skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sixty years ago, if something weird happened most people would say, "Gee, I wish I owned a camera!"

Ten years ago, if something weird happened most of us would say, "Gee, I wish I'd brought a camera!".

Today, if something weird happens most of us would say, "Gee, I wish I'd had my phone out of my pocket when that happened!".

A couple of years from now, we'll just take for granted that we're recording everything around us all the time.

Humans love sharing stories, but we're obsessed with our own credibility. We could entertain others with a well spun tale far better than with a cellphone snap-shot, but we still strive to record that snap-shot so we won't need to tell the story and risk being doubted. In the process, we are eliminating the mutability of truth and perspective in human experience in favor of cold, hard bits that tell only the objective truth, and will do so perfectly for as long as they are stored.

While we worry about keeping the secrets we have, we're generating new secrets at an exponentially increasing rate. Secrets are necessarily losing their impact as a result. A nude photo was once a scandal. A hardcore pornographic movie, deliberately leaked, is now cheap promotion. Here in Canada, the mayor of a major city was allegedly caught doing crack on tape. People weren't sure whether to care or not, and it mostly came down to whether or not they already liked him. Society is changing to accommodate the reduction of personal privacy by becoming less responsive to scandal.

This is why the use of encryption has such difficulty overcoming sloth and why there is so little rage among the U.S. public about their loss of privacy. Compared to the indignities their pop-idols are subjected to, the snooping of the NSA seems benign. The government would have to start placing cameras in their bathrooms and bedrooms before they'd be properly outraged, and in a decade or two even that may be tolerable! However, even as some types of information lose their ability to wound, the type of information the government seeks will still serve as an instrument of control.

It's a bit of a conundrum. How do we make people care more about privacy when society is busy transforming itself to care less? I don't think the cypherpunk movement has a hope of combating this trend. Whatever it does for the good of society will have to be done in spite of society rather than with it's willing participation.
The only significant game they did since 2007 is Portal 2. (1 game in 6 years). Left for Dead was acquired and the sequel was done basically by the same team.

Valve has Steam and, with it, a very nice income stream (they're basically rich). While they do try stuff with F2P (dota, tf) personally i doubt Valve is a top tier game maker anymore. It seems to me they don't have the ambition anymore and live the good life while Steam provides.
Your theory does not hold up as the UK and others have multiple parties and a worse surveillance state.
So what's the advantage of Akka compared to Remote Stateless Session Beans?
Illegal geoengineering project detected off Canada's west coast
Wow. amazing story.
Is it really not at all possible to be a sort of lone-ranger?
Ahh ok. I know this, but got confused when type and testing was included in the same sentence :P
That is wrong on many levels.

Its like saying in the 1950-s - if we ship enough weapons to the MLK supporters they will get their civil rights. Maybe, maybe not. What we will have for sure is more volatile and bloody situation.

Cryptography cannot be stable response to a surveillance/government overreach state. It just creates an arm race in which the government still has the power to beat you up to a pulp on whim. With a robot(wait 5 years).

It's the second amendment fallacy - enough technology in the hands of the people can stop the government.

By encrypting everything you just open the door for arbitrary enforcement on various laws.
Wit, sarcasm, and hacker news don't mix well. :(
The next engine will probably be called Marquee. It should.
Perhaps something as simple as having a little video camera on bikes would discourage drivers from getting too close. If lots of cyclists had them drivers might start to move over a little more. Just knowing that you might be recorded could be enough incentive to a avoid cyclists.
Your notion that the word "squatter" is offensive is offensive to me. Squatting is a long, proud tradition whereby property is taken from the greedy or dead and redistributed to those who are actually in a position to use it. Squatters are the rightful owners of property, both in spirit and in many places in law. It is a well established legal precedent that the needs of the living trump the wishes of the dead, and squatting laws were created to honor that.
I'd wager every site sitting behind CDNs or a varnish saw a developer go down to telnetting to port 80 to debug the cache behaviour. If you include frontend developers, sure your majority of developers assertion is true. Select sysops only, and you'll be e surprised.
For the record, I tested it [1] and it was reasonably fast, about as fast as android on the same device. It felt faster than stock android but slower than highly optimized unofficial android the community worked on for about a year, which is to be expected.

The phone is pretty laggy even with that android, though, for example, it takes photo in about four seconds after you press the button.

[1]: http://www.modaco.com/topic/359564-b2g-firefox-os-for-the-hu...
I am speechless. As an Australian (from Queensland though) I am absolutely shocked because I know from repeated experience as do many that local councils are staffed and run by usually highly incompetent people. How is it a council is able to access such information in the first place? Someone needs to demand some answers.

Would hate for those criminals breaking the law with their unregistered pets considering it costs like maximum $80 per year to register a pet...
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The 1996 documentary Rats In The Ranks is recommended viewing.
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The article effectively uses 'popular' as a pejorative but doesn't really explore is the extent to which the 'popular kids' have achieved power through merit. If someone is popular because they are a good manager, with good ideas, able to listen and adopt better ideas from talented team members, then I have no problem with this form of hierarchy - it's a meritocracy.
Sortition has a lot going for it and certainly encourages participation far beyond our current democratic engagement. I'd like to see it start to appear on a small scale, beyond Juries, in modern democratic states.

There's an interesting EconTalk discussing the Ancient Greek economy where Russ Roberts asks his guest: "We certainly romanticize Greece as this great democracy; but it wasn't much like the United States, tell us about it"

But after Josiah Ober describes Athenian democracy it ends up sounding like what we call modern democracy is a very poor imitation.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/08/ober_on_the_anc.htm...
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- Forgetting Affordances
- Misusing color & contrast
- Lacking the beauty of typography
- Poor rather than simple
- Lost Visual Hierarchy
Did anyone use offline maps really anyway? I know I never have. I bet the number of people that actually used the offline feature was a small percentage anyway.
He now blogs semi-frequently on boston.com:

http://www.boston.com/community/blogs/askthepilot/
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app, application, I wasn't thinking about mobile apps or the like.

I agree completely with using whatever I can be most successful with line of thinking. This is why I try to learn as many languages as I can, so I have a good notion of what is the best tool for the job.

Whenever I think "loads of concurrency" I immidietly think about Erlang, Clojure or Go, as they have great concurrency models. Then again, you'll always be more productive in the language in which you have most experience, so to each his own I guess :)
But the article is factually incorrect, Elon who coined the term hyperloop says its not a "evacuated tube" but this article suggests it is.

Pointing out a poorly researched article is not being self absorbed, maybe the writer should have done more than 2 minutes of research.
I'm confused? If someone is willing to give "$9000 worth of ISK" for it, then it follows that someone is willing to give $9000 for it.
You might want to look into (Management) Consulting companies. They provide diverse projects and need creative people from lots of fields. Being able to hack data and bridge gaps between business, medicine and engineering is a plus too.
And there still is. Some of my bets would be on semantic (ontology identification and interaction), multilingual/multicultural (IMHO huge), local-machine personalized, further processing integration (local or cloud: visualization / result manipulation / statistics / monitoring), reputation and other metric system integration for result entities.
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The thing is that this exists just as well in hierarchical groups though. I've yet to encounter an organization where the hierarchical structure accurately represents the actual power structure.

What's happening here is that in flat organizations it's the -only- power structure and thus becomes more pronounced to our brains which are hard-wired to pattern match for the social power structures.

Another way of looking at this is to see the hierarchical power structure as an abstraction that evolved to address the discomfort (some) people have with a more fluid power structure like at Valve.

The interesting part here is that different people have different tolerance for this though; so much so that it's one of Hofstede's main cultural dimensions called 'Power distance'. [2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cultural_dimension...
I like it. I had a similar idea a while back, but for using output from the already widely-available 'script' command.

I wonder if there was a technical reason to create a new 'recorder', or if it was just a question of ease-of-use?
Glad you came by, you can surely help me. I'm in dire need of a debugging tool that allows me to start corba requests and works with all large corba vendors.

There isn't one, don't bother looking. Corba is the poster child for the problems with binary protocols: fragmentation, buggy implementations, incompatible extensions.

I'd rather not see HTTP follow the Corba path.
Hmm. Most of what I've seen uses mutexes and semaphores for synchronization. Do you have actors and/or channels libraries for C++? I recon you do, but how good are they?
It is a very useful feature when you're abroad.
To uninstall the update : open the launcher -> drop the maps icon on the "App Info" label -> Uninstall updates
I've managed it quite happily. I would say that you need to be part of a group in order to claim territory and keep it defended 24/7, but there are plenty of other things to do than claim territory.

Also, "be alone" and "be a follower" aren't the only options, there's also plenty of room for leaders (well, plenty of opportunity for a leader to make room for themselves and their followers :P).
This reminded me a lot of a previous HN story about a guy who did a sketch and painting every day for a year. The results from start to finish were stunning:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870
This is why employers usually enforce a mandatory probation period. To give them a 'get out of jail free' card if you don't work out.

You have the same right except it's not limited to the first three months. Approach the person who hired you, explain the reasons you're not happy and offer your resignation.
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>Democracy is a rather crap form of government, with several failure modes (of which the tendency to converge on an oligarchy is but one), but it has one huge advantage over other forms of government: it provides a mechanism for peacefully transferring power when a governing clique has outlived its popularity

First, I'd like to point out that by "democracy" he's referring to what we all understand by democracy right now - a democratic republic.

Now, I think the way most democratic republics work has failed. I think we need a lot more direct democracy elements implemented in the democratic republic system. He says there that even the democratic republics were formed so the transfer of power is done without bloodshed.

But what do you do when even in such a system, the people feel compelled to create massive protests, possibly even violent ones (most revolutions)? I think the answer is an even more democratic republic. And I think you can achieve that with more direct democracy elements, such as more citizen-made laws, referendums, citizen vetos of bills, and so on (some of these exist in some countries like Germany or Switzerland, but not a lot of them, and there need to be more to become "more democratic").

This way, when the citizens are really frustrated about something, they can just fight to change the laws themselves, instead of waiting for the corrupt government to do it, and instead of having to gather in the millions to protest the government in the streets.

Note: I'm not saying we should completely discard the democratic republic system, and do away with "representatives". That's what most people (mistakenly) think when they hear this type of suggestion.

What I'm saying is far from it. I just want the republics to become more democratic, and for more ways to exist to bypass the representatives in certain situations (explicitly defined in the law), when there is big frustration about something. But of course a balance must be kept, and the representatives should still handle 95%-99% of the policies.
Perhaps this update was launched by a conscientious objector within the Googleplex.
Do you have any idea when the Ubuntu/Linux version will be coming?

EDIT: Woops, I just checked and I'm already on 28! Awesome :-)
I certainly do understand there are very important differences between, for example: psychotic, psychopathic, schizophrenic, sociopath, and so on. I'm not a doctor, and won't pretend to be one. Even in the mental health industry these definitions are constantly evolving and have been for a long time. I just needed to get the point across, and for that purpose I knew the word psychotic would do the trick. Most people understand in general terms what you mean when you use that term: they think cold blooded, someone without the ability to empathize, cold and calculating, willing to hurt people to reach their objectives, etc.

Sociopathic would have been a better choice: "a personality disorder characterized by amorality and lack of affect; capable of violent acts without guilt feelings"
No HTTPS on login page.
Also not an expert but I imagine if that were the case, it would have applications in measuring distance between galaxies and other areas of enormous distance.
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A lot of people go solo. They mine, they work in the markets, they work as couriers, they roam around the universe and kill other people's ships to sell for scraps. It's a sandbox mmo, you can do whatever you like.

It does hinder your ability to participate in big battles like this and money making will be slower. But some people don't mind since they just want to be independent.
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Actually, while doing this is a good idea for individuals diagnosing their system, There does seem to be a systemic issue. I hope I didn't come across as flippant.

I run TLP, turn of my ethernet and wifi when not using them, and otherwise try to save power. Windows users do none of these things, yet they still seem to get okay battery life.

It does beg the question... if the problem isn't in the kernel but in userland, what is the issue, and can something be done?

I will gladly give money to someone who will work on figuring this out.
The worst things about carousels that I find are when 1) it's not obviously a carousel and 2) when it auto-advances on a fixed timeout, and it's impossible to stay on one 'page' and actually read it. Extremely frustrating.
I think the same way about this. But life is not fair. You see systems and you exploit them. If you gain fame by merit when interacting with one of those systems, that's nice. But not all systems work like that.
That's huge! I've been waiting for this for quite some time.
If Firefox also got some more UI polish it would be my fave browser.
This reminds me of TeamBox (version 3 is also opensource).
We're on the same side, but I think you're giving the argument too much credit, it's like calling a sphere a circle. You're probably going to have to take a harder stance to convince people.

You and I both know that a camera is different to ubiquitous cameras, and that when and where those cameras are directed and recording are important.
Most important of all given those first two distinctions, is who controls and owns the footage.
The implications of the footage ending up on a computer not belonging to the recorder and recorded are profound.
How will the law react? Mandatory recording for the typically sensitive professions? Will that then extend out in all directions?
Will Joe Public be charged with destroying evidence: e.g. shop owners being sued for compensation, who destroy their CCTV footage to cover up?
You can cache the current map area that you're looking at by searching for 'OK Maps'. [1]

[1] - http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2013/07/a-new-google-maps-app-...
Stop cribbing about the ecosystem
$ -> ISK is a one-way conversion, which creates a lot of debate over the definition of "worth". I'm not enough of an economist to have any idea over which definition is right :P
Just use the effect system plugin?

Anyway, while I generally agree, I'd wish that people would stop bringing up type-inference in these discussions. It always makes me question whether those persons have understood the topic at all.
Using the header element for marking up site header? I think not.
OMG, such service was on my ToDo list for a long long time... but I never sit down to actually do it.

Good job!
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Haskell zealots are using the same nonsensical arguments that Java used, claiming to be a "safe" language where the compiler and static typing "eliminating common bugs". This is a naive meme, almost everyone telling to each other.

First of all - no static typing system, whatever sophisticated it is, could protect from incompetence, lack of knowledge of underlying principles and plain stupidity. The dream that idiots will write a decent code will never come true, no matter how clever tools could be, just because it is impossible to write any respectable code without understanding hows and whys.

But, for those who managed to understand the core ideas and concepts on which programming languages were based (immutability, passing by reference, properties of essential data-structures, such as lists and hash tables) it is possible to write sane and reasonable code even in C, leave alone CL or Erlang, and the type system will become a burden rather than advantage.

So, Haskell is really good to master Functional Programming (which is much better to learn using old classic Scheme courses), to understand the ideas it rests on. To realize what is function composition, environments, currying, partial evaluation, closures, why they and when they are useful and handy, and how clear and concise everything (syntax and semantics) could be if you just stop here - just skip the part about Monads - they are just over hyped fanciness to show off.

Learning Haskell after Scheme/CL really clarifies one's mind with realizations how the same foundation ideas work in a alien (static-typing) world, and how, everything is clean and concise, until you're starting messing everything up with "too advanced typing".

Again, it is much better to learn the underlying ideas (why it is good to separate and pay special attention to functions that performing IO, what is recursive data structures and why null-pointers do exist in the first place) instead of stupid memes like "monads are cool" or "Haskell prevents bugs".

The trick is that it is that dynamic languages with proper testing (writing tests before code) is not worse than this "static typing safety", and that the very word "safety" is just a meme.
Now that I think of it, did he meant "not a vacuum tunnel"?

Or did he meant "not a vacuum tunnel"?
I talked to Solomon during DotScale 2013 and submitted that the index could be transformed into an app-store. He didn't seemed opposed to the idea but said they want to focus on making the base stable. Just saying the idea is out there.

Apart from the app-store what's missing is more container metadata with an embedded security model and maybe signed binaries. The server-side also need a UI that is higher-level than the existing Docker UI [1] project. There's also some work missing on state handling.

[1]: https://github.com/crosbymichael/dockerui
Dota 2 is the #5 PC game being played right now according to Xfire and is only growing. It's pretty unreasonable to call it insignificant.
It sounds like spin.

>“Retrieving a telephone subscriber’s name and address for an investigation into an offence is an important tool," she said.

That was the reply from the spokeswoman and the article provides no accusations of any further "data interception" behavior.

If I didn't know better, I'd say this article is trying to characterize caller id/the phonebook as "intercepting data",
sure, it's technically accurate, but the words "caller id" are a lot less scary.
No. I think what he meant was that let's say people are willing to trade X ISK or whaever it's called for 1 USD, and the spaceship is 9000X ISK therefore it might cost 9000 USD.

The conversion/trade I suppose doesn't always work that way.
9000 USD is OK. When you get OVER 9000, it's ridiculous.
On consumer hardware like laptops, it is generally that the driver for the GPU is not able to put the hardware into its low power modes.

The power efficiency tends to be very good on server-class hardware (because large corporate users like Google tend to care a lot about it).
Is it intentional that the carousel switches so fast that reading the whole text displayed is almost impossible? (It may be due to my not being native English speaker, but it anyway...)
As Burke says "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
It is a EU Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_(European_Union)

AFAIK the EU dictates the result, not the means. UK's first implementation of the e-Privacy Directive was unfortunate, but I don't think it means the directive was a bad idea.
New Gmail ads looking a lot more like emails
The new ads in gmail's promo tab look a lot similar to emails than before. An interesting new addition or move towards advertising trickery? I lean towards the former but I'd be interested what other people think.
There are unsanctioned (might get you banned) ways to convert ISK to $. The unofficial rate is of course much lower because of the risk, but even counting that way, the Revenant was worth $3k.
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Yes, it's intentional. That's part of the 'joke'.
It's also worth observing that "culture" tends to mean "people similar to myself", unless more explicitly defined. So it's no suprise that the people who declared not to "fit" are a woman and a skilled manual worker (machinist).

The totally uniform power distribution idea only works if you have totally uniform employees. As soon as you have signifigantly different skillsets and workflows - which you need to do different kinds of work - then employees become uncomparable and shortly afterwards unequal.

The size of Valve is also over Dunbar's number, so they're beyond the range of what can be organised with informal social operations anyway.