skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like this, as a rule. The author warns of its shortcomings pretty well:

>Of course, if you care about them, then you owe it to yourself to transmit your positive attitude to them.

I've found that who you surround yourself with is quite often outside of your control. Sooner or later, you're bound to care about someone with negative qualities that you don't want to see in yourself. I do not believe that is justification for cutting them out of your life!

Value brilliance and positivity in people, and avoid participating in negativity is a better rule, for me.

made me think of George Washington's rules of civility[1] (# 56):
Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company

[1]-http://www.history.org/almanack/life/manners/rules2.cfm
I'm not sure it was ever the case that the original assumption was that systems are secure until disproven. The claim is more than likely alluding to a combination of techniques for breaking weak crypto (ie. sufficiently small keysize for brute force attack), or attacking the endpoints (backdoors, etc). This still doesn't seem like news to me, but hey, what do I know?
Where are the peaceable, prosperous, and happy atheist nations hiding?
As far as I can tell, GMT is now UT1 which may not diverge from UTC by more than one second. I don't think conflating the two is especially egregious in this context.
Um, how is this for "hackers" exactly? It's an online Markdown editor for a closed-source blogging service. Their bullet points are as follows, with my own commentary:

- Revolutionary Editor
(It's Markdown. Like what you get with Squarespace or a Wordpress plugin)
- Powerful Image Uploader
(Yes, uploading images from Instagram is VERY hackerish)
- Compatible syntax & urls
(what does this even mean?)
- Custom domains
(Like you get with virtually every other service)
- Painless import/export
(Many other services offer this, but it often doesn't work 100%. If they can
nail this, it might be interesting)
- Social integration in seconds
(You get Disqus. Wow.)
- Strong back of your garden
(Strange phrasing... and I'd expect every other service to keep backups too...)

There appears to be nothing even remotely technical or targeted towards "hackers" or otherwise technically inclined people.
Mostly true. (They won't deny EVERYTHING because that wouldn't be believable.)

If this argument is made convincingly in Congress, the NSA could lose funding, but that's a hard decision to make. Even if I am opposed to individual wars, that doesn't mean I would support complete disarmament. Foreign intelligence (and counter-intelligence) is an important part of any modern military. There needs to be public oversight without crippling US intelligence efforts. It's not clear how to accomplish that oversight. That is the discussion we really need to be having.

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Edit: Looks like there is an official effort to increase oversight of the NSA. Quoting from a Sept 4 article on http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/

"On August 12, 2013 President Obama directed the establishment
of the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications
Technologies."

Link to the press release about this review group:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/12/presid...
Why I Don't Write For Medium
I think the article raises a good question, but the way they argue that point strikes me as a bit of a stretch:

> There was plenty of admonishing following Miley Cyrus’s shenanigans at the Video Music Awards about the ill effects of constant exposure and living in the spotlight from a young age. Well in a way, that’s what is happening to this generation of kids, albeit on a smaller scale.

I'd argue that this is beyond just "a smaller scale". Or if it is merely a smaller scale, it's about as much smaller as the non-digital fact that your kids will be seen by your friends and family IRL.

There's something asymmetrical about Miley Cyrus-level fame that doesn't happen with your kids' photos on Facebook. I personally know most of the people who view my Facebook page, and they know me. I don't have screaming fans. When I go out in public, strangers don't ask me for an autograph. Paparazzi doesn't try to photograph me. There's no idolization (or criticism) by millions of strangers.

Saying it's the same thing, but on "a smaller scale" downplays the fact that many behaviors--I would argue the most problematic ones--don't even EXIST until you reach a larger scale.
I think the first video in this series is probably the best intro to CS lecture ever.
Of course it does. One's values can be affirmed by evidence, or shown to be based on untruths. For example, I might have competition as one of my values, believing that its always good to be competitive and do one's best and strive to win. Then one day wake up and take stock of the accumulated evidence and realize that maybe this wasn't a good value to have held after all. It's nonsense to say values have nothi to do with evidence.
"I do know friends and family who have benefited from psychiatric medications, although that could entirely be due to placebo effect."

It isn't just you. EVERYONE knows people that have benefited from medication. I've seen people go from horrible, twisted states of mind turn into happy, functional people within months by taking medication. The idea that this is just a placebo effect is completely counter-intuitive, for too many reasons to list.

Don't believe for a second the idea that studies or science have anything to do with the author's opinion. People have been saying the same things ever since these medications were first released, without any facts or reasoning to back up their claims.

It isn't a surprise that after 30 years they've been able to come up with a couple of studies to back up what they're saying. What is surprising is that they'd be willing to ignore the tens of thousands of doctors all over the country that have seen these medications work, and the millions of people that have benefited from them. Studies have shown that about 75% of patients treated with antidepressants make a recovery. This is a miracle of modern medicine.

The idea that treating depression is a "loose and abstract field" is absurd. Millions of patients suffer from a range of similar systems. They get treatment, those symptoms are gone. There is nothing abstract about it. Yes, patients react differently to different medications, which is true for thousands of non-psychiatric conditions as well. In these cases, doctors also use trial and error.

Public figures against antidepressants are no better than Christian scientists who encourage patients not to seek treatment for cancer. They're also much more influential: they've persuaded hundred of thousands of people suffering from depression not to seek treatment.
WHY? "I think you will not get an answer to that question"

I didn't even know about this layer, but this has tipped the scale for me.

After reader disappearing, trying to change Maps in a way I don't like, pushing G+ everywhere and merging separate products, all the NSA lies, and changing GMail compose, I look forward to supporting non-Google efforts. /rant
How many wordpress plugins would it take to make this useless?
Snowden himself was quite clear in his initial interview that he was being selective with what he took (if not what he actually released to the journalists), in order to set himself apart from Manning's behavior.
Yeah, I don't get it either. Hackers like, among other things, to tinker with stuff and to use their fancy, highly customized tools for editing files. This appears to allow neither.

I almost feel like this is caught in a weird place: it's too complicated for "regular" users, and it's too much of a silo for hackers.

Snazzy UI though...
A leap second only lengthens one day.

In any event POSIX time stamps are fine w.r.t. leap seconds, it's the conversion functions which may or may not reflect them.
What are the implications of this on bitcoin? Seeking a technical understanding of farming bitcoins.
Running Go Programs In Iron.io
Medication is only one tool, and often needs to be used in combination with other tools, but people are always looking for the quick fix. Dealing with some of this shit can take hard work over time. Here is a small look at my experiences dealing with depression, PTSD and medication:

http://dhubris.livejournal.com/14447.html

As I said, it works for me, but may not work for you. The study of the brain and how it works physically, electrically, chemically, consciously and emotionally, and all the complex interactions within that is in its infancy in a lot of ways. So yes, if you think there is a lot of stumbling around trying to figure out what works and what doesn't, you're right. Isn't that how most science starts?
My litmus test for a 'hacker friendly' tool:

Does it have a CLI interface?
I wouldn't say there's anything fundamentally religious about meditation, other than as an accident of history. As far as I can tell, it's just an exercise for the executive-function part of your brain.
How the heck is the average user supposed to figure that out? Not intuitive at all.
Agreed, but there's a way to do it and there's a way to do it.

There's a world of difference between: "Don't leave your equipment unattended, boys and girls" and "heads-up: we've had stuff go missing in the past."
I tried to sign up. My last name is Ariño. You'll note the tilde. Your site told me:

"only alphanumeric, hyphen, and underscore characters"

:(
What You Should Know Before Starting an Enterprise Company
Is there a product like what you describe? I'd be interested.
In past few days, I have been reading Pelican's documentation and setting it with github pages. Static site generators do have a little learning curve but it pleases me greatly that when I want to write all I have to do is fire up my text editor. Free hosting including custom domain name, markdown, write your own minimal themes with HTML/CSS, etc.
No, but we absolutely stand that close to our monitors.

The original poster wants a monitor. the child comment talked about a tv. Correct me if I am wrong but HDMI (before 2) cannot deliver 4k at 240Hz, right? Has that changed with the current iteration?
What you quote is me arguing that your premise that contextual advertising is somehow distinct compared to scanning for spam both in function and legal implication is flawed.

Its flawed because that premise is at once irrelevant and falsely asserted. Neither a spam filter nor contextual advertising are inherent to private communication.

What is relevant to private communication is that it is private. If I CC larry page on a "private and confidential" e-mail to my lawyer, Mr page is a party to the conversation. It is no longer "private" nor "confidential". If every e-mails sent to a g-mail account is by default cc'd to Mr page, none of those communications are "confidential". By (statute) law, the senders are forfeiting attorney client privledge...by "opening" the communication to a thrid party. Its google's stated position that person sending an e-mail to a g-mail account has a no "reasonable expectation of privacy". And this is what that means. This means that google (wants to) treat your mail like Mr page is reading it, and it believes that users are in fact waiving their expectation of privacy by using or communicating with g-mail recipients. That includes presumably senders of mail who have not agreed to g-mails T&Cs (ie, who presumably do not have reason to know what they entail).

It is the insertion of an active third party into the communication which is a problem. Its a problem because it damages the inherent idea of 'mail' as a sender-recipient private relation (post office =/= an active recipient). And from here, the problems start.

In any event, I think you are missing the legal abstraction at the core of the analysis. Its not a problem you can wish away, nor is it one you can trust current statutes of case law to protect into the future. That is the nature of 'reasonable' modifiers; they are ultimately contextual. And here, we have self-interested parties strategically eroding the context of the 4th amendment, to the detriment of the the public at large.
I'm talking about monitor
Perhaps it has something to do with the ever changing (and often diluted) definition of "hacker". It's a very in term these days.
This is a timely article, as my current project deals with Twitter sentiment analysis http://www.sentimentview.com.

Although, I'm not classifying by specific emotion type as the article describes. In all, I'm seeing accuracy rates of around 80%. This is in comparison to a brute-force word list, which scored an accuracy of 62%. I'd be curious to see what kind of accuracy the researches in the article are achieving, with so many sub-division classifications. Not to mention, how did they derive their initial model?
I agree with every one of those things. Especially #2, but in a reverse effect: I've noticed that if I'm in a negative mood, the people I care about the most suffer from it. In the same way that you shouldn't surround yourself with people who are negative, you should attempt to be the same way yourself as much as possible. It'll make you a better person to be around.
There are some good suggestions for topics and what all to learn, here are some links to actually go and learn em!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...

and

http://hackershelf.com/browse/

Should have everything you need, they're all free / open-source books!
Oh, thank you so much!
Five Cognitive Distortions of people who get stuff done
PennApps Fall 2013 kicks off: Welcome to the largest college hackathon ever
Markdown... Github integration... when I saw this I thought: "finally someone built a web-based markdown editor that publishes into a github repository available in the web in a blog format". But no.
I love this. As an economist, I'm very interested on the correlation between this distribution of rhetorical reactions Twitter captures and economic happenings. I first realized there might be a connection with the BP oil spill. One would expect that oil company and possibly general energy stocks would fall after such a negative happening. Can we predict the impact of such circumstances in the Tokyo exchange too, based on the rhetoric we can measure in each nation (US and Japan)? Oh man, the future is exciting as big data collection and analysis mature.
You have a point, but in this case it's a hackathon with over 1000 people. It can hardly be called a "community" thing.
Out of curiosity, why did you choose the words "still kind of atheist"?
Iterator patterns in Go
Now you know better :)

Also, don't take my word for it, try it out yourself.
do you sit zazen at a zendo with others, 20 minutes a day?
You can run Plan 9 under Xen, Amazon AWS being one of those places. I've been running it under VirtualBox as well. If you are already using virtualization, the Plan 9 device drivers may be less of an issue.
Exactly right. Missing from the article is a sense of just how far these drugs have allowed us to come as a society. Researching the history of mental illness treatments is almost as horrifying as reading about slavery. For serious illnesses it could be horrific.

Today, many powerful mental illnesses can be brought under control by medication. For example, the brother of a close friend suffers from schizophrenia. His drugs work so well that the biggest risk he faces is deciding that he feels so normal that he's cured, and can stop taking the drugs (which would result in a relapse).
NSA Spying: Are Americans Now the Enemy?
Professor Ronald Coase has died aged 102
It has union types. Right now if you do 1 || 1.5 it gives you Int32 | Float64. If you do Foo.new || Bar.new, and Foo and Bar are not related (except they both inherit from Reference), then you get Foo | Bar. If Foo and Bar are related by some superclass Super, then you get Super+.

If you do:

a = [1, 'a', 1.5, "hello"]

you get Array(Int32 | Char | Float64 | String)

In a way, the Super+ type is a union type of all the subtypes of Super, including itself, but just with a shorter name.
That's arguably entrapment, and not your job.

Leave the detective work to the cops, Bruce.
Schneier has pretty much outlined how to communicate with reasonable assurance of security while he is working on Snowden document: Use an air-gapped machine for your work, and a separate Internet-connected machine to send and receive documents encrypted offline.

But this is just the logical conclusion if you believe:
a) Crypto math works
b) The NSA has zero-day exploits for every system.
I am not. Republicans are reluctant to criticize their own, and so Bush got criticized almost solely from the left. Obama gets a lot of criticism from both left and right.
2) Shouldn't be controversial at all. Meditation isn't about religion. It's about self hackery. We love that :)
Yup.

First they say opensource is awesome because you get freedom and you can fork it to will. They say you can put your ideas to code and do whatever you want.

Then the minute you actually exercise freedom, everyone will say 'why did you fork it?', 'why not use what's already there'.

At the end of the day, opensource has as much politics and bullshit as commercial ware. People just don't want to admit it.
It's Storytime
This is not intel's statement. Please edit the heading. If Intel wanted to make a statement, they would make a article on their website. Just because the developer feels this way means nothing. In fact, it reflects poorly on Intel.

Chris, if you are reading this, please post a clarification what 'we' means. Otherwise, people will assume way for nobody's good.
Thank you for this awesome explanation, it really clarifies how Enumerable methods work. I guess this is the real reason behind deferred execution. Still, I can't help thinking there is a big overhead involved with using such methods. We did some benchmarks in the past and the code that does the same thing manually always ended up being much faster.

The nice thing about Enumerable methods is that they can significantly speed up development and most projects won't suffer for it. However, for speed critical code it's probably not the best tool in the box.
Eh, maybe understanding of the brain is ripe for some kind of "scientific revolution." If so, I really hope Ed Boyden and the Synthetic Neurobiology Group are a part of it:

http://www.ted.com/talks/ed_boyden.html

The video is a little more optimistic, maybe even risks TED-utopianism... but it still has some really cool ideas, and shows that we have at least figured out a couple of things about brains.
Using the relevant SQLite implementation directly cuts down that time in half to about 3.5-3.7 seconds over a few runs.
It's a large overlap.
Posted a gentoo bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484154
> which by the way had indeed done a lot of consulting for the NSA; nice guy, though

Brings up an interesting point. Going forward should it be disqualifying to be currently working for the NSA to be on one of these committees? To have formerly worked for them? To done a lot of consulting? To have done any consulting? To have ever had a security clearance?

Witchhunts have a deservedly negative connotation, but what if you are actually surrounded by witches?
The rule would be better if it was:

Realize the effect you have on the people around you. If you're are negative, you will make the people around you feel negatively, if you are positive, you will make them positive.

It's more powerful than advice telling you to cut people out of your lives. You will have a better effect on the world.

To me, blaming the people around you for your own negative feelings is part of the 'blame others for your own problems' negative cycle of excuses. Make the people around you positive by being positive, by being a good friend: listening, inspiring, generally caring.
@trumbitta2 Just bought a copy of the book package =).

If you're still reading this thread, and have any time, I'd really value your advice on this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18671572/multiple-stacked...

I'm trying to get multiple full width disavowed images going in Bootstrap using your background image CSS, not sure how to make it responsive.
Depends on the distro and the version.
> it's not just numbers on a balance sheet

I think you will find that it is, actually. The only thing stopping some deux ex machina reaching down and writing new numbers is a desire to not mess with "the system". But what happens when the situation is such that its very existence calls "the system" into question? Japan's debt is such a situation - and the USA's, too, actually.

Let's put it another way. There is no risky debt issued at 1% interest, ever. So why is this debt issued at 1%, hm? Are all parties involved simply stupid?

Of course not. The whole thing is a sham. It is simply covert, deferred, inflation. The only way a government can have in-country, in-currency debt is if it chooses to.

The Japanese debt will never be repaid. The USA's debt will never be repaid, for that matter. What do you think would happen if the USG tomorrow issued a statement that it was defaulting on all its debts, immediately and irrevocably?

I'll tell you what would happen: nothing.

At this level, debt is no longer about money, it is about fealty.
looks really good to me
In a pure meritocracy, the best academic students are admitted, since college has an academic purpose. Most of these academically-oriented students are going to be the driven-to-succeed type. It benefits a school not at all to have an unhappy bottom quarter who feel driven to succeed yet are outclassed academically by the rest of the cohort. However, it's impossible to help the bottom quarter in general because there always must be a bottom quarter by definition.

Instead, pioneered by Harvard, the "Happy Bottom Quarter" philosophy argues that for the sake of fundraising, reputation, and the self-esteem of students, schools should admit people specifically for the bottom quarter[1]

_______

[1] http://www.quora.com/College-and-University-Admissions/What-...

[apologies on the source, but it's footnotes are researched and worth the correct attribution].
I don't, unfortunately. Our group meets once a week, I am doing zazen privately the other 6 days.
"There were MANY warnings".

This graph, showing the 25 year decline in mortgage rates has been the biggest clue. We've been priming the economic pump for 25 years, masking systemic flaws.

Biggest warning:
http://mortgage-x.com/images/graph/fhfb_contract_rate.gif
It seems to scale well and it provides a world wide commenting service -- in that sense it's an enormous success.

But from site to site the UI changes, even within a site. Wired often has articles where the various disqus links back to the article is broken.

You seem to want to be a social player with follow, etc., but I've only every seen one person with a follower.

I will get notifications of a response, but no response can be found, the link to the response goes nowhere (or the browser "cannot" find it to position itself properly.)

The load times are becoming terrible and noticeably slow down page load as I watch the disqus icon spin around.

You in some sense violated privacy when you without telling people started enumerating was upvoting.

Often on Chrome, however you inject comments is such that the Chrome find command, c-F, cannot find the comments.

It's hands down one of the better commenting systems out there, but in many ways it's flawed -- that's okay, gives you room to improve.

What I find interesting is that Livefyre seems in some sense to be a clone but whatever choices they made make it seem like commenting is a waste of time.

HTH!