skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One day, scientists might be able to successfully mimic the expansion of the interstitial space that does the mental janitorial work so that we can achieve maximally efficient round-the-clock brain trash pickup.

We can ask the same question the article poses initially about why we still sleep. Why hasn't this evolved yet? What are the disadvantages of this 'always-GCing' approach? In a best-case scenario, it might just be some sort of historical limitation that no longer applies* (just as our tendency to get fat is a result of an approach to resource conservation that made sense in the ancestral environment, where food was scarce and opportunities to feed intermittent, but does not in modern civilization, where food is nearly always available). In a less appealing scenario there might be some tradeoff that causes us to think less efficiently when this interstitial space expands.

[*] The extra fluids have to come from somewhere, which would mean they're not available for other tasks. Similarly, digestion is expensive--blood flows to the intestines after a meal, and if this is to happen then (since in the short term, you have a fixed amount of blood) it's less available for fueling your muscles. (And if you force yourself to be active right after a meal there's contention for these finite resources. Ever go for a run right after eating?)

Though perhaps there's less fluid involved here than there is with the intestines.
So kind of like Bithub?

https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916751
Indeed here are his posts on this case: http://www.popehat.com/tag/roger-shuler/
Plus the price + overall bad performances of AWS.
Wow, you managed to break 3 HN guidelines in a single post.
I am certainly touched by this. I'd forgive a guy like that and many other Japanese who admit to their horrific acts. I don't like generalization such as saying I forgive Japan, nor would I say Japanese are monsters. So long the stubborn politicians still exist, there will always be sting on Japan's reputation as a country.
Err, I don't think defamation or slander are criminal
There are no female readers on HN. And there are no male readers on Jezebel.

This is the truth.
My theory is it has to do with the eyes. The optical input capacity of a human per day has just got to be an incredible stress on the brain.
> The Gloobenstien. This is a device powered off farts. It is used to detect and avoid /b/ronies. You lose.

You parsed my sentence wrong or something. I challenged you to find a device that isn't built off of something non-war related. Mind the double negative. You do see the point I'm trying to make, no?

> I think my Borderline Personality Disorder has put me in my parents basement with no job and a huge list of ex-friends and lovers.

That's beside the point but, well, that sucks. Wait, things are starting to make sense.

> What do you mean, "you people", you racist melon farmer? Seriously though, thank you for the new script idea. A serial killer that kills killers via giant, killer death arena called the KILLER DEATH ARENA. It is perfect, because people are fascinated by death, and it is totally unbelievable [Harry Potter, Saving Private Ryan, Deathbed: the Bed the Kills People]. "We" tend to kill you guys. Tigers do not often hunt tigers, though they do attack them if their territories overlap.

You're absolutely right. I actually have no evidence to suggest that non-psychopaths are better or worst off than psychopaths. I was just hoping you'd disappear but I guess that didn't work.

> I will help build a tomorrow where our future cousins do not have to see each other as adversaries or competitors to make some fuckhead proud of all that he has "gained".

OK so you're clearly not a psychopath, so there's nothing more discuss about psychopathy per se. But I believe you are confused about something. There is, to this date, perhaps nothing quite as important as nation-state war and defense in determining the outcome of technological progress. But with the invention of the internet I hypothesize that we won't be seeing the kind of wars we have been seeing in the past -- it's much harder to convince enlightened people to kill another man.

So the battlefield is shifting away from the field to the infrastructure of computation, cryptocurrencies, and social media networks. Popular opinion is what will defeat the drones, not another drone army. And popular demand is what will drive technological innovation in the future, not national "defense" budgets. We've already lost, the world is constantly on the verge of a nuclear meltdown. What good is another killer weapon?
A couple of java based webgames based on this already exist:
http://aagenielsen.dk/hnefatafl_online.php

A couple of apps too:

https://sensortower.com/ios/us/risi-apps/app/kings-table/548... (iOS)

https://sensortower.com/ios/us/machinecodex-software/app/taf... (iOS)

https://sensortower.com/android/us/bill-holohan/app/hnefataf... (Android - 2 player)
There are a lot of game types, but the easiest is probably DM (death match). That is what I played when I first started. CTF (capture the flag) is also kind of easy for beginners. If you are just starting out, pick a server with low ping, and at least 4 players.

An important feature is jumping (I forgot the default key for this but I think it's spacebar). Also, when you use the grapple, make sure you don't hook your teammates, because that is annoying as hell.

I can't play for shit with a trackpad but some people can. I just use a USB mouse. Teeworlds is strangely addicting.
Then blind people wouldn't need nearly as much sleep, and I don't believe that to be the case.
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Then they kidnap your family so you go to the bank yourself and withdraw the bitcoins.

I think you're failing a bit in criminal imagination, which is probably not a bad thing altogether.
From what I understand, not really.

BitHub, funds are put into a pool and distributed evenly to anyone who commits. Bithub allows someone to donate to the development, without giving it any direction.

With feedopensource, developers enter into an agreement with a customer, who pays for a short iteration on a feature or fix of their choosing. Feedopensource allows someone to pay for what they want developed.
There are a bunch related to D3D, and I'm currently using RtlAddGrowableFunctionTable in the JIT to get proper stack walking (previously this was really painful). There are also some kernel primitives I'd like to take advantage of once things are working to do some cool memory tricks and hopefully speed things up.
If it's 2 days that puts us about 26 years (2040) away, compared to the original assumption, which would put us 16 years away (2030), assuming "Moore's Law" continues to happen every 18 months (regardless of whether we'll be able to double the number of transistors per same amount of space anymore or not).
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Maximum error correction and each QR Code "pixel" is 6x6, while each video pixel is 1x1. And, there is enough intentional "pixelation" to ensure enough codewords read correctly. (Repeated for each frame.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QR_Ver3_Codeword_Ordering....
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While there are other, open-source browser's built on Webkit and Chrome source code, what a typical user downloads from Google is not an open source product you can build youself.
Yep. Flagged.
Maybe it depends on what type of blind people?
Your tax dollars at work--how's that contract for California treating them?

(some previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7038574 )
When I FIRST released a paid game on the Android Market, after my first dozen 5-star reviews I was devastated by a 1-star review, the content of which was "I can't review this game in only 15 minutes."

And that user then promptly refunded the game within the (then-new) 15 minute window.

And (surprise!) someone ended up uploading a "cracked" [1] version of my game to warez sites shortly thereafter. Talk about adding insult to injury.

[1] I used a sneaky way to detect "cracks" in my game that involved, in part, letting the hacker think they'd cracked it: The game would query Google to see if they'd paid for it, and if not, it would throw a "Sorry, you don't own this game" dialog up. There were scripts around that would remove the standard Google DRM, though; instead of fighting that, I LET them "hack" it, and afterwards it wouldn't bring up that dialog any more. But then the behavior reverted to being identical to the free demo (first 30 levels free, then you had to buy the real game). It was "hacked" almost a dozen times, and never once did anyone figure out how to get past the second layer of protection.
We created tribes (http://tribes.techendo.co/) to basically combat this while expanding your network and resources. If you're in SF, you should join us. If you're not in SF you can take our guidelines (http://tribes.techendo.co/rules) and help create a tribe in your area.
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Emacs org-mode has been blowing me away lately. Don't know how well it can scale up to a large project, sadly.
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The article is interesting in everything except using the word "Viking" inappropriately. As someone who once was fascinated by the topic, I found that bit frustrating.

In 400 AD, germanic people were known by names like "Goths". The viking period started several hundred years later. The relationship of Germanic people with England was that three groups of them, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, were settling there. A few hundred years later those people united in response to the Viking threat, then were conquered by the French duke of Normandy (which, interestingly, had nobility of Viking descent) and country became known as England and the people there became known as anglosaxon.

Just to give a sense of the timeline, stories of a legendary Celtic folk hero that was part of resisting the Germanic invasion later got carried to France in medieval times, mutated beyond belief, then reentered English as King Arthur.
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Regarding #2, it may be good to search for people/friends who are good listeners.
Agreed, I'm pretty sure those fall under civil court?
http://eschulte.github.io/el-go/weboard.html?game=tafl

Uses webrtc, implemented mainly as a learning exercise for webrtc.
Just bought one. :) This dude is going to cash in tonight
OS X is BSD based. ;)
I really wouldn't call your first example:

>I've read anonymous anecdotes of US vs UK wargames in which the last gen US fighters (pre-F22) would wipe out all of the UK aircraft before being detected.

Now the UK's bought into the F-35 and what a mess that's turning into.
the moment somebody comes with a real solution for marijuana sellers may happen to be an "Ice Age" style crack in the banking business. Forcing people to invent ways to workaround the system may be not good for the system in the long run.
Two entertaining news items popped up this week, both of which painting Apple's App Store (specifically the iOS one, though most of this post applies to Mac App Store, Google Play, et al)

The second item, regarding Turkish users giving positive reviews but with 1 star to increase visibility, was specifically referencing Google Play. Considering the first item is about bad developer behavior, and not bad behavior of an App Store specifically, it makes your title sound very much like link bait.
To be fair, I'm not sure it has ever been a good idea to take advice from random strangers on the Internet.
Space in a datacenter gets prohibitively expensive fast.

You'd need a real nifty virtualization platform to oversell RAM like we currently oversell bandwidth and cpu time.

A high performance swap farm might be the way to go with things, but things break when everyone starts using huge pages.
Consider that blind people often have their other senses enhanced by the body to compensate for the lack of sight. Perhaps it balances out.
It could instead be the case that all of maths is simple, but that complexity tends to appear whenever we have an incomplete understanding of a domain.
if competing for non-consumption and there are others doing this, how do you stand out? If something is infinitely better than nothing for this non-consumers how do you stand out from the competitors doing the same thing? How to charge a premium without driving each other to the bottom?

The message I understood from his lecture video was develop:

1) Something that is infinitely better. My suspicion is that if you are targeting a group that already has very good tools to do the job, your product won't be infinitely better until it does feature "A-Z" like your incumbents.

2) Disrupt by targeting the non-consumption. These group of people have no other alternative to do the job or have technical understanding. Even a crappy product is better than nothing. Target this for disruption.

Is this correct? Did I miss anything?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQSG_d0mmf0
Forgot to close that loophole! Dang
Meanwhile, at code.org
Let's all just sleep properly, till someone finds a pill which will rejuvenate us in lesser time, and we fool humans overuse/misuse it and crib about technology later :)
Most point-of-sale terminals in Australia have been upgraded recently to facilitate RFID enabled cards. But I guess that will only happen in the US once banks start issuing RFID/chip and pin cards by default. I hope for the sake of those 110 million people that the banks sent out modern debit/credit cards to those who cancelled their cards.
Indeed there are many rating systems where '1' is 'best', 'first-in-rank', 'most-preferred'.

I've never seen an online 'stars' system that works that way... but it's possible in some other cultural context a single star is somehow honored more than many, and thus without explanation the star-system could be misinterpreted. (Of course the comments here strongly suggest that's not a factor in this case.)
Article title is somewhat misleading, I thought they meant sleep clean as in without going into an intoxicated state, or to actually sleep clean and that this was somehow relevant.

"Sleep cleans your brain" or "Sleep garbage collection" or something. Still probably not good.
That is not quite correct (and what's correct is just repeating what I just wrote).

If you download source code, you can build these browsers. If you go to their release pages, you can download these browsers. If you apt-get install chromium-browser, you'll get one of those browsers.

You're correct that Chrome and Safari both contain large chunks of closed source code, but they are the "other" to the source code. The source code builds just fine.

And yes, the open source versions aren't what users usually download, which is exactly what I said. The largest users of Chromium are from Linux distros that use it and people building from source themselves. I'm not aware of any major users of Webkit builds directly, but there are many smaller browsers that are themselves open source and using Webkit or embedding Chromium (and I imagine a handful now using Blink).
Right now nothing is using the cloud for game processing and the only big game that is pushing features other than save game backup is Titanfall which is getting dedicated servers for each game. Interesting discussion here about what Microsoft can do with cloud rendering

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1208703
Fortunately, developers have figured out an even more hateful response:

http://effyr.tumblr.com/
Okay Kings Table is pretty bad. no AI.
Apart from the open sourceness of browsers, it's worth to consider the culture of the companies behind them. Speaking of Mozilla, a non-profit, they have always cared about user rights and privacy and stayed true to their ideals for more than 10 years now. Something you can't say about Google, which has been tainted with all imaginable privacy issues and keeps actively luring people to stay connected in Chrome, Google+, Chromebook - all for a better surveillance experience.
Why would a text content site care about a 300 msec click delay?
> You can't sell software like you sell physical items, software is too easy to copy.

You can sell support, which can't be copied in the same way that software can be copied. And if you are writing open source software with reasonable traction, most likely there are companies that use the software (that may have already reached out to you regarding support)
Ha, this is completely valid: the second news item was originally something different, which I then hastily replaced with the Turkish reviewers issue. I've edited your quote and changed the title to more accurately reflect the reality that this is not really an Apple-specific problem.
Apparently it wasn't MIT's home page that was hacked, but cogen.mit.edu, a random server.
I'm curious what the pre-requisites for this course would be. I don't see it listed anywhere on that page, but I do see intuitionist prepositional logic listed as a topic for classes early in the semester. Other than that, what other topics would help build up a good base for Homotopy Type Theory?
Amen. I thought the idea sounded ridiculously stupid to put mildly but downloaded the app to give it a try giving them the benefit of the doubt as clearly my opinions do not dictate whether or not an app succeeds but even after giving it a go, I can't say my opinion is any better. If anything, my attitude towards this implementation only got worse.
The Byte article on Robotwar can be be found here:
http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-12/1981_12_BYTE...

It's still cool to read.

Moreover, Robotwar inspired a forth-like clone called Grobots:
http://grobots.sourceforge.net/
Nope on Connectix VGS not emulating the CPU - PSX and PS2 both used MIPS CPUs, vs. PowerPC in Mac. It very much was the exact same thing as PCSX or derivates.

The only platform a PSX emulator might have not done full dynarec/interpretation would have been the PSP, and that's unlikely to actually exist for various reasons.
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Exactly. I was always an exemplary employee, but always had an underlining annoyance with myself because I was wasting what little time I have on this planet building somebody else's business - made me sick. So did everything I could to get and stay out.
Ha, this is quite a coincidence — I was just reading up on the Mabinogion [0] (I think that's what you meant?) Really pretty interesting stuff! My younger brother used to be really into King Arthur so I grabbed him a translation for Christmas, he says it's pretty interesting to read through and realize what parts were "stolen".

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabinogion
What about the sales tax that is being collected? Is there any precedent for that?
Title of the link I am providing

"Psychological assessment of the unabomber"

Here are the first few parts of the text

>"Dr. Sally C. Johnson's psychological report describes Theodore Kaczynski, the confessed Unabomber, as a man whose early brilliance was ruined by paranoid schizophrenia.

>"Johnson made her evaluation after interviewing Kaczynski, his family and people who knew him, analyzing psychological tests, and studing of the Unabomber's journals which document over 40 years of his life."

>"She cites "an almost total absence of interpersonal relationships," and "delusional thinking involving being controlled by modern technology" as examples of his illness."

http://www.paulcooijmans.com/psychology/unabombreport.html

below is a commentary by Paul Cooijmans on the report itself
you might as well read that if you are lazy
http://www.paulcooijmans.com/psychology/unabomber.html
I didn't quite follow your comment. If the imperative solution tracks a list of changes why couldn't it implement infinite levels of undo in a similar fashion to the functional approach?
> Also most people if they have an issue will automatically leave a bad review instead of contacting the support email to get it resolved.

because most people are used to working with big products. Even me, a developer, this is the first time I considered that you could in general email support and not get some patronizing useless robot. It makes sense now that I think about it, since so many of the apps are made by small sized development firms or even just lone wolfs, there's a good chance I could get a human, maybe even another dev!

In general, that would never happen with a large and well known product. Faced with that, people take the only outlet they feel with maybe change something.

The best app ever part. Well...

People always exaggerate, ALWAYS.

:)
Probably best viewed in light of his main site[1] (Warning! May result in feelings of inadequacy), where he goes to great length to do exactly what he thinks these people aren't, explain complex ideas and concepts using programs, programming and the resulting visualizations.

[1]: http://worrydream.com/
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It isn't strictly required, but a background in algebraic topology is really useful for understanding the homotopy bit. That has point-set topology and abstract algebra as pre-reqs. Abstract algebra is a very useful tool for reasoning about computing in its own right.

In addition, experience with proof assistants and dependently typed programming would be really useful.
They got the time wrong on the vikings, but isn't Hnefatafl the Norse version of the game?
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Do you realize that this observation does not answer the question? There are multiple possible suppositions as to what, if anything, you are implying, so why don't you stop beating about the bush and state clearly the message you are trying to convey?
"We speculate this is Grantley-EP and Wellsburg PCH. If so, the server supports Thunderbolt and features DDR4 speeds of 2400 and 3200MHz. However, these specs are pure conjecture."

They're obviously under the impression that a new generation of CPU+chipset provides some degree of Thunderbolt support that is lacking in server components currently on the market: either that Intel's requiring Thunderbolt controllers to be included on the motherboard, or that the CPU or chipset provides a Thunderbolt controller.
I suspect it's tied to metabolic limitations. It's likely difficult for the brain to provide enough energy to support higher order functions and also do this cleanup efficiently at the same time.
Yes, clearly it's possible to make a chipset that includes a Thunderbolt controller, but is that what Intel is doing?
Twitter uses open source because they do not have the resources to build and maintain custom infrastructure, nor do they think infrastructure is what distinguishes their business. It's that simple.
Maybe Google should do sentiment analysis on review text and compare with star rating then rank the review to be less visible if the two contradicts too much?
Not sure that still applies as aptly in the emerging world where (nearly) everything is being advertised, explored, researched and ordered online.

Good or bad, the crowd is relying on its emerging "wisdom" more 'n more.