skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It sure seems to be an epistemology problem which puts it
> squarely in the realm of philosophy, not physics.

It's absolutely a physical issue, not a purely philosophical one. Under the Copenhagen interpretation, the probability densities which drop out of Quantum Mechanics reflect some sort of objective physical reality, as in Schroedinger's Cat. The alternative to this is the so-called "hidden variables" theories [1], which posit that those densities reflect variability in some kind of hidden extra state in quantum-mechanical systems of which we are currently ignorant. The very real Bell's inequality experiments [2] are an example of the physical quality of this dichotomy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments
It gets complicated, and the mass budget starts going up fast, if you want other things to be able to dock to it. Two space stations on the opposite side of a long rope (per the other reply) is also not a very compelling story to tell to Congress when you have to admit that astronauts won't be able to travel between those two space stations to speak of, unless, again, you really up the mass budget.

We're space-poor. It's just too darned expensive. Even relatively simple designs are out of our reach right now, if you have to manifest them in real designs with real safety margins and real practical applications, such as being dockable.
As someone with ADHD, I can assure you that splitting up videos into 5 minute chunks does me no favours whatsoever.
Great video by Jon Shiring from Respawn about their network and game architecture for Titanfall (this is more high level than network code but still good info)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayF8e8q_aA8
Interactive Emails with Email Markup
Couple of papers from the Italian team that did bathymetry / seismics in Lake Cheko:

http://sci-hub.cc/10.1007/s12210-015-0403-8

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229759371_Lake_Chek...

Some argument against Cheko being an impact crater, referenced in the above work:

http://www.univie.ac.at/geochemistry/koeberl/publikation_lis...

Data from the Italian team that investigated Cheko:

http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/
Actually, you and the parent are not quite right on the free trade issue v movement of people issue. It is the single market in services that is tied to notions of free movement of people. The free trade and restrictions on movement of people is not controversial.
Just for reference, the fastest framework can be found here: [Vannilajs](http://vanilla-js.com/) .
Economics too! i.e. the "worldly philosophers".
This is something I use quite frequently when dealing with JSON. https://www.getpostman.com
Not sure why this is here, its guaranteed flame-bait, and, given its origin, is also shockingly one sided. I'm a grandson of the city, I've lived here for years, been coming here since I was born. My great grandfather literally built a home here with his own hands, was a well respected doctor. My grandfather was an alderman of a bordering suburb. I'm telling anyone willing to listen this is garbage flame bait and I hope others will join me in flagging it.
If I were implementing such setup today, would AFS still be my best option?
JSON Formatter for Chrome works with local files (you have to check the box in the settings to enable it).

It's super handy. Drag and drop json files into a new tab.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-formatter/bcj...
Without the agent you wouldn't know that you knew the seller :)
The cross section rendering would be useful for oil exploration visualizers.
I assume you've removed benefits received by whites, which dwarf those received by blacks every year?
> there's a limit to how small you can make your spinning habitat before the difference between "centrifugal force" and gravity is too pronounced for our long term comfort

There is no such difference. The constraint you probably have in mind is that you want the force of gravity at your head to be the same as the force of gravity at your feet. This is a problem with actual gravity too; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification .
he is lying.
Would this potentially work with Monogame, as that's built on the same framework?
Not with this traditional socialist/conservative government keeping everything it's always been.

And let's not hope the FPÖ takes over! They've fucked up good back when they had a chance. With their corruption and strong association with the industrial's association (Industriellenvereinigung), they are more interested in not helping start-ups than any other party.
I don't think it was dumb to have a referendum. I think a lot of the problems with the European project stem from perception that folk at the top are pulling a fast one over their populations - people should decide when the basis of their government changes. But the circumstance by which the referendum came about was farcical.

I don't disagree with the rest of what you say, but I would add that a government that puts together a referendum that is not a foregone conclusion, that does not prepare for an adverse decision, is incompetent and negligent enough to be considered criminal.
TIOBE Index for July 2016: Assembly Language Enters the Top Again
Dota2 interestingly enough just uses protobufs for network and replays I believe.

https://github.com/skadistats/smoke/wiki/Anatomy-of-a-Dota-2...
That's true and not true. A common business model for many real estate agents is to accumulate listings to get posted to MLS. There's one guy in my area who has like 350 listings.

They aren't really equipped or motivated to service buyers (or sellers for that matter) and suck to deal with. Having a gofer deal with their bullshit who gets paid by someone else is pretty useful.
I agree with dtornabene's comment: Having read it, I find it highly biased, to put it politely, to the point where I doubt its value. Flagged.
> Two space stations on the opposite side of a long rope (per the other reply) is also not a very compelling story to tell to Congress when you have to admit that astronauts won't be able to travel between those two space stations to speak of

I don't get the complaint. Assuming travel from one station to the other is impossible, what's supposed to be wrong with having two smaller stations that don't cripple the health of the inhabitants instead of one bigger one that does?
Stephen makes a lot of good points. And the list of questions he says people should ask is also useful. I have a few to add:

* What algorithm(s) are you using? Nobody should be able to brag publicly about their AI without simply naming the algorithms.

* What is your objective function? That is, what are you trying to optimize; what value you are you trying to maximize or minimize? Is it classification error? Is it measuring similarities on unstructured and unlabeled data through reconstruction?

* Do you already have the data that you can train on to minimize that error? If not, do you have a realistic plan to gather it? Have you thought about how you'll store it and make it accessible to your algorithms?

We have a series of questions we suggest that people ask themselves when approaching a machine- or deep learning problem:

http://deeplearning4j.org/questions.html

I talk to a lot of startups making claims about their "AI", and I can't stop them from jumping on the bandwagon, but not all have the ability to build a machine-learning system and gather the data it needs.

Every good thing gets hyped, but that doesn't make it less good. It just means readers have more work to do.... Like Francois Chollet, I happen to believe that AI is even bigger than the hype, but in ways that the hype can't imagine yet.

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/751483046436548608
Could you elaborate on the sane vs. insane demands (examples of each)?
Strange indeed. But then many aspects of her campaign are.
Does anyone know if they archived the webpages, assignments, and quizzes too? Or did they just manage to download the lecture videos? I'll try downloading it myself and checking, but I don't have the fastest internet connection.
Whilst I hate some aspects to MOOCs, the fact is that I spent about $120 to learn the basics if SAP, whereas if I'd gotten "proper" training on the same subject matter it would have cost me thousands.

I'd love to see a site that specialises in user contributed content along the lines of Wikipedia. It's funny though - take SAP as an example: I'd be just as happy reading a book that explains it all better than what is out there right now! A book that assumes you are into technology but have little skills or knowledge of the business processes that SAP gets intoned in, and which gives you a rundown of this before giving a detailed rundown on how SAP implements these processes.

Sadly, no such thing exists, but happily for me I stumbled upon http://www.accountingverse.com/ and http://www.accountingcoach.com/ (no, I'm not affiliated with them in any way) and it turns out they didn't cost anything and I finally "get" double-entry book keeping, financial transaction concepts like the general ledger, journal, accrual method and the fundamental accounting equation. Wish I'd known this earlier to be honest - as I say, I lament that there are no books on SAP core modules that go from concepts to the nuts and bolts of how SAP does things :-(
If calling it science bothers you, then call it mathematics instead.

It's obvious to everyone involved that GM and QM, both the best physically verified theories at their respective energies, are deeply incompatible with one another.

Unfortunately, physical situations where we can see them disagreeing are outside of our reach at the moment. You're suggesting the entire physics community just give up theorizing until we can plausibly reach unification energies, even if that's a thousand years from now?

> it just seems like vanity to pursue unification that provides no insight into the complex world around us

Pure theory has a funny habit of finding applications in the most unexpected places.

Anyway, if it's an interesting problem, and people want to spend their time thinking about it, who are we to tell them to stop?
Racket's documentation is wonderful and the community around it is very welcoming and helpful.

I'm a huge fan and my only wish is that it supported OS threads so it was possible to fully utilize a machine with a single process.
The statistics underpinning the fears of parents as to crippling injuries from head injuries in football are well documented, easily Google-able, and far more relevant than your anecdotal experience.
I use json.tool a lot too, but usually pipe it to `less`, using the paging and searching.
I've worked remote for a year and my experience is the exact opposite. I generally know my coworkers well enough that I feel comfortable when I've actually been around them. We use Slack, we have daily "standups" for scrum, etc.. Almost everyone has some clue what other people are working on. Everyone works in NA, so there aren't serious timezone issues.

My experience has so far been that I never want to step foot into a real office again if I can avoid it.
Couldn't sci-hub mirror this?
I have a lot of respect for PG, but boy, is he off track on that.

Aristotle was highly specific and highly empirical. His ethics, for instance, is an elaborate study of the various ways individual go right or wrong in their decisions. His politics was based on extensive studies of the constitutions and political histories of nearly a hundred Greek states. And of course there was his biology, based on empirical studies of over a hundred different animal species.

And as for his physics, according to this astounding article by Carlo Rovelli (yes, that Carlo Rovelli), his physics is accurate for the phenomena he was studying. Rovelli even converts his ideas into equations.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.4057v2.pdf
Proterra Opens Patents on Rapid Electric Bus Charging
> As it stands, they are an anti-white hate-group, with not specific agenda other than "Whitey Sucks!"

I'm not sure there's much more to that statement than baseless opinion. If you're interested in what the BLM movement has accomlished, there are many resources at your disposal, but I'd start here [1].

[1] http://blacklivesmatter.com/11-major-misconceptions-about-th...
Solving All the Wrong Problems
How is educational attainment a genetic trait? Intelligence is partially hereditary, but isn't educational attainment a behavior?
"I'm not sure what you're getting at with the comparison."

Southern Canada covers a whole lot more territory than Toronto and Montreal, dude. There's a whole actual country out there.

The observed temperature range in Buenos Aires is 22 °F to 109.9°F.

The observed temperature range in Winnipeg is −54 °F to 108 °F.

"Not killing an unprotected human within hours" is a pretty good basis for comparison, I'd say.

Edit: corrected maximum temperature observed in B.A.
Not recent, but these are some objectively popular examples:

- Angry Birds, 2009 (Espoo, Finland)

- Kik, 2010 (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)

- Spotify (US launch), 2011 (Stockholm, Sweden)

- Candy Crush Saga, 2012 (Stockholm, Sweden)
Are there any plans to support styling so you can get a native look-and-feel on non "Modern" Windows operating systems?
Intelligence is as much a behavior as education is. You observe it by what people do and how they perform. There is no physical or neurological correlate of intelligence like height or brain size or white matter integrity which measures intelligence as well as observing performance does.

As for how education can be genetically mediated, there's many ways. Through intelligence (high genetic correlation/overlap), but also through personality traits, ADHD-proneness, and other mental and physical characteristics which are undoubtedly under genetic control.
Are you just speculating regarding a Dutch referendum? Was this gaining momentum prior to the Brexit vote? This is the first I've heard of it.
Sadly, Bookie seems to be somewhat dated and not actively maintained. I've thought of trying it out, and now have hard time packaging it.

By default, it won't even start on modern distributions because of incompatibility with Python >=2.7.11 ("cannot import name _uuid_generate_random"). The requirements.txt file require a few version bumps. I haven't tested whenever the project actually works correctly with those yet, but it seems to at least start with kombu==3.0.35, celery==3.1.23, billiard==3.3.0.23, amqp==2.0.2, redis==2.10.5.

(I'm lazily toying with it remotely, setting it up on a small ARMv7 host, wrapping it with Docker+honcho+gunicorn, and rebuilding the image when I update requirements takes long time...)
Great additions. I can't believe I missed "what algorithm(s) are you using" - it didn't even occur to me people could skip those yet still be taken seriously though that was (obviously) the case with the company I referred to in the article given they pitched AI when they had none.

I agree with you and Francois about the future potential enabled by AI. I do think we're at the early days of the internet where we can see it enables many things but we're not really accurate about predicting more than a year or two in the future.

Hype is just noise distracting us from the important contributions and issues we should be concerned over. I'm more worried about the immediate future of ML algorithms being misused, resulting in modern day redlining[1] and so on, than I am about any SkyNet prophecy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
Show HN: Scrape Nasdaq stock prices with open source Pickaxe tool
"Aware of the conventional wisdom that robotic cars are about to cause an epochal “disruption,” automakers are eager to demonstrate that they are fully engaged. A result has been a drumbeat of announcements auguring the imminent arrival of robotic cars, almost as though they were the next generation of iPhones. The breathless statements are especially beguiling for members of the public without the engineering background required to understand the challenges that remain. In other words, most people."

I'm glad we have a "former technology reporter" to tell us this.
Download tool from below to run the example https://github.com/bitsummation/pickaxe/releases
You are awesome :-) thank you so much for doing that for both the developer, and the rest of us!

If the fee is to stop spam, it would be great if Google would consider upgrading the accounts of folks like AwalGarg for free.

Speaking of extensions, and I know this is off-topic, but I found an extension written by a Google team that implements OpenPG facilities for Gmail, but though it looks pretty complete they still say it's incomplete. What would we need to do to get them to finish this? I work for a large company that extensively uses Google for Business, in particular Gmail, and whilst Google has end-to-end encryption and facilities like Google Drive and Google Docs, I'd still like to be able to easily sign and encrypt my email!
This is a complaint rooted in sociology. People thought back in the 80s & 90s that string theory might be so constrained that can only describe one universe (presumably ours). They were wrong. String theory's more constrained than quantum field theory, but it's still capable of describing a lot of different universes. Most of the people who study it at the moment study it because it's been a fruitful source of ideas about quantum field theory. These people don't give press interviews very often, though.
Philosophers disagree a lot in their specific definitions, but most definitions assume it is the study of the broadest and most general questions, like what is truth, what is reality, what is the good, and so on.

Also, any particular field you study has philosophical assumptions, like about the reliability of sense data. The reason modern science is so fabulously successful is the philosophers who established it got rid of the supernaturalist assumptions of previous science, and added the assumption that reality is mathematically describable.

What Smolin and Unger are saying is that the particular philosophical assumptions behind string theory and a lot of related physics are mistaken. This would seem to be at least possible.
How are they remotely mathematically equivalent? The Casimir effect/Lamb shift calculations do not need any input from the cosmological constant's magnitude or anything equivalent. You can calculate them with naught but the constants you need to fix the form of QED. If you try to go the reverse direction and claim that vacuum fluctuations are what the cosmological constant is really about, like you said you have to explain a massive (orders of magnitude!) discrepancy.

Considering that the cosmological constant is nothing more than a magnitude as far as we can tell, a theory about a link that gives the wrong magnitude is completely useless. You can draw a parallel between them conceptually, but that connection is about as solid as the connection between the cosmological constant and any other isotropic scalar field like the Higgs. This is another speculative explanation, but again there is no theory that actually manages to explain the value.
Alternatively, you can instead set

network.http.referer.spoofSource

The default value is false. Change it to true. This causes Firefox to instead submit the website being requested as the referrer; leaking no information, but breaking fewer sites.
You know what else isn't likely to cause human extinction? Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels.

Yet, for some reason, when this is brought up the same people are suddenly very, very hostile to any kind of change.
> Fuck those infants beaten to death because their dads can't hear the footy.

I'd appreciate if you dial back the language.

Your extreme prejudice shows, because reality is that 52‰ of kids killed in DV are killed BY women. Burnt alive, cut into pieces, stuffed down drains, bludgeoned, ALL recent cases by women - while you try to paint them as "sugar, spice and all things nice" fairytales and prejudice against fathers. Your push to prosecute against males, while turning a blind eye to female violence has a name - misandry. You're the one who's saying, quote, "Fuck those infants beaten to death". You're saying "fuck those" 52%, their lives don't matter - because it was only a female killing THEM.
Ironically, this anti-spam service has been spamming HN - this is now their 7th post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=die.life
There's already https://github.com/picoe/Eto if you want to use native controls - if that's what you need go for it! But there's a need for both approaches IMO and hopefully Avalonia can start to fill one of those!

EDIT: Ah you edited your question: yes controls are fully styleable - the reason we've got the "modern" look so far is simply because it's easy! More themes, and "native" looking themes are definitely welcome.
Because it's easier to gracefully reject people who are abrasive/awkward/black/gay/otherwise a bad 'culture fit?'
Alien spaceship. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Spaceship_on_Venus

Science fiction, of course. Well worth watching. Made in 1960 in East Germany, with an international cast.
Whoa - when I browsed to the GitHub project I was expecting to see something I needed to compile, but this is all in JavaScript!

Which shows how little I know about Chrome extension writing. Where did you learn how to write extensions Awal?

Oh, and let me express my appreciation for you taking the time to write this and put it on GitHub :-)
For those who haven't seen yet any of the PBS Space Time videos and are interested in physics and cosmology, it is really well done. I recommend checking it out. Each episode is pretty short, entertaining, and jam packed with well explained information.

I'm now hooked on the series, and feel like I am more informed about our latest understanding of physics and the universe.
Early stage startups don't have much VC funding if any. If there was VC funding then you can expect normal pay rates. As to why? I work at small startups because I love the challenge, I love working as part of a small team, I love being close to the customer and making a difference. I rather work there than phone it in at a big company for a bigger paycheck. My work is a big part of my life, I want to do things I care about.

The equity has never made up the loss of salary. As an employee your company has to become really, really big for it to be life changing and that's incredibly unlikely to happen for all but one or two startups every few years and there are many thousands of startups. As an employee working at a small startup can't be about the money, if it is then you are wasting your time.
SU: Help with linux VPN
I usually use jq to understand the structure of the file. `keys` will get you all the key names in an object; `with_entries(.value |= type)` will replace each element on an object with its type. You can quickly delve into a JSON and gain some understanding of it with jq.
> After all, if we can't help everyone, then we shouldn't help anyone.

Tell me again why we can't help without discrimination? It's not that we can't try to stop all DV. It's simply that you choose to explicitly be sexist.
Honestly - no idea. However our backends are pluggable so in theory you should be able to adapt it.

However, I imagine our performance at the moment exclude use in games. It's something that needs to be optimized.
I think there is a middle ground. Paper and contact does have a categorical advantage for field use: at least, anything with batteries has a categorical disadvantage. On the other hand, it's nice that you can print 1 map of your own to cover terrain that used to be split over the corners of 4 published maps. And it's a pretty cool feeling when you click on contours that the surveyors got wrong and drag them into the right place.

There is a place for automation, but that place isn't everywhere.