skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently finished my physics PhD focused on quantum effects in photosynthesis, and I saw Hameroff and Bandyopadhyay's talks at Google's "Quantum Biology" workshop back in 2010.

These guys live in a bizarre alternate universe where a number of legitimate experimental results and calculations based on real physics add up to striking conclusions with no basis in reality. They are happy to combined many random factoids -- anything that vaguely supports their ideas -- and pretend that the combination is convincing evidence.

For example, the authors hypothesize that the spin of magnetic dipoles could be quantum bits used for information processing in microtubules. As support, they cite experimental evidence for resonances in electrical conductance in microtubules at certain RF frequencies. But coherent motion of electrons is a totally different physical phenomena than coherent spin.

The most amazing thing to me is that these guys do manage to operate in their own parallel academic universe, with their own journals, conferences and (most frighteningly) funding.

As I found out at the Google workshop (which had been basically hijacked by these guys), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has been funding this fellow Bandyopadhyay's experiments that, at the Google conference, he was touting as "experimental evidence for a topological quantum computing in the brain." An AFOSR officer I talked to was very proud about this project. In my view this is basically a criminal misuse of US taxpayer money (probably 100k/year).
can't agree more. On my desktop I typically run flashblock and don't allow animated gifs etc. That's enough there to do the job.

On laptops, etc that use battery and don't have a lot of cpu and in many cases are bandwidth limited I run adblock. Some advertises have little respect for the people they are advertising to.

And don't get me started on trackers...
For me, it's killer for photo hosting. I point it at my Lightroom library and have access to all my photos over time and can create instant albums/links for people to view without the laborious task of 'publishing' somewhere in Lightroom. My only gripe is it doesn't display camera raw files at all (ok since I don't shoot too much raw anymore). I guess I would like my photo adjustments visible too, but I wouldn't expect that really.

The rumors of a Lightroom cloud sync are interesting, and if true, would have my reconsidering my interest (though, adobe does not have great track record for reliable data storage).
as people have pointed out elsewhere in this discussion, the transit situation in NY is an order of magnitude better than SF. I agree with the SF is to Manhattan what the greater Bay Area is to the boroughs of New York analogy. But there's a pretty massive difference when it comes to public transit.
> Instead it took over a year and the lead developer on the project walked away making a rate of right around $10/hour.

To me, this sound like: if you accept a fixed rate contract knowing it'll work out to $10/hour, you can be employed for an entire year. Yes, please.
Okay, so build better transit instead of playing stupid games to "combat gentrification."
"good keyboards are standard keyboards" <= that
1) How do you guys find contract work?
2) How do you actually write up the contract and have them sign it? Is there an open service which does this?
3) How much up front do you charge? 33%? 50%?
Do you have Radio connected to Facebook? It posts stuff you listen to if you do; that could easily explain how Spotify got the information...
Interesting - I never thought of the Thinkpad niche as developers, I thought of it as business professionals. In an airport, it used to be the way you knew someone worked for a consulting firm was that they had a Thinkpad, especially if it was a tablet.

That might explain some of the keyboard choices. Caps lock, function keys, and the insert key might have important uses for developers. But if you're creating business documents, caps lock is unnecessary, insert confuses you when all your text starts getting over-written, and the function keys don't really do anything.
I find a good initial test of writings about consciousness is to ask "would Ray Kurzweil or his website get excited about this?" If the answer is no - perhaps the material is too dry, language-oriented, technical (in a non-sexy field), or cynical to be exciting - it is probably worth reading.

Like, off the top of my head, Kant or Hume. Plenty of contemporary people working away thanklessly as well, probably, too; but it's not my field. But even then, it more likely qualifies as "useful" rather than "revealing". Because there are no big easy-to-grasp-and-broadcast flashes of blinding insight. In the field of consciousness or any other.
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I've been ready to ditch bitcoin-qt . . . this is fantastic.
This appears to be their UK trademark record, http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU005097555. [The USPTO trademark search is too blunt a tool for me to be bothered hunting that registration down at the moment.]

This http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK00002215537 is a registration of the trademark "box" for the relevant computer and communication classes (inter alia 9, 38, 42) which was filed about 7 years before Box UK filed their application. TBH I can't see how the later one was granted RTM status except that this one appears to be an image mark.

"Box" is widely used as a trademark and other companies are using it in the same class. Box presumably can't make the case for infringement of their mark without also making the case that they're infringing someone else's - Boks™ belonging to a Norwegian company for example. It's pretty generic as a term for storage/term in computing.

That aside Dropbox would only be problematic if there was genuine confusion. For example Box UK had a series of offerings with trademarks using "box" as a suffix. If Dropbox were considered infringing, for example, Xbox would also be infringing as they operate within the same class - Box presumably haven't challenged the use of Xbox [which probably predates their use anyway].
So the ability to live in San Francisco should become an inherited right? Or at least being first in line for housing? Oh, I see, your parents lived here Mr. X, so even though Mr. Y is offering more money, I'll cast that newcomer aside. He isn't one of "us", who belong here.
Not to mention occasionally malicious. Of the people I've known who have gotten viruses in the last 5 years, a majority of them were from compromised ad hosts and/or malicious ads. In fact, there was one a week or two ago from Yahoo[1], of all places.

[1]http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57616617-83/yahoo-users-exp...
Walmart already does this.

They keep everything on shelves at the local fulfillment center. I go there maybe once every two weeks and pickup my stuff.

It's a pretty neat concept called retail.
Thanks for the feedback. It's interesting you mention CoC specifically, as my unwillingness to pay for the in game currency is what had made me think to ask this question :)
Fixed! Well, Sublime is still suggested for /r/progamming, but I added "Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought" for the vim subreddits.
> What exactly is the point you're trying to make here? That this is all legal? They have at least violated the SPIRIT of the law.

The "spirit" of the law is to keep government agents from trespassing on your property looking for contraband. The "right of privacy" wasn't conjured out of thin air by the Supreme Court until the 1960's. Collecting information under the Third Party Doctrine violates neither the letter nor the spirit of the 4th amendment.

> Just this week, it was revealed that they store hundreds of millions of text messages:

Are they the text messages of Americans?

> They also store every single phone call made in the US:

If they store every phone call made in the U.S. that would definitely be illegal. But the evidence that they do this is much flimsier than for the other things we know they do.
I agree with you about the toxic assets and about cheap credit, but I don't see how those interventions would encourage us to add even more interventions.
So that is the price of your soul? Noted.
>Also, if the people who work in SF or other high income areas cannot afford to live there at current wages, there should be pressure on them to leave and work elsewhere.

The problem is that people who can't afford to live where they currently live also can't afford to move.
Google founders’ private air terminal in California
Building warehouses closer to customers isn't that far off "anticipatory shipping." Could "anticipatory shipping" be a clever scheme to reduce shipping times while also avoiding establishing tax nexuses (and therefore avoiding the requirement to collect sales taxes) in additional states?
It depends on how ads are blocked by the user, and it also depends on how you frame it. For example: I don't block advertising on Something Awful, because the ads there are both unobtrusive and occasionally quite relevant or interesting to me, even in terms of pointing me at things I didn't realize I had an interest in. I'll also usually unblock sites that detect that I'm running an adblocker and ask me politely to stop.

I will, however, make a point of blocking ads on any site that decides to drop full-screen overlays, modal dialogs, javascript popovers, or any of that other crap that ad agencies seem to love these days. If your ad is interfering with my browsing experience, I'm not going to waste my time even considering interacting with it.
I also wanted to say, this is really not a conflict between the rich and the poor. What ends up happening is the truly rich can afford to live in SF easily with or without subsidies. The lower and lower-middle class end up with "affordable" (subsidized) housing. The upper-middle and upper-but-not rich get stuck in the middle with no assistance and maybe being able to afford to live in the area if they save in every other area and work themselves to poor health.
Windows 3.1 written in JS/HTML
but would the metacircular evaluator fit on a chalkboard?

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
SO has critical mass which would be difficult to replicate in a new site; remember that it was started by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, who were already established bloggers. "Make your own SO for subjective discussions" would be a good suggestion for someone who already has a large online following, but not for a general programmer.

I have yet to see a good argument why these types of questions detract from the main site and asked on a separate site (http://programmers.stackexchange.com/). If the problem is cluttering up search results with opinions, then they could be marked as "subjective" and people could be given the option to avoid these results.
In that case better double down on the Vision insurance....
Malloc is not a syscall.
No I don't, and that is a big pro of net neutrality. But that doesn't mean there are no cons.
What's the legality of spying on our allies? Aren't treaties supposed to be law once ratified?

What's the legality of basically giving full system access to all NSA data to 'allies' such as Israel with only a footnote in the agreement about using the 'honour system' if they find data in the system that shouldn't be there (e.g. a Senator's data gets caught in the net)?

What about the legality of skirting 'no spying on Americans' laws by forming agreements with foreign bodies such that said foreign body readily shares all data it has from spying on Americans (and the NSA does the same thing in kind, sharing data that said foreign body isn't legally allowed to collect on its own).
While that's true, that's only the case for sites you regularly visit. If you get linked to a random site or blog post from HN, Reddit, Digg, Facebook, or what have you, your first thought is not going to be "gosh, I really want to pay for a subscription to this site". In fact, if you run into a paywall, you'll probably just bounce back to the site that linked you to the article and ask for the article text or a non-paywalled version of the same.
Just tried it in 8.1 and yes it is still a thing.
The problem is that SO is not for entertainment. It's not even really for education. They (the site's operators) want it to be an injective mapping of google queries to solutions. You don't need to become a better programmer. You need to keep coming back to SO to ask more questions. On the other side they need to supply a steady stream of middling difficulty questions, because everyone isn't John Skeet.

Nobody is going to be working on a project and say "My client requires the use of obscure data structures, better Google some!". You can bash the multitude of jQuery questions, but having worked in a variety of settings, some people need things spelled out for them. You need a lot of simple questions with alternate wordings, different permutations of libraries, etc. Even though you can generalize these answers, they're hard to find from Google, and a lot of people will read "Undefined variable foo? Nonsense, my undefined variable is baz. Better open a new ticket".
Nexus 7 (2013) -- running Android 4.4.
I'm curious what programs people are writing where parametric polymorphism is so crucial. I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of Go code (servers, web apps, data processing, etc.), and there's probably been maybe O(hundreds) of lines of code that were annoying or tedious because of a lack of parametric polymorphism.

My suspicion is that what's more likely is that lots of people don't want to consider writing their programs a little differently, and see that writing code with parametric polymorphism is the only acceptable solution to their problem. But maybe there's a whole class of problem (actual problem, not a sub-problem like "I want to implement a container") that I don't come in contact with.
A smart-object recognition algorithm that doesn’t need humans
You're right, I made a mistake.

I should have pointed out that I didn't do anything of this stuff while in college. I didn't really know what positivism was. I didn't read Das Kapital (I didn't even spell it right!). I didn't know what an intellectual framework was.

But I've played catch-up since graduating. I hope to save someone else that dysfunction by just going to a proper institution that cares about disciplined learning.
Getting a little hostile aren't you? I actually flat out said I don't have a solution, so whatever the heck you are reacting to your own insecurity at something. I merely pointed out that what you propose has problems. And that your attitude is simply: anyone who can't afford it deserves to not have their lives considered.

Honestly, you are saying that the only consideration people should have for one another is net worth and that interpersonal relationships are of no value, yet you are angry that your lack of those same things could be used to keep you from spending your money (suggesting value). This is a pretty strange.

I do think that perhaps some consideration besides "number of dollars" should be taken in situations like this, because I don't really think a group of people should be able to so fundamentally fuck over another group because they can afford to. But those are my ethics - I value respecting people on more than money.
we already have a Constitution. how many more laws do we need to state the obvious? The problem isn't a lack of laws, it's a lack of an Enforcement group that is above partisan politics.
Yeah stealing was a strong word. As for downloading copyrighted material, at least that doesn't necessarily have a direct cost to the content creators/providers, where as for example streaming a video from YouTube while ignoring all of the ads is bad for both Google as well as the people who rely on ad revenue to make YouTube videos full time as it actually costs Google money in addition to not generating them any revenue.

In fact I would say the example of reading the magazine in the store is more applicable to copyright violation, and that using AdBlock is more like going into a Starbucks to use the WiFi without buying anything, except worse, as with AdBlock one generally wouldn't turn it off, so every time someone with AdBlock visits the site they're basically just sucking up resources.
I was going to say Trie but it was the first response to the SO thread so I guess it wasn't as little known as I thought.

I implemented it because I was making a game that had scrabble elements in it and needed to check ahead to see if the player had a word that could still take letters (a prefix) or if they'd hit a dead end. Fit the whole SOWPODS into a remarkably tiny space with millisecond lookups. Probably my favourite part of the project.
Gradually and then suddenly
We would probably end up with Edith Snowden (Like Bradley, er Chelsea Manning). Seriously - with Gitmo et al, why would anyone put themselves at the tender mercies of our justice system when high-level personnel have it out for them?
> It's plain that tech is the proximal cause

It's half of the proximal cause. Housing prices have increased because of the interaction of supply and demand. Blaming the tech boom focuses only on the demand side, but the supply constraints (height limits, zoning density limits, etc.) are just as important.
In some places, its huge. I know some people in DC who would give their left arm for subsidized child care.
My favorite is MS-DOS Prompt, its almost working :)
See, hobbyists have it lucky! Well, nowadays samples are harder to get..
HTM is generally good. We used it to index white light data from out satellite. It makes for a very flexible way to store spherical surface data without losing context or information when projecting.
Open source please? :-)
Do Walmart items ship out of your local superstore or do they ship from the regional hub? Assuming you buy from Walmart.com and don't wander the miles of aisles in the store.
And, strangely enough, the value that 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + 1/5... converges to if evaluated left to right is the natural log of 2. It doesn't converge very quickly, though. It takes a billion terms to reach just six decimal places of precision.
How would you fill out a "Ask HN" submission asking HN how pg would fill out a YC application with YC as his idea?
Good minesweeper implementation as well.
Letting developers do whatever they please is a horrible idea. Most developers are crooks and do whatever they can to make the most amount of money, which is why most cities have city plans and zones to prevent developers from shitting on everything.

Secondly, historical preservation makes a city what it is. Would Paris be the same without the Eiffel Tower? Good historical preservation enhances and defines the city.
How can anyone answer "really useful but are unknown to most programmers"? They are so useful we don't know about them? Aren't the answers, by definition, known, to a lot of programmers? Useful for what exactly?

I think I heard this criticism of SO for about 1 million times and this is the 1 million + 1 that tripped my fuse, so apologies for that. This question, and the answers, though IMO are bits of trivia and opinions more suited to a blog post.

Does it have some marginal usefulness in exposing some people without background to some random data structures or algorithms- maybe. The question is still there, it wasn't deleted, so SO is acting as the resource that you'd like it to be. If it's your first exposure to data structures I think there are better options out there (text books, online courses). If you are looking to solve some particular problem this is probably not the best resource. So it just stands as a (maybe interesting) bit of computer science trivia.

There are endless subjective topics that are tangentially related to programming and may be fun/amusing/interesting but SO is about things that have answers, not about discussions. I like it that when I have a question I can search and get a good answer for it, not just someone's opinion. For entertainment value and interesting things I go to other places, such as HN...
Do somethng completely apeshit and charge people money. Hint hint?
I just had an OS course with this textbook this last semester. Really good book. I'm surprised to see this on HN.
This is better than having to read the docs every time I want to send a few coins...
Graphene Can Replace Indium Tin Oxide In Solar Cells
Isn't there a datamining and profiling clause?
> Plus, systemd is actually better at this than supervisord, daemontools, etc., already because of its cgroup usage- it can reliably kill all children before restarting, even if the process forks.

That's exactly the wrong thing for some services, for example sshd.
Anything can happen when not operating as indented.
This is just silly considering that YC grew out of a sustained and developed system, not some silly one-off idea.
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Why not just stick with a stable version for a while? Updating every month sounds like a huge headache.
Metadata collection has been upheld in court.
Have you seen the Epic Citadel demo? It's pretty amazing: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/
But there is absolutely a need for these companies to assemble patent war chests; otherwise they are vulnerable to other people who have them.

Or even other people who just have 1 single patent for something they want to do.

So don't blame the companies, they are acting rationally; blame the system.
Pretty cool!

Worrying about where you're going to keep your planes for a year - what a problem to have! I get pretty concerned about my cats if I go on holiday.