skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Feynman argued[2] that this shows we do not arise from a random fluctuation, because (even though we're conscious), when we look far away the universe looks highly organized.

Oh that is an interesting and compelling argument I have not heard! Thank you for sharing.
Crash course in Nock (2013)
You are correct:

https://twitter.com/sama/status/664484490060795904

Wow. I remember the 500 mark and how long that took. I thought it would happen in 2016, very surprised the milestone is already passed.
This is a really important perspective. It comes up in all sorts of fields: If your project is too big to fail, nobody wants to cancel it.

Therefore, everyone tries to make their project too big to fail. It doesn't matter whether the organization as a whole benefits.
Freeze-dried poop pills being tested for obesity treatment
Surprised to not see SICP's excellent section on symbolic differentiation not mentioned here: http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/2_002e3.xhtml#g_t2_002...
Page Views or Unique Visitors: What’s More Important? – APPlite
802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved
Isnt walmart pretty famous for paying low spectrum wages ?Foundations are based on avoiding a future tax contribution of your income,unless the inheritance tax is zero i.e unlike Joe public who dosnt have one so your definately spending a very decent amount of other peoples money
I have two things to say.

#1 The submitted article is very good.
#2 I'd add to it, avoid pointer arithmetic when possible. Use array notation instead. Typically the difference in execution speed is zero to nil.
#3 I'd really like a pragma that forces an exception for unchecked return values. Something like

int DoSomeThing(/* whatever*/) #pragma exit "unchecked non_zero"

Meaning if DoSomething() doesn't return zero the program bails.
You can't reliably beat the market. People who say they can are saying so out of some combination of:

1) lying (to others and/or themselves as well)
2) cheating (insider trading, boiler rooms, etc)
3) drawing conclusions from too small of a sample size

Also I also disagree with the statement to not buy individual stocks because others know more than you. It might be true even, it doesn't matter, because it's not the reasons not to buy individual stocks for retirement.

You don't buy individual stocks for retirement because your risk exposure is a lot higher compared to indexes and just riding the market (x10 for every dollar spent like this before taking maximum advantage of tax deferred retirement options).

If you have enough money that you are able and willing to lose some % of it for the chance of better gains, then buy individual stocks with that money (or play in derivatives if you're into stronger risk-seeking behavior). If you are trying to avoid living off of cat food in your winter years, it is far smarter to surrender the marginal chance for larger gains for a very highly likely chance at modest gains. If you don't have a retirement planned out, then every dollar you get towards it needs to be spent with the retirement goal in mind, and for that goal, the risk profile of individual stocks, historically, is prohibitively high.
Actually there is, and its called "docker" :-) . Docker has been ported to FreeBSD using jails https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker
Do you have a counterexample?
Very likely if 292,201,338 took the challenge.

People do win lotteries at times, don't they?
I've never understand that argument either. I suppose it might make a difference if you are constantly (shutting down and) spinning up new instances all day long. Most of my hosts "boot up", at most, two or three times a year, though. An extra 30 seconds is not something that causes me pain.
A Beginner's Guide to Relay Mutations
I'm using fabricjs for annotations as well and it's a great library. The biggest downfall of using canvas as a renderer as opposed to svg is that it doesn't look great if you provide zoom controls. Lovely crisp SVG paths rendered as pixels on a canvas :/
Conal Elliot's paper on the subject is a really good starting point: http://conal.net/papers/beautiful-differentiation/beautiful-...
Nice. Keep working on it. We need a solution. What's your stack?
Whichever way you go, you should not append _t to the end of the name. That's reserved by POSIX. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2...
“My tires have RFID tags in them. Yours probably do also”
> Cross breeding does not induce mutations. Cross breeding mixes genetic code that already exist on the original plants.

And why do you think that genetic code within the same species is different in the first place...?
Raytheon Examines the Technology of Star Wars
I see the issue of specificity, but instead of writing this .search-form { > .submit {} }, wouldn't you write this as .search-form { .submit {} }, and this would compile to .search-form .submit {}? I don't see the issue with nesting itself -- it still seems like the choices of the programmer are at fault in this case?
Where do you see me talk about the "history of something"? Or do you think that "history of something" is the only genre of books?
Interesting, we have always had a system where we contribute to joint expenses in a joint account but otherwise keep our own accounts.

It certainly avoids that situation in the article where the husband is resentful about an amount spent from joint finances.
You can now program the ESP8266 family with the Arduino IDE, in effect giving you a more powerful arduino with built in WiFi. That costs less than $5.
What does the difficulty of life have to do with being an adult, though? Where does this presumption that "adultness" is correlated with "difficulty of life" come from?

Under the same reasoning, those who live in poverty are more adult because life is more challenging difficult for those with fewer resources at their disposal.
Is it really doomsaying when it's occurring at somewhat regular intervals? 1990, 2000, 2007...
Mixpanel Lays Off 18 Employees
One trick I've been using a lot recently that saves me from forgetting to check error codes is the judicious use of __attribute__((__warn_unused_result__)) on functions that return an error code. It prevents you from being able to ignore the return value without doing something with it; even just assigning it to a variable and never checking the value in the variable isn't enough to silence the warning.
still down, and it was down since an hour when I posted..
Oh man I experience totally the opposite. It's a trope on here, but, go to Burning Man. It's almost a definition of a human swarm, but it works specifically because everyone is empowered, informed, and relied on to resolve issues involving themselves.

I also a see a parallel in how (at least one) Japanese company does their robotic assembly line: They have one or more human-operated lines, because if you don't know how to do it well, how can you teach robots how to do it well?

There are lots of reasons you're wrong. One is that the situation you've described still requires someone to understand what the swarm agent needs to do - why not have that be the agent, as well? They have the most up-to-date and relevant information about their situation.

Another reason you're wrong is that "swarm" doesn't consist of insects. The first software swarms were actually birds.

Another reason you're wrong is that while swarms allow for success through mass action of dumb agents, the swarms actually improve as you improve the individual agents - compare the simplest ant-algorithm applied to network connectivity with one wherein the individual agents mutate and learn. Second one does a better job.

...Another reason you're wrong is that swarm agents don't have "paths" picked for them. That would (for example, in ant swarm path finding) actually prevent the swarm processing from occurring. Rather, the agents apply principles (in software, an algorithm) to the situation they're in. In other words, the global plan is in fact relying on the individuals "going off course" and trying to improve the overall situation.

This all actually reminds me of both "Why I Like Java" and "Conservative vs Liberal Programming" - in that it's basically about: Do I prevent bad actors from doing harm, or do I empower good actors to make more good?

If one bricklayer going off-course in detrimental way derails your plan, you don't have enough good bricklayers. Fire the bad ones and/or hire more good ones.
I think it's unlikely that they intend to release the source as they talk about "Partnering for free!" for "licensing", so clearly want to retain some pretty tight rains on the code. "Profit sharing" is a term they throw around a bit too.

Count me out.
C Programmers bragging about writing good C in this thread is just funny. A large majority of new code does NOT need to be written in C. There's nothing extra-ordinary about knowing how to write C. Learn to write HDL if you want to brag.
This Time May Be Different: Today’s Biotech Market in Context
For what it's worth I didn't downvote any of your other comments but I did this one, despite this being the most substantive one in this thread. It feels like you're trying to pick a fight rather than have a useful discussion in the other comments, and in this one pull out a bizarre tangent into the definition of a "man".

Maybe internally you and I and the other commenters all feel the same about equality but with different vocabulary, but the language and framing used here seems likely to have a divisive effect. Rather than letting all of these downvotes cause discouragement participating, hopefully they can help to converge on a useful, non-divisive approach to actually sharing information instead of sticking to what may come across as inflammatory.
How do you handle discovery is it location based or in person like a darknet?
I've been meaning to spin this into a full blog post, but here is the list of criteria that I use to evaluate new ideas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9883697

Naturally, then you need to do all the traditional market validation steps, but this at least filters your ideas down to ones that maybe stand a chance.
Video is quickly moving to https, just like everything else. But that traffic can still be identified and throttled, with the point of the throttling being to get the server to lower the bitrate.

(And how would you identify the traffic? There's a couple of ways I can think of. One is that you can still identify the hostname from the SSL connection, even if you don't get the content type or the URL. Then there's the server IP; you could use any plaintext requests to learn that it's a source of video streaming, and then apply that knowledge to encrypted request. Another possibility are the request / response patterns. For a video stream you'll probably be getting requests at a very regular interval all of which result in a response of roughly the same size. Other kinds of traffic won't look like that.
One of the replies below the tweet points out that RFID tags have been present in tires since 2003, and provides this reference:

http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?269

The intended purpose is being able to track tires that are subject to safety recalls.
You provided a scenario where the mental illness hampers their ability to be an adult. Those with a mental illness that doesn't hamper their ability are necessarily excluded from that categorization.
I suspect it largely doesn't exist yet. Keep in mind all you see are probably mockups.
LOL. You censor pussy in the title but not the URL.
Why is this getting downvoted? Most of the Walton family's money is in Walmart stock, not sitting in a savings account.
CC interest is high because:
1. Most people pay off the balance each month; the people who don't _really_ need the credit.
2. The default rate of those people is probably (very) high. Given a default means a bank loses their capital, they need to make it back somehow.

Also, a student loan with 12% interest? If the loan still carries a significant balance, she should refinance at a much lower interest rate (pledge some collateral if you have to, like a car/house/existing share portfolio).
I feel like this is the ultimate gag gift somehow.
I think you want to be more precise about "impossible".

It is not mathematically provable that a random walk of finite length will eventually touch 0. Proof by counterexample: the set of every walk of length 1 where you win the jackpot on your first try.

However, consider an infinite random walk. You can fix the first n values of the walk to win the jackpot as much as you want, but as the random walk progresses toward infinity, it is highly probable that you will be on a random walk that tends toward negative infinity. (You might have to play a lot; $437 million of $3 tickets would probably be enough tickets to play powerball for a few lifetimes.)
This is a serious question, because it's the situation I'm in: Why would somebody who is techy enough to use a decentralized social network, not just use IRC?

I have a group of techie friends. We started a "private" IRC channel in 2010-ish and so far have been unable to find something better. Modern clients embed images, embed video links, and so on. We have bots that handle upvotes and offline messaging and a few other things. We even have a thingy that shows history (and most modern clients do that anyway)

None of us would be willing to self-host anything. Too much effort.

Am I misunderstanding how decentralization works for Charme? Is it more like hosting my own website, or more like using git?

I like the idea. I worry about moving my existing social capital.
I would swear I read some Lisp-related paper about this with some nice Lisp advocacy in it, too.

Aha, here it is: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/ADIL.pdf

> For fans of Lisp, there is no question that one motivation is to show how easy it is to implement in Lisp.
Lisp provides a natural representation for programs as data and a natural form for writing programs that
write programs, which is what we do in ADIL. The code is short, and is in ANSI standard Common Lisp.
Since it is not "naive" code written in just the obvious idioms of introductory Lisp, it illustrates, for those
with only a cursory familiarity, that Lisp is more than
CAR
and
CDR. In fact we did not use those routines
at all.

Ah, but you did use A and D. cAr-tomatic cDr-ivation!

:)
Discovery is crucial.

A social network can be thought of as a kind of search engine: you're trying to find people, posts and resources that are relevant to your interests.

On the other hand, a social communication app works by allowing you to connect to your existing friends. So for example, with an app like Peach, finding new people or searching for posts matters less.

The really hard question for the first case is: how do you combine searchability with end-to-end encryption?
No kidding. It's like rewarding employees for putting in 20-50% more time/extra effort on the job with a 10% bonus. It's mathematical proof that you don't properly value their time.
Children growing up also don't like people condescending and treating them as the children they are. If a child puts on the appearance of being an adult, should we treat them as such and give them the rights and responsibilities of being an adult?
Wow, I wish I knew all of this when I started a big project last year... It's kinda hard to change it NOW. And with that I mean it would be endless rewriting of the entire thing.
Does this imply that they took the wrong technology from Jawbone?
Some people can have solid technical chops, a good idea and a working prototype and not know angels. Not everybody lives in Silicon Valley or some startup hubs. In fact, there is an essay from Paul Graham explaining why some of the best ideas come from outsiders [0].

[0] http://paulgraham.com/marginal.html
You are absolutely correct when you say the money is not given to the government, but to third-party entities.

The government can dictate terms to those entities, however, and they will comply.

For example, when the government made the ownership of gold illegal, they instructed the banks that it was illegal to open a customer's safe deposit box unless a federal officer was present. When the box was opened, any gold (save for certain kinds of coins) was confiscated and the owner of the gold was reimbursed for a fraction of its value.
Ask HN: Does anyone else have the sense that “the good bit is over”?
Looking ahead, it feels like there's less interesting things and less opportunity and less potential.

Consumer hardware, phones and computers seem to be "good enough" so demand is falling.

There seem to be fewer obvious ideas for changing the world with the Internet, as evidenced by the things like home food delivery being big news.

Dunno. It just feels like the future of technology isn't so exciting.

Does anyone else feel this way?
This guide is spot on, especially the rule about only nesting pseudo elements. Don't know how many times I've come across nested sass/less that is just impossible to navigate...
One can also calculate the derivative of a context free grammar with respect to a given terminal.

http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/
There are no such things in the C Standard.
Does the federal government get to seize 86% of, say, Brooklyn, and decide whether the current inhabitants are using it appropriately? Maybe it would be more aesthetically pleasing as a series of meadows, or a large glass bowl.
It seems to me that the kind of management the article is hinting as is what I like to refer to as ass-chair management (it's similar to asshat management, but that's a conversation for another time). To me, this speaks volumes more about the incompetency of the manager than the efficacy, or lack thereof, of the engineer. Unfortunately, most managers I've had have gauged work solely on the amount of time someone spends in an office chair.

Personally, I couldn't care less how many hours someone works. If the work is getting done, I'm more than happy to have everyone work four hours a day from home; then everyone is happy.
Where is it? Can I read it? All I'm seeing is a press release linking to other articles that are mere low-effort copies of the same press release.

Also, previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10838973
I'm not saying it justifies the whole 29%, but CCs have a much higher rate of default, which leads to higher interest rates.
At 900Mhz I imagine there will be lots of interference problems, or is there something I'm missing?
"Twice the range".. Is that a doubling of the radius or a doubling of the diameter (edit: oops, I meant area) of a ~ circle surrounding the access point?

Am I being spoiled thinking either of those options aren't super impressive for a whole new standard? Where's the 10x (order of magnitude) improvement? Will it take 3-5 further complete iterations of incompatible standards? :)
There have to be things that are explorable and things that are not. Your messages, your "wall" (to non-friends) etc - those can be encrypted.

your name, your city, your public posts, posts made by companies - you could design this so those are not encrypted/are available for search.
I doubt that's the kind of gui he wants. Probably file navigation and the like.
The nukes which were dropped were not attached to massive rocket engines that have a disturbing tendency of blowing up spectacularly >1% of the time.
No. C allows the implementation(A C compiler) to create an internal integer type that is none of the standard integer types and alias that to (u)intX_t , using an implementation defined mechanism other than typedef.

Or it could use a typedef .e.g typedef __special_u8 uint8_t; where the particular compiler internally knows about __special_u8 and treats it differently from unsigned char.
I don't take offense to your comment regarding paranoia.

The question, I think, is this: If you have worked all your life, and played by the rules that existed at the time, how do you protect what you have earned from theft by others?

One aspect of the answer, I think, is that you put it out of their reach.

There are many other things a person can do. As an aside, whenever someone implies that a set of options is very limited, I try try broaden my focus a bit, in order to see a bigger picture, and thus, additional alternatives.

I hope that doesn't sound condescending, as it's not meant to be.
That's crazy!! I can't believe the weapon's uranium is still buried in that farm field.
Kazakhstan submits its root certificate to Mozilla
Cool. I'd rather see a standard capable of carrying gigabit traffic. Sure there is ac, but after noise & overheads it comes nowhere close.

So you've got people like me that can both get and afford gigabit but opt for 100mbps because the wireless tech isn't keeping up.
The standard provides for implementation-defined integer types. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10868435

See also this suggestion that the gcc people, true to form, considered making uint8_t something other than unsigned char: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10868953
With current video streaming services and current mobile devices not providing an easy way to limit bandwidth for video, this totally optional service seems to be putting that power into consumer hands... If you don't like it, you can shut it off:

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-24294

If you're not tech savvy and don't know about the feature, your experience of throttled HD video may be impacted. Any calls to service or visits to company stores will alert you to what is happening and will give you remedies.

This seems to me like a reasonable compromise that meets the needs of both low-data-cap consumers and a company that wants to minimize cost of providing data services... I don't understand what is "shyster" about this.
> Our direction of time is defined by the observation that entropy (or "chaoticness") always increases with time. If you mix orange juice with water, you will not see the result unmix itself again, even though the interactions between the individual molecules are perfectly reversible.

Entropy does not always increase in time, because entropy is rarely a function of time. The most common meaning of the word is a thermodynamic quantity that is not, in general, defined in non-equilibrium states. It is a function of state variables rather than time.

What people are talking about when they say "entropy increases in time" is actually some variant of minus Boltzmann H-function. This kind of resembles thermodynamic entropy, but is a distinct and less general concept. There are processes where entropy gets higher but "entropy" (minus Boltzmann H-function) get lower.

If you mix oil and water, you will see the result does unmix itself again. Does this mean entropy decreased and time direction got reversed? Nah. It is not even clear how to define entropy of the system in between, since it is in highly non-equilibrium state.
He's done this 4 times in the past day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=theaktu
Cheers, I didn't find that one when I searched.
> Is that a doubling of the radius or a doubling of the diameter

Those are equivalent: d=2r, so 2d=2(2r)

I very much doubt it means a doubling in the area or volume of the coverage region; seems far more likely that it means a doubling of distance.

But while this might only give twice the range with clear line of sight, lower frequencies tend to permeate obstructions better.
Yes, but it's not my preference.
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