skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be easier if you warp your viewpoint across multiple frames of reference. The intent of the car (to travel) is a human mental construct, which can be independent of its physical properties.

There are the physical properties of parts, driving higher level mechanical systems, all working together to create an even higher level model with its own emergent properties (speed, handling, fuel economy, etc.).

The ability to discern the intent of a car is an emergent property of our culture. We grow up seeing wheels in motion all around us, houses have garages, roads and parking lots exist. A car can just as easily be viewed as a mobile shelter or a pizza transport machine.

Similarly, a pile of rocks may actually have intent in some cultures. A pair of sticks can map to eating utensil after all.
Ask HN: Best Movies you saw in 2012?
Trying to make a list of all the good movies I missed.
We could always use help.

http://www.plainsite.org

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This is a really great and inspiring read.

The key takeaways, at least for me, were:

Your parents play a huge part in establishing a primary path through life for you. His mother worked hard and did what was necessary to give him a chance to concentrate on learning, to appreciate books, and to give him opportunities to grow and explore his world.

Your integrity, earned respect, and power of networks and relationships can't be emphasized enough. At almost every critical junction in his life, it was a personal relationship or the recommendation of people who had respect for his abilities and skills that opened a door and led to better opportunities. That says a lot, not just about the impression he's made on others (purposely or not), but on the confidence his friends, peers, and acquaintances had in him. That was no easy feat, tho some people can do it without effort. It is interesting that he remembers so many names, all the way back to teachers in elementary school. I may not have the best criteria for "great people" but to me, someone who makes the effort to remember key people in their lives for decades is in turn worth remembering.

Grab opportunities. Put in the work. I know this should be a given, but I know it can still be daunting. He took jobs he had no experience in and he moved to better opportunities as he saw fit. Passion can manifest in a kind of restlessness, and properly tapped, can mean the difference between mediocrity and absolute fulfillment.

Lastly, the most important part I think is the acknowledgment that you don't get to be where you are alone. Yes, one has to have that rare combination of drive, talent, intelligence, charisma, and everything else that makes up a certain formula for success, but "luck" can also be the result of stirring the pot just right. Being at the right place at the right time can also be attributed to having enough people recognize all the memorable and remarkable qualities one has that will make them remember to recommend you for a position or even just to point you out as an authority on a particular subject. The people around you are just as important to success.
The article says:

In 2005, the physician and statistician John Ioannides published “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” in the journal PLoS Medicine. Ioannides cataloged the flaws of much biomedical research, pointing out that reported studies are less likely to be true when they are small, the postulated effect is likely to be weak, research designs and endpoints are flexible, financial and nonfinancial conflicts of interest are common, and competition in the field is fierce. Ioannides concluded that “for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias.”

If Ioannidis' findings apply to areas of science other than biomedical research (where there is also competition, pressure to publish, conflict of interest, etc.), then most scientific knowledge is already false at the time that it's published; you don't have to wait 45 years for it to become false like this article claims.

Here are some references to Ioannidis' work:

- The cited PLoS paper (2005): http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...

- A less technical article in The Atlantic: "Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science" (2010): http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam...

Edit: Corrected spelling of Ioannidis' name; it's misspelled in the article.
The war on terror positively thrives on fear.

Terrified people make stupid mistakes, sign away their rights with reckless abandon in the hope that it will allay their fears. No electorate is so easy to manipulate as one that is afraid.
After reading that excerpt, that Turner guy is crazy. Putting that on my reading list. Thanks!
This clause itself may be void depending on where you are. You might be liable by law, but what's the point having the clause in the TOS where you can never prove that the infringer ever saw the TOS, let alone accepted it.
Vision and Brain by Jim Stone
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/vision-and-brain-0

A computational neuroscience approach to the visual system. Changed the way I think about perception and cognition.
For a project I'm working on, I wanted to aggregate together a technology news from tons of sources. I felt that it would be worthwhile open-sourcing this technology

1) because I think the plugin-based approach is neat, and worth showing people.

2) because I'd love to have other people contribute crawlers for their favorite news sources.
Half of the facts are wrong may be a little steep. Do we breathe air? Does it contain oxygen? I'm sure some enthusiast will give me the composition of air (inc some stat on nitrogen:). There are many trivial facts that we know with confidence.

However, in a recent conversation with my mother, I asked her about a talking donkey in the bible. she confirmed the reference saying "the lord works in mysterious ways" and "donkeys could talk back then". Maybe there is some truth that 1/2 of our facts are wrong... If you skip religion, I view my mother as a very clever woman who is very astute with business. She was indoctrinated at a young age.
> Arbesman notes that “the number of neurons that can be recorded simultaneously has been growing exponentially, with a doubling time of about seven and a half years.” This suggests that brain/computer linkages will one day be possible.

What?
They didn't mention that having -4 keys means that there are 4 people waiting to use the bathroom.
That reminds me of the old joke about medical school: half the things you learn are wrong, and half you forget - you just have to hope it's the same half.
There's nothing forcing your model classes to inherit ActiveRecord::Base. It's perfectly acceptable to use other ORMs or even bare Ruby classes as models. If the only thing you want to do is database operations, ORM is a waste of time anyway.
Will do! I have a handful of other Stross books waiting in a pile to be ready already, but not sure I have any more of the Laundry ones yet. I know I have several of his other traditional sci-fi works waiting, and I'll definitely get to the rest of the Laundry books eventually.
Here[1] is the list of the highest grossing movies in 2012 thanks to Wikipedia. Among those top ten, the only one I saw was Dark Knight Rises and while it wowed me when I watched it, it is just about meh in hind sight.

Prometheus[2] was confusing as [redacted] but if you like the alien franchise[3], you should watch this one as well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_in_film

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(film)

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(franchise)
Third that one. I'm not anxious to see a movie of Wool, but I hope one gets made for the sake of the author.
$300 app can crack full-disk encryption on Macs, PCs
I think there's plenty wrong with the way most startups handle equity assignments (particularly as it relates to dilution without subsequent regrants, etc), but the viewpoint here just seems bonkers to me.

A year is a LONG time to a 6 year old, but to a 22-24 year old (avg. age of college grad)? Really? When I was that age I could easily imagine committing to things for a year. And even if that makes me an anomaly (which I seriously doubt it does), why would you bend over backwards to reward people that are going to jump ship right away due to their own ADD? Particularly considering they're the least likely to be making really useful contributions to the code and are basically (hopefully) mostly learning the ins and outs of professional development (IME, very different than school work, or even open source projects) on the company's dime at that point.

On top of all that, a lot of companies still use traditional options and other than in some very extraordinary circumstances, anyone quitting prior to a year of service and also prior to a major liquidity event would be foolish to actually exercise their options, which they'd almost certainly have to do to avoid losing them within 30-90 days (or so depending upon terms) of leaving.

Sorry, but this is just a half-baked idea all around.
If Expedia is misrepresenting the status of the smaller hotels and cutting them out then I think that is a type of fraud or collusion with the bigger hotels. It is at the least, a policy that is antagonistic to competition.
> I would advice against agoda and booking.com as they forward your credit card info to the hotel as security.

I always pay agoda with paypal when I travel in SE Asia, and now more than ever i'm glad for it ...
I wonder if they seriously have a use case where it is BAD to link to this site, or if it's just some crazy-ass boilerplate cut and paste from a document written in 1997.
How does it compare to VP8?
I think good-ol' vi follows this convention to split sentences, which can then be skipped using parentheses. vim modernized this.
Theora can't compete with H.264. If something, VP8 could.
Well, didn't my previous post have substance? It's like everything I say nowadays gets buried. I'm going to guess it's power users trying to silence the small fry.
Pretty much this. Pick an airline based on convenience, and sign up for the frequent-flyer program.

So many of the negatives associated with air travel typically boil down to shopping based solely on base price, with zero brand loyalty, and then being surprised that the airline doesn't treat you as well as a repeat customer who buys (or has an employer who buys) full-fare tickets. And so much of the difference between the full and discounted fares typically gets made up one way or another; either you're paying about the same as someone who bought "discount" but now is getting socked with fees left and right to check bags, use power outlets, etc., or often it just evens out over the course of enough flights.
> You could create a new account for each kid. At a mininum, this means that you have to re-purchase all the paid apps from every account.

Not necessarily, you could have separate iCloud accounts for each family member and one shared iTunes/App Store account. You can use a different account for iTunes and the App Store, so you don't have to change accounts all the time. At least that's what we do.
I'm a Gold member on United, and Silver on Delta. United treats me fairly well [when they have an issue they pass me on to US Airways]. I've had massive issues with Delta.

Honestly, I'm not thrilled about Southwest. They'll get you there... but eh.
It makes sense when there's real equity being disbursed. One person has $500,000. The other has sweat equity. How do you calculate the relative value of the latter? Come up with a fair salary, and turn it into equity. Four years is a good starting estimate, but if the person leaves early, then the assumption on which the equity level was set is invalidated.

I'm against cliffs, though.
You need to setup the iPod/iPhone like this:

- During setup, create or sign into the kid's own iCloud account. This is separate from the iTunes account with purchases.

- After the device is setup and running, go into settings, and find the iTunes & App Stores section. Tap the Apple ID email address and sign out.

- Sign in, in this section, with the iTunes account that has all of the purchases. This will not sync anything, including contacts or email.

- Ensure all of the "Automatic Downloads" checkboxes are disabled, unless you want apps you download on your iPhone/iPad to automatically find their way onto your kid's iPod/iPhone.

- Go into the app store and to the purchases tab. Download the apps you've already purchased.

This allows you to purchase an app on any device, and redownload it on any other for free, without syncing contacts and iMessage across everything. This only shares the store account with all devices.

Because you've already setup the device, you may need to do a full reset and setup the device again the way I posted.
I am still going to have to call "video on a disc" a valid use case. The internal hardware would matter if I was arguing that there was no point in advancing video codecs, which I don't think anyone is saying.

I don't see how you can say the XKCD comic applies to WebM/H264 but can't apply to H265/Daala because they are "proposed standards", and have not yet been implemented. If anything that makes it's specifically applicable to H265/Daala. A proposed standard going against another proposed standard touting benefits the other one doesn't have, but in the end it will probably just muddy the water a little bit.
I liked 1Q84. I felt it could have been a bit shorter without much loss to the story though. 'The Wind Up Bird Chronicle' and 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World' remain my favorite Murakami novels.
You don't want to book airline tickets with Expedia. If they are cheaper, they are only slightly cheaper, and you'll have to deal with Expedia when things go wrong. The airline gives a minor discount due to pushing over customer service to Expedia.
No. You failed to setup your iPods and iOS devices properly with separate iCloud accounts.
McDonald's to Franchisees: Merry Christmas. Now Open Your Stores
Entity theory isn't pedantry. Knowing the difference between accusing a company and accusing an individual is quite important.

For a start, the company can be unequivocally identified, because they bought a block of IP addresses. The individual cannot, because the specific IP cannot identify an individual.

This isn't cognitive dissonance, and the massive distinction here is that a company is being held to account, not an employee.
> Most of the DNA in the human genome is junk

This topic is still very controversial and I don't think the article should be citing it in this context.

It was only a few months ago that the ENCODE project released its first results claiming that 80% of the genome is "functional", and many scientists have noted that their definition of "functional" is much too broad. It includes any piece of DNA that becomes bound to protein at some time, while it is known that many proteins bind nonspecifically.
My brain hurts...
This is ridiculous. For starters, in what world is vesting based on value to the employee?

It's also more than a bit ill informed to think that time at a company is less "costly" for an employee the older they are, particularly when it comes to equity. Based on success rates of startups, once you are older you likely only have a few more shots at "winning the lottery", the costs of losing benefits (particularly medical) is higher, and showing forward career progress is so much more crucial. The cost of a few early setbacks is trivial as compared to setbacks towards the end of your career (unless you've already won the lottery, in which case, the discussion is moot).
I can try to explain it in a different way. Individuals are not and should not be expected to have ironclad control over their connections and monitor all users. If you see traffic from a residential IP you have no idea who initiated it. With a corporate network, on the other hand, 90% chance it was an employee doing it, which makes the corporation responsible. It doesn't matter how many layers of management were involved, and there's even a good chance that the pirate is a manager. I won't blame them if it turns out they got hacked, but I will call them incompetent. Corporations have dedicated IT departments to make sure that only authorized users get on the network.

tl;dr No cognitive dissonance: Corporations vet network users, 99% of homes don't.
Where did you learn to type like that?
just want to warn others - this is by far the worst of murakami's books. above all, it's way too long. if the three volumes were edited to one, it would be much improved. i wish i had googled for reviews (which were generally negative) before buying and reading these.
At first I thought this was some bizarre reinvention of sql-mode, but looking more closely it looks more like an ODBC/JDBC for Emacs.
> As a citizen of the USA I agree that I have a responsibility to my country and society. I just don't agree that you get to decide for me what that responsibility is.

Society does. That's why it's there. You don't define the social contract. That mindset is what leads to "fuck you, I've got mine."

> Please, be specific about my situation and what you have decided my skin color owes, just don't use nebulous politically-correct terms such as white-privlege ... unless you are trying to end the conversation.

You're joking, right? "White privilege" isn't a term of political correctness. It's a sociological construct that's used to frame and discuss relative advantage given majority or otherwise preferential traits (such as, in the United States, being any or all of white, male, heterosexual, and Christian).

Using the common constructs of the topic isn't "ending the conversation", it's being specific. I'm not going to fall prey to the commonly-used tactic of enumerating exactly why privilege is what it is so that you can attempt to bury the overall point beneath the details on which you think you can nullify the entire academically settled topic. You are welcome to educate yourself on the topic if you so choose.

You won't, but you are welcome to.
I have a more than small problem with the use of the phrase scientific theory[1] which to me is something provable.

>A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories are not "guesses" but reliable accounts of the real world.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

[2]: http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/evolution/qanda.shtml
Equity is an incentive for loyalty and commitment to the company. If you aren't even sticking around for year then chances are you are barely finished training. You split just about the time you are actually becoming useful and productive. So the company has invested in you - but you ditched the company. That's the opposite of commitment.

This kinda reminds me of when I was a grade-school student and I used to wonder why the teachers got paid because it was us students who were doing all the homework!
On requiring computer science education...
This looks to be the old firewire-DMA attack, with a similar thunderbolt-DMA implementation as well. I was of the impression that these attacks no longer worked since recent machines limit IO DMA access to RAM. Also, they would require the computer to be running (or at least suspended) to have any chance to work.

In short, sounds like a non-story.
Victoria told me a secret. I know Victoria's secret. Sue me.
Only in mathematics are things provably true. In science, things are considered true based on the best theories and experimental evidence we have so far, and our observational abilities increase as technology gets better over time. For example, Newtonian mechanics was considered "true" for centuries, until it was replaced by relativistic mechanics. In the 18th century, we just didn't have the equipment to measure phenomena at quantum scales; now we do. As we observe the world in greater detail, we find that things that seemed to be true before are now false. That's the best that science can do.
There's nothing wrong with ethanol as a fuel per se.

== This is a completely uneducated comment.

Ethanol has poor energy to mass ratio and is unstable and/or reactive chemically with things that aren't stainless-steel, which make up certain "mission-critical" sub-systems of petrol-designed-combustion engines. Its notorious clogging/eating EFI systems/sub-systems that are not "hardened" or and/or specially maintained. The only really "good use" of ethonal is in applications that have terrible environmental side-effects. For example, e85 is very useful if you want to make a cheap substiture for high-octane fuel in performance applications. But notice in California, "octane" ratings are limited to prevent "high-performance" applications for fuel because as a general rule they are "environmentally unsound". But e85 has terrible gas mileage (1/3 less than e10), which even in everday use means more haulage or more mass==more road wrear, more stops to refuel, etc==more environmental damage.

I could go on, but will spare you the rant =D

TLDR: Petrol is a better store of energy/mass a nd depreciates a motor at a slower rate.

[edit: To answer the GP question, the easiest way to get reliable fuel without ethanol is to buy "race gas" with octane ratings > 100+ at something like 2x the price of normal octane fuel ~87.]
I love this program, I and I've been using it very heavily for years.
I have no idea why you were downvoted.

Some editors prevent you from adding two spaces.

(https://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/lyx/Tutorial.tex.html)

It's something I still do. I can't break the habit.
This is why I like OTR clients. You just check a box and if the other client has it, it automatically starts an encrypted session. Otherwise it works normally. It's seamless. And it gives you forward secrecy.
Both gave too much weight to the advice of their in-house counsel?

I bet they have that silly legal footer at the bottom of their outgoing email about how you have to delete the message if you aren't the intended recipient.
Enough money to spend on lawyers for weird website Terms of Use.
5 things Linux does better than OSX and a couple of things I miss
Same law firms?
Obligatory xkcd(s):

http://xkcd.com/843/ (Misconceptions)

http://xkcd.com/1053/ (Ten Thousand)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions (The link referred to in 'Misconceptions')

EDIT: Darnit.
First Impressions: Cloud9 IDE + PHP
The God Problem by Howard Bloom
Why is it that GNU Project pages so rarely have screen shots?

Here are a few images of GNU Typist in action:

http://imgur.com/a/ahjuo