skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just finished reading Blindsight and Echopraxia (as the omnibus release 'Firefall') a couple of days ago, they're both great reads. I don't agree with his conclusions about sentience but I think they're well worth exploring nonetheless.

Edit: Oh wow, not only is Blindsight available online, but all of his short stories are up as well! http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
I use 192.168.0.x for things like router, etc ...
and 192.168.1.x for my computers, phone
it's easier this way to remember what is what
Look at the lens of those devices … I mean, really, it’s a basic physics problem.

The device itself can obviously be very, very small. Obviously. No one is disputing that. But the lens is the issue if the sensor gets larger and a smartphone with Sony Nex sensor size (APS-C) is impossible.

There is nowhere to go with the available space. Not if you want to keep the smartphone actually smartphone sized.
That was my thinking as well.
Imagine a fan-fold.
Even If Every Nation Upholds Their Promise We're Still Fried
Angee – Autonomous Home Security System
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I know and that is completely what I expected. I had typed out a "disclaimer: I know Bunnie and his team have a lot going on, I am not having a go" proviso but I figured HN was a place where we don't need to have be so defensive :-/
You'd think Adobe would know a thing or two about UX http://i.imgur.com/QGnswcv.jpg
Oh my, that is quite scary, but I'm sure you have no examples.
How to stop your Apple Music automatic subscription
Consciousness is only useless when performing tasks that you have already mastered. Think of your brain as a box containing a programmer (the conscious) and a computer (the subconscious) - the programmer only gets in the way of a program's execution once the program is written, but is indispensable when a new program is required.
I'd definitely read more stories about these letters; seems like a very unique perspective!

I hadn't heard of Golphin before, so I was curious to read more, and it seems that he's no longer on death row, as of December 2012:
http://www.rrdailyherald.com/access/nc-judge-commutes-deaths...
How elitist have we become that the top comment says staff will become confused by the term "sprint" or using Microsoft word, the most ubiquitous document writing software in existence. Would I use it? No. Would I suggest it here? Yes. I mean we are talking about PRINTING a 500 page document and carrying it around so we can't reach for the stars here, but I will grant them 2nd grade english and 5th grade typing proficiency.
They said "briny water" so yes.
6S Plus has OIS.
It's referenced in Echopraxia, but only to explicitly state that the Bicameral Brotherhood isn't named for that study. :)
In theory the relatively recent adoption of Common Core math teaching techniques should help with many of these sorts of mistakes. I'm not well versed enough to know whether there's any sign of that already, but certainly the intention of teaching students to actually think about how math works and why a certain technique produces the right answer is laudable.
You can't understand why someone doesn't just get a bus ticket so they can turn up in a strange city with only the things they can carry and no contacts?
maybe that's the solution to the suburbia problem. move the people downtown and let the suburbs rot off.
I agree. Social animals need to be able to model other members of their group. Once that model evolves to include their internal models (including their model of you) then recursive self-awareness pretty much comes for free.
Which Skills Are Most Important on the Job and Which Skills Are in Short Supply?
This is going to sound heartless and for that I apologise. I am curious what happens with his copyrights on his opensource code now? Not many significant projects have suffered such loses yet.

Condolences to his family and friends if they ever read this.
Damn. I never met Alex, but was subscribed to his blog for several years. This makes me genuinely sad.

fuck cancer.
I prefer static typing because it finds more bugs at compile time. However my statically typed code (in OCaml) still contains occasional runtime type checks, and inefficiencies because polymorphic functions can't be specialized. I wonder if BBV or similar techniques could be used to improve that?
Old Standards vs. Common Core: A Side-By-Side Comparison of Math Expectations
Threatening Fliers Appear in the Mission, Tech Workers Reportedly Change Clothes
Annotated geometric proof that Euler's number is irrational
Thanks for the interest, but it is just a kind of personal hack thing. Just feed pages through markdown and jinja templates.
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5 Questions for Obama Ahead of Xi Jinxing's Visit
Amusingly, that was Chairman Mao's approach as well.
In my current project I get a significant (about 3%) performance difference when I change my VLAs to allocating the biggest possible size.
My guess is that it's because cache implications (a lot of useless 0s occupy a cache when you allocate a lot of useless space on the stack) but I haven't investigated it too deeply, just measured it.
It was a simple question, not a suggestion to choke off anything. I find it curious that merely asking "why did this problem come to exist in the first place" is met with downvotes and advice about "wealth distribution" that sounds an awful lot like trickle-down economics.
Well, yes and no. There is the Sabatier process:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction#Manufacturin...
amdcheck-loader for webpack released. Uses AST to optimizes AMD modules
By "web technologies" do you mean all the abstractions away from pages using HTML, CSS and JavaScript if requried?
It depends on amdextract (core of grunt-amdcheck and gulp-amdcheck).
To go from money you can't use to money you can use, that's not a bad deal, actually. But selling a million dollar book is probably too conspicuous. It's better to do this with something that's actually worth that much.
No.. the whole place DOES run on battery backup while the generators start. A large data center will have multiple rows of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center#/media/File:Datace...
Housing and gentrification are two big causes of anti-tech sentiment in SF but are by no means the only driving causes. For a strongly-worded article on some other factors see http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/21/anti-tech-backlash-could-be....
If the logs might contain the stacktrace of a request that brought down your application, how do you look at them if your health-checker helpfully terminates the now-considered-wedged app VM, and your logs also "helpfully" disappear right along with it?

Half the point of logs is that they're the examinable blast-wave of something that might no longer exist.
You don't need CSI to convict someone of murder.

In this case:

Means: he knew the person who committed the physical attack and had influence over this person

Motive: the victim was accusing him of embezzling $6000

Opportunity: plenty

Proof defendant actually acted on the motive: he attempted to hide the body from discovery, helped hide the victims car, contributed to a conspiracy to cut the body up and dissolve it in acid, split the money from the victim's wallet with the other man involved, and made sure that cleaning staff that he managed were reassigned so that they would not find the body. None of this is in dispute!

This is by itself enough to convict him.
> profit margins are insane - they are the highest in almost any business

Profits kind of have to be high to attract and justify investment. Modest profit margins can't attract multiple billions of dollars which will be tied up without return for 10+ years at a time.

Don't forget to include risk in your cost calculations.

(re: Pfizer, you cherry-picked that number. https://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NYSE/Company/Pfizer-Inc/Ra... shows wildly swinging profit margins year-by-year, almost certainly driven by the decades-long drug development and regulatory clearance cycles.)
Please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can send you a repost invite. We send those when we notice a story that seems good but fell through the cracks.
well sure, that would be the pragmatic way to do it, but it kinda spoils the joke.
I'll be honest and admit, that I didn't understand most of the stuff, but damn that website is gorgeous.
"Their site is jammed trying to serve huge SVG files"

False statement. I looked at the page source code and the network requests; all the SVG illustrations used in the article are inlined, and the entire page is 154kb gzipped. That's not "huge" by any means.

The real reason the site is "jammed" is due to all the advertisements (pngs, gifs) and tracking widgets.
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Your website crashes my Chrome is if scroll just a little down...
>The VCs that are funding this company and its ilk are signing deals that immensely limit their downside potential and max their upside.

How does that limit VCs' potential downside? Of course if the company gets acquired for a good price, they'll get their money back and then some, but for that there needs to be a big co acquiring the company for a large price, which will be hard to find. On the other hand, if the company bankrupts, VCs get nothing.

I'd say that at this level of funding it's IPO or nothing for the VCs.
Oh apparently the Banner image is a link to a welcome page.
Yep, I think we're in agreement. My reply would have been better if I'd added a note that I've seen that kind of pattern on other blogs before. It's hard to keep a highly technical blog going while also doing the projects that give you material to blog about in the first place!
Ignoring the moralities and can-of-worms question of the death penalty itself for a moment, I've always thought the reasoning of "life without parole is cheaper, so let's do that" was flawed. Why not figure out why the death penalty process is so expensive, and fix that instead? Then you can have your moral & ethical arguments without adding economics to an already hairy debate. I would bet the costs are rooted in over-inflated legal fees and prosecutorial inefficiencies which should be fixed in any case.
> I like how you've handled multiple chapters.

How did he handle them? As of now I just see chapters as unlinked individual posts.

Edit: I found an example to see what you mean: http://fictionhub.io/story/mother-of-learning
> Twitter’s first line was written in 2006 by our now interim CEO, Jack Dorsey.

Really? Not Noah Glass?

Also, no mention of Pivotal Labs role in helping Twitter get rid of the fail whale...
I was constantly being reminded of Taylor, while reading the
article. Is this the scientific management of software engineering?
It looks a little too constraining for a rapid-changing discipline as SE.
You may like this: http://euclidthegame.com/Tutorial/
Url changed from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/27/the-era..., which points to this.
Olympus Air[1] perhaps?

[1]: http://www.getolympus.com/us/en/air-a01.html
I don't believe Shell. I believe this is a PR tactic to throw off their opponents. I've seen other companies do so. They'll find some way to keep exploring and doing whatever they can get away with.
I had the same impression (on an iPhone). I'm not really sure what contributed to my unconscious snap judgement, but I think it has to do with the layout of the search box and list of links, along with the lack of images (other than a little icon in the corner) and the four copies of the domain name (in all caps) on the page.
Darpa is testing implanting chips in soldiers’ brains
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The question that has been arising for me, is what amount of resources do you devote to engineering effectiveness in a relatively small engineering org (~25 people)?

It seems like the presented formula would say to not devote any resources, but there seems to be some good return on some effort put towards it. Right now, I've just considered it some percentage of my job to work on.
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Microsoft deploys first major server application on Ubuntu Linux
That assumption depends on how many teams the person has been in. When I was in Uni we literally had just one project in 5 years where we were working in a team with more than two people.
Some more background: http://www.dragonfly.co.nz/news/2015-09-28-douglas-bagnall-a...
This post doesn't address the most important thing: when can we actually expect all of the government's websites to start using these common patterns?

Creating a library/set of guidelines that you expect other developers to use is great and all, but not impactful in and of itself. Right now it looks like the library's authors are more focused on making their library useful than used, which is a thousand times more important.
Yes.. They won't switch off what they never had. Three use someone else's (Vodafone?) and they won't be switching that off anytime soon.
> This measure, usually called the oil intensity of the economy... ...is calculated by dividing the total national oil consumption by GDP expressed in constant monies.

So it's not taking into account the increased offshoring of our economy's oil and energy consumption, and the article chalks everything up to increases in efficiency (or switching to coal).

http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/11/15/is-it-really-possible-t...
Alternate possible biochemistries are dependent on the stability & potential variations in bonding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi...
Totally different market (E. Europe) so I don't think this applies but:

I was in the exact spot about 7 years ago; I wanted to change jobs, but after I revealed my salary I was getting a +10% offer.
Until a friend told me -- NEVER, EVER, EVER reveal your current salary, either don't reveal it, or just... lie.
So I figured, hey, none of these companies actually required any proof of my current salary, I won't make a written statement, so... why not.
And the next time, I lied, I said my salary was 40% higher than it actually was.
And that's how I got a 50% salary increase :|
Even if HTTPS Everywhere and uBlock origin are included by default as requested, the bug opener can't possibly expect Mozilla to break the browsing experience of every mom and pop by including RequestPolicy and NoScript.
Usually, 192.168.y.x/24 where y is the birthyear of the oldest person living there at the time of the install (so no renumbering)...

I.e. my network is 192.168.79.0/24, my parents is 192.168.48.0/24, my brothers is 192.168.82.0/24...

That lowers the risk of ip-net-conflicts between family members (that sometimes want a vpn between them)
One Irish China Expert Is Taking the ‘Hard’ Out of Hardware
Ask HN: Is it possible (legally) to have a cofounder without incorporating?
Situation: I am broke and in a smaller market(RI) and have limited "professional" experience. I am a pretty capable developer so I am not worried about actually setting up, branding and launching the venture or doing the actual contracts. It will simply be a small portfolio site and some email addresses, etc just a virtual company. I have been doing contracts that are structured from person/entity I am dealing with => me.

I have been looking for another dev. to help share responsibilities with and who would have a complimentary skill set. I am a full-stack JS dev and capable with RoR s/he would be php/mobile so we could provide a full service agency.

I have owned the domain for a couple months, and the mail servers are hosted by zoho.com and set up with basic functionality(i.e dev@,hello@,hr@ ) etc.

If I bring someone else on, especially since the company is unincorporated, I will be taking on liability. I was going to just structure the contracts company => both of us in a 50/50 split, but things like ownership of code, ownership of the website, breach of contract are concerning me.

The cofounder would be a stranger, further complicating matters. Does anyone have advice on how to protect myself with contracts instead of incorporation? I want to continue to take contracts and expand but don't want to tie myself to a stranger/be open to a personal lawsuit. Obviously this isn't like a YC level startup, I literally need to generate like 60K a year, even before the split, to just pay bills.
Moving abroad, what salary to aim for?
Hey! I really appreciate your comments, and thanks for the words of encouragement.. you're right, the lifestyle in Lebanon makes for something beautiful, despite the difficulties in politics and infrastructure. And, while many Lebanese have left, I also find a good number have stayed or come back, with a clear directive of building their country. Initiatives like the Circular 331 are super encouraging.. I hope we'll see exciting things transpire in the coming years.
Oh, and it makes it easy to remember the subnet
...or web development.
I think the main point is that there's a difference between slackers and people who don't care. You can slack but still care about the group work, but you can also slack and not do anything at all. In the former, slackers may feel compelled to work harder when working in a group (like the ones you're talking about), but in the latter they just don't care enough (like the ones who ignore emails).
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I'm sorry but... what's with all those questions?
Apache Flink: Juggling with Bits and Bytes
A silly title for a great article about presentation of Math visualisations.
http://whatchuu.com/
Url changed from https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/99141, which points to this.
"only about 340 units in SF were rented on Airbnb more than 211 nights, which is what Airbnb has calculated as the break-even point compared to long-term rental"

This is a crazy figure. That's saying hosts only charge 1.7X more per night than they would get from a roommate or tenant. That's ridiculous.

A quick search on AirBnB shows rooms in my neighborhood going for $130-230. That's $4k-7K/month for a room fully booked. A quick search on Craigslist shows roommates wanted for $1200-2200. That's about a 3X markup, nearly double what Airbnb claims.

That matches anecdotally what I hear a lot. People are increasingly preferring to AirBnB rooms instead of seeking roommates. They get more money and/or have more control over their space. No getting stuck with a crazy roommate, no overnight guests, you can have the place to yourself when you want, etc. This takes housing stock off the residential market and moves it to the more attractive tourist market. It's similar when you look at entire apartments too and the incentives to hold onto them and Airbnb them after you've really moved out, instead of letting new residents move in.

So the 75 day limit that Prop F proposes is much better targeted at changing those economics than the current 120 day limit (which is not very enforceable anyway). That means you'd have to charge 5X to break even vs. a long term rental, which is too much. So it only makes sense to AirBnB rooms/units that really would never go onto the long term market anyway.
I'm impressed by how only a few people mentioned what I think it's the main point of application/system logging: debugging problems. Especially in small projects when you don't work 'at scale and you don't have metrics.

Am I the only one that stash GBs of low-level log messages in order to diagnose bugs that occurred in the past?
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> it actually matters if you use Amazon S3 or GlusterFS on real hardware, how many nodes there are, what are exact settings in php.ini or something else you'd be glad not to care for, but you suddenly do care

It actually matters... at scale. No project starts at scale. Most projects never need to scale; most projects die before they scale.

Magic software is for prototyping. Sensible defaults and convention-over-configuration mean trying (and failing, and trying again), quicker. Even though I have software in production with a million users, I still code new my new experimental projects on Heroku, because relying on "magic software" is one barrier less in the way of getting to work. (Not a technical barrier, mind you; a barrier of choice paralysis about what my architecture is going to look like.)

At scale, meanwhile, you have a separate thing, a magic piece of strong-AI-equivalent software called a "dedicated ops team." When you get there, the task of refactoring your idiotic prototyping decisions becomes their (hopefully-well-paid) problem.
Done belatedly. You should send questions like this to hn@ycombinator.com. We read all the emails, but there's no way we can see all the comments here.
You were quite right actually, as you can see below.
Castel Gandolfo is the site of the observatory for historical reasons only; light pollution from Rome is pretty strong there - and probably rising.

http://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=14&lat=5122707.20753...
Something that many digital folks don't get about old typefaces during the hot metal era:

Different sizes had different cuts. So a typeface that's at 9 points wasn't using the same outline as the same typeface at say 24 points. In fact in many cases you'd have versions of typefaces within a family designed for body text vs. headlines, so for example you have a "book weight" vs. a "display weight".
Note to future readers, the URL to the article was changed from BBC to Cloudflare itself. The photo in question is on the BBC article, not the current article.
You can't give someone their life back. Nearly any other punishment can be stopped.
Not really, it's basically 'composition over inheritance', and laying out data structures in a cache-friendly way, and only then build the functions that work on those data structures (the common term is 'data-oriented design').

It's the mantra that game developers have been preaching for at least the last 5..10 years and which slowly makes its way into the general programming world, because the CPU/memory performance gap is getting wider, not narrower. The bitsquid engine blog (now: Autodesk Stingray engine) has a lot of really great articles on that topic (for instance http://bitsquid.blogspot.de/2014/08/building-data-oriented-e...).
Paul Graham tweet response on 1379% increase for AAPL stock
I know a few people that work/have worked there, and all say it is a fun place to work. However, the interns I know were severely underpaid. Not sure about full-time.
That's unlikely, in my opinion. There are some seemingly fundamental aspects to the underlying mechanisms of life as we know it today and some aspects that are mostly just accidents of history. For example, RNA/DNA type systems and polypeptide proteins represent enormously powerful designs which seemingly can be bootstrapped from simpler systems. It would not be at all shocking to see other forms of life based on very familiar machinery. But if there were different details here and there, that too would also not be surprising.

Additionally, electrochemical gradients as a means of storing and using energy, and amphiphilic bilayer based membranes both seem to be incredibly fundamental, it would be more surprising to see life that was based on other principles than to see life that shared the same design. As for everything else, who knows? It's likely there are a ton of alternative design choices for a lot of different aspects of cellular machinery on up to large scale structures of plants, animals, fungi, etc.

But overall I'd rate some of the more "out there" notions of things like silicon or sulfur based life, or merely carbon-based life that was utterly different from our nucleic acid/protein/membrane based life as being comparatively unlikely.
I can't find big difference between iPhone 6 and 6S.