skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great experiment, great writeup, great parenthood.
Extrapluskudo's to your mom for making you figure out what went wrong. That's the way to teach something. Build->Fail->Rinse->Repeat
What I want to know is what kind of asshole it takes to do things like this?

Great, Snapchat isn't secure, and they probably didn't give a damn when notified of the vulnerability (not surprising, given their cavalier attitudes), but why expose their audience in order to prove a point?

Not cool man.
The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this: hash collisions. Could problems arise from two keywords that hit the same domain?

Really cool idea, though.
I love the idea, I've been thinking along similar lines.

I would add less strict spelling, ie. spelling correction for existing domains, and for domains that are not recognized, go straight to search engine search (ie. google).
I got lazy. I just drag the files into a Firefox tab because it's already there. Works great if you listen to mix mp3s or are obsessive about picking mp3s.
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The power of habit by Charles Duhigg.
It gives you insight in how habits work. More specifically, it explains the habit loop. Once you understand habits, it's much easier to change them.

http://charlesduhigg.com/how-habits-work/
Microsoft has been moving Skype from its original peer-to-peer architecture to a more centralized system for some time. After the Snowden shitstorm, critics have been implying that the move was NSA-related.
Sorry, POD?
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Yes, I am saying that, primarily with respect to civil liberties. The 1970s represented a high water mark in privacy rights and rights recognized of the accused; the latter have been whittled down to a phantom of what they once were primarily as a result of the government's so-called "drug" war against marginalized communities, and our actual level of privacy is lower than what people had in East Germany, owing to technological advancement.

Advances have been made on race and especially gender, but although that intersects in various ways with civil liberties, that's a separate axis of progress. (I would also point out that most of the gender progress occurred in a way that echoes my suggested strategy: build power external to State power, and the State acceptance or co-optation of it is a fait accompli.)
Hang on, can you explain this to a European? How can something be legal and illegal?!
The CPI is meant to account for this.

It's weighted, and accounts for the changing quality of goods. The weighting goes something like: Housing, Transportation, Food and Beverages, Recreation, Apparel, Medical Care, Education and Communication, Other Goods and Services; in order of importance.

The fact that an iPhone costs less this year than 5 years ago isn't a huge issue for most people. Rising rents (or imputed rents), transport costs, food costs, etc is more important.

So yes, in 1969 a flat screen TV (or whatever the equivalent was) would have cost a lot. But food, housing, and so on was cheap. The CPI already accounts for this. Now, the tin-foil brigade who think CPI is flawed typically argue that basic necessities (housing, food) have gone up a lot more; which is the point I think you are trying to make. And it's kind of valid.

You are also arguing the opposite point - that new products are often better than old ones. The CPI aims to strike a balance - some stuff is more expensive, and other things are cheaper.

But overall, CPI is a pretty valid way to compare how much bang consumers get for their buck.
It's actually pretty straightforward to create fusion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

The catch is doing it in a way that actually produces a surplus of energy that isn't a bomb. NB Even with bombs, most H-bomb designs actually get more energy from fission than fusion.

Edit: I wish there was some rule that said that a small percentage of mega-projects like ITER had to be used to fund competing approaches like this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
There is also a second post from the same - apparently compromised - author: http://blogs.skype.com/2014/01/01/dont-use-microsoft-emails-...
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Ironically when I read this on my iPhone the text size was much smaller than an average novel. (Also, the line-heights need some TLC).

I like larger text, but I find this too big (when I read it on a computer). And I think for valid reasons beyond just personal preference. For starters, it's hard to scan or keep track of where you are in the post. I don't think Nielsen would hold this up as a great example of scanability - on my 11" Air I get just about two paragraphs on screen at the same time.
Used to be a libertarian? Still a right winger, though.

Obama rewrote the bankruptcy laws to help a union? Speaking of union's, firefighters are a problem now? Since when?

Ted Kennedy the murderer. The serfs are being disarmed? How about "cabal of (most) politicians and (some) CEOs"...because (to the right wing mind) it's more likely that politicians are pulling the strings than business people...they make are jerbs! Plus one drudge point for saying that the Google guys are hypocrites (shocking) that voted for Obama.

RSA, a company that makes money, took money from a customer to do something that benefited the customer? That doesn't rise to the level of tragedy as the problems in the justice system.

Let's see the NSA is the Stasi...he also mentioned pre-revolutionary France...the right wing mind loves dreaming that we might have a revolution...and then all the "serfs" that haven't been "disarmed" will throw off their shitty jobs and fight fer freedum!

Here's a gem:
"to every politician who goes on moral crusades while barebacking prostitutes and money laundering the payments, to every teacher who retired at age 60 on 80% salary, "

Hypocritical politicians who commit crimes are like retired teachers? Fuck you. You wormy douchebag.
It's hardly novel.
Doesn't look like they are trying to prove insecurity of the service but protest the spying that Skype and now Microsoft are involved in.
BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits. Essentially:

1. Pick a trigger -- something you already will definitely do at the rate of the new habit.

2. Find a version of the habit that takes no cognitive load and can be done in less than a minute.

3. Celebrate every time you do it.

The template is: After I X, I will do Y. X must be sure, Y must be small. You must do it after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKUJxjn-R8

I also suggest putting in a system that makes it impossible to not do what you want. For the games/netflix one, just get rid of them. Don't depend on willpower -- make a system

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230333

For eating right -- journal everything you eat -- no need to track anything fancy except what it was and you will see results. The magic is that you don't eat things because you don't want to write it down. If you track one other thing, put a + or - next to it to indicate whether you think it was a good choice or not.
That's part of the point. If you don't get readers interacting quickly it's very hard to keep them reading.
Yep. When I lived in a condo surrounded on 5/6 sides by other units, I never turned my heat on. Ever. My gas bill was about $8/month, as I recall, $5.00 of which was the service charge for generating the bill. I assume the other $3.00 was what it cost to keep the pilot light burning.
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Right. I've heard that a lot of it is actually dead skin.
yeah it's old. personally i'm wondering how complicated it would be to have a transparent wineish layer for running mac binaries on linux. the kernel modules are i guess the biggest problem, but last i remember they were fairly heavily based on their freebsd counterparts(well, at least many years ago)

i wish vmware workstation in linux was as good as the mac and windows counterparts ... then i could just run linux as my main os on my mba again
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Hm. Seems like it would make more sense for 'buyers' to submit btc along with the problem, which the market could then hold in escrow and release as soon as a proof passing the verifier was submitted. No need to trust anyone but the escrow service, between btc and machine proofs.
That's pretty much what I discerned. However, #5 is a new one and makes complete sense. Though, I've never ran into that problem myself.
"Latvia becomes 18th state to throw away control of their economy."
I found this one funny:

“Ordinary agriculture will keep up with great difficulty and there will be ‘farms’ turning to the more efficient micro-organisms. Processed yeast and algae products will be available in a variety of flavors.”

Reminds me of Soylent Green (wasn't the original Soylent in the movie supposed to be processed algae?)
Has OP A/B tested his claims and theories in any way, or is it just a tissue of personal preferences backed by rationalizations and just-so stories?
Well you only have guaranteed compatibility with C if a class is standard-layout, which requires that all members have the same access control (public, protected, private). So if there is any rule in C++ that mandates ordering within a "block" when there are multiple such "blocks", it's not for compatibility with C.
http://i.imgur.com/yFl374O.png

Heh, I wish I had that kinda cash to donate on a whim! The actually amount sent in that transaction is highlighted in red. :) About $100 USD in today's BTC/USD rates. The Total input/output is the amount sent/received by that address(1e4yhZqruTy5X7tJtPPLUcrfx9F67xyLL) since the beginning of time. That's not my address btw, that's one of BTC-e.com's internal operations addresses where I purchased and sent the BTC from. coinbase.com(without creditcard on file) will take 4 days to get BTC but I happened to have some USD in BTC-e.com that was handy for a quick BTC purchase. I don't actually hold BTC at the moment, only Litecoin. I only have coinbase.com to buy BTC, to send to BTC-e.com, to exchange for Litecoins.
I like the idea, however it appears as if the buyer has to wait until the seller has done the work before sending them payment.

How much confidence could the seller (i.e. the person doing the proof) have about the buyers ability to pay before they embark on completing the work?

A much better approach would be the buyer puts up the problem they want a proof for and then pays an escrow service, that way you can have more confidence that payment will be completed.
Why not hire a cheap overseas developer to create v1? It will cost you a grand or two, but will allow you to test your idea for little capital. You can always rebuild v2 with a reputable dev shop or freelance team.
And new.net, though I think that was basically malware. There were a lot of "DNS Alternatives" in the early 2000s.
If you hack corporations you can very defintly "get a gun pointed at you". There are laws against hacking, even hacking corporations, and you can be convicted. You can also be sued.
This is a bit ordinary, since it is fundamentally just an escrow service.

What would be really cool is to find a way to "lock" the bitcoins so that only a correct proof in Coq of the given theorem could unlock them. Kind of like holomorphic encryption.
The author says he hates Java and C++. I say: "Vote with your feet." Good for him to move away from contributing to SO.
- There are no successful clinical trials on marijuana by the FDA.

For someone who praises science, your statements really show your ignorance.

So? What does your straw man have to do with anything? He stated marijuana is scientifically proven to be beneficial. It hasn't. No successful clinical trials exist.

A brief use of the Googles turns up:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24373545

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24375977

http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/mpohbp/asap/abs/mp060...

and many more if you bother to look (also negative impact if you're interested in those!)

Generally you do not do a 'clinical trial' on something that is marked as a schedule 1 substance.

What straw man are you referring to? You implied it had no benefits because it doesn't have clinical trials... It doesn't have clinical trials because it is said to have no benefits (schedule 1)... Circular logic! Magic!

Edit: Quoting parent
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Low standards. The post Stalin Soviet Union also provided everything you mentioned. But I'm not happy to be a serf, even if a serf who is likely to have enough gruel for a comfortable existence.

What's better? I don't presume to be able to build a new society from the fount of my head. But relentless, diverse experimentation, and creating the space for that experimentation, seems like a solid approach to me.
plain old data
The compiler can't rearrange your structure data for optimal packing, because it doesn't know if you rely on the ordering of it. I agree that structure packing is mostly unnecessary optimization except for a few high performance scenarios where cache miss frequency has a huge impact.
There's a little bit of libertarian undercurrent there, but I believe it's more of an emergent phenomenon from the mixing of independent-by-nature left- and right-wing voters. Colorado, with large swaths of rural areas as well as big cities, is rather purple.

Put together left- and right-wing voters, and you get either statism or libertarianism, and Colorado leans towards libertarianism. Or so my theory goes.
And Apple has been convicted of e-book price fixing as well as misleading customers into buying extended warranties which were not necessary...
Neat idea! One quibble: since the essence is specifying a domain-name in a new way, it'd be good if the 'escaping' convention didnt' clobber/assume a single protocol/scheme. As it stands, it's not clear how this would be used for other schemes, even 'https'.

Perhaps allow 'scheme#' (where naked '#' implies 'http#'), or move the convention entirely to the domain-name area rather than scheme area. ('#food in chicago' -> 'http://#food in chicago' -> 'http://f02970848a63988965aa40cd368ffcf9046209ca.com')
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If someone drowns 4 kittens and you only drown 1 kitten, you're still pretty evil. I don't see how "everyone else is doing it" is possibly a valid argument. Obviously 'evil' in this case is based on your definition though, it's not exactly a universal concept.
4.6 million Snapchat usernames & phone 3s leaked
One of the funny things is the video-phone. The technology is there for years, and we can't really say we don't do it at all - we do it sometimes. But mostly we don't - not because technology is not there but because it turned out it's not that great an idea after all. Turns out in most of the situations we don't actually need the video and voice only is good enough. It is fascinating how many people didn't think it would be the case.
Snapshot archive (if they fix the page): http://mraka.eu/snapshot/v/blogs.skype.com

Direct link to the snapshot of the hacked site: http://mraka.eu/snapshot/img/2014/01/01/e0d8888c73483275afea...

Snapshot archive of twitter account: http://mraka.eu/snapshot/v/twitter.com

Direct link to the first tweet snapshot: http://mraka.eu/snapshot/img/2014/01/01/1d6269aa8371ce676587...

Direct link to the first retweet snapshot: http://mraka.eu/snapshot/img/2014/01/01/a0f4c0947281bb0fb19d...
I would think that this law has no enforcement outside of California for websites that are outside of California. As a non-California resident operating a website not in California, I am not subject California law. This is the same basis used for not collecting out of state sale tax.
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Yes, for example the fmpz type in flint (http://flintlib.org/) implements this optimization, and also caches bignum objects for quick allocation/deallocation. Here is the benchmark with the mpir mpz type vs the flint fmpz type:

mpz fmpz
digits = 10: 4.24e-06 s 1.2e-06 s
digits = 100: 1.28e-05 s 3.3e-06 s
digits = 1000: 8e-05 s 2.7e-05 s
digits = 10000: 0.001 s 0.0006 s
digits = 100000: 0.017 s 0.013 s
digits = 1000000: 0.25 s 0.23 s
digits = 10000000: 4.32 s 4.08 s

In fact, the benchmark is a bit biased against the mpz type because it spends a lot of time allocating and deallocating temporary mpz's. It would be much faster to replace the recursion by a loop with in-place operations when b - a < 20, say. (On the other hand, unoptimized code of this kind is probably quite common in practice...)
Nice! reminds me of the "4 little words" thing I put together a few years ago http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2010/11/28/4-little-words/
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Posting it again because it was a really good read:

Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)
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Nice idea, but I can see the hash clashing a bit with HTML anchors.
Microsoft is responsible for spying on 90% of all users of an Desktop (or laptop) operating system.

Simply put, because of their market share, their evil has a bigger impact than other companies evil.

footnote: One is always completely free to decided if evil with more market share than other evils are more evil.
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State/Federal laws and law enforcement.
Did you try to compile Python from the source at any point? Or are your installation issues solely with PIP; if so, you can probably manually install packages with something along the lines of

$python3 ./somepkg/setup.py install
Are you excluding Germany, on the basis that they're de-facto still in control of their local currency's monetary policy? :P
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I like to compare it to beer rather than tea. You can make it for dirt cheap, but based on some research months ago, growing truly quality stuff is an art. So, like beer, I expect there will be Coors MJ, and there will be Microbrewery MJ. The former a baseline of reasonable quality for the price, the latter far nicer than anything John Doe can grow in his basement, probably complete with hydroponics and sophisticated monitoring.

But for the time being, it will be expensive because of risk, ramp times, capital investment, etc.
Ooh, cool. I was just idly wondering today whether I could easily delete all my posts from high school (full of angst about calculus and bus rides).

If Facebook actually wants people to be using their service in twenty years, they should really build timeline cleansing in.
In (two, I believe) U.S. states, marijuana has been decriminalized. That is, enforcement won't be applied at the state [roughly equivalent to a province] level. At the Federal [National] level, however, there are still laws that prohibit this.

The result of this is that while you can be doing something for which you cannot be charged by the state, the Federal government has the ability to prosecute you at their discretion. This is where the risk comes in; you are at the mercy of the federal government to continue deciding that they won't enforce the federal laws in those states.
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What does this entail? Open borders to EU residents? Just the Euro? Or also free trade within the EU?
Potentially, but not for this role. A startup isn't a place to learn, unfortunately; it's a place to execute on the skills you already know cold. However, do we have one opening for a PhD-level staff scientist that we could consider your friend for.
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Good point.

In my mind, ideally the next big social media platform will be P2P and open source. I have some ideas on how this might work and the features this would include, but I've never hashed them out since my programming ability doesn't approach the level required for such an undertaking. Maybe I will as a thought experiment and publish my ideas so that anyone can use them.
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I didn't mean the DNT law will be enforced nationally. I meant the effect will be national since a site will just implement the necessary changes once for all its visitors.