skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You experience discontinuities in consciousness every day: when you sleep.

Why is it that we feel like the same person after we wake up from sleep, from anesthesia, or even a prolonged coma? You could go to sleep, have arbitrary operations done to the neurons in your brain while asleep, and presumably will awake into the "same body".

This thought experiment leads me to believe that the most important consideration for mind-uploading is to ensure that the original body dies/is killed before bringing the copy online.
I've also been interested in something similar, Heroku is great but just too expensive for some of the stuff I want to play around with, when I can run all of this on a single Linode box for $20/month. I've now created Puppet scripts to automate the setup of new boxes but it still isn't as easy as PaaS.

Has anyone got any good tutorials for OpenShift and Cloud Foundry on EC2 or the like? I found this, however it is 6 months old so I'm not sure how relavent it is any more (I might give it a shot later...): http://www.cloudsoftcorp.com/blog/first-steps-with-cloud-fou...
Facebook stock approved for listing on the Nasdaq
OOP in JavaScript: Object
Would it be possible to give google negative SEO? If you could they might look into the issue
Mobile display is a bit hard to read
New €350 monthly freelancer tax “will kill innovation in Germany”
Nowadays with IE10 almost here and IE9 half-decent itself, failure to support IE is sort of a signal of unprofessionalism, since it usually takes a modicum of effort to support it. Personally I design sites first in Firefox, then extend support, and I find Webkit browsers are often more broken than IE.
I agree with the overall sentiment, but I don't think building and maintaining your own blog is a great learning project. Perhaps building it is, as an exercise...just like building an adder circuit is a good project for sophomores in computer engineering. But afterwards, I think learners will be more motivated to work on things that can more directly benefit the bottom line, such as API/web-scraping data collection. Or even automation of tasks/data-compilation that is necessary to multiply your ability to create your idea.
I hate to be the grammar nazi but:

"When your ready export your infographic."

That should be:

"When you're ready export your infographic."
I agree with a lot of the points raised in the article. However, the author makes it sound like going to university is a foolish choice. Sure its overpriced & the crappy degrees aren't any good, but on the whole going to uni is still the correct call in most cases.

Round here its just a matter of selecting a sufficiently vicious degree. Worked for me: I had (multiple) employment offers lined up ~6 months into the 4 year course. So did the majority of my classmates.

Perhaps I'm biased since it clearly worked out for me, but still I think this whole thing about tertiary education being overrated is BS - at least for the proper degrees.
True. Your content needs to be in Cloud Files, not on your own server. The storage and cdn services are tied together into the product. They have not been separated to allow the CDN on top of any arbitrary endpoint.

I don't see the requirement of storing the data in cloud files as a very heavy burden, but I'm not the most unbiased source on that.
I wanted to love JRuby (Ruby 1.9 emulation) but bugs like this:
https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-5529 causes HTTPS calls to services like Stripe to fail. That bug has been open for over one year now.

Other bugs like this:
https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-6181 cause Capistrano deployments to fail (but there is a workaround).

Lack of a clean implementation of something as fundamental SSL libraries and the inability of the main committers to address those shortcomings pushed me back to a traditional Ruby approach.
Editing: "favors is not a [sic] option". Very cool to hear an internet machiavelli, wish there were more of these.

Would love to hear more about what into making it.
If you exit high school not knowing how to think, you're not going to suddenly learn in college.
You will be wise to note that what people say to newspapers, or just generally, might not always be the truth.
I didn't quite get your comment (I'm a non-native speaker). Could you please be more elaborate?
Show HN: Palet.ly - shopping powered by color matching technology
Would appreciate feedback about http://palet.ly - Paletly is going to change the way people shop by color. People clip & pin celebrity fashion images. We are taking this a step further - users can now recreate & shop for celebrity fashion through Paletly's color matching apps. The process is simple:
upload / clip any image to generate color matches from Paletly's product database.

Since we launched in January 2012, Paletly is evolving into a social shopping community using color as an aid for brand discovery and purchase.

Paletly is self funded. Any reviews, comments, critique & consultancy would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Link:
http://palet.ly/Shop/Fashion

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What annoys me the most is their working hours. You're delivering stuff at people's homes and yet your truck drivers only work something like 9-5. Guess what, other people work too, they're obviously not going to be home in that time window. I really think there's solid business in it for someone to set up a location where people can get their stuff shipped, then that company sends a guy on a freaking bike to get it to the recipient in the next hour (after notifying them they got the package) wherever said recipient is at that moment. I'd pay premium for that.
And when countries like China make it a law mandating the existence of such backdoors in devices sold/manufactured in their country?
Apple OS "really vulnerable", claims Kaspersky Lab CTO
I loved this, I was productive in minutes.

Fab. Thank you.
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I'm pretty sure this is a joke that came about after a recently posted HN link to a NCombinator site was slammed for ripping off YCombinator.
I'm assuming this blogpost came after or roughly at the same time the WSJ said it would publish:

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-api-bug

>>Based on our research, the overwhelming majority of the private API access was by a computer programmer/Wall Street Journal reporter who contacted us. Outside of that person's use, our research shows that a total of 48 unlaunched projects were accessed during the three weeks this bug was live (this number includes a number of views by Kickstarter's developers working on the API itself).
Vienna MIR seems to do more or less what you're asking:

http://www.vsl.co.at/en/211/497/1687/2002/1691.htm

...though it's not open source. (I share it anyway, in the event it's helpful to someone here for whom being open source is not a hard requirement.)
Yes. There's good reason that actual journalists don't take money from review subjects.
Be proud of your git commit history
My mistake. It just seems broken because when you press "Enter" on an incorrect answer, nothing happens. I guess I had better luck after enabling cookies.
You're right, perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned Amazon as the culprit. Nonetheless I feel Amazon is partly to blame since they clearly have the muscle to force the publishers to fix their mess.

Besides, how difficult can it be? Find a competent English major, fuel him/her with some red bull, pizza and bit of cash and they'll fix it. Hell, if they had a mechanism to do so the fans of these books (Dune etc) would probably fix it for free.
Correct. It's only because of the success of higher-level languages like FORTRAN that "coding" and "programming" came to mean the same thing. Before that, programming was part of the requirements.

We've become inured to silver-bullet bullshit in software, but it's an anachronism to think that about this report, which was dead right. In fact by subsequent standards their claim was rather modest. The full quote reads:

Since FORTRAN should virtually eliminate coding and debugging, it should be possible to solve problems for less than half the cost that would be required without such a system.
This does not seem to explain it completely. Even with "first search by name..." rule, shouldn't the order be:

1. Find "all" the functions accessible bearing the same name. This would include functions available from the base classes.

2. Now match parameters

Seems like the order actually used is:

1. Find the function by name in the specific class (not including base classes)

2. If found, go to 4.

3. Include functions from the next base class (end if no more) and match by name only. Go to 2.

4. Try matching by name.
Cyber-intelligence bill sponsor silent on FBI push to wiretap social networks
AppFog is another service (still in beta) using cloudfoundry and supporting it.

More generally, and potentially more cross-host compatible, this sounds like a good opportunity for Puppet or Chef and a short config selection script.
I agree it's a stereotype, and i agree that it only takes a few reforms to fix it, but attacking the stereotype won't fix anything. My experience from working in both the private and public sector (and now luckily as an entrepreneur) is this, and i m not bashing anyone, but there is such a thing called "work ethic" and i 've lived long enough to watch it being bent with unsustainable consequences.

I disagree that it takes a mountain of money to do anything successful, especially in technology, even in Greece (and it is happening, but successful businesses tend to be quiet). However you do need entrepreneurs who can do more than just lobby the government for public sector works.
I do know that if you made a bunch of copies of me right now, I wouldn't expect to walk around seeing a superimposed image of my original self in Chicago, a copy walking around in New York, etc. I'd be totally disconnected from my copies, and that is reasonable proof to me that I should not expect to ever have a continuity of experience through a backup copy after my own death.
New Twist On Ancient Math Problem Could Improve Medicine, Microelectronics
Try out Stackato (http://www.activestate.com/stackato) [note: I work for ActiveState]. It's a commercial fork of Cloud Foundry that adds a lot more functionality. You can download an image for your hypervisor of choice (vSphere, fusion, vbox, ...), or provision one on EC2 or HP CS (no download necessary).

ActiveState is the Python community lead for Cloud Foundry (we added and maintain the support), but Stackato is much more than wrapping CF. It improves security (all user code is staged and run in linux containers), adds much more flexibility (hooks at staging or runtime, cron support, etc.), better manageability (web based console, user/group management), persistent file system, and more.

Also, if you like extensibility, a new experimental feature in 1.2 is Heroku buildpack support. Basically you get Heroku-in-a-box.
Not in general, no, but this particular program doesn't allocate a serious amount of memory (think `ls | less`) and doesn't contain any system calls which can reasonably block[1], so it's extremely unlikely to bite you in this case.

(I do think it's bad style, and would never write this program this way.)

[1] Assuming you stay away from the Zombie^W Network File System. But NFS mounts going away is bad news anyway, this program holding an extra KB of swappable memory doesn't really intensify the pain.
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Best Buy chairman, founder to step down
"It is too bad school is too expensive, but it doesn't matter."

It does matter. The schools that are worth anything are too expensive (exceptions are there of course) while the cheap ones (read < 10K a year) are probably good for nothing. You are better off trying to get a job instead of attending those cheap schools.
Nope, no issues with viewing them.

I just can't click and hold to draw. (Well, couldn't, haven't tried again)
The developers still get to sell their product right? This is a Kickstarter - they get to keep making a profit. If they want to bootstrap then sure, use the most cost effective method but if someone has given you $20k to get a beautiful game made, make that beautiful game. I love good music in my media experiences and I'll pay for those games that have that.
I was going to ask, is this something new for CDN or do others like Akamai and EdgeCast offers something similar?
At least some data seems to agree with you http://www.businessinsider.com/busted-hypocritical-peter-thi...
A commenter from the page you linked:

the anecdote about the bookstore is very weird. Bookstores in Greece are open (and selling) until 9pm, not before 6pm as in the anecdote, I’m not sure what’s up with that. Airport bookstores are often open (and selling) 24 hours/day. I live in Greece and after seeing this article spread all over the internet, went to a local bookstore last night just to check. The bookstore owner looked at me like I was out of my mind. “Would I be sitting here burning the lights and paying my employee if I couldn’t sell books? That makes no sense.” So, you know, there’s that…. (And I’ve personally bought books late into the night in many, many parts of Greece.) Don’t let that affect how you interpret such anecdotes, of course. Even if something is wrong, if it sounds correct, we might as well treat it as such, right? I think that’s how this works….

It seems to me, too, like an extraordinary story, I'd like to see more context on this supposed ban on bookselling in the evening.
Can you give examples of what you find broken in Webkit but not in IE? Are you speaking more of HTML/CSS or JS development? More for my notes of stuff to look for.
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Thx - it's a WIP thesis, to be submitted in a few months. I'm not saying much new, but I figured having a different tone than the usual patronizing one could make it more interesting.
I want to see some hard numbers on savings in form of an infographic come from one of these companies, particularly SpaceX. Let's see how much NASA has been overspending the last few decades...
Maybe the monolithic decision of university shouldn't be forced upon us when we're teen-aged and entrenched in dogma.
Hi James :)

I guess it would depend on what do you want to do with it.

If you want people to license it from you - simply dropping it at GH will not get you more $ from the licenses. You should rather try to somehow promote the service.

I understand that the idea of dropping it on GH is two-sided. On one side try to keep alive it in one way on another and on the other side, try to get some more engineers involved on it. Again, simply dropping it on GH will probably not change much.

Maybe a good idea would be to look around different OS projects and try to simplify twase and include the technology in some OS projects that could benefit from it?

In addition to that you could request a IP/recognition note and a reference for commercial requests on adaptation of the code to specific needs?

Cheers :)
Just use http://rubygems.org/gems/debugger on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3.
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Well on the bright side, since they already have the code for creating an HTML representation of the objects it should be fairly trivial to make an embeddable version of the infographic which is HTML/JavaScript and which can even be dynamic.

Now that would be really interesting.
But why bother? Unless you really think the world is worse off without you and your contributions, why would you participate in a service like this? It's not going to do you any good or let you live a day longer. Your copy will go on having a perfectly happy life being the new you, but why should any of us be excited about that?
That would never work though, at least not in the perfect, non leaky way the author and you would like. When you have a loop, even if the database could somehow understand that loop, you can put anything inside it. You could make a call to an outside service, write to disk, etc. With a single SQL query the database can take it and optimize it since it has a full understanding of its data domain.
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Audacity may have some filter effects that will do the trick, http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. Some subtle use of echo would be the place to start.

You would need a recording of a piano to begin with which could be from a MIDI recording. I haven't used any but there is a good list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MIDI_editors_and_sequen...
The real problem is: what would the world look like if the result were different?

That looks more interesting to me.
I think what krschultz is saying is that if you have the skills to be successful without a college degree, you also are likely to have the skills to get a scholarship to a decent school. They are a somewhat similar skillset and going to college allows you to check the checkbox on an application.
Ray Kurzweil has a nice point on this, calling human consciousness an "evolving pattern of information that persists through time."
C++11 has override and final http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11#Explicit_overrides_an...
Voxengo's Impulse Modeler sounds similar to what you're describing.

http://www.voxengo.com/product/imodeler/
Steve would not accept this
Your site is really great. Give it some time. It'll catch.
The problem with nerd politics
Agree. Jeremy you had a very valid complaint. They apologized profusely and explained thier issues. But then you went on an on until it was clear that you were not really seeking a resolution.
With any luck Ocado will step up for this one, it seems an ideal fit with their current business model.
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Good idea, but I think some sort of achievement test at the high school level would be even more effective at revealing the quality of preparation students have received for college.

Fortunately we already have tests like this and not surprisingly, they show that students are terribly underprepared for an undergraduate education in nearly every subject.

Clearly an undergraduate education received today is not commensurate with the costs to the student, especially when the student hasn't be rigorously prepared for a collegiate education in high school. But the problem is so much more than the price of tuition.
But the truth is the days of DB being king are almost gone.

These days you just don't hear about DBAs at all any more. You used to see constant jokes about DBAs being a pain in the ass and stopping programmers doing X or Y. ORMs going to win because there aren't enough of you left. Stored procedures, triggers, etc. are going to be viewed as ancient technology back from the days of yore when people didn't understand how to code properly.
The first two answers are in the source of their questions, which helps get started. I haven't seen any similar hints further on though (up to j).
Same thoughts here. I could never understand why anyone would go with AWS EC2. It is expensive and slow. You could get much better deals from other dedicated providers or cloud providers. Route53 is ok and improving although i would still recommend DNSmadeeasy.
What techblogs should I target for a product launch?
We are a small team of entrepreneurs and we are looking to launch our product in a few months. I would like to ask HN about which tech / startup blogs should I target during our launch? And how to go about it?
I've always held install/download statistics to be just a rough, rough estimate. Personally, I know I can spin up a Windows VM within the span of a lunch break and run a script to automatically install all my default applications (even if I don't plan on using them). When I'm finished with whatever task I'm doing, I delete the VM.

With VLC and Firefox et al, I know reinstalls contribute to a lot of "downloads" numbers. I take the number at face value: it's popular enough to have been downloaded 1 billion times, regardless of how many people are using it right now.
return policies don't let them vote with their dollars once a deception is unmasked

Games are not exempt from consumer law that requires retailers to give a refund if a product is not as described. Retailers may claim that "their policy" doesn't include that, but the law is superiour to that.

However "not as described" almost certainly does not cover an unappeal ending to an artistic product. It's not the same thing.
Any system I've worked in that didn't use an ORM still implements an ORM.

Save methods which runs insert or updates. GetAll methods get_by_username, get_by_id, get_by_email, get_recent, get_by_foreign_keyed_object, get_by_other_foreign_keyed_object.

And all those hand coded methods directly tied to the dialect of the db the original developer used.

Using Hibernate I had to write raw SQL for some reporting. I've never written raw SQL in Django (the project I've used django on self select for simplicity).

And using SqlAlchemy/Twisted as a backend for a desktop application I haven't found a need yet, for performance or correctness. I have one query I'm eyeing for an SQL rewrite, but it'll probably be a week of work to make sure it works correctly and I'd rather release this phase than save 30 seconds on a weekly query.

I've reached a point where ORM complaints don't really make all that much sense. The issue seems to be "THe ORM breaks down doing X and Y and Z so I had to hand write SQL!"

But you'd be writing X Y and Z anyway if you weren't using an ORM, so what's the issue?
Could you please elaborate? (Pretty please)

I see there is a recently published set I didn't see before containing all 5 books:

http://www.amazon.com/Song-Ice-Fire-Continues-ebook/dp/B007B...

Is that the one that is fine?
I'll bet you don't even realize it's spam. Do a search for something like 'water heater reviews' and several of those links on the front page will ultimately send you to an affiliate site or zip submit. Spam.
undergrad degree: 4 years is a waste of time. make it 2. rest should be spent doing practical work (not coffee making interns). initial 2 years: focus on communication skills, analytical skills and just simply how to carry yourself in the world. Learn how to manage money, time and your lazy ass.
grad degree: Unless you want to be a researcher or you just like being in school, this is useless
PHD degree: Enough said.
To me it sounds like you're talking about the argument of who has the responsibility of applying business rules, the application layer or the database layer - which is another entirely valid argument in itself, but distinctly different than the argument of whether to use an ORM in your application layer or not.
It's not because you're a non-native speaker - that comment doesn't make sense.
Your response is long, but altogether too subjective, philosophical, and tautological.

What matters is consistency, usability, and agility. Throwing ORMs out the window will give you as much consistency as you can squeeze out of an SQL server, but will greatly reduce your agility. Using an ORM for everything will greatly increase your agility but will reduce your usability.

As in everything, there is a balance. People who fall on either side of that balance need to back away from the pulpit and rethink their stance.
So far for me 100% of candidates claiming self taught can barely code a for loop, much less explain at a high level how a compiler works or the difference between a heap and the heap. In most cases they don't even know the foundations of the language in which they are most efficient.

Most people I know are also self-taught and read a lot of the theory. If they are self-taught, what in God's name are they using to teach themselves?