skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't you noticed it yourself, that especially younger people seem to be engaged with their mobile devices whenever there is a few minute idle time, when e.g. waiting for a class to start. Quiet hallway, 10-20 people, all but a few with their noses in their phones.
Except Tesla, goes without saying. And that's my point.

It's BMW, a German constructor with a minimum good taste expected, a history of coolness. It wouldn't have surprised me coming from Chevrolet or Ford or other European constructors like Renault, Peugeot or Citroën (which even the regular cars they make look hideous).
You'd be surprised what you can somehow go without ever hearing about. I still remember walking into a bookstore and being floored by the prominently-displayed (then) new Ender series book. That's something I should have known about long in advance. I am the ideal person to advertise such a thing to.
Thanks for pointing out. I will just correct it.
That would imply that the Post-Mortem itself was written in August 2013, which would probably get far fewer clicks as people assume they've read about the vulnerability before.
What can we learn from the science of high performance?
I filed an issue, see what happens. Unclear if this code is a legit copy...
This looks very cool and I'll try it this week. I've got a new Raspberry Pi and I plan to replace a Popcorn Hour with it, if I can figure it all out (I'm brand new to Raspberry Pi & HTPCs).

One small suggestion, assuming this is your site? There are a couple typographical errors on the front page text, plus I might word the top line differently. The site looks great even if you ignore these suggestions though, and well done creating this project.

- Manage your Htpc from everywhere -> Manage your HTPC from anywhere

- Using multiple applications to control you htpc? No More! -> Using multiple applications to control your HTPC?

- ...to controll them all -> ...to control them all
Its not that useful as it is not accessible remotely. If I was the government I would ask for a better backdoor.
But is it really different than when the IAU decided our solar system has now planet less? The DSM isn't - from what I can tell - deciding that observable phenomena doesn't exist, but changing its classification, and that's something not derivable from facts.
> So so long as I make more efforts to buy organic and well treated animals - is this still unethical?

Here's a couple of discussions on the topic.

http://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/1kkn05/as_a_non_vegan...
http://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/ikg34/can_eggs_ever_b...
> So the problem is that corporate media is politically streamlined? Yes, I absolutely think so.

Hilaire Belloc in 1918 wrote a wonderful critique of corporate newspapers where he pointed out that their real customers are advertisers, and that in many cases, the cross-ownership of media by other corporations, as well as cross-board memberships meant that the corporate press would necessarily adopt positions friendly to the largest corporations. His book "The Free Press" (although very right wing) is worth reading. It totally anticipates Chomsky's critiques as well.

> I enjoyed that a lot, until the selection of articles began to appear biased to the right. I think the idea is still great - give me unfiltered opinions and analysis, instead just filter by the 'intellectual depth' if you will. It'd be black coffee in magazine form.

It is a good reason to have a robust blogosphere and read blogs you might otherwise disagree with as well as those who you agree with.
Another example of this that I love is that you can build logic gates in Transport Tycoon (well, OpenTTD) using trains and rail signals: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=37902.
It's bad because Japan has an extremely low net migration rate. For comparison Australia has 16x that of Japan. So whilst globally yes we should be aiming to reduce the total population Japan specifically has serious problems.
This requires UDP packets, which a browser cant send.
I've tried this software and find it doesn't quite stack up to the original HTPC frontend project, Maraschino (http://www.maraschinoproject.com) which offers more or less the same functionality. I prefer Maraschino mainly because of the integrated remote control which allows me to control XBMC with the keyboard from the web GUI. I'd recommend you try both and see what works for you.
Of course, I've noticed. But is it a bad thing? Reality is pretty dull for 90% of humans.
Thank you for the text corrections!

This project runs great on a raspberryPi (that is how i use it myself). I would recommend doing a git clone the get Htpc Manager running on the Pi. This makes auto-updating the htpc manager software a lot easier.
There are manufacturers who have product lines designed to be reflashed eg Netgear http://www.myopenrouter.com/
I'm counting war over the increasingly scarce resources as part of the risk, so the current influence of mildly scarce resources over politics is evidence.

I agree with your point that, from a nationalist perspective, population size is basically nation size.
How stores use your phone’s WiFi to track your shopping habits
Well, the fundamental problem is a demographic one. In the end, the elderly are always cared for by the young so if you have a lot of elderly and not very many young, this becomes a real problem.

Ideally, the birthrate would be close to the replacement rate. Much lower and you run into very significant problems. If you want to draw down the population, a birth rate of say, 90-95% of the replacement rate would not be so bad.
But that requires a birth rate close to replacement rate right?
Except that people will only evolve once the resources are completely gone.

The underlying problem is that sustainable products almost always have a price premium attached to them. And because the benefits of sustainability are indirect it's hard to convince people to pay more.
Some technology details would be useful, beyond what's on the About page. From a small crop it looks like it might be built on Google Maps; I'd prefer OSM data as being much fresher than that.

Also, www.blog.gehriroute.net ( the Blog link at the bottom of the pages ) has no DNS A or AAAA records ( I checked OpenDNS and Google DNS too )
Yes, but "the short term" is long enough to cause considerable pain to the current younger, working generations
Indeed. Bitcoin transactions all contain validation scripts that are run through a stack-based interpreter. This Forth-like language does lack loops but, even after being there for years, the current client still only accepts a small set of standard templates.
I know of another Israeli security researcher that had big trojble getting an american visa for travel, he had to cancel his trip because getting the visa took 5 months IIRC.
It is interesting as a somewhat projected view of Europe (and the US too if certain political groups get their way).
This is so true, Ahmed. I've been highly irritated by this question for a long time. There is always more to it (see other comments - branding, market expertise, 'better' product, blah blah) but at the end of the day, anyone can innovate.
Too bad you can't do the same trick with Japanese; it's become politically incorrect (even racist) to use the word "Jap".
WinBuilder is another similar project.

http://winbuilder.net/
>I dont think one needs to be already interested in extreme fetish in order to get hooked to it,the more one looks at porn the more one seeks extreme stuffs. It's like any other addiction.

I agree, but my point was that people who see enough porn to get to the really weird stuff are probably more likely the ones who didn't care for real-life relationships already (in a society where these two things a correlated).

Edit: clarity.
I'm reasonably sure that one was intentional. Or at least, noted by the creator upon creation.
> no one pushed evolution

Could you clarify - does this mean that you were or weren't taught evolution?
One of the major things I see though in the article is the way in which modern corporate capitalism isolates individuals and tries to place career above family.
Are you Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory?
True enough, but such evolution, in the purely darwinian sense of the word, may involve a lot of war and atrocities.

In the worst case, it could bring the bloody end of civilization as we know it.

I agree that society and technology could evolve us through a much more desirable path. But the more time we can buy for that to happen, the better.
So it's a tool that makes it easier to pirate TV shows?

I'd prefer a tool that would pull all the episodes from my legitimate DVDs, or automatically dropped the DRM from my iTunes season pass episodes and imported them into my HTPC.
One of the best internet comments I've ever read! Or maybe I just love etymology...
you are right, facebook had lots of CSRF previously, it is obvious they don't take basic security seriously
This is a stupid article, and young people in Japan have not stopped having sex.

What westerners might call 'casual sex' -- sex without the framework of a relationships that implies various other promieses/committments -- is normal, and also not likely to be spoken about frankly, especially to a reporter, and much less a British one.

Sometimes I'll witness a young woman asked about it at a social gathering (as people have a few drinks and speak more freely). "I don't have anybody... I can't remember the last time I slept with somebody," she might say. What she means is that she doesn't have a steady boyfriend, and thus it is certainly none of your business who she's fucking.

Or I will see a guy asked about it. "Well, romance is too complicated with all I've got going on... I've learned to live without it," he might say, with just the right amount of sheepishness. What he means is that he is seeking only sex that doesn't come with implied commitments and hassle.

These two people might very well end up leaving together.
Thank you for your suggestion. Yes. We are currently using Google Maps API.I will take your suggestion of OSM very seriously. Is OSM really very fast ? And can you please tell me if their data is accurate in countries like India ?

PS: we don't have a blog right now. We are working on it.
Sorry but you're completely wrong on this.

The problem is that people in general are living longer but the retirement age is staying roughly the same. So as time goes on you have a higher percentage of the people who aren't working but yet consuming public resources.

In the short term it is bad. In the long term it is devastating. Which is why every developed country is aggressively increasing the immigration rate to compensate. Well except for Japan.
This is quite pointless because it essentially cancels out. To get a cooperative structure you have to give away surplus -- that is, people with more have to give it to people with less.

Yes, redistribution! That seems a dirty idea in a substantial part of USA politics. So 'pay it forward' chains are a peculiar thing: they summon the feeling of cooperation, in an acceptable way, without actually being effectively cooperative.
Maybe one should ask why narratives instead of detailed scientific analysis is voted up on hackernews? Do the "corporate media organizations" control hackernews now?
That is something different, it is only used to waste bandwidth from someone (or potentially clogging server's upload, but its easy solvable), but in big DDoS attacks the attacker usually has several hundred thousands of zombies infected in his botnet, and then he orders all those zombies to spam packets at an IP he orders ... Every infected PC uses his maximum upload to target IP, resulting into something like this: http://d.pr/i/kmAn

If I'm online during the attack and check iptraf or tcpdump, I can see literally hundreds of different IPs spamming random stuff at me, completely overflowing my download until I get totally disconnected from server (time out), and I can do nothing about it, just watch it being offline ...
Really? Java developers love writing non-Java
I felt the same way while reading it.

Sometimes people are just assholes.
Wars aren't generally fought over resources these days.
> It is a good reason to have a robust blogosphere and read blogs you might otherwise disagree with as well as those who you agree with.

I agree - I haven't really found good resources on general topic blogs however. Collections such as TrueReddit or DepthHub often start out well, but as time goes on, quality goes down. It seems like there is some kind of sedimentation force going on when people can up-/downvote.
The worst thing is that in places like Japan especially housing availability is a real problem. Which means you will have young people being forced to live with their parents well into their 20s.

And what happens when you have young people living with their parents ? Far less opportunities for sex.
MySpace is laughing ... not maliciously but because they now understand that teens are a migratory species. You can't expect them to stay anywhere.
You mean how individual people choose to place career above family? Don't see how modern corporate capitalism is doing that.
I'm naturally introverted ... and what I want it MORE time to sit quietly with my thoughts.
Ah, the sordid British fascination with casting scorn upon some healthy perversions...
I agree, Maraschino seems much nicer.
Although at the end of the day, I don't really think I need a HTPC manager when each HTPC app I use has a nice web interface that all play well together. For a phone, there's a nice frontend but on PC/webapp, I find the tools offered by each work perfectly. Sickbeard to add shows, SANZBd to check downloads and nothing for XBMC/Plex as I just use it as a front-end.
After Requiem stopped being maintained, I don't think there's a way to drop DRM from any iTunes video content.
Having lived in some other countries, I disagree. This corresponds with corporate domination of the economy. Where small businesses dominate, family becomes more important. The reason is that family becomes the primary source of small business capital.
Is there any way for me, without destruction or an oscilloscope, to work out how reliable my ~$15 USB chargers are? What about portable USB batteries? (3.7V LiPo + converter = large amounts of money apparently)

Edits after going through the article and comments:

* Weight - hard without a reference weight, but I'm going to guess that cheaper chargers are going to be lighter

* UL mark search at http://database.ul.com/cgi-bin/XYV/template/LISEXT/1FRAME/in...

* Heat & noise?

It seems like the chargers will also react to the quality of the power coming out of your socket - a comment in the USB charger article references 110V power on Indian trains being a bit hit and miss. I'd say this is the same for power on BC ferries too.

Would quality (noise levels?) of mains power be why my Lenovo laptop got a hell of a lot hotter on a Qantas A380 aeroplane? (which supplies 110V at 60Hz). It's normally plugged into Aussie 230V (240V) at 50hz.

Sidenote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country is a really good article.
Nice presentation. Will definitely take a look at the lib.
While I don't disagree with you that economics and the plight of the working woman in Japan is a major cause of the dismal birth rate, there's definitely more to it than just that. In particular, the "herbivore man" phenomenon is definitely A Thing in Japan, and the WP article claims that anywhere between 36% and 71% (!) of Japanese men under 30 now self-identify as herbivores:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men

Can you imagine a survey in any Western country where even 36% of young men would willingly fess up to voluntarily avoiding any romantic relationships?

(And FWIW, I'm married to a Japanese woman, and our contribution to the birth rate is already above the national average.)
Credit Card Misuse on iTunes Store Seems to Be Pretty Easy
Don't static analyzers catch a lot of these bugs these days? (if one can be bothered to configure and use them)
I loved the picture of the couple leaning away from each other; I think I was supposed to see that as an indicator of the purported epidemic.

I think what the article was, however, was an advertisement for the former dominatrix. Apparently you can pay her to talk to you about women, pay her more to get naked while she talks about women, and maybe if you play your cards right...
You know , back in 2005 , it was the WAP years, i used to work for a VOD business specialised in video content for phones(any content,sport,erotic,tv shows...).

My job was to source content and manage a mobile video website. that's when i got exposed to JAV. So a business we worked with sent us "classic" JAV. And frankly , it was the most extreme stuff i saw back then. There is definetly something cultural. I think japanese get exposed to stuff we would label as extreme , yet for the business i was dealing with it was normal JAV.

And i'm from a country which is quite open minded about sex(one of our first lady was an ex model who did nude photos, i dont think it would be ok in US).
Why Salesforce.com, Microsoft and EMC are great targets for startups
I agree with you (in fact, I upvoted you), but your tone might be a bit aggressive.
The event / pattern-matching analogy was pretty great for me. I never really bothered much with awk, possibly out of sheer laziness, but with this small piece of knowledge, it somehow feels much more accessible and logical to use.

That said, the loop concept and using next is also very valuable piece of information. So thanks to both!
The problem is that not everyone is making less progeny. Japanese and European populations may be in decline, but African, Asian, Arabic, and Hispanic ones are growing at a brisk pace.

So yes, it's pretty bad for some people to limit births. You are essentially diminishing your influence and putting yourself at risk of being swallowed up by other cultures.
A paragraph explaining the concept would be a bare minimum to get me to subscribe.
There's the case of Clive Wearing[0], who suffers anterograde and retrograde amnesia. In effect, he has a 30 second memory.

The notes from his diary are particularly frightening.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing
False. Startups may start out in an indefensible state, however, investors will expect you to build some kind of defences somewhere along the way. If it is impossible for your start-up to build such defences, you will become commoditised rather quickly, and therefore may not be a good investment, however good a project it might be in the first instance.

Building barriers to entry is a fundamental activity of the start-up that wants to succeed in the long term. Examples of barriers to entry includes: network effects, customer lock-in, stock, relationships with partners… those are not necessary, and indeed often impossible, at the beginning of the life of the startup. However, if they cannot be engineered at some point later, the business is indefensible and therefore potentially a bad investment.

Successful businesses like Google, Facebook, or Apple, or Microsoft, may still be disrupted. However, because of the barriers to entry in their markets, these disruptions will happen over a period of years or decades, rather than over a month. That is one of the factors that makes them great investments.

When investors ask about barriers to entry, they are not asking what barriers to entry you have right now. Rather, they are asking what barriers to entry you will be able to build over the next few years, should you happen to be successful. And you better have an answer for that if you want their money.
Cars nowadays are vastly more ressource-efficient than they were in the 70's.

That evolution can be triggered by higher prices for ressources.
And as they get rarer prices do go up.
Ask HN: Side projects that get noticed
I'm currently in University for Computer Science, and I'm aware that in this field, side projects matter as much, if not more than your GPA.

Currently, I do small web based side projects. They are not big, they are not complicated and they are not special. I just do it because like doing it. I never like to put my web based projects on my resume as I don't see them as anything special or noteworthy. However, I would like to branch out, and really get my hands dirty. I want to do stuff a real computer scientist would do.

Can someone help me with what kind of side projects that really catch an employer's attention? Employer such as: Google, Apple, facebook, Microsoft and etc.

Thanks!
How to see your life from an aerial perspective
Few things I'm reading from Japanese people (albeit, I won't say this is unbiased observation) often cite unrealistic expectations of their partner's income, look, and personality.

So, I've looked into the government research about it, at least for income part as it is being tangible. [1]

As for income, there have been some research that lifetime unmarried rate would collaborate with income. (Mostly for male) [2]

Their research further says that "In 2010, for male percentage of marriage for permanent employee is 27.7% while same for temp workers are 6.7%, resulting in about 20% of difference, while for female it is 28.2% for permanent workers, and 25.8% for temp workers, shows the much less difference. Therefore the increased rate of male temp workers is contributing to unmarriage rate or marriage at an older age. [3]

[1] http://www.mlit.go.jp/hakusyo/mlit/h24/hakusho/h25/index.htm....

[2] http://www.mlit.go.jp/hakusyo/mlit/h24/hakusho/h25/image/n10...

[3] http://www.mlit.go.jp/hakusyo/mlit/h24/hakusho/h25/html/n122...
In the UK I think that if you fly a remote control aircraft through a video feed rather than through line of sight then you need a pilots licence and then normal flying rules apply. Banning new classes of flying things is hardly neccessary when you have a licencing and training regime readily available with a century of experience in dealing with airbourne vehicles.
How about "Human Resource Depletion"?

The system only works when there's growth... a huge decline in population (hence births, hence sexual activity ...) is the biggest fear of all governments, as it deflates the foundations current countries/systems/power balances/... are built on. It's also the reason why worldwide "family values" and "the traditional family (unit) as cornerstone of the society" are main political points, independent of culture, religion, ...
An idea based on scaling up a type of advice that people already naturally give each other in person. I like it.
Be careful what you wish for. Internally developed systems in the government tend to suck as badly and cost as much or more than solutions that are contracted out. Software development, except in relatively small isolated cases, will never be well executed inside government. The nature of bureaucracy pretty much guarantees it. The best hope is relying on open source or off the shelf software as much as possible.
ever notice how the corporate media is always trying get more people into the developed nations? Mass immigration! More people! More People! More Babies! MOAR! MOAR!

This baby dearth, combined with the ability of the japanese to keep their elites from increasing mass immigration, means less supply of labor, which means higher wage (remember supply and demand? It applies to labor, too). That means that the corporations that support the corporate media via advertising buys will pay more for labor. The media hates that!

Also, fewer people means fewer consumers for the products advertised in the media. The media hates that!

The media is the enemy of the majority working class citizen of the developed nations.
yeah, less mass immigration means a lower supply of labor, which means higher wages for workers. That's horrible!

Oh, wait, you were speaking from the perspective of the corporations and rich investors who have to pay wages.

Funny how you adopted that perspective when you are a worker yourself.....
Nimby.
"My wife is from Britain", "My husband is British" ? Maybe these are now archaic