skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> According to Englert [...] the Bohm trajectories exist as mathematical objects but “lack physical meaning.”

That sounds strange coming from a defender of orthodoxy. By my (layman's) understanding the rallying cry of the Copenhagen school could be paraphrased as "Just do the maths. Everything else is just metaphysics" or to put it another way - questions about what the equations 'mean' are unscientific and Occam's Razor supports Copenhagen because it is the simplest interpretation that doesn't contradict observation.
I get that security is a major, major concern but scanning headlines seems like a really poor metric for deciding when technology is "ready". There will always be bad/rushed/under-staffed developers and bad business decisions that lead to security breaches. That doesn't mean existing technology isn't capable of being secure.
A truly secure system is not going to debut in conjunction with a government vote. It just isn't, for multiple reasons--not the least of which is corruption.

Such a system would have to decide something popular, but ultimately unimportant, first. Examples would be the winner of a competition show like American Idol, or a referendum/sweepstakes to name a new Doritos or Pringles flavor.

Once the system has been proven in a large, but unimportant, nation-scale vote, we can then begin to ask "why can't we vote on important issues in the same way?"
I actually like Karl Popper's take: elections are for getting rid of bad rulers, nothing more. Constitutional limits on government ensure a free and open society, while insulating leaders from the will of the people prevents a tyranny of the majority.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/01/ka...
You can't be personally uncivil like this on HN. We ban users who do it repeatedly, so please stop doing it.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11701610 and marked it off-topic.
Most of the power special interest groups have doesn't come from their general voting patterns power in general elections.
Wouldn't insisting on motor-voter take it to near 90% ? Most states refusing motor-voter are controlled by the hard right.

Sure hope there is a plan to fund 100% more voting locations and booths.

Because Republicans have figured out a great way to kill voting when they simply just have to give in and let people vote is to defund voting locations.

Unless the plan is to just have everyone vote absentee but that allows for votes to be "lost".
It will be interesting to see how this further affects our society as public anonymity starts really going away. I have been reading The Great Gatsby. There was an interesting moment in the book where Gatsby shows the main character a medal from the war as well as a photo of him in Oxford.

THAT was how he proved that he went to Oxford. Nowadays, if you want to know where someone went to school you'd do a quick search and take the first thing you find. If you are more diligent you'd dig deeper.

It's also very clear that Gatsby treasures his anonymity and the reputation he's built around being mysterious.

The reason I bring this up, is that it represents (in my mind) an indicator that there is an argument to be made that public anonymity has already changed so much in the past 20 years. Granted there were still ways of verifying all of this information before it was just a lot slower.

This post just stirred up some thoughts that I had this morning while reading. The internet more drastically technology have changed our culture so much it's almost impossible to realize the effect.

Just thought I'd share some musings I had this morning that tied into the current topic.
Exactly that, though, the placebo effect of interest would only be induced on people who haven't tripped.

That aside, and of course accepting that states induced by psilocybin and other substances are unobtainable by any other means, you are still nowhere near saying that these same substances can _reliably_ be used to treat depression. Furthermore, this course of treatment also needs to _reliably_ not make depression worse or trigger other types of anxiety that could trigger other medical conditions. Clearly, exactly what a aperson does under the influence of these substances can remarkably impact the results of the studies, so the techniques being used are being judged in these experiments just as much as the substances being used.

One shouldn't be dismissive of these studies, but also one should understand that the techniques used aren't the end-of-the-line in terms of potential these substances may have. on the other side of the token, we must also tread carefully. We must first do no harm!
This is quite nice, and I really appreciate the proper differentiation of similar characters. It still gets a bit blurry at low point sizes, though. If you're after a font that is pixel-crisp at small sizes (and don't mind if it doesn't size up all that well), check out Proggy bitmap fonts: http://upperbounds.net/
In my experience, there are a few different types of feature toggles. Some are permanent, and are useful for operational tasks, like putting an application into read-only mode, or disabling one service that is overloaded to prevent a cascading failure.

For the temporary type of toggle, which is what I was addressing with this blog post, my experience coincides with yours-- usually a few weeks.

The trick with deleting a year-old flag (which I was trying to address with this post) was that you need to be careful when deleting code that you haven't worked on in over a year. If you have the list of necessary changes all pre-baked in a branch, this can be at least a little easier.
Most of criminal law is therefore undecidable and insane, so far as I can see, amounting to little more than a thin coat of gloss over a clumsy, ignorant, violent, and almost entirely unaccountable iron fist.
Although they seem to be very interesting problems, they are merely NLP but AI problems. Quality is intrinsically subjective and what Quora needs is the community, or a very opinionated AI.
It would be the same, but have benefits in terms of isolation and cost to the provider.
Thanks for that. Can you clarify disconnect behavior in general? Do subscribed changesets resume if your internet blips?

Also, there doesn't seem to be a callback arg in Collection#store: http://horizon.io/api/collection/#store. This is worrying. How do I know if a write succeeded?

Edit: found http://horizon.io/api/collection/#subscribe - you chain subscribe to writes when you care about their success
Vaccine against stress and anxiety made using dead gut microbes of yore
The Birth and Death of a Landscape
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-monsanto-glyphosate-id...

Aside: I get the sneaking suspicion that some high amount of "source?" requests are a more polite way of calling BS.

...especially when it would have taken roughly the same amount of effort to compose the comment as to type "monsanto sues california" into Google.
>an actual eduction

I'm not one of those people, but here it should be "indoctrinated by the state", because I think that's what our schools do. I think we play fast and loose with the term "school". For being an institution supposedly concerned with imparting knowledge on kids, the current system does a pretty shitty job of it. Most kids don't even know the algebra they "learn" in school, let alone stuff like how to pay rent, taxes, how to drive, how to budget, how to vote, how to work effectively in team situations on common tasks, how to survive in the wilderness (yes, that skill is taught in some countries). Our "schools" are awful. Maybe it's as simple as a big money injection. I dunno. But as is, it's awful.
That's irrelevant, because the turnout in-person among Democrats isn't comparable to the turnout via mail of Republicans.
That is a bit short-sighted, though. People can end up labled criminal without doing much of anything - plenty bad stories about that. Then there are folks with psychological issues - you can't blame somebody with a psychosis for what they do. Then there are people who have been abused and never got a decent chance in life to be decent people - not fair to lock them up without furtherfurther help either.

Now therr might be people who had a good upbringing and education, no psychological issues and all opportunities in life but they still become criminals. These are generally corrupt politicians and bankers and asshole CEO's and such, NOT the kind of people who would be hurt by harsh anti-crime policy.

Just how anti-encryption laws don't hinder cruminals, only good-meaning activists and journalists, neither do harsh laws against crime help against actual crime. See how Denmark and other nordic countries treat criminals - they have extremely low crime rates as result.
FINRA is no joke, I don't think your comment is actually accurate, though I do understand the sentiment.
Cooking changes the caloric content of food. Not all of every ingredient gets all the way to the diner plate.

Biology is not thermodynamics. Humans are not perfect combustion engines.
Excited to see some real code/techniques that Quora is using in future posts. I'm just getting into NLP (reading the NLTK book).
As far as I understand – and Wikipedia seems to support this – pilot wave theory, or actually any hidden variable theory, or actually any interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, they are different mathematical models that produce exactly the same predictions for experimental outcomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave

So how can, even in theory, any experiment support one interpretation any more or less than all the others?
In the TXR language interpreter, I have a -C option which takes a numeric argument: it means, simulate the old behaviors of version N. If you don't specify -C, you get the latest behavior.

Throughout the code, old behaviors are emulated, subject to tests which look similar to this:

if (opt_compat && opt_compat < 130) {
/* simulate 130 and older behavior */
} else {
/* just the new behavior please: -C was not specified,
or is at 130 or more. */
}

I think that tying specific old behavior to a proliferation of specific options is a bad idea. It does provide more flexibility (give me some old behavior in one specific regard, but everything new otherwise), but that flexibility is not all that useful, given its level of "debt".

The purpose of compatibility is to help out the users who are impacted by an incompatible change; it gives them a quick and dirty workaround to be up and running in spite of the upgrade to the newest. They can enjoy some security fix or whatever, without having to rewrite their code now.

However, they should put in a plan to fix their code and then stop relying on -C.

If users are given individual options, that then encourages a behavior whereby they use new features with emerging releases, yet are perpetually relying on some compatibility behaviors. This leads to ironies: like being on version 150, and starting to a feature that was introduced in 145 and changed incompatibly in 147 and 148---yet at the same time relying on a version 70 behavior emulation of some other feature. Hey we don't care that this new thing was broken recently twice before being settled down; we never used it before! But we forever want this other thing to work like it did in version 70, because we did use it in version 70. It's like using C++14 move semantics and lambdas, but crying that GCC took away your writable string literals and -fpcc-struct-return (static buffer for structure passing).

It's very easy to hunt down the opt_compat uses in the source code just by looking for that identifier, and the version numbers are right there. If I decide that no emulation older than 120 will be supported in new releases going forward, I just grep out all the compat switch sites, and remove anything that provided 119 or older compatibility. The debt is quite minimal, and provides quite a bit of value.
The only keyword in that article is the "If," before, "Results stand up to scrutiny." That, if you're familiar with the nearly religious proponents of deBB QM, is a BIG "if".
> This misses the problem -- often, the new feature is buggy in ways that are not seen in the initial testing.

Indeed. The only good way to enable features gradually is to use a tool like GitHub Scientist [0] that exercises the new code path and records its effects but then uses the effects of the old code path in production. This allows weird edge cases to be found and dealt with before enabling the new feature.

[0] http://githubengineering.com/scientist/ Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11027581
whenever a local election comes up, the first thing I want to know is that who are running for what, and what's their key difference and if available, track records. A quick comparison chart/table will serve the purpose but I rarely if ever found that, hope someone will create a website like that for all, so voters can know the quick-facts before voting relatively easily.
The Poverty of Scientism
I think this is a false dichotomy where, if we don't use Monsanto, we will be forced back to the stone age. If herbicides are dangerous we should start putting resources towards further developing alternatives (like the weed-punching bot Bosch is working on)
Typically the phrase is, "Shut up and calculate".
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif...

Why does this require HTTPS? How do I work around this during development?
Service workers require secure origins to ensure that the service worker script is from the intended origin and hasn’t come about from a man-in-the-middle attack. Currently, that means using HTTPS on live sites, though localhost will work during development.
US is big about boasting "peaceful change of power" but I suspect those days are coming to a head with the extremes now seen in congress.
Law Firm Hires First Ever AI Lawyer
What is your go to answer to people who say they don't vote because in the state they vote in, they believe the candidate they want to win will be elected without them making the effort of going to vote? I have a few I generally go with, but curious what you tend to use.
> causes restaurants to not list their calories as the calories of a meal do not equal the sum of it's parts.

In my area, restaurants list the calories for each menu item, exactly to the extent required by law (chain restaurants are required to public calorie counts), plus some promotional "under 500 calories" or what-have-you for diet-targeting places.
Ah, that's cool.
I agree! I'll take a look at updating our RSS feed in a bit to include the full articles.
The browser push APIs do require HTTPS, since browsers refuse to install service workers otherwise (which is required for them to function...). That said, the demo is hosted over plain HTTP, and seems to work for me (Chrome 50, Linux).
Yikes, that really seems like abuse of HTTP/2 semantics to me. My understanding has always been that server push in HTTP/2 is only intended to prime the client cache for requests you know they're about to (or likely to) make. [1]

> Pushed responses are always associated with an explicit request from the client.

I'd rather see additional frame types defined that allow for bidirectional communication (i.e. websockets 2.0) than overriding and conflating the PUSH_PROMISE frame type.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7540#section-8.2
>How does this intersect with running a startup? Grifting startups with social media expertise won't go over well.

Shitty landlords, arcane permitting bureaucracy, Philly wage tax, etc.

> Perhaps for existing workers, but between Drexel, UPenn, Temple, and Penn State, the market for CS talent is great.

Fresh grads are not the solution to all tech problems. My network of experienced developers and managers is much thinner in Philly than it is in the greater DC and NYC areas. If I were setting up shop tomorrow in NY or DC, I know exactly who I'd call first. Philly, not so much, and it's not for lack of knowing professionals in the area. Now if you need a physician, chemist, biologist or mech eng, Philly's a great place. I realize this is just me and my opinion, YMMV.

> And a terrible real estate market in both locations.

Fair point, but there's a reason DC and NYC real estate costs more. People and businesses are there. And depending on your product space, DC is especially attractive because a certain uncle keeps spending even in recession.
The fact that the parties have privileged access to the ballot is arguably not a partisan issue.

In many places, the support of a recognized party dramatically lowers the requirements for getting on the ballot. In my state, by as much as a factor of 3:

https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_requirements_for_polit...
since the discussion is about python vs. HTML/CSS/JS/DOM etc i assumed that's your alternative to what the illiterates use.

Feel free to replace is with any other language. The point still stands.
I did notice the org has raised $650K from a variety of sources.

It might be interesting to see the ideological bent of the source of that funding. But I'm guessing it probably isn't oil drillers and Jesus in public school promoters.
Reason: A new interface to OCaml
That's the first test. I'm talking about the next one. Wait for it ;)
and Larry Wall
I know "Many Worlds" and Copenhagen are different interpretations of Quantum Mechanics. If Bohmian theory is one more interpretation, then we're talking about explanations that give the same experimental results and thus we aren't talking about a situation where an experimental result could prove one against the other.

And it seems the experimental result described isn't a proof or disproof but a "demonstration how this could make sense" - a sort of "this analogy is still valid here" claim of the type that isn't a proof or a disproof.
The federal government does not need to select those books.

It can merely create a few options (from the best professionals it can find on the entire federation), and make them available for the federated entities.
Does she use "us" to refer to Indian society, or humanity in general (minus other primitive tribes, presumably)? What parameters do you base "advancement" in this case, e.g. is the Sentilenese socially "far ahead of" US society in general? How about, say, Ethiopian or Navajo societies?

Once we start thinking about the diversity of human experience I think we can see such statements as examples of the Noble Savage sentiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage)
Why should their prejudices/biases not be represented? I mean, I personally probably disagree with them, but disagreement is sort of the reason for having voting.
I've had a similar attitude when offered the chance to do psychedelics again (now late 30's, last done early/mid 20's). My unscientific hypothesis, at least in my case, is that much of the anxiety at the idea comes from:

- Everything was more confusing and uncertain back then so it was less of a stretch. With age, I've spent time developing new pathways, habits, and ways of thinking/dealing that I don't take their upheaval lightly.

As a counterpoint, I'd imagine that this is still why they can be useful as well as intimidating. The more set in our ways we get, the less flexible you are during future periods of stress.

- Association of psychedelics with a less certain and more anxious period in my life. I wasn't terribly depressed or anything but looking back...man, those years can be rough and stressful.

I think on some level I can only guess at, the desire to seek new thought patterns and perspectives feels both less appealing and less necessary. Additionally, it carries feelings and associations with the upending of a hard-won equilibrium (or at least relative stability). Not something I take lightly.

Now, that said, I'm pretty sure a mild trip would be enjoyable and I'd probably be fine doing it if the time/place was right. One thing I still stick by: the intense psychedelic journey clearly holds power and appeal for some, but there's really nothing wrong with a mild trip.

I never understood friends who would eat a strip of blotter or a bag of shrooms each. Sure, you get "totally fucked up, dude" but I personally enjoyed feeling like everything just felt a bit novel and looked a bit off rather than not being able to tell where I was at a given time.
Analyzing how Twitter and Facebook pay employees through stock-based compensation
Yeah, I actually wrote about something similar recently (in the context of a database migration): http://blog.launchdarkly.com/feature-flagging-to-mitigate-ri...
Just to clarify, the mappings for names to paths isn't enough to load an NPM-based project. With NPM you can have multiple semver-incompatible packages. It's very common to happen, actually.

For example, you might depend on "foo" and "bar". "foo" also depends on "bar", but it needs version 1 and you need version 2. In this case, setting paths for "bar" won't work, the paths are different for each parent.

The loader spec provides a hook "resolve" that allows you to work around this, just wanted to point out that configuration alone wouldn't be enough.

It's also worth noting that the Loader spec doesn't have a real urgency to it. What I mean is that likely browsers will implement script type=module first, give it some time to brew, and then pull in things from whatwg/loader over time. In the meantime we'll want solutions that do allow us to use script type=module and still have modern workflows we are used to.
AKA, India's Net.