skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That looks like an amazing server.

What's their policy on P2P traffic? I host fairly large data sets for analysis at work and the most stable way to get them from one place to another is via packing them into torrents. Would this be frowned on / throttled?
> Interesting and Arsenal need a few.

between per, kos, gabriel and chambers, arsenal has a good number of defenders. the three main guys (per, kos and gabriel) are interchangeable and play quite well with each other.

now, arsenal 100% needs a defensive midfielder. only coquelin is not enough (arteta and flamini are not good enough).
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What I find much more amazing is that the thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat is so often used to explain the implications of quantum mechanics, because it was meant as a way to show that all that superposition stuff clearly doesn't happen in normal life, so something has to be wrong / missing in quantum mechanics.
PewDiePie - just one Youtube channel - has almost 40 million subscribers. Even if a very small percentage pays the $10/mo subscription fee, the numbers here are still huge.
Privatizing public infrastructure is not absurd. They just get the management from government's hands with the promise that they can do it with more efficiently. Even if it is far from perfect, they do a better job. Just anecdotal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail#...
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Actually, from someone who has been writing Clojure for a living for the past 5 years or so: I'm very glad Clojure did not take that route.

The idea that you can have a language which is portable/reimplementable on any platform is fundamentally flawed. You can't.

It is because of the fact that Clojure and ClojureScript are not really exactly the same language, and are implemented in very different ways from each other, that we can take advantage of many platform-specific features that would otherwise be abstracted.
Not really. The paper goes into much more detail, and the most reasonable theory in the paper is that if you believe there are going to be practical quantum computers in 15-20 years, there are lots of agencies and businesses that have secrets that need more than 15-20 years of protection, so the switch to PQ crypto needs to happen sooner than later.
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No. The crypto Colin advocates for also falls to QC.
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I watch way more YouTube than regular TV and I'm in my mid 30s. I'm not really a PewDiePie fan - he's OK - but I'd rather watch him screaming and playing games than most of the dull US drama that passes for "good TV" nowadays..
In the Philippines, there is a similar type of blood stew called Dinuguan. Typically contains an array of organ meats. Not my personal favorite though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinuguan
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I think you just took a step backwards by declaring money as "emergent". The two models sketched before were providing additional details - what particular conditions cause money to appear and why. Saying it sort of emerges when there's enough trade is zooming out.
Of course they're not wearing it; if they wore it, then we would see what it looks like !!
Link to the original paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03346. It hadn't occurred to me that self-driving cars would put manufacturers in the position of actually having to make a decision on the various trolley-problem scenarios. That's a pretty neat point.
There's a category difference. I don't have a citation, but I would guess that credit card companies make a substantial proportion of their revenues from merchant fees. Also, they do turn down people. Not everyone can get a credit card.
I really like the Home Theater but I really think the killer feature would be adding Netflix/Amazon/Hulu seamlessly. I know they've tried but have limited success.
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Before I could access my media server with the iPhone app. Then all of a sudden I was forced to register for a Plex Pass to be able do this.
For me at least, that made the whole app unusable.
>> TCP isn't really designed for short bursts.

Isn't that what connection keep-alive is for?
>Seems like the absolutely most simple and logical conclusion.

It's simple, logical and wrong.

The idea with the cat was to magnify (in the macro world) a quantum phenomenon from the micro-world were the state of the object is absolutely and measurably NOT "either/or". It's both (all) states at the same time.

>In the Schrödinger's Cat example, there the only reason to assume the cat is in a dual state is if you want to make a more complex interpretation of the situation.

No, the reason to assume the cat is in a dual state is that the particle determining its fate IS in a dual state (superposition), a state contrary to everyday intuition.

Now, you could say that the cat is dead or alive in some split one of "infinite universes" or a few other explanations, e.g. that we have collapsed to a single state earlier for some reason, but not the crude dead-or-alive-we-just-don't-know-yet thing in a single physical universe...
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I was mainly curious if any asymmetric algorithms exist which are not easily analyzed by algebraists, et al. According to the comment by tveita, this does not appear likely, and I am sorry to hear it. I don't discount what you say about mathematical algorithms being easier to analyze, so flaws are shallower. However, I have seen smart people do quite amazing things with mathematics in my life. People who spend years studying algebra or number theory learn so many patterns that the good ones can pull unbelievably clever arguments seemingly out of pure intuition. That is somewhat disconcerting to me because something like RSA or ECC is precisely the sort of problem those people can apply that intuition and pattern recognition towards. I obviously don't know of an asymmetric algorithm which is analogous, but something like AES is a nightmare to analyze algebraicly (it really does have that "jumble of shit" look to it when written out as an operator). That seems to me to offer some small resistance to the math genius with the spooky intuition. My main point was how dangerous a smart person can be with a problem that his/her brain is geared for, so I was curious if any algorithms existed which are not easy for a mathematician to attack.
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That concept has already started in the US. One of the reasons? Tax revenue.
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“The importance of studying sex differences in the brain is about making biology and medicine relevant to everyone, to both men and women,” said Catherine S. Woolley, senior author of the study. “It is not about things such as who is better at reading a map or why more men than women choose to enter certain professions.”

That is nonsense. Science is about knowledge, period. Real differences between the sexes should be understood and embraced - not ignored due to political correctness.

For instance, the US Marine Corps recent findings about females in combat roles shouldn't be swept under the rug.
I've seen those too. I don't know if this field attracts those types, or if they're everywhere.
Beyond the snarkiness, people seem to be hating on this because

1. hey, I pay taxes too, but I don't act entitled to say how it's spent.

2. welcome to the real world.

Take a moment to think about how "wrong" those two statements are. Why shouldn't individuals get to decide, more directly, how their contributions get spent?

Yeah, it's probably never going to be feasible to control 100% of your contribution, but in the spectrum of control, I think we are pretty far away from what is feasible with technology.

Governance truly is the highest impact sector to disrupt.
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Don't be so quick to dismiss. It sounds odd and offensive to western sensibilities but there are reasons why it could be genuine. As mentioned earlier in the thread, there are so many micronutrients in the blood stream that some deficiencies might not show up on a panel.
I don't know why you think I insinuated it was impossible. I'm not a wealthy person who enjoys finance so it's reasonable that I would not expect to see gains like that.
Sorry you missed out on the $75 lifetime license. It was worth every penny and will continue to be because I will be using Plex for many, many years to come.
I'm not sure we're allowed to copy and paste dead comments, but you can turn on showdead in your user profile and see it yourself.
> if you ask 100 people if they are better than average drivers, then you might not be surprised if more than 50% of them reply “yes”!

Isn't it fully possible that most people are better than the average? Most people e.g. have more arms than average.
I sometimes wonder if there's a fetish for bizarre, horrible and rare medical conditions on Hackernews.
I don't think you can class a 15 million pound Welbeck, who was playing for Manchester United and the England senior team as a "hidden gem" when compared against Shinji Kagawa who was playing for Cerezo Osaka in the J League and signed for €350,000...
Profits are neither good nor bad. Providing a needed product is good for society. Reducing the cost of the product is also good, because it allows us to produce more of it. Therefore, for the benefit of society, profits must be kept to the minimum necessary to incentivize production. And that's what happens in a free market: competition drives down profits. Any profits are a signal that the market is not very free, and large profits are a signal that the market is very nonfree.

What's happening with #icanhazpdf is that researchers are innovating to find ways to provide the product (access to research papers) at a much lower cost than Elsevier provides it — free, in fact. However, Elsevier, rather than compete with them, seeks to enforce government-granted monopolies on providing this service, known as copyrights, in order to protect their profits, at the cost of providing benefits to society.
Hey, I'm the author of prettyping here! I'm a bit busy these days, but I'll take a look at the comments here and the pull requests at GitHub. In fact, prefer using pull requests and issues in GitHub.
Aside from playing, what is the use of this? To be sure, there's nothing wrong with playing, but I think that intellectual honesty would demand that Norvig acknowledge that this (running a straightforward Python program) is not how the conjecture will eventually be resolved, even if it is false.

I suppose somebody has to check the small possibilities, but true numerical search uses algorithms that are either incredibly optimised or run on huge time scales in order to check truly huge numbers. See, for example, the discussion of the Collatz conjecture at http://sweet.ua.pt/tos/3x+1.html , where experimental verification is currently up to 2^(60) \approx 10^(18).
I always thought that it would be a good idea to turn news into raw data (for example, an article about some economy stats in a newspaper can fill an entire page when all that matters for the readers is three or four numbers, and maybe two or three quotations from "specialists").
I believe I heard something about Clojure on scheme.

https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme
Well that makes the result pretty much irrelevant as nobody actually uses that lib for any serious JSON parsing.
Considering Clojure would work better in SBCL I think that says a little something about Clojure and a little something about CL. Macros in ParenScript make Clojurescript seem like a bad rails library.
One of the best APIs I've used is the one from Rackspace on top of their Cloud Files offering. Their documentation is really rather good too. They are simply sitting on top of Akamai and you get a nice REST API to talk to.
My nieces love pewdiepie... Easy xmas gift.

I watch a few short series on youtube while working... it's a fine medium for content. 10 bucks seems steep to me... but I also don't pay for cable.

I can see this working.
Something that bugs me about this article is the lack of distinction between monetary and real phenomena; "savings and investment must always be equal"

I agree with that if you're talking about real goods, but not if you're talking about money because you can always invent the money such that the amount of savings at t-.00001 isn't the same as the amount of investment at t+.00001 with the difference being the amount of money created.

Similarly savings and investment must always be equal doesn't seem universally true at any one instant; it's more of a causal relationship. Only what is saved can be invested, but it is not automatically invested. As money banks have reserves which they don't invest and in real terms there are huge amounts of steel inventory just sitting in warehouses not being used (invested) in making products at any one time. It can be invested in making a factory in the future, or consumed by making say cars. But it's not automatically invested by virtue of not being consumed, it can just continue to be saved.

I'm probably misunderstanding the author, I know.
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The cat was first invoked as a kind-of-mocking thought experiment and a point of critique towards (the Copenhagen interpretation of) QM, IIRC.

(The answer to the thought is that yes, indeed, the cat would already be in a single state prior to observation, because the large macro system would have decohered and collapsed into a single state prior to an observer checking the status of the system.. unless I'm mixing something up.)
If you are getting a request per second, I think a load balancer on AWS has tremendous value.
LOL Christian presents a laughably human-centric view of things.
Part of that equation is the time and knowledge required to invest that successfully, which not everyone has whether the time, the knowledge, or the time to acquire the knowledge.
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"The idea that you can have a language which is portable/reimplementable on any platform is fundamentally flawed. You can't."

Can you elaborate? Shouldn't VM just standardize EVERYTHING on the language level? Can you give specific examples when language NEED to be aware of the hardware?
The article seems to take Dyson's claims at face value, but is there evidence that they're true? (Dyson is hardly a disinterested outsider.)
Seems like a trollish title, considering people were building stuff in other Lisps for decades and still do.
Though for all their steps backwards, this is a big step in the right direction. According to them, they can now develop and improve upon a sole app for all devices. With this move, we'll finally start seeing more features and refinement. See -> "massively improved efficiency when it comes to adding features and fixing bugs"
I saw David Donoho give this talk live in September at Princeton's Tukey Centennial conference -- fantastic, and well worth a read. IIRC, gives a good history of data analysis, how to think about the different definitions of and roles for data science, and an introduction to Tukey's work.

For more on the history of data science, here are references from a similar talk by Chris Wiggins: http://bitly.com/icerm
>Ripping DVD's/BluRays is a very popular way to do it.

Is it really? Because I know nobody doing that of several Plex users. Maybe with a few of beloved DVDs from their library, but not for 99% of what they watch.
I would say he was just a product of his environment and unconsciously defended the system he was raised in. Many people are blinded to the detriments of their surroundings because it's all they know.
Honestly, what's wrong with Golo [0] or Ceylon [1]?

[0] http://golo-lang.org/

[1] http://ceylonlang.org/
Exactly this--the value isn't just Youtube--it's Youtube plus streaming music. If you are paying for a streaming service, switching gives you ad free YouTube "for free".

Also, being able to take videos "off line" seems like it could be pretty useful for some people.
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Maybe I should go more into detail. The problem we had was that some charts and graphs in our application was not showing up only on Firefox ESR 38.3. Examination of the problem revealed that rickshaw was not loaded. The console had thrown an error from rickshaw.js saying that d3 was not loaded. But rickshaw.js was not available in debugger console !

The reason I did not raise a bugzilla was because the issue was intermittent ( ! ) and also I cannot share the whole application user interface with outsiders yet. Anyway, my working conjuncture is that these files are loaded from callbacks of AJAX requests and the problem happens when the callback for loading rickshaw fires before the callback for loading d3 has had a chance to fire. We ended up loading d3 manually as a workaround. But it is important to show rickshaw.js in the debugger since it enables us to set breakpoints there.
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> They are definitely iconic cars.

It's pretty amazing that such a bad car, built in such small numbers, became so beloved. By almost any objective measure, it just sucks.

I got to see one and talk with the owner a couple of months ago. He says one of them most common questions he gets is whether anything happens when you get it up to 88MPH. His answer is that it cannot achieve 88MPH!

I'm hardly immune, of course. I love them too!

I think it must be because of Back to the Future. It's like being able to buy the Millennium Falcon, in terms of owning the star of a beloved movie. Even if the real-world item sucked, we'd all love to own one.
This "Rock-n-Roll" is just noise. And the Beatles need to cut their hair.
To me, it's just as big a deal that you're now at the whim of the provider. Your equipment can suddenly stop working if:

* They go out of business or decide to drop the product line
* Their servers go down (do you know if they're running a HA config, or merely a single server?)
* They decide to make v2 of the product and stop updating/supporting v1

On top of this, your home internet connection can and will go down. Depending on what exactly you're doing this may or may not be a big deal: for example, not being able to remotely see your garage door status probably isn't important. Not having your motion sensing lights or timed schedules work, however, would be a pain.

There are many products from startups that are hurting themselves because of this. I, like many geeks, love this kind of stuff, but like you, I won't purchase or make my house rely on anything that has these risks, and I steer friends and family away from these products as well.

Developers: At least make your internet connection optional and allow the gear work without it. Even better, open source your server software: we can see how secure it is, plus if you go out of business, I can at least run it myself.
Working a help desk you don't really see the every day user, you see the subset of every day users who had problems.

And frankly, when I call help-desks, I play dumb, because it's easier then convincing them that yes, I did check that it was plugged in, yes, I did power cycle.

Your mother's lack of using her iPad is not an indication of her inability to figure out things outside of her wheelhouse, it's the lack of compelling use case for the iPad for certain people.

Home automation also lacks a compelling use case. But security does not. The reason securing consumer networks is so hard is not because "users are lusers", it's because security professionals have no idea about UX, UX professionals have no idea about security, and they both treat each other like shit.
Hmm, that's not the vibe I get.

The blog indeed doesn't say it is necessarily the most reasonable theory, but goes in depth towards only one:

"I’d like to focus on what I think is the most intriguing hypotheses in the paper. Namely, that the NSA isn’t worried about quantum computers at all, but rather, that they’ve made a major advance in classical cryptanalysis of the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem — and panic is the result."

As for the viability of practical quantum computers, the original paper says:

"If practical quantum computers are at least 15 years away, and possibly much longer, and if it will take many years to develop and test the proposed PQC systems and reach a consensus on standards, then a long time remains when people will be relying on ECC. But the NSA’s PQC announcement makes it clear that improved ECC standards (for example, an updated list of recommended curves) are not on the Agency’s agenda."

"However, for such users the NSA statement recommends using an additional layer of AES to provide quantum resistance, without waiting for quantum-safe public-key standards. In any case, the statement is directed at the general public and obviously is going to have a big impact in the private sector. If the NSA had wanted to give advice that was intended only for high-security government users, they would have done so."

The latter paragraph seems to contradict your conclusion directly. I read the paper as saying that in the case you describe, it would have been reasonable for the NSA to continue ECC work while fleshing out post QC alternatives.

But this did not happen.
Does the degree to which Japan consumes Western culture bother you as well? Have you ever seen the amount of English they'll put on products because it's cool, regardless of whether or not the words actually make sense?

If anything, Japan and the West (the US particularly) have a mutual fetish for each other.
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Kodi all the way. IIRC, Plex is based on XBMC (now Kodi) but made proprietary. There's no need to sacrifice your freedom when Kodi exists and works very well.
Unlimited. When we moved house recently our main internet connection was my phone, and I didn't hold back on streaming HD video at any point. Racked up close to 30GB in that month, and had no problems at all from Three.