skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, an unspeakably crappy simulation may be indistinguishable from the real thing if it doesn't "fight fair". Just have the simulation delete any thoughts by the participant(s) that they have convincingly observed anything amiss.

The simulation might not quite fit in 640KB, but we might be rather disturbed at just how trivial a sneaky simulation of our world would be.
When I was a child, my GP (in South London) didn't have an appointment system. You just showed up, took a number from the hook, and waited until your number was called. You would always be seen the same day if you showed up before closing time.

When I went to university (in another town) I registered with the GP surgery recommended by the college. When I had occasion to use their services, I was _shocked_ to discover that (i) I had to make an appointment and (ii) I would have to wait a week to get one.

I was recommended to see the college nurse (who, if I recall correctly, was unable to prescribe medication). I ended up going back to my parents' home in London for almost a week. I got better, but it would have been quicker and less disruptive if I could have just seen a doctor and got some medicine soon after I became sick.
Convenience also in that few people want to consume 2 liters at one sitting, so not having a left over, partially filled 2 liter that you have to look after until you get to a place where it can be stored is often worth the addition 50¢.
Adaptive and visual product layout
That's dark...
City taxes are not the norm in the US.
My Panasonic plasma is in many ways a superior technology than my Thunderbolt displays, particularly when watching TV or movie content. Different use cases, different technologies.
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> If you are as concerned as you sound don't leave the house. People can take your picture in public and do what they like with it.

sounds like exactly the kind of attitude that

>> I basically have no option of recourse, because there's
a revised culture thanks to Facebook which tells me it's
outside of my hands now.

is complaining about.
No - no need to use software - most people can file using 1040EZ paper form, or other free online e-file.
There is no 'right way round' for so-called symptoms or so-called 'underlying' conditions, because these things are subject to feedback.... I've found the illness model of depression to be very nearly useless...

It's good to see someone else who describes these things in terms of feedback rather than simple cause and effect. This is a model of neurology and physiology that needs to become more widespread.
> Sure, but what if the error is thrown at you as an exception in the first place—which happens a fair amount, because that's how the JS runtime tells you when something is wrong? How do you get from there to the callback way?

Its on you to catch that, not your libraries. This shouldn't be terribly common, though. The only thing I can remember having to wrap in a try/catch in the codebase I work on is JSON.parse.

> The async library could do the same, albeit with a lot more code. I'm curious why it doesn't.

It couldn't, without domains. try-catch wouldn't do it. Domains are something that is not very well understood, in my experience, and expected to happen at a higher level than libraries like async.
Let's not forget the convenience of not having 2 liters tempting you.
For bonus points, use it to prove the "other" FLT...
He's not really asking what to do - I'm sure he can think of 10 things. He's really asking 'what would you do'. And he's getting some awesome feedback from the community. What made you so bitter!
Credit card company would have no interest in that kind of deal though, I would think.
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They certainly do not. Western Union has more to lose.
Hash Challenge: can you find the lowest value SHA-512 hash?
I see UK is becoming the new China when it comes to internet freedoms.
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Thanks for pointing this out.

It may seem obvious, but I never before considered how the simple grammatical mistakes I frequently make disproportionately hinder the ability of non-native speakers to efficiently comprehend my posts.

Your comment has given me an extra incentive to carefully proofread my future HN comments before posting.
I haven't read the book yet, but based on my knowledge of what boyd has said over the past decade, I'd hazard a guess that she actually means that parents should stop trying to defend their kids from nebulous external threats and recognize that their own behavior is a significant part of the issue.

Last I checked, Google wasn't a daycare service. I'm not really sure why you're trying to insist that it is.
Yeah br0, I need to make a name!
Such a lame troll you are :-)
Remember that there's a huge difference between files you need to read and write at any time with low latency and backups which happen at larger intervals and read infrequently, with looser latency demands. For backups, the service to compare is Glacier, which is about an order of magnitude cheaper.

What I'd consider is essentially the Crashplan model: P2P / external backups locally (i.e. full LAN speed) and an off-site replica which can be cheaper and slower as long as you have a high confidence that it'll be available eventually. This way normal operations are fast but if the building burns down you're covered and presumably have higher priorities than waiting for a restore to run.
Instead of relying on transaction hashes, you need to scan the blockchain for any transaction involving the addresses you care about.

Transaction hashes are a misnomer -- the hash is a has of the message, NOT of the transaction. Many messages match one transaction.
Happy City is one of the better "published in the last year" books on the topic:

http://www.amazon.com/Happy-City-Transforming-Through-Design...
"Some might consider that a feature."

Yes, and those people would be rather utopian about how a lack of anonymity helps clean up the internet. Most trolls are proud of their idiocy.
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Much spam.
So clutter.
your second point is almost the same as the quote but worded differently. access to user data and/or easier access to their fb wall...
Is there any reason we can't use the sewer system instead?
Are you still giving out Dogecoin? I just got a wallet:
DGgMNwtx8mXAzqYh1twxKirkniPtNFo82X (I don't use Twitter)

Thanks in advance.
The inability for a person to have their online persona is Facebook's and all other user-generated content/Social Network provider.
is being in the middle of the pipes the ideal position most of the time?
Thank you for sharing. I usually sit on the other side of the table -- interviewing. And I also know how it feels. I have gotten a mild panic and completely blank mind during tests before. Something as simple arithmetic and my brain just spins in a tight loop "Hmm 45+13=... 45+13=..." stuff like that.

So things I do to help out with that. I try not to give quick or trickly puzzles as questions. I try not to make it adversarial (like "I am testing you") I try to make it collaborative "let's solve this problem". Often that is an actual problem being solved or solved in the past. No digging holes with 5 worker vs 4 workers (we are not a utilities company) or, no geometry of manhole covers (we don't maintain our own sewer system here, someone else does). I try to give hints or switch topics and talk about something else, not everyone is knowledgeable in all areas.

Not sure of those above would be helpful but would you or anyone else here want to advise an interviewer as to what would help? How would you interview yourself or what would you do to make it easier and less painful?
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/1/4/forced_abortions_sweats...
I think that when you are a terrorist you also can have actual friends that can receive a package for you. Blacklisting name and surname gives no security apart from places where you personally must produce your own ID. It has merit when checking passport on the border but none when you decide whether to ship a package to another country or even to receive money.
This is an interesting article. I found myself agreeing with it most of the time. At the same time, as someone who has overcome a lonely path, I can't help but put a lot more emphasis on culture than on the others.

American culture is a lonely culture, as my wife is always pointing out. We send our kids to college alone. We retire alone. We look at social problems like poverty as if they are held by the individual alone. Loneliness is the price of freedom but it is also the price includes lack of real social and physical support.

When I moved to Indonesia two years ago, things went downhill with my marriage fast. My wife was always threatening to send me back to the States (every couple weeks) and I couldn't develop a sense of place in the midst of the uncertainty. I felt like I was half-way around the world from anyone who cared about me except for the kids. It was a very dark, depressing, and crippling place to be (business-wise, personally, and more). And so things continued for most of two years. Eventually we did overcome our problems (in no small part due to me eventually deciding I had to ignore her threats).

Here's the basic thing. It doesn't take many people to combat loneliness. Quality matters far more than quantity. Getting out there and meeting people is a smallish part of the battle. A much larger issue is building real friendships with a small number of people.

Having two or three close friends makes a world of difference.
Fiber is unlike newspapers, CDs and VHS, among other things practically replace with online versions
This is why I always use 'Login' and 'Register'
One irony of mental health services is that the people who most need the help are often not in a position to use the services optimally; it is perfectly valid to break up with your therapist if they're not helpful. In fact, it should be encouraged, but doing so can be really stressful.

This is not to tar the professionals with some kind of pseudo-Scientology crackpottery; they exist somewhere in the n-dimensional space of competence, authority, ability, &c. as everybody else; but that there can be dissonance between the treater and the treated is not a reason to give up on the whole idea.
Well, smoking or not. You will die anyway.
Did you come at this from the perspective of software like OBS and xSplit? Or from an alternative point of view?
That's the best part of LA silly
Just wanted to say that being asked not once, but twice in a very intrusive manner if I want to suscribe to the blog is a pain in the ass for me. Please adjust that.
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+1 for this. There is not much out there for personal productivity time tracking, especially with good design/UX.
Will the state of Texas cover your legal fees if another state, say Nevada, is taking your to court or is asking for sales back-tax + penalty + interest?
I seem to be stuck in some redirect loop...
When the data that was stolen crops up on a forum somewhere, can someone please make one of those stub-websites that helps you check if you got stung by the breach?
Why I'm going back to cable TV
In response to your last point: MySQL 5.6 and above have online DDL.
I am getting close to 40.

> As someone who is on the precipice of turning 30 (27 currently), speaking strictly for myself - I've found that loneliness for me and my older peers is different from the angst of adolescence a la Holden.

Absolutely. Also I think it varies by age. When you are in your 60's, retiring, kids have grown and left, etc. I think that's one of the most lonely times in the lives of Americans. I watch my wife's grandmother who lives with various children as is convenient for them, and she may not have a permanent home or a lot of stuff of her own, but she is happier than most Americans I have seen in retirement. Having watched my own grandparents struggle with loneliness in retirement despite the fact that we have a reasonably close family by American standards is one of the reasons why I am relatively adamant that independent retirement is not a good thing. But having lived in both kinds of cultures, I don't think most of my fellow Americans are ready to make the tradeoffs that this would involve.

> Do you focus on your family or really close friends after twenties, or do you focus on pursuing your own ideas with a community of likely-minded people, or do you come up with some kind of philosophical reconciliation?

Yes to all three. But I think there is also a feeling when you are in your 20's that if you find that special someone you won't be lonely anymore. Well, that never really happens. So you start having a family, your social life constricts, and you find you are still lonely. What you have to do is find communities of like-minded people who you can work with, and you also have to come to terms with the fact that having other people may be necessary to prevent loneliness but it is not sufficient, and at some point you have to learn to focus on what you have instead of what you don't.
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> There is a big difference between the typical strategic leaking by wonkish types in DC and releasing classified information to the media.

Oh, bullshit.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/22/11816421-obama-ai...

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

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/all-leak...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39693850/ns/us_news-security/t/dou...
Here you go:

1. http://gokicker.com/2013/04/25/how-sweatshop-conditions-kill... ...even in America.

2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096551/Apple-shamed...

>>Workers are continuing to die and sustain injuries in horrific accidents as they are forced to work from morning to night for slave wages in sweatshop conditions.

Now tell me more about how disingenuous I am.... http://i.imgur.com/eu0AZF9.png
+1 on this one as well. I built a shell-based one that pipes out to Google Calendar [0] and then started using Toggl [1]. Toggl works best since it's mobile and web, and they sync with each other, but it's still not totally great from a UI/UX perspective. Timely [2] is beautiful, but doesn't have actual time-of-day data, which I'd like.

Nowadays, I simply plan out my day in my calendar, adjust as necessary, and take that as the data. I don't get to do any crunching of the data like I used to (like graphs and quantitative analysis of where my time is going), but it does serve the purpose of making me aware of what exactly I did during the day.

I'm working on something that will do this quantified-self-esque time tracking built specifically for QS (instead of for freelancers) when I have free time, because this awareness of how I spend my days has quite literally changed my life.

[0] https://github.com/markbao/vestige
[1] http://toggl.com
[2] http://timelyapp.com
Pretty similarly, actually. I enjoy those kinds of events, and am happy to share them with others, but I still consider them to be much more solitary activities than things like sharing conversations, meals, playing games together, etc. And so I place less value on them as ways of interacting with my loved ones.

The upshot being, Comcast has a serious uphill battle in wanting to convince me to spend a whole lot of money and rearrange my house all for the sake of (to my tastes) reducing the level of satisfaction I get from my family & social life. Not that there's anything wrong with having different feelings from mine about the subject. But the feelings of people who already have and like their TVs are maybe not so pertinent to the question of how to win the business of those of us who don't currently have or want one.
You touch on your real problem with Facebook, and that is its size. That's it.

There's the saying, "Quantity has a quality all its own." Turning a thing from an "occasionally" into an "always" can effectively change the nature of the thing entirely.
Sounds like if your spouse is threatening to "send" you out of the country a more significant problem than loneliness might be an emotionally abusive and dysfunctional relationship. I only say this (as a reality check) because I've been there, and one can become so numb and codependent that you cease to be aware that this type of behavior is not loving, not normal, and not what you deserve.
Wanting your friends and potential friends to know what movies you like is not remotely the same as wanting the world to see your face plastered on other companies' advertisements.
Can you translate T4 and T9 into something a non-Googler can understand? Maybe to what would be on that person's business card?
The Universe is a simulation, so what programming language/galactic cloud does it run on? Haskell for typing and correctness, Erlang for 'just fail', Ruby for POLA (God's, that is)...
They've never been fun for me. Social anxiety mixed with general incompetence and physical pain. Yeah lot's of fun.
Three quick thoughts on some details:

1) Please, PLEASE make sure it's quick/easy to enter time with the keyboard. Right now the main log time interface doesn't let you tab to select the project drop down. I feel like I should be able to tab to this field after the optional comment field. Enter anywhere in the form (except maybe the optional comment) should save the entry and get me ready to enter a new one. For your target audience (devs), I think good keyboard-only support is key.

2) There should be an easy way to see the total time for each day, maybe just next to the date on the Activity page. In any case, I shouldn't have to run a query to see how much I've worked today.

3) Have queries (via the Overview tab) alter the URL so a query can be bookmarked. Ideally this would be with relative dates so I could bookmark https://ding.io/overview?user=1&project=x&client=y&time=this....

This looks really good. Harvest is the de facto for time tracking with good UX, but even their UX could use some refinement (my 3 comments above all apply to Harvest also, I think). You're definitely giving them a run for their money.

BTW, I really like having the client and project in one searchable drop down. Separating these was one of my biggest annoyances with Harvest.
I'd like to see a pixar's animated movie about Wilbur and Orville as they struggle to make the first flight a reality in their bycicle shop, some plane modeling, hard times, lack of funding, sparkled with some love stories and jelousy between the brothers about whose to be the first pilot and get all the honors. At the end Orville wins, Wilbur takes the pic, their girlfriends leaving NC on a steam ship breaking their relationship and as they watch the plane take off they turn the ship back, jump off and run to them for a happy ending.

I don't want any money, I just want to see that movie in a theater with my kids.
Totally agree re: Toggl (UX issues really bugged me -- time tracking can and should be low friction) and Timely (pretty but flawed interface).

Also totally agree re: quantified-self time tracking and its usefulness.
More honest about what the ads are and more useful.
One of the big problems with doing 60 hours every week is that it leaves no buffer for emergencies. If normal weeks are roughly 40 hours, then when an emergency comes up you can usually make room to absorb that.

That means emergencies can't be every week.
Exactly my thought. I cut the cord 2 years ago and it's amazing how much more enjoyable the content I do watch is without ads.
The prices that were quoted in the article are promotional prices for the first year of service to a new subscriber. It increases greatly (sometimes even doubles based on the package) after that first year.
Have these guys considered that maybe instead of filtering the world to make it seem a better place, just work on making it a better place?
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I'm not sure what is going on here, but it's not malleability, since malleability can't change the amount.

In addition, the transaction in the blockchain hasn't been modified by the malleability attack, since the script starts with 47 not 4d (i.e. regular push not modified OP_PUSHDATA2): https://blockchain.info/rawtx/a76f239a327e8b61f7c3f942d52066...

It looks to me like a floating point rounding error somewhere in the FS API changed the amount and thus the hash between the transaction that was sent to you and the transaction sent into the Bitcoin network. The difference is too small to be explained by fees.

Do you have any evidence that the first transaction ever existed at all? I'd expect it to show up as unconfirmed on blockchain.info or blockexplorer.com for a while if it ever went out to the network.
Yes. But there's an incentive with that system to turn into a total sloth.
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Tripwire is just file integrity. It can help to detect the installation of a backdoor. But that doesn't help at all if the backdoor is just memory resident (or installs at kernel level). It also doesn't help if the attacker breaks in, grabs your data and leaves for good.

File integrity is also a pain in the ass. You have to keep a database of good file hashes and it can't be stored on the server (or the attacker modifies the known good hashes). Generally you also should not even have the file integrity software on the live server filesystem.

Similarly Network IDS has the flaw that you must have well defined profiles of "normal behavior" so it can identify abnormal behavior. The other option is signature-based but that would only detect known exploits.
This looks interesting, but in practical terms we would need a document model that maps client data to endpoints on the server, with the understanding they might not be similar. The data the client associates with a user might not necessarily match the server's modeling, for example.

In other words, the client should still be decoupled from the server. But PouchDB looks like it has the right idea on the client.

edit: I realize I Just kind of described an ORM. Sorry.
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1000 calories a week seems a little bit low, but I'll admit that's just anecdotal - I'll do about 1kcal in a single 10 kilometre run.

In terms of fitness and general health, I notice a big difference if I'm getting regular (ie. most days of the week, allowing for 1 or 2 rest days) exercise of about half an hour, and at least one longer run/ride/whatever, out to about an hour or so. Take any excuse to do things the hard way when you're exercising - push up hills, do sprints, to intervals etc, and you'll notice an amazing difference.

Only downside to all this exercise is that you really need your 8 hours of sleep a night to recover.
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my point view: i want to show somebody something that has a sequence and don't want it to take a long time. that was really it.
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I recently heard about a startup that automatically routes purchases to the user's credit card that would give the best rewards for that category of purchase. They somehow act as an intermediary in the card processing chain, so the transactions still show up on the final destination as originating from the merchant, not the routing service.

I don't recall the name, but it seems plausible that a bill consolidation service could do something similar at a similar layer of the payment processing infrastructure, collect their percentage, and be profitable doing it.
I second that. Kohana was a great framework, but Laravel is the future. The core features are just all around more elegant than Kohana, plus its community is thriving.