skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are superficial similarities, as well as some deep fundamental relationships. Studying biological systems from the viewpoint of information theory has been very productive. Systems theory, too. IMHO, these approaches don't really get to the deep core of biology (my guess is there are aspects of information processing in biology which have no equivalent in CS, but they provide valuable tools to study it).

Those things aren't unique to hacking, btw- they are common in warfare and intelligence, predating computers (well, maybe not fuzz testing).

That said, it can be misleading and people often stretch the analogy too far (DNA splicing is kind of like the C preprocessor but the ribosome is no compiler)
Cool, reminds me of Dr. Racket mixed with Smalltalk, but for Clojure.
There are no sects of islam that don't accept the prophet's actions as holy and unconditionally right. There are only differences about what those actions were, famously whether he appointed Ali as caliph or not (that's the difference between sunni and shi'a islam). All schools except one are part of all sects, all sects share all hadith, just not all hadith interpretations (they, and their many addendums and rewritten versions -very roughly- correspond to what is meant by a "school"). This is part of the islamic canon, which as I said is shared by all sects. Frankly, if this isn't in a sect, nobody would call them an islamic sect, but something else (example : the Baha'i, which originate from within islam, but nobody seriously considers muslims, merely because they disagree that the actions of the prophet were the "final" authority on morality. Their claim is that moral authority is to be found in any number of individuals, and that muhammad's teachings (especially the more insane ones) can and have been overridden. For this, there is a standing death penalty for any Baha'i that gets caught in >20 muslim countries. This mostly to illustrate that the vast majority of muslims accept the Bint Marwan story as moral authority, and that dozens of muslim countries consider it reasonable to execute people for not doing so).

I would also like to point out that killing for insults to islam is quite popular amongst muslims, even in the west. And frankly, we can't realistically tolerate even 1% of them having this opinion (because it'll lead to events like the Hebdo ones).

But even in general you're wrong "in practice". There are 2 islamic sects worth mentioning : sunni islam (~82%) and twelver shi'a (~13%). Yes the remainder has a million sects but, they're outlawed and persecuted in islamic nations, and their numbers are tiny.

Furthermore, given that Christianity is both older and much richer in spread (meaning it's spread in more varied cultures), much larger number of adherents, and variety (many Christian sects in single locations), so I'd be extremely surprised if there were more offshoots of islam (unlike islam, Christianity seems to leave older cultures mostly intact. Comparing South America with Indonesia, for example. In Indonesia, the old culture is completely erased. This makes regional branches of Christianity have their own identity, and leads to offshoots, whereas the violent repression that islam historically was spread by did not exactly promote diversity)
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I dont think this discussion belongs here, just read the Economist article and be done with it. It makes an excellent point for Islamist to modernize and "the others" to realize all Abrahamic religions had taboos http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/01/johnson-blas...
Wall Street will be disappointed. Prices for digital goods always have and will continue to be controlled by piracy.

But given the choice between sparse and open ... and rich and closed

If you've ever wondered why people with no speculative asset interests are so excited about Bitcoin it is because the technology has the potential to monetize digital goods.

It also commoditizes identity and creates a rich and singular (yet decentralized and equal access) stream of digitally signed transactions and associated data. A public datastore. Rich and open. It spells out the death of privatized social media over the next decade.

My theory is that once our communication mediums are again as rich and open as standing on the street corner and selling newsprint that our intellectual property industries will rebound and thrive yet again.

Right now our dominant forums for discussion are privately owned. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and the rest aren't optimized for quality discussions. They can only quantify and measure in an attempt to subsidize the communication of the people who use their services.

We need true public venues for a vibrant intellectual community!
>> Books have never been cheaper.

> Thanks to market distortions enforced by a still-growing quasi-monopoly, whose stock price is only propped up by Wall Street's expectation that they will jack those prices way, way up once all the competition has been flattened and customers have nowhere else to go.

Assuming you mean Amazon here, this isn't the case at all. Wall Street supports Amazon's stock price because they keep growing. They do that by expansion, not by price rises. Wall Street has zero expectation that Amazon will ever raises prices for anything it does - they expect Amazon will continue to cut prices and expand markets.

That expectation may be bad for book publishers and possibly authors, but not for consumers.
In my experience, if these kinds of things break (whether due to a very esoteric corner case, a buggy browser that needs to be worked around, or a new version of the language specification), the person who discovered that it didn't work doesn't get it fixed upstream: they instead push a new module that they try to get people to switch to, talking about how much better theirs is (this happens partly due to the glory, but also partly due to it seemingly legitimately nonsensical to submit a patch to someone else's project that is "subtract your file and add mine", given that it is seriously a single line of code). Meanwhile, the original developer was usually part of the same community-bereft modern GitHub-era open source culture (where publishing code is the victory condition, as opposed to building culture), and isn't around to fix their library even if someone did submit a patch, so it becomes your responsibility anyway, only now it is to realize that the module you are using is "so last month" and figure out which replacement is the correct one. This is not much better than just copying and pasting code from Stack Overflow, yet frankly more infuriating as at least when you copy/paste it was more clear what you walked into.
I mean, you sound like a pretty typical hacker kid... which is to say, not a typical kid that people care about when discussing things like market share or teen trends.
Two things in this article stuck out to me:

> Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire

That's an uncharitable paraphrasing of Google's mission statement which, taken to its logical conclusion, might as well say "To know everything there is to know in the universe, to grant agency to this knowledge, and to make it available to everyone." Maybe this just reveals a fundamental rift between my values and those of the author, but I cannot think of a higher calling for the human spirit.

> Searches for keywords will not provide contexts for keywords. Patterns that are revealed by searches will not identify their own causes and reasons. The new order will not relieve us of the old burdens, and the old pleasures, of erudition and interpretation.

The author is making an empirical claim here, and it is wrong. AI is already advanced enough that such absolutes as "searches for keywords will not provide contexts for keywords" are demonstrably false. To a limited but growing extent, software is already capable of erudition and interpretation; these are not uniquely human endeavors.

The biggest problem with this article (and so many others like it) is tying an argument for the value of the humanities with unscientific denial of materialism. That the human mind is ultimately an emergent property of matter does not make art and literature any less worthy of study.
These are great guides. Although I dont really use them.
As I feel obligated to do whenever there's a related posting, an HN-level-of-detail book about power and the development of NYC, I have to throw a shout-out to the Power Broker:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Broker-Robert-Moses/dp/03947...

about Robert Moses, another legendary NYC figure who fundamentally changed the shape of the city.
When I read the title I thought it was some translation of what one of the cartoonists killed in yesterday's attack said:

Je n'ai pas de gosses, pas de femme, pas de voiture, pas de crédit. C'est peut-être un peu pompeux ce que je vais dire, mais je préfère mourir debout que vivre à genoux.

For some reason I was really irked when I found out it was something different altogether. I also find it a bit strange that there is a deafening silence about this in the frontpage.
> Read what? I live in this neighborhood and grew up around here.

Totally, absolutely, irrelevant. I don't need to live in your neighborhood to have an opinion. And just by geographical proximity your opinion doesn't get any magical powers.

> You realize that Eric was selling cigarettes (no id) to high school kids for months right? ... (blah blah blah)

It was not an arrestable offence. Selling "loosies" gets your a $100 fine, not an arrest. Read the laws.

> If you want to claim that multiple officers that detained him over last few years were all targeting him and making up stories, just so they can force him to resist arrest, feel free.

Strawman. You keep making up things in your head and then arguing against them.

The crime was of selling loose cigs, not selling to children. It was a tax issue, plain and simple. This "selling to children" claim was tacked on later (oh please, won't anybody THINK of the children!!1!!11!).

And BTW: I've lived in worse communities. Try the City of Buffalo, for instance.
The one advantage I see to having borderline-ridiculous packages such as this is that they do One Thing Well

Sure, but one function per package is silly. Why not just put all the related utility functions in one package? Underscore does One Thing Well too. And if I really, really care about optimizing for small JS file size, I can just go in my Underscore.js file and remove all the functions I don't want to use.
Whenever there's one of these petitions that goes nowhere, there are a ton of, "I typed my name into a computer and it didn't make a difference! This country sucks!" responses.

Look, I sympathize with this a little--these petitions imply more than they ever deliver. But realistically if you want to force any significant change it's going to take money, time, and a lot more effort.
My theory is that once our communication mediums are again as rich and open as standing on the street corner and selling newsprint that our intellectual property industries will rebound and thrive yet again.

It's never been cheaper to self publish, either by a blog (self hosted if you choose) or in an ebook. How is selling newsprint on a corner more rich and open that that? You had to own a printing press to have a voice!
Why not find out:

history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
Thanks for the feedback.

You copy the image to the clipboard and paste it on the box and it will allow you crop the image if necessary. I use it to take pictures and search for parts of the picture.
Impressive! How did they manage to build something some complex without generics?
As somebody who is trying to learn Clojure I am really interested in this project. Contextual access to docs and syntax would definitely help speed along the process!

I am also really intrigued about the concept of contextual chat and collaborative coding. One of you hackers is going to finally build the Twitch of coding one day, and it shall be glorious. Perhaps cloxp will be the one to take us there?
Thanks for the interesting correction! I imagined it would be common for all soldiers as Morse can also be used to signal with a flashlight etc..
Please send questions like this to hn@ycombinator.com.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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So what? It's an essay about philosophy and culture, not fixing TVs.

The fact that blue collar workers have been negatively affected by not only the swift advances in technology but also globalization can be addressed in another essay.
> "Holy shit, @deeznutz420 is right. My religion IS a total crock of shit!

Actually that happens all the time - the reverse happens too of course.
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Is that a ship? I was under the impression that these floating LNG processing vessels were platforms that have no self propulsion capability.
If on Windows and in Outlook I click on
an email attachment that has extension
EXE, WHAT happens? You are saying that
Outlook will run the EXE? Really??????
It seems that they think this moment is convenient with all of us being distracted, to push this through without too much of fuss.

I am not a president, so I can't publicly disgrace prosecutor, but if I was, I totally would, as her office bullied Aaron Swartz and pushed him over the edge.

That is all.
This is actually quite impressive!

I wonder how much time it takes to scan one person?

If these were made and distributed to enough hospitals adn scan is fast/cheap enough, I'm guessing you could make things quite more efficient/accurate
Robots eating the kitchen and our dinner tables
I use vim. Other MediaWiki developers use emacs, PHPStorm, TextMate, Notepad++ or whatever editor or IDE the individual developer is most comfortable with.
If you're interested in frequency shifting, Harald Bode was the leading engineer in this area. You can read a gentle introduction here: and if you look around there are some VST plugins that emulate the Bode designs.

I haven't tried using this for precision stuff - over a small range it might well improve intelligibility at the expense of only minor distortion. I tend to reach for it when I want to give sounds an extra weird dimension, it sounds somewhat orthogonal to the normal harmonic distributions we're familiar with.
I'm not talking about price. I'm talking about the fact that it was a public venue. Your self-hosted blog is basically like standing in your own private living room and selling your newspaper. Facebook is like a private indoor shopping mall with no guarantees for free speech. The only way to be heard on the Internet is to go over to someone's private property and hope that they'll let you inside to talk.

A consensus database that is replicated completely across all nodes acts more like a public square than anything we've seen before on the Internet.
does dimensions have to be orthogonal? different spaces can be transformed...
Yeah would love to hear more about what you mean :-)
The headless Intel PC has the benefit of being easier to conceal in the car. I could put this thing in a nice fan enclosure and put it under the passenger seat or equivalent out-of-sight place. Not to mention, the Intel headless PC looks smaller than that of any laptop out there. Each to his own though.

The Dell Venue 8 Pro sadly is $300 here in Australia. Obviously given the low Australian dollar, buying it overseas and shipping it will cost over $300 for me.x
Hmm, this looks like a different issue. Brainfuck is recognized in the stats, if you head to search: https://github.com/r0nk/ward/search?l=makefile

It's not showing up in the color bar, though. Loggin' dat issue.
The SOPA petition drew a clear statement from the White House that they would not support any bill that messed with DNS. That was a win for the anti-SOPA folks because DNS redirection was a key part of that bill.
Just when I thought I'd seen everything Kay's was involved in...

ps : at 9'47 is an interactive document with embedded live graphical interpreter. Stunning.
T-Mobile doesn't treat all music apps the same though. They only apply free streaming to their list of 27 app [1]. Depending on how fair they are to adding small companies to the list. this system is essentially prioritizing larger companies over smaller ones.

http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/free-music-streaming.html
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What use is this?
Sorry you feel that way
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That looks very impressive. However, I ask how effective this machine actually is on a medical level. Do these scans provide an advantage over traditional CT scans in that they collect more information? Are they more accurate?

The reason I ask this is because I as a layperson am of course very impressed by the colored, realistic-looking, detailed textured scans -- but will this actually make a difference for a medical/clinical purpose? Will this enable doctors to make better decisions/assessments?

I suspect it will, so I'm very pleased with this innovation. I also note that it might provide more fodder for medical image recognition programs. This tool, combined with good computer vision and analytics, could be very powerful indeed.
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Author here.

Very similar things happened to me when I first started. Likewise I didn't know who to talk with about it. Feel free to reach out to me (contact info on website), would be a pleasure to talk more with you.
Has any of this actually happened to you with focused modules like to-dash-case?

There is no reason for such a focused module to go out of style. As with many other small modules, the API and major version is locked barring some catastrophic event. Maybe there is a rare edge case that will break, and then you end up with two modules which are both useful in their own regard (like point-in-polygon and robust-point-in-polygon).
HDMI is separate from and does not require HDCP. You can have an unencrypted HDMI signal from, for example, an industrial video camera.

Yet, I do agree with you: It's a small market.
To this day you have langue d'oc (opposite langue d'oil, among other regional dialects in France. But this marginalization of non-official dialects has been the history of European nations, for the express purpose, as you mention, to solidify a sense of nationhood. So plattdeutsch, frisian, langue d'oc, sicilian, catalonian, etc. have been supplanted by the 'official' languages and spellings, grammars, etc...
I don't understand how someone can not "get" twitter but use instagram. Aren't they basically the same thing except instagram is pictures and twitter is text? That's what I thought, but I never used either.
:D HA! Nice!

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OP here. My gut says I should run OpenBSD on a ThinkPad and just figure out all the dependencies. Tails sounds good too, though that's a slightly different problem. I want a permanent system. I just don't want it on the network much and I do want it to handle protocols well. Seems like OpenBSD is the way to go in that regard. But then, I'm definitely not an expert.
You're right, I'm rather callously assuming that this writer, formerly of The New Republic and now The Atlantic, has benefited from advances in health care and medical technology, better and more reliable cars, cheaper and more varieties of food and clothing, international travel, free communication that would have seemed like science fiction a handful of years ago, pervasive access to culture of all kinds in all languages in all media, the ability to participate in labor markets, local and global, that did not exist a decade ago, and video lectures from leading scholars at top universities from all over the world on every conceivable topic available upon request for zero dollars in the convenience of his own home or wherever else he happens to go anywhere on Earth. I don't know how I could have been so thoughtless.
The question here is: what do we want as a nation?

When they decide(d) not to take any action, not even remove those one or two unnamed persons from their positions at the CIA (for all that rectal feeding, waterboarding stuff) why do you think any of this story would matter to them at all? It couldn't count any higher in their value system, could it?

Zilch.

This may be just my anguish but from where I stand and see things these tyrannical problems of our Government will only exacerbate, not subside. There is no reason for them to stop. Not until our citizenry becomes as powerful, empowered and weaponized as is the Government today.
cool project, better name! What advantages does Go add over other languages?
> Blowing up the codebase size is “net gain”. Maybe OpenBSD team knows something I don't, but I got a bad vibe from this report.

To be fair, I think the "net gain" there just means "net increase" not net gain in the sense of a positive outcome. Plus, the top line deleters are removing way more than the top line adders. If I'm reading it right the total "net gain" was somewhere around negative 2.2 million lines.

The post lacks nuance, but it's really just supposed to be a fun little snapshot with some simple numbers.
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so you're just manually doing with a linker is supposed to do for you? I guess it goes along with manually doing what a scheduler does for you.
Hope and change
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I will be making a blog shortly, so then you will be able to hear my side of the story c: My dad wasn't the one who forced me to do it, if anything I pushed him to let me pursue this career in a way I would never be able to do should I stay in high school. As for feeling isolated in school it wasn't so much that as I knew that only a few of my friends were really friends with me, while most were my ;friends' because I saw them five times a week. My friends fully support me in this and we plan on spending many weekends catching up. Plus, social networking is a thing so we can talk to each other from miles away. It's not as if as soon as I left high school I cut off all ties with my friends. "Nope, never mind, we aren't friends anymore cause I'm too good for school. I will now spend all my time being a social recluse and not conversing with anyone. Farewell" That'd be dumb
My dad is known to have a problem with clarity
Oh hey there ;)

3-player Bomberman 2 was also a big hit
I don't have an exact answer, but it's a common problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperacusis

Hearing is complex: you have the cochlea acting as both sensor and first pass signal processing. There's a muscle that acts as a built-in gain control that can cut sounds by about 20dB, partly so your own voice doesn't deafen you.

Hearing damage isn't just loss of sensitivity—apparently it can alter the shape of cochlear filters' response too, changing the way masking works. And I'd imagine the brain tries to compensate as hearing loss progresses, which could have interesting effects.

More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_reflex

Edit: Less related, but a similar phenomenon that happens to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia. Hearing has odd failure modes.
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I bet that you don't see the irony on you calling others hordes, fans or talking about hatred and ideology.
you realize each one of those modules are download rank top 1% of NPM
But it's not like i can retire with that, i want to build a business that will last and that way create a passive income stream, i cannot keep freelancing forever