skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're attributing to malice that which is sufficiently explained by incompetence.

Whenever we place Facebook ads at one of my companies, we always have a second person check the details before confirming. On numerous occasions we have confirmed the order, and then immediately seen different details showing up on subsequent pages compared to what both people on our side saw or selected on the order page, sometimes dramatically different. This has happened so often that some of the people involved now advocate taking a screenshot as evidence before confirming anything.

We're talking about an embarrassingly bug-ridden system here, particularly so given that it's the point where the authorisation to do things that cost real money takes place. The kinds of anecdotes seen in this discussion really aren't all that surprising if you've had much experience working with Facebook ads, I'm sorry to say.
One thing about 10 x life expectancy would be that your attitude towards risk would become much more conservative. You have so many more potential years to lose if you fall off your mountain bike or your parachute doesn't deploy or your fast car skids off a road or your speedboat flips over. People with a 700 year lifespan would probably spend a lot of time sitting around indoors, I reckon.
Regarding your last point, the Harvard goals study doesn't actually exist: http://sidsavara.com/personal-productivity/fact-or-fiction-t...
When we checked the accounts these didn't seem as fake, they appeared genuine to us. My impression is that something was "wrong" on FB geo targeting. But as we never heard from FB, I guess we will never know what happened.
They should fire their own media buyer rather than blame Facebook. When buying any type of advertising you first have to buy a small campaign and measure the ROI (ie. new customers gained, not likes and followers and other social metrics bullshit, but customers) from that campaign before investing more in that same channel. They threw big money at a bad channel without testing it, that's their fault.

If their goal was just to buy likes and followers then that's just twice as idiotic: the goal should always be to gain customers. That's the only ROI metric you should be looking at. So if you buy small test campaign on Facebook and you didn't gain any customers then don't spend any more money on Facebook. It's that simple.
Here's where that link goes to: http://i.imgur.com/CmdBeQy.png
I guess this is marginally better than your typical motivation article, but not much.

I really want our culture to shift in a direction where it's economically feasible to research nootropics and find ones that are seriously effective.

As far as I know, the last time someone put a serious effort into researching a pharmacological aid to "drive" was in the 60s when selegiline was discovered, and it worked. Selegiline is now used for Parkinson's. After 40 years they also started using it for depression and dementia.

But our society is so averse to transhumanism that not only has that research not been followed up in the last 50 years, but the one drug that does improve motivation is not legally available to non-depressed people with motivation problems.
[Rewind to 1940s]

"I always like to remind people that effectively treating heart disease is going to involve a significant period in which us normals have to deal with long-lived rich people. Sounds awful, like, just about the worst societal dynamic I can think of."

[Back to the present]

Our age is characterized by the fact that access to types of medical technology is basically flat. Rich people get to hire better doctors, but there are no super-secret, ultra-restricted forms of medicine that are inaccessible to everyone else. Your chances of getting into clinical trials of the new new things are about as good as theirs, provided you are prepared to pick up a phone and put in the time.
Prison Switcharoo
I think Pascals Wager is applicable. By just making a few "small" sacrifices, he can get a shot an extremely long lifespan of bliss.
Microsoft adds nine new Windows Phone hardware partners
20 year olds are the ones that go to war though, aren't they? And yet they have the most life ahead of them.

Of course, everything looks bad if you only look at the negative aspects of it. Certainly risks would change. Life does seem like it would get more valuable. However, on the positives, we'd see huge technological progress - experts could be experts in their field for hundreds of years, rather than working for a short window and having to publish their results and hope that the next guy can pick it up and take it a few steps further.

So I feel that we'd end up in a society that is quite different than current human society - with plenty of their own problems. One thing that I do think though is that it would be very wrong to project our morality on this and accuse it of screwing up the natural order of things. Aging is just another disease.
I suspect the motivation is about better spam detection.

Right now, users getting mail they don't want are faced with a) a familiar, easy to find "mark as spam" button and b) a hard to find unsubscribe link.

This is guaranteed to generate a lot of false spam reports. Is this report of spam actually spam? Or is it just a person who just wants off something they actually signed up for?

An easy way to get a better signal is to make unsubscribing as easy as reporting spam.
Thanks. For some reason I read this completely the opposite of how it was written. Doh!

In the interest of not looking more like a moron than I already do, I've deleted my original.
What's with this attitude? How can you be innovative without failing 9 times out of 10. That's what innovation entails! If you haven't failed while innovating you either was extremely lucky or you got yourself some divine superpower.

The iPhone wasn't new either - as in not a rehash of old ideas. But it was a new execution. These are all new executions.
Well, anything bringing the Tao (which is about societal norms shaping) into a western lifestyle (which is all about individualism) is already conflicting in itself.

Add computer scientists who half-understand it in the first place wanting to make a totally unrelated point regarding Unix or whatever, and the congitive dissonace can blow a Marshall stack.
3D printing all the rage at #CES2014
Props B and C

Discretionary Review

CEQA abuse

Nativism

Height restrictions

Bus protests

U-Verse protests

Articles about how the Mission is changing, and how that's a bad thing
>you are exactly like every other 16 year old I ever knew.

Really? Because when I was in high school I knew plenty of ridiculously overachieving 16 year olds.
well he might have been successful running those pages but when it comes to spending half a million dollar, I think that comparison becomes apples and oranges sort of. There was nothing really stopping him from spending those amount in piecemeal.

What about limit the budget to $10,000 per day, check and analyze the results then see where you can fine-tune it then probably improve it? I bet by the time he spend the first $100,000 he would have come to the realization that something is wrong.

The claim is that he's already successful so why the rush to spend such significant amounts on generating likes?
Sounds just like Elysium.
This is a good feature but the issue is that even if you unsubscribe from a mailing list some will not actually unsubscribe you.

Also i found out a while back that after unsubscribing from some lists i started getting a lot of spam from all kinds of lists to which i never subscribed before which let me to believe that some mailing lists will actually release/sell their unsubscribed lists to others. Btw this was tested on brand new email accounts with only one mailing list subscribed at the time.
>What's so terrible about it? Why should buddhism or zen be exempt from the sort of emulation, attempts at understanding, fun-making, and mixes of all three that we apply to essentially everything

Because those belong to a culture (with the sociological sense), whereas the second kind of use you describe is what's called syncretism, and is a quite vulgar disregard for subtetly, context, fitness and it's subject matter in general.
Because following the latest fashions is clearly the PostgreSQL Core Committee's raison d'être...
> I think that humans are meant to accept that they cannot and should not be able to obtain massive amounts of control over world-scale events for prolonged amount of time.

Yes, that's why we require political leaders to step down from office eventually. But the civilized way of requiring leaders to step down from office does not involve killing them.

> What you are suggesting seems like breaking nature's cycle to me.

Damn right. So was the eradication of smallpox. Nature contains many cycles that are utterly abhorrent.
Set Theory: Constructive and Intuitionistic ZF
This is what I've been eyeing for my next move if it ends up being remote. My only concern is a space where I can eat and conference call without disturbing other patrons or going outside.
Not really, since there was no historical time when USD were being printed with wild abandon
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/284902
When I work with people around, I get more done. I get almost nothing done at home.

I'm an extrovert. Most of the time, I like social interaction. And when I get into the zone, I just pop in the earbuds and crank out the code. Best of both worlds.

Serendipity is huge for me. My passion is open government projects. I'm astonished how many random people I meet have a keen interest and relevant experience, from every walk of life. That validation, and knowing that they'll ask about my project next chance we meet, keeps me plugging away.

Have you seen the bit about the honor system for office bagels? Simply putting up a picture of human face watching you makes people more honest. I absolutely jog faster, do more pushups, write more code, etc when I feel there's someone around to impress.
The immortals are only immortal from natural causes of death...

History tells us that people will quickly use that to their advantage.
Unless "belong to a culture" is supposed to be the answer, this appears to just say "it is because it should be" and not really an answer to my question at all.
This will be nice for my common-name gmail account: <first initial>.<lastname>@gmail.com. It's fairly unusable right now because of all the newsletters Bob, Bill, Brandy, Briana, Brian, etc sign me up to.
True, however transactional DDL doesn't seem to be a problem after MySQL 5.5

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Transactional_DDL_in_Postgr...
His follow-up article suggests he ended up doing it permanently.
The long and short of it is that PBKDF2's assumptions are better vetted, but bcrypt is stronger if its assumptions are correct.
What about the effects of over population? Predictions of food, water and clean air shortages don't seem to lend themselves to an even distribution of nano bio-technology.
As somebody who has been tagging addresses for many years, I can say unequivocally that at least some conferences a) give email addresses up to conference sponsors, or b) are terrible at security and/or vendor selection, and so lose control of their mailing lists.

Maybe these are the sorts of things that other conference organizers cluck their tongues at when they're having drinks at conference conferences. But from the attendee side, it's difficult to distinguish which might be which.
There will still be idiots. They won't respawn.
I agree with sk5t. You can't count on the source to stay secure in a breach. It only adds unnecessary complexity without adding security. You are simply adding length to the password with your own key lengthening algorithm using values that are still in the database or source. You might think your clever (UserName + PassWord + User ID + CreationDate + ...) function adds strength because the current cracking tool doesn't have your clever function. This clever function can be easily added to the cracking tools thus rendering your clever function useless. What you failed to do was actually add a secret that you can guarantee to keep secret even when the database and source are breached. This is why a secure hardware device like the YubiHSM is recommended as the secret is never revealed even in a breach.
If you're regularly working remote you likely want to create a separation between your work and home environment. Cabin fever and what-not.
But he's the sort of genius, it turns out, who's not very good at boiling a kettle. He offers me a cup of coffee and when I accept he heads into the kitchen to make it, filling a kettle with water, putting a teaspoon of instant coffee into a cup, and then moments later, pouring the unboiled water on top of it. He stirs the undissolving lumps and I wonder whether to say anything but instead let him add almond milk – not eating diary is just one of his multiple dietary rules – and politely say thank you as he hands it to me. It is, by quite some way, the worst cup of coffee I have ever tasted.

Slightly off topic, but this sort of guff makes me abandon a lot of articles in the first few paragraphs. In fact, I just did exactly that to come here and complain. It's little more than the writer exercising his/her own ego. I'd much rather they get to the point, which is what their interviewee has to say.
>What's with this attitude? How can you be innovative without failing 9 times out of 10.

Easily, by not making PR announcements before you succeed.

Plus, I don't think is an absolute that it's necessary to fail multiple times to get something innovative. Take for example Xerox Park for research. Or, in the market area, Apple.

>The iPhone wasn't new either - as in not a rehash of old ideas. But it was a new execution. These are all new executions.

Well, there are new executions that are ready to succeed, and new executions that are barely held together with chewing gum and wire. I don't think it's any service to the public to tout the latter to high heavens.
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Agreed. Much of my consulting work is around email marketing and it always shocks me how many people "can't find" (or don't bother to find) the unsubscribe link and then either reply to the email or mark it as spam.

While this will undoubtedly shrink some email lists, most of those people weren't going to be interested and buy (or whatever the action is) anyway. If you're doing email marketing, you should expect that a certain percentage of people will unsubscribe from any given email not because it's a bad email but they are just no longer interested. Making it more difficult for someone to unsubscribe just increases the likelihood that they'll complain or report it as spam and no one really benefits from that.
That's what happens when a reputation degrades. That's what reputations are for.
They also added a "confirm subscription" button for double opt-in lists that you can use straight from your inbox without viewing the particular message.

Or maybe just tested adding it. Damn, I should've used it. I though it was neat.
"If you can make Vim seamlessly work with a REPL"

Have you tried the ScreenSend vim plugin? I use it for Python and Clojure, and occasionally other REPLized languages.
i usually add pepper like you're describing prior to bcrypting. my thoughts being that it adds a bit of security in case your db gets compromised but not your server/code. the chance that one happens without the other may be slim.
Maybe, but there is another, perhaps simpler hypothesis: Both the transistor count and life expectancy increase with time.

One way to verify one or the other is to look at a linear hypothesis:

States: LifeExp, Transistors, Time
Structural Equation Model [1]:

Model 1:

LifeExp ~ Time + Transistors + noise_exp_1
Transistors ~ Time + noise_trans_1

(The 2nd equation means that:
Transistors(t) = a * t + noise, and you try to estimate "a" from the data.)

vs
Model 2:

LifeExp ~ Time + noise_exp_2
Transistors ~ Time + noise_trans_2

If model 2 has more predictive power of LifeExp than model 2 (i.e., noise_exp_1 is lower than noise_exp_2), then according to _this_ model, Transistors causally affects LifeExp. However, this model is way too simplistic and doesn't incorporate other causal paths, such as the one you describe (Transistors -> Computing -> DiagnosticRate -> ...)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_equation_modeling
Question: that article suggest to hash passwords client side too. This has any security advantages?

The only one that I can think of is that an eventual MITM can't sniff your password, and then try to reuse it with other sites (as he only has an hash specific for a site, and not your password). Is that all?

"If you are worried about the computational burden, but still want to use key stretching in a web application, consider running the key stretching algorithm in the user's browser with JavaScript." make it sounds like I can use a lighter hash-solution server-side if I use key stretching client-side (at least to me, non native here so probably I'm just reading that wrong).
I was hoping to see one for my personal bugbear: paralysis of choice.

The most common situation for me is to be faced with a list of projects and tasks that are more than I can handle, and doing any one of them means ignoring the others, which are all equally urgent.

I know all the GTD and Pomodoro techniques and everything else, but it's in my head where the problem lies. Once I settle in to one specific task, I can focus and get into the zone to finish it. But that first step—committing to which thing I'll do—is the hardest one. Hours can go by while I'm avoiding the question altogether. I can literally feel the anxiety in my chest whenever I try to pick one and start doing it.
Haven't forgotten it. Just not using it cause it's more difficult. No need to do something more difficult if I don't have to, right?
Funny. It's almost as if one Google employee's opinion doesn't represent that of the rest of the company.
That doesn't really explain anything. Do you have a specific reason?
I just want a book about only c++11/14, that teach me how to grasp everything form scratch with best practices in mind.
You can't eat comfort.
As far as I know, that behavior is best practice. An instance of SecureRandom does not automatically receive new entropy over time. If you desperately need to keep using that same instance, you have to keep seeding it.
The biggest "bummer" to laptop camping is the limited food selection.

I make sure to pay my "rent" when I'm in a cafe (buy stuff, tip well). But it'd be a lot easier if there was stuff more compatible with my cave man diet, selections beyond treats and panini. I get that fresh fiber is highly perishable, so is mostly impractical. Maybe soups. Or house salads (bulk, pre made) like the grocery store deli.

Who ever figures out the food options will win my heart and money.
"Following the Boston Dynamics acquisition, Google says that it plans to honor its existing contracts, including the military contract with DARPA, but it doesn’t plan on pursuing any further military contracts after that."

Stop spreading FUD.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/172859-google-acquires-bo...
There are no answers to questions outside of a framework like a culture (that is, outside of desired goals and accepted means to get to them).

Historically, most civilizations, including western thought, have found that syncretism is bad. It results in a shallow understanding of what it is dealing with and a hodgepodge of incompatible ideas.

Budhism (and lots of other things) was evolved and developed to be seen as a whole and in a few specific contexts. Not for mixing and matching random parts. You might get something out of it, but it won't be budhism anymore -- and, judged by budhist standards, it would be BS.

I guess it would be the equivalent of copy/pasting code, instead of properly thinking about your program's architecture.
I was asked this question,but could not come up with a good answer:Assuming someone has never programmed before,but has the (mis)fortune of using C++(e.g that is what the school he/she is enrolled in uses) what would be the best book to start with?
I found it added a little humour to the article.
Is this the book that evolves a student-grading application
over 300+ pages? If so, I honestly do not understand why people call this book concise.

If you know C already, the pace of the book is so slow that you'll lose interest.
>Always display a generic message like "Invalid username or password." This prevents attackers from enumerating valid usernames without knowing their passwords.

If you have a password recovery page, couldn't attackers use that to test usernames?
You make an appeal to nature fallacy here but you also point towards a valid point. The moral dilemma of taking up resources that could satisfy needs of others, born or not yet born. Sharing resources is not a new issue though, this just makes the issue harder.
Gmail ads have nothing to do with spam.

From a purely ad perspective, Google doesn't really care if the email is spam or not: they still display ads on the side.
> It's little more than the writer exercising his/her own ego.

No, it's adding what is called "human interest" to the story, which (the theory goes) makes it more interesting to non-technical people.
pretty clean, it cannot be unintentional because i guess linkedin sends diff mails to both registered and unregistered users
Also youtube cat videos.
Do you have any examples? I just flipped through the book and couldn't find any. Accelerated C++ was my first ever programming book. It was quite a doozy to get through at the time, but I feel like I'm forever indebted to it. Koenig's attention to detail and ability to explain what the machine is actually doing and the consequences in your code is still unmatched as far as I can tell.
That was awesome. I'd never even heard of it before, it's a Sheng. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_%28instrument%29
Would they? I don't find myself thinking "I have only at most 80 more years to live, so I'll jaywalk here, risk be damned". Do people really do those kind of mental calculations? It might be me still being relatively young, but having 60-80 years in front of me feels more like +∞, and I have to keep constantly reminding myself that my time is limited.

I'd wager that the only relevant scale for people to think is weeks/month; there wouldn't be much difference felt between 60 years, 600 years and +∞.
I am also not sure of your point.
Or Alita and Alita - Last Order, that is where Elysium ripped off its core concepts from.