skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EP is obviously not completely pseudoscience, but it has a few global problems. It's often forced to test hypotheses about things that happened long ago, which is hard and can lead to weakly supported conclusions. It also adopts the conceptual framework of cognitive psychology, which can be a bit of a grab bag in terms of falsifiability because it is so heavily reliant on "indirect observation." Finally, it frequently deals in topics which are flashpoints for controversy, which invites unusually stringent examination and rejection from people with some personal or political or religious agenda.
> So, just to be clear, if Google were based in an EU country, then everything they are doing would be fine?

No, it would be exactly the same
Did I really just see a screenshot telling the user to, on their server, pipe the contents of a non-HTTPS, goo.gl URL into a sudo bash?

http://lastbackend.com/images/landing/timeline/deploy_2.png
Making print a statement again would mean you can't print in a lambda. That'll break a bunch of Python 3 code, which puts us right back where we started; people being upset about a new release of Python breaking their code.
I know this is a bit of a divergence but does this type of finding, assuming it's true, bolster the "we are in the matrix"?

Not directly, of course, there are many other assumption that come first, as discussed above, but it's fascinating nonetheless.
Looks amazing. Will try it.

Btw, check the pricing page in Mobile Safari.
It looks quite off. The width is wrong the there is text overlapping in the first panel.
You can use this to link with nginx+lua/openresty/whatever to get a Q-powered web service that can do more than a few thousand connections per second.

Cool stuff! I can see a single machine running this being loads faster than a whole elaborate cluster of php/perl/python/node servers even with some caching.

Could this also work with just the integrated web server in q? I never tried it, but I wonder why lua is involved?
Is it supposed to run parts of the logic in lua? Or does just using nginx as a reverse proxy not work well?
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In Germany we're adopting the EBU Recommendation R 128 and don't have the problem that much anymore.
Most proud of? I think the fact that I'm married to a person who loves me and is happy to be with me.

Accomplishments I've enjoyed on hindsight– getting my band on a pretty established local stage, doing standup comedy and getting a great response, giving a lecture to a group of University students about ecommerce marketing (I've never been to University myself, so that felt awesome), having blogposts I've written get to the frontpage of HN and widely shared on Medium, etc.

But mostly– earning the respect of people I respect. It's an ongoing process, of course, but probably the most fulfilling.
I don't see the men's rights angle in big cats not being stressed by consuming small prey.
The photographers who refuse to abandon traditional film cameras
There's python-bond as well:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bond

> You can freely mix Python versions between hosts/interpreters (that is: you can run Python 3 code from a Python 2 host and vice-versa).
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The same reason why music on the radio is so dang loud– excessive compression. See: The Loudness War (just 1:54 mins long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ
That would be tricky. Ruby has optional parens for function calls, but it makes it tricky to get a reference to a method without calling it. We have to write "foo.method(:some_method_name)", while the Python equivalent is simply "foo.some_method_name".

You might be able to require parens for methods with no arguments, but optional parens with arguments. It might require some clever hacks in the parser, but I suspect it's possible. The bigger question is whether or not the result would be Pythonic.
I guess this is what happens when you base your text editor on the hungriest web browser available and also write it in JavaScript.
What a misleading title.
First of all the title suggests that all supercivilizations build Dyson spheres, so that the absence of Dyson spheres implies the absence of any supercivilization. But in the article itself we can already find scenario's for other kinds of supercivilizations.

Second, the fact that we didn't find any sign of a Dyson sphere, doesn't prove that they are not there. We definitely can not see every (Dyson) star in those 100,000 galaxies, so even if supercivilizations require Dyson spheres, they still might be there and we could just have missed them.
Leonardo existed in an age where the key players were few and everyone of import knew each other. He didn't have to recite past accomplishments, because all the people he was writing letters to already knew what they were.

Had he been an unknown nobody, he'd have had to bring additional context to his appeal for employment just like everyone else.
Twisted's a huge blocker for me.
As a visitor here from one of the supercivilizations in question (and enjoying the sex, red wine and rock music, I must say) I feel I have to point out a couple of things that may have been missed. One is that many of you are spending a lot of time looking for 'dark matter' when clearly the shrouded Dyson spheres are fulfilling that role in their great abundance - talk of infra-red signatures and such-like is technical defeatism. Secondly if you find a way of getting at other dimensions in the multiverse, then you can find one soon enough that consists largely of energy and funnel some of it back to your own locale. Take your pick.
Well... why not simulate alien superintelligences in the Matrix? Would it be that the superintelligence running the simulation isn't sufficiently intelligent to simulate itself?
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S/he said, bluntly.
According to Frank Herbert in "Maker of Dune", The plot line of Star Wars is based on Dune. Apparently they considered suing, but decided not to.
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Here is one case where I think the article's original title would be far better than the one chosen by the submitter.

Why have you changed it? In what way do you think this title is more informative?
Although, reading that thread, I don't see an actual flame war anywhere....
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Why is it necessary for me to sign up? Is it only for your metrics?

Could this have been designed in a fashion that doesn't require me to roll another bloody account?

Not so interested that I feel like opening one, sorry.
The is another thing linked to the notion of "done": environment rot.

Professionnal photographers know to print on archival paper, and give you advice on how to store your pictures to potentially keep them for ever.

What happens in two years when they upgrade their OS and your software no longer works? What if you went out of business? What if you are still in business but now charge ridiculous price?

Do you have a duty to update your licensed software for ever for free? Or at the maximum at the price you agreed to work for originally?
Fair enough. Regardless, congrats on the release.
Can you add a way to remove linked servers? I have a few ghost linked servers and they all have the same name
the upper house of parliament yesterday voted to support an amendment to a draft economy bill that would require search engines to display at least three rivals on their homepage

That's just absurd. Can someone acquainted with the situation shed light on why they are doing this? Simple populism and lobbying from local businesses or something else?
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If you want to raise your rates, the best way to go about it is to just do it. Companies have an insatiable need for talented development work. The bottleneck is literally how big a number can you say with a straight face.
Summing up: Haters gonna hate.
Interesting problem and valid questioning but flawled reasoning.

"because our brains are just hardwired to double-click everything." that might be true for people that formed muscular memory in the golden days of the mouse and heavy OS use (as oposed to heavy internet use).

An acceptable solution has to anticipate the muscular memory we are generating in legions of mobile users: tapping.

If we apply that author's central argument to today's mobile influence, then who instead of tapping will have her brain just wired to double tap?
I don't understand the terminology of "separated from reality." It's beyond obvious that ideology is a part of reality. What else would it be, supernatural?
Ask HN: Which book introduced you to programming?
The Space Jam movie website is still up from 1996, and it still has working links.

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
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I'm surprised that neither the article, nor the people here have mentioned http://www.wurmonline.com as the probably most successful implementation of the sandbox concept, where one player's actions affect the virtual world for everyone else.
Using kdb as an nginx backend isn't going to work well at high loads because you'll run out of TCP port numbers to use for connections. You might try keepalive, but it still requires clients to behave.

It's in lua because nginx doesn't have a module system: getting a lua module available on all our edge nodes caused less friction than a bunch of nginx patches and an nginx deploy.
No. Thanks for clarifying. The article wasn't immediately obvious. Appears to be the same author talking about it again, this time on Medium.
Not the answer you're looking for, but French protectionism (agriculture, film, etc.) is consistently stronger than the Western norm in the rest of Europe and the US. In those cases it is to protect domestic interests, which of course comes with its own consequences.
Can someone please explain what the 646, b7, 36, and other numbers mean? They discussed it briefly, but I didnt really follow. Sorry if its a noob question. Looks great though!
My dream setup once I get my own place would include, among other things, a 4K 40"+ TV as the main monitor, on a slightly lower platform behind a hybrid standing desk + treadmill combo (don't ask me how this is going to be physically possible... still working out the details in my dreams), with a nice view of the ocean as the backdrop instead of a boring blank wall. ;D
Google hasn't been paying enough campaign contributions in France it seems. Back in the day Microsoft tried to avoid politics, and the US government almost broke them up.

"You may have all the money, Raymond, but I have all the men with guns." (Frank Underwood, House of Cards)

Looks like you're going to have to start paying more attention to the wallets of those with all the guns Google.
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Hey, thanks. I think I may have knocked an inviolable shibboleth within the HN community, so it's natural that it would be down-voted.
You could have a group inbox.
I think it had various stuff, that might well have been one part of it. Perhaps it ran Gopher before WWW servers were around? I don't really recall.
Because it's incredibly improbable that we are alone given how much stuff there is in the Universe (something about 10^23 stars) and how prevalent are the chemicals we consist of.
The boarding aspect was what held us back from sending them there earlier - that was a mistake I now regret.

TBH I don't think daily contact with parents is _that_ important to children, certainly not mine, as long as they're in a happy environment.
I think that's a good start, and that we can go further if we get more cynical.

From the advertiser's perspective, the main point of a TV commercial is to manipulate you into buying stuff; the show is just bait. We all know from personal experience that people pay more attention if we suddenly get louder. Presumably the people who make commercials know that, too. I'm sure some people even resisted, but once other commercials are loud, you sure don't want to be the quiet one that people can more easily talk over.

Presumably volume levels will go up until more likely purchasers are put off by the level than are influenced by the now-heard message; it's only at that point they'd see a dip in the numbers.
Someone has to be first right? It's not that improbable that we are the first.
I didn't read "Maker of Dune", but Starts Wars plot as litle in common with Dune, i think the similarities with Akira Kurosawa films is right on. By the way the Dune movie from 1984 is a much better plot than Star Wars, it's really a shame that didn't come to fruition it got lost on the directors cut, it should have been cut in 2 or 3 movies.
"Programming the Z80" by Rodnay Zaks. I read it when it was first published, and it was the first real programming book I'd ever read.

I'd written programs before this, inventing my own language and hardware, then emulating the hardware to have it do things like playing tic-tac-toe and Conway's Game of Life. It was slow, but served me in good stead when I built my first real computer from NAND gates, and then subsequently working in safety critical hard-realtime embedded systems.
Okay, so maybe "lop:ret" and "lop ret" can be parsed the same (agree about the poorly thought-out syntax), but I don't see why "loop:ret" needs to be parsed as "loop ret" unless the colon is actually whitespace in masm.
I understood functional programming reading this website; thanks for that!
And ggplot2 aesthetics was the way to better understanding many of javascript plotting libraries available.
I personally still find data.table package more confortable to use than piped dplyr, but I believe "this sane competition", let's say, between packages is contributing enormously to R.
The reason for that letter is that Marie Curie's husband died and she quickly married his husband's assistant. She was heavily criticized for that.
> Google hasn't been paying enough campaign contributions in France it seems.

That's by design: Campaign contributions are heavily regulated in France: http://www.loc.gov/law/help/campaign-finance/france.php
There have been attempts to rewrite world history based on statistics of how many young man to "burn" there were in a society at a given time – and it works out greatly. While I do admit that this isn't of that importance in modern societies, I would still maintain that the patterns are still to be observed. Also, war has been one of the first means of making a fortune, with trade becoming another one only in the 18th century or so. Still, we may observe some inheritance here, by the emphasis on the risks involved to justify the wins. (Read Jane Austen's "Persuasion" as a sociological study on the matter and you'll see how the British upper- and middle classes would have imploded under the pressure of second sons around 1800, if there hadn't been the Navy and the Army as means of making a fortune and becoming eligible for marriage. Even more true for the lower classes, but there's no much writing on this.)

As a sidenote, we may observe that the US has undergone some efforts and investments in the past decades to decouple its war force from this logic by the means of technology.
> Copyright remains with the author/coder unless it is explicitly transferred (or is work-for-hire, as in an employer-employee relationship).

But isn't company-contractor also a work-for-hire relationship?
Afaict, the circuit server runs on every host, and is aware of the other nodes, coordinating with peers without a single master. So if one host fails, the other circuits can still function, broadcasting their underlying services.

"Clients dial into [any] circuit server in order to interact with the entire system. All [circuit] servers are equal citizens in every respect and, in particular, any one can be used as a choice for dial-in."

However, the example diagrams I've seen, include services which aren't masterless or even multi-master, so the app/system the circuit cluster supports will surely fail in some way.
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I think everyone should have a shortcut icon to a temp.txt file on their smartphone homescreen. Sometimes you just want to write something quickly without worrying about what category or what app to open, or where to store it. You want one tap and start typing immediately, saving and syncing as you go. I use Note Everything on my Galaxy phone as the text editor. It's fast and good and stays out of the way. Way better than stock text editors.

On another note, just found this web text editor via an old comment on linked article. I like it, seems like it's been around for awhile...
https://writer.bighugelabs.com/

It just still feels weird to me, using apps that output files, in a web browser. I'm a developer so shouldn't feel strange, but web browsers just seem inappropriate to run even a text editor, regardless of the strength of the web app. I need to get over this mindset.
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The title says "PizzaHut still serves it's first Homepage". From the (British) English grammar I studied in Italy, it should be "its" instead of "it's", and I remember seeing a debate about it a while ago.

Can someone enlighten me? What's the right form?
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That's an interesting question but different issue. Aren't developers responsible already for what they code?
Are photographers?
Are gun factories?
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actually, i use LaTeX to write and it doesn't solve one of the issues identified in the linked article, namely the distraction of formatting. I spent way too much time trying to make LaTeX work just right: a bullet here, footnotes there, should that be a chapter or a section?

Just writing plain text would help with that... I was thinking of switching to Markdown because of this, but looking at pandoc again is interesting, because of the footnote support. But it's basically "Pandoc's Markdown", essentially...

Too bad we can't seem to standardize Markdown properly... maybe the IETF will save us there? (rimshot)

Update: I was half-kidding here, but there is actually two markdown standardisation efforts underway. The IETF actually has something going on, but only for mimetypes: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown...

And then there's Commonmark: http://commonmark.org/

And of course: https://xkcd.com/927/
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But 10^23 could be vanishingly small compared to what's in the denominator of that probability. How do you have any idea what the odds are on the formation of life?
Lol that space jam website still actually looks good.
Good point. We are working on the user sign up flow so that new users can see live examples. Here's one from LG: http://thechicagochic.com/art-meets-technology/
There is no debate. You are correct. "It's" always expands to "it is". I have to tell myself this rule every day :(.
He/she didn't say that you can't have the source, just that you'll have to pay extra for it, separate from the payment for the time/effort/knowledge the initial development took.
"Its" is a possessive pronoun like his/her/their/our/whose. "It's" is a contraction of "it is", hence the apostrophe. Any time you could grammatically say his/her/their, you should use the version without the apostrophe. Any time you could say "it is", you should use the version with.
Right, a thimble?

I'd want it out of the way for typing and other tasks.

The thumbnail is probably a good place to mount because it's not touching skin for long periods of time, or blocking the pad of fingers.

I'd test a pointing stick "eraser" or a trackball of some sort (because capacitive touchpad style won't work on everything) on the fingernail tip.
Thanks!

More customization (theme/colors/templates) is on my todo list. (I ought to expand the FAQ to mention upcoming features. :)

It's a delicate balance, though -- I'd like to add the most important options, but still keep things simple and maintain a small footprint.
As a french i'm ashamed about how useless/bad/mediocre our politics are (all of them)
A photographer usually doesn't have the duty to do this either. You can certainly ask them to do it but the pricing will be higher. The photographers I know delete their source files after a certain amount of time and only keep the end products in the state they are in.

This is quite equivalent to the software that you build, you get it in the state it is in but if certain things change you need to pay more or agree for something else. A good developer/company will talk to you about it, how to manage the lifetime of the application, for how long their support goes and what it implies afterwards.
This is a horrific idea.
Wow, I knew this was there but hadn't opened the console before. Quite the throwback. <center>? <nobr>? <font>?! Neat.

I'd never seen a <map> tag either: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
It won't be the first time a company has to disclose its source code to a government to keep doing business in that country.

Apple 2015
http://qz.com/332059/apple-is-reportedly-giving-the-chinese-...

Microsoft 2003
http://news.cnet.com/China-to-view-Windows-code/2100-1007_3-...
This is correct. US copyright law explicitly says copyright can not be transferred verbally. Lacking any agreement copyright stays with the creator.
I'm sure a Dune remake is in our near future.
It happened once out of how many "tries"? What if there are an infinity of parallel universes?
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