skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that particular pitch was a mistake, pitchers do throw deliberately 'bad' pitches to induce swings with little or no chance of contact.

Bonus: Here's a short video of a player hitting a ball after it bounced in the dirt. Baseball is fun. Anything can happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bqj3jynJnU
Don't forget harsh punitive penalties for hiring illegal immigrants, penalties which should pierce the corporate veil.
If this is true, the article is pretty disingenuous. It reads like Amazon is building the wind farm, look how dedicated we are to renewable energy, we're investing actual money. If someone else is building it with their own money, and Amazon is simply buying the energy they produce, that's kind of a big difference.
> having in mind all of these projects that Mozilla killed lately

I actually got angry when I saw it was from Mozilla. It's gotten to the point that supporting their projects seems like a waste of time. It's the old... "fool me twice, shame on me".

Something like this would have fit in nicely with Firefox OS, too.

They don't just pull the plug on interesting projects, they do it so quickly.

> dropping it while after because it didn't match their expectations.

I wonder what those are? Entry into the educational market, tie-in into other projects (that haven't already been killed), showcasing open technologies...

Honestly, I'm not even sure they know themselves./rant

Still... like much of their previous work, this looks promising.
I've read your story submissions and let me first say that I admire your courage and dedication. I hope this comment is useful and not too blunt.

It sounds like you've gained two passions from your experience: (1) finding the right treatment for mental health issues, instead of long-term palliation, and (2) addressing casual abuses of power and ignorance of the law.

My advice to you is to focus on one passion at a time. You can't make progress on both fronts at once.

Regarding (1), there's a word for people who try to go around the medical establishment and run a business selling a cure-all pill. It's "quack", not "hack". Even if you're right you'll have no credibility and make zero difference to psychiatric treatment, mainstream or otherwise.

The credible approach is to write a case report plus literature review and get it published. I suggest the topic of the literature review should be "low-cost, low-risk interventions to assist in diagnosing subtypes of schizophrenia". You can't do this on your own: you'll need a friendly PhD co-author to edit it brutally and guide you through publication.

(By subtype here I mean the different etiologies, which is an emerging area of study, not the traditional grouping by symptoms)

Regarding (2), your focus should be local and specific, and honestly your best bet may be donating or raising money for existing organisations that work in this area.
Nice work. But unfortunately in the "post factual" world this will be of use to a few people. People care about noise, not facts anymore.
Language is naturally ambiguous and dependent on context. It's not lack of rationality that causes people to interpret questions in different ways. You can only show lack of rationality in a situation like this if they provide the wrong answer and understand the question.
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The universe did not choose to exist either. We have no right to complain.

-- Sakari Maaranen
Will automation kill the Asian sweatshop?
Is that true across different ethnic, religious, and economic groups? I don't think it would be in the U.S.!

There's a worldwide trend that richer (in absolute terms), more educated, and more urban people tend to have fewer children and have them later, but that trend isn't affecting everybody at the same rate.

(Probably a distraction from the observation you were making, though -- including pregnancy in your list makes sense to me.)
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If every bodily action is caused ultimately by things explained by physics, as is clearly the case, then there is no room for a non-phiscal mind.

Put another way, using our current knowledge of physics and chemistry, we can, on a high level anyway, account for every item in the cause and effect chain from the photons hitting the retina to the arm that a person raises to shade his eyes. There is no room to insert anything into that causal chain let alone something so massively influential that it causes all the body actions that we consider driven by conscious choice. Thus whatever is going on must be made from very ordinary matter.

It's this very fact that makes it such a fun puzzle to look at, very ordinary mater maybe doing something (causing consciousness) that is wildly unexpected.
Source on these claims? I don't doubt it, but i'd be interested in seeing the data
http://cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/articles/2011/immigrant-w...
Did I miss it, or was there no mention of the worst, most depressing problem of gifted children (or, most likely, adults): learning, and intuitively understanding, that they are not the smartest person in the room.
For me with nicotine, when I have too much I get irritable or quick to anger.

With too much adderall, I'm still in a very content place, no anger, and amazingly "productive", but afterwards very dissappointed with my previous enthusiasm for what now seems in retrospect obviously not such a smart direction to be productive in.
Is most sex "for love"?
I think it is unfair to look at the homelessness of SF as an attribute or failing of the city or to extrapolate out as if it were synecdocheic of the country.

Homelessness in the whole state gravitates to SF because of the climate: sure, it's cold in SF, but it's never freezing. Sf has (one of if not) the mildest winters of any city in North America; the record cold is 28F. And the record high is 103F. Some of the homelessness moves around the state, but a lot settles in SF because of the climate.

Additionally, there are instances of homeless people being bussed to SF (like Nevada did).

SF tries very hard to deal with homelessness, but it's dealing with the homelessness of a much larger area and population than the population of SF can afford to help. The US itself needs to step up (like refunding a national mental health institution, to remedy one of the most braindead things Reagan ever did).
Thank you for this. That makes sense.
The Upanishads describe consciousness with amazing realizations about self.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads

https://www.amazon.com/Upanishads-Classic-Indian-Spiritualit...
All H1-B needs is for the superstars who come over (since the employer supposedly can't find qualified US candidates) is to make wages corresponding with that status. Make the minimum pay for an H1-B 140% of the local average for a person at that position, and that market will evaporate overnight. As it should.
I would love to see the study that can find a case where immigration creates more jobs than it consumes.
Even if the roundtrip delay has grown to several seconds? (I've seen pcaps of this kind of thing, something in the path had ridiculous buffers)

I took a look at how the throttling is done in their patches, and I think it's probably too much (drops the congestion window to minimum for ~200ms every 10 seconds), I would just drop it a packet or two each interval.
Consider the story from your own personal point of view not as an observer.

I put you in a duplication chamber. In front of you is a card with the letter "A"

In a neighboring identical empty chamber is card with a "B" on it.

You close your eyes and I pull a big steam-punk lever and an exact copy of you is made in chamber B

When you open your eyes, what letter do you see and why?
You can have a lot of fun placing elements over the web mail client buttons.
This isn't constructive, just spiteful and angry. I can't tell what problem OP actually has with iTunes.
Without 100% knowledge of all the physical causes, how could you ever rule out that the stuff you don't know about is caused physically? Proof that causality actually works (that physical effects are always caused by prior physical events) is not remotely on the horizon.

If consciousness is something fundamentally nonphysical than causality is out the window, because my actions in the world are not actually caused by anything in the world.
Thanks for this. It really didn't occur to me (as an American) that starting a startup somewhere else could be more difficult, but thinking about it more and trying to think of each of the steps required to even launch an MVP, I realize that these things have been made easy for Americans because of those startups who came before us.
Find a local butcher. Not just for this, but to enhance every aspect of your carnivorous lifestyle.
Field phenomena seem awfully physical to me.
Wild Guess:
Distributed Trust Authority

Its not the code, its the description of how the code should work in the comments.

->Their version of a CA tells both the client and the server the secret to use....
Put it in a safe iframe, whats the catch?
I write and edit all my Genshi [1] templates as xhtml, so I can validate and process them as crisp clean hi-fidelity xml, and then pump them out to browsers with the html serializer [2].

If I were inclined to follow Google's guidelines on omitting optional tags, it would be easy to write a stream filter that removed them [3].

But I prefer source templates to have all the explicit properly indented structure, so they're easier to validate and process with XML tools (and by eye), and unintentional mistakes don't sneak through as easily.

For the same reason, I also prefer not to write minified JavaScript source code: that should be done by post-processors, no humans. ;)

[1] https://genshi.edgewall.org/

[2] https://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/ApiDocs/genshi.output

[3] https://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/streams.html#...
Thanks for this fam
"Human conscious experience is wholly a matter of physical goings-on in the body and in particular the brain." [emphasis added]
Do some googling on your own but here's one estimate:

>“It’s clear to every single tech company that this is affecting their bottom line,” said Daniel Castro, a senior analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, who predicted that the United States cloud computing industry could lose $35 billion by 2016.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/business/fallout-from-snow...
Hmm… I’m not spiteful, I just don’t have any hope for improvement. iTunes has been chronically bad, I could find thousands of other articles and testimonials about that. At this point the issue is clearly endemic to the product.

Constructively: everything else aside, one glaring and easily-fixed problem is the dialog boxes. No program released after 1997 should be so behind in the state of the art that it throws up modal dialogs that lock up the whole app to say pointless things like “We’re checking for updates”.
I'd love to see a serious study of rapping, especially free styling and rappers who don't write their lyrics in advance (celebrity examples include Jay Z, Lil Wayne, Kanye). For everyone who hasn't tried to rap: it's nearly impossible to create or perform a good verse if you're not in the zone. Improvisational poetry to the beat is too demanding of your mental bandwidth if there's anything else going on in your head.

And I'd love to see this study done with both high and sober participants. Cannabis makes it significantly easier to enter flow state, and it's no coincidence that it's popular among rappers and other improvisational musicians.
Fewer of the world’s entrepreneurs say they need Silicon Valley anymore
I accomplished it by squelching the conversations in my head about random shit - most of which was speculating future scenarios. These conversations of the past or future events are primary for me because I don't visualize - i.e. I don't have spontaneous visual memories or willful recall of visual detail of a memory. The conversations begin slowing when I began working on solving dissonant thoughts that lead to additional future telling of events. Now my mind is quiet, although full of questions about reality. It's a double edged sword!
You might want to read this: The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/09/23/the-laws...
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It should be almost trivial for a refrigeration mechanic to build a home scale system like what you have described to take advantage of free / cheap night time electricity.

It's just a heat pump with the cooling side heat exchanger immersed in glycol & water,storwge tank and a pump. Maybe some insulation. Add a heat a set of heat exchanges fir a secondary loop in to the house.
I didn't realize until reading this comment section that there's an entire demographic of intelligent people in denial about why we are conscious (generic cognition is an evolutionary advantage in responding to circumstances that are too dynamic to be accounted for by a process measured in generations) and whether it persists beyond death (no, because it's hooked up to the brain).

And by the way, it clearly worked : we colonized the planet. And now we have arrived at a juncture wherein we are left having to explain our existence when the reality is that our only identifiable purpose is to reproduce. Everything else is incidental.
Is Lemmings for sale anywhere these days?
Given that you can play 162 games in a season, it's certainly not 'the athletes game'.
You do realize that that bug only was shipped in nightly, and only for 3 days, and never in the beta or release channels?
This has come up on a number of HN posts about homelessness I've seen recently.

I'm interested in the topic, and actively worked with an encampment in Seattle (Nickelsville) that intended to build permanent dwellings. They were inspired by Dignity Village in Portland. But like you say, their efforts were demolished. But surprisingly to me, the cops involved were openly apologetic and gave everyone involved an opportunity to leave rather than risk arrest or property confiscation.

Do you have direct experience with homeless communities that have built dwellings for themselves? If so, can you talk about that experience?
If you are able to run a script with #!/bin/sh, and /bin/sh becomes un-executable during the execution of your script, you're definitely having a bad time. :D
Nothing you mentioned in your previous post spoke to anything like wisdom, just competitiveness. As for moralizing, there isn't a moral dimension to this for you, so I'm not sure where you're getting that from. The bottom line is just that doctors who are in the business of their patients' business don't act in those patients' best interests from a medical standpoint.

If you want to achieve greatness with drugs at the potential expense of your health, that's fine in my opinion, but it's crazy to think that a doctor should help you.
You are talking about behavior. Qualia is something else. Why does it exists?
I believe you are correct. One of those awkward moments in history that look like blunders in hindsight.
Occam's razor. Any non-physical theory of consciousness is extraordinarily more complicated than a straightforward physical theory if you consider the implications.
I found the new iTunes for Mac to be quite clean (12.5)
People always bash iTunes, but I actually use it quite often and I like it. Maybe it's just me though?

The only thing that bugs me, is on iOS, when I load the music app (that's basically iTunes for iOS, right?) it shows a blank page until it can connect to the their servers to grab some data. It doesn't have a problem if I'm on wifi or a fast connection, but I'm often in places where my service is shit, and I get a white screen and can't pick what music I want to listen to. My workaround is to pull the menu up from the bottom of the screen and just hit "play" and then it usually works.

But iTunes itself, I do like.
Publishers should trust Facebook like drivers should trust Uber (pando)
I like how clickbait is actually in the url. Epic. In case it changes, as of the time of the comment it was

jakewins.com/p/clickbait
Of course I don't know what was in their hearts when they made the decision, but their public statement was to the contrary:

Donald E. Graham, The Post's publisher, and Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the New York Times, said they jointly decided to publish the document "for public safety reasons" after meeting last Wednesday with Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis J. Freeh. [...]

"From the beginning, the two newspapers have consulted closely on the issue of whether to publish under the threat of violence. We have also consulted law enforcement officials," Graham and Sulzberger said in a joint statement. "Both the attorney general and the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have now recommended that we print this document for public safety reasons, and we have agreed to do so." [...]

"Neither paper would have printed this document for journalistic reasons," Graham said in an interview. "We thought there was an obvious public safety issue involved and therefore sought the advice of responsible federal officials. We are printing it for public safety reasons, not journalistic reasons." [0]

Okay, this doesn't explicitly support my impression that the possibility of getting a lead in the case was specifically suggested in prospect as a reason to publish, though some Wikipedia editor thinks that was the case ("[Freeh and Reno] recommended publication out of concern for public safety and in hopes that a reader could identify the author" [1]; it's not clear what citation this is based on). But it does seem to indicate that if their motives were as you suggest, they managed to keep that fact to themselves.

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Industrial_Socie...
>Trump might cite my work, but he overlooks my findings that the influx of immigrants can potentially be a net good for the nation, increasing the total wealth of the population.

>The fiscal burden offsets the gain from the $50 billion immigration surplus, so it’s not too farfetched to conclude that immigration has barely affected the total wealth of natives at all.
Hah! I also literally had to Google how to play a song on repeat, but for me in the new iOS 10 Music app.
This is the spiritual successor of that. "Webmaker" changed from a single product to "a suite of products" at the time, with this tool getting renamed to "Thimble". That thimble used Code Mirror for its editor, and only allowed you to write a single file. Since webpages aren't single files anymore, and haven't been for a while, we made a choice to try to integrate quite a few technologies (Adobe's Brackets as editor with tons of features, Filer for faking a POSIX filesystem in the browser, etc) into something that is both the same, but also a lot better, and the old Thimble got turned off (after about a year of having both up at the same time) last June.
Well, after reading these comments, it's perfectly clear what consciousness is.

Guess we can all just move along now.
Tiny C program to limit volume on OS X
What is wrong with Bruce Schneier?
Thanks, I really appreciate that. Being Open Source is rough, because people still judge you as "selling", despite the fact that everything is free and MIT licensed. Personally, it often causes depression, but I always pull through knowing/hoping that ultimately more lives will be impacted for the better.

So thank you for the encouragement, it really helps and I hope it sends a message to others whom might have projects of their own - don't let the negativity get you down. Thanks for being that reminder.
Mechanicists confuse Consciousness with behavior. Of course we have behavior (mind) and that, in a mechanistic world, is enough to survive and reproduce. But Consciousness is something else. We are not Philosophical Zombies. Qualia is there and is a hard problem that resist most hypotesis.
> If procrastination is anxiety towards the imperfection of creation

I'm sure there are many underlying causes of procrastination, but this is mine. I have worked around it by simply doing something to get from A->B knowing it is okay to go back and clean up the path. Abstract work is really the perfect job for me because it is so easy to go back and change things.

I still struggle with some procrastination on physical things like fixing my deck or remodeling the bathroom (I say some because both of those did get done this summer), but I just remind myself that even then I can always rip it up and do it again.
Not lemmings, but if your after a good, free clone: http://pingus.seul.org/welcome.html
The unlikely predecessor of Grand Theft Auto.
There is a quote by Tolkien, I believe, to the extent that the fundamental topic of The Lord of the Rings is about mortality, by which he means that it was written by a human being.
Hasn't Bezos officially come out against government intrusion into online privacy? E.g.:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/05/18...
The other big difference is that with Thimble, you have a little file system for multiple html/css/js files. (JSBin/JSFiddle/CodePen etc only give you one of each within a workspace).

This makes it a really great way to teach basic web design/developed for an entire site (as opposed to individual components which I think CodePen etc excel at).
If low market share was a reason not to do something in browser-land, there would only be one browser. If anything, low market share is exactly when you should try to outdo the established competition =)
"...that atheism needn't be depressing.

"...Richard Dawkins..."

Whelp, I'm already depressed.
How does making it quantum help? A PRNG in my head makes me unpredictable until someone finds the seed; what benefits other than true randomness does a quantum brain actually "buy"? It's all still physical stuff bumping around, just a little bit nonlocal.
Honestly it's a lot dependant on the kids reading level imo

Scratch is good but as their reading is confident then it becomes limiting / "a kiddies thing"
Yudkowsky, the man who rejects science for Bayesian Reasoning, would like to inform everyone that high school never understood him, and has Absolute Faith in the truth of his utility functions...

Also, the strange conviction that logic just stopped changing in the 1800's.
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I don't really see support for that in the article, but most of the details are in the individual studies. The study does say

Kanazawa notes that intelligence correlates positively with evolutionarily novel activities, but the correlation with ancient activities is zero or even negative. That is also evident in Table 25.1 , which mostly lists novel school- or job-related forms of success that have the expected positive correlation with intelligence, but one of the most ancient forms of success, number of children, has a negative correlation (−0.11).

I would guess that you are reading "social success" as "social skills" while in the article's terminology they mean by "social success" things like career success, education level etc.

As for mathematics, it's true that this is a very special case, and people select into mathematics based on both ability and personality. All I can say for certain is that I can identify a distinct group of people who are both intelligent and have autism spectrum traits, and they seem to occur more often than if these traits were uncorrelated.
although this was announced on friday, it has yet to be enabled (at least on test emails i've been developing). I'm not sure why it was announced without the feature being generally available, but i guess whenever they flip the switch, old emails will be upgraded to use the style tags embedded in them?

Even without media queries, enabling <style> blocks in html emails is huge (google was the last holdout). For anyone developing html emails, this is a nice set of changes.