skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the mind learns from the simulation that sending output X to the robotic hand will successfully screw a bottle cap on the bottle, but in real life it turns out that the same outputs result in the bottle cap slipping and falling out of the hand, then the simulation was not appropriate.

You can do physics simulations that match some properties of reality that you are modeling. However, for robotics, you would need very detailed simulations of the exact hardware you'd be using, and it is very difficult to simulate the relevant aspects of it, a CAD drawing of the hand isn't enough - when some joint will wiggle slightly or the friction of a 'finger' surface will be different than you'd expect, then it will cause different behavior and the simulation will not match reality.
He doesn't appear to ever have written about it. This is a very odd way to criticize him. Why not focus on his published work? He wrote a lot about QM, so his purported total lack of understanding should be evident in that body of work. Much better than digging up some rumors that you can't even provide a reference for. (The commentary that you're referring to appears to be rather well hidden, by the way.)
Getting rid of accumulated cruft would simplify decode logic. Customize it for iOS. Siliconize common functions.

Apple doesn't have to worry about standards, backcompatibility or adoption. If they have noticed unneccesary inefficiencies, they can fix them.
1) you either use one of the public, legacy http gateways and dial https://ipfs.io/ipfs/$myContentHash(/andDepending/maybe/Some... or you use the go implementation which is available for download at https://ipfs.io as a compiled binary.

You can use it like a unix command line tool to add and get files but you can also run it in daemon mode. It then also opens a HTTP server locally which allows you to use the same URLs as above just with http://localhost:8080 as the schema and host.

2) You can use the ipfs cli tool to add a directory with your sites html and other static content. The client will then give the the root content hash. Then you open /ipfs/$rootHash/index.html or /site2.html and voila! :)

Btw, this article is serving from ipfs. Try 'ipfs get QmNhFJjGcMPqpuYfxL62VVB9528NXqDNMFXiqN5bgFYiZ1' and take a look in that directory on your harddrive. Also: when you now run 'ipfs daemon' your node will help with requests for this content.

3) To update content with a static name, you can use IPNS, it's also mentioned in the article. IIRC: To resolve those entries (and get the latest ipfs content hash) the node with the corresponding key for the ipns entry needs to be online. If it isn't, you get an error like 'Path Resolve error: could not resolve name.'. Maybe come to the #ipfs irc channel on freenode for more specific questions.
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I got an interesting perspective from a young teacher a few years back, I'm not sure to what extent this is backed by research and science, but she did quote various studies. Interesting in any case, even as a hypothesis.

Anyway… she thought kids were grossly over-schooled at younger ages. Here argument was basically:

(1) Kids are hitting diminishing returns on formal schooling at 2-3 hours per day. Their attention can't stretch much farther and their progress is ultimately determined by biological limits. A 4th grade reading/math level is determined more by average cognitive ability at that age than by the hours of classroom time they have put in.

(2) The second point was a more intuitive one: classroom sizes, particularly in linear subjects (mostly ready, writing, math in primary school) are way to big to be effective.

Putting these two together, she wanted 2-3 hours of school with smaller classes. IE, a teacher teaches 2-3 classes per day with 1/3 the students. She thought it would be more effective and leave more time for play and other things.

Fleshing it out in my head, I think it would be something like 4 * 30 minute classes with short breaks between classes, which makes intuitive sense if you've interacted with kids 6-11.

The elephant in that room is child care. We live in a monetary world. Education and child are services that cost money. Taking child care away has immediate opportunity costs. But, for people that can afford to lose 5 hours a day of child care, it would be interesting to experiment with this sort of thing for 6-9 year olds.

There are costs to achieving 2 hours of learning in 6 hours too. Boredom, frustration, less time for play or sport or whatnot.
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Hopefully he's not also thinking of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea-Wolf#Wolf_Larsen

(great book btw)
> I don't see why a new compiler would be necessary. It's unlikely they'd completely throw out the whole ARM ISA and replace it with something completely different in one go. More likely, they'll gradually add new instructions and mutate the characteristics of existing instructions over time

Well this is exactly the point. They cannot do this the license will not permit them to alter the architecture it's all or nothing (indeed if the new ISA was too ARM like the lawyers would be sure to come knocking).

I'm sure the could reuse quite a lot of compiler technology but the entire point of the article is by doing clean slate ISA design you can do something radical and get gains. Whether this is true is unclear, but it would require some serious work on the compiler.

Producing their own conventional ISA would seem to be pointless as it wouldn't give them anything vs ARM (or indeed x86).
I reckon the authors point is that they control how they use it. They might not own it all (but they sure hold the copyright to much of it), but no other entity outside of their control is going to pull the rug from under their feet.
If somebody put something online fifteen years ago, they might not care about it anymore, but I might. With the current web, I can mirror that content by downloading it and putting it on a new server. With this system, that process would be part of the basic workings of the system.
Everyone. Other people's education is a form of infrastructure. Everyone benefits from living in an educated society so everyone should pay for it via taxes.

But of course this is completely unrealistic in the US where even socialised healthcare is looked upon as bordering on communism.
Does not render right in Firefox 40.0.3, too. Tried different Window sizes, some blow up the Layout
Possibly the most mistimed technology introduction in the history of computing. Any other candidates out there?
In my part of the world, I pay for netflix (and deezer and apple streaming music) but we're locked out of many good shows because of artificially created region restrictions with no technical merit or justification other than the fact that the movie industry wants to squeeze blood from every region in the world separately, at the very least.

Even with our local cable companies inking deals with HBO and other big names, we still don't get the latest shows or episodes even through their local streaming video on demand services, we have to wait months or sometimes years before it's legally available in our region... and I live in a country where people don't blink while splurging on the latest iPhone 6+ or Macbook pro or a new playstation 4.

There's absolutely no logical reason that customers willing to pay for these shows should be locked out "just because", and this is what drives people to alternate tools like popcorn time.

The music industry had their first taste with napster in the early '00s, and they fought the ideas tooth and nail instead of realizing it could be mutually beneficial to embrace this technology and bring music to more people faster. Now the movie industry is making the same mistakes and are facing the same result.
Interesting Idea! I think TAHOE-LAFS also uses something like this?

From a practical standpoint, I'd like my local node to have a full copy so that my friends coming over don't need to reach out to the (maybe offline) internet but I don't see why we shouldn't support encoding the chunked blocks in such a way?
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That supports my theory that if cities would fund proper public restrooms, then businesses wouldn't need to inconvenience everyone with the locks.
I also forgot to mention taxes and the price for a garage (100 per month). That should make the 500 more realistic.

But as you wrote, these values vary very much depending on your location.
.goc and .goh files was PC GEOS, not C64 GEOS.

Here's a fragment:

@method MyProcessClass, MSG_META_EXPOSED
{
GStateHandle gstate = GrCreateState(win);
GrBeginUpdate(gstate);
@call GameView::MV_REDRAW(win, gstate);
GrEndUpdate(gstate);
GrDestroyState(gstate);
}

The GOC files were preprocessed to produce very very manky C which was then compiled with Borland and linked with a custom linker. It was true OO with dynamic dispatch and a deeply strange system for allowing classes to have unspecified superclasses (that were then filled in at runtime programmatically). @call does a method call of MV_REDRAW on the object whose handle in GameView. (There was also @send which did an asynchronous call; if the object belonged to another thread a message would be sent rather than calling the code directly.)
Flex is now Apache Flex, and still running on Mac OS, iOS, Windows and Android (Using Flash or AIR). And Flex is now open source (been for a while, like in a couple of years).
That's already happening in the U.S. - State schools are heavily subsidized by taxes. I went to one which was (and still is) relatively inexpensive for in-state students and delivered fantastic value for what I paid.

Saying "universities should be free" and that it should be paid for "by taxes" without being more specific about which universities and what taxes paid for by which specific people doesn't really add anything.
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What's the relevant definition of "owned" here? As long as Apple can modify LLVM however it wants, and as long as it's sure no corporate actor can restrict access rights to it in the future, it effectively owns it, altough not exclusively.

Having exclusive rights on a strategic business brick is important when this brick is enough to give someone else a stronghold on the whole vertical market. Although having a good compilers is one of the many requirements in Apple's business model, it's neither the defining feature, nor what competitors miss in order to threaten Apple.

So yes, in this context, Apple non-exclusively owns LLVM.
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You have friends. A script can check your friends, and make suggestions based on that.

You won't have the full graph that Facebook does, but does that really matter? I suspect the best predictors of who your friends are would be people already in your network.
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Hey, you can still buy it!

http://www.breadbox.com/

A mere $69 (the copy of DOS required to run it on is not included).
Again, there is not much overwhelming empirical evidence that software / tech are harmed by patents. Studies attempting to prove this have been sorely lacking. However, there was a recent study that showed that patents can be a slight drag on fields characterized by a large number of very small, incremental improvements, which can characterize a lot of software innovations. I cannot find it right now, but this was the first paper I found that actually tries to quantify the costs of patents to industries like ours.

On the other hand, there are multiple other studies showing how having a patent increases the chances of tech startups of a) receiving VC funding and b) making successful exits. I'd say it's still not clear that the software industry is being harmed more by patents than it is being benefited.
I think it's very common to see that type of behavior whenever the demographics will support it. The races tend to self-segregate, despite society's best efforts to stop it. It's really the bigger cities that are exceptions in this regard, because their demographics and geography are generally such that you can't escape the diversity. Anywhere that doesn't have those hard geographic and demographic constraints self-segregates naturally.
This! I already thought about starting a project for a local browser proxy that builds an index of <$url,now()> => $snapshotHash as I go. Maybe mixin readability and metadata like referrals.

I find it quite belittling how browser vendors treat their history features in terms of archival.
Bill still does a little programming. He's got an app in the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photocard-lite-by-bill-atkin...
Growth Hack is shit?
Actually, this is exactly what I'm looking for. I want to be able to control my photos and other content, and share that with family and friends.

All data is encrypted and my server can be hosted anywhere (just as simple as setting up a WordPress instance).

My own "news feed" are a combination of all of the other nodes I'm subscribed to.

My problem with Disapora is that they push the "sign up to someone else's pod" rather than "install your personal pod".

It just feels like a multi-centralised model. Rather than one Facebook with my data, now there are 311 "Facebookesque" Diaspora Pods (as of today).

As much as people hate the idea, a WordPress like (PHP) application as a "personal server" would be successful. There are lots of hosting companies out there where you can get up and running for peanuts.

My aim would be for a simple install:

- Download software and upload to hosting company

- Enter MySQL auth details

- Choose local filesystem or third party (S3, DropBox, Google Drive, MS SkyDrive) with OAuth as the backing store (files stored encrypted).

- Finish

Then I would be able to subscribe to other friends and family personal servers, just like RSS feeds. Friends can access my own personal server through OAuth and leave comments on content. Those comments are echoed back in my private feed which is displayed in their merged news feed on their own app instance.

The technology is already there. It just needs someone who is damn good with PHP!
OMG, I think my head explodes. I wish I were capable of grokking these things.
Sounds somewhat like bittorrent.... as long as there is a "seed" then the content is available, but it falls apart when the last seeder disconnects.

... and it also sounds like usenet, but here everybody is a news server and they selectively host articles.
Somebody with golang-foo, firefox addon experience and a itch might also want to take a look at http://id-rsa.pub/post/go15-calling-go-shared-libs-from-fire...
"I was suggesting that citing one economist ..."

My comments are a reply to your earlier statement "Looking at tax you wish you could collect but have no legal right to and salivating over it makes as much sense as looking at the contents of someone else's bank account and wishing it was yours."

I pointed out that there are countries where this is a legal right, and where there are people who believe it makes sense. (With the proviso that it appears to contribute to capital flight, so requires a global wealth tax; which Picketty believes is more Utopian than politically achievable.)

Certainly the utility of such a law is up for debate, but your starting position was that the idea was beyond the pale, which is not correct.

"it doesn't make sense to specifically call out private universities for consideration of revoking that status, without broader consideration of non-profits in general"

Page 2 of the commentary does consider that point. I quote:

> A tax like Schneider’s would still raise other philosophical and logistical questions. For starters, why tax giant endowments at colleges but not other nonprofits? The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York commands a roughly $3 billion endowment—it’s hard to think of a coherent reason why it should escape the Internal Revenue Service if, say, Fordham University in the Bronx (endowment: $675 million) can’t.

It then mentions two other difficulties with the idea ("why take a cut of wealth from colleges when we don’t do it to individuals?" and "unintended consequences").

It may not cover it in the depth you want, but that's hardly reason to say that it doesn't consider non-profits in general.
> One fundamental question is what a MOOC can bring to a literature or a history class and I'm not sure I have a good answer.

[...]

> Is it engaging video/multimedia/high quality lecture? Well, maybe but how is this now different from a quality PBS or History Channel series (or iTunes University or one of those Great Courses DVDs you can order)? Broadcast is a solved problem. Want to learn about the Civil War? Watch the Ken Burns series.

To some degree yes, the advantage of MOOCs can be precisely that on a bigger scale we can use higher quality approaches. Local 'meet-ups' with professors or the like could be used in combination. Why not outsource the lecture part, or at least a significant amount of it? At the very least this could take care of all the <topic> 101 classes that I suspect are pretty similar across universities.

But more importantly, I think there's a ton of stuff that computers can do in this area other than broadcast. Think of classics like the "Encarta Encyclopedia", or "The Way Things Work", or consider how games like Assassin's Creed result in tons of gamers learning a lot about certain periods in history.

Or consider this recent post on HN, "The Pixel Factory"(http://acko.net/files/gltalks/pixelfactory/online.html#0).

The problems are cost and ability. A single teacher or university is not going to create interactive visualizations, 3D environments to explore, or 'games' (place-events-or-persons-on-the-timeline?). He doesn't have the time/interest/money, and unlike someone already working in IT he might not have a clue as to what's possible (or how to do it).

With MOOCs, it should be possible to scale these efforts and bring together some of the best teachers with some of the best tech folk and create something that can be vastly superior to regular classes, and something that has a wider reach.
I didn't have nap time in school, I had to go to bed at 7 instead (with school starting at 9). Nap time is only needed if your night time is too short, IMO.
Indeed. I took a few sceptical European friends to a game in an English village while I was at university.

We spent a lovely afternoon sitting on the grass, drinking good beer, having a nap and chatting amiably to the players (whilst they were playing). All without missing anything important in the game.

Result? 100% conversion. And once they discovered the joys of TMS? True believers.
Thankfully he wasn't being literal.
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I'd say that in 2008-2009, Flex, for that sort of application, wasn't necessarily a bad bet. Most people date Flash's demise to the start of the mainstream smartphone movement, but the first iPhone was only released in mid-2007 - obviously it had no Flash support, but it notably didn't have a lot of other things too (like copy and paste!), so it wasn't immediately obvious that it would never get Flash; and the Android devices that followed the iPhone did support Flash (it was even touted as a differentiator from iOS devices), albeit poorly.

Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash" piece was published in 2010 and that probably did hammer a few nails in the Flash coffin, at least in terms of public awareness. I think if you were betting big - millions of pounds big - in mid-2010 on Flash, you could be accused of making a silly mistake. Before that, I think it's more forgivable.

Flex was always bunk, if you ask me, but it did some of the same things that people like about Angular, with the addition of a bunch of (fairly poor) UI components. In theory you could build business-oriented / data-driven applications with it quite easily, so finance was very much its intended audience.
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It's precisely "despite society's best efforts to stop it" that is the root cause of the current situation.
"Economies of scale are a thing."

Yes, economies of scale are a thing. They generally cause average cost per unit of output to decrease, as total output increases.

As I said, for the $100k/pa cost quoted by the article, a single student could afford to pay for pay+tax+benefits for a 1:1 tutor, 20 hours per week.

Given that most university lectures/seminars/tutorials have a much larger student:teacher ratio, economies of scale should mean universities would achieve a much lower cost of tuition.

I get that universities do other things. I get that they need to build and maintain infrastructure. I get that they need to subscribe to journals. But all of that is spread over all of their students.

Regarding the example you introduced: The University of Huddersfield has ~20k students. Its total expenditure is ~120m GBP ($180MM) per year[0]. That's about $9k per student per year. That's less than 1/10th of the $100k expenditure per student quoted in the original article.

[0] http://www.hud.ac.uk/media/universityofhuddersfield/content2...
According to this[1], that seems to be true for Germany, but the other rich European countries (western and northern) are pretty close to the USA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_birth_rat...
I dunno, there's only so many ways you can draw a window isn't there
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...venture capital?
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Documentation in Ruby is bad not because of the amount of resource available. But because the community's love on language's meta-programming.

Module are dynamically included. Methods are dynamically generated. The generation static document can only give a partial view of the running objects.
Hour? We got 30 minutes. Technically 25 minutes with a 5 minutes passing period (to get to back to class). Even with the school taking staggered lunches that still meant 1000 kids on lunch. It could easily take 20 minutes to go t through the cafeteria line.

Though that was highschool. I can't remember middle/elementary well enough, though even then I really don't think it was an hour.
There's exaggeration on both Gladwell and Ask A Korean's side. I have been living and working in Korean for the past 5 years, and have been married to my Korean wife for 6 years. Based on the transcript that Ask A Korea posted, it's very clear that that first officer is acting deferentially to the pilot. Specifically, the first officer uses polite speech with the pilot, and the pilot uses familiar speech with the first officer. In my company, neither my manager nor my manager's manager uses familiar speech with me, I'd have to go up 3 levels for that to start happening. Also, when I described what Gladwell mentioned in his book about hierarchy to my wife, she didn't think it was exaggerated. There's likely a large grain of truth to Gladwell's representation of what happened. Also, Ask A Korean is usually fairly nationalistic in his posts, which is a common trait amongst Koreans that I have interacted with.
Simon Singh, a well known popular science & math writer, also wrote The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets.

http://smile.amazon.com/Simpsons-Their-Mathematical-Secrets/...
>I wouldn't be surprised if these new processors were unveiled about 8 and a half hours from now.

I believe that we will see the new processor architecture in the next Apple Watch, not the next iPhone. I think A9, that will be unveiled later today, will be an improvement over A8 but it will not be a radical improvement and will not contain a new ISA. It will have improved ARM cores.

Apple also doesn't require bitcode for iOS apps right now. They suggest you add them but don't require them. They're required for watchOS apps.

Once Apple starts requiring bitcode for iOS, within a year or two you can expect some radical Apple CPUs for iPhone/iPad.