skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit comes of smelling less than rosy in this episode. It seems as if it is ok to post the most intimate details about people as long as they are not reddit users, then suddenly privacy is really important.

Link-dumps and fora in general could do a lot more to protect the privacy of victims, there are whole websites dedicated to doing harm to others, usually people who had absolutely no idea that the innocent picture they took or allowed to be taken would end up online some day to ruin their lives or cause them at a minimum great distress.

I've been battling this problem for years, and even 'consenting adults' can get themselves into a ton of trouble if they do not oversee all the possible consequences of their actions.

It's the main reason why I've decided to ban all forms of nudity on my website, even though I personally believe that people should be able to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own homes, and by extension their own homes on the net the amount of grief that can come of it nullifies any positive effects.

Reddit could and should do more to stop abuses like these and hiding behind the 'free speech' banner when clearly the images distributed were distributed without the consent and probably even the knowledge of the subjects of the images is cheap and tone-deaf.

Which is a pity because reddit is one of very few sites on the net that has very long term potential.
He can certainly publish a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof =)
They might end up finding out that they violated '2'. The collective ability of the celebrities involved to sue reddit into the ground should not be under-estimated. And it is a pity that that is what would set limits on abuses like this, such limits ought to be set based on what every idiot could see was unauthorized publication of very private information, rather than that the financial capabilities of the victims would make the difference.
This being essentially all capital gains, it would be taxed at 30%.
I found it interesting when I clicked the "forecast" box on that link and saw that google disagrees.
i like this book http://joyofclojure.com/
I know I'm repeating what's said every time people complain about the state of things on Reddit but if you unsubscribe from the defaults and pick smaller subreddits that really interest you, Reddit is amazing. As in my life would be noticeably different without it.
The owner of the private key corresponding to a bitcoin address can cryptographically sign a message proving they control the address. This functionality is built into most modern bitcoin wallets.
> Everyone has Paypal - very few people (relatively) will have ApplePay.

Today Paypal has something like 150 million users worldwide while there are 72 million iPhone users in the United States alone. Presumably all of these people will eventually upgrade to an iPhone supporting ApplePay.
No shitty behavior was uncovered? Hasn't anyone considered that Thomas was the product of rape? Or any other thousands of possibilities which we have no idea about.
If you're going to play silly semantic games like saying your discussion partner doesn't believe theft is wrong and immoral, then don't be surprised when people find you tedious to talk with.
All of those people work on Chrome.
Yeah, the problem isn't that you can't do it. The problem is there are too many ways that mostly do what you need.
I want to be able to scale out by adding more machines. I want to be able to failover automatically to another data center when the first one goes down. I have yet to see a straight forward way to accomplish this with PG. Their wiki lists a bunch of tools related to this but they are either abandoned or does not cover this as far as I can tell. I can't understand all the positive I read about PG..
I don't believe this is the traditional definition of "reached 1.0".
Running 6 VMs has non-trivial overhead though. That just isn't there using containers.
A five storey modular home clings to the side of a cliff
Have you read Rich Cuarana's work on approximating the behavior of deep nets with single hidden layer networks?

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6184.pdf

From that paper, it seems like it's just that deep nets are easier to train to find state of the art solutions than shallow nets. It's not that shallow nets are inherently incapable of performing as well. Shallow nets can mimic/approximate a given well trained deep net and preserve almost all of the accuracy. So it's not the case that a good solution to the task doesn't exist in the set of hypothesizes spanned by sized shallow net, it's just that people don't know how to effectively find the right parameters for the shallow nets.
Much more training time was spent on animals (10% of the dataset is literally just pictures of dogs) and much more variation among man made objects.
Thanks tectonic. Huginn is great. First of its kind in Open Source ?
Create a "prototype" i.e. don't ask permission. If time prioritization is a problem then spend a few hours after five making it.
You could say the same about LEGO, and the LEGO movie did great. In many ways Minecraft is just video game LEGO. Battleship is a board game some people like or at least know but that's about it.

Minecraft on the other hand has a giant fan base that loves it and will buy anything related to it. Just look at all the merchandise that's started coming out over the last few years and now is everywhere. It's basically Angry Birds 2.0, just 10 times bigger, and Angry Birds it's still making tons of cash.

Minecraft is huge right now, there's a lot of money to be made by someone who knows how to properly milk it for all it's worth and has no problem with doing so.
"Apple acquires failed social network to add to portfolio of failed social networks"
He is saying it payed off in terms of market share, not income.
But... https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/Getting-Started-with-A...
Revenue fell because they're paying for market share.

"Krzanich set a goal for Intel's chips to be used in 40 million tablets in 2014, up from 10 million the previous year."

They're pretty clear in the article that by "paid off" they're referring to the market share they're buying. Intel is attempting to force its way into the market, leveraging its wildly profitable traditional processor division and $17 billion in cash. With $10.2b in net income the last four quarters, it makes perfect sense to vaporize a few billion dollars if necessary to grab a piece of the mobile market and build forward.
How about asking people for the command line arguments once they double-click?

Telling users they are wrong seldom works in the long run, because this requires a change in the mental model. The program model most people using GUIs assume is "you open a program, then you tell it what to do". The CLI model of "you first decide what the program must do, then you run it" just requires more thinking. As Steve Krug points out, "don't make me think" :)
He didn't say a watch is "just a watch", he said a watch "is still a watch".
Show HN: Videos for Founders
That's a great link, thank you.
Taco's criticism of the iPod was that it didn't do enough - didn't have enough features, didn't have enough storage etc, and he was rightly panned for getting it wrong. Criticisms of the price or lack of features of Apple products historically have been proved unfounded (it's easy to lower the price and add more features). So I agree if someone says 'but it doesn't do x', they can easily be satisfied by later models.

In contrast, many of the criticisms of this watch centre on the incoherent design, awkward interaction with a physical scroll-wheel AND touch interface (which Apple are not even allowing people to try out in the demos), and the grab-bag of features added to it, apparently without thought about how they all interact. It looks like it does too much, and none of it well.

They can possibly rescue this mess in the time they have before launch by polishing the software, but I'm hesitant about the concept of this scroll wheel (what they call a digital crown), which they have now committed to for the long term, and sounds like it is going to be very awkward when combined with physical touches and on the wrist, and pointless if you also require users to touch the screen. It would have been far nicer just to keep this simpler and use swipes and taps, and not try to hobble it with a traditional 'watch' shape.

It really does feel as if no-one was in charge of the design here, and lots of different teams worked on different features, which were mashed together at the last minute, without someone to force them all to integrate properly. I do believe Apple is entering a new era now - becoming a larger more stable company, and is now led by an operations person (Cook), not someone obsessed with design and willing to take massive risks in pursuit of perfection (Jobs). That is starting to have an effect on the products they make.
Postgres has had hot standby replication since 9.1, along with streaming replication.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Hot_Standby

As for scaling horizontally at the db level that can be achieved with foreign data wrappers calling out, but isn't built in.

While Postgres doesn't rival oracle and ms SQL server in feature checkboxes it's a very solid DBMS with many advanced SQL features, and it's free and open source. You can do a lot without hitting the scaling problems.
I'm not so sure about this. Reddit doesn't host media. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think "some people who use their site posted a link to another website, which has the illegal media" would cause significant damage to Reddit.
What is wrong with making google apps get top billing on an an ecosystem provided by them? This is like having your number one sponsor logo front and center of your top donors page. Seems fine to me.
> BTW, it appears the CIA has committed to not doing that sort of thing again

I don't think the CIA could ever find another doctor to help it with a similar scheme. Not after what happened to Dr. Afridi. [1]

This doctor has been put thru a living hell. Prison in Pakistan is probably no Sunday picnic in the best of circumstances. But in this case there are allegations of torture involving cigarette burns and electric shocks.

So if the CIA ever approaches anyone who's ever heard of The Information Superhighway, aka The Internet, maybe that new guy will be smart enough to google for whatever happened to the guy who help us catch Bin Laden.

Also, if you believe the claims by Pakistan that the doctor is being prosecuted for crimes other than helping the USA, I'll leave you with how Seth Meyers put it on SNL Weekend Update after OJ Simpson was convicted of robbery in Las Vegas:

Today, a jury in Las Vegas found OJ Simpson
“guilty” on all seven counts against him,
including kidnapping, aggravated assault,
and theft. But really... Murder. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakil_Afridi
[2] http://kellig.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/but-really-murder/
And Tim Thompson
Every time something like this is posted, where there is a site to check if your email address is in some leaked list, I really wish they'd just tell me how to get the list itself. Instead, they ask me to trust that they will not use my email address, and I have to hope that they won't leak it.

I generally don't bother, because it's just more security risks.
GGP is talking about the iPod, not the iPhone. GP is right that iTunes had no foothold when the iPod was released, and Apple had no "empire."
Once a year, some buddies from all over the country and I get together to spend a week in the deserts of Southern Utah and the Colorado Plateau. It's a driving adventure (we all drive old Land Rovers) but nights are spent in improvised campsites, as far as we can get from paved roads and civilizations. The rocks and the trees are beautiful but the night sky...the night sky is indescribable. We sit on our chairs around the campfire and watch the satellites and cross-country flights pass overhead. The Milky Way so bright that it almost lights the land like a moon. Some evenings, I set up my camera and tripod and do my best attempt at night photography. Here are few of my favorites:

Cedar Mesa, Utah:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/5551249303/in/set-7...

La Sal Mountains, Utah:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/5114443927/in/set-7...

Comb Ridge, Utah:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/6305032340/in/set-7...

Moonrise over Canyonlands National Park:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/6940180396/in/set-7...

Elk Ridge campsite, Abajo Mountains, Utah:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/8762668240/in/set-7...

La Sal Mountains, Utah:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/5114444819/in/set-7...
Regardless, it seems that Gruber was partly right:

https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/50943816728054988...
I haven't tried it yet, but Postgres XL is pretty new, and promises this. http://www.postgres-xl.org/
Information isn't always "good" in medicine.

For example the Prostate-Specific Antigen test is a good example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate-specific_antigen#Scree...

While PSA testing may help 1 in 1,000 avoid death due to prostate cancer, 4 to 5 in 1,000 would die from prostate cancer after 10 years even with screening. Expected harms include anxiety for 100 – 120 receiving false positives, biopsy pain, and other complications from biopsy for false positive tests. Of those found to have prostate cancer, frequent overdiagnosis is common because most cases of prostate cancer are not expected to cause any symptoms. Men found to have prostate cancer usually (up to 90% of cases) elect to receive treatment. Therefore many will experience the side effects of treatment, such as for every 1,000 men screened, 29 will experience erectile dysfunction, 18 will suffer urinary incontinence, 2 will have serious cardiovascular events, 1 will suffer pulmonary embolus or deep venous thrombosis, and 1 perioperative death.[5]
He didn't say they were. You seem to be in violent agreement.
It's nowhere near advisable for anyone to submit their address to that box.

Notwithstanding the questionable reliability of this what is meant by "leaked"? a trove of phished credentials does not really qualify as a "leak".
Consider the alternative: "Hi, I think you might be a developer, but I haven't looked at any of your public stuff, and yet in a thinly veiled attempt to make it seem like this email is personalized, I'm going to tell you I think you're a particularly good fit for this role, which involved [buzzword], [buzzword], and [buzzword]!"

Would that be more to your liking?

Github and Meetup are inherently social, default-public communities. You should consider it a sign of respect -- or at least a signal of intent -- that someone's taken the trouble to actually review your stuff.
> Really, what's the point?

Adoption. Apple brings it's users... who just seem to adopt Apple features better than competitors' similar features.

If contactless pay is a gordian knot of user vs. merchant adoption, Apple will play the part of Alexander and untie/sever the knot.
He's the 4th largest tax payer in Sweden apparently: https://twitter.com/notch/status/410757753737469952
On August 20 an address of mine was entered and my Origin account was subsequently compromised. Looks like this leak matches the creds that account had before I reacted. Happily enough it was a low equity account, I had 2FA and nothing else seems to have been grabbed.

Edit: to clarify, I had 2FA on an account which alerted me to the Gmail compromise. I obviously messed up with that email account.
Why I’m Giving Up on Creative Commons on YouTube
You can, if slightly indirectly:

1) Go to work.
2) Receive paycheck.
3) Donate a portion of it here: http://www.msf.org/donate
Intel has a horrible horrible architecture, I really dont want to see it win over ARM Architecture which is open and superior, and wastes a lot less DIE area just for instructions that Intel Does.
Honest note here - no idea what will pan out, but if it does ping me about getting some github traction. I don't play minecraft, but happy to help organize some forum or such.
Recovery passwords for email accounts are actually kind of tricky, since the standard is generally recover-password-through-proof-of-control-of-email-account.

You can do SMS, but then you need phone numbers for users. Requiring "alternate email" is kind of a nightmare.

I wish someone could build a "account recovery as a service", with different levels of escalation. It would be fun to spec it out, but I have no time to actually set it up, since it's more a business vs. just some servers.
Asana for projects and structured/hierarchical lists, ideation, etc. Evernote for more detailed note-taking. Use asana to point to google docs, dropbox files, etc.
Holocaustic nonsense goes viral [pdf]
The UK has a variety of schemes of tax planning[1], tax avoidance[2], and tax evasion[3]. Using such schemes usually requires someone to be wealthy enough to afford accountants and access to the scheme.

Rich people do have ways of reducing their tax burden, sometimes to surprisingly low amounts.

[1] planning is normal reduction of tax burden and is unlikely to be challenged by tax authorities.

[2] avoidance is legal, but sometimes exploits loopholes in tax laws in weird ways and you might risk the Inland Revenue changing the regulations - sometimes retroactively.

[3] evasion is just illegally not paying tax.
If true, you should be seriously scared of what Apple is capable of.
Huh. The IO7 update bricked my iPad. I had to get it replaced in store.

I would say that an update can't get worse but at least I liked IOS7 when I got to use it so I wasn't too phased. What actually makes me much more miserable is when software updates introduce new bugs, remove features and slow the device down and I can't do anything about it.
Its a bit of both.

But when it comes to utility. A simple watch has not been replaced by smart phones yet. That is because there are places, instances and people where/who just can't pull out their phones and check time.
The first generation iPod was Mac only. The 2nd generation iPod was Mac + Windows but iTunes was still Mac only. Windows syncing was done with third party software (Musicmatch Jukebox)

iTunes did not have a foothold in the marketplace until after the success of the iPod was evident.
"If you don't like to specify your full email address for any reason, you can replace up to 3 characters with asterisk sign (e.g., for myaccount@gmail.com enter myac*nt@gmail.com), thus we'll show you a count of matches for this pattern. We respect your privacy."
Under-equipped is nothing new. Mistakes are mostly nothing new. The larger size leading to increased fatigue amongst medical personnel and thus more mistakes is a good point - and a relief if that is genuinely the whole explanation.
Exactly. just show me the list and let me do a command+f. I'm not trying to enter my email into their system.
they said in their faq that they won't be taking a cut. Either this is purely for improving the ecosystem, or they're getting a cut from banks for cutting down fraud.
There have been low end x86s available for many years, eg the Vortex SoCs. They are still around, the company even put out an Arduino compatible board recently: http://linuxgizmos.com/arduino-compatible-boardset-runs-linu...
After reading the second article, which gives more detail, I think that's unlikely. Obviously we're missing information, but it's not stated anywhere that there was foul play of any kind. You cannot just assume something horrible happened unless at least some kind of hint is given in the article.
Another wonderful misconception.

Reddit doesn't host the images. It is as culpable as Google.
What? We already have bluetooth headphones. An app could read out messages. What else would you want it to do?
So it's the same guy who tried to extort Roger Ver?
I'd say the way failover/HA is done at Heroku is straightforward. Will (the designer) or I plan to write about it some day, pending laziness.

It took some time to figure out because it required breaking some orthodoxy, but I'm happy with the result.

The thresholds are documented at https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-ha#fai....

The promotion is done by rebinding the URL of the database and restarting the app. This shares mechanism neatly with changing of passwords, which is one reason we decided it was worth throwing out network-transparent orthodoxy when it came to HA: the clients must be controlled anyway to deal with security considerations.
Yes, but all the watches out there are dumb. Apple was supposed to "fix" wearable so the same way it fixed smartphones. Instead they released a Kin/Rockr.
I used the wildcard and mine is not in it.

So I don't think this is a hack of google itself, but rather just collecting addresses from elsewhere and collecting the gmail ones.
That's roughly the situation the pirate bay is in.
Correction:

> Just because an innovation is only a research project*

To which I will have to vehemently disagree with you. Otherwise we'll have to start celebrating science fiction authors for their "innovation."
Can you elaborate on how static library support is a hard requirement for your workflow and why frameworks (LLVM modules) don't meet your needs. I'm genuinely curious as I haven't had a chance to do any real work in Swift yet.

Fellow Googler btw.
Not only that but they also must prove that the services they are offering are scientifically and medically sound and they aren't just making shit up.

And it doesn't look like these types of companies have a great track record....

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/science/i-had-my-dna-pictu...

> 23andMe said my most elevated risks — about double the average for women of European ethnicity — were for psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis, with my lifetime odds of getting the diseases at 20.2 percent and 8.2 percent. But according to Genetic Testing Laboratories, my lowest risks were for — you guessed it — psoriasis (2 percent) and rheumatoid arthritis (2.6 percent).

> In the case of Type 2 diabetes, inconsistencies on a semantic level masked similarities in the numbers. G.T.L. said my risk was “medium” at 10.3 percent, but 23andMe said my risk was “decreased” at 15.7 percent. In fact, both companies had calculated my odds to be roughly three-quarters of the average, but they used slightly different averages — and very different words — to interpret the numbers. In isolation, the first would have left me worried; the second, relieved.
Are you being serious? Next time you search google, would you rather they display 5,000,000 results on one page and you Ctrl+F the response?
I tried it and it gave me a year old password. I am guessing they only got a hold of old passwords.
totally intimate with the original Bitcoin code

After this long? Probably not. I'm routinely surprised by the clever things I wrote five years ago.
I would tend away from anything a third party recruiter send me. Really those guys incentives are not to fit you well, but to throw candidates at their customers and see what sticks to the wall. I've seen that from both sides of those guys (as a candidate and a person selecting candidate for my team).

If it is a HR person from inside the company that contacts me then I would definitely read the offer in details. For me LinkedIn, Emails or SnailMail is the same I can phase out everything if need be.

Something I don't like at all is 3+ interviews. Especially when the first one is just to "present" the offer or the company. That one can be done in conjunction with another (lets say the first technical), or on the phone/skype/hangouts. Don't make me come just for that.

Best job I had got done in one email + one interview with a coding test, and it was a cracking team.

ALSO: PLS understand you can use our online profiles as our CVs stop asking us to come discuss opportunities or to send you another copy! It just proves that you are just spamming from a search result list.