skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good grief, both the anthropologists described in the article sound like disagreeable people. The father with all his marrying of a child and then abandoning her, and the other female anthropologist who was mean to the kid.
It’s a problem, but I’m not sure that it can be fixed.

One possible idea is to weight each vote using it’s time, instead of using the original time of the submission.

For example, if a submission was made 5 hous ago, and got 1 vote 2 hours ago and 3 votes 1 hour ago, then

Actual:

Value = (1+1+3)/(5+1)^1.4

Alternative:

Value = 1/(5+1)^1.4 + 1/(2+1)^1.4 + 3/(1+1)^1.4

This way an upvote of a old submission is not wasted.

The problem is that we may see Norvig’s spellchecker in the frontpage forever (It’s a good article, I upvoted it perhaps in a few repost, but it’s resubmitted every few months.)
Great!

I'm actually considering using this in a new project right now - it is very very tempting to think that I could just use this, and have a middle-layer that I don't have to muck with... this would greatly speed up development, I do applaud the team for trying something so ambitious, could be huge
"Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day"
Algorithmic Progress in Six Domains
He gave us a bit of a run-through presentation of his tactics for the latest shmoocon CTF. It seemed like it was a combination of time, skill, more time, patience... and skill? The world of reversing is so beyond my ken, but I love having people around who know how to do it.

When I asked how to get started, he suggested I just jump into a CTF and try.

[edit] I work at endgame (see my other comment), we're hiring, etc. etc.
"A male's ability to provide benefit to a female just doesn't lean much towards the "fighting off sabertooth tigers" anymore, nor even in the western world towards "fighting off other males"

Yes, you are exactly right. And the brain knows that. Yet, our evolutionary selection criteria, eh....let's just call it what it is... the desire of people to have sex with you, hasn't caught up yet. There is a reason big breasts and biceps arouse desire when they logically shouldn't.

And this primitive holdover alone is good enough reason for some people to try to gain sexually desirable (although admittedly kind of stupid from a practical perspective) traits.
I thought that LoopBack appeared promising until I came across their astroturf campaigns on reddit. That completely turned me off to them.
> PS: Obviously the question of causality remains contested. Are healthier people just stronger or do stronger people get healthier?

That seems like a pretty big confounding variable. Fit people are generally both healthier and stronger. I highly doubt strength training, in itself, is the most effective way to increase longevity.
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Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7796748 (318 points, 4 hours, 48 comments)
Again, this is why I love Dropbox - I don't even need to upload, just rightlick and get a link.

As mentioned, it's not suitable for large audiences - but it's perfect for other stuff.
Framing Brian Krebs
They wasted a perfectly good opportunity for deconstruction when Mark Twain wound up on the Enterprise and pointed out how much the Federation looked like colonialism in space. I suppose it would have broken the timeline to have him jump ship and join the Maquis. Bear in mind that, even in-universe, the utopia that is the Federation had to be born from the ashes of a global holocaust, temporal paradox and alien intervention.

> If there are warp-driven starships in the future they will likely be flown by the various factions of the Russian mob, the American criminal overworld, Los Zetas, Chinese Triads, and of course the Yakuza. If they look like contemporary business and governmental organizations, the captain will be a narcissist/psychopath and his immediate subordinates fawning codependents.

I want this to be a thing. Please tell me this is a thing. If it is, it's probably an anime.
They do get to choose whether to sign up to a volunteer military that's engaged in an existing war. It's very weird the way some paint US soldiers as a sort of Hero Innocent, absolving them of any sort of moral culpability.
The first few chapters Rippetoe's "Practical Programming for Strength Training" explain a lot of the theory behind strength training.

One of the first things it does it clarify the difference between exercise vs training. Exercise is just "working out", whereas "training" is a long term plan to improve certain aspects of the body's ability.

Unless you are specific about what your goals of changing your body and your body's abilities are, then it will be hard to get "results" since "results" is not well defined.

Some example results:

* Get bigger chest and arm muscles
* Be able to run long distances
* Be able to perform certain feats of strength: Lift heavy things, do certain gymnastics poses
* Have certain muscles or muscle groups be defined
* Any sport specific activity: climbing, rowing, golf, basketball, etc

Muscle composition and neurological response develop differently to different training. Endurance, balance, speed, range of motion, and lifting heaving things are all different. And you can develop those abilities in different muscles and movements.

Applying this context to any fitness article I read has clarified a lot for me.
Achieving maximum memory bandwidth (2013)
"SQLite4 requires all elements of the PRIMARY KEY to be non-null. This is an SQL standard. Due to an oversight in early versions, SQLite3 does not enforce the NOT NULL constraint on PRIMARY KEY columns since by the time the omission was discovered SQLite3 was in such widespread use, activation of NOT NULL enforcement would have broken too many programs."

I find this sad, and I wonder what those too many programs are. Why would one put NULL on PRIMARY KEY?
Actually, I meant psychopath. Psychotic has a different meaning - I stand corrected.
>I think their aim is noble

That's about as fast and loose a a usage of the word noble as you can get. It's a Q&A site; what is "noble"?
Making law is programming. The CPU is a bit fuzzy, but that's about the only difference. We should absolutely make lawmakers use and learn real version control.
How does this fake_usd demand driving up the price of Bitcoin tenfold compare with the New York Fed's ex nihilo asset purchase program?
Sci-Fi is commentary on the present, or the near future.

Even Star Trek (TOS was 60's era Apollo optimisim, ST:TNG was 1980's "Communism is falling"/We're getting okay with Russia/The Economy is booming/Roddenberry said so!)

The reason why today's SciFi isn't hopeful is that there are lots of very easy to see bad ways today turns into tomorrow, and not very easy to see good ways.

I honestly think self driving cars will make life crazy better for instance. But there isn't Sci-Fi to write about that is interesting enough to publish or make a show about with that premise. Or for 3d printing. etc
Well, that's ironic: hacking a game about hacking and getting hacked.
A shockingly one-sided article. Probably colored by their aversion to Libertarianism.
> Almost equally unbelievable is a society that isn't incredibly emotionally dysfunctional. There is little in the way of psychopathy, narcissism, addiction, unhealthy ideological fanaticism, or depression on display among the protagonists.

In Star Trek's hypothesized post-scarcity civilization, I would think a lot of humans take the time they would have spent working, and spend it on raising their kids well--or, even more interestingly--contributing to raising one-another's kids well. Star Trek doesn't often go into what civilian life is like on Earth, but it seems like "growing healthy minds" could be a large part of it.
Very cool. Does this use an open source map library?
Typo:

> Check out the demo to see Barcoed in action.
Hah, I read that and thought "Hmmm, I wonder if Gus knows about this? He should use it in Acorn". Then I read your username :)
I worked for a clever, clever, stupid bastard like that once. He could have made legitimate millions but chose instead to cook the books, embezzle a few hundred thousand, set up patsy directors to take the blame, flee the state with his wife and kids, and live under an assumed name.

Either that or, now that it occurs to me, we might have been a front for drug laundering. That would also have fit the evidence. Huh.
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Cool, nice work. Would be awesome to see QR codes supported too.
>I'll buy another home myself and rent it out to someone like you

Except I own my home...

I love people who have determined that they've found some trick to beat the market. "Oversized asset returns! All you need to do is buy real estate!". How many late-night TV seminars did you attend to to obtain this knowledge?

One day the cheap money will disappear, and the speculators (like you) will go bankrupt. Then they'll stiff their creditors, blame the banks, and the public will pick up the tab...again.
Thanks for the references! Especially Washington's work. I haven't studied it before, but from a quick glance at the TOC, it looks like it's far more complete than the one cited above.
I watched most of TNG, but I don't consider myself to be really into the series. One of the things that I found odd about it was how externally-focused it was - everything seemed to be about various alien species and unknown astronomical phenomenon, with almost nothing about what this Federation that they all serve is and how it really works. All I remember is drips and drabs of that, which is a shame, when there are so many ideas that could stand to be explored.

Like what exactly is a replicator, and how does it work? The fine details of that would all have massive effects on what the society as a whole looks like. Can anybody replicate anything on them? Including weapons and drugs? If not, who decides what they can make, and how do they enforce it? They presumably require energy, and where does that come from? Is there a limit to how much stuff a person can make?

This also gets into the rather odd and poorly fleshed-out idea of a society without money. Exactly how does this society work without money? Books can and have be written on ideas around this, but it's just kind of casually thrown out there, with no exploration of the implications on how the greater society functions.
Accomplishment is a key component of happiness, and while specific strength goals may seem arbitrary, so are countless other goals and hobbies that people have. Overcoming a difficult challenge through hard work and determination can be its own reward.
Discussion on r/Bitcoin: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/26g46e/the_willy_re...
So why did it crash? Why didn't the fraudster just prop up the price?
The Bitcoin community has had a term for your USD_FAKE concept for a long time: GoxBux.
That might be due to the fact that one of the most effective players of Atletico Madrid, Arda Turan [0], is Turkish.

Although he was injured and missed the match.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arda_Turan
"He only outed himself as a giant jerk after he had a company that could afford to have a huge turnover, and he had a pile of minions that hero-worshiped him no matter what he did."

No, he was a jerk early on. Check early bios, e.g. The Journey Is The Reward.
The idea of getting a loan to buy something that you can get for free (top universities put a lot of their course content online for free) is ridiculous.

It only makes some sense for degrees where the university education is a 100% prerequisite to a high paying occupation (for example medicine).

In general US consumers go into debt far too easily. For example it's common place to get a car loan, even though you can't afford a car. In my opinion this is dangerous to your financial health, much better to buy a lower cost car for example and avoid a loan. It only makes sense when the car is necessary for your job and in this case if you can't afford to pay cash for the car you should buy the lowest cost (relatively reliable) car possible.
Well, my max deadlift comes pretty close to 500lbs and I have been lifting for far longer than a mere year and I'm sorry to say that you are wrong.

You don't need to go to a trainer. I learned everything I know from reading, watching videos and having my form critiqued. It's actually better to go to a good powerlifting gym and make friends with some strong people, but you don't NEED to. At least not until you get to pretty elite levels.

In fact, going to a the typical trainer at the gym is a waste of money, effort, and is MORE likely to get you hurt (like rhabdomyolysis for instance). Half of those guys will just have you balance on a bosu ball while doing some arbitrary movement, and rake in your hundred+ dollars an hour. You might go home more sore than a 30 minute lifting session, but you effectively wasted your time, and probably simply decreased the likelyhood you'll even go back.

No, lifting weights isn't some magical or super technical thing (unless you are doing Olympic lifting, then, then I'd suggest getting a coach, not a trainer).

Edit: FWIW, if you can find a trainer that can DL 500lbs that is at a regular gym, I'd be liable to eat my hat. Now show me that same trainer that actually trains his clients with a routine for beginners as good or better than Starting Strength, and I'll eat my hat without ketchup.
Use Incognito mode to read the Articles (on Chrome).
Getting customers directly is actually not the problem. The usual marketing and growth hacking tools worked quite well. Our problem is getting partners that refer customers. I don't mean affiliate partners but real partners that include our service into their service as a complement product. Potential partners happily include Google Maps and phone call back forms but shy away from using our service, even though it would make them money and could be really useful for their customers. The opportunities are there. We've spoken to a couple of promising partners but they a dragging their feet. If they would at least provide some feedback as to why they balk at using our service, that would be great. But that is apparently too much to ask for.
Many people consider the Finnish founder, Michael Widenius, to be the main author of MySQL and it was named after his daughter My. I would definitely consider it to be Finnish software at the very least equal to, if not more than, Swedish.
> Do you really think investing in a diamond mining company would resemble that profile at all?

So by this logic, anything that's not a high risk, high gain investment vehicle isn't worth the time? Better not tell the entire non-VC investment market that.

> If you really can't see the difference between the investment risk in a mining operation to challenge a 90% marketshare conglomerate, vs an investment risk in a 50 person internet startup, I don't think there's a point in debating any further.

De Beer's doesn't own 90% of the market anymore. They're vulnerable on two fronts, manufactured diamonds and diamond mines they don't own, both providing product at a lower price than they've traditionally commanded as a market monopoly.

More importantly, how exactly do you think new mines and new mining companies (of virtually any kind) form exactly? According to you, they're virtually impossible and we shouldn't ever see them. But we see them all the time. Mines are investments just like anything else.

But look, if you're going to just keep inflating perfectly normal business barriers that affect any kind of business into reasons why somebody shouldn't get specifically into the diamond business, then it's you who probably shouldn't get into the diamond business.

Somebody else with investment capital to burn sourcing product and building a market, like every other business in history, shouldn't let you get in the way.
I would recommend the Daemon and Freedom TM by Daniel Suarez for an interesting take on self-driving cars and a few other things that can shape our near future

http://thedaemon.com/
>Or for 3d printing. etc

There's The Diamond Age, which is moderately optimistic, and other molecular nanotechnology-related fiction.
"The Heisenberg uncertainly principle means that transporters like the ones in Star Trek are physically impossible, at least in terms of the physics that we understand. But that didn't stop Roddenberry and friends. They just assumed that human beings would figure out some way to "compensate" for the physical laws."
From what I've read, that's somewhat of a generous and optimistic view. My understanding was that the transporter was created purely as a money-saving feature, as they didn't have the budget to create planetary landing effects on a weekly basis. The Heisenberg compensator circuits were a convenient piece of techno-babble in an attempt to hand-wave the underlying physics problem of transporters away...
That is quite interesting looking, I will read that.
I don't think it's fair of you to imply what he did not imply. Despite all the 'cultural-sensitivity' and what not, there are some lines that have to be drawn and stated bluntly and unapologetically. In that respect, I could not have said it better than the parent comment, and 100% agree with below statement:

" Any 36 year-old man, from any culture that has ever existed, that finds it acceptable to marry a 9-12 year old and then start raping her when she's 13 is a piece of shit. Any culture or individual that condones such behavior shouldn't exist anymore."
Even if you are subscribing to the morals of that tribe, then he wronged her by leaving her "undefended" and vulnerable to the gang rape she endured while he was gone.

(This is of course assuming that the article is accurate and fair. If the article is accurate, it's hard to defend the father's actions no matter how you look at them).
Dropbox doesn't expose your PDFs to search engines, so it doesn't work as a public reference dump. (Github does, I think, but it's not so easy to use - can you imagine ordinary people trying to use git to expose documents to the world?)
Call me A German satellite and Internet company wants answers from the NSA
scribd sells access to content that users post. It is like youtube selling access to user videos, keeping all the money and telling publishers - " here, you can watch a couple of videos for free"
For avoiding using Scribd for public PDF hosting, I've been looking at http://pdf.yt/

(I keep wondering when the powers that be at HN will finally remove the Scribd autolinks on submissions, and keep being disappointed.)
I'd start by highlighting the truth at every opportunity, which is this:

Medical mistakes kill an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 Americans every year[1], making it the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer[2].

"Frank from IT" isn't killing those patients - doctors and nurses are, largely through really stupid stuff like failing to wash their hands adequately, leading to hospital acquired infections.

[1] Journal of Patient Safety https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/781687-john-james-a-...

[2] CDC http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
>Numbers don't lie.

You're right, the numbers don't lie. And the "numbers" say that buying and renting homes doesn't provide outsized capital returns in relation to other investments over the long-run. Period.

This isn't rocket science; the buy/rent decision must be based on many individual factors, most of which relate to the individual housing markets, individual countries (outside of the US, the rest of the world can't write-off their mortgage interest, nor do they have 30 year fixed terms at historically low rates), and the current and expected price of money.

A house sale is also a negotiation. Price matters. There is no "always better to buy", for in that case the "seller" would always be losing. Oh, unless house prices go up, always and forever.

Why are banks or other financiers lending to you at 3.5%, when they can just buy up property and rent it out for whatever returns you believe you are able to obtain? Blackstone and others are attempting to do this as we speak. The outcome is unknown. What is your competitive advantage?

Again, there is no free lunch. The world is filled with people who think they've found a way to "beat" the market. Maybe you have, but I doubt it. Some people can make a living buying properties and renting them out; others will lose their shirts. A catch-all "X is better than Y" does not exist. Putting 200k into a house should provide you with a risk-adjusted return similar to putting 200k into the S&P, including imputed rent.
Regulations on financial institutions break down into several categories:

1) Identifying operators and users, so if fraud happens, the right people can be found and held accountable

2) Requiring paperwork documenting what is happening, again, so if there is a fraud of some kind it can be detected and the responsible parties found

3) Actually trying to prevent fraud, usually this means mandatory audits of some kind

I can't point you to what rules govern a currency exchange in Japan exactly, but the above is how it usually seems to break down.

Gox was AFAIK never audited. How much of a paper trail exists is unclear. The relevant people's identities are known, however.

One other thing I think we should clear up: these rules are usually pretty vague and general. It's not like regulation is something that people opt into or out of depending on their personal preferences. Whatever regulations applied to exchanges and markets in Japan would likely have also applied to Mt Gox.

The problem with trying to argue that the fix is "regulation" in the abstract is "regulation" isn't some singular silver bullet. It's a big pile of rules and people who try to enforce those rules, but often those rules aren't doing what you think they're doing, or they exist to allow punishment rather than prevention, or they're somewhat theoretical because they aren't reliably enforced. This is why lots of people would dearly love to find a way to build a decentralised exchange: in theory it could be more reliable than a regulated institution.
Discovery Channel – The Secret History Of Hacking
Women Vs. Women, Or The Ugly Side Of Feminism
Why Docs Matter
Ask HN: How can I get involved in AI?
In the past few months I've become really interested in AI. I am a software developer with a background in mainly JavaScript and Python. Most recently I've been dabbling with Go and C.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is something that I would love to get involved in, though I have no idea how to go about it. I do not have any formal qualifications, though I have over 5 years of full time software development experience under my belt. What practical steps can I take to begin in this field? Is it feasible to undertake this without a degree or similar? any guidance that anyone could give would be much appreciated!
> outdated barbell movements

I stopped reading about here.
How to Fail Via Perfectionism
That's what you got from it?

I never managed to finish watching it (I love Star Trek too much to do that), and all I could see is that Abrams should be fired.

Out of a cannon.

Into molten lava.
From whose perspective is living a militaristic fascist communist state dressed in onesies hopeful?
I agree. But I think those kinds of stories are harder to write, especially for television shows that need scripts for dozens or even hundreds of episodes.
Via Memory-Alpha:

> When asked by Time magazine in 1994, "How do the Heisenberg compensators work?" Michael Okuda replied, "They work just fine, thank you."

I suspect the article being referenced is "Reconfigure the Modulators"[1], but it's behind a pay wall so I can't confirm that.

[1] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981892,...
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