skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is, of course, true. I personally prefer it this way, though. Now I know where I end up by triggering the right mechanics, instead of Google knowing where I end up becase it just keeps track of me that much.
I can live with prepending !gh to my search. Most of the !bangs I use are two or three letters.
So, just ignore the potential benefit to society of identifying and using the brains of those who are "gifted"? We don't have to ditch the program of public schooling in order to do so.

Arguably by not challenging those at the top end of the academic achievement spectrum one is not "encourag[ing] all students to flourish".
Normalising having cameras pointed at you certainly makes people more recordable.

Of course, you could point to ubiquitous CCTV and other public place cameras, and you would be right - and I have a problem with that development as well. But those are (at least where I live) required to be clearly marked so I can avoid going to those places if I so choose.
You also need a working iommu which Intel sees as a premium product. Even some server boards don't have it. AMD is better I think.
This is a fantastic video. I've been reading rapidly about rust and its types of memory pointers before, but this talks really helps me see the big picture ( aliasing & mutability, and the borrowing metaphore). Great great talk.
So here is an amazing little fact about the apparent size of stars
I didn't read all the details but your story reminds me of a guy here in Austin who tried to break up a fight downtown, they killed him.
> So on most real world applications, you shave perhaps a second or two off compilation and linking times.

Which might be a significant part of the overall build time, if it takes 5-8 seconds to build.
I understand the curiosity, but I'm pretty sure the title of this post is enough to estimate how much you should trust them in the future.

(Laughing... yes, but people demanding, by law/at the gun point, to know which password scheme companies use is as far from fun as we can get.)
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That is what you get with rump kernel http://rumpkernel.org/ although they are the NetBSD drivers not Linux.
Illinois one step away from calling for US Constitutional Convention
The "is this really what it seems?" part is mostly a rationalization. It's hard to feel the full force of shame, when you have an easy escape like this.
(Thanks)

"Yaaay, we're now all safe, right?! No need to change passwords! Right, guys?"
Oh I think about these things a lot, just because I prefer a nihilistic, cynic (realistic) world-view does not mean I don't care about people, my surroundings, or anything in general, or that I go around telling people they are doomed and life is futile. On the contrary, I tell them to not worry too much and enjoy life as much as possible.

None of the above means I try to convince myself the future will only bring us peace and prosperity for everyone though...
It's not hard to find as a book, Amazon Japan has it http://www.amazon.co.jp/新編-英和活用大辞典―英語を書くための38万例-市川-繁治郎/dp/47...

There is a look-inside feature that includes a few pages that shows what it is about
It doesn't help that Google Glass is synonymous with an entire ecosystem of related technology. An assistance device for a disabled person is completely different to a translation device or a POV camera for a cyclist. Yet we tie them together into a single monolithic product that is both extremely bland and slightly creepy. I would much rather have an ecosystem of cheap low power devices that do one thing well. It is far to early to bundle everything into a single device.
Yup, quite a few of them are happening around the world - the overall 'movement' is / can be called the 'cryptoparty movement' (if one could say it was indeed a 'movement'). We did our own event in our local town (http://cryptoparty.lt/) (well, "i participated in one" is more like it), and hopefully we'll pick it up and do it again.

There's always this delicate thing of having a balance between being interesting to local hackers, vs. being understandable by laypeople. We veered towards the former, and it was great fun, but it would be very beneficial to try and be more welcoming towards the general crowd, too. It's not always easy when introducing complex technologies - I try to avoid using leaky metaphors, but sometimes that's not possible.
Yeah, that's kind of annoying. You could probably get autofill working reasonably decently, but it wouldn't be easy.
I believe you cannot add restrictions on top of the GPL, which is one of the reasons OpenSSL is not compatible with the GPL for instance.

As such, if you license your code under the GPL anybody at paypal can use and modify it under the terms of the GPL, as per the terms of the license.

What you can do is have a dual license "as long as the combination of restrictions on the work as a whole does not put any additional restrictions beyond what GPL allows"[1].

That being said, I'm not a lawyer, so I might have misinterpreted the wording of the license.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Com...
That Promises mistake everyone makes in JavaScirpt
Love it, hopefully they'll add coverage for the French part of Switzerland too, or else I'll have to consider moving cantons :)
Agreed. pdf.js has come quite a long way from its beta.

In most situations I don't feel the need for a native reader, anymore.
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There a lot of people who are willing to learn, and a lot of people wanting to pass their knowledge and expertise.

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Sure. Keep saying that when you are at a barrel of one of their guns.

Remember that well: what gives them power is an unerring force to use deadly force at a whim. "Make pot brownies using hash oil? No knock warrant with potential life sentence"...
Definitely things are different over here, laws are very negative for new organizations but we are in the way of achieving same results by the end of 2015. We have started much later and we have avoid any populism in all ways, we don't want someone like Beppe Grillo leading us because we are organized in network without leaders. Even though they are a great example that citizens well organized can achieved great things aside traditional parties.

Also, since 2008 main parties in Spain had already lost over 10 million votes(in 35 million total) so we know we are in the right place an the right moment.

TV is still the main source of information for people and it's taken completely by main parties. However in social networks we are already winning, in just 1 years we already have more fans than main parties and people talks about us.

We will have to wait until December 2015 to show this change in a election
If Safari gets WebGL, combined with the new FTL JIT it could end up being pretty darn awesome for gaming.
Going along with your plausible speculation, and assuming XPC is used to communicate with the WebGL view (using UIRemoteView maybe), hopefully that means opening up the XPCKit framework as well in iOS 8.
Would be nice to get something similar for in-app JavaScript JIT'ing.
There are. Even Google Maps work when offline (you can cache maps). No navigation, of course, just GPS.
Ah the heady days of spring and summer speculations.
Etymonline has let me down a few times; I use wiktionary as a useful adjunct (though it is pretty hit-and-miss).
I am a software developer at Yandex(russian search engine company) and I want to mentor someone(or even a group -- it is much more fun to learn in a group!).

Ideally, a potential mentee:
-- Wants to code her or his own small search engine. Obviously, it is difficult to recreate Yandex or Google, but it is relatively easy to make something on a smaller scale.
-- Knows some C++, but wants to expand her or his knowledge
-- Is in the beginning of the software development career

This is just a description of someone who I can help the most. If you don't quite match this description, send me an email my anyway. I can still help you with your own project in C++ or help you code a search engine in a some other language than C++. And even if I can't help, maybe I can match you with someone relevant.

Email: in the profile.
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"Ok, which means you're going to make yourself more dependent on Facebook, or Twitter, or LinkedIn, or DuckDuckGo, or radio ads, or television ads, or newspaper ads, or billboards, or etc."

Being dependent on Google + Facebook + Twitter + LinkedIn is better than being dependent on Google alone.

MetaFilter is just now learning that it did not have a sustainable business model.
> Yet despite all of that, Dylan still has a special place in my heart and that of many others.

Like mine. I haven't written a single line of Dylan code, but followed closely its history.

If languages like Dylan had managed to become mainstream, the programming world would be much better.

As it is, we are still trying to move away from the PDP model.
If you include all Americans, not just working Americans, the amount of time spent not working has spiked dramatically. Kids are staying in school longer; the labour force participation rate is dropping as blue collar jobs disappear; people are retiring earlier and living longer.
Only tangentially related, but you just reminded me that I got a bout of nightmares after playing "manhunter" (the sierra game) on a demo PC at a store.. Those flying eyeballs...

edit: Google image search - https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=manhunt&es_sm=91&source=ln... bleh!
> If so, how do you cope?

By the fact that my life span is limited.
I am sorry you were downvoted (particularly because you were called a shill for daring to voice your reasonable opinion). There is a doom-and-gloom mentality on this site; people seem like they want the end-of-days. I noted, as you did, that almost all of the problems listed were independent of communications protocol.

This entire argument is one of "exaggerate the bad and completely ignore the good". We have companies working on cheap space travel, which opens up asteroid mining (mitigating resource crunches) and allows us to use space-based resources to alleviate problems on Earth (solar shades to reduce warming, etc). Asimov made a great point at the end of I, Robot, where he notes that the intractable problems of one age are rendered moot by the technology of the next. People feared that NYC would be uninhabitable by the year 1950 because there wouldn't be enough place to put all the horse manure - which became a non-issue with the advent of automobile. People feared mass starvation in the 1970's because we couldn't produce enough food - made irrelevant by the green revolution. People fear global warming and totalitarianism today, and it will be made irrelevant by the tech of tomorrow. We already see birth rates falling globally, to the point where we will soon be shrinking in population. This will reduce stresses from unemployment, and paired with a burgeoning space economy we will have more to share with fewer people.

There is no reason to cower from the ills of today; they are only a call to keep moving forward.
Well, you've gone and pointed to something that the theory explicitly doesn't model, which is "a large chunk of the world." It has to be evaluated on a per-nation basis, under the assumption that generational cohorts are ultimately connected by their local culture, governance, and economy.
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> To be eligible, you won't be allowed to own your house, a part of that income will most likely be added to your "debt", and you'll have to take part in certain mandatory activities.

What? That's not basic income.
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Unless you turn them up to 11, and end up with Street Fighter and similar games, where it mixes twitch reactions with tactical strategy and rote memorisation no longer helps if you go into P vs P instead of P vs Game AI.

That being said, my possibly flawed memory of those fighting games spiritual predecessor was a karate game which had 2 joysticks and no buttons for a single player to use.
Recently posted, related article (New Yorker) and discussion (144 comments)

Article: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/05/26/14052...

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7769610
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No, the people in this list are evaders and many of them involved in corruption cases, the top bankers and biggest companies. The huge debt in Spain could be paid -yearly- by having these tax evaders paying his debts.

About 40 billion euros from Spain are gone to tax havens every year.

The debt has caused continuous cuts in health, education, research, etc and taxes has raised incredibly. Having control on these mechanism used by tax evaders will help to actually reduce taxes
"Only true peer-to-peer systems that need as little centralized elements as possible can survive."

I'm not sure how to interpret statements like this. Decentralization seems ideal. But some of the most successful services so far either begun or are centralized, not decentralized. If I'm not mistaken, the electric and water utilities, Google, and Facebook are all centralized for example. On the other hand, other services like email and the web (excluding DNS) are decentralized.

Is the intention behind this idea that control over those services shouldn't be centralized, while pooling resources could be ok, depending on the service involved?.

I'm not saying it's possible to remove control in a centralized service, but I am saying that there is a distinction. A blanket statement that "centralized services can't survive" would seem incorrect, and the existing statement of "as little centralized elements" implies that "as little" in the relative sense will be equal to little in the absolute sense, which might not be true. It could be that "little" practically equals centralization.

The reason such a misconception is dangerous is that one might put their efforts in designing a fully decentralized service that isn't adopted. Good design is often hard in that it challenges your assumptions in ways you hadn't originally anticipated.
If somebody had tried to shoot the crackhead it is very likely that an innocent bystander would have recieved the bullet instead depending on the skill of the marksman and the movement of the target.

Guns dont protect often (or the USA would be relatively crime free). They just give you an excellent opertunity to hurt/kill innocents instead of the attacker.
Thanks for chiming in Daniel!

That makes things a lot clearer. And it does make sense.
What gives them power is the illusion of the ability to unilaterally use deadly force on a whim. No nation has a standing army or security force of sufficient dimension to quash a unilateral uprising through force alone.

Sure, an individual ceasing to believe in the power of a state is a drop in the ocean, and ultimately will not end well for the individual in most cases.

If a mass of individuals, however, cease believing, then the state's power evaporates. Witness every revolution, ever. It's not a question of the people assuming power, rather just the people refusing to grant the state power, en masse.
Thanks for the explenation. It's often difficult for readers to get ethe entire thought behind a post. This helps.
My impression is these days society doesn't care about recording in public spaces unless you're actually following someone around with a camera without their consent. There were similar objections when camera phones first came out, but people eventually realised that just having the camera doesn't mean you're recording everything around you. I suspect there will be a similar realisation with glass.
Consider just saying you are not open to discuss the idea, or that you hold it self-evidently true that things are better now.

The way you phrase it you are preemptively insulting people who hold different views (or more likely different ideas of 'worse'). To be clear, suggesting someone "isn't thinking" or doesn't have a brain, is still an insult. This can lower the whole tone of the conversation.

In real life, I have to do something similar to certain people on religious topics, people who I can't call mindless idiots to their faces without immediate repercussions. I find its a great way of letting people know politely, that I will not discus the topic.
... and don't have children?
Like HN, I feel that MeFi keeps things simple because it doesn't want its community to grow linearly. Which is great, because the bigger a community gets, the less friendly and manageable it becomes.
"We did all we possibly could to bring the technical intelligentsia into this work of construction"

=> "We had dissenters taken out and shot / sent to Siberia"
There is little doubt that the cat is conscious, and the idea that consciousness is a gradient with more than one dimension is not really in dispute. In fact, you can build a very simple gradient model by observing nothing but humans: a human baby is scarcely conscious at all, a toddler is pretty much on par with the cat, and a grown human has a higher level still. The reason why we think this is true is based on at least two things: awareness and meta-awareness (which includes the ability to reason about one's own existence as well as the world in general).

The cat and the toddler are clearly conscious in the sense that they do have a recognizable life experience. They don't just react to the environment, they make models of it, and they have a limited ability to abstract observations. They experience life, and they have complex dreams and emotions. However, they still lack a deeper understanding of causalities, and they can grasp the subjective realities of other beings only on an instinctive level. Adult humans are less limited in this regard, but it's easy to imagine hypothetical beings who perform better still.

That's bad news for the validity of consciousness as a concept, since it seems to be interlinked with intelligence, which itself is a fuzzy idea at best.

So these observations amount to the position that "consciousness" isn't a fundamental property at all, it's the result of other processes and it can come in different flavors. Likewise, the concept of "intelligence" is similarly flawed. In both, we tend to make the mistake of looking at them as simple scalar values. They're not. They're a name we give for a collection of different capabilities. As such, I believe a mathematical model of consciousness is actually pretty unscientific, since consciousness is not an objective property. It's an artificial label we're obsessed with.
Symmetrical ADSL is an oxymoron, the word you search for is SDSL.
This article defines leisure as "time spent not working" and then observes that the underemployed segment of our society gets to enjoy an abundance of (presumably, in large measure, involuntary) "leisure."
It's true - and then iGoogle got killed off! It's time for the return of the personal dashboard, I reckon.
My reaction to the ending of Elysium was to wonder if that's how The Culture started:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

[I know the timelines don't work out!]
All right, I see:

1) People asking this question are eBay shareholders who are interested to learn if the company they own will be prosecuted by UK government for storing passwords insecurely; the fact of which was discovered after the leak of 145 million user records.

or

2) People asking this question are potential plaintiffs wanting to know if they should sue eBay for storing their password without hashing it with some hash function defined by law as secure.
iGoogle seemed to kill them all off

And then was killed off in its turn ...
An other common mistake when you begin with promise:

var result = promise.then(identity, function (error) { console.log(error); })

Oops, you just recovered your promise with undefined. result will always be successful. Yes if you don't throw again (or return a new failure promise) in your error callback it will make the resulting promise successful.

I haven't checked if this behaviour is the same on the DOM Promise API but it is on Q (which is the most popular JS lib for Promises).
A New Optical Illusion Demonstrates How Gullible Our Brains Really Are
And for those already wanting to experiment with WebGL on iOS there's always http://impactjs.com/ejecta – which will likely still be preferable for packaged games even if embedded webviews will start supporting WebGL as it will still have less overhead than the webview.
1 req pr connection at a time, while fair, seems a bit harsh. From a performance perspective it's not a bad idea to process up to n reqs in at most m time from a connection before moving on to the next, and thus amortize the cost from switching connection.
That doesn't make sense... I should be happy that the media will switch from 'climate change isn't happening, so we don't have to do anything' to 'climate change is hapenning, but isn't bad, so we don't have to do anything', and now to 'climate change is bad, but inevitable, so we don't have to do anything'?
UK Consortium announces an open access, city scale IoT network in Milton Keynes
Google Thinks Ads Will Appear On Thermostats, Refrigerators And Elsewhere
In all writing?

Personally I adore a poetic turn of phrase. Something about the syllabary, the variance in tone and metre, causes resonances in my brain that bely understanding. Words that can usher in melancholy or elation as a lover tempting their beloved. Make love to your darlings, not war?

"Horses for courses". Generally online I dumb down, narrow my vocabulary, often Americanize. But not all prose is simply about transmission of the informational content of the words themselves.

TL;DR (all darlings dead) I like poetry.
Is this for real? It can't be. Am I missing something here?
Even if incorrect, his point stands.
> Namely, almost everyone except for the philosophical extremist agrees that we are conscious and that a stone isn't.

I really don't get why it's so hard for people to imagine consciousness as a property of the universe rather than people.

Everyone seems to intuitively agree that consciousness is a continuum with monkeys having quite a bit, cats having some; plants probably a bit too and stones virtually none.

Given that, it makes much more sense to me that consciousness is an inherent property of the universe, perhaps even the mere passing of time, and that what we traditionally call 'consciousness' is just the degree to which some subset of consciousness is similar to our own.
I hope I would have kicked the woman in the head or wrestled her to the ground.
As a male, I suspect I wouldn't have.

I could have just called the police, but that doesn't really help in an immediate situation of one person trying to stab someone. So this situation calls for either:
1) Subduing the attacker by pinning them.
2) Doing enough damage to the attacker that they can't move.
If they are on top of the victim, they maybe are in a good position for me to run up and corner-kick their head and end things with a quick concussion. I can't tell from the prose. Otherwise, it would be better to just restrain her and pin her to the ground.

So I'm either a man pinning screaming woman to the ground in a public place or a man who is viscously beating a woman in public.

No thanks, "Real Men" don't hit girls.
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/brand-what-do-you...

Especially not in public where "defend the woman being attacked" is a fantasy for a whole bunch of people.