skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This perfectly mirrors my experience a few years ago. I wrote to my senator to express my opposition to one of the Super-DMCA laws. I said I didn't need a response and that I'd be happy to answer any questions if he should care, since I work in the field (not that I expected to be asked).

I quickly received a response indicating that he knew the Super-DMCA was the best thing for citizens and would vote for it just like I asked. I was also put on a mailing list.

Hurray for government.
> and I don't particulalry want to subsidize their education with my future earnings.

Then do you oppose the idea of public universities generally? Atlas Shrugged is a work of fantasy and light philosophy; I don't think it's relevant to the problem at hand.
Site seems to be down, heres a google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Hyo7DgJ...
Basic income vs. Capitalism
@hytosis A dog needs "nothing more than a bowl of water and food?"
Well, that's subjective. If that's the case, then I think your kid needs nothing more than a bowl of water and food too. Same thing.
Roswell incident Google game
Poking around flighaware's website, I found data sources that could be used to make a better graph:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAR214/history/20130625/0...

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAR214/history/20130626/0...

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAR214/history/20130706/0...

Nothing like URLs with obvious patterns!
Looking for a transcript of the NTSB statement at the press conference around 4:30 PDT today, but here are a few data points I recall (subject to my faulty memory; if anyone can find a link or remembers better, please do correct me):

Voice recordings for the 2 hours prior to impact revealed no discussion or other indicator of mechanical problems.
After being cleared for landing, the crew voiced a target final approach speed. [I forget the number... maybe 142 knots?]
At 7 seconds before impact, voice recordings include a crew request for more power.
6 seconds before impact, the pilot added power.
3 seconds before impact, the stick shaker engaged, indicating imminent stall.
1.5 seconds before impact, voice recordings include a crew request for a go-around.
This was all what the NTSB calls an "audition" (preliminary review) of the voice recordings.

The flight data recorder included data from the entire 24-hour period before the impact; thus, the whole flight.
Preliminary review indicated no evidence of any mechanical problem.
Engine output was normal.

And this was in an answer to one of the questions from reporters present:
On final approach, the approach speed was substantially below the voiced target final approach speed -- not just a few knots below.

Anyone have other recollections of the data shared, or a transcript?

Edit: At http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sf-plane-crash-t... found a correction to the target speed; it was 137 knots.
I've spent hours trying to get powerline to work with the patched fonts on OSX and Macvim without any results. This is lightweight, simple and just worked out of the box. Also the light theme is amazing. THANK YOU!
Give someone assault weapons, train them to believe that they are fighting for good, and remove all legal and moral contraints and watch how quick they turn into a "bad apple". It's not a personnel problem, it's a structural problem. See Stanford Prison Experiment, etc.
Hyperboria(secure internet alternative) not so secure or even safe? 
Lately Hyperboria which is based on cjdns has been mentioned on Hacker news headlines. It got me starting to research about meshnets and since Hyperboria seems to be getting hyped up as the next secure internet it got me thinking if that is really true or if there are better alternatives.
Apparently cjdns uses labels in the messages sent through routers to be be tracked back and forth, which to my understanding is not so secure or anonymous. Even if the message is encrypted along the way.
I can see how the message with encryption could be breached at nodes and then backtracked to original source, or who knows how. But the fact is the chatlog I found does have some valid points as regard to cjdns being faulty advertised as secured anonymous decentralized network. Apparently I2P network is more true to that and which uses a direct tunnel between two parties instead of using routes and labels traveling a long road. A lot could happen on that road...
>Hindsight is 20/20. I will probably agree with you that if the police force did proper research on the suspect, then they would have chosen a different approach.

This wasn't some spur-of-the-moment action. The investigators planned this operation, one of them had befriended Culosi. They don't get to use the "hindsight" defense here. I would argue that the investigator entrapped the Culosi by upping the ante to the point that made it a felony charge.
If you're going to talk economics, politics, sociology, or just about any massive and complex systems, you cannot avoid broad statements. I dislike them, but that's just the way it is. I notice a lot on HN that broad statements generally are called out and (usually without being defensive) clarified in the discussion.

However, in this case, there is no clarification needed. Compare the United States across whatever subjective experience and online indices you can find (economic freedom, press freedom, happiness, quality of life, etc but take them with a grain of salt) and make up your own mind.

After having traveled a little bit and lived in circumstances very different from my current life in SF, I have become less concerned with the water, guns, bets, and bad jokes and more concerned about the creeping changes in massive institutions like the US government. After all, one of the hallmarks of a democracy is how it protects the minorities from the tyranny of the majority.
> I think the point was that gender equality isn't at all important to a child or it's needs, so we should quit making it one at all.

It should definitely be a gender equality issue, too. Women are by many, or even most, viewed as an essential parent, while a father is a nice-to-have parent. This doesn't help in divorce proceedings, where at the worst a crack addicted mother might be more likely to get full custody then a responsible father. Needless to say, this ultimately harms children as well.

At its heart this isn't some luxury concern in the vain of dads should get paternity leave from their jobs (although that does sound like a worthy end-goal) - the main point is to combat gender stereotypes that keeps us from seeing the individual people and their personalities, which harms everybody involved.
Well, that label is using the word working to mean employed. Same when people say they are "out of work." That doesn't mean they aren't doing work. I don't find it derogatory nor incorrect.
From my limited experience with the matter, it's because 18-year-olds are stupid.
I identify very strongly with this.

I became a stay-at-home dad when my son was born 3.5 years ago, by choice, because parenting is what I want to do with my life. My wife wanted a technical career, and went back to work as soon as she was able. More recently, my sister (a single mom) and her little boy moved in with us. My sister works at the school down the street, and has a lot of other out-of-the-home commitments. Both my son and my nephew were in school for half of the day this last year, which meant I watched both of them every afternoon and many evenings, and was on call whenever there was a problem at school (both are special needs kids.)

Some of the challenges I've seen:

- I dress like a stay-at-home dad, complete with scraggly beard and sweatpants (no sense in getting peanut butter, pee, and play-doh on nice clothes!) When I'm out at the store without the kids, people look at me like I'm a predator. When I take a kid or two with me, they look at me like I'm a saint, much moreso than the moms who have kids with them. [EDIT: when I lived in small-town Utah for a while, taking a kid to the store got mixed reactions, with some thinking I was a saint and others thinking there was something wrong with me. In other areas, the reaction was almost uniformly "saint".]

- My grandfather grew up in an era of man works - woman does childcare. He's constantly asking me when I'm getting a job, and doesn't understand when I say "this is my job".

- I actually will be working outside the home, in a school, during the coming school year. A number of people have expressed sentiments along the lines of "good for you, glad you're finally doing something with your life", as if my son raised himself and I had nothing to do with it.

- I'm constantly hearing about support groups for parents, and they almost always have "mom" somewhere in the name. Some of them will say that dads are welcome too, but it's still awkward. The only real support group I have was accidental - a bunch of people from church were all getting together, and then everyone quit except for me and a few moms and our preschoolers.
Oh yea, it's totally the socialization aspect. There is a similar study (I don't have a link off-hand, but it was something covered at length in an Introduction to Sociology textbook I had years ago) that points out that people involved in their church communities enjoyed similar benefits to the drinkers. The key here is socialization. I suspect you don't earn anymore by getting ripped by yourself in the privacy of your home every night and subsequently showing up at work with a headache and a sour attitude every morning.
Yeah, hacking around in ipython is nice, but you don't have to sacrifice all of it for static typing. play.golang.org is fairly quick if you just want to try something.
If you want to go farther: a powerful, open, and fully-featured tool for doing this on the desktop (and soon tablet), along with a CAS and other facilities is GeoGebra: http://www.geogebra.org/cms/en/

If you want to go deeper: http://www.woodenbooks.com/ which are, for want of a better term, 'rigorous mysticism.'
leading questions, over-generalizations, unsupported claims. its articles like these that spread like viruses on the internet and leads to lots of poor informed people.
>less time to pull all-nighters

Yeah, pal. Just like tending to your family, getting consistent nights of sleep are both inarguably necessary to avoid societal, mental health, or physical health issues. All human entities should keep these necessities in mind when designing a plan that involves other human lives.

Your mentality is parallel with the "live hard, die hard" mantra plaguing the industry and imposing itself on the responsible workers.
My point is that, if you perceive that the capabilities of PRISM are new and that the behavior that the NSA has engaged in for 10 years are new and you are outraged by it (which was the point of the original article and I assume is the point of your stepping stone argument), then I think you are naive. This behavior, the FISA courts, etc... are part of the Patriot Act and Carnivore has been known about for > 10 years and is IE3 type technology. I actually probably see the world much more sinisterly than you do (hence the contradiction of the Madison quote). Snowden probably can't get asylum not because of what he has said but the can of worms of what is in his laptop. Oh well....

The fact that you are trying to cast me as an apologist for ' long-term human rights abuses by your government cause you to automatically approve of their actions'; I think the stupidest thing America has ever done is invoke the traditional war-machine (esp drones and block sites) against the Middle East.
Would be an interesting book (for your copious free time.)
I think education should be covered under the social contract ... "we'll give you a good education, you pay your taxes and pay off that huge debt we accumulated".

I'm not sure how we expect these next few generations to pay off their rapidly increasing student loans, deal with the massive debt we are leaving them with AND fund social security/medicad.
Whats the difference does it make "how often"? When it happens its usually fatal and this looks like a miracle only 2 dead (RIP).

How often per year you have terrorist attack (1 this year?) and yet you have billions of dollars spent and US Constitution shredded with the possibility of some sweating pot-belly stranger grouping your three-years daughter between her crotch, checking if you hadn't packed some explosives there (just like every american parent would sacrifice their child for their terrorist threat [just being extremely sarcastic here obviously]).

Its actually weird that each airport does not have close-circuit cameras recording each runway. I dont see a problem just make it what 24hours closed recording and its enough in case there is situation like this one.

Side note: from the initial pictures how the roof looked like, my assumption was that there were two bombs in overhead compartments. I would never guess that a belly diving would cause such a sever damage to the roof of the airplane where it looks like it was extensively burned.
When not enforced, such obligations are meaningless.
FTA - "He has been a regular guest on The Dr. Oz Show, The View, CNN, and Fox News, to name a few."
That alone should cast doubt on the article's claims.
The problem here is that it is obvious there are a lot of students that would not be able to pay current tuition from their earnings. If there were none, current loan system would work perfectly. So there will be subsidizing. It works only if you dont know in which category you will fall - like with insurance. Once you know on which side of the equation you are - you will have definite incentives to either maximize or minimize use of this system, and this will make it unbalanced and unsustainable in the long run, since potential high earners would try to avid it - they have no upside there - and potential free riders would flock to it.
dear cnn plane filmer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA&feature=youtu.be
Well, how is the current system different from indentured servitude? You can't discharge school loans in bankruptcy, so...
Good catch. I'll update the template.

I should really run the outputs through an HTML validator as part of continuous integration...
Why Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash was survivable
It was way back in 1992 that I radically reshaped my career plans, coincident with the birth of my first son (who, gratifyingly, is now grown up and supporting himself as a hacker for a startup). I read the comments here, read the fine article, and still don't completely grok that I have had much the same experience without as much surrounding cultural baggage. Predominantly "stay-at-home" (a better term might be "near young children") fathers have always been rare, yes, but they have been around for a long time. I have certainly always been able to go to public parks with my children (the first three of whom were boys) or to the library or other places with them.

I haven't heard a lot of the kinds of nasty comments that the author of this interesting submitted article appears to have heard all too often. For me, since we had children, it has been important to spend a lot of time with my children while they grow up. They are only young once each. Way back in the early 1970s, I thought, evidently overoptimistically, that women's liberation would be a force to make it possible for dads to spend more time with their children if the dads so chose. Maybe that doesn't happen as a matter of social reality everywhere, but that is the choice I made, and I'm not looking back. All of my children, the three boys and the one girl, are already thinking ahead about what kind of lifestyle trade-offs they will work out with their spouses when, as they hope, they have children of their own.

One cannot emphasize the author's point too much that taking care of young children is a lot of work that demands constant vigilance. Authors from the women's liberation perspective used to argue that that is one of the best reasons to hire former homemakers as they return to the outside-the-home paid labor force--it takes strong personal organization skills to take care of young children. I don't know if that's what big company employers really think, but it sure makes sense to me.

To be clear for onlookers new to my posts here, we are a homeschooling family, so the high parental involvement with children (again, not "stay at home" but "out and about with the children") has continued in our family even though our youngest child is above typical school-going age. We like this lifestyle, because we like what it appears to be doing for our children. There are trade-offs involved in any lifestyle choice that relates both to family and to work responsibilities, but there is plenty of time for working in anyone's day, and a lot of good memories that can be built up from quality family time.
My tutorial:

* Get Thunderbird and Enigmail.
* Use Enigmail to generate your keypair
* Upload your public key to the keyserver (via the GUI)
* Proceed to use email.

BAM! Done a hell of a lot easier than this tutorial.
I suppose the system only works as long as the net sum of all transactions arriving (+) and departing (-) any given location is zero in the long term. But I can imagine there are locations that are net payers and others that are net receivers of money. What happens then, to settle the difference?
For anybody who wants to read about this process in the form of a fascinating self-biography should read "Ghost in the Wire" by Kevin Mitnick.
What I learned in 7 years, 5 apartments, and 9 roommates
Saying to a dad that he is babysitting is so demeaning. It's like saying that his investment in his own child is on the level of that teenage girl next door that babysits his child every other week because she needs the 10 bucks to buy gas.
Cellphone video shot by a guy, Fred Hayes, watching aircraft land yesterday at SFO shows the tail dragging in the water for quite a distance before striking the seawall.

http://statter911.com/2013/07/07/must-see-crash-of-asiana-fl...

I'm guessing that the pilot was praying for those engines to spool-up faster.
Cars in Russia routinely have dash-mounted cams to record driving; helps for insurance claims. It's one reason why there were so many videos of the meteorite that hit Chelyabinsk, taken while driving.
In other words, in countries where men make all the rules and run the show nobody dares look askance at a man in a public setting?

Go figure.
This was immensely helpful. Thank you for posting this.
http://sciencevsmagic.net/geo/#0A1.1A0.2A0.N.2A0.4A0.5A1.3A0...

Here's how I did it.
I agree with some of his points. My opinions means shit though.
I think they will find eventually that rationality is a cultural/educational thing.
GPG Tools for OS X isn't bad - it integrates with Mail.app decently.

https://gpgtools.org/keychain/index.html

However, it's still a minor pain to use for web-based email. You have to remember to select the entire body, right-click, Services, then select Encrypt. Not sure what can be done other than make it a browser extension, but the history on them isn't exactly stellar, security-wise.
That you had 9 months notice and you're only telling me now? ;)

Seriously: I've met a minuscule number of people that can produce genuinely useful stuff when really working more than 8 hours in a stretch. I've met several orders of magnitude more people who think they can. I'm happy existing outside of both groups, and working with similar modest souls.

Also: I'd suggest getting up earlier and finishing at 4.
The incentives are actually worse than the student loan model, since the incentives to the student to major in something that makes money are now reduced.
There's an open one in Rockridge BART at least. Now that I think of it, that's the only station I've been in that has a bathroom.
Sure. Then I'd retract and say that what your dog really needs is to be out in the wild being raised by its own real doggy parents (who most likely get a 120-moon leave from work).
Indirectly related to your question: you can find some interesting food for thought from the Delhi episode of Scam City[1]. By the end of the episode the host has a paper trail of (phony) medical problems and, eventually, his own death certificate.

http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/scam-city
You weren't talking about gay adoption, but your argument was against gay adoption, intended or not.
The profiled psychologist doing the research discussed in this interesting submission mentions his book What Intelligence Tests Miss,

http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300164626

and I have recommended that book repeatedly in Hacker News discussion over the years. The book is readable, interesting, and surprising, and the bibliography cites most of the best recent research on human cognition.
Devil's-advocate: fine, OK, we still need pilots, for the time being. But do they actually need to be on the planes?

In the case of two recent crashes (AF447 and this one, assuming pilot error turns out to be the cause as seems likely), it's safe to say that a computer would've easily done a better job than the pilots.

Would be interesting to hear Capt. Sullenberger's take on the question.
Isn't a professional simply somebody who is paid wages?

Isn't a professional environment simply the typical environment in which a given class of professionals chooses or prefers to work?

Are there professional garbage truck drivers?
Slightly OT:
Can someone explain to me, why in every physics simulation demo everything seems to be moving in slowmotion? (This demo is not an exception.)

Just wondering...
The cost of minimal useful equipment to accomplish that task at every international airport in the US (~150) would be less than the cost of a single 777 empty ($300MM). The value of that footage? I don't know, but it sounds like a bargain to me.
i know, feminism is a sacred cow.

the truth is that men tend to be highly valued in the 3rd world. by comparison in the west they tend to kill themselves as they get older: http://www.prb.org/Articles/2006/ElderlyWhiteMenAfflictedbyH...

are you aware we've blocked right wing research out of academia, so these issues never get researched properly?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08tier.html?_r=0

and that margaret mead was basically a fraud?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Samoa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Freeman

(margaret mead is an early feminist)
Imagine if an American said he was going across the "world" from New York to California.
absurdly loud
Fixed it. It looks like a difference between the rdiscount and maruku Markdown parsers. Github Pages must be using the opposite of whatever is the default I'm using for Jekyll.
It sounds to be like you are confusing your personal failings with the traits of all men. Considering your history, it's not a real surprise. But do not continue to make the mistake that just because it's true for you, it's must be true for everyone.

That's a fairly ignorant mistake to make.
A fair point. I suggest only that whether or not you can pull off pleats has a lot less to do with your build or any other personal characteristic and a lot more to do with the kind of pants you're wearing (and whether you are wearing them properly). (To be fair, if you have massive thighs, you basically have to have pleats; this is not an issue for most people though). And so as regards fashion, it's not a matter of whether pleats are in fashion, but how high a rise is fashionable.

If you wear your pants anywhere near your hips, you will look like a clown if you have pleats. Likewise, pants which were made to be worn near the hips are clown-pants if they have pleats.

If your pants, however, have a high rise, and you are man enough to wear them at your natural waist, then pleats will make it possible to sit _and_ stand in your pants and not look like a total fool.
More accurately, Sarbox is keeping 96% of Americans away from some crazy volatility -- they are missing out on MSFTesque price appreciation as well as potential bankrupcy of countless new public companies.
Wikileaks, Snowden, and the Belarus Connection
Strictly speaking, "I said everything in these quotation marks."