skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"It was as though particles gradually lost their individual autonomy and became pawns of the collective state.

this and all other reformulations of it can be said simply - increasing entropy.
I've heard that reading the Git source code is very beneficial but haven't done it myself yet.
Reference based compression! We create a set of reference sequences and simply record the start location of each identified subsequence - of course this relies on the assumption we can correctly recognise all genes and their variants... ahem.
Google is one of the company which is affected very badly by HeartBleed bug, Almost all the services like YouTube, Gmail by Google are affected. Amazon, Yahoo! are also in the same list. We just need give attention to Apple & Microsoft who are not affected by Heartbleed. Check out detail list which shows list of company who are affected or not by this issue.
http://www.dazeinfo.com/2014/04/17/google-inc-goog-worst-aff...
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That still seems a small sample size. The study itself seems to be well titled and not make many sweeping statements. It even says towards the end that early exposure to alcohol may even be behind some or all of the effects.

I like this analysis - http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-finds-re...
If they want to remain in the search business then they definitely need their own search engine. Ever since they made the "partnership" with Bing, they've lost a lot of their market share to Bing, because people think "why not just use the original, instead of the clone?"

I don't know why Yahoo hasn't bought Blekko yet, which last I checked (a while ago) was better than DDG, for example. It probably won't even cost them that much.
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The figures weren't made up, they were estimated based on a settlement offer made to Oracle prior to the trial.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/29/google-ear...
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Ask HN: When can you call yourself a "successful entrepreneur"?
What makes an entrepreneur successful?

I struggle with this daily.

I started my career with a 9-5 job for 6 years in high-tech bioengineering sales. While working, a friend and I worked on a blog, which turned into some info-products that have, to date, grossed about $500k (though my take-home over 4-5 years is more in the $100k range).

I quit my job after 6 years, and launched my own online product and sold 250 sales within 6 months, and the product continues to sell on its own...but I have only pulled about $12k from this product so far (though it continues to sell and grow each month with little effort).

While this was all going on, I also picked up several one-off $2k-$3k clients and generated about $20k over 2 years for these jobs.

Now, I am trying to step my game up and get clients who sell products for $10k-$20k/unit. In my sales packages and copy, I want to say I am a successful entrepreneur, but I struggle with this on a psychological level.

First off, I am nowhere near my goals (that's why I am stepping up my business to higher value clients)...so how can I really say I am successful?

Secondly, my expertise in internet marketing has helped me sell services in the 2-3k range, and products in the $35-$100, but never something in the $10-20k range. How can I seriously call myself a success if my successes don't align with the idea of success I am trying to sell my clients?

Maybe this is all psychological, but I would be interested in hearing the opinions of other consultants/entrepreneurs...
From a Bohmian perspective, quantum mechanics consists of a wave function psi(q) that guides all the particles Q. The wave function is distinct from the particles. The particles are in equilibrium, relative to the wave function. It is the wave function that is not in equilibrium in its realm of states.

As it turns out, the usual psi^2 probability distribution of the particles is a reflection that the particles are in quantum equilibrium, that is, psi^2 is the natural measure in quantum mechanics for what equilibrium ought to be since it is the only measure preserved by the dynamics. And so if the particles start that way, they stay that way. And they are likely to start that way using psi^2 as the distribution.

There is actually a lot of subtlety involved in accepting that argument; I recommend http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/#qr and an actual paper: http://www.ge.infn.it/~zanghi/BMQE.pdf

But what it implies is that the wave function is responsible for the arrow of time. It is a special state that evolves into a less special state. Presumably this is what their research is pointing at.

I would also comment that their description is exactly the classical explanation transferred to the quantum world (which it needs to be since our world is quantum). That is, we start in a special state and it evolves into a less special state because the less special states are more numerous and so more likely to be, all things being equal. And by more likely, we are talking 10^100 kind of more likely.

They still have the problem that the fundamental evolution of the wave function is time reversible. So if that bothered someone (it shouldn't), then their argument does not actually resolve that problem.

So I take from their work that what they are doing is getting the classical thermodynamic explanation (which is about volumes in phase space, not human ignorance) and translating it to the quantum theory. Neither wrong nor revolutionary.
> Subtracting details from background without adding details to subject ...

Not sure what you mean by this. Blur is only due to focus distances and aperture sizes. Making the depth of field narrower (making the OOF regions more blurry) does not add detail to the areas that are in focus. Usually, it's even the other way around.

Example:

Say we shoot a portrait of a person at 5m with a forest 30m away in the background, at 3 different apertures: f/1.4, f./11 and f/20

At the largest aperture (f/1.4) the background will be completely out of focus and the face of the subject will have sharpness at "80%" of what my lens/sensor combo can do in terms of resolution. The less-than-excellent subject sharpness is because lenses aren't perfect and using the largest aperture will reveal this. Even if you use an expensive professional lens, it will have it's maximum sharpness at some aperture that is smaller than the largest. What does happen in the shallow DOF shot is that we have a form of perceived sharpness (usually referred to as "pop") which is an effect that is simply due to the fact that the subject is so distinct from the background.

At f/11 the subject sharpness is better than at f/4. It is now probably near 100% of the maximum resolution the sensor/lens combination can deliver. The background is significantly more discernible/focused now. If it was a green blur in the f/1.4 shot is now a forest of very slightly blurred trees.

At f/20 the subject's sharpness is again less (e.g. 90%), this time due to the physical limitation known as diffraction that occurs for very small apertures compared to the wavelength. This shot has completely focused trees in the background.

To put it another way: when you take the f/11 portrait and go to f/1.4 you take away almost ALL of the background information, and SOME of the foreground information, while adding NO new information.
The entire shot will be less focused when you do.
Unfortunately reality is much more complicated, and this is why nutrition science is an extremely hard and fuzzy field (and in my opinion, generally sketchy).

The problem is that nutrition, at least at this stage, is simply not analyzable, unless we're talking about very large effects - as somebody in a post has explained.

Supposed that, say, soylent, kills people in 30 years of consumption. What's going to happen in the meanwhile?

Or, worse, suppose instead that the effect is subtle, for example, that it causes debilitation in the long term. How's that going to come out?

Sadly, some nutritionist will make 50.6 people run for 25.3 minutes on a treadmill, then come up with the conclusion that there is no significant negative effect, which is going to be trumpeted on mainstream publications.

Let's talk about iron. One problem with vegetarians is that some fall very ill if the don't eat meat, even if they take iron injections. How nutritions science explains that? Unfortunately, it can't.
(actually, this is a serious doubt in vegetarian circles. There is the suspect that some big vegetarian advocates are secretly eating meat because of this or similar problems).

The big problem is that products like soylent carry the underlying message that science has a clear idea of how the human body works, while in reality, it doesn't, and this is a very, very serious problem.
Slight tangent to your question, but one thing I have noticed recently is that having to deal with really crap code inspires me to do my own better.

I inherited a colleagues work after she left, and it was horrible. But I thought about why it was horrible, and how to make it better. What would it look like if it was done well?

Even with my own code, if I look at something I did 6 months ago, and it doesn't make sense straight away, the it can usually be improved.
Unethical and deceitful claims deserve hate.

> "For anyone that struggles with allergies, heartburn, acid reflux or digestion, has trouble controlling weight or cholesterol, or simply doesn't have the means to eat well, soylent is for you."

> "Soylent frees you from the time and money spent shopping, cooking and cleaning, puts you in excellent health,"

> "By taking years to spoil"

> "there is much evidence that it is considerably healthier than a typical diet."

Those are the claims they made during the kickstarter.

Those would be unlawful in the UK - I have no idea what the equivalent US regulators would make of those claims if Soylent continued to make them.

Using those misleading deceptive claims to raise money puts them firmly in the sham charlatan space and they thoroughly deserve harsh treatment.
Actually, this is pretty cool for teaching students!
I think people see what they want to see. Current Zeitgeist is pointing towards approving use of pot for recreational purposes while ignoring all the risks or even discrediting anyone saying the opposite.
I deeply remember one episode from my adolescence when another kid smoke a large amount of pot in the basement and suddenly started yelling: "Dragon, I see dragon!" while having his eyes open in an expression of fear for a few hours.
From my point of view, pot smoking is another horrible idea such as cigarette smoking - it annoys anyone who doesn't smoke as the air quality deteriorates and damages both active and passive participant's health. Moreover, certain parts of population are prone to damage their brains as well as compromise their will, instead running away to "lalaland" whenever they face any challenge. There is a saying in Frankfurt nightclubs that you can't build a business on stoners and some nightclubs had to close due to having their business deteriorating due to unofficially allowing pot inside. Similar to crack cocaine in Rio de Janeiro when the drug trafficking favelados decided not to sell it anymore as it was killing their own customers and business.
As a professional photographer I can see what drugs are doing to my models - you have a world-class awesome beauty with a great personality one year, and the next year a train-wreck with horrible changes to physiology and likely involved in escorting business.
In other words, I see the movement to legalize pot as another insanity in progress. And we think humanity is evolving...
Ask HN: Megaunicorns (Twonicorns?)
With all of the focus on unicorns, or companies that can get to $1bn+ market cap, I was wondering how many companies HNers think could get to $100bn+ market cap and why
Amongst all the comments about poorly-understood or unknown micro-nutrients, and whether or not this is healthy in the long run, I see here a sense of bewilderment from some people:

fidlefodl : i just hate eating 90% of the time

riffraff : ... why do you hate eating most of the time?

ekianjo : [hate eating] two words I have difficulty associating ...

collyw : I really don't understand the enthusiasm for
this product. Eating is one of life's pleasures

Personally, I'm with fidlefodl. I cannot understand what pleasure people get from eating. I cook, I eat, I share meals with others, but if I could get away from eating and never have to eat again, I'd take it in a heartbeat. I derive no pleasure from eating, and a great deal of negative pleasure from cooking. If takeaways weren't a combination of unhealthy and unpleasant then I'd never cook again.

I freely admit and acknowledge that some food tastes great, but on the whole, I'd much prefer not to spend the time eating.
requests module is very well written
Those figures are made up, they don't have anything to do with how much Google earned from iOS or from Android and they aare explained [1]

[1] http://marketingland.com/no-google-doesnt-make-four-times-mo...
You mean reference to another copy of the genome?

Or you mean trying to find long repeat sequences that are slightly mutated in a way that is low-entropy?
Software developers increasingly recognize their clout in society
Thank you! Just tried it. I'm in love. :)
To mix things up a bit, I'm going to give two very small examples of code that can be understood quickly, but studied diligently. Both are in JavaScript, which I notice you mention specifically in another comment:

[1] Douglas Crockford's JSON parser. Worth a look because it is excellently commented and is easily understandable https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/blob/master/json...

[2] Bouncing Beholder. A game written in 1K of highly obfuscated code, which the author expands upon here. Worth it because it teaches some crazy optimisation techniques that are applicable to all programming, but also includes plenty of javascript-specific trickery. http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/js1k/
Personally I see the mass incarceration of people and the billions of dollars and many lives wasted in the War on (some) Drugs as a far greater tragedy than you getting upset about air quality and a few people making bad choices.
Seriously, I'd trade 10+ years of my lifespan to never have to eat again and still maintain my weight / muscle mass.
>AFAIU to have any depth perception you need to take more than one photo

no you dont, its very tricky, but doable with one:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asaxena/learningdepth/

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asaxena/reconstruction3d/
Another alternative to this is to develop in a local multisite install. Not suitable for every scenario, but good enough for 90% of sites in my experience.
I founde & run the hosting division at Namecheap; happy to address any questions from the HN community
From the article

One aspect of time’s arrow remains unsolved.
“There is nothing in these works to say why you
started at the gate,” Popescu said, referring to
the park analogy. “In other words, they don’t
explain why the initial state of the universe was
far from equilibrium.” He said this is a question
about the nature of the Big Bang.

Could it be that expansion, which proceeded much faster than light, therefore didn't allow entanglement to take place, delaying the heat death of the universe until everything is fully entangled?

If expansion had been slower, would entropy maybe have kept up with it, leaving us as just a single black hole instead of a dispersed, interesting, unentangled, things-are-still-happening universe 13 billion years later?
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In my experience, best jobs you get aren't posted — as best candidates don't send out resumes.
"Oracle trial revealed how much more Google earned from iOS than Android, and that probably hasn't changed much."

I think those figures included maps revenue and were also from a time when Android devices were a smaller proportion of the smartphone market and the devices and OS much less good than recent ones so I suspect that they were used online much less. I strongly suspect that the situation has changed dramatically in that time.
There are custom firmwares for many DSLRs: http://www.diyphotography.net/the-ultimate-custom-firmware-f...

But the scenario you seem to lust for (a combination of high quality DSLR hardware and a competitive app market) will never manifest because the hardware is too fragmented. There never will be standard interfaces, and you won't get enough competition to develop the greatest possible camera app for a specific hardware model.
Here's a captcha idea: make people write a 100-word essay on a specific topic. If it's good, you're accepted and you won't have to do it again. If it's bad, you're either a computer or cheap Nigerian labor. When we get to the point where we can't distinguish a computer from a human, we'll just let them be a part of the community.
Naturally it defines all of higher intelligence and everything that any human can do (as opposed to things animals can do).

Wrong, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
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If you don't feel comfortable calling yourself successful then don't. (I'd say you're successful when everyone who's invested with you has got their money back, and you're pulling in a level that you're happy with).
It frightens me how my future replacement is probably going to think "gee, that guy was horrible" unless he knows all the historic context and reasons why the code was written the way it was written.
It might not be supported, but you can get it working perfectly well on Ubuntu and Arch.
If multiple signatures from the same key are recognizably the same person, wouldn't this have the unfortunate implication that your identity can be linked across different services? There'd be no way to have multiple email addresses anonymously without being able to trust the provider.
I agree. In the end, the user doesn't care about how the site is build just like a driver doesn't care how a car works.
> Ruby -> Merb

If you do dive into merb, one of the contributors started a handbook on internals long time ago (https://github.com/michaelklishin/merb-internals-handbook), although, it died with the merb itself.
Yes, it's a horrible tragedy what is happening in Mexico, especially border cities like Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana, as well as other South American or Middle-Eastern countries due to drug trafficking.
Ask people in northern Mexico what do they think - most of them will tell you that they just want Americans to take all the drugs and the facilities to USA and keep them away from Mexico so that they can live normal lives and not be threatened by Zetas and Gulf cartel gunners hijacking buses and forcing participants to fight in gladiator-style for survival, or to dig 5000 graves of women killed by gangs of Juarez at the outskirts of the city. Why do they have to suffer all the consequences when some people in the US need to be "high" to feel good about themselves? The problem is in YOU guys, not in the war on drugs.
And for a whitespaces, line-lengths this great tool can be used:
http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html

clang-format-diff.py -i -style=Google -regexp=.cc|.h
A nice read but I don't agree completely with the final paragraph. The invisible hand uses a greedy algorithm. It does take a mastermind to get close to any kind of optimal solution in many cases. We can't trust the invisible hand to provide healthcare to everyone, nor can we trust it to take into account external costs like pollution etc.
I've used http://www.netelligent.ca/ VPS in the past. They have a cloud version now but I've never tried it.
You've burned me out of this community
Just upvoting you somehow doesn't cut it. Thanks!
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It must be maddening to try to build a business given such restrictions. We complain about censorship in the West, and to be sure there are problems, but this article puts it in perspective.

Are founders liable for content on their networks? E.g. if I were to post blasphemous content to an Iranian blog, would the blog owner be charged?
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Now wire this up with Native Client. :-o
> The figures weren't made up, they were estimated based on a settlement offer made to Oracle prior to the trial

Then you can link to that settlement and to those figures.

Until then, those figures where made up without any basis
While the suggested feature would be a improvement, the real goal imho should be that each Wikipedia article can be read and understood by itself, without the need to go on a recursive yak shaving expedition through other articles first.
> but you don't have time or energy to prepare a proper meal, so you eat something quick and unhealthy,

I guess it depends a lot where you live and what options you have out there, even when you do not want to prepare something by yourself. If Soylent is your only option to have a decent meal around where you live, well I feel pain for you.
The point of macros is to blur the distinction between what's "built-in" and what's "user-defined" to the point of irrelevancy.
That is not true, Google version requires you to take a photo for several seconds while slowly moving phone upwards. Both methods take probably same amount of time.
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Well, If someone tells you that you can replace all your food consumption with a SINGLE food item, I'm assuming you realize it may sound too good to be true, and that risks may be involved. But it depends on the target consumers of Soylent, I guess.

On top of that, it will be interesting to see if people stick to Soylent on the long term or just get bored once the novelty wears off, and return to traditional food consumption.
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>>> http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824-2013/ Do each lab. Read the discussion and rtm's course notes.

How to read the discussions? I think it's not publicly available. Btw, thanks a lot for the great post.
This is also a concern of mine, however there are multiple examples in the world of people who have an incredibly restricted diet and still live long enough (Don Gorske with Big Macs, or many eastern countries that focus a lot on rice, or generally non-cooking people who eat frozen cheap food all the time). It would seem that Soylent, as a single source of nutrients, still does a better job than many other restricted diets, and sometimes it may even be preferable if cheap and easy enough to prepare.
On two conditions.

1) It can only be initiated by the owner of the phone, there should never be any means by which a government official can get the legal authority to kill a device. Yeah I know, but what about bombs?

2) It must be able to be overridden by entering a code on the device. As in, if the kill order is submitted the device alerts and gives a short time to enter the pass code. This prevents the possibility of rule #1 being violated now or at a later date.
>The figures weren't made up, they were estimated based on a settlement offer made to Oracle prior to the trial.

We have different definitions of what "made up" is. The estimate The Guardian made was based on the court document which is linked to in the article.
I'm not going to say you will have a ton of valuable data, but safety confirmation is certainly something you will get from large numbers of participants. If nobody gets extremely sick, dies or develops some kind of illness after years of Soylent consumption, at least you'll know that it could be an acceptable form of food.