skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love something in a browser that makes it easier to seperate the login sites I use, like webmail and facebook (occationally).

I use all the usual plugins, like Disconnect, uBlock, https everywhere, but recently I have been using a Firefox plugin called 'priv8' to sandbox the login sites I use the most (means I am not signed into google or facebook for my regular browsing). I honestly do not have that much of a in depth knowledge of browser tracking, so I am not exactly sure if this makes much of a difference.
3C Iphone/Ipad Walnut and beech wooden handiwork stand made in Taiwan
3C Iphone/Ipad Walnut and beech wooden handiwork stand made in Taiwan

● Product Specifications: Length: 32 cm
Width: 24 cm
Height: 1.5 cm
Groove width: 1.2 cm

For 14-inch notebooks and following compliance with all kinds of brand trench width smartphones and tablet PCs
Microscopic metal globe spewing out biological material
Portugal did NOT legalize drugs. They changed personal use and possession of less than a 10 days personal supply so that these were no longer criminal offenses. They become administrative offenses.

Producing, distributing, and selling remain criminal offenses.
Weave on Cloud 66
> One example the firms gave for how this might be used in

> real-life involved using the kit to send information about

> local conditions to a remote data centre, which in turn

> would send back commands to a smart lighting system made up

> of internet-connected bulbs.

Honestly, why would any sane person want to do this?

By doing this you would give up your privacy and also your independence.
Canadian 'freezeway' could let residents skate to work
I like Jane Doe
Stocks are extremely hard to value until you IPO, though.
Well so far so good. It looks like a series of dead simple scripts and config files. Oh, and the pf stuff appears to be awesome...
Meanwhile, living in the 'burbs' is the cultural equivalent of living in Siberia as far as I'm concerned. I spent < $20k last year and had a great time in New York.
I've been presented with this new captcha about a dozen times, and "failed" it every single time, whereupon it falls back to the traditional squiggly text.

I run Ghostery, so perhaps passing it relies on possessing some tracking cookies? If so, I'm happy to continue failing it.
Google Closure module support in ClojureScript
Adware Privdog worse than Superfish
Many of L'viv (then Lwów) professors (for example Stefan Banach, of the Banach-Tarski paradox fame) survived only because they were hired as "lice feeders" in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Weigl institute, and he managed to persuade Germans that they need consistent data, so they can't take his feeders away just because they are Jewish or Polish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeder_of_lice#Lw.C3.B3w_academ...
Turn Your BeagleBoneBlack in to a 14-channel, 100Msps Logic Analyzer
She said YES
I'm blocking re-captchas completely and one at least one occasion the site just let me in. Must be poor integration on those sites.
We are all dependent on the government already, but have mechanisms to prevent such abuse. Couldn't the government aready threaten to close down all hospitals? Open up all prisons? But they dont.
The Go compilers are now written in Go
So you are saying that drcode means cryptocurrency has value as a ponzi scheme?
That's very poor recruiting practice. Why bothe asking questions if you can't use the answers as part of your recruitment process?
Emma Willis Wardrobe Malfunction at Celebrity Big Brother Show
I took this excellent story the same as you did. For me, this is the central point:

My gut still tells me I’m right, but my brain knows
better than to trust my gut.

This is a nice phrasing of one of the things one has to come to term with while becoming a computer professional.
Suggested title change: "American Cities with ...". Not everyone lives in Murica.
> lacking the capability to invent

citation needed
I think any such scheme should be based on revenue rather than profit, or else Hollywood accounting[1] might be encouraged.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
The groups aren't as dichotomized as you describe. I would consider myself part of the first group except that I do drink for the euphoria. I occasionally drink, period (rare social occasions), but when I do I'll want at least 6+, and I'll be sure to have a place to rest or a ride home. I even have a breathalyzer. Your definition of an alcoholic is off.
Isn't this something that post PC devices are immune to? Certainly iOS devices that have less fragmentation in versions, screen sizes etc.

Perhaps there is a security/privacy gap in the market here, a browser that appears identical with every other install and manages it's own fonts etc.
Care to explain what's gross about MSYS2/MinGW-w64? I'm genuinely interested in making it less gross.
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Tiny PE (2008)
The Finnish Concept of 'talkoot' in Software Development
PORNSTAR ESCORT ASHLEY WOODS – Golden Diamond Escort
Most of the cost is from rent or housing. If you lower that cost by living more minimally, San Jose may still be the best place overall in terms of discretionary spending.
http://goo.gl/CPiykA

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Yep, and as someone else mentioned, flying right over one of the more heavily militarized areas of the planet (Kashmir). Also, why would Russia choose to hijack a plane full of Chinese citizens for this? The last thing they want right now is to compromise their relationship with China. It just doesn't make any sense.
On a related note, "Dangerous Knowledge" is a great documentary "about four of the most brilliant mathematicians of all time, Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing, their genius, their tragic madness and their ultimate suicides". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1520274/
Another factor that the article doesn't consider is the utility of each Lego brick - if there are a large number of unique pieces in each set then you need to buy more Lego sets to get the available bricks, and the bricks have less reusable value in models built from your imagination. For example, a child can't as easily take a set that's designed to build a car and use the bricks to build a dinosaur instead because there are too many "car specific" pieces.

Measuring the usefulness of pieces would be tremendously hard to include in any mathematical model (pun not intended).
But what about the incognito browsing? Would it prevent that?
Except cities aren't really fungible. If you like big cities, then NYC may be the best place to live regardless of salary. If you like the outdoors, then maybe another city. If you are raising a family, then maybe you want to be in a quieter area with good schools. If you want to be in a tech hub, then you should be in Silicon Valley. And if you have a spouse, that is all adjusted by their needs and the industry they work in.

On a software developer's salary, you'll get by regardless of what city you live in, so you should be choosing the city which suits your personality and your stage of life.
Rooting guide
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This looks like a nice CSS framework, but I am beginning to regret my choice of username.
“source code is compiled twice: once with a second (trusted) compiler”

Here I stopped reading.
I think that is a simplification of the model for high school level physics. It's like when we use Hooke's law to describe a spring constant that only holds true for part of the range. Compared with a volume of gas, fluids are "incompressible."
Reminds me of this article talking about living in Barcelona and commuting to London being cheaper than living in London:
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/cheaper-to-live-in-barcelo...
The way you conflate these metaphors makes the truth of your statement seem self-evident, but it is not so.
> Are dishwashers less common in the EU than the US?

Everyone I know here in Norway has a dishwasher. Of course, we didn't have one growing up (I'm late 30s).
> The illegality pushes the price up;

You make it sound as if this is a bad thing. I'm having a hard time imagining what benefit will result from making a potent and fairly addictive narcotic cheaper and more available.
This sounds pike Google could be violating EU laws about data protection. We've seen that the EU is happy to enforce stupid laws (cookie notification; right to be forgotten) so they need to be a bit careful. They at least need a robust rebuttal to researched concerns.
There are so many details in eg JavaScript that a website could probe, that it really doesn't seem feasible
I think it's just that the wrong metaphor is being used. Don't think "as the fundamental basis of the company, the developers are keeping everyone else employed"... think "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts". You can start with either, but you won't get anywhere without both.
Humans already die and are replaced by other intelligent beings every day. It's been going on for as long as we've had humans. It sucks, but it sucks regardless of whether the replacement was created by means biological or technological. Once you're dead, you're dead.

I would prefer transhumanism or at least something like The Culture of course, but I find even violent replacement of humans by a superintelligent being is preferable to us wallowing here on Earth until we go extinct, provided the replacing superintelligence is not too monomaniacal (cf paperclip maximizer), and goes on to explore the stars after taking care of us.

I find Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are being overly anthropocentric here, and if we're going to start creating intelligent beings at a level equal to or exceeding our own, we should probably all start learning how to be less anthropocentric.
Yes. The key thing I was (attempting to) respond to was the idea that consensus is a good indication of truth. My final sentence overstated things: we all all forced to piece together a worldview with slabs taken from consensus, but it's something to be concerned about, not celebrated. It's much easier to get duped by consensus than a single voice that's smarter than you.
Yeah I thought r/bitcoin was a good place to argue against the idea that any altcoin is automatically subsumable by bitcoin. Needless say the downvotes came pretty quick. I think the chance that Bitcoin simply changes to match any competitors is ludicrous. Only consensus changes are possible whilst preserving the Blockchain. Any controversial change that has enough merit will split the market between Bitcoin and an altcoin and divide supporters along those lines. Meaning the holders of Bitcoin become more resistant to change as the altcoin becomes more successful. Its definitely not clear that scenario ends in a change to Bitcoin early enough to defeat the altcoin.

I also think the OPs point about the highlander effect isn't well made - a coins mining pool only needs to be strong enough to protect itself from attacks that it's value incentivises.
The computational "free lunch", IMHO, ends way earlier before Moore's Law hits the wall.

Far from a well-established point, and please do correct me if I am wrong, but ever since some point around 2008, the performance gain from CPU upgrade becomes kind of stuck, which sticks to around 10%-15% between generation.
I remember saving lots of money in Switzerland because it was too expensive to actually buy anything. When that frappechino costs 8CHF, you think hard about getting it (now it's probably even worse!).
Simple App Blueprint (Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, Et Al. Deployed on Heroku)
Show us the data. Unless you believe an average woman is better at the job than the average man, stripping all gender / race information should at best bring it up to the baseline; with the huge skew at the college level (maybe 10% of my year at graduation were women) this doesn't really result in a 'tremendous increase in the number of women'.
In too much of an indignant hurry in my reply. Yes, it was decriminalization not legalization. But the point stands that reducing impediments to drug use isn't going to cause civilization to crumble.

Anybody who brings up the issue of the damage done to society by drug use has to then take into account the damage done by drug prohibition. It's clear (to many) that the latter is far more harmful.
JavaScript: console lesser known features
Little bit off topic but, if you use only <tab> to go to checkbox and press space to select it, it brings up the good old "type the text in the image" verification (distorted text).

So it thought I was a robot and fallback is to use the old captcha. Well, not sure if this new captcha solves the problem it was intended to do so. Am i missing something?

This is quoted from their blog post about recaptcha -->

"However, our research recently showed that today’s Artificial Intelligence technology can solve even the most difficult variant of distorted text at 99.8% accuracy."

Here you can test it by yourself --> https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo
European here. I tried peanut butter once. It was disgusting.
So if google is grabbing all your profile data via the traditional reCAPTCHA but also makes you fill out a form, then it's all ok. But once it becomes obvious that they are collecting the data and they are using (the already collected) data to make it so you don't have to type in the text on the picture, then it's a privacy concern.

Or do you honestly believe they bought and continued to operate the old reCAPTCHA out of the goodness of their hearts, never collecting all that data that everybody is upset about now?
A slice is not an array of bytes. That's exactly the point.

See http://blog.golang.org/go-slices-usage-and-internals
to get a basic understanding
Why we moved from Heroku to EC2
San Jose is not hurting for nearby recreation oppurtunities, though you often need a car to access them. On the other hand, try a city with hot/humid southern weather like Atlanta or even Dallas or Huston...there is a reason they have high obesity rates.
good place start:
http://www.coursebuffet.com/sub/computer-science
Outlook for iOS and Android Blocked by European Parliament
Does anyone have good alternatives to old/new ReCAPTCHA? I've been scratching the surface of academic research in the area, and it's all kind of messy.

(It's no great secret that CloudFlare would love to switch away from ReCAPTCHA, for a whole variety of reasons. It's one of the things Tor users complain about the most, but it's an issue for a lot more users than that. We're doing a lot of stuff to reduce reliance on CAPTCHAs overall throughout 2015, but we still need a good one for some checks.)

I wonder if some kind of prize (anti-Turing prize?) would help. There's the core algorithm/approach question, as well as the infrastructure and deployment model question. I'm a lot more comfortable answering the latter; the former is a black art mixture of science and art.
> I wonder how such laws handle cases where an animal rapes a human.

At one time, the animal might have been given a trial in a court, just like a human. Google "animals on trial" and you'll find some interesting articles about specific cases and the practice in general, mostly from a "let's make fun of our idiotic ancestors" perspective, but there is one from Slate in there that takes a more nuanced look at why they did it.

There is an early 20th century book about animal trials and punishment called "The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals" by Edmund P. Evans. It is available [1] at Project Gutenberg.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43286
> I cannot count the amount of times I've read about scientists in the past getting ridiculed for some "crackpot" theory only to be vindicated later.

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

-- Carl Sagan
Ask HN: Do I need to worry about bit rot in 2015?
Hi HN,

Under what situations should I worry about bit rot in 2015 rather than just outright disk failure?

For my photo album? For my postgres database with important data?

Does SSD make a difference?
My point is: you will always have the plausible deniability that the blackmailer has simply invented dirty data, and mixed it with real clean data
The author's thesis is that, since "airplanes don't fly like birds fly," defining AI by human imitation or servitude is really a provincial kind of speciesism. There's a very important distinction, however, between "acts human," "obeys humans," and "acts in the interest of humans," which the article glosses over.

While a strong AI wouldn't need to be designed expressly to mimic humans or slave at their bidding (what the author argues against), it would absolutely need to be programmed to respect, support, and further human needs. Almost any other way of designing a true AI, if it succeeds, results in instant extinction for humans. This is simply because if we are irrelevant, then we and our environment represent a useful source of raw material.

The simplest and most commonly cited example is the paper clip maximizer, which is seeded with making paper clips as its primary goal at some early stage of its development. Even after achieving superintelligence, it keeps that fundamental goal, and thus converts the solar system and whatever else it can access into a giant paper clip factory. (See http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Unfriendly_artificial_intelli... for more.)

Many have in fact argued that the only moral way to design a superintelligence is to imbue it with the desires of our more perfect selves. This theory is called Coherent Extrapolated Volition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligenc...), and the core idea is that the final goal of superintelligence should be whatever we ourselves would think of, if we were allowed to keep iteratively perfecting ourselves according to our current values until we reached a local maximum.

So while the article is interesting from an egalitarian perspective, the final issue comes down to this: any superintelligence had better be interested in us, because due to its immeasurably greater power, either it likes us or we're dead.
Actually, verifying user photos is pretty common, not just in high-security areas. The residence halls at the university I went to had this setup as far back as the late 90s. --You had a proximity card that was read at the door, and your photo popped up on the computer.

The gym I go to now does the same. --It's an easy way to prevent multiple people from trying to share a card.
> Just because "the target demographic of commercial skateboard culture shrank drastically" doesn't mean it was a conscious or subconscious decision of anybody involved in the industry.

I don't see how this is relevant? A problem is a problem, no matter if it's caused by a someones decision, or by systematic bias.
Its came with the version 7 and you can see here https://help.comodo.com/topic-72-1-451-6840-.html it says

You can install PrivDog while installing Comodo Internet Security or by downloading the app from www.privdog.com/downloads.html

I saw the option to install PrivDog while Installing the Comodo Internet Security
You know, an airplane completely disappearing IS implausible. Airplane crashes leave debris. Finding much of the plane isn't likely, but finding absolutely nothing if you search in the right place is a stretch. Like looking for straws in a haystack and not finding even one.

http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/emirates-clark-s... says it well.
People getting a new internet connection are required to actively choose whether they want their ISP's filtering to be applied or not. It doesn't feel like a big deal - everyone I know takes the view of "of course you opt out of the filter" and there doesn't seem to be any stigma attached to doing so. (of course that's just my friendship circle)
However 10-15% percent per generation is still exponential growth if the cycle length is roughly the same. Just slower.
As with asm.js it wouldn't need to be universally accepted: It can "sneak in the back door" by continuing to work fine in browers that "just" supports standard javascript.

If code using this method clearly labels the bytecode and interpreter and the part that background loads the "real thing", then implementations can opt to add whatever optimisations they like to speed it up as it stabilises . Doesn't matter if the bytecode changes, as long as it's labelled properly so the optimised versions falls back to just interpreting the JS if it comes across a version (of the interpreter/bytecode as a whole, or just a single opcode) it doesn't understand (or that the implementer hasn't seen a need to optimise).

If the interpreter is guaranteed to retain a certain structure, it could be very easy to just "unroll" the interpreter loop and selectively JIT portions of the bytecode based on hotspots. You can optimise that a lot in a non-bytecode specific way by annotating the interpreter loop with assertions that grants extra guarantees (immutable bytecode; markers to indicate which code is only interpreter scaffolding; decoding hints; if you also tack on "labels" for each instructions, implementations can special case on individual instructions that "settle" while still handling new instructions/changes by inlining the interpreter code.

> What does a specific bytecode buy you beyond slightly shorter load times (which the emterpreter already gives a way to greatly reduce)

The full speed from the start; note the substantially lower speed for the first little part. And the example codebase is small compared to some of the things people want to run.

I think we sort-of agree. I don't necessarily think there's a reason to specify a standard bytecode, exactly because this approach could conceivably be extended to effectively give us a "mostly standard" bytecode with the freedom to continue to change the format without a lengthy committee approach, because there's a demonstrably viable fallback.
That is worlds apart.
I moved to Git SVN
The Status of Moore's Law: It's Complicated (2013)
Great game for android to spend some time and get furstrated
Last time I was researching, good enough flat (with 2+ bedrooms) in Zurich costs 4K+ CHF per month.
What's to stop the FDA enforcing 'patents' and market exclusivity in their approval process? I.e. Instead of approving Chemical-X, approve only DrugCorp brand Chemical-X?

Possibly with some stipulation that the first company to submit and pass approval gets a N-year exclusivity.
Do Cantor or Gödel's deaths count as suicide? They weren't really self-inflicted, but more due to mental illness.

Thanks for mentioning the documentary: I will check it out...
My former coworker from across the pond talks about his fellow college grads who either had the foresight or luck to buy flats in London after graduating in the late 90's. At the time, I think they were in the $200k range. I shudder to think of the valuations now.
fork, I guess. Plan9 uses files so there is nothing special about sockets.
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That's not really fair to the candidate when you remember the potential employee is also interviewing the employer. I don't think I'd want to work somewhere that thought myself and my boss' should not meet.
Who can win against lisp anyways?

The reasons we aren't seeing more lisp/clojure are not technical/objective ones but attitude, social and nework factors - which are just as relevant though.
But do you think you are the exception or the norm? I've looked into Zurich real-estate last year and 1000CHF wouldn't even come close to the prices I saw for a small 2br.

The idea of the average adjustments is to get a general idea of the cost of living.
Or maybe this obsession with calling absolutely everything that doesn't fit the everyday-narrower definition of a "normal person" a mental illness needs to stop.

Next thing you know, "People who don't want to be snooped on by the government have a mental illness and don't understand why it's a good thing."