skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a crystal, header blocks, USB port, voltage regulator, power jack, and some other small components. Not to mention shipping cost, etching the PCBs, drilling the PCBs, the cost to buy the pick-and-place machine and reflow machine, QA, maintaining the website, ...

You can certainly have AVR applications that cost less than $20, but there is a fair amount of cost in producing a development board. (You say $30 but there are plenty of sub-$20 Arduino clones.)
What are some [legitimate] examples of non-science ways of understanding the world?
And probably illegal.
Well one wonders what the 'tail' of a wafer start is. After all once you get the wafers you have to dice them, test them, bin them out. So is it really 320M of $1B in forward costs? And for a revenue of how much?
Another TSA Agent Accused of iPad Theft
I think it's more important for this project that they choose talented, entertaining comedic actors and leave the real-life involvement to the writing staff.
Valve will release its own 'tightly controlled' console for the living room
A reply under the title of "The folly of 'The folly of scientism'" by Professor Jerry Coyne of the University of Chicago, who frequently reads and comments on issues related to the philosophy of science:

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/the-folly...

". . . . Hughes is an evolutionary biologist with wide-ranging interests, and I’ve really liked some of his papers."

. . . .

"The big problem with Hughes’s essay is that despite his claim that there are other ways of apprehending truth beyond science—ways that involve the three areas of ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology—he gives not a single example of a question that those disciplines have answered."
Most often I think it's due to poor separation of concerns. The programmer is about to push an input down a stack of method calls several layers deep. There's the success condition, the failure condition, then the exception which captures unexpected behavior from the rat's nest of code he just called.
Just to be clear, you are talking about iGoogle[1], right?

[1]: https://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Thank you very much for that information; you've summed up in a few minutes what would have taken me at least a couple of hours of digging to learn.
Traditional religions.
I must admit, I haven't read the entire article, but he puts many of my own sentiments into words better than I could myself.
Don't like that one bit. No reason your speed should decrease at all. That's quite different from other people's experience comparing CloudFlare to CloudFront. If you have a second, submit a ticket and we'll make sure you've got everything setup for maximum performance.
What you eat affects how much you want to eat and how much energy your body expends, which is why "eat fewer calories than you expend" is overly simplistic. I'm sure you've come across this argument before, so I don't understand the confusion.
Despite all this, I've never been able to damage an AVR. Either I am very careful in my old age, or the stock AVRs are a bit more durable than this article would lead you to believe. I'm sure I've shorted a pin to ground while set to high, for example, because it's a one-byte programming error to do so.
I'd imagine you'd have to consciously enable it, right?
Too many times have physicians, from my point of view, fall short of common agreement with regards to my health, especially when it comes to nutrition. I tend to be skeptical of their opinion on the matter, more even so since I switched to a paleo diet and literally dropped the weight that I was supposed to be "genetically" stuck with. So have several of my friends around me.

I doubt the answer is as easy as some would like it to be, but empirically it seems low carb diets have tremendous benefits. I'd recommend reading the Primal Blueprint (http://primalblueprint.com/) for a more thorough explanation of the theory behind it, I'll stick with with my current diet as all indicators (including regular doctor checks) show a drastic increase in my health.
I consider my line of work a general technologist. I find I have to consume huge amounts of information so I can advise the people I work with. Though for programming or reverse engineering its amazing. I love the fact I can run Visual Studio on one screen and still have the ability to have WinDbg and IDA Pro as well as the app I am working on all running and visible as well as keep whatever dashboards open at the same time. I also like to have at least one Linux virtual machine open simply because I prefer Linux for quick tasks so I always have a terminal open and ready to go (VMs really are awesome for compartmentalizing but its a whole another topic).

Its really hard to describe the effect of this size of screen and resolution. You can consume information at a much faster and natural rate as compared to a smaller display that is high resolution (ie: a 2880x1800 retina). I think your brain has to use extra processing power to scale the fonts up or something or maybe the patterns your brain uses to build the letters and words just work better when its clearly visible without any thinking. Who knows... I just know it increases my productivity leaps and bounds.

I figure for something that I spend over a third of my life in front of I want them to make me as efficient as possible. Some people like to buy cars. I like to buy things to be more efficient and these monitors help me do this.

BTW, All of these mount nicely on a geek desk without the top (the smaller of the two versions they sell). They just fit perfectly. So I use four Geek desks.. 3 for the monitors and one in the center. If you want an amazing desk setup that is the way to do it. That way you can sit or stand when you work.
> BUT I do think that you can eat more calories than you expend and still lose weight.

Then where does the energy go? The only way you can eat less than you expend and still lose weight is to not adsorb some of what you eat, and doing that, while possible with laxatives use, bulimia, and certain drugs, tends to have messy consequences.
>If you want to research things, it's helpful to spell them correctly.

Here is a chance to point out how Google and omnipresent spell checkers have drastically reduced the need to remember how to spell words. Your phone will autocorrect you, your browser will spell check input fields, and Google will ask you "did you mean?" I used to be an ace speller who took great interest in knowing how to spell words, but I've noticed that's declined drastically over the years.
Great movie about this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men

Seriously though what is the problem, we have large complex societies and fertility drops dramatically. There's a natural limit and Malthusian ethics of genocide and eugenics are unnecessary. Good news all around.
Presumably the pressing motivation will be when there are sites that can only be hit via IPv6.
I thought sync was just xmpp messages. I really don't know what that means but I was told it is like the browser is talking to the server soon after there is a configuration change just like the way I chat with someone on google talk. Am I barking up the wrong tree?
the magazine itself looks great - never seen it before. there's a nice article on ray bradbury at http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-dark-and-star...

and it's currently half price for subscriptions and only $10 delivery international. i just signed up for two years :o) thanks for posting this.
Vim keys are also more composable. Emacs often rely on interactive integration (i.e: start iterative search then decide to jump into a replace with the current search) which feels less general to me.
Sorry. I agree with you. I am personally pushing (don't have much influence but I can try) for 100% SSL all the time at my place as well.
Consciousness/experience.
Name one question for which a scientific answer no matter how inadequate was once the best, but for which now a philosophical or religious one is the best one?
That's actually the nice thing about it. After you've designed and debugged your project on the Arduino board, you can implement it with a $2.50 AVR (+ a few support items).

You can't do that with, for example, the Raspberry PI or the Netduino.
Which are now completely discredited as complete lies.
"with fats and proteins; a lot of people eat more meat as a result. Eating a lot of meat can increase your chances of getting certain kinds of cancer. I've seen studies that showed that in the long run, low-carb and low-calorie diets had about the same effects for weight loss, but the low-carb dieters were at a slightly higher risk for cancer due to the extra meat they ate."

I have yet to see a true scientific study that attributes cancer to high meat intake. The "studies" that I've seen which attribute high meat intake to cancer are observational in nature, following tens of thousands of people over 30 years, and pretending that the people who ate lots of red meat in the 70's and 80's have the same lifestyles as those who listened to doctors and ate more salads and fish. The kind of person who ate lots of red meat in the 80's was the same kind of person who probably ignored all sorts of medical advice. This inability to control for other variables is why observational studies are horrible. I'm a huge coffee drinker, but I'm not stupid enough to fall for the observational studies which link coffee consumption to living longer. All too often, the people who DON'T drink coffee DO drink soda, which is a simple example of how these ridiculous observational studies can be misinterpreted.
Well to be honest - was upgradeability ever a big deal with laptops?

For most people, I imagine not.

I have upgraded the RAM in every laptop I've owned in the past decade, and either upgraded the hard drive, or moved an old one over in most. In my current laptop, I also upgraded the motherboard to one that wasn't quite intended to work so that I could have a UXGA IPS panel and 8GB of RAM in the same machine. I also upgraded the CPU on that board, and will upgrade to a QXGA panel if I can find a good price.

I'm not sure I'd care much about upgradeability if I was selling laptops, but it matters a great deal to me when I'm buying them.
How often can this be addressed with orthogonal finite state machines? (For example: one which embodies whatever business process, and another that embodies errors and failures with IO and the network.)
Even if memes are not genetically heritable, they are still transmissible, and therefore still subject to selection pressures. And the more children these families have, the broader the attack surface for large-family beliefs to infect the next generation.

Moreover, I would suggest that genetics do influence tendencies for adopting some memes over others, especially as regarding the instinct to spread genetic material, which is very ancient. I can't cite any scientific support for this idea, but the likelihood seems very strong.
Malthusianism has been debunked since before any of us were born. Humans are on average wealth producing.
Today's democratic state can be tomorrow's authoritarian regime, and "advances" like these help grease the wheels.
There is a VERY large chance cap gains taxes are going up next year as part of the "fiscal cliff"

Stock changes consistent with this, and executive stock sales consistent with this, mean nothing.
University of California Logo Backlash
In app purchases DO NOT work on iPad version. I paid 3 bucks and the new character is nowhere to be found with ZERO EXPLANATION as to what to do after they took my money.
No up/down voting (so when a discussion get's longer you can track only the most valuable posts).

<nostalgia>But otherwise... I miss Usenet so much. I was raised by Usenet, it shaped my life philosophy, I found my best friend there, not to mention knowledge I got.</nostalgia>

So, maybe time to write a "Usenet 2.0", with:
- up/downvotes,
- markdown,
- tags?
"According to Islamic Shari’a law, a man must shave his mustache, armpits, and pubic hair." you learn something every day..
How about a drinking game variant of Nomic: add an immutable rule that every rule must somehow contain a reference to drinking.
How do traditional religions helps us to understand the world? Claims without evidence don't help to increase understanding.
>> Rather than jumping on the low-carb bandwagon before his ideas are properly tested, the precautionary principle suggests that it might be more reasonable to follow a moderate diet like the Mediterranean diet (or to follow Michael Pollan‘s stunningly simple advice to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”), to limit “empty calories” from simple carbohydrates like sugar, to eat a variety of vegetables and fruits, to choose low calorie density foods that are more filling, to limit meat intake, to limit salt, and to keep looking for behavioral and environmental ways to change our calories-in/calories-out balance.

Ummm, why does the precautionary principle state that we should avoid Diet X (Mediterranean Inuit, Vegetarian,...), rather than Diet Y?

Doesn't the precautionary principle really say that nothing should ever change, since we can always gather more data to further remove risk? (Except, of course, the things the speaker really wants to change, in which case the principle won't be invoked.)
Intuition?

(Yes, it's probably pattern-matching taken to an extreme, but can we quantify it? Why not?)
Computer use wasn't nearly as ubiquitous then. A disruption to MS Office would be several orders of magnitude larger.
"the conventional use of a null return both as an indicator of an error condition and as an actual data item"

Yet, this is a thing that I have never done, nor would never do. Can someone explain to me how it makes sense for this to happen in any other mode than as a genuine error? If I want to indicate an error condition I throw an exception, perhaps even one that I've written a class for. This allows the compiler to check that I've put proper handling in the code to deal with this condition. If I am stupid and I handle it with { e.printStackTrace();) well, this gets me no where... but if I listen to the compiler and write in handling code that repairs the condition then all proceeds nicely, as if the problem has been properly dealt with and all..

Or is it just me?

return null; just says "your problem f*wad" to me...

Not acceptable.
See also pcapy/Impacket: http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?module=Wiki&a...

Scapy and Impacket are basically Python scriptable versions of tcpdump / wireshark. Very useful tools, particularly for measuring a server's behavior without having to modify it for logging, etc. I once used pcapy to log several years of an NTP pool server to make this graph: http://imgur.com/IvRdU
I have been called a troll (or treated like one). I am not. For that and other reasons, I am very reluctant to hang that on this person. HN is an actively hostile environment for some topics. Regardless, most people do not want to have a real serious discussion about a touchy topic like this, under any circumstance. That is the only piece I really take issue with. As someone who believes in a lot of things that would not be respected here, I would happily defend the OP's right to free speech and to have a different mental model. The problem I have is that they are highly unlikely to be willing to engage in serious discussion, therefore they probably should have not bothered to post it here.
> I suspect "the Taliban" are basically a front for an extremely well organized drug cartel.

The Taleban almost obliterated opium production in Afghanistan during their reign: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan...
Lua was never designed to be used for really large code basis. It's a lightweight scripting language on top of C. The entire runtime is written in 20k lines of C. It also is designed to be easily incorporated in C programs. Nginx is a popular server case, while World Of Warcraft is another popular us.

It's really a pretty amazing language, when you embed it you can choose exact what functionality is exposed to the scripts you run in it, so it's pretty good for sandboxes type code (though, imposing memory restrictions is much harder).
3D Printing: Bigger than the internet?
A compiler usually has three parts, usually called front-, middle- and backend. Errors can usually only happen at the frontend (syntax errors, type checking) and rarely at the backend (no enough space for output). During the middle-end, the optimization, no errors can happen. However, the compiler is usually not perfect and might contain bugs. So for debugging purposes some error handling is helpful. Should we use different error handling mechanisms for internal and external errors? For performance reasons, we could remove the internal error handling for release builds.

Another problem is to distuingish between inside and outside. A library usually does some input checking, because the caller is considered "outside". To remove this overhead, the library could document some restrictions and leave it to the users, which usually does not end very well. For example, memcpy requires that src and dst must not overlap, but in reality this causes problems [0]. This only works, if the programmer who writes the caller has the possibility and skills to adapt the callee. In other words, there is no inside-outside difference for her.

[0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c38
194.71.107.15

Who needs DNS?
Text is dispersed too much. I prefer HN because you can read a lot more in a packed space.
I missed the step from 'evolution has endowed social animals with a native sense of morality' to 'morality must be based solely on that sense, or on chimp morality'.

Social animals have innate behavior patterns that let them cooperate. Humans complement those with concepts like Kant's categorical imperative or Rawls's theory, thinking about them and teaching them to succeeding generations. No contradiction.

Main thing is the need for a moral code flows naturally from the need to cooperate, prisoner's dilemma situations etc.

In general, repugnance is not always a good guide to morality, a lot of past and present civilizations do things which might seem repugnant to us but aren't necessarily immoral. Although abhorrence to things like rape is pretty universal.

(humans have pretty odd sex lives and hangups about them. If we ran around naked and had sex numerous times a day rape might not be considered as big a deal.)
Thing is , we don't know if that is due to paleo or due to being mindful of our eating and thus not overeating. So in a way, the diet can mask what really makes you lose weights, I.e. eating less and working out (if you do)

I think the more popular diets stick around because they are balanced enough to not make you sick and complex enough to make you watch how much you eat. The rest is due to personal preferences.
Compared to the average person, you're a bit of an outlier. If you're not racing 100 miles, why would you consume those carbs?

If you've read Taubes' writing, he doesn't say to eliminate all carbs. He does, however, demonize "white" carbs that have become a staple of the modern western diet.

Even Tim Ferriss' "slow-carb diet" features legumes heavily, but eliminates sweets, bread, and other high-glycemic calorie sources.
Russia, China, others seek to define 'government-controlled Internet'
Consciousness, experience, spontaneity, 'the present moment'..

There's a very good book on this called "The Wisdom Of Insecurity" by Alan Watts. It's very short and definitely worth a read if this question interests you.
What does that mean? I intuit that your program has bugs, therefore it has bugs? I intuit that there is an alien race living on Mars that is able to disguise itself as red rocks?

I do not see how intuition gives you anything other than -- maybe, and only maybe -- a smaller set of hypotheses to test scientifically.
As long as the car does, on average, a better job than human drivers, I don't see where the problem is. Sure, there will still be accidents, including some that could be avoided with an alert backup human drivers. But as long as the number is lower than the number we have today, I just don't see where the problem is.
This comment is part of your tryout for a writing position on the show I assume?

Well done. This is exactly the kind of idea that the show is probably going to be ruthlessly mocking.
"Calories out" includes what goes into the toilet.
I thought we were done with Constructivism a long time ago. And scientism is not the biggest problem in a world where climate change, stem cells and creationism debates still exist.

Unfortunately philosophers alienated scientists with their postmodern (de-)constructivism to the point of creating enmities (such as the Sokal affair[1]). At this point, when scientists speak to philosophers, one gets the impression that there's nothing to learn from them that they don't already know (or even worse, that philosophers dance around subjects).

The author seems frustrated that philosophers are no longer the highest authorities, but that's just the current state of philosophy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
He also made Beavis and Butt-head, which is just as classic compared to Office Space IMO.
I expect it would be more realistic than Randy Zuckerberg's show.
John McAfee Wants to Come Home
Your inability to fit it into your belief system is not my problem.
When I began using OOP outside of examples. Things like "MyView" extends from "BaseView" which goes on to extend from "OutputStream" or something like that. And then being able to choose any point in the inheritance tree to create a list to store objects that are exactly as specific as you need them.
Questions don't lead to answers, they lead to more questions. It is the asking of questions and the process of trying to answer them that is valuable.
He likely did a lot of experimenting to discover which words inserted into memory by this bug did something useful, and which ones crashed the system.

So, no thanks. Go fuck up your own universe, I'm still using this one!
I was a vegetarian for 3 years before that and have been very careful with my diet for all of my adult life. I've cooked most of my meals in the past 15 years and have felt a striking contrast in health since I cut carb out of my diet, including weight loss.
I try to remember that line the next time my boss wants me to code an API.
That makes sense, but what doesn't is incredible amount of projects and things (and not only DIY, I've seen some one of commercial designs done exactly in this way) that just embeds whole arduino board connected by bunch of random wires to something (preferably something composed of another relatively expensive breakout boards).
This is exactly it. Hughes writes:

> Similarly, modern theorists imply, the multiverse has necessary being even though any given universe does not.

No. What's implicit is that arguments of necessary being will not ever be found.

As I'm fond of saying (a bit unfairly): a philosopher is someone insightful enough to ask the fundamental questions and thick enough to try to answer them.