skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"> What if they just ran away on their own?"

Happens less often than you'd hope. Usually such victims require support from others.

"> Anyway the point is there are plenty of situations where you'd want to hide your location but might erroneously think a photo from your window doesn't reveal too much info."

I'm sure there might be some fringe examples, but "plenty"? Nobody has yet suggested even one plausible example so far. And even the examples in the article were from people who didn't care about revealing their location to begin with (eg in the first example, the subject announced he was in Miami as well as taking that picture).

But I'm sure there are some examples of people stupid enough to share a picture of their location and not realise it might reveal their location to other people; I'm rarely surprised by the stupidity of the worst case scenarios. But I also doubt those sorts of people who lack even that level intelligence would be the kind to people who read articles like these. So whichever way I look at it, I can't see anyone's life saved (metaphorically nor literally) by the research conducted by this author (as interesting as it might be to many of us).
His argument is self-defeating. Ultimately, it amounts to: "There is no such thing as truth." But that is a statement about the truth.

The law of noncontradiction is one of several axioms that are presupposed by any proposition. Such axioms can't be "proven," because any proof would presume their correctness, but it is proper to accept them.
Dual Photography has always been the optical "trick" that's blown me away. Here's the demo video from Siggraph in 2005:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5_tpq5ejFQ

Skip ahead to 4:19 for a succinct demo.
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I don't see that every violation of the principle of noncontradiction trivially leaves definitions meaningless. Suggesting that a principle shouldn't be taken to hold in general doesn't mean that you have to violate the principle at every opportunity, just that there is some place it is (in whatever sense) correct to violate the principle. Of course, under traditional logics, accepting a contradiction leaves everything provable - but we're dealing with nontraditional logics that may have other ways of dealing with that.
+1 for sending me down a Mr. Show youtube hole.
> That make the world a worse place.

Maybe not your opinion, but giving campaign contributions to bigoted causes would be considered making the world a worse place to many. All of this is morally relative. Maybe 15 years ago he would have just been seen as someone with a politically conservative slant, but we're moving closer and closer to a society that sees him as someone with bigoted views. While I agree that there are unfortunately much more evil CEOs out there than Eich, it's silly to say "oh, well, there are worse guys out there, so let's let the moderately-morally-reprehensible ones go."
If I'm to understand the author, he doesn't want to live in the US because there's no "nice short walk" option at the Grand Canyon and because Brenden Eich quit his job?

If that's all it takes, he's not going to last long in Britain or in whatever country he lands next.
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I see one of these pop up every so often and always get disappointed when there is no one in my area. I wonder if this sort of thing might work better if it connected you with the N closest users? Another option would be to create spatial clusters using something like k-means clustering[1].

[1] http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/cluster/plot_km...
Why do you find euthanasia horrible? It's much more horrible to force someone to endure sever pain against their will.
I have a hard time qualifying most of these as "tricks," which would imply some hidden or barely-utilized feature.

Most of these are quite explicitly described in the documentation (img-responsive, nested columns, responsive grids, container-fluid are all very upfront in the documentation).

And on a UX note, I cannot see any advantage to the animated, slightly expanding prettyprint code boxes. I don't think this is a valuable piece of UI.
More to the point, the FCC will not approve open source radio drivers. Your baseband will either be closed and under the control of your carrier and various government spies or it will be illegal in the USA.

The official reason is that open source radio firmware would be too easy to alter to violate FCC regulations on power, frequency band, and such. It's the same reason that non-proprietary antenna connectors are mostly prohibited.
Who put Kurzweil in charge of Google Docs?
paying [the site in question] for scraping I mean
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Is putting 2XC on default perhaps a strategic move in response to the rise of tumblr?

Tumblr has a pretty large number of very-active posters across a broad range of feminism/lgbt/racism/etc blogs. Basically if you can come up with something that can be discriminated against, there is probably an active tumblr blog about it.

Assuming it doesn't alienate too many other users, pulling in that very-active userbase might be a lucrative move for Reddit/Conde Nast.
There's money in tracking people. Over the past decade, consumer grade anti-virus software has turned into crap/spy ware.

Slow performance and automatic credit card charges drove me away from Symantec/Norton after more than a decade. I landed on Kaspersky, but after a few years it was suspect too.

In the end, I decided that the only product worth trusting was MicroSoft's free Security Essentials. I figured that their interests aligned with my interest in keeping problems at bay, and if MicroSoft wanted to spy on me, they didn't need anti-virus software to do it.
There's no monopoly, there's merely a minimum standard defined by law. You're free to complete The Knowledge to become a cabbie, or a medical degree to become a doctor.
There's really no point hashing out the argument here. It's a pointless discussion. I was just pointing out one of the possible reasons someone would find this roller coaster to be horrible.
Is it not reasonable to expect that the people who have come back to vote have already finished reading the article?
I have noticed some good postings on that hasgeek link I gave in the above comment.

Also I think, HN itself draws a lot of India based programmers.

At college level you also have things like topcoder.com and hackerrank.com
My argument is that market should decide. If some people want cheap and unsafe, let them have it. If some people want expensive and licenced - let them have it too. In Europe and the US you currently have a situation where those who want a cheaper ride essentially subsidize those who value safety more. That is in no way fair.
Ask HN: What's your favorite bookmarked HN thread?
Also called the "Thread of Threads" and a follow-up on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158116
You can get a GPS Ham radio and license for the cost of an older smartphone.
Would "British Tax Haven" be a more accurate discription?
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This is silly linkbait and doesn't belong on HN.

This guy doesn't have anything new or insightful to add to the Brendon Eich case. The rest of his argument why he doesn't want to live in America is just silliness (commentary on Mustang cars and exercise routines).
Completely agree; with the exception of first item (dropdown on hover), all other items are pretty regular, documented things that are easy to understand if you are already using Bootstrap.
The window dressing isn't right:

If you arrive at Yosemite or the Grand Canyon or whatever, there is no pleasant mile-long stroll on offer: instead you have two options — put on hiking gear and walk through bear-infested woods for three days — or else sit and look at the view from the car park.

Lots of mile long strolls at the parks. Of course at those two main sites you'd better like to be around your fellow man. And it doesn't take long to hike down the Grand Canyon and back up, just don't go all the way to the bottom.
I never said the entranced threatened industry would tell the truth. :P
There is no such thing as death with dignity. The body is always corrupted. "Death with dignity" is a silly loaded catchphrase designed to put opponents off balance, and is offensive to those who have chosen to die another way - some might say, with courage.
OP here. We are about to release many new languages. Any feedback from Spanish-speaking devs is much appreciated, thank you!
First, just because there are big problems doesn't mean we can't address smaller problems. Even though tons upon tons of pollution are dumped into the environment every day, I still brush my teeth.

Second: What if Eich gave money specifically to prevent you from marrying the person that you love? Pretty awful, right?
They approached me after eBay sold stumbleupon back. They wanted way too much.
I think it would be a lot easier to just charge them $6 once a year. Or just a one time fee, like pinboard.in does. (Currently $10.38, which is easy on credit cards.)
They're not using any fancy algorithms...except when they implement a customized version of Boyer-Moore for better string searching in a critical section of their algorithm. Not to mention all the fancy algorithms optimizing their brute-force code underneath their immediately visible program.

A better title would be, "How we determined when to use brute force."
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LWN has recently covered different methods of doing this that SuSE and Red Hat have developed.

The initial kGraft submission: https://lwn.net/Articles/596854/

The first kpatch submission: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/597407/cd7861dacf2be0e9/

Bask in 2008 they covered how ksplice works: https://lwn.net/Articles/280058/
This is a rather gross oversimplification. What you state is true, and is in fact the essence of the first 2 noble truths, but that's hardly the meat of "the logic of buddhism". The hardest attachment is that to the self, and the hardest realization is that the self itself is impermanent. To have the "right view" of the self, one has to understand the illusory nature of phenomena and the paradoxial nature of awareness itself. Awareness, is one of those things about which none of the following can be said: 1) that is exists, 2) that is doesn't exist, 3) that is both exists and doesn't exist, and 4) that is neither exists nor doesn't exist.

Buddhism is very simple, but at the same time it can take "many lifetimes" to achieve true understanding of it.
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I tend not to think that this was a case of something intrinsically American. Public shaming on the internet might quickly be becoming the national pastime, but its hardly exclusive to the US.
In it's current form this doesn't work because chat requires almost immediate feedback.
I'm guessing the median age skews a lot lower though. I don't think that's YCs fault necessarily though; I'm sure the median applicant age is also a lot lower than 40.
From their website:
"Not knowing the first thing about building a website, we were lucky to meet Sven Ernst here in Chiang Mai, really by chance. Sven is Managing Director of Buzzwoo!, a German digital agency that does web development, strategy, as well as creative internet design work. After a few short discussions, we all decided to form a partnership, and YogaTrail was officially founded in early 2012."

Perhaps this is outdated. Is Sven full-time on YogaTrail now or still running an agency/doing other work? The only technical team member being a part-timer would be another red flag if that's the case.
Negative G is much more uncomfortable than positive G.
I think you might be right on this. If I signed up to a service like this and there was no one in my area, but the app suggested that I might like to chat to these 50 odd people online in London or San Francisco, I might well stick around.

I don't know how you would work it for an app that is supposed to be all about local though. If I sign up, and get connected to, say, some guy called Brian in New York and the conversation is great, but then the app grows really quickly and all of a sudden the app decides Brian isn't close enough for me to talk to anymore, it might leave a sour taste.

There are definitely exciting UX possibilities with this though. I need to think on this a bit further.
You've said "those who have chosen to die another way," but people don't have that choice and are forbidden from making it. While you're opposed to euthanasia, would you be okay with giving people the option for euthanasia if they so chose?
blackout for sure, but 60 seconds of oxygen starvation shouldn't kill you right? 10g's might snap you neck though.
Let me kickstart this thread with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243 - Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Much more difficult to secure against accidental ejection though.
TFL and AA road watch know that so there is no reason Google couldn't. It's all data - after all the cabby most likely got it from the same data through a different aggregation medium (radio/paper).
Excellent tips..my only nit pick is with not using ranges..If you are forced to make the first offer, a range can help figure out what the other party is thinking..if I offer $30-$50 for example, and he jumps on the $50, I'll just repeat the offer at something like $35
It's a moot point. For all practical purposes, and with some exceptions, tax havens around the world are run out of London, by our substantial and much-admired financial services sector.

So, as far as I'm concerned, the correct term for all those fiddly bits - constitutional niceties be damned - is 'the City'.
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My favorite single post for practical value in the history of HN is tptacek's answer to "How to start a consultancy:"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245960#up_4247615
It is simply not true that multi-valued logics collapse into two-valued logics.

While it is true that you can assign indeterminate statements {true,false} and call it a third value, logic is more than assignments of truth-values to statements, it is also rules of inference for that formal system. The rules of inference are the driving force behind paraconsistent logics and the rules of inference are very different.

One motivation is the explosivity of contradictions in a formal system. Consider a paradox of humility: I believe of each of my individual beliefs that it is true, I believe all of the logical consequences of my beliefs because I am rational, but I can't rule out the possibility that two of my beliefs (or their consequences) are contradictory.

Treating beliefs as statements, under classical logic, any contradictory beliefs would imply that you believe (or would assent to) anything and everything is true (and false). Here is how:

1. P & ~P (premise)
...
2. P (1 simplification)
3. ~P (1 simplification)
4. P or Anything (2, addition [i.e. the self-evident principal that if P is true, P or anything else is also true])
5. Anything (4, 3 and the principle that if a or b is true and a is not true, then b must be true).

In other words, contradictory beliefs imply anything and everything is true (and false). This is an odd result especially since anyone with an ounce of humility will admit that there is a reasonably high chance that there is a contradiction in their beliefs or in the logical consequences of their beliefs.

Now for a 'more practical' example. Imagine you have a key-value store that represents people and properties. Suppose your database says that Jane is 34 years old and later it says Jane is 35. If you ask the database for all of the logical consequences of this people/property store, under classical logic you will get every statement and its negation. Weird huh?
As more fixes come in and until an official release comes out, I'll compile some updated versions.
Opened link, learned about .container-fluid within the first 30 seconds, life: changed.
Thanks, very useful stuff!
Also worth mentioning that a lot of people go for PostGIS when really they just need the earthdistance module. Much more lightweight and very very useful.
modern processors are really, really fast at simple, straight-line operations

Also really tiny loops; what slows them down is having to make lots of conditional branches/calls.

This related article could be interesting for those who are curious to know how fast plain C (not even inline Asm) can do string searches: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/250566/Fastest-strstr-li...

I do wish Intel/AMD would make the REP SCASB/CMPSB instructions faster, since they could enable even faster and efficient string searches limited only by memory bandwidth. (Or they could add a new instruction for memmem-like functionality, although I'd prefer the former.)
The takeaway from the east vs west thought for me was that paradoxes were actually embraced by both societies and are an inherent aspect of logic.
If they don't approve, could we still use them? I mean, they could hardly check people for proper radio driver if they behave, or could they?
I like the tips but nosying around the rest of the site some of your other content is absolutely lovely.

The chrome all-stars series is absolutely fantastic, I'm primarily a Firefox user (I've always preferred Firebug to Chrome Dev Tools) but I'm starting to realise that in a lot of ways chromes dev tools are much deeper than firebugs.

Cheers :).
I moved to pinboard a couple of years ago and couldn't be happier with it.
Oh God. I spent hours trying to understand how it works, when I saw it yesterday :/ I wish I had seen your link!
Yeah, what a silly analogy. It's not like some man-made ride or attraction, just walk until you feel like turning around.
The BBC use the pre-baked AMIs exclusively for our deployments, we have a concept of a "bakery" which creates a full formed AMI which we then use in our launch config.

The idea being that when you do a deploy, the launch config is updated to use the new AMI ID. The old instances are terminated and the new ones popup in its place. You can play with the scaling options to set an update pause time. We can get a 0 sec downtime with this.
Simple and "easy" (once you dare it), ... I think i missed that post though, thx!
Presumably, this doesn't work if you log into different accounts at home and at work.
Meh. My last black cab experience was supposed to take me from Paddington Station to the Marriott Marble Arch. The cab dropped me at Marriott Park Lane and sped off before I realized he had left me at the wrong hotel.

I'm convinced he did this on purpose. It was rush hour, there was a bomb scare nearby, and I assume he didn't want to sit in traffic. Of course, if he had just explained that to me, I would have been happy to walk the remaining few blocks. Instead, I was just left at the wrong location and a bit confused.

So much for "The Knowledge".
pinboard to the moon!
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> Crap laws should be ignored.

So who gets to decide which laws are “crap laws” and which laws are proper laws that should be obeyed? Last time I checked, this was usually not the job of some random startup firm but rather the responsibility of parliament. You can argue that sometimes it is appropriate to fight against specific laws by ignoring them if the cost of not doing so vastly outweights the cost of lowering the authority of the law. I don’t think taxi laws fall into that category – if the current laws required all drivers to be white, I could maybe understand fighting that law by disobedience, but otherwise?
Does Pinboard have tags like delicious? That's the number one feature in my opinion.
I like how you are arguing this for sanskirt, that maintaining words or parses in an ancient dead language for eloquence, historical, cultural heritage is wrong. Yet you say nothing of the text doing the same thing for latin words or parses.

Seems like mild euro-centrism.
> Black cabs have no obligation to pick up fares and will regularly refuse to take trips

As anyone trying to get a cab after 10 knows

"naaaaahhhhh mate" is all you're going to hear at times
Yet it is up to him to decide what his personal beliefs and opinions. Having lived in the US for the past 6 months, I can totally relate to the author of the article on some stuff.
Americans consider themselves to be very tolerant and mindful of minorities. In reality the political correctness has reached a point where if someone even remotely seems like offending any kind of minorities, they will get blasted and flamed like there's no tomorrow. It doesn't even matter how serious it was, when it happened, why it happened - that person is just going to get OWNED. I think the case of Eich illustrates this quite well.

I mean the stuff I can joke around about back home is considered mostly off-limits and politically incorrect in the US. I still get weird looks from time to time when playfully joking about topics that are not considered offensive or sensitive in most places besides the US :)

You guys (in the US) are just overdoing it, need to take chill pill at times imho.
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"The Knowledge" is highly overrated, many times I've encountered cab drivers who turned out to be absolutely clueless or glued to their GPS and confused.

End up directing them myself half the time
nagarjuna's point is not that contradiction or many-valued logic can be tolerated. nagarjuna, who is addressing a specific set of buddhist logicians, is finding paradoxes in logic in an attempt to break those logicians clinging to logic, and (somewhat presciently in the history of buddhism) suddenly enlighten them. he, like most buddhists, is not making any ontological or metaphysical claims whatsoever.

it's similar to kant's antimonies. he is not trying to assert contradiction exists, he is trying to point out why we need to countenance ideas like a distinction between noumina and phenomena. or like zeno's paradoxes, which have a rhetorical purpose: to confirm zeno's teacher parmenides's claim that the universe is one undifferentiated whole. see also plotinus, who does roughly the same thing (any real ontological difficulty posed by the paradox of plurality is uninteresting to them; they have a thesis and their statement of the paradox is for a purpose).

incidentally, i don't mean to slag graham priest too much. after all, j.c. beall was my logic professor, and i'll always fondly remember how he introduces every new step in a proof by saying, slowly, "now holllld on, what about (etc)." the dialetheists will always hold a place in my heart. that said, i think godel did about all that need be done with the liar's paradox, and we ought to be wittgensteinians regarding language in the first place (words mean what they do in virtue of their being used by agents for a purpose; you cannot fully enumerate representational content of an utterance solely in virtue of its shape. all utterances are context sensitive. for more, see the almost unreadable but spot on work of charles travis, e.g. unshadowed thought).

http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/Nagarjuna_and_...

http://homepages.uconn.edu/~jcb02005/

http://www.amazon.com/Unshadowed-Thought-Representation-Lang...
Works fine with Google Maps for me, even in blackwall tunnel. I think there is some inertial navigation through device accelerometers as well.
And even if you don't want to use the Chrome sync, there's services like Xmarks (which is available for both Chrome and Firefox, and you can also access your bookmarks via a website, and make all or part of them accessible via RSS)