skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a hell of a lot of work to do to avoid the simple solution that some other countries come to - just give people a simple, low, living wage that is enough to cover basic needs. Then let them choose their own housing, work, etc etc. It's almost amusing (if it wasn't so sad) how the ideology against socialism in the US is so strong that people will almost reinvent it in trying to avoid it.
I tend to gravitate to music without lyrics.

I've been listening to a playlist I found on Spotify - "Beats to think to"

Also, if you like the sounds of a coffee shop, checkout coffitivity.com (no affiliation). If I'm in the right mood, gets me in the zone.
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Cool, I'll check it out. I was thinking more along the lines of hiding messages in the Tor protocol itself, rather than hiding Tor traffic (which is desperately needed.)
Take a look at how avrdude works over libusb. That's a pretty good example of bulk-upload and bulk-download and various types of things you're likely to want to do with a microcontroller.
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You can poison someone and feed them to your dogs without them suffering or having a moment of unhappiness.

The problem is with using behaviorist methods to train (and breed) out all possibilities of choice or creativity outside of specified bounds for human beings, who are naturally creative and whose choices of what to think and consider doing are nearly limitless.
No, I read it. You thought my position was comical. And this revealed you simply don't have enough experience to fully comprehend it. And that's OK. My opinions thirty years ago were based on a very different version of reality. I get it. Don't worry about it.

Of course this does not mean we WANT our devices bricked. We immediately issued a tech notice to our customers advising to avoid driver upgrades until further notice.

We are OK with devices being bricked under a supervised upgrade.

We don't want ANY fake and potentially dangerous chips in our equipment. We don't think we have any due to the nature of our supply chain. Yet we can't assume this. Fake devices can be dangerous in more ways than compatibility and functionality issues. For example, they can have substandard ESD characteristics, RF emissions issues, power issues, thermal issues and flat out safety problems. They can represent a huge liability.

And so we are planning on setting up a process through which we have customers swap out the board with the potentially questionable chips with a known good board we Fedex in advance. We can rotate a few boards in this fashion and service all of our customers within a few months.

If one or more brick before we can get to them we'll FedEx a board right away. In this fashion the bricking acts as an inconvenient fake chip detector. We don't have any high volume consumer products so our perspective is very different from that of a company making consumer cameras or routers.
> Your fingerprint absolutely identifies you and only you.

The whole point of the article is that this isn't true. Fingerprints are trivial to obtain and copy with sufficient fidelity to beat modern fingerprint readers.

- http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

- http://www.heise.de/video/artikel/iPhone-5s-Touch-ID-hack-in...

- http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-da...

- http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Fool-a-Fingerprint-Se...
Seems to me that feeding the homeless is unambiguously a first amendment right.

Saying this doesn't invalidate some of the reasons why it might be a bad idea (although many of those reasons seem like...a stretch), but then again the first amendment allows you to say (and, I claim do) some stupid stuff.

I think giving money to panhandlers is dumb but I do it. It's clear to me that when I pull out a couple of bucks I'm expressing my concern for that person, for the social issues that may have helped them end up there (or they may simply have had their own problems, or own bad luck) and my feelings about myself as a person, which may be noble, base or guilty.

I also, when I think of it, donate to charities that help the homeless (it's a problem here in Palo Alto, though less than it used to be now the city council fell prey to the real estate lobby and shoved all the homeless shelters aside). I know a wholesale approach is generally more sensible. But sometimes a little "retail therapy" of this sort is valuable too.
Why can't you at least download it? You can download Firefox .xpi files from https://addons.mozilla.org using Chrome.
Do you have a local copy of inconsolata installed? When people have reported code line numbering problems in the past, it's been because they're (unknowingly) using a local font with a messed-up line height.
Apparently MLK did believe that:

> "In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

You claim:

> You think a law is unjust, fight the law, don't break it and try to get away with it.

So you and MLK are claiming that a non-Jew in Nazi Germany who violates legislation by helping a Jew is morally culpable unless they do it publicly?

Seems pretty questionable, and I even agree with the strict Kantian maxim of not lying to the murderer at the door!

Perhaps you and MLK are confusing a strategy with morality. Perhaps it is strategically valuable to violate unjust legislation openly and suffer the consequences. That shouldn't mean that it is morally wrong to violate them in secret.

To me, it seems like there are two claims that are being tied together unnecessarily. 1) one has no obligation to obey unjust legislation 2) one has an obligation to disobey it openly to bring public awareness of the unjustness and increase likelihood of reform.

To me, you're just as culpable for not doing #2 whether or not you do #1. In other words, if you're morally culpable for not violating unjust legislation in public, then you bear that culpability whether or not you violate the legislation in private or not, and violating unjust legislation in private entails no culpability on its own.

[edit: I completely rewrote when I realized MLK really did say that]
Seems like it's incentive to try to get away with things like this. The upside is huge compared to the downside (better than 10:1).
I see a person who needs to study crowd dynamics and lynch mobs themselves if you think there's that strong of a causal link.
> Time and time again, allowing the homeless to disperse geographically and survive in a "free for all" state creates enormous problems.

...

>The homeless are less likely to congregate in safe areas where organizations dedicated to help them are located.

or in other words, it is harder to ghetto-ize the homeless, to take them off the sight of good citizens. A good citizen just need to know that somebody is taking care of these people, and so s/he don't need to think about that problem, better should forget about it and just mind his/her own business and pay taxes.

To summarize your post as i see it - the homeless people make wrong choice between wonderful services available to them and all the horrors you described, and we need to apply force (i.e. law) to make them make the right choice and to fend off the "good-intentioned" enablers of the wrong choice.

Somehow i don't think that homeless need even more force applied to them than they are already subjected too.
The word is "piqued", not "peaked", though the latter does make a certain level of sense.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/piqued
Dustin Kirkland gets it.

Simplifying his post, there are 3 reasons biometrics are terrible for authentication:

1. Every piece of biometric data is inherently public. (Fingerprints, facial geometry, hand geometry, even DNA)

2. Biometrics require an error threshold as our bodies are always changing (that's like typing a 20char password and having only 15 of them be correct. That's fine! Let them in anyways with 5 incorrect characters)

3. Key revocation. I can change my passwords and locks if you get a copy of my passwords or keys... but once you have a copy of a biometric identifier I cannot use that again for the rest of my life.

Well done, Dustin.
Do you happen to have an old version of Inconsolata font installed? In this case, chrome and firefox both prefer the font on disk to the google webfont specified in the css, which causes a display bug.
Sweet, so now you don't even have to mail your PC for FedEx to destroy it.
5 points, no link, submitted incorrectly; and from a disposable account? LOL
I'm surprised they didn't bring up shuttering Ubuntu One cloud service.
The examples you gave were your choices. They weren't "shit the server's gone down" moments.

You could have said you were busy that day to either of them. For the 2nd one you even could have hired another sales guy and you wouldn't have even been in that situation.

But you didn't.

And in the end, this guy's got a time tracking/invoicing app he sells to small businesses, his scenario is completely different. I don't want to be too dismissive, but it seems more suited for the Amy Hoy/patio11 route rather than the YC one, it's not a pants on fire, runaway scaling startup.
Because “everyone” means people who don’t necessarily follow browser development trends.
So Author decides to fully enjoy sex life and now complain how hard life is with kid and pregnant wife ? I mean , he literally decided to have sex with her.
No one has forced you to start the startup. There are millions of job with $70k to $80k salary range.
Its literally rat race to make quick buck and hit high , encash , fuck users and then don't care.
Seriously , STFU. If you really want to see hard life go to Africa, India, Pakistan where people travel 10 km for water.
According to the Wikipedia article on billboards, four states ban them now, including my home state of Vermont. So that's a start.
What if the available methods are potentially different each time the code is run?
I disagree. Two points:

1. The vast majority of things on the Chrome Web Store are web apps, not browser extensions.

2. Should GMail really only be able to work offline in Chrome?
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I don't think this has to do with a lack of knowledge of documentation, it has to do with simple spelling errors. Quite a number of times I type a method name wrong and upon scanning the code don't see the missing, duplicated, or mistyped letter. This would help a lot with that.
How can we damage this company?
C (note lack of quotes) and Haskell regularly trade off "Fastest language in the world" spots on shootouts. Maybe "C" (with quotes), which is obviously a different language, is faster; I doubt it.
It would be nice if you had more information on your landing page regarding what this product is/does. What is it that I'm requesting a demo of?
The web has moved so far away from its original purpose that we need something to fill the role the web was originally supposed to be for. I hate having to have a massive complex piece of software that takes up a GB of RAM and includes an entire programming language just to be able to view simple text documents that link to each other.
> I'm going to go flat-out conspiracy theorist and say that DPR/alleged dealer/blackmailer are all the same person and he concocted this story and leaked it to let everyone know how seriously he takes privacy.

That incident was not known publicly before Ulbricht was arrested and the complaints released.
Regarding number 3, are they actually committed to not data mining their users for commercial purposes? Because if not, they're not selling ads - isn't the incentive to instead sell that data to the highest bidder?
What is this strange bizarre heroism around having kids? I don't get what the big deal is. People have been reproducing for thousands of years without writing self eulogizing blogs about how heroic they are. Have kids if you want to or don't, you are not some kind of martyr for reproducing.

I've seen women who go to do hard labor in rice fields the following day of giving birth, its business as usual.
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I was planning on writing a simple html5 card game with online multiplayer, would this combined with some basic sessioning logic help with server-client interactions for the gameloop ?
Huxley's anti-sex Savage in Brave New World was ridiculous in his extremism (and the World Controller wise) for a reason. Whilst his views on drugs certainly mellowed over time he was never really a committed puritan.
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Selectively Disable Animations in Angular.js
Of all the services not (yet) available in this reason, the absence of Elasticache seems the most conspicuous. It's a stable mature services with no regional complications.

Can anybody think of any reason for that?

(Maybe it's just me, it's the only missing piece that would stop me from migrating from eu-west-1 to eu-central-1.)
> Christianity, lest it be forgotten, is a metaphysical monism where it is the obligation of every Christian to love every aspect of creation

This is fundamentally incorrect. As far as Judeo-Christian theology is concerned, there is a clear distinction between God and creation.

Incidentally, this is also why Spinoza (a Sephardic Jew and monist) was excommunicated.
I understand that many of them are just shortcuts, but the point is still weaker than anything else posted here.

As for your second point, no it shouldn't :( Seems they built this "offline app" stuff into Chrome and plan on keeping it there.
I agree with a lot of this, but homeless shelters certainly aren't the place that a lot of the homeless population feel most secure in. One homeless man in Chicago I used to spend many of my coffee or lunch breaks talking with would go into detail about all the times he would be attacked in shelters. Many wouldn't let them in because they lacked ID, or required appointments. Lots require checkins at early hours (7pm). Many were segregated by race and, if he had to stay at one up on the north side, many of the white homeless men would gang up on him. Sexual abuse is rampant in shelters, especially towards the younger population.

He chose to sleep outside in a park most of the time because of all these things, as he preferred it to the shelters.
http://8tracks.com/yellowcake/

8tracks has a lot of great playlists. The key is finding a user who makes good ones. This yellowcake guy has over a hundred, of which almost all are great.
Maybe I should send an actor who's really good at this animal smell thing...
> It's rare, but not unheard of, for stupid kids to give the homeless sandwiches laced with, say, exlax. It's rare, but not unheard of, for people to entice the homeless into essentially handyman jobs with the promise of a meal, or payment, only to "reconsider" at the last second once the job is done. It's rare, but not unheard of, for well meaning people to give out food that has gone bad, or can exacerbate terrible allergies or medical conditions.

I would hope that these behaviors are already illegal under current laws.

>Furthermore, encouraging the homeless to beg and subsist off of random passerby is an incredibly demeaning thing. It encourages the bad element of panhandling, begging, and lies to encourage donations. It creates an atmosphere where the most seriously poorly off end up being "out begged" by the devious looking to snag a quick meal, or beer money.

I agree we shouldn't encourage this behavior. I disagree that we should make the behavior illegal.

>Last, but not least, it completely ruins standardized initiatives to solve the problem. The homeless are less likely to congregate in safe areas where organizations dedicated to help them are located. They're less likely to receive a steady, nutritious diet. They're less likely to be exposed to further job programs and mental health help. They're more likely to sleep in an alley somewhere instead of, at worst, gathering near a shelter, or at best, getting a bed in a shelter where they are safest and most secure.

I'm inclined to suggest that if not "making feeding homeless people illegal and strictly curtailing their movements" completely ruins the standardized initiatives, the standardized initiatives need a lot of work.

My big problem with forcing homeless into these safe areas by making things outside them illegal, is that you end up with "out of sight, out of mind". These programs already don't receive enough attention and support.
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There's a naming conflict, tug is also the name of an open world game on steam that is currently in early access.
Here's another question... do honeypots like this one intentionally leave the password blank? (I'd think that would be a pretty good red flag for the attacker to not stick around... maybe that's what the hit & run guys were doing)

It was really entertaining to watch the drunken typist give it his/her best. :)
Ello is demonstrating something important - you can now undercut "free with ads" on price. How much, per user, does it really cost to run a social network now? Not much. Hosting is so cheap that Atlantic will rent you a full-time virtual machine for $0.99/month. Ello's actual computing cost is probably less than that.

Selling ads is expensive. A majority of Google's headcount is ad sales reps. The main search engine, a few years ago, was developed and run by about 90 people, I was told by an ex-Google employee. Google probably spends far more running the ad side of the business than the search side.

Craigslist has 40 employees, and they've been able to crush the newspaper classified advertising industry. They charge for a few categories of listings. That's enough to keep them going.

At some point, users sense that there are too many ads. Myspace went there when they had a revenue drop and tried to make up for it by increasing the ad density. Big mistake. Myspace usage went into a screaming dive and never pulled out.

The big ad-supported web-based businesses are fighting Moore's Law. What they do is getting cheaper, but their price, in terms of ad density, isn't going down to match. That makes them vulnerable. There's hundreds of billions in market cap out there just waiting to be destroyed.
I agree with the principle of this, but i disagree with including the javascript-is-disabled errors. If you browse the internet with one of the most important components of the internet disabled, you're going to find that a lot of stuff is broken, and displaying a warning that "hey, things are going to be broken here" is preferable to just displaying broken stuff.
One-time-use random data XOR your data = provably secure symmetric crypto, afaik. I could try to hunt down a proof of that one. Impractical, sure, but provable.

Also afaik, others haven't been proven / can only be proven to have certain qualities, and leave gaps which have massive real-world implication. So yeah, I'm curious for other proofs too.
Interesting to see all these Facebook projects. Looks like this one could be the most promising yet.
I don't think that's going to happen.

No matter now realistic Oculus appears, it's still just a device strapped to your face - it's not that immersive.
I get it.

And my experience is my own.

As others have said in this thread "I could have made other choices"

But when you are way down the river, playing with other people's money, and with dozens of employees counting on you these "choices" starts feeling like foregone conclusions.

If you want to be a start-up guy, if you want to build a large business, prepare yourself for the realities that are going to come with that.

I have been lucky enough to change my situation over the past 2-years, but there would be no business today to "hire sales guys" etc if I hadn't done the work myself when it counted.
My personal standard is that it is unacceptable to break one law to enforce another. At best, evidence gathered by an undercover cop posing as a criminal can refute a character-based defense in a pre-existing case.

Since having and selling cocaine is (currently) illegal, any evidence gathered by that illegal act is tainted. You can't reasonably prosecute the person buying unless you also prosecute the person selling. And that person is effectively immune.

The current lower standard in the courts--whereby the police can set up any situation, no matter how ridiculous, and entice a person to commit a crime that he might never have committed without that prompting--is an open invitation to police misconduct that may be more damaging than the crimes they are claiming to combat.

"Hey, want some coke?" is entrapment. The state agent is encouraging people to commit new crimes for the express purpose of arresting and convicting them for it. That isn't fighting crime. That's manufacturing crime to pad your own job performance metrics. You may be showing that people in the area have motive and method to commit certain types of crimes, opportunity is still a significant barrier. Traditional crime-fighting seeks to deny those opportunities rather that providing them.

This is why I find tactics like "bait cars" to be sleazy and indicative of lazy police work.

If you have mice, you can set out baited traps and be certain to catch some. But it will not eradicate the infestation. You have to clean your house, removing accessible food sources. You have to eliminate places where the mice can hide and breed. And you have to seal up any means of ingress and egress. Traps just temporarily alleviate the symptoms. The real solution takes much more effort.

I am not, however, part of the current justice system, so my opinion on these matters is not taken into consideration directly. But the prosecution relying upon traps has cause to worry, if I am on their jury.
Your conservative talking point is deeply misinformed, but since I've already criticized it elsewhere, I'll just link that: http://lesswrong.com/lw/l49/what_false_beliefs_have_you_held...
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Nice! Xamarin Studio (commercial cross-platform [including mobile] C#) recently released support for what they're calling 'Sketches'.

http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/sketches/...
That wrong taste may be a luxury we have now.

From what I've heard, 1984 was passed around as "samizdat" in the Soviet Union, and many were convinced George Orwell was actually living in the Soviet Union since his descriptions were so true to their lives.
Spoken like somebody who wasn't pulling 16 hour days remediating crucial financial infrastructure in the months leading up to it.

The panic in that case was not overblown in the tech community (I tend to ignore the panic in the general media because that's always overblown). The non-event of y2k was an amazing accomplishment, and replies like yours demonstrate just how under-appreciated it is.
Neither of those cases would be especially well addressed by your proposal.

Really, wouldn't option #1 help the normal, hard-luck people quite a bit? It would give you a permanent bed, and address to get mail, etc. while you applied for jobs and got back on your feet? It seems like an immensely superior option to the status quo.

As for the crazy people, I agree, which is why I edited my answer to make it clear that there should be government provided permanent living arrangements that are supportive for the types of problems people have. The normal hard luck people should not have to live in dorms with crazy people and drug addicts.
If they gave over a third ownership to EFF things would become interesting. Don't see it happening though.
any IPs for pinging? I'm curious what the latency is compared to Ireland from here (Eastern Europe).