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I think I might have missed the point of this. Is this just a predictability score - really simple one?
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I have a little more experience than op. I see you have experience about specific domains of programming. May I ask how do I find a list of domains from which I could choose what else I want to do ?
Just because something is in 3D doesn't make it automatically better -- often times it's worse as you now have artificial constraints that you didn't have before. For example, it's far easier to scroll through Instagram with your fingers (a UI win) and have every photo at 100% scale than to glide through a 3d representation where much more work has to be done. Certainly you wouldn't want the world to scroll you in VR -- you'd throw up.

This was true before with SL, and it'll be true with VR in the future. It'll be great for certain kinds of games, therapy, housing walk throughs, and other contexts for which a synthetic 3D world is useful, but it won't be the panacea that replaces all other forms of UI. Immersion also has a cost -- it's very intense and you don't want it for hours and hours and hours. Just like you'd never want to be on a rollercoaster for 8h, VR for 8h will also be too much (unless the world itself is not an intense game, you don't have a screen 2" from your eyeballs, etc).
No way! I can totally see replacing monitors with AR glasses. Six monitors costs $1,000+, which a headset would probably be cheaper than.
Do these planned top-down approaches ever work? Especially in education? It seems like when technocrats have questionable ideas they try to shove it down the throat of kids instead of having a more decentralized approach with more choice. Negroponte's failure with the OLPC project comes to mind. A mix of cheap netbooks, tablets, and phones made it quickly irrelevant.

If we see social VR in education it'll be impromptu study groups in Altspace or screensharing in Bigscreen. It'll happen dynamically as kids decide what platform they prefer. Teachers will probably make similiar decisions on a per teacher/classroom way. I've already spent a bit of time in Altspace and Bigscreen and its very impressive from many aspects like usability, discoverability, presence, features, etc. I can't imagine using a SL-like system. Its too messy, ugly, and complex. It feels very Web 1.0.

Also, my god, the uncanny valley in SL is inexcusable. Either do photorealism or use cartoony avatars, there's really no room for middle ground here.
I wonder how this all works if you have a really small, non critical systems and you are using SaaS und PaaS infrastructure (hello cloudcomputing, not doing stuff in house) like Travis CI where you are not in control of their repositories. This kind of services (like SaaS CI) are not new but making life a lot easier than doing your own CI (looking at you Jenkins). Not everybody wants to replicate whole repos for everything. Also some people (like me) want to spread open source software systems (which will not install themself on the client side if one component fails on the Internet) and not mission critical single point services.
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but how does it know to use the opposite for him and not for other guesses? I make a similar mistake when I try to remember something by noting "it's not the choice I'm naturally inclined to choose, it's the other one". After I get used to using that heuristic, the correct choice becomes the one I'm naturally inclined to do, but then I have trouble remembering "is it the choice I'm inclined to do or the opposite". I've since ditched that heuristic when I realize I'm doing it because it is quite detrimental.
~19ms, obviously, not 19 seconds.
Links to mentioned repos:

https://github.com/zenparsing/es-observable

https://github.com/zenparsing/es-cancel-token
Is this async/await more or less directly lifted from C# or what is the ethymology?
Is getting it to you in 2 hours without extra fees not good enough? I feel like we're basically there. https://primenow.amazon.com/
Right now, filecoin is only a whitepaper. There's no implementation yet. Possibly never.

Now, Filecoin seems to, from the whitepaper, gotten it right. We all know of the tragedy of the commons. Their solution was an elegant way around that, by granting filecoin to whom share their bandwidth and local storage. And then, others will take your coin for duplicating files you want copied.

But right now, it doesnt exist. And IPFS still works flawlessly.
Right. It tries to measure how random your brain's PRNG is, which has nothing to do with free will. A simple computer has no free will at all, but after being instructed to type randomly, it will score close to 0.5 without fail.

The "free will" quote comes from a Berkley quantum computing student, who chose keys as independently of pattern as he could [1], and this seems to take it out of context. It might make sense to retitle this submission to something marginally less clickbaity, like "test how predictable you are."

[1] https://github.com/elsehow/aaronson-oracle
I hadn't even thought about it from the perspective of how the developed world relates to the developing across other problem spaces. That's a great way to think about it.
I had a professor who, when playing games where the best move was to choose randomly (for instance, in a CCG, forcing the opponent to discard a card from their hand that you designate without seeing their hand), would always roll a die or otherwise mechanically randomize their choice, to ensure that they never exhibited potentially exploitable patterns in selection.
In places where $13/hr is a viable lower middle class wage, Uber is also generally not available as a job.
So who punched who in the face?

The way I see it, Gawker punched Hogan very hard. Gawker was clearly far stronger, and Hogan could not afford legal redress.

Thiel helped the victim, not by punching Gawker, but by asking the legal system to provide redress.

This is the civilized way to solve a conflict, by not taking personal revenge, but by asking an impartial court to adjudicate the conflict.

In the end, after hearing the evidence, the State of Florida agreed to punch Gawker in the face.
> Having children might reduce the number of people you spend time with.

That is something that they bring up in the actual paper.

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royopensci/3/...
"Case is a high-school dropout."

I really like this. Straight to the point. Not everyone needs a certificate to prove their worth. I imagine Case wears that phrase with pride.
And publishing sex tapes is an encouragingly good predictor of failure.

The system isn't perfect but I think it worked this time.
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I chose not to press either button. The ultimate act of free will! (Just kidding, I got stuck around 0.63)
Even though it is constructed from bicycle parts, this would be considered a motorcycle by legal standards in the US. Ebikes in the US generally are not allowed to exceed 20mph, but the motor in this can go well above that limit. I believe the limit is actually lower in the EU[1]. They may have to market this as a motorcycle on this fact alone.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle_laws#European...
Thanks - you're right. I was mixing PRISM with MUSCULAR. Wasn't PRISM still limited to data around high-interest individuals? (i.e. not a blank check to all data)

Was BULLRUN what ATT room 641a was involved with?
Well, that only shows that this oracle can be improved. It should be able to recognize that pattern from a well known transcendental number.
>How much coffee are you drinking?

Not a huge amount. Probably like 2-3 good strength cups.

>Some intense exercise (7+ mile runs) will wipe you out.

Yeah been getting some exercise, but I find it keeps me awake if its too close to bedtime.
He may be fully justified in taking this action (it is a perfectly legal thing to do) or he may be displaying traits deserving our opprobrium.

Why the "or?" He can be both.
>> Can it mimic all the qualities of a good hike -- visuals, body movement, sounds?

I've got some VR hiking goggles to sell you. They are cheap, lightweight and totally wireless, but only work in the woods. They were featured on a recent SouthPark episode.

Too many discussions focus on VR being a drop-in replacement for reality. Nobody should expect them to mimic reality any more than they expect computer screens to mimic sunlight. I don't much care if VR helms don't allow me to jog up Everest. I just want to be free to look around as if I were standing on the top.
Yes. Despicable but still free.
Can you elaborate for me? I thought those two were synonyms.
So, what, everyone is cool with owncloud pushing encryption-breaking updates? What the fuck is that about?

The way apologists step up to the defense of stuff like this is appalling. The 'hard' stuff like this is supposed to be dealt with before the public release. Just because one has a backup doesn't mean that other programmers should force them to rely on it (whether they intended to or not... the point is that this kind of thing should never happen)

I am beginning to feel like we should start figuratively burning people at the stake for advertently or inadvertently destroying other peoples' data -- it is a sin about as cardinal as they get; and it seems many programmers are clearly not very scared of such an outcome. Wiping/bricking/rendering inaccessible your customers' data should be causing people to shit bricks, not go on the defensive.

Normals HATE technology bullshit like this. They just want it to work. Failures like these make the entire field look bad.
> They found that the average number of people a person calls (or is called by) in a given month peaks around age 25.

Number of people you call == how popular you are. How out of touch with the times...
> For 99.9% of human beings, such article would never make someone spend enough money to put this newspaper out of business.

> I'm not deciding for him

You kind of are... by pointing out what you think is expected behavior and judging his against that benchmark.
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Glad to hear that. I agree every Chrome plugin is a potential security risk. Like awesome screenshot http://www.ghacks.net/2014/08/25/chromes-awesome-screenshot-...
Yeah, also helps knowing when you're in staging or production.
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Are you sure the 10% chance isn't standing out more in your memory? It would be interesting to measure this over hundreds of guesses.

It seems likely that the probability of guessing correctly would be around 1/9, since people rarely pick the same number, but is a sustained 1/8 or better really possible?
I got it down to 0.51-something by simply switching keys iff the measure increased. Ironic, since I was exhibiting no "free will" by following that rule :)
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I'd love to see more books like this for less common languages (Haskell particularly), as I've found there's generally plenty of resources for learning the basic commands and code structure but there's little information for going from those first steps to creating an actual useful application.
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As 'wfo' says, speaking of it in terms of fault is meaningless. But it certainly can be an undesireable side-effect of market outcomes which absolutely can be counterbalanced by bureaucratic intervention.

It's not entirely an accident that US media supports US foreign policy, either.
Hi all. I'm the author of this project on GitHub. It seems like it might be a good foundation for building microservices in Java. However, I'm not a microservices expert, so I was wondering what others with more experience in this space think. Thanks!
You forgot about time dimension, it's a big deal.
Take a look at RxScala -- they wouldn't go implementing it if it was already included in Scala :)

But yeah, Rx makes handling streams of events kinda similar to handling collections of objects, which is cool. Except for time dimension (`.debounce()`, `.throttle()` etc) which, as I said, is a big deal.
I have pi memorized to a fair number of digits, so I decided to try that.

d 3 times
f 1 time
d 4 times
etc.

... and got 50% almost exactly.
I have used IPFS without any filecoin that I've been aware of. It was actually really simple like early versions of rails or symfony simple or simpler.

And if there was a filecoin scam in there I didn't notice it neither on my pc nor on my bank or cash.
You're welcome, screenshots are awesome and I love the dropbox function that puts them in a special folder for quick retrieval. Since SS are also my initials (Sid Sijbrandij) I was confused for a second about your comment until I understood you meant ScreenShot.
Some helpful context:

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This probably shouldn't be on the front page at the same time as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822797.

A technical discussion based on https://github.com/mediachain/mediachain/blob/master/rfc/med... might make sense after some time has gone by.
Haha, I did the same thing! From memory:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197969399375105

Now, the interesting question, how accurate is my recollection after all these years? Ack, one digit off!
Like Trump's fortune?

I think a better lesson would be that a lot of people are angry, and all too happy to follow anyone who gives them a target for that anger. Both this case and the press cycle following it are examples of that.
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It's possible that some form of life exists that operates on a significantly different time scale than we do, let's say it takes 10,000 years just to communicate a greeting, or a microsecond to do the same. We likely wouldn't recognize it as conscious (or even life), and it possibly wouldn't recognize us either.
Only the first link works; the others just take me to the top of the page.

$199/month for an on-call Wordpress technician, with no mention of hourly limits seems like a steal, in the sense of it being a literal crime against a person.

Whatever the symbol to the right of "Adopt-A-Pro" is, it's broken for me: http://i.imgur.com/YLHVEQz.png

$10 per new subscriber per month sounds like a steal again, except I'm the victim this time.
I imagined how I would have coded it and so I devised a system to get it down as low as possible. I ended up with 0.44 accuracy. Pure random would have been better :)
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Quickly got it down to 0.500001 or something, but now back to 0.54 :-(
Anything can exist in that circumstance, feels like a reductio ad absurdum.

I didn't go this far, so I'll have to think more about it.

thanks for the food for thought.
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My definition of conscious is being aware of what you are doing and influencing it.

Can a computer running a file server realize it is only storing pirated movies and stop it it without being explicitly programmed to do so? A conscious computer could.
So your complaint is that Thiel could have done something else than what he did, and that would have been bad?

In reality Thiel didn't abuse the court system with meritless cases. Had he done that, I would also have been disturbed. But since he didn't, it's hard for me to get upset about it.
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Also, I just had the thought that a crowbar is a type of lever... not sure if that was intended or not?
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Also known as "poor contrast simulator 2016"

When designing an inversion its important to increase contrast to maintain a perceived equivalence in overall dynamic range with the original.

Typography is affected, as well, in that the darker color is dominant over the brighter which results in small negative spaces seeming smaller and large ones larger. A slight increase in tracking and a reduction in word spacing is the typical approach for setting inverted type to maintain both legibility and readability.
Got the dude down to 0.4 by invoking pi.
Pretty good predictor!
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Isn't it ironic that for a language that has new frameworks popping up all the time, the guts of it evolve so slowly?

I primarily work in js and c# so I can't speak for other languages but async/await in c# is incredibly useful and has been around for years. Js feels like it lags a long way behind.
I think another valuable point to consider that may actually may understate popularity of those younger than 25 is that this is only looking at phone calls. I'm not under 25 anymore, but I think they generally use their phones for texting and messaging more than calls.
It's tempting to grab one of those, and see how many hits there are a month, other than those coming from crawlers.
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It may have been a while since you worked there. Very few teams are not using AWS (primarily EC2). For all of retail, marketplace, and digital, it was increasingly difficult to get legacy or bare metal hosts. The only teams that I interacted with still on legacy hosts were either operationally deficient or still running their own databases.
Are these actually any better than beds from a place like Leesa or Casper?
Many of these companies will offer you no questions asked money back guarantee after 90 or even 120 days of trying it in your home. That's got to be better than 5 minutes at the warehouse club trying to imagine what it's like to sleep on.
That would make the class too easy to game. Just answer one question you feel most confident about, with 100% certainty, and if you happen to be right, you can blow off the entire rest of the course and get an instant A+.
While I don't think the actual number is $16/hr per the calculations in the rest of this thread, I do feel strongly that $16-21 / hr for a largely unskilled labor force is perfectly reasonable. (Not for SF, but SF isn't the majority of the country.)

Add in the flexibility of the hours (most drivers I query list that as their #1 thing they like most), and the lifestyle provided seems very reasonable.

It's worth remembering that a lot of these folks are generally service workers. In their other work, they get paid shit (usually close to min. wage), they get treated like shit, and they are at the mercy of the schedule maker. That last point cannot be underemphasized: little fiefs of power bestowed upon the scheduler make for really ugly fast food office politics.
I wish HN had a save post feature similar to Reddit. I'm not really a bookmark guy and this is exactly the kind of site I know would be a life saver some time in the future.
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Fair enough, "just embed lisp" was a bit tounge-in-cheek. I suppose what I mean is that lisp macros, while powerful, don't need to add syntax that is jarringly different from other syntax (although they certainly can). I suppose I think that stuff like:

fn parse_response<'a>(bytes: &'a [u8]) ->
IResult<&'a [u8], TrackerResponse<'a>>
{
switch!(bytes, tuple!(be_u32, be_u32),
(::CONNECT_ACTION_ID, tid) =>
map!(be_u64, |cid|
TrackerResponse::new(tid,
ResponseType::Connect(cid))
) | (...)

Appears to be very dense in very terse type and life-time information, compared to the variable names, function calls/macro expansions.

I get that it might be necessary at times, I just think it is a worthy goal to strive to make code look somewhat simple, even when doing complex things.

Example, in this case, with all the lifetimes(?) being the same(?) 'a, could perhaps the compiler infer that? Would it be more useful to make it explicit when they differ?

That kind of thing.

[ed: As or it being ironic, I see powerful constructs like macros more as a tool for making complex things simpler, not to complicate simple things.

That's what I mean when I say "macro-heavy" code being hard to read is ironic. It could of course be that this example really is complex, but it kind of strikes me as looking more "complected" than "complex".]
Thank you. I disagree that it's "just the same thing", but it is an interesting precedent to consider and one that I was not familiar with.
What this have to do with free will? It's a web page trying to infer the logic behind the user keystrokes. That's it.

Maybe there's some randomness lying deep down in what we experience as free will, but that doesn't mean that we're 100% unpredictable in everything we do.
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The argument behind why it's a naive perspective was made in the parent comment.
For a significant number of Americans, a $5k bill might as well be a $200k bill. A lot of people are living month-to-month on far less, and I wouldn't be surprised if most people couldn't actually afford that, or couldn't even manage to acquire $5k in debt, let alone pay it off.

The reality is that you're in a privileged position, and it may not seem like it to you but there are a huge number of people out there for whom your situation would be effectively a bankruptcy trigger. And that's even assuming that their company lets them off work long enough to get treatment and recovery, which, in at-will states, doesn't seem like a thing that's likely to happen for a lot of the working-class.