skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the phys.org article linked to:

"""
If the laws really are reversible, then what are the physical origins of the time-asymmetric entropy production that we observe?

The physicists explain that the answer to this question lies in the choice of the initial conditions. The microscopic laws allow reversible processes only because they begin with "a genuine equilibrium process for which the entropy production vanishes at all times," the scientists write in their paper. Preparing such an ideal initial state in a physical system is extremely complex, and the initial states of all observed processes aren't at "genuine equilibrium," which is why they lead to irreversible processes.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-12-physicists-thermodynamic-irreve...
"""

... This is a writeup of a writeup of a single paper that itself cautions about experimental conditions.
Binary modules are usually built at install time.
This seems to be quite a change from calling gd1 a crackpot simply because his or her interpretation differs from yours.
That sort of reinforces his point. His dad, or most people's dad, would likely be that lame person trying to party with younger people, but failing because they aren't famous.
Counter-example: the US.

Besides, what better "culture" do you want than people who are leaving family and friends to seek work? Sounds like valuable work ethic to me.
The Graph of Math (an interview with Gödel)
Investing in getScale is vastly different to investing in IBM.

Lending to getScale is vastly different to lending to IBM.

Therefore the debt/equity argument and balance is vastly difference.
One scheme I saw required a code that worked for a day. They had a server that generated a new code and posted it to their web site every day. So you could use it as long as you wanted, but you had to go to their website every day to get a code to use it that day. If you used it every day, you probably got sick of going to the website and just purchased it.
Sure there are no certainties. But you won't know if you don't try.
They have a nice dossier on it as well:

http://priyom.org/media/56944/the_pip_dossier.pdf
> The Haskell crowd seems to write monad tutorials that are either cute or unintellegible, and stratosphere-high level stuff where I wouldn't have the slightest clue what I can use them for (Arrows? Zippers?).

There are "Real World" Haskell resources, in fact there is even a book named Real World Haskell[0], though I recommend Haskell Book[1] these days since it takes an approach of teaching from first principles.

0: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

1: http://haskellbook.com/
Was this Cobalt?
Greenness disintegrates: https://goo.gl/2X4288
Peter Thiel used the word 'unfair' as you would expect, in the context of saying that monopolies are successful for exactly the same reasons that they are unfair. And that, as a founder, people should be looking to build monopolies (which are unfair by definition).
Hm, I was not aware of that.

What about for, uh...

It occurs to me that I'm not exactly sure what a chaotic function of continuous real variables is.

Is it like, one where iterating it gives chaotic results, or?

What if, instead of variables over the reals, using variables over the computable reals?
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That's a pretty neat idea. Then you could have gravity caused by structure -- the closer the nodes are to each-other, and the more nodes in an area there are, the easier the nodes fall into a lattice/crystal -- making masses attract.

And conversely space could just be a limit to information density.

If that's roughly what Wolfram was saying, I'm sorry, I couldn't read his jerk-session.
I'm probably missing something essential about your argument, but does this thread require a proof that racism is bad? Observing that various parties benefit from it is not an admission that it is of general benefit.
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What I observed is that from time to time it slows down to almost unplayable but this lasts some 30 seconds and then it get backs to normal. This happens once every 15-20 mins. Hope it helps.
Yes, those damn peer reviews are so annoying. I recommend using journals that don't bother to verify anything.

- Ranjit Chandra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjit_Chandra)
There could be other reasons too, like infrastructure. You probably can't house a dev team in a small town far away from a major city where the internet is slower. (To name just one type of infrastructure.)

Or perhaps it's human capital that can't be moved: customers and devs need to be close, so putting the devs on a cheap tropical island with a good fibre connection won't cut it.
Awesome-tensorflow come and contribute
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I agree. It really surprised me to see this getting so much traffic. I sometimes get hung up with nested comprehensions when I haven't been using them in a while, but other than that, they are quite mundane.
Then Canada and Australia should be getting poor... But nope! Australia is the only economy with no recession in the last 24 years.
Firebase does a good job with this model. As does Parse.
Why do I see one of these apps appear every month.

Are they solving a real problem ?

I find it weird you don't want to interact with someone enough to ask them to lunch, but then have to interact with them over lunch ...
Well it does help that he probably has no need for any extra income.

If this were the same for some other person who sees that money is being possibly taken out of his pocket because of someone else using his likeness without his permission, and he isn't quite set for life money wise the reaction might be understandably quite different.
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Don't need Windows to download the video.

Not sure about playback.

It's 742MB ".asf" file. ffmpeg, ffplay, mplayer, ...?

http://msrvideo.vo.msecnd.net/rmcvideos/249344/249344.asf
How do you have a large set of language features with them not interacting?

In Java, serialization and generics interact with practically everything.

In C++, RAII interacts with exceptions, which is the point but isn't exactly pleasant.
personally I find it boring to go out with coworkers for lunch everyday. but I don't want to eat alone for most of the days either.
How do you feel about this. do you want/need a third option for workday lunches?
For another interesting talk on "extracting simplicity" vs. "mastering complexity", listen to Scott Shenker motivate Software Defined Networking:

https://youtu.be/WVs7Pc99S7w?t=375
Google’s Student Tracking Isn’t Limited to Chrome Sync
Surprised they gave him an Ig Nobel for something so obviously clever and useful. Perhaps the judges weren't done with breakfast when they encountered his invention.
Don't delay building your startup culture
You really don't know what FUD is either, do you?

Also, if you're so afraid of tracking, why don't you live remotely in the wilderness? That's exactly how pointless these types of non-sequitur, hyperbolic questions are.
Analyse Asia 78: Innovation and Healthcare Asia with Claudia Olsson
Episode Synopsis: In this episode, Claudia Olsson, founder of several startups (Exponential AB, Stellar Capacity AB and Catalyse Delta Group) and former senior advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on technology and innovation trends joined us for a conversation on innovation global challenges and Asia healthcare. Drawing from her experience in the Singularity University, Claudia shared her story of setting up Access Healthcare in Singapore, Philippines and India and examples on how Asia has pioneered some of the most interesting ideas in healthcare that can be mapped back to the Western World. Finally, she discussed one of her current startups Stellar Capacity AB and her current consulting project with the Global Challenges Foundation.
Or the lattice is infinite in all directions, and is "pulled" against. So even as local objects want to fall into lattice, the fact that the network is infinite "pulls" the "space" away from the lattice.

So close together the lattice force works, but it is weak across long distances, in comparison to the pulling force of the rest of the lattice out towards infinity.

I really have no idea what I'm talking about.
These graphs have to be embedded into a computation device to be real and changing in time. To build such a computation device, maybe you need time and space. It could even be that our Universe is of the minimum complexity required to build a computation device capable of computing the graphs that describe our Universe.
Managing AI in Gigantic
Kazakhstan already blocks Tor website and its bootstrap nodes. Also I heard that it has DPI hardware and made an attempts to block Tor traffic (but last time Tor worked for me with my private bridge). No uproars here :) Most citizens are not educated to understand what Tor is and will trust government, who'll tell them that Tor is for criminals and must be forbidden.
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Oculus might end up being the most successful product/company to be kickstarted. They probably are the most successful money wise, going from a simple prototype on a forum to being acquired for 2billion cash/stock.

They were clever and sold (reasonably functional) devkits, not final products for their kickstarter.

I won't regard them as fully successful until they release a final product that meets expectations (as in, facebook doesn't write them off as a loss)

Product wise, Pebble is the most successful so far, it was past the prototyping stage before for the first kickstarter (though adding extra features probably set them back) Right now they are up to major version 4 of their product. Long term, I don't think they will be more successful than Oculus.
I think Org-mode (in Emacs) does something similar to what you want. Here's link to page with add-on function to add drag'n'drop images to Org files. The web page itself is what was exported from Org, although the export could have as easily been to pdf. There's also link on this page to youtube video illustrating things:
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/07/10/Drag-image...

Org-mode itself uses its own rules for adding Markdown-like formatting, but Org-mode has features that go way beyond Markdown. Here's a fairly simple technical doc with a few images and footnotes:
http://kieranhealy.org/files/misc/workflow-apps.pdf

and here's the org file and images that you were used to author that document and export it to pdf:
https://github.com/kjhealy/workflow-paper
I've always been fascinated by numbers stations/the conet project/etc. The aforementioned websdr program has given me hours of entertainment in the past. It's always fun when there is a genuine unsolved mystery to theorize about in our modern times ;)
The fb requirement is a bummer.
C-Onan, the C package manager written to scratch the author's own itch?
I liked the overall thesis but disagree with the example:

> Getting Leonium is a great benefit for mankind, period.

I don't think it is good for humans to live longer. Sure, I'd love it if 80yr olds were as healthy as 50-60yr olds. But I don't want 150yr olds hanging around in any capacity, especially not the ones who own and control 95% of the wealth of the world.

"Science advances one funeral at a time." - Max Planck.

I don't want 2100 to be run by people who believe things discredited or refuted in 1950.
Caplan is making the argument that opening borders would bring huge economic benefits.

In addition to the economic argument, I think there is a compelling moral argument to opening borders. Why should we deny equal rights (the right to work or move freely) to human beings based on their national origin?

If someone today told you the Jim Crow laws were economically justified in modern America - "we can't allow desegregation, blacks will compete with whites for jobs" - you'd see them as a disgusting, backwards racist. And yet in the US, foreign nationals are denied basic rights that US citizens take for granted. Does anyone believe these laws are actually just, or do we just support unjust laws we (mistakenly) think are to our economic advantage?
Also because people are complacent with something that works well most of the time, but not all of the time. (where most applies only if you're running the latest stable Ubuntu)
This talk has a lot of very weak points. He made the claim that more features hurt readability (~6:10), because when you are reading you have to waste time thinking about why the programmer chose the set of features he did to write the code. To make that kind of claim without qualifications is just ridiculous - if it were true, why add any feature to a programming language at all? Especially if one believes readability is the most important thing in a programming language, which Rob Pike says he does. It may be true that some features hurt readability, but it is obviously not the case that all features hurt readability for all people all of the time.

It is also strange that he makes so many claims about readability, considering it is the most subjective attribute of a programming language there is. For example, some code that would have been completely unapproachable to me a couple of years ago is perfectly readable to me today, because I've learned new concepts.
Could you also talk a bit of detail as to how, once the setup has been done, one can go about provisioning the EC2 instance? In fact, provisioning instances, setting up softwares and packages are what are important.

Would like to hear the thoughts on those lines.
Generics solve an occurrence of too much entanglement. That is, it solves entanglement of an abstract "shape" of computation with a specific set of type definitions. Generics actually allow you to not think about an additional dimension of your program (i.e. the exact types a computation or data type can be used with).

Haskell programmers famously point this out with the observation that a generic fmap is safer than one that has knowledge of the concrete types it uses. The type signature of fmap is this:

fmap :: Functor f => (a -> b) -> f a -> f b

In practice, what this means is that you can be assured that your fmap implementation can only apply the passed function over the value(s) wrapped in the functor, because of the fact that it cannot have visibility into what types it will operate on.

In golang, because of a lack of generics, you can write a well-typed fmap function, but it will inherently be coupled with the type of the slice it maps over. It also means the author of such a function has knowledge of all the properties involved in the argument and return type of the function passed, which means the writer of an fmap can do all kinds of things with that data that you have no assurances over.
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Interesting! Do you have something on NBA, as well?

Have you also tried, something other than plotly?
No that is downright stupid and perverse.

It's better to disclose the information and debunk it if it is false.

Also we're talking about pictures to prove this claim, so calm down, you passive-aggressive, sarcastic prick.
If it is self driving and super smart, it detects when you are hungry, automatically goes through the nearest drive-thru, order something based on your nutrition requirements, and you just have to chew when an inbuilt robotic hand pushes the food into your mouth.
Feel free to consolidate the list and publish somewhere. This thread got lenghty.
The product is built. Stop dilly-dallying and over thinking things, have conviction. Why build it if you're going to let it sit there and not do anything with it? If you're afraid of failure, not launching is the same as failing, except without any of the lessons learned.

Stop reading these comments, get off HN, and LAUNCH THE DAMN THING, fuck breakfast.
Choices are made at the time of writing the code.
And complex code has proven to be very easy to write.
So the mental cost of all the existing choices must be minimal.
Men with money making technical decisions is the SV disease.
Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) and Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) are two theories of quantum gravity that describe spacetime as arising from a network of sorts. For LQG, spacetime emerges from a spin foam quite elegantly. And for CDT things are also quite elegant. I'm not aware of either violating Bell's Theorem, but quantum gravity isn't my specialty.

Also, physicists don't generally take Wolfram's claims about how cellular automata are related to quantum or classical gravity or anything else in fundamental physics very seriously. A New Kind of Science cites very few sources and makes it seem like everything in there is new, which isn't the case. There was loads of criticism about that when the book was released. Nonetheless, it's an interesting idea and if something useful came from the work it would be good.
You should really travel more, especially to cultures where you consider are below yours. Hopefully one day you'll come to the realization that humans are not that different from each other.
SQL is a declarative language, not imperative. IE you describe what you want, rather than a set of instructions for extracting it. Database engines have "query optimizers" that use relational algebra to find the most efficient ways to process a SQL query, and they make a huge difference when your databases get big.

What R brings to the table are numerous statistical methods packages and some good data visualization packages. With just a few lines you can apply some sophisticated techniques and produce beautiful visualizations.

SQL can indeed do some complex analytics, but they're very difficult, so R is the easier platform for statistics and machine learning. I did a Coursera class recently in which we had to do matrix multiplication with SQL and even that was a brain teaser of a puzzle. The advantages of doing analytics within a database are (a) leveraging the query optimizer to speed up your analysis and (b) you can make the analysis available to other users of the same system via a view or stored procedure, so they don't have to do the same work twice.
I concur. In addition to not having the time to double-check everything I run, I don't have a choice of what tool to use in many cases. Either there is no other tool, my employer (or customer, or vender) has dictated that I need to use a particular tool, or other tools are too expensive/run on a different system/whatever.
If the nightmare scenarios ever do become actualized, then any amount of perception or hand wringing up that point is moot.

Did you stockpile food and water for Y2k? Fear of uncertainty and the unknown is both natural and irrational.
I'm buffled. On one hand, HN users love to upvote articles about how evil companies in US lay off local workers for bogus reasons only to replace them with "cheap labour" through H1Bs and outsourcing. On the other hand, this.

Dear average HN reader — I assume you're a software developer in US and often from Bay area. You realize that after this happens, your wage will reduce, may be twofold, right?
There is very little, to no, emetic all evidence either way. Take all of the demands for generics and see if you can find you can find any emperical data to back up the demands.
Take a look at [ansible-dk](https://github.com/omniti-labs/ansible-dk) - An omnibus-based toolkit for working on Ansible-based infrastructure code.

An SDLC for Ansible, not exactly helps with EC2, but any infra for that matter.
> Are they solving a real problem ?

I think they are. There are a lot of people in big cities who don't have a lot of friends or don't have friends who match up on the same schedule, so it'd be nice to find someone else who wants to get a bite.

The only problem is that to solve the problem, any app needs to have a large userbase in the same areas.

> I find it weird you don't want to interact with someone enough to ask them to lunch, but then have to interact with them over lunch ...

That's not the issue, though -- the issue is finding someone who's available in your area at the same time you are.

Edit to add:

> Why do I see one of these apps appear every month.

Because this is a problem that nobody's been able to solve in a dominatingly satisfactory way, yet.
Tinder for X, where X is Lunch.
Most people consider garbage collection to be a net win in terms of simplicity. Have you thought about why? Not every feature interacts with other features in complicated and error prone ways.
On the contrary, I pick Python to make the "testing, debugging, optimization, and design" faster.
That basic income still has to be funded somehow, and even without it the public services (plus some self-employed or begging income) of modern welfare state provide a standard of living that is far better than the income of large numbers of people in poor countries. Opening the borders with current welfare structures (or any "basic income" that covers everyone) will lead to insolvency of the public sector and loss of confidence to government by the people who pay taxes.

Welfare system or open borders, choose one. This is a bit simplistic, but there's no escape from this problem.
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What are "most applications"?

How do they have to be managed?
As someone who did the completely normal thing of leaving one country to go work and live in another, I agree completely and can barely understand those who do not.