skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guide to the Adele Goldberg Papers [pdf]
> you could never move money over the wire anonymously before crypto came in. Well, except if you had a fake identity, which is illegal. Now you can.

As obvious as it may seem that is a positive thing, keep in mind that a lot of people will not think so. Even more people can just don't appreciate it and could be convinced either way. If everyone thought anonymity was so good, fake identities wouldn't be illegal.
The Chinese Room is my favourite proof that thought is physically impossible.
Yes, but that's a compact car, not a van.

The Renault Lodgy is more a more appropriate comparison and it starts around 9 lakh ($13500/12000€)in India. Which is still substantially more than our $8k target price.
Thank you for your answer.

> I'm not sure what you mean by mathematical operations or concepts that depend on this.

I suppose I meant to ask if there was any practical application of the concepts you described.
Amazon’s Web Services are shining in its latest earnings beat
>Cantor's diagonalization is simply demonstrating that same inequality by showing a number in set A is not in set B.

If that were true, why go to all the trouble, just show 1/2 which is not a natural number, or sqrt(2) which is not a rational number.

Cantor's diagonalization is proving that no mapping exists between the natural numbers and the real numbers in [0, 1]; that no matter what mapping you (try to) come up, there will be a number you would miss.

The primes and rationals have the same size (cardinality) as the natural numbers, namely countably infinite. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countable_set#Formal_overview_...
I agree that many people don't understand what a 100% workout is, but "There's not really a way to cheat your body or find an easy way out of a workout" is unjustified by the evidence. It's suspiciously close to appealing to justice, e.g., "You won't get fit without hard work because you won't deserve it."

People have swore by all sorts of unpleasant fitness regimes in the past which are later shown to be unproductive. Now, we have good reason to believe that you can't be an elite athlete without putting in lots of time, simply because elite athletes can be easily identified; we'd see more elite athlete with short training regimes if it was possible. But, like the incredibly muddied literature on nutrition, it's not at all clear how to optimize moderate (non-elite) exercise for long-term health benefits. We really don't know where the low-hanging fruit is, and its entirely possible that most people are wasting their time.
US House unanimously passed bill requiring warrants for e-mail
It's not about free content, I know I put the $0 up there in the comment and it makes it hard to read the rest of it, but it's about ownership structures. I made a ~dozen comments explaining myself before you posted this snipe.
Would you use him again - even on a pro bono basis - given this info?

I'm nosey and genuinely curious by the way, this is in no way internet snark.
These other cryptocurrencies are less secure than bitcoin.

For them, the cost of attacking the network by mining on an orphaned chain is lower, because by definition the PoW has a useful by-product.

The more useful the byproduct, the less secure the coin.

Edit: to illustrate, imagine a PoW that computes cures for cancer. Somebody can now mine on whichever block of the chain he wants forever, since he's producing a cancer cure anyway. The incentive of a block reward (within the currency) is not primary. Thus there is diminished incentive for the network to create a linear blockchain, where everybody mines on the most recent block. Without that, you cannot order transactions.
> And that will drive an economy into the ground

A consumerism-based, Earth-killing economy. But it will give raise to more sustainable economies.
New battery tech maintains capacity after 200,000 cycles
What makes it better than Heroku?

What would keep Heroku from closing that gap?
Sure, maybe a nannycam. Maybe whatever you want to run on your Arduino / Raspberry Pi. Maybe bolted on to a small lightweight drone swarm that communicates to itself while offline to learn about its environment.

What happens when 1000 of these are plugged in to 1000 drones and they all communicate? I don't know enough to even guess but perhaps something interesting and dangerous?
We agree that {A,B,C} has a lower cardinality than {A,B}.

Now, feel free to try and map the set of Real numbers to the set of irrational numbers. ex: e + ei.
In general, sub percentage point uniformity is taken as evidence of a very strong synchronization mechanism. The extreme uniformity of the cosmic ray background was taken as evidence of inflation, which is quite an extreme position, if you look at the numbers.

That such a synchronization mechanism should work with such precision over the entire universe seems very unlikely. Filtering would not require synchronization, so that seems much more likely.
Mostly inertia. We're a large-ish company; I work in a remote office away from the majority of dev, and technical direction needs marketing.

We ended up using Swagger, which doesn't solve as many of our problems (having documentation generated from code isn't as robust from a testing POV, particularly when your RESTful API is versioned), but my "perfect" is the enemy of the company's "good" :).
Mercedes home batteries are a potential rival for Tesla’s Powerwall
They call economics a "dismal science", but I find such attempts at 'astrophysics' (or whatever this and stuff like the Drake equation are called) even more dismal...

Tons of unknown variables filled-in with vigorous hand waving, ad-hoc and unproven assumptions left and right, etc, and some high school math thrown in for good measure...
This seems like relevant data. Particularly the "Driver deaths per million registered passenger vehicles" broken down by size in larger categories of car, pickup, SUV. Though I think they mix the data a bit w.r.t the contribution of mass vs volume.

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...

It seems like if you are in an accident, an SUV as a class is indeed safer (but not necessarily the largest SUV interestingly enough). But the other thing that this data doesn't seem to say is if one class of vehicle has a higher accident rate than another. Without that it's difficult to say for sure if one is safer driving around one type of vehicle or another.
Billionaire Icahn Exits Apple Stake After Three Years
What are the status and roadmap in regard to implementation?
I did not suggest that they have little agency around population control. What I suggested was that aliens will continue to want to have children, and so space will be needed for those children given that the parents won't be dying any time soon.

Beyond that, if you have effectively infinite space and resources, there's no need at all to have even the slightest bit of population control. Population control is only necessary to ensure adequate resources (including space to live) for everybody. But when there's no constraint on resources, there's no reason why anybody shouldn't have as many children as they desire.
There's this stackoverflow qanswer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11373203/accessing-inacti...

where answers try to distill the standard into something legible by humans. Unsurprisingly, they come to different conclusions.

The overall interpretation in some situations, if you look at things just right, you can do type punning in C++. But it's pretty risky since you're a LOC away from the compiler deleting your function.

Or, you can't really do it at all safely. Which I would conclude from the above anyways.
The constant inflation made it only possible to issue bonds in a foreign currency. Sustained inflation does not solve public debt, because it also devalues the taxes the government gets back, creating a negative feedback loop of deficit and inflation (argentina's path in the last 10 years)
Facebook is different than MySpace. Entire families, including grandparents, weren't on MySpace. Facebook has gotten very close to achieving their goal of "Becoming the Internet" for many 40 .
Isn't nokiankoski where someone mixed up the sewage in / drinking water out lines?
Deliberately defaulting on debts is probably the worst thing for a sovereign nation to do. The governments of other countries may still be do that risking higher interest rates as you mention. However, if the USG ever does that, there will be consequences far more dire than China or SSA or the Fed losing money.

And there are many reason for the low rate of interest, but historically, USG securities have been the safest investments, so you have a lot of dollars chasing them. So the USG can set the interest rate low and yet it will be bought up.
Startups are risky and there's no guarantee that you are going to be successful and make money with it.
It's a pretty good filter for finding companies that I'd be happy working at

I gave up at that one. People told me, "find a job you enjoy" but I think it's a lie. No one pays you to enjoy yourself. I haven't found a job to make me happy. Maybe someone found that kind of job but I didn't.

So now I find a job, work for a couple years, then quit and take months off at a time. I use the money I earned to fund my travels, which I enjoy. And sometimes at work, I look back at something I built, and the feeling of having built something is a really great feeling (even if no one cares about that thing). Then I go back to glaring at my coworkers.
Do you have any thoughts on how to scale load balancers horizontally and on demand? I've played briefly with attempting some dynamic DNS routing based on health checks to re-route traffic from balancers that have been shut down due to low traffic, but DNS really isn't designed to work this way.
Google is building a hardware division led by former Motorola president
Nintendo were in the game business the whole time, the type of game changed due to technology.

IBM were in the computer business, they still are its just that the industry has changed so now we think of what theybdo as software and what e.g. Dell do as the computer business
Technically yes, but practically the mouse reached a more or less standard form millions of years ago, in a local maximum, and we've been developing into all that we are mostly far more recently and represent a far more advanced form with lots of metrics (fitness to local environment is not the be all end all metric -- just the one evolution uses).
HP Spectre Laptop – The world's thinnest laptop
Not really a personality thing. The person wasn't an engineer. But was given a chance because of his passion. Very much like what the article encourages.
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Most philanthropic organizations have extreme goals that are unachievable. It's easier for people to rally behind "End poverty now!" or "Not one more X!" than "reduce poverty significantly more than it would otherwise."
>Even more frightening is how easy it is to take too much pure caffeine. One brand recommended that consumers use a “1/32 teaspoon” to measure a safe amount. For comparison, a “pinch” of salt is generally considered to be one-sixteenth of a teaspoon.

If I were going to do something like that I'd dissolve a teaspoon in two gallons of water and use a cup.

Caffeine is one of those drugs that can sneak up on you. LD 50 is actually pretty high - it's usually quoted as 75-100 cups of coffee in an adult. The problem is the curve is wider than most drugs. Some people can handle truly massive amounts, but you're on the other side of the curve you can die from a comparatively small dose.
s/ Baggage/ Babbage/r (no snark intended, error)

s/ envision the porention of/ envision the potential of/r
Cycles in Family Tree Software
I bet there is a community out there committed to this kind of thing, it sounds like you have a very specific desire.

I'd be shocked if there weren't more people out there who feel the same way, and are doing something about it.
their product is based on a buzz word and uses unknown hardware, the specs seem underwhelming (1W + usb = ?).
their page is filled with videos of models and nature shots and a bunch of news categories that have a few articles from 2013/14. there's no way to order anything, yet they put out some wild claims:

'With Fathom, every robot, big and small, can now have state-of-the-art vision capabilities'

'It means the same level of surprise and delight we saw at the beginning of the smartphone revolution'

'With more than 1 million units of Myriad 2 already ordered'

tl;dr: because, to an outsider, it sure does look like fraud.
How can he be fired if he has majority control?
It doesn't require that a Dyson Sphere be an isotropic radiator, though. It could be emitting its heat in a different direction.
You're being played. Let them believe they're controlling you until you've secured funding or joined YC.

Don't ever let someone outside your company tell you what to do.
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Slip out the back, Jack.
Security through obscurity give huge success at minimal effort.

It might not be 100% secure but it's not meant to be, either. Just more secure than nothing.
Sweet, I love SpriteKit. It's really great to work with.
This kind of thing is so frustrating because enormous effort has been put into solving exactly one VARIANT of a pretty general problem. The general case is: at a particular point in the code, is $THIS_DATA usable or not, for some appropriate definition of “usable” in that code?

And if “usable” has any additional meaning besides “is not null”, this entire machinery is useless because one STILL has to figure out the state of the data!

For example, what if you are sanitizing input from a user and there is a “wall” in your code beyond which a string is considered safe (e.g. decoded, evaluated by regex, or whatever is supposed to happen)? Or, what if “usable” means that a server has been connected to, or a database opened, or a calculation completed, or whatever else you want to say? What if it’s a numerical denominator and you want it to be nonzero? The list could go on and on, and none of these architectures deals with ANY of those possibilities.
You just need to find ways to utilize it for its strengths. I've been playing Rovio's Retry which has very skillful twitch gameplay, and since it involves touching with one finger it's easy to play on a bus or in a coffee line up, which is vital. Another great game is Brain It On where you draw on the screen to solve puzzles in a simulated physical world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jo7EXUS1Vk
Don't like your job? Quit.
Name just one. If you think it's most of them, name a few. I will explain it to you then.
Which is the smart thing to do. He can almost ensure dynastic control through nepotism but he also gets to take value now in case it does go the way of MySpace.
Where is next November?
I don't fully get the negativity of comments on HN for this product on the sole fact that it's currently an usb stick.

I think it's just can make sense to push to the market this kind of chip early and don't wait to be bundle with another device. Kudo for Caffe support.
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I see this criticism come up a lot, but we have to face the fact that Facebook is not going to decline like MySpace. Facebook continues to show significant active user growth still, even though they're much larger than MySpace ever was. And they're in a much more firm place financially than MySpace ever was. They're not comparable past their basic functionality of "users have profiles and a set of friends".
The OPL2 and 3 chips were all-digital, so it's possible to verify that the bitstreams from the original chips matches the outputs of an emulator of the chip...but the original hardware also included some specific ADCs with some kind of buffer feedback loop, and I think that's where the real difference in the sound comes in (like the overly-harsh drum sounds from most of the emulators).

I'm working on a side-project right now to build a USB-connected YMF262+YAC512 board for the reasons you've mentioned. I've actually got a 600MHz K6-3 with 128MB of RAM, Geforce4 ti4400 and SB16 that I use as a retro computer, but if I can have the same, proper audio output on my regular machines, that would be even better.
I like money!
They watch the network for red flags, good propagation fights new transactions
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Or Nokia, 150 years and counting.
update:

after hour currently at 675.01. Price increase +73.01 (12.13%)
And what is unemployment in article's subject's age group in the Eurozone?
The board members can vote however they want if they want to fire him. Sure he may have appointed them but can't control how they vote.
Kitchit (private chef as a service) shuts down
I got hired on at a job to replace a guy like that. He "got so much done" and "worked so hard" (was at the office late) until he up and left.

Step 1 when I got hired on was to automate away half of what he was doing. I turned processes that were previously three hour projects into five minutes and a shell script. Not many late nights or 16 hour days for me.

Step 2 was to finish all the work he'd left behind. It wasn't unusual to get a bug report coming in "Oh, in screen X when you try and do Y it doesn't work right." only to find that while he'd built an interface, there was no code behind any of it.
Don't forget Alto's Adventure. Although it's been somewhat polluted with IAP recently, it's still a gorgeous, well-designed game.
Seems like you have an agenda here.
Lessons from a startup rejected by 500 Startups, Techstars and Y Combinator
because the holodecks can only show them what they already know and what they can imagine. the (mostly empty) universe can show them things they were not yet capable of imagining.
I think you're taking a wrong look at this paper. This paper isn't actually about whether or not type 3 societies exist. This paper is about the fact that there appear to be no galactic clusters that show a particularly abnormal, greater, amount of electromagnetic emission than the known standard. Which, actually, I'm pretty dang surprised hasn't been searched for already. Then, in order to be a little whimsical and make sure the paper gets read, (s)he explains where they came up with the idea for this experiment.

Seems to me like a completely rationale thing to measure about the universe. Imagine if the result had come back true?
Closed loop coming to fruition
Troubleshooting Cassandra column selection
Right, but I can imagine Renault doing a van on the same basis. From 4000$(3500€) to 8000$ is a huge gap for changing only the auto body.
It is also funny to see that Dacia Lodgy is more expensive in India than here in France with more regulation where it cost 9900€ (http://www.dacia.fr/gamme-dacia/lodgy/), closer to your target price.
I have a feeling there is double irony, because the attorney appears to have been one of the attorneys who fought Prenda Law.

Prenda got smacked down pretty hard by a judge who decided to litter his judgement with Star Trek quotes.[1]

1. http://abovethelaw.com/2013/05/prenda-boldly-benchslapped-wh...
There is one important property of currency that you are missing in your list: accepted. Currency that is not accepted as payment for things has little use as currency. It is easy enough to create something that meets all of your requirements, but unless people are willing to accept the currency in exchange for goods and services, it is useless.

Of course, currency has a very strong network effect. Its value is tied very closely to the number of people who use it.
Seems like generational luck related to returns on assets will start to matter a lot more, we can legitimately say "you were luckier to have been born back then" as opposed to now.

sort of.
>> Acceleration is needed for training -- not running the models themselves.

Sometimes training is done on the customer site. For example a noise cancellation algorithm may learn audio characteristics of the user's environment to offer better performance.
Anonymity is good not per se but because it implies privacy. Let's not argue if privacy is a good thing or not. Anonymity also supersedes fake identities.
AWS currently improves product and cuts prices. My feeling is that as they mature over time and get even more of a lock on the market (and their customers) with the obvious lock in they have that will reverse and prices will increase over time resulting in even more profit than they reported today. Impossible to think this won't happen, especially with the differentiation they have with their product as well as the FUD of changing to a marginally less expensive provider (who will probably follow suit).
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Not too mention facebook completely changes in design and is constantly evolving its look. If FB still looked like how it did in it's early inception I doubt it would be as popular.

Perhaps there is some study to be done where social sites/apps become obsolete if they fail to adapt their UI/UX over the years. I mean look at sites like Fark and SA compared to what is popular nowadays like Snapchat or Reddit.
So, you can show the Real numbers between 0 and 1 is larger than the number of Natural numbers.

There are an infant number of points between 0 and 1 and an infinite number of points between 0 and 2. The distance between 0 and 2 is larger. The number of points between 0 and 1 is smaller than the number of points on the unit circle AND they are a different class of infinity.
As a citizen of the world I'm stunned that nobody you know would believe that story.

A 5 minute search on the Internet would be... enough?

As if all similar stories are part of some global conspiracy?

Like... you only know how good, efficient and super cool the people at the TSA are?

Really?
It's not your money!
In finance theory, as long as a company is able to grow at a rate higher than the rate at which you could reinvest your dividends, you prefer not to receive a dividend. More simply, the idea is that the money staying in the company will grow more quickly than if it's outside of the company so long as the company is doing well.

Like a lot of financial theory, I think this is partly true. However, in my view, one of the side benefits of companies giving dividends is that it acts as a sort of long-term "anchor" to the stock's instrinsic value: the amount the company's stock is actually worth, which is usually wildly different from what it's worth on the stock market.

Let's say through careful analysis I find a company I think to be greatly undervalued in the stock market. I buy a bunch of shares. If they don't pay a dividend, I'm just hoping that eventually the market will "notice" the discrepancy and the price will go up, but I bear a lot of risk because the opposite could happen. But, if that company pays dividends, and those dividends continue to grow, I am getting a real return which is not based on the vagaries of the market.
Will year 2038 be the new Y2K?
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That's that the courts are for.
I haven't had the time before. And I stand to my claims.

Searching for his CV didn't help: now I forced
me through both his CV and this article. He didn't study physics but "Computational Psychology."(1)

And sadly it shows: Everything "quantum" he mentions in the article is simply invalid, easy to see for anybody with enough knowledge of physics. Quantum randomness occurs on different scales than where he tries to involve it.

Where he doesn't involve "quantum" the claims sound better.

The sad part is that he certainly had the chance to consult with the physicists. Why he haven't had, of if he had, why he ignored it, I don't know.

1) http://cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/media/pdf/donald-hoffman-vita....
It means it won't take long after we are doomed. Singularity which can bring doom and eternal life comes at almost the same time. I would pick longevity over Singularity any time.
Is practicing medicine a human right?