skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting BBC Radio Four programme about this kind of stuff specifically about the mind / brain: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016wzs9)

I'm cautious about children. I've seen plenty of boys learn a long list of (for example) dinosaur names. Is this something I should try to avoid with my son, or should I encourage it, or should I just remain neutral? I have no idea.

I do know that I want to encourage him to think about relationships between things, rather than just learning a list of names. (For example; "That tree is evergreen, which means it keeps its leaves all year round. It does that because [...]" rather than "That's a Leylandii".
On a similar note, my own choice is Egan's Diaspora. Most of the characters are sentient software, and it explores some of the implications of being able to fork oneself, or rewrite your software. On top of that the physics is, to the best of my mildly-educated knowledge, an extension of General Relativity consistent with what we already know; and part of it takes place in a six-dimensional spacetime.

The only other Egan I've read is his collection Luminosity, which was similarly impressive. I'm definitely going to check him out further.
Warrants are required for mail less than 180 days old.
It hasn't got anything to do with morals; it's about ideology.
Seems to be missing the obvious; ruby and python (with some framework sugar) will mostly allow you there quicker than writing java with its framework sugar. I guess the trade off is rather quick to write as opposed to quick to execute. Interestingly, i also hear my colleagues say this about C and Java. Seems to be a recurring question of human understanding vs machine, no?
Ghost In The Wires was definitely my favourite read of 2012. I'm keen to read a few more in your list. Ta for posting!
Even you admit that it's not a 100% chance, which is my point -- we're using an IP address to identify the studio as the responsible party here, which we frown upon for home users.

You talk about the stuff that all defense attorneys do in the residential cases, then say for some reason a corporation should be better equipped to handle it. Which, maybe there's some relevancy to that, but still the root point is: we're using an IP address to identify a responsible party, which isn't a 100% science.

This also isn't a trial, it's a published article.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=meta+tag+trademark
There's a point in TDKR where Alfred is talking about pure evil rising out of a pit, ostensibly referring to Bane, yet Nolan keeps his camera focused on the batsuit rising out of the depths. Considering that Batman is essentially the villain of the saga, it is as nice a detail as Nolan's hero Gotham needs/deserves line from TDK, and just one of many such touches in the movie.

So whether it constituted the best film of the year is debateable (I personally think so), but TDKR had hands-down the smartest script of the year. Everything from its character doubles, to its non-obvious symbolism (St. Swithin for the win!) and its political and literary allusions (Tale of Two Cities, etc.) gave it real intellectual punch. Would that we get a lot more films like it!
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
Oh I see, so you can use emacs to build server apps. That's clever, but then again, is there a special advantage in running the app from emacs?
The kids started to setup their iPods just while, we, the parents were having coffee and deserts. Then it happened. My kid comes up to me and says something like "I have all your contacts on my iPod".

I think you are skipping the step where your kid asks you for your username and password, or logs in on your Mac using your account.

To your question: as others said: data syncing is through an iCloud account and app rights are also linked to an iCloud account, but the two need not be identical.

The process of getting there is a bit convoluted, but I do not see Apple streamline it, as it would make it too easy to pirate apps. If I had a paid app out there, I would not be happy if it typically got shared between, say, 3 users.
So you won't define this social contract that you (you somehow also representing the society) are holding me to (the contract I'm supposedly violating or ignoring somehow by disagreeing with something you said, or having a different P.O.V.), nor will you enumerate what my white privileges are; both of which you have brought up. Because if you did so, you'd be falling prey to my (my!) tactics. And E.O.C to me too.
We are wrong more often than we are right, but the scientific method has proven itself a powerful error-correction tool.
As the founder AND developer behind two of the largest (maybe they are the largest) free typing tutors on the net (http://www.typingweb.com and http://www.nitrotype.com) I wanted to point out that there are more enjoyable ways to learn to type now :)

And I built Nitro Type's real time game engine in Node, which I learned about as an avid HN reader. Anyways happy holidays everyone.
Government hawks are well aware of this and they will use every chance they get to take the advantage.

Maybe it's time we took a stand -- no communication unless it's encrypted or face-to-face.
I can confirm that Pattern Recognition is (in my memory) even better than Ready Player One, which is also an amazing book. Thanks for the others, didn't know about them.
Actually, I'd say that in mathematics, things are provably true given that the initial assumptions are true. However, mathematics does not so far as I know deal with the truth of those initial assumptions (axioms), it simply accepts them as true.

Where this gets interesting is that you can say, what if this axiom was not true? Let's assume it's not. And then possibly come up with a whole new system of mathematics (like non-euclidean geometry) which may turn out to have actual use in previously unsolvable problems.
Apparently Victoria would like her web site to remain a Secret.
I've seen similar restrictions in other websites and I could argue that the lawyers writing these TOS are either clueless about SEO or very aware of how SEO works (I know I am citing the 2 opposite but I'm explaining why below).

Clueless about SEO:
I have no idea why a website would like to limit another site from linking to it. It is counterintuitive and would likely go against the same site's SEO strategy.

Aware of how SEO works:
I could argue that lawyer knows how SEO works and are just trying to cover their assess if they'll need a link removed in the future (I doubt they'll never use that clause legally against someone unless they really need to). Why would they need to? I've heard of some black hat SEO stories where certain individuals would link with a farm of sites that are either flagged or irrelevant to another site all in hope to get it flagged or down in google ranks. I'm not sure if that would work and could question the motivation of these individuals but I've even personally witnessed trackbacks and links from "porn" sites and irrelevant sites to my website and blog. These lawyers could potentially use that clause to sue that individual without having to prove there have been any damages from the links.

I would go with option A however since I'm not sure this is the case here.
>> Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong

Now to which half does this fact belong?
Looks like they are implicitly permitting google via robots.txt:

http://www.victoriassecret.com/robots.txt

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /commerce/application?namespace=shoppingBag&origin=myMain.jsp&event=link.viewBag
Disallow: /commerce/logoff.vs
Disallow: /commerce/signin.vs
Disallow: /commerce/registration.vs
Disallow: /commerce/logon.vs
Disallow: /commerce/addressbook/index.jsp
Disallow: /commerce/changePasswordJsf.vs

Sitemap: http://www.victoriassecret.com/sitemap.xml
Why isn't apple making it more clear that it's supposed to be one account per person? A lot of us technical users are already aware of that, but its clearly a detail a lot of people miss. Couldn't apple put a slip in the box that says "make a new account for your kids"?
If "works anywhere on any device" means it crypto code is loaded over Javascript without browser extensions, that's a goal that cannot share a project with "make it impossible for admins to read email even with a subpoena".

The reason it's 2012 and there's still no universal solution for encrypting email is that it's a hard problem. If you care about the security of your mail, you should use GPG.
The two you need to watch:

- Get the Gringo

- Grabbers

The rest:

- Cloud Atlas was...interesting.

- Pitch Perfect was the absolute worst, but hilarious. In a similar vein: For a Good Time, Call.

- Argo and Beast of the Southern Wild are overhyped in my opinion.

- Life of Pi was great (make sure to read the book at some point).

- End of Watch was better than advertised.

- Dark Knight Rises was a solid conclusion to the series.

- Ted was funny, but doesn't work so well on repeat views.

- Other movies you should watch: The new Total Recall. Safety Not Guaranteed. Lawless. The Amazing Spiderman (awesome series reboot)
Are you claiming that the idea that AI will eventually be smarter than humans and thus render human work mostly useless, a religious idea?
mew , we all lived the Java/JEE nightmare , and pragmatic programmers got us out of that mess, with no desire to go back to that stuff. I'll take ruby/active record flaws over the "bloated and unecessary entreprise pattern" code anytime.
1. Clojure: I should have learned this year(studied some, though).

2. Study more design patterns.

3. Some haskell/erlang.
I suppose it says something that Argo and Moonrise Kingdom are the only movies that I can remember really liking in 2012. Flight was also memorable, if you're into character dramas. I've also heard really good things about Searching for Sugar Man, but I didn't get a chance to see it in theaters.

Avengers was solid entertainment, but I wouldn't make a special trip to see it. Most of the other big releases with nerd draw were disappointments: Lincoln was overhyped Oscar-bait, Brave was forgettable, and the last Dark Knight movie was just bad (below average for summer movies, which is a low bar).
Could monitoring be the same searching? If so, that legislation is unconstitional!
What? They make it very clear. They ask you to book directly with these hotels. What more were you looking for?
This comment is just 400% wrong. And to make the claim that the OP was uneducated just misleads everyone here on HN. I'm someone who has run E85 blends in my 2006 turbo Subaru for the last 4 years. I can personally attest to E85's increased stability and cooling power from my time personally playing and tuning on a chassis dynamometer and gathering real world data. I would prefer E100 if they could sell that at the pumps too: it simply reduces the chance of pre-ignition or dual flame-front events from the petroleum blend.

I think as scientists and engineers it's extremely important we separate the empirical facts from the political propaganda.

Flagged.
"Deleting" an iCloud account only removes it from the phone, it doesn't delete the account itself. It's just poorly worded in the UI.
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The scientific method and the community of science that surrounds it is truly a powerful machine - able to take the worst aspects of human nature, sailing atop a river of garbage specked with half-wrong answers, and spin that mix into the gold of technology. It doesn't matter what your right to wrong to nonsense ratio is when it comes to deciphering the world; so long as you have the will to progress and your sifting mechanism is good enough, accumulating a whole pile of right is just a matter of time.

The front line of science is a messy place; a mostly wrong messy place, as any of us who have spent time there know. A recent study claimed massive error rates across all scientific papers - which is not a surprise to scientists. The closer to the edge of knowledge you come, the more wrong you'll find - a great frothing sea of wrong, enthusiastically generated by scientists in search of nuggets of right. It's all part of the process, and you have to step back from the details in order to see where the process is taking you. In any complex field, and biotechnology and medicine are about as complex is it gets outside astrophysics, validating truth takes time. Scratch any unanswered question and it'll bleed papers and reviews, a dozen for any given position on the topic.
Misleading title, post is an advertisement for 3d printing. Hates the state of 3d printing, building 3d printing vending machines a la red box.

That being said, it's a really cool idea. But post title is obnoxious IMHO.
It's probably a copy-paste but here's a use case:

A bunch of bad/flagged sites that link to victoria secret in attempt to get it flagged too and get sandboxed by google.
This looks like a promising idea: http://bitmessage.org/

Edit: Send me a message if you get it running and I'll reply, BM-2nftGCPpQ9HtjwJgbZfSFhPHqiJbJK7pwvi
You could make something that matters:

http://matter.vc/
No, I'm claiming that the idea that progress toward this can be predicted and that the event will occur around 2045 is a religious idea.

Like all of the best religious ideas, it is one that came about by a man faced with his own mortality.

On a side note, and this is opening a huge philosophical can of worms, I'm not convinced of the utility in merging our intelligence to machine intelligence in such a scenario, either from the point of view of overall utility (what do they gain from our meeker intelligence?) or from the point of view of our own "existence" actually being near-immortalized.

Stated simply, if you could make a perfect copy of my brain into a 20 year old clone of myself (I'm 39) and that clone were created such that it didn't have to worry about issues like telomere shortening or any of the other processes theorized to cause issues for clones, but after the process was completed the original copy of me would be terminated, I wouldn't take that deal and I doubt many other people would either regardless of how they feel about the theoretical ability to duplicate an exact copy of their own consciousness. Ultimately, the copy of me that is me wants to continue on but cannot.

I will die.
Your first post in this thread was empty. Unfortunately there is a kind of "pile on" effect, where all your posts in this thread get downvoted even if those posts don't deserve a downvote.

Hopefully that will correct after a few hours - other people will upvote any incorrectly downvoted comments.
Obnoxious it is - thanks for the support for the idea, though!
On the contrary, is very relevant and this joke is an old one used many times in the codec community.

Theora was supposed to be the unencumbered alternative, then it was VP8 and now it's Daala. Unfortunately, all these and even closed/patented codecs have just muddied the waters rather than being the "alternative" that solves it all.

Getting adoption of codecs is much harder in today's world than it ever was. The online, mobile and browse worlds are so divided than no company would ever want to give another an advantage by adopting the other companies codec.
> 2. Workspaces / Virtual Desktops

Don't worry, just install gnome 3 and you'll have your crappy OSX desktop again.
I agree, if you dont have a product up and running at first place, how your non existence app scales doesnt matter.
I'm kind of amazed that no one has said 'you have to watch Looper,' yet, so i'll say it: you have to watch Looper. It's the smartest time travel movie I've ever seen.
Talking donkey is described as a miracle, meaning donkeys weren't used to talk even back then :) Miracles by definition are unscientific, unpredictable, unreproducible and contrary to all our previous experience.

But leaving donkeys aside, we are not usually thinking with extreme scientific rigor, because that would be too expensive and, frankly, wasteful. Frequently heuristics - also known as cognitive biases, prejudices, etc. - serve as well enough for everyday life. Of course, sometimes you need much better precision and then you have to know how to do it.
Think again.

Types provide one important thing: static guarantees. Compile-time type checking can only work with strong, expressive data types, and ADTs provide a very good way of enforcing that. (Together with Haskell's `newtype` keyword, which really is nothing more than a convention, if you will, a different way of expressing a type synonym, but with the static guarantee that when you make up a `newtype Name = Name Text`, you cannot use `Name` wherever you can use `Text`, but you can access the `Text` `Name` is a wrapper for easily.

This makes it much easier for your intent to be expressed directly in the code, namely in the data types. Just compare:

makePerson :: Name -> Age -> Gender -> Address -> Person
makePerson' :: Text -> Int -> Text -> Text -> Person
Of course, but that fear that enables the war is the same fear the war is meant to eliminate, the fear caused by the initial terror attack. 911 scared the hell out of people, enough to allow some dreadful laws to be passed, but out of fear people do stupid things to try and feel safe again. The TSA doesn't make us safe, but it made most feel safer, at least initially.
This is not the movie you think it will be and I think most people give it a cursory lookover and think it's a generic horror film. It is more than just a cheap horror film and definitely worth watching.
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> During setup, create or sign into the kid's own iCloud account.

Depending on the age of your children, that may be a little tricky. Kids have to be 13 or older to have an apple account, as I discovered when I ran into this same problem earlier today.
since no one mentioned it: "beasts of the southern wild".

A few interesting documentaries, but I am not sure when they came out.
We are in full agreement. Parley.co does not use Javascript crypto or browser plugins, ie. it is not webmail. (There is a webmail component that can be used to send messages which are encrypted at the server, and can allow synchronous two-way communications for logged in Parley users that is not end-to-end, but it is only provided as a stop-gap and the trade-offs are clearly presented. Discussing it usually ends up as a distraction, since our core offering is based on installing standalone clients.)

We'll be posting more information about the whole thing soon, but if anyone has any questions I'm always happy to discuss what we're doing either by email (in my profile) or (at risk of derailing the thread) here.

EDIT: Also, Parley uses OpenPGP. People who are happy with their PGP/GPG setup should continue using it, but the goal is to create a compatible service which those people would feel comfortable recommending to less tech-savvy friends.
Definitely a good idea - 3D printing vending machines is intriguing enough to garner interest on HN/elsewhere without the misleading blog post.
Eh, my reaction to it was quite the opposite. There is even this scene when it's clearly proclaimed that the scriptwriter has simply given up on maintaining any consistency whatsover, resorting to "anything goes" approach instead.

And funnily enough, the movie isn't really about time travel.
Clearly clickbait

Your service is interesting, but your method of advertising is disingenuous
For sure, I genuinely think it's a great idea and I hope you succeed.

As far as the writing goes though, I never understand why people try to generate interest through negativity and deceit. I think the post would be more inspiring if it went something like:

"I love 3d printing. I love 3D printing so much that I'm coming up with innovative ways to make it cheaper and more ubiquitous. Please join me on my quest to bring 3D printing to everyone..."

It's more genuine, less condescending, and isn't a lie. After all, you don't hate 3D printing in the least, not one bit. You're in love with it and are dedicating a portion of your life to making it better.
You can argue the opposite of anything, and many do; doesn't mean anything. 911 for example, caused the fear, which then was used to pass draconian laws, but those laws were meant to both seize power and alleviate the fear, to the point of implementing things like the TSA, which aren't real protection, but make people feel less fear.
> Is there really actual fear today in a western country?

Have you met the republican party? Their entire base lives off fear.

> I think actual fear would have to come from injuries to someone you know and can feel empathy towards.

It's not fear of death or injury, but fear of "other", of change, of being marginalized.
I can highly recommend "Accelerando". It's one of my all time favorite books. I've read it a half dozen times, and I'll probably read it again, just not right away.

I also liked his Eschaton series, "Singularity Sky", and "Iron Sunrise".

In spite of loving "Accelerando", I've never been able to get into his non-hard science fiction series, like the Laundry series, or Merchant Princes.
Agree with all of it. Especially Dark Knight Rises.

It was so bad that it reflected badly on the previous two films. I realized at the end of Rises how poor the character development was throughout Dark Knight, and getting (re)confused about the authenticity of Bruce Wayne's motivations in Batman Begins.
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> "In the past half-century, all of the foregoing facts have turned out to be wrong.... As facts are made and remade with increasing speed, Arbesman is worried that most of us don’t keep up to date."

It can take a lot longer than a half-century to catch up.

For example, it's surprising how often I hear people talk about "exponential" population growth, which was the going theory in 1798 [0] but known to be inaccurate by 1838 [1]. I hear similarly out-of-date comments on topics ranging from evolution to Bible manuscripts with shocking regularity.

People sometimes learn "facts" from trusted friends or preferred authority figures, who learned them the same way, going back generations without anybody thinking to double-check. I suspect the emotional cost of finding out a friend was wrong provides just enough friction to keep people from looking things up, even in a world with wikipedia and snopes at our fingertips.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Principle_of_Po...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#In_ecology:_m...
I interpret this as a roundabout way of saying you haven't seen Primer, which is smart probably to the point of alienating Joe Moviegoer, but perfect for the HN crowd. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/
Great job on using a hipsteresque title to get people to look at your stuff. It looked as valuable as most posts that start with 'n amount of things I wish I knew before xyz', 'new startup that lets you bla bla bla' so I didn't read it.

If you don't feel like adding value, please don't do anything at all and curl up somewhere, disconnected from all things internet.
i like the cute embedding approach (let users write sql directly in an sexpr and then transform it to sql in a macro) but i am wondering if there are any corner cases that break. for example, in postgres, names are quoted using (if i remember correctly) double quotes, while strings are single quotes. would that cause problems?

[edit: swapped double and single, sorry]
Moonrise Kingdom was the best. The Hobbit was great.

Looper was good, but the ending wasn't logically consistent I think.

Since no one has mentioned it, I would recommend Dredd. It was a good movie going experience. Don't know it would make good viewing outside a cinema, though.

Cloud Atlas was interesting, but not as insightful as it was made out to be.