skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing as no-one else has suggested them yet:

- Move to a country without an extradition treaty with the US.

- Change your identity. I don't imagine they'll put that much effort into hunting you down for just $100k.

- Create a Kickstarter campaign.

- Ebay the next 2 years of life. That way you are only in hock for 2 years, not 5.

- Marry someone and don't tell them about the debt until it's too late.
KLAT2 used a Flat Neighborhood network topology designed by a genetic algorithm
Skycatch is already doing 3D modeling of huge areas using autonomous robots: https://vimeo.com/81128563
interesting. i think i still have a license left if you want to test it out, lemme know.
He was "prominently featured in Wired magazine" famous.

Power and timing attacks are examples of side-channel attacks. :)
There are quite a few things you could do to mitigate the burden. Are you still working for yourself, or do you have a full time position? Its going to be a lot easier for you to mitigate this if you are running your own business. Let me know if you want to talk about some strategies to review with a tax accountant. Disclaimer, I am not a tax lawyer, however, I will give you some good points to review with your tax lawyer that they can help you setup.
>but basically the IRS wants all my after tax earnings for 5 years.

Typically the IRS can set you up with a payment plan that's a portion of your income. Its time to find a tax lawyer, not a CPA about this. Settlement/compromise, installment plan over a long term, and even bankruptcy are options.
Please don't call me an idiot because my idea of fun is different to yours.
> There is a typo in the url

Argh, that HN parsing bug again.

The HN parser has problems with angle brackets: if you write < URL > (without spaces), HN will leave the opening angle bracket untouched (good) and attach the closing angle bracket to the URL (very bad), so the URL written in the @href attribute will be wrong.

Using < URL > (without spaces) is the way URLs are meant to be written in the middle of a sentence. It is sad that HN has problems with that syntax.
India: Police investigate pizza deliveries by drone
I'm surprised at all the negative comments. I think this project is really neat! Thanks to smartphones, I already have pictures of my daughter almost every day, just by happenstance. And I look at them almost every day. She's only 18 months old, but I'm already missing when she was a little potato-shaped baby.

It's not for her, it's for me. Something for me to reminisce over when I'm old and she's moved out of the house. A way for me to remember that period in time when she thought her mother and I were the whole world. A period of time that will pass for her, even though for her mother and me she'll always be our whole world. Those photos are my reward for diapers changed, faces wiped, marker washed off the walls, and cheerios vacuumed out of the divots on our tufted couch.
If that were the only factor, then the diseases of the Americans would likewise have wiped out the arriving Europeans.

The Europeans had much more hard-core diseases because of a mix of factors (including animal domestication), but the chief one was population density.

European diseases evolved in tandem with the people themselves -- each time something swept through the population and crippled/scarred/killed large numbers of the people, the folks with some level of natural immunity would be favored. The diseases would evolve (at a rapid pace, due to reproducing at enormous scale...), as would the people (very painfully).

People in the Americas were mostly more widely spread out. A nasty variant on a disease that wipes out a village and stops there goes extinct.

There were some cities, trading between areas, etc., but not on a European scale.

(Source: "Guns, Germs and Steel", which went into this all in fascinating detail... though admittedly I read it years ago now).
The code is written purely in GL Shading Language, not specifically WebGL. Though you are right, shaders are their own brand of voodoo in a way. I would recommend reading up on vector/matrix math and thoroughly going over every line of the shaders until you understand exactly what every line's purpose is if you really want to learn them. (I'm planning on doing that myself, knowing almost nothing about shaders myself) You'll probably come out with a decent working knowledge of how to make a shader :)
I felt obliged to comment because 1) I agree with you 2) I feel like I'm doing what you wished you did when you were younger and 3) OP needs to read this.

I've been in jobs similar to OP. Sometimes I didn't agree with what I was asked to do and other times I knew I was being asked to do something simply to keep me busy. Fortunately for me, I had one good job to compare against my shitty jobs so I had a little more perspective. However, it was very easy to see everyone else slowly becoming content with their situation. As jblow said, they're letting their jobs slowly crush their soul and they probably don’t realize it.

I left an industry and a comfortable job to get into tech. I was excited. I moved to a new state. Then I ended up at the worst job I’ve ever had in my life followed by three months of unemployment. I never knew I could experience emotions like the ones I felt during that period.

I would talk with people who were the same age as me and it almost always came down to money. The money is nice here so I'll just do one more year and then go somewhere else. Guess what? They're still there. Another promotion, another bump in salary, and before you know it one year has turned into five. By then, leaving and starting something new has to feel very scary. I realized this could happen to me so I GOT OUT.

It is worth mentioning that you might feel some critical opinions about you. With today’s social networks, people can stay up to date with what you’re doing. Maybe it’s because I’ve only been out of college for two years but if you are the type of person who is actively trying to get yourself out of a bad situation, they’ll perceive you as unstable. You’ll spend your time looking for an opportunity that provides you with happiness and exciting work and they’ll think they’re better than you because of a title they hold at their job with promotions as predictable as holidays.

People have told me I wouldn’t be able to get a job if I kept switching jobs but I haven’t felt that. As long as you’re able to explain why you left certain jobs with valid reasons, it won’t matter - especially to the people who matter. Good employers will respect your decisions if you’re able to articulate why you left and what you’re looking for. Who knows? They may have done the same as you years ago.
I appreciate the clearly marked "Appeal to authority" as it is both relevant information and clearly marked as to it's (unintended I assume) auxiliary consequences. Very classy move, will be copying it in future.
Sherpas, Fate and the Dangerous Business of Everest
The American error of taking sides in Middle East
My god, that was depressing. And I'm not even sure why.
Why not take the photos and let her decide when she is old enough whether to keep them or not?
I'm really sorry to hear of your condition and hope you recoup as much as possible. Without being cruel, I would like to point out the irony that it is likely antibiotics that will do us in and not lack of hand washing. Really hope you get better.
> How can they NOT have fixed this after 20 years?

Maybe because they are dominating internet retailing so much that they don't feel any need to, largely through low prices achieved through (1) narrow margins, and (2) not doing anything that isn't aimed at reducing long term costs per sale.

You think it sucks, I think it sucks -- but if empirically its working good enough and fixing it is a cost without a clear payoff for them, why do it?
> Eventually what we would have is factories, postmen & search engines.

Agreed. And Amazon is a search engine.
Perhaps (I think you could say similar things about the average supporter of any mainstream issue.) I support animal rights, but evidence came out that they don't feel, I would find that extremely comforting.
I find it funny how this article was 'written by a reporter'.

The story was lifted from the Daily Mail, and it cites a quote from the Huffington Post. The quote that was in the Huffington Post was also in the Daily Mail article. So, at a guess, given that the story is from somewhere in Kent, the Daily Mail got there first. Or did they? Their pictures cite 'Rex Features', so I guess the story came through them.

A quick Google confirms this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiYQbL0Kb1Q

How can 'reporters' do no original reporting and call themselves 'reporters'?

Do they just report what is on the internet? And not give the links they used?

Incidentally the Dad has been making this newsworthy for quite a few years.

There was the 16th birthday. Further back, the 13th birthday:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1181540/Smile-The-pr...

There may have been money with 'Rex Features', that wouldn't be such a bad 18th birthday gift, but that can't be included in the narrative as it spoils the story.

Anyway, I just wish these 'reporters' did more than just copy and paste.
I knew someone was going to dispute that. :)

I'd make two counterarguments about RFC 793:

1. It was written in 1981. You can find lots of other terms in early-80s RFCs that are no longer applicable to modern TCP/IP.

2. It was written in a time when Unix (and I guess VMS) implementation concerns infected all of standards work; if you follow the IETF, particularly DNS, there has been a long painful process of trying to disinfect standards of implementation entanglements.

But we agree on TLS being the better name, which is probably all the matters to the thread.
For those interested on an alternative Gitlab install, someone contributed this using Vagrant and Puppet: https://community.exoscale.ch/compute/tutorials/devtools/dep...

Can be provisioned on any supported Vagrant destination, not only ours.
Distributed storage based on the Mojette transform
A discrete version of the Radon transform, the Mojette transform has applications in medical tomography and cloud storage ; cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojette_Transform#The_distributed_storage_disk_or_network
Objective-C Bitmask Enumeration Essentials
Norikra is often combined with Fluentd log collector.

http://fluentd.org/

Fluentd document has the article for Fluentd and Norikra use-case :)

http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/cep-norikra
Beautiful story! Thanks for sharing
Stop Treating All Mobile Users The Same – Taplytics
Similar spot here.

Note: be sure you file your taxes. You legally have to file, whether you can pay or not.

Once you file, after two years the debt can be part of a bankruptcy, but you have to keep filing.

As you know, this is a really sucky spot to be in. I believe the IRS has a program for people who have no chance of repaying -- not sure what the title is. It's worth looking into.

You did a brave thing coming online with this. I imagine a lot of folks would just call you names and be done with it. Speaking for other guys in the same situation, thank you.

Good luck!
I use Ghostery, and I got a message: "It appears that you are currently using Ad Blocking software. What are the consequences? Click here to learn more."

But at least the page loaded.

If any phys.org admins are reading this: I don't mind seeing your ads; I do object to their tracking me.
Yes, FTTH itself is common for greenfield developments built in the last several years. Unfortunately, as you have found, they are often operated in a way that does not capture their bandwidth potential. I suspect that in the case of Centurylink, they feel constrained by feeling like they can't sell 100 Mbps service to a FTTH customer for the same price as 10 Mbps service to xDSL customer.
tl;dr: A browser add-on that blocks privacy invasive behaviour, not necessarily ads. Some ads are permitted, others are blocked. Currently in alpha, blocking only third-party objectionable behaviour; first-party blocking on the roadmap.

Cool. I shall install this forthwith.
The Amazon of India is not Flipkart, it’s Amazon
This is a great answer, but what are the actionable takeaways form this? You say you had to "work on your own projects". Are you encouraging OP to go do their own thing and avoid working for others again? Is that what you did? Are you saying do your own projects on the side? I feel thats can be even more soul crushing.
Sounds more like dwarfs. Pretty confident Bilbo's house did not have any other homes connected to it. It was built into the side of a hill as a standalone home.
The book appears to say:

"At the beginning of the Suez Crisis, MI6 developed a plan, through the London Station, to assassinate Nasser using nerve gas."

According to this PDF:

https://wikispooks.com/w/images/a/a5/Spycatcher.pdf
https://github.com/glslio/glsl.io : the platform itself is open-source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYdCNTJaGss : a first presentation video.
Shedding pounds and taking Euros.
How many extra bucks are we talking? I register quite a lot of domains...
Great concept! I'm using it already to improve my english
I love it as well. My son is 27 months old and I hear you, he changes everyday and I miss just being able to look at him as he sits there staring at me!

As far as other comments that pertain to enjoying life instead of taking pictures, I would just say that it takes me 5 minutes (if that) to take a few pictures as my son plays and the enjoyment I get from looking at those pictures outweighs anything I may have potentially missed.
Tizen-Powered smartwatch that works without a smartphone
This is why the rule of "wash your hands before you eat" is more crucial than "wash your hands after using the toilet" -- adhering to both rules is preferable, but only the first protects you from the people who don't follow them.
The Emerging Global Web
Oh my word - your mind is in paranoid overdrive right now.

1. Never proclaimed I was a spook or a spy. Not once, anywhere.

2. If I did proclaim I was a spook and was indeed a JTRIG sockpuppet that would make me a pretty fucking terrible secret provocateur wouldn't it?

3. A poster attacked my writing so I responded with the Amazon reviews calling his own writing terrible. Pretty sure he destroyed his own reputation with his book long before this thread. He could have just linked to the Reddit without criticising my writing.

4. If you can find a factual error with 1-3 then post it.
Excellent observation. Let's dissect it.

Here is the classic problem with trial by Google - we cannot verify exactly what you have typed into Google but let us take you at face value and say you cannot find a match.

It is reasonable to assume I have a credible source - after all I have mentioned it alongside a reference several times. You surface skimmed the referenced article and cherry picked the data that you needed without observing the fact the article is based upon a video of the hearing involving the Guardian. They are literally writing up the events of the video which is embedded in the article itself.

Whereby the comment, which you claim exists nowhere on the "entire internet" is contained. It is spoken directly to the Chair of the Hearing in response to the question "Was it a PR move?".

Funny the Guardian failed to write up that little exchange...
Slight diversion from the point, but a DS anecdote: A friend of mine at university had a 1973 Citroen DS. This was in 1997. The hydraulic system failed violently (rapid depressurisation) whilst we were going up the M1 in the UK. The steering basically stopped working and thing sunk like a ship over the space of 30 seconds. I imagine it was sort of like an Apollo 13 moment for him driving.

The AA guy turned up, shook his head and said "Bloody French crap" and ordered a flatbed to pick it up. By the time it turned up, all the hydralic fluid was all over the road. This was 15 miles from Manchester so the poor AA guy dragged us back to London begrudgingly.

He bought a Mitsibishi Galant VR4 after that which was a wonderful car.
Need a FREE way to check when a domain is available?
Show HN: A tool to optimize Tweets with hastag suggestions and syntactic analyis
And if it is - any recommendations for protecting your privacy whilst also securely owning your domain?
You can find the Github repo here: https://github.com/raynesandrew/Domain-Checker-CRON
Quick Google of the main specs suggests max spec for the CF-53 is i5, 8GB 1333MHz, 500GB, 1366x768, 802.11n. 1.8-2.2" height, 5.8lbs without touch.

That seems a generation behind my rMBP; i7, 16GB 1600Mhz, 1TB, 3360x2100, 802.11ac. 0.95" height, 4.5lbs. Similar claimed battery life.

I haven't tried dropping mine from three feet or throwing water over it yet though...!
Your points on how curing cancer basically cures aging and the fact that we can't prevent copying errors are spot on. That's why I've often thought that the recommendations people make for preventing cancer (taking antioxidants, avoiding certain foods/chemicals) probably have little or no impact on the odds of getting cancer, or are even counterproductive because they prevent apoptosis. What seems to generally work better is simply eating a variety and exercising, and assuming that the body is being bombarded by mutagenic toxins/radiation constantly and trying to stay strong in the face of them so that if (when) the time comes to undergo treatment, the body has enough reserves to survive it.

My gut feeling is that the final cure for cancer (and by extension aging and other diseases) will come about through a much simpler mechanism (more basic I mean, not easier), more in line with engineering than medicine. They’ll need to be able to systematically map any type of cell in the body and trigger its death, then insert a replacement cell at that site or coerce the body into doing it. It may not be possible with just our immune systems because it’s an area that evolution overlooked and we just don’t have the genes and cellular machinery for it.

I’m really skeptical that we’ll have nanobots to do that anytime in the foreseeable future, but, there are tons of other options like engineered viruses or chromosomes that don’t seem nearly as far-fetched. If we forget about medicine for a moment and just think about the fact that the compressed human genome fits on a CD, then the mutations in a cancer cell are going to be much smaller than that, potentially small enough that they can be encoded as something akin to lisp programs. They could find markers from a cancer cell in the lab, and then evolve genes to recognize them and tag or kill the cells with genetic algorithms in a computer. When we hear about engineered viruses killing the people they were meant to treat, I think that happens because humans just can’t program something like that manually. It has to be evolved over generations to take into account countless factors that might not occur to us.

To me, that kind of simulation is straightforward. It’s just another big data problem, and we need better sequencing so that patients can get loaded into a computer cheaply. Once a solution has been evolved with a high degree of certainty (like thousands of times the confidence level of anything today), and has a reliable cutoff switch, then synthesizing that becomes “just an engineering problem”.

TL;DR: We need github for medicine so that all of the tools in the arsenal can be recruited as external libraries and simulations can be run in a distributed fashion by hackers who handily find solutions to any problem that’s thrown at them but can’t be bothered to obtain medical degrees.
Two Bites of the Apple
I might get backlash for this advice, but If you are considering bankruptcy, you might want to first consider quitting any job that is providing you income and going on unemployment. Once you have done that for a while, go ahead and take a look at this: http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Offer-in-Compromise-1

If you are unable to legitimately pay (not working and unable to find work by being on unemployment) you will be able to qualify for the irs' settlement plan.

You are facing being broke either way, your basically going to have to figure out how long your going to be broke...
I've never had that experience. It usually takes a lot more effort effort to work out what the math is actually describing and why the operations done on it make sense. That's if I even understand the symbols and functions they use. If not then it's totally inaccessible.

To be fair you can easily obscure natural language in similar ways.
When this happens to me I take the time to refactor all sorts of "dependencies" in the process. It ends up being a net positive. Yeah, I added some complexity where it wasn't needed in one area but I've removed some legacy code or redesigned an ugly hack.

They don't know this code is generally unrelated or don't complain to me about it. Only problem with this is I can now be opening up new bugs because these revisions aren't always fully QA'd.
You are right. I reacted adversely TBH. I did pull up Zigurds Facebook etc to carry it offline but I didn't think it would be constructive.

Apologies to the HN audience for having a public spat :-)
I made a multiple of that amount. I thought that the good times would last. They didn't.

I am now a salaryman. The installment plan monthly amount due to my high cost location ends up being total after tax dollars minus rent and very frugal and basic living expenses. I could move to a cheaper location (which I am considering), but that doesn't seem to address the more immediate and core problem.
Why did I get a down vote for responding with the link that he was looking for???? http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Offer-in-Compromise-1
Google offers employees best pay and benefits, according to new survey
That's pretty awesome. I wonder how well it works in the summer.
Facebook’s New Privacy Mascot: The Zuckasaurus
.. unless the social machinery were also decentralised?

(To a certain extent, this is true of the environment git was born to serve, Linux kernel development; the social environment was the linux-kernel mailing list)
Did you commit any allegedly fraudulent activity to get that money? Not trying to be snarky or accusative, but happened to see a similar case[1] of an affiliate marketer who is also an HN member yesterday and want to make sure you get the right lawyer/legal service.

[1] http://nypost.com/2014/05/22/wolf-of-wall-street-wannabe-all...
IntroJS v0.9.0 released with new templates
"Trial by Google"? What the hell are you talking about? I merely asked where the quote came from, and observed that I first made an attempt to locate it on my own.
This actually was more helpful, thank you.
Interesting thought and perfectly valid.

I tend to avoid taking lots of photos these days and concentrate on doing a few good ones. They are usually snapshots of life as it was at a certain time rather than posed or set up photos. Occasionally I take a photo of something that is very strong in my mind when I see it.