skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right? I'm surprised other games haven't tried tactics like this. Pokemon has been doing things like this looooong before mobile gaming was even a thing.

They did something with Burger King after the release of Gold/Silver, and during the height of the card games popularity. Kids meals had a pokemon toy, but also one of several cards exclusive to the BK promo events. I also remember that once a week they'd have a "meetup" night that encouraged kids to come, hang out and battle/trade other kids with the cards and/or gameboy games.

Only link I could find about it

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/1999_Burger_King_prom...

> I am surrounded by people playing it here in the valley, though.

I was at a concert last night, at least half the crowd was playing Pokemon GO at some point. It was insane. Someone used a lure before the show started, and you could see the mass of people moving from one side of the lawn to the other to be within the radius.
The center of the galaxy is almost certainly rotating, and is a supermassive black hole, not a point.
"How we go about robust scientific methodology" is a problem solved by philosophy.
This is a misleading title. Redfin isn't a startup, they're a 12 year old company founded in 2004.
> patio11's guides to salary negotiation

Link: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
How Valleywag changed my life
Well, our (buy side) realtor really did earn his money helping us. We were first-time home buyers and he did a great job helping us understand what buying an old house in our neighborhood would be like, as well as vetting the mechanicals of the many many homes we looked at before making a buy.

Additionally, he helped us understand what were sane, and what were insane demands when purchasing.

I'm not sure if I'd need an agent next time around, but this time around it was a lifesaver.
I think of philosophers as basically being 1000 Shakespearean monkeys. The world would be better served by 1000 scientists.
Thanks for the link. I wonder how's implemented. Doesn't seem to be accurate.
Are the energies involved really unattainable? Can some sort of collider not reach them?
You need to remember that the status quo was Flash. It's absurd to try to pretend that a sandboxed decryption module is remotely comparable to a runtime roughly comparable in complexity to the browser itself.

Yes, it's proprietary and non-free. Everyone knows that and we can debate the implications but there's absolutely no possible interpretation where that isn't a huge win for security and stability.
"John Maddison is senior vice president of products and solutions at Fortinet."

It's an ad for a crypto chip.
Right after your quote is pretty relevant info imo:

|But a big factor in calculating the bonuses is the agent ratings provided by Redfin customers after they buy or sell a home. Top performers get stock options.

|“I’m not going to lie — we’re motivated to sell homes,” Ms. Goetz said. “But it’s always in the context of the client and wanting them to have a good experience.”

The model could reward agents who sell less but have higher ratings, since Redfin is concerned with building a brand.
The whole "time is real" part of the article read like meaningless drivel to me. I have no idea what they were trying to communicate.
> string theories are already compatible with all the experiments we've already done and are likely to be done in the near future

So is the theory "A god did it".
There's no way humanity could master that kind of technology!!! /s
But it might help identify what the problems to solve actually are. What are we seeking, what are we trying to explain?
It may be that my memory does not serve me well, but I think I got an impression from the history of the philosophy that once there is a field of philosophy that actually starts solving problems, it very fast changes its name to something else than philosophy. For example[1], Newton's 1687 Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy later became classified as a book of physics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy
Entrepreneurship Will Crush Your Soul
Unless something has changed in the past 3 years, it's not a good license. See DannyBee's comments about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733050
As far as that goes, we arguably don't even know what time is.
The scientific method has been "on hold" in theoretical physics for a while; because our experimental technology just can't cope up with it. This is one of the main criticisms of string theory, for example.
Some claims don't have to be falsifiable to be true. For example, some people say that solipsism is not falsifiable - I don't see what's wrong with that.
Supersymmetry is one (although it's not really a competitor to string theory, more an orthogonal theory).

One of the complaints on string theory, as I understand it, is that it ends up being too general: it sort of implies that just about any phenomenon could be plausible, which makes it really hard to falsify. It's not so much that it's made predictions that turned out to be true, but rather that it can be accommodated to fit prior experiments. From a Bayesian perspective, we haven't received any evidence of its truth, only evidence of nontruth of other theories.
If it's a fallacy, why wouldn't a programmer do good to avoid UB?
This isn't automatically a good thing. Let me give you an example. I had a very persistent Amazon Marketplace seller who kept deleting and re-posting a listing for a specific mobile phone dock I was trying to find. They were selling a fake phone dock using the image and details of a hard to find one I really wanted. I ordered it several times and they shipped a completely different product - different look, color, brand, it was the cheapest garbage ever. Amazon refunded all my costs each time, and because the seller was a punk and refused to pay return shipping I threw them all away. No money out of my pocket.

The reason they would keep deleting and re-listing the item is because I would leave bad (but factually correct) reviews when I kept trying to find the phone dock and seeing their new listing in Amazon's search results. Their re-listing action caused my reviews to disappear because it was a 'new' product listing with their same fake photo every time. I flagged this repeatedly to Amazon as fraud via chat, email, and telephone and they never took any action. This went on for months, and Amazon never addressed it.

So my point is that by allowing anyone to post a review, you give consumers one more tool to warn each other about fraud and unethical sellers. Yes there are a lot of fake reviews, but there are also legit buyers out there too and we are willing to pester fake sellers for months and cost them a fair amount of losses (postage, abandoned fakes because they don't want them back).

Sellers know they can delete & re-list fakes all day long to disassociate negative feedback for an item , and they know Amazon will never ban them.
AWS EFS – The Container Friendly File System
I think the main problem is that Amazon is making no real effort to fight it,not that solutions don't exist.
A linear collider would not be long enough. A circular collider would need either unattainable magnetic fields to curve the trajectories of the particles or itself have curvature that is small enough (i.e. have a radius similar to that of Earth's orbit around the Sun).

So yes, it is really unattainable.

Cosmic rays bombarding the atmosphere do attain such energies, but they are not controllable in a fashion that would permit most collider experiments.
Dark energy is experimentally confirmed to exist. It's existence isn't a problem for modern physics; the problem is that it's many orders of magnitude smaller than predicted.
Payday loan-style businesses would let people monetize their BI. And that wouldn't work well with rent, which is usually paid in lump sums.
>Where do you think natural sciences came from?

Alchemy. But that's no reason to still respect alchemists.
If memory serves, I believe a collider with a diameter the size of a galaxy would be needed to accurately test string theory. This isn't to say that we won't come up with some alternative method of producing high energies though.
And what do you think of Mt Tam?
Thank god. Geoffrey Hinton's RMSProp for deep neural networks is still cited in papers from his slide on his coursera course (the only place it was published AFAIK). It would be a shame to lose that forever.
The extra information in your Wikipedia link is helpful, but the title should not have been changed. While you are right that it may not have been a "joke", the article makes a surprisingly convincing argument that it might have been:

Smith played his “little amendment” for laughs, claiming to have been inspired by a letter he had received from a female constituent. She asked the government to “protect our spinster friends,” who were suffering from a shortage of eligible bachelors. Over guffaws from his virtually all-male audience, Smith concluded, “I read that letter just to illustrate that women have some real grievances and some real rights to be protected. I am serious about this thing.” Emanuel Celler of New York, the bill’s floor manager in the House, joined in the fun. “I can say as a result of forty-nine years of experience—and I celebrate my fiftieth wedding anniversary next year—that women, indeed, are not in the minority in my house,” he said. “I usually have the last two words, and those words are, ‘Yes, dear.’”

Several of the House’s twelve women representatives rose to try to silence the laughter and advocate seriously for the amendment. Martha Griffiths, Democrat of Michigan, was the one who finally succeeded. “I presume that if there had been any necessity to point out that women were a second-class sex,” she said, “the laughter would have proved it.” Griffiths (who supported the bill) made a shrewd appeal to the Civil Rights Act’s opponents, mainly Southern Democrats like Smith. By then, it looked inevitable that the law they hated had enough votes to pass. So she warned that without the sex provision, Title VII would afford more rights to black women than to white women. “A vote against this amendment today by a white man is a vote against his wife, or his widow, or his daughter, or his sister.”

The session eventually dubbed “Ladies Day in the House” had the hallmarks of an impromptu stunt by Smith to try to sink the Civil Rights Act. Civil rights for African Americans might have been palatable to many white legislators now that the horrors of Bull Connor and Birmingham had become national news, but civil rights for women were, literally, a joke.

While the Wikipedia article may be more balanced, this is an excerpt from a recent book by a scholar in the field (http://us.macmillan.com/becauseofsex/) who is entitled to her opinion. Since the title accurately describes the contents of the article and the beliefs of the author, it should not be neutered to make it more palatable to those who disagree.
This is a nice illustration of "you can simulate anything as long as it's made of Jello." It's not hard to do all-soft-body animation. (Anybody remember Mathengine?)[1] But if you crank up the stiffness, the integration tends to go unstable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_(software)
Hi all, I'm the originator of this project and the main contributor, please ask anything you like!

Though this did have to hit front page when I'm doing a day of travel didn't it? :)
Rob Pike has apparently never had an internet outage, or traveled outside modern civilization?

Independence is a virtue. Even in the old phones-as-infrastructure case, there were many times when there was simply no working phone around, or available. Broken down on the road, being in an industrial area of town on the weekend, etc.

If everything your life revolves around requires working and accessible infrastructure to access it, you're going to have times where you're left staring at a connection error screen, or no screen at all. And because the universe hates you, that will happen at the worst possible times. ;-)
Modern academic philosophy won't help because it's dominated by certain false ideas.

The problem with physics today is rationalism - constructing theories with only partial reference to experimental data. Some fields, like psychology, have the opposite problem - empiricism - where they accumulate countless statistical correlations but fail to integrate them into consistent theories.

I suggest anyone who's seriously interested in a solution to these issues to listen to the following, then look up Leonard Peikoff and David Harriman's other writings on the subject.

https://campus.aynrand.org/campus-courses/understanding-obje...
I actually sort of agree with his idea that our portable devices should be stateless, but the way he puts it comes off way too much like "storage is magic that someone else should deal with" for me. Scalable storage with a usable interface (i.e. not an HTTP-based eventually-consistent object store) is hard enough even in a LAN environment. Making it happen in a WAN environment, which is what he's asking for, involves some very hard tradeoffs and engineering problems equivalent to anything you might do with the data once you get it. It's very disappointing to see what amounts to "other people's problem" from someone of his stature.
Depends on what you program. I find useful Python for exploratory programming, when testing out things, etc. The REPL allows me to tinker fast. The large collection of libraries, for me, means that I hardly ever have to start from nothing. However, for heavy duty production code, I find Golang to be faster, easier to deploy to multiple nodes.

I don't have experience with either language in creating programs for others to use. All the programs I write are for in-house users. But I would suspect that it is easier to distribute Golang programs as long as you are comfortable with the cross-compilation features which do allow you to create executables for multiple target platforms.
The missing tongue is not the weirdest part. Animals could have eaten it.

Every hypothesis about this event that made any sense involves a physical attack by a group of people, likely armed. The only two groups that would mass murder people just not to be found out are 1) foreign military or 2) escaped murderers.
Everything you wrote was quite interesting up until the last sentence. Seriously do we really need this tired old OS flamebait crap here?

Edit: @apathy gracefully edited out the offending last sentence so my comment above is no longer valid, however I'll leave here to provide context for the replies below.
There's small Japanese garden near me sharing on Facebook how many pokestops they have, and pictures of Pokemon in the garden (using screenshots of gameplay). I hadn't heard of them before now, and a few of my friends are sharing the posts. I think it's a great idea.
I'm confused. Pretty much all startups have their engineers, designers, managers, etc. as W2 employees, no? Having employees isn't the issue, it's having a huge employee count that needs to scale with the scale of the business, rather than operating a huge business from a (relatively) small staff.
> No, hashrate majority can only introduce "soft" restrictions, not remove any hardcoded ones.

If there really is a strong wish from the majority to increase the maximum number of bitcoins, I see no technical reason why one couldn't implement a solution on the blockchain for this. Just, say, introduce some marker in the block indicating that this block follows a new block format that allows larger coin numbers than the existing hardcoded limit. Probably reading such a block would not be possible using a "classic" client. I can even imagine that lifting the hardcoded limit could be possible without making the blocks invalid to "classic" clients, but this would involve more work (for ane explanation of how this might be implemented I would have to research into the block format).
Could SellerA withdraw his iPad from stock, effectively trading a fake iPad for a real one?

Let's say there was a SellerB with a real iPad for sale, located closer to the buyer. Could Amazon swap ownership in that case? Would SellerB be liable for fraud and damaged reputation if his real iPad was switched with a fake?
My Sciter Engine [1] with C# wrappers [2] for .NET and Mono is on par with WPF[3]. It just uses HTML and CSS instead of that XAML thing.

[1] http://sciter.com
[2] http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1057199/Sciter-HTML-Csha...
[3] http://sciter.com/sciter/sciter-vs-wpf/
Philosophy is the epitome of scientific navel-gazing. Don't get me wrong, gazing at one's navel is an important thing to do – sometimes – but this continual attempt to backwards-justify all sciences as flowing out of philosophy are overblown.

Astronomy and medicine are two very obvious examples. Primitive cultures didn't need philosophical underpinnings to notice and record the patterns in the sky or to figure out which plants helped with fevers or how to set broken bones. Philosophy might have helped science in places with structural issues, but it's reaching too far to say that nothing would be around without philosophy.
Right.

I tried to find some stats on the number of civilians killed by police but those numbers are hard to pin down. In terms of blacks killed by police the numbers vary between 300 and 700[1]. I suppose this number is irrelevant because it is a tiny percentage of the total population?

[1]http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/number-of-black-people-kille...
How is cyber-deception different from regular honeypots?
Imagine looking at an image as a "bag of pixels": shuffle them all up, and look at the resulting image. What do you see? Nothing useful, right?

Now look at a bag-of-words view of a movie review:

set(['and', 'predecessor,', 'immersive;', 'script,', 'is', 'an', 'engaging', 'as', 'home', 'still', 'its', 'film', 'identity.', 'puts', 'dazzling', 'issues', 'visually', 'colorful', 'While', 'not', 'spin', 'on', 'of', 'while', 'the', 'predictable,'])

It's not certain, but there's definitely a lot more information there.

The predict loop of a linear model works like this (written with sparse vectors, implemented as dictionaries):

def predict(classes, weights, features):
scores = {clas: 0 for clas in classes}
for feature in features:
for clas, weight in weights[feature].items():
scores[clas] += weight
return max(scores, key=lambda clas: scores[clas])

This function is the same for Naive Bayes, Maximum Entropy, linear-kernel SVM, Averaged Perceptron...etc.

All you get to do is attach a weight to each feature, which you'll sum. You can make the features larger or smaller slices of the input, but that's all the structure you get.

Note that linear models have massive disadvantages for speech recognition, too. Linear models don't work very well if you have an analog signal.
I'm quite surprised that there's not a consensus about the philosophical framing of physics (metaphysics).

The way I see it:

- Consciousness (perceptions, feelings, thought) is the only thing that really exists.

- There are patterns in what we perceive, for example, when we drop a rock, we see it falls and hear the impact.

- So we develop models to describe patterns in our consciousness. Physics is just a description of those patterns. So the physical world doesn't really exist, it's just an idea in our minds.
Leadsom is the most dangerous politician I've ever seen.

There's an infamous video with her and Krugman. Whatever you might think of Krugman, you can least be sure that he understands basic economic theory.

Yet she talks to him in a patronising tone, clearly 100% sincere in the belief that she understands economics, and he does not. All she has to do is explain it to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJaayhQtBZU
It seems more like the usage of the word 'philosophy' has gradually shifted to mean something very narrow, when at times it could have been used as a synonym for 'science'.
If you are using Firefox, you can disable referrer info without using a plugin. Here‘s how:

In the URL bar, type the following and press enter:

about:config

Now search for the following entry on the page:

network.http.sendRefererHeader

The default value is 2. Change this to 0. This disables the referrer header.

Note that some sites won‘t allow you to sign in or register if the referrer header is disabled (e.g. Pinterest), so you may have to temporarily enable the referrer header in those instances.

A final point is that this Firefox setting obviously has no effect if referral info is already appended to the URL (as is the case with Google search results).
Anything around graphing yet? Or Is that still something that I would need to roll with SyncFusion, Telerik or something similar.
ProjectTalk: asynchronous conversations for GitHub repositories
I didn't say nationalism, I said "nativism". Nor did I say "globalism". Because yes, that would certainly be a red herring. We've been a global economy since at least the 1830s, when the cotton mills of an English county was able to produce most of the world's cotton fabric, and collapse the economy of several Asian cities.

Since no one mentioned them here, I find it odd that you felt necessary to raise that point.

Every single communications form has enabled similar feedback loops for centuries; the printing press, cheaper paper to enable the penny-dreadfuls, Linotype to enable yellow journalism, radio, telegram, TV, telephone, record players, transoceanic cables, microwave and satellite repeaters, and now, yes, internet.

You wrote "could [ISIS] exist without the Net? I'd say not."

I see no meaning in that statement. If you define ISIS to include how it transmits messages over the internet, then you are surely right, but trivially so. Just like a 10 year old child in the US could not exist as-is without the internet.

Regional uprisings, including those which are part of a religious movement, are not new, and don't require the internet to happen. The 1979 Iranian Revolution is one relatively recent example.

The rest of what you wrote is a mixture of the obvious and the unsupported. Of course "old conflicts thought to be irrelevant will rear their heads once more"; history is full of examples where the powerful forget or trivialize a problem which was never fully forgotten among the oppressed, who eventually fight.

As a feminist, I am flummoxed by the statement "with feminism being abandoned". It seems to be ever more mainstream, with, e.g., recent declarations by Barack Obama and Patrick Stewart of being feminists. The early feminist fought for the right to vote. Are you seriously saying that there's a general retreat from woman suffrage? If not, which of the many aspects of feminism do you refer?

The seeming paradox of organized anarchism is one that has long been pointed out and discussed by anarchists. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/common-cause-ottawa-... says:

> The debate between organizationalists and anti organizationalists is not at all new. It has been ongoing in the anarchist community for at least a century.

Finally there has always been "something fractal-like going on with the evolution of ideas", including, yet, long before the internet. There's a reason for the joke about the "People's Front of Judea" vs. "Judean People's Front", mocking perhaps Marxism factions, but otherwise little different than the joke with the punchline:

> [Are you] Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

Even the Germanic peoples, without a written language, still had "fractal-like" evolution of ideas, as seen in their laws, language, and religion/mythology. What you describe is a part of how human ideas develop, and not something special about the internet.
So basically philosophy as an incubator for new scientific field startups? I like that notion.