skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
even if there were some yet undiscovered particles or forces, they wouldn't have any effect whatsoever on the world around us. This we can say with certainty.

Would you also assert that radio waves have no effect whatsoever on the world around us?
> I just said my kids and I are fully vaccinated.

You explicitly stated that this isn't going to be the case:

> I'm not going to get my son vaccinated.
That's a fuzzy concept though. By that definition, you could easily make an argument that everything we see is supernatural because aspects of natural laws that are not well-understood can be conjured up in any number of ways, especially if it's up to an individual to define what it means for something to be well understood.

And as understanding progresses, it would replace magic piece by piece. You could argue that's what happens with scientific progress anyway, but that's just a psychological description. Very few people are arguing that understanding replaces actual magic.
I am no fan of anyone that is currently running for President. Assuming that Clinton, Sanders, or Trump ultimately win, Congress and the Senate will have to be our last line of defense in keeping the "winner" from doing serious damage to the country.

That said, I absolutely think that Facebook and other major media outlets should be held to a form of the Equal Time rule:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule

The fact that we don't have an equivalent rule for major websites is a serious problem.
Productivity? You’re doing it all wrong
It would seem to be useful to start with the question of representing the position of a particle with other particles. For any situation, you will need some dynamic range of measurement to describe the properties of a particle. Classical position might want 10 bits, interpreted as meters. With 6 numbers (position and momentum in 3 directions) that's 60 bits per particle. Even at 1 particular per bit, that's still a ratio of 60:1. And 10 bits is certainly not enough for some phenomena! The bottom line is that if you converted the universe to computronium, the absolute best you could do is simulate a universe 1/60th the complexity. In real life we do many orders of magnitude worse, memory cells require millions of atoms. This also doesn't deal at all with the computation required to advance the state of the system. Perhaps by focusing on the experience of life you can make the ratio make sense again. E.g. don't simulate particles, simulate minds (for which a particle is only an abstraction anyway), and you recover that ratio, and more.
I'm curious: other than the obvious (MongoDB) what are the other offenders?
A handheld GPS typically offers a few options: (a) fastest route, (b) simplest route, (c) shortest route. These problems happen to people who pick (c) or worse, pick (c) with an added "avoid major roads" modifier. Which can be a great option if you are hiking or biking or sightseeing and want to see the "real country" and don't care how long the trip takes or how bad the roads are.

The main thing this says for autonomous cars is: don't do that. If the routing algorithm has a bias towards picking highways and major roads and roads you've used before, this problem should virtually never come up.
But the site has a responsive layout clearly designed to look nice on mobile screens (with hamburger menu and everything :), so, at least on some level, they are caring about mobile.

BTW, the website looks really nice. Kudos!
I'm sure they've addressed this very issue. They almost certainly just write to the standards and don't bother putting in any browser-specific hacks, which is pretty much the best way to do things anyway, IMHO.
After working with address data for the past year or so, my answer is yes please.

Address data is so incredibly difficult to work with and it's pretty clear that it's difficult for everyone involved. Census data is incorrect, OSM is often incorrect, other free sources are filled with typos, post office is consistently bad (No, my last name is not Nicholson...), shapefiles are often haphazardly done. It's so difficult to work with. That said, the amount of quality work to even get it to this point is amazing. Serious kudos to everyone who helps out here.

I've spent an asinine amount of time recently trying to get Chicago's parking ticket data cleaned up. Lake Shore drive is probably the #1 culprit:

Unique lake shore drive instances:

$ grep "LAKE SH" tickets.csv | awk -F';' '{print $7}' | sed 's/.*LAKE/LAKE/' | sort | uniq | wc -l

128

Example of the awfulness:

LAKE SHORE DDRIVE
LAKE SHORE DER
LAKE SHORE DE WEST
LAKE SHORE DIE
LAKE SHOR EDR
LAKE SHORE DR ''
LAKE SHORE DR AV
LAKE SHORE DR AVE
LAKE SHORE DR EAST
LAKE SHORE DREIVE
This was an excellent speech that was perfect reading for a Sunday afternoon. Thanks for posting!

Put simply, the argument is that religion may be a kind of emergent evolutionary phenomena that has a collective value that we may not yet completely understand, but that nevertheless fills some vital role in a way superior to any of our conscious attempts. Basically, despite the universe emerging from bottom-up processes rather than top-down, there may still be a legitimate coordinating role at the top that we subconsciously fill with our artificial gods.

It's a longish piece of writing, but I highly recommend reading the full text.
Thanks good idea. I see a lot of people are entering movie titles, so I could add a search by movie feature. Or just make a better UI to make the intent clear (popular searches would definitely help in that).

By the way I am in the process of resizing the DB instance, it was not really ready for this kind of traffic. :/ So I hope service will be somewhat better shortly.
I understand the sentiment, it does feel good to know your town is 'on the map' so to speak, but I do think there's something to be said for supporting local businesses too.

To give an example, I grew up in a small city. We had a McDonalds, a Burger King, etc... but we also had local burger places that made tastier burgers than those from the big chains. I found those local burger places gave me more pride in where I lived than just that we had what lots of other places had.

I guess what I'm saying is that local shops can add more to a sense of place than the ubiquitous chains. Is that something you'd agree with?
with the risk of sounding cynical here, but it feels this is a solution from people that aren't familiar with what the problem is about, ending up in optimizing the wrong areas.

Few observations here:

* using udp means you don't care if you lose data and that's bad. if your buffers are full your data will be silently dropped, aside from network glitches and metric sizes that can easily exceed 512 bytes. Your buffers can get full when you wait on disk io etc..

Optimizing your network stack when your bottleneck is disk io doesn't buy you much. But the real issue that they haven't tackled is data distribution. If you can horizontally scale your data optimally, then when you hit a bottleneck (whatever it is) you can always increase your cluster size and solve your bottlenecks. In the current solution, If the machine dies, you will lose tons of data.

cow pipelining exist for a very long time now. There's nothing new in what they are introducing.

The persistent data they hold in memory is not guaranteed to be recovered if they crash before an fsync/msync.

Secondary index on time column is not enough. Queries often need particular keys only and you'll end up doing full table scans.
And as soon as you complain you are confronted with "emacs is supposed to be run with the graphical interface, just install it with the gui and don't use -nw (no window) option"... yeah, right... no thanks.
This has nothing to do with the posted article. Did you read it?
So from what I've heard unofficially from friends at NVIDIA, they've been pretty hard to work with such that NVIDIA just ended up making their own fork of Caffe for use within DIGITS.

https://github.com/NVIDIA/caffe

Am I missing something here?
This might be true but the option for Americans is the American city or the American suburb. A lot of bloggers who rail against the suburbs juxtapose it against some beautiful European city.

I think there's a handful of American cities with good urbanism, where as Europe has presumably thousands.
The area around the new co-op over by 38th st and 5th ave - yes houses can be had for 100k.
> In practice it might be impossible to tell the difference.

I agree there is no perceivable difference. As far as I'm aware, the "goodness" of those deities is imbued to them by definition, not because their actions are objectively ethical or even moral by today's standards.

If an artificial (whatever that may mean) being someday chooses to present themselves as that sort of deity, it could exploit this exact same mental vulnerability in humans. It's the ultimate might-makes-right assertion. The only difference would be this being actually exists outside of people's imagination.
Let there be light!

http://multivax.com/last_question.html
If it's true that you rarely need macros then isn't the awkwardness of s-expr syntax a very high price to pay just to have access to them?
Having worked with journalists, these sound like typical entitlement complaints. Frankly, a lot of writers have an attitude that they're "artists" who shouldn't be rushed and don't have performance requirements.

Frankly, it does not sound very hard at all. They have to write 20 posts a day, but each post is only a headline and a brief summary. A focused writer can finish that in 15 minutes.

> We had to write in the most passive tense possible. That’s why you’d see headlines that appear in an alien-esque, passive language.

Oh no! How dare Facebook strive to be neutral and passive.

> After doing a tour in Facebook’s news trenches, almost all of them came to believe that they were there not to work, but to serve as training modules for Facebook’s algorithm

Of course they were. Facebook is quite explicitly trying to apply ML throughout their site. Why should they permanently be in the business of employing writers to do something which computers could do reliably and effectively?
'luckily' - that's the strangest spelling of 'sanely' I've seen yet.
Differentiating Regular Expressions
Here I am trying to get even further into the rural and country setting with far far less people lol.

I lived city and burbs and for me no comparison, as a kid we would go in the woods outback and make explosives and set them off, try that in the city. Endless bike rides with no adult supervision and wooded areas to disapear too.

No real traffic compared to when I lived in cities, way less ambulances waking me up, gasp yes I like to sleep and dont want to hear the endless drone of humans.

I enjoyed aspects of both city and suburb and completely understand people having preference to either. I just feel this article is very biased by personal preference, the tight closed in spaces he described sound like prison to me but author obviously enjoys. There are very real issues with suburban planning etc, but I find many(not all) who have issue with burbs are people with some sort of political agenda attached to their dislike.
Sounds a bit like what happened in Stephenson's Diamond Age.
It isn't clear to me that there is a significant environmental impact from producing jeans.

The article itself says almost nothing. It quotes a Greenpeace report, from 2010, that says that there is blue dust in the streets (oh no!), that dye is released into rivers (oh no?), and that producing one pair of jeans uses 3625 liters of water.

(For comparison, producing a pound of beef takes 7000 liters of water, and a pound of almonds 4000 liters. [1])

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/food-water-footprin...
I don't know, with that kind of thinking your inevitably going to question your own rationale for believing what you do. And who knows where that could go.
What is the benefit for an existing CS student to switch to Emacs who is already comfortable with using IDEs like Visual Studio, Eclipse or IntellijIDEA?
Yeah, if you can't handle a meg of downloads, are you sure you can handle the hundreds of megs of memory? :)
By framing this is a matter of patches getting merged, you imply that there is nothing else in the way. In fact, there is no proper terminfo support for true color[1], nor even a standard, canonical way to detect true color support. All that exists now is an encoding convention which has promising adoption but which is by no means uncontroversial[2]. When you couple the portability issue with the increased memory footprint and the lack of a clear and compelling use-case, it is not surprising that this is not a priority for emacs developers.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2013-10/msg00...

[2] http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2013q3/001834...
Well self-driving cars are programmed to avoid obstacles. Hopefully it would stop at the edge of the cliff, dump a segfault onto the nav screen, and then shutoff.
Some people also like to live in communities where every house looks exactly the same with no variation, and where the local homeowners' association will send someone out daily during the summer with callipers to measure your lawn height (or fine you because a box was delivered to your door while you were at work and it was sitting there "too long.")

It does not necessarily mean that these are "good" things just because someone thinks that they are good things either though.
China and the US conduct a lot of trade and have built dependencies on each other products and services. In this regard, economies are deeply interconnected.

A slight imbalance can cause negative effects for either economy.

The fragility of the situation requires some deep analysis and, leaving this matter to a person like Donald Trump is something that concerns me.
Haven't seen that one before, but well, congratulations for making me feel old. ;).
My point is that I'm not concerned about what I, you, or other laymen think about the science, here. I'm concerned about what the scientific community thinks. The scientific community does not accept the claimed social effects for lead. It's quite literally fringe science.
There's a few important differences at play I think. First, the NYT has a few million paid subscribers, whereas Facebook is a free service with a billion and a half members. Just like their technical infrastructure, the sheer scale of their platform and reach is mind-boggling, global and borderless - unlike anything the world has ever seen. We may be fooling ourselves by judging Facebook through the lens of old media - there's been a paradigm shift and it needs to be appreciated and judged as such. Second, the NYT is a media company - which generally leans left. They create content. Facebook is more akin to the printing press company that newspaper companies employee (ROUGH analogy) or cable providers for TV. Remember how much shit Verizon (Comcast?) got itself in when it manipulated internet packets to deliver it's own advertising to its subscribers? Didn't they get sued and have to pay millions? I think Facebook manipulating its news feed algorithm should be as egregious as that behavior.
Microbes can play games with the mind (sciencenews.org)
As far as I see authors haven't decided to publish their implementation of the algorithm. That's a real pity given the fact that it's a really useful one.
If you're working with something else than C#, Java or the like (i.e. languages that benefit hugely from features offered by IDEs (or that require IDEs to write in them and stay sane - if you're not feeling charitable)), then yes - benefits of speed, flexibility and efficiency. That's without even bringing up the topic of org-mode... :).
My gut says that it's because the brands have gotten used to a fatter margin/profits, but then I'm no expert.
The water usage might be a difficult one, but much of the impact in China is probably apathy instead of technical difficulty. They simply aren't making any effort to give people masks, reduce dust, and so on.
I wonder how this happens, though. Normally, finding a route for cars will try to follow increasingly larger roads. This has practical reasons to avoid scenarios outlined in the article and also performance reasons to avoid searching the complete graph of roads.

Getting a route that follows many small roads usually only happens if you tell the GPS to find the shortest route (and really the shortest one), or by using its bicycle or pedestrian routing.

It also requires the user to ignore any signs along the way, putting way more trust in a bunch of males that's hard to keep updated properly than is healthy. (For topographical maps in Germany (I guess road maps have similar problems) it is sometimes normal for certain regions not to receive an update in a decade or two, thus sometimes showing very outdated features. OSM these days is luckily either very up to date or simply very sparse, depending on the region and how many people with local knowledge are contributing.)
Actually read the article the author uses CryptoPay which works essentially as a prepaid debit card and provides a normal card that you can use like one from a bank.
Zynga's Headquarters Is Worth More Than the Actual Company
If God created us, then who created God?
It's hard to say if the drop in terrorism related searches was due to the chilling effect or if people lost interest in the idea of terrorism.
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What does God need with a starship?
One of Doppio's explicit goals was to leverage existing resources in the browser to bring conventional programming languages to the web on top of JavaScript. Using WebAssembly would prevent Doppio from using the browser's garbage collector; we would have to write our own. It would also prevent Doppio from mapping JVM objects onto JavaScript objects.

The WebAssembly standard is constantly evolving, and now contains some ambiguous statements regarding the ability to take advantage of the browser's GC [0]. Considering WebAssembly's current focus on C/C++ code, I do not believe this will come to fruition anytime soon. If it does, I do not see how it would noticeably improve Doppio's current performance, which is bottlenecked primarily by its interpreter. A contributor is working on a JIT right now to make execution faster [1].

Hope that clarifies!

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md

[1] https://github.com/plasma-umass/doppio/pull/443
I'd suggest Spacemacs offers a better set of defaults than vanilla Emacs. Spacemacs would be a better choice for many newbies IMO.

http://spacemacs.org/
This is a part of our history that Australia has never properly accepted or dealt with. It's unfinished business for all of us.

(It's almost surprising that The Australian – our only national paper, published by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia – published this. They tend to have good indigenous coverage, but an excerpt of a book on the frontier wars? Wow.)
Reinvention of DNS. Speaking of money for imaginary rented identifiers, there is/was a LOC type for DNS. So meet me at pizzahut.com isn't going to work with thousands of locations (but... anycast?) although meet me at momandpopsfamilydeli.com will work.
Have always enjoyed these guys

http://andrewchen.co/ Andrew Chen of Uber
http://jwegan.com/ John Wegan of Pinterest

Probably more growth/product focused than PG and SA, but definitely give some excellent insight.
Sure. The syntax is distracting at first, but in my experience after a few weeks I saw past it. It's a non-issue for me at this point and I dearly miss it when writing Scala on another project.
They built a desktop app for Google Play Music
What type of hardware is necessary for this type of neural net, and how long does the training take with that hardware?
Listen up: James West forever changed the way we hear the world
It's actually counted as a 'liability' on the balance sheet. So the money is already spent.

Read the terms. The funds are NOT held in Escrow
This was presented as problem #15 (Cooling water) at IYPT 2000

As far as I remember, nobody confirmed effect experimentally at that time.
>The IRS Seized $107,000

He got it back eventually plus $20k costs
http://www.cato.org/blog/lyndon-mclellan-finally-beats-irs
This is the most beautiful thing I've seen from the GNU world. Usually all their websites and materials look like 1980s internet.
Today I had to use non emacs windows editors for an hour. All of them a subset of what I'd like. I grabbed a copy of emacs for windows build. My blood pressure lowered as I saw the splash screen. Freedom and extensibility. It's impossible to fully appreciate right away. But having an appealing website is always good.
Within Arches National Park, my GPS told me to turn left to get back on the main stretch of road towards vegas (we were in a hurry and the park seemed like a good idea at the time). It sent us on a route meant for 4x4 offroading.. in my 4 cylinder lancer. By the time we figured that out, it seemed quicker to just keep going - the GPS agreed. Well, two hours and a havoc'd suspension system later, we finally got back on the main road. Damn you, technology.

These days I have a dry erase board for directions in lieu of a gps and phone. I only need to look at it every now and then, and as long as my notes are correct, it's just about as easy to get there. If I get lost, pulling over and asking someone isn't that difficult to do, either. Not sure I'll go back. :)
It is the job of the language to ensure that language primitives are reusable and composable.

I think this would apply to whatever mechanism is designed to describe a loop's iteration space.
Two problems with this thought.

1) On average in my jurisdiction, people sell their houses once every 10 years. So the 6% Fees would account for only (6%/10 = 0.6%) annual growth, not the whole 6%.

2) You could compare this to an area where agent fees are much lower. For example, most of my real estate industry experience is in Queensland, Australia where until last year Agent Commissions were capped at 2.5%. If your theory were correct, we would have seen growth rates closer to 2.5%, when in reality they average about 6-8% per annum here as well.

I like your thinking though!
Write it yourself
I stopped reading news articles from Fox News due to their lack of journalistic integrity.
The statistic measured is "injury death rate" which explains the qualifier a little bit better and makes perfect sense. That's a fairly narrow field.

If a physical injury is to lead to death, having somebody else around to find you and provide aid / get you to a hospital is going to be less likely the more spread out people are.
For me, when I use an IDE I feel like I'm learning/using the IDE, not the language it self. I found that I was somewhat dependent on the IDE. Then I switched to vim and started learning how to actually build projects from the ground up.

I've noticed that a lot of people who use IDEs can't use anything else. Want to build an Android app? There are people who can not build an Android app without eclipse.

After learning Vim I was able to use it just like an IDE and I felt like I had a better understanding of how the projects I was building actually work.
In Delaware, Wyoming, etc, you need a physical registered address. There are hundreds of businesses in the US offering such services, and it only takes a few clicks to sign up.

The reason for them is that any registered business needs a place where it can be served legal & tax notices, etc.
I'm in deep love with sublime. Can someone convince me that I should use emacs instead?
What should you learn to get a [better] coding job
It solves exactly the same problem, using a distributed network of peers reduces costs while increasing security and availability.