skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instability. Just like in biology, death is not a true optimization, it is greedy for local maximums. How many bacteria have evolved specifically to thrive on you, even though within a couple decades surely you'll be no more, leading them to extinction?

So would universes come in existance with varying degrees of stability. No one has to say 'this is a stable universe'. We can say 'this universe has been stable for quite a long while'. Long enough to spawn us and the very interesting universe around us.

Just like in biology, merely the fact that we could be here, is the reason we're here.

Of course, that's assuming that for some reason big bangs with varying values for universal constants are a constant occurrence. Unfortunately, this is not likely to be something we're ever going to be able to measure/observe. Though there are/have been (theoretical) experiments to see if universal constants really are constant. If they're not, that would be a nice indicator that the universe really is unstable enough to create stability.
I 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 September-January?
I would appreciate to discuss available opportunities with you.

Best,
Correction, API providing:

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.8.1
> but about a more professional force with greater discipline and pay.

That would be a nice thing to have.
Does XAML provide react like component model with lifecycle hooks.
Wow. Really have to agree with the click bait thing here.

Also, this article takes forever to get to the point - I was able to skip most of the content until like 75% the way through the thing.
I don't know anything about her motivation, but you asked if there were any ads on the page, so I pointed out that there is one.
Some of us enjoy reading and writing like this. Writing especially in non-expository formats is more than just communicating the thesis of an article. Background and personal touch are often entertaining.

Take your comment for example. Your comment's thesis is the last sentence "Summary: read paragraphs 8 and the last, 9", but delaying that to the end yields a different effect for the reader than if you began with the thesis and then supplied examples.
Fundamentally, the underlying inspiration for these huge infusions is debt. On the microeconomic scale, it will take a long time for Airbnb to generate $3.5bn in profit, that has already been put into it. On the macro scale, tens of trillions of US debt make zero interest rates possible, which in turn creates a lot of fake money looking for returns on investment.
Same here. And https://www.fraudguard.io/ uses the wrong SSL certificate (that of analytics.crynix.com)
in The Singular Universe Smolin argues that we should drop the assumption of unchanging laws outside of time and instead assume that Time is primary and the laws evolve as a function of the state of the Universe
With very low per capita income in India I think language issue is secondary. Even if customer service were better and native languages supported on internet based startups there would not be much opportunities or growth. To put things in perspective it is 5-7% of top income people who come under 'middle class' in India.

Startups in India are mostly rich kids hanging out with other rich kids and thinking wow seems like there are so many people like us who needs online commerce and services and so must be great business opportunity.

I agree customer service and infrastructure is in very bad shape but one thing many would not like to talk or admit is 95% of population is simply not in any state to pay even very little for better infrastructure. E.g Indians whine about poor telecom services while average revenue per user is like $2 per month. So it is quite unlikely to upgrade infrastructure / services to decent level.

Any infrastructure which once made available, accessible to all without price discrimination will remain in bad shape for very long time.
Probably it is referring to the overlap in mathematics between condensed matter and particle physics. Both fields can be seen as explorations of the mathematical framework known as Quantum Field Theory (with somewhat different interpretation) - many discoveries of QFT in one field also turn out to apply in the other, such as the renormalization group. For example, the Higgs mechanism was first discovered by a condensed matter physicist (Phil Anderson).
Improving Linux desktop security beyond "if you PWN one program, you PWN the whole desktop session" is going to be hard. X11 has no separation, so talking about this really only makes sense when using Wayland, which is no where near default yet.

A problem with this particular approach is that chrome-trusted for example will no longer have access to the session's DBus, so
it cannot show any notifications for example. And DBus, like X11, does not provide any separation right now as far as I'm aware (it has support for authentication, but in practice, `external` is used most of the time which is based on UID).

The only variant that might provide a real security benefit here is the -paranoid one, as that those not share the X11 server session.
as far as i remember: the PC of the day was just too slow for OS/2 warp, and it didn't support the varied hardware of the day; am i wrong?
Unfortunately, I think OS X has made it clear that many users are willing to compromise control and flexibility in exchange for a simplified or more polished user experience.
in the recent story on NPR about a young Mexican guy dying (ruled suicide) in the privately run ICE detention center it was mentioned that the attempts of the relatives to reach him on the phone were unsuccessful as the center's employees were not able, for some unknown reason, to call the guy to the phone, and instead the center's employees suggested to the relatives that the relatives have to put money in the detainee's account first and after that the detainee would be able to call them himself. The motivation here is pretty obvious to anyone who knows about the outgoing rates from the detention center and who profits from it. Practically the definition of extortion.
She isn't talking about your company, so there's no need to leap to its defense.
Windspeed is quite low, see the speed with which the vortex separates from the tip, so failing brakes have nothing to do with this particular failure.
fair enough, but I think the coincidental timing with a torrent tracker crackdown was an interesting observation that was not captured in the prior posting.

in addition, he made a call for collaborators to contact him, which was then taken down.
Is this the same as saying there are no unexplained observations?
The award for the coolest video is called 'Darwin Award'.
It's not so hard to think about fitness and reproduction on a metaverse. When a Universe succeeds in creating one black hole, its singularity creates a new universe inheriting physical laws from parent but maybe distortions can happen in space giving rise to mutated memetic material. String theory research shows how distortion happens in six-dimensional circular Calabi-Yau shapes that might augment our three-dimensional extended space dimensions. Universes explode, grow and die, but the laws of those universes able to generate black holes live on in their offpring.

Presumably the capacity of a universe's laws to cluster matter lead both to black holes and to enough planets that life is more likely, so that our existence correlates with good universe fitness. Other universes might do pretty badly with getting stuff to stick together.
My favorite non-serious pet theory is that we live in simulation created by intelligent beings. It's supposed to be cool and mathematically beautiful only little below atom level and up. When we dig into deeper energy levels we start do detect artifacts that make no sense because they are implementation details revealed where model breaks down.

We would be virtual scientist detecting features in physics simulation software that builds the world he is living in.
Since I'm now reading The Wheel of Osheim by Mark Lawrence, I was expecting to something completely different from this article.
It's the old Structure of Scientific Revolution. Standard Model is the current paradigm and we can't break through it until we actually find something that doesn't fit. Everything discovered by LHC fits, therefore we can't get to the next paradigm.
In theory everything you need is in those binaries. We had to start from nothing. There's already a lot you can learn from the device just by running your own code on it.
Recent versions of ipython do tab complete like you show. Not sure about the other features. But given enough time, everything becomes the same.
no; not with cryptography, unless you decrypt it / determine what it decrypts.
This is a much better article, thank you. Essentially this is the same as hotel phone rates, they also used to be very high by adding margin to the carrier services, but were part of the profitability of running a hotel. Mobile phones disrupted that source of income for hospitality, but with a captive customer the real issue is this commission now that telco rates have collapsed. As it is a fee for accessing telecommunication services, it sounds reasonable that the FCC should be able to regulate the commission, but the jail telcos have existing contracts in place under existing rules with the prisons and the FCC failed to address this.
I think you completely misunderstood my point.

Btw 'at scale' all the overhead you mentioned decreases. I doubt it costs $70 a month per customer. You see issues constantly, but how big is the customer base? 100k? That's 7 million a month. With bandwidth costs of around $1 per person I'm going to guess there is a lot of room for profit.
I'd like one of these just for text with an E-Ink screen, no GUI, boot straight to Emacs. What to name it though? Emacs-book, text-book, clibook...
Yup, when I hacked the Kindle, it was a weekend's work. It was fun and challenging work, but not educating as this was.
Mah, he seems to conflate the Vaio P (unnamed, just used as a illustration) with "smartbooks". This while the Vaio P was a netbook (Windows, Intel Atom) rather than a smartbook (Android/Linux, ARM variants).

Frankly the only thing that seems to hold the smartbook category together is the use of mobile tech (iirc, the Toshiba AC100 even had a notification light for texts etc).

The blog posting seems like someone firmly hung up on Apple and wanting a smaller macbook, rather than a proper illustration of what the rest of the market has to offer.
> Take your comment for example..

This is not analogous. If parent had begun the comment with a personal history of experience in reading verbose articles with clickbait-y headlines that then meander to the actual meat of the bait, then it'd be similar.

The parent comment is instead succinctly presenting evidence /observations which build to a conclusion. Not the same thing.
Except lucb1e's critique was actually entertaining, because I stopped reading the post myself because it was just so much fluff. All that high school college la-di-da stuff.
It is an article on a personal blog. Really I find this post to be very cogent and well written, even extremely-so by personal blog post standards.

Edit: (tongue in cheek) maybe you can find something more in line with your expectations here: https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=isch&q=physics+comic+strips
Again what does all this have to do with flower crowns and embroidered dresses? They predate the twentieth-century conflicts by hundreds of years. The shamrock is a national symbol of Ireland despite Irish nationalist atrocities throughout the years. The traditional ceremonial dress in Japan is used despite the crimes committed by the Japanese military. There is literally no society or culture in history that is blameless; why spout off about Ukrainian embroidery and floral arrangement?

Could it simply be another continuation of the centuries-long campaign to suppress Ukrainian culture?
Very interesting! Reminds me of this hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis , which could explain the Indo-European version of the flood myth.
Condensed matter physics has provided important math and physical ideas for particle physics. The basic mathematical framework of particle physics - Quantum Field Theory - is also useful to describe many condensed matter phases.

Two extremely important ideas that developed first in condensed matter are symmetry breaking (invented to explain ferromagnetism and other phase transitions - ideas were borrowed for example in the Higgs) and renormalization. They are of fundamental importance in particle physics as well. Of course this was way back in the 50s and 60s.

I am aware of a couple of collaborations between condensed matter and particle/string theorists these days:

1. String theorists have discovered that their mathematical techniques are useful in solving certain Quantum Field Theories which are important in condensed matter. Google Ads/CMT, or strange metals.

2. String theorists believe that in quantum gravity entanglement and gravity are closely linked. They have used ideas from condensed matter studies of entanglement called tensor networks (MERA) to build toy-models of gravity.
Please stop trying to kill email
The bus has a fixed route, the robocar takes each person exactly where they want to go.
"Modern cities are ruled by cars."

"Some folks, however, still cling to the old idea that cities are for people,"

How strange. Every time I see a car, one or more people are in it. I also see other vehicles, such as trucks, that not only have a person in it, they also are carrying things (such as food or building materials) that other people need.
True, I used it. SCO Unix was a little better in speed, IIRC. But the hardware I used it on may been better by then, too.
I have to admit I never done one myself (always been meaning to, never had the time) but a lot of friends have and I trust their words. I believe it helps in the real world because these "war games" simulate real world systems and trains people in attacking them (therefore learning how to defend against such attacks).
If you could get a _nix to boot on a Freewrite, it would seem to offer what your after.

https://getfreewrite.com/
Probably the site was taken down by removing the vhost config. So the domain is getting the default vhost and its certificate.
As a poster said, the fitness filter may as well be "whatever works" in the sense that it's so rare to stumble upon stable combinations of energy, space and time (if they are at all separate concepts) that whatever works, continues existing, and if circumstances allow, spreads.

It's actually quite a neat concept, if very similar to the anthropic principle. Unfortunately, it offers no predictions.
I'm pretty sure you'll be waiting a while. The GUI elements are tied very deep into core of Windows AFAIK.
The physics is insufficient. We're asking the wrong question because there isn't one grand theory. In a multiverse we'll just see our place as we always have, the right set of answers to be asking the questions.
Have you read the post?

Yes, X11 has no separation, but you can use multiple X11 isolated sessions, like i do in this config i'm explaining in this post.
It's strange that physicist are so unwilling to explore radically different theories. Our understanding of particle physics is less than a century old. The theory of phlogiston, which was unequivocally wrong, last longer.

Naturalness probably spawns from mathematical constants, most of which are around 1. [1] This also assumes the dimensional analysis is correct, or that certain values are not derived.

Also, have all of the easy physic experiments been done? Seems like physics is only being explored at high energies in expensive set-ups. Some of the biggest discoveries of 100 years ago were done with relatively cheap set-ups, see the Gold Foil Experiment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_constants_and_fun...
Yes, if physics behave accordingly the way we expect it would evaporate almost immediately, but it would be a tiny explosion because they'd only be a tiny amount of energy there in the first place.

The more fun version would be where black holes do not evaporate, at which point it will still be a very long time before it's a problem, we need to worry about Andromeda crashing into our galaxy and the sun becoming a red giant first.
Massive Cyber Attack at Banner Health Affects 3.7M Individuals
Yup. The company I'm was was self sufficient after its first few years. Grew slowly and organically. Funding has only been to speed up that growth once our products were proven.
Yep, its called a Chromebook.
ok, you readed it and awhere of the -paranoid with xpra. Great. anyway, there is no way to obtain perfect security, this is just a little improvements as I explained.
Finding a job without a recruiter (2015)
Conservation and concentration of effort
That was a painful read. The thoughts that I have in my mind everyday looking at the infrastructure while I ride my motorbike are just spilled everywhere in this article.
The problems are mainly with people electing poor leaders. We cannot become a first world country with a third world leadership such as the one we have now.
Our leaders are busy causing communal riots using stupid cows and caste systems , there is no way they are going to magically start working for the country. The Parliament is filled with 70% rapists and murderers. How will they work for the people.

Delhi seems to be doing good and the only hope I have is on that state. They are one of the smallest states but have the highest investing education among all states. That's the way to go. Nothing else will cure all this non sense going on.
It can only explode as much energy as you put in though. The particles the LHC collides don't have all that much energy.
I'm going to assume thats a dead project. He missed his deadline. Refunded all pre-orders and hasn't posted any updates for 2-3 months?
It can also do a number of other things:

* cause people not to travel at all, thus keeping money in their pockets rather than spending it to benefit the economy

* cause people who do not live in the city to drive to other places--places where their preferred mode of transportation is accommodated--to work or transact business

* cause people who live in the city to leave due to increasing frustration with their inability to go where they wish.
My experience with remapping my mind to the Advantage2 keyboard was that it took a week to be reasonably usable, and a month before I was back to my normal flow. All wrist pain gone. It is really nice to have many of your most used keys on your thumbs instead of your pinkies.
The dream of the automated public car:

It comes to you within a couple of minutes when you call it, instead of having to wait for the next bus. Which can be around a half hour or worse in the US outside of the cores of cities.

It goes directly where you want to go, instead of going vaguely near your destination and stopping every three blocks for passengers.

Cargo can go in the trunk, rather than get hauled onto the bus by hand and fight for space with passengers when the bus is full
I offered three entirely different options. "No thank you" to politely decline the offer. "F off" to show your extreme displeasure. And "mind your own business" for public shaming.

Holy crap do people project much.
I understand your viewpoint completely, I used to enjoy these articles too. Thousands of words on a single topic, no problem.

But time went on and I got tired of it. I discovered time is not infinite even when I have about sixty years ahead of me. I don't read mainstream news because knowing about the latest terror attack (or even positive news, like the latest rare animal being born in a zoo) doesn't help me in any way. Most of the time it just makes me feel bad for or angry about something that I can do nothing about nor affects me in any way.

I still read fiction as a past time activity and as I said, I used to enjoy these articles too, so I understand your point. It's just not the format I like to read for news.

(As for my own comment, burying the main thing, in my defense: it has structure that you can skip past very easily until the last sentence. But again, I see your point.)
I have started reading articles like that, including this one. I think it's just because in this age there are a lot of articles that are stretched to be long enough to be an article and not just a tweet or what have you.

The frustration I think is because you have a very specific title, promising to have a very specific insight, and then it starts in 1980 and promises to bring you up to 2016....

I actually had the same reaction to that Bloom Filter article yesterday. But I ultimately skipped the first 3 and then got into it.
Oh I actually hadn't noticed it's a personal blog, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for responding.
Actually looks like a great game/tool to teach people with rather than using paper examples and asking the teacher if it is correct or not
This article is nearly a year old. The living situation in Venezuela, a year later, is much more dire now.
In the time before the wall fell most communist countries had an 'official' (ridiculous) and a black market exchange rate much like the one in the article. You were forced to exchange a certain amount of money for every day of your stay at the official rate, if you managed to smuggle just a few extra notes into the country and exchanged those on the black market it would usually translate into 'more money than you can sensibly spend'.

The reason those black markets are so popular is that people living in a country like that far prefer to hold on to some hard currency instead of the local currency which is devaluating so fast that even a few weeks can make a huge difference. Saving the local currency makes no sense and hence the black market materializes.

One person I know paid off a mortgage entered into a few years earlier with a single months pay, rapid inflation creates all kinds of havoc.
It's very likely that there's no higher purpose in any universe's existence - a/the universe could just be a set of random "rules and laws" which happen to not die out as soon as they are randomly created.

Of course verifying this probably requires that we inspect most of our universe directly...
a black hole created from component of the LHC wreak all the of the havoc caused by the gravitational force of something with the mass of of....a rather large piece of lab equipment.
I don't know about everyone else, but when I read 'The LHC "nightmare scenario" has come true' I expected a black hole, or reality being sucked down a pinpoint wormhole. Maybe those are the same thing.
I couldn't afford the required mustache wax.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh
Personally, I try to reduce my dependence on the mouse. Occasionally, when my brain is fried from a week of programming, I'll unplug my mouse and do a mouse fast on Friday afternoon to transition more of my workflow to utilize the keyboard.
And wrk2 (https://github.com/giltene/wrk2) is the way to measure it.
Well, shit. All the updates are backer-only so I hadn't read that. Disappointing.
Thanks for sharing. I also recommend "An Introduction to Statistical Learning - with Applications in R":
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
Would be in a different space, though :)
Hillary has taken $133,246[0] from prison lobbyists. Her husband admitted guilt for the state of the current prison system[1] and famously Hillary publicly supported[2] those very same policies with rather fear mongering speeches. I'd argue the corruption is rather bipartisan.

[0]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/bernie-sanders-wil...

[1]http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/06/politics/bill-clinton-crime-pr...

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALXulk0T8cg
That kind of timescale often makes me wonder, how do we know there aren't millions of tiny black holes all throughout the planet slowly growing?