skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if Random Hacker X can figure out the answers to the iCloud reset questions

Answers about very famous people. Wikipedia will not tell me your mothers maiden name.

Also, as much as I sympathise with the women whose accounts were breached, actors aren't always the sharpest tools in the shed, and phishing schemes are a common tool for gaining access to other peoples accounts. One of them (I don't remember which) publicly claimed iCloud backup for her iPhone was "too complicated" a while ago. Given that it's as complicated as "turn it on, and make sure it gets plugged into power with Wifi every so often", I don't doubt some of them would fall victim to even a very simple phishing scam.
Since turning 30, I've noticed my hangovers have started lasting all day. Who has time for that? I still drink fairly often, but rarely more than a drink or two a night.
Thanks for the feedback, OMG what a shame this IEs, will check this out!
You can have values that don't belong to objects. I consider there to be three types of value computations:

- The value computations of operators, like 5 + 6. These don't use the values of objects. They just use the values of their operands. The operands may be subexpressions that denote objects (like 5 + x), but it is the value computation of those subexpressions that uses the object's value, not the value computation of the operator.

- The value computations of expressions denoting objects where the expression is being used as an lvalue. These also don't use the values of objects - they only care about the object's storage location. I give an example in the article, which is the left operand of =.

- The value computation of expressions denoting objects where the expression is being used as an rvalue. This means lvalue-to-rvalue conversion is performed, which is conceptually "reading an object's value out of memory". This, therefore, uses the value of the object.
Regardless, the judge is going to look at intent and knowledge. You knew this was a paid service, and your intent was to not pay. You understood this was a way to avoid payment, and you understood that someone else had paid for access.
> just anxiety

Don't make the mistake of thinking that an anxiety disorder is trivial or that gp parent comment was trivialising something as "just anxiety", as being less than depression.
I admit "hate" is probably the wrong word to use. But I definitely notice a reaction in their faces which to me comes across as "you don't drink?? WTF is wrong with you!", often accompanied by a smirk or an exaggerated "oh is that sooooo?" :)

Maybe I should start saying I'm a recovering alcoholic and my doctor has told me to totally stay away from drinks if I'm to live!
When 5 o'clock rolls around, it's beer time, or after mowing the lawn, or after being out a long day. While I enjoy trying different craft brews, it's almost more what it symbolizes that I enjoy. Once that beer is poured, the work of the day is over (outside the 2nd job, being family:)).
Try to pick up some kind of sport. Taekwondo worked for me, you just have to conquer the embarrassment of being a beginner among new people, but those communities are usually friendly and get a lot of newbies all the time anyway. No social obligations, just go and do your own thing, over time you'll probably build some relationships as a side effect.

Running was a big help for me too. Again, just gotta get over the initial hump of laziness and being embarrassed at doing something that you're not very good at, until you start to get into it.
She’s found that little ones who are destined to do well in
a typical 21st century kindergarten class are those who
manifest good self-regulation.

The first question is what determines "doing well"? This was not clear to me from the article. Is it grades? High-School completion? Entrance exam levels? Completing University? Getting a PhD? Making their first billion $?

For a very long time (40+ years) we know that girls have done better in grades and boys have done better in standardised admission tests. The quality of "good self-regulation" others may describe negatively as a false reward for "girls keep quiet". In open format classes boys dominate and demand attention. Teachers may be rewarding girls "self-regulation" because they are more considerate of the teacher and fellow students. But as a result teachers give more attention to the students that are worse at "self-regulation". see: "Failing At Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls" from 1995

Kenney-Benson and some fellow academics provide evidence
that the stress many girls experience in test situations can
artificially lower their performance, giving a false reading
of their true abilities.

The Kenney-Benson study I believe is this one from 2006:
http://news.illinois.edu/news/06/0220mathdivide.html

This field of study appears to me to be a mess.

Here is a study on the male grade crisis with a counter conclusion. Pretty much the similar research results but different conclusion and language:

The researchers examined 369 samples from 308 studies,
reflecting grades of 538,710 boys and 595,332 girls. ... The
study reveals that recent claims of a “boy crisis,” with boys
lagging behind girls in school achievement, are not accurate
because girls’ grades have been consistently higher than boys’
across several decades with no significant changes in recent
years, the authors wrote.

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/girls-grades.aspx
big society :/
it should also be mentioned that Jerry's commentary is _hilarious_ - he's basically the SeaNanners of chess.
Yes, this also describes me - I have tried alcoholic drinks just twice (on my 21st birthday and champagne on my honeymoon), and thought them astringent and unpleasant.

More to the point, I've never even sought out, uh, non-sobriety, certainly the world's most popular avocation. I am apparently a mutant, and I definitely feel weird about it. I grew up in LA with no religious background, so it was decidedly countercultural.

Although when I went to Harvey Mudd, there was a definite teetotaling contingent among the self-experimentalists. There, if you brought up the Super Bowl, some would simply say "Spectator sports don't interest me." It was like that.
Swombat, that is both ignorant and blunt.

Please don't try to imagine what goes on in someone else's mind.
haha. Why did I get downvoted for this? I am not implying anything racial or anything like that. I am talking about culture specifically. Illinois has a political culture of corruption that is probably worse than Sweden, as an example.
You got it: Pension funds, endowments, foundations, union retirements funds, rich families, anybody who has a lot of money and wants to diversify into a high-risk, high-return fund.

They basically trust smart people, who have presumably succeeded at this in the past, to pick more net winners than losers and earn a return on their money.
Plus that kind of person can make you money just by the talent who will work with you to work with them.
Also great rewards from the right question from the expert to the up-and-coming talent.
Various friends suggest "detoxing" ever now and again. The longest I've lasted has been 3 weeks. Never makes me feel any different. Just makes socialising harder work.
To anyone with hardware design experience transducers are hardware sensors. That meaning has been around for >60 years now.

So a lot of people are going to see 'transducers.js' and think this is a library for interfacing I2S or 1-wire sensors to Node, or something.

That's not anti-intellectualism, it's pointing out that the word already has an established meaning among engineers, and trying to redefine it is going to mislead a lot of people about what this library is trying to do.
12 Java Snippets you won’t believe actually compile
In my experience there are three groups of teetotalers.

There are the ones who don't drink and don't have a problem with other people drinking. The people who are genuinely in this group, you don't even notice they don't drink. Drinkers have no quarrel with this group.

The second group are very vocal about their disapproval and are constantly telling you you shouldn't drink etc. They are irritating but can be ignored.

The third group thinks they are part of group 1, but they are actually closer to group 2. They never overtly tell you anything bad, but you get the constant sense that they are looking down on you. Drinkers don't like this group because they feel like they are constantly being judged, but not in a direct way they can challenge.

The three can probably be summed up by their response to the question, "Would you like a beer?"

Group 1: "No thanks, could I have a glass of water?"

Group 2: "No thanks, I'd rather not destroy my liver."

Group 3: "No thanks, I don't drink."
In the context of lifehacks, the direction of the communication is the website telling an individual "you can do this with your labor, your tools and $n in money."

In these "microscrope-for-a-dollar" posts, the communication context is different. It's misleading a mass audience that these devices can actually be made for the amount. There is no implicit assumption of the individual user of the microscope doing the labor nor using their own tools. The same holds true in my analogies.
Wow, this really took off, looks like the right thread for a Friday.
(original poster here, sorry I couldn't make the poll, not enough karma - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339667)

As I was saying, I am alcohol abstinent for about two weeks. I had been a daily drinker before, mainly beer, living in Belgium. I am not Belgian myself but I totally love Belgian beers. I tried them all. It's maybe the #1 reason to live here.
There are several motives why I started this teetotaler challenge: I sometimes put myself to such challenges just to make my strong will stronger, I want to get healthier (this is debatable I know), and my wife said I couldn't do it :P

The thing is that my sleep pattern changed since I started this. I am waking up very early and tired around 6:30, though my alarm is set at 8:30. I turn in not very late, around 23:00. And I am tired most of the time. There might be other reasons for it (excited about my start-up and still doing the 9 to 5 as a contractor), but I'm wondering if any of you guys experienced this when you gave up alcohol.
I drink a shot of Tequila every evening after dinner. So, pretty much every day, but only one drink. I very rarely drink more than 1 drink a day. Am I a heavy drinker or a regular drinker?
I used to use Netbeans before moving to Sublime Text, there was only really one thing I missed, the way it showed changes in the gutter.
I've been using vim for 7 years and I've never even attempted to use this mode. Am I missing out?
Rethinking IEnumerable
80% teetotaler, 20% social drinker
Sorry about that. I am not trying to minimize anxiety with that phrasing, but rather trying to stress that the situation was more complex than -- just one thing --.
I was annoyed to see the same mistake in this article (and its headline) when it first went up. They've since corrected it, but you can see the note at the end.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/us/police-armored-vehicle-...
Depression in technology is a very common condition. If you suffer from it, please know you ARE NOT ALONE. This talk is very honest, open and has some really helpful and practical advice.

http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/11/developers-entrepreneu...
Exactly, so 100 machine years could be 200 machines running for 6 months, or 10 machines running for 10 years, or 1 machine running for 100 years ;).

Well, you get the idea.
IMHO, q's (and K's) big advantage over J is that they have tables and dictionaries as an available data type. This makes basic tasks like reading csv files and merging different data sources much easier in q. q also has a nicer syntax for anonymous functions. Of course, q is also very expensive, and it tries to be too clever at times: I remember running in to all sorts of weird corner cases, with things like NAs being skipped in float arrays, but not in int arrays, etc.
I meant if you gave it up.
Sometimes the idea of becomming intoxicated is the appealing thing :)
I drink one almost every evening. If its really good wine, i drink two. Usually once a week i drink a few more, ranging from 2 to 10 or so, depending on the beer, wine or the occasion. Usually the next day i dont drink at all. I do feel shitty the next day. Sometimes I sort of enjoy having a hangover. Theres not mutch to think about then. All there is, is the hope I feel good again soon.
Interesting piece, and written in a compelling way.

However, some things don't fit the narrative. Gladwell mentions the various waves of immigration (Irish, Jewish, Italian) and suggests that crime is a way to get up the ladder.

But weren't the African-Americans there long before these groups? Shouldn't they have been the first to do this journey?

He mentions Merton's 6 ways and suggests crime is innovation. But how innovative is it really, crime? Is forming and running a cartel not something that has occurred quite often in the minds of people who compete? Is bootlegging innovative? To my mind, it's not innovative. It's just taking more risk than the average person takes.
Most important in my book: an IDE should be a simple batteries included experience. Something tweakable like eclipse or emacs is fine, but I want it tweaked. I don't want to tell my editor where it can find my compiler or what language I'm using. I want to install, type in a syntax highlighted and auto-completed hello world program, and have it run. Plenty of IDE's do this, for example variations of eclipse/netbeans/idea and of course VS.
I think you're right. Just imagine all those twitpics (links) becoming unresponsive. That would have been news for twitter indeed.
This board has two CPUs: a 500MHz dual-core Atom and a 100MHz Quark.

What does the Quark chip do? How is it programmed?
Tetristeroids
Yes its usually trivial from a direct .gov perspective to register .mil equipment. One of my dad's friends had a used 5 ton truck (or was it a 2.5 ton?) for construction hauling, more for the impact and advertising than economics. This varies by state but virtually all states have an antique / kit / custom car registration category thats quite reasonable.

Unfortunately getting insurance on antique / kit / custom cars can be a little problematic if you intend to heavily use the vehicle. So you can get insurance for a 5 ton or an original ford model T or a modern kit car replica model T relatively cheaply and easily IF you stay under 500 miles per year on the odometer. It would be quite unaffordable to insure if you commuted 40 miles per day like my little commuter car.
In 10 years, every SolarCity system will come with batteries from Gigafactory
absolutely, you are right that US tax rates on the very highest incomes were high. But overall tax burden was never as high. Remember, Sweden has both higher income taxes on the middle class than US ever had and high consumption taxes.
Ask HN: How are you using your analytics data?
Hi HN,
Most developer I know collect analytics data from their website/app but don't do anything with them.
- Are you using your analytics data?
- If you do: what are you using them for?
- If you don't: why?
It reminds me of zen photon garden : http://zenphoton.com/ (which doesn't have lens or fiber-optic, but is very pretty).
> Unlike Eclipse, Netbeans, or most others, Emacs is a really modular IDE.

Considering the number of plugins that exist for Eclipse, IDEA and NetBeans, the claim that emacs is more modular than all these IDE's is a bit absurd, don't you think?

> Like all great open-source projects, Emacs has a very active online community.

As do Eclipse and IDEA (NetBeans being a distant third, not so much).

> Working on a team or alone I like to use version control (Git mostly) to manage my work.

All the IDE's have git (and other revision systems) plugins. They all have their pros and cons and personally, I prefer to use an external tool (SourceTree) but emacs is unlikely to have an obvious advantage here.

> 2 - Browser REPLs

The Lisp eval mode and shell interaction are nice, but they are pretty limited to elisp and shell. All the IDE's have evaluation windows that let you run any arbitrary Java code, something that doesn't exist in emacs.

> 1 - Feature rich

Well, yes, all these tools have a lot of features.

It's interesting that you don't list the number one (and pretty much only) advantage that emacs has over any other text editor: macros. Macros are pretty much the only reason why I still use emacs today (\C-x(, \C-x) and \C-xe). And occasionally for small text files.

But for code, if you're not using a specialized IDE, you're not as productive as you could be.
Do you have a diagram with the design? Something to amuse people even more? ;)
Wouldn't you need to be employed to stay legal?

If a foreign worker in H-1B status quits or is dismissed from the sponsoring employer, the worker must either apply for and be granted a change of status to another non-immigrant status, find another employer (subject to application for adjustment of status and/or change of visa), or leave the U.S. [1]

It would seem difficult to both be in YC and working full time for an employer.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
Don't Americans realize that there might a point where it is cheaper to provide (or more exactly, force) better education and social security on those at risk, than increasing the police force and incarceration rates?

That was the theory pushed fairly successfully by many social reformers in the 60's and early 70's. The net result, or at least the concurrent event, was a massive crime wave.

The fact of the matter is that Americans are not Scandinavians. For homicides where the offender is known, more than half are committed by a demographic group that is pretty much nonexistent in Scandinavia.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/c...

Further, within the US, people tend to behave more similarly to where they come from (even if it was many generations back) than to some American average. I don't have data for any Scandinavian nations, but Tino Sanandaji has some data comparing Swedish Americans (a group which apparently self-identifies enough to be statistically significant) to Swedes:

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/super-economy-in-o...

So it's very unclear that a Scandinavian approach would work here.
If you find it hard to get started, consider making an appointment with a psychiatrist and ask about Wellbutrin. It gives you energy rather than feeling low throughout the day and makes it magically easier to not get caught up in logically pointless and destructive thoughts. The best part is, you can continue to self-help it just becomes easier, and you only meet once every 6 months rather than every week with a psychologist.

Just my 2 cents, best decision I ever made after ~10 years depression, went when I was 29. Look up Dysthymia.
Have you tried using something like GitGutter?
I think the idea that after a business failure someone needs 'redemption' is harmful. Sometimes businesses fail and the person doesn't try to start another business, and that's okay.
Belarus != Ukraine.
Let's step back a second and use a very clear observation. This is like saying to someone overweight - why don't you stop eating crappy food. Look at the mis-information, man. Additionally, social "norms" force a lot of cultural influence to do so. This falls in line that America is a "drinking" society. Go watch Ken Burn's Prohibition just a fact of record. I haven't even touched on the addiction aspects, because I think its self-explanatory on how it plays out on people - no matter if its eating, smoking, drinking, etc.
Home Depot Says Data from 56M Cards Was Taken in Breach
>ZFS is operating on a system without an IOMMU (Input Output Memory Management Unit) and a malfunctioning or malicious device modifies its memory.

If a Linux system possessing an IOMMU was booted with iommu=pt as a kernel command line option, does the IOMMU still protect from this type of failure? This option puts the IOMMU into passthrough mode which is required to successfully use peripherals on some motherboards.
They both come from the same company so it's not exactly a testament of quality, just corporate strategy.
Show HN: Barcode Scanner via MMS
Text a picture of a barcode to 508-401-SCAN (508-401-7226), and you'll get product information / a picture of the product.

I built this last night using Twilio's MMS api, Amazon's Product API, and python's zbar library. Also works with Google Voice.
Software to text-search a LARGE set of files
Not sure why you got downvoted.

Current UK advice for men is two to three units max per day with some days drink free and don't binge.

A 330ml bottle of beer five days a week is well within those levels and would not be seen by most people in the UK as heavy or problem drinking.

It does get a bit trickier when you talk about glasses of wine. People have less idea of how much alcohol is in their glass, and small errors mulity over a week.
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My thoughts are with you meh_master. You really deserve better.

Please watch this at some point.

http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/11/developers-entrepreneu...

Things can get better but please, please, please try to find the strength to reach out to someone, anyone and open a conversation.

Take a look at http://www.devpressed.com/ too.

Take care and look after yourself.
You might want to consider drinking something tasty, a proper pilsener. Some things, like coffee or coriander, are acquired tastes. I don't encourage you to drink, but having an opinion about all alcoholic drinks after one try might be a bit harsh. If you dont like some vegetable the first time you try, will you never try it again?
Removing pretty powerful feature just because author of fork doesn't use it sounds… well, actually author of fork can remove whatever he likes, but presenting neovim like "refactord vim with more features" isn't fair or even plausible in this case. And for what reasons? Oh, I see, it makes code complicated. Did he think vim'c codebase is scary for no reason? Removing all the code from vim would be the ultimate simplification in that case. It's not popular feature? Well, I believe that there can still be more vim users that don't use macros, maybe remove them as well? Or maybe just replace vim with nano?

I, personally, used ex-mode only a couple of times, so even if I will use neovim I don't think I would care. But that just doesn't sound like a right think to do.
oh man, thank you very much!
Good riddance. It's cruft. I've used it exactly twice, and never was it something I couldn't have done on the command line. It might be useful on Windows, I'm not sure? But if you're on a *nix, there really isn't any point.
I agree. Emacs was historically a little weak on that side; if there are language-specific preconfigured bundles, they're usually out of date.

Fortunately, with the recent inclusion of a decent module manager in Emacs 24, one could hope people will start making preconfigured Emacs "distros" for particular use cases.
MinimaLT: Minimal-latency Networking Through Better Security (2013) [pdf]
By default? What default are you talking about? Sounds like fairy-tale default. Saying policies can just scale linearly from 17m people in the Netherlands to 1300m in China, needs an explanation a little more elaborate than 'it's the default'.
And for those who are still stuck in it ...
:vi
to end the madness
> Considering the number of plugins that exist for Eclipse, IDEA and NetBeans, the claim that emacs is more modular than all these IDE's is a bit absurd, don't you think?

Is modularity measured by plugin count alone? Or is it measured by something like how feasible it is to remove some of the core IDE logic and replace it with your own choice of logic?