skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And they likely could have prevented 9/11 as well, but then they wouldn't have been able to increase the state's power to "fix" things. There wasn't a lack of intelligence warning of 9/11: there was a lack of will to deal with the intelligence.

http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete...
Ok, you're my target cause this comment is so obviously being uttered by someone who hasn't studied history in his/her whole life... Jeez ! (whom i don't believe in btw)

Hacker new indeed....

Has anyone's been following dunno, wikileaks or Appelbaum or... Hacker news that are not on hackernews (which usurpates its name because what it really is is startup news) ? Eagle, the Athen Affair (http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair/...), or more generally this : http://wikileaks.org/the-spyfiles.html ?

It's our liberty that's slipping out of the (gaping a..)hole of democracies, which is not democracies fault because they are by definition are "representative governements", based on election. Tocqueville knew that back in the XIXth, so did all theoreticians of "governance", and not a single one called a "representative government" a "democracy".

Anyway. What it boils down to is : if you're not strictly speaking living in a democracy (which i'm sorry, the US, UK, France,... Aren't by historical, philosophical, and semantic definition), the only thing that matters is keeping power at bay. Try and elect representatives who truly understand that too much power in to few hands always leads to disaster. Only. There are none. There haven't been for decades. The latest in france was General de Gaulle (though his ego was high, he was the sort able to step down from power after a people's vote) , and I guess, on the US side, Kennedy.

I wouldn't trust my shoes to the state. And to facebook ? (non existing) Jeez again ! This is so scary to realize nobody - at large - realizes...

WWII is far away, the days of the cold war too, and people become lazy. Even (so called) hackers.
I saw this while browsing around the internet, it seems like quite a simple Idea and is far easier to use than the current system of typing words. But I do remember earlier this year a company came up with a concept of having simple games the user had to play to complete their CAPTCHA, I'm pretty sure that within a week someone had written a program that managed to complete the games with a fairly high success rate. So I was wondering what some of the more knowledgeable members of HN thought? would something like this be easy to bypass with a computer program or is it really as secure as they believe it is?

In some ways I do hope it is secure as it does seem like something I would implement on my website especially is their conversion rates are accurate.
To reply to myself, the thing that I took away from his telling of this experience and watching his wife almost cry when they got to the part about boarding the plane back with the children... it's this:

Every thing that you ever do is recorded somewhere. Every person has a file whether they think they do or not. This file will only ever be used against you.

And Europe remembers such a thing... it was only 1990 that the Stasi was dissolved. Yet here we are constructing an even more powerful and permanent version of "a file on everyone".

My brother's demonstration was a worker's one, not political. But don't you see that if attending a political rally risks arrest and permanent repercussions, even if you were innocent of everything save for having an opinion... then are we not already at the point in which to hold an alternate political view is to risk inserting something into your file (it exists anyway) which could permanently affect your life.

Who knows what the future holds, but for my brother it's unlikely to involve working for a company that ever expects travel to the USA. Thus, one is forced to modify their behaviour to avoid being penalised by the current system.

Isn't that what the effect of the Stasi was?

I mean, being European, I find it hard to see how history isn't repeating itself on an ever grander scale now that there are tools that allow it to do so.
So, it's pretty much a drop-in replacement. But as with everything, time m ust be spent testing and so on before rolling it out to production. I believe a transition to MariaDB has been planned for a while now.
Honestly? I hate AAPL.. but their stuff. Absolutely their stuff. Push them to Apple and then stop "playing IT" for them.
So, there's some legacy here. 10 years ago, there wasn't anything really like CouchDB.
An upgradable machine also allows a "power" user to upgrade their machine way beyond the original specs in order to give them an unfair advantage in online gaming. I picture someone with a monster 24 CPU/256GB RAM box playing TF2 at 200fps pummeling me ever harder than they do today. :(

However, I like the idea of a Valve console. They've done so much right in the world of gaming that I'd like to see how else they can shake it up. :)
They can't. To so many people, the phrase "run a server" doesn't make sense. They don't even know how to start running a server
Gladly!

Firearm related death rate, per 100K of population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-re...

US: 9.0
Switzerland: 6.4
Finland: 3.64
Germany: 1.1
UK: 0.25

...
Group elevator scheduling is NP-hard
This article has an asterisk at the beginning which leads to a footnote "Note: I’m currently a member of the OpenPhoto Team". This should be at the beginning, it sets the articles tone. I'd take it seriously if it was an outside source but being written by a developer on the project, for me it's a cute introduction to the software and it doesn't tell me whether this software is actually good.

What I do learn from this is that it would probably be a good solution for hack-it-yourself enthusiasts from the Linux community who always look for the open source solution.
By this logic Europeans should be a total police state.
To find a solution we need to discover what makes Americans so afraid that no gun is big enough, no military powerful enough, and due process can be suspended.
I really wish people would stop mixing up TSA and USCBP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Customs_and_Border_Protect...)
Article is here if anyone is interested (saves you a google) -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1336571/Terr...
I always get rather nervous when I see posts like this. Things like this obviously happen. However - statistically - people with mental illness are no more likely to commit violence than anybody else.

See http://psychcentral.com/archives/violence.htm for example.

When people with mental illness are violent it's usually for the same reason everybody else is. It's usually aimed at family when it does occur - not the world in general.

The story that gets portrayed in the media of mentally ill people being a major danger to the general public is just that - a story. The facts don't back it up.

And those with mental illness have to deal with the bigotry and prejudice that results from this story.
I'm looking at building my company's CMS workflow with Jekyll so it's good to near this.

I'll have non developers creating and maintaining pages and posts, so I'm hoping I can build an easy workflow with just Jekyll and a bit of prose.io. I've not found any sort of site generator/convertor that's geared for use by non-developers.
Look everyone... It's a STEM guy!

I agree that the pg worship is weird, but there's no need to be so hostile.
Different effect. A rock is actually following a curved trajectory through ordinary space. Light always goes straight - but in these extreme circumstances space itself is curved. You can easily verify this by looking at said curving rock: the fact that you can see it without distortions (or at all) implies that its region of space has insignificant curvature and the light from the event is reaching your eyes is an easy indication of it.

Ordinary masses bend space nowhere nearly enough. The Sun bends space just barely enough for the effect to be observable in a solar eclipse (it was used as a verification of Einstein's theories) by causing stars behind it to appear ever so slightly out of place when its disc is just about to overlap them. The light from these stars is NOT being bent - it keeps going in a straight line, but the Sun's gravity slightly alters the very idea of straight in its immediate vicinity. The effect is a tiny distorsion, about 0.00048 degrees.

And the Sun is not exactly small.... but it's not dense enough to have a strong effect. Nothing in our everyday experience is. If you could stuff all of its mass into a tiny volume then in its immediate vicinity you could experience this.
I think part of the problem is we have a perverted sense of "Godwin's law", such that making allusions to the past is considered "losing the conversation". The past it seems is no longer something that we are supposed to learn from, and the notion that there may be parallels between the past and the present is now termed 'offensive'.

In a lesser forum, you would likely be dismissed out of hand for mentioning the Stasi, even though your reasons for mentioning it are very sound. How can we hope to avoid the past if we refuse to talk about it?
Found Directory - Nice
I quite like ORMs for simple things (the first 80%), but I don't necessarily want the ORM to control schema generation and migration (I very much want integrity to be a database supported feature rather than a feature of the ORM).

As I note the author is also the submitter, a question: Is it a design goal or possibility to use the ORM but to disable schema generation/migration?
That's what he is talking about though - he used node.js and redis on a production site when neither are close to production ready. Thanks to him though, both are improving rapidly and should be production ready before long, so kudos.

His whole article is about "woops, going with the latest tech wasn't such a good idea - here is what you can learn from this".

So yes, he is using the latest fancy web page UX and he has written an article about what he has learned. Next site he makes will probably be using well proven UX.
Minimalist todo list
Just wanted to say thanks to you and your contributers over the years. I always thought 24 articles in 24 days was a very ambitious idea but somehow you guys always deliver the magic.

I'm not the target audience for this article either so it really is hard to judge, but I got something out of it and I can see that a number of people found it helpful and timely.

Don't change!
You can count me there as well.. just moved back here after years of being in Denver/Boulder and before that Atlanta...

And this is exactly the kind of stuff that makes me happy I moved back. :)
This blog post reminds me of a New York Times article about Child Psychopathy... I'm not sure if it is the same as Schizophrenia but if they are not the same, I would say the child in this article sound closer to being psychopathic rather than schizophrenic... There are certainly not much the system can do for you in either case.

If you're interested, here's the chilling article by the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/can-you-call-a-9-...
Perhaps the worry should be that people just shorten all that to "USA", and give up. I know I would never travel there, and I don't really care which acronym is out to wreck my life.
It's something that we hear a lot. My naive non-american mind believes that it's not about finding a girlfriend, but finding the right person. It's preferable to have your life together for the former, but I'm not sure it makes much of a difference for the latter.
The problem with this is once users get something sold as a console, they will expect it to act like one. Yet, you still get games on steam which either don't work, or work very poorly, on ATI instead of nvidia cards, or don't like high resolutions, or are unexpectidly jerky on AMD processors for some reason.

Trying to create a "standardised PC" level, and then expecting games to run smoothly on it, seems like a dangerous game to try to play. PC users are willing to cope with having to upgrade their machine because their X is of poor quality. Console owners are absolutely not.

The only solution I can see to this, which is what I imagine valve is doing, is to exactly fix all components.
> Membership of the domestic terrorist groups in my country correlates very strongly with a history of juvenile anti-social behaviour.

Is the reverse true?
I definitely think things have improved (although they can always go south at a moment's notice- for example last year, he dropped and broke his phone, which triggered an "episode" that lasted pretty much the whole day.)

There are likely multiple factors at play- it's quite conceivable that puberty hormones make the matters worse, and that he's slowly exiting this phase, it's something less in the way.

But I also think that as he grows up, there are less "triggers" for his episodes. Episodes are almost always triggered when something or someone contradicts him (for example in the original linked article, when the mom tells the kid he can't wear the pants he wants to wear).
Now that he lives by himself in a small village with no parents, no teachers, etc., (when you think about it, schools are terribly oppressive environments) the triggers are much less numerous.
Why is everybody saying that they will only screw Gmail users on Windows Phone? As an iPhone user they will screw me too, because I will not longer have push if I use the Mail.app. The alternative is using the Gmail app of course, but that will only lock up users.

How much time until they announce that ALL the current users won't have this feature anymore?
Where to startover??
That's a very hard question to answer, as I don't know what exactly would have happened if he had been institutionalized. French psychiatrists has a very different approach than US ones (although that might change) when it comes to diagnosis, so it's really hard to say.

A question could be - what would have been the goals of institutionalizing him? To make him more fit for life in our society with our standards; or to prevent him from harming others and himself?

Since you're asking specifically if he would have been better off, I'm assuming the former of the two- in which case no, I don't think he'd have been better off. I do think he's physiologically incapable of sitting at a desk, taking orders, living in an extremely codified manner where one has to respect certain hierarchies, hide certain feelings, etc. - and that perhaps he has now found a way to detach himself from it. I don't think that any institution could have addressed that.

But I'm sure that there are some people (former teachers, classmates, etc.) who think it'd have been better if he had been institutionalized.
When was the last time a locked cabin door annoyed you?

There is nothing inherent about security measures that cause annoyance. Security theater measures on the other hand...
On the contrary: Just because a website doesn't look good, doesn't make it bad. To me, the website presents all the information it needs to: the products they stock, their price and where to get them.

Not every business wants to become internet only. Or, for that note, even have a website in the first place. There are plenty of perfectly profitable businesses that don't. Both staff and customers often value the human interactions a physical store brings. They may make more money with a "half-decent web presence" (might not!) but their business will be reduced to one of simple order fulfilment and lose the what makes running the business enjoyable in the first place. Fabricland has a shop in the town we live. My (non internet using) wife goes there often and appreciates their great service. If they went internet only she would lose this and have to go elsewhere, though I don't know where.

By the way, for your housemate, ordering instructions are there on the front page:
"TO ORDER PLEASE CALL US WITH YOUR CREDIT/ SWITCH/ DEBIT CARD DETAILS, WE ARE WAITING TO TAKE YOUR CALL! [...] NO SHOPPING BASKET, JUST CALL PLEASE"
It's not as convenient as clicking an item into your shopping basket and paying by paypal, granted, but it's not too difficult either (though does involve talking to someone).
I don't see the problem with this. The US seems to be building the pioneering efforts of a pre-crime unit. The philosophy is that if we're in the era of information whoever has the most information wins. What's wrong with USA taking all the info they can get? Anyone here could do the same thing.

Don't use the word innocent. Nobody is innocent.
Just so you know, I read the article, liked it and have it saved to follow up on later today. I'm a programmer not a designer.

Thanks for getting it out there.
Being famous, successful and surrounded by padawans does that to you.
Didn't 9/11 seem more human mistake, power battle and inefficiencies between organizations rather than lack of intelligence data ?
Well, if it's a matter of public speaking, keep in mind that most of Jobs' presentations aren't interviews, either. Speeches and interviews are apples and oranges, despite both being facets of public speaking.
There are less than four thousand tigers in total in the wild. Not white tigers, any tigers. That's shocking.

In a few decades there probably won't be any.

http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/tigers/ab...
Social media hoaxes: Could machine learning debunk false Twitter rumors
Inside 1871, Chicago’s Huge New Center For All Things Tech [incl. vid.]
1984 in the back and A Brave New World in the front :)
We have a mother that is proud of being anarchist loving Che Guevara, a man that will kill those people he did not agree with.

She is having an anarchist child, he does not want someone else to tell him what to do, and reacts aggressively when forced to.

Probably that could be a good thing, Bill Gates had the same issue, as a child he wanted to be left on his own, his parents went to the doctor and the doctor said: leave him, if he wants to leave home or make a company while being a child let him, and they did. It took a lot of money from their family to find a phychologist with common sense.

Not all children are created equal, the round pegs in the square holes are just that. We designed standard schools that more or less work for 95% of the kids.

Those 5% that not, they could burn in hell. If someone is introvert, she must be healed of his disease staying with a majority of extroverts that wont understand him, will isolate and humiliate her because of their fear to what they don't understand.
As a Brit, I have a huge problem with all this. In the old days of US funded IRA attacks against amongst other things, our government, we never let the terrorists win. We didn't budge our principles or give up core freedoms. Sure our side did some very iffy things to combat the terror, but it was still illegal. We didn't try to legitimise it by tearing up principles that applied to normal people. But once 9/11 happened and the US gave US freedoms up, we and other nation states were heavily leaned on to also give up those freedoms and principles. Sadly, we capitulated to US pressure.

So, no my opinion never budged before, during or after 9/11. In fact, it hardened. But, I'm afraid the terrorism worked. We lost freedoms, rights and principles all due to the 9/11 attacks and US reaction to it. Terror won. Bin Laden won. We became more like them.
I'm guessing you made this account because you know how stupid your ideas are.

It's a free service. People who offer free services owe you nothing. Your sense of entitlement is sorely misplaced.

Google has to pay Microsoft actual money for Active Sync. If this is not economically viable, then they can't continue paying money out of their own pocket for you to freeload.

Your offering of personal information is just not paying the bills, sorry.
Teenage Sexting Is Becoming The Norm
They've also been effective at preventing UFO invasions.
"Reminiscent" of Total Information Awareness? It is TIA - and did anybody ever actually think they'd not implement TIA just because it was found out?
I did z80 on TRS-80 Model 1's and 6809 on the TRS-80 Color Computer.

They were not very complicated machines and thus made it easier to create assembly language programs that actually did stuff you could observe quickly. I think the fast feedback loop between coding in assembly and having observable results (i.e. graphics etc.) made for a nice learning platform.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#The_Model_I

I think today's processors are very cool but trying to teach someone assembly on a monster like the modern processors and having to do all sorts of things to try and flip a single bit on the screen via GPU's etc. makes for a rough learning experience. I notice very few college programs are doing low level courses and I think it impacts the students in very subtle but real ways that creep into code because of their lack of the low-level details of how computers work.
In case anyone else was wondering about InnoDB like I was:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MariaDB/Storage_Engines

MariaDB has XtraDB, which is a drop-in replacement for InnoDB; I'm not sure if it's encumbered or not, given it's Percona's fork of InnoDB.

(Does anyone have any experience using XtraDB that they can relate?)
People will probably come around to this when their trust is violated but maybe not before...
Sounds of Science (Fiction) - Sound as Interface
I am depressed and I need someone to talk to
This is a throw away account. My real HN account is not blessed with a lot of karma but you could find out who I am by knowing by HN account name.

I need help. A few months ago I founded my first startup together with a friend of mine. We were #1 on HN for nearly a whole day. I could feel pretty good but I am very depressed from time to time. At the moment I am in a phase of depression again and I hate it.

I need someone to talk to. Either via audio or via Text. I could try to talk to my friend but I would prefer the advice from "a stranger".

I am in therapy for 7 years now and it is not going anywhere. As a child I have been abused over a long period of time. I am taking (subscribed) meds (about 10 pills every day) and I still feel terrible. There are a couple of similar stories on HN and I tried to read them all - but I feel that I need someone to talk to directly.

first contact via email: throw.away.far23@gmail.com

Thank you so much.
Can you explain what you mean by the reverse?
There's still a bit of time before we can print ammo. Gun control could evolve into ammo control.
I'm not sure how I feel about this post but it does make some good points. As someone who grew up with 2 mentally unstable brothers, a bi-polar single mom, and a con-artist dad I feel like I have seen a wide variation of mental conditions that range from genetic, to environment, to choice. I have never once seen a person "fixed" of their mental condition besides depression. One of my brothers went on to be a convicted rapist serving time in prison. My other brother was forced into a mental facility and is constantly sedated due to his considerable talent at making threats. My mother died of a sudden brain aneurism, which may or may not have attributed to her mood swings. My father is on the move enough to avoid most victims of his cons and we talk on the phone once or twice a year. The outcome for each of them has only one commonality, nothing changed. Sometimes the most difficult answer is to admit there is no answer and certain people are stuck with certain personality traits. Sometimes the only solution is to give them a peaceful environment that will keep them and others in the community safe.
THQ may port games to Linux in wake of Humble Bundle feedback
schema creation is completely optional, you don't have to use it.
How do you expect this to be fixed exactly? Say, you opened to front page, left it open for few hours and then clicked "More". What do you expect to see there?