skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(going offtopic) Seems everyone has a different taste. I prefer medium-weight fonts, Courier is way too light for me. Do you work on a Mac BTW? I think there might be some massive rendering difference between Macs and other OSes. You can tell by reading people's blogs. Some authors use super narrow, gray-on-white font, which is generally unreadable on Windows, but I think it may look just fine on macbooks.

Personally, depending on editor (each editor has slightly different rendering, spacing, interline etc.), I'm using DejaVu Sans Mono or Lucida Console.

I dislike Consolas, because it's too blurry for me; so much that I generally immediately delete it from my OS installation, in order for it to not show up when I'm reading coding blogs.
This looks great. I wrote my first complicated Firebase app a couple weeks ago, and looking forward to rewriting a version of it with Horizon to compare the two.

I couldn't find it in the docs, but what is the equivalent to Firebase.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP?
For push notifications, yes, but these are "browser / desktop" notifications, which only show up while the application is running. It's possible this works on mobile with the app running in the background, but I haven't seen it before.
>wouldn't every candidate attempt to win their elections by appealing to the lowest common denominator?

I think that's sort of how democracy is supposed to work. Politicians win when they can convince more people than anyone else. It's like that famous quote: “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others”.

Yes, everything would be better if countries were run by benevolent geniuses who always implemented the right policies even if they weren't popular. But failing that impossible paradise, democracy is the best option. And if only some people vote, and everyone knows in advance roughly who is going to vote, democracy won't work as well. The government should reflect all the people it serves.
Site doesn't load in Firefox. Works in Chrome.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712496 and marked it off-topic.
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS—EXCEPT EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE

What part of this is so hard to understand? Stay the fuck away from there!
A sample would be nice. Look at this one that another commenter here linked to: https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig. Samples! You immediately know what it's about.

I don't think a ttf font can't compete with a handmade raster one like Terminus. Maybe on high dpi displays?
From what I have read, it appears that intelligent and informed people also happen to be the ones that vote (likely for social or ethical reasons). I have not seen evidence that mandatory (or strongly encouraged) voting leads to a more informed public; do you have any evidence of this?
This is awesome, really looking forward to it. Rethinkdb is my goto database for everything nowadays, and I tell everyone I meet about it.

Also: kudos to whoever is handling the artwork/marketing side of things. Love the vector art and website designs.
Why is many worlds far fetched? We observe it in a smaller scale in experiments when you pass light through a half silvered mirror. It's just the logical extrapolation of that observation to the macro scale.
Amazing for who exactly?
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If you are talking about Pilot Wave Theory - it definitely is not simpler mathematically. It might not require complex numbers, but it still requires the same number of parameters. It is actually more complicated to do multi-particle physics in this setup. But at the end they are just equivalent descriptions (same mathematical object, different ways to describe it).

Many-words is pleasant because it requires (arguably) less "mental gymnastics", but again, it is just an interpretation of what the equation means. It is still the same equation, the same mathematical object.

The claim is that Quantum Mechanics (or QFT more generally) is not a complete theory (and we do know that to be a fact, it does not work when space-time curvature is important). The only reason I personally find Many-words interesting is because it might be easier to generalize to a complete theory. But again, if we are constraining ourselves to flat space-time, all those interpretations are completely equivalent.
Definitely. The code here assumes that the vehicle's vector is perpendicular to the optical axis. If you had enough information to calculate the vector it would just be a little extra trig to measure the relative speed minus the offset of your vehicle's instantaneous speed. This is easy for side to side movement, a little harder in the depth direction - though you could get some depth info by comparing the size of the car contour at two or more snapshots (smaller indicating that it's moving away). The framerate/resolution of the RasPi setup probably wouldn't make it a good choice for this though.
We are talking about choosing a language like Python normally considered a serious language vs. HTML/CSS/JS/DOM (PHP?) which is often considered less serious development frameworks.

If you go back and see what I originally responded to, perhaps the context becomes a little clearer.
Kinda. But while with the Copenhagen interpretation the "wave" is internal, Bohmian mechanics makes it external. And thus the question becomes, what is the source of this wave, how can it be affected by events, etc etc etc.

And thus you get nonlocality. Where distant events generate a "bohmian wave" that impact local experiments even if they carry no particles.

I guess you may see it as a case of unobserved butterfly on Pluto cause avalanche on earth, simply because the wing flap set a pilot wave in just the right motion.
It doesn't contradict the thesis.
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Yes they are. go back and read the thread from the beginning then it becomes clear how "most people" are relevant.
Yes, this is exactly how I'd describe it. I remember watching The Hobbit and being blown away. I felt like a kid all over again.
Don't forget that for every await - you or preferably someone else has to write the Promise boilerplate!
The world of its time.
Couldn't you just get a decent security camera and uh, well... look?
One day I'll come across a monospace font that will look & feel as good as the Bloomberg Terminal font.
It's a sad commentary on the state of public transit in the USA that a system which (using its most optimistic projections) hopes to achieve a 21% farebox return by 2021[0] is "fairly impressive"... or, if you count capital expenditures (like the private sector has to), less than 5% (meaning 95% subsidized). But that's a hell of a lot better than VTA here in Silicon Valley.

[0] http://www.rtd-denver.com/documents/financialreports/strateg...
They don't have to break Ethereum, just the DAO code or surrounding systems.
Thanks for taking the time to explain your view - I can totally understand the points you're making and pretty much agree on all counts.

I'm with you thinking Azoff might be using a third-party system, and that could be the friction.

That third point though - it's something that Green's point kind of glosses over - YouTube's Indie contract (according to Zoe Keating, who posted here) essentially said the artist(s) MUST join YouTube Red, or otherwise none of their material would be included in the ContentID system. That essentially meant a free-for-all on piracy because YouTube - apparently - was playing fast and loose with Safe Harbors.

I don't think there was much clarity in the aftermath of the agreements, and Azoff doesn't help his case when he can't directly refute what Green states (he needs to if he can) - and I can't say I'm all gung-ho about either side in this situation either. I am but the chaff in the money making wheat crop of those two.
Is it at all possible that the will of the people could influence change more often if more people were involved?
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1939 was a long time ago, everyone who made important decisions then is now dead. The world was completely different back then in technology, culture and economy. No country that has been around greater than 20 years has held a consistent foreign policy. While what you said is true, it is completley irrelevant to a discussion of modern US foreign policy - we aren't the isolationists we used to be.
Have you ever looked at Meteor?
I like this source code pro fork with ligatures (at times more irritating than useful, but sexy):

https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig

edit: switched to Fira Code Light (now that there is a light version)

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Indeed, I've never found the many worlds (or any other) interpretation to be more compelling than admitting that quantum mechanics is just plain weird.
How'd you get such an awesome domain?
Website fries the CPU (FF).
Slightly related, I've been thinking for a while how an editor that tracked indentation and made each indentation/scope a different background shade and/or slightly smaller font might be interesting to play with. Does anyone know of a system that uses this?
Could voting be "improved" if instead of higher turnout with the same outcome the focus was on informing voters on the issues better?

In other words, rather than let's say getting 100 yeas to 80 nays versus 1000 yeas vs 800 nays, on an issue, might it not be better to get 95 nays vs 85 yays on a material issue?
It has worked just fine for me on Ubuntu (and other distros built on Ubuntu) as well as on Arch Linux.

I still use Firefox though. Extensions are better.
I was curious why it doesn't scroll. Barely works but gives a CPU spike and just jumps around between pages...
Jim, shenanigans is the word that comes to mind for me as well. I've yet to meet this mythical "apathetic American" that people talk about, but I've met tons of people who were prevented from voting by administrative incompetence (at best) and what appeared to be deliberate attempts to prevent citizens from casting ballots.

Here's an fun example: 7 out of 9 of the states that were prohibited from changing their voting laws under the VRA of 1965 immediately passed restrictive laws once the VRA was gutted.
Well, then I'm glad to say the society I live in cares more about saving lives than selling pizza. Our emergency services aren't any better than yours, mind you, but our pizza ordering systems suck more!
You say that observation shows many worlds. I say that the photon interferes with itself. I find the latter far more plausible than invoking multiple universes for the photon to interact with.
Pop-science articles about quantum mechanics make this fallacy (affirming the consequent) all the time.

Them: "PilotWave implies E. E was observed. Therefore PilotWave!"

Everyone: "AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaargh! That is not how science or logic works! You're missing the 'not-PilotWave implies not-E' part!"
Consider https://larsenwork.com/monoid/
For the most part you're not doing live animations, statically drawing on a 3 canvases would give you what you want (without huge overhead of DOM nodes and simplicity of 2D canvas painting). Web workers aren't going to do much since most of your lag is coming from way too much DOM (causing layout, repaints to take forever).
Incredible, but you are correct. Pegs 1 CPU in FF and while it loads, it barely scrolls.
This is about voter registration, it has nothing to do with electronic voting.
The particle goes through one slit, but the wave goes through both (all) and continues to influence the particle.
Ah, why do these kind of Physics FAQ always claim to be objective and then obviously are not? This fact commits all the sins of the typical physics FAQ. For example it claim sthat only many-world is scientific, that other interpretation requires extra assumptions. It even labels Copenhagen as being "vitalist". It also does not address some very valid cristicisms:

1. Conservation of energy.
2. Relativistic observers seeing multiple decoherence events in different orders.
3. Experiments that affect whether a particule pair did decohere inthe past. (i.e. quantum state recombination.)

Basically, MW assumes that the probability wave exists and that all outcomes exist, which is a very big assumption, which that FAQ gloss over rapidly. (And then explictly call other interpretations' assumptions as a negative...)
Ok, don't laugh: I did a whois search, got the owner's contact info and sent an email. We spent the better part of a year discussing the sale. Both political parties had tried to buy it from him in years past. Ultimately he sold it to me because we are fiercely nonpartisan.
I was able to load it on Firefox 46.0.1 but it pegged a core completely.
While the original Electrolysis work dates back to 2009, the project was put on hold for a couple years in the middle. Development resumed in mid-2013, as the archive of meeting notes shows:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/Meetings
I have, they're not really the same thing: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Firebas...
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I do not think this is a fair description of the Copenhagen Interpretation in practice. I would consider working with density matrices, Lindblad equations, and more general Master equations to still be covered under the Copenhagen interpretation, and in this case there is not much "collapse of the wave function".

Maybe I am just misunderstanding what people mean when they say "Copenhagen Interpretation", but it seem unproductive to argue about it if we do not first include system-environment interactions (e.g. with a Master equation).
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How common are dozens/hundreds of try-catch blocks in javascript code? Developers have long ago stopped caring about uncaught errors because it doesn't matter in the code they are writing, they catch every error they need to and leave the chips to fall where they may.

In the same vein async.js will be catching all errors passed to done(err, response) and in the case of async.series() and similar calls, will stop the execution of concurrent actions as at the first error that is caught.

Therefore I think its completely valid, because even though our examples are different, to most developers it doesn't even matter.

I think you have a completely valid point, and it's probably a better world where we have proper error propagation and composition, just the reality of the situation is what it is.
The UK increased postal voting, and found greatly increased fraud: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26520836

I'd be concerned that some of the increased turnout aren't real voters...
Government should be aiming to hit the lowest common denominator.

It's a tragedy that candidates get 51% of the votes (representing 25% of the electorate) and then start blubbering about their mandate.
I don't follow your logic. The question of whether or not we have free will is independent of the question of whether or not events from the past influence our decision-making process, which seems to be unquestionably true.
It is the dominant reason people join companies. Perhaps the author just assumed this to be understood?
Seems that she is speaking more to what makes a 'motivated' employee - mastery, autonomy, and purpose - according to author Dan Pink.
It's pretty sad to see your statement downvoted. I, too, consider voting to be both a duty and right of citizenship, and wish more people felt the same.
Pretty nice. Since the line in the 0 is so shallow, it looks a lot like the θ. I prefer dotted 0 because it's a character that frequently repeated as in "100000" and the slants all together there makes it feel skewed and uncomfortable.
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Same here. What a piece of shit the internet has become.
I've worked with RTV for years and have nothing but great things to say about them. They, like Vote.org, are nonpartisan. I can speak to our motivations, however: we want to see 100% voter turnout and don't give a flying fig who you vote for, as long as you vote. We've been criticized by both sides of the aisle for not appearing to have a political stance, but fuck it: voter turnout is too important to waste time on partisan games.
There's a package for emacs to do that:
http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/color-box.png

http://foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/
That's pretty unfair. He's not making a rocket that's magically 10x lighter, he's making it cheaper. And he is helping make batteries cheaper.
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I feel like the canonical URL for every page should be an UUID, with a database of which human readable document names maps to which UUID:s (and a history of changes should be provided via some tool in case somebody links using the human readable name and it gets replaced, perhaps via the sitemap page).
Ok, it might be the end of the day for me and I'm denser than usual, but I can't understand what is this? Ocaml to JS transpiler?

Checked this out, but the reason still eludes me:
https://ocaml.io/w/Blog:News/A_new_Reason_for_OCaml (pun intended)
One of the more interesting ideas I have rarely seen in fiction is an actual benevolent and wise AI taking over. Closest is probably the Culture novels which shows up as a very odd society.
I have a theory that since that the USA doesn't make election day a federal holiday is one of the major factors the working class of america is not voting, usually it takes too long to vote, and it's not paid for employees, especially blue collar ones.

I wonder what are your thoughts about it, and how can it happen in America? I've seen every single proposal be rejected in congress.
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This definitely makes me feel more warmly toward OCaml. Syntax has kept me away in the past. It's silly, but it's really hard to evaluate a language if you can't read the examples.
oh, interesting. i guess i know doom and gloom people from both sides of the aisle, but more from the conservative side? at the same time, americans are overwhelming positive as a people, are we not? why get up every day if you don't think the future is bright enough to justify shades.

(yes, i just made a corey hart reference in public. i think i just dated myself)
when will these companies learn
Our feature toggles have tended to live for months to years. Sometimes the really old ones were our fault for not removing, for example we rewrote our payments UI in mid-2014 and the flag stayed around for more than a year after we were at 100%.

Other times integration with third-party tools was what held us back. We rewrote our product pages in 2013 but our recommendations vendor was scraping the old version until 2015 because no one wanted to spend the vendor hours switching it to the new version.

My favorite was our add-to-cart actions. In the old platform we ended up with about 10 different user flows after clicking the "Add to cart" button from 2013-2016. This case was driven by heavy AB testing (should we show a confirmation modal? tooltip? send them to the cart page? what about an interstitial page that shows recommended add-on products? etc). In this case we accepted the overhead of lots of feature switches because a .1% conversion bump moved the needle pretty far.

The shorter flags have lived for a couple months as we build a new feature and then test into it at small percentages to work the bugs out. Once they're in at 100% and we're confident we rip the flag out.
Some physicists are drawn instead to the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which observers in some universes see the electron go through the left slit, while those in other universes see it go through the right slit

This phrasing is so unfortunate - a much better understanding of MWI comes from looking at its original name, the "theory of the universal wave function": there is only one universe, it just happens to be described by a single wave function that describes the superposition of many different possible states that the universe could be in.

The nice aspect of this theory is that it is mostly identical to the Copenhagen interpretation, but resolves the problem of wave function collapse in a perfectly clean way: there is no collapse, it's just that the act of observation causes the observer to become entangled with whatever it is that they're observing.

If you really want to talk about multiple universes, you should at least clarify that it is the act of observation that causes the split between universes. So it's not like there are multiple pre-existing universes, and in some of them the electron goes left while in others it goes right. Rather, you as the observer start it one pre-existing universe, and by the observation the universe splits into a "left version" and a "right version". It's a subtle but important difference.
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

In case you didn't already know that this exists.
i just laughed aloud at this. gold star for humor.
Powerline support? Kind of a dealbreaker.
Also the patent application claims priority to a provisional patent application filed October 24, 2014, which was in all likelihood filed in view of the paper being submitted on October 30, 2014.
I had never seen PCRE regexes. I was thinking about the plain ones. This was pretty cool, thanks for sharing:)
Hmm, here the elections are on sundays because of that. USA votes on workdays?
Completely unuseable for me as well.
People like to say that syntax doesn't matter and over the long term maybe it doesn't but anything that detracts from learning a language does matter and sometimes syntax is exactly that needless barrier.
I know that it's common to have namespace collisions, but their logo is so similar to Reason magazine's. https://reason.com/
I recently realised that one big advantage of compulsory voting is that it completely kills attempts to suppress voter registration or differential turnout.

How do you plan on dealing with voter suppression and gerrymandering?
you can use site like www.botpages.com to promote them, they also offer analytics platform for bots inspector.botpages.com/signup
Let your sitemap page provide a URL history database (directly accessible from any 404 page too!) for every non-permanent URL. That way you can find old permalink mappings for your links.
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There is nothing logically wrong with that. Evidence is anything that makes a conclusion more or less likely (in the Bayesian sense). All else being equal, knowing of a gap in an otherwise constant stream of communication makes a in-person meet-up more likely than it is without that knowledge.
There may be consequences of each different interpretation, that might leave it open to different results in some conditions. I remember Many World theory claiming there would be some unexplained signals in cosmic background radiation.
How about "Object speed measured by image processing (extracted from video input)" or osmbipefvi for short....
Interesting - had to look that up.

Here's a Quora post about it: https://www.quora.com/What-font-is-used-in-Bloomberg-Termina... . It's designed by Matthew Carter, the designer of Georgia and Verdana, he's an expert on screen-readable fonts.

The interesting thing is that one part of the optimization for finance was all those special fraction glyphs. I have never seen such weird fractions in actual use, I would have thought people use normal decimal numbers everywhere.
or you know, automate it
Quantum mechanics given a single world would have to be nonlocal based on bell's theorem. Only Many Worlds can give a local account which might work.
Indeed, rendering makes a huge difference between OS'es. Personally, I find the Mac (and iOS, those are equal I think) rendering quite nice, the Windows rendering reasonable, and the Linux rendering (at least in gnome, don't know about other wm's?) just ugly, but that's just my opinion. :P