skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well then read the paper! I'm in your same position. Also with "Would Bohr be born if Bohm were born before Born?".

EDIT: I started reading it and it gets into reeeally good stuff:

Simp – There are predictions from string theory as well.

Sal – Like?

Simp – Like large extra dimensions. Supersymmetry. Transitions that cannot happen in the standard model.

Sal – You mean that if we do not find the experimental consequences of large extra dimensions we conclude string theory is wrong?

Simp – Of course not, large extra dimensions exist only in very special models.

Sal – So, the experiments on extra dimensions cannot kill string theory?

Simp – No they cannot.

Sal – And if supersymmetry is not found at the scale we expect, we do not abandon string theory?

Simp – No we don’t. It will be at a higher scale.

Sal – So, which experiment could kill string theory, in principle?

Simp – Nothing I could think off. The theory is very strong.

Sal – Seems to me is very weak. A good scientific theory is a theory that can be falsified.

Simp – I am not a philosopher ...

I'm rooting for Sal!
Elon Musk launching “x.com”
One of the most annoying things about our industry. I would prefer to get to know a few technologies really well rather than keep chasing the latest new hotness. Unfortunately that is seen as stagnating.
Ask HN: Starting point for web app development?
I saw this was posted on here two years ago (https://blog.cesarandreu.com/posts/a_reasonable_starting_point_for_building_a_web_app)

I was wondering if anyone had a good update to this? I am a fairly seasoned wordpress web developer with plugin/api development experience. I know quite a bit of php and sysadmin randomness.

I'd like to make a focused effort to trying to develop a web application, and was wondering if there was an open source project that would be a good starting place for my web app?

I'm also curious if anyone has suggestions on the best way to "hold it". nodeJS, docker, etc.

Thanks HN!

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Military cyberoperations headed for revamp after long delay
PM himself saying here that math doesn't work in Australia.

I really, really don't know what to say to this. Read the thread.
I believe it's not how the passive-aggressive behaviour looks like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive-aggressive_behavior

And they used the term in the show incorrectly, too.
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Thank you, sir. That gives rankings. I'm still waiting for something that shows that CA has a 3-10 x COL than does TX. Your per capita state spending is $4,568 vs CA's $6,774. So it isn't there.

Payscale sure isn't saying 3-10x.

http://www.payscale.com/cost-of-living-calculator/Texas-Aust...
I cleaned it up a bit and added the missing keys: https://github.com/wridgers/pwtools/blob/master/bin/pwtype
Seems like it was a slice of fashionable items that a typical person would wear and no one would think was strange/what a lot of people would inspire to dress like.

There are some strange styles you'll see in Tokyo, but people there also think they're kind of strange (less so than in the US) and the wearers are trying to stand out.
at a top tier investment bank isn't working their elitist enough all ready
Sometimes it's not about load, but speed of innovation. A huge complex monolithic codebase might not have a lot of load, but it can still limit a team's ability to experiment with new features due to big ball of mud. Decomposing areas into service might enable faster innovation better than refactoring the whole monolith.
An agreement that was negotiated for a long, long time? Not two years

And what the UK wants is not a free trade agreement, they want the same acces that they have now.
> you can't practise talking to real people

I have not tried this myself, but there is a skype channel used to converse in Latin [1]. I'm sure the quality varies widely, but it is there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9V04fDh6o
> there are six-legged things living under everyone's eyelids, but the knowledge of that can hardly make one happy.

Not only does that mak me happy, because I'm an American I figure more is better. I'm currently trying to breed them with 14 legs
Do you think the community has professional writers or only writing enthusiasts from the tech world? :)
I am curious how many people actually feel this is cool that Facebook can simply copy everything Snapchat comes up with? I understand that this is the way of the world. Big fish eats smaller fish yada yada. But is it good in the long run? I don't know how to do this, and I understand any solution will probably be riddled to the core with loopholes. But I do feel like there should be some way to prevent this kind of monopolization. What do you all think from a long-term, idealistic perspective?
Except for when you go public and that "niche" isn't big enough to drive the returns public investors want. There seems to be many social media companies that should take the non-profit and open source route that Mozilla took. Twitter feels like a prime candidate, they provide an extraordinary useful service that might be impossible to monetize without losing some of the utiliy.
Whether they can be worked on independently is not the criteria that matters (and in point of fact, its a false assertion in this case if they're using the same database, as neither can iterate on the schema of the data completely independently of the other). What matters is, can I take this service completely offline and have the other still function? If the share a datastore, then the answer is no.
>Writing that we should not allow someone to be part of government because we perceive them as dumb ourselves is dangerous, let the people decide, say your opinion in that matter, show candidate faults, but let the people decide.

I don't think I follow. You, I, and everyone else in this conversation are part of "the public" as much as the next guy.

And insofar as our political system forces us to vote for less than ideal people in order to advance or protect important principles--and I think lots of people of all political persuasions felt like this in 2016--it is unfortunate.

For Trump in particular, you may argue that he lacks in intelligence, and I would disagree but see where you're coming from, but he certainly has plenty of courage. That's what Republican primary voters saw in him.
Why on earth would you want spell check on text-to-speech for the blind? Spell check is for people writing messages, not for people reading messages.

This is a terrible idea.
Houellebecq's first book Whatever is about the unfruitfulness of programming.
I get it, military service is a particularly exceptional service because of the sampling is wide and all that, but it's not like anyone over the age of 20 hasn't met all sorts of people in general. Also, I get what you're saying, but every time I hear these sorts of things, alarm sirens in my head off and a refrain "confirmation bias" is blasted on repeat.

The whole "half of people dumber than the median" doesn't really bother me as much as it does other people, especially since IQ often isn't what I care about when evaluating a person.
Another biased article completely failing to address the natural tendencies toward "gender roles". Yes, maybe society tends to enforce them, but kids are not blank slates waiting for gender assignment.

There's a difference between "back off the pink and guns" vs "respect natural tendencies, and variations thereto".
Ok, serious answer. I used the non-inflation adjustment specifically because while I recognized enough time had passed to cause a not-entirely-trivial adjustment, I didn't regard it as enough time to matter enough to warrant a distraction to the more core points. Inflation adjustment precision is a notoriously disagreed upon thing, the more near term you get the less valuable the matter becomes. I knew that someone might lodge that point, so I wanted to potentially preempt it (hoping that it would make the responding comment not worth bothering with, that the person writing it would be too lazy to bother writing a comment just to argue inflation adjustment numbers for ~1997-2017). Why bother making the point at all then? Because it highlights Facebook's growing financial power. If their net income isn't beyond Microsoft's on an inflation adjusted basis today, it will be very soon (perhaps by the end of fiscal 2017 or mid 2018 on a run rate). Further, I suspected most people realize that while there has been some inflation since the late 1990s, it's not N hundred percent.
46 House Republicans join Democrats in backing a study on climate-change
Slack, Skype and Gmail? What else?
Apparently there is some research and development taking place into a cane that has a sonar or some similar sensor embedded into its tip, and transmits haptic feedback to the user via the handle.

These assistive technologies are fantastic, but I wonder whether a vision-impaired person who has adapted to life before they were available would be weary about adopting them, on the basis that if it breaks or becomes unavailable that they would have maybe lost the skills and sharpness of other senses to compensate?
And ofc you need this story with some 30-sonething superstars self promoting hotshot CEO who is the capable of coming up with the solution of simply copying the competition.
As for the last paragraph a good example of this is the closing of a contract from an iot device signal. The device signal may be on the iot chain or chain code instance and the contract logic on another.

The only problem with your theory is how to do that with a turing complete system. I can send signatues for anything but actions which occur based on those signatures you would want a somethingwhich continues the chain of trust. Im not sure of any way to do this how you are describing while still maintaining turing completeness.
There's no doubt the answer to your question is yes. The more interesting question would be whether there'd be any buyers.
I enjoyed the overview about what fintech is.

But the middle of the video, the startup guy makes some bold claims about their AI - essentially that it has human-level understanding of natural spoken language.
"People read the sports section because they can talk about that with their friends"

Well why not have them read the "Science and Technology" section and talk about that with their friends? How is sports, which has a negligible direct impact on your life, seen as more relevant than reading the "Health" section? And the problem isn't just sports. The crime section is just as guilty, reading about most crimes in no one serves to keep me safe.
Thank goodness it's a 32 year old and not a 28 year old or 42 year old.
Society urged to take stand against internet bullies
And IQ is renormalized as the population becomes more and more educated and society in general progresses. Every time people bring out their complaints like this, I often feel like people don't have a sense of their place and society's place in time, especially compared to the past.
I didn't get very far reading this until I realized that because Java developers skewed the results pretty hard, there really weren't going to be any takeaways from it that aren't also only relevant to the Java ecosystem.

It's why I don't pay much attention to statistics in general. Nobody's constraints are going to match how I would do it.
I recently configured my router to support IPv6 and had to disable it. A lot of websites that resolved to AAAA didn't have a working server on the other side. Major websites half loading became common and I spent a lot of time troubleshooting everything. It was a bummer.
I clicked to the comments to pun "let's take the mass out of patent trolls." well done, friend.
If you are inferring lack of IPv6 support from that site not loading, be aware that the site loads very slowly. If you want to see if you have working IPv6, try here [1].

If that says you do not have IPv6, then here are thing to check.

1. Check your computer to make sure it is asking the router for an IPv6 address. On my Mac, for example, it was originally only asking for an IPv4 address. When I changed the settings for my ethernet port to ask for an IPv6 address too it worked.

2. If your computer is asking for an IPv6 address but not getting one, check the modem or router provided by your ISP. On its settings or status page it should say if it supports IPv6, and whether or not it has got an address from the ISP, and whether or not its DHCP server is configured to let your computers have an IPv6 address.

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This may be an unpopular opinion but I feel strongly against titles like this. They could have very well gone with "...Facebook take Instagram Market share" but they wanted to make it personal and human.

I'm disgusted by the choice of words here. One company gained an advantage over there other in a market, big deal! They're competing businesses and eventually one will up the other but there's no point in saying "down to its knees"
How Bacteria Defend Themselves Against Lethal Antibiotics
Any solution is hard to enforce. Idealistically, the computer world has largely decided cross pollination, while sometimes painful for just the reason you describe, is better for all of us (I agree, and purposely chose not to patent technology that has been worth millions for me and my competitors over the last 17 years).
I dress for myself. I dress well, casual and comfortable. I shall not wear a suit to suite others, nor will I dress like a bum. I have found a set of clothes I like, looks good and I feel comfortable I. And I buy five-to-ten of the outfits and I wear the same thing visually every day, though they are physically different garments.
"All else being equal, someone with a relevant degree will have an easier time being a successful entrepreneur"

I think that is where we may disagree.

Plenty of Entrepreneurs who made it big without a degree. Some of the top of our time actually.
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-100-entrepreneurs-who-mad...

"for most people is an unreasonable trade-off of safety, personal time, health and comfort for nebulous "freedom" and a very unlikely chance at striking gold."

This I somewhat agree with but I oftentimes wonder if a lot of the "very unlikely chance" part of it has to do with the inaccurate and unrealistic image the start-up scene places along with the lack of good education on starting a business. You can build a very comfortable life running your own business without being a unicorn but seems as though most are shooting for unicorn level. That I believe is where most of the failure comes from.

It really isn't all that difficult to build a $200k to $500k+ year small business. Easier today than ever. But that's not sexy so people shoot for the stars and miss more often than not.
Regarding EU bureaucracy, isn't it clear that some is required?

Otherwise how do you replace, for example, 28 different national systems for classifying bananas with a single classification without a certain amount of bureaucracy? You either hive massive multilateral discussions among 28 national bureaucracies or you get rid of the individual national burocrats and delegate this function to Brussels.

I love the bananna thing btw - it's a long time favourite of EU haters as an example of EU overreach. Europhobic UK newspapers have milked it for years - out-of-control bureaucrats making up useles regulations and creating red-tape. But they never mention that it replaced was 28 individual national banana classifcations.
It's perfectly reasonable to put your credentials and configuration into a VCS if any secrets are in ansible vault or something similar.

I reckon they either stuffed it all in as plain text or someone got hold of their source code and found a stupid hole in it and just read the database file off the front end somewhere. It's not unusual for the unclued to stick a database dump on a front facing web server with a "secret url" and just pull that down with curl or something.
See also tetris on traceroute: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621887
Care to share the project?
quanta is hr speak for the increase in pay budget and yes in practice PRP is used to depress pay
You're assuming that IQ is what makes people elite.
Oh please, it's an antiquated set of rules that serves no purpose in the modern workforce. If you want to build a team there a load of other ways that don't require clothes.
Gridmaster: What We've Been Up to Since Hitting the HN Frontpage
I read that book in college and it frightened me so much. I was worried by the prospect of selling your soul in a thousand pieces. I.e. making many "compromises", which individually don't mean much, but taken together will turn you into exactly the kind of person you wanted to avoid becoming.
Thank you all.
It took me a while to get back to this thread and see your replies, but I very much appreciate them.

I'm convinced that you just pushed my over the limit to finally start learning org-mode.

And the examples sound lovely.
> "Last crisis, that we're still recovering and suffering consequences"

The last crisis was extended by the actions of the government. Quantative easing to boost the wealth of the private banking sector + austerity in the public sector.

You can't save your way out of a recession, but if you are going to spend your way out of it, the money should end up with people who are willing to spend it in productive ways.

As for Brexit, what's your main economic concern? Imports? Exports? The domestic market?
That the Github account did not use 2FA does not explain the breach. How did the attacker get the password?
At this point, you are literally trolling me.
Im not going to read that huge list of links, but from what I understand CETA doesn't cover e.g. eggs, poultry... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/15/brexit-canada-...
Oh cool... If only this happened six months ago when I had my interview. Then again, attire was the smallest problem of the interview.

I remember reading Glassdoor to see what working for the company as a dev was like and most of them complained about how low the pay was compared to tech.

Maybe they should pay more for a wider talent pool?
Because sports are more accessible and universally entertaining. The population of commenters on Hackernews tends strongly to the extremely curious, people who are always seeking new knowledge and ideas to play with. Not everyone is like that!
Which sort of casts doubt on the value of the IQ measure in general, don't you think?

Don't forget, Richard Feynman scored a 125 in high school, and by the Flynn effect, he'd be considered even dumber today. Let that sink in.
First woman to win math equivalent to Nobel Prize dies at 40
east texas is already out.
https://hbr.org/2017/06/patent-trolling-isnt-dead-its-just-m...
Well, the OP is a somewhat contrived example of what I think you're talking about, which necessarily leads to bad discussion, but in that example if the timekeeper is a single point of integration (e.g. Postgres in my previous post) then its not really possible for that kind of inversion to happen unless you're publishing events related to process A from process B, and process B's knowledge of events from A is by inference. That said, I have put myself in situations with asynchronous processes where the projection interleaved two different streams and between streams temporality of the events became inverted. However, the solution in those situations is fairly straightforward in that you pass a causality token to the next command or attach it as metadata to the events it gives rise to, which allows you to resort the graph in terms of causes. Worth noting is that this situation can arise even when you're using logical clocks if you have complex relationships between asynchronous processes—one reason most ES proponents don't recommend going async until you really need to.
> What gun laws do you think Idahoans, of all people, want to see expanded?

Any law pertaining to firearms, because most believe the "liberals" are coming for their guns, so the further right the laws are, the more ground there is to fight.

For example, Idaho recently passed a "Constitutional Carry" law which allows anyone who legally owns a firearm to conceal it, without any training or permits. Previously, a background check and conversation with your local sherif was required to obtain a Concealed Weapon License. This barrier was low, and I'd never heard of anyone being denied, but apparently it was too invasive. I exercised my right to this prior (licensed) and after the change, and feel it wasn't a logical change.
I don't mean to disparage twitch games, that's my go-to example of one of the last domains where it's cost-effective to get really good at living within customers' hardware constraints. But when prod is a growing distributed system, it's natural for tests to assume the same distributed system, and forcing those tests to sort-of run on a single box with the wrong kernel/fs/network config just trades in cheap hardware for expensive engineers doing work that doesn't make prod better.

When I write java, I can't run maven in prod and expect it to get native libraries into /usr/lib64 and the sysadmins' Python and Go plumbing and config files into ... wherever the hell that may live. So together we tweak a .spec file that not only provisions the entire machine correctly but answers questions about whether the entire machine is provisioned correctly, not just the java half. (We probably could make maven do all that, but the result would be worse in every conceivable way, and in most languages it's not even an option.)

If you want a rolling release distro, use one. Godspeed. But nobody's going to sell a support contract that covers random alpha builds published overnight. "We can't upgrade the distro and get the code we need, so we're smuggling in code that the distro doesn't trust yet" is just devs and sysadmins playing chicken over the fate of the project. The bleeding-edge vs supported argument should have been settled before going live.
> Btw, only someone with no historical perspective whatsoever would question the progressive credentials of the EU (given the recent history of some of its members: communist rule, military and fascist dictatorship, sectarian division) or accuse it of being protectionist

I would challenge you to explain how the Common External Tariff combined with the Common Agricultural Policy are not protectionist (tariffs average 18%)!

outside of the CAP: there are plenty of other examples of heavy protectionism in the CET.
sugar and coffee are two easy examples.

sugar has a heavy import tariff: to give the domestic EU sugar beet industry an huge advantage over the cane sugar business in the developing world

coffee is more insidious: processed coffee has a heavy import tariff, whilst unprocessed coffee has no tariff at all, this prevents producers in developing countries from developing the profitable part of the industry, forcing them to sell the raw produce at low prices to the EU

there are plenty of other examples, the net effect of being that if you are a developing nation: the EU is not an easy destination for your goods
I have been working on this thing on and off for six+ years, I know almost nothing about graphics so this has just been a fun little exploration for my and probably nothing to base anything on:

https://github.com/donatj/3D-Package-JS
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