skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Well over half of the Greenland ice sheet appears to have melted to bedrock in the not-too-distant past [when humans did not yet exist], when temperatures weren’t much warmer than they are today"

Does that make you feel good? I guess if you're in the sandbag business or have a lot of high elevation property...
Includes remote video of the thief watching porn on the phone while, er, entertaining himself. Ouch.
So the wave function, a function say on configuration space, is real. And that's it?

But what does that mean? What is the mapping to my experience? Is it that if the wave function is non-zero at a configuration point, then the configuration is realized as an actual universe? One big problem with this is that wave functions can be non-zero at all configuration points and the dispersive nature of the Laplacian tends to make that happen.

So then it becomes one of size of |psi|^2? Is there a cutoff for considering that to be real? Having a probability of something is needed to deal with this, but it is not clear to me what the probability would correspond to here.

In BM, the probability is that of finding particles in some region. In collapse theories, it is the probability of collapsing to a specific state.

As for the Git History, my above concern could be phrased as a history in which all possible streams of texts are possible though maybe some have a large font-size. This is library of babel kind of stuff. How is the evolution of the text that I consider myself to be a part of handled? How are nearby configurations connected by the evolution of a wave function?

Also, macro-mergers are not theoretically ruled out; it is practically ruled out.

Let's say that I convinced you that 2 non-interacting blobs did not objectively evolve to occur, but rather a smearing over all. Would this break your interpretation?
Yes i am aware, and i suspect the Linux devs were in part inspired by that (Linux may even support 9P, iirc).

Plan 9 was pretty much about taking the "everything is a file" thinking to its logical end point. Meaning that you could even manipulate individual GUI windows via the FS.

I was simply musing that Linux may have taken the concept further than the BSDs while still being "unix". I can't say i ever got the impression that Plan 9 was intended to be posix compatible for instance.
A reasonable reporter can follow journalistic procedure properly and still be misled, it's a probabilistic exercise.

Reducing news media into 'fake news' and 'always perfectly correct' is a 'false dilemma' fallacy.
I never had any problems with the Pebble Time and every Pebble user I talked to was very happy with them. Though I have to admit I think most people I talked to were using Android phones, so maybe it's not representative?
> Other documents began to accumulate in their directory. By the time we became aware of it, the hoard came to include minutes of AT&T board meetings. It didn't seem like a very good idea for us to be keeping records from the inner sanctum of the corporation on a computer where most everybody had super-user privileges.

I wonder how many meeting minutes, price lists, product specs, supplier agreements, etc. etc. are currently sitting on Google's, Amazon's, Dropbox's servers now...
You keep your benefits for 9 months after starting substantial gainful activity (earning more than $1,170 / month). And yes that means for 9 months you do get to double dip.

There are also trial work periods which you can "fail" out of and not lose your benefits.

It's hard to walk away from a guaranteed monthly payment for life (when SSDI stops regular social security kicks in). But just looking at the monthly check misses the forest for the trees.

Keep in mind that the act of working a job is actually very expensive. Having those 50+ hours back and not having to be out of the house performing labor for some 3rd party is generally worth much more than the actual monthly payments.

To put it another way, if you can stay home and live anywhere you want (no commute) your cost of living can easily drop below $15k / year. Whereas working full time your cost of living may be double, triple, or more.

Once you get on SSDI, even a job paying $60k/yr or more might not be economically superior.

Oh, then throw in that you're paying almost no taxes, you qualify for all kinds of other subsidies and rebates... then there's the bit about free healthcare. Add it up and even a $70k-$80k job might be economically inferior.
This showed up in the guile-user mailing list this week and looks pretty cool. The manual for the project is here: https://github.com/wingo/fibers/wiki/Manual
The bot I have been working on uses bag of words and n-grams to identify intents. Useful for when someone says something that may have multiple entities of the same type. For instance a journey start and end point. Can use the "from" and "to" words match better. Also very useful when training on phrases that are very similar such as FAQ questions which often have the same words but the order and one or two keys words is super important to get the right match.
I'm just guessing here, but it looks like the two processors share SRAM and the beefy ARM processor draws the scene and writes it as tiles to SRAM. The Z80 reads the tiles from SRAM and blits them to the screen.

Basically you have an ARM processor doing a whole lot of work, and a Z80 in charge of moving it around and drawing supporting UI.
How Sweden Has Redesigned Streets to Route Around Bad Behavior
Book Review: Apache Mesos Essentials
Be able to use the 1000s of commercial products that need MSSQL.

Encryption is easier to manage and it has built in solutions for HIPPA and PCI.

SQL reporting services and the entire ecosystem of apps that run on top of MSSQL..

Better clustering, ha, revision control and backup.

Most likely better enterprise support, and you'll be able to port "legacy" applications that were designed with win/sql in mind without having to rewrite your entire DB access and query code.
Ask HN: What else is there?
I am not happy with how programming is done in my part of the industry (Java, Scala, some Big Data, some Docker, some web/Javascript). The work is usually organised in such a way to prevent one from reaching mastery of any specific part of the subsystem - team members are assigned tickets to work all over the system. This means that you spend a lot of the time in parts of codebase where you consider yourself merely a "tourist" and have neither incentive nor time to master it.

I believe that it's not accidental - the companies prefer to have swatches of replacable cogs producing mediocre-to-okish software vs having people who are masters of their respetive domains/subsystems, who can produce good quality product, but who also have lots of leverage when negotiating raises. It is most managers' dream to have a Ford factory level of organization and worker replaceability and in the projects I've worked on it's been pretty much realised.

I wonder if there are still parts of the industry where people are not just resources assigned tickets to work all over giant codebases? I'm thinking maybe small teams working on embedded software/device drivers or other areas where bugs are more costly. I do not know anything about those places though.
The Obsessed, Feuding Searchers Still Looking for Amelia Earhart
This guy's combo of hardware and software engineering is stunning.

That he then has the aesthetic capability to knock out a beautiful fucking box for the cartridge is just humbling.
Create your own image mosaic.
That's a good question: if there's a majority of Turks who support the regime, what's the problem? Can't we like, leave them in peace? Do we have to impose western politics everywhere in the world??
I don't believe they believe it, and that means we're at an unarguable impasse without starting to bring evidence in.
Yeah one of the big aha things for me was how the states are hiring companies to help people get onto disabilities as they are a federal responsibility.

That and how many who knows the system acknowledges that many really have no hope besides getting onto disabilities.
> "That's obviously anecdotical but I'm very glad nobody steered me into programming."

Same. When I was growing up, we had a Commodore 64 and a small collection of programming books. (For the youngens in the crowd: Back in the day, software would sometimes be distributed in print form and you had to type it all in). As I learned to read, I also learned to type code (starting around age 5 or so). Likely one of the first chapter books I really spent time with was the C64 manual: http://www.commodore.ca/commodore-manuals/commodore-64-users...

I also didn't know how to fix errors, so any time I made a mistake I would have to retype it all. By default, on a C64 you can just start typing a Basic program and then type RUN to run it. So you'd enter something like:

10 POKE 53280,2
20 POKE 53281,5
30 PRINT "CHRISTMAS!"

Then type RUN and it would run the commands. In the case of the above code, it would set the border of the screen to red, the background to green, and print CHRISTMAS! on the screen.

> "I think my point here is that I'm not sure it is in the best interest of children to push them into our passions. Then again I'm not a parent, so my opinion doesn't hold much weight!"

I think this is correct. My son has spent a fair amount of type with the faux-programming stuff they have for kids these days (Tynker, code.org, etc) and has enjoyed it, but I've been struggling to find a way to transition him to something more real without it feeling forced.
Reddit is leaking again.
That's true, Apple never really cared for backwards-compatibility.
> As the slides point out, to get the same performance with GC, you need 4x the memory.

I'd take that claim with a pretty big grain of salt. The paper they referenced used an experimental GC without use in production. Who knows how well or bad the default collector in the JVM would perform.

Also, it is not exactly recent. Hardware changes could have shifted the result in any direction.
Setting up an AWS IoT button to track my sleep patterns
>Did you read the article.

I did. That's one anectodal example. They also say "Recipients are often hesitant to look for full-time employment because they don’t want to risk losing the financial cushion and access to health care that disability insurance provides".
Generated:

If one examines textual theory, one is faced with a choice: either reject
Marxism or conclude that the raison d’etre of the reader is deconstruction. It
could be said that the subject is interpolated into a postsemantic nationalism
that includes language as a paradox. Lyotard uses the term ‘Marxism’ to denote
the failure of neoconceptualist class.
I don't watch TV either (don't have a subscription or connection).

But your criticism of television does not support the idea of disengaging from news altogether.
Living with x++ wouldn't be terrible, but I don't mind having to make changes to my code now that Swift is still very new if it ends up becoming a better language. Teaching x++ and ++x to beginners can be quite a pain.
They have proven sizable, but finite demand. And they have proven that even being as popular as they are, making it work as a business is tricky. It makes very little sense to invest in disrupting a niche where the #1 player has not found financial success.
Bikeshedding. The Python "datetime" module does almost all of this. (Although I did try to get ISO8660 parsing put in, after finding eight libraries for it, all of which were broken in some way.)
Raid Encryption: This Should Be the New Normal – Medium
This article, written prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is pretty damning of the Bush administration and to some extent separates then CIA Director George Tenet from the CIA in how intelligence was being handled.

edit. Here's the article: http://prospect.org/article/pentagon-muzzles-cia
This is clearly giving out terrible grades. If anyone is interested in something real like this, check out gradescope. It's by pieter abbeel and his phd students, top researchers in Deep reinforcement learning. It uses a similarity based system to assign scores from humans to new essays.

Disclaimer: I'm not associated with gradescope.
Still surprised they didn't go with modular batteries that could be popped in and out with a robot arm for <5 min recharges.

I guess you'd never know how cycle-worn your new battery would be...
So, how do I root my phone similar to that guy so I will have access to it for the rest of my life?
I think that's a different problem.
For what it's worth I've been upvoting you for giving me great perspective. It's not often I get to hear about China outside the American media lense, and so I tend to think of it as a real-life IngSoc state. And we both agree America won't get better by saying "china has it way worse guys"
Thats not what Im saying at all.
Im not creating a false dilemma fallacy. Iraq didnt have wmds, journalists reiterated official talking points uncritically, even as intelligence officers came out to say otherwise.

What happened with Iraq was a great example of fake news propaganda and the failure of journalism lately, because it was soo wrong not even close to "perfectly correct" or correct anything.
Odd. I never did. I always waited for the moment he confronted him.
Possible dup of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13206431
> How did we as an industry go from "create a lean-to in 10 minutes" with sticks and leafs to a "create a house in 30 days"?
It seems we have gone backwards in terms of speed of getting things done in the last milleniums.
Spoilers: thief is a 40-something Egyptian, appears to live in a French migrant shelter in Mulhouse and work as some kind of a pimp in Amsterdam, very religious but also watches porn and smokes a lot of hash.

Director develops sympathy for him, even sends him free credits because the spyware is eating his bandwidth. Later goes to one of the thief's hangouts and realizes that in fact, the thief is a weird scary guy and not lovable at all.

Sequel hook: phone has been reactivated in Romania. Stay tuned for next episode. "Diversiteit is onze kracht."
Why assembly? Give the kid a magnetic needle and he'll soon learn to flip his own bits.
DHS: Alleged ‘Cyber Attack’ on Georgia Was Just Fed Employee Copy-And-Pasting
Am I missing something? 23&me were forced to validate their service with the FDA. They did and got passed. So they proved that their medical diagnosis are accurate.

I don't understand the hating on the FDA. It's better than having full-time quackery going on.

Edit: Here's an example. 23&Me tells you you're going to develop Alzheimer's. There's no test for that (before it develops), so you can't go to a doctor to validate it. Beyond the mental pain of living with this for years it's reasonable to assume some people would end their lives rather than be a burden to loved ones. But if they fucked up with their analysis and no one forced them to prove it?

Edit2: Also, exempt 23&me from FDA regulation? Why should your lab be regulated either? This isn't just a slippery-slope argument. I don't understand the argument to exempt 23&me.
Yeah it can still be a pane with some routers. TP-Link are constantly making very small upgrades to routers and making a v1 v2 pissing people off lol
The werst thing is wen they make a v1 and then a v2 with a completely different chip set.
You think they're purely in it for the clicks? If so, how is that distinct from a "real" newspaper (whatever that means these days)?
Show HN: Brainfuck for dummies
> Just as one hears of cars chosen for their cupholders, so were these users converted to Unix for trivial reasons: line numbers and vanity.

This is why Jobs was the visionary. "[L]ine numbers and vanity" are real-world problems with technical solutions. When you bridge technology into the real world, to create solutions in real lives, then you create value.

It's painful to consider that something like UNIX could be worthless, but it was worthless ... until it improved somebody's life. This is something I have not fully learned yet.
I'm aware of the legal basis. I mean, morally, why do we put up with the FDA killing services that don't have a direct health risk?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

On your part, that is.
The real question should be: Why does the US want to apply "democracy" and "human rights" using all means including interventions and civil wars like in Iraq, Syria and Libya but it acts as if there nothing happens for more criminal regimes like in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar?
> If no browsers had support out of the box

This was the original state of Flash and Java. This is when they grew. Trust me when I say: This would not be a problem.

> and even plugins were hard to come by (browsers could actively prevent running anything it thinks is a flash plugin..)

This is no longer Adobe 'kill'ing Flash Player, and also how you get a bunch of pissed users switching browsers or sticking to legacy versions. This shit right here is how you get IT departments sticking to IE 6.

Although, this is perhaps a golden age of open source. Maybe we'd see hostile forks instead!

And, of course, iOS Safari has already 'kill'ed Flash in this sense. On the one hand, it's added some pressure to transition to new tech stacks. On the other, since we're still asking questions about how to kill Flash Player, it clearly didn't do the job ;)
My favorite example here is marijuana trafficking, for which there is still a generation of people in prison, yet is now becoming an industry that YC is investing in (http://blog.ycombinator.com/meadow-yc-w15-ubered-over-a-doct...).

Some people, when they disrupt legal regulations to create an industry, go to jail and don't come back.
Wouldnt it be easier just to run sql server on windows at that point to take advantage of the ms ecosystem ?

Edit: I am not familar with much of anything microsoft related.
>Starting with Android 7, calling anything outside of that list will terminate the application.
Google could replace the kernel for something else, while keeping those NDK APIs and only OEMs writing drivers would notice

And they're planning on doing precisely that with Fuchsia
Interesting. The article I linked to suggested that the general conditions for the City Ticket also apply with the BC100 (i.e. only for the destination city when travelling more than 100km).

The page you linked to also is a bit ambiguous about whether the BC100 follows those restrictions of the City Ticket or not. If what you say is true, that's pretty awesome.
Just my kind of things. That sort of retrofuturism, patching the old with just enough new to make it sexy.

Serious kudos.
Well, that much is rare (I'm finnish). I think most people go once or a few times per week.
Obesity itself isn't an allowable condition (it was, but then was later removed). I assume they are getting approved through potentially related problems like diabetes, back pain, etc. Probably too slippery a slope to automatically decline based on BMI. I suppose your idea of education makes sense though.
It seems like we can learn so little by selecting only for jobless people. The best way to do a BI test seems to me to get a random sample so we can test how it affects people in various circumstances. Selecting a specific demographic like this seems more a political move than a scientific one.
If a project disables exceptions and RTTI, other projects which uses those won't compile (at least on GCC and clang). Many low level C++ projects don't use std containers, std::string or iostreams, etc...
>even against coercion
I'd be interested to know more about how to protect against this threat vector.
19 Must Have iPhone Apps You Can’t Afford to Miss
I usually give $10 per year. Not because I think they need it, but because they are an important institution. I'm concerned that the number of contributors is going down though.
Please don't quit watching the news.

I think keeping up with current affairs is important. You need to understand the world in order to participate in it.

Here's some reasons why you should follow current affairs: so you can be a more informed voter; so you can held safeguard the democracy you benefit from; so you can be aware of threats to your livelihood and social environment; so you can make informed decisions about how you live your life (are there particular charitable causes that need my time or money right now?); so you understand the politics of situations when you travel; etc etc.

I think what most people mean when they say they don't like the news is that they can't stand 24 hour news, or find it too depressing, or too much of a distraction. But those things are artefacts of how you consume the news, not the concept of following world events itself.

After following current affairs avidly since being a teenager, I would recommend subscribing to the Economist and also regularly reading a left-leaning outlet (I read the Guardian, it's better than most). I'd also recommend listening to a sophisticated radio station (Radio 4 in the UK; I believe NPR is good for the US, although I'm not an expert), and less frequently watching high-quality news coverage (Ch 4 news or the Andrew Marr show in the UK). Combine that with a general scan of other sites like the BBC, NYT, Al-Jazeera, etc. etc. to ensure you're not missing any major stories. Spend some time understanding the story of the world.

Incidentally, one really nice consequence of staying informed is when you meet people from other countries. Just last night I met a bartender from Columbia and he was impressed with my understanding of the political situation, the FARC guerrillas, the referendum etc. ... it provided a good starting point, and then he gave me a more detailed insider's view.
IMHO the most interesting aspect of this is the FAQ, specifically Q4:

4. Why did you feel sorry for the thief?

I started to feel sorry for the thief because I interpreted all of the data I got in a way which made me feel sorry for him. What if I wanted to see him as a criminal? Or a terrorist? The data would allow me to do that because some of his behaviour can be found suspicious. In the end I was actually shocked when I saw the guy in real life. He didn't look as lonely, sad and old as I thought he looked in the footage I took. Instead he looked pretty fit, smelled like drugs and came very aggressive and suspicious towards me. I saw this man every day, two weeks long so I thought I knew him. The para-social band I had with him (a one-sided band trough a screen) fooled me.
A lot, I found myself much less stressed day to day, I slept better and at work I could maintain longer bouts of focused, useful productivity.

I had a Moto 360 smartwatch from day one, and that thing drove me up the wall after a year of use. If anything happened, my watch would vibrate, then my phone, then my laptop would ping, as would my iMac and then my tablet went off.

Even now I have my outlook client on a three hour sync cycle, and I don't keep Skype on unless somebody is working from home. If shit hits the fan, or there is a burning question/request somebody only need come downstairs to let me know.
Which is still younger than Rust or Go, it's probably the youngest widely used language.
Reminds me of some lyrics I like:

Throw it away, what's left to need

When you’ve got infinity

So much out there left to find

We'll do that some other time
Leave him be, he must've just learned all those words, and in the great tradition of average human discourse, put them together to form a grammatically coherent yet nonsensical utterance that nonetheless achieves its main objective, namely making him feel good about himself.

(See? I can do it too!)
> A disgusting European policy.

I suggest you understand it before you criticize it. It is called Westphalian Sovereignity[0] and Europeans have very solid and good reasons for it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty