skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But intercepting military communications is what they do period.

Intercepting the communications of their allies by subverting their equipment? That seems like an incredibly foolish and short-sighted way to behave.

If the US is saying it can't be trusted because spies will be spies, they'll lose huge satellite contracts, no one will trust US companies, no-one will trust US standards, and no one will want to play along with orgs dominated by the US like NATO, the World Bank or the UN. Legitimacy and soft power is a fragile thing, and spying on your allies is a great way to lose their tacit consent.
Timing is very very very (I could keep going) hard. Mostly it is luck, a few very perceptive people can see all the network flows that need to come into place for an idea to take hold in the collective consciousness.

If we operated on a different location in the economic parameter space we would solve a problem, and if it didn't fit into the current graph, we would shelve it only to reactivate it later when it could fit.

A dormant prototype can be a very powerful thing.
Community translation just got a whole lot better (if on Github)
I think you're confusing developers who want to use open source software in closed source applications with the free software movement.

To stereotype:

GPL == best for users

BSD == best for developers
R has dedicated drivers for every database that I've ever had to use and when that doesn't work, there's the RODBC package. Working with "complicated multi-site relational database[s]" is always a pain in the ass, so I don't see why the burden of simplifying this should fall on R.

There are tools (such as RHIPE) to connect R to multi-node Hadoop clusters so that complex statistical algorithms can be written in R and compiled as MapReduce jobs. This type of tool seems like what you wish R had, but we're a ways away from having this for every distributed data source...
In my experience, non-programmers are the only people who can grok R in the first hour.
James May, of all people, has repeatedly held the position that things are getting better and not worse.

I generally agree with this. It's important to be vigilant but a little optimism goes a long way as well.
How Diffbot could be the next Google.
I work in an open office and I tend to agree that:

Noise causes distractions which lead to a decrease in efficiency.

Also, having absolutely no privacy makes me feel vulnerable especially having directors and managers as the closest people within ear shot.
The irony of all these procrastination articles appearing on HN is not lost on me. :-) For better or worse, the "Just get started" approach works best for me.
I'm amazed at how many people here seem to think this is even remotely serious.
But I bet that's only because Phil Wadler is there advocating functional programming and Haskell to bits.
What do you mean by "piggybacking and free-loading off free and open technologies."

I don't understand where this "closing down" comes from. They want the option of DRM. How could they close down open technology?
Gilded cages are still cages.
So a cup of coffee on my desk is conscious? I mean, come on! It is the complex neural activity in the brain that brings about consciousness. We just don't understand why that neural activity translates into consciousness.
Not surprised at all. The Ruby community is not very security conscious.

For example RVM install instruction used to be

curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

(see https://web.archive.org/web/20120420030416/https://rvm.io// for proof), which is a recipe to get owned should anyone MITM you, poison your DNS, or rvm.io being taken control off).

At least RVM install instruction go changed to the safer (but still pretty vulnerable to an rvm.io compromission)

\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash

But that the completely unchecked version lived for so long without anyone caring too much shows that the Ruby community doesn't care much...
When translating text into Spanish (as it might happen in other languages) is very important the localisation of the text. It is not the same translating into "Latino" Spanish (the one used in America) than translating into "Castellano" Spanish (the one used in Spain).

It is easy to identify if you check the prices, normally Latino is cheaper than Castellano. Also, if you doubt, Castellano sounds fine for Latinos but Latino doesn't usually sound as fine for "Castellano" speakers.
... that seems thoroughly backwards to me, at least in terms of expectations. I mean, I know that views that were optimization boundaries wouldn't be useful, but just from an intuitive perspective I'd expect that the stand-alone database objects would be optimization boundaries while the query-supporting statements would be optimized as part of the query.
Last time I checked this was Hacker News, not Reddit, and I am getting sick of articles like this making it to the front page (as I am aware other commenters have noted).

I didn't even need to click on the article (but did in a vain hope) to know that there was absolutely no information as to what they actually did from a technical perspective that deserves notice on HN. The most technological it gets is "Using 360-degree radar, ultrasonic sensors and cameras, the cars sense and adapt to their surroundings.", but then what does it do that is different from what the Google Car and other autonomous cars do? Is it any different from the Audi that drove itself up Pike's Peak as quickly as it could?

The rest is offtopic, but as a long time read-only user, I must come out of the woodwork and make my first comments (other than a few days ago) to be to beg of submitters and upvoters to please only submit/upvote stuff that is actually relevant to what should be the audience of Hacker News, not the general reddit population...

I got sick of reddit and 'general' news years ago and don't want to go back to it.
Exactly - are we hoping for Firefox to win, or just to survive?
Agreed. I have yet to see a non-speculative argument for how mind and matter are connected. It's always explained as "Well, you know, there's just all these electrical signals going on in the brain. And, like, when the brain is damaged, or we prod it with electricity, weird things happen to the person's consciousness" (I'm oversimplifying). I understand that the brain and the mind are essentially connected, but that doesn't explain what consciousness is, where it comes from, or how it got there in the first place.
Nope, I posted this gist in a comment on the parent already:

https://gist.github.com/mediocregopher/8319986
I understand what the concept of computronium means. It makes a certain kind of sense. The problem I have is that both a slide rule and an iPhone are computronium, yet there is little about their organisation or physical function that is similar. I'm not sure what saying that they are 'computronium' does for us.

Furthermore computronium would presumably need a power source, facilities for maintenance or repair, heat dissipation, protection from external disruption, etc. I don't think it's a given that an optimal design would be in any way homogenous. Ultimately I think it's very naive and simplistic way of thinking about things, but if it's just intended as a shorthand for the purposes of thought experiments that's fine. I'm just concerned that some people might take the idea too literally.
That's an odd statement. Is there precedent for attributing emergent phenomenon to the pieces? Because that is what seems to be happening here. To my eyes, if a system is conscious, that does not mean the pieces that make the system are conscious. Consciousness is an emergent property of the system.

Snowflakes are pretty. The water molecules in the snowflake do not inherent this; they are not themselves pretty as a result of being in the pretty snowflake. (Although you could consider them beautiful for other reasons. From a life-sciences and/or chemistry point of view, water is pretty beautiful)

But then again, I'm an engineer with a passing interest in chemistry, not a quantum physicist, so of course I see everything as systems. To me nothing they talk about makes sense anyway.
Never Play Fair, you have to Cheat to Win
Does anyone have a plain English explanation or infographic for Holacracy? Sounds like a lot of smoke and mirrors and happy thoughts.

What is the secret sauce in Holacracy that makes it different from hierarchies?
And Python.
Just like every "sharing economy" app steals from craigslist, every "social" app steals from reddit.
No. By definition, advocates of free software are advocates of the GPL.
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The post is a little unclear, is Light Table going to continue to be developed in the open or is this a code dump?
I had the same problem last time I tried LightTable. I'm going to give it another go though.
States of matter are emergent. A single atom cannot be said to be a gas, liquid or solid, only a sufficiently large group of them.
I think mortenjorck is talking about HiDPI mode, which doesn't provide as many options as retina mode: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/107846/how-to-enabl...
For 3 you can check out TripIt: you can just forward your bookings or notes to them, and they'll either parse it properly (if they recognise the provider/airline etc) or just file it for your review later. It's not exactly what you said, but close.

I'm pretty sure 1 exists as well, but I can't remember the name.
Try http://docs.lighttable.com/tutorials/full/
I host a high profile news site on AWS infrastructure.

> The big downside of course is that the record has to be in our system in order to ALIAS to it.

I need DDoS protection as the site gets attacked from time to time. I went with CloudFlare since ELB doesn't say much if anything about DDoS protection. This means I can't use Route53 and so I cannot work around apex issues and I can't point my apex to ELB either.

The suggested work around I keep coming across is to poll the ELB IP and update it at CloudFlare via an API though I am not sure how good that would work if someone cached the IPs for whatever reason (even though ELB will honor requests up to one hour after the IP change I read somewhere else).

Do you have any suggestions either for DDoS mitigation or finding a work around to my apex woes?
As someone who's strongly in the "top down" camp by observation, I'm about to refute an interpretation of what that means.

Everyone who's learned Haskell really well understands exactly that you learn monads by example, not abstraction. Abstractions need both motivation and "point samples" which describe good reasons for their particular brand of abstract behavior to be meaningful. I don't think at all that the "top down" side actually must work top down, but instead simply values the tools you get when you reach the top, i.e. strong reasoning capabilities and metaphor connections to algebra.

I really want to change the Crockford Monad Curse to instead read that "Anyone who's just learned monads is suddenly incapable of explaining them". When they first "click" you become obsessed with the abstraction as a thing instead of using it as a tool to better leverage patterns which turn up in real examples. Until you shake that by just using monads so frequently that you're damn bored you cannot properly explain them.
Awesome...!
> separating windows in different monitors might be better than using one super large display with windows cluttered everywhere

There's lots of desktop environments which will provide you with nice window tiling, so you can simulate any monitor split you want. Or even without full tiling, many environments allow to use a halfscreen-left / halfscreen-right placement.
> plugins, which are not required to be GPLv3 as far as I'm aware

Chris said in the thread that plugins would be "infected" by GPLv3: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/light-table-discussion...
I have to admit that I was surprised at the dollars per person: $480 million/3 million people = $160 per person. Perhaps that because each person pledges to multiple campaigns? It seems like only 80K backed more than 10 projects though. The dollar values per pledge that I've seen are much lower than $160 per person. Perhaps a couple outliers pull up the mean well past my personal observations, if not the median?

I found the slideshow of successful projects to be very inspiring.
We have a CA as well, adapted from Twitter's: https://docs.google.com/a/kodowa.com/forms/d/1ME_PT6qLKUcALU...
Actually, that looks right up my alley. Thanks!
can smell a fanboy ;)
Yes, as far as ppis on bigger devices, it feels like there has been much more progress in the past couple of years than in the decade preceding them. The difference is certainly noticeable in direct comparison, though most consumers are not likely to notice except in cases such as poorly hinted text.
and being based on Dom/Css might open new ideas.
Submission title originally matched the linked article's headline. De-editorialization?
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The business case for localizing for the Chinese market. Now.
The difficulty in "rewriting [critical, or otherwise] bits of Facebook" is probably related to the same decisions that make "single repo for everything" the logical choice for the site.
Waaaay back in highschool I read both 1984 and Brave New World (same weekend, even...come Monday I was extremely depressed), and came to a similar conclusion--because really, who wants to fight love?

Given the modern drive for micro-optimizing every bit of one's life (looking at you, /4 Hour.*/) there is a much better dystopic story out there by Harlan Ellison:

http://compositionawebb.pbworks.com/f/%5C%27Repent,+Harlequi...

And perhaps even more appropriately, given the themes of impersonally evil bureaucracy and supposed terrorism, the movie Brazil:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_%281985_film%29
> A great sense of humility

> But I get it. People don't like it when you toot your own horn

You have a point. But often enough people do not like it (only) when others toot their horn. They have no qualms about tooting their own horn (usually under some notion of "promoting yourself").
With no mention of the article being edited. Terrible.
A direct analogy is that no one would argue against the current thru a FET transistor is more or less a constant times the square of ( 1 minus the ratio of the gate voltage to device pinchoff voltage) (plus or minus typos, etc) There is of course a huge gap between that basic EE lab transistor experiment and what the HN webserver does when I click "reply". It is a simple solution to fill that gap with souls separate from the hardware and spirits of port 80 and woo woo like that than to actually figure it out.
Being in my late 20s and having only worked in open-office environments, the thought of having my own office seems archaic and counter-intuitive to productivity and communication. If I have my headphones in, I'm busy. If I don't, I can answer questions or talk to my colleagues about something. Projecting how I would feel in a "closed office" environment, I can honestly say I'd feel trapped and isolated.

My experience is of course, purely anecdotal and non-scientific, but I can't help feeling that younger people such as myself lean more toward an open-office configuration due to how differently we approach and accomplish tasks. It's neither better or worse, just different.
I, on the other hand, am perfectly capable of believing that SQL is a pretty terrible language that merely persists because every attempt to replace it has been even worse because they threw out the baby with the bath-water.

A data-storage language based on relational theory is a great idea. We should make a new one at some point.
Ok, you got me on the cross join (i assume you mean full outer join). you have to use the "full outer join" syntax there.

(+) syntax is awesome =)

I probably should start using the join syntax. Old habits die hard.
> DNAME record?

You mean a CNAME?

belorn gave a pretty good explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7023412
I'd conflated two events; you're correct that Orwell was shot by an Fascist sniper, but there were also Stalinist purges going on against POUM ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia ) as it was a non-Stalinist Marxist faction.
"[HEVC is] comparable to DLI"

I'm not sure what images they're looking at but from my end they are not comparable. Not at all. You cannot just pretend the giant mosaic tiling is not there.

My annoyance is of course at the meta. Right now those with a shoe in the game are gearing up to push H.265. Remember a year or so back during the fight over H.264 in web video? Some commentators pointed out that the patents covering H.264 will expire in due time.

That will never happen. Proprietary versus open source is not H.264 versus WebM. Both sides will innovate and improve and if we do not make an effort towards open source it will not fall into our lap.

The proprietary side is taking those hundreds of millions in ill-gotten licensing fees and pouring it back into the next generation so they can continue to seek rent. Meanwhile those fighting for our rights are getting along on shoe-string budgets and buckets of passion.

If we want an open future we need to support those who have our best interests in mind.
How much weight would you give the opinion of an astronomer (today) who didn't know how to use a telescope?
Great article. This is going to be a huge breakthrough for Crowdfunding.
An even older (1960s, I think) clip featuring Marshall McLuhan, still rather relevant on the topic

http://www.openculture.com/2010/04/marshall_mcluhan_the_worl...

The keywords here were "Individual man is out, tribal man is in".
gottfiend leibniz developed a theory called 'monadology' which suggested that consciousness is the fundamental basis of everything, including matter.

if consciousness is being "aware" of yourself, then at a very, very, very low level, the coffee cup is "aware" of itself because it is a perfect analog computer simulating "a cup of coffee on a desk" - which is what it is.
Also when the idea already exists[1] can you really claim it as your idea?

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20081219115548/http://vark.com/
So if we come to discover that time is fundamental instead of emergent, it could disprove his hypothesis of how consciousness is emergent.

That's at least one way in which he makes his hypothesis testable.

Just, please, no one forward this article to any Republican legislators and draw their attention to the NSF grants that supported the research.
Are you sure? The original complaint was solely about the API. I'd either want a source or someone that saw it themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...

EDIT: Why the downvote? Did I not write enough? My point is, simply, that observing consciousness in correlation to matter does not imply that consciousness is caused by matter. The provided link is to the Wikipedia article that explains this basic statistical principle.
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If it's in the best interests of its citizens (and it's partners are doing it too) is it really wrong, or just not the way you wish the world worked?
Ok, another reason to never use mysql.
Ryan Gordon - I've just pushed an interesting change to SDL, but to…
- The industry by far still don't use functional languages.

Flat-out wrong. The world's most popular language (in terms of lines of code, number of programmers and companies using it) is a functional language: JavaScript.
I am glad this paper has been written, but already by page 3 there are serious problems with it.

For example: It is an easily observable phenomenon (e.g. by anyone who meditates) that you can be conscious without remembering anything. In other words, consciousness is independent of something like memory.

Yet Max's list on page 3 has stuff like "independence", "utility", "integration" which have nothing to do with observations of what consciousness is actually like. Rather, they are more like high-level ideas of what human beings are like.

But we don't need to explain human beings (complex biological organisms that walk around and do stuff). Science has got that covered already, at least kind of. So if you are going to clearly think about consciousness, you need to factor out what consciousness really is and look at the properties of that.

This is supposed to be a foundational principle of science: that your hypotheses are attempts to explain things that are actually observed. The first step is to observe things carefully! You don't just go making up hypotheses.

So it's a giant red flag any time a scientist writes a paper about consciousness where they conflate it with memory in some way (which is almost every time). It's a red flag because it indicates that the scientist has not actually spent any time observing consciousness, because they aren't noticing things that are obvious to people who have done that.

(You might think that because we are all walking around conscious every day, there would be no need to observe consciousness, but this isn't true. We walk around in a space governed by Newtonian physics, but it took until Newton to figure out this thing called inertia and that a frictional force is required to make things stop, etc, because if you don't look carefully and make careful measurements, most of the everyday world doesn't appear that way at all. Same thing with consciousness.)