skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your question, exactly, so forgive me if my response seems off. But what are you to do? Nothing special. Just refrain from jumping to conclusions. Instead, say, "I don't know." Which is the same thing the ancient Greeks should've done when asked why the sun travels across the sky, rather than assuming that Apollo drags it behind his magical chariot.
Am I correct, the "To:" field is really required to deliver email? If so, standards can be changed, or plugins developed to hide rest of metadata with encryption.
ElementaryOSX Luna
Not there yet, but work in progress. http://esberi.com
I'm going through the whole green card "papers" process now with my wife. Compared to almost every other country, the amount of time and effort it takes to even bring family over is incredibly long and arduous.

All that makes me really look froward to this game. Just the fact that this exists is a great conversation starter to raise some awareness about immigration and ridiculous bureaucracy.
Mastering the Craft
First time I learn that dmesg takes arguments!
I never came across The Origin of Consciousness - what makes it "monumentally good" in your opinion?
I am getting lots of AOL job ads on linkedin for my location and expertise. Won't be applying there in a hurry
It's akin to teenagers setting something on fire because "it would be cool", as Beavis and Butthead would do.
It appears he is still working there, as a software engineer: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/work/resume.pdf
He said to the room of nuclear engineers.
Magazine Writing on the Web, for Film
I was kinda hoping to get a description of what dmesg actually is/does...but it's mostly about customizing the output. I could search for it of course, but it was a bit of a surprise to not see any intro to it.

I've been using dmesg for awhile on Arch to debug USB devices mostly, without any clue to what it actually is.
Personally, I'd far prefer a small, relatively weak state attacked by a larger state respond with a single weapon detonated at high altitude, causing an EMP, as both a show of force and a way to cripple the higher tech aggressor, rather than with a countervalue strike against population, or even a non-nuclear strike against population.

Destroying communications and military infrastructure at the cost of very few lives (maybe some people in aircraft?) seems a lot more moral than incidental deaths of hundreds of thousands or millions of civilians in a counterforce strike, or intentional deaths tens or hundreds of millions in a countervalue strike.

(Similarly, I think assassination of foreign leaders is by far more moral than conventional warfare. The only problem is that decapitation strikes as a policy compress decision time and encourage postures like "launch on warning" or "launch on we're pretty fucking scared and think you might launch", which increases the overall odds of a nuclear exchange.)
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I've watched your pycon talk twice. It makes this stuff pretty accessible. The only thing I had a hard time following was your description of a hash length extension attack. I had to go and look it up afterward. Otherwise, a very good talk.
This is really good. I actually play piano and guitar. In fact, 15 years ago a lot of my social life was incidental to guitar playing. It hasn't occurred to me to use music this way lately. Thanks for reminding me.
for some reason this whole thread reminds me of that SNL skit with Donald Trump and Jimmy Fallon.

"Jimmy, you're fired."
>>VP realized he was so full of crap that he fired him

That's strange, because VP's are themselves full of crap. Its exceedingly rare that you can find a good VP.

Most VP's haven't done anything 'real' in years. And generally never have context on what they are doing, why they are doing, or even why its necessary. Two to three difficult questions in a row and they many not even be able to explain why they or their title should even exist.

Most VP's get hired through their network and survive by means of their network. The middle to senior level management is generally the most hopelessly inefficient part of the whole hierarchy chain, while being the biggest money sink in terms of the compensation and benefits.
That's certainly one way of interpreting his statement, and I agree with you that it's an offense to the team..

but.. I don't think it exactly helps Armstrong if instead of giving inconsistent direction.. he instead gives unclear and ambiguous directions. He's the CEO.. he should be able to communicate consistently and clearly.
Some very bright people, notably Chomsky, Minsky and Kurzweil are advocating utilitarian, "mechanical" nature of the mind, which is much more useful than any religious/mysterious crap.

Very crudely, language is just neural network training (due to repeated exposure) and pattern matching on what what was trained. This oversimplified model nevertheless could explain the whole phenomena very well. We do not memorizing grammars, for example, but we are able to distinguish well-formed sentence form nonsense just because it doesn't match the common structure we were trained.

People who started to study their second language as adult would tell you that sentences are not deliberately "constructed" according to the memorized rules as it is when we begin to getting familiar with a new language, but "emerge by itself" after some training. So we have no grammars inside our brain, but a mechanism to train to build up one.

The consciousness, according to the same views, is nothing but a "current working buffer" for ongoing processes, and as some "activity" exceeds some threshold it acquires a "focus" , as if we are "switching" to it.

Minsky have stated many times, that it will require years until people will start using such vocabulary from the world of complex systems in attempts to describe what's going instead of Froidian or common-sense memes.

There is a course based on his Society of Mind book on MIT Open Courseware - very nice talks to listen.
Hmm. Python has default Bignum promotion so the naive N choose K implementation will not suffer from overflow. I guess it could be slow for large values, but how many casual users need to calculate N choose K for large N?
Form idea to feature
I am curious as to when they will charge him with tax evasion or insider trading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio#Qwest
I used to run and code an image posting site. It took me all of half an hour to add a feature to the admin section that showed every frame of an animated image when posted using the image magick library from PHP. So this isn't a particularly difficult problem from a moderation perspective. Silent bans and contagious bans took a lot more coding (banning someone such that they don't know their posts are no longer visible, and banning someone automatically if they've posted a banned image or have a cookie from a pervious ban, etc..).

I hate APNG personally, though, because I think MNG makes a lot more sense. The server can return what is appropriate based on standard HTTP content negotiation with that. APNG is just a stupid hack and the only reason Mozilla went with it instead of MNG is because is saves 100KB in the browser binary, which I couldn't care less about.
The thing is, some people think we're already on a 10-year clock. Quantum computers represent a very real threat, and there are no theoretical obstacles to their implementation. So yes, we should be migrating to something else. These latest breakthroughs add more impetus, but I don't think they're going to get there before quantum computers (just my opinion).
Yeah I think comparing her to Galileo, Newton and Einstein is a little over the top.

That is so typical feminism, trying to frame things as if bad things happened to her just because she was a woman. If I remember correctly, Einstein was also not believed by the physics authorities of his time at first - he didn't even get a job in academics, remember? Galileo was almost burnt on the stake for his research. Professors trying to steal their students work also happens all the time. There is a debate that Newton might have stolen calculus from Leibniz.

Not saying these things are OK, but they didn't happen because Cecilia was a woman.

If she is not as famous as other physicists, perhaps it is because her work simply didn't inspire the imagination of people as much. Marie Curie is famous, and she is a woman.

Also her name might simply be harder to remember than other names. Life is a bitch. To be honest, my brain just goes "Cecilia prubschichdjadfw-whatever" when I read her name. That's not fair, but it is not because she is a woman, it's just that her name is longwinded and foreign.

Maybe Marie Curie is only famous because Kraftwerk made a song about her, and Einstein is only famous because there is that iconic picture where he sticks out his tongue. I don't think many people adore physicists because they understand the actual physics. Everybody can write down e=mc^2 and probably even know that they wrote down something significant. If you want Cecilia DJSjug-whatever to be famous, make a better story. Make a song about her, create an iconic formula, whatever. Don't complain that she is a female victim. In fact she seems to have been quite successful anyway.
I just noticed that both puffin's web site and the browser itself, are blocked in my area. Some place in Beijing, China. I am not sure if it is the same to other ISP or company in Beijing.

After connected using vpn( this is able to watch youtube HD videos ), It works but speed is terribly slow at beginning. But then, it runs FAST.
There are actually highly interesting developments at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience, one of them being the works of Thomas Metzinger (see, e.g., http://www.amazon.com/Being-No-One-Self-Model-Subjectivity/d...).

It's simply wrong to state that research into consciousness is at the state of "it emerges from neural activity".
We also have very recent versions of this... I'd be happy to provide some anecdotes...
The Culture of the Programmer
Graphics nazi here to help.

The puffin icon looks sad.
The speed graphic at the bottom should run left to right.
Put a download button after the speed graphic.
It pains me to see how many I cannot answer.

Also:

>Sketch briefly Sir Walter Raleigh...

I would have failed this horribly.
Check out this github repo/wiki of browserify-related game modules and projects: https://github.com/hughsk/game-modules

It's got links to some awesome stuff, including voxel.js (http://voxeljs.com), a set of tools for building minecraft-like games in the browser.

Relatedly, I've been working on a set of js game modules that rely on node.js/browserify called crtrdg: http://crtrdg.github.io – it's not very far along yet, but I'm having fun with it.

Also check out frozen: http://frozenjs.com/docs/
And pixi.js: http://www.pixijs.com/
Gotta love right-to-work, eh?
What if iOS...?
I've wondered about this since I was twelve, though I didn't what it was at the time. My personal experiences have led me to conclude that it is actually impossible for consciousness to be biological.

If you look at consciousness from a third-party perspective, it makes sense for consciousness to be biological. Suppose we have a human named Bob; Bob thinks with his brain, and it's a safe bet to assume his brain also creates his consciousness. But now think about your own consciousness. If it's your brain that creates consciousness, why are you in the first-person point of view? Why is there a first-person point of view? Why are "you" not just a brain with its own consciousness? Where do "you" come into the picture?

On a somewhat related note, the only safe bet is to assume you're the only person in the world. You know you exist because you think and therefore are. You don't know, however, if anyone else does.
Although it is partly true, did you hear about the http://www.yotaphone.com/ ? I've just seen it yesterday and I guess there is some amount of innovation involved.
This was the more striking part of all this for me. I've read a lot of (Dick) Feynman biographical material, read his layperson books, his lecture series, etc.

Until today I had no idea he even had a sister, let alone that she also went into physics.
I am a little confused, to be honest, how to hack the clitoris.

Interesting material, though.

EDIT: And by hack, I mean get at its fundamentals, not the more archaic meaning of hack (color me embarrassed by insensitive language)
It would be great to host an up-to-date PDF with this, too. (Any interest in publishing this when it's at 1.0?)
Brand Starts With A Promise
So this is basically the same as Opera Turbo (edit: or now called Opera Offroad)?
> After navigating the filesystem and downloading scripts, it is obvious, and not surprising, that this system is using busybox...

Does anyone know whether Transcend provides source code [0] upon request? The EULA in the user manual for the product [1] mentions that it might contain "GPL Components", but I could not find any additional details.

[0]: http://www.busybox.net/license.html

[1]: http://www.transcend-info.com/files/Manual/WiFiSD_Manual_v1....
I think if NaCL ever gets popular that design decision will bite somebody, somewhere, on some OS.

Our crypto libraries need to provide their own belt to wear with the OS-provided suspenders. Yes, I know about potential fork() bugs, but our modern VM-crazed deployments introduce that possibility at kernel level too. We need our good crypto implementers shipping good lightweight CSPRNGs, rather than the kernel developers who try to compensate with 6000 bit entropy pools.
There is a relatively insignificant amount of private coverage in the UK; something like 5bn versus 110bn in public coverage, and the NHS is a very large component of that 5bn (as a buyer) as well.
I really like what Humble Bundle is doing. I'm not sure how it could be applied to things other than digital goods.

https://www.humblebundle.com/
Generally speaking, attacks which rely on more structure are hard to adapt to situations where there is less structure. Conversely, attacks which require no structure are easy to generalize to a wide variety of situations.

Something like Pollard rho requires no structure. It works in any group. The number field sieve is an intermediate case. It requires a norm (basically you need some elements to be bigger than others). For arbitrary finite fields, the NFS still represents the fastest known attack. The latest attack is a version of the function field sieve. The FFS uses, in an essential way, the algebraic structure of polynomials over a field. Coppersmith pioneered the use of the FFS in the 80s, when he showed that small characteristic fields (which consist primarily of polynomials) admit faster discrete logarithm solutions. The latest work goes far beyond Coppersmith's work, but tends towards increasing specialization, not generalization, since it adds the new requirement that the field contain an intermediate subfield.

Given that the direction of specialization appears, if anything, to be going in the other direction, there would have to be a substantial further breakthrough in order to apply these results more generally. My own opinion and intuition is that these results are not likely to apply to prime field discrete logs, never mind RSA and/or composite moduli.
Fear of Immortality
Please, do so. It would be interesting to read.
I have an even deeper factor. With that vaccine restricted, how much poorer would the world be? What advances would not have occurred? What would all of that "wealth" really be worth? What good is being "rich"(1) in a world of poverty?

(1)25 years ago not even the richest men in the world had HD tv. Even if one could focus his wealth to create one for himself, it would have been nearly useless. I'd rather be a poor man in a rich world than a rich man in a poor one.
I hope that's a joke. As one reply here mentions, the financial press typically avoid pissing off the rich, but I would not include Bloomberg in that list.

Bloomberg have been battling the government in the courts for years over FOIA requests to disclose secret information to the public on a variety of issues.

For example they were very aggressive in investigating and publishing details of secret dealings between the largest US financial institutions and the government during the financial crisis:

Bloomberg Sues Fed to Force Disclosure of Collateral (Update1) [1]

Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Loans [2]

Fed’s Once-Secret Data Compiled by Bloomberg Released to Public [3]

As well as publishing details on billionaires who manipulate the system from the shadows (e.g. the Koch brothers):

David Koch’s Chilling Effect on Public Television [4]

Koch Funneled $1.2 Million to Governors Battling Unions [5]

Koch’s Iran Link Causes Democrat to Send Donation to Charity [6]

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aKr.o...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/wall-street-aristoc...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-23/fed-s-once-secret-d...

[4] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-09/david-koch-s-chilli...

[5] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-23/koch-funneled-1-2-m...

[6] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-18/koch-iran-link-caus...
Start thinking of it as a little penis. Treat it like one! It is much more than the "head" or glans.

In the great tradition of Revenge of the Nerds (1984) [1], we have been hacking the clitoris for a long time.

I especially am a fan of this: https://github.com/scanlime/arduino-lelo-remote

Hack the Clitoris!

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/
This is pretty good. But does the free account last forever? Last time i was lured into signing up upcloud.com and was forced to pay a month later or my entire account gets wiped out.
I will admit that this test would look daunting to "eighth grader me", but should I feel less intelligent than the eighth graders we were producing 101 years ago?

I think it would be more fair to show a criteria of how the students were taught back in 1912 as well.

We could easily teach children in grade 8 today to answer the following question: "give at least five rules to be observed in maintaining good health" (question 9 of physiology) by teaching them "the ten rules of maintaining good health" one day in class and moving on the next.

Health class and phys-ed today consists of much more than 5, 10 or even 50 rules of maintaining good health.

Or how about question 5 in Geography: "locate the following countries that border eachother: Turkey, Greece, Servia, Montenegro, Roumania.

If I was growing up in an Ottoman-empire-ruled world, perhaps I would be taught exactly which countries border with Turkey for example.
Do PHP..YOLO
There is enough crosscompatibility (eOS is based on Ubuntu) that as long as users are told to use Ubuntu resources I think they would be okay.

That said, it's tough to get in the mindset of someone who isn't already comfortable in linux, so I really don't know.
Am I the only one who struggles to see anything terribly wrong with what the Johns Hopkins doctors did?

How much would you want to consent to a tissue sample? Me ... I'd do it for free to help science. I think most people would consent for $100 dollars and almost everyone would consent for $1000. So that puts some numbers on the 'crime'.
Unless you're in 8th grade, that's not super relevant. I don't think I would do very well on this test today, but I'm actually surprised at how similar the topics and depth of these questions are to my recollection of 8th grade standardized testing.
If some OS screws up urandom so much that it bites someone, it'll bite a huge number of different apps, and not just the ones that use NaCL. Like it or not, urandom has to work; all sorts of things depend on it. The urandom ship has sailed.

Meanwhile, better to have just one codebase to review, rather than 100 crappy ones, like the SecureRandom from Harmony.
The questions look daunting but It's naive to think the pupils were not taught the material before hand. I mean if you spent a week or two with year 8s and covered the necessary material I have no doubt the majority of them would answer all the questions.
Saying that consciousness is just an illusion created by reacting atoms makes sense from a third-person perspective. It does sound inconceivable that a zombie could be the exact same as a "conscious" person atomically but simply lack a so-called consciousness. If we're talking about a person Bob, sure, all his thoughts are just atomic reactions.

But if that's the case, why does the first-person point of view exist? Yes, there will be a bunch of people, all supposedly with their first-person points of view, but why are you inside yourself? What is different about your illusion of consciousness such that you are inside it from the first-person point of view?

If consciousness is just an illusion created by chemical reactions, it shouldn't exist at all. Consciousness is a first-person thing, and were it just a bunch of reactions, no one would be able to call themselves I.
I agree to some extent with your assessment, however, I also had some issues with the original post and could understand the anger of people that delved (much) deeper into the subject. I am not expecting a blog post to be a well-thought and rigorous scientific article, but expect strength in argumentation when extraordinary or broad statements are made.
Specifically, he used

* lots of hand-waving arguments (something along "that is contradictory", even though it is not clear why it should be contradictory)
* the evocation of quantum mechanics. Whenever I see someone mention quantum mechanics as an explanation without explaining its association any further, a red flag is raised. Somehow the weirdness of parts of quantum mechanics has lead it to be used as an all-encompassing explanation for all other sorts of phenomena. Homeopathy being a prime example.
* the fact that current, "mainstream" research into consciousness has been so easily dismissed without knowing something about it (beyond a youtube video).

Some works that I found particularly inspiring (and well-thought) are Thomas Metzinger's work, e.g., Being No One http://www.amazon.com/Being-No-One-Self-Model-Subjectivity/d..., for the layman Antonio Damasio's work, Christof Koch, Francisco Varela, just to mention a few.
The proposal in section 6 is somewhat redundant given section 5:

> ...all users receive all messages...

It would be trivial to modify the BM client to archive/save all messages it receives.
The original title had 'money' in it, which is less controversial. The current link title just says 'how much...', no mention of money. This turns it into a philosophical question - lose out on money, gain on moral integrity and altruism.
It can be feasible if the enough credit card or reward card usage data is gathered for you, across all the stores you visit. Hard, but possible. Still for a lot of users the entropy will be too high.
Oh my god, I misread that as "the INTERNET clitoris" because you get those lovely "Map of the internet" things...
They've been trying, and I believe most of their traffic is from acquisitions but all of their money/revenue is from old subscriptions. I think if you look at their financials, they actually lose money on ever part of the business except the old subscriptions.
hehe, then it'd interest you to know I'm working on writing HPC grade numerical tools in Haskell. I'm actually a few weeks away from doing a preview release even (terrifyingly enough).

[edit: and the preview release will include some cute simple SIMD codes i've written, not the optimal ones, but a really nicely written set none the less.]
The beta worked very well for me on Wine, except the sound, which I had to mute. Haven't checked the full version yet.
Sounds like a good idea. After a considerable length of inactivity we've had some great translation contributions from github use ocha-. Taking it pretty much to the finish line.
I'll do some proofreading too, as I know he's not a native English speaker.
I guess epub formats etc would make sense too.