skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use DNS to block this sort of stuff (doubleclick.net, googleapis.com, etc.). *.doubleclick.net, etc. redirect to a a socket logger so I can see what is being requested.

This is easy for me to do because I run my own DNS root.

I also use DNS in order to log requests from devices that phone home (e.g., Apple).
Developing for VR cured my fear of heights
I've considered starting a tradition in my family wherein every year you put on a pack and head out, on foot, in the wilderness for one week. Every year, for the rest of your life.

If your family adopted this tradition, many problems would be solved. Many complications become greatly simplified. It's much more dignified than drug-assisted suicide and certainly more dignified than going through Alzheimer's.

In fact, I think it's more dignified than simply dying of old age.
You clicked link, they got page views -> mission accomplished! (the sad state of affairs of tech "journalism")
Likely a technical misunderstanding by the author. It is possible for an ISP to detect tor traffic[1], but not determine the contents of the traffic. My guess is that the author is not aware of this.

http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2013-04&post=Detect...
Care to point me in a better direction?
Good question: not that I know, but I don't think this should imply anything about the project.
||for sure do no harm compared to drugs

That really depends on who prepared your homeopathic treatments. They aren't regulated or subject to reasonable quality control. A few years ago a couple of manufacturers had to pull a number of products - the FDA had discovered that they contained medicinal quantities of actual medicine (no wonder they worked for some people!) Worse, because of the lack of quality control, the dosage was wildly inconsistent from batch to batch, and of course with the active ingredients not listed anywhere people were having allergic reactions to medicines they didn't think they were taking.

The homeopathic medicine market is not in anyway trustworthy.
Sailscasts: clear and useful screencasts about the Sails framework for Node.js
Please cite some sources.

"in America, the placebo effect is more effective than many pharmaceuticals" - There's nothing particularly unique about Americans that would require different treatment than humans in the rest of the world (except for perhaps the incredible obesity problem).

"I'd recommended homeopathy as well, knowing that it can do well and for sure do no harm compared to drugs that just address symptoms" - Actually, there is harm is encouraging people to spend money and time on things that are demonstrably false, because it prevents that time and money from being applied towards worthwhile causes (like finding effective treatments for Alzheimer's).

"being a doctor who's seen a lot of patients, why would I doubt his recommendation?" - An MD degree does not bestow infallibility or scientific inscrutability on the people who have them. MDs disagree with each other pretty routinely, so if you're curious about a doctor's recommendation, 1. find another doctor who disagrees, and try to understand why they disagree, and 2. read some summaries of the actual scientific studies behind whatever the recommended treatment is. If you can't find any scientific studies supporting the treatment, that should be a warning sign.

"Maybe it really works for some, how can I know?" - http://lmgtfy.com/?q=can+placebo+help+pms turns up http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19678774 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8533564. Both of those have really small sample sizes (85 people for the first, 35 for the second), but in both studies, placebo was less effective than the actual therapy being tested.
A long slow death, confused and scared, hungry and in pain?

Give me the barbiturates any day.
I don't dislike U2 music. I'm not a fan. They were big when I was growing up (high school & college). I'm pretty sure I even saw them in concert. But I'd be rightly pissed if Google/Motorola (not sure which one would be the equivalent of the Apple arm that did this) pushed their album to my phone. This certainly should have been a totally obvious opt in. Like "Hey! Click here to download your FREE U2 album to your iTunes" or something. As I understand it, not everyone got it, depending some auto sync option in iTunes.
When I say smart, I mean purely from a cold, heartless, moneymaking perspective. I would not start this business because I agree with you in many cases.
First, road accidents are are among top 10 causes of deaths in the world, so this isn't a small matter.

Second, there is research that shows that dividing your attention just between driving and talking can cause a significant reduction of reaction speed. Driving safely is not monotonous activity. Of course, if your car is crawling in a LA traffic jam, accidents are mostly non-fatal, but when you are driving 100km/h, cars are dangerous objects.
I think that if you truly believe in the narrative that you're espousing, and you actually want to do some good, you should start qualifying your statements with facts and changing the tone that you present them with.

Spewing vitriol because someone disagreed with you and down-voted only serves to illegitimatize the statement you're trying to make.

Which is a shame because behind that facade of angst and unqualified opinion is a kernel of relevant truth.
> Stop there. What would lead you to this speculation?

First, I should've put “constant and full attention” there. My phrasing was off. As to why I came to this conclusion:

1. People often ride for a few hours without breaks. My assumption is that it's not possible to pay constant and full attention throughout this time—our minds are bound to wander.

2. The pattern I usually observe is when the driver, depending on road situation, varies the degree of attention they pay to the driving. At one time they're driving relaxedly and multitasking (talking to a passenger or someone on the phone—by definition they're not paying their full attention at this time), while at another they're more or less concentrated on the road.

Disclaimer—I don't myself drive a car, but I often observe people driving. I've observed both experienced drivers who drive frequently and more beginning drivers, the pattern described under (2) is the same.

Update: the comments here, coupled with my observations, make me believe—roughly—that a) drivers don't (can't) pay their full and constant attention to the road, and b) many are in denial of (a).
Thanks for the link, their whitepaper [1] is pretty interesting (they've put a lot of thought into the "network of trust" optimization I mention above).

Seems they use the bitcoin block chain heavily as the basis for trust and security. Both of their "proof of burn" and "proof of timelock" techniques require each user to have a complete copy of the latest block chain (currently >20GB) to independently verify global trust.

I mention a few other pitfalls with this approach in another comment [2].

[1] https://gist.github.com/dionyziz/e3b296861175e0ebea4b

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8313847
I'm assuming you're replying in good faith, but that's pretty silly. I'd prefer that every person gets to choose how to live (and end) their own life the way they damn well please, not starve to death in the woods because of a family tradition. There are a lot of glib solutions would greatly "simplify" things.
Disc brakes, fashion? You must not be riding the right trails.
He was only 54...
This is a great point, the study should provide more details.

I remember seeing a study a while back that said "American household income is lower in 2010 than it was in 1979". The key here is "household". If you look at the demographics trends, there are far more single parent households now than in 1979.

In other words, the conclusion of the study was deceptive. Yes household income is going down, but individual income is going up.
Well to start, the antenna generates it's own noise since it is not 100% efficient; i.e. it has a real resistance in addition to it's radiation resistance. If you put a real antenna in a box made of perfect electrical conductor, it would still generate noise, so you really don't halve the noise by increasing the gain 3 dB, you double the signal.

Here is a good tutorial on phased arrays. It's actually a lot easier to think of it when receiving a skewed wavefront, and the phase shifters (delay elements) compensating for the delay.

http://www.radartutorial.eu/06.antennas/an14.en.html
I think it's more that it's technically easier--especially for a single person (and lighter/easier to load and unload from car/get in water for that single person). And, yes, Royalex has gotten to be a terrible price but given the same materials, kayaks aren't necessarily cheaper.
A traditional radio would be like an LED and a photocell; you can blink the LED and detect it with the photocell, but the maximum data rate is fairly small.

MIMO is more like vision. With a 2D array of pixels and a 2D array of photocells, you can transmit a vast amount of information through the same volume of space, and nearby equipment can reuse the same colors without much interference.

With smarter radios and more antennas, radio still has a long way to go before we hit the universe's data cap.
Product Hunt Raises $6M from A16Z
Amazing, but I'm now terrified that there's a tiny group of guys who can hear frequencies nobody else can, and we will really have "golden ears" hi-fi-audiophile buffs.
California Deems Lyft Line and UberPool Illegal
Smart marketing by Adam to star in most every video they make. Instantly when I see him, I know its a sandwich video. Basically they have built in branding into their product.

However, I have to admit, if I was forking out the big cash for a sandwich video for my startup (https://commando.io), I'd insist to not star Adam, because it is somewhat distracting from the message of my startup. He is basically everywhere, and it sort of gives me a strange (but negative) sensation of devaluation of the startup. Am I the only one who feels this way?
>I suspect most people don't use Tor.

We're not talking about "most people". We're talking about the people to whom this law might apply.

And even in the absence of Tor, do you condone ubiquitous internet surveillance to make this law generally enforceable?
Bizarre. He's apparently from the country which smashes Haiti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide#Return_t...), yet he's troubled about religious groups. How can such an article be high on "Hacker News", yet there is no serious analysis of why things are as they are? Do "hackers" ignore the context of problems they work on?

Do clueless Brits and Dutchmen fly to countries their governments ravaged, and scratch their heads about such things?
I think the "phased-array radar" you're referring to would be more precisely called "active-phased-array radar". Yes, the concepts are similar. By providing a calibrated time delay between elements of the array, the direction of focusing can be controlled. I'm not sure how this is done in practice for actual radars. If it is done in hardware, the array would have a single steerable pattern. If instead each array element has a clock-synchronized direct conversion digitizer, the beamforming can be done in the digital domain and the number of logical beams would be limited by the DSP capacity available.
Why is it immature to see people preach one way, behave a separate way, and conclude they're full of shit? It seems a basic requirement of a reasonable human being that people preaching that folks should behave way X comport themselves in way X.

eg the catholic church is, at this point, practically a child rape conspiracy: over and over people in the church discovered what was going on, and over and over they chose to tolerate the behavior to protect the church. Just to pick one notable example, the pope chose not to defrock a priest that molested TWO HUNDRED boys in his care [1], instead squirreling him off to northern wisconsin... where he had more access to children. As their book says, you shall know them by their fruits. This was an act performed by the head of the catholic church.

If you can stomach the acts performed by the church and the totality of the church hierarchy, then still believe what they preach, I'd say you're practically deluded.

[1] http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/03/26/wisconsin-prie...
> why they would care

Not sure. It's not as though using Tor circumvents the need for an Internet service provider. Maybe it's political.

> how they would know that someone was was using Tor.

It's easy to determine whether a user is using Tor based on the (known) connections that are made. It's the same way organizations can block Tor, or that the Tor client knows how to reach the rest of the network.
Why do we use the flight analogy for our projects?
> It also means I never get a "process is running" prompt like in IntelliJ or Emacs when I want to exit.

No, instead you find that you can't :q - or type anything for that matter - because everything's frozen while vim is realising that the network drive is down, or you're waiting for the syntax highlighting to finish.
Gombrowicz was a genius, indeed, and I cannot recommend his books strongly enough. However, honestly, I think that a good translation of his books is something extremely hard to do, and I am not too sure if possible at all. For me a hugely important aspect of his writings is a creative attitude to the Polish language, he was playing with it (and at times, forgive me, taking a piss of it) like no one else. I just cannot imagine how this can be translated to a different language. But it's not the only aspect of his works and I believe his dramas were successful not only in Poland.
Sure, I understand that. I'm saying, what if the NSA just started to MITM all connections, or a large fraction of them? It would be easy to notice that they were doing so, so we would detect that they are doing dragnet surveillance. But we already know they are, so it seems nothing much would change compared to the current situation.
Maybe it goes something like this:

1. Customer got caught X time(s) under the "Six Strikes" policy.

2. Comcast starts monitoring customer more closely.

3. Customer starts torrenting over Tor.

4. Comcast (who is monitoring this person more closely) sees that large amounts of traffic is going over Tor.

5. Comcast tries to intimidate customer to stop using Tor.

6. ???

7. Profit?

I'm kind of iffy on the motivation for anything past #4 though, but it seems sort of plausible... maybe?
To be fair, not all tor IP addresses are public; there are bridge relays which are not publicly listed[0]. This is one of the tactics for getting around blocking of tor in countries such as China.

[0] https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges.html.en
Their videos are incredibly well done, highly polished and very descriptive. I suspect they cost a lot, but they always do a great job of explaining exactly what they do. Perhaps my favorite one is the latest by Slack where it's pretty much their office saying how Slack changed the way they work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6zVzWU95Sw
I assume you're referring to this
http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2014/02/04/marijuana-pr...
She's actually attending the M. Night Shyamalan school of art.
You're thinking of the Allegri Miserere?
Legislation is very hard to change, although it seems to be going in the right direction. Washington and Oregon allow assisted suicide for the terminally ill.

I'm no maritime law expert, but I wonder if it's possible to offer assisted suicide in international waters, similar to abortion ships. It'd be much more accessible than traveling to Switzerland.
> Thermal? We're getting there, FLIR make some fairly low cost, low resolution sensors, but still you're looking at $500-1000 a pop in OEM quantities.

From what I've heard, the FLIR lepton core might be around $~250 in quantities, which could make it affordable as an add-on module.
Apart from the general comfort of Lycra on a bike when you are really moving around to shift weight on the bike lycra is less likely to get caught on the saddle. If you are fully set up for downhill the saddle may be out of the way but for a cross country ride with interesting bits it can be much safer than baggies.
Have you by chance written up how you have implemented that? I suspect there are existing examples of such setups online, but it never hurts to have another, particularly if your implemtation is different in some way. I would be interested to see your setup described in more detail.
Sure, no matter what we do, life will find a way to continue and flourish, probably without us. But the point is, we care about Earth supporting us.

I think this dialogue pretty much sums it up: http://i.imgur.com/o79ym.jpg.

We're fucking ourselves over big time and we won't be missed.
Radical Librarianship: Ninja librarians are ensuring patrons' electronic privacy
I really don't because Robinson is absolutely preaching an ideology that would lead to mass death if it were taken seriously.
The Libertarian Futurism of a Silicon Valley Billionaire (2011)
Can you think of any other "non-objective ideologies" that are as religion-like as environmentalism? I mean, I suppose you could describe some other sorts of ideologues as worshipping "the market" or "society" or "progress" or "history" or some such, but none of those are as god-esque as "Gaia" or "Mother Nature". Are they? Or are there others I've overlooked?

The main reason I tend to think of it as a secular religion is due to the close specific parallels with apocalyptic Christianity. You've got this same idea of an original state of grace (the way the indians lived) that mankind has since fallen from, the idea that people have committed sinful acts against the deity (by polluting) and have ways they should worship/repent to it (recycling, planting trees, passing on their ideology to others...). Most of all the sense that we are doomed unless we change our ways because Mother Nature will fight back and punish us for our sins against it just feels SO Christian - not in the modern sense but more the older sense of standing on a street corner with a "the end of the world is nigh!" signboard. :-)
Sweet! Just wondering if there is any references to how the A.I onboard works? I have heard that the platform is semi-autonomous, with visual odometry for motion estimation, but could not find anything that describes the techniques in detail.
I have upvoted your comment but I don't think it is as simple as you seem to think it is.

My father had Alzheimer's. He was given six months to live but my mother was too good at taking care of him. It took him about three more years to actually die. At some point, I got a copy of the death certificate. One of his diagnoses* is a form of "anorexia." The picture of him in his casket was unrecognizably thin. In other words, he basically took three years to slowly starve to death, in spite of being given excellent care.

While he slowly starved to death, he still drew two retirement checks. I am currently homeless and was homeless for a good portion of the three years it took him to die. Part of the money he still drew for still drawing breathe helped keep me and my sons fed. When he died, I was glad his suffering was over but I also worried that it would mean more suffering for me and my sons.

I have a different condition. It is medical and incurable and comes with a death sentence. About 13 years ago, I spent about a year at death's door. I was told "people like you don't get well." I have figured out how to get well. I sometimes wish I had died 13 years ago. Getting well has involved a lot of suffering, plus a lot of people think I made the story up or something, and because I am destitute I struggle to get enough to eat every month.

On the other hand, I have solved a hard problem: Getting well when that is not supposed to be possible. If I ever solve another hard problem -- getting the world to believe me and finding a way to effectively share the information -- it may help a lot of people. Or it may not. I might yet die on the street, in obscurity, just some "crazy" homeless person suffering what other people think are delusions.

Some people with my condition hold on and do not commit suicide, in spite of how miserable it is, because they are hoping for a cure, for a medical miracle. Things have gotten better. Average life expectancy has roughly doubled in recent decades. I once saw an email from a mom saying "My child is now 18. Life expectancy is currently 36. When he was born, it was 18."

I don't have any answers for you. Thirteen years ago, I was not looking to get well. I was just looking to hurt less. I would have welcomed death. Had assisted suicide been an option, I might have taken it. I often think about that when such discussions come up. My oldest son has the same thing. He was 14 when he was diagnosed. He is now 27. He, at least, has a brighter future than he should have had because of what I have been through. He, also, has gotten healthy, but without first spending a year at death's door. It does matter to me that I have at least done something for my children.

I am sorry for what you are facing. I am sorry there seem to be no easy answers for some things.

* edit: By "diagnoses" I mean the listed causes of death, I think. I don't have the death certificate in front of me.
So maybe your should learn driving a car first. I agree that paying full attention while driving is definitely the hard thing to do, but it is also the right thing to do.
The team behind this has put a lot of sweat and tears into making this a reality, as is always the case when starting a business of any complexity, and especially true in tech when operating in uncharted waters.

As long as we're being figurative, a lot of sweat and tears have gone into missile design and prison labor contracts. And this is not completely uncharted waters, phone-HUD has been a thing for years now.
It's partially broken in Safari 7.0.6 for the same reason — the ellipse method isn't a WebKit-ism, it's a WHATWG-ism that Google's implemented: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

A quick workaround is to run the following in the error console:

ctx.ellipse = function (x, y, radiusX, radiusY, rotation, startAngle, endAngle, anticlockwise) { ctx.arc(x, y, Math.max(radiusX, radiusY), rotation, startAngle, endAngle, anticlockwise); }
Look for end of the season sales, or better yet, know someone that works for a supplier or store that can get you a decent discount. Mountain bikes are insanely expensive, but for local stores there mostly isn't a big profit margin (at least not here, Norway). The manufacturers themselves probably have a lot better profit margins, but I do not know enough to say anything about it. At this point, any "known-brand" mountain bike over or around $2000 new is a really solid bike that will work great and last a long time if taken care of properly. Above that you start to see carbon frames, higher end gruppos and mostly weight savings.

For example a bike with a Shimano SLX groupset is basically as good as one with the XT groupset (one step up), the XTR groupset is lighter and costs way more.

the Shimano SLX groupset is comparable to SRAM's X9 groupset in performance and price.

Getting into the sport I would go for a hardtail (no rear suspension) first. They are a lot cheaper, and you will get more bike for the money. Spend $2000 on a hardtail and you have a really great and light bike with a near top-end groupset, but if you spend $2000 on a full-suspension bike you will get less bike for the money, and a hardtail is good for beginners anyway. When you do not have rear suspension you have to learn how to keep your weight on the bike and how to pick the best lines down, and a full-suspension bike is a lot more forgiving that way. I can ride down stuff on my FS bike I'd never dream of doing on my hardtail.
Dr. Mark Hyman is a practicing physician, not a disconnected from patients (i.e. the real world) researcher. He's identified an intolerance and he's treating it, and he got positive results. What's unscientific in his centuries-old approach?