skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is a well known phenomenon called the "bystander effect"

wikipedia entry here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

long story short, what's going on in people's minds when they don't help is that, probably someone else will step in, and playing hero will probably just get in the way.

which, isn't that helpful if 100% of the bystanders are thinking that. It's somebody else's problem.

there's a simple remedy- Don't scream "help! anyone! help!"
scream "Hey you, burly looking dude. Help! yes you!"
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This is what psychologists say.
until the evidence comes in, I'm skeptical that it would work. but it's better than repeating these stories again and again.
If you're going for readability make sure your font-size is in the 16-18px range.

Generous amount of line-height is also a good idea, closer to 2 than 1.5.

one word = whitespace

Serif can be nice but for a Sans Serif option, I like Open Sans.

headline I would go anywhere from 18px to 36px, depends on what type of look and feel you want to achieve.

Color wise keep it dark text on a light background with minimal use of a single accent colour. I like Red myself but blue is also good.
Does it matter? What do you intend to gain from that discussion?
Another example would be how google did sunset Google Reader. That also struck me as a product that was aimed at people who are rather similar to Google employees.
You speak of these 'top pros' and their hand-reading abilities as if they're an enigma. Hand-reading is mostly a mathematical exercise. It's also infrequently about placing a person on a specific hand but rather a range of hands, with different weights assigned to different potential holdings based on sure, 'pattern matching', understanding player psychology, etc. But it still goes back to basic combinatorial math. Surely a computer can do this better than a human.

Source: Was a 'top pro' for many years online
I believe in fundamentals. Just don't post anything online, unless you're certain you want to. Do not post pictures. Don't use social networks and cloud services. Your life won't get THAT much harder if Google Maps cannot guess which coffee shop you mean immediately.
Interesting experiment, but for the most part I wouldn't expect google glass users to walk up to strangers and record them directly like this.
Although this might be the best operating system ever in existance, I think it's quite hard to get anywhere in the desktop OS market. How can they find users? And if they don't find users, how can they find people who work with them on their software?
Quantum Computing Playground (WebGL)
If this is a crisis it's an amazingly comfortable one for a large chunk of the world. There is plenty of talk that the bottom has already past and that we're on our way up. (not that I subscribe to that view or the view that this is a crisis but one thing is fairly certain: during the depression people were not able to argue convincingly that they were not in a depression).
Wow, this piece cuts close to home.

I currently live in Taiwan and just yesterday there was a subway stabbing - a 20s male started stabbing people on the subway. Naturally, reactions was slow as most people was playing their phones or getting some shut eye. He managed to kill 4 people, get off the subway and intimidate more people, before finally brought down by a 62 elder man.

Everyone can be armchair quarterbacks, shake their heads in disappointment, raise their fits in anger, but when you are in a situation such as the above, or witness a knife attack - you are stunned. Taipei is one of the safest city in Asia. Most of us don't see scenes such as this except on TV, and most of us don't know how to react. It's fight/intervene or flight/stay out of it.

I've taken defence classes, including Krav Maga and they all emphasize that knives are the most deadly weapon in the world due to its ease of access and the damage it can do.

Sorry it happened to the OP but I don't think society has 'become' anything. There's no proof that people are more willing to jump between a knife wielding maniac and a victim before the iPhone age.
While I haven't read the complaint and am not informed on the specifics of this case, I agree that under the parent commenter's logic, there'd be no commercial benefit to paying for R&D. If you're going to pump the cash into R&D, you have to be able to net something from it. R&D-type guys are going to have many varied interests, and it's certainly advisable that they create a hard, impermeable separation between things that they want their employer to be able to claim, and things they don't (i.e., don't even think about projects that you don't want your employer to claim while you're on their clock, in their building, or using their mail servers).

It may be that Carmack was used to there not really being a major distinction between what he owned and what id owned, and got caught off-guard by ZeniMax's insistence that this was a ZeniMax-only kind of thing now.
For us, that would be the license. BSD is far more palatable than GPL (LGPL would be fine) when we have to embed a PDF viewer in a client's project.
A few weeks ago, I was pedalling to work in the rain when I saw something which briefly made me well up with rage: a car parked diagonally across the cycle lane, driver clearly on the phone - a new level of "f*ck you" from a motorist to cyclists. But then I saw the skid-marks leading across the verge from the road, and I realised this was a bit more serious. I stopped and tapped on the window. She was very distraught, nearly hysterical. It was a single-vehicle accident caused by sliding out of control on the very water-logged roundabout. The thing she kept saying over and over was "nobody stopped to help! They all just keep on driving past!"

So I phoned the police and stayed with her for the next 20 minutes, until the police showed up. I was getting soaked in the rain and making myself late, but felt I owed it to her to stay put and make sure she came through it all OK. As I remounted my bike and rode away, it occurred to me that she didn't at any point thank me, and since then has made no attempt to contact me even though we discussed where I work (just across the road from her) as part of the small-talk. So in her own way, she was doing the same thing as the other drivers who had so upset her, albeit inadvertently. I probably wouldn't have stopped either, except she was literally blocking my path.

So it's easy to marvel at how disassociated we all are. A different thing entirely to do anything meaningful about it, even on a purely personal level. There's not much to be gained from interacting with strangers, even less when there's a risk of being dragged into someone else's potentially violent confrontation. This is not a problem with phones, it's a problem with excessively large communities where we will probably never run into each other again. So why take the risk?
In this case I think number of users makes the most sense
Bystander effect aside, this is really shocking if it's true. I once got robbed in broad daylight at a bus station in La Paz (Bolivia), with dozens of people standing nearby and watching everything happen, but then again this was in a developing country.

I think part of the explanation is that such situations occur pretty rarely in the developed world, so people do not know what's the appropriate reaction: Fight back and risk getting attacked as well, scream for help, just call the police? It probably can be compared to first-aid situations, where most people seem to get completely paralyzed and are unable to help the injured person. Maybe governments should offer seminars where people learn to react properly in such situations, just like in the first-aid seminars that you're required to attend when you get your driving license.
In 1913 the world looked like a tinderbox waiting to explode. War was in the air everywhere in Europe and looked to be all but unavoidable. It may have looked like a pretty decent place but that would have been deceptive and I don't think that it looked like that unless you were pretending to not notice.

Nationalism was on the rise, new technology gave access to weapons on an unprecedented scale (and weapons production was already well underway in 1913). I won't say it was inevitable, but it did not take much of a spark to set Europe in flames. People have compared it to a forest with tons of deadwood lying around just waiting for the right combination of draught, wind and a little bit of activation energy.
The Partnership for American Innovation, which is basically an anti-reform group, includes Apple, Microsoft, IBM, DuPont, Pfizer, GE, and Ford. These are old-line American engineering companies, and make a living selling products, not licensing patents. They're synonymous with innovation (and STEM job creation) to your average Congresscritter. Reform is going to be difficult without getting more of these sorts of companies on the other side. The computer/internet folks have a very legitimate platform, but the coalition is too thin.
I'm sure there is an amusing LSD joke in there somewhere.
So apart from Gavin's salary what do they spend it on?
"One way to ensure evenly distributed connections is to come up with a globally-agreed upon connection ranking function. The function would take two endpoints and return the priority of those two peers having a connection. It is important that the function would be commutative. Both peers should have the same understanding of the priority for them to connect (otherwise the swarm may never converge, and you end up with infinite peer churn)."

Great insight with good results as the post goes on to explore.
Possibly because it's easy to say that afterwards, but it isn't directly relevant to the bystander effect. Sure, it's the sensible option, but that isn't on many people's minds at the time because that isn't how biology works.

Also, although it may be beside the point, you could argue that giving them what they want will just increase muggings. The way to sort out the problem is to relax laws around people helping out victims in cases like this.
I'm not really sure what this "work-hours" data is capturing.

My parents were teachers and I remember them marking after school and some weekends. My wife is now a teacher and she has after school meetings at least once a week, spends hours marking every night and weekends, plus a lot of her holiday preparing new lessons and admin. Contractually she has the exact same hours and holidays my parents had but her life is nothing like theirs.

For myself I'm a scientist and people have worked long hours since I was a student - but it used to tail off as people got into their 30s and became more secure, maybe got a stable position, teaching, and students of their own. Now this seems to have been pushed back to an ever receding horizon and people work long long hours competing to get the next grant or next placement, to keep their heads above water right up till retirement. Of course academics all contractually work a 40 hour week.

I guess its anecdotal but I see the same sort of things amongst my friends in tech and pharma. Their laptops and mobiles have enslaved them.

Maybe I was blind to it when young but I don't remember my parents generation - their friends, my relatives working like that.
Then you could have been specific. Now you are essentially saying that it is not possible to disagree with you because that would imply someone does not have a working brain. I'm not sure what that particular rhetorical trick is called but it isn't a nice one. As anyone with a working brain can surely see.
Someone was almost murdered. Of course it matters.
Has anybody tried Piped Piper?
You're thinking of pepper, not salt.

Salt is a random value that is added to a password before it is hashed, so that two identical passwords do not hash to the same value. The value is different for each hashed password, and is stored alongside the hash.

Pepper is a configured value that is the same for all hashed passwords, and is added to the password (and salt) before it is hashed. It is kept secret, and effectively turns the hash function into a secret hash function. Its merit can be argued because if an attacker is able to compromise your hashed password database, they could possibly have compromised your configuration and discovered the pepper too. However, it does add an extra hurdle for an attacker.
How can it have looked decent when the upper classes were prepared to blithely send hundreds of thousands of working men to certain deaths on the battlefields. Men in power back then were racist, classist, sexist, homophobic cunts. We've advanced on all those fronts.
>there's a simple remedy- Don't scream "help! anyone! help!" scream "Hey you, burly looking dude. Help! yes you!"

Exactly this. The same goes for calling emergency services - there are cases where response was delayed because everyone was assuming someone else was doing it. I've been the one person who did it before, I'd say due to having an understanding of this. It's really something people should be taught about in school and how to avoid both participating in it and letting it happen.
I would like to see this kind of tagging being used to improve search results and simply hiding them. Could increase rank when there are more tag hits. Although I guess that is essentially what good search is.

Tags while cluttering the ui do help you find similar content. Still not as good as a good reccomendation system but a decent stop gap measure in some instances.
Extremely mobile un-friendly site. Couldn't read due to annoying fixed zoom
A friend of mine own a Yoga 2 Pro. He's using Chakra Linux, and he had to go through a great deal of difficulty to adapt KDE to the HiDPI screen. He somehow managed to do it partially (like by setting font sizes to insane numbers, etc). Even still, there UI elements scattered around that still appear as though you're looking at them from space.
> paid manual labor will be eaten away further by technology

As labor continues to be automated, we'll need a minimum income for "unproductive" members of society. In reality, they're not really unproductive as long as they can engage in consumer behavior, which is something we absolutely need them to do. We simply can't afford an underclass without access to our new high tech quality of life. So we'll subsidize them.

Of course, this will come with restrictions. To be eligible, you won't be allowed to own your house, a part of that income will most likely be added to your "debt", and you'll have to take part in certain mandatory activities.

But in essence, basic income will have to be introduced.
I see Matt Cutts has been talking to Mathowie about Metafilter's problems: https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/469235750932725761

I can't help feeling that there's something wrong when the only way to find out why Google has downgraded your site is to attract the attention of one of the core search developers. I get that Google wants to keep it's ranking algorithms secret for fear of black hat SEO poisoning the well even more than it does already. Given Google's dominant position in the search market at the same time it seems wrong to downgrade sites in this fashion with no clarity or visibility over the process whatsoever.
Never been there. But from what I've seen from my buddies traveling there, there's no comparison. Public transport in Barcelona is really awesome.
>Our fisrt candidate is a "hacker", he is Herve Falciani who since 2009 has been collaborating with numerous European nations by providing information relating to more than 130,000 suspected tax evaders with Swiss bank accounts.

So instead of attempting to scale back the mass surveillance state, the candidate embraces it with open arms and knocks on its door with a vaguely-indicative list of nonviolent alleged criminal code violations of 130,000 people whose metadata he's aggregated?
Kind of amazing that Danger's VC partner knew more about cellular networks than the founders did. I wonder who he was and which firm.
Yes, the audience's ability to relate to the protagonist matters.

Intend? In the trivial sense, you can guess; in the broad, unknowable.
Isn't Arrakis something out of Dune?
So this is what happens when you ban weapons.
Not specifically, no. Armchair solutionary ;).
So here is my Manifesto of Eventually Awesome Development of Anything:

1. Write down a process (Waterfall, Agile, Cowboy, whatever)

2. Regularly reconsider and improve the process
That's all really good. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating and a new political party is still constrained by the rules of the old democracy it seeks to displace. So you'll be part of the problem at the same time that you try to solve it, this is a very hairy proposition. Best of luck to you though, you believe in your cause and seem to be of good intentions, it certainly should not end up being a net negative (but the cynic in me can't help but notice that almost every political party/movement out there started out with the noblest of intentions, including the very worst examples of such parties/movements).
Does not work with chrome for me ( http://imgur.com/hblv5lr ) and when I click download, I get a not found page.
As long as someone pays by the hour, that billable time includes whatever activities are required for work.

When company pays me only for the output, then I would be free to work from whatever place during whatever hours as long as I produce the desired output.
Data roaming charges.
So we know how incompetent this rather large and famous company is, and how much we should trust them in the future.

Being able to point and laugh is nice too, all seriousness notwithstanding.
But it's probably substantially more difficult to maintain eye contact when a section of your eye is covered by a fixed HUD, even if you're trying.
builtin interpreters doesn't equal an os.

Most of the time the os doesn't have a general purpose interpreter in the kernel even if they have an interpreter for important os functionality(sh/bash/powershell). And even then most of the time these interpreters aren't meant to be embeded in applications.

It's a fair point about postgresql but dbs that need max speed/control at times are an exception not the rule.
You mean, people are not allowed to talk publicly about politics? Sure, that's a great idea, that would bring about the renaissance of democracy. Or you mean they only can talk about politics where not too many people can hear them, like on their kitchen - a-la Brezhnev times in Soviet Union - is OK, but on TV - no-no, it's "political advertisement". And helping to elect a person with ideas which you share is not allowed too - it's "donations". Well, not that you'd know their ideas anyway, because political advertisement is banned, so unless you come and talk to them personally you won't know that.
Everywhere urban in Australia does already have internet access. For that reason, I don't understand your first point.

The upstream bandwidth isn't hampering any businesses that I am aware of, but I agree that businesses uploading large amounts of data may struggle with it. (sidenote: would it be worth spending so much on infrastructure to support those few businesses?) That said, my understanding is that the upstream bandwidth is intentionally capped by ISPs rather than being a result of the infrastructure. Even with the most amazing infrastructure, you would need to convince ISPs to drop the artificial limitation.

There is also an emerging behaviour where all data crunching is being done on machines in the cloud. In that case, not much of the data would ever even enter Australia unless you wanted it to.
I genuinely have some concerns about what you're saying - I believe you need to try to look at the stats critically or conservatively, without the influence of poker marketing itself to players.

You're saying that 5,000 games is enough to determine your overall winrate, and yet every 5,000 games of yours has been different: from game 31,000 to 50,000 (a recent 19,000 game streak), you are down.

Either this should mean you are a losing player, or it means 20,000 games is not even nearly enough to draw a conclusion. Be careful about having it both ways to suit you: that is confirmation bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias.

Let's say, I wish you the best of luck, and leave it at that.

Good luck :)
I had the opposite issue. T-Mobile coverage in my city in Scotland was great at the time (aside: it was also marketed as the T-Mobile Sidekick here, not the Danger Hiptop).

My real issue was that we missed out on a lot of the value added features that US customers got. Our app store was pretty sparse, software updates came many (many) months after US customers, and since so much data was proxied through Danger in the US we had many additional points of failure.

I vaguely remember griping about not being able to get a direct net connection during a period of transatlantic network instability. It was a bit like BIS (Blackberry Internet Service) in this regard.

I also remember the spate of high profile celebrity account hacks at the time. I think the always-on sync feature really was revolutionary but it did highlight the risk of sharing everything, all the time, with a service provider.

That said, the device was really ahead of its time. In the UK, BIS Blackberry devices were very uncommon. Sure, we had things like the Sony P800 [1] but the push service, IM functionality and world-class hardware keyboard of the Hiptop were unparalleled. And it's difficult to underestimate the utility of the RGB LED and the ability to set the notification color depending on device events.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P800
I don't think that's even true for browsers, browsers depend on os functionality such as a filesystem.
I agree completely, I was just offering a reason as to why people were reacting the way they were and that saying they lost nothing is just plain wrong.
Aren't many of Glass's most interesting functions dependent on a camera?

I don't really think Glass makes people more recordable, it just makes that recordability more obvious, and therefore makes people less comfortable. Maybe it'd be a good thing to cope with the reality that we're always under watch these days.
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Thanks for the clarification.

It also bugs me that there's no way to enter the mode of transportation as part of the URL query string. I'd love to be able to use smart keyword syntax like:

from London to Cambridge by bike

from Glasgow to Manchester by bus
What happens is someone almost but not actually getting robbed? Viva la prohibición!
You mean convince the lawmakers to put themselves under house arrest? Yes, that is going to work. But only until somebody invents some tool or device that would allow people to communicate over large distances.
And if anyone's wondering - the revolutionary audio engine the author mentions was the Beatnik Audio Engine (BAE), open sourced as the Mini Beatnik Audio Engine (miniBAE) [1].

[1] http://www.minibae.org/
Very sad you are being downvoted.

Someone should have helped her, but with hindsight she didn't want to give up her own electronics and wanted someone else to risk their life for her things.

But this situation is also very traumatic for her so there could be any number of reasons why she chose not to just hand her phone over.

I definitely can understand her being angry, but this isn't really an issue about people not paying attention as much as it is bystander effect (it seems).
No More Scroogled, No More NSA, Google Apps Gets Encryption
No, if the crackhead had a gun, there wouldn't be a blog post, just another murder.
arrakis...dune...desert planet...

ducks
You can make it less likely that you'll fall victim to the bystander effect by precaching better responses - the heroic imagination. I first read about it here: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/03/14/developing-the-hero... which links to http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_banality_of...