skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That program is extremely controversial, as your link says.

Drug addiction is all about the inability to commit to long term plans in favour of the quick short term happiness. Drug addicts are not capable of making rational decisions when faced with cash on the spot. There is a reason why we don't have a problem with boxing or MMA, but "bum fights" is unethical and looked down upon.

Offering drug addicts money for sterilization is unbelievably unethical. It is reinforcing the idea in their minds that their addiction is irreparable, probably guaranteeing after the fact that they will never seek help and recover. And if they do turn their lives around and are faced with different priorities than they did during addiction? Too bad so sad?

By the way, I'm not at all expecting to change your mind on this. Given your use of phrases like "left-wing metropolitan elites", I don't see how you could possibly be interested in a debate that involves you questioning your preconceived perspectives.
The modern western diet is the fad, if you look at what it is, how long its been around, and what our biologically identical ancestors ate for a huge multiple of time longer than the modern western diet.
Pitfalls of building the “Uber for XYZ”
I'm not sure if you're serious, but the problematic history of eugenics goes back to a nice long way.

For a good time, read the proceedings of the international conferences, starting in 1912 and running for the next ten years or so. Some great scientific efforts, combined with some pretty appalling work, as well.

Check out 'The Cause of the Inferiority of the Physical and Mental Characters in teh Lower Social Classes' to start, from 1912: https://archive.org/details/problemsineugeni00inte
ULA won't let this slide. This cuts into their PR image and the bottom line (having to switch to Delta rockets).
I would argue that every programmer should be at least exposed to some assembly, so you can understand (and appreciate) a little more about how the computer actually does what it does.

A great (free!) ebook pdf is "Programming From The Ground Up" on the GNU site: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pgubook/
I love the anti-science bias of people against the gluten-free trend. You're telling me if an article came out that showed a study with a sample size of 37 people found that marijuana was incredibly harmful we would see the same "Marijuana confirmed to be incredibly harmful!" all over the internet? With the same certainty and intensity? Give me a break. There is a lot of nonsense in the gluten-free movement, there is no doubt about it. However I don't understand the hate it generates out of otherwise skeptical and rational people.
Joseph here, co-founder of HelloSign.

Happy to answer any questions about the API.
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He's not "painting them as unpatriotic" he's responding to their points about national security.

Their (ULA) argument in a nutshell is #1 it's costly because of national security and #2 because of national security (read: important) you should stick with us as we've been successful.

Elon's argument is based around cost first, and he through in the national security part as a response to the two ULA arguments.

So basically, they started it would explain why national security or patriotism as you put it, is the topic being discussed.

Also, we're talking about launching military satellites. I don't know how national security/patriotism can't play a major part.
Leo Horie, author of Mithril, has written a blog post where he explains how to re-implement some of the article's examples using Mithril (React-like client-side Javascript MVC framework): http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/an-exercise-in-awesomen...
"Drug addiction is all about the inability to commit to long term plans in favour of the quick short term happiness."

-Exactly why- they shouldn't be parents.
Really like the UI. Reminds me of Designspiration.
What? Just because Roosevelt et. al. were proponents doesn't make it a good idea. You hypothesis presupposes something about human nature that I think is fundamentally flawed, namely that people will be inclined to evenly disperse the benefits of such a program. Much like communism, or some sort of stateless libertarian utopia(what ever that's even called?) it sounds nice on paper if you squint and hand wave away the way real people actually behave.
Leo Horie, author of Mithril, writing about how to re-implement some of James Long's "Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome" examples using Mithril (React-like client-side Javascript MVC framework).
Solve the network neutrality dilemma and make money too
SEO tactics and practices change so rapidly... almost any article or book written about SEO is outdated by the time it's released (unfortunately). Tactics that were considered "best practices" even 6 months ago may actually harm your site these days. -- There is no magic bullet for SEO.
Tbh, if it was done outside the US/Canada, I'd say it could have been an independent decision. As others have said, outside of NA, all I hear is people complaining about the quality of Foursquare's data. ;)

That said...is anyone who actually thought about it really that surprised?

They are almost always being deceptive when they make claims of "independence", "nothing will change", etc. The truth is, most companies choose to maximize shareholder value/profits over other ethical constraints because C-level compensation is chained to the shareholder's interests as best as can be managed in most companies.

It would have been nice if Facebook was more like Buffer [e.g. Transparent, Honest], but does anyone ever really seeing a company like Buffer growing to even 5% of Facebook's current Market Cap [150 Billion]?

Deception works at scale. Politics have proved that quite well, unfortunately.
there's something about how this piece resonates with me. I'm not a founder or work for a start up; but it connects to me and I'm not sure why?
It is a bit like having to support IE6.

At some point you have to move forward to CORS, because others have.
Not sure you made the right choice.
This is how to use CORS without Preflights: http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/01/how-to-use-cors-without-...

And this is why JSONP is almost always a bad idea (for sensitive data): http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/02/are-you-sure-you-use-jso...
It also depends on whether it is goods you are selling. If you're providing services rather than a physical product, it's even worse, because now you don't even know where the services are deemed to have been supplied until you've read a whole bunch of rules.
I agree that hiring is random and the focus should be on making a star team. That is what I have done and I'm pretty happy with how it has turned out. Have you ever seen a big change in the level of productivity of a given programmer that isn't related to longer term general experience ( an average programmer with 10 years of experience should be more productive than an average programmer with 1 year of experience ).
I had a discussion about this with one of the guys from PIA VPN...you can pay via bitcoin and the info required for sign-up is kinda uhm spartan.

No chance of pushing any serious traffic through a VPN though unless you control it.

Unfortunately, in my case a VPN would probably put me on weaker legal ground. My ISP is not legally entitled to monitor my traffic...once it hits the VPN provider the local laws apply & I can do without US laws on the privacy front.
Fringe or not, it illustrates why we have licensing. People bought cheap, dumb equipment, and it was fragile. All predictable. But at the same time, very expensive and sophisticated technology couldn't figure out how to protect the cheap dumb equipment. Its a very hard problem. And "Sucks for them" isn't a practical response when you're trying to change the status quo.

It might have been one bad demo, but it was also a very simple, controlled experiment. The spectrum environment without FCC licensing would be orders of magnitude more challenging. The technology just isn't there yet to replace the FCC across the whole spectrum. The FCC certainly could move faster to allow the technology to develop, but your characterization of the situation and aspersions are inaccurate and unwarranted.

You're also ignoring how expensive this equipment is. Simple white spaces devices are pretty cheap, but the kind of radio that would could freely operate over a large part of the spectrum is still very expensive. Just the analog frontend capable of tuning to a wide range of frequencies is expensive. Retrofitting existing devices with the technology, at the scale that would facilitate deregulation, would be quite impractical right now.

It's a really interesting space, and I think it has tremendous potential, but there is a lot of development to be done before the technology lives up to the libertarian fantasy. I think we're at the stage where it would make sense to have an unlicensed band that allowed "smart" devices only, which followed a minimum set of rules. The challenge here is getting someone to give up their spectrum.
I hold out hope every time someone claims such BS, I like trying to be optimistic.

I don't really -expect- them to follow through tho. :/
Eugenics received widespread support pretty much until the truth came out about the treatment of the Jews in Germany, which is when the supporters suddenly woke up and understood what the realization of those ideas inevitably leads to.

But that truth was not fully revealed until 1945 with the liberation of various concentration camps. Until then, most details and rumors about the camps was dismissed as idle propaganda because noone believed the reality could possibly be so shocking.

In 1935, little was known about what was going on in with the Jews in Germany, and most of the really extreme ideas were not implemented yet. What discrimination occurred was not unique in Germany, as most nations of Europe practiced some minor forms of tacitly-approved anti-semitism
No worries! Actually I wonder if just tunneling over TLS would be enough if the ISP were determined. I mean, after they see me pushing and pulling GBs from the same host for an hour, they might just GET it themselves. If they see a "how to configure your VPN" page, that address could go on a slow-list.
Nuclear explosion detection system tells us about asteroid strikes
Many of the examples seem partially or entirely broken under Chrome 34 (running on Windows 7).
Shameless (Pi-related) plug: http://www.streetsign.org.uk/

I wrote a digital signage system for a large (3000 participants + staff) conference last year, running on a bunch of pis around the campus. I've been developing it since then, with a few other teams in our organisation installing it for their sites.

It's written in Python (Flask), and reasonably easy to install and use. Anyone interested? (core released as GPL, I can do project work / features on request / commission as well...)
One of the oddest experiences of my professional career was attending a day long "training session" where Leslie Lamport tried to teach a team of engineers how to use TLA+

There was such a huge disconnect between the world views and educational backgrounds of a team of systems programmers and the world of formal proofs. All exacerbated by TLA+ using logic notation more common in Britain than America...
> Eugenics is not about killing people. It's about ensuring children are born into the best possible environment for them to succeed.

No, its not. Eugenics is about ensuring that only people with the "best possible" (from the point of view of its proponents, which is always subjective) genetic makeup live. Killing people with undesired genetic makeup, penalizing or preventing reproduction by those with undesired genetics, and promoting or compelling reproduction by those with desired genetics are among the means of eugenics.

"Ensuring children are born into the best possible environment for them to succeed" is not eugenics.

> Left-wing metropolitan elites always seem to crush any debates around eugenics, but whilst we're not allowed to talk about it, it's happening here in 2014. Project Prevention are doing great work in sterilizing drug addicts (voluntary sterilization in exchange for cash) to prevent children being born into misery.

Aside from discussion of whether that's a desirable policy, if it's really motivated by concern for childhood environment and not about eradicating drug addiction on the assumption that it is purely hereditary and preventing drug addicts from reproducing will prevent drug addiction, its not eugenics at all (as your wikipedia link correctly states, its been compared to eugenics, which is not the same thing as being eugenics.)

> We need to stop reeling off Godwin's law straw-man arguments against Eugenics and consider why a number of our national heroes (including the likes of Walt Disney) were proponents.

Just because someone is a "national hero" because they did (or are national mythology has attributed to them) something good in one domain doesn't stop them from holding reprehensible views in other domains. "National heroes" are not gods, and we are poorly served by treating virtue in one domain of life as granting special consideration in unrelated domains.
More like Howard Hughes - the 20th Century version and with aviation.

Remember the Senate hearing where Hughes fought and won against the senate's (apparently) special interest influences.

Musk's hearing video really reminds of Hughes'

Musk: http://youtu.be/he0-SP-BnCQ?t=10m30s

Hughes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vu1dlow5A
It is perpetually surprising to me how much other people feel it's their business what other people choose to eat.
I just read this book last week!

It's an easy read, and it does a good job showing what Go is like.
It piqued my interest, and yesterday I started reading 'Programming in Go: Creating Applications for the 21st Century' by Mark Summerfield.
Does anybody know how it compares to 'The Go Programming Language Phrasebook' by David Chisnall?
This is one of the most abhorrent ideas I've read about in quite a while. To call an addict's decision to do this "voluntary" is disingenuous to say the least.
> We need to stop reeling off Godwin's law straw-man arguments against Eugenics

This is one of the few cases in which Godwin's Law probably doesn't apply. The implementations of the National Socialist Party by themselves are an excellent argument against eugenics of any sort.

Meanwhile, it is worth mentioning here that Winston Churchill, while a "national hero" to some people, was unusually strongly racist even for his time. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/not-his-finest...
I guarantee you that video-over-internet is a strategic priority for the cable companies. Currently, Comcast is limited to selling video services to customers who are connected to their cable network (about 30% of the US). They would love to expand their addressable market for video services by 70%. They've invested a ton of money into their online video platform for this reason. They haven't released it because the customer experience would suck unless there is a precedent and methodology in place for them to ensure adequate interconnect bandwidth exists.

As someone who works in the industry, that's why this whole argument feels false to me. Sure, the cable companies own the infrastructure for their customers, but there's money to be made from selling services to other customers as well. Big companies like Comcast aren't as stupid as you think: their video distribution model will likely look a lot more like Netflix in 5 years, as will the other cable/telco video companies. They're not trying to set up the rules so that Netflix fails; they're trying to set up the rules to ensure they can sell their products in the marketplace as well. How do you ensure your products don't suck? You ensure everyone in the value chain is adequately compensated (at least until you can disintermediate them).

When Comcast enters the video-over-internet market, they will have to pay for interconnects to the other ISPs. But that's fine with them; because it's a marginal cost tied to revenue. You have to tie the fixed costs of expanding infrastructure to increased revenue somehow or the economic model falls apart. That means either charging service providers by the gigabyte or charging consumers. Charging consumers would have a chilling effect on Internet commerce (just look at aggregated mobile data usage stats) so they've opted to go after the service providers.
>But that truth was not fully revealed until 1945 with the liberation of various concentration camps.

This is harmful revisionism. What was going on in Germany in the 1930s and the laws and actions against Jews were well known at the time around the world.
Live coding is great fun
I'm curious to know what the key differences are between the modern western diet and the diet of our ancestors. Are you primarily speaking to our consumption of processed foods? Also, what was the diet of our ancestors, and how was this information about our ancestral diet ascertained?
Mithril docs: http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/
Is the US a semi-oligarchy wrapped up in the trappings of a republic?
SOME THOUGHTS ON SOONSNAP AND LITTLE BIG DETAILS
Ask HN: What do you think about virtual robots on a web page?
We have been working on virtual robots for a while, I would like to get feedback from potential users...
Would using HTTPS prevent the VPN and various proxies from messing with the traffic as described in the article?
I was briefly excited because I thought I would discover the book containing wisdom of how to program a competitive Go AI engine. (Go is an ancient board game.) Oh well.

By the way, is there a suck book?
Keep in mind that it's making the box act MORE like something else, but NOT less than what it currently is. People using cygwin and stuff like babun don't take away from windows, they add to what windows already provides, gaining a more diverse toolbox. On the flipside, adding things windows provides to *nix boxes to gain the same diversity in the toolbox would be very very hard.
A different position would be to simply let these misconfigured and badly written networking programs fail - and let them fail hard.

Yes, it will be painful in the short term and users will notice outages, but in the long run it will result in these issues being fixed. If we continue a policy of reversion to bad workarounds (which is really what JSONP is), we not only add complexity and the potential for obscure exploits to our own software, we ensure that nobody at Cisco et al will ever feel the pressure to fix these bugs.
I do like the comfort of being able to nail-down local things so that they don't move, as it were. The encouragement it provides is subtle, but i do appreciate it (especially on a large team, where colleagues span the full range of the talent spectrum).

I think it's worth noting that even a very shallow notion of immutability would provide enough comfort for me. Compiler writers could call it a "syntactic blanky".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_blanket

Something along those lines shouldn't be mutually-exclusive with the current proposal, local reasoning being sufficient. Something like 'final' or 'const' (or, better still, replacing the 'let' keyword with 'val' and 'var' as in Scala.)
HOWTO: Be more productive
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity

On Being A Senior Engineer
http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engi...
I do actually have a mathematics degree, so your appraisal hits home.
I understand he'd write "never signed, never sent" at the bottom. I like that.
>what our biologically identical ancestors ate for a huge multiple of time longer than the modern western diet.

Why is there a belief that our ancestors had a singularly common diet? Humans have lived in all areas of the earth with vastly different diets. Some were high in fat, some were high in protein, some relied on plants/fruit, others were more balanced, etc.

Yes we probably on average have a higher carb intake than most humans in the past. But that doesn't mean there was some standardized diet that all pre-historic humans ate. They ate whatever was around to survive.
"Republic" and "Oligarchy" aren't actually opposed concepts. Its possible to be both at once, without "semi" and "trappings".

Now, if you mean "representative democracy" when you said "republic", you'd have a more appropriate question.
iOS 7 opened up some APIs for it. GetCloak's app uses it (and has a lot more niceties, I read), and so does the ugly but generic OpenVPN app. I'm guesses that they're not able to block all traffic before the VPN is set up though. I'm not sure. And I'm certain the OpenVPN app doesn't fail safe/closed.

Anyone know of a portable, travel wifi router that supports VPN and fails closed?
so you're trying to say that you didn't care about it for 3 whole days, awesome!
"Why is the modern workplace starting to sound more like slavery than a job?"

I don't think this is a terribly recent development.
It looks to be a decently well-designed study, albeit one that didn't have a huge sample size. And the language in the article isn't excessively strong or dismissive, as they often are.

Personally I'm currently not eating gluten and appear to experience adverse reactions to it, but I didn't find this article excessively hostile to me or my eating choices. Indeed, I thought it was rather interesting, and might do a limited trial of non-FODMAP gluten to see what it does to me personally.
I've been using this on my Android phone (but have not audited it, I should really do that some time): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bluhell-firew...

ABP has a huge page-load slowdown on my phone, this is essentially unnoticeable, and still removes the vast majority that I encounter.
Awesome!

I tweeted yesterday: [You must be subscribed to Twitter with your internet provider to read this tweet.] #FCCNetNeutrality

There should be a fast lane, it should also be the only lane.
Barnstorm Games generates 10x the revenue in Amazon Appstore
So, using your logic shouldn't your boss fire you for being mediocre at hiring? Usually a team with all A players doesn't really work out anyway. They spend all their time pissing on each other and avoiding doing the boring grunt code. For every leader you need some followers that don't mind doing the crap code.
Perhaps you may quickly check them here: www.theclientrelationsfactory.com
Meatspace chat: your 2 seconds of fame.
I switched from Firefox to Safari , when I found out 900 Mb used by firefox on my machine , now I know the real reason behind that .
I am curious how this can be possible?

Does FB and Foursquare utilise broadly similar geo-location technology from within the mobile device?

Not saying you are incorrect - just wondering if a technical expert could elaborate on the accuracy.
Isn't it patriotic to save taxpayer's money in the USA? Especially for defense spending, so that money can be used to buy more important stuff like DARPA research?
Well, marijuana is harmful anyway.
> but I’d much rather replace those with even higher level system tests through Capybara or similar

I've been doing this for years. It's been working out very well.
I'm glad test abstraction scope is being talked about now.
> Theoretically a new company could try to compete but the major companies tend to choose not to start price wars and it's a very expensive proposition to run competing cable out to houses, particularly since the incumbent will usually lower prices to make it more expensive for the new entrant. Around here, in the areas which have competition both Verizon and Comcast will cut and remove the other company's cables when they do a new install to maximize the cost and inconvenience of switching providers.

I have no idea where you heard this fairy tale. Comcast and Verizon sub out almost all their installs and line work to local contractors -- and most of these contractors have contracts with multiple telcos and cable companies. If the contractors are maliciously cutting wires, it's to get more work for themselves.