skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FBI honeypot? Why bother, just cross reference your advertising shadow profiles with a few trackers of what you're interested in. Combine that with the scrape Canada is doing with all the download services, and the pre host intercepts to AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc... that the NSA is doing and you capture all the file transfers for all but the savviest of people. Operating TPB would expose them to potential liability at home. I highly doubt the MPAA/RIAA/etc... are not going to sue if they found out the FBI is directly responsible for disseminating 300K copies of frozen and Taylor Swift's album for free to capture the fairly useless proxied VPN of the uploaders. America and Canada have proven that they don't need to operate the hosts, they can capture all the data just fine without exposing themselves to the risk.

Regardless, assume the FBI/NSA/CSIS/MI-X/etc... are capturing everything you do including the comments on here, reddit, twitter, Facebook, 4-chan, torrent, tor, and really everywhere else. The can unravel that onion, so unless it's carefully encrypted, and it on the internet, assume the governments either have it or have access to it.
Kids these days.. ;-)
Haha, I'm sure they won't mind :) I figured that was exactly the thought process, too! "MKWeb" doesn't immediately sound like a reputable source ;)

It probably isn't usually, anyway!

Source: I grew up with MK as my local city.
Awesome idea. Is there are also a similar service in a do-it-yourself way, without having to put your code into the open as that's a no-go for companies with private code bases.

For example I work for a game development studio and this seems like a cool idea to make some posters of our games, but giving our code base to a company like commit would never be allowed by management.
This is an excellent question. I love travel, and I have experienced this from time to time.

I don't offer an answer per se, other than to respect your own feelings. Maybe they will pass; maybe they won't. But in any case it is typical to feel as you do from time to time.

Enjoy your trip!
It's mostly companies (in the terms of money donated, not the number of donors). We mentioned them on the blog post if they want to (a lot want to stay anonymous)
The GIL is in PyPy, not in RPython, nothing precludes writing a GIL-less RPython-based VM.

However RPython is not thread-safe and the GC it provides is not thread-aware, so you'd have to provide your own thread-aware GC (or a big GC lock)
That’s non-sensical.

The central problem with backups is that no one makes them but everyone should, without a question. That’s an attempt to solve that problem, even going so far as to purposefully annoy people! (Remember, everything is a trade-off and usually you will never be able to make everyone always happy.) This dialog box is the furthest thing from a marketing gimmick I can imagine. It’s comically far removed from that. (And, I think, exactly the right move. Yeah, people who know about backups already probably will not use Time Machine – but for everyone else that is pretty great!)
New World Order: Google Is Now Spending More Than Intel
On the subject of Basic Income. I think most people are missing some very important points by concentrating so hard on the costs, that is, the money provided to the recipients of the Basic Income.

- Poor people spend pretty much everything they get and they do so locally, so a very large proportion of the BI will be immediately spent in the local economy thus increasing the opportunities for people to provide goods and services.

- Having an income that will prevent you starving to death or having your house or car repossessed means that you have the opportunity to turn down a poorly paid or dangerous job. This will go some way to rectifying the imbalance of power between employees and employers and drive up wages at the bottom end

- BI is not charity and is generally not intended to be means tested; every citizen gets it rich and poor alike. It is income and taxable in the normal way.
I guess the advantage of Linthub over Phare is that it can run on pull requests made by external contributors.
>I can provide more info or details/specifics if wanted/needed.

Please do. Some references to further reading would also be appreciated.
Also - if they had accidentally made a $450m profit, none of this would ever be public.
Ironically, those of us who live in countries where access to TPB is censored, like the UK, have to use tor to access TPB - and therefore this method of tracking would be utterly ineffectual.

If it is a honeypot, it's pretty crappily made one, with honey dribbling out through a crack and "hunny" written on it.
Wordplay? If it helps just as much (which technically is also 'not more'), it could still help since a placebo might help. Hell, even if it would help 'less' than a placebo it might still be helping since I didn't quantify exactly how much :P
I rather doubt their plan was ever to "win" the trial by jury.
Barbara Oakley mentioned in the text teaches the course "Learning How to Learn" on Coursera [1]. It is about the science of learning in general, not just learning math, but it is very accessible. It's only 4 weeks, and the lectures are easy to understand. I knew most of the techniques before (spaced repetition, recall, proper sleep etc), but it was still good with a review.

[1] https://class.coursera.org/learning-003
Would you mind to elaborate about the side effects? The article sounds too good to be true.
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Sure all muscle gains are temporary. And TRT is typically used by people who would be at an age where baldness is common anyway.
I'm not sure I'm understanding your point. Of course exercise changes muscle gains, but the surprising result was that the men who did not exercise had more muscle gains than those on the placebo who did exercise.

As for the dosage, yes, this study had really high dosage and reports no negative side effects for the 10 week period it was used.
You may find it useless until you experience serious side effects (>1% - <10%):
headache, dizzyness, paraesthesia, amnesia, hyperaesthesia, mood disorders, hypertension and gynaecomastia

Wondering if someone using this product can confirm these symptoms.
How could there be a placebo for meditation? A placebo has to replicate the experience of going through the 'real' treatment being trialled. How could you create the experience of meditation without the subject actually meditating? The claim being tested is simply that the experience of meditation is beneficial, so I don't know what form a placebo could take.

It would be OK to do a trial where one group is instructed to meditate and the other is not given any instructions, and you check back with each group in a couple of weeks and ask them how they feel. If there's a difference in the meditation group, that proves there is value in meditating. Placebo doesn't come into it, because no one is claiming there is any benefit to meditation that doesn't come from simply experiencing it.

For comparison, I once heard of a way of testing acupuncture against a placebo – someone invented needles that look and feel the same but don't actually penetrate the skin. So they could compare the reported benefits of 'fake acupuncture' with real acupuncture, and see if there's any health benefit to the physical intervention, or if it's all just theatre. And if it is all just theatre, that's OK – it doesn't negate the health benefits of acupuncture, it just helps us understand that it's all about the experience of having someone slowly and dramatically stick pins in you, which is interesting. It's not the same as saying that acupuncture doesn't work.
Your source does not support your claim that research has not shown that meditation beats a placebo.

Apart from pointing out that "meditation" is a wide ranging concept that includes a vast number of different, often contradictory, practices, and that a lot of the research is of poor quality (given the number of "research" papers coming out of TM affiliated sources alone - see blow -, that should not be a surprise), it relates a claim in a report from 2007 that amongst others claim "Firm conclusions on the effects of meditation practices in healthcare cannot be drawn based on the available evidence". Without looking at what was covered in the papers that report looked at, this is not enough to support your claim.

The closest the article comes to dealing with the issue of placebo explicitly, is in referring to another article focusing on TM. TM is a cult-like money-grabbing business promoting one very specific form of meditation, and hardly representative of all forms of meditation practices. They're also one of the groups doing a lot of work to assist in churning out pseudo-science research papers to support their business, and as such did a lot to damage the overall quality of meditation research.
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What's quack about it is testosterone users calling themselves "doctors" to sell testosterone to other people. I haven't looked into research on either side so couldn't tell you whether I think it's a good or stupid thing to do, other than that if I did consider it I certainly wouldn't be considering the anecdotes of these people useful data.
MD here. Just remember that women live longer than men. Although it'll never be proven that hormones are part of that provess, I think it's a good assumption.

Many males as they get older become more lovable and more pleasent to be around because of natural hormone declines.

There are a ton of health issues such as balding, coronary artery disease, prostate cancer, obstructive sleep apnea that are related to testosterone. Whether these clinics can find the correct cocktail to find a healthy balance isn't clear.

I'm neither pro nor con. I've seen people who have been positively and negatively impacted by steroid supplementation.
Follow all the articles listed back to the journal being referenced.
By that logic meditation also harms T levels. Not more than a placebo, but still harms them. Zero can be a positive or negative number.
It would be, if sandstorm would support ARM.
Interactive map reveals where you can afford a flat in Berlin
I obtained my degree in Software Engineering at a university where engineering grade mathematics and physics were mandatory subjects.

It really annoys me that I spent 4 years studying this to find that other people who scrape together snippets of JavaScript & PHP feel entitled to call themselves an "engineer".
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This is exactly why we've develop this. To enforce code quality to pull requests and save the repository owners time.
now you're mixing apples and... uranium ore. next step is extrapolating heroin/crack/meth addiction drawbacks to alcohol and tobacco addicts, right?

I tried shrooms roughly 10-15x in my life, gradually found a way to get most out of the experience (instead of 5-6 hours of mediocre intensity having 2-3 hours of pure joy). Never tried anything harder/different than this & pot, so there goes gateway thingie.
I don't even know how to describe what I've been trough, but always purely positive extremely intensive experience. FOr me it's not social drug like pot. In fact, when trying to walk around in broad daylight, meeting people etc. the struggle to look normal was literally killing whole trip, since reality was much stronger info feed to my brain.

Since it's digested, after laying down in bed and closing eyes, I would describe the event as gradually losing all senses and connection with body. My self dissolving into something like a mist, breaking into atoms and just hovering. I am an atheist, but it was always very spiritual experience (to me it explains a bit why there are so many religions - we have it built in somehow). Coming back from trip was not instant, always like going down some massive mountain, step by step, discovering your senses and body again (you don't realize that you are "seeing" without anyhow utilizing your eyes, until you start getting them back. Same for rediscovery of hands for example).

Would I advise these to anybody? Nope. As article said, if one has some deep issues, this can unearth them. But so can excessive alcohol and other stuff (one of my ex' father had schyzophrenia attack triggered by excessive drinking, stayed with him whole life after that accident). Is this an issue of psychedelics? No, just us. They are just powerful tool, nothing more.

That being said, didn't have ones for couple of years, mostly because they are not easily accessible (collecting wild mushrooms can bring nasty poisoning if you mix them up for others, and I don't feel up for Tor orders :)). They are definitely not addictive, in fact after each experience being so hugely intense, I didn't feel the curiosity for quite some time. Also, trip being super intense, after it I always get terrible headache from my brain being literally owerworked.

I say everybody who is mentally OK (strong condition here) should try them once. I think mankind overall would look better, and be happier :)
This seems great, bit different than traditional audio tours. Especially for those who want to quickly explore the city, but don't know any locals, who could guide them.

In Paris, we went for a traditional guided tour ("Paris with Chris / City Free Tour"), which was great, but you have to adjust to their schedule and walking pace.

I don't see myself using this app together with my friends (as in part of the video), because we couldn't discuss the sights at the same time. But when I'm travelling alone, this seems like a fun option.
People's names have spaces (2011)
Actually, it does in a certain way. Travis runs builds (tests + Phare) for all pull requests (eg. https://travis-ci.org/mirego/encore/pull_requests) so we know if pull requests made by external contributors "break the build".
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Epp's book is much simpler.
What about assembling car parts into a car? Isn't it what engineers do as well?
That video is very elegant. Can you say what software/techniques you used to create it?
How Habits Work (2012)
You make no sense at all. My complaint is about the numerous postings of "general news" here on HN. If I wanted general news, I would not come here to find it and, instead, would go to my favorite actual news sites. HN is not a general news collection point.

Hence my question, why is this here?

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I'm wondering if you are just agreeing with me.
i think you 're supposed to compare the claimed effects on people who meditate vs people who don't (control group)
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A placebo often helps substantially. That is why we tend to test with a placebo rather than nothing at all, in order to measure the effect of what we want to test rather than the ability of our mind to influence our body.

And the effect is not merely psychological. Often placebo produces measurable responses.
We already have an aristocracy that can afford better schools, better neighborhoods, and the like. If designer babies one day leads to no more birth defects or unwanted children it is not a future to be feared.

there will always be people who have an advantage over others, the majority simply comes from where you were born followed to whom to you were born too.

The real fear is likely that some will make choices that are not politically correct, it is certain this would happen in non Western countries.
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That would look pretty much like what you'd see if you photographed the sun from earth on a clear day and replaced all the blue sky with pitch black.
Yes, true, but only if it breaks. This enforces common code quality issues, so it will run side-to-side with travis.
Well, that's pretty much exactly what happened with the Profumo affair.
Strength is significantly correlated with life expectancy. See here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938886/ and here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2453303/
All satistical mesures are adjusted to suit the UK's ONS is going through this with a replacement for RPI/CPI infaltion mesures.

The first new mesure CPIH did not come up with the figures the govenment liked so the ONS wher told to go away and try again. Thsi is first hand info from an insider.

Unemployment is also subject to fiddling one previous UK govenment put presure on Doctors to sign people onto disablity - to reduce the headline rate.
This guy claims to be a software engineer but then asks this question, "Why spend your spare time learning math, which is challenging and sometimes dry?"

The question invalidates anything he has to say on the subject and makes me question his claim of being a software engineer. No self-respecting person in that position would ever need to ask that question or write an article about it. Nor is it worth wasting anyone's time to read past the first paragraph.
Fasting facts: is the 5:2 diet too good to be true?
"Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general."
About 2 years ago, I had an intense urge to learn linear algebra, statistics and probability in depth for much the same reasons as the author - to improve my machine learning and computer vision skills.

Really glad to see I'm not the only one.

I don't have any recommendations for linear algebra, but for stats and probability (which I always found intimidating in the past), Allen Downey's "Think Stats" and "Think Bayes" did the trick.
A control group that does not do anything and does not receive anything is not using a placebo.

A placebo is very specifically a substitute for whatever you want to measure the effect of.

You can have both a control group and a group using a placebo and get substantially different results for them, and that's exactly why placebos are used: People report substantial effects from sugar pills and the like when they believe there should be an effect.
In your architecture I see a single monolithic database server called 'Prometheus'. Does it shard? I can't find it in the documentation. You mention it's compatible with TSDB, why did you choose to implement your own backend, or is this a fork of TSDB?

The tech does look awesome though!
PDE's are not discrete math. CompSci majors are more interested in topics like Combinatorics, Graph Theory etc. PDE's are more interesting to applied mathematicians and physicists.

I doubt my CS professors would be able to solve a PDE..

Beyond the basics, not even many math professors can do that. Math is too vast and people specialize. Strong algebraic geometers are not necessarily strong analysts or algebraists or logicians.
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Conversely though, claiming the opposite is also wrong. Many people feel that meditation is good for many things, but that emotion is not science.
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2MB limitation should be handled when 1.0 is released, meanwhile view-tail-large-files package might help.
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DayGoal-real life game
Hi,

majority of games is limited in a virtual space.
DayGoal game is different. Its players are required to do tasks in a real life.

The fun is that all players has same task in the same day, so friends can share real joy.

What do you think about this kind of game?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edumen.daygoal&hl=en

Best Regards,
Edumen
Objects? No Thanks, Using C++ on Microcontrollers
Why not .* ?

I can't think of a good reason to commit hidden files.
The project is Open Source. You can find the code on Github: https://github.com/berlinermorgenpost/mietkarte
RPN/RPL Implementations
I am currently taking a great Coursera course that is meant as a mathematics refresher course. It's called "Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance"[1]. As the name implies, it's meant as a foundation for financial calculations like options pricing, but a lot of it is just pure maths, like limits, derivation and integration.

The lectures are quite clear and easy to follow. I did do all this math at university, but that was over 20 years ago, so I had forgotten a lot, so for me this course is perfect. But I think it can be quite useful even if the concepts a re new to you.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/mathematicalmethods
Why would I assume that the FBI/NSA are capturing everything I do online? It's an absurd proposition without a shred of evidence.
So I thought I'd try this again today, what format images do you take? it doesn't say anything obvious and the png I tried appeared not to work.
in fact, constant stress would make body even weaker. psychosomatism is a real thingie. not that happy people cannot die from cancer
Contrary to the frequent assertions that it has never been tried it has actually been tried about five times in North America alone, several of the studies were in the US. One very thoroughly documented one Canada is described on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
At least 11 space shuttle missions had classified payloads, it's reasonable to believe most of these were spy satellites.

http://www.airspacemag.com/space/secret-space-shuttles-35318...
Still though, the idea behind placebos is that they 're the most convenient thing to do compared to the alternative. It doesn't justify the suggestion to "meditate to increase T" more than "take a sugar pill to increase T"
I can definitely relate to the author's viewpoint. The dynamic he refers to is felt by talented developers who have an independent streak that runs to contrarianism. Not to toot my own horn but to speak up a bit in solidarity, I started programming on a TI-81 and then was lucky enough to attend high school where you could learn Pascal, so I got recursion early, then C++-based curriculum in college and also several semesters of AI in Lisp. So I'm not an absolute idiot at least.

My first real job was with PHP5 and it seemed fine to me then as now - of course I never used it as some do, with code and markup intertangled. My typical response to folks who denigrate PHP is similar to PG's discussion of Lisp as a competitive advantage (wonder what Zuckerberg might write if he were similarly inclined) - if you don't get it, fine with me. Except the author is right, developers are more trend-conscious than we would like to think, and without possessing a unique deep goodness such as Lisp's there's a real risk of PHP becoming redundant.

For my own projects, I've decided I will ride the PHP train as long as possible while spending a lot of time on the javascript side (so I have resume bullet points that are respectable to unenlightened folks) and then if/when the stars move too far out of alignment just switch to whatever looks best. I've got a framework (which I've been working on for a long time before it was trendy and then un-trendy) with the server components written in PHP but I seriously think it could be converted to Python in a few days. Clean code is clean.
I found DHEA in the natural aisle of local grocery store under $10. I take a low dose daily (in my early 30s). Worth researching.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehydroepiandrosterone
Indeed there is evidence for it. For some people though, i guess longevity is not the best indicator of the good life.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-19699266
humans err. it's why we have version control. but good to know your intentions