skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But more importantly, the laws of physics would be observably non consistent.

Isn't that what's happening during our observation of the galactic rotation curve?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve
I don't debate the keystone species concept, just the methodology of this particular experiment. If this was new science today, I'd probably be on the side of people ripping it apart and dismissing any results as untrustworthy.
not really MS's reinterpretation of flat design was by committee and lost..Apple's reinterpretation of flat design was wrongly focused on what looks good rather than design theory and Google's Material Design..well guess where the iOS lost in sales are going to for their next device..as its not MS..
The goal of Mediachain isn't to enforce scarcity of media online, but to help creators benefit from the scale of sharing. Today, an image can easily go viral without viewers knowing who the author was. Mediachain makes sure that the creator can be present wherever the content goes, automatically.

Our view is that bits are easily reproduced and there is no way to stop that, and until now there's been no easy way for creators to benefit from that. Mediachain allows creators to connect directly to their audiences through the content itself. This way, gratitude can be exchanged through attribution, and in the future, even a payment directly through the content.
I see it's been fixed. Clearly a case of let your readers find your errors, just as some people release software and let their users find the bugs.
So if I were to run a database on this, wit a lot of overwrites, the storage would grow infinitely?

Secondly, this implies you are remapping the LBA (offsets) all the time, perhaps taking what would be sequential access and turning it into random? That sounds pretty painful.
Why should I do the work, you made the claim?
It looks real to me, we don't have to censor them too.
Making a case for Playgrounds on the iPad
1.0 is a fixpoint of that strategy! Since increasing values cause you to switch keys, and continually switching keys is perfectly predictable.
This puts a fun spin on the teleportation/cloning thought experiment.
Is there anything specific in the article with which you disagree?

If there's a next record-breaking quarter, I can't see how it will come about any time soon. They hitched their wagon to the phone market, and that market is now saturated. The only place to get market-share is from Android (I don't see how chasing sales in India are going to be sufficient, despite what Apple thinks).*

So they need their products and software to become more compelling. Has that been the trend since SJ passed away?

*I don't want to discuss the "Services" market. I doubt even Tim Cook believes that will move the needle much, even though he mentions it to placate investors.
> Except that your original number is based on 28 hrs work not 40 hrs.

IIRC, the paid sick leave benefit in CA is prorated in amount based on hours worked, but still available to part time employees for those employers covered; unemployment coverage applies to part time work (weekly benefits are based on weekly earnings, so part-time workers get less benefit than full-time workers with the same wage); California disability insurance and paid family leave (the two are linked) are not restricted to only full-time workers.
I'm skeptical that closed source is what's actually holding SL back. I think splintering it into lots of shards would actually hurt something like this, which is closer to a social network. Once you shard it out, you get even further from critical mass, lots of desolate servers with nothing going on and inconsistent rules/user experiences
MarI/O – Machine Learning for Video Games [video]
Superbugs Have Reached the U.S. For the First Time – Again
Eric Garner
The lesson here is that you should backup your files on a cloud storage service that has version history for all files, preferably for a period longer than 30 days.
I keep hitting both keys at the same time (from my point of view), but apparently I'm 80% predictable.

What, does the IRQ for 'F' fire first or something?
That said, I feel that we are extremely far away from producing a computer-based consciousness

Views of distance to the production of "conscious" machines are likely all over the place because there aren't really any clear ideas about what consciousness is and why it's important.

* Is it one state of mind that represents another state of mind? We trivially can construct computers with states which reflect each other.

* Is it being able to act without external control, ie, apparently randomly? Computers can do that better than people right now.

And despite the fogginess and disagreement about what consciousness is, it's highly valued and thought necessary by many people looking into this stuff. If you think about that for a second, it's a reason to be even more skeptical about it.
I am not sure if that is the right mind set:

"So around the time a lot of people have kids? ...you need to make a LOT of money to pay for daycare ... you might as well just stay home."

The "you" can be the other partner. Ensuring fair pay and opportunities for all qualified workers would encourage only a brief departure from a woman's career for maternity leave, allowing either partner to be the home support (as needed), instead of making the choice based on poor future earning opportunities vs their male peers.
It is widespread suspicion that Gurley's post was directed at Uber's latest fundraising round (as an early investor, they take a hit from these dirty terms)
I played with SL for about a week in 2005 before deciding that paying Linden Labs for the privilege of producing content for them was a fool's game.
I swear news organizations have this type of article in their back pocket whenever they need a boost in traffic. "Apple is going out of business" seems to be something I see from multiple different organizations every few months. And I have yet to see an article with any interesting commentary.
I always assumed that AI consciousness would be an emergent property, not a feature we would (or even could) effectively develop towards.
"Apple’s ability to make software solid and simple has come under attack"

I don't actually recall Apple's software being any better or worse than the competition after OS 6. The fact is that ALL software, including Apple's is confusing and hard to use. You just have to watch normal people trying to use computers and phones to understand that. It's not at all surprising that Apple have simply reverted to the mean. But this isn't a new thing. iTunes has been a constant bafflement since its release - and so has pretty much all complex Apple software.
To be fair, the author does go on to say:

> But bear in mind that Steve is the guy who started iPhone with the S-names in the first place.
You don't need a transcendental number; simple counting has perfect entropy:

0 1 10 11 100 101 110 111 1000 1001 1010 1011 1100 1101 1110 1111 10000...

(Granted, that is a transcendental number -- the Champernowne constant for base 2 -- but there's no real need to think of it that way.)
Ask HN: Steve Jobs leaving behind long-term product roadmap for Apple?
Do you think there is a possibility?
Textpattern CMS 4.6.0 beta released
I just think employees aren't as scared of Tim as they were of Steve.

And all the "omerta" has gone.
It's a bit different though, isn't it? The 3GS was a successor. The current models share the same space.

2009:
iPhone 3GS

2016:
iPhone — 6S, 6S Plus, SE
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Sourcegraph CEO here. Yep, Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com) is a fast, global, semantic code search & cross-reference engine. It helps developers discover and understand code. It fits the description above. :)

We support Go and Java now. More languages are coming soon (JavaScript, Python, etc.).

SyntaxDB is super cool, BTW.
It means either both the poster and the bot have free will or neither of them do!

But seriously, the intuitive concept of free will, something like "unconstrained choice" leads to the idea that free will means simulating randomness - but once you're there, it looks more or less like nonsense - "acting randomly"
Awesome! Thanks for the pointers :)
If you want all the details, maybe you should read the actual study before criticizing someone who did a good study, but you're too lazy to realize it.
I don't know, I don't think I spend even a couple of hours per month inside a debugger. I doubt my colleagues do either. Usually I write code for 1-2 weeks, then spend one day trying to get it to compile then one or two days debugging it, but most of my debugging sessions is trailing logs and trying to figure out what went wrong with in complex state machines (i.e. the business logic, not the language/infrastructure 'overhead').

Also, many of the data structures I deal with are highly intrusive (as in an object belonging at the same time in multiple containers) and short of full GC I doubt it would be easy to guarantee MS.

Then again, possibly I'm not representative of the typical C++ programmer.
I'm glad you liked it! I wasn't sure that it was well explained.
That's certainly the case when you're raising a new fund from LPs. I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't hold true when you're joining an existing fund as a partner.
It's just the language. Everything looks the same.
> you might as well just stay home

But why does it have to be the woman who stays home? Why is this just the tacit assumption?

I'd love to see not just solid support for moms at work, but solid support / encouragement for dads at home: paternity leave up-to-par with maternity leave, a normalization and acceptance of stay-at-home dads where desired, etc. It's kind of amazing how prevalent the assumption is that children are mom's problem. As a guy I care about this not just from a supporting-women perspective but from a when-I-have-kids-I'll-want-to-spend-time-with-them-too perspective. This should be one of the easiest ways for men to be sold on feminism.

Somehow though, paternity leave is a second class citizen and people who talk about advancement of women mostly just talk about maternity leave benefits. Let me help! I'm happy to take care of kids while you build your career!
the question wasn't whether he used his powers for good this time, but whether it's good that he has those powers at all
Some students will want to maximize their score. Some will want to maximize their probability of getting an A. Some will want to maximize their probability of not failing. There's obviously no scoring rule you can use that will make all of these be optimized by giving accurate probabilities.

The logarithmic scoring rule (or any other proper scoring rule) means that a student wanting to maximize their expected score is incentivized to give accurate probabilities. I don't think it's reasonable to ask for more.
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I still remember my iPhone 3G. The settings "app" was so simple that I couldn't imagine a smart phone would be so "perfectly" configured, without any user modifications.

Nowadays it's different. I have my Apple Watch for one year already and I haven't clicked / tapped everywhere yet. I barely use some of the features ( as Mail, Music, World Clock and many others ) and I definitely do not feel satisfied because of that.

The author has a good point saying that Apple is moving out of simplicity. There is a new market gap that IMHO, is increasing and soon I hope a company with money and bold vision will become for that market, what Tesla is for the auto-industry.
http://www.treetu.com
If you get a new Apple to create your perfect smartwatch, what is that killer app that they should create? That's an odd & very unspecific feature to ask for.
> iTunes has been a constant bafflement since its release

My memory must be suffering because I recall the first versions of iTunes being extremely simple. It was a list of music, and you could play said music. You stuck in a CD, and it would rip it for you. Very little else else.

Then they bolted on: a music store, iPod sync, podcasts, video player, library sharing, social network, iPhone + app management... etc etc etc.
I agree. I'm a sysadmin myself, and the best congratulations I've ever had
was after heavy rewrite of a firewall script (old one was a mix of three
different styles, unmanagable mess after several years of work), when my
colleague asked me when I'm going to deploy the new firewall, two or three
weeks after it actually went into production. It was so smooth that nobody
noticed.
I hope you're right, but I'm not so confident. People as a whole are not systems thinkers. We tend to take systems for granted, and assume they are eternal and unchangeable. I think this case is a perfect example. It's hard to mobilize the masses behind something boring and complex like court reform. It's easy, however, to incite them to hate an individual person, especially if he's a billionaire. Even on HN, it's mostly people attacking/defending Thiel himself.

Also, for what it's worth, the fact that something backfires in the court of public opinion doesn't mean that it's bad. It could just mean the public is under-informed or easily deceived.
2009 was iPhone 3GS and 3G at least; they may even have still sold the original at that point. Three different models for the biggest-ever consumer electronics product doesn't seem too crazy.
The thing is that every time you drive down the highway, you're often betting your life that the direction you are pointing the steering wheel is correct (X degrees too far and you've hit the concrete barrier). So effectively people choose 100 on a regular basis in real life.
... which is why the clever sysop mirrors his packages and tests if an update goes OK before updating the mirror.

If you're running more than three machines or regularly (re)deploy VMs, it is a sign of civilization to use your mirror instead of putting your load on (often) donated resources.

It's the same stupid attitude of "hey let's outsource dependency hosting" that has led to the leftpad NPM desaster and will lead to countless more such desasters in the future.

People, mirror your dependencies locally, archive their old versions and always test what happens if the outside Internet breaks down. If your software fails to build when the NOCs uplink goes down, you've screwed up.
actually we save history data as json inside postgresql and article data as json and we have a price table that adds a history as a postgresql trigger.
that's actually not blob data but its a kind of serialization.
However we access the data regulary. The Price History is exposed to the user so it needs to work. Our system needs to work even against older versions of the table.
Do partners get paid? Do they put in their own capital?
Open Source is losing, SaaS is leading, APIs will win…
> The legal system has certain informal but crucial checks and balances in it. One of them is that the cost and uncertainty of litigation make it in everyone's interest to settle, and in addition insurance creates incentives to settle. A third party purposely removing those incentives distorts the process.

Seems like distortion in the same way paying a friend's bail is corruption. Not at all!

> Both of these are disincentives to filing a revenge based lawsuit -- as opposed to an action primarily to recover monetary damages -- and these were perverted as well by having a hidden third party who managed to evade that scrutiny during the proceeding.

It is honestly news to me that the purpose of lawsuits is not to be revenge based but to be based on recovering the highest amount of monetary damages. Can you explain in more detail why you believe this to be so?

You're aware that some people view settlements to be a form of corruption? i.e. Big Guy pays off little guy, continues to screw little guys using the superpower of inordinate amounts of money. It is a complaint I've heard many times before.

> As an aside, if I were in Peter Thiel's camp right now I would hope to God he's all paid up with his taxes, doesn't have any angry lovers or ex-employees out there, and isn't engaged in any unethical or embarrassing activities, given that he now almost certainly has a lot of investigative journalism firepower pointed at him.

Amen, I've been saying the same thing. I'd be advising Thiel to carry full body hidden camera/audio recording devices in future, as well as examining all my personal and financial affairs with a fine toothcomb before the enemy gets to them.

It should not have to be this way, but you know, it is.
i don't think anyone, anywhere would have given you an accurate estimated figure of nearly 5 hours to fix this problem.

furthermore, even if you somehow could divine the future, telling the customer that you think an outage will last over half a working day is going to turn an extremely shitty situation into something even worse.
Great summary, thanks for that. This therapy appears fairly elegant. Let's hope it makes it through trials.
> Since Thiel revealed his involvement, that has been the story which makes me think maybe he was right to conceal it. his name and money had nothing to do with this crime.

Same here. I'd have also continued to make it secret. I expect the media to carry out a series of character assassinations on Peter Thiel on baseless grounds, and then self referentially refer to their campaigns of the past as evidence for campaigns of the present. "Oh Thiel? That guy who was constantly being sued by [media ally] before, he's being sued again [different media ally] to nobody's [the media] surprise. Ha ha, what a bunch these crazy Silicon Valley tycoons are, I bet Joe Public is tired [opinion forming] of their petty games".

The main threat to Thiel is probably the opportunity cost of fending off the media all the time. The only solution I can think of is a diversion.

I am pretty sure that if Thiel funds private investigators into Denton's crew and the Devil himself, he'll find plenty of distraction material for the media to devour their own. After all, Nick Denton has likely already unleashed the hounds and this would merely be returning the favour.

It is dirty but that is how this is played I'm afraid. It gets worse from here!
Good summary. That Nature issue also has a commentary on the paper that provides a summary in the broader context:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
Richard Feynman? Yes. The Feynman lectures were life changing.
Naive means:

> (of a person or action) showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.

Perhaps you didn't mean to, but you implied that grellas lacked experience or wisdom. It could reasonably be taken as ad hom.
Are you joking? They can and that is part of the reason they are given to REAL ADHD patients.
I gave a small explanation concerning Thiel's ideas and the intelligence agencies last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11782998

I don't deny this whole area is troubled and troubling, when national security is concerned it seems every path is taking you to some kind of hell. The world is a Big Place and common sense often falls short of being an ethical guide. I'm sure joining forces with Joseph Stalin produced mixed feelings. If courage is what is required to deal with that kind of thing then I'll be pleased to be called a coward.
Facebook Is Probably Killing Chat on Mobile Site
> Agreed. Apple maps was a huge screw up and if he was responsible it makes sense why things were handled that way.

Given its continued screw up, I find it hard to blame him.

I do wonder if he'll ever do any OS related things from here on out. It would be interesting to see him guiding a Linux (well I would prefer BSD) distro.
iOS is easy enough for my mom to use, which I can't say of anything before it. Although it's definitely gone downhill in the last few years incorporating Android and Windows Phone features such as swipe-ins, hidden chrome, and other non-discoverable brain damage.
Seems that iTunes store is under attack of broken
I really like this crude PRNG algorithm. Now I also have a reason to learn the multiplication table. Or at least the sixths column.
Do we know that that's the reason that more women are deciding to stay home? This looks like a big conclusion to draw when the data only _may_ correlate.

Where's the survey of double-income family moms working in tech where they specified the reason why they chose to stay at home?

There are a lot of reports coming out that look at numbers and say what may be the reason, but I've yet to see anyone go ask women the reasons why they left jobs in tech.
But if they are disabled, then they in fact want the VR system not to emulate a hike. They cannot walk and so do not want a VR system that makes them walk. The OP was discussing a VR scheme that would mimic body movements akin to the physicality of actually hiking (ie VR on a treadmill).
awesome how one can get voted down on hacker news like this. there is nothing incorrect or even mean stated here. you just don't like what is being said about you. the moderators on this site are so screwed up.
Try learning Python, Java, Erlang/Lisp/OCaml/Haskell, Prolog, and then look
back at C++. You'll see what's the reason.
I agree with the key point here: VR will not replace all other forms of UI.

It is a mistake to look at VR UIs as strictly 3D. There is no reason you could not scroll through your photos on a 2D screen with your fingers in VR. You can even have the added benefit of spawning multiple giant 2D screens, then grabbing photos off them for a scrap book or a virtual art gallery.

I've shared a great deal of locomotion experiences with other Vive owners. VR sickness seems a lot rarer than it was hyped up to be, and definitely a lot easier to acclimate to. I wonder how many vomiting journalists would be fine if they eased into it over a day or two. I can fly around in Windlands without flinching these days. Don't get me wrong, nausea is still a real design constraint, but we might be a lot more adaptive to VR and weird locomotion.

On the topic of session lengths, I firmly believe this is just an issue with content and ergonomics. I've done a few 6 hours sessions in multiplayer games, the problem is barely any exist. I haven't heard anyone experience "immersion fatigue", but some games will cause actual physical fatigue. Thankfully I already stand all day and it isn't an issue. I think if you already can play a game for 8 hours, VR will be there to provide the same in the future.
again moderated by people who don't like what is being said. not for any other reason. this is so wrong.
Can't help but compare this to the American elections, 2 choices, republican or democrat.

This algorithm should work on that as well... :(
I don't think they're even running particularly bad PR, they've just confirmed a DDoS attack and clarified that there's been no breach despite some ridiculously bad "journalism".

People are misinterpreting them so badly you start to wonder if it's perhaps intentional?
I'm not sure there has to be anything odd going on. If you hit both keys at the same time, you can never produce the same letter three times in a row – which is extremely predictable!
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