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13th of August this year I got the following email

>We're excited to share with you that Niantic Labs - the creator of Ingress and Field Trip - is becoming an independent company. You can read more about the announcement here. We’re looking forward to taking our unique blend of exploration and fun to even bigger audiences. More details coming soon.

To prevent any disruption in your gameplay, Google will transfer to Niantic Labs certain data that you agreed to share with Google for the Ingress app under the Google Privacy Policy, specifically gameplay information and your email address.

Accordingly, we are providing you this notice that this information will transfer to Niantic Labs thirty days from August 12th, 2015.
If you do not wish to have this personal information transferred to Niantic Labs, please follow the steps at www.ingress.com/optout.

Please note that if you select “No” all your Ingress app data, including Achievement History, Game Progression and other Account information, will be deleted on or before September 11, 2015 and cannot be restored.

The name and contact information for the new company are as follows:
Niantic, Inc.
Email: transfer@nianticlabs.com
Well, he was also 72 years old. I'll be happy if I can even swim at all if/when I'm that age!
He could try working as a freelancer, on websites like Elance/Upwork or something and make some money. Then he could use that money move out of the homeless shelter and then look for a decent job.
I see no mention of a crime in this article. If he did create bitcoin, he should be celebrated.
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Once again, you have a journalist ruining a person's life by claiming they created BitCoin.

Wired better be able to back it up.
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Very much not in their best interests; pokemon games are responsible for a large percentage of the sales of the handhelds they appear on.
Amazon say in their documentation that you should design your Lambda functions to be stateless and thread safe.
Energy Innovation: Why We Need It and How to Get It by Bill Gates [pdf]
A Nice Cup of Tea by George Orwell (1946)
> Using language, on the other hand, requires us to really think.

I'm not sure I agree, not entirely at least. "Thinking while speaking" is something I associate to speaking a second language that you don't really master. Then you really think in one language, think about the translation, and speak. If I speak in my native language or in English, I don't think about the words I'm saying or about how I'm using the language, there's a much bigger component of instinct and thoughts can be much more impulsive.
Yeah I agree it's not 100% parallel (that's why I took it out of your quote)

We kinda ignore mistakes when they don't clash with our heuristics (nobody reads every word, especially stop words)

You can see how people make mistakes by writing the way the words sound rather than constructing the phrase (and this happens accidentally as well, not because the person doesn't know the right words)
We have a legacy app that runs on Mongo. For MI/BI reasons we implemented pretty much the same thing about 18 months ago, first with Citus DB's excellent mongo_fdw and then with Stripe's mosql.

That application is currently being rewritten on top of PostgreSQL.
Existing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701785
When I was hired for my role as an SRE at http://imvu.com/ I had approximately zero savings. They were unable or unwilling to give me cash for my relocation bonus before my first employed day, but they were willing to pay for various moving expenses directly, renting me a moving van, paying for a hotel partway, renting a storage unit, and while I stayed on a friend's couch while looking for an apartment, I have heard of them paying for hotel accommodations for new hires while they were looking for housing before they received their relocation bonus or first paycheck. It's not uncommon at all, just be up-front and ask for it when discussing compensation and signing terms.
That's not what they did. They embedded targeted ads that respected your privacy, by having all targeting done client side and not sending information about you back to the server.

That the general public doesn't care about that is one thing, that all the people crtizising them here don't seem to care is another.
I'm also working mostly in Java recently, and our project has a small amount of Scala (left over form and engineer long since gone). I am finding it really hard, on the rare occasions when I need to work on the Scala part, to get my head around it. I know I need a week or two to "get" Scala - but I just can't justify the time.
I worked at a Taco Bell. The meat came in a bag and it was grey. Mostly bones I guess.
Its upsetting News international who have been lobbying to hobble BT
this;

should do nothing (inside a class method) ;)
> If you don't have a cut-off, basic income can never work in America.

If it has a cut off, its not basic income, its a means-tested welfare program. We've got those already.

And there's absolutely no validity to the "in America" here. There's nothing inherent about America that makes it different here. A low level BI that doesn't replace all means-tested programs (particularly not Medicaid) or retirement and disability programs, but maybe displaces GA and SNAP is more plausible in the near term.
I'm not sure where you get the 50% of Americans' minds figure, but lets focus on your second statement.

I just want to clarify what you are referring to as the "dealth cult" as I think it could be taken multiple ways, as "Islam" is a death cult or "Jihadists" are a death cult, or other.

Further to that, what are the constitutional benefits accorded to religions? I'm not American, so I really don't know. I thought the idea was that politics and religion are separated, so the constitution, I thought, doesn't involve religion at all. But I guess you also have the whole abortion/gay marriage/etc stuff, so maybe religion is in the constitution...
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...if only S. Wolfram would finally have the most obvious insight that he's totally missing:

Open-source it! The only programming languages that will ever succeed from now on will be the open source ones. Yeah, he can keep special-purpose libraries closed-source. And the server-software behind Wolfram. Maybe even the Mathematica GUI if he also offers a free "community version" or something on the side. But otherwise this will just not work. But the core language and core engine must be open-source with a liberal MIT or BSD license for it to ever grow an ecosystem around it.

Even Microsoft gets it now (with C# and many other stuff)! Apple also gets this with Swift! Typesafe gets it with Scala. Even Oracle partially got it in a twisted way, by allowing things like OpenJDK to exist!

Really, Mathematica and Wolfram seem wonderful tools, but probably as many as 10x the number of paying users would start to use them and contribute to their development (and most of them would also pay for "pro versions",trust me), if only they had an open-source core...

But it's probably too late and any future scientific computing platform will be built around Python and Julia and all the great work done by Wolfram Software will simply be forgotten because they simply don't grok how "business growth" and "software ecosystems" work in the 21st century...
Don't rush us into the next big data disaster
Sure.

And at one point people just wanted IE compatibility for their webpages to load.

If you accept that targeted ads are a part of the web eco system, then its absolutely within the remit of Mozillas mission to explore how to serve targeted ads while respecting privacy.
Tax-related investigation
And you know exactly how google, bing et al handle this situation.
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err No a temporary redirect is not the same as a permmenat one
It will be good to know how resource hungry Ubuntu Touch OS is. That's one problem with Android. It requires a Hexa Core processor and 3GB RAM for super smooth performance. Almost all flagship Android devices have heating issues and they seem to need much bigger batteries than iOS devices.
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In system dynamic you can divide a problem in simple (with a finite number of solution) and complex (with an infinite, fractal shaped, number of solution).

If the problem is "complicated" (a lot of strange, ugly, non analytic equation)but simple you can roughly cut the solution space by hand, assuming a small number of solution.

If the problem is complex all you can do is looking for cycle and equilibrium point using your intuition about the system or being lucky and find a strage attractor (chaotic behavior) slightly moving the parameter.

So, yes, I was to quick writing my reply, you can definitely model the n-body problem, exactly solve it is another beast, check a solution however is still relatively easy...
Religious flamewars are not allowed on Hacker News. You have also posted many unsubstantive comments. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
I was going to put some thought into a response, but I read your reply again and it's just too full of vitriol and angst for me to know where to begin.

Comparing a reasonably widely-held, studied, and written-about economic model to the flat earth society? You give me nothing to go on here. Perhaps you're young and haven't read much yet - I don't know. I suggest a history of economics course in college.

As for your very first question: the government's interests aren't terribly hard to identify, especially in the case of the USA, where the government is a hegemonic empire. It seeks to enrich its corporate sponsors, expand its capacity to exact violence against its detractors, and find equilibrium in its body politic via panem et circenses. It's reasonably transparent I think.

As for your slippery slope bit about being able to sell unlabeled arsenic: I like what works. The current system clearly isn't working for most people for most purposes. My understanding is that drug overdoses were at record lows during the period after the Pure Food and Drug Act but before drug prohibition. I take this, and other data like it, as evidence that this configuration is a decent balance.
The problem here is not a shelter but a previous criminal records.

+1 for freelancing idea, it might actually work if there are security jobs. But I think security in it's nature is something that needs assurance that person is capable of auditing the system.
I have friends who work for Amazon (AWS). When relocation was discussed, they were just cut a check for the expected costs (and then some).
I'm not saying they didn't make mistakes in the way they did this. If they had introduced a MozAdNetwork for websites that respects your privacy, they would not have faced that backlash in all likelihood.
> What's probably happening here is there are company-selected vacation days being left out of the number.

The first source I linked provides actual averages for paid holidays, paid vacation, and paid sick leave.

10 paid vacation days is dead average for professional, technical, and related employees -- with only one year of service, and low for such employees with more service.
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At the same time, there are a lot of employees suing companies "just because", so the feeling has some justification.
Thanks for the clear train of thought. It took me years to realize this, but I was 16 when CFS took me down for almost 15 years: Not the age that you are trained already to think through independently. Being a patient brings a special role-model that forces you to be still, at home, quiet and dependent. I call that the 'ideal patient', it makes you a psychological mess. So yes, this is a result from a physical illness.

On the one hand: I found, after 10 years, that dry air on mountaintops really helped me, so we moved from the Netherlands to Munich for a dryer climate. It turns out that my joints ache from humid air, the pain makes the muscles stiff, that makes me so tired. Also sleeping did not help, because I get only stiff and sweaty in the wrong climate. In Munich I could finally go to the gym every day to get in better shape. Now I live in the Netherlands again with a huge airco and infra-red heating system in de ceiling. I get healthy with one click on a button now.

On the other hand: There is a study showing that cancer patients that have CFS recover after chemo also from CFS. I had chemo and recovered very well indeed. This indicates that the immune system is involved.

So, I only know now what works best for my personal case. Everything else stays a big question mark.

Since there are a lot of different patient groups taken together under the name of CFS, so it is not clear if my solution will help more people. That's also why there is not one cure for all. There is not one cure for all these different groups, there are a lot of cures, yet to be found, for all these groups. It is best to search for your own 'painkiller', it's for now the only way. This is very hard while being ill in the first place, with all the other worries that come along with chronicle illness. I am glad that I just kept on trying to find a solution, also when all others lost faith (only my husband kept believing in me getting better) and not let others force the idea of me being a 'lazy psychological patient' upon me. I wish you all strength and fortune in your quest for a healthy feeling body.
So where will the AMA happen? Is there already a link up or will it be posted on HN when it starts?
I can only speak from the East-German perspective not Soviet/Russian, things might have been very different over there, but the article paints a too simplistic and too 'business-oriented' Western view and I wouldn't call it a 'revolution' at all.

Here's what changed from the 80's to the 90's from my perspective (as an 80's computer kid):

What became better:

- computers got a whole lot cheaper and easier to buy, the domestic 8-bit computers were astronomically priced, and 'grey imports' like a C64 or Amiga cost as much as an expensive car (and those were expensive) and were completely unreachable unless you had relatives in the West

- since it was suddenly possible to easily get a private phone for everyone, information exchange also got a lot easier (and legal!, e.g. in Eastern Germany, access to copying machines was restricted, owning a computer printer was legal though), information exchange between computer enthusiasts mostly happened via snail mail in the 80's

What was lost:

- the 8-bit computers in the East were mostly about education, there was (nearly) no commercial interest to sell 'gaming computers', and of course we wrote our own games because there was nothing to play on those things. Without being saturated with distractions, there was more motivation to explore and learn how those computers actually work

- shift to very few computer architectures that were successful at that time in the West (at least in Eastern Germany (in the 90's) it was either Amiga or PC, with a few Macs in schools in the 90's). But in 80's Eastern Germany alone, 5 different 8-bit architectures were built, with 9 or 10 different models, none of them a direct clone of western computers (with one exception, a late CPC clone in 1989), other Eastern Bloc countries very likely had the same number of domestically developed computers. Sure, the chips were direct clones (only Z80, no 6502, at least in Eastern-Germany), but the computer architecture and operating systems had a few unique and interesting ideas in them

- before the 90's, copyright simply didn't exist in the East, everything was copied and modified as needed without anyone giving a shit who invented or built it originally, I'd argue that this had overall a positive effect on knowledge exchange, similar to what open source is today

Looking back, I think the 90's were the dark age of computing. The boring (compared to Amiga or Atari) PC had won, Silicon Graphics went down. Nearly all useful software was commercial and expensive. It was only since the mid-2000s after Open Source and Linux had won, that things started to get interesting again.

All IMHO of course :)
Devialet is Bose’s biggest threat
Some caution is warranted.

Always keep in mind that estimating distributions from samples is very hard, in particular for multidimensional and continuous variables. Sometimes even infinite samples do not suffice (I am not kidding).

The good news is that there are interesting and relevant tasks (for example classification) where you do not need to know the distribution to solve the task optimally, although if you somehow managed to do so (find the distribution) you would be able to solve the task optimally. Or more succinctly, knowing the distribution is sufficient but not necessary for such tasks (small mercies)
> If you think this assumption leads to bad outcomes, pick up a tort law book and read the details of historical cases from when an 'anything goes' mentality was predominant.

I studied this to a non-trivial degree in college during undergrad, though of course not on the level of graduate economic theory or anything. My understanding is that the major markers (such as drug overdose) were at record lows following the Pure Food and Drug Act, a relatively non-intrusive measure that required labeling and some rudimentary testing and inspection, but preceding the FDA and drug prohibition and all the rest.

This seems to comport with the world I watch around me.

Am I wrong about this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699847
So is this like a magical piece of paper that lets you travel and work around the world? Wow...

This is not how it works
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"Neuroscientists and psychologists predominantly reject this viewpoint, contending that our comprehension does not result from an internal grammar;"

Fascinating article, highly recommended.
Not trying to be nitpicky but I'm going to need a citation or few to support some of the claims made about "neuroscientists and psychologists"... just saying.
How Google Works

- Gives interesting insights in the healthy values at Google.

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

- Interesting discussions about correct/incorrect interpretations of data/statistics.

Black Hat Python

- Gives short code examples of what can be possible to do.

Programming Collective Intelligence

- Outdated but very inspiring hands on examples of ML in Python
It seems pretty well backed-up. Several leaked emails and deleted blog posts with Wright voluntarily identifying as Nakamoto. Certainly not as cavalier as Newsweek were last year when trying to out that other fellow. That doesn't mean it's not carefully crafted bullshit on his behalf
I work in software in Sweden. We have this system between high school and college called KY-education (short for Qualified Job education, nothing else...). Some of those are quite all right, but I still haven't met anyone that has gone through a KY-education in software development that has ever been hire-material.

Back when I had another profession and was doing programming just for fun, I still knew more about computers and programming than anyone I have met that has gone through one of those programmes. Yes, you can develop android apps, but why does your eyes go blank when you see pointer arithmetic?
Heartbleed showed us that many certificate authorities reissue certificates from the original date they were first issued.
> Now that he's in the NYT

Pedant: the article is in the Seattle Times :-)

> he will probably be OK.

I sure hope so. I always have mixed feelings when I read articles like this. On one hand, things should usually end up going well for the person (assuming they're legitimate) because of the exposure. But, on the other, it's sad to hear of them being in the situation in the first place.
I don't have a bachelor's degree, Asian and already 13 years out of college, now a family man and going back to college to get my degree is not an option (since I'm working to provide for my family), is there a possibility for me to work or start a company in the US?
Leaving fake reviews is damaging Amazon's business model, so why shouldn't they be able to sue?
I can imagine why - seems this will be an interesting legal/ethical question for our society in the next decade.
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I've recently written a page about "averaging" percentiles correctly by approximating the combined histograms of two distributions. This is demonstrated in a live time diagram with logarithmic time axis here:

http://www.siegfried-kettlitz.de/blog/posts/2015/11/28/linlo...

If you have questions or comments, feel free to reply or email.
another article on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693338
I'm not a lawyer but I would guess that there is no reason they need to change it. As long as they're not profiting from the likenesses of the celebrities they're emulating, then the paper is likely to be considered free speech that does not violate their privacy or publicity rights. See the legality of fair-use of someone's likeness. Some states might have different laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome

Mincome was an experimental Canadian basic income project that was held in Dauphin, Manitoba, during the 1970s. It was only half "unconditional", the rest income-dependant, but it did seem to have good effects.
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[Here might be a good start](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_Structures#Criticism...)
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Pokemon Go will not be a replacement for a real pokemon game like you can get on 3DS, but a tablet can run an emulator and play the old gameboy games.
I couldn't find any peer-reviewed publications by the researchers cited in the press releases by speakdolphin.com and cymascape.com - Jack Kassewitz and Jim McDonough et al.

However, I did find several scholarly articles that support the the hypothesis that dolphins seem able to recognize objects based on mental images they have formed via their echolocation sense, as opposed to recognition based on the object's particular texture, material, size, etc "signature". Here is one of them:

"Seeing through sound: dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) perceive the spatial structure of objects through echolocation." Herman LM1, Pack AA, Hoffmann-Kuhnt M.J. Comp Psychol. 1998 Sep; 112(3):292-305. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9770316 PDF:[1].

From the paper's General Discussion section:

"The results also argue strongly that learning to associate particular characteristics of echoes returning from objects with the visual appearance of those objects was not the mechanism through which the dolphin in this study or the Pack and Herman study accomplished the cross-modal matching task (cf. Harley et al., 1996). Rather, the most compelling general explanation for the demonstrated cross-modal ability is that echolocation yields a direct percept of the object, in effect a representation of the object's shape that is analogous to or easily integrated with the percept developed through vision."

"In summary, the results reported here as well as those of Pack and Herman (1995) begin to construct a compelling case for a concept of echo imaging by the dolphin. The dolphin can apparently use returning echoes to construct a representation of an object that preserves the spatial structure of that object, to the extent that representation can be used to directly recognize that same object through the visual sense alone. The very short decision times used by the dolphin suggest that the object percept develops almost immediately and is of an integral whole, rather than limited to the examination and extraction of selected features."

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthias_Hoffmann-Kuhnt...