skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the sadly funny things about watching the politics of this play out is that the folks that traditionally blame the government are all up in arms about the government tracking you. But they seem fine with corporations tracking you. The other bunch, which traditionally blame corporations are all up in arms about corporations tracking you. But they have no problem with the government tracking you.

And for all of that fighting, it never really mattered. The fact is it doesn't matter who tracks you, the information is available to all parties. You're being tracked.

Cross-reference this pile of tracking information to cell phone records, which can locate you within a few dozen meters at all times, and you have a surveillance system Orwell himself could never have dreamed of. It's beyond any state-ran security system ever put into place in the history of the world. Yet we all sit idly around as if none of it matters.

And for all of that political fighting about privacy and anonymity, it never amounted to anything.

Amazing.

Side note: As a movie buff, I've seen lots of dystopian movies set into some far future where the state has taken control over people's lives. Our hero somehow manages to fight the system.

What they never really cover is what happened. How exactly did people sit around and let this happen? Didn't they see this terrible future approaching?

Now I have the answer. Yes, some folks saw what was happening, but the vast majority didn't see an immediate negative impact in their lives, so they didn't care. The rest of us were just -- overwhelmed by events. Threats came from multiple and unseen directions and kept coming until we couldn't fight them. People who owned the data were careful not to share the scariness of what they were doing with the common man. Privacy and anonymity advocates were labeled scaremongers.
Did the new compiler make it into this release? Does anyone know?
Thanks for finding this tokenadult.

I've been trying to convince my wife (who has a degree in dietetics and a minor in anthropology/archeology) to write about this subject for a while, but food and diet are such visceral topics for people that she finds discussions of the topics incredibly frustrating.

Food, language, gender norms, these are all fields of study where there is substantial research and a lot of resolute but unfounded claims by people with axes to grind, or products to sell.

All of which is to say, there's not a lot of skepticism, even amongst populations who claim to be generally analytical and skeptical.
Realtime on Rails
The online demo looks nice but I would like to try it out in a VM.

I followed the steps in the README but `pip install leselys` and `leselys init --config leselys.ini` are throwing errors. I am not used to pip yet but from the message errors I gathered I had to install gcc, python-dev (maybe?) and a "sofart back-end".

What else is needed to make it run on http://localhost:5000 in a fresh new minimal ubuntu 12.10 (for instance) ?
Strange that the Pharo home page doesn't explain what Pharo does. I'm not familiar with Pharo and after scrutinizing the Pharo home page I'm still don't have a clue what it does.

I see a lot of mentions of Smalltalk on this page yet 'Smalltalk' doesn't appear on the Pharo home page.

Am I missing something? If I'm not already familiar with Pharo, am I simply not part of the intended audience?
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This assumes people are intelligent enough to know what they actually want. Not being mean, just a sad truth about the state of culture right now.
and this is why I wish the paleo-fanatics would stop harping on the "evolutionary based" part.

I eat pretty much paleo. I avoid grains, I limit dairy consumption, I avoid a lot of sugar in my food. However, a lot of the "science" behind paleo is bullshit. The name & culture is the worst thing that could have happened to the diet.

Food is important to your health. I eat a lot of vegetables, high quality meat, and avoid high amounts of carbs & sugar now. How could I not feel better? It doesn't have anything to do with evolutionary adaptability.

edit: knowtheory below is referring to something I edited out regarding an attempt to double blind myself to ensure this wasn't all in my head.
how do all the other graduates do it?
agree, really hard to find out what it is, the only work that I catch and gave me a hint is 'virtual machines', but still pretty vague
Same. Thought it was going to be relevant to me because I'm considering trying OS X after 22 years in Windows. Article was a bunch of nonsense.
Not sure that that error means - is this from http://photo-sorter.appspot.com ? Try removing anything after the .com

And how does Picasa 'do this'? The issue with all of the photo managers out there is this: How to I go through my photos and tag the good ones as 'good', and tag the bad ones as 'bad' and if I quit and resume, how do I continue with the untagged (or continue from where I left off - considering that this may take weeks or months).

PhotoSorter isn't about eliminating duplicates or managing your photos - its about reducing an unsorted collection to a manageable and shareworthy collection.

Consider this - I've got over 25000 unique photos, never really been looked at or sorted. Nothing ever deleted.

I could use Picasa to go through them individually and tag/upload/share the good ones, but I'd have to remember where I was up to.

I could set up tags Good & Bad and tag them all like that and if Picasa could show me all the untagged photos that would help (help me continue from where I left off).

What PhotoSorter does is simply this - step through each photo one at a time and flag it as a keeper or not.

You can exit and resume from where you left off at any time, and export the flagged photos at any time.

So I'm using it as a convenient way to reduce my crazy photo collection to one that is worthy of loading in Picasa and manage/share there.

Right now I'm exporting what I've tagged every week (exported to yyyy-MM folders). Then, Picasa is configured to include that export directory, and those yyyy-MM directories are set in Picasa to sync to Google+.

For the first time ever, my family overseas gets to see my photo collection - without the crap. And, although I will still back up the entire collection (all 50k photos incl duplicates) my exported (good) photos will be much smaller and easier to back up (I have several backups, disk, bluray, online, offsite).

Also, because the collection in Picasa is only the good ones, I am quite happy to set it off in slideshow mode, and know I'll enjoy it.
>But how does one determine what the prevalence of cardiovascular disease was in the ancient past? Time and the decomposition it brings are brutal on the flimsy meat of which we are made, and it is uncommon to have access to anything other than bones, much less bodies intact enough to be examined for signs of atherosclerotic disease. Even so, however, there have been indications that the idea that ancient humans didn’t suffer from atherosclerosis is a comforting myth, the most recent of which is a study published a week ago online in The Lancet by Prof. Randall C. Thompson of Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute and an international team of investigators entitled Atherosclerosis across 4000 years of human history: the Horus study of four ancient populations. Basically, it was a study of 137 different mummies from four different geographic locations spanning 4,000 years.

The whole time I was reading this I could only think, "science is great!" Thanks for posting this.
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I wasn't really disappointed. I will definitely buy the book. But the first feeling was not something I expected. :)
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It isn't fully functional, is it? The image from the CI opens with an STDOUT error.

What's missing to have a "nice" (working?) configuration for Pharo 2.0?
Visual programming.

This time, for sure.
Not trying to be a dick or anything, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo
There's a link on the home page - "About" which goes into a bit more depth.
The Improbable Rise of NPR Music
I'd say this article teaches all the wrong "lessens", personally.
Regarding "object oriented" vs "object orientated", the former is the standard variation while the latter is what linguists call a backformation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation

Basically, someone interprets "orientation" as having a stem of "orientate" analogous to how "contemplation" has a stem of "contemplate". Of course, the real stem is "orient".
The homepage does. This link is to the release announcement.
Yes, I didn't mean to say twenty dollars was an insignificant amount for most people. A ten dollar difference does matter. A penny matters if the storekeeper wants the full price and you lack a penny.
This website just showed a full page advertisement, then kicked me back to their home page when I clicked the continue button. Monumentally useless.
How Analytics Really Work at a Small Startup
Conway's Law of Starship Captains
Paleo falls into the same trap as most ideologies. Some percent of True Believers become jerks about it ("but it's so obvious! Just look at [weakly correlated thing]!"), and end up making the whole group look bad.

It's unfortunate, because most ideologies don't seem to be made to alienate. We get along fine as long as we don't bring up our pet beliefs.
"In 2010, Auernheimer and a compatriot, Daniel Spitler, discovered that visiting an unsecured AT&T Web server and entering a number associated with the customer's wireless account allowed him to obtain that customer's email address.

By altering the number and repeatedly querying the server, Auernheimer and Spitler were able to obtain hundreds of thousands of email addresses, which they then released to Gawker."

===

Amazing that something as simple as that landed him 10 years. This is something even I have done with some servers for telecoms in my country. And trust me, I'm no hacker. I just know basic HTTP GET request parameters, and what asshole doesn't know about those?

The laws in the US are terrible.
> Your only hope is playing games with timing.

This is inane. My question was about mathematically provable secure computation, not kludges that any old advanced alien civilization could bypass by sticking your agent-computer in a universe simulator. :)

Let's ignore the computers. You are a spy dispatched from Goodlandia to Evildonia. You want to meet with your contact and exchange signing keys. You can send a signal at any time to Goodlandia that will tell them to cut off all contact with you, because you believe you have been compromised. (A certificate revocation, basically.)

Your contact, thus, expects one of three types of messages from you:

1. a request for a signing key with an attached authentication proof;

2. a message, signed with a key, stating you have been compromised and to ignore all further messages sent using that key;

3. or a message, signed with a non-revoked key, containing useful communication.

Now, is there any possible kind of "authentication proof" that you could design, such that, from the proof, it can be derived that:

1. you have not yet been compromised;

2. you will know when you have been compromised;

3. and that, in the case of compromise, you will be allowed to send a revocation message before any non-trusted messages are sent?

You can assume anything you like about the laws of Evildonia to facilitate this--like that it is, say, single-threaded and cooperatively multitasking--but only if those restrictions can also carry over to the land of Neoevildonia, a version of Evildonia running inside an emulator. :)
Why did you not like the definition at the top? Instead scrolling to the other?

Oh, right, was that the thread I replied to and then got invisibly downvoted without an explanation? (If it was you, I'd love to hear your response to the post. I assume it wasn't you, since you've consistently been replying to my other ones.)

Maybe I'm too ignorant, but I don't understand how if one is viewing the subject from a evolutionary genetic perspective, why it is wrong to say that mechanisms that go against evolutionary development (abortion) are wrong. This seems reflexive.

Like, he did not bring up the soul, or feelings, or religion. Just genetics. Can one not make "right/wrong" judgements from a genetic perspective? (I'm not a biologist, so I wouldn't know).

A sperm, in terms of science, is useless without an egg.
A species, in terms of science, is extinct without offspring.

I don't care how much you masturbate, the universe doesn't care about sin but our species cares about zygotes and genetic diversity.
I think the lesson we're all learning here is that if you don't do your own Sysadmin/devops then you're almost guaranteed to be dealing with imperfect systems.
Are urban schools still separate?
>>>Anyway, that's far away from your "death spiral of the entire worldwide financial system." :)

We'll see. Bank accounts are private property. This is an unprecedented confiscation. And if this happens without open rebellion, nothing is safe for anyone anywhere.
This is very much a theoretical perspective. If you have to solve an NP-complete problem in practice, you wouldn't use any of the algorithms described in this article, you'd use a DPLL based SAT solver. A modern SAT solver will be orders of magnitude faster than these algorithms for practical cases. There is an international SAT solver competition every two years where you can find the current winning SAT solver: http://www.satcompetition.org/
See, that's just fine! It's awesome that you've found a diet that makes you feel better.

But here's the thing. You can't double blind yourself. That's the whole issue with blind trials. Double blind trials require that you do not and can not determine whether you are in the treatment group or not. Additionally, unless you're having an unrelated person prepare the food, w/o any knowledge of which foods are in the "paleo" group vs the control group, you're not operating double blind.

If it's just you and another person, it would be challenging to set up a double blind experiment (although i'd be interested to hear what you tried).
It's not of interest to HN because the only thing you can sell related to Tiny Tiny RSS is a server to run it on, and the server game is for chumps.
"yes, your last few comments and aggressive attitude do not seem to be bright from any angle. you are unfortunately unable to discuss reasonably. Your karma makes me afraid of HN in general; you must be penalized really, maybe get a karma cut by a factor of 100.", how does that make you feel? My point is that, attacks on comments and commentors are ad hominem, and wont work.

PS: i didnt upvote this article and didnt find it any good. As regular HNer, I am just alarmed by opinions to walk into "fascism".
You're exhaustingly unpleasant to converse with.
This makes sense, i got my account blocked for spamming via SMTP, and i didn't send a single mail.

It took 5 support letters to get my account unblocked, and the solution was to block SMTP ports...

I didn't have anything installed !!! Clear Ubuntu image
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I can't quite tell if you're implying this or not, but it's important to distinguish between "incompetent" as an insult and "incompetent" as a word meaning lacking in necessary skills.

In this case, identifying a users level of competence (or incompetence) is an important precursor for identifying the problem that technology needs to solve. And this appears to be exactly what Nielsen has done.

I'd take more offense to "pathetic" and "useless".
The `>>>` added to links with the `:before` selector adds a right margin that becomes an unclickable area between the decoration and the actual link. Using padding instead of margin will fix that.
Earth hour is just a way to draw attention to the subject.
There's an old saying that the true definition of supercomputing merely means moving the bottleneck from the CPU to the IO subsystem. The modern "big data" world seems about the same way. On a regular basis I find strange new ways at work to saturate any I/O system I get access to... Give me a faster I/O system, I'll find an exciting new way to bring it to its knees.
Developed World Economics for the 21st Century
Show HN: Bootstro.js - intro.js for Bootstrap
I feel like I'm reading about the time cube and I'm educated stupid.
I removed that. I figured that I would get some flak. :P

I did have my roommate prepare the food. Another one of my roommates swapped/labeled the food and then went to class, no interaction. It was mostly because he didn't believe that I could feel it and that it was mostly in my head. (which I totally understand, I was pretty worried about that as well)

We switched out white flour for some almond flour. We also did another one where he sweetened something using honey and another using corn syrup. (I could totally taste the difference there though)

Certainly not rigorous, but enough to make me pretty sure it isn't entirely a placebo effect. I'm planning on getting a Celiac Sprue test at some point.
What I really wanted to see is whether anyone has found the readme file and contacted the author. Unfortunately the author doesn't mention this.

I'd expect that a couple of hosts he got into were honeypots.
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Gassée acknowledged that he got schooled by Jobs. His experiences, perspective and demonstrated intellectual honesty makes him a great pundit.
I have never thought about this as an actual action against excesive energy consumption -- moreover, I am surprised that anyone could. It's just one hour.

Some years ago I lived in a student's dormitory (a big and tall building), and there were people who organized similar project every year: they negotiated with students that only some rooms in given hour would be lighten up. They made it so the building showed some image (lightbulb, for example). In this case, no one (I hope) thought that participants want to lower energy footprint of the building. It was all about a nearby highway and all the drivers.
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What about phone malware? And what stops someone reusing the https session as you move it from your phone to your desktop?
And in some countries you can only sue on the basis of an actual loss so as you haven't lost anything you have nothing to sue for...
Except that, even with PSHB, you get polling. I wrote about it here http://www.dp.cx/blog/pubsubhubbub-and-polling.html#.UUcPWLp...
IBM T.J. Watson, IBM Dublin, Oracle Labs, Google Mountain View, PARC Inc.,... there are some other ones that are more specific to HPC.
India is cheaper but not 14 times cheaper. $1000 doesn't go far in urban India. Its 2 weeks salary for awesome developers in India. One to one and a half months salary for ok to good developers.
Dietdoctor.com <= Great source (and the guy is actually a real doctor).
I am also working a programming language. I want programmers to be able to dynamically edit program code in run time. For example replacing operators in equations, conditions or injecting code into labels etc. Currently I have a working parser and semi working interpreter. But I can't find enough time to continue
JLG was implicit in the (precipitous) decline of Apple after Jobs was fired, but because there was a serious power vacuum. Sculley did not step up and lead the company, and the senior management fragmented, each trying to point the company in a different direction. JLG eventually was also forced out and went and started Be.

It looks like Tim Cook isn't repeating that mistake - he forced out Scott Forstall to remove a potential challenger (or loose cannon, depending on who you ask). I see the current blandness by Apple as both a consequence of that (necessary, IMO) action, as well as having a missing visionary.
So, you're suggesting that vegetarians change their own lifestyles so that those with (to use your example) "less" moral quandaries and more fiscal concerns don't have to change theirs?

Seems like an odd way to go about addressing the problem.
Sure, I'm working on a process to bring linked open data model to scientific raw data sets. While this has been done before, it hasn't been across related research fields. I'm looking to link environmental science with neurogenetics and everything in between.This will allow from the tiny "PhD" portion of the graph in the OP with the rest of the circle:)
In the words of Churchill:
it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried.
Here is a very good lecture on the state of cyber crime law. I recommend it to everyone in this community. Things are crazier than you are probably aware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Z_z4EHq6M
A developer who is a designer. The ultimate goal. This is what most people/companies don't get when they want to build an iOS app. That the developer SHOULD be the designer. Especially on iOS.
Yet startups still waste a ton of money of some UX monkeys, some designers and a developer.

Just get one or two guys (depending on project size) who can code AND design. It's always going to be more efficient and better.
How does this compare to [1]?

[1]: https://github.com/errbit/errbit
I guess I'm not surprised that a purpose built search engine built over a curated database outperforms a generic search engine using a completely unstructured and dynamic dataset.
Garrett, I'm buying your book. Definitely.

Question: How long did it take you to write the book and build the spreadsheets? I don't mean hours. I mean, from the day you started to the day you said "ok, done", how long was that?
How to play the game is what makes it unique. The screenshots on the blog give you an idea of actual game play. But still, give me a chance and I'll put some more footage together.
I'm pretty happy with http://www.feedly.com/ so far. No brainer to import my feeds from reader, and pretty nice presentation. I'm actually happy now that I was forced into switching.

My biggest pain point was replacing Google Listen (on android for listening to my podcasts). Subscribing to a new podcast was as easy as adding a new feed to reader under the 'Listen Subscriptions' folder.

But I've replaced Listen with Pocket Casts and I'm happy with it so far. For more info, see http://www.vamonossoftware.com/2013/03/living-without-google...
I had a nearly identical experience. I took it as a spring cleaning moment and deleted about 10 basically dead or no longer interesting feeds. So it took about 2 hours, but most of it was mental processing, reviewing recent posts (if any) and thinking about each feed for about a minute. UI improvements would be cool, but spring cleaning still would have burned about 2 hours anyway.
I've got bad news for you about your perfect system...
Could someone explain, why pharo matters? I just noticed it on HN#1, and never heard of it before.
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> it is likely that if you reset the root password via the web interface and don't change it afterwards that you are vulnerable

shocker.