skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, agreed. It's both interesting and quite disturbing to think about.

I have a pretty cynical view on social media and its effects on society. I think Blythe, and many others, do this out of a hatred of themselves and their own lives -- a hatred amplified by social media. She admits to stealing her friend's FB picture to use as her own, and if you look at the accounts linked to here, the picture is of a pretty attractive women. I'm willing to bet Blythe sees herself as unattractive, is constantly bombarded by photos of her attractive friends and their escapades, feels comparatively bad about herself, and reacts by creating a persona of who she wants to be, which would explain the pictures of her nonexistent trip to Greece.

I'm not saying the internet, particularly social media, is the reason these people exist, but I can't help but feel that it has both worsened their pre-existing conditions and equipped them with a dangerous coping method. I know a few people whose depression is proportional to their FB use and who react by either isolating themselves or overcompensating by crafting a public shell of happiness and adventure.
A few more I would add ( not sure if they are "professional" enough but all very insightful and similar to the existing ones on that list ).

1. Boyd ( http://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed-ebook/d... ) - Came up with the EM theory that gave the air force the analytical framework to analyze dog fighting maneuvers and aircraft. Known for authoring the OODA loop and leading the infamous Fighter Mafia that gave us the F-16 and F/A-18

2. Warfight ( http://www.amazon.com/Warfighting-M-Gray-ebook/dp/B00DPTK4ZE... ) Boyd' OODA ideas distilled into a book

3. The American Way of War ( http://www.amazon.com/The-American-Way-War-University/dp/B00... )

4. Engineers of Victory ( http://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Victory-Problem-Solvers-Turn... ) - a decent account of how middle level officers solve problems that allowed strategies to be realized

5. Makers of Modern Strategy ( http://www.amazon.com/Makers-Modern-Strategy-Machiavelli-Nuc... )

6. The German Army ( http://www.amazon.com/German-Army-1933-1945-Matthew-Cooper/d... ) - A great account of the rise and fall of the German army, including its innovations caused by the constraints imposed on it and its fall

7. Panzer Battles ( http://www.amazon.com/Panzer-Battles-Major-General-von-Melle... ) - a great account how the various battles fought by the German army and where they excelled and where their shortcomings are and vice versa for their enemies.

8. The Second World War( http://www.amazon.com/Second-World-War-Antony-Beevor-ebook/d... ) - Great "summary" of the Second World War, including the civilian dimension.

9. Panzer Leader ( http://www.amazon.com/Panzer-Leader-Heinz-Guderian/dp/030681... ) - a history of the development and deployment of the German panzer armies by the father of tank warfare himself.

10. Six Days of War ( http://www.amazon.com/Days-June-Making-Modern-Middle/dp/B004... )

11. The Yom Kippur War ( http://www.amazon.com/Yom-Kippur-War-Encounter-Transformed-e... ) - an account of the Yom Kippur War and how the Israelis were blind to the innovations of the Egyptian army that upended its defense strategy based on tanks and aircraft and also how a near victory for the Egyptians allowed them to negotiate a peace with Israel.
Read: "The overhead of abstraction in languages that do optimizing compilation versus languages that don't".
GPLv2 License - https://github.com/landscapeio/prospector/blob/master/LICENS...

Warning for those who don't use that license.
I've been using threadable for a while. In how I interact with it, it's a smarter alternative to a Mailman list and/or a more usable and comprehensive alternative to Google Groups (not a plugin). It's basically a standalone email service, and the members of a threadable group have two options: threadable can be a totally invisible layer and the email shows up in their standard inbox as usual. Or they can use the threadable interface, which is a lovely and simple way to see all the threads your group is discussing, split off new topics, create subgroups, and so on. It has many uses for project management, but I haven't interacted with that side of it as much. Perhaps others can comment on that aspect.
Graph bandwidth usage second by second or minute by minute and it gets to be a pretty keen indicator.
Ok, added another rule! 2 exclamation marks means comments and nothing but comments:

http://social.gnod.com/hn:peteretep!!
The uncorrelated nature of the words makes memorization harder. Using prefixes instead of precise words forgives minor memory slips and exchanging equivalent words.

A good PBKDF (e.g. high difficulty scrypt) is good for stretching password security another 20-30 bits.
I don't know, think bigger. The internet changed things forever, and before that computers. Revolutions have been happening at exponentially increasing rates. The explosion of software complexity we see today is perfectly ripe for innovation and maybe even could cause another revolution. The software industry isn't exactly mature when you take a longer time perspective.
> because we would definitely not want to employ someone who is uncomfortable with transparency

And, likewise, I imagine quite a number of people here would definitely not want to be employed by someone who takes that sort of attitude.

There are some things that it's just not possible to ethically consent to within the context of an employer-employee relationship. It might seem like everyone is onboard with this transparency, but it might equally make someone deeply uncomfortable but also feel like they're unable to question it without putting their job in jeopardy–as your comment just here has hinted that it might.
It's not done yet.

This summer, Pierre and I got kOS to boot directly into g (the graphical interface; formally called z) with ISR, keymap, modesetting, basic filesystem, etc weighing in around 100 lines of C. That was pretty exciting. Could probably be done with less with some deeper changes to Arthur's code, but it's still very useful to run k under Linux. Oleg made a silly little game in kOS.

Arthur and Oleg did some performance benchmarks staging k against q (current kdb+), Postgres, some "popular RDBMS" (that I can't name), and MongoDB. It was impressive that k is so much faster than q, but it also really underscores the cost of the wrong data structure (and how hard it is to get the right one with SQL or MongoDB).
> Please turn JavaScript on and reload the page.

> DDoS protection by CloudFlare

No other content on the page.

Anyone have the article in a readable form?
> Why not just not have the fees and let prices be lower so that consumers have more cash?

Chicken-or-the-egg problem. It won't even theoretically lower prices unless everyone switched over and credit cards are dead, but few will adopt it if it means missing out on cashback and other benefits they currently enjoy. (And yes, plenty enjoy them especially savvier, wealthier consumers.)

And here's the crazy thing: it doesn't even lower prices in practice. Even where fees have been regulated down, the savings did not get passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices (this happened in Australia). Merchants kept that margin. It just didn't move the needle enough to overcome price stickiness and make an impact at the individual purchase level.. whereas annually 1-2% cashback or other rewards can feel more meaningful.
Sparkfun used to sell one of these. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/287
I like the concept. Seems like a fun weekend project. I might have to try it someday. Thanks.
You're being disingenuous.
I feel like that would actually be a really good question to easily see if a candidate is a bullshit artist. That's hilarious (and sad) that in this case it's the other way around.
It's also important to recognize that "the reasonable expectation of privacy" can refer not only to expectations about the effect of physical barriers to legal intrusion (e.g. curtains), but reasonable expectations about what is systemically necessary for a democracy to survive.

Democracy is not magic, and it can be easily broken. The reasonable expectation that the people who are sworn to protect and uphold it won't actively undermine the system means I can reasonably expect privacy in a wide variety of situations where it's technically possible to eliminate it.

After all, we don't "limit" the houses that the police can search to those they can physically invade. In reality, they have the material capacity to walk into nearly any space they like. Indeed, this is why we have an additional layer of laws to constrain them, as physical barriers obviously aren't enough.

In other words, saying "You have no reasonable expectation that third parties won't freely share everything they know about you with the police because technology" is as stupid as it is dangerous. It is also demonstrably wrong. And when it comes to public officials sworn to uphold constitutionally protected liberties, it is reasonable to expect that they will adhere to both the letter and the spirit of the law because that's what the continued existence of a democratic republic depends on.

The truly unreasonable thing is believing this isn't the case.
I was bilingual in English and German the first few years of my life, but the German gradually drifted away. I think the last time I had a German-language dream (that I recalled) was in my early teens. At this point I don't function well in German at all.

I think my English vocabulary is large and nuanced. Spelling and pronunciation can be a bit of a challenge at times, however. :)
Graph TV plotting the ratings of each Simpson's episode and season trend line: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0096697
If you type in facebook.com, your browser will use HTTP by default. The login page will redirect you to HTTPS, but it's too late, you're MITM'd. The attacker makes the HTTPS connection instead, and serves the page to you over HTTP. You put your username and password in and send it back to the attacker in plain text. The attacker sends the data to Facebook via HTTPS, decrypts the response, and sends it to you via HTTP. It's called sslstrip. http://www.idcloak.com/learning-center/faceniff-SSL-Strip-fa...
> By more efficient, I'm talking about being able to force all clients to not work 100% of the time by way of the timelock, not about hashing 2x or 3x as fast.

You can't expect an attacker to play within your rules. There's nothing that prevents an attacker to put all their CPU power against the network.

> Nor can I; however that was the subject of the original article that we're all commenting on, it discusses possible solutions to this (none unfortunately are up to scratch). If such a timelock could exist, then you could reduce the CPU load of bitcoin down to minimal levels without affecting the currency.

If such a timelock could exist, you wouldn't need Bitcoin at all. You could create an entirely new type of network that doesn't need any CPU load at all.

But as of now, the only secure timestamping that doesn't rely on trusting some central authority ... well, that's the proof-of-work concept of Bitcoin. And it works by replacing "physical items" by CPU power (or more exacty, by using energy rather than matter). If you find a third way, it would be great, but it would still have to depend on some physical resource that is limited (and thus being "wasted" for the network's purpose).
Any language you don't know is gibberish—hence the proverb, "it's all Greek to me." Please don't dismiss the unfamiliar just because it's strange.
Also: CPython and MRI don't do optimizing compilation, which is not entirely obvious considering they both do compile to bytecode and optimize slightly.
2014 is a year that has seen no shortage of outrage and conflict on social media that go beyond typical drama. This sort of research is of the utmost importance to understand how easily misinformation gets spread and how people get polarized online.
> This should not come as a surprise given the history of the US: The United States and allies are known to target media in other countries to stir dissent. Radio Free Europe, "Voice of Iraq" (cough American), the Lincoln Group infiltrations and partnerships, etc.

If only it was just the media...There are well known "scholarship" programs in which the future european political elite is sent to USA to receive the "gospel".Most people at the head of the European union took part in such programs.It's not a conspiracy theory,these are actual facts,but I guess people dont care.Most people dont even know how EU works anyway.
Apologies, totally forgot about that, I just searched for the figure again.. you really should update the wikipedia article with your research.

Anyway my argument is not based on the fraud figure (at least not at the <=1% level). That still leaves plenty of room for consumer benefits.

Also, don't get depressed! Bitcoin's cool. Someone mentioned microtransactions -- makes a lot of sense for that. Digital cash stuff. It's just not going to take over all consumer spending on the basis of "saving fees". The right analytical lens to use is "consumer benefits".
Laws behind growth patterns
Are my devices really broadcasting the SSIDs they have been connecting to?
I wonder what K would look like with bit reader-friendly syntax. I tried running a program that supposedly "will take a K expression and produce its English translation" (http://kx.com/a/k/examples/read.k), but either it doesn't work with kdb+/q or I can't figure out how to use it. Does anyone have some example output, or advise?
What's the fastest CMS for a one page website? We tested 7 different CMSs
No, it is just not a language for the masses who have gotten used to all programming language syntax being minor variations on the Algol/Pascal/C theme.

Much like math and physics, this is an extremely terse notation that is immensely useful to those who practice it, and looks like gibberish to those who have not attempted to study it. You could give the same comment about an article in any area of math whose notation you are unfamiliar with -- and you would be just as equally wrong.
I really don't understand the downvoting here. Seems evidence of very reactionary groupthink going on there.

If you disagree, fine. GrantTree only employs 20 people at the moment. You don't have to work with us. There are literally millions of other places you can work who do not have transparency as a core value.

I'll add that transparency is not something that's sprung on people at the last minute. It is explained abundantly upfront to people before they start. We're in central London, where there are a bajillion other startups and companies. It's not like they have to take a job with us.

Surely you can accept that some people out there are interested in working in a transparent company, even if you personally aren't.
I'd rather they focus on finding out who starts those chain emails. Those things are a threat to the Republic.
I realize that the fun of hacking is the point here.

However if all you want is a working device, here's one for $60: http://www.amazon.com/iHome-AirPlay-Rechargeable-Wireless-Sy... And there are much cheaper choices if you stick to bluetooth.

For hacking things together, there is a $30 dongle that takes power and delivers 3.5mm audio: http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Receiver-Supports-Portable-WF-...
Sorry but these books are in my opinion the best one can find about FP in JS,and I read a lot of them,especially allongé,which goes in detail in a lot of advanced FP concepts.You should actually read these books.
> Several people in our fairly small company are openly gay. It's not exactly your usual work environment! People who aren't naturally open about such things probably wouldn't be hired

Please correct my reading of your comment, but it sounds like you're saying that "people who aren't naturally open about such things [like being gay] probably wouldn't be hired" because that sounds like the very definition of discrimination.
Hatsune Miku is also a projection, not a hologram. But I think it's "further" than you think, because every single song at the concert is created by a musician or team that releases the song online for free. The extremely popular ones are put into the concert, as a way of saying thanks by the company who makes the voice synthesizing software to the fans.

Miku is likely part of my dissertation; extremely outdated research page here: http://alexleavitt.com/vocaloid
>My post boils down to a dirt simple but still basically correct: For banking regulated good, unregulated bad, very bad. For something this important, something dirt simple but still correct has some advantages.

I don't think your analysis is correct much at all. Perhaps you are genuinely not aware that these crises were the result of government intervention. I suggest you to read Rothbard's What Has Government Done to Our Money here: http://mises.org/money.asp
It's not just a critical blog post. I'm sure if she had written a single negative review the author wouldn't have cared. But it seems as though the blogger put in a lot of effort to ruin the author's career...
Yes, the research literature on software development has consistently found that code size is the best measurement of complexity and predictor of error rates. (Sorry I don't have citations handy but we've discussed this many times on HN, and there's a recent study in the book "Making Software" that adds to it.) What's interesting is how strongly this goes against what most people think they know about good programming and clear code.
> In fact, the U.S. just recently regulated debit card interchange down to 0.05% + 21 cents.[1]

And any consumer using a debit card in the US is not the brightest bulb on the tree. Why shift the fraud risk from the issuing bank to yourself? There is zero benefit for the consumer here, and only helps the banks and merchants.

Yes, some banks will give you a "zero fraud guarantee" but I'd much rather 1) not have my bank account involved in a fraudulent transaction and 2) have the option of simply closing an account during a "difficult customer service event" and tell them to sue me if they think I'm lying. Even using a debit card as a Visa/MC is much better than entering your PIN and using as debit. No chance of someone stealing a PIN either.

Using a debit card removes most of your options as a consumer when dealing with fraud, and greatly expands your attack surface. No thanks.

I actually don't disagree with your premise, but vehemently disagree that using a debit card as a consumer has any benefit whatsoever to you. It's simply shifting risk (however small) onto yourself for zero gain.

If Bitcoin has a place - it would be more as a replacement for wire transfers and international transactions done between relatively trusted parties.
You could brute force it by using common network names and seeing which ones get bites. Take it a step further and generate expected patterns ie. "2WIRE123". I'd expect "linksys" alone would grab a surprising amount to start, though.
How was the hacker able to get Facebook credentials? Facebook uses HTTPS and so does Live.com. Even if I'm connected to a malicious router, only me and Facebook know about the data we're sending each other.

Am I missing something or should the author of this article provide more evidence on the type of attack?
This "for humans" trend really needs to stop :)
Shout out for http://emergent.info/
Rewards programs turn out to have been an extraordinarily shrewd way for credit card issuers to align customer's interests with their own desire to limit the power merchants would otherwise enjoy as the conductors of transactions.

In other words, payment tech that makes life easier for sellers without driving a wedge between credit card companies and buyers is going to suffer opposition from two directions at once. Here again, the winning play comes down to satisfying the end user first.
The Divorce Recovery Path: My Journey Back to Joy (part 1)
Of course we discriminate - as does anyone who runs any company with any sort of cohesive culture.

Don't misunderstand: the "being gay" part is completely irrelevant. What we discriminate on is the culture fit, in particular values. And we discriminate a LOT on that basis. If anyone throughout the interview process doesn't think the candidate is a culture fit, they are personally responsible for voicing that and ensuring the candidate is not hired.

One of our core values is transparency. We don't hire people who aren't open.
How is he able to get them to trust the network? Is it common for software to connect to known SSIDs without verifying any other information?
How to Use You're and Your
> Your accounting leaves 1-2% left to make up for fraud

The discount fees in no way pay for fraud. Fraud risk is entirely on the merchant.

Interesting (or sadly?) enough, merchants even pay the discount fee on chargebacks :)
That's an unusual case because Will Ferrell is a world-class expert at comedy, which is Funny or Die's product. Even if you want to argue that their actual product is the ads around the videos, Will Ferrell is more than just a celebrity endorser.
sslstrip might explain that, but don't most major sites use HSTS these days?
Someone skilled in writing compact JS probably can. People write amazing programs in 1k & 4k of JS: http://www.google.com/webhp?#q=javascript+4k
By the Light of the Moon, the Poles of the Earth
The Little Prince was about friendship between creatures that need each other. That's actually one of the main ideas of the book: we need each other. From my experience developing a Robin (a product not unlike Siri), I can tell you: yes, some users really adopt the machine as a pet to an extreme degree, but I don't envy these people.
Only the builders can afford it today. There was a time when only the government and big business had computers, now we all have computers in our pockets that dwarf those computers by orders of magnitude.

Yes, it's unfortunate that not everyone can have one of these, but instead of lamenting the builders, you should be supporting them, because it's through the work of many builders working many hours that the technology progresses and becomes cheaper.

Not only does technological progress create better limbs, but it also drives down the limbs that were previously state of the art. A $50k prosthetic leg that a person desires today and that will make them happier might only cost $5k in 5 years because a far better leg (which may only affordable to the builders) is available meaning that manufacturers of the leg that previously cost $50k needs to drop their prices in order to maintain competitive.

Also, if battery life is such an issue, I would imagine that you carry around spare batteries. My garmin cycle computer only lasts about 4-5 hours if I'm lucky with all sensors on and my phone is usually dead at hour 8, so on 13.5 hour and longer rides I carry around a 12000mAh USB battery pack so I'm not left without GPS or the ability to contact people if necessary when way out in the middle of nowhere. If you know the limitations of technology you use, then you plan for it.

Yes, there are always better things out there and inconveniences, but things are getting better all the time. There is no need to be dismissive when someone like this guy is building truly amazing technology that is bettering the lives of 1000 people today and will probably better the lives of 100k people in a few years time.

That being said, I understand the frustration with trying to fight insurance companies for something that will better the life of someone you care about. Two years ago, I spent many many many hours fighting my mom's insurance company to get her a microsphere radio-embolism treatment for liver cancer that would have given her a much better quality of life than she has today and possibly alive for years to come. I wish insurance companies paid for more than they do, but it's also impossible for insurance companies to pay for everyone to have the best possible solution to their malady.
What "other information" is there to verify?