skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Potentially, but death is still pretty rare with impure MDMA and the effects can be felt. It's also a social drug, so I would imagine most buyers purchasing ~tens of pills and sharing them with friends. One would probably leave a bad review if a friend died.

Testing kits and services are also available so you could review the quality without even taking the drug.
You would need a system to decide which debunkings were legitimate.
>Crawling through tor already obfuscates your identity to a certain degree, so we don’t really have to do anything other than cycling User-Agent strings to look different from any other client.

Why is that necessary, though? If Silk Road has any checks in place that protects against scraping, why are those in place?
Well, randomization was what everyone initially thought would be the case always.

So it's disappointing to find that it's only going to randomize in specific, somewhat unusual modes. :(
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Did you ever get a resolution to this?
I think Foresight Exchange was one of the first ones: http://www.ideosphere.com/

It's from around 1995 or 1996, as you can probably tell from the site design.
Probably not. The noise in the training data itself, noise from dropout and various other sources are going to trump any quantization noise anyway, so you can use fairly inaccurate representations. This is why everyone's using gamer GPUs for this stuff, and not Tesla cards: single precision is enough, and much cheaper to come by.

Although, I guess the cutoff might have to be a bit higher than 8.23. Maybe the neuron activations would never exceed that range, but some intermediate computations could.

Supposedly the new Maxwell GPUs have some new instructions for working with half-precision floats ( https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/open... ). I wonder how complete this implementation is, because half-precision might be sufficient to train a convnet, and this would result in a significant speedup.
No hardware reasons, and probably no software ones. :/

Wi-Fi MAC is unrelated of the IMEI of the phone. It's on a different chip, and uses different antennae.

(Eg, you can browse over Wi-Fi while talking on your cell connection)
The SQLite Database File Format
If you can't install software to your box for whatever reason, just replace sh with cat or nano and read it.
Yup, this is the approach taken for OS X and for apps that don't 'install' it's quite easy to migrate.

On OSX you really have to go out of your way to modify the OS.
Well, that's just it. It was announced as, and should only work as, the ability to scan for wifi hotspots using a random, untraceable MAC address. This is because advertisers and other third-parties were beginning to use wifi hotspots as passive ways of collecting unique IDs for devices (their MAC addresses). So under this system, when it works, walking by a hotspot shouldn't identify you to it if you don't auto connect, while actually connecting would.

Edit: from their previous post:

In iPhone 5s, MAC randomization happens only under the following conditions:
Phone is in sleep mode (display off, not being used);
Wi-Fi should be ON but not associated
...

I would argue that the phone needing to be in sleep is also a bug. It should "just work"... Ideally even when scanning for new networks while associated.
I think I understand where you're coming from, economics is a form of culture, but I was trying to distinguish the cold economic price of low-skilled labor from the non-economic value we place on it (sorry I don't know a better way to express this). Hard work is generally considered very important and valuable in our culture, but excess supply and low demand drives down the economic value. I value water very highly (non-economically), more than gold, but the economy disagrees.

You could say employers are greedy and hoard excess profits while keeping wages low, or you could say that they generously provide much needed jobs to a struggling low-skill labor market. Both are true. It would be nice if low-skilled labor drew higher wages, but wages above the economic rate are just another form of charity. You don't compromise your value of hard work by choosing to pay low wages, you just lack charity.
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Just speculation, but won't the legalized price drop as other states become legal as well?
I would guess the market pricing for personal quantities of Silk Road weed (including shipping) is more in line with legal/medical prices rather than local black market prices.
Verizon sells their service to their customers under the terms of providing a "best effort" to reach the advertised speeds. Fulfilling a promise of "best effort" does not require attaining the advertised speeds to every endpoint, but it does require some effort. Given that Level 3 has offered to pay all of the equipment and labor costs of upgrading the peering connection, and Verizon has stated that their network is not congested internally, what Verizon is refusing to do is literally the smallest possible non-zero effort that they could make towards alleviating the congestion.

Nobody is calling for anything that would fail to be "respecting property rights". Verizon is not fulfilling their obligations to their own customers; that needs to be corrected. Changing the regulatory landscape to remove the perverse incentives that have led to Verizon's misbehavior is a bigger and separate project.
You can test it without ingesting it. With hundreds of reviews I'd hope a few people were smart enough to sacrifice some of their MDMA to test it.
Are these required to be open source and/or is there a way to find them on GitHub?
Using Machine Learning and Node.js to detect the gender of Instagram Users
I am aware of that, I just wasn't aware that you can just ship that stuff worldwide by mail so easily..
The same way we "roll" down windows in our cars.
> So, none of those people moved

China is a big place, there can be many rich people who do not move overseas, and also many who do.
Do you think this actually reflects the subjects validity? I'm sure that applications can be found, but is it because people cannot do it?
This is similar to a debate technique known as the "gish gallop". The idea is that you use your debate time to make many claims that are false or half-true which will take longer and can be more difficult to debunk than to simply state the claim. This is effective in formal debates where each debater's time is limited , so that your opponent is forced to spend most of their time defensively rather than advancing their own argument.
I bet this argument has been used on the early days of dial-up modem and cell phones as well.

History proved that these things get cheaper and become accessible to the masses.
Looks great, I'm currently in the market for something like this.

Can any users give their experience using this over other alternatives? What sort of issues do you run into with regard to speed and/or accuracy?

Thanks!
In principle, a distinguishing protocol could be embedded within the undistinguished one. If the actual environment variables were preceded with a sequence indicating the type of the contents in all cases, this would not be an issue.
No, there isn't any requirement to make them open source - but most of the apps are and available at https://github.com/clojurecup2014/
It's not awesome at all. It's the death of personal computing.

What to use Photoshop? Pay a perpetual monthly fee forever, with no control over which version of the software you are using. Adobe jacked up the price this year for the new version despite a lack of new features? Tough, nothing you can do about it. It's either pay up or lose access. The new version is buggy? Tough luck.

Want to modify any of the software on your computer in any way or install any local software? That disables the trusted DRM and none of your remote apps will load anymore because your machine is no longer trusted. (We already have this on Chromebooks for DRM video).

Want to cancel your Microsoft Office subscription? Fine, now you've lost the ability to view any of your documents any more.

Want to continue using SuperAwesomeApp? Too bad, they just shut down the servers forever. Sorry, no refunds.

All your files hosted in the cloud and data mined for terrorist terms, for your safety of course.

All your files hosted in the cloud and data mined to build marketing profiles.

Every piece of software having the ultimate in user lock-in - total control over the users data.

I find it hard to imagine a more dystopian future for software.
Inspired by this article, and getting bitten by mosquitoes since then, and some of the more interesting species-targeting work being done, I've been thinking about this topic.

There is a very major positive impact that mosquito elimination would have: we'd stop trying to suppress mosquitoes. We'd stop spraying for mosquitoes. We'd be more lax about standing water. Standing water is treated like something awful, and while it can get a bit smelly and obnoxious, that's because standing water is an interesting host for lots of life, and besides mosquitoes that life is mostly fine. Add in tick elimination and we could let many more urban areas go fully wild. More people would spend more time outside, and I think that would itself be a major ecological factor, as it would positively affect our attitude about the outdoors.

There's a couple obnoxious insects, but nothing compares to the mosquito. Eliminate mosquitoes and suddenly the human race can come to peace with bugs. That would be hugely ecologically positive.
Alternatively, can we nudge evolution in a desirable direction so that the disease spreading capabilities of modern mosquito's are surpassed by a new species that serves the same ecological role without spreading disease?
If anyone is looking for an Android equivalent, root required:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.p...
Isn't it easier to turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth?
Long ago debunked rumors spread just as fast.

When I was in MIDDLE SCHOOL two decades ago there was a rumor spreading around saying gangs kill people who flash their headlights at cars who drive around without their lights on at night.

According to Wikipedia it is older than that, it has been around since the 80s[1].

This is completely false and has been debunked for an extremely long time.

However about 6 months ago it was being shared ALL OVER my Facebook feed like it was new "news." All anyone had to do was take TWO SECONDS to see if what they were sharing was true or not. That's asking too much. I don't think anyone cares they are spreading false information.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlight_flashing#Urban_legend
But then it is reduced to simply saying "I don't like it", which is not useful or meaningful. A discussion is not useful if it is just people going "I don't like X", "well I do like X". Yes, haskell programmers tend to prefer short names. If you want to argue that this causes it to be unreadable then feel free, but you are just saying it rather than making an argument for it.
So randomization means, one different address for each association or random through out the association?
> Do you still maintain those things can't be compared?

Only intuition tells us they can be compared. Utility theory given subjective preference gives us no tools to make the comparison nor any way of verifying it. We have only the pretense of knowledge. Compare to e.g. diminishing marginal utility for a single person, which has a clear theoretical and verifiable basis.

Here is why intuition is misleading: we can easily intuit the fact of our own diminishing marginal utility. Then we can say: if I was poorer, diminishing marginal utility makes the marginal dollar worth more to me. However, this does not hold across a different set of subjective preferences. Our intuition is strongly biased against the full recognition of subjective preference because it operates by injecting our own subjective preference onto others. When we imagine how some other person lives, we really imagine ourselves in that position. Unfortunately, we can only know others' preferences via revealed preference. Intuition is a poor guide.

Furthermore, for any specific (and particularly extreme) example, our intuition might be strong enough to dismiss theoretical concerns. However, this does not generalize. Finally, if the mother prefers to spend the $1000 on crack, then any choice of leather is more beneficial.
Where does one start? https://github.com/HackerNews/HN seems to be for issue tracking only.
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Maybe include links to the example organisation and a demo garden profile on the home page?

Then on the garden page, I guess I was expecting to see a map rather than just a list?

http://www.plantsmap.com/garden/165/cloudy-way-garden-va

Is the map hidden for privacy reasons?
This is Very Basic Stuff(tm). I wonder if the same topic would receive similar attention in, say, Java.
Are they actually moving there though, or just speculatively investing in real-estate, and/or using it as a means to "off-shore" their wealth?
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Are you sure you don't work in politics?
How many other countries have New York as their banks' legal jurisdiction?
The dependency on the network has always been troubling, but once the network is like house 'power'. so many things one does depend on the house having power available, making it a requirement becomes less and less onerous.

Well, the other troubling aspect of getting all your software from the network is that you don't own anything. Adobe can end your access to the software if they just decide to. If you have paid, you might be able to sue them for the software back or you might get damages but neither will help if you have a job on a tight deadline.
have you seen fallingfruit.org? Seems like there'd be some way for yall to collaborate...
/bin/bash is on literally every machine I ever touch. Did you miss the operative phrase?

(I have init scripts for Cygwin, too, because I need Windows but life is too short for CSRSS.)
There could be a bug on the code snippets included inside the post, sorry. Check the code running at compiler explorer, it's working and you can see clearly the result string literal at the end of the assembly.

The point of the example is: We represent a string as a variadic pack of chars, and build_string is a metafunction that builds that kind of string recursively given a starting character and a size. Inside that metafunction we define an aux metafunction build_string_impl that does the job, we only have to pass the required initial parameters (The count of chars and the initial empty string). The first partial specialization acts as the recursive case of that function, and the second is the base case (note count is 0 in that case).
The figure is correct. In the first part of the article, a tree is represented as (cons root children). So the example tree

(1 (2 6 7 8) 3 (4 (9 12)) (5 10 11))

has "1" at its root, and four children. Its first child

(2 6 7 8)

is a tree with "2" at its root, and three children which are all leaves. And so on.

The solid lines are parent relationships, and the dotted lines are sibling relationships. For each list, the first two items are connected by a solid line, and the remaining items by dotted lines.
I wish I could take my upvote on this article back.

This is not an open source filepicker.

This is an open source library that interfaces with a closed source service, and doesn't provide any general capabilities.
What happened with unvested/vested shares in your situation?
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And your local credentials matter for exactly what? The only useful ones are increasingly the ones you type in the web browser.

http://xkcd.com/1200/
Maybe I'm doomed to repeat mistakes until I've learned my lesson, but I made a similar pact when I did my PhD (Absent any promise of being a millionaire), as I did for the next company I worked for. And now at my own startup that is certainly the case.
Why do you suggest installing it via pip?
I wonder if the MAC being fixed while cellular data is on has anything to do with Hotspot 2.0 operation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot_%28Wi-Fi%29#Hotspot_2.0
A 99 euro vacuum food saver will get you a long way in sending drugs worldwide. Combine that with some clever packaging and the chances of it getting caught at customs are pretty small.
Data and interface to that data are two different things.

Requiring that data be open and standardized (as far as import-export is concerned) makes sense, requiring that UI to manipulate that data is built by a government-affiliated entity is questionable.

Even if you love government-designed Web sites, there might be someone somewhere capable of building faster, more intuitive, mobile-friendlier front-end.
With randomization, you can keep using wifi and bluetooth and not be tracked.
Why would everyone need to have their own servers though at this age? Couldn't we just have a common source for this information? Mind sharing your findings here, at least?
My understanding was that using this "feature" would sometimes lead to a crash of the executable. That seems to me to be clearly just a bug.

Even absent that, contrary to the article, I think I'd still call this a bug in bash - but the crash (presuming I'm recalling correctly) makes this position absurd instead of just (IMO) incorrect.
Ansible creator here.

We maintain the ansible PPA, so it's always as up to date as the pip one.

If you've got any feedback on the PPA packaging, we'd definitely like to hear it!
That's a fair point for bash ultra-power users. It doesn't really reflect on my use case. I don't exactly pull out all the stops. I use [[ ]] and set -e, which have very familiar semantics that haven't changed for a long time, and that's about it. I am very confident in my selection of "portable bash"-isms as far back as 3.2 (running 4.x on OS X has only come on recent, I added it a couple months ago).

Don't get me wrong: I could use /bin/sh. But I would have to write worse code to do it. I'll take the possibility of a bash regression over writing all my shell scripts in sh.
> With hundreds of reviews I'd hope a few people were smart enough to sacrifice some of their MDMA to test it.

I guess that it depends on how easy it is to test it. If it requires a chemistry degree and a lab I am guessing they won't test even if they are otherwise smart.
I'd imagine something along the lines of "knowing about a crime being committed without reporting it".
Impossible. Even if we could nobody knows the full extent of the ecological role of mosquitos. When you are talking about ecology there are too many variables to know them all.
This article seems to do a better job explaining what's actually happening, and contradicts the OP:

http://www.imore.com/closer-look-ios-8s-mac-randomization
If you are paging, fixing that is a win on the order of fitting things in cache.
This is pretty amazing
For anyone interested, I'd recommend Simon Winchester's book "Krakatoa": http://www.amazon.com/Krakatoa-World-Exploded-August-1883/dp...

Also interesting are how quickly the volcano has risen out of the sea again after being totally obliterated, and how much life now thrives on it.
KILL IT.
Not to mention how simple/easy it is to test any of these common drugs.
That sounds great to me. Build a dense section of town and soak up obscene amounts of foreign money. I don't think super expensive apartments are the most likely to become a ghetto.
User Agents have proven to be (somewhat) uniquely identifiable under specific conditions so it seems like a reasonable precaution regardless of Silk Road configurations.
i know this is a dumb question but im new to tor - how does one go about finding the addresses of hidden tor services like silk road? is it just word-of-mouth?
Shellshocking OpenVPN servers
OpenVPN servers are vulnerable to Shellshock under certain configurations.

OpenVPN has a number of configuration options that can call custom commands during different stages of the tunnel session. Many of these commands are called with environmental variables set, some of which can be controlled by the client. One option used for username+password authentication is "auth-user-pass-verify". If the called script uses a vulnerable shell, the client simply delivers the exploit and payload by setting the username. This attack vector is pre-auth.

When we discovered this last week we contacted security@openvpn.net as well as many of our colleagues. Given how many users could potentially be affected we reasoned that maximum utility would be achieved by giving VPN providers a heads up before warning everyone. If you were affected but not informed I apologize.

Cheers, Fredrik Strömberg (stromberg@mullvad.net)
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I find this article very interesting, but I'd still like to point out it is from 2011.
Ask HN: How do you organize your “downloads” folder?
I've been analysing my productivity bottlenecks and my downloads folder is one of them. How do you keep your downloads organised during the day?
It's sort of helpful to be able to click a profile and see their karma, to get a sense of whether they're, I don't know, invested in the site? But it's not worth the creepiness.
Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. That all makes sense and is what I would have hoped to be the case.

I see below too that you've spent a lot of time on this — it definitely shows. I am already finding the keyboard shortcuts and text manipulation to exceed my expectations a web-app that's based on a giant free-form textbox.

A couple comments on the iOS app. I am running iOS 8 so maybe these are known issues awaiting an Apple approval... Both the keyboard and horizontal position in the stack seem to get stuck often.

An example to cause this would be to tap into an existing item while the keyboard is up to reposition the cursor ... if I pan right/left it'll start to pan the view left/right along with it which will persist once I'm done. Swiping left/right after this will keep this offset. The keyboard too also sticks to a certain degree in these position changes.
Unfortunately "An Post" have had a GPS location for every address in Ireland for the last 15 years and have happily been charging businesses for this. Called "GeoDirectory" I think. Pressure hasn't made it free yet.
One of the use cases I've read about is retail shops would record all devices within range (1 MAC = 1 user) and could get a good guestimation of:

- How many customers current in-store?

- How many are repeat customers?

- How often does [repeat customer] come in? List of dates and times.

- Manufacturer of their cellphone (e.g. Apple. Samsung, etc)?

Obviously this type of data collection has limitations (e.g. people without cell phones, with WiFi disabled, etc). They also cannot likely tie purchases to unique MACs (because cellphones scan infrequently, so detecting them as they leave through a register is difficult/unlikely).

However they can somewhat work around these problems by harvesting additional information from "apps" (e.g. install our app get a coupon!). The app grabs the MAC and now they can tie that customer's shopping behaviour directly back to the customer.
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This really comes from ultra-low interest rates. Hike interest rates to 20% (US in 1980s had over 20% APR for mortgages) and see what happens with real estate prices then.

Foreigners influx has some influence but not as much as one might think.
Is that reliable though? I'd imagine the DEA is more likely to investigate a dealer declaring their location as Washington DC than one declaring Netherlands. So their is a definite incentive to falsify this.