skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This must be why I find it so difficult to talk to people about important things. If you explain something to me verbally, I will not get it. I will hear you, and I will listen intently, and I will have no idea what you just said.

Not that I wouldn't know what you said, but I won't have a deep understanding, I won't be able to use what you said to get work done. This is especially bad with phone conversations.

But if you write it down, then we're talking. I can digest written stuff extremely well.
Kids learning that adults systematically lie to them is probably beneficial and adaptive (which I suspect is why humans feel compelled to lie to kids).
Yeah, locally it runs. I suspect it's something with a port configuration or wsgi , I just never done this before , and after all night fight, I give up. What about airpair.com? Any other sites like that out there ?
What is telling was how his experiences actually led him to reconsider his racism. After he returned from the Hajj he changed his viewpoints, and that change ultimately got him killed.

That ability to question your own assumptions is a powerful tool.
It did not work this time? Ever heard of the civil rights act of 1964? Think it was a coincidence that it happened at around the same time his intellect was being wasted to use your own words?
You are thinking about "what to type". In an editor with a rich set of text editing commands, what you can type is expanded. So when you are thinking about it, what you can think is expanded.
Unless something has changed in the last 3 years, which knowing the internal systems of the LDS Church it is highly unlikely anything has changed, there will not be a JSON feed for the Book of Mormon anytime soon. They store all of the scriptures in proprietary XML formats inside of a large XML data store called MarkLogic. Although they could transform them into JSON, I just don't see them making that a priority.

However, I will also note that the Book of Mormon itself is no longer under copyright. The footnotes, indexes and chapter summaries are copyright protected but the book itself is not. So, really, it wouldn't be particularly hard to make a Book of Mormon rest api.
Thank you! I assume this was posted in response to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8089259
The optimiser in LLVM does some even more "seriously crazy shit" - usually revolving around obscure edge cases involving officially undefined behaviour. Linus would definitely not be happy with that.
Many atheists and theists believe you can provide evidence one way or another. Most people are not agnostic.
> The word »perkele» is generally considered on par or worse than the English term 'fuck' (in the context of a swear word). Effectively, this term could be translated to 'Fucking Management', but whereas in Sweden this term is used rather publicly, it would hardly be conceivable to have such language in an English-speaking environment.

Doesn't that mean precisely that it isn't on a par with or worse than the English term 'fuck'?
>Correlation is not causation.

But correlation is evidence of causation.
A lot (if not the majority) of GCC extensions used by Linux exist in GCC because the Linux kernel developers requested them in order to have a great level of control in terms of the generated machine code, so it's not exactly surprising that the Linux kernel relies on a lot of said GCC extensions.

Many of these extensions which the Linux kernel relies on have been added to LLVM, but obviously not all, and from the looks of it some never will, which means either Linux needs to refrain from using said extensions, or building Linux using LLVM will continue to require patching.
Here is Philip giving this wonderful talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsPFdVrbGeE

The lone youtube comment is priceless.

Cotton: Do you know if Philip still has the wimpypoint presentation posted anywhere?
But then again Facebook won't send men in blue full body armour and automatic weapons after you. Agreed that government can get to the corporate data through few hoops, but it feels safer to share with a corporation than with organizations allowed to inflict violence on people.
You can Skype me if you want, username is (deleted). If it already works locally, it shouldn't be that difficult.
>If someone insults my actions or my ideas, I may get emotional, but I don't take it as an insult.

The fact that people get emotional in response is exactly the problem. Knowing that an insult wasn't technically directed at them doesn't stop them feeling shitty, and being unproductive as a result.

>Younger generations may no be used to their work or behavior being harshly criticized

Younger generations are used to their work being criticised constructively and dispassionately.
Hey, this principle's not so special.
The OCR anomalies are very interesting...for example, it seems that the word "fuck" occasionally found its way into the NYT pages throughout history:

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=fuck&format=count

But if you look at the pre-digital-text archive period (pre-1990?), you won't see "fuck" in the actual articles, such as the ones in the 1880s...I tried other cusswords and saw that they would appear in the very-old stories but no other time in NYT history...So I'm guessing that there is some fuzzy matching going on to compensate for the text in the scanned archives.
The only thing that seems to violate the mediocrity principle is the staggering odds that we exist in the first place given the conditions under which intelligent life needs to have in order to exist. But then, Anthropic_principle, so there's that.

Een then, once you understand the vastness of the universe, even falls under the veil of inevitability.
Surprisingly, this book was one of the options I had for required summer reading growing up in Georgia public schools. Definitely a good read.
>overly critical culture of many European nations prevents younger people from trying out or voicing ideas

I don't think this is what is happening here.

>humans are human and don't like being humiliated , especially in public.

This is just the cultural difference I'm talking about. Someone criticizing your work or behavior does not universally signal humiliating you as a person. I acknowledge that this may be so for you personally or in your culture.
You're awfully easy to impress, if only by the slight contrast to how absolutely evil, horrible and immoral the previous pope was.

Not even the current "liberal hippie pope" is having much success changing the Catholic Church from within, so what makes you think anyone who's not its most powerful leader could ever possibly have any success? Anyone claiming they haven't resigned from the Catholic Church in disgrace because they want to remain inside to be an "agent of change" is totally full of it, and guilty of perpetuating the problem.

Does it actually impress you that the current pope wasn't personally the architect and prosecutor of officially covering up and perpetuating all the terrible widespread sexual abuse systematically perpetrated by the Catholic Church, who wrote and enforced the official church policy of protecting priests who rape children, and excommunicating anyone who speaks out about it? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/17/religion.childp... http://thewe.cc/weplanet/news/europe/vatican/papal_evil.htm

If the pope's desire to cover up sexual abuse is what you mean by "paying more attention to sexual issues than is warranted", can you please justify why you think the Catholic Church should pay less attention to their longstanding issues of raping children and protecting the rapists from prosecution? And why you think it's a good thing that the current pope doesn't think it's such a big deal that requires much attention?
I see this every time I install StartExplorer in Eclipse. And I love it.
http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/
Another way to put it: Malcolm X was authentic in everything he did, and that was something this country needed.

He was able to articulate more clearly than anyone else the implications of being black in America: that the only way to succeed in any way was by trying to act white.

Thanks in large part to his activism, that is far less true today.
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I'm going to disagree at a tangent: the NSA cannot conduct legitimate surveillance. We shouldn't have an NSA.

First, we don't even know what the contents of the executive order (!!!) that created the NSA are. Their very basis may be illegitimate.

Second, evidence says that the complete secrecy they demand just grows like weeds until it encompasses everything. Then, the follow-on paranoia about the secrecy means they can't use the information they've got. I'll offer the DEA's "parallel construction" as support here.

The NSA, as currently based and constituted, is utterly useless. It only supports a very rigid power structure in doing things that power structure shouldn't do in the first place.
The pen is dead. It was murdered by the finger
TLDR: it isn't.

For a real explanation : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem

It's a typical chaotic system. Over the short term everything looks and behaves VERY stable, but every 10 million years or so things align juuuuust right and some major shift suddenly happens.
In the same sense that "Caucasian" is just the generic English word for "human being", and "heterosexual" is just the generic English word for "acceptable lifestyle".
nabla9 -> I have a technical question about HM comments. I see two interesting things about your reply

1. I can not see a down-vote button (To clarify I personally never down-vote anything, just upvote things)
2. I don't see a reply link to your comment.

This does not seem to be a nesting limit (I can see a reply link for other comments elsewhere here)

What is this - is there some option one picks when responding to a comment?

Thanks
-Kaushik
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There are services out there that supposedly monitor Google ad click fraud, does anyone have experience with them?
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"The Other Orange Box"
What follows immediately from the principle is that humans are not special among species. We are average. Most of the life on Earth is bacteria life. At least half of bacteria must be more intelligent than we are. Instead of pursuing futile AI idea, we need to find a way to cooperate with bacteria, as equal partners, and make use of their talents.
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Things have changed dramatically since the constitution was conceived.

That's a truism, but oddly at least one Supreme Court Justice thinks that the US Constitution hasn't changed. See http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/salvatori/publications/RARSc... for some elaboration.

I personally think this is a perverse view, leading to weird contradictions like the "Third Party Doctrine".

Given the history of US intelligence agencies (COINTELPRO, SHAMROCK, etc), my main thought is that they're a bigger threat to me, my family and my country than just about anything else.
That's ok, neither are we :)
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That's not the right comparison. The equivalent comparison would be, what if we just dumped nuclear waste out in an empty field, or in a river or something, or atomized it and pumped it into the air?
Good point about introducing different spelling and word substitution. The original approach is for general data processing. If text document is the only kind of data, then add a pre-processing step to normalize the text. Remove all the stop words. Normalize words to their root to smooth out the different spellings and substitution. Even the Different word normalizations can be tried, Soundex, NYSIIS, or Metaphone.
An interesting one: try "code". There's an odd spike in 1934
Would love to see a citation for what you mean by "reactionary racism" - especially from the period in Malcolm's life after he split with the NOI in favor of Sunni Islam.

It is true that there are many reactionary elements of NOI ideology and I'm sure you can find all sorts of snippets of quotes from when Malcolm was with them, but not only did he walk away from them, he ultimately gave his life in part because of his split to the NOI (and the FBI stoking tensions around that split via COINTELPRO)

Generally more troubling here is the trend of white people to think that they are victims more than perpetrators of racism[1]; you're just backporting it to history here. Something is wrong with you if you can think about the 1960s or anyone from that period, and end up blaming Malcolm X for "racism" with no mention of the racist police, Klansmen, etc. that openly proclaimed and demonstrated their racist power in that era.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390205/Whites-suffe...
There are several hits for 'Internet' in 1853, and hundreds for 'email' in the 1890s. To avoid that, maybe they could weight the OCR recognition based on a word's first occurrence in dictionaries (backdated a decade or two).
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Uh, do you think GCC just spontaneously sprung forth into being? No, it was created by people, and Linus is indirectly insulting them.
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Yes, nobody whatsoever is special, except, that is, for those of us who are.

Furthermore, our cosmological position is, in fact, at least somewhat special, but that is not surprising, by the anthropic principle.

Yet another idiotic bloviation from PZ.
I really enjoyed the article. Defining your aspirations has a subtle yet profound effect on your trajectory of life.

Sometimes our aspirations are chosen for us by accidents of our culture or circumstances. I think thats what the article described when the author wrote about how professionalism (the kind of career we aspire to) can come to mean 'getting more money' or something equally beside-the-point of a life well lived.

Money is great, but after your needs are met it's a senseless goal. Politeness is good, but it doesn't necessarily improve the world- just keeps it from getting worse.

Innovation and teaching go well beyond inoffensiveness— they directly help improve the lives of others. And they even surpass the good that wealth can provide- because no matter how much money there is, someone actually has to do the work, and when that work is the result of your individual lifetime's efforts and experiences, you're the only one that can do it.
Knew I'd get downvoted, but knew it had to be done.
I don't know. Everything in the principle seems to equate equal to equal - you as a human are not special among humans... Earth is not special among planets, and so on. To assume humans are not special among all life is to ignore evolution and our dominant position on Earth.

That said, we didn't get here by divine intervention, and on another planet with life, the dominant species will likely have followed a similar pattern to dominance, and our existence as the dominant species is not special (the dinosaurs once owned the place).

Also my ability to understand to what level you are being silly or snarky or sarcastic is equally non-special.
People... please. Don't implement protocols or network servers yourself. There's about a billion http servers out there, and some of them are even good. Most popular http servers let you compile custom modules that run in the same process, which would have the same effect as Nope.c but without all the flaws.

If you need a C http implementation with a tiny footprint, grab a tiny http server that has been around for a long time (there are many) and hack on it. Busybox httpd, thttpd, boa, etc all come to mind, and there's probably dozens more. But even those support CGI, and it'll be much more scalable to not have to re-compile and re-ship and re-start your entire http process every time you need to edit a page.

Write your CGI/FastCGI/whatever app in C, compile it, and let the http server run it. It's much better suited to deal with securing the connection and handling the fucked-up edge cases of different browsers, platforms, proxies, RFCs, tcp/ip stacks, etc etc etc. As a hack, if your environment has a shell, write your CGI web apps in shell script; it compresses great, can be edited on the fly, and uses existing system resources.

I have written http server implementations. I have written boatloads of server-side applications. I've even written an entire CGI web interface and framework in C. It's fucking abysmal. Unless you're writing a hello world app, trust me, you don't want to use C.
Isn't it the other way about? The reason we are hypothesising dark matter is because we can't explain some gravitational measurements. Did someone postulate dark matter particles, then later say 'well if these exist, they must cause some strange gravitational patterns.' ?
But it gets spread just about everywhere. Mercury only affects you where it actually is, but it's widespread enough to have significantly contaminated all seafood at this point.

Nuclear waste might get you if you're not actively ingesting it, but you still have to be within, what, a few dozen feet of a large chunk of it?
Regarding the missing down vote button: only users with 500 points of karma or more can down vote.

Regarding the reply limit: I believe there is a timer involved. A comment has to have a certain age (5 minutes?) before some one can reply to it.
Apart from the putting-things-together aspect, is there anything "innovative" in rust besides the borrow system?
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> There, fixed that for you. Now, I'll admit, a large part of the time the owner is also the driver, but with speed cameras it is not the "driver" who receives the fine, but the _owner of the vehicle_.

Exactly as it should be. It's your responsibility as a vehicle owner to not let bad drivers use your vehicle.

RE base rate fallacy - true, but I guess that's why they want even more data. A single test may swamp you with false positives, but positive results from many different sources can correlate into useful info.
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Houses typically appreciate at better than 4% a year over 20 year time frames, although this is very location dependent. If they had bought in almost any city in the US with a population over a million they could have done much better.

http://www.census.gov/const/uspriceann.pdf
If I only could read all the books I want to read. I can't count the books I bought and only read half or not at all. The stack of to-be-read-next books grows and grows. And now after reading this text I just ordered Malcolm X's biography.
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"Professionalism" gets used as a rhetorical tool to lump aesthetics into the same category as qualities that effect job performance. Once they're in the same category, the irrelevant things steal creditability from the important ones. (And because society doesn't exist in a vacuum, they might even become self-fulfilling prophecies)

Remeber Bobak Ferdowsi? The NASA guy with a mohawk?

[...] you know, too unprofessional to be selling tickets at a railway
station but reliable enough for landing robots on Mars. [0]

[0] http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/blogs/work-in-progress/...
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Yeah, I believe those started after I formed corporately. Not sure what the extra benefit is for me at this point.
"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile, but that it is indifferent. If we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.", Stanley Kubrick
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals has a cure for Ebola that has success in non-human Primates. Is it unethical to try using this on infected humans that are going to die soon?
> the conditions under which intelligent life needs to have in order to exist

We know what these are?
I don't know if it's good or bad. But, it leads me to an interesting thought experiment.

If the trend of using emoji in Western discourse continues to increase in popularity indefinitely, could the English language of 200-500 years in the future officially incorporate ideograms of some sort?
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Nailed it. That put words to a feeling I was searching for. Government collection supposes everyone is or will be a criminal, while corporate collection is less offensive on the surface.

They may want to mine my data to display the appropriate Target ad to me, but that feels a lot more benign than surveillance purely for the sake of possibly removing my freedoms.
It's very likely to be related to the National Recovery Administration, which was formed in 1933, and set price codes and codes of fair practice. It must have generated a huge amount of public debate and lots of news stories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recovery_Administratio...
If anyone is interested in the PAQ code, I have put one of the stronger-but-open-source variants on GitHub, here: https://github.com/robertseaton/paq8pxd
Yes, dark matter is of course an explanation invented because of observations. But it would just be a just-so story if you couldn't probe further consequences of that explanation by making new targeted observations.
Agreed, but the numbers have been going down for decades, and are still going down. In 1985, mainframes brought in $14bn of IBM's $50bn turnover. Today it's less than $5bn of IBM's $100bn turnover. Factor in inflation and the decline is even more dramatic.

IBM used to be able to charge $1 million just to install its top-level mainframe OS (before rental charges) and C cost $1,500 a day. I expect those days have gone ;-)
Ergo the phrasing as a question.
It really didn't have to be done, though. Remember that for next time.
Yeah, at a minimum they see a bump of 5% in online giving.

Some churches use it specifically for 1-time giving w/o logging in and they see a much larger increase for that type.

I ask people to cancel if they don't see ROI in 3 months. Only 2 cancellations in 2 years.
I'd prefer for adults to adapt to not systematically lying to kids, if it's not so much of a disruptive inconvenience to your lifestyle, thank you.

Speak for yourself, if you believe the benefits of lying to your own kids outweigh the benefits of raising children honesty. You can have an honest discussion with your children about how OTHER people will lie to them, without having to lie to them yourself to prove it. It's not something that's hard so hard to prove that you have to betray their trust by doing it yourself. Because if they don't trust you enough to take what you tell them at face value, they already know you're a liar.

I believe the main reason some humans feel compelled to lie to kids is simply because they're compulsive liars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?edit=vd&v=PojxJ6-U8Ds made a video :D
>> we need to find a way to cooperate with bacteria

We already do, unbeknownst to us, for centuries. [1]

OK maybe we did not decided to cooperate it but isn't that the point here.

"All the bacteria living inside you would fill a half-gallon jug; there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than human cells"

"The infestation begins at birth: Babies ingest mouthfuls of bacteria during birthing and pick up plenty more from their mother's skin and milk—during breast-feeding, the mammary glands become colonized with bacteria."

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-h...
"Hngh. Arrrgh. Uff." That's what I thought while reading your comment. I wish I could downvote you.

He's clearly talking about "special" not in the sense of deviating from the norm, but in the sense of being exempt from the same rules that govern other entities in the universe.

Well, I flagged you (for trolling). That will have to do.
It is a bit choppy for me by this isn't the only video stream running in my house at the moment.