skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean 1 - x * y can be interpreted as !(x & y) in a straight forward manner and the NAND gate is universal, so you could certainly express any combinational logic. Obviously x and y can be time dependent functions and I think it would not be too hard to find a suitable equation for some kind of flip-flop and then you already got everything for building arbitrary finite state machines. I guess you could even introduce things like gate delays and more realistic impulse responses without too much trouble. There are certainly many other ways to model different aspects of digital logic and I have no idea what exactly Feynman needed and used.
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He can be very visible because the Mercatus center is funded the Koch empire which invests in a huge network of strongly right wing policy. IMHO following too far along the thinking of a lot of the Koch supported flavors of libertarian groups leaves society at large unable to respond to unbalanced, unchecked corporate power.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mercatus_Center

BTW due to recent relaxation of IRS disclosure requirements, we will be increasingly blind to this kind of funded sentiment generation from very moneyed interests.
Wait till you hear where matrices come from.
Not working for me too
SpaceX has been a phenomenal force in space flight, but their whole philosophy has been to move fast and break things. And consumers have gotten to watch crash after crash and explosion after explosion.

Bezos is making the bet that the average person is to trust their luggage but not their life on SpaceX. If they take their time and get it right, there are huge second mover advantages here.
Will it be a profitable business?

You could bootstrap the future of space flight simply by starting with a small profitable company.
I was using "intrinsic" inappropriately, I think, to mean both substitution of method calls and substitution of bytecode patterns. Yeah, the JVM already does the second thing. It's not roses for them, either[0]. The thing that I've been looking for in all this discussion is acknowledgement that the JVM team has been doing this, has encountered engineering challenges to the point that they're willing to change javac to simplify a jet, and an explanation of how these weird VMs are so different that none of that matters and using a shitload of jets is perfectly fine.

[0] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/280
A coworker and I are working on the same feature "in parallel" as my boss put it. We don't communicate or exchange ideas. Not sure how the "winning" solution will be chosen.
That's not how crowdfunding works though. You aren't selling a product, you're asking for money to cover the production expenses for a product.

That often includes a salary for the creators, but it's hard to justify a multi-million dollar profit (from the crowdfunding itself).
Emoji are characters, like 'a', '6', or '!'. But the thing about emoji is that most fonts don't include them, but many platforms (especially mobile platforms) provide a systemwide font that does, often in color. So any given emoji will look the same on the iPhone, irrespective of what font the surrounding text is in.
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FWIW, a plebiscite is a yes/no popular vote of the whole population, not the population itself. Also, totally agreed.
That's literally what disabling it does, that's why there is a step titled "uninstalling updates" as the updated versions are installed on the user partition, but the preinstalled version is on a (mostly read only) system partition.

Removing that app from the system partition won't give you more usable space without repartitioning, and it will now mean that you can't factory reset the phone.
It is a bug
> while the booster drops back down, kicking in the landing gear and rocket-powered breaking system to land on the ground, unscathed. The capsule, meanwhile, using a pair of parachutes to coast back to Earth

Nope. No weightlessness at all.
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iOS is much worse. You aren't even allowed to install another browser. "Chrome" and "Firefox" on iOS are not real Chrome and Firefox, they are wrappers around Safari's webkit engine.
Think of the name of a particular FOSS backup software project. That is all.
No, just that. This was back in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

http://wcdsva.org
Do you have a citation that shows that SpaceX has more incidents per launch than other craft?
The article glosses over what kind of rocket this is, so it's worth pointing out that New Shepherd is a suborbital booster. You can't launch satellites with it, only go up and fall back down.

Still cool though!

ADDENDUM - if you want to keep an eye on other projects, their reusable orbital booster is New Glenn. IIRC it's higher capacity than Falcon 9, maybe more toward Falcon Heavy. Last I heard they're shooting for a first test launch in 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn
Would an XPath work for this? Seems like that would be easiest considering Firefox already has built-in support for getting the XPath from an element on the page.
Also:

- Just like on WP, you cannot set some things to open in other browsers.

- No extension support, because they know perfectly well what many people would install first, an add blocker.
Apologies if you took my posts as trying to argue you out of a position. I think the developer happiness is a fairly important point. And aesthetics being what they are, different strokes for different folks. So, I was just chiming in that I have an amusingly contrasted experience.

To that end, thanks for keeping the discussion going! This is a social site, so it is fun to flat out be social. :)
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> ISPs are neutral here, the problem is, once again, that Netflix uses a HUGE amount of traffic, and the normal routes (the ones everybody gets) get saturated.

What I don't get is, both Netflix and I pay for bandwidth. As far as consumer bandwidth (mine) is concerned, why should Comcast care if it's 1TB/month coming from a thousand sites or just one. I paid for the data, I paid for the bandwidth, give me my bandwidth.

Likewise, Netflix paid for their own too, with whoever is their ISP.

Conceptually the bandwidth has to be paid for, and I could see your argument if I only paid a portion of what it costs to transfer the data.. but that is a broken model if that's the way it is. I want to pay for data, and I shouldn't have to get Movies.com to pay Comcast to serve me movies. I paid Comcast for data, it doesn't matter who it's from. My data is my data.

Is this wrong somehow to you? Honestly it's a strange argument from you, I have a hard time understanding. Like, if you run a website and I visit your website, do you think you should have to pay my ISP for data I'm downloading from your site? That's a bizarre system in my mind.
It's still active - he launched iOS and Android apps earlier this year. I don't know if he's planning desktop support, but you might try shooting him an email.
I feel impervious to these hacks since my phone operator doesn't have an English support line, and even if you used a real-time translation service, their toll-free number doesn't work from VoIP or international phones. The one time poor support is actually a good thing?
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You could have said the same about the first couple Mercury flights. It is a progression leading to orbit.
Hello, after reading your article, I have a few questions.

1) Can you explain what the threat is, and to whom?

2) What does NK gain from acting upon the "threat" you specify above?

3) You mentioned NK's position that SK is occupied by "a foreign monster." Where does that thinking come from?

4) You mentioned a "resistance." To what exactly and what would be the regional and/or greater security implications of its "success"?

Thanks.
Great to know! Add another "thank you" on top of the last one for taking this approach! :)
So a copycat needs:

-Developers
-Customers
-To be able to survive on fees less than it costs for a credit card transaction
-To be installed on something better than Android

And you call all this easy? ;-)
>30 minute 1-1s with us once a month

Was that actually useful? I can't imagine them understanding (or remembering) anything about your company in that little time.
Consistently losing money without massive growth, or a ~50% and growing drop in both revenue and profits, or failing to diversify as their only revenue sources goes away.

PS: Notice how none of the above mention stock price, there is a reason for that.
Don’t know. Probably to instill in us the dangers of communism.
Jumping in for Adora :) --

The content will revolve around similar topics, but we'll do deep-dives into content that we did not get a chance to last year (sales for B2C and B2B, building and managing technical teams, and design principles for example). We're looking to build upon all of the past pieces as you can see with the new Startup Library.

We'll announce the final curriculum soon!
I suppose it's a nice interface, like Ansible Tower.
the graph reads to me like usually it doesn't matter at all, but sometimes slight sleep deprevation makes a bad day worse. those few than are the overall worst days
But what if you apply a transform to the one time pad after you have used it (e.g. xor it with a generator that is seeded with the leading bits of the pad). Would it still be easy to break?
I also do this with websites I make. It is a little inconvenient, but it's worth it, assuming the person logging in as a secure way to access their email (2 factor auth).
Err really? This isn't some social network – you don't get to just "move fast and break things" with rockets, because people can die. Also someone has to foot a very, very large bill for you to break things.

Sure, maybe they test things out with rockets they know are already going to crash. But that's as far as I'd go.
Absolutely, imo the article missed who the pop music factory is copying. It isn’t always other pop artists, it’s other artists doing well in niches, that get pop-ified.

“””
...
The constant iteration of tracks, all produced by the same formula, can result in accidental imitation—or, depending on the jury, purposeful replication. Seabrook recounts an early collaboration between Max Martin and Dr. Luke. They are listening, reportedly, to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps”—an infectious love song, at least by indie-rock standards. Martin is being driven crazy by the song’s chorus, however, which drops in intensity from the verse. Dr. Luke says, “Why don’t we do that, but put a big chorus on it?” He reworks a guitar riff from the song and creates Kelly Clarkson’s breakout hit, “Since U Been Gone.”
“””

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/hit-cha...

They had an inkling of that with their shape score thing when comparing Royals and Fancy at the end.
Passwords can already universally be recovered through email. I wish ALL sites had this feature. It's essentially a one time password, that expires.
I think Tyler has a lot to offer in terms of novel ideas than just about anybody in economics but fully agree his "importance" is debatable. I also agree he loves writing stuff without divulging his own opinion on the subject, which is unusual among economists (who tend to be open with their opinions to a fault) and that can be annoying at times.
This sounds like an asshole question, but it's one I have always had. If someone has a truly great idea, how do they know it won't be stolen by mentors with more resources and lawyers?
Stenography is likely overkill if you're only coding: an orthographic and/or split keyboard, keyboard shortcuts, a snippets, and autocomplete gets you most of the way there. Unlike prose, you really don't crank out that many characters of code very quickly.

The question is really: how much of your day do you spend writing prose rather than code? For me, I have a lot of instant messaging to do with coworkers in remote offices, or emails to write or respond to, or design documents to write. In this case, stenography really helps me out, and since I've learned it, I might as well use it for coding where it's convenient (mostly comments but also for writing some new lines of code.)
Microsoft faced a very similar situation, but Windows was never open sourced.
Its largest shareholders are all American, they were founded in America, by Americans, headquartered in America, and almost all it's employees live in America and are American.

My guess is that Google considers itself American.
So what exactly is -ffunction-sections and how does it reduce binary size?
Thanks for the feedback! I think I'll do this. :-)
I gotta say I'm quite jealous of your dark skies and beautiful photography.

Also, how are you overcoming flexure and mirror flop with your setup!? I have troubles keeping a 6" stable for a minute with a reasonable mount. Do you have more info on your setup anywhere?
I figured out what you meant. I suspect a lot of other Romance language students did too. Exiger seems like a 4th year sort of word though, and a lot of us unfortunately are only required to take 2 or 3 years, and German or Japanese are not uncommon.
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If you just want the content, you can audit it.

The reason to do the course is that it's actually a program.
You'll work directly with a mentor who is a current YC founder and get to know other companies in your group.
https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/sleep/
Re 1: Isn't Android One that version?
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> Ugh why did he have to ruin it with the block chain. He probably has enough solar and battery capacity to power all his nearby neighbors every day 24-hours a day

Technically, it's mining cryptocurrencies. Probably at peak crypto mining profitability (around Dec-Jan) it was making significantly over what he could sell to the neighbors; also implying his neighbors would just switch to his infrastructure, that would be a bit of hassle.

Maybe if he hooked up all those GPUs to a render farm, it would be an alternative.
I live in a gentrifying neighbourhood in Montreal and crack is a thing.

The semi-homeless people who crash at the clinic in front of me are highly animated, talking to themselves loudly etc. for a few days after the provincial welfare cheques go out. Then it's all quiet.

It's the only neighbourhood in North America, where regular looking, polite folks come up asking for 'spare change' all the time.

Also - crack has a specific odour.
I’m sure there’s some period between booster cutoff and the parachutes. They’re not sending the chutes out while the capsule is still on the upward part of its parabolic arc.
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Okay then, but Google Search is what paid for Android development, so if you can't tie them together, Android needs to seek other sources of funding. The most obvious one is some sort of licensing fee.

And that’s a good thing. I prefer simple transactions. I give a company money and they give me stuff. It’s very transparent business model.
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If people want to write libertarian stuff, I can choose to read it, or not, or disagree with it - like Tabarrok.

Cowen, OTOH, seems to relish the contrarianism a lot. For example, a hot issue right now is housing, and the deleterious effects of local government regulations (zoning) are something that many on both left and right agree on.

But on more than one occasion, Cowen seems to take some other tack that maybe all that regulation is good, somehow. It's like he's just going against the grain in order to be seen as a 'thinker' or something. I can't quite put my finger on it.

He's a bright guy, and I've bought and enjoyed some of his books, and I used to read the blog, but I've started skipping it lately.
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When I wrote Mastering Rust, I did most of the work during the only available productive hours of the day: 20-05. Amazing legal narcotics i.e. coffee helped quite a lot.

I wasn't miserable, but that's mostly due to the excitement of progressing.
This is a bit over my head. How does this apply to Google but not Apple? Don't they do the exact same thing? One of the arguments I saw was Google pushed its own market over others. But Apple makes it so you can't use any other market period. So I'm confused...
To me it looks like a REPL for Ansible. If it does let you build each task in a cell then you could develop the whole playbook interactively and incrementally. It could reduce the turn around time of having to run a long playbook and waiting till the latest step you wrote.
Transportation. Communication. Food. See? I can do it too. The idea of non-privatizing things has to pass tests other than just "Everyone needs it."
Apologies that you found it irksome! When you have authority (which requires an implicit kind of trust to be established assuming individual A can guide individual B) that establishes a unidirectional responsibility over people. It's a balance. If you want that authority you have to police yourself. I personally do not find myself comfortable in such positions. But I'm aware of the dynamic because it forms a feedback loop. If you show signs of 'weakness' and by 'weakness' I mean taking actions orthogonal to the overarching goal of directing, guiding, teaching, counseling, etc - then the group dynamic can easily devolve into a pedantic sorts of chaos. That doesn't always have to be a bad thing (e.g. good dialogue can result, understanding and new awareness can be established).

My perspective in the U.S. we are living in a time where this kind of authority is desired highly by lots of people because it's being reflected as 'the standard' with the current leadership. The problem is it's fundamentally built on principles that operate like a pyramid scheme. If you want that authority, the more you must conform. The more you conform, the more sameness you see. The more sameness you see, the more you can pretend you are the one with the authority. Carrot, stick, etc.

So if you aren't the literal leader that allows you to be manipulated very easily. I'd rather just have the awareness. My individual autonomy of reasoning is not something to be sacrificed because it goes down to my own personal core and it is fundamentally vital for me to believe I am sane, which is absolutely essential when I have time to myself to think for myself (not to mention essential for survival, I reason for a living - software). It's clearly easy to get caught in the waves of group thinking. People all make mistakes.
This doesn't look good........

>Organize Your Companies Knowledge

Company's

Can I be your grammar Czar?
Will quitting social media hurt my career?
okay, that's nice use of the question mark.
I think there may be some gatekeeping but also I think there really is a formula that more people like- and by taking ideas and tweaking them to sound sweeter and more energetic you get more sales. The bigs guys are just walking around and either signing talent to produce ideas for the pop-filter-Machine, or stealing their riffs wholesale.
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Government is and has always been about law -- creating law, executing law, interpreting law, and enforcing law. Healthcare doesn't have a natural, direct relationship to law like prisons and courts do.
Fascinating: "10^(10^50) years: Estimated time for a Boltzmann brain to appear in the vacuum via a spontaneous entropy decrease." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

> [...] a Boltzmann brain is a self-aware entity that arises due to extremely rare random fluctuations out of a state of thermodynamic equilibrium. [...]
It's pretty hard because of the source data. I'll see what I can do about dividing search results into food categories.

Thanks for your feedback.
Correction - make it comply with Title 2. Net neutrality isn't what the FCC killed, Title 2 (which is still a massive blob of legislation, even if you discount the stuff in forbearance) is a set of laws that ensure a kind of neutrality.
Maybe I'm just being cynical (or jealous!), but when I read "Vitalik Buterin, who has managed to synthesize insights across those fields into successful, real-world applications like Ethereum", I think it's worth asking what qualifies as successful, because to me, the inflated market cap of a speculative asset isn't an objective measure.

I think that Ethereum's market cap has perhaps created an unearned reputation for solving an essential problem (running any verified, distributed computation) and being the best solution to large-scale verifiable computation, when I would argue that verifying a computation in a distributed system by having each node (or some large subset of nodes, if sharded) perform every step of every computation is not an optimal solution.
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While your statement of "of course they are not happy with it" is true, it's not a defense in my mind. The same could be said about any regulation that controls indefensible practices of companies.

From oil companies, to fishing companies, to waste disposal to whatever, most companies from a purely technical viewpoint would be more than happy to get rid of regulations that control what and how they can do business. Yet, we have those regulations in place for a reason.

In this case we simply ask that ISPs deliver the bits we paid for. I don't want Comcast treating my bits differently anymore than I want my mail carrier to hold my packages ransom because they seem important and I'd probably pay more for them.

My mail carrier doesn't read my mail. Comcast shouldn't either.
Why is late night programming / writing so darn productive? No distractions?
Can you explain the facts that inform this opinion?
I had the same problem. Luckily jenkins provides an API which you can validate your jenkinsfile. I setup the deploy to always lint before attempting to run.

https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/development/#linter
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> Laws and contracts cannot be retroactive.

In the US, both laws (other than laws criminalizing conduct or increasing punishment for a crime, where the prohibition on ex post facto laws applies) and contracts can be, and sometimes are, retroactive.
Here's a thread from last year which have a few insightful discussions on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762614

I imagine he used some of the "tools in his toolbox" he acquired from various fields of Physics. Given that it was a PDE his answer also probably was an approximation
maybe but his words were intentionally misleading so i wouldn’t blame them for taking them at face value.
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Those Chinese phone manufacturers often use Google Services without a license. So what Google does doesn't change anything for them. Also, Google's agreements do not prevent vendors from installing malware as long it is not competing with Google apps.
Made possible only by massive US assistance, both intentional and unintentional. China’s trajectory is probably self sustaining at this point, but who knows for how long.
I have to admit I find many of those Martin & Gottwald tunes "catchy" for whatever reason. Cronyism alone can't create catchiness. Hard to argue with success. Bring on the cheese! Note that many tunes which use the common pop chord progressions also fail.
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Notebooks allows you to have snippets of code next to the historic results of their execution

It is not just litterate programming, but more like an IDE that does not require your code to keep working (CI/CD... ) : you can refactor at your own pace, iterate, introspect past results, etc.

You prototype like crazy, iterate much faster, and can tweak much more.

However, notebooks are not popular with many programmers. They stick to IDEs. Their loss.