skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5.c says "This License gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have separately received it."

So you can distribute a BSD project with readline, and recipients are free to choose the BSD license for the BSD part and then distribute a closed source binary linked against a compatible readline replacement. The GPL does not invalidate the permissions granted by the BSD license.

The only goal of the FSF here is that the source code for anything distributed linked with readline be made available under the GPL. They don't stipulate that it only be made available under the GPL and not any other license.
"When HN gets in a spate of depression/anxiety discussions, it drags my mental health down."

Psychedelic experiences and meditation are closely interrelated.

Filling your mind with one thing instead of the other is a temporary solution. It's another form of avoidance.

Anxiety arises from an underlying emotional issue that someone is avoiding.

In the psychedelic and meditative states, it is entirely possible to feel oneness and love for all that is. That's fine. For insight meditators, this is a peak experience that is itself transitory. We'd call this the first "flowering". There is still much work to reach the "fruit".

Think about it. You're given the gift of unity consciousness, of love and light. But, the tendency after that is then select only some of the experience as good, and to reject the rest as bad. The gift of the bliss and love is to teach you what it is like to be unconditionally accepting of all that is.

And unconditionally accepting includes the experiences of anxiety, depression, misery ... It's only when you accept the experiencing that you can become a complete person.

So HN gets in a spate of depression and anxiety discussion. "It drags my mental health down." The practice at this point is to disassociate the apparent cause and effect and focus on what you are experiencing at the moment. "I feel that my focus is breaking apart." "I feel my mood going down." And you go deeper, observing the sensations that make that up: where exactly, in your body, are you feeling it? What color is it? What texture? What temperature? Any sounds, smell, or taste? Then you note it and let it go, go back to focus on living and breathing.

Over time, you gain the ability to mindfully observe anxiety or any other sensation as they pass through your awareness, yet you are not moved. It is in this way, the mystics would call "finding your center". It no longer matters that HN gets in a spate of depression and anxiety discussions. You are OK with that.
The article says the AI performed well on vocabulary, but poorly on comprehension, which resulted in "4 year old". I wonder how well it performed on each section separately? Was its comprehension nil? (as we'd expect)
Who cares about whether a person should build an Eiffel Tower out of matchsticks or go try to solve cancer? Pushing humanity forward is great - and so is finding personal happiness and growth through exploration. Don't knock one or the other; in fact, don't knock any at all. Both are ways to ascribe meaning to this meaningless place.
> Checking and handling all possible error conditions is a GOOD thing.

I agree. But Go seems to have taken the most verbose way to achieve that. Pattern matching should have been the way to go if they did not want to use exceptions. Then again, Go does not have functional constructs, and you wouldn't be able to get far with it. Though it still prevents you from ignoring errors, unlike what exists in the language.
Meditate. Breath. No one said this was easy.
"No, actually, that was my point, and while you can disagree with my point, you can't tell me what my point is.
"

Then your point has no merit, or place, here.

The rest seems like a completely different argument, and your original post, an ad hominen attack for no reason.
Whenever I think of Linus, I recall being at LCA to witness to Linus being 'dunked' for charity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bclhry9F9Bc
> But genetically my body freaks out if
> I don't eat meat

I'm not sure what you're talking about. How does one's body 'genetically' freak out?

> and the animal's already dead anyway.

You're still paying for it, which perpetuates the system.

> We've been eating meat for millions of years

Our genetic ancestors diverged from the great apes 4–8 million years ago. I'm not sure we have good analysis of their diet, but I'm not an anthro-geek, so I might be out of the loop. [Toning it back to thousands of years would be more accurate.]
Yep. Anxiety is literally the flight response, an avoidance.

It's less about doing and more about actually resting your awareness on the anxiety, and on what it is you are avoiding. The actual "doing" can come later; it is hard to do anything without presence of mind.
Very funny. I think it might be possible to come up with a sensible algorithm that yields such a result. If so, it would definitely have $time_spent in a denominator somewhere :)

[edited to improve wording]
Be glad that we don't have AGI yet. The world would be a very different place with machines much smarter than us.
This video tutorial is excellent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MHigUZKEM
Anxiety is an emotion. It's an experience. It isn't reason, though one might come up with any number of reasons, rationalizations, and justifications to attempt to describe the experience.
Korea’s Web community roiled by video of men tormenting a local woman
yeah but no integrated dual gig ethernet 'n stuff.
so yes the price/feat ratio is higher on TFA.. but it offers something that's hard to find elsewhere right now, for the router+tv+everything box.
Russia's Putin wants Snowden to go, but asylum not ruled out
Your statement is only marginally correct, but mostly misleading to the point of being practically wrong. Depending on what you eat, your body absorbs 80%-97% of calories according to the following (simplified) equation:

Energy in = Energy out + Change in Body Stores [1]

Where "change in body stores" is, for all intents and purposes, either muscle or fat. So while going from eating 3000 calories of pure butter to eating 3000 calories of straight fibrous vegetables will show a modest difference in caloric retention, I guarantee you that's not the case here.

[1] http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-energy-balance...
OLPC's XO Tablet announced
This isn't really the AI effect. Manually entering in facts and actually learning them from observations are very different things.
GIS mapping data is public, California high court rules
Here's one team trying for that: http://www.inria.fr/en/teams/flowers
If the accused can prevent a proper investigation I will make my mind up based on the clues that exist.
Look at that giffy glitter!!

https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/images_insert/sparkl...
It's just a false clam and treated as such. Hacking a program that solves certain specific problems, given precise parameters and boundaries, like or better than a 4 year kid does not mean it has the intelligence of a being that routinely learns by himself, explores the world making up opinions about, expresses creativity and emotions.

This is just like claiming that Google Translate is more intelligent that the average American first grader because it can translate from Hebrew to Finnish better.
Bingo. We've been misled and lied to by every company implicated. We have no reason to trust them. At least Yahoo! is fighting back. Now if only they would remove that damn exclamation mark from their name.
Naturally, it is not possible to ensure that the server does not generate side-effects as a result of performing a GET request; in fact, some dynamic resources consider that a feature. The important distinction here is that the user did not request the side-effects, so therefore cannot be held accountable for them.

I think that, depending on what his API is trying to do, GETing a counter URL to increment it could be acceptable if his service's main purpose is to be accessible via client-side javascript.

That being said, once you go down that road you have to begin taking into account everything that may depend on GET idempotence: send back proper caching headers as well as busting caches from the client side, decide whether or not you want to block javascript-parsing web crawlers, etc.
Yahoo still doesn't use HTTPS by default, for email or search.

Not using HTTPS is huge, gift-wrapped present to the NSA. It also means that the NSA can get Yahoo users' communications without even having to bother Yahoo, as they can get it with the assistance of backbone networks. Lower legal compliance costs for Yahoo, and the NSA gets what they need.

Seriously, Yahoo is awful on privacy and security. Don't reward them with your business.
> I switched to diet and dropped about half of my daily anxiety in a few months.

My wife had panic attacks for years until she was persuaded, for other reasons, to stop using caffeine and artificial sweeteners. A couple of months later, her panic attacks stopped, and they haven't returned. She's convinced one of the sweeteners -- she mostly used cyclamates, but also some sucralose -- screwed with her brain chemistry. (She's always avoided aspartame as it gave her a splitting headache, so it wasn't that.)

There are plenty of reasons to avoid artificial sweeteners, so I wouldn't necessarily weight this anecdatum too heavily, but I thought it worth passing on anyway.
Your Most Important Startup Decision Comes from the Heart
I think you pretty much restated the point of the article in slightly more condensed terms. Eat sugar in moderation and you'll be fine. Eat too much and you'll run into problems. The point you added is that sugar -> less full -> overeat, which is possible, but not the point being debated.
There's a fantastic book that may help with anxiety: Claire Weekes - Self Help For Your Nerves.

It teaches you how it's just a physiological response that feeds off itself.

Understanding this can help you to break the cycle.
Unless the paper has proper multivariate analysis, it should rightly by ignored.
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What? Dedicated, tactile buttons to feel around in the dark, vs fidgeting with phone.
Ya I don't like how we are biased for machines being absolutely perfect or useless. If an AI system can't do something in a few hours that takes humans years to learn or think about, it's considered a failure. Humans spend many weeks, sometimes years on things, not to mention all the time up to that point they spent learning about the world or working on similar problems.

On the other hand most algorithms will quickly plateau and not make much progress afterwards. Machine learning algorithms are nowhere near the ability of human brains and letting them run for 4 years wouldn't be much different than running them for a few weeks. (Also time on a supercomputer isn't cheap.)
Interesting, do the investors get to keep any IP and/or remaining funds in your experience?

Of the two acquisitions where I had good visibility into the terms, in both cases the original Investors were cashed out at approximately 2x their total investment and the rest put into an earnout/retention package for the people that were coming on board. It was a haircut to be sure, but it wasn't actually a loss for anyone with preferred stock. I would have thought with smaller starting chunks that would be easier rather than harder than it was after the dot-com debacle. I certainly defer to your greater experience here as it is much more current than mine. I made the mistake of figuring those were more typical than I guess they actually are.
I ran windows 3.1 on a 286AT with 2MB of ram.
A/B test your blog post and increase the clickability easily
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My first experience with Windows for Workgroups was in 1994 when we were forced to use it at work. By that time I'd already been using Linux for a few years (since before 1.0).

In my opinion, WFW didn't really hold a candle to X11 and Linux, and the networking options were frankly laughable. Even with Linux's crummy NFS implementation at the time, it was far superior to using Netbeui/IPX and connecting to a Novell Netware server.

Wow. I sound like a crotchety old man.
What do you mean by creativity?
IIRC 3.11 Was August, 3.11 for workgroups was later that year
I read this as "Top Artificial Intelligence System is a Smart Ass", then noticed "a 4 year old".
"Imagine you have a 4.2GB CSV file." "

All you need... is the sum of all values in one particular column."

In that case, if speed was paramount, I'd use Kona or kdb. Unquestionably, k is the best tool for that particular job.
HN is all public messages anyway. There's no private message feature. The only data they have to give is what you've upvoted and your email. (Though that former set of data might be interesting.)
I hate retrospective analysis of computing history which try to criticise things without understanding the context/reasoning, and instead look at it in a modern lens (e.g. people that call Windows 95 "bad").

You just contrasted Windows NT (1993) with Windows 3.0 (1990). Apart from the fact that NT is a MUCH newer OS released later (with 3.1/3.11 being upgrades onto an earlier OS), the system requirements of the two are quite starkly different.

For one example, Windows 3.0 runs on 384K of RAM. Windows NT 3.1 runs on 12 megabytes. Windows 3.0 also runs on 8 and 16 bit CPUs, while NT is 32 bit only.

If they had released Windows 3.0 as a 32 bit OS Microsoft literally might not exist as they do today, since Windows 3.0 was targeting cheaper IBM clones which were very behind the curve technologically. 32 bit would also have meant perhaps doubling the minimum memory requirement of the system.

In general I think very little of your post.
Researchers reveal how ‘obesity gene’ triggers weight gain
"Perkeleen" is used nearly synonymously with "fucking" though (as in, "devil" isn't really considered swearing in the English language). I read it as "fucking cunthead". Which is lovely indeed!

Disclaimer: my knowledge of the Finnish language is mostly limited to profanity.
That's not necessary. You can just create a type that embeds the type you're sorting, and define the Less function however you like. It's very efficient since you're just wrapping the entire slice object, not every element in the slice.

package main
import "sort"
type RevIntSlice struct {
sort.IntSlice
}
func (arr RevIntSlice) Less(i, j int) bool {
return arr.IntSlice.Less(j, i)
}
func main() {
myList := RevIntSlice { sort.IntSlice {1, 2 , 3 } }
sort.Sort(myList)
for _, elem := range(myList.IntSlice) {
println(elem)
}
}

Note that if all you want to do is reverse the sort order, sort.Reverse is a better way than what I wrote here. This is just an example of the kinds of things you can do.
Can you talk about what you used the serial ports for? Was the board you used the mxc on cheaper than this one?
Oh I misunderstood, I thought you were referring to the value of the blog.
Apple was probably the last approached as until fairly recently they didn't have any data as their cloud services were categorical failures.
The Wikipedia article seems to imply that Google and Microsoft keep their users' private data outside of China, which means they don't have to comply, but IANA(Chinese)L.
Acqui-hires typically do not make investors a profit, but in many cases acquiring companies have made sure investors get their money back. I would think that changes the risk equation significantly when making early-stage investments.
That's badass. Gracias.
In one of Lustig's videos he talks about fructose from fruit juice. He says if you want fruit juice, eat fruit. The problem comes when you drink a glass of apple juice. That's the juice from about 8 apples. Now, instead of the juice, try eating 8 apples. It's just not really something someone's going to do, it's so much work to grind through all that food. But a glass of apple juice is easy.
Yahoo still ranks far, far behind Google (and Twitter, and Dropbox, and etc...) according to the EFF: https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/who-has-your-back-20...
Machine learning can be defined as the machine augmented aquisition of knowledge through observation. It has been an integral part of AI research since 1957. The fact that you have separated Machine Learning from Artificial Intelligence is a perfect example of the AI effect.
You used to be able to buy lindens via credit card and pay bitcoin via lindens, but I'm not sure if that has gotten harder to do
I suppose you're suggesting the same calories+alcohol in some other form (shochu and lean meat?) would be better. Maybe so, but I don't know if there's any studies on that.
Yes, that's true. I just wanted to address the specific suggestion that the original author made.

Languages make a whole set of related design choices and typically none of them makes sense without considering the others. (Sometimes none of them makes sense AFTER considering the others, but that's another story.)
If you want to scrutinize american sodas, I think you have to look at the portion size and culture of free refills rather than the sugar type.

I don't know of anywhere else in the world that has serving sizes as big as the US. And very few places outside the US offer free refills.
Considering the risk of their investments, would a VC consider a 2x return a way of "making money"?
> We know that people behave better when
> they're accountable for what they do and say

The majority sometimes holds the minority 'accountable' for things that are clear violations of human rights. This kind of transparency would enable persecution on a massive scale.
Imagine what a smart app can do
I'm slightly confused by your response. It seem you agree with me that people shouldn't lose rights by being in a group. You cite 2 examples:

In principle maybe, but, if only it were true. Try telling that to the many people arrested for political protesting, especially those arrested merely for being in proximity of a protest.
Then there is always the group of people who "choose" to travel by air.

So we're in agreement about people and their rights. I guess the only part I don't get is the "In principle maybe, but, if only it were true. Try telling that to the many people arrested for political protesting, especially those arrested merely for being in proximity of a protest.
Then there is always the group of people who "choose" to travel by air." Are you advocating for limiting the rights of groups to speak/assemble/spend & raise money? Or are you pointing out that the current system isn't great? I'll agree the latter - in my opinion the problem is that there is a concentration of power and massive budget - when there's that few people controlling that much money then the incentives will be to try and direct as much of the money towards your special interest as possible. Restricting groups is treating the symptom, not the cause.
I can guarantee you it wouldn't even come close to matching the natural language skills of a 4 year old. If so, that would be a major breakthrough for computational linguistics and NLP, and yet I haven't heard anything about that.
This is a great video. I watch it once in a while when I need to cut down on my ice cream.
I was really fat.
We don't owe you shit, it was like this when we got here.
> It's usually much more straightforward to build a pipeline from left to right, particularly for people who are just learning this stuff.

True, however, people pointing out UUOC are in fact pointing out that you should not be building a pipeline at all. If you want to apply an awk / sed / wc / whatever command to a file, then you should just do that instead of piping it through a extraneous command.

Sure, as people always mention, in your actual workflow you might have a cat or grep already, and are building a pipeline incrementally; there's no reason to remove previous stuff to be "pure" or whatever. But if you're giving a canonical example, there's no reason to add unneeded commands.
Unless you started exercising, these two statements are incompatible with one another (violates the first law of thermodynamics). What's more likely is you felt "fuller" from eating healthy foods and therefore consumed less calories.

Another possibility is that the food eaten affects the metabolic rate. I've known multiple people who stopped having cold extremities when they cut back on their sugar intake.
> right now the evidence points towards Yahoo doing that better than most.

Evidence still points to Google quite solidly leading in this area. Yahoo has 1 gold star from the EFF, Google has considerably more.

Assuming you place any value in glittery gold stars from the EFF, that is.
An autistic savant can learn extremely well given precise parameters and boundaries...and yet may never learn to tie his shoes or look both ways before crossing the street. But we still call them intelligent.
Great write up, Emerson. You're destined for great things. Please tone down the music on your kickstarter video.
Oh, that's excellent! I don't know why the C9x for-declaration didn't occur to me as a possible solution, particularly since the macro was already using it. You should submit this as a fix!
This is a question on YC application.
Is this algorithm a closed-source / patent pending type situation? If not, how does it work?
Less than ten percent of your daily energy expenditure goes towards thermogenesis. That's not going to make enough of a different to lose 30 pounds in 90 days while taking in more calories.

You need a calorie deficit of approximately half a standard daily intake to lose a third of a pound a day.
Linus blasts again
Window Manager used to have a very specific meaning, at least for me... WindowMaker, Sawfish, BlackBox, E16, E17, FVWM, TWM, these are all window managers. X11 is not a window manager. All window managers run under X11. These are the precepts.

Windows had a window manager too, and you could swap it out. There weren't nearly as many options.

Anyway, I for one am excited about Mir, because it means that my tf-101 or the replacement some years in the future may rejoin the convergence zone. They are making steps to live in the Android ecosystem, at least according to the article summaries I've come across that give any inkling of information about Mir.

If you google ASUS Transformer Ubuntu and follow some of the howtos you find, it's an absolute joke trying to get a windowed environment that resembles any netbook, laptop, or desktop you could buy last year or the year before that. "Now use Android VNC client to connect..." WTF?

Nobody else seems to be heading back to the convergence zone. Maybe wayland will get there at the same time. That's my rant.
Loops impose, and guarantee, ordered traversal of a collection. Maps do not. This means that maps can sped up by dividing up the collection into smaller parts and mapping each of them in parallel.

For a language that has concurrency as a central design motivation, it's an unfortunate omission.

As we say in the database world: think in sets, not in arrays.
>there's really nothing very innovating about Linux

>Of course there's kernel innovation

:\

Perhaps ease up a bit on the hyperbole, you just took 2 polar opposite positions in the space of as many comments.

>ZFS - Linus had nothing to do with that

harshreality wasn't saying that Linus had anything to do with ZFS, he was noting it as an example of 'innovation [in something] that "looks like unix"' in order to counter your odd implication that that all unix variants are pretty much the same and devoid of innovation. To break down your argument, you say that:
1 - "Linux isn't innovative"
2 - "It's just another variant"
3 - "Like the myriad of other ones"

So Linux isn't innovative, and since all of the other ones (Solaris, BSDs, etc.) are alike, that they are neither innovative. You basically denied that there has been any innovation in Unix since it left Bell Labs. The ZFS example was a counter to that implicit claim.