skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To an extent. We know of a causative or some kind of relationship, but whether consciousness is an entirely physical phenomenon, or the concept of mind, is still up for debate, at least in philosophy. To say either way as a fact would require more than the circumstantial evidence for a purely materialist viewpoint, if we are going to accept the scientific method as the arbiter of truth, even.
> Except then you're stuck with a $15K server, and you had to spend all 15K up front

I think you missed the part where the parent said "lease it at $400/month (OpEx)"
But why not let? Or any word that doesn't start with "va"?
Instead of giving him a patent, the patent office should be referring him to a doctor given the fact he is temporarily blacking out while walking down streets:

> In the next instance, he (G) found himself down the street near the corner of the next block. Realizing that he had passed the bus stop, he turned around to see the iron grating approximately 50 meters up the street in back of him. Because there was no recollection of having jumped across the iron grating nor of having passed the bus stop's yellow marker line, he realized that he had been teleported a distance of 100 meters while moving along with the traveling wave.

Although you have to give him credit for mixing physics, geometry, with new age pseudo-science babble:

> The question is how does this amplified gravitational wave created by the rotating propellers and turbines get into hyperspace from our dimension?

> The answer comes from experiments done using the ancient Chinese form of breathing known as Chi Kung. Using this breathing technique, we have been able to levitate the human body over six feet in the air. The internal temperature of the stomach is around 200 degrees Fahrenheit. By simultaneously squeezing the diaphragm to bring hot air up through the lungs, and breathing through the nose to bring cold air down, rotating vortices are generated in the lung passages when these two air masses meet and twist around each other as depicted in the famous Yin-Yang diagram. Because the lung has variable diameter passages from the large diameter at the throat to the final small air sacs, there is a spectrum of rotating frequencies.

From which he jumps to this sentence:

> From quantum physics it is known that if there is a temperature fluctuation occurring among a group of harmonic oscillators in the environment, then Planck's reduced constant Figure US20060071122A1-20060406-P00900 is increased by the cotangent of the constant times the frequency ω of the oscillator divided by twice Boltzmann's constant k times the temperature T ℏ = ℏ ⁢   ⁢ coth ⁡ ( ℏω n 2 ⁢ kT )

But really, who needs black holes when you have breathing?
var = variable (can vary/change)

val = value (constant)

What can be mistaken?
Zero rating is about billing (i.e. giving away for free certain content), not bandwidth throttling. It used to be called 1-800-Data in the early days because carriers likened the concept to toll free phone lines.

Conceptually, consumers aren't up in arms about toll free phone lines. I'm surprised Pai hasn't brought that up yet.

Bandwidth throttling specific sites would be a more serious concern (à la Netflix and Verizon). Bandwidth throttling certain types of content (e.g. steaming video) seems to be the border that carriers are willing to push.
Thank you for the solid work!

I didn't totally get the capabilities at first glance but the combination of the announcement post, the GitHub repo and the comprehensive samples really helped.

Being able to run these and use secrets is HUGE. Being able to get a url to point a client at is probably my favorite feature. You can prototype something without ever worrying about localhost or throwaway deployments.
I have to damit, I wish Ceylon would have won, hehe.
We will engineer around it.
And I'd add that most compressors make a lot of assumptions about the general case that reduce that real world compression ratio when compared to theoretical maximums. That's why stuff like kkrunchy can't be beat in their domains (first and last rule of optimization, "know your data inside and out!").

If someone was to stumble upon a heuristic that gives you noticeable gains for general compression as well, it could be close to as game changing as Richard's stuff is. Obviously we have a good handle on "theoretical maximums" thanks to information theory and so that end of the plot is BS, but looking past that embellishment the show isn't outside the realm of possibility.
I'm extremely surprised to be honest.

I wonder if HN has always been like this.
Kotlin as a language has expectations on IDE capabilities. I doubt the problem of accidentally typing "r" instead of "l" at the end of a keyword is as prevalent as someone typing "var" instead of "const" and not coming back to make it immutable. A quality compiler can warn about an unmutated mutable variable which solves all problems.

Remember recently on the Java mailing list there was a lot of bikeshedding concerning this point. I don't think it matters near as much as the discussion surrounding it thinks.

Oh, and finally, "const" has a specific meaning: compile time constants.
You make that sound so simple with "racism". Yet here we are, 2017, and we still have swathes of people that think it's A-OK to be racist towards white people (or sexist towards men). And it magically doesn't count as racism because something something "institutionalized" magic definitions.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2017/04/17/Huffington-Post-...

We can't even hold media, individual reporters or even public officials to account for posting false stories or false claims.
I don't think the guy is telling his former colleagues to fight for the nice perks, but more for the culture. It's clear from the article that the company's values are shifting to be more profit-oriented.

He personally finds this shift questionable because those might not have been the core values that motivated him (and perhaps his colleagues). I'm not sure if that makes him an "entitled goomba."

I do agree that the second quote is purely stupid. You work(ed) at a online marketplace, of all things and _now_ you're allergic to capitalism?
Probably because that's what scala does
It'll be cool to see what Qualcomm releases. Until then, there's already some released Tensorflow code that will run on the Hexagon DSP in a Snapdragon 820: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...

You can run it on a rooted OnePlus 3t (or a OnePlus 3 if you find one used).
>A very easy test: How do you feel when you get something wrong or make a mistake?

Time to figure out what went wrong, and what to learn from it.
I prefer the rule of nobody but the consumer. That's what markets are for.
Totally - after seeing the list I was like, oh it's about THAT part of Amazon.
Yes.

val person = selection?.organization?.owner?.let {
setTitle(it.name)
setImage(it.image)
it
}
"The low-density energy fills the body which allows a human being to float upwards like a helium balloon as verified by Chi Kung breathing as well as spinning on a motorized platform known as the Chakra Vortex Accelerator. The latter device resulted in the first mechanical means to produce anti-gravity."

Seems totally legit.
Had to stop reading after this quote

"ISPs generally do not discriminate against highly-trafficked websites. If they did – holding a figurative gun to the head of those websites by throttling back speed to those websites – consumers would dump those ISPs in favor of others."

I'd believe this true if any of the large cities I have lived in actually had competition between ISPs.
For advantages (and some disadvantages!) compared to Java, I'd start with https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/comparison-to-java.htm....
I tend to agree with your conclusion but I think the reasoning is still incredibly complex and not really sound. Sleep is an obvious and frequent discontinuation of consciousness.
I think in any job where you can get a piece of the gross proceeds you can make more money than in a job where you make salary plus profit sharing or equity.

That would include talent agents, advertising, etc. (You could argue these are all just salesmen)
You don't understand the word "oligarchy".
Breitbart. I bet this link is credible.
I'm personally a fan of the Rust way, i.e. `let` for const bindings and `let mut` for mutable ones. I think it's fairly clear which is which, and having to type four extra characters to get mutability helps reinforce the notion of const being the default choice.
I'm not disagreeing. My point is that I've seen this pattern enough times now to know you can't escape it. It will happen whether you like it or not.
There's a lot of canceled items in the patent, I wonder if that's because it was too vague to be part of the patent? I agree with your interpretation of the manufacturing process. They expose the sheet of <001> Fe to either nitrogen gas (N2) or NH3. NH3 does break apart with high temperature but ideally you want to work with N2 instead for safety reasons. It's more efficient to break the N2 bond using a cracking source, they use a plasma arc to break the bond of N2.

The usual problem is always going to be compositional control, you know, coming up with a method that preserves the rather excessive stoichiometry of Fe16N2. There's a bunch of other phases that can be achieved with simpler stoichiometries, so the long term stability of this magnetic phase is of concern to me. What are the ideal operating conditions of this magnet before interdiffusion occurs and we lose the right stoichiometry? Maybe there's a small window that could render this material inapplicable to many mechanical or thermal conditions.

Oxidation of the Fe sheet before nitridization is another concerns. Fe oxidizes very easily and would become a barrier for the nitrogen.

The other concern is that they characterize the magnet's performance only on the product of saturation magnetization and coercivity, and mention using ion bombardment to enhance the coercivity. This can be interpreted to mean that the Fe16N2 has a poor coercivity which means that it's a magnet that is very easy to switch with weak magnetic fields or thermal energy. Not what you want for permanent magnet applications.

So I still have a lot of questions and concerns although I do think it's worth pursuing this material because it makes a lot of financial sense as Fe and N are super common and easier to process.
I think an important piece of advice to take from this (and something that I learned early on) is to favor tools that reward mastery. In this respect Java isn't actually that bad, even if there are better options available. What's worse is the culture of many organizations that happen to use Java.
I think you are correct. The game has changed in a significant way. The only thing a C-corp executive can defend is increasing shareholder value. Everything else she does must be a driver of this value.

This represents a change in the way of thinking of the executive team. It used to be you could buy a share of a company like Google and be paid out (in dividends) a portion of profits. The stock, in and of itself, was valuable. Now that's no longer the case. The stock only makes you money if you can find some schmuck to give you more than you paid for it. So the primary pressure is not on the CEO to make more profits, but to make the stock price go up. Correlated we would hope, but not the same.

My feeling is that this is what happened to Yahoo. It was, by all accounts, a decent company. But an activist investor got involved, started running negative PR on the CEO and it became "groupthink" that he was incompetent, and he was finally ousted.

So the t->infinity result is that the drive is to increase stock prices. In the board room, the question is always, "how can we increase the price of our stock?" Anything that is not illegal is on the table. If you don't take those actions, the board will find somebody who will.

That's why, when bad things happen, it's really a strawman argument to blame "greed" and "lack of ethics." Anything that shouldn't occur needs to be regulated against, or it will occur. Call it the many-worlds hypothesis of evil.
We dont own our home, but we insured our Xbox: The rise of on-demand insurance
Uhh...

The ENTIRE POINT of Title II is common carrier.

Common carrier means they get to regulate peering costs. They don't regulate the costs ISP charge you personally. They regulate how peering agreements between businesses work.

That's why they call it 'common carrier'. That's the whole point to establishing common carrier in the first place. It gives FCC rights to step into a dispute and regulate. What other disputes are going to happen other then ones over pricing?

> Title II was going to solve all of the problems caused by the un-competitive ISP market.

It's not going to solve any of the problems and it never will.
"and someone who can manage a company selling beverages can sell computers just as well. We know how that worked out."

In case some people need context, this is referring to John Scully (previously president of Pepsi-Cola) then CEO of Apple during Steve Jobs' ousting in 1985.

Edit: updated to clarify that John Scully was previously president of Pepsi.
> Expending effort to prevent pasting is a stupid move.

Oh, I agree. I was more talking about people who have already expended that effort (so its zero marginal effort) and are considering reversing it (which as a small but non-zero cost.)
Yep. We've had to do some work for clients in Africa in my job. One we did in Morocco was fine from EU data centers on AWS, but South Africa has been very difficult to serve with acceptable latency from any data centre we've tried.

We're 90% AWS here, but would probably use Azure for those clients if they had a data centre in that region.
This is like complaining to a manager at a fast food restaurant because of some personal problem with the fast food employee, outside of the context of being served by that employee. The perpetrator is "getting even" with that person by trying to stir up problems for them at work. Maybe they met at a party last weekend, and the one insulted the other's girlfriend or whatever; nothing to do with hamburgers.

If you have a problem with service and complain to a manager, then you're clearly not a "third party"; the contract between the employee and fast food restaurant has everything to do with serving you.

Note that the BBC are not saying that they will contact your employer only if it can be determined that you used the employer's time and equipment to post the comments. Even if you post those comments using your own residential internet connection on your own time, they threaten to contact your employer.
Rust uses a different allocator actually, jemalloc which doesnt store data inline like ptmalloc does. So an overflow could overwrite other heap stored data it wouldn't overwrite heap metadata or result in a vulnerability from the allocator code.

Granted, if you link/call in code that uses ptmalloc (glibc's malloc) in Rust it is still an issue but unsafe code in Rust itself won't be vulnerable to this sort of attack.
They had it right 150 years ago. Go play vs reality. If you must waste your time with chess, then chesstactics.org is cool.
I had a friend in high school who ended up going into sales and retiring at 40. He was comfortable talking to anyone in almost any situation. We called him "Silk." He got into selling enterprise software and made a killing. It didn't hurt that he grew up the son of someone quite wealthy in investment circles, so his risk tolerance was pretty high.
Would you feel the same way if someone cloned you as an exact copy (genes, memories, mental state) and then tried to kill you? There's no difference between that and teleporting except the order of operations.
Sorry, I don't see the difference. With read-only you can create a new object which is the first element of the list and also points to the rest of the list. Instead of an structure you have an "immutable" object.
It's readily available if you google my name and usernames; available in my profile.
Napoleon once referred to England as an "island of shopkeepers".

Computers are getting better at sales. Amazon doesn't have salespeople. Retailers barely have salespeople any more. Outside of real estate, cars, and financial products, what B2C companies do?
Const exists too, but for compile-time constant. Var and val are ok due to the general conciseness of the language (they don't get lost in the noise of other ceremonies).
Plus, being a language though to benefit from strong tooling, IDE's will generally display the two differently.
Well, there's a great way to ruin your credibility on Hacker News.
Yup. I disable JavaScript and cookies.

I also use extensions to enable them on certain sites. Just tap the extension icon and it will reload with JS enabled.

You'd be surprised how fast webpages load without JS
Why is it not sustainable?
How does this affect the rest of the world?
I recently started adding random emojis and lyrics to gmail addresses, it isn't usually shown so it's a nearly-steganographic rick-roll.

example+Youre+the+best!+Around!+Nothings+gonna+ever+keep+you+down@gmail.com

Too bad the music emoji is stripped by HN!

PS: Emoji in titles also make things like Youtube videos and blog posts pop quite a bit when shared via social media.
Already have net neutrality? Except we don't. ISPs are already prioritizing their own content over 3rd party content. Sometimes via bandwidth limitations, sometimes via throttling.

Companies putting a lot of bits on the net? Yeah, and they're paying for it! And the customers are paying to pull those bits down. Why, again, do those companies have to pay a third time on those bytes?

The Government Still Allows Discrimination In Traffic? Sure, they allow prioritization of (for example) real time traffic over web traffic. The key is that this is done equally across all real time traffic, not just the ISP's VOIP offering.

That article is shoveling BS pretty hardcore.
At a quick glance one might mistake var for val since they're only one letter apart. The definitions do make sense though.
Ok well you made it about 10% through the article - at least you made a modest attempt at understanding the other side of the debate.
Founders, like those discussing startups on YCombinator, typically don't claim to understand the existing industry better than a veteran. They claim to understand the power of the Internet and computers to change that industry better than veterans stuck in old ways of doing things. They may naively and incorrectly believe that the industry is not that complicated, but in practice the leverage of technology often is enough to overcome that underestimation.

Consider, for example, AirBNB - not exactly experts in the hospitality industry: https://www.airbnb.com/about/founders. A hotel chain, with all their issues of real estate, zoning, construction, maintenance, room service, reservations, and so on is very complicated. Just running a bed-and-breakfast is a full-time job. AirBNB founders didn't think that they were better at hotels or B&Bs than existing veterans, they said "Why not use the Internet to connect people with living space at destinations with people who want to go there?" and wrote a website for that. In practice, they had some trouble with zoning regulations, subletting agreements, and destructive tenants - "Who could possibly have known it was so complicated?" - but in the end the appeal of just renting out personal space has proven to be a powerful idea.

The problem with HBS is that they seem to claim that applying generic business skills like financials and cost-cutting to an existing industry have a similar effect. The problem is that they don't.
After having worked in a legacy javascript codebase, I can say it is very much possible to discern between sucky code and code that is maintainable.
Secret inflation is just one way to grief a cryptocurrency, there are a lot of things that could cause the value to drop.

Can you really trust Ethereum as a platform given the DAO debacle? I do, but only because I seriously doubt there will ever be a massive hardfork like that again.
I agree there is a balance to be met.

For greenfield applications, chose whatever the customer ask for on their Request For Proposals, or suggest modern solutions if they leave it open to proposal reply.

On existing solutions, deployed for several years on the field, actually measure what it brings in regarding business value. Either in terms of reducing project costs thus improving profit, or improving customer UI/UX thus improving the value the customers get out of the product, specially if it helps them to improve their profits.

What I am against is just adopting tech that doesn't improve anything, sometimes even causes products to be abandoned or removed from the market, just for the benefit of a few devs improving their CVs.

I have taken part in a couple of projects where it actually happened. Architects were busy chasing the new shinny instead of delivering what customers actually cared about. In the end the product was canned.
>All of them share a view that the principled or systematic person — the person who believes in one truth according to one set of principles — is weaker or less spiritually advanced than the person who sees things through multiple points of view.

If your own principles and views are coherent, tied down to observations and causal mechanisms, then you can imagine counterfactuals. If you can't imagine counterfactuals, and what would draw other people to believe those counterfactuals hold in real life, you don't fully understand your own point of view.

>Is it possible to love something, or pursue something, without freaking out about it?

Ever been married? You can't stay married if you're freaking out about your spouse, nor if you can't acknowledge flaws. You don't keep your cool about your spouse. You commit to loving them as the person they really are, rather than as your fantasy of them.

>I’ve had occasions myself when I deliberately “took myself out of the picture” in order to hold space for others — and it worked pretty well, and was fun in its own way, and people responded well to it, but I had a strong intuition that this wasn’t what I wanted to spend the majority of my life doing. I have a self, and it’s not going to like being cooped up forever.

Yeaaaah... I've definitely been in this situation. It's kinda been boiling at the back of my mind whenever I have to do work with a strictly political group rather than a technical one, or with technical ones where I want to work on some other problem.

These kinds of things take long-term planning to fix. It's not just a matter of working "on your own": you need to get in the right environment where your self can come out.
> This is a later version of our computer...

Nice YouTube video, thanks.

> To load the OS, you first had to hand key in a bootstrap loader in octal (base 8) on the front panel.

When I eventually got to university in 1978, we had a PDP-11 of some sort, and I recall entering the boot program by setting the address and data toggle switches and booting from paper tape. I have no idea if it was core memory.

Those were the days :)
Great work!!. Are there any techniques to remember tough Spanish words while practising ?

In case if its English verbs,I am able to see few listed here.

http://learn.groupsone.com/how-to-remember-english-words-for...

Can you help me out with similar techniques for Spanish?
My understanding is that in most US cities there is only one choice of cable Internet provider so the consumer cannot choose a provider that offers neutral service.

So the FCC is required to force the providers to comply with the will of the people. And they're not doing it.
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of business owners throughout history have had a similar thought.

Not that there's any way to test that claim bet.
I see - would you also agree that you will meet other people (such as other programmers/designers/etc) over time? I haven't met more than five at my current job.