skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related: Posing as neutral Red Cross health workers to infiltrate a hostage camp. The Colombian government did this to rescue a high profile hostage. Most didn't seem to mind, some thought it was clever and honorable to do so. Now it's even more dangerous for all those, present and future, who work for the Red Cross or are wounded/taken hostage in battle. But so what? The Red Cross and the wounded don't get you reelected.
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There's no link to the first study, but I'm pretty sure the results of the Cleveland Fed are a result of the batty definition of gentrification used:

"For the purpose of this analysis, I will say a neighborhood is gentrifying if it is located in the central city of a metropolitan area and it goes from being in the bottom half of the distribution of home prices in the metropolitan area to the top half between 2000 and 2007. Housing prices are a good measure of gentrification since they provide a summary of the various amenities in the neighborhood. Changes in neighborhood amenities such as increases in school quality or decreases in crime should be reflected in changes in neighborhood home prices."

Again: Entirely based on home prices (reasonable), but not on home price improvement, but instead based on passing from the lower half of the entire distribution of prices in a metropolitan area to the upper half. This could happen if housing prices declined in an area if the mean price in the metro declined slightly faster. This is not what normal people are talking about when they refer to gentrification.
- Can't edit anywhere beside the machine that has your source & access to server.

- Refactor your posts' tag? You need to manually edit all your post one by one.

- Refactor your theme? Same thing as above

- You can't have dynamic content, ever.
Most of the more complex shaders on shadertoy are raymarching signed distance fields. There are a good amount of resources covering this technique. A couple of recommendations:

http://9bitscience.blogspot.com/2013/07/raymarching-distance...

http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/raymarchingdf/raymarc... (from Inigo Quilez, founder of shadertoy)

http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=8177&page=1

I gave a talk at NYU a few years ago about raymarching signed distance fields which is available here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXFEOI2SsNY)

One of the best ways to start understanding shader toy shaders is to modify or remove code and run it. This way you can visualize what functions in the shader contribute to the image, and in what ways. In some of the more complex shaders there can be almost random looking strings of math to generate a procedural texture or a specific post process effect, and breaking these down can help you gain an intuitive understanding of how to "paint with math".
Interesting service, but your UX could be better on big screens (haven't tested on phone/tablet). I click on one of the tabs like Genre or Year and I'm presented with the 1500+ pixels wide hodgepodge of tags. It's very hard to read and puts a lot of mental strain on visitor to scan through that list of tags and find the one of interest.
> People are naive, myself included - no one knows what it takes to keep people safe. Look at the world around you and see whats going on and don't take it for granted.

So you're saying we need a government babysitter then? Sure, there are some things you need a government to help protect you from. How, though, is reading all my emails and recording all my phone calls keeping ME safe? Are they protecting me from myself? No. It's an excuse for the powers that be to control the population and expand their power.

You hear that NSA? You're a bunch of schmucks. I don't care how many watchlists you have me on.
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Ad hominem, appeal to emotion, guilt by association, and straw man.

Although to be fair that's the fallacy fallacy.
I'd love to know how you got the initial data on your servers. Did you just do a massive API scrape of IMDB, Amazon, Netflix etc? How do you keep it up to date?
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> believe in induction

Does it even make sense for someone to not believe in induction? It's a perfectly valid logical rule.
There is a more technical discussion about the new undefined behavior in the mailing list, when it was incorporated: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2014-April/062148...
I don't think gentrification is happening in dangerous and unsafe neighborhoods. It's my opinion that is where many displaced residents move. Note: opinion, not fact.

I actually agree with your overall point - unless you own, you shouldn't feel entitled to stay. You should, however, be entitled to a safe neighborhood and legitimate opportunity.
With a non-primed cache, your site gave me >1s for DOMContentReady consistently. OP's never reached 700ms. The main HTML page alone of this post[1] takes ~280ms here.

[1] http://pothibo.com/2013/11/rails-journey-dispatch-to-the-con...
> Look at the world around you and see whats going on and don't take it for granted.

This statement is so ironic that it is almost dumbfounding. Look up the term "blowback". The U.S. (in particular, our bellicose foreign policy and insatiable appetite for oil) is the originator of many if not all of the geopolitical disasters which jeopardize our national security. That is to say, the security apparatus that Snowden has so deftly undermined is in large part responsible for creating the very phenomenon it claims to counteract. I don't care who he's working for, the fact that hundreds of millions of people around the world are now aware of this fact, including a large number of Americans, makes him a hero.
Seems to me the lack of finesse is a pretty clear indication he was working unplanned and alone.
The concerns were public in IRC, github discussions and on the wiki, with a proposal to fix it: https://wiki.tox.im/Proposal:Slvr_Protocol_Rewrite

I did not imply that the issue raised was not valid, only that the pressure to quit was with troll(s) wielding dox and wub is being disingenuous like always with his concern trolling.
In the researchers’ prototype, however, display pixels do have to be masked from the parts of the pupil for which they’re not intended. That requires that a transparency patterned with an array of pinholes be laid over the screen, blocking more than half the light it emits.
If I were the shooter I'd visibly flip a coin before walking to the penalty point. I'd try to equally scan both sides of the goal, and do a neutral run-up that hopefully wouldn't give away which side I picked.

This would neutralize most mindgames, statistical analysis and self-doubts.
I doubt he's working for the Russians either, but the damaging effect of the disclosures might be worth more to Russia than the actual intelligence itself.
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That depends what you call a "fair" internet. There is a large body of people who don't believe Wikipedia embodies any kind of fairness. There are also many people who are trying to provide better information than Wikipedia. I have my own claim in that area and am happy to support others who see Wikipedia's failures for what they are -- right here, right now -- rather than some imaginary future ideal. Whatever the case, I don't think it is right for Wikipedia to claim special privileges and considerations based on utopian goals that will never happen -- that's politics not progress.
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That's only one of the aspects that those pop-sciency articles like to ignore.
See above. Short version: We should all be wary of crap software that claims special exemptions due to lofty goals.
AFAIK, it's possible yes but you would need to have the distance of the eye from the display (maybe through webcam?) and the inverse required to achieve it may yield poor results depending on your aberration.

In their case they are sysnthesizing a light field which inverses the aberration everywhere, you'd be doing a inverse filter specifically for your viewpoint.

I don't know how good the results would be in practice, would I would like to see someone try.
- Can't edit anywhere beside the machine that has your source & access to server.

Not true. OP himself hosts his source on Github, so not only he has access to it everywhere, as he can edit it from any machine with a browser.

- Refactor your posts' tag? You need to manually edit all your post one by one.

- Refactor your theme? Same thing as above

Not true. Static site generation engines like Pelican (which OP uses) can do it for you.

- You can't have dynamic content, ever.

You can with JavaScript (or by integrating a third-party service, though that's cheating a bit).
It's cool, it's trendy, but no. It's not more practical, or quicker to load, or... Maybe more secure, but to make a blog simple dynamic blog secure is easier than to understand how to generate a static blog with something like Pelican.

I actually only see downsides:

* I can't write from another computer easily, or a tablet, or a phone...

* I can't easily add options like a search engine, comments (disqus is pretty bad for SEO I presume), most read post, etc...

* I have to use a setup everytime I want to write. I have to open a text editor, I have to launch a terminal and go through command lines to generate the blog again and I have to upload/commit,push the new generated files.
Atlassian is very OSS friendly and provides unlimited user open source licenses for all of their products: https://www.atlassian.com/opensource/overview

EDIT: That is to say, they provide a special unlimited license for all of their products to OSS projects.
More often than not when I open a photo on my phone I want to share it with someone or I'm showing it to them in person. It makes total sense to have sharing functionality right there.
I can't write from another computer easily, or a tablet, or a phone...

Login to Github, edit file?
2 thoughts:

1) None of the accounts listed on the Mechanical Turk's HITs are pointing to everettforth

2) None of the accounts referenced in these HITs have a growing balance
Great article, I really look forward to future blogs about Haskell and web development. I'm also interested in how Haskell can improve my software for myself and my clients.

I've found the type system combined with using the repl to do iterative development to be a huge productivity and stability win.
What about a presidential pardon?
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Anyone have any comments or discussion on the meta64.com aggregator? I think the "Lean Back" (auto-scrolling) thing is cool, and the new "News Tab" lets you brows news categories.

Full Disclosure: I am the developer, but this is not a for-profit venture.

http://meta64.com
What if he is an american Solzhenitsyn? Prosecution will be waived and he'll return to the USA, while disgruntled authoritarian rednecks will have no more leverage than just curse and mumble irrecognizably that it was him him him who brought the great country down.

Of course you still have to get a huge bubble popped first.

P. S. Military-industrial complex will be too busy selling factories for scraps to care.
Controversies like these make me glad I work in the field of programming...while arguments over what algorithm or frameworks work best are less sexy than what the sciences cover, at least with narrow claims, it's easier to concretely argue for one or the other...and then of course, if we're talking about open-source, then the errors of ambiguity are even scarcer.

It seems like a large part of the problem, at least in these psychological experiments, is that there isn't a structured/uniform way to describe preconditions, methodology, assumptions, and measurement practices...OK, so you used 40 undergraduate students for your original experiment...how did you pick them out? How were their characteristics accounted for (e.g. age/gender/major/health/etc)? Did any of them ever see the Trainspotting scene before? Have any of them ever seen a movie of equal grossness? How many minutes did you wait after showing them the Trainspotting scene? In what order did you hand out the questionnaire? How did you seat the students? etc. etc. etc. etc.

A totally honest researcher might have trouble enumerating and enforcing all of the different controls, never mind communicating them to other researchers. From the research papers I've read, the ability to communicate these facts doesn't seem to be of uniform quality.
It really should stay the "identity" part of Google services. Having a separate login for 12 different services offered by the same company is stupid.
> I also fundamentally disagree that removing choices is a good thing

You may want to revise that perspective. Besides constraints being key to creativity, they are also key to good design. Every design needs to limit options.

Additionally, it doesn't directly follow that society will have their decisions made by other people; and to the extent that it does, it's not necessarily a bad thing.

Once again: fewer options -- constraints -- are key in creativity.
From the the rough Google translation, does your card contain 64 fuses that can act as a unit of currency/credit? Authentication seems... minimal. =)
I'm wondering how Mr Snoden would compare to e.g. A Google employee stealing user e-mails and fleeing to China
I've recently gotten chip cards for some of my business CCs and they do not require a PIN. It's possible they'll introduce this later to ease the transition.
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The gambler's fantasy is a fantasy when you're trying to use it to predict a coin flip, not what another human will do. The penalty kicker has to make the same decision after looking at all previous results, and also may be making decisions about where to kick based on the direction of the previous kicks.

If the kickers attempt to second-guess the "this side is due for a kick" behavior by goalies, the goalies can try to second guess the kickers by knowing that they are intentionally trying to avoid even distributions over a moving historical window. It's the classic endless paper-rock-scissors strategy discussion.
Some ideas:

* Attach (old) smartphones to kangaroos, just catch them one a week to recharge the phone.

* Get a job as a carousel guard, and put the smartphones in the roof

* Get an electric engineer and modify the movement sensor
Some are smoother. The population is pretty diverse but mostly since solar radiation causes outgassing over the surface, it's likely to get shaken up a bit especially as bits pop off.
Image editing on the go
I use a static personal wiki, and I update it using SGit on my Android tablet (and any text editor, of course). Commit and push is just a couple of taps.
Use SSH, write scripts to facilitate bulk changes, do dynamic content with Javascript on the client side. If you need server-side logic, build some APIs and talk to them from the JS. Much cleaner than hacking additional features into off-the-shelf CMS/blog software.
It's not crazy to go barefoot/slippers in your home though.
I'm not the OP, but Deletionism [0] is a serious detriment to the idea of "sum of all human knowledge."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_i...
I agree with your title suggestion. The author phrases the problem in an intentionally misleading way: "They examined the fuselages of all the damaged planes that had flown back after being hit to see where the most damage was. It turned out that the engines had an average of 1.11 bullet holes per square foot, the fuel system had 1.55, the fuselages 1.73, and the rest of the plane 1.8."

He says that they checked to see where the most damage was, but really they were checking to see where the least damage was. If the planes were able to fly back with terrible damage to everything except for one part, then adding armor to that part is a pretty obvious solution.

On the other hand, figuring out exactly how much armor to add is much more complicated, because you have the constraints of weight, production time, etc, plus you have to have some kind of estimate for the effectiveness of the armor in actual combat. I would probably go with "Most Real-World Math Problems Do Not Have a Unique Right Answer".
The first link to IP sums up the misgivings I have with statically typed languages, that I could never quite put my finger on:

"If you’re using early-binding languages as most people do, rather than late-binding languages, then you really start getting locked in to stuff that you’ve already done. You can’t reformulate things that easily." -Alan Kay

The problem for me is not so much that a variable has a static type once it's been set. It's more that the variable shouldn't even exist in the first place. The way we concentrate so much on variables in C-based languages is really kind of absurd, once we stop to consider that they are only temporary holding sites for the flow of information.

I had never quite made the connection before that this is really the problem with the internet at large. We're focussing on websites, IP addresses, servers, etc, when really it's all about the information and the relationships and transformations that connect it.

The distributed internet that eventually replaces the one we pay for now will probably work more like a solver, so we'll create a request or query of some kind and the network will derive the solution, which most of the time will amount to simply fetching the data that matches a hash. It will be interesting to see what happens when we throw out archaic protocols like NAT that reduce everyone to second class netizens, and even abandon the idea of data bound to device or location, and think of it more as a medium like time or space where we can freely exchange ideas without having to depend on central points of failure or limiting protocols.

What kind of haunts me though is the leverage that this will give software. Imagine how much more powerful the internet is compared to, say, a library. Now imagine if instead of having one computer, with all the limitations we can’t even perceive anymore because we’ve been stuck in these limiting paradigms, we each have thousands or millions at our disposal. I picture it a bit like wolframalpha.com except with natural language processing, so you could ask it anything you wanted, and even if it couldn’t find the answer, it would do its best to reconstruct the missing pieces and get you close to your goal anyway. I just feel in my gut somehow that this will be part of the basis of artificial intelligence, and this general way of storing, retrieving and transforming information by hash, diff, or schema-less relationship and probability works from the lowest level logic gates and languages like Go up to big data APIs like Hadoop. Like maybe what we think of as intelligence is a subset of a universal problem solver. I guess that’s why I’m so interested in a free, distributed internet. It’s like right now what we think of as the internet is really the inside of a cage, and we can see out through the bars and imagine an ecosystem where countless ideas are evolving untamed.

I’m not sure if I’ve said anything at all here, but hey, it’s Saturday so might as well post it.
Meh, I had a friend using his Netwon as of last year. Not seriously, but he loved the little bastard and ran a shitty old shareware webserver at one point for me. It took forever, but I remember it working.

This was before he caved and used an iPhone smartphone, but we oft discussed how it was just too ahead of its time for the price tag. I think he got it, like other vintage equipment, especially Mac, by going for years to Rutgers University in NJ where his dad works and their IT infrastructure group was selling "this garbage" away because they had it in bulk and could not use it.

How I wish I took him up on his offer to go when we were college buddies. Sadly Rutgers has apparently stopped as he checks every year to check if we have one last shot.
Exactly - they want a Disneyfied experience, playing at being poor in a fake attempt at "authenticity" but unwilling to forego their luxuries. It's not that the working class shouldn't have good coffee - it's that the greasy spoon charged 20p for a polystyrene cup and the artisanal roaster charges £10 for an espresso and a cupcake, so the honest folks, in practice, have nowhere to go once the hipsters take over. Coffee, beer, groceries, then rent and then the swarm has completely won. But where do the former locals go?
One difference is that Solzhenitsyn never fled to US. He really cared for his country.
First you'd have to practice enough kicks to be equally good at each side. Most shooters have a preferred side of the goal.
It's hard to criticize well-intentioned efforts, but I think it's worth noting that there are a lot of assumptions being made about "founder depression."

Depression is often confused with anxiety disorders, and complicating matters, it's not uncommon for these to be co-occurring. A lot of the symptoms described in the recent posts by Sam Altman and TechCrunch on "founder depression" actually sound more like symptoms of anxiety disorders than they do symptoms of clinical depression.

Before an individual jumps to the conclusion that he or she is suffering from depression, it would be wise to seek help from a mental health professional who can make a proper diagnosis.
The fraud implications aside, as a Canadian living in the United States, I've always found the payment process much more pleasant with magstripe cards. Every time I go home, I find it incredibly inconvenient to have to dip my card in the chip reader, type in my 4 digit pin without feeling like the whole world is looking at me, and waiting for what seems like an eternity for the auth/capture to happen.

With magstripe cards, you just swipe and sign.
Don't get this, what's the point in 1 device being corrected while the rest of the real world is blurry?

One use case example was a guy in a car with GPS navigation. So he can then see the GPS nav but how does he drive if he can't see properly!?
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This was the point I was going to make. Even in this most recent world cup, we saw plenty of outright misses by shooters. Better to put it on frame and force the keeper to a save then to risk missing outright.
Partly the reason is contrast. The light reflecting off the surface is much brighter than the tail itself, if you wanted to catch the tail it would overexpose the nucleus.

Besides that, the comet tail is formed from the outgassing from the Sun-facing surface of the comet and then wrapped up in the magnetic field of the solar wind, so the bright stuff you see in the sky is usually something like 10 thousand (or more) kilometers away from the actual nucleus, the bright part you usually see from Earth around comet is the coma (nebulous gas) not the solid surface of the comet, with the tail extending out many hundreds of thousands of kilometers behind it, though technically the tail will extend as far as the solar wind carries it once it's entrained in it :)
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So if I get it right:

Say you have elementary concepts A, B and C. Combinations of these concepts also give something, e.g. AB, AC, etc. You have tried and exhausted all possible (and sensible) duplets, triples, etc. and now you are bored.

Then something new comes along, D. Now you not only have a new elementary concept, but a whole lot of new possible combinations with previously known elementary concepts: AD, BD, etc.
Anyone who has met long-time residents of Washington DC knows that yeah, if you are white and rich it is working great for you. If you are black, it is not. I could write a thesis, and maybe DC is exceptional, but this is wishful thinking.

I lived in a very gentrified area of Washington for period. It was very weird. You are pushing out the poor people and you both want to pretend you do not notice. I believe saying the opposite is disingenuous.