skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It certainly took you many years to learn how to read and write, yet here you are.

Exactly. Most people don't realize how unnatural and difficult written language actually is, yet here we are. There's a great book on the subject called 'Proust and the Squid'[1]; it looks into the history, development and neuroscience of reading and it's quite eye-opening. There's really no reason to believe why math/music/programming/etc should be any different.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Proust-Squid-Story-Science-Reading/dp/...
The kind of people who would be able to afford Google cars are not going to be the kind of people who might end up having to live in them.

And if they were, the government would just make Google drive the car to an impound or something, probably, and they'd take that as well.
And what about the lives of billions of future poor people if the system Borlaug built implodes? We're dependent on our new, higher production levels.

This is not a theoretical risk. For example, much production depends on irrigation from fossil aquifers. Or topsoil that is being rapidly depleted. Or non newewable fossil inputs.

We have been depleting capital to feed ourselves for the past several decades, and treating the capital we use as a renewable input.

The plight of the hungry is very real. But I worry we've built a house of cards that will cause worse pain when it collapses.
Can you be more specific, what particular parts of my comment are you finding to be idiotic?

I do have formal background in machine learning, computer science and had taken classes in neuroscience. I am a PhD dropout and I did original research in computer vision. I have every right to comment on articles written by specialists on 'false memories'.
Isabelle has the "Archive of Formal Proofs"

http://afp.sourceforge.net/
"In cryptography, then, it’s not just for idle academic reasons that you’d like a publicly-available trail of research papers and source code, open to criticism and improvement by anyone, that takes you all the way from the presumed hardness of an underlying mathematical problem to the security of your system under whichever class of attacks is relevant to you."

Being open to criticism and improvement does not necessarily improve anything unless the people doing the review have the same level of knowledge as the people trying to leave exploitable flaws.
I'm not a randian, so I can't speak with complete accuracy to what she (or objectivists) would argue. Personally, I would question the morality of such a contract. There could be problems if the HOA changed the rules of the contract afterwards (because in that case it would be acting as a government).
"Then finally you go into therapy and crack through the repression barrier and out comes this pristine memory. But there really is no credible scientific support for that notion."

I personally had a repressed memory and it was uncovered in therapy. I am lucky that my mom is still alive and was able to verify the memories.

It's obvious to me from the snark in her tone like the word "pristine" and the rest of the article that she is a shill for defense attorneys.
As I understand it most of the terribleness is in the key agreement stuff; the actual packet processing is a little ugly but is practical. So you could in theory set up (and regularly update) SAs manually with setkey(8), instead of having racoon do it. For a small network you could presumably lash together some cronjobs to keep this working. Would that be as secure as IKEv2 as actually implemented? I dunno :)
I didn't even realize there was paid OTA television - where you can you it?
"one tiny drop changes everything."

They might want to come up with a different tag line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_drop_rule
As always, tvtropes already has the answer:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlersTimeTravel...

See also:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimeTravelTropes

Warning:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinY...
This board seems heavily geared to do deals for defense-related applications. That's fine; getting deals with the Armed Forces and VA is feasible and quite rewarding.

What they overtly lack is connections to the healthcare world. I'm surprised they aren't publicly roped into Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic or Kaiser, as they to support novel technologies in this space. I suppose you can argue that the business model is fundamentally incompatible, but I've seen Mayo and Kaiser go in anyway; they can acquire these labs and roll them into operations pretty easily.
Not only is this offensive and misogynistic (and that point well covered here already) but it also sets a clear marker of the slow decline of hack days/hackathons.

In addition to being disrespectful to women, this kind of "joke" hack is also disrespectful to hacker culture and the people that want to participate in hackatons. Time is wasted presenting this crap which could have been spent showcasing real innovation and real hard work spent producing meaningful hacks and projects.

It pains me to link to Valleywag, but they have a video of both inappropriate demos, and unlike AOL (which owns TechCrunch) are unlikely to remove the videos.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/techcrunch-disrupt-kicks-off-wit...
Vworker bought it, and added gamification such as achievements and XP.
The complexity of the laws is not a coincidence:

1. It gives more power to the government and less power to the people.

2. The majority of lawmakers are lawyers - complexity means them more job/business opportunities and significance in society.
Reading and writing are basic skills that could never be compared to anything even remotely resembling a subject like mathematics. And I don't think math isn't important, conversely I think it's the most important discipline of all, a pillar of modern society. But I also acknowledge that it's also the preserve of a selected few (like chess for instance), read my other responses for a more detailed view of my point.
My dislike of people moving behind me stems more from instincts related to physical security than fear of people seeing what's on my screen (though that's there too). Rationally, I know I'm as safe at work as anywhere, but then I try not to take security for granted anywhere else either. I'm not sure if I'm paranoid or everyone else is too optimistic. It's not a huge issue. At one internship my back was to a minor thoroughfare and I managed to be productive; it was just a minor discomfort.

If some people had offices and others didn't, I can totally see how that would cause issues. In my ideal scenario everyone has some hidey-hole, at least. Do you think that would work better, as long as there are other ways they are encouraged to communicate?
There are already several alternative curve sets, satisfying various degrees of paranoia:

- http://certivox.org/display/EXT/CertiVox+Standard+Curves

- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5639

- curve25519 and the other djb et al curves.
TV, video games, internet - information technology is evolving towards Matrix-like virtual environment. It's not going to be forced on us by aliens, or intelligent machines. We are going to build it, and we are going to like it.

Cochlear implants and artificial retinas can already inject information directly into our brains, bypassing our senses. Artificial skin is being developed to provide a sense of touch to prosthetic limbs. Direct brain to brain communication was demonstrated, where one person was able to move another person's finger as if it was his own finger.

A virtual reality technology has been pretty lame so far. However, if traditional input/output devices are bypassed, people can experience it in a natural way. A brain does not care where the data came from - a computer, or your eyes - it's all just electrical signals. As long as that data is realistic enough, your brain will believe it. Every sensory experience from a real world can be recorded, analyzed, modified, and recreated in a virtual world. Sound, touch, smell, taste - they are just patterns of electrical activity to our brains.

After the technology is available, people are going to gradually migrate to this new social environment. Your physical body remains in the real world, where it can be connected to a sophisticated life-support machine, but most of the time you spent in the "Matrix". Virtual reality will be interfaced with a real world. There's no reason why it should be a closed, isolated environment. Anyone will be able to perform their jobs in the real world from the virtual one. A doctor can monitor your health as you lie down strapped to your life support machine. Even a surgery can be done remotely. If people don't want to leave the virtual world to do something in the real one, the technology will appear to make it possible.

Now, back to the entertainment - can you imagine being a god? Anything you can imagine will be possible. More than that - anything that anyone can imagine will be shared and experienced. Just like in the real world, people will create, buy, and sell good designs. A design can be anything - from a new pair of shoes, to an entire planet, to a weird feeling, to an experience of being a spider.

Your brain will believe it's real. Any you're going to like it.
It seems there's similarities between Wayland and Mir:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software)

"Mir, like Wayland, is built on EGL[6] and utilizes some of the infrastructure originally developed for Wayland[7] such as Mesa’s EGL implementation[6] and Jolla’s libhybris."

So why didn't Canonical just use Wayland, I thought that was their plan forward a couple of years ago?

Whatever they do I hope they don't screw up Ubuntu 12.04's excellent ability to play Steam based games.

EDIT: Read the controversy of the Wiki article, interesting insights.
I've done some work on these in the past, dating back to 2000. They've always been challenging if you're not in a market where you can lowball, so I presume most "senior" developers in premium markets avoid these sites.

I'd love to hear thoughts about using these marketplaces to build up experience in languages you're not yet using in production.
This capability depends on your medical care provider in the US. I know that Sutter Health and Kaiser are both providing patients with systems where they can see their lab results on the web, along with all of their medical history. Reaching out to your doctor via email is even included. It works pretty well in my experience (Sutter).
Reading some of the comments here, everyone is talking about the laws being broken and how they need fixing but I don't think any amount of law writing can make up for the moral bankruptcy that has led to these situations and many others.

I think when people seek money they should ask themselves if what they are doing has any bit 'unethicalness'.. But who knows if those investors knew of the stories that made their investments possible.

We have the concept of a carbon footprint - what about an ethical footprint?
> would it be possible

Apparently computer controlled central planning is performed by linear programming, so if you fix the information problem of knowing exactly what products there are, and the inputs and outputs of all practical ways of making them, the complexity is O(n^3.5) where n is the number of distinct goods.

I don't know if the economy is creating goods faster or slower than society's capability to solve LP problems is increasing.

http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiza...
If reading and writing were once unnatural and difficult skills but now are easily picked is just because evolutions has wired our brains to learn it faster, maybe future generations will struggle less with math for the same reason.
"Sneaking a peak at women's breasts" is fundamentally different than "presenting an app related to staring at women's tits at a tech conference to an audience of mixed gender and age, with widely varying sensibilities".

Checking out an attractive individual in a non-aggressive manner? Totally fine, carry on. Making as ass of yourself and possibly offending a ton of people? Not fine, GTFO.

This isn't about checking out attractive members of the opposite sex, it's about being potentially offensive in a totally inappropriate setting.
http://asdf.us/imbreak/
Overused and misused babble science theory.

Humans are emergent species. Even optical illusions, despite being used as evidence of ‘hard wiring’, have been further studied to be learned and emergent phenomena[1].

[1] EG: The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception, MH Segall, DT Campbell, MJ Herskovits - 1966
Reputation definitely counts for something. But there's a slew of businesses that would likely buy from you in the early stages. They may be much smaller businesses, and possible not even in your long-term/medium-term target market, but it's a stepping stone.

Selling can still be a challenge. But if you have a valuable product, and an A* sales team, it's much much easier.
In British Columbia you can defer your property taxes until the home is transferred (to anyone other than your spouse) or sold. That seems, to me, to be a much more fair and reasonable option than auctioning off these trivial amounts to the morally corrupt and destroying the lives of the indigent, elderly, or sick, as well as their families.
The question is a fair one, and the answer for the majority of people seems to be: because you get to keep the other half.
Fair enough. Does this exist in the wild though? Thx
I haven't said anything about whether the demo was appropriate or not. Just the behavior.

If it's an unconscious tick over and done with, much like a blink of an eye than it's not comparable to your beating someone up which would take this hypothetical compulsion of yours and render it into an act spanning minutes.

"We are not evolutionary automatons, we can override our programming at will."

Let me know how successful you are to not blinking, or not having goosebumps, or not feeling ticklish, not having a reflex, not being averse to certain odors, ...
SHA3 isn't available in browsers yet. Perhaps it should be, eventually, but until it is, SHA1/SHA2 are the best available options.
There's no way the government will use the appraisal system to screw over the poor!
Pretty sure it was 68. I'm in the audience and presented my back earlier.

Although the hack was ridiculous, I think it's important to keep the facts straight. There was also a pretty awful
'asl' hack pitch later on, given by a woman. It definitely says something about TechCrunch that folks think this behaviour's OK at their event, but it was not their Disrupt keynote as some folks are seemingly interpreting! (It'll still hurt them a lot, though.)

The 9 year old girl (who went later) is far more worthy of the coverage. :-)
I'm obviously aware of both commits, and of much, much further context beyond the commits. No, I see no humor or lightheartedness. Signed-off-by is not just something Chris made up, it's a pseudo-standardized line for git commit messages.

Further context I'm aware of is that Chris explicitly accepted and applied the patch after working with the developers to get it right, along with other signs of cooperation.

Yet more context I'm aware of is much of the political bullshit surrounding Mir, Wayland, Canonical, Red Hat, Intel and really the entire FOSS community at this point.

This isn't a joke. This is Intel's management intervening.
Show HN: My first ebook: Passions and Other Lessons
Ah, but GMO means Large Corporations, and Large Corporations are Inherently Evil. And that, I believe, is where their chain of logic pretty much stops.
I think so too. Forget the laws, if you're a "investor" who bought a tax lean for $50, and that lean led you to own the deed to a $100,000-$200,000 house of Alzheimer's patient, don't you stop for a second and consider the moral and ethical implications of collecting on that lean?
On that article they suggest it costs $10 to post a job on elance, however I've never paid to post a job!
My experience in the space is that this is a mischaracterization of the FDA, but also misses an important point:

Theranos does not fall under the FDA's mandate in its current form. It is a CLIA-certified laboratory operation, regulated under CDC rules and scrutinized most likely by the College of American Pathologists(CAP). The CLIA/CAP scrutiny is very different from the FDA device/drug process, focusing on protocol and output. Even if they have novel technology, it is often classified as a laboratory developed test(LDT) and falls outside of the FDA's mandate (for now).

Many startups have achieved CLIA-certification without too much difficulty, from Foundation Medicine to Veracyte to Counsyl. It's totally reasonable and doesn't take too long.
I used to have this: http://i.imgur.com/Y4dfOeQ.jpg
"Now", as in an immensely tiny blink in the human evolutionary time-scale? Sorry, that's more wishful thinking than the notion of skill acquisition. Surely you're aware of feral children, and more 'normal' dyslexics; what's the deal with those? Clearly we should be reading straight out of the womb by now, so what gives?
Ask HN: Sublime
First I used Notepad, then Textwrangler, then Dreamweaver followed by Netbeans and a few minutes ago I started using Sublime..

Fast and sheer awesomeness is my first impression..

Is it as good as it seems?
The old classic argument around why Linux doesn't have a rigid internal API comes to mind (http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html). Maybe there are commonalities between supporting Mir and Wayland that would allow Intel to create a more universal piece of software? If Canonical does the work to make the driver universal, wouldn't the whole community benefit?

I'm not a big fan of letting politics get in the way of engineering, and this smells of the fact that Intel is trying to battle ARM in a proxy war, with FOSS as collateral damage.
Could you expand on this story a little? It would be interesting to hear what happened in your experience if you're willing to talk about it.
> the question was about genetic modification, which is not the same as hybridization.

Yes, it is, at least until you define precisely what kinds of genetic modification you're talking about, and we can get down to the nuts-and-bolts instead of generalities.
Odd. Everywhere I've been with an open office, it's perfectly normal to use electronic chat with someone who's next to you. I guess you would want to make that part of the culture early on, to make it less awkward.
I like how Reuters shies away from acknowledging Greenwald is a journalist. Apparently reporting on the US government makes you an activist these days.
But GMO and agribusiness also gets a lot of flak it doesn't deserve, based on faulty argumentation and outright lies.
Motive alone does not a case make.
Bruins' Campbell won't sign photos of iconic shift
> Now that we're less diverse one 'superbug' or bad weather year could take out everything.

This could also happen even if you were more diverse. Look at what happened to French wine grapes.
This argument would be great if you actually had any substance to back up your claims, without it you're not really arguing against anything. Perhaps I linked to a book written by a journalist because it's more accessible, and thus more helpful/actionable than published scientific papers? If math is difficult to grasp for some people, why would journal articles be any better? Not to mention that maybe the book itself has professional/scientific citations in case you were really interested in learning more?

Neuroscience supports the ability to acquire skills. The combination of epigenetics, GMOs, neuroplasticity, and many other advances make it even more apparent that adjusting ourselves is possible; even without a 'free will'[1].

If people don't feel like trying to learn/improve, that's fine; but they shouldn't try going around loosely justifying their actions with 'science' just because it makes themselves feel better.

[1] I only bring this up because determinism seems to be the biggest argument against this for some reason, but it really doesn't counter anything. Hell, I actually agree with it, and have written on the matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6235628
Canonical wrote the initial patches. It stands to reason they will also be fairly heavily involved in maintaining them. That's a fairly thin argument against incorporating patches upstream.

Almost by definition, most of the patches I've committed to upstream are things that I was the first person to care enough about to write a patch. It's nice to see other people use them, but the idea that "why should upstream carry your patch when you are the only one that cares about it" is a bit counter to what has made FOSS get this far. Especially when "only they care about it" still represents one of the largest blocks of users.
Right, the current methods are probably awful for reading. It's a proof of concept more than anything, when it comes to using standard terminology.
This book is a collection of notes from the wonderful Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series at Stanford. (http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html) I've found those to be very inspiring but many people don't know about them. Hopefully this gets more people aware of that resource.

I also used Leanpub to publish this. That was a very pleasant experience. I had originally planned on doing it in Google Docs and release only as PDF (maybe converting in Calibre) but then saw an ebook discussion on HN a couple of weeks ago. Decided to redo from scratch and was glad I did.
That culture influences visual perception does not seem to preclude other evolutionary or biological influences on visual perception. I don't have the reference you provide, maybe you can tell me if that reference or others you have preclude evolutionary or biological influences on visual perception?

And even agreeing, okay, tit staring is a culturally influenced, a social construction, so what? You still don't describe how that makes it sexist and so should be shamed, especially in light of evidence that it affects both men and women.

Why are natural harmless instinctual reproductive behaviors that the culture associates with males worthy of shame?
Very enjoyable article. I was just thinking that recently, mobile is just a nicer experience and it's because of these cards.

There was something about reading books and magazines before the web came, a gamified experience, because you could more visibly see your progress. On the web you might have read the equivalent of a 1000 page book but you never get the sense of that.
Feral children by definition aren't exposed to anything resembling writing and dyslexia only proves that neurological differences play a major role in our ability to comprehend and parse information.
Sad, right? If I had to guess, people are getting increasingly desperate. The things that used to help them get by don't work anymore (or don't meet the full capacity), and in exchange for money, they're willing to destroy the lives of others.

Scary fucking world.
This is an interesting article which picks up on an emerging trend. However, it conflates the theoretical concept of a "card" with physical designs.

The example of Facebook is apt, as their system is all about discrete, short bits of content (ie. "cards") being shuffled into different views. Despite this Facebook has I think wisely avoided the skeuomorphism of actual card designs.

The concept of cards definitely has legs. The more integrated and easily consumable we can make the web, the better. But the designs don't necessarily matter to that concept.
This is a great comment in that it shows the cognitive dissonance of slamming Canonical for trying to commit upstream while also slamming them for their past lack of upstream commits, in a handy Twitter length package.
Many counties in Texas do tax business property. I know I have to pay business property taxes every year to my county.

Here, generally, personal income taxes are replaced with property, sales, and business (franchise) taxes. You pay taxes, as a person, on your vehicle, real property, and per taxable transaction. But, you do not pay it on your income.