skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These issues are simpler to explain than the author realizes--and without any special invocation of Kant. Simply put, technology has made sex a lot safer at the same time as it has made food a lot more dangerous. Sex is safer (in the sense of creating fewer risks and uncertainties), as we all know, thanks to developments like condoms, STD testing, contraception, and legalized abortion. Meanwhile, food is a lot more dangerous, thanks to food science being used to create "hyperpalatable" junk food--cf. Paul Graham's "The Acceleration of Addictiveness."[1] As a 20-something in the U.S., I look around me and see obesity as an almost guaranteed outcome once people reach a certain age (with diabetes and heart disease not far behind)--and like many of my peers, I'm spooked.

In response to this, I wouldn't exactly say people have made healthy eating into a new Categorical Imperative. Instead, they've become paranoid and superstitious about what it is in modern food that's hurting them. Hence we get ridiculous cargo cults like gluten-free, organic, anti-GMO, everything Dr. Oz pushes, etc. Meanwhile, evidence-based approaches to the issue have not yet produced a diet that is optimal, practical, and that provides the level of enjoyment that we're used to from food. I personally think that Soylent is off to a promising start, although it has a long way to go.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
I am rather impressed on how thegrid keeps evading the HN dupe filter: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=thegrid.io#!/story/sort_by_date/0/...
Last I checked, attending San Diego Christian College or pursuing private religious employment is kinda a voluntary deal which a very, very small portion of the population pursues, and when they do so it is frequently because they agree with the ideals the college or the religious employers represent. Are these counterexamples really supposed to represent the worst out there?
Can someone with more business knowledge than me explain this?

Like... you'll pay a developer $100 an hour, but then you ask them to spend an hour in a meeting to justify the purchase of a $50 widget that will save them an hour a day for the next year.

There must be some twisted logic at work, but I don't see it.
Exceptions is one of the controversy mechanism in C++. Should I use them?
Looking at the code (https://github.com/botherder/detekt), it's just looking for patterns of known malware. Isn't this just a subset of what anti-virus software does?
Bank xfers they will transfer to a cashing service, somebody willing to use fake identity to open business accounts to receive stolen funds and show up in person to a bank to withdraw it, then pay back a percentage to whoever sent the funds via bitcoins or other method. A good fraudster will ddos the bank after the transfer(s) to prevent the mark from logging into online banking and discovering the fraud.

Credit cards they make their own fake stores by the hundreds and pay themselves small amounts, or they do instore fraud which is extremely risky. In the UK they simply card Tesco and then sell the groceries half price. Can also fraud bitcoins now as services exist to buy small amounts. None of this is easy, profits aren't huge it's all very small time unless you're the guy getting and selling the data to the legions of petty hustlers worldwide.
“Purchasing a ticket to a point beyond the actual destination and getting off the aircraft at the connecting point is unethical, It is tantamount to switching price tags to obtain a lower price on goods sold at department stores.”

Are they being serious? It's 'ethical' to charge more for (A->B) and less for (A->B->C)? Do they even think about these things before they say them?
Hooray! This has been eagerly awaited in the rust community for a while. Thanks, Steve!
Really the 'web page' is the Github repo I suspect.
Licensing problems or other legal hassles are also foreseeable enough that you'd want to be ready for them.
A Battle Over Who Discovered the First Earth-Like Planet
If they all used the same API? You could build your own mobile UI themeable product and sell them to banks for them to host in their own servers.

Build a company around the product and provide change requests/maintenance services, further branding the app, etc.
The last two years I've had times were I went "Social media" free and did nothing on my social media accounts for 30 days at a time.

Last time I did it (about a year ago), I got lots of retweets on Twitter and tons of people asking about it on FB. This year, when I announced what I was doing, nobody said anything on FB. I asked a few people if they saw my post and their response?

"Um yeah, my newsfeed is so full, when did you send it?"

"About a day ago."

"Yeah, I probably didn't see it."

Not only has social media completely bogged down people's lives, they can't even sort through their own newsfeeds to get stuff which might actually be important. For me, it was the last straw. As an occasional FB user, I finally realized if I wasn't posting every 5 minutes, the likelihood someone saw my post and could or would respond to it was almost zero.

Two weeks ago, I deleted my FB account and haven't missed a thing since.
Survivorship bias. What about all the other companies that were the size of Berkshire Hathaway in the 60s, Microsoft in the 80s, Apple in the 90s, etc. that didn't develop into massive successes?

It's also worth noting that Berkshire Hathaway the textile company no longer exists. The mill was shut down long ago and it's essentially the same company in name only. In fact it's hardly what you would consider a business in the typical sense of the word. BH has something like 30 employees (at Berkshire Hathaway itself, the rest are all employed by companies Berkshire owns, which it handles in a very hands off way).

So citing these companies as evidence that criticism of Facebook is unfounded is of dubious validity.
The Libertarians planning to take over New Hampshire
FWIW, I'm married with three kids and I really like my wife and kids. I certainly don't think it's for everyone, but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand on the assumption that everyone who has a family is miserable (although I admit I may be an outlier...?). I say this only because you might deprive yourself of something you may enjoy.
was it the same reviewer?
The tool's website is being EFF'd. (hah!)

NB: I haven't read about the technical features of the tool.

It probably uses some kind of signature mechanism to identify malware.

...Surely the authors realize that they've just drawn a line in the sand against an APT. The biggest one ever.

Their tool and signature updates are presumably freely available online.

Have fun keeping those sigs up to date, tool authors!

You'd have been better off passing it around to journalists only via sneakernet and simply not talking about it.
There are tons of YC clone type things popping up all over the place. Maybe you guys don't remember the dot com days, but it is significantly easier to get funded these days, and you can do so much more with less.

That said, of course "anyone can get funded" is not true and probably a bit hurtful to some who are trying and aren't managing.
"Detekt is a free tool that scans your Windows computer..."

This is awesome, just not for me as a non-Windows user. I don't want this to perpetuate the myth that using Mac or Linux makes you impervious though.

I still think the best solution to this, and other problems, is outbound filtering at the gateway.
Yes, there are dozens of choices. But few are free. And although I have no problem paying for my children's education, I have not found a correlation between the cost of online education and its quality.

I like Khan's vision - I really like their Mastery system, and their mission system. Frankly, if they worked out all the kinks and had similar mechanisms for all primary education subjects, homeschooling could be done with nothing but Khan.

They just aren't quite there yet.
How to Criticize Computer Scientists
Basically zero of the thanks should go to me. Alex Crichton has been hard at work on this for the past while, both Cargo itself as well as the site.
Anonymous Takes on the Ku Klux Klan
I think a key here is hypermedia. APIs can only be machine-discoverable if there are hypermedia links pointing to them (which is how this helps). If there are no links, then some human must hardcode it.

This also is a reason for including hypermedia in your API, because really, being machine-discoverable is not just something that the API itself benefits from... each resource and state can benefit from included hypermedia as well.
I'm really looking forward to publishing some early crates! A cargo search from the terminal would be ace as well.
Tesla's X-Men Robots vs. Lyft's Pink Pool Noodles
May I ask why one would learn x86-64 assembly other than for extreme use cases like compiler design and reverse engineering? Modern languages and their compilers can usually produce the best possible machine code most of the time. Further, embedded systems run on ARM nowadays which is a bit simpler to deal with due to the smaller instruction set.
I think a treatment is generally understood to be an intervention that addresses the "root cause" cause of condition. Anti-viral medications might or might not treat a cold but it would a treatment. An antihistamine is considered to be something that only addresses and relieves symptoms. I think the distinction between these approaches is pretty well recognized and by that token your friend received treatment.

Aspirin for a headache caused by the cancer in contrast, wouldn't be consider a treatment. We know there are real treatments for cancer so most people would be appalled by someone only getting aspirin or only getting pain-killer (unless things had gotten too advanced). Thus, I don't think there's really much confusion here except for some effort wade and make confusion.
Ah, then: Thanks, Alex!

But fortunately "thanks" aren't zero-sum, so I'll leave your ill-gotten gains alone. :p
Yik Yak Sued by Supposed Frat Brother Cofounder
>No, the freedom to have all the sex you want is new, for pretty much everyone in the US. Not everyone takes advantage of it, but there is little or no limit on your private sexual behavior now. Just consider gay marriage. And there was a huge risk with private sexual behavior back then.

The fact that prostitution is still illegal pretty much blows your whole argument there out of the water, skip. Nobdoy has the freedom to do that, do they (outside of extremely remote parts of Nevada)? And really, lets face it, that's pretty much the only way that a lot of people can ever hope to even have sex -- take cripples, mentally handicapped, or people just considered slightly undesirable by arbitrary and inescapable standards of pop culture. So this pretty much blows your whole disingenuous argument out of the water, doesn't it?
Share text over your local network in realtime
Because their main costs are detached from their main revenue streams they have no way to accurately price how much a user costs them and how much value they provide. That's what makes it a horrible business model. How do you optimize what you can't accurately measure?
The comment you're applying to seems correct enough without doubling down on it and using it as a barb. Sometimes people can just be wrong without being bad people.
Thanks for you feedback! I'm glad you like the app.

I thought comments presented this way would be easier to read, because if child comments are indented than it's basically a waste of screen-space on a mobile device.
I made this to help get passwords over to my new machines since I use 1Password.
Why Can't We Have a Version Control System for the Law?
Excellent. The sexism angle is one thing, but the book is also just wrong about what a computer engineer is. It's like "Barbie: I Can Be A Construction Worker" - "Oh, no, I don't actually build buildings, I just think of ideas for what they should look like." That's a totally valid career (once you add some rigor that it's probably fine to elide in a kid's book), but it's not being a construction worker.

If the book was titled "I Can Be A Video Game Designer" (and she didn't spend half the book fighting with viruses) it would have been worlds better. Make one of the other students doing the implementation a girl, and you're doing better still. I'd like to see a genuine "I Can Be A Computer Engineer", but it might take some creativity to make it actually engaging for the target age range...
The article doesn't mention it, but the perpetrator's likely motivation is also very interesting.

Eucalyptus trees cause forest fires.
The tone of Sarah Lacy's article is irrelevant to me. It is the suggestion that a company executive would consider lashing out at a journalist this way that I find disturbing.

How about looking at it this way: even if everyone has had a moment of wanting to "wring someone's neck" as you say down-thread, I don't expect company executives to actually suggest that they might hire some goons to go rough up someone who negatively reviewed their product. An executive who says something like that in public is an idiot, and I personally would seriously reconsider whether I want that person to be in charge of anything at my company, or represent my company in public ever again.
This is awesome! I'll take a look at the migration guide later tonight and upgrade my projects. He said there are, "big breaking changes," but hopefully it doesn't require too much change. Either way, congrats and thank you for your hard work!!
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Hi! Yeah, we never got around creating some website... I asked to the domain to be redirected to the GitHub repo, which at least is better :-)
Question - I can see the value of a service that automates all these removal requests. That said, the monthly subscription model seems a bit excessive, as I assume data would creep back in gradually. I would think quarterly, or even annually resubmitting them all would be adequate. No?
I have been giving this a lot of thought lately, especially after reading Superintelligience. I actually think that it is somewhat likely, or even highly probable given how we would model out our own behaviour and hardware. Further, to use a video game analogy, we may actually be non-primary characters, that are being modeled by a different, more sophisticated, group of actors.
You're really picking at surface issues in the first few paragraphs that are wholly unimportant to the message of the article (which wasn't overly conservative or political at all). It's worth a read if you can manage to look past your biases.
I've been in situations where it basically boils down to hierarchy and reinforcement of the status quo. I once had a request for a new laptop refused because it would've meant mine was newer than the president/owner's machine and that wasn't tolerable to the corporate ego.
So That's What the Feds Are Doing with Seized Bitcoins – ReadWrite
How old a particular standard is doesn't really have that much bearing on whether or not it's a good standard (if it were, then it shouldn't be long before we all switch away from HTTP and SSH for the sake of "innovation"). Nor is age an excuse for introducing a replacement that's locked down to a specific vendor.

I'm fine with Google dropping their support for open standards - their services, their rules, and if they don't care about users like me who prefer the open standards, then it's not my place to whine about it when I can instead seek a competitor that does adhere to those standards. However, I'm not fine with such dropping of standards being masqueraded under some lame excuse like "the open standards are too old". 1998 and 1986 are young compared to the majority of the standards which form the backbone of the Internet and World Wide Web themselves. If you're going to try and rationalize Google's actions beyond them wanting to make money via control over their stack, then at least try and find some actual technical reason why XMPP and IMAP are insufficient for their purposes.

(I'll concede that IMAP isn't exactly pretty, but it sounds like XMPP at least could have simply been extended if there were features Google needed for Hangouts).
Maybe for understanding how computer works? What occurs when you launch program, what occurs between turning on computer and that moment when you see login screen, what is it printf("Hello world") and etc... Many interesting questions. Of corse assembly is not answer on all questions but the way to it
The 3DS version keeps track of those statistics for online play at least. Nintendo ostensibly uses this information to balance the game further in patches:

http://kotaku.com/little-mac-is-smash-bros-biggest-loser-165...

_Being on the developer's side, Sakurai is able to view online player statistics for the game, and one particular statistic was brought up. "For Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the individual character win ratios lined up nicely in a staircase format, but [for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS] one fighter has a significantly low ratio." Sakurai wrote. "It's Little Mac."_
Employment conditions are scary, marriage seems to have stabilized at a much lower equilibrium, housing is no longer the bastion of security it once was, etc. I look around at my peers and I see people who don't feel that they are in control of their lives. This winds up going one of two ways. Either food is seen as one last unadulterated pleasure and abused, or tightly regimented as one last bastion of control. I think the health food sector is growing because it gives people a sense of autonomy, when that feeling is in short supply.
Moved by Fire: History’s Promethean Moment
Betteridge's law of headlines applies very well here. The entire article is basically a philosophical ramble. I also think it's funny to remove the word 'New' from the title [only in part due to this being penned in 2009]
> made food a lot more dangerous

You are almost certainly too young to remember it in the United States, but it wasn't that long ago that food was terribly dangerous. Start at non-sterile meat, bad canning practices (botulism killed 2,000+ per year in the United States until around WWII, down to a handful today) and go all the way to pellagra (an easily-solved Vitamin B deficiency that still killed 7500 people per year in the US in the 1930s; effectively 0 today).

Remember Wonder Bread? It seems like evil simple carbs today, but it was initially popular precisely because the color and texture proved that it wasn't adulterated like many local bakers did at the time (flour was expensive, sawdust was cheap and could stretch meager supplies).

Food was not safe for a long time.
Whats terrifying is that they are referring to "their password" and not their passwords.

Password reuse is much worse that having a weak password. Hackers only brute force high value targets, everyone else should just aim to have unique passwords for every service they use.

However, the average person can only remember 5-10 unique passwords and they have many many accounts...password reuse. For the average person password managers aren't an option for normal people, so we have a big problem.
Williams Convocation Address: “Bibliolarceny and the Size of the Universe”
If your kids are at an ordinary age to be interested in Barbie, I recommend not being "horrified" by anything they do. (That doesn't mean you have to give them Barbie dolls.)
The biggest change is the error handling, but I assure you it's for the better :-) If you run into any trouble don't heasitate to reach out and we'll update the guide in case anything is missing.
I tend to agree it will be renewed somehow anyway, but I still can't quite bring myself to wholeheartedly support anything that will renew it. Let them renew it with "minutes to spare"[0] like last time, without the benefit of an Orwellian cover title that lets everyone think Freedom is back again and the NSA has been vanquished. EFF has even said one of these provisions that would be renewed actually supports NSA programs!; see my other comment for links.[1]

I would be open to hearing why the provisions that will be renewed are "not that bad" and worth trading. I'm guessing there are worse things in the Patriot Act that don't even have sunset dates. A lesser evil is still evil, though..

[0] http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/27/nation/la-na-patriot...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8638143
Video link is dead... wish it wasn't
Why there's angular momentum - turbulence.

I do have formal training in the field, if a masters in physics counts, with a specialisation in cosmology and astrophysics.

My thesis was oriented around computational simulations of the early universe, using fluid dynamics.
>Survivorship bias.

I'm aware of that which is why I already listed counterexamples such as Myspace, Kodak that didn't make a successful transition to a new revenue growth.

>So citing these companies as evidence that criticism of Facebook is unfounded is of dubious validity.

Personally I despise Facebook and enjoy reading any criticisms about it. My point regarding this particular article was that the journalist (like every other journalist that's not "in the know") has to base his prediction on what Facebook is doing now. They don't volunteer their blind spot, therefore we as readers have to be aware of it.
[author :)] I'm not sure that i can recomend somethig for you, but for things that i use for learning low-level programming are following.
1. Nasm manual
2. Intel manuals
3. gdb
4. Source code written by other peoples, like bootloaders, simple 64 bit operating systems and etc...
I have the same issue... not sure how to get them back either. I'm on windows 7 x64.
When Dead Bodies Become Dead People
>Facebook, the product, is no longer this super sexy app that college kids are checking out. Looking for Facebook to be that, you will probably predict its future demise.

Been hearing this line from the hn crowd for at least three years. Stopped holding my breath a while ago.
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It's pretty immoral in the grand scheme of things, as the costs are incurred by ALL consumers, regardless if they pay via CC or cash.

Yes, CC companies can do a better job of mitigating risk, but it's hardly a case to blame "only" them for this.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637493.
You're both begging the question of whether this was in fact done for no reason other than to change things. It's rather unlikely that someone at Google spent time and money developing something for no reason – that post would have been interesting if it'd actually discussed why things changed and why the reasoning behind those changes was wrong rather than simply assuming it.
I'm getting 400 error when trying to add my API

https://coinkite.com/static/api/apis.json
Return to the moon: getting serious about our nearest neighbor
Try to become a freelance or a customer employee as soon as possible, being an employee for an intermediary company is mostly a dead end.

If someone assigns you to a project you really don't want to do, its better to search for a new opportunity sooner rather than later. When you want to go back to what you really want to do, you will have to answer a lot of questions about why you haven't been doing it lately.

Being assigned to the wrong projects early in ones career can effectively kill it or turn it a way you don't want it to go, so beware of that.

Try different jobs early in your career, stay at most two years early on. Growth is very much improved by seeing different projects, different teams.

Corporate training is usually limited and imposed by law, invest on your own training. Technical PDF books are affordable as well as many certifications. Take them in your own free time and don't wait for the company to pay/approve them.

Try to build something you like in your free time, learning is a continuous process and not something that you do once when you where 20.
That's a sensible reason, sure, but I'd rather declare it with an actual type instead.