skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More specifically, the majority of individuals who control mining.

I’d be interested to know how many people would actually need to agree a fork that, say, didn’t halve the coinbase.

Also, of those, how many would give priority to the philosophical underpinnings of Bitcoin over making more money in the short/medium term.
The current state of machine intelligence 3.0(2016)
I disagree, people do forget about will power, otherwise they would know that something is bad for them and choose something else to do.
People are not that dumb, they know it is taking a toll but they choose to entertain that addiction by looking at a feed (any feed) and have momentously happiness lasting microseconds.
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> 3D Touch app switching

3D Touch app switching is back in 11.1 at least

The 11.1 beta also has noticeably better performance on my 6s. It's still too buggy (as a beta) for me to recommend though.
The entire luxury market disagrees with this. This isn't a small market: companies like Louis Vuitton, BMW, etc (and even arguably Apple) are huge, profitable entities selling large numbers of goods to large numbers of people.

Even outside the luxury market there are numerous other factors, not least of which include: distribution, vitality, marketing etc.

Edit: Also there are at least three Nobel prizes showing how marginal value isn’t what matters in making choices (Nash, Kahneman, Thaler)
The balloon is supposed to burst, the payload should have a descent parachute. It's a problem if the balloon doesn't burst and drifts into busy airspace.
Usually, there's a medically expensive period before death and the burden may even begin in the productive years. Smoking probably causes higher incidence and severity of common diseases like influenza, additionally resulting in loss of labour, income and associated taxes.
I guess the main issue is the media will drum up some moral panic about undesirables using devices like this, to record clips of children or whatever.

I've often thought about a device that would catalogue my life, what I did, be intelligent enough to group events together etc, have a searchable index of time, places, people. But the ethical implications of this are just too great, and effects on society would shift in strange ways. There was an episode of Black Mirror a few years ago that explored this, in some ways it is "be careful what you wish for"
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I think 6 to 7 was really difficult, but everything that shipped with 7 would go up easily to 10. Many people were still repeating the same “my iPhone 4 became slow so planned obsolence” mantra.

iOS 11 on the other hand is just garbage. It doesn’t run like shit only on older devicee, it runs like shit on a brand new iPhone 8 as well. Battery tests were abysmal. I woke up this morning because of an alarm on my iPad that was planned only on weekdays. WTF!! SUNDAY!!!

11.1 solves a lot of problems. Installing dev certs on all of my devices infected with 11 just so I can run the 11.1 beta.
See:

https://medium.com/time-dorks/the-distraction-free-iphone-or... and

https://medium.com/time-dorks/my-year-with-a-distraction-fre...
I upgraded my HTC 10 from Android 7.0 to LineageOS 14.1. Instead of 24 hours I got over 48 hours of battery life and the phone is noticeably faster. I get a new update once per week now and I'm quite happy with my phone, which started to lag a bit too much with the stock ROM. And this also fixed the KRACK issue.
In-vitro fertilization + genetic selection and manipulation of the eggs. A standard procedure.
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Normally I would agree, but it should be noted that Lubos is a major asshole, and deserves every bit of shaming he gets. He's easily in the top 3 biggest assholes I've had to deal with in my academic career, and that's saying something.

He has it all: extreme levels of arrogance, narcissism, pedantry, absolute lack of empathy, extreme aggressivity. He is also a notable science denialist: climate change denier, evolution denier...
I think the use case is brilliant, if albeit niche. I would never wear them in everyday life but when travelling I found myself wanting something like this to capture memories, moments or just "atmosphere". A mobile camera doesn't quite cut it because it's hard to get an authentic angle, especially if you're moving. I'd rather not wear glasses when i don't have too but if it's sunny, why not instead of sunglasses?

I'd prefer something with less conspicuous branding however, and something I could export in a decent format. I predict this will be a somewhat mainstream gadget within 5 years (Well, for people who can afford it). Apple will make iGlasses, or some shit like that, with Siri and camera.

Then there's the whole thing about living in the moment, perhaps that's better :)
We are talking about the recommended OS on a 2 year old computing device here. Please don't muddy the waters with poor analogies of decade old hardware or terms like "oldest phone". People would be similarly upset if any other company did this. By excusing the company with these poor comparisons, you appear to have vendor bias.
Quotes from OP suggest that the lessons might be about chess problems and ways for solving them, but might also go wider. A diversion for the kind of people for whom $150+ for an hour out of the office is not a major expense.

"Ushering me inside to the small ­one-bedroom apartment, he offers wine, vodka, or water, in that order."

...

"Many of his clients from the finance world, he says, “have this idea that it’s a good idea to distract themselves from their work.”"
It's really hard to fathom how Apple fucked up iOS 11 so badly. I feel exactly the same as this guy, but I have an iPhone 6s.

It's slow, the battery drains, the text is big and ugly (Messages, Inbox, Chats), the goddamn Calculator app is broken. And somehow the usual retort to this is "Have you tried disabling blah blah blah or doing so so so". I don't _want_ to dick around with my phone. It worked fine, now it's broke.

Literally the only reason for me to upgrade would be so I can have a phone that's exactly the same as this one, except it's missing a headphone jack and costs more. That's hardly a value proposition.

Jesus, Apple. WTF?
It's a hard sell in countries that don't get that much sun (e.g. UK)
> is extremely useful to anyone else looking to launch a Spectacles type device.

Earth has limited resources. I wish people wouldn't feel the need to buy / produce hypster "Spectacles type devices".
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Does anyone have conclusive evidence that it works? My perception is that it's between lies and pseudoscience.
That seems like an extremely crap reason to believe a mathematical theorem. What am I missing?

What's the alternative?

As I see it, the possible ways to think about it are as follows:

1) You must think of it as 50/50 possibility of being true until an absolute proof is found.

2) You look at places where it could fail, and if it passes then you update the likelihood based on that.

To me (and as this post argues) it makes sense to follow (2). Not only is it more useful practically (you can use that assumption to solve other things, conditional on it being true) but also it reflects the reality of the world. Even if it turns out not to be true in every case it is clear that in the majority of cases it is true.

Maybe it is untrue but it is possible to define the set of cases where it is untrue. If this is the case, it seems likely that class is very small, so it is mostly true. That is the opposite of a proof of course, but it does seem reasonable to think about your confidence of it being true as being somewhat proportional to the likely size of the class.

close complex border that seems to yield increasing numbers of "close calls" sounds exactly like the situation where there's a lurking, sparse class of "touches" that we haven't thought of

That's not really how it works though. If it keeps happening and those classes don't touch, then it typically means they aren't as close as they seem (ie, there is an extra dimension in which they are a long way apart). In this case it seems like the P/NP divide is actually a thing which means things which appear close actually aren't, so if you analyze them in that space they don't appear close together at all.
I don’t know if that’s true - I use a Nexus and it’s well supported

It is absolutely true. Outside of a few model lines which get directly supported by Google, software updates for Android phones are rare. This is one of the biggest causes of Android fragmentation -- for most people who have an Android phone, the version that came preinstalled is the only version that phone will ever have installed.
Is that clickbait? Yes, the headline does have a question, but it also answers it. So for me, I’d say no.
It seems you didn't get the point of the analogy. My point is that the outcome of paradigm shifts are hard to predict. It would have been hard to predict for a middle ages person to predict the Reinassance and everything that followed after.
Same here. I've got Apple phones, iPads, MacBook and iMac. Have had Apple phones since the 3G. This update is the final straw, my phone has gone from good to unusable. Siri takes so long to process commands now that I've stopped using it. Everything is so slooow. I just preordered a Pixel 2 XL as well.
Battery life on iPhone 8 is awesome. THe speed and overall smoothness of how the phone runs is great too.

The iPhone 8 isn't a huge leap in innovation but in UX its a marked improvement even over from my iPHone 7.
> By any reasonable definition, Bitcoin is a fiat currency.

Sure, if you entirely change the definition of fiat currency.

A fiat currency gets its value by being declared by government as legal tender, and then required by law to be accepted in a jurisdiction.

Bitcoin might share the "no intrinsic value" property of fiat, but that does not make it fiat. It's pretty much the opposite of fiat in every other respect.

Even for gold, the majority of its market value is not from industrial use -- it's from speculation driven by scarcity (pretty much exactly like Bitcoin.) This applies to gold jewelry too -- the scarcity of gold gives it its market value.
...going to be useful on Halloween!
>We're talking multiple tens of seconds lag

Do you mean multiple tenths of a second? Waiting 20-30 seconds for the camera app to open seems inconceivable.
I thought they were explicit about using walking data to learn about paths. Of course, Google don't even own Niantic any more.
That sounds interesting! Tell me more about how much time and involvement you have with your startup, please.
Hours per week? Other employees? Free time? How long have you had the startup for, before starting work?
He does no shaming. If you claim that, you have to quote his words with which he does that, and I believe it will be obvious that your statement is biased. He responds, and explains why:

"Anyway, my goal here was never to convince Luboš. I was writing, not for him, but for my other readers: especially for those genuinely unfamiliar with these interesting issues, or intimidated by Luboš’s air of certainty. I felt like I owed it to them to set out, clearly and forcefully, certain facts that all complexity theorists have encountered in their research, but that we hardly ever bother to articulate."
Fair enough.

Still, validating a form client-side doesn't require a JavaScript framework; it would only require the server to send small snippets of JS for each field with the form.
From a workflow point of view, this is a datasets security / integrity problem, isn't it? Public and open source datasets should come with some sort of sanity check then. A best practice protocol for pre-processing private datasets / unvetted sources should also be made public and disseminated.
You should give a try to Ludus --> https://ludus.one
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I recently switched to Android from iOS, and actually don't find this to be too big of a deal now that mobile OSs have matured somewhat. I was excited to finally be able to upgrade to Nougat a couple of months ago, but there were precisely zero user-facing differences, apart from a few inconsequential aesthetic tweaks. I can see that it is more of a problem for developers, who can't use new APIs without drastically limiting their audience.
Just put your fat binaries in a Docker container for double the win!
Strange. Neither sportlight or alfred can find it. (and alfred does search though system files)
The most plausible explanation I've seen is that Apple isn't being purposefully malicious and releasing updates to make older phones slower, but that they don't actively test the older phones with the updates and add features that take more computational power, causing the issues. I do think that iOS 11 has been significantly less tested (or built by less experienced engineers) due to the glitches and issues that have happened, but again I don't think this is malicious, just poor QA processes or major changes due to the release of iPhone X.
It's more than spending more than they claim to spend. Governments could arrange for the value of their fiat currency to be stable or go up a bit but people borrow lots of it to buy houses and if the value goes up they have a job paying and the economy tanks. It's much easier to print some more and let it depreciate a bit.
Hmm.. good point. It'd be interesting to think of examples where something with a "complex border" turned out true, and examples where it turned out false.

(On a side not, I love this kind of scientific approach to believing unproved theorems, and Polya has a lot of thoughts on the topic)
Transducers are also familiar from automata theory. There’s a recent line of research into automata and transducers with symbolic representations for transitions. I’ve studied using them to apply fusion to pipelines of stream transformations [1]. Here’s talk I have for a related paper [2] and this talk by Loris d’Antoni gives a general overview of symbolic automata and transducers [3]. In a few weeks I’ll have a talk up that summarizes the last three papers I have on the subject.

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3062341.3062362

[2] https://youtu.be/0IL60qJEKLU

[3] https://youtu.be/ca9IF-7nSOA
It is. It also feels unfinished, but it really depends on your expectations.

Personally, once I have a functional terminal and a web browser, I am ok, and lubuntu is perfect for this kind of use.
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@tomelders, my thoughts exactly, poor requirements and just having something "to show", rather than actual value
The difference is small if you use mini.iso (net install) and a minimal desktop version but it can be noticeable depending on the kernel version, packages that you add, 32 or 64 bit capability, available ram, other hw components etc. Debian is faster though, and free from the usual ubuntu bloat, install backports, correct drivers and put i3wm or awesome on it and you'll get a usable machine even if it's very old. Not sure if it would play nice with mac hardware but you could always try.
In the same sense your data isn't your data.

JoshTriplett owns his website by the virtue of control he has - it's up to him if and what is displayed on it. OTOH, data is just facts. JoshTriplett doesn't control the fact that his website displayed this-and-that content on 2017-10-29 11:11:00 UTC, nor do you control the fact that you had this-and-that official name, SSN, and bank account number on 2017-10-29 11:11:00 UTC. Those are just facts.

And as much as I understand the concern about privacy, I fear some proposed solutions just go straight up against the fundamental nature of reality. Facts are, you can't own them.
> MacOS(pre OS X) can store all dependencies inside the .exe file and so on.

On macOS / OS X, it’s actually a .app folder
The liquidity offered by the token model means that early VC/hedgefund backers often get heavily discounted tokens in the presale, and can then turn round a month or two later and dump a portion of their tokens on public investors for a sweet profit or to mitigate their own risk.

Polychain did this with 0x project:
https://www.reddit.com/r/0xProject/comments/6w3zv0/0x_being_...

The effect was attenuated in this case by the success of the project, however in lower performing ICO's like Kik's Kin, where the market price is 50% of public sale price or less, big early investors dunking on public token sale participants feels pretty wrong.

In addition to this, VCs are also often playing a role in promoting public sales shortly after their own pre-sale investments, without disclosing their own discount or terms of obtaining tokens. Its kinda like telling people to buy a bunch of stock at $10 when you bought all yours last week for $5 and you're keen to dump a portion of them for $15.

https://medium.com/@rzurrer/raiden-fundamental-infrastrucutr...

It may be legal, you may think it's their right, and to be fair there is risk involved in being an early backer in a potentially failed project, however it is something to think about.
They are worse than useless: they are lame.

I won’t define that. It’s like Potter Stewart - I know it when I see it.
I've done something similar to this the past few weeks by basically turning my iPhone into a glorified iPod that has the added bonus of receiving phone calls. No Safari, no games, and the only custom app on there is my podcast player. There are less apps showing on the phone now than with a fresh install of iOS.

Moving most of the phone activities back to my computer or tablet makes it, like you said, a more conscious choice, and easier to not constantly check for updates.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.041

Original paper link. Sci-hub ought to be able to get you the paper.

On first pass, seems like this is an in-vitro study. I would hesitate to go from "we didn't observe what we expected to see, while performing a limited, highly abstracted experiment on a glass slide" to "based on this, everything we understand about what actually happens inside a cell now has to change" . The article on SA feels a bit over the top.
That's true. The other dependencies of an application are handled as well, but abstractions are leaky.

Storage (and file system uids), networking, are all elements of the outer system that inevitably leak in the container. Using just Docker does not save you from having to deal with those, and IMHO, those are the really hard problems.
The big one for me is requests chaining, which I see they added. It's very cumbersome compared to Paw, though.
You could I guess but it's really better to just use a credit card. Your CC company rewards you for using it while a Bitcoin transaction is the opposite - it costs you money to spend BTC. If you want anonymity, use cash. If not, use a credit card.
Open terminal, type:

cat /etc/hosts

if it outputs something that has to do with network, you know the file is there :). It might be that default user-facing tools on Mac don't look for system files?
No, you are paying with whatever currency the counter-party accepts. What backs the debit/credit card does not matter as long as the issuer thinks you have the assets to cover the loan they are making. If I have a card linked by my brokerage account I am not paying for dinner with shares of AMZN, I am paying in dollars and at some point will be required to convert some asset into dollars to cover the loan.
a) I wish that setting would have 3 or 4 words explanation on the settings page so I wouldn’t have to go hunting to find out what it does
b) would be nice if there was an option to exclude weekends
Note for Windows users: hosts file requires admin privileges to edit. So launch e.g. notepad as admin (launching as admin should be available if you right-click on the notepad icon), and go find the file. Also remember that you need to switch the dropdown to "All files (.)" in the Open File dialog.
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I've been looking for scholarly RSS feeds for a service I'm building (https://www.crossref.org/services/event-data/). Most sites still seem to have them. But a few are going facebook-only or twitter-only for feed syndication. It's a worrying hint that content providers are starting to forget about the DIY approach to feed consumption toward homogenised, gate-kept ones.
I believe the question was about inferred static typing for union types. Python does not do any static type inference.

Also, I'm not sure how a union type could be distinguished from an error during type inference. Maybe a nullable, but otherwise it'd be very tricky.
Depends on where you live and where you have to pay taxes at the moment. Usually, incorporating in a country that's not your country of residence isn't worth the trouble.

For certain business models some countries make more sense than others. For instance, many franchises are based in the Netherlands because of low taxes on licence fees. However, I wouldn't worry about that in the beginning. Those potential future benefits are likely offset by the additional hassle of essentially having to run a company in two legal systems simultaneously.
I usually quite like Google's flagships, but I can't justify the price any more. My Nexus 6P's battery only lasts two hours nowadays, as it dies at 40 or 50%. I don't want a phone that costs a small fortune and barely lasts two years, especially one that doesn't have a headphone jack.

Immediate updates are nice, but the downsides are too big. I'm looking for another phone model I can switch to, maybe the LG V30 or some Xiaomi phone.
0.0.0.0 is the "any" address. Binding to it means you want to receive connections from all interfaces, sending datagrams to it means you want to broadcast to all hosts, and so on.
Software and knowledge jobs take very little space - just whatever a single employee takes up. Even in a small private office setup not much, but even less in open plans - here's perhaps a hit to why open plans are popular in offices that are predominantly on expensive land. There is very little space required for storage and for moving large objects around, no loading bays etc. A 10,000 employee software "plant" take up a lot less space than a 10,000 employee manufacturing plant.

It's exactly because these industries are high-productivity (per land unit) that they are practical on high value land.
I did the same thing. Now am more and more enjoying going to real events nearby meeting real people.
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MIND-BLOWING
Meaning its only 2x smaller than worldwide facebook (ad) business, while growing at 50%.

Conclusion: alibaba & aliexpress are the real kings, forget about amazon.
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Further, humans also use non-visual information when interpreting sights.
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It's hard to say what Docker means now since the company has lots of products called Docker, doing wildly different things, but for Mac and Windows users it's a nice virtual machine frontend for running/developing containerized Linux apps.
I bought a Nokia 216 and cut myself off completely. I revived a long dead habit of manually checking my email once a day (and only once), in addition to that I was no longer permanently online on my various Instant Messengers.

I was at my worst when I had a Smartwatch, the damn thing bleeting at me, along with my phone, laptop and computer in succession was beyond irritating.