skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USian here.

Where do you live that you're required to take a first-aid class before you get your driver's license? That sounds like a freaking fantastic idea!
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> Discourage one-size-fits-all space management. Some people work better in crowds, others work better at home. Let people decide for themselves.

I like this very much :)
Indian e-com giant Flipkart acquires Myntra for $340 million
You are conflating focus with fear and risk/reward evaluation. Those are not at all related, though, when focused you might be able to see another way out that was not apparent when you were just afraid and not focused.

A panicked jump into a roaring river can kill you just a surely as a well reasoned one.

But that smoldering fire to your left contains a branch long enough that waving it around a couple of times creates a flame an lions are scared of fire.

(If you can conjure up Lions, rivers and green grass to make your point I don't see why my imaginary fire is an illegal device. It could have been a machine gun for the same money, you'd dine on lion steak and congratulate yourself for not trying to swim to the other side of the river).
It's not hostile. It's like he cannot fathom why someone might want to know the thing that they are asking.
> this manifesto seems built around the idea of minimizing communication

Of course, because communication is expensive (as in time wasted, brainpower wasted, decreased focusing-ability etc.). But I think they get it wrong with meetings: A few time boxed stand-up meetings are great instead of "full-time IM-ing" for distributed teams or "anytime possible interruptions for collocation ones.

I think the OP dreams of an "interrupt-less" work-mode, as opposed to the "interrupt-driven" ones most of us have now. In this view, rigorously time-boxing communication would serve the purpose better than avoiding all meetings.
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The grandparent made me start thinking: how would you define things getting worse? I think that's the core of it. For most of the world, we are entering a golden age where lifespans will dramatically improve, income will allow new luxuries unheard-of, and so on. For those in richer nations, we're also entering a new world, where your every move will be recorded and analyzed.

Depends on how you look at it. 100 years from now, however, when we're all living to 110 and we all look like fashion models, yet we're living in an Orwellian state? That doesn't look too good to me.
So, the great achievement of your revolution so far is to help the government extract more money from people that choose to hold their honestly earned money in a country where the government is a little less greedy than yours. And I am supposed to be excited by that, because more government control and less ways to escape it is totally what I would seek, right? Real democracy is not letting people use Swiss bank accounts. Excellent.
If they were someone who used the same password everywhere, then if the password was recoverable, they need to change the password everywhere. Not the brightest password strategy but a valid question.
This is great because it is now the best open-source PDF rendering library. GhostScript, Poppler, XPdf, pdf.js -- they all sort of work alright, but are pathetic compared to FoxIt, on which this source code is based. What we now have with this source is a high performance highly compliant clean codebase of C++ PDF rendering code. Excellent news. Expect lots of future PDF innovations to be based on this.
Ask HN: What is the greatest example of software developer negligence?
It may be partly "somebody else will fix this", but also largely "is this really what it seems"? It could be a genuine robbery, or a piece of improv street theatre, or a sociology experiment. And since nobody else is responding, maybe they see something I don't.

As an aside, apparently she pretty much did what you suggest (which is the standard advice to deal with the bystander effect) in that she asked one particular bystander to help her, but even that didn't work.
You're pretty much on your own in a large city never expect anybody to help you.

The only people that will help you is family and friends.

Risking your life, safety or just wasting time for the sake of helping a stranger happens as often as people donating large amounts to charity.

So if you want to fight your robber you better have a large knife or gun on your person because people won't help you.
>> "As I remounted my bike and rode away, it occurred to me that she didn't at any point thank me..."
>> "There's not much to be gained from interacting with strangers..."

Good on you for stopping to help but why do you feel like you should have to gain something by helping someone else? The woman you helped was still probably quite shocked and dealing with police to thank you and it's highly likely that in such a situation information like where you worked completely went over her head.

I think this is one of the reasons people have stopped helping others - they expect something in return. 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.

Side point

>> "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."

The second part of this statement interests me. Is fear of something (that is highly unlikely to occur) a reason people don't get involved? It made me think of Michael Moore's conclusion in Bowling for Columbine that America's love of guns is based on fear that they will be attacked, mugged, home invaded etc. This may also be a reason people don't get involved in situation they can't control even though it's highly unlikely they are in any danger.
It was a poor decision made in a moment of panic, not a rational, well pondered choice. Is it really that hard to empathize?
I don’t think the problem is money vs games (the X and Y) the problem is time vs games. I have enough money to buy all the games I want and don’t want to play, most of them are very cheap in bundles and promotions, I just don’t have time to play all of them (I’m talking more about pc/console games, not mobile ones). There’s only so much games you can buy and not play before you start thinking about not buying anymore and focus on the ones you really want to play.
Pretty dense article for what seems to be a really daffy definition of consciousness, so maybe someone can summarize? It seems to just be the difference between systems thinking and reductionism, but why would any irreducible concept be evidence of consciousness? Why on earth would that idea make any more sense than, say, a math problem that is too hard for a 4th-grader being evidence of consciousness? Or a locked machine, or a patented process, etc? There's nothing intrinsically special about an irreducible process other than it being irreducible - it's not like it's mystical or anything.
There have been quite a few stories where people that intervened were themselves charged with assaults. There's been burglars breaking into houses whose owners were charged with invasion of privacy for having security cameras in their own house.

Taking justice in your own hand - helping people out in a violent situation - is frowned upon and discouraged. Perhaps even moreso in the US, where it's much more likely that people carry guns and people - bystanders or those directly involved - get killed.

But as I'm sure is mentioned elsewhere, the main causes of inaction are the exceptionality of the situation (despite what the media wants you to believe) and a group mentality (nobody's doing anything, so why should I? Alternatively, maybe the group is seeing something I haven't, could be dangerous)
Blizzard Is Suing Starcraft II Hackers
Waking up ISEE-3: spacecraft from 1978 gets crowdfunded reboot
Yeah, njharman describes bundling as I understand it as a programmer. What did you mean by "bundling"? If it was "Packaging two programs in the same archive." or "Using Cygwin Bash to kick off our proprietary program.", then those activities are unambiguously permitted.
The Romans were already wise to this. It's just the modern day variety of 'give them bread and games'.

'Good' has many axis.

And what you're describing is probably closer to Huxley than to Orwell.
I suppose you don't have any kids? Simple things start to matter rather quickly if you do.
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Exactly. So the future is full of wondrous technology, riches, robots, and entertainment never before seen on the planet.

In a society that's more controlling and oppressive than mankind has ever seen.

That doesn't count as a win in my book, but it is an interesting question to consider.
If somebody shot the crackhead instead of just staring there wouldn't even be a blog post. Problem solved.

These kind of people are going to carry weapons no matter what, and I for one don't want to be again in a situation where I'm unable to defend myself or somebody else.

I really understand the arguments behind prohibition and could agree with them, but the integrity of my loved ones comes first.
Isn't that about acting confident and forward when asking for jobs, raises, working on your career, etc.? Well no one was helping her because they were all playing with their phones or thinking about their jobs and didn't want to be slowed down on the way to work, etc..

I admit I never would have helped besides maybe removing myself from the scene and calling authorities because the chances are high I'd be charged with assault myself, hurt, detained by police, etc.. Once you get an arrest you are effectively impossible to hire for most companies the rest of your life.
> Now you are essentially saying that it is not possible to disagree with

No, just that anyone that denies that things that weren't worse 50,100, 2000 years ago isn't thinking.
Broken idols and ideals
I understand this that the society, media, politicians, everyone is busy focusing on the "social media justice warrior" issues, but we're turning a blind eye towards the real problems in the world (people dying, getting mugged, starving, ...)
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Interesting. How do you feel about the theory of Kondratiev Waves?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave
Well, I'd like to know what scheme they used too, however this is only because of curiosity and my interest in this topic.

Some people seem to need (or even demand by law) to know the scheme, because they see it as a way to assess their security, however they fail to provide a satisfying answer on why exactly they need this knowledge (even when they are told to change passwords!), and how this will change their assessment.

I probably need to structure my questions like 5 Whys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys), providing the first few answers myself:

Q. We need to know the exact password hashing/encryption/storage scheme eBay used.

1. Why? - We need to know if the passwords are easily recoverable.

2. Why? - We need to assess our risks.

3. Why? - ...
Daphne plays everything, not just Dragon's Lair, by the way.
The feminists say to flip the genders.
I don't know where he's from, but here in Germany you are required to do so.
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Agreed. Sad to see that it hasn't been upvoted much.

To me the article was a very clear warning on the horrific state of software security and that no one should be under any illusions of how little protection they have. My tangible take away is what you've mentioned: stop using C.
I think there's several things going on here.

One is diffusion of responsibility or bystander effects, which I think she's hinting at. In a crowd an individual is less likely to take action. I think this has a lot to do with our social instincts. Being in a crowd of strangers is a new thing. We aren't built for it.

On our own, we make decisions for ourselves. That's easy. A group is supposed to be a family or troop or somesuch. These will usually have a leader. Someone responsible for deciding that this is a mugging, that we're on the victim's side and that we are going to join the fight. I'm not sure it has to be a literal leader, but there needs to be a pre-established decision making process and the individual needs to know where they stand in it.

A second issue is that this is not really a question of "willingness to help" in the intellectual sense. It's a question of instinct.

A third is that in a city (or in modern life in general) we are surrounded by other people's problems. The homeless person we step over, the domestic violence sounds we don't call the cops on, the volunteer help line where we don't volunteer at and the charity we don't contribute to.

This is complicated. I think it's more about living in cities, nations and the global village than it is about iphones.
I am visiting Taiwan right now. What happened yesterday was very terrifying. And it sounds even worse from someone who has experienced it. I do prefer Taipei much more than Bay Area or China. I believe here, people have learned deeply the virtue of helping and caring for others in the society and support for each other. I would love to work and live here in the future.
I experienced this in London after being mugged. I had to walk a long way to a police station because every person I asked for assistance refused to either lend me their phone or to phone the police themselves.
Golf whenever it's not raining or snowing.
>I think this is one of the reasons people have stopped helping others - they expect something in return.

People always expected something in return, the thing that changes is that you no longer get it. In a small community, you're likely to meet the person you helped again, and thus leaving them stranded will definitely bite you. Not so in the current huge cities.

You say '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', but is this sufficient motivation for you to actually go out and help people?
Reading the first link you posted, its only mention of "tipping point" is to say:

> Although the summary of the report doesn’t expressly use the term “tipping point” to described the changes in climate, it acknowledges that in many cases they are irreversible

So:
(1) The IPCC doesn't say there's a tipping point.

(2) The source you give mentions "irreversible" but doesn't say "now irreversible".

The fact that the climate is changing in some direction or other does not mean we can reverse that change, much less that it's worth doing so. Even if we're causing it.

The second link you posted seems to be a 70-minute video featuring a bunch of activists, with no text summary to explain why it should be interesting or relevant - no WONDER you didn't get lots of upvotes! (I haven't watched it, but would be happy to skim a transcript, a summary, or an article on the same subject).

The third link you posted does mention tipping points, but not based on any recent news or anything the IPCC just said. It's an essay written by some dude who is quite alarmed about things, referring as a source back to a essay written by some other dude last year which in turn refers back to papers in 2007 and 2012. There doesn't seem to be any NEW information about "tipping points" therein. Yes, people were talking about speculative "tipping points" back in 2007. Most of that sort of talk has been dialed way back since then, in large part because nature didn't cooperate. Surface warming trends are flat, and weather isn't notably more "extreme" that it has been in the past.

Actually, it's worse than that. When you look at the specifics of HOW the IPCC thinks we're currently being impacted by climate, a huge negative current impact they note is the damage done by a rise in food prices, a rise which was in large part caused by crop diversion for use in biofuels. Which is to say, a misguided program from the past that was allegedly intended to help the environment, hurt us all on a global scale. If in 2007 the US had simply taken a chill pill and ignored the IPCC's warnings rather than instituting more of a biofuels mandate, we'd all be better off today; the measurable current harm from climate change would be a fraction of what it is and we'd have released less net CO2.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10716756/Biofuels-do...

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-biofuel-hope-that-beats...
wow seriously, *nix instead of Unix? i feel like in the late 90s
Awesome nice work!
The reason is greed and the means is extortion. They have the ability to slow down traffic if a service isn't paying up and that gives them the tool.
and yes, i have seen his explanation in the text. Please chill
11 minutes of panic. With torn ligaments. Empathize with an 'e'?
As a developer I see it posing many problems since it is in C++. Mupdfs is in C and plays nice with many languages. Even golang.
This is not the realtime we’ve been looking for
They said the same thing about health care.
Any psychology grad students here?

Is this hypothesis testable?
I always wanted a Hiptop but they never really seemed to show up in the UK. Great bit of technology history to read over though.
The main argument is that its more likely to hurt your loved ones with your own weapons.
I found it interesting that it seems to use Antigrain by Maxim Shemanarev in https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/master/core/src/fxg... (Chrome uses Skia). Unfortunately the author of Antigrain died: http://beta.slashdot.org/submission/3154635/rip-maxim-sheman...
It's nice to see the fascinating Antigrain code to be used for PDF viewing every day!
Just glanced the source code, and, isn't it bad to “#include "../../../sth.h"”? Wouldn't it be better to set the include path while compiling and just “#include "sth.h"”?
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typical alarmist sensationalism, let alone dates because of its reliance on doom and gloom global warming scenarios that amazingly don't occur and whose model predict such dire fates cannot even be used to show how we are now compared to forty years ago.

Will give them points on robotics, robotics will change the world so significantly I doubt we can exaggerate it. We literally will have to find something to do.
I am not a designer, but I know that I do appreciate good design.

Even back in the early 2000's, Metafilter's simple, clean, relatively information-dense design was a welcome change from most news aggregators out there. Metafilter is supposed to be a place for thoughtful medium-to-long-form discussion. I feel that its clean, consistent, text-focused design serves that purpose well.

Honestly, remove comment nesting, move the comment credit line under the comment, and change the color scheme to white and gold on blue, and HN's comment page looks pretty much exactly the same as Metafilter's.
I think poverty is worse than war.
That is the whole point of the article, you make masses of people poor and then turn them helpless and harmless by social benefits. Poverty is worse than slavery because people feel sad about themselves than identifying the cause of unequal distribution of the resources.
Reminds me of Kitty Genovese. We humans are really weird sometimes.
I'm saddened by that. In London, I would not offer anyone my phone, as I've travelled too much in Europe and seen too many thieves. I would certainly offer to call the police for you, and I'm shocked that you could not find anyone who would do that.

It's no help to you now, but for others, I am certain - well, I would strongly hope - that a hotel would offer their assistance to someone obviously distraught.
I had the Sidekick/Hiptop 2 back in high school because my mom had T-Mobile through her work. To this day I have not been stopped by more people asking about a device (not even the original iPhone I saved up for as a freshman in college). T-mobile was spotty at best in the DC area so nobody else I knew had it, everywhere I would go people would say things like "It has a browser!?!" or "I thought only Treos and Blackberries had email!?!". It was a sad day when my mom changed companies and we switched to AT&T(aka Cingular). I salute you Danger, I wish there were more small innovative hardware companies like you these days.
This really shocked me when I visited SF last year. We have issues with homelessness, drug abuse and lack of support in some of Scotland's bigger cities, but SF was on a whole other level.

We seen people throw themselves in front of cars then demand cash from the driver, destroy restrooms in fast food joints, and just sit the street talking incoherently to themselves. We were there for less than a week.

I wondered if perhaps while we've not been great at reducing homelessness here, we have better support for those with acute mental illness.

I know every large city has its problems, and I absolutely loved visiting SF (I'd go back in a heartbeat), but seeing this just made me sad.
> There's been burglars breaking into houses whose owners were charged with invasion of privacy for having security cameras in their own house.

I don't normally do this but extraordinary claims need evidence. Citation?
I'm not sure if I'm following you. What does having kids change about the future of society as we know it, and how does worrying about this future more because you have kids make your (or their) life better or easier?

As a thought experiment, try to imagine you are not living in a modern, safe and developed country, but somewhere in dark africa or some deserted sandbox somewhere. Do you think people there have the same ideas about 'progress', 'technology', and do you think they feel the same about the importance of simple things when they have kids?
EBay Cyber Attack – Expert Comments
no they didn't.
Hmmm... so Google is becoming less relevant to me. When I search for content, I expect to see more MetaFilter than "100 most beautiful women in the world".

Duck Duck Go... perhaps it's time to switch my search engine?
Ask HN: Watch people write code?
Does anyone know of events where i can watch someone else write code. Not virtual, but actually sitting next to the person and just watching them code in real time.

Don't know why, but i find it relaxing. I am talking about really mind-calming, zen-like relaxing.

Does anything like that exist in real life? (Damn, i sound like a creep, but my question is serious)
What you are describing is not 'basic income' but 'social security', and many developed countries already have it.
The predecessor to Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync used this method. It was called AUTD (Always Up To Date) and sent SMS messages either via an SMSMC or through email-to-SMS originating on the Exchange server. What was "fun," as a support engineer in PSS back then, was helping people diagnose and clear out mobile phone numbers that users had set up and then had one of three things happen: sailed way past their in-built SMS allotment, didn't realize that receiving SMS cost money and receiving huge bills, or swapping to another phone without an Exchange client to intercept the SMS and being bombarded with SMS notifications.
ASK HN: Team building question.
I am in the process of building my user acquisition team. my mandate is to acquire users/teams for our team based bookmarking tool http://teamgum.com. needless to say - i am operating on budget that wont support spending on ads. what kind of skillsets i should go after & what should the org chart look like?
Yeah I'm a bit confused by that part. She got the guy's attention but didn't really say what happened with him after that.