skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's the same mental rut as people stuck in a terrible dead-end job, or in abusive / shitty relationships. this is not a value judgment on what type of job/relationship is good; these people are suffering. some are highly paid, or have the outward appearances of a good relationship.

they have self-imposed a set of beliefs, a system of beliefs built up through unfortunate circumstances that have no bearing on wider reality, that limit their ability to improve their circumstances. it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

their mind will do all sorts of logical gymnastics to avoid admitting the truth or taking action. you can see it in this thread. people just make things up out of thin air, convinced of their truth. i was tempted to reply to a couple but then i saw your comment.

it's like living in the matrix or something. it's so hard to explain because smart people can fall for it too. to this day, i find myself slipping into these self-defeating thought cycles every once in a while. maybe it's some kind of stockholm syndrome.
Oh great, now not exercising in bars is going to be banned :(
>That was to kill flash

Nope, they never supported flash in mobile in the first place. And they continue to do so today, years after Flash has been dead and burried.
Anyone know a good reason why not? This seems like a great answer to the issue.

(I suppose you may get web page layouts "jumping" if the downloaded font had very different spacing to the fallback font. EDIT: Ah, just learnt this is called FOUT. http://www.paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-font-face-fout/ Still, I'd personally prefer FOUT to being unable to read the page.)
That's really quite extreme over-exercise, though. If you don't train for a marathon, but rather go jogging a few times a week, you'll be fine.
All of the studies I linked to discuss population means. Not a single one addresses the claim Derbasti made about the tails of population distributions.

Whenever this topic comes up, people constantly claim tons of research showing 40 hours is some magic right number for everyone everywhere in every industry, yet that research is rarely cited. The best I've seen so far is the post I linked to, which is population means in construction.
I'll chime in and agree that Python is challenging R, Matlab, and Fortran thanks to some powerful third-party libraries. There is a LOT you can do with NumPy/SciPy[1], and Matplotlib[2].

[1] http://www.scipy.org
[2] http://matplotlib.org
Edit: reasonable question gets downvoted.

Your question was kind of emotionally charged, and it sounded like you were getting upset, which is what probably set off the downvotes.

if the tradeoff for ultra-longevity is a shitty life of being obsessively active I think I'll pick a shorter life.

Being active doesn't have to suck. Sports are fun, man.
I'm not sure why 3 feet high did not resonate with me. It was good but not great album, IMO. Me, myself, and I was getting too much commercial play so I never took it seriously.

It might also be timing. When 3 feet was released I was a pre-teen. Stakes is High arrived when I was a real adolescent, I was dating, working part-time, and hanging out with friends. Buying music was a big decision back then, a $15 CD required 3 hours of minimum wage, fast food work.
I don't believe you are an 80 hour a week man. Unless you count reading HN, browsing the web, reading email, eating lunch, commuting to work, getting ready for work etc. NO ONE does 80 hours of legitimate work a week. It's a myth.
> It is very frustrating when loading up a website and seeing a mostly blank page because the fonts are still downloading.

Soon to be fixed! Blink (Chrome, Chrome on Android, Android 4.4+ WebView, Opera) will be implementing new behavior for how webfonts are loaded: http://crbug.com/235303#c17 Basically, you'll only see invisible text for a maximum of 3 seconds (this is the same as Firefox). As Ilya's post also points out, we have strong data on webfont latencies in the wild that supports this behavior.

Further, we're shipping it with Font Load Events so you can customize loading behavior very easily. On the Safari side of things, I've seen WebKit add a radar tracking ticket for font loading behavior, so it seems likely Safari will be updating their style soon as well.
Of course, but your observation is not terribly useful given that per riffraff, pre-sales support of this sort is not available.
A lot of people associate exercise with pain, or the misery of compulsory sport at school (which often comes with a side order of sanctioned bullying and abuse).
We can, via simulations, deduce what a world with an infinitely fine grid (or no grid, depending on your preferred language) would be like. Is our world like that world? If not, then there must be a grid at the bottom that is only finitely fine. See my top-level comment for more detail.
Perhaps Dart?
One's core value cannot be quantified by an objective metric. We are not all computers.
Indeed it does what RSS used to do for me. It also adds comments and pictures, something RSS could also do depending on the reader. The real added value of G+ compared to RSS is the original content: a lot of people in Open Source and science, for example, use it as a blog platform. I do wish social networks were less ghettoized, but as a publication medium it doesn't seem less open than a blog to me. There are even tools to generate RSS feeds from G+ streams I think.
What is the real thing? Is there a grid at the bottom of the real universe or not? We can calculate what a world with no grid at the bottom would be like. Is our world like that world?

See my top-level comment for more detail.
Arch repo got it too.
Do you mean `git difftool --tool=emerge`, or are you thinking of something else?
Who the hell works 80 hours a week to make a measly $120k? You should be making 300k+ for that kind of productivity. Otherwise, you are only cheating yourself. There are tons of 120-160k jobs at 40 hours/week
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847

and see my top-level comment for more detail.
Whom might you be referring to when you say "Merchant Services companies"? Coinbase? Others?
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Who said I'm not? But as I said, I'm not sure the problem can be solved.
I'm not a physicist, but I suspect there are more convincing (physical) arguments for the discreteness of nature -- otherwise we would have non-finite (informantion/thermodinamic) entropy per unit space, which would probably lead to a handful of inconsistencies, perhaps analogous to the ultraviolet catastrophe which lead to the proposition of quanta of energy by Plank.
> not as corrupt and not as crazy

I've lived in Brazil my whole life. I think the situation is moving towards it. It's just as corrupt and politically unstable. It's just humming along because the economy hasn't tanked (yet). Economy is everything.
> stop imposing onto others what is right or wrong

Take your own advice much?
Registrations was close because of storage.
But it's now re-open for 1k registrations.
Victim-blaming AND false consciousness! Great way of disclaiming any responsibility for helping anyone in that situation.
If the point of your previous message was "don't be discouraged by the rejections," it sure doesn't read that way.
; you'll be in the position to turn it away. If you're anyone else, though, the best advice regarding SillyCon Valley is just to sit this lifetime out, because the factors that matter most are those you can't do anything about.

Or just start building your company without anybody else's money at all, or money raised outside of SV... and then become, as they say, "so good they can't ignore you." At the end of the day, these people are pragmatic... get enough traction and I'm pretty sure the "in the club or not" distinction disappears in the wash.

Of course, the best scenario is one where you never wind up needing VC money at all, whether it's from the Valley or elsewhere. But that might not work for everybody. Still, you can start without those guys in most industries, especially if you can code and are building a software product.

Obviously if you're doing a pharma play or something with huge initial capital costs, the equation changes, but I doubt the majority of this audience (HN readers) are founding pharmaceutical companies...
I too thought at 26 I was training, believe it or not your time is now!
Another thing that FB's solution did was to add inotify support. Git may get this feature soon -- there are already experimental patches on the mailing list for it.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/24120...
When someone posts something like this, do they honestly believe everyone else having this debate, including serious physicists, are just stupid because they can't see the brilliant insight they have posted?
Now let's see how fast msysgit gets updated on Windows.
As a decent software engineer with a couple years of experience, you need to be making at least 80-100/hr or you are cheating yourself. If you are working 60 hours a week, you better be making at least $250k/year
Sure, and that's the case on Windows too. You can launch and switch exclusively through the start screen and never use the recent-apps swipe. It's just included in the tutorial popups for whatever reason (maybe because Windows users are expected to be more keen on multitasking, given its desktop heritage and since that's a point of differentiation for Windows vs. the iPad).
Inspiring.

Her website is still up:

http://normallyodd.com/
>Is an iPhone emulator a simulation or an actual iPhone?

That's a really good question, and I hope the next metaphysical conundrum I encounter can be despatched with as easily.

The answer is that it is a simulation. Next!
That's a good point. To delegate your sign-up/log-in to a third party, you have to put some degree of trust into that service provider. The numbers show that most people "trust" Facebook, Google and others enough to do so.

The idea of removing the need for trust is elegant and some of the technical folks do appreciate it. However, it's difficult to communicate that to the wider audience, especially since it is not really aware of there being an issue with that.

Firefox Accounts is a step into the right direction regarding this, so let's see how this goes.
I read this a few weeks ago and it was pretty eye-opening. It really goes into the economics and underhanded ways that are used to move traffic cheaply.

Even if you're just a buyer of transit this is worth a read as it can help you negotiate better rates and make sure you're getting the service you paid for.
That's how they used to work. However, it was just as jarring as the OP's complaint: the flash of unstyled content. You'd start reading something while the fonts downloaded. Suddenly, the whole page would jump and change as the new font (with its metrics, kerning, etc) are applied.

IIRC, Firefox waits a few seconds showing no text. If the font still isn't available, it resorts to fallback fonts and redraws the page if/once the font is actually downloaded.
I think it's a very interesting and well-documented article. Everything is actually summarized in the 4 minute video half-way through the article, if you're short on time. Basically our need for self-actualization and the lens that our social platforms offer (idealized)is killing our social experience, by emphasizing quantity (connections and likes) over quality (content)and an easy excuse not to admit you're lonely: but I have x-amount of friends on...

Nice post :D
How can one opt for this 'direct pay' model when the ACA mandates insurance?
The answer is obvious [0].

[0] http://xkcd.com/224/
Brian Greene does a very good job of explaining the logic in this conversation with Robert Krulwich: https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/91859 . If you have a spare 50 minutes, it's really really worth your time to listen.

In sum, the argument goes like this: if there is more than one universe, then there will be some universes that are larger than ours, some that are smaller, some that are younger and some that are much, much older. If we, in our universe, have evolved intelligence sufficient to construct machines to simulate simple mammalian brains, then it is reasonable to assume that beings in a much larger, much older universe would have computational power far in excess of ours. So much so, that not only would they be able to simulate entire smaller, younger universes, but those simulations may themselves have the ability to simulate even smaller, younger universes. Turtles all the way down, so to speak.

So even if the very biggest, oldest universes form the long tail of all possible universes, the fact that they could simulate universes that simulate universes that simulate universes means that, all else being equal, the probability that our universe is real is much less than the probability that we are, in fact, in a simulation.
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The army has done a lot of research on this topic from WWII onwards. I've read some of the studies. I've also read some papers done in the private sector on this topic in the construction industry. What they found was about the same: people who work more that 40 hours a week can do so for a short period of time before it starts to impact a lot of aspects of their health, which translates directly to their performance. This is not controversial.

What I haven't seen much of is how it affects people who don't soldier for a living or who don't work with their hands outdoors for a living. People like me who code. I'm sure the studies are out there, I haven't taken the time to read them. My guess is that the negative impact of working longer hours to outcomes is even more pronounced, not less.

I can cite an internal audit at a large software company I worked at back in the 00's. They found that having people work longer hours wasn't worth it. Period. It didn't improve linear increased output, it produced a negative output ratio per hour overall, furthermore it increased attrition and problems with engineering implementations. Note that said software company's goals were well aligned with getting people to work as long as possible for the same money and they still reached this conclusion.

So go ahead. Work those longer hours. Just be aware that the all the best numbers we have don't support you doing it for long for any good reason.
Question:

IANAL but isn't it illegal (grounds for a lawsuit at least) to use the image of someone, who is too young to provide legal consent, in an advertisement without their legal guardian's express written consent?

I could have swore that was a thing on a higher than state level but maybe I'm wrong? Like I didn't think you could make a 'settlement' and then legally avoid this sort of thing in the future.

Isn't this quote all sorts of legally indefensible? When did non-adults ever have the ability to 'represent' anything in the absence of their guardian?

any user under 18 “represents” that her parent agrees to let Facebook use her image in ads.
It's a typical post by someone whose knowledge of physics is limited to the content of the Discovery Channel, whose physics scripts are worded in just this way.
> disclaiming any responsibility

it's not my responsibility to offer to help strangers unsolicited. in fact, it's kind of rude.
It is not possible to observe a violation of physics, because physics is defined as whatever you observe. For real.
Ask HN: who was the genius? A) Jobs B) Woz
A state without a monopoly on laws and law enforcement means there is no one to enforce contracts, prevent corporate monopolies, define conflict of interest, right the injustices of the poor, etc. That's basically anarchism which leads to feudalistic society with the wealthy at the top. Feudalism has been tried for centuries and it just doesn't work as well as a state with a monopoly on laws and law enforcement.
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If each simulated universe can only contain one actual person, then the simulation argument doesn't hold up, since the vast majority of people would still be living outside of simulations.
The FPS count is generally with regards to scrolling and built in animation / transition rendering.
hold on, let's back up a step. getting up and walking around a few times a week shouldn't be associated with pain or bullying or abuse.

if it is, you are almost certainly suffering from a mental illness (for able-bodied people, obviously).

this is not a troll. please take a step back and realize that 'normal' people should not have a problem with going outside for a walk. please come back into reality.
> lead to the proposition of quanta of energy by Maxwell.

No, not Maxwell. Max Planck. Maxwell did something very important, but the first suggestions of quanta arose in the work of Planck.
Facebook has enough money and lawyers to ignore the law, judging by the outcome of the court case mentioned in the article.
Complain about 60 hours/week? Rarely. Work 60 hours/week? Rarely.

Professors tend to put in roughly 40 to 80 hours depending on their scientific and organisational workload, but most others hardly ever work 60 hours/week with an average of 40-ish. But then, nobody really measures how much time they put in, and you have to keep in mind that in science, the ‘passive work’ done sort-of in the background while doing something else plays a larger role than in programming (at least that’s my impression).

That said, 40 hours is not entirely unjustified, given that 8 hours/day is relatively practical if you want to have both breakfast and dinner at home with an 2hours/day commute and that at least most universities are relatively closed-down on weekends (though some enjoy the much more quiet environment…).
Exactly. My socially needs are rather low, so going for dinner with friends a couple times a week and having random small talk between the lectures are enough for me :)
I sometimes picture the Universe as being some kind of a recursive knowledge generation simulation eating memory as it learns, with (Known Universe <-> Subatomic Particles) being the current limitations. The One Electron[0] acts as the program counter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_electron
This is older than git 1.9, but git supports mercurial repositories[1]. I used to have to use mercurial to deal with kiln (which couldn't convert our repo to git), but now I happily work with git and everything is 10 times faster.

[1]: https://felipec.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/git-remote-hg-bzr-2...
>This seems like such faulty and backwards reasoning to me.

It's not backwards, it's the scientific method: come up with a hypothesis (the universe is a simulation), find a prediction made by that hypothesis (physical anomalies), then test for that prediction. Of course alternate explanations are possible, but the usefulness of the test is determined by the prior probabilities we assign to the various possible explanations; the basic form of reasoning is not backwards.
Hundreds of calls and meetings. When does one work on the product? I'm a bit disillusioned by the apparent focus on funding over product in the valley. I hope it is a misconception of mine.
Both are geniuses in their own way. They were both lucky to meet up with somebody with complementary skills and personality.
Zuk's critique of the paleo diet has itself been soundly criticized, e.g. [1] and [2]. Of course she's gotten many details right; the food that is available today doesn't resemble Paleo-era foods very much, so how can we truly recreate their diet? She cherry-picked studies though, just like Ancel Keyes did when he declared that dietary fat was killing us.

As for barefoot running, the barefoot shoes are seen as a magic bullet, and of course that's not the case. They can be a guide to suggest that you fix your gait but if you don't want to do the work, you can harm yourself as much in Vibram Five Fingers as in Nikes or Adidas.

Paleo-izing everything is in fashion. That doesn't mean it's all wrong though.

[1] http://philosophyandpsychology.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/defe...
[2] http://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-it-all-just-a-paleofantasy...
Kidoteca (my company) will apply, not because of the funding (although we are lacking money, our investments are larger than what they are willing to invest...)

But because the mentorship and IP access might be very interesting for us.

:)

This is the first accelerator that caught my CEO attention (he for example have no intention of joining Y-Combinator)

EDIT: Why the downvote? :(
Digg.com is horrible for this. I can't believe that I see the images before the text.
I don't quite understand how we propose to identify those anomalies when we have nothing to compare them to. Maybe the weird behaviours we observe in quantum physics for instance are the result of some optimisation/bug in the simulation, but how would we prove that?

How would a video game character understand and then prove he's in a simulation if the simulation itself didn't program them to do that?

It kind of reminds me of the people looking for life on other planets by searching for worlds similar to ours. It's of course a reasonable approach but in the end we have no idea if statistically speaking the presence of water or a certain temperature or atmosphere gives higher probabilities for life to emerge. We're just extrapolating from a sample of one.
It read that way to me. shrug
> "requires a few approximations in order to fit the problem into your computer"

I think this is where the source "Are we living in a simulation?" comes from.

It's interesting to note that they way a model behaves in a computer, and certain measurements share some similarities (the lattice spacing). But to go from similarities to "we living in a simulation" is just a jump too far.

Lets try to keep some clear distinction between science (measurements) and philosophical conjecturing, so that we know when we are doing the former or the latter.
It's probably better to resist the temptation to ascribe meaning to models. The model is the meaning, nothing more or less. If we observe these artifacts, it means that's a property of our universe. Really, we're completely locked within that system and can't say that it means anything else.

But, I'd argue that if we can be a simulation, we're ignoring the qualia of consciousness issue. So I'd say that if we can be a simulation, we can just be one of those mathematical entities in Platonic space. The universe seems to be written in math, perhaps all of this is just what it's like to be one of those Platonic ideals.

There's not much use in speculating in that which cannot be falsified.
In my naivety i think it will be impossible to proof that we live in a simulation. Even if we could simulate an universe we cannot say we live in one. And if we find bugs in our current universe we cannot say if it is a bug or our model is just wrong.
Tried to register on forums posted here as an example of Persona integration. Have gmail email, so no password authentication (OAuth or OpenID instead.) Did not work due third-party cookies blocked in my browser. Sorry, this is not going to work for me.
The existential threat to bitcoin is now at hand
We can simulate worlds with different parameters and compare them to our (experimentally observed) world. See my top-level comment for more detail.
Playing to win
You had me there till the end... Maybe just rent the Ferrari and the girl :)
Speed is a very important feature of a website.

Content is next.

Way way down the list is presentation. Give me ascii text in Courier? That's fine. I'll read that while all the other guff loads in the background.
Sorry, this isn't true. As someone who operates a website for profit [1], Persona solved a huge problem for me: not having to waste time on implementing, maintaining, and securing an authentication management solution.

That's huge.

[1] http://www.letscodejavascript.com is profitable enough to support me full-time.