skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly the physics of the world is based on change in time between rendering. If the rendering time is slightly longer/shorter the collision calculations may cause this non-deterministic action.
I suppose you are right. I'll concede that they both have public transport systems that get you to where you need to go, and the extra efficiency in the Tokyo system tops out the scale they are using to measure.

But it is interesting that Tokyo's train system has to be efficient, to support the amount of passengers that go through it. Shinagawa station after a 15 minute delay on the Yamanote line in rush hour is wall-to-wall people, whereas the same in Melbourne is just a bunch of grumpy commuters stuck at Flinders St :)
Not all programming is about math/logic. Programming is as diverse as writing. Saying only one kind of person should program is like saying only one kind of person should write.
I agree, but i still wonder how big the chance really is ? All the numbers you see are usually country or even worldwide averages. But for example, if you live in Paris as a young professional who uses public transport a lot, flies a lot and goes to big public events regularly, i could see the likelihood being significantly higher than for someone living in a smaller town. Sure the average is really low, but as someone who is constantly around really crowded areas in a big european capital, i wonder how high the risk really is. Of course it's still irrational fear, i get that.
Yes, look into Stuart Hameroff,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hameroff
who thought of quantum effects through neural microtubules independently of Roger Penrose in 1987 whose work from 1989 inspired Neal Stephenson. Neal wrote on his website in the Acknowledgements section:

"1. Penrose posits, in The Emperor's New Mind (ISBN 978-0192861986) and Shadows of the Mind (ISBN 978-0195106466), that the human brain takes advantage of quantum effects to do what it does. This has been so controversial that I have found it impossible to have a dispassionate conversation about it with any learned person. The dispute can be broken apart into a number of different sub-controversies, some of which are more interesting than others. The science-fictional premise of Anathem is based on the relatively weak and modest assumption that natural selection has found some way to construct brains that, despite being warm and wet, are capable of exploiting the benefits of quantum computation. Readers who are uncomfortable with the specific mechanism posited by Penrose might also wish to read Henry Stapp's Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics (ISBN 978-3540407614) which posits a quantum brain mechanism that is completely incompatible with Penrose's."

Also read this, I was lucky enough to do an academic level course on parapsychology long ago with Dick Bierman for 4 study points:

* Quantum States In The Retina? Pierre St. Hilaire, Dick Bierman, Stuart Hameroff
http://quantum.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/prod/content/quantum...

Why is research like this not funded and practised more? Is it to far out, costly or difficult?
Can anyone in Kiev confirm whether this is what local people feel, or is this just the way the west sees it?
On the flip side, while the actual _risk_ we all agree is low, that's not the same as the human fear of it.

Even if illogical, given two otherwise equal cities, which is more "livable": the one with a stable and open atmosphere, or the one with scared citizens, under a state of emergency, where the country at large is implementing knee-jerk responses against the "others" who are related to this attack (referencing the current burkini bans rolling across France).
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If Facebook is serious about gaming it may just acquire GoG and integrate it with it's service.
It's 2016 and drivers have to sue to try and get basic employment benefits from a company. They have to first overcome a clause which tries to enforce mandatory arbitration to prevent class action lawsuits.

I use Uber, but I don't like Uber.

> Founders and investors say reclassifying contractors as employees could drive up their labor costs by at least 20%, upending their pricing models and making their services more expensive.

... too bad?

> As employees they would likely have more stringent work schedules and other requirements like wearing a uniform and undergoing time-consuming training.

But it's 2016. Tell them they have a cap of X hours per week and just track hours worked using your app.

A uniform? Why?

Time-consuming training? To do the job better? Isn't that better for everyone?

> Drivers would also be allowed to post signs in their cars soliciting tips from riders.

See, I think this should be the other way around. As "contractors" who is uber to tell them they can't do that?

Fuck tipping though. The day I have to start giving Uber drivers tips is the day I start finding another service. Actually it's not even that, it's the convenience of the app. if I can toss in an extra little bit when I go to rate the driver I would be okay with that. I'm not subsidizing uber fares by tacking on 20%. I refuse. Raise your prices.

I still don't get how uber can call their drivers contractors.

edit: To clarify on the tip thing. Some guy let me take my dog (in a crate) in his van on an uber trip. Helped me get her in and out (big dog) as well. I'd be happy to give him a good tip for that. I object to the idea that adequate service deserves extra. I'd rather just pay a fair amount (probably a bit more than now really).

edit the second: Wait, I thought the contractor status issue was already decided in california and uber lost? They get to pay a one time fee to get around the law?
I liked this interview with Judea Pearl on free will: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sg7Oq4suH_E

The summary is basically that to our best knowledge there is no free will because decisions are caused by neural activities which in turn are caused by sensory input and noise (but unlikely by quantum noise). However, humans have evolved a strong sense of agency because that's simply an efficient way to reason about machines that produce actions in response to the entirety of their sensory input (especially regarding parent child relationships and mutual behavior correction). This neuroarchitectural bias is essentially an illusion of free will that is so firmly wired into our brains that we cannot escape it. It is also the reason why the idea of a God comes so intuitively to many of us: an invisible actor which can be used to explain inexplicable chains of causation and can serve as a very effective metaphor for behavioral error correction (as a proxy for actual social repercussions, and hence relieved from all the complicated and hence fallible power relations to actual social error correction instances).
> The trend is toward more centralization, not centralization.

What are you basing that on? When I think about journalism, that seems a lot less centralized to me. Bitcoin is decentralized money. Recording companies are giving way to smaller more specialized independent production companies.

I think software is in a weird recentralization due to this push towards services and away from products. But it's exactly the kind of technology cited above, and stuff like Ethereum, which will allow that trend to go back in line with the macro decentralization trend.

Maybe you can help me see what you're seeing that I'm missing?
Well... I moved out of Stockholm because living in a big city means dealing with lots of things that will just steal your lifetime. The commutes were horrible, and housing was expensive. I now live outside a town of 120.000 people with big forrests nearby, and a 17 minute commute to work. Our house cost one million SEK less than our 60m2 apartment.

I couldn't imagine living in a big city anymore. Just moving from a big city gave me more than an hour less commutes, 200m to a big forrest (as in I could easily walk a day in any direction without crossing a road worth being called a road) and a 1500m2 garden where my dog and child can enjoy themselves.

Sure, my salary is a bit less, but so are my costs. My loans are lower and cheaper, I pay much less for transportation and counting my commute I work one hour less per day.
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Neocons are basically leftists, so there's not really anything surprising.
The wife and I fight about that one.

I'm a defender of wheel and spoke. It results in a drawcard city centre.

Yeah it sucks to have to uber it from Fitzroy to Brunswick (le hipster horror!) when they're so close on the map, and she's always complaining that they need an outer ring transport line (and I agree that it would be awesome), but I view it on the same level as I do French people complaining about wine.

You move here from another city without public transport and you just walk out the front door laughing each day :p
Read it, share it and then we can start conversation.

if you found interesting lines / para in between the article, we can start conversation with friends,family,colleagues from that point as well. Cool!!!

I can Store it and read it later, No need of managing article on emails for storage of important and nice links.
this is a very interesting read. Thank you.
Uhhh have you ever dealt with Broadcom? The BCM2835 chip powering the RPi zero isn't something you can buy without negotiating with Broadcom directly and a minimum order size in the tens or hundreds of thousands. That is a far cry from STM parts you can order off of Digikey or Mouser. Even some of my bigger clients won't base products on Broadcom chips for that reason alone.

And no, even in the best of cases where you have great software support from the vendor (ha! as if) and a great reference design, adding a GPU to a design is expensive because of both software and hardware R&D. unless you have an integrated CPU/GPU combo but then you're back to the problem of dealing with Qualcomm/Broadcom.
Economist is my favourite source of news but this ranking is completely BS.
> The photoelectric effect was first discovered in silver chloride solution. I don't know that much about the energy bands of silver chloride, so I won't comment about whether that was a semiconductor.

Had the first example of the photoelectric effect originated in a semiconductor, that cannot be used to argue that the research was motivated by the goal of practical application. By that reasoning, the fact that particle physics is about atoms, and that atoms can be used to make weapons, could be used to construct an absurd argument that all research that involves atoms has the ultimate goal of designing weapons.

> The article claims that science, with the goal of building cool military applications (or presumably life tables or brewing beer) will work better than curiosity driven applications.

The phrase "curiosity driven applications" assumes what it should be proving. Not all curiosity into nature has application in mind, indeed that's not now pure research is defined.

> You are defining "pure" in a far more expansive way than the article does.

Pure research is research meant to discover properties of nature, without any concern for practical application. That's hardly worth discussing as though there's any controversy about the definition.
There used to be a concept of "AI completeness" which meant that some problems could only be solved by True AI, which would also be able to solve all other human-level problems. Doug Hofstadter writes in Gödel-Escher-Bach that he believes grandmaster-level chess is AI complete. That was obviously false in retrospect, and it's becoming increasingly obvious that there is no AI completeness at all.
Best way to share/discuss good stuff or useful information with friends and co-workers.
Read it -> share it -> Discuss on it :)
Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer?
I'd consider myself a pretty experienced developer with diverse skills. I want to create some passive income streams using my abilities.

What are the recommended methods for a solo developer? Which method of the following would you recommend?

ebook in a niche technical topic
SaaS product that solves a niche issue
mobile or web based game
The default regex functionality is absolutely terrible

How so?
What terrorist activity has occurred in Toronto?
I think he mentioned somewhere that he had it running at 50 khz now.
http://megaprocessor.com/GBU_speed.html - speed page!
There's got to come a time when even the filthiest rich billionaires say enough is enough, this project is never going to hit a satisfactory ROI.
Each 'channel' (assuming he means senses) has a helluva bus width.
> ... pure research is a lottery, whereas applied research offers more chance to success.

That depends on how one defines success. Was Einstein successful? His work was pure research, and he was never financially successful, but his work resulted in a greater understanding of nature, a result we all share. Someone could argue that, because Einstein was never wealthy, therefore his work failed, but the defects in that argument are clear.

From a political perspective, pure research funding is certainly a lottery, but that doesn't address the question of what kind of science produces most of our insights into nature. The answer is pure research.
Why? Because computers can't exploit quantum phenomena? Phenomena such as, say, field effects in doped silicon?
Somewhat related, I've never believed the conventional doctrine of mutual assured destruction.

The way I see it, the only rational thing to do once you have been hit hard by nuclear weapons is to forget your original plan of retaliation and to surrender immediately. Retaliating would only kill more people and potentially render the planet uninhabitable, but would give you no gain.

MAD only works if you tie your own hands. If you make the retaliation absolutely automatic and unstoppable. As far as I know, the only such system that was built was the Soviet "Perimetr" or "Dead Hand" system, which was never completely activated. As long as there is a human component, you will be able to, and rationally have to, turn around once you have taken the hit.

I think the naive story about MAD comes from applying game theory but assuming your strategy is static throughout the whole "game".

Likewise, the main reason we (US, NATO) have not used another nuclear bomb is that we have not been in a "real" war against an opponent where it would make sense. I mean for example an all out land war against Russia on Russian or European territory and/or where US territory is under danger. Where it would make sense to use a nuclear bomb to quickly destroy a huge tank unit or weapons factories, or to bomb the enemy into submission (if you have given up on sparing civilian lives). Once we would be stuck in such a horrible war, a "no first use" doctrine like any peacetime strategy would be up for discussion immediately, IMO.
Existing PC gamers are a fussy bunch.

There are plenty of people who play games who've never heard of Steam, and whose friends aren't on Steam, but who are on Facebook.

A lot of those people might be ripe to get sucked into the hobby if Facebook manages to advertise the right game in their feed.
I appreciate that PowerShell is new, but it does not suit my way of working, i.e. cribbing answers from StackOverflow and tutorial guides.

PowerShell is ten years old and there's 37,000 StackOverflow questions tagged to it - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/powershell
Math is a tool. It's orthogonal and used by all, not hierarchical above (or below) all of them..

http://euclid.trentu.ca/math/sb/misc/mathsci.html

> The natural sciences investigate the physical universe but mathematics does not,
> so mathematics is not really a natural science. This leaves open the subtler
> question of whether mathematics is essentially similar in method to the natural
> sciences in spite of the difference in subject matter. I do not think it is.

I'm not even including that famous Einstein quote about math.

Example: When you are doing math in economics you are not doing something that is even more foundational than physics.
For now, I take this blogpost [1] of Andrej Karpathy as a nice measure for AI hardness.

[1] http://karpathy.github.io/2012/10/22/state-of-computer-visio...
> But as soon as we are able to solve a problem that we think (feel?) only true AI (AGI) would be able to solve, as soon as we know how it was solved, it is no longer a mystery that warrants amazement and we argue that it is not real intelligence, just like the link below states.

I think the issue is that current examples of AI can mostly only solve problems in a single domain instead of in a variety of domains. Developing a program that can generate solutions for a single specific niche of problems (while impressive) is not a convincing demonstration of intelligence. For example, while AlphaGo is incredibly impressive, it can only play Go and nothing else.

I think once we have a comprehensive AI program that can play many kinds of games, can have conversations, can complete school exam questions, can write stories etc. the question of what intelligence is will become more interesting.
Ebook is the most recommended, I know a lot of people that wrote books and got something out of it. Even if it didn't sell well, they learned a lot while writing said technical topic.

The other two requires a lot of marketing and business development more than programming. The HN posts about side projects make it look like it's as easy as `git push heroku master` and 'post on HN', but it's not. The successful ones are outliers rather than the norm. Don't get me wrong, you'll also learn a lot while writing your own game/SaaS. Finishing a game/SaaS on its own is a big achievement no matter how small, but you did ask for a "Best passive income method".
Couldn't be the robotic voice more understandable for foreign people than one with a funny accent? Specially with messages like those that seem to be aimed at foreign people than native ones.
Looking at Steam, there's a huge undercurrent of games that don't get pushed, don't appeal to the hardcore, but that - in aggregate - sell a very noticeable amount.

Hidden object games, educational games for children, iOS and Android ports.

In the case of the former two - with no real marketing, and with a great deal of competition, these still fly off the digital shelves, and are not expensive to produce. There are people who want these games, and Steam honestly is not doing the best job of getting in touch with these people. Integration with the rest of the Facebook ecosystem would really really help push these games towards the people who want to buy them.

For the last option, people often buy these games when they felt good about playing the iOS/Android game and want to continue the experience (or in rare cases, play a more full-featured version - usually the PC port is incomplete, but sometimes it does contain unique bonuses). I imagine Facebook would have a killer app if it could sync your iOS/Android saved games (or even just achievements) to the PC version of the save game.

TL:DR; I think there's a huge opportunity for a major casual gaming platform, and I think Facebook's pretty well placed to be that platform.
Humour? Looks more obviously like a free masonic ritual. Though the press not giving any mention to this is somehow appropriate.
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I can't imagine living in a city where this is not the norm
This.

If you visit Paris now, you see more police, a slightly worse nightlife. Right after the attacks you could see everyone was really on edge.

On the other hand if you're taking into account this kind of mood/atmosphere, a place like Paris should be generally pretty low on that scale as people you interact with in your daily life seem a lot more stressed, tired, unhappy and sometimes aggressive than in any other French city. I know it's a stereotype, but it's kinda true.
Lambdatalk as a dialect of lambda calculus?
Few attempts I guess. I just figured in terms of being a target.
Have you tried uPlay? It's genuinely worse than Origin in just about every way.
How can you make sure you can't read user's data?
FWIW - Scrivener is a plausible novel-writing tool, mentioned a couple of times in these comments. It took a Long Time, but their iOS app was released a couple of weeks ago.

Scrivener by Literature & Latte
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Oh Graz is awesome and even with it being such a tiny place it's still reachable for international people.

I think the problem that Graz has is that Austria is too small of a country to support multiple large cities and Vienna overshadows it. Switzerland has a similar problem but there is no city on the size of Vienna that would absorb everything.
If they really wanted to include this as a factor, that's the sort of analysis which they should be doing. I'm pretty sure that it would show the fear is almost totally irrational.

For example, 35 people died in the Brussels Metro attack. Inshallah that's the only attack on the Brussels Metro this year.

That's 35 out of an annual ridership of 135 million. [0] Thus the chance of you being a victim on any particular journey is 35/135 million. If you take the subway twice a day, your likelihood of being a victim of a terrorist attack is 0.019%. It's just not a real risk.

What really annoys me is that they already include the crime rate is a separate consideration. Is terrorism not a crime? I don't particularly care if I die at the hands of a suicide bomber or a random mugger, so it doesn't make any sense to dramatize the risk of the former when it can already be captured in the standard crime rate.

[0] http://www.stib-mivb.be/figures.html?l=en

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=35%2F135+million*365*2
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Worth noting that Embree is a ray tracer in a different sense of the word: It's a library to accelerate the tracing of rays only. All other behavior (such as light transport, materials, etc.) is left to the user. They do have an example renderer implemented in it though.

As for open source path tracing renderers, some well known ones are:

- LuxRender: http://www.luxrender.net/
- Mitsuba: https://www.mitsuba-renderer.org/
- Tungsten: https://github.com/tunabrain/tungsten (uses Embree)
Every single taxi driver is a contractor - why do you think Uber should be different?
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I was taken aback by the state of the roads in NYC when I first visited. How on earth can a country so in love with cars not have their roads in better condition? The condition of footpaths wasn't much better. Especially horrible was trying to avoid stepping in the pool of stinky fluid that leaks out of the trash baskets on the corners of intersections.

Still loved the place though!
:)
Nukes were strongly considered during the Korean War due to the massive number of Chinese fighting on the side of the aggressors in that war. MacArthur wanted badly to nuke China or more specifically, Chinese divisions and the threat of nukes helped lure China to the negotiating table when the U.S. wanted to wind down the conflict.
I see, I had missed that detail. Thanks for the explaining it!

Is the best way to solve that problem by introducing "unit measurement" types that are more specific than general numerical types? Or is there another way? Or even a general concept I can go read about? Thanks in advance!
A bit of off-topic but I've always wondered if e-sports could be perdurable as well since the interest of the developers goes towards making more money than making it better (improving its rules, adjusting times, etc.).
> Markdown was popular long before Github.

I looked for the origins (not popularity, but a lower bound):

Markdown 1.0.1 (18 KB) — 17 Dec 2004

source: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

Github - October 2007 - First commit

source: https://github.com/about