skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For whom on HN are pat downs intimidating and/or humiliating? I personally don't mind it at all, but I can understand that they could be a problem for somebody.

I'm much more worried about CCTV's everywhere, cell phone tracking, internet usage tracking, tracking cars with cameras on highways that read number plates, etc. All these tools are extremely well suited for keeping a dictator in place. I'm afraid that if we get one, then we're not getting rid of him any time soon.
like for the GMA500? :)
> Hire a trainer and pay in advance for 3 months so there's a penalty for not doing it.

Actually this is not a good motivator, find something you like, otherwise you end up with a 3 month (or a year :P) gym etc. pass and still not exercise. With this kind of forcing you might actually start hating exercise.
Just saw that a link to an article that included this video has been posted and is being discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1868505

#oops
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You may also want to add Melbourne. They get a bit touchy whenever there is a list of cities and they are not included.

(out of interest, are you using pytz?)
Your biggest risk is not shipping, use the tools that make you happy and productive to help get past that as quickly as possible. Solve the rest when you get there.
Without Canadian Skype in phone numbers, this still isn't a must-need application for 33 million folks.
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I doubt (very profoundly) that giving the source will result in better peer reviews.

I strongly agree with you on this point. The peer reviewer obviously won't have the time to check the code. But the very act of releasing the code will force the original author to be more thorough. In this sense, it will result in better, less buggy code, better results and better science.

Also, going one step beyond the peer reviewer, I think an interested party has the right to check the results for software and data bugs, given that we're in agreement that the peer reviewer probably won't have the time?

Another anecdote. We found a really interesting signal in a popular astro dataset, which would have put us on the frontpage of a few magazines for sure. After many sleepless nights, it turned out that it was a bug in the processing pipeline software. It took me an unreasonable amount of time to find the bug, because the software wasn't released, so I had to go hunting around for clues in the appropriate papers. (This was a very large survey, so there were tons of papers.) If we had higher software engineering standards, maybe this bug would not have made it into the production pipeline and pollute the dataset.
Disclaimer: I work for iSEC Partners and Chris Palmer has since left to work for Google. That shouldn't change the fact that the slide deck is awesome though.
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Hey just one small but really noticeable improvement:

When you change feed, and the "iframe"(or whatever it is) is loading the next page, you should fadeout the old one, and maybe (if possible) put a loading gif or similar until load completion.

That would make the interface far more responsive, since when i was clicking feeds to test, sometimes i didnt notice if the click was doing something or not, and that produces frustration along with multiple clicks (unnecesary work overload)

Cool app anyway! Wish you the best :)
I don't find that the Post-It Notes distract me at all, and I don't have to keep a notebook around to clutter my desk. For me, with notebooks sometimes it's out of sight, out of mind. Once you start using the system you hardly notice these things at all until you need them.

I do keep an additional notebook under my desk for calculation, or just trying to visualize an algorithm. Notebooks should generally be reserved for bigger and longer thinking, where you can also append the Post-It Notes to particular pages if you so require.
The major problem with UX is that many people from the UX industry are academics not designers.

This creates an unhealthy focus on users and too little focus on customers.

For anyone interested I wrote a lengthy essay speaking of some of the same things.

http://000fff.org/getting-to-the-customer-why-everything-you...
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To me this is just another reason (of many) that travelers should consider general aviation (charter, etc.) as an alternative to commercial airline travel.

The straight financial cost may be higher but avoiding all of this sort of nonsense has its rewards, and remember that most GA operators are locally-owned smallish businesses that appreciate your support and treat their passengers like customers and not like prisoners (or worse).
Yes, but it sounds like they're planning on charging for it!

Start your _free trial_ for group video calling beta

_one-to-one_ video calls and instant messaging are free
Additionally try picking some sort of substitute for the beer ritual, tea or taking a hot shower, something you already think of as relaxing that can mark the end of the stressful part of the day.

Edit: And whatever you do talk to your doc.
I would not call this an OSX Dock; at most it is a Dock that is remotely inspired by the one in OS X. The transitions are really different (Mac OS X uses more of a fish-eye zoom). Nonetheless cool that this works using only CSS :)

edit: I now read that Chrome doesn't handle it that well on Windows (which is currently all I have access to). Maybe it's me :)
Wales loses to Cayman Islands in battle for .cym domain
A four-year campaign to secure a ".cym" internet address for Wales has been lost to the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.

Distinctive national identity? International isolation more like.. .wales or .cymru is the worst idea in the world
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Welcome to the fifteenth edition of Be Inspired! There’s plenty of print, packaging, illustrator and videos to get your teeth into this week. I’ve introduced sources this time around as I feel it’s important to credit the site that I originally found the work on. Enjoy!
To help with that, start by setting a monthly budget for beer, and hold yourself to it. The budget cap could be the method for weaning the habit down: start with $50, then progressively move it downward each month. Based on your post, a $50/month cap would run out quickly, so you'd have to start rationing. Once you can accept a rationed cap, it just an act of reducing it over time.
Part of what Mr. Adams proposes is already happening. The fact that both parties are entering a period of 'splinter' is an indication that even those who identify with a party are not happy with the party in question. As this gets both stronger and more wide spread we should see more and more 'sub-splinter' groups form. This in turn will affect how the parent party is able to perform--- or more importantly not perform. Consider that the democratic party is still suffering from the 'rainbow' movement of some years back, this sort of behavior will certainly increase the entertainment value of modern politics. The new slogan could be 'More theater, less action!'...
Tell them to give you a $50 note. Take a lighter out of your pocket and burn that money in front of them and see how they react. Then tell them that you are not going to pay them back. See how they react.

If they remain cool throughout the ordeal, I reckon it's okay to take their money.

If they freak out, pay them back $50 and consider that the best $50 you ever spent because you possibly saved your relationship with your father/friend.

I reckon that burning money like that will make the possibility of losing it all much more real.

The reason I suggest $50 as opposed to a $5, $10 or $20 note is because it's just large enough to get most people riled up about but not so much to be consequential.

You might want to try a $100 note if you want a higher threshold.

Who knows if this crazy idea will work, but I'm curious what will happen. Consider it an experiment that you can later blog about to get traffic.
I have heard that same idea applied to the likes of Jordan or Jay-Z. Be out there taking shots from the foul line or write a 16 every day.

I haven't figured out how to translate that to writing code or building a product. What would it be: Write a for-loop everyday on some code kata type stuff? Write down a business idea once a day?
Talk to a medical doctor, not a counselor/AA/group therapy.

There are medicines which greatly treat the desire/need to drink, your doctor can suggest one which can help you change your life in the manner you'd wish to. They are far more effective than group based therapy.

Here are some:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism#Medications

Topiramate in particular sounds to be compelling for you (and many others) as you can still drink like a normal person on it, however you feel the need/desire to much less.

Many alcoholics are self medicating depressives or various other things which are solved by medications much less harmful over the longterm than alcohol. The fact you're drinking to avoid something might put you in that category.

Are you an alcoholic? Eh, maybe. Who cares. Are you drinking more than you like? Yes. Go see the doc, get the meds if you and he thinks it a good idea, and reduce that to the level you find acceptable.
> a bot which provides random citations base on key phrases... providing no thought and adding nothing to the discussion, by definition, he is providing noise.

The thought he's adding is pre-cached. He's making a time-memory tradeoff. A memoized factorial function is still a factorial function, and a well-referenced refutation is still a well-referenced refutation, whether it's typed live or recorded in a bot.
Distinctive national identity? International isolation more like.. .wales or .cymru is the worst idea in the world
I believe that the average is computed of all HN posts you have made. That means that it becomes harder and harder to change the average response, particularly if you have posted a lot. Your performance is locked in by your history and the law of large numbers.

It might make sense to have a time window on karma and have the average reflect the last 30 days or the last 100 posts or something of that ilk.
"Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions."

(http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2mail/mail40...)
I see your point here, but I guess for me I see that more as a formality than anything. While obviously someone found value in what I built I was lucky to an extent. It was a "right place,right time" situation and that is a very humbling thing to remember in this industry. I truly believe that for every good idea that makes it in tech probably 5 or 6 do not.
I wonder what's the Apple III doing...
isn't that what I do? :)
Kind of an absurd article. Last time I checked it cost about $6000 to fly a family of four from the U.S. to Cairo. If you're going to assume the reader can afford to fly anywhere in the world, why are you writing articles about how cheap a Peruvian taxi is?

It doesn't really matter if someone can afford the destination if they can't afford to get there.
Tell us more. How would I get to cancun for example?
One of the argument he makes is that everyone on the internet is an amateur psychologist, and that anonymity was the only prerequisite for a psych degree. He then used this to assume that people who called him self-centered had no basis for doing so. I was asserting the fact that he came across as self-centered, and I did, in fact, have a psych degree. His response wasn't a good argument, it was dismissing naysayers out of hand as not having expertise in the area. What will his response be to me? That I don't have a PHD? That I have never met him? If I met him, and still thought he was self-centered, would that change his mind? What about 50 people who meet him? Even if he knows he is not self-centered, if his perception is as such, wouldn't that warrant addressing outside of "no you guys don't understand me, you never met me, you guys are a bunch of amateur psychologists".

You do three things in your post: claim that I can't tell he's self centered, claim that self-centeredness isn't important, then call me self-centered. Which is it? Is it all three? If so, what does it matter that I think he's self centered, since it doesn't matter?

As for the final statement, I gave my opinion as to how I think his post could have helped more people, including me. Is it self-centered to lament that there could have possibly been a better way to go about the followup? Or should critique not be part of any article or post at all?
Almost no politician would ever vote for removing this awful "security" measure. They would risk being blamed when another incompetent terrorist mastermind passes security and hopefully gets stopped by, now much more vigilant passengers. Going to the courts seems like a good way around that - sue the TSA.

If someone with experience on these types of issues could comment I would be very interested to learn if this has any chance of removing those damn machines from airports.
a. There are many other ways to procrastrinate, so I wouldn't blame the beers for that.

b. health problems: you do seem to drink beyond what we can describe as "moderate", so this is a real issue.

It sounds like you should look for other ways to relax in addition to alcohol. And then cut back a little.
I was recently "retargeted" by Adroll by two different sites. http://www.adroll.com/retargeting

In terms of name recognition, it was very effective. I wasn't aware of the ad service and presumed the advertising site had a much greater revenue stream than it actually does in order to afford the omnipresent marketing campaign. Haven't seen much reference to this method here on HN.

(I am in no way affiliated with the AdRoll site)
Reasonable copyright term limits would go a long way towards solving this issue.
Yikes. What I liked about the previous version of skype was the relatively streamlined real estate. This version looks like a suburban mini mansion. On my macbook the new layout takes up half of the screen. Normally this would not be a problem if you can actually change the settings, font size, styling, or something. Haven't found out how to do that yet.

Rule of thumb for designers: Whitespace is your friend. But using it doesn't guarantee that your interface will be better.
No, adverts are almost always irrelevant for almost everybody. They are a necessary (and sometimes unnecessary) evil. Most of us don't look for something to buy all the time. When I read my mail or a blog or whatever, that huge burger and coke ad right in the middle of the screen is an irrelevant distraction.

When I have to watch that very same 30 second Hoodie Footie Pajamagram - the perfect way to snuggle up - segment before each and every 3m news video on CNBC it's a torture for my brain.

I wish more sites gave me a reasonable way to buy myself freedom from that "highly relevant" bloat.

[Edit] As a service provider, I appreciate the convenient excuse you provide for torturing my users ;-)
If you're 60 now, you don't necessarily have "decades to come", so the author's sense of urgency is understandable.
Has anybody received the rejection letter very soon after posting their submission in that table? I got it the next day. I don't even know if there were 24 hours between the two events :)
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A Faraday cage is, by definition, a conductive cage. You'll have a hard time getting a conductive material through a metal detector.

Your best bet would be to construct a garment from a material which is significantly absorbs/attenuates the extremely high frequencies (30GHz to 300GHz) used by these millimeter-wave imaging scanners. Normal clothing passes these waves with minimal attenuation, where they bounce off of your skin and return to the scanner. The scanner then uses these returned signals to reconstruct an image of your naked body for the TSA to examine. If your clothing instead absorbs most of this signal, or at least attenuates it significantly enough to fall below the dynamic range of the imager, the TSA won't be able to see much.

Absorbing millimeter-wave signals to a significant enough degree will require a relatively thick material. I typically use RF foam in the lab when I'm working on EMI compliance issues because it is cheap and easy to cut to size. Attenuation data is scarce for the EHF band, but ARC Technologies has a lossy flexible foam that has 25dB of attenuation at 40GHz ( http://www.arc-tech.com/lossyflexiblefoam.php ), which amounts to 50dB of round-trip attenuation from the imager to your skin back to the imager. 50dB loss means only 0.001% of the original signal will bounce back to the scanner.

Even more absorption can be had if you use pyramidal foam, much like you see in a typical antenna chamber. ( http://www.ets-lindgren.com/pdf/absorber.pdf ) Of course, this probably won't be the most comfortable garment you've ever worn.

Still, I would imagine wearing such a garment would immediately raise red flags and you would quickly find yourself in a back room with some unfriendly TSA agents. You're much better off opting out.
Alternatively, you can ask them if they would be okay giving you $100k to go to Vegas and bet on craps or roulette.

If you do decide to take their money, you next need to figure out if they would be good investors or not. Will they want them to have a say in how the business is run (i.e. voting rights)? If so, would you be okay with them participating in some fashion. If not, don't give them voting rights. If that means that they need to be given preferred shares, I would check with a lawyer to see what implications that has for future funding rounds.
You can always use it with Yahoo!'s s4 (released yesterday). http://wiki.s4.io/Manual/S4Overview
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Sometimes it's just habit. If you get in the habit of coming home, getting changed, and going for a run every day, then after a while you end up doing it without thinking. If you are in the habit of coming home, cracking a beer, and drinking it, you end up doing that without consciously thinking about it. TV can be the same way; how many sitcom reruns have you watched in the name of "unwinding"?

Try something else, be it exercise, a cup of tea, or reading. Change the tool that you use to smooth the edges.
I agree, especially with the tea part. I am a regular / heavy drinker in a very similar position to the OP, recently a friend stayed over and he drinks a LOT of tea, after two evenings with him I instinctively said "fancy a tea?" instead of "fancy a beer?".
Also even two beers can screw with your sleep, that's why I try to only drink on weekends :)
I'm reading Java persistence with Hibernate. Just don't realize ORM is like VietNam war.
You've made over a dozen posts in this discussion making factual claims without posting a single link to back up your assertions. Coupled with this ridiculousness: "I believe the left does not really care about people, especially poor people, at all" you can't seriously be miffed that people aren't putting in a lot of effort to refute your positions.
anxious to publish

Should be "anxious not to publish", or "anxious about publishing", I think.
"Picking up a chunk of iron just to put it back down again"

Then you sort of missed the point a bit. The point of the exercise is

a) to challenge your physical, and yes, mental limits in a ways nothing else in the modern world really does, and
b) master the form of the exercises, which can be surprisingly intricate, and
c) become stronger, moving on to ever more challenging weights.
I don't see how this is an issue. As a mathematician I get most of my actual work done in some kind of intoxicated state. If I'm not intoxicated and working I'm on some other substance. My work doesn't suffer...
Take the friends' money (it sounds like he could afford loosing it). Don't take your dads money (too much stress).
Must they buy something with their $51 Billion?
Hang on - in the US the candidate pays the headhunter?
With regard to your health, you're probably better off taking Ativan than drinking alcohol to take the edge off. Talk to your doctor.

Cheers
"Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html
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Oh, I found "make text smaller" under view. But this is context sensitive and not global. So now I have different conversations with different sized font. Who is designing this product?
Hey Samuel, I met you at the Hackers and Founders meet up in NY a week ago. I remember you telling me about Newsblur and so I took a look at it and I am very impressed and will continue to use it.

All the best to you and Newsblur
A classic! And please let us know what happened if you actually do this.
Yep, I did the same thing for drinking Cokes and it was easy to stop, even though I use to drink 2+ a day. You can still get a beer (or coke) when you go out, but when won't do it often if you are cheap like me.
Wow! Historical pictures of famous people and links to the clothing they wore. Which you can actually buy.

Some serious work has gone into this. And it doesn't even seem to be monetized - the links are without any affiliate referrer information
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Al Qaeda are incompetent morons. PIRA were fucking scary.

I kinda-sorta agree: suicide bombing's a pretty stupid way to go about things, as it means you wipe out all your capable terrorists after only one go. The IRA didn't have that problem - well, intentionally at least.
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And then you get tiny text with tons of whitespace around it...

There is an option for style, currently set to 'Panamericana', but I've had no luck finding any other styles online.
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Not to turn this into NewsBlur tech support, but is there some way to see recent unread posts from all my feeds, in chronological order, without having to click around on the left sidebar?

That is basically my single mode of operation in Google Reader. I'm sort of surprised that I can't do it trivially because I thought that everyone used RSS readers that way.

Other than that, the UI is pleasant, though.
Seriously? Of the 33 million Canadians: How many know what Skype is. Of those that do, how many know what a Skype-in number is? Of those, how many care if they have a Skype-in number?

Admittedly, the number is pulled out of a hat, but I would guess maybe 5000 Canadians.
There ought to be a rating somewhere about how wildly a company tends to veer, and how often, when corporate re-strategizing kicks in, specifically in regards to APIs and deployment. MS in particular seems to be pretty schizoid that way, at least in the consumer space. (People were also bitching about Facebook and its APIs in that regard recently, no?) Say what you will about Flash, but I have unfinished games from 2006 that I could still safely release tomorrow without issue.