skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure if the baby of a famous couple was kidnapped today, it would make headlines, and if there were ongoing elements it would be a recurring story for years. And random violent acts do often lead to reform. At the same time, evidence shows better status and education yields fewer births. You take your gloomy point too far.
You mention an event in 1932. Aren't you forgetting that several years later, millions of people were wiped out systematically and there were reports of it coming back and they were largely ignored. We have greater than ever communication of the world's problems and without the benefit of hindsight, it's impossible to tell if that's had any positive effect.

EDIT: it also sounds to me like you're conflating our media with our ability to self-reflect and learn as a society. That might not be the case
It isn't possible to give automated speeding tickets in New York at this time because our law requires that a ticket be given to a driver instead of a vehicle.

It's different in California, Arizona and many other states -- in those states red light and speed cameras are legal. There is talk of changing the law in NY because some municipalities want more money, but us New Yorkers see what goes on in other states and we don't like it.

It NY you need to be given a ticket by a police officer who observed you speeding, because otherwise you don't have a positive ID on the driver. EZ-Pass identifies the car, but they couldn't decide if it were me, my wife or somebody else driving.
I have, at length, in the past, and it's very disingenuous of you to pretend that you don't know that. Most people who accuse Google of being a tool of NSA have the excuse that they got the idea from the Guardian, which later retract^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcontradicted itself out of the accusation. But you know that already. You accuse Google of being a tool of NSA because you want them to be, because you believe that by repeating a lie over and over again you can somehow crowbar reality into your weird little conspiracy theory, or at least get a bunch of people on HN on board with it.
I have been there.

I get the that the safety net helps.

My point is that civil society helps every one.

My one criticism of my fellow liberals is their messaging doesn't appeal to their audience's self interest AND their sense of fairness.
All of these are strong triggers of sleep apnea, if your jawbone, throat, body structure etc, already make you susceptible to sleep apnea. All of these worsen my sleep apnea condition. I am starting to believe there is a strong connection between sleep apnea and these sleep paralysis episodes. Not that it cannot happen in other situations. But mainly here's my conclusion

1) Sleep paralysis is your brain waking up before your body and experiencing the 'unable to move' condition.

2) Lot of conditions can cause it. Mainly Insomnia, stress/sleeping-less due to work etc

3) Most folks who are saying that these episodes are not accompanied by irrationally terrifying 'presence' feelings probably have no other health conditions

4) Sleep apnea is your brain not getting enough oxygen.
- Your brain goes into alarm/warning mode at some point and wants to force the body/mouth to change position so that you can start breathing normal again.
- The way it does this is to try to wake you up, which results in most times you waking up short of breath, snoring very loud that it wakes you up. But in some cases, your body is very deep in sleep, so you first go through partially wake state...the sleep paralysis.
- The brain is then further trying to wake you up fully, by recalling from memory things/experiences that have awaken you in the past - Someone bending over your face (your spouse giving you a good morning kiss) , some child running into your room (your kid running into your bedroom in the morning), sounds of walking steps (people walking in the morning close to you while you were partially awake, getting up), some frightening movie event/character that had made a strong impression on your brain in the past and which jolts you up (get adrenaline going, thus making your body recover from paralysis) etc.
- These experiences that the brain induces, would feel more terrifying if you were in a state of paralysis and could not move. Thus the irrational terror. Especially if you are also living alone.
- I think loneliness also is a trigger, as I have had sleep apnea induced breathless wakeup episodes (on some days when I neglect to use my CPAP machine), when my wife is next to me, but so far never the irrational 'presence' feeling when I am not alone. Even the sleep paralysis episodes are rare when my family is around. I just wake up straight short of breath when not using CPAP. But it is possible that my CPAP usage has improved my breathing. The last sleep paralysis episode I had was about 1.5 yrs ago when I was not yet using CPAP for my sleep apnea.

I have done this analysis so many times and very convinced that it is very likely to be accurate. But even then the fact that most people similar to me, have experienced 'the ghost bending close to your face and breathing over you, the demonic child standing in the room or walking/running towards you, the sound of steps' is still irrationally terrifying. That is why I do not watch horror/supernatural movies that much...to avoid giving more terror inducing fodder to my brain :)
Which country is that? I know a few do. However, that falls under propaganda, rather than a dishonest commercial practice, so the law will generally be different.

Most developed countries have some laws regulating astroturfing, though implementation is often iffy, and at worst penalties are rarely that severe. Samsung was fined a few hundred thousand for it in Taiwan recently, and is under investigation in other countries, for example.
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It would be more accurate to say that PR gives more appropriate influence to third parties.

It's true to say that political power/influence is not generally proportional to parliamentary party size, but is not specific to PR.

For example, First-Past-The-Post typically gives disproportionate influence to the first and second parties (i.e. 100% of the power), which greatly reduces voter ability to express their preferences as politicians are forced to coalesce on one side or another of an arbitrary line.

PR typically benefits parties who are able to negotiate and find common ground with their opponents. An extremist party will (still?) be left out in the cold.

Finally: Arrow's Theorem isn't relevant to PR; it discusses transferable/ranked voting systems.
Thanks for clarifying that. I though it used the server time.
Anyone who think the problems caused by overpopulation are limited to the uneducated, is himself uneducated. It's a classic case of self-reference.
I totally take your point about the tradeoff, but that's the point, isn't it? For the people who don't fit into the "customers who prefer more performance" bucket (for instance), or any of the other buckets that can be served by a modular approach, where do they turn? How do we get there from here? It's at least worth looking at the map.
Excuse me? How is VPN not secure? The ASA won't let any traffic through on port 22, period. You have to be connected over VPN in order to even attempt SSH access to servers behind the ASA.
Your browser most likely took this into account when doing the text layout. HTML & CSS don't specify algorithms for line-breaking, which the person who wrote that may not have realised.

In order to demonstrate the problem reliably, they would have had to use an image or PDF file. But the fact that your browser fixed it (as did mine) indicates that it's not actually a problem, since it can be solved automatically in software.
but what happens when you view a direct link to an image? imo, the rotation data like that should be associated with the file, and respected all the time. it might break a few things, but i'm fairly certain people could figure out the fix required :)
Good momentum in Boston startup tech, for sure.
> To me it sounds like you're making a mistake.

My example was meant only to show the size of the public reaction to a single death. Today, that would be impossible.
I love to see people using the words like " this will never happen" like they could predict the future in any way. So many have been proven wrong over the years, I wont be surprised if this author is proven wrong again.
This might not be possible now, with today's technology, just like 10 years ago it wasn't possible to have a computer in your pocket with multiple GHz cores and GB of RAM.
what are the first stages?
I can only assume the text is supposed to be full justified. It's fairly hideous looking otherwise and it explains the bizarre hyphenation.

If you tweak the css (text-align: justify), 1-4 word sentences do stand out in a bad way.

Personally, I find the double-spaced version more readable.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/physics/research/quantum/qcloud/pro...
Carying capacity for human increase, while decreasing carying capacity for other species.
Small pendant:

automation != computerization (digitization)

Automatization is reworking processes to remove judgement. Simplification.

The systems I work on are all computerized. They are definitely not automated. Huge amount of human intervention, decisions, and judgement every day.
In principle, there's no reason why web browsers couldn't incorporate the same typesetting algorithms that LaTeX uses. In fact it's quite practical to write a HTML to LaTeX converter and get quite good results out of it (I'm doing this right now).

The only caveat is that you don't get the same level of control that you have with LaTeX, in cases where the default behaviour is different to what you want.
Some issues can be solved automatically in software, but that's like saying a sufficiently smart compiler can produce optimal machine code. It's true, but such software doesn't actually exist. There is still a lot of manual adjustment that goes on, especially in magazine layout, around headline kerning and text spacing issues to tweak the output from the algorithms.
> We're already seeing the first stages.

Can you support this?

We're not seeing any mass deaths which are sufficient to even slow the population growth rate, and instead, seem to simply be seeing more statistically unlikely events as the population grows larger - which is what we would expect.
The main failure of this article is that it assumes that social problems are outside biology and that they are easy to solve.

Currently world produces enough food for everyone. Then why do we have 700 - 800 million malnourished people, even more people facing food insecurity, why we are destroying farmland and why are we wasting the primary macronutrients: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K).

Overpopulation is real because we as species are not distributing resources equally and we are not rational.
> The unit will also be focused on influencing online behaviour by site owners, service providers and consumers through education, prevention and enforcement activity, and providing offenders where appropriate with opportunities to accept restorative justice.

Er... is that implying that a police unit is being given judicial powers?
I've found it disappointing that HTML/CSS has no ability to specify preservation of two inter-sentence spaces while retaining conventional word-wrap semantics.

You can accomplish this with CSS3 white-space:pre-wrap

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/haIFz
Because they are really bad politicians. It is as simple as that, they are constantly fighting with themself so nobody is listening to them anymore.

They basicly did suicide.
I skipped the word 'property' on my first take...

> UK Launches Intellectual Crime Unit

Mistake or premonition?
> The logistic model especially assumes that the carrying capacity is constant.

Yes, but the model easily accommodates scenarios in which more and more sustenance is squeezed out of the environment, which is the primary argument of the deniers. Finally, though, because big loaves of bread don't give birth to little rug-rat loaves of bread, the Logistic function predicts the same outcome -- mass birth balanced by mass death.

I'm not saying there's a solution to this problem -- there isn't -- only that people who deny that it's a problem are living in a fantasy.
Fixed ideas being challenged is exactly what science - not superstition - is all about.

The point of the article is we wouldn't be here today at all if we hadn't been able to manage our resources. The science demonstrates this, over and over: land re-use is the key to it. The same area of land, supporting increasingly larger and larger populations, demonstrates that in fact we can manage our population growth, and have done so for 200,000 years.

But what does your superstition have to do with this? Malthusian theories super-posit that we will perish, but the archeological record demonstrates that we are capable, as a species of dealing with this.
I don't use Chrome. When you can get it working for more browsers will happily take a look.
> By contrast, when the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped in March 1932, it made national headlines for years -- years -- until the perpetrator was apprehended, tried, and executed in 1936. It's the story of one family, one child, one murder. Today that story wouldn't be able to compete with the latest mass murder account. "Oh, Bashar Assad has killed 1,500 people in a nerve gas attack. Oh, well, they're not anyone I know personally. What else is in the news?"

There was more "mass death" in 1932 +/- 20 than 1993 +/- 20, in fact more than the world has ever seen and hopefully more than the world will ever see.

Also, all that needs to happen for death to balance birth is that mortality rates need to go up and birth rates need to go down, it doesn't mean that there needs to be some Malthusian die-off localized in space and time, nor does it need to involve people going crazy.
Michael Jackson's death drew a worldwide audience.
Well we're fucked then. The police are not domain experts on the law. They are the halfwit broken outsourcing company.
iPhone showed that most consumers don't value those features over a sleek integrated lifestyle product.

Consumers have no acess to bid on the incremental value of features. There is no supply side market for these. There is no market because apple is playing monopolist (legal). Lets not use sloppy language !!
For anyone wanting to watch this tonight, I can hint that attempting to encode 1080p movie at 1824 kbps results pretty horrid image quality.
hershel, I believe you may have misunderstood me. Amazon is an example of a company that has centralised a sizeable portion of online retail, my argument was that technology can evolve to the point of encouraging decentralisation. Imagine if setting up your own "Amazon" was barely any harder than setting up a Wordpress site. A small warehouse space to store products, automated picking and packing, an easy to setup and maintain web presence, elements of AI to help field basic customer queries. It's all possible.
Some other species: things like raccoons, crows, cows, pigeons, rats, mice, dogs, house cats, etc are all likely to thrive.
>The main failure of this article is that it assumes that social problems are outside biology and that they are easy to solve.

The main point of this article is that the archeological record proves that this is the case. 200,000 years of evidence suggests that, in spite of our superstitions, we humans are capable of managing our resources and replenishing the world from which we derive our sustenance.

Are you sure you're not just harboring a fixed superstition on the subject, which has just been challenged?
They already have them.. with fines and cautions. You can take those judgements to the judicial branch for appeal, but the initial power lies with the police.
Yes, that's true, but it's a temporary adjustment, always followed by mass death. This is easily shown in the laboratory -- in the first phase of a multi-species model, one species wipes out all the others. Then the winners turn on themselves.
If they have a valid point they are not telling it well or at all.

They seem to think current food supplies can via efficiencies be increased magically by a 100% or something.

They don't even seem to be looking at non food issues like oil use or the fact the 1st world (And it's mega resource use) is tripling.

Let alone technologies that might increase the life span by years which'll cause 9 billion to seem like a small figure.
Word does "just fine" in the same sense that cheap wine or non-DSLR cameras do "just fine" for the majority of people. But that's a separate issue to quality.
I agree that you have to start somewhere for miniaturisation, but if this technology is introduced prematurely and consumers don't take to it, you may be doing more damage than if you just let the tech mature in labs and commercial applications. Just look at the Virtual Boy. VR tech died at the consumer level when that failed.

I doubt that you could get hours of gameplay. Maybe if you were playing something very simple, you could do hours, but a fully immersive world would destroy battery life.
"It's almost debilitating, and caused me insomnia for quite a while."

That is the worst part of it. Insomnia causes more stress and anxiety which causes more episodes of sleep paralysis/night terrors etc. It is a vicious cycle.
Failed, or decided to pursue other interests?
You can use a dictionary of the most common 10000 words, you'd still have loads of entropy.
Hmm, the original title was "Kickstarter for Full Body VR Suit". Surely this one, "PrioVR : Get your ideas moving" is a lot less descriptive?
The newest supported on the machines (they are quite old). We tried another vendors disk in it and the array rebuild failed.
Lindbergh's baby wasn't an international superstar before someone grabbed him out of his crib.
Its a projection of Malthusian ethics: "Humans are stupid".

Actually the point of this article is: "Evidence suggests that despite what we think: Humans are smart".
Your view seems to be that Fukushima is an event that occurred and is now past, with measurable or predictable results.

I disagree with that view, and view Fukushima as an event that is ongoing, and will continue to be ongoing until radiation from all sources is no longer entering the environment.
Perhaps due to the increasing popularity of JavaScript and the decreasing accessibility or usage of Scheme.
In many states this is circumvented by taking a picture of the driver.

Here in CO you receive a nice piece of mail asking if the pictured driver was you. The process to contest the driver's identity is very straightforward, presumably to reduce the inevitable enormous load on the court system.

The obvious loophole is that if someone who isn't the registered owner drives the car, they can speed and run lights with as much impunity as they could pre-cameras. Especially if the other driver is named on the insurance, there's nothing illegal about loaning your car to someone else long-term.
An engineer will rarely tell you that something is impossible. Ask an engineer to build a bridge across the pacific ocean. The response you get will not be "this can't be done", but "the costs involved make it impractical".

It's similar to this phone idea. Of course a modular phone can be built, but the trade offs involved make it impracticle.
One could argue if that is "style" or "behaviour".
SICP uses Scheme, not Common Lisp.

Edit:
Here's a list of available Scheme implementations. SICP uses MIT/GNU Scheme, which uses an Emacs-like editor.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/scheme/
The child's parents were, a fact you seem to be ignoring in your analysis; I expect we'd see international headlines at the kidnapping of Michael Jackson's child or the kidnapping of the new son of the Duke of Cambridge.

Do you really contend that we wouldn't?
reminds me of "The Sceen" http://www.welcometothescene.com/
The FISA court will release more opinions because of Snowden
Terrorists are groups with relatively small power who use dramatic methods. The NSA is quite the opposite; as a governmental organization attached to a very powerful government they would lot be called terriers for their actions, but rather something like totalitarians or tyrants.
I don't understand what point of this I-D is. It's a sort of white paper survey of random Internet surveillance concepts by the CTO of a SSL CA. It doesn't make internal sense; in one instance, "kleptography" means using as many as 1000 of the bits of an RSA modulus to sneak hidden messages out, and in another it means constructing weak ECC curves. Amusingly, the two sentences in the whole draft about CAs downplay the notion of CA complicity in surveillance. CA's are, of course, one of the biggest Internet privacy weak points.
Well, "self-important twits" like myself who care about issues like usability and readability (which the author definitely does not, as evident by the black on gray blogdesign) have the comfortable option to just "shut the fuck up" and don't read people unwilling to deliver on the basics. He who disrespects his readers will get no respect from me.
Thanks, you're correct.
I think Orwell's point was that excess labor can be funneled to war instead of work but so far that hasn't panned out. If anything, war is also becoming less labor intensive and more capital intensive due to technology.
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You know... SK Telecom, in South Korea just announced speeds of over 200Mbps for mobile data. I believe that speed tends to increase over time. We will get to a point where smartphones will just become dumb terminals, using resources from a "cloud". We are talking years from now, but that could easily become the next big leap, IMHO.
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McAfee Firewall Enterprise Control Center has certifications 340 333 163 162 and 340. Two of those are for HMAC_Based_DRBG.
The result of growing inequity is that too much work remains undone, too few opportunities exploited.

Big money requires big investments for the big returns. Big funds cannot consider many worthwhile investments, due to transaction costs, the (relatively) lower expected ROI.

If the money keeps moving (the velocity of money) through progressive taxation (decreasing inequity), then more people will have access to more capital.

One reason I keep reading pg and HN (and watching crowd sourced funding) is because I'm fascinated by the effort to reduce transaction costs. I'd prefer progressive taxation. But this seems to be working too.
I don't like the BPI, they investigated me and made me take my website down (they came to my house, it was a fun day).

However, I must credit them as they warn people before taking them to court. So, if you're a website owner in the UK. I'm just giving you a heads up to say that if you're being investigated, they will probably contact you in person.

I do think the BPI have definately gone too far, they currently trying to get Grooveshark blocked from popular UK ISPs. The BPI only exists to monopolize the music industry.
Now, if we can just get LaTex with instant feedback, we can approach the best of both worlds.
The way I see is that technology goes with the money. The demographic boom is happening mostly in the third world which company will invest in technology to make resources available to all the people? and these countries that are facing the challenge of an increasing population will exploit the resources that they have too fast?
that's what append in Easter Island: the population cut all the trees and they disappeared from the face of the heart.
Any recommendations for USB HSM/token? Trustable, foss-friendly, good software/standards support, buyable in singles? Smartcards are kinda nice, but the lack of integrated reader HW makes them mostly just bulky USB tokens (card+reader).