skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really dislike those “Did X do Y?” article titles. It's like they're saying, “If you even assume the answer could be Yes, you're the idiot we're looking for”. I know not every article with such a title is written with that attitude, but it still sucks.
This actually kind of reinforces (or at least points to) one of the central ideas of the essay, that we cannot know what it is to be a bat--we would always contextualize or speculate about the bat experience in human terms of experience.

If you accept this, no matter how great We make this simulation (of objective physical phenomena and our best theorized non-human perceptions of these phenomena), this game is always false.

(For what it's worth, I'm not sure yet if I hold any firm viewpoints on this. The essay (at least partially) is an argument against reductionism, but I'm no philosopher; to be honest I'm still wrapping my head around the entire argument. I just think it's interesting to think about.)
It's interesting, but it has issues that I think make it more worthwhile to just focus on not getting the tables dumped in the first place.
I thought that too, but then they wouldn't be able to target the first spot so perfectly if they haven't considered that. And assuming 12h day the rotation should be around 2 pi R / 12 h ~= 2 km /h assuming R=4 km.

That would result in much bigger velocity than 0.5 km/h when bouncing, and would exceed escape velocity 2 times, just from horizontal part of velocity).

So I doubt it's so simple.
Cool high-performance firmware for real-time data acquisition with ATmega328p
The Android brand is alive and kicking
As an Indian I can only add that I simultaneously feel a sense of pride (at how advanced the Indus Valley civilization was) and shame (at the fact that modern India is still rediscovering concepts like well-planned cities and sewage/water supply 2000 years later).

I live in a fairly well-off suburb of south Bangalore that has NO municipal sewage or water supply. Mine isn't an isolated case either as large parts of Bangalore have neither. Also, large parts of Gurgaon, arguably India's largest new city.

So how do we make by? Apartment communities have their own sewage & waste water treatment plants; rain-water harvesting; private garbage disposal (we segregate into multiple categories); drinking water brought in by water tankers that pump ground water (which the law doesn't really protect).
When you read all the interesting stories from the front page, you should go to the new page to rescue a few undervoted interesting stories. It's like a public service, because there is a lot of crap there.
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Not all blackmail is done by cartoon villains. This was clearly a threat, made by someone who has made more than a casual thought about it: “Stop reporting about us or we attack you personally”
Not compatible with my Nexus 4 but it is with my ancient Galaxy Nexus? What gives?
Any chance of releasing the "source" of the issue? I'd like to try an ePub conversion.
If Nokia, now owned by Microsoft, distributes a Linux variant, wouldn't that void all patent royalty claims they have used against other manufacturers? Any N1 owner can redistribute their source (which they have to make available) and grant the same usage rights the N1 owner got from Microsoft, effectively granting each and every Android manufacturer the same rights of N1 owners.
GNU Guix 0.8 released
It reminds me of the 'Colossus' computer built by Turing, Flowers et. al., and I've never heard of that movie.

It is a slightly odd name for a framework though.
I'd like to see the actual uses of the requested permissions added as legally binding commitments by the app developer.

Android does this thing now (which is cool as far as it goes) where it warns you about everything an app could hypothetically do with the access it needs. It's the equivalent of getting a warning every time you install a desktop app saying, "This app could: Delete all your files; Steal your email; Record you on your webcam without your knowledge ..."

What Google could do is add a little "details" link after each requested permission, with a text field from the publisher. Like, "This permission is used to: show icons of your favorites and contacts in the launch area."

The Play Store agreements could clarify that these are legally binding commitments the publisher is making directly to the user (meaning the user could sue if the publisher lied), and require the user to re-approve if the text changed.

That wouldn't stop random developers from just lying, but it would make it pretty likely that an app from Nokia or Yahoo or Disney or whatever was only doing what it said.
You are right but your logic works in tcp connections, that why the method named "udp hole punching", in udp there is no handshake that means i can send you a udp packet looks like it's coming from S_IP:S_PORT.
I think Freenet is the closest thing to a distributed, encrypted network like the one you speak of.

https://freenetproject.org/whatis.html
Rightscorp nails 30,000 users for piracy in one month, still loses money
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That's a stupid amount of data. I kind of wish I didn't care about all that, but taking a copy of my contacts and location it just rubs me the wrong way. It's not worth it.
Not-genius here: I've actually come across this problem trying to boot Linux on enigmatic hardware. If you look in the Linux code it's actually reasonably simple to work out what it's waiting for.

This guy is definitely a genius for other reasons, though!
When do you think I learned to do math in my head?
or played tic-tac-toe without a board? or learned many word games?

The only time I was bored enough to pay attention ;)
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/garlic-man-begle...

Massive tax fraud case involving Secret Garlic; it happens :)
yeah, quite likely
Artificial intelligence is now creating its own magic tricks
> For blackmail, a demand must be made, accompanied by a menace.

It may not meet the legal definition -- but there is a clear demand and menace:

The demand is that journalists do not write negative stories on Uber.

The menace is that Uber will retaliate against any journalists by digging up dirty on them personally and thus hurting either their reputation, careers, or relationships.
This tablet is from the Nokia that was not acquire by Microsoft as mentioned in this comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8623311
I don't disagree with any of that. I just think that combining concepts doesn't necessarily reduce the number of ways things can go wrong (even if, as you say, it increases the number of things that can go right as well).

For an extreme case of what I mean, consider Church numerals.
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International Conference on Live Coding
Android sadly is not OSS, just like OSX isn't, even though it's obviously based on it. Chromium was V8 and WebKit, and so depended on WebKit. The rest are obviously not fundamental pieces of technology.
Cross-post from Reddit to clarify what exactly Guix is:

GNU Guix is a Guile-using Nix-derivative purely functional package manager and at the same time package recipe database. (Shipped in one so the recipe language doesn't need to be frozen for compatibility.) Development of the Guile-based init system DMD is closely tied with it.

Its last few releases include stuff to install a stand-alone GNU/Linux-libre system which might be sanctioned as the GNU Operating System if RMS approves. Since it builds heavily on GNU software like Guile (GNU's official scripting/extension language) for its init system and package manager / deployment tool, prioritizes GNU packages in its database, and remains ostensibly kernel-agnostic with the hopes of running on the Hurd in the future, it can be seen literally as the GNU OS. (GRUB, GCC, Autotools, Glibc, Bash, coreutils, etc. all go without saying.)

(Until approval of the name GNU, the OS simply has the same name as the package manager: Guix.)

And homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
A System That Any Automaker Can Use to Build Self-Driving Cars
It may not have a sophisticated enough vocabulary to distinguish 'pink' when 'red' was close enough. This effect is manifest in human languages which classify colours differently: say, for example, a language may have no word for 'blue', so the sky is 'green' to its speakers; it's still perceptually different to them, of course, but the lack of fidelity means it can't be communicated better than "sky green" or "grass green".
Why not just use Finagle, which is almost the same thing, NIH aside?

[1] https://twitter.github.io/finagle/
The first couple of issues were sort of hacked together in such a way that makes conversion to HTML (for ePub) a little awkward.

We got our act together by issue 3, so for this one on, it should be possible (and from issue 6 onwards, we already have the ePub for subscribers, so we'll release these as well when the issue goes CC).
A good enough occasion to learn the language?
Take a look at what New York City Council Member Ben Kallos is doing. He posts his legislation to GitHub so tracking changes is easy.

https://github.com/BenKallos/legislation

It's a unique approach to governing that I wish more would follow.
Microsoft only bought Nokia's devices division, this is a product by the actual Nokia.
Yeah, they should open-source the .NET framework or something.
Alternatively, given how common "shareholder value" civil lawsuits from ambulance-chasing lawyers are, and how large the company and its fall were, if there was something to be uncovered, it would have been uncovered by now. The fact that it hasn't and the only things remaining are some butthurt and Something Should Be Done opinions suggests per Occam's razor that there's nothing there.
What are you talking about? You can send payments to others from most if not all banks (other than small / local banks probably).
Nokia sold off its phone division along with limited rights to the Nokia brand name to Microsoft. Nokia is still a large company with several different divisions not owned by Microsoft.

This tablet seems to be from the old, independent Nokia, not Microsoft.
Elon Musk's secret fear: Artificial Intelligence will turn deadly in 5 years
I was quoting from the privacy policy, not the Android permissions interface. These are all things they collect for certain unless you opt out.
Just to state the obvious, which might not be so obvious to everybody: looking at the big picture, over billions of lives and thousands of years? War is not such a bad thing.

I'm not trying to just be randomly contrarian. I'm serious.

When I look at all the Europeans went through, starting with Greece and ending with the takeover of the New World, it was conflict after conflict. Terrible time to live. But through all of that experience the Europeans learned to have something resembling "competitive improvement", where folks could have huge egos, dogmatic religions, a quest for progress, and seek to make a difference in the world -- without war. Took a lot of war to figure that out, and we're still working on parts of it, but the lesson is clear: a certain level of creative destructive chaos is something to be demanded and never surrendered. Peaceful harmony is the way of plants, not mankind. We're here to challenge each other to move forward (without war, of course, but it we have to keeping failing to figure out where the boundaries are)
the demo is well done!
It's a world apart from blaming victims, obviously. But the Uber exec is clearly suggesting we should blame the journalist for other people's sexual assault.
Google GLASS might finally become useful. Image -> text -> speech. Hugely beneficial to the visually impaired. I can also see applications in physical security and law enforcement.
If you want to see how an statically typed ruby would look like, you should check crystal-lang out. The compiler is bootstrapped so crystal itself is the first big (medium?) size application running crystal :) [1].

The authors may correct me, but I'm pretty sure the project objective in the beginning was to compile ruby to native code. As the project progressed, it was clear it wouldn't be possible without some syntax changes (like type annotations). The changes pile up until it no longer made sense to call the resulting language "ruby" anymore.

1: http://crystal-lang.org/2013/11/14/good-bye-ruby-thursday.ht...
You're saying that people's lives may not actually improved in any meaningful way by the Tinder for flatmates mobile app I'm building?

Seriously, the science fiction world of William Gibson and so on where normal people hack electronics for fun hasn't really emerged at all despite the tools to do things having become cheaper and more accessible. It seems we've moved away from that since the 1990s, as machines become more packaged and less customisable.

Maybe we need a a new lean hack canvas that isn't focused on revenue.
Bad behavior by some journalists doesn't justify personal attacks by companies against journalists.
sorry I respectfully disagree -- here a SVP of a company is essentially saying, "by recommending people to not use my product, you are responsible if they get assaulted" -- it's essentially shifting the blame around a sex crime in a way that to my eyes really minimizes who is responsible for such crimes, the perpetrators. It's also such a flippant remark that it seems to me to show a callous indifference to what it means to be a victim of such a crime.

ps, agree with scarmig's point -- he's not "blaming the victim" but it does feel like shifting the blame, which minimizes what these crimes mean.
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“She’s not a geek, she doesn't belong here”
Not available in Canada, either.
I agree, its very simple and easy to understand.
Awesome.
Awesome podcasts too!
In case you're not already familiar with it, Betteridge's Law of Headlines is one I reference often [1]. "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Thanks! And a special thanks to Elle Kasai with her great library Purplecoat.js.
cache in case the wiki goes down (feels slow)

http://google.com/search?q=cache:https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ph...

That is a huge window of opportunity for HHVM which is rapidly growing in adoption and already twice as fast as PHP 5.x (at a minimum)
Alfred Raises $2M to Help You Automate Your Life
I think (since this sort of thing is weirdly relevant to my interests) that the problem isn't the threads going off topic, but that there's no effort required to see those threads. Because the topics of threads are relevant to the people participating in that discussion, just not necessarily to people viewing the topic from the root, penalizing those comments, to me, seems counterproductive unless the comments are obviously trolling or completely unrelated to the point.

That said, I think dang has mentioned penalizing off-topic comments before so it does seem like something they can do.

This may be solved by folding the threads by default. Presumably, the root comments are addressing the original post directly, so they will be the most on topic. But requiring users to take the (minimal) effort of opening a subthread to view it means only people who are interested in reading further will ever read it. Currently, having to scroll past and ignore threads you're not interested in appears to be causing a lot of friction.

Since the staff has mentioned wanting to add thread folding anyway, mentioning this is kind of moot i suppose.
Congratulations and well done on what must have been quiet a scary leap of faith into the unknown.
Thoroughly enjoy the magazine and podcast (both of which I highly recommend).

Keep up the good work chaps :)
I have a nexus 5 and am replying to you from sailfish. The porters have done a great job.
One can hope that once it happens a few times, journalists will maybe rediscover the basic ethics of their profession. Right now, they simply seem to demand a monopoly on digging for dirt.
I've actually found MSSQL to be easier to use as a developer than PG. Setting up local instances, quickly making backups and what not, designing databases, are all much easier with MSSQL because of their incredibly easy to use tools.

I keep wanting to switch to PG every few months because it's open source, but keep being stumped by the lack of good tooling. pgAdmin is a joke, rarely have I ever used a more unintuitive piece of software.
Not sure if "learning opportunity" should necessarily be on the priority list for a framework that apparently is intended to serve as the backbone for a lot of service development within a company the size of Tumblr ;)
This is why Uber's investors are blindly defending Uber's actions. Uber's scummy tacticts = more money in investors pockets
You mean we should filter our connection based on what IP it is coming from. Yeah, that's a good idea...
Oracle without Larry Ellison
A true rags to riches story. Which, going by the majority of posts here on HN when it comes to that subject, doesn't actually happen.
> Changing the salt on account information would take care of invalidating old hashes I guess..

Any chance you would have time to elaborate a bit? I like the idea of having a table full of hashes with no (clear) link to accounts.
It's wrong even in the tests: https://github.com/gogotanaka/Hilbert/blob/master/test/inter...
I would never be able to keep all these wires straight in my head. And that's even a step-down in terms of wiring from the BOMW1 project...
I'm really surprised that so many people are still just talking about it in an economic prospective. I'm not talking about Human Rights or Freedom because the government don't event accept them. I just want to surf the Internet.

Currently it works well because we get more and more tools to deal with GFW, but do you know how frustrating it is in the early days of the Internet in China that you spent nearly half of your life just to solve "networking issues"?

Put yourself in others' shoes for a moment please.
Uber's only purpose and meaning is exploitation. Yes, the app is handy, but it's no disruption. The disruption is in destabilizing the taxi cooperatives and weakening the drivers' position.

We should all cut the crap, there is nothing to be surprised by here.
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Why are they saying 'Linux-Libre' kernel? It looks like some kind of masturbation.
I would love to know if http://blog.uber.com/applepay means that Uber won't be able to track who they are taking to various locations. That alone would be a big win for Apple Pay.
A CUDA capable GPU.
he's also discussing sexual assault in such a trivializing way

While I hardly want to be in a camp that defends him in any way, he was specifically addressed her claims. How is it misogynist for him to argue that the risk of sexual assault are lower in an Uber vehicle, or vice versa?
War is a part of human history that rolls into pre-human times. It's impossible to remove it from history and try to speculate about the results. It would be like trying to remove pairing or family ties from the equation.

In any case, war is what causes things like the dark ages. When the way to gain wealth is to steal it, it doesn't pay to create and people stop. When exchanges between groups are generally violent, all other contact such as trade and cultural exchanges stop.

The way violence has been kept at bay enough to let civilisation advance has been violence. Empires which are a big centralized ball of violence were usually how civilisation happened because they provided a big enough sphere within which war was minimal. Islands of relative peace.
Fantastic screen on the Hudl2, exceptionally sharp. Good snappy CPU and wife reporters that it plays HD films without breaking a sweat.

But we usually have to charge it every night by when it has dropped to 30% capacity. Full to empty when watching films and browsing is less than 24 hours, sadly. Despite An enormous battery.

Also very hard to root and charging sometimes stalls and requires a reboot to restart.
I really don't understand why Microsoft paid so much for Nokia's phone division.
I understand there are a lot of subtleties, but it's still surprising for me that it can recognize a parked motorcycle from an awkward angle but can't distinguish normal english pink from red.

Just to be clear, I don't mean it as a criticism, it just seems to be the easier part.
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How to live for a month in virtual reality
I don't think this is that kind of site! ;) Seriously, you can find Bad Dragon with a Google search if you're curious, provided safe search is off naturally, and don't expect autocomplete! They're very exotic designs, often quite large (we have one as a present from a friend, largely as a conversation starter... or stopper!) and the kind of niche low-volume manufacturing in complex shapes that 3D printing can work out well for.
Scaling our email infrastructure with postfix and sendgrid
lim[x->0] 1/x => oo

This is one of the grey areas of the mathematical notation. When you are teaching this, you should confirm that the other teachers are using the same notation.

I usually use oo as "I don't care about the sign infinity", so with the notation I use this is correct. For the positive infinity I use +oo and for the negative infinity I use -oo. So

lim[x->0+] => +oo

lim[x->0-] => -oo

Nevertheless, I don't know if the difference between oo, +oo and -oo is implemented in this language.
I just noticed too, this is awesome. But on the product page it says USB 2 Type-C, which is weird, since I've thought Type-C would start from USB 3.1, but it seems the standards can be mixed and matched. It would have been great since you'd have the DisplayPort Lanes on the connector as well, allowing for full 4k output over that small connector.
Ah, the power of coincidence, I happened to be researching this quote today :

> "Our idea of the most aggressive sales vice president is Genghis Khan," he [Mr. Ellison] said. Paraphrasing the Mongol leader’s philosophy, he added: "It is not sufficient that I succeed – all others must fail."

http://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/genghis-khan/

Then there is the quip about Oracle :

One Real Asshole Called Larry Ellison.
Buying VPN services from companies isn't extremely reliable because once they're found out, they're blocked, and they also just may not have enough bandwidth. I just run my own virtual server in Japan or Hong Kong. Since I'm the only one using it, they aren't going to care.
There is no evidence that there ever was an 'invasion' from Central Asia. There was certainly a migratory pattern from Central Asia but without wars. Due to the climate change the people moved inland towards other river systems.