skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We may not be able to move the DOJ on prosecuting Addington, Wu and the other architects of the torture program.

But the APA has an ethics committee

http://www.apa.org/about/governance/bdcmte/ethics-committee....

If the notion of American doctors aiding and abetting torture strikes you as a matter that that the APA should discipline it's members over. Contact the ethics committee.

The staff liaison's email is sbehnke@apa.org
A file context menu option in Windows Explorer that calls a batch script that passes names of the file(s) to a bash script that SCPs them onto my server.
Another context menu option in WE that opens a new cygwin bash session at the given path.
Last one is a bash function "wemacs" that takes a cygwin path/file, translates it to a windows path and opens the path in Windows-native Emacs.

All of them are so trivial but I love them :-D Maybe not so creative tho ;c
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Did you make this? Show HN is for showing your own work.

Edit: yup. See below.
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Generally, a fast exothermic reaction. Oxygen may be the most popular oxidant, but not the only one. Lots of stuff burns in pure chlorine gas, for instance.
Increasing watch size is a trend. Watches have not always been comically large.

See:

http://www.ablogtowatch.com/whats-deal-big-watch-sizes-large...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/fashion/trends/watchmakers...
> And don't send these folks money that could do real good elsewhere until they give at least some small reason to expect that it's not a wild goose chase.

Is it even possible to give them money? I wasn't aware that NASA accepts earmarked donations, or contributions from private individuals in general.
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I think that not giving myself brain damage is normal. While I've never gotten blackout drunk, I've gotten close, and I know what the buildup to blacking out feels like, and I always stop drinking if I get that feeling. All of my friends do the same.
> I don't want to get into a debate about enhanced interrogation

The words 'enhanced interrogation' leave me with a bad taste. Either it's interrogation or it is torture, let's keep it simple that way you won't have to debate where the line lies, you stay well away from that line to avoid doubt.
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Actually, I don't really care what language. I was mostly making a comment on the lack of detail of the post. I had to click all the way down to the source code to see what language it was in, which to me seemed like the most important aspect of this entire project.
A little ironic that you drop in the bit about "lawyering your way around each of the elements," while at the same time encouraging a shift of the language of the discussion from "torture" to "enhanced interrogation." Note, the Time article does not use the word "enhanced" at all.

Call a spade a spade: sensory deprivation, extreme temperatures, stress positions are torture. We don't have to treat potential criminals like our elderly grandparents, but we shouldn't intentionally make their lives more miserable than they need to be.
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1 micronewton / watt is a surprising amount of thrust. The implied velocity of whatever it's pushing against is 1e6 m/s, which is 1/300 the speed of light.
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Even if something disproves the functionality of these things it's still likely to be quite interesting. I think there's room to be excited either way.
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The fact that the Manhattan DA's office spent so much effort pursuing this case goes to show how much power GS has over there. They are trying to make an example out of him. The state is literally doing GS's bidding here. Such a shame.
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You might find the Forester Pass in the Sierra Nevada (13,153ft) difficult to deal with in the snow.

In fact, the many 10k+ft sections of the PCT in California are likely the reason not to start EARLIER than April.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forester_Pass
They've sued the NSA, and the case has been running until this year (not sure if it's finally dead, though): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_v._NSA

EDIT: They also sued the DEA regarding mass surveillance just last month: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/human-rights-watch-sues-d...

They also develop the HTTPS-Everywhere addon and file Amicus briefs on other court cases (e.g. Raynor v. State of Maryland).

See https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy
There is a good article in the current 2600 paper issue describing the issue of corporate MITM and why simply looking at the certs for the current site might night be enough.
According to physicist Harold White, leader of the NASA Eagleworks team, it can't simply be a "photon rocket":

The NASASpaceflight.com group has given consideration to whether the experimental measurements of thrust force were the result of an artifact. Despite considerable effort within the NASASpaceflight.com forum to dismiss the reported thrust as an artifact, the EM Drive results have yet to be falsified.

After consistent reports of thrust measurements from EM Drive experiments in the US, UK, and China – at thrust levels several thousand times in excess of a photon rocket, and now under hard vacuum conditions – the question of where the thrust is coming from deserves serious inquiry.

And also, a quote from the paper he co-authored in mid-2014 (http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140006052):

Test results indicate that the RF resonant cavity thruster design, which is unique as an electric propulsion device, is producing a force that is not attributable to any classical electromagnetic phenomenon and therefore is potentially demonstrating an interaction with the quantum vacuum virtual plasma. Future test plans include independent verification and validation at other test facilities.

i.e. "Something weird and exciting may be going on and let's all verify it and figure it out"

edit 2: io9 has a handy pop-sci summary of the EmDrive: http://io9.com/new-test-suggests-nasas-impossible-em-drive-w...

vvvv edit: Yes, it's very probably a minor phenomenon that's occurring (barring an outright error), and not new physics. But it's a somewhat consistent phenomenon (in separate China & US experiments) associated with this particular test setup, so hopefully we'll learn something of decent interest in the coming years. The skeptical crowd should do its important job and scrutinise the research, and in the meantime, we (and the admittedly enthusiastic Dr White) can hope :)
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>others will argue that GS is abstractly bettering the world through efficient resource/money allocation, especially for developing countries

This would be true if GS didn't scam people, which they do. I accept the investment allocation argument, but I'm not convinced that it's valid for GS specifically.

EDIT: Holy shit, that controversies section just goes on and on. I just checked, and it's 7000 words long. This company's insane.
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In the back of my mind, I suppose I'm hoping that some administrator involved with the NASA budget is reading my comment. (Just for instance, I would say that the possibility that we could find life on Europa or the other outer moons is many, many orders of magnitude higher than the possibility that these drives turn out to be even a little bit worthwhile.)
That's a truly creative and bold effort on the issue of everyone's right to the personal privacy. Applause!
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Any citation for this claim: "it is expected that shared hosting providers will run the tool for you"?

Currently SSL is a revenue stream for many shared hosting providers. Are there are on-record comments from major providers who are planning on supporting Let's Encrypt?
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This is bullshit. I immediately died of pneumonia, even after spending amply on food and oxen.
I disagree. Sometimes an interface is not appropriate; just because you have two things that are alike doesn't mean that they implement an interface.

"A circle, triangle, or rectangle" is not the same data structure as "Something that can be drawn". Certainly if you have a function that draws something given a Draw() method, having the function take a "Drawable" is appropriate. But it's not the only use case; sometimes you really mean "A circle, triangle, or rectangle" and in that case, a struct is absolutely what you want.
Just responding to the title (which is not factual). I didn't even read the article.

Unacceptable prices and value judgements aside, drug wars _can_ be won and they have before.
There are statements about legality, about outrage, about who should be punished, about the corruption of organizations.

That's not interesting to me. I'm not happy about it, but I'm actually more disappointed.

The thing is, something like the APA should, more than anyone, know how ineffective torture would be for getting the kind of information that they were looking to find.

The problem with torture, aside from the fact that it's hurtful, is that it is ineffective. We know this. We've studied it, we've already got a lot of data. The APA is supposed to be the professionals in this field that should be able to say that we shouldn't be torturing people.

It's like you find out there was a group of doctors that are contracted to create a virus to wipe out a segment of the population, and the doctors deliver something that causes extreme itchiness and the inability to control your bowels. It doesn't kill anyone, it just makes your city smell like shit and causes these people targeted to be angry and uncomfortable.

It's still heinous, and immoral. But not only that, it's ineffective and worthless. I mean, the torture argument comes up and there's always defenders that say "desperate times call for desperate measures". But the thing is, it doesn't matter how desperate you are, torture doesn't lead to good results, no matter how angry you are, no matter how bad you want it to.

The thing is, I can understand if people in the military might not know this, or believe it. But the thing is, the APA is supposed to represent an organization that understands our minds. They SHOULD know this. So more than just "Oh they did a heinous thing" I am thinking "Oh, they did an idiotic thing, AND it was heinous!"

I mean, if they were to do some horrific torturous mind control stuff, and because of that we got information that led to the safe return of troops abroad and a swift victory over the enemy, then I'd still be angry that they were willing to do horrible things to get that victory. But I'd respect their ability. In the same way that I think a nuclear bomb is a horrific weapon that should have never been used on a civilian population, but I think that the people who built it were really good at what they do.

But it's like asking for a nuclear weapon, and getting something that detonates and makes the city and surrounding countryside stink for years but doesn't harm anyone. I mean, it's detestable that they'd be working to try to murder massive numbers of civilians. But even more than that, it's awful that they failed so badly at it, and obviously never really knew what they were doing to start with. They didn't accomplish their goals, and just made people angry.
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"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
In our area (the bay area), you can't have battery storage and have a grid connection. So in the setup you describe when the power goes out we couldn't run our house on solar energy. We would have to wait for the grid to come back up. It's crazy. That means batteries would be necessary. But we don't have a battery room or room for one. So this is the perfect solution. Will it save money? Tier 4 pricing with PG&E is 34 cents per kwh and the rates are going up. In the summer it's quite easy to hit tier 4.
The only thing I'd do differently is I probably wouldn't write a blog about it. This idealist world you're living in sounds lovely but I'm not going to sit and risk my livelihood by "sucking it up" and accepting "the world is unfair".

If you want to base your moral code on laws made by old white guys, go for it. I'm going to live my life based on what I believe to be just. That's really how change comes about, challenging legal authority. Think about the historical figures you respect - rosa parks, mlk, snowden (maybe?). The world would be a worst place if they didn't break the law. To me that is contributing to the good of the world.