skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author went to Eton and then Cambridge, moving to London for the first time after university. In the process, he himself pushed property prices up, and directly contributed to gentrification.

Obviously, when he moved there, that's when London was at its best. Since then, these upstarts and their money, moving there, pricing out the real Londoners... etc.

It has always been thus.
Ah, but how do you know the simulation doesn't just slow down the simulated flow of time so it can keep up? Think of a bullet-time like concept. The universe can be simulated as fast as the underlying hardware can keep up.
Isn't that the entire premise of The Matrix?
Maybe you should approach the revelation and "breaking through" by a philosophical rather than logical approach..if we are a simulation the logic we work with is artificial and arbitrary anyway. So in the story, get to the "real reality"...by taking the ideal of what reality should be and comparing it to what is observed to be and somehow "crack" into ultimate reality by doing so.
Ah, I see what you mean - akin to the OS clock being in UTC, while a user sets their account $TZ environment to their local time.
Octopress 3 not released yet but it is right around the corner. It is much, much easier to use than Octopress 2. If you're still interested in the static route someday you might want to re-evaluate again in a year when it's released and some quickstart guides have been written.
Every day man. I tend to try to work more because I feel weird about being compensated for the work that I do. I guess just keep working hard and challenging yourself every day, and do as much as possible.
Heavy elements that allow for Fission are products of supernova which are really more a question of minutes than years. With the vast majority being created in under 2 minutes after the reaction starts.

PS: https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/

Which of the following would be brighter, in terms of the amount of energy delivered to your retina:
A supernova, seen from as far away as the Sun is from the Earth, or
The detonation of a hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball?

A: Applying the physicist rule of thumb suggests that the supernova is brighter. And indeed, it is ... by nine orders of magnitude.
I'm reading that book right now, and so far it's good. One can also read: Anathem, Snow Crash, http://qntm.org/ra, or (extremely NSFW) The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect.

All of them explore the nature of reality and consciousness in some way.

To the parent commenter, please write your story. The world always needs good fiction.
tbh it never gets stuck in gmail spam queue.
its crappy providers that give you low reputation by default

aaand nearly all of them have an auto reply response with a contact email or page where you can "unblacklist" your ip easily
Because they're expensive to run as they're set up today (large administration, tenured faculty--although there's less of that than there was, fancy physical plant). Small liberal arts colleges don't typically have especially large endowments. They don't have access to a lot of the government dollars that large research universities do. And, expensive as they are, they're still constrained in how much they can charge and enrollments are trending downward because they are expensive and the degree isn't necessarily worth a whole lot. (In the case of Sweet Briar specifically and a variety of other schools that are at or over the edge, they're also the victim of changing preferences or demographics: all-women colleges in Sweet Briar's case and many religious schools in the case of a college in my town.)
Apparently the crust of the earth is floating on huge nuclear energy generator. I guess it's a materials problem to tap into that?
I guess we'll have to see what the internet makes of it all :D. Short production runs are inherently expensive. And I think all too often kickstarter projects fail due to not properly pricing in externalities.

As for contributing/collaborating, the entire source code and interpreter for the watch will be made open source. At the end of the kickstarter. Plenty of opportunities ahead!
There are some potentially huge downsides.

First, if people ever find out you're cheating, your reputation will take a huge hit and you'll lose a ton of clients. People know that the house always wins, but they still insist that the house must play fair within those bounds.

Second, I'm guessing there's some way for a player to take advantage of this change if he knows what's going on, so you're potentially losing money if anyone discovers it.

Compared against these downsides, what's the upside? Casinos practically print money. Why risk destroying that just so you might print a little more? Better to put your effort into convincing people to bet more, or getting less experienced players to play more.
As someone who has been working with "drones" for the past few years, I am sick to death of these people who do idiotic things like fly over a crowd of people.

It's frustrating that when something like this happens, people tend to blame the drone, not the pilot. When someone gets drunk and crashes their car, nobody blames the car.

I hope they find this guy and make an example of him.
Indeed. What insurer could have covered the estimated 137 billion dollar hit [1] from the Fukushima disaster? The Japanese government has had to step in, to the very real financial detriment of its people and their nation.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-11-07/fukushima-...
I'm familiar with the background of the case, I just don't understand what you mean by, "took the syntax as well". Android programs are written in Java-the-language. That fact neither enlarges nor diminishes the severity of Google's actions here.
Not sure if it also include Seattle but it appears to include Boulder http://www.dailycamera.com/business/ci_28402965/uber-buys-bo...
It's not a planned crime but we all know someone is going to accidentally get killed sooner than later. In fact, I'm on the record on HN 30 days ago when a jet almost hit a drone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9630862

"It' only a matter of time before someone gets killed. The person responsible will be sorry and explain that he (it will be a he) didn't realize the repercussions."
Illegal left turns across Market Street? That's not so bad. If I'm heading home from south Brooklyn then Uber tells my driver to make a right turn into a "do not enter / buses only" area followed by a left turn that takes you the wrong way on a one way street.

(Someone with too much time on their hands can probably figure out my address from that description. Or my Instagram feed.)
I love this! Of course, the US is too much of a saint to ever consider bribing. Instead, we rely on our guns to do the talking. This reminds me of the human right violations report that the American State Dept publishes, always pointing the finger at China while China publishes its own report pointing the finger at the U.S. using as evidence police brutality, Guantanamo Bay, etc.
You can't trust what you cannot audit. Open Source is auditable software. You can hire non-vested 3rd parties to validate it.
The article is a little old, but I especially liked how it explores issues surrounding the neurological aspects of the brain, people's behavior, and the way they experience the world.

As I gotten older and had gotten to know a wider variety of people, it has become clear to me that the brain's "wiring" accounts for much, maybe even most of people's personality

It's also clear to me that consciousness — thinking, planning, expecting, remembering — has a profound effect, too. I'm not sure how the neurology/biology/consciousness balance works out, exactly, but I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on it.
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Today leap second could cause disruptions on Internet, in global trading
In geometric algebra it's a single equation. ∇E=∂B/∂t
I would also imagine that it's very much a cultural issue as well. You can't get these documents without people who believe strongly that they are making the world a better place by collecting them and releasing them.

Now the US has a lot of idealism going on, so much so that many people grow up idolizing institutions like the CIA and the NSA. They join these institutions as believers, but day after day they are exposed to more details on the inside that bursts that idealism and one day cognitive dissonance gets the better of them and they choose to collect information to become a whistleblower.

Compare this with other countries where there isn't as much blind reverence cultivated for such institutions. The same talented kids that would grow up under circumstances where they would have a much more realistic view of the good and bad these institutions are capable of. This in and of itself is a major limiting factor in how high you would rise in such an institution, assuming you chose to join in the first place. You can't be a whistleblower if you don't have access to anything to whistleblow about.

Whistleblowing happens when values clash with reality. If values are never really part of the equation, and you have organizations where "the ends justify the means" is not only accepted, but rewarded, then you don't get whistleblowers.

With things like Guantanamo, extraordinary rendition, drone assassinations, and all these realizations from the Snowden docs, I fully expect that idolization bubble to be pretty much popped by now insofar as institutions like the NSA and CIA are concerned. For that reason more than any other I expect whistleblowing to become less frequent for these institutions. If and when whistleblowing drops for these institutions drops, it's will be explained by better security measures, but I would expect it having more to do with those who have the personality to be whistleblowers never joining or rising high enough to have that opportunity.
A rotor blade can potentially cut or blind people.
http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/

s/warplif/warplife/

I Should Not Drink And Post.
Yep, I did have brand name drugs on the agenda, but I do think there are also more broadly medical products. Keep an eye out for those. ;)
His example is anything but abstract. Embedded programming is a world unto itself. You sometimes need to read an address before you can write, etc.
Also, how exactly does the input mechanism work?
I remember reading some early RFC's that suggested pre-SMTP, remote "email" was "sent" using FTP.

Perhaps it was something like a PUT command to append to a user's "mail" file on the recipient computer?

This seems to suggest email was always envisioned as something to be "received" rather that voluntarily "retrieved".

In retrospect, knowing what happened to email, the later idea (e.g., djb's proposal) makes more sense.

The funny part is that even though the "receive" idea is still the core part of the email process, that is not what email users do in practice.

Users "retrieve" their mail from some third party who receives it for them.

First there was "POP" then there was "webmail".

Back in the Stone Age when email was "invented" computers were too expensive for the users to own.

Each user shared the computer with other users.

Each had an email account, usually administered by the organization that owned the expensive computer.

Today computers are inexpensive and seemingly all users own one but they still do not have control of their email accounts.

Some organization is still receiving all their mail before they do. And keeping a copy of course. :)

Then, in more recent history, the domain name "business" (a monopoly run by an organization that derives its "authority" from nowhere), fueled by the popularity of the "www", became the gatekeeper to email.

When was the last time you sent an email to user@[ipaddr]? Originally if my memory of the old RFC's is correct that was how it worked. No domain name needed.

Today, if there is no purchased, monopoly-blessed "domain name", then according to the people who control users' email there is no "valid" email address. No pay, no play. Even if port 25 is open.

Assuming a user who has paid for access to the "internet" wants control of their own email (seems reasonable), then "email" is still an addtional fee.
The sorted vector has O(n) insertion cost. A hashtable has O(1) insertion, possibly amortized; a trie, if I understand correctly, has an insertion cost proportionate to the length of the string, assuming a fixed alphabet.

So as the vector gets larger the amount of time it takes to insert an item will grow at the same rate as the vector does, but the cost to insert the item into a hashtable or trie will remain about the same.
Hi William!

I'm wondering how it would work otherwise. Should someone buying a new car who is thinking about its entire lifecycle optimize for fuel efficiency? Resale value? Ease of maintenance? Something else? I suppose a house should be designed so that it could easily be split into apartment units? It doesn't seem impossible to get wealthy people to consider these things, similar to how they consider the effect of the products they buy on the people in the supply chain and on the environment, but it would require a lot of research and marketing.

On the other hand, long-term planning like this is hard to do effectively. It seems like a lot of charity efforts specifically targeting the poor turn out not to be very cost effective, compared to the best approaches highlighted in GiveWell. It's hard to be confident that your average startup would achieve anything more than just showing good intentions.
It's only a matter of time before unlicensed drones become banned. These incidents are going to keep happening over and over with increasing frequency, and then a law is going to be passed. Enjoy the wild west of drone flying while it still lasts.
Business person looking for a technical guy interested in building a location-based social discovery app. Particular market space open to be dominated :)

App is already designed and mapped out, high potential, already building interest with future users, just need a code warrior (or two) to build. Quit my job to work on this so I can only offer equity, but I can guarantee funding will come easy once we have an MVP out. I have already received interest from some investors, but I need a team and a usable product.

If you leave a comment with your contact info, I'll email you the link to the website so you can check it and see if it sparks your interest.
Each to their own ;) We are trying to build a community focussed on live coding education, which is more focussed than you will find on Youtube for example.
There's a co-work space and startup hub in Park City, Utah called Pando Labs that's named after Pando: http://www.pandolabs.org/
The UPower design is waste negative so it can convert the entire planet's spent nuclear fuel and depleted uranium stockpiles into enough energy to power the globe for about 500 years. All while leaving behind a waste stream that decays to be less radioactive than the ground beneath your feet in a few hundred years. If we buried it in Paul Revere's basement when it was built, people could see it and touch it today without any exposure above background. Not to mention it is also fuel agnostic so it can run on thorium as well.

It's also important to highlight that the UPower design can consume the entire actinide vector because it uses fast neutrons. A lot of the longer lived actinides cannot be fissioned or transmuted effectively by thermal neutrons so they just build up.

We like to say we are the ultimate disposal, and can take anything, including the waste from other waste consumers.
we try ;) (slow learners!)
Yeah, aided by Daily Mail fear mongering about someone who came back from a vacation to find his house occupied by squatters that left their readers afraid the same would happen to their homes. The fact that it was an empty rental property he'd left unlet and that squatting in homes with occupants was already illegal went conveniently unmentioned.
Do you have a point at all with your comment?
I really love this idea, as someone still in the early stages of learning programming.
It doesn't have to be either/or. Will Chan is donating 20% of his income to charity. He has done that whether he was in DC with us or at Google. https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13pddzpwn30d5ozb04...

I support the idea of effective altruism, but at this exact moment, I believe that technical people donating time goes further than technical people donating money.
yeah RTMP...
I think the parent meant "implicit" rather than "abstract". The code is not abstract; but the pragmatic intent of the comment is not made very clear. I believe I follow but I'm not confident enough to risk confusing things by guessing.

(I believe I follow the intended conversational import; I certainly follow the code.)
Anyone thinking about this needs to watch "Into Eternity", a movie about the Finnish nuclear waste repository: http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com/

"In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock - a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous."

It was eye opening.
The flight line is not a safe place for civilians to stand while an airplane taxis in.
I don't know if the outcome will be licensing or not but certainly far more stringent regulations. I do fear that it's just a matter of time before someone is killed by a falling drone in this sort of situation and we'll find the story on the front page of every newspaper in the country. (And the popular reaction is going to be that some rich kid's toy killed someone.)
And you need a driver's license to drive a car. You also aren't allowed to be drunk while driving.

These are arguments for restrictions, not against them
"The drone is 2 lbs."

I'm failing to see your point here. Ever been on the receiving end of a baseball? Much lighter than a 2 lb drone, but I sure as poop don't wanna be hit with one.
Sounds like you can map out the compromised addresses and selectively block them.

Avoiding auto-spam-boxing new domains (as opposed to IP addresses), would be helpful. Any strategy that attempts to leverage multiple machines would still need to register and maintain many domain names, making such a spam strategy costly and more technically difficult. Further, an easy check for malicious users is to examine the websites at the domains suspected of spamming. Or even just WHOIS info.
> By combining our years of experience in fusion, newly available electronics technologies, and a revolutionary design using cutting-edge physics, Helion is making a fusion engine 1,000 times smaller, over 500 times cheaper, and realizable 10 time faster than other projects.

What?!? I certainly appreciate the ambition, but humanity has spent seven decades and at least hundreds of billions of dollars on this very same project. What in the world is this tiny startup doing with a $5mm grant that is so easy and cheap that could possibly lead to that kind of breakthrough in fusion energy?
Hey!

Not currently able to embed livestreams or chats, but this is something we definitely have in mind to develop, its just a question of priorities. You can request this feature here: http://roadmap.livecoding.tv/

Good luck with your site - looks cool :)
Valid as well.
This is super cool. How do we use it? Give us an API! :)
Why does it matter how far away the Sun is? It's the amount of energy available to us here that matters. And it doesn't have to accumulate at all, the instantaneous energy flux is plenty high for our needs.
Regarding concussion: this is dangerously wrong. To be knocked unconscious due to a head blow is by definition a Grade II concussion. The emerging consensus on brain injury is that even lesser concussions can have severe long term effects, especially additively (see e.g. NFL and NHL brain injury scandals).
No. The second use is to "keep them honest". It's not to gain a one time advantage or short term advantage, but it serves as a way to ensure your competition isn't doing monkey business.

It's both an out of band communications channel but also provides a feedback loop. If your enemy or your competitor is engaging in something you all agreed to is out of bounds, you can respond to it with the information you have gained.

EDS and Boeing will know if the other is underselling, bribing, receiving subsidies, etc. and be able to respond accordingly, for example.
Threatening to sick the House Armed Services Committee on the MIT AI Lab is "badact".

And by the way, it was POURNE, not JERRYP:

MIT Maximum Confusion PDP-10

MC ITS.1488. PWORD.2632.
TTY 57
16. Lusers, Fair Share = 86%

*:login pourne
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And you have to admit, he did asked to be dumped off the net, so he got what he asked for (although he failed to deliver what he promised in return: seppuku):

"thank you. if left to you I suppose I cewrtainly will find my accounts terminated. Your nice private message appreciated. seppuku follows.. maybe you ought to have me dumped off the net and be done with it? or must you work through someone else? J. E. Pournelle"
That's just nonsense. Forth generation breeder reactors burn their own waste to something close to irrelevant. Existing "Waste" should be continually burned and the energy used to sequester C02 from the atmosphere, for example, not uselessly stored in a bunker. There is no reason for that facility to exist.
I just downloaded the standard ones from: https://www.iana.org/time-zones

It appears to have this stuff down to the second. For example:

# Zone	NAME	GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
Zone America/New_York	-4:56:02 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:03:58

# Zone	NAME	GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
Zone America/Chicago	-5:50:36 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:09:24

Although this won't really be accurate, because it doesn't have every single city. The New_York zone covers the whole eastern time zone even though all the cities in that zone would have been different before 1883. But it is in the database, even if it's not quite right for anything outside of the named cities.
I'd recommend a diesel generator instead. You can store diesel for years without it going bad. Not so for gasoline. So you can have a supply of fuel and not be caught short if your cars' tanks aren't full when a long term outage happens. Also, gasoline powered generators tend to be a lot less durable if you run them for long periods of time.

I'm not a prepper either, but where I live the power outages are frequent enough that it makes you think about backup plans. So a solid diesel generator, a 50 gallon drum of diesel, and a pickup truck that runs on diesel. That will take care of a long term outage for quite a while.
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There's a lot of energy in those 112 tonnes, but you really need a fast reactor to burn it. Plutonium is a lot easier to tackle in a fast reactor than a thermal reactor.

Also, UPower can use the waste without putting it through a chemical separations process. In fact you can just take the SNF grind it up, and dump it into the UPower reactor alongside the rest of the fuel. It actually makes a pretty good fuel that way.
You could make the same arguments for the long term public costs of burning fossil fuels.
Can you elaborate on the similarities? I took a course on medieval philosophy and theology (Anselm, Aquinas, Avicenna, and so on) so I am earnestly interested, but the connection isn't jumping out at me.
I suspect that most of the time the information isn't given directly, but merely assumes the form of advice or innuendo. Think of the classic line from the British House of Cards, "You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment."

It's pretty trivial to engage in the relaying of highly valuable information via indirect means. The only requirement is that the person with access to information establish a reputation as someone worth listening to without having to truly explain yourself.
This is just a side project of mine and I am looking for some feedback, thanks!