skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also didn't invent the photovoltaic cell (that was 19th century tech, Bell labs was founded in 1925), nor wifi (that was NCR, which was acquired by AT&T after they did wavelan, not to mention ignoring significant work by other parties like CSIRO), and the theory behind CDMA also predates Bell Labs work on it.

They were certainly a giant, even the giant, but the GP is giving them credit for other people's work. If the argument is "invention counts, refinement doesn't" in an attempt to exclude google, well, Bell loses out a lot as well.
As the number of conferences and speakers grows, are you concerned that the Law of Large Numbers will exact its toll and make the sample of speakers more typical of the population as a whole? Inviting the flashiest of SF and NYC to speak is quite a builtin selection bias, but there seems to be no apparent strategy for preserving the distinctiveness of speakers as TEDx scales.
i.e. competition changes markets.
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This is pretty neat, also I was incredibly surprised when going through the code to see in how little number of lines he achieved that!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernacular_architecture
Interesting, now I wonder if a malicious physical virus could form a digital-physical symbiosis with an artificial intelligence and be able to evolve itself through DNA synthesis with the said method and eventually wipe humans and human controlled computers out of the game.
"I submit that Astrophysics run on the model of American Idol is a recipe for civilizational disaster."

Well, OK then, there exists one solution in the problem space the author doesn't like. How bout listing one that might actually work? Go look at astrobites and figure out a way to turn that into AV speeches.

Some rich dude should host a con of astrobites level presentations.
I'd go further than "middlebrow megachurch infotainment". I'd say, "high-IQ house-slaves".

I'm sure this isn't the intention of TED, but the purpose of this upper-middle-class boosterism seems to be deeply conservative in nature. It re-emerges every time there's enough wealth to let the 4.9% (as opposed to the 95% doomed to stagnation and the 0.1% taking everything) gain a little make-believe ground (that's chewed up by rising house prices, increasing income insecurity especially late in one's career, and education costs). "You should be proud; you get to clean the upstairs bathroom instead of working in the fields."

It's not TED's fault. The format of an 18-minute talk is a good one for a large number of purposes. The problem is that any time rich people and smart people get together, the smart people are always very willing (as a group; there are exceptions) to become the proud little house slaves just to enjoy that fleeting sense of having arrived due to the phony proximity to the true owners of this world who are running it into the ground. So most of them soften up and start spouting "status-quo-plus-plus" as soon as a few people in the true upper class start tossing them small favors. You see a lot of this in the "tech" world, especially in the VC-funded incarnation of the Valley. It's sad. We were supposed to be different.

Thanks to PG's rankban (I say things he dislikes, so my comments get a personal penalty in placement) this comment will probably be in the middle-bottom (if not absolute bottom) of the page no matter how much you upvote it.

Anyway, there it is.
They're not going to disappear, that's for sure, my point was my level of engagement on Facebook is not what it used to be, the way I use it has changed.
"1. don't use windows"...I realize how unpopular it is to question the groupthink on this site but this strikes me as simplistic. The public takedowns related to tor have been more about firefox than windows. But I get that Linux fans like to think that this is their sole bailiwick.

If you are using tor and you are using a web browser as your primary means of communication AND YOU REQUIRE SAFTEY you have already made a serious mistake.

Using a JSON or XML based API would be much safer since you aren't having to trust any level of javascript, css, or html...fetching executable code over the internet from a third party is the ROOT of the problem.

It all comes down to what you are trying to do...why are you using tor? who is your adversary?

Just using tails or whonix and being super paranoid...because security...is kind of a shit lifestyle decision. It can also lead to a false sense of security.
It strikes me that a TED talk about TED talks being 'all talk' isn't incredibly substantive either. It's like the random comment or tweet referencing something only because the author says it isn't worth your time.

I do think his assessment of "placebo technoradicalism, toying with risk so as to re-affirm the comfortable" was accurate and insightful, but only at TED's worst. To talk about how all this is so "harmful," etc., seems like an insight into the speaker's own self importance and 'thought leadership.' That being said, it comes with the territory for any TED talk. Really, what's the harm, is kind of my thinking.
Centralized systems are almost asking to be spying on, laws or not. Even if the NSA does not have the right to do what it did, I'm sure they'd end up doing by using corruption, and there are many ways to do it. Worse, it would open the door to a lot of other shady practices, and I'm sure criminal would make a buck out of it.

The fact that a huge quantity of information is put in one place increases the risk it will peeked into by a lot.

Decentralized systems are a little more difficult to maintain and develop, but are so much cheaper and eliminate the risk of mass surveillance. There are still security risks depending on designs, but honestly I think decentralized has a lot of future, the advantages and features it brings counter balances the disadvantages by a lot.

I wish bittorrent inc would produce more technologies and some competitor would really be cool.
In fact, in this case they tried not to "piss off" both at the same time and in fact concentrated on the university, not the individual scientist. The university just tried to communicate its pressure to it scientists, but it's a long and hard road to get them to care (some then already do!).
TED sometimes seems to me like a collection of sales pitches for books that take four to ten scientific papers about a topic and go on and on ... and on about it. I liked this kind of book but now I give up on them after one or two chapters and read about the main ideas on Wikipedia.

But ... there is a lot of good stuff on TED too like Bruce Schneier's talks.
Nobody cares. If TED want to rent out the brand name, they get to keep both pieces of the resulting reputation.
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They've been sending takedown notices for the preprint versions too.
Computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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When you're looking at a 12+ hour train ride with two changes and 200€ vs a 1.5hr flight for 30€, as seem so often to be the options. To someone who hates visiting airports more high speed trains can't get here quickly enough.
Except that a nasty ramification is itself evidence in favor of a broad critique of the business model. And what's wrong with socialists?
I think you have accurately summarized the existing academic world in one paragraph. If only 10% of grads get a professorship, someone much higher paid will be taking credit for most of your work, etc.

They made a policy decision to work in the existing structure, not try something new. They seem fairly honest and serious about it. May not agree with their plan, but thats a different issue.
The Bell Labs Song [1] neatly lists all the innovations -- and the list goes on and on, ranging from physics and cosmology, through low-level electronics and programming, to systems and organization design and applied math concepts.

Oh, and four Nobel Prizes.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFfdnFOiXUU
Search and maps weren't revolutionary? Easy to miss, I guess - after all, who ever uses those niche items?
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I am not a mathematician, but I think the law of large numbers is not applied like that.
There are too many third party requests/tracking scripts (Google Adsense, Analytics, webfonts; icon font from bootstrapcdn.com; Twitter avatars) in this blog.

The blog itself is hosted in Wordpress.com. I don't if this is good or bad for visitors' privacy, but it feels bad.

(I know this kind of comment — X advocates Y but does Z, where Z != Y — is often annoying and shortsighted. That said, hypocrisy, even when it's unintended, reduces your authoritativeness.)
Yes, the average quality will probably fall, but the total amount of "good" talks will vastly increase. As with any popular content platform. A problem yet to be solved is how to highlight the better talks, because the current approach of featuring a talk a day on TED.com doesn't scale.

By the way, TED never expected TEDx to grow this big, so there is little strategy in what's been happening so far. There are I think 6 or 7 TED staff responsible for the whole TEDx program, with its 3000+ events.
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They should get Gene Ray, creator of Time Cube on TEDx next!
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It depends entirely on the content; if there's no meaningful content, the entire point is, as you've pointed out, a waste.

Worse, if TED inspires people to get involved with pseudoscience causes, then it's actively harmful to it's own purpose.

The stark reality is that you cannot possibly continue to generate new amazing videos about the latest breakthroughs year after year, conference after conference. There just isn't enough content.

There just aren't enough breakthroughs, aren't enough new amazing things. Sooner or later you'll run out ...and then you turn into google-X; tech startups pitching their ideas, and the odd art/performance piece thrown in.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/verizon-rigmaiden-a...
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> As if millions of users are suddenly going to forget about cat, head, tail, more, less, grep...

$ grep shiz /var/log/messages
grep: /var/log/messages: No such file or directory

WTF?

$ ls /var/log
README dnf.log wtmp Xorg.log.0 ...
$ head /var/log/README
You are looking for the traditional text log files in /var/log, and
they are gone?

Here's an explanation on what's going on:

Crisis averted!
Totally agree! Support diversity and a not for profit that champions user privacy and an open web.
A TED talk that complains about TED talks and even uses the tidy acronym TED within the talk? Thou hypocrite! First cast out the beam from thine own eye; and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote from thy brother's eye.
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It's not a direct replacement. Journald does stuff that syslog can't do, but it doesn't reimplement everything. Instead, you can pipe to syslog if you want syslog features.

- Journald logs the whole boot process

- Journald can make sure that an item really came from some process. It also tries to seal the journal so that it can't be tempered with.

- It's built into the other systemd tools. For example, when you notice a daemon doesn't start through systemctl, it'll show you the error messages in systemctl status.
Is this April's fools day?
Good thing this is illegal in Germany, and Amazon would have to reimburse their customers (those who are so bold to ask for reimbursement, of course.. :D). On the other hand, the difficult legislation that prohibits such agreements is probably part of the reason why many such services are still not available in Germany..
I'd be okay with just having a colony there. In the long term, the sun will go boom and we're not going to want to be there when that happens. Of course that's super-mega-long-term, but the only way we'll ever be able to move from Earth is if we start taking small steps in developing what we'll need for that. Creating a colony on one of our closer neighbors seems like a pretty good next step to me. Why not start sooner rather than later? I agree it would be great to fix the problems we have on this planet first, but even with adequate allocation of resources, it might take less time to put humans on Mars than it will to eradicate poverty, end war, and reduce population growth.
3D printing? Drones - flying and driving? Robotics? CERN? Always on, location-aware connectivity? Quantum Computing? Automatic speech and text translation? Amazon-scale logistics calculations? Recommendation engines?

How are we not in a goldener age of discovery now?
It's a bit disingenuous to compare prices from the 90s to today's without accounting for inflation.
> It's a shock because people are used to uploading their papers in final published form

How common is this? Aren't people used to reading what they're agreeing to before they sign a contract? Because:

> but I don't think it's a crazy thing for Elsevier to do

I don't think that either. Elsevier _clearly_ defines the terms ("accepted author's manuscript", "final published version", etc.) in their contract and clearly states what you're allowed to do with each one. For example, click on the "Author posting" tab on this link:

http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/author-rights-and-re...

I'm not a fan of the big publishers, I'd be very happy if all journals became open access overnight, but the original article is on a witch-hunt on Elsevier and they didn't even fully check the facts first.
In the northeast US, too. If I wanted to go from Manhattan to Boston this afternoon: $200 by plane, $75-100 by train, $15 by Boltbus. All take about 4 hours. Plane is going to cost more because it's a bit of a haul to get to JFK or Newark airports -- about $8 + 1 hour by public transportation, or about $50 + 30 min by taxi. Planning out a week or two, though, airfare can be as little as $75. Train stays the same price.
There is a similar ticket price disparity here in the UK too. You can travel from Manchester to London and back for less than £30 on the coach but it will cost over £100 for a similar journey by train. The downside is the time it takes; nearly 5 hours each way on the coach versus just over 2 on the train.

Personally I never consider using the coach as I own a car and would always perceive it to take longer than it would for me to drive, although it would cost a lot less. Whilst I would travel by train over taking the car as I'm not that keen on driving and somewhat perversely actually enjoy it. However, my main reason for not travelling by coach is that they always make me feel sick.
"Everything has already been invented."
Less than 1500 people have spoken at TED over the last 28 years, so I think it's a bit early to say we've ran out of people with stuff to say. Plus, TEDx events give stage to topics of local importance, too.
The way several EU countries illegally blocked Evo Morale's plane after a phone call from Washington shows you how much Europe is under american dominion nowadays.
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+1 thanks for that link. I just joined. thanks!
Although Amtrak (esp on the East Coast) could not be construed as high speed, I suspect they are having a problem with buses too. Previously, I used Amtrak without fail to get from NJ to DC and back. Now, I take BoltBus or MegaBus unless they are fully booked. The bus takes 1-2 hours longer but usually costs about 1/5 to 1/6 the cost of Amtrak. Plus, they both have fantastic customer service whereas Amtrak seems to not care at all about their customers. (Admittedly, I've had some bad experiences on Amtrak, but I don't think they are particularly unusual.)
Do you consider these buildings to be "the best in the world"?
This is an interesting, albeit somewhat scary, application of Automaton Theory.

Scientists shouldn't be rushing with this kind of thing (research for sake of research), and we, as humanity, should carefully consider the implication of this kind of things.

Btw, this reminds me of the old game called Core Wars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War).
"I was hoping it would end up being something cooler."

It reminded me of this classic GHC error: https://twitter.com/bos31337/status/116372971509121025

Not quite the same, but still "outright program destruction" of a sort.
> On Monday, eight major tech firms, many of them competitors, united to demand an overhaul of government transparency and surveillance laws.

Not long ago they united under the PRISM project to spy on their users. What a quick change of heart.

And again, there's already a similar call for reform started by Mozilla months ago (in June), which none of the PRISM companies supported. They were busy releasing copycat reports denying everything back then.

https://stopwatching.us/
Use macchanger in init startup scripts to hand out something random, use a live o/s or don't keep any preferred wireless AP history
I don't think the fragmentation claim stands up to scrutiny.

It's so far been adopted by redhat, suse, arch, coreos and with some consideration by debian. The only big name not thinking about it is Ubuntu.

I don't think that many of the journald drivers could have been solved by better syslogd configuration, for example journald cryptographically signs each log entry. Even if you get root on my box, you can't edit an entry without me knowing. That's not possible in any meaningful way with syslog.

I don't share the view of a hack, the speed improvements of introducing journald have been tremendous and usability is mostly better.

For example, the number 1 thing done with syslog output is probably either grep it, so journald improves on this:

journalctl _COMM=sshd --since yesterday --until "08:30"
OR
journalctl /usr/sbin/sshd --since yesterday --until "08:30"

Or tail it

journalctl -F

The places i don't like the user interface are around starting and stopping services. However the old interfaces work fine for now.
Very little railroading in Europe have anything to do with markets and competition. Most rail companies are either state monopolies, or state-endorsed almost-monopolies. Replacing a cheap option by an expensive and just slightly better option is very typical monopolist behaviour, and that's what this article is about.
The complete lack of basic economic understanding displayed by the posters in this thread is astonishing for a site like HN that is largely devoted to technology entrepreneurship.
It looks like author of this article is doing some shady shit. Using TOR and moving so much in different locations O_o Seems like his very paranoid. I think he forgot about "Faraday cage".
From my reading of it (and my use of Kafka in the past, as an input to Storm), Kafka is a message queuing system, where Kinesis is a message processing system. That is, Kafka is more similar to SQS or RabbitMQ and Kinesis is more similar to Storm or S4.

Of course, I haven't used kinesis and have only glanced at the docs, so I could be wrong - it could very well be that Kinesis is the glue between data input and data processor rather than the data processor itself, in which case, yeah, it looks a lot like Kafka.
Yeah, that's really good advice for a certain kind of people. Let's call them "marketers" for short. A scientist or engineer won't do a better job by remembering to "ASK", they're facing a different kind of problem that can't be solved by convincing a powerful person to solve it for you. But a marketer can score some major wins, like freeloading some worthless piece of junk on the public space program and then never shutting up about their "accomplishment".
This is sad. I wonder if the high speed trains need to be this expensive (through energy use etc). Also, if the lower speed ones are being shut merely to move people onto the higher speed lines.

Certainly in the UK, with high speed one, they introduced an extra delay into the old line to make it seem less competetive.

I'm guessing that nearly double the price for a 20%-25% decrease in journey time is more than a sane person would want to pay.
Holy shit, look at this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AQTRoWPB3n4/Tbn5O99q6lI/AAAAAAAARG...

Though it wasn't mentioned in the movie, Brad Bird described Edna as "half-German and half-Japanese". The walls of this room resemble Japanese rice-paper walls -- but the divisions are arranged as in a Piet Mondrian painting. Mondrian was Dutch, not German, but there's still a sense of Asian and European art styles mixed here. I never noticed that before.

Fuck this movie is so good.
Probably got his knowledge from watching a TED talk on the subject...
This is very much like the first century of clothing probably was. After technological innovation in the field ceases, you'll be able to use old stuff.

You can use a 50 year old wired POTS phone no problem. The sound quality is superior to modern wired phones, and those are superior to any cell or voip tech.
If you require employers to pay an employee more than his work earns the company, that employer will go out of business or move operations or hire fewer employees.
Thank you for making this talk.
Nothing as popular as TED could be any good.
>> "Paris-Amsterdam over the same route (the blue line) would now cost 66 euro"

The 'now' indicates he is probably accounting for inflation.
Note that the second point is quite important -- it provides a rolling hash of the journal contents that you can send to another machine, so that in the event of a break-in, you can detect any tampering with the syslogs. As I recall, this was inspired by the break-in to the kernel.org servers, where the attacker tampered with the log files. That would be impossible with journald.
Although, often in perverse ways; if you are running the premium (high speed) service and the slower one, why not push everyone onto the premium service.

Well, it might be really expensive for most consumers, perhaps they should be protected from this sort of thing - since the market inherently has no idea of morals or what is best for people, maybe we should decide ourselves.
In what way is the scenario the responsibility of the hiring company? You're arguing that the company should impoverish itself to save the worker from poverty. There is no magic bag of infinite money at the company.
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I only see low res shadow maps with an awful filter. Joke aside, I find it always fascinating what detail or references are put in movies which nobody notices.
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For clarification, I meant at the beginning of US involvement.
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I had a similar idea a little while ago that takes advantage of using the HTML5 Webworker API to run a Javascript Bitcoin mining script to create a Bitcoin bot-net of sorts. It is interesting though, at least this has a button and seems to run differently.

Of course I wouldn't advocate doing such a thing beyond proof-of-concept or you could find yourself in trouble if found out.