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No, it's not. QM doesn't have any confirmed solution to the measurement problem, and no seriously considered solution has anything to do with intelligent observation or consciousness.

Anyone who claims to have a profound philosophical argument inspired by QM is almost certainly a charlatan.
Starvation does not require famine. Quite possible for there to be plenty of food created, but withheld from those who need it. Possible, and common.

Reading further in your link, I find:

> Some 300 million children go to bed hungry every day. Of these only eight per cent are victims of famine or other emergency situations. More than 90 per cent are suffering long-term malnourishment and micronutrient deficiency.

The article appears to draw on a 2005 UNICEF report, which suggests this information may be somewhat out of date.
Wagon Acquired by Box
That sounds interesting. I just set up my unlimited Amazon Cloud Drive account and hoped they were using S3 behind the scenes?
I bet it doesn't even touch pied piper's.
Wouldn't the coin flip still apply to that situation? He is asking for "something" else to make the decision. Coin\App\Dart throw\etc all work
When there's a boom there's so much money sloshing around that operations like this can con enough VCs to pay their employees and quietly fail with their credibility intact. In tougher times they fall harder.
I think you can obtain the same variance benefits if you delay the backwards shift until you insert into a tombstone bucket. In that case you backwards shift until the "new" element has a higher DIB than all of the "promoted" ones, or an empty bucket is reached, or a DIB zero bucket is reached. Of course you're not really saving much actual computation this way (you do save a little, since you avoid situations where an element is back-shifted and immediately front-shifted), just moving it around.

(I'm not sure why fast deletions are necessary in the first place?)
Imagine the kind of world we would live in today, if every form of self restraint was written off on the basis of biological imperative. Would you want to live in that world?

Truly, how dare I advocate for personal responsibility when it comes to perhaps the single handed most powerful decision any person has - to bring an innocent life into the world. How dare I even suggest that we hold each other to a higher standard when choosing to raise a child. What an insane notion, that while we human beings can put a man on the Moon, and land a robot on Mars, we should be able to consider our financial well being before copulating.
Many people are employed by the $14k, some to work their way through school so...
Wouldn't multiple user profiles have their own extensions? If so, then just install the extension on that profile? IIRC 1Password was working on something related to that, so perhaps that has changed recently.

HTTP auth not working is a bit annoying, but it's not a massive deal when you can CMD+ALT+\ and copy-paste it. Same deal with non-browser based stuff.
My advice is to bite the bullet and learn d3 (instead of a wrapper like dc.js or nvd3) if this is for any production level data. Or build in the time you will need to rewrite it for API nastiness and probably performance reasons down the line.
By far my favorite thing about my smart watch is the ability to dictate texts.

I find, like some commentors above, that for longer-form composition, I often want to skip around. But for a text-length message the time to compose is drastically reduced by dictating it to my wrist rather than removing phone, unlocking phone, typing reply, etc. And it can be done largely hands-free.
Thanks for not referring to your software as an "OS" like some other projects posted here recently.
That would require the savings to actually be passed on to the customer (to use a tired phrase) instead of being siphoned elsewhere. This is not a certainty.
Indeed! That guy is the patron saint of contemporary neck-beards.
I pay about the same here in Los Angeles except I'm walking distance from work and have the beach and sunny weather.

In most of LA you also need a car, which AAA estimates to be around $9,000/yr in TCO terms. L.A. is slowly but surely building out a real subway system, and maybe when the purple line is done it'll be more practical to live without a car in LA, but that day is still a ways away.
A silent epidemic of male suicide (2011)
It's about your proposal of making gun manufacturers liable.
UCSD Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien Dies
I've got a child, I have to push hard for option #1, by any means necessary.
In the future, I could see a device that picks up subvocalization filling that role.
We built an internal app similar to this at a previous workplace. It was a small company and most people would go out to lunch together every day. Getting everyone to agree where to go was the hardest part. The app would email everyone in the office at 11am so they could opt-in or opt-out that day. Based on who was going, the app would recommend 3 restaurants from Yelp and put them up for a vote. Voting would be open for an hour and ultimately we would go to lunch at the restaurant with the most votes. We trained it to be "smart" about its recommendations, taking into consideration who was going to lunch and their previous voting history. Neat idea, and it probably could have been generalized to work for happy hour, date night, or other group events.
So, I just have to wait 2 years to see what I wrote from a terminal on an IBM 370. I do wonder if any of it will make much sense this far out.
Related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12376695
Not a bad idea, could have it work on the same principles as the robot exclusion, but just have a simple web submission form for domains. To prevent malicious use, could maybe have it send a confirmation link for delisting to an email address associated with the domain.

We'll discuss this for beta, thank you!
Always fun to get a different perspectives on what boondocks mean to different people...

https://goo.gl/maps/C1LBxd61R9y
DV vs. Betacam SP: 4:1:1 vs. 4:2:2, Artifacts and Other Controversies (1997)
Announcing the AWS SDK for React Native
Some might dismiss your idea as silly -- but you're the only one in this thread who got exactly what he wanted for the price he offered.
More Than a Quarter of a Million Girls in Britain Are Unhappy, Report Reveals
Sad State of Data Science Libraries
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791444
How big of a role does empathy have in truly solving some of the world's biggest problems?
Not necessarily.

If the solar installer can't get to the customer's house because he's traveling by horse...

Or the biofuel engineer spends an extra 2 hours a day commuting on his horse, rather than developing new technologies in his lab...

Then it's not better for the environment for us to all move to horse and cart.
That previous fossil-finder (Abigail Allwood) wrote the overview article (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...) introducing the Nature paper that is the subject of the OP. Her overview emphasizes the significance of this finding for exo-life, linking the finding to recent discoveries of ancient water, lakes, and streamflows on Mars, rather than the caveats.

The more general news-based article in Nature (http://www.nature.com/news/claims-of-earth-s-oldest-fossils-...) has several experts checking in with caveats.
The Perils of May-December Marriages in the 19th Century
TLS 1.3 might be renamed TLS 2.0
Love this style of documentation - very concise, concrete usage examples with a minimal amount of code needed to reproduce.

I actually modeled the new documentation of Trianglify (http://qrohlf.com/trianglify/) on the Textures.js docs.

I don't have the numbers on hand, but subjectively the number of 'how do I do X' github issues that I deal with has gone down a lot since adopting this style of docs.
One of the amazingly dumb things about my Nexus 6 is that when it's listening for my voice it still plays incoming SMS message tones that it then takes in as part of speech recognition and messes it up. Why? Really, just why?

I end up having to correct it with typing anyway.
yes, I do spend a lot of time finding emails. as a startup founder I did much of my sales development over email / linkedin. I learned the quirks of several search engines - and made it work. Bing was the best. Google, ironically, the worst. This service is something I'd be interested in for sure.
It's surprising that they don't show you a screen with the transcription and let you easily select bits you want to re-transcribe.

Text selection on phones usually sucks, but that's only because you need to disambiguate between clicks and highlighting; if you had a dedicated screen that assumes a user wants to highlight a section it should be a lot more responsive.
I think nobody is really an atom hater. Usually it goes more like "I really want to love Atom so much, but I'm still concerned about it's performance and stability".
I don't believe that fulfills the conditions described, no.
A "philosophical" argument is pretty useless. Unless you manage to devise experiments for your those theories. And QFT can at least inform you about "reality" - and how little the one in a human head has to do with it. Since QFT is "real" (shown to work), if our perception was based on "reality" we should not have had such trouble to a) come up with it, and b) understand it.
On first point apologies I misread your post.

However with regards your chances if enforcement decides you have infringed...

Some random statistics pulled from the newspaper hits on the first page of Google for "tv licensing conviction". 10% of cases in magistrates courts are TV licensing related (200,000 cases a year). If they decide that you are one of the people that they prosecute your case will take minutes to be heard on a day when the magistrate hears a lot of cases of cases. 90% of TV licensing cases that go to court end in conviction. Most of these cases are indeed open-and-shut (the classic is "why do I have to pay for a tv licence when I already pay Sky?" - which is pretty much an admission of guilt). Do you really expect a fair trial under these conditions?
More on that here: https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/pull/612 it appears that a majority of people are supporting this change.
Then, you know, we could always allow vehicles for professional uses...
One solution would be to stratify the results by population density
What does Elon base his ethics on? There seems to be an underlying philosophical framework for the types of projects that he thinks are important for humanity. He seems to put a lot of weight on future lives -- is he a utilitarian/consequentialist?
>It also pains me to see such luxury spent on the elderly. While you may have a personal attachment to them, the rest of society would do much better with that money spent to educate and help the new generations.

I don't think we have any reason to believe that this is an unearned luxury lavished on a lucky elderly couple. It appears more likely that this is their own money, saved and invested over their lifetime, and their's to spend how they wish. Furthermore, advanced age is no reason to cast someone off to a bland waiting room. It's not healthy for a society to consider somebody's value limited to their future contribution potential. I'm happy to contribute economically to present-day's elderly folks, not only for my own attachment to someone, but for the social contract that I, too, will be old, and I doubt I'll suddenly just want to stand in the corner.
What's cost of sending a ship to Mars? If $x, can a group provide another $x so in effect we can send 2 ships. Spread the risk and/or send double the supplies at the same time knowing that we get window of launch opportunity only every 24 months
Note for those who didn't notice: although this appears to be the first time this has been posted to Hacker News, it was from 2011.

dang: Add (2011) to the title?
They're actually talking about 2FA for 1password itself. Not supporting TOTP via 1password for other services.
> ISPs could have already tried to ban porn, but they haven't.

Yes, they have. For one example when AOL was both an ISP and service provider, you bet your butt they blocked porn and objectionable speech.

> Facebook isn't an ISP.

I'm not sure I agree with this - the Free Basics program sure quacks like an ISP duck.

> Just because a single company has content restrictions doesn't mean every company in the world will do the same.

With no legal restrictions, what stops them?

> OSs include it in the background, like DNS.

I'm of the opinion that this describes a future that will never exist. Microsoft, Apple, and Linux distros have no compelling reason to include namecoin support by default, and likely never will. Especially since there is limited to no support for failover or localization of name->IP lookups. Even the lack of support for legal disputes over trademarked domains (for example, does amazon.bit actually go to the same location as Amazon.com) would scare off any for-profit company.

> Namecoin doesn't need DNS to bootstrap.

I missed that namecoin uses a number of fixed IPs as seeds for bootstrapping into the blockchain, so DNS control matters less there (well, once you have the software, that is). Of course, IPs are also distributed by a centralized authority, and routing information for IPs can be ignored by ISPs, so it's a mistake to assume the IPs will never change.
How can we become the best engineers?
Reality is a security overlay, keeping private data about individual entities from being inspected casually and limits the knowledge of all things from occurring in a single locale. This is the speed of causality (light).

The base function of this reality is to read, process, and write data in a highly immutable manner. This is conservation of energy. Collaborators in this reality exchange data in a variety of ways, but visual inputs through the mind's eye seem to be the predominate method for memory recollection. Based on causal interviews with individuals since learning I have Aphantasia, it would appear these "internal" views seem less immutable than "out here". Some can zoom their mind's eye. Some see in black and white. Some see icons.

One hypothesis to explain the "shared" part of the hallucination would be the existence an immutable shared data structure underlying the universe which uses consensus to agree, long term, about what happened "out here" based on various and sundry inputs from an entity's internal view & resulting action(causality). Internal views may be non-immutable (highly mutable) and may be influenced by metaphysical phenomenon. People see things that others don't see. The Romans thought it was the act of Gods to see and hear things others didn't.

We've always assumed our brains are making these images up, but perhaps they aren't and we missed something important along the way.
Pittsburgh is in the Rust Belt, which often gets lumped in with the midwest. It has more in common with Buffalo and Cleveland, or even Milwaukee, than NYC or Chicago, although Pittsburgh is economically stronger than most of its Rust Belt brethren. No one from the East Coast considers Pittsburgh part of the coast - Philadelphia is the East Coast city in PA. East Coasters see Pittsburgh as Cleveland in the universe where Spock has a beard. [I really like Pittsburgh and other Rust Belt cities]
Yes, but the machine could e.g. learn to see patterns present in her classifications that she can't see or haven't figured out (relying on fewer other patterns) and thus fare better.
How does he personally deal with things like self-doubt, imposter syndrome, or depression?
Beer Archaeologist: How Alcohol Shaped Our Civilization
Muggles Don’t Understand Your Release Notes
1/ When do the whole world change to electric vehicles considering very small batteries production capacities overall comparing to amount of cars in the world. 10, 20, 30 years? It does not look like, even if everybody want to switch to electric, it is possible to do in the next 10 or 20 years.

2/ Hence another question. When does he think self driving cars become mass market? Not based on legislation, but cars on the roads en masse. Considering that a self driving car is probably full electric car, wouldn't low production capacity of electric cars just halt mass self driving cars implementation in the next 10 years due to lack of cars to use?
Yes, these numbers are back-calculated as you say (anything else would be witchcraft). And as you say, there could suddenly be a breakthrough technology in twenty years that massively increases life expectancy.

But IMO this is very unlikely, because people die of such wildly varying causes (including lifestyle-induced diseases, accidents and even suicide) that it's hard to imagine what this sudden change could be.

More likely we will keep seeing incremental change, disease by disease, steadily increasing average lifetimes.

Biology and biochemistry is so bloody hard compared to any human tech, it's amazing we have come as far as we have today. People talk about curing cancer like going to the moon, just throw money at it, but that analogy is only accurate if you assume starting your space program sometime around 1870.
At the University of Oregon it seems almost a yearly occurrence that grad students strike, usually a week or two before finals need to be graded. I'm apathetic to the ordeal because whether its administrators, professors, or grad students, getting payed, I'm still stuck paying an egregious tuition.

That said in every department except for the Math department both professors and GTFs (graduate-teaching-fellows) have been top notch and gone above and beyond their duties to educate.
What's his worst and best case scenario for the future? Specially regarding energy, transportation and the social effect things like solar, self-driving cars and cheap access to space will bring.
At first the headline made me skeptical because I expected it to be one of those clickbait articles where someone deploys excessive firepower solving a trivial problem.
However! It turns out that cucumber sorting is well-suited to deep learning: a) there is enough interest to generate a reasonably-sized data set, and b) It is one of those difficult "I'll know it when I see it" classification/evaluation problems.

However, as soon as they described the actual solution I felt somewhat let down.

1. Reducing the input to 80x80 images is likely unnecessary; it removes some of the most important features (number of thorns, blemishes) from contention.
If the issue is computational cost (and therefore training time) you might consider using cloud GPUs.
However, a network with multiple "towers" (like Google's Inception model) could conceivably allow for evaluating the sorts of aspects that require higher resolution relatively cheaply (one-or-two convolutional layers with pooling and then a fully connected layer) along one pathway, while a different tower (with more layers or more units per layer) processes the resized images.

2. If the network used was just a modification of the MNIST one, then it seems like it ignores the ordinal nature of the problem.
If cucumber quality can be ordered, why not use a regression model instead (or maybe regression along multiple criteria, like straightness, bumpiness, thickness, etc.) instead of treating each class as if they were completely separate?

3. Why not release the dataset? I have GPUs, the necessary background, and a few hours to try out some models.
I also have a heretofore unrecognized yen to use my models to generate images of the ideal Japanese cucumber, so I'd be willing to do it for free.
Thoughts on Netlify
Consider this hypo:

You are now 60 or 65 or maybe even 70, you're slowing down some, but you aren't too infirm to work. You have a fair bit of savings.

Do you:

1) Keep working until you can't work anymore

2) Retire, but live frugally so that you can be sure if you make it past 95 and need skilled nursing care you'll be able to keep private paying for a top notch nursing home.

3) Build out a retirement budget that assumes you won't make it past 95, make the absolute most of the next decade or so of relatively good health (hopefully!)? Go take that trip you and your wife always dreamed. Lavish your adorable grandchildren with gifts that certainly don't need. Fly business class instead of squeezing your old bones into coach.

Keep in mind that if nothing else you'll still have social security no matter how long you live.

Granted this is somewhat exaggerated for effect, but there's a difference between taking the worst case scenario (a funny way of referring to living a long time) into consideration and letting the tail wag the dog.
Should initial settlers going to Mars be given a tax free exemption status on earth for life (or eternity)?

Should we extend that to their heirs as well?
"as if the fundamentals of asset classes change radically depending on how they are marketed"

More like the fundamentals of asset classes change radically depending on how they're regulated & taxed, who is willing / able to buy them, what the composition of that asset class is, and how much money there is flowing in and out of that asset class.

And we're not even really talking about "fundamentals", since there is so much path dependency, especially in the context of drawing-down of those assets to finance retirement. A rise in variance would be bad enough.

Stock prices in the long run represent a time-discounted income stream (as do all securities) (plus a bundle of legal rights, which is mostly irrelevant for individuals). It is not mathematically possible to have the stock market growing by 4% and GDP growing by 2% ad infinitum; you would have the value of the stock market exceed the discounted value of all future economic activity.

There is a cogent argument that the inflation in stocks has been due to 1) more economic activity falling under the umbrella of publicly traded corporations (private blacksmith displaced by Ford), 2) capital inflows driven by privatized retirement savings, interest rate manipulation, etc. 3) a legal & economic regime that encourages "paper assets" in general.

None of those are perpetual forces.
Imagine having to write this article and doing it seriously.
Yow! Zippy meets javascript! Are we having fun yet? Are we? are we?

Seriously, this is terrific.
My objectivity regarding the interstate commerce clause is compromised to the point where I can't really have a rational discussion with anyone who disagrees with my opinion on it. It suffices to say that I am strongly anti-federalist, and excessive coprolalia quickly ensues whenever a strong federalist shows up.

In the most ferrous of ironies, the uniform commercial code--which was separately adopted by all 50 states in almost identical form--is probably the ideal form of legislation to be covered by the probable original intent of the interstate commerce clause, and yet there is no law that federalizes the UCC. Instead, it is used for all manner of laws that have no authorization anywhere else in the constitution.

Thus, anything further I might have to say on the topic is probably not appropriate for HN.
>> Brooklyn, he said, is still “the coolest place on the planet.”

>Does that include Brownsville and East New York?

Most people who say that are neither from New York nor have ever been to either Brownsville or East New York, though they may have seen a documentary that described them (and continued to pretend that places like that don't exist in their sacred, hipster Brooklyn).

Brooklyn is cool, don't get me wrong, but "the coolest place on the planet"? Surely not. You don't hear the sound of someone getting murdered by gunshots 1000 ft away from you while smoking a cigarette on the stoop in "the coolest place on the planet" (true story)

(I'm not a native new yorker, but have lived here, in three of the boroughs, for 15 yrs)
Awesome. Our goal is to create a quality, enterprise level piece of software, which is affordable for everyone and actually makes sense to use given the price point and benefits.

If you ever want to talk about business/startups or anything, send me an email.