skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Duh. I'm adding it right now.

I'm also in the middle of watching Dollhouse, which is an incredible TV series by Joss Whedon dealing with mind control. I think it does a better job than Gattaca of dealing with ethical quandaries of bio-tech, and most likely the more difficult battle we'll fight as our brains become more akin to software. The arguments in Gattaca seem like a straw man that very few people would actually advocate.
Just to be clear, the act we're talking about here isn't “guy caught on camera walking quickly from back door to car with tinted windows”.

Or “guy spotted at beach with kids and mystery woman”.

It's “guy publishes new content at his well-known internet domain”.
For instance, in Go everything is passed by value. If you want to pass a reference, you must pass a reference type (like a pointer). This means that you can pass around structs without having to put them on the heap. In JVM-land, nearly everything is passed by reference, and the data must go on the heap.

Relatedly, in Go if you allocate an array of n values of type T, the size of that array in memory is n * sizeof(T), and the items are laid out sequentially in memory. There are no other bookkeeping data structures and no indirection.

Here's a story about one project's struggle with data structures and Java: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124111702609723

Relevant quote:

JGit struggles with not having an efficient way to represent a SHA-1.
C can just say "unsigned char[20]" and have it inline into the
container's memory allocation. A byte[20] in Java will cost an
*additional* 16 bytes of memory, and be slower to access because
the bytes themselves are in a different area of memory from the
container object. We try to work around it by converting from a
byte[20] to 5 ints, but that costs us machine instructions.

In Go, you would just write [20]byte. If you wanted a struct with a field of [20]byte you can do so, and all it costs is the 20 bytes.
Introduction to Complexity online course  Santa Fe Institute
As a student of the university, we've been notified that the logo will be going back onto the drawing boards soon. They didn't plan on abolishing the UC Berkeley seal as many UCB students thought; this is only to unify the image of all UC's.

We got a massive petition signed to abolish the new logo, and the outcry when they announced this was overwhelmingly negative on campus. No one liked it, and it seems the administration has realized that.
A quick note about elves: it's a misconception that before Tolkien's work an elf was pictured as a fey. Nordic elves were very Tolkien-ish, for example.
I think his argument, is that I have no right to talk about bits [edit: in the context of stat mech], before defining physical representation of these bits - that is a physical system, states and transitions between states.
iCloud provides this for free
While these are certainly improvements that Instagram could make to improve their app, this article is more attitude than helpful critique. Absent the cruft, there is little substance here.

Unworthy of HN, IMO.
How's their API look?
Not working properly on android 2.3. Using dolphin browser.
I kind of understand that, and its specifically that its a "ritual" that annoys me. I find I appreciate wait staff who keep it to a minimum.
Great read, thanks for the reference.
Did Kurzweil Leave Out An Acronym To Describe Singularity Technology?
Can a Product Canvas help in building a better Software Product?
> Funny thing about Go is that as a compiled language, folks often need to send the source-code to the deployment servers to compile on them too.

Not in my experience. Nearly everyone I know who deploys Go code does it by shipping a binary. One of the benefits of static linking.
What has changed since the initial release?
Interesting! Any plans to enter the commercial market?
He single handedly made everyone in the Ruby community feel a little more special and fun and light hearted and quirky. Kind of the opposite of a brogrammer.
A simple example where information-theoretic entropy is used where there is no physical representation: Video codecs.

I'm guessing you've heard of mpeg and h.264 encoding. Which one encodes a movie better? One way of answering this question is to ask: Which codec added less entropy (perhaps for the same compression)?

For that matter: Before Shannon's information entropy, one might wonder if there is a way (another codec) perhaps recovering the information after mpeg coding and decoding. However, now you know that information-entropy can only increase or stay the same, which tells you that subsequent "correction codec" cannot remove entropy introduced by mpeg codec.
Firefox fontface cross domain errors & workarounds
I'm well aware that English isn't a formal language, that's why I added the qualifier "mostly". The great majority of expressions in natural languages can, in fact, be accounted for with CFGs, and purely CFG-based Phrase Structure Grammars have been proposed (see the work of Gazdar and Pullum on Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, from the early 80's, if you're interested). Many of Chomsky's original claims about the weak generative capacity of CFGs with respect to natural lanaguage that gave rise to transformational syntactic frameworks have since been disproven.

Whether or not there is an absolutely snug fit between CFGs formally and natural language "in the wild", so to speak, is another topic, and rather beside the point of the analogy. Context Sensitive Grammars are overly expressive, Regular Grammars much too weak, for much the same reason why they are too weak for HTML. Were there a perfect English language parser, you would not need it in order to match regular subsets of English, just as you do not need a full HTML parser in order to match regular subsets of HTML.
And if I could actually try Grouper, I would. But given I signed up over 4 months ago and haven't heard a peep (though the site still insists "YOUR APPLICATION IS ON ITS WAY. WE'LL BE IN TOUCH."), I'm currently labeling anything and everything Grouper as vapor.

I also consider the Facebook requirement obnoxious - up until I decided to give Grouper a spin, my Facebook profile was minimal, not even a profile picture. But I was curious enough that I bit the bullet and gave Facebook way, way more information about myself than I'd normally be willing.

Which, of course, makes the vapor nature of the service that much more upsetting.

My experience could very well be an aberration - that said, I figure I'd throw out a warning to others interested in trying to service but are hesitant to give Facebook more personal information.
Another opinion I've heard: The "C" in the new logo looked altogether too much like a stereotypical Web 2.0 "loading" animation.
OK, I should clarify, I am not looking for mob justice here. My intent in asking for the name is not for the purpose of publicizing it (again, I have my suspicions that it even exists), but rather so that if someone has actually done such a thing then the appropriate higher ups can be notified and some formal accountability can follow.

Maybe the thing to ask is not that it be posted here but that it be supplied to some officials at the company so that they can conduct an investigation and ascertain the truth. Would that be more to everyone's satisfaction?
I've also been using a Nexus 7 as my primary (though not exclusive) connectivity device. Instead of GrooveIP, I use Spare Phone, which has a nicer icon (and yes, that is why I chose it). The biggest drawback I've encountered is that talking over the speakers doesn't work well because the other party can hear his/her voice on a slight delay.

The other thing I've been really surprised by is how much I like using it to write. Now that the stock keyboard has swipe input, I spend about 1 or 2 hours a day writing in Google Docs (err... Drive). To be fair, I was never a particularly fast typist, so I didn't notice the impact to my speed, that others surely would. Still, I don't find the tablet interface to be much of a barrier to getting my thoughts recorded, which was a real surprise.
I think that's why these guys are trying something different - http://blog.functionspace.org/news/2013/1/3/making-more-sens...
What an absurd lawsuit.
* Primer (fantastic puzzle movie, filmed on a $7,000 budget)

* Abre Los Ojos (Vanilla Sky is the shitty American remake of this film)

* Revolution #9 (best fictional depiction of schizophrenia I've ever seen)

* Memento (filmed backwards, about a man with a 5 minute memory)

* Fight Club

* The Game

* Naked Lunch (the last good Cronenberg movie)

* Videodrome

* Dead Ringers

* Zoo: A Zed and Two Noughts

* Last Year at Marienbad

* Requiem for a Dream
(Technically, it'd be libel, not slander. Libel is written, slander is verbal, and we write on the Internet.)

Pedantry aside, I also don't think it's appropriate to name names. There's too much risk of not getting the full story when you name & shame on a public forum, and it can have very real consequences for people's lives. If you wouldn't want 4chan or SomethingAwful doing it to you, don't do it to someone else.
Not really. Rifles at close range do tend to end people quite badly - providing the bullet fragments or expands. There are many tales from Iraq/Afghanistan where this isn't happening with the 5.56mm NATO. And pistols really only kill about 25% of the time. Remember that in order to kill a human with a normal pistol, your target is the size of a pair of ten is balls separated by 18" of rebar. Hit the brainstem, heart, or spinal column and the target goes down NOW. Miss that, and all sorts of odd things can happen, including living through the hit.
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For the sake of argument, I'd say that if the car was registered in the corporation's name then yes, the corporation was present in the car.

Reasoning: if the car had been involved in an accident, who would be sued? Just the driver alone, or the driver and the car's owner?
The perfect python reference for a _why thread. That's kind of funny.

import irony
I broadly agree with you on issues of IP, but just think your characterization of this case (especially of the intentions of C. Tolkein) was off, and that your general argument is probably stronger for other cases of IP rather than this particular one.
I've read explanations that elves as winged 5" fairies were a Victorian invention, and it kind of fits. European myths from before then generally much more serious.
"They didn't plan on abolishing the UC Berkeley seal as many UCB students thought; this is only to unify the image of all UC's."

Yes which as a designer, really annoys me. The thousands of people who berated the logo and team who designed it simply did not understand what was being replaced nor the full context.

I think the new identity is vastly superior to the existing branding. Here is a proper comparison:

http://minesf.com/resources/cca/2012/12/13/why-the-universit...

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/ic_uc_we...

An identity is more than just a logo it's an entire system. And I think it's far better than what people give it credit for.
If you pass a ban, you'll have something around a 10% compliance rate. Then, you accept it, or you move to confiscation. Clearly you are not steeped in the non-coastal, non-liberal-elite culture, because if you were, you would realize that would trigger a LOT of blood shed.
I opened this hoping that the controversy would be about how bad the logo actually is. Turns out I was only partially right. It really doesn't get much worse than that.
I'd just hold it and start working on something now because I need to use. :)
> is that I have no right to talk about bits, before defining physical representation of these bits

I'm saying something slightly different: You can talk about bits in a system without a physical representation; That system can have an information-entropy associated with it. Once you implement a physical system representing those bits, then Landauer's comment applies.
Also, tons of additional CG characters in the foreground.

Just kidding, I don't think PJ could fall that far.
I have to say something here, because this is complete nonsense.

Nothing in Godel's incompleteness theorems says that new theorems can't be found. It says theorems can't be enumerated, which actually means the opposite--there's always something new to find in a sufficiently strong system of mathematics. Not that there are theorem-enumerators of significant power in the first place.

Furthermore, proofs generally do not introduce new axioms and a proof that does, that isn't intended to be foundational, would be considered unsound.
A design that has to rely on the objectivity and dispassion of the collective Media, that has to be taken in the appropriate context as one part of a complicated "identity system" and on whose behalf laypeople are chastised for their immature visceral reactions, is probably just shitty.
This is what I enjoy about reading HackerNews. The comments are insightful and usually contribute to the discussion, often in a meritorious fashion that spawns interesting conversation. A strong community which makes informed comments clearly can be effective at helping scientific understanding. Good job on everyone here for that.
What is the "biggest" gain a language can have is a matter of taste. Someone who considers the handling of formatting and style to be the "biggest" is likely to be one who values those things highly.

That you do not value those things as highly is not particularly profound. It doesn't mean that he is wrong to be excited about that, nor that he is excited about the wrong language, nor even that there is no reason for you to be excited about that language. It only means that there is no reason for you to be excited about that language for that particular reason.
Any reason why voice can't be added through a custom rom?
I read a lot of comments that people felt the movies were pretty loyal to the books, so I thought I would add my own little rant to add some perspective for those who maybe read the LOTR books when they were ~15 or so and never read the Silmarillion.

The movies are fairly loyal to the books from a pure "action" perspective, in that they're about some midgets that find a ring and try to drop it in a volcano, there's a wizard, a ranger who's supposed to be a king, some elves and dwarves and stuff, and some battles, etc ...

The movies are NOT loyal at all to the broader mythology and spiritual aspects of Tolkien's world. The movies are full of scenes where these aspects are sacrificed in order to add very tiny bits of drama and action.

Case in point: Elrond's racist rant in "The Two Towers" movie to his Elf daughter Arwen, trying to convince her not to marry the mortal Man Aragorn. Look, I get it from a screenwriter's perspective: it adds some drama to the Aragorn/Arwen love story (which doesn't get much play in the books), it modernizes the story a bit to add the racism angle, and Elrond is a minor character in the movies anyway, so why not make him a Heel?

The problem from a broader perspective in the Tolkien universe is that Elrond (the Half-elven) is himself a descendant of Elves, Men, and Maiar (angels). His ancestors are among the great heroes of the First Age of the world. And in fact the reason why Sauron's boss isn't ruling the world at the time of LOTR is because Elrond's half-elf dad went himself to the Gods to request their help, on behalf of both Elves and Men. He was returning to the Gods a jewel containing the original Light of the world, that Elrond's human great-great-grandfather rescued from the Devil so he could marry Elrond's elf/angel great-great-grandmother. Oh, and Aragorn is a direct descendant of Elrond's brother Elros. And Elrond himself had lived 6000+ years by the time of LOTR and had fought alongside Men at the end of the Second Age.

From that perspective, the scene in the TTT movie, and the characterization of Elrond in general, is ridiculous. And the movies are full of these sorts of changes, where a little bit of drama/action is added at the expense of RUINING the story from the broader perspective of Tolkien's mythology.
I love sublime text, it is the best text editor.
I saw a tweet from Andy Matuschak and posted a link here as a result. I have no idea how he found out originally, unfortunately.

https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/287702245645107200
When I read a great book, I usually end up thinking, "Damn, I wish there was more about that one thing they briefly mentioned". Usually, if somebody goes in later and tries to fill in the blanks, you end up with a turd, because they're going in later to answer questions.

The Silmarillion is different. I'd argue it's the main work, and I appreciate it largely because it's not a novel, it's a Biblical compilation covering thousands of years that required decades of world-building and re-writing to bring it to the incomplete state it's in now.
Pretty sure lots of the Tolkien races come from Norse mythology.
This is a great idea. Allowing for two different brands to evolve with their respective markets.
* A Beautiful Mind
To anyone that read this and identified strongly: I highly recommend you pick up 'The War of Art' and 'Turning Pro' by Steven Pressfield.

Essentially,accordingly to Pressfield, those writers who identify strongly with problems the writer has in the article would do well to adopt a "hard hat" mentality of doing creative work; grab your lunch pale, sit in front of the computer and suffer, and don't worry about whether what you write is good or not-just do the damn work. 'Pretend' that you only write for money (you don't, but money is nice).

The problem for me and I think for the writer is identifying one's ego and with one's work. You start to worry you're not cut out, good enough, etc. But when you start thinking of creative endeavors like grabbing your lunch pail and heading off to the construction cite to put in a hard day's work, everything changes. It's kinda zen like in that way. Success or failure-the construction worker doesn't take it personally-he still has a beer at the end of the day and laughs with his family.

That's the way I see it anyway.
This article reads like a parody at times.

Clearly the designers who designed the ugly logo aren't the problem, it's "everyone else." (He actually says this.) Everyone else is "not qualified" to offer an opinion-- no, not even if they are professional designers. Clearly only the people inside the organization that did the design are qualified to have an opinion. People who criticize are "reactionaries" (LOL, comrade). Above all designers should never "criticize" other designers no matter how bad their shit smells.

One has to wonder which profession he feels he is in-- manure shoveler? or perhaps bootlick. Either way, this essay made me laugh like none other. I think the only appropriate response is U MAD?
Yeah, I'd love to try it out if I happen to find one cheap or one falls into my hands one day. Just as a device to hack around on and play with would be nice. I knew you could theme on iphone, but I didn't realize there was more in the modding community for it than that.

You're correct about the average Android user assuming that there's nothing you can really mod with an iOS device. The fact they assume that is sort of odd to a point, given how many in the Android community readily accept and mod phones without a complete source tree by Samsung, HTC and others in a similar fashion by reversing the dalvik byte code into Smali.
I used notepad++ until I found sublime
Absolutely about the change point. It's also valuable to understand why things have changed, memorization is not going to help you with that, but you should be able to at least notice that things have changed and be able to conceptualize why they have.
Not entirely made up. In Tolkien's world. Azog was indeed the leader of the orcs in Moria and he did behead Thror. However, Tolkien's story has Azog killed by Dain in that same battle. The scene at the end of the first Hobbit movie did take place in the book, but Azog was not present--if I remember right, they were just treed by some random goblins, who sang a cheery song :)
You shouldn't have quit. There's really good stuff in the Silmarilion and if you really like middle earth and all that, you won't be sorry to have read it entirely in the end.
I have to raise the eyebrow to that. I have had more GC problems with Java than any other language. Geniuses fuck up too, and when they do it's pronounced "OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space."
saying that the logo is just a small part of the overall identity is really dumb.

saying that the general public is unqualified to comment on it is even dumber.

if 90% of people don't like it, it is by definition a bad logo.
Agree with everything you say about Godel.

I'm not sure what your last line means, though. Speaking strictly in terms of axioms and derived theorems, that seems fine, but in thinking of, say, Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, which wended broadly through various branches of math, extending them or perhaps inventing them as needed, it seems incorrect to say this. I'm not sure whether you want to characterize Wiles as introducing new axioms, but he certainly wasn't simply deriving new theorems that could have been computationally enumerated.

Perhaps I'm wrong; I'm not a mathematician. But my understanding of Godel, axiomatic systems, and proof engines is that what they do simply isn't comparable to, say, what Mochizuki did with the ABC Conjecture.
I think the "sonar sensor" is the most egregious, such a thing it $1 in parts but is retailed at $25. That is just ridiculous. The obvious solution was to use a Raspberry Pi instead, it might even be able to emulate the sonar ranging algorithm on the CPU.
Thanks. I don't really like that example with codecs, because I could always argue that any codec can only be a physical system, operating in some environment at temperature T and will be constrained by Landauer's, ets.

Either way, I think we've digressed. I'm actually very happy with yours: "Adding energy to a system with negative temperature reduces the number of microstates.", because this is clear and unambiguous.
I think the goblin king should have been played a little more subtly, but as jonny_eh points out, it's a children's story. While The Hobbit takes place in the larger world of Middle Earth, it is also significantly lighter in tone than LotR. It was silly in places, and some silliness is appropriate.

Consider the trolls they find early on. Do any of Tolkien's other works ever mention them being more than mute beasts? Yet in the Hobbit, they're dumb but capable of making tools, etc., and they turn to stone in sunlight, a weakness never mentioned elsewhere. This is much more in line with traditional fairy stories, down to Gandalf tricking the trolls until they're caught in sunlight and turn to stone.
This was pretty much exactly my reading.
Up front, but do not bother them with more attempts after getting a clear no. Put her into the friend-zone pro-actively, if you like her enough to hang out, or ignore her, if you are not actually interested in non-romantic activities. But move on.
Like this you mean? http://i.imgur.com/K7LzA.gif