skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Feynman lectures aren't in anyway comprehensive or bible-like, but they're nonetheless very fun. As for Tipler, I'd stay far away from it haha (take it as an example of how badly a physics textbook can be written).

As for bible-like/comprehensive (I don't know if anyone has written such a thing in such a vast subject), but many consider the Landau/Lifshitz "Course in Theoretical Physics" series to be an elegant summary of important results in physics. Check out the Chicago Undergraduate Physics Bibliography if you're interested in what books to study to become a physicist.
This is news to me. Interesting.
I can't wait until cyberspace literally becomes a consensual hallucination.
okay I guess in this case since its such a big issue, let's leave it like it is and add another 10 trillion in debt because we need to pay 400x what other countries pay for the same drug.
Phuket is such a sad place to visit. It's in that super-sad late stage tourism stage. Go elsewhere.
> Those making $250K and up are responsible for 51.6% of all income tax revenue. How much more should they be expected to contribute?

And this is what is so annoying about groups complaints about the wealthy paying taxes. The heavy reliance on misleading statistics.

The quote says a specific group pays 51% of all tax revenue and says it's way too much. Well did they collect 51% of all income?

An entire article that not once answers the most obvious question even though they clearly have the data to answer it.

And to be clear, I'm not talking about Adjusted Gross Income (which is the total after taking every possible deduction in the book), but actually gross personal income. The latter usually isn't reported. The former is which often is used to make percentages of taxes paid seem higher.

And I don't know the answer, it may even help their case - but the fact the most obvious stat question isn't brought up in arguments for why taxes on the wealthy are too high makes it easy to conclude these aren't discussions in good faith.
Arguably, he could be drink deprived. An alcoholic, forbidden from drinking while on a jury, would be under a lot of physical stress if we assume he or she is capable of abstaining for the duration of a trial.
I can definitely see some usecases of these experiences. Not wanting to sound too negative, I would prefer to meet the people in person and drink a beer, eat a meal than to lounge around in some virtual room. I see the allure of it if you are staying in a place that is hard to reach. But travel itself is also an experience that can be enjoyed - even more so if it is far away and exotic.
This is BIG.
Neuroscientists identify brain circuit necessary for memory formation
Guys - As I impatiently wait as well, I just want to say whatever happens today won't define your success. Whatever the outcome is, I want to encourage everyone to continue to build a great company.
I currently support Labour because Conservatives have a thing for capitalism, Lib Dems are pushing social democracy as a solution and centrists don't care about it :)
You might want to check out Sam Hughes. He's written a few different serialized stories that are based around broadly similar themes. For instance:

https://qntm.org/structure

https://qntm.org/ra

https://qntm.org/ed (this one is older and a lot less polished)
Several states have passed tort reform laws, including Texas. It hasn't made any difference.

The big pharma players spend more on marketing than R&D. The smaller players like Mylan specifically try to find niche drugs so they can buy the rights and jack the prices. It's pure rent-extraction and a drain on our healthcare system and economy.
The best nights of my life were at stalls on Sukhumvit. Still super sad.
Thanks. Will get that fixed today.
Yup. Karachi, Shanghai and Beijing alone would put you above the total casualties of WW2. I've no idea what GP is smoking.
The Google dataset might not be the best for measuring this. Names and abbreviations rank highly. I think Warren Buffet might help contribute to the high ranking of 'warren'.
It blew my mind when I realized that top marathon runners did 42k at a faster pace than my 5k.
> Remember: the truly wealthy can live anywhere in the world.

As an American who often lives anywhere in the world, I'd like to point out you pay US taxes no matter where you live. (though you do get a 90k income exemption, if you are talking about the "truly rich" then that doesn't matter a whole lot)
Beer is truly the drink of distributism: doesn't travel well, highly localized flavor profiles and widespread ownership of the means of production.

I like Sacramento's stuff.
Facebook Messenger launches group bots and bot discovery tab
Google asked a website for its data, then just took it anyway
That is still regressive. A truly progressive tax system would be similar to what we have now but with much fewer deductions that the affluent can use to lower their effective tax rate. (Oft cited that warren buffet has a lower effective tax rate than his secretary because of all the deductions and loopholes.)

Not to mention that there is a huge misunderstanding of how progressive tax rates work. A very affluent businessman was on tv saying they would essentially have no motivation to work if the marginal tax rate increased for him when Obama was campaigning. His idea was that the tax bracket above 250k per year would somehow affect his entire income if he earned more than that figure so he would only want to work until he had 249,999 dollars and then stop making money to avoid "making less money". Of course the marginal tax rate is the rate that your money is taxed above that threshold. In this case the tax rate would go from say 15% to 20% on the money earned after 250k. Let's say you made 260k that year. Your extra tax burden because of the marginal rate increasing would be 20-15= 5% on the 10k dollars. You don't get taxed an extra 5% on all your money made like that fellow thought.

Flat tax is regressive and sales tax is regressive.
The Bizarre Behavior of Turkish-German Voters
I mean (besides it being Facebook), this is all well and good, but I don't see this being mainstream until VR headsets see some sort of mainstream. I guess this is some kind of chicken and egg problem, and Facebook wants to be at the forefront either way, but I can only see this being a very niche blend of Skype.
- Either 480 vs 1060 was a garbage comparison (480 is AMD's flagship while 1060 is nVidia's lightweight GPU) and OpenCL is way way behind CUDA in blender render performance (to the point that I would call that news clip a bullshit clickbait news item).

- or AMD 480 is not AMD's flagship 400 series offering, in which case why they haven't released one?

edit: anyway I just read some of the details of 580 and it makes me sick how pathetic AMD is. They went from 200 to 300 series by pure rebranding and practically zero tech advancement. And now they're doing the same thing going from 400 to 500. (Which means a 580 is really a 380 or 390 in terms of improvements over an 8GB 290X).
You missed what I said. I said tax rates, not what was actually paid, as you stated. The people at the top have the ability to move. Or when the tax rates were 90%+ on the top brackets, those people simply reported they made $249,999 that year as they have the ability to find other places for their money.

Sorry if that wasn't clear enough. What I originally said is very different than how you understood it. Even in your case though, you assume government spending stays the same. But it doesn't. As government rev. increases, you can bet they will spend their new money as fast as they can. No matter if the additional revenue is coming from lower or upper brackets.
You knew where he was headed with his comments, and thanks for countering with stats he should have looked at.
Facebook plans on offering a free version of its Slack competitor
What makes Caffe2 especially suited to mobile devices?
>>President Obama even allowed spouses of H1-B to work, displacing and lowering wages of yet more American workers.

You need to be more informed. Not any H1-B spouse is allowed to work. That provision was created as a bandaid fix to alleviate the problems of people (mostly Indian and Chinese) who have to endure a decade+ long wait to get a green card (due to the stupid EB country cap limits). While that wait continues, their dependents cannot work. By this provision, only spouses of workers who have a permanent residency petition approved but are not able file for a green card due to unavailability of numbers are able to apply. The estimated number of spouses expected to apply was around 179k out of which only about 37% ended up applying. In contrast, the US issues 860,000 green cards every year (non employment based) which by your argument should be displacing even more local workers.

And not all spouses work in the software field. My wife works in healthcare and this provision was a Godsend for us since it has been 5 years and counting since my green card was applied for by my company.

If this provision goes away or the immigration system does not improve for the better (reducing backlogs), we are seriously contemplating our future here.
No but I do believe they have a harder time going into debt.
I don't know much about Amazon's retail business, but you're spot-on about us focusing on meticulously managing costs. Sometimes people ask how we do it and the hardest part to explain is that the culture of the company is built around that.
My point is that it's only a "leak" because the List interface makes it clear that the program no longer intends to reach that object. So this would be "unpurposefully reachable" -- The program did not intend for the object to be reachable, but it is. This has nothing to do with the List interface, and everything to do with how a interface is used and what intent that usage proves.
Is ARM, and in particular the NVIDIA TK1/TX1/TX2 supported? Ease of use on these platforms with Theano vs Tensorflow/PyTorch is the main thing keeping me on Theano.
Too poor for a free feature?

This isn't talking about Spectacles, the glasses. It's Lenses, the feature where you can overlay images/videos onto your Snaps that did things like change your face or let people know where you are/what you're doing (depending on the lens).
The problem is even worse than it looks on the surface (from the client side). If you're implementing a library that holds native resources in .NET it's better to familiarize yourself with CriticalFinalizerObject [0], SafeHandles and Constrained Execution Regions. Writing correct finalizers that work even when out of memory exceptions are thrown is no easy task...

[0]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.cons...
I'm guessing an encampment of vans in a location with minimal facilities (restrooms and waste) has the potential to become something of a cesspool. That along with not everyone having the same free spirit love the world and leave no trace attitude (i.e. some homeless) can quickly create issues.
Uh, what's your complaint? Why in the world would you assume that it has to have the same API as S3? I also don't understand your comments about "cool". You need an auth token so that the subsequent API calls, well, know you're authentic... Makes perfect sense to me.

Yes, the first API call requires authenticating first but every additional call reuses cached credentials, so no change to latency.

I've been using Backblaze to write a for-fun app, using c++ and libcurl, for the last few weeks and I've found it to be wonderful from a developer perspective.

Their documentation is short and sweet. They have capabilities to help you stress test your implementation to make sure you handle edge cases! (you can pass an extra flag and it will randomly send errors) That is so amazingly helpful! And to top it off, their support staff is quick and responsive even with technical details. _And I don't even have a paid account_

If you find dealing with this to make your code "much more complex", then as they say "my consulting rates are very reasonable, my email is in my profile". :P

(Disclaimer: I do not work for Backblaze, have never given them a dime of my money. So far.)
After 14 weeks? I'd side on which ever side was going to prevail with my vote. I think I'd just want it to be over and get back to repairing the damage to my life that 14 weeks on a jury inflicted.
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This is super, super weird but could be huge.

It's very Black Mirror, it sort of makes me uncomfortable but I can't explain why. I think it could be a much better version of what Facebook is trying to be, but .... something's off.
Not really. This is more like Messenger v2.

Second Life / High Fidelity are much closer to the ideas behind the Metaverse than this.
We do have a Steam version, but for a lot of our (non-gamer) audience, Steam is an extra (and confusing) step in the funnel.

It hadn't occurred to me that the platform-specific app stores are the way people have been solving this problem (and thereby doing away entirely with product keys). It's something we've looked into, but as we're 3 platform (Mac/Windows/Linux), we've never taken the plunge.

My biggest concern would be installation size. Right now, our minimum install is about 8 GB, but if you install all the optional content, it goes up to about 60 GB. I'm not sure the app stores (aside from Steam) have a model to support that.
I kind of don't understand how you could conclude it's anywhere outside of Oregon, but there's numbers so I guess I'm wrong!
I can give you my example -- I have an open source backup tool called Snebu which uses an sqlite DB to store the backup catalog (file names, file hash, metadata etc), whereas the individual files are stored in a vault area (currently just a disk volume, with files named after the sha1 hash). Backup data is sent to it by piping in tar format to the main process, which updates the catalog DB and deposits files into the storage vault.

I'd like to add cloud capabilities, but for that I'd have to run the backend process somewhere that can easily update the DB, and easily read/write the data in the vault, along with syncing the full DB to the vault location after a backup.

My other option is to run everything locally, and compute a delta file between versions of the DB and send that delta over to the vault (i.e., do D2D2C backups).

Edit: Another possible requirement -- I'd like to pack multiple smaller files into an archive file, and deposit that into a bucket. But as files age out of the archive, I'd like to be able to move active ones out of it and into a new one. Right now, I'd have to re-create the still-valid backup data out of on-hand information, upload the new archive, then send a command to delete the old one.
Tech companies are building tiny, personal AIs to keep your messages private
> There's no question the long goal for corporate AR is to digitize the entire physical world, catalog it, and then sell outrageously effective ad inventory against everything that we see.

That's too far away to be able to predict accurately and it all rests on the lynchpin of the masses being interested in augmented reality.

Although slightly different, this was the case when computers were brought to the mass market. People didn't drop their real lives to become fully immersed in the digital world. Sure there is the minority of societal outcasts that spend their entire waking lives immersed, but that's all they are: a minority.

Of course, most things are on the uptrend to becoming "digitized" in the sense that everything you could ever need is online, but it's been a very slow course.

The average Joe barely even comes close to using the internet to its fullest potential. What makes you think something as complex and convoluted as AR (not to mention expensive) will be any different?
I will make my company the most successful with YC or without YC, you decide YC :D
A super inexperienced observer here, so just a very basic question - how does Caffe(2) differ from TF/Theano/Torch etc.? What are the obvious upsides and potential downsides? A tweet-sized answer will do, I'm just curious as to what the high level differences are.

Cheers and congrats on the release!
Somewhere on their site, they address this issue. It is part of the reason they are able to offer cheaper prices. By having to request the token first, then upload, this allows them to avoid using load balancers. The less equipment they have to have, the cheaper your storage can be.
Taking bets on how long it will be until the first VR sexual assault lands someone in jail.
The company behind Second Life is already working on a VR-centric "Second Life v2", with what seems to me a more interesting vision of the metaverse than Facebook Spaces.

http://www.wsj.com/video/creating-virtual-reality-worlds/E18...

There's also High Fidelity, an open source, distributed VR metaverse started by the founder of the same company.

https://highfidelity.io/
What could be worse than the Holocaust?

From a moral standpoint, little that I can imagine. From a human-cost standpoint, howabout unchecked and cascading climate change? If the world's powers retrench into regional hegemonies, and trust erodes along with trans-regional communication, then we're less and less likely to do anything on a global scale -- and we need to. If we let the ball get away from us here, we're talking about potentially billions of lives lost to war and famine, not to mention the billions whose way of life will be lost.

And the worst part is, we don't even need fascism to get us there. We get there easily enough through the direction the status quo is bending towards.
Just because something is healthy, doesn't mean its required. The human diet isn't ruled by absolutes.

I see from your comment history that you are a vegan yourself, and your behavior is exactly what turns people away from it. What's right for you isn't right for everyone. Take your arrogance elsewhere, and learn some compassion.
There's a difference from envying the haves, while having not, --and starving or being unable to clothe yourself, or even not being able to buy a low-end smartphone at all. Not saying everyone needs an iphone to be happy, but having low end feature comforts -will satiate people enough that they will be a LOT less likely to rebel -- it's when people become desperate that we have problems
Bit disappointing to me. Cities may have various concentration of "picobreweries" not big enough to have a presence on RateBeer. I know I've been to many such breweries on the east coast. Not that I know how an effort of similar scope would account for that nor how strong this effect would be.
Some Foods Trigger Blood Sugar Spikes in Some People but Not Others
Oh, it was very conscious. I think the decision had been building up for some time, however, probably subconsciously. I first went back to eating fish for half a year (I was a pescatarian for five years before being a vegetarian) and when that seemed ok, I decided to eat any meat. This latter decision was even more deliberate as I had just moved out and no longer lived with someone who cooked delicious vegetarian stuff every day. I try to limit sugar these days, at least keeping it to one dessert a day. That was, I think, the main motivating factor. I'm in no way low-carb, but cutting out as much sugar, especially from non-dessert foods, has definitely been a huge win.

Morally, my views have not changed at all. In my moral framework, my own needs always must come first. So nothing has changed morally and therefore, it hasn't been an actual problem. I'm not saying it was totally easy and that I didn't think a lot about it both before and after, but it has been quite beneficial to both my mind set and waistline so accepting it has been easy.
Pretty impressive that Salt Lake City is #11 given that it's 35% Mormon.
> The Ouija board seems highly inappropriate, since I believe jurors are instructed to not use outside research

Outside research? Do you genuinely believe they consulted the the spirit world?

At most this this would surface their collective belief in the guilt of the accused. An unconventional means to arrive at a consensus, but no more outside research than each of them writing a verdict on a piece of paper.
You've already posted this same comment below. Please don't repost comments, and please don't take discussions into well-trodden flamewar territory.
See also: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/
Going with an incubator should be one of the plans we must have, not the only one.
Steve Ballmer discovers what the government is really doing with its money
You're making the point that being H1 is an inconvenience and to be honest, that's fine. It even sounds like your life was improved because you were H1. Would you have had these opportunities if you weren't?
http://caffe2.ai/docs/caffe-migration.html#null__how-is-caff...

> Caffe2 is built to excel at mobile and at large scale deployments. While it is new in Caffe2 to support multi-GPU, bringing Torch and Caffe2 together with the same level of GPU support, Caffe2 is built to excel at utilizing both multiple GPUs on a single-host and multiple hosts with GPUs. PyTorch is great for research, experimentation and trying out exotic neural networks, while Caffe2 is headed towards supporting more industrial-strength applications with a heavy focus on mobile. This is not to say that PyTorch doesn’t do mobile or doesn’t scale or that you can’t use Caffe2 with some awesome new paradigm of neural network, we’re just highlighting some of the current characteristics and directions for these two projects. We plan to have plenty of interoperability and methods of converting back and forth so you can experience the best of both worlds.
> The Ouija board seems highly inappropriate, since I believe jurors are instructed to not use outside research

Outside research? Do you genuinely believe they consulted the spirit world?

At most this this would surface their collective belief in the guilt of the accused. An unconventional means to arrive at a consensus, but no more outside research than each of them writing a verdict on a piece of paper.
>So as far as actually talking about my point goes, what exactly am I missing? There are small differences but I've never seen a language that I couldn't get up and going in over the course of a week.

That's because you either used the languages superficially, or use only very similar languages, probably of the Algol family (e.g. Ruby, Python, PHP, JS, etc).

You won't get very far with Haskell "over the course of a week". Or APL. Or Idris. Or Erlang. Or Lisp -- or any other language that's not a mere Algol derivative with some different bells and whistles. And even those have their idioms, of course, that one needs much more than a week to get competent with, but, it gets worse when we expand languages to not be "mainstream Algol derivatives". One would only be using languages like Smalltalk, OcamL, Scheme, Scala, Self, etc, superficially without getting into their idioms and nuance, which wont happen in a week (and can take years to really master).
I would love this! Great idea. So far, B2 beats S3 on nearly every metric, with the exception that with S3 I can process data more cheaply with EC2.

A crosspromotion deal between Linode and Backblaze would be fantastic.
Yep I meant mostly because I'm in the US. I'm totally interested in this once the network coverage gets better.
So will this replace alpine which is for some reason much loved in docker world?
What he wrote is a comment in a forum, not an article. This is his opinion.
Do you get further in academia if you're a jerk?
MAD isn't current US policy and hasn't been for some time. US doctrine allows for flexible responses and the possibility of a nuclear exchange staying within the bounds of a regional conflict, rather than automatically escalating immediately to all-out nuclear spasm.

And I don't think it was ever the official policy of the USSR; their planners believed that even all-out nuclear war was both survivable and winnable. (Which made the whole concept distinctly iffy as the foundation of deterrence.)