skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"you don't know whether or not such an ark ever existed"

I know that there was never an ark as described and used, literally, in the Bible.
It's on page 48-49 of Martin Gardner's "aha! Gotcha" book.
> I had to blink (to capture a "screenshot" in my eyes) to see that the distorted frames were really there.

This definitely isn't universally true. The flickering was immediately obvious to me, and it induced a headache fairly quickly.
Can't wait to apply these insights Patrick. Keep up the teaching/sharing - your material is fantastic.
Wow, that's an off-putting reply. Normally I don't comment on things like that, but you may want to think about coming across a little less.... of an asshole... when you're talking about the company you founded.
In some sense, Pivothead [1], but the quality of the video is considerably lower.

[1] http://pivothead.com/products/eyewear/recon/black-jet
i like this http://cirw.in/blog/lspace
Let me try again - the buzz on twitter I referred to was focussed on how this design represented a bold new way of presenting journalism to an audience.

My point is; to characterise presenting an article in this interface as revolutionary strikes me as incorrect - it instead harks back to a format that we're all familiar with and which works very well. Which, as I wrote, is the book.

The quality of the journalism doesn't come into it; I'm sure it's very good.
125 years ago on this day, S Ramanujan was born- Tribute
You said originally "there's no way for a site to know what DNS servers I use." I proved that is false.

Is it used to geolocate users? No. Is it used to route traffic in most major CDNs? Yes. The two are completely different use cases.

I think this is getting way out of scope for HN. If you are still curious how this stuff works I can email you directly if you'd like.
Impact Based Economy
This might be a good place for collaborating on what an Impact Based Economy looks like and how it works, also how we get there from here.

First Impact is obvious for the most part but really think about Impact for a moment. Impact is the currency of the Universe. Everything, in all of time and space, creates positive and negative impact. Now imagine a society empowered by impact management tools and we are able to use that as a form of currency. Most people will be driven to do the most good. There is this saying, "The smaller the niche, the quicker we get rich", and it is very true. But how does, "The lower we go, the faster we grow". By getting down to measuring and managing impact, we are operating at a level that is ubiquitous through out the universe. At this level of understanding we can truly realize mankind's potential.

I can provide some source links of supportive research and existing ideas that back up the strength of this paradigm shift, and I will gladly share them if people actually show an interest in this.

In the spirit of honesty and full disclosure, I am part of a team working on a system that enables this. We call it Bliss and right now it is a closed sourced project. Our dream though is to be able to open source but we have a lot of learning to do. If anyone is interested in this project, just google "idea sponge".

Either way I hope this sparks some ideas in other peoples minds and gets us moving closer to an Impact Based Economy.

Cheers,
Glenn Barres
Calling Steve Jobs ‘Lucky’ Would Be A Sin
Could you edit that long line somehow? It makes reading harder in my phone.
The other example was in civilization they showed percentage chances of winning a battle. ... This means actually weighting the percentages differently from what the player is told

This is a (persistent) myth. None of the Civilization games actually do this. Civilization 4 is the only game in the series that displays combat prediction as a percentage chance, and the source code for Civ 4's combat engine is publicly released and well understood. (I am a developer on a Civ 4 modding project and familiar with the code.) The earlier Civ games before 4 don't display any kind of combat odds, and Civ 5 has a totally different system that isn't based on winning percentage. So, unless you're talking about some other game like Galactic Civilizations or a mod for Civilization 4, this isn't true.

Your underlying point is certainly true, though: gameplay often is perceived as a better experience with "randomness" smoothed out to produce more uniformly distributed results.
Hi tjasko - that's for the follow-up info. We're on WPEngine as well and now I'm excited to see how much of an improvement we can make using the techniques you covered. Thankyou
Steve Jobs' yacht impounded over pay dispute
Not trying to troll, but doesn't this all boil down to DRM? Why not simply create a DRM-enabled jpeg format that mobile devices support and be done with it?
I'm thinking action movies will benefit. Comedy, less so; depending on the type you might not want it too realistic.
This is about a good idea as DRM. To those who want to get around it, it's easily surmountable. To everybody else, it's a nauseating pain in the ass.
I recommend the fantastic book: The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan. A good read even for someone not into mathematics.
It prevents someone from breaking the site's layout with super-wide lines of preformatted text.
Really cool! Would love to learn the computer vision techniques behind it. (I know N. Dalal is one of the founders---is it all based on HOGs?)
I don't use any of them. They are too too too complex. I'd use Sphix. Edit my own template and run through Sphinx. It's a lot faster to learn Sphinx, hack the template code, and generate the site via Sphinx.
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It included Android and web apps as well. The Shortcuts for Gmail Chrome extension made the read worth it for me.

It was curious that only one Windows app was mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments
To expand on what has already been noted: a good place for fast hashing is when you're using hashing millions of objects. For example, if I wanted to parse thousands of feeds and store items using a unique hash as their key, I'd want a fast hash that's collision resistant (for the uniqueness part) and one that's fast (for the millions of objects). With password hashing (KDFs, as tptacek noted), the collision resistance is useful, but we want to keep it fairly slow to avoid being able to brute force attacks.
A Popper-compliant claim must be phrased as an invitation to look for counterexamples

No, a Popper-compliant claim must be falsifiable. It does not need to be phrased in any particular way.
Ah, conference manoeuvring. It's as old as politics. Sounds like the Spanish did everyone a favour by asking whether "the feeling of the room" was a vote or not, because gosh it'd be easy to "accidentally" mark it down as a vote in the minutes.

Other tactics I recognised from my student politics days:

* Proposing a batshit crazy option, then offering a "compromise". See also: anchoring tactics.

* Having various scapegoats who can be sacrificed as the bad guy if and when something comes to light.

* Springing documents at the last minute, so there's no time for detailed review. Good old false-sense-of-urgency.

* Wearing attendees down by meeting into the wee hours of morning.

* Whack-a-mole motions: keep bringing up the same proposal in different language. One of them might eventually slip through, especially if you "accidentally" lock out those opposed or send them to the wrong address.

Speaking tactically, it seems from this account that the USA didn't work the conference the way it ought to have. I will now go on to be a condescending ass (as befits someone with student politics experience).

As soon as it was clear what was afoot (a power-grab), you can safely assume that your counterparties are not acting in good faith and you begin to deliberately disrupt proceedings.

For example: endless points of order. Bring them up on the slightest technicality. Get an ally to do it.

Constant procedural motions. Move that the subject be tabled. Move foreshadowing. Move that the speaker be no longer heard. Move that the chairman be replaced. Move that the meeting be adjourned. Move that the meeting be relocated. Move everything in the book that can be moved.
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Agreed.

A competitor is Conture. Search devinsupertramp on YouTube to see a few videos they have sponsored him to make with the cameras. I think one is of a blob.
Amazing cameras. Super affordable. And, the amount of marketing consumers do for them is insane.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a competent good guy with a gun.

An incompetent good guy with a gun is either dead or indistinguishable from a bad guy.
Does anyone remember flipcam?
This should now be supported with Giraffe.
The GoPro for extreme sports is way above any digital consumer video camera, add to that a good price point and you get a winner.
Congrats to them.
I wasn't arguing if one was good or bad over the other either. If we are looking at alternatives, all alternatives should be discussed, and I took it upon myself to bring sourceforge into the discussion.

>> may have hit the nail on the head with the cultural difference between "Java/C++/etc.", where downloading some sort of artifact is a more common use case than reading code, and "RoR or javascript", where it is the opposite.

I think it took a few back and forth replies before I realised that this could be the main point ;-)

On the whole, reading source online for gaining knowledge is possible on all the repositories, but I noticed that there is definitely a bias/inertia favouring github on most discussions(). Hence my overall thread.

() perhaps due to the fact that this is HN, where the audience/many discussions revolve around internet based startups, that in turn focusses on using RoR/javascript heavily.
Thank you for replying. Did you ask permission or forgiveness, to use the common expression? (Did you reach out before doing it or after?)

I find if I do work and then approach people, people tend to be guilty about revealing their true feelings regarding the situation lest they offend me due to the work I've put in. That's the only reason I ask.
There are plenty, but none matches the video quality/rugged-nes/price/ergonomics combination that the GoPro offers.
I was looking and Enlightenment when I was considering a desktop for my Arch Linux install. I think this iteration looks quite a bit nicer, but I'm concerned about adding bloat to my system. After building it, I am pretty unwilling to add stuff unless I really need to. The system is also running on VM.

I'm currently running LXDE. What would Enlightenment offer me LXDE doesn't (aside from a nicer-looking interface)?
That's probably a valid concern, but it's at best a fringe requirement, I would suspect, compared to the huge number of people who would want a snappier browser. Electrolysis provided some benefits here, because less parts of the browser would run in the same processes and threads.

Unlike the quip about working on Rust above, this is a matter of prioritization of effort. I would not qualify myself as experienced enough to make the decisions to run a project as large and with as many users as Firefox, but I don't think that Mozilla is wrong here.
They never saw the market. They didn't even know it existed.

Woodman is a surfer—the market was right in front of him. He saw a need, and he solved it with a very simple, high quality device tailored to that specific need.

A better argument there has never been for solving real problems with real solutions, rather than trying to essentially trick people into believing they both have a problem and need a solution. The latter is possible, but the former is a far better path to success.
Enlightenment is designed to run on embedded devices so I don't understand where you get the idea it's bloated.
Is there a market for to-do lists? How large is it?

Who is currently paying for to-do list apps?
A good tribute to the genius he was
I'm not sure why you think flywheels would be a better energy store than a bag of rocks.

Flywheels have a lot of engineering hurdles that can't be met for $5:
- they need to be well-lubricated, clear of dust (which I imagine to be a problem in some of the environments they're trying to sell to)
- they need to be perfectly balanced, or the shifting center of gravity will vibrate the housing - sapping away precious energy.
- they need to run at high, ever-decreasing speeds, which means generators that can extract a constant power level at different speeds
How would a different (DRM'd) format do anything to prevent screenshots?
sounds like a programmer took a philosophy of math & science class and didn't fully grasp it
I don't mean "bloated" in the sense of size, but having things in there I don't really need. I sort of like having minimal UI and don't want to install it and think "oh my god! how do I uninstall that?".

I'm asking this in all seriousness, as I was, and still am, half sold on using it.
Cloudera Impala uses LLVM to generate code optimized for the specific query it is running (basically compiling away all the generalness around how large records are, etc). Some kind of native code generation is apparently standard practice in high-performance query engines that are written in languages that don't have a JIT.
I wonder what's special about the number 125?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)
I for one am glad you did what you did and then shared. The designs will help me learn more and get inspired.

Thank you.
Hmm...maybe cheating on exams?
Could this have a negative side-effect on people with photosensitive epilepsy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy#Bucha_...
ya agree on that, remember reading the same article, probably not on blogger though
I predict that a film's frame rate will become simply another choice for the cinematographer to make. Just like different film stocks and processing techniques are employed for different genres (e.g. bleach bypass in war movies), perhaps the FPS will indeed become genre-specific like you suggest. Debate about whether 48 is superior to 24 is misplaced -- it's an aesthetic choice, and the fluid movement that comes with additional frames works well in some scenarios but not in others. Many shots in The Hobbit looked terrible, perhaps demonstrating that 48 is not the ideal frame rate for an epic fantasy, but for some films it would be quite suitable.
Second this! Here's a good post about how it works:

http://www.arcfn.com/2011/12/javascript-secrets-of-worrydrea...
Ask HN: How critical is it for a Twitter account to match the domain?
For example, if my awesome domain is superduperthingy.com and it sadly happens that @superduperthingy is taken, should I scrap the domain and try again?<p>In this case, we plan on using Twitter as a major avenue for engaging and growing our brand.
I admit to simplifying a bit, but I don't think the sociological turn in the philosophy of science is relevant to the original question.

The point is that scientific propositions are evaluated based on their predictive success in observations. The propositions of philosophy are not intended to be predictive statements about experimental outcomes, which is why the original poster did not see how philosophy contributes to science.
> Curry-Howard executable version of the claim

I don't see how the code provided has any relation to the Curry-Howard correspondence, which is a statement relating types and proofs.
"Also be aware that this page is large and is meant to provide a lot of important information. It is not for the tl;dr; (too long, didn't read) set of people with minimal attention span. It contains lots of that scary thing called "text" and "information". It is assumed that you can make use of the education you have been provided with that allows you to read and comprehend what has been written."

I rolled my eyes at that one. This is an example of the pretentiousness and snark directed at users that people complain about in open-source projects; especially Linux-related ones.
Certainly a very engaging design for a personal portfolio
There are tons of GoPro competitors:

Contour Contour+2, ContourRoam

Sony Action Cam (HDR-AS10 and HDR-AS15)

Polaroid XS7, XS20 and XS100

CamOne (camonetec.com)

AEE BlackEye XTR (Magicam SD21) (www.aee.com/en/)

Tachyon (tachyoninc.com)

UnmannedTech FPV HD camera

Tons of unknown asian brands like 808 #16 720p micro camera ($8 to $40).
Wasn't 1729 also the name of the team Waterhouse was part of in Cryptonomicon?
I realize you are being funny but what you seem to have missed (or perhaps you haven't experienced it) are public areas with exactly zero power outlets and several "charging stations."

Granted airports and what not are slowly coming around but having a 'red' charging cord which not only worked in your AC charger but could also be plugged into a random charging station and "do the right thing without putting you at risk" that would be moderately handy gizmo.
No bloat at all. I installed the enlightenment17 package from the extras reposiroty on archlinux a few minutes ago to check it out. Installed it, tried it by having "exec start_enlightenment" in .xinitrc followed by the running the command startx. Uninstalled it using the command sudo pacman -Rns enligtenment17.
>I sort of like having minimal UI and don't want to install it and think "oh my god! how do I uninstall that?".

You know you can install it in a directory and just remove that and it's gone, right?
Science, by Phil Plait
pg says that founders should be relentlessly resourceful. Well GoPro founder Nick Woodman is definitely resourceful: he raised initial capital ($30k) partially by selling bead-and-shell necklaces! http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/gopros-incredible-small...
Just got my Hero3, it's brilliant! :)
(and living here in Taiwan, Foxconn's CEO is regarded pretty much as a business hero by the locals)
It's looking like they changed the link after you posted, changing "sorry" to "were-sorry".

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/were-sorry-mike-were-also-a...
...and hell freezes over! :-)

Congratulations to the E17 team!
not necessarily. For e.g. I use GamingIOcom while others lllike Razer use their branding like @CultOfRazer or @TeamRazer

You can do the same. In fact you should make it more exciting than the domain name by using a combo of two words and not too long.

Like
@GetSuper
@SuperDuper
@SuperThing
@AllThingSuper
This is nice but does not prevent somebody using another smartphone to take a picture or video clip.

Mission Impossible had the best one and with that once you have read the message your phones battery could catch fire. Even then you could not garantee anybody else filming it.

Still nice idea and it does hinder screenshots, though they could just take a few and grab both frames to combine.
It depends on the type of LED. Back when I was playing with them, Luxeons had a 180 degrees beam pattern while Crees were 70 degrees and neither had a built in lens like the cheap ones do (they used some kind of gel cover).

They really should consult some lighting experts or flashlight junkies to get the best bang for the buck.
I spent the $1.99 it and found it to be well worth it. This review at cultofmac.com pretty much sums it up for me:

"Unbound Is The Best Dropbox Photo Browser I Have Ever Used"
http://goo.gl/ttxl2
How many people can lift 30kg 2 meters up? How about doing it continuously?

You're also forgetting that it require human energy to power it, which requires food, which is usually more expensive than batteries or gasoline or kerosine.
I think the fact that I cant drop that article onto a computer and have it tell me if its correct highlights the problem the author is trying to make.

I was also under the impression that programs like Mathimatica enabled you to do this with mathematic equations. But I guess for many they would take a long time to prove.

I suppose a easy way to sum up the article is we have a mathematic symbol for infinity, yet we could never compute that on a compter as you could always add a value greater than zero.
A lot of people use "SuperCoolApp" or similar when their app is called "SuperCool" as well.
Yes, there is a point where the doubling has to stop, but what I'm taking issue with is that people tend to point to current physical limitations as evidence that Moore's law is already over, or nearly dead. And at any given time in the history of computers, you could look at the fastest processors and say "they're bumping up against limit X". But until X is Bremmermann's limit[1], that is not an indication that progress will slow.

Incidentally, if Moore's law were to continue and it were as simple as "speed per mass doubles every 18 months", it would still take somewhere on the order of 300 years for us to approach Bremmermann's limit.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit
Why did you uninstall it?
Yes steve Jobs is influential and we all like him, and sure it's great to hear news about him...but this is just tabloids...it really ought not to be posted on hacker news
There was a really interesting article on Forbes about this a couple of months ago. Ultimately, only a receiver for an AR-15 was printed, but it is scary thinking about the possibilities:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2012/07/28/the-end-of-...
Have you tried no desktop at all, for even less bloat? I went from not installing X at all, to installing it with a desktop, then back down to X with just a simple window manager. I don't miss the desktop.

I'd love to go completely sans graphics but it makes basic web application testing problematic. And in the end, the bloatphobia is not warranted - just a curious pastime.
See also a non settlement-system or asset-linked proposal for this problem space currently under development at http://www.ifex-project.org/our-proposals/ifex/

The current, github forkable proposal is available at https://github.com/globalcitizen/ifex-protocol
Where did you get the 60x number from? Using the proccessor's 32-bit primitive operations, you can treat 64-bit arithmatic as 2-digit arithmetic. If you take advantage of the carry registers, it seems like you should have no more than about 3x slow down.
Best software spec is a polished mock.
Can we write 64-bit but support only up to 4GB? You can certainly run 64-bit Windows 7 on 2GB machines. So why didn't Firefox just support that? One single installable. The internal might be messy, but still worth asking why not?
NEW anonymous website 
This is something I knocked up, thought it would give people an interesting way to communicate online, better then Facebook or Twitter. It's simple, you write anything you want and it then appears on the homepage. Simple and effective. Say what ever you want. Please forward to URL on. Thanks. Love the truth! x
Or RFID. If you actually want to build secure RFID devices, you need really low-power crypto.
That way is longer without reason, you must first define in the function scope both variables error and result; the latter only receives assignation when no error has been generated.

function doAsyncCall(callback){
var error, result;
// .. do some async stuff
// assign error if there was one or result when everything went fine
if( !error ){ result = data; }
callback(error, result);
}
Their website looks nicer than their DE. I've always found blackbox/fluxbox/xfce a nicer minimal fit
There has been some progress in 3D CPU design. Ivy Bridge, for example, uses a 3D transistor design although the CPU itself is still flat.
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Seriously, if your image content being stolen by screenshots is causing a problem for you, you should think about why its being screenshot in the first place and solve the problem at its root instead of playing the cat/mouse DRM game.
Anyone have any idea if the tiling module supports arbitrary arrangement like i3wm, or is it stack-based like dwm?

Edit: Ok, the tarball is 30MB, no way I'm going to be able to use this. My curiosity is purely academic now.