skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That also means that some bad people spent less time doing bad things because of Gangnam Style.
I don't think the TSA will rest until all of their "agents" are precisely the main character in the game "Papers, Please."

Here's what I gathered from the article. In a busy airport like LAX, only 5 people total were shot. The gunman had a note that he specifically targeted the TSA. Out of the 5, 3 were TSA and 2 civilians. If LAX was busy, or not even, it would stand to reason there were far more
civilians he could've shot but didn't. Why he even bothered with those 2 is anyone's guess, at least according to the note he left.

The subject of the note can be read one of 2+ ways. Either he's batshit insane and none of his reasoning is sound or he's not quite insane and his reasoning pushed him to believe that killing people was for a beneficial good. People in general don't really wake up wanting to murder, nor do they want to murder a very specific target. Whatever his justification to himself, it was enough to spur him into action. Premeditated by the supposed fact that the gun was bought legally.

The acts surrounding this incident do not mirror real terror like the recent rise in school shootings, yet the TSA is clearly looking to illicit the same level of sympathy. I call bullshit. Is it egregious that one person lost their life? Sure. Is this an act of terrorism? That's an extremely hard sell in light of the note he wrote. If anything he wanted to terrorize the TSA only, because its hard to believe he didn't have a "target rich environment" of civilians in a busy airport like LAX. One could reason that any shooting is an act of terror but that notion never seemed to exist before 9/11. People kill others with guns daily in this country, so what makes this any different?

Take this hypothetical: if the TSA didn't exist, would this shooting have ever taken place? I say no. The TSA will never look at themselves as a source of FUD, propaganda, or terrorism but the reaction from this person shouldn't be taken lightly, either. Yet it is. Instead of having clear reflection on how to mitigate this from happening again, they're going in the direction of provoking it! What. The. Fuck. Are. These. People. Smoking? And no, I do not want any of the batshit insane in my pipe, please.
Tea Sachets Exist
Except from my understanding the government is generally hugely understaffed with a large backlog of tasks that are mandated at the congressional or higher executive levels.
If you have a specific topic in mind, find out the top conference(s) in the area (for many areas in CS the top resources tend to be conferences, for other topics it would be journals), and read all of the abstracts. You'll get a feeling on what is considered 'bleeding edge'.

From that start point - just 'crawl' for (a) interesting papers cited there, and (b) other things written by authors you found interesting, they'll often have the non-paywall versions of their papers available on their site.
America is big. The population is very spread out. It is normal for an American city to have 1/20th the population density of Copenhagen. Commuter rail would just dump you in a sprawling suburn with no economically viable public transportation. Autonomous taxis will make it workable, but that is a decade or two in the future.
I'm using PGP with all my friends, as well as we have secured our normal SMTP transport with SMTPS and SSL certificate pinning. So everything is now double encrypted. Of course PGP key finger prints as well as SMTPS SSL fingerprints have been verified using alternate communication channel & personal verification. Many people think that SMTP is problematic, but SMTPS with certpin is actually quite good. Messages are only delivered over secure encrypted channel, and only to server which got right SSL cert. So even fake CA attacks won't help in this case, you'll need to have cert with exactly right fingerprint. Uh, yeah, don't use MD5 fingerprints.
Ask HN: Which corporation form is the most international-startup-friendly
For someone who is not residing in the US and working on a startup that receives payment internationally through bank/credit card, which corporate formation is the most suitable and flexible?
Of course by that it means,least administrative and tax filing possible. (Let also assume one is not desperate for VC money.) I have seen a lot of options like US LLC, BVI, even singapore and ireland ... Would someone with experience share some thoughts on this? Is there any no brainer choice?
from article, paragraph 8:

"It has been clear for nearly 30 years that not all surgeons produce the same results. The reasons, however, have remained elusive."

Not being snarky, just seemed to be the subject of the article. I'd be interested to hear the answer to your other questions. I certainly hope surgeons could be judged on videos of previous performances.
> Have you ever wanted to get your hands on the latest game, only to find that the Google Play thought it wasn't compatible with your phone?

As an android game developer... if we tell Google Play a game isn't compatible with a particular device, there's generally a very good reason for it.
Well, that looks interesting :). Thanks for the share. And yeah, putting products out is definitely the best way to learn for me too.
I actually use and enjoy this app... I use the breaks every 25 minutes to do some jumping jacks and stretching - trying to avoid the detrimental health impact of the "sitting is the new smoking" issue that happens when you sit down to long. Or I will change from standing to sitting postures for each pomodoro. "Scared straight out of your chair? Good. Because the remedy is as simple as standing up and taking activity breaks. Stuart McGill, Ph.D., director of the Spine Biomechanics Laboratory at the University of Waterloo says that interrupting your sedentary time as often as possible and making frequent posture changes is important. "Even breaks as short as one minute can improve your health," he says." - http://www.runnersworld.com/health/sitting-is-the-new-smokin... Nice app!
The Harry Potter movies are excellent, one of the heights of 21st century pop culture if you ask me. You can also download them if you like..
"Thus one primary motivation of an MBA is to secure their own massive salary, stock and title… and this motivation is diametrically opposed to the psychological makeup of a succesful startup team-member."

--I had to re-choose my co-founder because I found this to be an exact fit of my situation. The person with the MBA felt entitled to everything but would not do any of the hardcore work involved. In fact, at Columbia U, I know tonnes of MBA students and they all have the same characteristic described in Dalton's article.

$$$ glisten in their irises whenever they talk about startups. For me, someone who has no MBA and would not get an MBA if it were the only academic degree on the planet, a startup is about the 24/7 work involved to create and nurture a good, innovative, useful and interesting toy that can do big things for other people. But that is why in the world, we need a million flowers blooming. People are supposed to be different. Variety is good. But as an initial co-founder, someone with an MBA--chances are--isn't the best choice, according to my experience most humble.
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I haven't seen any of these films, either. I don't see how it makes anyone different. Most people watch these films as part of a social experience, anyway.
If you want a nice fire hose of computing papers and books, check out ACM Computing Reviews:

http://computingreviews.com/
You can also use it at its native 2880x1800 resolution.
http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/vi9yf/set_your_retina...
nice! thanks for sharing
I have taught PGP, find that at least some communities are increasingly interested in it, and hope more people will use it, though I think the forward secrecy issue alone shows the value of trying to replace it with a more modern design.

I think the logistical and conceptual parts of key exchange and verification are probably the most difficult for new PGP users. There are some ideas to make this more convenient; I know people who've produced some nice educational materials, and a colleague has a nice idea for making key exchange faster and easier among people on a LAN.

But I think the biggest obstacle in the long run may be just how fond many Internet users have become so fond of webmail and of being able to read their e-mail from any device. Having to use one particular desktop e-mail client on one particular machine to read encrypted e-mail is normal to me but may seem like a huge sacrifice if that's not what you're used to.
1. I can see "why" proving those opinions (to have them become "facts" for you) publicly might not be "the best thing to do" for whoever is writing. Same goes for anybody saying "i have had this experience before".

2."any top-tier MBA has classmates" means that _not all_ MBA grads have ridiculously high salary.

3. i can ensure you that 120k as an average salary, for anybody working in a startup (the word "startup" is in the link title), might be considered "too much" although it depends on where the startup is.
Considering the fact that he doesn't mention "USA" or "Harvard" you'll have to consider much more than that portion (so you didn't actually provided any fact, but just learned how difficult could be to prove it).

With this said, i personally see a "comparison"...so "ridiculously high" might imply "compared to what an MBA grad might make per year in his startup"...which (for a person that feels special) can result into a "probably i don't earn enough" kind of thoughts. I think that's why, i believe, you find that sentence inside the paragraph "Entitlement".
In other words, science is hard, predictions are unreliable, scientists are humans and humans make mistakes / are motivated by emotions.

As usual with pieces critical of science they focus too much on a very small number of bad eggs and seem to implicitly assume that scientists should somehow be superhuman.
In regard to the first tip, I use `git add -i` even more often, because it gives you an interactive prompt that asks you which files you want to add to a commit (i.e. you don't have to type out the whole filename(s) each time).
Lambda the ultimate is a good starting point for functional programming related computer science.
I find it helpful to end the day by defining the first task for the next day of coding. The task needs to be specific and it needs to be quick and easy. I write it on a scrap of paper and leave it on the keyboard.

This gets me into the project with little to no friction and provides a quick accomplishment.

It helps avoid the mind-wandering morning thoughts of "where was I" and "what should I do today".

It's basically the Hemingway hack that's been mentioned plenty of times...

"The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start."
Maybe, but what is the effect of singing, dancing, and laughter on humans?

Not to mention building cultural bridges...
This article (and the phenomenon it descibes) is likely why the GP mentioned people who don't have TVs: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...

So if you want to determine how much time you have 'wasted' related to the video, add up the time spent saying how you haven't seen it.

Edit: There is no anger involved, other than maybe a little at being called angry. :) It is just pointing out an aspect of the human condition. (I stopped watching TV for a few years around the time this article came out and this article gave me some extra self awareness.)
Here's one change which will harm nobody:

Make DST chances apply on the same day everywhere in the world.

This will solve most of the troubles with scheduling international conferences and international flight schedules. There would be summer schedule and one winter schedule, and that's it.

First, get what can can be achieved easily. Then push for more radical changes.

Edit: Also stop the spring clock change from being on Sundays. That's just dumb.
It's not about productivity. Humanity could spend these 14,526 years listening to J.S. Bach, a genius whose talent found no match in the human history and yet dedicated as much as humanly possible of his life to music.
The world is all about trivialities today and escapism (let's not face reality). Especially in the West. Young men and women (in general) don't really mature until their mid 30s and some never do.

We have an entire generation of people distracted every 30 seconds by fart apps, juvenile videos and self-photos in the bathroom. We need more engineers, doctors and lawyers and serious thinkers.

Maybe I'm just getting older, but that's my honest opinion.
Any indication that the scale was $20M, and not $0.5M?

I have no idea.
Pedroia will have thumb surgery soon
Nice. I'll try it.
But it would be great if you could parse data directly from GTFS.
Well I agree with you. And I don't get why people want to overcomplicate this thing. People suggesting fewer time zones or even a single timezone (like UTC) in response to DST issues are just making it less likely to ever get rid of DST. When there are too many options, it confuses the issue.
For a fair comparison, you should also count the time that people "waste" visiting those imperial derelicts.

In the case of the Eiffel Tower, it has received over 250 million visitors. Assume that people spend an hour per visit, that's around 30,000 years wasted visiting the Eiffel Tower.

Now that's a super interesting snippet. Despite existing for far longer than Gangnam, the Eiffel Tower has only entertained twice as long total as Gangnam. Technology has democratized access to experiences.
Stop comparing this to the 2000 bubble
Unfortunately, no longer really true since they switched from the DOS based Windows to the Windows NT branch. (At least I think so.)

The snide about competition has also become somewhat hollow. Microsoft would love to go back to the monopoly days of the late nineties. But those days are gone.
Very cool, thanks. I wonder how this differs from the scaled option.
So something kids want is a terrible product?
You have a terribly misinformed honest opinion. Maybe you should go out more?
$2000/mo on a Mac app
> Change a line in requirements.txt and bam.

90% of the time as you say so yourself.
There's no point in thinking outside the box when the box was built twenty years ago and your entire job is to make the stuff inside it keep working for another OS release.
some people dont get humanity. thats 14,526 years worth of people all over the world appreciating a cultural meme and from a country they didnt know much about. talk about breaking down barriers and cultural stereotypes. the motherboard became more powerful in the long run.
I hope this throttling includes the VCS web frontends. It used to be that the hg (mercurial) and some other VCS (I forgot which one it was) web frontend were crawled mercilessly by someone (unidentified so far AFAIK). That used to put so much load on alioth that the git frontend would refuse to work, which was very annoying for me :).

That being said, I hope that either

a) the author of the post is exaggerating or

b) the alioth admins will improve the throttling to better target abusive users and not legitimate websites such as this one
Time enjoyed is not time wasted.

After all, what is the point of the time we have, other than to enjoy it?
man years is more appropriate
This scenario was discussed on Bruce Schneier's blog many times. He's also held a competition for unlikely terrorism scenarios that would warrant banning more everyday objects.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/sixth_movie-p...
> The Empire State Building took only two years to build.

Um, the site is counting man-hours for YouTube videos, but I know there was more than just one guy working on the Empire State Building.

According to Wikipedia, there were 3,400 workers on the project, so the correct comparison would be 14,526 years to 6,800 years. And I bet I had a lot more fun adding my 15 minutes to Gangnam Style than I'd have adding 15 minutes to build the Empire State Building.
Other than for research, surgeries are not routinely recorded.
The "best" scaled option gives you a virtual resolution of 1440px wide. Slide to the right and you get 1680px and 1920px.
That's unlikely when so many people in the tech sphere (PG included) paint Google as an 'open' benevolent company fighting the 'evil' of everyone else.
Committing every day is hard. I had a third of a year going, and then, after an intense month of travel, my first day back at home I forgot to commit and broke the streak.

Good luck!
I quite like pupil: http://pupil.io/

It allows you to change the resolution (zoom) from the menu bar.
is your app, desktop only? do you mind sharing what it does and how you market it?
> A power button that is a key on the keyboard

Wait. Why this is great?
Today I went to the loo, it took... say 90 seconds.

I'm betting that everyone on Earth went to the loo today, and also averaged 90 seconds.

Humanity wasted 19,889 years shitting today.

It took only 21 years to build the Taj Mahal in India!

What a waste.
People speculate in the comments that Microsoft could provide a 16bit emulator in Windows for DOS applications. In fact they have an x86 emulator in Windows, but not for DOS.

It's used to run int10h calls (VGABIOS) on early initialization, funnily even on UEFI.
The self-assured certainty imbedded in the tone of this article belies the pride manifest in such a view that prefers the novel application of modern intellectual enlightenment to the time tested bulwark that is our iterative and flexible legal foundation.

Not to mention the conceit that we are automatically smarter than those of the past merely because of progress. The framers were smart. More importantly, they worked hard. They studied history, thousands of years worth, all sorts of forms of governments, what worked, what didn't. To throw that all out and say, "hey, let's run the country like a startup mixed with IRV, because we're modern and know better!" just smacks of arrogance.

Sure, you can write a new constitution from scratch; first, do your homework and study all the other governments that have ever been. You've got all that modern technology at your disposal (which the founders didn't), so don't complain about the workload.
It's the kind of thing that could possibly be OK in nodejs but is not OK in the browser. My biggest problem with it (and how it goes down in Rails for that matter) is that you can inadvertently clobber variables in namespaces you don't own. Changing the prototype of String there will change it in the context of every 3rd party library that's also running. It just doesn't scale with the codebase.
desktop only marketed through the Mac App Store and mac update
Booting just needs to load a block and hand-over to the OS.

We have legacy of starting in real mode 16-bit.

The replacement is hopelessly clusterfucked. All it fucken has to do a load a block... and let you load other blocks. and tell you how much memory. and switch to VGA640x480 16 color mode. LOL.
Well, in this case, I meant "well-trained in marksmanship", but your point is valid. Training in marksmanship was inadequate; training in verbal de-escalation was almost nonexistent.
The "best for Retina" setting doubles the size of everything on the screen, effectively making the display a really crisp 1440x900. Running at native resolution everything is drawn at the standard size, which provides lots of room but also makes things hard to see on the screen because everything is so tiny.
How much effort went into this ?
By that definition, Apple uses patents defensively against those who are using to shut down iOS.
I was originally concerned that switching up to 1920x1200 was going to show artifacts from subpixel rendering, but that's not the case at all. Text still looks very crisp. Highly recommended.

2D scrolling isn't great at the highest resolution on the original rMBP. Tons of pixels to move around. I assume the new graphics in the latest rev improved this.
Hi frigg. GuerraEarth here. You might do what I just did. I looked at your profile to see what kinds of comments you've made in the past to get an idea of your tastes before offering comment. That is what you want to do--don't just go to some site and read stuff. But thoughtfully follow your interests (your wallpaper is of Mars). I am from JPL where the Mars rovers were built. In a big sandbox. The prototypes. A play box. They build all kinds of cool stuff there. If you go to the JPL page and choose scientists that do research you like, read some of their papers. All the people at JPL are good or they aren't at JPL. And look at this really interesting new toy that let's u see the surface of the sun.

http://www.helioviewer.org -and- http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/?type=current
I just like it more than the other power button, feels more natural. The other one you had to kind of push hard, as if it were 'stuck'
Why not do this for the entire world? :-)
The app tends to boot fast but you have to wait for .NET to warm up before you can use it. I'm talking about usability time. It's also much faster after you've initially opened the app.
I use gfx status http://gfx.io/ for this.
Hi mcherm,

Thanks for the advice.

I have come to a couple of conclusions, that I can either do like you said and have a frank conversation to say that I believe that I am achieving greater than my salary represents. Or that I can have a contract on the table with another employer, come back to my current employer, and let them know that that is what I'm worth on the market elsewhere. If they decide to match that number is wholly their decision, but at least I will have that piece of mind.
Well, this analysis simplistically does length times views, deliberately ignoring the fact that hardly all Youtube "views" go for the full duration. Youtube has analytics that will show an average watching duration of 1-2 minutes for most music videos.

And of course there's opportunity "cost". Presumably a fair fraction of that 14,000 years just replaced watching other Internet videos or other inanity instead. It's not like we'd reclaim 14,000 years of productivity by never having had Gangnam.

And people multitask, watching a video in one window while doing something else. Or just play it in the background for the music, not even watching the video. We wouldn't count every Winamp or iTunes play of the song as the same wasted time.
Someone else provided an example of zipping a file.
In fact a merge happened, windows kernel now is mostly NT based but has DOS era artifacts on it.
Oddly, that's how I read it too. I seem to be very far removed from circles where an MBA would be necessary.
I'm the type that doesn't have flash
Indeed, you do remember correctly. This was especially fun on dialup.

But it was OK because the forum was running phpBB, which would invariably be hacked/spammed, so you'd be getting a free dialer which was guaranteed increase download speeds ;)
The UK has a concept of patient choice. The patient can choose one of four hospitals to have their surgery. This is supposed to drive up quality.

Obviously it doesn't. Experts have difficulty telling why one surgeon is better than another (Ann works on more difficult cases than Bob; Ann uses an older technique than Bob; Ann isn't as good as Bob; etc etc) so patients end up choosing based on waiting times, or the car parks, or weird things.

There's a lot of room in medicine for better use of numbers. It's weird that "ethics" prevents us from using these data to save lives.