skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't understand this.

There are six stages of moral development.

The first, which you'll see in small children, is to act merely to avoid punishment. This is a small wrapper around classical conditioning. Acts associated with things like pain are bad.

The second, which you'll see in slightly older children, is to act to be rewarded. By this stage, morality is now a wrapper around operant conditioning, and children are able to seek out things they want.

The third is social convention; things are moral if people are okay with your doing them. By the time a kid is 12 or 13 they're probably in this stage if their development is normal.

The fourth is authority. Things are moral if an authority says they're moral. This comes with the realization that the people in your life aren't important just because they're the people in your life, they're important because they were appointed by some authority. A teacher is a representative of a school system, and a principal is a higher representative of that system. Police are representatives of governments. Politicians are higher representatives of the abstract idea of governments.

There are two other stages, but the classification breaks down at this point and they represent more what the psychologist writing the paper thinks more than what actually exists, because almost nobody gets past the fourth stage.

Most humans are entirely content to backend all of their reasoning on authorities.

For most people, it's impossible for the government to violate laws. The government is the law. And further, it's not wrong for the government to violate laws. They're the government. They create morality.

Finally, outside of the entire argument I've made up to this point in my comment, people pick politicians -- not in a meaningful sense, but they join the team surrounding the politician. A politician is either on their team or not. Politicians on the other team are corrupt all the time -- but not politicians on our team.

My only hope is that eventually people wake up and realize no politician, no police officer is on their team.

But I'm not holding my breath.
More than the permissions land grab itself, what I find really annoying is when [on my rooted Android device] I revoke certain permissions that I'm not prepared to give an app, there is an increasing tendency for the app in question to refuse to run until I 'reset' its permissions. I'm particularly looking at you eBay, PayPal and Amazon in this regard.

[eg. such as access to my camera or permission to record sound]
I grew up in Michigan, and I can say with a good amount of certainty: any house in Detroit that is unoccupied does not have a single thing of value left in it, especially copper. Even some places that are occupied have had their copper stripped from them, sometimes live wires that results in the death of the thief.

EDIT: Some links. Copper theft is a big deal in Detroit.

City of Detroit borrowing a page from scrappers and thieves by selling old copper wire to boost Detroit's finances.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/201...

Thieves stole copper from functioning pumping stations, leading to massive flooding in Detroit recently

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/08/13/copper-theft-a-possib...

Copper thieves caught in a sting on camera

http://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/copper-th...
For anyone interested in the topic, this is an interesting read:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/10/where-is...
In order to sell some kind of information based product I think you need sellers background. This seems like a process. where has this process worked before? my 2 sense.
Does this mean Nobel Prizes in science might soon be effectively redundant? Seems already a little farcical, but nobody blinks and eyelid at a movie star being given credit/prizes for an entire movie because they happen to be the front [wo]man.

PS - Before someone argues with the movie example, let me ask you this: When was the last time a movie star got e.g. an Oscar while staring in a bad movie? If it is really for acting alone, then someone should be able to get it by being in a really bad piece of shit but absolutely killing it for their part. But that never happens, it is always for blockbusters that otherwise do really well (e.g. great direction, writing, lighting, etc).
The paper states that the strategy was simulated with live data and makes no mention of slippage. I've never traded bitcoin so I'm not sure how difficult it is to get fills, but that along with spreads are non-trivial components of real trading.
There is no public, global network of networks besides the one known as the Internet, and it exclusively uses the Internet Protocol suite.
haha love the reference :)
Going down the size optimization rabbit hole a little bit (not criticism, I just enjoy this sort of puzzle).

Two bytes shorter:

call print_str
ret
=>
jmp print_str

Three bytes shorter; this one may be a little too clever, since it depends on the low bit of CR0 being 0 initially:

mov EAX, CR0
or EAX, 1
=>
mov EAX, CR0
inc AX
Is there even such a thing as a generic usb to serial chip for Windows? I ordered some ch340g chips from China, and now an nervous about installing a driver that might be malware.
Not entirely sure what your argument was here, you sort of drifted into the weeds a bit.

I think you meant to argue:

"There is one source of media coverage, although it's largely just twitter comments. And just because something is difficult to prove doesn't mean it's not provable."

Both are valid arguments.

I don't count ZDnet as a very credible source of news, and in this case, some googling seems to show they are practically the only "news site" running this story. Although, as pointed out, it's mostly just a paragraph followed by several twitter posts.

Secondly, the evidence thing is important if a case like this were to proceed. In order to sign onto the class action, you would have to prove you purchased an effected chip/board, and that this driver is what killed your product.

Two problems here:

1) You bought a counterfeit chip/board. It's unlikely any award will be levied for illegal/infringing products.

2) Users would have to show evidence they were effected. Even in the RedBull class action case that is settling now, you must prove you bought a RedBull during the time period the case covers (receipt or whatever). Again, you have a counterfeit product, which was illegal to sell/buy in the first place. Not to mention, getting average-joe to test his device, even if someone made a testing utility and freely distributed it, will be close to impossible. People who are technical and care may do it, but average-joe will assume his arduino went belly-up one day, and likely toss it in the garbage.

Let's be realistic. A handful of people in-the-know will care passionately, and do everything they can to further a claim. Several handfuls of people will care enough to do something if they believe they will get something in return (a payout). The rest will have no clue this is even a thing, and will simply throw away their "defective" device.

What FTI did was wrong. But there is no real recourse here.
I don't think you understand. There is NOTHING in these houses. Its old, rotten wood, and crumbling brick.

The purchase of homes in Detroit is NOT to sell or repurpose ANYTHING.

I work downtown, and drive through these neighborhoods every single day to avoid traffic (thanks Google!).
Surveillance Reform Theater [pdf]
Day of Mourning for Data Scrappers.
Alternative to Google Adsense?
I was banned from Google Adsense for auto generated content. (no big deal) However, Since then I have used Conjunction junction, linkshare, amazon, yes advertising, (in text ads) and nothing seems to work that well like google adsense. My site gets about 200 a day and continues to grow slowly. (http://www.bestoftheinternets.com) I would grow / develop more if it made more money... but with out good adsense the CTR rates aren't that great, so focus on other stuff.

Yahoo/Bing and some of the other advertising companies won't deal with you unless you have 10,000 hits a day.

Any alternatives, thanks in advance.
We've actually been considering making it available for others to use. Shoot me an email chintan@capp.io.
Guys, this is awesome. Just wanted to say thank you. This is definitely very useful to me!
Crazy. Nevermind me then. I got no idea what anon 3mil guy is doin.
edit thanks for the links! nutty stuff.
Thanks. It's clearly marked in you HN profile who my employer is, I'm pretty transparent about it, I pretty much assume that anyone who suspects my bias or that I'm "shilling" will just look at my profile.

And yes, it cannot be denied that I have bias towards my employer. It doesn't make my arguments wrong, but it does raise suspicion as to my motivations.
When you look at it, they have a massive amount of infrastructure for a huge city that lost of a lot of taxable individuals in a relatively quick timeframe. Unless they can move everyone to a more densely populated area of the city and shut down the infrastructure, they have to bear the cost of being a huge city without the tax base of a huge city. That's why tax is so expensive. Well, that and massive corruption.
Can't see on my Z2. No touch event listeners.
I sure hope the buyer is doing so for altruistic reasons. [1]

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/detroit-foreclosures-may-evic...
Read other people's code. There's a world of high quality (and not so high quality!) code out there - pick a reasonably simple open source app and read it's code. Think about how it's put together: Why did the programmer chose to cut the problem space into those particular pieces? How do those pieces interact? Is the API obvious, or completely opaque? Is it completely batshit internally? (I've seen some batshit code in my time. I even wrote some of it.) How could it be improved?

Mentoring with a senior dev is a great idea if you can find someone willing to sit down with you, but just doing the work of going through real world code is well worth your time IMO.
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/ "The Authoritarians" (full ebook in link) provides some insight into this. That said, beware being in an anti-authoritarian bubble in your daily interactions; it will make it a lot harder to understand the authoritarian-follower mind.
Causative? Or correlated? Couldn't the causation go the other direction? (Would just read the paper but it won't load on this phone.)
=D – ;p – KiHumor
A lot of comments seem to be missing that the issue is less about permission granularity and more about pre-asking for any and all permissions that the app may use. Runtime permissions would solve the issue - using the camera? Ask the user. Then the user can decide to allow once or allow every time. Of course, you'd have exceptions for some common things - store data etc.

The current model is rather like giving a teenager a credit card and hoping they'll be responsible rather than giving them an allowance or having them ask you when they need money. The user has no clue how the permissions are being used after they're forced to allow during installation.
I get it - Java people want to work in Java. However, this tool seems only targeted at the M in the MVC paradigm. You still need to write your views and controllers in Objective-C. Unless your app has a large number of very complex model objects, it's probably quicker to just retype your model classes in Objective-C. Of course if your app does have a lot of very complex model objects (as Google probably does) and you want to always have them in sync across platforms without having to retype anything then this makes a ton of sense. But for the majority of apps, it does not.
This is a fascinating article. I wonder to what, if any, degree this methodology stifles innovation because innovators aren't rewarded. It seems from the article that ATLAS did not think the Nobel Prize was awarded properly to the correct people...would that affect their research in the future?
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you find it useful. Shoot me an email at jay@capp.io if you ever have more feedback.
Voting is the very definition of indirect action. Actions within representative democracy are not direct ever, but either agreeing, or begging. To vote with a politician is to say you agree; to "email your congressperson" is to beg.

Personally, I never vote, because to play a rigged game is to be complicit in its outcome. If you vote, you can't complain about anything the government does -- you agreed with the existence of the system as a whole. Sometimes your team wins and sometimes your team loses, but to play the game, lose, and complain is merely to be a sore loser.

It is perfectly possible to take direct action to stop police injustice. The Black Panthers are a good example. It's also possible to take direct action to stop surveillance. The Tor Project is a good example.

Don't vote. Don't play a rigged game. Take real action and make real change. Stop begging and take control of your life.
Calm Breeds Calm
I need help
I believe I have the next big thing and what to know how to i go about starting this.

I figured out a new feature to social networking.
Don't call it terrorism. We don't give time to terrorists, ignoring them is the best solution; giving them more attention, yelling loudly for them to stop, and attacking them in retaliation are what terrorists want you to do.
Introducing Fonticons
For such a modern web experiment, to use a <font> tag at all is a little ironic.
Hey I'm on your side, I was being sarcastic. I also switched from gmail to outlook.
But in HN everything "mainstream" gets downvoted. You like Outlook? Enjoy the downvotes, You like MS Office instead of XYZ ? Downvoted, etc, etc
Brick can be recycled but I see what you are saying. And hearing that people are getting killed pulling live wires... That would definitely imply that copper is epic loot in Detroit right now.
But if anyone can find lists like these on Quora... they can't be all that useful, can they?
There is also no explicit delegation of the power to search with a warrant. By your reasoning, the federal government never has he power to conduct any search. Which renders the 4th amendment gibberish, because why prohibit "unreasonable" searches and set out the requirements for a warrant in that case?

The Constitution gives the federal government sole authority over national security, from both domestic and external threats. That was in fact one of the purposes of creating the federal government (the states' trouble in putting down Shays' rebellion). It also gives the federal government authority over interstate commerce. Ensuring the security of planes from terrorism is right at the core of what the federal government was created to do.
For example: here's an NSL, give me a big copy of your database.
Korean culture could be heavily embedded in their Vancouver office.
Ah, thank you. Maybe the mods can merge the threads.
I don't think the argument here is to test their drivers against fakes. I think the argument is against /intentionally harming/ fakes vs. throwing an error. I'm also against the "random malfunctions" feature, if that was also intentional, which it sounds like it was.
IIRC Cyanogenmod's privacy guard reenables a lost Android feature that basically does this. Its a main reason why I use cyanogenmod these days.
>Namely their storage of plaintext passwords in your ~/

Personally, I don't see this as terribly bad. An attacker with physical access can do a lot more damage than just discovering your XMPP credentials, and if that's all they were looking for, they could just replace the Pidgin binary to send the credentials in plaintext to Moldova the next time you launched it. You need full-disk encryption to really not be affected by this.

However, libpurple is a sea of zero-days. It's a library made to deal with input over the network written in C, which is really enough to be damning. There's far, far worse in libpurple than storing plaintext passwords.
I'm going to be more bearish than you and say that people who find stock research "overwhelming" as in the HN strapline shouldn't be investing in individual stocks at all (unless they get employer equity on a very favourable basis, or the individual stocks they're invested in are all ETFs)

That said, I do quite like the idea of an algorithm that hedges risk, but for the average person's retirement fund wouldn't that be best done with a proper fully diversified portfolio minus a few stocks whose performance is heavily correlated with your earning potential? If so wouldn't that be best as actual funds marketed at employees in particular industries rather than a software stock-selection tool.
You're in luck, there is a startup class going on right now from the folks that run Y Combinator and other interesting guest lecturers.

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/

Start there.
We really need voxel cameras. I think the rift will act as a forcing function for their developent.
I'm a bit perplexed about how the ecosystem could even support most of these. Or maybe that explains the extinctions. The locusts, the herrings and the passenger pigeons should have all read Malthus.
DARPA is the wrong agency to follow when it comes to intelligence funding. If you want to look at intelligence funding, DARPA is the wrong source. Check out IARPA instead. http://www.iarpa.gov/ These guys are the public intelligence research arm and researchers report to the Program Manager. Some of the programs are interesting. Some of them are downright... dodgy.
This is important; there are cases of "just plain insecure" but other than that, it's very nuanced.

How about you randomly generate and write all your passwords down on a piece of paper in your wallet? For many threat models, that's far more secure than even using a password manager. For other threat models it's far less secure than using a password manager. Other than things that are just flat-out broken "more-secure" and "less-secure" don't exist without qualification.
The Grand Illusion (Time and Cosmos)
That's pop-psychology gibberish.
Is backbone a framework or a library?
Topic
Agree with your point on the options spreads, but we wanted to gear our focus towards solely stock investments since that's the majority of the retail investor population.

You're right about AAPL being too expensive (back at $600) for the average investor and that's something we're beginning to focus on. We'd like to add more personalization so our recommendations take into account factors such as risk profile, age, account value, etc.

Again, our goal is to help less experienced investors make smarter investments over the long term and teach them "why" along the way.

Thanks for your feedback again! Definitely points we'll be taking into account.
Who cares if it's NIST-approved? The NSA owns NIST entirely; if something is NIST approved it's probably a good reason to not use it.
Thanks pmx. Before I had the beta ready and up I posted just the screenshots to Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/2jss4e/dev_snea...) using the following title. It was too long for HN, especially with the Show HN: TextFile at the front.

"Dropbox Android app to keep your notes, lists, drafts, and tasks in text files."

But anyway, do you guys like that better or do those commas still bug you a bit? Of course if you have any ideas let me know. Thanks again. I'm at a point where the more feedback I get about anything the better, because I don't know what the heck I'm doing :)
Good to see, though nothing really exciting in the update.
Okay, okay, already: What the heck are the
rules, the real rules? Obviously, everyone
needs to know the rules. I need to know the
rules, that is, the real rules. E.g., what
am I supposed to do in routine interactions
with the police?

I'm just a Ph.D. applied mathematician and software
guy writing code and gathering data
for my start-up I hope people will like;
the project is
for nothing
illegal, immoral, objectionable, offensive,
politically incorrect, etc.

But if the project works, then I'll have to
get out from where I am now, get out from
behind my desktop computer writing code
and gathering data, get out into the
community, have a light truck for my
business, rent office space, contract
for routine services, say, water,
electric power, Internet access, telephones,
trash pickup, hire people, get business
insurance, a bookkeeper, an accountant,
a lawyer, make some use of consultants,
do billing, handle revenue, pay taxes,
etc.

I will need routine police protection
against vandalism and theft, etc.

And maybe there will be police walking a
beat near my offices.

So, then, I may have some interactions with
the police. Then, I need to know what
are the rules. What are the real rules?
You would appear to be at least partially correct: http://www.techvibes.com/job/vancouver/company/samsung
They they bought the parcels for 500 bucks a piece. Each parcel is bound to have similar recent sales from the pool of 5999. If it seems expensive to challenge for a well funded investor, it's not exactly cheap for a city that's bankrupt.
Monkeyboard: iOS keyboard for writing in Ook esoteric language, or just for fun
iPad Air 2 Bend Test
For those non familiar to Ook!
http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html
Patents still apply to open source, even if they are not selling anything.
Yup. Plus it should also be possible to only turn on type checking selectively for some functions in production. This way to you can implement it on functions that are executed infrequently and don't have a material impact on performance, but leave it off for those code paths that are critical for performance.
Increase productivity and efficiency with test automation
lots of permission managers for cyanogenmod
It's pretty simple though - you take their investment with the understanding that they want an exit, if you plan to run a stable small business that they can't cash out on instead of angling for an exit, it is unethical at best. I'm all for small businesses, but it's a different investment model.
hmm, not looking for plugins though. I want to display a json to the dom not console.
> actually, almost ANY diet works. if you are over weight and reduce your calorie intake: you.will.loose.weight.period.

This is absolutely false.

1) there's of course the obvious cas where you're consuming 5000 kcal/day and burning 2500, and then cut that to 4000 kcal consumed -- still gonna gain, albeit more slowly.

2) less obviously but perhaps more importantly, reducing caloric intake can reduce metabolism (because your body thinks food is more scarce) and therefore also reduce calories out!

3) the types of foods you eat help determine whether your body stores the energy as fat -- which is triggered by insulin. Replacing fat calories with sugar calories (as was done extensively in the late 20th C rush to low fat foods) even if the total caloric intake is slightly lower can actually accelerate weight gain.
How is this different than trusting the website's own load balancer, which might terminate the SSL connection and relay unencrypted traffic to the servers?
Device fingerprinting is a big boon to fraud prevention. The more data sources that can help uniquely identify a device the better. I know some fraud prevention companies require merchants to include an image (png), javascript and flash file on the checkout pages to profile a customer. Flash can access your microphone, camera and local storage (flash cookies).

Fraud is a big deal for Paypal, although I'm do not know if such permissions are needed in device fingerprinting on apps.

Interestingly from a privacy point of view, more granular permissions to device features might not necessary equate to greater anonymity. If most device users do not care or know about the privacy implications and accept the app's permission request, those who don't accept become the minority.
OCP gathering property for "New Detroit"