skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it does subtract something from the discussion. It subtracts spookiness, it subtracts action at a distance, and it subtracts anything going faster than light.
Really nice, but when you have bigger DB-changes, this might run into trouble, when the old code runs on changed tables or the new code runs on unchanged tables ...

At least such cases should IMHO be considered before doing such upgrades.
Gotta push the market down before the next round of buy-low-sell-high!
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Indeed. For another example, the trade union of horse carriage drivers for People's Co-Op Stores in Finland (Elanto) is still on strike (which started in 1930 and never ended). They just moved on to advance in a different direction (i.e. started driving lorries, and the union eventually merged/became part of the local "teamsters" union).
Ford/Firestone did a massive tire recall just a few years ago, Ford reduced their recommended inflation pressure instead of softening the suspension and the tire tread would separate, often resulting in the vehicle flipping.
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>In the end I'm satisfied that I made a seemingly rational choice.

This is very often a false choice - if you're in one store, you are likely choosing between a Unilever product and a Unilever product, for example.
From the subtitle: "Could one answer lie in a return to the state monopolies of old?" Later it pushes this as the logical solution.

Having no choice and getting whatever sub-par product they make available is usually the behavior we see from monopolies one entrenched.
One can be conditioned in a specific way and still be sane. There are people with really weird constraints in their daily lives due to their physiology or neurology. I'd not label them crazy without actually consulting with a psychiatrist and physician. It's likely a placebo effect, but that does not mean they can wish it away once they are strongly conditioned to the stimulus.
Still too much choice and still I have to decide am I going to choose the NYT, the good housekeeping, the Jamie Oliver, the xyz diet.

Still too much choice - much easier to give up a huge chunk of it to someone else - especially in days of online ordering where I just don't have to do anything like go get the ingredients

I think the amalgamated curation and default ordering seems ... Interesting
I am pretty sure that people actually want network connected hardware instead of Internet-connected hardware.

And perhaps they also want a way to access their hardware in their home network in a secure and private way.
There is something that looks rather like a faster than light effect - in the two photons experiments the correlations depend on the angle between the polarisers even if they are far enough apart that a light speed signal could not relay the polariser angle in time. Whether you see that as spooky is a bit in the eye of the beholder. But it's certainly a surprising thing.

My guess would be its like that because quantum mechanics is the fundamental nature of the universe and space and time are an apparent effect of that. So in odd situations like the entanglement experiments quantum mechanics works as usual but something about space and time doesn't work like you might think it would. A bit like space and time being a leaky abstraction over quantum mechanics to make a programming analogy.
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Maybe people just think it's better to have more options?

Also, I once read, that more options aren't necessarily bad.

For example if you can buy a car as diesel or petrol and red or white, but the color doesn't affect the fuel type, it's okay.

But if you could buy a car as diesel or petrol but only the petrol in red or white and the diesel just in white (or a completely different color) this leads to stress, because one decision lets you miss on the other options.
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It looks like cmus can use streams. Have you tried GMusicProxy http://gmusicproxy.net/ ? I use it with mpd but it should work with cmus as well. It's nice not to be able to access google play music via a regular music player.
> With nicer syntax, nulls are equivalent to Maybe types.

No they're not, since you can't nest NULLs.

Say I have a database of "Users", with "birthdates" mapping a "User" to a "DateOfBirth" and "spouses" mapping a "User" to a "User", I can look up a User's DateOfBirth either using a Maybe or by allowing NULLs:

-- Maybe
getDOB :: User -> Maybe DateOfBirth

-- Nullable
getDOB :: User -> DateOfBirth

I can also look up a User's spouse with either a Maybe or a NULL:

-- Maybe
getSpouse :: User -> Maybe User

-- Nullable
getSpouse :: User -> User

So far they're pretty much equivalent. However, what if I want to look up a spouse's DateOfBirth?

-- Maybe
spouseDOB :: User -> Maybe (Maybe DateOfBirth)
spouseDOB u = fmap getDOB (getSpouse u)

-- Nullable
spouseDOB :: User -> DateOfBirth
spouseDOB u = let s = getSpouse u
in if s == NULL then NULL
else getDOB s

These are no longer equivalent. In the Maybe case we can distinguish between three kinds of values:

- `Nothing` indicates that we can't find the spouse

- `Just Nothing` indicates that we can find the spouse but not the DOB

- `Just (Just x)` indicates that we found both the spouse and the DOB

In the nullable case we can only distinguish between two kinds of values:

- `NULL` indicates that either we couldn't find the spouse or we couldn't find the DOB, but we don't know which

- Anything else indicates that we found the spouse and the DOB

The Maybe approach gives us strictly more information; although we can choose to ignore it if we like, either by using `join` or by replacing `fmap` with `>>=` (AKA "bind", which is a combination of `fmap` and `join`).
Forgive me, but I will be stealing that last sentence ... It's great.
I agree. The other day, I stood in the supermarket contemplating the 20 different types of Colgate toothpaste.

Did I want Whitening? No. Sensitive Teeth? No. Those were easy choices. What about the Anti-Cavity version? Now that sounds good. But, but I also have some gum disease, so perhaps Gum Care is the right choice? But what about the formulation that promised Harder Teeth?

Perhaps I should just get Colgate Total. But does Total have as much anti-cavity stuff as the Anti-Cavity variant? does it have as much as much gum care stuff as the Gum Care variant? It costs the same as both, so maybe its kind of a bit of everything and not as good as anything.

In the end I bought Aquafresh. In the old days I thought that Total was the best I could get - now I'm not so sure.
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I've always suspected that employer pension schemes are purchased based on the quality of the deal for the associated executive pension scheme.
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Nationalism is on a global rise, so is imperialism and racism is still healthy attitude towards outsiders worldwide. Seems to me that 6 900 000 000 haven't gotten that memo.
Range isn't quite the same as choice: the smaller the store, the more likely it is to not have a particular product category at all.
Exactly. I've been thinking about a way to do this (it's pretty much just devices generating ECC keys and exchanging them with each other while pairing, along with AES keys). Afterwards, communicating through MQTT is easy, even if the server is public.

Maybe I should write up an initial version in Python, although it wouldn't run on embedded devices. It would at least be a good prototype.
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That's definitely the case. However, these things are remarkably hard to explain to journalists. Our open source power outlet, the Crownstone, has nice conversion rates when people find us on Kickstarter. It is a problem though that journalists don't want to hear a story about all the things you can do with kits like that. They want single use cases. They want simple stories to tell. The end user does not want that! They like to get more product for their money. I think the app market concept could only be invented by business savvy tech people... It's our task to encourage kits and kit makers to keep doing what they are doing! Back them up! :-)
I love choice and this article seems to ring true for "most people."

Linux is my preferred OS and I hate Apple's structure. I am in the minority.

I also like programming languages were there are several different ways to do things (Looking at R)

People don't like choice they like "Just Works." To me the is "Just Works" means not that important to me or I don't want to know more than the minimum.
I agree with you but the regular consumer doesn't know the difference between LAN or WAN, nor what a VPN or SSH are. They just want it to work, and that's difficult to achieve unless you are proficient with basic networking concepts.

For the tinkerer or early adapter, there are steps in the right direction. For the "everyday" person, this tech is still a few years away, in my opinion.
> "The stupidest thing someone can do is overestimate themselves," [from the OP] //

That's a worrying conclusion - there's a thin line between not trying for fear of failure and considering that it's only rational that something is beyond you so you should not try.

My young son has many times told me he is unable and will always be incapable of doing certain things. Many of those things he can now do because we didn't accept his considered limitations. To his mind we were overestimating his ability to do and to learn to do.

IMO sometimes it's right to try even when we [feel we] know we will fail - drink driving isn't one of those times [except in very limited circumstances where it could be made relatively safe (cf Mythbusters)].

The researchers seem to call a lot of things stupidity; ignorance IMO is not always through stupidity, equating lack of self-control and stupidity again seems strange to me. There's some overlap for sure.

Lastly, isn't part of the point of the movie Forrest Gump that the eponymous hero does things that are out of ignorance or apparent low-intelligence but that are nevertheless revealed to be acts of heroism, inner-strength, love, longstanding fortitude. Lieutenant Dan doesn't hold back in showing how foolish he sees Gump but "Stupid is as stupid does" and it turns out what Forrest does - courage under fire, friendship with the friendless, gumption beyond normal endurance, and willingness to just do [ignorant, or perhaps wilfully dismissive, of those who see or call him as stupid] - isn't stupid after all.
I have done that same dance too many times.
“It’s in the backlog”
Ah, but service discovery is easy on the internet and hard on LANs!
When starting an unfamiliar task, seek out an objective way to measure your performance of the task. Use it.

A different way to phrase the wisdom is that accurate self assessment is a valuable learning aid.
> Things I wish people would stop doing:

> 2. Writing resumes in first person

> 4. Mixing up first person and third person

Is that a deliberate joke, or does she actually think that third person is preferable?
Nor does it matter whether you eat carbs or fats or protein. In the immortal words of Doctor Rudy, 'You haf. To eat. Less.'
Supermarkets don't have parametric search.
They aren't exactly bubbles expanding at the speed of light (necessarily). They are more like: when you get a particle interaction whose outcome is determined by a fact which has more than one answer, you get more than one outcome. And that applies recursively as those particles whizz off and interact with anything else.

It's possible though unlikely that they could be expanding no faster than the speed of a walking scientist - if nothing else in the universe is yet causally determined by the outcome.
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I would agree. I would suggest that people who are skilled, and good at what they do did not get to that state without making mistakes that could fall into the categories described in the article as stupid. The trick is, as you say, to determine why said mistakes occured, and importantly to avoid making the same stupid mistakes in the future.

The best practitioners of "insert discipline here" are those that have made all the (survivable) mistakes.
What does it do that compose doesn't?
I've been in the fast food business for 30 years (an investment). When I bought someone else's failing location, one of the first things I noticed was that his chip rack had 12 varieties to choose from. One of the first things I did was reduce that choice to the five best selling items.

Sales of chips went up about 25% immediately.
Its called black pudding[0] in the UK, or blood sausage[1] in some other places.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage
It's not unusual for people to delegate these choices, especially the "menu" and "TV", to a member of their family, when the choice-outcome applies to the whole family and not just the individual.
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But are not the basic contracts where all the volume is - is the opportunity for new banks to come in and provide volume on a new cheap stack? Existing banks seen usually add enormous implementation costs trying to solve the last 20% (reasonably as that's where profit tends to be) but it makes implementing the first 80% almost impossible

I see this elsewhere too - solving business problems with software tools not with business tools.
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Good approach, and thank you for mentioning uWSGI.

Don't forget to warm up Solr or ES as well.
> In Germany, Mr Samwer is a hero and a role model.

Not at all -- entirely the opposite.

Samwer is a high-pressure boss, well known for treating his reports and employees with belligerence and hostility. That attitude trickles down to the leaders he places in his shell companies. Rocket-family companies demand the long hours commensurate with typical SV startups, but pay developers below-market salaries, and provide negligible to no equity. They're notorious for shoveling a lot of core business work onto a huge, rotating cast of systemically-underpaid interns. I won't get started on the state of their (universal, mandatory) tech stack.

It's actually an adage among devs in Berlin: to studiously avoid anything in the Rocket universe.
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Out of interest, how did you choose 5? Did you experiment and measure or observations of other stores?
For future reference: Always start with `apt-get build-dep packagename` Whenever you are trying to build a newer version of some software that debian also packages. There is no reason to start from zero and have to discover this information for yourself one build error at a time. If you want to see what the `build-dep` list is without actually running `build-dep` try `apt-cache showsrc packagename`
Pensions are a particularly good example because they're impossible to quality control. You could theoretically do batch QC and assign taste experts to the jam to nominate a "best" jam. But the value of a pension is impossible to know, because it relies on the outcome of the pension firm's investment. And as the adverts are keen to disclaim, past performance is not a guide to future performance.
Yeah, would the reaction differ if it was a 32 year old? 69 year old?
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"five best selling items"

I assume he meant the five that were the best-sellers at his own store.
Weekly inventory showed how much of each item we sold. The previous owner would keep in stock things that might only have a few purchased per week. His excuse was only to have variety.
Wow - Had to mention Harry Kane on here huh? He is a real star, did you see his wunder(own)goal the other day? Took his tally up to 2 goals on the year! Our carl jenkinson has more than him! (ef the spuds).

In all seriousness, I don't think arsene's ability to unearth hidden gems and turn them into 10/20/30 million $ players has completely gone. I mean FFS hector bellerin (not really unearthed from some hidden continent in Africa, he was bought as teenager from Barcalona) was a complete unknown and now is dead locked for the first team spot for Arsenal. This is the unknown youngster who, within a span of 1.5 years, went from nothin to first team start. He just played against Bayern Munich which is possibly the best team in the world, was able to keep Douglas Costa off the score sheet (top top winger/stricker) and to top it off, made the most insane interception I have ever seen. His pace is literally electric and even sitting at home on my couch I can feel the people in the Emirates standing on edge when he starts racing forwards.
Many worlds makes it clear how it can't: because there is no FTL transmission. There is only stuff that has been pulled into the superposition (seeing a definite answer) and stuff that hasn't yet (for which both answers are still superposed). When the latter comes in contact with the former, it enters the superposition, which from the outside perspective is a split. From the inside perspective, it looks like "the superposition collapsed". From the outside, one side gets "open" and the other gets "closed". From the inside, this looks like getting a random answer.

You can see intuitively why this can't convey information. You always get both answers (in different "worlds").
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There is one (at least) of these systems live based on the original paper by Simon Peyton Jones in a dialect of Haskell.

JPM/BAML/GS have fallen down due in large part to their choice of language in my view. A graph database written in a hurry in C++ then glued together with tens of millions of lines of hacked up python is not the way to build a bank wide platform in my book!
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The working conditions as described are appalling.
I don't know how Peter Norvig missed that, but if A and B have a common prime factor, then C obviously also shares that factor (by prime number theorem). The same is true for any other pair.
It isn't, though.

It doesn't create worlds. There's always only exactly one fuzzy-quantum-thing. It's just that some parts of it no longer interact with other parts of it.
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Yeah. If I see Coffeescript I generally tend to feel a bit of reluctance to get involved.

Sometimes I'll translate it into real Javascript but most times I will just pass it on and saying "nevermind". It's just not the "real" thing and something has to be truly great or promising for me to bother with the indirection.

That, and like VBScript, I just don't like Ruby or Python, so I'll stay away from projects using it.
What I find interesting is that some of the most amazing engines are actually produced by tiny companies e.g. the 500hp 3L V8 designed by Atom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Atom#Ariel_Atom_500
I've written before on this very topic - not building your house / business on other people's platform.

How is it possible not to? Do you only write apps for your own OS or browser that you also wrote?

How is writing a "Twitter app" (if that becomes a thing) fundamentally different from writing an iOS app or a Windows app or a Chrome app?
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Here in Portugal, besides the various types of blood sausages, we also have a recipe which is essentially seasoned blobs of coagulated pig blood: http://media.rtp.pt/cookoff/receitas/sangue-de-vinagrete/
It eventually worked. Not sure what happened, but after a couple tries I was able to checkout with the shipping option. Thanks, can't wait to receive the book!
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lol on what grounds could Google possibly sue RedTube? They don't own the word "tube", which has been a reference to television since the beginning. I don't think you know what you're talking about.
Have the med sangs run blinded tests? I can think of two that seem worth running. One with capsules containing either blood or not-blood, and one with blood that belongs to either themselves or someone else. If you have some kind of nutritional deficiency, then drinking your own blood shouldn't cure it.
I gave up on ES and never had use for Solr. I think the problems I had with ES was how the contractor set it up but the only search I have ever needed has been built with bare-naked ORM, even did a fulltext search using Postgres as a backend without an index, articles size from 10^3-10^5 characters. on the order of 10^5 articles, still finding a set of 10-20 articles containing 2-5 search terms within 1 second. This really surprised me since fulltext search in Postgres is supposed to be bad. I tried to find a bad case where the search would take forever since I thought I had the nightmare case on my hands, didn't.

uWSGI is a beast to learn but once you got the hang of it, nothing else will compare.
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I'm not sure I'd agree. Personally I don't find choice debilatating, but I know plenty of people who do - my girfriend finds it very difficult to make choices, and has to research things to the Nth degree to ensure she's not making a wrong one, and a lot of the kids I teach find options anxiety to be a real problem. However, when faced with an area where there is choice but I have little information (such as buying a given spice in Tesco and there are 3 seemingly equivalent choices) I have experienced this.

I'd agree about the tagging on of the Corbyn bit at the end - I don't think it has anything to do with the article - but I'm not sure that the high priced choice you cite is necessarily the same thing?
It's really not that big a deal these days with computerized inventory systems at parts shops. Even within a model year, there can be multiple versions of the same part as things get redesigned to improve reliability or for value engineering. Parts guy will just ask for the VIN and get the right part that way.
For what purpose does it classify as cannibalism?
I tend to agree in a wider sense (knowing that I could live basically anywhere in the world, for example, makes life seem short and that's stressful).

But the supermarket example doesn't work for me at all.

Bottled water? Cheapest price tag, done. It's water. Most items can be reduced to this (tinned beans, frozen vegetables, etc) because it's inconsequential to me.

Big ticket items like a laptop or a car - sure, that's a decision I'll have to live with for a long time, so it makes sense for me to think long and hard.
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> we don't make hypotheses and don't do experiments.

I don't formally write them down (unless it's a particularly complex case), but during debugging and performance tweaking I find myself making hypotheses and experiments all the time (according to the lay definitions of those words, at least)
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Would be neat if you could also include streaming services like Pandora. I use Pianobar https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar for Pandora would be nice to have some streaming tie ins. A one stop music resource so to speak. A book mark system to listening to Internet radio like cmdradio https://cmdradio.codeplex.com?
My understanding was that MWI allows superpositions of macroscopic objects (the universal wavefunction), whereas the Copenhagen interpretation doesn't (macroscopic objects cause wavefunction collapse), which is in principle testable [1] (although not with current technology).

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/#5