skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another cause of dullness is imitation. You are made to imitate by tradition. The weight of the past drives you to conform, toe the line, and through conformity the mind feels safe, secure; it establishes itself in a well-oiled groove so that it can run smoothly without disturbance, without a quiver of doubt. Watch the grown-up people about you and you will see that their minds do not want to be disturbed. They want peace, even though it is the peace of death; but real peace is something entirely different.

> When the mind establishes itself in a groove, in a pattern, haven't you noticed that it is always prompted by the desire to be secure? That is why it follows an ideal, an example, a guru. It wants to be safe, undisturbed, therefore it imitates. When you read in your history books about great leaders, saints, warriors, don't you find yourself wanting to copy them? Not that there aren't great people in the world; but the instinct is to imitate great people, to try to become like them, and that is one of the factors of deterioration because the mind then sets itself in a mould.

> Furthermore, society does not want individuals who are alert, keen, revolutionary, because such individuals will not fit into the established social pattern and they may break it up. That is why society seeks to hold your mind in its pattern, and why your so-called education encourages you to imitate, to follow, to conform.

> Now, can the mind stop imitating? That is, can it cease to form habits? And can the mind, which is already caught in habit, be free of habit?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Think on These Things (This Matter of Culture), Chapter 16, Renewing the Mind - http://books.google.it/books?id=IsldnzHkxpsC&printsec=frontc...
On the subject of biases - do you think perhaps that the selection of people that your medical social worker friends see might, maybe, represent the problem end of the spectrum of users? Rather than a representative cross section?

I don't have any doubt some substances are much worse than others for this, meth and crack spring to mind, but the personal experiences of social workers are IMHO useful to see what can happen when things go wrong, not useful to assess how likely that is.
the screenshot is still not on the site... I'm with @nilved Why would I want to sign up for a site that applies so little thought to its users that it doesn't even feel they are worthy of / need any details on what the site does, and just expects people to sign up because you told them to.
This view held by those in power that "idealists are weak" is an idea ripe for disruption.

The view was stated in a post yesterday "Freedom: The Big American Lie" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5962459):

To snub and even to wound your most zealous supporters, as Obama has done, is regarded as a mark of maturity in Washington. This is not because snubbing or wounding them is a brave thing to do, but exactly the opposite: Because the righteous attitude of the idealist is repugnant to the men of power, who know that idealists are, in fact, men of weakness, entitled to neither courtesy nor respect.

Maybe the culture of power could be disrupted if a world dominated by bankers and takers was usurped by these makers whom learned to thrive in a culture of openness and sharing. Maybe this change in culture could usher in a New Camelot. Idealistic? -- yes. Possible? -- absolutely, if leading founders make solving this problem their next challenge.

The US was founded on a set of ideals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream). This country was started by founders. It can be restored by founders.
The Lasers of Renga: Telling Stories with 100 Protagonists
I'd love to talk ecommerce some time. Could you drop me a note to the e-mail in my profile?
No, it is in fact very naive to think the idea of a "friend" even has any meaning on the scale of nation-states. There are nations who's interests are aligned and those who's interests are not. Anything more than that is pure naivete.
Interesting, I have something like this on my "perhaps I should do that" list.

From the protocol description it seems, that one shares a torrent file (with the profile) to the followers over i2p? And this torrent is signed with DSA-SHA1, to provide the authenticity of the profile? ( At least I think this should be the idea in a very handwaving way? I am not really sure how much I did understand.)

And two give a little bit of feedback:

1. Nightweb is 'calling home' via the latest.js. ( This information should probably better be shared via i2p, since this is at least leaking, who is running Nightweb.)

2. Some tutorial or at least tooltips. At least I do not really understand the UI at the moment.

3. I was finally able to understand what to do with a .jar file, and that Java wants to be called with -jar, I am not really sure if the average user knows, what he should do with a .jar without further explanation.

Edit: How long should it take to spread a new posting through the network? ( I am wondering if something like chat/twitter could be done through NW.)
The key scientific finding by cognition research is the timing of the conscious and non-conscious decision making process.
As you have rightly pointed out fMRI is yet another tool in neuroscience, yet in addition it provides profound insight in the sequence of events that happen during any decision making process, be that buying candy or criminal behaviour.
The decision to take any action seems to be made many hundreds of milliseconds before we consciously "think" we reach the conclusion and act on it. Thereby fMRI based neuroscience has moved the "root" of human behaviour from the conscious part of our selfs into the unknown depth of our subconscious mind.
Indeed we are as far from the rational decision making machine that the free will paradigm suggests, and you don't need to look far before you see the impact that suggestive advertising and negotiation tactics have on us.
This conclusion is hard to marry with the philosophical concept of free will and the economic concept of the rational agent and does cause some unease amongst legal scholars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassador_%282011_film%29 this Danish guy obtained a diplomatic Liberian passport and went to Central Africa to deal diamonds, and was interviewed even by the head of intelligence there. I won't spoil what failed on his journeys, but obtaining papers while a bit hard, wasn't impossible.

> a country allowing entrance with non-biometric passports

haven't heard of it tbh. a passport has to be valid. since Polish passports have 10 year validity, you can travel today with an old passport from late 2003. now I checked Canada demands a visa from Poles who have an old passport, not sure about, uhm, the vast whole rest of the world.

forging docs is 'the easy part', not 'easy' per se. what's challenging is crossing borders if you're on the run - you need some expertise about their security habits and diplomatic relations. if you got into criminal shit and Interpol is after you, you're screwed anyway, if they can track down top level mobsters hiding in a foreign village, they will track down an amateur.
Go on… actually make your case…
These yuropoors are so funny. If they cancel it its only their loss.
You make your own meaning, do you?

Don't you?
Frankly, I can't see a single good reason for this trade agreement, and a lot of good reasons against, starting with that I (and all other Europeans) don't want GM food, hormone beef and chlorinated chicken in my plate any day soon.
> I'm looking for more detail from a hacker perspective - how to get access to RMLS systems...

Avoid premature optimization.
The Prize in Literature's never free of the usual political recriminations either - there's a fine line between endorsing a message and acknowledging execution (and the fact that the ends an author sets plays an important role as well) that's never been fully articulated.
Speaking of oaths, the President's oath is to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution," not to protect the health or safety of Americans in general. Do NSA officials take an oath like the President's?

Every NSA employee knows they're violating the constitution. Keith Alexander's statement in an embarrassment, which only calls attention to the corruption or ignorance at the top.

Edit: spelling
The position of the US could be summarized as, make it easy for us to spy on everyone, make it hard for everyone else. Maximum data for us, minimal data for the rest. While other governments decry spying, naturally they have the incentive to be even more invasive.

Since I was a small child, everyone joked about the NSA listening to US citizen's phone calls. What is unusual about today is now the technology exists to save the communications data forever and organize it in a manner that produces meaningful facts.

Unfortunately we have ended up with a data cold war, where all governments are spying on everyone all of the time. It is logical for the US government to embrace encryption use by Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc, because they are able to access that data that foreign governments can not. I imagine Google's escalating implementations of user security relate directly to international spying activity.

As such, we should expect more spying by everyone, in an escalating manner. In less democratic societies, expect the result of unlimited blackmail, espionage, and murder.

The only alternative we have left for a free society are open source communication platforms that employ user-side encryption. (Sorry Silent Circle.)
Knuth himself wrote of his current work on Volume 4B that "There's stuff in here that isn't in Wikipedia yet!" :-)

So it's not true that everything is in Wikipedia, but even more importantly, even if the raw facts are in Wikipedia, that doesn't mean it's expressed in the best possible way.

I greatly enjoy reading Knuth's work; his writing style is delightful. Reading Wikipedia is often dry and lifeless.
That's a bit of a sweeping statement, how can you be so sure?
If you haven't already considered mbsync as an alternative to OfflineIMAP, I suggest taking a look. I also found OfflineIMAP buggy (many years ago) and mbsync has been syncing my mailboxes reliably since. http://isync.sourceforge.net/
I say this as the author of a program that runs mailbox syncers like mbsync when there are changes to sync (mswatch: http://mswatch.sourceforge.net/).
From the pictures it looks like the projection is focused on the film (also true for OP's link), where as in newer HUDs (such as my 2013 BMW) it looks like the projection has infinity set as the focus thus achieving the result of it looking like it's floating in a distance, and I don't need to adjust the focus of my eyes to look at the contents of the HUD.
But I have not reviewed the tech spec, it just seems this way and the videos/pictures in OP's link and your link look way too jarring.
Well, that is certainly a bare assertion. Why claim it did not?
The funny part is that I do not even live at suborbs, I wrote outside of city. I live in small town (4000 people) on west coast of Ireland. The closest city is Dublin 120 miles away. I work from home (zero commute) and I hope my startup will reduce power used by data-centres by a few percents.
Actual translation: because of the behavior of U.S. government, E.U. government(s) will make it hard for E.U. citizens to trade with U.S. citizens.

So normal people get spied on and bullied by one government, then because of that their life is made even more complicated by some other government. Great outcome!

When people will realize that the problem is always in the governments themselves as a concept, not in any particular issues? It's totally okay to be an atheist today, but we need just one extra little step to be anarchists and it's so, so, so complicated. While belief in a magical all-powerful and caring government is no different than a belief in deity.
Rather than rant.

!Just search twitter for 'operation IGNORE Assange' which I have been running since he went in there!
It's been publicly revealed that they only deny something like .03% of all requests.[1] If that isn't a "rubber stamp" then I don't know what is. Of course they have a response to that "Well, the requests are so well done that there are very few that there is any reason to deny them" but that doesn't pass the "smell test" as far as I'm concerned.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=fisa+.03%25
You don't have much of a sense of humor, do you.
Unless the engineers are concerned about detection and choose somehow to radiate in only one narrow direction, pointed away from any nearby stars.
May I ask you in which company you've been asked about implementing coroutines in C?
summary of this and every other article: make sure you're doing sequential scans in your tight inner loop, and ideally also exploit memory alignment and cache sizes while you're at it.
the graphical soln to 40 is beautiful.
All the harder to see the good reason when it's negotiated in secret. (Unless you are a favored lobbyist.)
Thanks for this. So you think there is room for books still in the sense of Knuth. That's encouraging. :)
What about a captive isolated environment that "forces" adaptation such as, tool use in birds & other animals.

It would suggest cognitive thought or at least, competence is a "mutation" forced upon the life-form by environment(s).

Time would only play a miniscule, but essential part in that process until the life-form figured out time doesn't seem to matter too matter.
It's probably just in need of better imaging, like that old face of Mars from the 70s.

Regards,
Events took for the worse, by introducing alcohol as the new "norm", we accepted "norm" as something horrible.

Then We put nam "drugs" as something way way worse than alcohol.

You don't need to use any of these, but this is the perfectly engineered view.

You can see this pattern in human behaviour, easily manipulative behaviour. Shopping culture, money spending, corporations, laws, this is like big fractal blooming same thing.

Still, it is interesting, seeing it all expressed and experiencing it, ever changing.

Have a nice day!
I think the elephant in the room for postgres is its lack of bidirectional log replication. Once that finally happens, I'm sure dead-simple balancing tools will start popping up everywhere.
"Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues."

We study and work for the purpose of altering the bits representing our bank account balances. Is that equivalent to hacking the bank and altering the bits directly?

We make friendships "to feel emotions like love". To what degree is it sane to misrepresent yourself and otherwise deceive people to make them your "friends"?

There's a contest for the shortest program printing itself to the screen. Is opening the file with the source code and copying the code to the screen really as good an entry as any other?

Any sane person and even most varieties of the insane person realize that the signal you're receiving is a means to infer that something is happening out there, not an end in itself.

This is not to say that there should or should not be a War on Drugs (which, since I'm not an American citizen, is really none of my business.)
You're making some pretty serious assumptions regarding WikiLeaks' intentions, and even if you're right, assuming whatever advice they offer is good is about more than their intentions, it's about a very difficult international situation that's not going to be simple even if you know the ins and outs of traveling without the US government chasing you.

Yeah, HN readers are fickle. Suggesting we/they should be "loyal" to anything, though, is ridiculous; loyalty is, depending on your point of view, either a way to trap suckers into shitty agreements or something you should only grant to people in whose intentions and abilities you have absolute confidence. I personally don't see either of those as good.
Look, if you think rejecting dualism is "not taking the consciousness problem seriously", you should read more.

And well, one thing that Christianism seems to be still struggling to learn is that, beyond reproductible and well defined experiments, and falsifiable hypotheses, nothing can really be more than logical inference from some axioms. Maybe some dudes up in the Vatican implicitly defined some axioms about what's "really a mystical experience", probably marginalizing the Orthodox and Gnostics and Cathars while they were at it. I don't personally care.
Snowden is a symbol and a sign of the future.

If the US government gets their hands on Snowden, and gets their way, I am absolutely certain America will plunge into an even darker era of deception and thought control.

Even now, most Americans are too brainwashed to care.
Like ChatRoulette, only you always get connected to someone with an interest in nascent web standards.
> Any deeper reading than that is projection or fantasy.

Indeed, and it's concerning that Lessig is able to reply to those types of points in very clear and direct language and still have it fly over the heads of people because "PALANTIR".

Even completing ignoring the very concept of the NSA it is clear that the government will be adopting technology to handle the governance of people.

So decide, tech peoples: Should this technology build in audit trails or not? Should this technology record what interface a government employee was using to extract this data, or not?

There are practically no government databases which can be completely innocuous in the face of a determined government insider. Don't throw the baby of technology controls on misuse of data out with the bathwater of... something(?), especially with accusations as specious as "their board member knows a guy who was on the board of... BAE! (oooooh ahhhhhhh)"
So you can't decide you want to have a go because intellectuals that inspire you had good things to say about it?

That's not a valid choice in your opinion?
Is there progress on this front?
Can't stress this enough, I went years researching and getting rid of my demons before engulfing in these experiences.

Of course, jumping the gun can be something very very amazing.

But sometimes, little preperation would not hurt.
We're actually not even clear on what conditions are necessary to generate intelligence capable of interstellar travel (or even interstellar communication)...humans aren't even really capable of it.

There might be billions of rockballs in the galaxy with life and intelligence at some level, maybe even up to the level of say a dolphin or a dog or even a chimpanzee on the high end. This might be the status today, or for the last hundred million years and the next hundred million. But those planets (and other orbs of lifebearing rock) aren't going to be sending spaceships our way anytime soon.

But let's suppose there's a million space capable intelligences spread out equally in the Milky-Way...what's the probability of them giving our particular system any interest whatsoever? The Drake equation is a fine estimate for the number of civilizations, but not for the probability that they'll contact us.
This post makes no sense. Saying 'Criminals' become better criminals in prison is oppressive and discriminatory and how on earth it is related to this issue at all I do not know.
Damn, this is really good advice. I find that as I get more senior, I have less immediate peers that set an example of what sort of next steps are possible, so these are good bits of advice to read.

Yes, the last year has included a lot of prototype experimentation with stuff like EIP (spring integration), amqp (rabbit), jax-ws (cxf mostly), Drools. I can see how pulling the thread on these could eventually turn into a product, but in the meantime it's really just been more about making the recommendation and then doing the implementation. I feel like I'd need a handful of more successful implementations before I can call myself the Consulting Enterprise Architect, but it's getting there.
> but a large percentage will be blocked as spam unless you use a well know relay even if you do everything right

That's hardly a rule. You clearly will end up on a blacklist if you host from home or if your IP is already on a list due to previous spam activity, but of you run off a static IP in a decent colo and have a proper PTR record, it is more likely than not to be all OK.

The 90% of inbound spam is still very effectively trimmed off by greylisting, i.e. postgrey if you are in postfix. I've been running my own mail server for close to 10 years now and it's really not a big deal.
> However, without a conscious soul, meaning itself loses meaning. What's the ontological support for meaning to rise on?

I sort of understand what you mean here, but at the same time I don't. Are you specifically referring to intrinsic meaning, as opposed to socially-constructed meaning?

As an agnostic that rejects supernatural explanations, I don't feel a conflict between the ability of human beings to ascribe meaning to things and the possibility that the "soul" (in the sense of a magically indivisible entity of self) does not exist.
Obama pledges $7 billion to upgrade power in Africa
except that cities are incredible, giant islands of heat.
> Saying no doesn't always help...

No, the police would like for you to think that. But imagine this scenario. You just dropped off a few friends. One may have dropped his prescription pain killer in between the seat cushions. Now, you've consented to the search and they found that dropped pill. You have no recourse, no prescription for a controlled substance and all you can say is it's not mine and you don't know how it got there.
I doubt his aim is to condone the current direction of the surveillance state, but perhaps pursuit of "balance" plus technical credulity helps achieve the same.
While one could disapprove of the choice of database, there's no reason to not use a database when you have little data.
Reading other comments here: don't get hung up on his opening gambit: "Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness.". That's just an introductory point.

I recommend reading the whole article, which is a beautiful balance of science and spirit, while being totally upfront and honest about the risks involved, even to the spiritually 'serious'.

As for me - psychedelics changed everything, but I stayed the same (or maybe everything stayed the same, but sad parts of me continue to be stripped away).

They continue to burn what is not real, as long as the heart is directed squarely at Truth and the mind is kept sharp and open. The trend is towards greater compassion, deeper love and surrender, coming more fully into the wholeness of being!
>They track people like that - constantly - it's not even the same as ordinary surveillance since anyone entering this world agrees to it.

Yeah, no one would ever be able to walk out with hard drive(s) full of data and then fly to hong kong and russia and leak it with that much nsa surveillance. Oops.
It would be nice if he used the money for American infrastructure.
The point is that technology has already usurped privacy. Even if the government doesn't, everyone else is. (And let's face it, the government does too, even if the NSA doesn't).

The genie is not going back in the bottle, but perhaps we can use technology to add some arc chutes and at least try to constrain where the pixie dust is going. In the end it will be the technological means help the people protect their privacy (who are after all, the only ones who can demand and truly enforce that).

Or as my father always said, "Locks don't keep bad people from breaking into your things; locks just keep honest people honest".