skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was trying to encourage people to buy stock in the company, but it did not appear that he was attempting to pump and dump the stock, and it did not appear that he was aware of the potentially illegal nature of what he was doing.

Basically he was treating it just like he'd tweet and tell everyone about some new artist that signed to his label.
Yes, first, do the differentiation. Do you know what it is? If so, just try to explain it to us here. We'll give feedback :)
I would have to completely agree with you. That's why I use the bible for at least a common ground. Or a read the fucking manual moment when people just start spewing random crap. Just doesn't help their case.
The brain is also water cooled. Without proper water cooling it overheats causing segfaults and a white screen of death.
Steganography doesn't hide existence of communication, it hides/obscures existence of messages in it. Important distinction.
From the screencast[1] it looks like this doesn't support keyboard navigation―why is the search an OS-native window and not a Vim window?

[1] https://github.com/jtaby/VimAck/raw/master/resources/vimack_...
So, from Honeycomb onwards, Android is no longer open source aside from the places where they are forced to be (through the GPL), and the market is more of an Apple app store.

(or were there some copyright claims involved here? e.g. making a TI-89 emulator should be ok for the market, but you can't include TI's ROM)
Maybe most of use read the articles.
Exactly, this is just an asymmetric MP configuration. Note that this isn't exactly groundbreaking either. Others have already been using QPI to hook FPGAs up as accelerators. I don't doubt that it's a complicated technical endeavour, but Apple is certainly home to a number of talented engineers:

http://www.nallatech.com/Latest-News/xilinx-demonstrates-int...

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4207772/Xilinx-demos...
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This reminds me of Chuck Moore's 144-core, unclocked (!) colorForth CPU:
http://greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/GA144.htm

I wonder when he'll catch up to 5 million.
pg then asks: how many people are willing to pay a subscription for this? How do you know that?

And then pg says: I worry.. I worry..
I used it to create the graphs and compute the solutions for my recent blog post:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/AnOddityInTennis.html?HN

I found it really useful to have a facility on-line that let me do those calculations and draw those graphs.

I'm interested - what would you use instead?
Yes, I use it regularly. Most common is for the kinds of things you might find in the CIA Factbook, or any number you'd expect to be buried in a Wikipedia page.

The most recent thing I was impressed by was this:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+to+sunburn

I also tried creating a widget with WolframAlpha that seemed potentially useful:
http://beeminder.com/agename.html
(ie, getting a probability distribution on a person's age based on their first name)
Not to mention neuroplasticity: the brain literally can reallocate neurons to different functions based on whether they're used (and what functions are needed). It's a really fascinating aspect of psychological therapy and rehabilitation for people with birth defects or traumatic brain injuries. If a person has a damaged or missing part of their brain, they can develop the same functionality elsewhere. The brain is built to adapt to information instead of just processing information.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
No surprises there.

The transition to driverless cars is (IMHO inevitable. At some point it will be cheap enough that the additional cost will pale in comparison to the lives that will be saved as well as the simple convenience of being able to do something else while commuting somewhere.

Likewise I see this kind of thing replacing many forms of public transportation. There will simply be a fleet of cars. You'll say where you want to go and some system will route people and cars to destinations.

But, the transition won't be quick or easy. You need look no further than the aviation industry to see why.

Basically, automation in modern aircraft is a double-edged sword. It seems to erode the ability of pilots to actually fly [1], software errors causing deaths [2] and (I can't find the link to this) I also read a study that in more automated planes, pilots are more likely to believe erroneous instruments rather than their own senses and experience.

The issue won't be how the car normally behaves because as demonstrations have shown, current systems require very little human intervention.

The issue will be extraordinary circumstances plus the huge liability problem of any errors.

Example: if someone runs a red light and causes a crash, killing someone, that person is responsible. If an automated car does the same thing, the manufacturer will be responsible.

That alone will impede adoption.

Instead I think you'll have what we already have: slowly adding automation to cars. Cars already have radars and can stop themselves from colliding, they can park themselves and so on.

But at some point the driver will need to go away and that will be a tremendously challenging leap forward for society.

[1]: http://www.tourismandaviation.com/news-4530--Pilot_Reliance_...

[2]: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/8.77.html#subj6
I started with "Java:Complete reference" but it's definitely not for beginners. It covers a wide array of stuff though
I use it for pretty much all calculations, solving and rewriting equations, currency conversions, and basic stock comparisons. It's way better than google calculator for those things. Just add it to your bookmarks bar.
No state has anything close to a functioning system to inspect whether the computers in driverless cars are in good working order, much as we routinely test emissions and brake lights.

Having lived in Oregon, Arizona, and California, I have never had anything other than emissions routinely inspected. Demonstrate a car smart enough to monitor its own brake pad wear, alert on burnt out bulbs, and provide a clear readout of all detected issues (i.e. not a coded blinking service light, or plug interface) before you start trying to make it drive itself.

(I do love the idea of an automated train of cars, and driving my drunk self home, though)
For what it's worth, in the case of this article I found it very interesting, but since I only have a passing knowledge of the topics it's discussing, I don't feel there's anything I can personally contribute to a conversation about it.

It's still a great article though, and a lack of comments doesn't detract from that.
I use ack.vim, which outputs to vim's quickfix window: https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim
Just use ack.vim [1]. It works from any vim instance and is a standard vim plugin.

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2572
The title is "Cookiejacking Exploit Hits Internet Explorer, Targets Your Login Info".
From what I know a differentiator is the key that makes you different from the competition, that makes unique your product, am I right?
As I noted in the roadmap, keyboard support is coming, feel free to fork and contribute if you're up to it in the meantime :)
When is the pretending so good that it ceases to be pretending? How much Mocking does the Mocking Bird need to partake in before it is the Creating Mocking Bird?

What it didn't seem like Norvig got was difference between understanding and a highly sophisticated pretender. Gut Level vs Self Aware intelligence. Both are valid forms of intelligence but only one is a valid form of understanding.

I think statistical methods are a form of intelligence that are highly mechanical and could never achieve human level cognition (ie fart jokes). But I could be wrong, usually am more than half the time.
Whenever I see comparisons of the brain to a computer along with the implicit suggestion that computers will someday replicate brains, I am reminded of this passage from Leibniz's Monadology and that today's computers are but yesterday's mills:

"Moreover, it must be confessed that perception and that which depends upon it are inexplicable on mechanical grounds, that is to say, by means of figures and motions. And supposing there were a machine, so constructed as to think, feel, and have perception, it might be conceived as increased in size, while keeping the same proportions, so that one might go into it as into a mill. That being so, we should, on examining its interior, find only parts which work one upon another, and never anything by which to explain a perception.
Thus it is in a simple substance, and not in a compound or in a
machine, that perception must be sought for. Further, nothing but this (namely, perceptions and their changes) can be found in a simple substance. It is also in this alone that all the internal activities of simple substances can consist."

[http://philosophy.eserver.org/leibniz-monadology.txt]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology]
Running a query on 'linux users' returns, among other things, phone keypad digits for 'l-i-n-u-x', and Scrabble scoring.

Not what I need.
The problem with a native vim window is that it doesn't give you much affordance in terms of UI, you can't collapse files that have a lot of matches, hard to remember options and syntax for regex/case sensitivity, etc.
Where's that quote from?
Brent Hoberman on lastminute.com and entrepreneurship
The amount of information doesn't remain constant - technology enables bureaucrats to invent yet more bizarre and arcane legislation.

For example,the U.S. tax code was 504 pages long in 1939, 8,200 pages in 1945, 67,000 in 2008 and 75.000 pages today.

http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2010/03/growing-co...

I work for an insurance company, and we spend far more time writing code to comply with regulations than we do writing code for our agents and customers.
"e.g. making a TI-89 emulator should be ok for the market, but you can't include TI's ROM"

I don't think so. For example, I know the PSX emulator didn't include any of the required BIOS files and they are all still removed.

It seems that if someone big enough complains, Google will remove any emulator.
"Mothership Reconnection" is technically a Thomas Bangalter track (one-half of Daft Punk). Everything else _is_ a Daft Punk track.

/hipster
This is an excellent point. The article is pretty badly written, and oversimplified, I think. If the argument is somehow that this is evidence of evolution (an argument that is never made in the article, but only ever implied), and therefore evidence that there is no design to life (a pretty specious argument in the first place in my opinion), then the article should at least describe how this should have been plumbed, what the consequences of that would be and why it would be better.

The article does not even try to establish that there is no functional reason that it is plumbed this way in mammals. Actually, it doesn't even explain what the function of the nerve is. It is left to the reader to guess.

Most importantly, the article does not try to explain why there is an evolutionary obstacle to looping the nerve around the other side of the aorta. It argues that it is "monumentally inefficient" to do it this way, something that evolution should abhor, but does not even try to explain why evolution is so constrained.

It seems to me to be a science of the gaps argument. Despite the overwhelming appearance of design in nature, which is not disputed even by many atheists, they seem to be trying to argue for {insert favourite naturalistic theory of origins here} based upon personal ignorance of how a perfect designer would go about doing this.

I'm not clear why this even made it to the front page of HN. It seems to have been written solely to stir up debate with people who believe in intelligent design. I think I'd prefer to stick to coding, science and technology.
The boilerplate response: Android's open (except for Honeycomb), Android Market is not and has never been open and is nearly completely at Google's discretion, and you can normally install these apps outside of the market in cases like these.

That said, it is a frustrating move. The problem is similar to the one I foresee happening soon with the Mac App Store. Sure, it is great to have the convenience of the one true app store alongside the freedom to install what you please, but the power of the first tends to undermine the second until the freedom is mostly theoretical as the platform still is nearly entirely in one company's hands (e.g., the current state of Android).
"with a very good chance that it'll continue to do so."

That's not what extraordinarily low interest rates in the bond market say.
Cool! I only heard of Lippmann's holograms before. And now I would really like to see the 3D pinhole camera!
I use it for conversions and as the go to calculator on my iPad.
So Android is basically giving up their biggest competitive advantage to iPhone gaming? Android's emulators always seemed to trump iPhones wider selection of native games.

This is almost certainly a result of the launch of Sony's Xperia aka Playstation Android phone. Can't you still just sideload the app?

Maybe Amazon's Android store will allow the emulators back in? Or will Google be able to block this?
When I was moving/job hunting I used it a lot for cost of living adjusted comparison of salaries.
Show HN: Live-music finding site; Remembers users and filters by music taste
New app lets 37signals users see todos from multiple accounts on one page
Wow. Leibniz constructed the Chinese Room Argument nearly four hundred years before John Searle or computers. Nice. :)
"I think this would be phenomenal if you were able to show a similar level of improvement with something like cancer or staff infections."

http://www.maps.org/videos/source3/video14.html

Some interesting preliminary research on using ayahuasca to cure cancer. (Which the indigenous practitioners say works because it puts the user in touch with plant spirits or whatever.)
Yet Google can't remove the crapware and cull Market for apps that steal your data.

Not trolling here, I'm a happy Nexus S (and iPhone 4) owner.
automated office hours with pg
I think a big problem here is the scaling of online communities(there was a great article out on this a couple years ago). As homogeneous online communities grow their perceived quality goes down in part due to relatively heterogeneous members disrupting the signal to noise ratio. Sites like facebook(and I assume even reddit) get around this scaling problem by partitioning members off into homogeneous sets. This problem is related to the fact that there is a dialogue happening. Dialogues within heterogeneous populations degrades into culture war. So partition the user base via filters, create structure that mediates the dialogue/interaction, or create niche communities tailored to a homogeneous community.
How about we stop investing with eggs, eh? How about that?
The big difference is that with Android, you only need to change 1 checkbox in your settings and you can download apps from outside the Android Market (That's how you install the Amazon Market for example). With the iPhone, there's no way to download apps from outside the App Store.
It's not a search engine. It's an information engine. Enter what you want, not just two random words with no 'question'.
That's not true of all Android branded phones.
All the time - use it to check my answers to pretty much every calculus question I do, then if I get any wrong just use the Steps to work out better approaches in future. Never really looked into Google Calc though.
N-Queen Problem: Python 2.6.5 vs PyPy 1.5.0
Android as an OS is open source, the Android Market isn't. The market is completely controlled by Google, and since you can still install .apk files without using the Market I don't think this is such a great deal as Engadget paints it to be.
On a somewhat related note, I was looking at health insurance the other day. Wanting to make sure I remembered the terms correctly, I Googled, "how do health insurance deductibles work". By the time I typed the word 'insurance' my question was #1 in the suggestions pop-up. I found this strangely reassuring.

Later, I realized that it may well be at the top solely because I searched on the same exact term the last time that I was looking at health insurance, and Google remembered.
Thanks I didn't catch that myself.
Sounds awfully much like real estate where suddenly everyone was feeling rich because some idiot bought a house for too much money. (in this case aggravated by the fact that the idiot put zero money down.)
Even if this were an otherwise good investment, I want know know: What stops the guys who run bitcoin from simply shutting it off?

EDIT: And before people reply, "it is P2P", someone runs the web site. Someone owns the code repository. Or some group. There will always be a small group with power to muck with the system. What stops abuse?
""We encourage all customers to protect themselves against potential issues by avoiding clicking on suspicious links and e-mails, as well as adjusting Internet settings to higher security levels."

Let's clarify that ... "we suggest not using Internet Explorer to explore the internet."
I have never read, heard or observed that any race is, intrinsically, intellectually superior to another. Give this, your comment isn't interesting.

Now, I have read, heard and observed that Asians tend to have a different cultural emphasis on academics. Given this, it seems much more reasonable to suggest that the problem in the US is that the culture doesn't value learning.
On Intelligence is a good, novice introduction to the brain, its parts like the neocortex, and how studying the brain can help us design better artificial brains.

One point the book made that I thought was very insightful was that once we understand brains well enough to make artificial ones, we can pick and choose features like a little bit of Einstein mixed with a little bit of Zuckerberg's brain.

Anyway, if you have some spare time, check it out. It is a short book and I learned a few things.
It's a trade-off between less expensive living and more time spent commuting versus more expensive living and less time spent commuting. For all I've experienced, I'd take the extra time any day.

It's also a problem for the whole society when the sustainability of such a daily feat becomes a burning question. A dystopian view of doubling the price of oil and commuting will be not only painful but also ridiculously expensive.

Cities with a relatively good train/tram network and dense neighbourhoods grown around train stations/tram stops will be in big favor at that point.
clockless system design with NULL convention logic:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UTHFcdvvHQcC
Getting the two to interoperate eg cache invalidation would be hard without Intel cooperating I think. Running as independent systems but maybe sharing some pci devices might be easier. They would have to run two OS kernels anyway as mixing a dual architecture kernel would be hard.
"pilots are more likely to believe erroneous instruments rather than their own senses and experience."

The human brain is not setup for 3D dimensions of orientation, unless you can accurately see the horizon it's more than likely that your perception of the planes orientation and vector is wrong than the instruments. In most turbulent situations the brain is wrong and the instruments are right. This is why pilots are trained to fly on instruments only. On most planes the instrumentation system actively and accurately informs pilots that their instruments are broken when they are in such a state.
People generally cite the lawsuit threat, but the threat cuts both ways. I've seen lawsuits for putatively malfunctioning anti-lock brakes, and I've seen lawsuits for not including anti-lock brakes. At some point, once it is reasonably well demonstrated that automated cars drive more safely than humans under some circumstances, someone is going to file a lawsuit for not having automated drivers. It's only a matter of time. That's when it really gets legally interesting.

Note I said "interesting", not "the beginning of the inevitable victory". I say "interesting" because I think we can pretty much all agree how this plays out until that happens, but I can't see past that event.
You're right. A gradual easing in to the idea of smarter cars would make driver-less cars less of a shock in the future.
Speed limits are another realm in which regulation can hold back the development of driverless cars, besides merely allowing them on the streets in the first place.

With computerized drivers, it will finally be possible to fully enforce speed limits, by introducing some ceiling to the speed attainable by the car. I'm sure some "well-meaning" legislator will make it his or her priority to ensure that speed limits are never exceeded. However, at least in Massachusetts, if you go on the highway, everyone (including police) drive at ~75 MPH even though the posted speed limit is 55 or 65 MPH. Few will buy a car with this kind of handicap, were it to exist -- and I worry that it will. Many speed limits in the US were imposed decades ago, with less safe and responsive cars -- it would be a pity if potentially revolutionary technology advances were thwarted by this fact.

Legislation has already crippled or made useless many useful automotive innovations. In the US, technologies that allow for adaptive cruise control (maintaining a distance to the car in front of you) can only decelerate the car, and not accelerate the car. This forces the driver to have to constantly accelerate, greatly reducing the effectiveness of this feature. Many computer-laden vehicles with navigation systems are similarly crippled -- they automatically "lock" when the car is in motion, and some (like in Lexus vehicles) cannot even be overridden by people sitting in the passenger seat... often causing unintended risks like drivers pulling over on busy highways just to readjust their GPS target.
Look at Platinum. More expensive than gold, largely commercial use (jewelry is about 25%).
This is a very interesting conjecture:

...the world’s biggest problem isn’t poverty or disease or any oft-stated major problem, but that we don’t have enough people engaged in trying to solve these problems.

I'm not sure if there is any way to prove or disprove it but if it's true then we should be looking at those problems very differently. Great concept to discuss on a lazy Sunday.
One idea would be to make some long haul roads, or sections of them, completely driverless. Maine to Miami along a section of I95, or NYC to LA. We could start the test with tractor trailers. Let them drive for a few years and tune the system. There would be a huge economic benefit to allowing trucks to run 24x7 without drivers.
There is an exactly analogous argument about the human brain and its cells; and I understand the Turing test as a thought experiment that shows it to be invalid in any meaningful sense. If a machine (or a seeming person on the end of a terminal) says they perceive and think, how are you to argue otherwise? You have no evidence other humans, let alone other machines, actually can perceive or think, other than how they seem to act.
Google still has not replied to the complaints set out by the Android Developers Union - this is a clear example about why we need demand #5.

http://www.andevuni.org
Falkvinge is the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party, so my guess he's willing to personally risk to promote the world's first viable decentralized currency.
Well, except Honeycomb. From what I've been able to tell, that will only be open sourced when Ice Cream Sandwich is released, which appears to near at the end of the year.
Cool! As wikipedia notes, it's harder to design things this way (and apparently tends to use more transistors). But thank you, I hadn't a name to search for before. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_circuit
Gold is used in jewelry because:
* It is malleable
* It is resistant to corrosion/tarnish