skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my story pretty much echos yours; I'd stopped using paypal for a couple of years, and stopped using Ebay.

I cancelled and about three months later I was "compromised". At that point I reset the data to random values, deleted my "ebay@example.com" email alias, and just resigned myself to forgetting about it.
If an actual currency was devauled 11% from a news article...
I've been looking for a way to make vegetables like brocoli or green beans palatable. What's your secret?
Well, OS processes are the obvious solution. I was asking about languages/runtimes that feature that as a default.

> and no threads in favour of "select".

Not sure why you mentioned that. Callback chains can create concurrency contexts (callback chains) that can interfere with each other, much like multiple threads would. It would have a much higher granularity but you are not out of the woods.
Allowing the prescription of diet pills treats the symptom and not the cause.

Anecdotally I've been overweight most of my life and it is only through a change in lifestyle (cycling to work and a shift to low carb diet i.e. low sugar) that I have seen significant weight loss.

That's not to say prescription diet pills wouldn't work, but without underlying lifestyle changes I would expect the person to using the pills to be going on and off them for the rest of their life.
> No, it isn't. Seriously, tell my how compatibility packages address the lack of TextureView in pre-ICS, the lack of meaningful Camera API, the lack of OpenSLES, the outdated SQLite libs, the lack of way to get the native sampling rate, ... (I could literally go on for an hour like this).

Things like TextureView, OpenSLES, and sampling rate are app specific and will be a challenge to deal with in general, regardless of platform level. Camera APIs are available in a good state going back to API 8 and 9, which are 2.x releases. Generally speaking, the majority of app developers will not have to deal with the APIs you are talking about, but yes they are flaws and your app may have to target higher API levels or have extra development if you want to support older devices for those things.

> Any nontrivial app needs load of work to properly support old versions. And then you can begin the real work: fixing vendor specific bugs.

Vendor specific bugs are always an issue even in the 4.x releases, this is something that cannot be avoided when developing for a platform with a lot of hardware variation.
The NY Daily News demonstrated that the "food desert" concept is mostly a myth.

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/food-desert-myth-article...

edit: Also NY Times, if that is a more authoritative source for some.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of...
> I would rather have usenet like hierarchical database access to articles rather than weighty web driven portal that will not very parseable and has a tendency to change over time and often disappear.

Aye, so would I. USENET was clunky and difficult to use compared to, say, reddit, but overall I think it was far more open, in a technological sense.

Barring karma & co. (which grown-ups probably don't care about too much), I'd say the rate of innovation in online communication between 1993 and 2013 is a joke compared to the one between 1973 and 1993. And I honestly a combination of blame lazy programmers and greedy wannabe-businessmen for for this.
It's as much about the unhealthy lifestyles which are promoted as it is about the "internet" society we live in. People simply want something right now. They don't want to go to the gym and do the hard work and lose those 10lbs over say six to eight months. They want to take a pill so they can lose 10-20lbs over two months.

It's like anything in life. You have to put in the hard work to get the results you want. I feel like giving people a pill is taking the easy way out.
Yes. The FDA is contesting that 23andMe doesn't get an accurate enough reading of DNA. FTFA:

"Last week, the F.D.A. ordered 23andMe to stop marketing its genetic test because it said the company had not provided adequate evidence that the tests were accurate,"
Wait, I'm going to use your same elaborate arguments: bullshit.
I had to bite the bullet on a Galaxy S a couple of years ago due to poor performance but it was totally worth it. Running a 10.1 or 10.2 version of cyanogenmod is very snappy, although there are limitations (e.g. storage space on /datadata) due to the age of the hardware.
I have never seen any project developed by a 100 developers without it being split up into manageable chunks. This is true even for companies like Google.

You might have an umbrella project that's developed by 100s of developers. If you actually look at how the work is split up, you'll see that individual teams rarely exceed 10 people.

Also, here's a case study of how SISCOG has been developing a large Lisp applications since 1986: http://www.siscog.eu/upload/GESTAO-DE-LISTAS/News/PDF/eclm-2...
Show HN: Why we Created a New Kind of Concierge Service
Because it was pre-installed. Everything was already set up by an expert. Let her install a fresh copy and see how it goes. Then let her install windows on same machine and see the difference.
Bitcoin news site scans for stories so you don't have to.
Semi-working mirror: http://www.dominik-schwarz.net.nyud.net/reisen/nordkorea2013...
You can more-or-less program to the OpenGL ES API under full desktop OpenGL, since ES is a subset of the full API.
This is really tough because, as someone who has sat on both sides of the table, the good organizations will be honest and the bad ones will either omit or massage their answers to remain attractive-looking.

That's not to say that your questions will not help you attain more information, but in some cases it is impossible. In the same way that companies with good intentions can make bad hires, candidates can accept offers from employers that are a bad fit for them, even though they asked the right questions.

My recommendation, in addition to the good ones here, is that if you have a good read on personalities, try to identify the person (assuming you have multiple interviewers) that feels the most open, honest, and genuine to you and direct your most probing questions to them. If someone feels too slick, marketing-like, or just seems to drink a little too much of their own Kool-aid, their answers are less valuable. Put more weight on the answers of those who don't paint a 100% rosy picture.
Should You Learn To Code? - ClearlyTech
Google Nexus 5 Review
Yea. And unlike cobalt 60, mercury doesn't decay. Hard to get that stuff out of your system.
What if some intern at Sony adds a little mining-when-idle module to the next PS4 update? Surely this would generate decent profit?
Obviously preventative measures should be our first resort. Obviously all farm subsidize (or at least those that are not in alignment with a healthy population) should be ended.

But I take issue with banning sugary, hydrogenated things. The problem with the modern diet isn't that a kid drinks a Coca Cola with his McDonald's fries once a month when he goes out for a treat with his mom after swim practice. The problem is that the poor lack both the skills, the time, and the money to prepare healthy and tasty food. I made homemade beef chutney last night. Mango, two different types of onions, red peppers, other peppers, etc. It was delicious. Cost about $4 or $5 per person just in food, not counting my Wustof knives or $200 non-teflon non-stick pan.

Kraft dinner would have taken 1/10th the time, at 1/5th the cost, with absolutely no knowledge or skill. If we want the poor to eat healthier we need to show them options that are cheap, easy, and fast. Tuna fish on Rye with an orange. That type of thing.
he / she covers them in cheese
Would anyone be able to give or link to a summary of the four drugs it mentions? How would a person evaluate which would be the best one to try?
Learn Python the Hard Way: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

You can download it and run it off-line. It concentrates initially on drilling simple things so that later it you can release your mind to work on real problems, and not constantly trip over the trivial.

Seems a great place to start.
Conclusive evidence is available. Let's see it.
Spatial Network Analysis for Python
Been reading here for a while but this is my first post. In the interests of disclosure - it is promoting my own project. Hope that's ok & hope you like it.
Even if it's hashed, then the hash can still be used to reconstruct the lastpass passwords. And I'm just assuming that you can't trust your filesystem if your machine has been compromised by malware. You're right the keylogger probably isn't that complicated. It depends on what level of paranoia you have and how widely lastpass becomes adopted (thus more incentive to hack it.) More likely the keylogger will just get the first time you enter your password into lastpass and then steal it that way.

The point is lastpass is designed to protect you from weak passwords and password reuse. It doesn't do anything to protect against attacks on your actual computer.
While empowering patent examiners to say "no" will probably help, it's not going to fix patents. Changes I would make to fix patents:

- Get rid of license negotiation before the fact and replace it with attribution after the fact. All patented ideas should compete for a bounded slice of the pie of products. Attribution should be incentivized, but failure to attribute shouldn't be penalized excessively.

- Instead of just letting a panel of experts (patent examiners) determine which ideas are novel and which aren't, we should further let them determine how novel they are and award the most novel ideas bigger rewards. The current system of granting a monopoly on an idea allows the patent holder to collect a large potion of the total value of an idea, which would be fair only for ideas that occur to just one person in the world. In reality, almost all patented ideas (the good ones, anyway) occur to a number of bright people, even if they wouldn't occur to a person having ordinary skill in the art.

- The patent database should be more like the collection of peer reviewed academic knowledge. Ideas should be rewarded based on impact, rather than just who technically had the idea first. We should reward high quality exposition of ideas instead of our current system that mostly rewards obfuscation.

Of course, all of this is even less likely to happen that the idea in the OP. Abolishing patents or at least software patents would be preferable to the system we have now.
"Apple's goals for Topsy are unclear" is mentioned in the WSJ article - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230485480...

Given that Twitter integration became a native part of iOS back on the iPhone 4S, do you think this is all part of a more strategic plan? Or is it just a way to acquire the data for more effective advertising?
One should avoid falling into the trap of thoughtlessly shunning quick, easy solutions.
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
10lbs over say six to eight months.

That's a long time. Go keto and drop 5 pounds a week.
Cobalt-60 is more dangerous than Caesium-137 in every way except for chemical reactivity. Any significant amount is extremely dangerous. Don't be fooled: what you held in your hand was a vanishingly small source.

This little pdf has some metrics for comparison:

orise.orau.gov/files/reacts/radiological-terms-quick-reference.pdf‎

Edit: I haven't the brains to make the link above active, but if you search for the link on google it will take you there.
I have one of each.
It's because console development is a fairly secretive process. The SDKs are all kept under a fairly tight lid, and unless you either work with it yourself or personally know someone who is willing to spill the beans, you cannot get a good idea of the process.
Is LMDB a LevelDB Killer?
Probably not. A lot of analysis has been done on dirty bombs and their likely effects, and the result of that analysis is that the vast majority of the damage would come from the bomb, not the radioactive material.

Basically, the bomb would kill anyone close enough to get dangerous radiation exposure, and leave a radioactive mess to clean up. People nearby would be exposed to small amounts of radiation, but would pretty much be fine in the long term.

The main power of a dirty bomb is that people overestimate its lethality. So my guess is that we will see at most one dirty bomb, after which people will cease to see it as a serious threat.
As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work
Do you have stats? Go to Help => Firefox Health Report and look at the data on startup time and so forth.

I seem to remember that there are things you can do if you deviate too much from the average of others.. but I don't remember where to find that info.
YC partners make notes each time we meet one of the startups, to keep the other partners up to date. Six months ago I wrote:

Have raised millions from angels but having trouble
raising an A round, which is very surprising. Probably
because Adora is understated and female.

How things have changed in six months. If you grow as fast as Homejoy has, investors eventually pay attention.
Couldn't another part of the problem simply be lack of marketing for these drugs?

Everyone is aware there are goto drugs to toenail fungus and restless leg syndrome from all of the commercials. Shouldn't drugs like these that apply to even more people be all over the airwaves?
1) Partner up with people good at sales, marketing, hiring and delegation.

2) You're right, «nobody is "good" straight away», there is a constant self-improvement required. Yet, one might have inclinations which would make more sense to invest in instead of stretching oneself thin all over.
RedditJS - Reddit built with Backbone.js
To be clear, I'm NOT the project author, just a fan. :)
So, what do you think would be the costs and benefits of waiting to approve a drug until we fully understood how produced it's intended effects? Clearly waiting until we understood every possible interaction for a drug would prevent any sort of mistake, but I'm not aware that we understand any drug in that detail. I hope you wouldn't suggest we abandon antibiotics because theres a chance that any given person taking one for the first time might have a unique allergic reaction.

My best guess on the numbers is that waiting to understand all drugs mechanisms beyond existing testing would, over the course of the FDA's history, have saved dozens of lives at the cost of failing to save millions.
thank you.. this is awesome.
Well according to a comment on the reddit discussion 28 seconds of exposure from a meter away is a lethal dose. No one just opens something for only 28 seconds, or stands a full meter away from it. God forbid if they actually touched the stuff.
"So much for the debate about bitcoin being a currency!"

This is a ridiculous statement. China's current stance on BitCoin doesn't close the debate about it being a currency.
A Microsoft OS still runs on over 90% of the desktop market.
Why Microsoft really needs is to stop and start again from a garage. They have transformed in a weird-ass monster that is slowly dying.
I'd be willing to bet serious money that if Valve released HL Ep.3 with the Steam Box next holiday season, they could upgrade their mattress stuffing from $20s to $100s. Even if they released Windows and Linux versions simultaneously, they would absolutely kill it.
They need to take Windows 7 and keep developing that as separate Enterprise OS.
"Why don't we stop subsidizing corn so much?"
Lobbyists.

"Why don't we teach effective nutrition and cooking in school?"
We do. It's called home economics.

"Why don't we teach effective exercise, sports, and fitness in schools?"
We do. It's called gym.

"If we can ban alcohol and tobacco sales to children, why not things like added sugar, hydrogenated oils, corn syrup, etc?"
Go tell a 6 year old they can't have cake on their birthday.

"If we can ban alcohol and tobacco advertising to children, why not products with added sugar, hydrogenated oils, corn syrup, etc?"
Lobbyists

"Why don't we limit advertising on fast and junk "food"?"
Lobbyists

"Why don't we provide healthy lunches to school children instead of using them to subsidize agricultural conglomerates for low quality food?"
We kinda do: http://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp/national-school-lunch-program

"Why don't we stop subsidizing fossil fuels so much so people would walk and ride bikes more?"
How many times do I have to say this: LOBBYISTS.

"Why don't we align our medical system with prevention instead of expensive and risky cures?"
That's a good question, actually.

EDIT: I like falcolas' answer: Money. Long term care is more profitable than prevention.
Awesome story. I do wonder if it's fictious or real... if real, then the guy so totally deserves a crate of beer.
Develop for Google Glass with Xamarin.Android
I'd suggest reading the history of Moller before giving them money.
Well, you can click on the object which takes you to further information.
Have 50% of YC investments raised a series A?
Not really, people have died from mishandling of this kind of radioactive material before: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull472/...
Microsoft to encrypt data in its services in bid to prevent snooping
"Physical Protection" for buildings and systems
How Lana Del Rey Completely Missed the Point of Lolita
A look at how Lana Del Rey misread Nabokov’s Lolita and projected the the wrong image into mainstream media
If you cut out junk food they'll taste better. Don't over cook.
Distributing computing as charity
"The Future of Indirect [statistical] Evidence", Efron 2010
There is, in UK law, a clause that allows the patent office to force the grant of a license for a reasonable price. This is supposed to stop people from offering onerous licensing terms or simply sitting on the tech.

The thing here is that patent terms are too long for the rate of change of technology nowadays. About 7 years seems like a reasonable term to me.

An alternative to limiting years would be having a vastly increasing rate of increase on the patent maintenance fees per year for granted patents; particularly if it could be related to the revenue of any products that it is in. Then at least the public purse would benefit - from the monopoly the public are giving - in proportion to the benefit the private company is receiving..
Fubarino Contest Example: A Sneaky IRC Bot
I worked in both, and while I see more people taking naps here in London, they definitely take naps in MTV too!
I kind of agree.

The Chinese like to gamble, so something rocketing up was bound to attract speculators.

Some people claim this move is to prevent capital flight from China, which is possible, but unlikely given the volatility of the BTC-USD exchange rate and the need for someone trustworthy i.e. family to be on the receiving end of the transaction who then needs to liquidate and remain tax compliant (if applicable).
I don't think an average person can travel to DPRK on his/her own.
Wow, pics 57-61 showcase thousands of humans syncing together as... display pixels!
It seems to me that "one process per window" would make it very difficult to implement dragging tabs between windows, and out into their own window.
Want a job? You should probably use Twitter
You're basically scared because someone other than you has power. It's sad you can't see past that fear.
I hear this kind of argument all the time and I don't buy it at all. How do poor people have less time to cook than well off people? We all work the same hours.

Pasta costs next to nothing, as does rice, as do beans. Veg and dairy are a bit more but still cheap by any standards. Cigarettes and alcohol, on the other hand, are expensive. As is running a car, or going to McDonalds.

So maybe try subsidising your meals by smoking less, or drinking less, or eating out less, or walking more.
Linked failed. Repost please.
Injuries. Death numbers are far harder to find.

The more pressing concern with putting actors in the mix is that they are necessarily untrained or poorly trained participants.

Most of these accidents happen with trained personnel.

I'm not saying that Bot and Dolly shouldn't do what they're doing. I'm just interested in what their safety procedure is to prevent accidents. "Don't get hit" is not a procedure.
Almost 2 million Internet accounts hacked
Almost 2 million accounts on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and other social media and Internet sites have been breached, according to a Chicago-based cybersecurity firm.
The hackers stole 1.58 million website login credentials and 320,000 e-mail account credentials, among other items, the firm Trustwave reported. Included in the breaches were thefts of 318,121 passwords from Facebook, 59,549 from Yahoo, 54,437 from Google, 21,708 from Twitter and 8,490 from LinkedIn. The list also includes 7,978 from ADP, the payroll service provider. According to a Trustwave blog, “Payroll services accounts could actually have direct financial repercussions.”
The hacking began Oct. 21 and might still be taking place, according to CNN.
You can also expose the git protocol on your website so that anyone can `git clone http://yourwebsite.com`. It's not the whole solution ; you would need a way to get accept pull-requests and advertise the fact trough an HTML header tag, but it's a start to take back the distributed nature of git.

I would be interested to work on that. If anyone else is, please ping me @zimbatm on twitter or github.
I've tried out many different programming languages in an effort to be able to "read" any language that comes my way (as a security researcher, I've noticed malware authors tend not to write in enterprise Java). The only language I can think of off the top of my head where the manual is the only thing you really need is Lua. I don't know if it's just because it's so tiny or because it's a well-written manual (or both), but it's lucky that this is the case because finding Lua code examples isn't exactly easy.

Many other languages I've come across have oddities that pretty much require asking someone who already knows the answer.
They will 100% definitely die. Whether it's because of this, or soon, is a different question.
Thirty Days of Design
How do you twist this to be a result of complicated UI? Git gives a helpfull reminder that commits on a detached HEAD results in a anonomous branch. The only difference from say Mercurial, is that Git warns about this.

There is no difference in "git checkout <changeset" and "hg update <changeset>". NONE. WHAT. SO. EVER. Except that Git gives you a warning that commits on this changeset results in an anonomous branch. And Git is filled with helpfull texts like this. Git status tells you how to revert files. Git rebase tells you how to abort.

I personally find this as something positive, as I don't have to lookup documentation whenever I want to do something.
A lot of manufacturers (like Samsung) see the OS as a differentiating factor which they push using custom builds of Android. This presumably costs money, and risks deploying an OS which is worse than stock Android, and just annoys users.

Windows 8 has the advantage of being more consistent across different devices, and gives a polished experience. This makes the product easier to market as the user can make assumptions about what they will get (unlike some crappy Android builds).

If you assume that most users don't care about the inner workings of the OS the real issue with WP8 is poor app quality.
US hacker turns 'zombie drone' hijacker
I am not sure what you are getting at. That the PARC people were too deep in awesomeness to productize it? Just grabbing at straws I haven't read the whole article.
I feel sad for your daughter.
Seems like a lot of work and extra tools to implement/learn to publish a simple website. What's the upside?
I must have gotten mixed up. The wiki page has enough info rectify it. 5 year half life beta emitter is definitely serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-60
Because you can't create aliases in bash, or make your own file to source instead of ./activate?