skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the experiment does nothing to advance this theory over any competitor, or vice versa, how can you say that it provides experimental support to the theory?

ESSW demonstrated that pilot-wave theory requires a weird form of non-locality. These experiments confirm that experiment requires the exact form of non-locality that ESSW required. Whether non-locality bothers you depends on your philosophical position, and is not affected by this experiment.
The biggest reason people in the US don't vote is because they don't have enough options so they never get to choose people they really care about. Plus, no individual vote matters. This all has to do with our winner-take-all elections. Countries with proportional representation have much higher voter turnout rates (often in the 80-90% range). That's because you get to vote for the person or party you want, and they'll at least still get a seat in government even if they're just in the opposition. But you still have an incentive to get out and vote and make their position stronger. There are no lost causes or strategic voting.
With spoken languages, don't you typically get to the point where #1 is a no-op? I don't ever do it consciously in English. I rarely do it in French. I often spend far more cycles on determining the correct vocabulary for what I want to say.
A rapid prototype version of Kinkos. I love the idea, I wonder how much copies would have to cost to make it economical to buy something like this.

More likely a machine shop would expand their capability by adding one of these.
I can run the Unreal engine, use google maps but not view your website. I'm not convinced Firefox is at fault here.

Is there any interactive functionality that your website offers that would justify extraordinary demands or does it simply display some text and images?
Can we please keep using parens for function invocation? Leaving them out hurts readability.
>there is no way to verify the amount of LSD in a dose

Nor psilocybin in a mushroom...
I think they mean that it's not as useful in discovering and preventing unknown threats, but it's great for tracking a particular person (so it's a better tool for surveillance of citizens).
I don't think it was presented as a dichotomy. Just that you can't cherry pick the parts of the past that you like to support your theory.
I wonder, what filesystem are they using.
Or more general the whole software stack (what OS, etc) would be interesting to know.
No problem here on FF 48.0a2
There was an interesting and informative blog post along similar lines (that I think was linked here not that long ago), on, "Using Metadata to find Paul Revere".

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
Debra -- you're awesome. Thanks for doing this. (And congrats on getting into YC!?)

Question for you -- you famously have run the predecessor organization to Vote.org on a shoestring budget. Do you have tips on how to interact with "software volunteers" who want to help on civic projects like this?
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I think it would be more accurate to say there are 3 steps in both:

1) Recall the grammar/rules of the output language (for both natural language and formal languages).

2) Form the idea of what it is you want to express in your head using your internal language (usually your first natural language).

3) Encode the idea you have in your mind using the formal rules from step 1.

Step 1 is usually internal and subconscious for natural languages that you can communicate in freely and to an extent this is even the case for other languages and even programming languages.

For your first natural language, step 1 is usually done behind the scenes by your brain automatically, or these rules are already present in your brain in a usable form, and step 3 is trivial because you are just expressing the idea which is already in this language in your mind.
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... and the Neal Stephenson fan in me was just a smidgen disappointed that this was not the introduction of a hypervelocity flechette gatling railgun.
Hey, have you thought about writing a blog/medium/github piece about how the "average" person can check this for themselves?
Thanks, we're looking into how to fix the perf in FF. Meanwhile, it works on my tiny mobile cell phone.
I like it. I'm going to start referring to GMOs as "Advanced Varieties" and PHP as "Clarified Perl". :D
It's not a distraction, it's a better alternative. HSR is too slow and too expensive.

As for passenger capacity, who cares? This is not Japan, where density is very high and lots of people don't have cars. What's important is demand: how many passengers are actually flying between LA and SF right now? And how does that compare to the capacity of Hyperloop? Hyperloop is being positioned as an alternative to regional air travel (and maybe later for cross-continent air travel). I'm sorry, but I seriously doubt 23,000 passengers are flying in jets from LA to SF every hour right now.
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That's all new to me, and I don't know the answer, but it seems like maybe some significant gains in developer (Postgres developers) productivity (not having to deal with such low level issues) could help to offset some of the lower level performance losses by giving developers more time to focus on higher order performance gains.
Clever, hah - also loving your equally clever username.
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Stanza: A New Optionally-Typed General Purpose Language from UC Berkeley
Hello Hacker News!

We're happy to announce the first public release of the Stanza programming language! Stanza is a new optionally-typed general purpose programming language from the University of California, Berkeley. It was designed to help programmers tackle the complexity of architecting large programs and significantly increase the productivity of application programmers across the entire software development life cycle. You can check out the website here:

http://www.lbstanza.org

Here are three really cool things about Stanza:

1. It is both statically and dynamically typed. If you give no type annotations, Stanza behaves like a scripting language. The more type annotations you give, the more errors Stanza will catch upfront.

2. It has a class-less object system. We believe in both object oriented programming and functional programming, and designed Stanza's object system to seamlessly incorporate both styles.

3. It has a really powerful coroutine system called targetable coroutines. It's a general control flow construct that can be used for fine control over concurrency, and is useful for things like video games and webservers.

We've already been using Stanza internally for about two years now. Using Stanza, we've designed a hardware language called FIRRTL, designed a teaching language called Feeny for teaching a graduate course on virtual machines, wrote a tool for automatically generating circuit boards for robotics, and (as upstanding computer scientists) wrote the entire Stanza compiler in Stanza itself.

Now, Stanza is stable and mature enough for us to feel confident to share it with everyone. We hope you'll check it out!

- The Stanza Team
Can anyone explain how the "floats" that are the output of the last layer correspond to the individual digits?
More anecdote leaning towards truth that my friends were self-medicating and not simply "doing something bad."

I am now, well into middle age, firmly in the camp that I missed out, due to fear, propaganda, and mis-information. And that my life might have been much better if I had not bought so heavily into that message and instead had "experimented". Trust your observations; not blind authority.

Anyway... I'm currently trying to overcome a combination of symptoms, thoughts, and feelings, stemming from years of abuse, PTSD, and eventually significant knock-on physical health effects.

In the past, I've tried SSRI's, NSRI's, Wellbutrin. Immediate, horrible reactions to each. The only thing that helped was a small dose of Adderall -- much lower than standard. And St. John's Wort. Almost impossible in the U.S. to find a doctor who will agree to simultaneous use of both -- unlike in Europe, so I understand. And the doctor I found was a jerk who almost cost me my chance to purchase next year's health insurance, due to his lack of response on paperwork. So, no more Adderall.

I'm ready to try magic mushrooms. Maybe a low, pure dose of ketamin. Or perhaps MDMA. Under supervision -- medical or simply experienced and well-intentioned. But, there is no avenue for this.

And big pharma and the "war on drugs" will do their best to keep it locked down.

I simply have no trust left in the Establishment, in the U.S., with respect to medical practice. Or, very select trust, in individual practitioners. Who are often caught in a system that severely hampers their ability to actually practice effective medicine and treatment.
Darn, I already replied to this point moments ago. There is a difference in the application of this logic in the court room where it can be challenged, and the juror room where it cannot - right?
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And those who claim that IE got dominance "not for its merits" clearly never used Netscape. IE6 lasted so long that it stagnated, but when they came out, IE5 and IE6 were well ahead of the competition.
This was really annoying to go dig up in my attic, but I found it:

http://i.imgur.com/eiF1INY.jpg

Did I say this was really annoying? Because it was. At least it wasn't as tacky as posting my diploma. Please don't tell people from MIT what MIT offers.
Not every medical procedure can or has to undergo double blind testing with control groups.

Pretty much any treatment that has very aggressive effects is usually done without it.

Even treatments that can be tested using a control group are quite often tested without it if you can isolate your metrics well enough.

But technically you can still use a control group for psychoactive drugs because in every trial the first rule is not to give the test subjects any information about possible effects or side effects in order not introduce bias, you also quite often isolate the subjects from each other completely.

I'm also not sure if the dose that is given in this case is even high enough to induce hallucinations in the first place.
Simple things like adding a list of Apples to a list of Fruits become non-trivial.
The bug is only in FF, not the page only works in FF.
34 states + DC allow no-excuse early voting or absentee voting: http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/absente...

I live in one of the three states that mails every voter a ballot, which can either be dropped off or mailed in.

If your state doesn't allow this, it's a simple reform you can push for. Write your representative.
The lag is firefox specific, he means.
Microsoft is making nearly a million used Gamertags available
Whoa, cool! I had no idea this existed. Time to go burn some clock cycles.
So what does this mean in terms of being implemented in Node.js? How soon can we expect that to happen?
Sorry. searine is really missing the point, though.
Wonder if this project has anything to do with Eric Lippert's move to Facebook (https://ericlippert.com/2016/02/08/facebook/ - Eric has also been producing a series of blog posts implementing a Z-Machine interpreter in OCaml to run mini-Zork on, starting here: https://ericlippert.com/2016/02/01/west-of-house/). Eric was on the C# compiler team at Microsoft and previously worked on JScript.
Not exactly.

The "multiple universes" theory is an explanation that if quantum mechanics describes both the quantum mechanical system under study and the observer, then after the interaction of "observation", the system looks like a superposition of independent systems that each look like the observer observed something different. The amplitude of each system corresponds directly to the likelihood that we will think we observed one thing versus another, and quantum mechanics + thermodynamics shows that these copies will never be able to have any meaningful interaction.

In short, in this interpretation reality, is quantum mechanics. There is never a "collapse" as there is in the Copenhagen interpretation. "Multiple universes" is merely a description of what quantum mechanics predicts the outcome will act like.
Thanks for the thoughts. I would definitely not call Reason a new language, but rather a new interface to an existing language that is already great. Not all languages make it easy to provide such an interface, but OCaml did, and the timing made sense.
His point is that being a federal holiday doesn't mean everyone actually gets the day off, especially among the working class.
There are lots of photos of the other tribes, honestly, the garb they wear is pretty similar, so I don't think that would refute anything. All I want is some more official documentation of this interaction.

If the Indian government just sent people over to throw coconuts onto an island and didn't have any official documentation of the trip, or research that the trip resulted in, a story about it more than 20 years later doesn't hold a lot of weight for me.

As you can see, this is just me being a bit pedantic, so if others want to take this as a source of truth, they are welcome to do so, I'd just like to know why they think this is authoritative.
That's the point, it wont be safer. Software and it's hardware are inherently buggy (or worse) and that's not going to change any time soon.

Hand counted paper ballots are by far the safest.
http://www.handcountedpaperballots.org/documents/requirement...
Why exactly is democracy the best, or shall we say "least bad", option? Have you, or has Churchill, evaluated all of the alternatives? And how does the belief that you air in your last sentence, that government should reflect all the people it serves, rhyme with your belief that the ideal (but admittedly in your opinion impossible) form of government would be one run by benevolent geniuses who always implement the right policies, even if they are not popular?

If I may, it does seem to me that qualitative and quantitative government are two quite distinct concepts - one might even go so far as to say that they are fundamentally opposed. Increasing voter turnout certainly increases the quantitative, most purely democratic, aspect of democracy - but what should someone who is more interested in the qualitative aspects of government have to say about that? And if one, as a supporter of democracy as the least bad option, recognises the inherent problems of popular government as a necessary trade-off, would it not make sense to try to mitigate as much of those to the greatest extent possible? I'm not sure if increasing voter turnout to absurd levels would be in tune with this latter category of mindsets, but I'd be curious to hear what you or others of a similar opinion think about that...
I didn't mean to imply that the steps are done consciously.

What I meant was that there is more recalling involved (more of step 1) when you want to say something than when you want to prove something. Of course you are not aware of it. The brain does it subconsciously.
What to do with billions of useless humans?
The measurement would affect the wave which would affect the particle.
If you make voting compulsory for registered voters, you end up further suppressing voter registration (specifically suppressing registration of those in situations which leave them disproportionately unlikely to be able to get to vote and poor enough to see the fines as an issue)

If you ensure all voters are registered, then making the voting compulsory is redundant.

There is no advantage to compulsory voting, unless you believe that democracy is enhanced by diluting the votes of those with a preference for a particular representative with those that don't care.
MySpace completely failed to stay with the times post-acquisition, they kept focusing on catering to big-name bands rather than the huge base of individuals. Over time people grew tired of MySpace being indifferent to them and moved on. Today the same type of crowd has made Snapchat a huge success.

AOL remained fixated on catering to their existing customer base and trying to grow high-margin dial-up revenues. They squandered their capital even harder than Yahoo did, as there's not a single AOL branded anything that's a best-of-breed. Everything about the company is second rate. Consider this: They bought the internet's darling company, Netscape, and could not make a nickel off of it or even keep the brand alive in any useful sense despite investing heavily in a series of increasingly bizarre reboots.

Facebook, by comparison, will not hesitate to incorporate features from other competing products if they think they're going to drive the platform forward and has made a number of strategic purchases like Instagram and Oculus to help cement their relevance.

I'm not even a fan of Facebook, but I admire their tenacity and their incredible ability to survive in an industry littered with the wreckage of previously huge social empires.
10Gbps downloads and uploads over cable demoed by Bell Labs
The largest float in the output layer (while the graph is yellow) is the activation. The largest activation in the final layer is the network's "guess". The guess is the index of the last layer, which corresponds to a particular digit.
From what I understand, the answer to your question is this part of GP's comment:

> the act of observation causes the observer to become entangled with whatever it is that they're observing.

AKA particles interacting => particles get entangled. So they do not factor out cleanly as independent from each other anymore.
No, you misunderstand my statement. I'm not arguing anything. You're missing the point. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11715126 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11716004 .
There are plenty of ways, but you should still have doubt. Take the two people running for the big seat right now. They're both saying what they need to say to get the biggest base. How does listening to what they say in this crap-storm educate me as a voter?
As a matter of fact, Microsoft won the browser case 2-1 on appeal.

It was found guilty in the larger anti-trust case, but not in the browser case.

See Microsoft Wins In Appeals Court -- It Gets OK To Require Use Of Its Internet Browser; Special Master Booted
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...

Microsoft Wins Key Ruling An Appeals Court Said The Company's Browser Can Be Integrated Into Windows 95. The U.s. Had Sued To Stop It.
http://articles.philly.com/1998-06-24/news/25728049_1_window...

etc
IE definitely not. Firefox? yes. I've never seen any instance of Mozilla trying to trick anyone into installing FF.
Yes the only problem is that all it takes is a field near you with some weed and wind to make all that hard work futile.
From a developer side, at least, HTTP/2+caching (with or without server push) is preferential in that the browser handles everything (and knows what it needs) versus bundling which is a build process of some sort.

From a developer perspective, producing the only the dependency graph is still going to be faster and need less overall IO than building a bundle. You can get a sense of it today with jspm dep-cache versus jspm bundle times.
Why is Google patenting this tech? It's cutting-edge machine translation. The rest of the industry is still talking about statistical machine translation. The sector is moving very fast. With the recent SyntaxNet release and neural machine translation, Google is approaching the dream: universal automatic translation, which, by the way, is an innovation goal of Obama's administration.
The TL;DR is that the "file" utility was miscategorising files that had "Tue" in the first few bytes of a file as an Erlang JAM file, with knock on effects for PostScript files generates with a header comment with Tue in the date.
glad i'm not the only one thinking this.
Ah I found it on their blog: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...

They use ext4:

Each of the drives in a Vault has a standard Linux file system, ext4, on it. This is where the shards are stored. There are fancier file systems out there, but we don’t need them for Vaults. All that is needed is a way to write files to disk, and read them back. Ext4 is good at handling power failure on a single drive cleanly, without losing any files. It’s also good at storing lots of files on a single drive, and providing efficient access to them.

Compared to a conventional RAID, we have swapped the layers here by putting the file systems under the replication. Usually, RAID puts the file system on top of the replication, which means that a file system corruption can lose data. With the file system below the replication, a Vault can recover from a file system corruption, because it can lose at most one shard of each file.
It's not the gifs it's the scroll event listener causing a redraw every time.
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Out of curiosity, what could we learn that would change people's lives?

My understanding is that the only thing we'd learn is more about how early tribal systems might have been, which is of academic interest to Anthropologists, not of general value to every day people.

I am known to misunderstand though, which is why I'm asking if there is something we think we can learn from studying them that would apply to all people.
it's a really well-thought-out set of improvements to the ocaml syntax, done by people who actually seem to appreciate MLish syntax for the most part (rather than trying to get it to look more like C for its own sake, a la mythryl)
It would seem to me the best way to reduce speeding on this road is to raise the speed limit.

Doubling the speed limit to 50mph would probably reduce speeding by 75%.
Completed nuked FF for me and for what its worth it doesn't even load in Edge. Just throws up a "This page is having a problem loading" page. Works fine in IE 11...
You seem to suggest that support for a theory is meaningless unless it is absolutely conclusive. If that was the case, I'm pretty sure most of quantum physics would have been abandoned long ago.

Until we know everything, is anything in theoretical physics really a zero-sum game?

I think the problem is in the thinking quantum physicists must possess in order to believe in such a theory in the first place. I mean, the idea of, "if we don't know where it came from, it couldn't possibly be hidden information; it must therefor be 'random'" is absurdly egotistic in the first place.
But eventually, it will. I don't think we really disagree here, unless you think that widespread online registration will somehow cause online voting to inevitable happen too early. We tried electronic voting already, it didn't work very well, most states stopped doing it. When the technology gets better we will try again.

Self-driving cars recently became a safe idea even though software is inherently buggy. Someday the same will be true for voting.
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For those unaware, this is a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two