skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole discussion about deleting code vs commenting it out seems to imply that the NSA wasn't using any sort of version control system in 2001. Does anyone else find that odd?
I feel the article misrepresents the content of the email:

"We have discovered that a company we hired to help promote our website have used a variety of questionable techniques to secure links to our website. These links were placed purely for SEO purposes, with the intention of manipulating search rankings."

So basically the company hired people who spam links in order to game search results. Google is totally right in fighting that. The "natural" links on the author's site are not made by the SEO company, so those links are fine.

The probem is not linking to content you want to link to, the problem is hiring people to artificially boost your search ranking by spamming links in places they don't belong.
The point was that your calculations were off since you were basing them on a 50 hour work week when in reality the average is around 40 hours. Not how to run an economy.
Slower response than an ICBM if you have to move it into position first, although if they were deployed (they aren't; they are completely impractical with current technology), I guess they'd be stationed to always have coverage over Russia/China/North Korea/the US anyway.
Wouldn't that disrupt the ecosystem?
I'm very sorry to hear of your loss, and wish you all the best in the coming period! While I don't have any light work to share at this time, don't hesitate to hit me up if down the road you feel ready to do some 'small' things. I might have something then.

One question concerning your bosses. How clear have you expressed to them the extent of your suffering? Do they know you cry, and have trouble doing basic tasks?

The reason I'm asking is that I find 'we' are so used to not expressing the true nature of our feelings, especially in a work context (but even with friends), and perhaps especially as men (which I'm assuming you are, erroneously perhaps), that we sometimes aren't even aware that we might not have properly communicated this. I've made that mistake a few times.

Furthermore, assuming you are legally allowed to just up and leave and assuming it won't have negative consequences for you personally, this might be a good time to be selfish about it. They'll figure it out without you! You need to think of you right now!

I don't mean to be presumptuous; just something to consider.
> And you have still failed to present any compelling evidence that military conflict is detrimental to society.

You mean apart from thousands or millions dead, cities destroyed, children orphaned, starvation, depredation and death?

I don't think I understand your moral system, but I'm going to take a stab that you're thinking in a utilitarian way. Well all the dollars and inventions and stuff you're talking about? Their purpose is to make people happy.

But the economic bead game you're talking about starts looking pretty irrelevant when you compare the relative happiness that some people get from having more beads with the sheer cost of war in human misery and destruction.
>Kyoto

Last time I checked, it was Russia, India and China that ignore that. The US definitely never ignored the NPT either.
And not just when you close a tab... also a short time (configurable, default 10s) after you navigate away from a site in an "old" tab.
The US may have signed Kyoto, but they never ratified it, so I don't think they have ever broken any obligations in that regard. Same from the CBTB, as far as I understand from the Wikipedia page.
Are you guys literally shutting down traffic for a few hours at a stretch? 'Cause that's a really shitty way to gain public support, and self-righteously informing people that you're doing them a favor by "getting them out of their cars" is only going to make it worse.

I have, BTW, ridden a bicycle exclusively for 18 years, and I've always enjoyed Critical Mass (our local rides top out around 50 people). It frustrates me how many of my fellow cyclists seem determined to shoot themselves in the foot, PR-wise.
That is pretty amazing no one listened all the way up to a Supreme Court Justice.

I'm equally amazed they have not done something with Greenwald and are letting him still go. I'm looking forward to his next story which he said would expose who they are targeting.
They could be exercising something similar to the "threshold capacity" of the NPT.

Under the NPT signatories are allowed to enrich and stockpile nuclear fuel for civilian purposes. Under this restriction, states can go almost nuclear.

The tech and materials for civilian and military nuclear use is similar enough that a country that can do power independently would be able to produce bombs within 2-5 years. Some countries have a "threshold strategy" where they stay within the bounds of the treaty but maintain an ability to withdraw and make up ground as quickly as possible. Japan & Australia, for example.
Until it doesn't and you don't know.
I've been clicking around its user interface for a few minutes now, but I can't figure out how to do this..

Is it adding "whitelist *" somewhere or something similar?
Very little (almost none?) information given.

Talk about the software connected to this..

Anyone spending 300$ for so little information?
I don't think it looks that bad
This + roomba = problem solved
There's a rather interesting perspective that touches some of these issues (and covers many more) in the following book: http://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professiona...
Once upon a time : "Google acquired YouTube for 1.65$ bln"

Am I the only one who feels that things start becoming too "boomy"?
Wouldn't removing the mosquitoes and changing the entire environment from fetid to oxygenated water disrupt the ecosystem?
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The other problem is that even tiny still water bodies are enough for mosquitoes to breed. So even if you control several ponds, if your neighbor keeps a bucket of still rainwater, you'll have mosquitoes.
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Given that the two times the world arguably came closest to nuclear wars (Cuban Missile Crisis and Able Archer 83) were, at least in part, caused by the deployment of weapons that looked like they were intended for decapitation strikes I suspect having such a weapon whirling about above our heads would do no good to overall world security.

Also, it's fairly easy to work around a possible decapitation strike - have the political leaders tell the military what to do in the event they are killed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
what is the love this crowd has with duckduck?! it is nothing more than bing with EXTRA ads!

also, it display a retarded "this page uses javascript. click here for the content" or something, every time i use it from my HTPC with firefox+noscript.
Apple's patently absurd smartphone crusade
I agree there may be some license surprises (a natural consequence of marrying a language with a runtime with the GPL, for better or worse) -- it might be worth to note that the code is under GPL, not AGPL -- so for most modern (read: SaaS) uses -- it doesn't matter. If you really are deploying a drone or something, it likely doesn't matter either, because a) you need to give your customer the source code anyway, b) your customer will gladly pay the fee for the commercial license -- and c) the project will be classified, so adacore could never legally sue you anyway (without risking indefinite detention as enemy combatants ... ;)
Also kills water striders.
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So are you claiming that gated communities not allowing black deliverymen is not true, or not racist?
As far as I know (anybody please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this), it's Adblock PLUS that can't be trusted. Adblock (without the plus) is a completely separate project that's much more trustworthy. Adblock PLUS basically usurped Adblock by appending a "plus", making it seem like it's somehow better than Adblock.
Does it necessarily have to be an all-or-nothing approach? I have time to cook and eat whole food on weekends. 5 days of the week I'd just like to slurp and go.
Roman Empire? Civis Romanis sum and all that. You have to not use modern standards of "treated well" and note that not every resident was a citizen and some were slaves.
Ooh, these sudden background color changes when scrolling really hurt my brain!
I assume you're trolling, but will waste a few more minutes:

Game theory is used for evolution too, so you're a creationist?

A longer answer would be along the lines of:

Humans have a wide range of possible behaviours, the trick is to organize society so we get a "nice" place (i.e. it is not "paying" to be non-"nice", please note quotes for complex PhD thesis definitions). If you're not able to see the world, your decision will have harmful effects according to your own morals. In short, your absolute moral judgements is a problem as much as Putin...

(I just wish that there were some way of educating away moral condemnation of people which refuse to understand stuff which goes against their ideology.)

Knowing idealists, in some generations people like you will want to genetically modify people to follow your morals -- Socialist "new human" style. We know how that goes, not only from science fiction.

But I already wrote an answer and got a non sequitur.
I'd take mathematics over homeopathic nonsense.
I always like stories about weird hardware/software problems where one is interfering with the other.
Ads pay for things simply because that was the first model that caught on.

Ad-supported content is not the only business model. Simply because one bunch figured out how to make the internet pay doesn't mean the problem must be solved in one and only one way from here on out.
You don't need everyone to know, just the people you want to deter.
Eisenhower:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. [...] Is there no other way the world may live?"
Was this the same data that was used by IMF and the rest to justify the push the austerity measures on the troubled economies in Europe? I remember there was a big backlash at the time when the numbers came to light but nothing changed anyway (maybe the save face issue above)
It would likely be deployed only near human settlements, which cover a relatively small portion of Earth's land surface area. Mosquitos would still be able to breed unabated in, say, protected land in the United States and Canada.

Not that it takes away from your concern, which is valid. It is possible that ubiquitous deployment of this device could select for more resilient phenotypes on human-observable timelines (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution)
Persona is not working when I enable this addon.
One issue seems to be that if the pond is of any decent size (say > 20 meters in diameter) and you put in a few of these devices at the end of the day they are all in the same corner of the pond due to the current/wind.
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> ...in particular, takes its responsibility to treaties very seriously, and would do it's utmost never to get caught being in breach.

There fixed that for you. (ref: http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs10s/unespion.php )
That works for individual ponds, but not for ubiquitous and transitory puddles.
> So, what is the niche for Soylent?

Not requiring cooking or planning. According to the article, the aim is also to lower the product's price to ~1/6 of the current:

> Rhinehart wants to drive the cost down even further so that it can eventually compete with "rice and beans" (the price of which of course varies across the world, but a target of about $1.50 per day per person wouldn’t be out of line).
The first bite it with the eye, and Soylent looks like a cat vomit smoothie.
Needs some tuning of the mostly flat definition. When a route contains roads where you're looking at several 100s of meters > 10%, it is not considered mostly flat by the average cyclist. On the contrary.
I've disabled AdBlock after recent "revelations" about its memory consumption. I use only Ghostery for now. So, websites/advertisers are free to show me ads, as long as they won't track me. Guess how many ads I see.

That should be a solution: serve me a static, non-intrusive, lightweight, curated ad related to your content (not to my browsing history), serve me it from your server, not from some third-party ad farm - then I will gladly see it. Furthermore, it will work even if I won't click it.

This model worked for paper magazines/newspapers, and I have no clue why it shouldn't work in a digital era. At least as a damn fallback.
Seems like it was the power-button looking icon found in the upper left part of the extension dropdown menu when on an actual page.

I expected this to be a part of the extension settings / options, but ah well.
>I don't know if the quality of the slides is really any better in the native viewer.

They can be with

% mgp -D <dir> -E png <mgpfile>

:)

Defaults to jpg though.
Kudos to the OP for standing their ground and not complying with the request.

Apart from the principles, there is also a practical problem with complying with such a request. How can one verify that the request is genuine? It could be a hacked email account from that domain. Or a rogue employee. Or someone who doesn't have sufficient authority within that company. How is the recipient of the request going to verify it?
Jane Street has offices in London and Hong Kong but their HQ is in NYC.

You don't need an H1B if you can recruit to a local office and then do an internal transfer (after some time). No idea if Jane Street does this but I know other tech companies do.
I thought the traditional simple solution (e.g., while building the panama canal) was to put a thin layer of oil over your stagnant water.
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"present any compelling evidence that military conflict is detrimental to society"

What an extraordinary thing to say, something that could only be said by someone who's had the privilege to be very far away from the destruction of war. No sane person is going to stand in the bombed out building looking at the corpses saying, "I don't see any evidence that this is detrimental".
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The change in the water might, but it turns out that mosquitoes aren't a vital part of any ecosystem. Nothing preys on them exclusively or even primarily, and their animal victims seldom die, so they're not keeping anything's numbers in check.
Looking at the nutritional facts, this looks like a great substitute for off the counter mass-gainer shakes. I'm really into weight lifting but sometimes struggle finding the time to eat meals while at work and still hit my daily caloric surplus.
the doc says it's your responsibility to remove spammy back links that you (or a SEO you've hired) have introduced to improve your ranking.

it cannot possibly be your responsibility to remove links that other unrelated entities have towards you! (unless it's an obvious link scheme)
This sounds very interesting.

I understand this has been approved as "safe", and I doubt it would ever lead to death or harm, but I wonder what the long term effects of frequent brain stimulation could be. It could be good effects, but it could also be bad. I don't believe any longitudinal study has been done on something like this.

How do you feel while you're using it?
Is a 2 meter radius enough? I don't think that this strategy scales because power dissipates as r^a.
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Man, if Rob Pike and Russ Cox would do the fusion dance, they would be unstoppable!
Because 90% of all music enjoyed by most people is under copyright and searching for music not under copyright that you can listen to and genuinely enjoy is not anybody's idea of a good time.

Nobody wants to worry about this stuff.

As long as the purpose of the stream is not just streaming music i don't see the problem however I'm certain the MPAA and RIAA would not agree.
It doesn't seem to produce any acute effects. The research I've read before buying this seems to indicate it's a chronic effect over time. Unfortunately I don't have the patience to really do a sham/active test cycle, so I've been just alternating pulse/continuous/random cycles 3-4 times per week, 10-20 minutes per session.

Anecdotally it seems to work well. My major reason for investing into tDCS was to improve working memory, as I strongly believe I was rapidly deteriorating in that realm despite near-abstinence from alcohol and other drugs. In that regard, it seems to work well, but it could easily be a placebo effect from wearing a cool helmet.

If I had to guess I'd say I'm 75% confident that foc.us has had a material positive effect on my working memory and cognitive functions. I can't say I am 90-95% confident and I'm not sure I ever will be, since doing a rigorous test is near impossible without a partner controlling the sham effects, and even then it's for personal use and not a research study so to speak.

Not sure I would enthusiastically recommend it but the research out there points in a solid - if not dramatic - direction.
People are "hooked" on this because it's something they want (a meal-replacement) or find interesting.

You say it's a bad idea, but don't explain why. I can believe it's a bad implementation, but that's exactly why people are interested in Soylent: they want to know if it works, if it's safe, etc.
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I am still amazed that this product is attracting some much attention. This product is crap, born out of plain gross ignorance.

- Completely useless source of Vitamin D (D2 instead of D3).

- All K1, nothing of K2.

- Alpha-tocopherol as the only source of Vitamin E family (4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols)

- Retinol as the only source of Vitamin A (80% should come from mixed carotenoids)

- Iron ???? You should NEVER supplement with iron (probably the same for copper)

- Inferior form of Magnesium (oxide). Should use citrate, or some chelated form.

I would go on and on all day long with this but it is the missing ingredients what is really disturbing:

Macro (carbs,protein and fat) plus micro (vitamins, minerals and trace elements) are just the tip of the iceberg when we talk about healthy nutrition. Where are all the phytonutrients (flavonoids, glucosinolates, phytoestrogens, carotenoids, etc) ? They are a "non nutritive", bioactive little molecules that make the fine tuning (read anti-cancer, immune system potentiators, etc) within our body. They are not essential for life, but they are indeed essential for health and longevity. There are 20.000+ known phytonutrients and it is now clear that they work together in synergistic fashion to provide their health benefits. Macros are as a good as the phytonutrients that come with them.

Phytonutrients are those little resistors, condensers and little chips you see in the motherboard that doesn't really get into the spec sheets: They seem to do nothing, but try to remove them and see your CPU blow up.

I go shopping once per-week and I can make a rare steak with sea salt and a big fresh spinach+tomato+olive oil+vinegar salad in 3 minutes, chronometer in hand. Liver with onions - once per week - take 20 minutes to prepare but it pays off: A authentic nutrient powerhouse.

I do love supplements, but I use them the way they are meant to be used: as supplements.
I guess they could be anchored?
You know that moment when internally you're smacking your forehead and making an O shape with your mouth. Now how come I didn't think of that idea? So simple. I hope it takes off.

I _hate_ ads, I hate them online, I hate them offline. I think they're a form of pollution. I'm with Bill Hicks on this one, people who work in advertising or marketing trying to figure out how to get people to buy crap they don't want need to take a serious look at themselves ( except Bill was a bit more blunt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo )

I often wonder if maybe some city somewhere will issue a blanket ban on advertising in public spaces to enhance the city-scape and draw in tourists. I know I'd visit. How wonderful to be able to look around and not have some corporation hijack your view and try to sell you something.
The comment isn't interesting but the question behind it is quite legit: it's odd to say the least that a post like this would surface on the front page, here where you'd assume most if not all are already aware of it. It'd be interesting to know why.
that would be simple solution of anchoring the device with a stone
Yes, nobody knows, that's why it's interesting to see instead of prematurely declare it impossible.
The page contains this quote:

> ...the teflon insulation reacted with the hot (molten) metal to

> form HF gas. When the fire department turned on the sprinklers

> in desperation: hydrofloric acid.

I'm interested in where that comes from.
There is carbs in vegetables. Beans too. Just not as much in most of them as grains.
They're hardly innocent or desirable either. They devour everything in sight right up to the size of bees including things that eat mosquitoes and they bring parasites when they migrate between bodies of water which kill things that eat mosquitoes. Plus they can swim fine under the surface.
The other problem that doesn't tend to get addressed in this sort of discussion of nutritional-supplements-for-the-poor-masses is that you still need to mix it with water. The poorest places have a lot of problems getting water that's safely drinkable and cases of supplement don't really help them (see also the issue of baby formula in the developing world).

Honestly, this idea that soylent is a solution to famine strikes me as a bit absurd.
I'm more interested to hear `from C++ to Go` stories :)