skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your research. You are right in pointing to the difference between wealth and income inequality. My data online seems to explain the former, but not the latter. While I find my mentioned correlation between age and wealth inequality very interesting and plausible, one should should be aware of the following weaknesses of my argument:

- It explains wealth of the top 10%. It does not explain income inequality or wealth inequality regarding the top 1%.

- The correlation is much weaker in other countries.

- Inequality can corrode the fabric of society, regardless of its cause. Being able to explain raising inequality does not make it better. Or, as the Fins say: Weighing s--- does not make it better s---.

Another interesting consideration is that the working poor are often single parents. Having children outside marriage is one of the biggest risks of poverty. Thus, one of the biggest leftist achievements, namely the abandoning of traditional family values in favor of a more flexible and individualistic model, is one of the primary causes of poverty. There are many benefits of this development, but it also came at the price of new forms of poverty and thereby also increasing inequality.
Exactly! It honestly beats me. The tone around the news in India was that the so-called "evidence" was total bullshit. I, too, was amazed to learn that there were people who believed it.
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For dataframe-like operations, I've started wondering why more languages don't take the dplyr approach and simply default to using something like SQLite under the hood. Granted, I are no super data genius, but every time I start cracking a little into the internals of a dataframe implementation, I get the sinking feeling that SQL databases have already done the hard work of indexes and efficient data structures.
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Interesting. Although after spwnding a lot of time on data frames, I have grown to like the csv parsers in postgres where I can do a lot of the same things as data frames, but with clean sql instead of the sometimes odd data frame syntax.

R also stands out because it is so easy to run a wide variety of statistical methods easily on a data frame.
> The vast landscape in between Berlin and Moscow would become Germany’s equivalent of the American west, filled with German homesteaders living comfortably on land and labor appropriated from conquered peoples—a nightmare parody of the American experience with which to challenge American power.

Er, the American push westwards was quite nightmarish and genocidal, and US homesteaders appropriated land much like Hitler planned to do.
>I think this is a very key point for another reason. If this was perpetrated by North Korea, why would they use an anonymizing proxy in the first place? What would be the point? Have we ever known North Korea to not crave media attention?

Yes. When they do something provocative they try to maintain plausible deniability, because otherwise the target of the provocation would have to do something. The best example is the sinking of the Cheonan. Everyone knew it was the Norks, but they played coy because otherwise South Korea would have been forced to respond. Probably by sinking the North Korean navy.

Also, if the cyber attack was DPRK, it was likely carried out by the unit that does espionage, and for a unit like that proxies are just standard procedure.

All that said, I'm skeptical that it actually was North Korea. They do have this kind of capability, but they tend to use it for more concrete gains, like uncovering spies and stealing technology. A big in-your-face attack on a company like this is out of character for a regime that wants to retain its cyberwar capability for clandestine uses.
Not bad. Works.
Relevant: L-Systems Considered Harmful

http://nothings.org/gamedev/l_systems.html
The most damning argument is, as mentioned in the article, that the NK+The Interview conclusion was not mentioned by the attackers until the media started speculating.

That those responsible for investigation have not looked at the relation to the embarrassing attack on the Playstation network from years ago, that also resulted in droves of user and likely employee data that could be utilized for future attacks, is astounding.

This isn't 2002 where the US Gov can make a claim on hidden evidence and have people believe them, be they the world or its own people. Either put up or shut up.
Bufferedis – writes faster than redis pipeline?
we've been using https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps for a while, pretty awesome. It's basically Cordova + some chrome APIs + embedded CrossWalk, meaning it ships the embedded (latest) chrome as part of your app.
Фокус / Focus
Sadly however, the rich get richer and the middle are the ones that loose out due to cheaper labor of globalization.
I don't think it's at all invariable. The moral compass comes from the top. Wikipedia and Stack Overflow have deletionist moderation because Jimmy Wales and his counterparts are happy with that, which is unfortunate, but it is their right to run their websites as they see fit. The solution is to set up competing sites run by people who want inclusionist moderation.
>We should support online releases.

Why? Paying to movie producing companies means more DRM schemes, more filesharing restrictions and more copyright lobbying. To protect freedom of speech and weaken copyright regulations we need Hollywood to die from starvation.
This is also going to vary depending on the domain problem. If you're aiming to make something large and comprehensive, it helps to start "a bit too crude" so that every assumption you make at the start is grounded in the understanding of where you want to go later. But if you're pumping out microsites, a framework automates the process and makes it easier to maintain a large body of them.
Krebs absolutely counts, but if Krebs says yes and Schneier says no, which he did, then it's a very open question.
Just get me a laptop with a trackpad as good as the mac and i'll be there.
Schmoilerplate: a barebones boilerplate for modern front end developers
More like 'disabled by scoring a large 'X' with a laser across the die for those features that are to be disabled'.
>unemployment is so high

Unemployment is actually not that high in the US. This is why I think a lot of policies people such as basic income, make work schemes, etc are really not that needed right now. The economy is generating jobs.
It's Chromebook pixel. Unfortunately, Google didn't provide option for memory and SSD upgrade. Otherwise, I would stop using apple and use linux on it.
Any reasonably reliable and fast communication medium "has a drug problem".
Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty
Actually 0.62% is not too bad for a candidate that got very little coverage. If he is a politician then he is not a very good one as the person who won the last senate seat Ricky Muir (we have 12 senators for each state) in Victoria (the state Assange was running in) only got 0.51% [1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Muir
Obama signed five new cybersecurity bills into law on the 18th. The FBI announcement was Dec 19th.
Wonderful piece, but the author is wrong about one point.

The idea that Piano rolls predate all other programmable storage medium is factually incorrect. Surely the Jacquard loom and its punch-card system, patented in 1801, pre-date the piano rolls of the 1900's?

Other than that, a great piece, but I would be remiss if I missed a chance to remind people of how amazing (and early) the Jacquard loom must've been at the time.
4 Ways This Fall Semester Has Made Me a Better Person
>>>To truly evaluate high FPS movies and video content, you have to watch it for a while.

Simply doubling the framerate of existing film is the wrong approach. To truly evaluate high FPS the director must take the framerate into account during filming.

I'll use SVP/InterFrame with low FPS sports, homemade video and occasionally anime but NEVER live action film. It cheapens the whole experience and undoes everything the director intended.
So there is an incentive for volunteers to decline the content?
And when you are at it, add a good trackpoint for good measure.
Show HN: Secure Digital Archive for the Paranoid
It's still just as amazing today, even more amazing that they are still in use!
> The first HN post was flagged for some reason.

It was actually killed by user flags, but we unkilled it.

There has been a tug of war going on between upvoters who like the Interview release story and flaggers who apparently feel it's an advertisement, or perhaps have Sony fatigue.
If you imagine a world where non-nationalist universal civil liberties is a reality you may find Assange's political agenda makes sense. While Snowden and others came to the idea of universal civil liberties only after being buffed for questioning the debasement of US civil liberties Assange started from this principle from the outset. 100 years from now I'm pretty confident that people will consider our debate of Assange and find little merit in pegging his actions to a purely personal ego motivation. But this is just my opinion and I understand how differentiating the personal motives of Assange from the broader motives, with many placing heavier weight on the former, is possible. I think his mind lives in a better world and he just doesn't have the patience to wait for it. And you may be right about Assange defending a myth. Then again, myth and vision can often be impossible to distinguish. On another note: famous people just got a different set of problems.
Santa Clausewitz (2012)
I actually remember this very clearly. In fact, I questioned my own memory of this when I read your comment (since it was so clearly the opposite of what I remember) until I went back and had a look and it looks like I was right.

For what it's worth, it's entirely possible that we were just exposed to different media narratives at the time. My parents remember it the same way too. The news about the reports from Hans Blix and Mohamed AlBaradei saying Iraq was complying with the requests of inspectors after Resolution 1441. Colin Powell's so-called evidence. These were front-and-center in The Hindu in India and there were editorials about it all the time.

Certainly the idea that the doubters were few is not particularly convincing in the face of that.

EDIT: Ah, you edited your comment to contain more than just the first line after I began replying. FWIW, I don't think it's US-Evil Saddam-Good. It's obvious to me that people were questioning the degree to which US military action was justified.

Quoting Resolution 1441 is a bit disingenuous since from the very day the US decided to attack Iraq there were people saying that it did not justify military action. In fact, I recall that they fell back on using it as justification after it became clear that any resolution asking for war would not pass.
Another way of say of saying this is that a drum beat has no definite pitch because it's too short. It's exactly the same property of Fourier transforms behind the uncertainty principle.
> the U.S. thrust upon every country that wished to return to the gold standard (and what respectable country would not?) an agonizing dilemma

What about the silver standard that was used in previous centuries? Oh, the West spent it all buying spices from China. They tried getting it back by getting the Chinese addicted to opium and selling them that, but that didn't last long. So change the rules: use gold instead of silver as the standard! Until the 1970's anyway when the standard had changed to uranium.
There's no empirical evidence I know of that suggests that a decent but minimal income stops people working. Certain demographics work like this, often in a limited way. But it's by no means a given across working populations as a whole.

That's pretty much the point of basic income. It isn't just about eliminating obvious avoidable and medieval horrors like poverty - it's about restructuring the job market so workers can provide a useful contribution they have some passion for, instead of being forced into drudge work that doesn't pay their bills or provide for retirement, never mind provide them with an outlet for their passion.

The conservative belief that if you don't aggressively the poor for their poverty they won't work[1], is an outrageous relic of the middle ages and has no place in the 21st century.

[1} Hardly hyperbole by the way, as the UK's Tories have proved again over their most recent term.
Regards to him hiding out in the embassy, it really irritates me when he refers to this as 'house arrest' or 'detained without charge'.

He is there of his own free will. He can leave at any time. He chooses not to as he is a coward.
>So whatever the effect in society is, it's probably like 5% biological (or less) and 95% cultural.

Making up random nonsense just reinforces the obvious fact that you are an ideologue pushing an agenda, not someone interested in reality or equality.

>it's also known that humans can overcome their instincts

Yes, parents should force their children to "overcome their instincts" in order to meet arbitrary quotas demanded by hyperliberal babies with guilt complexes. That sounds very reasonable.

>That society is unfair towards women is objectively true

No, it is quite literally not objectively true. You subjectively believe that. I understand you believe that. But it is not an objective fact any more than me enjoying pie makes "pie is good" objectively true.

>women are not just underrepresented in certain random fields, but they are underrepresented mostly in fields that bestow a lot of power

No, we are also underrepresented in the worst jobs. The apex fallacy does not get any less ridiculous through repetition.

>So objectively, men have a lot more power than women in society, so it's not just "unevenness" but "unfairness".

That would only be true if the tiny minority of people in power were using that power to manipulate things to the benefit of men. They are not. Simply having a penis does not grant one special powers because other people with penises have power. Notice how US politics is completely dominated by made up "women's" issues despite most politicians being men?
I think you answered your own questions.
Sounds like a solution rather than a problem.

What is the problem with people buying things they want?

Also, when did Instagram become charged with enforcing the law? It's the responsibility of police and the government to enforce the law, who have apparently abdicated their snooping into people's private lives for a brief moment.
They can't enforce it. It's impossible.
A truly epic writeup of the building and closing of a startup...and it's especially a must-read for anyone hoping to go into the content-creator/provider route. This is a good line:

> Observing the user behaviour we have realised that there is no community feeling in the app. People simply did not share a common interest to create networks with new people they did not know, because everyone had different personal goals in mind (from running a marathon to climbing everest to mastering guitar or cooking skills). We weren’t able to focus ourselves on one direction, let alone focus our users on achieving their dreams.

One of the takeaways is that you can't build a business on such lofty, farwaway goals (e.g. users "achieving their dreams"), just as it's a bad idea to live your life with vague dreams ("I want to be the world's most famous scientist!", "I want to be beautiful and marry a beautiful person")...the success stories we know about came through having and reaching step-by-step concrete goals...Facebook's mission may now be to "connect the world", but it started out as a way to better hookup with Harvard co-eds.

And with content specifically, you're just at a major, if not crippling disadvantage. Content is not scalable. Either in its creation or its consumption. I love reading great stories once in awhile...but it's not a daily need. I don't build a habit for it. And Epiclist, being just an app as opposed to a website, even when I want to discover great stories, there's more friction to discover those stories via a narrow app like Epiclist than there is by just opening up Facebook/Twitter/Google.
You obviously are not familiar with the semiconductor industry. Binnig has nothing to do with price differences.
That's a really interesting idea.

I would buy one. My dog was stolen from me (I had her tied up outside a store, and when I came out she had been taken). Witnesses helped me track down the thieves (just some crackheads) and I got the dog back... but I was very very lucky. I would love to implant something like this in her.

I would imagine that kinetic energy could be harnessed to power the unit.

And for those who are wondering: Yes the thieves took her collar off immediately. That was probably the first thing they did, I found it on the ground.
to me, Ubuntu 14.10 is still very rough. there are so many inconsistency everywhere: shortcuts, software's ui, etc...

take a simple example: usually Ctrl Q (cmd q on os x) means quit. try doing on os x will quit the app 9 out of 10 times. on ubuntu? not really.
A worthy contribution to this conversation would be Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish.

While it mostly focuses on the history of the Western penal system it also discusses the history of punishment and torture.

It's a dense book but the first few pages alone are riveting enough to inspire one to continue.
But the attackers did confuse a lot of people when they threatened with '9/11-style attacks' should any cinema show the movie in question. So either someone else is speaking on their behalf, or they are at least partial sympathetic to the North Korean regime.

Edit: Or perhaps - as the article speculate - they were simply using the opportunity to threaten threats they couldn't live up to, but it wouldn't have mattered as their identity remains anonymous and whether or not Sony caved would be irrelevant to the argument on whether to make the threat.
There weren't many organic things in Gravity. Mechanical things are much more easy to get to look right. (The easiest would be something made of plastic, I guess.)
White? Black? A Murky Distinction Grows Still Murkier
I think that's a simplification. You can appeal to a en expert in A about something regarding A and still be considered an appeal to authority fallacy --that is because 'authorities' can make bad judgments, have biases, etc.
HOW SANTA USES MONGODB
Anyone feel like this is Sony testing The Internet on how we behave if they give us nice things, like streaming movies online right when they are released without DRM?
Four Beautiful Python, R, Matlab, and Mathematica Plots with LaTeX
To anyone interested in experimental UI animations in web apps this is a must-bookmark: http://tympanus.net/codrops/
IRHydra is awesome, but there is still a lot more friction to using it compared to the built in dev tools. You have to run v8 with special flags and upload files to a web page. In some ways, this is still quite simple compared to getting rolling with debugger/disassembler tools for many other languages/environments.

But imagine a workflow where I'm profiling my real application in the browser, and I see that some function comes up hot. If I could just click its name and get this kind of information, I believe I would do this kind of analysis much more often.

That said, as a person who makes websites, I'm sensitive to the fact that people who claim they would use a feature if you built it won't actually always use the feature when you build it...
It's short for "When they are off duty" and is a common construct in old-school headline writing.
This is really disappointing and almost seems engineered to proliferate Bitcoin's reputation as a technology to service criminals.

I also think that they misunderstand the needs of their potential customers. They are trying to introduce a public, crowd-funded service to a market for covert information without any sense of irony. In broad strokes, a third of the value of a stolen secret is in knowing it; another third is having exclusive access; and the last third is that your competition does not know they've been robbed. When they realize that you have their IP, they will pour money into R&D. Since they are already familiar with their work -- and you are not yet -- they are likely to beat you to market.

For that reason I'm skeptical this venture can compete with existing black markets.
It would probably be more intelligent for them to give up, and focus on the crowd-funding aspect of their idea.
There was no moderation on this title, nor on the post in any way.
Facebook Scores NFL Video Clips with Ads from Verizon
Gobot: A framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things
Spectacular real virgin births
Effectively a dup of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8792778
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/12/did_north_kor...

Schneier posted this to his blog and the same article was published by the Atlantic.
Best Core Changes of 2014
Interesting. I use it a bit, but would be content to use Java instead if that meant ditching the slow startup.
I totally agree with you! I would love to have equivalent functionality built right into Dev Tools. Immediacy is a very important aspect of usability - I would like to inspect a running program without any special movements.

> upload files to a web page.

Minor clarification: nothing ever leaves your local computer. There is no server component in IRHydra. It's purely your browser that interprets these files.
If you know the direction of the motion of a blurry object isn’t the location of the object on one of the leading edges? I thought the problem was more that you have no idea of the features of the object?
It looks to me like that's what they've done.
Gnome software has switched to an infuriating naming scheme.

The file manager (gnautilus) is now called "files". The video player (totem) is now called "videos". This is so obviously broken for people who are trying to web-search for answers to problems that they're having.

Whats worse os that the renaming is inconsistent - software will get one name in the menu, another name in the help > about, and another name on the Internet.

Gnome - and I say this as politely as I can - makes me fucking hate using a computer.
It would have finished eventually. This only happens if you have a lot of stuff in /usr/local (e.g. Homebrew).

https://jimlindley.com/blog/yosemite-upgrade-homebrew-tips/
Apparently the authors and archivists haven't heard of tape or Amazon Glacier. I'm sure Amazon Glacier would be happy to back up their digital archives for a reasonable monthly fee. And the archivists would get people monitoring and making sure the data is accessible for free.
Yosemite must be bad if you found Ubuntu good. I constantly get "a problem has been detected" messages whenever I boot. Got Manjaro (a user friendly Arch spin off) on my other laptop. Way less problematic and XFCE behaves predictably.
Solution: store them in an analog format as well...
Does anyone know of a good demo of different frame rates that I can view on a laptop? Is this even possible with LCDs?
My (March 2011) MBP with an SSD booted Snow Leopard in about 7-8 seconds from the bong sound to the complete desktop... My current (September 2014) MBP takes so much longer (just under Mavericks, haven't gone to Yosemite yet)... I find this disappointing.. not being able to upgrade the ram doubly so.

This will probably be my last mac hardware purchase... I like the screen and the touchpad so much better than any other laptop, but don't really use it that much, and even then I could have gotten something with similar hardware for half the price... I've thought about installing Ubuntu on it, but haven't taken the plunge just yet... I spend almost 2/3 of my time on my laptop in either a windows or linux vm, so it's kind of a wash.
5 Decisions That Will Drive You Forward in the New Year
Saved that last line in Evernote to ponder later.
The Top Best Business Lessons of 2014
The future is stacked memory with DRAM stacked on top of the CPU die. No sockets to be seen anywhere.