skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stand corrected on both counts, and can only plead that I was tired.
Isn't there some basic question in physics that simply can't be answered, similarly to how axioms in math simply can't be proved.

> but it doesn't tell us why there is something to
> observe (instead of nothing), and why the laws and
> fundamental constants are the way they are.

I'm no physicist, but I simply cannot imagine candidate answers to such questions.
All these comments about click bait vs. not and how the nightmare scenario isn't what the commenter expected, yet no one mentions what it actually is!

The answer: confirming the Higgs boson, but no other new physics that would narrow things beyond what we've been exploring for the past fifty years.
I use a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse or trackpad. Holding the stylus pencil-style is very comfortable once you get used to it.
Entities capable of asking this question?
Super bearish on Uber^1. I mean when you get into a Lyft vs an Uber, do you REALLY notice a difference?

Its the same thing with Airbnb. Uber is going to pave the way for someone else to come along.

Look at Pets.com, people freaked out because they were first to sell pet stuff online. Investors said, look they built an ecommerce website (really hard to do back them), they are first so they have brand affinity, and they'll build trust. Where is Pets.com now?

As for Nike, they're on an upswing now, but they are constantly under siege. But you're missing my point, which is that products (like Nike) build brand affinity, not retailers. Do you buy your Nikes from the same place every time?

^1 unless uber can use their capital to develop a self driving car before anyone else. This would give them a huge advantage. Competitors would struggle to overcome this and would make über virtually invincible.
The current situation surrounding law enforcement in the US is complicated and there are many sides to it. However, I've always been of the opinion that corrupt officials in any government position are a huge thread to society especially in law enforcement since they are highly visible and thus hugely impact how society perceived justice.
Therefore I always held the opinion that punishment for corruption in these positions should be absolutely draconic. On the flip side we should probably also pay more to attract top talent.

I guess my dream of police officers who in their spare time have lively debates about Kant will never come to fruition ;)

EDIT: Spacing
Accounting standards have pretty strict requirements when it comes to intangible assets. There is a whole list of criteria that development costs need to meet to be capitalized, and that is for actual products. The problem with lobbying as an asset would be valuation: its impossible to actually measure the fair value of it. As well, it probably would not meet the definition of an asset at all since economic benefits are not probable.
It would probably evaporate before doing any harm. If Hawking radiation exists, then tiny black holes produce massive amounts of it.
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The ideal situation that you've described is how the FBI actually works. The FBI is highly selective, requires a bachelors degree minimum (though I hear new hires increasingly have even more higher education), treats misconduct very seriously, and pays professional salaries. You'll notice that most controversies about the FBI concern policies set at the very top, almost never abuses of power or denial of rights.

I agree that we need to similarly professionalize local police forces. I'd rather see it done at the state level to maintain more local, rather than federal, control of policing.
Typical stream cipher produces stream of bits (not even bytes), and often are described in manner that can be readily converted into hardware, also most of such ciphers are non trivial to implement efficiently in software.

Stream ciphers done in software that are actually somewhat widely used are either based on iterating some block cipher like primitive (which may be purpose designed as in Salsa/Chacha) or are related to RC4.

IIRC the fact that you can derive stream cipher by iterating essentially any cryptographic primitive (eg. hash function) was one of the arguments used by DJB in his court case against US.
So many comments like this usually end in sorrow. It's somewhat reassuring and human to hear that you're back together with your wife and helping raise your daughter again.

It sounds like going through those things led to a better overall ending than trying to forge ahead in the first place. It's great to hear you pulled through.
Part of the problem with telling your kid that they are smart is that most parents think their kids are smart. The average IQ is about 100. It's one thing to tell an objectively intelligent person that they are intelligent, but it's quite another to get someone who doesn't have great innate gifts thinking that they do and then perhaps causing them not to work harder.

You can outwork someone and make up for an intellectual or physical disadvantage, but you may be less inclined to do so if people tell you that you have greatly innate gifts than you do.

Let's also keep in mind that a lot of very intelligent people are able to focus and think more abstractly, allowing them to be very efficient workers. I just see a lot of parents telling their kids how smart they are, thinking it will build up their self esteem, but I wonder if this is counterproductive if they are actually of more average intelligence.
If anyone wants to help out with bcachefs, Reed-Solomon might be a fun place to jump in. And bcachefs so far has a better track record with people's data than btrfs :)
But look at Urban Outfitters, they were the COOLEST thing 10 years ago. Today they are struggling. In another 10 they may not exist.

Being a retailer does not make you impervious, in fact it makes you more vulnerable IMO.

How many products can you name that are more than >50 years old? How many retailers can you name that are >50 years old?
Pretty much all the sharing economy is retailer. AirBnB, Uber, Lyft, Postmates, all those "do your laundry by ordering a dude to pick it up from your home with an app" startups etc. None of it is tech anymore and thus you are right. They are by no means bad or insignificant businesses. Quite the opposite! But tech they are not. Twenty years ago AirBnB would have travel agencies and Uber a Black-Cab Call-In number. Now it's a website or app.
The valuations are way off.
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Clickbait does have to have ads, it's the sensationalism as incentive to click.
That is a better analogy, seeing as it's a direct Craigslist competitor (Craigslist has offered a similar short term rental listing for a very long time)
Repeating what I've gleened from my extensive reading of sci-fi:

New child universes are spawned with new values for various constants. Stable arrangements (combinations) persist, spawning new grandchildren universes. Unstable arrangements blink out of existence.

Edit: I want to apologize for volunteering an answer to the question of how natural selection might work at a cosmic level with some speculation I've read. I regret the error.
Title: LHC nightmare

First paragraph: "I finished highschool in ..."

Second paragraph: "Little did I realize"

Third paragraph: "Since I entered physics"

Fourth paragraph: "During my professional career"

Fifth paragraph: "When I look at"

Sixth paragraph: "For the last ten years you’ve been told that the LHC must see some new physics besides the Higgs because otherwise nature isn’t “natural” - [...]. I’ve been laughed at when I explained that I don’t buy into naturalness"

Seventh paragraph: "The idea of naturalness"

Eighth paragraph: "we’ve entered what has become known as the “nightmare scenario” for the LHC: The Higgs and nothing else."

Ah, the article starts in the eighth paragraph. Summary: read paragraphs 8 and the last, 9.
Those numbers would grow as most users move to smart phones. Mobile would be their Internet enabled device.English would still be common language. Millions are using WhatsApp typing in Hinglish, kannglish etc(typing in local language kb is cumbersome)
I agree. This hyperbolic phrase would likely not have survived a persnickety editor, who might've replaced "interstellar" with "interplanetary".

Source: I am a persnickety editor.
> Prison is a punishment

Beside the points others made here that it isn't, and it shouldn't be, I'd like to invite you to think about the ethical and practical implications of punishing someone over, and over, and over again for years or even decades, for an action that usually took only a very, very small fraction of time compared to the length of "punishment". The very idea flies in the face of... well any kind of experience with people and how they learn.
It's the LHC failing to discover anything that we hadn't predicted decades ago. There's no new physics, so nothing to base new theories on, and, rather importantly if you're a physicist, nowhere clues about where to look next.
UWP XAML has pretty much surpassed WPF with the latest SDK. There are some things missing, but the new features outweigh that and the performance is significantly better since it's all C++ and sits on top of DirectComposition instead of milcore. Many of the things that were removed (like FindAncestor bindings and DataContext inheritance) were done so for perf reasons or because they were refundant.

I'd use it as the basis for Avalonia instead of WPF. If only to have x:Bind instead of {Binding}, which thanks to function bindings removes a lot of ViewModel boilerplate.
Professor Matt Strassler has had excellent coverage of the events at LHC, including detailed explanations. For anyone interested in reading: https://profmattstrassler.com/
> The ideal situation that you've described is how the FBI actually works.

FBI Agents in their off hours have engaging philosophical debates? I hadn't heard about this. Is this from personal experience, or is this a criticism of the FBI of them being too impractical?

EDIT: This was a legitimate inqury. Is it really so absurd to imagine some FBI agents having Thursday Philosophical Book Club? That some people on HN might have gone to them? If so, it sounded interesting.
My thoughts exactly: if the title was accurate, we wouldn't be hearing about it.
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I don't think that's a MacBook Air.
am Maryam Heidari, I am a third year PhD student in computer science and recent Master degree graduate. I live in NYC. I was wondering if there is any Internship position available for October-January?
The most recent focus of my research is on sampling large complex networks. I have proposed a new unbiased sampling algorithm, which is based on path sampling. The project is using different real-world complex network dataset such as Twitter Network[1], Human Disease Network[2] and Citation Dataset.
I have had the opportunity to improve my skills in data structures and algorithms with tools such as C++, C#, SQL, SQLite, igraph, boost, R, Weka, variety of operating systems, software development tools, networking, file systems as well as practical experience in these areas. I have done several projects in information retrieval, machine learning, classification, clustering, Internet Topology, AS-Level Graphs/Topology, AS relationships. I developed a meta engine system, a recommender systems and a web crawler.

I would appreciate to discuss available opportunities with you.

Best,
I actually mentioned that in the comment of mine I'd borrowed from here.

Fun fact: I knew one of he scientists on the cover mission for the Glomar Explorer.

He was on the ship for the duration of the mission. And didn't even realise the true purpose until he read about it in the news.

Something to keep in mind if you're getting assurances from people working at or for a project or organisation that there's nothing twisted going on -- first, it needn't be a laargee operation that is, and even a full second crew and submarine-sized sea bay can be hidden, on a ship.

Makes you think.
I use an Evoluent mouse and it's been a revelation for how much a regular mouse was tweaking my right arm and elbow.
Ah! Thank you! I've had this issue from time to time. I thought it is probably a software thing, not the keyboard.

Thanks to the link you've sent I now have a simple solution - tap both shift keys at once.. Great!
Does anyone have a prediction when .NET Core will be extended to include UI? I find this lack is the most confounding aspect of MSFTs strategy. Is Xamarin really it?
I have a Sony Vaio P, which as the author mentions is close to what he describes.

I don't use it much anymore, but it was actually a fun device to own. I installed ArchLinux on it, with a heavily customized xmonad + plenty of customly setup apps for email/browsing/basic coding/etc to make it full keyboard driven (the trackpad/trackpoint was pretty bad on it).

It'd fit in my jacket pocket, and was a nifty little machine to carry around. The keyboard was way too cramped for long term use, but it was fun to have around.
It appears that some people knew the Earth was spherical as early as 6 BC. Specifically in Greek culture. However, the Bible describes the Earth as being surrounded by a Firmament. This is used in the flat-Earth model to describe a stone-like covering which has literal holes opening to let light through.

This is strange considering all of the reworks that the bible went through even up until the 400's. It seems like if it were something widely accepted by scholars or even laymen that it would have been something to correct. You can see regional differences in the bible as it was being written and spread across the middle East, but the knowledge of the spherical Earth must not have spread quickly enough to this area in which copies of the bible were being made.
I'm glad you've found something that helps you.

One minor additional thought about this: "the burnout and stress has returned and I've lost a lot of the benefit I found at the meditation center. I'm already planning to go back to try to refind it [...]"

For a long time my model was similar, that this sort of change is something I could lose and find. I was excited to find it, sad to lose it. When I had it, I expected to keep on having it, and was surprised when it was gone. But it doesn't behave like an object.

A more useful model to me is one of homeostasis and calibration. When I end up in a different equilibrium than the one I prefer, I think of myself as also having some sensor (or perhaps sensor weighting) out of calibration.

For example, relating to stress and burnout, I was poor at noticing the subtle bodily sensations that occur early on in that cycle. When my body offered me alarms, I had a tendency to hit snooze, treating the alerts as unimportant. And I was over-sensitive to other people's desires and my (generally good) desire to do things "right", by which I mean in accordance with readings from other sensors.

Now I don't think I'll ever have peace, as if it were an object. But I do think I can create peace, that I can sustain peace. For me, though, that requires careful attention to keeping those sensors well-calibrated and respecting not just the big red warning lights, but the small yellow ones.
No, it's not clicbait. This is an accurate description of the current scenario from the point of view of her discipline. Although, I suppose it's not that obvious if one is not familiar with physics.
People en masse will be clearer on finer points of language if those who already grasp them make the effort to polish their communications. Don't mistake lack of awareness for stupidity. Most people learn by example.

Corollary: every wrong apostrophe breed's another.
This is of course true. But generally speaking, most of the folks who speak these languages but don't speak Hindi also don't have much money and may not even have internet.

In Maharashtra, virtually every middle class person speaks English and Hindi in addition to Marathi. Auto drivers or street vendors will speak only Hindi and Marathi. Of the people I've encountered who don't speak Hindi, most were cooks/maids/similar.

A peripherally related question: is it worth translating your software into Dutch? 90% of the Netherlands speaks English and by having English you've also covered the UK. So it's probably not worth it.

Now lets compare the Netherlands to Maharashtra. The GDP of the Netherlands is $850B (16M people). The GDP of Maharashtra is about $400B (for 110M people). Half that GDP is just Mumbai (about 20M people) and Mumbai is disproportionately a place where English and Hindi work well.

If you are very forward thinking (10+ years), it might be worthwhile gambling that gaining a foothold in regional languages today might pay off when those regions grow. But that's a very long play.
Does lack of such entities kill a universe? If not, then we're just reducing the problem to anthropic principle here.
This seems like the urban version of road hierarchy. With the local roads being more like a large shared driveway. Similar to how cul-de-sacs are used in suburban settings.

The place to spend the money on improvements would be the roads outside of the 9 block cube. Obviously they would now have a lot more traffic.
Why not just hop on a bus then? How is it different?
He's committed a crime that means he could face up to two years in prison.

"The use of any apparatus, whether or not wireless telegraphy apparatus, for the purpose of interfering with any wireless telegraphy, is an offence under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006. It is an indictable offence that on conviction in Crown Court carries a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. The courts can also order forfeit of any apparatus used in the commission of the offence."

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/spectrum-enforc...
Interestingly enough, Microsoft actually has an Android Launcher called Arrow. It's not an attempt of bringing the WP experience to Android though.

That said, it's a great launcher and I use it on my Note 4. I still don't fully understand the strategy behind why Microsoft released it though.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....
I looked this up, and according to the most entertaining source I found (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nHBGFKLHZQ) the result of a tiny blackhole would basically be a gigantic nuclear explosion (it would evaporate rather than continue forming) -- so a big problem immediately, but not one that would prevent me from reading about it here in the US.
Silly of him to use the Sony Vaio P as a illustration for the smartbook segment. The Vaio P ran full Windows on an early Intel Atom.

Anyways, it seems the author ignores that netbooks started out not running Windows, and just lumps them in with laptops because x86 (Atom) and Windows.

Frankly the whole thing just reeks of someone who has developed severe Apple myopia...
Airbnb doesn't have to own -- they could manage. For example, not every Hyatt Hotel is owned by Hyatt, but they manage them so that customers trust the brand.
Why breed when you can just print one out?
I'm not referring to your comment (I thought joke...) about what they talk about in their off time, but about a more professional force with greater discipline and pay.
I would imagine that some people believe being "lost" is a greater catastrophe than being dead.

Personally, I'm in the it's all good unless you create a black hole, explosion, or gateway to someplace we don't want to visit or want visitors from.
I'd say "see what happens next!" is clickbait even if the page has no ads and actually does show what happens next. When "nightmare scenario" turns out to mean "not much has happened", that's at least borderline clickbait. But at least the article was substantive. I don't think people would hate sensational headlines so much if the content lived up to expectations.
I have a 12" Macbook and an 11" Air and I think anything smaller than the Air is not really practical. I suppose if I rotate my 6s+ I could get something super tiny, then just attach a bluetooth keyboard..

But, I just don't see the point of going that small. The Macbook and Air are really light - I don't notice them much at all if I out them in my backpack (a 15" is definitely noticeable).

Anyway, it just seems like a thought exercise.
I think this is what academia.edu is trying to be. It seems to be a mix of reddit and linkedin for academics.
A fairly simple DCF[1] based on public numbers. First the basic numbers.

From public data[2] in 2015 AirBnB did at least $360M in revenue, expecting to hit $900M by the end of that year. They never disclosed if they did hit that number, but lets assume they did.

So, 2015 Revenue is $900M.We'll assume a 8% yearly growth rate over the next 10 years. With a terminal growth rate of 4% after that.

I think we can accept 6% as a discount rate - The rate we'd otherwise get
just shoving our money in a stock market index.

and based on those numbers, we get a valuation of $19774.14 Billion.
to get a $30B valuation in this analysis they'd have to have 14% YoY growth
for 10 years. Which I think is unrealistic.

[1] http://www.gurufocus.com/fair_value_dcf.php
[2] https://www.quora.com/How-much-revenue-is-Airbnb-making
Even that would not result in a mere 1 percent increase. Oil inelasticity is extreme - can anyone think of a better example besides food and water?

Total world demand is ~96m bpd, and a mere 2m bpd oversupply caused the price to collapse from $100 to $26 at lowest.

The only time 1 percent might be plausible is if oil had already reached prices so high it's near the marginal benefit for consumers, or over long long periods of time (but who cares, since you would have to pay exorbitant prices in the meantime).
Interesting that this $30B valuation is only 25% higher than last year's reported valuation of $24B, whereas the year before their valuation leaped up from $10B.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-math-of-airbnbs-24-bi...

I wonder how revenue growth has been this year. Perhaps it has slowed down further, given the relatively modest increase in valuation.
You know that MS did the old OS/2 2.0 SDK betas from 1990, right?
Actually some creative destruction might be good for physics as a whole. High energy physics amounts to glorified bean counting. Particle phenomenologists are expected to produce ~6 papers a year, what you write about is mostly fashion driven and what is fashionable is determined by a few thought leaders.
It's like if Columbus had sailed, found the Azores and then found an endless ocean (metaphorically speaking) instead of new continents.
All of these comments taking a crap on jQuery are hilarious.

It's like saying "Using lodash is bad because then you don't learn real javascript and you rely on another big library to do the job for you".

Becoming an expert DOM manipulator in vanilla javascript won't make you a good developer. DOM manipulation is incredibly trivial but involves a lot of grunt work, and jQuery is just a utility lib that makes the grunt work easier. Just like lodash, moment.js or any other lib.

I think people are just super salty because jQuery is popular, everyone uses it, which means that a lot of bad developers use it, and bad developers produce spaghetti code - which means that jQuery is bad? lol.

You know there's a lot of morons who eat pizza, does that mean that ordering pizza once in a while makes you a moron?

Writing good or bad code has nothing to do with jQuery, lodash, React, or any other library.

If you're a shit programmer you will write shit code. If you're a good programmer you won't.

If you're rendering server side, you're going to use imperative DOM manipulation library - jQuery is a good choice.

If you're rendering client side, you don't need jQuery, you're going to use a rendering library.

I don't get why people have problems with grasping such simple concepts.

/rant