skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Punitive damages are awarded to the plaintiff, however that amount will be severely reduced by the judge or appeals due to the laws you mentioned.
Agreed. I'd go further to say that if you are naturally extroverted, it would be worthwhile to develop some ability to feel comfortable while being alone.

I know some people that go stir crazy when there is no one to interact with. That seems sub-optimal if you want to be truly happy.
No, it's available on the "Ultimate" edition of windows too, which is for home use. Many higher-end Windows machines come with it already installed.
Good point. Maybe thinking of a debate in steps? Some way of aggregating main positions and then allowing users to frame themselves in these if they want to or post an alternative, not yet aggregated opinion.
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"Are there privacy issues since the cards use analytics and tracking?
No, swivelCard uses the same sort of analytics and tracking that you would encounter with virtually any website."

I would replace that "No" by a "Yes". Also, educate me: does "virtually any website" do tracking?
I felt happy when I downvoted your casual dismissal :)

[Edit: that's not true, I felt happy before I downvoted, when I imagined downvoting.]
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I believe the challenge is not only security but a successful identity validation protocol. We've been working on different approaches, including looking at blockchain. How to distribute securely id validation is our main concern.
Yes, Android has a service that's always listening for NFC and can pass it off to an app... if NFC is enabled. On my phone it was disabled by default.
People seem to be massively confused about what iBeacon is. It's a thing which emits a signal which can be picked up by the device, and notify an application which has registered to receive it, which requires user approval; the application can then do something. It doesn't monitor devices.
Display Port is the only way to push that many pixels at 60 FPS, HDMI and USB just don't support it (there is a variation of HDMI that is supposed to support it, but I don't know any manufacturer that actually uses it)

> I'm also sceptical of their gaming claim.

Assuming they are using a tablet screen, using DisplayPort makes gaming support trivial.

> Especially when competing products use USB

BTW this is why many are slow, doing USB leaves a lot of work on your end and often a delay.
Regarding authentication it only mentions performance and block failure. It seems that your company does use encrypted DMGs, so are these problem mitigated by having a larger encrypted unit size and reliable data storage?
"You've been randomly selected for a screening" is a bunch of bull. It's sure as hell not entirely random.
I should get in the litigation line. Maybe I can win eleventy-zillion dollars!
That looks like 1000 units + some breathing room.

Reasonable starting point for mass production.
That could apply to a lot of things: sugary foods, alcohol, soda. I'm not sure how it has worked in the US but in the UK there have been warnings not he cigarette boxes since the 70's.

Edit:

Just checked how it worked in the US. These messages appeared on packaging:

1966-1970: Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health

1970-1985: Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined that Cigarette Smoking is Dangerous to Your Health

After that there are several more informative ones including specific illnesses that smoking can cause.

So the entire time this man smoked there were warnings on the box that smoking was bad for his health - he ignored them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7192044

I don't know what'd be a better replacement; it depends so much on the use case. I'd say there is no one-size-fits-all solution to string handling in C. For most code which occassionally deals with strings but isn't really focusing on text, the usual standard library functions and BSD extensions are just fine. I mean malloc, free, strdup, strlcat, strlcpy, strchr, strstr, snprintf, and so on.

For my code editor, I wrote my own dynamic text buffer with the goal of supporting large files with binary data in it. This is highly application specific code and wouldn't make a good general purpose string library.

I skimmed through the bstring code long ago, and I recall seeing quite a bit of questionable or hairy code. But abusing undefined behavior for security purpose was the final stake so I gave up and decided I do not want to use or endorse that library. Also, using ints for string lengths is just stupid if your code ever has to interact with the outside world. Why does bstring do this?

EDIT: Actually, let me just quote the (in)security statement here:

> Bstrlib is, by design, impervious to memory size overflow attacks. The
reason is it is resiliant to length overflows is that bstring lengths are
bounded above by INT_MAX, instead of ~(size_t)0. So length addition
overflows cause a wrap around of the integer value making them negative
causing balloc() to fail before an erroneous operation can occurr.
Besides time, what's to keep a collective of authors from publishing $3.99 and below copies of things like college textbooks? I don't mean bit for bit copies, but newly written works. Also, such books wouldn't be accredited, but in the long run, that might not matter as much as their being good.

This gets me to thinking: should classes like English still be about disseminating culture? Or should it be about examining it? I don't think culture needs disseminating as much as it needs examination anymore.
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Moo.com already have nfc business cards. And I really don't see the USB part being remotely useful.
Why do you assume that you can withstand government censorship longer than Google? I'm really curious - sometimes size is good, sometime it isn't.
The full report, as linked from boingboing write-up:
http://authorearnings.com/july-2014-author-earnings-report/

Money quote: "What our data strongly suggests is that DRM harms ebook sales at any price point."
I think it's important to share the context behind this project:

I work on the Data team of an acquired startup, working a lot with business/product people. We communicate a lot through internal chat (Hipchat!) and get a lot of requests for adhoc data.

We (the data people) would then run these quick queries, export the results and send over to them in email (CSV).

I find this process very cumbersome, as they'd have to open their email, download the CSV and load them into Excel to be able to see them. Sometimes it's just a small table, and doing this is really inefficient.

That's why we made ShareCSV: They (Product/Marketing/Business) just get a link to click, and most of the time they'll see the numbers they need without having to download anything (and having Excel/OpenOffice to open them).
I had the same reaction, but it's mostly because I didn't know the actual definition of punitive damages, and that I therefore thought she had just been made (almost) as rich as Mark Zuckerberg.

According to Wikipedia: Although the purpose of punitive damages is not to compensate the plaintiff, the plaintiff will receive all or some portion of the punitive damage award.

Still, that's an impressive number.
I've read many articles and books on this subject and not a single one of them had any effect on my life. It's usually just a list of things that - according to the author (and every author of course has different opinion) - will make you happy. It's bullshit, there is no "golden solution" for everyone. Reading such articles will make you even more unhappy, because now you've the whole list of things and you feel like if you don't achieve them all, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
So annoying 3^^^3 people "for a fraction of a second, barely enough to make them notice" is worse than horribly torturing a single person for 50 years?

Keep in mind that the 3^^^3 dust specks are spread across 3^^^3 people and their annoyance can't be simply added together.
What do you mean "good, bad, utilitarian"? Good and bad are descriptions we attach to causal causes which lead to outcomes with higher (good) or lower (bad) utility.

Having either my friend have dust in his eye or some stranger tortured are outcomes with less utility in my book than the counterfactual default. Actions which lead to these outcomes are bad, actions which prevent or provide restitution are good.

I don't know what you are getting at with a recursive relationship between observers and observed systems.
I joined a startup wholly-owned by GOWEX 5 months ago. A startup that is now defunct.

I know it sounds crazy but we all believed those numbers, we were happy, money everywhere.

But from time to time one of my mental alarms would go off, and I would just ignore it. "What could possibly be wrong with this company? It's a publicly-traded company, after all."

The moral of the story is: pay attention to your instincts.
> and their annoyance can't be simply added together

Why not?

EDIT: Serious question. If I save two lives that is twice as good as saving one, right? Why is this situation different?
I have no idea - but I'm curious to find out why you need to fork thousands of repos?
You're confusing things that are good when explaining with things that are good when optimizing.

Simplicity is a huge explanatory advantage, because simple things generally have exponentially higher prior probabilities. But simplicity is only a minor advantage, or even a disadvantage, when you want to make something efficient. It's too constraining.

The dumb algorithm still works... it just takes longer. Nature took nonillions of cells and trillions of generations to make something intelligent; we'd prefer something a bit less brute force.
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You could build it on text files, but it's still a database... so I think the answer is a pretty clear no.
>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.

The ECB doesn't want them gone. In both cases (and in Italy too) parties or individuals that have genuinely expressed a desire to renegotiate their deal with the ECB or leave the Euro if that failed have been destroyed.

In Italy's case, Berlusconi was replaced with an unelected technocrat the second he made a move in that direction. They did a lot of behind the scenes dirty work to make that happen on the day it happened. I'm not sure how they made him resign, but it seems like blackmail might have been involved.

In Greece's case there were TWO parties that promised to renegotiate their deal with the EU and the vote was basically split between them. The EU backed one and said that disaster would strike if the other got elected. The former won and promptly broke its promise.

In Cyprus's case, the ECB offered an ultimatum that threatened to blow up the Cypriot economy literally 2 hours after the new prime minister had been elected into office. If he didn't cram down losses on depositors, they'd yank OMT. This one is perhaps the most shameful of all. They targeted him at that point because they knew they could make him panic, force his hand and get him to react the way they wanted. Cyprus was most likely a test to see how European citizens would react to cramdowns (they're tiny; bailing them out would have been trivial, so it wasn't about the cost of making them whole).

The ECB is run by an unelected commission who work largely behind the scenes. They work only for the benefit of European banks, and against the interests of all EU citizens, whether in the core or the periphery.
8. Find your purpose and live it. One benefit of religion may be that it gives people a sense of meaning and purpose. Without a magical deity to give you purpose, though, you'll have to find out for yourself what drives you. It may take a while to find it though, and you may have to dip your hands and mind into many fields. But once you find a path that strongly motivates you and fulfills you, take it. (Of course, you might not find one purpose but many.) Having a strong sense of meaning and purpose has a wide range of positive effects.41 The 'find a purpose' recommendation also offers an illustration of how methods may differ in importance for people. 'Find a purpose' is not always emphasized in happiness literature, but for my own brain chemistry I suspect that finding motivating purposes has made more difference in my life than anything else on this list.

I think that's the biggest factor of my happiness. I have a long-term open source project that I believe in and I work on it in all my spare time. Little by little, it's getting closer to one day being very useful in many ways.
X = infinity?
Maybe extrovert people just don't want to admit they're unhappy, because there's such a high social pressure to be happy all the time - people don't want to spend time with unhappy people, so everyone pretends they're happy. Introverts on the other hand just don't care :)
Raytracing is the art of tracing a ray.

Pathtracing is the art of tracing paths of rays using raytracing.
Displayport is also gonna work 100% at that resolution. It's looks like it's gonna be a popular standard going forward.
These guys need to re-record this video several times until it's not painfully obvious that he's reading off a script. There's no emotion in his delivery at all; he sounds super bored.

This also seems like a solution desperately looking for a problem to solve.
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I cannot repro. See this transcript:

http://pastebin.com/y958QtWh

By the way:

$ man mount
MOUNT(8) System Administration MOUNT(8)

NAME
mount - mount a filesystem

SYNOPSIS
<snip>
defaults
Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async.
<snip>
I'm a beginner, so forgive me if this is stupid, but consider using Disqus - https://disqus.com/.
“Basically a lot of people have to die” for Digital Democracy
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I've seen NFC stickers retail for around $0.50 each.
Communism is extreme socialism. Ask a socialist, they're essentially one in the same. This point does not change what the article is saying. It's the same policies, same effects.
There's a small typo on the homepage: "chrarge" should be "charge", I presume.
It's easier for two people to cope with one bad experience each than for one guy to cope with two bad experiences.
Microsoft just gifted the world’s most promising mobile phone market to Google
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It's funny but this article is actually the strongest evidence of cult behaviour. Teaching you how to be "happy" is pretty much the initial selling point of almost every cult out there. Just walk by any Scientology building.

Also from the wiki you linked [1]

> Some people familiar with the LessWrong memeplex have suffered serious psychological distress after contemplating basilisk-like ideas — even when they're fairly sure intellectually that it's a silly problem.[5] The notion is taken sufficiently seriously by some LessWrong posters that they try to work out how to erase evidence of themselves so a future AI can't reconstruct a copy of them to torture

Wow either that article is hyperbolizing this or... wow.

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk#The_LessWrong...

[5] (reference from the quote) http://lesswrong.com/lw/fq3/open_thread_december_115_2012/80...
Dokuwiki is a flat file based wiki, and there is a discussion plugin for it, maybe that might give you some insight

https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:discussion

Though I think you could get the messages in a flat file (heck, BBSs did that since the 70s) though having a small db or some sort of link lists for user access, message indexing and such would probably add to the speed of the system.
Assumed independence. You are talking about a strictly different setup. Assume that these individuals don't know each other.
I tend to agree with you. I find that certain people I know who are extroverts always seem happy, but you spend enough time with them and get to know them, it's more or less a facade and they're not any more or less happy than others. Just like anything else I don't believe this to be universal, but it may be more common than advertised.
Great article. I think that the main point is always being busy doing what you like, namely, in the "flow" the author describes.
This definitely seems like the most efficient route to go -- a LapDock for the Atrix runs $100, and every commercial alternative here is far more expensive.

Only shame is that the Lapdock 100 is unusable for it.
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. You said that there wouldn't be anyone trafficked for prostitution if it was legal, but humans are trafficked to work in fields like construction.
Very useful. Certainly quicker than uploading to Google Docs, Zoho Office, and other workalike services.

It would be much more useful if it had user accounts, though. One might want to edit or delete an uploaded file.
Assuming Everything Goes Perfectly Well
This is a really fascinating subject, and as of last year I had read through essentially all the major papers in the area, implemented the central algorithms, and given a few more-or-less casual talks on it.

There are two things that strike me as very different about topological data analysis. The first and primary thing is that it's not a silver bullet by any means. It's not like most machine learning and data mining, where you pick some parameters and wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am you have 80% accuracy. No, this kind of analysis gives you qualitative features of your data, and after all the topology is done there's still years of work before you arrive at a mathematical model that admits an algorithm that has accuracy comparable to the state of the art.

An interesting case study in this is Carlsson's work on texture classification. They ran their 3x3 image-patch database through their topological analysis algorithms and it said (essentially) "your data looks like a Klein bottle!" That sounds interesting and fun, but how can you actually use that to do anything? This followup paper [1] then gave an actual model of image patches as a Klein bottle, but even then there is still a ton of math to trudge through (specifically, functional analysis and differential geometry) before they actually got to an algorithm, and it still wasn't strictly better than the leading methods. The real benefit seems to be entirely in the science part of everything. They have a novel hypothesis for how the world acts which is demonstrably accurate. It's not like a support vector machine with well-chosen features where it's as useful as a black box in terms of understanding the world.

The second thing is that this field has legitimate and nontrivial results that come from category theory, eventually leading to algorithms or proofs that you can't hope for an algorithm. Carlsson has a nice survey for starers [2]. So everyone who loves to talk about category theory and programming on the internet now has a less abstract quiver of arrows (pun intended, if you're familiar with this research area).

[1]: http://comptop.stanford.edu/u/preprints/KleinBottleTextureAn...
[2]: http://www.ayasdi.com/_downloads/Topology_and_Data.pdf
Good stuff.

There's one "killer feature" you could add, though: .XLS/.XLSX(/.ODS) export that works better than Excel's notoriously terrible CSV import wizard.

That would make it instantly possible to continue analyzing the data in Excel if such a thing is required.
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Hmm, equation 5 bugs me. I like the model that being less happy can drag down other people, but this directly implies that being more happy drags your own life down, which I feel is antithetical to the definition of happiness.

I think this stuff is really cool though, and I really like where you're going!

Do you have proposed units for the quantities in your equations?
0 - 4.99%
5 - 9.99%
10 - 14.99%
15 - 19.99%
20 - 24.99%
25 - 29.99%
30 - 34.99%
35 - 39.99%
40 - 44.99%
45 - 49.99%
50 - 54.99%
55 - 59.99%
60 - 64.99%
65 - 69.99%
70 - 74.99%
75% or more
I don't think infinity equals infinity. Not in the general mathematical sense anyway.
A real keyboard for programmers?
There probably was some point at which technologists still exchanged physical business cards but wanted people to access their digital content, but I get the sense that the physical card is decidedly on the way out, in favor of people directly connecting on Twitter or Github. It seems like, at least in the tech sector, the period when this would have been useful is already over.
I don't think he is making the assumption that they know each other.

Each individual has a tolerance of what they can comfortably cope with. If 3^^^3 people were all experiencing a pain that is below that tolerance, nobody would be prevented from happiness. However in the other situation, the tortured individual clearly would be.
It also stems from potential gain, you only have to look to former colonies to see this. It's much harder to subjugate a people if you view them as equals.
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There are also a bunch of apps for the iPad (and other tablets I'm sure) that'll do more or less exactly this over wifi, which will probably perform adequately (for some tasks).

Way to not watch the video at all. He addresses WiFi as unsuitable both because it has too slow refresh rate, and because on any site with firewall-restricted-WiFi it doesn't work at all.
Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5153895
Many companies have policies disallowing any foreign USB-Sticks. This diminishes the value of this concept in a professional environment significantly.
I have been following intelliPaper [1] for a few years now ever ever since a close friend quit his job to go hack on this full time with a small team bringing the technology to market with manufacturing in the USA. It really is a cool story about what goes into the product they have today [2] and some of the challenges the company has gone through to get where they are, including having to survive a flood in manufacturing! [3]. For all those of you that work in manufacturing you know first hand the challenges that goes into ramping up production to more than 500,000 units a month [4]. Drop a quick note to the CEO Andrew DePaula and give him support[5], little words of encouragement mean alot to all of us pursuing our passion - and these guys are! I wish intelliPaper the best.

Update: There is little publicly available information about what is inside intellipaper. There is a small note from cypress [6] that enCoRe V USB microcontroller might be used. They should bring out an additional contact and make the 10-bit ADC accessible! I'd put a little DMM app in my business card, or add a long wire and do a SDR radio. now that would be cool.

[1] https://www.intellipaper.info/

[2] https://www.intellipaper.info/technology/

[3] http://www.krem.com/news/Edwall-businesses-clean-up--2460786...

[4] http://www.spokanejournal.com/local-news/intellipaper-ramps-...

[5] https://twitter.com/intelliPaper

[6] http://www.cypress.com/?rID=94593
> in a morbid attempt at fun

That's what I'm basing my comment on and what we're discussing. If the OP is wrong is another discussion but I don't see any room for interpretation here.

> maybe he was just throwing a rock to see it jump?

Are you seriously saying it's OK to throw rocks at cows?

> should

According to who? My grandfather was a prison governor and a pioneer in treating prisoners humane. Before his time the general thought was to "throw them in a cell with only water and bread". So I definitely know this discussion very well and I still believe the punishment itself could be an end goal.