skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat, almost nothing about me except four "likes", and two of those is for a Facebook app I've made.
Good advice in general about mobility, but I think that your PEs were more likely to have been the result of an underlying clotting problem that you might have rather than solely from sitting too long.(also, thrombosis after surgery, injury is more likely)

I wish I have your discipline to take frequent breaks though.
The Century of Self Happiness Machines
Controling masis ...The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays.It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today's world.
The Lowes self checkout is annoying because you have to switch back and forth from the touch screan to the credit card pad thing several times, so by the time it wants me to sign, I just write something vulgar. It's never been a problem.
A marketing problem with OpenStreetMap is that people used to Google maps where you get some .png tiles and that's it assume that OpenStreetMap is the same kind of thing.

Note that the OSM say "We make beautiful maps", that's maps plural, not "a beautiful map".

The project is primarily about the underlying data, not any particular end product. They have vector and bitmap outputs, 2D and 3D, digital and printed, up-to-date and historical maps, cycle, public transport and walking maps etc.

And many are both more beautiful and more useful than the alternatives, as well as being free. But not all of them.

Their featured image section of the Wiki gives a better overview, though again many of these images are intended to highlight the quality of the data or new technology:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_images

Some picks based on visual beauty:

City of Murmur (width of street varies based on quantity news reports):

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:City_Murmur_Madrid.p...

A Heatmap of Public Transport in Chennai:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Chennai_Openstreetma...

Visualization of Flights diverted due to Volcano:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:ItoWorld_flightRadar...

Helsinki by Night, based on streetlighting info:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:OSM_By_Night_Helsink...

Demo of Hillshading in the Cycle map:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Cyclemap_hill_shadin...

8-bit NYC (New York mapped Zelda style):

http://8bitnyc.com/

Stamen Design's work:

http://www.stamen.com/clients/cloudmade

OpenOrienteering maps:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:OpenOrienteeringMap_...

Map of London showing color-coded updates:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:London_map_updates_2...

Isometric 3-D map of Czech Republic:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Iso3DMap.jpg

TopOSM, relief shaded maps of the US:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:TopOSM_example3.jpg

Printed maps:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Mappa-mercia-ed1-det...

Tactile map in copper:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Rnk-kupfer.jpg

Finally, some nice maps that Nike did based on OpenStreetMap without crediting the source:

http://blog.oobrien.com/2010/04/nike-grid/
The Century of the Self is an excellent documentary. I felt horrible when I first watched it, but it changed the way I see things. I was shocked to learn that Goebbels kept Bernays' book in his back pocket and based the nazi propaganda on its principles.
What would be the effect on people if they watched it? Do you think﻿ they'd want to wake up and face reality?
Lead OGG Dev Responds to Jobs Jibes
It works fine with me by using the ISO on VMware and I did hack my wireless network with no errors.

Thank you for sharing.﻿
Ah OK, I didn't see those. I think a horizontal nav with About, Signup, etc. would do wonders, at least for those that expect an about page. A more explanatory tagline would help too, though. Thanks for the clarification.

How do you all plan to get around the very high hurdle of getting high penetration of point of sale systems that are compatible and can show a picture of someone's face? There're a lot of legacy systems out there... Don't mean to bust your chops, just curious. Could do phone-based required authorization instead, which would at least remove the picture requirement?
Essential Softwares for Ubuntu
The problem is that you still have to communicate with others, and others already know html/css/whatever rather than the new whiz-bang tech.
Maybeyou've assumed facebook is for private things. I assume anything on the internet is public, at all ties, except for my bank.
>To me it seems absurd that much of the medical establishment would regard the unhappiness a recently bereaved person as a chemical imbalance or a symptom of illness

It doesn't seem so absurd when you realize that they make a lot of money that way.

I agree with your post though. The marketing agencies for drug companies want you to feel as though being uncomfortable for any amount of time means something is wrong with you. It doesn't help that (in the United States at least) there is a very large consumer culture which is based around an intellectually-unhealthy ideal, which, I think, makes people deeply unhappy. Thus, when people realize what is wrong with the world around them, they feel extremely uncomfortable and are quickly herded into the category of "mentally ill" rather than being allowed to face what is troubling them. Depression is very much a fad disorder, like ADHD and Asperger's syndrome (much to the dismay of people who suffer from them legitimately, no doubt).
> They have both the money and tech background to make VP8 just as good if not better.

They've got youtube, I think that's a much bigger factor here.
I enjoyed this bit of example code:

x = '%s, %s!' % (imperative, expletive)

A decidedly familiar sentence structure...
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The obvious irony here is that compelling images, great editing and good writing can also manipulate large groups of people.
This is as far as I've gotten in hacking: download aircrack-ng, put my wi fi card in monitor mode, ok, easy enough, but does aircrack work with Vista? have they worked out all the "glitches"? or should I use another program?
Maybe﻿ I'm just over thinking it...wouldnt be the first time...but after I put my card in monitor mode, then what? start up the cmd line? if so, what do I type in at the cmd line? packet sniffers? (whatever they are...sounds like K9 bomb unit to me)
"But on the other hand, when a child calls an adult Mr. or Ms., it helps him recognize that status is earned by age and experience. It's also a reminder to respect your elders."

The absurdity of reading how young people feel so entitled from an article written by someone who thinks age influences status in mind boggling.

Status is a function of achievement. Experience is a rough proxy for achievement, so I can accept that they might be referencing the same thing here.

But if you ask me how your earn status, age doesn't factor in. I don't care how many hours you've put in on this planet. You earn my respect by doing things, and the best way to earn my highest respects is by doing something great.
The whole thing reads like a recycled press release, light on meaningful details heavy on fluff, kinda like a marshmallow!
I've tried sitting on the Salli Twin (http://salli.com/eu/Frontpage) for a few minutes and am seriously contemplating buying one soon. It made me sit proper and comfortable from get-go. On normal (even expensive) office chairs I tend to numb my lowerback/legs at some point of the day.

Bonus: It's also been built with men's genitals in mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HIt3D7Ivfc).
Google owns youtube, if they convert youtube to use VP8 then plenty of others will follow and it will be a de-facto standard.

Real world comparisons between codecs would be the ideal way to settle this but with the 800 pound gorilla behind it VP8 stands a good chance even without such comparisons. If 'it works' in the eyes of the majority of the users then that means it is good enough, even if the underlying tech is marginally better or worse then H.264.

I'd expect google to try to do a good job at least, and since they have H.264 to shoot for they would be foolish not to use their extensive library of videos for comparison purposes.
It's a shame this viedo has only has 7,000 hits in a little less than a﻿ year. Everybody really ought to see this
Nice tutorial. Backtrack 3﻿ is capable of so much more than just Wireless Cracking witch everyone seems to demonstrate (A bunch of hacker wanna bee's) . In the right hands BT is a very powerful hackers tool and nothing can stand agents its awesome mite ! Nice tutorial
"Also, having less stuff actually makes me happier too."

I've noticed this too. In addition to increasing cognitive load, stuff also tends to accumulate emotional baggage over time. (E.g., when your towels remind you of your ex-gf or whatever.) Just going through the house and throwing stuff out every couple years is profoundly therapeutic.
"To me it seems absurd that much of the medical establishment would regard the unhappiness a recently bereaved person as a chemical imbalance or a symptom of illness"

Reminds me of a quote, "The serotonin theory of depression is comparable to the masturbatory theory of insanity." -David Healy
My first viewing of The Century of Self some years ago clearly marks a turning point in my understanding of the world and how it truly operates. I have learned so much since﻿ then. No one can take our liberty without us allowing it.
I would even hesitate calling it a master's degree. I did a bachelor in software engineering, and this is exactly the kind of stuff we had to learn.
I'd be okay stripping the title of "human" from rapists and murderers.
If it's because of Mr Rogers, how do you explain the same phenomenon in countries which didn't have Mr Rogers?
Why all great apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes, but we only have 23
Relax. Just grow some crops on Farmville and don't worry so much.
Hey, I'm yousing a VMware with back track and I have a problem with I dont know how to solve. I try to do it on my network and it did great, but when I try﻿ to do it on my friend network it didnt work and I dont know why. Do I have to clearit first or something?
Not bankable is the operative term! There are no principals with any related education or financial experience. Explains the present results, n'est ce pas?
I took my cheap office chair and remove the back and the arms. It forces me to sit straight. I usually have these extreme back muscle pains. I still need another 2 weeks to really tell if it helps.
What's the obsession with these random stars...?
I want your thoughts, because I think the only way I'm ever going to understand this...is with your help.

Leave a comment if you have an idea?
4.4.4.4 was what they originally wanted to set up DNS on (The guys behind 4.2.2.[1-6] that is ...) however those are not Verizon's or GTE's name servers, there is no resolver running on that IP address, it is on 4.2.2.2, and they are Level 3's name servers which they anycast for use on their network by their customers.

For a bit of the history behind it check out this site: http://www.tummy.com/Community/Articles/famous-dns-server/

Using the DNS server is not suggested, since it is not officially a public DNS server, and Level 3 could cease the service at any time (in all likelihood that is very slim, since they have been telling their customers to use them for years now). Since they are anycast it will reach the closest server to your location when you query that DNS, and as such using it shouldn't be too big of a deal, whether you are a customer or not.
Correlation is not causation :P. Mr. Rogers is more likely just another symptom of the "everybody is special" culture underlying this. Personally, I think it's less to do with upbringing and "positive self-esteem" and more to do with a (globalised western) culture of celebrity and narcissism. Less Mr. Rogers than American Idol, in my opinion.
I run a dnscache (djbdns) local DNS cache on my gateway and it caches most of the DNS entries I need on a daily basis so getting results back is much faster than getting them from google.

With a local DNS cache on my network for the same domain name I get replies within 30 or so milliseconds, with Google's DNS servers there is at least another 60 ms or so required for the round trip, making most of the queries take 90 ms. Now that may not seem like a lot, and most likely I will spend more time waiting on a website to load, but in the long run it does make a difference.
I figured they were at best trying to avoid controversy. I'm reminded of how the old Star Trek was progressive and boundary-pushing for its time, even though some episodes have questionable connotations and attitudes about women (and they're all required to wear miniskirts and go-go boots to work!)
This is very hard, especially if the Chinese install a kill switch in the silicon.
Hi, I am a traveler from the future!

My telephone is more powerful than all the computers of your world put together.

I use this power to run a program that simulates a lighter on the screen of my phone.
Publisher to Release Philip K. Dick’s Insights Into Secrets of the Universe
What's the advantage of chip + PIN over stripe + PIN?
Up-voted even though I don't think you are 100% correct. Its not so much a thesis that is needed, but something similar.

For example, I am embarking on an intensive self-study course, in a lot of different subjects. Instead of a thesis, I have given myself a bunch of objective, observable outcomes. These are 'things' that can be observed and/or measured objectively.

Due to the fact that I have a lot of varied subjects I want to learn/understand more about, I decided the best way to make my learning more efficient is to combine subjects as much as possible into these OO outcomes. Here are a couple of the outcomes I am working on, with the subjects that relate to them.

Herb Garden: Biology, chemistry(making own fertilisers etc) agriculture history, hydrology, genetics, molecular gastronomy, design and geometry

Risk-like game of different time eras: Military history, python, databases, data visualizations, dashboard design, social network design, math- probability and statistics, cartography skills, 2D artificial intelligence(bots), application of a few books on mil strategy: Art of War, Book of 5 Rings, Warfighting, and On War.

I am hoping that by having concrete things to build, it will force me not only to learn the subjects needed, but to really get a proper understanding of them.

I have taking this path because I realized recently that I have been starting to become a "Cargo-Cult Programmer". I can build software and get results, but not really understand why the results are what they are. I would like to change that.

Edit: typo
I'm pretty sure I can remember this from the early '70 (I was born in '65) - for some reason the bit about Analog and Digital computers stuck in my brain....
The Wright brothers only got cracked down on because of a World War too. Hopefully we don't have to wait for such a dramatic catastrophe before the government reacts this time.
Among adults, what you're talking about makes sense. But I don't know many children who have earned much status.
Thanks, I suppose you mean the internal Google style. Curiously, in that Django thread I linked above, the next post mentions this: http://code.google.com/p/soc/wiki/PythonStyleGuide

Which is a style guide for the "SoC framework, and Melange web applications", updated Jun.2009; it does specify 2 spaces, duly noted as a difference from PEP-8.
But that opens up an obvious scam:

1. Buy something with your credit card

2. Sign with a false name

3. Contest the charge

4. Get a refund--keep the merchandise.
Clearly that's not true. They do sue people (they list them on their website) and yet, as discussed here, they don't sue everyone who breaks the ridiculously over-broad terms. That implies a choice.

Then how do they discriminate here? I don't know, but it's not dictated by RAND terms which are often not reasonable either. Currently they also discriminate against smaller companies due to yearly caps on fees, and discriminate against certain business models e.g. subscription TV pays distribution fees, ad supported Hulu doesn't. That last one is clearly a decision made to mess with competition in a market with fewer barriers to entry while cementing lock-in in other areas.
If you're relying on MPEG-LA being reasonable then you'll be disappointed to hear that they are now patent trolling:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1306309

That's not hyperbole, and it's not the same as chasing RAND patent fees on standards as they have previously done. They're just patent trolling the same as any other non-practicing entity. Currently suing HTC, RIM and Apple for smartphone patents.

The solution, as noted already in this thread, is for governments to ban fees on standards, just as they currently don't allowy non-RAND fees on standards. China is pushing heavily for this and MPEG are at least appearing to consider it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1310388
Okay, how about sitting down on the floor with legs crossed and a small portable desk for your computer? This is exactly how I'm sitting now, and it's less painful than sitting on the cheap $20 plastic chair I own.
Ways to get 100 potential customers for $5 a day
I always thought the best solution to all this is if we had multiple Facebook accounts, e.g. "Bob Smith (1)", "Bob Smith (2)", etc, and then invited family only to (1), close friends to (2), old high school classmates to (3), etc.

This way, if any of them posts something stupid on your wall, only that subgroup will know about it.

Then, of course, you'd need an app that lets you post the same status update on all your accounts.
Black kettles and pots come to mind.

While I cannot be sure that Jeffrey Zaslow is a Boomer or Gen Xer (the fuzzy dates around those eras makes it difficult to decide), this accusation of entitlement seems to be a Boomer message.

We're talking about a generation that, although its members had much less material amenities than us, they had an easier time getting ahead. Try buying a house as a young person now. When my dad was my age, he could support a family on his salary.

And given that the Boomers (and early Gen Xers) have just wrecked the world economy, I think there's more than a little hypocrisy here.

If the later Gen Xers and Gen Yers have a sense of entitlement, it's because they do as their elders do.
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Writing An Inspector Calls essay calls for in depth knowledge of JB Priestley’s socialist leanings and insightful observations of English society. Any student pursuing a degree in English Literature would do well to study the play in its entirety.
Calculus and other math courses, and languages both computer and human, are skills - you must practice them to actually be able to use them. Memorizing proofs, or equations, or words, will not teach you the subject - at most they will teach you about the subject.
In the first full year after chip & pin became mandatory in the UK card fraud in stores dropped by 47%. While retailers can still accept signatures, if they do so they are not guaranteed the funds. Before the change, if the signature matched then they got the funds regardless. Now the only way to be sure you get paid is to accept PIN authorised transactions.

What this article doesn't say is that a lot of stores ask for ID when paying by card... something that always surprises me; this NEVER happens at home.
>My company launches in about two months.

Be careful not to line yourself up for another fall. It sounds like you take your trials too much to heart and need to learn to make a bit of distance between what is genuinely important and 'worldly' successes.

I mean, just take care and don't get sucked into thinking your new venture is everything.
I think with a little preparation you can address all these concerns. It is possible to find a mentor online to act as an advisor, and if you (for example) found a start-up in the field you want to study, then you can partner with other 'researchers' (co-founders) and industry(customers) partners. If you are diligent enough to create a well rounded learning track for yourself, it shouldn't be a problem to also include the valuable things you mention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov
"Because everything is child-centered today, we're depriving children of adults," he says. "If they never see us as adults being adults, how will they deal with important matters when it is their world?"

My parents always kept the 'adult' things to themselves (usually in Spanish, which they neglected to teach me or my siblings). It was basically a disaster and I've been spending the years since high school educating myself on tons of those adult things that I never learned from them. I just hope I can avoid the same mistakes with my children.
Already done that, but for an entirely different reason. I realized that most "social media" websites are meticulously designed to get people hooked. The "Like" button, for instance, was not added to FB on a whim. It makes sure people keep posting new status messages and keep logging in every day (or shudder every few minutes) to see if someone liked them.

My hosts file currently blocks Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, among other websites.
What do you find is the problem with the MIT OCW? Personally I find it is a bit of a pain to work through their different tracks and to try to compile a complete list of materials, and put together a study program. I am also trying a logic course at https://oli.web.cmu.edu/ Not as many subjects there, but I like their approach so far.
In my experience of traveling to many non-US countries, I didn't really encounter the same kind of attitude. Which countries do you find also have the 'same phenomenon'?
Liquidation Preference (my case for 2x, non-participating)
Exactly. A prime example of this is in the school system with respect to teachers and how kids tend to treat them.
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I know three, one aged 16 now and two aged only 11, they impress the hell out of me.

The one holds his own in a community where the average age is at least three times his own and half the people there never clued in to his age, he's been there since he was 12 or so, the other two are so smart and wise for their age that the adults around them look like they're the children.

Here's to Angus, Jeremy & Raffi, if you find this comment in 20 years or so, know that I'm insanely proud of you guys, I'm pretty sure you will go very far.
I wonder if every generation of youths / young adults promise to themselves that they wont spout these pointless truisms "kids these day" when they are older.
It seems that Google's purchase of On2 already has effect because MPEG is seeking to develop a royalty free video codec.

Given that there is a desire for using royalty free video coding technologies for some applications such as video distribution over the Internet, MPEG wishes to enquire of National Bodies about their willingness to commit to active participation (as defined by Section 6.2.1.4 of the JTC1 directives) in developing a Type-1 video coding standard.
(Source: http://www.robglidden.com/2010/04/mpeg-resolution-on-royalty... )

Notice that they mention distribution over the Internet. MPEG has less potential competition in the broadcast sector.
Principles of Robust Timing over the Internet
My timer is set to a 10min break every hour. I think 3 times an hours is too frequent for me to concentrate on anything. Every time I get off from my computer it takes some time to regroup my thoughts and concentrate on my work and reach a state of "flow"