skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember trying to edit those Wikipedia pages. There was a gang of users with names like Duke123 and BlueDevil456 who allowed nothing but biased information in favor of the players or against the prosecutor and alleged victim. All of Wikipedia's standards (NPOV, verifiability, etc.) went right out the window.

I've seen it on other Wikipedia pages about hot issues, but those pages were the worst. I wouldn't trust a thing I read there (or about any hot issue on Wikipedia).
I am aware of Minsky's work, see my other reply. I was too flippant in my comment. Perhaps I should have said intelligent behavior, rather than intelligent structures, is self-organized.

But, I don't think any approach to consciousness can be considered a large arm of cognitive science. Most cognitive scientists don't want to touch consciousness with a ten-foot pole. But of course you're right that connectionism lives on.

Let me try to explain the kind of self-organization I have in mind. Consider the fundamental question "how is behavior organized"? The behaviorists pointed to organization in the environment. Cognitivists point to organization of internal representations. Connectionists and similar approaches point to organization of neural structures. Yes, something intelligent emerges from simple, perhaps self-organized, components in this scheme. But they are unwilling to take self-organization to the level of behavior.

In my opinion, a true self-organizational approach to behavior is to say that behavior emerges from the interaction between organism and environment. This is the level at which we need to accept self-organization. It is far from the mainstream. The mainstream approach to vision, for example, starts with the retinal image and asks what can be inferred from it. Yes, maybe they say that this inference engine is itself a self-organized structure. But it still reifies an input-process-output view of cognition. The sensory system receives input, constructs a model of the world. The "higher cognitive" centers formulate plans from this model. The action system instantiates these plans.

To bring it back to the ants: The ants demonstrate what can be done without explicit planning. Modern cognitive science studies explicit planning, even if they agree that this capability emerges from simple components.

As I said in the other post, I could provide literature if you are interested in any of these specific debates.
I think the counter argument is that in other places where tipping isn't mandatory or even common, reataurants are still able to do fine.
I disagree. Good service is a pleasure to receive, and adds a lot to the value of the experience.

When your water glass never gets quite empty, and the flat bread never quite runs out, and you're not sure how that happened because your conversation was not interrupted, and your food arrives hot and when you look around to get the bill and it arrives just like that. When service is really good the restaurant feels like magic. That's worth a lot.
Isn't Goldman Sachs one of the most controversial financial companies on the Wall Street? What makes you think that GS is being bashed on jealousy and not for their unethical behavior?

I don't understand how is it possible to combine these two statements of yours into a coherent worldview:

> 1. People are simply bashing based on jealousy of more successful individuals in a different sector.

> 2. I prefer a rational approach to knee jerk sentimentality and sensationalism.

Either you have rational arguments that support [1] or your [2] statement is false and [1] is precisely what you claim you don't engage in -- sensationalism.
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Where is this being practiced? I've been to pretty much every country in Europe in the last 20 years and in a conventional shop the tax (VAT) is always included in the price.
> Why not just show the real price in the menu?

because the real service costs would be higher than the price of the meal? I have no experience in gastronomy but I guess you pay for being serviced in a restaurant (including table, dishes ...). The 'real' price of the meal is of minor significance.
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You may be able to get it to work on other systems if you copy / port some of the necessary Apple bits. You'd have to copy the iOS SDKs from Xcode and get ld64 [0] / codesign [1] (both open source) to build on non-Mac machines. Perhaps some resource file prep tools as well. Then you could use libimobiledevice [2] and friends to push apps to the phone and debug them.

[0]: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/ld64/ld64-136/ (unfortunately the last source release is from Xcode 4.6, 2 releases behind current)

[1]: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/security_systemkeycha...

[2]: http://www.libimobiledevice.org/
It depresses me that you are up/down voting headlines and not the content. And keep in mind that HN has a no title change policy.
It's common in USA, because there are different sales taxes in different states. So advertised products are advertised without tax included in the price.
apparently these temp values are scrubbed by openssl. i would definitely verify because there could be some implementation bug that stops their scrubbing. so what nginx does is:

handle_request:
do_decryption
scrub_temporaries
write_to_client
handle_another_request:
..

because nginx is single threaded there shouldn't be any requests handled between do_decryption and scrub_temporaries. but this is a problem on other servers.

static int RSA_eay_private_decrypt(int flen, const unsigned char *from,
unsigned char *to, RSA *rsa, int padding)
{
...

if (ctx != NULL)
{
BN_CTX_end(ctx);
BN_CTX_free(ctx);
}
if (buf != NULL)
{
OPENSSL_cleanse(buf,num);
OPENSSL_free(buf);
}
return(r);

void BN_CTX_free(BN_CTX *ctx)
{
if (ctx == NULL)
return;
#ifdef BN_CTX_DEBUG
{
BN_POOL_ITEM *pool = ctx->pool.head;
fprintf(stderr,"BN_CTX_free, stack-size=%d, pool-bignums=%d\n",
ctx->stack.size, ctx->pool.size);
fprintf(stderr,"dmaxs: ");
while(pool) {
unsigned loop = 0;
while(loop < BN_CTX_POOL_SIZE)
fprintf(stderr,"%02x ", pool->vals[loop++].dmax);
pool = pool->next;
}
fprintf(stderr,"\n");
}
#endif
BN_STACK_finish(&ctx->stack);
BN_POOL_finish(&ctx->pool);
OPENSSL_free(ctx);
}

static void BN_POOL_finish(BN_POOL *p)
{
while(p->head)
{
unsigned int loop = 0;
BIGNUM *bn = p->head->vals;
while(loop++ < BN_CTX_POOL_SIZE)
{
if(bn->d) BN_clear_free(bn);
bn++;
}
p->current = p->head->next;
OPENSSL_free(p->head);
p->head = p->current;
}
}

void BN_clear_free(BIGNUM *a)
{
int i;

if (a == NULL) return;
bn_check_top(a);
if (a->d != NULL)
{
OPENSSL_cleanse(a->d,a->dmax*sizeof(a->d[0]));
if (!(BN_get_flags(a,BN_FLG_STATIC_DATA)))
OPENSSL_free(a->d);
}
i=BN_get_flags(a,BN_FLG_MALLOCED);
OPENSSL_cleanse(a,sizeof(BIGNUM));
if (i)
OPENSSL_free(a);
}

void OPENSSL_cleanse(void *ptr, size_t len)
{
unsigned char *p = ptr;
size_t loop = len, ctr = cleanse_ctr;
while(loop--)
{
*(p++) = (unsigned char)ctr;
ctr += (17 + ((size_t)p & 0xF));
}
p=memchr(ptr, (unsigned char)ctr, len);
if(p)
ctr += (63 + (size_t)p);
cleanse_ctr = (unsigned char)ctr;
}
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I meant that the price for an item should have those costs baked in.
Have you ever run a restaurant? By what crazy math is staffing only 1% of the cost of running one? (Keeping in mind that tips aren't just going to the your main waiter, they're also distributed among busboys and other customer-interacting staff.)
Yo that's all fine and dandy. If you don't accept these conditions, don't take that job in the first place.

Otherwise, if they catch you violating trade secrets you'll get your arse in jail just like Aleynikov.

I doubt there will be a day when there are no secrets and no trade secrets. But in any case, that isn't the case right now. There's a part of the industry that can afford to work fully within Free Open Source, but it doesn't pay anywhere near as well as financial & banking (generally speaking). You can choose to make less money and not surrender completely your work done during office time to your company. Life is full of choices.
Anyone else have an "always knew it would happen, never thought it would happen" attitude toward this happening?
The only thing I've learned in the years that I've been writing Javascript is that the dollar symbol variable is as contentious as the West Bank. Obviously there has to be globals somewhere or else a library ceases to be a library in JS, but I see no problem is using the word jQuery explicitly, or simply passing it into a SEAN/IIFE:

(function($) {
$('#thing').hide();
})(jQuery);
That looks like the next earthroamer RV chassis :-). A number of folks have said to me that quad/hexcopters dont scale up to man capable sizes, this seems to contradict that. I can imagine the engine out scenarios will be challenging.

[1] earthroamer.com
Why do you think "Hyperloop" is unrealistic?
You are onto something there. You can get the flight portion to nip off for supplies and come back while you continue on your journey.
This would be a great Burning Man exhibit.
This isn't exactly any authority figure. It's a piece of software that as described is the essence of Big Brother and is being promoted by an individual who had to resign from a position of power due to corruption per the article. It's being used by an organization that has a history of abuses of power.
You don't have time to do "all of it".

For instance, in Control Systems .. We get a problem to design a system with certain characteristics. You then have to do Z transform, etc. Then design correction to match what you're asked for (a certain overshoot max, phase, etc).

Which involves a lot of matrice multiplication (Pontryagin, optimal control). Big matrices multiplied(and elements aren't numbers, they're bits of transfer functions. But I replace them with letters and double indices, many students recopy the same expression all the way :) ).

Or your design an RST control (polynomial, much, much complex than PID).

All of this takes a lot of time to write and requires a lot of concentration (if you screw up just one element in a matrix, all ensuing is wrong and gets you nothing, so you have to be rigorous and not the day-dreaming type).

And you end up pretty much not doing some part of the thing, which is something most students don't find frustrating, since most of them wouldn't touch a part of it anyway (they haven't studied it, they don't understand it, or something else).

They're not designed like that by some sadistic tendency, it's just some stuff that needs to go down the exam..

Although I remember a teacher who told us as he gave us the exam sheet: "Don't bother looking at the verso". Meaning "You'd be happy if you only did the recto to get your 10/20". It was a deliberate move.

And in addition, it's mostly end of year exams that are like that (content from the whole year). And not all modules are like this. Some are calculation intensive and next step is dependant on current step, so making a mistake in the beginning is "fatal".

But then again, I find the exam thingy slightly ... well, let's not even go there.
This is why the rest of the world hates us in the tech industry. We get to sit in $1,000 chairs, which we easily justify, and in offices where catered food, massages, game rooms, etc are common. Yet you want to complain about the tip jar for an extra $1 that you've already made in the time you waited in line, for the ice cream scooper who has to stand on their feet for 8+ hours and may be lucky to get a bathroom break during lunch rush, and is going to make less all day than you make in an hour, all while they are just trying to mentally study for their econ 101 exam tomorrow.

It's totally the people making minimum wage working the counters who are happy for an extra $20 per day that have all the gall, not the tech industry folks making six figures complaining about spending a couple extra bucks per day on tips.
Even if the service is not part of the experience, bad service can easily ruin it. If you need to wait several minutes before someone gives you a menu, then you need to wait another 5 minutes before you can order and then again you wait another 5-10 minutes before you can pay, that pretty much ruins the experience.
This is quite common at casual restaurants here in Germany and annoys me every time, especially in the first weeks after returning from a trip to the US...
Anyone who's had contact with american public school knows that they are quite prone to all sorts of social pathologies. The suggestion that they are willfully malign is not entirely implausible, especially in places where the main job of public high schools seems to be serving as a minimum-security holding facility for people who are too energetic and inexperienced to be inflicted on the rest of society.

A true synomosophist will distinguish between conspiracies of effect and conspiracies of cause. American public education certainly seems like a conspiracy of effect; wasting massive amounts of human potential to marginal benefit of the few who profit most from the established order.
In the planet money podcast, they were talking about how Colorado's new marijuana tax policy should have been implemented, whether the tax should be paid by the grower (which would result in the tax being included in the price) or by the consumer (which would result in the tax being added at the register, which is common for sales taxes in the US).

Their conclusion was that if governments wanted to limit consumption, they should choose a policy such that the cost was included in the sticker price, but if they wanted to maximize tax revenue, then they should collect the tax at the register.

The way I understand how VAT taxes work, it would seem that this would be friendlier to consumers, to the detriment, perhaps, of overall consumer spending.
Why not install ipads in the tables and do away with waiters? All one needs are food runners. Pay them normal working rates so no tips needed, even for them.
It seems to have a history of having fewer exploits that can result in leaking data. It has had more DoS exploits (I think) but most of them could be mitigated through configuration.

I think that the revenue model for Polar has put more money in to making sure it is secure. OpenSSL has always suffered from the fact that it is mostly "leach Ware". People use but they don't contribute because it isn't related to their core competency, so they don't mod or upgrade it. Polar on the other hand has people paid to test, patch and maintain the code.
The github repo for the examples: https://github.com/mark-watson/javascript_intelligent_system...
Why are the price tags universal across all stores and all states, and centrally produced? Or if they aren't, surely each shop can print out their own price tags and add the appropriate tax then.
This article is clearly not written by anyone with service industry experience.

1) Tips are unrelated to good service...good tips are mostly good luck

False, I could rely on 25%+ tip average, and as a server/bar trainer I trained my staff to receive the same, by giving excellent service. Being able to rely on tips for income (as most of the industry does) is by definition not luck.

2) It's un-American

Tipping is a direct way for the consumer to reward and punish a worker or market based on perceived value. If being capitalist is an American trait, tipping is very American.

3) Economists don't get it

Where is the source cited for this? I know plenty of people who work in finance, and tip very well. Professors however, seem to value service workers differently...

4) It’s borderline racist

Because more minorities receive tips? The service industry gives countless minorities and other disadvantaged groups (criminals, drifters, youth) opportunities for employment and advancement not found in any other industry. Most people who work in the kitchen do so by choice, anyone who desires and has people/sales skills can just as easily get a front-of-house job. As a service worker I was generally hired by and reporting to a minority.

4b) "it's usually illegal to redistribute tips among the staff."

False, tip pooling is extremely common between service workers and even back-of-house (kitchen). Only tip sharing with managers is not practiced, because they have higher guaranteed pay and it would be a conflict of interest for all involved.

5) We don’t tip doctors, flight attendants, and any number of occupations where service is important.

This is a personal anecdote of the writer. I tip flight attendants anywhere they still take cash. And a surprising number of occupations are happy to accept tips if you try. Tips don't have to be monetary, they can be free tickets to a show or food or a vice (i.e. cigarettes or alcohol). Doctors don't get tips because of the high pay of their job, but many industries have bonuses provided by the buyer in exchange for a job performed beyond expectations.

5b) [Workers practice tip-sharing] according to a culture called “tipout.” But as this is not obligatory, it is inefficient and can foster cheating, resentment, or worse.

False, and this clearly shows the writer does not have service industry experience. Anywhere tipout is practiced, it is required as a percentage minimum of sales. However, often workers "tipout" above and beyond the required percentage, to anyone and everyone who earned it. In many service jobs your co-workers are like family and you all take care of one another.

Priceonomics usually writes great articles, but this one should be taken with a grain of salt.
That might be the unofficial defining feature but a multirotor rotorcraft is simply one with multiple rotors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multirotor
This is because other sellers are printing the price without tax, so the price with tax appears expensive. If all prices had to include tax, then people would get used to it, and the total consumption would be same in the end.
Yeah, I do. How forgetful of me. Thanks!
> and heading south the rail bridge that runs next to the Triborough gives you a fantastic panorama of Manhattan's east side.

For anyone else interested, that's the Hell Gate Bridge[0]. It's odd, I'm in the generation that will always think of the Triborough as the Triborough, not the RFK, the same way others still think Interboro, not Jackie Robinson.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate_Bridge
I think the most common answer is "whatever coins you happen to receive as change"
This is a pretty significant milestone. Wonder how it will affect the production and selection of television shows.
At tipping establishments where health insurance is offered it's not uncommon for servers to lose all of their paycheck to healthcare and then have to give the company some of their tips to cover the rest.
Nice. Two years ago made something similar to follow HN users on http://www.nou.nl/hn/
Super trippy intro to Cadejo, a MIDI mapping tool for Overtone.
And who runs their webserver as root? (Or who changes the permissions on /etc/shadow to allow it be read by a non-root process).

Having to be root to be able to bind to a TCP port <1024 is no longer necessary on a modern OS.
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Yeah, those are cool, and a really good idea. Some great outside-the-box thinking, "let's put blimps everywhere!"

They're a lot larger than I thought after seeing that photo you linked to. I always assumed they were the size of a small car or even smaller.

I think they're also combined with the boomerang shooter detection system, and probably other sensors to give troops as much data as possible (wind speeds for shooting would probably be helpful).

Also, the chrome version (with solar panels on top!) http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/lighter-than-air-v...
What's the connection between autonomous flight and (no-swashplate) multi-rotor? If multi-rotor is useful, why haven't miltaries used them with pilots? Why are autonomous helicopters overwhelmingly multi-rotor?
Because then you'd need different menus for takeout, in-restaurant, and delivery.
It's extremely common in the US. Each state, county, city, different "special districts" can impose their own sales tax. For things like national chains it would be impossible to advertise prices, as one store may be under 10% sales tax and a mile away one is under 15%.
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I have my own soundcloud playlists

but once they are done (4 hours ish each) I just put on pandora and listen to that
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It goes further than that; a county or even a town can have a separate sales tax. You can have 9% in one county, 10% in a city inside the county, or 8% the next county over.
holy crap!

I've avoided iOS because Objective-C scared me and I stuck to Android. I have some pending questions before I use this however.

1) How much code share can there be between Android and iOS? Is it just limited to business logic like Xamarin?

2) Can you use an Android game engine, create the game in Android and build for iOS?

3) In order to create and run iOS simulator, do you need to be on the mac and have Xcode? Any way to do it on a non-Mac machine?

4) Can you use RoboVM to create Android and iOS at the same time?

Amazing stuff!
This is almost true. The minimum wage laws do not apply to waiters, so they are often paid $2-3/hr.
Mention.com might be worth looking into for that.
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Totally -- burning man would make a great test environment.

Put up 10 of these as showers...
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OK, I guess so. But the surge in interest in multirotors is almost entirely in the simple no-swashplate designs with electronic attitude control.

The Chinook is a crazy machine, but does not have much in common with a quadrotor except for the very minor feature of having more than 1 rotor.
How many times are you going to ask the same question? It seems you are failing to consider the “dual sovereignty” doctrine, double jeopardy is applied per sovereign. I answered in full here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7578770
Reputation is a form of infrastructure.
Absolutely astounding: I have been looking for this book ever since I pored over it in the Wolfson Reading Room in Manchester Central Library 5 years ago. I didn't take down the authors' names, though,
referring to it as "that yellow mathematics book"
then and ever since.

I credit that book with much if not all my mathematical
insight.

Thank you.

(Just seeing that cover leaves me all tear-eyed,
reminiscing over that wonderfully irresponsible time.)
And anyone who is an experienced server is so accustomed to the concept that their compensation is nearly 100% tip-based and can no longer discern reality from the tipping model. Nearly all my server friends will consistently tell me about how they game the system, and how little their actual personality comes into play during their experience. In the name of tips, they routinely abandon their principles to earn more. Your replies sound defensive and biased, and, while I understand your motive, they don't really address the underlying issues surrounding tips. If I owned a restaurant, I would certainly not allow them, especially after learning of Porter's results.
However, based on my own personal and rather unscientific experience, going out to dinner is less common in much of Europe and restaurants employ fewer front of house staff. So while the restaurants that exist might do fine (or as 'fine' as any restaurant does), there are quite probably less of them and they certainly employ less people.

Which I guess is the real problem. Removing tipping will increase unemployment.
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Not to everyone. Some of us greybeards tried to warn against it :

"XML is simply lisp done wrong." — Alan Cox

but the gee-whizzery won.

"XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files" — unknown

"XML is a classic political compromise: it balances the needs of man and machine by being equally unreadable to both." — Matthew Might

Anyone remember XHTML ?