skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't follow the train of thought there.

I was ascribing (in a tongue-in-cheek manner) empathy issues to the person who was against these games. Not the people who play these games.

Thank you for playing.
is that impossible to work for Apple in California and bring a device with webbrowser that imitates this:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_0 like Max os X) AppleWebKit/546.1 (KHTML, like Gecko); 4096x3072
Apple won ruling and can Forced Motorola to Destroy its All Phone
Elegant web forms: Wrap up and example
Can they deliver me a burrito?
I actually think a bigger problem is not the fear of violence leaving the screen and coming into daily life, but that we increasingly see violence as 'that things that happens behind a screen, its pretty entertaining'. I have no data to back this up, but the general population certainly seems to be more 'meh' about US military actions abroad. I think your father's reaction was responding to the issue that you've trivialized and turned into a game something that should be horrific, or at least unpleasant.

It reminds me of a piece on NPR about family members of the victims of homicide. One person pointed out that it's common fun to host "murder mystery parties" but nobody would ever think of hosting a "rape mystery party". Similarly Grand Theft Auto is fine, but Rapelay is highly controversial. Obviously part of the reason we're less sensitive to some types of violence is because we have less violence (I think many people have a friend that was raped, but very few have a friend who was murdered). However, even if this detachment comes from an increase in non-violence there are still effects of increasingly conflating violence with entertainment.
And that is why they made stuff like browserid:

- UI is slick

- you don't need to remember to carry your certificate around, because while you complain about the UI do you think average joe who's scared by the preference button will actually .. copy his cert and carry it around? Please, get f. realistic for a moment, that is the real major useability issue.

- it uses certs to authenticate to sites as well

basically browserid provides a third party to store and manage certs for you and you can request them from anywhere without knowing anything about computing or security.
You may be interested in Dave Grossman's "On Killing": http://www.amazon.com/On-Killing-Psychological-Learning-Soci...

Grossman is a Psychology professor at West Point (or was when he wrote this), and a former Army Ranger, although he never saw combat. His conclusion is actually similar to the author of this piece. First, he argues, with evidence, that humans have a pretty high disposition to not kill each other unless there is an immediate threat to themselves or loved ones. The evidence he uses to support that claim are the no-fire rates among front line soldiers in World War I and II. I think the stat he found was only about 20% of infantry in trenches shot their weapons. The fire rate among infantry by the Vietnam era was about 95%, and it had steadily increased up to that point. He claims that modern infantry training are responsible for this firing rate, that one of main points of modern infantry training is to get a solider to fire their weapon when instructed.

He also talks about PTSD, and that the amount of people who do not get some form of PTSD from front-line combat is about the same amount of people who have sociopathic tendencies. He then posits that these are the same people who tend to seek out special forces. And the author of the linked piece was, I think, talking mostly about special forces.

In the end, Grossman makes some extrapolations to media, and causation between violent media and actual violence. I don't think he supports that claim well. But if you've ever heard his name before, it was because of those claims. He was a whipping boy in the videogame press because of it, but I think his other work is interesting.
Why is this voted down? It's accurate.
Sure. Early on, it was a scraper that pulled down usenet content and rebranded it as its own with ads over the top.

I first found them via a Google search on my own name, to discover that in addition to comp.sci.*, I'd also been answering questions there.
> If society tells you to go kill somebody and you do, you can't be a sociopath.

That doesn't make sense. If society asked for volunteers to torture someone, the first to step up would very likely be a sociopath.
There's a lot of bullshit in Hurt Locker, but the scenes where he's grocery shopping aren't.
Project Lumberjack to improve Linux logging
Mailgun Campaign Analytics: taking analytics beyond bulk email
Show HN: OpenSignalMaps.com Redesign + NetworkRank
There are probably a few people who choose to become military contractors because they are sick individuals that enjoy killing their fellow man

'Sociopath' has become unfortunately loaded word. I certainly don't think of a serial killer or sadist when I see that term, but rather someone who is emotionally and socially detached from their surroundings, out of ongoing necessity as much as anything else. It's callous indifference as opposed to cruelty, just as people who work on industrial farms and in slaughterhouses are acclimatized to their rather unpleasant jobs, as opposed to hating animals or glorifying in their suffering. The sociopathy described here is the mindset of 'nothing personal/just business' taken to its logical conclusion: one might say that the US has a comparative economic advantage in the projection of military power, this military contractor is essentially one of many service workers to whom we (as society) have outsourced some of our morally unpleasant tasks.
Is Email Registration Needed for MMO Games?
If it were possible to:

1) Synchronise the certificates automatically between every computer in the world;

2) Change user; and

3) Create multiple identities,

I think this would indeed be used on a huge scale already. Traditional accounts do all of this: you can log in to your Gmail account from any computer in the world. You can sign out of your Gmail account and sign in with a different user. If you are feeling paranoid or scared about having no backup Gmail address, you can create a secondary account.

Now you are probably able to use multiple certificates and maybe switch between them, but none of this has been made user-friendly. So that is the crux, browser builders (Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, and--a bit later on--Google) just didn't pick this up.

Still though, the first problem would remain. But don't I remember entering a password for my self-signed SSL certificate which I created for my Apache webserver? Couldn't you do something like that and generate a certificate based on a password? Like signing up for a website, only on browser level and for every website at the same time?

Maybe there is actually future in this after all. This sounds good to me at least!
btw you should also check: http://techism.de

we try to aggregate all TechEvents in Munich there
I had the same thoughts. In my experience, exponential growth in stock price is unsustainable, and usually results in a correction. Since the question is really how long do we have until a correction, I would say two to four weeks.
TL;DR - Don't buy now.
How common is it for someone in the UK to drop out of school at 16?
Sure.

The problem is in the way some companies set deadlines. A bunch of people come up with everything they could possibly want. They pick an insane deadline. People point out that it's impossible. That is, a 0% chance of success. Revisions happen, ending when nobody can prove the the date is impossible. Now they have a 1% chance of success.

A saner approach is the one I first learned from Extreme Programming. Basically, you take every feature that anybody could want and put it on an index card. You put the index cards in order of importance. Do them one at a time, and make sure you have something releasable every week. The first version will be terrible, of course, but eventually the pain of releasing gets smaller than the pain of not releasing.

Using this approach I've happily been very early for deadlines. Sometimes we moved the date up; sometimes we kept the original date and just kept doing less important things. I get to keep coding while product people fight over which cards go where, because I just care about what's at the top of the stack.

I'm at the point now where we don't even talk about deadlines. We put things in order, we do 'em, and we release as soon as possible. We don't do formal estimates; we just keep the cards small (average ~0.5 days, maximum 3 days). That saves a lot of wasted time and stress.
Now some love for us Linux guys and I would be so happy.
If I understand your question..

You can prepare waves in such a way that forces them into this spiraled waveform state. This can be done in a cavity (in the case of lasers) as there are solutions of the wave equation that give rise to OAM; or this can be done by using diffractive optics, like a hologram, that somewhat force the wave into this state. It is this case that you can think of a torque being exerted onto the waves.

Waves too, can exert torque on small particles (micron sized polystyrene spheres for instance). Light with spin or orbital angular momentum can be used to make these small object rotate!
The idea is to build up reflexes. When someone comes at you with a beer bottle, you're not thinking "Ok, this is Attack Pattern Delta, therefore I execute Hip Throw #3." You simply react.
Are we all really just Craigslist?
The WSJ op-ed got quite a bit of play here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3523554

This refutation is particularly noteworthy because it is authored by Yale economist William Nordhaus, whose work the sixteen cited in one of their main arguments. He takes them to task for a misconstruing his research and bungling basic cost/benefit analysis.
as much as i <3 the Niederlassung, for a meetup it is a bit to loud. May i suggest the CouchClub instead, it's in the Klenzestrasse
This is truly fascinating. In case it's useful for anyone besides me: I searched for the article and came up with [1]. Haven't read it yet, though.

Thanks so much for being so tremendously forthcoming about what you've been through. As I'm sure can be inferred from my first response to you, yes, I'm going through a similar place, and I really appreciate your willingness to share your experiences and empathize.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6063/1731
Yay Codes
@haacked and @xpaulbettsx (recent-ish hires at GitHub) are working on it http://herdingcode.com/?p=384
Yup, plus you have the issue of users gettng a new machine and being totally lost.

Or owning 2 machines.

I suppose you could help that a bit. i.e. have a cert used for authentication, if it is not present then ask for the users info and offer to create a cert for next time.
the speed of light is independent of the angular momentum...
c is still c :)
I used Github for Mac for quite a while, and just got fed up with stability recently and switched to SourceTree, but I've never looked back. ST does everything I could ever want, and does it extremely well. Not that there's no room in the world for another quality git client, but after using ST, Github for Mac at this point just sort of feels like "My First Git GUI".
Give a heads up for the guys at http://hackful.com/
actually there is an initiative that trys to proof that right now: http:// isarnetz.com
Yes. Is there any reason why US intelligence services wouldn't want a backdoor at that level? They are technically feasible, they promise to offer access that's difficult to detect and difficult to thwart. So there's an obvious incentive there.

What are the downsides? Well, for one thing, it might be illegal. Is it? Merely installing a backdoor could be illegal, but I sort of doubt it is. The hardware company might be compliant, or the backdoor could be installed covertly. That might make a difference.

And of course making use of the backdoor could be illegal. US citizens or other people on US soil might enjoy (various degrees of) protection against activities. But I get the impression that the rest of the world is pretty much fair game for US services. The fact that US citizens are protected is brought up again and again in such discussion and doesn't inspire me with a lot of confidence.
I've been crowing about these issues for months now. They have built something that solves a problem (getting the important thing in the image in focus) that has been better solved by multiple other means (AF, hyperfocal distance + high DOF) without the extremely adverse side effects (super low resolution, bad low light performance from the sensor). Then they invented a new problem (the desire to switch between two important subjects after the fact), that for some reason gadget bloggers fell in love with. Gimmicks should not masquerade as revolutions.
My concern, now that we know that it is THAT easy to block websites, I wonder how many more sites can be blocked in the next couple of months due to accidents. It is all automated, no human oversight after one guy presses the button to censor. Especially if none of those 8000 sites file a charge.
Thought you'd be right at home in gitk and git gui ;-)
I had to strip of the www for it to work, need to fix your url or your webserver settings.

I like the animation, good points to get my interest. the background was odd, throwing stuff in the air in an empty field? think about that. How about something like a lightbulb over your ipad or something saying doccaster "sharing" or something - with a bunch of lightbulbs over disperse folks in a crowded room?

So you have to have your potential clients load up some app in order to access. Then it is limited by time and range... I guess that is a good thing if it is paid conference materials that you want stricter control over distribution...

So I take it you would have to create some sort of flyer or brochure on how potential clients can setup and sign into doccaster in order for them to access your stuff then? (cue the cute animation of people grabbing your flyer and throwing it in the trashcan) Will it work on my Linux laptop? or my Blackberry? etc. requiring an app will be limiting.

Document presentation/management is a great thing, but I think you have put in a few stumbling blocks to "gotta have it" adoption. I think you would get better results with a web portal where accounts are accessed like www.doccaster.com/mybizdocs which presents a graphical brochure rack to click and choose documents. Distributors could put that address on a card with friendly easy to read type "the Iludium Q35 Space Modulator: www.doccaster.com/q35info" five words and an address (maybe a graphic of it on the back of the card) just enough not to loose the attention of an ADHD executive.

But then again, you don't have the geographic control... but would you via a laptop either?
They're not insane though. Client certs, like ssh keys, aren't the whole storey. Users don't use the same browser all the time. How do you move a cert securely? How do you "move" a cert at all given that peer-to-peer transfer between devices basically hasn't worked for common users since the end of the floppy disk (seriously: try asking your aunt to copy a big PDF file from her computer to her iPad without broadband).

Someone needs to do this in the browser. You'd need to put a (escrowed!) keyphrase on the cert, back it up to the cloud securely, associate it with the user's account in such a way that they can get to it. And then enough browsers need to support it to make it worthwhile. That's a tall order.
There is a reason why Google IPOed using dual class stock.
The last time I tried to get apache to do authenticate with client certs it was an absolute nightmare.
PHP 5.4.0 ships with 126 failing tests. Why bother having a test suite?
A bit scary but very cool.
Trigger Rally - WebGL racing game in your browser
SchoolBASIC - SHOWHN - create online study guides for your students
IPL 5 Venue List, Stadiums List
2012 IPL will be played around India with different stadiums and venues. It will be the Home and Away format this time for all the teams. There are different IPL Venue in season 5 in cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Dharamsala & Visakhapatnam.
How is this different than iFixit.com's offering?

Sometimes I wonder about the YC investments on things that I just dont find all that novel, or revolutionary...

I mean - I guess its cool because they expanded/franchised out to college campuses or something, but I don't find this to be particularly interesting.

It would seem that they must have sold a grander vision to YC; "We will be the Geek Squad of college campuses, everyone on campus has a machine and a phone!" -- there is a real business there, sure, but I am not very excited about it.

Even coming from a career IT background, commoditizing helpdesk/repair and deploying an army of iTech's to college campuses just doesn't interest me.

I am sure that this could make a lot of (boring) money in the future though, so good for them.
kmontrose of StackOverflow informed me in his comment that this in fact was not their intention at all. Futhermore, they don't use any of their user's Facebook profile data. I now realize it was a bit of a stretch to say that Stack Overflow engineered their UX in this manner.

Regardless, the strong password requirement DID convince me to sign in using my Facebook credentials, and I'm sure it will convince others as well. In conclusion, I think a very strong password could actually funnel users into signing in with 3rd party credentials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHNrqPkefI

The crowd wasn't happy at all when Steve Jobs announced about the partnership with Microsoft. I guess they would have looked back, especially in the last few years when Apple has done so well, and thought that it was indeed a good decision on Steve's part.

Edit: The talk about the partnership starts at around 26 mins into the video.
No, because on Craigslist your listing may be arbitrarily flagged, with no reason, support, or accountability. The helpful suggestion is to ask on the CL support forum, which appears to be populated almost entirely by evil trolls.
this. psychiatric issues, in whatever form they may present, are (a) not really diagnosable from a blog post and (b) often treatable and result in a good quality of life. go and seek professional help. get a referral from a medical professional, not friends or family.

"Eat slow burning carbs"... seriously?
Apple: We're responsible for 514,000 American jobs
The phome ismt what's insecure though in this case. We're talking about the security of the servers that these apps are sending data to. For some reason people think about phones differently than any PC running whichever OS. If the app store didn't exist and we got smartphone apps the way we all used to (and to large degree still do) download PC programs I doubt anyone would be upset with Apple. All the blame would be solely on the app developers. Apple polices the app store and locks down iOS a lot as it is. If Path were a native Mac or Windows program and it was accessing data from other programs we'd all be screaming that it's some kind of spyware. We'd probably sayng that Path itself should be asking permission to access data, not the OS. But because we have the app store and have come to have this strange relationship with Apple where we bitch about how locked down the devices are but at the same time want them to protect us from apps like Path we're placing some responsibility on Apple. I don't think it's right. We need to decide if we like our locked down devices or if we want Apple to stop playing babysitter for us.
> When I speak of a civilized society it is in comparison to other societies.

That's exactly what I did, I compared the Mongol empire to early medieval countries in Europe (Franks and Poland) which I definitely consider civilized, though as you mention not all are equally civilized. There is no tautology here.
BroserID looks neat, but doesn't it rely on using external JS to hit browserid.org?

I'm generally not in favor of adding additional 3rd party dependencies to my websites.
Peter Thiel Answers Student Questions at the ISFLC 2012
If someone tells me in person to "go fuck yourself," fine, that's a normal turn of phrase in my neck of the woods. "Please kill yourself now" is going to lead to an immediate knuckle sandwich, though, unless I don't have the balls to do it. I will try to make an exception to this if it happens when I'm travelling in Europe.
Google vs. the Film Geeks
I got one of her nanoseconds at a talk when I was in HS. It lived on my bulletin board for a good long time.

Not mentioned in the article, but in her talk (at the time anyway) was that a picosecond is about the size of a pepper flake. She had a packet of those, but they're less durable to give out.
It appears you are correct. [1] I was always taught that it was Jesus' way of telling his followers to obey the earthly laws (pay yo' taxes) only inasmuch as they do not conflict with the laws of Heaven.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar...#Modern_in...
Also, there is a demo here:
http://www.schoolbasic.com/demo.html
You're assuming obedience to lawfully delegated authority (ie a chain of command) as the high water mark of societal norms, and reasoning from the perspective that sociopath should be pathologically opposed to anything societal, sort of like the unabomber. But one could be alienated from society in general - in the sense of peaceful civilian life - without totally rejecting all social institutions. In that case, you might be content to work in a war zone and maintain only the most basic connections with family, colleagues and so forth.
I didn't downvote, but it just seems silly to me to accuse Apple of revisionist history. I think they're a lot more interested in the future than the past.

Apple at that point in history was very close to going out of business, Jobs said that himself. Nobody pretends otherwise. I don't think they are trying to foster any illusions that Apple was anything but a very sick, very poorly-run company in those days.
I suggest anyone intrigued by this pick up a copy of LCol. Paul Grossman's work: On Killing.
If it's related or not - I upvote this because this was an eye-opener when I started to learn programming. Definitly worth reading.