skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad design. Anybody could mess up the job. In any large, anonymous group, there will be a certain number of assholes. Of course it didn't work. Ask anyone involved in running an IRC channel, or a MMORPG, or a factory.

Given the problem they were solving (reassembling images shredded into strips) they needed something where, when two strips were put together by a human, a program decided if they matched closely, and, if so, locked them together for further editing. That would constrain the workers to make forward progress. You might need an unlock capability if there was a false match, but that should take the cooperation of several people.
(for context, I hope for both the NSA and Facebook to go out of business, and was recently thinking Snowden might make a good Schelling point for a write-in candidate)

There's always going to be collection of selective disclosure. Some of that could be changed by a culture of secrecy (youtube videos in skimasks ^_^), but in general there will be people who post everything to the friendster du jour. And I don't see how one could ever stop assuming that information will be archived indefinitely. For this, my hope can only be for a symmetric Brinworld transparency where it ultimately doesn't matter (and to the extent some does, people learn to navigate these contours).

But for stuff that doesn't need to be shared, I think you're focused too much on the NSA, when it's really just the most prominent example. Any sufficiently-funded intelligence agency is going to have plants that work at significant corporate information troves. Exfiltration isn't terribly hard when companies setup geographically diverse data centers on purpose.

And as I said, insurance companies are a far more worrying threat to me as far as dictating everyday terms of your life - "we noticed you buy an awful lot of beer. Your auto insurance rates will be doubling unless you let us install a GPS-enabled breathalyzer in your car". I suppose this could be held back with legislation if we had a working political process, but I also recognize that economics tends to win out regardless.

You say 'devolve' when talking about moving to non-centralized services, but this is a loaded term. I view web toys (also a loaded term, heh heh) as a stop off from the Internet becoming mainstream-recognized before its application technologies were really polished to withstand model precession. There's no reason privacy-preserving technology couldn't have a similar interface, yet be easily self-administered with the help of any friend who is just slightly savvy (besides that it's much harder to get such software funded when there's no point for capital to invest because it rightly takes the middlemen out of the picture).
I wonder how many customers did what I did, and cancelled Prime when they jacked the price up. With a corresponding decrease in purchases.

The collection of bad movies the increased membership fees help pay for was not making the service more enticing.
At the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if people tend to let their guard down in the days and hours before they leave the country.

Instead of quarantining by default, I think it would be interesting to offer a free, relaxing vacation in a low population density region to people who are returning from helping in Africa. i.e. you cannot leave West Africa and return to a major city directly. Instead you fly back to your home country by way of a desirable destination and hang out there for a few weeks.
Why not seal off the apartment? There's pretty much no downside, so I don't think it really says much (especially assuming ~2 people regularly use it...).
You can be concerned about ethics in game journalism and try to do something about it even though other injustices exist, by my book at least. But the gamergate tag has been effectively taken over by the misogynists and haters. That may not be fair, but it's a fact. If people in the first group continue to use that umbrella they are aiding the people in the second group. Again, not fair, but that's the way it is.
Actually, thermodynamics and the conservation of energy is absolutely a factor - the questions you're bringing up have to do with the way we measure that energy usage and potential, not with the fact that energy is either used (stored) or expelled.

The efficacy of metabolism is in my opinion very much the big question mark here, and why I think relying on one-size-fits-all concepts like "a carbohydrate translates to 4 kilocalories" is simplistic and in all likelihood flawed.
If you asked 10 average people what they think "airborne" means in this context, I doubt they'd say there is a difference between wet and dry transmission. I'd say for the purposes of argument, if a guy coughs violently on you because he's sick there is risk you could get Ebola. If a guy vomits in the subway car, apparently there is a risk of Ebola transmission. I've been on the subway cars and in taxi cabs it happens more than you think. Do you think they bleach all of those things adequately? No way, the financial incentives don't align to properly do it.

The government is using semantics and spin to their advantage by saying it isn't airborne via dried viral transmission. The WHO agrees[1] that it also isn't airborne, but also admits surfaces can transmit the virus.

Most officials omit this detailed explanation since they have no adequate explanation of how to decontaminate the urban environment en masse if an outbreak does occur.

In the end we all have to assess our own risk profiles. Will I stand or sit next to somebody coughing? I doubt it. Or will I take mass transit if I can easily walk to where I need to be by leaving a bit earlier? Nope.

[1] - http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/06-october-2014/en...
Look to women in the industry and ask what they think. And not just the indies who are outside the industry.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2jk2rq/ama_...

If you have a twitter account, go ask #NotYourShield what women think of this as well.

Don't just take any single persons word on this. Also, is this being downvoted because you don't want to read it?
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Related, there's some very interesting connections between Huxley and MKULTRA, the CIA program that performed experiments on people with drugs (LSD) and hypnosis, among other things. So it appears that he was more than just an author, and actually a key player in pushing the Brave New World "agenda" forward.

https://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/6FBA86B0-0C57-9FCA-5CF9...

Quoting his speech at UC Berkeley in 1962:

> If you are going to control any population for any length of time you must have some measure of consent. It’s exceedingly difficult to see how pure terrorism can function indefinitely. It can function for a fairly long time, but I think sooner or later you have to bring in an element of persuasion. An element of getting people to consent to what is happening to them. Well, it seems to me that the nature of the Ultimate Revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: that we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably always will exist, to get people actually to love their servitude!
I would never share my current salary with anyone that can use it against me in negotiation.

If a recruiter asks, I tell them I'm not comfortable sharing it. If they press, I tell them that I only discuss numbers once the company and I both agree there is a mutual fit.

No one has ever told me they will not proceed without my current salary, but if it ever came to that I would thank them for their time and hang up.
You can fight the deleterious effects on support of quarantining by making the quarantining fun/enjoyable/pleasant. Choose a remote resort location, rent it out for the duration of the crisis, send everyone there to sit out their quarantine in comfort.

I wouldn't mind a 21 day quarantine on a beach or camping
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I've some responses about multiple posts, so rather than comment individually I'm making a general comment.

First, I also think it's simple to find "a successful psychopath". Take the case of one Bernard Lawrence Madoff. Let's look at some criteria from the article:

charm --- yes, clearly charmed people into "investing"
with him, "charmed" his way into being the chairman
of NASDAQ

dishonesty --- yes, c.f. 150 year jail sentence

lack of remorse --- I've never read of any on his part,
have you?

lack of empathy --- yes, otherwise how can you steal
so many people's life savings?

poor forethought --- yes, the scheme was so simplistic,
so harebrained that the SEC ignored warnings, probably
because no rational person would believe it!

Second, as for "examples of psychopaths working together", isn't that pretty much the definition of "organized crime"? Most of their schemes are very simplistic, they certainly lack empathy for their victims, etc.

Finally, I think it's too restrictive to limit the discussion to "rigorous, publishable research". How can you rigorously investigate 99% of these people? That's not possible. E.g. in Madoff's case his pathology was easily identifiable in hindsight, but researchers aren't just wandering around looking for businessmen to study. And certainly most "criminal masterminds" (gotta love that phrase) won't allow themselves to be contemporaneously "researched". Tony Soprano was the fictional counterexample, which is a big reason why that show was so charming.

So "rigorous" research is pretty much limited to dead or uncooperative people. And if that's the case, just how "rigorous" is it? How do you understand Madoff's psyche without his cooperation? And yet he's clearly a psychopath. And clearly successful, seeing as he pulled it off for not years but decades.
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This sounds like the exact sort of question that tptacek would have a lot of insight to offer.
My diet was partly portion control, but I also weighed food and used myfitnesspal. It did require greatly simplifying my diet. I would make five pounds of food at a time in a slower cooker, and have my meals all portioned out for the next few days. It was somewhat monotonous but that is actually a benefit. What made the diet stick and work, was that I knew with absolute scientific certainty that if I 1) counted calories 2) always underestimated 3) stuck to it, then it was 100% certain that I would get the results I wanted. And sure enough, ten weeks later, I was 15 pounds lighter and people were commenting on how good I was looking.

My recommendation to dieters is to not do it halfheartedly. Go all in, read reddit fitness, geek out on dieting, count calories, come up with new recipes, set a complete routine around cooking the right food, etc. That way you won't be tempted to make exceptions and you will know with 100% certainty that you will get results.
There's been work and research that state gaining weight is not a simple matter of calorie in = calorie out.

Gary Taubes has written a lot about it.
> Have a look at the 'Multicore OCaml' presentation here: https://ocaml.org/meetings/ocaml/2014/

I just watched it. Great to see somebody else trying but this is no more advanced than OC4MC and they are using Fibonacci as an example when I already used a complete parallel ray tracer with shared memory when benchmarking parallelised HLVM code:

http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/naive-paralleli...

They've got a lot of catching up to do before they can overtake and I'm concerned that retrofitting a modern GC on a 20th century VM will never work because OCaml has such poor locality of reference due to massive unnecessary boxing.

> TBH I don't miss multithreading in OCaml,

I said multicore, not multithreading. I dot lots of concurrency and parallelism in F# without having to worry about multithreading.

> if you write applications which expose some sort of API over a socket that will scale to clusters not just multicore.

You're proposing deep copying all of your data structures when multicore programming is all about sharing data between cores using shared caches. If you copy then your identical copies of the data compete for space in a shared cache.

> And you can program those kinds of applications quite nicely with Lwt or Async already.

Lwt and Async are for concurrent programming. In particular, they are extremely slow.

> Regarding FFI, ocaml-ctypes is interesting, it allows you to bind to a C library at runtime using pure OCaml (and a wrapper around libffi), or to generate C stubs.

Ctypes looks great. Didn't exist when I last used OCaml.

> Regarding OpenGL there is a new binding called 'tgls' for OpenGL 3.x/4.x (besides LablGL) that is mostly generated from the XML description of the OpenGL APIs.

Has anyone tried to write anything much using it?
I don't think the points are very different in breadth. You're saying, Do thing X with women if you're comfortable doing it with men. I'm saying the alternative is, Don't do thing X with men if you're uncomfortable doing it with women.

Normally, I'd say they were equivalent and lean towards the first option as less limiting, but if there are serious potential downsides, the second option seems to have merit.
I'm actually pretty surprised and impressed at how short and legible this turned out. Out of curiosity I've written code to do I/O through the BIOS and parse files out of FAT, it didn't turn out this short.
> The barrier to move from Unity to Unreal is really low if this works out.

Not at all. You still have a huge chunk of your code written specifically for interfacing with UnityEngine. Also, coroutines instead of async.

It still won't be easy to migrate.
Some of it's clearly true, even if it's the more prosaic part of it.

The Google founders clearly have links to some evil people. If you attend the neo-Nazi rally[0] in Davos or the Bilderberg Group, you're meeting up with some rotten human beings who have both the power and the desire to do the world harm.

[0] Godwin does not apply because they actually are white supremacists.

I wouldn't accept the whole story uncritically. The thing about conspiracies and "conspiracy theories" is that lower-case-c conspiracies happen all the time. There isn't one Conspiracy to rule them all (that's an adolescent fantasy; if it did exist, you could slaughter them all in the room where they meet, and save the world) and the Bilderberg group doesn't have as much power or importance as is ascribed to it, and just as the various crime families don't identify with any single animal called "the Mafia", there isn't a cohesive "Power Elite" or "Illuminati". Google isn't at the center of The Conspiracy because it doesn't exist. However, people (and especially the sorts of people who tend to acquire power in large organizations) are naturally conspiratorial. When it suits their self-interest, people conspire. Given the company that is now available for the Google founders to keep, and the published fact that, to some extent, they do so, it's obvious based on these links, with the Google founders attending Murdoch's private parties. that Google is going to be involved in some dirty shit. Should it surprise anyone? The Valley is filthy. That's only news to the clueless.

This is, as Assange admits, largely speculation when it comes to motives. However, I think there's more truth in what he's putting forward than 99% of people in tech will want to admit.
Yes, but saying "supposedly" is leaving the door open. The door is not open. No such thing ever happened.
It seems more like old Facebook Pages. Join "Guinea Pigs Are The Best, RITE?!?" and talk to other like minded individuals today!
Calorie counting technique is basically this: "You need to eat less, here is a nifty tool to help you to keep track and maybe make a bit motivated once you see all those numbers".
That may work for some people but for vast majority it won't help at all. Overweight/obese people very often know they need to eat less, the problem is they can't do it.
"Count calories and don't go over deficit" is basically like saying to an alcoholic that they shouldn't drink (or don't go over 20g of alcohol a day or w/e). It just misses the problem. Nobody thinks it's great idea to stuff yourself and become obese, the problem is that something (genetics/environment/stuff in food) makes people want to eat a ton more food than they should.
I wish they would recommend alternatives to Pidgin or Adium. (Because they are graphical interfaces to libpurple, which wasn't written with security in mind, to put it nicely.) Gajim and Jitsi are both free software IM clients, cross-platform, implement OTR, and are written in high-level languages. Please contribute time to both these projects, if you can.
At least they tell you what the violation was. See my recent post above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8502004
I'm not sure what's going on with that site, but it won't scroll in my browser. The HTML source is also a bit ... special.
I've been a heavy gamer for 25 years, with literally hundreds of games in my Steam account (I started out with Amiga floppies), and my heaviest-played games in that steam list have over half a thousand hours on them, each. I'm a heavy gamer, it's my vice, and I've been part of the 'scene' for a long time.

So I'm not commenting as an outsider when I say that gamers, as a demographic, are the most self-entitled bunch of whiners I've ever seen. I've worked in tech support, in medicine, in retail, with children... and nothing holds a candle to the gaming community when they feel wronged. Every issue is blown way out of proportion. And they need to be called on it, because otherwise they keep on doing it. I'm so tired of this manufactured outrage. I see less passion in the comments when there's an article about child sexual abuse on a newspaper website, and that's a crime that raises pretty much everyone's hackles.

So, speaking as a lifelong heavy gamer, this GamerGate bullshit has little to do with ethics in gaming journalism - a field that is so tangential to the important things in the human experience. Note also that I never said it was nothing to be concerned about or no right to complain; I said that the levels of hysterical concern were ridiculous and overblown.

But of course, if you were actually interested in integrity, you wouldn't have characterised my comments of 'ridiculous levels of hysteria' as 'expecting complete calm', as if that's the only other possible option. A classic strawman fallacy. Perhaps you should show some of this integrity that you demand of others?

Perhaps I should put it a different way: Issues with the supply of your entertainment are never worth a death threat.
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Dr. Israetel does a great video series on this topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szzo5Uy5aQU. Calories in/out is ultimately the foundation to weight loss/gain, but is not the whole picture. Macronutrient arrangement, nutrient timing, and food quality/composition also play a role in optimizing health and body composition.
It would be interesting to allow people in New York to compare their phone location data with his to determine the likelihood that they had contact with this person.

It should be standard practice to give someone returning from West Africa that had contact with ebola a GPS tracking device the records their exact location for 21 days following the last know exposure.

This notion that anyone exposed to ebola is basically responsible for keeping tabs on their own well being voluntarily leaves way too much room for human error.
>> If you don’t work, it’s unhealthy

This isn't just true for old people or mental unhealthy but for everybody. Having no troubles in life can become the biggest trouble of your life. If you are involved in some work, you have some troubles, or busy solving some problems a great deal of smaller problems in life just come and go without you giving a bid deal about it. If you have nothing to do, you will pick faults every single thing, you may pick fights with family members on sorts of silly issues. And things really get ugly from there.

And most importantly lets not forget working is one of the best ways to network with people, meet them, share your stories- this ensures a lot of your stress and anxiety gets a means to be vented out. Else alone, every things builds up in a pressure cookers and bursts real ugly some day.
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But you should be able to infer location from the gaps. If someone was at station A, then disappears and 2 minutes later is recorded at station be, it should be possible to know they took the train between those two stations.
Given gov't budgets in disease prevention, they're more likely to quarantine people in prions than a relaxing vacation
If you're a startup CEO and you fail, employees find other jobs.
If you're a physician and you fail, people die.
This is probably one of the few times assembly is more readable and easy to understand than C. Many years ago I used to teach OS classes at a local university, we would build a simple bootstrap using NASM. The source code includes 32bits (a20 etc) and GDT iirc:

https://github.com/eduardordm/sisop/blob/master/sisop.asm
The essential issue, omitted by the summary above, is the aggressive harassment of women and of those who speak out about this problem. Three women (that I know of) have left their homes, fearing for their safety. Many others have had their personal information, such as their addresses, published online. That is what many people object to.

For example, the author of this article,

http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/22/5926193/women-gaming-harass...

... was harassed and threatened to the point that she left her home:

http://kotaku.com/another-woman-in-gaming-flees-home-followi...
I think that the ingsoc could simply stop anyone from trying to escape, they are so confident in this, that they go way ahead and make them fundamentally change their view to one of compliance, it's not out of strict necessity (although the system does benefit from it), but rather because they can do it.
A racist man says: "I'm not racist; I have black friends."
Do you see what's wrong with that statement?
Still not nearly enough information IMO. Good luck with your project though.
I don't know much (well, anything really) about disease transmission, but should these health workers not quarantine themselves away from the immediate vicinity of the infection, but before taking a cross-Atlantic/Pacific flight where they could infect a number of other people in close proximity?

I would have through the health agencies they volunteer with would enforce these kind of quarantines to prevent international transmission of disease.

On one hand I can't help admire these people risking their lives to help people on the other side of the world. On the other hand some of them seem content to play Russian roulette with their neighbors and family back home, which makes no sense to me. Is it as the OP suggested that doctors make for bad patients?