skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pop creativity is midlife crisis creativity of established people. It requires no sacrifice, no travel into uncomfortable places. Instead, it's rooted in the worldview that an upper-middle-class "BoBo" can achieve true creativity just by being more of what he or she is. Just be the same thing, with more energy, more self-esteem, and that creativity you had in college and lost (a little each day) paying dues and climbing the corporate ladder can come back-- and, what's more, without any concessions on income, social status, or the ability to get ones' children into elite schools. That never happens. Use it or lose it. If you keep growing that creativity, day by day, you'll be at your peak in your 40s and 50s. (You might be obscure and poor, but you'll be creative.) If you let it go in early adulthood, though, you never get it back. That's just how it works.

The dark side of pop creativity is that it allows these deflated, managerial sorts to believe otherwise-- that creativity can come without sacrifice and opposition, that they can "have it all". It allows them to ignore the truth of their lives, which is that they made a trade they can't reverse. If you want to accomplish anything creatively, you have to have an extreme tolerance of social disapproval that less than 1% of people have, and you have that when you're young and before you're established. For people to continue to grow creatively, their 40s to 60s are their prime; but for the ones who lose that spark, 45+ (after two decades of long work hours and social climbing) is too late to get it back.
> Does using the information on the document mean whoever misplaced is going to lose something? Probably not.

Depending on information, how it is used, etc. I can imagine him losing his job.
Dear people who own almost everything.

Please modify the property laws so that entities like yourselves will be constrained from willy-nilly acquiring more stuff (and/or stuff that isn't really stuff).

Sincerely,
the people who own doodly squat.
What did you use for that slideshow? It's nice.
As that lack of enthusiasm demonstrates, the fundamental force driving the speed of the move towards full open access is what researchers — and research funders — want. Eisen says that although PLoS has become a success story — publishing 26,000 papers last year — it didn't catalyse the industry to change in the way that he had hoped. “I didn't expect publishers to give up their profits, but my frustration lies primarily with leaders of the science community for not recognizing that open access is a perfectly viable way to do publishing,” he says.

Among the reasons that a scientist may have against embracing open access publishing is perhaps being Editor in Chief or Associate Editor of a prestigious journal. That is just a line in a scholar's CV, but sometimes it counts. I would happily do without that line, but I'm sure many, young and old, would not.

Building prestige in an open-access publication is slow, and the transition might be slow by design.
The article shows problems with each approach, without hinting to a solution. I do not see what is wrong with the shop selling a bunch of different types of hammers, while providing guidance on when to use which.

I am also not sure if the complaint is against the specific frameworks OP has seen, or he could really show that this would apply to all frameworks including those not built yet. My guess is the former.
What is it like to be a mathematician?
I'll answer your question with a situation I had happen to me recently.

Two of us were working at the local hackerspace late night. We had some trash we took out to the dumpster, and we saw a desktop tower. It had a bit of dried mud on it, so it was probably there no more than a few hours.

I take it in, and I put it in the 'dedicated desktop testing area' (read: wherever there was a keyboard/mouse/monitor). I was expecting some massive dead machine. Nope. there was a 80GB hard drive, cd/dvd, RAM, CPU.. Everything was there, and it boot right into WinXP.

Then the ohshit factor came into play. On the desktop there were icons for "Anthem Insurance Quoter", "Blue Cross Quotes".... and Client List.xls.pdf . That list alone had 500 names, SSN, DOB, address, and phone numbers. And there even more files with more identities as well. So, what do I do? Oh, and I also found the agent's name along with his license number. Nifty. He googles to about 2.5 miles away.

So.. is this a discarded machine, or was this a drop site after a theft? I don't know, and powering it up didn't tell me. There wasn't any security on the machine at all, so anybody could have plugged in a USB storage and copied without fear of logs.

I took it to the police. That's not because of the hardware, but because they can alert the users on this machine of possible identity theft and take appropriate steps.

(Yes, I do know where on Tor to sell identities like this. And the quality of these would have been roughly 100$/per. And I'm poor, but damned if I'll be unethical like that.)
Which is perhaps why we are still reading it now, don't you think?

Personally, I regard real sci-fi as that which engenders new and interesting thoughts around our current versus our potential condition as sapients (hopefully). That is of course, merely my opinion, but it suggests to me that there may be a place for "soft" sci-fi too.
it's not obvious that trading on material, non-public information that you overheard is unethical. it's basically the same thing as winning the lottery, and i wouldn't not cash in lottery winnings because i have the opportunity to build something of great value to others (that's neither here nor there).

it's not even obvious that insider trading should be illegal (http://business.time.com/2013/07/26/why-is-insider-trading-e...). (not particularly relevant, but i do think certain types of insider trading should definitely be illegal but the scope is debatable.)
I'm going to push commit every single day. And write an article per week.

Is there a easy way to stick the promise and not procrastinate?
Because it's just a library.

I don't think it's as easy or prudent to hop between languages as you make it out to be. To turn it around, if you can extend your language with features, why would you introduce a whole new language dependency into your project if you don't have to?
Some American authorities doesn't seem to have a healthy relationsship to have they do, or do not, have authority to, according to the European media. Maybe the reason why we trust these blog articles that are being posted here pretty frequently, is that they fit the picture of what we are told in the media about things like the recent NSA scandals very well?

Maybe the TSA have the authority, but they are not allowed to disclose what they are doing? That wouldn't be the first time we heard this.

Back on a more serious note: Please, prove this blog entry wrong. Don't just try to decrease the trust of this source. I'd love to know this wasn't true, but I'm afraid it is.
No, it's not good enough. But what are you going to do about it? There are lots of people in Bangladesh whose situation is worse than Meem's because they don't have sweatshop jobs. Poverty in Bangladesh isn't something we should just accept, but consider that that factory is doing more to make Meem's life better than anybody else. If you want to change things don't shit on the things that are helping, work to create better jobs and opportunities for people in Bangladesh so that sweatshops aren't their best options. But trying to take away the meager means that Bangladeshis have is perverse.
If no one knows you have the documents, you can probably trade on confidential information, compete with the company, file a patent before them etc, and I think you stand very little chance of getting caught. I'd recommend reading them and burning them so there is no chance you can be connected to them.

But here's the thing ... if you do something you believe is wrong, illegal or immoral, you'll still have to live with yourself. Being human, having empathy (what if you'd lost your confidential papers), being sympathetic and generally operating within the folkways and mores of society serves a purpose. People who can operate without any of these qualities are classified as sociopaths.

So my recommendation isn't to talk to a lawyer, or take any actions related to the papers. Burn them (preferably without reading them) and keep your inward smile. Living with yourself is more enjoyable if you actually like yourself (and find yourself likeable).

EDIT: Posted this at the same time as kefka ... read his response for a real life application of what I've written. And nice to meet you kefka!
Crew members: ‘Captain Phillips’ is one big lie
from the html:

> Based on Google IO 2012 HTML5 Slide Template

The code is available on https://code.google.com/p/io-2012-slides/
I put Aspergers to mix it up. I think it makes it a more interesting poll. That's all.
Nordic universities are all tuition-free for EU students. The main problem as a foreigner would be the language. For masters-level study there are many English programs, but for the bachelors level, there are fewer. There are, nevertheless, several of them.

Two examples:

* Roskilde University: http://www.ruc.dk/en/education/full-degree-undergraduate/int...

* Kristianstad University: http://www.hkr.se/en/study-at-hkr/programmes-and-courses/bac...
Sorry for the plug, but here's a tutorial I just wrote that I hope helps with this difficulty: https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/tel/a-little-lens-starter-tu...
It depends on what information the document(s) contain and how OP uses that information, but yes, the person who lost them could certainly lose "something". When that Apple employee misplaced an iPhone prototype a few years ago, it wasn't the monetary value of the prototype itself that Apple was worried about; it was the market advantage they'd lose if their competitors discovered what they'd been working on.
I did three years of Maths in University. Then, I swap to Computer Science because it was always 'my thing'. When I read this kind of posts I really miss Maths. It is beautiful.

If you never tried, if your only experience is high school, go for it. Learn some Math. You will be happier.
A Taliban member's letter to Malala
There's a significant amount of willful of political amnesia in those 7 puzzles.

When one considers that Al Queda cut it's teeth, learning the effectiveness of political violence, by participating in resistance to Russia's Afghan invasion of the 1980's (with the eager assistance of the CIA), the nonsense purported in those 7 puzzles goes right out the window.
I do agree with most of what is said there, but it misses out terror groups like the KKK, that WERE about terror, and achieved (successfully) their aims through terror. They aided and caused the oppression of black people by carrying out a number of lynchings which left the wider black (and whites who might aid the black cause) community afraid of breaking the status quo.

This was a special case as the terror group was widely in bed with local policing, but it's a point to consider when discussing terrorism of the the 19th, 20th and 21st century.
Otherwise most of game manufacturers would try to implement a different, custom solution (as for PC games) which would need to be cracked separately for each game, instead of a one-crack-fits-all permanent solution.
To be fair though, it is more than just a mindset. Creating composable software in Java is non-trivial if not impossible as compared to functional languages. Even if you set out with the goal of creating a composable library in Java, it is very hard to achieve that.
You can't even joke about crimes on Facebook anymore. I wouldn't take my chances at loci of police state activity.
Oh, it's a slideshow is it? I thought it must be some kind of holding page. Some indication on the first slide of what to do would be helpful.
"And the hunter-gatherer tribes think the agricultural people"

The teeth, the teeth! Look at meat eater teeth compared to stone ground grain eaters teeth. Also this is a very old story which makes it unusual that they carefully avoided relative health issues such that grain eaters shrink in height and strength compared to the H-G eaters. So you've got Ms Hunter looking at a short little troll of a grain eater with rotting teeth vs studly McMeat eater... And in the other direction the ladies have little patience with the HGs because their diet gets a little sparse in the winter and they don't want to watch (more of) their kids starve.

HGs: Less of them per sq mile, taller, stronger, healthier, other than in winter when the die off, great teeth.

Farmers: More of them per sq mile, shorter, weaker, less healthy, starve less often, awful rotting teeth.

It must have been an interesting dating/social dynamic.
Usually I don't care about the content of TED talks. I watch the series only to learn presentation skills...
The connection was first made (decades ago) in a chance interaction between Hugh Montgomery (who was working on the Riemann Hypothesis) and Freeman Dyson.

For a description of how serendipity struck, and an nice explanation of how scientists are trying to understand and work the analogy, see here -- http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3349,y.0,no.,cont...
I think you have this thing backwards. Personally if I found something in a cab my first reaction would be "that sucks, I bet someone is really frustrated about this. I would hate that to happen to me."

Your immediate reaction seems to be "how can I turn this into money without legal consequences?" Did you ever consider just doing nothing? Trying to return them?
TL;DR

Sorry but I could not get through this badly written incoherent article. This makes me question it's contents.

Or I am just dumb?
How much to read as an entrepreneur
Of course I'm interested in reading it, or at least the parts relevant to ergonomics. And I did.

As it turns out, my suspicion was correct: the quote mentioned was from 1977. Unfortunately, that paper's brief mention of keyboard layouts is then based entirely on "Human factors in international keyboard arrangement", which was published in 1975 and does not seem to be available online.

The Fable authors mention fatigue early in the paper, but fail to provide any evidence on this point. Their section on ergonomics focuses exclusively on the question of whether Dvorak is faster.
Are you saying we need more people with humanities educations to imagine our way out of this mess?
I like it. Nice work!
How do you measure innovation? Stating that the rate of innovation is dropping seems about as ambiguous as saying that morality is decaying. What the hell does it mean?

The cost to performance ratio of computing is increasing at an exponential rate, e.g. the human genome project. We have DNA printing that likely is going the same way too. There is software for compiling DNA (Genome Compiler.) I find this both extraordinarily innovative as well as increasing in at an exponential rate.

Humans like to copy each other. So, rock and roll in 1965 may have seemed wonderfully innovative. If you had listened to it from 1965 until 2013, it may not seem as much anymore. You've "heard it all." Perhaps the same could be said of network TV dramas.

Some things appear to innovate in spurts. Take for example the Oculus Rift. Virtual reality headsets, for consumers, were stagnant since the mid 1990s. If you bought one in 2011 it would have been more or less the same as one you bought in 1996. Seems like a huge lack of innovation! Well, now we have the Oculus Rift. It turns out all of this development with mobile phones is directly useful for making virtual reality headsets fast, light, and high resolution.

Who would have thought Angry Birds contributed to progress in virtual reality? I think we will see the same thing happen with other industries and products, where for 2 decades nothing interesting happened and then in a matter of months a company produces a game changer using advances in mobile technology, genetics, databases, etc.

Now, perhaps someone who looks at the Oculus Rift says, that's not innovative, the concept existed 25 years ago. If that is how we are measuring innovation, it seems both shallow and dismissive of the incredible amounts of labor and creative genius involved.

In 1953 Tintin went to the moon in a vertically landing rocket. I would be extremely embarrassed to call Elon Musk not innovative for having a working version of this rocket today.

We measure things in such short time spans. Many of the things done have yet to manifest themselves as recognizable solutions for humans. If we look at human history in periods of hundreds of years or thousands of years, the amount of innovation we have seen over the past decade is phenomenal.

Should the government be helping? Perhaps. Our larger concern should be innovation that doesn't do irreversible damage to the environment and consequently humans. Often government backed innovation is really about building very destructive weapons, which there is no private market for. If innovation is a little slower in exchange for not ending up with the next nuclear bomb, I won't be complaining.
"It's a poor workman who blames his tools."

You may not like Word, but I find it helpful for certain tasks. You want it to die? A bit dramatic and non-constructive. Basically, "I don't like it, so no one should use it."
Wrapping World Births/Deaths Simulation Viz in Chrome Packaged App
This is an experiment with the new "chrome packaged apps". I wrapped the existing world births/deaths visualization in a chrome "packaged app". There were a few quirks to get d3 to work there. Anyway, it's free on the "chrome app store" at

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/world-births-and-deaths-i/noghphokfbhedlkhnoojmjfdbofidgbi/related

For something like this, it's kind of nice because It's a onetime download of all the files, etc. it needs. Please feel free to let me know of your own experiences. I think it inexplicably crashed once for some reason - this might have something to do with the way the "published" wrapped acts versus when I was debugging, where I never saw it happen.
The main thing I like about frameworks is the standardization.

Frameworks usually force you into doing things a certain way, with a certain directory structure, with very specific api's.

And if some one walks on knowing that framework they can get up to speed pretty quickly.

And if YOU go back and look at the project months or years later you can get up to speed quickly.

Also it typically keeps the code really neat.

Considering Java is typically years behind PHP in framework technology, I can imagine the authors frustration though.
I was just thinking that the pics on twitter look horribly low resolution. Good job!
The company I work for has about 20 sites with over 200 servers per site. We have cobbler boxes in each site (and more recently, puppetmasters). While some of our utility servers run as VMs under either VMWare or KVM, for the bulk of them we want every last scrap of performance out of the server that we can, so we primarily provision on physical machines and treat those physical machines as just containers.

Our naming scheme for the servers is similar to how you describe dropbox - there is a generic prefix and then a rack+uposition number (ie: gen0112). This has worked out pretty well. When we build a site or replace a server, we record the mac address. Then we can assign role-based child hostnames to the physical server name, update the cobbler config, and everything gets built accordingly.

Of course, there is a nice host database to track all these mappings as well as scripts to generate and push those cobbler configurations.
Articles are good for getting into a field you are not familiar with, especially when that field is obscure and lacks good textbooks.

The real problem is that we are continuing to support an industry that contributes nothing at all to the publication of scientific papers. We simply do not need publishers of any kind, regardless of open access, because we have a substantially better way to distribute articles: the Internet. Sure, we need archives of articles, but that is what university libraries are for. Sure, bandwidth is needed for distribution, but that is where P2P systems like BitTorrent come in (imagine a monthly torrent of peer reviewed articles for each field). The rest is already being organized without the assistance of publishers.
The Seductive SoundIO of BellagIO
Learn From Dead Startups- and Avoid Their Mistakes At All Costs
You can find lots of online and mobile apps that are based on the Jerry Seinfeld Chain. A particular example would be iDoneThis.
The hardware and the OS will hold the DRM, as far as I understand. That means that if say pirates break the DRM on Windows, Microsoft can patch it by next Tuesday.

That being said DRM by default in browsers (through EME) is probably the end of the "open web" - or at the very least the end of a "clean open web", meaning that everything will need to be hacked and cracked to make it work. Want to copy text or an image from a website? You'll have to find the crack for that website. Not to mention that doing that will be soon declared illegal (if it's not already from the moment DRM is applied to something).
Did you miss the part where he discusses guerrilla warfare and contrasts it with terrorism? And admits that it works sometimes, but not as often as you'd think?

EDIT: Spelling fix.
Seaside is one approach, there is also Aida-Web. Those are implemented in pharo.

with Amber you can use also node.js if you want. And any server side node.js library you can get your hands on. Amber can use any js library.

You could even mix amber, pharo , node.js and seaside / aida-web .Sky is the limit. Its up to you which specific approach you will choose. You definitely have loads of options.
If our only understanding of the law came directly from consulting a lawyer, we'd all be very poor and very ignorant.

There is nothing wrong with asking about the experiences of others who may have asked lawyers similar questions, as long as we understand that we should directly seek a lawyer's advice in proportion to what is at stake.

By sharing our legal experiences, we'd all become better at understanding the specific questions we should ask a lawyer, should the need arise.
The comments on github are akin to 'my eyes! they bleed', but tbh, this is actually quite readable and I imagine wouldn't be all that hard to maintain.

I haven't touched PHP since about 2007 and it seems like it would be pretty easy to jump in and start making changes and edits. It is well templated, seems to use variables well and not have too many (if any, didn't look all that closely) hard-coded values. I've seen much, much worse in "cleaner" languages than this.

As a side note. I learned a lesson in my early 20s that has served me well to today.

Shipped code always wins.

I was a huge proponent (and still am) of good code, well architected blah blah blah. But, in the end, if your code never sees the light of day, it doesn't matter. I saw this when I took over a team responsible for care and feeding of a product originally written by the founder of a company. This company had just secured a series B on the original code (still). The product was ugly, the code was terrible, it was slow, it wouldn't scale, couldn't be configured and really couldn't be maintained. However, it got the company moving, got a series A & B, secured the first customer, and a second. It basically created a runway to build the thing right that wouldn't have been available had it not gone live.
I don't think you read that article closely enough, nor my comment for that matter.

Consider this, how would the fact that you took a random ride in the same cab as the "tipper" ever be established? In other words, what would be the basis of the insider information allegation? How would they ever know?
I was just thinking on the same lines. I work in the humanities and even if the article form remains, there is the possibility to radically rethink the journal model. The journal model is too closely tied to assumptions about print and distribution channels that no longer hold much value.