skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to note first that it is not clear that all land is currently owned. Natural owners (homesteaders) have been displaced many times by state violence and the threat of state violence keeps people from homesteading available space. I had sidestepped this earlier because, even if all land has legitimate private owners, that does not preclude voluntary cooperation.

1. Your body is your property, and you have the right to contract (i.e. agree with another person to use your property in a particular way, for instance as a condition of transfer of property). So the filthy rich person who owns a country--which by the way I don't think is possible, since he probably just planted a flag and yelled that he owns it, which does not make a homestead... but for the sake of argument let's say he does own the country--this guy excludes thousands of people who only have the standing room on which they were born. Do tell me how this guy will eat. I will bet that, through the magic of self interest, the landowner will be happy to contract with the impoverished majority, say, for farming. Now if you're thinking ahead, you already see that the poor folk, if their private property rights are respected, can save their income and trade and sell among themselves, maybe even buy some of that land from the country owner. The historic problem is not that ownership of land existed, but that it was never treated as a private property, or that the individual right to self-ownership and contract were not universally respected.

2. So people can be crooks? I don't disagree.
This is solved by the union-based filesystem (AUFS) that Docker uses. You start with one minimal rootfs like you describe, given in the "base" image, then when you install sshd you get copy-on-write semantics. So the sshd container gets its own syslog files separate from any other container.

Your original comment talks about how long LXC has existed but AUFS is one key component of Docker that became part of mainline Linux much more recently.
As I understood it, HTML5 was specifically about getting away from the design-by-committee mode that was causing problems in XHTML. It was a group of people that got together and said, "Okay, what are peole actually doing right now, that is what needs to be documented in the standard." They did not want a perscriptive standard, but rather, a descriptive one.

Am I wrong about this?
Indeed. When a small elite control the means of production, high efficiency (less need for waged labour), means more will starve -- or have to live off welfare.

That is, unless we do something to change the system.
I found the article misleading. Real brain activity was not simulated.

From the press release (emphasis mine):

"The nerve cells were randomly connected and the simulation itself was not supposed to provide new insight into the brain"
Exactly.

If we are in a simulation, then ipso facto, we have no idea what 'reality' outside our simulation is actually like. We can only surmise that it probably resembles our simulation, in as much as the creators probably used their own reality as a template.

Even more reason why there is no functional difference, subjectively speaking, whether we're living in a simulation or in actual reality.

Only when given the choice to enter or leave a simulation does the distinction becomes meaningful.
I think this is true for most communities as they mature. Issue-of-the-day become more prominent as core topics get discussed to death.

For example, I notice a few people pointing out the higher number of Golang articles that get to the front page, however, this is more due to there being more development and discussion as v1.1 was just released. For other programming languages most common experiences have been shared and novel new ideas become fewer.

I don't really see it as a problem. Most political posts are identifiable by title. Although the SvN ratio may not be perfect, I doubt it ever could be without HN implementing something like /.'s customisation options for topics and the ability for users' to block them.
I found the design page to be interesting reading

http://lld.llvm.org/design.html
I first came on here to learn about Arc. It was just tech. Then it became tech+business.

It was tech+business before it was tech: The site started out as "Startup News" (which is when I personally have my fondest memories of it).
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Reminds me of "nations largest network".
http://everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying
"Beneath the appealing, easy-to-use interface of Mac OS X is a rock-solid foundation that is engineered for stability, reliability, and performance. This foundation is a core operating system commonly known as Darwin. Darwin integrates a number of technologies, most importantly Mach 3.0, operating-system services based on 4.4 BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), high-performance networking facilities, and support for multiple integrated file systems.

Darwin 1.4.1 is the UNIX-based, open-source foundation of Mac OS X. It is based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0 technologies and provides protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking. This release corresponds to the release of Mac OS X 10.1."

http://support.apple.com/kb/ta25634
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I'm a newer member and even in the two years I've been here, I've noticed a change. I think part of the problem is that it's too easy to create disposable accounts. Do you think that adding some sort of accountability system when signing up would help?
The trouble with sex trafficking stats is that a lot of them are misrepresented or even have no basis in fact whatsoever - even ones from supposedly-reputable sources like the United Nations and the Department of Justice - and it's very difficult to figure this out since they're usually not properly cited.

For example, that 9.5 billion figure isn't anywhere in the UN page it's cited to. So far I've traced it as far as a DoJ report from 2004 which claims: "According to the UN, human trafficking is the third largest criminal enterprise worldwide, generating an estimated 9.5 billion USD in annual revenue according to the U.S. intelligence community." No specific citation for that claim, naturally, but it looks like originally it was just a guess that some unnamed intelligence community pulled out of their ass.
o said all the disciples.

26:36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and
saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.

26:37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and
began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

26:38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even
unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

26:39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed,
saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let
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Any evidence for that? We don't get to see the counterfactual of Apple being far more public about what they are building. And we have no idea whether their focus on secrecy is causation or correlation to their success.
Interestingly, the toxic nature of political debate was what lead to the creation of subreddits - r/politics was the first!
Good to know that driving on the road was a bloodsport in SF even a hundred years ago.
500px: http://500px.com/
wallbase: http://wallbase.cc/toplist
desktopwallpapers: http://www.desktopwallpapers.co.uk/
The case where a name is required is where you want to rename or link the temporary file to a new, permanent name in the filesystem.
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Analogy is probably not the right word for what you are describing. Analogy deals with subjects in separate domains. It's the application of information or a relationship from one domain to an unrelated one. Bitcoins applied the relationships that encrypted information share to monetary transactions. A perfect example of analogous thinking.
I was thinking similar a few days ago, but more like a cross between Slashdot and Reddit. In particular, I saw an item about cannabis legalisation. Got nothing against it, but it isn't technology in the slightest, it's political and maybe financial. I checked the news item a few times to see if anyone pointed that out, but no one did. I decided not to say anything in case it was some HN insider thing.
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I remember the days without trolls. (uid 872 here) The first one I remember showing up was meept. There's an entry for him on Everything2 dated Dec 05 1999, and it speaks of him in the past tense, so the troll-free days must have been few. I feel old.

Smarter moderation might work here in the short term, but ultimately the only thing that works is quietly sneaking off to a newer forum.
I was thinking the same thing! Unless of course that reduced market share is all of us that are looking for an HN replacement.
You've done fine. A post that might have become dry and academic has morphed into something that is eclectic and beautiful.
I plan to start consulting more, and I need a company name.

I'm pretty sure most consulting companies use a random wordlist. I'm supplementing the random wordlist from the Unix dictionary with an evolutionary algorithm to guarantee my company name is the best.

Play a few rounds and use the power of the crowd to help forward consultant naming science.
This, I believe, is actually always the case. While swing voters decide a few elections, most elections are decided by how motivated each party's voters are to actually get to the polls.

A great quantitative example of this is in the (somewhat dry) "Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party" by Michael Holt. While it talks about a very different time, the demonstration that the party that got the most of its voters to vote always won was pretty convincing.
They use it to understand brain. So they wire it like the brain is wired.

If they simulate cortex, they wire arrange it into cortical columns (size of each column is between 50,000 and 100,000 neurons and there is over two million of them). Those columns have many different layers and neuron types. Understanding how cortical columns and minicolumns work is very important.
I'm part of #1. I avoid commenting on/upvoting political stories though. They're definitely the easiest to talk about. I stick to issues where I have some expertise.

I'm a bit torn by these NSA revelations because most other sites seem to be ignoring them. But I feel they've become too prominent.
I'd say sexual selection is a cause. There is pretty much a fixed pool of potential mates. Women highly value mates who are good providers. Some of my female friends say they wouldn't date a guy who made less than them.

Thus if you are a guy and are considering cutting back on your work, you will become significantly less attractive to many females.
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I am not entirely sure what you are getting at. The state protection of open source is only that provided by copyright law to licence a work.
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A lot of it is indeed the way things have always been, but that absolutely does not excuse allowing such actions to persist in the future. However, posts with a sense of naive shock that nations have only started doing unethical things in the past 20 years (or that a certain nation has changed) instead of realizing nations have always done unethical/questionable things is a hyperbole. Even the most civilized countries of every time period performed highly unethical actions and were derided by fellow countries of the time period. Unfortunately, most of the discussions are filled with noise related to this, instead of posts that are constructively looking for a solution to such problems.

I feel much of those sort of posts would be remedied if people were more interested in the history of the world going back more than just within their own lifetimes + 20 to 30 years. I'm still in my late 20s, but most people I know only have a passing interest in history (even less so when it's not about their country) and saw such courses in school as a burden, rather than useful. I was just lucky to have family that encouraged having an interest in history and how it shaped the world. To me, it's just as important as teaching one's children about Science, Programming and Mathematics.

News and information are also much more widespread now than they were 10 to 20 years ago, so many start to think this is a new phenomenon as it used to be more difficult to stay informed. History is just repeating itself with some additional ingredients mixed in and outrage is not useful when nothing comes of it.

The phrase "Why should I care about history?" never range more true when people express outrage over issues such as the NSA. The "good old days" are not as good as many people like to believe. That does not mean we should roll over and accept everything though.
It's also useful for debugging. If the file has a name, you can look at the file while the program is stopped in a debugger.
No true HN'er... etc.

I check the new stories in a few topic areas regularly. Many interesting tech stories I check are not getting upvotes or comments.

But, even if more of those stories made the front page, the NSA story marks an epoch. Computing and the Internet have changed. It all comes with surveillance inside. That is unattractive. Creepy. Unfree. Undemocratic. Unhealthy. We let our industry get poisoned. It will take years for that story to play out. And it will get discussed here.
Believe me, constructive criticism has been tried.

I just keep wondering why people keep saying "it's not good criticism" ... and never, ever addressing the points brought up in that criticism.
The title statement is almost meaningless. It would be better just to say "simulating reality takes a LONG time".

My research is in molecular dynamics. I simulate systems up to 1 billion atoms on Kraken & Titan. HUGE approximations are made in simulating these systems, but depending on what exactly it is you're studying, these simulations still provide useful results. That is the key to all these studies: how well does your approximation reproduce whatever it is that you're attempting to model? In some cases, very well. For instance, I'm not going to get exact energy levels of a large system, but the system will qualitatively evolve in the same fashion that the experimental system does (which then guides the experimental counterpart to the research). I don't know the details of this brain simulation, but there is certainly some aspect of it that is not being reproduced anywhere close to real-life, and hopefully this isn't what they're interested in (and I'm sure they know that, but I don't think the article author does).

The very best simulations of reality that we can perform handle at most just a few H/He/C atoms. And an issue called the fermion-sign problem means that the computational power necessary to simulate larger systems scales exponentially with the number of particles. Unfortunately what that means is -- short of developing quantum computers (which are polynomial order for the sign problem) -- we aren't ever going to simulate more than a few atoms with near-perfect accuracy, and certainly nothing like a human brain.

EDIT: Didn't mean for my comment to sound so negative. Obviously, the researchers know exactly what they're doing. I was just trying to dispel the impression that we're close to simulating the human brain.
will there be money pay? or is it just equity?
Agreed. Not even considering the opposing sides, this debate always comes down to a bunch of people arguing a point they have absolutely no experience with.
You're making "more interesting" exercises, but...

... the videos that they're based on are consistently and frequently flawed.

Those flaws aren't being addressed.

Why not?
Did you miss the part where I mentioned patent agreements which is another good reason why Contributor Agreements are important?

And while the Apache Foundation already has a "permissive license" it's not quite as permissive as BSD / etc.

And if the Apache Foundation wants to relicense, to say, a future version of their license, they're still going to potentially need that contributor agreement.

Again, as I said before, there are tradeoffs.
Interesting story, but I don't see what it has to do with HN topics.

If the author's goal was to make a parallel between using less technology and being mature and peaceful, I would have to disagree. The Amish are an interesting people, but thinking that their way of living should be the norm is a romantic response to how society uses technology in the wrong ways. I firmly believe that we can only grow by increasing the technology we use across all walks of life (education, resource management, communication, labour, etc.)
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Like I said, tradeoffs. LLVM for example doesn't require copyright assignment, but does require a contributor agreement for patent purposes for significant contributions.

Contributor agreements are a necessary mechanism to protect the project and ensure its future when dealing with patents or preparing for the potential of relicensing.
If you have your own washer/dryer, you could also just spend a few minutes doing the laundry while you still work or play or do whatever you want.

Also, there's more to life than money, although I understand how one could become obsessed with it if people making $100+/hour can't afford a place with their own washer/dryer in-unit.
I've always been hopeful that lobste.rs would take off, but sadly the steps they took to ensure good participation has kept it from growing. I mean, it still gets new articles, and there are a very few items that aren't on HN (or showed up sooner), but most posts have very little discussion. Looking at the homepage, and the majority of links have 0 comments.

That said, it's got a few features that people have pitched as the solution for HN (tags being one of them).
That was quite juvenile, but funny nonetheless.
Technological advancement can't come without work though. I'm not saying work == good. I'm arguing the inverse, that work != bad.
The point of shm_open() is the relaxed guarantees as opposed to plain open() - primarily these two:

It is unspecified whether the name appears in the file system and is visible to other functions that take pathnames as arguments.

It is unspecified whether the name and shared memory object state remain valid after a system reboot.

That gives the implementation wider latitude in how it implements the function, for example shm_open() objects may be entirely in-memory.
I am getting : "Error: Could not find or load main class nightcode.lein" when clicking "Run" in ClojureScript, v 0.0.3.
I agree that there are some way-off-base topics on HN, but I don't mind the politics that are related to the hacker community. Such involves Aaron, Snowden, Manning, WikiLeaks, various legal and political talk on Startups, privacy rights, Big Tech companies, etc.. in the overarching industry. Some other stuff can also bleed in without disrupting how I feel about the site.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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David Friedman, a prominent libertarian/anarcho-capitalist theorist (and son of economist Milton Friedman), has a similar but deeper article about the Amish, wherein he interprets their legal system as essentially an anarchy where laws, despite being extremely constraining, are produced and enforced non-violently.

http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2011/10/are-amish-anarchi...
I think the real goal with this kind of question is should we be more critical in how we adopt new technologies. Should we think about both positive and negatives effects on culture and society. Right now we essentially have a culture that grabs on to anything new as soon as possible and then deal with the consequences when they arrive. I think this argument is especially potent with the HN crew.
> HN has an influx of new users who [...] not have enough domain expertise to engage on discussion of technical subjects.

I think that a simpler explanation is that politics is universal while technical topics will only be interesting to the subset of people that are affected by said technologies. Not everyone uses AngularJS/Python/Haskell/etc.
Thanks for the Richter recommendation! Another good minimalist album is In C by Terry Riley[1].

My favorites by Glass are Glassworks[2] and Einstein on the Beach[3].

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9P8gG_MHE

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Stu7h7Qup8

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezOI3sPqWPU&list=PL37FBBBABCF...

Edit: I just stumbled upon the IBM Glass Engine... This will keep me occupied for a while: http://www.philipglass.com/glassengine/
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Heh. I just saw Einstein twice in the last week. Great show, and I remember reading this article last year. They are incredible players.
In Buenos Aires (Argentina) we used the same wood railcars for 99 years in the first subway line of the city "Subte A". We changed all of them this January and the last day was a big event.

Some trains in use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot1Lzgiy13s

Professional edited video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEoFmGMkRlY

Inside the train in the last travel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_G6WTL2nQ
I have a question for Tor users.
Would such an exploit to the system encourage you to transition to similar darknet services such as I2P, or will you be sticking with Tor with greater caution?
I think Joel Spolsky's was the first - https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12osn5g1lnmyrxv223...
What are the decent alternatives? Or else, let's try to make this into something better, by flagging instead of commenting, and downvoting racist, sexist, bigoted crap instead of feeding the trolls.
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What about women who work 60 hours a week?
I think bleeding edge was in reference to the Posix standard. The Posix standard has been updated as recently as this year (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/).
I would believe you can still lead the life of a farmer and hunter-gatherer if you absolutely insist on doing so. But be prepared for every other of your children dying before their fifth birthday, be prepared to bury your parents at the age of twenty or forty when some perfectly-treatable disease strikes and be prepared to give up half your village’s population if it doesn’t rain as much one year.

I very much prefer working 40 to 50 hours/week than the above (though, case in point, I'll likely only start my first ‘real’ job this fall after 22 years of education…).
Hidden services don't require exit nodes. That's only for public websites.
I find that you get better reactions if you refer to it as "the business cycle" or something of that nature.

I mean, around here, the business cycle seems to oscillate wildly, based on investor mood, more than anything else. But what do you do?
Except for Floyd Landis who was a cheater and liar. He followed that up by being manipulative and engaging in blackmail. And finished by being vengeful, greedy, and vindictive as he used all of those wonderful character traits to become the catalyst who took down Lance Armstrong and all of the recent generation of USA Cycling.
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Indeed! This exact same conversation happened on reddit several years ago. The community became diverse enough that a large group of users didn't like the posts the other groups up votes to the homepage. There were initial suggestiona that tags were the best solution but the reddit gang put together subressits and it's been the greatest change to the site since it started.

Looking forward to subscribing to the best sub-hackernewses.
all modern JS MVC frameworks provide event propagation. would you consider SPA (single page apps) as RIA?