skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with that paper, I was unsatisfied with it. He simply hand waved away the measurement problem, which is the single largest conceptual issue with the idea that everything is waves. To be fair, he explicitly says that he will not address the measurement problem, but I think if it weren't for the measurement problem there wouldn't be any issue believing that everything is made of waves. In particular, position eigenvector collapse is what causes the appearance that things are made of localized particles, but we don't actually know how it works. We have all sorts of interpretations, none of them confirmed, and many of them nonsensical. Plug for my favorite hypothetical mechanism, Einselection. It's so boring and straightforward-ish that I think it has a good chance of being the right idea.
Consider getting a carbonator (such as the Sodastream) and whatever she wants for her own flavoring. The occasional CO_2 cartridge and squeezing out a slice of lime is likely cheaper.
The blog-post specifically says that it is not about the author's disagreement with the takedown, but rather about Google not providing any form of support in this matter. They didn't inform him what the actual problem was, nor how he could fix it or anything, even after multiple requests by the author.
> If anything, Europeans appreciate cultural differences more than people from the US.

Maybe a bit too much. Sitting in Austria I've less worries about getting customers from Texas (US is US) than about getting customers from France (oh god, the language barrier, the red tape, …) or Poland (I don't even know who to hire for translations!).

And it really bogs you down. The US is one unified market, for software vendors at least. The biggest single-language market in Europe is Germany (coincidentally? its economic powerhouse), but tapping in Germany + Austria + Switzerland already means dealing with two currencies and three different legislations. And everything past it will have diminishing returns. Another language, another set of red tape to deal with, for a handful million potential customers… Why even bother? US startups won't have to deal with any of that until they want to expand internationally, and even then they can skip half the pain (l10n) if they focus on other English-speaking markets.

> Sometimes this leads to hard work (80+ hour weeks), other times to unfair play (Uber licensing and traditional taxis come to mind)

That's a bit naïve, European businesses have no problems with fighting dirty (we invented cartels, dammit, and 80 years later people still think light bulbs only last 1000 hours!), and entrepreneurs will bust their asses either way. It just doesn't get them as far.
How familiar are you with the complex plane?

It helped me a lot to be explained quaternions starting from the complex plane. More specifically, by constructively inspecting their properties. There's a great interactive article that gets the pedagogy of teaching such a complex concept (pun definitely intended). Unfortunately, I can't seem to dig it up.

I recall the author's blog using all kinds of CSS and/or WebGL trickery to make 3d backgrounds – anyone know which blog I'm referring to?
Costa Rica has been running on 100% renewable energy for 2 months straight
I need proof. This is one of the questions I have been interested in for a long time. Do we invent or discover ourselves?
That's dependent on how often you ship.

Take your example of a load-based outage. In many applications there is a time-based peak (eg 11am-2pm daily for Facebook, or right before a concert sale opens for Ticketmaster) where load might cause an outage. In the worst case you might have a load-based outage per day. If you only deploy code once a week, then of course for you the majority of outages will be from load, and that's where you focus.

OTOH Facebook pushes their entire front-facing code base twice (three times?) a day. They also twiddle thousands of A/B bucket test switches that turn code on and off, every day. After years of stomping on load-based outages, now their biggest danger is deployment.
I have a bizarre love for the heat death theory, partially because it goes so well with Lovecraft's "And with strange aeons even death may die" in my mind.
Important: installing many big update packs manually will toggle this setting back.
Well, it's easier to do that estimate on something following basic physics with decades of confirmation. At least I think it is. :)

Far as the camera trick, it was used in LavaRand:

http://www.lavarnd.org/what/index.html

That was a really, cool project back when a lava lamp was involved. You could get your company to buy one for "business purposes."
> Most people have no desire to go to a theater anymore

Box office sales have generally increased over the past 20+ years. Possibly people in your peer group may not, but this does not seem correct. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
http://www.the-numbers.com/market/
Agreed. How many comments have we had on HN about particular subjects saying things like, "I just didn't enjoy learning the math, I never got a mathematical concept at an intuitive level, etc, until particular use case X came up for me, and now I really understand it. Why didn't my teachers teach it like that in the first place??"

Whether or not it would have worked to teach it that way in the original circumstances (perhaps there were other things that needed to fall into place first), it's very clear that the right motivation and the right context have a huge impact on people's eagerness to learn and their ability to grok a concept.
I think the author just misses the point - some people's hobbies (I bet a lot of people on HN) are programming or working on new business ideas, I know it's one of mine. What's important is doing things that make you happy and keep you entertained. I'm ok with not pressing flowers.

BTW, people still play basketball, I don't know why she's singling that out.
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The government is evil and companies can do no wrong ;)
How is water lower margin than a sugar drink that has ingredients and is partly water? At my corner bodega they charge $2 for a 20oz Dasani (which is the same price as a comparably sized gatorade).
> but have not seen anything about reinstating users who have breached ToS?

There were a few cases regarding the realname policy regarding that, and it’s still in the courts, but it looks like Facebook can’t exclude users for that.
Of course there are innate factors and learned/environmental factors, but the relationship between genetic predisposition and learning are huge, and they magnify each other.

A human infant at birth has a brain size similar to a chimpanzee, but the human's brain grows much, much larger and more complex over the next decade of two. Human brains also grow to support the cognitive burdens they're directed to: people who study music intensively rather than baseball will grow distinctive brain folds, for example.
You can get free tap water at mostly any restaurant in Sweden. Most will give it without you being a customer, and its really good. Its one of the things I miss living in Spain, where the water is horrible (at least here in Barcelona, im sure there is good water in the mountains).
Thanks for reading and your comment! Totally agree.

Google certainly has a lot more to gain from this (ad revenue). Could Apple release a web SDK to communicate directly with Apple Pay/Wallet on the users device to keep or even expand revenue opportunities?
Could always filter it yourself.
I think it is culture with a pinch of geopolitics.

You can't replicate a Silicon Valley without grokking SV culture. I have yet to meet a fellow Irish in the flesh who understood it, any of it, except perhaps at a Hackerspace one time in a different European country.

Europeans should do as the Japanese did with the English/Dutch before they made the foreign technologies their own.

Synchronize with the hive. Places like SSC, LW, HN. Read their books. Think their thoughts. That's part of why I spend some time here. Perhaps, like the Japanese, we would pick up things we do not quite need, like umbrellas and Victorian pocket doors, but also something less tangible, less capable of being denoted on a PowerPoint presentation.

Silicon Roundabout and other government led projects are Cargo Cults.
Our parents discovered leisure and then did their best to use up all the means to achieve it on themselves.
> Similarly, when a quaternion is defined as representing a translation

How do you encode translations with quaternions? Don't you need dual quaternions for that?
Steven Wittens:

https://acko.net/blog/animate-your-way-to-glory/

https://acko.net/blog/animate-your-way-to-glory-pt2/
I always think that is such a weird party trick that it is strange that savants develop it ob their own. You have to be a genius to do that without a structured system - but everyone can do that given an hour or two to remember the first day of the week for every decade, the number of days oer quarter%7, etc.
Regarding "valgrind" -- I've had better results with electric fence and ASan/TSan/UBSan, especially since most of them work on non-x86. And I've had issues with valgrind when investigating a program that leverages newer x86 instructions than it was built to interpret.
Knowing a few friends and other acquaintances with PhDs, all they have common is endurance and focus. They were not exceptionally creative, or apparently breathtakingly genius.

And I guess that's why Google et al. likes to hire PhDs. They can take all kinds of shit, and endure. Get to the bottom of those problems even in the face of internal politics/bureaucracy.
Maybe less "negative" and more "non-constructive". It is a personal annoyance of mine when a reply points out a flaw or misunderstanding, but does so behind a veil of ambiguity. It completely passes up on a chance to educate the OP, and instead leaves them feeling uncertain.
I was going to remark on the very same sentence. I'm not sure whether gifted children have a natural affinity toward math, of if they're just genetically predisposed to be more interested in it. In either case, neuroplasticity means that the final capabilities of our brains are not predetermined, and anyone can reach the performance of a "gifted" student through training.
I'm in no way informed about any of the dark arts, or as others call them "mathematics"

Any reading will be helpful. Hope someone knows what you're referring to.
Maybe you don't find grain to be unpleasant, but I certainly do. I tolerate it when the source had it and there is no choice, but I certainly don't like it.

And no, it's not aesthetically pleasing in any amount. Directors that add it back artificially should be criticized. It looks like there is a swarm of gnats flying across the screen, and unless there are a ton of bugs in the scene it doesn't belong.

> This is 35mm, The Hateful Eight was shot on 65mm stock, which has a camera frame surface are of 3.44 times the camera surface of 35mm film.

It won't stay that way by the time you watch it, it will have been copied multiple times, and it's on 35mm again. The effective resolution as seen in the actual theater does not beat 4k, and you have additional noise which lowers the resolution even more.

The main thing though is that noise is worse than lack of resolution. Depending on how far you are from the screen more resolution is meaningless - but noise (like film grain) is always a problem.

> I miss more the old contrast and gamut.

I suspect you are missing what never was. Digital is better on both.
The US has high-heat and we don't have any concept of a siesta, so it's not wrong at all to say there are cultural differences.
Yup. I just bought a 4k TV, and I bought a 4k switching receiver last year. I'm not about to spend $800 on a 4k/UHD BluRay player only to find out that I can't play content because my virtually-brand-new top-end receiver doesn't support HDCP 2.2.
What I can distill is that a simulating universe may be computationally stronger than the simulated universe, and not computationally equivalent. However, given Church-Turing theorem (ie, the simulatung universe does not need to be in a higher computational class to simulate equivalent universes), you can make a similar argument. What is the likely computational class of the simulating universe, given a class X of the simulated universe
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Modern ICs are much more durable and resistant to ESD than devices from those days; you can run an electronics manufacturing facility (not a semiconductor fab) without much ESD protection these days, whereas that would've been a pipe-dream in the 60s. They are sending consumer and commercial-grade semiconductors into space on satellites with service lives over 12 months these days; back in the 1960s, all satellites required rad-hard components (and had very short service lives). Semiconductors are much better these days, due to improvements in materials, processes, testing, and inspection equipment.
Any one used this? How does this compare with sendy?
Cheating on people is harmful too. It often results in broken homes and marriages, which is harmful to children's development and well-being.

So by that logic, cheating should be illegal too.

By the way, society hasn't decided anything because it's not a sentient being.

The politicians running our governments have decided that punishing people for "tax fraud" is a great idea, mostly because they don't want people to stop paying taxes.. which everyone would do right away if there was no punishment for disobedience.
People aren't willing to pay as much for it? In my experience bottled water is about 40-50% cheaper to buy (small bottles). When it comes to large bottles (2lt) it can be up to 90% cheaper.

I can buy 6x2lt bottles of water for £2 in the UK (probably less if I shopped around).
My point was merely to highlight the fact that the newer sparkling water drinks were priced equal to or higher than the HFCS-based sodas. And the sparkling water drinks have even less ingredients than the HFCS ones.

My intent was not to spark a class war over water quality, Nalgene bottles, and SodaStreams. I'm fully aware of the cost differentials and am not complaining.
Last I heard Quartz and Athena are both failed projects. Quartz's lead left years ago, Netezza DB was having massive issues, and Python was way too slow. They had to reboot the project and it is nowhere close to what they wanted it. Athena has similar issues with developers constantly changing, no direction, and still isn't anywhere close to real-time risk. I know Credit Suisse had something working, but I haven't heard where that project was going since they moved it from C# to Java.

SecDB is still, even with its warts, the leader.
Time to Worry: Stocks and Bonds Are Moving Together
Hmm, you can get eLua which runs on microcontrollers, I wonder how you would handle the graphics though.
I don't think that's fair. It's pretty hard to talk about one's personal experience with the scenarios described in the article without it coming across as a brag, humble or otherwise.
You need to read Scott Adams' blog, it really is an eye-opener on Trump. (Scott Adams being the creator of the Dilbert cartoon). Start here: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/149983115751/why-trump-doesnt-s...
Sortition is one mechanism that's been used. Among the most fascinating articles I've read in the past 4-5 years was Aeon's article on randomness as a choice option (going beyond just leadership):

Michael Schulson, "How to Choose" https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-choose-wisely-choose-ran...
It feels too damn weird investigating a person and drawing conclusions.

Have you considered that perhaps her boyfriend or husband also contributes to these trips? Or that her employer sent her to things like fashion shows and TED conferences (after all, she was an editor at an online publication and is now a senior writer for another, indicating a level of competence "worthy" of that sort of stuff)? Or that perhaps she lives in a tiny apartment, with perhaps even roommates? Or, like most people, she posts pictures that are nothing but the highlights of her life?

There are a huge number of possibilities that you're ignoring because it fits your own narrative.
I can't provide a citation, but a few months ago I spoke with a retired EE who had specialized in large-scale/high-power systems[1], and he believed that tube electronics would better resist an EMP. i.e. if that belief is incorrect, it's something even experts in the field believe.

[1] one of his example projects was city-block-sized capacitor arrays that can temporarily provide power to an entire city.
I appreciate the idea that Apple is able to take bigger risks based on their secure position in the market but it is still hard to look at this move as anything more than a means to force more users to buy Apple brand headphones.

Granted, I have no idea what an 'upgrade' from a headphone jack to thunderbolt port could imply. If it is possible to increase sound quality through thunderbolt or reduce phone costs based on the absence of a second port then I'll gladly welcome the change.

I guess their justification for doing what they're doing remains to be seen and time will tell.
Farmers massively administer antibiotics so they can keep animals in crowded/unsanitary conditions. If antibiotics were administered properly that would severely affect their revenue.
> The technical definition of 'genius' is someone with a high-IQ (usually above 140)

according to who? The best I can find is that a particular IQ test (the Stanford-Binet test) used that definition from 1916 to 1937[1]. Might be time to update your sources :P

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius#IQ_and_genius
Community acquired MRSA is quite common now.
Do you really need a study to see that the top athletes in the Olympics, for example, are all there due to genetic advantages?

Whether it's higher endurance, a tiny difference in bone structure, longer arms, greater height, etc. - that's all mostly genetics with a bit of environmental factors mixed in (like childhood nutrition)

But cognitive abilities and intelligence are far less understood, because you simply can't measure it as well as physical achievements (in fact, some of the top comments here gripe about using a PhD degree as a benchmark for achievement; or patents; or publications; or even income level)
There is legitimate public interest as these sites are key components of the food production system. The point that the OP was intentionally making is that the government (via GOP leadership, apparently) has specifically excused itself from creating such an inspection scheme and done so in a way that seems comprehensive enough to understand the alternative paths "guerilla ... activist" scientists could even potentially report on such a matter.
it's even bought WITH reasonable supply... humans are strange
Has Apple Lost Steve Job's Vision of Simplicity
What I think you're trying to say is that intelligence is irrelevant to getting a Doctorate because test scores, not intelligence, are the factor. But of course doctorates are based on test scores. That's because test scores are an indicator of intelligence, and so admissions committees filter based on test scores in order to filter on intelligence. So that means yes, admissions depends on test scores, but no, test scores are not independent of intelligence.

That is:

P(high IQ | high test score) > P(low IQ | high test score)

What you're trying to say is that getting a doctorate a degree doesn't depend on intelligence, and is just an indicator of some "group bias". What I'm saying is that test scores are correlated with IQ. This implies that if you do not have high intelligence, it is going to be extremely difficult to get the test scores required to get into graduate school, and thus intelligence is required for admission.

In other words, intelligence is indeed a necessary but not sufficient condition to get a graduate degree in STEM.
It's already up to standard, people are largely just not rational.

My home city ranks near the top of any "best tasting drinking water" poll I've seen, and people still complain and buy bottled water. It's ridiculous.

The vast majority of citizens in the US are served by perfectly serviceable potable water they just turn their noses up at it.
To further this point, it is often said that "at high speed, everything is analog".
> You pretty much explained why many of us drink bottled water, since our supply is not reasonable. :)

Citation needed. Some choice quotes from Wikipedia[1]:

'The Environmental Protection Agency regulations for tap water are "actually stricter than the Food and Drug Administration regulations for bottled water."'

'A study of drinking water in Cincinnati, Ohio, discovered that bacterial counts in bottled water were often higher than those in tap water and fluoride concentration was inconsistent.'

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottled_water#Perceptions_abou...
Analyzing Prince of Persia's source code
Press coverage of the offer:

Miss America inteview: http://www.oanow.com/news/opelika/opelika-s-mallory-hagan-in...

August 2015: http://www.wltz.com/story/29846919/13-year-old-opelika-entre...
> It would be nice to collapse the comments without having to scroll all the way back up.

Was done like that initially. But when user collapses the inline display, it felt that the user is left at a random location, and had to scan the items to find where they left off. So I removed the link at the bottom to collapse the inline display, forcing them to use the top link. When the user collapses using the top link, the scroll position is not 'jumped', and hence the experience felt better.
I wrote "While intelligence certainly has a role, they rely much more heavily on training".

Everything you wrote just now agrees with my statement.

Originally you wrote "All five rely heavily on intelligence". It is that emphasis on "heavily" that I am disputing. I argue that it's less important than training, though of course not un-important.

I disagree with your interpretation of [1]. You wrote "Physics and astronomy majors have an average of IQ [1] of over 130". However, your [1] shows not a measure of IQ but an approximate estimate of IQ based on the cumulative SAT.

After showing the plots, your [1] then points out the correlation is only with the quantitative/analytical section of the SAT, and not the verbal, commenting "we see why this IQ estimation is potentially misleading."

> This tells us that the original plot is actually showing preference for quantitative majors: The higher the estimated IQ, the more quantitative/analytical the major, and the fewer women enrolling in those majors.

> This brings up an interesting question of how valuable the SAT is as a standardized test across all majors, if a higher SAT score is really only indicating that the student is better at solving quantitative/analytical problems. Not all majors require a high analytical aptitude, after all.

Your source therefore does not seem to be making the statement that "Physics and astronomy majors have an average of IQ of over 130" but that physics and astronomy require a high analytical aptitude, which is correlated to how well a student does on a test for analytical aptitude, which is correlated to the cumulative SAT score, which is correlated to g factor. That's a weaker conclusion than what you described.

In any case, undergraduate study does not require the ability to identify what is scientifically interesting, which is a key point of my objection to your original statement.

EDIT: Also, your [1] points out "men and women have about the same IQ" then shows that physics and astronomy has a greatly disproportionate number of men than women. Thus, being male is a stronger correlation for those undergraduate degrees than intelligence. Thus suggests that some other factor than general intelligence is biasing the numbers.
I recently moved to San Diego from New York, the tap water here is unbearable to drink, it tasted horrible, like you are drinking mold, filters don't help that much, still tastes horrible. I won't drink that, never mind giving it to my kids