skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When these kinds of articles come about, I never understand the big deal. The release of the iPhone 5 doesn't suddenly make my iPhone 4s a useless piece of junk. I can continue using it until it dies and I need to replace it. Similarly, if you're doing SL work, your stuff isn't going to suddenly stop working. Your current copy of VS won't magically stop compiling SL code. Continue to use SL if it works for you. SL seemed to only have mild success as an intranet technology, so my suggestion above is valid.

This problem doesn't go away with open source, since projects can die and non-backwards compatible versions can be released. No one is forcing you to convert all your Python 2 code to Python 3
Here's more interesting material:

Jules Verne's "They Mysterious Island"
http://archive.org/details/mysterious_island_ms_librivox

Walter M. Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
http://archive.org/details/ACanticleForLiebowitz
BitTorrent and uTorrent mobile apps on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone..
Good tip. As someone who doesn't do well with coffee -- it makes me twitchy -- I find green tea helpful. I drink it several days a weak, in part for the general anti-oxidant health benefits, in part for the caffeine boost. But I feel like it sharpens my brain to use my available energy better, more effectively, so perhaps unlike most caffeine-consumers I tend to drink it only when I already feel fully rested. It doesn't seem to provide extra energy when my brain is already tired. In fact I fear in those cases it just prevents me from taking a quick nap which helps much much more to recover my brain energy. That's my experience with green tea so far -- I definitely want to explore it more.
The time travel is a plot device. It exists only to set the stage for the story.

The satire is the stuff like politics being an obvious (blatant?) popularity contest and people not having any notion of where their food comes from. You know, like today.

I think even the fall of society depicted in the movie is mostly a plot device. For instance, in much of the developed world, trash is simply thrown on a big pile (generally a special, well managed pile, but nonetheless a big pile).

The movie isn't a warning where we are headed, it is a withering criticism of where we are.
I've written some in-browser JS to download all my tweets without needing to resort to the API and oAuth nightmare. It is indeed possible to write a client, but not recommended at all...
Its hard to believe now, but back then RS had a general corporate policy of selling everything required, all the way down to installation tools and nuts and bolts. Not just computers but car audio, telephones, what would later be called home theater, any line of business they entered, they jumped in both feet.

Its almost noteworthy what they didn't stock. They didn't stock much in the line of non-electronics raw materials and power tools, so if you made a subwoofer for your car you'd need to buy the wood and saws elsewhere.

It was very popular and was very profitable, at least compared to now. There's probably a greater entrepreneur lesson here that your customers don't "buy things" they "do projects" and every different place they have to visit to do a project probably costs about 50% in sales, or at least a ridiculous number.
It's pretty different; sites like Kaggle focus on algorithmic approaches to data prediction. There's one winner for each contest; the person who applies the best algorithm and model wins.
Watching Them Struggle
I did Philosophy as a degree and pg's essay, which I read a while ago, was one of crystallization, a total clarification of something that had been bugging me for years.

I personally believe that Philosophy is the place where amateur thinkers reside until a discipline matures and breaks off. Philosophy is thinking without the effort of doing. First it was Physics, Law, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine and we are now seeing Psychology and Sociology departing Philosophy, taking morality and personal identity into the realms of actual science instead of thought experiments. Soon Philosophy will be left with its history and debating the meaning of words. CS and Maths have taken all the interesting logic questions away from Philosophy for example.

I believe what pg advocates at the end has already happened, is always happening to Philosophy. The general truths philosophy helped discover are the sciences, it just that as we get to answering the general truth the philosophers step aside for people who actually do.

Most previously interesting philosophical questions are now interesting scientific questions. There's not much left for philosophers to actually talk about.
Assuming radio plays required copyright notices in the US at the time, the BBC didn't have them on broadcasts they sold to the US so that is probably what happened here.

The novel and radio play will still be very much under copyright in Europe.
And echoing one of the items from W. Edwards Deming's list of deadly diseases (from "Out of the Crisis", 1982): "Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force."

Create better systems, don't decorate the walls with nonsense "motivating" junk.
Sorry friend, it's time to be SUPER pedantic.

Silly Computer Science nerds spend a lot of time trying to figure out the most efficient implementation of a recursive Fibonacci number function. "Ooo, let's make sure to take advantage of tail-call optimization, oh, and memoization, aren't we fancy?"

Meanwhile, mathematicians look at the problem and then cock their heads to the side and say "uh, guys, that's way too much trouble, just use the closed form solution and calculate any value in constant time using a tiny number of floating point operations". Because Fib(n) = (phi^n - (1-phi)^n)/sqrt(5), where phi is the golden ratio.
pg did Philosophy you plonker.
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So am I correct in my understanding that this sort of hack is made possible only because the Gameboy uses an 8080 derived chip with Von Neumann architecture? ie. if it used a Z8 (or any other Harvard Arch chip) it wouldn't be possible to "bootstrap" like this?
Yup. Mr. "a:10 v:10"
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LOL for those who don't get his joke, its a traditional bathtub curve. Check some recent ebay sales... You want a new car or a PDP-8? An original Apple-I or an oceanfront house? True there's a gap of about a human generation in the middle where its scrap metal prices.

Also there's a strong supply/demand component. The supply of PDP-8 hardware is low enough that the prices are about the same per pound as silver, or at least copper. But PDP-11 and VAX equipment (currently...) has a large enough supply that its hard to exceed triple digits.
I'm using the Lapdock Atrix, but yeah, same thing as the 500 basically. I really think Lapdock+PC-On-Stick is my new direction, away from the Apple Hegemony. It is simply amazing being able to carry my Ubuntu workstation with me in my pocket, plug into big screen/&etc., or use the lapdock on train rides (typical laptop use case for me personally) to do extra work. Its truly neat. I hope it happens mainstream..
Just ordered some. Let's hope that international delivery doesn't take weeks.
I will return with something. Not this monday, maybe not next, but I will return. And I'll be looking for your comment ;).
I hear it. I'm a stickler for comfort and design, so I'll be going for the thinnest, slabbiest, least-dent-prone thinkpad I can find when the time comes. I really do insist on the slab - i.e. as few indentations as possible - approach, so I hope its considered necessary, somewhere in the future, by Thinkpad designers ..
Scheduling my processes could certainly be done by me(my user land). It certainly shouldn't let me schedule your processes, but it could be hierarchical with first or second level scheduling in the kernel with the exact process run determined by local user space.
Yeah I'm closely watching the tablet space, if I can get a 17" tablet with ultra-high res, plug in a PC-on-a-stick, and use a keyboard with it, I'll have my development machine again. I just can't really sit there for long on a 15" screen, its not wide-view enough for my liking .. and the MBP17" was, ultimately, my main machine. Oh well.
It is a comparison of several programming languages regarding how likely it is that a typo causes the program to still compile and run but produce wrong output. If a typo goes unnoticed you would really want the parser to notice or at least an obvious behaviour at runtime (e.g. a crash) instead of the code silently working and producing the wrong results.
what is DC++ ?
Interesting find. I wonder if this would apply to Java program as well. Better test it for MapDB.
Can Coinbase use recurring payments? Is that even possible with Bitcoin?
A centralized, IRC-like network for file exchange. Or rather, DC++ is the client to that network.
They did utilize bitcoin. I purchased my VIP account with them via bitcoin.
Tor network used to command Skynet botnet
Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89
Me too. Bastards. I'll have to raise a chargeback or something.
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة وريال بيتيس بث مباشر
I was getting a good amount of missing blocks on Astraweb only; I bought a backup news account from blocknews and haven't had any missing block issues since.

It helps if people put big pars out.
Binsearch is much harder to navigate.
I think you're right about mature disciplines breaking off from philosophy, but I don't see morality and personal identity departing the realm of philosophy any time soon.

Sociologists only tell us how human societies behave, not how they are supposed to behave. You might hold the opinion that we can somehow derive the ought from the is, but if that's the view that you're trying to advocate, then you're already doing metaethics -- a branch of philosophy.

Psychologists and neuroscientists might be able to tell us how children acquire a sense of identity, or how patients identify themselves after massive brain surgery. But I don't think their job description includes figuring out what the essence of a person is, or whether there is such a thing as an essence of a person in the first place.

As for law, it is unlikely that you will be able to settle the question, "Why in hell should anyone obey the law?" or "If the law is unjust, should I still obey it?" until you've settled some questions about morality. Just because a law is (un)constitutional doesn't mean that it is (im)moral.

Guess what, you can even combine questions about morality with questions about personal identity, and throw in some legal theory as well, to end up with some really interesting philosophy [1].

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-ethics/
When scraping HTML where data gets populated with js/ajax, you can get a web inspector to look at where that data is coming from and manually GET it and it will likely be in some nice JSON.

Scraping used to be the way to get data back in the days, but websites also didn't change their layout/structure on a weekly basis too back then and were much more static when it came to the structure.

Having recently written a small app that was forced to scrape HTML and having to update it every month to make it keep working, I can't imagine doing this for a larger project and maintaining it.
I think the effect depends on who put these up, management or employees. Personally I like to keep a copy of the Cult of Done manifesto around. I have learnt to hate when my own perfectionism keeps me from shipping in time and that poster seems to help.
Would be nice if they would a) publish their code and b) upload their nzb database on Pirate Bay. Would make it much easier for someone to pick up the torch.
I cannot find how they controlled for the wordiness of the different languages. They changed one token in each file, but the number of tokens per file might be different. For example, Python likely will be shorter than Java due to its significant whitespace.

Also, the 'replace a single character in a token by noise' change may have hugely different effects, not only because of differences in keywords (begin…end vs {…}) but also, and probably more so, because of average variable and function name length (for the languages tested, this is a cultural issue, but it would not surprise me if the effect were large. You won't find 'FooFactory' in a perl program)
I agree with the premise that Bitcoin is too hard to use for all but the most technically minded people.
Coupled with http://abteevee.allfilled.com and http://abmoovee.allfilled.com it's easy.
I so not agree with that article, it makes me sick.
And this guy basically is some "marketer" so no wonder he gets quite some stuff wrong, imo. :p
GOLDMAN: Here's Why Google Is 'Challenged' In Mobile
What did he get wrong?
Are all Map Functions the same?
This basically studies how impactful typos are for these various languages. Well, typos are always trivial to find and fix.

It's more serious issues that I would want a type system to help me with (like null references, concurrent access, etc.)
You can always just upload the nzb file to Usenet and reference that.
indeed i do use Python. thanks for sharing...it appears most interesting. Have started playing with it...
Some commenters are defending modern philosophy, but I think there is something legitimately wonky in the discipline. I can't figure out the best way to describe it, but, to state it poorly, studying philosophy often feels like filtering out a ton of BS.

I'm saying it's all BS (it's not) but that there's too much.

I don't think it has to be that way. Example ideas:

* Writing in philosophy could be improved (http://tylerneylon.com/a/writing-about-philosophy/)

* The attitude toward 'what is philosophy?' could be improved (http://www.richardprice.io/post/35542139118/one-hypothesis-a...)
Google Fiber, you had our curiosity. Now you have our attention
Maybe not, but Dr Strangelove is extremely dated, and the people and issues it satirized are mostly dead now.
> I mean what are you really complaining about. You wanted to quit and they said OK.

More accurately, he wanted to take a new job in 2 weeks and got sent home without pay for that time. Not everyone can afford that gap. What's more, I don't see this as a complaint, so much, but as a retrospective analysis of how s/he might better have handled things to his/her own advantage.
No, he didn't. He 'majored in philosophy for most of college'. That means that he was merely ready to start doing philosophy, like earning a black belt is generally taken to mean that you are finally ready to actually start studying your art. Pg's conclusion is much like concluding some defensive art doesn't work, right after earning your black belt, because you realize you would probably still lose from an attacker with a knife. You're not yet capable of handling such a formidable challenge, unless you are lucky. Additional practice is needed to confidently handle armed opponents.

These theoretical physicists have all read works on philosophy. The problem is not lack of basic knowledge: it's lack of deep knowledge about the specific issue.
Yes, there are too small projects that I know about for Firefox:
Firegloves https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firegloves/
Blender https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blender-1/?sr...
awesome...thanks :)
polyfractal says it best with [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893197].

I would like to add some things.

The oil produced very much depends on diet, and your body's own ability to combat the growth of extraneous bacteria (There is lots of bacteria in your body that is GOOD for you).

For what it's worth, your body's immune system uses Vitamin D, and the best way to help that? Get Outside! You'll notice that surfers and active beachgoers tend to have clear skin more often than not.

Lots of water is just too important to not reiterate. Try to shoot for one glass of water every hour. Want a helpful reminder? Set your own calendar alerts on your phone.

Be careful of causing frequent insulin spikes. Fruits, Starches, Sugars, Grains, and Dairy are all stronger insulinotropics (produce a high response in release of insulin) than vegetables, healthy fats, and meats. Having more leafy vegetables and healthy fats (Omega 3s, 100% Grass-fed (Grass-finished) red meats and even grass-fed butter) will flatten out that response to insulin. (You may lose weight by flattening out this insulin level as well).

Essentially, everything is a hormonal response. At the end of the day, once you improve what's inside, your outsides will vastly improve as well.

With that said, there isn't hope lost once you do have the acne occur. You can use [egg white + coffee] face masks (homemade recipes can easily be found), and spot treatment Benzoyl Peroxide. However I wouldn't recommend doing daily Benzoyl Treatments (Proactive) without making sure you follow the system to the 'T'. The moisturizers are essential and basically required. If you don't use them as provided then you won't fix the acne.

You can also just use Murad's Redness Therapy if the acne is red but not ready to surface [http://www.sephora.com/redness-therapy-correcting-moisturize...] Although I recommend the lotion version, not the cleanser version.

You can also use straight up brewed coffee. Rubbing your skin with coffee grinds (as recommend by some places) can scratch your skin, but taking a paper towel and dipping it in hot coffee, and letting that rest on your face for a few minutes will open up the pores and let the caffeine absorb through your skin. Caffeine provides many things, will make your skin more vibrant, but most importantly it is a vasoconstrictor (tightens capillaries that may by causing redness). It even helps fight some of the mold/toxins (The higher the caffeine content of the coffee, for instance, the easier it is for the bean itself to fight off mold before it is roasted).

If you want to have more life-changing information, just keep reading! Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss is a great step, but his writing is really only a stepping stone. For the next step of reading I really recommend Dave Asprey's Bulletproof Executive. Check his stuff out at BulletProofExec.com.
Facebook post haunts Netflix
Awesome. Responsive authors ftw!
Wow, that's a trollish headline. Of course if you add a URL to a tweet you will have fewer characters left for the rest of your tweet.
You're the first person in this thread to also call it the "Trash-80" which for me is a term of endearment.
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There is something very appealing in the idea of running own web server on a small, cheap device like RaspberryPI and pushing it to the limits. It's of course far more reasonable to just buy a hosting and don't bother about it, but how great would it be to host applications on your own server infrastructure? :)
Torrents aren't really safe or unsafe, it's mostly about the quality of the trackers you use. There are some OK cultivated communities out there, but the worry over ratio and constant leech on one's upload stream is a real bummer when you can just purchasing blocks from a news server and not have to worry about it. A seedbox is way more expensive than a news account and usually comes with quotas which one must mind.

All in all, nzbs are a much more pleasant experience if you can afford the account (and pretty much any employed person can) and have a good indexing site (harder to come by, and now I don't have one either :( ).
> it proved what broadband subscribers have long suspected: Faster access can in fact be delivered at much less cost.

Really? I'm pretty sure this whole experiment is being subsidized by Google as a unique single-city experiment with no possibility of getting a financial return on the investment.
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Easily one of the strangest things I've seen on HN.
My point was more that Bitcoin isn't widespread enough to compete with traditional payment processors yet, which would have saved these guys.
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SHA1 "weakness" benefits password crackers
It's not surprising as I don't think Macs have ever owned more than about 10% of the market.
The fundamentals may be, but the implementation doesn't have to. One could easily just make do with "send" and "receive" functionality. Blockchain has a very nice android app.
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> The most obvious issue that everyone stumbles across is the "counting from 1". It seems like a minor thing, but the context-switch remains a drag when you're dealing with complex data-structures in two languages and only one of them is Lua.

Not so much of a problem for me, because I found out I rarely need to use array indices on the same structure in two different languages.

> The impedance-mismatch becomes even more apparent when the table-abstraction meets serialization.

I don't know if you read the Lua mailing list but I have posted about that recently (http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-11/msg00683.html) and gotten a reasonable answer (http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-11/msg00691.html). I still think separate types for lists and maps (arrays and hashes) are good but the proposed solution is elegant (and a good example of loose coupling: you teach libraries your convention and not the other way around).

> Luarocks exists but is... well, I've yet to see someone actually using it

I can assure you the part of the community using Lua as a standalone language uses it. Embedded users don't really need a package manager anyway.

Things are moving on that front too: the Moonrocks project could become what Rubygems is to Ruby (http://rocks.moonscript.org/).
There is tons of data on the govt websites in India and the only way to get to that is by scrapping the websites. Knowing that you can scrap it and be on your way feels very liberating at times. Example: Rates for Indian postal department services. Minutes of parliament houses. (great for building machine translation systems. A lot of research in MT has benefit from the availability of parallel corpus consisting of parliament proceedings in 2 or more languages. Hansard corpus from Canada. European Parliament corpus. No such luck in India.)
PhantomJS is capable of downloading binary content from js dependent sites but it is a journey to get it working as it is not an out-of-the-box feature. Instead use CasperJS to drive Phantom and get a ton of snazzy features including simple binary downloads. Happy scraping!
The research in "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport factors into this observation.

If we want to get ahead in a field, we have to seek out the hard problems, those that put us great mental strain to tease apart and comprehend. This might not require 80 hours of effort a month, but even 20 hours of such deep effort will feel like 80.

In other words, we have to do the weight-lifting equivalent of several reps every day that go just beyond our weight limit. Many others exhaust themselves on a hundred reps of a comfortable weight, but that will never increase their strength.
A typo is trivial to find when you know there exists a typo.

The scary part of this is the percent of programs that ran successfully but produced the wrong output. Outputs errors can go unnoticed.

I don't know if I am scared enough to stop using python though.
Wow.. People really had time to read long texts back then.