skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that RH and Canonical are very problematic for the community. They are a mixed bag containing a lot of good, but also containing some critical problems (for the cause of freedom). So I like to speak frankly about those problems, when I can.
Very reminiscent of creative destruction from Joseph Schumpeter - the whaling industry was destroyed by the petroleum industry. The survivors are the ones who possess the skills that are in demand. As the demand shifts, skills need updating.
Github is definitely in 2-digits this year.
Not to speak ill of the dead but I don't know WTF these people were thinking. I was skiing at Crystal (~80 miles away) the same day. IIRC we had about 14-16" of freshies that day. It was GORGEOUS in bounds, why go out? I had checked the avalanche data for a side project that day and it was as bad as you can get. And they were skiing in a known serious avalanche hazard zone. Just showing off to out of town bigwigs IMHO. Someone died at Alpental (in the backcountry area), one pass over, that day as well when a slide pushed him off of a cliff.
I have no problem with such an agreement, actually. I would have a problem with physical enforcement of it, but no problem with social ramifications for breaking it (something along the lines of a damaged credit report).
> I must admit I have a very hard time believing this exact claim as written. Do you have any sources?

As it happens, one of the original placebo observations took place in a battlefield hospital that had run out of morphine. A physician began injecting saline, hoping the switch wouldn't cause too much psychological stress. To his surprise, many of his patients continued to report pain relief. Source:

http://www.brainfacts.org/sensing-thinking-behaving/mood/art...

"While treating wounded American soldiers during World War II, Henry Beecher ran out of pain-killing morphine. Desperate, he decided to continue telling the soldiers that he was giving them morphine, although he was actually infusing them with a saline solution. Amazingly, 40 percent of the soldiers reported that the saline treatment eased their pain."
I've argued that this is an outcome of a democratic "everyone watches everyone" society.

however, some problems. someone has to have some monopoly on force? So the government has to have some information that is secret, for example, information about suspects in a criminal investigation. although it's possible that in a fully recorded society that need would go away! a police investigation would simply consist of reviewing the evidence recorded and acting, and a suspect couldn't run because everything is monitored and recorded.

this sounds pretty terrible! and I think it would be, unless, the institutions of a democratic and just society were preserved. given that any crime would come attached with "the whole truth" recorded, trials might be easier? cardinal richelieu is purported to have said "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.", but I'm not sure if 15th-century French monarchy is the same government as a modern-day democracy (say what you will about Manning et al) ...
It the page could download in one burst without any breaks the calculation would be correct. However those 14 requests aren't all run at once and end up triggering sequentially. It goes something like GET youtube.com, process reply, find other resources needed GET youtube.com's CSS, etc. etc.

Combined with link delays, dropped packets, long round trip times and the like you get a much slower nominal bandwidth.
Excellent! Lets go over the points one last time:

"Well, they do exist as mass-produced devices that can be hacked." - Absolutely, that was why I mentioned my USB extender device, it too uses the A9X CPU that TP-Link is using. Nobody has yet seen fit to offer a 'general purpose' unit (ala the RasPi) for sale, but if you're willing to commit to the large volumes and upfront costs that are needed you can make a few hundred thousand.

"Designs can change on you overnight and you are screwed." - also exactly right which is why these aren't "parts" rather they are a lean way to bootstrap a prototype. Sometimes you can duplicate the OEMs design, sometimes they rely on side relationships, for example TP-Link builds a lot of stuff, so they may get a much better price on the A9X CPU than you could even buying a lot of them.

"I posted the "wish" to HN because I've been out of the loop for about two years and just didn't know what's available. The iMX233 @ ~$5.00/100 (not thousand) is impressive enough. Still, not ethernet without going through USB first. That chip, as far as I can tell, seems to be the lowest cost potential to approach the $25 to $35 price range in reasonable quantities (100x to 500x boards)." - Yup, and some chips like the STMicro 32F107 (Cortex M3 ARM) which has Ethernet on chip is under $6 in 100's but doesn't have the MMU. The A9X also has ethernet on chip but I've not been able to wade through the Chinese well enough to figure out what to order (these things power the $35 android tables in the back markets of China).

"I think I can consider an all-up cost of about $50, in the box and ready to go. This includes the assembled board in an very simple enclosure and a regulated wall adapter."* - You might be able to do that, but you may have a hard time find them in the retail channel for that. Even the RasPi is over $50 when you add power supply, case, SD card, and a serial interface.

"Right now I have a very mild itch I am thinking of scratching. Just looking around to see if it even makes sense." - Ah bingo! If you read nothing else, read this. I can guarantee that you will eventually be able to get this for $25. Build your idea out of any of a dozen different ideas (ideally one where you have good software resources or kernel support) and then you have "in your pocket" an idea that is almost ready to go if you can get the price down. Then you watch the channels, EE Times, etc and predict when the pricing is going to cross your threshold. Then about 6 months before contact the folks who are going to make that possible (chip vendors etc) and then partner with them to get early access. Then you can "ship" on the same day general availability hits.

Bottom line if the idea works don't worry what things cost right now, get the leg work done on stuff which has to be done regardless of chip availability.
"They suppress our urge to experiment and (usually) steer us from error—but what could be more irrepressibly human than those very things?"

With a map in my phone I'm way more likely to go off piece on a ramble through backstreets, trying to loose myself and find my way back, safe in the knowledge that if my feet get too tired I can whip out my phone and instantly find the route home.

No, I'm not naustalgic for getting hopelessly lost at 1am after already strolling for hours.
> "One of these days I want to write an extension similar to adblock plus that seeks out and removes jquery crap. A lot of the reasons I can't read pages anymore seems to be jquery slideshows, jquery toolbars, jquery popups and the like."

This might be something that NoScript's Surrogate Script feature could handle - it was originally developed to allow blocking Google Analytics without breaking sites that expected it to be loaded, and now includes surrogates for a lot of other junk.
Most other bureaucracies weren't created out of a misguided attempt to solve a problem that didn't actually exist and aren't an undue financial burden on an already financially strained system.

I realize almost all bureaucracies waste money to some extent, but the TSA is a waste to the tune of $8bn USD per year with no measurable benefits and no evidence that it was ever needed.

Imagine if that money were redirected into social programs, NASA, and educational programs! We could have a major, tangible positive effect in spite of bureaucracy, instead of pissing $8bn into an organization that behaves like an organized crime syndicate.
There is a lot of stuff in Clojure that can be done in more than one way. I know that Python focuses on "only one way to do it", but Clojure's focus is on simplicity, as defined by Rich Hickey in Simple Made Easy [1], and that is a much better focus. I find that, as Rich says (and I'm paraphrasing), simplicity is by far the most important concern when programming. It dominates all other concerns in terms of importance and payoff. I believe I have become a much better programmer since I learned Clojure and listened to Rich's talks.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
I've yet to have the pleasure of using ClearCase.
Basically nothing is working on the site...
Well, if there is such d-e, the person challenging the reduction should be able to supply it. Since it just a number, he should be able to supply that number to the program and trigger a failure.
It seems in theory that it should work. In practice the AJAX I've seen makes the perceived experience worse. There was a thread about Github latency a few months ago, and they use AJAX heavily in the source browser to hide latency, but it just seems janky to me.

I would be interested to hear if anybody is using AJAX to make very light sites that are accessible in Siberia and the places mentioned in this article. I can't really think of one. I'm sure it's possible though.

FWIW this is why craigslist is universally popular. Because you can use their site from the public library with IE5 from a dialup connection! When you're trying to overcome the chicken and egg problem of community sites, that extra population is probably pretty important.
We keep looking at XIX century models and try to map them to the present day; that is just wrong. The fundamental shift in production models that full automation is bringing is still poorly understood. Even worse, we keep looking at percentages of growing populations, with no regard for absolute limits: we assume our models will grow forever, that we'll produce an infinite number of physical objects (houses, cars) in a finite space.

You cannot expect the construction sector to grow forever. You cannot expect factories to stop using better and better robots. You cannot expect developers to stop automating more and more processes, including their own job.

The only sectors were you can try to create "infinite employment growth" are social: healthcare, education, some creative industries. These sectors have hard dependencies on their customers/workers ratio, and are forced to grow and shrink in tune with actual population numbers.

Unfortunately, these are also sectors we undervalue and underfund, with very sensitive boundaries, and where classic capitalistic paradigms don't work well. There is a lot of work to do.
I find it annoying, and I haven't flown since before the TSA was founded.
That's not a controlled study, plus the effect claimed is much weaker than what I was addressing. I can believe that placebo provides some pain relief--I was addressing the claim that they provided identical levels of relief. All the studies I could find on PubMed comparing morphine to placebo for treating various kinds of pain have morphine as the undisputed winner.
> artificially inflated

Keep in mind that at least in the US, many people own homes -- many times with a mortgage, which essentially makes it a leveraged bet, so small swings affect them more. (If you spend $200k on a $200k home and its price drops to $190k, you've suffered a 5% loss -- ho-hum. If you have $10k equity in your $200k home and its price drops to $190k, you've been wiped out -- suffered a 100% loss.)

Many people were "sold" on a mortgage by someone promising them that "it's an investment that will always go up." Because most people are rather ignorant about finance, and a home purchase is the largest single transaction they will ever make, a US politician seriously proposing what seems to be the trend of this discussion -- that house prices should go down -- would provoke an enormous political firestorm from the vast number of people with money on the table, at least as big as the current gun control debate.

In an ideal world, we'd implement the policy backed by the soundest argument and the best evidence. I'm not taking a position on what the best policy is at the moment. I just want to note that, if it turns out the best policy is one that calls for substantial deflation of housing prices, politics would likely kill it quickly.

Sorry for the double reply, but I think the above paragraphs say something substantially different from my other reply to the parent and really belong in their own comment.
My 1997 analog modem connected to the internet at an average speed of 3.3 kbps.
Can't read the clojure 1.5 RC1 release notes. Damn.

Looks like services implemented in terms of github are not reliable (but there was no guarantee of that anyway).
Well, I have to insist that math does not prove a statement true. Math only proves that the statement does not contain original untruth.

> Not being able to provide a counter example does not prove the claim.

It is never possible to prove a claim anyway. It is only possible to prove that it does not contain original untruth.
I don't know what you mean by widespread. But work on it does not seem to be slowing down, and it is a really good language, so I think it will only grow.
By the way, only point out the errors in my above comment if you want to prove you're smarter that a guy taking smart drugs.
> For the most part a short downtime isn't the end of the world

Unless the Mayans were off by one
Self exercising medical application for Coma patients
I had a strange idea. Given that electronic pulses when issued to the muscles cause them to twitch... and the fact nurses have to periodically move coma patients to prevent sores. What is the feasibility of hooking coma patients up into a self exercise machine, such that their body automatically perform some work out routines even when their brains are inactive? They might potentially become physically stronger than they were before they entered coma, if they do leave coma. If not, at least have less problems with their joints due to extensive periods of inactivity.
Not quite what you were looking for, but you might find it interesting to check out the Dreamworks animation blog. http://dreamworksanimation.tumblr.com/

There are a bunch of steps, actually. If you're talking 3D animation, there's an ok blog post about it here:

http://cg.tutsplus.com/articles/step-by-step-how-to-make-an-...

hope that helps.
I get e-mails all the time offering to submit fake rave reviews for my book, for a price. I also get e-mails offering the same "service" for my Android apps. It's a business -- a widespread, unethical business.

Meanwhile, one of the few real reviews of my book says, "This is a really terrific book, and I have read it more than once! By the way, can someone fix my mistake -- I accidentally gave it one star instead of five!"
I'm not sure how much of a disruption it is considering Amazon has been pushing exclusive print and electronic publishing for a while. Tim Ferriss is the latest out of somewhat famous authors to go exclusively through Amazon as publisher, distributor and retailer http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/08/18/the-4-hour-c...
> I don't understand why drones, as a weapon of war, are getting so much attention at the moment compared to other weapons of war. Dead civilians are dead whether they're killed by drones or landmines or cluster bomblets or whatever.

Guns were weapons of war (canons) before they were made portable and more people, including civilians, could get one. Likewise, club a radio controlled quadcopter with, say, an automatic rifle and you've got a home brew drone.

Since without a gun, such a home brew drone is mostly harmless (TM D.Adams), gun control would significantly reduce the risk of such home brew drones. So, yes, drones need to be included in the argument against guns.
You can't increase the bandwidth of the programming industry by lowering salaries. If we're doing well right now, so be it. There's always another crash around the corner, and next time we may not be lucky.
I disagree. Copyright assignment is appropriate for some projects and not others. The mistake many people make is assuming that it should always happen or never happen.

Some projects owe part of their success to copyright assignment, like Ogre3D.
Samsung suing apple once again for notification center
There seems to be an expectation these days that everyone's on a 50Mbit+ connection with an ultra mega blazingly fast computer, and nobody tests their sites on anything but that setup.

Example: The Verge. Chrome reports theverge.com as making 118 requests with 2.62MB transferred, taking 11.04s (onload: 6.42s, DOMContentLoaded: 3.32s). Kotaku: 234 requests, 1.35MB transferred, 11.93s (onload: 10.91s, DOMContentLoaded: 4.28s).

I tested this on a maxed out 2010 MacBook Air, and that's with AdBlock Plus and ScriptNo.

The Verge is basically unusable while it loads and Chrome struggles to render it after it has loaded while scrolling on my machine. This is all-too-common these days.
I created a new org on GitHub today (through all the unicorns) and was about to push an existing repo to them so we could all start pulling it. Talk about unlucky.
It's not morphine or salt water. It's morphine->morphine->morphine->morphine->salt water.

Pharmaceutical studies of only using drug or not-drug have different characteristics.
i understood that and was aware.

What i mean was for a web service that would monitor changes on public repos (commits, tags, branches) and would sync them automatically (mapping accounts, pruning branches, etc).
The claim follows trivially from Gödel's Incompleteness. Claiming the truth of a theory amounts to extending it with a statement about its consistency, automatically making the whole inconsistent.
Are you limited to the bay area?
Leaving aside religion, rights exist only because society recognizes them and is willing to use its collective force to enforce them. In the absence of society, humans have no more of a "right to life" or a "right to property" than the chicken that ended up on my plate for dinner has these things.
Jobs was analytical? Brilliant, sure. But, perhaps more instinctual than analytical. Witness the endless tales of him not asking for input, not listening, not taking the advice of (undoubtedly analytical) others. Add killer instinct & stubbornness and you have something entirely different than either of the CEO's at breakfast.
It can help, but still has to be applied carefully. A fast initial load is pointless if a bunch of widgets are making the page jerk and jump all over the place for the next 30 seconds.

The strategy I've used is to serve up a light frame with the meat of the content, while keeping all ajax/external site dependent stuff hidden (with equivalently sized placeholders to avoid shifting layout and scroll), then doing a single subtle fadein of the additional content when everything's ready.

You can tweak the timing--like if you have a few bits of ajax content from your server that take 1-2s to load, and a few social buttons that are taking more like 5-6s, you'd probably want to fade those in separately in two steps. The point is to carefully orchestrate how elements appear to the user, not just bombard them with everything at once.
I think you're forgetting to check your hubris at the door.

Given the folks who've attacked these problems, the ones that have yielded to brute force thus far: 0.
I find it more likely that terrorists don't think it's worth doing in the first place, security or no. Killing a few dozen people in mid-air might startle a bunch of people on the ground and ground a few flights for a while, but it doesn't actually accomplish anything. The only people that would actually do that are mentally-unbalanced, suicidal people who are just trying to kill themselves in the most spectacular way they can; i.e., not a terrorist.

I think "terrorists" of the "trying to kill us all" variety are trying to bring forward some kind of message or dispense some kind of "justice" under their belief system. To achieve any of that with violence requires there to be an intense, sustained effect on the public and a way to link it back to their concept of justice. The 9/11 attacks accomplished that, but the shoe bomber and underwear bombers wouldn't have if they had succeeded. Their explosive charges were too small and too incompetently assembled to cause the kind of mass panic that "terrorists" are after.

Instead, we have a different breed of terrorists: the "keeping you scared because it benefits them directly" terrorists. The TSA and Homeland Security. The true terrorists in this plot. Keeping people afraid of some vague, non-specific threat because it profits them and those they support.
I am already to enter arguments about religion online. Who knows what the fanatics are capable of.

I guess it should be possible to communicate anonymously for similar reasons as voting should be done anonymously.
I'm not limited by anything except for financial concerns. I live in Arizona but go to school in southern California.
I got that from your original post. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any studies with that experimental setup, hence my earlier question to you.
using 0 as an alias for false

Oops, my python roots are showing.
There's still an appeal process.

A popular youtuber (2,314,015 subs) recently got hit by one of those for his Gangnam style parody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6U_dVGRFZQ&list=UUHiJwRo...

He explains the process pretty well.
Don't get me wrong, I do value the experience and I'm very happy that I had the opportunity to do an internship. But just the fact that the next guy is getting so much more for no reason is very disheartening and making me feel undervalued.
The "unwittingly do something illegal" is the most common refutation I've heard used. I think it's the most powerful as an example of the fallacy of this argument and an example of how unwieldy our laws have become in the United States.

A coworker used the following story, apt since he lives in a state bordering another country: "Let's say I go to Canada for a day trip, Montreal perhaps. I speak enough French to get around but it's not so good after an evening of drinking and socializing. The next morning, I wake up with a powerful hangover headache. A pharmacy is nearby, but my head is pounding too hard to read the labels so I go to the pharmacist. In broken French, I ask him for some Tylenol. He asks me 'what kind?' 'Just one,' I reply. He sells me a small bottle with a Tylenol label; I pop a couple and put the rest in my bag. After I return home--declaring 'nothing' at the border, of course, since I forgot about the bottle of medicine--I find the bottle and notice the word 'Codeine' on the label. Canada sells 'Tylenol One,' a compound with this addition. I'm technically guilty of felony drug trafficking of a schedule 2 narcotic into the United States as well as felony concealment (drugs). Are you certain you've never done something seemingly innocent that's actually a serious crime?"
Periodic reminder that git != GitHub
> I can believe that placebo provides some pain relief--I was addressing the claim that they provided identical levels of relief.

I doubt that any serious researcher will make that claim. Such studies are, after all, based on self-reporting, notoriously unreliable and difficult to accurately quantify.

This is not to say that psychologists won't make claims like that. But psychological science is only peripherally related to the other kind of science -- the real kind.
Would you mind elaborating and specifying which industries or resources you experienced these problems? This sounds like something that a startup could target.
Well yeah, but wait for Arc 1.5. That'll blow it away. :-P