skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are again assuming incompetency with gathering data.
Your counter example is about non-chronic condition (common cold) so it doesn't really relate as the evidence is stronger with chronic conditions. With gluten and gluten-free you can also go back and forth and see how things change. Also bloating isn't a vague symptom. You can put measuring tape to your belly and see the numbers.
it's like playing Sudoku merged with Minesweeper, I really enjoy it!
Frank Serpico: The police are still out of control
Thank you for locating this.

After reading, I'm not sure what to think. I do not have the subject matter familiarity necessary to take a position on his claims, nor does he cite anything other than personal experience and his own research.

If his historical claims with regard to homosexuality are correct, then I can say with great certainty that his other claim as to how these facts will be interpreted in the modern climate is distressingly right.

Worth noting that he takes no position on the rights of homosexual couples. The only value judgement made therein is that (assuming the information used to reach this conclusion is correct) that historically, homosexuality been associated with some pretty ugly and downright evil things.

If they're not correct, then this amounts to a very, very disgusting and ugly smear piece worthy of groups like the infamous Westboro church.

So now I wonder.. which is it?

If it weren't for the Eich/Mozilla thing from a few months ago, I'd have looked at these claims a lot less skeptically coming from a technologist who's intimately familiar with logic, and who would necessarily place facts above all else when it comes to arguing a point. That's not a thing I can do anymore, especially considering the tendency of actual bigots to couch their own personal prejudices in superficially-correct-sounding scientific language.
It's fairly common for x-platform; otherwise it just shows screenshots from the developer's main machine, which tends to be a mac these days.

[edit] And it's clear from the about section of the home-page that the developer uses windows, since he credits other's for the Mac & Linux support.
>Boogiemen like the belief that humans are more than collections of atoms and random emergent behaviors?

"Behind all of these dehumanizing practices is the idolization of science, an attitude that results in the attempt to reduce all things to the level at which they will be fit objects for study according to the canons of natural science. The massive material success of science has made it seem to many a panacea. It suffices to claim that a thing must be attempted for the sake of science in order to silence all abjections. Nonetheless, although the achievements of science are in themselves great and great are its benefits to mankind, it is absurd to believe that science is man's highest good, let alone the highest good in itself" (Hildebrand, "On Science Fetishism").

Now the Almighty demands,
"Why do this people approach
With their mouth and their lips,
To pay honour to Me,
While their heart is far off?
Their reverence is worthless to Me;--
It teaches the doctrines of men!

"So on this Race I lay wonders,
Add wonders to wonders,
Destroying its scientists' science,
And baffling its scholars' researches."
Fools! Is the Formed thought its Framer?
Can the Work tell the Workman, "You never made me?"
Or the Made tell its Maker, "You do not know how?"

Isaiah 29:13-16

>Once again the light of reason continues to chase away humanity's ancestral boogiemen.

"It is a characteristic symptom of immaturity to feel oneself more mature and independent than men of previous times, to forget what one owes the past, and, in a kind of adolescent self-assertion, to refuse any assistance" (Hildebrand, "On Temporal Parochialism").
It's actually very difficult to comply with, but that's a topic for a different conversation. That spreadsheet you keep of customer orders that you've mailed goods to from your personal eBay business? Definitely not Privacy Act-compliant.

Either way though as written it works well enough, the government was never going to raise privacy above the level of gaining military intelligence needed to win in World War 3, or to completely stop law enforcement investigations. Accordingly the Privacy Act would contain exemptions allowing for warrants to still work, if nothing else.

But this doesn't mean that the data, once captured by a warrant, need not be protected by privacy controls in accordance with the Privacy Act, and I think this is the argument Google is making, that the government should apply at least the same standards of data protection to data captured on foreign individuals (however it's captured) as it does to data captured on citizens. Additionally, if the government treats foreigners as if they were protected by Privacy Act it might also reduce the number of ways in which the government could compel production of evidence on those foreigners, especially data held by U.S. companies.

Privacy Act was never meant to prevent the collection of evidence for investigations, or to prevent legally-obtained evidence from being used in legal or administrative proceedings, but those are not the only protections Privacy Act gives, so applying it to aliens could well be a net gain. IANAL though, hopefully someone else can explain what exactly Google is going after here.
If you send three grayscale images, each one taken through a different colored filter, you can reconstruct a color image back on earth by setting the red channel, green channel, and blue channel of the image to be each one of the colored filters you used to capture the image.

This isn't a grayscale image that our brain perceives on color, but rather several grayscale images, each colored separately to combine into a color image.

I seriously doubt an actual effect exists that makes us believe black and white images are actually colored.
With respect, I don't think you're reading my comment closely enough. I'm not saying that being a member of a protected class protects someone from being fired. I'm saying that a company is likely going to be more careful, and there is an added burden, to be able to demonstrate that that person was not fired in connection with being in that class.
Why are you having such trouble getting libpng to work? Is it the target environment or using the API?
And his thoughts in retrospect: "I wrote these a long time ago. I was much more naive then about the craft of software engineering, so proceed with caution." http://www.defmacro.org/

For what it is worth, his articles about Lisp are among the things that got me interested in Lisp, and I still like Lisp.
Some people love their work. Also, not everyone has an offer on hand for when they want out.
oh, this is such a great response to a question that I didn't think anyone would be able to answer - thank you!

I'll have to go study FsControl now ;)
This seems hard, but I think that's your big advantage (business-wise).
> We had a handful of meetings between with their business development team and executive teams, and their engineering team did a thorough technology review of Groove.

I'm curious, why would you let them do a thorough technology review of your startup in the first place? (Edit: Because it can be dangerous)
Object-Oriented Java DynamoDB SDK
Today's Youth and Tomorrow's Technology
While you have been down voted for expressing your "nope" opinion. I think a proper way to handle this would be to add some sort of warning/tag before posting links to content which may shock/offend etc.
rows three and six are identical
Lisp's macro system is so powerful that it actually turned out to be the 'curse' of Lisp:

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

However I wouldn't call it "curse" but merely the truth that Lisp programmers need a lot of self discipline to write maintainable code.

Lisp was one of the first languages I learned at university (also Pascal and Ada). Afterwards I learned almost every other new programming language. Lisp and the Scheme dialects are still the most powerful languages of all, to this day.

People who are intimidated by such a raw power should take a look at Nim (nim-lang.org). It takes the best of several modern languages and it also has an amazingly convenient and powerful macro system. For instance:

template repeat * (body: stmt): stmt {.immediate.} =
block:
while (true):
body

template until * (cond: expr): stmt {.immediate.} =
block:
if cond:
break

var i=0
repeat:
echo i
i += 1
until i==7
Why Weren’t Alarm Bells Ringing?
By "democracy" you mean "republic", and it's long been known, and was remarked upon by our Founders, that they only work with a moral people. Which we are clearly no longer. We're steadily transitioning into other forms like empire and oligarchy because of that.
The most common way to avoid timing side channel attacks is to write the procedure in C or ASM in such a way that there are no data-dependent differences in execution path. You've probably seen e.g. the memcmp that doesn't exit early. This attack is a little different in that it's not that different instructions are executed, it's that different memory access patterns take different amounts of time. For that, you can maybe change the implementation to not have any data-dependent array accesses, or maybe you can do things with prefetching to make the memory accesses constant time.

An approach where you watch the clock will be inherently less portable and actually much harder. Not only will the timing calls be hardware or OS specific, but so will the worst-case time. Imagine having to deal with a chip going into low power mode during your computation. Also you probably don't want to count time that your thread wasn't scheduled to run, so now you're talking about integrating with the scheduler.
Reving Up C Applications with DataDraw Databases
https://www.mopidy.com/
So you are an Amazon board member and you receive this letter.

The letter is said to be directed to you in confidence. It is not. It is openly published on scribd for all the world to see.

The letter is said to be written by an ex-executive of the company. It is not. Or, if it is, it is written in a style that has "lawyer-written" stamped all over it.

The person making the claims is saying he is doing this to uphold company values but is far from disinterested. If he was fired for whistleblowing, that is wrongful and he gets large damages. Otherwise, not. So, maybe it is sincere and maybe not. But who knows?

The person also waited two years to write this letter. Does this undercut its premise that its goal is to correct wrongdoing? Or was it now put out opportunistically to further some litigation goal instead? Again, who knows?

Ditto for a complaint being made just now to the Washington agency responsible for fraud. Why now and not earlier if the problems were serious and pressing?

Then too, the alleged victim (Discover Card) is hardly a naive consumer, knows how to defend itself, and had known enough about this to ask questions going as far back as 2012. Is there, then, less than meets the eye concerning the claims of its having been overtly cheated?

Everything stated in this letter may be true and damning as it appears. I don't know what happened, nor do I know the people involved. But I do know when something is framed insincerely and this letter is framed insincerely. It may all be true but its style and timing do not ring true.

This has to have another side to it, in my view, and it is wrong to take it as self-evidently true without hearing that other side. What we have now is only a one-sided story that is heavily slanted in its presentation.

Certainly if I were a board member to whom this was purportedly directed, I would be highly skeptical. I would assume instead that I was not even the intended audience for the letter. And I would probably be right.
Please don't blame the victim. How would you feel if you applied for a job, and worked there for three months, and then your manager told you that you'd have to have sex with him to get your job, regardless of your merit for the role?
Reliable network interaction on mobile is enormously difficult if you are trying to deploy code globally: each MNO mangles your packets in its own special way. Good to see tools like this, wish there were more, but the other half of the picture is empirical data on how particular pathological networks behave (I don't mean "EDGE", I mean "EDGE in poor coverage on MTN in Afghanistan"). Haven't found any real information, even in general terms, along these lines. Pointers welcome.

This area would be a great place for someone like Internet.org to add value, and they've announced some related work, but nothing seems real yet.
Why 5 cent charges for plastic bags work
This occurs to me every day that I enter someone's birthday in my contact list so that I get the nice birthday warning on my calendar. Google has crowdsourced the production and cross-checking of a very valuable data set to the people, and we're more than willing to fill in the blanks for them.

How many people have weev in their contact list? How many of those people have notes about Mr. Auernheimer in their contact entry (phone number, relatives, pets, favorite colors, etc.) that weev would rather not be accessible to anyone electronically? Multiply this by everyone with things to hide.
Kim Kardashian Paper Mag / Nacktbilder
Judge: Bomb victims can't seize Iran's domain name as compensation
It would be better if I could set red or blue with one click rather than having to cycle through. Some UI like this, where X is Red and O is blue:

_______
| \X|
| \|
|\ |
|O\_____|
```````

Tapping the red or blue corner of an unset gray tile would would set the tile to the tapped color, and tapping a red or blue tile would unset it back to gray.

Also, the "fixed" tiles of the puzzle need to be presented in a different style from the "dynamic" tiles the user can set.

Is there a GitHub repo for this?
Best Free Offline GPS App for Android from HERE
I'm glad someone found my rant interesting and I'm happy the this discussion is becoming part of the public dialog in other places as well.

> [...] if these people are genuinely in fear of their lives, if they're running away from somewhere, why are they not claiming asylum in the first peaceful, developed country they arrive at?

Sorry but that's totally unrealistic. You're making assumptions that do not hold in real life. A refugee which will seek asylum from Greek/Italian authorities will end-up 99.99% in a concentration camp. He might very well be beaten first. Police brutality in Greece is renowned.

> There are slum-like camps in some parts of northern France that are full of people trying to find a way to smuggle themselves over the sea to the UK. This makes little sense to me, unless they are really economic migrants, not refugees at all.

They just try to go, to the place which they believe will be better for them. They might have a family, or some sort of link there, or they just heard from someone that it's better in London.

> Perhaps we should have some sort of europe-wide policy, where people must declare as soon as they arrive in the EU, and then each country agrees to take a quota so that the southern/eastern countries aren't swamped.

Perhaps it should be, or (given the raise of right-wing anti-EU all over Europe[1]) maybe it's just too late. The EU was marketed as something, but clearly turned out to be something else.

[1] Marrie-Lepen in France (clearly anti-EU), Syriza (is pro-EU officially, but there is a strong left-wing anti-EU segment inside the party) in Greece, Grillo in Italy (clearly anti-EU), UKIP in the UK (clearly anti-EU), not sure about 'Podemos' policy towards EU in Spain but they can't be very positive.
> For those of you brave souls who downvote me. I'm wondering which part of my statement you disagree with.

This part:

> I want to have absolutely nothing to do with such a degenerate.
"So, you'd like a CloudenHeatenDevicenGlaven in your haus, ja?"

"Yep."

"That ... does not sound German to me."

"Yeah, well, ... "

"I think you are a spy. Looking to take advantage of our generosity, ja? Und maybe in ze middle of the nacht you installen the spying thing on our box, mit your little NSA spying thing?"

"Haha! Those don't exist. The NSA? That actually stands for No Such Agency, dude. I mean, freund ... fraud ... you know, ich bin ein jelly donut and all that."

"You are sure you are not this spy?"

"Yep, er ... ja."
It's at least useful as the input to a heat exchanger.
Maybe not the place to ask, but why is Calculator part of the core OS?
How's this for an idea: by law, many/all HR duties in corporations larger than X, must be conducted by independent, outside firms hired by the original corporation. They would be like tax auditor firms or credit card security auditors, but more involved.

This way, HR would more likely be incentivized to work for both employee and employer (because they are audited themselves), except in extreme corrupt cases. HR practice would also become a lot better, as it became more competitive and profitable. People with more knowledge of labor law and history would thrive. Yes, there would still be stooges working in these outside HR firms, but at least they would stooge for the real laws in place rather than corporate policies.
This situation certainly wasn't your fault, but that manager raped your girlfriend -- using a threat of employment loss to extract sex from her. He put her in a very tough position that few people would be able to overcome.
"Report to the President
and the
Attorney General"
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/102922NCJRS.pdf
"Organized Crime and the Meat Industry: A
Study in Competition "

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2m3avv/i_am_mike_rowe_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jackson_(gangster)

It was partially sarcastic, partially not. In 2014, its about as relevant as complaining about links between the Mafia & Unions. They used to be connected in places but it was relatively small scale (e.g. local) and not on the scale people like the parent claimed.
Be very careful thinking that they would not have attempted to prosecute them and/or punish the company for doing so. The wonderful fun of these secret courts, that we are stuck with for the moment, is that everything the do is stuck under gag order. You have to deal with the prospect of an angry judge or prosecutor at that point, and don't discount the likelihood of them being vindictive.
Cameras talk to each other to identify, track people
I am not the OP. Just commenting on this

> Scala has been throwing out bad features in pretty much every single release for the last 5 years.

You cannot throw out features in a language with the community size C# has, otherwise you just get another Python 3.0.
Depends on what their definition of "thorough" is - it's very standard to have architectural and design discussions pre-term sheet. However, you defer any deep dive into code or structure or "secret sauce" until a term sheet is signed and you're in the due diligence process (and typically you'll have a neutral third party due any direct code reviews).
I think the important here was to learn how to make an app suitable to all platforms (almost feeling as native) in a fraction of the time using meteor, a powerful new tool. The oportunities will come to use it in a useful way. I'm all-in with meteor also. Keep the good work.
While this is clearly the wrong decision, one has to applaud the Go team for building `go fmt` and thus putting and end to unproductive discussions about formatting. (Although it would have been nice if `go fmt` didn't change code semantics.)
Because they wanted an exit? Or because the other party asked nicely!!!
Use Chrome users to manage multiple online brands
I'm not trying to interpret him, just to answer the question about whether there's evidence that his thoughts have evolved.

Here's a more recent example:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5651

The only analysis I'll give for it is that I was also disturbed by the idea of Eich being forced out, but would never donate a penny to organizations fighting marriage equality; two wrongs can't make a right.

OK I give up.

I find his thoughts on race to be alarming, too.

It's hard for me to reconcile the idea that ESR's beliefs are germane and troubling with the principle of tolerance for other people's beliefs. But: I think there's something substantively and intrinsically disturbing about the specific things ESR says. I don't think I'd have trouble being friends with someone who opposed marriage equality. But I do have trouble with what ESR says about LGBT people. It might be the whole package of positions that ESR takes, not just about LGBT issues but about race, politics, &c.

I have friends with very conservative beliefs (though none, to my knowledge, have ever argued that homosexuality is inextricably bound with pederasty). But none of them have a cohesive worldview in which their own attributes just happen to define the ideal human, compared against which all nonconformant humans are inferior. ESR, on the other hand...
Interesting comment in the article - someone said that it would instructive to see what would happen if the court had handed the domain over. The rest of the world would view the update as a global attack on the integrity of the DNS system and start ignoring DNS updates from the US.

While I am not 100% convinced that this would actually happen (it might, but might not), it would at least be technically possible to change what everyone in the US sees when they look a .ir domain. Could have been a popcorn moment.
That or the NSA could simply stop indiscriminate spying of the general public.

Why not solve the actual problem instead of making small amendments that at best serve as a sales arguments for Google in Europe?
The solution is obvious: all software development needs to be classified as a utility and regulated under Title II.
PDF submissions get mirrored to Scribd, as a YC perk. This submission was Scribd first.
What is there to refute? He presents no evidence of the claims.
Perhaps it does but I'm not convinced without evidence it happens and I can't find any that shows it happens the majority of the time let alone all the time :/
Oranges, Lemons and Forex
I'm sure you realise that you can lie about your kids' age on the Internet. I could understand if what you're after is a way to block chat or something like that but ticking a box is not a barrier to entry.
Again. You are making up words.

I never said all of the people.

I also said, that I felt that. The same way people feel better and we have no proof of it yet.

And I actually agree with you about some unknown side effects, but several of those people I've known have been shifting or adding the lasted new diseases/allergy and currently it looks like it's Celiac disease that is the trend.
If they go bankrupt, hey, free box!
Enplug Migrates from Rackspace to Peak Hosting, Cutting Costs by 50 Percent
The average daily absolute price change for the past year is 0.89%, and the maximum was 5.27%. I contend that to all intents and purposes this "elaborate hoax" had no effect at all.
I don't think most people on HN are making over $100k unless they are in the Bay Area or NYC.

Many, many places that "starting salary" is more like $50-60k.
In particular, a lot of applications will work fine if there is no network access, or if there is great network access, but will crash and burn when, for example, it can access url A but not url B. (the network equivalent of "if not exists(file): fallback() else: file.open()")
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