skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your link: "This is Bayes's Theorem. I own at least two distinct items of clothing printed with this theorem, so it must be important." - Eliezer

cringe. "Here's a bunch of math so I must be really smart. Trust me guys." Math is awesome, but waving it around as if to automatically lends credibility to your argument is a poor showing IMHO.

Specifically, quantum decoherence is simply not accepted as a thing that exists on a macro scale. You're post presents no claim that is testable, despite the bold headline to the contrary.

Lets look at an example of a what physicists consider to be a falsifiable claim: The Standard Model predicts the existence of a new elementary particle, the Higgs Boson. This could be tested experimentally in theory, and later it was tested in practice, once the capability existed (LHC).

Or another example: orbital mechanics predicts the location of the asteroid Apophis will pass unusually close (<100 000KM) to earth in 2029.[1]

Now of course if Apophis fails to show up, or shows up overly late or in the wrong place etc, that doesn't necessarily invalidate the theory, but there does eventually need to be a credible explanation.

The simplest is usually measurement error, or silly human error etc. But every now and then, there are discrepancies that just don't go away, and those are often the ones that lead interesting new theories pushing science forward.

TBH I don't think your post does that.

The failing of physicists to take your above link seriously, does not epistemically speaking invalidate the claim of course, but it should be pause for concern.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis
The guy with a username that references an utterly failed Apple operating system project might have an agenda?

Well color me surprised!
Discrimination was not limited to Jews. Ethnic Russians were the only ones not targeted by the State.
Please please please add an optional field for salary (hourly or yearly), and let me filter by jobs that specify salaries. Emailing dozens of jobs just to find out they pay $15/hr is a huge waste of time.
Right, I'm not arguing that. My point is that it's considerably more difficult for them to go this route; they need to convince a judge to affix his signature (and his credibility) to a warrant by demonstrating the existence of probable cause.
I am not comparing the two. Both are murders. Burning down a house and being recorded on tape as having "talked about" it (i.e. planned it) is not ok.

I was not saying he was inert or submissive - but sorry LEOs are supposedly trained to take on all situations. They are extremely well armed and equipped.

Burning down random property to get their guy is not an OK tactic.
Gandalf's hunch was more of a faith-in-all-people kind of thing, IMO. That it turned out he was right twice (Gollum guided them into Mordor and was instrumental in destroying the Ring) really doesn't count that much in my opinion.
A few years ago, gas stations around here starting asking customers to enter their ZIP at the pump. Not long after they started doing that, many added a clarification: billing address ZIP, not residence ZIP. Apparently, some customers thought they were asking for market-research reasons, as opposed to credit card security.
That's slightly revisionist history. EA bought Maxis when they weren't in great financial shape (it didn't help that basically every Friday was spent at the bar). It's true that the Sims was a huge success that EA didn't anticipate (they repeatedly tried to kill the project), but the jury is still out if Maxis would have survived long enough to release it without EA's funding and support.
Yep. There were probably tech guys who said you shouldn't do it, but the tech guys that said you can probably got the promotions.
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Isn't this really an AirBnB problem?
You have no concept of how much this would cost :)
The answer to "I don't understand why the merchant should pay the chargeback on fraud." is very simple - [non-huge] merchants are presented with an offer they can't refuse: accept the rules as-is, or don't accept credit cards.

For most global businesses accepting credit cards is better, since a significant portion of customers prefer cards for various reasons, including the ability to chargeback if they have a disagreement with the merchant.

And wire transfers aren't a good option in many countries due to their cost - while they should cost a few cents or less (an order of magnitude less than CC processors charge), in many countries, including USA, wire transfers are rather expensive.
Overuse of the Phrase “Big Data”
I am! Truth and beauty are universal ideals. Overfixating on beauty may weigh against a simple but honest design

although, it's Facebook stories so how else can they improve them other than beautifying them? There is no other way to make the 19999th picture of your cat remain interesting.
I know that it's sometimes frowned upon to post reddit links on Hacker News (which is an argument for another day), but I really like the idea behind this subreddit.

When people ask me how to become a better programmer, I answer with two very simple tasks: read code, and write code.

It sounds obvious to those of us who have experience programming, but new developers are sometimes left totally in the dark on this one.

"Read code?" they reply, bewildered. "How am I supposed to read code if I don't understand it yet?"

It's somewhat of a chicken-and-egg problem, since in order to write code (well) you need to be able to read code, and to be able to read code you need to be able to understand what it's doing. While total expertise in a given language is often unnecessary, you need to find clear examples of concise, well-documented code.

It looks like this subreddit provides excactly that, and I'll be happy to recommend it to neophyte programmers from now on. I think I'll get a lot higher adoption rates than "well, check out Github or Sourceforge!"
I like the idea, would work well for multiplayer where you can't freeze time just by hitting escape.
Spore was really great in that different people could learn to hate it in completely different ways.
To play devil's advocate, if I click through x pages while preparing to defraud your website, I'm okay according to (one of) your metrics?

That doesn't seem very defensible.
Compatibility is a valid reason. You really can't change any parts of a system with so many participants in every country worldwide - you can only add new layers to it.
HexaFlip: Flexible 3D Cubes with Infinite Sides
That's unfortunate. It'd be nice to be able to buy and sell BtC with the same app I use to transfer them, but I'm not letting them use me for arbitrage just for the sake of convenience.
As an example, my mom was not allowed to defend her Ph.D. dissertation (despite having done the research and having finished her dissertation!) because of an informal, ill-understood Jewish quota. This wasn't even Moscow State: this was in Belarus, one of the least anti-Semitic of Soviet Republics (the birthplace of the Marc Chagal, the creator of Modern Hebrew, and many other prominent Jews) -- the lab director simply said "I don't want any Jews coming my way, I'm involved in ethnic politics here!".

Note that she wasn't denied admission: this happened mid-flight. This is very different from being turned down at one university, choosing to attend another university, and from that point being judged solely on academics. Another example is Moscow State University having a computer program that looked for Jewish sounding student last names and automatically lowered their grades.

Anti-Semitism/Anti-Judaism in Tzarist Russia was incredibly harsh (see the etymology of the word "pogrom"), but it was codified and known: one knew what the Jewish quotas were at the universities and the entire nascent capitalist sphere was open to Jews (e.g., a Jew could become a "merchant of first guild"). Being baptized was also the way out for some (e.g., Anton Rubinstein) as Jewish identity was considered a religion as opposed to an ethnicity.

Again, I don't mean to white-wash the harsh and destructive anti-Semitism of the Tzars -- indeed, it contained many seeds (Protocols of Elders of Zion, conflation of Judaism with both Marxism and Capitalism, etc...) for the racist anti-Semitism of Nazis and Soviets, but there's something to be said for at least an official acknowledgement that the system existed as opposed and being able to work around it.
> you can sell excess electricity supplies to other cities, lend them public services such as police or fire protection, build mass transit like commuter rail between cities, etc.

That was already possible in Sim City 4. Even in older versions (Sim City 2000 iirc) you had neighbor cities and could buy and sell utilities. Those features work just as well when controlled by AI. There is just no reason not to implement it aside from the DRM benefit.
Unless pv has gotten way more magical since the last time I used it, you also need to tell it how many bytes to expect if you want a progress bar.

If it doesn't know how many bytes there will be, it just gives you a "throbber" (which is better than nothing, though).
You misunderstand my point. I happily support talks that feature and target women in tech, as I believe I have stated several times, I only worry about such initiatives excluding men from the audience or other means of participation. To achieve integration and inclusion, everyone must get involved to show their support and to learn about the issues at hand.

As to the definition of sexism, I would implore you to closely read any available dictionary entry of the word. The core definition is "discrimination or devaluation based on a person's sex". It is unfortunate that this definition, in some dictionaries, will also include such lines as "typically against women", but that does not negate the possibility that sexism against men may occur. I would hardly refute that in a large number of cases sexism targets women, but by no means are men free from its effects.
> Isn't Sam basically immune to the ring anyway? He's not necessarily a good canary for this test.

Nope. When he put the Ring on, it gave him what he desired: being a mighty hero with a sharp sword and booming voice.

Frodo bent under the burden because he had to fight his desire constantly. It wasn't the Ring poisoning him, not directly. It was his refusal of putting the Ring on that did.
Some of these things are there because they exist in the kind of stories that inspired Tolkien in the first place. Characters appear at just the right time by chance or fate, "can't be killed by man" is taken literally, a simple disguise fools everyone.

This isn't set in our world. It's closer to the world of Beowulf, the Eddas, or the Grimm brothers.
Can we not obsess about this like reddit is doing? This is entirely tangential to the purpose of this site. One article about this is more than enough.
Do you find Ubuntu as easy to use as a Mac?
It's analysing behaviour for patterns. If you let out what patterns you're looking for then those patterns change.
[edited] Apparently it does check only the numbers.
Google admits its VP8/WebM codec infringes MPEG H.264 patents
Wow, I'd been hearing brief analysis of how bad it was, but these details.

I've lived in Massachusetts, before their "assault weapons" ban (seeing it coming was one reason I left). Walk outside of your house with one round of ammunition without having a may issue license is a mandatory one year in jail. Mens rea (guilty mind) is not required. Heck, that license, which used to be shall issue and supposedly was good for life, was changed by their AW ban law to expiring and requiring renewing, and a number of gun owners who did't get the word got arrested.

The worst you can say about PA from what I've heard is that all handgun purchases must go through the instant check system, and Philadelphia doesn't like to play ball with the laws. I heard a while ago that it had the nation's highest rate of concealed carry licenses, obviously a shall issue state. CA and MA are may issue, which in practice is seldom issue outside of rural areas. San Francisco issued exactly one license last year, to a jeweler ... who they named....
In my bash/readline/whatever, Alt+<N>+. gives the Nth-from-the-end argument to the previous command. so,

$ echo a b c d
a b c d
$ echo # pressing <Alt+<2>+.> here inserts 'c', not 'b'.
This is ridiculous. Currently FB limits your feed photos to 400px (horizontal and vertical).

It looks like they are increasing it to 550px.

This, literally, makes no sense. Current monitors can easily support 1000px horizontal, and, as a photographer, I wouldn't consider that quality.

Both FB and G+ suck as photo galleries. I want to see large beautiful photos, not 550px thumbnails.
I mostly concur, except that I am not surprised it could be a surprise for many whose minds were filled with an ideological view of the society they lived in. I remember how difficult it was for me to get used to the idea that I do not live in the best country, the beacon of hope for the world. And I was far from alone.

My close friend's mother could not believe it until her son, a straight-A student from K to 12, was given a failing grade at an entrance exam in physics which he knew and understood very well. Oh, it's funny to remember now, by the way. They would give him a problem, then come back before he would finish the solution, say "you did not solve it" and mark it with a minus. Several times he was faster than them. Still, after a while they got a sufficient number of minuses and said good-bye to him. He expected it would be a losing battle, but still was a little shocked at their arrogance.
A long time ago we decreased fraud by a significant amount simply by putting a little message on our payment form that we detected fraud. Stolen numbers and identities are really valuable to fraudsters, they tend to prey on merchants they think they can get it by.
Simple answer: The eagles refused to fly towards Mordor while it was emanating Sauron's unnatural aura.
This is my big concern with the new SimCity. If I pay $60 for SimCity, I want it to stick around more than 2 years, heck last time I booted my 486 I got simcity 2000 playing again. A little more real-world, I still occasionally play the original Starcraft. The argument against these always on games is that they _could_ do such things, then add to it that EA _does_ such things...
This is really cool. It would definitely add to the immersion of the game.
Sorry, I didn't see your 'EDIT' caveat when I responded --now that will
teach me to reply too soon. ;-)

Also, it seems I failed to be clear; I'm probably too tired I suppose.

My point was there is plenty of ancient and buggy code out there.
It could be "most", or even "many" modern unix variants have fixed a
lot of the old bugs in find(1), but if you don't have the luxury of
working on a current system, and your not allowed to upgrade it, then
plenty bad things can happen due to invoking a shell, handling space,
quote, and delimiter characters, and so forth.

reference:

$ uname -a
OpenBSD alien.foo.test 5.1 GENERIC.MP#207 amd64

setup:

$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ touch file1
$ touch file2
$ touch file3
$ mkdir ';ls'

bad:

$ find . -type d -exec sh -c {} \;
sh: ./: cannot execute - Is a directory
;ls file1 file2 file3 test.sh

better:

$ find . -type d -exec sh -ec {} \;
sh: ./: cannot execute - Is a directory

also bad:

$ find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -r -n 1 -J % sh -c "%"
sh: ./: cannot execute - Is a directory
;ls file1 file2 file3 test.sh

better:

$ find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -r -n 1 -x -J % sh -ec "%"
sh: ./: cannot execute - Is a directory

better;

$ find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -r -J % sh -c "%"

best:

$ find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -r -J % sh -ec "%"

POSIX is all great and wonderful in theory, but in practice it's no
different than the bogus Java "write once, run anywhere" claim. If a
system or utility claims to be POSIX compliant, then you're probably
close, but you'll still need to do testing and debugging.

At least some of the issues with find/xargs are mentioned in the
following wikipedia article. It's probably more clear than I am right
now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs
Given the scale of the problem (reapers), starting at a Spectre scale is pretty logical. Else you'd have character progression that is too fast
Sorry, but no.

I should not hate people because we weren't able to develop another new product that made you another billion.

That's not a healthy work/life balance, that's a cult.
It can be done at the page level in an OS if you want. It's not efficient, but then it hasn't been shown to be that efficient in a controlled functional language yet either. Locking still wins on clock cycles, unfortunately.
Absolutely. Pictures have a much higher base edgerank. That's why you see a lot of companies uploading a picture with their promotion, or saving it as an image.

Source: http://m.techcrunch.com/2010/04/22/facebook-edgerank/ (see edge types)
The widening of the base
>The Moscow lab was reserved for the top of the class (and my dad was in the top 5%). However, during the assignment committee, the director repeated "David Vladimirovich" twice. This was a common Jewish name, and he made sure that everyone knew it.

After WWII my grandfather wanted nothing to do with his Jewish heritage. He bribed officials for new papers that changed the families last name and official ethnicity.

There is no doubt in my mind of the discrimination Jews faced in the Soviet bloc. On the other hand, I think it's a little more nuanced. Jews often occupied important positions in the system and were entitled to privileges that came along with said positions.
And really good if you like to go underground at night and mine. Then you know when the sun rises!
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) And Why It’s A Big Deal
The problem is the number of fields. Usability shows the relation between number of fields x conversions follows a power law [1]. Aiming at 80% conversion, the threshold is between 3-7 fields.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
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The purpose of the AMA was to promote the game, not satisfy readers' questions. This is the case for all political/corporate AMAs.
If you think a garbage collector and the lack of pointer arithmetic protect you from heap corruption bugs and developers deciding they're smart enough to manually manage memory for some extra speed, I've got some bad news for you. ;)
Ideally once the game is shut down, the server becomes free or open source for users.
I'm curious what you've decided the purpose of this site is. This seems like a huge issue to discuss around the future of software and the concept of "abandonware", as well as a cautionary tale about DRM, scaling, and failing to plan for success. All sounds about right to me for this site.
>We are immigrants and we are not white, I believe those adds to our problems.

Usually, sadly, this is because initially you don't have a formal education (university or otherwise)...
I've given tmux two separate tries and both times it had screen corruption issues with curses apps. screen is tried (and tried, and tried) and true.

I've also invested enough time in learning bash over the years that zsh is not a net-win for me. I've switched to using it on some systems but I seldom use more than what's available in bash. I would switch back to bash on these systems for consistency, but I feel like I've already sunk too much time in to this experiment of using zsh.

don't be a zsh/tmux hipster; there's nothing wrong with "good enough". this lesson has played out several times as businesses / software with arguably better execution / implementation loses out to existing players that have been around a while.

Edit: though, if you're relatively new and haven't been using bash/screen/whatever for decades, I don't think anybody would call you a hipster for using zsh/tmux instead of bash/screen. The marginal utility of learning tmux or zsh is much higher for somebody who hasn't already used other stuff forever.
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And this is why I basically do not pre order anything. If I do, its pretty much considered charity in my mind (eg a kickstart -esque situation)
What makes you think that?

Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Verification_System
This isn't a coherent point...even if it were relevant, which "side" does your love support more?
I'm not sure if this will work but there's a petition for EA to remove the server requirement...
http://www.change.org/petitions/electronic-arts-inc-remove-a...
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iPoker is a scam web site according to reviews on Poker Scout. Association of this with bitcoin only highlights the buyer-beware atmosphere at this very early stage of bitcoin commerce and entertainment.
It depends on the location - there are also documented instances where locals weren't admitted to universities/jobs, since they were assigned preferentially to Russian imigrants.

Soviets had a quite complex migration policy, including moving people around "by order" (both forced mass movements of nationalities and also job location assignments that could move you 2000km away), and also 'carrot/stick' with having opposite policies in various parts of USSR to achieve whatever people/nationality migrations and grand social engineering plans they had.
I think he is referring to Google Docs/Drive.
You lost any power you had by letting this to on for 3 months. Option right now are limited, and will ultimately put you in a bad light. Either force the hand, or start looking for another job. Note that by forcing the hand you might be forced to look for another job.

This sort of thing doesn't just happen. It is a pattern of abuse tht you have accepted overtime. Not because you are a fool, but due to it being your job. We keep compromising and overtime dig ourselves into a pretty deep hole.
"With enough processing offloaded to the server, would-be pirates need to write something that's almost a whole new game."

Sure, and with sufficient bandwidth and computational power you could actually hide all the game logic using a secure computation protocol. Only a complete idiot would do that for something as performance-intensive as a video game.

The problem here is that we do not have reliable or fast Internet connections. As soon as your connection has a burp, or you get hit with some bufferbloat, or half your neighborhood starts streaming the Super Bowl in 1080p, your game starts to play worse. What EA failed to realize here is that the best way to make money in games is to offer a superior online gaming platform, not to try to sell individual games as products. Microsoft figured that out with XBox Live a long time ago.
How do you expect them to do that when the language doesn't allow it? Can you show an example of Go code which creates an invalid pointer?
Electronic Arts: Remove "Always Online" DRM from SimCity and future games
You might look in The Clouds.
Juicy, juicy revisionist history!
I might be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure that Legolas did not return to the Shire with the hobbits. According to Wikipedia, he was shot by "Hobbit archers" from the impromptu militia the four adventurers organized.
Keyczar is a library with similar goals to NaCl: relative ease-of-use for authenticated encryption.

NaCl is using more modern cryptographic algorithms (e.g. XSalsa20, Poly1305, and Curve25519). These provide faster encryption with smaller keys.

The elliptic curve cryptography, most notably, provides keys an order of magnitude (or two) smaller than what's available today with Keyczar/NaCl.

Also, the NSA recommends you switch from RSA to ECC:

http://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/elliptic_curve.shtml