skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not arbitrary at all, it's for backwards compatibility. Previously the meter was defined in terms of the emission lines of krypton-86, which was a distance that we could measure most precisely with an interferometer. Before that it was based on the size of the earth, which could be measured with a astronomical calculations. And originally it was based on the length of a pendulum that produced a period of a 1 seconds, from which the length can be calculated using a scale, a reference mass and a clock (there was another definition, but this one was more precise I believe).

Each definition gives you something pretty close to what we now define as a meter, but the precision to which they could be measured at the time differed. The length of a "meter" was more or less the same distance in everybody's mind then as now, but if a 10000 scientists would sit down and perform experiments to actually calculate the exact length in 1700 versus, the mean of the values they reported would be about the same as it is today, but the statistical uncertainty would be much much much higher.

The redefining of the meter has typically occurred when some new process was invented that was more precise than the the previous method, for instance today measuring a laser in a vacuum is something like 1/3 the uncertainty than the old method using an interferometer. So the uncertainty is smaller, but crucially the mean value is still basically the same or very close. That's the reason for the weird 1/299792458 seconds, it's because we can define seconds very very precisely (from atomic clocks) and that's the amount of time it takes light in a vacuum to travel the same distance as the previous most precise known value for the length of a meter.

If it wasn't done this way, every time we invented a more precise method to measure distance and want to improve the precision of the meter it'd be like defining a whole new unit. Defining a foot as the distance light travels in a nanosecond is fine now, but if we discover an even more precise way to measure distance than a laser in a vacuum we'd end up in the same position, where a "foot" would be some strange fraction of a reference value that makes it work out to agree with the old most precise known value.

This sort of stupidly accurate measurement doesn't matter anymore on the day-to-day life scale as the length of a meter is known to within ~(10^-9)%, which is about a ten picometers. However, that means then that if you're fabricating silicon at the nanometer scale, the actual exact length of a nanometer is only known to within about 1% of a nanometer (if I did my math right, might be off by a factor of 10). That's much more significant.
In many cases, "directly helping" may solve the short-term, immediate concerns of those housing/economically disadvantaged, but doesn't actually serve to fix the problem that's making things the way they are to begin with.

Agreed. In this case, the problem is that a lot of people with money want to live in SF now and there just aren't enough places to put them. I do agree with the consensus that the NIMBYs need to accept that and allow construction of more units, at all price points.

that would free up a lesser quality place (because I could move there) and reduce its price to a market rate based on its quality that someone with lesser means could then afford.

Maybe, but that is basically a trickle-down assumption. It's also possible that there is a near-inexhaustible supply of rich people who would buy a second or third or fourth home, or foreigners looking for pied-a-terres, and then this expensive low-density new construction has left everyone else exactly where they were, except market rates may have actually increased.

The reason I lean towards subsidized housing is because (yes, in the short term), it directly helps the people that are struggling, rather than relying on the playing out of complex economic theories that coincidentally give justification for rich people to not actually care about poor people ("just let us do our thing, and eventually it will work out for everyone else...we promise").
>Ritalin/Adderall is very different. If you use it to stay up for 8 hours, you'll sleep for 16 hours the next time you pass out.

From my subjective experience, this isn't necessarily true. All-nighters with modafinil vs. all-nighters with adderall require the same amount of catch-up sleep for me. Modafinil just gives me a less jittery wakefulness.
It helps build a negative sentiment against those nations. That's one of the techniques in a propaganda.
Joe Blitzstein's Probability course at Harvard (Stat110) is very well regarded. http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/home
To me it does not disclose that easily. The parallelism between "sizeof" and "elemsof" seems to me very constructed. "size" and "elements" are not similar words.

To be logical at all, the name should be "numelemsof" or "countelemsof" ... but I guess, those names are already to long for C purists ...
Science from the 30s through the 50s should be tossed... ... were they just making stuff up?

I've come to realize that science is always wrong, when viewed with a long enough lens. It does the best it can at the time - i.e. let's spray everyone with DDT, or let's put lead into paint and gasoline, or let's introduce species x to control species y then x becomes a problem, etc.

Then years later science figures out those were terrible ideas, but shockingly everyone just says "NOW we know better, forget about before, trust us THIS time".

Does anyone else not realize it's exactly the same thing, and ~50 years from now science will know that lots of what we're doing today is a really bad thing to be doing? In 2050 someone will say "Science from the 1990's - 2020s should be tossed, they were just making stuff up"
You might want to charge (a lot) more. How many $1/mo accounts will you need to make any sort of profit?
Jimmy Wales just became head of Lawrence Lessig's campaign to be President
I think even more than that is dealing with the ongoing maintenance of a wordpress site. Just keeping it up to date is a PITA even with automatic upates (stuff finds a way to break pretty often). Without at least cursory ongoing maintenance, WP sites seem to get hacked in less than 3 months these days.
What do you mean "incredibly unique?" And what is the value in expressing the same thing in so many different ways? I don't see how you can argue that saying the same things over and over is intelligent.

>They simply don't have the same linguistic capabilities.

They are really not very different from us in terms of linguistic abilities. Our linguistic abilities are mostly a matter of socialization of history.

Feral humans won't be much smarter than an ape.
Dvorak? Are you serious?

Refusing to install essential updates has cost some companies millions of dollars, conficker being just one example. I think it's better to install updates than not, and that someone who did the numbers could probably prove it.

Otherwise, real geeks keep backups that are tested as working. This is what separates the men from the boys.
A lot of new malware is self-modifying. In situations where this is the case checksums lose most if not all of their value. Heuristics in such situations are really the only viable option.
Segment (YC S11) is hiring technical salespeople for Platform Partnerships
...which they would receive by drinking any sugary liquid.
You make an argument that I think a lot of people make implicitly and that I think is worth refuting. The argument is this: "The fact that HFT firms make money 300+ days in a row, means they are not really running any risk (and probably an indication they are up to no good)".

What is actually going on is simply that HFT firms tend to make a lot of small uncorrelated bets on the market, each of which has a pretty unimpressive winning percentage. If you make money on 51% of trades, and make one trade per day you'll have a losing day roughly every other day. If you make 100 trades per day it will be much rarer that you have a losing day, and if you make 1000000 trades it will almost never happen.

This is simply the law of large numbers, as you increase the number of samples the realized return will converge to the expected return (which is positive), far from statistically impossible.
I've been taking it for about two years, often skipping it on days I don't have to work, and it's definitely not as effective. Once, though, I did lose about three weeks' worth when it got accidentally tossed during a move. Insurance doesn't tend to cover that sort of thing, and the stuff is $500+/month, so I just struggled without. When I refilled it and started taking it again, I was bouncing off the walls a little bit.
People can also function without a cerebellum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellar_hypoplasia#Signs_an...
No mention of Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp?

Learning Lisp has really improved my productivity when it comes to prototyping and one-off projects. It also translates to using smaller lisps like Scheme in the embedded space.

I wish CL was more widely used.
"Community organizer."
This should be part of TTIP and TPP, actually.

Use SI and ISO standards for everything.

ISO A4 paper, ISO time (2015-08-14 23:52 UTC+2), Metric, etc
And it's not like being bootstrapped ensures a business won't be a home run.

Microsoft, Oracle, Ebay and Github were all bootstrapped.
Do plants not die? Saying that people are causing death without clearly qualifying that its farm animals is childish.

The environmental issue is legitimate, but they treated it as an afterthought. It also brings up issues of personal liberty and how much we know about vegetarianism's health effects.

And yes, people in the third world eat very little meat. But, you know what? I bet a lot of them want to eat meat. Remember that that argument can be made about anything even remotely nonessential.
Rebel alliance, ha!

Dude you're just another engineer on the Deathstar, you think helping a hand is going to stop the emperor from torturing people?

You assist a corrupt regime which condones torture and the wide scale murder of innocents. You have no response beyond ignoring the truth and down voting. I await the mods deletion, what a complete farce, mere Orwellian propaganda.

--howterrible
The annoying thing is that (because of type inference) parts of the expression could be within different expressions:

fn required_bytes(width: u16, height: u16) -> u64 {
let size = width * height; // what's the type of size?
size + 12
}
The first question I asked is current temperature, and it kept to feed me some show reservation schedule and yelp reviews.

This is a bit retarded.
Practical applications of Probability Programming Languages?
Gang orchestrated £30m drug deal from inside jail cells using hacked laptops
It technically is a job :) But people who usually work at a startup believe in the mission and don't feel like it's a 9-5 job. Otherwise, you wouldn't go work there for peanuts.
It was in fact intentionally broken to find out where removing single-byte locales hurts our users most.

We have a hackathon coming up with devs committed to making UTF-8 work in more base utilities. If that works out, and the most sore points of latin1/koi-8/etc users have been adequately addressed, 5.9 will ship with only the UTF-8 locale (and of course the default "C" locale -- ASCII).

If this approach turns out to be wrong because we cannot get regressions fixed, 5.9 will ship like 5.7 and 5.8 (with UTF-8 and single byte locales).
The perfect daily standup is an email.
"The lower bound is estimated to be between 10 and 20"
The phone metadata is just a small part of the lawless behaviour of intelligence services he released proof of to journalists. For example he also released proof of industrial espionage (Petrobras), political spying during negotiations (Belgacom), of tapping internet traffic indiscriminately (Tempora), of undermining encryption standards(Bullrun), installing malware on routers, of personnel misusing selectors to target their loved ones with impunity.

Perhaps you believe in your country right or wrong, but many don't nowadays, many feel little allegiance to national boundaries or national agencies which actively undermine our society.

What I find most interesting here is that this attempt by security agencies to collect it all actually means that their operation can be compromised by the smallest cogs in their machine whom they foolishly gave full access to. You can be absolutely sure that if Snowden walked out with this data, Chinese, Russian and other spies have the whole trove as well dating back years, because their security around private contractors was awful - GCHQ shared all this with the US without restraint, and of course all their data is now open to the world. So the ambition to collect it all and the entire collection of data (including data on western judges, politicans etc etc) is actually highly damaging to national security, even if you believe that flimsy excuse.

At some point if you're exposed to all this you might feel you have to take sides with humanity and take a stand, before these tools are used for widespread repression. At that point you start being a whistleblower, and your life will probably be destroyed by the powers that be (as his has been, or as Binney's was), because they now have that power.

http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000001733041/the-pro...

I think the biggest lesson from Snowden is not technical, but the simple argument that the power of state and citizen must be in balance for society to function, and we must constantly guard against the state aggrandising power, because that is in its nature.
I don't think anyone on HN has argued that, but many people in the general public still insist that "enhanced interrogation" like what's done in Guantanamo is not actually torture. Or at least they used to, until Obama finally admitted people have been tortured; though some still insist it isn't torture.

My question was more hypothetical. That seems like the very definition of torture.
You can always be explicit:

#if WE_ARE_ON_A_TINY_MACHINE
typedef uint16_t vector_size_t;
#elif WE_ARE_ON_A_SUPERCOMPUTER
typedef uint64_t vector_size_t;
#else
#error "Unsupported platform."
#end

That's better than your code which inserts 100,000 things into a vector mysteriously breaking on certain platforms (on which you may or may not have tested your code).
WHY? WHY IN GODS NAME?!?!

Why would such a preposterously dangerous state, complete defenselessness, not be engineered around by darwinian pressure?!?
Of course. I thought about using wit.ai a few months ago, but I found a lot of issues in how they approach parsing and classification. Specifically, training it is a very manual process, and customization and tweaking is very hard.

I've built my own API which can do entity and language parsing. It relies on utilizing word embeddings (such as those described here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.4546.pdf).
Gotcha well good luck, looking forward to playing with this more once I have a tailgate or something.

If you got 4mins mind giving me feedback on my project?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062700
The financial year assumes 30 days per month, 12 months per year, 360 days per year. That’s what’s the basis for your salary calculation.
The problem: hyperlocal news is fragmented - on news sites, blogs, newsletters, events pages, etc. I built this so the local community can see, submit, curate, and discuss local news, all in one place and with a map.
This is the perfect use case for my father's website and for the exact reasons I didn't want to use CPanel or Wordpress for his site.

Nice job filling that small niche of "barebones CMS".
Not disagreeing with you in the slightest, but how about just calling them all "businesses" and adding the qualifier "VC-funded" if they've taken funding? It makes more sense to qualify based on VC funding, rather than lack there of, since taking venture capital is the exception in business, not the norm.

Terminology aside, Silicon Valley's argument that this is a what a real business looks like, not that, is ridiculous. They're all businesses. And if you really want to play that game, it's often the VC-funded startups that aren't "real" businesses (no profits, revenue, etc), not the derisively labeled "lifestyle" businesses.
Which is why a good language should, in addition to fixed-width types, have a size type, which is guaranteed to be the same size as a pointer; but it shouldn't have some random other types with vaguely defined widths and use cases. For example, Rust has u8, u16, etc., and usize, but no "short", "int", or "long"; Go has uint8, uint16, etc., and uintptr, except it also has uint, which is arguably a bad idea. C now has size_t, but none of its traditional unspecified-width types satisfied that criterion, since long is too short to fit a pointer on platforms such as Windows 64 (and long long's too long on 32-bit platforms, but that came in the same standard revision as size_t).
Well, retail stores bring people to the store looking to buy things. App stores (not just Apple's) are mostly mandated by Apple/Google/Amazon. They do provide some value (trust, for the apps), but 30% seems quite high for that.
What about Divshot, BitBalloon, Netlify and Github Pages? Between the 4 of those, there's a range of prices and functionality that fit pretty much any need.

Note that the goal of this question is to help you explain what makes you unique, not to as a gotcha. I'd like to get an idea of when your offering is the appropriate choice since I'm looking at needing a static webhost in the next few months.
When the MIR work is done creating a new translator would certainly be easier.
Both you and the OP are being pretty black and white about this. Paying for speeding tickets you deserve because you were speeding is hardly "loving cops so much".
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@bitcuration - thanks for trying it out :)

As the welcome page mentions, it currently only answers queries around restaurant recommendations/reservations, and the logistics around them - reviews/times/menus. It would be great if you tried that out. As the system becomes more intelligent and location aware, I'm hoping it will get to answering broader questions such as yours.
Cool. Building a UI for Jekyll is exactly what we're setting out to do. Great idea about the click-to-specify what's dynamic!

Agreed that focusing on technical people is a smaller market; that's just phase 1 for us. Thanks a bunch!
What a awful, sloppy article.

> Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt

No, being a scientist requires identifying uncertainty, investigating mystery, and doubting results until they are sufficiently repeated.

> scientism: the notion that science has exclusive access to the truth

You can of course discover/reveal "truths" (facts!) without the science but these can be tested/confirmed via the scientific method.

> dismissingly brands Shakespeare and Chekhov as without intellectual value

This is a seriously disingenuous attack on the unnamed researcher who almost certainly isn't counting the humanities amongst his targets.

> Science wouldn’t appear so harshly incompatible with spirituality.

Ah! The hidden agenda, finally.
Its not a tragedy of the commons. Charge market prices for water and this goes away.
Please. The amount of stock you'll need to execute nowadays typically does not match the hours you put in.
However, working with the right people at a fast growing startup is certainly one of the top two or three things to grow (save mentoring or doing a research project with actual applications)
If I get out of my car with the engine still running it starts beeping. I don't know if it will actually turn the engine off, but it obviously knows that the key has departed the vehicle.
Well, that’s nice – you have a car where you now disabled the immobilizer, but you’ll still need at least large tools and half an hour to break the steering wheel lock and the other stopping mechanisms.

Especially in cars without keyless entry the immobilizer is only one of dozens of mechanisms against theft.
I don't know, they would have to encode two template arguments, one of which is a freely-chosen integer, into a number of suffixes. I'd say, leave that to the user. The user can define literals for the type/exponent combinations they will use often.
I don't know what this is about, probably 8chan is crap, but Google is so core to the internet that complete censoring is a big problem. Because censorship is abused by governments.

We need a real alternative to centralized indexing and search. Duckduckgo is another central search.

We have to move to the decentralized content-based web and we are going to have to index it ourselves. We cannot keep sucking the googlensa tit forever.

The direction for search is bitcoin, ethereum, massively distributed deep learning, etc.

This is actually quite urgent.
I think that's true. Here's more support for the idea that the brain actually uses quite a lot of energy:

"Although the average adult human brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms, only 2 percent of total body weight, it demands 20 percent of our resting metabolic rate (RMR)—the total amount of energy our bodies expend in one very lazy day of no activity."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thinking-hard-calo...
Rick Santorum has accused universities of "indoctrination" and "killing religion".
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rick-santorum-left-uses-college-...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201203/...

James Inhofe has written a book about how climate science is supposedly a hoax.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Greatest-Hoax-Conspiracy-Threatens...

Chris Christie said that a national teachers union deserves a “punch in the face”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/chris-christie...
What apathy? Ubuntu and Fedora had already switched to Upstart, and Gentoo to OpenRC, due to the problems identified with sysvinit.
maybe the mobile app is better but when I want to post something I thought I would get an option so oauth and submit something from my social account not a file I have on my computer.

How is the mobile UX?
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"It's not arbitrary at all, it's for backwards compatibility."

The original definition of the meter was one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole. Sure, we got more precise, but its still arbitrary.

The only interesting thing about metric is the relation of length, volume, mass. But, a liter is not a cubic meter, nope - its a cubic decimetre, another arbitrary decision.
This is amazing, I don't think I would have ever thought of that. Of course, it's efficacy is a bit mitigated in that if you could manage to get malware onto such a computer, then there are likely easier ways to exfiltrate the data than presented in this paper. The POC model is nonetheless impressive.

This would be a great side project to play around with on an Arduino or something.
>We attribute intelligence to humans, most of which are barely able to parrot what they hear from each other

edgy/10
Sure, the system is broken. Except that system is our government, so it's all of our problem.
That's right. GOPATH can be problematic, but that's easy to fix with a script: https://github.com/soheilhy/goget