skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) No writer can please everybody, so it's fine if he's not your style.

2) Have you read only a few things that he wrote about, for example, the better known cognitive biases and such, or have you also read some of the more advanced sequences?

Because if you're reading the advanced essays and feel you already know all that stuff, you are a very rare breed -- good for you! I hope you're working on some hard problem in an un-sexy field and not building another photo-sharing app :)

To quote Dr. Aubrey de Grey:

>It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making the least difference. In other words, if they were hit by a truck, the same discovery would be made by somebody else about 10 minutes later.

3) When someone says they don't like something that I like, I ask them what is it that they like. I figure maybe they've found something even better and I'd love to get my hands on it too, and it's also a good way to see if they're just signalling superiority by disliking things that many others like. So what would you recommend I read to learn more about human rationality? Anything other than the usual suspects (Jayne, Kahneman, Tversky, Schelling, Hatie & Dawes, etc)?

Thanks.
> The get out clause is that they are not a set, but a class.

Good grief! In axiomatic set theory, introducing
'classes' was the "get out clause" from
the Russell paradox of the the set of
all sets that are not members of themselves.
So, the patch, the time I studied one version
of axiomatic set theory, was to say that
there are some sets and we know what they
are and we know that the Russell paradox
can't happen now, so let's go on.

It appears that the OP and alternatives
to the usual treatment of the real numbers
are based on what can be described.
This issue doesn't impress, or, really,
concern me. To me, for just an easy answer,
there is the real line with points,
and that's description enough for me.
Apparently the OP wants a description in terms
of digits and is bothered that
uncountably infinitely many reals need
countably infinitely many decimal
digits to be described. Okay,
if don't like all those digits, then
just return to the points on the line
and let those points be the description.
Good enough for me, but at this point
I have quite different fish to fry
getting my business going, really like
the real numbers and what classic
pure and applied math do with them,
and see no good reason to change
the foundations of what I do.

More generally, it appears that
computer science is struggling to
find something to do beyond
the biggies of quicksort, heap sort,
merge sort, AVL trees, red-black trees,
BNF, YACC, LALR parsing,
relational database, P versus NP, etc. So
computer science wants to
take parts of statistics, optimization,
control theory, and now the foundations
of math for its own and, in those fields,
do things differently.

Maybe I'm missing a point: Maybe
the idea is to have all the
'numerical' data computing works
with be describable in some
finite way, that is, not just
a countably infinite sequences of
digits, and, thus, get rid of,
say, numerical error. Maybe.
Seems a bit far fetched.
My first day of school (early 70's) the teacher asked something along the lines of "What do your parents do?". When I got home that afternoon my mom (a stay-at-home mom) asked about my first day of school, and I told her about that question. Of course she wanted to know what my answer was. For the 40 years since, I've suffered frequently for saying that she didn't work. ;)
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Turn a Kindle into a Weather Display (2012)
Unwarranted grumpiness. Harvesting power from radio transmisssion is indeed not new.

What they demonstrate, however, is transmission from the 'receiver' to additional devices by modulating how much power is absorbed or reflected.

This is fundamentally different from just using the harvested power to run a second transmitter, because modulating backscatter is 'orders of magnitude' more efficient.
I really like that advice! A lot of node core looks just like regular node code. The calling conventions into C++ and the v8 bindings may take more in depth understanding, but it's not that bad.
Well...

We shouldn't engage in wishful thinking either. Even if they graduate high school, the unemployment rate that awaits them is still pretty dismal. I believe the employment/population ratio for young black males "increased" to 33% for high school graduates...

Only the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't count incarcerated people in that ratio. So if you throw in that 1 in 9 young black males who are incarcerated, (I know it's higher, but 1 in 9 is the rate for high school graduates), you can see pretty clearly that even with a high school diploma they barely crack a 20% employment/population ratio. And that's actually being pretty generous with the numbers.

Of course, 20% - 25% is a better chance than 5%, so it's TECHNICALLY better to have a high school diploma...

But since the unemployment rate for whites with no high school diploma hoovers around 12%... it's actually MUCH better just to be white, than it is to graduate high school.

For blacks, especially males, I think the only way education really helps them in a material fashion, is if they can manage to graduate college.
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I wasn't arguing against the government ever funding open source. That's happened plenty of times in the past to good effect and I hope it continues, whenever it makes sense. I was arguing against the comment that I was replying to, which implied that the government should pay for Rachel's Kickstarter so that her project could be open sourced.

Do you want to be put in the situation where you are contributing to Rachel's Kickstarter, whether you want to or not? What if you didn't like her project and wanted to fund some competing project instead? Where are these countries where you get to choose exactly where your tax money goes to, anyway?

Like, do these magical countries with ultrafine granularity for choosing public funding let you make choices like: do you want your tax money to go towards Rachel's Kickstarter? Because if that's the granularity that you want, then why involve government and taxation at all? You keep your money, and you contribute it where you want to. Or not.

What if this enlightened government you speak of decides that the books, music, and movies that it wants to spend your money on for you are things which you hate? Presumably, if that government was responsive to what its citizens were asking for, it would produce stuff along the lines of what currently gets the best ratings/sales/etc. in these "non-democratic" countries that you look down on so much. Although, I'm sure the people in your country are much more enlightened than the people in my country, and all they want is more philosophy and history and intellectually honest and well-researched analysis of current events, because you live in a magical place where the bulk of humanity is good and nice and curious about the world.

Basically, do you want the government to spend your money making the next Jersey Shore? Why not just eliminate the middleman and vote with your own money, instead of thrusting the government into the position of deciding what sort of entertainment everyone wants?
This post is simply factually incorrect.

The Apple brand was built by products, but the "Designed by Apple" ad is just another version of "Think Different." Apple continues to make products, and product ads. This is in addition to it.

So "brandism" hasn't crept in, anymore so than when Steve Jobs was there.

The OP's entire point is complete bullshit and a silly, juvenile metric of the companies health.
Ask HN: Should HN have a wiki of useful resources?
Thanks to HN I've learned of many technologies (apps/libraries/hacks/algorithms/tutorials/...).

A wiki could be one way to categorize resources found in HN posts.
A must have architectural pattern for such a list: "Entity Component System" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
The key feature of this approach that many other commenters seem to be missing:

They are not harvesting power from ambient RF and using it to power a second transmitter. Instead, they are using that harvested power to communicate with other nodes by modulating their device's reflection of ambient RF, a process that they claim is ~100x more power efficient.

Not an RF engineer, can't judge novelty, but this seems really, really clever.

EDIT: added text in italics above to make my post clearer.
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That's it, I'm abandoning my lesson plans for today and I'm going to let the kids have a go at these challanges instead. Well done.
Sweat pants was me. I'm also scruffier than most geeks. And on the autism spectrum, and therefore have more awkward mannerisms and social habits than most geeks. None of which are really exactly the point.

I've seen other dads who are considerably less awkward in the same situation in the grocery store or at the park. Maybe it's different where you live, but here there's an expectation that men who aren't at work during the day are highly likely to be predators, or druggies, or something else unsavory. It doesn't seem to cross peoples' minds that a guy my age at the store at 11 am on a Tuesday could be just a normal dude who takes care of his own kids most of the time. Unless we have a kid with us, in which case we're clearly super-dad.
I would suggest adding a "vault" for every user, where he himself can bookmark or store those useful links and resources.
It wouldn't be such a big deal to prevent adults from taking these jobs, it just needs to be more attractive for companies to give them to students. So, the lower wage alone would be a good enough incentive for them.

Once the minimum wage was lower for "school jobs" the market would efficiently define which jobs can be given to school kids and which can't.
> There will always be a trail for someone to follow, but as long as you don't have someone with the resources of the government looking for you, the trail will be very hard to follow.

I think you vastly underestimate private, paid access to these databases. Lexis-Nexis comes to mind, for one.
Why, is the law going to be updated with a regular expression?
Humans are not ready for the post-work era, and probably won't be for a few generations. When there truly is no more need for actual labor to make the world run, humans will have to reform their notion of "unemployed". As of now, we define people based what they give to the world, and so far the easiest way to measure that is through work. That's why it's such a huge deal that our unemployment rate is high, we have these immense conceptual blocks that we'll need to shed for the post work era.

In the mean time, we have to accommodate the current generations of people by subsidizing work. It's the only way to sustain our current paradigm and give people livelihoods, instead of leaving them desolate in the transition phase with callous explanations of technological progress.
I would say that the regulatory question is the only question left. It's obvious that this works; but how well will it 'cooperate' in an environment?

>Reading the paper, what do you think is 'massive overhype'? They demonstrate working devices on the 1-2 foot scale.

To be a more effective network device the one thing you will have to do is (at least) try to increase this signal efficiency. That spells future regulatory problems.

>Multipath is already a very real phenomenon.

Again, interference management is already handled within devices. But now you want to add more interference into the environment? See what I mean by: good luck with that in a court.

>if these devices do not appreciably affect transmission, then are they truly interfering?

Yes, they are still interfering. And the problem only grows as you scale this "new" network.

...

And to answer the final question: Again, you would have to see what lawyers will try to argue.
The new URL is http://bitsquest.bitbucket.org/index.html#0 according to ddbennett on proggit.
Robotics and 3D printer lessons in new curriculum
Windows: Popular Operation System.
People are constantly drinking the koolaid, and readily. They want to fit in, want their boss to like them, want to do as well as their colleagues, and don't want to confront anyone. It's the human condition, and takes effort and introspection to do otherwise.
> TSO (Three, Six, Zero)

Already the "360" that have been used later.
Also one of the hardest patterns to do right (explained somewhere else)... one small glitch in the world state and the state goes out of sync.
Restore the Fourth!
IANAL, but the way I've had it described to me is not knowing exactly how fast you're going is not negligence, as it's always a better idea to keep your eyes on the road instead of a speedometer. Hitting people is a potentially more serious crime than speeding. I'd love to hear a lawyer's take on this, however.
Exactly my point above; I'm glad it came through.

I love this "bad apple" tidbit, it's going in the top drawer of the toolbox. :D
Sorry, but that is wrong. Figure 3 explains everything.

EDIT: I should say that yes the technique is using analog conditioning circuitry to get the job done without storing power in a battery.
Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S384WfJ...

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140900
Okay, it's pretty clear you didn't even read the articles you linked to.
if you read more of the OP's blog posts, he continually points to "Think Different" as a notable exception in Apple's history of avoiding brandism in its advertising during the Jobs era
Australian startups need to take note of the ACCC case against Scoopon
I remember reading a fantastic article on that topic, have you got a link?
>> "Thinking he was about to be robbed again, he fired through the door"

>Yeah, that appears to be a pretty foolish thing to do.

Definitely. Reminded me of the part in Major Payne when the little boy is scared because he thinks there's a monster in his closet. The first time I saw this, I figured it was one of the other boys in the movie playing a prank on him and hiding in the closet. Major Payne draws his pistol and unloads it into the closet door, exclaiming "if he's still in there, he ain't happy." At this point, I was like OMG he probably killed a kid (there's no one actually in the closet). Point being, if you fire a gun through a door knowing someone is on the other side, you should be held as accountable had you aimed the gun directly at them and fired.
Well, what about the kids? Being conceived wasn't their choice. Are you going to let them rot too?
I now live very happily in Australia. It's not perfect by any means (nanny state comes to mind), but I feel safer here. More importantly, my wife feels safer.
Well, I hope you'd agree that it's OK to leave the lawyers out of the discussion at this very early stage. (And technical workarounds might well exist: e.g. a TV channel's worth of spectrum in a major metro might be given over just to providing remote power to devices.)

A little relevant data from the paper: They do a somewhat crude experiment in the paper looking for corruption of TV signal, and find no effects except when the TV antenna is within a few inches of the device.

Which of course shows that these devices do indeed interfere with the normal reception of the signals they are parasitizing.
I have no idea how they derived that title from the email.

I also object to the use of the word "propaganda". In fact, ironically enough, I think that singling out US propaganda is itself kind of propaganda. I have little love for the USA but be fair: to reach out to the types of people who'd be listening to "Radio Free Asia" you need to fight fire with fire.
And previous previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569564

Seems like quite the evergreen.
Imaging at a trillion frames per second [video]
Ask HN: What should I do with a product that I built but could not market?
I started on my own. I have been sleeping over my startup for the past 9 months. The first 3 months went into reading about lean startup, and learning about it.
Next customer interviews, and prototype, then full fleged product, then iterated after few more customer interviews. It all took around 7 months.

Assembled a team on equity, they both did not agree together, one told me to get rid of the the other, having done that, the other felt insecure and left. Today after 9 months I am alone the product is sort of a classified(but much more than that).

Marketing is a big challenge. The product is ready, what should I do with it, it is a consumer application??

If anyone is interested, you could mail me anstrew99@gmail.com
I should also say that the requirements aren't an all-or-nothing deal. For every node we setup we'll need people to use the network, support it, talk about it, and help maintain it. So really, no one here should be discouraged if you don't happen to have access to a semi-tall building. Please - join up and be part of the group - don't let the building access issue stop you.
That doesn't work, as anyone providing you a clientside cryptosystem can provide you a backdoored clientside cryptosystem at the government's demand (one that silently uploads your key material to the server).

It doesn't matter if they don't normally store the key. It's a webapp.

Also, they need the key to do search. Furthermore, this does nothing to hide the metadata surrounding your communications, which necessarily must not be encrypted for services to work.
That's because W3C's goal in having a cryptography standard isn't security, but rather interoperability; they see encryption as another step towards making the web a first-class application development environment. Without it, they can't get Netflix to run on pure "open" web technology.

It's unfortunate, because we could use a secure browser crypto interface much more than we could use better browser interoperability with random non-web technology. But our industry is, of course, fundamentally unserious about security.
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This is a good argument to repeal most criminal law.
Just looked up these books at Amazon. They sound promising, but at least the first and the last ones do not seem to be related to rationality. Could you please provide more information on your learning from these books as related to rationality?

The first book also sounds a promising read on consciousness. I am keen on knowing your key learning on that too to help me prioritize. I'll definitely be reading it myself, but cannot read right away due to existing load.

Thanks.
CAs are a single point of failure if a government can get a key that your counterpart's UI will claim belongs to you.
I can only imagine someone trying to explain the logic on this one in some ad copy somewhere. "TSO" is the kind of name that requires its own FAQ entry just to explain, and even then it doesn't make sense.
I think the systematic deindustrialization of America for the past 30-40 years, along with massive upward wealth accumalation (understatement) and corporate infiltration of government, and worldwide governments for that matter (globalosscilation I believe it's called), is what "shackled" the middle class. And by shackled, I mean face fucked.

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with the OP, and suggest that, no, I don't think getting in on a few tech IPOs would have solved much.
The article implies the cop was undercover. Look at it this way: If you knew your buddy was a cop, would you break the law in front of him and put him in an awkward position?

I'm sure the cop's job did come up. And I'm sure he lied. Who would bother to check?
What about TJ Hooker? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083486/
There is indeed a block in that diagram labeled 'Transmitter', but it is not a transmitter in the colloquial sense of converting onboard power into RF energy. Instead, the 'transmitter' modulates the amount of ambient RF energy that is backscattered, by modulating the antenna impedance.

This appears to be the major innovation in the paper. As lots of commenters have pointed out, harvesting power from ambient RF is nothing new (whether or not a battery is involved).

(Section 3.2): "By modulating the electrical impedance at the port of the antenna one can modulate the amount of incident RF energy that is scattered, hence enabling information to be transmitted."

(Section 8a): "backscatter communication is two orders of magnitude more power-efﬁcient than state-of-the-art radio communication")
>True. Fallujah, being an example of SWAT team over-reaction On a nationstate level.

That's so daft I don't know where to start. There's no such thing as an overreaction in war.

>the more direct problem that there is no a preponderance of ex-soldiers, weapons, and an entire industrial base massively expanded and looking for civilian roles now everyone can see wars winding down and this kind of thing will be more prevalent.

All these things were true to a much greater extent at the end of the Vietnam war and again at the end of the cold war.
"Denver police added that it was fairly common to take sports stars on drug raids."

What possible justification is there for this practice? This completely baffles me to the point where I can't even come up with a plausible hypothesis.
I'm sure Scott is incredibly intelligent, and I have the utmost respect for A16Z, but this is a moronic, self-serving, bubble-mentality post.

Firstly, you seriously think that the middle class is being eradicated due to the fact that they can't invest in private market companies early enough? You believe that most of the middle class has their investable cash at the ready, but is being limited by IPO listings?

No one will argue that IPO times need to come down and we don't need overvalued companies bloating up the stock market. But you are making the presumption that the investable upside of private companies outweighs those that are available in the public market. I'll take 10 shares of BRK any day over some random Ponzi scheme tech startup, thx.

The average returns in the venture market underperform the S&P, which is not constrained to purchase. And the S&P is not exactly everyone's first choice. The issue is not access to private companies, it's access to 1) knowledge, 2) investable cash and then 3) comparable opportunities.

If the issue is that getting access, both on the private and public side, to liquidity sooner than we are currently seeing, I agree. But it has very little to do with the middle class. The title is just linkbait.