skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if history does repeat itself, we’re due for company towns and only a decade out from rampant abuse.
The startup that is helping bring bikes back to China
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15679500
If anything this is just more reason to avoid USB-C.
This seems off-topic but I have a suspicion a lot of people in this thread will find the twiml for "ring forever" to be useful and interesting:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Response>
<Pause length="600"/>
<Hangup />
</Response>

(that will ring for 10 minutes before hanging up)

I think this will be interesting because there is probably a lot of overlap between people critical of phones and people critical of voicemail ... but it's actually sort of difficult to have a phone without voicemail.

If you disable voicemail with your carrier, it doesn't work the way you think (hope) it will. When you fail to answer, the carrier gives some weird message about the subscriber being unavailable which just makes people think you don't pay your phonebill or something. In short, you cannot, from the standpoint of your carrier, just have no response other than ringing.

But with twilio you can ...
Sun City is another planned community in Arizona.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_City,_Arizona
Tony Stark already did this.
this whole blog is super creepy
Meanwhile in the real world...
What makes the audio medium more 'important' to you? If 1:1 is important, what if you were provided the direct email address of a representative at the company? What are you able to convey over the phone that you can't directly via some other method?
5 Cool Products on Product Hunt Last Month
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7ccohu/comment/dpp0sq6

«The percentage represents how close BCH is to reaching half of the combined market cap of BTC and BCH.»

$30B / ($130B/2) = 46%
There is a well known (I heard about it in the late 70's) problem with these types of experiments. The assumption is that if the subjects' "guesses" statistically match the assumed hit rate of photons then there must be a cause and effect. This experiments seems to make no attempt to eliminate the possibility that this is completely random.
>Any useful theory of consciousness has to be able to explain animal consciousness too

Taking it further, i would argue that whatever physics theory that claims to state the truth about the Universe and its origins has to explain how consciousness works down to the elementary level. Similar how electronic circuits can be explained based on the atomic model and quantum theory. Like a "Quantum theory of consciousness" or some such.
I felt like Amazon should do this with their new headquarters. I'm sure the cost is too high, but instead of making one of our crowded cities even worse they could try building a city/suburb. Build it 45 minutes outside of a current city so you could still rely on airports and other necessities until you could build your own. With global warming, I probably wouldn't have chosen Arizona though.
It's clearly affecting many young people. I think it's generational.

If you get the chance I suggest listening to Diane Rehm's segment:
https://dianerehm.org/shows/2016-11-23/teens-and-tech
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A low subject count is a big problem in a lot of psych studies, but much less so in psychophysics. They typically do thousands of trials on each subject and the variance between subjects is usually extremely small.
One thing that I haven't seen discussed, but I think is something that may be a factor in your comment is that you have lost all that is human within you.

Why would we need prototypes for a "virtual outpost"? If you want to connect your spine to your company's backbone, fine. But you can do that anywhere, right? That's the point, isn't it? Then why do it in the middle of the desert?

We already have these "virtual outposts". They're called "city". Or "town". It's where people "live" and have fun, "with some acceptable margin".
"The significance of the new social insurance program was that it sought to address the long-range problem of economic security for the aged through a contributory system in which the workers themselves contributed to their own future retirement benefit by making regular payments into a joint fund."

from the SSA's own web site -- https://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html

The key point is that one's benefits are tied to one's individual contributions.
This is so misleading, it's not even funny. Predicting animation frames is something completely different than recreating a game engine. It's the difference between re-creating a movie frame-by-frame and building a movie camera. Obviously this is impressive in its own right, but we're a a long ways away from AI building general-purpose systems.
all hail discordia!

though, I have to say that going to many devivals in my time, I am still a fan of bob. x-day never came, but what can we do?
Maybe it goes without saying but what I found distinctive about gaussian distribution in multiple dimensions is that it seems to be the only distribution which produces a smooth radial pattern when plotted co-linearly (yet not radially). All other distributions which I tested exhibit a bias through the main axis when just a number of (variateA,variateB) pairs are plotted. Gaussian seems to be the only one , fundamentally, which shows no sign of the orientation of the axis it is plotted along.

Comes in handy for plotting a radially smooth 'star cluster' without doing polar coordinates and trig. Just plot a load of (x=a_guass,y=another_gaus,z=another_gaus) and you have a radially smooth object. I dont think any other distribution can do that, it seems to me there is something mathematically profound about it which Im sure some mathemagicians have a proper grasp of.

The 'co-linear' distortions of other distributions can be seen here in some plots in the test page for my random distribution lib:

http://strainer.github.io/Fdrandom.js/
Edit: ...
I love this. Thank you for the link. Reminds me of what the Internet was going to be back in the early 2000s. Tell your aunt and uncle they have a new follower.
One of Bill Gates' investment firms has spent $80 million to kickstart the development of a brand-new community in the far West Valley.

The large plot of land is about 45 minutes west of downtown Phoenix off I-10 near Tonopah.

The proposed community, made up of close to 25,000 acres of land, is called Belmont. According to Belmont Partners, a real estate investment group based in Arizona, the goal is to turn the land into its own "smart city."

Belmont Partners seem to be pushing the "smart city" angle but they are not one of the aforementioned Bill Gates' investment firm. So it's only second hand knowledge?

Much more toned down story on the land acquisition here:

http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/real-estate/catherine-r...
> they inexplicably broke backspace navigating backwards

Hallelujah, praise the lord! He is righteous and he is Good.

Finally. I cannot count the number of times I accidentally hit tab in a form text input, backspace, and lose the entire form. Of course it’s built in JS so state isn’t saved by browser on going forward. Because why use standards? It’s 2017, ain’t nobody got time for functionality.

It got so bad I now automatically open a text editor to write the text in, first.

This was a bug bear of epic proportions. Good riddance.
Pretty simple really the community has been clamoring for a block size increase for years now and the devs have been actively fighting it. They managed to create enough division in the community to scuttle the last compromise (Segwit2x) and now people are rotating en-mass to Bitcoin Cash which has the larger blocks they want and doesn't have the divisive developers.

Very little surprising about this at all except for maybe the speed with which it is happening.
The number of people I know who would trust their domestic helper to do the kind of things the OP mentions is pretty low. They're maids, not PAs, and they are not generally here because of their outstanding educational attainment and bright career prospects back home. Most of them can hardly speak English.

On the other hand, I've known a few young people in Indonesia and the like who really would make excellent PAs of the kind the OP desires, and their salaries are not much more. We're talking university graduate, excellent English and phone manners, and the kind of proactive dedication to a task that one greatly desires in an employee - $500/m or less. I agree, there could be a market.
I hate not just telephones, but being funneled into this whole culture of being disturbed, and disturbing people anywhere, anytime, at will, for things that can wait.

As both an introvert and a technical person I do almost everything I do with deep concentration, whether that be coding, playing piano, reading papers, biking, driving, or hiking. A single phone ring, a single "hey what's up", while I'm in the middle of coding causes a cataclysmic implosion of an immensely complicated thought structure that takes a several minutes to rebuild. A single phone ring while I'm biking or driving is honestly dangerous. A single phone ring while I'm playing the piano and not only will I lose track of what I'm trying to learn, but I will also not be in a state of mind to speak a human language, and will probably answer the phone call with gibberish. Hence, my phone is in airplane mode a lot of the time. The rest of the time I have a call blocker on that only accepts calls from a few known numbers. The only time I turn off the call blocker is if someone has pre-arranged a phone call with me and it's on my calendar.

I also highly value social time and try to give 100% undivided attention during them. I loathe people who look at their phones while I'm trying to talk to them, and people who ask me to go to dinner with them and then go on a phone call for 50% of the dinner. It makes me feel unimportant, makes me feel like I wasted my time trekking out to meet them. I don't want to do the same thing to other people.

I realize that not everyone is like that. But I get the worst end of the stick when people think they can just call me "sometime in the afternoon". Realistically that means I will get NOTHING done that entire afternoon except wait for your damn phone call because I need to deal with your inability to schedule a time and respect my time. I honestly miss the days when cell phones had not yet been invented. I miss the days when people would just set a time and place, meet, talk, leave, and get on with business according to a plan.

I do, however, love the ability to access the internet from anywhere for maps, bus/train times, news, and other information, when I want it.

Oh, another reason I hate calls and typically shut my phone off is because it's increasingly difficult to do so in privacy. I spend a lot of time outdoors, on public transit, and so on, and the last thing I need is a bunch of bystanders staring and eavesdropping on my calls, and even commenting on what I'm speaking. I also don't like it when contexts mix, e.g. friends from different circles hear conversations of mine from another circle. It results in me going into a shock state where I basically cannot talk. It happens so often that I just stopped using voice calls altogether, for the most part.
Even if they’re not, Yahoo used MD5, and LinkedIn used SHA-1. With the latest version of Hashcat, some cloud GPUs, and a little money, it wouldn’t take much to crack.
It seems a shame that someone with a very treatable mental health problem should continue to suffer a limited life just because we're all too polite to say "have you thought about CBT?"

I do wonder what you'd say if someone described a physical health problem and people suggested they go see a physical health doctor.
I was just explaining to my teenage son what quarks are -- he hadn't learned about them yet. So I have to upvote this.

tl;dr If you decompose matter all the way down, mass doesn't just "add up the parts to the whole". Not by several orders of magnitude!
I do exactly the same. If I haven't agreed to a time in advance (and I usually haven't), then my phone notifications will be off. I can be reached any time of the day via text or email, but an unsolicited call is out of the question.

When companies insist on only contacting me directly via the phone and expecting an immediate answer; yet forcing me into a labyrinth to talk to a stranger when I need to contact them: Why would I ever agree to this horrible one-way street?
57 days ago, I said that it would be a good time to buy Bitcoin. If you'd listened to me, you could have made some serious cash since then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15259134

Back then, the price dropped to around $3k. One of the questions was "What makes now a good time to buy?" And the answer was simply "Bitcoin has been crashing."

The counterintuitive thing is, if you want to get into bitcoin, you need to wait for a crash and then buy.

Bitcoin is crashing. Again, it's a good time to buy.
For those who don't want a giant photo of Bill Gates because the link is to the mobile version:

http://www.kgw.com/news/bill-gates-buys-big-chunk-of-land-in...
Very nice write up on the experiment
The rules it learns take player input into account, so yes, it should be possible to play the replica just like the original game (modulo glitches).
You can usually trade off monthly fees and per-unit costs for SIM cards. You can get one for $50/month that includes unlimited calling or one for $3/month that has high per-minute costs.
Irvine is the closest thing to this that I can imagine in the modern-day US. Seems to be working out...
I find this result surprising. Caffeine restricts blood vessels, so you'd expect blood pressure to go up the more you consume, and likewise you'd expect long-term elevated blood-pressure to increase your risk of cardiovascular disease.

Likewise in a correlational study, you'd expect people who drink more coffee to have more hectic lives and get less sleep, which surely shouldn't reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease.

I'm at a loss for a possible mechanism behind this result. Protective effect of antioxidants in coffee? Hard to believe.

Nonetheless it seems a great excuse to reach for that second cup when I start flagging in the early afternoon.
I disagree. A great recent example is that DirectX 12 is more similar to Vulkan, than it is DirectX 11 or OpenGL 4. I would actually say it's quite common. I've seen numerous times where a new version of a project is more similar to other projects than it's previous iteration. The reason is simple: the field has progressed. Now certainly there are new "major" releases that are simply breaking changes with no fundamental changes, but I think it depends on your field: native libraries rarely change because it's well worn, the web changes every few days it seems like. But my point is that if we should distinguish between: conceptual changes, breaking changes and the iteration number (e.g. non-breaking changes and patches), and we want to simplify it, then we should merge breaking changes and conceptual changes, as described by the article.
Generally offices that can be configured start as closed, then when more people are coming, the walls go down to ,,save place''. With big growing tech companies this phonemon happens quite fast... CEOs somehow forget scaling up the buildings linearly with hiring people.
All of human reasoning and understanding comes from matching our observations statistically with potential causes.

You may heat up a tea kettle a thousand times with a flame and conclude that the flame is heating the tea kettle, but perhaps every time the flame was too small and too far and it was in fact another source of energy hitting it from the environment warming it.

Our understanding of the world comes from substantial enough correlation that it moves into the realm of cause-and-effect. Though admittedly we often assume this too quickly.
Barbara Simons is a hero. I have huge respect for Verified Voting as well as the Election Verification Network. They played the long game, engaged all parties. Whereas me and mine flamed out early, treating this as a sprint instead of a marathon.

She relates how hard is to convey to policy makers that we computer people are the most skeptical of electronic voting. I've been there too. Testifying in opposition to vendors, administrators, disability advocates, veterans, etc. I was called a sweaty, paranoid kook (in the press) for trying to explain how our elections actually work (per the regulations). I was depicted as the bad guy trying to take away other people's right to vote.

Maybe now we've grown up a bit, shedding some of the rampant technophilia of the last few decades.

Knowing what I know now, the bigger threats to election integrity are change and profit motive.

The worst part of HAVA and its undoing has been the disruptive change. No one really let any thing settle long enough to know what's going on. Provisional ballots, new identification requirements, new gear, new voter intent standards, etc. Maybe some of it was progress. But all of it was rushed, causing disruption and confusion.

The big driver for all this change is profit motive. The vendors have outsized influence on our election administration. Now the big push is towards postal balloting, requiring a complete retooling, with even more services to be bought.

I have just one criticism of election integrity activists: We don't advocate for the stupid simple things which would actually improve matters. In order:

1 - Replace winner takes all elections, where 1 vote difference can change the outcome, with approval voting and proportional representation, which are far more robust in the face of errors.

2 - Universal voter registration. No more fighting over who's eligible to vote. Like every other mature democracy.

3 - Citizen owned software and processes. Demote vendors back to being just service companies, instead of being in charge.
I don't think that is good advice this time. The combined market cap of Bitcoin Core + Bitcoin Cash is actually right at 7600 virtually unmoved. What is happening though is that the Core development team has used underhanded tactics to go against the wishes of the larger community for almost 4 years now and the Segwit2X cancellation was the final straw Everyone that believes large blocks are necessary are fleeing to Bitcoin cash.

If you were paying attention to the s2x cancellation and were a first mover into BCH and out of BTC you are making a killing right now.
Could this be Gates undoing? There is so much variables that can rack up costs, let alone red tapes and fraudsters
Amazon spends billions on energy and has hundreds of hardware and electrical engineers. They are one of the best if not the best in data center engineering. They know what they are doing.
In fact, the example in the message is not implementable as memcpy, nor is any computer likely to have an memcpy-like idiom that implements it

REP OUTSW.

Reading a lot of literature from this period in computing, it seems that the majority of "serious programmers" were focused mostly on mainframes/minicomputers, and there was a divide between those people and the ones who were focused almost exclusively on the PC/microcomputers. No one thought x86 would become as commonplace as it is today.

Be careful when you use this thing that you don't unwind the loop so much that you overflow your machine's instruction cache.

Saving cache has become more important with the growing gap between core and memory latency, and processors have gotten much better at predicting and executing "around" loops (especially for superscalar/OoO), so much that in my experience loop unrolling is very seldom beneficial to a great extent today. You may still see improvements if you microbenchmark, but the extra code has displaced something else from the cache and made the overall result slower.
Sorry to say that if you haven't been prepping with various Algorithms, Data Structures, and Systems Design questions every single day for weeks, maybe months ahead of time - you're probably screwed unless you get lucky.

You're doing the equivalent of going in cold for the SAT if you're just now asking for this advice...
How I learned to stop worrying and love A/B testing: Paolo Malabuyo
Good- this gives both parties the opportunity to boil down the information into the most important parts, and verify those important parts for accuracy.
Automatic electric cars.
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It doesn't need feedback from controls, but they have to be present as inputs during the learning process, otherwise you can't hook them up correctly. Learning real-world physics from video would be impressive in its own right, but alone it's not enough to create a game. It's also not necessary, since we can already simulate most physical phenomena; and much more efficiently than what a learning process is likely to produce at first.
We'll see. This is tea leaf reading. My record speaks for itself. I said two months ago to buy in at $3k. I'm going on record now: $5,800 is a pretty good buy-in price. Check back in two months.

It's simply hard to assign logical motives to overall movements in the market. As scientific minded individuals, we would love to believe there must be a motive. But sometimes there isn't one.

I think what's been happening is that the price has been going up and up, and it's been looking for an excuse to unwind. We're seeing it unwind now. That means the time to get in is now.

You should be equally suspicious of my words too, though. That's the tough part about trying to call the market. I'm just admitting it's hard.
I think the point is that it hasn't happened... yet. In theory, writing for newspapers shouldn't be expensive either, yet somehow it is.
Aha! I see you are one of today's lucky 10,000! [1]

Well, you would be, if I wasn’t too lazy to give a brief introduction to the American tradition of comedy Zen that both Discordianism[2] and The Church of the SubGenius[3] are manifestations of.

Unless including Wikipedia links counts. It probably doesn’t. Hail Eris.

1:https://xkcd.com/1053/

2:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism

3:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius
I do this on transit during my commute, and in some (pointless) meetings. Lately it has produced some code I am very proud of.
I think the instant feedback is the most important thing for me. If I want to convey something that is a bit important for me, I need to get it done and move on to something else. I can tick off that item in my mental checklist immediately. With an email or chat, there is a delay. And there is no guarantee of feedback. I need to switch to another task knowing that this one isn't done yet.
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It's very helpful to use natural units (or QCD units) when working with particle physics. Set the speed of light, the reduced Planck's constant, and Boltzmann's constant equal to 1. For QCD units also set the mass of the proton equal to 1. Then compute all the other units based on this. (There are several other systems of "natural" units also in use. All of them set the speed of light to 1, but differ in what other units are included.)

A particular advantage to intuition comes with the famous e=mc^2. Since c is 1, and 1^2 is 1, e=m. Energy and mass are completely equivalent. Strong force binding energy in a proton is mass. The only bit that's not straight from binding energy is from the Higgs mechanism, which is where the mass of the electron (and the quarks themselves) comes from. Matt Strassler has an excellent explanation of that: https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...
Right now is as stupid time to consider getting rich off Bitcoin. Even if the price doubles or triples, you'll only make 100 or 200%. That might seem like a really good investment. Maybe if you put down $100,000. Otherwise, it doesn't mean much. The risk is too high.

Back when it was $10 or $40, it was a great speculation. The ship has long since sailed.
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