skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not sure who said, maybe it was Slavoj Zizek, about how if we are even debating "is torture right or what advantages it might have" we have already lost.<

Like most of what Zizek says, this doesn't survive even the slightest scrutiny. Not that I want to be seen as "pro-torture", but to dismiss it categorically, as Zizek does, is to fail to grapple with the more general ethical conundrum of collateral damage.

Harris discusses this quite effectively[0]. Basically boiling it down to (paraphrasing) "If you're against torture then you should be against any action that results in collateral damage."

[0]http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/why-id-rather-not-speak-a...
Yield strength for steel is about 5x that of wood's UTS, and the cross-section of a 2x4 is about 5x that of a 1-in bolt, so yeah wood is 'that' strong. Screws are typically used in a way that they are not carrying a static load -- basically just holding the structural wood in place. The static load in a structure is usually transferred wood-to-wood. When you do see steel carrying a load in a wooden building, it is generally surprisingly beefy-looking.
I'll just leave this link here

https://github.com/sunlightlabs/us-laws/issues/135#issuecomm...
Is Sony to blame for its susceptibility to cyber attacks?
You're mistaken here, in confusing the internet as a court of public opinion that it is not.

MIT (and all academic institutions) reviews cases in private. Behind closed doors. The same way the court system works. They make and deliver a judgement, after reviewing evidence. Doing so, protects the victims/claimants in cases. It's NOT "MIT is satisfied a person broke the policy," it's "MIT took time to review a complaint, deemed it was valid, and took action."

Filing a complaint RARELY means punishment will happen. Especially in situations of sexual harassment. In my case, my professor was never even admonished.

Grow. Up.
Yes. The whole point of that repo is for there to be a single issue for every new law starting 12 March 2014. That's all it does.

Doesn't hurt to have (yet )an(other) automated process showing what laws get passed.
Agree this is a problem, but if I'm making a list of companies I empathize with for being victimized by shady business practices, Wal-Mart comes in dead last.
How often do you expect this service to send out emails? Also, are you marketing to people looking for freelancers as well?
Yes, but it is better a Senior Techinical Architect that knows how to code. (But why wouldn't you start learning?, it's not that hard.)
I think Open-source governance is pretty relevant here as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_governance
I've just realized that it's curious how the cop pulled him over. Pretty sure tanks aren't fast enough or durable enough to make pursuit, and unless he stops firing while changing lanes, he likely strafed the cop getting off the road.

Frankly, I think the scenario is just too unbelievable. Perhaps a souped-up SWAT van clad with ablative plating and 12 inch thick laminated windshields, but definitely not just some ordinary cruiser.
That's none of your business. How people "describe" sexual harassment in casual conversation, is not how sexual harassment is judged against policies, rules, and in common-sense consideration when evaluating punishment for making choices that violated another person's boundaries.

Frankly: if the dynamic between two individuals is as such, that for one to walk into a room has been plainly stated to violate the imposed boundaries of another, THAT is harassment. Textbook. Harassment. That's what restraining orders are for.
Mitteldorf has an interesting take on programmed aging, which is to say the collection of theories suggesting aging is a evolved program that acts to shorten life because there is some very global selection advantage in it. It is worth reading as a counterpoint to the more common viewpoints of that school (such as the hyperfunction theory of aging that is a modern take on antagonistic pleiotropy in the context of programmed aging) espoused by some of the Russian gerontology community. There's a link somewhere in the article linked above.

Programmed aging is, however, a minority view in the aging research community as a whole. The consensus view is that aging is caused by an accumulation of unrepaired damage, though there are many factions and a lot of debate within that tent. Programmed aging seems to be gaining some ground, but it's rather hard to tell from the sidelines as some of the advocates (e.g. Blagosklonny and his views on mTOR) are very prolific in their publications.

Hormesis as a phenomenon to be measured and evaluated can stand apart from either of these views on aging for the purposes of evaluation and investigation of molecular mechanisms. It is a robustly demonstrated thing in animal models, though as for all these things translating those findings into human health is ever a challenge. For things like calorie restriction, exercise, and intermittent fasting, where hormesis is thought to play an important role, the human and rodent responses in the short term are very similar. There is a small mountain of papers on this topic - just go look at PubMed and search for hormesis and longevity.

Hormesis works because some forms of damage - such as mild oxidative stress - trigger repair responses that last long enough and are proficient enough to produce a net benefit in cell health throughout tissues. There is a dose-response curve to all of this of course. This is may be how you get a variety longevity mutants in nematode worms wherein they live longer if you either reduce or increase the flux of reactive oxygen species emitted from the mitochondria. Less means less damage and more means less damage because it produces more aggressive repair.

There are plenty of ways to damage tissue that will cause incremental damage over time, but are not hormetic, and will not produce benefits. It all depends on how the repair mechanisms handle the specific case in question.
GLSL-Projectron
Exploring AWS Lambda for the ThingFabric Portal
They could put the DRM ink marking over the part of the tinfoil that gets punctured - voila, one-use DRM.
Then it checks the number as you go to brew it. "Can't brew my coffee because the internet is down."
More importantly, it presumably can't apply any torque.
That's precisely why we own one. My wife and I not arguing every morning over who made the coffee and how is well worth the price we pay in K-cups.
If this is true... then I need to rethink a lot of my life choices... what is actually good for me?

Would love to hear the opinion of doctors/scientists on this...
One thing that might be able to help is to improve the incentives around security. If some more liability for misuse of systems fell on those who deployed those systems, then people would push harder for quality or pay for indemnification, and either way that puts more dollars toward stability.

That said, I'd note that I'm a more than a little concerned that it would be done horribly wrong if attempted.
I think Perl 6's killer feature is actually concurrency. P6 provides a number of ways to do reactive programming, channels, actor model semantics, etc. It even offers some new ways to approach modeling concurrency and asynchronous logic.

Here's a quick intro to supplies: http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/perl-6-supplies-...

Here's a more in depth exploration of Perl 6's concurrency features: http://jnthn.net/papers/2014-nlpw-reactive.pdf

If you want to use a dynamic language (albeit also offering optional static typing) with powerful concurrency options that doesn't also involve s-expressions, I think P6 might be one of the few options available. I'm not familiar with Ruby, but from what I've heard the default runtime has some limitations when it comes to concurrency, and while it's been a while since I used Python, I recall hearing that it also has some problems with handling concurrency.
The only racist person in this thread is you. And progressivism is a morally bankrupt enterprise whose existent is justified to cure the problems it creates.
Conan and YC's Tilt must be setting a crowdfunding record here
Amazed as well at how little value people place on digital goods. I've built a few apps & while 95% of people love them, we always get someone who decides for some reason that they want a $1 refund.

How many things out there do you blow $1 on and never think about it? Is it worth your time to claw back that type of money?
Probably easier than the current way of directly influencing legislation (for the average citizen)
And to add, it would be cool to put them in a repo when introduced, see history of where they are amended and by who, and then after they are passed see links beside each passage every time they are referenced in court.
I would love to use git blame and git cherry-pick!
I know several people who have architect titles that are horrible coders and over engineer everything they touch. None of them are as bad as your dream but none would be on my list of people to call when things need to get done now.
I'm sure having a Github account is a strong indicator for certain ideologies.
Quiz: Is the Cloud Right for Your Business?
The myth is always that either one illegally downloads or pays for it through channels. However, most people I know will pay for some content and not others. It's a question of value. Just because the illegal download costs $250 does not imply that people will pay $10 or $20 instead. The third (and oft-ignored) option is that they will simply find other content that is worth the expense (both monetary and effort).
We do a ton of Excel import/export in our web app. The day we moved to XLSX, every one of our users cheered because the reliability of our Excel related features improved dramatically.

The problem with XLS is that its internal format (called BIFF8) has no official specification. It has been reverse engineered to a great degree, but every implementation I've used outside of actual "excel.exe" has show stopping bugs that you will encounter at some point.

XLSX, on the other hand, has an actual published spec (OOXML). There is plenty of political strife surrounding OOXML, but at least we have a spec we can develop against. It has also been my experience that "simple" XLSX files can be constructed more reliably than their BIFF8 counterparts. Because XLSX files are XML internally, there are a great number of libraries that can be used to construct the required XML structures, while avoiding edge-case errors in composition that are inherent to reverse-engineered binary formats. At a bare minimum, software authors can use something like libxml to construct valid XML, rather than some ad hoc BIFF8 serializer.

FWIW, we use the axlsx gem for our Ruby app, and it hasn't let us down yet. It even supports some pretty eccentric Excel features like data validations.
When computer vision is used for such evil practices, I am at a loss for words. The music was PERFECT.

I wonder what Keurig 3.0 DRM will look like. Would it have some sort of chemical tagging ability which are only found in Keurig coffee? I'm surprised there isn't any public backslash over such predatory practices.

What's next? A bed that farts because you didn't buy the same brand of blankets and pillow? A toilet that won't flush because you didn't use their brand of cleaner?
http://www.rsnapshot.org/ might be what you are looking for. Set it up in cron and then you would be set.
Shocking lapse: Uber ignored complaint against delhi rapist driver
I actually have tried both metal and paper filters, and really prefer the paper ones! I think you end up with a bit less oil in the coffee, which I just happen to like better.
The son of a politician of Venezuela buys bankruptcy Bitcoin company HashFast
Guido Ochoa is a congressman from Venezuela.

The link with the story:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/12/mysterious-politician-steps-in-to-buy-bitcoin-startup-hashfasts-assets/

Link with the list of buyers of the assets:
http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=167269113&z=dd47dc64

The company the son has:
http://rncenlinea.snc.gob.ve/planilla/index/199676?anafinan=N&anafinanpub=Y&login=N&mostrar=INF
Econ Book Face Off: The Price of Inequality vs. House of Debt
Tell that to the legit torrents hosted on tpb
>The only racist person in this thread is you

>progressivism is a morally bankrupt enterprise

...
>I guess we should just train an RNN to output a caption so that it can tell us what it thinks is there. Then maybe the philosophers and cognitive scientists will stop telling us what our nets cannot do.

I wonder if he knew about the Stanford paper that demonstrates this? Or if he just guessed this would happen.

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/
Wow, I haven't learned that much in 20 minutes in years! Too bad this new found wisdom has such limited application for anything I'm actively involved with.
Ask HN: How should I create a unique id for entries that aren't incremental?
For example, right now when I'm creating boards (agile), it will create a new board and its id will be n + 1.

What is an efficient way of creating an ID where there won't be any collision even if there are 1 billion+ entries?

This ID will be used in a url..

Thanks,
Tim
> There's lots of math you can teach that isn't basic numbers though!

> Symmetries, commutativity, associativity, transitivity, basic algebra/equation solving, some geometry, etc.

And games. Even rock, scissors, paper (plus variants).
That's true. I'd be happy to learn how snappy is immune to random system failure, I just didn't see it in the write-up; need to research it more.
Incidentally, Snowdrift.coop is happy to have projects doing scientific research. The basic criteria are that 1) the project is producing some non-rival good, and 2) that good will be made freely available under an appropriate license (which basically boils down to the equivalent of one of CC0, CC-BY, or CC-BY-SA).

Government support works when you can get a majority of the people to agree they want something enough to pay for it. It works less well when the public good primarily serves the interest of a minority. In principle, even if government support was effectively tackling all the things it was appropriate for, there could be room for Snowdrift.coop in coordinating more niche things.
"In 2002, a detainee died of suspected hypothermia while "partially nude and chained to a concrete floor;" later, CIA leaders admitted they had "little or no awareness of operations" at the site in question. "

This is beyond horrific - the methods and the denial.
I almost (not really) want to buy a Keurig machine JUST so I can hack it. Side question: any of you use the term "K-Cups" instead of "Keurig cups"?
How about hashing the incremental?
Now I wonder how ids like imgur or youtube work.
and they are back in india.
$5 says they used self-signed certificates, which are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attack. Funny how I have to explain it to customers and implementation team that this will eventually happen.
There's no incentive to host a legal torrent on The Pirate Bay, except to "shield" illegitimate activity or for some kind of marketing stunt. With a legitimate torrent, here is no possibility of a legitimate takedown request, so it can be hosted on the originating sites or somewhere like the Internet Archive. Those locations will be more stable, and will not associate your product with illegal activity.

It's like knowingly depositing your money with the mob to invest in their money laundering business, and crying to the police when it's confiscated during a raid. Except not really, because the torrents probably all still exist.

TPB is a site for content piracy. Everything else is probably such a tiny margin of the site's use that it's not worth discussing.
If you look here, he's already doing that:

https://github.com/PresidentObama?tab=activity
It's nice to make it clear what distribution you're going to get from a PRNG, or what the performance characteristics are going to be. But for cryptographic randomness (the subtext of 'tedunangst's post), what you don't want are a bunch of knobs and dials. What you generally need is a guarantee that your RNG interface is feeding you data from the system secure random number generator --- either urandom or CryptGenRandom.

I'm also not sure what "hardware" has to do with that guarantee.

One example I can think of where a standard library got this right is Golang:

http://golang.org/pkg/crypto/rand/
Nice solution for corporate foolishness
If you think far Northern Alaska or Russia are anything like "The Real World" (as you call Manhattan), you need to get out more.
>It doesn't have to be in opposition to anything.

If it's not unusually flexible, why extol its flexibility?
With most other things, you know what you are getting. With software, you are not sure.

For this one, specifically, I'm not sure if I want my wallpapers to change all the time. Maybe it would have network issues. Maybe it would show ads. Maybe it has something malicious in the code. Or maybe changing wallpapers would sometimes make it hard for you to see the icons on your desktop.

Do you really want to pay for something with all of these uncertainties? Besides, writing a python script that would do the same might take half an hour, but it would be fun and you would know exactly what it's doing. This is in contrast to making coffee, which - at least for me - is anything but.
Nice.

From 2009-2011 I drove a Jeep Alaska->Argentina. Next year I'll set out on a lap of Africa, then after that I'll be driving my Jeep London->Australia.
K-cup® is their official name. I've never heard anyone use "Keurig cup" before. Is that a thing where you are?
3 days earlier was this article on him

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ralph-...

I see a pattern here with creative engineers:

1) Creative engineer comes up with an off-the-wall idea, it keeps bugging him, he makes a demo using spare resources

2) Shows demo to managers and superiors, they scoff and tell him to stop wasting his time

3) A couple of people he demoes it to, "get it"

4) Suddenly, thing catches on like wildfire

One thing he did differently is document and patent everything.
Reverse Racism – Being White in Asia
People disagree with Paul Graham? ;)
Imagine if we could analyze a current law (ex. Computer Fraud & Abuse Act) and tweak the parts that are being abused or used in a way that they weren't intended. Or each time a law is added (merged with Master branch) we could see who voted in favor of that law (i.e. greater transparency). Other countries could take our constitution/laws up to a certain point (commit) and then branch off and implement their own approach. There are many ways we could utilize git to improve how laws are created/modified/deleted.

Laws are just rules and processes humans have come up with in a best effort to guide society in the right direction, no different than code is just logic programmers come up with to direct servers and clients to interact in a desired way. We've realized the importance of version control in the software realm, it's time to take it's powerful properties and apply it to the political sphere.
I think there's actually room for Snowdrift even with a Basic Income - particularly if it's not a crazy high Basic Income.
> "I wonder what type of copy protection will come next?" one posting on alt.music.prince read. "Maybe they'll ban markers."

Instead, they shipped rootkits on music CDs. In hindsight, banning markers would have made too much sense.
Great app. Thank you.

Can we get a feature to favourite an artwork. And playback only favourites later.
Found a bug, sometime the artwork doesn't change, but a notification pops up. Could actually be a network delay!
I agree, but I don't know that it's even necessary for Keurig to go to court to realize the value of the DRM scheme.

Their weak DRM certainly serves as a deterrent to the average consumer, but even more so to the mainstream coffee distributors that have been selling "knock off" cups up to this point.

Community Coffee, which is a major roaster/distributor in the deep south, just caved and penned a licensing agreement with Keurig:

http://theadvocate.com/news/acadiana/10981551-123/community-...

Prior to the (negative) publicity surrounding the 2.0 launch, I didn't pay enough attention to notice that the Community Coffee K-cups I've bought (exclusively and in bulk at Sam's Club) for the three or four years that I've owned the machine weren't bonafide Keurig cups, but I think a typical consumer (and retailers, too) would likely be put off if the pods came with instructions for cutting the lid off an authentic Keurig cup and taping them onto the machine.

I'm betting every region has their version of Community Coffee and that Keurig will succeed in converting many of them into licensees. There might be negative publicity that is seen by those of us who care about such things, but on average, Keurig will come out ahead -- maybe without filing a lawsuit.
We (congress) knew more than vague generalities. According to Jose Rodriguez[1], administration and congressional leaders knew, approved, and were kept briefed throughout.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/todays-cia-critics-on...
What habits? There's nothing else google can see, they only track movements inside of recaptcha iframe. They have 0 information about how you browse web.
You mean it's inaudible for ALL the listeners. There is no subset of listeners that would be able to tell the difference between 24-bit and 16-bit listener with any type of statistical significance.
Speed. Always speed. Perl is still faster than every other scripting language out there.
Yes, you're right. Somehow I thought you were suggesting that the issue was posted by someone from CoreOS. My fault.

Nonetheless, I don't think it's written strongly at all. It's a succinct, plainly worded feature request. My favorite kind.
after reading ABOP, i did a lot of searching on L systems and found this amazing three.js library -- http://grow3.zyxxy.de/
And if you think that we (coders) use it to control a source code, that will be turned into a program, or platform..

Now, if the "source code" is projects, laws, discussions, and once this process reach some goal, this could be "compiled" and the resulting platform would be a full State managed in digital form..

Now imagine all this together with automation, the compiled platform (which is "The State") can launch given its program (legislation) not only a way humans control themselves but how automated systems can help us with that..

I mean besides something like robots, a police car would receive the new "program", so the cops would abide to the current legislation.. the car could have cameras and detect if crimes or other things happens, according to the program it has, the federal constitution, etc.. this is just a glimpse

In a IOT world, a government that had automated all of its platforms, machines, etc.. given a current state of a Government platform, a binary, that could flow and update everywhere, with the current laws
And the price to the environment, and the price to a relationship unable to handle a minor disagreement? Perhaps you haven't considered all the factors at play.
I feel dirty after reading this. Even if torture saves lives... so what? It is still torture. It is unacceptable.
what is S3?
> just like they do normally in their own physical store or gallery
Incremental IDs work best, but if you want you can hash a UUID which will work for your use case:

% uuidgen

B14818B6-4219-43BD-82EF-8421EC1AFBCF

% echo "B14818B6-4219-43BD-82EF-8421EC1AFBCF" | shasum -a 256

00ea501d47789ac5eb559f10d631b3f6df8f82b5cba9c1f9d234b705d89f1704
Which is a perfectly legitimate use of their debatably legitimate search engine
Really? That sounds... stupid.
C and Go are similar in design goals, but extremely different otherwise. As others have mentioned, Go has things like a GC that make development significantly simpler for apps that follow standard web patterns.