skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea what crimes the Oslo police are actually focusing on, but drugs seem to be on the absolute bottom of their list. It would be one thing if they didn't have the resources to respond to every call about a witnessed drug deal, but they won't even send someone out to collect the drugs when they're told where the dealers are hiding them! At least they could get some of the drugs off the streets that way.
I find that the somewhat more utopian futures are fairly well presented in games and anime, precisely because scale color are cheap there.
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> but instead it make you more happy to learn what makes the great new games great in their own regard. They won't be great in the same way Fallout 1 was great.

I think Fallout is a perfect example. When you look at Fallout 3 one can easily have that impression, that the good things from Fallout 1 and 2 are lost in modern games. But if you then go on and play Fallout: New Vegas, you see that even a modern game can still have everything good from back then, right now.

I think it's not about the time, it's about choice, about which games you play. For every call of duty there is a Deus Ex, Alpha Protocol, Spec Ops: The Line, a World of Goo or a Minecraft.

Apart from the subjectivity caused by nostalgia I think it is impossible to look at our times and the awesome games created today and to think there are no good ones. Games like Oblivion - which he cites as a negative example - are exactly the old sandboxes in which the player can act somewhat freely. And with auto-leveling of the enemies disabled via mod it was even not a bad game.
But sure, the good games are not always the most successful ones, and there is crap on the market. But that is not new as well.
Tsalikidis' family and their lawyers asked for the case to be reopened, claiming that forensic medical examination results prove that Tsalikidis' death could not have been suicide [1]

[1] http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=307811
This came up during editing for the book. I tried to settle it by checking the original survey, which I thought would surely report the number of incidents reported by each respondent, but they make no mention of it. So I can't tell how many people are involved per year.
I think the word syntax is ambiguous. Is homoiconicity about concrete syntax? Abstract syntax? Both? Some other kind of syntax? Does parsing have something to do with homoiconicity?

I don't know the answers to these questions.
You still have not pointed out my alleged insult (as in personal attack). The only insult I see here is your passive-aggressive one: "Humanity never ceases to amaze me, on both ends of the spectrum."
As for your questioning why I did not reference external sources, the invalidity of this popular myth is far from arcane knowledge, especially on the Internet where it is just one web search away, and I do not reward lazy ignorance.
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"a superintelligence that had access to advanced nanotech and could do pretty much whatever it wanted"

Without water I will die in about 3 days. I have no "want" for the nicely brewed tea currently steeping on my desk. The point I'm making is wants invariably gravitate to what you can't get, at least not easily.

Its quite possible a nanotech equipped superintelligence (human or artificial) might really desire fame, or founding a new religion or philosophical school, or military conquest, or scientific discovery, or the creation of some really great art (fine or pop). Or maybe just collecting a vast pile of money. Those all have at least some requirement for empathy, however little.

Previous human fiction and semi-fiction along the lines of vampires, mythology, religion, and even robinson crusoe epics always seems to really like the idea of human culture even if the protagonist spends most of its time separate. As far as I know no one has explored the theme of introducing an AI to something like Buddhist meditation and letting it burn some machine cycles meditating, at least not in a hard sci fi setting (I would not be interested in that in a fantasy or soft sci fi setting, so if it exists I wouldn't know)

Some of this is self selecting in that its not hard to find lifestyles that human higher end intelligences like, and they're all vaguely empathic, and variations have only been cultural. Thomas Jefferson might not have empathized with his slaves very much, but that lack was because none of his people did, not because he specifically was very smart. There is probably some self selection in that smart people who completely separate from civilization are going to be unknown to civilization, so whatever they do, we as a group donno, so if they exist, whatever they do, there's not much evidence, and its likely an AI would have similar results.
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Sounds like an apologist and a shill for the entitlement mentality which seems to afflict the entertainment, security, and law enforcement industrial complexes.

Their sense of ENTITLEMENT is ENORMOUS.

"We are ENTITLED to YOUR PRIVATE DATA."
Depends on what kind of religion you mean. I'll occasionally pop in to Zen or Insight meditation sessions, and I've definitely found them helpful. You'd be hard pressed to say that Zen isn't a religion, but since it's not theistic, I don't think belief is particularly necessary for the experience.

You might also check out Sam Harris's latest book. A noted atheist, he's recently written a book called, "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion". I haven't read it, but I heard him on the radio last night, and it sounds like it is aimed squarely at your concern.
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> Well, its more of a write once, publish everywhere solution from what I understand-it allows .Net devs to develop in C# for Android/iOS.

Except they don't offer a multi-platform UI toolkit. Xamarin.Forms is quite recent and the amount of bugs shows it still has lot to improve.
RubyMotion now has builtin (beta) support for Android.

http://blog.rubymotion.com/post/97668474211/announcing-the-p...
I could live with branding on the free version, but 432p as the best export resolution? No thanks.

Even Microsoft's Movie Maker seems like a better deal than your (free) software.
Yay, now firefox can waste just as much memory as Chrome. Guess 1GB for the whole browser wasn't enough; they had to go for ~100MB/tab.

Got to keep up with Chrome after all.


If I use chrome for normal browsing (I don't normally because its feature set is poor, customisability is a dirty words, and I don't like the privacy risk), it can rapidly slurp 4GB or more of memory (with perhaps two key addons, adblock and DoNotTrackMe). Even firefox at its worst rarely if ever goes over 1.5GB, even with very heavy customisation and plenty of privacy/adblocking/etc addons.

>Performance would improve because the browser UI would not be affected by poor performance of content code (be it layout or JavaScript).

What about by the overhead from task switching hundreds of processes and mapping all the memory when each one takes up 50MB or more?
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I'm I the only one who is a bit uneasy with forwarding pointers? In terms of memory use this is like disabling compressed oops and in terms of performance this is like going back to Java 1.1 with an object table.
Congratulations ISRO. You have made India proud yet again
Maybe I play games differently but I always try and go for the optimal set up (the min/max)(even if it involves looking it up on the internet).

I think the fact that you can min/max a game easily is a testament of bad, or at least simplistic, game design. In games like System Shock, one of the examples in the article, there is no simple optimum but multiple viable paths to victory.

Of course simplistic game design has it's place, for example in mindless shooters like left 4 dead. That one is extremely linear (on a level that really killed immersion for me), but it perhaps aids the game designers goal of completely braindead (hah) entertainment.

It's perhaps the same thing as in literature: The author asks for more Goethe but only gets Tolkien & Co. Both are fine, but Tolkien selling more copies doesn't make it good literature, "just" great entertainment.
Oh, that's interesting, thanks. It's amazing what weird strategies people come up with when analyzing their data.
I made a list about the properties a game should have: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/58847/32928
Such a reaction is borderline ridiculous and coward. Others like Wozniack are mature and strong enough and are definitely able to sustain a business well. Several levels apart!
There's nothing wrong with covering a general rule and leaving the exceptions to another article.
Writing doesn't just make you a better thinker. It turns you into a different person. Writing daily turns you into a different person daily.

The most interesting result of writing daily is you start to have different kinds of thoughts. You start to pay attention to things you didn't consciously think of before, come to conclusions, and that habit changes what you think of from thereon.

The most surprising result is this way of thinking subconsciously becomes second nature within a year. It doesn't feel like trying.

edit: rewriting
There is no reason to assume that there are no substances that can either temporarily alter you and inspire you to pursue a certain state of mind more often (without the drug) or that can alter you for a longer time.

That said, the birth of my son altered me for a long time (made more emotional, better able to enjoy emotion). Finishing the reconstruction of my house with my own hands altered me (showed me I can do major things when I just start doing them). Getting my PhD showed me that even though I reached the maximum level of education I can still have insecurities about my intelligence and they are thus irrational. Reading Atlas Shrugged changed me from someone who automatically though from a group perspective to someone who kept his own needs at a higher priority by showing me the moral rational for this type of thinking.

I never tried LSD or the like but aren't they just shortcuts to states of mind I can attain by learning myself to be more grateful for what I have? To be more social and nice? Can I attain the long term effects of psychedelic drugs by reading? By learning how to meditate? That is what I always believed.

Perhaps at some point I will experiment, now I feel I can't take any risks, I need my brain the way it is to provide for my family.
Where's the fun in what you describe?

I avoid leveling system games, I guess because I feel like they are abusing some stimulus-reward system in my mentality, but I am asking what you think there, not trying to be snide.
Sad to see a legal expert sounding like an apologist and a shill for the entitlement mentality which seems to afflict the security, law enforcement and entertainment industrial complexes.

Their sense of ENTITLEMENT is ENORMOUS.

"We are ENTITLED to YOUR PRIVATE DATA."
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> I'm not saying it's easy but it can be done and drugs should be used as a last resort when all else fails.

I haven't tried MDMA, or any of they psychedelics. But trustworthy friends report just the opposite. It was trying those drugs that made them understand that different ways of being were possible. It was only then that they started doing the work necessary to make that their normal state.

That makes a lot of sense to me. For years I heard a lot of talk about how exercise was good for mood and cognition. But as somebody who hated sports, I filed it under "blah blah". It wasn't until I had a couple of intense exercise experiences that I experienced the difference. Now I'm training for my second triathlon (after doing more than a dozen running races).
> I really think that the platform limitations were one of the best point of the games from this era.

That's were roguelikes come in. Though they have self-imposed limits, they are often pretty innovative (eg, CDDA, or the huge breadth of available classes in TOME).
My point was: The fact that the Netherlands has too many prisons and Norway too few compared to prison population does not entail that the amounts of prisoners are wildly different. In fact, they're pretty much the same. Norway just hasn't built as many prisons as the Netherlands.

Whether the difference in prison saturation is related to their drug policy is a completely different question. (In any case, it seems Norway is doing an about-turn wrt. rehabilitation: http://theforeigner.no/pages/columns/a-forthcoming-change-in... )
I was excited about the WebIDE but apparently it's only for firefox OS apps. Is there any way of linking a webIDE to devTools? I'd pay for a tool that lets me click on a jsconsole error message and then takes me straight to the editor at that line and column on the original file.
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some parts of the UK had problems with dealers scaring away litter collectors and road repair crews - they were hiding drugs in cracks in the road and empty coke cans in the street

end result was bad roads and lots of rubbish in those neighbourhoods
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"They make the choice, but claim it's their spouse's decision, to prevent having to explain their decision."

Children are another excellent example, I'd have to put up with an enormous level of extra B.S. in my life if I didn't have kids. "Oh you scheduled an all weekend teambuilding event on the other side of the state? soooo sorry I can't go, who would watch my kids all weekend?" "Whoops the company picnic is on Saturday, thats just too bad we have a soccer game" "I'd love to stay late to attend the diversity committee meeting but I have to pick up my kids at the library minecraft club meeting" "Oh the team is drinking until they vomit and then seeing who gets a drunk driving ticket? Wow that really sounds like fun, but the kids have a scouts meeting tonight and I'm the treasurer and in the leadership committee so I'll just see you guys tomorrow...". Back when I was single and childless I had to participate in all those idiotic primate dominance rituals, but having kids is a get out of jail free card preventing people from screwing around with my private life to prove they're superior enough to me to get away with it. Screw those bastards.

I suspect the business types know exactly whats going on and just don't want to make a scene.
The biggest benefactors to humanity also come from the state: outlawing slavery, implementing universal healthcare, providing law and order, underwriting transportation networks.

Knee-jerk fearmongering about the government doesn't help anyone.
Two more recommendations:

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and the classic http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/broadcast/
Bookmarked. I already occasionally listen to local and nonlocal police scanners via Broadcastify with my own playlists of atmosphere and ambient-shoegaze music. No joke. I'll use this. Some beautiful, fresh music on the roll here.
> Diversity allows for policy experimentation.

Sure, but when the "experimentation" involves inmates being bitten by rats, maybe some minimal standards are in order [1].

1: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/france-la-sante...
Well, we're made out of meat, so I try not to expect too much. We'll always be savannah survival machines, at least until we do a lot of genetic self-engineering. Superstition is a survival trait.

But don't knock the technology piece. Humans may not be very good at thinking, but we're definitely better at it when we're safe, warm, and well fed. Especially so if that's what we've had a lifetime of.

Maybe this is a little too engineer-y of me, but I think if we want wisdom, we have to construct environments where people naturally produce wisdom.
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Actually, i don't like RTS much, because i often forget to do something important and quickly lose the game. It requires a good training in time and task management, which is a bit stressful. And the unit movement is often a micromanagement skirmish.
I'm seriously wondering whether that patent will be granted. Given my opinion of the US patent system: probably yes... but I can hardly believe that this is something without prior art.
Considering the scale of the attack, it's pretty obvious that state actors are behind it.
Except in Firefox, at least for now, you can turn it off and make it monolithic again if that is your desire.

I've had too many stalled pages for my liking so I welcome this when it is finally stable and extensions catch up.
fair enough - i guess i wanted to tell people about my recent observation.
That sounds like a Depth-First-Search[1] (which wasn't included exactly). In DFS you'll go all the way out one way, until you reach the end, and then go back to when you last had a choice, and go out a new way, etc (a bit like the mouse did).

It is worth mentioning though, that this approach probably isn't so good if the map level is very large, since the BFS is way more likely to catch something around the player first.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth-first_search
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Actually, they do focus on this from time to time, busting a lot of dealers and drug addicts. This normally happens when the area they dealers/addicts occupy becomes too annoying for the public.

However, it doesn't solve anything. It just spreads the drug addicts and dealers around the city for a while, making drugs available everywhere instead of just around the "junkie area".

And then when the police stops busting people, a new "junkie area" appears.

Until it all repeats again..
I know of several startups in NYC using Go to great effect; bitly's nsq comes to mind: https://github.com/bitly/nsq

The NY Times open sourced a very cool tool "streamtools" that was built in Go: https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-strea...

Your question also reminds me of an interesting talk I saw at RICON: https://speakerdeck.com/al3x/nobody-ever-got-fired-for-picki...
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Worth mentioning that they cover a number of cities, including St Petersburg, where they listen to road traffic police (in Russian of course).
There is a similar TED Talk worth watching:

Jill Bolte Taylor:
My stroke of insight

http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke... (18:19 min, Feb 2008)
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The addition of a "firebug like" tool has been made because having it not embedded was hurting Firefox adoption: removing it now would mean to forget the past.
Well there is a payoff at the end. Let's say you were playing Runescape and you were min-maxing (building a pure). If you go PKing, you'd almost always win the fight (unless the other person was a pure). The real fun with Runescape is writing bots though.
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part of how that was tackled in holland was that if an addict was arrested they were offered a choice between being charged or going into treatment - and they may have also been banned from the junkie area (normally people are arrested if they violate this kind of ban)
The Memorymoog was polyphonic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorymoog
I was under the impression that it only connects to the debugging interface on chrome for android. Has this changed?
This reminds me about an idea I had but never really followed: For all you writers out there, do you think a device with an e-ink display and a normal keyboard, similar to a laptop, but designed for the sole purpose of distraction free writing, is something consumers might want?

I always wondered why this does not exist.
Good grief. I would have thought that it was blindingly obvious that if "Apple" can access information on a phone, that means that some employees of Apple can also do so, and I doubt very much that control of that access is as tight as I for one would wish it to be. Closing the backdoor is a win purely on that basis.

Add into that the large question marks over FISA's legitimacy as a court ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla... ), and the potential for illegitimate use of the backdoor becomes decidedly alarming.

My way of thinking is to compare a potential backdoor to what would happen if the backdoor doesn't exist. You get a warrant, and now you use the warrant to try and compel the accused to reveal the passcode to their phone. The accused refuses. Now what? Two possibilities: 1) the defendant is protected by the 5th Amendment, and can refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate. If this is how the law goes, then any attempt to backdoor the phone is essentially an attempted end run around the 5th amendment. 2) The courts decide that this does not infringe on the 5th, and is instead covered better by the provisions for warrant-based search as provided for in the 4th amendment. In this case, the courts already have well-established remedies for refusal to acquiesce to a search, which should be used. Again, the backdoor is unnecessary.
An important nuance here is that if Mussolini was a murderer, there are many thiefs, racketeers and white collar criminals in the mix as well. We know and accept those who were such criminals that the idea of international crimes against humanity were formalized around their crimes. On that scale, there are plenty of misdemeanors that go unprosecuted (and unacknowledged),
I think there are two additional elements other than her being a woman for all she described, that probably contribute as much: she's young, and attractive. The former alone is enough for most of her examples to work equally with male recipients. In fact, I've seen some of them (or similar situations) happen to males.

Not that I want to downsize the problem women in tech face, but this not, actually, only a gender problem. And, let's face it, it's not only a tech problem.
Heinrich von Kleist wrote some 300 years ago an excellent essay titled The Expansion of Thought whilst Speaking [1]. Recommended read. Having to communicate with an external entity expands ones own understanding in ways that they could not with internal thought alone.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Kleist#On_the_Gra...
This makes sandboxing possible which is a huge security win and the reason I still use Chrome where I can. RAM is cheap and browsers 64-bit so a bunch of extra memory in the name of security is not a big deal really. At least that's how I see it.
This article is really long and has no easily discernable point. Can someone highlight it?
It invokes a mood. It distills a spirit of night and cities that never sleep. Urgent events from a police scanner play upon a feeling of social connectedness. Combining that with ethereal music plays upon senses of tranquility, danger, peace, haunting, calms before storms, and life transpiring. Dramas like Blade Runner, The Killing, and True Detective, as a few examples, achieve many of their most beautiful moments through that same, heightened essence.

It's great for programming at night. It's meditative without entering a full alpha state. It's like other moods, such as sounds of rain and nature, that linger but don't distract. Many people find it conducive to "the zone" of creativity and productivity.
ISRO is indeed India's premier institution that has time and again made her proud. Kudos ISRO.
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This is something I really want, not for distraction-free writing, but to go in my backyard. I would love to get an SSH terminal in the sun.