skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He seems to assume that because he (what?) can think, he exists.

Either he has an implicit assumption about what it means to exist (which he never describes, and which is therefore useless to me), or his definition of exist is "can think", in which case the famous proof would be trivial and useless (it would boil down to "I exist therefore I exist").

I already see many people here don't understand what I mean, but this is the kind of thing that makes most philosophers useless to me.
All properly encrypted things should have the same almost uniform distribution.
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To jump in with the others, I think you'd enjoy Bartley's The Retreat to Commitment, where he raises similar sort of criticisms to the ones you talk about, but in a much more systematic way.

Generally speaking, people who were lucky enough to be born later in time have the advantage over people born earlier, since they can learn from those who come before. This isn't something you have to remember when looking at science since science in the news is if anything too focused on speculation or the latest result over what has been well confirmed - but philosophy has the opposite problem. People still talk about philosophers with ancient names, heavy with dignity even though their ideas have been challenged or extended since their time.

Really, nobody talking about truth should be failing to make a distinction between what is true and what is know since Godel did his work, but Descartes had the disadvantage of being born to early to know about that. In particular, his justifications fall afoul of the third horn of the Münchhausen Trilemma, by resorting to assuming some things as axiomatic. In particular, on reflection I'm baffled that Laplace can take "I think" as axiomatic but not "I am". Existence without though isn't hard to imagine (and some Laplacian demon might be imposing its thoughts on us), but thoughts without existence is. Perhaps if Laplace hadn't set out to prove the existence of God he wouldn't have had to make such odd assumptions.
The larger the business gets the more of a concern bandwidth becomes. All web based applications suffer from this problem, the very high cost of bandwidth in the US.

Without very competitive high bandwidth costs, i just don't see how business software, much less, enterprise software, could ever really be worth the investment on the web.
Google was successful then with PageRank, but maybe now they need something better? It is my personal opinion but building something as huge (now) as Google search on such a shaky foundation as PageRank is dangerous.

I don’t think physical constants are made up and they certainly aren’t hidden.
English vs. Russian vs. Japanese text (UTF-8)

http://imgur.com/a/vwoIF
> Well name a philosophy book that is worth reading.

Plato's Dialogues and the Pre-Socratics, written 2500 years ago. By reading the above works you'll see that they contained all the important questions.
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Bitcoin is unlikely to replace the dollar, but if I were Paypal I'd be worried..
> Time to once more point out that we are simply running out of unskilled/low-skilled labor.

It must be nice to live someplace where all of the parks and streets are clean. (There are plenty of other examples.)

In my area, we "pay" folks far more than minimum wage to clean parks, which means that we have dirty parks AND pay people to do nothing.
a person who has their laundry done for them by their company seems important and valuable

I grant that California may be a funny place, but in what social pecking order do engineers at Google beat lawyers, doctors, investment bankers, hedge fund traders, CEOs, assorted executives, or any other profession that routinely hires household help, when seen from the eyes of someone who cannot do pointer arithmetic?
I'm in the same boat.

I actually got my invite from someone who works at Google, but I keep getting the "We've temporarily exceeded our capacity. Please try again soon." message when I try to join.

My friend says keep trying, but I might just wait until they open up to more people.
"Everyone" is a very blanket statement. How do you know the people suggesting "Just go, don't be shy!" aren't speaking from personal experience?

I think "conquering your fears" is an important life lesson. You shouldn't shelter yourself or others from things they fear. That never seems to help anyone.

I know exactly how the OP feels. I grew up in a small country town and moved to the big city. Going to these sorts of things used to make me break out in a lather of sweat and my heart beat would be going so fast i'd barely be able to speak. Lucky for me I'm a bit of an adrenalin junky.

Social skills are are just like any other skill. The more you do it the better you get. And unless you expose yourself to experiences where you can practice your skill you're not going to get any better.
There is some innovation in this space. For example did you try Blekko maybe with some relavant hashtags. For comparison:

http://blekko.com/ws/buy+vpn+/monte

Or duckduckgo?
It will be interesting whether G+ social signals help Google improve this going forward
It's a real pain when you link off to go read something in a new tab and come back to HN and try to paginate to the next page and you get the expired page. This happens to me all the time - so annoying.

LULZ, I just got it after commenting here and trying to go to the next HN page.
There was also an attempt to introduce a Minitel system here in Ireland. It was ridiculously badly-timed; by the time it was actually up and running, things like Compuserve were around and the first ISPs were only a couple of years away.
I used to forward from my Google Apps account to regular GMail but different people would see my email address from my domain and others from gmail.com depending on their mail client.

It's a minor nuisance but switching it around and routing everything to my apps account solved that inconsistency.
I happen to use 7 / archlinux / Os X almost equally. Of course my comment was trollesque, but an affirmation like "Microsoft ... tends to be very good about security updates" is not realistic. Time elapsed between exploit discovery and patch proposal to the user is everything but short. And If every website with a security issue was to answer to the congress, well it would not do much else. Plus, given the money Microsoft spend lobbying, I doubt very much that in a similar situation they would have to answer to the congress. Dropbox just seems to be a marked man.
Grand! Thanks muchly.
How does this deserve a down vote? Erlangs beam VM is pretty amazing but it's not without some pretty weird artifacts in the source, many of which I've discovered via Joe's twitter ranting.

(EDIT: I guess people don't like unpopular views at all, that's fine, long live jokes, forget the facts.)
You must somehow have avoided running into it, but .co.cc was a fever swamp and a nightmare. For any popular search terms you can think of, it contained "popular-search-terms.co.cc" and "my-popular-search-terms.co.cc" and "best-popular-search-terms.co.cc" and so on ad freaking nauseam. And it got spammed all over your screen, because Google likes to find search terms in the domain name.

What do you think was there? Do you think 11 million people woke up one day and decided ".co.cc would be a great domain for my business"?

They should have nuked it from orbit a long time ago.

EDIT: I just realized .co.cc is not actually down, but it's blocked by my provider now and no longer indexed by Google, so it's pretty much gone for me. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
It's not that physical constants are made up or hidden, it's that we know most of them with very limited precision, because they are determined via experiment.
It does involve domains as well. That's why demandmedia and the like used to have higher rankings. Any old ehow article isn't linked to by many, but taken as an aggregate they are. I've always felt that they should be ranking individual pages and completely disregard the domain. We'd see a lot more expert content that way.
JailbreakMe highlights just how vulnerable iOS users are
Could you elaborate how/why Microsoft's implementation was cheaper?
I have to agree with you on a lot of your points (even though I haven't had the chance to use G+). I am actually happy that G+ is missing advertising, corporate pages, and widgets. These things are "social", but I truly believe a social network should be about people and not games and corporations.

However, put with words with friends on there, and I'll be happy!
Your blog has been one of my favorite reads for a while now. Please keep it up!
Sounds very similar to distcc (that has been around for ages).

http://www.distcc.org
Is it a mistake to say "There may be an ultimate answer, but we have no means of reaching it"?
> Sometimes you can go too far in questioning everything to get any practical result.

That's the thing, philosophy doesn't have to be practical, it stands by itself above everything else, with maybe only Maths as a worthy companion. You can either make fun of this, like Aristophanes already did 2,500 years ago in The Clouds, or you can take it as it is.
I'm pretty sure that Samsung has enough patents to sue Microsoft in counter case and actually force them to negotiate.
Yes, you then have the same problem suffered by most social networks.

I actually think a similar problem has been partially solved by Twitter already. Twitter grows but the content curation is done by the people you follow therefore new users don't affect your interactions on the site unless you let them. Of course, there's gardening work which has to be done by the user in getting to this point but it would probably be less work than browsing some of Google's search results.

Additionally the intelligent thing would be to mine the social interactions of authoritative users to provide public data for users that don't want to engage with the app.

edit: Of course, it's possible to become an authoritative spammer in which case as a power user you will still need to garden the group of users that you interact with.
That one wins by not bothering to conform to the PDF spec at all.

The spec is huge, and the insecurity comes from having to faithfully implement all its utterly insane features, like embedding flash files, executing javascript, rendering external assets, and so on.

The challenge is to decide which subset of those features you want to deliberately ignore.

Most of the esoteric ones are likely critical to obscure, in-house business applications created years ago by corporate coders lacking in sense. Adobe Reader obviously implements everything, and its the reference implementation, so it is installed in most businesses.

Unfortunately, business is the area most in need of security.

In summary: OMGWTFPDF!
They also charge nearly 10% to process the coins. You may as well flick a tenth of them into the wind.
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In his heyday, but now his income might be lower than yours considering how much he's funnelling into his charity.
They found time to publish this in 1998 but have been too busy since? I don’t think so. The reason is that they decided to keep all new development secret. That’s why we have to speculate.
It seems they took a swipe at a lot of services. probably not intentionally, but by rolling up a lot of functionality that has been proven by others into one app.
When the Nortel patent deal is approved they would double up on the $15.

Wondering what counter strategy other than pay up are Samsung and other Android handset vendors pondering.

At this point it just sounds like the OHA will have to do patent pooling and go head to head against leeches to either get a very favorable deal or not have to pay anything at all. Google+TI+Samsung+Sony and the 80 others (ZTE has LTE patents for e.g.) must have enough patents to realize something like this.

It would be terminally bad for Android if instead of paying the ever increasing royalties to MS, vendors just chose to ship WP7 instead. And WP7 is fast getting near more than good enough. The game could change in Microsoft's favor with Nokia at MSFT's disposal sooner than we think.

EDIT : S3 was bought by HTC, and they have a successful claim against Apple. Hmm.
The title says this is a "generic distributed compile system", by which I take it to mean that it can be used for anything, not necessarily Go -- Go is just the development language for this....atleast that is what I surmise from my quick read.
Thanks for explaining all of this in the comments. I was wondering all of these things...
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This could give "Santa Claus is coming to town" a whole new meaning.
All binary file formats should be randomly distributed along the spectrum if their file size is large enough.

Also, I am not sure that this sort of diagram would be suitable to tell certain file types apart, there is probably always a better way to do that.

You should notice that the histogram of a zip file, for example, should level out (like the truecrypt histogram does) if the file were as big as the truecrypt file.

The look of these histograms is largely influenced by the file size. So, I think only the peaks are worth to interpret.
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this are shared to all people
Then why sign such a contract in the first place?
What about when the number of BTC has gotten close enough to 21 million that mining nearly never returns any new ones? The number of miners could fall to something approaching zero.
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I like the first and last pictures, but my apartment doesn't look anything like that. :P White walls and brown carpet FTL.
> You, and many others, seem to imply that being "bad math" (mathematically not sound) is the same as being "bad" (in the broad sense). The author never said that the method was useless, nor anything similar. PageRank was an obviously great advance at the time, but this does not mean that it can not be improved.

I did not say the author said PageRank was bad. I merely said that it being "bad math" was irrelevant to the real world.

> Oh, and "physical constants" are not even remotely similar to using a made-up constant. Physical constants are measured experimentally, meaning that they "exist" in the object that the mathematical model tries to explain. Now tell me how do you measure ".85" being an "existing" constant in the "ranking of website importance" object that pagerank tries to model...

I was just showing how flawed his π analogy (he was comparing π to PageRank constants), and his reasoning how π is a time-bomb are.
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>> depending on their mail client

Could you elaborate on that? Does the "Send mail as" feature in gmail not work sometimes?
I did something similar many years ago for identifying bit order and sense in mu-law encoded audio files as part of a larger audio-file display program. There were four combinations possible (big-endian, little-endian combined with bit-normal, bit-inverted) and no consistent standard was adhered to by the various organizations supplying data.

Although developed specifically for mu-law data I found it quite helpful for identifying other file types as well, just as the author here described.

Bill
I do agree on the fact that it is totally embarassing for Dropbox, and I do not either recall a similar issue with Microsoft, which does not make it safe. DEP / ASLR mechanism have been "easily" bypass several times this year, which to me is also embarassing. But the fact that this issue happened with Dropbox does not mean that it will again, and I'm pretty sure that it will make security one of their top priority. I do believe that going to Microsoft for better security is an odd move.
You can't really believe that Google isn't going to throw in ads once it opens up wide?
For me the reason is integration: Calendar invites, Google Docs "shares", and other permissions grants don't forward, so they always end up tied to the Google Apps account. Which means using it as a primary account, gives one a better more integrated experience.
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My legitimate co.cc site was deleted from Google, what do I do?
I've had a legitimate blog at http://beatpanda.co.cc for several years(1), and Google just removed all co.cc domains from its search results, including my blog. Who do I appeal to in this case? Am I better off just getting a new domain, and if so, how can I recover the traffic that was previously coming from Google before they removed my site?

Thanks for any help you all can provide.

(1) I know some of you will go there and see that the posts only go back to 2011- the fact that my archives aren't up right now is a separate issue.
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Yes there is a time between discovery and patching but if you look at their competitors, Windows is much farther ahead in the security realm. Microsoft's whole security cycle is better defined and IT managers have a much easier time managing security updates from Microsoft than anyone else.

Dropbox isn't a marked man because it doesn't have the capital of Microsoft, they've had to testify because they have a serious security and privacy problem.
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Because we usually don't have strict deadlines or draconic specifications, we expect you to prioritize and get things done by yourself. You should feel cozy in your code, but also keep an eye on things like SEO strategy, project- and product management as well as user interface and experience. Your own ideas and innovations for projects, features or products are more than welcome and will actively be supported.

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It does seem to vary a lot between about 2 minutes and 5 minutes of inactivity. Like I can read or even nicely skim 30 articles in 2 minutes...
Wait, so if the government breaks the law (I'm assuming you meant illegal hacking, otherwise never mind) they must be doing it for the right reasons and it is great and admirable and wonderful.

But if private individuals illegally hack someone, not for profit, but to release information about cronyism, corruption, lax security, then those private hackers are just schmucks?

This is then similar to how if the government tortures a suspect, that's OK because he might really be guilty. But obviously torture is wrong if anyone else does it?
Yes, with permission. It's called white hat. The way the (UK) law is phrased, permission makes the difference between legal and illegal, there isn't a grey area. The recent hacks, how else could they have been done? Does it really matter that Lulzsec did it rather than criminals who would sell the details on? This way guaranteed continuous reason/blame/motive, which is good press-wise.
All binary file formats should be randomly distributed along the spectrum if their file size is large enough

Why would that be the case?

- Executables: some opcodes are more common than other, and usually contain text/messages

- Zip files / compressed images / mp3s: compression might have a distinct "signature" that has peaks, for example block headers

- Database files: not all values are equally common in records (probably peaks around zero, because of fixed-size integers and string padding)

And so on...
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I think you underrate this line of thought. The existence of neurons is, of course, not justified in the philosophical sense - but its hard to argue that anything is justified in the philosophical sense. Reason might be a source of justification, but for that to be so you first have to assume that reason is justified. Senses might be a source of justification, but first you have to assume that knowledge derived from senses if justified. If you do not make either of these assumptions you have to retreat form justified to probabilistic or tentative knowledge, and in those terms the existence of neurons is a rather more reasonable assumption.
Most ISPs I've used use .net for their domains, and there are plenty other legitimate sites that use .net (Battle.net, anyone?).
I wonder if this is more protective against Microsoft?
Apparently some brain-dead, angry HN 'administrator' has essentially banned posts of

NY_USA_Hacker

at least to this thread.

Posts made invisible to others include

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2733913

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2733801

Sounds like some HN 'administrator' doesn't want to hear about good answers to the question of this thread, that is, the serious side of probability!

Apparently they don't like Breiman at Berkeley, Cinlar at Princeton, Karr at UNC, Wierman at Hopkins, Dynkin at Cornell, McKean at Courant, Karatzas at Columbia, Shreve at CMU, etc. That's a lot of the cream of US applied math not to like! HN is sinking to a new low! We're talking brain-dead here, folks!

What is here is an attack that is emotional and personal and not rational or objective.

Paul: Chip in here and explain this 'hidden censorship' or face a big hole in the credibility and objectivity of HN.
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No, I'm clearly talking about legal hacking. That's the whole point of "public interest".
You are saying, I think, that we won’t ever need to know π beyond some accuracy. By saying that you, if you are right, are doing good math.
Remove the "downvote.", and you're welcome on HN.
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That is actually one of the few I am interested in.
I came to the same conclusion after switching from google to duck duck go for 2 months. I found what I was looking for faster with google.
It's not reliable, but it could work for certain filetypes. Notepad uses it for Unicode detection. Try putting "this app can break" into Notepad, save it and reopen it :) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/24/95235...
He talked about features not the situation NOW.
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mail_servers
2) http://www.gregwestin.com/webdav_for_ical.php For Macs, I think this is what I did a few years ago
3) I know your fear, I use Instapaper.
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I'd definitely love to see this. But the name might be confusing, as there's already an app called "Startup Magazine" on the iPad app store.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/startup-magazine/id438439533?...

It seems to be made by some guys from the Netherlands. This is their website: http://startupmagazine.net/