skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those projected trend lines don't seem to be based on much data and are really rose. I support his cause, but half-assing it just makes things worse.
Taking it from a more political point of view rather than neurological, Shakespeare did a political play on this subject which was summarily all about blow-back or stone cold revenge — "Titus Andronicus." (A movie by Julie Taymor of the play "Titus" is quite powerful)

In politics and war The dirtiest fighter makes the rules and now that the United States tortures people, I suspect we will be "one-upped" in the next war.
How is any less scientific than Copenhagen? As I understand it they are both equally valid hypotheses. But people prefer MWI because it's simpler or makes more sense.
I have never heard or expected that hotels are especially safe.
If MWI is not good, then how do we account for the Fine-tuned Universe paradox? It would seem our universe is just right for life, with an incredibly precise fine tuning of the fundamental constants. That leaves us with deciding if it was designed to be just right or it is just one of many possible worlds, most of which are devoid of life.

In my opinion postulating an infinite number of parallel universes we can't reach is just as big of a leap of faith as believing in a creator that prefers life to dead universes. Maybe it's self guiding towards life, or do we just happen to be in a special universe?
If you can't distinguish MWI from any other interpretations results than doesn't that also indicate that the other interpretations have just as many issues?

In fact given the name is suffixed with interpretation I really don't get the authors point. We have a way of thinking about things, nothing more, hence that suffix.As you point out it's scientifically indistinguishable from other interpretations. So why pick on MWI. Why not write the exact same speil about the Copenhagen interpretation which is no more or less testable (if it was we'd be able to distinguish its results from the other interpretations)
I'm unlikely to ever use it myself, because i already have a very different toolset. Just had that thought while watching the gif. :)
Wavefront looks like it's probably closed source. Is this true?
Easy.

Any civilization advanced enough to read microscopic encoded data would be advanced enough to do basic statistical analysis on ASCII encoded English/whatever and work out what it is. The harder part is figuring out how to understand English.

An example of this being done recently is MIT students decoding the ancient language Ugaritic

http://news.mit.edu/2010/ugaritic-barzilay-0630
HN needs a downvote button for articles.
Kibana 4.x is atrocious. In addition to generally being as heavy as a ton of bricks.
Crowdfunded pre-order campaigns generally can't afford to cover any R&D work, and it's a miracle if they even cover actual one-time manufacturing setup costs plus the cost of the rewards -- let alone funding the engineering team through all this time.

The incentives are almost backwards: the earliest pre-order customers have come to expect the biggest discounts at a time when the per-unit costs are highest and the up-front investment is yet to be done. If product survival is really the goal, the price curve should probably go in the other direction: from high to low over the product lifecycle.

Manufacturing hardware is really, really hard, even for teams with experience. Super hard if your past experience was in shipping software, because you don't realize how easy you've had it!

(Disclosure: after a successful Kickstarter campaign, we shipped https://www.pantelligent.com/ to all our backers and were only a few weeks late from our original delivery estimate. Even for a team that's shipped HW and SW before, it was still very challenging. Most importantly, our backers are telling us that the product really delivers on the benefits of what we promised in the campaign -- and apparently that's a rare and noteworthy occurrence!)
Even if it is working, would that make it ok?

What about rape? Should it be criminalized? Is that worth a scientific study from nature?

Why is torture in a civilized society not considered like rape. Anyone who suggests, does it, debates about its merrits, should be considered a crazy idiot, ostracized and laughed at. But notice how we as a a society are debating its merits. We have already lost so speak. We lost first when our government engaged in it in large scale. But we lost again when we start excusing and explaining, even if we reach the conclusion "ok, it is not quite working as well".
Comments have become a flat list for me. It is no longer indented....

It is hard to follow a conversation now through threading.

Running Palemoon on Android with Phony plugin set to Desktop Firefox.
I will give you that, but you also must admit that there is also a chance that since you didn't notice any bad effects it is OK and your fear isn't really justified.
I also assumed they were super high resolution scans. I'm guessing the submitter needed to shorten the title and unfortunately picked 14000 => 14k instead of say removing "released online" or even just "online". Hopefully dang will see this soon enough ;).
When I saw this I immediately thought of the Xiaomi Mi Band. The Mi Band isn't meant to affix to the back of a watch but otherwise the two devices are feature equivalent. They both have a vibrator, an array of multicolored LEDs, accelerometers, and Bluetooth. The primary differences being battery life and software.

While they're radically different form factors, they appear to be similar in volume. The battery life on the Mi Band exceeds 30 days which makes me wonder why this thing can only manage 36 hours.

Speaking of software, this thing seems to do everything I wish the Mi Band did. The Mi Band is such a waste in this regard.
It would be even cooler if they weren't claiming copyright on their reproduction of public domain images. "The use of these contents for commercial purposes is subject to payment and covered by a license."
Imagine a ball falling down a peg board. Each time it hits a peg, it has a 50% chance of falling either direction. This creates a Gaussian distribution where it lands. It has a very high probability of landing in the exact center, and slightly less probability of landing to the right, and even less at landing to the far right, etc.

See this image: http://ptrow.com/articles/Galton_June_07_files/GaltonBoard2....

Now imagine instead of probability, you just split universes each time it hits a peg. One universe the ball goes to the left, and in one universe, the ball goes to the right. Each possibility gets it's own universe.

Then the same result happens. The majority of universes have the ball land in the middle, and very few universes have it land on the tails. But each possibility does have it's own universe. It's just some things happen more than others. If you pick a random universe, you are more likely to end up in one with the ball in the middle, then on a tail.

And this doesn't require an infinite number of universes. It's a completely discrete system.
What if the aliens landed? What if lizards are controlling the earth? What if....

> If your daughter and wife were kidnapped by 2 people and you catch one of them

Does this happen often to your wife and daughter? Did it happen to anyone you personally know? Or is it a movie plot you are remembering.
You should be following the 1 white path before the n black paths, not afterwards. In particular, following "3 blacks then 1 white" in the last step, when the final digit is three, is an error; it will produce the wrong modulus for any number that is not divisible by 7.

(1) 1 white then 1 black, ending up in state 1
(6) 1 white then 6 blacks, ending up in state 2
(0) 1 white then 0 blacks, ending up in state 6
(3) 1 white then 3 blacks, ending up in state 0

The graph keeps track of ((the number so far) mod 7); following a white arrow multiplies your total by 10, and following a black arrow increases your total by 1.
The article is a nice tribute to Sagan, certainly one of the more interesting characters in 20th century science. Of course I remember "Cosmos", Sagan being as much poet as astronomer in that series the show was truly powerful and influential.

In the mid-80's I heard Sagan give a talk. He spoke about his usual themes, of future possibilities, the man was remarkably optimistic regarding human potential despite the evidence of missed opportunity all around. I think that contributed greatly to his popularity, he understood the difficulties of human frailty but refused to be overwhelmed by it.

I imagine Sagan would be disappointed that we still have no evidence for intelligent life anywhere in the universe other than our own "pale blue dot". It seems odd that Earth would be the only location life evolved to a human-equivalent stage, if not beyond. Maybe it's simply technological limitation, or attributable to distance that we have not detected signs of life out there. I have to agree with Sagan, it sure would be thrilling if it were so.
If you really believe the average Airbnb listing is safer than the average hotel room...then you are certainly not a sane human being.

But I too would love to see some objective stats from Airbnb on the number and nature of inbound tickets related to serious safety issues from guests. I doubt we will ever see anything like it.
You bring up good points.

Also, interesting that Carbon3d's CEO, (Carbon3d being 3d printer that indeed works by curing resin with light), from the beginning has been flaunting future applications in biological sciences: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a14586/carbon3d-3...

I feel like there should be a two troughs to the hype cycle: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gartner_Hype_Cycle.s...

One for the normal disillusionment, the second for discovering that this new hot thing is actually bad in some notable way. And then sometimes we recover from that, sometimes we don't.

I think light-curing 3dprinters will never catch on in a big way, because I can't imagine normal people handling the uncured resins in a safe way on a mass scale.

Article link suggests that much of the bad stuff happened with the stereolithagrphy printers, I hope more research is done on safety of FDM printers. While polylactic acid (safest material that can be used) is basically corn... inhaling burning corn fumes is still probably carcinogenic.
Manufacturing is changing. But not for everything. Not yet
I read it that way at first too for some reason, but decontamination doesn't only apply to biological contaminants, and he never said sanitize.
I dunno. It really rocks. And we were so envious that Linux folks have Graphite/StatsD that we've ported it to .NET/Windows: https://bitbucket.org/aeroclub-it/statsify
"The quality of Japanese cars sold in the U.S. fell below the industry average this year, trailing Korean and European models, according to J.D. Power."

Consumer reports thinks that Toyota (and Lexus) and Honda make top quality cars for their price points. The average Japanese car may be of lower quality than the average European car but this doesn't mean any standards are eroding. I am not sure how you get from this, Takata, and one crooked building to how they are not what they used to be and should send more work offshore.

Not every company can be Apple and most industries don't have high margins. I think Japan should stick to what it does best and outsource as little as possible -- but try to improve the quality of their industrial design. The weaker Yen is an attempt to make Japan competitive in this model.
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Just categorizing something does not make a defeating argument. People have always been very good to twist and circumvent ethics and morality when their own gain is involved. And ethics and morality themselves change every 50 years or so.

The option to torture is always present. We must have a good reasons and framework not to do it. Ineffective is way better deterrent than immoral.
People should be encouraged to use the courts. It's a good thing that people use the court system to resolve their disputes. At least they're not dueling in the streets - or worse, leaving their disputes unresolved and suffering without any way to resolve them. Court systems are how modern societies resolve their disputes.

I think the US court system is - on average - fair to the parties involved. One example: The US doesn't award legal fees to the winner, because then everyone would immediately hire the most expensive lawyer to get a higher chance of winning. This would raise the stakes of any lawsuit, and make people far more scared to go to court. This means people might genuinely be suffering from some issue that they can't get resolved.

There's a legitimate issue where companies are afraid of losing millions on legal fees from one of their millions of customers that paid $20 for a cable and got shocked or hurt. Maybe the product was genuinely flawed or the company genuinely treated the customer poorly. Maybe the company is in the right but the customer feels slighted and wants their righteous indignation, or is just greedy for a payout.

For smaller claims, there is small-claims court which is supposed to handle this at much lower cost.

For larger claims: Well, the stakes are intrinsically higher, so maybe it makes sense for the legal system to be expensive.

But for mid-claims - claims too large for small claims court and too small to spend millions on a legal campaign - maybe there is room for improvement. And maybe that room involves arbitration companies. If two parties of equal power consent to using them to save money on a $100,000 contract, that seems okay to me.

But if a million dogs get shocked to death by defective dog collars, it seems wrong that people couldn't use the court system to get resolution. Maybe it's a bad example - but companies engaging in some trouble worth tens of millions of dollars should end up in court. Society doing this is a good thing, even for the companies involved - although they might not feel like it at the time.

When you hear about some large corporation getting off the hook with what seems to be a slap-on-the-wrist million dollar fine, it's almost a good thing: it means you can use the court system to sue large companies to resolve disputes and get them to change their behavior without burdening everyone with a draconian court system.

I say arbitration should either always be appealable to a real court, or we should set up a new cheaper court system that reviews the evidence and makes a preliminary opinion but doesn't set precedent and can be appealed.
With all due respect, but did somebody even check the comments page once?
That's not surprising for UV-triggered photopolymers. A material that will go from a liquid to a solid with just a nudge from some UV light has to be quite reactive. Here's the Material Safety Data Sheet for one of Stratasys's "bio-compatible" materials.[1] That stuff has to be contained in a cartridge for safety reasons. Once fully cured, it's supposedly safe for dental devices. Here's Form 1's clear material.[2] Lower hazard ratings, but still hazardous.

If the curing reaction doesn't go to completion, some of the source material will remain, which is a problem. If further exposure to UV reduces toxicity, the 3D printing process isn't finishing the curing process.

ABS extruders should produce objects no more toxic than the raw ABS. ABS is rather neutral chemically. When heated, it may give off "irritating vapors", says the MSDS,[3] and its combustion products are toxic, but cold, it should be harmless.

[1] http://usglobalimages.stratasys.com/Main/Secure/MSDS/Dental%...
[2] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15294-s15/resou...
[3] http://download.makerbot.com/filament/ABS_MSDS_MakerBot_Stra...
1. I remain unpersuaded by the article.

2. I am ignorant of heretical ideas in the field of positive psychology.
already posted and upvoted here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508914
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I would argue your audience is failing to understand what torture is. Most people are deathly afraid of any pain. But they're also not agents/operatives/soldiers for their government. They're not at war with an enemy they think worth fighting and killing.

So they don't have a particular strong desire to conceal information from anyone who threatens them. This means, in an actual scenario of torture interrogation, you're pretty likely to initially withhold whatever you can. But by the time you reach an actual breaking point...well it's called that for a reason. You are in fact very unlikely to remember much of anything because of pain, shock etc. You're pretty likely to say whatever the torturer is asking to hear.

Waterboarding is torture because once water gets into your oesophagus your rational mind shuts down completely - this post (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448717) pretty much summarizes it and the experience has been confirmed by everyone else who has had it done to them.

That's the point about torture being ineffective. By the time it's effective, you're dealing with someone who is pretty much going to confabulate whatever you want to hear.
There is a problem with that - even true facts could be deceiving. The only way to verify outside of checking is to continue torturing which defeats the reasons for the person surrendering the information in the first place.
No you literally never do. Stop thinking of Jack Bauer in 24 while you think about this subject.
Without smart metering, the utility has no way of knowing when you used the power. "Dumb" electrical meters just track total kWh.
I'm not sure I'd consider that a DSL. It's unwieldy to write a full JSON object for every one-off query I want to do.

Using one of their examples, this:

{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [{"match": {"title": "python"}}],
"must_not": [{"match": {"description": "beta"}}]
}
},
"filter": {"term": {"category": "search"}}
}
},
"aggs" : {
"per_tag": {
"terms": {"field": "tags"},
"aggs": {
"max_lines": {"max": {"field": "lines"}}
}
}
}
}

would be the following Splunk query:

title=python description!=beta | stats max(lines) by tags

It would be nice if there was some kind of query compiler that could generate ES JSON from an expressive query language.
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"The trade is you are essentially always running with your database as fully serialized writes."

That's a high price to pay. It's easy to do updates serially, and complex to do them concurrently.
Yes, sorry if that wasn't clear.
A lot of Japanese cars are made in the USA. A lot of US cars, on the other hand, are made in Mexico.
Can you be more specific? All of the solar panels that I'm aware of are 100% solid state, there is nothing that can "leak" out...
> freak accident

No, it wasn't. What is more likely: that the tree became structurally unsound overnight, or that it had been like that for a long time, and an inspection had ever been carried out?
Admitting anything under torture just invites more torture. The IRA "green book" and despatches from the French/Algerian war confirm how worthless torture is for gathering intelligence. Bribery should be tried instead of barbarism.
http://frda.stanford.edu/

The direct link to the actual images.
Actually it doesn't have more than one position.

For arbitration to work effectively the two parties need to be of roughly equal power - which in a marriage is mostly (not always, but mostly) the case.

When it's an individual up against a large corporation with a multimillion dollar legal team it's the privatization of jurisprudence. End of story.
1. I disagree with you, but will provide no argument.
2. I believe that staying in a suite posted on Airbnb is riskier than staying in a hotel room, but again will provide no argument.
It looks more like criminal negligence. Insurance is for things that cannot be foreseen or prevented. This looks more like a case of a missed inspection.
> Here, after all, is a theory that seems to allow everything conceivable to happen.

That seems inaccurate. Brian Green once joked about the existence of a universe where Sarah Palin is the president of the United states, ruling this possibility out as incompatible with the laws of physics[1].

I'm not sure why Max Tegmark often states that every decision we make causes a split of the Multiverse, for instance. Do we know for sure that the processes in our brain are quantum and not classical? They can be I guess, but I doubt they are necessarily.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqyBKJL1eyk
I notice they mention advisory locks, which aren't used much. MySQL has them, too. They're useful for such things as preventing two copies of the same application from running. This works across machine boundaries, and if you lose the database connection or the client machine or the host machine, the lock is released, so you don't have all that nonsense about Linux/UNIX lock files hanging around.

I use those for tasks that should only have one copy running on a cluster, but any machine in the cluster can run.
Firefox on windows 7 is slightly worse.
You can start with this, start 11:00 go to 20:00. Or actually watch the whole thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFyF9px20Y
GP specifically said "Typical Chinese approach". Contrast with what you said "It's a huge problem for most any company anywhere", which is more reasonable.

Additionally, while "it's a huge problem for most any company anywhere", if there were no competition, it would be a huge problem for society.
>There's a genuine issue where companies are afraid of losing millions on legal fees from one of their millions of customers that paid $20 for a cable and got shocked or hurt.

That's a feature not a bug. That paranoia has probably saved many tens of thousands of lives, maybe more.
Oh i am enjoying free internet are you?
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And more recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10530149

But it's a great article that deserves some discussion, which it hasn't had yet.
Are US cars fundamentally less efficient than cars in the rest of the world? You would have to be quite the conspiracy theorist to say that car companies have effectively lobbied for lower fuel efficiency standards in the whole world.
Good point.

“Flip this coin twice. If both flips agree, answer truthfully. If they're different, then answer ‘Yes’ if the 2nd flip was heads, ‘No’ if it was tails.”
In other news, scientist applies for patent on fix for underdone cooked food - "We found that by applying heat we could could..."
Depends on what you mean by 'work'. It's great for eliciting false confessions, less so for actionable intelligence.
Untrue. I once opened up a hard disk, left it open for a day, closed it up again and used it without errors for another year (though never for important data). And no, not this was not inside a cleanroom.
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Most of the people the US was holding at gitmo and other black sites around the world were simply people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time. But you never know that for sure. It's unconscionable that random innocents be tortured for they may yield some information. But allowing torture by using extreme cases like your's, in reality it is almost never that cut and dry.
Yes, and yes.

As far as I know, many states in the US have very few or not as stringent emissions regulations.

As for the second part, the EU has just increased its emissions standard by 2x to "accommodate" the car industry's cheating [1], because they basically found out everyone was cheating [2] by at least 2x+ emissions. So instead of - you know - punish them all for cheating, they changed the rules so the car companies are still "following the rules". This is the first time the emissions standard increased since the euro standard was introduced 2 decades ago.

[1] - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/28/eu-emissi...

[2] - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/09/mercedes-...
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