skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Do-It-Yourself” Vaccine Could Save Patients $10 Billion
I read a biography of Paul Dirac recently and it seemed like he did a lot of his thinking about physics while walking. I checked and am impressed to see that the BBC has actually already included this obscure fact in their article!
Bearing in mind there are Facebook advertisers unsophisticated enough not to bother filtering on "interested in" before showing dating ads, it seems far more likely that she'd be shown a baby ad coincidentally.
In an age of asymmetric public-key cryptography there would be very little to gain from number stations and a lot to lose.
Yesterday I went to a meetup and today my inbox was full of recruiter spam. Imagine if I post my name and email here..
Lots of people don't know local VCs...

And to make things worse, sometimes they don't have local VCs...

I am from Brazil for example, I DO know local VCs, but startup community in Brazil overall is very weak, of almost all startups I saw, all of them are in the same situation as me (ie: only the founders, struggling to reach ramen profitability, desperate for money, and would jump ship themselves if they could).

What about people that want to get hired from Brazil's swamplands for example? No VCs there, but lots of educated people there (the Federal government here built lots of top-notch tech and STEM universities there, hoping that having the workers there would make companies go there, it failed, instead people study there and then move elsewhere, or get stuck there doing low-pay jobs)
The exact same happens with John Carmack's tweets. I don't know what's going through peoples' minds that they think these high-end folk are so in need of encouragement that half-hearted messages are worth sending.

I imagine the end result is a bit like a performer having their own catchphrases sent to them, in that they're scroll-scroll-scrolled past without exception.
Be careful of using these though.

I had an obscure bug using dynamic proxy (castle dynamic proxy2) a while ago in a WPF application. I was proxying to an interface so it created a proxy object in between that in the actual class so it was eating my C# event. Changing the proxying from an interface to a subclass fixed it.

Boy that was a fun one to figure out.
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The company is about 2.5 years old. We've raised over $30MM to-date from Bessemer Venture Partners, and the Social+Capital Partnership.The team is currently ~60, comprising people from Apple, Box, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Yammer, Microsoft, and PayPal.

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Apologies for not explaining. I think you read too much into my question.

I remembered a YC company that was acquired by Twitter a few years ago that provided this service. When the OP shared the link, I thought "this is not new, or is it?" Sure enough, it was BackType.
Yet some people (hint hint, person not living in a first world country!) would be very happy to get recruiter spam...
Yes, there are post-docs in the lab; please get in touch via the jobs page.
Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine!
Hugelkultur: the ultimate raised garden beds
Ha, nice catch!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682675
What a pleasant coincidence, I have been planning on going to a Vipassana 10-day retreat later this month.

I also happen to have gone to Game Closure's Thursday night parties a few times. They are nice people.

I also am a fan of gwern. I also just started a Kickstarter (since I am homeless) for my game and website which are very closely related to this topic. What a nice group of coincidences. Personally I believe it is because we are all part of a hive, and that we are also in a divine simulation of sorts, but that is all besides the point. I'll plug my Kickstarter in a new topic later this week when I make a nicer video.

Anyway, I believe all religions are correct (including Scientology) and that they function as abstract subconscious metaphors. Is Buddhism not a religion?
AGKyle:

Since the update, I've spent the majority of the day updating zillions of passwords. As other users have mentioned, bulk updates would be amazing, but I can't imagine how complex that would be. Even trying to "open and fill" is frequently wrong because 1password has saved the webpage as the new user registration page instead of a true login. Small pain for the amazing product you have.

I would recommend one thing very highly. Please give the user some information why there is a vulnerability. I've noted some of them are marked from previous large user/pass dumps that are available. If the user knows this, she will know to never use that user/pass combo again. If the user is unaware, they may rotate to another common user/pass that has also been released.

Thanks for considering my thoughts...
I haven't been on Hulu in some time (~2 years), but I often saw a choice from 3 different ads.
> But the blanket "anything you make while employed here at any capacity is ours" is just ridiculous and needs to go away.

Maybe it can go away if everyone just ignored it? :P
Is there really no way to search job postings on that site?
Hey, get in touch if/when you're back in these parts. There's a small but increasingly convincing startup community here.
I prefer NASM-flavored Intel syntax over AT&T; this is mostly a matter of taste, and AT&T is certainly more regular, but the NASM syntax for addressing looks more natural to me:

lea edi, [eax + myarray + ebx * 4]

Versus AT&T:

lea myarray(%eax,%ebx,$4), %edi

I had to look up the order of the syntax to write this comment; you can certainly memorize it, but why bother when it can be written more naturally? I wrote the NASM example in the same order for ease of comparison, but it can be shuffled around in any order as long as the expression simplifies to a valid addressing mode.

When using AT&T syntax, I also find it cleaner to drop the size suffix (movq vs mov) from the instruction whenever the size can be inferred from a register. It is still necessary in some cases that are ambiguous (e.g. mov (mem), $imm), so I suppose for teaching purposes, it might not hurt to always include it.

By the way, the 32-bit x86 ABI is much simpler than x86-64, so if you're learning assembly language for the first time, x86-64 might not be the easiest place to start. x86-64 also has some unintuitive behavior like zero-extending 32-bit mov (mov ax, 0x1234 does not modify the high part of eax, but mov eax, 0x12345678 clears the top half of rax).
FWIW Vipassana is one of the best experiences I have had and I'd highly recommend it.
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People are not really being asked to give up their privacy. Or rather, they don't fully comprehend what they're giving up, so I'd argue that it's not at all a conscious choice for many.

Moreover, I find this kind of attitude strange. All those rights that people do have were hard-won. The right to vote, freedom of speech and association and many others. People fought for them because they were living in environments where they didn't have them. Sure, they could have moved and left everything they knew, but instead they chose to try and change things. What would the world be like if they hadn't? How does social progress take place?
I think of it as Google and Apples failure mostly. Current app stores are terrible for new app discovery. Even for games which used to be a lucrative market a couple of years ago there seems to be just a handful that take in most of the money - which causes Google and Apple to showcase them more hiding all the new interesting lesser known apps.
They are easy rationalizations or conclusions to jump to when they begin to experience spiritual phenomenon for the first time.
Unfortunately, this also makes it very easy to assassinate their character from a social/political standpoint.
Like I said in the other thread on 5.5, make sure you update for the patches. http://www.openbsd.org/errata55.html

This one is listed on that page (bottom 005: SECURITY FIX: May 1, 2014).
Are Decisions Governed by “Free Will” or Algorithms
Portland isn't really dense urban, though, its has some nice neighborhoods, but you're best off bicycling between them through long stretches of residential houses with big yards.
Excerpt:

The next time a business or local government builds a public bathroom, it should consider putting the sink outside, near the entrance. The resulting social pressure would cause almost all men and women to wash their hands. Washing your hands may be boring, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes it as the “do-it-yourself vaccine.” It’s one of the most effective ways everyday people can fight the spread of infectious disease.

Thank you for posting this. I get tired of seeing the posts on the coming post antibiotics apocalypse where everyone (on HN, of all places) bitches and moans and points fingers but won't discuss actual practical solutions. This looks practical. And do-able. It isn't something crazy, like the jillion dollar designer drugs being developed for my condition.
Original Mt. Gox Founder Clears Name, Says He Never Met Mark Karpeles in Person
You'd be quite surprised. Alibaba.com itself isn't a retailer in the same sense as amazon. Pretty much used for bulk goods, importing, manufacturing, and outsourcing. I know a lot of startups, in fact, that in the early stage source through Alibaba. The one I work at, for instance, gets our steady supply of infrared pens through Alibaba, but there are a lot of examples. I even had a friend back in high school who made a small fortune (relatively speaking) importing random things through it that he would sell at a tremendous markup here...

Alibaba does, though, run other sites as mentioned in the article that are more along the lines of an eBay or Amazon and you would be right that those haven't caught on outside of China.
Using Google to DDoS any website
Big Data is no more of a threat to privacy than Small Town used to be.

That's both true and irrelevant. As any nerd who grew up pre-Internet in a small town can tell you, small towns are absolutely stifling places. One of the benefits of the Internet, for me, is that it allowed me to escape the ultra-conformist Midwestern suburban environment I grew up in and allowed me to communicate and interact with people who were (and are) different and not afraid of being different.

Our cultural roots lie in societies where supposed secrets traveled fast and
everyone knew if someone was pregnant or gay or searching for information
about strange topics.

You leave out the reason for those secrets traveling quickly: to most efficiently ostracize and isolate the person with the nonconformist beliefs, sexual orientation, religion, or what have you. This is all fine and pleasant, unless you happen to be the person about whom these beliefs are spreading.
Thanks! We're still working to make it even faster!
> For starters, you can see Groovy as "Java without semicolons"

Not if you have to read other people's code, or understand examples you find on the internet.

> I went from Maven to Gradle and never looked back. It's superior in most ways.

What's it better at? I want my build tool to be simple; maven compiles my source and does my releases, and the main thing I have to configure is just a list of dependencies (in an admittedly verbose format). I'm actually a scala programmer, but I use maven rather than SBT because it seems to me that having lots of logic in the build system could only lead to bad things. So what are the things you see it helping with?
Willing to help with SEO, Conversion Optimization, Landing Page Feedback
Spokenvote is heavy Angular and would love the help: http://railsforcharity.github.io/spokenvote/
Smart human. We should keep this one.
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That actually makes sense!
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Amd64 and Va_arg (2010)
Yeah, someone brought up the almost the same exact example on the programming subreddit. What I don't like about the x86 ABI is that it feels deprecated to me. Like knowing 68k or MIPS feels useless to me, relative to knowing the ABIs of more mainstream devices like x86-64 or ARM.
We're fixing that now. bug bug.
A family that wants the kids to have a better chance than their parents did.
bug bug, sorry. fixing now.
Good to note that this was found with KLEE[1]. KLEE is a good for symbolic execution of code and is very cool[2].

This only triggers a crash if you use RELEASE_BUFFERS (not the default) and a warning alert is written when the socket buffer is full. About the only case where a warning alert is generated is when a client attempts a renegotiation without the renegotiation extension (unless insecure renegotiation is allowed by the app). I've not been able to trigger the bug in a test because code generally stops reading once the socket buffer is full so you need the application to exactly fill the socket buffer (so that it doesn't get EAGAIN), then a warning alert can just exceed it.

[1] http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=139809493725682&w=2
[2] http://klee.github.io/klee/
Word of advice here: only work with people you know really well, or look up to. The success of your startup will depend on that person, and a random person will most likely not share your motivation and can have any number of quirks that you will only find out over the course of many months/years.

It's completely possible to pick up a brilliant hacker or business genius out of the blue, but the people who are brilliant hackers/business geniuses probably have friends who they'd start a company with rather than a stranger.

Personal anecdote - I picked a cofounder who I had worked with in the past, but didn't really completely know. Incredibly bright guy, but no ability to get things done. He was delighted to blow money when we had it, but when things got rough he brought the whole atmosphere of the startup down with him and eventually left. Now I only work with people I've known for many years, and the success of my ventures with them speaks for itself.
I used to worry about schizophrenia after seeing the (incredibly unrealistic) portrayal of it in A Beautiful Mind. The way I've always imagined or modeled it working is as if there's a separate consciousness that it actively trying to trick the "real you" into being paranoid. Of course, that adversarial consciousness is simply your brain, just like the "real you." It is extremely weird and disturbing that a failure state can seem to behave like this. The "adversary" used to use demons, back when people literally believed in demons or had demons as a part of their culture, but it has to change its tactics when the culture changes.
http://fractalfoundation.org/

This is a bit unrelated, but Albuquerque has a great fractal community. Friday night 3d fractals in the planetarium is an amazing thing.
I thought that even that concession was due to a court ruling or other regulatory finding, wasn't it?
Although it doesn't appear to be the same thing, this is discussed extensively here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7666501

The related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7664261

A related submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667325
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I think they are sending out e-mails about new patches.
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I'm partway through writing a bot to post this automagically.
libGDX (cross plattform game lib.) also made a push to gradle
I suspect Facebook treats them as "direct messages" (i.e. there's no illusion Facebook doesn't know the contents) and not "private messages", if their normal attitude toward privacy is anything to go by.
Sure, but I'm talking about right and wrong, not law. The law is fucked in innumerable ways.

> What's to stop me from directly copying what I am doing at work and trying to compete with them? It wouldnt be fair if every employee you hired could just quit then rip you off once they figured out everything.

That's theft, copying is not the same thing as rewriting in your own time.
Speeding up page faults does _directly_ improve build times. I don't understand why you think writing yet another make is the obvious direct fix, but fixing page faults is not. Or why you think Linus shouldn't fix things he is clearly interested in.
As a recovered schizoaffective (bipolar with schizophrenic qualities in the ups and downs) I very much believe that schizophrenia reveals a lot about the brains inner wiring.

Schizophrenia is, from my experience, very much like autism. It is actually also along a spectrum; but more importantly: it's not even necessarily a bad thing.

Just like autistic people have started referring to normal people as 'neurotypical,' I'm fairly certain schizophrenics once used to be a very important part of society: the mystics.

From my personal experience schizophrenia is extreme pattern matching to the point of solipsistic union not with 'reality' but with all of your sensory inputs.

That might have to do with my personal experience, where there where not so much voices as an all encompassing ubermind which would manifest itself as a single voice which you would call 'intuition' but for me was more of deity.

One of the best sayings I've found since then is: 'The mystic swims in the same ocean the schizophrenic drowns in.'
The Hunt for the Invisible Axion
> "We have the ability to live with a level of anonymity that our ancestors would deeply envy."

This is completely ridiculous. Just consider how many pieces of data are needed to take part in society as a normal person. Social security numbers, Passports, ID cards, Bank account numbers and who knows how many other things. Back in 1714, I'm sure it was a lot easier to hide things from people and even lie about who you were. Taking pregnancy as the main example is silly and equating Big Data with Small Town even more so.
Interactively Programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript
> I don't know what third-world despot you've gotten stockholm syndrome for, but that is absolutely not true.

As someone with roots from a "third-world despot", this is pretty offensive. I can say pretty confidently, that such practices do not exist there.

Just another normal day in the "first world", eh?
... only in USA, and only because forced by laws/litigation.
Me too, alongside D, .NET Native and the Graal/Truffle compilers.
ZeniMax claims rights to key Oculus tech developed by John Carmack
Sometimes you might not need 'relational' in the SQL sense of the word, you might find the way a 3D renderer, e.g. in a games engine, has a better way of representing hierarchical data. Even if you are not displaying the data you can query it and do things with it on a GPU.
I'm working on a website for that: http://workhere.io.
I am not a gardener, but I thought this was nifty:

It's a german word and some people can say it all german-ish. I'm an american doofus, so I say "hoogle culture". I had to spend some time with google to find the right spelling. Hugal, hoogal, huegal, hugel .... And I really like saying it out loud: "hugelkultur, hoogle culture, hoogal kulture ...." - it could be a chant or something.

I learned this high-falootin word at my permaculture training. I also saw it demonstrated on the Sepp Holzer terraces and raised beds video - he didn't call it hugelkultur, but he was doing it.

Hugelkultur is nothing more than making raised garden beds filled with rotten wood.
>And how does that affect her ability to do things like get a password reset?

A lot of this was Before Internet, so you were usually speaking to a person when dealing with the account.

>It's probably fine for signing up to a web site, but does she do that on things like auto loans or mortgages?

I'm not sure if she's ever obfuscated there, but I have no idea.

My solution has been to not use credit thus far in life. At this point, I have 5x the savings I would qualify for as a credit limit anyway, so I guess I've grown into my lack of credit cards over time. I've also paid in full for transportation until lately, where I now structure a secured passbook-style loan through my credit union to build up a fake credit history.

I can't help that my credit union knows me, which puts me on a few lists by itself, but they'd be who I would be getting a home or auto loan from at this point.

You can't really get away without changing your name and your country. All you can do is thwart a bunch of machines that don't actually care if they can't resolve the identities of a few people.
"like Jim Carrey’s Truman Burbank, genuinely has stumbled onto a carefully orchestrated secret of which those around him are blandly unaware."

No one around Truman was unaware. They were all hired actors working on the secret.
White House Report Calls for Transparency in Online Data Collection