skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, love this film, to the point that I ended up in the same line of work - mostly for the entertainment industry, but sometimes for other purposes.

He specializes in surveillance but values his own privacy to the point of paranoia.

There's a striking overlap between people who argue that information ought ot be free and that scraping content or user data is a perfectly legitimate business tactic, and people who are shocked, shocked [1]to discover that the government is not excluded from such activities.

1. per Captain Renault in Casablanca.
This isn't a privacy argument, you already (should) have privacy in the situations where you're not around other people or out in the open.

This is about the times when you're out on the street with everybody else. That's when you can't reasonably expect EVERYONE TO LOOK AWAY when you walk into a store, or buy a coffee or throw your trash on the ground.

It's those times when you're not private. You know, in public.
Couple things:
- Donors use some criteria to decide which person to give money to. I guess this is more relevant to Kiva than Watsi, where a donor potentially evaluates the project the loan is funding, its potential for success, etc. In reality, your decision doesn't make (that much) difference at that point. The loan is already out.
- More importantly to me, when I found about about this model, I just felt misled. I felt tricked into believing something that wasn't true, and it made me slightly lose trust in the company. Not a big deal, I still fully support them and recognize that the model works, but it can be kind of misleading to donors.
What are the successes. Are they successful in taking children from the socioeconomic group and turning them into high earning 30 year old adults?

Teaching metrics should be about how successful people turn out as adults, not some test scores at year end.

Until the government education system can show it's success in that, I'd hold off funding them.

What has shown success are private schools http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230382220457746...
This is an example of why I fear the disappearance of _news_.

Investigative reporting is expensive. As newspapers wither, who will do this important work? This investigation lasted 10 months. It was speculative. It might not yield any worthwhile information.

Who will do this risky reporting in 5 years. HuffPo will just sit back and wait to regurgitate the fair use.
"didnt that just happen?"

No. The claim that AGW implies that mean global temperature will increase every single year is a naked straw man.

http://ete.cet.edu/gcc/style/images/uploads/GlobalSurfaceTem...
Well, considering javascript is exclusively single-threaded in a time where multi-core is becoming the exclusive means by which processors are scaling, it would be the one of the worst possible languages to converge upon.
Meh, that's a kid's film. A fun kid's film, but still.
even Norway's tax returns site...uses external analytic scripts.

I'm curious who build that? Can they not count the filed docs.
When it comes down to it, I don't hate Ad's. But I can openly admit that I despise the Ad Experience. You are basically forced to view/hear the Ad. The consumer has no choice. I find it to be a flawed User Experience. I fault the Advertising Industry for failing to innovate the Advertising Experience. Technology has evolved, providing the potential for an increased User Experience. But the Advertising Industry remains the same, and the User Experience sucks. I find that Today's Advertising Experience essentially utilizes the same approach / method (or what I call the model) that was developed decades ago (born out of Radio, Print, and TV). Take the Banner Ad; Same approach used in print, just modified and served over the Web/Mobile. Consumer attempts to consume content, interrupted by the Ad. Take the Video Ad; Same approach used in Television, just modified and served over the Web/Mobile. Consumer attempts to consume content, interrupted by the Ad. It's the same thing over and over, just repackaged and delivered in a new format. And the underlying User Experience is the same.

I think that the Advertising Industry is ripe for innovation. I'm no fan of Buzzwords, but the new concept of 'Native Advertising' represents (IMO) the biggest innovation in the Advertising Industry in the last 3-4 decades. I think it's time for the Industry to realize that they don't have to interrupt people and force things upon people to successfully Advertise something. I see a correct implementation of Native Advertising creating a much more positive User Experience that actually helps people and gives them the information they want, when they want it. I'm working on a Project in this space, and I'm excited to test and hopefully validate my hypothesis.
The root of all poverty is that children aren't taught to worship the businessmen who choose to value their time at "as little as the government allows" and avoid employing them and their parents at all if possible. What?
Oddly enough, the last film I worked on is about this. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3033948/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3 if you're curious, but it probably won't come out until mid-2014 so it's in stealth mode as far as marketing materials go.
It's not necessarily always "abuse" so much as mis-parenting and/or unhealthy environments. I forget who said it but there's a quote that goes something like this: 'All healthy families share similar traits and patterns, but unhealthy families all have their own hosts of unique issues.'

For one source that hit home for me, see Addiction as an Attachment Disorder by Philip Flores
I think the point that a lot of people are missing is that the library is just tag ambivalent. The demo code uses divs, but of course you don't have to use divs. You can use whatever tag you like. It's hard to see why that could be construed as anything other than an advantage.

If you like <button> tags then by all rights use button tags. It makes sense that the demo code would use divs, because to do otherwise would imply that a certain tag is required for the css to work.
I don't know of a particular example. I only mentioned that in the context of the json.human.js library apparently targeting non-techies.
The lectures were given a long time ago. That would be like asking to have a 19th century math textbook rewritten to use modern vector notation.
I'm really having a hard time synthesizing misdirection from Watsi's simple promise that they will themselves personally guarantee funding of any selected patient. That promise is the only detail your comment seems to have uncovered, and it's somehow a bad thing?
I get sleep paralysis sometimes and have since I was like eleven, and honestly it isn't that big of a deal for me since it comes rarely. But as a kid? It's a religious experience, and not the good kind. If I'd known that this wad a thing, it probably would've been less terrifying.
"The candidate who supported stop and frisk (and racial profiling) for a decade launches your app... and that's a good thing?"
both are needed for this kind of outcome. also, kudos it sounds to Mongolia education and development departments (?) - leapfrogging into the 21st century by investing in modern infrastructure - trust me, in many parts of rural NZ 3 MB download is a fantasy!
This is exactly what the cited research in the original post did.

It looked at contiguous US states, where one raised the minimum wage and one did not. It measured the gain or loss in jobs with all these "natural experiments".

This study found minimal effects on employment when comparing the states that raised minimum wages against those that did not.
What a shit attitude. Try taking into consideration that people feel helpless. People are desperate to try and change things. People may be acting - not in concert mind you - to affect some change. Try to respect that these people you lament are at least fucking trying.

If all else fails, stfu.
In order of least effort to most:

* Disable root logins (require su/sudo)

* Disable password logins (require public keys)

* Run Denyhosts, to block IP addresses that have too many repeated failed login attempts.

* Use Jumphosts (AKA Bastions). One (or a few) servers that listen to ssh from the open Internet and have no private keys stored on them (use key forwarding). All other servers only listen to ssh from an internal network interface the Jumphosts are also on, or from the Jumphosts IP address directly.
The root cause is that the teaching system doesn't turn all children into businessmen.

If everyone was a businessman, they'd be earning more than government set minimums.
This.

If you're not religious, community can be your higher power. The point is more that will-power alone is not enough for some people.
Things like grocery stores tend to be further away in the US, thereby costing more fuel to get to.
If a job is so bad that I see no recourse other than leaving, two weeks notice isn't going to happen. I'll leave whenever I feel like it and I won't tell a single soul other than HR as I walk out the door. This is my life and I decide what happens. Now, if I don't need to vote with my feet then courtesy certainly prevails. I don't need to tell my boss that I'm looking at other opportunities. Now, if I happen to mention that Google called and expressed interest in me, my boss has an opportunity to let me know my value. I can also return the favor and let my boss know that I turned down an opportunity at Facebook. Communication is key, but don't give up a strategic advantage by blabbing.
It's a tag ambivalent CSS library. There's nothing sad about that. Just use buttons tags, it's not stopping you. Don't get hung up on the demo code.
Kimsuky is a Simple Virus That Targets South Korea
Positivism does not allow one to take statistical evidence as proof (because it's not, mathematically speaking).

From wikipedia's definition:
Positivism is a philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from logical and mathematical treatments and reports of sensory experience is the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge, and that there is valid knowledge (truth) only in scientific knowledge. Verified data received from the senses are known as empirical evidence.

Does global warming evidence satisfy the absolute standard of "empirical evidence" ? Well empirical evidence requires that data be produced according to the following process :
1) hypothesize
2) produce an experiment
3) accept/reject hypothesis (and goto 1, if possible)

Obviously experiments verifying global warming, or any significant part of climate theory are not possible, since we only have one earth and we can't quite produce another one with different levels. Nor are we allowed to assume that past data sufficiently isolates the factor being experimented with. Even if that were true, it is not possible to directly observe global warming without introducing potentially incorrect (or known incorrect) assumptions, like the central limit theorem.

A positivist would reject global warming, insisting only that we don't know, and that we can't know, because it's impossible to produce empirical evidence indicating either way. Since we don't even have direct measurements of the world getting warmer, only statistical proof, a positivist wouldn't even agree the world is warmer now than 100 years ago.

This sort of thing is why positivism was rejected as a viable philosophy. As your article described, this happened in programming, by the rejection of pure functional programming. But it also happened in science. The only remaining sciences that use positivism as a test of truth is first-order logic. Even second-order logic requires a less stringent standard.
These new USGS GeoPDF quads are awesome, but... useless. Most of them do not have trails, secondary (dirt) roads and even forest coverage. These new Colorado sets apparently have trails in national forests, but a sample I looked at (Longs Peak quad in RMNP) had no trails still.

Since it's outdoorsmen that use these maps, having no trails makes them worthless.

Here's what I do. Go to the USGS store and download older maps in (georeferenced) raster PDF format. These are hi res scans of real USGS quad maps. Just pick up anything older than 2012/2013. Use Acroread to print each map in poster mode 75% scale landscape to two 11x17" pages. Splice the pages and you have pretty much perfect USGS quad. I just came back from a hike in Wind Rivers and I had 14 USGS quads with me, covering all of the range.

Another option is this:

http://caltopo.com/

This site creates a seamless map out of the same USGS maps. You can print via PDF using correct scale and paper size. This is great for custom maps (although I still prefer quads as mentioned above).

To USGS: nice try, but until you add all layers present on real maps these are not any good.
Why is calling something a "human right" and pointing to some UN declaration any different than calling something a "God-given right" and pointing to the Bible?
As with anything, a bunch of things have to be either happening together, or close enough to make something work. Mongolia needed mobile Internet, MIT needed to put out course ware, someone needed to make the kids aware of it, and tools (phones) and such needed to be available to take advantage of it. Now instead of a 'Yeah right, like that could happen' kind of thing it is becoming 'I know a kid from here that did that' kind of thing and that will inspire a couple more, Etc. Assuming it doesn't get shut down, and/or overloaded, if kids who took advantage of this are successful and bring that success back to their peers then it begins a logarithmic climb out of obscurity.
He's not doing that because of concerns about PGP, just to be clear, but because his host computer isn't secure (none of ours are); he's doing basically the same thing as the people who run their browsers in a VM, or the same thing that security professionals tell business owners to do when they want to access their online banking.
What will happen when everybody uses an Ad Blocker? I can think of two positives;

The Advertising Industry will finally wise up and realize that the consumers do not like having Ad's forced upon them interrupting their content. This will cause the Advertising Industry to Innovate (which is sorely needed, and good for business)

Online based Businesses will realize that Advertising is no longer an effective Business Model, which will lead them to charge for their content and/or services. Over time this will eliminate the concept of Freemium and reinforce the concept of paying for stuff (which is sorely needed, and good for business)
This is cart-before-the-horse-ism.

Where did this trend come from to use presentation frameworks as a barometer for developing semantic markup?

Go to http://schema.org to understand what descriptive semantics is about.

"What it looks like" is not basis for initiating a project into generic semantic structures that involve interoperability with existing, mature systems.

These exercises really need to stop. There are no "three column grids" in e-mails. C'mon, folks !

How can we get drag-and-drag complex objects from microdata? — This is a question of semantics, and this framework follows a principle of "UI is the language of the web." With this axiom, one cannot even begin to talk about interoperable/shared semantics!

Following such a principle, what do we end up saying about the lingua franca of the Web, HTML, which does not describe any UI component? We're not "writing for UIs"; we're writing for other humans, and possibly other species which can parse a base language. If all we're writing for is the UI, we'd first need to describe our grammar before we can begin to send a message, and this is clearly not the case with natural language. We describe what we [mean] before we go about describing how we meant it!
This is very much the opposite to what I experienced in Melbourne.

Youth Allowance with Rent didn't cover my rent in a share house, or even bills. When I didn't have more than one part time job I was relying on money from my Mother to pay the rent.
Yes, only businessmen add value to society.
Heh; ridiculously offtopic, but that article has a picture of Sherlock(from the tv series) labelled Bertrand Russell about halfway down on the right... how does that even happen?
So is being subjective objectively bad? Or is subjectiveness being bad just subjectively bad. If it is the latter, then your first point can be thrown away. If it is the former, your first point can be throw away, as there seem to be objective things which are bad.
"Is it the poor who have power to change things, or the rich?"

Mostly the rich. That's the point. Laws get passed to service the wants of the rich, because they have orders of magnitude more influence. These laws then screw over the poor, but the rich can't properly sympathize because they just don't understand, because their world is so different.
That's not their goal, though. If anything they'd prefer that everyone in the world didn't know they existed whatsoever, which is quite the opposite to what any terrorist group would like.

You could call what they do criminal, but it's not terroristic.
This is horrible horrible things to do, a giant step...back. The entire separation of concern is destroyed this way by mashing up everything into object that is completely unnecessary. The entire internet is built around loosed couple system so it wont' fall apart when a ending body tag is missing. But with objects, that's not the case.

Please stop the madness.
Some might, but it's only part of the picture. There are solutions to that as well such as a youth wage.
It is likely you have even less of an idea of what you're talking about when it comes to Google's interactions with NSA than you do about how their motivations w/r/t SOPA.
For heaven's sake, they are topo maps. They show topography.

No map is ever perfect. I already use a mix of quads for topography, and companion collections of trail maps. Trails need finer detail, and change more often than the land.
Wow. CC-BY-ing the Feynman Lectures would have a meaningful impact on undergraduate education worldwide.

Where I'm sitting in our lab, I'm probably within 50m of at least ten copies.

CC-BY-ing just a few of the old stalwarts (I like the 1970 Sears and Zemansky, for example, and old editions of Thomas' Calculus are fine (probably better than present editions) ) would stop a lot of expensive silliness with the generation of open-source textbooks. Buying out the rights to the best textbooks is in our national interest.
Also know that interfering with natural selection in humans is likely to have more consequences than simply fewer humans. There have been many studies about what happens when you make even seemingly insignificant artificial changes to population numbers and the results aren't pretty.

Generally because of constant attempts to flip population numbers (oh no ! too many ! oh no ! too few ! oh no ! too many ! ...) the population numbers start to fluctuate wildly. Then at some point, they hit 0. Whoops.

Keep in mind that if you do seek to reduce birthrate, to have more than extremely small changes in the rates is likely to result in outcomes vastly different from what you envisioned. So far, the most famous of those rate-adjustment fuckups have been with rabbits, cats and kangaroos. If the same happened to people, we'd be in shit so deep you wouldn't believe it.
If all else fails, stfu.

Who was it who has the shit attitude?
> 3) it's not a fear, a critical mass of users won't pay for content.

Spot on!!
I didn't work in the phone division, but my impression from working at Nokia and spending time in Finland in the early 2000s was, that like any company producing hardware, there were efforts at producing phones for a few years out. This included both hardware and software -- tools for some of the system 60/80 stuff was contracted out to a company no longer in existence.

So, from the stand point of future thinking, it seems perfectly reasonable that Nokia had handsets that could run android. This is no different than Apple making sure OS X ran on both Power and Intel architectures. Hedging one's bets is always good.
Just found Robinson's take: https://medium.com/glimpse-labs/4aa5b6a6a665
It doesn't. You just don't have to use <button> or any other tag for that matter.
Notes on UPS Tracking Numbers
What is a Chromiumbook? Do you mean a Chromebook? Then the downside is that you can't install traditional desktop apps on it. Other than that, it does everything you need it to do.
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Seems like Pirrong was intellectually honest :)

I looked up some links on his study:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15/commodity-trader-
failure-seen-as-limited-economic-risk-in-study.html

http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/inefficienc...
Hackman plays the same character, really. It's not in the same league as The Conversation, but it is a really fun double-feature companion.
Yes, I do, because they give people a moral argument that outweighs the ethical problems of creating a human being capable of suffering from hunger when you know you probably can't feed her (well).
"helpless", seriously? The guy had his privacy invaded and it is EXTREMELY unlikely that he was negatively affected by it. People drowning in debt or dying of disease feel helpless. This guy is just another person with an axe to grind. Imagine if someone tried to turn every thread about tax law into a debate about abortion. That is what has been happening lately.

There's a time and a place for everything.
There is also ssh-faker: http://www.pkts.ca/ssh-faker.shtml

From the description:

This program is called by /etc/hosts.deny whenever someone connects to port 22. Unless they type in a plaintext password or type the wrong password, they get an ssh-compatible error message, and a syslog message is generated. If they type in the right password, they are added to /etc/hosts.allow, and their next connection will reach the real sshd.
This was on the front page less than a week ago. It's technically not a repost, but it feels the same. While I am more tolerant of reposts of things that never made it to the front page, stuff like this makes me feel bad for HN as it indicates the arrival of one or more phenomena:

1. A reddit-like circle jerk where the same stuff gets posted and the same conversations are had multiple times.

2. A reddit-like contingent of karma whores who repost stuff just to get votes.

3. A goldfish-like memory in HNers where they forget what happened just a short while ago.

The multiple posts about the same thing happen often when big stories break(Snowden's first leak, Steve Jobs death, Apple releases product iXYZ, etc.), but I'm noticing it now with some smaller stories, and it is frustrating.

My proposal is that the mods police these posts (I know they're watching, titles get changed all the time), and keep the front page fresh. When a big story breaks, maybe create a meta post- a "Snowden related links go here" post and when people outside of that official post they are either merged in or deleted. I realize it would require substantial changes to HN to add a meta post type and change the decay algorithm to account for a meta post.

Go ahead and downvote, but I figured I'd offer up an idea (that probably isn't original) instead of just complaining.
I recommend the book over the video lecture because I think the book explains it better.
My samsung intercept has a physical keyboard, physical camera button and good build quality (I've dropped it several times, a few times on hard floors). Unfortunately, it's still a shitty phone. It's waayy too slow, doesn't have enough RAM, and the battery life isn't great. On the other hand, I've had it for two years now and given that I haven't been arsed to replace it yet, it's clearly above a certain threshold of usability.

I do agree with your point. This is my first smartphone, all my previous phones were Nokia feature phones and my experiences with those suggest if Nokia tried to make this phone, they would've got it right.