23-year-olds (or 13-year-olds) should all know this, and had the same experience as me, using notepad.exe to alter/test some html, which was grabbed from a "CD-ROM", that came with a "magazine", with something like "Netscape 1.0" (for Win 3.1) on it, in late 1994! What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
I would assume the maintainer evacuated already...
And what moved the culture? Legislation. The very same legislation that the Internet libertarian crew who tell us to "change the culture rather than using the men with guns" generally oppose. So, yeah, that kind of proves the point.
Against the rules I guess, but thank you.

I don't care if Satoshi is he/she/it (well the "it" case could be interesting) but having to add " or she " to every sentence sounds tiring.
@2) Maybe in an older version, but not anymore. The installation is not as nice as in a single apt-get call, but the install documentation makes a setup a matter of copy'n'paste.
Of the three options you've considered, Erlang is clearly the best choice, but why haven't you even considered Java (or any other JVM language)? When it comes to monitoring, profiling or debugging a long-running application, nothing comes close to the JVM. And, needless to mention, it's extremely mature and stable.

A Java memory leak can be solved in a matter of minutes, or – if it's especially complex – in a couple of hours tops. You can take a heap dump and analyze it with Eclipse Memory Analyzer, and if you need allocation stack-traces, you instrument your code with VisualVM. All of this can be done remotely and without stopping the app.

Flight Recorder, which has recently been added to the HostSpot VM, even gives you instrumentation with hardly any performance penalty (though it requires a commercial license if used in production).
"This is where I stopped reading ” is never good conversation.
Ask HN: Career in flames?
Hi HN: I've been working for 3-4 years in technology in SF and the valley. I feel lucky to have had a decent trajectory; worked at a famous tech company for about a year, then took a couple higher cash offers to work at post A round startups. I'm actually 2/2 for getting asked to leave these startup companies <1 year after joining, generally for questioning business plans too strongly and code-cowboying projects through on my own if they don't get approved. I actually lost my latest job sort of recently. I'm 26.

I know I can still get another job as an engineer without too much pain. But I feel like even if I put 5 more years into my career, the jobs would still top out at $150k or a bit more-if-you're-lucky sort of pay.

I already want a family pretty badly but can't imagine the pressure of that in this city. I tell myself that it'll just be a few more years before I can score a little nest egg and move somewhere less crazy, but just on math it's 5 years, at least, and that's if I get really lucky, clean up my act and start really playing B-league office politics.

I guess I'm just looking for career advice. I have to take a job to stay afloat, and I'll probably stay in the city. I'll probably make $130k for two or three years, save $2-3k a month and then I guess try to start a company when I'm 29, barring injury or etc. I'm a smart guy, can code and sell anything, am pretty creative, driven as all hell but I know I'm rolling the dice. I'll probably only have $70k runway (if I'm very frugal compared to the average 25 year software engineer) in the bank given the realities of living in SF. I just sort of feel a little lost, and like my dreams are slipping away. Does my plan at least jibe with yours?
There's a downside to the UK system.

You have to pay the costs, even if you win, if:

i) You're offered an out of court settlement and

ii) You reject it and

iii) the settlement is more than the damages you are awarded by the court

This is to make sure that people try to settle things before going to court.

And I'm not sure how it would work for a non-practising entity. A company that has no assets apart from the patent that they're suing for would have no money to pay fees if they lose.
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>America is sex-negative? I wish. We've sexualized every inch of women's bodies[...]

And that's not sex-negative?
and why is this news?
We are using gitblit. Installation and use is super easy. We have integrated it with LDAP for authentication and Jenkins for auto builds using hooks.
Soldering small things is pretty easy. I can solder 0603 surface-mount devices without magnification, and I have below-average vision and drink way too much caffeine.

More importantly, I think it's the correct solution to this problem. If moving the wire around results in the sound cutting off, you don't have a good connection. Holding the wire against the connector mechanically is a fine short-term solution, but it's just going to break again, no matter how much epoxy you use. (Though a thinner 2-part epoxy might have better results than Suguru. Clamp the work in a position where you know the wires make good contact, pour epoxy into the gap, or a mold you make out of paper or something, and then wait for it to cure.) Soldering on a new connector will ensure that you have a good mechanical and electrical connection. Add some suguru for extra strain relief, if you must, and you probably won't be repairing the headphones again.

I'll also suggest just throwing the headphones away and spending $10 on a new pair, unless these are like $2000 custom molded for your ears, or something.
There's a major difference between making people temporarily feel miserable and ruining their lives over a long period of time.

And in these cases, the difference is social context and the hysteria surrounding sexuality and nudity, not the likes of Hunter Moore.
In a lot of Windowsy projects, there are files called stdafx.cpp and stdafx.h. I'm not sure what they do either.
I've added some: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hunter_Moore&diff...
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Ask HN: Career in flames?
Originally https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6789214, but it was autokilled. I don't know the author, but they obviously wish to remain anonymous, so I'll repost it on their behalf:

Hi HN: I've been working for 3-4 years in technology in SF and the valley. I feel lucky to have had a decent trajectory; worked at a famous tech company for about a year, then took a couple higher cash offers to work at post A round startups. I'm actually 2/2 for getting asked to leave these startup companies <1 year after joining, generally for questioning business plans too strongly and code-cowboying projects through on my own if they don't get approved. I actually lost my latest job sort of recently. I'm 26.
I know I can still get another job as an engineer without too much pain. But I feel like even if I put 5 more years into my career, the jobs would still top out at $150k or a bit more-if-you're-lucky sort of pay.

I already want a family pretty badly but can't imagine the pressure of that in this city. I tell myself that it'll just be a few more years before I can score a little nest egg and move somewhere less crazy, but just on math it's 5 years, at least, and that's if I get really lucky, clean up my act and start really playing B-league office politics.

I guess I'm just looking for career advice. I have to take a job to stay afloat, and I'll probably stay in the city. I'll probably make $130k for two or three years, save $2-3k a month and then I guess try to start a company when I'm 29, barring injury or etc. I'm a smart guy, can code and sell anything, am pretty creative, driven as all hell but I know I'm rolling the dice. I'll probably only have $70k runway (if I'm very frugal compared to the average 25 year software engineer) in the bank given the realities of living in SF. I just sort of feel a little lost, and like my dreams are slipping away. Does my plan at least jibe with yours?
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> Even this "efficient" win cost FTB
about $200,000 in legal fees, said
Seigle; that's four times more than
the $50,000 payout that Lumen View
was asking for.
Thanks for the coffee :).

The field of detecting authorship is called stylometry, and preventing that is called adversarial stylometry. Here's a java open source software that you could use :

http://www.hacker10.com/other-computing/deceiving-authorship...

BTW , another issue. If you really want to achieve strong anonimity you have to have large number of users, and large number of researchers trying to break your system.

The best way to build anonymous forums in this context , is to build popular anonymous email(currently there's none. only 2 we might see in the future "the dark mail alliance" and "pinchon gate") , and use it for forums.
Just a thought: if every American here railing against the ridiculously prudish American culture could pretty please keep in mind that if they offer a service that for instance bans people from posting pictures or distributing apps because "boobies", you are part of the problem.

This is often so easily dismissed on HN as "my product, my rules", when it is actually a political statement of support for, or at least surrender to, the notion that nudity is something wrong and shameful, especially for women.

You wanna solve the problem, start by cleaning up your own act, and take the anti-"porn" provisions out of your TOS, and stop crucifying your users for posting ordinary holiday snapshots because, "boobies".
Lots of small headphones use enamel-insulated wires, and scraping that off the ridiculously fine wires is fiddly.

Surface mount devices tend to have pads. The surface tension of the solder pulls the component into alignment.

But I agree with you - repairing stuff is a fun hobby and can be done.

> I'll also suggest just throwing the headphones away

I really wish there was an easy way to recycle this kind of thing. Surely in bulk quantities the copper and gold makes it worthwhile?
> Particularly considering he got people fired.

Perhaps we need to look at this from a different angle. Why can employers fire me for having a naked picture taken? Perhaps we need to roll back no-fault firing as well.

I think the comment was talking about changing social attitude more than anything else if I read it right. If we make it normal to have nude pictures on the Internet, then these sites will automatically lose steam.
If it is a transfer between two accounts owned by two different people - I guess that this huge amount would be taxable with some amount.
Compression can obfuscate the virus from being easy to detect and therefore is more likely to arrive at its destination. There are tricks which can crash anti-virus applications that try to open specially crafted zips once it is on the user's computer.
They don't need to copy this on opera extensions. You just have to install this addon https://addons.opera.com/fr/extensions/details/download-chro... to opera. It allows to install any chrome extension directly from the chrome webstore.
Pardon me, but your french would leave a better impression if you would use it in a grammatically correct way. "reason for existence for why studying algorithms is important" ?
The author points out that he does have some of the traits associated with psychopathy, he just sublimates them in acceptable ways (most of the time). Perhaps the best explanation is that this is a disorder of degrees, with only some outcomes being extreme enough to cause criminality, not that it doesn't exist at all?

Of course there's room for scepticism here and a lot of doubt about what the scans actually indicate, and this 'illness' has fallen out of favour due to concerns about its fuzzy definition, but the author is absolutely not claiming that the scans are meaningless or not associated with psychopathy.
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I feel exactly like you - I'm a little bit deaf so any social gathering is an enormous strain to me (75% of my brain power is directed at just deciphering words) I also have awful, prolonged headaches that make me talk really slow - I've been lonely for most of my life, I still feel that way.

But it changed when i met a girl at my uni - i ignored her at the time (I thought i could do it all alone!). I only started talking with her after i got thrown out of the uni (mostly over Facebook). I had no idea, i still don't, why she is so kind to me. I fell for her.

And that's what made me come out of my shell - she actively tried to help me, but it was my will to do it that actually mattered. I changed and it somehow felt like I was dying, at least some part of me, and I still feel lost and confused - sometimes it is like a completely alien person took my place. But I don't pretend to be something i am not. I just have to come to terms with "new me", possibly still improve.

The point (sorry for confusing logic - writing on a phone):

1. Friends kind of happen (I mean true friend, those who you can trust and open to) - of course it takes a lot of work, often pain and anguish too - it isn't always that everything goes smoothly. But you can't just force friendship.
My personal experience is that it is easiest to make friends at some kind of a trip - skiing, sailing, camping or rafting or whatever that takes it's participants out of the comfort zone - it weds out douchebags that are all mouth and no action and often brings out true character from others and that makes it easy to grow close to somebody

2. There is always hope. You can find your own Angel in the most ridiculous of circumstances

3. Maybe the changes are positive? (please don't take it as an affront) You have to think it over - "what can I change that drives others away, make them treat me seriously?"
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6786128

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6785648 (nrc.nl)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6786266 (zdnet.com)
NSA deputy director skeptical on sharing data with FBI and others
> a highly risky opening strategy that almost always ends the game very quickly

In other words, a sucker punch?