skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh thanks. Yeah, almost all of the apps I have written lately are a rest/json api service in rails or golang (martini) and the client side code is angular, ios, etc. So I don't care nor use html templating in go.
>But until we have a solid theory about consciousness, with the possibility of proving a claim to be objectively true or false, all we have are assumptions.

Your wording implies that all the different possibilities are equally probable. This is not the case. We "assume" that the explanation for conscious experience lies in materialism because it is the most probable answer given what we know. This is the rational choice here. Your usage of "assumption" is too layman to be useful in this discussion. Probability currently tells us that materialism is our best answer, and so we use that in our current model of the world.

>But consciousness is by definition a non-material phenomenon, so that's the wrong approach.

This isn't very useful. Energy is non-material, yet it can be measured using material detectors. Consciousness can be studied through material processes. Measuring brain mechanics, or simply questioning a subject about their experience are all material ways to study consciousness. We can't measure the metaphysical properties of consciousness, by definition. But then again we don't know that they exist either.

> If I see a black swan, I have falsified the all-white-swans theory, not to some probability, but absolutely.

Inherent in your conclusion is the probability distribution of your black-swan detection tool. What is the probability that it measured incorrectly?

The problem with the metaphysical types is that you propose some exotic mechanism simply because you can't imagine how natural phenomena could give rise to consciousness. This is simply a failure of imagination on your part. Until metaphysical explanations are required it is folly to assume that they are necessary.
big deal.
Perfect. Why don't you tell me your idea now and I'll write you this check for 100,000 and no part of the profits. That's even better for you, right?
I wrote about my experience here:

http://blog.repustate.com/migrating-code-from-python-to-gola...
It probably doesn't even make a blip on their radar. I wonder if even browser-based adblockers are really an issue for them, and they most likely have couple orders of magnitude more users.
Good points, he should definitely get credit and this blog post was a great start. Contains a link to construct your own FOV2GO Model D Viewer: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/diy/fov2go-viewer/
Maybe there is something I am missing, but the math is wrong.

>The cost of the flat will be £100,000 and will rent out for approx. £600 per calendar month (outside of london) each member will pay £1,000 upfront and receive approx. £72 twice a year. Assuming NO house price increase, you'll have all of your money back in 7 years.

At £600/month you will generate £7200 annually.

With 100 shares, each share would generate £72 each year.

Over 7 years, one share would generate £504.

You state the £72 will be paid TWICE each year, which would make the statement, "you'll have all of your money back in 7 years" true. Though I don't see where this money is coming from.
> directly talk to libao (which I found to be the best cross platform audio output solution)

Whoops, libao was a dead end too :P

I meant OpenAL

Searching for a link just now, it looks like it died in the last couple of years :(

We can look in the wayback machine.... http://web.archive.org/web/20130729040534/http://connect.cre...
The OpenAL soft project http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html website is still up at least.
I didn't read the article as being about wealth, but being more about credit.

I'm about to start work on an academic project that, if it goes spectacularly well, will make someone else a couple billion dollars. I'm not going to see any of that money and I know that going in. I just get the credit.

I'm okay with this arrangement. I don't want to run a billion dollar company. They get their money and I get my credit. However, I'll find it very unfair if they get the billion dollars and I get stiffed for my credit.
Acknowledgement is one thing, but remuneration is another. Not sure if there's much you can do about the former, but the latter is the raison d'etre of the patent system, no?
Android-resource-remover – utility to auto-remove unused Android resources
I mean, more than they have already lost. People who have left because they object to Rice's politics, are not going to come back. People who respect Condi Rice (or dislike her detractors) (or are disgusted with the politicization of everything in life) may leave if Dropbox caves.

Same story when Susan G Komen decided to stop funding abortion, then reversed its decision. Same story when Mozilla promoted Brandon Eich, then fired him.
Autotools and makefiles for me.
Life sentences: the grammar of clickbait
Agreed. I strip the DRM off of all my bits. I paid for them, they're mine.
Don't worry about it. You'll expect 0 time to code but then really appreciate and make the most of it whilst you can. I've made great strides in skills and knowledge since my daughter has been born :)
The qemu binfmt extensions inside a chroot are so great.

For the uninitiated: https://wiki.debian.org/EmDebian/CrossDebootstrap#QEMU.2Fdeb...
> it's not possible to unambiguously segment the text into distinct letters (which is a necessary first step in any OCR engine that I'm aware of)

In my experience, the ability to handle overlapping letters (which is very common on type-written text and professionally typeset material) is one of the key things that separate the relatively lightweight OCRs (like Ocrad and GOCR) from the big complicated ones (Tesseract, Cuneiform, Abbyy etc). Whitespace character segmentation cannot be taken for granted if you want to do any useful OCR of "historical" material.
Y Combinator Boosts Payout to Startups, Cites Rise in Cost of Living
This startup thrives on a four-day workweek
Should Learning Be Its Own Reward? (2007)
I might actually be interested in 3d if this comes about, I get such a headache from fighting the accommodation reflex when things on the screen i'm focused on appear to be closer to my face
Apple still sells 10.6 (the physical DVD) online (at it's original price, $20) for anyone still stuck on 10.5.
Once you're at 10.6.8, the Mac App Store is available for further upgrades
Professor here.

There are many reasons, but mine is that that is not what I signed up for. The goal of my research is not to make a huge pile of money. It is to advance human knowledge. So when I discover something, I give it away. That's the goal. This is how universities are traditionally set up. With a few high-profile exceptions, it's largely how they are still set up.

This means I am unlikely to get rich. OTOH, I don't have to limit my ideas to those likely to make money, which is hugely freeing. I get to work on nifty stuff for decades without ever worrying about being even "Ramen profitable".

If I were in the position of Mark Bolas, I'd certainly be wistful about the billion dollars I might have had. I would probably be very unhappy that some work that built on mine did not even mention me. (In academia, we always give credit to those whose work we build on. It's an unbreakable rule.[1])

However, I would not be indignant or -- except for the lack of credit -- feel mistreated or owed anything. As I said, that is not what I signed up for.

[1] I personally get very annoyed when, as often happens, companies break this rule. I used to get into arguments about this with people at booths at conferences. I've mellowed a bit since then, I think, but it still annoys me.
> I don't think that companies are inherently bad, it's just that companies will do what they can to maximize profit.

SOME companies will. What percentage, I honestly don't know, but I honestly suspect that it's a much smaller percentage than people tend to believe.

Aside from that, I'm not arguing with you _per se_, but you asked for an explanation, so I gave one. FWIW, I tend to downvote most pithy rhetoric that doesn't contribute to the conversation, even from pg himself.
Contingently Anonymous.
Airbnb has a valuation of 10 billion and Hershey's market cap is 20 billion...
So the author takes a group of 19-20 year olds and tasks them with a project which: a) asks them to converse in forced manner with someone they do not know, and then b) explicitly record themselves doing so. I don't know very many people, of any age, that could pull off a natural conversation in these conditions.

Then, instead of recognizing the flawed experiment, he decides to blame the results on "newfangled technology" and the like.

This whole article just wreaks of a "kids these days" post with no substance.
The eternal answers from every mining thread: if you need crowdfunding to pay for your NRE or if you would prefer to have USD instead of BTC or if you would prefer to have a certain amount of money now rather than an uncertain amount later, etc.
The most obvious answer is this: you sell the money printing machine for more than the money it would have printed. In other words, anyone selling a mining rig believes that they will make more money from the sale than they would make from actually using the machine. If you buy the rig, you are making the opposite bet.

It is similar to futures trading.
If you don't hear this enough...I Love YOU
HEY GUYS AND GALS...can you please check out "I LOVE YOU VIDEO". I start off with a back story how I have a "black hole" as a heart and there more to the story in the video. I just want people who don't think they are not loved that THEY ARE!! please help me pass this word around. Thank you for reading this. I REALLY HOPE I MADE A DIFFERENCE IN SOMEONE'S LIFE.

Again thank you remember "YOU ARE LOVED!"
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Is there a way to invest $50/month in an index fund? All the brokerages I checked charge $5-10 per transaction, making it prohibitively expensive to set up a recurring transaction at such a small amount.
The thing that bothers me the most about all this deception is that at the end of the day, lenders will not only lose their money, but they won't be maximizing the the donation they will eventually be making (not of choice) via Zidisha. Kurnia wrote in Huffington Post that she doesn't believe in handouts. Yet, why should I as a donor give to Zidisha instead of an organization like GiveDirectly which has proven its impact in the most rigorous way possible? Zidisha will always come back to silly jargon like transparency or handouts instead of facing the real truth: admit your platform is not primarily a lending platform and then lets have a real comparison between donations made on Zidisha and cash transfers made through GiveDirectly. I believe Zidisha is a good experiment, but to succeed, it needs to start answering real questions.
Quote: "So yes, I understand why Mark is not getting the financial payoff here. Still, in all the hype in the press and elsewhere, shouldn’t the primary inventor of the technology at least be mentioned?"

The article asks for credit, not wealth split.
Thank you for your insights, it's always great to learn new things :)
Christ, jerf, you are a cartoon.

Nobody even mentioned your shitty religion and you're already preemptively defending it. Could you please, for once in your life, have a conversation that isn't about your religion of choice?

I mean, I get that true believers never like to stop preaching, but for christ's sake, you're worse than the goddamned Hari Krishna.
A good question to ponder. But I think a very strong answer is that as a company producing bitcoin hardware you want to reduce exposure to bitcoin. Selling the machines (monetizing their future use value) instead of using them yourself does that to some extent.
C++11 is almost a new language. Coming back to C++ now after almost a decade away is exciting.
You do what you gotta do. 10.5.8 is the last OS X version which supported PPC.
Show HN: 20Signals – Fast, Accurate and Easy To Understand Home Blood Testing
My dad just bought a down town storefront with a killer apt above for 25k. I can't believe that telecommuting programmers aren't owning small towns all throughout America.
Check out - http://sqlkorma.com/
You're missing the point, it's about not even having a reputation to follow you about
> Whereas, with most of the albums I listen to, the "cuts" are just time markers and the music is continuous across tracks, and a lack of gapless playback is jarring.

Whereas? That is exactly what I described in the last part of my post. The music bleeds into/continues or change mood at exactly the beginning of the next song. Why "whereas"?
thoughtful analysis. re backward compatibility, any suggestions on what the company should have done differently? the tension between compatibility and innovation seems like a central challenge of platform leaders like microsoft. re government compliance, did the company consider shipping different features for government customers -- like how some companies offer enterprise tiers for high-end business customers?
Yes. I didn't want to manually switch between global and per directory history all the time.
Nobody lives here: the 5 million US census blocks with zero population
I despise CMake's syntax. But it is by far the best build system to use if you like IDEs and don't want to manage separate project files.
Thank you for open sourcing it!
> The difference $7/hour is almost the same as the minimum wage in Dallas--that's a significant amount that the map disguises.

Agreed, but I'm not sure that makes it a bad chart. To me, one of the things the chart is saying is that 1BDR housing wages outside of the $10-13 range are uninteresting.

If this is something they checked and know to be true, then deliberately zooming in on that range is useful, because it highlights that variance. If they're hiding relevant information by ignoring things outside of that range, then it's a problem.

I mean, it's a choropleth. That already starts edging into "bad chart" territory.
I think your contention (if you're the author of this post) is misguided. In particular, the "languages" you define have the string hard coded in their definition, and are hence at least as long as the string you want to encode. In other words, your additive constant is not universal.

The definition of Kolmogorov complexity is not with regard to whatever machine you want. You fix one and only one universal Turing machine U at the beginning, and then you measure the Kolmogorov complexity of a string using a different language with respect to U. Using your notation, K(x) is defined as K_U(x), and you can relate it to K_perl(x) by K_perl(x) + |perl interpreter written in U| = K_U(x). If you wanted to redefine all of Kolmogorov complexity using your L_{perl, i} language, you could do that just fine, but then it's your bad definition that makes the interpretation silly.

Besides, if you pick an otherwise "random" string and single it out as being special, doesn't that intuitively make it no longer random?
No, nav1 answered my question. But you raise another good one!
Your passwords are routinely longer than 72 bytes, and this is an inconvenience?
OpenSSL code beyond repair, claims creator of LibreSSL fork
Doesn't this attack only apply to client authentication with renegotiation?
CVE-2014-1295 (Apple's Secure Transport and Triple Handshake Attack)
LOOP is a macro, right? It's a standard macro, sure. But the point isn't standard vs. non-standard, the point is macro vs. non-macro. Without any macros, Lisp can't do loops very well. That's my point - Lisp without macros isn't very useful.

>Random example: (loop for i from 1 to 10 collect (* i i)) makes a list of squares. No instance of C's for or while does anything like this.

for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) list.push_back(i * i);

Yeah, it's C++ using STL rather than straight C. (I suppose you could argue that C lacks a list type and therefore isn't very useful... but I could create a linked-list struct and write a push_back function. For that matter, I could just have

int list[11];
for (int i = 0; i <= 10; i++) list[i] = i * i;

I don't really think that list-vs-array is really relevant to the relative power of the loops in C and Lisp.)

> Could you give an example of something that C lets you do "out of the box", that Lisp (let's say specifically Common Lisp) doesn't, but that Lisp could be made to do using macros?

Well, macros produce Lisp code, so there is nothing that you can write in a macro that you cannot write in straight Lisp. But in non-macro Lisp, loops are really painful to write - the LOOP macro is part of the standard for a reason.
A developer relying on (current) visual tools isn't really a developer to me anyway. But I'm totally willing to give in here; the idea of visual programming has been around longer than me (search wikipedia for a start), and let's not forget that in digital circuitry visual tools are used (and are of use) a lot.
Ways to plot dendrograms in R
"'Our group removed half of the OpenSSL source tree in a week. It was discarded leftovers,' de Raadt told Ars in an e-mail. […] De Raadt told ZDNet that his team has removed 90,000 lines of C code. 'Even after all those changes, the codebase is still API compatible,' he said. 'Our entire ports tree (8,700 applications) continue to compile and work after all these changes.' The OpenBSD team started working on LibreSSL about a week ago, he told Ars."
What a great effort you've done! I'm certainly tempted to try it out on a raspberry. I would appreciate a tutorial article on how to get it running.
At an intellectual level I have accepted that quantum mechanics truly are random, but in a small corner of my mind I still believe that the universe is deterministic.
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to run queries on my music library and have an interesting playlist returned to me.

You want Beets.[1] Anything you could possibly want is doable with the smart playlist feature[2] and the redonkulous power of the queries and metadata (chromaprint/musicbrainz/echonest). There is a plugin for last.fm genres but I have not used it. I am not sure how you got similarities from last.fm but you can definitely use the echonest data to find similar music. There was a good discussion of beets here not so long ago.

[1]: http://beets.radbox.org/

[2]: https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.5/plugins/smartplaylis...
You may say that I'm trolling, or quibbling over an irrelevant nuance. I don't think I am. I believe I am trying to keep true to the intent of Asimov's prediction.

I pointed out that "full size prototype fusion reactor" is not the same thing as "experimental fusion-power plant" which is what Asimov claimed would be here by 2014.

(Chicago Pile #1 was a nuclear reactor. The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant and BORAX-III were nuclear power plants. There's a big difference between a reactor and a reactor which can be used as an experimental power plant.)

The General Fusion link you gave still doesn't say it will be a fusion power reactor, only that it will be a fusion reactor. Yes, it says "6x the piston energy input", but that's not the same as "6x the input energy."

Elsewhere on the site: General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion system uses a sphere, filled with molten lead-lithium that is pumped to form a vortex. On each pulse, magnetically-confined plasma is injected into the vortex.

How much extra energy is needed to keep the lead-lithium melted, how much energy is needed for the pumps, how much is needed for cooling, etc.? From the information I've read - and thank you for the pointers - I can't conclude that it's a going to be a net energy fusion reactor, in the sense that Asimov meant for an "experimental fusion-power plant."

Or, put it this way - do you consider Chicago Pile #1 as an experimental nuclear power plant? If so, then the source of our difference is in what "power plant" means. If not, then what's the difference between a nuclear reactor and a nuclear power plant, and what was the first experimental nuclear power plant?
Golo – a dynamic language for the JVM with Java-comparable performance
Wow, thank you so much. You made it really easy to understand.
I think the Patent Office and the people backing patents would disagree with that - we have more patents than we've ever had and the rate of new patents is increasing - therefore that must mean inventions are on the rise...
My biggest pain when programming servers in Go is when handling others' dynamic JSON. Multiple levels of switch-case to handle different types for the same JSON fields at different times. With the current eco systems, Objective C seems the best language, dynamic typing with optional static typing, or mostly static typing in the programs, with dynamic typing for cases like handling dynamic data. Other goods include ARC, Xcode, Apple's frameworks, etc. Concurrency seems to work well with dispatch queues etc. I wonder if Objective C could be as good as Go for servers.
I would call it curtain anonymous.
Where could you get that kind of property for 25K?
Dewie I think you're confusing "gapless playback" and "crossfade playback". Gapless playback just means playing the songs exactly as you would hear them on a CD. Groove Basin doesn't even support crossfade playback and I'm not sure that it ever will.
Annotate The New Deal
'pseudonymous' I believe.
Nice, thanks for sharing this!

Also, I'm exploring simpler alternatives to oauth2 for command-line acccess to the Google Drive SDK, and your password approach is interesting. My current use case is extracting the HTML from a Google Doc and converting that to LaTeX with a custom template: https://github.com/dergachev/gdocs-export
AirPort base stations seems to be affected too, I got at least an update for a relatively new AirPort Extreme (running now 7.7.3), however, not for older base stations (running 7.6.4).
maybe not entirely hand written? source[1]

[1]: https://github.com/joyent/http-parser/blob/master/LICENSE-MI...
If you take the loudest song in your library, and make it quieter in software, you have further reduced the dynamic range of that song.
How much you pay a tax accountant doesn't depend on your income or revenue, it depends only on the complexity of your tax situation. In principle, you might have lost a million dollars, but you pay a tax accountant to protect you from losing a million more to what is euphemistically called a bad IRS experience.
LinkedIn leases downtown SF office tower
Not writing at all leads to nothing
From the write up at https://www.secure-resumption.com/, that appears to be a major limiting factor:

> We have confirmed that our attacks can be mounted on popular web browsers and HTTPS libraries, when they are used to perform certificate-based authentication at servers that enable both resumption and renegotiation.
What about a startup that comes to YC with a product and customers already as opposed to just an idea? Surely they give up less than 7% equity? The risk for YC is maybe an order of magnitude less and the equity % should reflect that lowered risk (not saying .7% either, but lower.)
Building an MMO to lose 100 lbs
Economics of Inequality (2013-14 course page)
Try Betas, I thought it was much more entertaining and closer to the dream (Reality always sucks)-

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3012184/
How Hollywood Killed Death
This is super-useful; sometimes it takes more time to find the right resource to edit than the time it takes to actually make the change!