skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would there be a difference in result when only the computer looked at the individual positions, logged the measurements, determined them and noted the level of quantum behaviour to test this hypothesis?
I read this thread on the physics stackexchange
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/110488/consciousn...

..and it is said most professional physicists don't believe in this 'consciousness (human or otherwise) causes collapse' Neumann-Wigner interpretation (and that of John Wheeler and Henri Stapps) and most amateurs do, but has it been tested in this way also by ruling out far out psi effects like retropsychokinesis by deleting or encrypting the data in such a way it can only be verified by a 'team' of independent artificial scientists (networked statistical software)?
Yep. Projects like everyauth as a multi-oauth client (https://github.com/bnoguchi/everyauth) and OAuth2orize as an oauth server (https://github.com/FrankHassanabad/Oauth2orizeRecipes) have made our lives very simpler in recent projects. I agree that OAuth is complicated and not that great, but its definitely a huge step forward from what we had to deal with earlier!
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"Looking" means "interacting". It does not mean a human is looking, it means the particle is doing something with another particle.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714199
The cost of having your repos is your own, you don't accept anybody elses data.
Yes, "Ants on a meter stick" is from this page - it's a really good collection. I should add a list of resources. Thanks!
I would say you're just blinded because that's the argument you were brought up with
That's pretty vulnerable to sybil attacks.
It would certainly help if you would cite a source - I'm only coming up with blogs for the terms "gatherer-hunters".

Is there any evidence that this diet is nutritionally optimal?

If we don't have any long-term-supported models of what nutrition was like during the bulk of our evolution, then there can be no proof that humans can optimally function on whatever diets historically existed. There's pretty solid evidence that nutritional deprivation stunts both physical and mental development. There's also an overall trend towards higher IQ which has likely coincided with caloric and micronutrient satiation.

Don't make the mistake of assuming that "archaic" can be substituted by "better than". in the past, people spent an awful lot of their lives deprived of developmental needs, and humanity is clearly trending upwards as these needs (nutritional and otherwise) are addressed. Other factors include the elimination of contaminants like environmental lead.
Observation means interaction. So a stronger light means it interacts more extensively with something else.

It does NOT mean a human. It can interact with anything, another particle even.
> Want to know what it's like to use your fancy 5mb HTML5 app from a mobile phone in Botswana? Look up the bandwidth and latency here [0]

In my experience I would take this listing as a grain of salt. Maybe that's what you get on a decent business connection, but a home or mobile connection is likely going to have a much higher latency. It also doesn't take into account where your servers are - latency from Europe to West US on a good connection is 200ms+.

[0] http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-pr...
i think it's more that he already has way more money than he needs. And needs to inspire confidence with employees and show his commitment to creating a better Twitter. to him it doesn't mean much financially, but he's probably hoping it shows that he's committed.
How is it being distributed then?
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> effort to make short term investments to save the company by investing in the people that matter most

those seem like long-term investments to me
If I remember correctly, Makers by Cory Doctorow had this as a big plot element
> If it's programmed correctly then it is exactly as secure as a prepared statement.

It's really easy to program them incorrectly, and as a result the approach is less secure than just using prepared statements.
Any effect that is conditional on the state and thermodynamically irreversible counts as a measurement.

One way to do a partial measurement is to make the conditional effects less orthogonal to each other, e.g. cause a target qubit to conditionally rotate by 22 degrees instead of a full 180 degrees.

Another possible concept for a partial measurement is not distinguishing between all of the cases. For example, if a system can be in the x=-1, x=0, or x=1 cases then it's possible to do a measurement that distinguishes x=-1 from x in {0,1} without collapsing all the way down to x=0 or x=1.
When I saw the headline, I assumed it was the latest incarnation of Vancouver startup Perch -- https://perch.co/. Same name, same idea.

The "Perch is a division of Samsung Research America" line in their privacy policy makes me think they were acquired by Samsung and their product ported from iOS to Android.

Anyone have any more information? I can't find any announcements of an acquisition or acqui-hire at all.

Perch had been pretty quiet for the last few months, so a fire sale to Samsung wouldn't surprise me.
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> > first two are B and R, the third has to go between them
> Yes, exactly, and that is directly to the right of B. I assume that dwarfs can always "fit in" between the others.

I'm okay with that, just saying that it could be misunderstood/disliked because some people would probably prefer a scheme which works for actual dwarves instead of pointlike :-)

> Actually, the rule "directly to the right of the rightmost blue one" would be enough if not the possibility that the first one can be R and then second one doesn't know where to stand and can take the place to the right wearing blue hat himself, which would fuck up the whole algorithm. Hence "to the left of the leftmost red one" part.

Yes... or if the first k ones are all red.

> And it still a little bothers me that, strictly speaking, separation will never happen, as the last dwarf will stand just on the right place, but will never know himself if he wears red or blue hat (others will know though).

True, but from a observer perspective, they definitely managed to order themselves into groups.
I like how in these articles owners are never mentioned. Will they suck it up quietly?
Anyone who has played Dwarf Fortress will know that it's usually unwise to get to 0 idlers. In cases of sieges or megabeasts, you need some first responders ready and not exhausted/occupied with other things. I wonder if this happens with ants. The idlers eat less food and can just store the energy. When a colony starts to run out, just send out half of those idlers in different directions to scavenge.
We're pretty good at detecting low concentrations of chemicals in the air if we know exactly which ones to detect. This case suggests there might be some previously unnoticed substances in the air that are indicative of one's Parkinson. If so, we'll probably quickly build dedicated sensors.

The thing that makes me wonder though - what's the state of broad-range chemical sensing? Could a chemical like this be found before if we kept taking broad "smell" samples of everyone and cross-correlating them?
I hope we can hack the universe at some point. I think it would be very beneficial for humanity if we could break out of our universe.
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Nope, that's Helvetia.
Helveticus is the adjective (Helvetica is the feminine.
English has Helvetic as a less common form of "Helvetian", which indicates primarily an ancient Swiss inhabitant but could also broadly refer to a Swiss of today.
Can't you just make the initial request for your document yourself? (I know this works to seed Freenet; not as sure about IPFS.)
Saying she needs to change everything, is like Nokia saying they are on a burning platform. Instead of extracting the enormous value left in their dumb phones, Elop said they needed to get rid of that market asap, and essentially told users to buzz off of it.

That was a dumb move.

The same can be said about the web portal. It's a declining market, sure, but there is still an incredible amounts of value to be extracted from it, so it would be stupid to just throw it away.
I read a study a while ago that addressed this exact problem - a CS professor gave an intro class a test on CS. The students who had a consistent view of how a computer works (no matter if it was wrong or not) turned into programmers. Everyone else failed. There was essentially no movement between the groups.
There's not really a way of measuring it but I used some different proxies such as

1. https://projecteuler.net/

Math-heavy but interesting

2. Clojure koans (http://www.4clojure.com/)

Here you're good if your solutions are close to the best solution - which is often short and readable (= elegant?)

There are probably similar koans for other languages and I'd also strongly recommend a functional language (because it frees yourself from the shackles of imperative and OO thinking, but YMMV)
Ah yes, you're absolutely right. O(N log N) because there are log N chunks to be merged.

O(N log N) is still untenable in the long run, nobody has exponentially growing compute resources.
I do not know who is the uneducated here, but in the case of OAuth, the other company already has the user data. What OAuth enables is to use their information to verify the user. What this post is trying to say, is that the method stinks.
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I thought using email+tag is quite common nowadays to auto-sort the letters, and the site which doesn't support it is absolutely breaking the email experience.
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Also see: Freenet, Perfect Dark, etc.

The difference here is that the content you're opting in to rehosting is sitting in cleartext on your machine. So it's not blind, per se; you can delete (un-rehost) whatever you don't want to be there, or run a nudity detection algorithm (yes, those exist) to automatically prevent re-hosting of any porn, etc.
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Ah, so you pose it as selecting the lesser of two evils, regulation constricted choice, or capitalism fuelled artificial choice? Option A burns political capital to enforce, option B externalises the costs to consumers.

I think the real solution is to address the root of the problem, which is that people (in aggregate) are not making informed decisions. We need to reduce the time/effort required to evaluate the options. It seems like the information age is already moving us in the right direction -- internet searching with your smartphone is quite easy and you can do it on the spot. But we're also moving backwards due to the excessive number of choices; searching >=20 toothpastes is still too daunting, and there is the issue of artificial reviews posted by toothpaste sellers.

Additional regulation could be the answer if it helps customers compare products. We have nutritional information panels on food products, they are always the same format and are easy to compare. Medicinal products have the active ingredients and concentrations listed so you can compare.

An option is to verify the product claims and include those in a standard format like the nutritional panel. Vaguely positive statements like "supports a healthy lifestyle" wouldn't make it in, but solid statements like "kills >99% bacteria" would after it's been verified.
Isn't North America / Western Europe going the flattening way? Most of the gender equality movement today seems to be focused on creating hatred and making life harder for one group, as well as forcing arbitrary and artificial adjustments.
So, imagine you have a ball and a slope

o
__/\__

(ball should be on top in the middle).

The ball will slowly start rolling down one or the other side of the slope (because gravity).

You have a robot hand that keeps checking if the ball is still on top by grabbing it and then releasing it right in the middle. There is some leeway when the hand grabs the ball but none when it releases it.

__|__ _|_
| o | => |o|

So effectively, if you do this fast enough, you keep "resetting" the ball on top of the slope.

Is this a good analogy?
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I worked in several and I disagree. Take the fashion companies (Lamoda, Zalora, Dafiti... I think they're called global fashion group or something now): branded stuff has a 50% gross margin and the private label stuff up to 90%. That kind of economics leaves room for a lot of error and learning - basically, if you can get your costs under control, manage your inventory correctly and so on, you have a new Zara or H&M. So long as you can see this trend towards improvement, it's worth investing in (and will probably IPO eventually).

I used to think Rocket was operationally not that great, but then I started consulting with normal medium sized businesses and by comparison, they are regional leaders (dunno about global, as I haven't had any American clients yet, but based on my interviews with large Californian companies I won't name who still have interns do all their reporting in Excel, I wouldn't be surprised if Rocket was ahead there too). Same applies to marketing - the ones I worked in were surprisingly efficient with up to 10x the conversion rate I witnessed in competitors and a CPO perhaps 1/5th as high.

Could they do better than they are doing? Absolutely, but generalizing from FoodPanda ("pretty typical") or the Samwer "Blitzkrieg email" is like saying Uber and Palantir will end like Pets.com because they're Californian tech startups with VC funding pre-profit. They've made a genuine effort at building sustainable and sellable businesses globally and I learnt to respect that.
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Huh that sounded far more negative than I meant. The rest of the discussion is excellent, and the functionality described is amazingly important.
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I did my PhD in Electrical Engineering / CS in Munich and would do it again any day. Fair pay, 30 days of paid vacation, lots of independence, nice colleagues, practically no pressure or monitoring from above, full insurance, funding for five years. Good times, even though I had to learn dealing with all the independence. Nobody really told me what to do, so I had to figure it out on my own. In retrospect I only wish there had been some more guidance or colleagues working in the same field. Then again it was an interesting learning challenge: Here is an office and a computer, you have five years to publish at least one paper on a premier conference. Which I did.
I certainly consider that funding by direct ad sales. It's like any other affiliate model: your contribution is to get their product to be sold.
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I tested "`rm -fr /`"@mydomain.com with Gmail and it works. Thanks for my new email address :D

Edit: I also signed up for Twitter with that address and the confirmation mail was delivered.
> Evopsyche is pseudo-science.

All of psychology is pseudo-science. I mean, two sigma. I can't even...
Travel is one of my biggest interest.I am very sound technically. Would like to hear more.

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of course it was a bit of a generalization. However I don't think it's harder to use prepared statements and I do think you should always use it, even if you're absolutely sure that the data you get in isn't an injection. Not using it rings an alarm bell IMO.
I had the same line of thought as you. I wonder how large his RSU grant will be as CEO. That would counteract some of this.
I was convinced this was already known and verified long ago. I've certainly told people this was True.
I realize this may not be constructive, but it definitely qualifies as "glorious": I clicked "Random" and this was what I got: http://ipfs.pics/QmPJddhYZb2kXtn2vzeGTAagPcPyfCb7fuoPxQ3mqpE...

Excellent project.
How do you decide what to download?
You got it! While there isn't a "Swiss palette", bright and contrasting colors were popular for both technical and stylistic reasons:

"The following points must be considered whenever it is planned to use colour: the effect on the viewer, its usability in the various advertising media and the technical possibilities of reproduction.

The sparing, but methodical and logical use of colour has a more telling effect than a combination of many different colours. If colour is used, it should be plainly visible and the reasons for its use immediately apparent."

- Josef Müller-Brockmann The Graphic Artist and His Design Problems (1961)

which is a good book even now, it's a practical guide with plenty of examples, so you can get a good look inside his head, even if you don't necessarily agree with everything he wrote.
It likely went to the stock pool that's been marked as "for employees"
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These big engineering projects always leave me with feelings of awe.

It so interesting to look at the shape of the coil, nothing regular. Shapes optimized by a super computer, who knows what algorithms they've used there, what kind of search was it, how many parameters, how long did the simulation last.
May I also mention that N log N is the total cost of compaction for a DB of size N. You don't perform a compaction on every single write. Amortised per write the cost is more like N log(N)/N == log(N).

Also, N log(N) is nowhere near exponential. O(2^N) would be exponential, and that's not what you have here.
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Can customize the directory.
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Git does not need any centralized server. Git is fully distributed. It is a DVCS, D standing for Distributed.

That some/many organizations tend to centralize parts of Git, doesn't mean that Git itself is inherently centralized.
> isn't observation a binary thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_measurement
Not at all. This is just basic mathematical induction in reverse. I think we learned it in 7th or 8th grade.
I was stating a fact. I didn't express my opinion of it one way or the other.

My point was that we already have examples where there are exceptions to federal law on a state-by-state basis. What I've been saying all along is that we should codify that system.
I've known David for five or so years; he's good people. This reads like the writer had a few beers with him and just wrote down whatever David wanted to riff on.

Which is pretty much how he rolls. I like it; he'll never be buttoned up. You'll always know what he thinks.

Anyway, I'd blame the author and editor here; this is more a marketing piece for both companies than a solid bit of PR from Expensify.
Similar to this, you could suscribe to a good-faith censor that removes known illegal images from your ipfs enlistment (using known hashes, for example). Obviously wouldn't catch everything, but I suspect would remove any legal obligation on your part (IANAL).
I think he was making a meta-joke about recursion.
Interesting. Link to the study please?
It took me several years to grasp pointers after having fed on BASIC since I was 7 :/

I'm fine with C now though.
I just found it: http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf
No this is Imageshack decentralized.
"Even if you were somehow very good at programming but you hated it, would you choose it as a job? I'd drop it immediately, don't waste your precious time on it."

Not everyone has that choice, as making a living and doing what you love are sometimes mutually exclusive. Casey Neistat washed dishes before he got into making viral videos. Einstein worked as a patent clerk. Dreamtheater's Mike Mangini worked in IT to pay the bills before finding a way to make a living doing what he loved.

TL;DR: find a way to pay the bills to make time to do what really matters to you
That's different. Browsers have standards. What works in one browser, generally works in another. Twitter is a monopoly of Twitter. You can't hot plug your now homeless app into a different version of Twitter.
Here's Jeff Atwood on this: http://blog.codinghorror.com/separating-programming-sheep-fr...

My problem with this idea is that if you have no idea if the thing on the left (when assigning) takes on the value of the thing on the right, or vice versa, it seems reasonable to answer different questions with different assumptions to cut your losses.
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This is true. However things disappear from the web all the time. Imagine if everything on the internet that was accessed once a week would be available forever. While not perfect, it would be much better than the web is today.

IPFS doesn't download anything to new peers, unless the new peers ask for it. That way each node owner can control what's on their node.

But say if popular browsers by default used IPFS as a cache, that way if the original publisher goes away the content could live on, as long as the content is popular.
Not really. A minor problem is that it fails to capture the fact that this process will also hold the qubit stable in the |1> state. More importantly, it fails to capture the limiting behavior of the success rate; it should move smoothly towards 100% as the measurement frequency increases but the ball-and-slope would instead jump discontinuously from not working to working as the hand went from being too-slow to fast-enough.

A better example might be... a series of polarizing filters? If you have a series of polarizers but skip all the way from vertical to horizontal with nothing in between, no light gets through. If you put a diagonal polarizer between the horizontal and vertical, some light gets through. If you have a big long series of very gradual steps from vertical polarizer to horizontal polarizer, almost all the light gets through. More frequent measurements causing the zeno effect is like to adding more gradations of polarizer direction causing the all-light-gets-through effect.
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I would love to know what happened with the "Perhapstron" (I write the name correctly ?) that uses a magnetic mirror.
May I ask your language abilities? Would a route like this work for people who don't speak Dutch/German?
Now shall we talk about date pickers? With timezones? And input/output formats?

Nah, let's not :P
I think it's perfectly fine to invest in civil lawsuits for a stake in the settlement/awarded money (haven't thought about criminal law but it's probably fine as well). You can invest in insurances which isn't much different from my POV.

For big collective bargaining trials you can already invest in the outcome without the money going towards moving towards the outcome (short/long the company who is bieng sued)
Not sure about US, but in Poland it is all about grants.
If you have one, you can get paid for part of the year, go to conferences outside your city/country etc.
If you don't have a grant, you don't get money, you have to support yourself somehow (e.g. get a job, but then, you have less time for PhD).

Your mentor (+ his overseers) decides where the money goes = politics.