skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh cool. This is extremely interesting to me personally, as a relatively new Python developer.
Anecdotally, there are many compounds/experiences that seem to be highly effective (even to the point of eliminating withdrawl symptoms): cannabis, ayhuasca/DMT, ibogaine, and other psychedelics.
You are reading words that aren't there. I didn't actually say whether or not I thought that was a bad thing.
Let's all not forget this totally bogus information.
How does Twitter actually do this on iOS? Is it only apps that use Twitter logins? Are they using canOpenURL (I kind of doubt it)? sysctl()?
Or you could stick with evidence and science based medicine. For another perspective on Burzynski you can read SBM: https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/tag/stanislaw-burzynski...
Executing a criminal does nothing for their victims. That's why the victims aren't usually mentioned.

Personally, I oppose the death penalty on practical grounds. It costs more than life in prison, it eliminates the possibility of reversing a false conviction, and it has no real advantage, so why do it?
Good for you. We Android users appreciate people picking up Google's slack. :) It looks like your people are mixing the regular hardening advice with some ported stuff from BSD/Linux security work. This is low-medium in that it won't stop serious attackers if you get popular. Yet, even baking in the basic hardening by default should reduce risk of many real-world attacks. The other stuff might do more in final form. Keep at it.
Hacking Starbucks for unlimited coffee
The company has done so well because they essentially hijack your content. With their flash site shit, once your content was uploaded into their "site creator" you cannot get it back under any circumstances. People gave Wix a try and a year later, when they wanted to switch providers because Wix is so awful and slow, they found that none of their content could be retrieved, and would be deleted unless they paid for another year, and another, and so on.
Update: thanks for all the encouragement. Looks like this was caught early so I am fairly optimistic about the outlook, just wish it didn't need to affect others around me as I face it.

I should note that I haven't actually signed up for insurance at my new employer yet, as that's typically done after the first day. And my old employers' coverage ends on the 31st. I'm going to check out Cobra to tide me over. Does anyone have an opinion on the prospect of sticking with Cobra and perhaps asking my new employer to help out with the premium versus being on their health insurance?
If I did need to eventually transfer to their insurance I think new Healthcare Laws would mean I couldn't be denied coverage due to pre-existing condition. I'll do some digging.

And btw fiancé has been helping from the beginning and we are dealing with this together -- she's a keeper.
That's what I love about those Koopa Troopas, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
Well what if this person was unemployed or unable to work? I think that maybe having health care depend on your employer is a bad idea.
I think s/he means that the HTML source includes ASCII art showing Mario:

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Yes-- I thought it was reasonably well established that children have superior "plastic" or "fluid" intelligence in general, but apparently a few people feel that this doesn't apply to language (for some reason).
No, do not do the COBRA thing. Opt in to your employer's group coverage. COBRA expires. You are not responsible for optimizing your employer's health insurance premiums and will probably have far less of an impact on them than you're worrying about.
Eat B17.
Pre existing conditions is not a thing anymore. Thanks a lot Obama.
With copyright, I think there was a time when you were supposed to file a copy of the work with the Library of Congress.
Yes, I guess it wasn't clear from my comment, but I have read their site. Assuming you're being sincere, this doesn't mean anything to me: http://imgur.com/BZz409G
Sorry for your situation, I have very little advice for you.

What signs/symptoms prompted you to seek further help?
I'd have to have its full details in front of me. Given how netbooks usually work, I'll hit you with a few questions and review it further if you have secure answers. Does it use regular firmware for its hardware or firmware hardened against attack? Are the drivers isolated in user-mode? Is the trusted software verified by eye, tool, or both to avoid all known code injections? Was that verified by third parties? Does it avoid software with huge TCB and many vulnerabilities such as Linux? Does it avoid Web apps and tech such as Flash?

If yes to all of these, then it's a start on strong security and definitely worth reviewing if only to help close remaining holes. Otherwise, it's probably already received a number of patches and not worth a review. Which is it?
Last weekend at LambdaConf (functional programming conference in Boulder) we were joking that all programming is fundamentally just a function of String -> Any.

Fewer weird looks when you make that joke surrounded by Haskellites and Scalaistas.
I'm talking about the story I linked, where someone is selling a pirated copy of an author's book on Google Play. Google is happily collecting a portion of the proceeds on the pirated book, while refusing to remove the pirated book from the marketplace. So.. not cool.
stopped using their native app few months ago , hope they won't remove their mobile web app . even if they do I will just spend more time on hacker news !
> Do you have a journal proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have been written by Ross Ulbricht that includes them discussing how they paid to have a person killed?

Yes. That was literally a critical piece of evidence at the trial. The defense tried to claim that it wasn't Ulbricht's and failed.

Take a look at the post I'm responding to here. A lot of people in this thread are acting like the murder for hire thing is just some crazy rumor when there is a really compelling body of evidence behind it. Reasonable people can disagree on whether it should be a factor in the sentencing in the drug trial, but to act like there isn't a very high probability of Ross having attempted murder is.. Well it's not reasonable.
I got diagnosed with a lymphoma (Hodgkin's) in my early thirties. Otherwise healthy also. With your age and lumps in the armpit, it sounds like lymphoma. Luckily, lymphoma treatment has a pretty good success rate.
A few things I would recommend.

Get a biopsy. Getting cut open sucks, but until they take a tissue sample, they really can only guess. Get it as soon as possible.

If you decide to take 'normal' western treatments (chemo/radiation), before you start, bank sperm or eggs, depending on your sex. I had a difficult time beating mine, and the chemos I eventually took left me sterile.

If you are an American, get in contact with the American Cancer Society. I can't say enough good things about this organization. They should be able to help with financial options for you, as well as alternative therapies and medical trials. If you qualify for some of the trials, the cost may be reduced.

If you decide to go with chemo, it affects different people differently. I personally had 5 different types, with effects ranging from nauseous for a couple of days to unable to move. You may be able to work through it, you may not. But your co-employees will generally have nothing but empathy for you.

Don't delay treatments. The success rate only goes down with time.
If drugs hurt people, it should be treated as a medical issue and not a criminal issue.
We're talking about .NET here and plain ADO.NET that comes with .NET will safely handle query parameters in raw SQL if used properly (DbCommand.AddParameter() etc). I suspect that the developer in question was simply concatenating the parameters with the command text string. He probably just never bothered to learn to use the runtime properly.
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That's very possible. It could be any RTOS with a good security track-record in industry, from OKL4 to INTEGRITY-178B. There's also a number of groups doing R&D on Assured Real-Time OS's so it could be that. That we still don't know and RTOS security is so hard bothers me about this.
This is insanity! Life imprisonment for starting a website?!? Where are the "kingpin" charges for these guys http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=...
> I get fewer features that way but fewer distractions.

Not necessarily. I use the Facebook web app because I'm not crippled from using Messenger as I am on their main app. Who needs the notifications anyway?

And seriously, why does Facebook need to be a >30 MB download? It's just a frontend pulling from an API.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626985.
Six and a half years ago, my wife was diagnosed with cancer. I'm fairly level-headed, and there was initially all the project management of tests and doctors' visits and insurance company stuff and test results to deal with, which kept the feelings of "poor her", "poor us" at bay. And then I remembered that her son (first marriage) had successfully dealt with HIV, other friends with cancers of various sorts, and so forth.

Now cancer is serious, and you're still going through the diagnosis and test roller coaster (and it sucks), but there are lots of different ways that this can come out, and I'd agree the signs, so far, are ok to good.

You're not an albatross. This is what insurance is for, precisely. And you're not just a co-worker, you're a friend, a human being, and you'll give your friends and colleagues a chance to express their care and concern, to help.

Live a day at a time, take the diagnosis seriously, use all the skills you have to understand what you're dealing with, and hang in there.

And it still sucks, and I'm so sorry.

PS. After a nasty but standard protocol of chemo (including a drug called -- I kid you not - 4FU, because 2FU just wouldn't do) and radiation, she came out on the other side, and we've been swing dancing, and skiing, and loving, and all that jazz, so nowadays people get lucky a lot.
> despite being fully aware of their intentions

Those being....? Google earns its revenue by selling ads. They make more money when they show you ads that are likely to earn your business for the advertiser. Is it really so horrendous for Google to use information about you to show you ads for products you are more likely to purchase? Or are you concerned about something else?
I agree with your overall point, but you're forgetting a third effect: preventing non-current-drug users scared of more conventional venues, but not by Silk Road (which, as you point out, is comparatively convenient and safe), from buying drugs from there (and then possibly developing an addiction). I don't know how large a segment of the population that might be, but addictions have to start somewhere.
A 99% biodegradable computer chip
Exciting to see someone that remembers all those good, old systems! I've been studying them in recent years to solve modern problems that... they already solved. Yeah, some of the techniques go way back. To be honest, I've been thinking of re-implementing a version of Globe toolkit with modern security engineering techniques to deal with our Internet apps issues.

What do you think of that? Worthwhile to leverage such an architecture?
I'm excited about cadquery for this reason. It's a Python library.

https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery
Why are you riding this belief so hard? It's like a one man fan group trying desperately to make an untruth truth.

Was he convicted of this charge you speak of? No. And who really cares what the legal system decides, it is an utter farce.
Honest question, here - I don't have much of a theoretical or practical economic. how distinct is your proposition from actually, explicitly, printing money?
> Well for one thing, there's the hassle of maintaining it.

You're confusing FLOSS with self-hosted.
You can use free software, but hire it as a service. Example: https://githost.io/
I run my own email server [1] using Postfix. I use greylisting [2][3] and it easily stops 50% of all spam. I looked into adding SPF, but decided against it as the effective rate was too low [4]. I've also recently looked at RBL [5] and while there were a few false positives (enough that I decided against immediately adding it) what it did catch was quite impressive [6].

Oddly enough, if I simply drop email addressed to my domain registration email [7] that is NOT from my registrar, then the amount of spam I receive would drop about 70%.

But frankly, with the greylisting, the spam that does get through is easy enough to deal with. And I'm the only person who uses my domain for email.

[1] I started in the web hosting business in '96 or '97 so this is pretty much old hat for me.

[2] Definition: http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/

[3] Software I use: http://www.x-grey.com/

[4] http://boston.conman.org/2015/04/12.1

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSBL

[6] http://boston.conman.org/2015/05/11.1

[7] Yeah, I don't bother with the privacy settings on the domain registration.
To help anyone who doesn't realize it, HN is eating the period from the end of that link in the parent post (which is necessary to avoid getting a page without any text).
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Others have covered the possible approaches to talking with the developer and the boss pretty well. Aside from that, I just wanted to point out that the only big worrying issue is the SQL injection. I would focus on this above everything else. You may have to show the client why this is a big deal.

I've found that many businesses are willing to put up with less performant code. If they're getting the same functionality for a lower price from a less expensive developer, they consider that a win. In many cases, it's actually hard to write web code with performance bad enough that a client will care.

I wouldn't just fix the developer's mess for him. I would definitely tell the boss that you're willing to fix the less performant code for him, but unless the website has a 2+s response time or crashes every day, don't be surprised if they say no.
> Because it Just Works(tm) and there's no fiddling or faffing about necessary.

That's what marketing would have you believe. For example Hangouts broke the ecosystem horrible, and now xmpp and hangout users can no longer intercommunicate (and wonder why their messages are silently dropped).

Users complain that they need 6+ apps to keep in touch with friends.

The real answer, IMHO is "Because they market it as 'just works'.".
Are there really no uninhabited islands in the middle of nowhere?
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Search is the easier: DDG. I've been using it all-but-exclusively for nearly three years solid (and another couple on-and-off before). I do still make use of some Google special collections (Scholar, Books), and for time-bound searches (really wish DDG would support those).

Email took me a while longer to sort, but while I have a primary personal account somewhere safe, anonymous / pseudonymous accounts were harder to provision. Yahoo and Microsoft both throw barriers (phone confirmation required) in the way. I ended up with an inbox.com account, like that.
I worry about the potential consequences of legitimate sensors being repurposed, yes.

Network snooping / spoofing / etc (even if it's on a VPN through an external router it still leaks congestion information!), temperature settings, especially versus actual temperature, power fluctuations, vibration sensors, etc, etc.

I don't particularly want random people knowing - and potentially selling - information about when I sleep, when I eat, when I take a shower, when I'm not home, when I'm on vacation, etc, etc.
Thanks for you answer. I hadn't though about cross compilation, and I guess that's the sanest approach, when possible.
I really like using https://swisscows.ch their search results are quite good and they respect my privacy.

EDIT: https://swisscows.ch/agreement
Where can it be used? On the contrary, I'm really worried about my privacy. Creating a backdoor in the firmware can be easier and more hidden.
Someone would go get them again. Especially if they had boatloads of money socked away.
> If the death penalty was done like jury duty, where citizens were asked to take turns being executioners nobody except the deranged would agree to it.

I don't know, if I had the details and felt confident that the person was indeed guilty, I don't think it would cause me much anguish to push the button. However, if I didn't agree with the jury's decision of guilt, forcing that person to do it would be extremely inhumane, it could ruin your life.
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I've worked with people like this, and it's very tough indeed. My Advice is to not get emotionally invested in it; you can be the best coder you can be and set an example, but you can't make someone care who doesn't. If he's just unsure, branch off his work and show him a diff of what he's not doing that he could.

You can beat the drum and push for better, but if you push too hard or nag you'll meet more resistance. There are many cases where I've made a case for something, had it shot down, only to see the same or similar being decided as the direction a few months down the line.

But really, just let it go emotionally. If he's writing code that is problematic and his boss doesn't care, then you shouldn't care. Then again, you are the technical lead. So, who is responsible when something goes wrong? who's head is on the chopping block? because that's the person that gets to make the call. If that's you, put your weight into it and do not let up. if that's your client, advocate for best practices, but accept that some people need to go their own way.
I didn't mean to imply that it could be considered self-defense according to the letter of the law. Just floating the scenario where you're running a business that, while illegal, is not morally wrong, and you're faced with the possibility of spending the rest of your life behind bars. What do you do?
Why do you think society gave them that badly written law?
So many people were convinced that "Obummer is gunner take r gunz" that they created a bullet shortage that lasted for years.

Um, sounds like like addiction to me.
The People's Pharmacy is a public radio show produced in the U.S. Over the years and with occasional listening, I've found it very informative and useful.

The other day or week, I heard part of this episode while doing other things. I haven't listened to the whole thing, yet. I do recall hearing about patients who pursued e.g. nutritional reinforcement and who self-advocated, sometimes having to go through several doctors to find the one they could work with.

I hate to be one of those "try this" people. But based on the overall quality of the show, I'd feel remiss not to mention this episode.

Wishing you the best.

http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2015/05/21/955-surviving-canc...

http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/feed/podcast/

http://traffic.libsyn.com/peoplespharmacy/PP-955SurvivingCan...
Interesting read! Bummer to hear the news though.
I've been using qwant with pretty good results lately.

Still a bit hit and miss but getting better every day.
Sad to see him get life, but I'm going to withhold my opinions beyond that statement because I know the feds will read this one day. Fuckers.
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And bury the thread people actually care about. Way To Go.
While I generally agree with your statements, it is important to note that in this case, the article's author has been arguing that any "fundamental asymmetries" between students and faculty are largely illusory, and such hair-trigger policies are detrimental for all parties in the long run, regardless of the policy lending any pressure to the cultural or legal "balance" within the institute.
I am going to go ahead and rephrase that as a question for you.

"Do you advocate prison as a place of solely rehabilitation because you're putting yourself and the people that you know in that hypothetical situation?"

no. i have met these people, i agree it is difficult.. and my partner works as a psych for kids effected by family violence and abuse. the stories i have heard from her.. makes me want to castrate those fuckers with a rusty knife. but that doesn't fix anything for anyone.

problem is, you would think for prisoners rehabilitation is easy and punishment is hard. it is the other way around. there was a small long term counselling program running in my state for rehabilitation in prisons. it was massively successful in reducing recidivism, but nearly every prisoner subjected to it said they hated it and would prefer to have a longer sentence. it was cut by the previous right wing government, and now recidivism (and private ownership of prisons) is up.

rehabilitation works. punishment decreases the incentive to reintegrate with society. and if the prisoner resists—and this was the part i was alluding to in my previous post—it is their responsibility and continued deprivation of liberties is required, until they serve out their life or reform.
The main feature I'm missing from DDG is the ability to filter results by date. I end up going to google often without it.
I don't know what thread you're referring to, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626985 is at #10.
Nice - I was looking for a tool to scrape page content length.
I Watched a documentary about some of the people that still live there. Probably one of the most boring documentaries I've ever watched. I've watched documentaries on the history of indoor plumbing that were more interesting.

Still, pretty crazy.
If we feel righteous in empowering 18 year olds with the tools of war and dispatching them to rain down our wrath - and perhaps be killed in the act - then they should be treated with the same capacity for adult thought and reason as anyone else - and with it the same great responsibility that comes with adulthood.

To that point, I think they (18+ year olds) should be allowed to drink, too, but that's a topic for a different day.
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I don't like the arguement that if you are not willing to do or watch something that it should not be done. I, for example, do not want to inform people that their loved ones have died, but that does not mean that as a society we should not do it.
Others in this thread have first-hand experience with cancer and have offered better advice than I could try to, and I don't have anything else substantial to contribute. I just want to wish you good luck with your new job if you proceed there, and many years of happiness with your soon-to-be wife!
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your future colleagues are literally the last thing you need to focus your energy on. don't worry about them. worry about yourself.