skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can also be achieved in nginx fairly easy:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_conn_module.htm...
Lack of sunlight can mean eyestrain, but it also means lack of Vitamin D. Anyone out there giving their kids supplements?
Anyone know of commentary beyond this lab press release?
I bought Lanczos' book a month ago, I'm ~75 pages in (got other stuff to do). I will give SICM a try. I've just installed the 'ScmUtils Mechanics' package to accompany the book.

How can the code be difficult to get to work if he ships the required package with the book?
How Facebook stumbled into India's fight for net neutrality
> Most users don't comprehend "antennas", much less using headphone wires as such

Most other people out side US understand "antennas" just fine.
The context for those is still marketing.

I too don't understand what's to be gained from a tool like this. If the party collecting the data abuses it to spam you then you simply unsubscribe/block the emails altogether. And of course they know you know you can do this, which gives them incentive to not do that.
Wow. That's a completely idiotic and labor intensive scam. The guy said he was from India though, so this makes some sense. The annual median per capita income in India is $616 [1], so he only needs to try to force 4 people to pay the $175 during a year and he's ahead of the game. Perhaps 1 person per quarter will be frightened of his threat to "make a report to Pratap Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302033, India" for "possession of stolen goods".

Obviously, you don't need to do anything to defend yourself here, other than block and report him for spam on Skype and to Odesk for fraud. No lawsuit is forthcoming, as the annual median income in India would cover approximately 90 minutes of time with a reasonably qualified attorney.

[1] http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/indi...

Edit: If it hasn't been flag killed by the time you read this, Masonlove (the scammer involved here) has made his way into this thread and it's quite entertaining. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9411900
You are 1 of thousands he's fishing at this point. Its a dragnet. Just go dark and he'll move on to those who keep responding to him. (Unless you'd like to have a little fun stringing him along... "Ok I'm trying to pay you now. What's this 'pay-pal' thing you mentioned? How do I scan the check?")
If you write a blog post about the supposed "back doors on emails and messagnger", you might actually get upvotes as opposed to downvotes.
Bannerman (YC S14) is hiring sales development reps
Hah, that has to be joke, right? Perpetual exasperation ... then again, maybe not.
> Unless you live in India, you're more than safe.

I have no idea why you think India is some kind of legal Wild West where anyone can send you a contract and sue you because you said "I agree to some of these terms" over email. Even if OP is in India, contracts in India are typically written out on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamped_paper, and often require initials of both parties on any correction. Something like this would be thrown out of court way before going to trial.

The person who is trying to scam OP is obviously an unintelligent scammer, regardless of the nationality of either of them. OP should plain ignore him, and keep the screencaps and emails just in case he is stupid enough to file anywhere.
I thought the ending was very beautiful, in a way.
>Please report us we would love to show much of an uneducated tech you are.

I would be delighted to take you up on your offer. Please give me your personal information so I can report you.
That's because there is really isn't much to be obtained from this tool other than a sense of gaining control over your email.
Exactly how to get a Techcrunch writeup
Yeah, data-parallel computing on a GPU doesn't really approach what Hillis was aiming for. Check especially CM Lisp; great stuff.
I agree with the sentiment in this that contemporary media is distracting and oversaturated.

But when he says:

>The simple test of time does yield false negatives.

I wonder what makes him so sure it doesn't yield false positives. My own view on aesthetics is that they're highly personal - something "timeless" might not appeal to you at all. Timeless works are the ones which happen, overall, to appeal to the most people - it doesn't mean they necessarily are higher "quality." It also has to do with how accessible they are, how ubiquitous (/ marketed), etc.

(Sidenote, but his arguments against startup aesthetics could also apply to modernism and many other movements. It's about distilling something to it's essence, removing superfluous details in favor of clarity. For all the faults "flat" design has, I think it is a noble cause even if it takes some missteps.)

There is a lot of contemporary work (programming, music, art, etc) that I find compelling, and personally I want to embrace it. Understanding the contemporary helps you understand the current moment of time, and where things are going. It lets you see larger trends and where you might want to fit in. I'm not very afraid of embracing something that turns out to be a false start - at least, at the moment, I was doing what I thought was best. Maybe this is a fallacy of youth.

I'm all for embracing the classics, the tried and true. But I think applying lessons learned from them to the unproven ideas is where things get interesting.
> The annual median per capita income in India is $616

...Oh my god.

Stats like this make me realize I have no idea how lucky I am to be US born.
> After the trial, Glover began to regret his decision to testify and to plead guilty.

He shouldn't have taken the deal, I guess he is the only one who went to prison, not even the guy he testified against went to jail.
Clearly, you don't have anything constructive to say, so you have to resort to ad hominem.

[] operator doesn't have any place in this debate.
“The Spy in the Sandbox” a new attack which can easily hack 8/10 computers
I find it a little sad that most modern computing will be lost to time. Early console games were easily self contained systems, and lent themselves well to emulation. Today's consoles are towers of complexity that will likely never be emulated. At best compatibility layers will be built into future systems to interoperate, the likely result is that the classics of today will continue to hobble along on a dwindling number of devices. At worst, a corporation loses interest and all their consoles immediately turn into expensive paperweights.
Ignore and sleep well. Clearly a scam.
I don't think that's the implication of that comment -- I think the implication is that the costs of pursuing a lawsuit against an international party and successfully collecting damages are too great (in both time/effort and money) that, for something this tenuous, there's no chance the scammer will even try.

In India, the scammer could try. Someone trying to sue you can still cause you to have a very bad day, even if they get thrown out of court fairly quickly. Or at least, that's true in the US -- maybe India is less of a legal Wild West than the US. :)
Here's my entry: "It's hard."
On the bright side, at least you didn't bother writing the bullshit phrase "shameless plug".
Incompetent scammers like you (note: factual statement, not a personal attack) are the reason why the rest of us coming from India are unfairly portrayed as having substandard skills and substandard English.

Please learn

a) English
b) Indian Commercial Law, and the Indian Penal Code

and come back a wiser person.
> When everyone is a special snowflake and anyone can make it big if they work hard enough

This is my observation of why personality theory upsets people, I should have spelled it out more.

If life success correlates with certain personality traits and IQ, (which are mostly a roll of the dice and genetically influenced, i.e. not egalitarian, cannot be changed), then the reality is that some people are going to achieve more and some are going to have to work a lot less to achieve certain levels of success.

This flies in the face of what society tells itself, that if you have no success it's because you did not work hard enough, that if you work really hard you can do as well as the other guy. This is not true, despite how nice it sounds and how good it makes people feel.

It doesn't matter how hard you try, you are not going to be the next Bill Gates, you are not going to be the next Elon Musk. Applying to Y Combinator and flipping to Google is not within the reach of everyone no matter how many hours you put in.

Modern personality theory brings this to light, and it's bloody uncomfortable for most people. The US Army, for example, during wartime, considered that people with an IQ of less than 85 were not trainable, at all, and were more of a liability than an asset. If I remember right that is roughly 10% of the population. 10% of the population cannot be trained to do anything useful in capitalist society, not even by the Army during wartime.

Now, can everyone just "get a job" or "work hard and make a living"? Science seems to be saying no. The biggest US government institution looking for bodies said no. There is no saftey net built in to society for these people in some of the biggest first world countries. Now imagine being below average... aren't you just lucky the dice rolled in your favour. This is what I meant.

If you don't find this unsettling then you may just be a psychopath!

EDIT: It's not ironic at all that you make a sweeping assumption about me based on something I wrote, not at all :)
At most this Odesk based dispute will go into arbitration, Net-Arb is the service used by Odesk.

The price of the arbitration is $300 last time I checked (I had a competing service to Net-Arb a few years ago).

The arbitration is ex aequo et bono, meaning "according to the right and good" or "from equity" i.e. it's the opinion of the arbitrator that counts, not any specific law.

Even if you get some foolish arbitrator that writes an arbitral award in favor of this scammer, they'll still need to have it recognized and enforced in courts that have jurisdiction where you have assets.

All of this will never happen for a petty amount of $175. Just ignore this and move on.
The comments by masonlove! Roflmao
Many of us learned a short, sanitized history of human rights in school. The story tends to focus on progress. We once had Inquisitions and witch burnings, and then the Enlightenment put an end to that. We had slavery and Jim Crow, and then the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights movement fixed those.

The unspoken implication is that the problems are now solved. Schools teach children the injustices of history, but rarely talk about the injustice of the status quo. The message is that the evil is past, and that present authority is legitimate and benevolent.

So, what injustices will students learn about in 2100?

I think that today's mass incarceration, the war on drugs, and unequal education will be towards the top of the list. Students will learn how we once had 5% of the world's population, but 50% of the world's inmates. They'll learn how many of those inmates were in jail for nonviolent offenses, especially drug offenses. One of the root causes for the cycle of poverty, crime, and jail time is unequal education. It manifests in the many communities and schools that simply don't teach children the skills necessary to succeed or make a legitimate living. Students of the future will probably learn how some of the worst schools in the industrialized world in the early 21st century were sometimes a few miles away from the best, separated by a certain road or a set of train tracks. "Schools" with fifteen year olds that were barely literate, with armed police officers on staff, with metal detectors at the entrance.

Then, they'll learn how those injustices were fixed.

---

I'm sure at some point we'll shift from punishing the poor to trying harder to empower them--or at least empower their children--to live better.

What can we do today to be part of that?
As it happens, he answered exactly this question elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9412144

The MBTI is reasonably well correlated with 4 of the "Big Five" personality traits, which are on good empirical footing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...
Nothing.

Do nothing.

You're not at any risk, just stop engaging in any communication. Don't read the crazy things you might be sent, certainly don't think there is any legitimate threat. Maybe followup with an oDesk report, but don't put too much effort on it.

Move on.
The key isn't the marriage rate, it's the prevalence of intact families. Scandinavians don't marry, but they do live together and raise children together. The prevalence of intact families (meaning children living with both biological parents) is higher in Scandinavia than it is in the US, even though the marriage rate is lower.
Either that, or someone with a lot of time to waste just felt like registering and pretending to be him for some trolling...

HN has certainly "done the needful" to his comments though.
Or 5th grade English skills?
Of course I can. I said "Can you at least refer me to some empirical studies that support your claim, please?", and I provided links to informed studies that I and other people published.

But I'll humor you: How much funding would you suggest that I should offer him to look up some proof of what he said on google or wikipedia? And how much money should I have asked him to pay me for the information I gave him for free?

I didn't realize it was customary to pay people for supporting their statements with evidence on Hacker News. Can you please refer me to the section of the FAQ about that? Or do you have Hacker News confused with Kickstarter or experiment.com?
I'd be interested to see how oDesk customer service responds to this
Selection bias is only a factor if the selection criteria is a dependent variable. What makes you think open source will change MBTI traits?
The post you've linked is incredibly prescient, almost prophetic, of the exact reality of the programming profession today. I cannot believe that this is not discussed more often on HN.
1. Do not take legal advice from the internet. If you are concerned about legal trouble and can afford to do so, find an attorney in your area that you can consult with for an hour on this. (They might appreciate the laugh.) Even if you can't afford to do so, make a few calls. You might get lucky and find someone willing to do a brief consult for a little less. Also, attorneys happen to specialize in writing scary sounding letters that have the unique ability to make nuisances go away.

2. Give oDesk some more time. It may take them a day or two to retrieve their head from their ass.

3. Set up a filter to route this fool's messages to your junk folder where it belongs.

4. Consider this an education in the quality of customers that oDesk cultivates, and think hard about whether or not you could make more money for less trouble elsewhere.

5. I'm unfamiliar with Indian law (again, you should be talking to an attorney, not HN), but there may be some state agency you can contact regarding this guy. I once made a nuisance write an apologetic letter and then go away forever by contacting my state's attorney general's office and filing a complaint. It took all of less than two hours of my time and no money for the nuisance to receive a scary-sounding warning from the state.

In my totally-not-a-lawyer opinion this guy is a scammer and I'd simply ignore him and not lose any sleep over it until and unless he started demanding my attention elsewhere, in which case he would get my full and undivided attention for as long as it took to make him run away.
But first you have to pay for our control panel!
I'm probably forever spoiled by Rails' ActiveRecord - has anybody here used http://thinky.io with Node/RethinkDB? I really like to define my objects in an OOP fashion with class/instance methods included and would prefer a convenience "ORM" library for that purpose.
I'd be surprised if this was the attitude of the people whose work he intends to read. I expect they were mostly very in touch with all the other art of their time.
I can't load the graphs either. (just pointing it out as I am sure you don't want to leave users)
> 3. Set up a filter to route this fool's messages to your junk folder where it belongs.

Perhaps not. While the OP should not respond to these messages, these messages could turn out to be vital evidence if the OP (or, highly unlikely, the scammer) decides to go the legal route. So my advice would be: do not delete these messages; keep them somewhere safe so they can be used later if needed.
http://news-cdn.efinancialcareers.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

That explains the bulk of the discussion
I've created a userstyle that makes IEEE Spectrum palatable. If you use Stylish, check it out:
https://userstyles.org/styles/112927/ieee-spectrum-suckless
I agree. nginx already supports forwarding from proxy protocol[0] via the http_realip module; time to go full circle.

[0]: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_realip_module.html
> ...the implication is that the costs of pursuing a lawsuit against an international party and successfully collecting damages are too great (in both time/effort and money) that, for something this tenuous, there's no chance the scammer will even try.

That part wasn't linked to the grandparent comment's last sentence, it seemed to me like a line glibly tossed off -- but okay, I'll give them the HN "best intentions" benefit of the doubt :)

Getting a legitimate case to court in India is a fairly Sisyphean task. Getting one as ridiculous as this might be considerably worse, and would probably incur frivolous litigation costs¹ if it ever actually went to trial.

But yes, IANAL and all that -- just trying to point out that OP has very decent solutions available even if he is in India. If he is not, then yes, as you pointed out, there is very little reason for concern.

[1] http://www.legalblog.in/2011/11/exemplary-costs-on-frivolous...
I'm also skeptical of the "whites take more drugs" argument. The ratio of black to white drug arrests is roughly the same as the ratio for those of violent crimes, and you can't explain away the violent crime ratio by assuming whites don't get arrested for committing them.
The 4 Real Reasons Startups Fail
HN IS FULL OF MACINTOSH FAGGOTS.
If I were in high school, I would start studying sophomore level math: linear algebra, differential equations, probability, statistics. When you get to college and actually have to take these classes you can spend more time concentrate on more graduate level texts of these subjects or on upper level subjects like analysis or algebra. Graduate school math will rehash these same subjects more formally. The thing about internalizing every page is true for some subjects. For analysis you will be doing well to get through 100 pages in four months. Textbooks just introduce the theorems and corollaries. It takes a long time to understand the wide spread implications and applications of those theorems.

I would just get a few college level linear algebra, diff-eq, and probability textbooks and start reading/working through the content. If these are already subjects at your high school, get some books on real and complex analysis, abstract algebra, and PDE's.
The paper doesn't make any sense without the title:

"Can n^2 + 1 unit equilateral triangles cover an equilateral triangle of side >n, say n+\epsilon?"
I love it. "If I stick to the story relentlessly it'll HAVE to work!!!"
In this case you're giving an incredibly obvious scammer far more time and credit than he or she deserves. There is literally a 0% chance that this scammer can do anything to him, other than harass him (there may be a 1 or 2% chance if OP happens to also reside in India, but I inferred that he doesn't).
Bashrc PS1 generator
I'm not some enlightened guru (quite the opposite in fact), but I keep wondering whether the obsession with immortality is just another symptom of what prevents peace of mind and happiness in life in the first place which, if true, would mean the worst thing that can happen to those seeking personal immortality is to attain their goal (whether via biological or non-biological means).
It would probably help to also have something like this:

singleton : a -> NonEmpty a
cons : a -> NonEmpty a -> NonEmpty a
head : NonEmpty a -> a
last : NonEmpty a -> a
init : NonEmpty a -> Maybe (NonEmpty a)
tail : NonEmpty a -> Maybe (NonEmpty a)
"We are from France."

Amusing that one of these was found in France.
Stop struggling to wade through it and find a better book to read :-)
And this is what I don't understand about the politics. Support for the drug war is strongest among African American leaders where you'd expect it to be weakest.
Fake your own death.

Kidding.

I would do these steps. 1) Don't contact this guy any more or reply to any messages. 2) Ignore whatever BS non-contract that exists. 3) Not worry that it's only been 10 hours from Odesk. It's not a secret agent command center it's just Odesk. 4) Read Masonlove's comments in this thread and try to have a good laugh. Seriously, they're hilarious.
Idealistically and technologically there was nothing preventing them from streaming directly, but realistically they had decades of contracts to re-engineer to do so, not to mention the fact that they are huge companies with a fundamental stability that prevents them from innovating.

From somewhere else (via NFLX Wikipedia):

In a 2010 New York Times interview, Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes downplayed Netflix as a threat to more traditional media companies. Bewkes told the newspaper, "It's a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the world? I don’t think so." At the same time, he recognized that the company's DVD service may have contributed to a decline in DVD sales, and regarding the industry's willingness to make special deals with Netflix in the future, he added "this has been an era of experimentation, and I think it's coming to a close."
i wonder if they do this so their content can still get indexed by google
There's quite a bit of research to back up his assumption. Every article I've read on the subject bemoans the situation of black women and at the same time points out they have no interest (statistically, anyway) in men of other races.
The first sentence is gold
Jobvite integration?
Seconded. The fight choreography and photography are as good or better than John Wick if you're into that sort of thing. That hallway fight scene was amazingly well done. The casting is quite good too. (Although the actor could learn a couple of things from Chris Gorham, who did a really great job of playing a blind guy on Covert Affairs.)
Whenever I see articles on remote electric grids, it always inspires me to (re)read this classic page: http://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of IP cores, but they have their place. The biggest thing that I'm a fan of is the push towards standard TCL methods for everything Vivado does or touches. That's the difference between UCF and XCF. I'm also under the impression, but don't have the experience to say for sure, that there's supposed to intermediate files for every design step and that the command line interface is better documented.

I am very impressed by the Zynq stuff. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing people using it for accelerators and such.