skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not being pessimistic, I'm being realistic. I absolutely want a positive outcome, where we build machines millions of times smarter than us, and they magically develop human values and morality and decide to help us.

But making that happen is very very hard, and its far more likely they will be paperclip maximizers. There's no reason they would care about us any more than we care about ants.
Probably the best article I've read on TechCrunch for a while. Even if they missed 'disrupt' because TechCrunch wouldn't make fun of themselves.
This is why it's important to prevent fast-track legislation that would allow for congress to pass this on an up and down vote with little or no public scrutiny of the actual text of the treaty.

It's a power grab, pure and simple. It's kind of bold to be undermining state sovereignty, but other than that it's your standard attempt to tilt the playing field.

Also, what if one of these three-judge panels gets asked to rule on the legality of debt-slavery? What are the limits these panels operate under?
around 90 years ago something very similar happened near the river Brahmaputra. I suspect it was the same phenomenon.
Well, that was definitely one reason that the printing press wasn't as revolutionary a technology in China as it was in the West, despite its being invented there.
Venmo Was Ordered in July by California Regulators to Address Security Issues
What other CMS is as easy to teach to end users, is free, and works 99% of the time? What other CMS can turn itself into an eCommerce store, blog, business website, magazine, etc with a few small tweaks?

I hear a lot of these comments from very well respected developers, but as a user and webmaster (not a developer) of WordPress I am very satisfied with it, and rarely see a WordPress site that runs slow, with the exceptions of poorly coded themes which will slow down ANY CMS.

I manage a lot of websites, probably 200 or so of them are WordPress. Over the last 5 years I've seen about 5 hacks, 3 were due to outdated plugins and 2 were brute forced. Backups are incredibly easy (file structure and database) for an end user with plugins, and maintenance for an average WordPress takes about 20 minutes per month.

I think this discussion is very positive in the fact that the core of WordPress is very outdated and has not really been touched in the last 5 years (or more?) or so. I'd love to see version 5 or 6 be a full re-write or even a partial rewrite of the main functions and core includes, perhaps even a more efficient language but that is not really my territory. The problem I see with all that is backwards compatibility. There are so many themes, plugins, and addons that depend on WordPress core hooks, I don't know how that could work seamlessly. I suppose that is what beta testing is for.

As I've already said in this thread, WordPress is a huge success in the mainstream and is gaining in popularity every day. 75 million WP sites last I checked vs a fraction of that in Drupal and Joomla.

Node is on the rise but is still a custom solution and not deployable unless you are a skilled developer with knowledge of the network stack.

We live in an age where end users want to be able to control their website backend. They want to blog, make changes to static pages, add images from events and even add their own products. Have you ever tried to teach someone to do this in Joomla and Drupal? I have, with success but it is 100x more difficult than WordPress.
DNA is data. A blueprint. But new organisms aren't made in a factory, they're made by other organisms, which were made by other organisms, etc. So when environmental factors affect which parts of the blueprint are used in construction of descendant organisms (and we know they can), those organisms can be different even though they share the same blueprint. Think of it as data implicit in code execution state, as children literally fork off the parent process and continue their lives.
Firefox doesn't use the Windows certificate store. The Superfish installer will add its certificate to Firefox's store if Firefox is already installed, but it isn't on Lenovo laptops.
An RSS/ATOM with an enclosures in an open codec would also be useful.

Google should recognize that some YouTube content needs to be downloadable much as it was on Google Video.
Im a suppirter of free trade too, but most 'free trade agreements' arent about free trade, they are just trade agreements.

That said, a luxury car tax is far from the worst offender for free trade.
How to Install KDE's Plasma 5 on Arch Linux
I don't understand what you mean by "symmetric". If I can write a 32 bit word out and read 1 byte of it back, I don't consider that "symmetric".
Instagram has an unorganized collection of fitness videos (among other things). This platform is exclusively for exercise videos and targeted for genuine fitness enthusiasts.

What's interesting is that there is a lot of quality fitness content on instagram, but it's difficult to find amidst the sea of butt shots, cats, meal plans, etc. We've created a unique categorization system that allows users to find exactly what they are looking for. Our upvote/downvote system will ensure that only quality content will be pushed to the top.

Where there is good quality content, users of all skill levels will follow. It's a great tool especially for beginners to expand their workout routine. I'd love to get your feedback on the app.
does it come with cpanel license?
Have you considered seasonal affective disorder? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder

You mentioned the cold. I find my energy levels are a lot lower when there is less sunlight.
The overheating leading to death if you dose it wrong is at the top of the list.

The difference between this DNP and the DNP you can buy on the blackmarket is that the DNP used in these modern fatty-liver studies is time released in smaller doses.

Users can expect to lose about ~1lb/day. But, it is very hard on you. You want to learn how to lose weight on a caloric deficit and macronutrient partitioning, about 1lb/week, and stick to a diet for at least a year before you even consider this. Otherwise, you don't have the right habits.
I didn't just say PII, I said "PII or credit card data or anything that, if leaked, would harm your business or your customers". If you're not prepared to securely handle PII, you shouldn't be collecting it. Talking about B&M, does Guitar Center or Great Clips really need my phone number? No, they don't. So I don't give it to them. They keep this data because they want it, not because they need it.

Insanely irrational? If you are comfortable handing your information to companies who do nothing more than the bare minimum to make sure it's safe, that's insanely irrational. I get tired of companies giving my information away. I really do. There's no excuse for it.

Security is by no means a solved problem, nor is it possible to solve at this point. But how often do you hear that the company wasn't hashing, wasn't encrypting, wasn't paying attention to their security tools? Damn near every time. Things like this very, very rarely happen to companies who take security seriously.
Then don't eat fructose.
What does a warrior culture have to do with male domination? You know very little of history if you think warrior culture is unique to the male.
> Rust’s variable bindings are immutable by default, but can become mutable, allowing them to be re-bound to something else

From someone reading about these details for the first time:

Calling them variable bindings confuses the matter. You say, just moments earlier, that variables are called by that name because they can change over time, they’re mutable. But this variable is immutable? But only sometimes? !

I know you mean that the mutability varies and that it makes sense in the context of the jargon of functional languages, but that's something that will make sense to language developers who have worked on Rust for years and maybe to the HN crowd, and not to new coders trying to grasp difficult, novel (to them) concepts.

How about "multimode bindings" or "multiphase bindings" (as in liquid/solid phase transitions) or dual-mode or something more entertaining like "double-agent bindings". Is it too late to change?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I suspect years from now people will be saying, 'so variable bindings are not always variable? huh?'
As much as their technological contributions are appreciated, the slow creep of Zend branding (and its own, different licensing) into PHP is not a good thing. Opcache is part of PHP now, yet it's Zend branded everywhere and has a bus factor of one (nobody can understand the source code except a Zend employee - every time anything's changed in the engine, Opcache breaks and he has to go and fix it). Similarly, it's not good that the Zend Engine is marked with a Zend Technologies copyright notice either. It's the core PHP runtime, yet if you read the notices you'd think it was some proprietary product donated by or licensed from them.
I suggest the inverse of this - spelling. It is hard to know how to spell a word. How much time did we all waste in school endless drilling on spelling that could have been used in better ways? How much time do I waste now in spell check? Too much.
You're right, "ruin" was poetic license on my part. I was either going all-in with the outrage or I was going to delete the post and move on. I chose the former.

But think about the Anthem breech just this year. SSNs, full name, date of birth, employer and yearly income, home address. Everything you need to ruin someone's life for real, and permanently. Having to have a credit card replaced is an inconvenience. Having to constantly watch your credit because everything an attacker needs to open a new credit card in your name is ruin.

Beyond that though, little inconveniences add up. How many times do you want to have to replace your credit card in a year? And if you have an auto-payment set up but miss changing your card number for that, how much will missing that payment impact your credit score? And how many hours are you spending fighting fraudulent charges? How many years of your life are taken off by the stress of constant breaches?

Life ruining? Probably not. Life-changing? Yeah, it's getting there.
Not knowing how to repair something can result in a form of learned helplessness, a belief that you are less of something than someone else.

There are efforts to show people that they don't need to buy a new computer, or install software that intentionally limits what their computer can do, or pretends to fix it for a fee. Even the programs that actually work to remove these kinds of threats (including AdAware and SD Search and Destroy) can blur the distinction between actions that are necessary to repair the problem and things that are a different kind of nuisance but not directly a threat to the operation of the computer (like tracking cookies). Software that makes installing it to use it optional is preferred, as the ongoing monitoring can often tax the computer as badly as the software being removed. (Note I'm talking only about anti-adware software here, not general anti-virus software.)

I would love to give a better option than re-install your operating system all of your software, and even that is often a difficult option since the re-installation mediums aren't even shipped with the computer in many cases. I don't want to direct a person to a service where they take the computer to be fixed that often charges more than seems fair for the hands-off approach they take to re-imaging.

Oh, on your last part, I've encountered more than one laptop where all of the installed browsers had been limited to a fraction of the screen being readable due to the number of toolbars, and general search engines being inaccessible or unusable due to the number of injection adds and popups.
Why you're at it - can you unblock traffic from Vietnam? I know a few people here who want to order online (through a courier) but can't and aren't capable of VPNing. Plus, isn't blocking entire countries from accessing your site against the spirit of the internet?

Edit: this is what we see from Vietnam - https://cloudup.com/cOLr9vimmIC
IPython 3.0 Released
As Kleiner Trial Plays On, VC’s Upper Echelon Is Laid Bare to the Real World
That was the case with Home Depot. They made the determination that the cost of implementing proper security would be more than the cost of cleaning up the breach.

However, this is just offloading the negative externalities onto the banks and the customers. That's just shitty. I'm not one to call for government regulation that easily, but this is exactly why we have a federal government. To make sure the citizens are being protected. That's why the FCC declared ISPs to be utilities. To stop them from abusing the customers. That's why the EPA has regulations on chemical and oil spills. If Home Depot got fined $100m for their breach, what would the cost look like then?

The cost of security is more than the impact of the lost business. That needs to be fixed, because until it is, we will continue to have breaches that make our lives terrible.
Facebook Retrofits a 2007 Apple Tool for Prototyping iOS Apps
To me I read "curated" as "picked by a human, not an algorithm". I guess it could also be "picked by a sufficiently advanced algorithm that is as good as a human".
Not only that, if you search Google for how to commit suicide, Google returns as special large-format card with that info:

https://i.imgur.com/4FEn35Y.png
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It's still not aware of renamed/moved files on OS X. Every other app picks up the new location of a file if you move it while it's in use, but VLC complains if it encounters a moved file in the playlist, getting stuck in an infinite error loop if you have it set to Repeat One.
One time I got an e-mail from Amex saying my account may have been compromised and to click a link. Fearing a phishing attempt I went direct to their website and logged in. A big red banner said to contact them ASAP. I called a number they gave. They asked if I ordered plane tickets for Turkey. I said no. They said ok, no worries, they auto-blocked the purchase. We went through my history to make sure everything else was correct, it was. The card was cancelled and they mailed a new one overnight. It was under 22 hours from e-mail to new card in hand. I was very impressed.

My sister has info stolen from a fake pad at a gas station. It was a debit card. She got all of her money back but it took close to 6 weeks to fully resolve. If you live paycheck to paycheck, and at the time she wasn't too far off, that can be a very difficult situation. It worked out in the end but it was definitely painful for her.

By and large these are not "ruined life" events. Identity theft and fraud are, unfortunately, common and mainstream enough that hitting "ruined life" level is exceptionally difficult. Back in the 90s when the average person didn't know those terms it might have been more common. But now it's just something that everyone, individuals and corporations, have to deal with.
Google Apps is the route I've taken in the past. I've also tried Outlook (server, not client) and regretted it, but it was what the client wanted.

I run the same kind of business, if you want to collaborate hit me up we can share ideas.
Meh. With short tags, and a helper function which can be abstracted away in your stack, you can write the following:

<? foreach($row in $results): ?>
<div><?= $row['field'] ?></div>
<? endforeach ?>

(Assume the helper function maps htmlspecialchars over an array returned by PDO::FETCH_ASSOC.)
A few studies showed caffeine can achieve the same results than DNP. And I know a few people who reversed fatty liver with caffeine alone in just 2 weeks. The only problem is to have enough caffeine tolerance to get to 800mg through the day.
First thing I'd do is put some sort of contact info in your bio, so someone can reach out. A few months ago I was really in a giving back mode (I've built and sold online businesses in the past) and decided to randomly choose someone who sought help publicly.
Conversely, don't underestimate Airbnb's crazy size (like I was until recently), it's actually sort of mind boggling.

In NYC, Airbnb has about the same number of rooms listed as the top 30 hotels combined.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9090766
What is a "trade agreement" that isn't a free trade agreement? And what is a worst offender than the luxury car tax? I guess corn subsidies are an example.
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It's not just taking traffic into account, which it can (sort of) already do.

They need to actually use the accident data. Use a diverse set of routes to get to the same place, so that there isn't one path for every car on the road. Understand stoplight patterns and where it's hard or easy to make a turn. Not focus obsessively on shortest path rather than most tolerable path.

Fundamentally what a good cab driver (which are not that common) offers you is knowledge of the best route to a destination from experience. Google Maps doesn't have that. And if it did, and it controlled a significant portion of the cars, it would no longer be the best route.
Source code: https://github.com/resonantcore/anti-csrf

It's free software released under the Affero GNU Public License. Feel free to use it in other FLOSS projects written in PHP.
Thanks for the tip, Patrick! I had heard the html->pdf tools were pretty good, but you're absolutely right about the pixel precision needs. I got my Prawn setup into a reasonable state pretty early, and it's be Mostly Fine, Just Fine.
You mean hotels would like to be glorified web directories with hundreds of thousands of 'employees' who provide the rooms, do all the work, are solely on the hook for the vast number of laws and regulations they're breaking, and pay the hotels for this privilege?

Next you'll be saying insider trading is lucrative as long as you don't get caught.
This reminds me a lot of this Kurz Gesagt video:

"The Ultimate Conspiracy Debunker"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hug0rfFC_L8

The idea in this video is also that most conspiracy theories are easy to debunk without even analyzing the contents of the theory, just looking at political factors.
Imagine the potential of adding IFTTT or Evernote integration, not to mention having it tap into GTD systems like OmniFocus.
I'm not shocked. I recently found a vulnerability in software used by multiple companies in a specific industry - thousands of names, SSNs, addresses, etc open for the taking. I attempted to disclose to a local company that uses the software and never got a response.

I think often companies just don't respond the first time, or ever. What can you do?
I don't know why asking for a counter-argument would get me banned

You didn't do that. You wrote snark about downvotes.

or how you know anything about being banned from HN when you've been a member for 86 days

What, you think they charge for accounts around here, or something? Why in the world would you think I haven't used other accounts before? If you made it to 600 days and haven't heard of the slow-down (whatever it's called) or hell-banning, then you haven't been paying much attention.
I just ordered this big, realistic looking jellyfish aquarium for 34 bucks
'Variable' is a jargon-y term in mathematics/programming in general, it doesn't literally mean "this thing can vary in the run of this program", e.g. even Haskell calls its name bindings "variables", and it is focused on immutability much more than Rust (I suppose this is the functional programming aspect you were mentioning).

One way to view it is that the bindings don't have a value that is fixed at compile time: they vary between runs.

In any case, I'm not sure what you mean by "mutability varies".
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Not all things are about speed.

Are you kidding me? You just wrote:

The user perceives lag after 300ms, and switches thought in less than a 1000ms. If your screen doesn't engage the user while it's making the switch, you risk them starting something else.

That was the entire premise of your prior comment. Any other points you want to hop to?
Writing is very hard. Despite the draft's "weaknesses", I thought it was well-written.

Being one who has "enjoyed" numerous encounters with C pointers (and pointers to pointers, etc.), a lot of the explanation seemed elementary indeed. But I didn't mind the "review", in fact, kind of fun imagining I was a beginner and how amazing it would be to learn the details.

I can see why Rust's concept of ownership is essential to grasp. However, the tutorial was a little murky when it came to the deeper subjects of "mutable borrow" and the cause of the example error.

It took a few readings to get what made the line "let x = &v[0];" so crucial: "...&mut is a promise that there are no other references...", i.e., meaning the promise to "x", since "x" is the recipient (owner?) of the "&mut" of "v".

The final paragraph is the key to the entire exposition, so it would be enormously helpful to take a few extra lines of text to clarify just how the expression "v.push("B");" violates the promise to "x". That's even more vital to your purpose as describing pointers in vivid detail.

People new to Rust are beginners re: ownership, borrowing, et.al., and would benefit from a step-by-step walk through of these less familiar parts.
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That is more of a debug menu.
I searched for "fedex refunds". On Google you get what you expect on the first page: some links to Fedex's site, and a list of Fedex shipping auditors. On Deusu.org, the first non-Fedex page is Cosco, and not a single shipping auditor. The rest of the links are just as irrelevant.
I'm just now putting two and two together, but I now realize that I saw Carlos talk about his haproxyctl project at the Pasadena meetup last month. He projected enthusiasm and earnestness in a way that had me grinning from ear to ear. This is a major bummer.
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The terminology of Venture Capital is ridiculous and disconnected from reality
Medium is no Twitter 2.0
Great job! What app?
We're hiring security engineers at Clever: https://clever.com/about/jobs#engineer-full-stack-security
Governments Covertly Fund Internet Freedom Activists
And x86-64 turns those 8 SSE registers into 16! Those handwritten assembly paths are much easier when you don't have to write stack spills.
"Variable" means that the value within can vary, as opposed to a constant, where the value never varies. This has nothing to do with mutation. For instance, a function's arguments are always variables as the value within each argument can vary each time the function is invoked, and they are variables regardless of whether or not the function ever mutates them.
My parents ran a small hotel associated with a major chain and you don't know what you're talking about.

There are multiple models used by hotel chains for years. Some lease properties that they brand and run. Some get paid to manage properties owned by third parties. Others franchise to property owners. These models are vastly different from what Airbnb has. In every case the hotel chain has a lot of control and the inventory locked in.

Airbnb has no control over its inventory and doesn't own anything. The risks of this are huge.

Btw Marriott still owns a couple billion dollars worth of real estate.
haha, i have been saying people this thing to people for years. the climate is non-linear which means slight changes can result in bifurcations that are irreversible. When we lose all our mathematical models we lose our understanding and once that happens we are no different from cavemens who dont understand how fire works.