skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come to the conclusion that the universe probably is a simulation (via the axioms provided by the simulation hypothesis). But it really doesn't matter either way now then does it? Whether or not we live in the "root" universe or one of the underlying simulations is really quite irrelevant to our daily lives as it is to the lives of simulated characters in video games. We can't do anything about it. Furthermore, since we are probably unable to change the simulation, we might as well accept it to be reality. Some might reply to this with the "Allegory of the Cave":

> Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato's Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave

I rebut this by stating that if we do happen to live in a simulation, then it is highly unlikely that we will ever be able to unchain ourselves from our shadow wall. Hence, we might as well go forward with the assumption that the shadow wall is in fact reality, because thinking otherwise would be a fairly pointless exercise (pragmatically).
Why not one-time use codes (e.g. [1]) instead of the phone? You can discreetly destroy the list that you carry as long as you can only get a new list at your destination.

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538
This chart looks like a GROUP BY clause which was used in a not too meaningful way. As others mentioned above there are a lot of parameters here like the company you are working for, location, project nature and such which would be important to point out.
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The US and UK governments among others are textbook terrorist states at this point.

The war on terror rhetoric is plain pathetic now. Any self defence measure taken by citizens would be classified as terror by these governments now.
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This assumes that you will eat more from the exercise--many Americans eat more than they need to, and doing something for your health makes you more conscious of that.
I honestly believe that the "morals" (for lack of a better word) of the UK government haven't actually got any worse over the last 50 years or so - what has changed is that now technology allows so much more so they are quite happy to do it.

For example, in the 1980s there was an almighty fuss because an excellent journalist found out that the UK government had wasted vast amounts of money on a failed spy satellite project - that had Special Branch raiding magazine offices and occupying the BBC offices in Glasgow:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon_affair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_%28journalist%2...

[NB I can strongly recommend Duncan Campbell's "Secret Society" series from 1987 - some of them are on YouTube and they really are scary/tragic - a lot of his concerns are rather prophetic.]
most people don't even notice this is there based on quick real world testing.

sorry...
Premii's too slow for me. I use Dinopost - http://hn.dinopost.com/.

I like how you can change the text size for a small phone. And it's light-weight for mobile connections - caches all the front page articles so makes it worthwhile for commuters.
Put very well by Iain M. Banks in The Hydrogen Sonata,

“Most problems, even seemingly really tricky ones, could be handled by simulations which happily modelled slippery concepts like public opinion or the likely reactions of alien societies by the appropriate use of some especially cunning and devious algorithms… nothing more processor-hungry than the right set of equations…

But not always. Sometimes, if you were going to have any hope of getting useful answers, there really was no alternative to modelling the individuals themselves, at the sort of scale and level of complexity that mean they each had to exhibit some kind of discrete personality, and that was where the Problem kicked in.

Once you’d created your population of realistically reacting and – in a necessary sense – cogitating individuals, you had – also in a sense – created life. The particular parts of whatever computational substrate you’d devoted to the problem now held beings; virtual beings capable of reacting so much like the back-in-reality beings they were modelling – because how else were they to do so convincingly without also hoping, suffering, rejoicing, caring, living and dreaming?

By this reasoning, then, you couldn’t just turn off your virtual environment and the living, thinking creatures it contained at the completion of a run or when a simulation had reached the end of its useful life; that amounted to genocide.”
I'm convinced that part of it is easy. To do it optimally is NP-hard, but one doesn't need to find a perfect solution.

The problem is that solutions are always a little bit ill-defined and won't be 100% captured by any generic software model, and that they need to be amenable to further semi-manual tweaking.
I could sense anger wash all over Mr.Greenwald again, as he typed that one out (which might have resulted in the typo I noticed "...They threatened the Guardian with prior restrained(t?) and then forced the paper to physically smash their hard drives in a basement..."). Heck, I was upset just reading it.
"Here is David Miranda explaining to BBC what it's like to be forced to turn over your passwords to security agents who have detained you under a terrorism law, so they can troll through your emails and Facebook account and Skype program while you are detained. Just watch that short video and judge for yourself."

As I read this I tried to imagine how to reset my digital life, now that all my passwords are exposed. You just about have to become a brand new person, and abandon every account you currently have. Any change to a current account would be observed by the NSA and GCHQ. To the extent that this guy had any privacy or security at all, he's screwed for the rest of his life.
It was Apple that implemented Palladium in on iPads and iPhones and many technical folks even cheered it on.
2fa keeps hackers out, encryption keeps the state out
This chart looks like if a GROUP BY clause was used in a not too meaningful way. As others mentioned above there are a lot of parameters here like the company you are working for, location, project nature and such which would be important to point out.
I find the problem with git add -p is when you have changes that are overlapping - e.g. you've tried a few variations of implementing something, that have many commonalities - but sadly you didn't commit them as you went along, but now what to, for reference in case they are needed later.

git add -p doesn't help tease them apart, because its hunks are based on diffs, and the granularity usually does not coincide with actual changes (nor syntax or semantics of the languages). Which is really expecting a bit too much! Diff's implementation of LCS algorithm is incredibly fast and works amazingly well for changes in different places.

So what I do is edit the file to what I want, stage and commit, then undo and continue. This doesn't really use the staging area, and I'm hoping there's a better way to do it... if anyone can think of one?
1. You cannot be sure they're going to shut this down soon.

2. What did you lose when google closed reader? It gave you plenty of time and options to go to another service.

3. Products have a limited lifetime, deal with it. And not only on the internet.

4. If you think it's an interesting concept you should join it
What is a "Google Account"? It's a fuzzy thing - they track you and sell you without a log in or not.
I'm pretty sure there's some more objective measures, like mile run times. There's charts for how long it should take you. There should be some more standard benchmarks for other activities.

I'd also like to suggest it's possible to be "mildly out of shape" and active. For example, if he was "out of shape" and recently started working out.

On the subjective lines, it's possible to be out of shape for certain activities due to the musculature you've built for the activities you do frequently. If all you do is bench weights, you'd be out of shape when you go to run a mile.

I'm like 8-10% body fat if I calculate it (electronic things say about 13%), would you consider me "in shape"? I wouldn't, not in any sort of normal means (running, lifting weights, whatever else).
That rather assumes that you have a convenient, fast, and unobtrusive way of destroying the list while being told "would you mind stepping over here, sir" in an airport full of security cameras.

The alternative - and much more practical suggestion - is not to travel with the codes. You run the risk of not being able to connect to the service - but at least no-one else can.
> The USA has a very serious rivalry with China, and vice versa.

Can you say more about this? Are we afraid of them doing something to us? What? Are they afraid of us doing something to them? What?
If that was the only thing that mattered, how do some consultants make 3x others, with exactly the same performance or worse?

While the people who pay the bills think that's the only thing that matters, your ability to confidently market yourself as providing perceived value plays a big part in your payment or salary negotiations, regardless of the actual value you provide.

Unfortunately I, like many others in our field, suck at this. Strangely, I've always found it easier to to market the work I do than to learn to market my own value. I can't even write a short bio without feeling like I'm stepping out of line.
I concur. I always use it if I want some statistics.
Languages and technologies are only important to CTOs and recruiters.

Even at the CTO level, languages and technologies more of a strategic business decision than a raw technical decision. Questions like:

* can we hire enough programmers of quality in this language?

* is there sufficient support available for these technologies?

* is the technology sufficiently mature?

Selection of a core technology can't be purely a "wow, cool" decision at that level, although it may factor in to what kind of programmers you are likely to get (e.g. see pg's old article "The Python Paradox" http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html)
Oh they're sending a message alright. I'm just not sure it's the message they want to send.
This got me thinking about the equipment I fly with from the UK. It seems that the only good way to protect your equipment while travelling is to actually not know your password at the time. This may be even implemented fairly simply - unless you're addicted to checking your email every minute, you can reasonably protect every sensitive drive / account with a new password before leaving, arrange for the password to be physically available at the destination and turn everything off before departure.

I really don't have any idea what the response to that would be. But I'd rather have my laptop with full disk encryption taken away than to give access to emails. (and in practice to all other services via password resets)

For phones without a full disk encryption, you can reasonably easily back everything up, leave a copy online and restore on arrival, so that's not a big deal either. You can still use it as a phone in the meantime, just make sure it's completely wiped and has no connected accounts.
http://www.system76.com/ among others.
The policy of intimidation is working - it doesn't matter if the NSA/GCHQ really do have the technology which is actually capable of performing this scale of surveillance - something which I'm entirely unconvinced of, incidentally - they are spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) and being quite successful at it too. Are they capable of trawling so much data to the depth that is claimed? Probably not. Are they capable of intimidating individuals with wide reaching knock-on effects including among the general public? Absolutely. So which method is having the most impact? The threat is far more effective than the reality. Make people scared - it saves you having to actually do anything.
Well, I can say that if Osama bin Laden "hated our freedom," then... well... 9/11 worked, and he won.
Same here :/ however typically stuff loads weirdly on Internet Explorer for Windows Phone (on WP7 at least).
If you think there is nothing that can be done you should take a look at Gene Sharp's theory of nonviolent resistance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Sharp
When I was a kid I assumed that was already happening, and was relieved to find out that it wasn't.
> TC could also be used to delete evidence from computers of journalists who would have no power to keep it.

Since Amazon deleted all those copies of 1984 from everyone's Kindles, I don't keep mine connected to the internet. If you have data, you can keep it. Keep it on your own devices.
If both of those were correct, it would cost more to cycle 10 miles every day than it would cost to drive 10 miles every day. It doesn't, therefore your points are wrong.
As an outsider (American) it's long appeared to me that the British government thought 1984 was a utopian blueprint rather than a dystopian novel. :(
Very difficult but will Google put this in front of enough people, enough times, in enough different ways to build a tangible niche?

Google different than most of us in that they don't need to directly make money from this effort. The WebRTC analytics generated alone are likely enough to justify the costs.
I make $24K after taxes anually.

I live in Uruguay, and program in VB6, VB.NET, and occasionally in Forte4GL, C# or PHP, but I'd make the same programming in Java or C# (it's an average local salary for a developer).

The way to make more money, as Patio11 said, is not to switch languages, but the "ability to use computer code as leverage to accomplish things that capitalism cares about"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6249373

If I made $100K, I wouldn't mind reading HN either :) (I know people that make orders of magnitude more and who occasionally browse it, or even post).
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I think a lot of the people on HN who support it aren't necessarily suggesting that one should replace all meals with it, but simply as an alternative to cut down on some of the efforts involved in preparing meals. Personally, I love food, and I do enjoy cooking, but I also wish that I didn't have to do it all the time.

To elaborate on your sex metaphor, you could consider Soylent masturbation. Low effort, low consequence sexual gratification. That doesn't mean you can't still have awesome sex when you want.

(I definitely agree with you in regards to the people who would forgo food completely in favor of Soylent)
Rice paper doesn't taste too bad. How will they prove in court that my snack had security codes on it?
That's pretty cool. How does it taste? How long does it last after prepared? Have you considered olive oil?
I'd be under the impression that TPM 2.0 modules come pre-installed and are probably surface mounted chips, the removal of which would void any warranty and possibly cause damage to the motherboard.
I remarked to a friend a couple months ago--right when I started to feel about the same way as the author of this article--that I love vim.

As I said these words, I realized that the truth in them is sort of startling. I love vim.

No, it's not like loving a person, but it's at least as strong an emotional connection as loving my favorite coffee mug or loving a particularly thoughtful gift from a friend.

As an aside, I often find vim verbs and commands sprinkled throughout things I write in other text editors. :wq
And that would be a real shame if it would have been true.
Guess the country game:

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Great, so completely free internet, with exactly as many strings attached as everyone else gets, even though they don't get theirs from Google. I don't see why people are complaining. Getting tracked is an issue completely orthogonal to the internet access Google is trying to give people.
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We actually like to give choices so we don't have to make decisions. Making decisions without seeking like an arrogant asshole is difficult.
From these humorless responses it seems the hyperbole of my last sentence has been lost, but I stand by the sentiment that educating yourself about healthy eating and then executing a varied and healthful diet (including the fully loaded time cost of planning, shopping more often for fresh ingredients, cooking, and cleaning up) is a serious undertaking that few people have the time or inclination to pull off on a regular basis. This is complicated by the reality that nutrition is a field of many opinions, conventional wisdom and anti-conventional health movements (raw foodism, veganism, vegetarianism, keto, paleo, etc), and almost no reliable truths.

Everyone here saying anything along the lines of "ZOMG, my healthy meals like toast+juice only take me 15 minutes each" has no idea what they are talking about. The list of healthy whole foods (those that don't come out of boxes or bags) that can be prepped and cooked and cleaned in 15 minutes is a short one. I know because I spend a lot of time planning, shopping, and cooking a variety of foods. If anyone cares, right now I eat 90% paleo with occasional dairy and legumes. For years I was involved in veganism/vegetarianism, but quit when I realized it was more like a food religion than a rational healthy choice.

Think of the average grocery store. All that crap lining the aisle shelves is going to get bought by somebody, and even if we allow for the longer "residence time" of packaged food products compared to fresh produce/meats we can infer that the average shopper is leaving with the preparations for a depressingly monotonous and nutritionally poor diet of mostly corn-derivatives, flour, and sugar. If you had to empty out a standard grocery store one cart at a time, the average haul would be far worse than anything the writer admits eating. As fun as it is to get self righteous about food ideology, anybody who actually thinks the writer's diet is poor in comparison to the average American diet isn't thinking far enough beyond their own experience.
Of course, remember that the Guardian was perfectly fine with the government harassing journalists as long as it was not them: http://reason.com/blog/2013/08/20/despite-its-battle-with-th...
They are mostly going after the dealers of the unauth streams collecting ad revenue around it.
It's MEGA again.
I got into an argument with Kurzweil on his blog once years ago regarding the details.

The simulation does not necessarily need to be simpler, subject to a few constraints: It needs to be possible to represent the simulation in less space than its containing universe. It also needs to be possible to execute the simulation in the available space/energy, but if acceptable it may be sufficient to be able to execute it at reduced speed which can substantially reduce the amount of matter/energy required at any one point as you'd be able to e.g. more aggressively apply compression etc. to the data.

The space requirement can be fairly small depending on the constraints on your simulation. E.g. are you simulating a whole universe? A planet? One person? Everything not directly observed by a simulation subject can be aggressively pruned as long as it can be reconstructed in a believable state (unless you are trying to accurately simulate the physics of everything), and even things that are observed can be simplified dramatically. E.g. in almost all cases nobody would be able to tell a rough approximation of the physics and appearance of cloud formations from "the real thing", so you don't need to simulate them particle by particle. On the other hand, one such optimization/approximation then could be to fake the result of any attempt to run your own simulation.

One thing I find interesting is that Bostrom talks about "ancestor simulations" a lot, but there's no reason to assume that if we're in a simulation it has to be a simulation of the past of whomever runs the simulation - it could be a game, or someone simulating aliens (to them), or it could even be a civilization that decided to create themselves a nice simulation to live in, or a "theme park"/"zoo".
Lets condemn places like China, Russia, and Syria for they way they limit or monitor electronic communications but when the US and "Friends" do it its for mumble mumble TERRORISTS mumble mumble....

If the laws don't allow us to monitor our citizens lets just change the laws or interpret the words differently.
Maybe we are the bug. A while back this guy discovered that his Quake bots that had been running for 4 years found the perfect strategy to survival, which was to stop fighting. In contrast, look at what humanity is doing.

Assuming the purpose of life is not to self destruct then we most certainly have a bug in our system. Whoever wrote Quake wrote better code than "God".
I know. I said that explicitly in my original message - if you are bicycling as your form of exercise then this doesn't apply.

It's only if you are bicycling extra - then you end up eating more.
I hadn't heard of them, although buying such a thing internationally would be an expensive pain in the ass to return if there were an in-warranty defect!

Also, as an Ubuntu-user, as I really love the idea of these, but they're ugly and look really cheap: http://i.imgur.com/KGPznQz.jpg
I've got that set on my iPhone homescreen. And the UX is good for desktop too.
You're telling me that you don't think every HTTP request could be tracked by Google? Someone not on Loon wouldn't have that.

Could Google provide free internet without tracking people?
Except it does actually cost more to cycle. You just don't notice because when you buy food it doesn't have a label saying where you used those calories.

It does depend on what you choose to eat though. If you eat beans vs burgers. The cheap food comes close enough to driving to not matter, but most people eat nicer food and then it's more expensive to bicycle.
Given that this is a simulation, it would meant that it is based on an actual reality with physics that either match or are limited below our own. Given the technology it would take to simulate life, the Designers would have to live in a reality where they have harnessed some form of energy. The question is how much energy would it take to simulate nearly seven billion people? Even if you didn't have to process those that were sleeping, that's still a lot of energy being consumed by the simulation. Either the Designers are using massive amounts of energy to run the simulation or they have a completely different set of physics and are running a simulation to test alternative physics.
I haven't even read TFA but I can bet you this: the felons would be those uploading the streams, not those downloading.

How do I know this? Because copyright law targets, and always has targeted, those distributing copyrighted material without license rather than those consuming it. One of the reasons is, as a comment elsewhere makes evident [1], it is not the responsibility of the consumer to know whether goods being purchased have been legally procured.

Where this gets tricky is in Bittorrent swarms, unless you leech, each peer uploads as well as downloads content, making each user a party to the "distribution" of content. This is what enabled those famous P2P lawsuits which resulted in those fines.

People like to think of the RIAA and MPAA as stupid dinosaurs, but as comments here make it clear, they've been undeniably successful in getting people to associate "downloading" with "illegal activity".

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6249355