skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds plausible enough but I wonder why Ekirch (the historian referenced in the article) seems to be the only source for this theory? A quick look on Wikipedia [1] reveals no additional sources or scientific discussion either. It just seems a bit unlikely that such basic human behavior would be forgotten, only to be rediscovered by a single historian. Can anyone shed some light on how trustworthy this theory is?

BTW I don't have any evidence or bias against this. I'm just genuinely curious and a bit confused.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep
Because it's more convenient, of course.

If you want to help turn things on their head, the folks working on http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ could probably use lots of help.
Well, at a certain number of levels deep, comments seem to be un-downvoteable. I don't quite understand why.
Ha, um no... That would be nice.
Emperor Harper? Goon Cabinet? Is Reddit leaking or something? What a bunch of crap. You know Michael Geist had a ton of very positive things to say about C-11 [1], right? You didn't want to link directly to that commentary, though. I wonder why?

[1] - http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6695/99999/
Define "public". Public to Atherton residents? Public to Californians? Public to Americans? If it's built and maintained from local Atherton taxes, they should get a say in who uses it.
Rather than merely considering it, just do it. It's an early-stage project and now is the easiest time to do it. And, no, I wouldn't go with painfulcancerdeath.io.
I was recently in rural South Sudan, at a place where there are no power lines within 80 miles. So the systems they use must be off the grid by necessity.

There were several PV and battery setups there which worked pretty well. Obviously you need to be careful with the amount of power that you use, but it can run computers, TV and lighting with a reasonable setup.

There was a computer lab at one installation which had one desktop machine acting as a server and about 15 thin clients to keep the power usage low.
To add another anecdote, I usually do not have trouble sleeping through the night. Once I lay down, it takes awhile for me to fall asleep, but once I do, I sleep 8-9 hours without waking up. However, even when I awake, I still feel drowsy and not "rested".

Very recently, I started taking 3-6 mg of melatonin about thirty minutes before going to bed. I find that I fall asleep more more quickly, but I inevitably awake roughly four to five hours later, completely lucid. After a few minutes of being awake, I roll over and easily fall asleep again for another three to four hours. When the morning comes, I wake up feeling much more refreshed than I did when I slept continuously throughout the night.

I usually spend long nights in front of my computer, and from what I have read, melatonin production is reduced by the presence of blue light. I have started using Flux in addition to my melatonin intake. I can only guess that I am starting to enter a more "normal" sleep cycle.
The video looks good, but why would I use your app instead of checking on yelp where more people have reviewed the "place"? Honestly curious why you think users should check your app instead of yelp?
I feel like I'm trapped with some slightly drunk person at a cocktail party.
Why would it be wrong to expect people to contribute back to the society which has enriched them?
Sometimes ones own anecdotes are sufficient proof. Gathering facts and compiling statistics may be necessary from an outsider's perspective, but for some things a single personal experience is enough.
Or, slightly differently, the applications aren't as compelling.

Web browsers, for example, are focusing on improving performance on the same hardware (faster javascript) over compelling features (What happened to VRML? I don't know if I really want it, but there is definitely less experimentation today). Windows has for all intents and purposes become the only thing people upgraded for in the past 5 years, and even Windows 8 (as a similarly-named, recent article notes) isn't doing so hot. It's easy to say Windows is to blame, but if it is at all, I think it's just the latest disappointment. Software isn't pushing any limits, which is not for a lack of them. People develop for the browser now. Only 3D games push the local hardware today (and even they have gotten pretty formulaic).

From my own experience, I used to be excited about games, for example, and bought hardware to run new software. The games aren't compelling for me. And the OS lost me with XP (Geniune Advantage specifically alienated me), so I stick mostly to Linux these days. The push to enforce copyright has made me less interested in the shiny toys - I don't try them so I don't get hooked - the same toys I used to buy hardware to try (a game borrowed from a friend, a new beta of Windows... I couldn't get enough). It's the copyright stuff that really alienated me.

Couple that with the surge in neutered, pseudo-computer tablets, and the most of the eyeball time being spent on TV-like YouTube, etc, and computationally very-simple sites like Facebook, and yeah, the hardware doesn't really need to change. I don't think the platform is mature or anything, just that developers are more conservative. (Leaving me not surprised to see 20 year old software shops close down.)

Today, the Web rules, P2P is almost illegal, and Internet speeds have pretty much stopped growing. 3D isn't getting all that much better, and what gaming there is has largely gone away from the PC to the brand-name console that lends itself to strict license enforcement. Computers just aren't that fun these days.
I don't know where you're deriving social norms from conformity. If anything, with Europe being traditionally much more leftist than the U.S. there has been much more conformity of the individual to the state in Europe.
In the UK a lot of door to door collecting for charities is done by private companies who take a significant chunk of the donation for themselves.

Perhaps richer people are more likely to know this and be sceptical of door to door collections. They may also value their time more and not like being "hassled".

This does not necessarily mean that they do not provide charity donations. They may just do it in a smarter way, for example attending charity dinners/events where they get to rub shoulders with other affluent people.
I'm pretty sure I explained the value of use of bitcoins as a medium of exchange in footnote 2. The convenience and ability to facilitate transactions on the black/grey market might cause bitcoins to trade at a slight premium. On the other hand, volatility, concerns over hacking, exchange lag, and the threat of future government regulation may overshadow this and cause them to trade at a slight discount. I split the difference and assume that prices in the bitcoin economy adjust relative to the spot price, so that the real exchange rate is one-to-one. The problem isn't with the utility of a crypo currency in the abstract. It's that this will never come to fruition with built-in flaws like deflation, which inevitably lead to bubbles.
To whoever owns test@test.com, I apologise.
Law enforcement is given strong shackles because of the power they (the government) has. These same controls are not applied to the general populous.

The police can not break into your house if they believe you have evidence of a crime. If he does, evidence found can not be used against you. Your neighbor on the other hand, can. He can also take that evidence to the police and they can use it in that case. Now, he may also be charged with a crime, but that evidence can be used against you.
Screencaps:

http://puu.sh/2zwIE

http://puu.sh/2zwJJ
The claim made (right or wrong) was that the problem was not being an elite, but having certain ideology. In other words, that class is not the real issue.
Do you have any sources for this:

"The police also knew exactly who was involved, and have known for over a year.
The "lack of evidence" referred to by police was not a lack of evidence of who was involved, but rather a lack of sufficient evidence that the sexual encounter was criminal. "

You do seem trustworthy, I would just like to verify and read more.
Generating Javascript in Haskell with Sunroof
Probably cheaper than providing warranty... Or does the court also force them to change their policy? That's the only thing that matters here. Fining them is only of use as warning for future cases, it's not like citizens ever see any money from fines.
Nice weekend read!
Let's see how satisfied you are with Anonymous' 2-hour justice process when you are the accused.
Is this production-ready? I want to start working on it right away for my new project :) I know looking at the version number hints us otherwise, but I'm just curious since these guys have actually used it in production before..
Faster vector math using templates
Asking the police to deliver Anonymous-style justice seems ill-advised. We have due process for a reason.
You should accept that he is 'almost' right. It's true that this technology (as most of them) can be used for spying and terrorist purposes, but regulation is the worst (and most anti-competitive) way of handling this issue. The article does not mention what kind of regulation, though.

One would expect the chairman of a company whose motto was "don't be evil" to ask for awareness and education on the technology instead of regulation.
Anonymous didn't solve anything by identifying the alleged rapists. Nothing I have read suggests that Canadian law enforcement didn't know who the suspects were. They simply did not file charges. We don't know why exactly they didn't file charges, but for some reason they determined there was no case.
How weight training helped me become a better developer
Oh wow..
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36767 This one is from what looks like someones living room a few minutes away from me. Where are these precise coordinates coming from?
A zoo in Miyazaki, Japan:

Llamas or alpacas? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19208

Flamingos: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=23564

Monkeys: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20433

Giraffes, zebras, ostriches: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19583

Waterfowl: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22596
Stereotypes often ring true, no one attributes this kind of stuff to northern Europe and there's a reason for that.

As to your claim that he's lying about the vegetable cart story. In order for his car to get swarmed, at least one of those vegetable sellers has to make the first move, sometimes this happens, but 9 times out of 10 people look out for their own skins ahead of righteous vengeance.
I have not tried your app, but I really like the video. Simple, clean, explains what the app does well. Also, you hit on an issue that many people (including me) have had where I look at a building and think "What's that for?" or "Who owns those condos? I don't even know how to Google for them".
Yes, straight from the RCMP's mouth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at3XG-4ftF8#t=2m

"There were insufficient evidence to proceed to charges."

That Youtube link is a video of a RCMP officer being interviewed on air.
Only in India? I'd be inclined to think that elites everywhere have the same sense of entitlement.
compilation @ http://interestingwebcams.tumblr.com
That's probably because GitHub doesn't have managers.

(Or everyone's a manager, depending on how you look at it.)
I'm always peeved by this reference to Keynes. This is a topic that is universally recognized by almost all economists, with the exception of a few Austrians. In fact, the main proponent of this concept was a conservative economist from the University of Chicago named Irving Fischer. Because the Great Depression was a period of absolute deflation (falling prices and falling output), this was a central concern to Keynes as well. However, it was none other than Milton Friedman, a lead figure in the resurgence of neo-liberal (libertarian) thought in the mid 20th century. In fact, Milton Friedman's most famous work (the work with Anna Schwartz), was all about how the Fed caused the double-dip in the Great depression by enforcing the gold standard and contracting the money supply. See? Friedman (a libertarian) rose to fame for his claim that the Fed destroyed too much money during the Great Depression!

Edit: One quick thing I forgot. Keynesian economics is all about the idea that, if prices are "sticky" and cannot fully adjust in real time, then that leads to drops in output. The flip side of this, which is evident in the current crisis, is downward nominal wage rigidity. The fact that prices are slow to adjust partially mitigates the threats of deflation. So if anything, Keynesians have less to worry about from deflation than other factions of macroeconomists.
Why Aren't Salespeople Running Software Companies?
http://buysellads.com
A quick watermarking tool using the canvas element
What's GR?
But Bernanke can print money for him and for his friends.

You can't.
I hope you don't include my comment above in that 'pile-on'. I had no intention of negative criticism on the project or the author; just wanted to give a quick tl;dr of how this library works. Nothing more, nothing less.

@Author: I apologize if it was taken that way.
It's VERY EASY in India to make a difference in someone's life. Even if you're middle class, you can make a difference because people around you are way poorer than you. The problem is one of large scale apathy and complete indifference.

I agree but let's not lose track of the fact that empathy doesn't end at national borders. We Indians have a responsibility to help those of us who are less privileged than us, but so does everyone else in the world. And let's also not forget that our conditions are the way the are thanks largely to colonialism and that the British in particular and the western world in general profited massively from our suffering during that time. And finally let's also not forget that immigration and employment laws in the western world even today actively work towards denying economic opportunities to people in developing countries and this plays a huge part in countries like India staying poor.

My point is that it's a bit too simplistic to frame it as Indians need to do X instead of Y and then they will be fine. Indians are doing Y not because they're genetically deficient but because we've gotten stuck in a local maxima that is mostly not of our own making.
Hi folks. I'm one of the engineers on Facebook Home (disclaimer these are my opinions and not those of Facebook). It's been really interesting reading the early reviews. I think we can learn a lot from them.

The goal of the product is to make your phone feel more alive with content from the people you care about while still allowing you to efficiently perform all the typical tasks you use your phone for. The navigation model is a bit different than what people have become accustomed to, so some confusion is very understandable; however, we tried very hard to make access to any task just as efficient on Home as any other launcher. Getting to any app is just one gesture away: swipe up to launcher; swipe right to the last app; or double tap the home button to bring up the switcher. As user feedback comes in we'll continue to tune our model to try and achieve a nice balance between surfacing social content and completing tasks.

Home was designed and engineered by a pretty small team with a goal of releasing a high quality, performant, and beautiful product. To ensure our bar was met, we tried to narrowly focus on doing just a few things but doing them well for the first release. Of course the trade off here is that some features that people value are missing. I hope this first version will be judged on the execution of what we did include as we continue to fill in the gaps in future releases.

For anyone who has checked it out so far Thank you! I'm looking forward to making the experience something you'll love.
I think there is just a delay, to keep back-and-forth arguing at a minimum you cannot immediately vote on or respond to a deeply nested comment.
I'm still reading through it, but it's very cool that you have a "lessons learnt" section in the github wiki.
However, your neighbor breaking in is trespassing. You can press charges against him or even (in many countries) defend your property by force. You can't really do that against cops.
From what I can tell (which is not much), it searches the document for a script tag calling jQuery from Google's CDN and then tries to load its own payload by AJAX.

n(z) makes the ajax call (I think z is the url) (with a pretty nifty looking stack of functions inside an array), r(y,B) builds html elements (where y is the tag name and B is a text node inside the tag, and any subsequent arguments are mapped as tag attributes), and that's as far as I got until it gave me got a headache and decided life was too short.
Jurassic Bark: How Sound Design Changed Our Imaginations
The case may be getting lots of attention however it indicates that one thing is clear: people are losing faith in government-funded social support structures.

Law enforcement agencies are being lambasted time and again (whether it's valid criticism or not is irrelevant), and they continue to ignore claims of how ineffectual they are. Someone needs to stand up and say "We are here for you and we support you" otherwise it stands to reason that there are dangerous undertones forming.

Cost-cutting policies are continuing to erode our faith in institutions that exist to help and assist us in times of need, and it's becoming painfully clear people are thinking they have nowhere else to turn. Social services actively look for ways to avoid helping people, and they actively discourage people from turning to them.

The libertarian in me finds is absolutely wonderful that people are realizing they need to become self-sufficient but it's frightening as well.
Given how old, large, and diverse the entirety of Chinese culture is, if it takes 50 years for the Internet to gradually open up their society and system of government, it's still a big win. I view it as a matter of time, not if.
I think overall the design and implementation is quite impressive. However, the feeling I got when I installed it last night was that it limits my phone's experience (ie., no widgets, etc). So while I can see Facebook Home appeal to hard-core FB users (ie., especially younger ones), I don't think it will appeal to everyone. But that's not necessarily a bad thing if the target is the hard-core FB user. I'm sure over time FB Home will get better and likely appeal to more people and it extends its capabilities.
Maybe because the Flesch-Kincaid reading level isn't a particularly good metric of anything other than sentence length and syllable count? Certainly not of "content" or "value" however you might define those concepts.
Perhaps you need a refresher. When Bill C-11 was introduced, it was a CARBON COPY of Bill C-32, of which Mr. Geist did not give a very flattering review at all:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6031/125/

How about this piece:
"In other words, virtually every education group and provincial education minister in Canada - along with major businesses and retailers - have joined with librarians, archivists, and documentary film makers to oppose the government's position on digital locks."

So, in other words, even their corporate business overlords thought their puppet underlying Harper & Goon Co. were over acting.

It was after a lot of petitioning and citizen activism that the amendments to the bills were made enough so that it was passed. I even petitioned my MP, so I'd consider myself part of the solution. To be fair, Emperor Harper at least had the decency to not shove it down everyone's throat, though he very easily could have done so with a majority party.

And Reddit? Seriously? I don't even go on that filth of a site, so please, why don't you go back to "The Frontpage of the Internet" (or whatever the heck they brand themselves these days)?
Since when are humans not apes?
OK what you said is literally true, but I interpreted the spirit of your comment, because it has few implications for the end user. It's technically relevant, but eventually will be abstracted away.. (.. because "if the project continues to succeed into the future")

For the record I link all of my transactions to my personal identity. And intend to in the future. I just like to think about the project a lot, because its feature as a de facto black market currency is one thing that will guarantee usage (not necessarily /USD price appreciation) in the at least short term future (until a better technology supplants it).

*

#Its easy to convert Bitcoin into other altcoins.

btc-e, cryptonit make it easy

#And then convert those alt coins into other altcoins.

btc-e, cryptonit make it easy

#And then convert those alt coins into Euros/Rubles/USD

btc-e, localbitcoin

#And in the future some of these alt coin chains will vanish totally

have you looked at the namecoin project. it hasn't been updated in 8 months. the price has gone down over time (but it's really fucking hard to get historical price data for namecoin unless someone sells it to you). honestly if you just wash through one of these fledgling currencies there is a speculator market on all of them, one of these projects will wend its way into obscurity. the market has a limited number of actors, not enough to guarantee that anyone is recording data. the exchange probably has books of its rates, but how are you going to get data from them? these also drop like flies.

# and it will take a miracle to recover the block chain history.

that's what i'm saying. the initial transaction will be logged, and tied to you if you aren't careful. the last transaction will be logged, and tied to you if you aren't careful. but putting together all the links in the middle and linking it to someone's identity? it's possible, if you knock on enough doors, and have aggressive enough resources. but there's no process for it currently, and so many things would have to come together in the most serendipitous way to conspire against you.
20 years was long enough for Microsoft to rise and fall.
Anthologies Of Authors In Translation Pulled From ReLIRE
Yeah, I suspect all of the comments will either be about why somebody thinks the algorithm is stupid or why they don't think they need a filter on HN or why they think filters in general are stupid or promote groupthink or whatever.

The author seems pretty clear that this was just a programming exercise written for fun and self-education and makes no claims about its perfection.

As a side note, I agree that "fanboy" and all of its permutations is a 99.9% reliable indication of a worthless comment (although such a filter would obviously catch this post :). This is regardless of whether the poster is referring to themselves or someone else or some hypothetical group that they imagine exists somewhere, and regardless of the subject of the fanboyism.