skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The revolution was clearly explained: it's the formalism viewpoint, most famously expounded by Hilbert, "mathematics is a game played with meaningless symbols following rules on paper." What this means is that we can discuss mathematics discarding all personal biases and intuitions. We can give personal meaning to these meaningless symbols and abstract rules, but we don't need these biases when communicating to each other nor when we actually have to perform computations or deductions.

The example given at the end is fractions, you can think of fractions in terms of pies and pizzas, but it's much more effective to ignore any of that when it comes to actually perform computations with that and simply focus on the "meaningless" symbols and manipulations that you do with them.

It's a pity that you tl;dr'ed this.
Such bombings as you describe have taken place in London, Madrid, and arguably Japan, to cite just a few. They certainly cause a lot of damage, but you can harden fixed infrastructure and to some extent this has already been done, since subway/rail operators already deal with the risk of switching failure and train collision. Train derailments and collisions are themselves powerful events, given the mass and momentum of a fast-moving train, and of course collisions involving freight trains carry additional risks because of chemical spills and so forth. I think it's unlikely that any sort of portable bomb would do the sort of damage you have in mind, because even commuter train carriages are engineered with the possibility of a collision in mind. Although terrorist incidents of this kind have been very destructive where they've occurred, the fact is that the damage is relatively contained, and because it's an elevated risk environment (due to the possibility of accidents) there are robust safety and rescue protocols already in place.

As an example of the difference, consider the Oklahoma city truck bomb had explosive force equivalent to 5 kilotons of TNT, involved 13 barrels of explosive, and other materials, requiring a small box truck to transport. It did horrendous damage, but in terms of pure destructive force it wrecked about 1/3 of a 9-story building. The two plane impacts on the WTC, by contrast, caused the total collapse of two 80-story skyscrapers. There was lots of ancillary damage in both cases, but I stand by my arguments that it's harder to predict where an attack from the air will occur and that the destructive potential is typically larger in the case of a successful attack, because of the extra mass, speed, and height inputs.
Here's another belief http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

Why call it God? Because it means different thing to different people and no on owns the word. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God#Other_concepts
What I hate in these company blogs - there seems to be no way to go to the actual company site... I always end up editing the address bar and removing "blog." prefix by hand...
Most of those attributes turn out to have perfectly good explanations in evolutionary psychology.

That being the case, there's no reason to expect a mind that isn't produced by the same process to possess them.
If you grab the resources you can see the lightmaps.
Full stack engineer for YC company in Sydney Australia
We’re a small scrappy startup with our HQ in NY and tech team in Sydney Australia. We are focused on bring rare and one of a kind fashion items from unique boutiques all over the world into one consolidated online store. Operationally and technically this is a big challenge as our model is not like other e-commerce stores. As a result the team is heavily tech focused as we innovate to deliver an outstanding unique customer experience.

What we are looking for in you:

-	You love coding and building things so much that sometime you forget to eat and sleep.
-	You love the energy, challenges and potential of a startup
-	You understand the best things on the planet are built by teams not individuals. One for all and all for one.

Your technical skills:
Our platform is built primarily in Grails, Groovy and Javascript and runs on the AWS stack. So we are looking for a full stack engineer who is keen to get into all parts of the system. Ideally you already have the following:

-	A degree in Computer Science or equivalent
-	Familiarity or expertise with the Grails framework
-	Solid demonstrable OO programing skills. We would want to see knowledge of practical use of design patterns etc.
-	You have built significantly large dynamic websites before and have references.
-	Solid backend coding skills. Your not afraid of threads :)
-	Solid font end coding skills. JQuery etc

Other Essentials:
-	You currently live in Sydney, Australia

Although this is our ideal list we are a startup after all and so would consider a motivated, hungry engineer with demonstrable coding chops. The only one thing is we need is someone here in Sydney Australia. We can’t do remote working at the moment.

Right now we are offering contract with immediate start and then the option to move to NY.

So if you want to join us then send us everything you have about yourself (github, resumes, blogs etc) and we will give you more information about the company.

To hackerinsydney@gmail.com
For some reason my brain interpreted the white queen as black. The 'right' move was still obvious since white only had a rook and pawns besides the invisible queen, but it took me way too long to see why it was a checkmate!
There is not a global shortage of potable water, in most areas flushing a toilet uses well under 1 cent of water and if it was not flushed it would simply end up in the ocean anyway. There are regional shortages, but in the vast majority of cases that's a corruption and infrastructure problem.

PS: Now sewage treatment is often far more expensive than the water it's self, but that's really a separate issue.
Fortunately HTML5 defined a standard way to parse even broken HTML and that parser is implemented in html5lib package. You can use it also with lxml and even use "jQuery like" selectors with lxml.cssselect (http://lxml.de/cssselect.html)
That would take a seriously powerful computer.

I remember reading a short story along those lines.. it ended with the simulated beings hacking physics and dropping off into a pocket universe, without helping at all.

Well, I guess they didn't kill us all. Might have been written by Greg Egan. Sounds familiar?
60FPS with info windows turned off on a maxed out late 2012 iMac.
Theories not only have to predict outcomes of events, they must also be falsifiable (and must expand on something thus far unexplained by other theories, you can't just recreate gravitational theory, for example).

You are, by your own admission, working with an incomplete understanding of how a scientific model functions. So I ask you, why should you be even commenting on this topic? Why should anyone take what you have to say seriously on this specific topic?
Is this any different from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperors_New_Mind?
Support Middle Eastern startups to come to Silicon Valley
As far as I can tell, all this does is sync slides, right? No a/v?

If it was a/v I would be very interested.

Otherwise, we rolled our own slide-changing tool called Motif. Basically we export our slides to images (PNG), upload them to our server, run a script to generate thumbnails, and send students attending our JS workshops to the right URL. I get to see a gallery of slides and back/next -- and when I click to a slide, the update for all students is practically instantaneous. It works on any device with a web browser capable of Ajax. Yay Ajax polling.

We syndicate a/v with Flash, using Influxis. So that video doesn't work on an iPad, but the slides do.
How to Spot the Five-Tool Superstar by Jeff Weiner
Interface with Axis cameras using Node.js
you can use OpenRefine. I am not saying this is worse and better just another very powerful option.
Phantomjs is mainly useful for JS-heavy pages. If you want to scrape that fully, you will need a heavy client-side, and there aren't that many alternatives.
1) Life expectancy.

2) 10-year moving average of the duration of subsistence living expenses that can be funded from a fixed weight of gold.

Both of these are very high level measures that fold in a lot of underlying technological progress. (1) is weighted towards computation and biotech, (2) against mining and expansion into space (would have to be weighted somehow there to be useful much past the next 20 years), but both encompass far more than that.

Both incorporate advantages provided by fluff technologies such as networking tools, but so many levels removed that we don't have to stop arguing over whether they should be dropped in a well or not. This may or may not be a benefit from your point of view.
You should do a "whois" lookup for the domain. The return code for a 'get' request on the domain has no bearing on its availability -- many parked domains do not even have DNS configured, let alone HTTP.
Chrome Beta (26.0.1410.29) on Nexus 4 (Android 4.2.1) gets about 18 - 22 FPS: http://i.imgur.com/KUEx3uD.png
> completely free alternative to h264

As a user H.264 was already free. As a developer H.264 was already free.
I could see an app like this being a tremendous asset for female sex workers. You're able to find clients who are interested in you, close, and willing to meet when you're available.
Ask HN: How do you improve online movie purchases?
In the physical world, you just choose a film, hand over your money, and take home the DVD. You can then watch it as many times as you like, on as many devices as you like, with no subscription fee to pay and minimal DRM (yes, there is CSS, but it is really only a token effort).

Why is there no digital alternative? I want to go to a website, choose a film, pay my money, and download a video file that I can then watch as many times as I like, on as many devices as I like, with no subscription fee to pay and minimal DRM.

Does such a service exist?

What are the barriers to setting up such a service?
They are not "society's businesses", so we don't have a say in how they spend their money. Not everything in this world has to be for some greater noble good. Sometimes we just want a burger and a beer.
IE7 doesn't cause nearly the same scale of problems that IE6 did; I don't think 1% is small enough to justify ignoring it entirely. (I suppose it depends on whether it degrades gracefully or becomes unusable.)
OpenRuko - Open Source Heroku Clone / Implementation
And I used to think NYC was bad.
Ah! Thanks for clarifying, that makes significantly more sense. I hope you didn't take my querying as too unkind!
I guess you did say a loss of all navaids though. The sextant was probably used for a bottle opener and broken or something.

> Either way though, hard to shoot an accurate azimuth when heavy fog miraculously rolls in out of nowhere and limits visibility to ~100 ft from the bridge. :)

Well that part is easy. Follow Robert Duvall's advice and call in for a huge napalm strike to lift the fog. It is the smell of victory, right? ;)
Agreed. Blind tests are the only reliable way. If nothing else tests in this area have managed to show is that people are not good at judging without bias if they know which is which.
I used to write Pascal a decade ago. Does it still have endless begin-end statements?
I don't understand, why is this search interesting?
Sorry, what are we looking at here, exactly?
You realize that a business is at least 70% a social solution no matter how big your engineering department is, right?
Gl-solar – WebGL rendering of OSM data
Top Most Requested Songs with Steven Escobar 03/10 by Diversity News Radio
I could certainly support that. I have suggested to all the folks I've talked with and supported for election that they consider taking a pledge to remove one law per quarter and that would win my vote for re-election.

I nearly ran for congress in 2010, it is still on my list of things to do. The only thing that stopped me that time was figuring out the dynamics was taking longer than I had. I no interest in offering just a random name on the ballot and putting together something of a platform took longer than I expected. In some ways I chickened out when it came to sending the FEC money. My reasoning was the paperwork burden I was about to incur vs that possible outcomes. At the time I was going to run as a Republican although the California party had already said that my views on Gay marriage (for) and abortion (pro choice) made me "unsuitable" for their support. Too late to create a 'new' party, and unlikely to make it through the primaries as an "off" ticket, didn't bode well. Instead I used the time to try to learn more about the underlying processes. Starting out targeting congress is a pretty low percentage move unless you're a Kennedy. :-)
Classic Slashdot Car analogies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_analogy
My professors used it on many lecture slides... very few people until it was pointed out to them, and once that happened then they couldn't focus!
Don't fix it if it isn't broke. NASA has lots of operational experience with VxWorks. They know all its warts and how to avoid potential issues. They also know the power consumption of the kernel. Compared to the cost of the overall mission the cost of VxWorks is negligible, yet the risk of replacing it with another kernel is quite high. It just doesn't make any sense.
github+heroku baby!
...except that JS can also fail due to network lag or simple programming errors (like a trailing JSON comma in IE). Ideally, sites should remain as functional as possible if JS or CSS fail to load. (Admittedly, a great many large websites fail this test.)
The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity
Probably because that feature starts out with -100 points (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2004/01/12/57985.aspx) which sounds like a good way to filter the backlog to me.
Seeing that computers have already surpassed human in ability to play chess, what makes you think that this CAPTCHA isn't just easier than morphed text CAPTCHAs.
This article stirs the pot but is flawed.

Low hanging fruit gone?

Proof?

And how is that relevant?

If you want to innovate, do it. Figure it out. Stop blaming investors or the government. Blame yourself and fix yourself so you are doing the kind of innovation you want to, even it is part-time, initially.

Go be a professor at Caltech, MIT, Stanford or Berkeley and work on the hardest problems in science and technology and innovate.

Go work for Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.

Innovate yourself.

Stop trying to "kill it" as you Lean-Startup your way to a billion dollar company.

And stop whining. :)
Hmm. Judging from the way the server.js is written, I'd expect he's being rate-limited, and the server returns free whenever the HTTP call doesn't return 200.

Edit: Just to be sure, I threw in a breakpoint on line 18 of generate.js, and set name to my username (cbhl) -- and got a false "free" result for both Twitter and GitHub.

The OP might need to be getting OAuth tokens and using the GitHub/Twitter APIs.
So you are, literally, arguing for security by obscurity. "Oh, my captcha is unique, therefore nobody will bother".

There are easier to implement unique captchas, than chess.
huh? Who are you? have you made me a project? ooh! that's so cute! Well I could just wave off your weird outburst here but I guess out of fairness I'll address you point for point.

> Your recurring "rebuttal" to somebody posting a reply to your argument is to say that your point is right, that he is 'deeply confused'

Recurring? Well I did say he was deeply confused. once, up thread. I suppose the part where I supposedly say "my point is right" is implied by the fact that this is an argument, and I am the person arguing my point- But I can't find where I say that explicitly, out loud. That would kind of be weird. Have I said this somewhere else?

> that he is arguing from authority, ignoring mathematical principles, that he is hysterical.

OH! Are you referring to where I was talking about mathematical principles? I suppose one way of looking at that was me saying something about his argument. From my point of view I was just talking about a subject though.

> that he doesn't read his own links,

it was my link, and it was him trying to make a point about me reading my own link. Of course I did read my own link. the problem we were having is that he skimmed it, found the one out of context quote that would support his own point, and pulled that out on display. This seems kind of ridiculous to me, because anyone can click in, and look to see that they're quotes pulled out of context in such a way as to reverse their intended meaning, and he's fooling nobody by doing that. Well, maybe he's fooled you.

> that he is making a fool of himself by not understanding what he has linked to himself.

it was my link and and trying to lie about a source that is RIGHT THERE, and anyone can look at is really kind of crazy.

> Up to this point, you don't use a single word to actually provide any substance at all to your argument.

Up until that point there was not a single word that seriously challenged my claims, either.

> Then, finally, you actually do address one of his points in the most dismissive and condescending way I have seen all day.

Well, because it came at the end of a back of forth involving me trying to get him to read something that addressed his point, and so at the end, well, it's condescending because you realise that the point he is making is at this point, not that SQL IS relational after all, but that the Relational model is so absurd and stupid to begin with so as to be useless. So, at this point I have to just accept that he is irredeemably ridiculous and let him just have that victory if he wants it.

> Kudos, I guess. No substance and all hot air. Somewhere halfway through your silly dance, irony ate its own hat

Why do you care so much?
Hi,

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I keep hearing about self-driving cars...
(I work on the same site/problem as author)

We would prefer node did not deal with the https, I actually did a previous blog post showing how performance degraded https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/posts/nodejs_http_vs_https.h....

Options like Ngnix and haproxy without pound/stud are quite recent and we have not gotten around to trying them out.

In regards to clustering, running socket.io in a cluster with redis store is another world of memory leaking pain. Hopefully socket.io 1.0 with engine.io will solve this but its been nearly released for several months now.

I am now starting to question the value of websockets, long polling is a lot simpler in many ways and robust.
I was very impressed when I found out that Pascal supports subrange types (that is types with custom, user-defined ranges). I had only seen it in VHDL / Ada before, where I found it to be very useful.
Also ChromeOS/ChromiumOS. I would pay for a private server and I'm guessing many businesses would to.
The barriers are the major movie studios/distributors. They have not yet learned the lesson that the music industry did with the advent of iTunes MP3 and amazon MP3 sales, namely that providing fair-priced, DRM free music deters pirates.
The Paris water system contains pairs of pipes -- potable for drinking, and non-potable for cleaning. (I'm not sure if the non-potable is just for street cleaning, or if it's used for toilets too.)

It seems so much more obviously cost-effective, I wonder why that never took off anywhere in the US, as far as I know?

http://parisianfields.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/a-most-unusua...

http://www.iwaponline.com/ws/00303/ws003030193.htm
There's a pretty good correlation with "states on the verge of bankruptcy", too.

Alaska being the outlier here.
Just curious, when you started what was the original pitch that you had for what the game would be?
Russia admits no new life form found in Antarctic lake
As an Aussie/Kiwi dual citizen in China, I wonder why you don't consider moving to Asia. Sydney, where I was born, is ridiculously pricey, and while the harbour is beautiful and the city fairly green (in parts), it's not really that international and the quality of life doesn't actually match the image once you start paying taxes and cost of living. That said, it's a safe choice.
I'd be wary of doing automated whois lookups, which might be considered abusive / against terms of service depending on which server you hit.
Very true. This requires a little more work than my current hack. I'll see if there is a whois package for node...
In the video, use onscreen text, like "connect the squares that have the same colour" (sorry I didn't play your game, but this is what I got from the video that it's about, I'm not sure how the air balloons tie in though).
AutoMicroFarm March 2013 Update
There are licensing costs built into OSes shipping h264, devices built with HW decoders, online movies rented with it, etc.
There is a difference between "SQL is relational" and "SQL can be used to maintain a relational database". the first is false, the second is true.

As for whether it's practical to have a relational database system, are you claiming that it isn't ?

Re: PHP. I said that PHP can be used to make good programs. Is this a point you disagree with? or, do you see some other point?
I like Yvon Chouinard's definition of innovation, which I'll paraphrase as: Invention is the creation of new things, and innovation is the application of inventions to solve problems for lots of people.

I like this definition because I think it accomodates the fact that a lot of products that are obviously inventive, fail to succeed in the marketplace or change many people's lives. Examples include Google Wave, the Apple Newton, etc. It also accomodates companies like Apple today, which do succeed in the marketplace and change many people's lives, despite inventing very few things themselves.

So when we look at the state of Silicon Valley today we can see that there are companies like Apple and Facebook that are innovative despite not being inventive. And then there are initiatives like Google's glasses and self-driving car that, while incredibly inventive, can't really be considered innovative (at least not yet).
Good stationery as a tool of thought
Great piece by Ms Love. Surprised I hadn't seen it before. Thanks for posting.
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Not meaning you to make you feel like you're inching towards the aggressive, I just feel like the distance between C89 and C99 is not a very big one. Even in C99 I tend to use some perhaps conservative style choices, and in this view the C99 stuff really does seem like "niceties" rather than essentials. The difference between C and C++ feels much bigger to me.

And then after all, you initially explained the need for this in terms of Windows-specific code (or at least that's how I read it), so that's the angle I took...
CsQuery is another interesting library for C# along those same lines: https://github.com/jamietre/CsQuery
Any tips to sort this out? How are things being rate limited?

edit: just realised you meant that twitter/github etc are rate limiting my requests. Bummer.
The article shows that BeautifulSoup can use lxml internally. It can also use html5lib.