skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Please give examples of these and

Here's a Greek manuscript. There's a lacuna in the text. What is the most likely correct emendation? If you use a statistical method to answer, explain how you compiled your corpus of comparisons.

>explain a) Why, if science cannot be done with these questions, is anything else worth doing?

Oh my yes, just like football and gourmet cooking are worth doing. Besides which, your science labs are going to need industrial designers and lawyers, and at least a couple historians of science to warn you away from past methodological errors. Which means you also need at least a few scholars of rhetoric, fine arts, philology, general history and archaeology to train them.

>Try putting forward a psychoanalytic theory (not to keep stomping on that already crushed horse)

And yet you do. Why do you guys always use psychoanalysis for your examples? Why not numismatics? Why not 16th century Dutch history? Why not philosophy of mathematics, Meso-American archaeology or Song-period Chinese textual criticism?

>Try putting forward a psychoanalytic theory…in front of chemists and physicists and see what you get. They will have no trouble at all shredding it.

Or try putting it forward in front of social anthropologists. They will have even less trouble - and they were on to Freud a couple of decades before the alleged scientists in the medical profession caught on.
> Claims without evidence don't help to increase understanding.

Where is your evidence for this?

Humor aside, this is absolutely not the case. Traditional religion stems from human intuition, a natural sense of reality that was shaped my many, many years of evolution. A process of trial and error.

Trial and error, of course, is the natural equivalent of the scientific method. Continuous iteration and refinement.

If anything, our intuitive sense is more refined than our sense of reason and tells us much about the world around us that our capacity for reason simply does not.
It appears to be most recent - I have been tracking this everyday since I found it on imgur... Here is what I know:

- The list is not based on chatting, comments, likes, or any recent interaction based on your action

- The list correlates to people who logically clicked through based on my status updates, but did not take any action on my status updates or comments

- The list is not based on other users actions with my activity - the people on my list did not "like" or "comment" on any recent activity in the past 4 days since I discovered this

- The list is not correlated to the 8 friends pictures that appear in your friends list on your profile page - based on 5 hard refreshes on each of the last 4 days

It appears to be a simple ordered list based on users who viewed your actual profile...

That's all I got for right now... will keep ya'll in the loopers!
This mostly sits at a higher level than Magenta does -- you don't need kernel support for Foundation/AppKit ABI compatibility.
This has me interested, what did this protection actually preclude? What's possible now that it's cracked?

I know 1964 and Project64 could already play BanjoTooie (Although I think with some crashes) so if wasn't detecting flashing or emulation what was it doing? Or if it was, how did these emulators get around it without the specific game being "cracked"?

Or is it just the sort of thing an emulator...emulates?
My answers:

1. After hours, when no interruptions are happening.

2. Not crazy about the idea

3. I encourage asynchronicity as much as possible for all but major emergencies. I try to plan my work outside of potential emergencies.

4. Hacker

5. Lately very often, but I feel more effective in isolation.

6. Typically away from them, but also with them --something like a meeting a week seems really productive.
Yes, Sophie, there is a Santa Claus
My kids go to a Montessori school. Its an amazing school. Sure some of the parents tend to be extreme but that's probably why they choose to spend money on a private school in the first place.

Recently several of the kids have been telling my daughter they don't believe in Santa Claus. I'm sure their parents have told them this in an effort to be "completely honest" with their kids. They consider the idea of Santa Claus to be a fantasy we tell our kids to get them to behave.

They don't want to tell their kids about a fantasy because its impossible. Except...

100 years ago it was impossible to split an atom. 50 years ago it was impossible to walk on the moon. 25 years ago the computer you're reading this on was impossible. 10 years ago the smartphone in your pocket was impossible. And 5 years ago it was impossible to elect a black man to be our President.

What's wrong with believing in the impossible? The world we live in used to be impossible. But for the likes of Curie, Einstein, Von Braun, Turing, Hopper, and Obama the world we live in would still be a fantasy because those people, men and women, refused to be limited by the impossible. And all they did was change the world.

Santa Claus is real because a 5 year old can't understand nuclear physics, escape velocity, logic gates and capacitive touch screens or, hopefully, racism. But if they can believe a man can fly around the world in one night then one day maybe they'll build a car that can fly around a city or take a stroll on Mars.
More sites should let people tag submissions by topic, to help sort it for readers.
That's awesome. He's one of the few celebrities in the entire world I'd love to meet and have a beer with.
I've learned quite a bit about the michaelochurch argument technique from this thread:

Step 1: Make up stories about your enemy that nobody on the forum can verify. (Be it that your manager is a terrorist or that the Wikipedia admin who banned you is a child rapist.)

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Post again with an even more grandiose tale.

Why are you wasting your time on HN when you could be writing screenplays instead?
Now that does sound intriguing.
Nice work! I was really hoping to get a WP8 this Christmas but unfortunately Sprint dropped the ball on that one and decided not to release any phones until "next year". I'm still using my 3 year old HTC Hero because I refuse to get another android. One day I'll get a WP8 and I'm sure this will be one of the first apps I install. :)
A Turd By Any Other Name… | massive greatness by MG Siegler
1. Late Afternoon, Late night, Early early morning

2. nearly impossible to achieve

3. Realtime chat. Whiteboard that shows what I'm currently working on, what's on deck.

4. hacker

5. Checking in to a chat room every hour or so is great

6. Around people that are busy focusing on their own thing, but not bothering me
>The debate is centered on Google News. As far as I know, News is one of the few services where Google haven't, don't and won't show ads. "Systematic clipping of one or two sentences [...] for the purpose of providing an ad-free overview and linking to the respective stories" sounds like "fair use" to me.

Then Google should have no issue with not linking to publishers who don't want to be linked to. As an aside, I disagree that it's fair use, because it's done systematically as part of a commercial enterprise.

>They are publishing their material on the web, for the world to see. If you'd want an opt-in for every crawler out there, no search engine would ever be able to take off and index a significant portion of the web. By the way, an opting out from all (obedient) crawlers is as simple as "Disallow: /"

If you believe that Google is infringing the publishers' copyrights, then it is not the responsibility of the publishers to opt out. See my response to your first point.
Yes, that's true.

One has to wonder, though, that if the AVR had its own current-limiting circuitry, why would the author of this article add his own?

Furthermore, reducing the power unilaterally may protect the chip from thermal overload, but it will also probably cause the chip to reset, causing undefined behavior in the circuit it's controlling.

So I'm really not completely sure what's going on.
I debunked this months ago here on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215474

Here's more info: http://support.google.com/feedburner/answer/79590?hl=en

The short version is that FeedBurner has a free feature called MyBrand which serves your feeds from a CNAME of your own domain. Then if you choose to leave FeedBurner, you still have full control of your feeds and permalinks. I set it up on my own domain years ago as feeds.mattcutts.com, for example.

I think this free feature of FeedBurner is one that everyone should use so that you keep feeds under your own control and served off your own domain.
Later this week.
Oh fantastic, I didn't even know this existed.

Radio serials have been my favorite format of media ever since I listened to all of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. They are like the best parts of audiobooks combined with the best parts of film or television.
There's a difference between linking to something and using an except from a published work without permission. (Yes, it would be fair use in isolation, but not as part of an automated, systematic process that's part of a commercial enterprise.)
Big Data and the US Presidential Campaign (Obama for America panel)
Probably not many. He used a buffer overflow exploit (found by someone else) to achieve arbitrary code execution (in a program not designed for security). That is not a trivial task (given the limited number of op-codes he was able to use), but not something that deserves job offers.
That rather shortsighted. All companies, as well as governments, eventually hit financial trouble, and some day fail.

Google has shut down many services and "broke the internet" before - what they essentially did with Reader.

Even if it takes 100 years, we don't want the internet archives to be broken.
Here's the media page: https://sites.google.com/site/birdbuggy109/media

Watch the first video (from 1 minute onwards, esp. around 2:30). Wow. Just wow. The bird isn't just going forward, he navigates edges, turns the buggy, gets out of ruts, chooses to drive across the (narrow) paved path instead of in gravel (and navigates to avoid the latter), and clearly understands the mechanisms of controlling a buggy/car.

I'm one of the biggest proponents of animal "sentience" (my main problem is with that word itself - I think the differences between us and certain animals is a question of quantity/scale, not a matter of us possessing reasoning and will and them not), and despite our family having owned multiple African Grey parrots, I honestly would never have thought this was possible. The physical disconnect, hand-eye coordination (well, hand-beak) needed, the abstraction of movement to a joystick... it's really quite the accomplishment! Someone needs to write new journal papers about this ASAP. There's history to be made, and I can honestly say this is one of the most momentous recording I've seen in my life.
Related: dogs taught how to drive real cars:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/dogs-driving-cars-n...

I can't even drive manual....
I'm curious if it's achieving goals by its driving or if it's just moving around.
For a serious blogger, Feedburner is a great way to reduce the traffic on your server. Many RSS readers are poorly developed and will hammer your server for no reason. Jeff Atwood wrote a great article about this a while back: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/03/reducing-your-websi...
What's the difference between this and your Combinator app? http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/combinator/a5275...
I think this proposal is an incredibly naive way of viewing the world.

A mob by definition is unpredictable. A mob is inherently incapable of meting out justice, it can only mete out indiscriminate punishment. A mob is susceptible to the words of a demagogue, even if those words are lies. People will always try to manipulate the mob to their own advantage.

Where does the concept of having a trial come into this proposal of mob justice? How will a mob, a concept of organization that is based entirely on conformity and the emotion of anger, be able to hold a fair trial? I don't think there has ever been a case in history in which a mob of people have held a fair trial and carried out a fair punishment.

Sure, in an ideal world mobs would be capable of being fair; however, we don't live in an ideal world. We live in a world where people are irrational and where the mob suppresses rational discussion by suppressing dissent.

Furthermore, there is something self-contradictory about a mob destroying people who destroy. A well-functioning system of justice can never be built on retribution and violence.

The idea of a mob pitching in to hire enforcers is even more ridiculous. Now what you have is a gang. Even if under this proposal these mobs eventually institutionalize into the "police" and "courts," there is now the problem of corruption.
1) If someone wants Google to stop displaying a one-sentence excerpt from their page, Google should respect that.

2) I never said that indexing should be opt-in. I said that the use of excerpts should be opt-in.

3) I should think that someone can decline to allow their content to be used to generate ad revenue for someone else.
I recently spent around 6 weeks in Sri Lanka/southern India - and I'd wholeheartedly recommend it. Absolutely beautiful, incredibly friendly locals, very cheap. The food is also great (assuming you like south-east Asian cuisine, there isn't a lot of variety).

There's a very vibrant tech scene in Bangalore, although not much outside of that in my experience. Internet cafes aren't that commonplace (though not rare either), but 3G internet was pretty cheap (a few $s per GB), and available on a pay-as-you-go basis.
I used to work for the consulting arm of a telco, and the projects with the telco direct involvement demanded IPv6 compliance by early 2013.

You would think that working with a telco, getting IPv6 is easy. Except it is not. It is a mountain of extra monthly costs with absolutely no business benefit whatsoever on both the server end and the user end. Other than an IPv6 lab, we have no means of testing and no user we are aware of has access to IPv6. Furthermore, my tiny project team still had a truckload of pre-allocated IPv4 addresses that are still unused.

Despite the doomsday talk, I really fail to see how IPv6 is going to take off any time soon. Even my proposal to put one machine out there with HAProxy to redirect IPv6 to IPv4 addresses is getting lukewarm support from management as at the time of my departure just last month.
The Bicycle Liftlock[video]
The video of the owner training him to turn right near the bottom of the page almost appears as if the parrot is messing with the guy and purposely not turning in the correct manner. Made me smile when he kept putting him back in the initial position only to see him turn in a different way.

Given the intelligence of African Gray Parrots (which is estimated to be around a 4 or 5 year old child), there's a good chance the bird was doing it intentionally when it kept having to repeat the task over and over.

Birds like this are supposed to also get extremely attached to their owner (as much as any owner and their dog), especially when they don't have a mate. Some get to the point if they're away from their owner for more than a couple of days, they stress out and start pulling out their feathers in a non-healthy manner that's not just preening.

From friends that have birds, their chirps and squawks are as communicative as barks and meows of cats and dogs. There's also evidence that birds use those noises to communicate in an intelligent way with each other (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July11/ParrotNaming.html). They're trying to say what they can in the only way they know how. Even if one happens to bite, it's generally trying to tell you something and is at a loss of how else to express it (which is rarely meant to hurt you, since their beaks could do serious damage if they wanted). Some do bite for other reasons, but those tend to be from the owner not training it properly. Training a parrot from observing friends with them appears as daunting as training an intelligent breed of dog.

Seems like building the buggy though solved the poor bird's frustrations. He most likely did feel abandoned when his owner left the room.
Please Email Me About Your Product
Just a thought, I'd like to share really quick with the readership of HN.

There are several webapps that I see on HN and subsequently sign up for. A lot of them are understandably minimum viable products.

If I check out your MVP and I like it, and it's not quite ready for prime time yet... I'm not coming back.

Unless...

You email me when it's ready.

Please, don't forget to email.
See my other comment here. If you watch the linked video, the bird shows cognitive obstacle avoidance, navigation along lines and on a preferred narrow path, and more. Definitely a "goal" in mind, not random movements.
"The fictional game Calvinball, played by the main characters in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, is sometimes compared to Nomic. However, Calvinball appears to have a permanent rule that the same rules may never be used twice; a nomic, at least in its initial state, has no truly permanent rules."
Wow that seems like a pretty sweeping change from a post and thread on G+.
I'm wondering of they were seeing much value from those kinds of emails?

It seemed like it would be effective overall, considering their product and audience, so I'm surprised they backed away from it so quickly.
Addressed in the text (in fact, that's the author's whole point.)
So, in other words, the posters defending Google are being totally disingenuous when they claim that Google couldn't care less about these petulant little publishers and that the publishers need Google far more than vice versa. Apparently, Google really doesn't want to take these publishers off Google News.
For anyone that don't get the reference: This is from Hitchikers guide to the galaxy, which goes on to spend a few paragraphs describing how to fly by throwing yourself at the ground and missing it. As it says, "clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties".
You can run Photoshop through Wine ( http://www.winehq.org/ ) quite easily.

Details here: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&...
But it's Google who's making a big deal out of this, not the publishers. They could have just delisted the publishers without a peep.
1. When left to my own devices. Between 10am-2pm. After 7pm. Late night.
2. On the fence. Helpful when you need to work with others--if you each have predefined work hours every day it's easier to know when they're available. I don't like them though.
3. I don't, because I'm pretty fast and loose with organization so I'm not a good example. ;) I take care of whatever the interruption is and turn back to what I was doing. I wish others would do the same instead of whining about OH GOD WHAT NOWWWW.
4. I am neither hacker nor businessy guru type, I am usually in a support role. INFP
5. In an 8hr workday I would be in IRC the whole time, answering more questions than asking. Voice chat was infrequent, maybe 1 call a day if that. Output wa affected more by voice chat/face to face chat.
6. I get more done around people who are also getting things done.
1) 2am. Followed by occasions at Starbucks-type places with a sufficient, but not overwhelming background noise and headphones with music.

2) Awful. I like to sleep when I need to sleep, which is not the same time every night, so why would I get up for work at the same time every day?

3) Written, non-realtime communication when possible. This gives me the opportunity to figure out the answer to more complex problems, and the time to actually fix simpler ones.

4) Hacker as a mindset. There are equally complex business and code challenges.

5) IRC when I remember to sign in. Google Talk whenever my browser is open. It's all latent communication through a real-time source. (ie: if I ask/answer a question, I don't expect an immediate response, but when it gets responded to we can have a short discussion about it)
I usually ignore chat when I'm "in the zone" because that's very tunnel-vision-y for me. Sometimes feedback through chat is essential to moving something forward.

6) Away, but only when there's a space I can go if I need to talk to someone. I make a choice to be in "world-mode" or "zone-mode"
> use Stylus/Sass not LESS

I really like LESS. What am I missing out on?
Mental arithmetic is not that useful in higher math - past calculus you're more likely to use letters than numbers, and in many cases you're not working directly with numbers anyway.
>You must include our content, and you must pay us for it.

Where are you getting the first part from?
I've been using https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass as a SASS version of Bootstrap. It's a nice project, with native support for Compass, so no Rails dependency. ( https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass#compass )
1. At night, usually when I can work undisturbed.
2. While I do structure my day somewhat, I keep my work times flexible for when the inspiration strikes most.
3. I try to make the best of situations like that. They often lead to coming up with new ideas to make thing work.
4. I'm definitely not a business/executive type.
5. Text chat for fun everyday, voice chat usually several times a week. Voice for work, not on a regular basis. Sometimes the need arises though.
6. Usually away from people, unless they are involved in the actual production process.
This is great! Reading this series was one of the formative experiences of my youth.
I like the landing page. How long will it take to get an invite?
Strong opinions on climate change are self-reinforcing
Anonymous has not only successfully shut his site down, but they have also posted lots of personal data including his address. So i choose to write Hunter a post card, suggesting a career change. http://funologist.org/2012/12/08/my-postcard-to-the-king-of-...
I believe it's useful for the flashcard scene. All current Nintendo 64 flash cards (64Drive, everdrive64 etc) require a hardware CIC chip. I believe there's a different lockout chip between NTSC, PAL and certain games like Jet Force Gemini.

All flashcards have either the CIC required to be soldered on (destroying some genuine N64 game) or has a port for a cartridge to be plugged in (so the CIC maybe accessed non-destructively).

Once the lockout algorithm is discovered, they possibly no longer need the dedicated chip. (not sure about this part)
solution: quasi random sampling
I too want to know this.
As I understand it, the word "regulate" had a different meaning at the time the commerce clause was written. It generally meant "to make regular", as in, prevent states from taxing imports from one state higher than another.

Now it essentially means "control".
It doesen't look like a game engine. It looks more like a game development framework, using SDL, and PyGame.