skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likewise, a great deal of what we find 'important' or 'significant' relates directly to our basic existence as material bodies with specific biological needs. Like a fish not realizing they were in water, it is very easy for people to not notice how reliant they are on their bodies. Were we able to build a machine intelligence, I have serious doubt that we would be capable of recognizing it as alive or conscious. It would have absolutely no drives in common with us. It would not need space. It would not need the separation of individuals. It would not need to respond to stimulus on a short time scale. It would probably have absolutely no need to communicate with us at all. Its needs would be so utterly alien to us that it would be very difficult to observe it and conclude 'that is intelligence'.

Likewise I think the idea of "uploading your brain" is ludicrous unless the plan is to simulate it existing in a virtual physical world. The human brain reacts poorly to sensory deprivation - consciousness dissolves in the absence of physical sensory input. Cutting off every sense totally? I don't think we have any evidence to suggest that what would remain could qualify as a human mind. And we've got some evidence that it would not. Our bodies and our brains are not separate. Dualism is fundamentally untrue. We can see this in many studies of various injuries that rob people of various capabilities of their body which bleed over to significant effects on their mind. Make people hold a pencil in their teeth, which forces them to 'smile', and they will have more positive emotional reactions. People with paralyzed facial muscles suffer decreased emotional range in their mind. Paralyzed individuals generally experience depression (separate from the depression expected from suffering harm). Cutting off the brain from the body hurts the mind.
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This article is terrible. I love videogames and spend way more time talking about games and playing them than the average person. Thus, I'm a "gamer". Anything else is just overthinking.
tangentially related (and thank you for posting!)

German Women Find Break in Startups Denied in Corporate Chambers

"Women are changing entrepreneurship in Germany...” said Samuli Siren, a managing partner at Berlin-based Redstone Digital, which finds investors.

Women “are adapting and reinventing the idea of the startup, which is changing the game.”

“It’s important for women to share their entrepreneurial experiences with the public to encourage and motivate other females...”

http://www.garp.org/risk-news-and-resources/risk-headlines/s...
What a business model really is. Many people get this wrong
Surprising and, I found it, very annoying.
It supports sd cards, so you'd have to pay significantly less than that.
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This is silly. Every math textbook that teaches Theorema Egregium includes the same pizza example. That's how I learnt it as well. In my case we had an animated math professor who chose to bring a slice of pineapple pizza with canadian bacon to class, but during his demonstration the pineapples combined with the bacon and turned all gooey and started dripping on his shirt, so Theorema Egregium had to take a backseat to the practical realities of maintaining spotless formal attire in the classroom in front of a hundred giggling freshmen.

But seriously, this Theorema Egregium => Eating Pizza example is straight out of recreational math[1] & is very popular.

standard numerical geom text [2]:"In our everyday life we encounter the Theorema Egregium in a pizzeria..."

another riemann geom text[3]: "There is an interesting real-life application of Theorema Egregium...Notice that when you hold the pizza in one hand, the principal curvature of the crust is much smaller than along the direction of falling toppings."

third complex analysis text[4]: "Gauss defined Theorema Egregium in 1828. He defined principal curvatures to be maximum and minumum values k1 and k2...He then defined Gaussian Curvature K = k1*k2. k1 & k2 are not intrinsic but Gauss discovered K is intrinsic. Pizza has K=0 so we introduce a non-zero k1 forcing k2 to be 0 in order to preserve K because K is locally isometric. For this reason we bend the sides of the pizza to stop the free end from drooping"

[1]http://mathoverflow.net/questions/5450/cocktail-party-math
[2]http://tosca.cs.technion.ac.il/book/index.html
[3]http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/pz229/Teaching_files/GR.pdf
[4]http://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Complex-Analysis-Contemporary...
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Being sold in Colombia too, lots of people have them.
How do you equate not wishing my day to day local travel to be archived permanently by law enforcement with being paranoid?
Well the problem is that the ones at Walmart that sell for $7.87 taste awful. So, yes, I buy free range organic chicken from the farmer's market.

But I also know that this is a luxury that I can afford because I"m lucky enough to work in a high paying job. I don't believe it's possible to feed everyone organic free range chicken and I appreciate how lucky I am.
You may not personally be able to change a company whose practices you are at odds with. However, every time you consume a chicken that was treated in ways that make you uncomfortable, the company must replace that chicken with another one to sell.

In my view, every time you choose to consume (purchase) a chicken that is treated in a way you disagree with, you are responsible for producing a new chicken treated the same way. And every time you choose not to consume a chicken that is treated in a way you disagree with, you have prevented a chicken from being produced under those conditions.

Of course many people will conclude that they'd rather have cheap chicken than treat chickens well, and many more people will simply not think very much about it. But if you are personally troubled by how chickens are treated then I think it's worth thinking about your role in causing that.

Sorry if all that is obvious and you really just meant you don't feel like there is anything you can do to affect greater change. I am only posting it because I have talked to people who feel a lack of control because they don't believe that their personal consumption has a direct impact on production, which I believe to be incorrect.
It costs Nevada nothing if they don't actually build there. That's just negotiation.
An article which discusses the origin of anon, without once mentioning 4chan.

Impressive.
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I've read Erik's ACM post when it got published and had a hard time understanding what he is talking about at first.

It took me about until now after seeing functional programming and streams in action to grasp the beauty of the concepts behind it.

I also love the clarity behind the sync/async duality (getters/futures & iterables/streams).
> I don't know why PTEL isn't more popular.

Potentially because T-Mobile direct offers the same plan for $5 cheaper than PTEL does. (TMO Simple Starter 2GB at $45/month vs PTEL 2GB 'Unlimited' for $50/month).

T-Mobile also has lots of advertising and lots of physical stores, which probably helps a bit.
Thank you very much. I think this seems the best thing to do.
Infuriatingly, they do this only for the largest US companies while small business in America is left to fend for itself. Travel to China or Russia much as a small business?

One example: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-15/china-corporate-esp...

If your counterparty has the right relationships as the provincial or state level you're a target. This, FCPA, DCMA... US small business plays by a set of lofty one-sided rules.
I might be thinking of some of the cache timing issues about sharing physical hardware with other guest VMs. There were papers in the last two years showing circumstances in which another VM on the same device can learn about secrets in caches via timing experiments. But that's a cache issue rather than a general pipeline issue. So I still can't remember if there's something else that I'm thinking of or if I'm just confusing it with the cache stuff.

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/10/attack-of-we...

More recent stuff in this vein:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/435.pdf

(Yikes!)
I had this thought the other day - not robots washing the laundry, but folding it. Folding is actually not that simple after thinking about it.
I wish this was available as a translation app. You point your phone at a fruit stand and it names every single item, and you can then ask the vendor for the item by name.

It isn't that crazy, in fact that's exactly what they have right now but just in English only.
Bah, at least PL/1 is still maintained by IBM.

Come back when the language you are running on that AIX system is completely dead since before 1990 and there is no online documentation for it. ;)
Wage stagnation doesn't tell the whole picture. Workers are compensated through other means as well (benefits). Also, purchasing power for many goods has increased.[1]

[1]http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230402680...
The article you linked to provides security for etcd.

However, what is the standard approach for securing Docker container to container communication across hosts. For example from an app server to a DB server.

Is IPSec setup within CoreOS network layer, or is the security provided by Docker? If so, what are the options?
I think the premise of the article is even more relevant for material that requires analysis and application, not just memorization. It's easy to get yourself in a situation where you think you know the material because you have some formulas memorized, but it's not until you get to the exam that you realize you don't understand the contours of how to apply the rules you learned.
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In college, I had a fairly consistent habit of bombing the first exam in a class and then going on to ace the class anyway. I got a 50 on my first exam in my very first class, Calc III. It's like I didn't take a class seriously until I was in panic mode. There are some parallels between my struggles with procrastination I think.
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A lot of services verify by making those two random <$1 deposits and having customers enter the amounts in, then withdrawing them immediately. This appears to be faster than the verification system.

The first business I encountered that used the “real” verification system was Fidelity, and I found that quite annoying.
Amazon makes a profit, it just invests all of it in itself, returning you a more valuable stock instead of a dividend. Investors let them do it because the investment made with the profit is worth more than the cash would be.

Even with all that, the value of a company that doesn't turn a profit isn't 0, it's the value of it's assets, and Amazon has a lot of those.
There is another evaluation of Common/Standard Markdown by the author of vfmd: http://roopc.net/posts/2014/eval-stmd
I had the same experience when I was studying in France. All of my exams were open book and I found that the exams actually reflected understanding of the subject instead of rote memorization.

I was an exchange student at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) and was very disappointed by the number of exams that graded rote memorization. Glad to see that Caltech is not like this.
Market share isn't the same thing as market size. The point being, SO was losing to competitors.
If it's a "secret plan", how do they know about it?
In my view, salaries for programmers should be going down, not up.

For instance, I think house construction is overpriced because I think "what's so hard about putting up walls around some ground?". The answer is everything is hard about it. But that it is hard is incidental. By that I mean, it was harder before, and now it is easier, and it should get even easier (there are 3D printers printing houses now) and therefore cheaper.

A non-programmer thinks the same way about software as I do about houses: "what's so hard about telling the computer to do grab this data and transform it?". Well, all of it is hard, but again, it's incidental. It would have been more expensive in the past because it was harder, and it will be easier in the future (Docker, NixOS, mathematically proven programs that do not require maintenance, etc).

It's nice being a programmer today but we won't ride this forever. As we automate ourselves out of the market, it will be a net benefit to everyone (as no one will have to program as hard or as much as today).
I agree seeing the /16 and /8 would be very interesting. Perhaps just list those posts inline, with a smaller/greyer font.

How hard is it to reliably extract an area code from an IP address? Now that would be nice. Kind of like craigslist, but invisibly partitioned by area code.
What is up with the questions used in the pretest? From the article:

> Which of the following is true of scientific explanations?

> a. They are less likely to be verified by empirical observation than other types of explanations.

> b. They are accepted because they come from a trusted source or authority figure.

> c. They are accepted only provisionally.

> d. In the face of evidence that is inconsistent with a scientific explanation, the evidence will be questioned.

> e. All of the above are true about scientific explanations.

If I were taking this pretest, it would be accompanied by the realization that most of my work in the class would be dealing with a mountain of oversimplifications and generalizations. So maybe the goal of the pretest is to inhibit my critical thinking to the point where I just think the way the professor expects and try to maximize my chance of filling in the right bubble.

A better question might be something describing historical evidence rather than forcing the respondent to make a claim about truth. Like: according to the research of [researcher and colleagues], 80% of survey respondents said their primary reason for accepting a scientific explanation was...

These would be much better at providing cues for the student later on, since they now have a name and a number to attach to the claim being made.
In terms of overall n/w utility across banks from a regulator perspective ACH being quite bilateral(or multi) it seems nice, but i guess the returns part makes it look more credit-risky(for ODFI) than most multilateral netting transactions should be.Wanted to know if there are any insurance products that thrive on this very credit risk ODFI takes?

I haven't seen a lot of payment gateways but does ODFI place block limits or OverDraft limits on the originator and does it vary from bank to bank?
Unfortunately all of the science referred to in the article is about memorization and not analysis, so this claim is hard to justify.
I switched back to a money card from an unlimited a while back. This is correct. I can't recall if it's 10/20/40 exactly, but they're all multiples of 5, for sure.
Yes, in the future you might not be profitable. In the year that you turned a profit, you turned a profit, even if you decided not to pay it out as a dividend.
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AFAIK stop and frisk is a NYC thing. Also, there are many cops who aren't on 'stop and frisk' duty.
I love the idea of SPARQL and making a machine-readable web, but, imho, it's just too complicated to ever become mainstream. The technologies that get widely adopted are usually embarrassingly simple to get started with: HTML, SQL, JSON, ...
The primary purpose quizzes as they are generally applied to to check to make sure you've been attending lectures, reading the material, doing the homework, etc... They may indirectly prepare a student for a test, but mostly it is to enforce the work plan (which should help a student on the test).
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The market, for which, isn't that large.
The catch22 is even more disturbing than that, when you realize as a sister comment said, the organic/ethical foods are normally far more expensive. While this is an academic problem for most of the people here, for some living on a tight budget, it's a make or break for even _having_ meat on the table. I see similarities between the issues of trying to remove junkfood consumption, in that you see the highest levels of consumption in the poorest demographics simply because they don't have any other options. Until we can provide those options, or assisted accessibility to those options, I do not think we will ever break the market for unethical/unhealthy food, flavor and preferences aside.
Same story in Mid-Atlantic region of US. I get plenty of recruiter emails, but when I ask, they're paying junior (or sub-junior) level pay for senior and above talent.

Never recovered from 2008, and I don't see it changing anytime soon. When companies can continue making more profit, they're going to keep doing so on the backs of their grunts like us.

Meanwhile we continue to try and figure out how to survive on stagnated pay with cost of living continually on the rise. I'm trying to do more side work just to pay my basic bills.

I'd say get out of IT, all the neighbors around me who are in upper levels of sales in medical/pharm/chem are doing quite well off. Companies still see IT as a cost and not a benefit and pay as little as they can, which isn't much.
Well, smaller is definitely relative ;) - I think the Moto G is still a bit large (maybe an inch or so too tall?). But it's definitely one of the better ones of a bad bunch. (And I agree that it's an excellent phone overall, which feels a lot classier than its price tag, and that the camera is... functional.)

(It's strange, but bigger-is-better really seemed to have permeated the Android market. Whatever happpened to the opposite mindset, the one that gave us stuff like the Nokia 8210? The size of friends' iPhones - particularly the 4s - had really seemed just right, and I was rather disappointed when shopping for an Android equivalent to find they were all anywhere from large to hulking enormous by comparison. Even the so-called "Mini" ones were no better, being generally only the tiniest bit smaller than their non-Mini siblings.)
Drawing a causal relationship between Breaking Bad and what happens in the 'real world' would be hard to do. That being said, there are some reports released occasionally by various government agencies that track the kind of stats you're looking for. One of the big ones is the Illegal Drug Price/Purity Report put out by the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/price-and-purity

Unfortunately they aren't released very often, so they may not have the data you need for a few more years. They may release intermediate / preliminary reports, I'm not sure. Worth looking into.
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you can buy it in India. http://www.flipkart.com/motorola/newmotog
at that level, I think it's better to have a harder test and test understanding with open notes/books, etc.

the best professors at my school made the tests hard and the average scores pretty low. It wasn't graded on a curve but more of an "I expect A level grades to be around here, B level around here, etc...".
The "classless society" was mentioned by Andreas Rossberg, the author of the talk. He works at Google on the JavaScript V8 engine as a compiler engineer and is on the JavaScript (ECMAScript) language committee. I'd call this pretty well grounded in reality.
Since I had the same thing, I'd assume its a default thing.
3 Basics ways people raise money:

1. The most reasonable but least seen in SV. You build a basic business that has traction. With additional work you can see the business having even more traction. You need money to scale.

2. You went to Harvard undergrad and Stanford graduate, or similar. You worked at Google for 2 years. You want to try out something kinda crazy, cool, but have no idea how to turn it into a business. With all your accolades, investors put you at the front of the line. People are willing to toss you a couple 100k each for the chance that you kill yourself working on something that becomes big.

3. You were one of the previous 2 types and already sold a company. You are now a vetted entrepreneur. Raising money is trivial. There's dumb money in the Valley willing to bet on a horse that has already won a race. Get one influential investor and the rest come.
Summary:

1. Don’t spend too much time on market research.
2. If the feature is really important, it’s not free. Be very careful about
what open-source modules you incorporate into your own product.
3. Watch users where possible; don’t rely upon them to tell you what
they are having difficulties with.
4. Users will use your product in ways you never considered.
That’s a good thing.
5. You can’t push on a string: to find product-market fit, you need to
find a use case where someone is pulling on the other end.
6. You will almost never fire someone too soon.
7. Get all the details right.
Concepts are great, but execution is what matters.
8. There are no instant successes: every successful company has a
revisionist history that makes its founders look unusually brilliant.
9. You can fail by misfortune, but are unlikely to succeed by chance.
The more insidious aspect of this are the psychological pattern of people like my parents (who belong to a different generation) that will pick the UI path that causes the least apprehension. My parents are both very intelligent people, but they struggle like many with user interfaces on machines.

Every time I am in NY to visit, there is a stack of cards waiting for me - so I will spend 20 minutes in the morning down at the train station filling each of the tickets up to a sane number.
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Nice job picking up on the nuances of the game :) and as you said, much easier said than done.
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I have another noob question. Would this be a good way to get redundancy for serving a website?
The "perks" exist to squeeze more out of each worker, nothing more. $10 for a 15 minute haircut onsite, vs $75 for an hour of a 150k/year person's time to run out for a haircut.
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This Google Maps + DBpedia mashup was posted on HN, may be useful, http://retred.org & https://github.com/twistedvisions/anaximander