skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my two cents (I got my Ph.D. in physics from U. Chicago):

I went to grad school because 1) Chicago physics was famously challenging and I wanted the challenge, 2) Everyone else I knew went to grad school - I didn't know how to look for a job, 3) Chicago was a big city with good live music and nice architecture.

All were wrong - the only acceptable answer I believe is "I love science so much, I want to be a scientist for the rest of my life and nothing is going to stand in my way."

What happened was:
1) The challenge was 100x more than I really wanted. I found out early I didn't want to be a scientist, but decided I would stick it out like a perversely beneficial jail sentence.
2) I'm a very, very, very social person. Oops - big mistake. You don't make enough money to date. The mental challenge of living a lifestyle in complete opposition to my core personality was the most difficult challenge (5 years in a dark basement trying to detect light from single semiconductor nanocrystals). But, I found out I could take loans and moved to the artist neighborhood - punk rock, dating and beer helped. (Wine-women-song? Sex-drugs-rock n' roll?)
3) I met some of the most interesting people I've ever met in my life and that made it all worth while. I did some cool things and in the middle of the financial crisis I was able to make a career change because the Chicago physics Ph.D. superficially let me get my foot in the door.
4) I went to a NATO physics conference in Turkey, met a non-scientist woman and married her. Now I'm a capulcu.
5) Having a Ph.D. is a great conversation topic at parties.
6) I did some really cool science, but was exposed to many carcinogens and high voltage equipment at a young age.

My Dad was a Marine and I feel like I went through a Mental Marine Corps, no disrespect to the real Marines. Boot camp is not fun, but it turns you into a man of a sort. The first 2 course years were like a boot camp.

The financial impact of not entering the job market hits you even for years after you finish your Ph.D. You'll be behind other people your age for awhile.

I should just turn this into a blog post!
HTH
I'm not too fond of factory farming, but that has little to do with veganism. In any case, your math would be correct only if 1 pound of vegetables consumed by a person is the same as one pound of meat. I guess even vegetarians would admit that's wrong (I think humanoids started eating meat because it was the only thing providing enough concentrated nutrition to support a massive brain, at least without eating all day long).

Moreover, it's quite conceivable (again, no proof, but there's little proof af anything in this field) that herbivores would convert one pound of corn much more efficiently than we would. This might mean that humans are better off wasting energy by feeding vegetables to animals and then eating the animals, than eating the vegetables directly. Maybe we can't extract the nutrients from the vegetables as well as herbivores do, so that seemingly wasted energy is actually a net gain.
I'm sure the app will last about as long as Sparrow.
Keep in mind North America does not have a true democracy. It more closely resembles a democratic dictatorship that has many checks in place to ensure our elected Leaders do not abuse their authority. There are other forms of democracy that bring authoritative decision-making much closer to the people.

See: https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Related%20...

I have developed a set of mock-ups that show how such a system might work.

See: https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/

Critiques and other contributions are most welcome.
That was the one novel I could not stand of his - I almost thought it was written as a parody.
> It is not an excuse if the guy is ready to throw himself and an airplane into a building for it. That means the guy is pretty sincere. The word you are looking for is motive.

The human unconscious is a mysterious place.

> The fact that you do not find their motives "reasonable" intrigues me. Is it their methods you disagree with, or their grievances?

I disagree with deliberately targeting civilians. I also think the worldview of these perpetrators is rather distant from reality.

> If you think their grievances are not legitimate, does it change when you substitute "gold rush" for "oil rush" and "red skin" for "rag head"?

Huh?
1. no; 2. no; 3. yes; 4. no; 5. no; 6. no; 7. no; 8. no; 9. yes;

10. yes - as far as I know, you either love someone or you don't, I don't think it comes in degrees.;

11. yes; 12. no; 13. no; 14. no;

15. yes, but [array of excuses];

16. no; 17. none;

18. Yes, but not intentionally [kitchen job for 4 years]

19. no; 20. no; 21. No, just indifferent.

Why is the policeman 23 years old? Seems like a strange number to pull out of a hat. Also I'm pretty sure lying on your CV is illegal - that would be some sort of fraud, wouldn't it?
no because consumers dont like 'planned obsolescence' and if they catch a whiff of it, your brand loyalty takes a huge hit.

also china isnt 'a little' cheaper than japan. its a lot cheaper, so they would need to make stuff a lot better.
Writing a book is generally a terrible way to make money, especially given the salary he must be making now.

Another motivation besides greed could be wanting to warn people and potentially save many lives.
"what you will have available maybe some time in the future"

Are you kidding me? Vietnam ended forty years ago!

They've had decades to come up with something better.

They just don't give a fuck about civilians.

Hell, they don't even care that much about US grunts, if the "hillbilly armour" and servicewoman-rape scandals are anything to go by.
For most people who eat correctly, taking Vitamins is more of a placebo than anything. I tried to start the discussion about it in scientific subreddits many times and got shut down. Vitamins are used way more than homeopathy and do works in many cases so it's hard for people to understand that it doesn't do anything, and might actually harm you if you take too much, if you're eating normally already (well in most cases).
Here's how:

$ VAGRANT_LOG=[debug, info, warn, or error] vagrant up

https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/blob/master/lib/vagrant...
There is no way to make accurate observations about nutrition? Well shit then, I guess we'd better just give up and accept our inevitable future obesity.
>Go ahead and buy stocks, says John Mauldin--if you've got a 10-year time horizon. If you don't, don't. Because it's just another sucker's rally.
-John Mauldin March 2009

John Mauldin seems to have a spotty track record. He correctly called the summer 2008 rally as a bull trap.[1] However, he failed to call the 2009 low, and has been calling a top for the past few years.[2][3]

Eventually I'm sure he'll get it right, and there will be another market crash. But if you listened to him in 2009 [3], you would have missed out on a 250% increase in your portfolio over the past 4 years.

Based on 4 year boom/bust business cycle, I actually think the market is overdue for a serious correction to 1200-1400 S&P in the next year, but I don't see any doomsday scenario playing out in the next 5 years.

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/prepare-now-there-is-so-much-...
[2]http://www.investorsinsight.com/blogs/john_mauldins_outside_...
[3]http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-just-a-suckers-...
Cool, so you already had your your moment of outrage. It's ok to be outraged more than once ...

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline
Article in English: http://cphpost.dk/news/national/hacker-charged-stealing-poli...
I don't hope to achieve anything. But I'm sure there's folks out there who would have some motive to do so.
My uncle tried this argument. I proposed that he post a photo of himself naked on his facebook wall.

Funnily, he demurred.
It's not because you have nothing to hide that it's not important. People like Julien Assange are created every day, and they need support in cases like this.
> I'm conscious and alert to what's going on around me and my opinions are well-formed.

Question that. The key to Andy Groves success.
Feynman vs. The Abacus
Hidden service routing works quite differently that regular exiting traffic. Twice the number of relays are involved, and the traffic is end-to-end encrypted instead of being visible to any relay (such as an exit node). Correlation attacks are always possible to a global passive adversary (which NSA may or may not be), but as far as I can tell, they seem much harder to pull off against hidden services.
Which is why we should be giving these three people a medal and sending to prison whoever was responsible for the incompetency of the security force.

We were lucky and need to be thankful that three pacifists (including a nun of all people) and not actual terrorists were the first ones to find a major hole in the security of this facility. A facility, mind you, tending to weapons that could destroy human civilization many times over.
Tor anonymity: How I Learned to Stop Ph34ring NSA and Love the Base Rate Fallacy
Nice, the atlantic just wrote an article along the same line. Even if you fully trust the current administration, why make yourself vulnerable to future ones ...

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/all-the-...
He didn't say he had a problem with Israelis at all. Just the Israel Government. Many Israelis share that sentiment: http://2jk.org/praxis/?p=4769

Google translation: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&n...
Glad to see that the government finally understands that IP address does not equal identity. Now can we get copyright law updated to match?
> I'm sure there was plenty of evidence to suggest black cats are harbingers of bad luck.

There were university publications on black cats being harbingers of bad luck? While it's hard to juxtapose what constituted an 'equivalent' level evidence during what are otherwise radically different historical time periods, this claim strikes me as stretching the analogy quite far.

> But fear of black cats, same as the healthy-food religion, is superstition precisely because it is a belief people accept based on lower standards of evidence than they would in other aspects of their lives

Multiple academic findings corroborating each other is typically seen as enough evidence upon which to base action. If not, then what constitutes adequate evidence?

Also, it would be helpful if you could point out aspects of peoples lives in which they generally behave according to your definition of rationality, or in which they maintain a 'high' standard of evidence.
Actually, the number of issues/pull requests is higher than usual right now. You're right that at the moment I'm a bottleneck. I'm looking to change that (I want to add more committers).

However, historically I think I've been very good about responding to issues rather quickly. Unfortunately, the past 6 weeks I've been quite bad at it as I've been focussing on something you'll hopefully see in a few weeks. Again, this highlights the problem of being a bottleneck.

I'd love to promote more committers.
Not sure why your comment was downvoted, since it's essentially true.

They call it War on Drugs, because "War on Blacks" would be racist and "War on the Poor" would be admitting to class warfare.

Think about the simplest example: crack vs. powder cocaine. Prior to 2010, there was a 100:1 ratio on the Federal penalties for the two types of the same drug. Crack cocaine also carried a five year mandatory minimum. Officially, this was based on Congress's belief that crack was more dangerous than powder. Unofficially, it was because crack was much, much more common among blacks and Hispanics, whereas powder was often consumed by rich white people.

In 2010 Obama reduced the disparity to 18:1 and removed the mandatory sentencing on crack. The disparity is still crazy racist however.
Approaching 1% of your population being incarcerated seems absurd.
The value of adding randomness in statistics
Once it came to light that they were recorded, I would think they would slap an additional wiretapping violation and then move to have the video evidence suppressed.
I think the Wasp Factory, although obviously well written, was mostly functional, it got Banks the recognition he deserved, and initiated his literary career. He did write other novels before it, which only got published afterwards, and at least during his first creative decade, was highly creative and very ambitious (Against A Dark Background, The Crow Road, etc. all very ambitious works).
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Ah, I see what you mean. Thanks for clarifying for me.
For several years I've been thinking that HOV lane smarts are the next thing Google would add. :/
I learned about vagrant from this old HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714149

I wanted to call out the advice from that article to use fabric (if you use python) to control the vagrant+VM instances. You use chef/puppet to configure the VM, and then use fabric to, for instance, switch between virtualenvs for different apps within the virtual host. I used it that summer to work on a web app while I took my daughter to swim lessons, and it was well worth my while.
The behavior of federal prosecutors in the Aaron Swartz case wasn't anything unusual. The same holds true for the case this article speaks about. Piling inappropriate charge upon charge to coerce a plea deal is standard operating procedure. This stuff is happening every day and has been happening for a long, long time.

As for the sentencing, there are rules that we can apply to get an idea of what to expect. The federal sentencing guidelines have a bit of flexibility, but not much. These people probably have a criminal history level of I under the sentencing guidelines. The sabotage charge has a base offense level of 26. The property damage charges each have a base offense level of 6. I'm guessing the property damage charges would be considered a part of the sabotage charge, so we'll just stay at 26. That yields a sentence of 63-78 months. I'd be seriously surprised if any of them get more than 7 years.
Yes. There's no he-said-she-said when a camera is involved. A securista can always claim institutional authority to have their word count more than yours, but they can't do that against a video file.

If they do, and get away with it, then we have a deeper problem.
It is often said that the U.S. is a young country. While it's true that "American" as a nationality is very new compared to other nationalities, the U.S. regime, having existed in a continuous, unbroken series of democratic transfers of power since 1776, is relatively old. Of major European and Asian countries, only Britain is older.

It's a remarkable feat, especially considering that prior to WWII, democracy was a rarity, and now it is in some ways the world's default political system, and I think it's obvious that the U.S. was a critical part of that change.

However, I think that the U.S. while still free and certainly not totalitarian, is at least, no longer a leader in either of the two sides of Democratic-Republicanism: An effective electoral and political process, A simple, efficient legal and constitutional process grounded in natural rights. Both of which are superior in the Nordic and some other European countries.

I believe that our history has made us too complacent and trusting of government. I developed politically during the G.W.B. years and was deeply disturbed by the used of the words freedom, liberty, and patriotism.

Americans have become used to these words as part of our identity, but we can't let them be used as Pavlov's bell when they've been redefined to have the opposite of their original meaning.
Is he so great? His books are great I hear, but he's antisemetic: He supports BDS.

I haven't decided if I want to read his books anyway. Divorce the artist from the art.

(And please don't tell me that BDS is not antisemetic because that's nonsense - just look at who the founders were.)
From the transcript, it seemed pretty clear he did know what the information was, but he just didn't know the potential consequences of it.

You have to remember that this is an IM transcript after all. The "trigger-happy hyper-masculine" comment was likely just a joke or either angst at his predicament.
10000 people on Maps doesn't sound right. There are about 35k Googlers (excluding Motorola). 1/3rd on Maps? Implausible.
PunditTracker is a pretty cool site that is trying to solve this problem: http://www.pundittracker.com/
Here's the thing. If it's only YOUR answers that can be made public and the entire world is expected to scrutinize them, you will want to keep it private.

But if lots of people's answers are public, you will quickly see that everyone... is just human. The things we consider private and embarrassing are absolutely common and normal. It's absolutely normal to be abnormal. It's normal to be average. It's okay to have weird fantasies, other people have weird fantasies too. Everyone takes a shit.

It's the imbalance of information release that is more upsetting.
He's being facetious.

Obviously nuclear weapons facilities are very important. Obviously three hippies aged 57, 63, and 82 shouldn't be able to break in so far as to spray paint a building holding nuclear weapons.
The fact that you view this as an overly negative article indicates that you aren't the phd type.

I didn't opt for a phd but I sometimes wish I did. I answered C to every one of these questions.
The PRISM spin war has begun
Vagrant is awesome! I use it to test ops changes and puppet deployments. If anyone is interested, I've created two screencasts about vagrant:

Episode #4 - Vagrant [1]
Episode #5 - Create a Vagrant box with Veewee [2]

[1] http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/4-vagrant

[2] http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/5-create-a-vagrant-box-wit...
The NSA is not the average guy listening in on your wifi and then using your CC to buy stuff online. HTTPS protects against those, and it does so relatively efficiently.
Don't worry, Google isn't that type of company. You won't even feel it.
I think it's funny that you're citing all of these studies and generally being evidence-based and rational and then you casually mention that "processed food" makes people fat.
And if people start using it a lot but google cant insert ads they'll shut it down ala good reader.
And why is the CIA an investor?
I've been using it for microcontroller development lately and it seems like a nice way to preserve and share toolchain configuration. You define everything once (compilers, makefiles, drivers, etc) and then share it with people on your team, regardless of what OS they're using. VirtualBox allows you to set up USB port forwarding so you can even program and debug from the command-line.
Why does the graphic portray police as mean angry people. Police are good people who provide a valuable service. They do a good thing. They are not the enemy.
Don't know where in the world you are, but based on the information you've posted in the first sentence, you would never be able to purchase individual health insurance in the US. That means, among other things, no leaving your employer (and employer-provided insurance) to pursue your entrepreneurial dreams, unless you want to go without insurance altogether, or get it through a spouse.
I've tried that. It seems google tracks ip and forces users to change password.
Those atrocities happened quite a bit earlier than 1930 (for the most part, anyway).
Vladimir Markov, who died at 25, probably isn't the brother most people would associate with the name.

not to diminish Vladimir's contribution to mathematics at such a young age - but Andrey Markov, of the chains and processes, lived until 66.
Do you have the 'showdead' option on? If not, you shouldn't see posts from hellbanned users.
We live in a society where secret detention is practiced. Where a relatively short time ago, we interned Japanese people.

Who cares about your anti-depressants.

A program like this perhaps isn't that big of a deal to a white, upper middle class family in Cambridge, but it's a threat to a Muslim man with a minivan, wife and two kids in Michigan who is afraid to call his mother in Pakistan because he might get flagged. And that's just today -- tomorrow it could be a Chinese family, a Jewish one (countries have been there before), a Mormon one or whatever our democratic mob fears at any given time...

It's all fun and games until there's a fascist dictator.
Totalitarian states (e.g. USSR, East Germany, North Korea) are extremely effective at dealing with small crime. Growing in a small town in East Germany we didn't have a key for our house small door. There were literally zero people to use or sell illegal drugs.
If you love vagrant, be sure to give the plugin 'Sahara' a try. It allows you to sandbox vagrant. so you can commit or rollback changes!

https://github.com/jedi4ever/sahara
I don't think you'd want to host your static website on a low cost VPS. S3/CloudFlare will be cheaper and more reliable.
You find the jihadis "unreasonable".

Look, this is the list of things you could find "unreasonable":

(a) the jihadi position on God

(b) the jihadi position on US policy

(c) the jihadi method to affect change - violence

Lets deal with them one by one.

(a) is loony but pretty much irrelevant. You wouldn't feel any better if they converted to Shintoism and continued the jihad, would you?

(b) US policy is well studied so you can't really deny its lousiness. Example references:

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/...

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Systems-Conversations-Democratic...

http://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/037...

http://goingtotehran.com/

(c) you can only condemn the violence if you would not do the same thing in their place.

To me, that means you should be able to sell them a peaceful method as being more effective than jihad. Well, we have a historical record.

The peaceful, liberal, pro-democratic reformers in the middle east seem to have gotten defeated and tortured by the CIA and their local satraps. Like what happened to my family.

On the other hand Jihad seems to be winning in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia and so on.

http://zenhuber.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/preview-bin-laden-dea...

So you don't have a very strong case.
Will there be an update to cover version 2 of Vagrant? The comments seem to say that it only covers version 1 thoroughly.
your comments seem to be helbanned (i am writing it here since it's the newest non-helbanned comment of yours)
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Blog post with some background and some technical stuff:
http://frozenfractal.com/blog/2013/4/9/released-patchy/
Why would you trust any more than any other? They have access to each-other's intel infrastructure as a matter of official policy.
> deeply disturbed by the used of the words freedom, liberty, and patriotism

Just the use of the word "homeland" without irony is chilling.