skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walk people, walk! Why only 500m, it's only a 6 minute walk! Not including traffic, so might be some more. Increase that radius to a 10 minute walk on one end and a there is a lot more coverage (pi x r2). And you're hitting your daily movement lower limit of 30 minutes. Or am I really thinking outside the US box?
> Historical guilt and merit still exist in the absence of free will

Historical guilt and merit would simply be the sum of all guilt and merit of a society, meaning actually the sum of a lot of nothing...
Blah at the institution of marriage. The institution of marriage hasn't had any sanctity for the last x years (divorce skyrocketing). Which is perhaps fine, a single partner for one's entire life isn't cut out for everyone. (It's cut out for me, though, and I am happily married).

The "Tinder problem" does exist though, and perhaps it'll lead to a segregation of those who want something meaningful and those who don't. Not sure if that will be a good or a bad thing.
i love it....
i was skeptical about react at the beginning, but it definitely is a very SOLID tool for developing with and your blog illustrates this point succinctly.
All fine and good, but you do want at least two competing products to make a better market.
I've got a great idea, guys! Let's create a web page for our product, but put absolutely NO information about it on there. After all, who needs to know anything about it?

All we need is a 'pre-order' button that, when pressed, pops up a message telling you that pre-orders don't exist!
Using RFID to detect the presence of the balls feels like overkill. Why not a light sensor, or a hair trigger switch out of reach of the cat. Sure The cat can now be fed by finding random objects, but maybe the training of using the ball will stop the cat from figuring that out.
Trend Breakdown: New Ways to Use the Hamburger Icon
Or maybe memes against Democrats didn't get legs like the Santorum thing did.
ICFP programming contest 2015
In my opinion it is almost trivial to see that something is fishy with the idea of free will - just try to formalize it.

Assume you are sitting in a restaurant facing the decision to either order a steak or some pasta. One possibility is that your decision is a deterministic choice, a function of the current state of your body (What nutrients do you need?), your brain (What are your past experiences with steak and pasta?) and your environment (What does the steak on the neighboring table look like?). This does not resemble what I would call free will.

The other extreme is that your decision is completely random and not influenced by anything. This assumes that there is real randomness in our universe which is, as far as I know, an open question. There is no real randomness in classical mechanics, only apparent randomness due to ignorance of microscopic degrees of freedom. Quantum mechanics seems to have probabilistic features but they are, as far as I can tell, at odds with the unitary evolution of quantum systems and it remains to be seen whether there is real randomness in quantum mechanics or not.

But lets just assume there is real randomness, at worst, if there is only apparent randomness, this option becomes deterministic and degenerates into the first option. There is still some freedom in this option, namely the probability distribution over the different choices. This probability distribution may just be what it is for no deeper reason, a fundamental property of the source of randomness. In this case I wouldn't call it free will, too, because the choice is entirely random.

It may also be the case that the probability distribution gets shaped in a deterministic way. The steak on the neighboring table looks really good making it more likely that you choose it but there is still some probability that you will choose pasta. This is kind of a middle ground between the first two options, the final choice is random but the probabilities reflect your current and past states and the state of the environment in a deterministic way. But again I would not call this free will.

So what would free will have to look like? The choice must not entirely depend on the current state of you and your environment but it must also not be completely independent of it, i.e. be completely random. I spent quite some time thinking about this but I am completely unable to come up with something that is in some sense between deterministic and random (including deterministically shaped randomness). Am I - or even everyone - missing a (fundamental) third option? Is thinking about free will in terms of systems and states and state changes in some way inappropriate? For the moment I will side with the people denying the existence of free will, if someone can formalize what free will really means I will reconsider things.
The Perception of Control
I agree. Here is what I would do:

Train cat to attack a laser point (easy)

Place ball next to target and point laser at ball and hope that it gets knocked in.

When it does, reward it getting knocked in and gradually increase the distance to the target.

I am assuming the cat would figure out at some point that it can carry the ball to the target in its mouth.
All of my car/motorcycle track instructors were big believers in "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast".

Basically go slow and work on the correct form/line/being smooth/etc... Once you have that down, you are ready to go fast and you will be better/faster than someone who hasn't gotten the flow down at a manageable speed first.
Incurable American Excess
ZbMath: Search engine for mathematical formulae
There's a pretty decent bus, it costs $2.75, and if you can spare a an extra ~30m travel time, it's worth it.

http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/NewQ70LimitedStopService_br...
>The logical next step is that Apple have been intermittently flippant about security (of late they have improved but their approach is still wholesale unacceptable). Why do users knowingly use an OS with this track record?

Perhaps because ever since 2001 there are 5-6 new stories like this with huge scaremongering headlines and "sky is falling" implications, and then NOTHING absolutely happens, at worse a tiny miniscule of OS X boxes are ever affected, and there are absolutely no implications for 99.9% of users. In the meantime, Apple, even if slow to respond to stuff like this, does improve OS X security infrastructure steadily.

Meanwhile, in the same real world, people have to constantly fight viruses off of Windows boxes (slightly better after 8, but still a real concern).

Btw, no it's not just about "small market share" either. Mac OS had even smaller market share in the late 90s (even 1/10 as small as OSX), but it still had lots of malware and viruses people caught.
>promoting free trade

Yes but not because some EU bureaucrats have been born with some innate fetish for free trade. It's because the EU is easily influenced by deep pockets.
>Protectionism is how every nation on the planet developed

You must be joking. Countries with open markets develop way faster than protectionist countries. If mercantilism is so good then why are the Asian Tigers doing so well and communist countries doing so bad?
the latest versions come with noscript, so not unless you explicitly enable javascript on that site
The article references recruiting Money Mules. These are typically people hired or coerced into using cloned bank cards to withdraw cash from ATMs.
The author is misleading about lack of subway access to JFK airport. I have traveled many times to JFK by subway. He is technically correct that the subway does not tunnel underneath JFK and does not go to terminals. However, you take the A train and then hop onto the AirTrain provided by JFK to get to the terminal.
The parachute analogy is worth exploring.

Let's say in a life time, the accident rates due to packing a parachute quickly is 1/10000, and the fatal rate of the slow packing group is 1/1000000. Even though the fast group faces bigger danger than the people in the slow group (or people sitting at home), but other than the few who have the bad luck, the rest of them will practice way more than the other group, jump more times, go to more places, have bigger opportunities to become a world champion of parachute packing or whatever parachuting sports.

Sure, a few will be forgotten by the world.

The victors we see in the world are probably the people who are still alive in the fast group, and have produced lots of results because of their speed and being still alive. Someone in that group will pay a huge price, but it's not necessary you or any particular one.
> I would think that "free will" is developed

If you see life as a 4-dimensional network of variables linked through "cause and effect", then there is no place for a "free" variable which could introduce free will (or its development). Unless you introduce invented concepts such as "soul" or "god", etc., which means that you quit the rational discussion altogether.
I considered doing this with my cat, but from reading up on it, it sounds like its not less mess because cats don't understand the concept of aiming into the toilet... Maybe it depends on the size of the cat though?

I'm going to try teach my cat to fetch using clicker training. When she was a kitten, she used to fetch things I threw and then drop them at my feet.
You got your priorities backwards. Good jobs are more scarce than iphones, and more important for the well-being of people.
Perhaps it depends on your goals.

I find that when I'm doing any work that involves modifying existing code, there's a huge difference in how quickly I can work when I'm touching code that was originally written by people with different work styles. Usually I can sail through the more methodically-written stuff. When the time comes to make changes to code written by the people most fond of uttering, "The perfect is the enemy of the good," though, progress slows to a crawl. Adding new features without introducing new defects to that code is like trench warfare.

That said, much like the article says, the fast workers did tend to get assigned more new tasks. I think maybe this was a huge win for them. From a wider perspective, though, it's a bit tragic because it results in this inexorable downward spiral in terms of code quality. Of course that worked out well for them too because more defects meant more opportunities for them to cape up, swoop in, and save the day. I can't remember who it was who said, "Beware of your firefighters, they are probably your chief arsonists," but there's a lot of truth in that statement.
It doesn't go to New Jersey either, but it should.

http://m.nydailynews.com/opinion/extend-7-train-secaucus-art...
>No because we'd actually act upon it because of purely logical chains (1) of cause and effect, not free will

First of all, the discovery itself wouldn't be an action of "free will".

Second, who said we can act on "purely logical chains of cause and effect" when there's no free will? Whether we act on those chains or not will already be predetermined by the "no free will" mechanism determining our actions.

If anything, as societies we act pretty illogical a lot of the time (heck, even most), for stuff scientifically known to be BS.
I guess it would depend on the issue, for me it was just muscle inflammation there was nothing wrong with my vertebrae or anything out of alignment.
PayPal doesn't have deposit safeguards normally required of money transmitters
In that boat right now, but instead of 5 years in, 1.5 years in. I've been reading books on design patterns (we barely use them, you should get an idea of how bad it is here) and just in general trying to be better.
ICFP Problem Specification
1. Cat looks at bug tracker

2. Cat approaches bug tracker

3. Cat selects ticket in bug tracker

4. Cat implements fix for bug in ticket

5. Cat rebases

6. Cat pushes to GitHub
> except maybe Safari? I don't own a mac

Safari uses the same library as Apple's Reader. So it's a proprietary native blob.

Edit: While Chrome uses a native blob, I believe it's not proprietary. I think they use pdfium (https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/)
Effects on IQ of in utero nutrition shocks: Evidence from Ramadan fasting
Indeed. Also you often are prevented from buying locally. My taxes are spent on foreign trains, ambulances, buses, power stations, you name it.
Wouldn't this prevent you from opening local .html files?
Perhaps this applies more to shooting than software development, but...

Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

If I take 20 minutes more to code a module because I'm thinking about it, but spend 30 minutes less debugging problems with the module, that's fast.

If I take a day to respond to an email, but the person I'm conversing with gets the info they need, avoiding three more days of back and forth, that's fast.

If I take a week longer to iterate through a project idea, but nail the implementation, then I can know that I'm pivoting because the idea was wrong, not the implementation.
There is a lot more information on their kickstarter page. I imagine they're trying to drive people there, since that's how they're getting funding.
Lol what ?
I'm working on a raspberry pi project right now that would be MUCH better with this. Built-in wifi and bluetooth, battery power, it's a lot smaller... I want this now
This is scientific evidence, not mathematical proof.

One way to frame the concept of free will is that some subjective experiences cause rather than are caused by or are identical with, physical changes in the brain.

One way to test for causation is to see which one happens first. If free will (at least as defined above) is true, we expect that some subjective experiences should precede the corresponding physical change in the brain. If free will is false, then we should expect subjective experiences to be simultaneous with or come after the corresponding brain change.

Since the actual result of the experiment (brain change comes before subjective experience) is less likely under the "free will" hypothesis than it is under the alternative, by Bayes' rule, it should make you less confident of the existence of free will. If you believe that this result would be only slightly less likely even if free will were true (as you apparently do), then you should update your estimate only a little bit, but this is still the right kind of experiment to run if you want to test for free will.
Exactly my thoughts.

After exploring Visual Studio Online (its free for 5 users), I am still not able to digest why there isn't a build and deploy system in GitHub.

There were great demos at Microsoft's BUILD15 for Automated Build and Release Management which demonstrates these features.
Hackers take control of a Tesla Model S and turn it off at slow speed
Ten Questions Every Founder Should Ask Before Raising Venture Debt
> The absence of free will forces us to stop judging people..

Why would that be?

If A harms B, then your argument is that B has no right to retaliate it, because, that A should harm B was inevitable, and was totally out of the control of A.

But my argument is that just like A's harming B was inevitable, so is B's judgement of A and the further retaliation in response to the A's action..Inevitable.

In other words, the world should just go on as it is, even in the total absence of free will. What is important, I think, like many other things, is the 'appearance' of having free will. Because without that, all life looses it's meaning.
I've taken a chance and decided to trust you. So I've ordered this book, don't let me down random internet stranger!
Grabbing access codes of cars and garage doors
old twats.
I don't see why there is negativity against devops. I live in New York and it is hard to fill this role. I get job offers all the time and the market is hot in New York and California.

expect salaries around 150K to 190K if you are a good Admin who transitioned to devops. :) times are great.
> (a) If large amounts of code written in memory unsafe languages is such a concern then Mozilla should immediately stop adding large numbers of highly complex new features implemented in unsafe code to Firefox every year,

> (b) ... mostly to do things that have absolutely nothing to do with displaying web pages but are enabled by default for political reasons.

(a) Mozilla is working on adding/replacing parts of Firefox with a language emphasizing security (among other things). First Rust push in Firefox landed a Rust mp4 parser [1], on 2015-06-17. Others will come; in the meantime, the world keeps turning, and users / web. developers expect these new web features, which Moz devs implement with the infrastructure they have and know. They're not going to cross their hands and declare a moratorium until Rust (or other security-mitigating features/changes) are fully integrated.

(b) Not sure what you mean by political reasons and maybe you want to stay stuck in 1992, but I don't, and like many users I do want "webgl, webrtc, webfonts, webm, websockets, new css features and so on" .

EDIT I'd have added "You can install links if you want a simple browser letting you read static html documents", which you would have answered with "But I can't, every website require these features now", to which I'd have answered "a. Yeah, not everyone (that's an understatement) does progressive enhancement, but ultimately b. The times they are a-changing"

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175322
To add, when you're asking DTAG to peer, they determine the location where they set up the peering point with you. That's typically somewhere out of nowhere, so you also have to rent the pipe that brings your data there - from them, obviously.
Looks like a great app but why only target one OS that has less than a 5% market share? I would install it if there was a Windows/Linux version.
I was, at first, amazed at the price point.

Olimex, who are in a position to know, says that the BOM for this adds up to more than $20.

https://olimex.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/how-to-get-in-the-ne...

So, it's basically a marketing ploy, which is still cool, but they will have to find some way to make up the difference post launch.
Apple Watch: Passbook at Airport
> Obviously the state of our current surroundings and past histories determines the state of our brain and body (down to the firing of the very last neuron).

That's why I only said "current surrounding and context", I didn't include past histories.

Look at the machine-state example, it makes things more clear.
Is this the list?

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compo...

Just executables, identified by file extension and if you are on Windows, .zip files as well.
The Challenges and Opportunities of Big-Data-As-a-Service
I agree that this is better. Unfortunately, whitelisting is tedious so I often resort to enabling all JS when I quickly need to use a site or five that require it. Many don't have the patience to keep doing this, so disabling plugin enumeration might be a nice middle ground for them.

Security/privacy doesn't have to be all-or-nothing.
A conversation with Google’s in-house philosopher
It's not really a license on the data. Data licenses are based on copyright laws, and grant permission under them.

Instead it's a contract with a nondisclosure clause, and contracts only bind the participants.

It's also not a trade secret, with access being sold so openly.
Exactly, so it all depends on how you define free will.
It used to be flash based if I remember correctly -- at least the 2013 version.
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Show HN: BausButton
I think you forget just how much better at search Google was. Google's replacement will probably be much better at privacy.
> The exploit was simply injected on every news article page through an iframe

Was the "src" of the iframe 3rd-party to the web site? I want to know whether merely blocking 3rd-party iframes would also have prevented the exploit from working even if javascript is not blocked.
To be clear WebGLStudio is a game engine, rather than 3D modeling tool -- thus WebGLStudio and Clara.io are not competitors.
With more or less complexity (although that statement makes me suspect you’ve never administered BIND) — but with different failure characteristics! And hopefully better ones.
You're attacking this analogy with made-up numbers and wild logical leaps. What is the real risk increment to packing a chute hastily, and does the real number help or hurt your position? Now make the stakes really high. Also consider the possibility that your choices have externalities, and others around you may not want to share their jumps with someone they perceive to be that reckless idiot who's going to get himself killed.

You didn't give specific numbers on how often someone can jump, but consider the realistic bounds on how much more often a person who packs hastily can skydive. How often is this person jumping? Are we in a scenario where the amount of time it takes to pack a parachute is really the limiting factor, to the point where the hasty packers can jump "way more?" Seems like what that would mean in concrete terms is that as soon as you hit the ground you're going to hit the john, re-pack your chute, and immediately be back in the plane. Is that a realistic scenario?
Wow, this is just amazing. But looks like we have to wait till Feb 2016?
While I agree with your point about self-sustainability, the US now produces almost as much energy as it uses. From the world bank (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.IMP.CONS.ZS) these are 2013 figures percent of energy use imported:

Denmark 4
France 46
Germany 62
Italy 77
Netherlands 10
Spain 71
Sweden 29
Japan 94
Korea 83

US 15
Canada -73
Mexico -19
Would it make sense for the kernel to use a fresh, empty environment when executing a setuid binary?

Or perhaps a fresh environment with a few of the most important variables sanitised and copied over? And perhaps with the old variables available with a prefix (_UNPRIVILEGED_DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE etc)?

What would this break?
>So their primary function is to make template error messages more readable

Self documenting code and compiler verified contracts are what makes static typing worth the bother.
I could never get through step 5 :/ Stupid cat.
Poor Man's Spotify
All correct, except:

> as societies we act pretty illogical

It just looks that way on the surface. Below the surface, you can track all decisions back to their causes (down to "the smallest" scope).
It can be quite large too. However, you can recover that money a few $k at a time over the next several years if you are not subject to AMT (and don't sell the shares). Granted you will have to pay the taxes again when you sell the shares, but at that point it's capital gains (15%) so if it's a long term prospect it may well make sense.
Maybe run it inside a chroot jail? Hmm... that sounds like a good idea just on principle... there goes my morning. Of course, X11 is still a problem.
Jet.com Runs into Turbulence with Retailers
That's true for me too. Many of my Google results are buried in "fresh" blogspam, none of which contains anything either original or interesting.

This may be the result of good search and Sturgeon's law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

If so, the real problem is that Google search is incapable of identifying content by quality. As a result, the more Google searches, the more crap it finds, and the worse the results become.

Refutations of this idle hypothesis welcome ;-)
Shadertoy on your rgb keyboard
Most programmers I've met are not in fact regex "literate". They may be able to write one, but understanding what one does, or even modifying it? Well... So yeah, black box.
Just looked at /r/russia and I am still not sure it isn't an elaborate parody sub...
50 'Need to know' Design Documentaries that will leave you Breathless!
I absolutely love the "About this project" section text. Great idea. I agree with what drcursor said so I hope this would help to remove a couple of fake campaigns on kickstarter.