skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bell's theorem assumes that spacetime is locally Euclidean so it is not relevant when there are networks and rules that allow for causal connections that appear to be an observer at a distance.
Yet every single politician values power more than the average person, and they're treated as saints.
I remember back in the day I would hack on mods for a series of games called Escape Velocity. And these mods were entirely created using resource forks for everything from game logic to flavor text to images. ResEdit was the closest thing we had to an IDE. Compared to source control that would allow us to collaborate, or even SQlite databases that could be trivially backed up, it felt like we could lose our work at any time. But at the end of the day, that was part of the fun.

More info on how it worked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_(Escape_Velocity) (why this is a relevant article in Wikipedia, I have no idea.)

Note to anyone reading this, though: If you're designing a system from scratch, don't even think about using resource forks to store data. Just say no.
Curious UK resident

Does the College itself get a government/academic feed or do academic institutions have to rely on local commercial providers?

UK has janet and UKERNA.

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/network

http://icannwiki.com/UKERNA

To overcome the limitations of our domestic ADSL (6 km from exchange over solid aluminium wire voice circuit) I sometimes run queries over an RDP session to my College PC.
We also just added Swift support over at https://coderpad.io for anyone that wants to run swift during interviews.

Amjad, I got started filing some issues against codemirror for better Swift support :) https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/issues/3680
We are all young and foolish in our lives. That's why we go through life - to learn, grow as an individual, and be the best version of ourselves we can be.

I don't think it's fair to judge anybody by their college/young adult years. Those years are some of the most influential and character changing any young adult goes through.

Go back and read something you wrote 5 years ago. I promise you will find something where you sit and think, "What could I have possibly been thinking about at the time...I wouldn't say that now." A lot of my facebook 'memories' appear at the top of my feed and sometimes I'm shocked I said something 5 years ago, no way I'm going to re-share that.
The legal system exists to temper the interplay between wealth and power -- instead of a completely unregulated environment where someone can buy up mercenaries and become their own state, we have reasonable market regulations that keep the playing field fair for all comers and prevent the super-rich from affecting unfair distortions of either the market or society at large.

If seriously corrupting effects can occur from one person's use of money, we have a larger issue and need to address the cause (someone can use money to cause a big, society-wide problem), not the symptom (someone has a lot of money and is using it in a socially-disastrous way). If we're nitpicking at individual's monetary use, the system is broken.

Individuals should be able to amass any amount of money and not cause large-scale social damage. Looking at a set of fortunes above a certain size and confiscating them because we can't build a resilient system is totally bad. In effect, we're already doing it with income tax.

If you don't contend that Zuck will cause large-scale social damage, what's wrong with him having that much money and using it as he sees fit? After all, he "earned" it.
Wrong in a couple ways.

First, it's the higher of the per-person fee of $695/adult, $347.50/child, to a maximum of $2,085 or 2.5% of income up to the average annual price of a bronze plan on the exchange ($2,448 in 2014). Not "plus", and there are sensible caps.

https://www.healthcare.gov/fees/fee-for-not-being-covered/

Second, that's the price of not having insurance. You can have insurance and not see a doctor (and this is a fairly common choice for folks with a sky-high deductible).
I think the guy just grew up. People say dumb stuff when they're young. Not much need for empirical backing when the heuristic (in this case: people mature as they grow older) explains it well enough.
> It must be pretty demotivating to spend your time at a small company busting ass to make the stock go from $20 to $21 while you look across the office at the early birds whose only current job description appears to be "sit around and cash out my truckload of $0.01 stocks at $20 every two weeks".

It probably would be; if an early employee really is contributing so little, they probably ought to be terminated (if they've got stock from early options, they can keep selling it off for as long as they want, whether or not they are hanging around the office demotivating other people.)
> making programming look more like math

I think what we're really talking about is making programming notation look more like traditional math notation.

Math is math no matter how you write it.
I'd love to talk geek and marketing about this project of yours. I have ideas for a _very_ similar (but not competing) one, but was not ready to jump on it until I see some validation. Your link just did that. If you are interested, I am 'arafalov' pretty much everywhere.
> his personal wealth the proper way.

I'm irate because he didn't donate anything at all and yet still makes a big announcement.

Let's talk again once a significant(more than 30% of the pledged) amount of money has actually changed hands.
So your point is that he liked to make himself sound edgy when he was in college?

He must be near about the only person in the world who has cause to grimace when they think back to how they used to act when they were younger.

I saved my AIM chat logs, I know of what I speak.
Please don't listen to blanket nonsense like stop eating carbs. They are not unhealthy, and serve as fuel for whatever exercise/activity you choose to do. Exercise more and eat a well balanced diet including carbs, fat, and protein.
Why does bitdash require Flash? I tried to use it (Firefox 38 on Linux) but it says:

"No supported technology was detected, i.e. neither Flash nor the MediaSource Extension was found and no HLS manifest was given or HLS is also not supported. Please download the Flash Player from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ or try another browser."
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Exactly. And that’s a good thing, not a bad thing – unsafe drivers, especially in the morning or evening commute, are the main reason for negligent manslaughter (commonly called "car accident with death") on streets.
We allow individuals to amass that much power because people look to the folks around them to see what products they should use.

Concentration of power is an emergent property of network effects. As long as "being popular" is positively correlated with your decision to use a product, then the products that are already popular will get more popular, and their owners will get rich. It's largely (but not entirely) random who the owners are, but their existence is guaranteed.

If everybody thought for themselves and made their decisions independently of what everyone else does, you'd see a much more egalitarian distribution of wealth. But unfortunately most people lack the courage (or maybe just time & energy) to make up their own minds, and outsource their opinions to others. Ironically, many of the very rich are the biggest critics of this phenomena - indeed, the reason they got rich was because they had the ability to think for themselves and see what other people didn't see.

The same applies to political power (people would rather vote for a Clinton or Bush than an unknown candidate just because they have the brand name recognition) and to fame (Paris Hilton got to be famous because people talk about her. Why do they talk about her? Because their friends talk about her.)
https://www.recurse.com/
> What he's doing is smart if he wants to have the maximum impart on the world.

I like how he's found a way to give his money away while keeping it.

He uses an LLC instead of a charity. This is some smart stuff. It's also nasty.

He skirts oversight that is typically rendered on actual charities precisely so that they don't allow their backers to dip twice into the social pie. He gets to keep his money, and he gets to be a philanthropist.
Oh boy. Here we go. Another prompt for diatribes on the rampant overly-sensitive coddled generation oft-offended PC oppression crusaders threatening our freedom of expression by bowdlerizing traditional language which had specific meaning in a specific domain. To which the proponents of the change will reply, Languages evolve, and sensitivity matters, and -- you're _a racist_ if you don't agree. So the water in the toilet bowl swirls on.
So, based on reading the comments (and I tend to agree), the issue isn't that HFS+ is bad because it supports Resource Forks, many file systems support similar concepts.

The question becomes why is OSX storing font data in the Resource Fork rather than what everything else understands is the actual content of the file itself? On other file systems that I'm familiar with, alternate streams are for storing metadata. There's important information there, for sure, but I'm not aware of other cases where the metadata stream stores the data in absence of the data being present in the part of the file that everything understands is the file's data. In this case, it appears OSX stores the font in this alternate stream. This seems like an error in design when coupled with the fact that other, normal applications, can't understand the file in a way that makes doing normal file operations on it possible (attaching it to an e-mail or sending it via Skype).

I'm sure there's a reason the content is stored there that my lack of OSX experience would explain. The part I have a problem with is that reading that file provides an inconsistent experience within the operating system. Finder can see the file. 'cp' not only sees the file, but when copying it, renders a copy with the contents in the data, not resource fork[1]. It smells like an API problem; the wrong method is being used to read the file by these other programs (like grabbing a pointer to a symbolic link instead of grabbing what it points to), but I don't write software for OSX, so does anyone know the specifics of why this design was chosen for fonts and other resources vs. storing the data in the actual part of the file that other programs would expect to to reside?

[1] I'm basing this statement only on the author's description of what happened. I do not own a Mac, myself.
We have it in my neighborhood. And, like, twice a week I'll get notices about how I can join a citizen police academy... and that's pretty much it.

It's a great idea, though, and could work better if anybody in my neighborhood (including me) was remotely social.
Seems to be popular in various parts of California where home ownership is high. It is also seems to be a haven for the "worst" type of neighbors who like to complain about everything and might be slightly racist. See "The Jerks Nextdoor" for a good overview of what happens way too often on the site: https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/jerks-nextdoor/content...

Edit: splat brought up a good point. A lot of municipalities are using it as an "official" communications platform.
I don't think that's right at all. Nextdoor is very popular outside of tech circles.
If you're so willing for him not to amass this much fortune and wield that amount of power, simply boycott his companies and stop supporting him with your devices. After all, Zuckerberg doesn't run or own any monopoly natural or not to find it difficult or practically impossible not to give him your money or time currency.
> I don't know about other districts, but we weren't voting on the sentence. The judge would do that later.

The one time I was called to jury duty, the judge told us the same. We're not doing the sentencing. We're just there to decide if the evidence shown should render a guilty verdict.

But I found that to be sort of a half-truth. Sure, we are not giving the actual sentence. But if I give a man a guilty verdict, I can't really pretend that I had nothing to do with his sentence.

If I know someone is likely to burn down a house, and I give him a match, how can I pretend to not have anything to do with the house burning down? I knew it was likely going to happen. Likewise, if I know the judge is likely to send someone to jail for 30 years, how can I pretend to not have anything to do with it if I render a guilty verdict? My verdict gives the judge the ability to sentence, just like my hypothetical match gave the hypothetical psycho the ability to burn down the house.
I think if his foundation wasn't accompanied by a multiple page long self-aggrandizing commitment to charity people would simply appreciate and not scrutinize. But in particular we have a model for what it looks like when a tech billionaire tries to donate his time and money to do something good for the world instead of building widgets and does it very well: the Gates foundation.

And his previous "public works" attempt was a lobbying group for "immigration reform" that claimed to try to make life better for vast swaths of people and yet was simply a front to lobby the government to let tech businesses exploit immigrant slave labor more effectively. Accompanied by a similar impassioned speech about doing good works. Most of the lobbying was in the form of pretty despicable character assassination.

In particular he takes jabs at the Gates foundation for not lobbying for example. The Gates foundation is enormously successful and Zuckerberg hasn't accomplished anything. Right now all he's done is set up a company that he has control over and promised "guys, I'll give this money to 'charity' however I define it at my discretion whatever that means".

I'm hopeful and at its face I think it's a wonderful thing he's pledged to do but I think it's a bit premature to fall all over ourselves thanking him for reorganizing his finances because that's all he's really done so far.
Looking on their site it looks like the player requires flash.
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It sounds like it's more a they can't correctly load without knowing the true weights of the containers, and no doubt more than a few companies that are filling them lie about the weight.
I had such high hopes for Nextdoor, but it's basically useless for anything other than racist rants and pleas for help finding lost keys/dogs/cats.
Given the unfortunate way fd_set apparently got imported, how else would you do this? The only alternative I see is to throw UnsafeMutablePointer at it, but that brings in the ugly specter of undefined behavior. Note that in Swift you cannot use a variable to address a tuple, so there's no way to use intOffset to access the corresponding field of set.__fds_bits.
That doesn't surprise me. I grew up (non-white, children of recent immigrants) in a white-flight created midwest suburb. For obvious reasons, they didn't teach us about white flight in school. I learned about it from white adults in the community who did leave the city for racially motivated reasons.
> to suspect him of making some false claim when that cannot even be remotely verified until after he is dead...

That's exactly the point. Why does Zuck make huge claims when not a single cent has changed hands yet. Fuck this PR campaign.

Just to make it clear: I wouldn't mind if he kept the money for himself and invested it for profit as any good capitalist would. But if you open your mouth to make a claim then you need to follow trough in a credible way.
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5% more efficient with a 2,000 calorie diet is 100 calories per day. That's about 10 extra pounds worth of calories per year.
I'm not so sure that these are abuse. For instance, (2) is effectively an escrow service, hotels and a few other types of service use this quite effectively. I honestly wish restaurants would also just auth an extra 20% on my purchase in escrow and settle the actual tip amount later, and similarly bar tabs.

In (3) its also sort of an escrow service, but not really.

Similarly, this is why merchant processors are required for a lot of companies to do business over credit networks. They too hold money for some N days before it is released to a merchant (after clearing) - as escrow to the card issuers in the case of chargebacks and other fraud.
In the US at least, Congressional approval ratings would suggest otherwise. Currently they clock in at a hot 13% "approve": http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_...
Because "communism" is a four-letter-word in most of America.
No, there's no native Youtube WP app, and "decent" maps don't come anywhere close to detail available through Google maps. Amazon devices don't support the official Youtube app either, nor do they support Google Maps.
I've been really interested in doing something like this. I want to improve my home streaming setup, trying to work in multiple web cameras and game perspectives, while co-broadcasting to Youtube and Twitch.

I've tried a few things, right now I have my dedicated home server acting as a RTMP relay for my webcam to stream into my 2nd PC where my girlfriend is playing games / streaming, but the latency is unbearable and my video is 5-10s behind what I'm saying.

Was hoping this could be a solution, but it doesn't look like it. I don't like the pricing model, and the video player STILL requires flash.
There's already a repl?
We built something similar with Up.js [0].
Rather than wrapping some responses in JSON, Up.js doesn't require any server-side changes. Fragments are selected client-side via CSS selectors.

0: http://upjs.io/
This is a very cool insight for the uninitiated. Thanks.
Here's a full blown application server as well. https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect
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Comments like this piss me off so much. The article was about the role of gut microbes in weight loss, and you're here preaching diet advice that has nothing to do with the article.
I read another Wolfram blog post where he answered those criticisms. http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/05/living-a-paradigm-shi...

I don't think Bell's theorem raises a problem in either LQG and CDT because they have the traditional quantum theory built into them. They are not deterministic theories like Wolfram's. Bell's theorem discounts the possibility of quantum (as it is observed) if there were no long range connections defying locality.
Your narrowly crafted argument is the proper response, but this guy made an empirically testable statement relevant to the sciences. You might not have clicked his profile, but he's also a PhD student of the sciences, meaning he has institutional access.

You won't find adequate empirical backing on personality change over the lifespan, because the ecology of the evidence suggests that personality is stable. Disciplined speech is difficult and worthy.
Someone else here points out that a MITM to Let's Encrypt could cause you to host someone else's ownership challenge for the domain, thus the attacker could use you to prove the attacker controls your domain name.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10678557
There was a significant amount of flattening in the initial digital rollout, between SLC-96 and 5ESS remotes (GTD5 and DMS all have similar constructs) they did eliminate some very very small suburban offices. But there was not really another round of office consolidations after the last big round of mergers - with the replacement of the legacy TDM hardware with newer soft switches however this is happening.

This article however touches on an issue unique to Verizon, which is they're letting their copper plant rot in the field, as a way to force customers off of it (the railroads did much the same thing with passenger service in the early 50's) when Frontier has bought a former GTE/Verizon area, they usually have to hire a bunch more in the way of field techs, and spend millions on OSP upgrades and repairs - to the point that additional FiOS expansion in the immediate future is unfeasible due to cost.

The future is going to have a mix of wireline and wireless - and some of it will still be copper, I still believe the best architecture for the future is FTTN (fiber to the node) with a node every block (or 3-400 yards) allowing for sub 1000 ft loops. I still think this offers the best price/performance ratio.
Absolutely. Two days ago (before the open source announcement), I begrudgingly started learning Swift for a school project in iOS development. Now I'm itching to dive into the language.
Lots of cool projects around secrets lately:

* Vault (by Hashicorp) [go] https://hashicorp.com/blog/vault.html

* Confidant (by Lyft) [Python] https://eng.lyft.com/announcing-confidant-an-open-source-sec...

* Keywhiz (by Sqaure) [Java] https://square.github.io/keywhiz/
> Wrong. Calorie surplus is neither necessary for nor a guarantee of fat gain.

I was excluding exercise from my (admittedly) very simplistic rule of thumb of weight gain. You seem to have a general understanding of nutrition, so I would say to you that it is absolutely disingenuous to those who don't have that understanding to say that calorie surplus != fat gain. It's a general rule, and it applies to the majority of people.

> Why is that disconcerting?

It's disconcerting in the same way that liposuction is disconcerting. You could make very similar arguments about liposuction as you did about gut engineering: if it improves health, then it's a good thing. But at the end of the day, it doesn't address the issue of being able to control what you do with your body in the interest of your health. Getting too fat? Just reset your gut bacteria, regardless of what other unknown hormone changes it will have. It's ridiculous.
A lot of problems here. (1) "This study shows that all kids can learn math when taught effectively". Well, as the definition of "teaching effectively" is that students learn from it, this observation really isn't all that startling. We could do a similar study to prove that all children arrive at school when driven there. What would be startling would be if the same technique worked equally well with all students (and this one won't). (2) Ah, it wouldn't be a paper about educational techniquese without some Gladwelling (which I define as using a vastly over-simplified and facile interpretation of scientific findings in order to advance a puerile generalization). Yes, research shows that connections in the brain are modified when learning. It would be shocking if learning didn't have an effect on the brain. By FMRIs and other imaging is far,far too blunt to detail what is happening in any useful detail. Taking a scientific finding that "people seem to use these particular areas of the brain when learning" as justification for an entire philosophy of pedagogy is absurd. And, for the umpteenth time --- multiplying two numbers is no more "Mathematics" than learning how to drive a screw is "Mechanical Engineering". And encouraging children to explore driving a screw with a hammer, a pair of pliers, their teeth, a teammate and then having them do a class presentation on their findings does not help them in their later careers as mechanics. Far better to show them the most effective technique, let them practice it, and move on. "Exploration" learning is only effective when applied to skills that already have mental infrastructure provided by evolution. You learn your first language by exploration. You learn to walk by exploration. Riding bikes and mathematics were never evolutionarily selected for, so we have to learn them by, well, learning them.