skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's not arguable that our free will is significantly constrained. For example I've never heard of someone willing themselves to float into the air, or grow a third arm. I can imagine and think of a dragon, but I cannot bring it into existence by free will.

On top of that I have all sorts of biological activities in my own body that are not subject to my will. I can't simply choose to stop my heart, or to stop breathing, or to not heal a wound in my skin.

And the counter side is true as well: if you damage my brain, I can't just freely choose to continue thinking the same way as before the injury.

On top of that there are the emotional constraints. Even though I physically could kill my family, I won't. But do I freely choose not to do so, or am I prevented from doing so by emotional reactions that I did not choose to feel? Why don't I choose to just starve to death? Why don't I step off of high places, even though I feel a compulsion to do so? Are those examples of free will, or examples of constraints on my free will?

All that said, there are still quite a lot of decisions and actions by an individual person that we cannot predict with any precision or reliability. From a purely practical perspective, it is useful to assume the existence of free will because otherwise, why can't we predict these things?
Why is it said that Oculus acquired them, instead of Facebook? Doesn't Oculus not really exist anymore (as a company)?
Scientists know what the scientific method is; they don't need philosophers to tell them.

Whoah. And you say my statement is condescending. The scientific method is not natural or intuitive. It is hard and counter-intuitive. People don't 'just know it'. They have to be trained in it, in logic, in fallacies, in null hypothesis and so forth.

The mistake you're making is that scientists and philosophers are separate and distinct creatures. They're not.

Should we argue that all philosophy is actually just a subset of whatever that was?

I'd like to hear you articulate what it is you're talking about here, rather than just appeal to a mysterious authority.

Does philosophy get priority just because we happen to have a word for it today?

By 'today', do you mean 'pretty much all of recorded history'?

These word games you're playing to denigrate philosophy in favour of science... are philosophy. If you think philosophy is so useless, then why engage in arguments around semantics?
Hey, thanks for actually supplying a number and a source for the number.

I find many of the other comments nearby are carping about details but not really addressing the point, which is that these things can and will crash, which is why they will be regulated somehow.
def make_key(self, password):
"""Creates an encryption key from the default password or prompts for a new password."""
self.key = hashlib.sha256(password.encode("utf-8")).digest()

Crack unsalted sha256 of ascii space NSA...

https://docs.python.org/2/library/hashlib.html#key-derivatio... (at least)
Here's a good start to explaining the animosity. Microsoft spent billions to make sure companies didn't adopt open source software. It wasn't just the SCO money. There was also an associated PR and marketing FUD (Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt) campaign claiming that open source software would destroy your company through lawsuits.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer referred to Linux in 2001 as "a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_controversies...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Micr...
TextSecure awarded 416k USD by Knight Foundation
Registered???

In most of the US, and I suspect for most of the population, there is no such thing as registering guns (that would be akin to registering laser printers, especially those high capacity ones).

On the other hand it's illegal for a drug user to possess a firearm, 18 USC § 922(g): http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/922
Yes I believe swap makes some workloads faster.

The goal of virtual memory is to apportion physical memory to the things that need it most -- keep frequently used data in RAM, and pageout things which aren't frequently used. This makes things go faster. When you disable swap, you constrain VM's ability to do this -- now it must keep ALL anonymous memory in RAM, and it will pageout file-backed memory instead. Even if that file-backed memory is much hotter.

I came to this conclusion by following the kernel community, starting with the "why swap at all" flamewar on LKML. See this response from Nick Piggin http://marc.info/?t=108555368800003&r=1&w=2 who is a fairly prominent kernel developer. Nothing I've read from the horses mouth has refuted this since then. This is true even on systems with gobs of memory.

You're worried about systems which grind to a halt under memory pressure, which is unquestionably a concern. The thing is, disabling swap doesn't fix this. As soon as you're paging out important file-backed pages (like libc), your system is going to grind to a halt anyway. And disabling swap can't prevent this -- (same point from a VM developer here http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108557438107853&w=2). To really give your prod systems a safety net, you need to (a) lock important memory (like, say, SSH and libc) in memory or (b) constrain processes which hog memory with (e.g.) memory cgroups. IMHO cgroups/containers are a better solution.
I do a lot of dev work on a machine that has 12 cores and 96 GB of RAM and I currently have swappiness set to 85.

96 GB would be plenty of memory for what I need to do--mostly I benefit from lots of filesystem caching. BUT--there's another user of this system and he does most of his work using Matlab. For the stuff he's doing, Matlab routinely sucks down 10s of gigabytes of memory. And it may stay that way for days at a time.

Without swapping, Matlab will happily sit on all that memory indefinitely, whether it's doing anything or not. Meanwhile, everything I do takes ages because of the paltry amount of memory left for FS caching.

With swapping, I can get some of that memory back for FS cache when Matlab isn't being used, and it makes a huge difference.
I'm over Chrome. I don't use it at work [1], and consequently, not much at home either.

Once Chrome the browser became the seed of Chrome the OS, the writing was on the wall - Google didn't feel it needed to prove anything anymore, innovation turned to stuff it wanted, not what users wanted.

[1] Chrome, at least v25 and earlier, crashed parsing 10MB XML files - I have to test with much larger files all the time. At some point FF started to not suck, and recently it's got speed parity with Chrome for most actions on OSX. Not looking back.
Advice to attempt to find a loophole or skirt the law in some way probably won't turn out good for Amazon. A better approach would be to cooperate and participate in discussions with the FAA and for Amazon to perhaps help pioneer new regulation regarding drones for commercial purposes like package delivery.

Also I don't think the negative shipping part would work because isn't it still free shipping since the customer isn't paying for it? It isn't free to Amazon and that's not what the free part is for. So negative shipping is still free shipping.
The issue really is the proliferation of paramilitary in western society expanded under whatever pretext was valid at the time: war on drugs, war on terror, etc.

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

The list of examples (while possibly biased) gives a clear idea of where, having these kinds of miitarised civilian forces, can lead a society.
Looks like gooby pls
> a single set of initial conditions can only result in one outcome

Nobody knows if this is true or not, or even whether we could know this to be true or not.

For more info: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/
Thanks. I did do a rudimentary benchmark with a filter bank implemented in C++ versus LuaJIT/protoplug.

Using VC++'s default compiler settings, the performance was exactly the same. However, enabling SSE while using floats instead of doubles is what made the difference. It renders the C version 1.5 - 2 times faster.

So yeah, a float version of LuaJIT would even things out completely, but I don't think that's coming anytime soon.
I would as well, but I think my example shows that public tolerance of police behavior varies among countries. German would be horrified with US cops shooting random civilians and Americans are horrified by German police beating suspects for relatively minor infractions.
Massive mobile malware network used by cops globally
I think we've come back to "original author doesn't actually know how to write logic, thinks he's writing sequential code" as the core problem
This is not really true anymore.

About 99% of all devices "just work" out of the box, the other 1% either are very obscure/specialty hardware, or are new hardware. Linux doesn't need a vendor to support Linux like it used to... most generic drivers are built in and work OK (just like the generic drivers built into Windows now-a-days).
Ya, this reminds me of car modders who suggest stupid things like drilling holes in your air intake. Any variable whose change (1) is cheap or free, (2) doesn't violate some emissions standard or whatnot, and (3) doesn't cut into profit of a pricier model, is practically guaranteed to be set by the manufacturer at its optimal value for the vehicle's intended use. They're not morons and they have an interest in maximizing the car's utility.

Sysctl variables in Linux meet all these same criteria. Linux is already tuned for general use (or is damn close to it). Any knob you tweak is likely to make things worse in a way you don't understand. Just leave things unless you have a specific use case that requires different tuning.
Certainly such services exist, but I don't see the relevance to either the OP or the post you replied directly to.

This is about an official service offered by Google/Youtube.

If there was a news story about a new video streaming service, would you reply "all the movies are already on the Pirate Bay"?
This is hype lol
Flying over densely populated areas, around other aerial operations, and over property is obviously more dangerous than flying in the middle of nowhere - there are approaches to risk mitigation that aren't "teach people how not to crash."

I think these should be regulated, even though I own and fly several quadcopters and fixed wing planes regularly. Model aircraft have gone well in the US for the last 30ish years because people tend to self-regulate and the hobby hasn't been very big. Now that every Silicon Valley joker wants in on a perceived gold rush and DJI Phantoms work well and are available for a relatively low cost, hobby flying is moving into dangerous populated areas and the density of R/C craft is increasing.

I don't trust the FAA to correctly regulate these, and I see a very depressing day where I won't be able to fly as a hobbyist, but I also see an unregulated future where regulation-skirting companies (maybe they'll "crowdsource drone pilots" or something similarly "sharing economy"-esque) accidentally hit people with drones and basically say "so sorry, sucker!"

As for your latter point, that's basically what happens here, too. Lots of TV and commercials are filmed using drones, but the production company either sells the footage as "found footage" or rents out some non-drone piece of equipment (camera, memory card, etc.) from a drone owner at an exorbitant rate with the understanding that the rest covers the drone rental.
Since they operate independently and likely have their own cash pile for stuff like this, the legal entity making the purchase is actually Oculus. Same with like Nest/Google AFAIK.
This is why one of the best computational algebra softwares magma is only available for absurdly high prices, even though was developed as an academic project.
Great for Carbon. The situation for hardware design firms (right now, and often) is brutal - the degree of difficulty to consistently book enough new work to keep your talented team members employed is incredibly high, and more companies are moving this work in-house.

There are a number of these firms in the Seattle area, and all of them are struggling. Acquisition is often preferable to closing your doors, which could well be what happens to others.
What were their SEO keywords? Since specialisation and niches are the key to knowing who to target I would suggest they start there.

Where they target "magento developers"? Then they were not specialising much - try targeting 500 digital agencies in the USA and offer to sub contract their maintenance work and updates (ie keep old clients happy)

Where they targeting industries? Such as ecommerce for hair products? So start by identifying all the hair websites out there, collate a report on the quality of ecommerce, security vulnerabilities, then cold call to sell that and then follow with your services.

Expand into products - magento addons, etc. if these guys are any good they will have three internally used anyway

Do not hire lead development companies - never heard anything good of them.

Do not hire a bizdev person till the CEO can do the job themselves so knows what to ask for.
Ask HN: Need help figuring out the best ways to promote a startup event in SF...
Hi guys. I'm working on a startup crawl event in SF for next month on July 25.
Here's a link: https://driveless.crowdtilt.com/sf-startup-crawl-summer-2014

So far I've already got a hacker house called the Negev and OpenDNS signed up to participate as host locations.

What are the best channels to get good people for the event and also find startups who would be interested.
I certainly won't argue with you about the impact of direct medical costs on Americans. My comment is that statistics are often misleading and you can't draw broad conclusions from a single number.
Congratulations!

From https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/refinement/text...:

> How much do you think your project will cost, and what are the major expenses?

Our most significant expense is the cost of full time staff. Even though we have a great Open Source community, we feel that it's important to execute swiftly over the next year, and we would ideally have 8 to 10 full time staff at a total cost of ~$1MM.
They were acquired nearly two years ago. http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/89180616013/what... says that the site is explicitly for acquihires. If this was an acquihire then they royally screwed it up.
I am a biologist with a love for philosophy of science and found that both Kuhn and Lakatos discussed science in ways that were at least intelligible. Lakatos in particular described a philosophy of science that seemed to match what I have observed in practice.
No spite! I harbor no ill will. I just thought they weren't very good points. And I tried to explain why.
clickable links:

https://driveless.crowdtilt.com/sf-startup-crawl-summer-2014

http://thenegev.com/

http://www.opendns.com/
I'm curious, do the people who think that they should be allowed to fly their unmanned aircraft without restrictions also think that they should be allowed to fly their manned aircraft without restrictions, or should the rules be different because the pilot is on the ground rather than in the vehicle itself?
The title is a bit misleading. The judge did not rule that the No Fly List itself is unconstitutional. The government can still have such a list and put you on it. The only difference is that they now have to notify people as such and provide reasons as well as easy ways to appeal your inclusion.

I find this to be a minor victory at best. In my opinion, the elephant in the room is that there is a No Fly List in the first place. If someone is deemed so dangerous that they should not be allowed to get on an airplane, they should be in prison. After all, that's one reason why we have prisons: to keep dangerous people away from society. What can such people do on an airplane that they can't do on a bus or a train?
Desert space needed to cover the planet need's for electricity
In this sense - continuously be building things. Repetition and practice are what lead to progress and mastery. However, it is not a plateau - progress requires slow growth.
I'm quite surprised Hello World in C# could ever sound so lovely.
This is great! But why is it only for PRs? Why not any arbitrary commit?
Some people say astaxanthin helped them.
You're looking at this too rationally. That's not meant as snark. The people responsible for these requirements aren't acting rationally. They want Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO for the price of Bill Gates, Harvard Freshman. And if they can't find that person, they complain there's a shortage of good candidates.
How many years? How many internet services do you use that have run for 2 + "a few more" years?
I deleted my Google+ profile picture and yet it still shows up as me on Google image search, so I'm not so skeptical about it.
I'm not exactly sure Racket existed when this project was created. Furthermore, Racket is non-standard. Which is really the issue with Scheme. Prior to Racket there were SLIB and SRFIs. Which are still non-standard, but at least more universal.
True. In fact it's quite likely when you read a comment about some Foo technology, that Foo's creator or someone on the original Foo development team was its author. I'd say it's unlikely that four years of programming Python will make you as much of an expert as this guy http://stackoverflow.com/users/818274/guido-van-rossum?tab=a... Yes, I should hope Guido Von Rossum's answers to Python questions make him seem like a 10x guy!
They are, today, separate and distinct. Little proto-scientists are trained in the scientific method in science classes. You can go to any school in the U.S. and science is taught by scientists in science classes in the science department. They are not in the philosophy department. At my college, philosophy was housed in the humanities department.

Philosophers love love love to relive the history of philosophy, but it's history, not present fact. Newton called himself a "natural philosopher"--true. But today most folks call him a scientist.

The question is not "where did science come from," the question is what does philosophy do for scientists today. The structure of that question assumes the very division that you are trying to erase.

I happen to think that there are actual answers to that question; but "all of science is actually philosophy" is not one of them.
Beer Me Fail
Living Under Drones
Yeah, Magma has some of the fastest known eimplementations of some esoteric algorithms. A lot of the core Sage guys seem keen on catching up to Magma, though, particularly originator William Stein who sort of decided to start Sage when his Magma license was taken away for political, not commercial reasons.
Enter the Matrix: We can now connect our minds to SkyNet.
Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance
That woman is completely out of control.
You think so? I read the title and it never crossed my mind to think it was all funding. To me the fact that it says "this much of it" already implies it's a selection.

Edit: that said, the page should definitely mention it (the source and selection criteria).
The management/upload process leaves much to be desired, but we still host on Smugmug for sharing with FoF and kids classmates. More recently due to iOS being prevalent in our extended family net, we use PhotoStream more and more often - most folks have at least one iOS device in their household.
What does Linux not dominate?

I can think of only a few categories: desktops, ATM machines, real time, SCADA.

What are the remaining big sectors Linux doesn't yet dominate?
In-Tray Exercises or Job Simulation
I'd like to see a "Squash pull request" button to avoid merge commits, clean up messy pull requests with WIP commits and changes to address review feedback, and keep master bisectable at every commit.
I agree pretty much, especially about Kuhn, who had the advantage that he was a superb historian of science. His Structure of Scientific Revolutions is most famous, but I think his really great work was The Copernican Revolution.
I think that would be pretty anticompetitive.
I'd like to point out that the code he has on there isn't a Lisp CPU and I don't think will even work in a real FPGA. I don't know Verilog, just VHDL, but that business in the INIT state looks sketchy to say the least. Even if it does work, it just loads a few instructions into memory & executes them; these instructions blink an LED on the board. The Lisp architecture is barely described beyond a few sparse notes about a tagged memory arch (not implemented).

I'm not attacking the original author; these look like personal notes as he explores an FPGA and realizes that hardware design is complicated. But don't get your hopes up on this being... well, anything.
Unless you care about latency. Just because an indexer ran through my hard drive doesn't mean I should have to wait 60+ seconds next time I log in for everything to page back into memory.
We did some progress on PhoneGap
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dn722381.aspx
He should have probably included it in his post, but his profile says he's from Serbia.
Well, the subtlety is that only applies to domain registered for "personal", not "business", use.

Gandi support used to be the best. Now that domain isn't they core and only business, support quality is falling. Fast.

I have an old account. And some point they migrated my old account. And now my domain is flagged as a business type domain, which it isn't. It is lock as they changed it themselves. When I've contacted them, they did not want to fix it. They messed up, denies it and won't fix it. So, for me, not so great customer support ... Anyway, I'm moving away, domain by domain.
Yes, I know the case. It was unfortunate. But it happens so rarely. In that case, the police man was overwhelmed, because he got too close.
Game Demo: Multiplayer Tetris in bare metal assembly for Raspberry Pi
Have you got concrete fact that illegal downloads cut profits?
Both "books" are kind of regrettable, but SR flip-flops and 7400-type logic gates are essential background knowledge for writing HDL. You'll have a hard time describing hardware if you don't know what kind of hardware you're trying to describe... Verilog looks vaguely C-ish, but in the end you're describing how to connect up a bunch of flip-flops and logic gates.
Maybe computers were more interesting than friends because that person's friends weren't so great. I got really lucky in school with a good group of friends; my sister didn't get so lucky. One of the great things about going into a field (STEM or otherwise) and moving to a city of your choice is the opportunity to find like-minded people more easily.

A random collection of friends in a particular town may or may not be more compelling than computers. If the friends aren't so good, maybe you could be a little down on people for a while -- without being a psychopath.
Correction: given a vector<bool> foo, "std::swap(foo[0], foo[1])" won't compile because std::swap takes parameters as non-const references, i.e., not temporaries (given a vector<int> bar, "std::swap(bar[0], bar[1])" won't compile either); so you have to use "std::iter_swap(foo.begin(), foo.begin + 1)" to (correctly) swap the first two elements.
I don't really know what "change" they are supposed to be dealing with. Sure digital makes it easy to copy and distribute, but musicians keep making less and less and it is harder for them to actually use music as a career. Is the change you are referring to, that they basically should just deal with being broke, because it is easy to pirate? That sounds like a bad thing to me, not good.
Which law are you talking about?