skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely awesome presentation and product.

The example doesn't seem to work right on Firefox. On Chrome, if I click "Character" in the table then it highlights the whole column and asks if I want to add the data in the column. On Firefox, clicking "Character" just highlights "Chatacter" and that is it.

Ubuntu 12.04

Firefox 25.0.1
Ask HN: Was Y2K ever really a threat?
I was wondering if y2k was baseless or real.
I haven't seen any outstanding reviews for the ouya. Can we hear about the system from someone that invested in the kickstarter? Super curious on what the expectation was and what the reality is.
OK I think I sort of understand what you are saying.

Such as, for example, why don't we have an easy to use program like Dropbox that is just built in to every operating system, or freely available and in common use? Rather than having a bunch of people rely on this commercial system just to transfer files or make them available on the internet.

I agree that we are reinventing things an amazing number of times. I think we have at least 5 times as many crappy ways to accomplish basic things as we need. And certainly more cohesion is called for.

On the other hand I think that people often don't appreciate how changes to fundamental approaches are the best way to solve problems because problems are often structural or caused by the way the issues are framed.

I agree that there is too much reinventing the wheel and fragmentation of effort. I don't believe that Node.js is a good example of that. Although 54000 modules is too many and there is quite a lot of redundancy and crap in there. But having a very easy way to publish, consume and search for modules as well as instantly handle dependencies is a step forward.
I honestly don't know how to respond to this. Here are some of my thoughts.

> I said this law is right.

Here are your words: "Collusion is [...] not bad unless it's illegal, and what we've decided in the US is [...]". Looking at this, and the rest of the comment, I can see that:

1. You can imagine US collusion law being in a state other than what it is ("what we've decided in the US is [...]").

2. The only argument you present is that the conduct described is illegal.

3. You specifically acknowledge that in some sense, the fact that the conduct described is illegal is a coincidence (in modal logic, it is not a necessary truth); it's how the US decided to handle the law.

As the existence of the law is the only argument you presented for the badness of the conduct, I conclude that you are arguing that the conduct is bad because the law prohibits it.

The alternative, that you are asserting with no justification that the conduct is bad, and also remarking, apropos of nothing, that the law prohibits it, violates Grice's maxim of relevance. It also violates the structure of what you said, which was a quite clear statement that if the law does not prohibit collusion, that collusion cannot be bad.

I will happily license you to restrict my comment to the domain of collusion; I'm willing to believe that you did not intend your audience to infer "assassination is not bad unless it's illegal" from "collusion is not bad unless it's illegal". But we are discussing collusion, and everything I said applies there. The example I picked, antitrust law, is specifically related to it, and is even specifically the main topic of the post. So: if the US repealed all its antitrust laws, can I assume you would agree that any collusion formerly prohibited by them was now unobjectionable? If not, would you like to revise your comment?

Finally:

> Your disagreement on semantics is just plain wrong.

Compare to my comment, "I have to agree with the bare semantics here".

> If the law they broke is a "conspiracy" law, then the fundamental difference between what these companies did and what a union does is the "secret" part of a conspiracy.

There is no blanket "conspiracy" law in the US; it would violate the freedom of assembly. For conspiracy to be criminal conduct, the object of the conspiracy needs to be illegal. Therefore, the fundamental difference, as I pointed out before, is not that the companies acted secretly and unions act in the open. If the companies acted in the open, that would still be illegal. The question you're dismissing is, why?
I too wish to make the same personal experiment. As I seem to be almost exclusively solar powered, I've resolved to spend my next winter as a summer, or at least as close to the equator as possible. :)
"The heatmap shows the places people like, based on the number of panoramio photos at each place in the world."
Cache-Oblivious Search Trees
Panoramio, according to the top-row ‘?’.
Yes, the interpreter says that and I found it strange. I don't speak Korean so I don't know if that's what the narrator said or meant (you can hear her in the background). How do you know this is a hoax and not real propaganda out of North Korea?

Edit: You're correct. It was a hoax.
Only people who don't understand that wages come from the value a person produces. Lawyers, doctors, professional athletes, also get high wages and are entitled to them. If you want to adjust income inequality you have to do it across the board, through taxation, not by shaming individual industries.

We get paid so much because we produce that much value. But if these allegations are true, we aren't getting paid enough.
Yes - but it looks like a lower base. The initial # is very closer to Chicago. Almost like NYers were too cool for it for a while, but not now?
I would also recommend watching the (somewhat less official) footage from Vice's trip to North Korea - they film what is shown to average tourists that are allowed to visit, and it's easy to tell how much of it is staged.

http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-n...
Thanks for flagging. We'll get on this to figure out what's going on when running on ubuntu
How Information Flows During Emergencies
Agree demo is awesome. But I don't think scraping for any web page is that simple. Lots of exceptional cases.
Back in 2007, one of the teams at Yahoo Research Berkeley (YRB) built an awesome tool on top of Flickr that showed on a map the things that were photographed somewhat, but not a ton.

For instance, it wouldn't surface pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge, but it did show pictures of the Yoda statue in the Presidio (how I learned of it's existence). There was even day mode and night mode to see what was interesting, but not well known, at different times.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, it never found its way to actual release, but it taught me a ton about where to look in data for the cool bits of info.
It's shocking to see something so heavily polished that's accessed by so few people. Well done!

Maybe not the best place to ask, but are you guys hiring summer interns?
Doesn't work on DDR3 ram. Cold boot attacks are extinct. There's also stuff like this you can combine with encrypted swap http://www.onarlioglu.com/privexec/
I need to raise money for a few different reasons.

Right now, though I have an MVP-plus, a lot of the work that's being done is being done manually (e.g, analysis, report creation/generation, etc.). If I want to scale and get beyond a handful of beta-customers, I need to automate those processes. I've analyzed what it would take, and it's something that's out of my range to boot-strap. If I don't automate, or even partially automate, I'm going to be stuck with a handful of customers. With automation, I can add dozens, if not hundreds of customers.

Secondly, not only are some of my customers asking for a whole new incremental feature set, but I see the market ripe for the picking. In order to develop these new features, it'll require a new wave of development (for mobile) that I also can't self-fund.

Outside money would help in both of these, allowing me to move beyond perpetually having a few customers to growing this venture into a growing business.
A model for achieving more by adjusting your beliefs
That rule only applies to normal distribution. So you would have made an assumption.
I'm curious how this would look if it were somehow "divided by" population density. It wouldn't make sense for somewhere in the middle of the ocean but it might highlight more remote, scenic places.
edit: For example I noticed that southern Utah is significantly brighter than you would expect from population density.
>Good luck ever finding a cup measure, or a measuring teaspoon in a professional kitchen though...

In which case, it matters little if you use metric or not...
Sample bias. It's hardly surprising that people who have to call tech support aren't exactly tech maestros, but that's not necessarily representative of the general population.
The Purchasing Power of Money, the “Regression Theorem,” and Bitcoin
I love these tools, can't wait until my next chance to build another one. I've seen several of these at various startups that have been built internally with similar features (although not with this much polish!) I built the first version of one at StreetEasy to handle a large volume of support queries - mostly driven by the fact that it was us developers answering all the support queries at that point. As pointed out in this post much of the benefit comes from tightly tying in with internal tools - billing, logging, logins, site visits etc.
The core purpose of unions is to create collective bargaining power, though in many cases, unions have out-lived their usefulness, and are nothing but bureaucratic inertia. I doubt that you would be complaining about the union if, for example, it was improving your working conditions.
I still don't see how Firefox bloating proves your point about Windows.
Programming for Kids (ebook)
That's the glass-half-empty look at it. I look at it the opposite: it's rather easy to write a web application in any language you want. Unlike the native platforms (especially on mobile). In fact, the web community puts a lot of effort into making it easy for you to use an altjs language.
Same word. Different places? Different meanings
MuslimCoin, the virtual crypto currency of muslims
That's a great explanation, in theory and in practice. :)

I find it interesting that this would justify a union that represented 1000's of workers, working in just 1 or 2 companies.

But that it would not justify a kind of hypothetical 'union of CEO's' of 100's of workers, working in 100's of companies.

Which makes sense, of course.
I think this is worrying more about things like database passwords and API keys used by your application.
How does this compare with Mozenda?
This is my third time trying to get an answer to this question: does your crawler automatically respect robots.txt?
Another distribution said goodbye to ARMv5 devices
At the moment, we rely on users to be responsible. We spell it out in the terms and FAQ. We've been in private beta, keeping usage very limited until today. We fully understand the seriousness of the issue as we scale. We're committed to becoming a responsible bot that respects robots.txt
While the footage is great, I hoped the documentary would be a bit deeper. It's still the same thing: "Look at poor North Koreans".

The most informative video I've ever seen about NK is this lecture: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/292562-1

It's really worth watching it if you're interested in why and how NK came to be the way it is.
File storage for your website using python and dropbox
You see all that in a 32x32 pixel image?
Sometimes such problems could be solved by reverse engineering and binary patching such software.
One thing that you're also missing here is that (IIRC) employees of one of the colluding companies that applied for a job at another colluding company would be 'reported' and some may have been fired for shopping around for a job elsewhere.

(E.g.) A Google employee sends his/her resume to Apple, then Apple tells Google that said employee is looking for work elsewhere.
Miniscule Line-Follower Robot
No, personally identifiable information isn't public information. What's exposed here is still personal information that you decided to make public, but presumably with the users consent.
I followed you back on Twitter, just have had a busy day of meetings today. Will hopefully get a message to you soon.
Ted Chiang's Predictor would be quite the expansion pack for Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game.
Python library to convert data into tangible 3D models
The United States did not invent that idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
Or use an Incognito window.
Yes, you're right... we can't handle angular quite yet. We're working on this.
I had hoped this would be about the revolution occurring in statistics/econometrics where confidence intervals based on strong parametric assumptions (e.g. the confidence intervals you would obtain using the standard deviation) are being replaced by confidence intervals obtained using the bootstrap (and other non-parametric methods) that don't rely on such strong assumptions.

But no, it is just advocating using Mean absolute distance instead of the standard deviation. Which I guess is to be expected from someone whose work focuses mostly on long-tailed distributions.

Still, I think that non-parametric methods are much more valuable as a solution to dealing with non-normal data than what Taleb is proposing.
According to Wikipedia, "[OpenBSD] was forked from NetBSD by project leader Theo de Raadt in late 1995."
At least on my ride home some of the lights default to remaining green along the major street unless a car trips the sensor on the intersecting street. Unless a car comes along it will never change.
I am intrigued about situations in which you would have someone's Snapchat username, but so little of an idea of their name/network that you couldn't find them on Facebook with graph search.
> but any such systems is fundamentally broken

Um, isn't this the EXACT point of the article you are so happily criticizing? That filesystems don't do this, and they should?
Wow. 12mbps is way faster than mine. I guess Australia really is behind.
I can still get a ticket from an officer.
So sorry for missing this earlier. See our response in comments below: "At the moment, we rely on users to be responsible. We spell it out in the terms and FAQ. We've been in private beta, keeping usage very limited until today. We fully understand the seriousness of the issue as we scale. We're committed to becoming a responsible bot that respects robots.txt"
if I make it to Argentina next winter consider yourself invited
Fighting a McDonalds in Queens for the right to sit. And sit. And sit
Actually it's mostly that the people they control are starving (and now, addicted to meth as well).

The narrative that the North Koreans are fanatical followers of the regime is basically Americanized fiction. The reality is that they're regular people who fear for their lives.

The problem with a lot of western commentators on regimes they think should just overthrow the government, is they think they'd do that, but haven't had to. It's one thing to say it, it's another thing to run unarmed into machine gun fire hoping to suicide bomb a barracks so others will have a chance to arm themselves.
It also means this: http://hacks.mit.edu/misc/faq.html
That was my first reaction too.

But zooming all the way in (to Manhattan, for example), it's clear that the heat map corresponds to actual scenic tourist spots, it goes all the way down to street level, pretty amazing.

And since these are "panoramio" photos, not selfies snapped for Facebook, it would seem to be a pretty accurate reflection of tourist destinations, as opposed to population.
Southern Utah is Arches and Moab etc.
Have You Met Fallacy Man? Here’s How to Defeat Him.
If the person reading this is enraged that the hyper-rich aren't empowered to fuck programmers down to minimum-wage serfs, then they're part of the problem.
This is not accurate. I was able to see the picture, name, and a partially censored email address for several contacts. I have no facebook account and I am certain none of those contacts have ever accessed the internet from this IP.
They might have the first clue what it is the company does for a start.
Well it's not like this is a personal tech revolution. These devices are going to financed and shared out amongst whole communities.
As you probably know, there are already a thousand companies that specialize in this type of projection [1], mostly for advertising, including most of the interactive ideas you mention; most use high-power projectors, some LED arrays [2]. What advantages would a laser projector have over these (since cost looks higher, and image quality lower)?

That means a lot of people have already seen something like this, so the novelty value of the technology is not enough to guarantee a successful campaign. In my opinion you need a compelling theme and story to engage people and add cultural value to the project. Some quick ideas:

- partner with local artists (and game developers?) for the city tours

- find a cause you care for and propose the project as a marketing tool

- create novel ways of interacting with it beyond arcade controls and ipads

- all of these at once?

In short, something that has meaning and ties with local culture, and that people look forward to participate in or support, beyond the tech.

Or just reach for the geeks with "the largest projection in history" if you can pull that off :)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3d+mapping

[2] http://www.demotix.com/news/1946115/classic-video-games-play...
This is a very interesting read and the parallels here are indeed fascinating. I think one potential difference this time is the emergence of digital, decentralized currencies. If that trend continues, it will be more difficult for bankers to exert the same type of control they did in the gilded age without control over all of the capital.
Lots of people do - some backup providers charge tiered amounts or 'unlimited' data, and the convenience of getting your OS back exactly the way it was is absolutely worth using an extra 10-20GB of storage.
I'd rather have equitable access to everyone. Why should my traffic to use Wikipedia be supplied by taxing the people reading Fox News?
Anyone that liked this should definitely check this one as well by the same author:
http://infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm
In London 'Guardians' live in empty office buildings
Typescript was worth the sacrifice for me and those I work with. The benefits easily outweigh those of coffee script. It is painful though at first.
> oh why, do we still not have a file-type metadata field?

Because it's a bad idea. Apple tried it and it didn't work.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creator_code and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_code
Podcasts about compiler development
Well it's the musician who called it a creative desert.

He'll learn soon enough that it's the desert where 90% of America's culture comes from. It's hard to understand without living there.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:58d690227d4c88ba52673db6c5b08201150266c2&dn=frontline-northkorea.mp4&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce
Y'all make a cute couple. Please invite me to the wedding!
> Then how is it that it's legal for workers to form unions and strike? Isn't that just as much "collusion and conspiracy" from the other side?

Unions are a good thing for civilization, so much so that forming a union the very first purpose that is stated in the list of reasons for writing the Constitution.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union...
So you get a pass on doing assholy things and don't deserve to be called an asshole if you do assholy things because it's natural human behavior?
I'm also reminded of this Slate article where they reported on the US as if they were reporting on a foreign country as an exercise in language:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/09/30/potential_g...
Why error tracking is good for your companies bottom line
I run Firefox 24 (TenFourFox) on a 1 GHz G4 PowerBook with 1.25 GB RAM. It's pretty OK. Runs Gmail, Google Docs, most non-video sites fine (MacTubes to the rescue there).

It's definitely usable.
This is not very well thought out, but I find it interesting that as a use case specification for a currency that forbids loaning at interest and speculation.
The average population density of western europe is much higher than the average population density of even the eastern USA.

Coupled with the fact that there is a lot more 'older' stuff there, whether castles, old battlefields, churches, you name it, it's not surprising there are a lot more tourist photos being taken. The average European city is a lot more photogenic than the average American or Asian city (clearly there are exceptions, given NY is #1).

Tourism is not necessarily a function of what is the best thing to do, but what is the best thing to do, given a set budget, timeframe and comfort level. On those scores, tourism in western europe wins.
In this context, is the POS device the cash register or the CC reader used by the customer? I was assuming it was the reader device they were referring to, but it seems like those would run software from the manufacturer, not Target.

I noticed that some Target stores have the Verifone MX925 [1] which seem to have been installed in the past year.

[1] http://www.verifone.com/products/hardware/multimedia/mx-925/
More software is slowly making it's way onto it. I only own a Wii and the Ouya and my friends have actually enjoyed some of the multiplayer games (Bomb Squad and Tower Fall). It's getting used several times a month when they come over. They are simple but fun games, kind of retro, not overly complicated like games of now.
Teaching Librarians Programming
Love that. I am still hoping for a Ruby Implementation in Rust once Rust hit 1.0
I was one of the first 100 backers of the Kickstarter. I'm an indie game developer myself, though I wasn't backing it to develop for the system. My experience has been that it has been mismanaged from early on, and the product is sub-standard at best. The software is steadily getting better, but it is still lacking many areas. The highly touted controller is just a mess, and there's no software that's going to fix that. We hooked it up at our office in the break room, and needless to say, it almost never gets touched.
You should be aware that HN and other online comment forums often have 'negative' posts. Comments that attempt to show up the author of a linked article are a kind of intellectual one-upmanship that is common on Reddit/HN/etc.

I haven't read Nassim Taleb's work either, but comment forums like HN are a poor place to get an idea of the quality of someone's work unless they have clear and substantial criticisms.

You're usually better off getting your reviews elsewhere.
Have you talked to The Grugq about this?
Sounds like a beefed up version of PORTAL:
https://github.com/grugq/portal
Until they dumped North Korea's database on pastebin.com and there's a service out that helps North Koreans check if their details were compromised. It's not hacked.
Within rights, perhaps... helpful? no. Even prosecution and lawsuits, while necessary doesn't actually solve the problem and that's the point I'm trying to make.

Being upset at individuals, suing and prosecuting, and all things of this sort miss the core of the issue and if you spend all your time concentrating on the superficial causes you'll never fix the actual problem.