skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say consciousness and perception form the illusion of free will, but it (free will) is not a discoverable or knowable thing like the others.

I, too, am fascinated with what we may come to discover about ourselves, our minds, and our connections (both local and non-local) as we increase our quantum understanding.

Robert A. Burton's On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not and A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves may interest you. Not exactly in the realm of quantum theory, but if you're interested in understanding consciousness and perception, you really can't go wrong with reading up on neuroscience and related philosophy fields (mind, consciousness, being, etc.).

Beyond that, I think you're going to want to look for works on quantum physics with relation to neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Here's an article from 2005: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/360/1458/1309...

Roger Penrose has a few works on the subject of quantum theory and human consciousness (as mentioned by a sibling comment), and Max Tegmark argues against him, suggesting neurons are too warm to perform quantum computations. However, Henry Stapp (one of the authors of the linked article above), while admitting that Tegmark's work poses a significant problem for Penrose's theories, says his own theories are unaffected.

Despite that, there are perception issues (e.g., precognition) which offer curiosities regarding backward causality in time, on which discussion occurs to ponder potential quantum effects. Here, you'd want to look into quantum mechanics/theory and human perception.
This video is said to show US ships being monitored by a hijacked drone. Video was included in a statement by "Parastoo" making claims of an upcoming hijacking of UAV over US skies: http://cryptome.org/2013/07/parastoo-uav-launch2.htm

Also referenced is the supposed hijacking of a drone near JFK airport: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/05/nation/la-na-nn-faa-...

Images from the drone's systems have since been posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6038159
Discussion of the issue here (disclaimer, I started the pull request) - https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/pull/1327

The basic gist is that there is great fragmentation in the cache eco-system, and so there is no guarantee that the user actually has the version of jQuery cached that you are requesting. Alex Sexton brought up in a talk at jQueryTO that there are also the time for the DNS request itself to consider in any discussion of speed, if you concatenate/minify your code it will eliminate a DNS request.

Resources discussed in that page:
http://statichtml.com/2011/google-ajax-libraries-caching.htm...
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2011/08/17/http-archive-nin...
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/03/18/http-archive-jqu...

The end conclusion was that for H5BP it didn't make sense to remove the CDN reference, but for your own site it might - you should test it and see. It also depends on your audience (will the CDN move the files closer geographically?).

In the end, ~40k (gzipped) is not going to make or break your website's performance.
> On the other hand, the originalist thing seems flat-out dumb if it tries to deny that interpretations of past texts are always filtered through the present.

There is nothing all that silly about it. It simply interprets the Constitution in the way you would a contract--based on what the parties intended the document to mean at the time of the agreement.

> What minority social viewpoints and what effects?

The death penalty would be a good example. Right now, support for the death penalty is around 60% among the American public. If a Supreme Court came along and found that "the living Constitution" meant that the death penalty was unconstitutional, despite the death penalty being common at the time of the founding and also supported by a majority of the public, that would undermine peoples' faith in the Constitution and the Supreme Court as an actual common agreed-upon framework as opposed to just another political tool.

Sometimes the Supreme Court has to spend that political capital, to bootstrap social change, but even when the decision is "right" in retrospect, it has an injurious effect on the institution itself. E.g. it becomes a lot easier for conservatives to dismiss the Supreme Court's opinion on something like giving Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus rights when they can point to something like Roe v. Wade as evidence of the Court's political nature. It isn't just conservatives, of course. The Court lost enormous credibility among liberals in the 1920's and 1930's when it found all sorts of "economic rights" in the due process clause to strike down FDR's popular policies.

At this moment in history, faith in the Constitution and the Supreme Court is at historical lows on both sides, as a result of decades of liberal Courts using the bench as an instrument for social change on issues where there was no clear-cut consensus. Now, I happen to agree with those specific social issues, but that doesn't change the fact that this change came at high cost to the Court itself.

Originalism has a major advantage, and it is that when the Court isn't constantly finding new things in the Constitution, it can speak with far more authority on issues that were part of the original intent of the founders.
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arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1173
Right, if corn were not subsidized, corn syrup would probably not be wholly replaced with cane sugar, as cane sugar is much more expensive, a lot of it is imported, and it can't really be grown productively in most of the US--inside the US it's really only grown in Florida, Texas, and Hawaii.

The 89 million acres[1] of corn harvested in the US would be partly replaced by some other starchy crop x, and high fructose corn syrup would be partly replaced by high fructose x syrup.

The root problem is really the fact that we as a nation eat too much food, and too much cheap, high-carbohydrate, calorie-dense, processed food. I agree with cutting corn subsidies, but the real solution is on the demand side.

1: http://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/cornac....
I can't comment on the supposed result this article claims, but really, locality?

Quantum mechanics is not a nonlocal theory. The result the article was referring to - Bell inequality - states simply that "No physical theory of local hidden variables can ever reproduce all of the predictions of quantum mechanics."

The wording is important. You can have nonlocal hidden variables, or you can have.. local theories without hidden variables. The most famous of the latter would be MWI.
The best pattern in gaming will hit us soon "Do what ever the hell you want"
Slides can be found here: http://blog.streamingmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/20...
In JavaScript’s syntax, if $left and $top are not defined as variables, then

{$left: '10px', $top: '10px'}

is equivalent to

{'$left': '10px', '$top': '10px'}

The library doesn’t have to define global variables for that code to work. So it probably doesn’t define them as global variables.
> somehow I don't think you're listening if the New Yorker is hyperliberal.

I didn't say the New Yorker is hyperliberal. I said that the idea that solitary confinement is torture is hyperliberal (literally, "more liberal" than the liberal mainstream viewpoint).

> and whether it prevents recidivism and enables employment upon release.

That's absolutely irrelevant to Constitutionality. Something can be a stupid, ineffective, policy and yet be Constitutional.
A user/group named "Parastoo" has been hacking targets like IHS Janes: http://cryptome.org/2013/02/parastoo-janes-cbrn.htm

Recently has started making statements about hijacking drones: http://cryptome.org/2013/07/parastoo-uav-launch2.htm

TLDR: Iranian chap(s) have been on a hacking spree and seem to be honing in on what they like to target. In this case US drones over US skies/assets.
I find this amusing that every one of my friends watches the following religiously:
Top Gear, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Peep Show, QI, amongst others.

And from showing all of the rest of my non-british loving friends these shows they tend to become instant fans. So I think this meta problem is really not on the American side to be honest but the lack of availability if at all.
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In case you need mobile support and not IE, also checkout Zepto. I updated test with Zepto - http://jsperf.com/test-jquery-vs-minified/4

URL: http://zeptojs.com/
The First 140
This is how silicon valley ends up working entirely on problems faced by young single tech-savvy american college graduates with disposable income.
Is the problem resolved for you?
The huge assumption that Nathan makes here is that "problems I have" can always be extended to "problems that a profitable target market has."

You're surely right that that assumption is invalid, but I don't think he is making it. He's saying that if you operate from "problems I have", you're in a much stronger position than if you rely on external feedback alone. Both your point and his can be true. Of course, the two add up to a big problem—but that's because this stuff is hard. There's no system for making it easier.
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I love what you are doing, but if you are trying to provide a comparable framework, a thorough understanding of what the functionality you are replicating is vital. The delegation of .on() is quite handy (for reasons others have elaborated already).
The automatic alternative detection kind of failed there. I'll update the list manually.

In the meantime, you can find all the Reader alternatives just by searching: https://starthq.com/apps/?q=reader
Depends. At the bottom of the page did it have a "Like" icon, and the words "432 of your friends like this page, you should too?"

If it did, you're already on that list.
dis·crim·i·na·tion /disˌkriməˈnāSHən/

Noun:

1) The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

2) Recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another.

Hmmmm.... nothing in there about power.

sex·ism /ˈsekˌsizəm/

Noun:

1) Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.

Sure... it says typically against women. But if sexism against men can not exist then that definition would have to say always... not typically. So you might not want to accept it... but your statements are wrong... plain and simple... wrong. You can't just make your own definitions for words and then project them onto everyone.

Quotas discriminate. Period. If the rule says you must have 50% women and 50% men, when it comes time to hire a new person, you absolutely will have to take the gender of that person into account in order to make sure you stay within the quota. I have absolutely no idea how reasonable people can think quotas are anything but discrimination.

I'm not part of the MRA. But go ahead and lump me into the MRA group if that is what you need to do so you can laugh at me. I really don't care. Because that would just be one more thing you are doing to water down the real issues. You do your cause no good to be like that. Overuse of words that used to mean something is becoming the butt of jokes! You are making them a joke. Go laugh at that. Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Eventually no one will listen anymore.
I think, in context, he meant it would be difficult to find a country whose practices line up with Snowden's ideals.
Actually this is not possible for some definition of possible (mainly performance). Feynman showed that you get an exponential slowdown when simulating QM with a classical computer: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/Feynman.pdf

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_quantum_simulator

In this particular case I don't think a quantum computer is necessarily any help (so simulating it won't work either) but rather exploiting nonlocality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality).
I think the point is that getting rid of the subsidies would let the price of HFCS increase and would be less attractive to food producers.

Regarding the idea that sucrose is healthier than HFCS, I remain unconvinced.

See Robert H. Lustig's awesome expostion, Sugar: The Bitter Truth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

He explains the endocrinology behind why our bodies cannot stay ahead of our sugar intake.
Animated Books with CSS Transforms
Note that in some ways core.async is a bit more flexible than Go - for example you can dynamically select over a changing list of channels. I've found this to be really handy especially when you're receiving channels on channels.

you can do everything in an FRP style if you like with core.async, it's flexible enough for that. But I think for less toy examples this is undesirable as you allude.
In your opinion, what is missing that it needs to become viable?
You can at least send a SendPort over a SendPort:

"Isolates send messages using SendPorts, and receive them using ReceivePorts.
The content of a message can be any of the following:

* (...)

* An instance of SendPort"

You can prefer one or the other model, but saying that Dart fails to address concurrency is just not true.
6 Obscure Video Game Consoles You Never Knew Existed
Draft is a product that helps you write better. I use it, and it's excellent. There are writers everywhere, and have been throughout history. I'd hardly call that

"problems faced by young single tech-savvy american college graduates with disposable income."
You're right.

There's a lot of interesting work on memristor memory, which is much cheaper and faster (and probably lower power) than RAM ,And a lot of interesting work on faster, lower power 3D memory interfaces.

Those and other hardware innovations could have a huge effect on the garbage collection issue, and this whole debate.
> we as a nation eat too much food

I really don't know how to fix it, because it is more the subconscious drive to overeat when you can than any cultural issue. Food is plentiful and cheap, so Americans devour it incessantly. One thing I think could fix it is decoupling the social aspects of eating - most families only see each other for food, which prompts them to eat more if subconsciously they want more human interaction.

It is also known you eat more when you aren't happy, so obviously make people happier, which isn't something as a society we are doing much of.
Has Patent, Will Sue: An Alert to Corporate America
Maybe the slowing of this Law, which I am not convinced of per this article, will slow new hardware introduction. If this happens, perhaps this will allow closer optimization of applications to a small, relatively static hardware complement.
You obviously know more about this than me. I suppose, I shouldn't have posed such a strong thesis - my English teacher would be very cross if she were to hear about this. As usual, everything is more nuanced and interesting when investigated in some detail.
To be fair, Woz hasn't had direct involvement with Apple (other than as a shareholder) in decades. He's definitely not responsible for "new" Apple.
Good to know, thanks :) What's this $100 ARM device you speak of?
This is the recording (needs a login)
http://www.liveatc.net/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topi...

Drone sighting at JFK
And even for native code, it's generally easy to support multiple architectures (unless your code is arch-specific).
That page is so incredibly foreign to me - right justified, stuff from right appears on left, things from top on bottom etc. I'm surprised how striking I found it.
One thing that is not covered in the post is how should we clean up those goroutines that are blocked on channels. I'm not familiar with internal workings of core.async, so I'm looking at it from Go's point of view.

Imagine that in the search example, inside the `google` function, we want to read from 100 channels. And each call to `fastest` is supplied with 100 arguments. If on average we get 100 results back in the allotted time, 900 goroutines will be left in a blocked state waiting for someone to read from their respective channel.

I'm guessing those goroutines are cheap and are implemented as some sort of state machine that maps to callbacks. But all those blocked goroutines should still incur runtime cost. Will the GC kick in collect those?

If this issue is really there (i.e. if I'm not mistaken), imagine what will become of your one-page-web-app after you click on that Search button a dozen of times.
Yeah, I really would have appreciated some warning for that.
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I almost always went right to the back page, for the BBS numbers.

I'd call whatever was local, which wasn't much, but would find the most eclectic treasure troves... found an easy to use gravity simulator once. Took FOREVER to download at probably just a few MB.

It was a weirder online experience then, you really felt like you had something secret, all to yourself.
How a Typical Patent Battle Took an Unexpected Turn
I love Play! but they need to work on the performance. The recent benchmarks on HN just makes me sad. Even with all of that its still my goto framework when possible.
I used to page through the ads and find the biggest, fastest computers and I'd fantasize about having them. (I was a kid)
Another alternative is PonyDebugger:

https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger
Because the user is as of now "2 hours old" and so is the link. And if that user has been lurking, that's fine.. but this is something I've been noticing a lot recently. Is there by chance some loophole in the frontpage algorithm where newer users have an easier chance of making the frontpage?
Not many people have heard of it for whatever reason, but what you're describing can be accomplished perfectly well on X11 systems using XCompose: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Accents_on_US_keyboards
I'm trying to think of some <Foo> that doesn't work in the pattern of "<Foo> will prosper until governments or banks decide to crush it".

Excepting the trivial cases of things that won't prosper regardless, I'm not coming up with anything. :)

Some of the assumptions in the article seem pretty weak to me: E.g. "Anonymity threatens control" uh, cash is a lot more anonymous than Bitcoin. The structure of cash's anonymity limitations are somewhat different than Bitcoin's but it's hard to argue that Bitcoin is too different on that point. ... and it's not just cash, any other valuable commodity is fairly anonymous, and easily argued as more so than Bitcoin— yet, as far as I am aware, there is no great effort afoot to outlaw coal.
Just yo let you know those text on photos are basically mystic poems. One of the tools Iranian propaganda uses
As the Stanford article said, this is "one of the holy grails" in its field because it has been an open question for decades. It was hypothesized but never observed, because collecting the data - multigenerational family histories of animals - is quite hard.

The researchers found a clever way by analyzing zoo animals, which do have records. It still took years of work though.

Of course they didn't "prove" anything. But you are setting a ridiculously high bar for scientific progress, which is generally very incremental. They took an open question that was undecided for decades and found a way to collect a large amount of data to support the hypothesis. Now that that is - finally! - done, work can proceed to focus on the mechanism.
BBC iPlayer Android team 3 times the size of iOS team
I felt the same way the first time I saw an Arabic-English restaurant menu. The symmetry of the juxtaposition of the two typesetting schemes is quite elegant and striking.

E.G., see here http://www.flickr.com/photos/denon/3563523851/
...why? Because it's arabic? Ooohhh, scary arabic. Or they're talking about spies and bombs? Don't we talk about those things on hacker news too?

I can't read it, I'm working my way through the google translation and just starting, so maybe it's all "bad" stuff, but to be honest, I hope iranians can shed some light on what our government is doing - the US government itself certainly isn't going to help with that.
Ask HN: What books inspire you?
That's a gross over-generalization of youth. Age alone does not tell you anything about intelligence, experience or the likelihood of making mistakes. There may be a general correlation, but it is not causation. You may have a 20-year-old who's been programming and contributing to open-source projects since he was 10 against a 31-year-old who's been programming since he was 27. Who has more experience? Who's more likely to make mistakes? - Age has nothing to do with it.

You could say people new in the industry haven't been conditioned and molded yet. They're young in the industry and thus make stupid mistakes in the process and in the process find new ways of doing things. That would be far more accurate.
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My interpretation of this for those with a bit of game theory background:

Locality (in physics) can be translated (in game theory) as a constraint on correlated equilibria, by pretty basic observations about Bayesian probability.

Generally in game theory when you lift constraints on correlated equilibria you (weakly) expand the possible Nash equilibria.

So one of their points seems to be that the quantum context (non-locality) allows for more (potentially better) equilibria.

They don't emphasize applications of this, but one of them could be that distributed quantum systems could have better outcomes than distributed systems in the classical setting. (One way to analyze distributed systems is by viewing components as independent actors in a game.)

There is also an identification between payoff functions and Bell inequalities, but I am not sure how profound this is really. It feels more like a technical point. Payoff functions are not terribly fundamental in game theory (compared to equilibria, for instance).
Age has nothing to do with anything. Old or young, people can be intelligent, productive and very forward thinking. It is true that many people who have been in the industry a while have found a job and technologies where they're comfortable and don't want to change; but it's just as true that many continue to move forward and try new things.
It's a bit like the meme-myth "only 10% of Americans have a passport", which turns out to be nonsense.
> "Gender" seems to be used as an animal's social-sexual identity

That has changed. You can now find many studies in biology talking about the gender of animals (frogs, insects, anything) when they literally mean what you refer to as sex here.

> Humans are unique in divorcing sex (and gender) from reproduction.

That is highly speculative. We do not understand animals well enough to even know if that is a meaningful question.