skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We are biological machines"

I tend to disagree with this definition.

The function of a body might look like a 'machine', but that machine is made of trillions of small living beings (cells), all having the same properties as the larger organism - they need to breathe, eat and drink, they age and they multiply and each cell is a very specialised 'machine' in itself. So if you want to call the body a 'machine', then call it a 'machine of machines'.

But there's more. Our bodies cannot exist outside of what we call 'nature'. We need to eat other living beings in order to live. The living beings in turn need to eat the remains of other living beings and so on.

The circle of life is the flow of water, energy and a couple percent of other stuff (like minerals and proteins) through all living things. One thing is transformed into another and so on, forever.

From that angle, living beings (including our bodies) are a process, a flow through the matrix of Life, rather than a static object or mechanism.

This flow has continued since life first appeared and it has tuned itself to perfection. Until recently, when we started intervening.

The obesity epidemic (and also cancers, cardiovascular diseases and many many other 'modern' health issues) are the consequence of humans tinkering with nature and our bodies.

From this perspective I agree with the OP, it is probably impossible to have a healthy body in our society, until everybody becomes 'enlightened' about the nature of reality around them.
But we have other issues, like which political party should win or what piece of land we need to grab.

All this while eating millions of tons of synthetic pills (prescribed by doctors), consuming incredible amounts of meat grown in insane conditions and fed with synthetic foods mixed with drugs watered down with lots of alcohol, while breathing toxic air and drinking synthetic drinks.

The only way to be healthy is to be part of the circle of life, but we are doing everything we can to disconnect ourselves from it and suffering the consequences.
Love it, reminds me of the Dropr design when paying with credit cards. I guess it's not for every webpage, but it's a playful payment design
Most racist people http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15...
"In computer networking, a hop is one portion of the path between source and destination. Data packets pass through routers and gateways on the way. Each time packets are passed to the next device, a hop occurs."
What a monstrosity! I like it :)
I love these Chinese crap phones.
The effort spent in order to optimize the system to cut the BOM is truly astonishing.
Dogecoin is an example of excellent and deliberate marketing.

From branding decisions ("Let's stop people talking about us as the joke coin, and start people talking about us as the community coin") to PR (Constantly reaching out to big news outlets, carrying out small-to-medium PR campaigns) to content marketing (the tools available for Dogecoin have quickly grown in number and sophistication - check out moolah.io for instance, which began on /r/dogecoin) to incentive marketing (they're constantly giving people small stakes in Dogecoin's success).

Quite frankly, it's weird. I think of Dogecoin as the marketing coin now, which is most of the reason I've withdrawn from the community somewhat. I really don't want my day job getting mixed up with my free time.

> What reason do people have to buy Dogecoin?

No technical, practical reason. But you may find that without that consistent, sustained marketing that people won't use your coin so much.
Very sloppy writing. People diet, they lose a bit of weight. People stop dieting, they put the weight back on again.

The fundamental problem is the abundance of overly calorific food in many societies which the final comment hints at, ever so gently. People want a quick fix but there is no quick fix for the problem of over consumption except eat less.
The guys from Tek Syndicate[1] seem to be ok with piracy of their albums however they do ask you to buy it if you think it's good and worth the money.

I think that approach is the best one to have. Pirate it try it out if you really love it please buy it.

You can find it here[2] i know it's a pain to find a link to the album on the main site I need to send them a message about it.

[1] https://teksyndicate.com/

[2] http://zweihander.bandcamp.com/
> It's much better when running a Tor node is a decision that is evaluated in an economic reference frame.

That may be true if the economic incentives available are sufficiently strong, but that is not a given.
Do you mean "monkey tail" ("apenstaart")? I forgot about that one. I haven't heard it in years in Belgium.
If it sources the tracks from youtube I don't really understand why it needs to be a native app. http://streamus.com/ is a pretty neat chrome extension that does very similar but there are also plenty of websites that do this.
"Good typography should be thorough to last detail"

Command-+ three times until it's a legible size. Then get annoyed by the rivers in the text due to justification without hyphenation. Then close window before finish reading ;)
TideSDK: multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
I used to buy songs from an online store ( Flyte by Flipkart.com, which later was shutdown ) and upload it to Ubuntu One ( which too is going to be shutdown ).

The above scenario worked perfectly for me. I could access all my music anytime and from any device but unfortunately looks it didn't work out for the vendors :)
I like skeuocard's experience a lot. But it's not responsive, so it was a no-go for me. Ended up rolling my own.

One great optimization skeuocard has is it only asks for the cc# at first, then the other fields appear as you type it in. So the form is less daunting at first.
I think Youtube won't like it when third parties use their content, but hide the video player.
"Кракозябра" is a more common spelling, means any strange character. The plural "кракозябры" often refers to a text interpreted in a wrong character encoding.
While I remember "oh no disk 17 isn't working" better re-download and try again tomorrow, this is the closest to that level of pain I've encountered in a long time. What's sad is despite VMs for testing being the norm, the vendor is actively causing pain for devs and admins.
"What would happen if the player app you are using to play your offline library breaks and you have no data?"

A traditional media player breaking almost never touches its "offline library".

WMP, Clementine, Foobar2000, Amarok, MPD, Audacious, so on and so forth. Hell you can use VLC as a music player if you wanted to. What happens to your songs if any of these crashes? What happens to the data if you delete the entire application from your computer? Nothing. The data is still there. The application is separate from the data it plays.

Now if the OS has issues, or the hard drive, or a few other things: Your data might be lost, but that is almost never the fault of the "player app".
I've worked with many CPUs (i86, Z80, 6502, ...) and all had some kind of overflow / underflow indicator, normally in the status register.
Ok I'll bite ... I made a version that uses "<?" and "?>" as the stanzas --- on a gist:

https://gist.github.com/kristopolous/7d68c3c7cec5f9ac5bc3

Lines 35-37 are the change.

Have fun.
Another Steelcase Leap fan here. I've got one at home and at work.

Not really worth paying full price when they are available in great condition on eBay (same with a lot of high quality office chairs IMO).
> Virtualizing OS X is a thing that can today be done very easily, with VMware and VirtualBox fully supporting it under OS X hosts

Having tried this in the past with Virtualbox there were some serious caveats.

If you still can't make Seamless mode in Virtualbox work under Linux and have accelerated graphics drivers then it's not worth trying to run OS X virtualized. It's a crap experience.
Don't forget vehicles, diseases, sudden deceleration, falls, drops and darwin award winning behaviour.

It's important that people be aware of the risks they face, and seeking to silence that conversation is not helpful. If anything, it will create an environment where any perpetators might go unpunished because it's just implausible they did what they did.
> i see how it would make sense just to send the person to live on some other territory, continent, planet, asteroid, etc...

And then even your prisons declare independence sooner or later. Look at Australia.
Anyone gets stuck with cron job setting may try a cron job generator.
I see. One consideration could be a more substantial floor for one-time donations can ensure that it conforms more to your vision of a sustainable donation model.
I am still consistently frustrated by lack of video content at reasonable prices, and while I never used it, Popcorn Time seemed like a good thing to me.

But, music is a solved problem for me, via Spotify, and I find then that my gut feeling on this is instead that it's parasitic.
I like exploring rarely heard and legally downloadable music on http://www.jamendo.com
For me, video is solved by Amazon Instant Video. They have everything, and it's usually $2-3 a video.
I hope they do a hidden services challenge after this. It would decrease pressure on exit nodes and increase security for Tor uses, as watching exit node traffic is one of the primary Tor attack vectors.
Gives a whole new meaning to the concept of a 'cage'.
Facebook uses hiphop as a name for a php platform, and that's fine. The problem here is that you are using it in a music context.
Spotify doesn't have everything and it has ads.
Quite interesting but I immediately wondered about something. I intend to fully read it later today but so far I have only skimmed over paper so I apologize if my question is answered there. I imagine others here will wonder the same thing, though.

With Bitcoin and others, we've seen malware created that turns compromised PCs and devices (routers, DVRs, etc.) into "zombie miners". If this becomes popular, I can certainly envision malware that instead turns these compromised devices into "zombie relays" in an attempt to benefit $hacker. Have you considered this (I'm sure you probably thought about it at some point) and/or do you have any ideas of ways to discourage (or punish) that behavior?

I am all about having more Tor relays out there but, well, legitimate ones.
The thing is, for myself, and I imagine any others, there are periods when I always have at least one "urgent" task, and I struggle to find the time to get that done. Then there are other times, when there isn't much to do. Averaged out it could probably all be achieved in 6 hours easily, but the changing priorities probably messes that up.
Dominating in youth, not well respected by older people, getting into the mainstream because people born in the 80s grew up with it... I don't know, comics sounded like a good counterpart.
> OOXML-like rubber-stamping process

Compare Dart and Microsoft OOXML is unfare.

- OOXML implementation is not open source nor under BSD licence

- Poorly defined => 6546 pages vs 867 pages for ODF to achieve the same goal

- Given the huge amount of work Microsoft decided to go with... the fast track ISO procedure!

- Corruption of ISO members?

- ...

> how many of Darts [...] flaws have been fixed in ECMA [...]?

None yet, it is just the beginning of TC52.
Funny Cute Babies Fail Video Compilation 2014
In Greek, we call it "papaki". It means "duckling". I have no idea how that happened.
It always has to be free with you people... You don't want adverts? Pay for the service. Spotify is well worth the money, £10/month is almost giving it away.
Mobile Native Ads – Design Guidelines
These Haswell units look good, still pricy:

http://www.tinygreenpc.com/fit-pc/intense-pc2.aspx
Well, I suppose 'poor' is above 'awful'.
Oh my, that's awful. Especially with two different down arrows.

On the about us page there isn't any buttons at all, so you can't read all the text.
yeah, this still appears to an unsolved problem, even the mighty flipkart were not able to sort out the licenses properly.

I think saavn pro might be an option.

http://www.saavn.com/pro/
I believe "krakozyabra" is used for the symbols in incorrect encoding. The only word that I ever heard for "at" is "собака" (pronounced as suh-buh-kuh)
This is a good qualification, but not all "products" need be consumer-facing products. That's just a play on words for "retail" sales vs business or professional sales.

Its a seperate point to say its a 'feature' not a product and thus is not actually sold to anyone (and thus distinct).
I like it a lot; one suggestion: increment the card colours contrast.
You say exercise. Exercise has small affect on weight loss for some people. It is recommended because of other positive benefits.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003817...
My name is on https://protonmail.ch/blog/protonmail-security-contributors/ because I reported a critical XSS vulnerability to them when they were previously mentioned on here.

All you needed to do was send an email which contained a From header with script embedded in the name part:

From: "<script>Do evil</script>" <address@example.com>

All I did to find this vulnerability was sign up for an account and then plonk the email address they gave me into https://emailprivacytester.com/ (of which I am the author)
Agreed. I already have a Tor t-shirt and I'd certainly love a Tor sticker (even more so than a laptop or whatever) to put on my already "heavily stickered" work laptop but a bigger incentive might certainly convince some others to fire up a relay.

The FSF is also a "supporter" of this project so the Gluglug X60 would be very fitting as a "grand prize". I first joined both the FSF and the EFF about a decade ago and I would be quite happy to have my membership dollars going towards something like that. Hell, if EFF/FSF/Tor did a fundraiser just for something like this, I would throw in some money specifically earmarked for the purchase of these prizes.

Side note: anyone know where I can get one of those Tor stickers? :-)
Looks neat. I want to know if this consumes the same bandwidth required to stream a video ..
I think (or hope) he meant epigenetics. There's increasing evidence that epigenetic changes in parents can be passed to, or at least cause other epigenetic changes in, children, in an almost Lamarkian way.

However, I think the article is saying, "In the long run, for whatever reason, statistically speaking, 95% of people revert to their high water mark of weight, nullifying their previous efforts at weight loss." This strikes me as utterly uncontroversial, aside from our widespread want to be among the 5%.

And my personal take: willpower can win battles, but our central tendencies usually win the war.
Setting a flag is not the same as raising an exception. When you get a segfault that's not because a flag was checked, that's because a chunk of hardware interrupted the next operation.

So yes, you can check for overflow by inspecting a flag, but that's not all that much better from coding around the potential overflow to see if your operands + operation combo will cause an overflow.

Imagine setting a flag on a divide by 0 instead of raising an exception.

So the author is most likely aware of the overflow flag (just like any other old timer that has programmed in assembly and that had a cursory look at the flags register, or in some cases more than a cursory look :) ), he's writing about hardware exceptions, not about how to write in javascript.

But inspecting a flag simply isn't on the same level as raising a hardware exception, right along with segfault, division by 0, FPEs and so on.

That instantly propagates through to any programming language executed on the machine. Checking a flag in a register is a decision by a compiler writer and many compiler writers (consciously!) ignore that (usually because the language specs are vague enough that wrapping is considered acceptable when it is in fact almost always simply wrong).
There is more than just DNA. The state of a pregnant mother can have an important impact on the offspring even if it doesn't affect its DNA. The same DNA can create different persons because of different gene expression. This is what epigenetics is all about.

Mother obesity affects The brain and metabolism of the baby. This includes the way fat is managed. This is even before birth.
> The obesity epidemic (and also cancers, cardiovascular diseases and many many other 'modern' health issues) are the consequence of humans tinkering with nature and our bodies.

Cancers, cardiovascular diseases etc. are the consequence of humans living long enough to develop them, thanks to modern medicine (tinkering with nature and our bodies).
It seems the quality of many of the songs are sub-optimal. Would be nice to have some sort of bit rate indicator in the GUI so that I could skip the 128kbps songs. Other than that it seems to have everything I've looked for
The Secret Service wants software that can detect sarcastic tweets
I read the TorCoin/TorPath paper yesterday, and looked at some of the references including CoinShuffle[1] (a bitcoin mixing protocol) and Dissent[2] (implementation of a DC-net or Dining Cryptographer's net, 2nd great invention by David Chaum after RSA blinding/anonymous e-cash). I'll summarize what I learned here, hopefully someone will find it useful.

One of the key pieces seems to be the Neff shuffle (verifiable random shuffling of an ordered list of public keys). The Neff shuffle builds on ElGamal pairs (which themselves are the core algorithm in the verifiable voting system helios[3]). Dissent looks to be the application of a Neff shuffling technique to ferret out the malicious nodes in a DC-net (a provably anonymous communication network). CoinShuffle is basically the use of a DC-net to anonymously pool together a set of bitcoin public keys, and the coinShuffle prototype is a fork of the Dissent codebase. The TorCoin protocol specifies using anonymous or mixed bitcoin transactions (such as by using CoinShuffle or ZeroCoin). And tying it all back together, in the TorPath protocol we again find Neff shuffling, used by the assignment servers to generate provably-random Tor relay circuits from groups of relays.

1. http://crypsys.mmci.uni-saarland.de/projects/CoinShuffle/

2. http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/dissent/

3. https://vote.heliosvoting.org
For me the whole thing took too long to load. I didn't even see the card until I had filled in most of the data in the fields (and I was thinking, 'What's so different about this?'). Then the card loaded and all the data I had put in already was automatically deleted and I had to do it all again. If I was buying something on a whim, this might just be enough for me to think 'Forget it'.

More generally, while I do think that entering card details is a bit of a ball-ache, I don't think the solution is having a picture of the card on screen...
In reply to a dead comment:
The most common definition of natural numbers is "positive integers."
I do agree that 0 is important enough that it would have merited a mention at least.
I am particularly impressed by the viewstate workaround. That demonstrates an unusual mindset and ability to solve interesting problems.

Mention this post in any job interview in Silicon Valley and you will likely get hired.

As for the school, just remember that you are interacting with low paid government employees who will never taste success.

In my opinion, you've done nothing wrong.

Media would love this story, but it may make your life miserable. How long until you are out of that school?
> Currently, every Tor client uses a trusted group of ~7 "directory servers" to assign them to a circuit

The directory servers don't assign clients to a circuit, they publish a directory of eligible nodes from which all clients can use to select a circuit. The distinction is smaller than it might seem since control of the list ultimately means control of the nodes in the circuit and while, in theory detecting directories giving different nodes different views should be easy I don't think any infrastructure exists for that. I'm just being pedantic on this point because some people might be confused here.

> However, we do consider sybil attacks. Addressing them is the primary purpose of the TorPath assignment protocol. It ensures that, even if an adversary controls over 50% of the relays

Definitional disagreement, I guess. I don't consider this to be sybil resistance. It's very easy to describe things which are secure when a majority is honest, to call something sybil resistant I would want to have an argument as to how its costly (or impossible) for the attacker to achieve the required threshold.

Yes, the odds are low at 50%, but they're certantly not at 99%. You have an amplification, but I didn't see any argument why 99% is substantially harder than 50% (or 1%). Maybe it is if you invoke back in centralized trusted authorities (well, ignoring botnets), and indeed— this could be an advance over tor— but I think some careful though should be given to audibility of the authorities, since I think you lose that if you hope to hide the participation in the network from the public.
Simplified for Facebook
Simplified is an android app to read your facebook news feed in a better way. It segregates your news feed into four categories, viz. Status, Photos, Videos and Links.
You're right that there have been demonstrated attacks as well as many "theoretical" ones. Interestingly, many of the theoretical attacks become even less theoretical when the number of exit nodes (and, in some cases, even middle relays) goes up. An increased number of end users using the Tor network also decreases the chances of many of them being successful.

Perhaps someone should start a fundraiser for an audit of Tor. I would certainly toss a few dollars into the jar for that myself and I suspect sufficient funds could be raised pretty easily.
Real world anecdote:

I recently discussed with a friend getting them some exercise equipment as a gift; at first we were targeting specifically "training that might help with keyboard RSI," but I soon realized that the biomechanics of RSI meant that a really comprehensive solution would have to involve exploring all over the body and figuring out where the real weak points are and training those, not just "around the wrist" - so grip trainer type equipment wouldn't be sufficient. It would have to be seen as an "overall fitness" type of problem.

This led me, of course, towards free weights and a training program of general experimentation. But a small free weight set in the home can be a frustrating experience with no space or supporting equipment like benches and racks, plus the chore of reloading dumbbells with light weight constantly. My friend was rightly concerned about whether it would work out for her.

So I reconsidered and landed on resistance bands. They're kind of unfashionable now - and for certain things having barbells and dumbbells and plates would be a lot better. But they store and transport easily, have essentially zero setup time, and there's plenty of exercises for them, many of which are straight-up adaptations of free weight movements. The more expensive Bodylastics set that I ended up buying, which was still only $70, allows for an enormous amount of resistance too. After doing that shopping, I kind of want to get some for myself too.

My friend probably would have been lost at the first step because it's not like anyone marketing fitness actually tells you what you really need to begin addressing a problem. Neither will they explore whether the thing you buy is going to fit into your lifestyle. It's pretty gratifying to realize that some cheap rubber is best for the job.
Exceptions are - by definition - rare, and when they happen you have other problems than worrying about performance or pipeline flushes.

It means that your program contains a bug.

What's swift got to do with it anyway? A language that was launched last week is now a benchmark for including new features? Has it been open sourced since then? If not how is building it in simple?