skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even though no sane terrorist would joke about smuggling a bomb ...

There's the rub: the majority of mass violence attackers are not sane. In their insanity they often talk about their violent plans with no regard to who hears them. It is sound security policy to interview people who make such comments.
Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
Looking at this for a few minutes and then coming back to HN gave a sort of weaving effect. Very cool.
How large is the "HN effects" that it brings so many sites down? Even those hosted on 'professional web hosting' and not on home computers?

Anybody has some stats?
Creative Bankruptcy
Yeah, so I don't think i'll be going to any more US conferences. I invite any American to come to Scandinavia and make jokes. Here you will not be arrested, though the TSA equivalent reserve their rights to laugh of your jokes.
For some reason that is deeply unsettling. Something about the movement at the edges.
When you watch the whole thing and look at some other page afterwards, it's moving in the opposite direction.

I found the artistic aspect and the amount of work that must have gone into this project more interesting than the technological aspect. There are 15 participating artists though so at least they could split the work.
> Bosses will hear the latest fads but when it's time to "put the money where your mouth is", it's back to the 19th century.

Quite true, but then, the most successful ones I've come across are those who embrace actual "creativity" and risk-taking (which are somewhat intertwined in the space we are discussing here). I don't know whether it's something that can be distilled down into a 10-minute TED talk or a pop-psychology novel, though; it seems to often be a personality trait that some have, and some don't (not quite as binary, of course, more a range).

Kind of like creativity itself.
This is the OS. They also had a card that had the OS, and some other stuff, on it.

http://nocamels.com/2013/01/keepod-the-desktop-that-fits-in-...

> Keepod’s multi-facetious technology allows it to store the most diverse types of data. Apart from the aforementioned OS, it also includes a smartcard (the small, square, golden chips common on most payment cards); hardware encryption of military caliber and, an NFC chip. So the Keepod can be used as a credit card, a public transport voucher and even to open the door to your office. On the screen, Nissan Bahar held up a Keepod in one hand and a smartphone in the other: “When I go to work, I only take these two things with me. The Keepod is the only card I have to carry in my wallet.”
Let me quote the first paragraph, which you apparently didn't read:

...46.2 million people...lived below the official poverty level...10.4 million individuals were among the “working poor”
in 2011... The
working poor are persons who spent at least 27 weeks in
the labor force (that is, working or looking for work )
How Seven Cities Designed Surprisingly Great Websites
Glad I'm not the only one. Made me cringe, but was fascinating at the same time.
Very neat, and great examples. I do a lot of data manipulation myself, and could see this being very helpful/useful.
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Komarov, Dobrovolski and Patcaev are widely regarded as national heroes (or at least they were regarded that way back in pre-Perestroyka days). In fact, back in those days pretty much every adult could name all cosmonauts that died on a mission and quite of few people also knew all cosmonauts by name. Space was a really big deal. So having three men die was a real national tragedy.
Nice tips for event organisers
I'm not sure if he originated the phrase, but Marcus du Sautoy, a professor of Mathematics at Oxford, used the phrase in his work "The Music of the Primes":

"It remains unresolved but, if true, the Riemann Hypothesis will go to the heart of what makes so much of mathematics tick: the prime numbers. These indivisible numbers are the atoms of arithmetic. Every number can be built by multiplying prime numbers together. The primes have fascinated generations of mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike, yet their properties remain deeply mysterious. Whoever proves or disproves the Riemann Hypothesis will discover the key to many of their secrets and this is why it ranks above Fermat as the theorem for whose proof mathematicians would trade their soul with Mephistopheles."
Forget smartphones, smartwear is the new boss of mobility
I'm experience the said effect as well right now.
No, the opposite. Give Directly finds the very poorest people in a village (as judged by the materials their house is made from), and the Uganda study used self-selected entrepreneurs. Both of these were trying to maximize the impact of each dollar by giving the money to the people for whom it would do the most good.

Giving money to a beggar in the US would not do nearly as much good, both because the US has excellent safety nets (hospitals that will treat you, food banks) and because everything in the US costs more (so you can provide less of it to someone in need per dollar).
Many years ago but post-9/11 ('02 or '03?) I was waiting on the security checkpoint line. The line was moving very slowly and I was bored out of my mind until I noticed a poster informing people of things that were banned from the plane. It included illustrations of things such as WWII pineapple grenades, a scythe, machete, chainssaw, etc. and I pointed and laughed at the absurdity. The thought of someone trying to stuff some of these items into a duffel bag was hilarious as well as the idea that someone felt it necessary to warn people about these prohibited items.

Right away I saw a blue-shirted supervisor whisper to one of the checkpoint gropers and when it was my turn, I was pulled aside for 'additional' screening with more than one groper participating and more whispering between the gropers and the supervisor. One thing I did make out was, "...was laughing at the sign...,' which solidified my fears about the direction of our country post-9/11.

Besides feeling violated, what bothered me the most was not the idea that these people could be bullying someone who would dare to question their actions and authority but that these people really believed that my actions were worthy of suspicion. That our rights and safety was in the hands of people lacking any imagination, independent thought, discretion, or sense of reason.
thanks for the casual dismissal of an advanced culture's millennia of thought...sort of like someone from the East asking their kid why they're studying Socrates...are you really going to use those non-elder-respecting boy-loving selfish hedonistic dialogues to shape your life?
Sure, but all the adversary needs is for the user to visit a webpage that makes his/her browser contact the router (i.e. from within the LAN). If the adversary has to take into account defeating the user's password, this becomes an impractical attack. With the backdoor, however…
> people claiming that they have a dangerous item

I imagine it's far more broad than that. How about jokes that involve mentioning said dangerous item in any respect.

By all means, take seriously any claim of posessing these items, for exactly the reason you describe; you don't want to cause a panic.

Words mean something. Just because someone said the word "bomb" doesn't mean they're claiming to be carrying one.
again you make it very easy ... (sorry I have the feeling you are trolling me ...)

"What decides what a given person is interested in? Genetics."

Really, so it's genetics that determines if I'm interested in Computer Science or any other topic?
I highly doubt that ... In my case I believe it has more to do with very gifted teachers I had the luck of meeting that spawned my interest.
You believe you can tell the interest of people by looking at their genes? (There several examples of twins with the same genetic material who show complementary interests, talents etc.).

So genetics determines your weight ... tell that to the people living in the 3rd world. There way also environmental influences that determine your life and at least for me the ruling is still out how much is in the genes and how much is due to the environment. You know that our environment/food etc. can change our genes ...
See http://www.nbcnews.com/business/2-800-month-every-adult-it-c... -- Switzerland is voting on doing exactly this (with much more money involved!).

The key word here is "basic income", and it's surprisingly liked by economists, as I understand it.
The HN effect isn't that big. Quadruply so in this case as it's making the front page during the dead hours of HN, with but 18 upvotes and a couple of comments.

This site fell over with minimal attention.

I'm a broken record on this, but people should not blame Wordpress for the continual pattern of poorly configured Wordpress instances, as the platform is built to have a caching plugin of one sort of another: I have Wordpress instances that serve enormous loads without breaking a sweat (even on AWS micro instances), all courtesy of absolutely rudimentary functionality of W3TC.

Seriously, when you submit your own stuff there should be a checkbox acknowledging that you have basic caching in place.
Fitbit Force
ATMOsphere Europe 2013
No, the query string is not part of the URL.
I don't get the point of agriculture. It's just so hard to learn!

What? We have to wait till next year for a new harvest?!

Guys, we should just stick to moving around and hunting prey.
Many Eyes - a visualization tool by IBM
Are you saying it is somehow immoral/less moral to not buy from sweatshops?
It appears to be similar to previous version: http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/zoomquilt2.swf. Only this time it's a slightly different script language, different rich client and a different vector-based rendering engine. The obvious difference is that now I can't save it easily to be enjoyed later.
A bit off topic, but this is the real way that movies and video games are harmful: police officers see an urban gun battle unfold in some blockbuster flick, and they translate that to "oh; that's how a 'real' police department works". It affects everyone who makes decisions in the PD, so decisions to "make our department real" get approved all the way up.

The real warning labels on video games and movies needs to be "not approved for viewing by law enforcement".
Cool, but needs some depth of field effect added or something.

I cannot draw.
The check seems to happen in the path portion of the url, and the parameters part isn't checked.
The art is compelling, but I don't understand the post title. Is this, in your opinion, some amazing feat of the underlying technology? Doesn't look particularly computationally intensive or anything like that. Yes, canvas lets you draw 2D graphics inside a browser.
Sensational title, lesser in substance.
I think he knows, he even supplied a wiki link
The problem of thinking too much
Most people measure morality by looking at the difference between consequences as a result of Action X or Action Y. It's fairly obvious that giving $20 to someone making $1/day is likely to have better consequences than giving it to someone making $40/day (or who has more than the purchasing power of $40/day of social aid available to them). That's why we say the actions are morally different.

I'm surprised you think there's no moral difference. There would be a moral difference between saving someone's life with $20 and treating someone to a meal at Starbucks for $20, right?
Defend your YouTube video from a missile invasion
When watching a YouTube video, pause it and type 1980 on your keyboard and see what happens.
The rule is simple: if it has a 'JS' or 'canvas' in its title you HAVE to upvote it, because it's "innovation".
the question is also how much you rely on IQ as a measure. I found regarding nature vs. nurture, both camps have some good arguments ..

btw, I found the wikipedia article on the topic interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
There are lots of things we ask people not to say. But to threaten them with arrest if we say them anyway is antithetical to free speech.

It makes me so god damn depressed to see opinions like this on HN.
A Forth implementation and programming environment for ATmega microcontrollers
Bloom: A Language For Disorderly Distributed Programming
With SVN a commit is a push. You can't forget to push after you've committed.
I do know this. Perhaps I should have used George Orwell's 1984 as the example instead, but I was still sleepy. I tried to find a film recording of these speakers, but the internets failed my quick search. The effect is extremely chilling, a disembodied voice ordering you in curt, menacing terms to follow orders. It is archetypically dystopian.
> The thought of someone trying to stuff some of these items into a duffel bag was hilarious as well as the idea that someone felt it necessary to warn people about these prohibited items.

Did you say "oh wow, I was laughing at that poster because who needs to be told not to bring a machete onto a plane?"

Because people try to take loaded handguns onto planes. (30 this week, 13 with chambered rounds) (http://blog.tsa.gov/) See also the meat cleaver.
neat, i do a lot of FP idioms in my code.

another option i frequently borrow from is google's "goopy": http://goog-goopy.sourceforge.net/goopy.functional.html
If you're using Chrome:

* File > Save Page As...

* Choose "Webpage, Complete".

* Enjoy later.

Don't know how well other browsers handle this.
Researchers Aim to Level Playing Field for Patients Awaiting New Livers
or haskell or scala or coffeescript or ...
What's deeply unsettling is the usual put-downs from this community.
While your comment is obviously snarky, it's also depressingly correct
Founders in this position usually sell because they can't raise any more money and the next best option is to shut down the company because they're out of money.

With an acqui-hire, at least you find a soft landing spot for some of your employees and your investors can tell a nicer story about one of their investments getting acquired (instead of getting shut down).
It seems to me that if everyone has an extra $500, the likely result is rent, etc. rises to compensate, and you wind up with essentially the same social situation just with all the prices offset slightly.

If you give everyone $500 and then take $500 back from most people in taxes that just seems like you're shifting around the conditional evaluation of the necessity of aid to the IRS instead. It's still conditional aid, it's just more obscure how it works.
Keyboard layouts are a fun topic to be sure, and retraining your brain to use a different one is an awesome adventure. Where it always falls down for me is the whole experience of switching machines. It is just a massive fail when I need to remap my brain back and forth like that.

I enjoyed learing Colemak and I would probably enjoy Workman, but it isn't the most practical thing for me to do long term.

Also, a lot of the keybinds in vim or emacs are designed around certain ergonomics and being efficient in an editor is often a more useful thing for me than being efficient when I am typing.
Interestingly I was poking around in //flags/ in Chrome today, and came across a "MHTML" one. Wondering what MHTML I came across this:

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

"MHTML, short for MIME HTML, is a web page archive format used to combine resources that are typically represented by external links (such as images, Flash animations, Java applets, audio files) with HTML code into a single file."

I haven't tested it, but it seemed like a neat idea.
This approach "Hostnames should describe the purpose, capabilities, and disposition of your assets" requires you to rename your servers when you repurpose them. And that's an equally bad idea.
I've been given an orange Dodge Nitro before. Most of the cars I've been given have been white, so much so I call the color "rental car white" and is the only color I exclude when looking for cars to purchase.

But yes, we can choose the category. And you will get it unless they are out of cars for that category. An orange Dodge Nitro was considered an "upgrade" from what I reserved. One time though I had reserved a Camry and they were out so they upgraded me to a Prius instead. It was nice driving the car back to the airport after a week of driving and not having to fill up the gas tank all week.
Why did the TSA agent not allow jokes at the airport? The last joke bombed.
Feels like a really bizarre dream.
Am I the only one wondering where the meat of the argument went? There seemed to be some vague resentment at the pop-business-marketing-solution-in-a-book industry and some desire to link it back to the professional middle class

To me the argument should run differently:

- technical innovation has never been higher, both in absolute terms and in the products being brought to market.

- yes many innovations are tiny evolutions on existing products, but blame consumer surplus capture rather than a conspiracy.

- If we want more forward leaps in science and technology we should lobby our governments to double the STEM spending at least. It's hard to bring a product to market if it's core has not been invented.

- And really, TED talks, and all the other pop-insight industry, is not lying - they may be repeating some basic ideas (learn how to solve a problem, use that method in a new area, monitor the results) and we should not get upset if people try to hype up their life's work. No just accept that there are 7 billion people, and we need that many to see the next ground shaking concept invented in time.

One other point - I suspect the reason the author is hearing the same points raised time and again is a sign of an a creation of agreement over the accepted new paradigm for society to use. once upon a time slavery was an acceptable paradigm, so was anti-gay prejudice and so was religion and superstition.

What we see is the new modes of thought getting tried out like clothes in a shop. One day we will all quote Maslow.
awesome. Might have to steal that one.
"That chick from MIT"? C'mon, man, where's the respect?

Her name is Star Simpson.
Also, the correlation between the position of the bars and the position of the keys were not obvious in the first Sholes & Gidden typewriter. Some bars for adjacent keys were actually very far from each other.

By the way, the jamming problem basically went away with the Remington II. QWERTY was obsolete less than 20 years after its inception.

Oh, and here is the obligatory link: http://www.dvzine.org/
Async, ~future , and ~thread (Revision 1)
Don't worry, the title will be 'Zoomquilt' shortly.
I have. *shrugs
If you're more concerned about your right to joke about bombing civilian aircraft rather than attend a serious conference then the conference is better off without you.
India’s silent sentinels in space save million lives
> the forward march of innovation, once a cultural constant, had slowed to a crawl

And yet I keep a really really advanced slab of glass in my pocket at all times on which I can talk instantly to anyone in the world, check stats about myself and my environment, and can access the whole of human knowledge since recorded history.

I can use an inexpensive device that not only protects me from unwanted pregnancy, but solves most other sexual hazards.

I no longer die from the flu and most of the common diseases have been all but wiped out.

I have algorithms at my disposal (for free) that often know what I'm looking for better than I do myself.

People are using binary logic to program bacteria to kill disease.

If any organ in my body has a problem it can be replaced with a donor version. Many can be replaced with artificial versions, sometimes printed to my exact specifications.

Humans without legs can compete at the Olympic level against humans with healthy legs.

Quadriplegics not only survive, but can have a surprising level of autonomy.

We have a veritable space race among private companies. A feat so far reserved only for the wealthiest of nation states.

I don't know about you, but progress is right here. Happening right fucking now. And it is amazing!

When was the last time in living memory that a person could read most works of science fiction and say "Yeah, with the right kind of funding, we can have that in 10 years"

Stop lamenting the lack of progress and look around. The world is completely different than it was even five years ago.

PS: I almost forgot -> humans have had a constant presence in space since 1998, and before that from 1986 to 1996. That's pretty awesome too.
But then, people will bring shampoo on flights.
Wasn't the original done in flash like...a decade ago?
What if their most cherished assumptions were actually the source of the biggest obstacles they faced?
Be interesting if one could play the loudspeaker messages from Airplane (or maybe a sequel I forget) through the airport system nearby to a security line. At least it would give the people in line something to laugh about.
In America, increasing the minimum wage would help the majority of poor who are working poor.
And in turn, you have inspired me to do something similar. I read (to varying degrees of attentiveness) many, many papers per week, but I never write about them other than to take notes, write questions to the authors etc.

For the next 52 weeks, I'm gonna try to write a layman's explanation (with some amount of appropriate background) about a paper every week. I suspect these will center around my work, but I also suspect the act of thinking about the kind of stuff I do in a more general sense will be a valuable learning experience, and who knows, maybe someone else will learn something too!
It feels weird to me, too. The military way, when someone is promoted is to say " <current> ( then <former> )". Not sure if that is better than just saying she, unless there is a specific reason he former male identity is relevant. Is I. A given statement.
Or the number picked him :D
There's no shortage of Chinese overseas students at Western universities, many of which have a strong financial incentive to accept more overseas students (they can usually charge higher fees) even if their ability to read and write English lags behind the average European student.

The resulting cultural cross-pollination is usually likely to be a good thing...
Solution #5: The retards in charge of current policy accept that no sane terrorist would joke about smuggling a bomb through a TSA checkpoint while in the queue at said checkpoint, and thus stop arresting people for jokes.
Here is an "economic" explanation that suggests that both QWERTY and Windows are the worst available alternatives of their respective domain, simply because they are the most popular. Basically, it boils down to "You can survive by being popular, or you can survive by being good."

http://lesswrong.com/lw/hd/the_majority_is_always_wrong/
Pharo: A malleable and powerful platform
The info is scarce and the websites poorly managed. Found something on a VMWare page[1], but the website they link to looks like a autogenerated spam page.

> Keepod™ ( http://www.mykeepod.com/) is the world’s slimmest USB secure portable device. Sized as a credit card and equipped with robust enterprise class encryption, Keepod provides a complete offering for business users. With up to 16GB of secure storage, Keepod stores all the user’s files and run applications on the go.

Then the release notes for the latest version say something about "Keepod Classic", but I found no other mention of this device.

> UEFI Secure Boot support! (available for only USB drives, Keepod Classic device support coming soon)

[1] http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/keypod-vmw-ibm.h...

[2] http://keepod.tumblr.com/post/61491388269/keepod-os-12-4-cav...
No, the clear response to your assertion would be to ban all violent video games and movies.

Since they're causing all this violence, you simply remove the cause.
Relax. Its just Azathoth.
I take the last sentence back then.
"Microsoft Internet Explorer, as of version 5.0, was the first browser to support reading and saving web pages and external resources to a single MHTML file"