skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stigmata of the lack of understanding were the item you mention (thinking that 90% is a large reduction in an exponentially-growing population) and the item mentioned upthread (conflating S. aureus in general with MRSA, an error which has apparently been silently fixed in the article now). But those are the things they said. We don’t know what things the reporters didn’t say because they didn’t understand that they were important when the researchers said them. Perhaps, for example, the researchers addressed the question mentioned elsewhere in the thread of whether you can actually put this salve in your eyes without burning your corneas, or sterilize it and inject it into your body; or whether it has some activity transdermally and could thus perhaps be used to treat cellulitis. And I wouldn’t be surprised if someone decides to mix up this stuff from the article and blinds themselves with garlic.

And that, in a nutshell, is why I’m intemperate about ignorant journalists blathering about medical science.
Move fast. Break time.
Telesign also has the ability to return the billing name. Can you also provide that?
Here's 100 WordPress exploits, found from the exploit search on metasploit.com - looks a lot like it's all plugins and themes (I haven't checked exhaustively):

http://www.rapid7.com/db/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=WordPress&t...
tl;dr ... because what I do for work is fun.
I didn't mean to communicate this.

housework is indeed real work, real labor. But post-industrialized societies have worked to strip joy from all chores. The idea of of a housewife is a good example of this — A woman alone in a house cooking for another person, cleaning a vast amount of things that endlessly collect dirt. So long as we don't reach the singularity there will be chores to do, mouths to feed and things to clean. Is it easier to spend all our waking hours devising "technologies" to "simplify" life or is it easier to re-evaluate what a simple life is and embrace that labor is a part of life.
Wages are already falling in real terms in many cases. There is a certain part of human psychology that locks onto numbers (I was paid x, therefore I should continue to be paid x) which perhaps explains the aversion to deflation.

I think part of the problem is that endless credit growth is what constitutes economic growth, instead of increasing productivity as it should be. So by preening and saying we cannot accept lower prices, we ignore the obvious long term benefits of stable and falling prices.

There are winners and losers in deflation, just as there are winners and losers in inflation. It's better to take a neutral view of the distribution of benefits because someone wins or loses either way, and it helps to think more clearly when you realise everyone has a bias based on which camp they are in. What should matter for the sake of the debate is whether everyone would be better off overall.
After many years of reviewing and debugging code, I can't read books comfortably fast anymore, I'm too focused on catching every single word and punctuation. I'll often go back half a sentence if I thought I might have seen some kind of error. Can't help it...
This is an embarrassing admission: I couldn't remember how to spell Raytheon.

I do know that the people in those fields tend to think of themselves as "the security industry". They also don't generally work on material that the more private-sector-focused industry cares about or gets exposed to, like how to secure a network when you have brain-damaged political network policies.

I'll have to keep a tally at the next DEFCON.
The Coolest Inventions You'll See In... Forever
Here are some crazy, awesome, unique, and creative inventions that I bet you didn't know existed. These should get your creative juices flowing around in your brain for use. Sometimes, inspiration comes out of nowhere, like for these inventions. Pay attention to them and you could become inspired to make something truly incredible too!

Treadmill Climbing Wall. Speaks for itself- simply genius . A great workout for your upper and lower body. Rock-climbing is a big enough workout, let alone a treadmill on top of that. I wonder if you could invert it and become Spiderman!

Tetris Connect Four. What a great idea- it combines people's two favorite games. This also seems more challenging than either of the 2 games. Hey, what do you know? It's a connection! (Check out my previous article on how to make creative connections- http://howtoflytothemoon.blogspot.com/2015/03/creative-execise-2-connection-is-key.html) They should make a Battleship Checkers. That would be fun!

A pen that writes in the same color of the object you scan. This is probably my favorite. It's the ultimatum of creativity! Something like this is what I dream about- to be able to scan anything in the world and write with that color! It's futuristic and truly inspiring. The possibilities are endless. They could put this technology in things like paint, markers, and basically anything else that writes or draws. This is inspiring creativity at it's finest.

Shoot your alarm clock to turn it off. Bullseye! Finally, something that will actually get me out of bed. I've always tried to think of a way to actually get out of bed when my alarm clock goes off, but I never could. This inventor had the right creative door open in his brain. This makes it fun to wake up, and hard to get back in bed (I'd imagine it's hard to shoot). I would love to get my hands on this.

Spilled Paint Lamp. In my opinion, this is quite interesting. Look closely, and you'll notice that it is a lamp. This is most certainly a very creative object. I can easily imagine this in people's houses, adding a little jazz to their home. I would buy one for my room. When I look at it, it just screams creativity. The fact that it's not a normal lamp, it's bright blue color, and funky shape all are unique. Maybe they can make a lamp that looks like someone poured gasoline and sparked a fire. (I know it sounds weird, but it would make for a cool design.) This is a great, creative design and invention.

I hope you became inspired by these innovative inventions! Take some time to look in detail at the creativity of them. Each of these inventions have endless opportunities! There can be renovations to each one, and new inventions can be created as well. Remember that when you are trying to think of a new creative idea or invention. Once you come up with a great one, you can keep working off of it and create new/better innovations because of that one idea.

Which one of these are your favorite? Are there any cool ideas or inventions you know or came up with? I would love to hear them! Thanks, and be sure to comment share with your friends!! (Pictures shown on blog)
which gives attackers huge attack surfaces because of WP's popularity. I'm guessing less than 5% of WP users probably sandbox and properly test their plugins before using them too.

Just by not using WP, you effectively reduce the attack surface of your site or blog immensely. Just self hosting your blog or site would be significantly safer than using WP.

Full disclosure: I've never liked WP from the start and probably never will for a myriad of reasons.
Doing laundry and cooking is life maintainance, it isn't life. I'd rather spend more time driving a car than lubing and fixing it, and I'd rather spend more time doing shit that I want to do than doing annoying stuff that is just necessary to keep me going.
Understanding Fukushima Through Butterfly Biology
downvotes for disagreeing with the O365 business model? thanks hacker news!
I liked the example given when cutting PBS out of the national budget was put forward as an idea -

"It's like trying to lose weight by cutting your fingernails."

Basically you see who has the power around. Clearly water saving needs to occur, but no one is going to suggest that it's the farmers who use the majority of it cut back.
Stripe actually released a mobile phone number formatting library.

https://github.com/stripe/jquery.mobilePhoneNumber
Growing, Fast and Slow [pdf]
The MacBook line has been a mess for years now. There was a bad point when they had retina and non-retina versions for the whole Pro line. The iPad line is becoming pretty nuts. They simultaneously advertise the iPad Air 2, the iPad Air, the iPad Mini 3, the iPad Mini 2, and the original iPad Mini. Even iPhones are starting to suffer from this. It used to be obvious (either pick the best, or decide how much less you want to pay, then buy the one at that price) but now you have to figure out whether you want bigger or smaller, better camera or better pocketability, etc.

I like having more choices, personally, but Apple used to have a much more streamlined product offering.
Conflict of interest. At least a research grant has outcomes that are supposed to be public and benefit the public.

A VC arm that's part of the government seems like a monstrous hybrid of private and public. What is the profit for? For the same reason that it gives one pause regarding what the CIA is doing investing in social media. If it's totally OK, why not have the government invest in private prison companies?
There's a danger in humorlessness in that it often insinuates itself into one's identity through piousness and victimhood. Fear of a blow can weaken and damage us far more than the blow itself.

Now, mental health treatment doesn't have to mean clinical care. Sometimes it's being encouraged to get more familiar with your coworkers, or just helping them get to know you better. Teasing is often just that, trying to include a person or express comfort with them, and when someone reacts badly or isn't honest about things, blowing up or bottling up, those are usually indications of poor expression or self control, which could be more serious and compromising issues.

So yes, if the person is unable to bring themself to confront their peers, clearly relay their wishes, and broker an understanding, they may need some help (ie- treatment) to realize that they can, should, and how. Mental health, like physical health, is something we have to work at to maintain and improve our entire lives. Saying all of our thoughts and emotions are reasonable and perfect by default because why else would they be any other way is about as sensible as the idea that morbid obesity is healthy and natural because why else would our bodies be able to be that way other than by design?

We have choices, we have volition, but do we have the motivation?
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion, not my employer's. Not representing anybody but me. I work at Google, not on lawful intercept.)

That's not what this article says. This article is about what happens when the government lawfully issues a warrant to obtain somebody's private data, and orders a private company to give them the data. When this happens the company has some rights to recover their costs from the government.

You may not like what the US government is doing here. I certainly don't. But it's still the law, and companies that operate in the US have to comply with it.
Bitcoin and game theory: we’re still scratching the surface
I think you need to be more careful about how you word this.

It is a true but very uninteresting statement to say that "most government contracting work is thinly veiled government work".

Obviously, you don't feel like that's what you're saying. But to defend the statement that much of security in general is thinly veiled USG work, you cite SAIC, ManTech, and (now) Raytheon. Giant government contractors.

The security industry as a whole is enormous. It includes big chunks of Cisco, IBM, EMC, Symantec, Intel, and HP, and literally hundreds of companies the likes of Duo, Cloudflare, Accuvant, and Lookout.

The clear implication of your comment upthread is that most commercial security work is not only done for the USG, but is offensive work done for NSA. That's why you compared it to HackerOne and called their rates a "sick joke". Not only would that statement still not be true if most commercial offensive work was done by NSA (government rates on vulnerabilities are not as lucrative as extragovernmental rates are), but it is itself not true at all. Ironically, the numbers get even worse for your argument when we narrow the security industry down to offensive work.

I might lose an argument about how much bogus "defensive" security product stuff gets sold through GSA teams to NSA and DoD in general. But most of my experience --- apart from the four years I spent working for what was at the time Sandvine's biggest competitor, where we never once had a discussion about selling to NSA --- is on the offensive side. Virtually none of the commercial offensive security work that is done is done to benefit NSA.
No existential truth is absolute. Vonnegut's position of privilege at the time of the writing certainly provided him with a better ability to revel in the finer things life has to offer. Not everyone in this world of ours is lucky enough to have this luxury.

I disagree that modern life is somehow unnatural or participating in it requires some form of submission. Providing for our needs in a more convenient fashion is one of the pillars of civilization.
This raises the philosophical question of where the life of the computer truly lies. Is it within the capacitor? Is it within the network of the individual parts?

If you replace the capacitor did you resurrect the dead or just fix a broken part? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
This article doesn't address why the California government is being so stupid about water rationing.

Why isn't it reforming these broken water laws that are mentioned in the article?

The CA govt just dodges the question, every time. Why? Are the agriculture lobbyists really that powerful? Or is something else going on here?
"the Central Valley, which is, geologically speaking, a desert"

Source? It seems contrary to what wikipedia says on the subject:

"The northern Central Valley has a hot Mediterranean climate; the more southerly parts in rainshadow zones are dry enough to be Mediterranean steppe or even low-latitude desert." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_%28California%29...
I think I might give Meteor a shot. For a long time I have been working with AngularJS and Node.js. Recently I have been working exclusively with React.js + Flux and Node.js to build isomorphic web applications. I like the fact Meteor is isomorphic by default and comes with everything you need. I have always somewhat seen it as this outlier, a great looking framework but lacking the same vocality that Facebook and Google can give their respective libraries and frameworks.

Even seeing Meteor from a prototyping perspective it looks like a great tool. The integration with MongoDB (3.0 is fantastic by the way) and ability to quickly create and work with collections from within your Meteor applications without really needing to glue anything together or configure is something that appeals to me (especially as a front-end developer who is asked to prototype things quite a lot). Coupled with the support for authentication, user accounts and easy deployment, these are definitely key features to a modern web application.

Windows support is definitely an added bonus, especially for me who switches between a MacBook Pro and a PC for .NET development.
> a person's name can have a significant role in determining key aspects of job, profession or even character. It was a commonly held notion in the ancient world.

--> http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

"Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination"

"We perform a field experiment to measure racial discrimination in the labor market. We respond with fictitious resumes to help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers. To manipulate perception of race, each resume is assigned either a very African American sounding name or a very White sounding name. The results show significant discrimination against African-American names: White names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews. We also find that race affects the benefits of a better resume. For White names, a higher quality resume elicits 30 percent more callbacks whereas for African Americans, it elicits a far smaller increase. Applicants living in better neighborhoods receive more callbacks but, interestingly, this effect does not differ by race. The amount of discrimination is uniform across occupations and industries. Federal contractors and employers who list Equal Opportunity Employer' in their ad discriminate as much as other employers. We find little evidence that our results are driven by employers inferring something other than race, such as social class, from the names. These results suggest that racial discrimination is still a prominent feature of the labor market."

Turns out names DO have an impact on your life.
Luckily along with the buttons they're putting out an API for doing exactly that (https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-replenishment-service). I wouldn't be surprised if some apps pop up soon that do exactly what you described. The buttons are just easier to market to the general population.
When I had back problems, at one point I was doing PT 3x a week, seeing a neurosurgeon and a few other physicians.

All the while I was dealing with recovery actions from a health insurer that assumed that an unrelated ER visit was the root cause (and potentially not my health insurers problem)

Having this type of serve would have been awesome, and I would have gladly paid it!
Nuts Are a Nutritional Powerhouse
I think you're right, I do need to be much more careful.

I didn't mean to imply that most commercial security work was offensive work for the NSA.
It's beyond ridiculous, are they really wanting us to believe that we are in a position where we should be rationing how much water we drink? If that were the case, I would definitely be moving as soon as possible.
I have a theory about humans having a generally short memory for corporate malfeasance, or to put it in a better light, having a much more forgiving nature than I do.

I also tend to get down-voted whenever I talk about nasty stuff Apple has done.

And, occasionally, when I do get a reply rather than or in addition to a downvote it will be of the form: "Well, X also does what you accused Y of." i.e., complaints about the monopolistic practices of Microsoft will result in, "Well, Google is also a monopoly, and I think they're worse because of this other thing." Which, while often true statements, do not provide any reason to dismiss the assertions about Microsoft they are responding to.

I am occasionally disappointed in HN. But, that's OK, because HN is occasionally disappointed in me.
Sounds good. Does it work? Let's see some demo videos. I'm not convinced by an image flip/flop.
The other common problems in computers as old as that would be leaking NiCad clock batteries (the corrosive gunk coming out of one of those will eat the copper right off the motherboard), tantalum capacitors which like to fail shorted and burn out, and frozen bearings on disk drives.

Modern machines may be more reliable because of the lack of moving parts, but they have other disadvantages in the longevity department. Lead free solder and conductive glue will start to fail after a few thousand thermal cycles. (Conductive glue is especially used to bond flex cables to LCD screens and is not something you could repair yourself.)
That _was_ a reference to the Voigt-Kampff test, right?
The fact that the Chromium process is what's compositing windows is relatively uninteresting to the end user. It's Linux with a different GUI system. Ubuntu is ditching X11 also, as I understand it, so people other than Google appear to be prepared to redo Linux GUIs.

There's Native Client, so you can write native code. I believe there are things like Emacs for NaCl, though Emacs is relatively useless until someone also ports your favorite programming language, version control, etc. to this model. For programmers, it's tough to have to redo everything, and because we tend not to use the ability to run unaudited native code to install viruses on our machine, it seems like a lot of work for no reason. For the end user, though, things are a bit different. It's a long road but ultimately computers that are easier to use and get fewer viruses is a worthy goal, I think.

Someone could port Firefox to ChromeOS if they found it to be interesting. It would probably be quite difficult, however.

I use ChromeOS as my primary workstation because it removes a lot of headaches I have with computers. I hate configuring things. I just want a terminal with Emacs and a web browser. ChromeOS gives me this. I log into my laptop and it has the exact same configuration as my desktop.

ChromeOS auto-updates and takes 8 seconds to reboot afterwards. It doesn't nag me about auto-updates or checking that Windows Defender is up to date. All my work is saved somewhere other than my desktop/laptop, so if I lose the computer or get another one all I have to do is log in again.

It's very much a thin-client thing, which some people hate, but I find quite suitable for my normal workflow. sshing into a Linux box is generally great for doing work. Using the GUIs is an effort in frustration. ChromeOS solved that issue for me. (Yup, I need an Internet connection to get to my ssh-able Linux box somewhere. I always have one.)

If you are convinced Google is out to get you with configuration syncing, SSH clients that run "in a web browser" (but are native code and preserve all keybindings that you're used to), and "cloud storage" then ChromeOS is probably not for you. Enter developer mode (one keypress) and install your favorite Linux distribution instead -- all the patches necessary to make the devices work are in the open source tree, and unlike with Linux on random Windows laptops, your WiFi will work and you'll get the advertised battery life.

I have given ChromeOS laptops to family members where my previous attempts at giving them computers have failed. A year later their laptops are running the latest version of the OS and didn't have any viruses. I even got them using two-factor authentication with security keys! I was surprised.

Disclaimer: I work on ChromeOS as my 20% project. But I work on it because it solved a lot of my computing problems and I find it worth my time. I wouldn't waste my time advocating to help my employer sell $149 laptops.
Github has got a bit of a read mostly situation. If read requests where funneled so that there was only one per URL per edge node at any given point in time (which edge side includes effectively gives you), it would make for pretty easy to manage load for Github.
Agreed, I tried it for about a month, and went back to google... with my profile information, my search results tend to be much better.
While we're not a big startup, we are using Meteor in production (https://www.getsubcurrent.com).

We picked it because it enabled us to move much faster than anything we had used in the past and while it has issues that I foresee being problematic, it seems premature to optimize for them. The Meteor team is doing a great job maintaining compatibility and not forcing us developers on to make any changes to our apps as they're rolling out exciting new stuff. Granted, I did jump on when the platform was (relatively) mature late last year.

Very happy with decision so far and looking forward to building more stuff on their platform!
Terrain Party – The easiest way to get real-world height maps
I didn't even realise it was a presentation. I'm using noscript, and it all just appeared as a nice easy to read well structured document. Impressive.
Note there is a typo in the def of the predecessor function

"The following function generates from the pair (n, n − 1) (which is the argument p in
the function) the pair (n + 1, n − 1):"

which should be

"The following function generates from the pair (n, n − 1) (which is the argument p in
the function) the pair (n + 1, n):"
Definitely my biggest current beef with Meteor. It seems technically possible and I understand why they would go with Mongo first, so hopefully its just a matter of time.