skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What this website lacks is the information commonly found on the back of the book cover: what this book is about?
I have a hard time distinguishing some of the colours, it would be nice if hashing or other marking was also used.

Yes, colour confused. Why do you ask? (I perceive some pinks and purples as grey and my favourite brown shirt is actually green, according to those who can see all colours properly. I also have a problem with faint red, but bright red isn't a problem: I've never seen Mars as red, but stop signs and stop lights are quite a fine, bright red, thank you.)
My bad, Apple pulled them in 2006.
That kid in Extant really is a robot.
Well, remember that intelligence (in the form that we would apparently like to develop) evolved as a by product of natural selection. For one thing, our level of intelligence only really makes sense once a whole set of other niches have been filled out.

Applying a better selection/objective function to an otherwise 'dumb' process would likely drastically reduce the cost to reach a 'solution'.
One other feature that would be nice would be VPN.
Apple disabled reviews for iOS 8 Beta users.
From their technology page - one reason is the ability to have content on the device (local memory) even when offline. useful for serving up a resume, tutorial, guide or other content without an internet connection being required.

The current implementation (Q1, 2013) uses a FAT16 filesystem and has limited storage suitable for distributing a few files or web pages. From the user’s perspective, files on an intelliPaper device can be browsed and/or viewed just as they are on any other USB drive. Larger capacities in the 8-32 megabyte range are expected to become available mid 2013.[1]

[1] https://www.intellipaper.info/technology/
ISP resolvers are significantly faster for me due to being close by. Yet, indeed, some ISPs may do evil things.

Wonder whenever there's a piece of software that'd retroactively verify every query done by my resolver against a set of supposedly-uncensored public third-party resolvers (like this DNS.watch) and raise an alarm in case of inconsistencies. (Although I have no idea how to deal with multitude of false alarms that would be there due to DNS load balancing)
You never actually explain the semantics of Escher. I think this is why reading the README feels like a great setup with no payoff. Or maybe it's there, just not explained well enough.

For example, there's no comprehensible relationship to me between the "inputs" and "outputs" (if that's even what they are) in the diagrams labeled "project" and "Generalize." It looks a little like a spoof, like saying we combine {animal: cat} and {tail: orange} to get {animal: orange} and have a syllogism. Well, what is mechanically going on?

Also, you should be able to situation the programming paradigm of Escher among the vast universe of programming paradigms that have been explored. Otherwise, programmers are lost. For example, if there's no directionality to the "circle" gates, is that because they are relations, and the connections between the circles are joins? Or are they perhaps declarative constraints? There are many existing programming languages that you could be describing, most of the time, and drawing things as nested circles or giving them wacky names doesn't explain how Escher differs from other programming languages.

So it reads like Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" -- this is "A New Kind of Programming," but reading it doesn't give me a new way to look at programming, the way it promises to.
I think you're attacking 2 different things here. One is chasing happiness, the other is the commercialisation of chasing happiness.

I have no problem with the former. I think it's healthy to try to lead an enjoyable and happy life. And I don't think that's mutually exclusive with leading a productive and meaningful life either.
It's really not bullshit, I think. The stuff about fear rings totally true to me, it aligns perfectly with my experiences. But, I know that being on the other side of it, it can sound like a bunch of hokum. (That's part of the reason why people keep living that way - the logic is pretty watertight.)

I've read books about it too, and not been helped that much beyond perhaps gaining some insight, or setting expectations of what happiness is like. But that doesn't invalidate the information in the books, it tells you that merely reading about happiness does not make it so. You can read all the books about how to be a great basketball player, but you won't improve until you actually get on a court and shoot some shots.
I'd be interested to see the results of applying the test repeatedly at n-week intervals throughout the course.

One interpretation of the original finding that everyone who passes the test passes the course, but not everyone who fails the test fails the course, is that some people who did not have a consistent mental model before the course develop one during it (and nobody who has developed such a model loses it). That should show up in a longitudinal test: you would expect that as people develop a model, they switch from the failing to passing groups.

This would be consistent with the sequential learning model. If you did a basic class, and didn't have a model by the end of it, then when you do a more advanced class, you have even less of a chance of learning anything from it, and less of a chance of developing a model during it.

I wonder if a way of structuring a course would be to start with a sort of mental model bootcamp, where the teaching was aimed specifically at developing a model, and where nobody would progress to the rest of the course without doing so. That way, students who take longer to get ready are not confronted with later stages of the course that they will not be able to make use of, and have a progressively greater share of the teaching resources in the first stage to help them do so.
That's one of the entire problems with atheism: without a higher power to give your life purpose, it can be very difficult to suffer through yet another day on this earth full of such suffering and sorrow.

Nihilism has a similar issue.

It's icky.
I use the larger Lenovo LT1421 USB monitor here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/T52DEEU-ThinkVision-LT1421-Backlit-M...

About the same price, weighs 1 lb. AOC and Asus also do USB Monitors that are larger, but this would be nice for a small monitor add on
This was 2006, but couldn't be reproduced by others so far.

I would consider this quantum gravity research by far more important and cheaper than the CERN experiments which got us the mass of the Higgs boson. So far only Podkletnov, Tajmar and de Matos worked on this.

Goff and Siegel 2004 on FTL "Faster Than Light":
“Current warp drive investigations [Goldin and Svetlicny, 1994] apply general relativity to try to produce spacetime curvature that propagates at superlight speeds. Special relativity is preserved inside the warp field, but the contents are perceived to move at FTL speeds from the external frames. Such a classical warp drive cannot avoid the temporal paradox (i.e, time travel). If quantum systems are the only system that permits backward-in-time causality without temporal paradox, then any rational warp drive will need to be based on quantum principles. This means that until we have a workable theory of quantum gravity; research into warp drives based on General Relativity is probably doomed to failure.”
CSS for the rest of us
Racial/cultural/ethnic prejudice is an attribute of human nature, not US culture, so while not singling out the USA, the USA certainly did also have discrimination not based on skin color (jews, irish and other immigrant groups, catholics, etc. have all suffered discrimination to various degrees). None as overt and officially sanctioned as the segregated South however.
> Also, educate me: does "virtually any website" do tracking?

Yes. All web hosting comes with web stats as part of the standard service. Web servers come with logging enabled by default. To have a website with no tracking of its traffic, you'd have to build your own server/instance, and edit the web server software configuration to disable the logging.

Third-party tracking like Google Analytics also has more than 50% penetration on the top 100K websites. More sites than not are not only tracking you themselves, but sending every visit to third parties.
Flow has high highs but it doesn't produce a lasting contentedness that the author is talking about
Ask HN: On how many side-projects you manage to work at the same time?
I’m having a hard time managing my side-projects. I have 3 of them and not enough time to spend to each of them. I’m feeling that I might come up short at all of them. There’s no imposed time schedule, it’s just me pressing myself to deliver.

How do you manage your side-projects? Do you develop different projects at the same time or you focus to one of them until it’s up and running then mess with the other?
The first forum software I wrote way back in 1998 didn't use a db.

Basically I just marked up the html file with some data to tell me where the posts were and then when someone would post a new comment the perl script would just insert it into the html.

Serving the forum was just pulling the html files from the disk.
100 Uber for X ideas
Instead of a recovering alcoholic, perhaps a teetotaler or other person sober on principle would be a better comparison. I've never believed gods could exist or had religion, and thoughts otherwise wouldn't tempt me.
> What do you mean "good, bad, utilitarian"?

I'm asking if emotion (e.g. desire to help friend) has higher or lower utility.

> recursive relationship berween observers and observed systems

See page 2 onward in this cybernetics paper

http://www.nomads.usp.br/pesquisas/design/objetos_interativo...
Any reason CeroWRT was preferred over other options like OpenWRT?
Is up on arxiv - http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603033

Also, wikipedia is alright as a starting point for looking at something, but I personally wouldn't give much weight to opinion in the articles.
No it's not. You pay to send to them, and to receive data people send to you. You don't pay for your ISP to transit data from whoever is sending you data.

For example, you want to download something off a Server in Germany. Your ISP is responsible for getting your initial message to the server. But it's not responsible for taking that information in Germany and carrying to back to the US for you. The Server's ISP has to carry it to the USA and then dump it off at your local ISP.

Now your ISP and the Server ISP may have a peering point in Germany, but they might not. But either way, your ISP isn't under any obligation to pay for transit of data being sent to you. That's just not how it works. And that definitely isn't what is in your agreement with your ISP.
Processing.org has a lot of examples of the variety of art projects made with processing.
Twitter is listening: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/sorry-this-gif-is-not-av...
US government says online storage isn't protected by the Fourth Amendment
Hey I know that name. I have a GOWEX WiFi network saved on my phone. IIRC it was an open network picked up whilst on holiday in Dublin which did not work in the slightest. /unrelated anecdote
To quote Heinlen: "Men are not potatoes."
Cynicism is not the driving force of innovation, optimism is.

It is possible to be happy and rational.
It all depends how you program the chip. If you didn't want to link to a website from the intelliPaper device, I'm sure you could load it with static content. I think it is a fair assessment that it is the same tracking as what could be applied to any web link, including a QR code.
if this actually does come to market in or around 2015, would it be feasible to replace sql databases with blazing fast redis databases entirely?
If a start-up wishes to make big bucks in biohacking it has to deliver a product that is in wide demand by the general public.

The reagents on sale mentioned (Taq, antibiotic resistance genes and DNA ladders) are to biotech what solder and resistors are to electronics, i.e. very low value products of no use to the general public.

The real hurdle for true "biohacking" is the cost of laboratory facilities and equipment, which can easily run into a million dollars as soon as high speed centrifuges, -70 C freezers, sterile incubators and hoods, equipment for analysis, certified waste disposal facilities, etc, etc, are taken into account.

Compare this to making an app, which costs mostly the developers time and some hardware she already has lying around.
Indexus: a different kind of search engine
Would you care to elaborate on this? I have my own criticisms of LW and without mentioning what they are, I want to see if other people's match up with mine.
Anything is worth what they can convince people to pay for it.

See: the diamond industry.
>>"The only correct view is the absence of all views." - thich nhat hanh

That is a pretty strong view! ;D

>>live only in the present and you'll forever be happy

Live only in the present and you will be happy, sad, angry, in love, sleepy, hungry etc, etc. Happiness is just a thing that happens, like all things. All things happen in the present. Can you experience a "past event" in the present?
Ask HN: Which provider are you blogging at
I dont want to set up my own domain to blog from, so my options are the free hosts, wordpress, blogger, medium, tumblr(?)

I want to blog on a platform which supports easy styling of code blocks, pretty text / html, and cross social site posting (to facebook, twitter etc.)

what are you guys using?
Everywhere I look to see how to use TrueCrypt on Linux, I see it being used as just another encrypted block device. This strongly indicates that any policy issues that you're bringing up aren't the fault of TrueCrypt, but rather are issues with whatever mount scripts you're using.

Can you point me to some documentation that would give me cause to believe otherwise?
Re: the anki deck, what you do put on the front of the card vs. the back of the card?
I didn't state you had a bias.
I assume that you just handled the concurrent write situation with a file lock?
> The fundamental problem is ... mount's default options.

This is exactly my point. You might as well complain to Ted Ts'o about the same vulnerability in ext4. Please do reply to my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8060884
According to http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13020.1575 "Martin Tajmar retracts 2006 claims of gravitomagnetic version of frame-dragging as noise" in the publication at http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-2048/24/12/125011 , Supercond. Sci. Technol. (2011) 24.

Tajmar is one of the researchers in that 2006 ESA project.
Once upon a time, when I was playing around with Perl on Tripod, I wrote a very very basic forum with a flat-file "database". Essentially each "post" was a single delimiter-separated line (yes - posts were oneliners because everything was done through GET queries and I didn't know any better) in a text file holding an id, parent id and the post content.

As an actual implementation, of course, it was horrifying and terrible but it's quite possible. I think the forum script from Matt's Script Archive (which still exists) basically edited the html thread files directly, and didn't use a database connection either.
Talk to an urban planner or someone working in disaster relief.

Empathic "strangers" help others, in many contexts, often at personal risk.

That's what separates humans from singularitarian quantum computing devices.
One of the main technical reason I would say is that CeroWRT has the CoDel[1] queue management enabled by default. See also [2].

[1] - http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki

[2] - https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/How_is_Cer...
That Lenovo is a 1368x768 USB connected TN panel display, requiring a software video card driver.

The Kickstarter is for a DisplayPort connected 2048xwhatever IPS screen. It's nothing like comparable.
I'm not saying that the author is right or wrong, but your anecdotal evidence doesn't prove that reading about how to be happy will make you unhappy.

Science has consistently shown that good health and relationships correlate to happiness. It has even been shown that there is a causal effect (ie, if you start exercising you start feeling better).

Someone unaware of that fact may read a post like this and decide to exercise for 30 mins everyday.
Task-switching has a cost even on computers, and it has a much higher cost to us, because we have to acclimatize and deacclimatize to tasks, both cognitively and emotionally, in order to reach optimum efficiency.

In terms of efficiency, concentrating on one task at a time is best, but as people, we also get bored, and look for amusement/distractions. Other projects are a useful way to cater to this need.

One major/difficult project, and a handful of trivial/noncritical/short-term projects are a good combination. Don't take on more than one major project at a time.
https://github.com/mjhea0/web2py-heroku
The app allows for free downloads of any 3D model. We've printed these models out with minimal work using Netfabb and Makerware.

http://www.trnio.com/blog/2014/6/10/some-more-items-3d-print...
Molecular formula does not include bonds or chirality either

It is ambiguous in some ways, some of which could be easily fixed (should be plenty of ways of adding bond strength)

Pretty much all chemical notation is ambiguous is one way or another. Even full standard notation, no matter how hard it tries, can be ambiguous (even though it attempts to conserve stereo-chemistry, if the molecule is big enough information can be lost and impossible to represent all at once)

3D information is impossible to be fully represented in 2D no matter how hard you try
I'm available for remote projects.

I have previous experience with Parse. I published this app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/80-Mileage-Book/id873847566?m... two months ago.

I have web app experience from both business and consumer products.

Feel free to contact me: m@martinnormark.com
bravo22,

Kevin from intelliPaper here.

GREAT point. (and if you have a link the 5 cent NFC tags, I'd love to see it...)

"Why the USB part?"

Because it is ubiquitous, and easy to use.

While there are aspects of what SwivelCard offers that does do not rely on USB -
Consider if an audience does not have a QR or NFC reader. Sure, you can print a unique URL on the artwork and encourage them to type it in...

Conversations will increase in value if there are easy ways of extending them in a meaningful way. This is what SwivelCard is about.

For a person looking to extend a valuable conversation, the ROI on SwivelCard is very high.
Uber (the company) isn't spelled with an umlaut.
Perhaps Yudkowsky's fear, and the reason he won't say why he censors all mention of Roko's Basilisk is that he fears Extropianism could be turned into a doomsday cult - that Extropians are singularly (no pun intended) susceptible to the idea of Roko's Basilisk and are past needing a "sign."
Don't think raytracing will kill off rasterization for the crucial "first bounce" step anytime soon if we're talking about increasingly-detailed ever-content-richer realtime 60FPS game renderers. Usually as soon as RT gets semi-real-time for simplistic scenes at a rather-too-low resolution (without AA), consumers move on to double the previous standard resolution (four times per-pixel workload) such as the move from FHD to retina/hiDPI, we're back to square one. Especially if say you find you need 4 split-screens stereoscopic at 4k with full shading fidelity.

Rasterization is just too cool of a hack to avoid the tracing of primary rays. In fact, it's rather all the hardware and software hacks that evolved around rasterization for 2 decades combined that make it so, not rasterization by itself per se. Various GPU & CPU based culling methods, early & hierarchical Z-buffer, today's realtime rendering pipeline is an amazing combination of cool techniques that keeps getting better. Raytracers say "pff, with real raytracing we wouldn't need all those dirty hacks", but for one most of them come with the GPU or are well-known and intuitive to implement, plus to get anywhere near-realtime they need to implement another set of even more (and less comprehensible/intuitive/hardware-accelerated) hacks of their own.

All shading stages are also designed around rasterization and matured over the last decade. It's good fun to write some pixel-shader-based raytracer but that alone doesn't make it the better fit for current/next-gen gamedev at all.

The oft-antipicated "hybrid" approach however is finally arriving. Once you have some "depth-aware screen-space" (whether voxelized or N-layers), you can shoot specialized and rather simple rays to create diverse outstanding effects in post-process, from much smoother water surfaces to of course "screen-space raytraced reflections" (SSRR).
If you had stated that, you'd be right.
I agree you can do things that affect your relative happiness, but the key here is that it's YOU who must know what the things are - everyone have different needs and you can't fit all in one model. Some prefer to have interesting, but lower paying job, some doesn't care as long as it pays for their hobbies - and both can be happy, but switch their lives and both will be miserable. So if one would give advice to the other on how to be happy, it wouldn't help a bit, because they've different perspective on life.
(cheering)

modules ! modules ! modules !
Show HN: Vibur DBCP – connection pool that helps you find your slow SQL queries
This seems to be firmware only. Is there hardware for routers that is open or at least ethical?

They seem to be using http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122...
I always regarded DDWRT as the de-facto open replacement for router firmware but the EFF doesn't even mention it. Why not fork from them, are there (legal) issues?
actually they don't disclose this fee when you arrange for the original transaction. They list everything as "TBD"
There was an HN link to essentially the same topic, though from Bloomberg instead of CNN, about 5 months ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7297750 .
We have a private mode where scans are hidden.
We all ready have a well defined rigorous AGI[0] that would have god like intelligence. There are some approximations that played pacman [1] without knowing anything specific about pacman itself. i.e. it learned how to play by itself.

[0] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/AIXI
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfsMHtmGDKE
> Risks and challenges

> In the past we have supported some crowd funding campaigns that have been funded but then they have realised they needed to raise additional funds to complete the project, which causes delays. It is because of this the target for this campaign is quite large. At this level we can deliver all pledges without any additional funding or prospect of further sales.
Or like telling a diabetic he needs an insulin pump.
CeroWRT is an improved version of OpenWRT.
I've noticed the first sentence is very weird and doesn't make much sense. Also that isn't just a small mistake. But I can't edit my post anymore. I'm sorry.

I originally wanted to write more and point out some other important things. For example, “long long” never gets mentioned! This is not a good book to learn C. I believe it could be an adequate (or even good) one to train already existent C skills, but it isn't even that at the moment.

Okay, it isn't a final version. We have to wait until next year for that, but LCTHW gets too much positive attention for being just another less-than-mediocre tutorial book on the Internet.
An airplane with 200 wings
At first I thought it would be for open hardware; we already have the open software... Sort of disappointed.