skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Quantum mechanics continues to predict things correctly in an experiment that has a fun interpretation within pilot-wave theory.

Both of them predict correctly because they both actually use quantization of particle position. The issue with both of them is that both interpret that solution to equations as a real object - QM takes it for particle itself while pilot-wave theory assigns some real world existence to that "Pilot Wave". It would be like in case of shooting a bullet from a rifle QM would say that the trajectory is the bullet, where is pilot-wave would say that there is real trajectory object guiding the bullet.
Wasn't the announcement, yesterday, that webkit/Safari had complete implementation?
Works fine here (FF46 on Ubuntu without any special add-ons).
http://www.smartvoter.org/ gathers pretty good, non-partisan comparisons of candidate information and ballot measure arguments.
I did read it. I just don't trust the veracity of the claims.

The best I can find is this book: https://books.google.com/books?id=-4PDCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA140&lpg=...

This text claims to have made friendly contact in 1986, and says 1994 had contact on the eastern coast.

These dates don't line up with the story, and I can't find any official source information about the contact, so the inconsistency is a red flag.
The world order on Wall Street is being tipped upside down
Many-worlds isn't mathematically simple if you demand world-splitting occurs locally.

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0103079

Interpreting quantum mechanics is often like this: you can preserve locality or convenience, but usually not both. This is why I prefer the minimalist relational interpretation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_quantum_mechanics

However, I don't recommend this as a preferred interpretation because it does not motivate discoveries (the other interpretations all fail here too). So far, none of the interpretations has led to a new physical theory, and in particular none has really helped the study of quantum gravity, which if anything is the whole point of metaphysics: to aid in learning.
No one works on Sundays where you are?
Ok, but wouldn't it be nice if usually you weren't in doubt, because there was a really easy way to educate yourself on all the candidates?
Is there really enough value in subtyping to keep it around?

Sure, lots of things in the real world are naively "is-a" relationships, eg.

interface Fruit {
boolean isSoft();
}

class Apple implements Fruit {
boolean isSoft() { ... }
}

class Banana implements Fruit {
boolean isSoft() { ... }
}

But this is both less explicit and less flexible than modelling it as a "has-a" relationship, eg.

interface Fruit {
boolean isSoft();
}

class Apple {
Fruit asFruit() { ... }
}

class Banana {
Fruit asFruit() { ... }
}

The latter example needs no subtyping, and thus no covariance and no contravariance. All for the price of an explicit .asFruit() here and there instead of an implicit upcast.
I've often thought that a new version of the Copy Shop (e.g. Kinkos) would probably be a better start for mass 3D printing because the machine could be much better than the home model and people really don't need to use it that frequently yet. $130,000 might be good enough for that use.
Jeg mener "skovjordbær" på dansk (som vel er "smultron" på svensk).
Google dorking is still a thing
You don't need the day off if you vote by mail.
I've found that as I get older, I'm in positions where because I have a number of responsibilities to my child, partner, coworkers, and community I have to force myself to put various issues "off the table" for conscious thought.

These responsibilities often entail dealing with a great deal more ethical ambiguity and have far fewer simple answers.

In addition to that, over the years I've learned many new facts about the world which indicate that I'm not as nice or good a person as I had previously understood myself to be.

At least in my case as, I get older I feel have both fewer options and the world is more complex than I had thought it was when I was when I was younger.

So my assumption has been that saying "I don't need to deal with XYZ" is probably far more common as folks get older.

And this doesn't seem to be a bad strategy.

On one hand, most large issues either resolve themselves are outside of any person's actions. On the other hand, I may gain even further insight about things as I age.

So I think that "hiding more from ourselves as we age" is probably normal.

I sure as hell don't have the optimism to look at the world with a head full of acid at this point in my life-- it's a horrible shit show of violence and greed even when I'm sober, and every year the possibility of doing much about it via individual action becomes less tenable.

But who knows, maybe I'll age into having some clearer understandings that will leave me more optimistic as I move into my 40s and 50s. Or get better at ignoring the vast problems.
a wise and benevolent AI would likely do things unwise for the long term survival of humanity
Let me give you an example. I'm not a white male. My girlfriend is white. I have learned, after several experiences, that if you are pulled over, you roll down your window, keep your hands on the steering wheel, look straight and answer "yes sir", "no sir". Deviation from this protocol can result in anything from a search, to a beatdown (in extreme cases).

She, on the contrary, has not. She has been pulled over a few times, of course.

2 months ago, coming back from visiting a friend in NorCal, I pulled on to the highway and as I was merging, sped up. A CHP car just happened to be there, and tagged me. We were pulled over. I immediately assumed the aforementioned stance. She, on the other hand, decided to cheerfully take off her seatbelt, turn around and start digging into her bag on the rear seat, looking for a book, her glasses, etc. And the officer could see this rummaging from his vehicle.

What ensued, was not pretty. Lets just say that my GF has a new perspective on how to behave when pulled over.

My point is: unless you belong to a set that is consistently treated differently, you will never understand their point of view.
I'm seeing "BUILD SYSTEMS RAPIDL" over here on Linux.
When I worked at Bloomberg, the origins of that font weren't a mystery. I used it on my company-issued Mac and loved it. Whatever they paid for it, the price was definitely worth it.

I don't suppose I'll ever find a suitable replacement, which also means that I jump at every opportunity to try out a new monospace font. I currently have 7 in my .Xdefaults, and these are just the ones I kinda-sorta liked and hadn't deleted.
...but how do we get to remote working without crushing isolation? Can tech solve that problem?

Can tech solve the problem of getting a coffee with a couple of coworkers and feeling connected to them in a way that helps the technical argument two months from now?

Can tech solve the "Do I have my coworker's undivided attention or are they multitasking and ignoring me" problem?

Can tech solve the "I'm in the room with my boss and he can't ignore that I'm a human being" problem?

We are social creatures. A slack conversation isn't the same, and I don't think a VR conversation will be the same, especially with further distances. Do we say that everyone must live within 1,000 miles?
https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon/issues/376
For the last 1000 feet you can just have an employee on-site.
No problems here - Chrome, Mac.
Have a look at ssh-guard, there is a Fleet example for deploying it that I've been using.
I realize that, but all to often bad ideas are implemented incrementally. Online registration is an obvious step along the way. Next up: Internet ID (for "secure" online registration).
See also my issue about implementing the equivalent of Meteor's write fence: https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon/issues/344
Oh don't get me wrong, I don't think this is good.

I'm a developer and growth hacking is a mystery to me, I'm always impressed to see which "moves" are able to increase the user-base.
No, a representative sample votes.

A shift in the demographics of voters influences change.
The UK has an insurance lookup database, although you're only supposed to use it on your own car: http://ownvehicle.askmid.com/

I've been wondering if it would be possible to combine that with ANPR to give a dashboard-level indicator of uninsured vehicles to watch out for.
This will probably sound wacky but here's what I think:

There are two steps to conveying a thought in a language:

1. recall the grammar rules and vocabulary
2. form the sentence

The steps are fundamentally different in that the first one is an exercise in recollection whereas the second one is a "creative" process of some sort.

To prove a mathematical fact you go through the same two steps:

1. you recall all the past mathematical knowledge
2. you deduce the fact in a creative process of meshing together the facts you just recalled

So conveying a thought in a language is sort of analogous to proving a mathematical fact.

But clearly when doing math step 2 is given the spotlight whereas when you are talking in a foreign language step 1 is by far the hardest.
Because electric cars need a critical mass in order for charging stations to reach a critical mass in order for electric cars to become ubiquitous.
I feel like FB needed it and also released it to the public, but outside of FB, there's little Reason to use it.
> There is no explanation of the fact that many-worlds also explains

They do mention many worlds albeit not in too many words ;-) it just says it is rather a convoluted explanation just like the other ones. Infinitely many universes being generated during every particle interaction is just as silly as a funny path or Copenhagen.

> There is also no note of the fact that all interpretations of quantum mechanics can explain all possible experiments that fit the predictions of quantum mechanics.

So what did you mean by "many worlds" being "mathematically simple" isn't it the same mathematics, just different interpretation of it?

Not sure what you man
I've added it to the programming font comparison at http://s9w.io/font_compare/
Thought it was mostly summed up in the first paragraph... "Reason is a new approachable interface to the OCaml language, with the long-term goal of improving the developer experience by providing a functional syntax and toolchain for writing, building and sharing code quickly and easily."
My wife absolutely loves the mailed ballot approach in Washington (I'm not eligible to vote). Particularly because Washington appears to have votes of some description every quarter.

The information booklet that comes with it has been great for kickstarting investigation into the candidates and their policies, and the various other proposals that are up for the vote (booklet has both for and against arguments from different interest groups) so that she's been able to be a lot more informed as she prepares to vote.
How would making election day a federal holiday increase voter turnout among anyone not working for the federal government. Plenty of federal holidays are working days for my company.
No I don't, I was just wondering if it was discussed in the book you linked. But again, you're talking about a correlation in this comment, and I'm wondering which way the causation goes. I don't know if there are any studies on this.
Man, I wish someone would release tools for building fast, safe systems so we could follow that model!
> there are people that swear by using variable space fonts for programming

This might include Bjarne Stroustrup – all the code examples in The C++ Programming Language is in a variable space font.
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It looks like a rebranding/spin-off of G+ communities. Why not, they did it for Photos, they could do it for communities.
I wouldn't be surprised if his involvement in Solar City comes into the picture somehow either.
One thing I've always wondered about: It seems that Postgres is designed to use the operating system's capabilities in terms of disk caching, I/O scheduling, Multitasking etc as much as possible, whereas most other databases take the opposite approach and try to bypass the operating system as much as possible, sometimes even to the point of bypassing the file system and doing raw disk I/O. AFAIK something like Oracle is almost an operating system by itself.

What lead to that design decision and what are the tradeoffs from it? Intuitively it seems like it'd be better to bypass the OS, but on the other hand Postgres does work incredibly well.
>Ever think that you're contributing to the problem?

How? The articles aren't for me. I'm fine with pot being legal for medical purposes or otherwise. The articles usually seemed to be aimed at (probably older) people who think marijuana is the devil's weed, and using stoner slang as part of an article to illustrate the positive side effects is counterproductive, in my opinion. Why does it matter if I ignore the article at that point?
Plenty of people work on Sundays. Where are you?
Google's next major Android hurdle
Mini Monster Truck with Suspensions You Can 3D Print in One Piece
That's fine until you start talking about a magical collapse process that happens conveniently at sufficiently large scale. IMO postulating additional non-local, non-unitary, ftl, etc. collapse process is strictly more complicated.
Perhaps that has something to do with people who aren't supposed to vote, who's demographics skew to the left side of the political spectrum:
- Foreign citizens with drivers licenses
- Permanent residents with drivers licenses
- Felons with drivers licenses
- Drivers under the voting age of majority
- Non-naturalized immigrants with drivers licenses.
What are the dependencies for installing the gem? I assume the machine will need rustc/cargo to compile the gem.
I agree, but you can patch the font yourself

https://github.com/powerline/fontpatcher
just out of curiosity, how many human languages do you speak fluently?
Having the same issue, it loads very weirdly.
That's EXACTLY my point, I'm from the "third world" and our election is on a Sunday and Monday is off for everyone, elections are a celebration, it should be a very important moment to everyone, enough to get so drunk the day after :-). It's so confusing living in the USA and looking at so much justified apathy for the political environment.

What people here would never understand (and this is due being mostly white nerdy dudes here) is that it's so hard to get time off work when you're a blue collar guy, and even though it's paid off in some states (California for example pays for 2 hours of work that day) it's not enough. And it's stated by many companies that your work is more important, especially since nobody goes to vote anyways.

I work at a startup and nobody went to vote, everyone has work to do. I cannot skip a "lunch meeting" cause I don't have "lunch meetings".

And finally, I don't want to keep beating the dead horse but whatever, Bernie Sanders reintroduced the concept and hasn't being enacted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Day_(United_States)
Do you know of any evidence that a representative sample votes?

Even if that's true, I think 100% voting is a worthwhile goal, because it removes any doubt. If voting is already perfectly representative, then nobody should have a problem with this initiative, because it would change nothing.
So, you're asking if democracy is a popularity contest? Are you suggesting it's not?
Shameless plug:
why not something like this: https://github.com/grafie/acceptum/tree/master/firefox/dist

Save screen-shots to the desktop with the option of encrypting them...

Oh, and it's also free...(Linux + Firefox 35+)
Helping Bosses Decode Millennials–for $20,000 an Hour
Pretty sure it was the gif. I've disabled it. Could you try again?
100% voter turnout assumes that not voting is a not an meaningful expression of someone's right to vote. Unless there's option to express this within the voting system, there will always be voters that don't vote.

Second, if it's safe enough to bank and file taxes online, it safe enough to at least take an unofficial, but publicly published count online; people could for example update their vote during the run up to the official election.

Some countries have had penalties for not voting. Unclear if this helps, or hurts, the system.
It's basically the theme of Asimov's later works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Daneel_Olivaw#The_Foundatio...
Is there any way you could explain that again? I don't quite get what you are doing.
Thank you for this page! It's such a ridiculous time sink though. But thank you anyway.
I suppose the lizard people do in fact support Sanders and Trump.
Well there are a bunch of comments from Debra Cleaver in this thread that make it clear that she doesn't trust online voting yet. But yes, this is an obvious step along the way. Eventually we will get to a point where online voting is practical and safer than physical voting.
Put a gun to people's head to vote? I can think of few things more morally reprehensible than that. An individual should determine how, and if, they participate in civic life for themselves. The view that sees individuals as simply so much chattel labor existing for the benefit of whichever bureaucrats running the state at a given moment is simply unsupportable by any sort of real logic. To give you warm and fuzzies that vote-suppression did not occur is insufficient cause to demand that I participate in a system that, where I live, has no effective choices in any election cycle and frequently poses questions which simply should not be open to democratic opinion at the get go.

Your view is also terribly naive. If you get your way, what prevents the "shenanigans" from simply moving to another part of the process, say before the vote? Also, I would simply turn in a blank or random ballot because playing along with the sham of legitimizing the outcomes of questions where there is no choice is not tenable: do we stop secret balloting to prevent my antics? Do we evaluate the votes I make to determine whether or not I'm being a good citizen?

The big lie of much of "democracy" is, as a magician once put it, "When I cut the cards, I let you glimpse a few different faces. You conclude the deck contains 52 different cards (No. 1—Pattern recognition). You think you’ve made a choice, just as when you choose between two candidates preselected by entrenched political parties (No. 7—Choice is not freedom)."

Your proposal simply puts the threat of force to those that would not otherwise play the charade.
Group C: Group A and Group B completely miss the point, their choice is meaningless until Issues 1, 2, and 3 are addressed.
I think the question was, what's the relationship between Reason and JavaScript?
Chrome and Safari both worked for me. Common reports about Firefox, so I disabled the gif. Can you let me know if it works now?
Polls close very early. Good luck getting there on time if you work far from your district.
The measures that were taken to keep people "safe" were definitely a factor. In psychedelic circles it's called 'set and setting' and it is an integral part of the experience. Under the influence of psychedelics, one is much more susceptible to the information from the environment.

I don't think it's possible to do fully blinded studies with psychedelics. However in an older study (Griffiths I think) they gave placebo or psilocybin to the participants on random basis, but eventually everyone had one experience with placebo and one with psilocybin. The measured effects did clearly distinguish between placebo and psilocybin.
BUILD SYSTEMS RAPID
Nokia Asha 308 / 309 shipped with PCM in 2012.

But by then, the feature-phone business was in fast decline, and I guess there wasn't enough demand for continued investment that technology vs. more investment in higher capacity NAND for the smartphone market.
Excellent work Slava! Have been planning to migrate to RethinkDB for one of the existing projects, great timing with Horizon :D
> Occupants sharing an office and occupants in open-plan offices (>6 occupants) had significantly more days of sickness absence than occupants in cellular offices.

I hate open plan offices more than anything but this isn't a good argument; if I'm more effective when working remotely, then taking days off is potentially good. It takes more research to relate this one-liner back to productivity or creativity (whichever metric you prefer).

Love the link to the sartre deep-dive.
It's surprisingly easy to fool oneself into thinking they've successfully implemented Paxos.

You may want to try 6.824: Distributed Systems https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ I learned a lot from working through the online coursework.

Alternatively, download the labs and see the wide variety of unit tests. There are a few devilishly difficult ones.
This looks really great! Does Horizon support pluggable transport? I would like to use Ajax paired with EventSource/SSE over HTTP/2 for bidirectional communication instead of Web Sockets.
We have a short-burst, write-heavy, mostly cpu-bound, work-load, which according to the various financially incentivized critics would completely knee-cap us for our use of Meteor.

Except we:

1) optimized our database operations

2) relegated cpu-bound work to micro-services that could process work from a queue at their own pace

3) Leveraged the ecosystem to writer smarter and more concise code

Know your enemy and know yourself and you need not fear the result of a thousand battles (Sun Tzu). Meteor is an amazingly productive ecosystem for writing real-time applications. No it will not solve every problem you throw at it.

Just to be clear I'm not hating on Horizon. I definitely will try it in the future.
Except that's not the context for this thread at all. What you originally responded to was a comment about the webification of everything, and the lack of MIT-licensed GUI libraries. Several people other than me all responded to your contentions about web-stack being great, easy, conceptually sound, etc.

There was nothing in the OP this thread devolved from about Python itself, other than it having a great QT library. And as far as context is concerned, this particular comment trail was a response to the ease of using Python, not anything at all related to it being "serious" compared to web-stack.

How are we so far apart regarding what is actually being discussed in context? We can both read the comment thread we each keep replying to. Your context (and points) keeps changing.
Can you explain why it's necessary to prevent people doing those things, or to impose a totalitarian state, in order to prevent identification of random citizen x by random citizen y?

It seems what's actually needed to prevent that is controls on the creation and use of large databases in order to identify faces (except under some list of acceptable uses). People who work in IT often express disbelief that laws like that could work. In fact, factors that humans understand like scale and intent are an important part of law, and laws written in those terms are commonplace.

Re villages: another thing commonplace in the past was brutal violence. In the past, it was obvious that brutal violence was inevitable. Then, we made it illegal, and it largely stopped. We should do that again, in this case.
> and by the observation the universe splits into a "left version" and a "right version"

Isn't observation just a particle interaction? Or do you mean a human brain should be present in the loop to register the value.
>I've yet to meet this mythical "apathetic American" that people talk about

Well now you have.
1 CPU cycle is not really comparable to 1 s.
A thougt that you can think of in 1 second can be extremely complex.

Nitpicking? neh dont think so.
I think it's a new frontend for the OCaml compiler. Allowing reuse of the backend / similar semantics, but with different syntax.