skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That comic assumes that you know how to enter the restaurant, understand how to open a menu, and can read the dishes offered.

In Dwarf Fortress, you have to walk down an alley, turn around thrice widdershins, wait for a figure to appear as if from nowhere, and translate their strange and inconsistent language.

Then you can get around to being disemboweled horribly.
That situation sets itself up for a couple of pretty obvious countermeasures:

1. Pay the protesters to go away. It's a free market, after all.

2. Recruit your own volunteers to go to where the union is recruiting, and get paid to protest.

3. Or, if you want to support the union, file a suit against the target of the protests for creating an environmental nuisance.
> In terms of benefits, consider meditation a tool to understand your mind and to be better able to understand your drives and motivations, and to learn how to focus your attention on various aspects of yourself. What "result" you get from that depends very much on you and your motivations and desires, but what I feel I get from it is a stronger appreciation of the world around me, better concentration, and better impulse control.

You said that it's a tool which can accomplish better understanding. Did you become to understand your mind and what causes you have? You say you have concentration but I'd like to confirm what you can see with your concentration.

In the world, an answer is determined by a question.
Like in math, 1 + 1 is a problem that makes the result 2 according to a fixed formula. If someone finds 1 or 3 from the question then it's either their mistake in calculation or the causes (numbers in question) were misreported.
If no one cares, why are there dozens of replies to this thread?

More to the point, if at least you didn't care, then why did you comment?

Why didn't you "just move on"?
What are some Japanese Payment Gateways?
I'm looking for some payment gateways for a small business website in Japan. Are there any Stripe equivalents? I noticed WebPay.jp which seems like a clone of Stripe. There's also Paypal, but Paypal is kind of clunky because it takes you to another website and I don't think it is as recognized in Japan as a brand.
Ecuador revokes Edward Snowden's asylum documents
I like these. I now feel like a brainless stump more than ever. Ramanujan instantly answers Hardy in the taxi, `Southie' Goodwill Hunting crushes that pink shirt guy who likes apples in front of Sky, and all you HN geniuses can answer any puzzle out of LE Dickson's History of The Theory of Numbers, in what, at most 25 secs. I better not quit my day job.
Too late to mention here now, but I actually use Lycos still (along with a few others), and it is pretty nifty at returning search query results:

http://www.lycos.com/
When you say letting go of thoughts, how can you differentiate between getting rid of attachments, and abandoning yourself by giving up the questions you have inside?
IMO - The underpinning issue with the subject of Economics is that it's often misconstrued as a science. A science implies that what you are studying and testing is reproducible (i.e. the scientific method). However the issue with many of the theories of economics is they are subject to change. Let's say for example you state a theory that says "If X happens, Y will happen". Often in economics, once X happens to a certain point (let's say everyone catches on to the idea that X will always yield Y, so everyone simply goes and does it), Y may no longer happen at the same rate. So really the issue for me is - the people who make fiscal decisions are basing them on unproven (or let's say slightly proven) theories. It's better than nothing (which is the alternative), but still doesn't make it an absolute science.
"Just one incident of a citizen defending themselves would see the immediate halting of these kinds of thuggish tactics."

That turns out not to be the case with our modern "the most important thing is to get home safe" law enforcement officers who replaced old fashioned peace officers, and the prosecutors and judges who support them, for there are a lot of incidents where this has happened. Here are two particularly heinous ones where Southerners defended themselves in no-knock raids, first got killed and had drugs planted to make it look good, the other was sentenced to death, and eventually plead to manslaughter (making him a felon), the 10 year sentence was less than time served:

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

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

This is one of the greatest fears of the armed citizen; this case in Arizona is a typical example with the normal outcome, dead citizen (his rifle on safe, he hadn't even made the shoot/no shoot decision or had decided the latter), nothing happens to the cops: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Guerena_shooting

(Well, I suppose the most common example is puppycide, tangible in a way that most raids aren't, but that's not what you're talking about.)
Microsoft helps Netflix ditch Silverlight for HTML5
> Given enough mobile and fixed ALPR cameras the end result would be the same as having a GPS tracking device on everyone's car. I don't see why citizens should subject themselves to that long term data collection.

The common argument for privacy in relation to democracy, is that:

If being associated to a political group will be counted against you and the data from such a system could be used to prove your attendance or affiliation to such a group...

...then you are unable to freely express your political beliefs as a consequence of being tracked.
"Gnosis is being ridiculous here in complaining that something interactive needs code"

You know, not everything that needs code needs to be run in a web browser.

Is it really so ridiculous of me to oppose opening my browser up to Javascript exploits and spying by the likes of GoogleAPI?

I'd be happy to run the game in any of the standalone, non-browser-based Interactive Fiction game engines like Frotz[1], Zoom[2], and Inform7[3] out there that this particular game might have been written in. And I would have had no problem playing it then.

[1] - http://frotz.sourceforge.net/

[2] - http://www.logicalshift.co.uk/unix/zoom/

[3] - http://inform7.com/
I don't think your understanding of the word science is universal. For example, I think it is perfectly scientific to study things that do not repeat very often, like the big bang or extinction events caused by large objects striking planets.

When I say science, I just mean the gathering of knowledge through systematic, empirical means. I think that's what a lot of people mean by it. The problem with economics is that the empirical tools we have at our disposal are not very powerful, the data is noisy, and the factor-space is huge.
U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks
You do not understand stochastic analysis. What Black & Scholes did was to notice that all the randomness can be taken away if all you want to do is

* Price a specific type of option under specific conditions.

Those conditions DO assume and include randomness. The funny thing is, just like in the physics of heating (which is the same as brownian motion), there are values which are deterministic, despite the intrinsic randomness of the process.

Really, it is not that the Black-Scholes model is differentiable (which is not).
This has been on my mind a lot lately, too. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed this. I don't think there's any grand conspiracy, here -- Hollywood caricatures and over-simplifies pretty much everything. But it's disturbing to see how much of people's world view is shaped by such things.

Access to personal information isn't the only Hollywood idea that seems to have penetrated everyday thinking. People also seem to have an exaggerated sense of the capabilities of the government (and other large organizations), and see technological security issues as a sort of simplified arms race, where victory goes to whoever has the biggest force.
> The homicide division doesn't prevent murders, they solve them.

I don't think larrys was suggesting otherwise, just that it'd be interesting to know if the homicide division was reduced in line with the homicide rate. Similarly, what has happened to the percentage of cases being solved and successfully prosecuted?

> 'community policing' [...] turns out to be more effective at stopping crime

It's known as "policing by consent" by the British, where officers are meant to follow the "Peelian Principles" from 1829 [1]

Of particular relevance here:

2. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police actions.

3. Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.

4. The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.

9. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.

[1] http://independentpolicecommission.org.uk/peelian-principles
You can't drive onto Manhattan without being read by one of these.
> Those people are why we pay so much for car insurance.

I don't get it. Why?
When I first crossed 500 I noticed I could downvote replies but not top-level comments. Not sure when it happened, but now I can downvote top-levels too.

I wish I could turn off the downvote arrow. I never use it, and I have to be careful not to click it by mistake when upvoting.
I wish I had more than one upvote to give you.

Have you passed this by a lawyer? Can the requirement to keep the NSLs secret be used to legally coerce you to lie?
American Citizens and the US government are not the same thing. While we call ourselves a democracy, the elected officials and legislation they create don't always align with the values of the citizens. It's become a complicated mess but please don't use "America" as a synonym for the US government and their actions. We are all just as upset and betrayed, if not more, than you.
That exists: see ppcoin.org.
I wouldn't say Austrians as a whole disagree, though some of them certainly do. If you look at F.A. Hayek's expressed positions, he agrees with a reasonable number of those listed as consensus above. Yes to free trade, yes to public healthcare, yes to taxing pollution (rather than regulating it), no to price floors/ceilings, etc. Monetary policy and how to manage the business cycle are some of the points of strong disagreement, though.
There are two major counterpoints here. The first, which has already been mentioned, is that economists do agree on many things.

The second big point is that the profession actually does (mostly) agree on monetary policy when interest rates are comfortably positive. In the mainstream, it's widely agreed that when interest rates are positive, a) the fed controls inflation and b) the Taylor rule is a good approximation of what the fed should do.

When interest rates hit 0 in 2008-9, the field was thrown in disarray. Roughly, neo-Keynesians like Krugman believe the fed no longer controls inflation (or controls it less well) and so fiscal stimulus is necessary to supplement monetary policy. Neo-monetarists like Sumner believe the Fed continues to control inflation, via QE, so the Fed should just continue to use the Taylor rule but use QE instead of interest rates and basically just pump out money as long as the Taylor rule calls for negative rates, echoing Milton Friedman's advice for Japan in the 90's (which Krugman agreed with at the time!!).* According to both those views, monetary or fiscal stimulus have been inadequate.

Due to the unprecedented nature of QE an opposing camp has strengthened, arguing that the fed's actions have been reckless and ineffectual. These have been joined by dissenting voices, such as the Austrian real business cycle theorists which have always been opposed to fed intervention in the money supply.

The recent crisis raised new problems that the field has yet to grapple with. But finding good answers is likely to be very important. As events proceed, it will hopefully become obvious which concerns and predictions are warranted. I see the process as a healthy scientific debate, not a reason to throw out the whole field.

* To be more technical, they actually call for an abandonment of the Taylor rule and its replacement with NGDP level targeting, but in effect those are actually quite similar. One important motivation is to move away from equating interest rates with monetary policy, since interest rates aren't useful at the ZLB.
The same technology caught Soulja Boy's car as the one who caused a hit in run a few months ago. The article goes into some of the details of how he was caught.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/05/23/soulja-boy-bentley-impounded-h...

Updated to fix link.
Again, you're talking about javascript on application pages. I am perfectly fine with javascript on application pages. My only complaint is when there is no fallback on simple document pages.
In my city there's a very big department store (El Corte Inglés, if you're curious) which uses this technology in their entrance/exit. They've been doing this for years, and it's obvious they're collecting customer data.
> Why do you want a government so much?

Because it's the only way to take proper care of the elderly and the disabled. No anarcho-syndicalist pipe dream has ever convincingly sketched me a scenario where the elderly (without family) do not just waste away in isolation, and the schizophrenics are rotting in the streets.

Now, a government is not a guarantee to fix this (see for example the NYC homeless), but without a government, the weaker groups in society are just shit out of luck.
1 and 3 are not at all applicable to cash, which was my point - governments have collected taxes in cash since forever, so they can collect taxes in bitcoin.

2 is a point, but I am not convinced it's hugely significant (though will be happy to delve deeper).
If people believe that your state is actively using whatever data it can obtain for economic reasons (for example to give foreign trade secrets to local companies,) then clearly no foreign company should hire anyone from your country, use your country as a web platform or use any operating system or software developed by your nationals.

If everyone moves to local services and infrastructure, that could be beneficial to the export/import situation of many medium size countries. But the US would not benefit. It is heavily invested in exporting these products.
Geheimdokumente: NSA horcht EU-Vertretungen mit Wanzen aus
I wouldn't call string theory an issue of major importance with respect to physics compared to monetary policy in economics. I'm not a physics buff, but my understanding is string theory hasn't yet made any predictions that would result in different outcomes than the standard model. On the other hand, the variety of monetary policy viewpoints among economists would certainly make different predictions, and their magnitude would be significant.

More analogous would be if physicists were split on whether gravity exists.
but you can make as many keypairs as you want or need. just like the circles in G+, except with privacy :)
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Basically it's saying the JVM is awesome.
> Note that a key ID is just the last characters of the fingerprint. If you want a more secure key ID, just use a longer piece of the fingerprint (which is a valid longer form of key ID that gpg will Just Work with).

cool, I was hoping it would work something like that :)
Sounds similar to the fiber optic cable material found @ Roswell, NM. 1947...
High level summary / notes :

* The talk mostly deals with Java the language, not so much the JVM

* It's generally a non-technical presentation, looking at the language & adoption trends from the POV of an analyst

* It appears primed to address and/or alleviate concerns about the current and future state of Java's adoption in the workplace and open source community

Rise, Fall, Rise :

* Much of the talk is a bit of a historical overview of the progression and adoption of Java. Several visualizations are shown, typically contrasting Java's adoption and job market against that of other popular languages (C / C++ or Python, Ruby, JavaScript - depending on the time period involved).

* Take home from the above : Java is not in decline (in adoption and job rankings) relative to other major languages.

* A Stack Overflow survey result is presented, showing a weak but statistically significant correlation between Java use and age (slightly older developers being a bit more likely to be familiar with Java)

* Java is still being used in major open source initiatives (Hadoop, Lucene, Cassandra, as well as a number of projects released by Netflix). This is presented as a particularly reassuring sign of Java's role in the development ecosystem. IMO I agree.

Additional points / Java's shortcomings :

* Java kind of sucks at reducing friction of deployment. Illustrated by comparing PostgreSQL's friction of installation to MySQL. The talk refers specifically to things like ease of installation & configuration, but (IMO) the lack of a single, unified, simple package management system is just as lacking in this regard

I'm sure there was more, but I mostly watched the talk in the background. I found it interesting, although it didn't mention anything that I would consider to be earth shattering.
Mistaking Economics with Finantial Engineering is a big fail.

And blaming Merton & Scholes for the Long-Term Capital Management fiasco is another error:

The fact that they (actually Meriwether, but anyway) invested where they should have not (Russian bonds, look at that! like investing in Greek bonds right now) is just an indicator that we are human. Also, it is quite disputable that the intervention was necessary. The Fed acted short-term (which is one of the big mistakes of modern governments) and it might have gone better than predicted.

You can just take a look at the performance of Renaissance Technologies along the years to realize that you can make a lot of money if you really invest (human & technological capital) on it. It is hard, but it can be done. And using maths & CS, little more.
The Era of Flat Design is Not a Trend. It’s Another Step Forward.
Sahara Forest Project: From vision to reality
The first fully operational Sahara Forest Project Pilot Plant is built in Qatar in cooperation with the leading fertilizer companies Yara and Qafco. The Sahara Forest Project is a new environmental solution to produce food, water and energy in desert areas. It is designed to utilize what we have enough of to produce what we need more of, using deserts, saltwater and CO2 to produce food, water and clean energy.
You should take that time, it is interesting and deserves its upvotes. Summary: Java is not dead.

He is saying that he can't build the case that Java is dead because the data says java stays popular, even though it has peaked in popularity. Data including usage on github, stack overflow, mailing list traffic and job demands.

What I found to be interesting is his part "easy wins" and how that was and is a challenge for the Java community, including a nice example about postgres on debian systems (which was not easy to install as it was not in the repositories).
In case you haven't noticed, many US govt employees are the blackhats.

Torture, disappearances, indefinite secret imprisonment without trial or access to lawyers or medical care, inflitration and mass arrests of people participating in nonviolent protest, agent provacateurs, lying to the congress, spying on virtually everyone, giving retroactive immunity to and pardoning criminal lackeys, and mass murder on a scale the Taliban couldn't achieve in their wildest dreams.

These are not the actions of "whitehats" or "good guys", no matter what the lapdog media and corrupt, self-serving politicians may tell you.
15 is an exaggeration, but yes.

For more details, including a good thesis on what drives this, an explanation for why you can have a dramatic drop in national crime rates without layoffs in what I've taken to calling the police-judicial complex, read this book, Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face (http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Ex-Cop-Reveals-A...), and decide if you want to return to this sort of environment.

This was reified for me when I retired to the SW Missouri town I was born and raised in and an officer played a game of chicken with his vehicle and my body. From my time on the East Coast I was an experienced enough pedestrian to see that he would barely miss me and stared him down, but I'm pretty sure this was designed to get the average local to run, "crazy cop trying to kill me!", which would generate a fleeing an officer arrest statistic for him per the book.
The article vastly overstates the ability for normal people to avoid survellience. We technologists are building the centralized industrial survellience state by voluntarily feeding metadata and content on our users to centralized analytics companies -- eg, Google.

We're centralizing authentication authority in a few providers, enabling web tracking across the Internet, assisting Facebook and Google in their generation of shadow profiles for everyone.

We're building web apps and web services that require server side data storage of user information, creating treasure troves of data. The network effects of what we're doing make it consistently harder and harder for users to avoid putting their data, identity, and 'meta-data' about their actions into the hands of 3rd parties.

Centralized phone companies have provided a case study in the ease at which governments can subvert centralized commercial entities, and even make the relationship between commercial entities and the government a lucrative symbiotic one.

We technologists are building the big brother state in the name of 'the cloud' and 'analytics'. We'vs convinced ourselves that webapps mean more freedom, rather than less privacy. We've gleefully abandoned the cyberpunk privacy tenants of the 90s that would have causes many to recoil at the very idea of analytics, Ubuntu's sending desktop searches to Amazon, and centralized monitoring of literally every tap and button press on a mobile device.

We're making it harder and harder for users to escape this orbit of commercial industrial governmental spying, because technology is so wonderously and necessarily pervasive, and the network effects to what we build are so strong.

If users are going to escape this future of governmental techno spying, we must change now. It will be up to us to provide the tools, and find alternative solutions to the deaf to centralized spying apparatus.
What is defined as a byte in the C standard is irrelevant to this article. A person reading this awful article(?) hoping to learn C wouldn't be aware of the C-standard definition precisely because he doesn't know C! He would only be familiar with the common definition of 8 bit bytes. ISO/IEC 80000-13 defines 8 bit bytes precisely because this is the common definition.
Feedly uses some algorithm to generate a "today" section of recommended items, which seems to work really well at least for me. I'm sure I'm missing some things, but similarly to yourself, I like to only spend a few minutes managing my feed. It's worth checking out to see if it works for you.
If you read the linked PDF, murders are down 83% while shooting victims are down 81% compared to 1993. Meanwhile, robberies are down 79%, rapes are down 54%, assaults are down 52%, etc. Everything is down 50-80% in the last 20 years, not just deaths. I don't think the facts support your narrative.