skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suppose we are in a simulation. Now, it would be natural to assume experiments can only tell you about that simulation. Except, in the case of a self consistent simulation they could also tell you about a physical world that had the same rules as said simulation.

So, in this case we have evidence of a possible world, even if that's not the world we live in.

PS: Notice how this argument sidesteps the possibility of a 'fake' world as meaningless in this argument. So, even if say a trickster god was simply fooling you there is nothing no suggest that it's not also possible that a world running on similar rules could exist.

Edit: Alternatively, if it was simply a fake simulation for example by improve actors, then if it was a good fake then it would act like a video recording. And as such the fake actors would still say the same words even with a different internal world.
Reddit algorithm changed for /r/all to prevent any one community from dominating
This is a straw man. No one said "warning" label. I said "label", just like ingredients are labeled.
If you actually read the article, instead of assuming you know what's in it, you'll probably find you agree with its conclusions. When you're afraid to read things you think will assault your beliefs, you miss out on a lot of truth.
Granted, that's Seattle. Pierce County is rife with them.
I'd be willing to accept that interpretation, if he hadn't also mentioned how Obama "can't even mention the words 'radical Islam'."

And if Trump hadn't posted a tweet supporting the claim by a Brietbart article (which has been debunked) that the Obama administration supported ISIS financially[0], specifically claiming that he (Trump) "was right" about what the media says he was "insinuating" about Obama:

An: Media fell all over themselves criticizing what DonaldTrump "may
have insinuated about @POTUS." But he's right: https://t.co/bIIdYtvZYw
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2016

What insinuations has Trump apparently made, that he feels have been vindicated by an article accusing the Obama administration of having funded ISIS? I may be unreasonably biased, but I don't think Trump is trying to paint a picture of Obama as a mere political opportunist here.

And of course, it's always worth pointing out, Trump is a birther. He believes Obama isn't even legally fit to be president, that he faked his birth certificate and that his administration has been covering up what essentially amounts to a coup by a foreign power. He has a long and storied history of implying Barack Obama is a Muslim[2] (as if somehow that's a crime in and of itself.) Note in the CNN article, the following exchange between Trump and a supporter at a campaign rally:

"We have a problem in this country. It's called Muslims," a man
attending Trump's rally in Rochester, New Hampshire, said.
"You know our current president is one. You know he's not
even an American."

"We need this question," Trump said, chuckling. "This is the
first question."

The man continued: "We have training camps growing where they want
to kill us. That's my question: When can we get rid of them?"

"We're going to be looking at a lot of different things," Trump
said. "You know, a lot of people are saying that and a lot of people
are saying that bad things are happening. We're going to be looking at
that and many other things."

One could interpret that as simply dismissing the crank views of a paranoid voter as diplomatically as possible - if one were not aware of the beliefs Donald Trump actually held regarding the president's religion and legal status, and if Donald Trump were the sort of person to be diplomatic about anything.

Either Trump doesn't consider that an unreasonable question, or for some reason he can't bring himself to admit how unreasonable it is openly, because he wants to court the votes of people who consider it reasonable. He said later he didn't entirely hear the question, but that doesn't seem likely given the context of his response.

[0]http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/14/h...

[1]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/74307515450748928...

[2]http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/18/politics/trump-obama-muslim-bi...
That is a non-sequitur.
My first 60 seconds on a Server
Login to Digital Ocean. Create a server from snapshot (a saved security-cooked-in server image). Done.
An e-paper, wifi keypad – Hackster.io
The first strongly implies that there are canonical Gnostic texts and that the interest is in only the non-canonical variety.

The second indicates texts that are both non-canonical and Gnostic. Doesn't rule out all misinterpretations but at least doesn't imply them. Probably the best version of this that can be accomplished with small changes.

Third states that the interest is in texts that are either non-canonical or gnostic without a requirement that they be both of those things (a little similar to the first but without drawing as much attention to the implication of canonical gnostic texts)

The fourth defines Gnostic texts as synonymous with non-canonical texts.
Stanford University Confirms Democratic Election Fraud
This is so cool and I can't help but feel like I'm missing something important that's taking place and has huge potential.

As a busy programmer who gets exhausted at night from the mental effort required at my day job, I have a feeling like I will never be able to catch up at this rate.

Are there any introductory materials to this field? Something I can read slowly during the weekends, that gives an overview of the fundamental concepts (primarily) and basic techniques (secondarily) without overwhelming the reader in the more advanced/complicated techniques (at least during the beginning).

I'd really appreciate any recommendations.
> interested in noncanonical Gnostic texts
> interested in noncanonical, Gnostic texts

Look at the comma as generating a list. So the second would be interested in noncanonical AND Gnostic Texts where as the first is just noncanoncial Gnostic Texts, or simply Gnostic Texts as all of them are noncanonical to any other sect.
The testing culture in Perl is among the best I've seen in any language. I miss it when I deal with PHP stuff, which rarely has tests, at all, much less anything resembling complete test coverage and nice smolderish output. Ruby and Python are pretty good, but still seem to be less religious about testing than the stuff that appears on CPAN.

TAP is really nice, though I don't know that it's strictly necessary to build a good suite of tests; it's nice how simple it is (making it easy to use it across languages if you have more than one in your app), but I've found the testing infrastructure to be nice enough on Ruby and Python to not really have to dig into making it do TAP. Everybody has invented their own, and it all works OK.

That said, it'd be really nice if everyone could converge on a common output format, and build super nice tools for consuming it, rather than having a bunch of kinda OK tools built in a dozen different languages. I guess then the problem is that your dev toolchain then requires whatever language you're building in, plus whatever language your reporting tool is built in. And, there's always resistance to that, on almost every project I've worked on. That may be changing with API-based architectures, though...there's probably a business worth building around this problem, though you'd likely be selling to big enterprises who have heterogeneous application stacks (and selling to enterprise kinda sucks).

Is there already a CI tool that'll consume from projects in git and is smart enough to understand the individual test results? I know Jenkins has TAP support, but I haven't gotten around to setting it up yet.
Cisco warns IPv6 ping-of-death vulnerability is everyone's problem
> (but all stuff publicly researchable)

You said it there. Don't be so quick to blame the caregivers. The fact that an attacker could know quite a lot about you from social media means you were an easy mark, no insider necessary.

Just say no to social media.
47% of them intentionally!
Don't know of any here in Austin off the top of my head, but a quick search on Indeed reveals that HomeAway and Spiceworks are looking for developers who know Go - of course, that could just be for a pilot project or something.
Wait, you mean insisting I was reporting a crime to a police officer is not a defense in that case?
ARM Announces Mali Egil Video Processor: VP9 Encode and Decode for Mobile
He failed to mention in his piece that he had not gone through the federal background check process, which is the 5 page document. The gun dealer still has to enter this into their computer system and wait for a response from NICS.

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics

This could take a few minutes to a few hours, depending on how busy the system is.
Honestly, don't answer the phone from numbers you don't recognize. Real emergency responders will leave a message.

Conmen are really talented at this. Once local restauranteur who I know got this call from the electric utility, demanding $500 in Visa gift cards in 30 minutes (lunchtime) or the gas will get shut off.

The guy fell for it, just because the conman was good. Afterwards, he didn't understand what happened.
Tumblr deserves it. The format encourages one-up-manship that leads toward every escalating victimization and identity crises in its users.
Based on some of the complaints (anecdotally) I've heard about public land use, I think it's a mistake to assume cartel weed is brick/low-quality weed. They're clearly engaged in growing locally, if only because you eliminate the risk of border inspections and longer transport lines.
Thanks for the info. I'm not worried about software. I've done enough low-level programming for that to be not a problem. I'm knowledgeable enough about electronics, what I need most of all is a good reference which is why I have the earlier edition.
Building SaaS for SMBs: 4 Things to Know
one comment on the trainer: when you click on the Jailbreak link, it just drops you into the debugger, if you, like me got lost, run the `tour` and then click on the little person+ head and go to the documentation and go through the quickstart.

yay!
The same can be said of drug dealers.
FWIW anyone can get a /22 from RIPE right now. Just need to pay that 1500 euro membership.

Not that a /22 is huge but it beats dealing with sketchy people.
Beaker – polyglot research platform
Ask HN: Can you recommend any OPSEC resources/books/guides?
FWIW, SFO uses a private contractor to conduct security in lieu of TSA. I've noticed that they do not have the "TSA" shoulder marks on their uniforms that actual TSA have at other airports. Presumably SFO hired them because they were better than TSA in some respect, if that tells you anything. :)

It looks like several airports that were contracting them have since switched to another contractor, though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_Aviation_Security#For...
Is Donald Trump's Endgame the Launch of Trump News?
Hooray! Congrats!
I'm using Ublock and the article loads fine for me. I suppose Ublock has a functioning adblocker-blocker-blocker.
The Philosophy of Django Channels
You're confusing interface with implementation.
Do you have a wait list or place I can go to get notified once the book is published?
Their individual membership is $399/year[1] for "unlimited" books and videos, but there's no obvious place on their website where they actually list the books available -- very annoying.

I suppose their target audience is a manager at a large enterprise who's buying a subscription as a perk for his employees; he doesn't really care about a precise list of books so long as he knows that it's big.

[1] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/pricing/
I don't think we need to drink water THAT pure though. Although, I guess I'm only thinking about the practical application as a water filter, but I imagine it could be useful in purifying water for science.
And Terraform had support for the AWS NAT Gateway a long time before AWS' own CloudFormation did. I think there was a PR for TF a day or so after AWS added it to the API. Very impressed with Terraform.
Is that true? What makes you believe this? I see the link in the article but couldn't find anything that made me think the content was paid for or had anything to do with Expensify. I hope I'm not that oblivious.
How does this differ from Ticket Scalpers? (that noone seems to care about legislating against)

Edit: I am an idiot
Or a terrible market for housing, you know..
DoD is not to actually going to do it often. It's preferable to have carriers based on both sides of continent anyhow.

In defense in general, it's often lot more important to have capabilities and possibilities. Those alone can act as deterrence or threat. Which is often enough to gain the underlying political goal.

In naval defensive context, the doctrine is historically called "fleet in being".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being
Did Dennett back off from his intentional stance? Consciousness seems important to explain and predict behavior in practice.
The fact that the papyrus is from the 8th century is only relevant if it's the original. If it's a copy, it's not relevant for dating the book.

Irish monks (at least) copied stuff that they knew they disagreed with - pre-Christian pagan stories, for example. See "How the Irish Saved Civilization" for an example.
Sounds about right, given what Elon was expecting back in January [1]

> My best guess for 2016: ~70% landing success rate (so still a few more RUDs to go), then hopefully improving to ~90% in 2017

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/689299216607232000
Maybe a metalanguage or lint is required that forces unchecked exceptions as errors and adds more strictness. i.e.: checks things that are not relevant to the contract terms but are relevant to its correctness.
Beyond Compare is great. I prefer Araxis. I think most people would be very happy with one of the two. Whichever you happen to prefer.
Ask HN: What is the best MongoDB AWS configuration for maximum performance?
We are struggling with performance issues in MongoDB on AWS using Node.js and the Mongoose module. Has anyone struggled with similar issues and know how to improve this?

We constantly perform inserts to a collection with 13 indices and 16 basic types fields. On a Dell notebook (XPS 9343 i7 2015 8gb with SSD) running Microsoft Windows it is 10x faster than in AWS running Linux. I don't think the OS is the main issue.

We have tried to improve the performance of the AWS instance using SSDs (io1 volume type) and a m4.2xlarge (8 vcpu and 32 GiB of memory) but we are not seeing significant improvements when scaling the VM or changing the storage type.
How does this affect resale? I know when I sold my house the buyer's agent insisted that we bring it up to modern code first, and that involved some rather expensive retrofitting of the house.
There is nothing stopping people from creating a unikernel for a dynamic language that also includes the development tools.

A Lisp Machine on Xen would be one model.
Don't worry. The models are very simple.

Fundamentally, these models are just trees of multiplications that are computed over and over.

You can construct some here: http://playground.tensorflow.org
Proper Way to Run TOR and TAILS in a Virtual Machine
Based on this blog post, unikernels also need a special hypervisor (presumably with femto-sized VMs with second-granularity billing) so you might as well run containers.
Seems strange to call them criminals.
this would be worth your while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeJINHjyzOU
ME operates above typical UEFI firmware. ME updates must be signed by Intel and Intel alone.
First ping is always free.
Ask HN: How often do you get contacted via HN?
Cold emailed, about being a technical co founder or anything.
Its OK for it to not be completely thought out. It is a startup. They probably don't know how to make money from it. But I'm curious as to what checks they have to avoid gaming. Its pretty straightforward to build various bot to commit, evaluate, and accept code. Some people might even get a kick out of making such things... ;)

Edit: Spelling.
I am quite sure you're objectively wrong about snapchat userbase and their user behavior.

Also, not sure what your point is with regards to my comment. Maybe my point wasn't clear. My point was just because something doesn't directly generate profit doesn't mean it's useless, since it can act as a critical strategic asset to another company. Youtube was an excellent acquisition for Google despite the fact that it's not so good in terms of profit. Tumblr could have been something like that for Yahoo, except that there were many things wrong with Yahoo itself and the vision couldn't be realized.
I’ve met enough graphic designers with “better than perfect” 30/20 vision that I am starting to wonder if the color fringing of subpixel anti-aliasing is more visible to them than “normals”.
Can you explain to those of us who have never used nor purchased why it would be more expensive during the harvest season than the off season? Or did you get the numbers backwards?

EDIT: thanks to those who replied -- I didn't notice the change in units.
I definitely see the reasons behind this move. The computer vision department at ETH is particularly strong and that spills over to industry as well. There is Fashwell, a startup that is doing pretty well and they do ML / computer vision quite extensively.

Also, the ML meetup in Zurich has 2000 members, which is a lot for a small town like Zurich (http://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Machine-Learning/).

Salaries are huge (7000 CHF - 12.000 CHF after taxes) and the living standard is very high. I am well-connected in the tech-scene in Zurich and if you're thinking of moving here and need support, send me a message (e-mail is in my HN-handle). Disclosure: I am a tech-recruiter.
Show HN: Programming React Native (free book)
I used to work for the "original" spam king[0] at 2K Services in Montreal. Didn't realize how shady he was, friend of mine got me a job there. I got fired while on vacation because the office admin overheard me saying that, at some point in the future, I'd like to do something different than programming.

(The something different I ended up doing: systems administration.)

I was only an employee for six weeks, but I (and my friend who worked there) got a fair number of ridiculous stories. I lamented the day I took that job off my resume and no longer had a great answer to the question "and why did you leave that position so quickly?"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kuvayev
That requires having access to dom0, which is not available on Amazon EC2 (for good reason). Running in UNIX binary mode in a container on bare metal seems like the way to go here. That does not have the overhead of hardware virtualization. That means no internal memory fragmentation from partitioning RAM, the ability to avoid duplication of cache and any hypervisor upcalls become normal system calls. At that point, the unikernel is just a normal UNIX process that can be debugged with conventional tools.
That's why I like the initiative to revive the SuperH architecture now that the patents have run out - completely as open source. [1][2] Sure they are not fast enough to replace Intel or AMD CPU's but they could replace the smaller chips in our computers, which would be a good start.

[1] http://0pf.org/j-core.html
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZGHbMS882w
Thank you for taking the trouble to find and post it, but I don't agree with hardly any of it. Facebook is free and so even if it were true that it would be of higher quality if there was a cost associated with it, i'm happy with it the way it is. (The great is the enemy of the good and all that). I have a very minimal use of facebook; just Messenger, and that's a great little app. If my usage of Facebook is paying for the infrastructure (and for Whatsapp, which I prefer because of the encryption) then so be it. I'm glad to be a part of it; I don't feel used or violated at all. They're welcome to whatever data they can clean from me; very little, I suspect. I don't see the ads, of course, because I use ad-blockers. The arguments about the best minds making people click on ads; well, at least the ads pay for services like google, facebook etc. A lot of very smart people are creating games, or writing blogs, or whatever. Utterly artless (most games are not art using any meaningful definition of the word) distractions from life. But that's their choice, and the consumers who use them. I'm not going to start paying for search engines or facebook or email etc any time soon.

The bit about advertising and its effects on society at the end is the bit I come closest to agreeing with, and it's a shame that the author of that past thought to start it with a quote from a terrible book and not, say, Noam Chomsky. I have no problem with advertising in principle; just the way it's been co-opted to sell lies and dreams. Ads on the web - in contrast to the sorts of ads you get offline - seem to be old fashioned, telling you about specific products and services, rather than showing you what your life could be like if only you owned this or that brand of fridge.
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Cool app! my SO was asking me for something very simple to use, will ask her to give this a try. Is it required to be linked to an actual broker, or can you get limited messages from some other public data feed? For example, get alerts on price movements

Also, side note she uses Robinhood, not sure if there's plans to add that at some point
Based on their video (last on this page), that certainly looks like their target:

http://liquidpiston.com/technology/x-mini-gasoline/

If these are indeed quieter, then I could see them commanding a significant premium for lawn tools, generators, etc.
How exactly does one buy IP addresses? Do you have to run your own BGP instance and peer with others? Could I, for personal use by a /22 and control my own network? How much does that cost to do?
The 1/2 loaf probably costs 3/4 of what a full loaf does. That addition 25% is pure margin for the retailer - they thank you for your willingness to pay more for the same product.
The reason I included them is that my grandfather and I do not share a last name and he is not at all on any kind of electronic communication. So someone who just knew me could research for a long time and not find out anything about him; and vice-versa. Someone with specific knowledge had to make the link outside of social media.
Airbnb’s Robust Health and Why ‘Buyback’ Can Be a Rude Word
Here is some honest and brutal feedback: No one is going to buy the idea that your site went down due to the number of people giving you their email. It went down due to the amount of traffic. I doubt the HN crowd was clamoring to hand over their email to a generic looking, templated landing page with no product to actually see.
Unclear. There are issues such as what IP address the ME is using. IP addresses are an OS level thing, and the ME is below that. Ethernet controllers don't know about IP addresses. The ME has the ability to make DHCP requests, so it can get an IP address of its own.[1]

The real question is what the ME does in addition to what it is documented to do.

[1] https://software.intel.com/sites/manageability/AMT_Implement...
two servers, one "active" serving the website, one "passive" ready to serve the website when you bring the first down and perform some switching (DNS or moving an IP address).

Load balancing two separate servers you can consider as active-active for the terminology.
That's great, but with processes (containerized or not), I can use the full variety of standard diagnostic tools built over many decades. Of course you can start building similar tools for unikernels, but it's gonna take you a long time before you get to a similar state.
> Unfortunately not many providers do this yet.

Samsung just acquired Joyent, which provides multi-tenant container hosting on bare metal via Illumos and LX-branded zones. So to me, the acquisition further validates that approach.
Smart detection for passive sniffing in the Tor-network