skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometime in the recent past people have started substituting a reasonable skepticism about what is known and knowable for a kind of blatant dismissal of everything that is not rendered absolutely elementary and deterministic. This is especially true of the cognitive sciences and the double standard becomes especially clear when the field is contrasted with, say, physics, the most sciencey of all sciences. For instance, go ahead and take a quarter out of our your pocket, flip it into the air and see how it lands on the floor. It's pretty easy to predict whether it comes up heads or tails, right? Except no, it isn't, not outside of a cleanroom with a known atmosphere and a robot flipping the coin.

In my experience it's usually the people who know the least about psychology or cognitive science claiming that the least can be known about psychology and cognitive science. The people who know the most about psychology and cognitive science will also tell you how little we currently know, but the context is very different, sort of like when you're at a party and get cornered by a Shakespeare scholar who for the next three hours tells you in explicit detail how little is known about Shakespeare.

Of course the brain is complicated, and of course we're a long way from understanding it, and yet I could look at a scan that showed hypometablism in your anterior temporal lobes and be able to tell you with great specificity about the symptoms I would expect you to manifest, a diagnosis which would be drawn from a mountain of data that is often, admittedly, observational; and yet using a confluence of imaging methods and single cell recordings and anatomical studies and animal homologies, which collectively have given rise to theoretical models, the predictions are as scientific as those that arise in any other kinds of science. Doesn't mean they're always right, but there's rigorous and principled methodology at work, results shift belief in the explanatory power of this model or that, and the field moves forward.

So yeah, there are bad practitioners and bad papers and overbroad explanations, but that doesn't mean that nobody knows anything.
(co)homology and homotopy are specific to algebraic topology. There are several other types. Regardless, these sorts of discussions have convinced me that the semantics regarding these subjects are extremely muddy. I am by no means an expert, and tend to try to stick to the meanings conveyed by colleagues with more experience and/or wikipedia :)

My library is definitely not a topology library. I tend to describe it as a geospatial processing engine. My first comment was really only meant to speak to some overlap I noticed with the topology described in the article, and to convey my deep respect for the people who have a more full understanding of the low level mathematics involved (which it sounds like you might possess).
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14 yr old singer --awesome
I know some people will always want a bigger high, but I really do wonder if the US legalized marijuana, if there would be a large drop of drug overdoses.. Obviously a millionaire like a major actor doesn't have the same financial limitations as a common man... but seriously, how many people need to die from drug overdoses if they can enjoy marijuana safely?.... RIP.
a lot of media seemed to cover this... even if they didn't link to the actual interview it took me about 2 seconds to find it online...
I get pretty good feedback from Kiva, I donate regularly to farmers mostly who are producing fair trade goods such as http://www.kiva.org/updates/partner/599794. Given they need a loan, better to get it low interest and from reputable lenders.
No, I'm not - it will default to using that as the outbound ID even on a data-only plan, because iOS doesn't know it's a data-only plan.

The fact that you must go and manually change it to your email address for outbound iMessages is the part that's invisible.
This agrees with my own experience: I've found that I can type around 10-20% faster when I'm listening to fast music, and oddly enough make less errors in the process (this might be a different effect, however.)
Capote and Magnolia cemented him, in my mind, as one of this generations leading acts who'd mature into a Mirran/Hofman/Freeman/etc.-class actor.

It's such a tragedy for film - which will outlast us all here now.
Why do people like him turn to drugs?
Seriously, it's such a minimal effort to do a spellcheck. Probably less effort than was taken to write that paragraph.
> it would have to run on... an open mobile OS, which would in turn require open hardware.

I'm not 100% clear on this: why can't there be an open mobile OS that runs on (bootrom-exploited) iOS devices?
My fav: "gitbr" alias, which goes:

for k in `git branch -a|perl -pe s/^..//`;do echo -e `git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" $k|head -n 1`\\t$k;done|sort -r
The GHC RTS (used in most Haskell programs) is practically a mini-operating system already.
I wonder what percentage of that is from fracking.
You disliking things doesn't make them stupid.
Monkey typing ABRACADABRA
WhatsApp does not work on tablets. Its stupid auth system requires a device with a phone number.
:( :( this guy was such an amazing actor!
Providing a dopamine fix may be being coercive. It's a reward that may be manipulated by those with few ethics. Certain types of marketing, similarly, may be considered coercive. Coercion isn't limited to physical violence.
This varies a lot by country. Neither MRI nor CT are commonly used in Germany, for example, unless there is a clear medical necessity.
It is possible, but it takes a long way to approve and distribute manpages after changes. I like Michael Kerrisk for all his work. Manpages are great and I'm not trying to replace it, they have much more useful information.
> Except .. coastal cities, where the sewage outfall is in the ocean....

That is true, and it's an opportunity. That water should be captured for farm use. However by the time the water got to those cites it has (hopefully) been used many times.

> Functioning septic systems don't store water. They drain it to a field, and it goes wherever any other form of runoff would go. I don't see how you arrive at the conclusion that this is "wasteful".

Because no one can drink this water. Obviously on a global level water can't ever be wasted. So talking about water waste must necessarily be about available water. Runoff is a waste in that sense.
I tend to agree with you.

Moreover, there is an issue of keeping the incentive to mine. The theory is, that when a coin is mined, and when it will become popular, there will be a lot of transactions, and the fees will make up a large sum worth mining for. But that's only a theory, it wasn't seen yet. I feel it is much better that miners can still mine their 10k doges per block.

Yet another reason is, that certain amount of coins is being lost forever due to human errors. So the increase will be even less.
I haven't seen anyone actually hack printer firmware in that way, outside of some shops in China that claim they can do that. Any chance you could do a writeup on it?

There is probably a checksum (or even worse, digital signature) on the firmware image, or some other checks like that, but as for getting the firmware back on the device, I'd probably use a hardware flash programmer.
But garbage collected memory of immutable values and atoms, in hardware?

Hardware transactional memory might help here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory#HWIMPLEMEN...
Not sure I understand what you mean. Rich, successful people?

In my experience, addiction crosses all social, economic and class boundaries. Being rich and famous probably plays an enabling role more than anything.

In any case, very sad to lose another talent too soon.
>I suspect this may be what they want: to keep it basically worthless so people keep using it to tip people large amounts and have fun with it, and to drive away investors and people looking to profit.

Right and it is indeed a great sign that this drives out the hoarders. Makes for a much more healthy community.
> Providing a dopamine fix is being coercive.

Convince my girlfriend of that.

Seriously, though, it doesn't even pass the laugh test. People control their own circumstances. Making those circumstances available to be chosen does not alter the source or responsibility of those decisions.

Smokers choose to smoke. Gamblers choose to gamble.

Proof lies in those who subsequently choose to stop.

You always have free will, even if you aren't using it at the moment.
Passwords are broken. Everyone should use two factor auth where available, and demand it where it is not.
A more important question is what percentage is used by recycling.
I'm talking about the animated one in the parent - AFAIK entropy is a scalar, not three-dimensional.
In Australia, the two greatest waterhogs - the ones causing strain on water supply - are cotton and rice. We have a sizeable beef industry. That beef is not eating cotton and rice.
> For an operating system latency is more important than through put

The old OS/390 that is still processing your bank statement and your payroll is another counter example that the above statement is too generic.
>> ".. humans drink less than one gallon of water per day, but a cow can drink up to 23 gallons of water a day."

They do weigh a bit more though. :) It probably ends up being ~2x-3x a human's water consumption by weight.
Or maybe she's better at writing fantasy books for children than crime novels?
I should've added *for best/cleanest experience.

Sure, you can use proprietary hardware (iPhone) and try to make it run different software, but your luck getting around their protection systems may vary (and it may or may not be illegal, depending on how much you care).
Neat, but i would think the novelty would wear off after some time. Also Google+/facebook could eat their lunch super fast. I'm a big fan of Microsoft Blink (https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/research/toys/blink.asp...) - the idea being you can pick the photo you want, or keep a vine-esque video of the moment.
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Facebook's Paper photo tilt feature cloned in HTML5 before it gets released.
nitpick: it's "depesz", not "despez" (pron. depe'sh)
Are you importing feed?
My iOS knows because it runs on an data-only device (iPad mini with cellular).
Why does anyone? I'm not an expert on addiction, by any means, but I do know that addiction has a lot more to do with personality and mental health than any sort of outward (financial, political, artistic) mark of success. The fact that many addicts live in poverty does not prove that poverty causes (let alone being the sole cause of) addiction. It is likely a strong contributing factor but not the only one.
Spain doesn't get heavy snow across the half of it every year. The US does get a hell of a lot of water falling on it.
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
That would mean that others will see incoming iMessages from your email address rather than phone number from that point forward, and anyone who doesn't have your email address in their address book will not know who it's from.

I often exchange iMessages with people whose contact entry for me likely consists of phone number & name, and if I'm lucky, a photo.

[Edit] Just realized it also means that people who have both your iMessage-enabled email address and phone number in your contact info will be prompted on whether to send the iMessage to your phone number or email when composing a group message, and many will likely continue to select phone. Apple just needs to add the ability to disassociate your phone number with iMessage, and have clients check that status and update their local configuration when composing or sending iMessages. [/Edit]
I can understand why celebrity caricatures like Justin Bieber do their shenanigans, but Hoffman was so respected and loved. Why would he start with drugs to begin with? (forgetting being trapped by an addiction)
Are you talking about Alan Kay as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay ? He doesn’t seem to have made any major contributions to physics, mathematics, the natural sciences or basically any other field, apart from software engineering.
Fine, but Viber does, right? There are open source, secure messaging systems on the way too. My point was that you do not need open hardware to have a relatively open messaging system. Just look at IRC as an example. It might be somewhat dead now, but it certainly runs on everything now.
Because I only have time time to play games on the comute to work, for the last year or so, I game almost exclusively on my nexus 7.

Finding a decent game is difficult and there are not as many,
but I have found a few, mostly in 3-10$ range:

Total War Batles - nice simplified rts
Anomaly Warzone Earth/Korea/2 - nice strategy, reverse towerdefense

Shadowrun Returns - direct port of pc-game, nice classic tactical rpg

Deus Ex - The Fall - as long as I play it as a point and click and forget that it is supposed to be a FPS, it is pretty decent :)

I am still searching for something aking to Homam, but so far not as lucky ... there is Kings Bounty, but it is F2P,
and I need something without internet conection requrement.
Then I tried several ports of Battle For Wesnoth, but it port has barely some optimization of the ui to be used on touch screen ...
> Cool. Thanks for killing the profitability of the currency. Now it's going to be worthless in a couple of years and never reach the value of BitCoin or even anywhere close.

I don't think that's what currencies are for.
Splintering the total cost into fare and various taxes, surcharges, and fees is likely an attempt to make direct price comparisons with competitors more difficult. I.e. advertising the base "fare" and only revealing the additional charges at purchase time. Wireless providers, cable/internet companies, etc. all do it too.
You'd need to look at farmland per capita to interpret the original numbers, not just total farmland.
Water usage should also imply that the water used is not reclaimable. For example, steam from a hydroelectric plant falls back as precipitation. Irrigation water re-enters the water table or streams. For water to be used in a way that is negatively impacting it must be converted to a chemical that won't naturally degrade to water. For example, urine, ozone, etc.
The [1] parallax tilt effect was out there for some time, so I don't think FB have implemented something new.

[1] - http://wagerfield.github.io/parallax/
4 litres is a low estimate. Think of 4 1-litre cartons side-by-side; that's barely enough to submerge a plate. Some people may use that little water when washing up, but most use more.
Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and others disrupt SF cab companies
"'We have ourselves to blame,' Kim said. 'As an industry, we did not meet the service demand,' said Kim [owner of DeSoto Cab]. 'For years, every survey showed we were undersupplied by at least a thousand cabs.'"
Chrome to prompt Windows users to reset browser
Another way to think about this is, why can't manpages be written more concisely, so that the most common options and syntax are on the first page/"above the fold"?

Here is the 7th edition UNIX manual for comparison:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/bswv7.html
In particular, in the current Silicon Valley system, the "stupid ideas" are competing with good ideas for money. Money that went into Snapchat wasn't available to go into a startup doing cleantech, privacy, optical logic, nuclear fusion, or some other technology that is crucial for the future.
That sucks, if it is the case. It only takes a second or two for a newly added number to switch from green to blue (I'm sure it's some kind of HTTP number lookup request to an *.apple.com web service), so why couldn't they re-request that every time - or at least keep the caches down to like 15-30 minutes...
This is true. Though getting an iMessage from john.doe@gmail.com who isn't in your contacts isn't as uninformative as getting an iMessage from +1-234-567-8900.
funny sidenote, one of House dev (Jeremey Bobbio) had a talk at FOSDEM2014 about reproducible builds for debian, similar to Nix (also immutable in spirit) I believe.

https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/reproducibledebian/
Each country has it's import fees for commercial use. These are often quite large, and, as an import company, you will have to pay them to operate legally.

The reason some of these fees is large is due to governments trying to control the import process, not due to any inherent costs associated with the items, so where these fees apply can not be guessed without having knowledge of the specific laws and treaties involved. As an individual, you've never needed to know these laws and fees

Also, your legal costs to import random things over random borders is going to be quite large. Most importer companies start with one set of items into a single country to defray the legal costs for that one set of items over many items sold. i.e. It's as much legal effort to commerically import 10 cases of wine into the US from France as it is to import 10,000 cases. But importing Cheese from France to the US is a completely different set of laws, and could cost the same as the legal costs for the wine.
Oh, no, I get that - but if you're a (paranoid) security conscious airline, it's a fairly short hop/easy exploit to make sure someone buys something bad to take on the plane - presto, fresh skinned mule.
No, but we do a lot of grazing. The internals of Australia isn't all desert.
Works for AirBnB and Uber. "We avoid taxes, and pass the savings on to you!" is panning out as a pretty solid business model.
The most efficient dishwashers sold in the EU use down to 6 liters per wash. http://www.topten.eu/?page=freestanding-2
That is really gross, can you at least add some trigger warnings next time?
I disagree with nothing you said – I'm very familiar with the relational model. I've used keys in my examples, but nothing prevents the concepts from applying to the more general cases of tuples and sets. (A set is "dynamic" in that its individual values are not addressable in a manner which is determinable at compile time – you (generally) don't know what will be in the set.)

To give separate examples without using keys, you can compare a (integer-indexed) tuple to an array. The former is static-heterogeneous; the latter dynamic-homogeneous. And thankfully, most languages (even mainstream dynamically-typed languages like Python) seem to get the distinction, even though ignoring types or implementation, they are nearly identical.
Or down to 1.5 gallons http://www.topten.eu/?page=freestanding-2
Mine has both... (At two.) it's v difficult to deal with "not work, daddy, come play. Come play!"
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All agreed.

Except the company for which this technique was developed (and patent was written) was acquired, partly on the basis of this cluster of patents (which the buyer believed would give them ammo against the leaders in the field). So the guru was right in the path he took.

I will not give the patent number because that will expose me (no thank you), and I'm aware of workarounds. The thing is, That's true of every software patent[1] I've seen that is not mandated by some standard. Do you have counterexamples?

[1] there's no such thing as a software patent, of course.
>> " A dishwasher can hold a lot more dishes than a sink."

You put unclean dishes in the sink, wash them, take them out, and more more unclean ones in. The only limit to how many dishes you can put through the sink is how dirty the water gets which depends on how dirty the dishes are to begin with.
It's never a good idea to rely on one number, or one email address, etc... The day you lose this you lose all your connections.
Table 32 here breaks it down:

http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2007/Full_Report/V...

There is substantial irrigation of grains but the majority of grain acres are not irrigated.
You can unlink your phone number from iMessages, and even deactivate iMessages totally avoiding this problem...
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If you're iMessaging them, they either know that 1-234-567-8900 is John Doe, or chances are good that the content of the message is "Hey, this is John Doe, got a new number."
IOS8, Health Data, and Open Data
I came here to say exactly this. Source: I work in the guts of some of the biggest telecom networks on the planet.

Federation is a problem because none of the standards interop. The closest thing we had was XMPP which became mega-bloatware as time went by and is now just not something anyone wants to implement (and it's becoming less of an issue as most of the players move away from open-ness).

While the technical among us understand the ramifications of these decisions, the silent majority do not. I believe it was Elad Gil who said that services that eschew privacy have historically dominated their more private opponents. Users say they care about privacy but their explicit value systems (what they say versus what they do) says otherwise. The majority of consumers are happy to take iMessage and use it to the extreme and will attribute silent failures to the operators in most cases (which is not necessarily wrong).

True federated identity is the death of the phone network and there are just too many billions of dollars tied up in the world for this to come to pass. A phone number is a ridiculously arbitrary identifier for a person, and yet it works and has worked for quite some time. Logically addressed networks are finally starting to break, and that's a good thing, but the catalyst that will move us away from these systems is one that subsumes existing infrastructure while adding new features. You cannot rip and replace our communications networks (or any infrastructure for that matter) and so the only logical solution is to subsume. It's not easy, but that's how this gets fixed.
Corollary lesson: don't assume anything in the contract.

PHP website, you might of course assume it's going to be hosted on Linux. Who ever hosts PHP on Windows servers?

Oh, your client does? Nasty surprise if you find that out after signing the contract.
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Are there fundamental premises of the article you can disprove?
I apologize for my misunderstanding! I did not gather that from the article, I should have read the links as well.
I find it quite ironic that there's a typo in the title on HN but not on the original article.
How could I forgot SSA. The idea here is what about re-expressing things by pushing immutability at lower level as a common base.
The vast majority of beef production does not use grazing.
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Um. I'm not the one who made iMessage - you need to look at the guys making locked down messaging systems for the user-hostile actions causing problems like these and no doubt much more in the future. If I could help these people out and give them a script to run to fix their problem I would - but of course I can't, because everything is locked down by others who are putting their own vendor lock-in above user satisfaction. And I agree that it is the biggest problem in our industry.
I think this video by Chamath Palihapitiya about FB growth strategy is super interesting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raIUQP71SBU).

Relentless focus on building the thing the customer wanted vs focus on viral marketing strategies. That said, they had an inherent viral growth strategy by targeting their initial user base to a very sociable/vocal college crowd. That wasn't a growth hack, it was merely solving a problem that most college kids had.
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