skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool project! Here are a couple of suggestions which may help me as a user better understand the "breaking events, popular trends, cultural attitudes, and individual expression":

1. If photos have a hashtag, display it alongside an image. Text is the underestimated medium of non-personal image interpretation. Especially, when the data rate is so high, there needs to be some more precise clue about what the images are actually trying to convey.

2. Aggregate photos with similar intent. Group them into a box or color code their borders. Many tweets have GPS tags. Use them to provide a map interface to either filter some or just add a tag indicating the place of origin.

3. Most people who can only read 2-3 languages, and tweets in other languages will be treated as noise, no matter how relevant. The only alternative is combine them with a similar tweet in a language the user can understand.

4. Is there any reason photos change randomly across cells, and not in any order (as compared to say raster scanning the table and replacing photos)? Personally think that changing photos in some order is less painful on the eyes. I get the feeling that I am missing out an a lot of content because of this. Maybe replace only one section of the table at at time?

Good luck!
You come down quite hard on healthcare professionals, with the comments about biology and chemistry being non-technical. Your comments about doctors also seem unrepresentative of what a modern doctor must actually know and accomplish in order to be a practicing physician.
This is more to do with people who don't have traditional indicators for credit scores, rather than throwing away everything else.

The Economist covered it a while back in developing nations - if your credit score suffers because of a friend you can exert social pressure on them to pay back the loan. You don't want to be known as a deadbeat to your friends so you are less likely to take out a loan you can't afford.

Though in that example the social network is an explicit opt-in I believe.
OMFG how many times will this fucking argument be brought up? It is open source. Who cares? The Internet was a government sponsored project at one point too.
The flawed psychology of government mass surveillance
Ha! Hadn't ever seen that before. I wonder if they ended up working around it, ignored it until it was fixed, or threw their hands in the air and re-wrote the bot in C++.
This sounds much the same as me, but with beets [1] instead of mp3tag. Not just does your audio-fingerprinting/musicbrainz/tagging, but also maintains a database for you, and has a command line query tool that you can just pipe into another player.

http://beets.radbox.org/
That's a very humble first post...
Given the reservations in the US, it would have been nice to see Native Americans have their own color. It would be a nice touch to compare reservation vs. urban conclaves.
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Political risk, business risk, etc. The same reason you don't invest everything in one stock, one skill-set, etc. Same reason you back up your database and use version control.

Distributed systems is all the rage now. It makes sense on all levels of life.
New York's Secret Tech Weapon: ITP.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenrosenbaum/2013/08/26/1095/
That's a great accomplishment, but compare that to the US's [4143 TWh of energy consumption in 2010, alone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#Cur...).

Compare that to Germany's "whopping" 5.1 TWh of solar energy output, and that's hardly 0.12% - that's like saying "it takes $100 to purchase (some object X) - look at that panhandler, they earned 12 cents towards that goal - isn't it amazing? You only earned 1 cent panhandling: you should panhandle harder."

No, the reality is, investing money in solar energy without aggressive technological advancements that reduce our consumption is an arms race that we can NEVER win.
SC2 does not require you to have 300 APM. Maximizing APM is to SC2/BW as pre-optimizations are to programming in my opinion.

I do agree with the rest of your points though. I never got much into SC2 (became #1 in my Diamond league within the first month of the game being out) as it lacks several playability characteristics that the first SC had. I played BW for about 8 years and went to several tournaments and was B or better in a few early WGTour seasons.

I have kept in touch with some of the other top players from my time and it is interesting to see a lot of us have moved onto things where skills we gained from playing BW definitely translate. Finance, poker and programming seem to be a common theme among most of us.
Android, however, has a large and vibrant (albeit poorly organized and highly confusing) community of open source distributions that aren't subject to this kind of nonsense. The Chromecast is still new and unhackable, though hopefully this will change.
linux.io? Could work I guess.
Does the total land area include the mountains, or only the habitable regions?
As backed up by xxpor, I don't think this is true. But mainly, I don't see the tremendous opportunity for abuse, unless you are some sort of celebrity whose blurry nude pictures are valuable.
I seem to recall that not that long ago the Guardian was in favor of compulsory ID cards - I remember a Polly Toynbee leader about we had nothing to worry about.
>> ...unwieldy collection of non-orthogonal constructs...

>> ...doesn't paper over the sins upon sins...

Please elaborate. I didn't see any of that and honestly don't know what "non-orthogonal constructs" means. I'm no language design expert but would like to know what, to you, are the obvious deficiencies.
This too will change.
Here is a timeline of big events in the past
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
The money is no big deal. The damage you do to your long-term prospects is probably insurmountable. Groupthink becomes a big deal as companies get bigger.
Latest Pew Study Shows 70% of U.S. Has Broadband. But Access Is Still Unequal
Passive mm-wave scanners do not produce radiation. The active mm-wave scanners use non-ionizing radiation which has been studied and shown not to cause cancer. One study even suggested it might reduce metastasis:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bem.20208/abstrac...

The flight itself isn't even that bad, but it is worse than the scanners. You get maybe 5 mrem (50 µSv) flying from London to NYC.

http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/commercialflights....

The flight radiation is something you'd want to avoid, but a single flight is almost insignificant. XKCD has a reference chart:

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Flight radiation is mostly a concern for flight crew.
What percentage of internet users do you think know what "HTTP" means?
That doesn't even make sense. Other than a "god created us this way to test our faith, not evolution" or some similar argument. You'd have to elaborate.

WRT "paleo" I'm talking specifically about applying the same anatomical/digestive/biochemical analysis that works pretty well with any other animal to figure out ideal foods and such. Not "paleo" as a large scale social movement, or as a podcasting/blogging/social media trend subject, which is not as directly evolutionarily relevant.

For example, if you dissect a cow its not hard to figure out its should kick butt WRT eating raw fresh grass. Or dissect a cat and its not hard to figure out its "supposed" to eat mice and mouse size (or smaller) animals. People? Obviously mostly carnivore by design, omnivore as a suboptimal backup plan, although given our horrible ability with vitamin C and such, we're obviously better off eating "some" citrus fruit on a regular basis or other source of vitamin C. Vitamin B retention is legendarily bad too, we're supposed to eat lots of stuff promoting vit B. On the other hand take it easy with sources of vit A and D our innards handle that even worse than wheat and corn.

The analogy is we've been thinking for a long time in vaguely known environments. The evolutionarily "new" environment of offices and desk jobs has the responsibility of explaining why they need special rules different than the past. What made our ancestors successful is probably a good starting point.
You'd be surprised how many of our officials are elected solely on the basis of mud-slinging and character-assassinating. Presidential elections are notably limited to "he's better than the other guy."

"Would you have preferred McCain over Obama in '08? No? Then shut up."

"Would you have preferred Romney in '12? No? Then shut up."

Ad nauseum.
I wish HN had a "star" button or so to keep track of insightful comments.
This is 100% incorrect, sorry.
1 Stop referring to people as "talent" using porn industry terminology to describe your employees doesn't work very well.
2 Pay more and offer better terms and conditions.
There is always going to be a cost comparison that can be used to belittle something. The classic is "less than x days of coffee." Next step up is apparently "less than x days of lunch." What is the next one, "less than your car insurance" perhaps? $50,000? That is less than some cars cost! $100,000,000? That is somewhere around ten shuttle launches! A several billion dollar shuttle program? Please, just check out these national debt numbers?

These types of price comparisons between unrelated things are almost always worthless. You could make me feel ripped off over two dollars; I sure as hell can feel ripped off over $35.
I don't think TSA workers qualify as middle class. It's not a skilled job, and it doesn't pay particularly well.
American patent law hindering the discovery of more cancer vaccines
Database of services for secure communication (email, messaging, voip)
It would be quite a wheeze if countries started offering American (and UK) citizens political asylum, and favorable conditions. Long been said that the US is a brain drain for other countries, well, reverse it.

Perhaps that could be a great way for us to protest. If lots of US and UK (Aussies? Kiwis? Canadians?) citizens/subjects applied for political asylum in countries like Russia, would that send a message? At the very least, it would be bloody amusing!!!
What do you mean by "world ranked grand master"? What region do you play on?
Oh, and before people start the old tired "but if we invest in solar energy today, it'll give us a head start!" realize that those dollars and effort spent is a finite and limited resource. A dollar and its corresponding effort spent on solar energy can no longer be spent on anything else, because spending it uses it up.

We HAVE to be smarter about how we spend our limited resources, or we're just paying feel-good lip service. Which, is okay: it's important to feel good! But, don't try and make other people feel bad because they're not making the same choice to ignore pragmatism and embrace feel-good jingoism ...
Amazon has designed themselves into a Local Maximum
I agree. According to the site, I could write another 483 programs before my demise - I suppose that doesn't factor in coming up with what all those apps are going to accomplish :-) Maybe I could dump 483 non-apps into the blackberry app store.
Political defiance is not a blitzkrieg -- if it were everyone would do it. A loss does not dictate surrender.

I'm still pretty new at the political defiance game, but reading a few PDFs at aeinstein.org has opened my eyes a little - thanks to an earlier post I read on HN.

Myself, I avoid air travel whenever possible. The highways have not yet been transformed into a maze of checkpoints.
There is something disturbing about people being able to comment on a historical thread like that years later.

Like someone scribbling on a precious museum artifact.

Eh maybe I am being silly.
Tutorial: Text Classification with Python and TextBlob 0.6.0
I'm curious why you say this. Note that they do not mean to imply that the participants actually believe they are out of their body. Just that the contrived situation they were in induced that sensation. And if they are able to reliably induce that sensation in people through that situation, then I think it's worth investigating why.
> Luckily for you then, since you already have AdBlock installed, you won't see the adverts.

Actually, AdBlock is making the new ad appear to those who have AdBlock installed -- I just saw my AdBlock icon light up and, when clicked, display this ad:

http://i.imgur.com/Kwi9qmD.png

I don't think we're in Kansas any more, Dorothy.
>Exactly. So why bother at all right? Root password? "root" will do. Encrypted partitions on the server? Useless. SSH keys? Silly overengineered junk.

>Following the same logic, why bother setting strong passwords on Gmail? Or even bother at all with 2FA, I mean, after all, somebody can just read your unencrypted email in transit anyway, right?

That's not even remotely what I'm claiming. Stop being a dick. Yes, you should always have good passwords on your accounts and use 2FA. But if you want to send something secret across the Internet you might want to choose another method than (unencrypted) email.

>This comment is not helpful at all. The original article did not mention with a single word the NSA or anything like it, but he is worried about things being stolen or hacked.

If someone really wants to read your mail they'll compromise the host your mail is on and read it before you get a chance to encrypt it. In that case this "solution" does nothing. It keeps a casual person out but does nothing to stop a more advanced attacker.
Yeah. Canada does spy on the United States. And the United States spies on Canada. This really should be incredibly obvious.
Geek Improvement: Find and keep track of the things you geek out about
Hello, Hacker News! I'm the creator of Geek Improvement. Just wanted to drop a few lines in the comments.

There's always that one movie / book / video game / pen-and-paper RPG / [insert here] that I'm baffled I hadn't heard about before, especially since it aligns with my geeky interests. Roughly three years ago, I realized that this scenario occurs all too often. So, I set out to build Geek Improvement as a remedy with a bit of HTML / CSS knowledge and without a lick of programming know-how.

After debating the frameworks and languages du jour, I settled on Python / Django and began hacking away. It's taken juggling college and later a job for the last two-and-a-half years, but I'm finally at the point where Geek Improvement is ready for a public Beta. Folks who take it for a spin will be able to keep track of what they've read / watched / played, add items to to-do and wishlists, and sift through items by geek types.

There's still plenty to refine and many ways to grow, but I'm happy that I'm finally able to share it.
It didn't click when you saw "Larry Page" at the bottom of his post?
perhaps i'm missing something, but your death will not come sooner or later by typing less or more - perhaps your muscles will wear out if you type to fast or so - so spending more or less time typing doesn't matter with regard to how many average days are left to your death. Can someone enlighten me?
> When a game stops being a game and starts being a... work, it loses all the fun.

Unless your only aspiration was to play professionally, this isn't a reason to stop you, and even the professionals don't need 300 apm (and many don't have it). I was pretty comfortable playing Terran in Diamond league in North America (I stopped playing about 6 months ago) with 90-100 apm, and I never specifically worked on increasing my apm.
It might have been a 20th-Century middle-class job, had it existed then.
Why don't you enter the numbers you've experienced yourself? That's the whole point of the site -- collecting values from a number of sources and calculating indexes out of them.
Just curious: is it possible for the same hardware to support both WebM and H.264?
I'm a front end developer. The calluses on the tips of my fingers have their own calluses.
Strings should be converted to UTF-8 as part of input validation. For proper input validation we have the taint mode already. Note that often a file does not include any information about the encoding, so you can only use heuristics.
Whoops. Now fixed. Not sure how that happened.
You should offer a direct link to the started app (without having to click the button). This way users can plug it into websaver or something and make it a screensaver.
I can't see how jasonkester is being rude!
For those that like reading about these sorts of things, I highly recommend Just For Fun. It's a short book, but one I enjoy going back to every now and then to read.

http://www.amazon.com/Just-Fun-Story-Accidental-Revolutionar...
courts are filled with all sorts of nonsense by criminal defendants trying to get off on the technicalities of searches.

You had me until then. "Criminal defendants trying to get off on technicalities of searches" is how we protect our Fourth Amendment rights.
Check out https://github.com/lanceseidman/PiCAST
Sadly all of the links appear broken. Does anyone have an updated list anywhere?
The n-word is banned. Apparently one can test for this one self by searching her: https://hashpix.herokuapp.com/

If the word is banned you will get an error message saying "Instagram: (400) APINotAllowedError-This tag cannot be viewed" at the top.
I have to respectfully disagree. When you get into the upper top X of world player, you won't find many without a high APM.
This is what happens when you allow non-logged in users to comment on your blog
This is my website. I never really got it off the ground as I focused my attention on other projects. But, I never took the site down. Like an abandoned building, it slowly decayed in a somewhat interesting way. The site now shows what happens when you allow anyone to comment for 2 years. You get 17,000+ spammy comments.

In case you were wondering, this is a good reason why you need to mandate login before allowing comments on your website.
I gather. Is 22 years 16 hours 48 minutes 25 seconds significant in some way?
The problem is static typing is applicable to only a subset of any particular programming task (in other words, even a Haskell or ML program that compiles is not necessarily guaranteed to be correct, insofar as it still may not produce the output desired by the programmer.)

Because of this, it introduces incidental complexity into a program, because it subdivides the programming task into a part that can be addressed via static typing and a part which is not purely an issue of typing.

Admittedly, in most cases this extra complexity is worth the cost (especially with the type of high performance code written by Bloch/Carmack) but at the end of the day the job of a modern computer is to make things easy for humans and not make things easy for the computer, so in the long run it's foolish to say humans need to "think like a computer" and use a static type system, instead of allowing humans to use a more natural, dynamic programming model that is more natural for us to use.
Or to express it visually:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(Elías_García_Martíne...
Maybe something like: http://www.sc2ranks.com/

They attempt to rank across regions - not familiar enough with their ( / SC2's) ranking system to know how reasonable it is.
I didn't submit this, but I did oversee the project.

Noodle is a Node-based web scraper that also handles JSON, XML and other file formats. It was initially built as a hack project to replace a core subset of YQL.

All responses can be served as JSONP, to allow for cross-domain scraping from a website's front-end.

Selector queries can be used to grab a subset of a document - e.g. CSS selectors for HTML documents and dot-notation for JSON documents. It lets you request multiple documents in a single HTTP request, and a few other things.

I helped to guide an intern, Aaron Acerboni, at my company, Dharmafly, when he built it last year.
The importance of diverse skills in software testing
One of the essential problems with libertarian philosophy is that it starts from the premise that there are two meaningful actors: the individual and the state. This makes it extremely hard to conceptualize and introduce a third actor, like corporations, which means corporations need to be lumped in with either the individual or the state.

Libertarians who are sympathetic with corporations will tend to lump them in with the individual, talking about the state imposing itself upon them. Those less sympathetic will tend to lump them in with the state, talking about their undue influence on political theater.
I agree with the popular fictional character. Power is a shadow cast on the wall. It is more about what people perceive than it is about any real measurable force of 'power'. This is why revolutions are determined by key personalities staying loyal or defecting, because they command loyalty themselves in peoples _perceptions_ of power.

The military hold 'real' power, but so do corporations. Both can lose power with a change in perceptions. Sure weapons and dollars generally do a pretty good job of indicating who has power (bullets and currency do wonders to change peoples behaviors), but they can also be ignored as power-indicators given a properly motivated population (think the groups that followed Ghandi or MLK, as dead-horse examples.)

Does having 8 more declared aircraft carriers than the known world and numerous forward operating bases help cast big shadows? well, sure. Having the ability to reach out and touch much of the world with a full-fledged military operation in very short time-windows does portray a very powerful aura.

Despite this, 1 out of 5mil civilian contractors also shrank this shadow quickly by outing a secret program, then (the more important part) taking advantage of extradition laws to publicly "get away with it" [Snowden]. A different civilian shrank this shadow a few years ago by building a technology to publicize (as in "to make public") any and all secrets of powerful entities [Assange & WikiLeaks; I say powerful entities & not gov't, as they seem happy to out corporate secrets. How powerful the corps that they have chosen to out secrets of actually are, I have my own doubts].

I like to think of power as the active ability to change a given reality. The greater (measurably larger in quantity or quality) the reality you can change, the greater the power. In these terms, it's easy to see how power is fleeting, and perception-based. If they are in fear, monetarily in your pocket, or loyal to your cause, you are powerful. But, how fast do these things change?

just my 2 cents.
Top 100 global highest ranked players on sc2ranks.com. I'm top 15 in NA.
> The pictures of your kids taking a bath maybe interpreted in a different way by immigration officers

Reminds me of a story just like that. The only source I can find now: http://www.muripo.com/2013/06/07/elderly-man-arrested-for-po... but I'm sure quite it was on HN.