skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Synergy is amazing. It's hard to explain to people, but as soon as they get somebody to set it up you can watch their faces the first time they move their mouse over to another machine and they go "oh"..."ooOOOHHH" and the light clicks on.

They've recently moved to a paid model, but some older free versions are still around.

I don't know why it's not better known.
I actually have seen a person on a bad trip run out into a street without looking for oncoming cars. That was one of the most frightening experiences of my life, because I know and love the person who did that. And, indeed, many people are quite wary of their friends and loved ones using psychedelic drugs because they have observed other friends and loved ones experience bad outcomes from using those drugs. Medical doctors who work in emergency rooms have more been-there, done-thats on this issue than I have.

On a statistical, national population level, it does appear that alcohol (legal but regulated) is more dangerous to more people than LSD (currently basically illegal). But individual personal risk profiles vary, and I would not want LSD (for example) to be more readily available to the general public than the typical prescription medicine. If a knowledgeable physician prescribes LSD for an indication for which LSD is generally safe and effective, then fine, but I hope nobody I hope to see live a long and healthy life is obtaining LSD from current "street" dealers or "friends."

On the broader topic of drug regulation, there does appear to be some cross-national evidence to suggest that "decriminalization" (which is not the same thing as "legalization") may help set up systems of drug regulation that actually reduce societal use of dangerous drugs, which sounds like a very good idea to me. Let doctors figure out what each kind of drug is good for, and let most members of the general public pursue a typically sober lifestyle and pursue new ideas and creative thoughts in their right minds.
What about when it is combined with duress? Like if you refused once and were told they would kill your family if you ever refused again or quit? I'm just curious. I agree with the spirit of the idea that following orders is not valid justification, but being under duress is a well-known and generally accepted justification for committing a crime. Can you shed any extra light on this?
Maybe an economic incentive could be integrated into Yacy via ads?

We might get to a pretty efficient system that way. We see this with bitcoin: Mining is done with the cheapest power available and highly optimized algorithms and hardware.

If the advertising income flows back into the spidering - It could become kind of the perpetuum mobile of distributed websearch.
Anybody make something similar with dual ethernet? I'd like to replace my aging Alix-based home router/vpn (http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm) with something like this.
The Intel Enigma
I run a similar setup, on a X60, with more "modern" adaptations :

- systemd allows me to have insanely fast boot, and perfect control on what get started at boot. Debian likes to start everything and the kitchensync by default, after you installed it. My systemd is compiled with a non-standard path so only the .services I put there get run.

- coreboot replaces the bios, likewise for the added freedom, the hackability, and the speed gains. At the moment I can boot to a command line in less than 5 seconds (because of grub and stuff), but I want to optimize that further (the kernel and systemd each take less than 1 second, coreboot a bit over their total - 3s is feasible now by removing grub menus, but I'd like less than 2s so I guess I'll have to dig into things :-)

- xorg is nice because it's like having an almost infinite number of VTs. Yeah I know screen and the likes, but there're other nice things you get from X, like the ability to display many different fonts, a very large unicode range, graphs, etc.

- lxde is quite minimal and non intrusive, yet you get modern things like default application, .desktop file to start programs, etc.

- for all my office needs, I use Microsoft Office in wine. Runs very fast, fully unicode aware. That's cool because I'm using a xmodmap for mathematical greek letters in the 3rd level, it all works!!

¬∞ / ¹≈ / ²≠ / ³∇ / ⁴∀ / ⁵∪ / ⁶∩ / ⁷∈ / ⁸⊂ / ⁹≽ / ⁰≿ / ⁻ ⃗ / ⁺±

θΘ / ωΩ / ɛƐ / ρϱ / ꚍꚌ / ψΨ / υϒ / ι∫ / ϖϵ / πΠ / ̂ ̈ / ̃ ̧ / ̊ ̀

α∂ / σΣ / δΔ / φΦ / ɣΓ / ηϘ / ϕϑ / 𝟀κ / λΛ / ̅ ́ / ̆ ̇

ζϟ / ξΞ / ςϚ / √⊥ / βϐ / νͲ / μϡ / ≤≺ / ≥≻ / / ⃝

I fully agree that starting from a minimal debian install is the way to go to avoid too much cruft. There are many things I'm glad I'm not using, such as NetworkManager and the likes (hopefully to be superseded by systemd some day) but my setup is generally modern enough to do everything I need, while fast enough even on 2006-era hardware, and old-school enough as in "if there's a problem, I can pinpoint where it comes from and fix it"

It even replaced a very-recent macbook as my default computer.

There're many gains from using "modern stuff". I'd have killed to get something as good as systemd and the current support of wine in the early 2000.

My take is to take the best free software has to offer, whether it's old or new, to match your needs.

EDIT: I boot my laptop whenever I want to use it, because a few seconds is a rounding error, and this saves more power than software suspend. I do suspend when I take a short break. Congrats on the fast boot time without systemd, but it's not the easiest way :-) My systemd starts a minimal debian testing in 700 ms. The kernel takes a bit above that.
Personally, I wouldn't run at 30Hz if someone paid me for it. And you don't have to either, because 60Hz support for your GPU is available (from kernel 3.17 best I can tell). You may have to enable DP1.2 or MST in your monitor settings to use it.
If it were obvious psychadelics were safe, they would be legal. The war on drugs hinges on ensuring the public is terrorized.

Also, if it were obvious that there's a possibility everything you know is wrong, most people wouldn't be living their lives based on the infallibility of one particular book.

If it were obvious the power structures were not based in reality, we wouldn't have an unshakable two-party system.

None of this is obvious to the majority of people.
I think 40" is exactly right. I've been using a 30" monitor for 8 years now. At first it seemed overly large. Now I want one more column, and find 27" cramped when I have to use one of those.

I am concerned about throwing too much light at my eyes. That's why my next monitor will be one that has solid blacks and good contrast.

I'm not concerned about neck strain. I bet you're more likely to get neck strain holding your neck in the same place for 8 hours than you would
He doesn't know; he asked.
They will be doing this as a statement against the use of their work in this manner, and for the publicity that statement generates.

It's very unlikely they actually think "Hey, we have had our copyright violated and deserve compensation."

This isn't a money grab, that's not their style.
Thanks @joyanta! We're very excited about the next steps for the community & product
The problem isn't inherently that it's a dissenting opinion, but it's a comment that provides no added information aside from the fact that they disagree.

Had they actually provided an argument, statistics, or a new insight on the problem, I doubt they would be so downvoted.
Did Johnny get anything from Operation Nifty Pachage [1]?

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nifty_Package
A sock puppet has no interest in actually participating in a discussion. It's only interested in harping on one side of a political debate. You ask for specifics and they just repeat a bunch of talking points.

Someone like this might be a sock puppet, but they might also just be an ideologue. A sock puppet will have created a login, assuming a login is necessary, just for the purpose of sock puppetry. An ideologue will stick around and argue other topics.

Sock puppets also like to work in teams, you'll see them in groups of two or three 'me-too'ing each other's points. If this happens, all of them will have created accounts specifically for that purpose. Sometimes they'll also all have the same IP address. This kind of manipulation is easy to detect, so generally you'll only see them rarely and in the short window between their spamming and the subsequent detection and banning.
It's pretty similar in the games. Some companies forbid crunching, many are just encouraging it and very few are actually forcing crunch. E.g. one big publisher offered the studio were I worked at the time a contract that demanded working on weekends. The studio walked away from the deal but other studios had signed up with them and, I figure, they might had similar contracts.

Most of the crunch, though, is voluntary.
Why Uber was wrong
In principle at least, there's no reason why having a larger proportion of your field of view covered by the screen ought to make things worse. If fullscreening a document is going to make it uncomfortable to read, well, don't do that then. Now in practise not being able to just fullscreen things can be awkward, but that's a software problem with current OS GUIs, not a hardware issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634121
I found a pretty good overview here:
http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/resources/dt-july-2009/Palm.pdf
Must-have Linux Desktop Apps (Six Clicks)
Still not anonymous.
How Techu leverages Redis
Historians: Go big or go home
This is a good point, but I thought that we were all done perceiving failures in capitalism after WWII. The crises of the 1930’s surely did cause at least a perception of failure in capitalism, which is why in the '50's there were so many academics around with CPUSA cards rotting in there wallets.
> The myth I keep hearing is that you must go to larger fonts when scaling up to a 4K monitor. This is not exactly true. Do the math. If you double the screen resolution and at the same time you double the screen width, you have done absolutely nothing to the size of a pixel or the physical size of your fonts.

What the author seems to be missing here is that if you double your screen size you will likely put the screen at further viewing distance.
As, over time, there's less of a need for low-end workers, we will probably see restrictions on recreational drugs relaxed. We're seeing that now with marijuana. It's a good drug for keeping the useless part of the population happy and quiet.

Read: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/bravenew/themes.html
Story of my life! That's why I commissioned the video. What do you think? Some think the music is a bit babyish... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJlUiQZ84Uw
Also interesting the debian package "usbmount": auto mounts plugged in sticks as "/media/usb"
Bingo. No other init but systemd has a sprawling set of sub-daemons that duplicate existing daemons for features (but not interfaces), and insist on only working with systemd as the running init.
Solving the Economic Graph
would be interesting to know if this odroid is better or worse than a device like Cubox[1] and CuboxTV[2].
They are more expensive but they include case, power supply etc..

[1] http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox-i-mini-computer/
[2] http://www.solid-run.com/cuboxtv/
Alt-tabbery and workspace swapping are more likely to generate mental confusion and delay than having things simultaneously visible side by side, surely.
That's true only if you reduce "progress" to "GDP growth". As much as economists see prices of goods (e.g. houses, transportation, iPhones) falling as a bad thing, it's actually the true indicator of progress.
Aaaand this is why I switched to first a tiling WM, and then to OSX for its intuitive 4 finger swipe workspaces.

Till that switch I was a multi monitor junkie, but after 3 monitors it starts getting bad for your neck, bad for your eyes (with all those monitor backlights burning your retinas) and you also need humongous desk setups.

Nowadays it's just one big monitor and 4 finger swipes.
I would be very wary of "drug-related death" statistics.

I've read that when people are admitted to the hospital, if drugs are mentioned, they are required by law to report the admission as "drug-related". The person admitted doesn't have to be actually taking any drugs him/herself, much less be in the hospital because of any action on such drugs on their body or mind, nor even do the people around them have to be on any drugs. They only have to be mentioned and then the admission is considered "drug-related".

Furthermore, when people die and they're on illegal drugs, it's rare for there to be just one drug involved. Usually it's a cocktail mix of chemicals (often with alcohol being one of them, and one of the drugs that's most dangerous to mix with others).

Finally, lots of drugs are metabolized very quickly or don't show up in the standard tests that are done during an autopsy (if an autopsy is actually performed).
I love how literally 20+ stories in the mainstream media about terrible shit Uber has definitely done basically becomes "Yeah I can't believe you lemmings would care about that PR spin, here are a couple good things Uber has done according to their PR department". Why thank you great oracle, for bringing us the real truth...
Uber isn't a startup, not any more. They're a huge company with billions of dollars behind them and world-class political operatives trying to shape their public narrative.
Please for the love of maths do not "align" with the common core standards. It would be the saddest, most disheartening thing imaginable* for Khan Academy to become a feeder to the American standardized testing system.

The author writes: "If one of Khan Academy’s goals is to prepare students for success in Common Core mathematics, they’re emphasizing the wrong set of skills."

I would like nothing better than the academy to publicly state this is NOT a goal of theirs. Being good at math and passing math tests are orthogonal* concepts. In my experience teaching to the test is the fastest way to kill the love of any subject because, at the end of the day, the only answer you can give to the question "Why is this important? or "Why should we do it this way?" is "Because the test says so." It's death to independent thought.

I don't know who his advisor is but please kill this dissertation before it gets out into the world and he uses it for self promotion on Good Morning America.

*intentional hyperbole
I think the most important point is "Additionally, AI is not a single entity. ... AI is not a he or a she or even an it, AI is more like a 'they.'"

All the horrible "clippy" scenarios involve ONE AI that becomes super intelligent (and therefore powerful -- another fallacy) without any similarly intelligent and powerful entities around it. Instead we'll have incremental progress and if we ever do get super intelligent (but probably not super powerful) machines they'll be embedded in an ecology of other machines nearly as intelligent and quite likely more powerful.

I'm not saying this doesn't pose risks, but they aren't the risks that the AGI threat folks are studying.
Yes, the higher performance is rather appealing. Of course one of the reasons for the success of the raspberries is the low energy consumption, but sometimes it is just to slow. A little reserve really would be good for media centers or also if you want to have a small server solution.

Of course best would be some device with low power consumption when less work is to do and which can go to full power if needed. Multiple cores would be good for that, if the device could deactivate unneeded cores or even reduce the clock speed.

I am looking forward for more power saving devices, since servers which run all the day should consume less than today.
No, your rights to use copyrighted content under the law are zero (excluding fair use). There are seven basic rights which are recognised, unless the copyright holder grants you one or more of these, then you are not permitted to use their content. They may add any additional terms to the license which they like, as long as they are legally sound.

One dirty trick which is used is to include something like "absolutely no copying" including for "education or personal use", which is not really true, because fair use permits limited copying. So that's an example of a non-legally sound clause.

The right to perform a work publicly and restrictions on those public places (e.g. as a studio I could license a work to be played publicly in a specific movie theatre) is one of the seven rights which are built-in to copyright law, so such restrictions are, in fact, sound.
Issue #1: Yes, it's supposed to be like that. The point is that any n-bit scalar takes the same amount of time as any other n-bit scalar.

Issue #2: Rust has explicitly taken all memory management away from me. There's nothing I can do about that.
"LSD certainly kills people"

Citation please.
Apple's holiday ad: “The Song”
You can always open up http://www.liveatc.net/ in another tab.
WhatsApp might be working on a web client
What's the point in being so condescending?
I know it's not cool to say anything bad about drugs these days but maybe it's because they are harder on your liver.
You don't need systemd for a fast boot.

For my sample Jessie in KVM virtual machine, 1 cpu core and 512MB allocated on a reasonably idle i5-2500 desktop:

boot time on a default install: 1.33s

boot time on sysvinit: 1.37s
Jeff Bezos on Profit, Failure, Succession
A lot of cop shows use the sort of light torture that America used. Rough the suspect up and get him to talk.
(I work at Khan Academy.)

We have no interest in preparing students for tests just for the sake of it, but if you look at the Common Core standards you'll see that they are well thought out (really!) and designing a curriculum around them is a very sensible thing to do. Of course, we won't restrict ourselves to the material covered by the Common Core if/when we feel there are gaps.

We're interested in helping students learn to solve problems, not in teaching them how to take tests.
I'd go further and say don't berate someone's tools full stop.

They're not making you use it. They're not making you pay for it. Why do you care at all? What does it have to do with you? Why do you think they want your opinion at all?
Try http://bulletjournal.com and taking notes whenever you accomplish something or learn something new. Then look back on your notes periodically and reflect on them.
Fleep: Comic about a guy trapped in a phone booth
Learning OCaml with Mirage OS
I'm saddened that you're saddened by nerds relating to each other, talking about things they actually liked and feeling nostalgia.

Everyone, let's be sure we stick to the real business of HN: gossip about companies which were started for no reason other than to get sold, fighting over the brands of fetishized personal electronics, hagiographies of people like Steve Jobs and Edward Snowden, flamewars about women in tech, and preening about how we personally are the top 1% of software engineers and only hire people like ourselves.

Otherwise, someone might feel saddened.
"I actually have seen a person on a bad trip run out into a street without looking for oncoming cars."

And I have seen people do this when they weren't on any drugs (not to mention those who were drunk on perfectly legal and socially respectable alcohol).

Sometimes it was because they were listening to an iPod and were so wrapped up in their own thoughts and the music that they were oblivious to what was going on around them.

Perhaps we should make iPods illegal.
>ad-hoc editing with sudo (precluding use of emacsclient)

It looks to me like you're probably unaware that an Emacs not running as root can edit files owned by root. The way it goes about it (in a word, TRAMP) is a little complicated under the hood, but (at least for files residing on the same machine as the Emacs process) reliable.

Specifically, both C-x C-f /sudo::/etc/hosts and `emacsclient /sudo::/etc/hosts` work.
Curious what prompted Chris Rock to change his view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8.

Does he think that things have got worse for US blacks vis-a-vis police interaction in the last 10 years?

Or is it something else.
Also Teleport for Mac: http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/ (requires a little tweaking to work with Yosemite)
Come on - this isn't Wikipedia, and not everything easily Google-able needs to have a citation.

Anyhow, here's one result to get you started:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4043895
I agree with many of the sentiments here regarding software engineers particularly in regard to not effectively capturing the economic value of their own work and that corporate interests which depend upon that value do not have their interests at heart. While open source and information sharing is one of the joys of working in this industry, I wonder if there is not a middle ground - confederations of engineers who charge for their products as independent entities as a means to reclaim that value for themselves, where the software they create is charged for, and shares of the profit are distributed on a contribution basis. Does this idea have merit, and is there interest in the community to write software to manage this confederation model?
This is amazing what you're doing for her. I wish someone did something like that for me but as a girl I was usually discouraged from pursuing science, computers, physics or anything like that. I am sure she will appreciate it all when she's older.
Diving into concurrency: trying out mutexes and atomics
My post was mostly focussed on those who _have_ to go at certain times. E.g. to see a docter during an injury etc.
Ryan Holiday's book Trust Me, I'm Lying is a good account of the state of blogs and online journalism today. After reading that book, things like this don't surprise me any longer.
The NCVS, for obvious reasons [0], doesn't even track homicide (nor, from looking through the questionnaires it uses, does it appear to gather information on perpetrator race), much less corrobate the conviction stats presented for murder (and, in any case, as victims of crime often rely on law enforcement to identify the perpetrator, wouldn't really be an independent check, even for those kinds of crime it does address, on the UCR for perpetrator demographics, though it can be, for those crimes that both address, for crime incidence and victim demographics.)

[0] "In the last six months, have you been murdered?" is not a particularly viable question.
I've tested a scalar of about 50% 1s against a scalar with almost no 1s, measuring at the nanosecond resolution, with 100 samples each.

The p-value of the 2-sample T-test was greater than 1%--there's no evidence that one takes less time than the other. That can be replicated by playing with the benchmarks yourself. If you have any evidence to the contrary, I'd be happy to look at it.
> Or is it something else.

Mm. He could be a performer with a persona of someone who takes alternative and possibly controversial or uncomfortable positions.
I agree. The OP drew a conclusion, and rather than just demanding proof I wanted to point out why I didn't think it was obviously true. There would very well be other things not in my analysis that could lead the OP to that conclusion.

For example, methods besides chemical traces might determine the cause of death. Friends of the deceased might provide information about the circumstances of death, additional drugs or paraphernalia might be in the pockets of the victim, or in the immediate surroundings.

In addition, if it were true then there should be a lot more people who are injured in similar circumstances. The medical personnel at the hospital may learn some of the background context when asking for details about what happened to cause the injury.
Ecstacy is not considered to be a classic psychedelic and does not fall under the category discussed in the article. Too bad for your cousin's friend but it's not a valid counterargument.