skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no[0]. For reference, the definition of a Stand Alone Complex from wikipedia [1]:

Stand Alone Complex (スタンド・アローン・コンプレックス Sutando Arōn Konpurekkusu) eventually came to represent a phenomenon where unrelated, yet very similar actions of individuals create a seemingly concerted effort.

The ideology of radical Islam from the viewpoint of neoconservatives in the USA in the 00 decade was of "shadowy underground terrorist cells all linked together and we should all be afraid of it", when in reality it was much more akin to the Stand Alone Complex: disparate radical groups all over the world used a common idea to act on their own but without communicating to one another. When viewed by the intelligence community, of course they weren't independent isolated events influenced by the same root idea; they were a centralized enemy. They projected thwir own centralized nature to the fragmented radical Islamic movement of the early 00's. Eventually, that radical Islamic movement grew into the identity provided them by the intelligence community as a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.

[0]So yes in name, no in practice if you buy into the viewpoint above.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Ghost_in_the_Shel...
Buy a train ticket for a random location. Pay in cash. Destroy your credit cards, drop all your phones pads and computers. Never log in your old accounts. If you must create new accounts use different services, different logins, different passwords, and if possible a diffferent idiom (people can be identified from very short texts!).
Change your name and SSN. Have your face changed surgically (including the bone structure, to avoid face recognition). Burn your fingerprints.

Out of my mind, this should take care of your wife tracking you to kill you, IF she doesn't work for governmentals TLAs. If she does, you're fucked, (remember Saddam or Osama), unless you can quickly build a space ship and move to a random planet OUTSIDE the solar system. If you know an E.T. you may try hitch hiking or an official asile request, if they have such things.
The ecology of people, culture, and tools
The mechanism at play here is incredibly different from wild flu viruses. For one, they have to be a very rare type of virus called a retrovirus[0], like HIV, that becomes part of our genome [1].

These types of elements in our genes are very interesting. We are an organic computer. ERVs are some of the most successful viruses from a natural selection perspective.

I'm sorry to tell you that the evidence presented here does not support your gut feeling.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrovirus
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus
You are spot on. When we put people in the defensive they often entrench themselves in their position, sometimes even knowing they are/may be wrong.
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Anyone interested in this topic should read Karen Armstrong's Fields of Blood

http://www.amazon.com/Fields-Blood-Religion-History-Violence...

The first chapter gives a very good rationale for where hatred and subjugation of the 'other' comes from and the book traces how this kind of socialized violence evolved over the ages.
Most people in America would consider a Slavic person white.

There is no scientific definition of "white", it is a social construct that has changed to be more inclusive as various groups integrated into American society.
Was about to post this.

Here's the link to those who want to listen:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91709-limits/
An example that you should try:
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Notably, I also found out a few other dynamics:

Personification trumps vilification and ridicule.

Let's take something really ugly, like abortion. People will post up the ugly pictures and they will post up their favorite slogans, and they will denigrate opponents with brutalities like, "baby killer"

This kind of noise completely destroys rational advocacy / debate on the topic, which is why religion and politics are often discouraged in technical and other discussion venues.

Now, personify it. I took a story from Brazil where a 9 year old girl was raped by her father, her mother wanted to get an abortion for her, and the church, state, father and others wanted to deny the girl that.

Instead of the usual advocacy path, I asked people what they personally would say to the little girl who doesn't want to carry a pregnancy.

This required they simulate the scenario, and express their thoughts as actions, or virtual actions in this case, rather than just pull out their favorite "pokemon battle card" type sayings...

Amazingly, the dialog split into two camps!

The majority of participants answered honestly, and were quite disturbed at the experience. The majority said they would not tell the little girl no, regardless of their personal beliefs / preferences. It was the human thing to do.

For those ideologues who were being absolutist about it, they would not answer, because they would reveal cracks in their black and white vision of things, so they vilified instead! And it was intense.

The rest of the group turned on them, and they got shouted down. Secondly, that experience changed the group dynamics. Abortion noise is no longer tolerated like it was before. It's potency as a distraction is now much less in that venue. The personification really impacted people.

Edit: One absolutist actually said the right answer was to cut the girl open after she has carried the baby far enough along to be viable. The group response to this was harsh, and they were banned.

I personally took a lot of heat for that disturbing approach and had to apologize for the rough dialog. And I did, citing my interest in finding out what trumps what. This was well received, but the whole thing was expensive emotionally.

Honestly, this is one of the few times I've ever seen the noise machine beat back into submission like that.

Lesson there somewhere.

(Yes, this is an area of interest of mine, and I've been running little experiments for some time as the problem identified in this thread is growing rapidly and we have few answers. I find the use of data intriguing, and I plan to do some reading to better understand what other options we may have.)
iCracked is one of the Y Combinator companies. From their website, it seems they handle ipads too. Depending on where you are, it might be a fast solution.

https://www.icracked.com/
Or maybe self-righteous Zionists like Einstein could try diversifying their own promised land before proscribing said diversity to others?

As it stands, today Palestinian's are in camps, today Ethiopian Jews are deported, and all the while the past sins of the gentiles are ever decried on the airwaves.
Taggedfrog does something very similar on Windows, except it uses a drag and drop GUI instead of the shell. You can have ready made customized tag clusters (so you don't have to type the tags for each file), and it will tag anything, including web URLs.

http://lunarfrog.com/taggedfrog/

That said, I would like to be able to tag and recall from the command line in order to integrate tags with other tools. Windows already offers a limited tagging service for Office documents.
Sorry but I'm not the author. I updated the submission title to show it's from 2013.
> 2 bits of tags, and they're thinking general purposes (e.g. GC) as well as security. That's big, something we haven't seen in hardware since Lisp Machines, to my knowledge.

The IBM AS/400 or whatever it is called this week uses tags too for security. (A bit is flipped if a pointer is written too thereby preventing changing pointers.) The PowerPC chip has optional support for tags because of this.

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Inside-AS-400-Second-Edition/dp/188241...
Your moral high ground arguments honestly carry zero weight with me. I couldn't care less about some nonsense about your agreeing or not agreeing to some kind of contract.

Person A states that you should pay X for their product. You don't. There isn't any other argument other than you are just cheap and only do it because you can get away with it. If the same happened to you and affected your income you would be on here whining about how terrible the situation is.

Again everyone would respect you much more if you just said: yeah I'm cheap and can take content for free, so I do.
After watching the videos, my answer is YES.

If a bad programmer is 10x slower, experience with a bad surgeon make 10x more likely to die, have complications, undergo reoperation, and be readmitted after hospital discharge.
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Ask HN: Feedback on crazy side projects ideas
During the last days I have been wondering about few crazy side projects ideas and I would like to get your opinions about them:

1. Streamy - The Voice Of Internet. A social network without the "social" and the "network". A user can post something and it is visible to everybody but not like Twitter where everybody has her own "stream" of tweets. There is just a single huge stream of posts. No followers, no friends, no private/dedicated stream. Just post something and it will be visible to everybody.

2. Tempexchange - Upload a file with no size limit and set an expiration time (max 24 hours). Download it from anywhere with a public or private url. No registration required. No client required. Just upload, share the url, download.

3. Moneyplicator. This is a bit complex to explain (and to realize). The concept is: give us X $ and we will you back X + Y% $ (where Y is considerably high, like 20%) but we cannot tell you when (maybe in few hours, in few months or years). How is it possible to manage that in a profitable way? Example: User A gives 10 $ and expect to receive back 12 $ (10$ + 20%). User B, later on, gives 20 $ and expect to receive back 24 $ (20$ + 20%). When the intermediary collects the money from user B it is able to repay user A, retaining a small percentage fee Z (let's say 2%) for itself. So the balance for the intermediary would be: +10 (from A) +20 (from B) -11.8 (to A, including a fee of 0.2) = 18.2 of which 0.2 is cashed as the fee and 18 will be used to pay back the money to B. The whole loop keeps going with the following users. It is clear that the intermediary will always have debts to pay but not a deadline to do that and meanwhile it is cashing fees. I am not sure all of this makes proper sense, what do you think?

Please let me know your feedbacks!
I think you hit the nail on the head with this. And it echoed the same approach he and his husband took for their political foray.
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I assume, before you posted this angry message, that you refreshed yourself on the differences between Labor Zionism and the right wing flavor in power in the state of Israel? And took into account that this was written in 1946?

No?

Okay then.
Two hours from hopping on a ten hour train ride, thanks for the reading material!
Before you do it, please ask and answer the question 'why'? what is it about systemd that makes you think that you can't use it?
Most mainstream Americans' political principles are variations on "defend your side at all costs." An ideology without a (real) problem to solve is a very dangerous thing.
Ask HN: What apps do you use for personal finance tracking and management?
I need to track things like my investments, expenses, budgets, payments, etc on a monthly basis? What are some services/apps that are tackling these things efficiently?
More diversity (in neighborhoods, in workplaces, in schools) would certainly help

Never heard the term "there goes the neighborhood"? America is segregated today not because of white people, as in fact black people are far more prejudiced and racist than white people (and there is mounds of evidence to support this). But rather because you have a town thats nice, and then black people start moving in and the neighborhood town or city quickly starts going south, fast, almost without fail. Why? Because blacks make up 12% of the US population but commit half of all murders and more than half of all robberies. It's really amazing when you look at the crime statistics out there, and the amazingly consistent correlation between the percentage of black people in a certain area, and how (un)safe and (un)pleasant that area is to live in.

There will never be a unified "us" as long as a significant portion of black people continue to behave the way they do and force white people to flee to safer ground. Plain and simple. The only people who truly support that "diversity" baloney are either people who have never actually had to live with it, or have something to gain from it politically or financially.

Abraham Lincoln supported black colonization for a good reason; unfortunately nobody likes to talk about that when they talk about him though. Obviously forced colonization is a stupid and immoral idea, but voluntary segregation is, unfortunately, what will end up being best for us until more black people start getting their act together.

EDIT: Truth hurts I see. I guess it's much easier for most people to hide comments that offend them rather than responding with an intelligent counterpoint or pointing out where you think they're "wrong".
This exact thread came up last year when we started talking about the shootout and haskell. And Its always the same people who bring up the shootout and defend the existing entries.

Please stop bringing up the shootout (esp when haskell is mentioned) and dragging everyone through this conversation again.

Benchmarks are great to debate but this one is causing more harm than good; let's talk about other benchmarks.
Well, we should be. Every day we aren't is a sad day.
It does not even compute...
Did you play with it at all? It's somewhat flawed--for example, boosting the "prejudice" level to > 85% often leads to diverse, if not stable, communities. But I think it demonstrates the concept well. If a community starts out segregated, it takes being actively displeased with the lack of diversity to get it to change, because people, without a reason to move, won't move.
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I went to a diverse high school as well, and the county I live in now is about 45% white, 40% black, and 15% Hispanic. High School was segregated, Churches are segregated, even stores are segregated to a degree.

I don't know if there is a way to change this. The cultures are very different between white, black, and Hispanic. We even speak different dialects.

Unless you want to start forcing one culture to conform to another, de facto segregation is the likely outcome.
Surgeons would optimize for the test criteria instead of focusing on the operation.
I'm not surprised to see reallocated sector count in there - usually once a reallocated sector appears, more will come soon so my policy is to replace/relegate to "unimportant" use (e.g. temporary machines/data transfer) any drives that have more than 0 of them.

Drives are also very sensitive to vibrations and shock both when powered and unpowered - I've had experiences with computer cases that mysteriously "killed" drives (errors showing up within weeks to months of use), and traced it down to bad design that caused resonance in the drive cage.
Left Hand: the brake that makes me slip and crash on ice. Right Hand: the brake that doesn't work.
Culture is free. Air is free (if not clean). Communicating with the people around me is free. My Open Source code is in fact free. The knowledge I have I am willing to freely share.

I think there's two sides to this, the people who want and think that everything has a price, and the people who recognize that the digital age brings with it advances that mean this idea no longer applies to everything the way it once did.

I'll end on a point I think we can agree on: duplicating a CD or CDs is not an indication that one has the financial means to buy it/them.
Ask HN: What tech do you want for Christmas?
True I believe this could be the best thing that happen in music in the last decade.
A bit offensive? Why?
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My source for that figure was the World Bank[1], which gives a GNI per capita of 400USD PA for the Democratic Republic of Congo.

[1]: http://data.worldbank.org/country/congo-dem-rep
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If the score exists, the top end surgeons are going to show it to their patients, which will force the low end surgeons to do so as well. The only way to keep the score secret is to design regulations for it which I just don't see happening.
I honestly wish we could get some of HN's mobile crowd hyped on Rust. A Rust-y take on Xamarin's ideas would be phenomenal, and with resource constrained phones, the performance gain from not having garbage collection or reference counting would be certainly welcome.
Relevant to the subject Einstein addresses I strongly recommend the writing of Thomas Sowell.

http://www.tsowell.com/
Well sure, I'd be surprised if the Cato Institute would have published that ;)

It apparently is just a publication covering the results of several meta-analytical studies, EPSU neither did studies themselves nor seemed to have been involved in those mentioned in the publication. The real content starts at page 7.

edit:typo
A Magic Leap preview. I have been very good this year.
Einstein: Why Socialism? (1949)
There is pleasure to be found in even the most mundane tasks by taking the opportunity to do it the best, most efficient, most beautiful way possible.

I still get annoyed when I feel a task is beneath me, but I've been trying hard to find something new to learn in it and to be mindful about how the task can be done well. Lately it's been dealing with lots of text files and classes that have tons of fields in them. No problem, just a chance to get to know the *nix tool chain and emacs just a bit better. I'm still not doing the best at this, but I've gotten better, and I've found that it's making me happier and making me a better Engineer in the more important tasks as well.
Anything - simple or complex, can be explained. If you are not able to explain something to a child, then you probably don't know about it well enough.
"It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better. We must try to recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity—and shape our lives accordingly."

Key takeaway, in my opinion, and this extends beyond racial prejudices.
It seems like any kind of mass-comment system would be easy to detect. Simply limiting the post rate and comparing to other posts would work just like current anti-span filters now.
I use gmail. I can use it to keep track of how often they've been spamming me, and how often they've ever sent me on an actual interview.

If someone has been emailing me for years but never sent me on an interview, I configure it to remove their messages from my inbox.

There also are a couple others I refuse to deal with. They insist on meeting me in person each time, but never sent me on an interview, or sent me on a large number of low-quality interviews. If I was unemployed and desperate, I might give them another chance. I already have a (mediocre) job, so I'm trying to spend my limited job search time efficiently.
I'd be interested in hearing about what countries you're talking about and the percentages of total population that these integrated groups make up.
DPOS could do 10000 TPS. This is the blockchain with the Visa like speed.
There's quite a few mechanisms that can start to explain this.

We are a biological computer, and 'feeling bad' is an output of that. It's a chemical/genetic/'electric' state. We cannot perform an operation(feelings, movement, etc) without being affected by it at a very fundamental level. A well studied example would be dopamine [0].

This is a very complex, challenging, and interesting field.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine
> "What's in it for me"

I'll ignore he obvious selfish nature of this question and simply point out that you may need to take advantage of that "culture of always encrypting everything at some point in the future. It is incredibly short-sighted to assume that you're not ever going to be a target.

> "not having secrets"

You can look the numerous rebuttals for this very well-known fallacy.

> Cost.

It's probably worth mentioning that I am currently living on SSDI (social security disability income) thanks to some unfortunate medical issues. I cannot actually afford any PKI cert and related costs, even $20 costs.

Well, the EFF may soon have a free solution for this, and almost all of the benefits I list are still valid even when the crypto is relying on an self-signed certificate automagically generated by apache on first use.

I would love to see more options that address the cost issue - secure communications should not be limited to those that can afford various economic barriers, but for now at least some solution exists.
> Human suffering has never been less than it is now. This is the best time to be alive and more so in the future.

Hold your horses, my friend. 80% of the world's population lives on less than $10/day. Of those, 3 billion live on less that $2.5 per day. Go tell them that.

In the last 50 years or so virtually all the planet's ecosystems have been disrupted, polluted or destroyed entirely. Most depletion graphs look like hockey sticks, that is geometric progression with very short doubling times and still accelerating.

Storms, hurricanes, flooding and droughts have become daily news, not 'freak' events like they used to be.
I won't even touch on the global financial system and what a hack that is.

Being in denial is convenient, but it doesn't stop the processes set in motion.

And if we're talking about 'never ever', then it's worth mentioning that humanity has never ever had as many weapons, including nuclear, as it has now. Not even 1% of the destructive power that awaits to be unleashed. And humanity has never ever stopped waging war.

I'm happy that 'we' will walk on Mars, but that doesn't solve any of our current issues. Maybe the offsprings of the very few who will travel to the distant, cold desert which is Mars will be able to turn it into a paradise, similar to... Earth, who knows.

However, the way things are going, it seems we will turn Earth into Mars much sooner than vice-versa.

As a parent, I really hope I'm wrong and you're right, because I want my children to live a happy life and not have to deal with the consequences of our ignorant and wasteful lifestyle.
As individual human parts perhaps, but as a collective humanity we surely are.