skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Projects like this suggest to me there is a combination of collusion and bs from the FDA driving up the cost of medical equipment in this country, as well as blocking innovation.
This x100. It's as simple as:

$ gem install warbler -v 1.4.0.beta2

$ warble

This creates a fat jar which is runnable with the JRE. It gets you out of RubyGems/Bundler/RVM hell.
Just pause for a moment on "everything that exists" because that is not necessarily a useful distinction.

If you think of a universe as "everything I could see/touch/etc given infinite time", someone outside the universe who was in control of it might record it with no problem because they are not subject to the constraints of the universe. e.g. imagine the universe as being like a computer simulation that you programmed. You can probably pause it in a debugger any time you want, look at whatever state variables you want, etc.

So in this case the definition cannot be "everything that exists" because you have to define "exists" in the case where different sets of things may have different levels of "reality".
I have been reading Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. In the section, formal system and reality, the author talks about universe as a very big formal system with all sets of rules governing it. Though, author doesn't answer the determinism question itself but I am aligned to towards it being deterministic because I think there rules at every level, quantum or physical. Everything must occur because of a factor or the other.
Yeah, I go back and forth :)
Agreed, although it's not a walled garden when others are artificially putting up the wall, since they continue to enjoy the complete freedom if they ever want to take it down.

Luckily unlike other walled gardens, the quality of Dart2JS, i.e. first-class source-maps support and many benchmarks showing it even outperforms hand-crafted JS, ensures that Dart apps will continue to benefit and run in other modern browsers even without their support, where the only difference will be the start-up and runtime performance of the running code, so we end up getting it back down to technical merits.
This is why enterprise tends to be very conservative and stick to one or two platforms for decades. It's stupid to throw away your investments when your tech du jour ran out of its time.
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There isn't actually as much magic as I first thought. The SVG (which is loaded via data URI) actually loads the same cat image again, and blurs it. (The cat URL is hardcoded into that SVG string in the data URI). So you have to know the image URL in advance, and generate a data URI for an SVG that contains it. Therefore this wouldn't work as a CSS-only technique if you wanted a dynamic image URL - you'd need JavaScript for that.

Tip: you can copy the whole data URI into your browser's location bar it will load the SVG. Then you can open devtools and inspect it to see what's going on.
Just to let you know there companies with cleanrooms that can get back the data of your HDD. You will have to pay a big bunch of money but in these cases it worths it. And they are really efficient. I saw a guy doing it for the cloud of his company, almost all HDDs are saved even one that was burned by a lightning strike.
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Did you read the OP? The whole question is about whether the apparent randomness in quantum mechanics means the universe is fundamentally nondeterministic. We cannot make accurate predictions of measurements of quantum state apart from saying things like "A will happen with some probability, otherwise B will happen". It is that "with some probability" that is the question.

(Yes, at the level of the macroscopic world we can make consistently accurate predictions, but physicists would say this is because we are operating at a scale where the statistical nature of quantum mechanics averages out, etc. Unless you are Carver Mead or one of the other wave guide kinds of guys who believe there actually is no randomness in QM and it is deterministic all the way down.)
Surely video bloggers are in the media industry, not the tech industry?
First point:
Inflation doesn't profit anyone, and it isn't strictly necessary, just hard to avoid. Handing out money that then, because of the hand out, loses a large portion of its value is not redistribution of wealth, but only paper.

Second point:
Trivial? It has never been done so far. No government has managed to do this yet, it's the main source of inflation today.

Third point:
It is different in that it's recurring instead of a one time hand out. The problems still remain. But the idea of "citizen pay" is not a new one. The problems remain: logistically difficult. Economically inflation removes the "wealth" being redistributed so people end up with nothing. Socioeconomically it removes pressure to invent wealth generating enterprises.
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> "here's 3bn, please give us your users"

3 bn is not cool anymore.

You known what's cool? 10 bn!
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It doesn't have pivot tables; therefore I don't see this as a viable replacement for Excel.
I'm trying to update mine at the minute. I'm currently working on getting a few recommendations.

http://www.adrianmouat.com

Any advice welcome. Maybe we should turn this into a ask/show hn submission?
People abusing Excel really grinds my gears. Excel should pretty much be for financial/statistical computations only. People use it as a database, word processor, etc. which is just ridiculous.

Unfortunately, it works for them because people like the interface - i.e. a nicely modifiable grid of values. We're in dire need of an application that simplifies working with a database, and better table-editing tools in word processors.
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They already have them - they're called conferences. I think web developers tend to notice the absurd pace more than many because they are, by necessity, often polyglot programmers.
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I've wrote about it in more detail on my blog (there are a couple of more posts about it): filipminev.com/post/63548505248/on-the-startup-road

But in a nutshell - adventure, warm weather, learn to surf, meet a lot of tourists with who I can share my startup idea, and receive feedback prior launching.
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iTunes backup is a really wonderful helper that allows you to restore iPhone contents in just a few minutes. But when you use iTunes to restore iPhone from backup, you find a pop-up window in the iTunes asking for password to restore iPhone backup files. And this happens to your iPad or iPod as well. If you happen to forgot this password, or never set such a password before, you may have no idea what to do next.
It certainly appears so. If you take into account how governments may react to its use in the long run, it would seem rather risky at these lofty levels. But then again that may be the real value, and thus what really supports the price level, its inability to be controlled.
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It's nice to read and understand some javascript which doesn't involve a 3 hour youtube session on the latest framework. Cheers.
Lets say we are in a "game of life" simulation on a computer. It has been proven turing complete. So you would say its deterministic because "game of life" has deterministic rules. But if the computer that runs the simulation is in a random universe, then it might happen that bits of the computer switch in a random fashion. Making our universe inside the "game of life" simulation random too. And we could touch the randomly flipping bits.

So there is no point in saying something is "outside" our universe and something is "inside".
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You are incorrect. This circuit can potentially apply unsafe currents across the patient. A standard medical biopotential measurement circuit will have single-point failure protection to prevent conditions like this. This is required by standards like EC11, EC13, and 60601. Those systems are extremely safe.

Most hobbyist designs, like the one in this article, do not have such protection. Indeed, for this particular circuit, a simple static discharge, as might happen when you're applying the electrodes after walking over carpet, can fry the input amplifier, connecting it to the power rails. ESD (and, indeed, defibrillation -- which is about a thousand times more energy than ESD) protection would be present and required in any medical biopotential amplifier, even unrelated to the single-point protection described above.

If the ESD failure happens to short out to power rails, your current will be your power rails divided by your electrode impedance. This distribution is described in EC11/EC13 (although electrode technology has improved since the days when those tests were done, so impedance is even lower). Even with the ancient electrodes in EC11/EC13, you would get unsafe currents some of the time. With modern electrodes, you would get unsafe currents much of the time.

I've seen dozens of circuits for home EEG/ECG/EMG. Almost all of them, including this one, are a deathtrap. They will work okay most of the time. At some point, someone's going to kill themselves.

Disclaimer: I am not a physician, but I've designed ECG circuits all the way through safe, successful human trials.
Dart has all the perils of an embrace and extinguish situation even if it is not the intention. Developers commit to Dart only to find in the future that the DartVM/Dart2JS targets have differing behaviour or levels of attention. And then suddenly Dart apps require Chrome and we end up with same IE6 mess again.

These situations can sometimes happen by accident or for technical reasons. And for me the web is far too important to take the risk.
Well, what are the risks off exposing your data to the NSA? This seems to be assumed to be this terrible thing, making it worth it to undertake expensive and annoying measures to avoid it. Do you really think this is going to be worth it to anybody? What is the story by which a specific calamity befalls someone whose data is caught in the NSA dragnet?

As others have pointed out, the NSA can spy at will everywhere else in the world. Nevermind that Germanies spies are probably in on the scheme.

The risk from private bad actors on the internet is much higher.
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Well, I am sure that bitcoin transactions follow the power law distribution which means that 99% of transaction volume will belong to 1% of addresses[1]. That makes it possible to track and identify large sellers, exchanges, etc.

But tracking p2p transactions? No amount of clever algorithms with their amount of data will thwart anonymization efforts done with,for example, programmatic creation of addresses, random transactions, mixins and offline transactions.

[1]obviously not scientific
I fail to understand how owning (a large chunk of) 3 Billion is less desirable than owning what another poster calls a teen messaging app. How passionate can an intelligent adult be about something like that (without thinking of the moolah)?
According to your logic, we can expect concentration camps to pop up right and left in the Philippines a few years from now.
Well yes, which is why we can't really ever know. It's somewhere between difficult and impossible to prove the axiom of your entire epistemological process.
I can't imagine Mozilla or Apple adopting Dart unless it is ratified as some standard where they have the ability to contribute to its future roadmap. Apple in particular was burned by Flash and I can't imagine being willing to go down that path again.
I think the main problem is kids aren't taught abstract problem solving, and don't learn how to process the deep concepts that you find in math. This is largely due to our rigid, rote memorization math teaching methods (here is formula x, here are the type of problems formula x can be applied to, now do this pracitce set with 100 of them, and so on).

The majority of math currently taught k-12 is also largely useless to most students who don't go into hard sciences. This time would be better spent learning math as an art. They could struggle with problems without knowing the formulas ahead of time. They could modify the axioms and see where that leads. And so on, working their way through the different areas of math, and actually internalizing the concepts. In high school, the curriculim would include a life skills: arithmetic/statistics class, to ensure that day to day practical math skills are learned.

There was a really good paper on HN a few months about math as an art form which influenced my thinking in this regard.
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> Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the qualities of the poster as a software engineer

Being able to write some code doesn't make you know anything about the rest of the system.
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This may sound like a cliche, but the discovery is the reward. Everything else is just icing on the cake, may make your life more comfortable, may make you feel appreciated, but it's optional. I mean, your question actually says "why would anyone do any science?", because have in mind that doing fundamental science is not that lucrative in terms of pay compared to the value it brings, and only a vanishingly small percentage of scientists actually get some kind of a recognition, and of those who do a vanishingly small percentage is even mentioned to general public.
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How are Mozilla and Apple putting up a wall ? Dart maybe open source but it still a proprietary, non-standard solution where ALL the committers work for Google.

https://code.google.com/p/dart/people/list
Any javascript works. For example:

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Firstly, I don't claim this view of mine is in any way scientific. It cannot make predictions, be refuted, etc.

It's just an interpretation of a model, not a model.

Secondly, I am not claiming there is a causal effect going on remotely. I am claiming that the decision making process itself is a mechanism, and if it is identical to another, remote, decision making process, then whatever one decides, the other will decide too.

Another way to view it, is that whatever caused A to decide X, will also cause identical B to decide X. Each of A and B believe they are deciding X independently, but in fact, both are identical and therefore not independent.
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This is the same reason I re-wrote a lot of my Python code in C++ many years ago. Distributing one self-contained, statically linked executable just works and even the most clueless user can download and run it.

But I still use a lot of Python and I'm sure this guy still uses a lot of Ruby. Everything has its place.
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The point is what language the enterprise cogs need to learn and the supported browsers.

> Do you know much about the JavaScript VM in the browser and how that compiles to C?

Of course, if you want to write JIT friendly code you need to know the magic JavaScript incantation code patterns.

There is a reason why all browser vendors have developer sessions on their conferences about those patterns.
You've already made it obvious you don't actually know anything about Microsoft's crimes. Which, sadly, I do.
I agree with most of what you are saying.

The similarity is definitely not a physical one at an atomic level, but indeed at a very high level of abstraction.

If we compare two computers running the same algorithm, one could be ARM, one could be using vacuum tubes. But if at a high-level of abstraction, they are running the same algorithm on the same inputs, they will yield identical results and not independent results.

Similarly, I think the "algorithms" in our brains are very similar (or even identical) at some high level of abstraction.
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>That's literally Apples and oranges.

Yes literally, my orange phone rings off the hook cause I'm so popular.
There is no point to saying something is "outside" and something is "inside" in the extreme cases of the example you just gave, which may or may not be the case. What if the outer universe is not a random universe? What if its laws of nature are so unlike ours that we do not know what to say about it? (Maybe it does not have space or time, but it has other things instead.)

But I think this is a little bit beside the point, because as I mentioned in my first post, all of this is predicated on us adopting the naïve view of time in our own universe, which is maybe not the best idea, given that we have plenty of evidence otherwise.

(And anyway, if you believe that "everything that exists" can be infinite, then there is no sense in saying our universe is being produced by some kind of simulation controlled in one particular other place, because of course it is, but actually this is probably happening in an infinite number of different ways from different places such that there is not really point any more in claiming that this is happening at all; the situation becomes such that you could just draw a relation between situation X and situation Y and could state that one could be causal of the other from a certain point of view.)
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This got to be the closest I ever come to feeling cyberspace and I have tried my share of things.

The whole thing works flawlessly, lightning fast and it's thrilling to see others building at the same time while I can walk around in a first person view.

Beautiful, just beautiful.
> when you are moving around at everyday speeds the "now" on planets across the galaxy is going back and forth by thousands or millions of years

This feels like it is either entirely incorrect, or you're taking something that is correct and interpreting it in a very misleading way.

Your remark about angular movements makes me think that perhaps you don't consider the fact that, when measured from a very distant planet, any angular movements we make in our everyday life are extremely tiny?
Yeah, but I was speaking about developer sessions in general, regardless of the technology.

A good developer should try to get as much information as possible about his/her tooling.

I remember the days where all I could learn about computers was trial and error, helped by what the local library could offer, if anything.
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Great idea, but reads a bit like a scam...
"We are neither lazy nor anti-entrepreneur."

I didn't get the impression that the article was arguing that.

I read it as: Tech results in the number of entrepreneurs in Norway reaching a tipping-point where a community forms and it becomes possible to create places like Mesh. Contrast with existing labour laws and practices. Will Norway find a way to accommodate both and keep a life-friendly balance?

(British, living in the UK)
Have you even worked in the enterprise ?

Because I have and continue to for the last 20 years and NOBODY is interested in a repeat of the IE6 fiasco.
Not to moan on every single dropbox thread but...

I wonder whether the issues I (and others) encountered with large numbers of files would be a lot more likely to occur with a business account where that number of files is quite likely to occur, esp. with the bigger package deals (dropbox basically broke unrecoverably, no longer syncing anything and overwriting files as I worked on them at ~300k files.)

This has been a known issue for a couple of years already with no fix on the horizon, weird they'd leave that alone but push the kind of account that would trigger the problem.
The interesting point here is that even though the universe may be entirely deterministic --and quantum theory says that it is, if you consider the universe as a single gigantic "wave function" -- that may still be irrelevant for our lives because we cannot actually observe this gigantic wave function. In fact, we're a part of this function, in an unusual sense for which there is no everyday life equivalent.
I agree.

One actual use case that could be solved in a better way than today would be login portals where a user have to be logged in to access the Internet.

Today, this is typically solved by issuing a redirect of some kind to the client (in the future, I guess it will receive a 511).

For HTTPS, the choices are
a: Dropping the packets, ensuring extra costs in the support organizations when users wonder why their internet doesn't work.
b: Doing a MITM and issue a redirect to the login portal that way.

Different operators choose different solutions here. Neither choice is good. Having a way of telling the client, that yes, while the connection is still encrypted, it didn't end up at the place it expected.

Might it be possible to add to TLS so that there are some way of issuing gateway redirect? Perhaps, perhaps not. I've seen precious little action in that area.
Absolutely.

Github (or equivalent) presupposes that you've done some coding that is (1) worth sharing with the public (2) organized enough.

A lot of "learning code" is going to look like crap - the first few thousand lines of code you write when you're learning a new language, a new problem domain, or (!) both at the same time. The fact that it isn't useful for public viewing doesn't make it useless - it was an important part of the learning process. But sharing it with prospective employers is unlikely to be valuable.
Ah, I implemented frosted glass years ago in SVG using the BackgroundImage source for a feGaussianBlur (composed with other filters, of course). It works fairly well in Inkscape and other such tools, but alas! No browsers supported it and I believe that it is still the case that no browsers support it.

Of course, there are security implications, but those are fairly trivial given the infrastructure already in place.
Definitely want to see it happen, although I'd doubt in its accuracy.
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> Google pushed the whole web platform forward.

Really? When do you expect other browser vendors to adopt DartVM and PNaCL?

This is the second coming of IE, nothing else.
I am Norwegian, and your criticism is spot on. I don't recognize the working hours angle in this piece at all.

The labour laws have exceptions for the self employed, entrepreneurs and employees in important posititions, and are in no way a hindrance if you want to work insane hours. I did that, for years, mostly to my own detriment.

As a side note, my office is right above one of the spaces mentioned, and the lights are usually out by the time I leave.

That said, I'm excited to see all these places appearing.
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"New graduate Mette Schjelderup has just joined her young husband's business Douchebags, a sports equipment luggage company that was launched last year, and already sells its products in 300 stores across 20 countries."

lol. I mean, what else would you call sports bags?