skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true of my niece and her friends. When she was 11 and early 12, she was kinda obsessed with facebook, mainly because it was forbidden. But, now that she can get on it, she doesn't care much. Instagram, Snapchat, and sms are the way they all communicate. She thinks about getting a facebook account just to talk to the adult relatives that she likes and so she can annoy her mum with silly pics, but that's essentially putting facebook in the old people camp. And, knowing her laziness, I think in the end she probably won't even bother with it.
THE WORLD ISN'T EXACTLY THE WAY I WANT IT AND I'M GOING TO KICK AND SCREAM AS A RESULT RATHER THAN DOING ANYTHING MATURE TO ADDRESS IT.
> Why even have database queries at all- aside from perhaps comments?

Comments are non-negotiable features for many bloggers. 3rd party javascript is not the same in the eyes of many (including my little network).
Any country that has that enhanced 911 law passed so they could quickly find emergency callers, so almost every country. Germany, US, Canada, UK ect.

EFF reported German LE used silent sms over 400,000 times in 2010 to track suspects, activists/anarchists, anybody they want don't need a warrant
People have been waiting for this technology infrastructure to get in place for years.

It's a shame the recent NSA fiasco will scare people away now and set this back another 5 years.

There are some phenomenal experiences possible.
Thanks @DanielKehoe, this is very comprehensive. It's great to see how to do it, but how do you find using it? What's the speed like?
As usual, a very complete writeup by @DanielKehoe. It's interesting to see alternatives to Heroku starting to popup.
Honestly, data from 2010/2011 is sufficiently relevant. College demographic data does not change drastically between years.
Edit: After looking around, the following sounds very much like Bitmessage. Which doesn't work precisely like this, and I worry about how it'll scale if the messages get sent to everyone - how does that work with significant throughput? But in any cause sounds like a fairly well thought out system.

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So, what would it take to trust an email provider? What'd that look like?

All encryption done on your machine from code you compiled, or at least can compile. Open sourced, so it can be checked. Keys always in your control.

The email should be split into several parts and then onion routed, with associated encryption, to another service with semi-random timing in the forwarding protocol to disrupt traffic analysis.

This service then removes the final layers of encryption, reassembles the message and forwards it to the final destination. Preferably this last step/service is done on a semi-random basis within the forwarding network rather than with a centralised server. Each person serving as a forwarder and a sender would help to confuse traffic analysis when coupled with the semi-random forwarding as well.

I might be wrong, however, I'm guessing that this isn't going to look like that.

Otherwise, it seems to me, you're putting a lot of trust in the server. Even if they pass you some fancy script that does the encryption on your end and there's some way to check that it hasn't changed between visits. Even assuming they don't send you malware. They're still going to be able to see who you're sending stuff to. (And neither of those previous assumptions is non-controversial to begin with.)
I don't know why people don't think about this topic more, especially if you are curious person. A very interesting line of research that could have profound implications on science and our understanding of consciousness is being done by Radin et al. Specifically he's looking deeper at the possible role of consciousness and the collapsing of the wave in quantum theory with some really interesting repeatable experiments. He's taken the classic double slit experiment and has been testing to see whether conscious observers can affect the results merely by focusing their attention. So far the results are positive. Here's one paper:
http://www.deanradin.com/papers/Physics%20Essays%20Radin%20f...
If there was actually any reporting of note...

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Agreed, but you are ignoring the opportunity cost. It is highly dubious whether a Harvard education is worth more than a UC Berkeley education + $239,996, though this distinction varies from field to field.
> I wish I could tell people the amazing things I witnessed during my 30 years in the CIA, that I've never seen people work harder or more selflessly, that for little money and long hours, people took it for granted that their flaws would be scrutinized and their successes ignored.

30 years? Then those flaws include helping overthrow a democratically elected government in my country, among many others. That's a kind of flaw that needs to be scrutinized and prevented at any cost.
Every team I've worked with has that guy. Not psychopathic at all. He's Just more focused on improving his career by being friends with managers rather than being productive.
That's the thing, I thought it would be unusable because of network latency. But I'm actually using it and it seems faster than my native environment on a Macbook Air. Fast Comcast broadband in San Francisco's Outer Sunset District but still, how can it be faster than my local shell?
So how come it's simple to horizontally center something.
Like you, my suspicion is that more intelligent people spend more time introspecting and are more open to seeking out information about mental health. Hence they'd be overrepresented in the statistics.
I think the point is that we perhaps should not expect to find a particular mechanism for consciousness, any more than we should expect to find a life-force.

It could be that the "feeling" of consciousness is just something that comes from being a massively-parallel, unsupervised learning machine.
Gnunet appears to be far from ready for the main stream. For anything to be useful it really needs to work on mobile, and after trying for a few hours, I can't even get it to work on my mac.
Why is it programmers love crashing their users for the most trival things? What if every javascript bug crashed the website you were browsing?
Database features are important for the CMS aspects of Wordpress, not just the blogging aspects.

Although Wordpress crashing under load is what caused me to switch to Octopress.
I imagine the hemorrhoid treatment business has seen an uptick.
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I'd prefer not to trust neither him or they...
We're thinking about adding a Julia API: https://plot.ly/api

Hit us up if you'd like to be a part of this or have input. And hey, we're also hiring: https://plot.ly/jobs
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Did bbc.co.uk get taken over by theonion.com?
Rise of flat design?
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This is really awesome. I think that it'd be really cool to use as a visual in a Computer Architecture course, for sure.
I'm definitely going to try this out for pair programming. looks very interesting.
You'd probably be best off burning them by "recycling" some sort of timed firebomb. Ideally this would be done with something that has some plausible deniability (have somebody "recycle" some crumbled newspaper before you, then "recycle" a (modified?) cigarette butt).

Of course firebombing the cans is probably very more illegal than just dumping a can of lighter fluid into it and throwing in a match... I mean, even that is arson, nothing to sneeze at. You would have to balance the possibility of being caught with the punishment if you are caught.
You can already encrypt email bodies end-to-end using PGP.

The unsolved problem is the (queue dramatic music) METADATA!!!

For an email to get from your computer to the recipients, it has to have metadata that the intermediate computers understand: The SMTP protocol is designed to deliver your email by relaying it any which way it is set to. So when you send it, it goes to your office SMTP server, which then might relay it to your head office SMTP server, which then might relay it to the recipient's spam filtering service, which might then relay it to the recipient's head office, which might then relay it to your recipient's office from where the recipient retrieves the email when they're good and ready.

SMTP is not ever going to be secure. Even if you use TLS (which most mail servers do by default these days) you're only encrypting the message-in-transit so any of the myriad of systems between each SMTP server can't read it.

All it takes for the NSA to read your metadata (and cache your encrypted message) is to compromise one of the SMTP servers it passes through. Then they can compel you to decrypt it using any method they have at hand.

The secure way to send email is to have your computer connect directly to your recipient's computer over an encrypted transport layer (TLS) and possibly for your recipient to authenticate to accept that connection (so AFK means no email). You'll have to know your destination point's IP address somehow. (DNS sounds fine, after all it's just a phonebook. However requesting an IP address could easily be logged and so you've leaked metadata again)

This means you can't send an overnight email and expect someone to get it in the morning when they switch on their computer. If you want to do that it needs to sit on a server somewhere. And that server is subject to attack.

So for convenience, we could build a server designed to accept any of these messages from anywhere. But it also needs to accept messages to anywhere as it can't be allowed to know who the recipient is. That's metadata.

The problem now is how do I get my messages from my server? The server isn't allowed to have my key, so it can't go and attempt to decrypt every waiting message (or decrypt every envelope).

At some point, you'll have to either give up convenience (can't get email unless you're both online) or security (you'll have to trust something you're not in control of).

I'd be stocking up on tin cans. And string.
I wouldn't worry about it being similar. Put a twist on it - make it generate fake versions of the terribly boring magazines that lie around bathrooms forever. Or something similar - it'll still be interesting.
I am enjoying the rise of video games as political commentary.

It is important to note that "Papers please" was considered the worst case scenario for America. We now must produce driver's licenses for anything, even sporting events.
"Career-wise I think it will show any employers I know how to use a Microsoft Office product"

"With school, I'll be able to write reports and essays and stuff and make it a bit more fancy, to hopefully get a few extra marks."

Is this a joke?
I've sometimes wondered what a St John's style comp sci / software engineering course would look like. Reading and discussing the great literature of our field -- the books, papers and code.
Interesting reading. I like your writing style it's very clear and easy to understand even though these are complex concepts.
Yea, let me know how it works for you. It's easy to pair in the text editor. To share the console you'd need tmux or screensharing.
>Although Wordpress crashing under load is what caused me to switch to Octopress.

It's all about the caching plugins. I had my blog hit 300k visits in the span of 8 hours, peaking at about 100 visits per second on a shared web host. Utilizing cashing plugins means every single person that visited my blog was served static content that refreshed itself every 10 minutes.
Feds probably could use the power of federal grants (or withdrawal of such) to make much more order in this area, but I guess politicos are busy with more interesting things than getting some data in order.
You can actually know that experts often haven't tuned the results because many PRs are being ignored ever since the beginning of this project. There is a pretty clear agenda.
I'm back at work, and have had a chance to verify; it turns out that you were correct. I was confused by my bad memories of trying to install SciPy into a virtualenv.
You can already do things like that with gamma. To say nothing of embeds allowing file substitution.

I don't see why fallback is bad. Having a single canonical file is so much nicer than multiple files. APNG has been around for ages. If you as an upload-accepting web dev aren't aware of it you're not a very good web dev. And as a user you don't even know what container an image is using 99% of the time, so MIME type doesn't matter. Browsers tend to ignore image MIME anyway because of how common mislabelings are.
Unless things have changed dramatically recently, Hacker News uses the file system to store comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229522) and it seems to work well. I can imagine a few cases where having your comments in a DBMS would be a requirement, but none of them seem applicable to situations where WordPress where one might want to use WordPress anyway.

Of course, this is guess from a priori reasoning. I would be genuinely interested if somebody tried file-based comments for a WordPress (or a similar platform) based site and it fell over or failed in some way.
The best way to stylize jQuery Mobile is to create a new theme through modifying an existing one - I'd recommend modifying an existing one because of the cross browser testing/developments they have already done to the CSS.
On the other hand, something can be said for 'rushing', pushing too much, generating the problems you mentioned.
I didn't know facebook was complex, but I'm glad to hear young people are moving away from it
I'm sorry, but there is no way to quantify that. Consider, for example, a recent Ars article:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/no-this-isnt-a-scene...

What about the MAC addresses that Google gathered when driving around for street view? What about data that software gathers on your PC or mobile devices without your knowing, or location data that is made available to mobile carriers and law enforcement simply by the act of communicating with a cell phone tower? What of spyware/maleware, etc?

Even so, the "leaked private information [...] given voluntarily to corporations" is very different than dragnet surveillance. There is no way to know as of yet exactly how much information has been gathered through such programs, but recent revelations suggest startling amounts of data that are far more invasive and vast than anything that could ever be leaked: more information than the NSA is capable of processing, as mentioned in the Guardian's XKeyscore revelation article.

So, no; not 0.1%.

> But the way it's presented now plays into the hands of those who wish to use the NSA fiasco (which, to be sure, it is) to hide a much more serious problem.

I don't see how suggesting software to help limit the scope of surveillance does anything to hide the underlying problem. If anything, it brings action upon it and suggests that users will not stand for being surveilled in this manner.
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anyone have any advice on approaching enterprise-level prospects relatively cold? - I'm in SF/LA for the next month and have an opportunity to do live demos with big agencies here, however, I have no "ins" to these firms. Especially the executive producers/account managers who aren't necessarily the most active in networking and tech but who ultimately are the decision makers.

In short, my startup (firstcutpro.com) built a collaborative video review tool for video professionals. Think pivotal tracker for video production.
I think that's absolutely worth doing, and I think the lack of agreemtn on (or demand for) universal standards on this is major political failure. But commercially, there's probably more of an audience in the B2B sector selling this kind of data to institutional investors and so on than offering it up to the general public - although perhaps the premium customers could pay for up-tothe-minute analysis for market timing, bond auctions and so on, and after a short window the information could be shared with the general public for free.
great stuff, Thanks! I'll buy your book now.
If you don't want to read this stuff, I would highly recommend Pocket (aka ReadItLater). You use an addon in your browser to bookmark articles, papers, videos, or whatever and Pocket will download it to your phone. You can then read your bookmarks while on the can, even if you don't have a good connection.
Because most major framework has excellent welcome pages, like these one http://blog.japila.pl/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/wlp-play-we...
My Wordpress blog on Dreamhost shared hosting w/ WP Super Cache and Cloudflare could easily handle 100 visits/second.

200 visits/second caused blank pages half the time.

300 visits/second? Boom.
A Ping A S M?

Aping assembler?

I don't see much problem.
1) Curious first about how much they'll try to raise, and 2) what will they buy first? :)
No, I couldn't. However, I could roll one die or multiple dice. ;) Anyhow -- in this case, I see no need to be egalitarian, as nobody is harmed by the reverse discrimination.

My other quibble with your comment is that the perception, on average, is correct. The point of what Horowitz, I and other writers are doing in this respect is to remind people that the common situation need not be the only one, and -- more important -- should not be regarded as the "natural" one.
Wikipedia didn't have to be so reasonable and visionary as it is.

... participation in the creation of 'the human story' is a right that can’t be dictated by authorities.

I'm happy to give Mr. Wales credit due for consistently leading WP in that direction. It is certainly one of the prime examples of the web's potential for collaborative synergy and self-education. It's a moving success.
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That's opening a pretty serious can of worms for persons familiar with Wiki history. After several edit wars over Sanger and Wales's pages, Wales ultimately decreed that henceforth it was wiki-gospel that he was sole founder and that Sanger should never be referred to as a founder or co-founder of Wikipedia. With the blessing of Jimbo, WP admins regularly reverted anyone who attempted to modify Sanger's page to mention a role in founding Wikipedia. It seems that at some point since I stopped actively editing Wikipedia (several years ago now), this resolved with Sanger keeping "Wikipedia co-founder" on his WP page. Doesn't seem that there's an ongoing edit war anymore.

Wales claims that Sanger was simply an early employee and does not warrant founder status. Sanger claims that Wales is a suit whose primary early function in WP was to provide funding and that he himself (Sanger) not only originated the idea, but did all of the work, and is entitled to the label "co-founder".
Penrose has credibility because of his numerous other achievements. His views on philosophy of mind are not regarded as serious positions in academic philosophy, neuroscience, or physics.
Uh, not exactly Heroku. You can launch an app and see it in your browser but just while you are doing development. You'll still need to deploy your application to Heroku or elsewhere for hosting. Nitrous.io is more like Cloud9, someplace to write code. Or maybe you are thinking of the old Heroku Garden which had a browser-based coding environment.
Talktalk here, no block.
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The greater risk is from having your key compromised. Forward secrecy would have protected your past messages.
Actually, its really simple. You operate your own mail system, and require secure network access to use it.

For example, The social security administration requires each state to do this for the state employees who handle disability-related business. Those employees must use their mail system.
Another explanation is that there is no benefit to the manufacturer in writing tighter code. Tighter code means more time spent on testing and review, but probably wouldn't increase sales. From a bottom line point of view, the mantra is get it working and ship it.
While this is pretty ridiculous, I want to point out that it wouldn't be that ridiculous if he was crowned world Microsoft Excel champion.

He would be on the fast track to the financial sector and .NET supremacy.

Word is generally not an amazing thing to be "champion" of. Excel might be though
There are people that believe in 'non-science things' on every continent.

I don't see how providing antagonizing labels based on nationality helps your argument at all.
I almost wonder if he supplies Sysco and other companies like that.
The article gives absolutely no context around what being a 'word champion' even means... this is useless
hiarious! indeed. Me doing marketing, I'm also intrested in the front. Is is it much of efford getting the front of the packages aswell. I would love to compare the individual USP's of the product.
With this change.. wow.. this could be a tool people might even pay for :)
thanks for the great joke.. Since I'm through with my stuff on the toilet I went for WordBliz ;)
Consciousness cant' define itself? Incompleteness theorem!
What does 100 devices blasting same audio in sync sound like?
Oh, absolutely. The upshot of my comment was "avoid things that put undue stress on your rectal muscles", which includes both straining and spending extended periods sitting on the can.
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...why is this on Hacker News?...
It sounds like you're misunderstanding the concept of a zombie. Zombie simonster is physically identical to simonster. On Twin Earth he is also sitting in front of his computer talking about consciousness, and he also emphatically believes that he is conscious. The only difference between zombie simonster and me is that, when zombie simonster says he is conscious, he is wrong.

David Chalmers discusses this possibility in his book, and doesn't believe that it invalidates the zombie argument, but personally, I would prefer to think that the fact that I am sitting here writing about consciousness is somehow related to the fact that I am conscious. I'm still thinking this through, and have been for some time, but I think this requires that consciousness be physical in nature.
Those are "options buried in the settings", quite the opposite of "feature creep". You've got to enable them, and doing so makes the application behave thew way that you want it to, and not be confined to the default configuration.

The programs that have a problem are the ones that dumb-down the UI to the point that it's impossible to deviate from the defaults.
Personally I lean towards the idea of consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, ie closer to Hofstadter than Searle (for anyone who has wondered exactly what Godel, Escher, Bach is about, it's essentially a long argument for strong AI). However, I'm not sure about this; the main reason I can't subscribe to Searle's point of view is that he's trying to prove a negative, and I'd rather not know the answer than handwave one. I thought Carson's article was a bit fluffy and lacking focus, but then it was meant to provoke discussion and debate rather than offer a final answer.

By far the most intriguing counter-proposal to the conventional wisdom is the late Julian Jaynes' The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind which is such a monumentally good book that it's worth reading even if it is entirely wrong.
You already voiced my opinion.
Why Word 2007, instead of Word 2010 or Word 2013?