skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to like this, but IIT just seems like a lot of hand-waving.

"to hypothesize that a physical system is “conscious” if and only if it has a large value of Φ"

By this measure, would a long mathematical proof or an orchestral symphony be conscious? If so, how does this actually help us understand how subjectivity relates (or doesn't) to all this?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_proofs
I don't think risking url rendered as unicode boxes justifies the reduction of the url by 2 or 3 characters.

Nice proof of concept though.
Actually--I think costumes will be socially acceptable in the future. I know some of you are laughing, but in great
Britain a lot of people are tired of being photographed wherever they go. I personally don't like to be photographed. I guess I getting older, but I liked it when
cams were too expensive to put up Everywhere. I've thought
about putting up a website devoted to selling costumes and anonymity, but don't want to cater to just smart sociopaths.
hi, I'm based in Berlin (I run spreadgit, a version control system for Excel). we could meet up for a beer or something on Saturday. Otherwise, the cool startup kids hang out in the betahaus over in Kreuzberg (http://www.betahaus.com/berlin/). I'll drop you an email.
There quite definitely is something to be gained by helping strangers.

1) Your humanity and self-respect. It feels damnably good to know you've done something to help someone who needed it.

2) Serendipity. Maybe, just maybe, that person that you reach out to will somehow bless your life. Maybe they'll bite you. It's all experience, and a yarn to tell at the least.

I don't think that it's that people expect something in return, it's that society has increasingly pushed in the direction of passive consumption, of observation, of spectacle, and the actions of others on a flickering screen providing the ersatz satisfaction of actual action.

I witness this variety of thing all too frequently - someone's in trouble, and a crowd stands, and watches, much as they would the same events on television.

I can at least live in good conscience that I always step in to help, consequences be damned - and yes, I've had my share of negative consequences - lawsuit from a girl who was being beaten senseless by her "man", for intervening and causing her to scrape her knee (never mind the blood gushing from her face by the time I showed up) - lawsuit from a guy who had an epileptic fit, and I phoned for an ambulance, resulting in him being arrested on an outstanding warrant - and arrest and a broken nose for breaking up a bar-fight. Plenty else too, but those were the major ones.

Such is life, but I couldn't live with myself if I didn't.
It does for QDFs (queries that deserve freshness).
I'll be screwed if I ever have to retype the short URL. So no good for printing on packaging.
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Personally, I think this is awesome. If widely adopted it might to help ferret out all the software which still can't properly handle unicode urls (which is probably why it won't be widely adopted). :)
Facebook mobile app to eavesdrop on users
I've found pdf.js to be a negative user experience on most pdfs I try to view. From what I've read, this is mainly because pdf.js directly renders to a canvas, and doesn't store decoded vector information. Other readers seem to be able to zoom instantly, even for vector graphics.

Firefox also seems to register two separate mime-types for pdf, only giving an option to use pdf.js on one of them. I've yet to dig into firefox and fix this.
You should combine this with the trick Tinyarrows is doing since 2008: the domain name is a single Unicode character; I guess Punycode FTW :)
Disclosing vs. Hoarding Vulnerabilities
Are they saying that threads and GC are crap, so to write a predictable code one should think in terms of pre-allocared data [structures] and partitioned [block] I/O requests?)

This is a big news..) As far as I remember Informix Dynamic Servet 7.30 has been released 15 yeas ago..
Facebook wants to 'listen' to your music and TV
Germany, where else ;) I think it's actually required in most of the European Union. They mostly teach you how to do cardiac massage and mouth-to-mouth. This makes a lot of sense since it usually takes between 5-10 minutes for the paramedics to arrive on scene, which is simply too long for someone who doesn't breathe.

The thing that I remember most from the course was this: "Don't be afraid to perform cardiac massage on someone that doesn't breathe even if you might hurt him (e.g. by breaking some of his bones), after all if you do nothing he's already as good as dead.".
I left on my own mostly out of frustration. I was compensated for my work and I own a tiny percentage of equity in a company that is still around. I generally believe that if you are getting paid to do something, you should do it to the best of your ability even if it is not exactly fair. After all you can always leave and that is what I did.
A few years ago, I designed some paper-based puzzle quests for friends visiting historical sites in Istanbul, and around that time I heard about a US company doing something similar on a mobile device: SCVNGR.

I don't code, and mobile tech is unreliable for short-term visitors to Istanbul, so I never bothered trying to port the content to a device. Basically though, the solutions to puzzles are used to decipher new material and explore the spaces more thoroughly. For example, everyone who goes to the Hagia Sophia visits the mosaic portrait of the Empress Zoe, but not everyone knows about the Viking runes carved into a stone banister, so the idea was to link things and challenge people to explore, and then to use what they had found to unlock other puzzles.

It was clunky as shit on paper, and sometimes friends would give up or call to ask for clues, but they said they enjoyed it (or they were really, really polite). On a device, I'm sure that sort of interaction would be simple, and it's something I still toy with learning to build, but Istanbul keeps happening to me and getting in the way.
Agreed. CocoaPods might be useful if there were a lot of high quality library code out there that we could use, but right now, like Mike, I just don't see it.

The main use-case I can see for something like CocoaPods actually has to do with commercial library code---i.e. code that you purchase and for which you get proper support.

I'll also add this: CocoaPods, as it stands today, also creates a risk, in that it's possible that an updated version of some library you're depending on might have a different license---maybe one that's incompatible with the license for the software you're working on. As far as I can tell, CocoaPods has no mechanism to deal automatically with this issue, which makes its use in commercial projects dangerous IMO.
http://tinyarrows.com/ has existed for years and is actually shorter, i.e. http://➡.ws/鷇
In general, I would agree with you, but in some occasions the effects of extreme poverty can almost be indistinguishable from a kind of civil warfare:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29
Seems they didn't expect success :-)
You can use internet brokers and look at the limit order book yourself.
Well that shits on my 12Mbit/1Mbit here in London that costs nearly that much...
Fire at Cattenom nuclear plant in France
Great miscalculations: The French railway error and others
Probably should block the same domain from shortening.else you'll get something like http://9m.no/婀蒾 (multiple redirects)
Who defines that the "important problems" are? And what about the people who, even with all the commitment in the world, can't make it to a level where they can contribute to the solution of these "important problems"?
However, the sad truth is that most people do not have the intellectual capabilities to do significant research in those hard problems. So I agree with the grandparent post.
Buzzword bingo is calling: Restify and Mobilize Your Data
This is a bit of a straw-man.

No one is suggesting teaching just the top 1% and leaving the rest to fend for themselves. Just putting them in a separate class for a few hour a week so they can be with other smart kids and be challenged.

The bottom 10-20% in every subject could probably use something similar.
We had the (much uglier) NES version of this game when I was a kid. It was the bane of our goddamned lives. I remember me and my brothers trying for several frustrated hours to get past the very first screen.
http://www.businessbuzzwordbingo.com
Not only that, but since it will be encoded in utf-8 and then percent-encoded the number of bytes transmitted will actually increase:

something as simple as 邗諾

becomes %E9%82%97%E8%AB%BE , 18 characters!

Still, as other mentioned it's a neat idea that if widespread would make all kinds of encoding mistakes pop up :)
Close. Aaronson's most devastating argument (he offers two more) is that Tonini's \Phi or "integrated information" of an input-output system (function), under a reasonable operationalization as a measure of how correlated subsets of inputs are with subsets of outputs, is just not good measure of "consciousness" because, as it happens, large families of rather mundane systems that one wouldn't think as "conscious" in fact have provably large "integrated information" or \Phi by design --such as Reed-Solomon codes, for instance.

Put in another way, if Tonini were right then your (say) portable DVD player ought to be "conscious" because, surprisingly, the amount of "integrated information" achieved by the scratch- and skip-tolerant error-correcting code it uses internally has to be huge in order for it to work. But that is prima facie ridiculous; so either we are wrong and the DVD player is in fact "conscious" or, more likely, Tononi's proposed definition of consciousness is lacking.

Again as I said Aaronson makes two other points, but I think this one alone is the most conclusive.
I got http://9m.no/𑂜൭ for my daughter's website, but I'm wondering whether this helps shrink character count when used for services like twitter. It's not at all readable, but since it's two (I think) 4-byte unicode characters, will that URL be counted as 13 characters or 21 characters?
> [...] I guess I feel like there are areas with more bang for the buck [other than the linker].

Well, for a ~5-years-old language, the linker and the compiler is most presumably more important than the standard-library regexp-engine/json-package.
Why would you rely on any free third-party shortener for print to begin with?
Why tech giants owe huge thanks to the United Kingdom
Have much capacity do they have to offload that traffic, I imagine they have largest ports on peering exchanges locally, with some other local private peering, and perhaps they got some backhaul to AMS-IX, LINX and others, but you can read the issues peering exchanges are facing with capacity and the cost of highest 100G ports (where available). How much transit do they have to carry the rest? I jut cant see this being feasible unless its p2p on their own network. Last mile is only a small part of the problem.
Short URL's have two purposes for me:

- They are easier to spell on the phone (This is not.)
- I like to track the clicks (Which I can't do with this.)

But, as a proof of concept, this is nice.

OT: Oh, I'm turning into a real HNer with this comment.
Seoul, South Korea. Gigabit internet is available for ~$18/month.
Can't cups be of any use, here ?
From the source code README <https://github.com/ehamberg/9m>:

9m Unicode URL Shortener. Generates a shortcut from http://9m.no using two unicode characters, e.g. http://9m.no/പ湛.

The server will choose two characters at random from the all the printable characters and then cross its finger and hope you use a great font.

(This is a horrible idea in many ways and was a quick hack for fun.)
You missed the European Parliament, which is elected (with elections taking place right now). The balance of power between the EC and the EP needs to be shifted towards the EP, and other reforms are essential -- but the EU is not intrinsically anti-democratic; the real problem is that the members are all (at least nominally, esp. in the case of Hungary) democracies, with parliaments jealous of delegating power to a higher authority, so the regional governments have deliberate policies of trying to keep the center weak and unaccountable to the polity.
Well, there were plenty of graphics-based adventure games before Must, such as all of the Sierra games, like King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, etc. After that, there were all of the LucasArts SCUMM-based games, before Myst arrived on the scene.

Myst brought two new things to the genre - quicktime movies embedded in-game to make things come to life far more vividly, and the inability to pick things up - a constraint that generally lead to problems being more logical than had typically been the case for adventure games.
Ask HN: Is an IP address sufficient cause to suspect people of CP possession?
It is becoming more and more common for the legal system to rely on IP addresses as a basis for identifying criminal activity. Is there a better way?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/nyregion/dozens-arrested-in-new-york-state-child-pornography-investigation.html
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Twitter "shrinks" URL's no matter what. My website link is is 11 characters[0], I don't know how shorter it can get.

[0] http://bt.hn
Preferably HN, but I'm open to suggestions ;-)
Twitter shortens every URL regardless and reserves 23 chars (I believe) for each link in a tweet.
Just curious, why do you do your URL routing that way?

https://github.com/esbullington/flask-bootstrap/blob/master/...
Inside the Building That's Calling Itself the People's Republic of Donetsk
Pasting one of those characters in, we see it's counted as one character. However: Twitter replaces all URLs, even shortened ones, with 22-character t.co URLs. Using 9m.no on Twitter is pointless, especially since Twitter displays the original URL for t.co URLs only. Using another shortener, the shortened URL is all that is shown, which isn't very reader-friendly.
Your comment is justified. When you think about why you use short URLs that is pretty much it. It used to good for twitter but now they shorten any URL themselves, you don't get any difference in remaining chars whether it's a 4 char domain or 40.
All the usual HN nitpicking and obscure edge case discussion should probably be done in the light of ehamberg's own comment: "This is a horrible idea in many ways and was a quick hack for fun." [0]

[0] https://github.com/ehamberg/9m
"Can be turned off at any time" means "will never be turned off by 99.99% of our users".
Upgrade. We only test IE9+ where I work now.
I think the main difference is that the overall level of violence in society has gone down so much that people simply don't know how to react anymore. In the past, violence was much more present in everyday life: wars were more common, criminal activity was more common, law enforcement was lax or even non-existent, so people had to literally fight on the streets day by day just to survive. Women wouldn't go out alone even in daylight, most men were supposed to carry some sort of weapon as soon as they stepped out of walled towns (and often even while inside) and so on. After WWII, there were so many veterans around that you wouldn't dare starting sh*t for fear that somebody would kick your ass in 5 minutes.

Nowadays, people like me wouldn't know the first thing about hitting someone or defending themselves. My childhood home was in what we'd consider "a bad area" of a Southern European city (mafia and all that) but even there it took very little care to stay out of trouble. I don't think I've ever been in a physical confrontation with anyone after my 18th birthday; I wouldn't know how to use a knife or a gun, nor how to protect myself from it. Law enforcement and cultural pressure are now so efficient that they can usually limit violent activity to specific areas, so as long as I stay away from those, I'm very likely to be safe. (Every city has different attitudes and problems, of course, but that's more or less true for most of them)

If a random stranger started knifing people in my subway carriage, I'd probably freeze too - I'm a family man, not a goddamn soldier or street-fighter. Same for witnessing something like what OP describes.
I created a simple url shortener[0] a while back and though I thought of this I hadn't considered people could add a '.' to the domain to get around that (so http://yl.io/1 becomes http://yl.io./1), which somebody was nice enough to figure out for me ;)

[0] http://yl.io
Don't know why you got down voted so much for an opinion. I agree with you that the downsides he found were rather petty, and I'm no Google fan. And just the fact that it was a list of negatives made it look like a hatchet job, kinda like those Tesla reviewers who drive the car until it's empty so they have a story. The guy is a tech reviewer, what are the chances he's buying/reviewing a product that he'll use after the article appears? No, he's not going to be excited about the tech and think up new uses for it, he's going to write a click-bait article gleefully attacking an industry darling for the clicks.
Arg, reading that and the original article makes for a depressing start to the afternoon !
This is a dangerous article. I was nodding and saying "I knew it!" so often, I got a sore neck.
Using Pelican for almost everything under http://exentriquesolutions.com - have tried Jekyll, but somehow Pelican seems much more pluggable.

Can't recommend Pelican enough - if you're still looking for one, do give Pelican a try: theme support, Jinja templating, plugins and much more.
Intellectual capability is not a fixed parameter for every person. If there is anything we're better at than the current automation, it is the ability to adapt.
never liked Dragon's Lair it seemed to be to be putting graphics and presentation above game play. It was also far to easy to die horribly all the time, better to watch some other guy give it a go rather than pay twice the price of all the other machines (possibly 50p rather than 20p).

I prefered Joust.
You think a wordpress installation is easier to use than ftp/notepad?
All these people had to do was click "about" at the bottom and find this nugget from the author:

"Made slightly – but not completely – tounge-in-cheek by @ehamberg."
When does negligence become fraud?
Who’s behind the last-minute push to thwart patent reform?
Taking Glass off to talk to people then putting it back on again all day would be burdensome, especially if you have prescription lenses fitted in it.
I would love a list of the substantive differences between "the people" and the human beings currently running the things you believe should belong to "the people"

I can think of one big one, in that the human beings currently running said services have at least some idea of the mechanics of performing the required duties.
The man who invented the Password
Teamwork without meetings
Not sure why this has been posted. It looks to be an old list - far from 'ultimate' for 2014.

The .Net FOSS community has been gaining momentum in the past few years, with most new developments having moved to GitHub, which is where I would generally recommend people start looking for new libraries. Of course there are exceptions, but it is a good starting point.

Alternatively, NuGet seems to have become ubiquitous in the past few years too, so that's the other route for finding new libraries. (Incidentally NuGet seems to be having an outage today, but that is a rare occurence).

A list like this might have value for some people, but only with better curation to reflect what is still active today.
PUSSSIES
Are customs / TSA liable if they break something of yours?
The city of Zürich voted on having fiber to every home/building. The fiber is independently operated from the service providers (EWZ (City of Zürich electricity) and Swisscom manage the fiber). You can pick from as many as 15 different providers in the area of internet/television and phone [1]

[1] https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ewz/de/index/telecom/ewz_zuerin...
Zenimax spent about $200MM on The Elder Scrolls Online, and they're expecting to take a serious hit financially.

Of course they launched another AAA game this week and I can't say with this news i'm particularly interested in supporting Zenimax financially in their lawsuit.
GO SUCKS
I'm very glad to see it happening. Finally we might catch up with Baltic countries...

Switzerland has the money and a population that isn't particularly hard to cover thoroughly compared to some nearby countries. Yet we wasted nearly 15 years in some cantons arguing about roles and responsibilities, while it was pretty clear that local utility companies need to be in charge of horizontal fiber deployment, and the ISPs of the rest, preferably without bitching about the costs of vertical deployment. Sadly our politicians are apparently more interested in letting UPC have nearly full control over the cable network, as long as the duopoly situation allows for ridiculous profits and dividends from Swisscom.
General question (I know nothing, just musing).

Is there any specific reason or logic behind accelerating gifted kids through the primary-secondary-college system? If you had school dedicated to these kids, could they just go through the standard material faster,2 hours a day, 2 days a week or 2 months a year?

That would take care of the boredom problem. There are stimulating things other than school.

I don't see any particular advantage in entering college at 14.
These webpages receive more traffic from google searches than they do from QR redirects

The web is many orders of magnitude more accessible than most small museums, and in a potentially important sense people viewing your webpage are your visitors. It is likely that a significant fraction of the physical visitors have already been webpage visitors.

Now a little personal bias. If I'm in the museum, I didnt come to surf the intertubes. I don't really want to be in an environment where using cellphones is acceptable, let alone one which encourages it. Headphones and written guides don't intrude on other people. Cellphones do.

But that's just me of course. The reason I mention it is to suggest investigating what would improve the experience of the sort of people who actually visit your museum. Will it be enhanced by the web? Would money be better spent on physical objects or building infrastructure or display fixtures and lighting or staff or literature or scholarship or educational programs?

How many guided tours does creating an In museum digital experience cost and which creates more value for a physical visitor? Digital resources are a fallback for over demand. For under capacity systems they are a lower quality solution than full service.

Good luck.
I use these things every day (I work retail). We use Star TSP700 [Mk I or Mk II] printers with CUPS. The PPD files are available for download from the Star Micronics website. Some of my time is spent hacking the PPDs to adjust paper sizes, resolution etc, but at least I have that option. The printers have an ethernet port, and some of them come with USB.
Very nice story! Imagine that around the same time, in a parallel universe, Nokia was making the 9210 and 7650 smartphones with similar capabilities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9210_Communicator
Wormholes that may stay open long enough to send a photon through
Sounds like both you and I agree that it's no good for printing on packaging. I'm unsure why I'm suddenly defending its use.
init7, the company behind fiber7, has already a pretty good peering and international pops: http://www.init7.net/en/backbone/
Healthcare.gov developer provides estimate in response to "500M lines of code"