skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of being rational, identity is just a kind of bias (among many) that needs to be removed.

I think a slightly more accurate generalization of PG's point is that many beliefs and belief systems permit learning (changing the belief) in the face of new evidence or perspective.

The things we most often consider "identity" oriented beliefs are the things that people are unable or unwilling to question (or to consider that they might be wrong about).

So a good way to find you own rationality limiting beliefs is to ask "What am I certain about?".

Politics attempts to solve the coordination problems around use of force, coercion, bribery, money, and infrastructure.

Identity is simply a useful way to rally voters for a political cause, which is why it's used by political and religious charlatans alike.
So, basically, ditch CAs and put ultimate trust in the DNSSEC root?
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Yes. There is a world of difference between talking publicly about your ideas and talking privately. It is incredibly ignorant to assume the person you're talking to is going to somehow hurt your business.

Not only that, but you miss the opportunity to get feedback on your idea, making you more likely to fail.
Courts have held it is still a brady violation, even if the prosecutor did not know, if, say, the police knew.

Otherwise, prosecutors would just avoid knowing.
Nothing beats that moment when, late in the evening, you hear someone shout "GET THE FLAG!!!" across an open plan office.
It's totally okay to keep quiet about what you are working on- but you typically have a vision or idea of what problem you are trying to tackle. You can just talk about that when people ask you...
It's very human readable. Look for yourself-- there are side by side examples of coffeescript and the JS it generated on the front page http://coffeescript.org/ . The generated JS is actually a great way to learn about some best practice ways of using Javascript in ways that avoid common pitfalls. I started using CoffeeScript shortly after reading "Javascript, The Good Parts" and the ideas from that book are basically automatically implemented.
>> it's all just theater and won't actually stop anyone willing to invest minimal effort. <<

So are all the policies and procedures of the TSA, if not the entire agency itself, but nobody is suggesting that making it a tiny bit harder to get weapons onto planes isn't a worthwhile goal. We argue over implementation details.

I read in a Tom Peters book years ago that if a flyer sees a coffee-stained tray table, they assume the airline doesn't maintain its aircraft. That's an utterly irrational conclusion -- and a typically human one. The solution is trivial: clean the tray tables! SO back to software.

Make it a tiny bit harder for ANY user to view the plain-text versions of the passwords stored in a web browser.
That's why I renamed it to "My Döcuments". They'll never get in now.
Surely less dialog with potential adversaries will help the situation.

This kind of posturing is such a clear sign of weakness... It's embarrassing to me as a US citizen.
Interesting project. I'm uneasy about zero HTML, and instead having most/all the HTML in .coffee. But I'm opened to it.

Is this project related to, or draw inspiration from, Reactive Extensions (Rx.NET, Rx.js, Rx.cocoa, etc.)? https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS

Recently, I've seen the idea of reactive user interface pop up all over HackerNews and GitHub. What a lot of folks are missing is that whole applications themselves can be reactive, from UI to servers to data sources. I feel like many of these reactive UI libraries are missing this.
The idea, much less the concrete evidence, that science (evolution) can explain everything is about five minutes old compared to humanity - and humanity has looked to the super-natural to answer the big questions for as long as they have been able to express those questions. It doesn't get much more fundamental than that.
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Yeah, erk, well reminded, I must get onto that. I am organising the event, and doing that talk and I haven't finished writing the software yet...
You need to anticipate your time realistically - Curtis McHale
no the index update is asynchronous - it does not block the process at all.
In short:

* 50k g acceleration is nothing much for the current crop of gun-fired munitions carrying electronics, batteries, cameras, thrusters and even foldable actuators.

* 100k+ g that munitions have been developed in 1990s also include electronics and thrusters.

* Electronic components are known to withstand 200k+ g, and plain polycarbonate solid projectiles used in railgun research don't break under 500k g.

* So a spacecraft that withstands 40-60k g of Slingatron is definitely doable, even though axial accelerations need to be addressed, too.
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Don't think about security that way; that kind of logic is misleading. Security is measured in dollars, in the sense of cost imposed on attackers.

You're right that there's a constant tension between features and security.
On August 24, 2012 the jury returned a verdict largely favorable to Apple. It found that Samsung had willfully infringed on Apple's design and utility patents and had also diluted Apple's trade dresses related to the iPhone
...
The jury found Samsung infringed ... design patents that covers iPhone's features such as the "home button, rounded corners and tapered edges" (US D593087) and "On-Screen Icons" (US D604305).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electroni....

This seems to indicate that Apple did indeed assert what I claimed. Can you show me how this is false?
Yes, this differentiation between humans and other animal is kind of axiomatic here, but I fear that if you remove it the consequences are too dangerous. I believe that exploiting crops or cows in a field, and killing them, is morally acceptable, while exploiting fellow humans in a factory is not.
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My cheaper VPS option doesn't allow you to spin up servers on demand or offer prorated billing. So while there may be cheaper, DO seems the cheapest for the flexibility it has.
Julia isn't (currently) targeted as a general-purpose programming language, but there's nothing in the core language that's specialized for scientific computing. While the linear algebra libraries etc. are part of the standard library, they're either written in Julia or wrappers for external projects. Its closest relative in terms of paradigm is might be Dylan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_programming_language), which Apple intended as a lispy general-purpose language for the Newton. IMHO, making it useful in the domains where people use Clojure is really just a matter of library support (and whether you can tolerate 1-based indexing).
how about : "we the people approve of Russia's actions and therefore order you, president Obama, to represent us at the summit."
I think that having the expensive stuff at the announcement is all about getting people talking about it. Lots of stores have that ridiculously priced item that everyone wants to see but nobody actually wants to buy.

It does seem to be gallery prices for the commodity art at the low end. But these are just the people that were first in. If we get that race to the bottom among artists, we might see some good stuff for a good price.
Don't most sites require that you enter your old password before you can change it?
As some one once said (can't remember who) "stealth mode is for fighter jets not startups"
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your vote is wasted

I beg to differ: if enough people vote for candidates who don't affiliate with the Republicans or Democrats, we'll see real change. Every vote counts. Hell, if Republicans and Democrats start seeing 10% of the votes going to greens or libertarians, they'll pay real close attention.
I think OP is being sarcastic. ;) Though I'm sure some companies may go as far as using this. :[
The embarrassment of helping advertising dollars find a home instead of doing anything real is in my opinion why a lot of HN-ers are always solemnly intoning that this is no place for politics - because they can't face a world outside of their bubble. For us to have the luxury to prosper inside our post-consumerist javascript (and ARC)-based gift economy, we periodically have to do some maintenance work, like figuring out how to stop our country from becoming any more of a tyranny than it already is.
Cngratulations, you've unlocked the Jr High essay achievement.

* tell me what you're going to say
* say it
* tell them what you said
By getting you that job with people who put more value on falsifiable data than on actual skill.
Is there a way to tell the most frequent committer on Github? Maybe if there is Github could award a prize every month—a gift certificate to a pizza place maybe?

(in secret of course)
I did some more reading on the site, and it appears that the product is not aiming at user authentication. For example, they suggest that you might use it as part of a loyalty program. The end user brings in their smartphone with an app and the business stamps their phone as proof that they were physically there.
If they could find a way to drop the monthly cost of this to around $500, this could potentially make working in the Bay Area more viable for a lot of people.

If you could shave $500 off your monthly rent or mortgage by living in a coastal CA city and just flying in to work in Silicon Valley or SF, I think a lot more people would be willing to sign up. The service would essentially pay for itself.
Actually, someone modified the Rift to run exclusively off of USB with little effort. Google around for it.
From context it's clear that by "scientist" pg means an idealized scientist, i.e. a disinterested empiricist. Actual scientists are fallible humans who may indeed get caught up by identity.
How about every european country refusing to speak with president Obama because there has been "not enough recent progress in our bilateral agenda" citing lack of proof that US gov. has indeed stopped all kind of wire tapping on our communications...
How long before this kind of thing causes GitHub to feel the pressure of a[nother] DoS?
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It seems if you're building an app that needs lots of security you should be able to discover this answer on your own or find someone who can work with you in discovering this answer?

Products built on even the most bulletproof platforms still need robust security measures.
The US is like a screaming child throwing a tantrum right now. We were not so long ago lauded as the greatest nation in the world. Now we're stamping our feet and breaking relations with other powerful nations over the stupidest issue. Here's a thought: if you don't want whistleblowers, don't do things that make people blow the whistle.

Maybe in the next few decades we'll learn that meddling in everyone else's business, committing crimes against our own citizens, and blanket bombing other countries doesn't pay off in the end.

Or maybe the US government will become the totalitarian regime it's shaping up to be and keep us under military rule whilst somehow twisting our view with propaganda to make us think it's all for the greater glory (and still constitutional, of course). We do, after all, have to stop terrorism. Surely the best way to do this is to kill/torture people until everyone likes us. You can't do this with a bunch of whiny citizens blubbering about their rights.

My country is really pissing me off right now.

/rant
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Keeping your identity 'small' is really easy when you're rich and don't need to team up to effect change.

Identities are what form motivated groups, and groups -- or parties -- are, for better or for worse, what our form of democracy runs on.

Rich dudes can keep small identities and still make shit happen; poor everyone-else has to form teams, and with a diversity of levels of education, talent, intelligence and common sense, that will invariably mean pandering and WOOOOing a bit. Why? Because not everyone is smart enough to be affected by rhetoric. Ex hypothesis everyone else has already been 'taken', i.e. has considered opinions, so by elimination it's the aggressive, passionate idiots who play kingmaker. Thus explaining US politics.

So, Paul Graham, keep your identity small, but please enlarge your perspective. People are getting irrational because they're getting riled up, and they're getting riled up because riling-up is what gets the Irrational Vote, and that's the only one that's not already either bought or reasoned into passivity.

It's game theory, in other words. Like most human suffering.
The funny thing, is that Snowden got stranded in Russia because his passport was cancelled and other countries got pressed.

And Russia could not extradite him, because when Russia invited (more than once) US to make a extradition pact, US refused.

So, US strand their citizen somewhere else, in a somewhere where they ensured themselves this stranded citizen could not be extradited, and then throw a tantrum.
In the best case scenario we can combine this with some kind of decentralized DNS infrastructure [1].

[1] - https://wiki.projectmeshnet.org/DNS
> What makes you think it does not?

Its mostly my own ignorance I am admitting. :) I believe the true spirit of the 'Causation is not correlation' phrase is that if the mechanism isn't obvious, don't jump to the conclusion. As your link points out, correlation is a good reason to carry further investigation.
You're absolutely right. This car is not for everyone. Nissan actually had a questionnaire on their Leaf order site to determine if the car was the right fit for your driving conditions. If you didn't fit the profile, they highly recommended against buying one. I think that will change quickly as EVs get longer range and shorter charge times.

As for the winters, the first one was pretty mild, but the second one had some dips below zero. During the cold snaps the battery definitely lost significant range, but now that it's summer, the range is practically back to its original amount. There's been very slight degradation of battery capacity so far. I've got plenty of data that I plan to analyze in a future post, but that's for a future post.
He has also tied his political image to his health and masculinity, which I personally think is a really stupid move on his part. Playing the bare chested strongman has a definite lifespan to it.

Personally I think that he has also forced himself to be publicly homophobic as if he wasn't, then all of his strutting around half naked asking men to wrestle, might look a little bit suspect to his followers, Russia being fond of the concept of the gay conspiracy meme these days. Hell, even the Russian Olympic wrestling coach alleged that the removal of wrestling from the Olympics was due to a gay conspiracy, apparently being unaware that wrestling is one of the most homoerotic sports on the planet.
Not sure about the most frequent ones, but there is a list of the most "active" ones here: http://git.io/top
Thanks for the reply!

1. True, the fact that we were deploying Hadoop was a big reason to go with HBase. Despite the challenges, it was a case of "better the devil we know than the one we don't."

2. Agreed, I played with Cassandra, but again, point #1 carried the day.

3. That's great! I was at HBaseCon 2013 and that only had 750-850 people. I concede this point. ;) Sorry I didn't explore this further, that was my bad.

[EDIT] One thing we like is that HBase re-partitions data really fast since data is in HDFS. Not sure how well Cassandra holds up there.
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It's just all so bloody transparent.

Russia gave Snowden asylum so we hate them now. Obama will still come to the party but he's not going to talk to the birthday boy. You suck Russia! Nerrr!

We're best friends with Sweden now! They raided the pirate bay and ginned up some charges against Assange that almost worked! Sweden's our friend! We're going to Sweden's house!

It's just incredible to me that with all their trillions of dollars, awesome militaries, mighty departments of state and the best advisors money can buy - the actions of these superpowers are basically indistinguishable from the machinations of a high school "popular kids" group.

And I wonder what countries like Sweden actually get, or don't get, from bending over for the USA like this. There has to be something. What's the carrot and/or the stick?

Putin is by all accounts an awful man, a cynical, manipulative politician, a misogynistic, bullying, egotistical prat, but geeze, it's good to see someone, just one head of state, tell the USA where to go. Masterfully played, too, politically. Just when Russia should by all rights be an absolute pariah with its disgusting attacks on homosexuals - they've finessed themselves into the role of protectors of free speech and whistleblowers, darlings of the techno-elite set everywhere. Masterful.
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What makes you think Oculus are convinced they're ready for the mass market? They haven't even mentioned a vague release date and are still openly iterating and researching hardware and software ...
This looks like just the sort of thing I've been looking for. Reactivity is very convenient, but it's so often tangled up in a massive library that's trying to do much more at once.

I've learned the hard way to embrace the "best in breed small libraries" philosophy over the "monolithic do-everything framework" approach, and I'm particularly excited to see a small, simple reactive library that goes as far as to use efficient DOM diffs.

Can't wait to try it out!
Pretty fun. Made a layered HN concept with comments on right. Not very functional, but you get the idea.

http://ycombinator-tmp2669.tomodo.me/ (click on a story)
We got this warrant to search your house because we've already searched your house.
International politics seem to always be done at the most base level. Our only two options are the carrot and the stick. If an opportunity to use one of those options doesn't present itself, we go home and sulk.
Amazon isn't really targetting the high end. It's just that people are only looking at those pieces. Even in the painting section, only 25% of the paintings are over $5k, and half are under $2.5k.
I love the way timing attacks seem so unlikely but actually easy ways to extract information.

Everything about this attack is beautiful. A serious of seemingly unrelated issues that don't appear like a problem from the outside but when combined produce a solid attack that you could roll out today.

Well worth reading through the whole article.
It doesn't look like this makes a number of pushes, just a number of commits.
Yes. Moreover, relativism has its limits, science and religion cannot be said equal before scepticism: if you have doubts about a theory or some experimental results you can and should investigate their truth. While it is not possible to falsify religious beliefs, or most political views.
I think their are valid times when stealth can be important. The most prominent example I know of would be Siri. In the words of Adam Cheyer: I'm convinced that staying in stealth mode was critical to our success.

He goes on to explain why: We were based on some fairly heavy technologies (natural language understanding, conversational dialog, context, local search, plan-based service delegation, PCI-compliant data stores, machine learning), and it took us two years to go from our initial prototype to something ready to deploy and scale. A few weeks after we launched, Steve Jobs called the office and the rest is history. As a startup, we were potentially competing with large companies with lots of resources (e.g. Google, Microsoft), and we needed a good running head start before anyone knew precisely what we were trying to accomplish.

For a more user-facing, social website where getting the right features is important, don't be stealthy, just get it up and iterate (c.f. http://change.org). But if you have a technology that takes some time to get right, being stealthy enables you to have buzz when you emerge and the head-start you need to compete with anyone.

Here's the link: http://www.quora.com/Stealth-Startups/Is-there-a-single-exam...
I've never seen redpen.io before this. Looks pretty awesome, I intend to use it soon.
The Razer Hydra is a great game controller for the Oculus Rift. An outstanding example of its usage can be seen in "The Gallery: Six Elements", which is currently under development and will take full advantage of the Rift used in conjunction with Hydra: https://www.thegallerygame.com/
As someone with terrible face recognition ability, I was really disappointed Google disallowed the feature. Such a device could vastly improve my life. I hope there's some open alternative to Google glass soon.
Twitter's new two-factor authentication sounds cool, but we can't get it to work
The default state for the web is usually "backward compatible".