skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alpha Version – My Voice Triggered Search Bot [Python]
Having a more "experimental" project seems like a good idea. But if the API breaks all 6 months, I think it's hard to use such a library unlike your project is a "show HN" style experiment as well that is expected to live only a few months.
I am not sure I get your definition of causal closure. Would "black is what looks the same colour when put next to a black item" qualify as a causal closure, and if yes how can that be a non purely self referential definition in any sense? On colour and sound, how do you separate between the physical representation of the abstraction and the abstraction itself? You seem to be approaching a causal closure of non-physical existence, though one I am not sure is right.
One of the nice things about s-expressions ("all those round brackets") is that they're well suited to meta-programming.

For example, you can automatically convert back and forth between s-expressions and something else, like i-expressions http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html
Right, but the significant difference does lie in the memory management thing. GC/No GC is (a) correct, according to the academic definition, and (b) a decent approximation to the difference.
Long rambling article. I found the wikipedia page to be much more digestible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senet

Fascinating none the less though.
By accident, I had a pocket knife from Quiet Carry [0] on my keychain the TSA didn't catch it. And I've had other similar incidents in the past. Of course, they always find the innocent, and overly expensive water bottles bought at the airports including unopened ones. The one and only purpose of TSA is to catch terrorist-wannabes and create an expensive false sense of security.

[0]: https://quietcarry.com/collections/bandit-titanium/products/...
Algorithmic Progress in Six Domains [pdf]
Interview with Ramzi Rizk, CTO at EyeEm
"SYLK": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYmbolic_LinK_(SYLK) not SLYK I assume
Could you pretty, pretty please allow for an option to have automatic parentheses insertion, similar to how javascript will insert semicolons, making them optional? This is almost exactly the language that I've been planning for the last six months, and if you would be so kind as to implement that one feature, it would save me a lot of reinventing the wheel.

I was originally envisioning having the compiler being able to infer parentheses based on code indentation.

Also have you considered compile time AST evaluation and simplification?
Another really great picture taken by Hubble is the eXtreme Deep Field. As wiki puts it: Except for a few stars, every speck of light is an entire galaxy – some of these are as old as 13.2 billion years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_eXtreme_Deep_Field

I occasionally use that image as my desktop. It reminds me of how insignificant we really are.
>it's commonly accepted that A-share has a price premium because its price is likely to go up more in a bullish market.

Unless the government decides to suspend trading in them, in which case you're stuck with the shares with no way to trade them even if their value drops through the floor. It's market distortions on top of market distortions.
That sounds a lot like entitlement to me.
Denmark and the Netherlands both have lots of shit weather and enormous amounts of cycling. As titzer pointed out, the Bay area has neither.

Weather is not a problem with a raincoat, rain pants, and the right attitude :) I always reach the office dry. Admittedly, my commute is fairly short by US standards (5km / 15 minutes), but that's not atypical for cities in Germany. Winters are no problem with the right tyres, as bike paths are cleared of snow by the city.

As for luggage: Panniers are awesome. I have 30 year old Ortlieb bags (see https://www.ortlieb.com/en/Back-Roller%20City/ for the modern version), 40 litres of cargo volume right there. That's enough for my weekly grocery shopping and you still have space on the luggage rack for a basket or whatever.

Oh, and to your last point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZPNwZex9s - like that? ;)
I just used your very cool site to configure machines that we used for an in-house cluster. Would have been extremely difficult without it. Thanks a lot for building and making it available for free! (Recruit me for any feedback/usability studies).
One of the most important paragraphs:

> Most of these goals seem noble, but the overall effect is somewhat demoralizing, and follows a potentially dangerous logic with respect to designing for public spaces. When design solutions address the symptoms of a problem (like sleeping outside in public) rather than the cause of the problem (like the myriad societal shortcomings that lead to homelessness), that problem is simply pushed down the street.

Can't agree more. It's so common in France and really depressing. On the linked video (which looks to be shot in Paris, actually), we see dozens of these contraptions right in front of metro ads which cost most than it does to feed and shelter homeless people for several weeks.
I hate those high pitched buzzers for teenagers. I'm in my 20s and can still hear them.
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You are right about Scheme. Note that Carp, like Clojure, treats brackets as arrays (https://github.com/eriksvedang/Carp/blob/master/src/reader.c...).
Hard to see how apps can be kept out lime iPhone was. Unless you are China.
Consumers Will Transform Your Business, If You Just Listen
mind well and truly blown
This is fantastic. AFAIK there are no Lisps our there that are designed with games in mind which is a huge shame because I often think how perfect it'd be for game dev (Arcadia and Nightmod spring to mind but imo they're shoehorns. Good ones, but still).
Neural Networks and Deep Learning Thorough Explanation
I wonder why LINE thought they could challenge kakao in korea...
This is something I've had a great interest in for years and have read many studies where there is clearly correlation but so many obvious confounders that claims of casuality are just not supported by the data. If the summary of the sudy you linked is accurate (http://web.archive.org/web/20090223222003/http://www.nutriti...) it is an example in that they studied people with low fat and high fiber diets, but had no group of high fat and high fiber diet. So is it the fat or the fiber or both? They also made no attempt to distinguish between types of fats. So is it animal fat +/- fiber or any/all fats +/- fiber? Further, they talked about fat and fiber not protein. Ultimately they made no claims about casuality, only correlation. Given more recent reports of the effects on diseases of fiber-fed gut bacteria it might be that it's the fiber that's important.

My personal question is, does a high fiber ketogenic diet (high fiber, high fat, low carb) raise or lower cancer risk? I don't know of strong evidence either way.
How a CTO Spends His Time: Minute-By-minute Data for a Year
Simple cost-benefit. If your problem is that homeless people are sleeping in front of your ads and you can
A) shelter some homeless people for several weeks or
B) install spikes and keep every homeless person away (seemingly) forever.
Protect your privacy: Resist mass cracking by US law enforcement
A snapshot of tech startup funding and M&A activity in Belgium
Scientists Taught a Robot to Hunt Prey
This is so wonderful compared to the multi multi billion dollar boondoggle "high speed rail" that California is spending money on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail

We discussed that just a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11996355

Cancel HSR and use the money toward funding transit that people would actually use!
The League Is Launching a New Feature for Women to Discuss Freezing Their Eggs
Except that you never know what is truly necessary or not since you are making assumptions.
The fundamentals hasn't changed. Everything else being equal the increased convenience of self-driving cars and the low running costs of electric cars will put a lot more cars on the road that will take longer journeys. There's no escaping the need for public transport, especially if SF wants to grow denser.

I do have to mirror the parent posters sentiment, people really need to start paying attention to fundamentals. In an optimal efficient future (which of course won't happen) there would essentially be no car ownership. A car is a huge compromise (which is why people like them) that can't go particularly fast (because of drag at speed and kinetic energy in a crash), is over-engineered at lower speeds and have low bandwidth (especially in urban environments).

Of course having cheap fully autonomous cars (without steering, that can go anywhere) is still more likely decades than years away.
We have them in the bathrooms of our math department too (on classrooms' floors). Guess math students have heroin problems.
Historically, most governance switches between "business as usual" and "urgent crisis" without much gradient. This gives the appearance of stability most of the time as most of the political effort in the business as usual scenario is behind the scenes, trading horses, serving the high bidders, driving a wedge on an issue to create a new support base, or shutting down challengers. But when a crisis hits, everyone's plans go out the window and chaos ensues. When it finally settles, there is a new order and a new set of policy issues, not always for the better.

What we have at this moment, across many nations, is a set of crises that none of the existing governments have the resolve or imagination to solve. That's why the parties are tearing themselves up - they are realigning everything.

At ground level this manifests as partisan politics in part because the remnants of the old platforms are in do-or-die mode; with no stable middle to appeal to, they have to pick a place to move to, and it is going to be left or right of their old position.
Things to do in Summer, what a nice list
Warehousing fulfillment service
Android is in decline along with the G5 LG
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Interestingly, this [fn:1] video just explained how emotion-triggering content, in particular anger, will spread the fastest. Clearly, clever marketing/propaganda people have used this technique well.

[fn:1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
I wonder if this proposal will be remembered by our successors and their counterparties when the time comes.
Are these "mental models" or just a bunch of clichés / pithy aphorisms? To me, a mental model would be something more like "visualizing possible state transitions as a directed graph" or something like that.
Imagine a team of 20 developers sharing cloud infrastructure. Key additions and revocations ends up being time consuming.
Naver beat Google because lack of English based content, according to this article:

http://searchengineland.com/naver-the-google-of-south-korea-...

It's not because of protectionism.
Scaling Mercurial at Facebook (2014)
Assume you have a 20% margin, then one year of revenue equals five years of profit, or a 5X profit multiple. It may not be ideal, but if the alternative is raising more money, increasing your risk, it's attractive. Also, VCs need liquidity so 1X on a large number today is more attractive than 3X you many never achieve.
Related discussion at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11992136
I see two main claims in the article:

* "Unpleasant design" is different because it aims to exert social control in public spaces

* "Unpleasant design" is different because it is intended to create a hostile atmosphere - it increases unpleasantness rather than pleasantness

I don't really agree with either claim.

All design of public spaces is intended to exert some form of social control. Creating a manicured park with flower beds, comfortable benches and beautiful splashing fountains is intended to exert social control by encouraging people to congregate and spend time in the park. In fact, any good designer attempts to exert control by encouraging certain behaviour patterns over other behaviour patterns.

"Unpleasant design" is not intended to increase unpleasantness. Some groups perceive people sleeping on benches or congregating ("loitering") as unpleasant, just as other groups find preventing people from sleeping on benches or congregating to be unpleasant.

I'm not defending the particular examples of design referenced in the article. I'm not saying it's a great idea to make benches you can't lie down on. But I don't agree it makes sense as a distinct category of design. It's just design that tends to favour groups higher in the socio-economic hierarchy at the expense of groups lower in the socio-economic hierarchy. This may be a very bad thing, but I don't think it's a different type of design.
An alternative would have been to not label it "CSV",

Another one would have been to write numbers in a CSV file in the American format and just adapt them to the current locale when reading them.

Both would be a more sensible interpretation of your GP.
Because it's one year's revenue, not profit.
No, the picture demonstrates why cars are bad; they require too much space. You are free to think outside the box. Let me help you with that. Here"s something that didn't exist 20 years ago, for example:

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2016-05/30/content_38560697...

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/national/Maglev-on-trial-run-in...

A smooth quiet ride at 60 mph through NYC, San Francisco, or Los Angeles seems like a great way to travel.
If it takes off, and fulfills all peoples' dreams and brings rainbow-farting pink ponies to Earth, then I suppose there might come lots of parser butchering by people and fitting it to their likes via forks/frontends - me, for example, I'd love it to look more Rebol-like ;)
In the captain's chair: Fixing Twitter
> For 2.5 million years, those photons were freely zooming through space [...]

Imagine the faces of Penzias and Wilson when they learned that the noise in their horn antenna wasn't bird poop but photons traveling 14 billion years without interacting.

See Cosmic Microwave Background.
I think these can be defended as mental models, even though the article doesn't do a good job of it.

We're familiar with inflation in the financial sense. But then there is also grade inflation. There is inflation of superlatives in our language, e.g. "great" and "awesome". Once we see a few examples we realise that inflation is a more general concept, and a useful one to use in explaining a lot of situations.

Same for peak oil, I think. Not sure about botnet.
NPM has been partially down for a while now
See github thread: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/13284
what's the sell on this over ldap?
Old, outadated, with low specs only for those who need high performance. For 90% everyday tasks these laptops are more than enough. For me specifically and for many of my friends, they are 100% enough.
Yes the title is click baity to the extreme. The author hasn't used GCE extensively (has anyone?), so recommending GCE is disingenuous.

Despite that, I found the article to be a good summary of some of AWS's worse sore points. EBS performance really is a dog. He failed to mention c3 instance types though, which also have locally attached SSDs.
You keep implying people are idiots for missing apostrophes and not casing how your lordship likes it, I'll keep flagging your posts. In the mean time, neither CSS nor JS are featured in the dictionary so why on earth do you think your initial post is appropriate?

I'm sure if you google enough you'll find a community that finds it acceptable as a whole to be rude to people who don't have proofreaders and a full publishing staff for their internet comments. Sure as hell hope HN isn't it.
Then call it "Rightstarter" :)
To me, "buzzers for teenagers" is an extremelly unsettling slash dehumanizing idea. I thought it's a proof of concept, I can't imagine how anybody will actually install one of these.

It's totally like installing a bump in your door frame so any people with disability will have difficulty passing. We're not wanting any limp lamers to destroy our healthy mood inside, do we?

One day people who embraced this kind of thing will be old and helpless, and "teenagers" will held all posts. Just sayin'.
This article lost me at David Chalmers
Why is it so hard to write code?
Sorry for the mathematical nitpick here, but that seems to me like a strawman. You silently moved from the original question:

What is the probability that the hypothesis is correct?

To the very different question:

What is the probability that the implication "from the assumptions follows the hypothesis" is correct?

Moreover, this different question has a clear answer for every logically consistent theory: It is 1, because it is always true!

Why? Because that's exactly what the theory proves logically. The theory can't tell you whether A1, ..., Ak are all true in the real world, but it does tell you that _if_ these are true, H is also true.

So this is really a typical strawman argument (although maybe unintendedly): It is different from the original question, and it boils down to a trivial but misleading answer.

------------------

Going back to the original question, you'd have to compare the two hypotheses H1 and H2, where the set of assumptions of H1 are a strict subset of the assumptions of H2:

A1 & A2 & ... & Ak -> H1
A1 & A2 & ... & Ak & ... & An -> H2

It is clear that:

P(A1 & A2 & ... & Ak) > P(A1 & A2 & ... & Ak & ... & An)

But from here it is surprisingly hard to conclude "P(H1) > P(H2)", because we have implications and not equivalences. That is, H1 may be true even though the assumptions don't hold. It may be true for different reasons and derived from a different set of assumptions that turn out to be true. Same for H2. So we need to take into account the probabilities for H1 and H2 to be "true for different reasons", which we'll name Pd1 and Pd2:

Pd1 = P(not(A1 & A2 & ... & Ak) & H1)
Pd2 = P(not(A1 & A2 & ... & Ak & ... & An) & H2)

To prove the probability variant of Occam's razor, we need to make the following additional meta-assumption: The probabilities that H1 and H2 are "true for different reasons" are very small, and moreover almost identical. So we have:

Pd1 = Pd2

But with that meta-assumption, we can finally prove the probability variant of Ocamm's razor, as we can now express P(H1) and P(H2):

P(H1) = P(not(A1 & A2 & ... & Ak) & H1) + P((A1 & A2 & ... & Ak) & H1)
= Pd1 + P((A1 & A2 & ... & Ak) & H1)
= Pd1 + P(A1 & A2 & ... & Ak)
= Pd2 + P(A1 & A2 & ... & Ak)
> Pd2 + P(A1 & A2 & ... & Ak & ... & An)
= Pd2 + P((A1 & A2 & ... & Ak & ... & An) & H2)
= P(not(A1 & A2 & ... & Ak & ... & An) & H2) + P((A1 & A2 & ... & Ak & ... & An) & H2)
= P(H2)

In short:

P(H1) > P(H2)
This looks amazing and very close to a project I've been working on myself - a clojure-ish lisp-1 with Rust style memory management. Very cool work!
When Linux is the face of kindness
> (A1 & A2 & ... & Ak) -> H

This is backwards. It should be

H => (A1 & A2 & ... & Ak)

It's not "if these assumptions hold, the hypothesis is true". It's "for this hypothesis to be true, these assumptions must hold".

Suppose you have the hypothesis that Bruce Wayne is Superman. Then you see the two of them in the same room together. It's still possible that Bruce Wayne is Superman, but only if he has an identical twin. Your credence that Bruce Wayne is Superman should decrease accordingly.
A Video Surveillance OS for Single-Board Computers
"It would have been easy for us to adjust the parameter that controlled how long the delta-V monitor waited before testing the engine — but nobody told us."

Sleep-and-assume programming is the bane of automation. Ideally, the software people should have gotten the hardware people to install some kind of sensor to detect the right condition, but I guess it was either limited by what could actually be done with the hardware, or maybe they didn't have enough influence to get the design changed...
Historic Charter of Barcelona – Interactive Historical Maps
MOAI might make a great front-end for you .. it has quite powerful text basics ..
No more sensible than starting with Japansese format and force the Americans to adapt to their locale when reading them....

That'll make the world a better place wouldn't it?.....
I find it perfectly logical to call it the "Windows Subsystem for Linux", considering it implements the Linux syscall interface.
1984 is not an instruction manual
As a somewhat astronomer, this explanation seems reasonable.

Usually you can't discern individual stars in another galaxy, like in the center of the Andromeda galaxy (But doing statistics is still possible). However, the Andromeda galaxy seems close enough that at the outer edge of it, you can isolate them to do astronomy on individual stars (like spectroscopy).

Edit: Also, you can find stars in almost all colors. The average of the colors depends on the age of the stars in the galaxy. If there are only a few new stars born, the galaxy will appear redder. If there are many new stars born, it appears bluer (see Hertzsprung-Russel diagram). The way the stars appear in different colors means that they have different ages and masses.

Noise in a telescope (except for high energy particles hitting your detector) is thermal noise. It will only appear if there's almost no light detected. So if it were noise, it should be the other way round: Noisy where there are little stars and no noise where there are a lot of stars. If you'd ask me, I'd say there's exactly zero visible noise in there.
This a thousand time !
I'm sorry but as a non-US person it's been made very clear to me that I have zero rights, zero laws to depend on and zero expectations of privacy. Calling it "the fourth" is like rubbing that in my face, leaving a rather bad taste.
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Sounds normal. At first you want to get something that works, and works correctly. This is rarely achieved by small and optimized code.

Once you have the correct code, you'll also have a more complete understanding of the problem and it's parts.

At this point you can start simplifying, optimizing and so on.

Also, having a correct code makes that job easier, since now you can have both a proven set of tests and a reference - errors are trivial to catch.

> I think "why the heck couldn't I have written that simple code in the first place - it would have taken me 25 minutes instead of 8 hours"

You didn't know it back then, now you do. The path from there to here resulted in that understanding, and the hindsight through the understanding makes the past looks absurd.
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Are you planning to support true color?

This gist has some information and also tracks adoption in other software packages: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
Let’s make peer review scientific
Yikes.
Sounds like you have a few decisions to make... and I surely can't "tell" you things without more information.

First off, do you HAVE to grow or improve your projects? Or is maintaining them enough? Or is support too much effort, too?

Secondly, is there something to DO with the money -- either for yourself or others?
- Yourself: do you have a retirement fund? Do you have an estimate on how much you need to be "secure"?
- Others: any causes that you care about or relatives/friends that you care for -- e.g. helping their business or education? I read an article about someone working on wall-street specifically to channel his paycheck towards charities. His paycheck would hire 4-5 people while volunteering would only give them one (and he's need to afford food somehow).

Motivation helps -- is there something that you CARE about? Maybe a new project in a "fun or sexy" field, that doesn't HAVE to succeed?
If you currently feel financially stable, then maybe you no longer care about that. And maybe that's OK!
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