skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh? What's the relationship between credibility and civility? He may be losing your respect, but he certainly loses no credibility. Still, it reminds me of what Vonnegut says in _Hocus Pocus_:

> Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you

People will search for reasons to dismiss anything you say. Being utterly civil takes away the easy reasons. Vonnegut takes this to such extremes in the book that it becomes satirical, but taken at face value it is still meaningful.

As someone whose family is frequently stopped at airports and borders because of their Muslim names (the Christian-named half of my extended family universally makes it through, the ones with Muslim names universally have trouble, even when both travel together), I've learnt that the word 'damn' is near horrific but that hours of detention are okay.
The book _1491_ is a great read to learn more about what the Americas were like before the European arrival. Recent archaeology is finding that the societies in the Americas were way more complex and interconnected than most of us understand. http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Colum...
It's interesting that similar studies have been done with brain-training games and they have no noticeable effect on a persons mind.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/brain...

I think one of the things that makes SC2 special is not simply the gameplay, but the stress that it puts you under at the same time. Not only do you have to make the correct decision, you have to make the correct decision NOW and if you don't, you will suffer consequences. This combined with the need for precise control forces you to either develop or suffer repeated failure. As it's also - in it's highest difficulty - a competitive game, there's also social pressure to not fail. Look only to these comments to see that; one commenter states his rank, others try to discredit his position. This pecking order is something important to them.

A game like the Sims as a control, is very different. You tell a story, you might have game elements, but there's much less stress, you have much fewer decisions you need to make in a short period, and if you make an error it changes the story rather than typical cause disastrous failure. You can not develop and still enjoy yourself. The fun is in the narrative, not "win" or "lose". There is no competition.
I am sure they know about it... but they must have figured it isn't work blocking them (this Adblock detection technique has been around for years).
Few articles on here lately regarding government "security" operations and the TSA. I can sympathize with these people, however most of the issues I have personally encountered have been outside the US, not while leaving the States or upon arrival.
I've recently signed up for Global Entry, which is worth it I think, if you're concerned about any of these things. You are pre-screened in advance, and pretty much not bothered with immigration beyond that when you leave or arrive (note: TSA screenings still apply, unless you are a candidate for TSA pre check which, I believe, only applies to domestic flights as of now).
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As a 21 year old, I don't see how you could try to go indie with a family and mortgage. I'm in a position where I could now (couchsurf my family until my thing is ready and have $0 expenses) but I just look out at a sea of mediocre indies with "fresh" ideas that are just respins on the same old, often in the form of some 2d platformer with sprites or on Unity.

That just isn't compelling to me, but that is a personal thing. So I don't do it. But while I don't do it now because of my personal outlook (also considering I'm not interested in game dev because the industry eats people alive) I definitely wouldn't fathom risking my family for a pipe dream. And then build my own game engine.

My question is, if you are a game dev dissatisfied with being an office robot, why not get a few friends and make your own dev house? It would be "indie" but you could ask around publishers pitching ideas or doing a kickstarter with more people and a fixed funding goal, with a much better understanding that games take 500% more time than you expect minimum, and make something big. You have the credentials after a decade or more in the industry to attract attention, I'd hope.
US expat living in Switzerland here.

Zurich used to have a really bad crime problem associated wiith drug addicts. Google 'needle park'. They started to provide the drugs for free in clinics, tied with option conselling, etc. The difference is really remarkable. Now, Zurich feels much safer than most other cities it's size.

This seems to be a similar approach, based on the good results of their drug policy.
This scene has always spoken to me:

I got a BS (laughably, there is nothing further from science) in Global Security & Intelligence Analysis in 2009, and had decided before graduating that I didn't want to go federal for lack of control over the consequences of my actions. I didn't turn down any concrete opportunities; in fact, I could never get myself to turn in an application. Maybe I was rationalizing fear of failure with that pit in my stomach, but it felt a whole lot more like 'you really shouldn't do this' then 'you're not gonna make it'.

This was also where I found a love for hacker news and internet tech; I thought (and continue to think) that tech leaders are doing more to make the world a better place than any gov't intelligence apparatus. I say this while fully admitting that state intelligence is important, and necessary.

I ended up taking a non-tech low level sales job right out of college, and worked/learned my way into the tech world. I'm in oil & gas data now (I'm sure some think O&G is just as evil; I'm not one of them), and never been happier learning & building.

This is not to say that vanilla, non-tech analysis is comparable to crypto, or that I'm some sort of good-will-hunting character. I really like his justification though:
"I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President."

Anywho, good find, thanks for posting and the transcript.
In the future, when video playback isn't restored and Google makes a public admission that they don't intend on restoring it, would you mind if I remind you of how you were naive and foolish?

When Google's next hardware product comes out, can we stop thanking them and instead point out how they have a history of releasing products that give users no control over what runs on them?

Google has far more technical expertise than any ISP, so it stands to reason that they'll be using that to push down on users more than any other ISP has in the past. We may yet regret clamoring for Google Fiber to be everywhere.
> Basically, it's your opportunity to remind them that their job is to sit in a little cube talking to people who are actually out there leading exciting lives. And that their attempts to make other people's lives worse is not really doing a very good job of making their own life any better.

The assumption that those who aren't out traveling are beneath him and deserve the ill treatment that he's intending (whether they realize he's intending to be abusive or not).
I carefully considered your position and partially agree with some aspects of it.

If you are correct, that would imply that over a very long term, the total level of "drama" would be decreasing over time in the average life as city size increases etc. I disagree. Also a decline in actual drama below some instinctual drama-thermostat in the brain would result in increasing levels of interest over the centuries in artificial drama (plays, gossip, TV, social media, maybe religion). I'm not seeing that either. I would theorize that changing technological tools for artificial drama have changed the method of stimulation but not the quantity, although I don't have enough data to know if I'm right or wrong. Its rare in the social sciences to have the chance for a hard numbers science experiment like this, which makes this topic interesting. In theory, for example, over the past generation, interest in traditional cultural plays in China should have exploded upwards thru several orders of magnitude. On the other side, there has been explosive growth (perhaps a fad?) in social media.

I would also make a very small correction to your last line:

"However, more and more that's what we are required to do."

should have two words added:

"However, more and more that's what we are required to appear to do."

For example, I would theorize based on this that the total amount of "checking out the ladies" is constant among males of a similar hormonal level across all cultures, what varies is the resulting behavior after paying attention (some places catcalling is the law of the land, some places no one whistles, ditto staring, and many other reactions, it only varies in male reaction, not in the quantity of male attention)

I would agree that the prevailing behavior in the west is to pretend to ignore, while paying very close attention. Don't make eye contact with the pan handler but keep an eye on him in the unlikely event that he pulls a knife. She wore that so you'd check her out, duh, but not to make you outright stare, duh. Pretending to ignore is somewhat different than actually ignoring.
Although I'm second-guessing my let example now. Lets are great for assigning names to your building blocks, but I don't really like using them to obscure my processing flow as above. Perhaps this would be a better compromise:

(defn example [n]
(let [square #(* % %)
halve #(/ % 2.0)
add3 #(+ % 3)]
(-> n square halve add3 str)))

> (example 1)
"3.5"
By acquiring Deja News, which was a Usenet web client.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News)
Any article out there that goes through this and explains it?
HEX: A copter that anyone can fly
The discussions are from USENET.
The last time back to Vancouver, the CBSA guy actually had to be convinced that I don’t have additional clothes… I showed him a hotel business card, then he postulated that I could have left clothes in a hotel!

(I got in.)

Another gem: “No way anybody takes a 75-day vacation, I don’t even take two weeks.”

I for one do not understand their obsession with clothes. It seems to me that they focus on people with very little luggage.
> 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.

..you should really get a better grasp on libertarian philosophy before making statements like this.

If there were any two groups libertarians would lump people in, it's violent and non-violent actors. Libertarians don't recognize the rights of corporations, governments, dictators, despots, etc. Actions are evaluated at the individual level -- which is apparently a radical new concept. Libertarianism isn't a philosophy about government, it's a philosophy about human action in general, all of which is empirically evident. It's waaayyy more principled than a political philosophy, which seems to drive many people nuts.
500,000 keystrokes per computer program left? What monstrosities to they think I'm going to write?!!
Aspirations and Genes
Well, most people seem to be irrational - to varying degrees.

Though I'd expect them both to have information advantages in their own projects so maybe that's not as big a factor as one might think.
Recompiling the Linux kernel is "inconceivable now"?

If anything, I wonder if it didn't take longer to recompile back then. I'm lucky to have 8 very bored cores to throw at the job. He didn't.
If ever there was a time for the HN mods to change a title, I would think this sort of article would be a good choice. That said, even the original article title ("Facebook friends could change your credit score") is just flat out wrong. Your "credit score" - as in your FICO score, for example, has nothing to do with Facebook/Twitter/etc. The article is a good expose on what other data that companies are using in addition to your credit score. The title is just for link-bait reasons, nothing else.
"just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"

Is there a bigger understatement in tech history? It certainly rivals Thomas Watson's alleged quote of the world market being "Approximately 5 computers".
"white" people are stopped as well, albeit most likely not as often. I have a friend who's more German than the Bundestag, who was once stopped and screened randombly by a customs official whilst he was running to catch his bus. Tough luck.
Google acquired Deja News in 2001 which was an archive of USENET groups. It eventually became Google Groups.
The secret of the Inca's great wealth may have been their unusual tax system. Instead of paying taxes in money, every Incan was required to provide labor to the state. In exchange for this labor, they were given the necessities of life.

Of course, not everybody had to pay labor tax. Nobles and their courts were exempt, as were other prominent members of Incan society.

Isn't this just a variant of feudalism?
From https://people.gnome.org/~walters/ostree/doc/ostree-package-...:

> OSTree only supports recording and deploying complete (bootable) filesystem trees. It has no built-in knowledge of how a given filesystem tree was generated or the origin of individual files, or dependencies, descriptions of individual components.

Um-m, isn't this what snapshots (e.g. LVM snapshots) are for? Correct me if I'm wrong.
There's a bigger point at play here, which is this: in modern American society, the real enemy of democracy isn't apathy, per se. It's convenience.

TSA lines are already a ridiculous inconvenience, and the prospect of additional stress -- or worse, of missing a flight -- just ads to fuel to the fire. So, faced with the choice between, say, a 30 minute line or a 45-60 minute line, most travelers will just say "fuck it" and submit to the scans.

It's not always practical to opt out, especially in extremely busy airports on extremely busy days. Nor, would I submit, is opting out a scalable solution. We're never going to convince n = enough people to opt out en masse, such that we'll make any real difference.

Instead, the solution is organization. It's protest. It's petitioning. Generally speaking, it's making a national stink of this issue. Not enough of an outcry has been rallied, by not enough people, and not at sufficient volume.
With the <video> tag, you can hide the controls, autoplay, and loop. I don't see the issue.
And ? Did the terrorists won in germany ?
Did germany has a totalitarian monitoring state ? Or reject human rights ?
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Cash flow diagrams for the poor, the middle class, and the investor class
Saw a documentary about Gauls where they reshaped the view on what was said to be a simple civilisation (~hunters) where in fact they had a non trivial economy based on manufacture of goods (amphoras) backed by recent discovery of burried factory remains.
Yeah, especially that timestamp "31 Dec 1969" — seems to be all over the place.
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"This io9 flashback previously ran in January 2012."

This note on the submitted article prompted me to look for earlier discussion of the Inca empire through the HN Search tool. This article appears not to have been submitted before, but we have had other discussions here about the Inca empire and its conquest by the Spanish.

The submitted article correctly notes that the history of the Inca empire is fragmentary because of a severe lack of written sources. Archeology is a poor substitute for history (relying on actual written records from the time studied) because it is hard to figure out what people were thinking. The rather rapid conquest of the Inca empire by a badly outnumbered group of Spanish explorers surely relied most on the epidemic diseases that the Spaniards inadvertently brought with them, but it appears to have relied as well on dissatisfaction with Inca rule on the part of many Inca subjects. People don't fight hard against invaders if their "home" rulers are dictators--World War II provides other examples of that principle. Maybe the greatest mystery of the Inca empire is that it lasted any length of time at all. The empire collapsed rapidly once a new, tiny group of potential rulers arrived. South America's Andean territories soon became viceroyalties of Spain, far away.
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Well, he was probably referring to the Hurd, a kernel which was/is supposed to be the official kernel for GNU (not GNU OS btw). As Linux came with a GNU userland from the start and the discussion is specifically about the kernel it's hard to imagine he meant something else.
This is a type of "behavioral profiling". They take you on a random walk down a conversation tree, and unless you're a very good liar, it will be difficult for you to answer the questions without delays, inconsistencies or other signs of prevarication.

It's a common claim around here that airport security is mostly theater and that El Al does it right. But El Al uses behavioral profiling, and as you point out, that can seem as intrusive as any scan.
as a white male who grew up in the south, thank you for writing this intelligently and highlighting these issues.

its not a race problem, its a cultural problem.

Political Correctness prevents us from collectively helping the predominantly black victims of a large sub-culture of black America that celebrates crime, dehumanizes women and gays, views educational/career achievement as betrayal of black identity, and tolerate men who willingly abandon their families.
So, tell us how you expect this task would be achieved. (I know some possible ways, but I could just as easily say "but none are as effective as using the right cable for the task!")
Art for art's sake is great, but it doesn't mean artists should get a free pass to do whatever they want and the rest of us digging coal mines and waiting tables give them money for art we don't like.

And where has anyone said we should? I didn't see OP demanding public subsidies. You're just attacking a dumb strawman.
I'm put in mind of my favorite tweet from a friend: "If I had a dollar for each time I typed <div> today... wait, I do"
Is that similar to using something like OpenID, where you sign into the authentication service, then one by one authorize the identity to log you into services?

It seems like a more modular approach than using Facebook or Google to sign into third party sites, but similarly secure in terms of exposing passwords.
"There is an extremely simple solution: leave."

So to be clear you think it's simpler to leave the country rather than go through a machine?
if that includes backspace, not so very far off in my case ;-)
>It's all attraction in general. Like attracts like. Hackers tend to like other hackers.

What study did you find backing this? Actually, I have already read and heard the contrary, for exemple here is what one of the numerous articles on this subject[0] says:

>Heterosexual men and women with dissimilar genes are more likely to get married than people with a similar genetic heritage.

So it seems, on the contrary, that people genetically tend to want to live with people different from them. Except when they have a psychological aversion to them, in which case I believe we call that "xenophobia", which is usually synonym with "racism".

[0] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-secret-to-find...
>A well executed yet poorly chosen strategy will often defeat a poorly executed yet well chosen strategy.

The absolute BANE of my early SC2 Days. Kept questioning and getting discouraged by strategy until I realized my problem was literally just mechanics.
Why are they blue do they not understand the diagram they are being used in either?
It's because of people like you that USA's incarceration rate is through the roof.
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Air travel locked down by armed guards, searching and demanding identity, now trains. What's next, buses? Then what, UK levels of CCTV, face recognition motorway(freeway) cameras? Oh yeah, we Brits have those. What is the limit here, can we expect check points on roads? Add to that comprehensive, industrial slurping of all electronic data and metadata. Almost forgot, a mostly compliant and controlled media and a political class who knows the NSA have all their personal data from 10 odd years. Damn, another one.... a huge military intelligence industrial complex which "donates" a fair amount of money to both US political parties, and of course expect nothing in return. (BTW, isn't the military the biggest and most powerful union in the US?). Freedom of movement, gone. Freedom of expression, monitored. Political freedom and independence, bought. Anything left? Is picking the channel on a TV or chose our clothes all the freedom we humans need? Heh, I could even make an argument that those are also controlled, at least highly manipulated.

At times like this I want to kick Godwin in the nuts.
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But psychologist do have theories-of-the-mind to try to describe why we end up thinking the things that we do. They are not complete, but it's not like they're not trying at all. And while there is more to science than publishing descriptions, it is still part of science.

I think that not limiting research to the DSM makes sense. The DSM is a clinical tool. It is necessarily a symptom-based descriptions of mental disorders. Steven Novella of Science Based Medicine explains this quite well: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/dsm-5-and-the-fight-for-...

(I actually heard this line of talk from him on the podcast The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, on which he is the host: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/)
Especially given,

> It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks

I've always wondered about the humbleness in that post. Whenever I talk about something I've created, I try to be humble about it. That said, inside, I'm of course wishing that it becomes the biggest bestest piece of software that (insert favorite large tech company you want to see collapse here) never saw coming and eventually rules the world. I can't help but wonder if Linus was thinking that at the time.
The article doesn't make many comments about efficiency. Achieving an empire through forced labor is different than doing it efficiently.
> I've yet to see a border that I liked

The one at Point Roberts is a bit of a hoot:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2011/08/three-geopolitical-odditi...
This is the first I'm hearing of it, but assessing credit risk based on social profiles is almost definitely illegal. Conclusions based on friends or location rather than actual history will have a disparate impact on minorities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact