skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a new "Sony" universal remote from Amazon. It came wrapped in a clear plastic baggie with no box or instructions. It worked and looks legit, so more likely this item was stolen or sold as new when it wasn't more so than a fake from China. But maybe it was a fake, just a very good one probably made at the same factory that makes the "real" Sony remotes.

As Brexit has shown us, there are plenty of downsides to Globalization. Amazon needs to get better at KYC, but Jeff's growth at any cost mantra just won't embrace that and his lieutenants will find it's hard to argue with results. Until this sort of stuff makes a dent in Amazon's top line, I believe they won't really crack down on this.
If anyone post-Frege can define the term philosophy correctly, then it will be helpful to physicists. If not, then not.

It's impossible for someone to teach something that they don't know, have never learned, or learned from someone who doesn't really know.
Neither of those is an immediate evolution of their predecessor. Autonomous cars literally have the exact same structure of their predecessor (the manually driven car), they just simply automate the manual labor required to operate the machinery.
What I was referring to can be summed up here -
http://www.colorofcrime.com/2016/03/the-color-of-crime-2016-...

As far as medieval history and the other things you've mentioned go, every type of tribe on this planet has engaged in conquest and warfare. Some won. Some lost.
Woman playing Pokemon Go finds dead body
It's hard to consider Austin as even a second tier startup city-- first tier would be SF/Silcon Valley and second would be NYC and Seattle.

I would be hard-pressed to come up with names of 3 successful startups from Austin, and I think most people would be too.
> Most companies favor hiring average programmers that fit the mold over "weird people" even if they are amazing at their work. If Microsoft is doing the opposite and targets autistic programmers, then good for them! I see no reason to complain about that.

Recognizing the strengths of autistic coders is great. Doing it specifically and explicitly because you think they're easier to abuse is a big problem.

I have a friend who was recently hired under Microsoft's autism hiring program, and is still really excited about it. I'm trying to decide if I should show her this article or not. It would almost certainly sour her feelings on the whole deal, and I'm holding out hope that her direct managers are more humane than this "they work like machines" motherfucker.
I keep paying my electricity bill every month, but those a-holes at the utility company never make my electricity any better either!
Like that Haskell compiler from the first principles?
Do people move to SF for . . . "clubbing"?
Unless the customers or employees-in-demand or investors demand humanisation!
Considering that natural selection is generally considered to not operate on post-reproductive phenotype (prime case is antagonistic pleiotropy literature) I consider any conclusion based on these measures pretty suspect. Worse, specific heritability for these traits in this cohort, as far as I can tell, wasn't even estimated. Given that the supplemental says the mean in the literature is 40%, it could very well be sub 20%.

I suspect that selecting only known high effect QTLs would actually not impact your power all that much as it limits the number of tests performed. If you can't see selection at high effect alleles I'm not sure you'll be able to detect them in aggregate either, especially with very noisy phenotype data.

At the end of the day natural selection is a change in allele frequency driven by differences in phenotype. Sure, this maybe was an easy analysis to do given that the data was available, but I don't really see the value.
Philosophy is not correctly defined as the generation of logic. If the philosophy you learned is defined in connection with logic then it can be term deteriorated philosophy. The proof is that if we had learned philosophy correctly we also form our own eye of wisdom to see what is in the truth but no one can verify what is true through logic alone as you cannot verify your axioms without external referents. The reason is that truths can only be verified through problems. This all means we can't see the world through thinking, but through the problems.
It is also a very subtle way to make it sound more credible, because it gives the reader a sense that multiple people did the work.
Quite a few of us manage to function just fine, actually, thanks. Please don't talk about us like we're not here.
Exactly, yet for some reason we never see articles about finance leaving Wall St in search of lower costs, or entertainment leaving Hollywood, etc.
Which are not categorical variables? Those all are examples using actual numbers, meaning the values matter.

> Nominal numbers or categorical numbers are numeric codes, meaning numerals used for identification only. The numerical value is in principle irrelevant, and they do not indicate quantity, rank, or any other measurement.

You talked about nominal numbers up to (but excluding) this post.

"nominal" means "in name only", so it's a "number", not a number. It just happens to have the same name as a number with a value.
It's the aggregation of all those little bits of data into a giant profile where the risk lies.
I'd love to see an explanation for not supporting client authentication. Also, completely ruling out discrete-log DH and requiring PFS is not feasible unless you want to rule out a lot of clients and servers, on top of not supporting TLS 1.1.
There was a recent story about a self-driving long haul trucking caravan across Europe touting the success of such. It was done in the spring and lots of high-fives around it...The route was in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany...aside from perpetual autobahn construction...each of those have very good roads and it was done in the spring.

"Self driving cars" still can't distinguish all driving hazards. The recent Tesla fatality, many stories made it a point to point out the driver was watching a movie.

So, let's move self driving cars to California roads. They will deal well with traffic in places like 880, etc. But, can they deal with poor road conditions, the overall shitty level of driver competence here, etc? I think that is many years off and not yet proven.

Another area to consider - uptake in new cars. I just bought a 2016 Tacoma in the last year. These trucks are known for lasting decades. I don't commute. I don't see replacing it anytime soon, let alone, ever having a self driving car for taking me places in the back country/forrest roads/etc.

It is hype and maybe it will happen for some fleet situations, but I don't see autonomous cars being the mainstay for private individuals in my lifetime.
That comment is intended to say that Rustls doesn't support the things in the list below because the technologies in that list are broken, not because Rustls itself is broken. So the authors have chosen just not to implement anything in that list.
This reminds me of a blog post (that I can't seem to find now) where he complains we've gotten so far away fro solving the hard problems that nobody is really doing it because it's too lucrative to make stupid apps that distract people. I have to agree with him and you. Facebook was a nice diversion but there are honest-to-God problems in this world that I think our industry could make a dent in. We need to get back to solving the hard problems.
notebook++ has a great json viewer plugin and handles huge files
Looks great. I looked at it in the past but was put off by the GPL3 license attached to omnixaml. It looks to be MIT licensed now.
Move to NYC, then?
Right, hence "modern".
Maybe they're better at tracking now, but at least while I was there tracking them down was a massive problem.
So, for the record, this is completely not true. You probably pass autistic people on the street every day.

Autism is a broad spectrum. I have hypersensitivity issues, even if loud noises don't make me fall down screaming. I tend towards obsessing over specific things, even if I don't block out all other stimuli for hours on end. I'm not naturally good at reading people, but I've been able to teach myself a fair bit over many years, so human emotions are no longer a closed book. I can look at a low-functioning autistic and understand what's going on in their head, as a magnification of what's going on in mine. And I've got a degree and a 13-year career as a coder.

I don't understand why so many people think that autism universally means needing help dressing yourself.
I've never even heard of client authentication until recently. That's probably why.
Uptake in new cars will be a non-issue when Uber and Lyft make self-driving taxis.

The movers in industries are never the end consumers, but the large corporations.

Cities will replace HOV lanes with Autonomously Driven Vehicle lanes, and that will include the buses.
You expect Forbes to fact check? In 2016?
Fossil fuel is not just an energy source. The Haber process requires a chemical feedstock -- nitrogen gas and methane, as I understand it. I don't know if anybody has found a pathway for making ammonia from e.g., the hydrogen in water, that's even remotely efficient.
There was extreme media censorship (GUKPPiW 1946-1990), but directed almost exclusively towards dissident political statements and praise of western prosperity. You were still allowed to show foreign wealth as long as you showed for example how easily Polish creativity fleeced westerners out of it. Labelling everything as a comedy also helped, still for example 'Alternatywy 4'(same director as the clips below) spend 3 years being edited/censored. Those were prime time TV shows broadcast couple of years before fall of the Iron Curtain, maybe even slightly contributing to the growing unrest and eventual Polish exit from the Eastern Bloc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5MXX_n0pfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThD7AmKQkjg

https://youtu.be/_nmGi757fyo?t=5m1s

TV was not allowed to show anything celebrating western lifestyle. We didnt get Miami Vice, Wonder Years, MacGyver, A Team or Dynasty until ~5 years after kicking Russians out of our country. Instead foreign tv shows we had were 'Escrava Isaura' and some old chestnuts from the fifties like Zorro. Cinema was a lot better, scifi movies had little trouble with censorship, we got 'New Hope' in 1979, 'Empire Strikes Back' in 1982, 'Terminator' in 1985. Toho Kaiju movies came out same year as in the west. Of course you could get censored for something entirely not in the movie. 1984 'NeverEnding Story' was delayed into 1987 because of directors earlier work 'Das Boot'.
Sure, but those libraries exist for the explicit purpose of giving malloc() special behavior. I'm talking about general-purpose libraries that implement their own malloc(), thereby preventing the use of these malloc()-hooking libraries.
Hacking the brain: Silicon Valley entrepreneurs turn to fasting and smart drugs
It freezes temporarily then resumes after few minutes.
Ha! It is funny because it is true. I remember listning to one of Joe Armstrong's talks (React 2014 conf and he talks at some point ( https://youtu.be/rQIE22e0cW8?t=2009 ) how parsing is rather expensive CPU-wise and also bandwidth expensive. Especially in mobile networks. The company he works for control data paths for smart phones to the internet, and they sweat wasting every little bit because it eats into the precious bandwitdth available to consumers -- and what do developers do? -- they shove JSON through that channel in the application level!

It was a silly observation but it is also true at some level. JSON might be easy to read, but reading a 100M json still needs a special editor.

Another funny observation Joe made at some point when a response to him calling JSON out, because "after all, you can see JSON" was that, your eyes cannot see JSON, they see photons bouncing from the screen. You still use an editor or some other translation program to display it and read it. So at some point might as well use binary (thrift, protobufs, sqlite, ...).
How many applications are written embedding or extending your tool? Understand the Scuba comparison and very valid points you make but the core of the paper seems to be about writing applications that can make real time decisions like fraud, ad analytics, Sensor alerts, etc

AFAIK your tool cannot seem to identify trending events as they are streamed in (like moving standard deviation for example) and feed downstream to a pipeline unless I am mistaken
The real problem is you need to deliver so much material to orbit to create artificial gravity (a rotating space station) it's very expensive.

We could create a simple rotating system with two pods connected by a long cable, but then it's not easy to dock to it, and there are balancing issues.
No, the tricky part is where you conclusively link the cosmological constant to vacuum energy with no evidence for and a lot against. There are equally plausible theories that connect dark energy to completely different things like the Higgs field, or just leave them unrelated, so appealing to demonstrations of vacuum fluctuations as evidence of dark energy being "experimentally verified" makes about as much sense as calling string theory "experimentally verified" because it agrees with the QFT/GR in the proper domains.

What verified, novel predictions do any of the plausible theories make that makes them the defacto solution? I'd be really curious to know because it doesn't appear that many physicists are aware of this defacto solution.
> String theory isn't pseudoscience, because it does make testable, falsifiable predictions.

I feel like it's also worth pointing out that string theory is also a possible solution to an extremely difficult mathematical problem. You don't fully get an appreciation for this when reading popular accounts. You don't realize that string theory is not just mumbo-jumbo about strings that someone made up but rather that the extraordinarily sophisticated math behind it actually works out, something that can't be said for the vast, vast majority of attempts at resolving the issues that string theory does resolve.

The difficulty of this problem is such that even coming up with possible solutions is itself a Herculean feat (witness the fact that Edward Witten, who proposed M theory, was awarded a Fields medal). This is ultimately why string theory has ever been taken seriously. None of this means string theory is correct, of course.
It's perhaps not about 10x, but rather avoiding 0.1x?
Citgo was stripped of value last year by issuing bonds to pay a large dividend back to Venezuela. It is now so encumbered with debt that any remaining equity value is nominal.

Part of the reason was due to various lawsuits related to assets of US companies that had been nationalized and also to repatriate funds to support government initiatives.
Obscure is not on the list in GP's quote, and afaik client authentication is none of the things in that list. It's actually used a fair bit in uses of TLS that are not the open web.
You worked for Amazon, or you were a seller? My info comes from https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=..., which says commingled stuff is tracked by seller under "How Amazon Tracks Stickerless, Commingled Inventory".
"is time real?" -- I am somewhat puzzled by this question being so popular. (Perhaps, people are mystified by what appears to be a perpetual and unstoppable progression of things from the past to the future which is not under our control.) Of course time is real, just like, for example, distance (length) is real. You can measure time, just like you can measure distance - in some units that you can choose. So, if one has doubts as to reality of time, there is no reason why one should not also doubt reality of space with all its attributes, i.e. pretty much reality of anything at all.
Sort of unfortunate codenames. Since scribe is a company that makes message bus software in the Microsoft world, and swift is, well you know..
I've always wondered why pondering about time travel devices with only the temporal dimension as a setting seemed to neglect the fact that things move about in the universe! Traveling backwards or forwards in time at the same point in space means that all the stuff you're interested in is likely to not be where you think you left it.
They just miss a proper city around there. There's no NYC or Hong Kong close by.
That'd be awesome. Here's a (very) brief writeup of the element that this initial version of the extension provides if you're interested: https://medium.com/@tailorwp/drag-and-drop-your-way-to-an-on...
Are you possibly thinking of this BusinessWeek article [1] about Jeff Hammerbacher and his famous quote: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads"

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-04-14/this-tech-...

You might also find this other article interesting, posted to HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12064083
> to get out of the urban area.

To get out of the suburban sprawl..
Outlandish but testable claims are treated well by the Physics community. Take the recent example of the EmDrive[1], which has gotten a few replication studies. Nothing conclusive yet, but it hasn't been dismissed out of hand by everyone.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive
This is because the Web is no longer a document viewer; it's a VM. A true modern "view source" button would just take us to the github page.
Web development and engineering are different. I believe we're in agreement.
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http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/

http://gafferongames.com/networked-physics/introduction-to-n...

http://gafferongames.com/building-a-game-network-protocol/

Not game specific but will get you into the mindset of how a networked game functions.
I once saw a small meteor falling, sometime in the early 2000s. I had no idea what it was, just a giant bright sparkling object in the sky...it was kind of terrifying.

For days I looked for any information in the news about it and never found anything reported. I never quite knew what it was, and nobody else really believed by description, until all the dashcam videos about this incident showed up on the internet.
I read too hastily. Pancake sorting involves sorting pancakes by size using the pancake-flipping operation. The problem at issue was aligning them into the same orientation without regard to size, which is the "more difficult" burnt pancake problem, except that all the pancakes are the same size.

I guess for completeness, I should post the solution to the sortless burnt pancake (to me, "coin alignment") problem:

Consider a stack of coins, like top-HTTHHTTHTHTTTTTTH-bottom. The number of flips required to align it is equal to the number of transitions from tails to heads or heads to tails as you move through the stack. In the example, we can break the stack conceptually into runs of H TT HH TT H T H TTTTT H, which is 8 transitions.

1. (This number is necessary.) Two adjacent coins which differ in orientation can only be made not to differ by a flip at the position between them. A flip above or below that position in the stack reverses neither or both, which preserves their difference. Stated another way, no flip can reduce the number of transitions in the stack by more than 1.

2. (This number is sufficient.) If you move from the top of the stack down, flipping whenever a transition is encountered, you preserve the invariant that the prefix of the stack above the point you have reached is all aligned. This is one flip per transition, so one flip per transition suffices.

If the coins must be aligned to a particular direction, for example heads up, just suffix a coin of that alignment to the bottom of the stack.
I'm not a theoretical physicist, but my understanding is that supersymmetry is in fact a prediction of many versions of string theory. So it's definitely not orthogonal at all. It's a fundamental part of superstring theory.
Atom Aurelia Snippets Plugin
http://p4fpga.github.io/
My anecdote: more than a few times I was asked by small Chinese sellers on Amazon and Ebay (introduced by mutual acquaintances) to help them write emails to press unhappy customers to remove their negative reviews left on Amazon or Ebay, in exchange for freebies and credit. The sellers would ask me to write all sorts of fake sad stories like some poor girl would lose her job or the company had to shut down if the negative review was not turned into a positive one. I was really disgusted and turned them down each time. The moral: in most cases don't believe those fake stories. The review system needs to be protected for everyone's benefit.
Yes. I've implemented client-auth with a private CA, specifically to authenticate services to each other.

It's a very handy tool when you have disparate networks.
The actual numbers are closer to 85-90% global marketshare for Android which is exactly why he excluded the most meaningful contender to prove some point.
You say they're treated well, but the EmDrive was specifically sponsored by NASA, which means you're not answering the same question as what I asked, but changing it by presupposing that I asked how such a person would be treated if they were already institutionally sponsored.
>The bleeding edge of theoretical physics, especially in the past 60-70 years has really shifted towards almost the metaphysical regardless of how much elegant math there is behind it.

Which is a major problem, given the truism that theory is under-determined by experimental evidence! If given any simple theory of physics I can construct a more complicated theory that makes the same predictions, then we desperately need to confine ourselves to theories that do make unique predictions, lest we be generating ever-more-complicated versions of theories we already had.
If you've ever used OpenVPN, you've used TLS client authentication. That seems like a pretty huge hole to purposely put in your feature set. I understand not implementing it yet because it's more work, but I don't get drawing a line in the sand.
I said exactly this in my comment. There is little distinction between particle and field in this context.
You mean the field famous for predicting six of the last five recessions?
I actually had a professor in graduate school who won multiple awards for his papers. His advice to us was:

* Write in first person

* Use the active rather than passive voice

* Structure papers in narrative form
I wonder, will Servo use this?
The official Pocket Chrome extension also inserts itself inline onto HN pages. Not to mention, it appears this extension hasn't been updated in over 2 years.
I had a chat in #devrel :)

yes, of course, its not every internal API but the bottom line is that most extensions should still work, right? :)
There used to be 'Google Tracking-B-Gone' userjs, but it stopped working some time ago. I patched mine locally, also stripping tracking from Image results. Quick googling shows someone updated it recently https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1810-google-tracking-b-gon...

I have second version stripping tracking from Gmail links (yes, google tracks your clicks in gmail). Should probably throw them up on github.
The Three Layer Causal Hierarchy [pdf]
Another anecedotal (and probably wrong) idea related to this is the explanation of prevalence of ADHD in US relative to EU, for example.

The genetic selection idea goes something like this -- individuals who ended up migrating here, self selected for being bolder, ready to take on more risk, being less content staying in one place. On one side that is a postive trait, but on the other side manifests as ADHD.

There is a study from 2003 showing that it is not true and that it is due to how diagnosis is handled:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1525089/

Other places claim a strong genetic factor is there:

"ADHD often runs in families. Researchers have found that much of the risk of having ADHD has to do with genes"

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/attention-defici...