skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the complement! Hmmm... not easy to think of them. It's not that they're weird, in practice they come off as sounding very normal, but very conservative. I would say the first thing to do is to get to know all of the known cognitive biases surrounding risk because just about all humans suck at it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identifiable_victim_effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocertainty_effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-risk_bias

Actually study all of them... Then after studying those, be sure to study the cognitive bias blind spot so that you don't become overconfident ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Also, read Warren Buffett's annual letters to shareholders and try to emulate his approach to risk. I think he's very good at it.

My biggest problem, after becoming more risk-aware is being comfortable taking calculated risks. I often can come off as a bit of a party-pooper. Nothing says "Life of the party" quite like piling into a cab while hopping from one bar to the next and spending the first 45 seconds of a 5 minute cab ride trying to fish a seatbelt out from under your drinking buddy's ass.

I would say other behaviors that could seem odd to some people are:

* Never play lotto, but always buy tickets for local fund raisers or charity giveaways that have desirable prizes. My wife and I won a week long Black Sea cruise at a charity event where tickets were $10 each but I estimate less than 600 tickets were sold.

* Always buy things like renter's insurance (not likely to be used but will wipe you out if you need it and don't have it) but skip things like those insurance policies they offer at the store for non-big-ticket items.

* I stopped worrying about flying but I've become very pro-bicycle even though I don't bike much at all (because I'm a pedestrian and cars are a bigger risk to me than bikes).

* Pick software frameworks and libraries more based on well-trod paths than the new hotness. Avoid the very old and for the very new, wait a bit.

* And finally, on the other hand: I quit my job, moved halfway around the world, and started a startup in a country that is notoriously hard to do business in (Japan). That would seem very risky but it was the sum of a lot of very calculated moves that seemed like good bets when I took them.

There are probably a lot more. I bet you have some too.
> Especially among MS developers, there are many people who

> don't read read HN or any other tech industry site. They

> rely or depend on MS to provide them with career advancing

> technical advice, but for the last eight years they have been

> consistently let down. Microsoft's preferred flavor changes

> every two years...

Ahh... thanks, this makes sense. Things are somewhat similar on the Java side with Oracle, but not quite. In my opinion, the biggest contributing factor to the strength of Java's ecosystem is that the community has a healthy level of distrust toward Oracle.

Oracle promotes new things all the time. Sometimes they catch on and get widely adopted. Sometimes the community by and large completely ignores them, and uses another third-party framework instead (e.g. Spring). Oracle is begrudgingly respected, but I wouldn't say that their word rises to the level of "default" in the Java community.

Microsoft guys seem to have much tighter bond with the mothership, and put a great deal more trust in Redmond's agenda. They are much less likely to explore alternatives that come from outside of Microsoft (e.g. I see a lot small microservices for which Nancy makes a lot of sense, but which are still built on ASP.NET "just because"). This causes the wider ecosystem of alternatives to be much weaker than that of Java and other common stacks.

I'm very excited about the future, as C# is a much better language than Java, and Microsoft is at least saying all the right things lately about wanting to see more innovation from the community and less blind reliance on Microsoft. It will be interesting to see whether Microsoft can attract enough newcomers like me to offset the alienated longstanding crowd.
I've seen that, and even been "guilty" of it myself years ago - many people take 'RESTful' to just mean anything that returns JSON instead of a full HTML document.
It's definitely a very neat project. It kind of reminds me of QNX Neutrino. It also fit on a single floppy disk, and had a GUI, web browser, etc. It's also a Unix-like with a microkernel design.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020205065733/http://www.qnx.co...

But what I really liked about QNX is how amazingly good it looks with just a bit more polish beyond the size of a floppy disk:

http://mobile.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=534

(I don't know the exact size of the OS today, but back in the early 2000's it was still extremely small and looked almost identical to the osnews screenshots. I want to say it was around ~80MB, and came with GCC and a bunch of other goodies.)

I could actually see myself running that instead of a Chromebook or on a server through VNC.

Unfortunately, QNX never really went beyond the embedded world: it's almost exclusively used in car navigation systems and such these days.

Hopefully at some point Menuet will grow as QNX did from its floppy disk days. The tiny tech demos are wonderful, but with a bit more polish they could see real-world production use.
One thing of note with them, whilst they are better than nothing, they are only rated to 12db, I carry a set of them at all times, but also some foam ones (rated at 30db attenuation) to protect my hears when music is 110db plus. (It won't sound as good, but stops my tinnitus from getting worse)
Giving people their cash and card at the same time would open them up to a scenario where an attacker can just grab whichever they don't reach for first.
Mathematician John Nash,who inspired “A Beautiful Mind,” killed in auto accident
Do you really have a big data problem?
Head Start buses now need seat belts or child seats[1]. Of course that is a lower age and they have monitors riding on the bus.

1) http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/standards/hspps/1310/1310....
Apple IIs were part of my childhood, yet I never owned one.

In school, we had copies of Oregon Trail. Class time when we had spare time would often devolve into our own little version of "Twitch plays Oregon Trail", with one guy at the keyboard, and everyone trying to help make the decisions, usually ending up HEY LETS BUY LOTS OF AMMO and we spend 15 minutes collecting 22 metric shitloads of game and only being able to carry a tiny fraction back.... or fording the river and drowning. Every. Goddamned. Time.

Best part? The end game where you raft down the river on the final stretch, and its just everyone cheering on whoever hasn't managed to crash the raft yet. You could tell who actually had a video game console at home, whoever manned the controls and survived knew the horrors of Megaman and Castlevania; those who didn't, well, lived much simpler, less action packed, lives.

Fuck, when did games turn into a chore and stop being fun?
I've found that people don't fundamentally understand what "processed food" means, on any side of the question. Even people who try to follow a "Raw Fruit" only diet, pit their cherries, cut the skin and hard parts off of pineapples and peel bananas. Turning grain into flour and then into bread is processing, so is fermenting things, salting them, smoking them, drying them and so on. Do you take all raw, fresh, organic, home garden grown ingredients and put them in a pot of boiling water? Or how about making a reduction by boiling the water off, or making a gravy by mixing fat and flour together under heat?

Processing is what animals do so they can eat their food. Even squirrels crack nuts and lions separate meat from bones. But humans have also learned to process food to even out uneven food harvests and bring some measure of surety to eating.

I'm frequently surprised at the creativeness and inventiveness of Koreans, a culture I married into -- and a culture that's come into refrigeration much later than the U.S. A surprising amount of their traditional food preservation culture carries on today, earned through centuries of hardship and resulting in remarkably stable and healthy foodstuffs year round. Kimchi, the national dish is a prime example of this heritage. Even the kings of old had acres of food preservation and fermentation operations on the palace grounds [1].

Soy sauce, brought up in the article, is a supremely processed food -- the good stuff takes years of continuous processing to make. But on the path from Soy Beans to Soy Sauce, there's half a dozen stages where food stuffs can be rendered out of the process, making appetizers, side-dishes, snacks, main meal proteins, condiments, soup stock, and more. Soy sauce is the most processed outcome of this trail, a necessary thing to make inedible soy beans human consumable.

However, very few people arguing against processed food would compare Doenjang and American Sliced Cheese. The former might be called a quaint but tasty traditional foodstuff, the "cheese" considered spawn of hell in some circles. But an easy argument can be made the Doenjang is probably more processed than Kraft sliced American cheese.

1 - https://imgur.com/r/korea/SUpPmts
Free it if you have no use for it.
XAML is the least important part, it's the underlying object model where the value is.

In fact if they were starting from scratch now I doubt they would even use XML, it's not great a great way to edit large documents.
Another manipulation is equating "illegal NSA spying" with "collection of phone records"

Does this bill just target the phone record collection, while it gets subtly branded as a fix to everything Snowden revealed? Is it a law against illegal things?

The phone record collection has already been ruled unconstitutional, so they concoct a congressional debate on it. They sacrifice a program that was already killed in the courts, and distract from everything else.
Tom Stoppard's Hard Problems
I think he was just saying it incorrectly frames the entire discussion.
Edi Weitz is writing a Common Lisp book
A better option, and easier for users, would be for them to subscribe to a privacy setting upstream which configures popular sites for them. This would have to be non-canonical, such that popular upstream options that get influenced by advertisers can fall out of favor.
It was. It's since been used by all sorts of groups and open sourced. One of the few, good things that come from NSA's Information Assurance Directorate. Btw, below is a better link that isn't sideways and full of NSA's crap.

http://cryptol.net/files/empowering_the_experts.pdf
I am (and I believe most scientific users are too). I know that personally I have no incentive to switch; Python 2.7 has all the features I need.

That will change with Python 3.5 and the matrix multiplication operator @.

Is there any other reason for me to consider Python 3?
> If this is the first time memories have been recovered from a cryopreserved organism, this should be in a top journal as it's great news.

Cryonics related research never gets published in top journals no matter its quality, so this is what you would expect. There is a long-standing war by cryobiologists on anything to do with cryonics - the old canards like the exploding lysosomes o' death may have been refuted but last I heard, they were still explicitly banning from membership any cryonicists.

> 2. The article was accepted on the day it was received[ref 1].

Look up the journal policies and note the dates: it was posted the day it was received, as part of Liebert Instant Online/LION http://www.liebertpub.com/forauthors/rejuvenation-research/1... but that doesn't mean it was reviewed or accepted in a day:

> To enable the release of new scientific findings as quickly as possible, the Journal has a policy of pre-publishing all manuscripts in their unedited format upon acceptance. The papers will have undergone full peer review but will not yet have been copyedited, typeset, or proofread/corrected by the authors. All accepted papers appear online within 72 hours of acceptance as a part of Liebert Instant Online (LION).

Given the editing gap is at least October 2014 - April 2015...

> 3. This is pretty concerning - the key protocol used in the paper hasn't been published

Reference 14 is to the SafeSpeed cryopreservation protocol, not to vitrification in general. They also tested out traditional vitrification. If you distrust SafeSpeed, you can throw out that entire part of the paper and the results are exactly the same: preservation of olfactory memory. (This was covered on pg3, I don't know how you missed it if you could look up the reference number...)

> However, the authors only freeze C. elegans for 30 minutes in their protocol whereas they freeze organisms in the established protocol testing group for 2 weeks.

? The 30 minutes refers to the traditional vitrification itself (this is why it's 'slow') where they're immersed in Ln2, but then they were all stored in some more regular freezers at -80 celsius (much warmer than LN2) for several weeks (pg11-12).
The blog post by Egor describing the exploit: http://sakurity.com/blog/2015/05/21/starbucks.html
There is no LCD tablet (iPad, Surface etc) that is great to use outdoors.

My Galaxy Note works well; perhaps yours was a defective unit? The Note pen is too small as you found out but it is designed to be fit in the phone so that's a trade-off. However the Galaxy Note is Wacom based are there are many other pens that work with phone. I use a big pen from an old tablet Pc on the Note. The Note series with its Wagon digitizer also has a much higher resolution than the Surface with 1024 pressure levels.

I would buy the Galaxy Note Pro (13") as well but I'm waiting for the Surface Pro 4
Problem is Wacom manufactures the PCB and the PCB is actually rather thick because Wacom doesn't use hyper-modern extra thin stuff.

Its just a grid of wires, basically, theres no reason that it HAS to be that thick, just that they've essentially not changed how they've been made for the past decade.

Wacom doesn't think they need to compete in the tablet market vs modern touch digitizers, so they don't bother doing so, even though they'll license/sell it to anyone with enough cash.

Its confusing to me that Microsoft and Wacom couldn't make a deal: I've used Wacom tablets before, hardware wise, its the best pen interface I've ever used; software wise, well, the apps themselves were laggy as fuck, but Microsoft (due to Surface) has been making a huge push to fix that, and there is literally no reason for it to happen anyways, especially if scribbling with a mouse doesn't do the same (its not caused by the driver or the hardware, because Wacom sample apps don't do it).
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It's a free registration. You get a few articles a month.
You didn't address the quote directly. You launch an ad hominem attack at the film creators (privileged ppl), the film viewers (angsty privileged ppl), and finally you criticize the Tyler Durden character. Your post is completely devoid of substantive criticism. Does advertising not have us chasing cars and clothes? Does it not influence us to buy things we previously didn't know existed? You won't say.

If there are specific words or phrases in the quote you disagree with, point them out. If you have compelling, relevant quotes from Rihanna or Eminem, feel free to share them and add to the discussion.

To address the quote directly, I don't see how advertising has us working jobs we hate (unless you work for an ad agency and don't enjoy it).
That's known as a "post-completion error" - you've finished what you meant to do, like making a photocopy, and then forget to do some follow-up step, like take the original document off the copier.
It's not. If you're riding in a cab, there's no way you have a baby carrier handy.
Google Patents DEVIL TOY Which Will BRAINWASH KIDS
If you were so tasked, how would you go about replacing WPA2-PSK, while maintaining high usability, if not using a PAKE?
"Sure it's not packed full of the kind of eye-candy we're used to"

This is like arguing that a car is a "waste of resources", because look at how much more metal it uses than this little red wagon. Sure, the wagon is missing "eye-candy" like "providing its own motive power" and "carrying passengers", but lots of the basics are there and it has hundreds of times less metal!
Hyper-V "replaces" your NIC with a bridge adapter, sorta like how you use br0 that bridges to eth0 on Linux, so that could be the cause of that (ie, Hyper-Vs bridge doesn't know how to speak the connected standby API and pass it through to the real NIC).
I've seen enough uncompleted estates and empty unsellable new buildings over time to suspect that such property is significantly risky.

Maybe such property is significantly profitable today, but we can't be sure by the time the building is complete.

I suspect it's more likely a simple business decision: the profit doesn't outweigh the risk.

In London, construction companies work hard to avoid the commitment to affordable housing and pay councils bribes to overcome that. Why would they need to pay councils off if this was a profitable option for them?
I never understand why people don't wear seat belts, even in cabs. I think the thought is that it's the city, you probably won't be going fast. But humans are really bad at judging just how fast they are travelling.

Imagine I asked you to absolutely sprint full speed into a tree while blindfolded. So no time to brace yourself or slow down. You'd probably refuse, thinking this will either hurt very badly or even permanently injure you in certain circumstances. And that is at 12-15mph for most of us. In a car you are going at least twice as fast at all times, and have all sorts of fun objects to break your motion, like steering wheels and dashboards.
Getting grant money and government contracts is the real reason.

Edit: actually it seems like they plan to rent it out to people funded by grants money and government contracts: Pegasus plans to rent the facility out to parties interested in conducting large-scale tests, and they’re anticipating demand.
Are you sure the button becomes difficult to use? I might be very wrong here, but I'd at least hope that "release easily even when hanging upside down" might be a design requirement of the average safety belt buckle. Perhaps this is why aircraft belts have very different buckles than car belts? Can anyone provide more detail?
I suspect corporate news orgs don't support text-only versions of their site due to a lack of display ads. I think BBC has one, but every time I go to it on a mobile device, I am redirected to the media-heavy mobile site.
I love how the text descriptions of the cracks are formatted to 40 columns. That's some serious Apple ][ fidelity. I'm grateful they used mixed case though.
This late in Python 2.7's life the changes being made are mostly fixes for esoteric bugs. One exception is the SSL module, which gets special treatment due to its importance for security. It has gained a new feature in this release (ALPN, necessary for supporting HTTP/2), and RC4 has been removed from the default cipher list.
It's another amazing piece of work largely developed by Galois Inc: a company that invents and develops great stuff on a regular basis. One of the few doing high assurance. Their blog [1] is a gold mine of their interesting work and tips.

Two other works HN readers might like are Copilot [2] and Ivory [3]. Copilot is a DSL for distributed monitors and real-time systems. The result is QuickCheck'd, model-checked, hard, real-time C. Ivory is a DSL that embeds a subset of C into Haskell to leverage its power and increase safety. It was used in the SMACCMPilot UAV program [4], which is open source.

[1] https://galois.com/blog/

[2] http://leepike.github.io/Copilot/

[3] http://ivorylang.org/ivory-introduction.html

[4] https://galois.com/blog/2013/10/smaccmpilot-open-source-auto...
They tried that with a few models and no they shouldn't. It was an actual pain and prone to failure. I had to rewire my friend's car (an all the time seat belt wearer) because of how crappy those things hold up.

People will wear them or not. Making things more complex just means it will fail and make people do strange things.
The cab could keep one in the trunk...
Princeton mathematician John Nash and his wife killed in car accident
A few years ago there was a series of adverts in the UK advertising exactly this danger. You might think you're OK with only a broken nose, but you've just crushed the person in front of you to death.

Sorry to sound so melodramatic, but I think that was the point of the advert!
Well, I'd say switch just because all mainline development is now happening on the Python 3. I'm not too familiar with the development roadmap and which "features" might be useful for different audiences (e.g. the unicode overhaul and the asyncio stuff that landed in 3.4 are probably the biggest wins for the stuff I do) but I think just that reason alone is enough.

But I do think the biggest leap in adoption will be once Python 3 will be the default on most OSs, and we're definitely getting there. After we pass that, Python 2 will be the outlier, and Python 3 the norm.
In my case, in college, I would go to a club or show that was hearing-damaging probably at least once a week. Hundreds of shows a year, so I think that would qualify as very frequently as you say.

One of my friends was in a band and over the years that I knew him, I noticed he started to mix down his own music recordings hotter and hotter on the treble. I asked him why he was doing that and he said "I don't know, this is just how it sounds good to me." Later I realized that he probably has hearing damage and doesn't realize how much treble is in the mix for normal ears.

Keep in mind that 85db for sustained periods of time is the low end where noise induced hearing loss can begin. That's not really that loud. It's likely that your headphones can crank out over 100db and many people work in environments with loud, constant ambient noise.
Well, the 2.x code that you write will eventually be ported to 3.x? Maybe just skip 2.x and save yourself that work?
A counterexample to the notion that seat backs are good enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0JlqtntMt0
Best use of Java Annotations
Your are good at avoiding the US immigration system why do you help out lelf
Wouldn't they have done better to have rear facing seats?
I think there is an opposing argument to the benefits you claim could be achieved. By having free income, there is less of an incentive to work, there is actually a large chance productivity would drop, not increase!

Also, keep in mind you need funds to run the tax collection system to collect taxes to fund the basic income scheme. On a theoretical basis you may have a point but I don't see its that easy or possible in reality. I for one would just use the basic income to live and roam the world without giving anything back (since this is what I'm incentivised to do).
Isaac Asimov on Creativity
John Nash, Nobel Laureate in ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86