skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you don't know a lot, estimates have wide bounds. That doesn't diminish the importance of trying to logically construct a formula for establishing bounds.

They might not be useful today, but you've got to start somewhere.
And he's not far off... Yum is even spinning off its Chinese operations into a separate company that will reside entirely in China.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/yum-brands-to-spin-off-china-bus...

Apple is the biggest success story, but that could change literally overnight. It's a big risk to have large foreign operations in China.
Yeah. I get it, different people are wired differently, and every couple negotiates their own protocol. But for me, it doesn't work, and I can't imagine it ever working. I'm not comfortable with the required level of cognitive dissonance.

With my SO, we're always aiming for "eventually right". When there is an argument, we focus on reaching common emotional ground first. Then, sometimes not immediately, we both talk the issue through calmly to determine who, if anyone, was right, and exchange appropriate apologies. The point being, it's often more important to defuse the situation first, but both of us value knowing the truth about situations, and want to be always on the same page. Otherwise someone will end up having those kinds of hurt feelings that tend to slowly rot you from inside.

It doesn't work with anyone; it takes a honest and cooperative partner to pull it off. And it takes trust. If my SO was as patient as I am, we'd end every argument in 30 seconds with full agreement about the situation, Aumann-style. She isn't, and so I sometimes have to trust that after the storm there will be the phase of reconciliation. And there always is.
Then you're on Sprint.

Which the 7 years prior to jumping over to T-Mobile a year ago has shown me to be an awful thing to have happen to you in life.

At this point I'd rather pay the obscene data fees at Verizon or AT&T before switching back to Sprint, where LTE coverage drops randomly (I actually liked their WiMax network significantly more!), you get text messages two days later, and phone calls to you just never arrive despite ringing and ringing on the caller's end.
> This kind of empathy with others will make you much more effective when you're creating for people who are not like you.

Empathy has nothing to do with it, most people who use computers are stupid or if they are smart have irrational traits. Our ancient primate brain is easily fooled.

Apple's ipod was not technically superior to competing MP3 players. Steve jobs was not a genius, he was just taking advantage of the fact that people are stupid and into fashion.

The same thing applies for most things, take the videogame industry. Anyone who knows how a computer works and is not irrational knows DRM and locked down games are bad for games, the enlightened rational minority is outnumbered by the irrational majority. So corruption, appearances, crap products and the superficial rule.
One could also say that it is to ensure an adequate supply of reasonably-priced high-end knowledge workers.

We have to be very careful here: On the one hand, if talent is too restricted, prices will rise, but so will opportunity costs, suppressing R&D, or that R&D might simply move to where the talent is.

This isn't a zero sum game.
I'm still wondering why js_of_ocaml couldn't be improved. You yourself did some work towards that, mostly out of the compiler itself.

We have multiple standard libraries, two concurrency library. It has damaged and divided the community significantly. And now two compilers to js ? :/
I was long until today. And now I'm short because of thresholds that were hit by my technical indicators.
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The reward for me is just having fun with friends. Laughing at each other's snaps, just keeping up-to-date with what we're doing, seeing things that remind you of each other, etc.

Having no # total of followers publicly available and the usual metrics encourages this too.
you kinda can, via chrome android runtime.
Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann found that voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic disorders are shaped by local culture – in the United States, the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more benign and playful.

What if these voices are reflective of the emotional state of the people around them, as this quote suggests?

In that case, that is a kind of "magic", a special ability only you possess, that is real, and if you followed certain rituals your own emotional state could stabilise to such a point where you have the ability to detect what people are feeling.

And if this is true, then yes, a shaman would know more about what's going on in a person's mind than a doctor.

If you close your eyes, it doesn't mean the world isn't real. Just because you can't see something with the scientific framework, yet, does not mean it cannot be true.

Anyway, I don't see what coercion has got to do with shaman's in particular. There was plenty of people captured as slaves, in conflicts between prehistoric tribes, and that's a lot more coercion happening than in a schizophrenic being picked out as a shaman. There's probably less mental illness in prehistoric societies, because people probably didn't care much about a slave going crazy, it's likely unsurprising that happens, and you just kill them off.

I think coercion comes in cycles. Just after U.S. independence from Britain was probably less coercion than before U.S. independence. Today there is probably more coercion in U.S. than in 1850. There is less coercion today in Shanghai than in 1960, but probably more than in 1925.
Are you Jesse Nicholson? Is Linode paying you to write this? This reads like a Linode executive wrote it. That's the kind of thing you should disclose. Your only two HN comments are regarding Linode; pretty suspicious. You also commented on their blog post:

TechnikEmpire January 6th, 2016 at 10:28 pm. It's hilarious watching all of these armchair experts criticize Linode for the actions of another.

PagerDuty and WP Engine were both compromised 'inexplicably' during the same timeframe at the same hosting provider. Seems pretty self explanatory. Linode didn't disclose their "security firm" so why should PagerDuty? Linode couldn't explain how accounts were accessed and it isn't the first time! Linode is hacked once a year; it's a feature. They need to get their shit together and stop pretending security is a game.
Yeah, I misread. Binge On makes it so that the data from certain providers doesn't count against your data limit, but leads to throttling of all videos.
Isn't T-Mobile one of the Project Fi networks?
A wealthy person is much more likely to be time-rich than a poor person, though.
If you have Binge On turned on: all video is throttled, but video from a large number of sources does not count against your data cap.

If you have Binge On turned off: video is not throttled, but it all counts against your data cap.

You can switch between on and off as often as you want.
Hrm, anecdotally I've had real trouble with international data roaming in places I'd have expected to be decently covered with cell service, like cafes in Leith. It's a nice bonus when it works, but since it's not even reliable enough for emergencies, it's not worth any carrier loyalty. I'm curious if it worked for you.

Isn't Commnet trying to provide actual cell service at Burning Man? I feel like if you have a company specifically trying to make cell service work in the middle of the desert, with no metal buildings anywhere, it's totally unsurprising that it works.
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Is content only content if it lasts forever?
I have an N800 sitting around somewhere; make me an offer. True multitasking, full desktop Firefox with Flash Player, and 30 minute battery life.
Researcher with practical results can provide evidence of usefulness of his results to society and discuss his work and result with his money-guarding superiors who are not researchers themselves. Superiors take some time to confer and decide whether and how much he gets.

Basic research cannot be so easily evaluated, often it is decades, sometimes centuries before the practical use is found, if ever. Basic research, by its definition, has unclear significance for anything except researcher's curiosity and intellectual fulfillment. The results in the form of a paper are often too remote from the needs of society and often so intellectually involved nobody except few people competent in the field can judge whether the work is even meaningful, far from judging its usefulness.

The current evaluation process for basic research is that grant committees don't even try to evaluate the usefulness of the research requestors have done. They use superficial indicators like existing publication score, academic rank and history of the requestors, relation of the work to other high-profile trending topics, association with popular research groups and political considerations.

That's why I think people who want to do basic research should not be funded by their colleagues in field directly from tax money. It's too opaque and ridden with corruption.
He did that once a few years ago. He learned his lesson.
Their network improved a lot in the recent years. Their 4G network is currently the best one http://www.techlicious.com/blog/opensignal-state-of-lte-repo...

Another nice thing is free roaming in many countries abroad.
fantastic... "...avoid attributing irrationality, logical fallacies or falsehoods to the others' statements, when a coherent, rational interpretation of the statements is available.", I like that essentially "snapping" our interpretations to their best fit interpolations within some rational space of ideas.
What I like about Snapchat is that things disappear. If someone posted a video on Instagram or Facebook every time their kid did something, not only would followers get annoyed, but it would almost diminish the entertainment value because there are countless more easily accessible on your page. What makes this one special?

You hit the nail on the head with Snapchat. You get to see something someone wanted to share. Maybe you shoot them an "lol" over text or maybe you bring it up next time you see them. It's wholly unobtrusive and each moment has equal value.
Maybe, depends on whether you're doing CG animation (Pixar, Dreamworks style) or more realistic stuff - VFX, photoreal stuff.

If the former, then maybe a bit.

But the beauty of physically-based is that in many cases, you can take a model that's been textured and lookdeved and it will work nicely in many different lighting setups. Before Physically-based, you practically had to re-do stuff completely when you changed the lighting to get the look you wanted.

However, Physically-based still isn't a complete win - you can't looked something close up and expect it to look good in the distance - it just won't. You need to be aware of the LODs and create different asset variations appropriately for different distances.
Well the thing is, photorealism actually can be least - or at least we can imagine what reaching it would look like. A Start Trek-style holodeck, completely indistinguishable from real life, would be true photorealism. I highly doubt we'll reach that point in any of our lifetimes, but that's where we'll eventually end up, if gaming technology continues to improve indefinitely.
No, because throttling a kind of traffic is also non-neutrality. Imagine cable companies throttling video, phone companies throttling VoIP, etc.
I know it's lazy to just link to a Wikipedia article on the subject, but I'm going to anyway, because I'm too lazy to address all the things in your post when you can do your own research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism

The fact is, the occasional inconvenience on whites in America (as a convenient example) from occasional pockets of bigoted blacks is fundamentally different from the regular impact on blacks from the institutionalized racist tendencies in society.
While I'm skeptical about using RemiXOS on a desktop machine, the tablet looks really nice.
I understand your point, and acknowledge that TLS MitM is a major security threat, but my point is that if you're able to get deep enough into someone's network that you're able to intercept traffic between where it is passed to the interceptor and then re-encrypted, most information they could get from a MitM could also be obtained by pillaging the network through direct endpoint and server access. If they install malware on your workstation, they'll grab your admin panel and email credentials with ease; they don't need a MitM to do it.

You're right that a TLS MitM is one big way to make it easier for them to pivot and install malware, but there are many other ways they can do it, too, if they're on your internal network.

I think the pros of TLS interception outweigh the cons. You are exposing yourself to a little more risk once someone has already breached you, but you could say the same about other security products and procedures. For example, if you gained admin access to an endpoint agent like Carbon Black or Google Rapid Response, you can now deploy malware to every machine in the company. The pros of these endpoint monitoring tools outweigh the cons, though. You just have to architecture and protect them properly.
Ultimately, what matters the most is the price and what other investors do. The price is affected by investors' perceptions of political and social pressures. If there are new political or social pressures, then they would affect the price (over seconds to months) which would then change the indicators. The indicators wouldn't pinpoint what those pressures are, and they would only change after the fact, but they would still change. I wouldn't want to predict the influence of those kinds of pressures unless I could get quantitative data and back-test it, which I don't think is possible.

It's not a perfect strategy by any means. But I think using indicators is superior to a buy and hold strategy. When you invest you are necessarily choosing between different strategies. There is nothing magical about buy and hold other than that it's simple, and a lot of people do it. Historical data shows that if you trade based on indicators then your returns are much higher. I think it's important to find what works the best through calibration and back-testing.

There are also risks such as survivorship bias that even applies to indicators, in addition to companies and economies. The best indicators survive in whatever system you use, and that doesn't guarantee they will actually work well in the future. Still I think it's better than the buy and hold strategy.
>It can in no way be compared to Comcast, who can pipe Gb/s into your home, and who isn't limited by the laws of physics for delivering bits. They can always drag more fiber. There is only so much RF bandwidth in existence.

That argument falls flat because you can just say T-mobile can always put up more towers and lower the transmission power. The density of cell phone towers is directly related to how many radios they try to provide service for with one tower.
I don't think he does them just to be unpopular. He's just conducting thought experiments. He does like to tease his audience but so does Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution.
I assume you meat saturated and trans fat found
in almost all processed and animal foods

For the umpteenth time, transfats do not occur in meaningful amounts "almost all" animal products. There are small amounts in dairy, and those naturally-occurring animal transfats have been found to be neutral or beneficial!

See, for example:
Effects of Ruminant trans Fatty Acids on Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: A Comprehensive Review of Epidemiological, Clinical, and Mechanistic Studies
(Adv Nutr July 2011 Adv Nutr vol. 2: 332-354, 2011)

Noondip made this exact same false claim in a December thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10673687
Sure, but we might want try to at least constrain the parameters with better (verifiable!) bounds and perhaps even modify the equation occasionally when we learn more -- as we have done (learn, that is) since it was proposed. I should make clear that I wasn't disagreeing with mercurialshark, per se.

As I said: It's certainly a good thing to think about these things, but... :)

EDIT: Assuming it generally agrees with observed facts, a good sign for any scientific theory is how much it constrains the explanation/solution space. (Paraphrased, obviously. For the life of me I cannot remember who said this. Perhaps David Deutsch?) I don't think the Drake Equation adequately constrains the solution/explanation space.
Those whines at the beginning :)
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Look thru .com domains first. If the .com isn't available, I'll keep looking.
As a programmer, my dream service is an API that lets me code against all of the financial institutions/businesses that I deal with. Not a read-only thing like Mint uses, but something I can actually execute, receive events, etc... so that I could automate my finances with code.

A few examples of things I'd like to be able to do:

Every Saturday, automatically transfer X% of last week's revenues to a savings account (which I use to pay my quarterly taxes).

When my personal checking account balance drops below $X, transfer $Y from my savings account at another institution.

On the 10th day of every month, pay off my MasterCard balance from my personal checking account. If doing so would leave less than $X in the account, then don't do it, and alert me (probably by email) every day until I fix it.

Every time my personal account receives a transfer from my business account, transfer X% of that to a retirement account.

Etc....

Of course, the barriers to doing something like this are enormous. Enough that it might simply be impossible, but you're the one who asked for "dream[s]." :)

Good luck!
But you didn't explain why you want to do that
"I coined the word outragism so victims of it will have a powerful word of self-defense", what a fantastic idea! Word equipment/equipping, good stuff.
Off topic:

Who the hell edited this video? There are an insane amount of cuts.
Back in the late 90s he predicted there would be a massive terror attack and that it would make airline travel suck even more.
I have to disagree with you there, but only about the part where you say MA and CA are not desirable. Oregon is a wonderful place, but Massachusetts and California are also great. I'd be happy to live in any of them (I live in California).
> Please in the future consider the concept of rhetorical license.

I considered it, but I didn't grant it since it was not clear that it applied - nor for like discussions would it be clear in the future. You adopted an extreme position which is not analogous to the discussion you wished to have, and that is not an act of rhetoric; discussion as an art and a skill. It is simply poor communication - as evidenced by how widely your claims would imply you to be misunderstood.

Rhetorical license doesn't cover that. The charity of understanding others extend a speaker is not an unlimited effort.

> I'd like to shift towards the "less Evil/more privacy", but no one here or anywhere wants to try to come up with ways to do that, because everyone just assumes privacy gives Evil room to grow.

It does. You gave such an example yourself: TOR and child pornography. More widely speaking, it's possible to lessen the 'evil' in society through a great many means - better school, better welfare provision, stronger community links. More to the point many, even on this site, seem in favour of taking those steps: Strong encryption? Please. Better schools? Yes please. Better community organisations? Yeah. There are of course people who'd say no, but that does not change the fact that people in favour of them are easily found.

Many of the steps that could be taken in that regard seem orthogonal to the larger discussion at hand, (encryption security - as structured by reasonable context,) mind.
Yes, it's systems oriented.
Author here, just created a new account : ). I think ocamlscript is complementary to js_of_ocaml, actually it is inspired from js_of_ocaml.
For those who like to write ocaml only application, js_of_ocaml is perfect, ocamlscript is designed to help easier integration with existing javascript system.

Design goals here: http://bloomberg.github.io/ocamlscript/
This is true, but anything can happen while futzing with a file.

Our method is to make a copy of the file with a .tmp extension, make your mods, then rename the file and delete the old one.

HDF5 was never intended be be a container used to stream data into -- it was meant for sharing data.
>As anyone who has worked with DMT or Ayahuasca can tell you, you don't need to travel far to reach the outer limits of space or even have contact experiences

Well, with DMT etc. you don't need to travel far to BELIEVE you've reached "the outer limits of space or have contact experiences" -- which is not the same as actually reaching it and meeting anyone...

There's a reason they're called "hallucinations".

>Its like, Fermi's Paradox is almost completely irrelevant if you come from the position that any sufficiently advanced civilization is aware of the possible non-local properties of consciousness.

Also if you believe in magic and teleportation.
At a base level, I'm not sure why you'd do something to have it disappear. Why would I write anything or record a short video that would self destruct?! It seems like it's for meaningless stuff. If you follow that logic far enough that means the whole thing is meaningless.
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I'm a born and raised Memphian and I stayed as long as I could before I hit a career ceiling. I never intended to leave, but I'm even happier living in the SF Bay Area.
Agreed completely. I was sympathetic to arguments like his right up until the time when my brother began acting weird and fell into a downward spiral that ultimately led to a schizophrenia diagnosis. What really sticks out to me is the brain damage-like effects of the disease - not just paranoia and delusions but a total breakdown in verbal and reasoning abilities. What my brother suffers from really is more comparable to Alzheimers or even forms of brain damage or post-stroke states than other mental illnesses I've encountered - it's not so much a visionary state as it is a crippling disability. Really grim stuff, and I suspect that many people who glamorize it don't have firsthand experience with the destruction it can cause.

To end with a somewhat more positive note, the late Oliver Sacks has written beautifully and with great sympathy and humanity about his brother's battle with schizophrenia - I think it's mainly in his "chemical memoir" Uncle Tungsten. I've often wished that he wrote a whole book on the subject but I guess it hit a little too close to home for him.
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Comcast has limits too and it costs them real money to raise those limits. Pulling new fiber is not free, even adding a wavelength to existing fiber has costs. Their incremental cost to add capacity may be less than the incremental cost for a cellular company to purchase more spectrum (likely from a competitor) or blanket a city with microcells, but that doesn't mean it's free. In Rural areas it may even be cheaper for T-Mobile to increase capacity than for Comcast to do the same.

Comcast could probably save millions of dollars each year in reduced capital costs if they could trim their Netflix bandwidth by compressing their video.
Yup. There are plenty of other trial designs that circumvent the (perfectly valid) objection to control groups being denied treatment. For example, both groups could receive the intervention, just not at the same time. While one group waits the other receives the intervention. The waiting group may be considered a "control". After this period of the trial completes, the waiting group is given the active treatment.