skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of this is that people don't know what to do. If we were listing the qualities that would encourage someone to help what would they be?

1) Believe that your intervention will do good/be effective.

2) Have a personal relationship with the victim.

3) Be thinking of the victim as a person rather than a piece of the scenery.

4) Perceive the risk to self (legal/physical) to be low.

5) Don't believe someone else will do it.

6) Don't believe that it's a setup where the 'victim' will turn on you.

I'm not saying those are the things that matter, they're just the things that came to mind.

And how many of them typically apply?

This was a knife attack, and that probably takes care of 1 and 4. I've seen untrained people fighting in the street, and it's the equivalent of a monkey slinging shit. Add to that that a knife is less to do with careful application of skill - it's more constant. It's entirely possible, if people had intervened, we'd be talking about multiple people seriously injured, perhaps scarred for life, or killed.

2 doesn't apply, 3 could go either way, 5 might be the case - there were a lot of people there. 6, happens, but again might go either way.

...

And there's a thought - did they see the knife? or did they just see two people having a domestic and screaming at each other? I imagine that might decrease the chances of anything happening.
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Because last mile bandwidth has significantly different economics to data centre and interchange bandwidth economics.
I'm also a big fan of the law that requires you to help in an accident and protects you from charges as long as you don't do anything obviously stupid.
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They probably mean "free of license costs in academic contexts"
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What's wrong with Google Code? I'm not telling that it is decent in any way, but it is usable. The repository hosting is there, the wiki is there, some sort of issue-tracking is there. And, if I were a Google employee, I'd rather use my companies code hosting than some others, because what if those lot get interested in founding a tea-shop?
No, not off the top of my head.

You could probably just arrange your posts in src/documents in this format, and let your layout do a lot of work for you such that each of the files in src/documents/<lang> contains little more than the blog text in its respective language.
To be fair, that does sound like it could be a scam. Also, presumably all the police would have told you is that you should go to the nearest police station.

Once, after withdrawing money from an ATM, two guys came up to me with a 5 euro note. They told me I had dropped it and wanted me to take out my wallet. Supposedly so I could verify that I 'indeed' lost money.

Another time someone came up with some sob story and asked me if he could use my phone, or failing that, if I could make a call for him. I forget the details except that I did have to fight him off later.

These events happened in two different countries, and I have more stories like this.
Yes. And you could leave out support for PDF-embedded JS for this purpouse.
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In any software development team in almost all company?

There are also events like:
http://princetonacm.com/code-at-night/
but I wouldn't say it's how code is written usually. Those are exceptional situations.
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>> "is this sufficient motivation for you to actually go out and help people?"

Yes. But more than that it's the fact that I find it morally very wrong to ignore someone who needs your help. I can think of several situations where I've went out of my way to help someone. I don't want to sound like a great human being going round helping the needy (I'm not) but if I can help, I do.
People's responses don't work that way. In any serious situation, the adrenaline will leave you feeling off for an hour or so afterwards, where you might still make decisions you might say you wouldn't when not under pressure.
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I develop my apps with phonegap[0] and ember.js[1], this way I can use tools like firefox's responsive design view[2] to make sure it works on different screen sizes/resolution.

In terms of testing, I use all the current tools that are available to web developers (automated tests for my javascript code with mocha[3], chrome developer tools for debugging, etc)

I do testing on an actual device as late as possible, when my app is actually already finished and well tested. In case I need to debug on the device there is remote debugging with chrome on android[4], which lets you debug your android app with chrome developer tools.

For automated integration tests there is also appium.io[5]. You can write integration tests and let them run for ios and android.

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I was thinking the same thing. Even if you can't afford another one, hand over the damn phone. And don't throw coffee over the person attacking you with a deadly weapon. Of course they will chase you.
I disagree.

That's an example of strange unsolicited attention from a stranger is perceived as hostile. He could have been pointing a picture of the Virgin Mary at them and gotten a similar reaction.
>It could be a genuine robbery, or a piece of improv street theatre, or a sociology experiment.

If so, irresponsible experiment/theatre, and they have only themselves to blame if someone did get tripped/punched/rugby tackled/hit with martial arts moves/arrested. The fact that nobody did any of those is the main problem - if someone did, many people would have felt more confident too, both at not being caught up in police issues around it, but also via a safety in numbers instinct.
Regardless of all the controversy, I see this man as a hero and I hope history gives him the recognition he deserves.
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Sure it was a troll? and not just reference to the design style parody of the original? (ie the 1990s design)
I measure the number of WTFs when the code is being reviewed

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An idea I had a while back -

Build browser add-ons and a javascript site that performs N hashes of your master passphrase (high entropy) concatenated to the website domain (google, ebay, etc.). Set that hashed password to be your password on each website. Then when you use a computer you enter the master password and it generates all the domain-specific passwords. If that website is breached only the specific password is released. Even if someone knows you're using this scheme you can make it arbitrarily difficult for them to break it and get the master password by making N arbitrarily large.

This way you could use one master password to procedurally generate all of your passwords from any computer without relying on cloud/storage while still keeping them relatively independent. It's sort of weak to rainbow tables, but you could make N large enough and use a high enough entropy password that this would be a negligible threat I think.

Thoughts?
Frankly, I fear less the robber who just wants my cellphone and wallet than the "good samaritan" that would start shooting in a crowded place like the one she was in.
Really? And how is shooting the crackhead not murder?
They still need to change the password everywhere they used it even if eBay used a state-of-the-art password hashing. (Remember that eBay asked users to change passwords?)

But even so, the knowledge of password storage scheme in this case is actually harmful! Suppose Alice is reusing passwords, like you said. She learns that eBay used bcrypt, and due to this knowledge thinks her password is safe, and doesn't change her password anywhere apart from eBay. Good? Nope.
The history of crypto in the US is actually much more interesting than that and for a time exporting any crypto tools was a felony (exporting munitions).

Steven Levy's book goes into pretty good detail about this: http://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digit...

At the time the NSA was not pleased about the release of DES and was also very concerned about PGP. There were attempts at laws requiring key escrow available to the NSA among other restrictions on foreign key size etc. It wasn't really until the late nineties that this stopped. For a time they would probably have liked to ban all citizen encryption all together, but it became obvious that this couldn't be enforced (and it's necessary for things like e-commerce).

A lot of early crypto based patents and research were retroactively classified - there was a big historical legal battle to get things where they are today.
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>> "If somebody shot the crackhead instead of just staring there wouldn't even be a blog post. Problem solved."

So you could hand over your phone and wallet to this mentally unstable person and everyone could walk away.

OR

You could shoot them, they die, and you've killed someone because you didn't want to lose $600.

If you choose the latter I really hope you don't own a gun. You're irrational and the reason they should be prohibited.
That web dashboard that combines mail, notes, calendar and to-dos in one screen is great - I would like that today, and I don't think I can get it.
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>>There's a prevailing sentiment amongst hackers here and everywhere that things are and can be moved forward in an ethical, and positive ways in the future.

If the right to EDIT is only granted to a security elite, who have granted themselves the power to inject false data in any stream, for any reason they want, then the war has indeed been lost, ethically. Or, if there is another war, it is to prevent an elite from being able to INTERCEPT and INJECT, completely and utterly, at massive scales.

Its not a matter of being cynical about it. Its about not having a single iota of TRUST for the people who create and maintain the security state fiction that allows military junta and ultra-elite special interests to make extraordinary, mass-scale Decisions.
What's the point if the user doesn't control the keys?

If the data and the keys are both with Amazon, is this anything other than a ticky box for the marketing dept?
This reaction seems very luddite to me. I'm not saying I don't understand it. Rather I'm saying it's a product of now and will have to change over time.

If some blind guy walked in with his Google Glass connected to his brain so he could see and was ask to remove them do you think the "please remove your glasses" would be acceptable? "But sir, I can't see without these as I'm blind. Are you really going to discriminate against blind people?".

Cameras embedded in eyes are coming. First they'll be for the blind. Then they'll be better than real eyes and probably be used for soldiers. Then they'll become fashion/must have along the same lines as a smartphone is today for most people. When friends can all see in infrared in the dark and you can't or can zoom in and read something small thing 600 meters away, or can drive through fog with their augmented reality eyes or recall whatever they need on demand few people will stay un-augmented.

I get that people don't want to be recorded. I just see it as they have no right not to be recorded because they have no right to choose how I remember things. If we invented a tech that could read my memory and produce a video then what? They've already invented digital memory that can be connect to brains. So if my brain was digital would that make a difference? If you don't want me to see you don't go out in public. Past that you have no right to decide how I remember you. Whether it's with my memory of you, a sketch I made, a picture I took or, a video I recorded. Those are all just augmented versions of me.
Hey Jake, nice idea! That said, probably better to not have the thing barge right in for camera access, first show a bunch of images made with it, then explain that you can do this yourself and explain why you can assure the visitors that their images won't be sent anywhere, then ask for permission to use their cam. Like this it doesn't really work (at least, not for me).

Suggest deleting this, making it more visitor friendly and less scary then resubmit?
I suspect that Glass and other 'wearable comupters' might be a case where it needs 'more power.'

10-100X improvements in battery, data, latency, storage, etc. If it gets to the point that it just records everything. You can go back and rematch your conversation with Aron or read a transcript of your meeting with the design team.
The paper is long and I'm not sure where the economic magic happens but to be able to trade waiting time for money is truly a good thing for all. Sometimes I really am in a hurry and am willing to pay for it, other times not, but by not being able to pay I'm frustrated and all of us are poorer for it.

This of course assumes that the money I pay does not become a profit center - two examples -
- If I'm at Disneyland and I can pay to cut ahead in the queue this is only good if the money I pay goes to those in the queue who wait longer, if it doesn't then everyone is suddenly paying more for the same ride
- This ties in with the work on Shoup and parking pricing. If I'm wanting to park my car at the kerb in many cities I cannot pay as the parking is time limited and popular and parked out. The only way I can get a park is to spend ages searching for for a free bay. Alternatively if the parking is priced appropriately I can trade off the search time for money.

I did cringe a bit where the author worried about protecting the poor. This argument is often put, but if the "lexus lane" on one day makes the difference between keeping or losing your minimum wage job it is helping the poor. What is forgotten that the amazingly low value that wage earners place on their leisure time, typically $3-$8 per hour of leisure time really distorts the economics in ways you might not expect.
Fuck it I'm moving to Switzerland.

Honestly if I could find symmetrical adsl2 I'd be happy. Download speed is nice but I'm a gamer upstream is everything.
Yes, this would be brilliant. I'd really like it as an always available app with a hotkey to activate recording, and Dropbox integration for upload + sharing. Even limited to a few seconds it'd be very useful for developing complex UI interactions with a remote team.
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> He was leading a local “Crypto Party,” teaching less than two dozen Hawaii residents how to encrypt their hard drives and use the internet anonymously.

I found this quite interesting. I wonder how many more of these events are happening around the world. They could teach how to use truecrypt, how to turn on two factor authentication for the popular services that use it and what it is, good password policies, and what https means for browsing the internet securely.

Edit: I found this: https://www.cryptoparty.in/
Makes you wonder how many people that have lived through a war agree with you.
"Decentralized infrastructure is needed. "

There is absolutely nothing I can think of more important than this.

There's room for companies, there's room for restricted centralised services - but in my humble opinion the core services should be managed and run by the people.

We are capable of doing it, if we're not - it's time to learn.

Interesting place to start: http://maidsafe.net/
> If I helped someone the only thing I'd expect in return would be that if the person I helped is ever in a situation where they can provide help to someone else, they'll remember the time they were helped by a stranger and take action.

You say that as if it's a minor thing ("the only thing I'd expect") but you might be expecting someone to risk their life, get accused of rape by an unstable person, put themselves in danger of injury or lawsuit. It's not a trivial matter. I personally wasn't expecting anything from this person I helped, I was just pointing out that she ended up being no different from the other drivers around her - just less fortunate.

As Anderkent says, on a basic level, we're all expecting "something in return". We help other people, maybe they'll help us one day. But this instinct is tuned to small communities (in which we evolved) where "paying it forward" like this is very likely to occur in a short space of time. You help me carry my kill home, you can have some of the meat. You help me get my harvest in, I'll help you raise that barn. But in large communities (several million strong, in some cases) these opportunities will be limited so we are more reluctant to get involved. We might not be consciously weighing profit and loss, but on a subconscious or instinctive level, we are.
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In the very long run almost all of us will be unproductive.

I suspect that in a society like that money will no longer be as important as it is in the current one. Social security as 'basic income' is a staple in many countries right now, and those countries would be far worse off if they didn't have it. Expect to see more countries adopting it and the gap between social security and income for work to slowly decrease over time. It's a matter of votes in the long run (assuming democracy).

Aka the libertarian nightmare.
I class any address, date of birth, phone number information about me as "financial related data" as it is used by my bank to identify me. I wish eBay would stop trying to play down the seriousness of this breach.

Also, on the BBC news this morning (Thurs AM UK) a journalist seemed to hint that "passwords may or may not have been encrypted".
The data looks like it comes from the American Time Use Survey.

http://www.bls.gov/tus/

It's collected via time diaries, not contractual hours worked.
In my country (UK), if it is not (reasonably) secure then they would be liable for prosecution.

And yes, sorry, I was answering a different question to the one you asked.
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This is especially true of tournaments - finishing in the money suddenly does wonders for your balance.

So, I would guess that more than 1 in 28 players would show these results, having experienced a random "win quickly" phase that has yet to dissipate.

(This might not apply if parent is talking only about 2 player tournaments, but applies to poker generally)
It can be bad to do that if there might have been some private stuff in the history especially if its pretty long. This is one of the things that led to the 4chan hack (private key deep in history)
The book called "Amusing ourselves to death" by Stuart McMillen addresses this question. Really recommend it.

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Normal human reactions.

OP also didn't react as hindsight tells us the answer. Hand it over. Why did they value something crappy like money over their life, are they so superficial? (Probably not)

We've been told a million times just to hand it over, but OP still didn't.

Concentrate on the long term issues, there are more and they are solvable through logic, like solving homelessness.

Don't worry so much about how people react in unexpected situations. Worry more about peoples long term decision making, that scares me.
My comment was in regards to your preference for a nihilistic attitude. Having kids will make you think more about your (direct surroundings and) society and it's future. As you said: "we're done for as a species sooner or later no matter what"
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"This article keeps saying in many words that the NSA would put Snowden on a boat to gitmo if they found out he hosted a CryptoParty."

No, the actual words are just "That was a huge risk for him to teach a crypto party while he was working for the NSA." It was a risk for him, the kind of like organizing "don't drink sugar water" event while working for Coca Cola which has effectively its own police, and that at the time the employee already downloaded the secrets from the Coca Cola's secure network and he even contacted some journalists to give them those.
Society disagrees with you. Current societies have a rule that I have in most cases a right to be not recorded by you, even in public spaces. This is not always made a law, but is a general norm of society.

Your hypotheticals about digital memories: we will cross that bridge when we get there.
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Yes, they would be much worse if there wasn't social security. I feel Social Security as it's currently organized makes people feel rather worthless. People do need purpose in life, right? They're to expensive to hire and letting them do volunteer jobs could very well kill low paid jobs... What can be done? Something productive that does not displace real jobs?