skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order:

As I said, there are reasonable answers, and I'm ignorant of your life, but if you want my view: you should not be part of that system, not because I disagree with it, but because it's wrong. I acknowledge that I may be wrong to think so. "Oh, you think so?" is a distraction from any actual points at issue.

If you've pushed back against particular acts of snooping, then thank you for that. I did not know you're personally involved in particular acts; that's a different moral question than writing an automated system. Note that "better you have ME" is what you'd expect Nazi collaborators to say. You're not a Nazi collaborator, but it shows the at-best ambiguous advantages of this sort of involvement.

Most people trust their own judgement. According to Dunning/Kruger that's weak evidence of a problem rather than positive evidence you're doing good.

In Feynman's autobio he said he regretted keeping at work on the bomb after the Nazis went down. They were all so invested by that point it didn't even occur to them to quit. IIRC that was part of why he chose to turn down work for the feds in general over the rest of his career.
Zurb is definitely the way to go. It is a great product.
A shim to handle common tools and remap the options would be feasible.
While statistics are certainly abused an misunderstood, I don't think that small sample sizes are the worst problem. The media usually reports margins of error, and most people know small samples may not represent the population.

I think a much larger problem is in the underlying assumptions that are made. For instance, assuming that an experiment on animals can be applied to humans (sometimes it can, sometimes it can't). These can be more nuanced and much harder to detect than a simple math error.

Also, the importance of truly random sampling is not emphasized enough. Even medical researchers are guilty of using international cluster sampling to make generalizations about the population. Overlooking sources of bias like geography, culture, lifestyle differences, etc.
We use fontawesome as well, it makes your site look much nicer.

You can also use http://retinajs.com/ to scale stuff up if you want.
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where have all the Linux netbooks gone?

my requirements for a Laptop are:

- it must be cheap, $300 is fine, because a Laptop can easily be stolen, or damaged.

- it must be light, less than 2lbs, because I don't own a car, and still want to carry my laptop around

- it must boot Linux from network to boot into backup cycle.

- the hardware must be 100% supported by free drivers.

- it should not bundle a Microsoft tax.

I don't care much about the preinstalled OS. I'll replace it anyway. I see no sense in bundling a spyware Ubuntu, and even less in some cloud service crapware on a developers laptop. I don't know if other developers think similar, but I fear that the hyped Sputnik will just give Dell the excuse to abandon Linux laptops again, because of low sales.

The class of $300, 2lbs Linux laptops created fear for Intel and Microsoft instead. Thats why they are no longer sold.
Excellent. Reminds me of the lecture describing that "the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function"

http://youtu.be/F-QA2rkpBSY
Right, since it is a legal licensed redistribution it seems logical to me that the situation is not as simple as it just being another publication of the same work. It is a licensed re-performance of the same content, but my understanding is that it is a separate legal entity (something that the legal owner of the original work agreed to upon licencing.)

So the Asimov estate has no beef with the BBC, since all licensing was done there, the BBC presumably has no beef with archive.org users, and the Asimov estate has no beef with archive.org users because it is not their place to.
> Given an undirected graph, in which you need to calculate the shortest path between two vertices, would you slog it out or would you just find a shortest path algorithm?

Probably just find an algorithm. This is because my goal was not to learn about shortest path algorithms, rather it was to find the shortest path. Whichever algorithm I chose and however I implemented it is of minimal concern - if it turns out to be bad, I can probably redo it without significantly affecting any other part of the program. I claim that, if, on the other hand, you wanted to learn about shortest path algorithms, it would be better to first at least try to think of a solution or two, then go for the books.

Speaking of software architecture, given the profound impact a solution will have and how disastrous bad choices can get, it should be your goal to learn about whatever you're dealing with.
If that were a licensed derivative work, I assume that would be okay.

Also transcribing the radio series would get you the same story, but not the same book.
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Read this, should be of interest to you:

http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
We added Panopticlick-inspired user fingerprinting to SnowPlow recently - as far as we know, we're the first analytics package to make user fingerprinting generally available. If you're interested in the implementation, it's here:

https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/blob/master/1-trackers/...

I'm skeptical of its utility on its own - though when you add timezone, IP address and screen resolution, it may start to get mostly-unique.

Anyway we're waiting on some of out bigger users (millions of page views per day) to report back on its uniqueness - should be interesting...
Selling a website for charity
http://github.com/rwdaigle/adj - but beware that the stack may be highly volatile at this stage.
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and which laws will be enforced, or ignored by the reigning excecutive
> Whether Apple wants to kill this , support it or be indifferent would I suppose depend on whether they feel threatened by Linux on the desktop.
They may even be happy to push people who are unhappy with the "iOSification" of Apple towards Linux in the future.

Given Apple's behavior in the past and in other areas, I would be very, very surprised if they were to condone (let alone promote) anything even remotely resembling OS X applications on another system.

While I don't think either outcome is likely, I'd be more willing to bet on them invoking some absurd copyright law to try and prevent this kind of work from happening (something along the lines of Oracle vs. Google).
I would be interested in learning whether this issue is universal for all men, or specific to men of certain demographics. Anyone have any insight?
Any dismissal on my part was probably in response to your near-wholesale dismissal of intuition. I thought I was being clever by using my intuition directly as a case in point relevant to the conversation to demonstrate that it is useful for sensing and hence understanding other people's feelings. I wasn't very nice about it, I certainly wasn't clear, and I was also wrong about the feeling. I apologize.
As an avid Asimov reader, I'd be curious what specific elements you're talking about. I'm not as familiar with the Stars Wars universe (I've watched the original trilogy a few times, and the first two from the new trilogy).

Aside from various themes common to storytelling form time immemorial, I don't really see what you're talking about.
Dropbox is also somewhat of an enterprise sales play now. I am sure they have a decent sized sales team to get more companies onboard with teams accounts.
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Well, a lot of those people are going to die before long if they don't do something to change the destructive aspects of their culture.

So I'd say it's worth it (though highly infeasible).
I love it when people say things like this without providing specifics. Not sure what you guys are talking about. The UI is the same and it seems to work just as well or better for me.
> If you had to federate identities between two directories, would you hack something together

Right, that "try it yourself" part can get very big and impractical. But the idea still stands: it would be better if you first tried to think how a solution would look like and what it would do, in very general terms. Are the two systems very similar and a solution would be little more than mapping one thing onto another? Or are the systems very different and complex translations would be have to be performed?

Once you do that, you can have a look at any existing solutions, and almost certainly you'll have a better understanding compared to if you didn't do the thinking part first.

It is also important not to switch the order of "thinking" and "looking". If you first look for existing solutions, then your thinking will be biased by what you have seen.
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Try Statistics for dummies I and II. That should cover the general stuff. Then find books about specific topics you want to learn about.
You know what my favorite rite of manhood was? Taking a sharp rock and slicing the bottom of your penis. You should try it.

Source: Joseph Campbell.
I haven't taken it, but I've heard good things about Udacity's Statistics 101 course.
Simple: CloudFlare doesn't charge for bandwidth, CloudFront does.

See: http://www.couldflare.com/plans
Comedians don't have to be fair, but humorists do.
> Most people have never created most kinds of things. Most people don't want to and are not good at it.

Why do you say this? Almost everyone I know makes SOMETHING and they normally like doing so and are proud of their creations. It could be a batch of cookies from a personal recipe, a well crafted letter to a newspaper, a hand knit bedspread, or a nicely decorated living room. People are making things all of the time!

They might not be making things professionally or for distribution, but to say that they don't want to and are not good at it is very short sighted.
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actually, darling is based on maloader. (or, at least, uses parts of its code)
Nice exposition and examples. Some of the most subtle and surprising phenomena I've seen in looking at stochastic data have been due to sampling effects.
Here's the torrent for the lazy: http://archive.org/download/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy...

It's very much alive, and fast, but nevertheless, seed if you can.
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We clearly know different people. I worked with plenty of people that won the Microsoft lottery, and to say they changed would be understating it.
Not sure what the grand parent is referring to. The one instance I can think of capital city = coruscant.

On a related note, I recently watched the Dam Busters. I was shocked to see the origins of the death star trench run in an old b&w WWII movie.
They put a better screen in the Dev XPS 13 and it will replace my MBA as fast as they will let me place an order.
Oh--suddenly I understand the economics of "the book of the movie of the book" books!
Xmas gift giving used to be something you did for children and poor people. As the world got wealthier, we commercialized the hell out of it. Or, more accurately, businesses commercialized the hell out of it, as a means to milk their customers for money.

I gave up doing much, if anything, for Christmas years ago. I am not really an entrepreneur, more like a wannabe entrepreneur. But, for more than a decade now, I have been on a giant Quest to get well against long odds. I happen to be homeless this year. I hadn't even thought about how fortunate I am to just not care about crap like Christmas gifts -- until I saw your question. I refrained from my no doubt rude initial impulse to post some gleeful little celebration of how lucky I feel to have opted out of such nonsense years ago.

There is too much suffering in the world for me to feel that the American tradition of spending gobs on xmas gifts -- many of which will be completely pointless wastes of time, money, and energy -- is of any real importance. I am genuinely sorry this pains you and I am also sorry that I have no idea how to help you make your peace with this. Furthermore, I am sorry you have gotten so few responses from other actual entrepreneurs. Had you gotten more support, you no doubt would not be hearing from me and my reply probably won't make you feel better. I tend to make people hellaciously uncomfortable.

Let me suggest: Hit the library. Read some books like "The tightwad gazzette". Consider doing something free or cheap but personally meaningful.

Best of luck.
Coruscant is Trantor, but that's a pretty minor detail and Star Wars is hardly the only thing to have copied it. Other than that I can't think of much.
Check out MelonJS (built in Tiled support out of box) or Crafty as free alternatives. Both very good.
That's so untrue, I'm embarrassed for your comment.
> The class of $300, 2lbs Linux laptops created fear for Intel and Microsoft instead. Thats why they are no longer sold.

No, the reason they generally aren't sold is because consumers don't want them -- most consumers would rather have a tablet, as evidenced by sales. It's not some massive conspiracy, it's just that your needs are not the needs of most consumers.
> test-ipv6.com works, but it is far some simple

How about http://ip6.me/ and http://ip4.me/ ?
Sega Dreamcast: how its security works and how it was hacked
I've fundraised for my own startups before (not fun). But a while ago, I headed up marketing for Kiva.org (a crowdfunding site for entrepreneurs, mostly in the developing world) and found crowdfunding to be a really powerful way to raise money. I also did a Kickstarter a while ago related to poverty alleviation that raised $21k... not a huge sum, but one that helped get the project going.

It sounds like you guys are at a point where you'd like to raise a year's worth of funds upfront, or you're leaning towards burning out and canceling the entire project. This is an ideal situation for crowdfunding: people have a real incentive to donate, as they know their funds will truly make a difference.

I would recommend doing an Indiegogo campaign for $25-30k to get things started. As part of it, you could promise regular updates on how things are going in Afghanistan. At Kiva, people really loved hearing from our entrepreneurs on how the loan was going.

As for marketing the piece, Peretz is a really wonderful writer. Would he be willing to write 2-3 shorter stories about the network, and the impact that it's having in Afghanistan? Then we could share them here on HN (and elsewhere), and link to the crowdfunding campaign at the end of the piece. It also wouldn't be too hard to get an article or two written about this, either in HuffPo, TC or maybe PandoDaily (I haven't worked with Pando before, but it's probably similar to TC). That would definitely drive significant fundraising... plus there are poverty alleviation blogs and social media gurus who would definitely help out.

If you're interested, I'd be glad to help you with the marketing and PR gratis... a project like this makes it incredibly easy to drive publicity and fundraising.

Either way, I wish you all the best with this important project!!
If by "custom" you mean rebranded consumer hardware coming with some Linux distribution I'm never going to use preinstalled, the answer is likely to be "no."

Clarification added later that I never anticipated to be needed: my point here is that there are more significant departures from mainstream needed to call something a "custom Linux laptop for developers": most likely, significant hardware changes.
This reminds me of "Project Pigeon," B.F. Skinner's attempt to develop a pigeon-controlled missile during World War II:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
I won't be adding much but want to make a small correction: it makes any retirement system difficult. The non-European-style system in the US, where people just keep stocks in their 401k and IRA accounts, is equally in danger when the number of people shrinks, since the returns from those investments depend on the growth of the economy, the size of which in turn depends on the number of people.

I realize you addressed this in your second paragraph, so as I said this comment isn't adding much, but I think it's worth spelling out: anyone who wants to have a dream of retiring before they die, better pray that the "overpopulation crisis" actually materializes as severely as possible.
Darling = darlin' = DARwin on LINux?
http://zareason.com/shop/UltraLap-430.html Gonna purchase this.
Several people have pinged to ask what is with the name. I did not come up with it but I can tell you my take on it. The name is kind of a joke name and kind of an intentional name. It's bad enough that nobody is going to try to take over our name (which has happened), it sounds just official enough to appear legit to non-native English speakers and pretty aptly describes what we do. We spend a lot of time identifying problems and then finding the right people to solve them. When the most of the aid organizations are bound to their safe houses for security reasons they need people like us. We are outside the barbwire connecting the people who need help with the people who want to provide it. So we identify a problem and strike it with synergy to come up with solutions. We work with just about anyone on the ground in the country who is willing to work with us to solve problems and improve the lives of the Afghan people.

We often just say the letters SSF.
As others have pointed out, Asimov is not in the public domain...but I got the urge to go purchase his writing...how is it that almost none of his story collections are available as ebooks? I don't think there are any on Amazon, aside from collections in which he is one of a few collected authors
This is surely the first time something from n+1 magazine has made it onto HN.
I agree with you on some points here, but your statement, 'freemium is dead' makes no sense. Gmail and all included apps is the free and Google Apps (business) is the pay premium. If anything the model is seen fully validated here, not dead.
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You've never heard of Ubuntu?
As a kid, I thought it was goofy that they had walking talking robots like C3PO, but Luke and Han had to aim the turrets of the Falcon manually instead of it being computer controlled. It made more sense when I learned it was just ripped off from WWII bomber movies.
You've probably misread "going to use" as "heard of."
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Do your research, find out the name of cofounder or CEO and get their email.

Here's what I learned after emailing several CEOs that totally outclass/outrank me: they don't remember, they don't care. If they like you, they will reply or forward you to the right person. If they don't, you'll never hear from them again.

Just make sure your email copy is short and sweet.
It seems to me that Google, with its almost ridiculous surplus of CS PhDs and no legacy desktop OS baggage to drag around is almost perfectly suited to taking Linux and building a power user desktop OS on top of it. If they did, they could build the hardware, too, or at least spec it so that there would be a lot of hardware options that all "just worked" out of the box.

As Apple built a beautiful consumer OS on top of a *nix core, Google could build a power-user OS on top of Linux for the business / developer / smart, skilled people-with-work-to-do market that its PhDs ought to understand more than they understand consumers.

With their money, they could come up with the next gen business platform and build into it the web services orientation they live for and make the hardware / OS / drivers combo to rival Apple, but for influencers instead of the consumers. (They have enough money to buy nvidia if they can't get Linux drivers.)

Who else is better positioned to produce the next gen power-user platform as Windows fades and Apple makes it clear they are a consumer electronics company?
I've sent away a email to you, explaining my current skills and what skills I'm trying to evolve.
Notably, The Foundation Trilogy inspired Paul Krugman to become an economist: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/04/paul-krugman-asi...
USC doctoral student unravels ‘tin whisker’ mystery
Free 8-bit 'Street Fighter X Mega Man' crossover game out on December 17th
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22 year old Magnus Carlsen now highest rated chess player of all time
Yes, Sparkfun's products are definitely overpriced. They sell a constant-current LED driver for $50 that has a ~$8 parts cost at single-unit quantities. Even when I hand-solder the circuit on to a $10 Dangerous Prototypes surface-mount prototyping board at my normal hourly rate, I still come out ahead.

I still contend that the Arduino is approximately decently priced when you consider that Arduinos are popular enough to not be put together by hand but niche enough to not be made by the millions at Foxconn.
I love articles like these, this stuff isn't that hard and its way more fun than other ways to spend time (my opinion of course). Making a PCB for a keyboard is really really straight forward too. I bet we could do that on Upverter.

I really like the idea that you could use something like an iPad. (or better two iPads) rest your hands on the screen in what are your natural "home row" position. Then touch type text that appears on a screen in front of you while the iPads are busily figuring out how far your fingers are moving and 'tuning' where the other keys should be done. Once you've done like 50 words error free it beeps and send that off. Shapeways makes the cover, Albert PCB makes a circuit board, and you order key switches and diodes from a distributor. Boom a custom keyboard designed by you for you.
No, you're totally right. The whole "Social Security is a Ponzi scheme" critique misses a basic point, which is that all systems of retirement are Ponzi schemes, or more charitably, systems built on paying it forward. The basic human life cycle, where the laboring generation takes care of children and the elderly, has not changed--we have just decoupled the process a bit using financial instruments and government programs.

When people "save for retirement" they put money in a 401k, they don't fill a cellar with creamed corn and MREs. Those investments are nothing more than earmarks on future production. The value of a stock is ultimately built on the right to receive a share of profits from the labor of the working generation. The same is true for bonds and other financial instruments.

No matter how you structure the retirement system, the physical reality is that the retired generation gets a cut of the goods and services produced by the working generation. As the latter gets smaller relative to the former, you have problems.
Depending on how old your nephew/niece are, you can take them to do a cheap, but memorable holiday activity.

For example, you can go to an ice rink and teach them how to ice skate for < $15. Or maybe have a mega ice cream day (with approval from their parents of course) where you go play in the park (make / fly a kite?) and then buy several pints of ice cream and share it.

You can make up for other people's generosity with their $$$ by being generous with your time.

In short: experiences > stuff.
You own a cell phone, right? That's your current black box.
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You know, Somalia - a proper Libertarian paradise - has an open immigration policy. What are you waiting for?
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You can even replace it on the SMT versions; just buy some ChipQuik solder and be sure to apply a healthy amount of flux.
Ask HN: Any good open source rails apps to learn from?
Preferably with an API for mobile apps.