skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> stochastic simulation .. approximating the universe

your education is showing.. perhaps you have a different definition of mathematics

among many definitions you can define mathematics as an abstract science or as what those abstractions are studying

but holding the first definition is insufficient evidence for the inexistence of the second

i'm unclear what you think intractable equations.. whether easy or difficult to form and what the definitions of easy and hard are or why they are of consequence.. say of mathematics

a computer is a system literally built as an electrical manifestation of mathematics, albeit a subset, and in its case suffers limitations of intractability but the mathematics underlying its structure still remain

can you defend the position that the limitations of a nand gate somehow disproves quantity(o)?

also, I think Godel would be distressed to have heard the incompleteness theorems being used to deny the existence of mathematics

incompleteness is intended to show mathematics exists beyond the scope of proof

for me incompleteness does go beyond its intentions but as proof of paradox such as the existence mathematics

(o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity
What companies in the Bay Area don't embrace the open office structure today?
I have been coding in Python for years and I still
That depend from which vantage point you are asking that question.
This game reminds me of so many "brain teaser" questions... here are some things that, trust me, form a pattern. Guess what I'm thinking. WRONG.

Makes me think about puzzles & video games and how it's really easy and cheap to make something that's hard or unsolvable. It takes a lot of skill and iteration to get something to just hard enough but achievable that it's really fun and satisfying.
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online course by uofw

https://www.coursera.org/learn/public-speaking
This is a great idea! I think there should definitely be more emphasis placed on knowing what you don't know in a good education system. Even something like knowing what areas of study exist can be quite valuable.

I had a friend acting as a research assistant to a biology masters student who was tasked with removing duplicates from an Excel file. The masters student said it would take about four hours because that's how long it usually took her to do it. My friend made a simple script in about an hour that then did the work in effectively no time. I am by no means a proponent of the "everyone should learn to code" movement but I think there could have been a lot of time saved here if the biologist just new the shallowest fact that computers are good for doing tedious things.

Obviously specialization is still very important but I feel introducing more shallow learning could really make a difference in both communication and innovation.

If you like this general topic Terence Tao has an interesting piece in a similar vein on assigning partial credit for true-false questions [1] that was posted on HN a while back [2].

[1] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/how-to-assign-part...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11821903
That changes just what reality is, what thing you are trying to understand. It is no longer something outside and independent of your mind but your mind itself and the things within it. Your mind would become the objectively real thing and you could still study the structure of your consciousness, of your experiences, what causes the regularities in them we call the laws of physics and so on.

We essentially just decided to ignore most of such possibilities most of the time, from solipsism as you mentioned over Last Thursdayism [1] to living in a simulation or the Matrix. They may seem interesting to ponder about at times but in the end they just prevent you from learning anything at all. You can always come up with a strange scenario in which anything you might believe turns out to be falls.

That certainly sounds kind of arbitrary and unscientific, but without some founding assumptions about reality you get nowhere and that is of course not helpful at all. We should certainly keep an eye on those assumption and we do, living in a simulation for example pops up quite frequently, but for the moment our success seems to justify our assumptions.

[1] The world came into existence last Thursday in precisely the state of last Thursday with all the memories and evidence of the time before last Thursday just to fool us.
Many poeple also don't understand, how easy it is to frame a deauth packet and disconnect clients from APs. Hotels are known to use this to kick you out of using your own personal hotspot on phones. Thankfully 802.11w PMF solves this and FCC has started imposing fines on hotels doing this.
Engineering Kindness: Building A Machine With Compassionate Intelligence (2015)
Real for who?

Free will is obviously an extremely important subject since its the assumption behind most of our moral and legal system. You can of course ignore it and just assume, however I am unconvinced that does anything good to our understanding of other people.
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This is what a payment terminal looks like in most US chain stores. It would be attached to a mount of some sort on the customer side of a cashier booth:

http://www.ncrcounterpoint.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1...

It has a slot for a chip card at the bottom, a slot to swipe a card on the right, a PIN pad for debit transactions, and may be tap-enabled. The screen portion displays the order total and other instructions, and is also touch-sensitive for providing a signature using the attached stylus.
Well, now they would do well to put a sign up if the chip reader is working. Because now I by default assume the terminal vendor is lazy and won't implement it until they have a financial incentive to do so.
> well, there's the rest of the world, and there's the US, where chip cards are recent and still lack chip+pin requirement for now.

And don't forget paper checks are still circulating. I didn't try last time I was there but I imagine that when you go to cash a paper check you go to a guy sitting by an abacus.
Well DUH its well known the USA went there own way and ignored GSM either for NIH or NTB
Agreed. I never use cash and contactless is now so pervasive that I actually struggle to remember my PIN when I need to use Chip+PIN.
I'm upvoting all the comments people didn't make.
Is this just me or is this blockchain algorithm really similar to stringing together commits in Git? Can Git be considered "blockchain" application?
Parent said "chip card" not "contactless".

And the requirement for a PIN (or signature, depending on region) has more to do with amount than with method.
Is Chez AOT compiled or JIT based? If it is AOT, would the REPL still be interpreted and just a finished program AOT compiled?
Please don't do this here.

If you have something to say, say it.

In a forum with participants from a plurality of nations, and various states of wakefulness, sarcasm is going to be missed by someone.

Additionally, it doesn't add anything to the conversation that several sibling comments haven't already stated in a clearer fashion.
It varies, right? If it hits the iPad or whatever, then the tip goes through management, has to be taxed, may be tipped out to other people, whatever.

Some of that is simplified by just having a jar of cash with limited options for opaque gaming.
"How elephants survive on so little sleep remains a mystery."

So, what mysteries have been revealed exactly?
Ugh... ESRI, is the one reason why I didn't get into Geography. I wanted get into datascience that lean toward maps but seeing the monopoly that ESRI has and no open source alternative it was clear, in my opinion, that that market growth is will be slow and the potential will not be as great.

I'm leaning toward medical data and NLP now.
The header on this site is really annoying with a trackpad. It vanishes with any downward motion and reappears with even the smallest upwards motion, so the tiny upwards "bounce" that some scrolling motions can have makes it keep flickering in and out.
to be blunt who cares its a phone for those of us that want multi day battery life
Parellel vs serial
Interesting that you state Isaac Newton's attitude as fact. When I Google "isaac newton universe built for humans to understand" unquoted, I don't find any support for this statement. In fact, this thread ends up as one of the top hits.
I think you mixed up m/s and km/s. The speed of light is 300,000,000 m/s, so 30,000 m/s is only .0001c. At 1g, it actually takes a month to reach .1c. (Still, your point stands.)
If you ask me, the idea that consciousness is an illusion is an illusion...huh
This is already done by certain tests like the AMC and the old SAT.
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UTF-8 encoding could use up to 6 bytes per character, addressing up to 2^32 codes (UTF-8, 1993 version [1]). So even being currently limited to 4 bytes, it could be expanded to 6 anytime.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
Then apply to those companies. If they're willing to apply for visas for Indian and Chinese grads, there's no reason they'd have a problem doing the same for Japanese grads.
Good video+interactive explanation: https://anders.com/blockchain/
You can get refurbs and second hand Wii U's for pretty cheap.
Could you please elaborate on interference with WiFi?

What exactly do you mean by diversity reception?

Why is a simple device handshake such a pain sometimes?
No. It's not an illusion. It's an ability to perceive abstract meaning from raw data, evaluate and act in order to maximize future rewards and the ability to learn in order to improve perception and acting.

The article says that abstract concepts representing whole classes of perceptions are user-illusions. They are just patterns, and the concepts they represent are the best explainers of the data. The patterns exist in the data, they are not made-up as the article might imply. They are patterns discovered by experience, and learned.

Even if consciousness and abstract concepts were all "illusions", that would expand the meaning of illusion, they would become equal to the concepts of mind and soul of the past.

My position on consciousness is that we don't need the concept of consciousness. We should use the concepts of Reinforcement Learning instead. Instead of consciousness, we're concerned with an agent. The agent is just an entity embedded in a world, an external environment. It can sense the environment and act, trying to maximize its rewards. For humans, the ultimate reward is survival and reproduction (which is another kind of survival). So it's a loop of perception-judgement-action-reward.

We don't need the often mystical and imprecise concept of consciousness because it generates useless debates. It's too loaded, everyone means something else by it, the experts can't even define it in a way they can all agree upon. It's a legacy from the past, one step above the concept of soul, but one step behind that of autonomous agent optimizing actions and learning from rewards. The concept of agent is much more parsimonious, it can be easily defined, measured, simulated and studied from the 3rd person perspective, unlike consciousness.
There is. The very fact that no to subjects can ever experience exactly the same. It wouldnt help anything as disagreement would still be there. If reslity was something objective we could access objectively there would never be any disagreements.
The swipe is a 1 second job, but the insert+PIN takes maybe 10sec. I do the card+pin at any point while the cashier is registering my groceries. By the time he finished scanning them all, the card has been back in my pocket a long time. The only thing I do at the end is hit "ok" to confirm the amount. The procedure would be exactly the same with a magnetic card.

Even just the convenience of a more reliable read is worth it.
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A bunch of characters are prepended combining marks (so lookahead doesn't quite work)

0600..0605 ; Prepend # Cf [6] ARABIC NUMBER SIGN..ARABIC NUMBER MARK ABOVE
06DD ; Prepend # Cf ARABIC END OF AYAH
070F ; Prepend # Cf SYRIAC ABBREVIATION MARK
08E2 ; Prepend # Cf ARABIC DISPUTED END OF AYAH
0D4E ; Prepend # Lo MALAYALAM LETTER DOT REPH
110BD ; Prepend # Cf KAITHI NUMBER SIGN
111C2..111C3 ; Prepend # Lo [2] SHARADA SIGN JIHVAMULIYA..SHARADA SIGN UPADHMANIYA

While Unicode-specced grapheme boundaries (UAX 29) do not deal with these, Indic scripts have an "infix" combining mark that takes two regular code points on either side to form a consonant cluster. (Also, Hangul is based on conjoining code points where none of the code points is really a "combiner", they're all equally "regular" characters)

I suspect the actual answer to your question is "historical accident". But, the dead key argument doesn't quite hold -- I can equally ask why keyboard dead keys aren't typed after the character.
Hey, the pointing stick is an excellent input device. They are used in joysticks and gamepads all the time - hat switch and analog controller are essentially the same thing with slightly different implementation.

It works much better for many kinds of games actually than a touchpad. Heck, I'd take two or four of these in a gaming laptop, you'd essentially have a gamepad included with a real keyboard.
Clearly if someone negotiates to get paid no matter what

This is generally how I go about negotiating my salary.
Why is a finance company looking to hire game developers?
Do I understand correctly that the change from GHASH to POLYVAL is basically saying "screw tradition, let's put Little Endian on the wire"?

In general, when you see Little Endian on the wire, that means someone forgot to call htonl() in their code.
Llvm/clang binaries are served over plain HTTP
Just a guess, but maybe the I/O of storage on the cartridge is more consistent than the inexpensive microSD cards that people tend to buy?

-- edit Another benefit is not having to install/uninstall the game to manage space
There is still discussions on the Guile mailing list[0] about it. Someone is maintaining a repo of guile with Nash and keeping it up to date with guile master.

[0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2017-03/msg000...
Some circle of hell no doubt, but I don't remember my Dante well enough to gauge which exactly.
Haha, not sure why this is being down voted. This is meant to be a funny, sarcastic comment :-)
In Spain, you don't have problems configuring an Apple computer with US keyboard since since a lot of years ago

Right now I'm configuring a MB Pro in Apple.de with US keyboard
Javascript. It uses bad UTF-16, where unpaired surrogates are allowed. They're meaningless, but allowed.
I had several CS courses where writing something to the effect of "I don't quite know the answer this question (or don't have time to solve it), but the formulas / algorithms / bits of info I think are relevant are: x, y, z." On a difficult question this might get half credit.
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"Before joining the company, Ed Baker -- VP of growth -- founded two dating sites, one of which was acquired by Facebook in 2011"

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/14/technology/uber-corporate-cu...
Oh, this was killed because of the redirect through twitter, http://www.emotionalmachines.org/papers/engineeringkindnessw...
> Bureaucrats eradicated polio and smallpox, invented the internet, space travel, GPS – and actually almost anything important you could think of (if you include public universities and publicly-funded research)

I don't think anyone in their right mind would call the purchase of technology from privately funded research at a public university (Polio) to count as bureaucrats innovating, nor would I say that bureaucrats did any of those things, with the exception of space travel which was indeed fully done in-house by NASA.

The real innovation that government could bring to environmental issues is consumption-based pollution taxes instead of convoluted, mis-incentivizing mandates like Obama's call for each auto company to each produce one 54 MPG car by 2025.

Tesla wouldn't need the bureaucrats if we had a fair, simple, liberty-maximizing set of environmental regulations.
Mullvad delivers faster VPN connectivity with regional expansion
I wrote about this a bit in http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing-...
I went through Reggie's summer course in Rome for the first time in 1998. Totally free of charge, you took care of your own housing and feeding, just show up for class every afternoon, no slacking. It was an awesome experience, both in terms of pedagogy - everyone expected to participate orally, class really about reading and sight-reading Latin from many centuries, very technical in a pragmatic way rather than scholarly - and in seeing just how humble and down-to-earth the head Latinist of the Vatican really was. A real blue-collar "no gods no masters" old-school Milwaukee guy whom you'd expect to find at the Communists Local 282 chapter meeting in a community center basement rather than a monastery on one of the hills of Rome. Shows just how damn good he was that he got to the position he was in all the while thumbing his nose at the formality and insane bureaucracy of the papal curia.
If I have understood the article correctly, the main idea is that philosophical zombies don't exist. Or rather, that we all are. The "thing" that would separate us from them, subjective consciousness, would be just an illusion - another feature in the zombie/human brain, like memory or perception.
I have no personal or business connection to Gambit Technologies.

But why the heck would a finance company be looking to hire game developers, specifically?
No, most(?) people cash paper checks on their phone. Or rather, using their phone.
Is a language useful without useful frameworks around it?
I hope this doesn't come off as flippant but you're going to have to Google this one. This is a sub area of what I'll casually refer to as "amateur male sexual competitive philosophy". Terms like hypergamy, AWALT, feminine social primacy, etc. are all symbols of a lot of meaning. You couldn't break each one down and justify its correctness in a single comment here. Nor would you want to.
for starters if consciousness is an illusion then free will as we normally think of it is which makes our entire legal system out of touch with what we can actually blame others for.
The ones at regular checkouts in the UK tend to look like this - https://www.primatel.co.uk/image/cache/data/ICT-EFT%20T&S%20...

You can swivel it, tilt it, and even pick it up off of its mount if it's in an awkward position.
You tried to rebut short-termism with first couple of years.
Too much sugar is definitely a problem, but if obesity were solely due to sugar in "virtually all SAD based food" then everybody would be obese across the board. That's not what the data shows, though.

And even if sugar were the main factor, OP's post would still be technically correct, because the underlying problem would be overeating foods with sugar, possibly in addition to overeating other foods.

This may be an unpopular view, but there's no getting around the fact that obesity in most adults is caused by poor decision making around food and exercise.
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This is a bastardized version of a game called Danetki (in Russian) whereby one person tells the end of the story and other players must guess what the whole story was by asking Yes/No questions.

E.g. - In the middle of an undisturbed snowfield lies a man. Next to him lies a piece of cloth. What happened?

E.g. - A man wakes up in the morning, gets up from bed, looks in the mirror and then throws himself out of the window, killing himself. Again, what happened?

This sort of thing. An excellent way to pass some time on long train rides. But after a while everyone runs out of stories, so someone inevitably turns to this trolling variation and that's how the evening ends.
The main downside of Brexit, practically speaking, is that you can no longer randomly move to an EU country and get a job (I'm very much pro-remain). The ranking seems to only weight visa-free travel, which will almost certainly remain after we leave the EU. We would probably lose out in the perception score, but I suspect that's more "Are lots of terrorists from your country?" than "Boo, you left the EU".

Currently we can access 175 countries visa-free, that's unlikely to change much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_British_...

The exceptions that people are most likely to encounter are Russia and China. The remaining countries are largely in unstable parts of Africa and the Middle East. The differences between the top countries is mostly statistical noise. Oddly enough you can travel to Mongolia without a visa if you're a German citizen, but not if you're British. Germany also gets visa-free access to Iran, which the UK doesn't.
Setting up OpenVPN on a Tomato router with Tunnelblick as client
Sonic Visualiser v3 has just been released, here's a list of features: http://sonicvisualiser.org/new-in-v3.html

Also it's open source: https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sonic-visualiser/f...
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AT&T was using GSM back when it was Cingular, before the 3G rollout.

So did the progenitor to T-Mobile.

I think on different frequency bands, limiting the usefulness of international phones.
this is a 'third realm' strawman, the parent simply said mathematics.. you incited platonism

still, i hold it would be more 'hard to defend' abstract concepts fail to exist.. regardless of 'where'

beyond the scope of humanity or human curiosity, look at chemistry

the universe is rather predicated on relations to the abstract concept of quantity

and those distinguishing identities exist within a hadron and in far flung galaxies
except twitch plays pokemon was meant for entertainment. the purposeless waste of resources on bitcoin is a cult, believed to enlighten the world.
The problem with time travel is that when a single person can do it than we can all do it. And none of us will get ahead.

Every time a startup tries to predict the stock market, they are investing in a time travel startup. And that's why they say the market is efficient - no one can predict when the next crash will come.
I get what you're going for. Where's the line beyond which avoiding detection / policing is wrong. Like for example, if I'm a terrorist, then if I'm plotting an attack and avoiding surveillance and policing, would I still be wrong if I've not executed the plot yet?
Why are chip payments so slow in the US?
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No because the point of calling it an illusion is to say that we are more in the passenger seat looking at our lifes as if we were the one driving the car.
Expectations of the unknown are various shades of irrational. When the irrationality becomes recursive and spreads is when we have a problem. That is true of both too much rigor in science (limiting hypothesis of the far unknown) and too much opposition to the truths revealed by scientific study (denying climate change).
It doesn't matter for now. AI is coming. We better have it figured out by then.
As an individual consumer you are very likely to shrug off small losses because of a company acting in bad faith and move on. It is not worth your time. The management of an individual company has a large incentive for acting in bad faith because the aggregate profits from ripping off many consumers can be large. Class-action lawsuits are expensive for the company being sued and act as an effective deterrent to bad behavior, and are one of the very few ways for consumer collective action under a capitalist system.