skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Studies on statistical aggregations often show that a crowd can make a better guess collectively than any individual member.

If you ask a crowd to guess the number of jellybeans in a jar, the people who are the worst overestimaters and underestimaters tend to cancel one another out, and the mean and median of all responses will be shockingly close to the actual numeric value. Therefore, my hypothesis is that reaching 100% voter turnout will be more beneficial per unit cost than any attempt to "inform" the citizenry already most likely to vote.

Here is a thought experiment. 20% of voters are knowledgeable about a subject, and vote accordingly. 80% vote based on a coin flip. How do the random voters harm the outcome of the vote? They add noise to the result, certainly. But if the signal from knowledgeable voters is unable to overcome the random noise, how certain can you really be that those people are correct? Is it at all important to know what percentage of all voters cared enough about the subject to self-inform, rather than just trust their lucky voting coin?

Outside a hypothetical, people are very rarely entirely ignorant of a subject. Even if they know only one true thing about it, when they vote based on that thing, it is incorporated into the statistical aggregate, and therefore influences the final result in some small way. If you restrict the vote to knowing certain things, only those things end up influencing the final result, and you can therefore bias the result by changing the test criteria.
I use it (mainly for the adblocker), but FF on Android inexplicably fails to run well on certain pages, even after I disabled uBlock Origin and requested the the Desktop versions of the site. humblebundle.com was the last site I recall where I actually had to open it in Chrome Android to get the site to render properly.
/r/machinelearning is pretty high quality, very technical. You'll see a lot of well-known researchers posting there sometimes (whereas here you only see karpathy every once in a blue moon). I'm only a random guy who did ml research as an undergrad.
The rent for office space is around $75 dollars a square foot per year in SF. So, and 18 by 18 office space will run you about 25K a year. That's a pretty big office, but we still have to put up the walls and the door.
In Postgres, sequences are guaranteed to be monotonically increasing even in the presence of failed transactions. So retrieving an index using nextval()[2] will never collide[1].

[1] A malicious pedant could create situations where it wraps around or collides.

[2] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-sequ...
Electrolysis breaks extensions that use low-level APIs designed in the single-process era [1]. This breakage drew the ire of a vocal minority of Firefox users enamored of such extensions, and AFAICT that's the major reason why e10s has taken such a long time to get enabled in release.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_mul...
Docker 1.11 et plus: Engine is now built on runC and containerd
Thanks for pointing out the similarity in intuitive justification in Shalizi's text, I have that book on my to-read list already, fun to see I wasn't far off.
Average movie lengths from 1931 to now
Here you can find an example in JavaScript that visualizes the Paxos algorithm: http://harry.me/blog/2014/12/27/neat-algorithms-paxos/
Surely among those who already vote, there are also the most partisan and most fanatical among the whole population so you really cannot conclude that those who vote are necessarily more informed, just more motivated.
I've been rather fond of Adobe's Source Code Pro[1][2]. Notably, it comes in weights all the way down to ExtraLight. My typical setup these days uses ExtraLight in iTerm2 on retina displays. Depending on the display (and sometimes the font renderer), I'll play with combinations of weight and size to find the best fit for a given installation.

[1] http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/

[2] https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro
I'm afraid I don't have any specific textbooks to recommend, I've learnt mostly through osmosis (having no real bio background originally), and I've also found the Coursera materials [1] to be really good and accessible.

A colleague of mine (who does have a strong bio background) also recommended the Open Science Network [2], which is essentially a Maker Lab for bio. It's based in Vancouver, but I'm sure other big cities have them too. I haven't tried it myself but I'm definitely interested, they have a good reputation for openness and collaboration, no matter your level and/or background.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/courses?languages=en&query=genetics

[2] http://www.opensciencenet.org/
do you have a source for these? ta
"Does someone pirate DVDs and put the proper UPC on them?"

Yes. That's called counterfeiting.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/04/30/counterfeit-si...

And by the way yes, I understand how commingling works, and Amazon says they will not do it with DVDs. I understand that Amazon says they can trace who provided the goods I receive. That protects Amazon. It does not protect me.
Source Code Pro and Input Mono both have light and extra light weights.

https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro

http://input.fontbureau.com/
We are talking about developers building applications here, not "most people".

Most people don't know anything about HTML, CSS, JS, the DOM, how we got here, how it works, etc. They are neither the target audience of the article nor of the discussion happening here.
It's plain inconvenient to walk like this.

The problem is, this doesn't scale. While this could be acceptable for a person some may call a "tinfoil-hatter", it's certainly unreasonable to think of general population to walk with rocks in their shoes and heads masked.

So, this doesn't solve the issue.
Perhaps too much emphasis is being put on technological and cultural advancement when thinking about these things. It may be that a tight knit, homogenous society has fewer problems in general and thrives as long as outside influence doesn't overwhelm it.
You might like the "elastic tabstops" idea: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

Although the editor support for the concept doesn't look great.
This argument that the alternative to using Roundup is thousands of deaths per year from tractors rolling over would be laughable, if not coming from a paid shill.

Tractor roll over deaths were eliminated by the 3-point hitch in the 1940's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_hitch
<Put housing above supermarkets! Offices inside apartment complexes!>

Sure, that's the ideal and gradually becoming more common. (Heck, the Two Worlds development in Mountain View -- ground-level retail with residences above -- dates to the 1980s.)

But again, the trick is figuring out a way to force people to only take jobs within their building and/or move to the building where their job is (and move both when either changes). It just doesn't work that way in the Real World.
People like you are quite rare. Most people will vote for the lesser of two evils once they hit some level of disgust.

If you read their methodology, they are trying to reach a large group first. I seems someone as rare as you doesn't matter when thousands of easy votes are still out there. Even then they may fix something else on the way to voter turnout of 80% or 90% that may be appealing to you.
>This work shows that non-voters are have even worse prejudices and are less knowledgable than voters

Does that book discuss causation? Do people not vote because they aren't paying attention to politics, or do they not pay attention because they aren't planning on voting?

I think it's at least plausible that if voting became very widespread, people might feel more pressure to stay generally informed. And of course, politicians would be forced to communicate to everyone, rather than just to groups that are most likely to vote.
Flirting with Humanity
So, you don't have to install Docker, administer a server, do updates, back up data, and deal with ISP's over outages? I didnt realize Docker was that far along in zero management and maintenance. Send me a link so i can try that out.
That's not fair - plenty of people have defined "observer" in plenty of different ways (including defining it away, like decoherence supporters would prefer), it's just that there's no consensus because it's mostly a matter of philosophy without any experimental consequences.

As for nonlocality, entanglement is a fundamentally nonlocal feature of quantum mechanics. There's no way to excise that from the theory, even if you can't exploit it to transmit information faster than light. I'd say calling it inherently nonlocal is entirely fair, that's a very different claim than that we can transmit information faster than light.

...which, as an aside, would not even in and of itself necessarily be problematic, closed timelike loops (for instance) are perfectly fine and good as long as you account for the fact that quantum interference will have very strong effects even at a macro scale in such geometries (the grandfather paradox gets interfered away, more or less, even if macroscopically unlikely things need to happen to end up with a reinforced consistent timeline).
https://www.google.com/#q=mnist
A Host of Soon-To-be-Expired Patents Are Set to Revolutionize 3D Printing
>When programmers are doing things that actually endanger people's lives directly...

Toyota famously had some issues with their software and fatalities. It'd be hard to license software development though because it's such a quickly changing field.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643204
Not much of a things that aren't there at all, but polishing existing libraries would be really useful. Many of them have substantial gaps in features. Of the things I looked at recently: email sending, network libraries, web frameworks, webservers (http2 and websockets integration is a big gap).

Things I'd love to see implemented in rust: antl support, gegl, lucene, terminal ui toolkit, python, nltk
There is a whole family of plants called "bedstraw" that were traditionally used for stuffing beds, and they do have slender tendrils all over. This name is quite old in english (medieval-ish).
SpaceX entered a market with few competitors, none of which are defacto government agencies. The civil engineering market is much more competitive. Expecting the same level of cost reduction just by having better operational efficiency is naive.

Thus the argument needs to be that Hyperloop is intrinsically cheaper, whether built by Musk's company or any random civil engineering company. I don't see any reason why that is the case, Hyperloop looks a lot more complicated than HSR to me.
Oh they undergo a selection process alright.
I won't care about Edge until they've open-sourced it and made it cross platform.
writev() still doesn't work, Scott. That breaks countless tools, often subtly. The fix somehow didn't make it into the latest insider build.

My solution? Wait for Windows update to change every Windows component, in hopes that I can then maybe run cmake in a console window.

Like I said, I appreciate the recent progress, but this is exactly the type of goofy situation you used to jump up and down about years ago.
Judging from the more informative videos linked in other comments, there is a brief timelapse shot of the printing. But I agree that with all the other CGI it is hard to trust it is a real timelapse shot.
I'm not sure what is more far fetched - many worlds or non-locality.
I don't like all the features you turn off, and most seem to offer no security benefit.

Turning off pdf.js is arguably a security downgrade, since it is a sandboxed javascript reader and any other means of reading pdfs will not be sandboxed.

As for additions, CanvasBlocker is important to prevent browser fingerprinting and doesn't interfere with your browsing experience once you turn off notifications.

Ideally, Firefox's password management ought to be turned off and you should instead use KeePass (and the PassIFox firefox addon).

I would also recommend turning on e10s since it sandboxes a lot of stuff in processes, and is fairly stable now.
What does that say about people who can't be bothered to register and/or vote?
That is just plain bombastic. It says "All the other theories fail for logical reasons." No reasons given. It has a link, but the very first section in the link says "Copenhagen Interpretation... not fatal, but unpleasant". Well OK, you don't like non-locality. That's not a real argument! And a bunch of the questions about linearity ignore the fact that gravity is clearly non-linear.
And still does! It's obnoxious that Google shows more ads to non-Chrome browsers.
Mostly works in Sublime, which I've been using with Input Sans for a bit over a year. The only thing that breaks is indentation guides, which end up in the wrong place.

I would not want to go back to a monospaced font.
Much worse version of monopolistic tactics I agree.
The FAQ repeats some things I've heard about Meteor -- specifically that its architecture doesn't scale.

But Meteor isn't completely prescriptive. There are several pieces that can be swapped out: You can use Angular, React, or Blaze on the client, for instance.

From what I've read, it doesn't look like Horizon is a complete framework, just a database client/server component that can be used with any framework.
I haven't read the book in question, but I wonder which causes which: does being more informed cause one to be a likely voter, or does choosing to vote cause one to become more informed?
Java Implementation of Algorithms from Norvig's “Artificial Intelligence” Book
That won't work, you can't eval modules.
There's a screencast fresh off the presses on the info page at https://ocaml.io/w/Blog:News/A_new_Reason_for_OCaml

I'm finally going to switch away from my ancient nvi setup and use Atom instead! MirageOS recently moved all our libraries over to using the new PPX extension point mechanism in OCaml instead of the Camlp4 extensible grammar. This means that MirageOS libraries should be compatible with Reason out of the box -- so it'll be possible to build unikernels from a slick editor interface quite soon hopefully!
So, I think there is some misunderstanding here. What you've linked here are Push notifications, which yes, go through GCM and do require web service calls. This JS library is doing Desktop notifications, which afaik, are an entirely different thing, and are strictly limited to "within the context of the active page."
Voting for 3rd party's often has a larger impact than voting for the top 2 party's. Remember in a 2 party system each side wants to minimize the perceived differences. But, if a 3rd party gains support one of the major party's will generally add those ideas to the platform.

Most recently is probably Libertarian > Tea Party. Not that they really had much impact, but people paid lip-service to the ideas.
Don't most areas with lots of college students just see lines at the post office to mail in absentees? When I was in school nobody I knew was registered locally.
From 2011:

Adobe ends mobile Flash development, will focus on HTML5

Adobe will no longer update its Flash plugin for mobile browsers, though it will continue to issue security updates and bug fixes. The company issued a statement to developers conceding that "HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively," adding "that makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms."

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/9/2549196/adobe-flash-androi...
Is Gut Science Biased?
About a month ago I saw a news story that said Chrome finally passed IE, based on some other browser usage tracker. Each website that tracks this can have some huge bias, so making a general claim about a browser passing another doesn't really mean much.
From the article:

"In Bohmian mechanics, every electron always has a definite position, even if observers are ignorant of what it is. An electron is pushed around by a guiding "pilot wave" that influences the electron's location. While each electron travels through one slit or the other, the pilot wave passes through both slits simultaneously. Interference in the pilot wave leads to the observed interference pattern."

In the unlikely event that I understand this correctly, isn't what Bohmian mechanics calls "the pilot wave" just what the Copenhagen interpretation calls "the electron"? (Or perhaps "the electron's probability distribution"?)
My eyes are burning. Gimmie the old 3270 terminal typeface anyday!
A Five-Time Grammy Winner Explains Why YouTube Are Total Scumbags
Computerphile: Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
CVE-2016-0718: Expat XML Parser Crashes on Malformed Input
The comparison is fundamentally flawed because the amount of jellybeans in a jar is an objective fact not subject to interpretation by anyone's values.
It looks to me like Horizon and Meteor are solving problems in different scopes of the application stack.

Horizon looks to be more like the Minimongo/DDP/Accounts parts of Meteor, and doesn't help with any more of the stack like Meteor does (eg: In Horizon its more up to you to wire it into Angular/React/etc). Meteor is more of a platform and Horizon is more of a real-time client DB and account framework.

If I had to choose between the two, Horizon would be good for if you had a strong opinion/technical need for very specific coupling between UI and DB, and Meteor for when you don't or need to get something out very quickly (eg: this weeks internal CRUD app for a few dozen users).
> only make the requirements the minimum necessary to satisfy public safety.

I'm okay with that. A hair stylist shouldn't need to complete a cosmetology degree, as in that NPR story. But I would very much* like for them to have taken a test that, at some point, at least asks them if they're aware that you can spread certain diseases if you're not careful about what you do.
At some point, YouTube worked better with Safari than with Chrome or Firefox. YouTube would serve VP9 to browsers that supported it, but it was not hardware accelerated, so it used much more CPU.
Houses don't typically require licensed design professionals in the US and there are quantum life safety differences between a single family dwelling and other occupancies. These differences are why a McDonald's kitchen has a HALON fire suppression system over the cooking systems, a movie theater has fire sprinklers, and an office building has fire resistant construction around the stairs.

The role of the insurance industry is mostly a result of its having a vested interest in collecting data and mitigating risks. Keep in mind that "meeting code" is a standard for the worst legally allowed construction and hiring professionals is a market driven improvement over the provisions dealing with shoddy construction one finds in the Code of Hammurabi.
I find more informed people are often less motivated to vote.
Until http/2 comes around? I've been using it for a couple of months on all our client sites and the standard was finalized last year. It's now available in all current, major browsers.
HP PageWide in 3d. The 2d printers are really nice, and don't suck down power like lasers.

These look like production presses but for 3d parts
Chances are that before you get your thing published on IEEE, someone else will start and finish writing an application and maybe even get the patent granted...
Looks great. Its like a control panel that can help manage a server without using command line.
I'm a big fan of TheSansMono - but its not exactly cheap (I think it was about $120 for the "office" group which I bought).

The characters are pleasing, easy to read, and really I just find them nice. http://www.lucasfonts.com/fonts/thesansmono/thesansmono-offi...
Hi Debra, is there any information on who donated to your cause, what institutions and personas? Are you funded by some pro-democracy circles?
I never said anyone should care. You asserted in your prior comment a number of things "I want", assumptions you made about my state of mind and what I think. I replied with an explanation of what I actually think.

You keep jumping all over the place in each of your comments here, throwing out one assertion after the other, making up what you think applies 90% of the time, then constantly rebutting with whatever you've chosen to be "the point" in a given comment. It makes for very tiresome and fruitless conversation.
When you have to choose between hidden variables, nonlocality, and many worlds, the opinions differ wildly which one of these is more simple.

Everyone claims their version is the most simple and logical, but then others disagree.
This must be one of the most amazing fluid dynamics videos I've seem :)
It seems to be a "dreaded third thing". Wealth and education seem to be highly correlated with electoral participation, and both wealth and education are indicators of knowledgability and rationality.
Happens all the time in my [red] neck of the woods.
I didn't want to mention how price points would shift due to increased supply, but in doing so committed an oversimplification, so you are more correct.

I suspect that they're making the right choice since I'm just some dude on the internet and they've run the numbers. I didn't mean for my comment to sound like I had the answers. There are many unsolved challenges for solar in deserts as well: http://www.nomaddesertsolar.com/the-desert-solar-challenge.h...
You probably would add the most value by improving the maturity level of existing libraries. Some that I've run across that exist but don't really give me much confidence in using them in production include:

https://github.com/sbeckeriv/warc

http://techern.github.io/Varint-rs/varint/index.html

https://github.com/hyperium/hyper

https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto

https://github.com/servo/html5ever (largely on the performance front; on a recent test of GZip + WARC reading + HTML parsing, Kotlin (on the JVM) + WebArchive Commons + JSoup beat Rust + warc_nom_parser + html5ever by about 25%, which does not fit with Rust's reputation as a fast systems programming language)

And libraries that I wish existed but which don't really have good options:

Web crawling. Hyper is listed above as an HTTP library, but there's nothing like Apache Nutch which respects hostloads and robots.txt and works as a turn-key solution.

RSS parsing. RSS serialization works, and people have written toy RSS readers, but nobody's written a robust, self-contained RSS parsing library.

Machine learning. It was a shame when Autumn.io gave up Leaf.

Big data. Create a Hadoop/Spark alternative in Rust and the world will love you, at least if you can beat Hadoop's reliability, performance, and ease-of-use.
Replace non-locality with infinite universes, which is more troubling? The article does touch on this question.

Additionally, the article's aim was to demonstrate that the ESSW does not contradict pilot-wave theory, not to show that pilot-wave theory explains the results better than alternative theories, and it demonstrated this by showing that there is no contradiction if you take in account nonlocality.

The title is not misleading because the experiment described in the article does provide experimental support to the theory, support which ESSW aimed to take away. Importantly, it is not an experiment designed to show pilot-wave theory describes the results better than other theories.
This community often seems to think that something is dead just because people don't use it in SCs or in startups, completely forgetting the average person. By their logic Windows is dead, Oracle is dying etc. the only successful companies are Google and Apple.
These are not actual "push" notifications, they are desktop notifications. Different functionality, and no service workers.
Not democrats, but liberal fiscal policy.

Although seeing as how there's no party in the US that would cater to social conservatives and fiscal liberals (and vice versa), your statement is mostly correct.