skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the two of you are using slightly different definitions of "meritocratic". Yummifajitas means "who's better", whereas you mean "who's potentially better".

I think both are using "who is better", the problem is that there "who is better" is very vague: better in what way?

Claims to "meritocracy" only have substantial meaning with a concrete definition of "merit", and while yummyfajitas is happy to assert that but for AA college admissions process are certainly meritocratic, there is no identification of the merit that the combination of measures used is supposedly assessing, against which one could evaluate the claim that using those measures without considering race is, in fact, meritocratic.
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That does seem to be the implication. Personally, however, I disagree. I'm an atheist, and I still find wonder in the things that science explains, and I've always assumed that that feeling of wonder is along the lines of what religious people feel.

I'm also certain that I could (and have successfully) argue the point that religion and divinity and a relationship with god are in no way affected by scientific knowledge, regardless of what some fraction of very religious folks would have you think (I do not mean that I could argue successfully with that particular fraction - just those who are on the fence on the matter).
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Yes indeed. Apparently, he was the hardest working player in the league [1], to which the book attributes to his greatness, and longevity.

[1] http://thegameology.blogspot.com/2010/11/game-training-compi...
Ignorant westerners have been drinking tea for hundreds of years. I don't think it counts as foreign food anymore.
To think of finance (or more specifically, trading/investing) as well as financial products/derivatives as a zero-sum game is pretty naive.

A simple example to illustrate my point:

Let's say we have a corn farmer whose crops will come in 4 months. He can buy (or sell) futures contracts/options contracts to guarantee that he can sell his corn for today's market price, in case the price of corn goes down. If the price of corn is up in those 4 months, he can let the contract expire worthless. If the price goes up, he loses the $ he paid for the option contract and some trader (whose job it is to take the other side of the position and manage that risk) profits. But, he is happy to have that insurance despite losing money on that "trade". Financial services extend far outside of the financial sector and benefits people broadly.

Though for each individual trade, it might seem like a zero-sum game, the competition between investors and traders allows for efficient capital allocation and risk management outside of the financial sector. Without financial services, everyone would be exposed to unmanageable risk and volatility which is inherently bad for capitalism.
>grammar in most human languages is not the most computationally efficient way of structuring sentences

Grammar in most human languages is structured to be information-theoretically efficient, which often winds up being vague, ambiguous, and context-dependent. It's basically a time-space trade-off for statistical inference.
Case in point: PADD -> iPad.
The Truth Campaign and the War of Ideas: 'Un-Selling' the Islamic State
The main problem is power. There's no way to project light into the retina without power, and it's difficult to get power to the lens without using wires. Induction is promising, but the falloff is dramatic. Meaning your inductive power generator would have to be pretty much on top of your eyes for it to power your contacts.

Glasses plus contacts might be a good idea. The generator could sit on the frames. The contacts would allow you to use a small amount of light to get the same effect as an Oculus, which means much smaller power requirements.

Still, to project light, you need some way of projecting light. It's hard to imagine something that can be embedded into a contact lens which is also transparent. And if it's not transparent, it's not really augmented reality.

Fun to imagine. Hopefully someone will come up with something.
stupid question: isn't this bad if your eyes are constantly focusing on something so close to you?
The money flowing into Augmented Reality in general isn't so much about 'augmented reality' as a thing today so much as it's a big audacious bet on it being the next wave of technology that replaces mobile phones.
If you're aiming for the musician market, I'm 100% sure you're wrong.

There's some basic algo-comp in Logic and Ableton already. But generally, musicians really hate the idea of having a machine writing all of their music for them.

This even applies to musicians who only work with loops, and to DJs who only work with complete tracks.

I think there are business models for algo-comp, but this isn't the best one. I'm not sure JukeDeck is necessarily heading for the deadpool, but it's maybe 50:50 at best.

Also, the production values on good stock music are very high - higher than here. Try https://www.shockwave-sound.com/ for some examples.

I think JukeDeck isn't quite up to the lowest quality tracks on there, and it's a very long way short of the better tracks.
You do have to have sealant re-applied periodically.
This isn't a JDBC driver since RethinkDB isn't a SQL database, but it fulfills the same role as a JDBC driver.

In addition, RethinkDB doesn't have a textual query language, it's structured data, so the bare driver looks a lot like an ORM
It certainly is a morbid round of funding. But seems like they have a lot of current and future value. Reminds me of the time when DST invested in Facebook and I thought these guys are out of their mind. But if I look back, they are of course much smarter bunch who knows how much they will get back. Similarly many are in it for its potential technology and many are in it for the returns and they all know what they will get.
It's even sadder that you need to draw an absurd comparison to the imaginary instance of retarded people attempting break into nuclear physics in order to frame a discussion about the very real implications of race, socioeconomic status, affirmative action and educational achievement.

Is it your implication that society shouldn't care about performance gaps between segments of the population because those other segments are incorrigible? Much like retards trying to perform nuclear physics, right?
Is T-mobile intercepting DNS?
the Anabaptist tradition has lasted about 5 centuries, not by using force, but by being willing to inspire others by facing death courageously (when persecution is targeted and limited), or by fleeing en masse (when persecution is structural and absolute).
Slightly but you get used to it quickly. It also depends on how good a job your dentist does, there will be high spots that need to be ground down.
The article is missing the forest for the trees. It assumes morality is relative. Morality is the product of the intersection of narrative and mythology on a group. Morality is the story a particular group (or civilization) is enacting: the program they're executing. All groups hold myths. Even atheist groups hold myths. They just think their myths are just "the world" or "reality" or "how we got here". Civilizations that have (generally) nurturing, curious, equanimous, generative, cooperative myths survive and grow. Civilizations that have (generally) destructive, punitive, insular, judging, self-righteous, and violent myths don't.
Product Designer for Chronograf here.

We're currently filling in the basics of what we believe to be a strong dashboard tool, that it makes it easy to build queries, create graphs and put them in a dashboard in less than 15 min.

We're at 0.3 and still implementing basic features. Where we differ in product is our approach. We see dashboarding, and building graphs as a design problem. What are the issues we're trying to solve? How can we solve them better?

Main differentiation right now is the query builder which makes it easy to prototype influxql queries and see data. Also, our dashboard user flow is pretty quick to go from no graphs to full dash. We will add more visualization options later. Right now, it's a really good tool for mvping a dashboard.

We're still figuring out the next steps, like more features and functionality to make it a more complete tool. My main concern is if we're solving the right problem for the right user.

If you'd like to give us your thoughts as a user of dashboards we'd love to hear from you.

Email us at Chronograf@influxdata.com
Yes the good old days where you actually had to show the patent office a physical working model which cutout alot of these pie-in-the-sky patents.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10700848
Screw the market. Personally, I don't care if this even sells (to make the general population buy it, they'll have to invent most silly possible applications imaginable). The question is - does it really work as advertised? Both Magic Leap and HoloLens look way beyond the state-of-the-art, I'm still not convinced that what they show us isn't just plain marketing fabrication.
British don't drink that much tea comparing to, say, Poles or Russians, which was a surprise, since english books stereotype British as massive tea drinkers.

My ideal tea is Earl Gray with lemon. Put a teabag in a cup with a tiny slice of lemon (DO NOT peel off the skin, it's blasphemy). Pour boiling water into the cup, wait 15 seconds, squeeze the teabag and lemon with a spoon and chuck them. Good luck :)

You don't have to warm up the cup, just pour the boiling water straight away. When water reaches tea it has around 95°C (204F).

Tea from warm water is indeed disgusting. Not a big fan of tea with milk, although it work with Chai(especially Chai on milk).

PS never use sugar!
> Which features from 0.8 aren't there?

For me, the lack of HISTOGRAM and DIFFERENCE have actually stopped me doing things I wanted to do.

Obviously, JOIN isn't there either, although that hasn't been an issue for me. :)
It means their results are utter and complete bullshit and that their "rankings" shouldn't even be considered as anything close to any kind of credible research.

It's so silly, it's sad.
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merely exposing your own feelings. (Is that what you meant?)

Yes, in that case it is. Facebook is forcing us to stare in a mirror of our own mistakes and failings. We should fix them and not avoid them. Unfortunately the mirror is crooked. It only shows the apparent best features of a person, and it doesn't tell who are we supposed to compare to. There are always people who are (or appear) more successful; Facebook makes them visible to anyone as if they were the average case and not the rarity, what they really are.
Maybe nothing more than the pleasure and value of her company (and share her wealth), just someone who wanted a mate and bluffed about his accomplishments.

The same con that spouses around the world play.
FTA: "Self-reported declines in health, mental health, and ability to conduct activities of daily living, and increases in chronic pain and inability to work, as well as clinically measured deteriorations in liver function, all point to growing distress in this population."

So middle aged Americans who are not Hispanic are under a lot of pressures, many of which are causing deterioration of their health. This deterioration is likely linked to alcohol and drug consumption in many cases-- clear indicators of poor mental health, for the most part.

How much do you guys wanna bet that sky-high healthcare costs and poor economic conditions are the biggest factors in punishing this group? These negative properties of our society have real consequences...
We don't want Haskell. We don't want Rust. We don't want any of the current top twenty. We want Go-ish. We want the wonderful stuff that Go does have, but we want a few more high level features too.

I suppose once that language comes along we can stop our constant whining ;-)
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Quantum annealing could "potentially" provide a speedup for any optimization problem that can be reduced to a spin Ising form, particularly quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO).

Notice the emphasis on potentially, though. This paper only shows that 1) for a particular class of problems the quantum annealer has constant speedup over one current classical algorithms, and 2) the quantum annealer scales better for number partitioning than a few current classical algorithms.
Civilizations that have (generally) destructive, punitive, insular, judging, self-righteous, and violent myths don't.

This seems to be the opposite of history. Until recently, violence was one of the only ways for any civilization to persist. The advent of nuclear weapons changed that somewhat (but not if civilizations begin to use them). And most of the myths of a civilization seem to be a byproduct of their actions.
I have seen a variety of opinions on whether to use water just off the boil, or slightly cooler water to brew tea. The Royal Society of Chemistry released a guide to make the perfect cup of tea:

http://www.academiaobscura.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RS...

They recommend using boiling water as well. Harold McGee's Keys to Good Cooking recommends water just off the boil for black tea, but cooler water for oolong and green teas.
Perhaps in future technology will advance tot he point that we can give you an empathy transplant, and you'll realize how glaringly obvious your rhetorical fallacies are to others. Most people would agree that 'merit' is not a scalar quality best measured by mathematical ability, notwithstanding your enjoyable position at the extreme right of that distribution.

Even in quantitative endeavors, we do not magically have access to inherently reliable objective measures. The example I use to remind myself of this is a childhood friend whom I consistently outscored over a period of several years in language, math and other subjects - but who could consistently beat me in a wide variety of pure-strategy board games. Unfortunately the standardized testing regime we grew up with was no good at measuring things like strategic ability, and so he ended up being relegated to a 'lower' academic stream and discouraged from pursuing a university education.

Had we grown up in a country where chess ability is more highly valued (as a competitive endeavor as in the US, or as a proxy for strategic ability as it is in Russia), then his academic and/or career prospects might have been very different. but in a system where strategic ability is not selected for, he was classified as below average and no doubt enjoyed fewer opportunities as a result. Between one person who is better at calculus and another that's better at chess, which is more meritorious?
Dynamic doesn't necessarily mean "random". A game with dynamic music could still have a set of common themes. Good composers can blend themes together and make variations on a theme for any mood. There's no fundamental reason dynamic music couldn't be every bit as good, musically, as pre-composed music.
There will eventually be more up to date numbers -- we can only ask so much of Soumith's time. In addition, getting on par with cudnnv2 is just the first step. cudnnv3/v4 and cuda7.5 are next up.
very clever name choice.
I just watched the video linked above. I'd love to see their response to this, as well as looking at a comparison between hash tables with SipHash vs. hash tables with a faster hash and better collision handling scheme, both being attacked.
options(digits = 3) is our friend. :-)

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Also I should have said, "nice simulation!" instead of just nitpicking.
A Sketch of the History of Truth in Teaching (1973) [pdf]
I have one, it's pretty awesome. Get 30% off - use FESTIVE at checkout.
Open-source Robot Operating System (ROS) is “growing faster than ever”
The original public release was great to identify many potential installation issues that we couldn't possibly test ahead of time -- hopefully this next upcoming release will address some of your issues.

Otherwise, please file an issue at github and we'll do our best to help!
I can't speak for JGroups (definitely going to check that out tonight), but spread and Vsync/ISIS both struck me as perfect examples of the meme of poor quality academic code.

Spread is an #ifdef soup containing scary stuff like "#ifndef _REENTRANT" in their hello world examples. Additionally it has a weird not quite BSD licence that doesn't look compatible with the GPL. It also makes you send them either an ssh key to checkout from subversion, or send them email/name/company info just to get the download link working.

Vsync/ISIS is a single 50KLOC C# file that spawns upwards of a dozen threads on init.

IMHO there's room for someone with more of a software engineering background to come in and clean them up (assuming that this person/group knows enough about distributed systems to clear things up without introducing more problems).
Microsoft region-lock languages on the Xbox, too.

https://xbox.uservoice.com/forums/253802-home-settings/sugge...
Since "myth" has massive connotations of "it isn't true", I'd sooner use "worldview" for what you're speaking of. (Or "Weltanschauung" if you don't mind being hard to spell in English.)
Imagination.
> "MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, or Hadoop"

Adding Hadoop in the mix tells me he doesn't know what a NoSQL is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10700128
Now that I think of it - I think this article itself is a great example of a short con.

You start reading it, convinced that it's an interesting story about how easy we humans are convinced of falsehood by a good tale told by a very small portion of the population who are excellent liars and exploitative criminals.

All of a sudden, the topic is deftly repointed to the subject of religion, something that the current global majority does not believe is a lie.

And I didn't even realize it until about 30 mins after I read it!

Very well done.
Compartmentalization, as runjake mentioned below, is key.

I worked at Microsoft during the development of Windows 8 (disclaimer: I no longer work there, and only speak for myself here). Certain "secret" features were not available in the "default" OS configuration until shortly before they were announced. Access was restricted only to those who needed it, and only then with manager (or, I believe at one point, director) approval. If you had access, you were under strict instructions to only enable the features when nobody else was around.

Artifacts from this process are probably what resulted in the "workaround" in the Developer Preview build [0] to revert back to the classic start menu.

Similarly, with the Surface, much of the company was in the dark until the official announcement. Some of the lengths they went to in order to keep it secret, included only a few executives knowing and trying to avoid ordering multiple parts from the same vendor [1]. The team worked in a vault-style building where one door had to close before the other would open [2].

There's also the giant "fear of being sued or prosecuted" thing. Big companies can afford good lawyers, your average employee probably cannot. Hell, Win8 was released over 3 years ago, I no longer work at Microsoft, yet I've still gone back and triple-checked this post to make sure I'm not disclosing anything about it that's not well-known to the public.

[0] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/balsharfi/archive/2011/11/04/metro-s...

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/28/technology/mobile/microsoft-...

[2] http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/how-m...
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Thanks. OMG. What a mess.

It looks like a system of whatever works and not upsetting an apple cart.
You could cut the taxes in half, and they'd still seek out tax havens. Don't capitulate to their demands. Cut off the ability send money to the tax havens.
Who are the macho men who manhandled a professor?

Here's a crazy stereotype. I'm willing to risk the downvotes just to say it:

The football jocks from high school are the ones who become FBI agents. Of course, they'll always resent the nerdy Asians who got better grades.
Yeah, fortunately nothing like that is going on with Python.

P.S. That was intended as VERY light-hearted ribbing, not as a snide remark.
Marshall McLuhan suggests an alternative theory as to the primary motivation of violence. He claims that violence is a quest for identity:

>"All forms of violence are a quest for identity. When you live out on the frontier you have no identity, you're a nobody. Therefore you get very tough. You have to prove that you are somebody. And so you become very violent. And so identity is always accompanied by violence. Ordinary people find the need for violence as they lose their identities. And so it is only the threat to peoples identities that makes them violent. Terrorists, hijackers, these are people minus identity. They are determined to make it somehow. To get coverage, to get noticed."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvATW2nfYZg

McLuhan defines violence very broadly, in the sense that violence means to violate boundaries. Thus he describes giving birth as violence in which the original identity is given to the individual.

Whether it is a political party, nation-state, or terrorist who uses violence, in some way or another they are seeking to establish or defend their identity. The electric media being a catalyst in all of this:

>"Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction."

-Letter to Clare Westcott, November 26 1975.

So, the nation-state that has a nostalgia for the "old days" and "standing for freedom" (implying a lack thereof) seeks identity through violence by invading countries "for freedom" and commits other acts of violence to "make country x great again".

Likewise the terrorist who feels their identity threatened, be it religious or sociopolitical, may seek to reestablish their identity through violence. McLuhan also notes the major role mass media outlets play in awarding terrorists and mass murders the identity they so desperately seek via 24/7 coverage and rumination.

>"Terrorism is an invention in which any two-armed people can take over an entire industry, namely television, with the eager cooperation of its owners. Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity."

-Marshall McLuhan, as quoted by Tom Wolfe
The problem is that Airbnb has about two thousand employees, all of whom for the most part, are on the cusp of getting a very nice payout from an IPO. So I would say company vigor and enthusiasm is at peak levels.

Google on the other hand has like 60,000 employees and IPO'd over a decade ago. It almost goes without saying that, as a large, more mature company it's a lot harder to keep employees happy.

So... not really a fair comparison IMO.
Interesting that he advocates MySQL. PostgreSQL can index and interact with the JSON stored in it's columns, which make it a better choice as a NoSQL replacement.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-json.html
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MySQL is great and all, but if you want a better database that is considerably more powerful and supports NoSQL type scenarios: PostgreSQL. The fact that Postgres has supported working with JSON like key/value store data for a while now and it is quite decent, as well as giving you other options if you decide you want the traditional approach of tables.