skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd think you have a good shot at two, almost guaranteed no more than 3.

I'm from Norway, and yet can easily make that kind of connection in 4 hops: I've spoken to a few Norwegian MP's, who obviously have spoken to quite a few Norwegian prime ministers.

There's probably a number of other connections from her as she would have met any number of internationally renowned people both in capacity as prime minister and as WHO director - including US politicians - that might have met Kevin Bacon, but courtesy of the Oracle of Bacon she also has a Bacon number of 2 based on appearing in a talkshow as a guest alongside Michael Bolton documentary with Michael Bolton, who has appeared in some awards show with Kevin Bacon.

Chances are good there's some less obvious route that'd get me there in 3 hops. Once you "allow" off screen meetings, it gets really easy.

It would surprise me, for example, if Kevin Bacon hasn't met some relatively prominent US politicians and/or celebrities that has met one of the Norwegian MP's I've spoken to (for two hops), or if he hasn't met one of the US politicians or artists that have been at the Nobel peace price concerts, where they'd have met either aforementioned Gro Harlem Brundtland or any number of other Norwegian politicians that would either include someone I've met or definitively have met someone I've met (for 3 hops).

I think people tend to overestimate how many steps it'll take, because they see these celebrities and politicians they can't relate to that they think are so far apart from "their" world, but of course that is silly because these people tend to meet a lot of people, and so are natural "shortcuts" to get low number of hops to anyone. For example:

I'm two hops from Mao and Castro (via a trade-union rep I met that was introduced to Mao on a group trip to China in the 60's, and a former left wing politician I've met that met Castro on a visit to Cuba), and as a result at most 3 hops from Stalin and Nixon and most other major leaders contemporaneous with either of them, ranging from "ordinary politicians" to a fascinating laundry list of horrible dictators.

It really is a small world.
If you take pleasure in killing your fellow creatures, sure. I for one just let them do their thing, and I do mine.

"Live and let live" is a concept which no longer seems to be part of popular cognition.

And the analogy still holds.
And how do you keep yourself energetic at this age? :) Impressive!
Joel Spolsky shares some of Stack Exchange's secret sauce
The design still requires a tunnel. It's not an open air track like a railroad.
I think the logic is that you can search through email for things while composing. e.g. I'm composing an email and referring to something in another email I got a few days ago. I can search for that email, read it, and then get back to composing. Perviously I would have had to save the email I was composing as a draft, find my other email, then go back and open the draft.
Ah, I realized this shortly after posting.
seriously, they aren't starting with a prescription option? I know a bunch of the sort of people who would use this. I think one of them doesn't wear prescription glasses.
I wonder i Elon really has a plan, or if he is just kickstarting everyones speculations to come up with an actual viable design.
Topical Twitter tags visualized as a mindmap
You don't have to engage with the kooks. Downvote and ignore them.
It says it's performant but for me it's laggy compared to http://tympanus.net/Development/ModalWindowEffects/

Why is that?
You posted a comment in reply to one of them. You're just one hop away from a potential terrorist. Now they've got you too, forever.

(And me as well, but seeing as I'm a dirty foreigner I'm sure they've got me already)
Great initiative! I'm a big fan of starting with books when I'm learning something new as they usually have a better narrative and deeper explanation than the docs and 'getting started' guides do. Maybe this could be written using github with pull requests and stuff when things change? Open sourced books rocks. ;)
Thanks, a lot of that is very interesting indeed, but is there a version without the constant (and sometimes rather low) personal attacks against a vague group of people? I'm old enough to read past them, but still, bleh. "The conspiracy theorists" are not some monolithic group, for example: http://www.ae911truth.org/
It's completely legitimate to say Americans for acts done by your government, because you have a democracy. You don't get to have it both ways. If too many people are apathetic and don't care enough what the US military does to thousands of people all over the world rather than stop it, then be ready to accept the responsibility.
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There's a bit of truth in there. But my remark was more general than just apple's product. The audio software industry is extremely poor compared to the difficulty of the algorithmic it has to deal with. It's the only computer tools i know that needs sub 50ms latency all the time, with extremely complex mathematic computations, along with an extremely and intuitive GUI.

A proof of that is that android still doesn't have descent audio performance. Yet it is able to do everything else.
Growth hacking cookbook
The article talks about low frequency and high amplitude. The sound waves near a subwoofer definitely moves the air more than a few ångström...

And you don't want low pressure, but high, so the air speed is low. Drag is proportional to the density, but proportional to the square of the speed.
I have a personal rule that I am forming, where if the approach to improve something, is to use that something in greater quantities, it is probably a bad thing. e.g. brute force, vendor specific stack, XML, C++, classes, templates, advertising and surveillance.

Have you ever had the misfortune of watching reality TV? You do realise the power of selective editing. Sufficiently motivated camera operators can 'destroy evidence' with no paper trail.

So no, I really don't think more surveillance would necessarily give a better result.

Who would be so crooked as to do such a thing? Faculty to get insurance claim/avoid insurance claim, overloaded cop who just wants to get to 'done' or a promotion.
I wish I could go fully digital but sadly the only way to get high quality "DRM-free" (in the sense that at least it's easy to strip the DRM) video today is by getting BDs. It saddens me that the actually good digital options are pretty much all illegal.

Admittedly I do currently have a Netflix account as well, mainly for some casual watching. I wouldn't be paying for it if it wasn't for MediaHint, though, which allows me to watch everything available on US Netflix.

Though speaking of DRM, incidentally just 10 minutes ago I was trying to show an example of some horrible subtitling on Netflix to a friend of mine and ran into a DRM error with Silverlight (it was claiming my time and date were inaccurate)... took a while to figure out how to solve it. Ah, DRM, always so friendly to legal consumers.
Metadata, the NSA, and the Fourth Amendment: A Constitutional Analysis
Criminals have rights because criminals are still people.

Terrorists are the 20th and 21st century equivalent of pirates.
The important facts do not need independence on the part of the author:

1. His grandson was American, so the US military establishment assassinated an American outside the courts

2. The attack was performed in a third country, which is an act of war. Not fuzzy war-on-terror or other nonsense. War, classic version. Just reverse sides and imagine US' reaction on drone attacks on its soil affecting civilians.
Interesting that it's yet another way that our meat eating habit bites us back.
Someone should build a prototype of such a tube and see if it's efficient. The mystery around Hyperloop generates a lot of ideas that should be tested. Railroad infrastructures are ageing, maybe some tuberoads can replace them.
No, but it was convenient in the same way the Reichstag fire was convenient.
David vs Goliaths of Photo Books - Comparison of 8 digital platforms
Oracle dropping Sun Virtualization Tech but keeping Virtualbox
Who in their right mind would pay for a dedicated server monthly when with just a little extra time spent up front, they'll be able to buy an inhouse server and pay less than a quarter as much in the long run?

You see where I'm trying to go with that?
Prove it.

The US Government didn't.
I'm going to catalog my reaction to this HN post:

I see the article title... it looks interesting. I see the URL... it's the same as the article title. Now I'm thinking it must be trying to sell me something. I click on the link out of curiosity. I see what I thought was going to be the article title, and then I noticed pictures of many different people. So now I think, "Oh, this website collects the stories of how these people got their first 3 customers." I look to find someone who has a job title / product that I might be interested in reading about, so I select Skye Chilton, iPhone Cases. I read the short two paragraphs, and am disappointed. I go back to the main page, and that's when I notice and read the byline and think, that's not quite what I expected when I read that one person's "story".

The idea might be good (sharing people's stories on how they got their first 3 customers), but my first impression is that the execution is not something that I find valuable.

To be fair, I randomly clicked on some other people's stories.

Eric Barstow, Paint Job Lead Generator - I found interesting, and I think I could use his story as an example of how to start a business.

Johnson Goh, Korean Pop Music Applications - Not very interesting.

John Lamerand, Websites & Photography - Hmm, okay.

In the byline, it says "steps for you to do the same." I didn't find any steps. I see the tips at the end of the stories, and those are insightful and nice. Overall, this site is a good start and has a promising idea, but I think the execution needs to be revised.
Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA
The CIA Wants To Know How To Control the Climate
I remember early on in eve (I joined pretty much when it launched) there were hidden asteroid belts in various systems that didn't appear on the maps. You instead had to warp into planets/moons, sometimes other belts if memory serves and then use the "scanner" to try and find them. I loved doing this, you'd spend a load of time constantly narrowing your scanner down to a particular direction then flying off in that direction, constantly rescanning to make sure you weren't off track.

Eventually there was a website setup by another player who'd buy the locations I and others had found and sell them on to others, since the hidden places often had better loot, or sometimes asteroid belts with no enemies.
Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behind bars
> phanopoetic

It's not every day that we meet a legitimate word for which Google can only find a paltry 119 results ;-)

(This result did the most for me: Do we privilege sight or sound? - Foetry http://foetry.com/forum/index.php?topic=330.0;wap2‎
Let us call these tendencies the Phanopoetic and the Melopoetic; [...])
I don't say you have to like Apple because of the lack of options, but for many, the lack of options is a feature.

The last thing I want is an iPhone - Android flame war, but something I don't like about Android, is that I constantly have to be searching for the ideal well... everything, since basically everything is changeable, I've gone through 4 music players, and have been disappointed several times, I did found a great one eventually, but in this case, I (and I said I god damn it) would rather have it Apple's way even if it's not perfect, it works if you do it their way.
It doesn't seem to do it for my BB10 phone; my server logs show a direct connection from my phone.

Is this truth, or just one persons interpretation?
Whats the use of this polling? Is this applicable any how in real life?
This is amazing. As a form of thank you let me share a glitch which I noticed on latest Chrome in Windows 8 http://i.imgur.com/bRHRBK6.jpg As you can see there are no scrollbars for the lists and weird artifact is visible on the middle list. This doesn't happen on IE 10. Also,some of the effects start with a noticeable delay (but work smoothly).
> Every transfer for home video I've ever seen has been anamorphic widescreen since the earliest days of the DVD.

That's interesting because one of the things which disappointed me most with DVDs was how immensely hard it was to get DVDs with actual anamorphic widescreen.

Most movies was actually fullscreen or letterboxed, and for 2.35:1 films that meant effectively 200 lines for film content.

This was after DVDs had been on the market for 5+ years mind you.

TLDR: An anecdote does not make facts nor data.
The public listening to police scanners is not new and frightening to those graced with the gift of a monopoly on violence. The unknown has a profound ability to frighten, and fear has a profound ability to inspire violence.
Well protected is the default.
Many great inventions who changed the world took more than 20 years of development and research. I don't think the web has the same effect as some of these world changers. Most of them are just services, and those evolve so fast that thinking they're changing the world is wrong point of view. See Twitter, before them it were many other messaging options, but now they're the cream of that, next in line it will be maybe others, and so on. So, right now you can change the world for just a few years :), that's because everyone rushes.
Dzhokhar is alive, he's in custody.
Relevant xkcd for this comment: http://xkcd.com/810/
Are you suggesting that Google doesn't hand over data? Google has decided to do that because it's good for business (in the sense that going up against the US government is bad for business, and realistically would require Google to move overseas). That's fine, but it changes nothing of the fact that they will hand over data requested by the US government, which means that my comment was perfectly valid.

You seem uncomfortable with the consequences of that. Maybe you should re-evaluate your own relationship with Google - do you really want to be party to these shenanigans?
Somewhat surprised and delighted that this site has surfaced on Hacker News. It's a wonderful resource provided in the true spirit of the old-school web.

I never met Sheldon but he has been and will continue to be my go-to person for bike advice. Whenever I'm fixing my brakes and have to take a minute to think about mechanical advantage, I think of Sheldon. I'm very thankful for his efforts and the ongoing efforts of the people who maintain his site.
I always find this a bit weird, you only get to choose between two parties. The difference with China doesn't seem that big, they only get to vote on one party less.
Flash the device with the password (this time encrypted) before shipping it to the user?

How is it usually done?
I believe this is sarcasm :D
As a scandinavian I totally agree. The US should learn from Norway and the Breivik mass shooting to see how one deals with madmen. Capture them, put them before a judge just like every other criminal and then unceremoniously lock them up.
I was under the impression police were moving to digital, encrypted broadcasts.
How to Save Offline Maps in the New Google Maps for iOS
Moment Camera iOS App FREE EVENT(~7/22)
The Ultimate Guide to Learning Ruby for Free: Resources, Tools and Tips
1.6 Tbit/s transmission rate over an optical fiber
Incredibly apt analogy, even down to the privateers part - Americans were perfectly happy to fund terrorists in Northern Ireland.
I like where this is going. I actually had this idea too, sort of (I wanted a hosted puppet master, then when salt came along, hosted salt master).

However, there's one gaping problem with it.

You seem to have a hosted "weird proprietary yaml language" master.

I don't want the headache of learning a new language, particularly not one with vendor lock in. If it is one of the above, tell me. If it's not, why the hell not?
I would like to know how this works with 802.1X credentials. Does this "feature" save my company internal LDAP password that I use to authenticate to the network to the cloud? Unencrypted?
Not at all.

he did indicate he would continue President Obama’s controversial drone strike program against alleged terrorist suspects.

http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-ratifies-obama-s-dron...
True caller database hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
From http://nokogiri.org/ :

"XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it."
$100.00 is five figures :)
I tried it in Chrome, and it doesn't kill it, but it is quite slow.

Amazing that a 800mz processor in old time could run complex 3d-games, but changing DOM and CSS seems to be much harder calculations...
Using pulsars to define space-time coordinates
Our have for a while too. Sure the password is the hash of the the routers MAC and the manufacture date, but they did try.
But you have more than two parties don't you? Not that it matters, more parties don't have significant advantages. It's just that there is a bigger pool of crooks.
In case this is unclear to anyone; all transonic, supersonic, or hypersonic flight/movement causes a 'continuous' sonic boom. A Bell X-1 at Mach 1.06 causes a continuous sonic boom along it's path, as does a Mach 2 Concorde and a Mach 2.6 Browning 50 cal machine gun bullet. "Sonic booms" are not discrete events that occur when you cross the 'sound barrier' or continuous when you stay at it. They are continuous at it and past it, not stopping until your velocity drops down below it again.

GIF that does a good job of explaining this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Doppleref... That leading edge where all the circles are kind of meeting up? That is where the sonic boom is. It continuously sweeps across the landscape behind the source, as long as the source is moving faster than the speed of sound.
Simon Hackett (MD of Internode) talks about Australia's NBN Costs
Do you know if the Gates foundation, Kiva or GiveWell have done any research into the effect of a Basic Income (i.e. giving everyone in a country a small amount of money with no strings attached)?

It kind of falls slightly outside the realm of charity, more a Government intervention, but it's also the kind of intervention that I'd expect these rational charities to be interested in.

edit: Looks like GiveWell are interested in the concept:

http://blog.givewell.org/2009/05/20/why-not-just-give-out-ca...

"Why do cash handouts seem to be so rare in the charity world? Perhaps it’s because extensive experience and study have shown this approach to be inferior to others. Or perhaps it has more to do with the fact that giving out cash fundamentally puts the people, rather than the charity, in control."

That's exactly the kind of harsh but almost certainly true commentary I'd expect from a true charity watchdog. My esteem for GiveWell has gone up a few notches as a result.

And one of their charities is a charitable version of the concept (though with major differences e.g. it's one-off, limited to the very poor etc.):

http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/give-dir...
Steam engines were replaced only after the invention of a much more efficient engine (internal combustion).

What is the much more efficient boundary of government that is not a nationstate ?
Inside Nike Headquarters
Text comment: Internode is a popular ISP here in Australia, who are well known in the tech/enthusiast industry. Simon, who is the managing director and founder of Internode, was asked to do a ~20 minute presentation on how to reduce the costs of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), which is a government-funded national FTTH network. He discusses many of the current issues around their cost and explores ways he'd go about making it a lot cheaper, if he had a blank slate.
Is a bit like making a steam powered scythe trainer.
I'm not liking it. We have folders to categorize. :-/
Offer HN : MVP for 200$
I started playing with rails 2 weeks ago.I think I can get an MVP working in rails.The MVP will cost you 200$.It should not have a lot of features just the most important ones.I will not do any graphic design just frontend work with a css framework.You will not have to pay anything upfront.
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the age-old question of "cui bono?" remains the single best way to nose out what actually happened, and this often flies in the face of what most people regard and record as "history".

NOTE: i'm supressing a serious rant along your vector.
With the "old" compose UI, you can/could click the box-with-arrow button to transition into a new browser tab or window. Solves the same problem without trying to re-invent windows in HTML. I'm guessing this didn't work (well) on Chrome OS or something?
If you can't get them with insider trading like Naccio, radiation poisoning like Litvinenko or cancer like Jobs, this could prove an effective option in the future :P

http://www.examiner.com/article/csi-fraud-fake-dna-evidence
Jarvis.js v1.2 useless Jquery plugin
I was hoping for org-mode actually :-)
http://intertraff.com/

oh hey, at least they have olark :)
I believe that this Israeli-Finnish mentality of informality and "to the point" attitude has something to do with both still having military draft, besides the usual being small, educated, remote and history of living under threat.
In both countries there is remarkably small difference in perceived (and acted upon) status, say between prime minister and common man should they engage in casual conversation.
Well, I was hoping for a cake that was ohm-made...
Poll: Do you think it is a good time to answer polls?
19 on the 2nd of August, so just a nipper!
The smoothest humble brag I've ever seen!
I was just reading about chart.js and knockout!

http://blog.arisetyo.com/getting-started-with-chart-js-part-...
This was one of the best things about the recent HN front-pager A Dark Room. It felt like everyone was figuring it out at the same time.
To be honest that is what my money was originally on.. that or this just being some sort of self-constructed mythology for himself, sort of like free wirelessly transmitted power was for Tesla perhaps (though more 'intentionally' and less 'mistakenly/delusionally').

As time goes on he keeps getting more and more specific with his deadline for going public though. First it was "eventually", then it was "sometime after Tesla is profitable", then it was "sometime later this year", now we've actually got a date to look forward to. I now think that he actually is thinking of something.
Or even if he does have a design planned, he might consider "creating other usable designs" as a deliberate side effect of stirring up speculation. He seems to be motivated by saving the world in general more than personally making a lot of money.
You should mention it's webkit only.
>The real civil war, revolution, and turmoil pre-date most of those deaths. Mao killed people during his rule by creating unnecessary turmoil and revolution.

These things don't suddenly disappear with the official end of the war. It's a country of a billion people, a regime change, trouble with neighbors, fight for the leadership etc. So, "X is in power all turmoil can stop now", is not really how it works.

>As for Hitler, he was not voted by a majority of Germans. The Nazis peaked at about 1/3rd of the vote.

44% actually. And by majority it means they got the most votes of any other party at the time, not that they got 51%. (Heck, the rulling parties for the last two elections in my country didn't even have anywhere near 40%).

And besides that, after Hitler was established in power, he had an almost total following from the German people, and very little (if at all) internal resistance.
I'm not sure if that would work. I live in a big city, and ticks are an issue here too, while there is no cattle anywhere to be seen.