skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you test something that doesn't exist or is incoherent?

Does weather have free will? Do dogs or wolfs have free will?

Asking to test your free will is like saying "Test how much you're possessed by the Devil" or "Test your mind/soul/spirit".
Rene Ritchie of iMore "asked around" and found that this will not happen at the keynote or anytime in the near future.

http://www.imore.com/no-apple-display-integrated-gpu-wwdc
Also, forgot to add:

>In the case of a political election, the losing minority does not have their property instantly and compulsorily purchased at an arbitrary price set by the winner.

Actually, in many poorly-run democracies, they do something very close! I'm reminded of the Dilbert comic: "If you vote for me, I'll take money from the people who didn't, and give it to you!"
It's just an example to show what type of code `reactpack` builds, ES6 and JSX with style loading in this case. If you want a more minimal React-like build you can switch out React with lightweight alternatives like Preact or React-lite.
Recycle and reprint it again.
Yeah, it's amazing seeing my brother's kids talk about Minecraft. My childhood centered around a few cartoons, most of which were made by the same groups of people. I like the idea of a small set of creators having such a huge impact on a generation.
This has a name, and apparently a lot of people do it stackoverflow.com/questions/23803743/what-is-the-explicit-promise-construction-antipattern-and-how-do-i-avoid-it/23803744#23803744
Yeah, and they are benefiting from it. Why would they care if other countries have bad tax systems? I dont see how this affects my answer.
Good one. Right handed when really just typing as fast and supposedly as randomly as I can, it was at 0.99 and continuing to converge to 1. Left-handed (especially if I switch which fingers I use occasionally), I was < 0.4.
Intel's CEO planned – then scrapped – a fund-raiser for Donald Trump
A reader macro is not a kind of macros [0].

It is a way to customize the Lisp reader by associating a custom function to an entry in the readtable.

So you can say that character '[' will be tied to a custom reader function, which reads from a stream and produces a Lisp object, at readtime.

The standard sharpsign[1] character is used to read different kind of structures: complex numbers #C(0 1), structs #S(tree :left nil :right nil), and so on.

In particular, you can have sharpsign-dot, which reads a lisp form, evaluates it at read time; the result is the form being read.

Also, you can use #1= and #1# to affect parts of your code to reader variables and reuse them in other places.

If the PRINT-CIRCLE (there are earmuffs around it, but I can't format it here) variable is set to true, here is a quine:

#1=(print '#1#)

[0] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/26_glo...

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_dh....
There's been a number studies that showed that humans are bad at random number generation.
e.g. "Humans cannot consciously generate random numbers sequences" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17888582
You are just as presumptuous as the author. Perhaps there are traits more peculiar amongst these people that you presume is not the case. Perhaps the position itself allows these traits fuller expression. We don't know.
Exactly. HN itself is one big advertisement.
But if you're using React you are creating a not-insignificant webapp and the initial install time of 177 modules is totally irrelevant beyond that first install. It doesn't have any reflection on the size of the client JS file (webpack loaders, for example, only live on the dev machine).

Moreover, you can presumably globally install this, so it can cover every React-based project you need to build.

What is an acceptable number of modules?
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No Thinking, Split Testing
"many angels" Can you name a few? The difference with Indie is that paying back via cash distributions is not something to fear and is not considered a failure.
If you're on OSX/iOS you would use an NSOperation and NSOperationQueue.

Your NSOperation objects would conform to the NSCoding protocol. Then you would iterate through NSOperationQueue.operations and use NSKeyedArchiver to serialize.
I didn't have a coin on my so I started tossing my keys on the floor and picking a letter based on the direction of the largest key. Ended up predictably around 0.5
Was Nova involved in the court case, or have a personal vendetta against Hogan?
> Because evolution doesn't work on a species level, it works on a gene level. Genes that help propagate themselves spread more.

I don't think that's necessarily the case. If my descendants were able to reproduce more because of my gene that reaped me before I was a drain on their resources, that gene could be inherited by them.

IIRC I vaguely recall something about male homosexuality being correlated with female siblings' increased offspring count. It's a stretch to say that they'd be caused by the same gene but it would be an interesting phenomenon which might be a net benefit to the species.
I wrote a timer in the developers console that logged either f or d depending on whether Math.random() was above or below 0.5 every second, typing the sequence that was being logged, the oracle consistently scored around ~0.4.
Sure, but I'm curious why looking at the keys seems to matter.
You're thinking of MUSCULAR. MUSCULAR was a fiber hack between data centers. (Not really dark; if it was "dark" fiber the lines wouldn't be carrying any data.) That's the one tech companies are really pissed off about, which got them to start encrypting data between DCs.

PRISM is FISA. It's the NSA codename for data collection under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. That's why the tech companies had no idea what the press was talking about. When the NSA goes to execute PRISM, they have a lawyer contact the appropriate tech company and say "We have a lawfully-obtained warrant for search terms X, Y, and Z under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, please hand over your logs for those terms", and because it's all done legally, the tech companies have to comply. Once the data is handed over, there is apparently a whole storage & search mechanism within the NSA for handling that data, and that is what PRISM refers to.

BULLRUN is the NSA decryption effort, and it involves them systematically inserting backdoors into various encryption algorithms. It operates at a lower level than what most people think of as "American tech"; if there were companies involved, it'd be Cisco and Juniper, although all the evidence I've seen so far indicates that the NSA managed to hide flaws in the algorithms in plain sight, even as they underwent public review.
Might not be interesting, but maybe worth trying:

TeachCraft – Learning Python Through Minecraft (learning programming) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11599714

The Minecraft Generation (Roblox and other alternatives/enhancements)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11496228
> Yes. It's adorable. Now all we need is an open-source service compatible with AWS lambda that can run on your own servers. We could call it... freeman.

i would like to see an libre software serverless service. one huge concern of AWS Lambda is being locked into AWS's goodwill.
I have an algorithm that can guess that sequence right 62% of the time then ;)
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Apple copied the Xerox Alto both in black-on-white and the aspect ratio, they didn't come up with this themselves.
One thing Julian Jaynes discusses in his book Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (highly recommend, but a hard read) is that consciousness is comprised of a number of different qualities, one being excerptification - the ability to take a number of indiscriminate ideas/memories/images and string together a narrative.

For example, I can take the idea of a narwhal horn and the idea of a horse and mix them together to create a unicorn. My conscious mind took the excerpt of a narwhal horn and strung it together with the excerpt of a horse body. And I didn't just stick the horn on some random part of the horse's body, there was a contextual understanding behind it - a narwhal horn belongs on the forehead, the head of a horse is the thing with eyes and a nose.

Can a computer do that? No way, not presently at least. There's waaayy too much going on in the process of excerptification for a computer to replicate just this one facet of our consciousness.
I'll meet you halfway and agree on the importance on taking on the powerful. But I can't lionize Gawker for doing that. I can only criticize them for lowering the bar on what taking on the powerful means.

Revealing a VC is gay isn't taking on the powerful. Revealing the low-commitment racism of a wrestling has-been isn't taking on the powerful. This is pandering to low information and low attention audiences to secure a buck with TMZ-style gossip... and then dressing it up like you're doing God's work because, somehow, everyone involved believes they are on the right side of history™.

If you want to see an example of journalists taking on power, ask yourself this: When is the last time a central bank called out Gawker?

If you want to see an example of data-driven journalism (ignore the election year antics) that actually takes on the powerful, give Zerohedge a try. At least they make the effort to back up their occasionally ridiculous speculation with hard data.
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Seriously. My favorites were the complainers sagely tutting about Docker's "single points of failure", and in the same breath complaining about Docker causing pain for the complainers' infrastructure.

Physician, heal thyself.
Yup, definitely.

The more you make the more you can save. And the more you can own. People who make that much aren't the ones you need to target to improve their bargaining power or labor mobility, but UBI is still a benefit. Some cash flow is better than no cash flow. Even if it's only enough to pay the interest on their credit cards, that's still a big deal. And might be enough to convince people to leave jobs they hate.
Always choose the one that makes a new 6-gram, or that makes a 6-gram with the fewest previous appearances?
Amazon prime now moving to just cars. Laid off 40 messengers via email
Observables are actually terrible at backpressure as they're one of the most eager models around - once you have subscribed to an observable _it_ decides when to push and how much and you can't handle backpressure very well.

Quoting Erik Meijer who invented Rx Observables:

> My opinion about back pressure is that you either have a truly reactive system where the producer is fully in charge and the onus is on the consumer to keep up; or a truly interactive the consumer is fully in charge and the onus is on the producer to keep up. This is one of the cases where having different types of collections makes sense (just like we have different collections like lists, maps, sets, ... with different performance characteristics and different operations)

You probably want an async iterator for that
Valve Steam Machine selling very poorly
What's next after Sunrise cal will shut down its operation at the end of August?
Clearly, you've been watching too much 'Silicon Valley'.

No one drinks Soylent before going to work. At least, no one who works in proximity of other human beings.

http://thehustle.co/soylent-what-happened-when-i-went-30-day...
In the case of an exam, students are under stress and pressure that will often lead them to underestimate themselves, especially knowing that if they're wrong that 100% probability will net them a -infinity score for the exam, even if they get everything else right.

This also means questions have to be very carefully worded. I recall a number of exam questions (over many years of school, not one class in particular) where the "wrong" answers were arguably right depending on how the sentence was parsed just based on poor use of punctuation or other ambiguous wording.
this is what made me laugh for the day!
Oddly, I don't get that image when I click on the parent article's link.
I got mine up to 0.8~ and decided to spend some time trying to out-predict the machine and get my score lower. I got it down to 0.6 before it got really difficult
Not quite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmically_random_sequenc...
The problem is "integrity" is subjective.

Nobody cares about the beautiful stories that are published, just the ugly stories. Those ugly stories are still an important part of journalism, especially when they're ugly to people in power.
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Surely the important bit is the size of the code that's served to the end user, not the size of the development environment?

My Visual Studio install is easily at least 4GB, yet this doesn't matter to the end user as the packages produced are about 6MB total
Apple Gets Good News in Bid to Knock Out $533M Verdict
One also saw this in the developing world where many countries, lacking the existing telecommunications infrastructure based on landlines, skipped a step and jumped straight to mobile infrastructure. For a while some developing countries had mobile infrastructure and coverage that surpassed developed nations (one could argue that some still do, with no equivalent to M-PESA in developed countries.)
When I was little (and had too much free time) I memorized many digits of some transcendental numbers. The only (semi)practical use I've found for that knowledge, is that I can use it as a reasonably good pseudorandom stream. If for some reason I have to choose things pseudorandomly. Pick an arbitrary starting point in pi, and press 'd' for even digits and 'f' for odd digits, I get around 0.49 accuracy with this oracle.
So. I have done a similar thing for a while now. I call it adversarial selection. I ask a participant(p) to guess a number [1,10] repeatedly. After they guess a number, I immediately tell them my guess of their selected number. Immediately after I guess they are instructed to make a new guess and tap the table indicating they have picked a number. The point is to go through these generations very fast.

Often what I'll observe is they try to mimic a random distribution by selecting a number far away from their last selection, but sometimes they somehow catch on and start saying things like the same number (rare) or a number close to it. This gets interesting because they usually start cycling between picking a number far away and close, but they do so with a particular pattern. I'm able to guess their numbers well beyond a random distribution, and it all comes down the the idea that they are trying to make a random number or trick me, which produces a blueprint of behavior.
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Show HN: Author: create and publish beautiful stories
Poor cover art.

How about fitting, into a single image, a joke about some ex-web developer, stacking pancakes at IHOP.

Or maybe a visual reference to this type of full stack: https://www.google.com/search?q=guitar+full+stack&tbm=isch
It doesn't support custom versions and aliases yet. Curious what your use case is.

It sort of does custom aliases by giving the function an alias with the environment name, but that probably isn't what you want.
I'm seeing this story in several places, so I'm going to go with the smoke==fire assessment, but can anyone confirm? I hate to pull the [citation needed] card, but this sounds beneath even the Microsoft of the 90s. And if it's true? OMG, today's "open source, and Linux, and ponies!" Microsoft is demonstrating worse behavior than the "convicted abusive monopolist" Microsoft, IMO.
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The IPFS protocol thankfully works independently of any *coin.

It's not clear to me that Filecoin is any more or less of a scam than Bitcoin, nor that involving "blockchains" adds any value at all in this case.
>"So you list a number of hyper-extremist radical points [...] then you complain the country is leftist?"

No. I listed a bunch of things which were not extreme positions 50 years ago to show that politics is indeed becoming more leftist. The fact that you see these as very extreme positions is exactly my point -- the center has moved left, not right.
0.5072463768115938[1] but only did it for about 2 minutes (don't want to ruin my keyboard). That seems basically like it's unable to predict.

1. http://cl.ly/2c1R1X0z262i
I recently listened to an interesting discussion[1] about VR on a friend's recommendation. One of the guests had a great test for quality VR: can it perform as a hiking simulator? Can it mimic all the qualities of a good hike -- visuals, body movement, sounds?

It seems to me we're much closer to a great AR experience than truly great and immersive VR.

[1]: https://www.relay.fm/rocket/20
That's why called it a marketing decision. Apple didn't invent the tablet computer either, but they were the ones to push the idea and spend millions on marketing it to the public. They didn't legally invent it, but they did "own" it.
I tried to phrase the submission title neutrally; the article uses phrases like "dead in the water", "utter lack of market demand", and "time to declare Valve's Steam Machine DOA". Not entirely unfairly, I think; it seems pretty clear now that the Steam Machine is a failed experiment.
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Consider the following confounding variables:

Having children might reduce the number of people you spend time with.

I have a few other ideas (finding a spouse also cuts down on the amount of time you spend out looking for one), but that's the big idea.

I wish they would run the numbers adjusting for parenthood.
You know that calling a different opinion naive isn't actually an argument, right?

The mere possibility of a slippery slope doesn't show that Peter Thiel did anything wrong here.

I hope other websites should learn not to publish something they don't have the legal right to publish.
We use "bates" https://github.com/luiscarli/bates by our own engineer
Most of the modules involved are development side resources that don't end up included in the build. Complaining about the number of modules is like installing visual studio, noticing that it takes several gigs on disk and being like "Gigabytes, for a hello world program?"
Hmm, it looks like they have changed their pricing strategy. When I first signed up it was no strings attached free as a loss-leader to move you towards using their application monitoring products.

https://blog.newrelic.com/2011/11/08/server-monitoring-is-he...

So far I appear to still be grandfathered into the the free server plan?

Anyways, I guess you can disregard my original comment.
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I guess that goes back to the original premise of the experiment. That "free will" is unpredictable. And the way I thought about it is that for me to have a true inclination -- not to just do it "randomly" -- I'd have to look at the keys and feel something.
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That's true. Thing is, I don't have a great thought-out plan. I sympathize with a couple of ideas from the corner of anarchism or communism (that's why I dropped the term free association), but I would strongly hesitate to call myself e.g. a communist, because there has been so much crap running under that term that I can't really identify with it.

I find interesting that sometimes technology wants to push society in a certain direction - that can be good, bad, or neutral - and society resists with new technology, and this creates an curious interplay. Like file-sharing made it trivial to share music. Either we change society, everybody can access music for free, and we find a new way to feed and reward musicians. Or we keep society the way it is, invent DRM, and pretend files are material goods. Or for an older, more drastic example, think of the effect of widespread contraception on sexual morality.

About changing people, I think a widespread objection against utopias is to say they are trying to create new people, and I think this objection is not entirely unfounded. I'd personally try to change society, so that what's between people and not the people themselves, if you know what I mean. I wouldn't even want to try to put everybody through an ecovillage or a kibbutz etc., although I'm sure it's a valuable experience. Rather make small, incremental changes, and set incentives such that people automatically do the 'right' thing. But, as I said, I have no concrete plans, and fixing human society is a really really hard problem :-)
His point was that the internet allows for much more diversity, rather than less. The example he chose is a little unfortunate. Copyright issues surrounding fan fiction are not relevant to the matter at hand.

I'd argue that the goal with the French cultural protectionist laws is not to allow diversity, but to choose winners and losers by constraining choice.
How many people actually do this though? I rather wait for them to be online instead of registering my card information someplace else. I can buy stuff from almost any site as long as they accept Paypal but many want to store the card information themselves, understandable from their perspective but not from mine.
And is easier on people with limited vision. And is better for mobile devices at night as it maintains night vision. And saves on electricity (a tiny tiny bit). There is no downside, which is why I laugh at why we still expect everything to be white.
Computers are close to that. The neural net image backward inference is similar. They take bits of imagery and try to retrofit it in 'meaningful' ways, blending both source and target image. Also genetic programming can model swapping and blending traits.
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That's Node, baby. Deal with it.
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Seems odd to call it free will. If you were 100% deterministic then sure you have no free will, but predictable, even very predictable is not the same as having no free will.

Has anyone done a control test with an RNG to see what happens?
Now we need a light switch for hn.
Yuck. Got a tl;dr? I'm tired of every other paragraph being a diversion into discussion of what she was wearing or other irrelevancy.
Hmm. Interesting. Democracy, but with something like super-majority rules.

I'd like to see a feature that allowed cooler heads to prevail over time (like the US Senate was originally designed for). How would you keep the passions of the moment from being inflamed enough to blow by your almost super-majority rules?

In the US, you'd have problems getting your stage concept past "disparate impact" studies, but since we're speaking in hypotheticals anyway - this seems very Jeffersonian. How do you get something like this past the people who would cry (rightly or not) that your stage-3 continues to favor the historically privileged?
While we're talking about who is who -- the parent poster is Jed Smith; he's a sysadmin and disgruntled former CoreOS employee. I'd take what he says with more than a grain of salt.
Sure, is there an easy way to generate that algorithmically without maintaining an explicit history? Is there a well-known sequence with that property? Do Gray codes have it, for example?
yeah I heard! that would be ideal, I think.
It says it will predict which key I will press next but it doesn't say which key it's predicting. is it f or d?