skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's exactly the point I was trying to make at the end. It's far more motivating to believe that hard work will get you to the top, rather than it being an arbitrary "right place, right time" kind of life - and for humans that's probably true, but it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with evolution. That's why I was wondering if people find the "Survival" way of phrasing evolution confusing and might find it easier to deal with the inverted phrase as it implies no agency.
The emancipation of H-P and the next great enterprise software age
Found this on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/69183293
Ask HN: Did the Codespaces story ever come out fully?
A while ago there was a rather horrible thing done to codespaces.com, their data and backups were deleted from amazon.com. There were promises of a full-disclosure post mortem but I've never seen any and the website has gone completely silent other than pointing to two former competitors of codespaces (svn lab and bitbucket, strangely enough github is missing).

Did the full story ever appear? I was left with the impression that there was quite a bit more to the whole thing and at the time and I'd really like to know if there ever was a follow up to what was written on the homepage of codespaces at the time.

In particular, one part read:

" In summary, most of our data, backups, machine configurations and offsite backups were either partially or completely deleted.

This took place over a 12 hour period which I have condensed into this very brief explanation, which I will elaborate on more once we have managed our customers needs."

But I do not recall ever seeing that elaboration anywhere.
In addition it can be used to train birds (falcons)...
Thank you for your work. Pro Git is the Git Bible; looking forward to reading v2.
Exact same policy with OpenGL before DIrect-X came along.
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And contrary to popular opinion this fund is on the order of 0.1 percent of the EU budget. I've heard the "omg, the EU runs on American corporations' money" thing a little too often.
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every piece of mail in the United States is tracked. Every package, every envelope.
Without taking a position on this particular case, I must observe that if you are going to boycott every company that has done something that allows some government to spy on customers, your list of vendors will be down to... I was going to say your local grocery shop, but thinking about it, they probably have a credit card reader, and I'd be astonished if there weren't at least some cases of governments tracking people via credit card purchases.
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When you collapsed, we're you also sleeping?
I agree with this. Fining a big organization effectively means fining their clients. They'll just pass on the costs.
Sleep patterns do tend to change with age.

I find that caffeine after ~2 P.M. is a lot more disruptive than before. I drink ~40 fluid ounces of strong drip coffee and don't have any trouble waking up (or any sort of headache, at least not anything immediate, I definitely service the habit). If I stick closer to 30 floz, I don't think I get a headache at all.
Google instead "Nassim Taleb", in particular his ideas surrounding iatrogenics (harm done by the healer), and "via negativa" as a heuristic for fixing systemic problems, i.e., removing things (chemicals/drugs) from a system (human body) to reduce the complexity of interactions and side effects.

See also, http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/af-glossary.pdf
Not to plug them or anything, but I found this course on time, entropy, cosmology, etc. absolutely fascinating: http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/mysteries-of-modern-p...

I kind of suffered through Physics in undergrad but this makes me wish I took more as an elective.
How Motorola managed to squander its lead is still a mystery to me. The 68K ran rings around anything available at the time and the 68030 had an on-chip MMU removing one of the last barriers between micro and mini computing.

Easy to code for, very nice instruction set, linear memory model able to address lots of RAM, memory mapped IO, what else was there to wish for. And yet, IBM picked X86. Beats me. The 6809 would have been a better choice for a micro than the 8086 was.
I'm working on a project management tool which allows track activity, collaboration, planning, estimates and other features. Maybe it could be useful for your needs:

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Please let me know if i can i help you further.
I would like it if something like that was the default and never changed. They seem to keep trying to jump on whatever style is popular when they start a redesign but by the time it appears in a release version it's way out of date. The developer tools are even worse in this regard, they're not even consistent with the rest of the browser. Themes are much better suited to keeping up with trends, the default should be simple.
Rumored to be coming in IE12.

http://www.zdnet.com/how-the-next-version-of-ie-codenamed-sp...
Haha, this got me too, BUNGA BUNGA became a meme.
Unwelcome reality excursion
It does. What is your point here? Because Google is doing this then I must accept others doing it as well?
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assets != profit

They had 1.2B for funding, then they IPO'ed, then they even made some weird stuff like [1] (which looked like a really desperate 'running out of cash' decision to me), sum all of that stuff up and you can easily explain those 3.6 billion plus all the other money that they had burn.

Sure they won't go out of business soon, but they will when all that money's gone. Twitter will be the flagship example of the second dot-com boom.

And they deserve it, so many wrong business decisions during these years that you start giving Thiel's pot-smoking theory a good chance.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2014/09/12/twitter...
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"This long-predicted shift in consumer priorities–from ownership to access"

But this is only about books and music. Then the article goes on to correlate a less than expected rise in sales with rent, on the basis of re-selling/streaming existing as an option, but without numbers connecting lost sales to actual new rentals (if any).
The flow of time is an illusion, and I don’t know very many scientists and philosophers who would disagree with that, to be perfectly honest.

Oh humbug! I have seen many proofs that rely on time going in a particular direction. For example, when solving the wave equation for electromagnetics it it is customary to discard anticausal solutions.
Note: I've only glanced at NeuG, so this is an over-simplified repy. Neug relies on a few different A/D inputs as a noise source. The resolution of the A/Ds is only 12 bits, meaning it is not capable of reliably measuring thermal noise in the system. In any case, it does not seem to be trying to measure voltage on a high impedance node. Therefore the data passed will be power supply noise and other sources of external influence. These potentially can be influenced by an attacker, maybe even remotely. I do like this architecture for a TRNG, and I like that it is open, but I do not believe the creator of NeuG has put nearly the TRNG know-how into this design as OneRNG. Personally, I'm looking forward to signing up on the Kickstarter for OneRNG when it happens.
There is reason why in Western Europe WWI is still known as The Great War. The only thing that rivals the Western Front in its scale is the Eastern Front in WWII.
I see your point. However there are many differences. For iOS and Android I have chosen those systems and thus to a certain degree accepted connections to Apple and Google. I have not however chosen to do anything with Baidu. Regardless I think anything that tracks you is spyware unless I have given it my consent to do so.
Sounds really scary.

You should write up a PSA blog post about it.
If I wanted to stretch it, I'd say that these young fellas "hacked" the English to achieve their goal, but, really, isn't life a little more interesting when things don't always go according to script, e.g. not every post on HN is another "Powder and Diaper Your Baby with Rust"-esque post?
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TL;DR go with your gut--it's probably correct.
Assessing Product Value Is Hard
Yes but that doesn't mean the economic value is non-existent.

Theoretically Google could sell that space. They trade this potential profit to promote their own product, at a loss, of how ever much that space could be sold for. This is like economics 202, opportunity cost.
OP here. European living in Asia. Any service that is tracking me without my consent is spyware. Regardless of the definition I am far more concern with being tracked by some Chinese company compared to a German company. So origin is important here.
Firefox provides synchronization without relying on 3rd-party servers, you can just use your own or one provided by a trusted friend.

and it's quite easy to block Google from tracking your browsing habits using GA or Ads: just use an Adblocker and something like Ghostery, RequestPolicy or Disconnect to block Google Analytics.
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Guys check out the ex natami project and apollo core project http://www.apollo-core.com/ also check out http://majsta.com
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HN is great because of the people that lurk here, not because it is great resource for anything.
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msmtp supports reading passwords from OS X's and Gnome's keychain programs. Also, having a separate program for that is very UNIX-way :)
seconded- especially now that notmuch-inject exists. When I first started playing with mutt-kz, I had some difficulty getting the flow through procmail into notmuch, but it's pretty painless now. I've been using it daily for 2-3 years and can't imagine working without it now.
If you buy a phone from Apple it is implied that it will make connections to Apple. To a certain degree off course. However I have not bought a Baidu phone and have not given my consent to be tracked.

What is wrong with you people who nitpick in this thread. It is an invasion of privacy and is being done without my consent. That is the important issue here.
I've stated it as 'survival of the fit enough' for a while now.
here's a hint - it's nowhere near close in cost to a bare metal build, at least not in my experience.

We run a small clustered database across 8 nodes. Total cost for the hardware was ~ $3000 per node. Cost for a comparable node in EC2 per month? $1500. Even with co-lo costs for power and bandwidth, and buying 10gige switches it's far cheaper for us to host it in house than it is to use EC2.
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Cool. Is there an Android version?
Or you could just use a shitty cheap webcam and take the lower bits of each pixel (or one pixel of each 8x8 block if the compression is bad).

The amount of randomness per second webcams generate is pretty insane, it's more than enough to feed the seed of a crypto PRNG function like Fortuna.
Thousands I believe at this point.
Totally agree. Some things do not make sense
Have you tried https://startpage.com ?
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Is it possible for this device to transmit over radio, or only receive? I certainly prefer only being able to receive, as transmitting seems like an attack vector.

With the assumption that it only receives, I would strongly prefer that it be left on by default. Adding a second source to the CRC mixing can only improve entropy, even if the source is controlled by an attacker. Since the noise from the zener has no simple proof of it's entropy output rate, and it can vary over time, and because zener noise TRNGs have been known to be power-supply noise sensitive (not that your's is), having that second source gives me much more confidence in the device.
The priority is to end companies spying. I agree that Google and NSA is a huge issue too, and that debate has been going on for a long time.
I've got tired of IMAP too. Now I just sync my maildir using Syncthing (Pulse). I can use mutt both on the server and on my local machines, everything gets synchronized.
How about the cost of bricks and mortar? The cost of an administrator? The cost of spares and disaster recovery? Sure the purchase cost looks good, but what about the total cost of ownership?
I use a setup very similar to this on OS X.

- After using offlineimap for years, I recently switched to mbsync/isync. It is way faster and has been much more stable.

- After a stint with sup (http://supmua.org), I'm now back to mutt. I really love sup's interface, but it was a little too flaky.

- I use a script called "mail" that starts a tmux session then launches mutt in it:

#!/bin/sh
tmux -2 new-session -d -s mail -n 'mutt' "export TERM=screen-256color; mutt"
tmux select-window -t 1
tmux attach-session -d -t mail

Then, in mutt I have the double-quote mapped to a macro that executes a shell command to split the tmux window and launch a read-only instance of mutt:

macro index,pager \" "<enter-command> \
unset wait_key<enter><shell-escape> \
tmux split-window -h \"mutt -R\"<enter>" "open new mutt"

This is my way of having an "async compose" pane for writing emails. I had tried replacing the mutt EDITOR variable with a command that splits the window and launches vim, but there are a lot of annoyances with that approach. Launching another mutt is way easier, and it also allows for easily viewing two emails at once.

That said, there are a lot of nice tips in here that I'll incorporate into my setup. Thanks for posting!
Users that settle for defaults are IE or Safari users :)
Yes, download for Android here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onePhone
I agree. Canadians love watching "the dumb Americans" on shows like this but you could get the exact same results going out onto Canadian streets. Many Canadians see themselves as intellectually superior to Americans because of our greater knowledge of their country, 80%+ of which knowledge I expect is from watching TV and movies.
Just like with control systems.
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Try it with a ping-pong ball (a natural choice). The curvature coming out of the tube will not be slight.
That currency is offensive to the increasingly large number of Americans who do not or can not "work", or choose not to participate in the soul-destroying crapitalistic exchange of slave labour for artifically-backed so-called "currency".

(Please don't downvote me, I don't actually feel that way, but that's the reaction I would expect from the current culture of the easily-offended.)

I rather like them myself, though I agree they're a little on the impractical side. I do wish we'd consider something more radical of a design change one of these days, if for no other reason than to at least make the current counterfeiters have to go out and get new equipment.
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A question for the designers (Paul?) about verifiability. In the software world you can effectively choose from 2 levels of review. You can (1) review the source code of a project and convince yourself it's fine. Or (2) you can assume/hope that experts have done that, download the software, and just verify you have an identical copy of what everyone else is reviewing. (Ideally using signatures of the authors and reviewers.)

Almost everyone who cares does step 2, assuming they do anything at all. Very few people are qualified or bother to review source code, but everyone who performs step 2 can feel pretty safe, as long as a release is big enough that it's getting reviewed by experts.

So, what's the hardware equivalent? If I'm not capable of reviewing the schema of this hardware, but someone I trust says "this is great", how do I at least know the one I bought is identical to the one she/he bought (or built) and reviewed? How do I verify the components? This seems like a difficult problem.
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Pope Francis declares evolution and Big Bang theory are right
I agree from a stealing data point of view. However what is done to that data is a different matter. I don't think the US government cares about my data or other 'normal' users. I am afraid that the Chinese can exploit it though. Much more possible that some corrupt officials gives data to the Chinese mafia or have their secret hacker army do something to hurt a country they don't like.
I was extremely excited when I found out about this, as I have been in transition to putting more things on OneDrive.
Erich Fried wrote a poem called "Angst und Zweifel", it goes roughly like this:

do not doubt the one
who says he is afraid
but be afraid of the one
who says he knows no doubt
There was a project at IBM that used the 68K. If memory serves, IBM thought it would be "too powerful" so they chose the 16-bit 8086.

Writing boot ROM code for the 68K
[at Atari, not IBM...] was a lot of fun. For instance, the first thing we needed to do, before we could use any RAM, was to size the available RAM; this code ran a little memory test using just the 16 registers (and no stack, of course). Didn't take long to write, but it was a neat little puzzle.

Writing embedded software is neat. I still get a rush when a new design wakes up and prints out "Hello world!" on a serial port, and on the ST it was way cool when the floppy drive did its first seek.

"Hey guys, watch this!"

Grknnnnkknknkg

Little things. :-)

Don't know if you could do CPLD initialization with the same constraints, but it doesn't seem that hard . . . :-)

Motorola seemed to run out of 68K gas in the late 1980s. Maybe they were distracted? They developed the 88000 RISC, and at Apple we actually had some NuBus boards that we were urged to write software for, but that effort wasn't terribly well organized and ultimately fizzled (one fine day we were told to immediately rip out all our 88K dev boards and return them. Something contractual probably fell apart, and we guessed that some lawyers had gone non-linear...)
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It's called a "tracking number" for a reason.
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Do you mean practical in the sense of anti-fraud capabilities, or in the sense of likely-to-win-general approval?

I think the designs are really great. Norway's are great too.

I really wish Americans were more properly suspicious of tradition.
The problem here is '10%' is a human measuring stick. The only measuring stick evolution has is human retrospect. You only get to see which 10% you were in after the outcome is known.
Just curious why do you use Canary for web dev?
Is anyone here using GNUS as their daily email client? I used to use mutt back in the day, and I was kind of surprised that the author was using emacs with mutt rather than just using emacs.

That said, I got as far as getting emacs / gnus to sync a gmail account before realizing that I'd need to spend some serious time reading manuals and tweaking configuration before I'd be able to use it day to day.
> Don't forget that a large chunk of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google

I'd love to support Mozilla as much as possible, but no way I'm keeping the default Google-search when you have stuff like DDG around.

Hopefully me wanting privacy doesn't impact Mozilla's financials too hard. Firefox + DDG only seems like the most natural combination: both are powerful and privacy-centric.
Definitely plan on doing this. I think it's incredibly important for people to realize that you can't make health your last priority - not if you want to build a sustainable business. I had warning signs leading up until that moment that I foolishly ignored. I can't be the only one that has experienced this and if a blog post can make at least one person reconsider their behavior and save them or their family from trauma, it would be worth it.
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No, I was standing up.

Edit:

I'm not sure. Doctors didn't comment much on it, so unfortunately, I don't have a conclusive answer. But it does seem plausible that my body decided to override my willpower and decided to "shutdown".
It got practically zero coverage in the US.
Beta Alanine and Caffeine are quite different.
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Ironically, ideas also "represent a public risk of global harm." Does that mean we should ban communication and education, just to be safe?

(1) Horizontal gene transfer has been going on since the formation of life. And while I can imagine some extreme scenarios where engineered GM could be dangerous (Engineering a virulent airborne ebola virus, for example), it's not clear moving a gene from one species of an apple to another species would lead to global catastrophe.

(2) The world is an intrinsically dangerous place. Isn't there a greater likelihood that some ornithologist goes to the Amazon and inadvertently brings bring back some new virus or bacteria? Given the heavy regulation, ethical considerations, regulatory testing, and precision involved in engineered-GM, this seems like a much greater danger to humanity. Should we halt international travel as well?

(3) Unlike GM where we have controls, regulations, and exhaustive testing, there is no such precautions for radioactive and chemical mutagenesis that make massive wholesale genetic changes to a genome. You could even argue that GM is safer than non-GMO methods.
>The facility will work 13 times faster than the current system, enabling detailed, UK-wide forecast models with a resolution of 1.5km to be run every single hour, rather than every three.

Maybe I'm missing something but should a 13x speedup allow it to run in 1/13th the time? Or maybe the "13x" is only for part of the system and they have a bottleneck somewhere else.
You run your "verified" software on hardware, right? How do you know the hardware is verified?
I'm not sure what he means by "flow of time" but I don't think he meant what you argued against. I think he's arguing against the notion that time is like some sort of continuum like a river, or like an axis on a map.
To Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis: could you make some of the data freely available to the Natural Language Processing community?

If this is something that interests people, then it will be worth the time to automate this process. I suspect that there are blog entries, twitts, facebook updates that already answer these questions. Now we have to mine them. "Gold standard" set of Q/A would make it easier.

EDIT: But I hope there will be a way of getting Q/A in a bulk, right? Thanks

NOTE TO SELF: This could be a data mining or text mining web app. Check if the interest grows in time.
Isn't DNSSEC trivially defeated right now, as any machine will accept a non-signed DNS record currently? I don't see any rush to get in on that, if you can beat DNS with an MITM, you can just as easily downgrade DNSSEC right now. We're many years away from DNSSEC actually being viable, if it ever will be. Wait till it's actually being enforced by OS-level resolvers or there's simply no threat model in which it is beneficial.
I've used the nightlies before and had poor luck with them, once e10s goes mainline I'll probably make the switch.
or it might make you more selective about who you ask for feedback?