skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a point about their background, and maybe a point about their leaning towards "pure nurtue" (as in 'nurture versus nature'), though this is actually not said. I am not aware of anyone who does lean pure nurture. If they do, that is obviously in correct. But that also does not mean that there is a label "psychopath" that is anywhere taken seriously. "Sociopath" has some value. "Psychopath" has a little, in terms of slang for impact.

The later term is far, far too wide, though, to be of much material use for anyone, be they in security or social work or therapy or anywhere.

Trying to argue pure nature or pure nurture is probably, in general, a very bad idea. Usually, however, it is true, there are very specific events in aggressively criminal individual's background which are noteworthy to help understand 'who they are'.

It is reasonably best to actually be "sociopathic" or lacking emotional bias when dealing with such analysis. Just like how doctors go, "Okay, wound, fix", and non-doctors get grossed out.

They are blinded by their own overcoming emotionality. Emotion can be great for communication, but it can also get in the way and be entirely counter productive.
What surprises me is that when you get calls from Hiring Managers or recruiters, they talk so good of the employer and judge candidates from every perspective. But you start in the company and it's not even 50% of what recruiters describe.

So they call employed people, offer a wonderful opportunity at a wonderful company. Then they have no idea what takes work in there. If someone stays long, they get left behind in current tech trend. If you don't stay long, they question why. So, either way its employees fault.
You will need to burn a whole lot of fossil fuels to make batteries for every car on the road. Thats always ignored by proponents of electric cars who conveniently ignore the fact that batteries manufacturing processes are very dirty and use a number of toxic materials.
First, be careful because the law on this is pretty tough, even though the content is user generated.

But I'm wondering how much messaging you present indicating that illegal content is forbidden and will be prosecuted?
There are too many different encrypted texting apps and no market winner. How does text secure compare to Bleep by the bitorrent people, for example?

For there to be enough users, we need public proclamations of support from Bruce Schneier or and maybe Moxie, celebs like that. Maybe interoperability.
I wonder if taking energy (sun, wind, water) from the earth make any damage in long term to it - let's say fields that not going to get sun they got used to, or clouds wont move the way they otherwise would - thus causing unpredictable climate changes. Just a thought
There's a system called IQDB used for various 'booru' websites. It's open sourced and available here: http://iqdb.org/code/

Really though it's not too hard to whip something up yourself. I did it for a bunch of those 'booru' sites (roughly 3 million images) like this:

- Find image hashing library (I used https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/imagehash but there's a nice series of articles here http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/?/archives/432-Looks-Like-I... if you want to implement your own)

- Build a database of image hashes using said library

- Use an algorithm that allows you to lookup hashes by distance. In the case of hamming distance (used by many image hashes) you can just throw them in MySQL. You could also use any of the nearest neighbours search algorithms like k Nearest Neighbours or locality sensitive hashing (you'd want one of these for larger datasets)
It happens often enough that NASA has asked FPGA synthesis tool vendors to implement error correction feature on this. Basically, when state machine goes into some error condition/state, the system is reset to a known state.
Yes, most of her wins were surely kept internal because most company things are not made public as a matter of course.

No plausible way the day to day internal changes / hirings / firings that you are not privy to have had a balancing effect on this? What was your methodology in assessing the damage that the blackout caused to reddit that you used to measure against the good she could have plausibly caused in order to form your rational opinion? A cursory look at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/traffic does not seem to indicate any lasting impact.

It is not worth noting that random employees (actually, not random: ones who' have enough of an axe to grind that they'll risk their job to break NDA) think a CEO is bad. That is the case at almost every company, small and large. Find me one where you can't find 2 employees that agree there should be a different CEO etc.

Sorry but we are looking at it from a necessarily uninformed outsider's perspective so we can't possibly have a meaningful opinion on whether she was an effective CEO.
The first author in the princeton paper is my brother!!
Haven't been around here long, but this place seems to me to be much better than reddit for what I'm looking for. To each his/her own, I guess, but so much of reddit was such utter and total shit for so long that the enjoyment evaporated.
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I am confused as well. With that said, there is a comment from 'dragonwriter' further up in the thread that I think touches on this:

"In a tax system with progressive marginal rates on annual income, treating income resulting from action over multiple years as earned in the year realized results in a artificial increase in the tax burden on those with that kind of income pattern. So, there's a sense in which treating capital gains earned over multiple years differently than capital gains earned over a single year or less (the latter taxed as general income), given the progressive nature of the tax system."
I wrote about this one almost a month ago:
http://caseysoftware.com/blog/why-this-security-breach-is-wo...
(spent a day on the front page here)

Every time OPM says "it was only X" it comes out a few days later that they're lying.

My original statements have applied since day one:
"Whoever took this data has all the relevant information on anyone (and their families and their friends) who has received a security clearance. Not some. Not parts. ALL."

and

"If someone just steals your identity, consider yourself lucky."

It was also uncovered that the so-called "hackers" had read/write access to the system so therefore EVERYTHING in it - whether good or bad - should be considered suspicious. People who shouldn't have gotten clearances, may have. People who should have been cleared, may have been blocked.
That doesn't really seem plausible. I mean, why would a windmill create more disruption in wind patterns than a hill of equivalent size?

I don't think you could cause that even if you devoted all production on earth to making windmills.
It's surprising just how much people seem to discount the reliability of markets to smoothly deal with variations in supply and demand.

German aluminum smelters for instance are already building their plants to be able to scale electricity with supply. They've seen these periods where electricity prices dropped almost to zero and they want in.

As always, markets often take time to adjust to new realities, so this shift won't be instantaneous.
He is arguing against government guarantees of loan performance and profitability.
Can you file a radar for that with the specific things that are causing the slowdown? Radars are always appreciated.
PMOG was such a wonderful game, and the community was everything. I'm the founder and lead developer of the game Nova-Initia he mentions in the article.
New place seems interesting as well as challenging. Provided that I'm close to 30 but not above I'm taking this chance. After all, it'll be another opportunity to learn even if I fail.
I don't think this is relevant honestly. ( I'm assuming you want to compare the costs with other energy sources )

This reminds the question about How much energy are we spending today to build an electric/hybrid card versus a petrol one? (By comparing the factory emissions for example) Currently petrol cars are cheaper to produce because of the decades of investment, usually no one has in consideration in the equation, but on the long run eco tech wins the race. We should also expect new discoveries in Material Engineering that would help to reduce the cost and/or improve the efficiency.

I don't think it's a fair to compare the cost of producing versus the cost of petrol solutions until the planet's crust isn't a source of energy.
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David, the lad in this tale, has since been diagnosed with mental illness and arrested for stealing smoke detectors.

Sadly, things didn't turn out as well as they could have for someone with so much drive.
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm going to (partly) side with the CIA here. He was not charged due to his reveal of CIA torture in the form of waterboarding.

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/local-news...

>Months after the ABC interview, a reporter working on a book about the CIA’s rendition practices asked Kiriakou to confirm the name of a covert officer. The book was never published, but the reporter passed the name to an investigator who worked for lawyers defending Guantánamo detainees. Radack maintains that the operative’s name was already an open secret among journalists and human-rights advocates.

Revealing the name of a covert agent can jeopardize their life and the lives of others. The claim that it's an "open secret" doesn't exactly hold water (being an oxymoron and all).

>John. A. Rizzo, a former lawyer at the Agency, says: “My sense is [Kiriakou] is not a bad man. But he did a bad thing and a stupid thing. The bad thing is that he disclosed the name of at least one covert CIA operative to a reporter via e-mail. The stupid thing is that he lied to the FBI about having done so. These are not trivial criminal offenses.”

Kiriakou alleges that his prosecution was retaliation for his leaking of the CIA's waterboarding tactics. And that's certainly possible. Waterboarding is wrong, and I do think he was in the right for admitting that the CIA used waterboarding. But if you reveal the name of someone undercover, you should be aware of the consequences. He served 23 months for leaking the name and for perjuring himself, which doesn't seem unreasonable.
I'll consider it non-problematic when the nuclear liability cap is eliminated and the private sector insures it fully. Without subsidies.

If it were so incredibly safe, there wouldn't be a need to give taxpayer support.

The real reason, of course, is that it isn't actually that safe, and private insurers aren't willing to take the risk without a liability cap that is pathetically low (a few hundred million).

And, if you got rid of this subsidy: no more nuclear plants.
There are countries with higher standards of living where financial institutions are uninvolved in the world of education.
I was thinking the same, but you'd have to figure out how to create the VPN to the EC2 instance for multicast forwarding, since presumably the Steam Link won't be able to run OpenVPN.
Freelancing was challenging and fun but I'd lean more towards permanent roles where I have more knowledge of business while developing solutions.
Hydro (and geo-thermal) are good, but not universally available. Nor California, nor Israel would find it as an option. In opposite, both are desalinating the water using fossil fuels, just to cover basic needs.

Solar sounds much better; and its potential crop is much higher than wind.

Also, I am not saying that clean/distributed energy system is impossible. I am saying that the metric used in the article is misleading.
>The universe has no inherent vastness, hostility, emptiness or silence without a conscious being to assign it those properties.

Agreed.

I choose to imbue it with aspects of magnificence, intelligence, organization, perhaps even benevolence.

Well, that's nice, but it's only possible at the space scale of, at most, the Earth. Or at least human scale - since it is you who are doing the choosing. I mean, it's fine to change the subject, but at least be aware that you are doing so.

>We are not in a cosmic battle to conquer a dumb, hostile substrate; we are embedded in a rich, nurturing agar whose purpose it is, at least in part, to help us to flourish.

Again, I feel like you are confusing space- and time- scales. Earth's biosphere is nurturing agar, no doubt, over a short time scale and small space scale. But the solar system, galaxy, let alone the universe at large, is most definitely not, and nor is the Earth's biosphere on any large time scale.

We have arisen in this universe, apparently the first intelligent life on this planet, and on any other planet. If there is intelligent life elsewhere, we are separated by impossible vastness: to get to another star, in any form, we must harness immense energy. More than is reasonable. And once there, the lifeboat must somehow found a colony, a self-sustaining biosphere, which itself is a gargantuan task.

Perhaps, though, this is a benevolent universe: maybe those great chasms of space protect intelligences from each other. It means that if any of us manage to make the journey, and we discover each other, it will be a meeting of great good fortune, and the travellers will always be at the mercy of the inhabitants of the destination star.

There is hope for long-term survival of intelligence, but it is very, very small.
You can ignore that error message (or disable IP addressing checking). The OpenVPN connection isn't configured to forward all traffic over the VPN, so your public IP won't change.
Everything should be measured. No? :)
Solomonoff induction seems to be an useful innate bias for the current approaches at general intelligence. It's basically a formalization of Occam's razor that states that instead of being completely random, the surrounding environment is mostly lawful and simple, and therefore most of the processes in it can be described by algorithms with short rather than long source code.

Hutter has written a bit about NFL:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.3846.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.5721.pdf
Let's say the person did have consent. It's still illegal, but is it still wrong?

Let's say they didn't have consent. It's wrong in the sense of it being "revenge porn", but should it really be considered as child pornography in the way it's classically viewed?

It's a gray area in that regard.

If someone is uploading things to his website which he can clearly identify as child porn without further analysis (if the child depicted is under 13, it's probably pretty easy to tell, unfortunately), I don't think he should hesitate to report it to law enforcement.

And if law enforcement investigates and learns it's not actually child porn... then they almost definitely won't charge anyone so long as no other crimes were committed. There are no downsides to reporting it and many downsides to keeping it to yourself.
Thanks for the idea.

But what if the ideas don't have a common audience?
Like devotional apps need a different audience than funny pictures app.
I did admit wrong on the orwell part, but you seem to be taking this quite personally to be releasing that kind of frustration out so needlessly without even addressing any of my points. If anything, that shows you have clear bias there, but I need not point it out very much, for your frustration with this debate should've made that quite clear by now. Strong emotions always cloud analytical thinking. And it doesn't matter what arguments anybody may propose to you if you have already made up your mind that much, so arguing under the guise of objectivity or logical correctness is quite disingenuous.
Isn't it only companies who find unemployment unacceptable? From my personal experience, people I know who have been unemployed for extended periods do not get ostracized, so "socially" unacceptable might be too general.
Wind farms are known to impact their micro-climate. See for example: http://m.phys.org/news/2012-04-farms-temperature-region.html
GCE doesn't (yet) offer instances with GPUs, so no.
Wow, guess I somehow missed this dramafest.
If we had efficient batteries, would wind be feasible then?
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Anyone who works with me tells me they think that I'm a great programmer, but I don't know the first thing about marketing or sales.

I'd like to get from "employed at a dead-end job for a sinking startup making a very humble salary with no benefits or vacation with a 4 hour daily commute" to the vicinity of "self-employed consultant working from home earning $XY,000 per week on client engagements".

Where/how can I quickly learn whatever skills I'm missing? (I might be under the gun soon to come up with an answer, since rumor mill is telling me that my $dayjob is going out of business on the 1st yet $dayjob['boss'] has remained silent about this.)

For the record: I'm technically not quite going 100% solo freelance consultant, a friend of mine (whom, unlike me, does not have a felony conviction for computer hacking that shuts 99% of doors) started an LLC that I intend to work under full time. Our website is https://paragonie.com

I've already seen a lot of Double Your Freelancing and read a bunch of 'patio11's blog posts.

For those interested in knowing, my skillset covers PHP, Java, .NET, JavaScript/HTML/CSS, and Shell/batch scripting, with a specialization in application security.

WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR:

We've performed two code audits on cryptography applications in the past two months, but I'm not yet at liberty to post the reports (although the client did agree to publication later this year).

We have also started a community initiative to backport PHP 7's CSPRNG features into PHP 5 projects: https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat

We also have a new post on our blog (once per week, on average) that consistently resonates with the part of the PHP developer community I can reach and, usually, explains new security concepts from a developer's perspective. Based on the feedback I've received, this is generally seen as a high value offering that lots of people benefit from.

Is this a good start? Is there something I can do today that will help me reach businesses that need the skills I have to offer?
How do people take advantage of this 18 months of monitoring? My wife and I are almost certainly in the impacted population (and the fact that we've had 4 separate fradulent activities on our accounts in the past month isn't helping...)
no i mean something like this.

prompt a capcha when someone attempts to `upload` a file

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CA4S4lFWEAEJUUB.png:large
The impact on global warming is the same.
I don't get bored easily but If the company/boss doesn't show any sign of progress or doesn't explain what I'll be doing in next 6 months then it disappoints me. But not to the extent that I'd leave. Changing country and a desire to do a research degree were reasons for leaving 2 companies. After that I had no job and I took whatever came my way.
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"The real reason, of course, is that it isn't actually that safe"

Perhaps you'd like to go into detail on why you think it isn't actually that safe, especially when compared with the fossil fuel energy generation ecosystem it would be replacing.
Nvidia only supports OpenCL 1.1.
Because the rest of our energy sector isn't also propped up by subsidies.
" What would happen if we embraced this and just made all information freely available?"

Included in that 7% of the OPM data theft: Intelligence applications, their private data (names, DOB, medical & psych evaluations), interviews of referees, personal information and possibly assessments.

This is a serious breach.
it is probably relevant if you include the maintenance costs, which are probably very low for a wind turbine.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140616093317.ht...

says

"a wind turbine with a working life of 20 years will offer a net benefit within five to eight months of being brought online"

that's 150 to 240 days with a lifetime of 7300 days.
There is a difference between slagging - whatever that is - and not gushing corporate BS. How about he be honest instead of just a shill? Sam seems to be good at "playing the game" and this type of thing falls right in line with it.
You do not ever have to pay to export excess power from wind turbines (or solar) because they're instantly dispatchable - you can just feather the blades if no-one is willing to pay for the power.
Alas, as the wind soars, so do our energy costs. Danish electricity prices have only gone up, up, up, and through the roof during the last thirty years or so, concurrent with the massive, statesponsored introduction of wind turbines. Or, to be precise, the pricetag of electricity itself hasn't really changed much since the 1930s, but has been completely buried under an avalanche of taxation, which in various guises makes up nearly nine tenths of my electricity bill. A lot of this is "green" tax, earmarked for sponsoring - you guessed it - more governmentally mandated wind turbines.

To the best of my knowledge, our Danish electricity is the most expensive in Europe.
There is a lot of variation (depending on size/age/location etc of the turbine) in the EROI (output/input) for wind, but the consensus appears to be approx 20. One source is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_inve...
There is already some interesting solutions posted here. If you wanted to try and tackle the issue with a stop-gap in the meantime you could add an image hashing step in the upload process to identify images that have already been flagged as NSFW or worse.

dHash is fairly simple to implement, and you might even be able to offload the hash checking at the database level. Comparing dHash's is just a matter of AND'ing the two hashes and counting the number of bits.

Obviously as the sample size increases so will the computation time. You could help the process by prioritising checks against new accounts, certain IP ranges (if you're seeing more or less content of a certain type from different countries or VPN providers) or if an account has a history of uploads in the past.

Its a horrible problem to have. Best of luck!
Then buy it back from Norway. (99% hydroelectric) :-)
> you stand to make a lot more from being trustworthy than not...

What? How do you justify that conclusion? That seems at odds with most of the history of gambling.

You make the most money if you appear trustworthy but aren't.
But Once hired they are put into a corner and company doesn't even answer their questions on future, career etc.
I have seen a colleague at current office. She has been there for more than 5 years and believe it or not she doesn't even know what an ORM is. She is good at sql queries and she is busy all day with support work. If the company decides to let her go, It'll be very hard for her to get a job.
That is what companies/founders/bosses don't care about and that's why people who worry about their time of life they're spending in the company to take some actions.

It's not all about company's money. It's about people's life.
But that hill, if there, could cause a variation in climate. Just because an equivalent hill could be there doesn't mean the hill's presence would have the same effect as its absence.

And if we're talking hundreds of thousands of hills across the globe, there could be a larger systemic effect in aggregate.
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Money has never been the factor for change. I have always wanted to be someone who contributes more and is an important part of the business rather than some guy writing code for them.
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864449