skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the fact that (before Russia invaded Ukraine) global death rates from conflict go down nearly every year? Could their be an argument made that prevalence of weapons systems reduce outbreaks of conflict, in effect making arms providers 'peace manufacturers'? Not my perspective, just wondering.
True. I have noticed that we in Sweden give away a rather substantial portion of our national gross product in order to fight poverty in other countries. Most of those countries - including India are in this list. The outcome seems to be that we give away money to cater for their poor, while they happily exploit their own workers to out-compete us on every market, while maintaining huge military budgets that they apparently spend on buying things from our most aggressive neighbor. Excellent.
{{citation-needed}} on 90% of that.

However, I believe you are limiting your scope of thought by considering crop yield per unit of land as a measure of success.

Fukuoka by contrast considered the bigger picture, mainly the cost and reliability (ie. overall risk introduced by) all inputs to the agricultural process, but also the quality of the resulting crop. In his particular case, in a situation in which labour-intensive traditional Japanese agricultural processes were being replaced by western machinery, fertilizer and pesticide companies, he achieved excellent fruit yields with greater self-sufficiency, less risk and less effort than competing approaches. He also found that consumers appreciated his crops more, finding them tastier (qualitative improvement) and offering to pay higher prices.

You are of course correct that pruning is necessary for some types of crops, however Fukuoka worked primarily with fruit trees on his family farm and in his principles stated only that pruning was unnecessary for fruit tree agriculture, ie. this is a straw man argument.

Your final incitement to a mindset of dismission is unenlightened.
The Netflix experience seems to have become increasingly user hostile.

No Netflix, I don't want to watch Marco Polo. Wait what? You "updated" the XBox One app and now I have to give voice commands such as "Watch Item 1" instead of "Watch Arrested Development"? How is it that everything you recommend to me these days, unlike in the past, reflects popularity more than my preferences?
Citizen scientists dive into particle physics and astrophysics research
"Computing machinery and intelligence" wherein the test is outlined, with background. aka "The Imitation Game"

http://cogprints.org/499/1/turing.HTML

> The aim of the Turing Test is to say that judging machines based on...

That wasn't the aim at all, again I think you are reading way too much in to it. The aim was to pose a test that would fool people.

Alan Turing:

"an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes"

"The original question, "Can machines think?" I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Nevertheless I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."

The test is a very simple thought exercise where he shows a machine will be able to pass for a human, and a human will fail to identify a machine. That's it. No questions of consciousness, metaphysics! In fact he dismisses such questions in the paper.

His belief was that in 50 years time, the words may have changed, and people's opinions about what constitutes thinking would have changed to the point where: someone could say "a computer thinks" without challenge. That hasn't happened, when somebody says "a computer thinks" they are saying it with tongue firmly in cheek. Maybe in another 65 years time his belief will come true.
The hallmark of science is predictive power. Experiments, replication, peer review are all nice but optional.

When you have a general enough theory, you don't need to re-do the exact same experiment. You may not need to experiment at all and get by on mere observation. (Just call it a "natural experiment" when pressed.)
ISIS using BitCoin to raise funds in the US
Most of the stuff I read online can very well be plain markdown files. Most of the stuff I _do_ however can't work without JS. The fact that we're so reliant on JS indicates that the "modern" web stack is in dire need of a complete rethink.

PS: Only slightly related, but I'm currently working on a SMTP replacement that focuses on speed, privacy, and ease of use. I believe that if more people would do this, at some point some new technologies will stick and we'd get rid of the (bad) 80s-90s stuff.
I'm not convinced "social media e-commerce" is a better way to sell.

Blurring the lines between commerce and friendship creates false assumptions of trustworthiness.

I've witnessed people walk into stores demanding discounts they saw on unofficial social media merchant accounts. Needless to say no sale was made and both parties were worse off.

Ordering something as simple as a Raspberry Pi was a tedious process involving several emails and a walk to the bank. Very personal and yet utterly inefficient for everyone involved.

There might be a great demand for a user friendly e-commerce app here.
It's more like the .NET CLR version of a Lisp read-eval-print loop, and _that's_ why he likes it so much. ;)

But more seriously, it only looks like the Unix shell. Operators like '|' can have very different semantics, especially when passing objects around and whatnot.
No kernel panic, EXC_BAD_ACCESS in Debug/Release confs.

Possibly I have provided wrong prototypes, mach_vm is n/a in iOS: https://gist.github.com/cfr/425812debdb2a6d0449f
...Russia provided troops and equipment for the peacekeeping force in the Balkans. Also, that operation was planned and executed by NATO ( their first, I believe). Whatever the case, I believe the Kosovo/Serb cold conflict will be the next excuse for Russian expansionism. Either there, or as well as there, in Dagestan/Ossetia/Georgia regions.
Hopefully sarcastically, because in the face of such overwhelming uncertainty, that is the only way we can advance, and therefore we must continue.
Well, that may improve in the future. The main property of inventions is that they are often completely unexpected.

Maybe there is a wireless way.

Maybe it will be compulsory to have a DBI (direct brain interface) connector in your skull in the future (I hope it won't).
I'm not sure that matters. It's ok to eat cholesterol now, right? All these "mistakes" give science a black eye. We've already got a Climate Change trustworthyness problem and for some reason people don't trust vaccines, mostly educated people. As a nation, we refused to fund both the Hubble and the Supercollider, which would have been bigger than CERN.

It's probably time that we stopped making excuses and think of a better way to explain the "science" to people.
I'm pretty confused by the term 'luck' in these papers. Surely 'random mutation' is exactly how cancer propagates in all cases? Risk factors coexist with 'luck'. The chance of suffering a cancerous mutation is like rolling a dice, and risk factors are the equivalent of the number of dice being rolled. It's not a question of 'OR', it's a question of 'AND'.

E.g.: You're a smoker who develops lung cancer: you are 'unlucky' in the sense you suffered a random mutation AND also 'responsible' because you smoke, which is a primary risk factor.
How can i get informations from a code
Hello, maybe this is not the place where to ask this question, please bear with me.

alice will give bob a code, and when bob provides me this code(maybe +time, and alice's name), i would like to know if this code was really given to bob by alice.

i thought of some simple stuff like (ax + b)( is math, + is string concat) where "a" is alice's name, x is date and b is a unique number for this code (provided by alice to bob) and then with the date and alice's name, i will do the math to know that this was realy given by alice to bob, and know what is the b ?

may be there is some better way to do this, but the requirements are that the code provided to bob should not be so long (max 10 chars).

Thank you.
The sad part is how "everyone’s buzz gets killed" when he mentions the true mission of his company. Here he is, making an attempt at solving a real problem in the real world but he has to feel ashamed because somehow it's less sexy than web intelligence.
Computer Security in the Real World (2004)
I think by grabbing coffee, he was referring the time wasting that can happen when everyone becomes aware of your startup. Would be investors (as they should) want to meet, press, and a slew of others. The vast majority of those meetings will be a huge time suck. Better to focus internally first.
Why sarcastically? Wouldn't you like to wave a magic wand and know things with certainty?
The traitors are the ones who are spying on you,violating all your rights all the time.The traitors are those you accept as your masters.

If Snowden was a traitor,a spy he wouldn't have leaked PRISM to a journalist, he would have flied directly to Russia,he didn't, he was forced to go to Russia,because the real traitors,your masters, wanted his head.
You can check the papers on the non-code repo [1] but an update to the whitepaper (4th draft) is in the works.

not sure what you mean by http interface discovery, thou. Each local node opens a readonly http interface (localhost:8080 by default) and a json api interface for cli and webui (localhost:5000 by default). gateway.ipfs.io simply a node that exposes it's readonly http interface.

The binary 'wire' protocol happens on 4000 by default. The discovery of other nodes happens by connecting to a bunch of known/configured nodes to bootstrap and asking them for other nodes.

[1] - https://github.com/jbenet/ipfs
It is worse than than because of:

(i) negators aren't always next to the word they negate, to get good accuracy you need more of a parse
(ii) sentiment is highly dependent on the domain. For instance, if one was looking at people's opinions on stocks, "Buy" and "Sell" are considered sentiment but these are emotionally neutral words in general.
(iii) Also there is sarcasm, which sometimes people can't figure out right.
the "bullets" were a short list (as noted). Want real examples? check out the startup school or Stanford course videos he has done.
See my response here, you are also reading way too far in to it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9085587

It doesn't give a computer any chance to argue for treatment, it's about whether or not an average interrogator will be fooled by it.

Sure machine rights are an interesting thought - but the Turing Test as outlined in the "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" paper isn't related to machine rights. Anytime a computer says "no" without good reason to "sudo shutdown now", the plug will be pulled on it.

I agree with you that it isn't clear that the Turing Test has any meaning whatsoever. I'm not sure there ARE great implications from machines eventually being able to fool humans. Plenty of things can fool humans, paintings, mirrors, animals. And not all humans are equal in determining whether they are interacting with another human or not.
> The problem is that 25 years after Photoshop launched, we’d much prefer manipulations of reality to reality itself.

That photoshoped picture of Beyonce could be easily achieved in 'reality' as well. Photographers and make-up artists have many tricks.

This sort of celebrity is probably paid thousands dollars per minute and its cheaper to photoshop her, than pay her for 2 hours to apply 1 mm layer of make up.
What part of the helicopter assault and naval blockade of Crimea is comparable to the Kosovo settlement? Which previous war with a genocide chaser primed the put-upon citizens of Crimea to form an army, gov't., etc? There is no comparison between Crimea and Kosovo in terms of extra-national interference. Please keep in mind that preping an assault force of Hinds and thousands of unmarked soldiers takes quite a while. The moment the Yanukovich ceded power, Russia began to act.

A better example of western tampering after a 'legitimate' election is in Gaza.
The 5 measures of an effective goal
> The law has been part of civilization from the beginning (Hammurabi)

I tend to agree that if there's a civilization, there are laws, but your example is bizarre. A quick check of wikipedia informs us that Hammurabi was born circa 1810 BC. Compare Sargon, who took his throne about 500 years prior, or Narmer, who unified Egypt over a thousand years before Hammurabi was born. And we only know about them because they left records. The Egyptians also left records of various near-eastern peoples who clearly had flourishing civilizations at the time, but left no records of themselves. These great conquerors come from a backdrop of states that are already old.

Seven thousand years ago, pre-Egyptian nomads left religious art in what is now the Sahara desert (though at the time they used it to pasture their animals). Nomads aren't traditionally considered civilized; we like to use agriculture as the threshold. But those nomads surely had laws, even if you'd find them primitive, and they were organized enough to leave monuments behind and, eventually, conquer the farmers who lived along the Nile and set themselves up as the ruling class.
> The modern web is scriptable and the days of "no javascript" are over.

But why should we accept this? Why does it justify pages like this one, that don't need javascript but deliberately fail if you don't enable it?
It's called a "man in the middle" because it intercepts connections between the source and destination. The physical location is irrelevant.
This document is both a political document and, to a lesser extent, a scientific one.

On the political front, the document encourages people to reject that cancer predilection is stochastic and to encourage the continued study of cancer.

The scientific component attempts to provide an underpinning to the political goal. It uses a handful of epidemiological examples, such as the climbing incidence of colorectal cancer in Japan over a genetically-insignificant timescale (which suggests an environmental factor at play).

The article fails to support its headline ('Most types of cancer not due to "bad luck"') through any scientific instrument. While its policy goal (the continued pursuit of the causes of cancer) is reasonable, nobody is saying that we now know that cancer is predominantly caused by bad luck so we should stop studying it (certainly not Vogelstein, whose career is built on the study of cancer).

Overall, it's not clear to me why this was published.
Hack gave U.S. and British spies access to billions of phones
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I'd make sure to leave those books out (religious texts as well)...

Other civilizations have got by just fine without them, and maybe without tainting influences, the survivors will do better next time.
Show HN: Australia Quiz (Sound)
You can implement a protocol to know whether it was alice who gave this code to bob.

Using public key encryption, alice can have a private key, which she uses to sign the code she gives to bob.

Then anybody can use the public key to check the signature on that code, to very that the owner of the private key (ie. alice) did sign it.

As for "too long", it's relative. For example:

$ echo 'code given to bob by Pascal Bourguignon: 42'|gpg --armor --clearsign -
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

code given to bob by Pascal Bourguignon: 42
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJU6JnbAAoJEMqG5FsaozHfUMAIAJh+6MLorX8vOCzKve/ia4nv
cloO1Ctp1xEF19Pou72HuMyinYl5S0Xh94JGclquUMxzA1RwlXY3kH65tZ/WgmpY
xEK+f5VYNeX3uoPQ/3TnV1Tp1vP7IxAmtctqYImGprvdwmCQRkBCDXIX2q/A2WVV
ZXwKHqdgSU5TVtLblAbLEX3ZdWsQbV8uekMU9bJy87lWMOFM96sD/TGpmnGxo6a4
S1C9uEtYtvGTLjQCWhSn+TelhNluDyphwv+eDSmLNYAeelgYeUOKKgqpBFglVgSj
HZQrjg/C7sPFJt77KpImhJaHzcLf8azX7IcSv74Uawd2EYhL97imQlNwEoL+v7Q=
=m2xA
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

$ echo 'code given to bob by Pascal Bourguignon: 42'|gpg --armor --clearsign -|gpg --verify
gpg: Signature made Sat Feb 21 15:45:35 2015 CET using RSA key ID 1AA331DF
gpg: Good signature from "Pascal J. Bourguignon (Maven) <pjb@informatimago.com>"
>some OEMs have tried installing versions of Linux, with negative financial results.

Which isn't much of a surprise considering what I have observed so far (in trying to purchase a Linux PC). I can't recall ever having seen an OEM offer Linux for more than a sparse subset of their product line, usually mid-tier or low-tier machines.

>A few are still trying.

Which ones? The situation may have changed since I last paid any attention a few years ago.

>The real problems are selling and supporting them.

The MVP here is to merely accept returns for units that turned out to be particularly troublesome; which they usually do (ie: the Samsung UEFI thing from 2013).

A non-Microsoft UEFI key thing might be nice as well, but that's another story.
Weekend(ish) project to play with React.

https://github.com/gaving/terra

Related:- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178358
Cannot everything you are saying about The West[sic] be applied to what Russia has done/is doing in E.Ukraine as well as Dagestan/Ossetia?
Barak Weichselbaum, Komodia SSL Redirector founder, tells his story
This shows a severe misunderstanding of statistics.

The original paper (here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6217/78.abstract -- the abstract is enough to deduce the conclusion) is a simple statistical analysis of mutation probability in certain cell types. It's basically saying that many cancers are not necessarily influenced by external factors and can be predicted by nothing more than the number of cell divisions and the probability of DNA mutation compounded.

That, in itself, is a fascinating scientific result. Arguing against the statistics here is probably not a good idea, unless there was a serious error in the math or an order of magnitude error in the probability of mutation. Certainly there are other possibilities of error in the data or methodology.

But the article in opposition (OP) is doing something odd that doesn't appear to be a scientific argument: it's railing against the language and the implications of the very concept of statistical analysis applied to the problem. It's assuming that because we discovered that, perhaps, cancer has a certain probability of occurring independent of external factors, that it will somehow slow research or cause us to throw up our hands and give up on prevention strategies or research.

I don't think that's the case. Rather than understanding the absolutely fascinating statistical analysis here, the OP article comes across as reactionary and unscientific.

Assuming the data is sound, the statistical analysis is profound. Most often, statistics such as that are profoundly misunderstood as well: people have an incredible capacity for attribution bias and data disbelief. This simply underscores the need for a better education in basic statistics as well as science across the board.
I don't think this is correct. Willingness to accept theories based on our limited understanding of the underlying facts and our observations has led to widespread, incorrect belief before.

Descartes and Galileo accepted atomism because, based on their limited understanding of chemistry, it made sense. It wasn't until experiments like the cathode ray tube experiment and the gold foil experiment revealed more elementary particles and forced people to revise their beliefs.

Philosophers of science like Karl Popper like to focus on falsifiability over induction precisely because we tend to become complacent in beliefs that don't tell the whole story and otherwise obscure more interesting, less intuitive underlying phenomena.

I feel like, if we had it your way, we might still be atomists.
There is a great difference between the incidence of prostate cancer and the death rate from it. Prostate cancer is currently diagnosed in 15 to 20% of men during their lifetime, but the
lifetime risk of death from prostate cancer is only 3%. Source: European prostate cancer guideline (page 45): http://www.uroweb.org/gls/pdf/09%20Prostate%20Cancer_LRLV2.p...
>It's ok to eat cholesterol now, right?

The position of "science" has been to eat a balanced meal and exercise for as long as I can remember. You won't see a medical journal recommending fad diets. Steve covers this fairly well in the article I linked.

But still, public outreach could be greatly improved. It's unfortunate that many public doctors or educators on the subject are shills like Dr. Oz.
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The charity making video games available for all
One thing left out of this analysis of oil availability is all the places where the incentive structure has not resulted in the exploitation of easier to access oil. E.g. places where land owners have no mineral rights and oil exploration and exploitation by the government is a major negative, and the government isn't strong enough to get around lots of these land owners. I think Argentina is one of the classic examples of such a nation.

There's also coal -> oil, if you've got some hydrogen handy.

As for "every resource we use", you've got to separate the ones we "use up" like fuel, and ones that are still available after use, like most metals. E.g. access to iron/steel and copper will be trivial, just mine ruined cities, land fills, etc. etc.

I can't say with 100% confidence this would work out, but I know the sort of people our betters despise will roll up their sleeves and give it a try.
>The modern web is scriptable and the days of "no javascript" are over.

That doesn't mean the days of "designing without javascript" are over, though. HTML and CSS work more or less the way they always have.
> But one tenant of scientific thought is that truth and factuality are not measures of an individual's or society's belief, but rather, they are discovered by experiments whose results can be replicated.

Discovery and replication can be complex affairs though: was the experiment competently executed, was it interpreted the right way, did any attempt at replication properly replicate the conditions of the original, is there theory to go along with the experiment and how convincing and coherent is that theory, and so on and so on. And if there are points of disagreement, good luck trying to figure out who is right without any domain knowledge.

So, yes, ultimately, as a non-scientist in a lot of cases your best bet is to look at what the scientific consensus is, rather than trying to be a scientist yourself.
We Might First Find Life on Tidally Locked Planets
This is what Christopher Alexander calls "to build nature". He, and a generation of architects and urbanists, realized some decades ago that preservation wouldn't be enough - we need to learn how to engineer nature to live in a symbiotic rather than predatory relationship.
I know that and mach_* are supposed to be dynamically loaded. But what I failed to get is to reproduce the kernel panic, not to build and run on my iPhone 5. By now that piece of code could run but only result in normal crash, not kernel panic.
Because the job market is completely different in developed countries no offence meant but former warsaw pact countries are in no way the same as the UK/USA

It looks Russian companies do more in house recruiting and employ FTE to do this where as in the developed world this is out sourced to a large extent it doesn't make sense to have full time staff recruiting unless you are the size of Ford or Google
Is it 64-bit only? Which hardware are you using for this test?

EDIT:

I cannot reproduce on iPhone 5 which is NOT running any 64-bit kernel.
Does Microsoft also remove the Firefox and Chrome certificates?
The Falsest of False Equivalencies
I learnt to type on a typewriter the school district gave me one at 7 or 8 when I was diagnosed with dyslexia.
Why outsourcing your content writing needs makes sense