skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the only other thing i see is the openssl securerandom code doesn't properly check the return value. it is possible for RAND_bytes to fail and for the securerandom code to not throw an exception. i think this is quite unlikely to happen. so basically:

1) reading from /dev/urandom takes more than 10ms causing an entropy error

2) a malloc fails causing the error to be saved to the fallback ERR_STATE instead of the thread local ERR_STATE

3) java sees failing code and tries to read the last error but now malloc succeeds so it reads it from its local thread ERR_STATE which succeeds or some other thread has clobbered the fallback ERR_STATE

4) java doesn't throw an exception because it sees no error

the other possibility is the openssl random state is shared between processes due to forking. i hear there is a process called the zygote that warms up the vm and forks to create apps. if it initialises openssl then it is possible child processes could get the same random state.
To take it further, I suggest that everyone use a squatting toilet. If you have to use a western sitting toilet, squat on the rim.
Does anyone else find that the Puffin (bird) has a sort of natural worried look to it, making it a poor choice for a logo?
Australia used to have a system like the US model - all of the states had their own arcane sales tax laws. This was scrapped in 2000 in favour of a blanket 10% goods and services tax. It didn't make everyone happy but it was a lot easier to manage.
Also, imports under AU$1000 are exempt from it, which means online sellers like Amazon who ship from the US or UK are fairly popular.
I think insisting on anonymous communication for bulk data transfer is fatal: Crippling performance is too strong an impediment for most people. The primary complaint most people have with these systems is that they are too slow but few devs seem to be listening.

Cryptosphere forgoes anonymous transfers and seems promising.
Perhaps the Heisenberg compensators function in some fashion by stopping the momentum of the object being transported?
I don't think the physics is missing - it should be all there, according to my confirmation. There are numerous examples around us. Waves propagate themselves owing to the very energy inside of them. Gravity is energy that is produced by the activities of everything in the world - the stress energy tensor says the same thing, but people don't seem to really recognize what it means.
That's an interesting way of looking at it.

Some problems.
Why is there any reason to assume that intelligent behaviour and consciousness aren't the same thing?
If a vegetative human with next to no brain function is going to be considered conscious for all intents and purposes according to what you have written above, then you are suggesting that consciousness resides somewhere else, perhaps as an artefact of 'living'.

In my more deeply reflective moments I've sometimes thought that maybe even very simpl chemical reactions, such as the conversion of carbon compounds to carbon dioxide and water, may be a form of consciousness - basically, consciousness exists where there are energy gradients and is thus deeply tied with entropy and thermodynamics.

So, that could be true, but that is different from the meaning of being human, and of having a conscious existence that is rich with relationships with friends, activities and memories, plans etc... Consciousness without memory would not be productive in our present incantations as humans- a conscious being without memory would have no language, no concept of how to act, or why, so if such an entity exists, or exists when we sleep, could you really call it conscious? What wouldn't be observing? What would it be comparing and contrasting its experiences to?

I said before that, for a species of our current level of philosophical and scientific understanding, the idea that consciousness is an emergent property of neuronal activity seems appropriate, even if it isn't complete.
It is not true that this is mysticism, because in order to suggest they consciousness doesn't correlate with intelligent behaviour, you are actively claiming things that we don't know and have no proof of in order to suggest that consciousness is something other, and intelligence a subset of.

As a species we generally agree that consciousness is a property possessed by things with neural networks, and the more complex the neural network, corrected for body size, the more advanced the level of consciousness and level of self awareness. So intelligence is basically included in this definition, and although we can't really measure either well, we do know that it is the activity of neurons that leads to one, and despite the oft-pointed out incompleteness of this layer of definitions, it is both supported by available evidence and not so much of a problem, given that these are enormous questions that civilisation shall likely struggle to fully understand for as long as there are humans about to think on it
Not at all. What you're referring to has to do with exceeding a certain number of shareholders. In fact many Fortune 500 companies are privately held. Koch, SC Johnson, etc[1], not to mention the myriad large companies that are taken private by private equity firms.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/largest-private-companies/
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong fires Patch's creative director during conference call
What is more mature: calling out bullshit as it is or acquiescence to something that is completely wrong due to lack of testicular fortitude?

I am in no way "kicking and screaming" in an immature manner, I am instead saying "fuck you" to a system with which I will acknowledge no further authority over me.

I am no longer interested in the opinions or doctrines of the agents of all systems in this world which are not singularly for the advancement of Humanity as a singular species.

I am not american, Jewish, atheist, ethnic, sexually-preferential or any other wedge label.

I am a conscious being who is, from this point forward, only accepting of an advancement of the Human Race without any profit motive (money, ego, power, resource) outside of that which benefits the entire planet.
calling bs on that right now
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How is passing legislation going to stop people from doing things like this?
I find this post is awful, i mean don't people in Britain do have rights on Privacy? Their Photos etc?^^
I didn't say anything about prohibition. I said I want to send a memo requesting that people not do that. It's for their own dignity as much as anything. Please don't try to make this a "freedom of speech" thing. It's not.

But it's silly to try to generalize to philosophy from science and math that you have only a superficial grasp of. It can be a good way to look deep to people who are similarly ignorant (see Deepak Chopra), I suppose, but it's not a good way to find the truth.
What do people think of I2P Email?
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Chain reaction shattered huge Antarctica ice shelf
1. Yes, consciousness is just awareness. Your mind is where all your thoughts and judgements are. Your body acts from your mind and your mind is generated by your consciousness.

2. The 'origin' of a phenomenon refers the causes that generate the phenomenon. In math, as well as philosophy, the question is the origin of the answer. I'll give you an example. Where does the light from a lightbulb come from? Does it come from the bulb or does it come from the electricity itself? The bulb is simply the object which converts the electrical energy to EM radiation, not the origin of the light itself. Where does the electricity come from? The activities of the generator. So, mind is like light and consciousness is like an electrical wave.

3. Awareness of a fact means that you see a fact. It means that you receive the fact as it is. The dichotomy between experiential and physical things is illusory. It's simply that you experience the physical things from your own perspective, which is formulated by everything that has happened to you and everything you have done in the past - all of which were originated by activities as well. If we compare to a physical object, your consciousness is like the driver of a car (where your body is like the car), and when you are driving a car you can see through the windshield and you can feel feedback through the steering wheel. Hope this makes sense.
This is not so easy to understand at first listen so please feel free to ask me continuous questions as I can help you to make your understanding more concrete.
They claim to have a "revolutionary JavaScript engine" that is 5.5x faster on sunspider than chrome on android and safari on ios. The only way that could possibly be true is if they run the JS on the server, which has a faster CPU than a mobile device.
Absolutely do not stand on the seat. Beyond getting dirty shoes all over the toilet, the asymmetic force during initiation is a great way to break the toilet seat or overcompress the wax seal beneath the toilet (I had an ex-roommate damage my toilet this way). Putting your feet on the rim is a good way to slip and fall. If you want to simulate a squat toilet with a Western fixture, raise up your feet on a step stool. Sit down first then raise your feet. </rant>
I just got playing a round of this game. Easily the best political game ever made, even if it's not every gamer's cup of tea (although when you get down to it, is the entity-recognition-under-time-pressure and click-to-do-something mechanic any different in a document comparison game than in an FPS?)

What makes it such a great political game is that the author came at it without much of a political message or agenda. He thought the document-matching mechanic was compelling enough for the game. As it stands, the game has a compelling political message for both border-guard and those waiting in line. Top notch work for a one-man side project.
> Take the global menu Ubuntu copied. It sacrifices visibility and therefore discoverability of the menu items for visual appeal.

I think you are missing some context.

Early Apple experiments in GUI design initially used multiple menu bars anchored to the tops of windows, but this was quickly dropped in favor of the current arrangement,[1] as it proved slower to use (in accordance with Fitts's law). The idea of separate menus in each application was later implemented in Microsoft Windows and is the default representation in most Linux desktop environments. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_bar

This was in 1983, when Tognazzini was working on the Lisa, inventing some of the UI concepts we still use and very carefully considering efficiency when choosing them. You may disagree with him—his stance that the mouse is faster than a command line shell is widely controversial—but visual appeal was not nearly his main concern.
OK, $10M Series A on $30M pre-money, 15% pool, standard preferred stock, offer expires Monday 5PM.
The UK also counts the world's Excel 2007 champ among its citizens http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14401766
If not deliberate trolling, that kind of comment is at the very least low-information. It could be replaced by a shell script that looks for the word "taxes" and randomly replies with a short but strongly worded comment that taxation is theft.

Compare: whenever a commenter mentions property, user proudhon99 shows up to write a one-line comment that property is theft. Yes, he legitimately believes it, and his position is actually less absurd than the libertarian's, but comments that could be replicated by parody bots are not that useful.
How do you know that there are no other components besides the brain that cause there to be subjective experience? One might very well suspect that there is something more, considering that no arrangement of physical parts has come close to qualitatively being the same as a subjective experience.

Your soul could be observing your body and being affected by it. While your memories and feelings are in the body, your subjective experience of them may not be.
maybe its just me but I don't understand what the joke is ? I read through a label and didn't find it humorous ? Is it possibly because i didn't read the right one ?
Like it or not, language is always evolving. Someone older than you was annoyed by your teenage vernacular as well.

Writing "account" after everything is kind of silly when I think about it. These aren't banks or wholesale vendors. I'm not sure what my Instagram "account" involves, it's just file storage. After all, we all understand what they mean by "I got an instagram," and it seems like English is always leaning towards function over form.
Implemented a random opponent matcher -- except the traffic has subsided heavily, so you might need to be patient :)
Has anyone used this in a paired environment? Would love to hear feedback on that. I'd also like to know if anyone has tried "importing" an existing rails app into nitrous, and how that has worked.
Say what? Which of these [1] is old and being ignored?

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pulls
I always joke with my friends when I tell them the girls in Asian countries always have more shapely asses than their Asian-American counterparts. That's because they work out their asses when they need to do their business.
elephant have been seeing their reflection when drinking water in lakes/ponds for millenia. Their brains evolved to identify with those patterns. Mirror test just proves if any species evolved enough to identify with that "pattern".

humans are just animals. nothing special. their consciousness is no different than say a crows or fox(cunning) consciousness. I would say one thing though....human brain is probably one of fluidest/flexible/organs ever created by nature. Take two humans...put one human in jail from birth (dont even teach language), and put other human in silicon-valley from birth, send him to stanford. Now, compare the "consciousness" of these two. Or even better, put the former human in jungle with monkeys from birth (dont teach him anything). I am sure there is lot of existing R&D/scientific articles on this.
I think this is a great question. I've often wondered if instead of making daily deals a big advertising gimmick you could instead make them for things that genuinely lower the price when people buy in huge quantities and then Handle the distribution etc.
You can probably find as many ways to write an algorithm in most languages. At least here the different versions vary in length by at most one page ;)
“We’re the biggest company no one has ever heard of”, aka "My huge company/daddy is bigger and more obscure than yours!".

Although in this case, they might actually hold a better claim on that title than others it is often given to
If so, they're being extremely disingenuous. Sure, you might be able to run those benchmarks faster, but the latency would eat up all of your gains and then some in any practical scenario.
I've never used WP Super Cache so I can't comment there, but having used W3 Total Cache I can say that the performance I get with W3 Total Cache is exactly the same as when I tried out Jekyll/Octopress since both solutions are only serving static HTML files and nothing else.

Then again, 300 visits per second, estimating 250KB for the entire page (css, js, images, etc) is about 75Mbps which is going to be a lot to ask from any shared hosting provider.
My wife is addicted to this game already. Just hearing about the decisions she's making makes my skin crawl. She's a total graphical adventure game snob, so if you're one too it's worth checking out this game. The multiple endings are well done, which is often a tricky part to get right.
This is one thing that frustrates me about Hacker News, and why I am considering just not bothering with this site in the future. Anytime I am honest about my reactions to stuff, along come the downvoters. You cannot justifiably call people on bullshit, vacuousness, "buck-passing", intellectual laziness, or anything like that. You just have to let everybody else's bullshit slide, or pad your criticism with passive aggressive nonsense and pats on the back ("good job, brah"), and sing kumbaya and talk about javascript and entrepreneurship or whatever bullshit.

What kind of "hacker" community does not allow room for the occasional independent thought expressed with a hint of abrasiveness? I welcome downvotes from passive aggressive screwballs on this site. They are a badge of honor.
For example, financial data would be used as input to generate a daily stock market overview. Something along the lines of:

"Today, the Dow hit a high of 16,200, marking the first time it has crossed the 16,000 barrier. blah blah blah, etc"

Basically, use data points to create a market overview where readers wouldn't know that it was computer generated. That's one idea.
Newspaper bane: Nobody reads the stories
People should NOT trust either governments or corporations, ever. Otherwise it maximizes corruption due to little or no oversight.
Assessing a fee under false color of law is a serious crime.
Reasonable point, insofar as it's unlike that comments will ever be joined with unrelated articles.

The main reason you'd get failures in a flat file system would be the normal reasons you get a relational database in the first place. Either you get update anomalies, or you want to compact the data into single atoms, or you want ad hoc querying rather than a specific pattern of access set in advance.

It doesn't help that until 5.6 MySQL's query planner joined on disk if you tried to join any two tables in which one or both has a TEXT field, regardless of engine and regardless of the actual fields selected.

As you can imagine, this slows things down a bit, considering that's the core join performed for single post generation. It also makes every kind of "recent comments" plugin a performance nightmare (quite aside from their cache-busting power).
>(for example just the other day I was thinking "hey, has anyone proved that mathematical induction is really intellectually honest? or was Hume actually right and it's all make-believe?")

Mathematical induction is different from the type of induction that Hume was concerned with, and it's just as sound as any other method of mathematical proof.
The label size should be variable. Not every item needs one of each category.
And what is wrong with 'it emerges from neural activity'?

Nothing terribly wrong, but consider this:

a) images on the television emerge from electrical activity in the television set;

b) break the television and the the images cease.

If we didn't already know that televisions receive signals, we might suppose that one day, after our science had progressed far enough, we might understand how televisions produce all that endless content.
Thanks for posting. I love articles like this which follow the thought processes of someone trying to hack a device. Keep 'em coming!
I was kind of disappointed it didn't have real products.
I've resigned myself to the fact that most really rich people became so doing things I'd have never in a million years imagined you could get rich doing.
> the primary motivation for MWI is to solve the Schrödinger's cat paradox, and that this is its only advantage. This is, of course, completely wrong.

By MWI, I am assuming you mean the Many Worlds Interpretation. I am curious: Can you describe what are the other motivations there are for this theory beyond resolving Schrödinger's cat paradox ?
Another vote for this. The figaro gem is awesome and it should be default Rails.
I'm guessing the post you replied to really meant to talk about "inductive reasoning" and not mathematical induction. Regarding the former, it is a well known open question within the philosophy of science, regarding how valid inductive reasoning is.[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
I would like having these simple functions, but I think they can just go into 'math' library.
Whoops, I misread. Well, still doesnt mean cant try it :P
What about money? Do you do all your business in BTC, or perhaps thecodollars? Facilitating the exchange of your goods and services is significant in itself.

Incidentally, Vanuatu is a place with zero income taxes (unless you're a landlord), happy people, and good weather. Perhaps you should consider moving there if you want a strict user-pays-for-service system?
CUDOs for providing such good summaries of your competitors! Such a public service really makes me want to signup for a B-sting!
As far as I know, light is defined precisely in physics. The light from a light bulb comes from electricity traveling through a highly resistive wire. The particle interactions generate photons.

"The bulb is simply the object which converts the electrical energy to EM radiation, not the origin of the light itself."

If you were to ignore the particle interactions, then yes, the light originates from the light bulb. It certainly does not originate from electricity. Where the electricity comes from is irrelevant.

"It means that you receive the fact as it is."

I have no idea what that means.

"The dichotomy between experiential and physical things is illusory. It's simply that you experience the physical things from your own perspective,"

Oh, I know.

I still don't think you defined awareness precisely enough.
From my experience the problem is generally short lived, and manifests around our (meaning my group of friends) mid-20s.

My assertion is the problem stems from hacker types being more introspective (I hesitate to use the word "smarter") than your average person, which leads to the following realisation for most of us: We are not normal enough to enjoy a simple life of working 9-5 and partying on the weekends, but not brilliant or lucky enough to achieve the success we would like to attain.

Realising the above means deciding to "settle" for a life of drudgery or toiling forever with the prospect of ending up like a failed delusional "wannabe". Both thoughts being rather depressing as we essentially struggle with our unfulfilled ambition.

The thing is though, as I'm in my early 30s, now find that my friends have generally found other interests in their life to find pleasure in; rather than just being focused on career or success as a metric.

We find peace in being slightly above average, reaching mid-level management or senior technical positions, and enjoying the stable financial environment we are able to provide our partners/families.

Although the point is a bit after-school-special, but when you stop focusing on what you can/cannot do for yourself but what you can do for others, there can be tremendous fulfilment in that, which alleviates our otherwise depressive tendencies.
Then all you should need at most is a single query to a single table- which could be loaded asynchronously via Ajax for swift loading time and less load on the server (no slow view renders) and that response could be cached with Nginx/Varnish, and further cached on the backend with Redis. I've seen WP sites that I had to debug/fix with 200+ queries per page. That should never happen.
I really don't think this is about anti-intellectualism at all. It's about the arguments in the article being poor ones, and in many cases ones that we've seen before. Saying that an argument is sophomoric does not imply that you think the subject isn't worth thinking about.

The top comment that was disingenuously quoted as only as "Sophomoric philosophy", was actually a well thought out dissection of several of the arguments presented. The poster of this rant has been shamefully dishonest in misrepresenting the comments he quoted, cherry picking phrases from them to put them in the worst possible light.

As a side note, you might want to know that Myers-Briggs is pretty much pseudoscience. It has low retest reliability, meaning that people who take are tested more than once often show different results. In addition, the Myers-Briggs profiles are similar to astrological readings in that each of them could apply to almost anybody.
No uptime mentioned? The common issue with shared hosting providers is frequent downtime.