skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point seems a bit fatuous, a bit like arguing that a modern desktop machine isn't turing complete because there is a finite amount of memory.

No, we can't reverse entropy, or avoid damage to our bodies. But that says nothing about whether we can slow it down, or do enough self repair, to consider these problems practically solved.
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Winter, specifically snowy conditions, is certainly an issue for not only Flux but all 2 wheel forms of transportation. We are focusing on building a small electric vehicle that works in many, but not all, situations. Our plan is to build out fleet of vehicles that work in specific situations. A winter small electric vehicle is at the top of that list.
Yeah, I think seed (and "pre-seed", sigh, that is now a thing too) and Series A are the most geographically specific. IPOs happen anywhere (or rather, happen nowhere). B through Pre-IPO happen basically anywhere for the strongest companies, but for a marginal company and earlier, there might be some geographic focus.

OTOH, VX flies SFO-AUS nonstop.
"If this interpretation of the data is correct, then aging is a natural process that can be reduced to nanoscale thermal physics" - this was utter crap. No wonder this guy is at a liberal arts college. You can't equate atomic force breakage to senescence. Without any scientific linkage it's like linking the sinusoidal pattern of seasonal temperatures to the amplitude of an alternating current. Welp, must mean that the basis of temperature is electricity right?

"But the sheer number of possibilities being put forward refutes the very possibility. They can’t all be the cause of aging." - Wrong, more likely it's a mix of all of them. You can cruise PLoS One and realize that most researches in this area realize that it's likely a combination of many underlying factors from other researchers' discoveries that contribute to aging.

One more thing, how does an open system become limited to the second law of thermo like a closed one?

Stay scientific Hoffman.
I suggest people to walk the fonc mailing list, lots of old threads with smart people discussing interesting ideas.
$20 is stupid
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Meh, sometimes there are easier ways than GC.

Just allocate all the list items from a big pool of memory that you own. When you're done, throw the whole lot away in one go. Languages like C++ tend to encourage micromanagement of data but it's not the only way to do things.
Cursory googling would suggest it is valid.

I don't think Zuckerberg is gonna call you and verify his employment.
After reading the discussion yesterday on the Save Firefox post [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678516], I'm still unclear if EME is a compromise that provides a standard for proprietary DRM solutions to talk to any browser, or a backdoor that will allow media companies to remove user control and decide which browsers win. If it's the former, that feels like a good thing compared to the proprietary plug-in days of yore.
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Apple deleted my backups from icloud, my win7 laptop, and all copies made on flash drives. I had successfully backed up music not purchased on itunes for years but now Apple says, "Oops, sorry. Just use apple music" How can I restore my music? I'm not paying for apple music and my cds were stolen last year so I cannot reload.
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Mopeds is a misnomer. As several people have mentioned below, it is a legal classification. We are thinking of changing to Flux Motors, focusing on small electric vehicles, not just electric mopeds.
If you have a recovery email setup it will also receive that notification.
Awesome! Glad to hear it helped.
You are correct -- this is only US Politics right now.

The biggest limitation we face is simply getting reliable access source material / TV content. In order to count airings of ads in another country we would need access to video streams.

We do have a few international channels in our TV Archive (although we don't use them for the Political TV Ad Archive). We'd love to expand that some day...
I've no experience with hard realtime systems, so I won't debate about that (I'll just say I doubt Scala is suitable for that either), but Haskell can be used to write simulators and games.

Haskell is currently a practical general purpose language. I don't see any evidence Scala is any better at this. Are you speaking from experience?
Related: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/04/nature-versus-art.ht...
That would apply if there were honest, inevitable biases, and the journalists and editors were striving for integrity. However, in a situation where they are at best not very good, and at worst they are trying to manipulate the public opinion en masse, how can you use that kind of data? Isn't it garbage in, garbage out, no matter what your process of synthesis may be?

In the good old days of the Soviet Union, we could "read between the lines", because the censorship system was not very effective, and the journalists were pissed off. But we still failed horribly at understanding what the world looked like west of the border, and imagined capitalism was some lesser form of paradise, and were quite surprised when we had to start living it.

Personally, I am weary of reading people who I know try to manipulate me. I always suspect if they try hard enough and long enough, they may succeed. What is your method, and does it work?
I wasn't implying that upvote means agree - only that upvote and agree are positive rather than negative sentiments (because I was proposing a broad pattern match not an exact semantic match). But your explanation does make sense to me, that is a plausible stance, thanks.
I can't imagine the stress that Holmes goes through on a constant basis. There is the usual startup founder stress, but this feels like another level.
> Ultimately it is good news

Yes, but if you read the article, it's dropped from 1% to 0.2% - so from a tiny fraction to an even tinier fraction, working out to a drop of 0.1 percentage point per year

So beyond the psychological frame, not much has changed.
pizza.com and sex.com. Two things the human race cares a lot about.

Pizza.com was sold for millions http://www.cnet.com/news/pizza-com-domain-name-fetches-milli...

So was sex.com http://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-most-expensive-domain-...
Those creatures have evolved on their own tangent. Quite interesting to see how different they are compared to the creatures outside of the cave.

On another note an well hidden cave like that would be great for preserving man made historical artefacts.
You can't get away from human judgement. If you stop relying on editors' judgement, you'll end up with spam and people gaming the system. To fix the spam, the process of generating the feed will have to be tweaked. The nature of these tweaks (not to mention the design of the original algorithm) reflects the judgement of the human programmers.
None of what you just said has anything to do with Twitter having a "Trust & Safety Council", or taking other steps to help users protect themselves.
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There is a pretty massive difference between choosing the values he chooses to promote amidst employees and systematically changing news stories.

For example, I would routinely fire most employees who expressed sentiments similar to Donald Trump's in an office. I would not censor Trump from customer feeds though.
At Bleacher Report we use a Ruby app called Gantree to manage this process. It pulls in appropriate ebextensions for the deploy by taking a convention over configuration approach, deriving the correct extensions from the stack name.

https://github.com/feelobot/gantree
1 year at Cisco Systems hardware engineering internship, 1 year at a mobile startup before mobile was really a thing, 8 years at Goldman Sachs in their electronic trading business- business side, 1 year own startup, 3 years electronic trading startup, now- building this out.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441020

1. Don’t be afraid to start over. The problem with largely starting my career at Goldman Sachs was that you feel like you’re running so hard/fast with blinders on. Also, and maybe this is a New York thing, I started to identify myself with my job. I had to learn that I am not my job. All of this made switching friction very high. In my time at GS, Facebook was being created, and Google became what it was today. In reality I was letting the outside world evolve, while I sat somewhere that refused to. I felt like everything I had “built”, career-wise, would fall apart the day after I left Goldman. The reality was that my career didn’t fall apart. But the products/businesses that I built meant less to me, and I was more excited about the future of what I wanted to build. I felt finally unchained. I should have left 4 years before I did.

2. Keep closer to technology. When graduating in 2002 with a Computer Engineering degree, I heard people around me snicker -“Didn’t all those jobs just get outsourced?” It was a bad time for technology, it was a bad time to graduate with a computer engineering degree. Because of my career choices, I ended up focusing more on the business end of things (which still worked out well), but technology is my first love. I love to build things. Now I just do it for fun and hope I can build stuff that people find useful.

3. Be less afraid to fail, take more risks when you can. I played it safe when younger. Focused on making as much money as possible. I love the Elon Musk quote - “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
I have a bunch of samples right now that fake signatures.

Here's one example:
https://virustotal.com/en/file/fe8fa4daa404ebb3bd6df4c20650a...

All of them are self-extracting installers (happen to be 7zip/Nullsoft). That successfully fake sigs. Nullsoft is the most popular packer/extractor out there.

Sure, there are ways of creating an installer with authenticode that cannot be faked, but much easier to just hash it and not worry about the terrible tech that is authenticode.

Edit: That's a fake Firefox installer with authenticode that checks out according to the spec. As you can see, this is not some weird edge case.
New report: Boston a better hub for startups than SF
Another option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham#Death_and_the_a...

Bentham's head is a waxwork. As well as being lower-maintenance, this could also be for aesthetic reasons: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/jeremy-bentham/about/bentham-h...
Not true. Entropy wins, eventually.
I actually enjoyed it. May have been my device size though(note 3).
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California doesn't "need" money -- but the FTB are no joke. Don't mess with the FTB.

You need to consult a lawyer (probably costs more than $800), or just pay them the $800.
My main point is that not very many women sign up for STEM degrees. For example computer science is about 17% women students and it should be more like 50%. It is also mostly white and Asian. I don't really know why that is or why certain genders or races don't take up STEM classes even with a discount on tuition. I had to pay my own way by working part-time to afford tuition.

The argument you gave is comparing apples to oranges.

Can a white person join an African-American only campus group? Can a male join the Women in STEM group?

So why is there a Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts?

Why is there a male sports team and female sports team?

I'm not saying segregation is the right thing, but I've had SJWs tell me what white males intimidate other people, so they want to have an all female computer class or all black computer class. So it isn't my idea to separate the students.

I say that having a diverse class is the better way to go. But I've been told I am wrong on that.

There are lots of scholarships and grants for females and minorities to attend colleges and universities. So computer science should not be mostly male and mostly white.

Would a black fraternity allow white men to join?

Would a sorority allow a man to join? Sleep in the same sleeping area as females do?

Can a man join women in STEM group and get free scholarships and grants meant for women?

Those are the questions you have to ask yourself. You seem to think in black and white thinking when the world is shades of gray and in colors.
Correction to the article: There is no Ů in Czech (except for CAPS LOCKED words) - The longer "u" is written as "Ú/ú" as the first letter in a word, and "ů" in other positions (strange for sure, but because of historical reasons)
> I've never experienced null problems in Scala. There's theory and there's practice.

Yes, and I'm speaking in practice! If your language allows nulls, they will be used. I've experienced plenty of NPEs in Scala code, both from Java libraries and from misbehaving Scala code, to know this is real. Lucky you if you haven't experienced them! (As an aside: avoiding NPE is almost never a matter of simply "reading the docs". Many times there aren't docs at all, and even when there are, nulls are seldom documented).

> Being a "jack of all trades" means Scala has the superior module system

Your comparison with Haskell modules is fair. But that's just one aspect. Being a jack of all trades means Scala has poorer type inference, way worse type signatures, and generally it feels less clean than both a purer OOP language and a FP one. Scala does fine in all fronts, but not great. If you want to do FP, there are far better languages. I assume it's the same with OOP.

> SBT is amongst the best build tools ever available

If true, that's... unfortunate. SBT is uncomfortable and bizarre. Before you mention it: Maven looks likewise bizarre to me. These are tools to suffer with resignation, not to celebrate. Talking about Haskell, I'm trying to learn stack, which some say makes cabal more bearable. Are you familiar with it?

I agree IntelliJ is now an acceptable IDE for Scala. It's still ages from the comfort of using Eclipse with Java (at least what Eclipse used to be, not the unbearable beast it is now), and to be honest, IntelliJ only recently became usable. A couple of years ago (definitely less than 3 years), the IDE choked on Scala code and highlighted compilation errors left and right where there were none -- and I'm talking about vanilla Scala code, nothing advanced.
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Asynch and concurrency are very different. Python 3.5 allows first class aysnchronous calls, but concurrency is still "hard".
I believe that's: https://github.com/cdglabs/ohm ? I see I've starred it at some point, but can't remember really looking at it. But if it's a refined/improved OMeta, it would indeed be interesting. Thanks for the reminder.
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I don't see how a linguistic parser can cope with all the ambiguities in human speech or writing. It's more than a problem of semantics, you also have to know things about the world in which we live in order to make sense of which syntactic structure is correct.

e.g. take a sentence like "The cat sat on the rug. It meowed." Did the cat meow, or did the rug meow? You can't determine that by semantics, you have to know that cats meow and rugs don't. So to parse language well, you need to know an awful lot about the real world. Simply training your parser on lots of text and throwing neural nets at the code isn't going to fix this problem.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing :) I've been looking for tools to abstract the process even more so than I'm doing now. Will definitely try to get Gantree up and running.
Sorry for not being clear. This is intended for use in teaching English. What you describe falls under the purview of Creative Writing. Specifically it'd target English in grade school up until the early college college classes (the ones most people skip out of based on tests). After that, yes you'd be right and this tool wouldn't be appropriate.
Most likely it's a joke on the refused Boaty McBoatface vote http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-britain-boaty-mcboatface...
Holmes has already cashed out enough to be in a perfectly fine situation. I have little sympathy for her stress level, as it Holmes that has poorly handled the situation while profiting personally.

I worry much more about the stress from regular, honest people that are now associated with Theranos. It would suck to spend many years there, assuming that other parts of the company were doing their job correctly, only to be abandoned so completely by upper management's handling of this situation.
The blog post is just a wall of text about an unexpected login to a Google account.

2FA would have stopped that from happening. It doesn't matter what you use your Google account for. 2FA is a must.

The end.
> But what about the wave function?

Looking at the wave function changes nothing. It's all the same physics, and all the same concepts. You can't get different behavior from the physical system by "looking at the wave function" instead of looking at the particles.

> If the wave function is spatially extended, then the change of the wave function has to propagate through space

... via real particles. Which can't go faster than the speed of light.

> And the wave function contains the information that fully describes the state of the system but one can not learn the wave function in general because some operators are not commutative.

That... doesn't make any sense from a physics point of view.

You're trying to understand which is good. But you're mangling the concepts.

> If I measure a spin without prior knowledge of its state, I obtain one bit of information, I guess that is the sense in which you want to understand information, right? If I repeat the experiment with identical preparation over and over again, then I can learn the wave function, maybe 30 % up, 70 % down

No. You're learning the probability distribution of the wave function. i.e the statistical distribution of the wave function, taken over many measurements.

> If Alice and Bob do this with their entangled cards,

... they learn that 50% of the cards are blue, and 50% of the cards are red. Which they already knew.

> ... Bob can decide between the case that Alice saw a red card in which case he will always see his card blue and the case that Alice did not look at her card in which case he will see his card as randomly red or blue

I'm not even sure what that means. It's based on a misunderstanding of the underlying concepts, so the sentence doesn't really make sense to me.

> I am just trying to understand what you say, especially why one would consider the result of a measurement as information but not consider the wave function as information.

I never said that.

The wave function is a probability distribution.

Information is exchanged via real particles.

You can learn new information through measurements... but not when the underlying measurements are random. i.e. with entangled particles, all you measure is that (in this case) half of the cards are red, and half are blue. Which you already knew.

Since you already knew that half of the cards are red and half are blue, the measurements give you no new information.

The concepts are really quite simple, once you throw away your "common sense" understanding of what is going on.
Who says algorithms are the only possible determinants of something which is trending?

The article specifically points out that human editors were introduced after Facebook failed to surface Ferguson protests—making it look bad because those protests were in fact trending on Twitter. Moreover, some theoretical perfect algorithm could have asserted that was a trending topic.

In fact, there is not perfect algorithm for determining what is "trending." Part of hiring human curators is to train an algorithm which can more effectively use judgement in figuring out topics which are truly trending/newsworthy/interesting instead of coincidentally used a lot without being valuable (ex. #FollowFriday).

Moreover, it seems clear that injecting stories is actually relatively rare. The primary reason to have human curators is to do filtering to prevent the junk from showing up in trending.
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In a deep maze of subsurface caves filled with all kinds of creepy crawling bugs, where you could easily get stranded if your ropes to the surface get cut, then yes.

Yes that's fucking terrifying.
> someone has to be responsible for deciding which TLD's should exist

Why? Why can't we have as many custom TLD's as we want? Or why can't my blog just end with .helloworld if I decide to do so?
Hey, there isn't any way for me to be sure -- after some digging -- looks like a "sponsored" label is necessary [0] -- i've amended my comment.

[0] - https://www.facebook.com/business/help/community/question/?i...
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You are correct. Electric Mopeds have been around in multiple types of formats but they have not become a platform of hyperlocal transit. That is our goal.
So there was global trade in the 1100's BC?
I don't think you know what the word censorship means.
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The author is correct that Apple is haunted by the iPhone's success. My 2 cents:

1) The car business delivers lower margins than the iPhone. Even if you compare them to those of premium car companies (like Range Rover, Audi, Mercedes, BMW or Lexus).

2) The iPhone didn't had comparable brands to compete against, when it entered the phone market. It came with a hefty price tag. A sum that was never even considered mass-marketable before. The iPhone created the premium sector for phones. It raised the share of income people considered plausible for cellphones.

The author is also right in that apple is very good at applying their business model to new markets. But

3) to become premium in the car business either means

- lowering their margins

- producing cars that aim at a smaller/niche market (Porsche to Ferrari/McLaren),

- lowering the costs of the supply chain currently in use by other premium car makers.

The last one would be doable, certaintly by Apple. Certaintly with EVs. But I doubt it would be doable without any information leak other than this article.

4) More plausable for apple's margin territory would be an attempt at the user interface of cars. Like appleTv is for television sets or the healthKit-API.

The problem with cars is not the getting-from-a-to-b-part, not the status-part or the comfortable-interior-part. The problem with cars is the user interface-part, it's the outdated-touchscreens-part or the connecting-and-charging-and-holding-your-phone-part. It's the car's software that sucks. And for some that sucking software includes the driving-yourself-part. Reaching out to current premium car-makers also points into this UI/API-direction.

5) Also there are a lot of lower hanging fruits out there, easier to tackle than building a premium car. Like VR or building physical television sets, home automation, healthcare - or wait, software.
I've been using Upverter for a couple weeks on a series of boards and have mixed feelings. Broadly it seems to work fine though there are a few niggles here and there.

There are definitely some random bugs (DXF board outline import?) and they have been silent on the support forums for a few weeks.
> obviously promoted content

There is absolutely no evidence that you can pay to get into trending.

If there were, it would be a much bigger story than this flimsy article which is rooted in the editorial judgements of a few contractors.

It really annoys me when these drive-by insinuations about "promoted content" are made. Digital media companies—including news outlets, Facebook, and Google—all actually are careful to label anything which is paid placement as such. All these baseless accusations of unlabeled paid placement do is undermine the moral standards for labeling paid placement.

If you are going to make extraordinary claims, please bring extraordinary evidence.