skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that one of the most important "meta" ideas, that comes up in many places, is that your conscious mind and rationality are largely a veneer/illusion over an "animal" brain.

Emotion comes first, then thought. This has consequences in the real world, including economic ones. And it was something that people got wrong -- e.g. Enlightenment thinkers overstated how different and privileged humans are in this respect.

Take the example of optical illusions. Even though I can tell how the illusion works, and you rationally know that two lines are the same length, and you can literally measure it yourself with a ruler -- your mind will still see them as different [1].

This is a benign example, but there are lots of other examples where "knowing" that you are wrong doesn't prevent you from acting as if you held the wrong beliefs.

If you are an investor, you should be familiar with the concept of "loss aversion", which is easily verified with an experiment and replicated. Daniel Kahneman won a (deserved) Nobel Prize for many interesting phenonema with real economic consequences.

Intelligent people are always questioning their psychology: http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html

The first rule I knew intellectually, but didn't really grasp till it happened to us

I don't know whether these expectations are innate or learned, but whatever the cause, we are just not prepared for the 1000x variation in outcomes that one finds in startup investing.

I assert that certain ideas from psychology have permeated into the public consciousness -- and 200 or 300 years ago, you would not hear non-psychologists talking in this fashion.

You can do very repeatable psychological experiments on how people perceive quantities of numbers and so forth. For evolutionary reasons, there are lots of quick "short circuits" in your brain that perform resource allocation and risk assessment, but they are not adapted for the modern world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCller-Lyer_illusion
It's interesting that 6 in 10 deaths recorded as "gun homicides" are "gun suicides". This is technically correct, but most people tend to think of a homicide as a person being killed by someone else.
And as we have seen in catholic monasteries, suppressing sexual desire works really well. Oh wait...

I'm not saying its a valid reason to exclude women, but denying that the issue exists is not the best comeback to that argument.
> In either case (whoever was the programmer), it was plagiarism. The manpage was written by Eric Raymond.

Not surprising. Eric has gotten away with over-claiming his contributions for decades.
UDP flood DDoS attacks against XT nodes
It would seem that the conflict has taken a nasty turn, and some of the more extreme Core supporters have started just straight out DDoS attacking XT nodes. Not the silly bloom filter CPU exhaustion thing, but actual UDP flood attacks. Looking at a recent drop-off at XTNodes.com[1] , it seems that this has started during the last 24 hours, and one of my nodes was hit three times in that period, on a dedicated IP that only runs a Bitcoin node and nothing else. (Not that they accomplished anything outside of saturating it for ten minutes or so.)

Is this really how some people think they are going to "resolve" the situation? If this continues, I can easily see people starting to declare open season on non-XT nodes, and then we have a war going that no one wants.
> Relatively common even outside Haskell?

It's common throughout mathematics. So common, in fact, that there's even a wikipedia article on the phenomenon[0].

“Common examples occur when speaking of compound mathematical objects. […] Similarly, one often refers to a group (G, \star) as simply G when the group operation is clear from context.”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_notation
i liek buttz
The FCC doesn't require it directly, but since it's the cheapest way to achieve what the FCC does require it's what the manufacturers will all do. That's the point.
Tried this as an hobby for a while, modded some with Corona and Unity, barely profitable, discontinued. Trailers still here: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCUv8iB1TUHHulj0OdWVS3Rw
I'm loving it. It makes a great terminal font as well.
For Aquameta's purposes, we're trying to make it easier for people to build visual interfaces that do programming. Higher up in the stack is a PostgreSQL admin GUI. Without meta, the backend of this interface would be the DDL grammar, so when the user took GUI actions, they would be converted to CREATE statements etc under the hood using string concatenation and other dreadfulness. With meta, we can instead just build against meta's data model, so that building this GUI just as simple as any traditional web data manip interface. It seems more elegant and simple.

It is a lot easier to shoot yourself in the foot. You can do very destructive operations through meta. It's more powerful for doing useful things too. Just be careful.
Ditto. On linux I fancy terminus though.
Right, IMHO QI test (and the brain teasers, anyways) could be used, but as a small part of a more complex process -- like, what about giving the applicant a real problem to work on? Unless you don't have enough time to make a hire, but in this case, well, good luck then.
The point about negligible senescence was just to prove that aging isn't a biological necessity. There are animals that don't age, which means aging is neither evolutionary necessary nor undefeatable.

If we get to the point where we can edit genes, we could do it intelligently. Certainly better than random mutations and selection over tens of thousands of years.

Organ transplants are not trivial, but it's possible we could improve surgery and anesthesia, as opposed to curing aging directly.

a) I did mention that this wasn't a cure for aging, just a life extension. You've eliminated basically all the diseases that occur below the head and this would extend your life a ton.

b) It's been shown that younger blood rejuvenates brain tissue a lot: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/05/infusion-of-y... And cancer from regenerative therapies wouldn't be as much of an issue if you are in a younger body with a fully functioning immune system. It's also possible we will eventually be able to tweak the parameters of the immune system to help with that cause.

c) You can slowly add in younger brain tissue as older stuff dies. There was a study where they replaced all of the glial cells in living mice with human glial cells, just by injecting them with stem cells: http://www.medicaldaily.com/bringing-human-brain-mice-glial-... But you can also add new neurons over time too as the old ones die. This isn't as bad as it sounds. The new neurons would learn the patterns in the old neurons. Memories are highly distributed in the brain - you can cut out half of your brain and still function normally and remember everything. Most of your memories and personality would persist even as you replace your entire brain.

Cryopreservation is believed to preserve most of the information in the brain. The connectome is definitely preserved. Information contained within the cells is probably preserved at such cold temperatures, if it's even necessary. In the future it's very likely they will have the technology necessary to reconstruct a brain from this information. Reviving the brain tissue itself might even be possible because of how much is preserved, and how advanced technology might be.
Ask HN: Where are these avatars made?
Hi HN, I found some cool avatars that some people have used on other websites and was wondering if you might know where they're from.

Here are a couple examples: http://i.imgur.com/pWW3DuO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kX7tQbh.png
Sorry, the text should have been in quotes. As r/bitcoin remains censored I thought perhaps you hackers would like to learn of the twist and turn that some people have chosen to take in regards to bitcoin.
I prefer the situation on Linux where I don't have the certificate at all rather than getting the certificate and having to mark it untrusted.

Edit: I'm referring to configuring the package as ca-certificates is installed or via dpkg-reconfigure
I hate that 'i' glyph but otherwise looks nice. I'm more interested in editor's colorscheme in example though. Really nice, anyone has some information?
Same situation here, except that it's Courier New that I always return to.
Efficient Rails DevOps (ebook)
For example, Japan. Afaik, the fcc permits the sale of such devices, as long as they are not in "jp" mode. Would the proposed regs prevent setting a laptops locale to jp?
Yes, but if the banks set up their own Bitcoin-like blockchain but with an added certificate authority, then they'd be putting their money where their mouth is, and then you'd be the one looking like you're overstating your case.

As a media skeptic, the 1st suspect is the one who is ascribing motivations to other parties/groups with no evidence. This goes double when something "technical" overlooks technical alternatives that would demolish one's own argument.
Soundcloud :(
As with most problems that can use Machine Learning (I am assuming this specific subfield of AI since they talk of the website 'adapting') the objective needs to be have a reasonable and realistic scope. The video is too vague/high-level to understand what that is.
I disagree with the specific point that taking the blame of others is at all moral or good or proper. It isn't even remotely the same thing as forgiveness. Either Christ was a scapegoat, an immoral transference of sin onto another to be ritualistically slaughtered; or Christ, as God (i.e. the trinity) who blamed himself for the mistake of creating man in the first place, is taking responsibility for this mistake and leaves his punishment up to the free will of humans who prove their miserableness with murder.

So no matter how you look at this it doesn't make humans look particularly good let alone divine. And the very idea of original sin, which makes Christ's existence and death necessary, is immoral. The actions of others has absolutely zero rational transference to children. It's an allegory for why all humans are so wicked. It's a nasty story.
Citizens taking video of police see themselves facing arrest
Jonathan Rowe's Testimony to the Senate on GDP as a Metric (2008)
I just found Input yesterday, and I really like it. Hack doesn't come out well in Emacs (letters are way too spaced), so I'll stick with Input.
Huh? All of them grew up and lived in Compton and/or South Central. When did that become upper middle class? And do you have any reference for them being music industry insiders?
I don't use the grid, but got intrigued by their ads, and it's tech that exists now applied well. Add a photo? They'll crop it unevenly to keep the subject in the picture. Using it as a background? They'll make it less attention gathering using filters.

Yes, the term AI is overused, but they're not say, Redding University lying about the turing test. They're describing computers anticipating a need and taking measures to help meet that need, which to lay persons is very much 'artificial intelligence'.
CB users also like modifying their equipment to use the amateur bands. Sometimes the 10m band is essentially unusable because of interference from CB users.

The end result is very similar to the WiFi situation, they ruined it for everyone. Now it's difficult for licensed amateur radio operators to buy amplifiers for use with low-power transceivers. The FCC has rules about what the minimum power input to amplifiers can be, and require manufacturers to go to great lengths to prevent the amplifier from working on CB frequencies. This reduces performance and reliability, and increases expense, all to prevent something no licensed amateur would do.

That said, the FCC has only a minimal enforcement budget, so there are plenty of illegal CB amplifiers readily available on eBay. The rules only hurt legitimate American companies and users of licensed radio services.
https://www.facebook.com/hagar.gogo.904750
Straight Outa Compton is a thumping track, I still love it.

They had a few juvenile train wrecks too such as...

'A Bitch Iz A Bitch'...

"Bitch eat shit 'n die
Ice cube comin' at you at crazy pitch
(Why?) I think a bitch is a bitch" ...etc
I'm trying this out. It looks really sweet thus far.

Thanks for your contribution. I think you'd be surprised how much of an affect your work will have on the folks who adopt it.
> You can be lonely with billions of dollars, and you certainly have the right to complain about it.

Oh, certainly. That's possible, and one is allowed to complain. It's just that it's in bad taste to frame it that way. It'd be like going up to a person in a wheelchair and saying, "man, it sure is exhausting having to walk everywhere! You really aren't missing anything, I'm telling you."
Very nice - thanks to whoever posted this.
Here's the same with Source Code Pro: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/140474

I'm liking the asterisk and kerning in general. It's taller, so it feels a little more cramped between lines. That might be a dealbreaker for some.
Where the hell are all these SDRs with transmit capabilities and sufficient output power to annoy others?

Because I would love not having to pay the 2000 bucks for an Ettus unit if they are apparently this widespread.
Have you looked at Courier Prime? I like it a lot. http://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/

// Looks like they've added Courier Prime Code.
Well, perhaps I should clarify that it's felt that way for a good while. Likewise, it seems telling that you conflate economy and freedoms.
Nothing stopping them from doing so, tho the use of a blockchain in such a "centralized" context is silly and an overkill when they can use a normal database with better/faster results especially if they already know+trust each other.
Thanks, but I will still stick with Monaco.
Politics is the Mindkiller
Conform to the fine-print-details of your license! Consult a lawyer.

If an expert says your use on Medium is defensible on legal grounds, you can "counter-notify" Medium, which may restore access unless/until National Geographic chooses to sue you.

On the other hand, if the license contract has definitions and requirements that might not be satisfied by appearance on Medium, just publish the article someplace that conforms to the requirements. Blurb/link (without the photos) from medium and other places. You don't need to die on the 'Medium' hill, there's plenty of ways to get your news out.
Probabilistic Multiplicity Counting
Why does source code have to be shown in fixed width? I've been using non-fixed width fonts for about a year now and I find it much nicer on the eyes. The only downside I've found is that sometimes things don't line up quite as nicely, which is purely cosmetic.
If there are no provisions against it in the contract it self, can you scan and post the contract?
> So roots are dynamically fetched and this is the list of previously fetched roots?

Precisely. Windows comes with a small number of roots pre-installed. I can't remember which they are, I assume it's probably just Microsoft's own, one of which is presumably used to check roots fetched later. When you browse the web with a browser that uses Windows's certificate store, it'll fetch other roots as needed.

Interestingly, this might be a security benefit. If you'd never visited a site using a revoked root, you never had the root in the first place.
Watching the latest video[0] on their youtube channel, it looks very similar to Squarespace or Medium. There doesn't seem to be any kind of AI or anything like that. Just an app to make blog posts with.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vDJZ-QufBQ

Edit: and here is the final result http://myothercamera.is/
Hack and others compared: http://s9w.github.io/font_compare/
I still like Source Code Pro better (yes it's free too) https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro
Fira at low res without antialiasing and without retina display looks right. I'd choose fira.
This is endemic to all the sciences, not just the social ones. Biology has just as poor (if not worse) an understanding of stats, and even worse pressures in terms of the money at stake (medicine, pharmaceuticals).

Maybe physics, and to some extent, chemistry, are immune, I'm less familiar with them.

The issue is less stats, and more the pressure to publish, file drawer effects, poor career prospects for replication work relative to original research, fishing without multiple comparisons correction, etc. etc. etc. All of which combines to result in a lot of scientists looking the other way because the rules for stats and the rules for tenure aren't in alignment.

I saw all this first-hand when I was a grad student in cognitive neuroscience. Don't for a second believe this is limited to psychology. If anything, psychology is being more honest and grappling with these issues first.
Nuns suppress sexual desire and I haven't heard of any fallout from that. Maybe it exists and it's just not well publicized?
Abolish humanities first.
Startup Ideas Are Only as Good as Their Timing: Go Fix a “Fuck This”
Inside Amazon Shipping
Well maybe for the entertainment value or the aspect that Theo was not involved in the exchange. But probably the best highlight for me was:

In the year 2015, it is a complete nonsense to produce new 32-bit system
designs. It's the new ``640KB of memory will be enough for everybody''.

> Also, would it change your mind if Google starting releasing 32-bit
> MIPS Chromebooks?

Of course not. They can release crap hardware if they want to, this
doesn't mean we have to support it.
I never believed a game as complex as Eschaton could exist in the real world. I'm glad to be wrong.
I don't think the FCC cares if WiFi routers interfere with WiFi. I think they're concerned about modifying the router to work outside of the ISM band, which has other users.

For example, WiFi routers used to be able to operate on the same frequencies as TDWR weather radars. They were supposed to listen to the frequency for a while, and not use it if it was near enough to a radar installation to cause interference. People modified their routers to skip the listening phase, and introduced interference with the weather radars.

Now nobody gets those frequencies. The average hobbyist could apparently not bother to understand the rules or the consequences of their actions.

(TDWR is safety-critical, used to compute surface winds near runways at major airports, giving pilots and ATC critical information about whether or not they could safely attempt a landing. If you hit wind shear 100 feet above the ground, you crash. Your quest for slightly faster WiFi speeds has the ability to kill someone.)
That's the idea, it should draw attention that it's not capital "o". Ugly though, it's not.
This article has successfully caused me to understand what a monad is.
You're in a nearly empty building after hours and you get into an elevator. As the door is closing, you decide to let out a long, voluminous, and smelly fart, and it's at just this moment that a beautiful person of your preferred gender walks into the elevator.

Needs to be a word for that.
Ah, so it's called "vemödalen". Good to have a name for the feeling that keeps coming back to me whenever I think about new ideas to build. It's already been done, likely better than I could ever have. It's probably just one Google search away. It makes me fear searching. I'll just take few more minutes, few more hours, few more days, to toy with my new idea. It's probably been done already. But I don't have to know about it right now. Do I?

Sometimes it's already done 20 times. Otherwise, it truly isn't. Or at least it isn't visible on-line. I think that with age I managed to learn how to invent new flavours of old ideas, things that have not been done before in the exact way I want them to. Is this just me lowering my expectations?

I often find myself resenting tourists. I see all those people taking the same pathetic photos at the Tower of Pisa, photos that have been taken a million times before. Like they couldn't just go to Flickr. But here I am, coding my own hobby project, a thing that has been done a thousand times before. I do it in a different language, using different approach, personalizing it in every way I can, and yet I what I'm doing is nothing but taking yet another photo of the Pisa tower.

Some people say "think locally". Just because it has been done before somewhere else, doesn't mean it's been done near you. Narrow your scope. To your country. To your city. To your family. To yourself. But it feels wrong. The world is connected, and being limited to a subset of it feels... incomplete. Do it full-scale, or don't do it at all. That's what I keep thinking.

I guess many a HNer knows this feeling too. Maybe some of you found a way to make peace with it. I think so, after all, many have probably done it before. If you did, please share.

I apologize for venting out.

----

Anyway, it's interesting that I couldn't find any reference to the word "vemödalen" other than The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Did they invent this term? Or at least the name, since like everything else, the identification of the phenomenon has been already done before.
The branch is dead, long live the branch
This seems to be the blog post mentioned at the bottom of the read me file:

http://www.bertolami.com/index.php?engine=blog&content=posts...
It does not have to be. Go ahead and use nice proportional fonts and never looks back. There are certainly no shortage of them that are high quality and easy on the eyes.

But for the rest of us, having a fixed width font is as important as any other consideration. And we're always on the lookout for a fixed width font that's as pleasing and readable as you proportional font people enjoy. Don't be jealous of us getting all the articles and blogs, because those only exist because we're jealous of you and trying to catch up.
Key Points for Managing Data in a Hybrid Cloud Environment
I don't know the word for it, but there is an Android game with exactly that premise, i.e. timing your farts to the outside noises so that nobody hears you. C.f. vemödalen.

I guess that movie really did put me in a weird mood...
By "do" he means the behaviour of the objects, not their use in real-world applications. In general, you consider a bunch of isomorphic things as one, rather than worrying about the differences between them which have no effect on their behaviour. This is sort of handwavy because it depends on context.

For example, if we are considering sets and functions between them, we generally don't care about the exact names of the elements of the set, only the fact that they are distinct elements. The important aspects of a function in this case are properties such as injectivity, surjectivity, etc, not that it sends one particular element of one set to another particular element of another set.

Another example is in linear algebra: we really care about linear transformations on an abstract vector space more than we care about what that linear transformation looks like relative to a specific set of coordinates.

This point of view is espoused in category theory, where the important information is carried in the morphisms between objects, not really the objects themselves.
The obvious question here is: Why do banks need Bitcoin?

Why does Bitcoin need banks?

Who cares if current banks ever figure out Bitcoin? For the vast majority of people and use cases, Bitcoin makes banks redundant.
First: thank you I didn't know that.Sadly I couldn't correct it.

Second: Should I mention it in title ?

Third: I didn't know that either. thank you. About worthiness of your time , I think does not come any harm from reading if it not become belief.
The 'f' is really ugly, and the * not being centered is a shame (it's used so much in source code for ⨉, it really should be vertically centered), but the reduced number of serifs is nice. I also like how === has less spacing between the lines, which fits common source code conventions which use = for underlines and horizontal rules.
ohhh I see what you're saying.
Thank you thank you.
might just be me, but looks identical to Deja Vu Sans mono for me on windows