skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, I doubt that's the case. Greece and Cyprus have crossed the EU, lied to them, and committed acts that should have meant getting kicked out of the EU. Nothing happened. If anything the EU keeps giving them more money.

So now everybody knows : clearly the EU is more interested in expanding their membership and maintaining power than it is interested in financial sense and applying treaties.

So while Ireland certainly seems to think the EU has a gun to their heads, this is only true if Ireland's parliament cooperates. Ireland's parliament could simply order it's banks to print Euros, lie to the ECB (they're already doing that, after all. That's what the Euro crisis was about). Ireland's parliament could simply vote to do that, and while they're at it, vote a law that this does not violate the European treaty. Then it'd be up to Brussels to kick them out, and they've already shown that they won't do that, no matter what. They're sovereign, there's a million ways they could do this.

So in short : you're right, in theory. In practice, the law is simply what parliament votes to be law, and they could shortcut your reasoning at any point. Given what's already happened in the PIGS, I think they will at some point in the not-too-distant future show us that theory and practice are very different indeed.
Interesting concept, and probably really useful for people on the go.

I'm guessing you're doing the web redirection to the site of your
client, or is this incorrect?

If you are doing the redirection, I'm curious why you decided to not
also include a QR code?
Yes, it's possible. There is a blogging platform called Greymatter which used to be popular that you can draw inspiration from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greymatter_%28software%29

When you'd add a comment to a blog post on Greymatter, it would write that content to it's own flatfile database, then trigger a rendering update which would read the content, transform it with a template, and produce a new .html file, overwriting the old one. Bam! Dynamic site based on (mostly) static pages.

I don't see why a forum or social platform couldn't be built in a similar manner. You won't be able to do much in the way of per-user authorization, but as long as all your content is supposed to be viewable to everyone, you should be OK.

One problem with Greymatter was that if a thread or site grew large, sometimes generating new files from templates would take so long that your connection to the CGI would time out before they were finished. Another problem was that two updates to the site posted at about the same time could stomp on each other during the rendering phase.

'Cause hey, flatfiles are hard. That's why I wouldn't forgo using a real database in favor of flatfiles. If you don't want to run MySQL or Postgres on an RPI, then use SQLite. There is, after all, a reason that these products exist. Let SQLite or MySQL deal with the flatfiles for your instead of re-inventing yet another wheel.

I also wouldn't update the .html files the moment someone posted. I'd have the scripts just commit the post to the database, and then regularly re-render the files from a cron script. This avoids having your rendering stage stomp on each other, provided that the rendering time is less than your rendering interval.
9.7" is a small display.
This is a clone of a friends project,
http://build-its-inprogress.blogspot.com/2014/05/external-di...

Remind me again, what is the £165,000 for, R&D?
I have tried a few, 3 years ago.

Most were only moderately good for having documentation up.

Frame rate was abysmal, a delay of up to 4 seconds, and most had issues where the text was all jpeg-ified.

Direct wire would probably work out better.
Back around 1999-2000, there was a popular free forum software that did exactly that: it generated new static pages every time someone made a post or commented on the thread. Reviewing my personal timeline, that was before I learned PHP, so it was probably something that ran on Perl.

It may have been YaBB (http://sourceforge.net/projects/yabb/) (http://www.yabbforum.com) or some predecessor with a long-forgotten name. The earliest commit on that sourceforge site was 2003, but the screenshots look similar to what I remember.
A* is typically for single source, single destination. For crowds, if you have lots of agents that want to go to a single destination, you can often use Breadth First Search or Dijkstra's Algorithm. That tutsplus article uses Breadth First Search.

The crowd flow research is neat. The videos are especially fun to watch. http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/research/crowds/ is another nice set of papers.
Perhaps just enough buyers to make mass production reasonable, and to form stable contracts/relationships with manufacturers.
OMG, these ISIS people are totally crazy... I don't even have words to describe this "human" scum.

Sadly I didn't see any news reported here about Gaza genocide. Are these people not worth the same as Mosul Christians?

Did Iraq invasion and Saddam toppling, as well as undercover support for Syrian "rebels" (most are not even Syrians), or Gaddafi killing, made the world a safer place? Do you really think all this was not planned? Cui bono (who benefits) from increased "islamist" radicals?
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You don't. This is another example of an extrovert assuming that introversion is just a circumstance that is both undesirable and fixable.
There is also quite a difference between not choosing to socialize, vs. feeling depressed because you are not able to socialize successfully.
MiniLock looks like a great option to introduce encryption to my non-technical friends. The alternative to minilock right now, for these users, is to do nothing.

Even if we do not like it, right now state of the art on file sharing (for most of the non-technical world) is an unencrypted email attachment. MiniLock looks like it might be something I can install on my mothers (non-technical) computer so that I can send her a sensitive doc (copy of my tax return, for example). This crypto system is sufficient for that use case, and the alternative is to do nothing at all. The alternatives are not GPG, or RSA, or whatever, because outside of the technical community people have no idea how to use these things.
I give up ;)
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this is my favorite HN comment of all time.
I got the same. It may mean we passed the base level in the C languages since the syntax matches.
You forgot to take a jab at cryonics. Eliezer sincerely believes that people who do not sign-up their kids with a cryonics package are "lousy parents".

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1mc/normal_cryonics/
May I recommend https://www.google.com/search?q=who+funds+isis
Thank you for checking it out. I used it just myself, hence symmetric crypto only.
Is anyone else having trouble scrolling by dragging the scrollbar when at the top of the page?
You should take Slate[1] with an even bigger grain of salt. While Less Wrong is a canonical illustration of all the problems with high IQ people, at least they try to be accurate in their beliefs.

Which is the actual purpose of the site. Singularity, consequentialism/utilitarianism, and so on are side effects.

[1] I'm guessing http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/rok... right?
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Ah, thanks! I've been focusing on simplicity rather than performance, but deque is just as simple here, so I should use it. :-)
I could be very wrong here only watching "mainstream" news, but I believe a genocide implies the intent to wipe out a people, whereas what Israel is doing is nothing of the sort. Massacre? Maybe. Morally wrong? Maybe. But I don't think it's genocide.

Feel free to educate me on this, however.
Both? This latest one yeah, but the first one? We don't know anything about the cause yet. I'd also argue that flying over a country where there is war is a bad idea.
It sure would be nice. I use Air Display sometimes, but there's enough lag to irritate me, and every two or three hours I momentarily lose WiFi connectivity for one or two seconds, which is distracting when I'm trying to work. Beyond that, there's just the astounding stupidity of using WiFi even though the iPad is physically connected to my MacBook already by a cable.
You've got it backwards. In the Glorious Hacker News Golden Age that people sometimes speak of, Hacker News tended to gravitate towards pure-market solutions, deny the existence or relevance of social issues that don't affect white middle class men (i.e. everything but ageism in tech), and gave weight to Eliezer Yudkowsky's Bayesian equation-driven morality, and everything else that looked and sounded scientific (imagine how many old-HN readers would be guzzling Soylent now).

The HN readership had lots in common with LessWrong, but they were diluted and displaced by people who don't share their same, ahem, qualities.
> that it is justifiable to kill a man if it would remove a spec of dust from the eye of every other person on Earth

Maybe Eliezer has argued that too, but I doubt it. He has said it about a much, much, much larger number of people than everyone on Earth.
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Same with Boston to NYC, or the Northeast coast in general.
Maybe you disagree with some of the conclusions, but do you disagree with the methods it preaches? Ie. reductionism, awareness of our biases, bayesian inference.

There do seem to be a lot of extreme viewpoints on LessWrong, so I think it is justified to take those extreme viewpoints with a grain of salt. But I also think that the core beliefs/approaches are valid, and so that should be factored in to how big a grain of salt you take things with.
I'm not sure what you mean. I've been following LessWrong for a while now, but I've never seen that Slate article before. I should be clear that most posters do not agree with the idea itself, as it is fairly absurd. What's more interesting are the thought processes that might lead one to consider such an idea, which are in full evidence throughout the site.
I recommend giving The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell (yes, he wrote what amounts to a self-help book) a read. Despite being outdated by a long while, it's still pretty relevant and useful imo.

https://archive.org/details/TheConquestOfHappiness
Really? Why? What exactly is wrong with lesswrong? Please be specific.
I think they're probably a little too focused on the Bayesian interpretation, but yes, the site has plenty of good content. In particular, it is a really excellent way of finding effective charities. Where the site goes astray is that it has its own preconceived biases--e.g. its priors for the eventual development of a transhuman AI.
Making Cairo C API a C++ standard, through automatic conversion, looks all kinds of wrong to me. The result is not properly generified like Boost GIL, and it carries vaguely defined implementation details like for example font hinting style from freetype (not even cairo library itself). I hope this and the ABI proposal will never make it as the C++ TS or standard.
Perhaps I missed something but I was under the impression only those Christians who would be unwilling to pay the Jizya tax would be killed.

Not that I'm condoning what's happening there, but the title seems a bit sensationalist.
I agree with the grain of salt, but you're being overly dismissive. Calling them a cult surely is over the top.

It's just a bunch of grumpy nerds with a somewhat hardline "rational" fanaticism, who love to spend late dark nights on the internet reasoning about stuff.
Aside from the higher resolution, this doesn't seem very compelling compared to the various On-Lap products from GeChic (http://www.gechic.com/product_en.asp) or other manufacturers. In fact, it's actually inferior in every way outside of resolution. So what makes this so good?

My complaints:

- Display Port is a tough sell considering that it's not standard on all laptops. Especially when competing products use USB or HDMI.

- I don't see a mention of the type of screen used so I assume it's TN and not IPS.

- Lack of various extra features since this is just a screen (ex: touch, battery, selection of sizes).

- Not competitively priced.

I'm also sceptical of their gaming claim.

> Since Packed Pixels utilises DisplayPort connectivity you can perform full frame-rate activities such as video playback or gaming.

All other products on the market can handle gaming, but only for low frame rate games. Unless they show a spec sheet with drastically improved response times, they will end up with the same result in reviews that all other similar products have with regards to gaming - not fast enough.
Sure, it's probable that I'm misremembering the exact numbers. Though I realize that the numbers are critical to the proposition from his perspective, I think the fact that he would consider it at all probably differentiates his worldview from that of a lot of people.
I agree with your remarks. One reason, however, why I still enjoy reading articles on the site from time to time is that they almost always make me think. Their perspectives, however flawed, have the merit of being strongly coherent, and trying to find what's wrong with an article turns out to be a very good exercise in judgment.
And there are people who sincerely believe cryonics is some sort of weird pipe dream. Can you believe it?
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Extroversion is among the best predictors of happiness,

Well of course it is! No one ever meets the shy happy people because they never go out!
Percentage based statistics are just as misleading. To me this data only says that personal/adspam/squatter zones are growing at a faster rate than those with integrity considerations. In raw numbers, adoption is growing.
The consensus is that DANE requires 2048 zsk, which none of the big players are using to my knowledge. In that regard, I think DANE is easier to replace at this point.
You mean bombarding civil population (look at children death toll) that is 100% palestinians and has nowhere to run because Israel (and Egypt) have closed the borders, is not a genocide? Please define "genocide", maybe my definition is wrong.
Consider it may be an extrovert making an observation regarding the different states of joy, the emotion. While I certainly bring myself joy at times, I find it more easily found in the company of others, or in the presence of something new to me.
Chain smoker's widow awarded $23bn in punitive damages in Florida
Seems like they are similar but different.
Since most people at that point would declare bankruptcy, if house prices dropped by enough to make it really worth their while to do that, banks would be screwed (since they have at most 2% reserve).

If banks are screwed, companies and countries can no longer roll over debt (for example in the US that would mean the Federal government would have to raise tax to 100%, and even then it would take a year before they could spend a single dollar again). The US state would be bankrupt in less than a month if interest rates rose to about 5%. Europe would be bankrupt in less than a month if interest rates rose to less than 2% (because they'd have to replace cheap loans with expensive ones they can't pay. The alternative is to pay back the money, but you know, if you can't pay 1% of the money, it seems unlikely that you can pay 100%).

Most companies also roll over debt. Most companies are not like Google and Facebook. So if this happened, and they could not roll over debt, companies like Exxon Mobil, GM, ... would simply be bankrupt. Since most people who have jobs have jobs at companies like these ...

Why do they do it this way ? It's the modern way of printing money. They switched to it because giving the state direct control of the money printers has always led to collapse. At the end of the 19th century, it was leading to constant collapses of currencies, sometimes 5 years or less apart. These collapses came with revolutions, wars, ... very ugly. So now we have the loan system.

Now I guess we see who's smarter : the US/Europe who "loan" money, or China who prints whenever they feel like. There's a few other tiny banking systems that feel they should get a second chance (seems even more lunatic than the China way to me though). History has not yet shown how the Western system can fail, but it has shown time and again that the system China is currently using blows up. "This time it's different", well let me give the standard answer every economist gives : "that could very well be true &lt;chuckle&gt;".

Money only works as long as it's mostly not spent, but in can rotate through the system indefinitely. So as long as the circle "banks -> companies -> people -> houses -> banks" works, with the central bank controlling how much money banks have to keep inflation stable ... Parliaments and dictators have shown themselves incapable of this. But of course, the western system is effectively a system that is an unknown. Every system fails at some point, we may very well be at the point where the western loan system fails.

But I don't think so. History would seem to indicate China has some room to grow, but will collapse into chaos before a few decades pass. The western system will probably carry on until it doesn't. But that could be millenia away as far as we know.
>Virtually no important services on the Internet rely on DNSSEC.

Don't know about "important", but many governments including the U.S. consider it important enough to deploy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSSEC#Deployment
http://fedv6-deployment.antd.nist.gov/
I think that there could exist an introverted happy person who only seeks out happy things on the Internet. That wasn't possible before now.
I got one of the Motorola lapdocks for $50. They were meant to adapt an Android phone (Atrix or Bionic) to a laptop form factor, but with micro HDMI and USB keyboard/trackpad they're popular accessories for the Raspberry Pi. But they can also be used as just an HDMI display, either as a second monitor or with something like a Chromecast, Roku, etc.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/USED-Motorola-Droid-Bionic-Lapdock-/...

http://fortysomethinggeek.blogspot.com/2013/05/cheap-portabl...
I felt happy when I decided not to read the article :)
Where have Drexler's nanobots been credibly discredited?
If you are already an introvert, developing the skills to be an extrovert will let you have the choice & flexibility to jump between the two whenever you want to.

There's nothing wrong with feeling comfortable being alone (indeed that's a good skill to have, and not everyone has that). But there may come a time when you would like to be more extroverted occasionally & make more friends. If you don't build that skill now, you'll find it more difficult to be extroverted at the times when you need it.
Ok, I'll bite. What is wrong with bstring and what do you think is a better replacement? I tried to look up criticism on Google about bstrlib and found nothing. I've used bstring in several applications without problem. I have started using antirez's sds though for newer applications.
Play fair.

> His core beliefs include that the obvious goal of the human race is immortality

"We should be allowed to live as long as we want to." Emphasis on the want. I don't find that very controversial.

> that it is justifiable to kill a man if it would remove a spec of dust from the eye of every other person on Earth

No, the setup was one person's torture for 50 years (not death), or specks of dust in the eyes of 3^^^3 people. How much is 3^^^3 people?

* 3^3 = 27.
* 3^^3 = (3^(3^3)) = 3^27 = 7625597484987.
* 3^^^3 = (3^^(3^^3)) = 3^^7625597484987 = (3^(3^(3^(... 7625597484987 times ...)))).

"3^^^3 is an exponential tower of 3s which is 7,625,597,484,987 layers tall. You start with 1; raise 3 to the power of 1 to get 3; raise 3 to the power of 3 to get 27; raise 3 to the power of 27 to get 7625597484987; raise 3 to the power of 7625597484987 to get a number much larger than the number of atoms in the universe, but which could still be written down in base 10, on 100 square kilometers of paper; then raise 3 to that power; and continue until you've exponentiated 7625597484987 times. That's 3^^^3. It's the smallest simple inconceivably huge number I know." [1]

That's a monumentally different setup than mere 7 billion humans on Earth. And it's making a point about the cold cruel calculus of moral utilitarianism, a very common and popular ethical position. Your disgust is precisely his rhetorical point...

(Edit: ...about human heuristics and biases getting in the way of the moral calculus of utilitarianism. If you are a utilitarianist, there is some cutoff of X independent people -- for some very large X -- for which it is better to save that many people a slight inconvenience at the expense of 50 years of torture for one individual. This follows straight from the math of finite utilitarianism. Yudkowsky's position of trusting the math over intuition may not be intuitive for most people, but I'd be surprised if a HN reader did not agree at least with the methodology.)

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/kn/torture_vs_dust_specks/
HTTPS should remain genuinely optional on the web
I think the point npsimons was trying to make is there is selection bias in that statement, so it really says nothing about how many happy introverts there are.

I'm an introvert, for example, and generally very happy (but that's anecdotal evidence, which is also not helpful).
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Exactly! When it comes to crypto apps, I have noticed two kinds of criticism: "This software is not built for the threat models that interest me" and "This software fails to properly address the threat model it claims to". Too often, commenters will act as though their critique belongs in the second category when it really belongs in the first.

(It's great to question the design goals of a project! But that's very different from saying that a project fails to do what it says. In this case, Minilock has very clearly accepted a threat model where, if the passphrase is compromised, that's the game. If you don't like that, don't use it!)
Pagerduty:
http://blog.pagerduty.com/2013/12/outage-post-mortem-dec-11-...

Swedish banks:

http://www.alandsbanken.se/

http://www.dnssecandipv6.se/bankdns/

I'm not really backing the DNSSEC horse but I figured I'd point out that they exist and are not super uncommon. Also as the person starting the argument, you should be the one providing evidence.
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The federal government is also one of the leading deployers of X.509 PKI.
The assumption is that the researchers accounted for any sort of selection bias in who participates in the study. But that's an interesting point; maybe that assumption needs to be questioned further.
The number of DNS resolutions that occur in the US and Europe that use DNSSEC is, as a fraction of all DNS resolutions, below the noise floor. That's the correct metric, by the way: DNSSEC in use.

DNSSEC realists are curmudgeonly about this stuff in part because DNSSEC advocates have been saying things like "DNSSEC is growing" since nineteen ninety-nine.

DANE is even worse than plain-old DNSSEC. For those of you who don't know what it is: DANE allows the DNS to vouch for your certificates. In other words: whoever controls the DNS roots effectively controls your certificates.

You can in some sense sum up the cryptographic competence of DNSSEC by observing, as you have, that many of its largest deployers still use RSA-1024. If you have any actual interest in cryptography, here's a fun little research project: go find out the padding format those deployments use. :)
Great product but I'd love for you to talk more about the product and less about the world of information, without piano music. There are way too many Steve Jobs keynotes on kickstarter and it's a terrible cliche.