skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? The military-industrial complex is real. If you don't believe me, look at how the Army is requesting LESS money for tanks, claiming that they have enough and that the money would be better spent elsewhere.. And then Congress rejecting that plea and giving them more money for tanks.
I found The Dreaming Void a few years ago while wandering a library desperately trying to find a good science fiction book to read - none of the suggestions I got from friends were there. I'm so glad that none of the suggestions were there.
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I bring people together with great hotels. I work at a place very different from Expedia, but yes, I am absolutely shameless about what I do. May your December 26th be better than your Christmas :)
It's just a rough barrier before I set up something a little better, though I already have logging at the transaction level set up. Even using Mailinator requires a little bit of work, so I figured Persona was a good starting point -- I'll look into adding a "try it out" area on the home page that doesn't require you to sign up though.
I'd say its rather simple, and similar to what has been done already. Wire up someone to an (eeg if i recall rightly), have them "choose" between two disparate things. Measure the brain response.

If when they "choose" you already have an idea of what they chose before they consciously became aware of it, it is likely that you do not actually have free will. That is, your conscious mind is only deluding itself into thinking it chose what processes in the brain have already decided.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/mind_d...

I think that was the gist of the study, its been a while so I might be off. Corrections welcome!

That said, I've always thought it an interesting philosophical question of if we don't have free will and our paths in life are somewhat deterministic, it really puts a damper on our legal and moral systems to a degree. That said its just a thought experiment at this point. Maybe this is a "bad" approach to determining it, but the experiments do cast doubt on at the very least our perception of free will and determinism.
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meh on ipad. portrait mode only.
Qubes looks nice.
Meh, the studios will just claim that they were researching torrents and illegal file sharing.
Great tool. I would like to ask HN folks opinion on another kind of email service. Its quiet possible that google or yahoo can boot you from their service whenever they want...even if you don't think you violated their TOS. Do you guys think there is room for a service in which, once you signup, you will never be booted from the service? All data will be yours, or after you are gone, it will belong to your descendants.

Of course, there are spam considerations here..but I think they have to be worked out.
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So HN is a game too?
It might not be wise to go back to bloated JEE. However, it would certainly be unwise to leave the knowledge behind. People working in Rails and Django applications need to learn those important lessons. It can save them from a lot of common pitfalls. I have seen people using a large number of servers for Rails applications while similar load is handled by less half their number of servers using Java.
USA, with backups in Canada (we're a Canadian company). But the whole point is that not even us, with full server access, should be able to access your data (even under subpoena) so using third-party servers close to where we expect most of our users to be shouldn't raise any eyebrows.

We would eventually like to offer multiple options for server location, but that isn't feasible in the short term.
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So this stops them from leaving a bad mark on your credit report?
Regarding nature being random, there is no physics that suggest it is. "The wavefunction evolves deterministically", it's just that we as non-fundamental particles can't observe all amplitudes realized at once. (I suppose if you're a Copenhagen believer, the idea of collapse is non-deterministic...) Also, being uncertain about a system's future because one does not know the system's initial conditions doesn't mean the system is random.

For free will: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Free_will_%28solution%29 (My paraphrased tl;dr for programmers in case you're a Sith: you can't possibly have any sort of will, free or otherwise, in a non-deterministic world; furthermore, we can create narrow AIs whose deterministic function is to search a space of possibilities and if it finds what looks like a good solution, it settles on that, or we can instruct it to search for other solutions, and this is what our will somewhat looks like from the outside--a search algorithm through future possibilities, some of them just as impossible physically speaking as our AI picking a solution that isn't past the stopping threshold--while what it feels like on the inside is that "we could realize any possibility[, if we felt like it]")
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377

(might be the link?)
But there's no "sometimes" for RMS. I have yet to see one piece of proprietary software - or one with license that is not approved by RMS - that he does not consider and call evil. If you say "certain kind of software needs to be open source or it can not be trusted" - it's a reasonable approach, if you can support it with good argument about which kind of software and why. If you say "any proprietary software is evil and any non-GPL one is a candidate to be evil" - that's way too far for me.
> they can keep the licensing costs for H.264 and its successors down. It's easy to speculate that if H.264 were the only game in town it would probably be more expensive

That isn't even a very speculative speculation. The release of Vorbis triggered clear drops in the MP3 licensing costs— at a time when there seemed to be no other reason to drop the prices.

Strategically, one major methods of success for royalty free codecs is simply to keep driving the— otherwise monopoly-class— profits out of the non-free codec space. They don't have to be the #1 choice to achieve this, just enough of a threat with enough installed base that the marginal cost of switching is kept low enough to present a real ceiling on the price of the non-free stuff. (Though the wider the adoption and the more competitive the harder and lower the price ceiling it creates)

Especially once you factor in all the disadvantages royalty bearing codecs have: Overheads from profit motivated engineering decisions, the need to constantly cannibalize the last generations revenue stream to keep the installed base on the 20-year patent expiration hamster wheel, the non-trivial base of users that just want something that works and is easy to integrate who don't like having to apply and pay for licenses and track and report usage quantities, etc… it's pretty clear that the RF side will eventually win this fight so long as they keep cracking away at it.

The only real question is how long and how many billions extra will the public pay before we get to that eventual outcome.
Down cycle? I would just call it they possibly got the IPO wrong.
And that makes me curious on how that other guy sold $22k (1.2m rupees) in wordpress themes overnight. Maybe he should have written the blog post!
A semaphore is just one of the implementations of mutex (mutual exclusion) that allows waiters on the lock.
I think the difference is when a person is charged, they're charged regardless of if 'they' did the downloading or not, because it's their Internet connection. Logic would dictate that Warner Brothers would be responsible for anyone using theirs to pirate. We won't, and I'm sure we agree, ever see that.

In fact, it's often argued any party to find this MUST sue infringing parties, for fear of otherwise losing their copyright. That magically seems a non-issue in these cases. It's not anyone else's cognitive dissonance about the morality of piracy or inferring Warner Brothers is any more guilty than an individual accused of the same. It's a sense of anger because they preach about responsibility and issue lawsuits under the guise of curbing illegal activity, while letting others off because...

Why do they let Warner Brother's off again? Oh yes, because they're also a giant media company on equal footing and their own lawyers and things like copyright protection, moral responsibility, and curbing piracy are all bullshit. And given I imagine they know that such cases happen, one has to assume they know it's bullshit. That's why people use "caught". They regularly say a litany of things, none of which seem true given what's actually happening.
Are we also talking about fiction here? This is a great book - The Immortals of Meluha - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortals_of_Meluha

And for designers and developers, the Smashing Magazine series - brilliant!
I think there is a real business opportunity in hosting email offshore for US customers, out of the reach of US laws and subpoena's.

I know you preach encryption, but there is a lot that can still be subpoenad outside of the encrypted message payloads, such as login IP addresses, destination email adresses, frequency of messages, etc.
'The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity' by Steven Strogatz. http://www.flipkart.com/joy-x-1848878443/p/itmdekzuwjwwngfz?...

'Anything You Want: 40 Lessons For A New Kind Of Entrepreneur' by Derek Sivers. http://www.flipkart.com/anything-you-want-1936719118/p/itmdy...

'Jugari Cross' by Poornachandra Tejaswi; an amazing thriller novel that takes place in real-time. http://www.flipkart.com/jugari-cross/p/itmd7gdp6xvushkd?pid=...
I love the language in this narrative.

"My afternoons and evenings all surrendered to a series of heavenly nods."
No, I got the point. And Osama was quite effective at terrorism. Though I think most of the credit goes to the US government and media. I don't believe it was an inside job, rather that similar motivations created similar outcomes: radicalizing war in the middle east.

If humans were rational, terrorism wouldn't work. Driving your car to work is more dangerous than taking the subway to the world trade center, even if the WTC was demolished every year. But we are afraid of what we fear, not what will actually kill us. There are a lot of people who are eager to exploit that cognitive defect.
No, but from time to time HN posters like to indulge in advertising techniques commonly used by infomercials to get people to click their links.

Whilst this is interesting, I don't need to know this for the programming I do just like how I don't need a steam mop.
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Correct, Lakh is 100K units. It's used commonly with INR, in India.
Nothing wrong with it. Like nothing wrong with having nl2br function. Some don't need private class members. Some don't need nl2br. The wrong is when people think whoever doesn't need exactly what they need is dumb.
I think it's a good first shot. I'm wondering what's going to happen to a completely anonymous forum as it grows. Will it devolved into /b-like behavior or will it find a way to rise above.
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>Imagine, for example, an Intel based android powered tablet that can run stock Windows in a VM or emulate windows and can run most windows applications and perhaps even games, while also being able to run all android applications.

If we're going that far, we should imagine an iPad that is also a Mac.
"We have to believe in free will. We have no other choice." Isaac Bashevis Singer
Here was I thinking "oh well, topic mentions PHP, how long before people start popping up with obligatory completely irrelevant "PHP sucks" posts?" And here you are.

nl2br is a useful function. People use it. If you don't need it, don't use it. How calling it names is helpful to anything? You didn't even bother to explain why "the PHP function was a bad idea to begin with" or why it's a "mess" or why Python people would never need it. But your certainly found time to call it "dumb shit". Here comes the downvote.
Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs?
You know the drill. When you left college, you wanted to work for the big guys - Intel, Google, Apple, NASA - doing things which can change the world. You wanted to do stuff like create a compiler or figure out an algorithm.

Unfortunately, reality hit back hard and you got stuck at a typical company doing CRUD operations. Make reports here, manage documents here, upgrade calendar software here. It pays pretty good but it's not the dream you wanted. Irony then rings and the deeper you move in your career, the more CRUD experience you get and the less "let's design the next generation algorithm" experience you have. Thus causing those companies to pigeonhole your resume to pass you on for someone else.

How do you escape from this trap?
The more links (or phrases to search for) you could provide for this, the more grateful I'd be.
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Those are both good as well!
Not such a great problem. If the services you were trying to manage are natural forces, then it makes sense to try and conquer them. However, these services will all actively try to stop your startup from succeeding by pulling legal tricks and other methods to block your access to customer's accounts.

I don't recommend you try this unless you are a lawyer already who can somehow turn this startup into a legal battle, and make profit that way. Good luck...
I have not been able to register a gmail address without a mobile number for about four years.
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So, where's a problem? That is some godforsaken version that is dead for many years and nobody uses it it was working differently? It's not a problem, it's a feature - the language evolves and changes according to what people need. It happens with all languages and all libraries and all code.
It's got misconfigured SSL cipher settings.

See https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=https%3A%2F%2...
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Well I'll just hope that Daala manages to reach that goal of technical merit and not be obsolete out the gate.. and Japan is too focused on tradition and afraid to update anything. Fax machines and incomplete character sets for all!
Right. Because Obama totally didn't continue a long legacy, he basically kickstarted this all by himself..

My suggestion would be to more or less ignore the sock puppet of the day and instead pay attention to interest groups and whatnot. Those don't change nearly as much as the faces or slogans that are put on stuff.
4.0.5 is a minor version. Minor versions shouldn't change the behavior of existing code (except to fix bugs).
> We have incredibly fast computers with enormous amounts of memory, yet are no closer to AI.

Supercomputers today are the equivalent of a tractor - they do simple things that people can do but at a greater scale. Nobody ever looked at the first tractor and claimed it was a step towards better AI, and nor should they when they look at supercomputers.
Bad Santa.
This is a great point. Another good example is the "linguistic division of labor", put forth by Putnam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Putnam) wherein it is proposed that language can function (i.e. words have meaning) because people assume there's a person (or people) that can fix the meaning of a certain term. An example: When it was announced in 2011 that researchers have found that the electron was (nearly) a perfect sphere, I had no idea what "perfect sphere" meant in this context, so I appealed to the experts on on PE (http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10433/what-does-i...).
No, just PHP has a tradition of implementing frequently used code in C. This means PHP has tons of functions that serve specific use case, while Python has less of them, at least in standard package (of course you can have a module that does the same and then you'd have one-liners too). So you're not comparing the same thing here.
I learned typing using Sierra's Spooky typing [1]

Pretty great for the time.

[1] http://www.sierrachest.com/index.php?a=g&id=429&fld=...
Think about free will in terms of a game-theoretic payoff matrix: There either is or isn't really free will, and you can either behave as if there is or behave as if there isn't.

If there is no free will, it doesn't matter. The payouts are the same regardless of what you do. You can't affect anything. The game is rigged, go home, good night.

However, if there is free will, the payouts vary drastically based on how you act, and the only way to get a good payout is to act as if there is free will.

So, acting as if there is free will is, at worst, one of the ways to get the there-is-no-free-will payout, and, at best, the only way to get the best possible there-is-free-will payout.

Note: If you mention Pascal's Wager in your response, you misunderstand the problem with Pascal's Wager. The problem with Pascal's Wager is that it does not give a way to determine which deity to believe in. The argument was constructed with reference to the Christian deity, but it applies equally well to Shiva or me, for example.

You can't abandon a whole methodology just because it can be misused.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal-form_game

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
You can still do it, you just have to do the captcha thing.

Here, I created one just now, for you:

login/pass: blah44141@gmail.com/mypass125
Four-coloring a Dodecahedron
Why use SVM
I do use python for work from time to time (not every day, but probably every week) and I still occasionally have problems with whitespace. It's one of the most annoying things with Python, especially if editing somebody else's code or working in foreign environment (another machine, etc.) where tools aren't configured in your standard way.
Thanks for pointing that out. I will fix that.
Tweak/ hack the food?
Do you disagree with anything specific, or are you just done discussing it?

I've not heard many people seriously argue that the TSA's mandate is to alleviate fear, much less argue that the TSA carries out said mandate successfully.
I understand the sentiment, albeit cynical. I would also feel guilty if it means that I got what I want, but most customers will get screwed over, only because this got publicized.

That being said, OTAs have to operate in an online world, when complaints such as mine can easily get publicity and it ends up hurting the OTAs business. So the OTA can play whack-a-mole and deal only with the cases that get public attention, or it can realise it's much better off always keeping its customers happy (on both side of the fence).

I am hoping that these cases and others help sway OTAs to do The Right Thing (TM), rather than constantly do fire-fighting.
> The Sixth Disctrict court of appeals did address this directly in US v Warshak

Oh? And what addresses the NSA getting a copy of all traffic on the Internet?

Do you really think some silly rules on "unopened e-mail" matter at all?
I'm not sure where you're getting the fuel economy drop from that link - it deals with E10 vs E85, where there's about a 30% drop (significant, but far less than the change in gasoline volume).
I wonder what happened? Did they hit the usage limit? Were they contacted by Google in order to use the Business version (even if it's Christmas and no one is at work)...
It's not like you can count on inflation to eat away your debts when considering whether to take them on in the first place.
Cool story... ?
Wait! Didn't you just violate their TOS?
Shogun is an awesome read; I read it yearly. The many interleaving and embedded plots create fascinating character depth. Not only that but Clavel easily transitions between the point of view of the many protagonists creating an amazing read. I can't recommend this book enough to anyone who hasn't read it.
Smart hackers are in really high demand so this shouldn't be that big of a problem. Talk to a few companies that do interesting things. Most are hiring.
Build up a portfolio of the kind of work you want to be doing.

You don't get a job in compilers by complaining. You do it by getting commit access to gcc.

Hop to it.

Alternately, do a startup in the space you want to be in and let VCs pay for the privilege of you educating yourself. Either way.
maybe they pushed some code from their staging server? .... I wonder too. pretty funny
Replying to this community had a large group of influential and actual hackers.
- Do non CRUD work outside work
- Once you have enough experience/knowledge, seek out a non CRUD job.
> This is one reason why it's so critical to spend a lot of time challenging the things you think you know...

Especially the stuff you really think you know. And the ease of doing so is inversely correlated with the amount of stuff you think you know about topic X.
Invisible - Paul Auster. Definitely my favourite book of the year, and also my favourite book by Paul Auster, whose books I've been reading throughout the summer. The story itself is captivating, but the style of the book is one of the best things about it. It tells a continuous story, but is told from the point of view of several authors, and with different styles (changes from first to second to third person, for instance). On top of that, the authors occur in the main story itself, interact with other people in the main story while retelling it, and even deliberately change and obscure information.

Although this may sound very complex, the book is actually not that hard to follow. Highly recommended!
We're not hardwired for something as abstract as religion, but we do have a lot of cognitive heuristics and biases that while they may have had uses in the ancestral environment (and indeed some today), nevertheless make errors in reasoning such as religion (and homeopathy, judging risks and probabilities, reducing fractions, etc.) quite easy for even the most intelligent of us. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

I agree there's little that's religious about the Singularity itself or most Singularitarians (http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/steven/?p=21), and the above poster is probably mislead about it. (I suspect he's mislead because he brought up the 2045 date and because he's confused about identity. That date I believe is only professed strongly by Kurzweil in the public mediasphere, who is at most with respect to the Singularity a predictor with some past successes and equipped with a strong argument based on accelerated returns, but he isn't working directly toward a positive (or negative) Singularity while those who are that I'm aware of hesitate to estimate date ranges.) Personally I think barring mass human extinction the stage is set for a Singularity event within this century, and I do have many justifications for it, not a religious "I have faith and faith is good" 'justification' or an apologetic one trying to extract justification by means of some shaky philosophy and an a priori sacred book (Singularity is Near? Never read it) containing no significant errors.
To explore this idea a little further, if you download and host the lingerie porn, then this is obviously copyright infringement. But it's not clear if you only hotlink to the images, which may be what VS is trying to prevent here. Since they can't, they'd have to sue to try to enforce this license agreement.

Were I the defense attorney in that lawsuit, I'd say VS can change the URL of their images whenever they want, CDN cache invalidation notwithstanding.