skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opioid addiction is an insidious series of compromises. At 16 years old, I would have laughed off any notion of trying heroin as absurd. "No, I would never do that!" But having recently tried marijuana, and open to exploring drugs I thought of as "safe," the 5mg Vicodin I found in the medicine cabinet didn't seem like such a big deal.

Well I tried it, and boy did I like it. Slowly, over time, I ran the gamut of different strength pharmaceuticals, administered orally, intranasally, and even rectally.

Eventually, you develop a physical addiction. One day, you can't afford the $40 for an 80mg oxycontin that you need to get well, and you're staring down the barrel of a long night of withdrawals. But a small bag of heroin might cost $10 and last you a couple of days. And so it goes.
Well, Boston, NYC, amongst others in the USA have nice downtowns. Not to mention Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa and other cities in Canada.
If anything Chris Roberts would be the bully in this case, effectively saying "You are weaker than me (or at least your software is), should I give you a swirly?"

Someone tattled (Twitter) and he was taken to the principle's office to explain his comments. He was not suspended or kicked out of school (possibly because they decided he had not actually threatened the weaker student, etc).
I believe that one crucial feature of Make is that it does not plan the construction of a target from start to finish but that construction and planning are interleaved: Make does not look at the file system and build a plan which it then executes but it only executes the next step and then looks at the file system again. This precludes using Make to create a shell script (much like a compiler) which is then executed. I'm not sure that this interleaving is present in the description of Make in the article being discussed.

Edits: typos.
The attraction of suburban life vs dense urban downtown would be mostly the same if public transit routes were just as available. (Although I would imagine the availability of easier transportation would certainly increase restaurant & entertainment offerings from outside commuters who don't normally have car access)

Some people prefer their peaceful cookie cut house and desire nothing much to do with the big cities. More often then not it's zoning, job availability, and affordability.
>It is not proven that a million days of work equals superintelligence, even though obviously it would be more effective than 1 day.

>This is not hypothetical; the best known complete (not approximate) solutions to things like the traveling salesman problem, or to fitting odd sized containers into a container ship, are in fact exponential like that as far as we currently know.

Why would something need to solve problems like that to be significantly smarter than us? On real problems, working 1000 times as much time surely helps a lot. This is not even taking into account how much benefit you get from not being lazy and everything like that.
Oh boy, good question. First, I'm not an AI expert, I don't even casually practice AI. I'm not a machine learning expert. I am a statistician that applies machine learning methods a handful of times per year. That to say --- I find Bayes rule to be eerily similar to the way I think a human mind learns. We operate with degrees of belief, we couple those beliefs with new information and update our beliefs. The word taxonomy is heavily loaded, ultimately I'd say if AI were taken to it's logical end it would actually produce a human brain. Let me explain. Consider a map of your city as a model. If that map contained every drain, street lamp, and stop sign --- it wouldn't be a very useful map. It would be so detailed that it would be overwhelming and a poor tool for navigating a city. That's why we use maps, lower-order abstractions. But imagine that a map were your city. That it was your city shrunk down so that you could hold it in your hand. Would it be a model? A map? Would it be your city? Of course this is a fantasy, but the way I see AI is the map. AI researchers are working to convert that map to the actual city with the goal of actually learning about the human mind. So I think rather than giving a glib answer about categorizing the human mind, I'll just say that the category is whatever 'map' AI researchers end up with when we agree that what they've created is a human mind. :-)

Edit: for those interested, here are some slides that mention 'no free lunch': http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~mike/ml4as/11/l00-2x2.pdf
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Very late response to your comment here (sorry) so I doubt you'll see it but I wanted to respond anyway.

There are VERY interesting things going on in Reno, especially at UNR. MEMS research, solar cell research, biology, biotech, computer vision etc. There's also Sierra Nevada Corp in Sparks which was founded by two former UNR graduate students and is a very successful aerospace company. They are working on their own re-usable space craft in the dream chaser project: http://www.sncspace.com/ss_space_exploration.php Robocoin (bitcoin atm) is here but it's been rather disappointing.

One of the big flaws with this area is that casino gaming and mining have been the biggest draws on the talent pools for engineering. Gaming isn't the big money maker for the state that it once was and innovation wasn't a huge part of the business in the first place.
OS: Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 5 (for servers I use Debian or Ubuntu LTS, whichever is more recent)

Hardware: Asus K93SV laptop

Tools: io.js, Atom, vagrant-lxc, Ansible, Docker, Git, Mercurial, Babel, ...
Sounds like speech recognition, actually - I frequently get emails from a doctor who dictates most of his emails (on mobile), and they have a very similar cadence of grammatical mistakes...

YMMV of course, but iOS/Android (and Dragon/et. al.) are pretty good at recognizing words, less so entire sentences - and remember, this is 5 years ago, so adjust accordingly (unsurprisingly, consumer-grade speech recognition has improved dramatically in the past half-decade).
Delusional frameworks are one of the most human of traits. They give us the power to soldier on in spite of seemingly insurmountable difficulty. Asking someone to surrender a foundational delusional framework in exchange for 'truth' is not a winning proposition.
For those who are interested in a simple Python implementation of the automa described in the wiki:

https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life
Thanks that is what I was really looking for. I will now use it.
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In a somewhat related note, I just finished watching Print the Legend (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3557464/) for the first time last week on Netflix. It's a fascinating documentary on 3D printing—and for someone who hadn't been following the 3D printing industry, the twists and turns in the stories of the main players really surprised me. I highly recommend watching it if you haven't.

That said, it's certainly interesting to see this pop up in the news. I'm curious what the general 3D enthusiasts consider the front players in 3D printing right now?
IMHO, spammers have little chance against Google in a long run, here is why:

- it is of vital highest priority for Google to stay ahead of SEO spammers, or they may stand to lose their $$$ billion search business. So resources to fight spam will always be allocated

- it would take only 1 smart Google person to write smart algo, and it will get amplified by 100,000 server cores at Google. And Google employs >> 1 smart EE

- the Chrome browser has 50% market share and may collect enormous SERP quality / engagement metrics on what "end users" actually click in search results, how much time they spend there vs amount of content on that page, and what page finishes each search quest (i.e. user has found what they were looking for) - these are in fact one of the best "quality signals" available to Google.

- and Google could completely ignore signals from any Chrome instance that has even slightest suspect on being manipulated (Chrome is a native app so it could monitor mouse movement patterns, etc).

- I would say Google is much better equipped than spammers to keep staying ahead. Of course, there are going to be some short term advances in a black hat SEO or social networks manipulations, but eventually every serious loophole would get closed
Hawaii could copy Iceland and add geothermal to solar and wind.

It has plenty of hills to build a bit of pumped hydro storage on too.
This absurd rhetoric is a perfect example. There's nothing of substance here, except an admission that you imagined what you said.

HN threads are for conversation, not imaginary "wars" and ideological harangues. No more of this, please.
I'm sorry but the only similarity i see is that some people moved to another place for some reason.

The people are different, the reasons are different, the people's histories are different, the places are different and the place's histories are different... I have seen more relevant analogies.

As for the legitimity of arabs to live in that place as well, i don't know who you're trying to convince, because to my knowledge nobody denied that right, as the OP proves. The difference between the various zionists parties lies in regard to the importance of maintaining good relations between arabs and jews to prevent wars, and its ability to prevent them (or not).
Even in America's largest city, 'downtown' isn't a terribly attractive area. How many people really want to live in midtown Manhattan? Most of the action is a bit further out, and you'll find a more lively nightlife somewhere like Williamsburg (I imagine Cap Hill in Seattle is similar).
> naive to assume that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft..etc don't understand that mobile is dominating desktop...

That's not the guys point. He's considering whether the mobile ads are more engaging than the desktop ones which is not clear cut. I use my mobile a lot but I can't even recall reading an ad. I'm sure I've scrolled past some. It's possible Facebook has figured how to get people to read the things and have people buy stuff while the other companies have not yet.
Digital Ocean / DigitalOcean claimed DDOS because my site was highly active
I had the cheapest droplet plan ($5 /month), and 3 domains on virtual hosts on a LAMP stack.

One was a WordPress site.

Another was a mapper that communicated with 2 Google Maps APIs, geolocated the user, and extracted data from a MySQL database to display markers in a Google Map around the user.

The third was a one page static website.

About 10 days in, DigitalOcean informs me that my site was originating a DDOS attack and had to be taken offline. They imply that it was probably the WordPress site because those are commonly hacked.

I didn't find anything suspicious or odd. I shut down that droplet, and created a new one. This time, I put only the second website up (the mapper). Two days later, they take this website offline claiming that it was "too active" and "disrupting traffic" (they didn't claim it was DDOS this time). All the code in this site was written by me. There's nothing malicious in there.

Lessons learned (in case these help others):

1) Though Digital Ocean's sign-up process doesn't contain anything explicit and obvious about data transfer or server load caps (must be in the fine print), the caps apparently get tripped very easily.

2) When your cap gets tripped, Digital Ocean's method of communicating this to you is to tell you that your site is originating a DDOS attack and taking it offline.

3) Digital Ocean will not email you to inform you that your site has been taken offline. It will be left up to a website user to inform you that your site is not working.

4) Don't waste 3 weeks looking for a suspicious script doing a DDOS attack. Just take your site to another host with clearly communicated caps.

5) D.O. will not even let you use SFTP or SSH to get your data back. Instead, they will force you to use a dinky little browser-based terminal window that keeps freezing up.
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Native New Yorkers absolutely looooooove Time Square...
It would be nice if the article had even mentioned it, yes.

Whenever you see the words "Internet of Things", think: "unfixable Heartbleed everywhere forever."
Interesting business model for sure. Very impressed to hear they actually did customer surveys and follow ups. The next step is an app over SSL. Choose the quantity you want and your unique customer identifier and you will be SMS'd a Google Maps link to a pickup location.

What a horrible problem this is. I was hooked for a very long time on this stuff and have had many friends die as a result. It is a nasty habit to kick.
Ask HN: Browser plugins to unfuck scrolling?
Hello HN!

I've been googling for this all morning, but can't find anything. My problem is this:

I love scrolling web pages, this is how I can reach the content at the bottom :) I also happen to love the pixel-smooth scrolling of OS X and I mainly use 13" laptops, so the vertical space is scarce.

The latest improvements in CSS, particularly the introduction of position:fixed has been slowly ruining the web, in my opinion. Try scrolling down this page, for example:
http://www.millcreekplaces.com/community/zilkr-on-the-park-apartments-in-austin

It's ridiculous. The "parallax" effect makes it even worse: retina displays can barely handle regular scrolling - they're noticeably more laggy than non-retina on a same screen size, but parallax completely destroys the experience: Not only I can't see much because of "stuck" headers/footers, but the smoothness of scrolling is gone as well.

THE question: are you aware of browser plug-ins that help fight this insanity? Thank you.
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A minimal riddle game with no images, no music, no animation.
Just a keyboard and your imagination :)
The questions are text only and could be a simple equation, a word association, an opposite word teaser or something else entirely...
Other links to check out:
http://catagolue.appspot.com/home
https://twitter.com/conwaylife
I looked at the MEMEX page and say a bunch of companies represented and was genuinely curious... thanks for sharing the link.
Thanks for your experience also. I am also clean from heroin. I never got "surveys" either but your dealer never asked you how a new batch was?
Does it support random access (streaming) for e.g. video?
It's pretty big in the UK.

The BBC has radios 1, 1Xtra, 2, 3, 4, 4Extra, 5Live, 5Live Sports Extra, 6Music, World Service, Asian Network, and the BBC local services all on DAB. Radio 3 (love music and the arts) uses best quality, others use eiter lower quality or mono or both.

And then there are a bunch of non-BBC stations.
Xubuntu 14.04. It works and stays the heck out of my way. Whenever I hear the words "desktop" and "innovation", I reach for my revolver.

Hardware: whatever the nice thing my employer is providing. As a sysadmin, I feel it is a deep wrongness to spend money on hardware when there are employers for that sort of thing. Desktop is an HP DC7800 (I think) and laptop is a Lenovo X230 (which works flawlessly with free-software drivers).
"I think it's wrong to say "open offices are destroying the workplace"."

Id estimate maybe 25% of open office workers are seriously negatively impacted by an open office.

To put that in perspective if 25% of workers at a company were subject to bullying or sexual harassment we would certainly label the work environment extremely toxic... Even if another 25% were happy and productive in it.
Times Square is not downtown new york.
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In practice, no; comments of any kind lead to more of the same.
No. Fractional reserve assumes people owe you and your books balance perfectly fine.

Insolvency means you fucked up.
Seems unlikely. This page is at least 16 years old.
> I use my mobile a lot but I can't even recall reading an ad.

This is the same logical fallacy that people try to use to say search ads don't work. CTRs on search are 2-5% so it doesn't matter if you click on it or not - they only need 5 people out of 100 to do so.

For display & mobile, the CTRs are even lower so there should be even more people who say "i never click on an ad." Advertisers will keep spending money anyway.
Super interesting site. There's an interactive (javascript based) grid here - http://academo.org/demos/conways-game-of-life/ - where you can input the patterns and watch them animate over time. Never fails to entertain.
> Team rooms

That explains why I don't recognize the horrors of open offices I read about.

I work for a small company with only 10 people spread over 2 rooms.
Key rollover and certificate trust chains don't work in Android world.
Is this a typo?

"at least they understood that threat of death is worse than threat of injury"

Surely you meant to write the opposite? As we've all been told, over and over again, at least since it became clear that President Bush was encouraging torture, is the old slogan "death is what you wish for when you are being tortured."

Personally, given a choice between a quick, painless death and some of the worst kinds of torture, I would always chose death. Rather death than, say, being tied tightly in a chair while someone takes some nails and a hammer and hammers the nails through my hand, or being bound so I can not move and then having rats allowed to eat my face and eyeballs.
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just implement their patents - that presupposes that the "disclosures" of the patents in question actually disclose useful information. One of the big criticisms of software patents is that the "disclosure" really isn't disclosing anything of value, like an algorithm or something.
"Given the popularity of site-blocking apps like SelfControl, Freedom etc, yes, many people do need help with this."

The great thing about a computer is I am the master of it. That means if I have trouble focusing I can easily use these tools you mentioned in order to focus.

I can't do anything about my coworker eating a big bag of chips really loudly; or the sales staff laughing and joking around on the phone with clients all day long.
Yes, isn't competing with F-Droid...it's just a frontend for F-Droid with popularity data.
Streaming isn't supported right now. Blobs are limited to 1MB, so streaming isn't very useful anyway.
To avoid the implicits:

make --no-builtin-rules --no-builtin-variables

at least as of: GNU Make 3.82

I think that at this point, with 37-some years worth of Makefiles on
the planet, a competitive replacement for make with a different syntax
or format would need to provide tools to process or translate old &
new formats to the other format, as Perl did with the (uni-directional)
a2p and s2p tools for awk and sed scripts, so that people considering
a transition could make the leap more easily and with greater confidence.
I didn't really see the article as "attacking" religion and am surprised you do. I have however noticed some religions have a pervasive tendency to claim they are under attack.
Actually, you are right. He didn't at all like the development of Israel and he has expressed it several times in both personal letters and as undersigned.

http://users.physics.harvard.edu/~wilson/HUMANRIGHTS/Einstei...
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As a former heroin addict who used to buy from these guys, this article is spot on. They were always polite, fair and non-threatening. They were usually (relatively) on time. They really did have a great customer experience relative to the alternatives (which I also used from time to time). The thing about them keeping business hours is also accurate and was amusing to me at the time, except of course when I ran afoul of the deadline.

As I recall, they even engaged in some network marketing. The group I bought from had a standing offer of a free balloon in exchange for bringing them a new customer.
Google has made it so you can't enforce APK signatures via PKI on android os. Gee, I wonder why!
I did not say I thought there was a solution. Israel is just too handy a target and anti-Semitism ( oh, the irony ) is too delicious a plum for "leaders" in the region.

The original Caliphate took a handful of geniuses to construct, with Suleiman, Saladin and Mehmet chief among them. Let us hope such men rise there now. Ottoman history knows that Suleiman formally denounced blood libel against the Jews and that Christians were relatively well-treated.
As someone who's been to Seattle a grand total of once 6 years ago, I still thought it was weird when their downtown was described as "lively".

After my trip I told people that Seattle seemed to have a "fake downtown" to me. This was mostly because of how dead it seemed to me. I stayed in a downtown hotel and walked around the city for a few days and my overwhelming feeling was nothingness (other than Pike Place market).
Hah, you and I are in the same boat. 4 years sober from heroin, los angeles, 2008-2011. I wonder if we know each other o_O.

It is definitely standard practice for them to keep balloons in their mouths. When I bought from these guys they always spit them out one at a time, and always kept a bottle of water by their side to swallow them if needs be.

I also remember one driver telling me that the organization he worked for actually drug tested him regularly to ensure he wasn't using.
This is so true. My hometown wasn't far from Camden, NJ, the perfect place to go score heroin once you were out of money and could no longer afford prescription pills.

I had a friend even trick me once into driving into Camden for what I eventually realized was so he could buy heroin.

Meanwhile, Camden continues to be a place riddled with crime fueled by the money coming in from all the rich white surrounding towns buying Camden's drugs. It's a sad state of affairs.
It takes an interesting approach to crawling where
it renders the page using WebKit, and then exposes
the "rendered DOM" -- so that your crawling code
doesn't need to actually use JavaScript for
information extraction.

It is an interesting approach. There's evidence that Google crawls the web that way, though I don't know if it's been confirmed by the company.

GoogleBot indexes content rendered by Javascript - even content delivered by an AJAX request. They've announced they are going to start penalizing sites that don't work well on mobile. I don't know the specifics of that (and they probably haven't shared them) but I do know that I've received automated email from Google Webmaster Tools and/or AdSense about one of my sites not working great on mobile: small UI elements grouped too closely together, content that's too wide, etc.
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What if every (or even most) religion also has radicals following it? Can you think of a religion without a radical flavor?

Maybe it's some people that are radical, and are attracted to local religions, and then religion gives them an outlet for belief that doesn't require the feedback with reality cycle that shapes many other actions, letting them become more unhinged over time.
Union Square is the heart of NYC. Almost all lines intersect there, (the L from Brooklyn as well), and it is next to (within 10mins walk) of East Village, West Village, Lower East Side, Chelsea, FlatIron, Kips Bay, etc, which are the most interesting parts of NYC and have both commercial and residential buildings

It used to be a dangerous dump 20 years ago, and now it is awesome.
Wow, this article is absolutely unreadable. As an example,

> In this case, though, I’ll indulge just a little because, although a newcomer to the country, I am an old-comer to the culture: my mother-in-law, still with us at ninety-five, is as Icelandic as could be and, although Canadian Icelanders are not exactly the same as the homespun kind, they are still almost indistinguishable from the natives.

So many non-essential dependent clauses. Every other sentence is like this: fifty sentences and over one hundred commas. Who thinks this is good style?
Nobody is criticizing the Hawaiian electric grid of the 1960s.