skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Many-worlds interpretation of QM does not mean that different universes have different fundamental constants.

It's more generally accepted now that the values of the constants were contingent on conditions in the very early universe. This doesn't mean that a fork off of, say, our world right now would get different constants, but that in the early-universe time period there would be forks getting different values, which then evolved completely differently. In this view we exist in one which happened to get the "right" constants.

The universe might be infinite in extent (e.g. Einstein-de Sitter) even though at any time you can only see a finite part of it, so even though the probability of life in any galaxy might be vanishingly small, as long as it's finite you can expect life to emerge somewhere.

We don't have evidence of the universe being infinite in extent, though.

So, there needs to be at least one level, which appeared out of nowhere, or always existed, in which computers can be built to run the simulation.

Again, the claim in the simulation argument is not "uncreated universes are impossible". It's that "an uncreated universe capable of giving rise to simulations is a less specific requirement and therefore more likely to occur".

The idea of a creator God

Which I explicitly said I wasn't talking about. For someone who's tired of repeating himself you sure seem fine with making me do it.
You can get by with wearing an apple watch while you sleep. It charges mostly to full in about the time it takes for a morning shower.
That's flipping awesome. Does it already have code review too?
Being the 'middle-man' is not something that 'just happens'. Bringing manuscripts into blinded connection with appropriate reviewers in an orderly way is definitely a value add.

It's not the risks they take (which was your question), but it's an example of some value that they add to the process which usually gets overlooked.
> The term "bias" leads you to believe the algorithms are generating results unrepresentative of wider reality, which simply isn't the case.

You can make a strong argument that, for example, the FB news feed algorithm leads to results that are unrepresentative of reality, because its input data (user clicks and likes) do not sufficiently represent reality accurately.

Or from the article: "Nikon’s confusion about Asian faces and HP’s skin tone issues in their face recognition software both seem to be the product of learning from skewed example sets." Nowhere here is the algorithm being blamed, but we have an example of results that at least some people find objectionable due to patterns in the input data.

Just to take a particular example, the algorithm's output has marked someone as blinking when they aren't, they're just Asian. That's a particular example of results being unrepresentative of reality.

As much as you want to talk about the algorithms in isolation, using ML also includes figuring out what input data to use and also how to properly interpret the output.
That's already not the case. Lawyers can get in shit for giving bad advice, and architects have to sign off on blueprints for things that matter.

That doesn't mean that lawyers can't make jokes and architects can't draft blueprints for buildings that smoosh every occupant; it means their professional statements have legal weight.
Don't forget that Darwin's original destination was going to be to train as a parish priest.
E.g. Tesla. To be fair, a lot of their "central office cost" is R&D, but that was also probably true for Pebble.
FreeBSD bootloader uses Forth:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=loader&sektion=8

Also, while it's not Forth, it could be argued that the RPL language as used on HP scientific calculators, is a kind of higher-level Forth produced by cross-breeding with Lisp. Indeed, its name, while officially not an acronym, originated as "Reverse Polish Lisp". Its implementation is also kinda awesome, because it has two layers - User RPL, which is more high-level and completely memory-safe, with error checking everywhere, and is exposed directly to calculator users; and System RPL, which basically just compiles the source directly to a bunch of call opcodes (so if you mismatch the stack at any point, it just crashes), and which is used to implement the calculator OS and stock apps, as well as User RPL.

http://www.hpmuseum.org/rpl.htm
People who choose not to have children should not be forced to subsidize those who do. And should not get a pension paid by the children of others.
From someone else's comment:

> TLDR: Because it was either that or shutting down (either completely, or with such a massive downsize that it would have been effectively the same thing).
Why do these voting comparisons always only discuss electing single winner? A big part of the change needed is to introduce more proportional representation. Asides from moving strictly to an MMP style system, one way is to enlarge the districts so that each district elects (e.g.) five representatives using STV. Don't get me wrong, IRV is 10x better than what we have today, but only makes sense for the president or senate where there can be only one winner each election.
We actually had a few fantasy books on our Summer Reading List: https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-summer-reading/

Thanks for the recommendations!
I use Discord everyday BUT I seriously prefer IRC with weechat and glowing-bear.org.

I feel like everything down with Discord could be done with IRC in a open source way. IRC for the 21st Century?
probably also working on a premium service with a monthly charge to go along with the free tier
Can any of you explain how to do this particle effect?
- Sounds like it would be one of Terry Pratchett's characters
Ubuntu snaps: How to utilize automatic rollbacks
I'm curious if anyone uses SASS or Pug(jade) in Polymer components and how you implement. Do you use polymer-build / Gulp?

What about JS Modules?
Hey, can any of you hackers explain to a lowly designer how to do this particle-to-photo effect on Faraday Future's new website? Or direct me towards a tutorial that could explain or be helpful in learning? Its an unbelievably awesome effect that I expect we'll see more of in the near future.
Test Hack WhatsApp Web – QR Code
>I've played HL2 with the commentary on

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Developer_commentary

Never knew about this until reading your comment.
It's important to note that Darwin and Wallace didn´t "discover" evolution, which was already known at the time. Lamarck presented his ideas half a century before Darwin.

They came with an explanation on what was the cause for it (natural selection). The theory has been improved and consolidated with the understanding of genetics since then...
We have both RHEL and CentOS servers (RHEL for production, CentOS for analysis and development). Red Hat is happy to work on issues that we submit even if they happened on one of the CentOS boxes. It's a symbiotic relationship too. I had an issue with a SAS driver and CentOS pushed a fix upstream before RedHat could merge it in.
Report claims Magic Leap used fake tech demos and is years behind schedule
How would we regulate software engineers? Badly.

We don't yet know how to reliably balance desirable goals in software development, such as delivering a certain level of quality and reliability, or delivering on time and on budget. That immediately undermines aspects such as proof of competence or ongoing training that are usually associated with regulated professions.

Moreover, I imagine the people in the industry who would be closest to getting these things right are probably too busy working on building real systems to spend much time teaching or assessing. If government officials started trying to set up a professional accreditation scheme for software developers with real legal weight, how many people here seriously believe the result would not be exams in Agile Software Craftsmanship Manifesto Driven Development, written and assessed by high profile and no doubt highly paid consultants whose total contribution to actual working code in high reliability or otherwise important systems is less than the contributions of at least half the people reading this comment?

We're not ready yet. With luck, we might be within at least some of our lifetimes, but I wouldn't bet much money on it. And in the meantime, any attempt to set this up would surely be subject to instant regulatory capture by exactly the kind of vultures our industry needs to move away from if standards are going to improve.
Well, there was an interesting story the other day that the increased number of caesarean births appears to be having an affect on babies birth head diameter. Natural selection (or rather lack thereof) in action.
What I mean is that Darwinism's extreme anti-religion stance means that it won't accept any idea that even has a tiny whiff of creationism. This is why some Darwinists are going with the simulation argument to address the shortcomings of the theory.

Take a look at the kind of criticism the ID movement has been getting. Their whole argument is that "something" must have designed the universe. They do not explicitly argue for a God, and some proponents even accept the simulation argument! Nonetheless, Darwinisim wouldn't touch ID with a 60-foot stick.
I thought that was Slack's plan.
Yes, with versions.
IRC is a pretty not-extensible platform. It's just not in the spec to have larger messages, metadata. Then you get into things like push notifications, image hosting, video hosting, file hosting...

IRC for the 21st century IS these apps like slack, discord, etc.
To give an example, Gladwell cherry-picks quotes to misrepresent Snowden's views in this piece. The strong stench of elitism and intellectual dishonesty in insinuating that Snowden is a fool because he claims that non-governmental institutions have important roles to play in solving social problems is typical, and I would venture to speculate that Gladwell would never say the same thing about someone like Larry Lessig (who has actually spoken with Snowden), even though they happen to hold similar views on those topics, particularly in relation to the examples Snowden gave in the quote.

Gladwell's process serves well enough as a lazy caricature for the piece but doesn't represent a good-faith articulation of his subject's views, which is hard to excuse in light of the dozens of events, thousands of tweets, etc. that are much more accessible than Ellsberg material was decades ago.

Gladwell could have interviewed Snowden and Ellsberg but probably chose not to, perhaps because it was easier to trash-talk someone whose life is under threat at an especially sensitive time (pardon consideration) for a "clever" contrast with Ellsberg than to try to represent his perspective in good faith.
They're targetting the Twitch model a bit with customizable bits for a charge. Basically allowing some chat branding for guilds and the like.
Do you have any insight on what their return rate is? Judging by the Amazon reviews it must be somewhere (far!) north of 50%.
I find it truly inspiring how many people suddenly care about democracy, even though "this isn't about the 2016 election". /s

Some might say that any support for a better system is good, despite the motivations, but I disagree. All this support will vanish as soon as our current system chooses the "right" (well, the left) candidate.
Basically, reputation.

Arxiv isn't peer reviewed and thus you get a lot of crap on there (just have a look for proofs of goldbach's conjecture). Because the barrier to entry is low you dont get any kudos for publishing there, and the performance of academics in many institutions is essentially based on the kudos they get for publishing in big journals.
A lot of conservatives saw it as their duty to stand athwart Obama's agenda and yell, "Stop!"

And quite frankly, they succeeded. I think you're unfairly discounting how much of that was ideologically driven, rather than the result of simple partisanship.
Whoops. Well, I guess there's no harm in posting it on HN: lainchan.org
If we are living in a simulation, it is a simulation of atoms, or quantum fields, or perhaps something deeper behind that. That got started with enormous energy in the form of hot dense quark gluon plasma. From there the rest follows.

It is not a simulation of humans.

We have zero indication there are rules at a higher level than the quantum or gravity. Like rules on what you ought to do in the bedroom.

Also earth nor humans were created by intelligence, just like how mineral crystals or fjords are not created by intelligence.

Hence we must conclude that bronze/iron age religions and maybe living in a simulator are not the same thing.

For the rest of this question of a creator, we cannot know, anybody claiming to know anything beyond "perhaps" or "maybe" is a fool, or will win a nobel price. By lack of the latter the rest of us will assume the first.
>>Much like hotels, shelters are not responsible for the security of your things and I assure you that hotels have more thefts than shelters.

Hotels are at least partially liable for theft. If the theft occurs due to an employee's negligence (e.g. cleaning staff forget to close the door properly), then the hotel is fully liable.

http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/hotel-liabilit...
Does the technology exist which could accelerate a nanoship to "one-fifth the speed of light", or perhaps more importantly, course-correct and slow it down as it nears its destination?
It's certainly not established that proportional representation is superior to good single winner systems.

http://scorevoting.net/PropRep.html
Key words "supposed to be" but in reality there's at least as much regulation creation at the behest of corporate lobby as a barrier to entry against competitors. And notice how the median reliability and performance of the big three is worse than in countries where internet access is treated more like a public utility.

But that's basically what they are, they're natural monopolies but are in some ways more heavily regulated as if they were competitive businesses where anti-competition law would be easier to execute. Notice wherever Google Fiber tries to move in how much better service and performance gets while at the same time the local one or two choices step over themselves in outrage.

If the music industry were saying "punish them! turn off their water!" people would probably better understand just exactly how vindictive they're trying to be.
> In order for discussion to have any meaning, the things we claim have to be 'falsifiable'

This assumes a particular brand of empiricism. Which is not falsifiable.

Not saying that discounts everything founded on empiricism. Just that the claim you're making doesn't live up to its own standard, and thus isn't necessarily a good way of dismissing other approaches, such as religion.
Agreed. Application Architecture is far more important than Cloud vs. Bare Metal. It is just easier and more cost effective to through more bare metal hardware at the problem than it is cloud instances. For some this does make bare metal the better option.

To add to my previous comment though, AWS (and cloud in general) tends to make much more sense if you are utilizing their features and services (Such as Amazon RDS, SQS, etc.), and if you aren't using these services I can absolutely guarantee I can deliver a much lower TCO on bare metal than AWS. (Which is why I offered to consult for them) I see this all the time. Company moves from bare metal to AWS as bare metal is getting expensive, then they quickly find out AWS can't deliver the performance they need without massive scale (because they aren't using a proper salable distributed design and can't afford to re-architect their platform)
>"people who think that excess sugar is bad for you"

Parent is referring to people who think polyunsaturated fats are bad for you, though. And what I'm taking issue with is the argument that because there exist 'entire forums' of people who have accepted a claim, their views should be given credence.
Sorry, I want more from software in 2017. I want the software to provide me a good suggestion how the merge would be auto-resolved and then I want to visually confirm and accept/reject. Hopefully this is the first step in training a model.
Interestingly enough I can literally hear it say "BRAAAAMmmm"

The ending has a harsher tone to it compared to the bassy open sound at the beginning. I think it's an artifact from the reverb maybe. I know analyzing it in text is difficult but I hear it like the beginning is BRAH. then the fade out it AAMMMMMmmm.
Security startup Wallarm raises $2.3M after going through Y Combinator
I've implemented an ETL pipeline at one of my clients just this quarter that runs nightly and gives them the data they need in the format they want (Web UI + CSV exports). Just having this available at all is a huge win. Having the data be "fresher" would be nice but it's small margin of win compared to the original win.
The same thing can be seen for Bill Gates' books of 2016 that was posted here recently.
I think the author is referring to the usage of light sails coupled with lasers to achieve this.

Obviously this design scales horribly, so you'll want your spacecraft to be as light as possible.

As for the numbers they look as if he, pardon my french, pulled them out of his ass.
The pre-installed apps are pretty good. They only third party pebble apps I've installed are watch faces. The built in faces are good enough. I anticipate being able to use my pebble for as long as I can keep the android pebble app running.
I'd prefer it not be magic. Just because git COULD merge two of the same line changes doesn't mean it SHOULD.

Maybe you have two vastly different methods to solving the same problem and now they are both in there and both not working instead of leaving it up to the merger to decide.
Discord's design feels a lot like Slack. I wonder where the overlap is between the two products.
The cutsie graphs make the incorrect presumption that people's political views are evenly distributed around the political spectrum.
If it worked I would expect her to start looking younger in some way.
I think it's a mistake to assume:

1. That the Juniper Netscreen backdoor was the work of NSA. Even Bruce Schneier doesn't conjecture that it was NSA in his blog post on the topic.

2. That Edward Snowden had access to all documents of public interest, such as the Dual_EC vulnerability injection or malware specifics. Edward Snowden said that he worked with journalists to leak the documents with the most public interest.
On our real estate listing / brokerage site, we have a "GET MORE INFO" button on every property. When a user hits that they'll get an automated response with a title report, but then our agents will follow up the same day with a short note about the property and any additional info we can find. The human follow up tends to be a magic moment and if our agents are able to provide some juicy info, the customer usually sticks with us for their purchase.
Fenix HR. But I think most of Garmin's line has at least some basic notification functionality, even down to the inexpensive Vivo line.

Fenix HR specifically because trail runner (need the extra battery for those really long runs), hiker (alt/bar/compass is nice), and all-around outdoorsy guy (device signals my outdoorsiness), in case that was the nature of your question.
Interesting, do you have a write up for someone interested in the field? What company do you work for?
How do you propose that be dealt with programmatically?
Actually it is the large sample size. Book lists tend to do this when read by a lot of people, especially if they pull their cover art from Amazon. There was a hack whereby a person used AWS resources to generate this sort of effect on demand. The result was, as expected of such a prank, books on conservative theology having "also viewed" lists which were primarily erotica. Amazon "fixed" this by ignoring item views from addresses within it's own IP space but apparently it still works for lookups from a bunch of IPs.
> If you use a database for storing your apps data like sqlite, which you should, then you're doing an fsync on virtually every insert/update operation. One of the main reasons for using a database is that it takes away the headache of deciding when and how to fsync.

It batches the fsync per transaction, so there's only one fsync for 10000 inserts in one transaction.

> Depending on the exact mechanism and implementation, making fsync a no-op is not necessarily bad. As long as it can (with highest priority) fsync all of its buffers upon notification of loss of power and be done before all capacitance is lost then there should be no trouble at all. Of course, this requires some coordination between the hardware, the OS and the filesystem which might be non-trivial even for a fully integrated company like Samsung so it could be it simply doesn't work at all like that.

It's supposed to work if the OS crashes. Kernel panics are not incredibly uncommon.
It's not just the political spectrum. You need at least 2 spatial dimensions to demonstrate the possibility of non-transitive group preferences (i.e. the community prefers candidate A > B > C > A), which is one fundamental reason Arrow's impossibility theorem is true. If candidates are just on a number line, then the group's preferences would always be transitive and there would always be a Condorcet winner (or a tie).
Pretty sure I heard that noise or something very very close to it in the latest Star Trek film.

I couldn't find a good example of it in the trailer, but I did note that the trailer is, unsurprisingly, loaded with BRAAAM.
In this context, it's interesting to note that the US Vice President was originally not a running mate to the President, but the runner-up (2nd most electoral college votes).

This theoretically allows more proportional representation by, essentially, preventing 1 group from electing their representatives of choice to (in this case) 2 positions (ignoring an overwhelming majority & certainty of it)

I'd be interested to see how effective a "runner-up-selection" methodology would be if applied in a more general case.
The wub noise is what I'm referring to.
Discord is great at being both a Slack clone AND a Teamspeak clone at the same time.
So true. When I first read about IoT, about a decade ago, I thought of it as a miniaturized and decentralized, semi-autonomous client and server systems design.

The fundamental problem of the current take on IoT is a misunderstanding of the internet part. Our systems should be decentralized and find routes to nearby systems that are available. So, to be an active actor within the arena of pico-net, local net, internet. Currently, most IoT systems mostly connect to some central, unprotected server hosted in <insert-cheap-labor-country-youve-never-heard-of>.
- List for what it's worth, 17th in Europe, 59th world-wide: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universiti...

- Inventor of Bluetooth (Jaap Haartsen) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaap_Haartsen

- M.C. Escher
Metafilter is still around and has a great community.
http://www.metafilter.com/
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I don't remember if it was Voat or if it was another one of those "Reddit alternatives without censorship" but the last time I visited which ever of them it was, it was full of conspiracy theories and racism. All noise and no signal.
The article seems to use the labels 'insider' and 'hacker' to contrast the intent of the two, when the labels should be just used to define their circumstances.

Both Snowden and Ellsberg appear to have done a good job at informing the public given those circumstances, Snowden's being inferior because his circumstances constrained him, not his intentions.

Did Snowden steal more data than he needs to because he's a hacker and he can't help himself? Or because he thought its better to take more than less, and then have the journalists figure out what's appropriate?