skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is a lot of what "people want" they are actually indoctrinated to want.
Does someone have a more in-depth description of what exactly happens when I'd log in with a google account there, besides "Google will share your email address with Go Read" and "Go Read may use your email address to personalize your experience on their website"? Or is that really all there is to it?
> realloc(ptr, 0) is free

I didn't know that so I went to read up on that. Turns out, this is true for C90, but apparently implementation-defined in C99 [1].

(But as the library creator you could of course define the behaviour that the provided function must have.)

[1] http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/realloc/
Right, but that's not natural selection, that's mutation. Natural selection can pick up on the changes after they've taken place.

e.g., There's presumably a gene out there that makes humans twice as intelligent at absolutely zero expense, and although if it were to appear it would be selected for, it it clearly hasn't happened yet. Natural selection can't drive that to occur.
I've found myself thinking about this a lot lately. I don't know about corporate law, but I can certainly see many jobs becoming obsolete in the not-so-distant future. Automation is advancing and accelerating like never before, and that is a good thing. Of course, this means fewer workers are needed. Factor in population growth, and this quickly becomes a major issue.

I've seen people bring up basic income when such concerns are raised. I myself am undecided on how effective it would be, but it seems like now is a good time for conversation on the matter to begin.
it's "benefit" as in "benefit for the plant". What's good for the weed is not always good for the farmer though. This is not a PR piece trying to spin a bad thing into a good thing but an article pointing out a real problem with gm crops.
Totally, a web firm without website, raises £2 million to develop sites (2000)
Not really relevant, but I am greatly amused between the current relationship that we have with our security services and the situation that Terry Gilliam portrays in his excellent film: "Brazil".

After all, when the security state starts to be driven by the profit motive, were we really so naive as to expect anything less?
Just empty talk.
The issue being, of course, that a standard which is not implemented is of little use.

Last time around, a few stakeholders (mostly MS, but also Yahoo and Google) managed to railroad the proposal completely resulting in the watered down ECMAScript 5.
Good read to get a historical context. On the other hand in new code I'd most likely use SipHash: https://131002.net/siphash/

Siphash is simple, pretty fast, versatile and can be used in a way not vulnerable to hash collisions denial of service attacks (aka: hash flooding):
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html
I think one reason the Pumping Lemma is emphasized so much is that it is a good exercise in logic. We often find that students have difficulties with quantifier alternations (there exists x, such that for all y, there exists z, such that...). I think it is a good idea to practise such reasoning (e.g. for complicated module abstractions in software systems). The Pumping Lemma is a good example to exercise such reasoning.
This is a good observation.

I've put some effort into circumventing the zero-sum things, though I haven't thought about it this way before. I live on a boat that I've paid with cash, and thus own. My living expenses come down to harbour rent, electricity and heating in the winter. Over a year that's an average of $300 a month. I live in the smack middle of Copenhagen. On top of this comes living expenses, clothes, etc. But I'm not very materialistic so that's quite cheap too.

The surprising result (for me at least) is that I'm out of the status race, and people envy me for the freedom I've gained. By choice I haven't been working for more than a year, and I can afford it, and don't feel much pressure taking any old job. I'm looking for something interesting, but if it doesn't turn up I can live without. In the meantime I spend time doing all the sideprojects, art things, and hanging out a lot of other people are dreaming about while they slave away.

To quote Fight Club: "the things you own end up owning you"
Is Apple becoming a democracy?
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I'm not saying that you're wrong, but the article isn't really about that, and he also briefly touched on this point:

> The standard line today is that he didn’t figure in the massive increase in consumerism. Given the choice between less hours and more toys and pleasures, we’ve collectively chosen the latter. This presents a nice morality tale, but even a moment’s reflection shows it can’t really be true. Yes, we have witnessed the creation of an endless variety of new jobs and industries since the ‘20s, but very few have anything to do with the production and distribution of sushi, iPhones, or fancy sneakers.
Great job. I have been working on a similar Google Reader replacement using Ruby and Ember.
In many cases, you need only a few watts (5 or less) and with a good antenna can transmit globally.
This would probably be legally easier. As long as you have the URL you can access them, so you are more of a directory than a provider of the data.

E.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=hphotos-ak-frc1
Interesting argument, though I currently think correctness is more important in programming. Their proofs are hand-wavy compared to our programs.

Thurston expands, "It’s just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas." (http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236)

But I could also accept the claim that mathematics is more intellectually gratifying, if they're not so much at the mercy of standardization and other boring fiddly issues. I don't know.
That's an interesting observation. I might pay more attention next time I see issues like this.
Whistle.im: FaaS - Fuckup as a Service
I'd like to share mine also

YouTube User Guard is a chrome extension which lets you stay signed in to YouTube with a single account indefinitely, even while you're signing in and out of other accounts for Gmail etc.

I made it because I want don't want my YouTube account linked to my work email.

The principle is simple, it monitors for changes in several key cookies and reverts them.

http://kwerty.com/YouTube-User-Guard

https://github.com/kwerty/YouTube-User-Guard
You forget that nasty reality called property and school taxes. In reality, one never owns one's home. You own it as long as you can pay any remaining mortgage and all the taxes. Let's also not forget maintenance costs. Ever paid the bill to replace a leaking roof or kitchen appliances or...
http://paste.ie/view/de115ebd Cached version (black on back text was all that was show from Googel Cache, this is a bit more readable ) as strikermag seems to be having issues at the moment
http://www.livephysics.com/tools/mathematical-tools/morse-co...
I'm confused, why is this on facebook?
I'm having a hard time taking this seriously, it just sounds like a joke. Throwing ketchup at pastafarians?
(wanted to post this on the website, but the comments system is off)

I've found this article both entertaining and insightful; there's one big hypothesis in it which I find unnecessary, though: the conspiracy theory, making it a fight between dominant classes and actual wealth producers.

If we call "bureaucracies" the collectives which consume a lot of human workforce and produce little human-enjoyable wealth out of it, then those bureaucracies are best understood as a life form, distinct from the homo sapiens individuals which serve it. You need to see them as a whole, for the same reason as why you can't make sense out of an animal if you mainly see it as the sum of its individual cells.

From a biologist's point of view, they need to compete for resources, they show some adaptability, they reproduce themselves with some amount of mutation: they have everything needed to benefit from Darwinian selection, and they do.

The resulting current generation of bureaucracies has evolved a very good effectiveness at diverting resources, from other consumers including humans, towards themselves (that is, maintaining and growing the bureaucracy itself).

As a result, they exhibit many "intelligent" traits, including some selfish sense of purpose. Conspiracy theorists wrongly look for The Man, the mastermind driving bureaucracies. There's none, no more than there's a single neuron nor small group thereof which drives your brains: a complex enough bureaucracy has a non-human mind of its own.

Keynes was right about the amount of work we'd need, what he failed to predict is a phenomenon very similar to eutrophisation: we dream of full employment when we don't need to, so we produce much more "nutrients" (people willing to offer their workforce) than we can use for survival and human enjoyment. So instead of being consumed by/for homo sapiens, this energy is consumed by that competing life form that are bureaucracies.
Your post seems to boil down to: products manufactured on cheap in China cost much less than real estate in London and car from Munich.

The problem is that before globalization happened you could afford stuff manufactured locally without working 60 hour weeks super-sophisticated high end jobs requiring sacrificing your youth to study and hard work.
Is there a gene already in human DNA which would make humans two times smarter if repeated / made more active? That's what happens with weed rice.

Btw the answer can be yes. We are no longer constrained by food concerns but our genome does not account for that yet.
The site seems to be experiencing problems. Here is an archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130818200653/http://www.strikem...
Yes, render,reflow,timeouts,event handling, etc happens..
You might need to set a CSS property and then animate it. In this case you'll need to wait for a render in between the two steps

Also useful if you need to wait until after all event handlers are executed in the current context
Learnable.com Gives Australian High School Students Free Classes
Don't use native POPCNT instruction for popcount: PSHUFB is faster
I was with him all the way until "The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger". The author does make the point that it might also be the people themselves pushing for it, at least.

The 'ruling class' really doesn't care if anybody is or isn't working pointless jobs. Society as a whole is forcing people into pointless jobs by viewing anybody who is unemployed as some kind of failure. When a child gets out of school they need to find work or they have failed. If someone has no job their perceived lack of purpose ultimately pushes them into mental illness, drug abuses or even suicide. This has nothing to do with someone forcing people to work and everything to do with the human brain's need for purpose forcing working - even if that work is pointless. For example, you often hear someone say with pride how they have worked so much they don't have time to eat or sleep even when the work they are doing is something like filling out pointless bureaucratic paperwork.

"How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour when one secretly feels one’s job should not exist?"

Most people in these kind of jobs actually believe that the job is necessary. Especially in academic and administrative disciplines the very thought of their work not being useful will have most people very defensive and angry. They'll probably go as far as to sabotage genuine useful production in an effort to prove their value.
It's concentrated in coastal areas pretty much everywhere.
I agree that the title change was necessary, the problem is that the telephonetemp's comment has no sense unless you know the original title. (Perhaps the original title may be visible in a small gray font below the current title, or the title change may appear as a comment. But this can lead to even more metadiscussion.)

In some case it's good to have a little title editorializing, for example in this case I would like to "Quipu: How the Incas stored number information in knots" or "Quipu: Incas' device to store numbers"
They're paying people to have the specific domain knowledge that can be applied quickly in emergencies.

I suppose it's a bit like being a fireman at an airport, the chances of having a plane need your services are I would've thought pretty rare, but you still need to be there and you've still got to be ready because you've got to react incredibly quickly if something goes wrong.

Can't have an airport without firemen even though an incident requiring their services may never happen, I guess companies feel the same way about corporate lawyers, HR departments and PR people.
People capable of building a quality product will not settle for " stock options, connections, real life code examples, etc".
To add to your devtools list as you asked in your article :

OAuth.io "OAuth-as-a-service" is also free for open source projects, by using directly the open source daemon oauthd for 80+ providers https://github.com/oauth-io/oauthd

disclosure : I work for OAuth.io
Show HN: Bash server
Bash web server with the use of netcat faster than nginx, supports PHP, Python & C
I'm not wild about the labels "implicit" and "explicit" for mental models. "Explicit" is not bad, but "implicit" is less intuitive. IMHO, "behavioral model" is a better label.

With simulations (e.g. CPUs), what the OP referred to as an "implicit model" is a "behavioral model" (the results are right, but the simulation takes shortcuts). An "explicit model" is a "cycle accurate model" because the simulation goes through all the actual motions that the real target (CPU) would do.

Behavioral models are much faster but less detailed and sometimes less accurate. For instance, in a CPU simulator, you get estimated execution times for the code whereas for a cycle accurate model you will get actual (simulated) clock cycles that the instructions took to execute the code.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/check-your-privilege
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CoinWitness: Improving Bitcoin via zero-knowelge crypto magic
I was with you until the end.

Can you provide an example of an academic sabotaging useful production in order to prove his or her value?
"Good" for the weed would be if RoundUp weren't used in the first place. Then there would be no benefit whatsoever.
I wonder how much people we really need to replicate, sustain and exceed present levels of technology and culture (on another planet perhaps)?

Given that we allow every person to develop their talents of contributing to the productivity of the society. Not just being a wage drone or an unemployed drone.

My guess is: as few as a few million people today, hundred thousands when we figure out robotics.
I see only a press release by the group suing (and I mean that in the literal sense, not the judgemental one; the latest post is a copy of their latest press release), no link to the filing.
Exactly. You don't need a conspiracy to describe a stable but sub-optimal outcome: you just need it to be a Nash equilibrium.
Deprecation of assets via property tax is an incredibly good idea. When you don't have that, people see property as a speculative asset class, buy property, do nothing productive with it and...that's basically the Chinese property bubble.

Yes, you must pay taxes on your home, but that's because your home is consuming resources from the locality even if it is owned outright.
The problem here is that we humans really want to believe certain things, and our emotional involvement blinds us to what we really managed to establish scientifically, e.g. people vehemently oppose any suggestions of determinism, attempts to deny free will, whatever it might mean, etc., regardless of any logical argument.

I think you are falling for this in certain places as well, for example when talking about genetic skill level limitations you jump right to physical athleticism, which is something people are somehow able to accept more easily, while there is strong evidence that intellectual abilities are open to limitations of the same kind.

IQ is an imperfect measure that is at best correlated with the "quality" of ones genetic endowment, but it doesn't mean that the genetic limitations are any less real. This is the very old and heated debate of "nature vs. nurture", and I would appreciate your comment much more if you also included views of the "opposing" side and moderated your claims to what the research really says, while I think you are making some big extrapolations. That is not to deny the possibility of "learning to learn" or to discourage learning, but you used very strong phrases.
I think you're discounting that most people really don't want to live on a boat. An alternative is living in the countryside, but most people don't want to live there either.

It's not just materialism or a status symbol at play here, but the preferences of the majority of society pushing people into zero-sum. If people suddenly decided that living on a boat isn't that bad (not going to happen), then the price of docking your boat in the middle of Copenhagen would be through the roof in short order. Still zero sum.
Why do you fear for your family?
Yeah, I'm not wild about those labels either. I confess they were thought up on the spur of the moment to try to explain the idea.

The reasoning for the naming is essentially that an explicit mental model is one where you can write down all the steps, whileas an implicit model is one that just arises naturally from the things already in your brain and you can't really point to it and say what it is. I'm not sure that behavioural model quite captures that, but I'm definitely up for a better naming convention.
That guy isn't a good humorist, he's spotted on different occasions actually hitting helpless people, including women.

He is a kind of theatrical freak, sure, but he's a scary freak.
The trick is getting into a government subsidized housing program, making use of food stamps, and taking as many other handouts as you can get. A former friend does this and works about 10 hours a week as a dishwasher (sometimes more if they have a busy week) spending the rest of his time playing video games or reading Objectivist literature.
They had a successful kickstarter campaign http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangero...

It also has a solid release date set for March 2014 and they are right on schedule, alpha testing will start this December.

It's not as if he can now run away with the money and postpone it for another decade.
I don't really fits in with everything we seem to know about Woz.

Personally I'm not impressed with the way Hollywood changes history, especially recent history. For many, Hollywood's version becomes the official version.

PS, I can't downvote and seriously dislike drive-by downvoters. Or people that downvote because they disagree. Or most downvoting in general really...
For those that don't know, this is the same David Graeber [1] who wrote "Debt: The first 5000 years" [2].

"Debt" is a pretty great book, and I recommend others read it. At least, I found it illuminating to the popular concept of debt, the historical idea, and its ramifications.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
> The author does make the point that it might also be the people themselves pushing for it, at least.

I think the implication is that that is largely a form of Stockholm syndrome.

> They'll probably go as far as to sabotage genuine useful production in an effort to prove their value.

How is this not an extra argument in favour of his claim that there are lots of bullshit jobs out there?
But this is the sort of basic functionality that shouldn't be coming in a standard nearly 20 years after the language was first released. This is especially true when other languages have had such functionality since before JavaScript was conceived. It's not like they're new concepts that post-date JavaScript's creation.
plot twist: it's Monsanto which is the real weed
Yes, this permission only shares your email.
Flattening Callbacks Using Promises
You are my hero. I keep telling people (friends and parents) that a life like yours is possible. Not necessarily a boat, but something outside the box. But here in Flanders (Belgium), that's unthinkable. Every Fleming should have a house and very Fleming has a massive debt because of it. We love building so much, that there's almost no space left!
Python Web Applications With Flask - Part II (app creation)
This videos on Box don't work very well unfortunately: I can't pause and resume a video. Every time I miss any information I have to reload the page and start from the beginning of the vid....

Otherwise, great and I like the one video I watched. Thanks.
Writing a Linked List using Go
Everybody have their own threshold. I only consider city visited after I spend a night there.
This is the most approaching clone of Google Reader I've seen so far.

It has one big problem, however:

A feed can have only one tag (or, if you see a tag as a folder, a feed can be only in one folder).

This is a big problem because Google Reader's UI encouraged to add multiple tags on a feed (you didn't moved a feed from one folder to an other : you selected a list of tags the feed appear in). And the OPML format allows this too.

So, if you import an OPML export, half your feeds may appear to be missing.

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An other great Google Reader alternative is http://yoleoreader.com/ . Apart from its UI sometimes freezing for a second (maybe due to synchronous I/O or too long script execution), it's an other great Google-Reader-like RSS reader.
That sounds wonderful, but the line I'd always heard was "A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into" - that is, they are expensive to maintain. How do you avoid that?
That happens less in academics - I was thinking more of administrative areas in corporations. For example, there are no shortages of stories of administrators in procurement adding in additional required paperwork when more efficient computerized systems make their stamp on documents less required.

Actually, this has happened in academics in a way too - consider the requirement of ever lengthening literature reviews in PHD theses. These have come about because of the ease of access to academic documents through digitized journals making libraries and supervisors less valuable. The answer is to increase their value by increasing the amount of work required so that they will still be necessary to wade through it. I'm not sure how much this is sabotage and not just the result of electronic journals making this easier though, which is why the example in the paragraph above is far more relevant.
Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js
They visit one port in the whole internet.
This doesn't prevent them from visiting another port of the whole internet next time.

This makes "they visited the whole internet" true, "they aren't limited to web only" also true.
Very nice - despite playing a fair amount of chess, I never understood the openings in such a clear way as they are explained here.

One comment: the lone King in the King+Rook endgame wasn't as defensive as it could have been - and therefore learners could miss some tactics here.
"How is this not an extra argument in favour of his claim that there are lots of bullshit jobs out there?"

I was not arguing against the idea of bullshit jobs. It's not even possible to argue against that! I was arguing against the reason for having bullshit jobs. He attributes this to some plan by 'the man' to put people in these jobs. I'm arguing it is people putting themselves in these jobs by themselves.
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