skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it's still fair to say Newtonian mechanics is an "incomplete" view of the universe"

The arguments back and forth on this fascinate me. On one hand, on some scales, Newtonian mechanics is "correct enough" to give results that work, and so in that sense it is just "incomplete" in that its domain is restricted. On the other, relativity and QM change everything. These new theories may reduce to Newtonian mechanics given certain assumptions, but Newtonian physics says things about the structure of spacetime that are incorrect (e.g. velocity is not additive). In this sense, one can fairly say that Newton's mechanics are not just incomplete, but wrong.
I think that it's interesting that a lot of the major social advances in the US—ending segregation, legalizing abortion, legalizing gay marriage—are the result of Supreme Court decisions, which is probably the least democratic part of our government. Not all, certainly. But I guess I'm not so surprised that some young people don't see democratic action as the only way to advance social progress.
[MPLS is] ... often referred to as a layer 2.5 protocol. It was designed to provide a unified data-carrying service for both circuit-based clients and packet-switching clients which provide a datagram service model. It can be used to carry many different kinds of traffic, including IP packets, as well as native ATM, SONET, and Ethernet frames.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol_Label_Switching
Anecdote: I've been on more that one team where no leadership emerged, and in fact, leadership type behavior was passively resisted. The reasons for this were many, but essentially it was easier (and I suspect more fun) when individual contributors could do their own thing in their own way, without any concern for the impact on their team members or downstream consumers of the software (help desk, IT, etc.) After all, writing useful log messages, or following a coding convention, or writing an automated test are all tedious and not very interesting compared to coding. These teams (if they can be called that) produced software that had little to no overall design.
>why is he moaning about it on his blog in a resigned manner rather than taking legal action?

Lawyers cost money
More than two hashtags on a photo is an instant unfollow. Obvious paid shot? Same.

Idk who enjoys following what's essentially just an ad? You can get glossy ad pics in a magazine?
A well trained teacher who is an expert in the subject as well as in its pedagogy is always best.
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You don't see a problem with her stealing the IP of a company without notifying its primary stakeholders and starting a new one?
"known to have practiced and even have written transcripts of things"

While I agree with your disdain of the overly western attitude that "civilization" didn't arise until agriculture and other myopic views, I also think you should not be so quick to use their myopia to justify your own, and in that sense, I think your use of the word known is too strong.

I think language and writing are a particularly strong indicator of "civilization", whatever the various definition. Now, the problem with the gathas you refer to is that they are supposedly the written version of an oral tradition that is much older, but like the hebrew torah, the veracity of how old that spoken tradition really is, is very much hard to verify and dubious. It is known that many of the spoken word traditions often claim to be older than they really are, for various reasons. The old avestan, which the first gathas were written in, only date to not much before 1000 BC. That doesn't inherently mean the claims of being more ancient are wrong, but it's something to take into consideration, and to be fair, indus-script, the proto-writing in the indus valley (including the proto-elamite) have been dated to ~3500 BC.

The point is that I have heard these types of claims, mostly from Indians, that the veda's, etc, are simply the written traditions of 12k+ year old oral traditions, and I find such claims to not be backed up by evidence and are often used as some sort of national pride instead of based on the science. So be careful about wanting to have a claim to the oldest writing which offers some great insight into the ancient world when that isn't verified or verifiable.

Because if you wanted to go there, the oldest proto-writings aren't from the indus valley civilization (including the only ~3000 BC sumerian/egyption), but from 7000 BC China, 6000 BC Central/SouthEastern Europe, and 6000 BC Greece, in the Jiahu, Vinca, and Dispillo respectively.

So, to summarize, I am just as skeptical of stories about indus valley vedas actually knowing about nuclear war as I am about cannanite stories about the time of the angels who mated with man to produce giants (which they mostly stole from the sumerians anyway).

Now, if you just want to talk about erected structural dating, thats a different discussion, which is still why Gobleke Tepe is so unique, because imagine that if the oldest proto-writing is in China around 7000 years ago, Tepe was built roughly twice as long ago as that (14000 BC)!

That's why I really like the research on Gobleke Tepe. I have yet to see any really good sources on any older human structures than that.

Now, my personal and unverifiable conjecture is that Gobleke Tepe was a temple, but not the kind imagined, and instead was a temple of death or temple of the underworld, but how I came to that conclusion is a story for another time.
I worked with the author of this post on the said project. I am the guy that wrote most of the angular 2 stuff before the author joined the front-end (from back-end).

Here are some of the posts about my (not so negative) experience. I hope they provide another perspective on this issue and maybe give some context on why the author felt that way:

From Angular to Angular 2 – (Almost) Everything Changed

https://paradite.com/2016/10/09/from-angular-to-angular-2-al...

Building Angular 2 Drag-And-Drop Grid System

https://paradite.com/2016/10/17/building-angular-2-drag-and-...

Developing A*genda in Angular 2

https://paradite.com/2016/11/20/developing-agenda-in-angular...
Detroit launches 20 minute neighborhood plan
Another write-up that's maybe more straightforward: http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/vacuum-birefringence-04410...

prepublish link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08323
pdf: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.08323v2.pdf

// Edit: And maybe someone can explain this to me, but the "polarization in -> polarization out" artist's rendering isn't in their paper. Where did it come from? Is it showing the example of what would be happening if the effect was happening at 100% ?

http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/enlarge3/image_4410_2e-Vacuum...
Because, for a television production company, ratings fundamentally are more important. Cuban knows it's an entertainment show first-and-foremost and he bought into that (and frankly, from what I can tell, loves that aspect of it).

I've never looked into the details, but I imagine the paperwork Shark Tank entrepreneurs sign includes something along the lines of "all deals agreed are non-binding and subject to completion of satisfactory post-show diligence blah blah". I'd be shocked if a decent percentage of the deals featured don't ultimately fall through for one reason or another at the diligence stage with zero impact on the investor's reputation, so I don't think Cuban will lose too much sleep over it.
http://bit.ly/2h2OULM
Yes, it does -- the cyclic subsystem will only fire on CPUs that have a cyclic scheduled, which won't be any CPU that is engaged in interrupt sheltering via psradm.[1] This is how it is able to achieve hard real-time latency (and indeed, was used for some hardware-in-the-loop flight simulator systems in the defense sector that had very tight latency tolerence).

[1] https://illumos.org/man/1m/psradm
> that the average programmer or software engineer should leave these things to recognized cryptographers

Study and experimentation are how you end up with recognized cryptographers.

This very sensible attitude of "Use the recommended library with recommended settings" seems to get pushed to the point where it becomes "Don't bother learning". I don't think it's intentional of course.
Answer: No.

I hate to invoke it, as it ends up not adding anything to the discussion, but Betteridge's law of headlines comes screaming out of this article [0].

I know this was only published ~6 days after the election, but I don't see how any editor could have let this one out after Trump's win. Like, guys, even in your own little sphere of Marxism and leftyism, you have to recognize that the large majority of elected representatives in the US federal, state, and local govs are very red. Let alone the rightward swings Europe and East Asia are taking. Like, nothing you are saying is getting out there to the people in the democracies that are actually voting. If you are claiming to be more public then how do you reconcile these rightward swings, are you then causing them with the increased leftish talk? This article made no sense with what is happening and felt like there are fingers in their ears.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Ah, Facebook nowadays is just idiots writing their friends' names underneath meme pics, because they think that's how you share stuff with friends: some content has 100K comments, but most of it is just people's names, such a tragic UX. The great news is that this 9gag-level junk content is what will turn away their eyeballs base.
> Teaching, meanwhile, gets subordinated to the world of fake research, to the detriment of professors themselves and the students they're supposed to be teaching.

This was pretty eye opening for me in grad school when I saw that, after certain professors received a windfall of grant money, they would buy their way out of teaching. (This was in a biochemistry dept.)

It seemed very backwards to me that the professors that were doing some of the best work of their careers would pay to avoid interacting with students. The ones that had to teach classes to grad students were the ones who haven't published anything in 10 years.
Well, the 1 bedroom in London is far from 3000-4000 per month.

I don't know the details of the costs of living and all the expenses. Maybe SV is better but I just want to say that it is not twice as better, contrary to what some comments would have you think.
Calling it cancer is probably going too far. I think a more apt analogy is that it's a virus. A very contagious one.

Whether you agree with what that virus is propagating or not is a separate discussion.

My personal experience working in this industry for 30 years is that the GPL (and even some of its derivatives) has been pretty much universally banned in every single company I've worked at or know of.
The contribution of trees and albedo in general to climate change is huge. But I doubt that urban trees, specifically, contribute a significant effect. They do greatly contribute to avoiding the also-problematic urban heat-island effect, though.
Thanks so much for posting this. I've always been partial to mitochondria but that takes the cake. It's going to take me a while to digest.
How does Facebook determine what facts are without politics?

Facebook fact checking materials before displaying them is fundamentally political, if only because the decision of filtering strategy is a political choice.
Isn't that precisely what (scrubbed) hoods are for?

Failing that, isn't that why your log of on site chemicals is kept well away from them and where they might be used, and the use area preferably having a nice set of windows for external viewing?
Check images, receipts, transactions, statements (particularly PDF), deposit slips, mortgage documents... all kept for 7-20+ years.
The problem with "intellectuals" is people assume because you are educated you are smart.

I've met far too many people who knew a lot about topic x but lacked basic critical thinking skills. Academia only compounds this because the entire system is built around getting tenure. How do you do that? By spending years (with no money doing grunt work) learning what the last wave of research taught and regurgitating it for the professors who already have tenure. The only way you get tenure is by pumping out peer reviewed research which is just as much about agreeing with existing preconceptions and personalities as it is about science. Even the professors who want to be effective teachers have to follow this treadmill. And follow this treadmill you will - if you want to succeed. It's very self-selecting. Who's the biggest masochist? Who is best at navigating the system?

If you actually look at paper after paper the core data is horrible or there are simple lapses in judgement about how their research is structured. You sit in graduate class criticizing and laughing at some of this but that's the research that makes the world go round. A lot of our core assumptions are less about data and more about intuitive arguments.

The whole system is lacking, so you'll forgive me if the idea of "new intellectuals" spawning a boon to public culture is a sham. The real issue is there is nobody but the intellectuals to criticize this bad research...the average journalist isn't trained in these methods and they seem to be less and less interested in truth as opposed to interesting headlines.
This is why I love HN, for the #Lifehacks. I may use these on my kids...
Yes, 90% sure. You're taking that comment at face value.
Having a web site that was registered years ago isn't necessarily a smoking gun. I have a few domains that I registered years ago for businesses that I never started. That's not to dismiss the claims, only to say that it wouldn't be a red flag.
I don't think you get the point.

You'll have job interview clothes and printed resumes as part of every job hunt. That's just a part of the job hunt itself; there's expectations that you'd need those if you're looking for a job.

A basic calculator, without the ability to use an alternative, is not, and forcing someone to go out of their way just to get through your setup, meanwhile being treated like a cheating high schooler, is not going to make them want to work for your company.

I'm a grown ass man, I don't need to be treated like I'm going to cheat at an interview, especially when said cheating can easily be exposed in any sort of discussion or the first day on the job. Requiring a calculator is fine, but disallowing people from using basic tools they have available to complete the same task because of the potential of cheating (how can you even cheat on a coding challenge with a graphing calculator, anyway) is ludicrous. A 1 minute discussion about the code I just wrote can tell you just as much about whether I cheated or not as the arbitrary rules imposed here.
Here, here.

There are essentially two forces at play that drive the current default work culture --

1) Fetishization of work itself -- which I happily stole from an article posted on HN some time ago.

2) Arbitrary deadlines -- these usually come from the business side ("suits") in collusion with one's superiors. Notice I said arbitrary. If the competition has rolled out a new feature that seems to have a payoff, then a crash program - pardon the pun - might have justification. But a lot of times deadlines are set by a manager's vacation calendar or horoscope, who knows?
Logged in to post pretty much exactly this.

Since the author is reading this: thanks. Read the first few lines and am already hooked. I have been looking for a long time, but most texts on crypto are either way below my level of understanding or miles above. You're a godsend!
Nobody's saying that grandparents being alive are a prerequisite for grandchildren. But anybody with kids will tell you that grandparents are tremendously helpful in raising children.

Evolution is statistical in nature, not binary. Grandparents just have to be useful in raising grandchildren for them to be favored by natural selection. They don't need to be strictly necessary.
Notably, Mark Cuban says he called them out on it.

http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/mark-cuban-forces-shark-tan...
One obvious answer here: makes far more sense to increase population of NYC outside of Manhattan. Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx combined (excluding Staten Island since it's not accessible by subway) are TEN TIMES the size of Manhattan. Not all this space is a quick commute to Manhattan…but there are plenty of neighborhoods in these boroughs that are nowhere near as densely populated as lower Manhattan, and are still within a ~30 minute commute to downtown.
The first step is to talk to your coworker and tell them your concerns in a way that is not criticizing them or makes them even more difficult to work with. You can also try and socialize outside of work: grab a few beers and get their point of view.

If they continue to be hard to work with, escalate to management and outline your concerns.

What you really want to say to management is that your ability to perform at 100% is affected by this coworker / arrangement / situation, and you are being obstructed from providing the most value you otherwise could to the company.

Any sensible manager would immediately address the issue, as he/she will recognize that your output is affected and the company is getting less value from you due to this arrangement.
My trust chain: I don't know crypto and didn't know who you were (so I might have asked the same question) but a few days ago I found out you are involved with tptacek with latacora.com so that was all I needed to know and trust what you said.
I wonder if training another net on top of the slices would work better than voting for a single winner. I'd presume that there are genres that are well characterized by the distribution and progression of their spectrograms. Probably expand/compress the collection of slices to a standard length before training?

(Nice to see you show up for the discussion. I was worried that you'd given up hope before your article hit the front page.)
Related, are you aware of the JRuby+Truffle project [1]? Not a new high performance JVM language, but a high-performance implementation of Ruby using Truffle and Graal. On the surface it sounds extremely similar to Ruby+OMR (applying a high-performance, production-pedigree compiler/interpreter to an experimental Ruby implementation), so I'd be interested in hearing about any direct comparisons or knowledge-sharing between the two projects that might be possible.

[1] https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle
> Where one group did not socialize at all,

I think your mistake is that this does not describe homeschooled children at all. They just socialize in locations other than prison-style government run daycare centers.
Many (most?) of them do open source their drivers. But even then, no one is willing to do the work to upstream them.
You can have a highly stable democracy without civil rights. Just look at the United States
From what I gather the problem is basically:

Certain routers are processing both IP packets and ethernet frames through the same logic. They want to know which it is. Ethernet frames start with the destination mac address, which used to be sequential and reaching higher numbers seemed far away so most started with 0 or 1. IP packets start with the IP version, so they're 4 or 6.

As a result, some vendors basically implement the following:

def is_ethernet_frame(data):
return not (data.startswith(4) or data.startswith(6))

And similar to the problems with

os.name.startswith('Windows 9')

type issues, now we reach the higher numbers, these systems have issues.
Premonish – A library for predicting what element a user will interact with next
I won't pretend to exactly understand Urbit, but it seems to be more or less what you're describing:

> In an Urbit world, your data is no longer trapped in a jumble of proprietary servers. Your urbit is a permanent, versioned, typed archive the size of your digital life. Even before you move your data from a Web service to a local Urbit app, your urbit can drive your account with an API or scraper.

http://urbit.org/posts/overview/
I have to whole-heartedly disagree with this. Customer development and feedback don't just apply to short-term marketing and minor-point improvements. That couldn't be further from the truth.

The "They'll tell you what to build" isn't meant to be taken literally. If you listen and try to truly understand people's problems, they'll guide you towards the most useful solutions. Coming up with those solutions is still up to you in most cases, though.

Re: Apple - they understood the real problems that their potential customers had. No, customers didn't come and tell them to go and build a device like the iPhone. However, from understanding the market and the pain points that people had with mobile phones, Apple was able to identify an opportunity to enter a new market and disrupt it.
We've done the reactions, we 'just' need to hold them together for longer. Why is that in doubt? Can you link something by an expert that doesn't think it's guaranteed to be possible?
That is so far from the truth that it's unbelievable. Inferno has the same surface API as React – the public endpoints. Everything under the hood is different though and it's different for many good reasons which I'll cover in a blog post in the coming weeks for the official 1.0 release of Inferno (and its website).

If there's nothing wrong with your app and you're using React – keep using it. If you are experiencing performance issues on mobile, maybe Inferno is an option with its compatibility layer until future versions of React can fix your issues.

Note: I'm the author of Inferno
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>For writing the aimbot, not for using it.

So equate it to production and distribution of illicit material?

Cultivating food isn't illegal in many areas. Cultivating magic mushrooms is another issue altogether. Chemistry isn't illegal but manufacturing MDMA is. Programming isn't illegal - but coding a program for a game that directly goes against the Terms of Service of a company is.

Can you provide me an example of aimbotting in a multiplayer game that isn't "bad"? What else could you possibly be doing with it?
I guess someone calculated that given current rate of sequential assignment of MAC ranges, we won't get to 4 and 6 prefixes in a very long time.

That reasoning was broken as it assumed sequential assignment is the only way to go.
I'd like to see this kind of authentication done over OpenAM and OpenDJ. That's the IAM systems done by Sun Microsystem (later Oracle, then Forgerock). That should be rock solid.

IAM: Identity and Access Management

Forgerock: https://www.forgerock.com/
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