skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very stimulating article.

Minor quibble: I've never thought (most) people actually "fear" terrorism, rather they have (justified) anger and perhaps an excess feeling of "something should be done" since terrorists are actual human beings who can be brought to account.

Perhaps a better comparison would be fearing airplanes over cars, but there I think much of the fear is in the novelty of the flying experience.

The comparison with nuclear weapons is really interesting, particularly as the response to fear of nuclear annihilation on the part of most people was overblown (digging bomb shelters under houses etc). On the other hand, the actions of the relevant governments (US/USSR) were mostly rational in a game-theoretic sense (acknowledging the prisoner's dilemma at hand).

Biotech may be different, as Sam mentioned, since only nation-states have the means to build nukes. On the other hand, computers/the internet still work despite Y2K and rtm's worm :)
Hey ashray - pretty much what publicfig said. If you'd like, sign up for the beta testing of "Collection" across multiple platforms: http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Announcements/Collec...
HTML itself is unusual, but > and < do appear sometimes, and the fact they're stripped can make titles cease to make sense.
> Philosophically, man is happy only when exercising his facilities

> But in either case the notion of perfecting some craft-work. In particular, this should further some functional inter-relationship with the outside world

> These are good arguments, in many ways. Enough so that the burden of proof should be on those putting for completely contrary ideas

I respectfully disagree. My instinct is to question your premise that "man is happy only when exercising his facilities." I'm assuming that this has roots in ancient Greek philosophy, and I'm not well versed enough in that area to refute the reasoning that leads to that premise, but I will say that I'm hesitant to accept it at face value. Even if scientific studies indicated that man is happy only when exercising his facilities, it would only indicate that exercising your facilities has instrumental value in providing us with satisfaction, not intrinsic value.

To me, this idea that productivity is an objective Good seems like a statement of personal values rather than anything fundamental to the Universe. Of course, personal values matter; I'm just trying to draw a line here between productivity as a means to an end vs. productivity as intrinsically necessary. If someone is able to achieve happiness without "exercising his facilities," I don't think we can assume that their happiness must be impoverished compared to those pursuing more mainstream paths, even if our gut instinct tells us otherwise.

And to reiterate: this is ignoring, for the sake of argument, the topic of negative externalities. Obviously, if unproductive behavior has a detrimental effect on others, the issue becomes far more complicated.
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Ahh yes I remember friends list being offline for a solid year if not more. It sure has come a long way.
Homeless man learns code on streets and launches his own app, Trees for Cars
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specifically the first "underestimate" is wrong, the second is correct. :-)
> I always hear the situation put this way, but it rings false to me. If you gave me a perfect happiness drug, I wouldn't want to sit in bed all day and take it.

Reason is a poor way of estimating behavior, in special, your own.
The most misleading measure of almost everything: Average
>It's a good reminder that if you have a security requirement, use full disk encryption

If someone can gain repeated access to your hotel room, full disk encryption is vulnerable to the so-called "evil maid attack". Basically, someone comes to your room, boots from a thumb drive, and installs their own bootloader on the machine. When you return, everything will appear normal to you, but the bootloader can do any amount of mischief. For example, it can log the password you enter to log in and store it. Or they can have the spyware mentioned in the article install once you log in.

Later, they come back, wipe the bootloader, and leave your system apparently in its original state (but with spyware installed). The only difference now is that you may think you've foiled their attack because of the full disk encryption, and fail to investigate further.
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How much do you need to increase donations by in order to get them off the street? It might be worth buying the domain you want too. I took a look at the fivedollarstartups site too which I presume you're trying to promote here, there's a lot of blank space before your content starts. http://imgur.com/otjJMC2 It's also not very clear to me what you're promoting, a quick skim suggests Twitter spam?
haha, brilliant, thanks.
I have tried multiple times to use Outlook and Exchange based email, most recently a couple months ago. I do not like it. At all. If I was offered a job that forced me to use Outlook, I'd probably turn it down (or bribe IT to make my email accessible through Gmail).

For all of it's flaws, I frikkin' love Gmail. Perhaps my favorite parts are the spam filtering and the filters.
Or half to charity and half to the page visitors. Then it keeps going AND does some good in the world.
The scenario might seem far-fetched today, but what if biotech made the same kind of progress over the next 50 years as computer technology has over the last 50? A human-engineered super virus might seem as unlikely to a virologist today as an iPhone would seem to Alan Turing.
You mean other than it being the Capitol?
Thanks! That makes sense. I didn't see this in their docs, ut your comment inspired me to look harder. It seems their "learn more" link doesn't say much, but if you pick "Help" from the footer it has a more detailed FAQ that says what your comment does.
Yes, thanks, edited.
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What if the page containing a one-time link was cached, but the resource itself was not? The "secure link" solution doesn't seem to work in all cases.
ascribing superpowers to the bad guys

Grab a copy of The White Plague. It's an entertaining read.
Beastie Boys countersue as fair use fight over “Girls” song escalates
I remember almost not installing HL2 when it first came out, because I didn't want to install Steam. Back then, the concept of being locked in to a certain launcher felt so wrong. I didn't do anything with Steam (besides having to use it to install the Orange Box) again until that first massive sale they had back in 2008 or 2009 (Can't remember what year that was).
"Spooky action at a distance" implies some kind of faster-than-light phenomenon. Regular things that interact while separated by space aren't considered to have "spooky action at a distance."
Works on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) for me with Intel graphics, Chrome 31.0.1650.63 (current stable). Maybe your card isn't supported by WebGL? Test it: http://get.webgl.org/
I also used this brief window of opportunity as a fun experiment in learning Ansible. As a result, I've published a repo which automates setting up LTC mining on g2.2xlarge instances.

http://github.com/adammeghji/ansible-ltc-mining-on-ec2

If anybody's curious to spin up a GPU instance and dabble with this, this greatly facilitates downloading, compiling, and installing the CUDA drivers, and setting up the LTC miners. Amazon has a $100 credit available too, if the current spot instance prices are prohibitive.
That's an interesting solution. It seems to me if you have to go to a storage space to pick up you groceries you could just as well go to a grocery store to pick up your groceries, couldn't you?
This is one hell of a service :)
The biggest reason to get RHEL is certification (assuming you don't need their tech support or updates). A number of third party vendors will only support one of the Enterprise Linux distributions (RedHat, Suse, Oracle Linux, etc). Now the technical differences between RHEL and, say Fedora, is that RHEL gives you a long time of getting bug / security fixes that are "minimally invasive", that is you can apply them and have a very good chance that your existing configuration and apps still work without a reinstall ore reconfiguration. (This is what is meant by "stability").

For personal use, you can get similar stability from either CentOS or Scientific Linux, although the bug fixes will lag behind Red Hat by a few days (although some critical updates have been released only a few hours after Red Hat).
Agreed. Qt is not as small and simple as it used to be. If you're a dinosaur like me still using it on smaller platforms, the QtCore and QtGUI libraries can run you north of 10MiB of space. And now QtNetwork always wants to link in, and I can't get it to detach from the link like the old 4.x days.
I don't like unattended or scheduled delivery. This is what Vons does, in LA. However, we also have Yummy.com which provides delivery instantly. I've bought from them a few times, and they show up literally faster than a pizza does. We're talking 20-30 mins, in LA traffic. I don't even know how they do it. I can barely get my car out of the garage and to the market in that amount of time, let alone going up and down each aisle and going through checkout.

It's impressive service. I would do it all the time if the prices were lower and selection was better.
Could you share your ideas ? I'm thinking about 2d/3d 'modeling' on a keyboard centric user interface too; except for the part where analog input is the only sane way (even though I had some ideas about how to try this keyboard-only too).
Interesting collection. Disappointed to see the typical Hindu apologist, revivalist nonsense in the description though.

Edit: What I mean by typical: http://youtu.be/RSHFzZmQPj0
Yeah - Gnome was definitely the subtle default. IIRC correctly, the Gnome option is called "Desktop", and the KDE option was called "KDE" (or something like this). So unless you had a known preference, you'd end up with Gnome. Contrast this with openSuSE that has 2 specifically-named download options.
For perspective, the average R&D cost per successful drug is somewhere well into the billions:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/02/10/the-tru...

Not sure what the idea is here. Going by cold statistics, this will cost orders of magnitude more than they are seeking from crowd funding. And even then, with overwhelming likelihood, it will fail in clinical trials.
If they're not using a machine with SSD drives, then searching in Outlook can be slow. Otherwise I'd agree that Outlook is snappier except for the abominable keyboard shortcuts (and the hoops you have to jump through to set up anything approaching gmail-style/vim-style keyboard shortcuts).
VMWare has had a similar concept called ThinApp for Windows http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/ -- albeit it is more geared towards desktop apps as opposed to server apps, but similar concept.

If I recall it was an acquisition for them 4-5 years ago.
To be fair though, that can be 'said' easily. But dramatic human suffering is occurring all over the world right now and most people don't pay a whole lot of attention. So it isn't really all that significant in reality.
I just wish google music had a desktop client (or support in chrome) to hook into operating system keyboard shortcuts like play, pause, forward, next, etc.
Here in the south bay I don't have InstaCart, but my local Safeway does deliver.

The experience isn't the best (someone has to be there and sign) but a) I have a nanny and b) I don't pay $299 or 14% more for the items.. in fact, I would pay less as I don't carry a loyalty card, but deliveries give you the loyalty price (presumably, they collect the same kind of info anyway).
My Github repo is the documentation. It teaches you how to run multiple processes by having them managed through runit. It even provides a script to make it easy for you to run a process as a different user.

> And having separate ENTRYPOINT and USER directives suggests that if you want to run several things at once, they must all run as the same user.

It does not. That's not how the Unix process model works.

When you boot the Linux kernel, it also wants you to specify a single entry point. The kernel starts that process as root. Yet your Linux system clearly has multiple processes, running as different users. Why? It's because the entry point is the init system, which spawns other processes. You can do the same thing inside Docker.

It's exactly the same as how your host system works! Nothing has changed!
I address this in my second paragraph. You can't assume the advances all happen on the negative side (the ability to perfectly engineer a deadly virus) without corresponding advances on the positive side (enough understanding of biology to combat new viruses).
Getting a Shell on any Android device
Precedents for the Microsoft Android Phone: HP's iPod & Palm's Windows Treo.
I could almost kind of justify it if the selection were better (especially since they also deliver from local businesses and offer Amazon.com items), but everything I tried to buy today was either completely unavailable (cat litter and chicken sausage), or only available next day (super fancy chicken sausage from some local meat market that I could just go and get myself today in 10 minutes), and I couldn't purchase an order under $35 even if I wanted to pay more on top of the still inflated prices. Amazon also offered up breastmilk storage bags when I tried searching for gallon milk. Iiiinnnnteresting.

I really wanted an alternative to Instacart and Google Shopping Express especially for the random Amazon items I'd want to throw in and a little more competition (really missing Trader Joes delivery), but I'm pretty disappointed so far. I was in Seattle this past weekend and I was super pumped to try it just to buy a water kettle for my hotel room and going all "I wish this were in SF!" but I can't actually find anything that I want to buy at home that would come faster/better than regular Prime shipping or competing services.

I ended up ordering from Instacart with almost everything I wanted instead because I was so frustrated (and I would walk to the local market but I'm sick). Easily would have been willing to migrate my grocery shopping to any service but they're all kind of shitty so :(
Now when I click the "Sign in with Github" link, a request is passed but nothing seems to happen - I still just see the homepage
That's hilarious. It's time to cut out the act of consumption and skip right to destroying goods as a show of power:

> "In the potlatch, the host in effect challenged a guest chieftain to exceed him in his 'power' to give away or to destroy goods. If the guest did not return 100 percent on the gifts received and destroy even more wealth in a bigger and better bonfire, he and his people lost face and so his 'power' was diminished."

-- Wikipedia (Potlatch)
That's worth some elaboration, though: the water vapor in the atmosphere is (to a very, incredibly rough approximation) a system where the average global vapor concentration oscillates tightly around an equilibrium point. More than that, the average residence time in the atmosphere is a bit over a week. So when you say we can't change it, it's very true in one sense: if we vaporized the Mediterranean into the atmosphere, well before a month had gone by it'd have precipitated back to the liquid state on the Earth's surface.

On the other hand, what you said could be misunderstood to mean that human activities have no effect on the average water vapor concentrations, and that'd be inaccurate. The equilibrium point is determined in large part by global temperatures: the higher they are, the more water vapor is pulled into the atmosphere. And we do have a mechanism to increase atmospheric temperatures: CO2.

CO2 by itself is fairly limited in terms of temperatures: doubling its atmospheric concentrations only increases average global temperatures by about a degree, which is simple to calculate and more or less undisputed. But what really kills us (and where uncertainties creep in) is in the positive feedback loops, the biggest of which is water vapor. A degree increase in temperature from CO2 alone results in an additional couple degrees of increase in temperature due to the effects of increased water vapor.

Combine a couple of those positive feedback loops, and you've got a problem.
300 units, they said. Or literally 1 in a million for the US population :) Which makes sense, considering how much one of these units probably costs.
Two Year Rule actually applies to all applicants if they are getting money from their government (e.g. a grant from school) but it seems pretty random who gets it or not. I got hit by it but at least my home country (Finland) gives waivers for it in case I ever need to apply for a H1b.
the concept--and products based on that concept--has been around for almost a decade

Closer to 6 decades, this is old hat for IBM mainframes.

For me the question is tho', why virtualize? And the answer I keep coming back to is that a) it is too hard to retrofit good manageability onto processes as the basic unit of applications and b) people are used to it, the idea of having 1 machine per app, when really it isn't cost effective to do that.
So, is the author wanting people to read the article or watch the snow?

This might be a good article. Dunno. It's full of distracting snow.
OwnCloud 6 released with WebODF-powered OpenDocument collaborative editing.
Mujica's history has a lot of shades.

During the 60's, there was an uprising in violence in Uruguay. As a response, the right-wing governing party became more totalitarian and allied with the military.

Each side accuses the other of starting the violence, but the thing is a left wing guerrilla movement was started - the "Tupamaros", with Mujica as a founding member, based on the Cuban revolution ideals, and started taking military action, bombings, etc (some predate the founding of the "Tupamaros"), in which Mujica took part. The government responded with more violence, ending in the military coup of 1973 and subsequent dictatorship.

Mujica was imprisioned twice, he once staged a cinematic escape from prision, but he spent a decade in prision overall.

After the reestablishment of democracy, he joined the left wing party Frente Amplio (Broad Front), which ended up winning in 2005. He's now more subdued, but he doesn't deny his guerrilla past.
Yeah. Not really worth it to make meat 0.6 cents a pound cheaper.
My wishlist for a modern news organization
It isn't spying if you've granted them permission to watch
Spotify announces free streaming on Android and iPhone, but only in Shuffle mode
Oh, I guess that's how it works then? I feel like there should be some further explanation/success message saying what will happen now
AngelHack CEO Trashes SF's Homeless 'Degenerates'
The state capitol isn't really part of Austin, but we've got them totally surrounded.
Gave you a few mBTC from Coinkite :)
I didn't get sound and it ran really slowly in FF 25.
I am assuming the labels are used as a heuristic for traversing the graph. What kind of speed increases in graph traversal are available w/ labels vs w/o labels?
Idiot gets his hands on a copy of minecraft, we all know what happens next...
Skin breakdown/decubitus ulcers, fungal infections, fecal-oral auto-transmission, attraction of parasite-carrying organisms, etc.
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This seems like something they should have been able to foresee. I mean granted it is literally being told you didn't win a lotto for something other than extremely small odds not going in your favour, but they had everyone fill out forms giving over data.
What we need is another kind of mail box. A "AmazonBox", but takes deliveries from other companies as well. Big, refrigerated, with a public/private key.
I think the virtual machine analogy is a bit dicey because lxc+cgroups/Docker containers have to be much more aware of the host kernel api and devices.

edit: yes derefr, I agree. My point was also if there was a distribution or kernel specific Ruby or Ruby library bug, for example, then you might have to account for it in your code if you ran in containers (if you don't control the host on which your code is running), whereas you control the whole stack in the virtual machine.
I hope this is a good place to launch this idea:

Is it possible to make an android app which acts as a steam controller through usb/bluetooth? Here is an example (JSON-ish) config file:
http://gearnuke.com/steam-controller-configuration-file-alre...
>> Bullshit.

It's actually promoted like that on their website:

http://www.docker.io/learn_more/
Google Releases Its Find My iPhone-Style App In The Play Store
I saw this exact question on Quora recently (if there was a "happiness pill" would you take it).

It seemed that most answers mistakenly assumed that "Happiness" was something you can define for everyone, rather than something that individuals have to pursue for themselves.

Happiness is a catch-all term for various "good" feelings, such as joy, satisfaction, contentment, bliss, victory etc.
Although biotechnology is definitely a significant risk, there are some other things such as nanotechnology, flawed super-intelligences, and transhumanism-related issues that should rank very highly as well.

See http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html for a nice summary of potential existential risks to humanity.
I am excited about this to a very unnerving degree. Perhaps I should have been an accountant.
If we're talking about decisions of the type "should I do something to protect myself against X" or "should my government invest $$$ to protect us all against X" or "should we sacrifice Y to gain protection from X" - then in all these scenarios it makes perfect sense to compare heart attack with terrorist attack.

You can protect and save orders of magnitude more lives by focusing on the real threats and ignoring terrorists.
Will you be employable in the next 5 years?
We have three other types of brackets in standard ASCII that you can use for the same purpose within a headline. :P
also, the source is on github. https://github.com/jbaudanza/singleservingbitcoin
I'm very hopeful about the prospect for improvement of linux graphics drivers. It seems to have a been a chicken and egg sort of problem in past; I really hope contributions from valve will create some momentum, especially for the FOSS drivers. It seemed hopeless to me only a couple of years ago, but then it wasn't so long ago that you couldn't suspend your laptop without "blowing your balls off" as Con Kolivas remarked...

I'm really concerned, though, about commercial vendors aligning with the one distro/graphics stack (apparently Ubuntu in this case?), such that I have to choose between putting up with Unity's "Shopping lens" and a ghetto of bad or unimplemented 3d support for distros that don't adopt the same graphics stack as Ubuntu as the distros move away from X...
I highly doubt DO oversells RAM or HDD, though yeah overselling is so easy these days. You can oversell RAM and HDD even with KVM. RAM is the easiest with the virtio_balloon driver.
> Long-term antibiotic effectiveness may be a dead thing.

Or they may not. It's better to try to keep it alive while we are still unsure.
As someone who works closely with several web marketing folks, this hits close to home. Each time they open a Snowden file, things get weirder and weirder.
>worth the damage to our antibiotic stock
It isn't worth damaging our future by needlessly speeding up drug resistance either
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Visadoor lets you search through employment based green cards petitions and H1Bs. I make a couple of hundred dollars from adsense.
I've been using sway.fm chrome extension and it seems pretty decent: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/swayfm-unified-mus...
"Internal Server Error" on the /queue page.

That would actually be a pretty funny message to leave.