skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything's debatable! But there are pretty strong arguments for "killing sentient beings is wrong".

Most morality stems from the Golden Rule (treat others as you'd want to be treated). If we take that as a given (a reasonable non-controversial starting point imho), then we can easily agree that breeding and killing other humans for food is immoral.

The Golden Rule is generally applied to a small subset of sentient beings, of course. However, one thing is observable throughout history, which is that the group of beings included in the Golden Rule has generally gone up with time. It used to be only a subset of humans, and has progressively grown to include most (and yet still not all) humans in most (still not all) cases. But it continues to grow. And already some types of treatment are considered abhorrent even when applied to non-humans.

For example, we may debate eating pigs, but we would presumably all agree that deliberately torturing a pig for your own personal satisfaction is immoral (hence all the laws against cruelty to animals).

This progress of history seems pretty constant - it may be the only progress we can measure as far as the question "are we getting more civilised" goes. Our measure of progress is, how many more groups do we include under the shield of this Golden Rule.

It's pretty reasonable to predict that, unless things go very badly for humanity, eventually many animals that we currently breed and kill for food will come join us on the safe side of the Golden Rule. We may start with the more inspiring or cuddly ones like Dolphins or Whales, but can you doubt that humanity from 500 years in the future will consider eating a dolphin as abhorrent as we would consider, say, eating someone's pet labrador?

Did eating someone's pet become less moral over time, or has it always been immoral, but before it was tolerated? What about eating other humans? What about other applications of the Golden Rule?

Obviously you can respond that morality is a moving target... and you're right. But then you're still agreeing that the topic we're discussing is something that could easily be conceived as immoral in the future (unlike, say, petting a cat or painting a nice painting, which are unlikely to ever be considered immoral as far as we can predict without resorting to extreme scenarios).

I take the view that something which will be immoral in 500 years is already immoral, we're just too undeveloped to realise it yet, much in the same way that I'd say that death penalty or torture were always immoral, but people weren't civilised enough to realise it in the past.
You're definitely right, and testing calls to action is a potentially easy win. Internally, I've stressed how we should avoid optimizations to help speed development.

The specific issue here was that the call to action to get the payment modal was "upgrade" making it a bit weird for the call to action on the modal to be "upgrade".
I think VLM's talking about phone payments through NFC, not NFC cards.
I'm curious, as a publicly traded company, why are these specific earnings not public? Presumably this would be a crucial element in any valuation of Microsoft shares, since it would affect the future value of Microsoft in relation to Android market share.

Forgive me for my ignorance, but what determines the level of scrutiny that a publicly traded company has to make available, in terms of its sources of revenue? How far do they get broken down, either by law/regulation or by custom?
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icebraining beat me to it - from what I've read PayPal has historically made up a serious proportion of Ebay's profits, like 40% (though they have bought other payment processors recently so maybe it's been dropping).

Introducing non-paypal payment methods would cut directly into their profits.
Depends on the contract the company makes with the local municipality. Our local small town got a WalMart distribution center. The town went bankrupt providing free water, roads and electricity to a building that brought in zero jobs and extra business.

Consider: big companies have expert negotiators. Cities have volunteers.
Sony: PS4 users have streamed 800,000 gameplay sessions
A novel is nothing but comments. The code was already executed in the author's brain.
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I think your goal with this post was to foster discussion about bringing more women and minorities into software development, which is a cause that's near and dear to my heart. Unfortunately you used some rather inflammatory language in your post, which prevented people from being able to discuss the thing you really wanted to talk about.

I'm guessing you've figured this out already, but insulting people and implying that they're sexist and/or racist makes for a very poor icebreaker. I recommend waiting a few days and posting a gentler version of the question. This topic is important to the future of our community, and we shouldn't let our emotions get in the way of improving the world.
I'm saying it was a drag coefficient on his general health.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/29/steve-jobs-fruitarian-di...
> Ah so all of a sudden running a verifiable system is considered idealism.

Did you build your own CPU? Write your own firmware? Audit hardware and firmware for device with access to system memory[1]? Write your own kernel? Verify your compiler[2]? Audit every line of code for everything you run? If not, you're deciding the particular areas where you choose to harbor the illusion that you're seriously verifying something.

Fundamentally at some point you have to trust your hardware vendors unless you have unlimited resources to audit everything. Open source is just part of that picture and, like everything else in security, doing it professionally requires you to be pragmatic by balancing absolute security in a particular area against your users’ ability to actually do what they care about.

If FreeBSD did not ship a binary driver the overwhelmingly more likely outcome would be fewer people using FreeBSD. If you care about FreeBSD, as the developers presumably do, you want as many users as possible to improve the odds of being taken seriously when you try to negotiate better support with a vendor. Consider how much trouble OLPC had with WiFi firmware – that gives you a bottom range estimate for the number of units sold which has to be on the line before a hesitant vendor will consider opening something.

1. http://md.hudora.de/presentations/#firewire-pacsec
2. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Yuri, can you tell how you got these large companies on board? Is this something that YC helped with?
WOW! The most shocking linked article is the kids who got arrested for waiting for the bus. They were excepted to plea bargain. That's right, the charges weren't dropped!!!!!!

edit the DA dismissed the charges but the police chief thinks the arrest was justified.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/04/charges...

Interview with the coach (he seems like a really nice guy):

http://www.infowars.com/kids-arrested-waiting-for-school-bus...
Microsoft shares all vulnerabilities with NSA as soon as they find out about them, and long before they fix them, anyway, which is like giving them access to a lot of backdoors into Windows. Adding one more from rand_s doesn't change the situation that much. Then there's TPM and all that other fun stuff. Until Microsoft overhauls their Windows security policies, you can never really trust Windows to keep you safe, even with the latest updates.
This is what ultimately did 3D Realms and Duke Nukem Forever in.

There was a lot of overlap between Apogee Software (later, 3D Realms) and id Software in the early days. The mantra of 3D Realms was, during Nuke Forever, that the game will be done when it's done.

That mantra works great at a small scale. But when AAA titles go from Duke3d to Halo/CoD within the span of one development iteration, you're screwed. The cost of keeping up was, I suspect, just too great for a company the size of 3D Realms to keep up. Even id Software was diminishing, post-Quake 3.

Companies like Blizzard and EA have the resources to pump out WoW expansion #9, or Madden 2035 or whatever. For better or worse (my opinion, usually worse) the industry has become more like Hollywood blockbusters. The whole world hears about when GTA 5 comes out and makes billions of dollars the first week, or whatever. As a result, we're just going to get what Hollywood gives us in movies: sequel after sequel.
It depends what you're trying to achieve.

I took pains to say that I wasn't asserting any universal truth about the English language. I'm not taking a position on whether it has or hasn't been used in English or any other language, with or without nouns, countable or otherwise. I gave my perspective about my reaction to reading 'less bugs' and suggested what I would do were I the author (acknowledging as I did it, that I amn't).

You might be able to present me with evidence and thereby change my internal grammar (I'm sure everyone except Chomsky has their own individual version), but it might be a few years before those words no longer triggered the same response.

I'm game if you are.

(Edit: dmm edited his comment to remove the words "Is there any evidence I could present that you would accept?" from this comment's parent. For shame!)
To be fair, 'calories' is a continuous value with an unfortunately discrete-sounding name.
I'm not usually a grammar / spelling type guy or one to call out those types of mistakes... But this repeated mis-use, in an article meant for what I assume to be an engineering-minded audience, really annoyed me.
Seems like a nice idea, but where on that page is the link to the repository?
Computers aren't a development in numeracy?
True; there are the tinfoil hat types that believe that there was a second gunman on the grassy knoll, and then there are those that believe Bigfoot killed Kennedy with the mind powers he learned from the Lizard People of Zeta Reticuli B.

Edit: from the downvotes, I can only assume that I've offended the Bigfoot fans.
Probably the best article on security I've ever seen come up on Hacker News. I would take the security@ recommendation and move it up a few notches though. It costs nothing and you get tremendous benefit if someone is trying to tell you something.

And the irony about Evernote being hacked (http://evernote.com/corp/news/password_reset.php)... I'm surprised they were even able to find the compromise and prepare a coordinated response. Who knows, maybe this event is what caused the CTO to see the light? Learn from other's mistakes, people.
It shines that people now assume the 'nuts' just happened to be right. It time to bring back anti-authoritative thinking.
I'm not saying it is the best way, I'm just arguing that it indeed is not a software bug.
Would love to see that contested in court. Have an author put it back up on the site (send then a letter of authorization) and then Elselvier will have to sue the author to get it taken down again. I wonder if Elselvier could survive the PR of suing 1,000 scientists for publishing their own papers on a user content contributed web site.
I agree. In the event I did make a mistake I can log on to online banking (or open the app on my phone) and make a almost instant transfer the money to another account using faster payments for free.

Even if these fees were assessed, it strikes me as an incredibly inefficient way to generate revenue.
Little home icon next to the title.
in the header: https://github.com/sferik/t
Crime, especially violent crime, is dropping in most of US.
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haha, truth be told I didn't notice that until you just pointed it out, I only realized it was satire after visiting their home page.
Well, it would be evidence that the idea was trivial, but they just assume that everyone magically knows about the patents we're generally forbidden to read and they won't hold against a patent the fact that it's trivial in hindsight because that's to vague... so they let through a lot of silly patents instead.
See also the Firefox 26 for Developers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/26

And Site Compatibility for Firefox 26, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/26/Site...

Of note, images with EXIF rotation data are now rotated correctly! And you can inspect :before and :after elements in the built-in inspector finally.
Tip to non-vegans: you too, are likely to be running a vitamin B12 deficiency, along with the vitamin D one.

Tip to vegans: Hey! I thought you were going to have at least a little popcorn with that.
The home icon links to https://github.com/sferik/t. Not obvious.
Wait Lockheed Martin is working with them? I had the impression the project was not being taken seriously by professionals. Did that change lately?
I didn't know what Vagrant was. Ofcourse I could have googled a bit but I decided to "test" the webpages whether they provided me the info I wanted. They kinda didn't.

Whether I SHOULD HAVE known about Vagrant, I'll let you decide. ;)
FundersClub makes investments in companies alongside their customers, which is why they have a portfolio. AngelList does not (to our knowledge) do this, which is why they are not included.
Oh. Argumentum ad baby steps.

;)
They can get elaborate. I haven't used them yet but this site looks like a useful tool http://phishme.com/
No, bothersome is the one above - that a police department chief is not about to turn down a free tank. If your police has such a mentality, you ought to be worried already.
unexpectedly amused by the fact that in this case, worse hardware is better due to extra noise.
The problem is, the current money supply increase of $85B a month is not a moderate amount of inflation. And they are not tapering anytime soon either.

Case in point: M1-Money Supply has doubled from $1.2T to $2.6T since late 2008.

This is not leading to the stabilization of the economy and the encouragement of investment.

This can be seen in that unemployment/underemployment has spiked to 24%. And worker participation has dropped from 66% to 63% over the last 4 years. And it is still dropping.

So, we have a devaluation of currency and real wealth, tied to an increase in unemployment. How is this a net gain for people who work for a living? And this devaluation will accelerate as Govt's debts increase.

References:
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/06/t...
If quoting Rand makes you uncomfortable, just remind yourself that even a broken clock is right twice a day.

The quote itself is apt.
They look like whatever you want them too. Here's a typical defense-oriented phish from China. Obviously it means a lot more to the recipient than it would be to you. Point is, it's been customized. Don't worry, someone in your company will click it, even if the message is stupid.

http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2011/06/may-31-cve-2010-333...
What happens if Microsoft never has another Windows 7?

I can see a few plausible results, but none of them looks pretty for Microsoft.

One option is that the cloud (or IMHO more likely in the long run, private cloud) trend continues, and browsers and mobile operating systems approach the level where they can host applications that compete with heavyweight desktop apps. At this point, server and infrastructure providers win, general software companies move to a client-server model and do OK, and Microsoft die because Windows and Office are finished.

If relatively thin clients aren't up to the job fast enough, or if things like security and privacy concerns start to take precedence, then there's a void in the desktop space. Apple could make a strong play for it, with the resources and existing platform to build on; how many business laptops aren't Apple boxes these days? Linux distributions aimed squarely at non-technical users could rise, with some interesting possibilities created by the likes of Valve. And of course there is always Microsoft's biggest traditional competitor on the desktop: pirated copies of Windows versions people actually like. In these kinds of scenarios, the alternative platforms probably all win to some extent, general software companies might struggle a bit with portability and start specialising in different platforms again (particularly if we wind up with an "app store" model for serious desktop applications) but will do OK, and Microsoft die because (legally obtained) Windows is a shadow of its former self and Office's main selling point -- that everyone else is using it -- probably ceases to apply.

Basically, the only software developer that really loses out if Microsoft don't produce another Windows XP or Windows 7 is Microsoft, and if that happens, I see no likely scenario that ends well for them. For everyone else, the interesting questions are mostly about how diverse/competitive/specialised the alternative platforms become.
If every police station in the country is equipped with military-grade weapons and vehicles, what happens in the event of despotic leadership?

Suppose someone rises to power with little regard for legislative oversight and activates the sleeping military at home. It might start with a real (or faked) terror event coordinated across several major cities. It wouldn't take much at all, 5-10 cities, and suddenly:
1. Internet & cell communications are shut down
2. a national state of emergency is declared
3. A curfew is issued
4. Dissidents are squashed via a military police force with little recourse themselves.
5. Everyone is required to have location-aware implants "for safety."

With a little fear, a government could take full, permanent control of their citizens via aggressive laws and more aggressive enforcers. Would it even take two weeks?
There's nothing controversial here — Elsevier merely bumped up the rate at which they're sending Academia.edu takedown notices for obvious infringement by its users.

What's more interesting to me is that ResearchGate, a site which is virtually identical to Academia.edu in its "mission" and design, has been redistributing a shockingly large number of Elsevier PDFs for a long time. Unless these google searches are misleading, there seem to be many thousands of them:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:researchgate.net+filety...

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:researchgate.net+filety...

I'm really stumped as to how ResearchGate gets away with this, but Academia.edu is getting hit with DMCA takedowns. Maybe Elsevier and other publishers haven't yet learned to reliably "find" ResearchGate's shared papers, or perhaps they've come up with some arrangement that allows them to publicly share thousands of paywalled PDFs with impunity?
I think pavlov likes games with a defined, fleshed out protagonist, and Gordon Freeman is pretty close to a blank slate as you can get.

As for recommendations, pavlov hasn't mentioned any genres or games that he particularly liked. Adventure games were pretty common back then and "died" around 2000, so I suggest looking into anything by Telltale Games or Double Fine.

http://www.telltalegames.com/

http://www.doublefine.com/
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I dunno, when I fired up wolf3d for the first time my jaw dropped. I never saw anything like it before.

I think a lot of people got exposed to wolf3d after it had been out a while, but with Doom they got to experience the hype leading up to the release.

I played wolf3d the week it was released to shareware and it was groundbreaking in every way imaginable back then. Doom took it to a whole new level graphically, but the gameplay was no different.

I do agree that Carmack's attitude in general was awesome, he never seems to get intimidated by competition.
You eat plants. This kills the plant.
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>>Argumentum ad...

I've been reading your posts and I can't help but notice that you sound like someone who just started taking 'Philosophy 101: Introduction to Logic' in college.
The reason they seem obvious is that they represent a quantity that has meaning -- the offset.
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[1] If you truly don't care whether or not other people think you're a jerk, then you can ignore most discussion of etiquette and social mores.

[2] If you DO participate in such discussions, simply to say that you don't care what other people think, ehh... then you're kind of a jerk. Return to Step 1.
I don't know what the current state of Office for Mac is. But the Windows and Mac versions have an interesting and colourful history. A number of separate codebases, converging and diverging.

I don't know if this is the best, but it gives an overview:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Word
Used to be military surplus stores would acquire military surplus and sell them to an amused and subsequently harmless citizenry. All that old equipment has to go somewhere; now such civilian possession is prohibited (even used Humvees (basically just off-road cars) cannot, by law, be sold to the public), it ends up routed to the only group legally allowed to have it and wants it: police. In the meantime, stores that sold military surplus have adapted by selling military-like knockoff gear, and would-be buyers are pumping money into the fast-growing "tactical gear" market.

Fact is, if all this military equipment were sold on open market, no harm would come of it. Used to be available and wasn't a problem then, and the rather large paramilitary equipment market isn't a problem now. Question is: why is the government so afraid of its own citizens possessing such gear?
I think encryption would be the correct way, since you don't want people to be able to compute either plaintext from ciphertext or ciphertext from plaintext.
You would still have to provide an encryption oracle, which would allow bruteforcing, but that could be rate limited.
Should be pretty easy to add that functionality! File a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org. In fact, this would make a great first bug for a new contributor :)
> If you do not know one of the inputs to an XOR

Aren't we talking about potential backdoors built in to the CPU? As in, having full access to all the registers?
Obligatory link to Old Man Murray's "Who Killed Adventure Games?":

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
Keep in mind that this was written by an uncredited marketing type, so Dave Engberg's talk was filtered accordingly. And as annoying as that may be it should not detract from the substance of what he says.
The article starts with "TL;DR: We believe...". I have to admit I stopped reading after the paragraph because I'm not really interested in what people believe, but evidence. It didn't help that it sounded like marketing-speak either.

Maybe I'm missing out on a great article, in that case I'll hope for other comments to change my mind.
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I'm sorry to say that lots of people are using Excel in 'production' for mission-critical money things. It's scary.

For example: http://financialsystems.sungard.com/solutions/hedge-funds-ma...
> less of a precedent of them abusing their own citizens

http://pencanada.ca/blog/on-backdoor-information-access/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement

They let the Americans do that for them.
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