skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I speak both English and Chinese. I gave my children both English and Chinese names. It would be a very good idea to try to replicate these preliminary findings across more languages. We can't assume that English-speaking people in developed countries are representative of the whole world.

http://www.psmag.com/magazines/pacific-standard-cover-story/...

Besides the issue of whether or not the findings fit all of humanity rather than just people in some cultures, there is also the issue of whether the findings are even true. A lot of psychologists are discovering that many reported findings on human psychology are not from studies with adequate statistical power to show that the findings are genuine. The more astute psychologists, such as Uri Simonsohn at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business,

http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~uws/

are alert now about applying statistical tests to published findings to find out if the findings are really likely given the described experimental conditions, or are the result of "p-hacking" or undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis or other researcher behavior that obscures truth-finding.

The author of this brief article has a book coming out, and "is an assistant professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, with an affiliated appointment in the N.Y.U. psychology department." I wonder what he thinks of the work of Simonsohn and Simonsohn's colleagues about testing research findings that make it into the business journals to find out whether or not the findings are even true or generalizable to other cultures.
Google researcher publishes Windows zero-day exploit
Nice!

Related: Voilá! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicareously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valerous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to venquish these venal and virulent vermin venguarding vice and vouchsafing the violent, vicious and foracious violation of volition! The only virdict is vengance. A vendetta, held as votive not in vain but for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and virtuous. Yet verily this vichessoice of verbiage veers most verbose. So let me simply add that it is my very great honor to meet you, and you may call me, V. // Only know it from hearing, I probably misspelled half the words.
That is not what I wanted to do. Thing is: The article cited is spotty in that regard, I pointed that out (you don't need sources for that) and I didn't and still don't understand your answer to that comment of mine. I don't want to discuss meta nor personal, so that's it for me.
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i agree, i've actually worked at the bbc and the infrastructure that goes into these things is unbelievable and necessary.
Well, it's totally worth reading and it only takes a few minutes. I've seen way longer stuff come by on HN ;)
> Maybe coal has fewer expected deaths per MW generated on average, but a nuclear plant's worst-case scenario is clearly substantially worse.

No, coal has dramatically more expected deaths. But, yes, nuclear disasters are potentially much worse if things go wrong. [http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/the-triumph-...]

> Facts and scientific judgment can't really tell us in that case which is better: that's really only something that informed democratic deliberation can do (informed by science, economics, ethics, etc.).

Again, I'm really not sure what the point is besides being contrarian ;) I'm certain that you are not telling me facts and scientific judgement don't matter? Or that popular opinion, informed by a host of factors, is somehow preferable to doing the right thing? Keep in mind I'm not even "taking sides" pro or con nuclear here, just advocating an informed discussion.
I think it seems longer and more taxing to read because the paragraphs are pretty long. It's harder to stay focused both mentally and visually in the middle of a large block of text.
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Poll: Your favorit revision control software
Today Bitbucket passed one million users. And it made me wonder what HN use as there favorite (open source) revision control software.
ArX
Codeville
DCVS
GNU arch
Veracity
SoundCloud did a similar thing, but when you go into a Web Dev tools > Console.
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Golang vs PHP
To me it was the only one of the two that seemed like a normal and unisex name. But the article is American and I'm from the Netherlands, so I just don't know all the names like a native would.
I can confirm that Hostgator is extermely reliable.
if you dont want to spend a dime i have a huge reseler space just sitting there. Let me know if you want and i can provide you with a free space for your blogging.
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Great tool. I was just about to do such a thing - thanks!
I actually planned on a reverse proxy in Go, but seeing now that you've implemented with tcpdump - any insights on the two ways to do this?
And then there are glLight, glLightModel, etc.
> s it a Governmet loan? I mean like Government taking money from the competent people who know what they are doing, and giving it to ucompetent, hey here you have money so you can compete with competent guys using their money!

Your objection, when applied to the specifics, would seem to make Tesla "ucompetent" and folks like GM both competent and untainted by government support. This thinking has some problems.
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Haha, what's the downmod for? Because it was a bad joke, because it was a joke period, or because it actually went over the head of someone? HN, go out more.
I'd guess that India doesn't appear on a whole lot of people's "places-to-visit" lists, but it really should.

I spent 11 days in India last December, and was utterly enthralled, repulsed and fascinated in about equal parts. It's an eye-opening experience to see how the majority of the world lives, and Indian culture and architecture is wonderfully rich. I definitely plan to go back again, as I was only able to scratch the surface of a tiny bit of southern India in 11 days. I'd encourage anyone else considering it to go.

Shameless plug: Here's the blog post I wrote about my trip.

http://jasonlangenauer.com/2012/12/india/
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Is it only me who finds inviting women to be speakers only because they are women wrong and in fact sexist? You shouldn't differentiate people like this.

It's basically wrong in the same way as saying "Im looking for white, heterosexual men who want to speak about Python"
Douban, where I work, has no real equivalent outside of China, even if obviously everyone in China is looking closely at new things from the US.
Great suggestion. Added on https://github.com/Peer5/ShareFest/issues/29
I think the main advantage of WebP2P projects over traditional client based projects is that they can use the power of the web to enhance the experience. Whether it's by adding great user interface, social features, search, easy embedding and sharing which are so inherent in the web today.

Looking forward for this to happen!
Look out for lots of <img/> tags pointing to http://192.168.1.100/epic_firmware_fail.cgi?sploit=PAYLOAD!
So the government is now a venture capitalist or investment bank and should be encouraged to pick winners and losers now?

It's quite funny that these Tesla Roadsters are being bought by rich Americans, and being subsidized by average Americans, and yet there seems to be no outrage from those purportedly upset about inequality. The average American isn't benefiting by enriching billionaires and millionaires with their $100,000 roadsters.
> nuclear plant's worst-case scenario is clearly substantially worse

If 14-meter tsunami hitting a 70's build nuclear power plant isn't a worst case scenario, what is?

Also coal's worst case scenario is global climate change.
We use jekyll for our blog( https://mentii.com/blog ) and use disqus for the commenting system. If you are comfortable using markdown and need something lightweight and fast, then jekyll is perfect. On the other hand wordpress has a lot of themes and plugins to choose from and pretty much everything that you'll ever need is already there. If there are non developers who are going to contribute to your blog, then wordpress would be a better option IMHO.
I agree, this is one of the most absurd things about Mozilla's actions over the past few years.

Time and time again they've gone out of their way to bring the worst of the Chrome experience to Firefox. Much of this revolves around the awful UI changes starting with Firefox 4 that have made it harder and far less efficient to use. It's pretty sad that we now have to manually enable the menu bar, and install extensions to get a status bar, for instance.

Yet at the same time, they just haven't managed to implement any of the truly beneficial things that Chrome offers. Like you mention, Chrome clearly does perform significantly better than Firefox. While the Firefox supporters like to trumpet how Firefox is "comparable to Chrome" in the arewefastyet.com micro-benchmarks, this just isn't observed under real usage patterns.

If the users are going to get the Chrome experience while using Firefox, but not Chrome's better performance, then what's the point of using Firefox these days? They might as well just use Chrome, and at least get some decent performance along with the rather bad UI.
It's likely more than that. Chernobyl had a great impact on people's idea of nuclear. Also its damage, when occurring, is done in a spectacular way by something invisible. Radiation poisoning is dramatic, horrific and you can't see, smell or feel. That scares the living hell out of most people and the fact that is statistically unlikely becomes irrelevant as soon as it becomes an irrational fear.

There are things that cause more deaths by cancer, slowly and steadily, that don't (or didn't) scare anyone - tobacco was an example. Junk food may be another.
> Through decades the population was told by the government that nuclear radiation was the evil silent killer.

Well, two out of three's not bad: it is silent, and it can kill.

> people are now irrationally scared of nuclear radiation from power plants

You may not fear nuclear energy, but it's not irrational to do so.

Even the current generation of reactors rely on active safety systems, and can't just be shut down. Even with multiple redundant systems of this sort, things will go wrong, since making these systems truly independent — including in the face of floods, earthquakes, human error, etc. — is effectively impossible.

So plants will continue to melt down from time to time, irradiating large areas of land. Bad luck if those areas are near you: in the best case, you'll have to leave your home and neighbourhood for decades.

Sure, it's a low probability event for each of us, but in my opinion those consequences are unacceptable for essentially any probability of occurrence.
With a safe, the government can defeat the protecion by cutting or drilling into it.

The proper analogy is that the government is welcome to get a warrant and attempt to break the protection provided by encryption. Since the defendant in a criminal case has an absolute right to remain silent they cannot force them to speak or otherwise convey any information that might incriminate them.

If the government cannot break the encryption then that is an unfortunate side effect of preserving people's rights.
A group of people, ostensibly qualified, decided that it was worth a $2.5 million dollar fine. The burden of proof is on you.
I remember hearing a quote somewhere about Elon Musk. To paraphrase: Make sure you don't have any money in your pockets when you meet him, because by the end of the meeting you will have given it to him.

But seriously, I think 'being sold' has somewhat of a negative connotation - it implies that Elon is putting on an act to try and convince you buy something you otherwise might not. I think what Elon in fact does is just present a vision that he very much believes in and can make happen. I think that is why is is so effective - he is not trying to 'sell'. Hes just talking about what he believes in.
But the article mentions the facts and scientific judgements:

> the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation has drawn on 80 scientists from 18 countries to produce a draft report that concludes: "Radiation exposure following the nuclear accident at Fukushima-Daiichi did not cause any immediate health effects. It is unlikely to be able to attribute any health effects in the future among the general public and the vast majority of workers.

What you've done is read (or not) an article discussing the findings of a bunch of independent commissions, decided that there must be something missing, and bemoaned the fact that people are applauding nuclear energy.
> How is that fair?

Life's not fair. Better you get used to it and take every advantage you can get.

It's not like it was free money anyway. It still was a loan and had to be paid back. You're acting like the US government would have gifted that money to Tesla.
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It's not a unique feature at all. On reddit it happens a lot, and when it gets out of hand we call it a circlejerk.
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I just hope they're not going to get rid of caching, but instead, implement a time server and sync through JS, or something alike.
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My standing question for that is wouldn't a launch loop have to be located over the ocean, at least say 10 miles out? And then wouldn't it take much longer 25 minutes to take a boat trip out, take the trip and then take a boat trip back in at your destination?

Edit: On second thought if you're spending launch loop kind of money maybe building a 10 mile bridge out to the station isn't that big of a cost?
Jealously and ideological discord. The Zuckerbergs and Parkers are undermining the traditional American narrative of "hard work" and entrepreneurship.

It seems wrong based on that world view that a baby-faced geek in a hoodie can look down on all the traditional businessmen from his mountain of money.

These new rich they did not get rich through "hard work", they just got the right idea at the right time.

They did not prove themselves in a decade(s) long process of "building a business", facing countless challenges along the way, but practically got rich over night - often while having a lot of juvenile fun.

And of course nobody can construct a charming "rags to riches" nonsense story here, the one Americans love so much. The current generation of silicon billionaires come from privilege, and can be billionaires shortly after completing their studies at some elite university .. or even before that.

None of that is surprising. That's how modern, globalized, digital capitalism works. But it makes people uncomfortable, and yes jealous. These 20-something billionaires are simply way more offensive to the common man than the traditional industrial tycoons.

Very, very few people will have the right idea at the right time. It is not something you can plan or work (hard) towards to. Also the software business is elitist by nature. In contrast, it is much easier for most to relate to the traditional American entrepreneur story, which for example begins with his first job making pizza, then his first small restaurant and ends with him being a billionaire chain restaurant tycoon decades later.

It is obvious that among the capitalists there are subgroups which are seen as less deserving and sympathetic by the general public. Traditionally bankers and - it seems - for quite a few people Sean Parker-types too.

Of course it is unjustified to hate people because they found a legal way to easily and quickly make a hell lot of money. But well.. humans being humans.
This would not be the best argument. It's possible to prove you're lying. If on the other hand you merely state you forgot the password, it's impossible to prove you're lying.
So it would be alright to do $1K damage to your jaw if I'm willing to pay for it?
It's okay to give them half a billion dollars in loans because others got billions? Why not be outraged at everyone involved? The industry is colossally inefficient.
Wow, bold move to publish this. Don't know if it was smart.

But I had to laugh as the author asks in the article:

> What kind of horrible graph is this?

The wrong one. He should have used a bar chart instead of this line chart. Doesn't change the content and meaning of the chart, but actually makes it accurate and readable as the data it not about the relation between the number of students that got these marks but actually about the number of students that got these marks. A bar chart is much better to show that.
If 'great' in the first case isn't equal to 'great' in the second, then isn't this an appeal to ignorance?
I don't think the defendant is claiming to have forgotten the password in this case.

Nonetheless, I agree with you that every once in a while, FBI would seize a hard drive that is (a) not encrypted but filled with random-looking bytes, or (b) encrypted but the owner has forgotten the password.

When I sell a used hard drive, I usually fill it with random data. Sometimes I do this by creating a TrueCrypt volume that takes up the entire drive. (This destroys all the data on every partition, as well as the MBR, so the drive appears unformatted to the buyer.) But suppose the FBI suspects me of downloading CP and buys my drive as part of a sting operation. They'll think my drive contains CP. After all, it has the typical signature of a TrueCrypt volume! But guess what, I wasn't intending to store anything on that drive, so I threw away the password as soon as I typed it into TrueCrypt. How do you prove that I cannot possibly remember the password? With a physical safe, at least it's possible to prove that I don't have the key in my possession.
Well its both a reference to bab5 and to the French tendency to pick and support national champions conveniently ignoring the EU treaty's when it suits them.

eg it was US multinationals that got raided over the 35 hour week
The day the customizability of FF is removed will be a sad day for me. Hopefully someone will create a fork.
Great story! I can't wait to see your Bootstrap in Action published!
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Sounds like a great Idea, the court can imprison for contempt indefinitely, is there a limit? I don't think so. That sounds like a great way to get rid of someone, just write a luks header somewhere on his harddrive and call the cops. He will die in prison.
Then again the US courts have probably killed thousands of innocents. At least there is no death penalty for contempt of court (yet).
I've had an account for a while and it definitely has helped my Vim-foo, one of the few little cutesy services I've actually paid money for. It's somewhat relaxing and the fact that it's not some kind of monthly payment pulled me in. The database of shortcuts grows all the time as well. If you are considering trying it out I recommend it.
You can feel this in any boat that can plane (e.g., a small sailboat like a Laser or 420, or a small powerboat like a Zodiac or a Boston whaler). Once you get up on a plane in a power boat, you can cut the power back considerably (maybe 10% less throttle in practice) without losing any speed. When racing a small sailboat, this becomes an important tactic when heading downwind -- do whatever it takes to get on a plane, and then be careful to stay there. It's a very cool feeling.
This is one of the most shameful things to have happened to Firefox. The status bar is core functionality. It should be included by default, and it should be enabled by default.

Now, if they really felt the need to play design games with the UI, they could have at least disabled the status bar by default, and allowed it to be quickly re-enabled (like can be done for the menus).

Forcing users to go through the hassle of installing an extension just to get back core functionality is truly unjustifiable and very shameful.
> Just because someone has money it does not mean
> they will flaunt the law because they can afford
> the fine.

Apparently, it does:

"It is generally the case that people getting less absolutely risk averse as they get wealthier."

http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/2012/02/speeding-fines-t...
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Well ... a normal PC can have up to 10-12 TB of storage these days . It is more than normal for 1 or 2 to be left empty. You just create the hidden volume there.
Yes, I agree that nobody would mistake Xiaomi for an iPhone so it's hard to call it a clone. They have clear logo, different button positions and the back looks totally different. It didn't seem like the author had actually used a Xiaomi phone himself.
Yet the lesson is not the same for someone like in the article. If someone who gets a fine for $50 and can afford to pretend it never happened, then they should probably...? Be like Justin Bieber and plow through neighborhoods at 90mph?

A points system is interesting, but of course, it ignores accessibility and cost towards inevitable lawyers.
This is exactly what worries me, especially if the government legislates this and makes the do-you-remember issue an affirmative defense, which shifts the burden of proof onto the defendant. I recently forgot the very complicated passphrase I used on a months-old encrypted USB thumb drive. And I'm a doctor (implying that I should generally be good at remembering stuff).

In many criminal cases, months or years pass between evidence seizure and the criminal trial. Seems very easy to forget the decryption key. Or not have access to the 2-factor token anymore. Lot's of edge cases with very serious side effects.
Gigabyte Brix Mini PC Officially Launches
At Computex 2013 this week Gigabyte has officially launched their new Gigabyte Brix mini PC which can be equipped with a choice of processor including the 1007U Intel Celeron, Core i3-3227U, Core i5-3337U, and Core i7-3537U.

The Gigabyte Brix measures just 29.9 x 107.6 x 114.4 mm in size and is fitted with two SO-DIMM slots allowing it to accommodate up to a maximum of 16GB memory type DDR3.

Other features of the Gigabyte Brix include HDMI, mini DisplayPort, WiFi, and 2 x USB 3.0 ports, together with ability to accommodate solid state disks (SSD) that are 2.5 inches in size.

The Gigabyte’s Brix has been designed to offer users an ultra-compact HTPC (Home Theater Personal Computer) and provide competition to the well established Zotac range of mini PCs.

In the future Gigabyte hopes to offer Haswell powered systems as an option for the new range, but as yet no information on pricing has been released for the Gigabyte Brix range.
Related to your link, Not propaganda, but a weird pseudo-documentary drama about nuclear devastation over Sheffield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads

It's a "fun" watch, probably the most frightening piece of film I've ever seen.

EDIT: and a link to the fun part, for the lazy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKLSGLjcJJc
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The Last Of Us Multiplayer Gameplay Leaked
If you are looking forward to the launch of The Last Of Us game and enjoying a little of the The Last Of Us multiplayer gaming available within the title.

You are sure to enjoy this leaked footage which shows a little of what you can expect in the game, check out the leaked Last Of Us multiplayer gameplay after the jump to see it in action.
Or gas from that nice Mr Putin