skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very puzzled about level 8, based on what you've said. Certainly to be a good pedagogical tool, I'd want to see a system that very visibly showed a wider and wider diffraction pattern for longer wavelengths (as you've said). [The one advantage of a bounce that I was able to think of while playing was that it might wind up giving a cleaner "plane wave" input, but I'm not even sure that that's an advantage. Now that you mention it, though, perhaps there is some ideal speed for which bouncing off the back and side walls would result in propagation at an angle, so that a meaningful fraction of the probability density would hit the targets in as a central interference maximum.]

If I were you, I'd leave out the discussion of decoherence entirely. It's a subtle topic (evanb did it justice, I think), and I'm reasonably convinced that it doesn't really apply to the game. (Even if I might be wrong about that, is that tidbit of background info important enough to your discussion to be worth the effort and/or the risk?)

Thanks for a fun take on quantum stuff, regardless! (I don't know what's in the higher levels, but might be fun to see some more examples of things like tunneling through different barriers. And I wonder if there's any way of setting up resonance in a cavity in an interesting way...)

Regarding credit: I don't feel like I've contributed that much at this point, but if you wind up with a moderate list of thank you's at some point, you're welcome to include "Steuard Jensen" on the list.

[As for my comment not being more upvoted: I think I got some sort of black mark on my record here a few months ago after I tried to insist that recent reports about reactionless propulsion systems are very unlikely to pan out. Ever since then, I've gotten the sense that my comments are showing up with an initial scoring penalty.]
I meant what I said. I believe a lot of researchers (in academia) would do it in their spare time, after hours, weekends, etc, even if it wasn't also their means for income. Their hobby and curiosities happen to align with a job that pays living wage.

Money in the bank is not the end goal for everyone. You can work a job to get paid so that one day you don't have to work anymore. Or, you can work a job that pays sufficiently and you'll happily do until your last days of life.

Lastly, most research is on the brink of discovering something. Whether or not there is a life changing impact (or application whatsoever) as a result of that discovery is another argument all together.
Connections, halo, and pixie dust. The thing is this though. Anyone who recognizes opportunity (such as yourself) is a cut above someone who doesn't. You'd be surprised at how many people don't think like this. I was able to get a relative an interview during college at a good PR firm for a summer job. They didn't want to travel to the part of the city where the job was located. Simply didn't understand how good this would be for their career (it was their major). In another case I offered to setup another person with connections to a lawyer that I knew in a big city so they could work part time and during the summer. They didn't want to do that and said they would get back to me "when they were ready". At the very least you should exploit all opportunities when you can because you need to give positive feedback to those that help you or they won't do it again in the future. This thinking is built in to some people and to others (regardless of grades or academics), well, it escapes them.
I only skimmed the article, but I didn't get the impression that the writer was suggesting that the changes are going to immediately result in Apple losing sales or loyal customers... They admit that Apple is still the best in the industry at providing simple solutions for their customers - just that they aren't as simple as they used to be, and there is a growing resentment of this in their loyal customer base, that could eventually bite them in the ass.
I agree, this is most likely a case of someone using the same email and password on multiple sites (like the 100 million account leak from LinkedIn)
Not if they mix the coins, and anyone employing ransomware will be using a mixer.
Great job! Have you considered moving the example section above the notes section?
Recently I learned via an article on Hacker News the formal name for the phenomenon of looking at the gap between what a person understands and what they think they should understand: Information Anxiety. Richard Saul came up with it almost 30 years ago...and only just now I pick it up. The whole commercial internet and Windows 3 have happened in between.

Good luck.
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Streisand effect begins...

Edit: what I mean by this is that they're running absolutely shit PR on this and it's basically convincing everyone that they're at fault, despite somewhat limited evidence to that effect.
It could just be spinning - Babel 6 presets install _lots_ of duplicated dependencies with npm2.

I need to move a similar project from Babel 5 to Babel 6 soon and tried manually deduplicating Babel 6 preset dependencies for better npm2 support [1] - doing so reduced the size of node_modules/ from ~120MB to ~6MB!

https://github.com/insin/deduped-babel-presets#babel-6-prese...
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You'd think, if that were the case, that at least one person would have been killed for not paying their taxes in U.S. history. Can you cite a single example? Otherwise you're employing empty rhetoric.
If anyone here is interested in design, look into what I meant by Japanese bikes. Motorcycles, all of them, can be divided into those with integrated engines and those with engines sitting inside frames. In Japan, where the entire bike was built by the same people and was meant for export, the result was engines with parts bolted on to create a bike. There are all sorts of weight/reliability advantages in doing this. In the west, the engine was built at a different factory and sat on mounts inside the frame ... exactly like the arrangement in the OP here. So whenever you see a two-wheeled vehicle with an engine wrapped inside a larger frame, know that it was the result of a very different development process.
A few days late with this, though I hope your first PyCon was a success.

One of the presenters, Al Sweigart, wrote a post about getting the most out of PyCon: "How to Do PyCon (or any tech conference)" [0].

The biggest takeaways are to meet strangers / community members and find a way to connect with them. I keep a Twitter list [1] for this and you can subscribe to it too.

[0]: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/how-to-do-pycon-or-any-te...
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Apple, like Rolex, may not need a Next Big Thing. Rolex still sells their 1950s Rolex Submariner. It costs over 10x as much in constant dollars now, since it's a status symbol rather than a useful tool for divers.
Please don't. This sub has ruined my Reddit experience, I can't even begin to imagine seeing it all over HN.
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Their recent OSX releases have been terrible.

Mavericks and even Yosemite caused my 2012 Mac Book Pros to crash randomly. And then stall on restart. If Apple has 100 pts on the board, they don't deserve them.
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> 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.

Can a person from 1975 know your hard drive was full of pirated content? Probably he knows no title from your library, so he could not assume one way or another. It's as if specific "programming" was missing from him, or people from 1975 aren't passing your consciousness test.
Have you tried this? I've done a couple of 3d museums in the oculus & cardboard and it's a terrible experience. Scanning small images is not an improved experience over existing feeds on mobile phones, especially for something where you end up only looking at a photo you like for 0.4-2 seconds anyway.
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I remember seeing some articles that show that mixers and tumblers are not as anonymizing as they promise to be, but can't track them down now.

Not to mention, it only takes a single mistake.
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Ok, so that plus a little MVCC can make you consistent, but you've still got the read-many-to-write-one thing from the perspective of your block device interface, right? And block devices, if I'm remembering right, don't leave you any room to buffer pending writes.
I'm an Apple fan (having converted with the 2010 Macbook Air and the iPhone 4) and I am really frustrated by Apple's products these days:

- I honestly don't think the Watch is anything more than a niche product because there's really no compelling use case for it. Having another device to charge just to have a notification screen seems like a lot to pay $500+ for;

- Force Touch is (IMHO) a disaster. Steve Jobs' Apple steadfastly refused to have more than one button on the Mac mouse. I think this is a rare case where Jobs was proven wrong as the right click is just too useful. But Force Touch adds weight to the phone and cost and doesn't have a compelling use. What's worse is that there is zero discoverability.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone 7 drops this feature after the 5SE didn't have it and that would be quite an admission of failure.

- I'm constantly frustrated by Apple's apparent distaste for the Macbook Air line. When the 12" Macbook came out I thought this was the end of the line for the Air and that makes me sad as, to me, the Macbook is too much of a compromise (horrible keyboard, no feedback on the trackpad, too low power CPU, only one port which is also for power). The Macbook proved they could release an Air with a retina display if they wanted to. They clearly don't want to.

I honestly don't get Apple's hate for the Macbook Air.

- Steve Jobs famously called touch displays on laptops terrible from an ergonomic point of view. I agreed then and nothing has changed my mind. Every time I try one of these devices (eg iPad Pro with a keyboard), I wonder why anyone would want to lift their hand from the keyboard to touch something on the screen. The 13" iPad Pro has other things going for it but I just don't see an iPad as ever being a replacement for a laptop for most people. And I say this who has owned 5 iPads (including the latest 9.7" iPad Pro).

- I kept my iPhone 5 for 3 years because I hated the larger phones. I finally relented and bought the 6S under protest. Apple finally relented and released the 5SE, which I take as correcting a mistake. Some people may want larger phones. It's fine to have those. But many people don't. I expect the 5SE form factor to be a big seller for Apple.

Tim Cook seems to be a great logistics man and I think was largely responsible for building the supply chain that could build 200M+ devices a year. This includes innovations in how Apple used their cash hoard as vendor finance to get exclusive supply for awhile and cut their costs in the long term.

But Cook just isn't the visionary that Jobs was (who is?) and Apple's much vaunted simplicity does seem to have at least partially fallen by the wayside.
Except that other 100 point lead team only gets to play in the national league, while the other one gets to play world cup.
Strictly speaking, this is a Shannon Oracle:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/245008/why-di...
> Banning or further restricting [...] the best solutions we have doesn't sound like something I would support.

The solutions offered by the medical profession are far from the best solutions we have, they're what are profitable for the medical-industrial establishment to offer.
It's working great for India and Brazil. Jobs, happy people, money flow.
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So to be aware, it is sufficient for the entity to attempt to influence its state? Is a sunflower aware? It tracks the sun. You're just pushing the difficulty into the word "independently" now.
It keeps getting sold, reinvented by another company, then sold again. I've had an account for nearly 10 years and it's probably been through 4 or 5 different owners. It reached the point for me where the bookmarklet or extension would keep breaking and since I was using browser syncing, I just never got around the fixing it.
Do you mean Sourcegraph? https://sourcegraph.com/
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I realize that this is just a lark, but I just want to state for the record (as it were) that "free will" is such an ill-defined concept that any result from this is wrong and right at the same time. So there.
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Well sure... but Pebble also isn't running Dragon Naturally speaking directly on your watch. It hits a "cloud" API with your audio and gets results back.

Why couldn't they do this exact same thing with Alexa? And from what I read you need to provide your own SIM to get Alexa working, why would that be the case if you were required to use a phone?
Such discussion has a habit of derailing threads.

For instance, instead of talking about Urbit, we're instead mired in the finer points of one guy's murky theories on sociology.

This is not an interesting discussion on Hacker News! Racists are not exactly a rare breed, nor do the outspoken ones ever (intentional Sith absolute) bring anything interesting to the discussion.
Generators are implemented with continuations, just like C#'s iterators (yield return statement). In C#'s case, it rewrites the function into a continuation via a state machine, but it's just using an integer to point at the remainder of the function, just like an index into an array isn't very different to a pointer - it's a distinction without much of a difference.

(JS VMs are free to implement generators however they like, of course.)
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If there are enough transactions, you can follow the money through a mixer. You'll see coins going into the mixer, and, after a while, items that sum to the same amount minus the laundering fee coming out. It's statistically noisy, but that's what big data is for.
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Have some fun and google the following:

technological analogies for the human brain in history

For the last 30 or 40 years, the brain has been "a computer." Prior to that, it was: (insert latest and greatest technology).

I'm sure we're on to something, but I think it best we take it all with a grain of salt.
Why does everyone here seem to dislike C++?
So I'm a 3rd year electrical engineering student at university and so far we've been taught how to code in ones and zeros, assembly, C and C++. Out of all of these I like C++ the best. I wouldn't say I'm great with it, but I can use it to get what I need done. But every time I come onto this subreddit everybody always makes fun of C++.
Apart from school I'm kinda interested about getting into game programming as well as windows applications. Can anyone explain what's wrong with C++ and suggest a language to learn next?
And not one person mentions publish-subscribe.
Perception is an odd thing. Microsoft under Ballmer more than doubled revenue and profits while building some successful new businesses. Still, the 00s are referred to as a "lost decade" for the company. The stock price started climbing immediately after Ballmer's resignation -- before a replacement had been chosen -- demonstrating a pretty clear "anyone but him" sentiment in the market.

So on the one hand, negative perception seems a bit silly when the company is fundamentally doing well. On the other hand, that perception is often rooted in something real.
Cut and paste.
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Did you actually read the whole article? That was just the first experiment. The keystone species hypothesis has been confirmed time and time again all across the globe, and it's a widely-accepted theory these days (to the extent where I, someone who's never studied ecology, already knew the theory and was surprised that it was developed so recently and was controversial when it was proposed).
That's because this is the year of the Linux desktop. /s

(Yes, I know Android is linux, but you know what I mean you pedantic know-it-alls).
A diagram helps when you start getting into read/compile time discussions, see slides 13 through 17 of http://www.slideshare.net/adorepump/clojure-an-introduction-... to see how the evaluation model for Clojure (which is similar enough to Lisp) differs from most other languages. One of the many differences between Clojure and Lisp though is that Lisp supports user-defined reader macro definitions, so you can add things like the nice persistent map literal syntax of Clojure to Lisp if you really want to.
I don't have any experience with those brands. We have a foam/innerspring hybrid mattress that is a good mix of soft surface with overall very firm support. It's also like 200 pounds so it doesn't shift when your partner moves.
Scott Aaronson has a cool paper taking about the relationship between the two questions.

Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0159
Projects got bigger.

When you have 5 front-end developer working on and off on a project, you can't simply throw media queries around.

Hence the adding of classes. With classes based grid system, I can setup my grid (as the front-end guy) and have the back end guys simply add the right class and the website will stay responsive.

That being said, the classes are only there for the skeleton of the website. The rest of it is going to be done via the CSS itself.

Let's use Zurb's Foundation as an exemple. I can have the entire skeleton of the website done using the classes. This allow everyone to share the same base and this makes sure that the website will always be responsive.

When I need to do some extra styling on the element itself where classes would not make sense (and would break the philosophy behind good CSS), I simply thrown in @include grid-column(4); in my Sass code. This way, I have all the power of the class based grid but only in the CSS and not in the markup. (this is equal to doing class="row-4")
The overwhelming opinion* seems to be that he's brilliant at what he does. The post said it's obvious he's bad at business. If it's really that obvious, how did everyone else get things so wrong?

A more transparent post would have said something like "Based on my world view, assumptions, and preconceptions, he's bad at business. The common narrative of Dorsey is XYZ. Here's why that's wrong."

Saying "it's obvious" when you're expressing an uncommon opinion doesn't set a good tone for a discussion. Makes it seem like "I'm smart they're dumb I don't need to explain my statement that runs counter to conventional wisdom".

* Not saying it's right, just that this is what the Twitter board / media / insiders / VCs /etc. seem to think.
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It is undeniable that women in technology face greater challenges than men and it becomes hard for them go get through certain hoops that men get through effortlessly. Congrats YC! This seems like a good move.
It got to 1 immediately and stayed at 1 no matter what I did. Either this is a very impressive future predicting machine or there's a bug.

.... Turns out it was because I was pressing the wrong buttons on my Dvorak layout keyboard!
The arguments are a bit rubbish eg

>With the current models consisting of iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus and SE, Apple’s naming scheme is becoming noticeably less simple.

That started with the 3GS many years before Steve left.

The simplicity thing lives on in Jony Ives. He might even be overdoing it with things like only one port on the Macbook.
Ask HN: Do you get a high when you watch a video of Elon Musk, Feynman etc?
I generally do. I lose sleep and go in a deep thinking phase. I promise myself greatness and feel inspired. DAE feel like that? By what?
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