skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Kant may have rendered this article's vector at the question pretty meaningless over 200 years ago.

In the Critique of Pure Reason, he posits that space and time are the forms of our intuition, and he claims that anything that comes to us does so through these forms. That is to say, we do not know things as they are in themselves--we only know them insofar as they have properties that can be reflected in a form that can be processed by our intuition. We bring space and time with us, as part of our structure, and mathematics is an examination of that structure.

So Kant would have it that mathematics is neither a Platonic form nor something we have created-it's an exploration of our capabilities of sensation. This seems to me like a much better explanation of why mathematics are "universal" than the article's approach.

It also leaves open the question of whether we are "living in a computer simulation" without suggesting that it's a simple matter (or even necessarily possible) to see out from inside.
Square Enix a few days ago did a similar thing, with access to a few (old) IPs. I wonder if this is a trend?
Yes, the modified Bitcoin transaction performs exactly the same transfer between the same addresses. There is no double-spend as far as the Bitcoin system is concerned since only one of the transactions will get confirmed by miners.

Linguistic arguments are kind of pointless, but it's still an attack even if they are just trying to disrupt the system and not steal anything. e.g. a denial-of-service attack.

Various definitions of "attack" are at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_(computing)
Medicines Made in India Set Off Safety Worries
As always you can always find anecdotes going both ways.

I am French and a public hospital actually forgot my father in a room for a week. He needed surgery, not urgently but in the meantime he had to be kept sedated. They kept him on morphine, fed him but he was not tracked as scheduled for surgery by their information system. And of course nurses kept telling us it was normal.

There is also a lot of abuse from this system, especially since the pharmaceutical lobby is quite powerful. They actually cover 30% of the cost of homeopathy! And when there was a H1N1 epidemy a few years back the French government ordered wice as many doses as the population of the country.

Comparing the cost of healthcare does not take other parameters into account. For instance obesity is not as much of an issue in France than it is in the US, and that helps decrease the overall cost of healthcare.

And of course, part of the reason is also that it is easy to keep prices down by having the State decide them instead of a free market. But the result is that some health professions are clearly underpaid. There were huge demonstrations of midwifes recently because of that, for instance.

But all in all I cannot deny that I still prefer our system to what exists in the US. As comments in this thread shows, it is not our system which is perfect, it is yours that looks terrible.
It is very possible you are underestimating him. A lot can be picked up from context. There are plenty of discussions on HN about how hard it is to learn to code and that there is "something missing" from current methods for teaching it. Since he can ask questions, assuming you are someone he feels comfortable "bugging", the odds are good he can decide for himself how much to ask and when in order to foster actual understanding.

I learned to code when someone hand-coded a small site for me and then gifted me the code. My then husband was double majoring in history and computer science. He had to explain FTP program to me and some other very basic things. Then I began playing with the code by just substituting color codes for the ones already there and seeing what it did. This is not very different from my school experience with French where they would give you a sentence ("The house is red") and have you substitute the one descriptor ("The house is blue", "The house is yellow").

Perhaps he will be bored. Or perhaps this will be a unique learning opportunity for him. Helen Keller learned to sign in spite of being both deaf and blind and a small child. Her parents already had some homemade "signs" for her to use to engage in crude communication and the teacher was just persistent in signing things into her hand over and over and over until, one day, she realized the signs had meaning. It just suddenly clicked. Then she ran around asking, in essence, "What's this?!" and "What's this?!" about everything she could get her hands on.

We don't fully understand how that happens, but it does.

FWIW: I homeschooled my two gifted-learning disabled sons for many years. My oldest thinks in pictures and needs broad context before the details make sense. Other people need all the details to build the broad context. Different strokes for different folks.
It causes FUD and panic.
>I do mind people who devote their lives to one of these goals because they don't see the other options or know themselves well enough to see that they're working hard in the wrong direction.

Seems a bit presumptuous to judge how others choose to live their lives...
I dont think 60 hours a week is much, its like 10 hours a day, 6 days in a week and no matter what, it just sounds right to me.
But have you never tried to start your own company as creating wealth by working for someone else just doesn't work?

Looking at the failure rate of startups of 82% as a first timer, by starting your own company you have just 40-folded your chances to success.
>Work 60 hours/week? Rarely.

Do you have any data on this? Some quick data points that I found :

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf06302/nsf06302.pdf

http://www.stthomas.edu/media/hollorancenter/pdf/Should-We-B...

http://arthropodecology.com/2012/10/25/the-work-life-balance...

A lot of people seem to work more than 40 hours per week. I'm sure some of them do complain. Maybe devs are just more likely to blog about it.
This is an interesting discussion, but as a side note, I have to say that is the one of the less likely Godwinnings I've seen in some time.
No. There are plenty of services where your pw is encrypted locally, so your service provider CAN'T access your account to fix something without your password.

Many of the cloud storage providers do this. You want your files recovered, you'll have to hand over your pw (or not have the problem fixed).
I was the same, I had the same opinion, and I thought it's going to last forever.

Then my daughter was born, and while I had no real idea of why on Earth would a 3 months old baby who cannot really communicate in any meaningful way change anything -- I became a different person, so much happier than I used to be. :)
I've been doing something like this since 2007 on code bases that run into the many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

It is actually the correct way to do classical inheritance in javascript, everything else is trimming, convenience, backwards compatibility or is simply wrong. In fact almost every other 'pattern' out there does this at the heart of it.

So, for example you'll see some people use a surrogate instead of doing Object.create (as I did when I first started doing this). That's just doing exactly the same thing as Object.create, but in such a way as to work in pre ecmascript 5 browsers - we didn't have Object.create back then.

http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/07/inheritance-and-javascrip...
I finally tried Google Glasses, and: Google vs. Apple
I would love a way, and have indeed tried (in my ambitious, misspent youth) to formulate a way, to make this observation precise for quantum field theories. I am sure there is a way, but it's tough.

Only the Gödel sentences are true but not provable. Maybe the sentence "the lattice spacing is finite" is not a Gödel sentence. Indeed, the thrust of the paper seems to be exactly that, and I agree.

When I think too hard about apply Gödel to physics in my night thoughts, it makes me wonder if there is really a "final theory of everything" or if every theory is really just an effective field theory [0] with another deeper theory underneath, and it's turtles all the way down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_field_theory
Ask HN: What would you do with $25,000?
Here's the scenario: You have $25,000 cash plus enough money to cover your living expenses for 2 months. You have coding skills along with business savvy. You'd like your own business. What business idea would you pursue?
Sure, but Facebook has a number of problems as a general-purpose login mechanism:

A. Not everyone has an FB account.
B. Those that do don't always trust that logging in with FB won't mean that the website they're logging in to will spam their wall.
http://www.lowing.org/fonts/

I was just looking at this today and I agree, 'just give me courier'
502 Bad Gateway
nginx/1.1.19

Not too similar (i hope)
Ah, spoken like a true loser
Have you actually used Windows 8?
Some of us do. I was semi retired at 40. At 47 I'm working again, at roughly 60 hours a week, because I love what I am doing and the money is stupidly great. I'll stop again right around 50 to 52, assuming the work keeps paying this well and I keep having fun.

I always find these types of discussions interesting. It's never about things like work ethic, efficiency, or even skill, it seems to devolve in to what everyone thinks is the ideal work schedule for someone else. I have friends that think I am crazy for working like I am now. I don't really care, I am happy, the clients are happy, and my bank account is most certainly happy. But I would never tell someone else they should work as much as I do, or that they should only work 30 hours, or some other random number of hours.
Really? Why is that a primary show stopper when there are numerous solutions to it that live on the database side as a stored procedure?
Yeah and game development is quite similar in this aspect to film making. I was just thinking about the people who mostly sit at a desk and have their brains heavily engaged doing a particular task all day. IMO/IME people get fatigued by mental work way more easily than physical work, so its hard to compare the two. (Discounting some outliers like athletes, construction workers, etc)
To further illustrate your point about too much enthusiasm for explaining things with evolutionary adaptation:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2713
I would work on my new startup 24/7!
When you "like" something you are telling Facebook that you want your social network to know that you like that thing. Doesn't it make sense that Facebook would then go about telling people that you said you liked it? That's the whole point of clicking the like button.
I would rather not have the fallback font as the font changing suddenly is jarring. It also can muck up spacing to quite a high degree. If for example you were at an anchor quite a distance down the page and then the entire page shifts.

I added a Feedback drawer to the top of my site. Javascript would determine the height of the drawer then set the top position equal to the inverse of it's height. That way the drawer was completely hidden.

However when a font was loaded the height of the drawer changes and then you've got it sticking down over of the top of the page.

These kinds of things are really frustrating. I'd like to see the page not display until the fonts are loaded and I'd like to see Chrome start shipping with some of the more common web fonts included.
Swedish police caught using whatsapp for reconnaissance missions
> It's just immoral to use children their images in adds. And I don't think that this fits Zuckerbergs original intentions when he started Facebook.

Heh, really? Are we talking about the same Zuckerberg who got his start making webapps by having people rate illegitimately-gained pictures of his peers? ("The Kirkland dormitory facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendiedous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of some farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive."). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facemash#Facemash

Or the guy who called people who submitted information to his site "dumb fucks"? (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg).

This latest move is exactly the quintessential spirit of the Zuck. But honestly, I'm expecting a lot more to come as the secret comes out that they can't make a lot of money (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag) -- I think they'll sell private information of users to insurance companies.
Try to home-cook an authentic McNugget.
Disney seems like a great place for a young copyright lawyer to learn how to sue creative people, eventually to graduate to Monsanto and the like. Or to become a lobbyist to extend copyrights ad infinitum. I'm sure this program connects with other parts of the organization, but that's the impression I have of the company.

I feel like this post might lead one of them to think of suing me.
I think the supposition that space and time are forms of our intuition is suspect, and is indeed undermined by relativity. The supposition that maybe spacetime are the forms of our intuition also doesn't necessarily withstand scrutiny, because there is at least one way of formulating quantum field theories with no reference to spacetime at all (see, for example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6403285 ).
- Hey Zag, I made a discovery: if you cook meat, it's easier to eat and safer!

- I don't know, Bog. My parents have always eaten meat raw, and they lived healthily to the old, ripe age of 26.
Somebody please incubate Monkey Island 3, done in the original Lucasarts style.

But seriously, the potential access to Disney IP is awesome - I wonder how they will structure that.
Please insure that what you post to is related to your post title.
Families in Geel, Belgium, take in those with mental illness
Quite right, if you're in node, you may as well use util.inherits, especially since it basically does exactly the same thing (plus super_ and constructor):

exports.inherits = function(ctor, superCtor) {
ctor.super_ = superCtor;
ctor.prototype = Object.create(superCtor.prototype, {
constructor: {
value: ctor,
enumerable: false,
writable: true,
configurable: true
}
});
};
I think that's the standard for Techstars these days: http://www.techstars.com/program/faqs/

Looks like its $18k cash and $100k convertible.
> If 60 hours is sustainable for you, do it. If only 30 hours is sustainable for you, do that instead.

I'd love to, but no industry in the USA that pays a living wage will put up with less than 40 hours a week, because we fetishize hours-worked...which is another symptom of the same problem.
Not to mention shadow dom isn't actually a layout technique, so centering a div (which is currently possible if non-obvious) is an odd tangent to mention.
Do you have any examples of this? I haven't noticed this occurring.
I can cause FUD and panic w/o TM though:-p
I open sourced mine ( https://www.github.com/brunosousa/wireframes ) but I don't think anyone has taken an interest in that project. But if you really have no plans to continue working on it, just put it on GitHub and forget about it.
It goes down as far as assembly language and C does, according to the diagram on the posted page.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xhOP35Dm99w/UuXFKgY2dlI/AAAAAAAAAG...
If you follow people who share interesting content rather than because you personally know them then you'll have a better experience I think. Granted, it can be time consuming and hard to discover people that share anything worthwhile. I am pretty happy with some of the circles I've curated and my stream has some pretty interesting content. Sure, much of it is just shares of blog articles (blogspam) but at least there is a way to fine-tune what shows up by using people (with less bias than the authors of the blog) to filter what you see. Same with comments and discussions...instead of anonymous comments on articles you can discuss a topic or article with people you sort of know and trust to some degree.

For those here that are intrested in science and technology, I'd recommend following a guy named Mark Bruce who shares a top 10 list of Sci-Tech advancements or discoveries every week. And if anyone wants to jumpstart their stream, they can message me and I'll share some circles.
Why all the name calling? The issue may not be all about corp hating hippy helicopter moms but something more important to everyone.

The issue (to me) really seems to be that a company is using images they do not own, that depict people's children (who cannot legally consent to their pictures being used or any other contract), for their own profit.

Regardless of if this is Facebook or anyone else it seems like there is an issue with the company claiming the right to use other peoples images for advertisements.

I seem to remember a big flap about Instagram claiming they own the rights to peoples photos in the recent past. In this case it seems like there is the additional issue of the photos picturing people's children.

Edit: I understand putting the text "so and so Likes this company" next to something if they actually 'liked' it. But the article implies that they are using the person's image in a custom advertisement in the feed.
in our industry we have a graph from .0000 seconds to 3 seconds and 3 seconds is in RED.
In some instances, showing nothing for a few seconds can be preferable. Some fonts are very different in size and that web font could flow a lot differently than what the fallback is. If you start reading and the font changes halfway through the sentence, it can be very jarring and slow you down as you try to find your place again.

A lot of the problem is poorly implemented web fonts that are not optimized, or web designers going crazy and including 6-8 different font/weight combinations. Having half a meg of web fonts download is no different than using way too many images that are not compressed enough.
You don't. You can just downgrade and delete your G+ Profile.

You can very well disable your Google+ Profile and keep any other services. The only extra work needed is in case you have a Youtube channel. In this case you just have to unlink your Youtube and Google+ Accounts first.

https://plus.google.com/downgrade/
I don't understand how this problem might manifest in the real world. Can you give any examples of transactions that could not be recognized without the associated private key?
But if you handle tx properly it doesn't disrupt your system.
Startup Toolkit: Best Tools for UX
I'm not entirely sure the wave function does collapse; any Many Worlders on HN?
I am posting this due to questions recently asked of me in a discussion about suicide and health care. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7228764

Something occurs to me when reading what you wrote here. I have heard folks who have struggled with depression (and not just suicidal depression) talk a lot about how important in person time was to recovering generally. I wonder how much depression is a social as opposed to a purely mental/neurological illness.

We humans need social contact and this has been known since at least the time of Aristotle (and probably time immemorial).

Perhaps you could answer this question: when your adult sons come over and care for you (this is a really great thing btw, and something we have lost as a society), is that in itself theraputic? Or is it just a stop-gap?

If it is theraputic, then we are missing a key piece of the discussion in the discourse of mental health.

So, I thought I would share this here, for all of Hacker News, in part because I also talked with people who asked me, in essence, "If not now, then when?" can certain things be discussed. I don't know that it is so much a question of when as how. I submit this in attempt to provide some answers to those questions.
https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers
Small Data Problems in a Big Data World
Public health system in Poland has same problems as its UK counterpart. It's free, but public hospitals and clinics have notorious problems with service limits, wait times, financing, care level etc. But at the same time qualifications of doctors and other medical staff are quite high so they somehow make up for the shortcomings of the system (however, the long wait problem is unsolvable). I hope medical tourism improves the situation a bit by stimulating growth of non-public specialized clinics.
Thanks for the replies. I'm currently in Mexico so I really don't know how that would work. Guess I'll have to find out.
Lets examine the popular non-Ubuntu choices that I'm aware of:

SUSE/RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux/SciLinux?
All RPM based, and while there's nothing wrong with that, and YUM works fine, I already know apt-get and dpkg, why should I switch?

Gentoo?
Again, no apt-get. (And no, I don't care if there's a compatibility layer.)

Debian?
Wake me up when I can get the latest nvidia driver anywhere in its ecosystem. Meanwhile there's a PPA for Nvidia-$latest that works with my optimus laptop.

Additionally, call it do-release-upgrade, call it apt-get dist-upgrade, call it aptitude full-upgrade. It needs to not cause my system to die in fun and exciting ways. Which it did, going from Squeeze to Wheezy on my server.

Mint?
I have yet to be convinced this isn't Ubuntu reimplemented poorly, with less resources, and less attention. How many 3rd party PPAs are there vs Ubuntu? Since I'm digging into using PPAs for bleeding edge releases, why shouldn't I just use Ubuntu?

Linux on the desktop is Ubuntu for me. I threw Openbox on there and I'm good to go with minimal hassle.
> Your incredible arrogance never ceases to amaze, I'll grant you that.

Address the topic or stop posting. I'm not the topic.

> I'm quite confident he knows more about what they want in general than you do ...

As an investor, I have to say you have no idea what you're talking about -- not a clue. And you certainly have no idea to whom you are speaking.

> since you routinely show yourself to be horrendously out of touch with your fellow humans.

Yep, of course. That would explain my multi-decade, very successful career as a software developer and investor. You need a reality check.
On Win7 I just added 7-zip path to the Win PATH. And it's working
I wonder if you can use it as an inverse signal, which is if no one is calling you then your not visible enough? Or some other issue that might need to be addressed?
This is pretty neat. A minor nitpick:

>You can easily include it in fiddles and benchmarks using the following HTML code...

You really shouldn't use raw.github.com like that. If you're doing something to show a couple of people, or for your own testing, you could use rawgithub.com instead, but otherwise, you should just upload it somewhere reliable.
You should apply to this program with a "Free 3D printing of Disney toys" service :)
The Good Bits had way more stuff than "how to write classical inheritance". Indeed, IIRC, the section right after that was "how to write prototypical inheritance".
Also, Seth Lloyd turns the question [0] on its head and suggests that it's silly to call the universe anything but a computer, since it contains systems that are Turing Complete. What is it computing? Its own history / dynamics.

That said, it is different to ask if we're in a simulation vs. in a computer---the word simulation makes one think of some programmer compiling some source code and executing some program: it entails agency.

[0] http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/lloyd/
I'm fairly certain that France's health service also has problems.

I should also point out there is not one NHS, but four: The National Health Service (which is English), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales/GIG Cymru and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland, the latter three being run by devolved Governments, not the UK Government.
Yep :) Grammar checking seems to be a never-ending story...