skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would vote for option #2. I was in a similar position (not in India though). The reason why I chose 2 is because fixing my financial situation would be a priority. There is a great feeling to know you don't owe anything and you're free in that regard. Last thing I would want is to start a business of my own with debt still around.
Exactly. You can still get errors due to things not being there. But your assumptions are explicitly stated.

You see None => raise Error, and a little alarm goes off in your head, and you look around for a reassurance that we really want to do that.

In contrast, you don't give x.toUpperCase() a second glance.
Exactly this. I came to make the same comment, but unsurprisingly someone has beat me to it. In particular, the answer to the "paradox" in a nutshell is this:

> There's no change in belief happening, only two different beliefs. First is "1/2 of the times it is flipped, the coin will be heads". Seconds is "1/3 of the times I am awakened, the coin will be heads".
Not that it matters, but most "kidnappers" are actually parents (or other close family members) and most kidnapping victims are actually children involved in child custody disputes.

This doesn't change your point at all, just wanted to point out that putting "kidnappers" on the list might not be very effective.
The guy is Turkey or France building an app on sandstorm has bigger challenges than worrying about how to manage infrastructure.

He needs to figure out how to create a viable business, and his first order concern is getting to P/M fit by rapidly iterating and delivering product (often making several changes a day).

If they create a viable business, they have enough leverage and margins (given SaaS has very favorable unit economics) to pay for a infra and a dude to manage it,
maybe it is doable with overlayfs?
Most people do OSS to pad or establish their résumés or increase their professional profile. Additionally, most of the high profile OSS projects now have massive commercial support.
> the ads will not be sitting next to the player, instead the streamed video will contain the ads?

This tech already exists, and it's called 'Server Side Ad Insertion', with Brightcove, The Platform, Adobe and Google all offering solutions.

It's actually pretty cool - it works by instead of streaming a baked file, the client gets a 'live stream' URL and ads are inserted into that stream, dynamically, just like regular video. It's like having `badge.svg` image that's actually a PHP script that dynamically creates an SVG.

I'm not overly familiar with video tech, so I've definitely butchered the exclamation.
This story reminds me a lot of the Dostoevsky novel "The Double". Does anyone know if Dostoevsky himself suffered an incident like this, or of any similar incidents at the time that he may have heard about?
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On the market you buy a fungible asset, so the auction can be batched up between multiple buyers and sellers. On eBay you can't batch the things sellers are selling because a key part of what buyers are supposed to be doing is things like checking an individual seller's feedback and weighing whether he low price is worth risking it, or carefully reading the description to make sure you aren't buying a cardboard cutout picture of the product, a product box, or a car that was sawed in half and photographed so that it could be sold to two people instead of one. Plus a lot of the products are used and have one-off descriptions of flaws.

EBay doesn't have the same kind of clearing houses and broker-dealer regulations that would make sold items be anything like stock shares, even if they were all brand new and retail packaged.
Because people can't hold all the issues in their mind, they'll pick a person that seems reasonably good at making decisions. Maybe I wouldn't pick Ice-T, but perhaps a scam artist who pretended to know about science?

People who think differently about topics eventually have their opinions recognized. There are certain things that could never happen (e.g. mandatory gun buyback will never be looked into because of the 2nd Amendment in the US, although I hear it worked well in Australia), but beyond those, eventually, good ideas tend to bubble up. For years people demanded universal healthcare in the US ("it works well in Canada!"), and the politicians fought and raged amongst themselves to decide that yes, now is the time to implement it. And it seems to work.

If you want to change your country, don't try to make a new system to supplant the existing one. Try to fix the old one. Or at least vote in it, so your voice is heard in the meantime.
"[…] to what degree should you believe that the outcome of the coin toss was Heads?" is a terribly unrigorous way to phrase this question. I suspect it's where all the confusion sets in.

Are we adjusting the natural prior of a coin toss based on information we now have? We have no information; 50%.

Are you placing a bet each time you are awake? You get to bet twice if the coin comes up Tails; 2:1 (33%) odds against Heads balances the tables.

Are we judging how often we'd be correct if we guessed Heads every time we were awoken? Depends on the number of trials. With only 1 trial; 50%. With 2 trials; 42%. With infinite trials; 33%.

Nothing begets a paradox like an ill-posed question.
If you put something like this in space, and pointed it down, would it be a useful espionage tool (more useful than the spy satellites the US and its allies already have)?
How is anti-aliasing related? I was thinking about rasters: if you don't have many pixels, you need to use every single one the best possible way, so you manually layout every single pixel. If I have a ton, I can draw any vector glyph and I would not need to micro-manage the pixels. Can you elaborate or give me a link?
Does expungement not apply to your case? I know some teenage criminals get their records cleared.
Yep it's not a paradox, it's actually just two separate questions.

1. What is the probability that the coin toss was heads (as posted in question)

set of possibilities: { H, T }

2. What is the probability that you have awoken due to the coin coming up heads? (implied by question, but not explicitly asked)

set of possibilities: { H, T, T }
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This makes me sick. I work in the corrections industry and regularly encounter people that use the "they are criminals" justification for any/everything they want to do. People don't seem to understand the whole "paid debt to society" notion and it worries me because I was more or less brought up believing this and I worry for the future as more and more people seem to think this way...

I work in part in reentry, these people are trying to get their lives back together yet people want to treat them like bad behaving children instead of the adults that they are. I'm not saying they are fully functioning adults, most of them are just dumped out of the prison system and need a great deal of help to get back on their feet (find somewhere to live, a job, etc) but treating them as less-than... I can't think of a worse way to approach this problem. Thankfully the company I work for is largely part of the solution and not the problem or I couldn't bear to work in this industry.
On the Farm: Startups Put Data in Farmers’ Hands
I said nothing about being part of society (whatever that means - it's a very vague statement). I asked a specific question about suffrage.
The Earth as a Peppercorn (1989)
I can recall anyone in a scene. I think it's a detailed image I can zoomed in, and I think I have all their details (eyes, hair, eyebrows, etc) down. It's a full color scene where the person of interest can be moving in their characteristic walking style, waving their arms the way they wave their arms, and talk the way they talk. However if I try to focus on the details, it's all a blur. It's like when you have a small 50px by 50px photo, and it looks sharp. Zoom in, and you realise it was an illusion. That's exactly it for me.

I can imagine my girlfriend's foot a little more in detail, e.g. changes in skin tone, but I can't remember the shape of her individual nails. Some of the details of my girlfriend's, I can see in my mind, the others are mostly a blur. I can't see in detail what I haven't noticed in real life. The details I see are because there was a scene where she made a very appropriate facial expression in response to a situation and I remember that detail very clearly - like the way she smiled and tried to convince me everyone said she had a beautiful smile on our second date.

Also - I notice the images I conjure in my mind are always a lot dimmer in brightness than when seeing images with my eye. I can remember them being bright, but I see them as dim - even when imagining the sun and the sky. It's like looking at a computer screen in bright sunlight.

It still doesn't seem that vivid to some of the people described in the article.
I agree, but when it actually works.... shrug
Don't start an Android project without these tools
I have used the Closure Compiler for years (and contributed too!).

It is really a fantastic tool (along with the Closure Library and other members of the Closure family) for anyone that values maintainable, solid JS.

I can understand why it's not more popular; it feels a lot like Java -- industrial strength, non-flashy, and perhaps a little boring. It's also a little hard to setup for a real project (tutorials could be better).

It has been around since the creation of Gmail, and will be around to stay for years to come. (Though it has improved substantially over the years.)
Some days, as a corrections industry volunteer (I teach computer science), I feel like the battle isn't just uphill, it's up-mountain. Ugh.
A marketing guy working for one of those companies mentioned pushing the story in an NPR interview. It was not 100% clear if they where waiting for an event to capitalize on, or noticed the story get traction and then started pushing it.
That is absolutely not true.
I think you're starting to grasp it. The key here is that if you are dead or asleep forever, then you are not waking up to answer the question. Therefore, the simple fact that you are waking up brings new information to the situation -- you know for sure that you didn't flip heads.
Take away someone's means to legally provide for themselves and only illegal means remain.
Counting words in patent texts to trace the history of American invention
"streaming freedom" is a really clever euphemism.
> We're talking about changing your eating and exercise habbits for the rest of your life. Two weeks is such a tiny drop in the bucket it's hard to even measure it, and likely too many things were in flux to have settled down.

I had already hit my target so didn't mind quitting. The interesting part of the conversation to me is the plateau itself - according to many people, all people and especially individuals are the same, calories in minus exercise equals weight gained (or lost), there is no such thing as flux, every day is exactly the same, literally the only variable is your weight, and that hardly changes at all day to day. Yet, myself and millions of other people do in fact hit a plateau with no noteworthy change in diet or exercise. I'm just having a bit of fun seeing the variety of ways people twist logic and dance around questions related to this phenomenon while still maintaining this hardline calories in calories out stance. :)

> It makes no difference, because you can't absorb more than you ate.

Correct. However, you can absorb less than you eat! Eat 2000 calories, absorb 1500, poop out the rest, gee, I wonder if that might have any effect on weight loss?
> Don't use Safari. The code is a mess and security vulnerabilities are frequent, but slow to patch.

Over the last two years, Safari has had half the vulnerabilities [1] as Chrome [2] or Firefox [3]. Security updates are frequent [4].

As to code being a mess... perhaps there's a particularly offensive part of the WebKit code style guidelines [5] that make them less secure than Blink code style guidelines[6]?

[1] http://www.cvedetails.com/product/2935/Apple-Safari.html?ven...
[2] http://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?v...
[3] http://www.cvedetails.com/product/3264/Mozilla-Firefox.html?...
[4] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
[5] http://www.webkit.org/coding/coding-style.html
[6] https://www.chromium.org/blink/coding-style
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I've seen pictures of a guy that was once a college student in our city. Though I never met him, my sister walked up to him and started a conversation - convinced it was me. When his voice didn't match she still thought it was me trying to prank me. Finally she called me at work and heard my voice while he was talking to someone else. I wish I'd have bumped into him while he lived here.
What facts am I denying?
The author doesn't seem familiar with quantum measurement. Yes of course the measurement apparatus disturbs the state... There's plenty of theory for this and how it works into computation.
I am in no way suggesting the original conversation was markiting. But, if you look at the timeline there was a marketing push right before that phrase took off.
One of the best pieces ever published in WIRED magazine.
I think it fair to hold "journalists" to a standard which does not count verbatim repetition of their subjects words without any inspection as "ink spent".
> not actually convicted of doing what is alleged

Do you mean "not actually guilty even though they were found guilty" or do we put people on sex offender registries without due process?
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/28/home-ownership-rates-drop-to-...

> The U.S. homeownership rate fell to 63.4 percent in the second quarter of 2015, according to the U.S. Census. That is down from 63.7 percent in the first quarter and from 64.7 percent in the same quarter of 2014. It marks the lowest homeownership rate since 1967.

> Homeownership peaked at 69.2 percent at the end of 2004, when the housing market was in the midst of an epic boom. The 50-year average is 65.3 percent.
People minify js files because they can.

When you already have a pipeline like gulp or grub (and if you are developing JavaScript, you should), adding minification is just one more line of code. So, why not minify if it doesn't represent any effort and it could mean better performance? Also, usually, developers don't have access to the production webserver.

Most of the time, people are to busy to analyze all the pros and cons of every action they do.

Said that, if Debian is an open source OS, then yes, they should have access to the unminified code of the applications they include. Or, at least, the sourcemaps.
More update.

Our lawyer gave us a go on the counter-notice. But this has started to distract me away so we're more likely to resolve it by licensing additional images from NG. The argument was that if the article is hosted on Medium, we should have disclosed this when sining the contract - otherwise it is considered deceiving because Medium is a large distribution platform as compared to an "online blog", although we believe online blog could also be large too. So basically, they would have priced the contract differently (higher) if they knew the article will be hosted on Medium : ).
My semi-educated assumption was that it is clear I was referring to the linked article and not other, non-referenced, non-journalistic materials.
Did anything trade there? Was it busted?
Well, that "doctrine" was largely based on deciding that the 14th Amendment had nothing to do with ensuring equal rights for former slaves and their children, but rather was enacted to turn the US into libertarian paradise.

See Holmes' famous dissent in Lochner in which he said "The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics."
You are getting it correct, but the idea that computation is defined based on some purpose or from a limited subset of all perspectives is exactly what I take issue with. If your notion of computation is dependent on purpose and thus some teleological notion of function then saying something computes doesn't tell us anything about that being, only about how human beings perceive that being and its function. Again, this undermines the usefulness of having a perspective/function independent notion of computation. The magical thinking arises because we project our notations of function onto the being itself and conflate our uses for that being with the intrinsic properties of that being. Purposes/uses/functions are not intrinsic properties. Computation may not be an intrinsic property, it may only be a relational property, which would be an interesting result itself, but probably quite irritating to people who want to make arguments that there is something intrinsically different about certain kinds of systems.
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>just wanted to point out that putting "kidnappers" on the list might not be very effective.

Not unlike how putting all "sex offenders" on the list is not effective.
How do the researchers get you back to sleep for the second (tails) awakening?

You're woken once or twice and given the potion. Or you're woken and given the potion each time. This riddle wants it both ways, and that is part of the problem with it.
Yes.
s/python bugs/bugs in my python code
MVC Explained
Yup.

A business license is what frees you from personal liability. I don't know of any approach to contracts or personal freedom which suggests society automatically owes zero-personal-liability to everyone without conditions or restrictions attached.
Just want to point out that there could be a wide range of ability to recognize faces and it's probably realy hard to find a good measure of that. If someone shows you a picture of your wife (to take an example from one comment) and a picture of eg another woman with the same hair color, skin tone, whatever, would you be able to distinguish them? I'll bet you would unless you suffer from prosopagnosia, the loss of the ability to recognize faces that we know can occur after damage to a certain part of visual cortex. Then try to describe how you can tell the pictures apart. Not as easy. Artists (like the one in the article) spend all day thinking about faces (ok, not all artists, but many of them). They probably feel more confident in their ability to recognize faces and in their ability to describe them--because they discuss faces for portraits, with clients, etc.
As a skeptical neuroscientist, I'm thinking you should hold off on diagnosing yourself with this condition until we come up with better evidence for it.
Anecdotally I've heard of cases where minifying a script (running through the "uglify2" tool) led to extreme and obvious performance issues (like the UI thread freezing for several beats in cases where unminified JS did not).
There are plenty of places to experiment with this system before you get to actual state government. Internal to corporations or organizations or voluntary associations, the latter of which especially have votes all the time (and/or might even more with a good infrastructure for it).
that issue was solved within hours.
No, I have federal drug charges, and I embellished a little on "teenager". I was 18-19 which technically is an adult. I have this background forever.
First 3D printer that can print 10 materials at once
i used to have this ability. i know i had it as a child. i remember visualizing fantastically complex systems.

i seem to have lost it at some point in adulthood. i have no idea when.

i started doing it again while using drugs, and this caused me to become aware that i'd lost an ability i once had. it was very hard to explain to people what this ability was, but i rememberd being able to visualize fantastically complex scenes in my head, as a kid, and getting some sense of this back while high.

in the past i could imagine any complex system of gears - like a clock, and zoom in and look at any part of it.

it's like the projector bulb is broken. an image flashes and goes away.

has anyone found a way to redevelop this?
I work for a major healthcare provider and we hired folks with not-so-clean backgrounds as long as they're disclosed. If you do not disclose any issue and it comes out that you did find something, you can either 1) appeal the decision by reviewing the background check with our provider or 2) wait a full year before reapplying again.

Background checks are not perfect, we know. That's why when you apply, you have the right to get a full report for free. I always recommend checking that box to get it when applying. That way, if something comes up, you can dispute it with the background check agency, and it's very easy.
This is the best comment on this topic I've read to date.

I agree with everything you say and I still do business with Google. Let me go through your list.

1. No. Not me.

2. I hope I'm not that naive. I've made similar arguments to other people in related discussions.

3. Yep. I understand this.

4. Also true.

So - I understand those things and agree with you and I still do business with Google et al.

The thing is I also drink, fail to exercise, drive a petroleum-consuming vehicle and recycle poorly.

I do many other things that harm myself directly or perpetuate or accelerate trends in society I perceive as negative.

You might consider this apathy and that is probably true to some degree.

But I am also running a continual cost/benefit calculation on every action I perform.

Some of my conclusions are out of whack and some are frankly irrational but the list of things I consider every moment of every day is extremely long and I've decided that the cost vs benefit of doing business with Google is in my favour. I've evaluated the costs you set out above and decided they fall far enough down my list that I'll tackle them at some point after I've started jogging and voting, stopped drinking scotch and begun regularly volunteering at my local worthy cause.
This is pretty bad, there is no way this law can be legal. If anything, I dare the folks who get fired to challenge the law and sue the county down to bankruptcy.
I'm probably similar. I can easily picture objects' outlines, wireframe style, even when they quickly rotate.

But colors are almost impossible. Also I don't “see” light.
Why hasn't someone qualified re-written that unix man page by now? I've been reading cryptographers trying to explain all of this for a while now. I feel like that would help put a lot of this to rest and save everyone time.
If you don't mind me asking, I've always wondered - what do you / people use SPARC for?