skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For something in a similar vein, but perhaps more approachable, check out The Computational Beauty of Nature (http://www.amazon.com/The-Computational-Beauty-Nature-Explor...).
Planned and carried out in secrecy and universally decried afterwards. When it came to light, the President more or less wanted the CIA's head on a pike. Quite different from ongoing secret-but-not-secret torture with a ton of defenders in the public eye and two Presidents who either defend it or try their best to ignore it.
Here's the clickable link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSS2GdaUJQg
more important than sound, add a random gut splatter. The most satisfying thing about stepping on cockroaches is trying to send the gut fluids as far as possible. The sound is hardly heard even on the crunchest ones.
I liked the job posting but thought the list of requirements is very specific. JavaScript, Python, and Linux are the only things on that list that look like they should be a deal breaker for you. Everything else can be covered in a soft requirements list such as "have experience with web development (client and server side), relational databases, and queueing/caching". This gives people who have experience with the core of your stack an indication that they fit your main requirements. Of course you might only want people who fit your requirements 100% but I think you're getting into Unicorn territory at that point.
They should file with the UN for religious persecution.
Funnily enough, for the past year I've been using TPB pretty much for finding very specific versions of Linux distros
Kool kid won't care, they're already builds next big thing with nodejs anyway..
Ask HN: How is karma calculated?
Hi everyone, I was just wondering how karma is calcutated here at HN.

I was sitting at -42 karma, over a dumb comment I made that was heavily downvoted. I posted a link today, that has not been upvoted at the time of this writing, and I'm now back at 1 karma.

How did this happen? How is karma calculated?
yes, i understand that.

what i meant was that, if you wanted to use less common words, all you would have to do is look up a word in the dictionary.

besides, whilst many people may only know 8000 or so words, the set of 8000 would vary significantly, i'd imagine.
Fair. Edited to attack the words rather than the person.

I imagine this thread is all sorts of "fun" for you right now....
No, that's a common misconception. The policy (and practice) have always been as the guidelines say; that's why we changed this story's title from the baity original to "Moss Graffiti". Perhaps I'll add this info to my remark above.

I think the reason for the misconception is mostly sample bias. People don't see most of the cases that get silently fixed and/or don't realize that we fixed them. Only the ones that seem wrong stand out.
Very nice site - if that's indicative of the framework (and it surely is), this one will be worth checking out.
I don't understand, how can you blame the citizens for this, when they were ignorant, against their will, about this?

When the institution that is performing these acts out-and-out lies about the impact and severity, how can random citizens be held accountable? That honestly makes no sense to me.
I wouldn't use make for file watching and live reloading. I would express the Sass and CSS dependencies in a Makefile, and then describe the dev server, file watching[1], and live reloading[2] processes in a Procfile, using something like foreman[0].

[0]: http://ddollar.github.io/foreman/
[1]: http://entrproject.org/
[2]: https://www.npmjs.org/package/livereload
Interesting that the dailymail looks and reads like the onion only it pretends to be for real:

The chips do not error check each other but instead perform
exactly the same tasks, so that they can check the other for errors.
It depends who you are and what your Internet connection is. Usually you rent it from your ISP or hosting provider; prices vary but it should be less than $1/month/IP. Note that you don't own these addresses; you're just renting them from the ISP that owns them.

If you are an ISP (which I'm guessing you aren't) you can get them from ARIN/RIPE/APNIC/etc. or buy them which is a more complicated topic.
The payment is processed by Stripe [1], a PCI Service Provider Level 1.

[1] https://stripe.com/checkout
The only people who are restricted from reading classified documents are those who hold government security clearances. Folks who haven't bound themselves to that particular machine cannot be told what they can and cannot read.
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My only experience is with Mazda's DSC (dynamic stability control) which I had in a previous car (Mazda RX-8). I had a couple of cases where I forgot to turn off DSC, because in that car you have to switch it off EVERY time you start the car, and the power would be completely cut to both wheels going up steep snowy inclines.

For most conditions like rain it's great for the average driver.

DSC caught me off guard a couple of times in dry/rain and one time almost caused me to lose control. But in all cases it was because I accidentally left it on while driving "enthusiastically" and wasn't expecting the DSC to yank the car abruptly and unnaturally in its attempt to straighten the car out.
Whoa, it's certainly been a while. Cool to see that people are still working on this.
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is 0.1 seconds improvement a big deal? Especially on mobile/g3 that is lost in the noise. By comparison, pages right here on HN routinely take 10+ seconds to load for me, even on a gigabit uplink.
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Do try to do it and tell us how many different servers were connected in just one web surfing session where you visit all the sites you visit in one day.

I can give you an example of a single page: I've just opened www.yahoo.com and counted 23 https connections and 7 http to different IP adresses. I've removed the multiple connections to the same IP from this count which would otherwise be bigger. Two of those doesn't even have reverse DNS entry.

Then think about the fact that the malware regularly appears in the content of the otherwise "approved" adds. You just don't have the metadata to recognize those.
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A hidden service is still centralised though, right? Given the current chasing of The Pirate Bay, I'd expect this hidden service to get the same scrutiny as The Silk Road.

My take on The Silk Road was that whilst it was quite possibly bad operational practice that took it down, it could have yielded to traffic analysis. I'd expect the same fate of Tor Pirate Bay.
I'm gonna say yes - not killing them in cold blood execution style but in the sense of them being a valid target. If you're in a position to torture/rape someone, you've already neutralized them as a threat by capturing them. Shooting or bombing someone is not necessarily OK, but while the person is at liberty they could in theory be about to shoot your or engineer some other sort of attack - the operation to assassinate Admiral Yamamoto in WW2 being a good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vengeance

On the other hand, torture isn't something that people do because they feel they have to, but rather because they can. Since all the accumulated evidence to points to it being a poor way to to gather intelligence information, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that it's just way of being vindictive or sadistic instead, something that we find deplorable in other contexts. I think it's considered deplorable because such feelings are quite common but the majority of us make the effort not to act upon them.
Here's a clickable link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSS2GdaUJQg
Sad that the issue was closed with a 3 paragraph long diatribe laced with venom. For someone that talked a lot about taking the high road from a PR perspective, Solomon has certainly not missed an opportunity to get really worked up in various forums over this.
Hopefully ORION has a better battery life than my phone
Transactional installs are an advantage. I m trying to understand & brainstorm if any disadvantages exist especially with instances with multiple copies of every subcomponent.

* Transactional updates across instances: Let's say I have app, web, db, and some other roles of servers. How can I ensure all coordinating sets of instances to get updated altogether or not? For example, I don't want my app servers end up with a previous version of postgres adapter while my database is already updated.

* Memory requirements: does the approach increase the total memory requirements?

* Security: do we need to rely on a 3rd party for updates or can we still compile or own subcomponents? ( We had to in recent bash vulnerabilities)

* Security: If every image sits with its own copies and versions of each subcomponent, do we end up having to prepare a permutation of different images to ensure all is fine?

* Updates: Does it make integrators get lazier and end up with a lot of obsolete or non-improved versions of many subcomponents?

* Architecture: Do we give up the idea of reusable shared building blocks at this level of abstraction (sub-instance)?
Wow, that looks beautiful!
Look at the literature and try to find convincing evidence that high cholesterol causes heart disease. I've never seen it. They keep looking for new fractions of cholesterol that will finally show significance but they never question their Bayesian prior assumption. Many drugs lower cholesterol and show now reduction in mortality. Statins (last I read) were alone in this. The logical conclusion is that statins do not achieve this effect through cholesterol reduction.
You know, the thread is not as bad as it could easily have been. It's problematic, of course, but not off the scale.

Thanks for respecting the guidelines. It matters a lot for established users to set good examples.
As seen on http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/37.

Some prior discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7334778

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8241039

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8444077
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Yes. We can't just keep whining "come on, guys, you really ought to stop" to our leaders. This is happening in our names, and our hands are dirty. Stopping this is our own responsibility.
The article seems to assume that there will be one researcher or research organization producing one AI. This makes it reasonable to propose asking it a super-special question that reduces the risk.

It's more likely that armies of researchers will be competing to create quantities of ever-smarter AI's: for trading stocks, diagnosing illness, or managing enterprises. We have AI systems now which try to detect fraud--conceivably fraudsters could create AI systems to more cleverly hide fraud. Any of these efforts could lead to a "chain-reaction" of AI extension, which the author terms an explosion.
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Or get an injunction against Apple and Google to stop distributing the apps.
Appears your correct.

>> "They explained to us that a key part of OVH’s growth strategy is growing their US business, including establishing a data center on the west coast, and attracting more US customers with an offering they call Dedicated Cloud."

http://dailycloud.info/european-web-hosting-giant-ovh-target...
Abstract:

"In two online studies (total N = 1215), respondents completed personality inventories and a survey of their Internet commenting styles. Overall, strong positive associations emerged among online commenting frequency, trolling enjoyment, and troll identity, pointing to a common construct underlying the measures. Both studies revealed similar patterns of relations between trolling and the Dark Tetrad of personality: trolling correlated positively with sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, using both enjoyment ratings and identity scores. Of all personality measures, sadism showed the most robust associations with trolling and, importantly, the relationship was specific to trolling behavior. Enjoyment of other online activities, such as chatting and debating, was unrelated to sadism. Thus cyber-trolling appears to be an Internet manifestation of everyday sadism."
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That's pretty crazy. Given certain applications, you're pretty much creating actual items out of thin air. Like for instance, if you can create a screwdriver-shaped thingy that is "feelable" enough that you can actually turn a screw with it, then... you don't really need an actual screwdriver. Plus you can just make it disappear into thin air when you're done with it.
The democrat and republican sides disagree on basic facts,
such as whether torture worked in extracting information,

That is not a 'basic fact' that any of the people involved in the report is qualified to determine from the records.

Whether torture 'works' is highly subjective. Why was certain information given? How correct was the information? How relevant was the information to preventing (further) criminal activity? And even if you could assess the upside, there is still the downside to compare to it.

Do you want to live in a country where hundreds of people may be detained for years without trial, without recourse, while being tortured, because one of them may at some point give up some information that may prevent some future criminal activity?

You say

Torturing one known criminal to extract information that could save dozens
(or hundreds) of innocents is unsavory to say the least, but it's better
than the alternative.

but that's a false dichotomy. In actual fact you would have to torture many criminals to extract information that saves lives. And the torturing, and having the ability to torture, has a cost. How do you quantify that cost and judge it less than the lives saved? Because if you allow torture, police will use it on every criminal. If you ever get arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, you will get tortured, because you may know something about other people that were there. And they won't believe you if you say you don't know them. And it could take a while to sort that out.
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I was shocked listening this morning that only 58 seconds of every 5 hour preschool day are spent on math.

In my experience, elementary school teachers tend to be soft-skills people who primarily just love working with young children. Many didn't enjoy math, felt they were bad at it, and would prefer to teach children reading and writing. And because elementary schools have one teacher guide the same group of children through all four core subjects instead of specializing in one subject (like middle or high school teachers) the teacher's less-preferenced subjects get less time.

Source: former (public) high school science teacher
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Those are decent points, but I'd think Io.js would have more reasons.

First of all, if you implement a polyfill in JavaScript, it'll be translated into pretty fast native code. But even if it didn't, most(?) of Node's core libraries are written in plain JavaScript and presumably are as fast as any module in npm. Take a look: https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/lib/buffer.js

And if you really want optimized native code, npm supports that out of the box. I kinda dislike npm modules that require a compilation step, but they're out there.

As for robustness, there's nothing stopping one to making robust node modules that are not in the core.
There was a particularly egregious example near the end that a simple Google search definitively found only one copy.
Those are still abusive relationships, that he established with his prisoners. Just not physically abusive.
"Yes, this is innovative, but there is also a concept known as antitrust laws."

I'm curious what exact antitrust concept you think this violates.
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Some feedback:

- The PICK button was unresponsive until I F5ed

- I have no clue what measure vs attribute is about.

- Got logged out (session expired) twice.

- Tried BIME Desktop, got confused by the lack of a latitude/longitude value type (string or date only?)

- Couldn't upload a .raw file or a .txt file, had to rename to .tsv (but it still autodefaulted to CSV even though the extension was tvs)

- After I managed to change visualization type to "map", I was completely stuck. Again, where do I say "these are the coords, these are my user IDs, and these are the values I care about"?

It looks promising though, but being an early adopter surely sucks :(
smart move for twitch. they have a platform, an audience and some among the top performers in the scene.
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I worry for you, and I hope you get to see people who do the right tests and scans and help you.
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Depends how old the kid is. If he's four then all you can say is that some grown-ups were really mean to each other when they shouldn't have been. If he's a bit older, maybe you can relate it to some other questionable behavior, like why do criminals commit crimes instead of being good, or conversely why do we bother going through a trial before throwing bad people in prison or shooting them. There's a psychological theory that violence often results from the psychological distress encountered when the real does not confirm with the imaginary, but the very length of this thread shows that these things are difficult to process for adults, never mind children.
TL;DR: Orion uses rad-hardened chips, which are usually very slow compared with commodity hardware. But it also runs super-optimized and highly specialized code.
I made an account and checked it out, but I don't think I'm going to use it. I just don't get much out of it that I can see right now.

Something I immediately noticed: I'd like to have the ability to filter by diversified accounts. If I am looking at someone that gained 50% over the last year, and 91% of their holdings are 1 stock, I don't really gain anything. They bought shares in Tesla a couple of years ago. That's fine, but what do I get out of knowing that? Several members of your top group are like that.

When I open up 'professional investors' and go to an individual account, there isn't an easy way that I can see to go back to the overall view of professional investors, and going back sends me to the week's top performers window. I don't really want to go there at that point.

What might be useful for me too is a way to see what the professionals listed have invested in tracked over time, based on their past filings. It'd be interesting, anyway.
Thanks for the information (fascinating!). A gravitational fly-by of Sirius B would be crazy.

Straight-shot trajectory (and/or gravitational assist) would be the simplest way to get the ship there, but other constraints might force one to "stop and refuel":

* Energy needed to maintain life for duration of journey (e.g. hibernation) may exceed what you can store in one "charge" for your ship.

* Instead of 3D trajectory travel, perhaps the energy needed to "warp" or establish a worm-hole is proportional to the distance being travelled.

* Or, perhaps, the reliability and precision of calculated trajectories breaks down after certain distances; forcing a series of "hops" vs. a single trajectory in order to make the journey safe/reliable.

* Time may factor in. You may have enough energy, but perhaps components of the ship can't be expected to operate without error/failure for such long times. In that case, "stopping to refuel" might include expected repairs as well.

All hand-wavy a bit, but interesting to think about.
In a fully decentralized environment, you would need to somehow know who to trust and make some karma/feedback in a decentralized way.

Given that PGP's web of trust never really caught on, I am not sure if this would work.

But maybe it would and I am just too pesimistic.
SJWs infiltrating every single group on earth instead of voicing their opinions in groups related to their cause.
Language lawyer note: std::random_device isn't guaranteed to be hardware-based, or anything in particular:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/random/random_devic...

(GNU libstdc++ will use rdrand if possible, otherwise it will read from /dev/urandom: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob_plain;f=libstdc%2B...)
i'm not sure how to contradict this since it seems orthogonal to my point. I don't know those programs and can't tell which aspects of them you consider unmodelable. A human designed system could be stupidly designed but as long as the design doesn't change randomly, you can model it.
Yeah I'm not sure I understand your point. I understand that web surfing generates a ton of connections and I don't think that you can pick a packet out of the pile and say that one is the bad one. I've made that fairly clear. I don't even think we disagree. So I'm confused about what you're trying to get at?
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Wow. I'd love to see these treacherous "onmousedown" handlers that substitute the link on Google site gone! Especially on the RIGHT click.

Actually, I could never understand, why Google substitutes the link with the redirect on the RIGHT click. It is necessary when you LEFT click, the page looses control and it doesn't matter much for users anyway. But WHY do it on the right click? When the user RIGHT clicks the link, the user needs the ORIGINAL link! And the user IS NOT leaving the page. Google is free to record a right click. And yet, instead of just recording the right click Google mangles the link instead. WHY? Just evil/stupid? or I'm not understanding some hidden wisdom here?
Not sure why parent is being downvoted. I personally know several rich (corrupt?) people from China who have bought or are actively shopping for homes here in the SF bay area. They still work & live in China, but from what they've told me, their goal is to

1) Buy a house for their kids studying in the US;
2) Launder their money;
3) Own a property outside of China as an investment;
4) Have a safe house in case they need to flee the country.

The bay area is a popular choice for such people due to the high concentration of Chinese immigrants / Chinese Americans already living here.

I'm not passing judgement, just presenting facts from personal experience.
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Mandatory Turing morphogenesis : http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2014/march/turingpnas.html
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Or, alternatively, instructions for how to grow and cut your own moss-mat to reproduce the photos.
Thanks. It was worth a shot. Which version of GCC are we talking about?