skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that much of the information you cite is old, from technologically backwards times. E.g., the CIA's 1963 interrogation manual:

Intense pain is quite likely to produce false
confessions, concocted as a means of escaping
from distress. A time-consuming delay results,
while investigation is conducted and the admissions
are proven untrue. During this respite the interrogatee
can pull himself together. He may even use the time to
think up new, more complex ‘admissions’ that take still
longer to disprove.

A story told by the interrogatee that took a few days to check out then quite possibly could be checked out in a few minutes now, because of our vastly better computer, database, and communications technology.

I think there is a chance there may be a window where torture works reasonably well. You start out where it doesn't work well, for the reason given in the 1963 CIA manual.

Then, as technology gets better, so that you have the databases and data mining applications and communications technology to check out the interrogatee's story in close to real time, torture becomes effective.

Later, as the technology gets even better, and the databases get bigger (ironically, partly due to things like the NSA surveillance), you reach a point where the interrogations are pointless because you aren't getting anything from the interrogatee that you couldn't have gotten quicker with clever queries to the databases you already have.
Are you even serious? About 99% of what the American government does is specifically prohibited in the Constitution.
brjohnson, not sure why your interesting comment was deleted, but here it is.

>Google can know that most Honda Civic drivers in Chicago (for example) park next to McDonald's, and that their phones traveled inside the restaurant
This is already in beta testing.

http://marketingland.com/google-quietly-testing-offline-stor...

>Google is beta-testing a program that uses smartphone location data to determine when consumers visit stores, according to agency executives briefed on the program by Google employees. Google then connects these store visits to Google searches conducted on smartphones in an attempt to prove that its mobile ads do, in fact, work. Google is reportedly using location in the background (on Android and iOS) and its database of business locations (my guess) to determine when people visit stores.

>Disabling location reporting also disables Google Now features tied to location, which may be undesirable.

It also explains why they killed Skyhook. http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la...
No-one's saying you should be immune from criticism, surely? FWIW: yes, you should totally be able to say whatever you want, even if it's bigoted, flat-out wrong, outdated, whatever; as long as I'm free to say that it's dumb and bigoted, flat-out wrong, outdated, whatever ;)
If they were using Cloudflare, as the other commenter had asked, they would be using Cloudflare nameservers
Among all enterprises? Very common. You don't hear about the vast majority of them.

(Keep in mind a break-in doesn't have to have been targeted specifically at you to cause damage or to be classified as a break-in.)
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They have translation and rotation. What path can you not construct from those?
Symbols are random things that mean nothing until someone says it. If you and I agree that U+0079 is 'y', then so be it. But lets use the other namespaces of the index, too .. and in that regard .ttf has much to offer the aspiring user of the format. Problem is, a shallow look at it, of course, renders the conclusion that it is an investment; but if I know for sure my glyphs render the same way for grandma, no matter if she's using it on some grungy screen, somewhere, then I'm okay with letting the heart-beat monitor screen be composed mostly of cache-able sub-functions derived from somewhere_safe.ttf.

On the other hand, using SVG to pre-load values, then modifying the decomposed stack, somewhere appropriate, in order to attain sustainable realtime SVG rendering performance .. seems as if its a matter of principle. Could it be the jury is out until someone says screw it, and bases the entire OS of their new device on SVG, alone, and not much else?
I personally like the Disqus humans.txt file: http://disqus.com/humans.txt

Edit: Also, I'm just getting a 404 on the linked Google humans.txt file.
Interesting. In FF29, there's no perceptible difference.
>When the bad guys use torture in a tv show or movie, that shouldn't count towards what you are claiming - only when the good guys uses it.

What an odd view.

Whenever anyone uses torture to successfully extract information - bad guy or good guy - we are getting the not-so-subtle message that "torture works".

Torture doesn't work. And if you're so habituated to the message that "torture is effective" to the point that you don't even notice torture, well...
Threads are quite useful, and Javascript has them. However, if what you have is a computation you have the inputs to start now and won't need the result of for a while, lazy evaluation is a far more natural representation for that than a thread.

Ideally, a language ought to have one representation for lazy evaluation, not a dozen; perhaps at some point a new standard will come out that standardizes some subset of lazy evaluation that has won out. Welcome to Javascript.
My guess is that they are optimizing for smartphone use cases: ie record a quick video instead of stitching together photos from lots of different folks. Using linear video as an input means you have knowledge you didn't have before: successive shots must be taken from a relatively close position and direction.

The technology is clearly deeply related to the more freeform movement variants of the past. It's likely that even better freeform movement can be stitched together from a collection of linear videos than could be from a collection of stills in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if we see that start to happen soon.
Unfortunately looking isn't all that's going on. The advertiser can collect data about web browsing habits which I like to keep private. And some ads can actually hurt you: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/05/tech/yahoo-malware-attack/

Getting served data from someone you didn't choose to send you data is never a good thing.
Me too, followed the HNStatus on twitter too
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I also wonder if population density makes a difference. An ambulance should take less time to get to you in Manhattan than 80 miles outside of Houston.
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Your premise that Season 2 was "full of torture scenes" (it was nothing compared to Season 4) is false. And anyway, the producers of shows like this (i.e. those with messaging deemed advantageously pro-establishment) are rewarded by said establishment by being connected in and obtain insider information.
The Lenovo X1 carbon has a 1600 x 900 screen though... I needz my linez of code ;)
Not to be pedantic, but letterforms are fundamentally chain-able icons and those have been around since written language.

More contemporarily, other marks/icons we now would think of as standard are really icons for language control or words themselves. Typographers have been using monochromatic marks and glyphs since the dawn of the printing press.

So, not a flash in the pan.
I hope that everyone who writes JavaScript will do themselves a favor and try out ToffeeScript. This offshoot of CoffeeScript simplifies things. For example:

if fs.exists! thefile
e, datastr = fs.readFile! thefile, 'utf8'
else
datastr = 'not found'
success = db.update! 'somekey', datastr
res.end success

So in that example even though there are three callbacks it looks like a normal synchronous flow.
Saw "Sign in with Microsoft" and left.
No, if the sought information is simple and verifiable, it most definitely works.

If you withholding a password, a torture would likely reveal it. It can be checked on the spot. There's even a relevant xkcd strip.

If you're a merchant hiding gold assets somewhere, a torture might just convince you to point the stash. And on and on, there were countless cases in human history when torture worked, propagating it's ubiquitous use as investigation method.
As an undergrad, the main reason I would pursue a PhD would be to have some kind of intellectual freedom after graduating. A lot of my CS peers and friends would rather immediately jump to industry to make that magical $100k/yr, but I see a PhD as a way of being able to pursue my interests much more freely. If I have to be a slave/code monkey, I'd rather be a slave for myself first. That's worth the difference in salary for me at this moment.
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Could it be that many people are actually interested in science?

There is nearly continuous hand-wringing that kids are no longer interested in science, yet many go into fields like physics, astronomy, and biology despite knowing the job prospects are better elsewhere (finance, programming, petroleum engineering, etc.). And then many continue on for a PhD despite it not making financial sense to do so. One possibility is that they are either highly misinformed or just irrational. But one could be that they actually want to advance physics, astronomy, biology, or whatever their chosen field is, and they see it as a necessary prerequisite (finding a career in physics with a physics BSc is difficult).

If so, then we have one of two problems (or perhaps a mixture):

1. Too many kids are interested in science. We should stop trying to encourage interest in science as a career, and rather encourage kids to develop interests elsewhere, to reduce the glut. No more kids-oriented physics or astronomy programs on public TV!

2. The existing scientific career pathways are not sufficient to provide productive scientific careers to enough of the people interested in pursuing a scientific career. We should figure out what to do about that, whether it involves debugging/debottlenecking some of the pathways, increasing funding, producing new funding models (perhaps research funding not tied to universities), etc.
You need to win in order to get one of those.
It's quite ironic to see Apple and fans trumpet big numbers, in sales, in downloads, etc.

It used to be the other way around, Microsoft bragging while Apple and fans claiming that quality was more important than quantity.
It's funny how oblivious Americans are to the dangers of driving. This despite generally knowing people who have been badly injured or killed in vehicular accidents.

Car exhaust is also a big deal. Air pollution kills.

Instead of talking about the very concretely understood dangers of car culture, people want to spout total nonsense about sugar or freak out about a little second hand smoke.
"I must admit, though... when compared to the cartoonish patriotic jingo-fied violence of the 1980s, where Rambo and the A-Team defeated countless enemies in settings that always felt like a walk in the park... perhaps the torture thing is the lesser of the two evils?"

At least the heroes in those implausible stories behaved like heroes, rather than villains who you only identify with out of some jingoistic team spirit.
Yeah I just started working on a node project and can't help but feel like I have been transported to a time 40 years ago where my operating system didn't have a process scheduler and I have to do it all myself. I literally have to think about how asynchronous behavior works every 2 or 3 lines of code. It's sheer madness.
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The thing is that the status quo is in the favor of the US, and they ensured that the oil continued to be sold to the US.
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>The "low fat" mantra resulted in a lot of "fat free" but sugar-laden and/or grain based foods being the primary component of many diets, resulting in epidemic obesity and diabetes.

This is because people can't read more than one thing, it's not a conspiracy on the part of the government.

Messages from the US government are correct, Americans in general consume too much fatty foods. That people can't look at what they're eating, see it contains 900% of their daily sugar intake and instead stop thinking at that bright 'LOW FAT' sticker on the front is not the governments fault.

And god damn, grains are a portion of the diet, they're not pushing a high grain diet. The food pyramid is 'all things in moderation' in an infographic form.

And grains aren't going to kill you.
that homepage of yours is something special :)
SVG performance on mobile is exceptionally abysmal. The desktop browser performance delta isn't bad.
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I agree with michaelochurch's argument and extend it to a escalation of commitment / sunk cost fallacy effect.

No jobs for BS grads other than waitress? Well, I'm not going to quit physics after 4 long years and go into being a waiter... I know, go for a MS! Whoops no jobs for MS grads other than barista? No problemo, go for a PHD!

I would also propose the "professional sport" model now applies in academia. 1000 students will get a BS, 100 will get the MS, 10 will get a PHD, 1 will get an actual PHD level industrial job or tenure track professorship. The other 999 can pay off their student loans working at Starbucks. There is less difference between a physics major and a phy ed major than ever before.
You can not have a CNAME at apex/root/naked domain such as example.com level. you can not point example.com CNAME username.github.io. The DNS spec only allows A records/Ip Addresses at this level. some companies have come up with Alias record which works like CNAME on apex domain, some old DNS Servers might not recognize this but most do these days.
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Mercurial has seriously improved over the past couple of years. If you tried mercurial a few years ago and were scared away due to speed or functionality issues, you might want to give it another shot.
Nothing if you have the time. One of the reasons I love Stackexchange is because its an aggregation point for domain-specific knowledge that doesn't fit into a Wikipedia sort of model. I hope Stackexchange grows into a Wikipedia-esq peer of sorts.
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Bigotry is defining a group as inherently evil, and rejecting any sensible discussion with a member thereof on the grounds that someone is (or sympathizes with) one. Never mind whether he may have saved lives thru "enhanced interrogation", your curiosity about what he did exists only insofar as his admission thereof justifies your labeling him as evil (no room for good-faith discourse possibly resulting in "hey, maybe you're not so bad after all").
Yep thought so. Even though some effects are quite different
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Thanks, I should have pointed out the second part. I should have lived more cheaply than I did. I frittered away money here and there that could easily have tided me through a couple of short term crunches. And I could have more easily pursued several medium run goals had I had such a buffer earlier on through saving.

I've found tracking spending has made me a lot more conscious of where the money goes, and doesn't take much effort. My spending fell naturally once I knew where it was.

I also incorporated more of those hidden liabilities patrick talked about into a spreadsheet where I have an estimate of finances at month's end. Seeing my total net worth on this sheet rise has been highly motivational. It also helped me accurately assess what margin of savings I'd need at bare minimum.

Note: I tried mint, but found it didn't produce the same effect as entering data manually.
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Another way for facebook to datamine people's personal details. Wonderful.
>but I think you're obviously right

Did you read all the research presented in the article and here in the comments and come up with that conclusion, or are you just talking out of your ass?

What if they didn't have the password? This is a real life example. I'm going to use an example. This lady was stopped on an airplane because she was carrying explosives. Her husband packed her bags and she didn't know she was carrying them. What if it was a really important laptop? Would you torture her? Would you risk giving her a lifetime of mental and physical scars because you thought she had a password she didn't even have?

>In that situation, it will work.

You sure about that? Some people would rather be a martyr and die. Examples are all around.

Waterboarding can cause death by the way.
The irony is rather that the excuse they provide is that they want to verify people's identity to prevent abuse, but then openly recommend using a fake identity to log on.
I love the Mercurial community. We use Mercurial at work and I'm able to get instant support in IRC for any issue we have with an awesome signal/noise ratio. I'm glad Facebook is contributing back so much as well. My suspicion is that open source projects tend towards Git because of GitHub but I think a lot of companies who don't have the option of external code hosting lean towards Mercurial. All anecdotal observations of course ;-)
Here's a Go smtpd.
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What is the business model for this? (just curious)
We did one demo that was more or less floating above static terrain, and another with Half-Life 2.

My own nausea didn't actually start up until HL2. We were playing on a laptop (probably not enough horsepower), using slightly unfamiliar keyboard & mouse controls. So some movements were very fluid & second-nature to me, while others were jerky and off because of the slightly-off control scheme.

It's possible the most nauseating moment was taking the headset off, actually. Up to that point, my mouse hand had been a pretty accurate proxy for my in-game hand and arm, but taking my hand off the mouse and then ripping the "world" away with that same (now "phantom") hand was deeply disconcerting.

But it's also possible the nausea built up slowly over the course of playing. I'd love to spend more time with it to see if it's something you really can adjust to.
It's not even for the average, because too many people are far too stupid for that and things suddenly have to be 'for everyone'. Someone with a 100 IQ and a modicum of common sense can deal with such things as an options menu, despite what google/apple/increasingly MS think.
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"Our engineers were comfortable with Git and we preferred to stay with a familiar tool, so we took a long, hard look at improving it to work at scale. After much deliberation, we concluded that Git's internals would be difficult to work with for an ambitious scaling project."

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/how-open-source-chang...

"And then Git itself wasn't working for us anymore because it wasn't scaling when we'd have an operating system release. So we ended up hiring most of the Git team - there's like only one or two core committers now for Git who don't work at Google,"
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Great, thanks. Didn't want to go to the trouble of creating an account if I couldn't use it :).
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What's interesting is Facebook used to have an "Ask a Question" feature and shut it down due to lack of use.

Sometimes you need to keep striking the match until it lights.. but I don't quite get what they're fixing that Facebook's approach got wrong (obviously not the network?)

Facebook Officially Begins Shutting Down “Questions” Product: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/19/facebook-questions-shut-dow...
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You'd really want to see something like a lifespan version of the Gini coefficient to assess inequality. Having the mean as well as the median wouldn't really tell you a lot.
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And the other site is that sex is evil. Even little breast used to be more difficult to display in a movie than a decapitation. Oral in a woman? Better torture someone.
Our Nest v1 seemingly died last night. Waiting to hear from support if it's related to the firmware issue or not.
Does the standard branch workflow still expect you to have a separate repository and directory per branch? I don't care about plugins, here; if the standard workflow doesn't include incredibly lightweight branches, I'll stick with a version control system that does.

Likewise, does the standard workflow still intentionally make it painful to rearrange changes in your local repository to construct a series of patches? Does Mercurial provide built-in commands equivalent to "commit --amend", "rebase -i", and "add -p"?
It's my understanding that you can't use them simultaneously. You have to choose one of the types: spin, panorama, walk, or wall. (http://photosynth.net/preview/about)

In the previous version, random pictures around a scene could be stitched together allowing an experience you could explore. For example, one of the original, popular photosynths allowed you to explore inside an art studio. You could look up at the ceiling, walk on various paths, move close into pictures, etc. In this new version, you're stuck on rails.

tl;dr: In this version each node has two exit points: next or previous picture. In the previous version each node had an unlimited number of exit points to other pictures.
If you have one of these machines, you can boot STEAM and run it, and have your games everywhere. STEAM on your PC, STEAM on your friends PC, STEAM on the TV, STEAM wherever you wanna put it. Here is a list of machines STEAM works with. STEAM. STEAM. STEAAAAAM!

I'm quite happy having a very portable game collection that goes from one box, to another. The kids love it, anyway, coz: STEAM!
Where is this, Toscanini? I don't think the guy running the register and dipping the ice cream has the ability to override whatever settings the tech guy put into the router for the owner in the first place but can't you just walk down the street to the free Starbucks?

These are their terms, why does everyone have to argue with others about free services provided?
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Most people haven't learned how to use a shopping list? What people are you talking about exactly (emphasis, as I'd like to know who you're describing here)?

I grew up in poor Appalachia. Every single person I knew, understood perfectly well how to use a shopping list, and how to cook. I simply can't imagine who these people are that don't know such things, given my comparison group is in theory low on the education chart.
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On the subject of movement while wearing a VR headset, it seems to me that most successful games will be those where your character remains seated. Flight simulators, space combat sims, mech games, stuff like that.

For that kind of game, just the Rift and a joystick should provide an amazing experience.
Your comment is ironic because C# implemented async in 2012. Async thinking takes a while to get used, but that doesn't mean it's more difficult than threads or mutexes and whatnot. In fact, I think it's simpler. You don't have to learn anything properly new if you already know how functions work.
Thanks! Perfect explanation of the 'counter' term, makes sense. :) Upvoted.
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