skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem with your state is that its citizens are too gullible and too naive and don't dig deeper because they've gotten used to things having a 'normal state', and all of this is all 'too fantastic and weird'.

You may not ever have experienced what I've described, but it happens every single day, time and again. You can find others' reports if you care to look for yourself .. my anecdote only has relevance if it serves to make you, an American citizen, truly contemplate what you have allowed to occur in your name. The security nightmare is real for a lot of people.
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The thing is, what does Pinboard actually need? It's a lean one man operation, and has a viable subscription model. Why would that person want VC money?
Board at Zoomdata
Anyone know who is on the board at Zoomdata? I'm researching the company, and don't see any info on their website. Seems unusual??
Are you saying DWA was innovative? I worked there 2 years, and they were the most resistant to change of any company I've worked for in my career.
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Or Nintendo. 126 years.
Interesting idea. How are clinical standards and expertise to be incorporated into and expressed by the software?
I like the description of graham's number (by graham) using the up-arrow notation https://youtu.be/GuigptwlVHo?t=31
Reminds me of a quote of H.P. Lovecraft:

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
> That's a really bad analogy. Those papers actually exist. Without the key the unencrypted data is just a bunch of random nonsense. It does not exist in any real form.

Um, no, I don't agree with that at all. The point of encryption is that the files are perfectly, 100% recoverable, but only with the key.

Your version is like saying, without the combination of the safe, the papers inside don't exist in any readable form.
These are the statements of the security people here that were going tgrough the data. The level of severity and recovery time supported thrur claims a bit.
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Huh. I've seen this asserted many times, but I can't actually find an official source.

http://documentmedia.com/article-permalink-1966.html says this, and http://www.austintexaslegal.com/Blog/child-pornography-laws-... as well.
Your perception is reality; different observers may perceive the same thing in different ways, but their perceptions are no less valid because of not corresponding to another observer's "truth". In a sense, even if people perceive falsehood, that perception, in and of itself, is real
Yes, but if someone is off by just one percentage point, then they're 13 million years ahead. There needs to be something so unlikely about sentient life, that it only arises approximately one at a time in each galaxy, or the Fermi paradox would apply.
> What if [...] all

"all" is usually the key issue with solutions to the Fermi paradox. We can certainly find reasons for any given civilization to go the other way, but it's more difficult to argue that all of them do.
Give me a break.

Directly from the post:

> Right now, there are amazing scientists, educators and doctors around the world doing incredible work. We want to help them make a bigger difference today, not 30 or 40 years down the road.

Unless Facebook is trying to become the next Theranos complaining about a guy who is placing billions on the table for upcoming medical related treatments in no way related to Facebook sounds like whining more because you don't like the person doing it vs. the act itself.
We have super cheap car in Europe which cost much less (see Dacia). And for exemple, Renault is selling a 3500€ car in India (https://www.renault.co.in/vehicles/personal-cars/kwid.html). As a note, this same auto manufacturer is leader of electric car in Europe with Renault Zoe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Zoe), even if sells are disapointing due to poor autonomy.
I hope you put this everytime you find the syndrome as you call it. Because "the rest" might be newcommer. After I read your explanation in the link, i think it makes sense. But i must say that everyone gets that impression of SW writing doesnt know that it has been there since forever and would not change, and we can do nothing about it (as a comment below says that SW himself says he writes like that bc arrorange helps him solve problem).

Treatment needs time.
Could be great news- it rules out (within some limitations) most of the really bad paperclip-maximizer scenarios.

At least if society is doomed we'll only doom ourselves, and not the entire Milky Way! One takes what cheer one can get when pondering this sort of subject.
That's not what larger means, that's what (maps into a) strict subset means. In finite numbers, that's the same as larger (greater cardinality), but it's very much not the case for infinite numbers.

There are more than two sizes of infinite sets, but there are just as many real numbers as imaginary numbers for the same reason there's just as many integers as rational numbers.

Try reading this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality#Infinite_sets
You're confusing a classification system with size.

Is the set of Real Numbers larger, smaller, or the same size as the set of points in a finite 2d object? Can you setup a bijection in either direction?
You're absolutely right. But the movie is not meant to be a documentary about the math, it is meant to be a story about his life. The same goes for Theory of Everything, Imitation Game, and A Beautiful Mind. The different here is that what math they show is actually correct.

I was also disappointed that the discussion afterwards put so much emphasis on him as a person, and not on the actual math, but I don't hold that against the film itself. Movies about artists and authors have never been about their works of art either: the movies are about their lives, and I think it is appropriate for cinema to be used as a medium for biography rather than as a medium for education.
My co worker bought this last week and he brought to work and we were testing it out. Few thoughts

1. We tried Apps like Netfix, Youtube and twitch. The device plays does 1080p really good, however, there were some moments where we can see some sluggish behavior.

2. The Chrome browser experience was not that good. I tried it myself, there is no zoom?! I went to hacker news and I usually zoom, I couldn't do it. First every site opens in mobile format. Why? I thought this a Desktop? I request a desktop website for mlg.tv and video streaming was terrible. Firefox couldn't even load the video.

3. File explorer thingy is nice.

4. Installing an App was really smooth.

5. Needs a better desktop window manager. In case of twitch I had to like click on precise hidden location to get full screen working, otherwise you can see a back button toolbar on top of screen.
This hypothesis works best if we propose an extremely narrow developmental range.

Of course since we have basically no data, we can't actually argue either way beyond vague hand-wavey speculation. You can't calculate standard deviation from a sample size of one.
That does seem the logical place for space trains is in an FTL universe with wormholes (or jump gates or star gates or whatever you want to call them). I was always sort of surprised that the Stargate shows never really explored the concept of trains, although Stargate: Atlantis got very, very close at a few points across its seasons.

(For what it may be worth, I had fun exploring the idea of trains in space in some short stories I wrote way back in high school and every now and then think about trying to write a longer space opera in such a setting, but I'm not very skilled a writer and day job needs must first.)
So all I have to do is testify I saw images of abuse on my sister's computer and she can be jailed indefinitely? That's not just. That's a repressive police state.

The burden of proof is on the accuser. The accused bears no burden of proof. This principle goes back almost 2,000 years, across multiple cultures, includes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, predates and includes the American culture as well. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence
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Neither of these are a peer-reviewed publication.

As a bioinformatician, I'm really struggling to see what is new here. It seems like it's mostly a marketing thing.
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I guess Swift still isn't widely adopted inside Apple. Or it could be that CareKit was started before Swift. Anyone know for sure?
The U.S. is a place where this is currently routinely possible. It is not (I believe) a place where this is currently routinely done.
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"Nintendo was founded as a card company in late 1889...", sure, but then by the next century FB main business model will probably be about gene engineering, not software.

In all fairness, I listed IBM and I can't imagine people referred to it as a "software" company in 1911, even if it was within the 'computing industry' such as it was back then.
The sample app is written in Swift, https://github.com/carekit-apple/CareKit/tree/master/Sample/...
I frequently, but DO NOT ALWAYS, do this when I am erasing hard drives.

When I do this it is more of a flag to remind my self that I have, in fact, finished scrubbing the device.
I will try to find. It was in peak oil/the oil drum years. The user was a guy called Jerome a Paris - investment banker that specialized/s in making wind farms happen. He made a breakdown of the costs withing a project.

I think he had profile both in eurotrib and dailykos. Sadly my inability to formulate a coherent google search fails me now.
Its about recognizing people doing great things in your org. It really has become a part of the culture in the companies that have been using it (and pay) for months now.
Taking a quick look at the blog, I believe that the author is simply trying to lead up to quantum monte carlo. I'm not a theorist, but the basic idea is that we have a pretty good understanding of quantum mechanics. But in materials, we don't just have one or two electrons roaming around, but rather have HUGE numbers. So, we can try to make a number of approximations to get tractable calculations, BUT a number of those approximations actually neglect the strong interactions between individual electrons. Quantum monte carlo tries to apply monte carlo techniques to this problem. You might enjoy the summary at:
http://people.physics.illinois.edu/Ceperley/papers/213.pdf

(though it's rather geared towards physicists).

As for the hacker news appeal...hmmm....There are two levels. One is the curiosity appeal of how things work. The applied level that I can think of would be quite down the line. I went to a talk at a conference awhile back (again, I'm not an expert on this) that talked a little about this. Searching for new materials is hard. If you remember some years back, there was a scare about China restricted exports of rare earth materials (which make up high power permanent magnets) and people began to search for replacements. Well, how do you search for materials with new properties? A lot of what we've done in the past has involved heuristics. If you are doing synthesis, you make some guesses, over time, you build up intuition, and then you try to start making materials--but you don't know if they will form, or if they'll even have the properties you want if you make them.

One approach that people have taken is to use a method called Density Functional theory (DFT)--or ab initio methods (parameter free)-- that only works at 0 temperature and neglects many of those interactions between electrons that I told you about. And despite this, it can get you some really nice directions to search in for some materials. Now, to better capture some of those interactions that you left out (which you need to understand to get things like magnetism correct) you can try to add back in by including a parameter called "U" that is a measure of how much energy it takes for an electron to move from one atom to another in your material. Within DFT, this is a "fudge" factor and people look at it over some range of values to see how it effects material properties (keep in mind that these calculations are computationally expensive!!!).

Now, it turns out that that recently some researchers from Rutgers have figured out how to calculate this U parameter using something called "Dynamical Mean Field Theory". And, it turns out that there is a stage in this calculation that can be mapped to a problem that Quantum monte carlo simulations can solve quickly.

So....Long story short (ok, maybe too late for that), it can help us when we try to calculate the properties of materials--without synthesizing them--which saves a lot of time and money. But, it's still early days...

I hope this helps a bit...
We are in no way separated by 40m years of evolution. Our common ancestor 'is'. That mouse you see today has been evolving just as long as you have, but with different priorities.
You get this because the properties of bitcoin attracts two kinds of people.

Goldbugs, because of how bitcoin is "mined" and is inherently deflationary. And gold is the one true currency, m'kay.

Cypherpunks, because it is built around cryptographics. And cryptographics makes anything double plus good.

Never mind that both kinds have a strong anti-establishment streak.

That said, if they could get away form their anti-inflation fanaticism, and find some way to speed up the ledger processing, then the distributed ledger part of bitcoin may have a future.

This because while inflation can be bad when it runs riot (though money printing in itself is rarely if ever the cause) it is better in the long run than deflation, as that allows some entity or other to corner the market.

And in the end, all currencies are tokens of account. Meaning that they exist in the end to make sure nobody double spends. But to be effective in doing so, the token material must the worth less then the face value. If not, people will have an incentive to hoard. And that will drive an economy into the ground.
Classically, tools like ps worked by opening /dev/kmem, reading the symbol list from /vmunix or wherever, and chasing data structures in kernel memory a bit like a debugger might.

These days there is usually a getter for proctitle in the form of the /proc filesystem, sysctls, etc.
No, sorry but I can't agree with you. I had no idea the post was by Wolfram until the end due to loading it on a poor connection, and while at first it seemed just here and there, why not. It's also the first time I read a piece by him and honestly I was furious at the promotional tone of it long before the end. But his story is so beautiful and tragic, I wanted to read it again (I remember reading other accounts in the past).

What's worst: it seems to appropriate a wonderful story by making it seem as if Mathematica is the natural outcome of Ramanujan's work.
It is almost always poor practice to make clinical decisions based upon a single paper. Medicine is really complicated.
Using pseudorandom data is pointless. If overwriting with 0s isn't enough you should be physically shredding the drives.
I wonder if it's a sign that they believe the framework will necessarily spawn related, self-contained projects. Just as Rails has its own organization with dozens of plugins (and separate repos for documentations) as opposed to it being basecamp/rails...though I suppose the analogy isn't quite accurate since Rails is its own community and not marketed as a product maintained by Basecamp. Or maybe this is a sign that Apple wants Carekit to be less monolithic, such that they've removed the explicit Apple branding to encourage developers? The answer to these kind of things are often mundane...but when it comes to marketing and branding, the thinking process behind the eventual decision is both mundane and time-intensive
So OK, given that generality, is there any reason to suspect that parts of the Makerbot derive from GPLed community innovations and thus in violation ?

Or I am off base and Bowyer's RepRap GPL only applies to media like blueprints ?

Or the Makerbot is sufficiently different ? Or there was prior art to Bowyer ?
More scary than closed-source software? Also: is there any chance this would survive >24h if it weren't authorized?

It's even possible they created this to further isolate write access from the rest of the company.
isn't it true that all of Musk's companies benefiting from the governments' help in terms of federal subsidies and space contracts? Do you think without it he would have been this successful?
From what I've seen watson is just the branding and they put a bunch of companies they've acquired working in the general data / analytics space under the hood.

It's not the solely the setup that won on jeopardy all those years ago.
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I don't know when you lived in those cities, but things have evidently changed. I've lived in Sydney and Seattle. Median home price in Sydney is currently ~AUD$1 million and median home price in the Seattle area has reached ~USD$0.5 million. Average developer salaries in those cities are certainly not 60% of the value of a home.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/10/australias-m...

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/king-county...
A Beautiful Mind isn't as long ago as you think: less than 15 years. In the space of cinema (which was producing films about famous artists at least as early as the '30s) that's not very long. Takedown and Pirates of Silicon Valley are also a bit different: hacking has been part of "pop culture" since the mid 90s at least, and Pirates is a documentary anyway.
There are very strong reasons to believe that all civilizations (multitudes of independent, individualistic semi-cooperating sentient creatures) are inherently chaotic and therefore unstable. There are loads of arguments as to why they are doomed to fail, or to try to expand exponentially. If we take a cold and realistic eye to technological civilizations, they do seem doomed to self-destruct or "sublime" into something incomprehensible. There aren't many examples in nature of things that are the confluence of two or more super-exponential processes that are long-term stable. (In our case, those would be population, energy use, and technological change.) In fact, I think there are basically none.
> Yahoo is 20 years old and not precisely in its prime, and Sun Microsystems existed only for 28 years.
> such as Oracle (39 years and counting), Apple (40), Microsoft (41) or, in the extreme, IBM (105).

Of which, how many original CEO's are still at the helm?
Why on earth didn't they have a control group that did 10 minutes of slow cycling instead of a bunch of couch potatoes that did nothing?

It's the journalism that failed you. If you go to a quality site like mensfitness rather than NYT, you'll find:

"To prove it, the researchers put 27 sedentary men to the test. For 12 weeks, nine of the men were asked to perform three weekly sessions of intense sprint interval training on stationary bikes, 10 were assigned to moderate-intensity continuous training (also on bikes), and six served as the control group, completing no exercise. ...

"After three months, all the athletes exhibited similar results and health benefits—even though the moderate-intensity continuous training involved five times as much exercise and a five-fold greater time commitment."

http://www.mensfitness.com/training/workout-routines/10-minu...
There are two kinds of libraries: archives, which try to keep everything relevant for ever, and circulating libraries, which try to be useful to the public.

Municipal libraries are circulating libraries, so if they spend $80 on TAOCP vol. 1 and it's borrowed once, they basically wasted $80. They should have spent the $80 on something else that people would borrow multiple times, and the person who wanted TAOCP could have gotten it via inter-library loan (probably from some university library).

And I think online databases and Wikipedia are busily killing off physical reference books.
No recommendation for a good public library. For pre-purchase of a reference book if it's current find the right bookshop and you could always do that way. Many universities offer access to their libraries. UCL access policy [1], City University Library [2]

[1] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/membership/researchers-public
[2] https://www.city.ac.uk/library/my-library/external
Interesting thought. It would be complicated to pack this into something that you just purchase. Props integrates into Slack, Salesforce, Zendesk, etc.

Maybe we are not communicating the product well on the site.
Presumably the other parts of Alphabet: longevity, health, AI, etc.
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g-force depends on acceleration (or in this case, deceleration) by definition. Deceleration is change in speed over time for it to occur. The whole purpose of the crumple zones is to maximize that time and thus reducing g-force.
>"an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness

Hmm, I'm curious about this. No animal can see high energy gamma radiation and other dangerous radiation sources, but the human can detect them with tools. That means the better detector of reality will always have a higher fitness level (we can avoid Chernobyl's radiation 10,000 years from now after its long forgotten) but animals won't. A lot of good having 10 babies is if they all succumb to radiation poisoning before they can reproduce, or have mutations that make them less fit in other ways. We can extend this to other ways like detecting disease early, seeing microrganinisms, etc. Clearly fitness is tied with some level of reality detection, at least for advanced tool using species like ours.

That said, there's nothing wrong with the idea that we might be a simulation in a larger reality or many simulations down. Penrose may not be getting his point accross well, but that idea is philosophically sound.

I don't think he's any sort of crank. He may be playing up the whole "I can model the universe to show you its really a virtual machine" but that's its own sort of mathematical solipsism imo. He does make many good points about perception, relatively, etc. Its not the usual "hey guise, quantum physics means magic is true" crap you see on the internet.

The problem is we don't know if its even possible to detect if we're being virtualized. The funny thing is that for most/all of humanity's existence this was an assumption; the world was fake or at least a temporary placeholder and the true reality was some type of spiritualism/heavenly realms. Interesting that we're going back to that in a round-about way.

I'm glad someone is taking this hypothesis seriously. Detecting if we are virtualized is just as important, as say, SETI. People used to laugh at SETI. Why are we laughing at this?
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I'm not sure why you think ai controlled airports or robot cities need to involve central planning. Airports are to some extent already run by robots and that's pure private sector:

https://youtu.be/n2Wy_tduq5k?t=53s
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"helping to cure all diseases by the end of this century"

Such humility.
I really want to punch this kid in the face.