skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you'll find that all the time you put into your work has left you with little hobbies and few relationships outside of your work. You'll also have been honing only the skills necessary to succeed in the workplace, not be happy in your life. What happens is you retire and then you find you're not really good at anything else, and your body is old and creaky and you just don't have the energy to learn things as much anymore. Or, even worse, if you didn't make quite as good investments as you thought you were or there is a huge market downturn and now you have no skills or resources. It happens to a lot of people.
So, we have basically rewritten the tornado patch idea using the C++17 string_view API (subset implemented in APT::StringView). This improved performance by about 10% on my test systems.

Here's the commit:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/commit/?id=eff0c2...

also further improvement:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/commit/?id=dd5927...

and finally, dropping strings out of StoreString(), so it's now almost entirely gone:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/commit/?id=869700...
I think about this every day. It really fills me with a sense of wonder.

In a lab, in a meeting room, somewhere in the chemical industry, someone basically said "Now that BPA is banned, we need something with the exact same chemical properties" and boom they made a clone of it, skipped human testing despite knowing it has literally the same properties, and called the job finished because the job was to circumvent the law and the law has been circumvented!

Just imagine that kind of attitude in your life. It's hard to imagine an analogy. It's like if you were dropping red bricks off a building onto people on the sidewalk and the judge was like 'you are no longer allowed to drop red bricks onto people' so you switched to chicago bricks.

The analogy sounds childish or ridiculous. But as far as I can tell it's a perfect match for BPA/BPS
http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/119568339102/block-ra...

the very first example points to BRIN indexes resulting in smaller index than btree but with much longer search time... so i guess the 5% time figure was very use-case specific?
Is what you are talking about mentioned in any way here?
http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs1800497

I'm not seeing it. Curious to find a reference with more info.

When you say hetero, I would guess you mean (C;T) which doesn't look that rare, i'm guessing i'm misunderstanding.
Bayesianism is a 'grand unified theory of reasoning' that all of science be should be based on assigning (and updating) probabilities for a list of possible outcomes; the probabilities are supposed to indicate your subjective degree of confidence that a given outcome will occur.

Yudkowsky's 'Less Wrong' group of 'rationality' followers, aimed to try to force-fit all of science into the Bayesian framework. And of course it doesn't work at all.

I think Andrew Gelman's criticisms are right on the mark.

Probability theory was designed for reasoning about external observations - sensory data. (for example, "a coin has a 50% chance of coming up heads"). In terms of predicting things in the external world, it works very well.

Where it breaks down is when you try to apply it to reasoning about your own internal thought processes. It was never intended to do this. As Gelman correctly points out, it is simply invalid to try to assign probabilities to mathematical statements or theories, for instance.

You see 'Less Wrong' followers wasting years of their lives engaging in the most unbelievable and ludicrous intellectual contortions to try to force-fit all of science into Bayesianism.

Go to the 'Less Wrong' blog and you can read reams and reams of these massively complicated and contorted ideas, including such hilarious nonsense as 'Updateless decision theory' and 'Timeless decision theory'.

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David Deutsch in his superb books, 'The Fabric Of Theory' and 'The Beginning Of Infinity', argued for a different theory of reasoning than Bayesianism. Deutsch (correctly in my view) pointed out that real science is not based on probabilistic predictions, but on explanations. So real science is better thought of as the growth or integration of knowledge, rather than probability calculations.

In terms of dealing with internal models or hypothesis, I think the correct solution is not to assign probabilities, but rather to assign a 'conceptual coherence' value, so for instance rather than say
'outcome x has probability y' (where x is a hypothesis)
you should say
'concept x has conceptual coherence value y'

Conceptual coherence is the degree with which a hypothesis is integrated with the rest of your world-model, and I think it accurately captures in mathematical terms the ideas that Deutsch was trying express.

Probabilities should be viewed as just special cases of conceptual coherence (in the cases of outcomes where you are dealing with external observations or sensory data, Bayesianism is perfectly valid).

Then all of the problems with probability go away, and none of the massively complicated theories expounded on 'Less Wrong' are necessary ;)
hence my point.

this is only to lure people into stock-betting, a zero sum game where the earlier people to join have a great advantage.
I'm the one creating the front-end so I can personally guarantee that the dashboards will look awesome.
So this all rests on a "design patent" rather than an utility patent. It's a disgusting concept in my opinion but I will note that members of the WIPO -- including China -- are obliged to respect them.
A proper application of the Principle of Charity would lead you to assign more probability to the theory that WalterBright put a fully-formatted sentence inside quotation marks, with a dot at the end and... a capital letter at the beginning. Therefore, his "People" are just "people", and the capital P only marks the start of the sentence.

;).
Nokia, in many ways, was the pioneer of SaaS. They developed a globally recognized product that would become both the iconic application associated with early cellphone applications and paved the way for a globally distributed market for mobile gaming.

However, as time went on while using the product, it became increasingly difficult to find room to move horizontally as well as vertically within the space. Ultimately, continually completing objectives made it more difficult to pivot.

Inevitably, their SaaS product became frustrating and deprecated and the marginal utility diminished. With a lack of new offerings Nokia was forced out of the market it created (Snake as a Service) and we were forced to go back to playing the helicopter game on the bewest RIM blackberry.
I applaud the OP's effort to build and market this from scratch -- then write about it!

I will say, though, there's a reason marketing is an entire function led by separate people. It's hard, uses different strengths and experience, and requires consistent effort -- not variations on "post it and they will come."
Did you mean to paste the entire text of the article here?
what's your better idea? (hint: this has to work in assembly language.)
At most Comcast would have to add some backhaul fiber. That costs nothing compared to the last mile. Adding more phone towers is even worse than a cable company's last mile, because the returns diminish as the frequencies clog.
It's true that I immediately thought Justin was criticizing my writing.

But if you're right—that Justin was agreeing with me—his comment doesn't counter mine or add to it. It just reiterates something I already said.
Daniel Willingham, cognitive scientist, convinced me of this:

http://www.danielwillingham.com/learning-styles-faq.html
> What does smart even mean?

Precisely. That's why it's better to stick with the principle of charity :).
#insert standard weekly hackernews attack academia article response here
Sorry, I've only just seen this. I agree with you on this point, yes. But I think you have a pretty rare and specific case. The more general cry of "IPv6 fixes NAT!" incorrectly expects much more than this, I think.
I associate raids with grenades in toddler's cribs, but I'm glad there are people less jaded than me.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/family-toddler-injured-swat-grenade...
Wow this looks great, I'd love to visit if I came to Chicago some time. Here in Liverpool we have a U-Boat but it's cut into cross sections with transparent panels so that you can see inside. I think actually being inside the thing would give you a better idea of the atmosphere and what it would have been like.

http://www.u-boatstory.co.uk/
Draw that dividing line on the other side of the phone and Snapchat "snaps" into clarity for me: Snapchat is for "enjoying the moments you spend with friends" when those friends are somewhere else.

If you're alone at a bar, but you take some snaps and send them to your friends and they reply while you're still there, it's sorta-kinda-almost like you're hanging out there with them.

Or, for a more powerful example: sending snaps of random things over the course of your day to someone you're in a long-distance relationship with. It's the minute-at-a-time version of exactly what Justin.TV could have done: let you "hang out" with your SO while in another country by being pushed a feed from the camera on their shoulder. (While presumably also being able to text or talk on the phone with them as you like, as well.)
TRS-Box is in Beta
Instead of repeating myself, I'll just cite the blog post I wrote about this, and hope the rest of HN doesn't mind.

http://pl.atyp.us/2013-10-leaning-out.html

Things have changed only a bit since then. A couple of years' worth of still-increasing income have brought me even closer to permanent financial security. I'm still pretty unimpressed by where this industry is headed technically, socially, and financially. I still want to finish one more Big Thing for pay, maybe one more on my own, and then just dabble in whichever smaller projects catch my fancy. I know, based on the responses to that blog post, that I'm far from alone. I suspect that many people reading this will eventually end up in the same place, whether they believe it now or not.
I got my last 2 jobs simply by updating my LinkedIn, and having recruiters contact me. Both were high-paying, high-profile, really painfully awful jobs. I'll be looking out for ways of getting actually good jobs, assuming such a thing exists.
World’s 15 Biggest Ships Create More Pollution Than All Cars in the World (2013)
Startups that can't compete on product deserve to be beaten in the marketplace. If a Chinese factory can clone your device just by looking at it, you're definitely not doing anything worthy of a patent.
I agree the evidence do not strictly prove that , but at least, in general , from all we know about indigenous populations , we have good evidence on how one type of society that's conductive to mental health should roughly look like.

And yes, even if mental illness is rooted in biology , we know that some environments cause it to manifest and some environments don't , and since we cannot change biology (and drugs are a very poor solution to such problems ) this means , at least that a big part of the solution is environmental change.
Is this figure supposed to be independent of the level of crime and punishment?

As in

* better to let ten shoplifting schoolboys go than to give one a slap on the wrist; and

* better to let ten serial killers go than to execute an innocent person?
One of the nice things that Argon2 has is server relief. Instead of doing the entirety of the computation on the server you can have the client do the most demanding parts and send those intermediate values to the server which can then finish the much easier computatation.
I used to help run a rather large fan convention. For our first 5 years (starting in about late 2003 or so), PayPal was the only option we offered for registering online. At the time, they were really the only option for implementing online payments easily without the complexity of a full merchant stack (and it was just me doing the programming, volunteering to help them while I was still in college).

By the time we finally switched away from them, we were probably clearing $60k or so a year through them, with a very large percentage of that coming over the course of a week or so just before the event. People like to wait until the last minute. :)

We never had any issues, but we were very vigilant about transferring funds out of PayPal every few days just in case. We did finally stop using them, probably about 2009 or 2010, when stories like OP's started to become widespread.

For us, having them "hold" our funds for 6 months would have bankrupted us. The hotel wants to be paid on Monday after the event. Vendors need to be paid within 30 days. Things like that would have been impossible for us to do if they decided to sit on the money. We were a volunteer fan convention; we didn't have the financial cushion to withstand something like that.

Not to mention the fees were higher than a standard merchant account. We finally did switch to a merchant account through Elavon and, after I left, I think they switched to Stripe. Either way, they don't accept PayPal now because the financial risk to them that could result from PayPal freezing the funds is significant.
This is the kind of reasoning that doesn't get thought about very often. Much like debates on how much a human life is worth, people look at you as heartless for even considering the question, but with limited resources, it's more heartless not to. If you want to save the most lives, you need to determine how to do the most good.

Questions like this one inform standards of evidence, burdens of proof, and many other factors of the justice system. Any potential change to the justice system will potentially change 'n'.

For instance, criminal law uses "beyond a reasonable doubt", while civil law uses the lower standard "preponderance of the evidence", precisely because 'n' is lower when talking about money than when talking about jail time.
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I can see for miles and miles.

But i'm arguing specifically against the shamanistic point of view in the gp. Should we treat mental illness exactly the same as any other? Absolutely. The stigma behind mental illness, I believe, is a vestige from the days when most people thought such things were the work of demons. People can't accept that someone who thinks and sees the world so differently is just as human as they are. But reverence? No. Being told that you've been touched by God can be a prison of its own.
Terrific book. Was mind expanding for me.
Matt Welsh used to be a tenured systems professor at Harvard. He probably knows more about academia than 99.9% of people in industry.
John Legere firmly believes that he fights for the user (consumer). So, when the EFF comes in and accuses T-Mobile of throttling video data, he's going to lash back and ask:

1.Who the f*ck are you anyway EFF?
He's the CEO of T-Mobile. Of course he knows who they are. But he's asking now because to him they are acting out of character. EFF is supposed to be on the same side, the consumer side.

2. Why are you stirring up so much trouble?
Because if EFF is on the same side, they'd inform T-Mobile more quietly that they're actually throttling data. Personally, I really do believe the throttling here is not intended behavior of Binge On. I honestly do.

3. Who pays you?
Why are they attacking T-Mobile? Are they being paid to? If they fought for the consumers, why would they attack such a consumer friendly company such as T-Mobile?
Don't worry people; I am sure the CEO will be okay.
Apple could not program their way out of a paper bag to make a modern day OS as Mac OS9 failed and Copeland was vaporware and a big failure. They had to buy out Next to get Steve Jobs back and base the OS on Unix and open source projects.

What is known as Apple now is basically what Next used to be the old Apple is dead and the new Apple is based on Next. Steve Jobs canceled all of the projects that lost money, and made new projects that earned more money that the ones that got canceled.

Darwin is the open source part of OSX, the GUI is not a part of it. Apple uses open source code and the community to save money on R&D of the OS.
> Udo, this is an honest, sincere question because I really didn't expect this strict of a response to my words from the community

I pointed it out because I was surprised to see it had been added to the post when we actually had an exchange in order to clarify why it's not clear. On a more general note, the honest answer is I challenged your comments since nobody else was doing it, so I didn't want to let those claims slide unopposed. There may be a cultural component, too, because I'm from a culture where supernatural claims are often openly questioned whereas, for example, in the US those beliefs are generally not publicly challenged. I also want to make it clear that it's not personal, it's only about the subject at hand.

> I really didn't expect this strict of a response to my words from the community

It's not the community, so please don't feel ganged up on. Opposition is mostly coming from me at this point.

> How should one approach highly speculative questions like this, scientifically?

Not presupposing a model of the world that significantly differs from observable reality would be a start. I'm not saying this to be a dick, it's just to address the fact that you are basing your whole argument on a stack of flawed assumptions.

> from your perspective, is it possible to even posit this possibility of a non-local consciousness

It is possible to posit anything, but if you want to make an acceptable factual claim, you're going to need some extraordinary evidence to back that up. We're talking about evidence that would radically change scientific understanding and would require discarding a large part of all observations made to this day - just to give you an idea of the magnitude. You're basically going to have to demonstrate we're living in the Matrix.

> don't you think there is quite a bit more we could still discover?

I do, but as I said many times in my responses: these discoveries would be about neurobiology.

> We obviously don't have the experimental evidence yet to say things are this way or that

We do have a ton of experimental evidence that does not point to any of the supernatural phenomena you're talking about. We don't have, at this moment, any evidence in support of your hypothesis.

> so where does one begin?

A start would be, when you go on a drug trip next time, bring back some scientific data we can verify that you couldn't have gotten otherwise. There are a lot of these you could do while you're out there in space, starting from exoplanets, to geological observations about our own solar system, the composition of the galaxy, you name it.

> Or is the sort of strict responses that I've received due to my delivery?

Strict is not the right word, and it's not your delivery. It all comes back to your original claim that consciousness is a paranormal phenomenon and that you can take drugs in order to explore the universe. You have to understand this is an extraordinary claim, right? So go out and get us some actual data from your trips, until then, prepare to encounter skeptics.
I cannot shrug hard enough. Big deal!
A Brief History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning, Part 1
"Priming the pump" is an expreasion[1]. I am matching your favorable experience on T-MOBILE with my differing experience. The discussion is pertaining to Tmobile's throttling traffic, when non-prioritized traffic fails I have found opening a prioritized connection resumes the former, as well.

[1] http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/prime+the+pump
Downvoted because that is not a reasonable crucible for if something is patentable ("can clone your device just by looking at it").

There is a vast swath of reasonable patents that are easily "copyable" after the fact.

If something wasn't easily copyable then you wouldn't need a patent in the first place.
Netflix Proposal on VP9 and IBMFF/MP4 and MPEG-DASH and HTML5 MSE [pdf]
Based on opportunity cost alone, do you think you could work part-time/contract work and have some additional development resources to work on your backlog? Have you been able to assess whether the new improvements will increase retention/monetization/user acquisition and ultimately the top line? As someone who also did a one-man show these questions helped me prioritize and create the appropriate leverage.
> Also, why would you sync pg users in ldap? pg can auth against ldap.

I figured out why: To pull roles/groups into the database from ldap.
That's absurd, it can look the same and still be a crappy product that has issues like the battery blowing up. The consumer might not know the difference between your board and the lower quality one that looks the same on the outside, and when news goes around with a picture of a board that looks exactly like yours, it hurts your product's sales.
Yeah, all the "wealth creators" at the top will do fine. It's only the people who did the work and made the stuff who will be laid off. Their fault for not cultivating the right connections.
>I doubt anyone with a severe case could heal or make art

Makes me think of Wesley Willis [1] who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and found the only way he could manage it was by making music. Just such a sad and shitty disease.

1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Willis
For those who wanna see the products side by side:

Onewheel (American) [1]

Totter (Chinese) [2]

[1] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2014/01/1W2_1021...

[2] http://g02.s.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1LWviKFXXXXc3XXXXq6xXFXXXU/Ele...
Copyright applies to all creative works. Changing those laws to protect a handful of valuable properties is a global solution to a local problem. According to the article:

...Disney has ingrained Mickey Mouse so deeply in its corporate identity that the character is essentially afforded legal protection for eternity, so long as Disney protects him (trademarks last indefinitely, so long as they are renewed).

If that's true, then why does Disney care whether the copyright expires?
Except most people's natural reaction when they don't understand other people's value systems is not empathy - it's criticism.

It happens on a much lesser level with food, music, movies, etc - the reaction from a non-fan to a 15 year-old girl's declaration that she loves One Direction is not "ok I see why someone could like this music and why this tribal affiliation is both socially useful to a teenager" but rather

Snapchat is the technology version of One Direction for a lot of adults. But also remember many adults couldn't understand why teenage girls went crazy for The Beatles in 1964 either.
It's probably unsuitable for public facing sites, but for line of business applications it could be a real win. I would much rather have enforcement down to the data level.