skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if a digital universe would necessarily equate to a knowable universe.

My main point of disagreement with the philosophy would lie in the ultimate weakness inherent to a digital explanation: the infinite points in between.
The amorality of Web 2.0 (2005)
They are just fun code names. Nominally textual rather than
nominally numeric.

I think they're all supposed to be desserts. Akin to how all releases of OSX have cat names. Until the last one. Combo breaker!
Marvell Armada 1500 Mini:
http://www.pcper.com/category/tags/marvell-88de3005

Armada 1500 is used in Google TV:
http://www.marvell.com/digital-entertainment/armada-1500/

Seems like the Mini is a single-core version of that chip.
Prestashop Quick Tip: hide shipping cost for non registered users
Why are reproductions so expensive? Why is this item (http://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy-Inferno-Canto-Minotaur/d...) so much more expensive than this one (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Salvador-Dali-DIVINE-COMEDY-INFERNO-...) even though neither are originals?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality
I can't replicate that behavior. If I choose "Always Allow" Chrome is added to the allowed applications (see Keychain.app in the Access Control tab). If I allow it temporary there're no changes or new/copied password items in the keychain.
I know that Reddit style one-liners are scorned on HN, but your comment truly made me laugh. Thanks.
I've noticed this too. As I get closer to 'buy whatever car you want' kind of money, I dream less of the shiny new muscle and I'm getting more interested in a used Miata I can beat up on a track.
It's the Small Things: Browser Tabs and Usability
Maybe their strategy is to build generic stores, but let affiliates do customizations ?
I quite enjoyed The User Illusion (the author has a great way of looking at the world). I think its chapters on consciousness are mostly about what consciousness gets to see. Building up from the idea that there is a very limited amount of information (as in Shannon) going to consciousness per second, plus some other experimental evidence (e.g. Benjamin Libet's experiments), to his thesis that consciousness is essentially a "user illusion".

But if I recall correctly, the book doesn't touch the question of how consciousness can arise to begin with, other than making a passing reference to GEB's strange loops.

I can see some value, for example, in the idea that consciousness (maybe I should rather say subjective perception or awareness) somehow emerges out of a reasonably complex system.
But that wouldn't explain what it is in our universe that allows awareness to emerge to begin with.

I think some fun questions to think about are:

* Can we create awareness in a circuit by making it complex enough? What are the requirements?

* If we simulate a universe, does it inherit the ability to create awareness from our universe?

* How the heck do you validate any of these answers?

Well, I'm confused now, consciousness is too hard. Sorry if I sound like gibberish.

EDIT: This isn't meant to be a criticism of the book, which I can only recommend to anyone.
Other sites tend to make "viewing" part of the experience, and I'm guessing this doesn't actually lead to sales most of the time. Anyway the best way to view a painting is in person.

Making the commercial aspect of buying art just like any other purchase is appealing to me (instead of a mediated experience). I think the benefit of this is similar to the buy it now button on eBay; its for people who just want to buy and don't want to mess about.

For expensive art this is just going to be a friendlier alternative to auction. For cheaper stuff it could make buying original art like any other purchase. For that you need a good returns policy that every one trusts. Who is better than Amazon for that?
Sorry for you, you'll have to take out the whole socket and mount it again upside down.
Ask HN: If you only had 40 hours to learn a new IT based skill what would it be?
Beautiful Animation Shows Earth "Breathing"
Most Valuable Cloud Computing Companies Are Worth More Than You'd Think
That's a nice dream, but the reality is that the jobless masses who can't afford the output will simply be:

a) forgotten about

b) subjugated (camps, eugenics, media control)

c) property

Or all or some of the above.
If you refine your search to exclude prints, you can find original Dali for $78,500[1]. I'm not finding a lot of information on the "limited" nature of many of these lithographs, though.

1: http://www.amazon.com/Baie-Port-Lligat-LHomme-Croix/dp/B00E1...
>Configuration rarely impacts such trivial cases.

Really? For example buffered vs unbuffered communication won't impact such a case?

One should only assume "thread affinity or page locality" after checking the configuration options (and maybe even later, after profiling).
I've been involved with running events so I appreciate that things like venues, staffing, speaker expenses, etc can build up to a considerable amount and that those costs have to be met somehow.

If it's a case of the event not being financially sustainable without additional non-ticket revenue then maybe charging for videos is what has to be done, but if the videos aren't bringing in a significant revenue stream while presumably significantly reducing the number of viewers I'd have to ask if that's a worthwhile trade-off ?

Obviously the answer for that is going to be different if you're optimising for profit or for community benefit, but that's why I'd rather have community events run sustainably by non-profits than on a purely commercial for-profit basis.

[I have no issues with videos being charged for / with-held at the speakers request though]
What You Can Learn from the New Science of Smarter Spending
Neither you, nor anyone else on the face of this planet, has the right not to be offended. Now moving on..
Not a unified one, however most museums have decent interfaces to their collections these days. I would highly recommend the Met Museum in New York's catalog, for instance. Some produce limited resolutions or force you to decode some kind of image-slicing, but in general you can get super high resolution copies for free that would be suitable for personal use.
Linux servers administration.
I agree. You'd still have to figure out what to do with violent sociopaths, repeatedly breaking laws and not showing any signs of change. I would probably agree to pay to keep em locked until (if ever) they are considered not dangerous to the society.
le mi varkiclaflo'i cu culno lo angila

http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm
When you keep borrowing from the future (which our economies have been doing since Bretton Woods, pretty much), you eventually have to pay off the debt.

You can't keep pushing it back and back.

No economist or politician seems to understand this basic tenet. Or they do, but they don't care, as the ones paying off the debt are the disenfranchised underclasses, and the political classes profit from the debt, as they own it.
That's true, but the good thing about them is that they don't stock any crappy oil; you can pick at random.
Docker + Autoenv: Super magic automated development environment
SEO & Search in a Social Media World: Top 16 Content Tips
If you find this "weird", then you have a poor understanding of natural languages. It is well understood that lexical connotations affect people's interpretation of text.

You wouldn't expect people to react positively to violent body language while you deliver a nonviolent sentence, why should you expect them to react positively to you using violent metaphors in a nonviolent sentence?
I just received this :

------------

Please note the Kimsufi range of servers is not yet available to US and Canadian customers.

If you have already ordered and paid for a Kimsufi server the order will be canceled as a refund will be issued straight away.

------------

I'm from Canada... :-(
There are many many IT skills you could learn in 40 hours. Assuming you are not a complete n00b, how about learning Ruby and Sinatra (a "framework" for rapidly creating web applications). You could easily make it through the book, "Jump Start Sinatra," in less than 40 hours, for example.

Is this the type of response you're looking for? If not, please clarify. Good luck!
The death toll from coal isn't a "trollish argument"; it's a simple fact. People ignore it, because coal kills people over a much longer period of time.
Really? How can Microsoft/Apple/Linus kill an app for recent versions of Windows/MacOSX/Linux? Perhaps I'm getting a different meaning from "kill" ... do you mean it won't be allowed or that the API's would change so much that it's not worth updating the app?
Actually, this looks more interesting than at first look. The previous flip was around '89, which saw the Eastern Europe wave of 'change'. Then 9/11. Now we have the 'Arab Spring'.

But, correlation is not causation so all remains just pure coincidences.
No, not really, quantum physics could be simulated using symbolic computation. Digits are not a purely human concept. They belong to mathematics, which is something that humans uncover, not invent.
This is only part of it. A rather larger part, which is being masked by this, is automation. Sounds like a very ludditish stance, but we (developers) are the ones who are fuelling this, by replacing white-collar jobs with software, and blue-collar jobs with software and hardware.

This, unlike globalisation, isn't going to self-regulate. It's going to result in capital accrual at those who own the intellectual property and the already existing capital. Have you seen mfg goods get cheaper as a result of automation? No. Have margins gone up? Yes. Is this trend going to continue? Yes.
>It doesn't matter whether there are other meanings. The fact remains that there is a single meaning which is understandably deeply upsetting to some people.

People getting upset by mere words (not even uttered against them) are hardly worth a hackers time.

Also notice how you, the oh-so-sensitive to the "emotions of strangers" and the "meanings that upset people", called him "an asshole" (for merely suggesting the use of a word). Way to go for tolerance.
RADIUS guy here. I've worked with 802.1X and PEAP for as long as it's existed.

This isn't news.

If you disable certificate checking, then the authentication security of TLS goes away. Your traffic is still encrypted, but you have no idea who you're talking to.

This means that the attacker gets access to the MS-CHAPv2 data. Which we know can be attacked off-line via dictionary attacks.

Always enable certificate checking for 802.1X. If you don't, you're handing your authentication credentials to anyone.

And always know which certificate you're checking. Some deployments use certificates signed by a known root, and for "ease of use", allow any certificate signed by that root.

Well... the root CAs sign thousands of certificates a day. You've just configured your system to hand authentication credentials to anyone.

Don't do that.
Can you just have 1 thread per running task and give the thread back to a pool when the task waits for messages? Then for synchronous RPC you can swap the server task onto the current thread without OS scheduling and swap it back when it's done. You just need a combined 'send response and get next message' operation so the server and client can be swapped back again. This seems way easier and more robust, and you don't need work stealing since each running task has its own thread... what am I missing?
Dealing With Social Media Trolls - Time to Get Tough?
Has Michael C Ruppert officially lost it?
Jeff Bezos Is Playing Chess
> Or things like the moment we notice the US population still supports him at large even when he says he has to attack Iraq because God told him so.

Uh, dude, Dubya was so reviled even within the U.S. that he wasn't even invited to Republican political events oriented around electing his own successor. And you may have missed it in the news by he had more "justifications" that he claimed for attacking than merely a God-given mission.

But it's funny you should mention immaturity, given that few would consider pinning a person's thoughts (even the POTUS) as reasonably representative of 320 million people's thoughts.
You're confusing discovery with confrontation. The discovery problem with this program has been acknowledged ad nauseam already.
Buffering impacts performance when it transforms many small writes into one big write (same for reads). In that case since you are waiting for the answer at every iteration, I'm not sure I see how it could have an impact.
BREACH vulnerability in compressed HTTPS
Great, now we can market our app as "solar magnetic field reversal-proof".
What's to stop them from creating a bit that creates API keys every 5 minutes?
>200Mb for such a crappy server with only hundred connections.

Yes, and almost a megabyte of disk space for a "hello world" program. C++ is so inefficient, right?

That's not the way you judge the performance of a program and/or it's memory use -- and neither is comparing the 200MB of the JVM with the 10MB of Go here...
That's largely because the JVM still uses tons of memory and takes forever to boot.
Corporate Investment: A Mysterious Divergence
"They've been expected to be on the market any day now for the past year or two."

The last I heard was second quarter 2014 by HP, that's been the release date for the last year or so. Supposedly they could release them now, but they are trying to time the market for business reasons.
We already have that, but the people sending the links are the FBI.
Organ donation and A/B testing
My wife and kids are away for a week in the near future, so I thought I would take 40 hours and learn something new. I have no idea yet as to what that will be, so I thought I would ask more intelligent people what they would do :)

Thank you for the suggestion though!
Am I the only one starting to get tired of these 'sell the shovels' sales pitches directed at SAAS startups? I respect Patrick and what he's done, but to me he is coming off more and more sleazy and this particular post doesn't help the case.

Can we be successful without doing the hard sales thing? Is it getting worse or am I just getting more sensitive to it? That's an honest question, shlock like this just makes my skin crawl these days, but maybe I'm in the minority.
Profit is for suckers. They focus on free cash flow.

Edit: Link:
http://daslee.me/reading-jeff-bezos
Why is this submission dead? Any ideas?
One of the articles stated it uses WebRTC (video conferencing) for showing the Chrome tab. I wish Google has made it more open and supported standards like DLNA and Miracast and WiDi myself. Better off with Netgear at this point.
I'm not confused. I'm trying to explain to you that the distinction you make between the two is practically meaningless. Even a dim-witted cop can figure out a way to get in your car for a search; you don't stand a chance against a competent one.
Shell commands with timeout in Python
Come on ... George Carlin solved it 20 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJ2snsLxWw

I miss that guy so much
What are examples of iOS gaming companies with multiple hits?
I think, given that viewing child pornography in the UK is a strict liability offence, you could do that here now.
That was definitely on my list :)
> People will not have the option "not to pay", because the law says those people have to be put in jail, and the jail is private

I think you misunderstand the idea. The only system in which you have to pay is when you have a government collecting taxes. If you don't pay, you're gonna get in trouble.

By contrast, in a polylegal system with no central body issuing laws, people choose law firms with the set of laws they like the most, voluntarily. If at some point they dislike how a firm does its business and protects its customers interests he may switch to a different firm (how conflicts are resolved between customers of two different firms is a more interesting question, which for the sake of brevity I'm gonna leave out for now).

My objective as a customer is to be safe, not treat prisoners like shit and make money off them. Thus, if I don't like how my law firm treats prisoners, I stop paying immediately. Note: I don't need to vote or convince anyone it's a bad thing, I simply stop financing bad things.

> Yes, so the "good people" in conservative states, say, might also say: "Why pay to keep in prison all these people?

Exactly. Then don't go to conservative states and don't become a client of such a conservative law firm. These laws may be brutal, but if some group of people voluntarily decides to live by them, not forcing me to live by them too, why should I be against it?
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You know what I will pay for? The newspaper on my Kindle, at a reasonable price, with all the features of the print version. Let's take The Washington Post just as an example. Home delivery can be had for ~$10/mo [1] (I don't live in DC, so this is the only price I could easily find for delivery). Meanwhile, the Kindle newspaper version of the Washington Post is $12/mo [2] and according to the reviews, is missing:

1) Letters to the editor

2) Editorial cartoons

3) The comics pages

4) The crossword puzzle

5) The box scores

6) Classified ads

7) Sunday inserts, including coupons

8) Pictures

[1] http://www.subscription.com/washington-post/

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Washington-Post-Kindle-Ad-Free/dp/...
Three Unexpected Responsibilities that Hit After VC Funding
Ask HN: Recommended Android phone for dev/testing
I work for an agency and part of that involves making iOS and, more recently, Android apps. We've got the iOS side of things covered but what hardware would people recommend testing Android apps on?

I don't have a huge budget but could afford one 2.3.x & one 4.x device.
Dashlane - Remember All Those Passwords? No Need
>In that case since you are waiting for the answer at every iteration, I'm not sure I see how it could have an impact.

In this particular case, yes.

I was making a point against the more generic "configuration rarely impacts such trivial cases" you said, which I've not found to be the general case.
This... has the voice of a paid shill trying to work in references to the Next Amazing Offer. It didn't read to me like patio11's essay or HN comment tone at all.

[ed] Is this more effective at attracting the kind of people who pay to attend the BoS conference than his usual voice?
I've believed in a "computational substrate" ever since I read Wolfram's NKS. Great to see it getting more attention.

What with the holographic principle, it may be that the "real" universe in a huge sphere, and the effects we observe simply due to overlap. Sort of like Conway's Life played on a cosmic scale.

Cool stuff.
I haven't really looked into docker yet. So I can't guarantee anything, but it should be feasible yes.
Stay healthy & Keep coding
> give us pause

Parent's point is that WaPo/Bezos shouldn't be damned either way in this case.
Programming Haskell doesn’t require any category theory
2. [...] The "extra" spending in medicine drives innovations so we have better drugs & procedures etc.

That's what many doctors (also in Europe) argue. An argument against that could be based in Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma depressing review of the flow of money in relation to how medical trials are used to decide what's better.
If I were in charge of security in a company handling sensitive data I would consider enforcing that all connected devices run a stable and open source os with root access and would add a special app checking for odds and phoning home regularly.
Sock puppets = Proliferation of guns.
With karma = Availability of bullets.

What doesn't affect you individually, affects all of us collectively. I.E. It diminishes the legitimacy of this forum as a whole when those very same mechanisms that are meant to cultivate genuine discussion are abused for petty reasons easily.
Offtopic.
Another approach to discourage use in production would be to randomly return incorrect or garbled data. It's still easy to use for learning, but would lead to embarrassing errors or omissions if used for something real.
No I haven't seen that, it's fantastic -- Thanks!
Required keys make it much harder for developers to learn new things.

Really? You fill out a form, click submit, get your key via email soon after. Or at worst, the following Monday. IMO, that's not a lot of friction.
I think it varies from person to person. At least for me, coffee helps to concentrate better, and as a result I work more effectively and am less distracted by depressing thoughts, therefore at least temporarily reducing depression.
What about homoeopathy - will that still work?
What can you get away with stealing from hotels?
How to build a lean startup with Steve Blank https://www.udacity.com/course/ep245
I misread this for a wikipedia link, and accessed it from my work computer.

For a lot of people, unfortunately, this kind of link is NSFW in the same way as pornography.

Do other readers think it should be tagged 'maybe NSFW' in the title, or just me?
Google Ventures tops the list of most active corporate VCs since 2012
Maybe there's an infinity of worlds, forked from ours, where the many worlds hypothesis is testable... :-)
The NSA is giving your phone records to the DEA
Registered. Just came back from an eight-month backpacking trip. Looking for something a little more unique though. :)
Snapnote.io – A tool for annotating and sharing images
Journalistic institutions, in an effort to inform the masses

In my opinion this is very shortsighted and arguably the most commonly misconceived part of "today's" journalism. "Journalistic institutions" are commonly referred to in business as Publishers. Publishing has one very specific goal, just like any other business that exists, which is simply to make money.

I truly believe that creating a system that allows ordinary citizens to curate (vote on) and fact check the firehose of information flowing through social media networks is the bright, sustainable, profitable (!) future of journalism.

I agree. The problem is that this effort should not be monetized, or at least it should be monetized in a way that doesn't bias and obfuscated the proper dissemination of information. I can't grok a single possible way of this concept to exist in harmony. Good on you (and your team?) to try to tackle this.
Why Are American Drinkers Turning Against Beer?
Yeah, marriage is overrated. It's not worth fighting for.

Or are you straight and hence it doesn't affect you? Kinda defeats the point of donating to charities...
Neither you, nor anyone else on the face of this planet, has the right not to be criticized for the actions they take.
That's an interesting thought concerning what leads to sales. Galleries don't really A/B test, and aesthetics and appearance are perhaps more important than sales.

I wonder if Amazon will be able to create bridges to the galleries in the same way that a site like Artsy might? The fine art world cares a great deal about the image it projects—will galleries want to be on Amazon (will people spend 10s of thousands of dollars via 1 click shopping)?

Part of me is excited about this as it might knock the crazy fine arts world down a few notches. I highly recommend the documentary with the late great Robert Hughes "The Mona Lisa Curse." It explores the extreme amount of capital that flooded the art world, drove up prices, and led to a world of less than stellar art. Maybe if Koons or Hirst start selling on Amazon, things will start to even out.
I think we need to define "reliably". Does it mean "enough to make a profit" (which would depend on the ratio of profits/losses on hits vs misses) or "guaranteed" i.e. every item is a success.

And anyway Stock Aitken and Waterman were actually a Hits Factory :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hit_Factory:_Pete_Waterman%...
Google SQUARED redesign
Would you wage war against a country that is essential for your energy needs and that doesn't store any energy?
Women entrepreneurs team up: CoFoundersLab success story