skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a personal level maybe, in the business world can't see it disappearing easily. It's more a matter of educating people how to use it. I really believe companies should set some level of email training in their development i.e. don't reply all thanks, don't treat it like IM, how to use cc/to correctly, how to auto filter etc.

More generally history tends to show proprietary systems like Linkedin/FB break down and are replaced. They are too open to profiteering if companies feel they have market dominance. Every companey eventually gets that short therm thinking manager that want instant profit at the expense of user experience and it's so easy to swap platforms these days. Take the messaging Linkedin update they did a few weeks back. You cant see sent emails anymore if you didn't get a reply, and the increased need for a paid account to contact people. I'm seriously considering canceling my paid account as they keep taking more away.

I more feel email will at some point advance in usability. The market is ripe for a business to re-think they standard interface. Basically do what threaded SMS did to the old one message at a time SMS days.
Ah, misspent youth!... I remember having completions with my friends, at 17, to see who could cycle through all 1024 states the fastest. AFAIK, I'm still the record holder at just over six minutes. I'm 33 now, with no sign of arthritis ;)
How is ~10% of average daily caloric intake insignificant?
My kids enjoy finger binary since they only need to count to four in order to give me the finger.
I can't wait to see Red get to 1.0
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E-cig vapor is propylene glycol and nicotine. If that causes cancer, then either fog machines cause cancer or nicotine patches cause cancer. In either case, it would be a very surprising discovery.
> Every facet of human knowledge is premised on how humans experience the universe

Absolutely. But that is why this is where we start. Before science, we had no way to invalidate illusions and validate what was real because assumption on their own are neither. They are naked intuitions pending validation. For the longest time we were unable to validate them and we ended up with the mess we had before science. Basically, no one would ever have made it to Mars.

But with scientific validation knowledge becomes more than just an assumption or an intuition based on an experience, or a theory we came up with that we find ingenious because, well, we came up with it. By overcoming our assumptions we achieve objectivity, universality, and factuality. We discover knowledge that has rigid practical persistence. In this process something transcends from our subjective personal ideas to becoming objective impersonal facts. There is no self in science. And it is from this arduous feat that technology is born. There is nothing in this monitor or the components of this phone that are based on assumptions. These devices are selfless.

"Assumption" is as evil a word as "metaphysics" and "subjective" in science. Yet, there are still people who use the word as a synonym for axiom. This is simply bad word-choice. The correct term here would be "premise" and you used it yourself. Theories can have premises, but not assumptions. Are the premises assumed? No. They are granted.

Since this is HN, here is an analogy to software. A program that assumes certain behavior code or of external APIs will be rigged with bugs. Every aspect of it's execution must be tested, and the assumptions of the programmer must be eliminated by production. Of course, being human, we start with assumptions - such as "this would be the perfect library for this project". The "assumptions" that we being with however, eventually manifest themselves into "premises". And in software, these are the dependencies of a program. It is only natural for software to be dependent on other software. What is unnatural and anti-software would be to make assumptions about other software especially within its own execution.

The path from the assumptions of subjective raw experience to the subjective consumption of reliable technology is paved with the work of competent scientists (and analogously, by competent programmers).

> Given your definition, I don't think anything we know would be considered a fact.

If fact is to mean truth, then sure. But there is an abundance of statements that have been backed by evidence. And all these statements are truer than most. Measurably truthier, rather, and that is what counts because that leave room for progress. This is a better definition of "fact".
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Very cool, although it looks like one of China's ghost cities. I see construction but no workers. No people on balconies, no people walking about. It's like some kind of apocalyptic mirage. City planners really need to take a closer look at New York. It worked because small consumer shops exist on the ground level and people live and work on the upper levels. As pedestrians walk down the street they have amenities there for them. Contrast that with streets where there is a big building with not street level shops. It adds no value to the community. Very much like the design intentions of the projects in NY. Don't try to mix parks with buildings. Make sense buildings and then make a big public park.
Fukushima had a big impact on nuclear policy in Germany. I'm just saying it doesn't make sense given its geological stability.

There's a world outside Germany. Pay someone outside Germany to deal with it.
heh, cheap?
Building your own desktop. I know this still exists but it seems more sub-culture than ever. I have such fond memories of planning the perfect rig. Now my laptop can pretty much handle anything (lower but acceptable specs) so the need is greatly reduced.

Thunderbird. As I said somewhere else on this thread I feel the market is ripe for a new email alternative. That said Outlook is a great tool if you take the time to learn beyond the basics.
That there (a) is clearly a demand for a clean car but (b) the hydrogen infrastructure is non existent. Hence the availability of electric cars.

GM/Ford also have hydrogen cars in testing e.g. Chevrolet Equinox. And Fiat has had a number of hydrogen cars they previous developed.
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If you lock your fist, you can extend your ring finger, then your thumb -- leaving the other three fingers "hanging" in your fist. Will probably be a little painful, and won't be pretty -- but it's (sort-of) possible.
The easiest way to think of it is as follows:
When you entangle the particles they have opposite states, and each has their state hidden in a box. When you open one box, you know what the state of the other particle must be.

Only there is no box, and the state isn't well defined until you measure it.

Or there is no box, and the state isn't well defined for anything that hasn't interacted with the particles, but upon interacting whatever did the interaction becomes entangled too and sees the defined state of the particles but the rest of the universe wouldn't know the state of whatever did the interacting.

Or there is a box, but it's the size of the whole universe, and every time anything interacts with it (looks inside the box) the box splits up into all the possible things that could have been seen by that interaction and you get lots of universes.

Or a number of other ways to think about the issue depending on your preferred interpretation of quantum mechanics, but no matter how you look at it it's nothing like a normal box.
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> That is not at all what Goedel's theorems actually say.

An informal description of his second incompleteness theorem (from the "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"):

"For any consistent system F within which a certain amount of elementary arithmetic can be carried out, the consistency of F cannot be proved in F itself."

One example of a sufficient "certain amount of arithmetic" for this to apply to a system is the use of the integer numbers, addition and multiplication. Such a system can no longer prove its own consistency.

If you think that this does not apply to human efforts at rationality, I would like you to explain why.

Debate becomes cheap and shoddy not when someone is wrong (I could be), but when you resort to name-calling instead of pointing out where you think the mistakes are.
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We could also start getting our shit together and build some breeder reactors that burn up >90% of what we now call "waste" and produce end-products with much shorter half-times than current reactors.
This might be a bit controversial and even if it does turn out to be useful for addiction therapy, that doesn't necessarily mean it will be for your friend.

Anyway, when I was smoking tobacco every day (albeit only 1 pack a week) I took LSD for the first time at a very small dose (probably around 90µg) with a close friend. I wasn't doing it for any real reason except to see what it was like. Strange enough though afterwards I had no intention at all of continuing smoking tobacco and I now get extremely nauseous at the slightest smell of tobacco.

You can find quite a lot of information on psychedelic therapy although a lot of research was halted after those drugs became stigmatised and illegal. There is a sort of psychedelic research renaissance occurring and there's been quite a few new studies on their usefulness.
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My typing speed is more than 80 WPM when I'm 12 hours into a bad day and my handwriting is horrid, but I still often use paper to clarify my thoughts, take notes, and draw diagrams. More often than not, I never actually read what I've written, the act of writing just makes it easier for me to retain the information.

Similarly, I've found that I can retain the content of electronic documents more easily if I type them out in a text editor. Sometimes I just delete the text, other times I retain it as a more portable version of the content.

Most members of my family think it's strange that I work with paper so much (and continue to buy most of my books in paper form), given that I've made a living writing software and websites for almost 20 years. I just think that, even with computers in the house from a young age, I was taught to use my brain through paper, and every alternative they've come up with to date has been, at best, a half-assed imitation.
For me, it was snuff, then nicotine gum, then nothing. That was long ago, before e-cigs existed. Snuff was gross.
Yeah, that's how I've always done it, too.
I can do that with both hands starting from the ring finger's second joint. Right hands is significantly weaker and it kinda hurts to do that.
Alan Carr's book finally worked with a friend who'd failed twice before.
Yep, to quit smoking you need to stop smoking cigarettes.
In order to quit smoking you really need to want to.
Else don't even bother.

Best way to get off smoking is to start vaping.
Get two high drain 18650 batteries, a quality charger, a dripping atomizer and a mechanical or regulated device.

Actually vaping can be much more fulfilling than smoking, whether you are looking for a nice flavor or a nicotine high.

Building and wicking coils yourself, mixing glycerin with flavoring to produce your own blend, as well as maintaining your equipment clean, are part of keeping your mind interested and occupied when it comes to getting your fix which in my opinion is key.

Nicotine absorption is much more efficient and you end up ingesting less of it when you find your sweet spot.

Then you must replace smoking with vaping in activities that are linked with the smoking addiction, (like when waking up, or during coffee, or after lunch, or after sex, when having a drink, etc.)

Then before you know it, you won't be craving cigarettes any more as the psychological addiction would have been cured. After that you can either continue vaping or slowly stop vaping as well. Some people keep vaping just flavoring and drop the nicotine completely.

If you stop vaping, keep your vaping equipment around, because triggering a smoking habit in the future due to unforeseen events, is highly probable.

That's anecdotal information of course, but works for me and a lot of other people it seems.
I realized that the money I was spending on cigarettes could be buying me boardgames instead, so I decided to stop temporarily. Only 45 more years until my next smoke!
This was a solved issue with Yucca Mountain in the US, but then fear mongering and political back-peddling caused it to be blocked at the last minute. Nuclear plants had to help pay for its development and then got screwed when it came time for the payoff.
There are several aspects to this.

1. Nuclear waste, even when not processed, is not that large in volume and it can be stored in a space on the order of a hectare (about 2.5 acres) for the entire US nuclear waste production over several decades. Consider the comparative amount of storage needed for just coal ash, as well as the environmental hazards that presents.

2. The reason the US does have comparatively more waste is because the government forbids any reprocessing of nuclear fuel. For example, merely separating out the more radioactive isotopes, you can greatly reduce the volume. Reprocessed fuel can also be partially reused in a nuclear reactor and the French have great experience with that.

3. Even reprocessed "spent" fuel can be useful in 3rd and 4th generation reactors. Spent fuel today is still a valuable future resource, so it needn't be buried and guarded for millennia afterwards.

4. Natural nuclear fuel usage can be greatly more effective with nuclear breeding, which can turn non-fissile U-238 and Th-232 into the fissile U-235 and U-233 respectively. Right now, what's actually burned is mainly U-235, an extremely rare isotope (the minor constituent of "natural uranium") and that's comparatively as rare and expensive as platinum. Breeding can increase the energy obtained from the same quantity of fuel by 10-100 times.
I quit by not quitting; I tried herbal cigarettes, that didn't work too well (nasty things).

Personally I like the act of smoking, just don't like everything else that goes along with it. I found these things called Beedies (it's kind of an Indian Cigarillo), they make an herbal version.

no nasty chemicals and they don't taste half-bad (slightly harsh). They have a campfire smoke smell, so interestingly enough non-smokers compliment me on it.

If I ever have (had) an urge I just puff on one of those. I stopped inhaling a long time ago so my lungs feel fine. Now I just smoke them because as I said I enjoy smoking (and most of my friends still smoke).

You can usually find them at head shops or online as well. The brand is SoeX Herbal, just make sure to get the herbal ones or you will be getting Tobacco.
http://www.soex.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=84...

Edit: Forgot to mention, a pack costs between 4-6 bucks, and they keep decently in the freezer.
I quit smoking 15 years ago by just quitting -- stopping abruptly. I was a. ery heavy smoker (over 2 packs a day) but the trick was that I eally, really wanted to quit. It was not something people around me asked me to do, or a fear of getting sick in some distant future, it really was me, now.

The reason I wanted to quit so much was I felt enslaved; when getting to a place for dinner for example, the first thing I did was check where I could buy cigarettes and at what time the tobacco shops would close, so that I would not be short on the drug -- although I also carried at leat two new packs with me at all times. It was cazy.

The hard part is the first week, which is quite horrible, but after that it gets easier.

That said, I had started smoking relatively late (at 23). In my eperience, people who started young (16 or younger) can never really quit. They sometimes stop for extended periods of time (5 years maybe) and then invariably start again...
A better word for that would be "premise" or "axiom". Premises and axioms are objective exceptions with objective merits. Assumptions are too personal because they infer belief which is purely subjective. Nature doesn't care about what anyone believes and science should never be a democracy.

Assumptions also imply some independent existential entity as valid and are self-validating, whereas premises and axioms are highly self-deprecating. Hence, assumptions are dogmatic self-fulfilling prophesies that are an end unto itself, whereas premises are unfortunate unavoidable constraints as a means to an end. They are what couldn't be eliminated despite towering doubt and cynicism. Premises lead to science, axioms to logic, and assumptions to religion (and the like -- not saying it is good or bad).
Someone mentioned a few days ago that they use gray code to count instead since you only change one finger per increment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131057

And actual submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10128815
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So, will Apple support Opus now?
Quit alcohol.
Even if we get electric cars (with good batteries) before the electric grid catches up to be more efficient, the fact that they're plugged into the grid means that we only have to upgrade the central power plants/distribution to help. It's a much better world where each vehicle needs improvement to make improvements.
Not sure, but it is still smoke. It isn't healthy for you.

I smoke at most once a month so I don't care

Edit: That said you don't have any chemical urges using them, just the mental enjoyment of a good smoke. I find I still get a slight urge when I'm drinking with friends (5+ years quit)
I second this. I swapped quite successfully to vaping. I prefer it now, and even occasionally I get drunk and smoke real cigarettes, only to drop them the next day in favor of vaping.

Those kind of 'accidents' were the trigger to start smoking again in all previous attempts to give up smoking. I genuinely prefer vaping now. I am in no hurry to give that up either as it's not particularly bad for you (comparatively).
I'm kind of electrosensitive though only from strong sources of electromagnetic radiation. I'm not affected by WiFi, Bluetooth or fluorescent lights. If travelling under a high voltage electric cable I can feel tingling in my head. If using a mobile phone for more than a few minutes, my head becomes hot and I get a headache. Using data is worse. If I'm tethering my phone I have to connect it to my laptop via Bluetooth and have it on the other side of the room to reduce the chance of getting a headache. Does anybody else experience this?
Most of the manufacturers have demoed variations on that theme. The big problem is that you have to get all the manufacturers to agree to use same battery pack on all their models. If every gas station has to keep a stock of dozen different batteries with a dozen different swapping procedures it will get too expensive to implement.

Another aspect is a question of manpower. I don't know what it's like in the rest of the world, but here in Sweden more and more gas stations are completely unmanned. And at the ones that do have staff they're are basically just there to run the large convenience store. No gas station today employs people who actually knows anything about cars. Unless this procedure is completely automated, it will require the gas station to take on extra, trained, staff.
Ask HN: What can a SaaS do to detect fraudulent signups?
Our SaaS product has been hit with a couple signups that resulted in charge-backs recently and they would of been difficult to detect without a lot of manual investigation. Apart from building your own in-house rules for each transaction are there any smart ways to catch potential fraudulent signups?
No. Given how long it takes to build a nuclear powerplant, we need them right bloody now. Yes, solar is seeing fast growth right now, but it will also hit the ceiling very fast, probably around 10-15% of the average total production, due to the physical realities of power grids. Germany is the poster boy for solar, but they've installed three times as much generating capacity in the form of new coal-fired power plants as they have in solar over the past six years.
I used to smoke my first cigarette while still in bed (best smoke of the day BTW), but then I quit abruptly 15 years ago and never went back (hate the thought of smoking about as much as the smell now).

But I really wanted to quit (see my other comment). If you don't actually, you personally want to quit, you can't quit, and no lecturing or examples of people getting sick or even dying around you will change that.
Congratulations for launching! What is / will be the difference between Littlelogs and Twitter e.x.? What wil make it special?
I currently cannot check it out myself, I'm on the waiting list and don't have access yet, but from what I see it looks like no character limit? Will there be an API to pull down the updates and include them somewhere else, like on the project homepage?

small bug report: I tried signing up with this description

"im currently working on a self hosted CI server (leeroyCI) and a static site generated which will soon get a hosted web interface to make it comfortable."

And I got s 500 error page. Replacing the description with "-" worked and let me sign up.
Here's a little gem that I don't see mentioned on there.

For bit unpacking in C, the natural inclination is to shift out the least significant bit with something like this:

u1 getbit() { u1 lsb = x & 1; x >>= 1; return lsb; }

However, most assembly languages have a better alternative if you instead shift out the most significant bit. Suppose that the bit buffer is in ECX. Then you would do ADD ECX, ECX to left shift ECX and (this is the important part) put the shifted-out bit into the carry flag. From there the carry flag can be shifted into the least significant bit of another register, say EAX, with ADC EAX, EAX, or you can branch based on the carry with JC/JNC

As a full example, here is the gamma decoder from apack/aplib, which despite its simplicity rewards careful study:

getbit:
add dl, dl
jnz .stillbitsleft
mov dl, [esi]
inc esi
adc dl, dl
.stillbitsleft:
ret

getgamma:
xor ecx, ecx
getgamma_no_ecx:
inc ecx
.getgammaloop:
call getbit
adc ecx, ecx
call getbit
jc .getgammaloop
ret
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Only for the duration of your stay, though.
They've implemented it, but Musk says it'll probably be discontinued: http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/news/a25...
I developed the following method when I was in school: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8tashgCVLs9QWY1QldFaE1reVE

(notice that extended fingers indicate 0, not 1)
Yeah. I just have to laugh when the 5 yr old says, "It's not rude, it's a binary 4". The things kids pick up...
I still like it for taking notes. Stuff seems to stick better in my mind when I take notes by hand compared to when I take notes by typing.
> 'oh well, science is full of assumptions therefore science is invalid.'

No, they are saying "science is based on assumption, but in this case 'many scientists' were making the wrong assumptions." The title should have said "scientists find errors in p-values as premises." Assumptions are avoided, not depended upon. Bad assumptions would certainly lead to irreplicable experiments also.

The distinction you make between science and its experiments is not a common distinction. If science = experiments, then you totally agree that this kind of science is bad science. Which was precisely my point.
I'm not saying kids are not fat in the Netherlands, just not obese. Something like 60% of kids cycle to school in the Netherlands. It's estimated that about 22% of rush hour in the UK is the school run.

I'm trying to look at Cambridge obesity rates vs other cities to see if there is some correlation.