skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started reading Vox because it was co-founded by two of my favorite bloggers, Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein. But David Roberts has now overtaken them as my favorite writer there.

It is ludicrous how many pundits and activists ignore that political science is a real science with useful, counter-intuitive findings and predictive results. Roberts is doing great popularizing and translating those insights.
> "essential" Flash content (such as embedded video players) are allowed to automatically run, while non-essential Flash content, much of that being advertisements, will be automatically paused.

Can’t we just throw out all flash?
The irony is that while they recommend converting ads to html5 (or auto convert them with swiffy), the performance goes to shit as well, arguably even worse than flash would have been, at least on mobile.

- http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/25/google-now-automatically-c...

- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=467709

- https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/MtcZGJprWje
According to the article, it's based on whether it's the "main" object on the page. Size and centeredness both play a role, I'd guess.
This might not be popular here (and I'm not advocating it, merely bringing it into the discussion), but Guaranteed minimum income (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_minimum_income) has been proposed as a possible solution to homelessness in the US.
No worries, I reread it multiple times to make sure I had it right. Not the clearest paragraph.
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If I extrapolate that (44000 mentioned in another post) to the size of my country we should have some 20000 homeless people here... Jeez, the US calls itself the "richest country in the world"....

We have practically no homeless people, maybe a couple of hundred who don't want the help.

How is it that you can't take care of the less fortunate even though you have money to by all the crap in thew world?
Sorry for being a harsh, smug, nordic country resident, but sometimes the wonderland of the US does seem a little cold.
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Interesting. I didn't know the term "track stand" existed, but, yeah, as a cyclist myself, I know a human driver would have flipped me off after a few seconds and plowed through the intersection.
Who thinks they are lying? The same sentence can mean different things to different people depending on what definition is assigned to the words, among other things.
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> Logically, this sum cannot exceed 100 percent.

The chance of the sum being exactly 100% is pretty low considering that they are subjective opinions on what percentage one thinks she or he is personally responsible for certain activity, and the spouses are separated from each other. As humans, we have cognitive biases and we don't access memories the way a server does. Simply inferring that "people often overestimate their importance in this world" from the experimental data that the couples’ estimates often added up to a number a lot bigger than 100% is an oversimplification of the matter. But since this is general psychology it is fine to have things this way perhaps.
"Google's reasoning for the move is largely performance-based, apparently"

Now if only they can start optimizing Chrome urgently, that'd be just great!
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On Google's network, I presume, they can throw resources at screening for malevolent flash ads better. There's no chance of anti-trust issues there, it's an easy to argue case of consumer protection. Besides that, any court would recognize flash as a dying technology, and the context wouldn't be worth the waste of time. Anti-trust has a drastically higher bar than this.
Which would make perfect sense if they didn't can the hardware engineers too.
The problem is that there's a huge elephant in the room: how much money this kind of milestone represents.

I don't trust anything he says, as the frontman of a giant money-making enterprise, that purports to be about "connecting people" or a "stronger society".

I'm not saying he should be "more honest" by mentioning "and congrats to our investors for making so much $$". I'm saying he should leave the sentimental stuff to someone else, because he's got a conflict of interest that makes everything he says seem like bullshit.
Twitch is the same company as Justin.tv, just re-branded to focus only on game videos. You can guess what popular content was being live-streamed since 2007 that encouraged such a change in branding. :)
I just checked, the actual reason is that Google auto-converts.

And I was more asking if the EU might add it to the current trial, but considering it was just badly phrased, guaranteed not.
Sure, but you couldn't fly.
You're free to disable flash on your own system right now. Always have been.
We're all grownups. If you can't follow someone who leads through vision, why aren't you starting your own gig, with your own vision?

It's not brainwashing, it's selecting for shared values.

I became part of a company whose vision tactics I had to deal with, as the ultimate skeptic. At first I was like you, "No one's going to tell me..." Then I put myself in the shoes of the founder and decided that his vision was, in fact, acceptable. What you call brainwashing was simply reducing friction for those who would benefit from a little perspective.

Believe me, I was skeptical far into my employment. But I didn't obsess on the tactics, I focused on results of the company and myself.

If you're seriously calling for class action, you're beyond hope. And I'm about as far from a John Galt, pro-capitalist shill as you can get...
> Can’t we just throw out all flash?

Way too much stuff needs it. For example fun little browser games. For example http://www.kongregate.com/ http://www.miniclip.com/ http://www.friv.com/

At least in my browser (Firefox on Linux) flash plays better than html5 for video.
> My intuition about the travel of photons is that, because of length contraction, there’s no distance to travel

This is not correct. Length contraction, as a concept, doesn't apply to photons, because there is no inertial frame in which they are at rest. Or, to put it another way, length contraction and time dilation arise from the way that Lorentz transformations act on timelike and spacelike vectors; they rotate them (in the hyperbolic sense of "rotation"). But Lorentz transformations act differently on null (lightlike vectors): they don't rotate them, they dilate them (physically, this means that changing frames changes the frequency/wavelength of photons, rather than their speed).
Just out of curiosity - could there be issues other than just performance here? For ex., could it be that Flash based ads can identify user/device contributing to privacy issues?
I found it rather mild considering all the suffering that IBM software is causing in users and developers.
I agree with most of their analysis - I linked that URL from the indygogo blurb, in fact. They are doing something similar but less general.
Sure. Now I'm enabling it again just to access a website that requires flash because we haven't thrown it out yet. /web standards
Well, Google doesn’t even have StreetView imagery of most of Germany after they intentionally broke the law to get better images¹, so it’s not expected they’ll do much better anyway. I talked today with a bunch of friends, and we discovered that for all purposes here maps works better in Germany and Austria (except in Hamburg, that actually works in Google Maps. Vienna's satellite view is unusable in Google Maps)

1: To take images from just above 2.50m height you need permission from every house owner, cause most house owners build their hedges and fences in expectation for a person with an eyeheight of 1.90m or less. Google actually intentionally increased the height after their first test runs because they were annoyed with hedges blocking the sight. According to the news back then.

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To your point: Well, the issue is, if Google is not willing to provide or collect up-to-date data – even if they get it for free – then data-based driving is quite risky.

And in the narrow, crowded streets of european cities I’d rather not have an automated car drive on sight in a winter storm.
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For anyone interested in the definition of "essential", see the source code:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/... (See constants)

and

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/... (See ShouldThrottleContent)

TLDR, essential content is either:

1) On the same domain as the page

2) Considered "Large" (at least 298 x 398, certain aspect ratio, minimum total area), with an exception for tiny content (likely transport plugins).
Several states away, if you mean the N&O that Google offers up.
It's gigs, all the way down. Take a look at the market you're in; is it relevant 10-20-30 years from now? Seriously? If not, it's a gig, and mercenary attitudes make sense. If it is relevant when you're 30 years older, then find the vision that sustains you...there are a lot of "gig takers" in this thread.
Few months ago I started working on my new startup http://betapage.co , so I have to work hard. I am working 7 days a week, I spent my 11-12 Hours in my office on product development and marketing , and 2-3 hours at home in reading new things about startups and blogs, mostly I read questions and answers on quora.
Just like you said, a multibillion dollar company is changing a defining feature. Does that not seem newsworthy?
Now 16gb isn't enough to run Chrome?

Why am I feeling that Crysis may be more reasonable than Chrome?
I am not a professional and I am probably not qualified to be an amateur either. I suggest taking a job that you could practically do blindfolded. Maybe it's "Taco Bell" or maybe it's pushing CMS content during the "grave yard" shift. The idea is to have something you can handle with the lowest possible stress triggers as possible. Perhaps this job is part time and you augment the rest of it with welfare or disability.

With all this in mind, you code at your own pace on your own free time. Pick a subject you like and master it. Take your time and relish in all the details. Become a virtual "Stephen Hawking" in the subject. With mastery comes accomplishment, confidence and self esteem and you are doing what you love

Also, I suggest exercise, it takes care of the fight or flight stuff or makes you more apathetic towards stress. YMMV.

I hope this helps, be well!
It's interesting that you say that. In my time studying psychology one of the things that I've found interesting is the way that various subfields flee the label. Many IO apsychologists take to the label behaviorism economists. They're work is relatively opaque to main stream psychologists however in that they have their own professional societies separate from American Psychological Association (APA). The professional label of "psychologist" is actually strictly regulated in most states for the purposes of providing counseling and therapy, and typically requires a PhD from an APA accredited university and clinical experience to practice, but anyone can call themselves a counselor in most states (IIRC). Despite this many psychologists (the PhD ones) will use the counselor label for many purposes. (I think that family and marriage counselors require accreditation in most states as well, but I know less about the area.) In the area that I did research, people more typically consider themselves cognitive scientists, often doing work that overlaps machine learning techniques and perceptual measurement.

I wanted to ask though, since some of the statistical techniques we're using seem like they could have some use cases in your field, what kind of adoption (if any) is there in marketing research of techniques such as [Multidimensional Scaling of similarity ratings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional_scaling) or other perceptual mapping techniques? It seems like a relatively straightforwards way to figure out what dimensions use in making classification judgments about products or companies...
> Is that what Bohmian theories postulate?

No. Bohmian theories are non-relativistic to begin with, so they don't have anything to say about Lorentz invariance.

> is there independent evidence for Lorenz invariance under the conditions of the present experiment?

If you mean, has Lorentz invariance been tested for photons and electrons, yes, it has, to high accuracy. The Wikipedia article has a good summary of experiments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_searches_for_Lorentz_vi...
> In the not so far future this will be a concept impossible to explain to kids.

That people used to operate vehicles themselves? I don't see why this is a concept hard grasp for kids.
Flash provides much more identifiable fingerprinting information (e.g. detailed information about your system fonts) and looser "Flash cookie" (Local Shared Objects) restrictions than JavaScript.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php?action=log&js=yes
It kinda did in here.

As the "wider public for the most part lost interest in long poems during the Victorian period," she writes, and inclusion in a prestigious Victorian poetry anthology became crucial for continued prominence, Southey and Crabbe lost ground, and those whose corpus included shorter lyric poems gained. "Suitability for children" also mattered as the teaching of poetry became key for sustaining reputations, as did "susceptibility to pictorial illustration" in an era when publishers sought to improve poetry’s market share through visuals.

This example tells how fame was achieved in victorian period, so writers who wrote short poems which are also suitable for children at the same time worked. She didn't mention any explicit works which rose to fame because of that. I guess we have to read the book to find out.
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harder than the gazillions moral choice we already made.

Im not so sure on that. The two closest things I can find, that address something "remotely close" are the following, and they more or less drag the law into it (sadly) but it is a sort of moral arbiter:

This is an actual case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens

And the more philosophical version:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_of_the_Speluncean_Exp...

There is a quote in the Dudley and Stephens one that is rather interesting:

"We are often compelled to set up standards we cannot reach ourselves, and to lay down rules which we could not ourselves satisfy. But a man has no right to declare temptation to be an excuse, though he might himself have yielded to it, nor allow compassion for the criminal to change or weaken in any manner the legal definition of the crime."
Education and healthcare are interesting things. I live far enough from major centres that government-run health care is pretty much the only option without having to travel. Education... could be provided digitally, but there's still (IMO) a lot of value to sticking a bunch of kids in a room together and letting them learn about social interactions.

I'm not sure how something like this would have any impact on C-51. Despite being a member of the digital society, we'd still physically reside in places controlled by other governments, which means that our telecom cables would still run along places where they could be tapped and monitored.

The voting and representation is really interesting. Going back to the C-51 issue... If we had direct representation, is there any hope in hell that this would have passed?

An interesting question is how big of a critical mass would such a system need to start to have actual influence? I don't know the answer, but it's fascinating to think about.
This is a well known story. I do take issue with the
arrogance of the author: "Of course we cannot blame the Bauer faction for not having the experience of later workers in the field."

Oh _please_! The reality was the the common machines of the time didn't have todays fancy addressing modes. All memory addresses were global addresses. Thus, the _cost_ of making all memory access relative to a stack pointer was far from trivial. Of course, there was a work-around if you could forgo re-entrance (~ "thread-safety"): use static activation records, but saving it to the stack before the recursive call and restoring after. Still not exactly free.
That would be hard to turn off. My experience is with a old 8051 compiler. Notable feature was it never pushed anything on the stack other than return addresses. Used the call tree to fold parameters and local variables into a small amount of common memory. I think modern compilers deal with this situation by in-lining. But that can cause the code size to swell vs calling a subroutine that accesses globals.

Just saying, you add a feature to a language, you will pay something for it.
The issue is that there’s not physically enough space for self-driving taxis for everyone, not even if you compress them down to Messerschmitt Kabinenrollers. http://www.autoplenum.de/Bilder/testreports/jwo2009050316403...

A single person in the tube takes, technically, 0 space due to being in a tunnel, and even in overground railway a single person takes less than a square meter.

With a car, you waste far more space.

And, by the way, I’m taking public transport every day, all year round, even in situations like http://i.imgur.com/KyWkUzJ.jpg and I still find it far more pleasant to wait 20 minutes in a crowd than to be stuck for 40 minutes on the highway.
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In my case I mostly like twitter.
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> is there evidence that rules out a many-worlds interpretation for the present experimental results?

I don't see how there could be, since the MWI makes all the same predictions for experimental results as the other interpretations of QM. That's why they're all called "interpretations" instead of "different theories".
It's equivalent to this recursive function, just change x2(n) to x(n, 2) and so on.

// e is a power of two
int mult(x, e)
return e==1 ? x : mult(x, e/2) + mult(x, e/2)
end
I've asked this question few times. If you devaluate by 10%, your export must go up by 10% to break even or otherwise it would be foolish move. Will exports always go up in proportion? Will we all be start buying more Chinese goods because they are 2% more cheaper? I think it's all speculation. Economists are basically trying out all the knobs at their disposal to see if it works and if it doesn't then they will rollback the change in a month or two. The general wisdom that devaluation helps exports makes sense only when market has room to grow by falling prices.
Does the US call itself the "richest country in the world" more frequently than anyone else does? Which country do you reside in, incidentally?

You'll also find people here claim the homeless "don't want help." It doesn't mean they're correct in their assessment.

Speaking of a little cold, in some places being homeless is more feasible than others. LA is certainly one of those places.

It also depends on your standards. I'm not saying we don't have a huge homeless problem -- we absolutely do. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, home to some of the most expensive housing in the world, and there are many homeless here (or at least in SF proper).

It also depends on who you consider a person. When I was living in France, I once remarked that I was surprised that there were so many homeless people, and that it seemed like there were almost as many as my hometown. The reply was "oh, no, they're not homeless, they're Roma."
Keep in mind that once you "wave" you assumer responsibility for any accident which might ensue do to your waving people on because others may not be aware of your waving and interrupting expected traffic patterns.
> there are many more quantum mechanics interpretations besides the most popular one, and some of them don't violate locality

That's because they choose to violate some other postulate instead that is just as intuitively appealing.
> "Google's reasoning for the move is largely performance-based, apparently"

Yeah, because WebGL never crashes the browser (not even the kind of small demos that seems to be all it's used for).
Or possibly the constant stream of Flash security vulnerabilities that Adobe can't seem to patch out.
Congratulations! The preparation scheme sounds very clever.
Waiting for the perfect time and feeling not competent enough without a patronage (i.e. points 1-3) are my biggest educational regrets. Sure, in startups there is a bias for being too independent and confident. But virtually all other places (including academia) are not good for skilled minds and independent spirits - they rather expect you to respect hierarchy and status quo.

Surely, not everyone is mature enough to learn by trials and _erorrs_. But by listening to superiors one may never mature.
I think this is actually a benefit for consumers, but this just seems like an invitation to an antitrust suit.
Not all companies are driven to maximize short-term profits. Or more generally, there exist companies which believe shareholder value is about more than short-term profits. Apple has demonstrated itself to be one of those companies. As a particularly public example of this[1], at the company's annual shareholder meeting in 2014, the National Center for Public Policy Research (a conservative think-tank, climate-change denial group, and investor in Apple) asked Tim Cook and the board to pledge that Apple wouldn't pursue any more environmental initiatives unless it improved the bottom line. Tim Cook's response:

> We do things because they are right and just and that is who we are. That’s who we are as a company. I don’t…when I think about human rights, I don’t think about an ROI. When I think about making our products accessible for the people that can’t see or to help a kid with autism, I don’t think about a bloody ROI, and by the same token, I don’t think about helping our environment from an ROI point of view.

And then he told them to sell their shares:

> If you only want me to make things, make decisions that have a clear ROI, then you should get out of the stock.

[1] http://mashable.com/2014/02/28/apple-ceo-tim-cook-climate-ch...
> I'm happy to let you do anything you want to do

But the fact is that society really doesn't. So you're happy to let anyone do whatever they want only as long as it doesn't require society to change... And you'll go to great lengths not to learn the facts that would show you you're wrong just so that you could keep things the same.

> You accuse people

I don't accuse anyone of anything. I am stating the obvious fact that anyone who denies that society is actively limiting women's choices is simply ignorant of what we know on the subject. Just like anyone who thinks electrons couldn't possibly behave so strangely is simply uneducated of the facts. Not an automaton, just unfamiliar with the findings. It's not an accusation, either, but a simple statement of fact.
Chrome has invented Flashblock (2004) :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashblock
Here is how I gave up on YC https://medium.com/@danilka/how-i-gave-up-on-yc-d0935da5cf44

P.S. YC is great and everyone should apply. Even the application itself will help you.
I think YC wants you to apply to their fellowship batch if you have "Just an idea, no prototype"
This is a hard one:

I want facebooks platform, and googles ROI... For me google has better returns but higher frustration, and Facebook is lower returns but much less frustration.

Im not spending enough to justify the misery google causes me, so if I'm forced to have a preference it is Facebook. If I was spending 10x what I am, I would want to deal with google (as it stand today, things tend to get wacky when you start spending more money)

Twitter just isn't going to work for me, there is just too much gap between exposure and decision.