skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you go Full Copenhagen and start thinking about QM as a calculus of probability densities in physical systems it begins to make a lot more sense than trying to think about it as an impossibly weird version of Newtonian mechanics for waves+particles+wtf.

It means you can stop playing "Where's the photon?" and accept that these experiments are doing spatially distributed probabilistic computing.

In this view there is no photon - there's only a map of possible photon-like event positions distributed in spacetime, and one or more end-points tuned to pick up photon-like events by sampling the map at specific spacetime locations.

The weird part is the way that interactions between the map distributions and the end-points are completely unintuitive, and you can do neat tricks like constraining probabilities by repeatedly connecting to an end-point, and creating dead areas where the probability of an event is zero but which don't "block" events around them.

That just emphasises that the Newtonian-ish view is the wrong model. The right view is still TBD, but it seems to be some kind of holistic summary view that somehow - no one can even begin to guess how - creates a map by integrating over all possible interactions.

This is not what we're used to, but discovering that reality doesn't do what we expect is the point of science, so that's not a bad thing.
There are indeed policy implications. Each such alias reduces the available namespace, where +-aliases do not. If I had to guess why Google doesn't implement this feature, I'd guess that's the reason - their namespace is already hotly contested enough.

(Of course, you can do this, quite easily, if you run your own mail domain. You need not administer an MTA - I gather you can wire up a domain you own to Google Apps or G Suite or whatever they're calling it this week.)
I suppose another counter example could be Facebook...in net it results in a lot more human interaction.
Yes, but not for 50 years. That's how long moores law is in effect already.
The very first sentence of the article - "On March 1, 1995, fired off an email to his friends." - is not a valid sentence, it's missing the subject! facepalm
I imagine many would benefit if we had a smart developer assistant where it could have a higher level understanding of programming.

"Jarvis import library foo" - could be said from anywhere in file

"Jarvis jump to file bar.c"

"Jarvis declare var current temperature equals zero" - var currentTemperature = 0

"Jarvis write for enumeration on var word over var name list"

"Jarvis build and run" or simply "Jarvis run"

By the way, I know many people don't like to talk to a computer, can't imagine how it could be faster than typing, etc. However, I believe that once an assistant is done right, more than a few people would be converts.
Not by definition. Most people don't sit precisely with a 90 degree angle and instead extend their legs into the space under the seat in front of them.

If your bag is taking up all of that space, you are doing it wrong.
Aha, I was viewing it at https://outline.com/xX7xe3 but in fact his name IS present and hyperlinked in the original article, so it's Outline.com that's at fault.

UPDATE: I've reported the issue to Outline.com
Yes, we're not protecting against the app being attacked, the key being jacked and then the attacker getting access to the db. Rather, we're protecting the database against being accessed directly. That could happen due to an error in configuring network access to the database or another service could be compromised that has access to the same database -- as has happened to many mongo databases over this year.
We are in a word where success as a write is churning out 2 fluff pieces of click bait rather than one research article.

The writers at all the AOL and Gawker franchises are the end result of this trend - a million monkeys sitting at typewriters.
But all the objects remain leaked even if the request connection ends. And if the request stream got piped into another stream the problem can become more severe.

Usually error events propagate through piped streams, but that largely depends on the order in which the event handlers were defined.
Hahahaha I'd rather not share my exact location publicly on HN as I live quite close to the building. But if anyone would like to know, my email is in my profile, and I'll be happy to explain how to get to the building with public transit, other things to do in the area, and how to get inside it if you'd like.

(The building is in the Netherlands.)

If you (or anyone else) wants to try this for yourself, simply find a place where wind is channeled through a small-ish opening. Small in this context just means "smaller than the walls around it" so even a house-sized opening can work. Searching Twitter/Google for complaints about wind or getting knocked down by the wind can help.
What's interesting about OSF is helping to open up the research process. This is done by connecting tools and providing a centralized platform for communication. They've also been a developer and leader in helping with scienctific reproducibility.
Yeah, I bet you save heaps of time by not having food with you and having to go buy it.

Besides, give me one piece of scientific evidence that can prove time actually = money, do you think that staying at work till 5pm every day provides value just because you're in the office? I doubt it.
The Fraunhofer Society is not and never was a "patent troll". They do actual research and one of their income sources is licensing the resulting patents.
Are you referring to the nutritional supplement exception?

A great many drugs don't qualify for that.
I admitted already that my own preference could be irrational, and I am not trying to impose my own viewpoint on the matter.

Regarding "why I think work is a very important element of our own lives", see my own submission on HN from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8280379
I just played with some challenges. JavaScript, Python, and Java are there. Users are allowed to create new challenges, translate available challenges from one language to another, and write test cases. This is great. There’re instructions for each challenge and resources where one can go to learn programming concepts and come back to code the challenge. Also, there is a discussion area for each challenge. I think this is not for absolute beginners, but those who’re familiar with the syntax of a language will find it interesting. Way to go.
Both. You want to choose a good password and then not let it get too stale. A very old password (say 1 year) has a higher chance of being subverted purely because there is more elapsed time wherein attackers could have gained access.

Choose good passwords, long, special chars, preferably random and generated by a password generator / manager. And then change periodically. That period depends on your application.

We change our cloud passwords and keys every 90 days.
Just wondering, what exactly is being sacrificed in this specific case?
All right, I'll grant you that, though it's minimal: since anyone can create any number of gmail addresses already, there is a minimal policy difference.

If this is a concern then Google can generate an immutable part of it (with high entropy), for example I said "j45rsdfjdocusign " of which "j45rsdfj" may be generated and the user may rewrite only the end of it.

The reason it's good for the user to be able to write at least part of it is so they can include the tag and not have to add it as a separate step. Otherwise, it is hard to remember where tags go.

An alternative is that during the generation the user could supply their comment which is visible only to them. (So that under this scenario j45rsdfj is generated, and you comment it with "docusign" during generation. Then if j45rsdfj receives email it is tagged with "docusign" (the comment you added during generation).

There are no other policy implications. (Though I say that with a bit more hesitation, since you did point out one minimal effect.)

By the way this has an additional benefit. Most user-chosen names don't have enough entropy. If I sent an email right now to johnsmith433 there is a 100% chance that it has already been registered by someone. Today, spammers can guess email addresses. (This is a theoretical problem only.)

If Gmail generated high entropy as part of this feature, then this would further reduce this (theoretical only) avenue for spam. I don't think this is an actual problem though - I've never heard this being described as an issue.
Linux ext systems have inodes, which store all the metadata except the name. Directories contain name + inode number.

NTFS stores the name in the MFT instead, which makes hard links a bit weirder.
Ask HN: Your favourite GitHub integration for testing?
What is your favourite Github integration service which does testing.

It can be Continuous Integration or Code Reviewing or Anything else.
You usually don't have to go that far.

Why don't we talk about the elephant in the room, that is, Sci-Hub?
As a general rule, if you receive an email referencing wire transfers, it's probably bogus.
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Cut the entitlement lines. "previous generations" mostly couldn't afford to fly at all because it was so expensive relative to normal incomes. Today people can afford to fly on very low incomes in these economy seats you're getting flustered about.

Here's a hint, pay for first class. That's the equivalent level of service and price range that previous generations received (inflation adjusted).
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I understood that but didn't made it point clear: my point is that it matters in a bit more nuanced way. I'll use [0] as some sort of visual support to help transcribe how I perceive it:

- 128k MP3 is like watching a Q=10 JPEG (artefacts and blockiness all over the place) while 128k AAC is much more like Q=50 (artefacting is much much more local, like the little grass patch on the left side of the stone)

- 256k MP3 is generally great but still has artefacts happen occasionally in some local, specific areas, similar to Q=50 (but not in the same way as 128k AAC), and definitely not on all songs, while 256k AAC is very close to perfect in any situation.

- 320k MP3 is very close to perfect save from very specific (and rare!) pathological corner cases that throws encoders off (like you have to have some specific bass line and some footwork on the bass drum and some very specific cymbal then the cymbal gets subtly crashy and noisy while the bass work gets subtly glitchy and muddled), which doesn't happen with AAC. Yes I've double blind-tested this with a friend who did not believe me, and used multiple MP3 encoders for that.

So to sum things up:

MP3 AAC
128k annoying enjoyable
256k excellent awesome
320k superb

Those being ordered this way: annoying < enjoyable < excellent < superb < awesome

It's not much that I have some "golden ear" that I've been trained into looking for some patterns when I was studying DSP and now that I know what to look for they just annoyingly pop out. It's a bit like watching logs fly by just fast enough that you can't read them yet spot some oddity and just go "wait, there was something right there", and should you scroll back, sure enough, here's the deal standing out like a sore thumb.

Taking a bet that audio equipment gets better and cheaper with time I'd rather have a reasonable quality as a source, especially in light to the storage space and general bandwidth we have at our disposal. Then again in an increasingly streaming world we don't get much in the way of a choice whether it's about formats themselves or encoders.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Sample_photographs
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What is the difference between medicine and drugs?

It seems highly relevant since there seems to be some quibbling about using the word natural and that it has no meaning (I agree, but another comment mentioned exactly what Taleb meant by natural).
There _are_ tidal forces. It's just that they alone don't explain the amount of heat measured by Cassini.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus#Tidal_heating
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Are you sure the objects remain leaked when a connection disconnect comes through? I don't have hard data on that.

Depending on the node web framework (express, ...) they may handle that differently and may have timeouts to cleanup.

I'd love to get a firm answer on this one.
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Is that a joke, or does circumcision or its absence actually have an effect on the classifier? Or do you refer to some other characteristic? Offhand I can't really think of a more marked difference between American and non-American penises than the relatively high US circumcision rate, but I'm not so much a subject matter expert as just an interested amateur, and perhaps I overlook something here.

(If anything, I'd expect the classifier to more reliably call "not hot dog" on a penis that's circumcised, since hot dogs rarely are.)
It's not only sped up, it's using a lot of abbreviations.
I used to frequent Anandtech, Digital Foundry and ExtremeTech as they all had pretty good articles that sometimes went quite deep into the matter at hand. Anandtech its quality has gone down a lot, ExtremeTech is full of ads, ZergNet links and a constantly running JS script (probably a tracker?), and Digital Foundry its deep dives have become a lot less frequent. Only Ars Technica remains :/
I think this problem has been at least partially solved with the slide forward to recline seats; e.g.:

"One product from Zodiac is the 5751 slimline economy class seat. This particular model of seat uses a unique recline mechanism where the seat bucket moves forward while reclining."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Seats_U.S.

here is an example of the seat: http://downloads.cathaypacific.com/cx/new_seat/seatguide/Oly...

p.s. on international 8+ hours flights resting/sleeping without reclining is challenging ...
>"[U]nless of course you’ve landed a job as a drug dealer or a Wall Street banker, becoming a gangster either way" is a ridiculous line.

Agreed. Gangsters never got a trillion dollar bailout on top of their pillaging.
While sugar (a really generic term usually referring to sucrose) is natural, it occurs in the highly fibrous stalks of sugar cane. Most sugars naturally occur within fiber, while modern food practices extract and/or refine leaving the fiber behind.
As someone currently writing an app which uses a retrained Inception model, I watched the show pointing and laughing (and then crying) at the same issues and frustrations. The accuracy of the show and especially this episode has been just brilliant.

Thanks for sharing all the tech details too, it's been great to read. I'm even more amazed to see it as a real app, that I didn't expect!
A catchall on my domain was all fun and games till the second dictionary spam run.
Many of the apps shown have a humongous banner element that does nothing and take up nearly a third of the screen space. This might be unintentional and not part of the design language, but the fact that it wasn't caught before press release doesn't fill me with confidence. That and the fact that every single MS UI has sucked really bad and in very obvious ways ever since XP.
HSTS is great... until the site's certificates expires, and then you have no way to override the security warning.

Or if you want to untrust a shady CA, but you can't, because one of the site you (rarely) visits uses this CA + HSTS.
That's my experience too. Introversion doesn't mean I don't need interactions with people. I've met unhappy introverts who didn't seem to have ever realised this.
For the record, the 2 billion dollars figure is from the notorious tufts centre for the study of drug development, which is heavily pharma-backed.

It's a very, VERY controversial figure in the pharmacoeconomic literature, but has been accepted as gospel due to continuous repetition in shitty reporting.

Fairly good article discussing this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/11/18/does-...
Django actually has pretty good out of the box security settings and support for XSS, CSRF and SQL injection protection, support for bcrypt and argon2, setting password rules/validation through settings, etc:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/security/
There's the legal framework, though, and there's the actual way a society is structured and who calls the shots.

So, while the legal framework can allow it, the big corporations have politicians, media and laws in their pockets, and can make all of this very difficult in a lot of different ways.
> Essentially you're locked into the system - The people who give you money (grant foundations, universities) judge you almost entirely based on your publications, and in how 'high' of a journal your publications are. As an early career researcher, you only have enough material to publish maybe one to three papers per year, so you have to make the most of it. Let's say I have a paper and I can get it into Nature Genetics (high impact factor, not Open Access) and into PLOS ONE (low impact factor, OA) it would be almost career suicide to put it into PLOS ONE.

This is also a somewhat circular problem. You need to be publishing where other big papers go, increasing the strength of those journals, so others then also need to publish where you went and so on. The lag in this system can be huge, as we're talking about slow updating numbers (citations happen over many years) and publishing timescales themselves can be months to several years for a single paper.

> Some high impact journals offer OA publishing if you pay extra - $2000 to $5000. For the CV, funding committee it doesn't matter whether it's OA or not, that's not a bonus (usually!). But again, as an early career or PhD student you don't have that much money, $3000 is better spent on going to a conference to find your future boss.

One fix to this is the funding agencies requiring open access which is happening more and more.

A mitigation is policies with journals like Nature Genetics, which allows you to place the paper in your institutions repository (or funders repository) 6 months after publication. [0]

[0] http://www.nature.com/reprints/permission-requests.html
Capitalism certainly also plays a role here. However, I would argue that capitalism itself did not get worse in comparison to fifty years ago. Its the demographics that have changed. However, you are right that we cannot change demographics, so we might need to adjust capitalism. In fact, this argument might even be used to justify more government intervention than ever before, exactly because the situation has changed and the high level of economic freedom we had earlier might not be as healthy any more under these new circumstances. So the argument can go both ways.
> Yeah, I bet you save heaps of time by not having food with you and having to go buy it.

Yes? I could go to the office canteen if I didn't want to walk around the corner. Most of the time I do though. (And making sandwiches at home means you still have to buy and store the ingredients).

> Besides, give me one piece of scientific evidence that can prove time actually = money, do you think that staying at work till 5pm every day provides value just because you're in the office? I doubt it.

It gets me paid. It gets me paid more than I'd be paid to make a sandwich. If I could switch to a 28-hour work week and get paid the same hourly rate then I would, and maybe then I'd have enough free time to make my own sandwiches (though probably not, tbh, making sandwiches is less fun than programming). But that's not easy.
Because if "the public" (people without a vested interest in perpetuating a given field of research) had easy access to the data, methods, etc rather than needing to rely on press releases, they might come to different conclusions.
You might enjoy reading Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné series. It's in part about a society that spends most of its time high as a kite, and its inevitable downfall.
>The word "shortage" pops up often in these types of conversations, but the word I'd prefer is "mismatch". Me and the people I know are hiring aggressively, all the time, for people who know about engineering, product design, data analysis, etc. There are lots of jobs. Most of the people you walk past on the street just don't know how to do them.

Even if they knew they'd still be a shortage, because while you might have this kind of high-end jobs, the people on the street are much more than what's needed for those open positions.
Does it work? What kind of changes (if any) do these boycotts effect - e.g. do they lead to better working conditions abroad, or just eliminate foreign jobs in favour of onshore ones?
There are many examples of patent trolls but this isn't one. MP3 was new, innovative, and the result of long effort. The patent fees directly funded new research of even better technology. That's the patent system working as designed.

I just read your blog post through Google Translate. You seem to claim that they patented the use of Fourier transform for storage of music. This is not what happened at all. The patent was granted for specifying which part of the Fourier transform can safely be discarded for storage (and reconstructed while playback) without harming the sound you hear too much. That's not something they just looked up in a 200-year-old book but took more than a decade of complex research. The result of this research is their actual product and it's a highly valuable one.
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From what I gather, STM in .Net heavily relies on the static program analysis.

You may see it as a proof of your point, but I see it as a counterexample - a team of smart people was not able make speculative parallelism efficient even with static analysis. JIT will be even less efficient as it has to keep and account for tracing information and for speculation logs. These two interact in interesting way, I guess.
I could not agree more. There should be more articles like this one (https://hackernoon.com/how-to-better-classify-coachella-with...) clearly outlining the steps what needs to be done to solve a real world problem. The algorithms by themselves are very powerful.
Firefox has never supported the X-XSS-Protection header.
it's tough. If a language has pointers, then you would expect == to compare whether the two sides have the same value (an address). I don't see a way around that.

How would you expect a programmer to ask "do these two pointers hold the same address?" .holdsSameAddressAs()?
I think there is less need to tolerate the mainstream than ever (which equally you could frame the other way around). These days if a given internet radio station is playing too much black metal and not enough death metal it's trivial to switch to one that only plays blackened death metal.
Ever since I seen a demo of Graphcool at a GraphQL meetup in London, I've been hooked. If you're looking for a hosted GraphQL backend, Graphcool is pretty cool.
The book is tained by the publisher. It's a perfectly valid reason in a very complex and delicate debate, such as climate change and pharma innovation regulation.

Even if the book is fine, it might not be the total picture, thus it could mislead you by omission. And it can be totally in good faith, it's just bias.

So, even if the book is a good overview, it's just a voice in a discussion, and without hearing what others think of the book, it's pretty good to go by what one knows of the publisher.
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Can you expand on this? Links? Sources? What did they publish that was climate change denialism?