skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't make sense, though -- info hazards are not normally things you might just think of, or we'd be screwed either way; "whatever you do, don't think of a pink elephant", right?

Toss out silly ideas like the basilisk thing, and think up real info hazard possibilities.

E.g., let's say you knew what Snowden was up to, a few weeks before he figured out how to publish what he'd found and leave the US.

You'd have done a lot of harm to post that info publicly.

Suppose you find a laptop left in a taxi, with police records including personal details of rape victims in your city for the past 20 years. Post it to 4chan? Uh, no.

What about ongoing undercover investigations? Post it?

You accidentally shoulder-surf sensitive credentials -- bank manager's login, nuclear plant access code, whatever. Post them online?

Simple ways to make highly dangerous weapons, drugs, poisons, etc. can also be info hazards.

It's honestly not that hard to imagine real-life examples, without having the dangerous info in question or descending into government assassin-type scenarios.

It's just any data that, if you make it generally available, will predictably result in bad things happening.

In some cases -- like revealing important security flaws -- a public disclosure may be a last resort if less harmful methods have failed, but it's likely not an ethical first resort in those cases.
In Latin America, Latin America is seen as part of "the West". In Europe and the US, "the West" is a different entity that includes only Europe and the US, Canada, Australia and NZ. Different things are meant by the terms though.
suyash,

You brought a smile to my weary eyes.
When you skip a character, you move on to next shape.

So, 1-2-3 5-6-7 = 2 triangles

But 1 3 5 = 3 points
I believe that for several decades in the last century, "West" in English speaking countries became somewhat synonymous with "NATO". The "East"/"West" terminology was tainted by cold-war political language.

I think that this map is a fairly accurate representation of what the typical American "world-view" is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world#/media/File:Clash...

I don't mean to say that it is "correct" in any way, just that it fairly accurately encompasses how many Americans informally loosely categorize different nations/regions.
http://imgur.com/tWjIPSP 13 points 2hrs, http://imgur.com/SgI97bA 8 points 6hrs
I'm not saying the author didn't make something far more advanced or cool; but the beginning of the article makes it seem like ey thinks ey is the first to ever come up with such an idea, which is false. I was never trying to say that the project is a knock-off.
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Yes. The Indian Microsoft virus phone scam is well known. Search for examples on YouTube.
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> Random PIDs
> Eliminates race conditions
> Say you have a root daemon that forks then the child drops privileges. If you can beat the child you can inherit root privileges

Can someone explain this? I don't see what this has to do with the randomness of pids.
You are totally right, and I actually also considered doing just that initially in my code.
Philly is the 5th largest city in the country, nearly 2x the population of SF... JUST SAYIN :)
I'm guessing it's considered more like a coupon since you didn't directly pay money for it.
Hasty. And I regret that so much, look at the sibling comments I attracted... :(

I'm sorry. I'll go to bed now.
I think a lot of the time when people at companies look at this sort of thing they get trapped in a somewhat unnecessary chicken and egg problem. Yes, that project is full of cruft and only one guy knows how to build it, but if you've got people on the outside actually willing to do the work to carve it out into something useful, and you have no issue beyond embarrassment to not let them, you should just jump on that opportunity and make it happen.

Do a source dump, cutting out the proprietary bits you can't release without fixing them and give it to the people who claim they can make it happen. Make someone available to spend an hour every now and then answering questions they have as they figure it out. If they succeed at re-modularizing it into something useful, open source that and look at how you can 'bring it home' into your original project. There are people out there who excel at these kinds of de- and re-integration work.

The reality is that no matter how much work you put into open sourcing that thing yourself before it's 'ready' and no longer embarrassing to you, you will never have any guarantee it'll pick up a community and be useful to people outside your company. This is why you shouldn't wait for that condition, because the cost of that work will never meet the average return on investment to open sourcing.

But it may be worth the work to someone else.
I agree. Its just they could add a class to css, and instead of setting font tag to each element, just add the class. But of course, since they are generated in a loop anyway, there's no practical difference.
Perhaps HN isn't "modern" but it runs great w/o Javascript.
It's not the definition of the term "doxxing" that makes a post be unclassy.
From my understanding, the $1200 price is for the privilege of getting a dedicated table in the club, not really the bottle of alcohol itself. This is still very expensive, of course.
Secure Boot isn't lojack, it doesn't really protect against theft or discourage it. Nothing is stopping you stealing someone's computer with Secure Boot and installing a fresh Windows on it.

Secure Boot is about protecting the kernel from modification (e.g. root kits, activation cracks, and so on). It may help protect data also when combined with full disk encryption (it will make tricking you into entering your decryption key(s) into a fake/altered OS harder).

It is a classic defence in depth system. I actually have nothing against Secure Boot, I just think it is too Microsoft controlled and getting a signing key too difficult (and for Microsoft to block competition too easy).
You probably triggered one of the antispam mechanisms.

also, from the guidelines:
Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com.
That submission is obviously controversial and has probably attracted flags.
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What an awesome initiative!
>the black market (or NSA, etc)

Legitimate question: What’s the difference?
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Longest GitHub streak ever(?) and 502 on homepage

Homepage: https://github.com/cirosantilli

Screenshot of the 32k day streak: http://imgur.com/7U3zTtp

502 issue opened at: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/370

Inspired by: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20099235/who-is-the-user-with-the-longest-streak-on-github
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2 questions. 1) how many founders with PhD degree YC has funded so far? 2) Are you looking for partners with life science background?
It's nice that California (at least southern) was a pioneer in this area. Whenever I'd have to travel it was like going back in time, to the bad old days. Was pleasantly surprised to see places as far as Rio de Janeiro recently ban it as well.

There's no excuse for it being legal in indoor public places, it's like having peeing/no-peeing sections in the pool.

It is one reason I couldn't live in Europe despite how nice it is... I remember having dinner at a cafe in winter in Germany once. Freezing outside and four smokers, four! at the table next to us. Oh and then there was the smoking couple in the frozen section of the supermarket in Portugal... nowhere to hide. Fuck you people. I suppose I should bring tear-gas and a gas mask next time.
I read the article you linked and I am baffled.
> the evidence from other studies has pretty regularly found that at the very least women get more vicious attacks and are more likely to be stalked. Sentiment analysis on very large datasets has been pretty conclusive in this regard.

That's interesting, can you source it please.
I don't think it's going to happen in the short term. 70% of our users are on devices outside of the better featured google nexus, samsung s, lge g, motorola moto, etc series phones. Even though our user base leans towards early adopters, less than 2% are on the nexus 5 (nexus 6 is too small to show up in the stats).
google posts their stats on os adoption here: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html. 30% of users are on 4.1 and above. Phones running lower than 4.1 are not going to benefit from the smarter GC. If you're supporting international users, lower end phones will likely be a bigger percentage of your userbase.
Thanks! We are honored to be one of the non-profits in YC
I have a slack channel I'm growing that's open to all aspiring developers and entrepreneurs to eventually solve this exact problem. Check this page for more info, http://www.openmindedinnovations.com/about. Just email me at jbhatab@gmail.com if you're interested :).
Another trick to try: If you use Firefox, then often you can see the contents of a site by View -> Page Style -> No Style.

Other than that, I agree with you. I never enable JS for a random site, I also "move on to the next search result".
I heard comparisons with other technologies before, like RabbitMQ [1] [2] but I would love to see an feature/performance comparison between kafka and other similar solutions, specially with cloud based services like the new kid on the 'Google Pub/Sub' [3]

[1] http://www.quora.com/RabbitMQ-vs-Kafka-which-one-for-durable...

[2] https://youtu.be/MA_3fPBFBtg?t=35m27s

[3] https://cloud.google.com/pubsub
>Well, uploading sidesteps a lot of those issues, and it seems that's the only conceivable thing that could happen "tomorrow". Optimized engineering should be capable of solving many problems (i.e. a world run by a single intelligent entity).

You know, spouting transhumanism would be far more socially acceptable if you didn't answer the legitimate questions spawned by mild transhumanism with severe, world-dominating transhumanism.

For instance, words like "world run by single intelligent entity" carry an extremely high prior chance of denoting an incredibly terrible idea. At the very least, you've taken something that was already an argument, statements that already required justification, and "fixed it" by appealing to statements that require far more justification. Basically, you've answered "Won't the elimination of aging cause a population boom?" with a combination of "Not if we do it in the way that most easily allows Malthusian population booms!" and "Not if someone I approve of is made Dictator of the World."

And, of course, your next line is that your planned Dictator isn't even a human being in the first place. While I fully know where you're coming from on this point, it still requires far more justification and explanation than either of us can give in an HN comment, and should a priori be considered a bloody terrible idea.
>I apologize to all you forum owners for what I did in the past.

Yeah, well you made hundreds of thousands of people spend hundreds of hours cleaning up after automated bots turn a site to crap.

The underlying issue here is a lack of understanding on the difference between taking cash and creating value.

A reader of this might think that all this stuff is in the past, but it's getting bigger and more sophisticated by the day. The tools are all automated and the money is in the people who sell 'systems' which clip the ticket for all the wannabes who charge their credit cards for the latest 'make money online' schemes.

They all convince themselves that spamming out links is providing what their marks want. I'm not surprised to hear that depression is a common result.

Something like this could be worked into a decent movie script.
I'd say stuff like device driver and kernel work, embedded as well.

That's quite different from what you've been doing, but if you've been a coder of any sort for 12 years, I expect you could learn driver coding without too much trouble.

I have the same observation as you of the industry. I'm not so enthusiastic about learning today's buzzword, rather I'm looking for ways to get away both from employment and consulting by starting my own business of some sort.

My contemplations mostly involve crowdfunding; I'm not yet sure what kind of project I would seek crowdfunding for, but lately I've been studying how it's done. I have some reason to believe I would succeed.

For several years now I've noticed that the instant I walk into an interview, the interviewer starts finding reasons not to hire me. I expect that's because I have grey hair.
$250k/yr doesn't allow for $2k/mo more spending than $225k/yr after factoring in federal taxes.

California state income tax is also more than double that of Michigan's at those income levels.
Which pansharpening method is used in the example image?
It seems like you're saying that private enterprises should either completely divest themselves from any commitment to social responsibility (defined broadly as: "doing the right thing because it's the right thing, even when it may seem to go against the bottom line") -- or they might as well thrown in the towel and become philanthropies. Yes?

In other words -- on the blackhat-whitehat scale, it's either black- (or at least very charcoal-y grey-), or whitehat. But I just don't see modern, large companies generally acting that way -- not because they're led by altruists (they're certainly not); but because that's just not human nature (across the board). Most of us are greyhats (somewhere on the scale); and the behavior most business leadership I've either read about, or seen directly (behind closed doors) seems to fall somewhere on the greyhat scale, also.

That is: large business definitely aren't philanthropies -- but in general, most of them (even many of the traditional "bad boy" players like banks, big pharma, etc) -- aren't straight-up moral nihilists, either.

At least that's the way I observe these things. I could be wrong.
Code for America maintains a map of their open-data volunteer groups (called brigades): http://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/

Open Knowledge Foundation has a census tool that links out to lots of open data, their data isn't comprehensive though as it relies on crowd-sourced reporting and has specific slots they're looking for: http://us-city.census.okfn.org/
You bring up a good point about the connotions associated with 'manifestos', but writings like political platforms & planks are largely ignored in the media. It seems like our mass media is largely dominated by reality-tv flavored coverage of political discourse.
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The email privacy test correctly inferred the user agent of the browser I opened their email from when I opened it in gmail.
Please don't. Maybe, just maybe, on a personal (desk|lap)top. But anywhere else, and even there, unattended-upgrades or cron-apt are a far better choice and much more configurable.
I'm not sure that is true. There are always new people entering the internet in still large numbers, and their late adoption usually means they are technically naive. You also have young people becoming adults and sometimes getting their first taste of un censored internet use.
It appears the images in the blog have been hugged to death.
Getting Access Denied messages is what it looks like.
That's a damn good point. It also means that ad networks and CDNs are the best targets.
The whole point is that the model is bad.

The context is that it seems intuitively safe to teach a powerful AI that "any amount of torture is always worse than giving someone a speck of dust in the eye".

Actually following that rule could be disastrous (if the AI is powerful enough), because it will realize:

* some people spontaneously torture others

* the chances of spontaneous torture is a bit lower if all people are experiencing a barrage of dust specks sufficient to blind them

* so: eyeball dust storms commencing in 3, 2, 1...

One lesson to pick up here is that if you go by intuition, rather than doing the hard work of figuring out a logic way to decide this, if the hidden assumptions behind the intuition stop being true, we'll be in a bad place.
"One weird trick" - the scams and spams will never leave us.
An incredible idea. Very proud to see new sustainable models for nonprofits going through YC, especially ones that actually save lives.
The contributions to a Roth IRA (but not the investment returns) can be withdrawn with no tax penalty, so there isn't much reason not to max it out if possible.

Employees should always contribute to a their 401k at least up to the company match, as it is essentially free money.
Yep, it's fixed.
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Yeah, it would have been better formulated using idea hazard instead of info hazard.
There are some mitigations for this already built in. "Sensitive" processes are disallowed from linking libraries relative to @rpath and friends. Excerpt from dyld.cpp:

else if (sProcessIsRestricted && (path[0] != '/' )) {
throwf("unsafe use of relative rpath %s in %s with restricted binary", path, context.origin);
}

A cursory glance suggests that sProcessIsRestricted is true for setuid binaries and processes with restricted entitlements. Which makes sense: these would otherwise be privilege escalation vectors.
I see where you're coming from, but I'm going to have to disagree somewhat...

This kind of report is aimed at influencing the stockmarket, not at reporting success or failure of a particular therapy.

It's both. A company is required/expected to publicly release material information that could influence the stock price. The clinical data also supports whether or not the molecule "passed" this phase of study.

there was no test to determine the effect of aducanumab on Alzheimer's disease.

There is no reason why you can't have efficacy endpoints in your phase 1 study. The endpoints tested in this study are indicators of progression of Alzheimer's disease.

That said (and others here have pointed it out), this is a VERY small study. There have been numerous other examples of Alzheimer's therapy that have show promise in early trials and so far, they have all turned out to be duds. I hope that's not the case here.
> I use wget for plain, old regular downloads a lot.

I loved wget for that. what are your options? Mine was always -r -p -k -nH --cut-dirs=2 -np
Thanks. We do think financial sustainability is one of the most important ways for nonprofits to keep focused on their mission and scale their impact.
you haven't tried meerkat.

it's onboarding is akin to WhatsApp. but, instead of using the phone number, Meerkat sits on top of Twitter.

it is also running both ends on the iPhone/iPad. you can broadcast from your iPhone, using Tweets as live, inline comments in the video.

it was awesome to join a Meerkat from the Apple Keynote recently, various users were live streaming from the floor.

saying it is just like Justin.tv is the classic IT answer that predicts big success of the new entry. see http://xkcd.com/1497/
Yeah, what's up with that mistake?
This has nothing to do with us having the ability to produce "arbitrarily cheap energy". Did you even read my comment?
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> A marketing technique is not a business. A business is a set of activities that create a sustainable competitive advantage. A product is not a business, a marketing technique is not a business, any skill, no matter how well developed, is not a business. A business is a system -- a combination of activities that hopefully support and reinforce one another.

So true! This is what allowed me to succeed as an affiliate. What I tired of was the churn that kept the value I built from realizing a long-term ROI.
> What if China passes a law saying that DDOS protection is illegal worldwide?

Jurisdiction.
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The wonderful thing about sovereignty is that a country's law's jurisdiction is whatever the country decides they it should be.

The degree to which they can practically enforce that jurisdiction becomes a game of relative power and how willing others are to constrain it, of course.
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The best I can find on this is https://books.google.nl/books?id=gqKwaHmXp4YC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA....

Seems an extra layer in defence in depth, making it harder to attack a process between the time it is forked and the time it has dropped privileges by making it harder to find it.
Meerkat has two things going for it:

1) It spammed twitter whenever you used it.

Start-up journalists use Twitter constantly. People who hype themselves use Twitter constantly. This is the live streaming target market. Additionally, Twitter is real-time, like live streaming, and Twitter doesn't actively manage your stream, so the spam wouldn't get hidden (Facebook had this happen to them years ago, and they've since gotten way better at keeping app spam out of your face). Twitter was the perfect existing social network to use here.

2) Twitter noticed this and shut them down quickly.

While this sounds like a bad thing, it ended up being perfect for Meerkat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect in action. On top of the natural Streisand effects, there quickly arose a conspiracy around it -- Twitter had recently acquired Periscope, a company competing with Meerkat! And on top of even that, this all happened right as start-up journalists converged on Austin for SXSW, so they could chat about it, use it to live stream bands, etc.

On top of these two main factors, Meerkat does have a slightly better onboarding process, and a cute brand.
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It would be awesome to extend this into a library based on FontAwesome; create an abstraction layer which would allow easy reference like CSS.
It sure would... fontAwesome ios libraries (mostly using NSImage) are all awful and broken
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I think I was thrown off by the example which used 1,1,1,1 for the sphere and 2, 3 to represent isolated points. But they're consecutive. Unless I'm missing something?
Very useful.

Try cross-posting on a thread on lowendbox.com.
You don't think giving a company money influences their success?
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I'm Sure a lot of single page app features have a simple fallback - things like tabs, sliders, carousels and most navigation can be done with just html + css.
You're not making a serious effort to guess at what difference it might make, though.

Example (this is actually true!) -- I have a life-long inflammation in both eyes that started in one eye when I was about 5, and eventually spread to the other.

The specialists weren't able to figure out the original cause; their best guess was basically a speck of dust -- just the wrong speck of dust (maybe with a microorganism in it?), in the wrong place, that my immune system attacked and then just kept on attacking even after the original speck had been gone for years. Medication plus a series of unpleasant surgeries have managed to keep my eyes relatively functional, so far, but others with the same condition certainly do lose all vision.

Obviously this isn't a common result; but given enough specks of dust.... Well, you have to start doing some math.
how is this controversial, its a study that might bring unknown variables into consideration when it comes to online harrasment.