skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are reading that WP article as charitably towards your position as possible. You are ignoring your own quoted text about atheism being, "specifically the position that there are no deities", in favor of interpreting it as a perfect contrast to theism. The WP article for "deism" -- the term you should be using -- is just one click away from the article on theism.

Likewise, reading further down in the article I cited supports both your view and mine.

The very first paragraph of http://atheists.org/atheism is, "Atheism is the lack of belief in a deity, which implies that nothing exists but natural phenomena (matter), that thought is a property or function of matter, and that death irreversibly and totally terminates individual organic units. This definition means that there are no forces, phenomena, or entities which exist outside of or apart from physical nature, or which transcend nature, or are “super” natural, nor can there be. Humankind is on its own."

Reddit's atheism subreddit -- generally regarded as the largest online forum for atheists, so not exactly without repute -- has a FAQ (http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/faq#Whatisatheism) which clearly states, "There is no inherent relationship between atheism and a religion. A person can be both atheist and religious, provided that he or she believes in a religion that does not have any deities, such as some forms of Buddhism."

I anonymously posted an excerpt of our conversation to that same subreddit, at http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/10gt4a/so_apparentl.... It didn't get much attention, but the responses so far aren't really in your favor, either.

You keep finding really tiny bits of language in various articles to try to draw the conclusion that atheism only means a lack of belief in the Western ideal of a singular, personal God, even though you can't bring to bear any article which comes right out and clearly states that. But, I'm finding it difficult to find anything that clearly says your position is wrong (and some articles do kind of, sort of, almost support your position, given the sort of narrow interpretation you're using); I'm inclined to attribute that more to having never in my life read or heard atheism described the way you are trying to use it. It's a little like trying to find an article that specifically states, "God does not have a beard that is blue in color."

But, most importantly, you seem like a pretty nice guy, you've been around HN for even longer than I have, you seem otherwise perfectly reasonable, and as far as I can tell we've never fought before. Whether some guy on the internet believes that atheism includes beliefs in "impersonal deities" or not, or whether Einstein was an atheist or not, really doesn't matter to me, nor do I have the time or desire to continue arguing about it.

I am far more interested in public education continuing to teach the foundations of basic sciences, which is the only reason I got involved in this thread to begin with.

So rock on, brother.
The docs are pretty good, and the wiki is a wealth of information. where exactly are you looking?
This seems to work, but I couldn't get the JSFiddles to make it trigger.

May I suggest pointing people to a simple webpage (like http://kristofferr.com/samsung.html) maybe more user-friendly?
Personally, I would think that every little bit of awareness on the topic would be a good thing. In the context of a 404 message, timeliness wouldn't be quite as important as it would be for the AMBER alerts. I would liken it to the missing child photos on the backs of milk cartons. More effective as a public awareness booster than in actually finding missing children.
Everything in SF is trivially nearby if you go by bicycle. I myself commute from Nob Hill near the Fairmont (Clay/Mason) to where Telegraph Avenue intersects with the UC Berkeley campus. I only take the Bart from Embarcadero to West Oakland. My commute averages 40-60 minutes and the variability is 100% how long I have to wait for the train (longer wait times in the evening).

If I had to commute within the 7x7 block that is SF, almost everything is within ~20 minutes of riding.
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intersections are nonsexy.

ask the hawkers who ply their wares at intersections.
not only do they have to deal with traffic from the north, there is a constant barrage of traffic from the south, not to mention the incessant traffic from the east, and hey, how can we forget the speeding traffic from the west...

but the same intersections are also frequented by pedestrians from the north, and the west, the south and the east, so the hawkers' trade is lucrative.

data science is at the intersection of linear algebra, machine learning, statistics and distributed computing.

if you ask the hawkers sitting in a nicely furnished airconditioned shop at the mall, they will tell you that the hawkers at intersections aren't real hawkers, they are just fly-by-night hustlers selling a stalk of unkempt roses that will wither away, selling evening tabloid newspapers that'll be useless to read tomorrow, unhygenic ice-cream cones and candy, unhealthy street food, braids for the hair that'll snap if you tug at it, fake watches, imitation handbags, ... so if you want to be a real hawker selling real healthy food, you must open a real restaurant in a mall. you wanna sell genuine cartier watches, get a license and open a premium retail outlet in a mall. you want to hawk useful literature, open a barnes and noble bookstore in a mall...

so also the genuine statisticians will mock the data scientists as fake...oh these guys don't grok industrial strength SAS and S-PLUS, they fool around with unproven toys like R.

the genuine linear algebraists are too busy submitting academic papers to the MAA to worry about trivialities like data science.

the genuine distributed computing programmers know that data scientists operate with a very tiny subset of distributed computing - usually just hadoop or bigtable, and even that they dodge with syntactic sugar like pig, cascading and scalding. they are not even real programmers - they don't refactor their code, some of them just write ad-hoc scripts that they don't even check in to the repository, they don't do agile, hell they don't care about readability of code - they call their chebyshev decompositions "def cbd()" instead of "public static void chebyshevDecomposition( DenseDouble2DMatrix inputMatrix)", how can you trust these jokers...

the genuine ML guys work on world-changing technology like genome sequencing and autonomous vehicles, natural language processing and credit card fraud detection, not fluff like mining information out of tweets and facebook likes and linkedin profiles and foursquare check-ins.

but you see, the same intersections are also frequented by pedestrians from the north, and the west, the south and the east, so the data scientists can put food at the table and make rent :)
I think that's the whole point of setting out requirements that autonomous vehicles must meet before going into production/sale. Just the same as current car manufacturers have to meet certain safety requirements, in the future manufacturers may have to prove some level of reliability, robustness, and exception handling.
EU proposal to stop terrorist sites even more ridiculous than it sounds
It looks like there's a built-in css editor (look in the lower right) so you can do something like this pretty easily:

.btn {color: red;}
When I participated in code reviews (of C code) when I worked at an aerospace company, I was the ONLY one who actually reviewed the code and I always found a few serious errors.
Checks allow for instant transfer of money between two banks, for free. That's what I still use them for.
I'm surprised by some of the negativity here - it's a pretty neat service for an alpha. Sure there's kinks/ shortcomings, but it's very early days. They even seem to be ironing things out even as we speak (switched from 140 to 256 char status updates in front of my eyes).
Previous discussion of journalistic source for this story on HN front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4572886
"The architects of Tent built Tent.is"
Well, maybe because it really doesn't have much to do with HN? No idea.
Awesome! I'm not even sure if we have. You should shoot me an email, zachary@startupweekend.org, and tell me your story!
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What a stupid article. You're supposed to cough into the cartridge, not blow in it. Then you insert the cartridge, slap the system's sides twice, and power on
> If evolution doesn't exist, then why do we constantly see processes evolve based on a feedback cycle of constant experimentation, survival, failure, etc.

> Isn't that word evolution?

No. As I wrote, evolution is a stronger claim.

Evolution involves feedback but not all feedback is evolution.

Many stable amplifier designs use feedback. Would you claim that the signal being amplified is evolving?

As to man-made entities, yes, their designs are affected by feedback. However, they're also created.

As I said, creationists believe in selective breeding. Their argument wrt evolution is wrt something else, so if you don't understand that....

> So I stand by what I said, if evolution isn't real (i.e. evolution doesn't happen) that all things are complex by-design, and never by uncontrolled processes of iteration and survival, if that is true, then evolutionary algorithms wouldn't work.

You do know that you didn't say that above, right?

However, I'll play along.

Your new claim is wrong because algorithms with feedback can work even if evolution doesn't occur in the wild.

As to your suggestion that evolution is involved in every complex system, I'll ask how stars evolved. They're very complex systems.

There are lots of complex systems. Evolution only applies to the biological ones.
It IS a stunt, in the sense that the solar feature is technically independent of the charging stations. The message is clear, but there is no necessary link between the solar elements and the place you go with your electric car to charge up. Placing them there is probably a worse decision that placing them optimally. That's makes it stunt.

And there is also a strong argument that the manufacturing and installation costs of solar farms has a long payback. They are a battery in that sense - energy invested in them slowly comes back out. PRobably petro-energy. So intially solar is a net negative in eco-impact. Same with wind.
It would be more effective to have the FBI do face recognition on everyone's vacation photos on Facebook. Assuming that the kidnappers want to raise the kid as their own, they are bound to post pictures of him. This won't work for the 75% that chimeracoder alleges are murdered, but it might for the scenarios like the one you described.

Why would a kidnapper would post pictures of a child they kidnapped on FB? Criminals are not always rocket scientists, and even then they aren't always rational(1). The kids also tend to go to birthday parties, school, and other places where other people post pictures of them that get posted on social networks.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak
Well BrowserID is the protocol, Persona is Mozilla's implementation. You can use BrowserID without using Persona.
Why would you package this up for convenient deployment? Don't be a jackass. Take it down.
>> Unless you're claiming that evolution is the only explanation for complex systems, that's not enough.

>You misunderstand me totally.

Let's review. The initial claim was " Not understanding Evolution effectively locks students out from large swaths of science."

I asked "Large in what way?" and provided examples of significant scientific domains that are completely independent of evolution.

You responded with "Large in that evolution describes how complex systems can exist without a creator."

We're talking about science in general, so there are lots of complex systems at issue.

So, what were you trying to say given that context?

>> I believe in evolution, but most arguments offered by evolutionists against creationism are crap.

> Except for the part where evolution has all the evidence on its side, right?

The fact that evolution has all the evidence does not imply that evolutionists make good arguments, as this thread has demonstrated.

This thread has basically been a sequence of "The sky is green, therefore evolution is true."
Nice work! Looks great.
Hi friend,

Actually, looks like it got flagged to oblivion - if you turn on "showdead", you can see things that get enough downvotes to be hidden. I don't have true insight into why it was flagged, but my assumption would be a combination of the keying comments, as well as it being mostly an opinion comment.

Here's a direct link to it, if you want to see if you get any replies: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4573006

Cheers!
Can someone explain the context of this? I'm not getting the references. I mean, I know what grep is, and I know the -R option, but ...

Is the joke that grep obviously has nothing to do with searching a server you're not on, and the submitter is pretending to be someone who expected that it would search Amazon for results? If so, that's stupid, and not even a clever joke.

However, from some of the comments, it sounds like real users (ones actually competent enough to be using grep) are expecting this functionality -- perhaps it doesn't work on some Amazon storage site?
Are the power draws from the A6, Krait and Cortex A15 presumed to be equal? Would it be possible to reduce performance in return for lower power at a constant clock speed? If so, it seems that one cannot talk about IPC without also knowing the power draw.
They were addressing whether or not blowing in a cartridge fixed a problem. The same problem the CIC lockout chip was responsible for.

Therefore, they were addressing whether or not ignoring the CIC lockout chip fixed or alleviated a problem. clearly, it does not.

Perhaps you can explain how ignoring the cause of the entire problem, blaming the cartridge slot, and then working from a false presumption mean that they're not wrong?
It's essentially malware. It'd be more useful if it used the string that displays the IMEI of the vulnerable device, but the author has unfortunately chosen a more destructive route.

As a side note the author works at GoCardless.com, a YC-alumnus. Quite embarrassing.
There is no need for the delivery to be manned. The vehicle can pull up, you enter a code and it provides the goods vending machine style. (Note Amazon already has these in several cities.)
I think it was for that stupid video with that model Ronaldinho Fenomeno was dating, right? (can't recall her name at all, the one with the big mouth and the famous 6th toe, LOL)
Google Maps Goes Diving, Provides “Seaview” Of Great Barrier Reef
Any 10+ year old web applications (then called 'applets') that wanted to avoid the single browser nature of ActiveX or the mediocre performance of Flash.
I really like this. Has some overlap with Command-Query Responsibility Segregation, which I have found very useful: http://www.udidahan.com/2009/12/09/clarified-cqrs/
It almost sounds like Oracle managed to shoo away all good folks from the JVM team and all they are left with is a bunch of B players. I dont remember it being this bad.
You're fundamentally misunderstanding the problem domain.

At the highest level, you're missing the issue of specialization and parallelization.

This misunderstanding is partly alluded to by your surprise at the power of GPUs to hash passwords. GPUs can have hundreds or even thousands of what you might think of as "cores", but they're very specialized cores that are only suited to certain kinds of operations. Those operations were originally intended for the problem domain of high-performance graphics, but as it happens, many of those same operations mesh very well with cryptographic hashes. In essence, we've all got specialized massively-parallel password-cracking supercomputers sitting on our desks.

Take this up a level, and you might see the most obvious implication: More $500 graphics cards, more passwords cracked in a given timeframe. Very naïvely speaking, 7,000 $500 graphics cards, $3.5 million. You've just gained the ability to hash every one of those 12-character strings in one year for the cost of a funding round. Oops.

Relatedly, you're talking about cracking a password. That's wrong. Nobody cares about cracking your password, or my password. They're going after passwords, in a massively plural sense.

Start with 100,000 md5 password hashes. Assume the passwords are all 12 characters (they're not) and they're randomly generated (again, not). You don't conduct a brute-force search for every hash, you conduct a brute force search for 100,000 hashes. 7,000 years divided by 100,000 hashes is 25.55 days. With a $500 graphics card, the crackers can brute-force a password every month.

Now, once you realize that the entropy in the average password is not even within an order of magnitude of 60^12, you might begin to see the problem. You'd be lucky to find a password that's 36^8.

That purported 7,000 years is starting to look a lot smaller, isn't it?

This is why we have things like bcrypt and PBKDF2.
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This is a reaction to the fact that, as of 12.10, the Ubuntu Unity "search lens" now includes Amazon results.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010538/now-in-ubuntu-linux-1...
I don't think there was much of a private space industry then. What I'm referring to is the shift in public perception and the delay that imposed on NASA.
Self-driving cars legal in California as of today
The car doesn't need to orbit. It can go off and park itself somewhere else, and come back as you are about to leave. Think of it as an automated valet.

This does mean we don't need the huge car parks around places of interest as everyone can be dropped off and picked up at the front door.

(And when the car is going to self park, it can use speeds and routes that avoid adding congestion to the people trying to get somewhere.)
I published a blocker application for this attack on Google Play for those who want to protect themselves.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4573357

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4572121
you didn't need to push down on the game genie, because the "push down" was to enable the CIC lockout chip. Galoob spent a considerable amount of time (and legal fees) bypassing the CIC chip. this allowed all games to run without problems on most NES systems.
Ubuntu 12.10 will include amazon ads on the desktop

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558049
Huh? You think Brazil is going to have their Olympics revoked over a YouTube complaint by a Campo Grande politician? Campo Grande, by the way, is an extremely tiny city. This isn't Sao Paulo we're talking about here.
I think the slightest scrutiny shows its complete necessity.

No licensed driver, car encounters situation it's not programmed for.

Now what?
...and it's not a dick move to block or park in someone else's parking spot? Go find your own spot.
«Have you ever looked at a modern airplane? Have you followed from year to year the evolution of its lines? Have you ever thought, not only about the airplane, but about whatever man builds, that all of man's industrial efforts, all his computations and calculations, all the nights spent over working draughts and blueprints, invariably culminate in the production of a thing whose sole and guiding principle is the ultimate principle of simplicity?

It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elementary purity of the curve of a human breast or shoulder, there must be the experimentation of several generations of craftsmen. In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.»

-- Antoine St. Exupery, Wind Sand and Stars.
> Traveling abroad for a few weeks and don't know what to do with your car? Set it to taxi mode and profit.

CarBnB
Alright well your friendliness and my own stupidity sort of disarmed me. Now I do kinda feel bad about getting all worked up though. You must be a really nice guy to stay calm even though I was ranting like an idiot.
If this was true, then why could you stick a game genie into your system, not press down, and still get the game to work, even on a broken NES with bent or non-connecting contacts?

The contacts were never the issue. the CIC lockout chip is the culprit everyone's ignoring.
This isn't that surprising really. Microsoft's focus on security 10 or so years ago has paid off and its hard to find flaws in their OS now. The next most common platform is probably the JVM so its the new attack vector.

I would imagine we are going to see more and more of these exploits unless Oracle takes the same approach that Microsoft took, and even then it will be years before the benefits are felt.
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How many false alarms would it take to distract the department from finding a lost child?

Let me put it this way: Let's say it take 500 hours to find a child without someone calling in and 5 hours to investigate a claim.

If the website method has a success rate of 1% or less the time needed to investigate the claims outweighs the time it would take to find the child without the 404 pages at all.

I don't have any numbers for this but surely that is one scenario where this could cause more harm than good.
Self-driving cars now legal in California
It's not free. The cost is paid for by interest you don't receive.
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The default for the Java driver changed recently to the Safe mode.

So it does happen.
You are right, the poster seems to be (temporary) not aware of people who are really suffering. Traffic is the certainly not the #1 cause of unhappiness in the world, maybe I would vote for greed? Or hatred?
Finally, on a personal note I believe attempting to argue that returning a kidnapped child to their parents may NOT be regarded as a success because of the "cost of the initiative" is morally indefensible.

But surely this isn't the case or each of us would personally have to dedicate all of our own time and money to finding every missing child, correct? Why aren't you using your salary to run ads on Facebook with the faces of missing children? It might work...
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Came here to say this.

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/02/Detect-DOM-changes-wit...
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Yeah, I am not sure why the JSFiddle would work on one phone and not another, but it is definitely an issue.

I might try putting tel: links (for people to tap on) directly into the marketplace description.
How could you help find lost children on Mars?
And also the fear of an app (and consequently the API) getting hammered by the mobile equivalent of a clickbot (should such a thing exist), or some developer on the product accidentally programming in an infinite loop.

Oops, there goes thousands of dollars.

FWIW when I was recently involved in pricing an API, after much thought I decided the best option was tiered pricing with different rate limits (requests per hour) at each tier. At least with that structure you don't have to worry about angry customers with huge bills or customers bankrupting you with usage gone wild that they'll never be able to pay for.

The other risk of pure usage based pricing is that it attracts a cost-minimization approach to usage. That was my original plan but speaking to prospects put me off when I realized that many were willing to forgo all business sense and invest crazy amounts of development time to minimize API costs. And you still have to support them. (NB Yes you can have a base charge but many seem to think that inherently unfair when they have to pay for usage on top.)