skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, hold on a minute. When you say, "humanity and its extremely advanced descendants", when you link to an article containing the phrase "steps up the ladder", when you quote someone saying, "we should also wonder what we may become as we rise" [emphasis added], you're overlooking something basic about evolutionary theory that everyone needs to understand.

And that is that evolution is not necessarily a progression from less to more advanced, from less intelligent to more intelligent, or for that matter, from less anything to more anything.

Evolution is not a plan with a goal, it is a blind algorithm that chooses survivors, regardless of the survivors' traits, with the single requirement that they are the fittest for the environment in which they find themselves.

This talk about steps up the ladder and extremely advanced descendants is scientifically ignorant and a New Age fantasy. We are as likely to be replaced by cockroaches as by superbeings.
> Or a few thousand years ago for that matter.

Actually we can relate very well with the concerns of people from a few thousands years ago. Writings from ancient Rome, from ancient Greece are still very contemporary in many, many ways.
PhoneGap is exactly this. The problem is that recognizing touch gestures and animating them in the browser is a non-starter for almost all applications today. If the browser reliably gave JS low-level touch events and animated at 60fps almost all of these problems would go away.
> Paid very well

They pay well... if you're and engineer. And male.

From the article I linked above:

"I was promoted to a more demanding managerial position. But there would be no raise. “You’ve already doubled your salary in a year and it wouldn’t be fair to the engineers who haven’t had that raise” (never mind that a year earlier engineers had been earning anywhere from $70,000 to $140,000, as opposed to $38,000 like I had)"

$38k doesn't go terribly far in Silicon Valley. After doubling it with a promotion.

And I direct you to my other replies, where I yet again point that I didn't say it was there NOW. Instead, we face a very bad risk of them becoming a Company Town in the future. They are exhibiting dangerous warning signs, and nobody in power even attempting to stop even their flagrantly illegal activities.
Basically. It's really well done, and in the right hands I'm sure could be incredibly useful for small hints (the on-hover use only), but it really concerns me for anyone with epilepsy for almost every other case...
"In order to increase repayments to our creditors, it is necessary to explore the possibility of having MtGox Co., Ltd. continue its business."

Uh, no. I formally advise against this course of action as "hilarious." Who on god's green earth is going to bank their coins in MtGox 2.0?
Well, I appreciate your honesty. You should perhaps consider that you're projecting your own self-loathing onto other people. One's physical fitness has nothing to do with the quality of one's character, and the world would not magically become a better place if all us fat dudes got visited by the Muscle Fairy.
They don't want to. They want to keep operating and slowly repay those 40% by transaction profits, and then continue operating after that as a profitable company.

They are crazy to think it will work. But that's what they want.
Unlikely to kill every human on the planet, though, but to destroy the civilization, yes, and to make us go back in time in terms of scientific progress/knowledge etc... yes. In other words, it would make it way harder for humans to survive in the long run.
http://status.twitter.com/post/78400054104/brief-service-iss...
Even then it would probably not end our species. Even if every country had nuclear weapons and simultaneously vaporized every square inch of land surface (very unlikely), there would be a few carnival cruises and people who escaped to underground bunkers to hold out for enough years to repopulate some place later. It would be 99% losses, but the tough ones would survive. It may take a few thousand years to get back to where we were, but the buried technology would be found, and we would quickly get back to this point, with a lot more genetic resistance to the radiation fallout.
Of course that isn't a time signature. It's a listing of where the loud notes, quiet notes, and rests line up in the bar.
Turn Blogger and WordPress into a web Scraper
If they shut down completely you may as well say goodbye to all the assets you had with them.
Does not work quite right on iPad Safari.
I don't think that's really fair. "Absolutely not" isn't even a good response to the question, which was essentially "Can you comment on these issues?" And if he had said that, people would be objecting, "But he didn't specifically say what claims he was saying 'Absolutely not' to, so my money is on him lying."

No matter what he had said and regardless of how true or false it had been, people would be reading in lies. He's too detailed, he's too vague, he's too forceful, too weak, too formal, too informal — once somebody is convinced you're a liar, there is very little you can say to change their mind.
I would, if it had completely new management and new software. MtGox's only valuable asset is their huge number of KYC verified customers.
Perhaps Gox lost two thirds of them. Or the hackers didn't download them all.
This wearable smart-toy from Japan brings limitless play possibilities
Oh, a Glass would actually be pretty useful. Make a photo every 10-30 seconds and automatically upload it to a secure server (offshore). Then, give the access credentials to your lawyer.

If you get arrested the lawyer can download the last photos.
Related project that I'm working on: https://github.com/fjolnir/Visual-Layout-Language

It's a take on Apple's visual format language that allows for defining a ui from scratch: https://github.com/fjolnir/Visual-Layout-Language/blob/maste...
>Men sell sex just as much.

I see you don't interface with society much...
Let me scratch the surface here... how many male equivalent lingerie stores for men are there at the mall? How many MR. America, world ETC pageants get televised nationally? go look at a magazine rack and tell me how much cleavage, butt and legs there are per male vs female, how many male prostitutes, strip clubs, topless bars or car washes, how many porn sites/videos are strictly full of men? Has there ever been a male self pleasuring xxx vid that has been popular compared to a women? How much human trafficking in the world is men being sold for sex?

>Women stare at mens bodies as well, you know.

I am not saying that men should not cover up as well, but women generally aren't sexually stimulated nearly as much as men by visual sensory (it is estimated about 20% as much). And the fact is that women don't see a sexy half naked male the same as a man seeing a women. Women are more likely to see a strong leader, whereas men are likely to see a sexual object. Why are you even trying to make a comparison to men and women? we are so different in so many complex ways.

>I think most people respect those who deserve it. Never in my life I did respect women just because she is women and never did I respect men just because he's men.

So you don't think that a guy who watches porn every other night, goes to strip clubs regularly, watches MTV every day at these women shaking what they got to earn a dime, hires an occasional hooker, frequently has one night stands after picking up women at bars, and sees scantily clad women working out at the local gym every other morning, women with string bikinis at the beach every evening, and women with low cut tops and high cut bottoms during the day is less likely to respect a women coming into his office on Monday pitching a product that she us the founder of?

You need to get with reality. True reality, not your self diluted one.
>a person disagrees with GFK
>"must be one of those evil MRAs"
As a person in the demographic they claim to be trying to help, I'm confused too. I'M definitely uncomfortable with it, but according to these guys I'm too stupid to understand anything about my life.
No. I'm familiar with AngelList, and that's not what I'm envisioning. Founders submit the companies on AngelList. I'm saying that there's value in a network where investors themselves submit the companies to be seen.
As a minority, I've always felt that "affirmative action" discrimination policies do me no favors. I wish more people understood how harmful they are.
How do you figure they have 60% of the Bitcoins still? Everything I've read has said they only have about 2000 BTC left and they should have 750,000.
What I learned from an unfortunate incident with social media tools
I want to move to Europe someday (possibly), but while I love how liberal a lot of the place is and admire their strong social safety net, the tendency to shift discrimination around from one demographic to the next instead of trying to eliminate it completely is something I find quite alarming. :/
They don't have 60% of their customers' bitcoins. They (allegedly) have 0.2% (2k out of 750k) of their customers' bitcoins, and 60% of their USD/EUR/JPY.
I red it as satirizing Facebook, not least because some of the messages are over Twitter's character limit.
My spam folder is also full of, well, spam addressed to the email address I supplied to Dropbox (and only Dropbox) when I first signed up there sometime in 2011 and later leaked (I think 2012).

Sometimes I wish data privacy laws were stricter, but it appears that not even financial services laws are sufficiently strict, as just demonstrated here.
> Our planet needs to create at least one offspring with a good chance of sprouting a fresh batch of DNA based life on another planet before we send ourselves back into the stone age.

I hate to break this to you, but evolution isn't about humans or dolphins or spacefarers, it's about genes -- evolution is genes replicating, using organisms as vessels.

In answer to the old question about which came first, the chicken or the egg, an evolutionary scientist answers, "a chicken is an egg's way to make another egg."

Also, at a more mundane level, by the time our descendants are scattered across all the local star systems, they will be so different from us that we won't recognize them or feel any special kinship.

But on reading your post to the end, I see you're probably kidding. Oh, well.
he wrote in 11/4 time, but it's usually published as alternating 5/4 and 6/4 because, presumably, performers find that less strange

Oh god. I hate it when editors do this.

I can't think of any musicians who find this any easier -- quiet the contrary. I think this practice originated in the early days of typeset music, when there were letter blocks available for 5/4 and 6/4 but not for 11/4.

Whichever way it's printed, we just pencil "3 + 2 + 3 + 3" into our parts anyway...
Was just thinking about the implications of my DL scan being out on the net and potential attempts at identity theft. Excluding market risks, my money is now safer in a properly generated cold bitcoin wallet than it is in my bank account.
Weirdest obfuscated “Hello World”
"solid" being compared with the holy crap of regulations the US have.

I (a German) laugh my behind off when I read that as a mail-order business one is expected (and fined if noncompliant to the letter) to the tax codes of villages so small that they would not even count as a village in Germany. And if you're shipping inside the European Union, well, just properly declare the VAT and be done with it.
+1 to short and sweet incremental change lists. VLC / Firefox used to be this way until /someone/ deemed those not worthy. You can still get to the VLC changes which ware way more satisfying to read:

http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS
My impression was they were claiming to have passport scans and a 20GB DB dump, e.g. that they were separate?
That would be MtGox 3.0. MtGox 1.0 got hacked in 2011 and users of MtGox 2.0 didn't seem to care.
Yes, it could be printed that way. Every classical musician I know hates it when editors do that, though -- it's exactly the same amount of work to keep track of the beats, but the alternating time signatures eat CPU cycles because you have to make sure that every change is the one you expect.
> Computers will never exceed human intelligence if intelligence in quantified on the basis of human similarity.

Yes, but why "quantify based on human similarity"? You mention "improve human lives" - why not make that the benchmark? As you know, human similarity != benefits humans.
The announcement was silent on the BTC they still retain. I can't find any direct statements by anyone at Gox that all they have left is 2K. I'd be very grateful if someone could point it out if it exists.
Ah, I didn't realize the units on their assets v liabilities reporting weren't bitcoins. Damn, thanks for pointing that out.
Way too much schadenfreude given Gox's history.

Although contrary to popular belief Gox was never a Magic exchange, they were a Bitcoin startup at a time when Bitcoin was not much more than internet lols and pizza deliveries. The first thing you do when hacking together a stupid exchange for a joke e-currency isn't writing unit tests. You just write the code and blast it up on a domain you had lying around for a different project.

Cue runaway success, a company sale or two, scaling issues with complicated technology and not much precedent legal or otherwise, and this is what you get.

There is nothing at all surprising about this code. And it seems Gox's problems were much more deeply rooted than the subjective non-compliance of their code with "best practices".
That's quite an old fashioned way of testing exceptions, TestNG has allowed you to do the following since 2005:

@Test(expectedExceptions = FooBarException.class)
public void test() {
thisShouldThrow();
}

If the method doesn't throw or throws the wrong kind of exception, this test will fail.
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I really do not understand how the transaction malleability bug could have lost 40% of their fiat deposits.

Certainly they are not telling the truth about the transaction malleability. They have now dug their feet in on that explanation but it does not make sense given what we know about transaction malleability (the kind they are talking could not possibly have cause 850,000 bitcoins to disappear from allegedly cold storage without them noticing, and probably not without some social engineering.)

It seems likely that if the bug was involved somehow, it was because an intruder performed an attack from inside Gox . How else would they also be able to get fiat deposits out of Mt. Gox? Wouldnt that require initiating bank transfers?
This is equivalent to suggesting that the best course of action with a business that has gone bankrupt is to allow itself to be looted by some of its' customers.

Rather than attempting to rebuild value to return a higher proportion of cash/goods to all customers, or paying debtors according to contractual priority.

I think you're unlikely to get your wish.
If you have to handle that many connections, I would suggest looking at Erlang. Its default heap of a process is < 3K.

Usually that shouldn't matter as much as both have small process sizes compared to OS threads or processes. But at millions of connections it starts to matter. Whatsapp for example, was running on FreeBSD and Erlang with 2M+ connections.
Well, under the assumption that there's value in creating a product to support such a network - I see where you're going. Now, go validate that assumption.
Apple Rolls Out CarPlay
fuck the police. they are just another gang and do little to stop real crime in most urban areas. i would venture to say that police actually facilitate more crime than they prevent on the average.

in chicago, i have never received anything from a police officer besides disrespect and questionable tickets.

i am very excited for the next 20 years since i predict we will see the end of human policing and instead have robotic law enforcement.
Better typography for IPython notebooks (2012)
Apple CarPlay
It's just an idea I thought I'd share. I'm working on a startup already, so I don't intend to pursue this.
Why is our payment card data being hijacked? It’s people – not PCI
PostgreSQL log cleaner
> contrary to popular belief Gox was never a Magic exchange

The Wayback Machine disagrees.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070701000000*/http://mtgox.com

Whether it was open as one is unclear, but that was the obvious intent here.

Also, remember that the current owners aren't the original owners. This code is wrong in design but new in attempted style, made or majorly updated within the past year or two (based on the language features used).
> Even then it would probably not end our species. Even if every country had nuclear weapons and simultaneously vaporized every square inch of land surface (very unlikely), there would be a few carnival cruises and people who escaped to underground bunkers to hold out for enough years to repopulate some place later.

This is very, very likely, and there's even concrete evidence, based on the fact that the human race was nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, but recovered.

70,000 years ago a huge volcanic eruption with global consequences called the "Toba event" reduced the human population to somewhere between 3,000 - 10,000 people. We know this by analysis of our DNA, which carries a lot of information that can be used to assess our genetic history. That record shows that a severe genetic bottleneck took place 70,000 years ago, and geographic evidence shows a corresponding massive volcanic event thought to be responsible. More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
I believe that all life on this planet came from elsewhere in the universe. And only the life forms that can quickly reproduce and spread to other planets get to live on. Our meta species has not yet reached the time where we explode and spread our genetic material all over like a dandelion in the wind. Intelligent life on this planet is still inside the proverbial egg, and we are maybe 300 years from hatching.
Even an AI with innocuous goals will destroy humanity[1]. It would have to have explicitly pro-human goals in order to be anywhere near 'safe.'

[1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
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It's basically impossible. There's 200BTC a day withdraw limits (or rather, was), for this to have worked somebody would have needed to be withdrawing the limit from 5 different accounts, every day for the last 3 years and successfully manipulating the bug in Gox's system every single time. This couldn't even have worked reliably, as the consistent Gox bug was only triggered by 0.8.0 being released.

It doesn't make sense as an explanation, especially given that we now know that some Russian clowns also had database access.
Failure has always been an option in small, unproven, socially unimportant markets. It really shouldn't take 7 paragraphs to compare apples to oranges...
I'm not sure it would count as a robbery as usually in English jurisdictions the term robbery implies force (through violence or threat of violence).
Time signatures are extrinsic to a piece of music; a 3/4 piece can be also be written as a x/y piece, it will just be confusing for the musicians to follow.
Oh, I see. So synonyms of the word "fat" have real medical definitions. I think it's just that "fat" doesn't sound pretentious enough, so it's not clinical.
Anyone know anything about codeq.io? As someone creating a similar service (https://landscape.io) I'd be interested to check it out but it seems to be down right now, and the Twitter account seems to have stopped last May.
What's very interesting about this discovery, perhaps even more so than the discovery about Diabetes, is that the results directly contradict research that was conducted on Mice.

So much medical research, and drug trials, are based on the what the reactions of mice are; this discovery makes it clear we cannot rely on mice for everything.

If you read to the end of the article (spoiler) - the original paper was rejected for publication because it contradicted research that showed what was happening in humans, could not be occurring because mice reacted differently.
(Indian) Government plans to access your mobile data
From the brief, start of page 11:

"Garcia may assert a copyright interest only in the portion of
“Innocence of Muslims” that represents her individual
creativity"

The brief doesn't explicitly say that Youssef may upload a different cut but the quote you provided doesn't directly contradict it either since the copies that it's referring to contain Garcia's copyrighted material. A new cut would be a new copyrighted work.
Pretty much what mine is too, a pile of spam from various compromises services I should have done better than to trust. Mt Gox, Dropbox, Bitstamp (yeah, they never made a big mention of that one) and a variety of other small services.
Apologies in advance to the PHPers out there, but... PHP?!
How is the exception handling? For instance, if something goes wrong when generating a new private key, could they still attempt the transaction but with a null key? (cf the earlier bug that lost 2609 bitcoins.)
> I believe that all life on this planet came from elsewhere in the universe.

One can argue that this is uncontroversial on the ground that life's precursors came from elsewhere. The only debate is what level of complexity is meant by "came from elsewhere".

> And only the life forms that can quickly reproduce and spread to other planets get to live on.

There's another, more likely explanation -- that life in some form naturally arises if the conditions are right, and there doesn't need to be a connection with another life-supporting environment. This isn't proven yet, it's just likely.
I think that making it an extension of an existing phone was a good choice. When I heard that Apple was planning some sort of device for cars, I was imagining how much of a pain it would be to update apps and keep things in sync with a device in the car. Sounds like it's essentially a second-screen for the iPhone (plus some built-in controls).
I guess someone should notify Merriam-Webster: http://www.merriam-webster.com/medlineplus/fat
Eh. I dunno whether I am just optimistic, but let's try to remember that certainty isn't part of the scientific vocabulary; almost by definition science never seeks to provide a final answer on any subject and remains open to further inquiry/falsifiability.

So. I believe one of the reasons humankind is so awesome is that we have the capacity to be more than just a note in your natural symphony; we are constantly changing, creating and inventing— and I think it's entirely up to us whether we continue to flourish. Not to get all mystical, but perhaps in time the notion that we are 'the reason the music exists' will not seem super far-fetched. I guess I just think that human consciousness is so unique and cool that it is worth going to great lengths to preserve it, and to hell with what's considered 'natural'.
1. I was explaining the position of Bostrom, Hanson, and others. I do not completely agree with them.

2. I think you have misinterpreted their position. Bostrom and Hanson know quite a bit about evolution. They know that evolution is undirected and would eventually result in an organism we wouldn't recognize, let alone value. But they both think that we are entering a time in which we will no longer be bound by evolution. They think that humanity will soon be able to engineer minds, allowing us to improve their raw abilities while having them retain many of our own values.

On this point, I do agree with them. Evolution hill-climbs, so it gets stuck in local maxima and can't search the entire solution space. We're already building lots of stuff that could never evolve: radio, wheels, impellers, turbines, lasers, etc. In billions of years, evolution hasn't figured out a way to send signals faster than 0.000001c (300m/sec). That's how fast sound waves and nerve signals travel. As optimization processes go, it really is quite terrible. If we want to make better minds in any reasonable time-frame, we'll need to engineer them ourselves.