skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just "both" it's 1 and 0 in any proportion. 97% 1 and 3% 0, 23% 1 and 77% 0, etc.
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From reading the article, there is no reason why Android was chosen specifically. So this experiment could have been done with any modern smartphone out there, they just happen to choose a couple of android phones. Is that right?
It's hard to put numbers on things like the trackpad on the Apple laptops, which are very large, accurate, have a great, durable, low-friction surface, a ton of useful gestures, and excellent heuristics to ignore palm brushes etc.
Uh, no. I think you misunderstand me.
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« Thor 2 » accueille l’acteur Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje dans son casting
Le film « Thor 2 » continue d’engranger les acteurs pour constituer un casting du tonnerre. C’est au tour du Britannique Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje de se joindre à cette épopée de tous les dieux !
Radiation, such as cosmic rays, would tend to cause transient bit errors in memory that would cause the phone to crash or otherwise stop working. The article mentions that they have a circuit that automatically re-boots the phone when it stops transmitting a signal, so it can recover from these problems.
His comment doesn't really seem partisan in any way to me. It's just a statement that it would be interesting to see the current president's college applications too, as it would be interesting to see any president's college applications.
There's a pretty wide gap between the level of hygiene required to prevent something like cholera (hint: basic plumbing to move your poop away from where you live) and the overly compulsive level of cleanliness I see amongst so many today. Numerous household cleaners with crazy anti-bacterial formulations, people obsessively covering their hands with alcohol-gel. These products are driven more by advertising and people's need to find things they can control in their lives than they are preventing any real amount of disease.
Rainbows End: "No User-Serviceable Parts Within". Technology is depicted as black boxes all the way down. Cars shut down when driven outside of sanctioned roads. LARP content unavailable unless you have the rights.

Reflections on Trusting Trust: "You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself." The proposal is that Trusted Computing is supposed to defeat this truism. I have my doubts.

I hope that we will be able to do irreparable damage to Trusted Computing and make it untenable. This large jail will be broken out of like all the others.

We already live in a world where the rich can buy new legs and survive HIV better than the poor. The poor are already shamefully misused by social, legal, and economic systems stacked against them. Adding computers just adds a more explicit level of control.

The solutions to the new problems are the same as the solutions to the old problems: enfranchise the poor, make government responsive to them, give them the tools for mobility and independence. The hackers will continue opening the technological ways. As a kind of Gotterdammerung last resort, the printable gun, the darknet, PGP keys.

And that means that the problems are more scary because of future shock and culture shock than anything else. They're Hollywood nightmares about the future, but the future turns out to be, good and evil, the same old thing.
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Traditionally, we use s/Harvard/ANYWHERE/g around these parts.
I ask for reform of the patent system, but I'm not sure how it should be reformed.

The existence of patent trolls is, surely, evidence that the system is horribly broken. Who is protected when a non-trading entity with no product is allowed to own patents and sue other companies for infringement?
One idea might be to release free-to-play (ad supported) apps on Google Play. If you get enough adoption of your app, you can earn pretty good ad revenue.
Not so much with Android, but so much of Nasa's technology has spread to the private sector it's nice to see them using this to their advantage.
>I would have thought the purpose of bots on twitter was either to boost follower counts or retweet counts

Another idea: Could be that the bots first establish a base-line as "non-spammy", i.e. legit, users by posting by themselves without sending any links directly to people. This goes on for a couple of weeks, until Twitter's automated anti-spam-process classifies them as "legit", after which the bots switch over to "spam-mode" and start spamming. Just an idea.
I don't get the antagonism.

Maybe the fantasy is impractical and nothing will come of it. On the other hand, maybe these plans will create something new in this world. The American content was populated (invaded, if you prefer) by people who wanted to create different social organizations and were willing to take enormous risks to do it - this impulse is deep in our psyche.

Alternatively, look at it this way: It's an opportunity for you to look smug and say "I told you so" in a couple decades. Encourage it.

I like these seasteading projects. I don't imagine they are going to become floating Utopia but they might be _different_ and that will be interesting. Like Disneyland, you don't have to live there to want to stay a while.

I also think people are overlooking the primary benefit of something like Blueseed: It creates an urban density of talent that makes Manhattan look like rural Texas. I would love to build a startup in that kind of environment.
Sure! Checkout LAMMPS (http://lammps.sandia.gov/) and these tutorials https://icme.hpc.msstate.edu/mediawiki/index.php/LAMMPS_tuto...

Also, check out Molecular Dynamics Simulation (http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Dynamics-Simulation-Elementa...)

and Computer Simulation of Liquids (http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Simulation-Liquids-M-Allen/dp...)
On Learning Clojure
My work MBP is fast enough for what I do. I don't need 16gig 2133 DDR3, or an i7. My problem, though, is that you're paying PC i7 level price for an i3/5, for example.
I particularly enjoyed the memory part - where they mention a venus fly trap remembers the contact with one leg of the insect then confirms that another leg has touched, and then the trap closes. Then 15-20 mins later it'd open again. This eliminates false positives, conserves energy!

while(1):
if (get_count_contact()!=2)
continue;
else
close_trap();
sleep(15);
set_count_contact(0);

If nature wrote this kinda code, Evolution is like debugging!
But this is really really oversimplified ...
On the other hand, I find it annoying that a vegetarian can draw the line in the sand and decide what is morally correct for everyone to believe.

Pretty much everyone does that. People don't notice so much when other people are drawing the same lines as them.
I imagine the comment about having a "versatile operating system" has something to do with it.
Planet Fitness here is $19.99/month or $10/month with a $59 signup fee. 24/7 access.
iBurn 2012 now unlocked, password is venus, new Android app this year too
I've got nothing to do with this project and only know what I read in the linked article but the seemingly obvious reason they'd use Android phones, especially Nexus phones, is that they run on a nearly fully open source stack (minus some binary drivers), so you can go as deep into the internals as you want without resorting to jailbreaking and/or a lot of reverse engineering.
Lobsters may feel pain.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/7536/does-a-lobs...
comment wasn't meant to be partison. I would favor seeing all former president / presidential candidates transcripts regardless of party.

They're hardly relevant anyways as whom someone is when they apply to college (typically 17-18 years old in the US) than whom they are as an adult.
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IMHO, it's not the OOPs really suck but in 99% cases it's the understanding of it that sucks.
Oh well,

That question really has far reaching implications. Because if we say Science is what we observe and describe as per our interpretations of logic(And the language of logic - 'Math') then our science is really broken. Because what we can observe doesn't often turn out to be true and what is true is not often observed.

Because look at it this way. We are now saying Dark Matter doesn't interact anyway with light nor something else. Hence observing, detecting or modeling them out through conjectures manufactured through thin air is nothing more than what religion was some centuries ago.

Anything unexplainable was attributed to some form of divinity in times before.

We know it exists, but we can't show you, can't explain you what it is, how it looks is the text book definition of god throughout centuries.
What's the difference between Lyft and Sidecar: http://www.side.cr/
Interesting. He gives three examples of truly RESTful APIs, and Tim Bray was involved in creating two of them.
That's just playing off the terrible definition we have of "pain"
How did you find that recruiter in the first place?
You say "copious evidence". You italicise that.

You link to a wikipedia article.

> There is some evidence that autism may be caused by an immune disease; One publication speculated that the lack of early childhood exposure could be a cause of autism.

The hygiene hypothesis has wider use than just autism - that a bunch of allergy and auto-immune stuff is caused by excessive cleanliness. There is strong evidence that might be true. But the link between autism and excessive cleanliness is, to quote one link that you provided, "speculative".

The abstract of the other study doesn't mention ASD; maybe I'm missing something?

(Just to be clear, because sometimes I'm not: The hygiene hypothesis is strong and important when talking about allergy and maybe auto-immune diseases; I need convincing that there's any link to ASD.)
I bet they'll be stuck on 2.1 forever.
How did you get into that relationship?
There is DocumentCloud, which Jeremy Ashkenas led (and was the project from which he spun off Underscore.js and Backbone.js, among other things). It's the best implementation of PDF on the web that I've seen though it is invite only to news orgs (it was jointly sponsored by the New York Times and ProPublica)

http://documentcloud.org
It's still not correct to say there is an obligation to defend design patents. That term implies a certain thing--that what you are obligated to defend will be diluted if you don't do so.

The patent itself will not become diluted, thus using the term "obligation to defend" is incorrect. It may be a good idea to use it to help establish trade dress protection, but your design patent will last just as long and still be enforceable even if you choose not to defend it.
If you're looking to get a user base consider listing yourself on Beta List: http://betali.st/
Samsung stock trading down 7.3%
Between the cheapness and flexibility of Android it makes it a pretty obvious choice, no?
As a (hopefully interesting!) aside, on the scale of most biological molecular dynamics simulations, quantum mechanical contributions can largely be ignored, because the mechanics of the large, heavy nuclei dominate the system. There are a few instances where a hybrid classical/quantum force field is necessary though, like any simulation involving breaking/formation of chemical bonds (where electrons must be treated explicitly).

The computational power needed for the treatment of a very large system (e.g. whole-organism, or even whole-cell) using fundamental physical laws (like QM, and probably even a classical approximation) will be out of reach for at least the next few decades (probably :)). So I would argue that while it's technically true that biology is a phenomenon which emerges from fundamental physical laws, it's sufficient for the time being to treat biology as a field distinct from, but ultimately dependent on, physics.
I participated in their forums for a few months several years ago, but I quit bothering because they are not particularly incremental. As one of their references, Jon Fisher's The Last Frontiers on Earth, points out, one of the things pioneers have always had to deal with is leaving behind some of the comforts of home. They seem to think they are going to start out with all the comforts of a city, or at least an "edge city" suburb; it's not going to happen, they'll just keep on daydreaming.
GWB's yale record and application would be good.
And how would you reply to a letter from ole Joe Kennedy if it were placed in your Inbox at work? ;)
But how will people know you can afford $2200 for a computer if you don't bring it to the coffee shop to show off?
What makes you think the ships would have no laws? Maybe "The entire Sea Steading concept makes no sense" because most of what you know about it is what you guessed based on third-hand info. To answer your points:

1. Yes, yes, and so what? Nobody is expecting the first wave of seasteads not to have laws. If you read the OP you'll note that "flagging" is one of the expected expenses.

2. Again, nobody is claiming the first round of seasteads will be in violation of international law. Nor is anybody claiming they will have no local rules.

3. Nobody has ever claimed the ship itself will have no laws. The hope is that it might evolve some better laws, given the chance to do so.

4. In case of emergency, you can rely on yourselves (including the ship's doctor), other nearby ships, and land-based facilities. Basically, you're in much the same situation as if you were on a long cruise. If the main boat is moored somewhere there are smaller boats going to and fro, or if you can't wait for one of those there may be helicopter access to the mainland. Once again, nobody is proposing doing away with all vestiges of civilization. People on this boat will still have their own citizenship and will be able to pay for emergency expenses with something called "insurance" or another thing called "savings" or another thing called a "deposit" or a "bond". For instance, if you go live on a ship they are likely to require you to put down as part of your deposit enough money to pay for return transport if and when you need it.

Anyway, please stop guessing at what Seasteading is about. Your guesses aren't merely wrong, they are misinforming others as well.

You might want to start with this FAQ:

http://www.seasteading.org/about/faq/

I also suggest reading my earlier post about the benefits of jurisdictional arbitrage - picking the right flag country for whatever it is you want to do and benefiting from that choice:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436779
Also, plants are autotrophs. Cows are heterotrophs. By some inverse of the categorical imperative, you should not do to beings what they are not doing to others. I.e. don't eat the autotrophs. Eat the heterotrophs.
Just wanted to say congrats on shipping!
OT: that headline is a really interesting sentence. There are two people, the biologist and the computer scientist, and the word discover is singular. Note that if it were one person who was both a biologist and computer scientist, we'd say "biologist and computer scientist discovers", with the plural form of discover.

I'm a native English speaker, and have no trouble understand the sentence. However, I kind of slacked off in elementary school and high school English classes so I can't actually explain WHY we use the singular 'discover' when the discovery is made by two people, and we use the plural 'discovers' when the discovery is made by one person.

I really should learn my native language sometime!
You keep repeating this stuff about JavaScript having access to the "full iOS UI" but that's completely false. The only way JavaScript developers will be able to write first class mobile applications is if Mozilla's efforts succeed; Apple isn't helping at all.
Comparable? Considering the Macbook Air ships with a second gen dual-core i5-chip [Zenbook 3rd-gen i7], and an 1440x900 [Zenbook Full-HD (read 1920x1080)], It is more comparable to the lower end MBPs.

Last I checked bloatware was really an issue on most linux distros [Archlinux leaves you with a terminal prompt]. I'd recommend Ubuntu for new users, but as a Mac user you'd feel right at home. When you then take into consideration that performance of Wine (the free, open source Windows emulator available on linux) when running native Windows applications (Including high-graphic-demand games), it's a developer's dream.

Stickers...well there's precious little anyone can do about that.
> Armstrong was literally the first.

I prefer to think of it as Armstrong being the symbol of a massive team effort. As much as he was the first person to step on the moon, it took thousands of "nerds" (as they proudly admitted at the time) to put him there. His act of walking down the ladder was risky, but it was based on the contributions of thousands.

I'm OK with him not being excessively glorified. It could have been Buzz Aldrin just as easily being the first, or any of the other Apollo astronauts. Indeed, perhaps we should spend more time glorifying those who gave their life for the Apollo missions (directly, Grissom, White and Chaffee, and indirectly probably many more) and the people who built the technology to put a man on the moon.

Let's raise a toast to Buzz, for he did take the first step, but also to the many thousands of people who put him there. They, as much as he, are the true heroes of the story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_verbs
Any idea why The Django Book (http://www.djangobook.com/) is not on the list? It seems to be the go-to Django beginner's book for many people.
'Torture Lab' Kills Trees To Learn How To Save Them
No, it isn't the same. I don't want to wait until the end of the month. The information about this transaction is freshest in my mind at the exact hour and minute I enter into it.

I want a notification on my phone immediately:

"(Merchant X) requests a payment of ($Y). Do you accept this charge?
( ) yes
( ) no
[ ] Auto-apply this answer to future requests from this merchant"

The notion that I shoudn't, by default, have a role in approving each and every transaction before it goes through is a holdover from the days when I didn't have an always-connected computer in my pocket.

If I never approve it in the first place, there's no wrong that needs to be righted, no fraud that needs to be investigated. I just got some spam asking for money. I marked it as spam to keep from being flooded in the future by the same spammer, and that's it.
> Mathematical Challenge 19: Settle the Riemann Hypothesis
The Holy Grail of number theory.

Described to me by a number theorist as: "That's where number theorists go to die".
Why is it important to make satellites which are cheap to build? Isn't the total cost dominated by the cost of bringing it to orbit anyway?
Pandora paid $149 million, or 54 percent of its revenue, for “content acquisition,” otherwise known as royalties.

What does Pandora do with the other $127 million plus?!? It's incredible to me that they can't operate a profitable company on that kind of cash flow. I'm genuinely curious - where does it go?
Why Seal's San Diego Airport Car Service is better?
Not based on a 30 year old codebase designed in and for an era before color displays, mice, touchpads, graphics and unicode?

Not using a god awful Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp) at it's base?

Having more thought, design, and hindsight poured into the UI than the pile of hacks and over the year additions that drive Emacs?

Having things more integrated than independent elisp plugins that hardly know each other and don't really collaborate?

Rethinking the keyboard shortcut design?
Tesla was always a proud Serbian. While he took pride in his American citizenship, he always remained very proud of his heritage. To say he was just American is plain wrong. He was a strong ambassador of Serbian culture in America, even himself translating many 19-th century Serbian works to English.
For those of us without flag powers, mentioning the adage is the most we can do about titles like these on HN. Of course I could just stop reading the HN front page, but that seems a rather null solution.
Wow. That's surprisingly un-NASA. I wonder if they have qualified the MTBF? For this kind of solution to work, it'd have to be at least a couple hours.
Check out the pics on the side - they're using a balloon, I don't know if that gets it all the way there but hobbyists do it - one of the more popular hn'ers does it and has blogged about it a but but I forget who.

Doesn't look like anyone's reached space yet but:

http://news.discovery.com/tech/hackers-launch-satellites-120...

Interesting discussion on some guys who reached 100,000 feet:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1750517

Edit: actually they're launching via rocket -

"Three NASA PhoneSats systems (two PhoneSat 1.0's and one PhoneSat 2.0) are scheduled to launch aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va., later this year. "
Of lead? At $10,000/lb launch cost?
Nice analysis but my question was in the context of a drone (that the article mentioned) :)
I could not imagine that any sort of power requirement for computing in those drones can come even near to the amount of fuel they are burning to fly.
I imagine that part of the benefit to making small satellites is the ability to deploy a lot of them. Also, it's a good PR move when public perception is that NASA is bloated and wasteful. (Please, nobody give your opinion for or against that; I don't care :P)
Nice, although it has no code samples =S For learning, this site is really awesome: http://www.4clojure.com/problems
Yeah, I largely agree. My comment was more to indicate that when Xcelerate thinks about simulating a biological process, he thinks on the level of simulating individual atoms, which is much more likely to make someone think about the fundamental physics of the problem. When I simulate biological processes, I think in terms of chemistry or stat mech. Rather than one molecule I'm dealing with collections of many types of molecules whose interactions are often ill defined anyway, so I'm much more likely to think "eh, the chemistry we have is good enough, let's just get on with it"
Yeah, it must be some kind of starting up thing, behaving normally for a few days or weeks. But even so, these are then really bad at it. ClintonGoodhue for example has one tweet, which is a link to my game, no profile picture and only follows one person. Maybe it's just someone's first attempt at creating bots :)
That's like saying by buying a Smart Car you're paying V6 price for a four cylinder engine. In other words, you couldn't be missing the point more.
There are many definitions of duality in mathematics so I am not entirely clear on 6. For example the notion of duals from category theory has already been very helpful in understanding or developing many algorithms. In fact a generous viewing will allow for even enterprise software in the form of LINQ and Observables to have made use of duals in their development.

I am neither clear on 7. I wish I knew what he meant about MaxEnt in particular, there's a lot of neat explorations from the connections between entropy and learning.

But specific to what I interpret as a better Occam's Razor, my vote will have to go to Marcus Hutter as the person who is currently doing the most interesting work in that area. Specifically his work on approximating universal priors. Schmidhuber also has interesting stuff on complexity, search for his talks - they're great.