skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Make the owners and lenders of firms responsible.

Here's the trouble with that: You haven't solved the mundane version where a mid level manager destroys a division of a large corporation but not the entire corporation. In that case, shareholders losing a large chunk of money is what already happens today. They lose the value of the entire division, and they therefore have a large incentive to prevent it. But it still happens. The shareholders in general have devised no universally effective way to prevent it.

If you increase their exposure, you haven't given them any new defense to the attack, so all you really end up doing is encouraging them not to invest in stocks because stocks now have increased risk over other investment securities.

Your proposal is, essentially, to put incentives in place for the market to solve the problem, and then you assume without proof that with the right incentives the market will solve the problem. But someday somewhere you actually need a solution which parties wanting to avoid being damaged can employ to solve the underlying problem, ideally without overcompensating and causing parties to become unduly risk-averse.
You have to do more than turning it off (unless you can pop the battery). The FBI can bug a phone and have it send audio even while turned off, I'm guessing go the NSA can pretty much so what it wants.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
President Obama says he isn’t an iPhone user due to ‘security reasons’
Yahoo Closes Above $38 For The First Time Since Early 2006
Wake up at 5 AM regularly (even on weekends). And go to sleep early as well. Sometimes I do more in first few hours early in the morning than throughout the rest of the day.
>It does not fit the "rate of change is proportional to raw size"

i kind of see it here. The evolution speed depends on the speed of generating of changes and on the speed of selection of the generated changes.

Wrt. the speed of generating of changes. The more complex a system (i.e. types and number of actors/components and relationships between them) - the more diverse set of small gradual changes/variations to components/relationships/behaviors can happen while the system will still be functioning. In particular it is applicable to biological systems, ie. single cells, colonies, multicell organisms and various groups/societies of it. For example, in general, 2 different species of cells can produce more diverse set of natural variations than 1 species even if the total number of cells is the same in both cases. An example at different scale - one science - philosophy of Ancient Greeks has become a multitude of sciences through the same process of branching/specialization and the speed of this process is proportional to the number of branching/specializing sciences. Following the same principle - there is no way US tax code (or the law in general :) will become simpler anytime in the future :)
Reminds me of this http://gizmodo.com/5304233/entire-new-13+story-building-tips...
Apple finally signs deal to sell iPhones on China mobile’s network
> "Your character can never be essentially injured except by your own acts."

If only this were true, we would not need laws against defamation.
Apple signs deal with China Mobile to offer the iPhone to its 740m subscribers
I enabled 2 Factor Authentication some time ago and know I am much more secure now.

As for password managers, I think it would be cool if the browser &/or websites could figure out a way to launch a default password manager installed on the computer (or in the cloud?) and auto-populate a strong password and enter it into the manger. Way more people would use best practices if they were virtually automatic.
Yeah. And being told by doctors that I shouldn't have picked up an infant without a Hazmat suit was eye opening.

The Doctors and Nurses barely touch anything, they swear, and I believe them, that a scrape from a railing, or a fall on the stairs can be all it takes to get an HIV infection. Like we think of tetanus they think of Hep, and HIV.
I do not think it is a common problem. Discounting other people's correct arguments because you diagnose a fallacy or the effects of a cognitive bias? More common.
Pair said to have illegally generated $1M worth of Bitcoins
The naive total-arbitrated-BTC solution wouldn't work, since someone can always arbitrate a bunch of 'transactions' between sockpuppet addresses they themselves control. But as long as there's some mechanism to pay arbitrators for their services, it seems reasonable to expect a small set of trusted arbitration services to spring up, analogous to CAs. Of course, once you're paying an arbitration fee on top of a bitcoin transaction fee, it's not clear that you're saving any money relative to a standard credit card transaction.
NASA releases Saturn 'hexagon' images like never seen before
have you tried: http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/insurance_plans?zip_code=9410...
There is also the "smoothtalking recruiter managed to talk a teenager into doing something dumb" angle, but that only goes so far with me.

Still, I don't hate people who join or anything... call it a very strong disapprove. However I do find it hard to associate with people who try to assure me that they're one of the good ones because "Oh, I'm not really the patriotic type, I just joined so I could go to college" line. That impresses me far less than "I joined [for my country|it was the right thing to do|for the innocent civilians over there|war is a necessary evil|I was young and naive when the recruiter came to my school|911 HUURAH!]". I don't believe people when they say the former, but if I did, I don't think I could consider them anything but mercenaries.
Even though todos are simple examples, those simple examples are usually enough to make decisions off of syntax and "flow".
Emotions are more choice than you're giving credit for. Next time you notice you're feeling annoyed, take a moment to manage your emotional state. Reflect on your day in the broader context; get to the bottom of what's really bothering you (often you just remember that it's mundane and you get over it); think about something you're excited about; consider changing the topic. Often, with ten or fifteen seconds of thought, you can completely transform an unwanted mood.
One of the comments on the submitted article on its website nails it:

"What 23 and me is saying is not accurate. The reason why the FDA has a problem with them is not the fact that they are decoding DNA for people, it is the fact that they are interpreting the results to diagnose specific medical conditions direct to the public.

"This is against FDA regulations unless it is waived (CLIA waived). In order for a test to be CLIA waived it has to be 'simple laboratory examinations and procedures that have an insignificant risk of an erroneous result.' Examples include glucose tests and pregnancy tests. DNA testing is FAR from that.

"I am a member of 23 and me and they scour scientific research papers to assign medical conditions to certain genomes. They rate the quality of the research from 1 to 4 stars based on how established the research is. How they determine this is unknown. Genomics is rapidly expanding and it is often hard to determine disease correlation with a genetic marker."

Hear. Hear. I have a local friend whom I grew up with who is an electrical engineer who works on medical devices. By any reasonable reading of the FDA regulations adopted under statutory authority from Congress, the product and service combination on offer from 23andMe falls within the scope of FDA's regulatory authority, and the company's consumer-facing product claims are extraordinary claims for which the company has not provided evidence. That's bad.

An article from Fast Company previously submitted to HN and discussed here points out that 23andMe's business model is basically to gather a lot of cell samples and a lot of personal health data from consumers, and then gradually infer genetic relationships to disease risk that might be valid and actionable. But that's not how it is marketing itself to consumers today.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3018598/for-99-this-ceo-can-tell-...
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Great one, thanks!

Thinking / talking to oneself is a huge puzzle-space in general because of the self-modifying aspect of it, and not lying to oneself sounds like a great foundational value to keep the entire OS sane.
I agree and don't doubt that it did, but few things were both as vulnerable and as targeted as an unpatched Win95/98 system attached to the Internet (capital I). The reason was simply that embedded versions rarely got patched, and when a vulnerability was found that was in the embedded version as well, malware could find it and use it long after everything else was safe. There were a couple of EMC storage management consoles that got hit by this problem and ATM terminals as well. The scary part would be having your 15 year old piece of test equipment be rendered unusable by such an event. The odds were small but decidedly non-zero.
If you look at the history, I believe you'll see that automation of any sort has resulted in the movement of jobs, not a lack of jobs.

If you look at history, I believe you'll see that automation of any sort has resulted in the movement of jobs - to lower paying jobs. The destruction of America's middle class should be a testament to that. People think that their middle-class salary factory jobs all moved to China, but in reality most were simply automated.

Unemployment may be high now (tough to get a good number showing the difference over the last century, but at least one of the brilliant people on HN knows how to do it), but I suspect that if you exclude the last 5 years, unemployment was fairly flat as a percentage over the last century.

Unemployment has fluctuated dramatically over the last century as a percentage between nearly zero percent in WW2 to over 20% during the Great Depression.
NSA Reportedly Tracking Cell Phone Location Data
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And you're a bad person for asking!
I am married with a child and my wife does not work.

I bet your wife works a lot. It's just that nobody pays her for it.
I've got nothing but contempt for them, so I think that's a great idea.
Letters to my copyright infringers
Well, going to the gym or learning a new programming language are also hard. Most things that matter in the long run are.

Being honest with yourself is not the same S confidence building. BSing yourself is saying 'my new app will sell a million units'. Being honest with yourself is saying 'if I do x and y, then I can see a market size for my app of a million units. There is risk that this won't happen becaue of z, but I am going to proceed'. If it then fails, the person prone to lying to themsleves will blame everything and anyone else. The person who is honest with themselves will look at the hard lessons and take them on board, and benefit from the experience.

To me, there is no line at all.
Foreigner Goes to Help Fallen Woman, Is Extorted for 1800 RMB
Many changes/advancements drastically increase opportunities for further changes/advancements.

Technological advancement tends to follow that pattern, and I imagine many evolutionary changes do, too.
Incidentally, this is one of the best litmus tests I've found for many life decisions. (college, hobbies, friends, dating, etc.)
NASA explains how it knows so much about alien planets
Still very unimaginative thinking right there. Releasing human resources from current tasks, combined with greater purchasing power of those with more disposable income creates new opportunities for products and businesses.

I'm sorry, but where did this increased purchasing power come from? The people who traded their middle class job for slinging burgers? The purchasing power of the vast majority in the US has gone down over the last 60 years.

I'm not against automation. It is inevitable. But let's not pretend like it is just as inevitable that everything will work itself out.
Agreed, most of the investors I've worked with provided zero benefit through advice. Often investors are out of touch with trends, they have their heads in the financial clouds and can rarely get past their infatuation with hockey sticks. Obviously some investors have a clue about the technology, but not in my experience - won't name names for obvious reasons.
Nothing quite like trying to write a complex system from scratch to realise just how many giant shoulders you stand on every day.
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[T]hese people knew about the place for almost 5000 years. Can you imagine that kind of continuity?

They must have been members of what David Deutsch calls a "static society". These are societies which actively try to keep things the same, and stamp out any innovation or differences. Things change there so slowly that the change is not noticeable within a single generation. In a 2011 interview with Ken Rose (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/beginning-of-infinity/dr64n4...), Deutsch said that "progress, from the point of view of the human species as a whole, is very recent and very rare. Through most of human history, people would live their entire lives without ever encountering an innovation, whereas now, we take it for granted that iPhone updates come more often than is comfortable."

For more, see his superb book The Beginning of Infinity (2010).
This might be relevant for people:

A language for live programming music in clojure:

http://mad.emotionull.com/
Honor my friend, honor. Unfortunately I find myself sorely lacking.
Sigh. The author misses the point.

Amex can tell a Bank which is analgous to the BitCoin Wallet in this case, to move your money from it into some other Bank, whether you agree or not based on your agreement with Amex and the Bank's agreement with Amex. Nobody can 'force' a BitCoin wallet to transfer funds without the express permission and co-operation of the person who has the wallet's secret key.

So in the example, seller and buyer agree on an escrow agent, seller sends merch, buyer says they got it, transaction completes, but if the buy then discovers that the transaction was fraudulent [1] then there is no way for them to "force" the seller to give them back their money or, in the parlance of payments markets, "reverse" the transaction. Can't do it unless the seller initiates a new transaction to send you the funds back, and if they don't or won't, you are out of luck.

[1] (say only the top layer of kilos were cocaine and the layers below that were just corn starch)
Languages develop. I was told never to use "due to" instead of "because". Told never to use "quote" instead of "quotation". And, I was told that "horrific" was not a word.

All of those things are no longer true, based on my casual reading of the New York Times.

(Note - I was also told to use "He" as the generic case for singular person. Outside of english 11/12, I've never used anything other than "they" - and have never had anyone comment on it. "They" as the singular person form is fine, and avoids the gender confusion.)
Amazing technology!

Again I protest the design decision of light gray text on a gray/white background. Higher contrast! :) (sorry to be a broken record).
It's certainly good marketing for the outfit offering the course!

And it's not exactly verifiable now is it?
"The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, ..."

"The records feed a vast database that stores information about the locations of at least hundreds of millions of devices, ..."

Why are there only 5 billion geolocation records ingested daily? Using a conservative estimate of 200 million devices, that yields an average daily ingestion rate of 25 records for each device. This seems really low.

It sounds like NSA may be culling the data aggressively, or the definition of a record may constitute more than just a single polling event. Perhaps both.

Keep in mind that the Bluffdale, Utah facility was not operational at the time the documents referenced in the article were created. It's possible ingestion of gelocation data has since ramped up.
Yeah I saw that too. $80,000 to redo two bathrooms, on Central Park South? I'd love to find out what $40,000 buys in a bathroom. I'm feeling a little cheap now. When I redid my 1950's bathroom, my cabinets, fixtures, tile, etc was only ~$500, from Home Depot.
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We pay very competitively and offer awesome benefits. Email jobs@apptimize.com.
You're assuming everyone has a Yahoo Account, and they like using Flickr
> Writing an actual graphics driver is tricky

Does that include things that are not in text mode, if I recall the name correctly? Sometimes I just want my tiniest netbook to display the normal 80x40 resolution but it keeps putting the characters in what I think is video mode
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Great. So, if you owned all 21M bitcoins you could move $258 dollars.
dead on with the cost of wasted time through gamification. And many questions on SO can be answered with ~10 mins of extra thought. It's a good reference though, as someone mentioned. Makes a manual searchable, basically, with a bit of layman explanation.

I get bitter though because any time I post a question that actually requires thought (can't be answered by checking an API) it ends up getting downvoted because you well... actually have to read a paragraph to understand it, I assume. That site has an uncanny ability to trash anything of value so a lot of the time I spend on it I wish I just spent reading programming theory instead of gleaning random bits of knowledge. I guess its enlightening though to see the level of developers & tech engagement in the different communities. It lets you see how active the community is and what level of quality the devs are, basically. (So... more questions doesn't necessarily mean better community...)

& o god lets not even get into the amount of wasted time spent wanting to claw your eyes out when someone (especially mods) say some horribly arrogant thing responding to some imaginary version of your question (i guess they read 2 or 3 words from each sentence?). or they point out some semantic reason why theoretically they're right even though in practice they're wrong and the theory doesn't actually support their argument, it's just agnostic... chills
Again, there is literally no thing on Earth that can stop you from acting with dignity. That is the point of stoicism.
"Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been."
bitcoin transactions aren't reversible.
I work on an IT Helpdesk, and I fear that if my clients figure this out, I may be kicked out the door :/
Fine. Then label it for "Entertainment purposes only".
Joyend. I mean Joyent.
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i.e. not reversible. Once the buyer says they received the merchandise and signs off, the money goes to the merchant. If after two days the merchandise goes bad because it was fraudulent, the buyer is screwed. No 180 day waiting period.
I get that this answer might seem overly terse, but there are a group of unnamed prisoners in Guantanamo Bay sitting there, not getting the benefit of due process that they are obligated.

Under the NDAA, the president has the authority to enshrine anyone he wishes, subject to zero oversight, to a similar fate.

Under the PATRIOT Act, we've bombed American Citizens suspected of possibly committing a crime in the future without the benefit of oversight, due process, or any of the Constitutional protections ordinarily afforded to American citizens.

Aside from that, there are far more instances throughout history, but those are the (IMO) most egregious offenses under the current administration at least.
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That's because protection was added (about a year ago I think) to rapidly broadcast detected double-spends through the network. Before the canary function, it actually used to be pretty easy to get a double-spend accepted into the network within 5 minutes of the first spend.
An interview with Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer
You would still get caught. You can reverse the timestamp from the "last 7 days" and the partial week column. You can get the timestamp from the numbers by summing until you hit the magic number, and taking the timestamp of the last transaction.

You would also need to delete the last two columns, and likely round-off the rest of the figures.
> One of regulators' biggest worries about virtual currencies, like Bitcoin, is that they're susceptible to fraud, counterfeiting, and manipulation. Well, two people in Germany apparently just proved this was possible.

The problem with the way this article is worded is that the way these Bitcoins were obtained had nothing to do with fraud, counterfeiting nor manipulation. Their actions were illegal because they ran malware on people's computers to generate the bitcoins, not because they manipulated the currency itself.
How long before 23andMe sells your personal DNA information up the river to advertisement corporations?

Don't trust corporations with your personal information because, with few exceptions, they are more than willing to sell you out to make a quick buck. And then they claim that their slogan is 'Don't be evil.'