skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet no one has really made an convincing argument of why the conclusions of utilitarianism contradict the axioms of utilitarianism.
And no one seems to offer the rather simple solution that utility is non-linear (so dust in ones eye is really a quite small fraction as bad as a century of torture), and people who mock Eliezer's utilitarianism hypocritically do so on sweatshops built&recycled computers, clothes, and food.

The strongest argument against rationalist utilitarianism seems to be that people don't like the cognitive dissonance it imposes on hypocrites.
So, to paraphrase, "if things were not as they are we could come to a different conclusion". Yes, that is a thought, it was not worth writing down though.
I don't own a smart phone, or a tablet, and this is even more of a reason that I won't be buying one.. If you are so tied up with work, or your home office, or social media, then this is not what you need, you need a life.
I Spent a Week in the Dark Web
It's kind of funny, by now most literate folks must assume that an author who concels their name must be a woman.
Creator here! I'm really sorry about having to do this, but this is the only way to make it work so far, since we can't get Tinder app tokens; after the initial authentication, the server only works as passive proxy for traffic to Tinder. If there's another way, let me know, and I'll gladly implement it.
There's nothing wrong with voluntary, safe suicide for the purposes of cancer prevention, or public campaigns that advocate it, as long as they don't misinform? Does that sound less ridiculous to you?

You don't ignore an effective solution in favor of a bad one. Circumcision is not the best way to prevent HIV. It's not. And misinformation in this case is advocating for it in favor of more effective methods.

Sure, extreme measures will solve lots of problems. But that doesn't justify them, because you have to go to extreme measures in the first place. You simply do not need surgery to prevent HIV.
Google's Nexus One also had one.
let us run it locally?
This is going to revolutionize computing. It took Microsoft to step up and develop something revolutionary to how we interact with our devices. And the best part is not that it's just one device, but all devices. I can use this at my workstation, my tablet, my cell phone, my watch. This is going to usher in a new age of Access. Not just computing but information available to the fingertips of every human on Earth. A New dawn.
Break-In at Y-12 – the vulnerability of America’s nuclear-weapons sites
I don't see how he gets from A to B

There is only so much I can do to summarize his argument in an online forum without replicating the entire book. I recognize that I'm not doing the full-text justice, but it's hard to go into much more depth without simply recommending that you read the book itself.

If I boil this down it sounds to me like he's claiming that a system that takes its past states as one of its inputs (observation of the universe being another) is incapable of refining scientific theories? Which, given the fact that's exactly how scientific discovery has been done so far, seems false.

I wouldn't say that paradigm shifts like the Copernican revolution, the discovery of elementary particles, or the uncovering of quantum mechanics are acts of "refining" existing theories -- they largely involved throwing away a significant amount of work and starting from scratch. Scientists since Ptolemy created extraordinarily complex epicycle models to explain the movement of planetary bodies from a geocentric perspective. When the Copernican heliocentric model became accepted, all the work on epicycles became more or less useless.

Now, we didn't have to abandon Newtonian mechanics entirely, but quantum mechanics have replaced Newtonian mechanics in most fields dealing with particles and small numbers of atoms.

Kuhn's argument is that science has advanced, but not through a simple process of "refining". According to Kuhn, science isn't generally a linear or incremental process -- it is a cyclical one in which our existing models cease being useful and we have to find a better one.

I hope that helps! If you're interested, I highly recommend reading the text -- Kuhn was an excellent writer [1].

[1] http://projektintegracija.pravo.hr/_download/repository/Kuhn...
Wouldn't you rather someone not steal mail because they know (or believe) there are cameras than steal mail (possibly repeatedly) and get caught?
Low ceilings in nice houses started in the 70s when energy costs went up and building styles changed to boxy, "sealed" environments. Low ceilings are more efficient from an HVAC POV.

People like high ceilings, but it's a "nice to have" for most people. Also that like changes from time to time -- in the 80s, old buildings with high ceilings were looked down upon.

Also, new construction costs have escalated so much that new homes are stripped to the bone in most cases. Your $500k house will have a $50 "builder grade" faucet, for example.
> Tablets are going to replace desktops for most people, once we figure out how to attach better input devices.

That already exists, it's a netbook. Or worst case scenario, one of those netbooks with detachable screen.
Yeah, I've played with that a bit..it was fun. It worked in airports, as DNS was available, even though you had to pay for actual surfing. Not surprisingly, it was quite slow.
I've got a Logitech (non-folding) solar-powered keyboard. Happy to report it's been working for nearly a year now using that delicious sun energy.

Being a sceptic, I did also put it in a sock drawer for a few days after use to see if it would fail to charge. It failed to turn on after that until I'd left it in the sun for a while.
I miss the html-pages of old times. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Just full of information. Or non-information. But full of it and not full of empty space or animated backgrounds that makes my cpu-fan convert to jet-engine.
Why would a keyboard need firmware updates? This is like the NSA wet dream, more pointless "IoT".
Exactly. Given the premium paid for properties with high ceilings it does not make much sense.

Edit. I did a search and in Australia raising the ceiling by 12 inches adds $3000 to a $350,000 house.
Tried, gave me an error with login, facebook log me out and then changed my password.. s
Maybe I missed it, but the one feature I want added to that user interface is to pin a self-signed certificate as trusted for a given device, like a router, printer, LAN web server, etc. in a single click.
I read somewhere that counselors who generalize relationships were least likely to be helpful.
Dell Axim X5 Folding keyboard from 2002 was awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqHOYwxCzwo

I would love to have a folding keyboard again that was bluetooth.
Is "team lead" a real position defined by HR that comes with a pay raise higher than whatever the most senior dev title is? If it is, that's awesome. I've never actually seen that in any place I've worked. It's always more responsibility without pay, which I consider a net negative.
Ask HN: The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture
I am an american CS student that goes to (a lot) of hackathons.
The purpose of this post is to get feedback/opinions from people that are outside the "Hackathon Hackers" bubble to determine whether or not my rant is founded and if the issues I am highlighting are characteristic of the tech industry.

It bothers me to see how obsessed with success this generation of "hackers" seems to be. I have met people who were justifying censorship, population control and unfair business practices because they could benefit from them someday. I was expecting a little more regard to civil liberties and ethics from students and so called "hackers".

People win by making "cool" apps (Uber for X) whereas technical hacks are totally ignored.

I am glad that people are motivated to succeed but this lead to some of them taking themselves very seriously. Often to the expense of ethics.

"There is such ignorance in this world about who we are. We are not criminals. We are innovators. We create things. We change the world.[...]"

And this is one example among many other from a guy who has never engineered anything. Weeks are spent planning for their new "great project" with at the end little to no execution.

Students who believe to be 1000x SE because they can stick two APIs together and use bootstrap end-up to be very condescending older engineers.

This "bro"/"my framework is the best"/"Make money fast" culture that stinks a little bit IMO.

Hackathons are great to try out new technologies, meet new people and outreach to demographics that are traditionally under-represented in CS but I don't like where this is headed.

Like HS there is "cool kids" who are "Student Entrepreneur" or "Innovator, UX Artist blah blah", "RoR Genius" etc... and the rest of the world.

My apologies if this post is a little bit ranty, I hope to get other perspectives on this.
I'm the opposite. I worked landscaping for a few years and loved the fresh air, blue skies and working with my hands.
What's interesting to me is that good journalism has always cost more than you could really charge for it. It used to be subsidized by advertising revenue and classifieds and whatnot. Part of it was a loss leader, but it's not like people in the pre-Internet age had better taste than we do. I suspect that one of the functions of good investigative journalism is prestige and a "halo effect," where having high quality content under your brand name helps make all your other content more desirable and reputable by association. I think more Internet publications may engage in "loss leader" prestige content over time.
This doesn't work with a web application, as we need to request a token directly from the FB API which would check for the URL to match the approved URLs for Tinder.
http://tinderplusplus.com/
Or maybe you need to be more productive. Or maybe "a life" isn't the same for everyone.
Consent = posting something publicly means it's public. It's the same as if you spoke aloud in a room, the people around you can hear it. Facebook is just a bigger room, but comes with privacy controls if you're interested. Nobody is stealing your thoughts and filling out your profile, it's all done willingly.
Hard to put much past a 12-year old, sounds like your mom started too late :)

My 2-year old loves to "help" sort laundry, and loves to take laundry to the machine, even when it's clean.
That passage is meant to keep you from worrying, not from working. Later on there's this: "Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands."
OK, so we bought a poorly-designed train with features that we don't need, and so we're going to spend lots of money making the feature work with our incompatible stations. Maybe a little better, but still not very good.
Yes, there is cross pollination. See this blog post from Miguel de Icaza for more details: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Nov-12.html
Ukranian paper hints that Putin will be removed
Alternatively you can use org-mode and extend the document with latex where appropriate.
OMFG stop fucking hijacking my fucking back button.
MediaWiki syntax is incredibly grody ('''bold''' / ''italic'', tables, template logic, etc), and has exactly one implementation in common usage (MediaWiki itself -- written in PHP, and horribly convoluted), and has no formal specification. The diff feature you're referencing as a "syntax-highlighted diff" is a simple diff of the source -- it's entirely ignorant of formatting, and the XML export is similarly just an export of the raw source.

Nobody likes MediaWiki syntax, not even its own users. It's awful. The only reason it's still used at Wikipedia is because there's too much content to reasonably convert.
An architect once told me that low ceilings are desirable in certain parts of homes because they give a very comforting, secure presence.

High ceilings do feel better for group and work spaces, room to breath.

[0] an actual anecdote that happened to me.
Add a Log in with Facebook button so that Facebook will be responsible for authentication please.
That's awesome, this looks great!
Valve is another company that has a very interesting org chart. It's like those vegan fair-trade restaurants that run as a work co-op, and the people show up and work and share responsibility and profits.

I don't know how it works, but it's a thing of beauty when these systems meet the needs of the people inside them.
Why would it be an issue if you opened more doors than necessary?

I'm assuming that the edge of the platform will always match the edge of a car, and that it is not possible to board off-platform cars (otherwise they wouldn't be off-platform), and that there will be no people in the "off-platform" cars. Otherwise, how would they get off? It seems extremely inefficient to start the train just to move it half its length, then stop it again.
Some more context is available in this Reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2ysv26/sir_terry_...
I would think that not owning a smartphone or a tablet would be a really great reason for not owning one. Is there more... like were you already dead set against this keyboard, but then you were like "Shit.. I don't even own a smartphone, or a tablet..." Anyway... your point's are moot. The only reason someone would want to own one of these is specifically for social media... nevermind. You did cover that one. My mistake.
The haxe people are the ones you need to discuss it further with. My pastebin expires in a week so you might want to clone it before you link to it.
Cool!

This sounds exactly like an idea that I've had before. What my friends and I called it was 'GameTube' which would be a platform for making and sharing games online. That was part of what motivated me to work on the Duck programming language, which would be a simplified language to develop in, along with some web IDE's for game making and common content that aspiring game developers could work with.

I think creating a platform for collaborative creation in games is a great idea and something that is as-of-yet untapped in online communities. The main limiting factor is creating tools and platforms that outperform what already exists and creating an ecosystem for users where they have support to work on ideas that connect.

Links:
http://github.com/teamduck/gametube
http://www.team-duck.com/space/
The accompanying wired article (http://www.wired.com/2011/05/gps/) was published May 2011, says the device was found in 2005, and the teardown suggests parts were as old as 1999.
As far as I understood:

- They are using virtual network kernel device (TUN/TAP, https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel/blob/ma... )

- encode it as base64

- communicate with the http/web facebook client https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel/blob/ma...

Between that they do authentication things at facebook with "gumbo". And later on everything the other way round at the server side.

So if you GET google.com your traffic goes through a virtual ethernet like device. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/tuntap.t...

There is no cryptography involved, they could try to use openvpn to enable this feature. https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/BridgingAndRoutin...
Thanks for the articles and the response! Yes, it's a CPU state, but I'm pretty sure that by default different compilers set it differently at thread start (or alternatively, choose to leave it as is). The ICC to GCC switch was the one that tricked me. So while the changes at runtime can override either, in the absence of an explicit override you'll often see different behavior based on compiler choice. Useful details and links here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9314534/why-does-changing...
Creating and Prioritizing College Application List as per Individual Needs and Wants
> ...it was not worth writing down though.

I disagree. Nature versus nurture is a difficult but interesting topic. Is our preference for high ceilings caused by culture and experience, or is it something we're genetically predisposed to? It seems like it would be a hard question to answer, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth thinking about.
The Codist: Really Complex Travel Software Doesn't Exist for a Reason
It depends though. I have a friend who bought a winery+vineyard after he retired, he's losing money and working very hard but he's also happy. I've spent a day out at his farm, pruning vines and getting shown around his equipment and all the things he's excited about. We ended the day with a big family BBQ on the veranda and so much wine... pretty good retirement if you can afford it.
I don't really have time to respond to your comments right now, but I did want to make one tangential remark.

Mathematics is absolute, but it's only valid within the abstract context of that branch of mathematics.

Mathematics itself went through a paradigm shift in the early 20th century, known as the "foundational crisis". At the time, mathematicians began running into paradoxes which existing theories could not properly address, including Russel's Paradox.

In response, mathematicians developed a set of formal axioms (nowadays most people use ZFC, although sometimes Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel and other variations are used) which produce a mathematical foundation that is consistent (i.e. free of paradoxes/contradictions).

However, as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems demonstrated, there is no set of foundational axioms which are both consistent (free of contradictions) and complete (all mathematical truths can be deduced by such a system).

So, while it is true that mathematical proofs are formally valid deductions from a set of axioms, it is worth recognizing that the relationship between mathematics and truth are somewhat more complex than they seem. As it stands, there are an infinite number of mathematical statements that cannot be derived by an axiomatic system. Some philosophers have even sought to identify 'quasi-empiricism' in mathematical thought [1].

And if you find that interesting, you'll love James Conant's paper on Logically Alien Thought [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-empiricism_in_mathematics

[2] http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/files/conant/Search%2...
Everyone should know 10 facts about the world
I'd very much like to have some more information about how the article author gathered this data - are these all master branches of said projects, numbered releases?

How does the data account for variation in development procedures (e.g. some projects use master as their bleeding edge branch)?
I could definitely see myself using something like this to avoid carrying my MacBook around. Especially if I'm traveling in a foreign country and all I'm really doing is sipping wifi checking messages and using google maps.
Alot of interesting work, judging from the site, but this still feels like reinventing the wheel to me. In addition to AsciiDoc, there's MultiMarkdown (http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/features/ feature list is nearly identical), and probably another 3-4 that I haven't come across.

Of course, having spent the past few months writing an app that basically reinvents this same wheel (http://www.eqeditor.com/writer/) I suppose I'm in good company.
As Spooky23 explains elsewhere in the thread, it’s the A/C costs that matter. With 12 foot ceilings, you need the A/C less, But when A/C was a big new thing, it was much less efficient and much more expensive than it is today. And back then, adding 50% to the height of a floor made it much harder to keep at frigid temperatures.
Frank Lloyd Wright used low ceilings in entranceways so that the house would “open up” as you walked into it.
Secrets to launching a video on YouTube
New World Order New World Party
Chores definitely helped me appreciate everything my members family did once I got a little older.
That fairly hostile "article" is not accurate and the basilisk portion has already been responded to previously by Yudkowsky. See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/2myg86/xkcd_1450_aibo...
They just can't get away from the past. Sad.
Edge triggered sounds safer to me. It protects against stuck switches due to failure or leaning)
I guess many has changed since I last looked at CommonMark and perhaps the developers are pragmatic after all. I stand corrected and will try out their implementations now.
The TextBlade looks pretty cool. Looks like it would take a lot of training to get proficient at as well. The MS keyboard is very nice looking and would work for casual typing. It might be a better buy than the cheapie keyboard that the Surface Pro comes with, which is one sucky keyboard.
I still use one of these on my desktop. My favorite pointing device of all time.
How to configure analitics on YouTube channel
Ditto. Started reading it a few weeks ago and just caught up two days before the end. Certainly ranks among my favorite novels now. Almost literally could not put it down until I finished. Thanks, Eliezer.
Someone who comes out as a "natural leader" should be a good thing, no? It means people who shouldn't be leaders, cannot assume the position without turmoil. (in theory anyway)
Nerds are rediscovering socialism. Next up "Employees sharing and deciding what to do with profit democratically".
Another thing I'm curious about is how the ScholarlyMarkdown authors would go about trying to get papers formatted in this way to go into a database like PubMed but that's pretty far down the track, and not addressed by any of the other solutions either.
If you can’t stop people copying the idea then it is not a good business idea. A good business idea is one where at least one of the following hold:

1. The idea is hard to replicate quickly.

2. It can be patented or copyright and you have the resources to enforce these rights.

3. The idea has first mover advantage allowing you capture and retain the market.

If you don’t have one of these you have a good idea, but not one that will make any money. True good ideas are rare.
I want to think you made that reference -- arbeit macht frei -- knowingly, and if so, nice sting!
The data is not really relevant for the reasons you state + failed build does not equal published artifacts. How long were the builds in that state? etc.
Alternately, if you are going super-TDD on things and committing after every test, that pace is also reasonable under the conditions you list. I was at about that rate when I once tried to write a scheme interpreter in javascript in a weekend. I mostly succeeded, but ran out of time before getting done with some special forms.
I remember begging my mom to let me do dishes when I was 4 years old. She spent so much time over the sink that I just assumed that it must be fun. I may have been proven wrong, but it certainly got me in the habit of keeping my sink empty.
Yeah this alone is enough for me to refuse to use something.
Can you not have "Facebook login" i.e. you don't see the auth on your end... ? FB handles all the auth.
Two of the best keyboards I've used. Both have straight keys:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7125/kinesis-advantage-review-...

http://www.typematrix.com/
You can't scrape a Twitter profile page for followers/following, you need to be signed on, and you'll encounter rate limits scraping even if you somehow do this with an authenticated session.

Now if you were talking about scraping Twitter user profiles, that's much easier since Twitter allows anonymous access to those. But not followers/following - they removed that around 2012 or so.
Your faith that the legal system reduces drama and solves problems is probably the reason my behavior doesn't make a lot of sense to you.

You didn't begin interacting with the technology industry before you were an adult? No summer programs, meetups, or after-school activities? One of the points I wanted to make is that these issues start impacting people when they are still children, and we're going to have to include that knowledge in our solutions.
Someone signed up for an HN account, squatted the name just to get a point across. Hat tip to you sir, well played.