skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting takeaway was the final anecdote, indicating that a CIA operative traveling with diplomatic credentials had their bag test positive for explosive residue. It seems implicit that they actually had been carrying explosives (not currently) and it was important for the agent to have a plausible and consistent cover story.

So, US agents in Europe/Asia transporting explosives is of interest to the general public, I think.
How much of that is survival bias? We've only found a few timbers from the roundhouse buildings, and I don't think any of the old Germanic mead/feasting halls other structures still exist. In the American SW, adobe mud construction is worn down easily by rain, so is rebuilt often in order to persist, and neither traditional Hawaiian hale, made with thatched pili grass, nor sod houses would last 30 years without a lot of maintenance.

Certainly an igloo is a traditional architecture style where the result is meant to be thrown away.
As a Jew whose family tree mostly stops in 1941, I think understanding the psychology of Nazi (both the rank-and-file and their leadership) is extremely important. The Nazi phenomenon is not an anomaly, it arose from psychological biases and tendencies that people continue to exhibit today. The organizing principles and psychological dispositions of mass murder need to be understood in detail in order to be undermined. You can't just say "Nazis were monsters" and leave it at that, you'll end up very superficially stigmatizing the names and symbols of Nazi Germany without actually combatting the resurgence of similar movements.

For example, I suspect a significant portion of this website, in the right circumstances, could end up doing the same things as Eichmann. He didn't shoot anyone or even order anyone's death (and was very adamant about that point). Instead, he engineered deportations and seemed to enjoy the efficiency and elegance of the processes he designed. Eichmann wasn't particularly ideological or hateful. His motivation was to "succeed" and he did so on the terms of his society and generation.
Oh, and to be clear. When I argued for PEP 453 I was very explicitly against doing anything that meant pip wasn't upgradeable on it's own outside of the standard library release cycle.
I was generalizing cure to mean removal and preventative measure of cancerous cells. I don't think that most people who generalize these things to cure forget what cancer is.
It might be elegant on paper but I can't think of a nice way that Python could support something like that. Which is a shame I guess.
How did these criminals penetrate the ISP? Is there security footage? It should be no trouble to identify the perpetrators and have them arrested if their pictures are posted online.
>If they'd had a cheaper construction method that they estimated would last only a hundred years, say, would they have used it?

I believe they did have one and did use it - timber buildings. I think most ancient societies used timber but we don't see it now because it doesn't last. There's an article here on the find of "layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards" under London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22084384
I do. As long as it's not Facebook.
Naomi Klein is specialist in what? In my opinion she is just specialist in agitprop.
Why the maker movement matters to all students
Some lessons learned during my job hunting with IT companies
Lee Smolin, the physicist who wrote "The Trouble with Physics", (http://leesmolin.com/writings/the-trouble-with-physics/) is the most notable critic of string theory. The basic problem with string theory is that it doesn't generate experimentally testable predictions, at least not at any energy level reachable. It may just be an mathematical exercise.
(U)EFI is essentially a little OS that eventually loads the OS that runs the software you care about. Intel sponsors most of the core OS code (mirrored) at:
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

A Bios vendor takes that code, drops in a bunch of hardware init code from Intel (or AMD), adds thier own user interface, "csm16" old-school BIOS implementation, and value-adds like debugging and automation for factory test and provisioning.

In order to comprehend anything in the codebase, the first step is probably to get acquainted with the local vernacular.
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Acrony...
I keep hearing about Be's mt capabilities, but I haven't read anything in detail. Can you point me to some materials that explain how it's different from e.g. Linux?
The criminals were probably carrying a warrant.
FTA..."In general the geoengineering world is populated by very overconfident, overwhelmingly male figures who don’t make me feel at all reassured that they have learned the lessons of large-scale technological failure."

As opposed to if they were female? Would the author be more confident then? Funny how the sex stereotypes seem to pass unchallenged when they are against males.

The rest of the article isn't much better if it saves anyone 10 minutes.....
Researchers Unveiled New Fish Species Living 26,715 Feet Underneath Sea Surface
A serious question: why are earth-like conditions suggestive of extraterrestrial life and not, say, extraterrestrial McDonalds? The observed frequency is identical so far.

I think the answer must be a bias towards believing in some essential specialness or uniqueness of life, which isn't supported scientifically.
Wonder what shenanigans the USB device is up to. A bootable drive for flashing backdoored bios/hdd firmware or keylogging? Snapshotting the HDDs? 0day'ing the kernel USB stack?
Did we read the same thing?
That's false, there are no essential sugars. You can live a completely normal life even if you manage to remove every single molecule of sugars from your diet.
What "resouces" do you need? A credit card and a curious 20 year old could inflict a massive amount of damage with little effort, given a vulnerability to exploit.

I can spin up a thousand VMs in 4 cloud providers in seconds.

By the way, I'm aware I was hellbanned. It was well over a year ago. My comments were on-topic and polite before I was banned. The funny thing is, the person I was banned for arguing with has burned through half a dozen accounts. I refuse to play ball with HN's shitty policy of hellbanning and so I post like an asshole.

Hellbanning is exceedingly rude and everytime I want to comment I remember how much it pisses me off so I decide to let it affect my comments.

(For context, my original HN account was nearly in the Top 10 [with an average of ~10] when it was banned for arguing with the same person ironically.)

Awe, that's too bad. Jamesaguilar and I see eye-to-eye on most things and I respect their attention to bs sexism and racism on HN :)
Does anyone actually ask this sort of thing in an interview anymore? (I don't mean this as a knock on the repository, which looks very nice aside from the lack of tests.)
we are not an anti-spook project and never claimed to be.
Our aim is to give an option where there is none.
We will make our warning more elaborate and will work differently with bloggers/journalists in the future.
I prefer the opposite, I do not like being nervous about your app posting to my social media, nor do I want to have social media accounts forever.
OK, they might simply seek control of those servers in preparation for some large-scale action. Or they are after some people who they know absolutely depend on Tor to operate. Just wild speculation though...
Maybe Naomi Klein can clear her mind with some old classic films:

How about Soylent Green (overpopulation, 1973), or Silent Running (climate collapse, 1972)?

Maybe something more upbeat like Logan's Run (overpopulation AND climate collapse, 1976)?
Has anyone compared Tribler and OneSwarm recently?
It's nice to see DuckDuckGo mentioned at the end as on-par with Google, Siri, and OnStar. I'm a little surprised they mentioned DDG in the first place, as it doesn't have nearly the name recognition as Bing or Yahoo search.
First, is there any evidence dystopian fiction is actually significantly more popular? Most of my favorite dystopian fiction in literature and cinema is many decades old. It's not exactly a new thing.

Second, I grew up in the early late 70's / early 80's, when the nuclear holocaust was the theme of the "inevitable" dystopian future fiction. I don't think it signifies anything other than the angst du jour.
That "needlessly" is very debatable. There's a reason you don't want to allow questions "Who's better, Republicans or Democrats?" or "What's the best laptop?", and it's arguably one of the main reasons Stack Exchange isn't a cesspool like Yahoo Answers is.
Naomi Klein's link between capitalism and ecological disaster is spurious at best. Socialist societies have an even worse record http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/13/if-you-think-communism-i...
I occasionally use technologies from my dislike list as well to try and keep my biases at bay.
Thanks for opinion
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There is the crazy expensive Sony Digital Paper DPT-S1 which has a 13.3" screen with 1200x1600 resolution. That resolution really would be good enough for me if I could get tmux on there and connect a physical keyboard.

Please somebody make a hacker friendly terminal laptop with such a screen and a great keyboard. It doesn't have to be ARM, any arch that can run free software is fine with me.
1981 is cool, but you know what's also cool? 3012
Walk away now.
Type Theory derailed my PhD studies.
Seduced by constructivism, Curry-Howard, Martin-Löf and especially Girard's Proofs and Types, I wasted two years and subsequently abandoned my postgraduate studies.
It's comp. sci. flavoured esoteric nonsense.
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the chassis of the servers was opened and an unknown USB device was plugged in only 30-60 seconds before the connection was broken.

In which country did this happen?

As an European I expected the US/EU governments would keep their hands of Tor because dissidents use it in countries where US/EU want regime change.
Yup! This is still the case. If you want to pass the interview you have to memorize a bunch of common algorithms and data structure implementation.
I'll go to great lengths to avoid social sign ups. I want nothing linked to those accounts. It mostly comes from distrust of app behavior. I don't want any app blasting anything to my entire contact lists. This might be an irrational concern but its real. I'll use Google account to sign up for any service BC I know Google won't let an app run wild w my contacts. Other services I am not so confident
What makes you think height is so important? I have not noticed any correlation. One of the nice things about startups vs politics is that appearance is much less important for success. (unless you think Bill Gates is some kind of super model :)
Any idea when/where this changed and reinforcing was used?
Case in point, Rosendale cement[1] is another natural cement. It was popular in the 19th century because it does not require additives to produce (the limestone already contains the desirable traces) and can set underwater. Being produced along the Hudson River, one of the biggest shipping routes of the day, probably didn't hurt. However, it requires significantly longer to set and was discarded in favor of the faster setting Portland cement.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosendale_cement

(Bonus factoid: while Rosendale cement is named or the location of the limestone deposits mined to produce it, Portland cement is named for the resemblance of the finished product to Portland stone, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_stone)
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> Indeed, Patterson is to publishing what Thomas Kinkade was to painting

That seems like a better comparison than the Henry Ford one. It's not like Patterson is making books more affordable for people or radically changing how books are produced.
Yet somehow it was renewed for a second season. I can't wait!
The implied audience is hemmed in by their own memes.

Fukushima photographer is shaken up, must be loss of belief in techno utopia. Nah, westerners forget it was a massive earthquake tsunami, so probably seeing ten thousand floating dead bodies and the smell and the land looking like the surface of the moon was a bit more disturbing, at least if he's human.

"actually convincing people that we’re capable of something other than this brutal response to disaster." I sincerely hope they are not, because the only way we're going back to 1700s era fossil fuel consumption in our lifetime is by killing all the population over 1700s era, which is quite a mass murder. So I'm glad of that. Also a nameless homeless family living under an overpass due to economic disruption is a small price to pay to feel ecologically superior. There's someone starving to death in TX but at least I got a cool new Prius... just human lives, ones that don't count anyway. You know, like a dystopia...

Careful avoidance of discussing how many people are already living the Dystopia, right now. Cops shoot black men first ask questions later, at least the few we let walk the streets instead of imprisoning. Indoctrinated since birth to live the American dream while getting a lifetime of debt, LOL just kidding about that "you'll have a great paying job" thing, but its all your fault for not wanting it more than the "successful" guy, who we're going to downsize next month anyway. No medical care, no financial future, no education. If it bleeds it leads, on the agitprop news, our whole city is a Roman Colosseum of martyrs. Dude born on 3rd base thinks he hit a home run says, hey, let them eat cake, why won't they pull themselves up by their bootstraps, its the land of opportunity for rich urban white men... the rest of you don't exist, aren't even people, mere consumers at best.

Dystopian fiction is a politically correct way to talk about the PRESENT, not the future.
You seem to oversimplify the processes. Laser eye surgery has its own complications. I have about 3 degrees myopia and avoid having any laser surgery.

Aging's got more to do with "telomeres" the ends of the chromosome molecules being shortened on each choromosome replication. I've read somewhere that some food such as the green tea helps with the health of the telomeres and that sounds like a more realistic way to extend life.

I'm surprised Thiel talks nothing about natural supplements and he relies only on what's called the Human Growth Hormone. As for cancer cure, it's already been found : Take a look at phkillscancer.com
Do you mean reachability in terms of a spaceship? If so, wouldn't intergalactic communication be pretty incredible, even if it was only one-way?
I am reminded of a interview with Amy Hoy, where she said she studied successful entrepreneurs in software "but not what they said, which was usually "work hard" but what they did."

I think we are expecting a lot of pg here - to be a successful entrepreneur, gain insight into what made him successful, write about it, become a successful VC and now we want a second honest and well written set of searing insights?

I think once was impressive enough. It is us who need to do a bit of the insight gathering now.
Oh wow, I definitely missed that. Thank you for posting.
This is really a drag, because I was hoping that study (which has been on the wish list of a lot of scientists for a long time) would be fully funded and operated over the long term. Prospective, longitudinal study design is the only valid way to answer a number of important questions about child development. On the other hand, the reason this particular study project was cancelled was a legitimate reason: "The study 'as currently designed is not feasible,' Collins said in a Dec. 12 statement on the NIH’s website."[1] That conclusion was based on concerns raised by the National Academy of Sciences when reviewing the pilot phase of the study.[2]

So of course the next step for scientists would be to learn whatever can be learned from the pilot program in the just-cancelled study, and then design a new study and try again. I will highly support research projects of this kind, which now will have more benefit to my grandchildren than to my children, who are already almost fully grown up into adulthood.

P.S. A big hat tip to the Hacker News participant who found this news story, which is well reported and links to key online documents, for finding a great source about an important story. The key online documents are press releases from government offices, but this story adds a journalist's contacts with other sources and establishes context for the latest news on the study.

[1] "Statement on the National Children’s Study" 12 December 2014

http://nih.gov/about/director/12122014_statement_ACD.htm

[2] "National Children’s Study Has Great Potential to Expand Understanding of Children’s Health and Well-Being, But Key Design Elements Need Further Development for Study to Be Successful" 16 June 2014

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?Rec...
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Amazon has their entire infrastructure focused on rapid delivery of small amounts of stuff to a customer.

Big retailers are focused on maintaining optimum levels of inventory at their big box stores all over the country.

It's a different problem.
Why would you need more than one?

(my version - https://gist.github.com/vai/4647768 )
All of my social media postings are public and I disable permissions for apps to automatically post publicly, so I don't have a problem with signing up through Facebook. If it were something very private, I might think differently. I don't have a problem with my Yelp and Facebook account being associated, for example. Pretty sure everyone on Facebook knows that I eat food already.
Blockchain User Issued Assets Will Change Everything [video]
Thanks for pointing this out. Even though I read Kahneman's "Thinking fast and slow", I did not truly understand that intelligence and rationality are orthogonal concepts. I've always implicitly assumed that intelligence is strongly correlated with rationality, but it seems there is a mild correlation at best: " it is a mild predictor at best, and some rational thinking skills are totally dissociated from intelligence"[0]

[0]http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rationality-vers...
For me, it's not.

Even if there were more dystopian art than positive art, it is not a sign that we're leading into a disaster. If you want to claim something about the world, use observations on the world, not observations on fiction.

Or maybe something that we now see as dystopian will be regarded as something good, namely: no privacy, absolute corporocracy, greater separation between classes.
This is very nice. Thanks for creating it.
Hyperloop could be just 10 years away
> ABET does accredit international programs.

Some international programs. They don't have nearly enough capacity to accredit every single international engineering program all over the world. I'm sure they have the major ones down, but there's plenty that are probably not which still teach engineering.

> Engineer is a licensed profession, like physician or lawyer.

The license only gives you the right to call yourself a Professional Engineer. Like I said before, unless it is illegal to call yourself an engineer without being a PEng and being licensed, then the "licensed profession" part of it really does not matter. A company can require you to be a PEng in order to receive an "engineer" title in your role, but there is still nothing, short of law that prevents you from using it yourself.

> like physician or lawyer.

And they're both different from engineer, because those licensed professions are actually legally enforced, whereas "engineer" is not legally enforced everywhere.
Hi Mike,

Why not the UI?
This looks nice, although less like a tutorial and more like a reference book.
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One thing that this article fails to point out is how often librarians were wrong before Google. In 1986 there was a study[0] that showed that across the board reference librarians were only correct about 55% of the time.

I think most people today would consider a query answering system that had an accuracy of 55% to be an interesting curiosity, but certainly not ready for real-world application.

It's funny how frequently we measure machine learning performance of an "easy for humans" task and fail to compare it to human accuracy on the same data. We just assume humans would do perfectly on it. I'm sure there are a few MNIST digits that I would get wrong.

[0] P.Hernon, C McClure "Unobtrusive Reference Testing: The 55 Percent Rule," Library Journal, 111 April 15,1986
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforced_concrete#History

François Coignet was a French industrialist of the nineteenth century, a pioneer in the development of structural, prefabricated and reinforced concrete. Coignet was the first to use iron-reinforced concrete as a technique for constructing building structures. In 1853 Coignet built the first iron reinforced concrete structure, a four story house at 72 rue Charles Michels in the suburbs of Paris. Coignet's descriptions of reinforcing concrete suggests that he did not do it for means of adding strength to the concrete but for keeping walls in monolithic construction from overturning. [...]
Are they paid by Putin to do this?

Snowden must have been...

I mean when you look at it from the time passing perspective: Putin had planned confrontation with the West since at least 2004. From 2004 he was planning to attack Ukraine. His RussiaTV, all the Alex Joneses and others, Snowden, far right in EU -- all of that seems to be KGB sponsored (whether they know about it or not is another matter entirely)
The USG is not a monolithic entity. The State Department loves TOR, for the reasons you list, while Justice hates it. The Justice Department does not need State approval to get warrants and take down servers, nor do they need State approval to work with their foreign partners to do the same.
This is really not true at all. Unless what you mean by "implementing type systems for general purpose languages" is a sort of weak, generally useless type system that punishes rather than helps.

This is ESPECIALLY false of Pfenning and co's work, which is aimed specifically at understanding how to apply type theoretic techniques to the design of PLs, so that you get a PL with exactly the sort of stuff you want.

I added a link to the page to PFPL, which is an entire book on how to implement programming languages using type theoretic tools. It even has sections on OO programming, if you're into that sort of thing. It's all the same toolkit, in the end.
>The makeup of a group is quite different than unfair practices.

That's definitely a valid point. I'm operating under the assumption that these social scientists are not perfect, and their conclusions and work are swayed by their (strong) personal beliefs.
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Because of the precautionary principle. It's plausible that releasing information about what airport security knows about the movement of members of terrorist groups could cause significant problems in detecting members of these groups. Given that risk, the burden should be on Wikileaks to demonstrate that releasing this information will not cause harm before they release it.
I believe I read a little too much into "decrypt anything."
Parchment DNA could reveal Britain's agricultural past, say archaeologists
Here's an example: https://www.positivespace.io/devin
an engineer should be educated about the legal and ethical aspects of her/his field of work. these are pragmatic concerns, and engineering is a pragmatic discipline.

while it might not fit into an academic computer science research curriculum, a good university program should include courses on these topics anyway. if your school doesn't (or if you didn't go to school!) its still a good idea to learn about law and ethics through self study.
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