skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A drowning person will endanger his rescuer by instinctively climbing onto the highest point available (the rescuer's head).

If you see someone drowning, alert a lifeguard if possible. Depending on the situation, the proper action might require the rescuer to counter intuitively drag the person under water. On the other hand, if no life guard is present, don't just let someone drown, but saving them is a risk.

source: I was a "victim" for lifeguard training.
Increasing cost by 1 doubles the time needed to create a hash.

A simple benchmark with results: http://pastebin.com/NiqKEAVm
Faire enough, sorry about that.
Pretty nice collection of discounts. How did you manage to coordinate all these?
It happens in tech companies too, especially enterprise companies. Project managers want to close out on their project and deliver to their customers and fuck anything else that's going on.
When institutions behave like this they're not just tarnishing their own image. They're destroying civilization.

Got into a debate around here a while back trying to explain why otherwise-rational people are afraid of GMO foods. This is an example of my point. Things like this erode trust not just in the particular institution in question but of all institutions in our society. At some point many people actually start to assume the worst and flip over into seeing official pronouncements as contrarian indicators: "oh, the paid shills say it's safe and it's produced by a big agribusiness corporation so it must be bad for you..."

Even worse still, we have junk like this:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=moon-landi...

I've seen a rash of these articles lately, deconstructing in elaborate detail why people distrust science and officialdom and believe in increasingly outlandish "conspiracy theories." They're all elaborate dances to avoid the obvious issue: trust.

It's almost a kind of blame-the-victim mentality: yes you have been lied to, but you should ignore that. If the fact that you've been treated contemptuously causes you to begin harboring suspicions, it's because you are irrational and stupid. Now shut up and believe what you're told.

No, it's not the victim's fault. It is the authorities' fault. Trust is earned through consistent transparency and honorable behavior. When the institutions of society behave dishonorably and unethically, trust is systematically weakened across the entire society.

Once a person learns that their authorities may well be shills, liars, quacks, fools, or worse, then it becomes increasingly easy to harbor increasingly-damning suspicions about what else "they" might be lying about. Hence 9/11 was an inside job, moon hoax, and other conspiracy theories.

Keep in mind that sometimes such suspicions are correct. The executive branch lied the US into war in Iraq, to give one example. With examples of that magnitude, I personally question whether belief in outlandish conspiracy theories is even particularly irrational.

And it's very, very dangerous. Trust is one of the key differences between the first world and the third world. Part of why places like sub-Saharan Africa can never develop is that nobody trusts anyone and nobody dares do anything. They "know" (and sometimes with good reason) that anything they do will simply be stolen by their kleptocracies, and that anything their authorities say is probably a lie. (Hence the prevalence of things like HIV/AIDS denialism in those cultures... another symptom of decayed trust.)

If our leaders, authorities, and institutions continue to treat the public with dismissive contempt, the third world is where we are headed. The prevalence of conspiracy theories and alt-health fearmongering is a leading indicator of an overall breakdown in the implicit trust relationships and social contract that underlies advanced Western societies.
Regarding the idea that someone would have leaked something, WorldNetDaily seems to get a lot of leaks from the CIA. This raises several questions about any of these stories starting with how fake is it, what kind of person would leak to WND, and are they trying to plant a story or suppress one?
Take that, JavaScript
Maybe we'd better learn what tools we're using, what for and what their use entails.

We don't ougrow our tools, we outgrow the use we have for them. But today, with all the jQuery plugins landscape, it's pretty hard to outgrow it.
The Three Questions & the Philosophical Worldview
I wonder how they select the winners.
This is a potentially dangerous situation; a lot of people just do not realize the gravity of it.

Singapore is an island with only two links out of the country to neighboring Malaysia. It is also one of the most densely populated countries in the world.

If the situation were to take a turn for the worse, the warning might come too little, too late.
Call Your Representatives Today About Surveillence/PRISM
Intelligence agencies exist to spy on foreigners. The NSA is only behaving illegally if it targets US citizens.
On GPAs and Brainteasers: New Insights From Google On Recruiting and Hiring
Lots of the comments here seem to be missing the point.

I think he pretty clearly states that it's not the technicality, or legitimacy, of the trademark dispute that is bothering him, it's the fact that his friend of 12 years did not treat him like the friend he thought he was by speaking to him like a normal human being. Instead, the "friend" hid behind his lawyers to do the deed.
Thanks, I'll give it a go. I think I got the Karateka book in some bundle that was on sale recently. The only reason I didn't jump on it yet was because I'm not/wasn't familiar with the game.
I've looked at that, and it's probably the closest thing there is. I just wish it had a higher res screen (1080p isn't that impressive for a 17" screen), and I wish it had room for another HDD (I've got a lot of music production software which takes up hundreds of gigs). Also, I'd prefer a top of the line GPU, like a 780M; the 765M falls a little short. Lastly, I definitely need more than 8GB of ram, but I'm sure I could add that in myself (I hope).

But the great thing is they have that indie developer discount! I think I can get one for like $1000.
This is a great walkthrough, and a real trip back to the good old days. I learned programming on the Apple ][ and, like many started in Basic then moved to 6502 assembly.

I am not sure how other teenagers made this awkward transition, but I did it by writing a tiny assembler in Basic. It was fairly easy because Basic had PEEK (get contents of address), POKE (set contents) and CALL (jump to address) that everyone was used to using to get anything useful done. I think I just got tired of hand assembling programs into POKE calls.

I remember getting a thin wire-bound book with a detailed disassembly (with comments!) of the ROMs and DOS as a birthday present. I think one of the thing that inspired programmers on the Apple ][ was the amazing system code that Woz had written. He set a very high bar for assembly language programmers. His code was economical, fast, smart, and tiny. He demonstrated how to squeeze the most out of limited resources.
NASA and NOAA turn the 'Blue Marble' green in breathtaking new satellite images
Well they are stating the facts.

But if a court for example is all white, male, republicans, you are in danger of "dittoheads" cut from the same cloth.

Their names suggest 4 women which is almost acceptable. Cannot guess anything else.

The minimal number of requests that are modified by the court has led experts to characterize it as a rubber stamp. For example, Russell Tice, a former National Security Agency analyst said "It is a kangaroo court with a rubber stamp." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA_Court#Criticism

One Democrat resigned: On December 16, 2005, the New York Times reported that the Bush administration had been conducting surveillance against US citizens without the knowledge of the court since 2002. On December 20, 2005, Judge James Robertson resigned his position with the court, apparently in protest of the secret surveillance. The government's apparent circumvention of the court started prior to the increase in court-ordered modifications to warrant requests.
Check out hacker news.
networking over time
Yes, it turns out that my use of "power" and "potent" as synonyms is not universal. My deepest apologies for my inexcusably moronic assumption that people used a particular word the same way I do.

Are we done now?
Well, if you know what vine is, I'd say there's a very high chance you understand '@'.
Big list of Django tips (and some python tips too)
phpass is actually one of the libraries I was talking about. When I first encountered it I was really intimidated. The usage didn't seem that bad to figure out but trying to comb through it's page to find installation instructions was tough. It didn't seem clear about whether this was a module like imagemagick that needed to be installed or if it was a drop-in library you could just use within any project.

Looking back now it seems obvious but back then it just too overwhelming. With PHP there's this 'just get it done' attitude and futzing around with phpass wasn't something I could let myself do back then.

Of course I now regret it. I ended up using a different encryption library for password storage on my app. It isn't md5 but I know it could and should be stronger. So now I'm in a situation where I'm rewriting the codebase in a different language entirely and the cherry on top is that I need to migrate all my user's passwords and even some data from the original method to bcrypt, which I'm now using. It seems simple in theory but I have a feeling this is going to cause some headaches. However, its totally necessary and especially for the type of application I'm working on which puts a big focus on privacy and security.
It's been 10 years since the Apple/Pixar wavelet compression was announced. Whatever happened to that one?
Just curious...let's say that you see someone drowning, you aren't a trained lifeguard, and there aren't any lifeguards around. Could an untrained person rescue that person safely? Any tips?
It's a testament to corporate inertia that PayPal hasn't been an innovator in payment processing for a long time. Square and Stripe have been making inroads, and Bitcoin is lurking out there somewhere. There's a fistful of money to be had in this arena, and I'm glad that it's evolved over the last few years.

Best of luck to Paddle!
It takes 10 seconds to tweet "Experiencing and issue" and then another 10 seconds to explain why after they figure it out. It's not rocket science.
That was interesting! Has he ever said how he came up with the number?
If any founders are considering to do the same thing, I much prefer a GIF-based demo like the one used for Sublime Text: http://www.sublimetext.com/.
> Most of the CMS's that claim to use PHPass actually use the "portable" option

This is true for WordPress, which uses PHPass. You have to replace `wp_hash_password` to get WP to use bcrypt: http://wptip.me/wordpress-bcrypt
Americans watched more TV in 2012
The Original Mario Marathon for Charity Back For Year 6 Live All Weekend
> iPhone 4 will be able to run the latest OS version for 4 years and 3 months

Right. My point is that another way to look at it is that an iPhone 4 bought in August 2013 on a two-year contract will probably stop getting OS updates while it is still under contract.
I didn't really read your comment, and clicked on the link. It took me a few seconds to realize it was a "demo site". Initially i was amazed that we were all enamored by a table tennis paddle store, which seemed believable considering that a few years ago this guy with a bingo card making website was on the frontpage every other day.
Maybe I was raised by a bunch of rabid dogs...

But after reading the cached page... I really don't understand what the creator did wrong?

He was a guy that I a lot of people can identify with, whom is publishing a book about his experiences?

Is seduction intrinsically bad?
I guess to understand this one has to consider that Kickstarter is based in puritan America?
Which free cloud storage solution is best?
if they rubber stamp Obama's request, why does it matter?
Honest reply: You think it is stupid to remember foxconn employees who committed suicide. What do you think you are after this?
Apparently they have Wikipedia pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Walton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_J._Dearie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_M._Collyer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Eagan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Leach-Cross_Feldman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_F._Hogan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_A._McLaughlin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Mosman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Dennis_Saylor_IV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Webber_Wright

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Zagel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA_Court#Criticism <<<--- apparently they were already known
Numenta/Grok/Hawkins harps on this idea of "streams" of data and how traditional NNs don't work well because they lack recurrent connections. The whole "no recurrent connections" thing was not true in the first place because recurrent neural networks most certainly exist and did in 2005, they just weren't very effective. However, fast forward to 2013 and nearly a decade of new research, recurrent neural nets are more powerful than ever. I suspect they could go head to head with anything Hawkins is selling.

The problem more generally ends up as a philosophical one: if we're trying to create a machine capable of intelligence, how much inspiration should we take from the brain? Perceptron based NNs loosely approximate the brain while Hawkins believes a more literal approach is the way forward. Still, even Hawkins' approach stops way short of something like the blue brain project.

Personally, I suspect it's much like achieving flight: We need to build an airplane (a machine that takes advantage of the same phenomena as a bird does in order to achieve flight). Just like the bird is not the only way to fly, I don't think the human brain is the only way to generate intelligence. But until someone can prove it one way or another, I have a feeling it's a debate we'll be having for a while.
Without bees, humans wouldn't survive much more than 6 months on this planet.
Man, Tesla are just incredible. Some day I'll be able to afford a Model S and do my part in getting us less dependent on oil.
I get rid of them. My forcing function is that I won't buy any more shelves - I have two bookcases with about 4 shelves each, shared with my girlfriend, and if I want to keep a book I have to get rid of one. It's still probably 300 lbs of books but it keeps it bounded. (And a lot of those are hers, because she went to law school and still has many of her law books. Most of mine are design or cooking, since the color plates don't really have electronic equivalents yet and some are signed.)

Also, for text-only, transient stuff like business books and history books (that I'm unlikely to read twice), I buy a lot of Kindle stuff now.
The Pivotal Tracker Rewrite, And Improved Story Linking
Because for some pathetic reason, we're apparently still on the cusp of accepting that we are probably almost sure why the bees are dying, but a huge swath of us are turning a blind eye out of scientific ignorance or out of bribery. And our job as literate, scientific folk is to get outraged about this and use our cute metaphorical clout to make these other people, the majority, understand that the world is GOING TO SUCK someday if we kill the bees off enough to stop pollinating all the crazy delicious things we like to eat. Even if we have our heads up our asses over the supposed cause of this, we as an entire planet should still be completely paying attention, livid, and figuring out what the actual cause is. Because odds are good it's something humans did. If you're not upset about the bees dying, you are not thinking it through enough.
Firefox OS for developers – the platform HTML5 deserves
Why compare them? They're different works with different goals.
Why Videos on Instagram and Vine Will Fail to Monetize
Revolutionizing the Console
Agree on minimizing pre-planning, and that 90L seems quite big. 40L is probably a good size for basic ho(s)teling gear. Personally, I prefer to travel with 65L, so I can add: light tent, sleep pad, sleeping bag, micro stove, 1 pan, water sterilizer. This obviously allows me to include hiking trips within my travelling, but it also allows something even more valuable: when you want to hitch hike from place A to place B, and there's not much in between, you don't have to ask 'can we make it in one day?', you just say 'if we dont make it, then we'll make camp, and start again the next day'. Removing the 'must know where I'm sleeping' constraint is tremendously valuable and liberating to me (as is true for removing most big constraints).
Jesus, seems like an over reaction. Books and guides like this are nothing new, and should be taken in context/used appropriately. A nerd in a club is going to take this brash advice like:

"All the greatest seducers in history could not keep their hands off of women. They aggressively escalated physically with every woman they were flirting with. They began touching them immediately, kept great body language and eye contact, and were shameless in their physicality."

And not go up and rape a woman, but perhaps take a chance and put their hand on the girls shoulder during conversation to show interest, where they might have otherwise oddly looked away from them. Also, there's a huge difference between personal conduct in a night club and in a library.

Anyhow, I'm a nerd with a SO that has never drank and hates night clubs but that's my take. Seems like any other topic and people would be crying free speech and censorship. A guide like this isn't going to turn a normal man into a rapist.
There's paragraphs to write on the subject, but in short, yes this was very bad. Details here: http://caseymalone.com/post/53339539674/this-is-not-fucking-...
My parents were a book household too. But back then, there was no Internet, no e-books. The only place to wander onto a book was your shelf or the local bookstore. Times change.
SWEET!!! I watched through Urgo last year but I wanted to see it again!
Reading some of the comments on that blog post, I left thinking: Am I a terrible person?

I just don't see what's wrong with this project, and I certainly don't see the link between it and "sexual violence" – where is Kickstarter making this connection? Say what you will about the seduction community, my very brief and infrequent encounters with it have been largely positive and I left thinking that they were a generally respectful, if a little bit misguided, group. There's some of their terms and techniques I don't like, such as "negging", but there's things like that in virtually every community that I don't like.

Certainly not sexually violent.
That's really not true. Plenty of food self pollinates. However, I wouldn't really want to go on living without all the wonderful foods that bees provide us with. Think matrix-meals and you're feeling it.
I'd love to hear what point you were trying to make. All I saw was hand-wringing over a "dangerous drug".

GHB is now known as a date-rape drug, even though the leading date-rape drug is alcohol. Your dialog seemed to be buying into the fear.

disclaimer: I personally advocate for the legalization of all drugs.
How randomly? Is there a lottery system? Would be awesome to see what hashing algorithm is used to determine the winner.

The NBA draft has a "random" selection process with lottery balls, yet every year people think it's rigged.
First Apple computer could fetch $500,000 or more
I don't have anything to add beyond this quote from the linked-to blog post:

"Even when a girl rejects your advances, she KNOWS that you desire her. That’s hot. It arouses her physically and psychologically.”
The psychologist is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and all of the quotes that the blog's author posted come directly from Csikszentmihalyi's book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. Csikszentmihalyi is most widely know for his term 'flow.'

http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Flow-Psychology-Discovery-I...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
It seems pretty clear you haven't read the parts of the published guide that were raising alarm flags. They're quoted in this blog post linked to from the apology: http://caseymalone.com/post/53339539674/this-is-not-fucking-...
Also this: http://magicsoapbox.com/?page_id=12
I chose Source Sans Pro, probably the most fully developed, supported and profesional open typeface available.

What OS/Browser are you using that destroys type like that?
Great apology. Right to the point, no dodging blame, and an acknowledgement of the debt to society.

Now, that being said, is this not a take on the book "the game", about picking up women? Am I missing something or is Kickstarter now picking and choosing what is "good" content? Obviously they have to do this to some extent, but where is the line drawn?
If HK's poor air quality is caused by locally-produced pollution why does the air quality in HK significantly improve during Mainland Chinese National Holidays (when factories in Southern China shut down but HK's so called pollution-generators like public transport, shipping and power stations remain operating as per normal)?

I agree that roadside pollution levels especially in Causeway Bay and Mongkok are most likely caused by local transport, but the clear-air and high visibility during Golden weeks and CNY suggest significant contributions from north of the border.
The Plight of the Password
There must be more in the depths of reddit that made this far worse than it seems within the kickstarter page..
See http://curiousrat.com/kickstarter-allowed-funding-for-a-sexu...

Quoting from the "manual":

> 5) Get CLOSE to her, damn it!

> To quote Rob Judge, “Personal space is for pussies.” I already told you that the most successful seducers are those who can’t keep their hands off of women. Well you’re not gonna be able to do that if you aren’t in close!”

> “All the greatest seducers in history could not keep their hands off of women. They aggressively escalated physically with every woman they were flirting with. They began touching them immediately, kept great body language and eye contact, and were shameless in their physicality. Even when a girl rejects your advances, she KNOWS that you desire her. That’s hot. It arouses her physically and psychologically.

> Decide that you’re going to sit in a position where you can rub her leg and back. Physically pick her up and sit her on your lap. Don’t ask for permission. Be dominant. Force her to rebuff your advances.

This is the bit that's being decried as "intrinsically bad" - not seduction in general - because it advocates invading another person's personal space and touching them when they've expressed they don't want to be touched "because it will arouse her".
When the guide is written like a rape manual, yes, yes it is. It features quotes like:

"Pull out your cock and put her hand on it. Remember, she is letting you do this because you have established yourself as a LEADER. Don't ask for permission, GRAB HER HAND, and put it right on your dick."

(from: http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/1dvnem/above_the_...)

The whole thing is disgusting, degrading, and has no place on this earth.
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I think it's worth reading through the creator's response to the situation: http://pastebin.com/zwHYzCZe. He claims and reasonably supports that the highlighted excerpts were taken out of context.