skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They actually use somewhat the opposite of this type of training with dogs to keep them from messing with rattlesnakes. It's more controlled, so the rattlesnake has a rubber band that keeps its mouth shut and the conditioning is given to the dog using a shock collar, but it doesn't take too many shocks before the dog won't go anywhere near a rattlesnake. It may seem cruel, but for dogs that live in area with lots of rattlesnakes where they allowed outside on their own, it can be lifesaving.

Now that I'm thinking about it, opposite is probably the wrong word...it's more of the reverse. Whereas the man in the story is using the game to condition himself to learn that there's no (emotional) shock where one is expected, the dog trainers use exposure therapy to train dogs that there is a shock where one isn't expected. They're two sides of the same coin.
That's the problem with these dialogues. Often right-leaning types see them as ways to avoid having to take any responsibility or action for anything by claiming the real issues are things that are the neutral mechanics of an impersonal market.

There, fixed.
It seems fairly likely the judge will approve the settlement. First, one of the reasons the judge gave for rejecting the prior settlement was that it was lower per plaintiff than the class lawyers had negotiated with the defendants it had already settled with (Adobe et. al). That objection is now answered.

Second, as you mention, judges very rarely reject settlement offers. That's in no small part because when they do, they are often overruled by appellate courts, and judges hate being overruled. As much as class actions lawsuits look like they create massive principle-agent problems to the rest of us, the federal courts are quite comfortable with them, and they have repeatedly applied the maxim that the law favors settlement in the class context.

If there is to be class action reform it will have to come from Congress (the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 was a tiny step in that direction).
There's something to be said for the benefits from the extra challenge of approaching particularly attractive people, but good point.
Hardly comparable. One is about freeing your own people then other about having to use your resources to those who you did not extend permission to come.

This doesn't mean I don't sympathize with those who come here but hardly same situation.
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This is horrible timing with Immigration Reform. The incorrect argument that tech companies want reform to keep wages low is going to get a lot of fuel if they don't agree to a reasonable settlement soon. The long term effects of letting highly skilled immigrants in to join and start companies on the tech industry is an order of magnitude higher than paying a couple $b to right the wrong for Google and Apple.
No. That is not what I responded to.

You wrote that browsers, if they implemented DNSSEC, would choose to implement stub resolvers without full validation. In fact, both browsers who looked at implementing it clearly did so with the intention of doing full validation.

I did not say that they implemented it, or even that they will. I did say that the claim that there were plans to only implement a non-validating stub resolver in common browsers is not true.
Yeah, because not paying for TV license absolutely fits the definition of a crime, right?
Amazing post. I think I just got an HN bingo.
I understand where you're coming from, but I don't know that it's a common problem. I've had my Pebble for about 4.5 months now and remembering to charge it can be interesting. I usually forget when I last charged it, but even then there are low battery alerts. I know that it'll last about a day once I see the "20% remaining" message, so I just charge it within 6-12 hours of that message.

It's not really too much of a hassle to remove the watch for a couple hours while sitting at my desk, and I've heard of people who charge it while sitting at a desk wearing it.
Why Stack Exchange (Still) Believes in Private Offices
Looks like Nissan in the right track with this partnership. And looks like Google is in for a good competition. I think Nissan has great edge here since autombiles are their expertise.
Why killing needs to be presented as a game? You want to teach children about life and death? Get then to a slaughterhouse. No? Why not? It's just teaching them about life and death...
Turns out people wear nice clothes for a whole lotta reasons, and even beyond that the attention they might want is probably not the attention you're about to give. You can't divine the other's context, which is why the less creepy ways of meeting someone almost always involve relating over explicitly shared context.
Formal verification doesn't imply waterfall.
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An increasing body of evidence is supporting intermittent fasting in humans helping with weight and health indicators.

http://www.livescience.com/48888-intermittent-fasting-benefi...
I hope they keep http://labs.teehanlax.com/ up and running, so really awesome projects and cases studies there. It'd be a shame for that to ultimately be pulled down.

I don't think archive.org would be enough to keep it intact and useable. Are there any other archiving services built for JS-heavy web sites?
The four games I mentioned were:

- SteamWorld Dig: old west robot prospector (ForestC was right!)

- Coming Out On Top: a man have sex with a giant goldfish, a gay college student coming out to his parents

- Escape Goat: get a mouse to wear a hat, a goat that's also a political prisoner. It's more about the goat than the mouse, but I was afraid that "Play as a Goat" would make people think of Goat Simulator. Plus, I found the magic hat to be adorable.

- Long Live the Queen: consoled a grieving child, cope with the death of a parent
Actually "immersion" or "flooding" is one of the things known to be effective for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooding_%28psychology%29 It's just basic conditioning.
The laws of thermodynamics are not limited to the total calories consumed and calories burned during intentional exercise. Many variables matter.

We know that humans are not capable of converting 100% of food's available energy. What if your body is less capable of breaking down certain types of food right after you wake up? what if consuming a large portion of your daily diet in once overwhelms your body's ability to digest it. Science may have solved those specific questions, but pretending that the complex bag of chemical reactions in the human digestive tract is entirely governed by two simple summation variable seems naive. Please forgive any formatting errors. I'm typing this on a tiny little phone
If you're looking to work on your eating practice, I suggest eating when you're hungry and only when you're hungry. Don't eat at any particular time of day. Make sure you're truly hungry. Some of us don't even know what that feels like anymore because we eat so often.

As a further challenge, try to stop eating as soon as you no longer feel hungry (and be sure to eat slowly). Some of us don't stop until we've finished our massive portion regardless of how full we feel. You may be surprised to see just how little food you need to consume in order to satiate hunger.
Very nice. For the life of my I couldn't understand this Viola Norbert. What does it do?
We don't use 1GB pages in the direct map today, and likely won't for some time. They aren't supported on all amd64 CPUs so if we decided we were interested in doing that, we'd need two types of direct map layouts, one to support CPUs that had 1GB page support and one that didn't. That seems like an awful lot of complexity for questionable gain.

edit: ... and if we did decide, in the future, to take advantage of 1GB page support in the direct map, I'd probably just break out the kernel area separately and continue to map it with 2MB pages.
We went for a weekend to Belfast (which is a great place to visit) but I must admit I was rather surprised to find that there are still automatic barriers in place that close the roads between the Falls and Shankhill Roads.
I grew up in the 80's and saw the original Back to the Future in a theater. When I was a kid, I remember thinking 1955 was ancient history. It's pretty wild that young people today, like the high school students I teach, feel the same about 1985 as I felt about 1955.

I wonder if there's something different though? I knew little about the 50's when I was in high school. None of my peers were "into" the 50's, and nobody was listening to music from the 50's. But my current students still love 80's metal bands like Metallica and Slayer, and 80's hip hop like NWA and others. They like 80's movies, and will have quote battles about 80's movies.

Maybe 1985 doesn't feel as far away to them, or as irrelevant, as 1955 felt to me.
What works for me: skip breakfast, skip lunch, eat a large dinner with a lot of protein (fish/meats/eggs) and green vegetables. After dinner I can pretty much eat whatever I want left / can afford to eat. Works for me.
Great thread!
Being more of a backend coder rather than frontend, I lately started consolidating my frontend skills with new projects. Very SASS focused ( I love it!).

These channels gave me some really nice ideas, I recommend to have a look at them!

https://www.youtube.com/user/DevTipsForDesigners/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/phpacademy/videos
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Here's my perspective as a chronic pedant: my inherent* value system puts a high value on completeness of knowledge/understanding and clarity. But as a socially-aware human, I recognize people's dislike of pedantic behavior.

Life is a fairly constant battle between satisfying my brain's need to provide clarity and not annoying people with often excessive or unwanted detail.

Sometimes the itch to correct is strong enough that it's very difficult to ignore, even though I know it probably won't be well-received.

* I say inherent because while I consciously value knowledge/clarity, I'd presently like to move past such strong obsession but I'm working against a couple decades of all the small events that have shaped my brain.
It is exciting to see work towards xen dom0 support.
You can still buy from within the Marvel and DC apps. I've never tried it, but it looks like comixology has a tool to sync your comics between accounts.
We all should practice responsible social media usage. That's all I can really say.
Fascinating. I do a lot of amateur theatre and one of the most useful things about it is that it forces you to do similar things to on a regular basis and it really does help a lot in various aspects of life. In particular it really helps deal with interview and presentation stress. I'm very tempted to give this a go myself.
Both Ulbricht and Karpales are known for doing stupid and pointless things, though (hiring fake hitmen with hilarious emails, and writing ssh servers in php, respectively).
That's irrelevant; clearly some people change their behavior due to the risk of breaking the law. However, unenforced rules (ie driving 56mph in a 55mph zone) are generally ignored.
When Dart was released, I was curious to see if they'd position it as an alternative to Java on Android.

They hired kevmoo (a pretty well-respected Seattle area engineer and game dev) as a PM, which again led me to believe they were perhaps looking at game dev on Dart on Android. I fully expected them to start shipping Android with the Dart VM, open up a new set of Android packages for taking advantage of existing/native stuff, and boom: suddenly the Android ecosystem benefits from a new set of developers coming at it from the web angle. That's what Ludei and others have been trying to promote. This goes deeper into solving perf issues, however.

Now that Chrome tabs are represented as individual windows in Android 5.0, the line between "app" and "web app" on mobile is ever more blurry.
AFAIK the companies involved agreed to not solicit each other's employees. While somewhat shady, it's not on the same level as an agreement to cap wages. Basically the damages are covering the crime of not affirmatively using your recruiters to go after people.

The "solution" sounds preposterous- You are forced to attempt to poach another company's employees, without regard to any other aspect of the business, such as maintaining good relationships with your suppliers or partners.
Poll: Engineers – How much time do you spend on emergencies?
As an engineer, how much of your time is spent on emergencies (downtime or red-alert bugs) rather than planned work?

Details in comments would be greatly appreciated!
0% - none
5% or less
Thanks for the reply. There's currently no support for 1GB pages in FreeBSD but someone provided a patch set that does it and has considerably improved performance for their network appliance workload. It needs to be reworked a bit before being merged, but I hope it will happen before 11-RELEASE.
> "Detector vans" are a myth.

True, true, but how wonderful that they gave birth to Monty Python's "roving cat detector vans"!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Licence
Distros mostly made the switch because,

1 Redhat pushed systemd into Rhel7
2 Crucial system parts were pr'd into hard dependencies on systemd
3 It's base idea and vision which is currently replaced with broader ones was good evolution. (better init system with woos)
4 technically most of these woos are only implemented with it

I am not trying to say systemd does not have it's merits. It has. It is trying hard to bring what it promises on the table. Unfortunately these promises mostly comes with traps like vendor lock-in and forced technicalities on other software like kernel.

It tries to be everything in a single pack with no space for other contenders.

These may be thought as well refuted ideas But I believe systemd cabal has the ability to refute with half assed realities. Like "It is not monolitic. it is modular." Reality it has compile time modularity like it is 70's.Also people report that modularity is oversold.
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They're sold in grocery stores in the checkout line. Pretty much relegated to "impulse purchase to satisfy your misbehaving child".
"Increasing body of evidence" is even better than "Dr. Panda" in the article. :)
This comment just shows how good Apple is at what they do. They trample upon your freedom to do your computing as you wish and are praised for it. Look at how nice life is in Apple's walled garden! If someone other than Apple controls your computer, someone else could do something bad to it!
> it tries to do too much

I don't think it does. It offers a massive feature set that is useful to different people in different ways, but there is still a lot of crossover.

Maybe you're pigeon-holing users based on their 'roles'. Web designers/photo editors, when working in Photoshop are both working with layered images at the end of the day. Plus people have different ways of working. You may do web UI stuff, but you may have a completely different workflow to another web UI designer.
The question was why didn't she get the paper when she checked in to her flight at the kiosk at the airport?

Because she doesn't necessarily was even near the airport when she checked in. Nowadays you can check-in online or via your phone up to 24 hours before your flight starts.

And you never see any paper. Yeah, that sucks when your phone runs out of battery. In our trains, the conductor has now USB chargers in case such things happen.

Technology fails, we fail. It happens. We manage to adapt.
Perhaps, a laser or directional acoustic device that can detect such activity.

Electromagnetic monitoring from space.
Another question to think about... when handling emergencies, what percentage of your time is discovery - figuring out what broke and why - rather than actually fixing the problem?
Yes I do, but what does this have to do with Charlie Hebdo?
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hmmm...that's depressing.
What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?
You should watch Dogma, I know it's been quite a while but he's absolutely hilarious in it.
I have the 2012 Motorola X, and a Nokia Lumia 635 I picked up for $50 at Radio Shack a few weeks ago. I'm betting that the Lumia sees the Windows 10 preview before the Motorola X sees Lollipop. It's so bizarre.
Arch was one of the first to switch and while a decent number use gnome I sincerely doubt they made the choice because of gnome. Arch has a long history of alternative WM/DE It's not likely any individual one could force their hand on an architecture change like systemd.
We do this each spring with our dog: http://www.methownet.com/grist/features/dog_snake_training.h...
Except we've had a history of censorship and its been historically horrible. This is just a new Comics Code Authority Code. So yeah, we tried the liberal censorship (protect the $minority, $gender, $children) approach and its a massive failure because TOP DOWN CONTROL OF CULTURE IS HARMFUL.

Instead lower barriers, give people choice, don't guilt them, open markets, etc. Let speech and art flourish. Political correctness is the opposite of this.
Recover a gzipped HTML response from the browser cache (2013)
3 steps for a bike startup
I do what databases do with WALs :). I write stuff down as I get it, and then organize later.
If Danielle Steele wrote for a comic book, women would buy it.

The only reason I own a copy of every Sandman is because I read Neverwhere first.
Ask HN: [Opinion] Will Cicada 3301 be back?
What do you think ? I'm really looking forward to it, but nothing seems to have popped up in the last few days, and it's 17th Jan already.

With the amount of hype around it, it won't be back I guess...
Interesting to note that 3 of the scientists working on the atomic bombs were actually Soviet spies or in some way passing information to the Soviet nuclear program.

Theodore Hall is particular is interesting because he did it believing that a single country having a monopoly on nuclear energy would result in another Nazi-like menace being unleashed on the world. Quite a mature and far-sighted opinion for someone only 19 years of age.
Domains for open source
previous discussion of Neo4j: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7946024
Am I missing the point, or shouldn't:

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/reset-the-net/

redirect to https by now?
I agree that there were larger, diffuse consequences for a great many people, but the mass tort system isn't really designed to remedy that kind of thing.

The most appropriate mechanism for that is government action. There was such an investigation, and it did find wrongdoing, but the ultimate response was so feeble as to be meaningless. The DOJ sued the tech companies under the Sherman Antitrust act which reads in part:

Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

After filing suit, the government settled the case in exchange for a promise not to violate the law for five years. Given that they were already obligated to follow the law, and not just for five years, one wonders what the point was.
A lot of European comics have a different issue: racism.

I really liked Tin Tin but I cannot pretend like the entire thing isn't incredibly racist. All of the bad guys had a certain skin colour, you could guess who was going to betray the main cast just by their colour/culture, and a lot of other cultures are portrayed like savages (sometimes literally).

http://www.cracked.com/article_19610_the-6-most-secretly-rac...
I'm a web developer primarily, and I'm accustomed to Linux servers with the likes of CentOS and Ubuntu. I've been seeing a lot of talk lately about how secure *BSD is compared to Linux, and now Digital Ocean supports it. Is it something I should start looking into? What's the learning curve like for someone with moderate Linux experience? Where would I start?
Even in the 70s when Nixon declared "War on Drugs" he was repealing previous mandatory sentences introduced in the 50s. It was in the 80s that the huge mandatory sentences for "Crack" cocaine and lesser ones for other "hard drugs" were re-introduced. Some states also had mandatory sentences throughout this time.
I don't mean to nitpick, but you used the term 'nitpick' incorrectly.
You're seriously telling his kids what to do? Get real. Kids love to read comics: comics have great value for kids. Colours, heroes, secret hideouts and cool punchlines. Why wouldn't kids (male & female) want that? Why shouldn't they?

The next time you're about to tell someone('s kids) what to enjoy, remember that what you like is not necessarily what others like.

The writer of the article didn't 'complain about anything'. The complaint is very specific: lots of comics in the comic book store he visited featured more adult illustrations that he and his kid would've liked to see. Valid complaint that doesn't have anything to do with 'attitudes'.
The "Ghost Point" and "Isometric" strokes look very useful. While with practice I think I'll develop a steady hand with my Wacom, those features look really helpful when precision is needed.
What tools/languages are you good at?
Already submitted (with a trailing slash): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8899560
Christ on a pogo stick, he was 25 and looked 15 (Feynman was born in 1918 and the caption says this was 1943).

For comparison, Agnew is 3 years younger than Feynman so he was 22 in that picture, and Luis Alvarez was 32.
Archie remains popular (inexplicably, to me) and Archie anthologies are available in most supermarkets I've been in (in the US) and at least some of the several comic books are found in almost every comic shop. For a casual fan, I think Archie might be the easiest comic to get a hold of. Just FYI.
I'm 25, I think of the 80s as the beginning of the "modern" world. I guess it's the same for your students. Plus a lot of cool movies were made back then, and I imagine that's part of the reason why the 80s are considered cool.

I think you're 100% right, 1985 doesn't feel like ancient history at all.
About 15 years ago, there was a TV Licensing van that was often parked around the corner from my house. I vaguely recall that it said "detection unit" on the side or something similar, and it had heavily-tinted windows.

However, if you went right up to it and peered hard enough through the windows, you could see that it was just a regular minibus with seating and no equipment inside.
Ok, so there's nothing inherently wrong with eating breakfast. That being said, I'm not sure anyone can say that people who eat breakfast are "they type of person who is more likely to exercise and eat healthier meals" -- WebMD makes no effort to substantiate their claim at all with any references. That, and the fact that, at least here in the good ol' US of A, there is an enormous problem with obesity, diabetes, and a host of other metabolic-related illnesses. I bet if anyone counted, they'd find that an extremely vast majority of those people eat breakfast everyday. Anecdotally speaking, almost all of the people I know who skip breakfast are absolute physical specimens when it comes overall health and physique (That doesn't mean there aren't those who fit that criteria who DO eat breakfast, just a personal observation)

There has been a lot of research around periods of fasting, and Martin Berkhan has done a lot of work parsing out nonesense (poorly designed studies, etc.) on this particular topic. This specific article might be something you should check out regarding the cortisol awakening response, and why people who eat breakfast generally tend to weigh more than their intermittent fasting counterparts: http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-...
Show HN: Exploring Family Trees/Pedigree Collapse – Interactive D3 visualization