skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is entirely possible that those particles literally are taking every possible path at once. Feynman path integrals provide a computational model for this, so why should it be impossible in nature? So not sure why this article seems to confirm your opinion for you :-)
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Not the first of its kind, just look-up in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMP_tunnel

Any captive portal these days block also ICMP.

Most firewalls block ICMP these days, because the days of blacklisting are over and ICMP is not the one who is getting white listed. Why?

The only way these days is to misuse DNS. But even that works less and less reliable.
It was an npm issue, fixed in npm 3.

http://www.felixrieseberg.com/npm-v3-is-out-and-its-a-really...
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Speaking as someone who's been playing classical and new music as an avid amateur (e.g. community orchestras, university orchestras) for several years, stuff like that isn't meant to be enjoyed as such. You don't put it on and relax with a glass of wine like if you were putting on a Grover Washington record or something by Sibelius.

I wouldn't even say it's supposed to be in the group of "challenging but at least somewhat structured and therefore listenable" not like In C (Terry Riley, if you're curious) or Music for Pieces of Wood (Steve Reich).

It might be intended to challenge what we think of as music, or challenge our assumptions about mechanization and culture. I'm not at all familiar with Conlon Nancarrow, but if he's in gallery exhibitions, and not on tour, that's the angle.
As opposed to genetic mutation that begets Intelligence, will power (ability to work hard and persevere) could perhaps be developed.
>You don't need everyone to participate, just a big enough economy.

That might work for Amish but unless you plan on learning how to churn your own butter and know someone who can print a CPU on to silicon wafer in their garage I doubt it translates well to the real world.

As a software engineer this should be obvious to you - writing a software service/program can solve a problem globally - few people can solve a problem for hundreds of millions - specialization, automation, IT all changed how things scale - I don't need to grow my own food anymore, farmer gets to enjoy social networking, video streaming and games - win/win.

What you're suggesting is that we duplicate the work being done or do it sub optimally so that we can benefit people who aren't competitive.
There are hiccups, but as a general statement I stand by it.

"Node is pretty impressive on Windows. You get the feeling that JavaScript (as well as HTML and CSS) are a first class citizen in the Operating System. I already have a list of dozens of Native Windows Apps I want to build using Node."

http://daverupert.com/2015/08/developing-on-windows/

(good contrast with other experiences from a polyglot)

"Node is quite awesome on Windows to be honest."

https://medium.com/@vernonk/surface-pro-4-the-ipad-i-always-...
cPanel in Houston. Awesome people and work environment, so far.
I agree that some captive portals/firewalls do block ICMP but still I've seen many in my country which don't.
Some people seem forever confused about the difference between random and deterministic.
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Aaronson also wrote a longer essay related to philosophical questions raised by computational complexity: http://eccc.hpi-web.de/report/2011/108/
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Well, they both sound like someone just combined the lead/solo and rhythm/background section into one piece played on one instrument, which is neat, but not some mindblowing display of the limitations of current music theory and instrumentation.

I imagine our hard limit is human attention. We can focus on the lead and to a lesser extent listen to the background stuff but probably not listen to much more. I don't think we can really focus on some large complexity. That just ends up sounding like a discordant cacophony to us. If anything, we're made to enjoy fairly simple musical relationships. Chords can only get so complex before they sound off to us.

It seems to be a happy little coincidence that ten fingers is enough to make complex music without hitting too many practical limits. Just because that limit exist doesn't mean its wrong and that we need to overcome it. The same way a third leg won't let us run faster, fight better, or climb better.
Are you trying to say that people's political affiliations are a consequence of how their votes are counted?
I'd say Autechre - Gantz Graf[1] was a closer match as it has the dense production while still having some essence of a melody (albeit in the less traditional sense of the term).

But since we're talking about Aphex Twin, Mt Saint Michel[2] deserves an honorable mention. (bonus points to anyone who's familiar with the Tate Modern exhibit that was based on this track and a video of a cyborg monkey drumming)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev3vENli7wQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlr8duyToKo
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There seems to be a massive flaw in this logic in that it could be used to justify almost anything.

For example, it would be more important for President Obama to forcibly make a large portion of private industry to work on a super laser to defend against alien invasions, because alien invasions would cause more political fallout than not defending against them.

This is the mental problem with forecasting black-swan events, then basing your strategy on the outsized risk of those events. You can end up justifying insane behavior due to an event you have convinced yourself will happen, even if the odds are infinitesimal.
> "From what I can gather, not with V3 and above. I think starting V4 they will go render-agnostic so they can use Vulkan and Metal."

That would make sense, last time I touched it was back in 2012.

> "Besides, there is more than rendering for a decent engine."

For sure, but Cocos2d-x is a complete software framework and SDL is meant to be a library. Although I would grant that it would make sense if the author would choose to use a game engine for his game.
What if the removed justices sued and the judiciary hearing the case ruled that, in fact, Constitutional provisions be damned, the legislative branch may not remove justices.

Were that to happen, how could you argue that they are wrong?
to be honest a commercial SSL certificate costs the price of a coffee per year https://cheapsslsecurity.com/
"I don't want to get into too much detail..."

Sure ya don't.

Is anyone convinced by this kind of crap in 2015? I guess so if they spend the time to make a website.
This is a sad and futile argument.

You're also trusting too much in Twitter tech celebrities.
Next they'll be investigating Tup.
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There are a lot of problems, actually. I don't think Node.js has bad cross-platform support but calling it "great" is definitely a stretch. Node's APIs are very low-level and unix-centric and the result is it is very easy to make a library that doesn't work well on Windows because it assumes unix-style paths, for example.

Or try using child_process.spawn without resorting to a 3rd party module or adding platform specific code yourself. Yeesh.
Ask HN: Why don't geeks care about climate change?
Maybe it's just me, but I'm surprised by how little the tech community talks about climate change.

Searching HN, the top climate change story has about 100 points. Anecdotally, I don't see geeks discussing it elsewhere either (Twitter, blog posts). In terms of leaders and startups tackling the problem, I can only think of Elon and Tim Cook.

Air travel, electricity consumption (think server farms), manufacturing, and shipping are big pieces of the startup culture and rarely seem challenged.

This surprises me. We geeks have rational, logical minds. Is it just me, or do geeks not care about the issue?
What about people who drive trains? Are they not allowed to call themselves engineers? They don't build anything.
This article suggests that there's no point in having a valid SMTP cert. However, consider end-users' clients, which store the SMTP domain (i.e. don't do MX lookups) and connect to it directly. For mail to users on the same email network, this is the only non-local SMTP hop. Securing this connection also prevents anyone on the end-user's local network from MitMing.
> What is Zero-rated apps? Isn't it similar to what T-mobile is already doing with their video and audio streaming; whitelisting Apps that will not count against data.

Yes. And here's Susan Crawford explaining why Zero Rating is bad - https://medium.com/backchannel/less-than-zero-199bcb05a868
"Oh well, a little zen music won't bother you then, your majesty"

https://youtu.be/WOqrJong0Pk?t=2m31s
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Btw, that was fixed in node 5.0 with npm 3.
As others have mentioned, that's actually not what it means. Here's a version that's closer to the gist of it:

"When you are trying to give away money, the people asking for it can often use special or hard words and ideas that you may not know or that may be confusing."

Sadly "rare," "uncommon," "unclear," and a whole bunch of other words don't make the simplewriter cut (too bad the XKCD tool doesn't automatically try to pull up closet matches from a thesaurus filtered against the word-list).
That's a good point, I've never considered the possibility of a package I'm using disappear from NPM. I never check in my node_modules folder and let CI build processes handle all of that.
There are DNS tunneling apps which will (usually) get past those captive portals that block ICMP. It's just slower.
It's silly to suggest that the boom is due to cheap overseas programmers instead of the web and smartphone revolutions.
rant: it never was Peking. "Peking" is a phonetic spelling performed by westerners listening to non-mandarin speakers, who weren't from Beijing. If they had listened to a mandarin speaker, which most Chinese are, even at that time, we wouldn't have that horribly mis-spelled name.
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I've done an apples to apples, TensorFlow + CuDNN R2 vs Torch + CuDNN R2
When I used to play piano as a kid, this happened to me all the time.

Sit me in front of the piano and I'll mindlessly bang out the song I've been practicing. Make me think about it in the middle and I'll forget what comes next.
That's the description of banking we were taught in school and though it's not wrong, in practice, banks don't really work that way.

Banks deposits are a tiny source of the money banks loan. In practice, they loan out a portion of the collateral that they get when issuing a loan.

Example: They give Bob a house loan for $100K and in return they get the deed to a house worth $110K and an IOU from Bob for $100K (plus some interest). The bank can now treat the house as a $100-110K asset on their own balance sheet and loan part of that asset ($90K) out to another borrower.

Or something like that. ;-)
The FAQ claims you need 50¢ from each donation to keep the servers running. Do you stop taking this money once you break even on server costs?
Your second claim is completely anecdotal.

And When did companies stop outsourcing, and why are you using quotes over outsourcing?
Until I looked at the actual title of the post, I was a little concerned that somebody had invented a time machine.

It's been changed now, but originally was titled "10 Habits of a Happy Node Hacker (2016)"
Interesting. I think equating "suicide" to "kill" is not correct, however. If the "kill" command were actually called "murder", then the analogy (used by those defending the term) would be more complete.

In short: I agree that "suicide" is markedly more upsetting to some than "kill", and probably should be changed.
Any chance there's a non-facebook link to this?
I have tested it. Internet speed difference is negligible. Yup DNS tunneling apps can also be used.
Yours reminded me of:

"Someone once said that the Philistines just try to sing too many notes at once. And that the notes seem to stumble and fall over each other. Listen to the Philistines' bubbly song as it gains speed and complexity as it moves along."

Tarquin Descending · The Philistines Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PepVNaznzEE

More on topic, little-scale wrote a tool in MAX/MSP that renders an image into MIDI data in this style

http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2014/03/picture2midi-max-pa...
"The most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau (2007) counted 39,044 general purpose local governments, which includes 19,492 municipal governments, 16,519 township governments and 3.033 county governments."

San Francisco tax payers do not need to carry the entire financial burden for an open source project that could benefit so many other governments. Partnerships are the way forward for a project like this.
Company needs to speak to the community. Instead it shuts down the forum
The housing bubble was a special case. It was more or less impossible to short until fairly late in the game (i.e. approximately the time when Burry actually did) - the market for CDS was not very liquid until synthetic CDOs came into the picture.
A few discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Impossible%20Music%20of%....
I see. But shouldn't documentation in the source code be the "only source of truth". Say I upload the documentation JSON file, and somebody else edits it online. If I re-generate the documentation from the same source code, I will no longer be able to push the changes, right?

Also, is there a demo view, as to what the generated documentation looks like?

Great project!
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You're misunderstanding the essential point of @hvs's comment: it's not that some people predicted the bust (though that was certainly true), it's that the articles that indicated a bust was coming helped instill a collective sense the boom couldn't last forever. This is very important because it preconditions everyone for the bust -- and when the bust comes, it accelerates stunningly quickly. Having lived through two of these (the dot-com bust and the housing bust) that is my overwhelming conclusion: that the boom goes on much longer than you could think possible, but once it turns into bust, it turns with a vengeance that you cannot imagine. And I'm not alone in this conclusion; Marc Andreessen (famously) phrased this as startups that will "vaporize"[1] -- because we are the generation that saw it first hand.

Until then (and as was said to me at the height of the dot-com bubble by someone who was then three times my age[2]): enjoy the party -- but dance close to the door!

[1] https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/515216965183754242

[2] https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/572952707788505088
Fee structure (flat $0.50 +CC txn per donation) described here:

https://www.giveadime.org/faq
I don't always believe in scare quotes, but we probably ought to use them around "valuations" promoted by companies raising private capital.

I own a tiny bit of common stock in a private company (by way of ESOs), and I have a hunch that virtually all of the rest of the stock is in preferred shares of some sort. And thus I have no idea how much my stake is worth. For all I know, it's zero.
If he's selling a service to them, yes.
Yea so Chamath is not doing anything that is innovative. Carriers are already doing it.
Ok, just to summarize:

foo(some_struct) == memcpy() for both copy and move.

foo(&some_struct) == copy usize ref/pointer value onto stack

So, mostly the same as C++. The exception is that Rust can use a ref under the hood for foo(some_struct) if it wants.
And it's when the press has already moved full power into bringing more people to the market, and when people with doubts (and thus some spare money) have already invested, and people that didn't invest are feeling foolish, so they won't convince other people.

And, probably, more reasons. That's one contrary indicator that seems to be very reliable.
> horizontally-scaled deep learning is overkill for most applications

It's difficult to say what "most applications are" but many algos currently seem bottlenecked by how fast you can load data into your GFX card (hint: it's slow). So what you're saying about batching is correct, but it does matter.
Right, I bought 2 Samsung EVO 850s yesterday, 256GB for $80 each.
Good review. I especially appreciated the comments about app support for the keyboard issues - although I expect most will get resolved in a few months.

I have an iPad mini 4 and I am surprised at how much I use it for work tasks. I write a lot and having a text editor open for markdown manuscript files in Dropbox with a generated PDF open for viewing (I use leanpub.com for writing) is really convenient. Easy to edit markdown files and it just takes a second to switch the latest PDF file. For situations when I am only adding a few pages in a writing session, text input speed is not an issue.

In the same spirit, when I need to SSH to a server for something simple, it is faster to use my iPad. I sometimes use the nitrous.io web IDE, but not often on my iPad.

With a larger screen, multi Windows, and more processing power of an iPad Pro, I think that it will make a fine partial laptop replacement. I will always, probably, need a laptop for running IDEs like IntelliJ however.

My wife also has an iPad mini and we have talked about just traveling with a mini, not a smartphone. Right now, my Note 4 does everything I need while traveling (SSH shells, writing using leanpub, calls, and web access) but an iPad with 4G might also be a replacement for a phone when traveling because I always have a backpack with me.

I am very keen on the iPad model as being the most used device in the near future. I think this is Apple's plan.
I'm confused by this 'hypothesis'

>My guess is that once you consider all of the symmetries that could exist (and there are many which have not yet been found; supersymmetry has long been posited but remains undiscovered), then our laws of physics are basically the only laws that can exist in a mathematically consistent way.

If physical evolution is unitary, it may be phrased in terms of an S-matrix, and the possible symmetries of the S-matrix are well-known by the Coleman-Mandula theorem[0] and its supersymmetric generalization[1]. So, supersymmetry is possible, but, as you rightly point out, may or may not exist in the world. So mathematical consistency (unless what you mean is that quantum gravity might violate one of the assumptions of those theorems) is a lot less powerful than you guess.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman%E2%80%93Mandula_theore...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haag%E2%80%93Lopuszanski%E2%80...
* Gods

I see you are of the belief that Bishnu singlehandedly created mathematics, and I respect that, but I consider it more likely it must have been the work of a union of gods. Ganesh, who I consider to be my patron God (no snark here), and the lord of Buddhi, surely had an important role to play there?
Oh, that's probably why I'm in the Quake credits
We do get something similar: toxoplasmosis.

Parasite makes mice lose fear of cats permanently: http://www.nature.com/news/parasite-makes-mice-lose-fear-of-...

Fatal attraction in rats infected with Toxoplasma gondii: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1690701/

Effects of Toxoplasma on Human Behavior: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526142/
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Agile has never said you don't plan, you just don't fully trust plans made without all the information. You make your plan, and its great as far as up front plans go, but it WILL be wrong in some ways, and you will update it.

Who ever said you don't plan in agile and scrum? Where does the magical backlog you start the project with come from?

The point is not to pretend you know things that you don't. You have a severly flawed interpretation of what agile means.
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I'm the one who runs the benchmarks. It's sad that you put such a twist to the whole thing.

I've been running convnet-benchmarks forever now, and I've been running them independently on separate personal hardware. I do this as a hobby.

I've done an apples-to-apples comparison, and my benchmark review only puts the facts forward, I dont attack them.

If you read my other social media comments, I've been pretty positive about TensorFlow, and I've even put in some groundwork to write Torch bindings for it.

Please stop spewing nonsense interpolated from like 2 super-weak data points.
I use to restrict ICMP to echo/reply using -m icmp on iptables, but this uses just that kind of packets...

Is there anyway to stop things like this at the corporate firewall?
Well the question is then what's the point other than a personal exercise?
There is plenty of ICMP / multi protocol tunnels software out there for both linux and windows much of it doesn't require administrative privileges.

Also ptunnel comes standard with some linux distro's these days Ubuntu and so do probably most of it's derivatives, and as far as raw performance goes ptunnel is also the highest performing one capable of achieving about 150kbps which isn't that bad considering the sheer amount of packets and overhead you get.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gutsy/man8/ptunnel.8.htm...
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Based on the nutritional content of a serving of Soylent from their nutritional label versus the few ingredients listed above.
Bitcoin is absolutely anti-democratic. There's no way for users to engage with the policy decisions implied in the design.

No bitcoin advocate has ever said anything about my point other than "Just code up your alternative and get 50% of the network to adopt it," which does not mesh with any definition of democratic engagement anywhere in history, and doesn't even make sense in the context of democratic governance.

I'll just note that you didn't even say that, you just said "yes it is! yes it is so democratic!" ... which, of course, it isn't, at all.
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I guess we are too busy delivering the next billion dollars to the likes of Steve Jobs to think about the future of the planet.
The iTunes page I saw, doesn't convey any of this. All I had to go on was a couple of screenshots to puzzle over.

A well written blogpost with the passion conveyed by your comment here, might attract a wider audience to your cause. A landing page which conveys the purpose and the model might work as a "Show HN" and get feedback...but you'll probably want to read the guidelines.

In summary, it's not obvious what the app does from the iTunes description or the landing page from it. People who haven't been living with the idea, won't see what you are trying to do.

Good luck.
And by definition omnibus bills like "free trade agreements" are a central instrument in curtailing it. Micromanagement of every detail is the antithesis of freedom. You don't seem to be well versed in what free trade is.
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