skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "roads" problem is just a simple and easy example of the general class of collective action problems that require a single authority to manage. Here is another example: the design of a network cannot be modified arbitrarily.

It's rational for a private company to insert a road into a system to benefit itself at the disadvantage to others (cf. negative externalities). Indeed it's rational for several to do this making ad-hoc modifications to the network, the net result of this is significant inefficiency.

Collective action problems and (negative) externalities are the main cases where we require a single-point-of-trust / authority to coordinate a system. Libertarians say that private companies can do this, but when you ask "well what do these companies look like?" you invariably get something like a small government.

The moral question then arises: we have these single-points-of-trust, do we have any democratic control over them? The answer, in a libterian system is No (money != vote).

The libertarian solution to these problems then, seems to me, to hand them over to private tyrannies with no public accountability to perform largely the same function as a government. Its at this point the "NOPE!! LEAVE ME ALONE!" tends to come out.
Kickstarter... here you come... :)
Sheet music is important because it allows someone to play music they have never heard. It is also important in providing the context for music even after you have heard it. That is to say, many musicians play other than what is written (Julian Bream), and music on paper contains more information (regarding intent) than sound. The latter is particularly true for the guitar where some notes can be played on every string. Music, once performed, is limiting- it has already been interpreted. I'd expect most musicians have a better shot at a good interpretation reading rather than copying (playing by ear). At any rate, you are describing the Suzuki Method (I've never seen this outside of the Violin) which to the best of my knowledge is at best simply a different teaching method - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_method#Criticism_and_res....
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I'm 99% sure rich people don't get rich by "spending money". Just saying.

"Trickle down" is fucking bullshit.
Have you not ever been in a traffic jam?
Sorry, you are mixing and matching concepts from reading too many articles on HFT.

> the dark pool operators make money from the HFT's not in terms of the commission, but in terms of collocating fees,

No. Dark pool don't really charge collocation fees. Barclays LX didn't. Most dark pools are in Weehawken and it's just a simple $500 cross-connect from your existing trading system.

> market data fees

It's a dark pool. There is no market data to charge a fee from.

> , and the right to be one of only a few HFTs allowed in the dark pool via collocating, ie exclusivity.

Not in the case of Barclays LX. They let every HFT in at very low rates which is the entire point of the article.
You need to count the people who would like to use the road, but must choose their next-best option because the road is too congested for them to use (either that time, or in general).

There is a congestion externality on them despite not using the road.
I was under the impression that Bohmian mechanics were known to be equivalent if and only if hidden variables were strictly non-local (in the case of the macrophysical observations, the "universe" can for a reasonable higher-order approximation be the limits of the chamber being observed).

IIRC, There is also an interesting 'alternative' relativity which has non-local effects and a universal frame of reference formulated by a physicist named Frank Tangherlini (I'll be interviewing him this month). It also has weird properties like anisotropy of the vacuum speed of light!!

Might be interesting if Bohmian and Tangherlini mechanics provided a better mathematical rapprochement of quantum mechanics with relativity than Copenhagen/Lorentz/Einstein
Yeah give me an American Dell any day! Oh, wait...
I agree that progress in experimental abilities and QC is really forcing physicists to think carefully about what QM means. In fact the month of May saw three papers by major physicists about these deeper issues in QM [1,2,3] In my own humble capacity as a graduate student in physics, my research is about clearly understanding the divide between classical and quantum physics.

On the rewriting of theory, I should have been clearer. I meant that when you rewrite the theory you should think about ontology. Differences in ontology between different rewrites, as well as interpretations of those rewrites, will point to how quantum theory can be generalized.

I agree completely that quantum mechanics is taught horribly. Strangest of all are introductory quantum/modern physics courses that are meant to give students an intuition of quantum theory use the Copanhagen interpretation -the one that says the least about ontology and emphasizes calculations and empiricism.

I still stand behind my central claim. Let me be clearer. The mathematical model of classical physics says something about physical reality. The mathematical model of quantum mechanics says something very different about reality. Even if there are disagreements, we all agree that the ontology of classical physics is very much incorrect. Extrapolating from this I claim that the next theory of physics will have an ontology that will look nothing like that of quantum theory. As I have said previously, the ontology of quantum theory can be a means to an end (the next theory), but not the end itself.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1548
[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3483
[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7577
I didn't know any of that so I appreciate the comment.

I think my next "fun" app will be a real time app using as many of the "new" technologies as possible.

I've been stagnant far too long now and it's beginning to show
When I left my cubicle job to strike off on my own in 2007, one of the most valuable lessons I learned was "sleep when you're tired".

7 years, a couple of businesses, and 2 (soon to be 3) kids later, I manage to still be able to work and play very hard without feeling chronically tired or burnt out, and I'm convinced it's because I sleep when I need to sleep (and don't when I don't). If it's the middle of the work day and my body is saying "sleep!", then I'll go take a 2-hour nap, which completely revitalizes me. If I've been up for 20 hours and am still going strong, am thinking clearly, and am not feeling tired, I stay up. Sometimes I sleep for 5 hours, sometimes I sleep for 11.

(It's worth noting that this only works with kids because I have my wife's support - she holds down the fort while I sleep, and visa versa. We play active defense for each others' sleep.)

This has had a couple of effects. First of all, it means that whenever I'm working, I'm actually working. I don't have those days where I just stare at my screen blankly, unable to get any significant momentum like I did before. Secondly, it made me able adapt to varying sleep needs (which is amazingly helpful with kids). I'm not really on a particular circadian rhythm. On a typical day, I might be up from 10 AM-2 AM PST, but then I'll travel back east and the next day I'll be up from 3 AM-7PM PST without any real difficulty.

I realize that not everyone has the luxury of being able to take naps or sleep for as long as they need it, but if you have some flexibility, start listening to your body, rather than toughing it out from 9-5 "because that's what you're supposed to do."

Also, as a side note: Use f.lux - when I started using it, I noted a drastic shift in how I get tired. Before, I would just go and go until I hard-crashed; now, I start feeling tired slowly over time, which makes it much easier to go to sleep at the right time.
I was specifically thinking of the European Union (which didn't exist 100 years ago) and its relationship with the Greek economy, and the extent to which a Greek default in 2011 or 2012 might have affected economies across Europe and overseas, as well as the effects of the U.S. economic recession in 2008 on the rest of the world.

You're right to point out that all (edit: many) of the pieces of globalization were well in place by 1915, but the number of countries involved now, and the extent to which they're involved, is quite a bit different. Political conflicts between countries are now as likely to be handled economically as by any other means.

I thought my comment was already way too long, so I didn't explain what I meant.
Next time what should be done (but probably won't) is to take over the insolvent banks, prosecute the fraudsters, and allow mortgage debt to be reduced in bankruptcies, perhaps converted to equity. The US federal government assets are certainly an order of magnitude (possibly two) bigger than the Fed balance sheet, so to talk of leverage is laughable.
Since you failed to even add a basic legal disclaimer to your own blog I will pass. Unless of course you are stating that your blog constitutes legal advice and I can sue you if things go wrong for me...

Every law student will attest that nothing replaces the advice of actual legal counsel. Even lawyers get a lawyer when they need one since you need someone with expertise that up to and including that minute.

If you want example of a sterling legal disclaimer then check out

http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/aboutus.aspx#Disclaimer

A website dedicated to providing legal information.
Better solution: tiny RFID tags with a unique ID and public-key authentication. Impossible to fake and dead cheap to implement.
I'm skeptical, if only because this should be a big deal and hasn't gotten much press.

> We're able to set the spin (rotational direction) of these particles in a predetermined state, verify this spin and subsequently read out the data.

This is terribly unclear. I don't have access to the article - maybe its better explained there?

The problem with using quantum entanglement for information transfer is that you can't cause a particular spin at either location - they're just both reading random data that correlates. Nothing about this allows any actual transfer of information. Why are they not explaining how they got around this? That's the interesting bit, as far as I can tell.
Please explain how he can include a route to switch between routes that takes zero time. That does not make logical sense at all. It kind of ruined any premise he might have started with.
I agree with you. Read my reply to the other comment. I should have been clearer in my first comment.
The HN shadow-banning policy is one of the worst in the industry. Why not let the community decide? If someone makes one post that mod disagrees with, that person is effectively shut off from the rest of the community without their knowledge.

It's like locking someone up without telling them what offense they've committed.
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This seems neat, but not the same thing? The idea with doitlive is that you pre-record a session and then you "hacker-type" it back. http://hackertyper.com/

Seems like shellcast is for connecting your current shell session with a webpage, not for replaying pre-recorded sessions?
Yes! Absolutely agree. They're generalizable to almost any kind of work. I've been meaning to start a blog implementing his work in the relevant field of Software development.

Who are you and how did you learn about Deming?
Are you the copywriter? The grammar and spelling is shocking.
All hours of the night are not created equal!

I am happy with 5-6 hours a night + 20-30 mins of meditation in the morning.

But I always get to bed by midnight!

I used to work in the evenings until 1am or 2am and then sleep later. But I found getting up early (5:30am-6:30am) and working in the morning made a huge difference. Working late in the evening made me feel weak and stressed out. Working in the early morning after meditating makes me feel like I am serious seizing the day.

This is with 3 kids, busy job, hectic schedule etc.

I have tested this out on myself for the past 5 years.

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Infrastructure-as-code, new rules for the old game
The Mythical Man-Month and The Pragmatic Programmer are two of my favorite classics. Fairly easy reading and valuable insights.
http://neo900.org/faq#privacy
When people can go to jail for hitting a publicly available URL, I'd question the "legality" of such activity. (I'm not making a moral argument, but rather question what lawyers and law enforcement may choose to make of a situation.)

Politicians keep attempting to write evermore draconian qualifications and punishments into law for what qualifies as a "breach of terms of service". I would expect this to encompass robots.txt at some point if it does not already.

Again, I'm not particularly happy about this trend, but I'll try to keep out of its path of destruction.
FWIW, in my experience, No-IP is very, very responsive and helpful to abuse complaints. Though that is the extent of my experience with them, I've never thought them to be actively harboring malicious activity (unlike, say, CloudFlare).
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Even five hours later after your reply I am able to register ☏ :) It's a matter of choosing a non-trivial one I guess.
IBM's Bluemix is now open
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I've just been watching this IO talk on WebRTC, so it's certainly possible in Chrome and Firefox. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMH1vM-dSc0
Shoot, well, appreciate the intention. Glad you like it, keep in touch with us at @plugformac if you can.
This is the goofiest theory. By and large women are bad at career planning. Hordes of 23 year old women march off every year to get graduate degrees with zero payoff potential.
I don't see how this analogy fits, or what you mean about society, but there's a slight bit of difference between charging someone for direct costs, and jumping to conclusions based on fear, stereotypes, or gender.

There's also a difference between charging someone for actual expenses, and charging someone for presumed future expenses. And there's a difference between someone being charged for what they use, and someone being paid, or not, for purely indirect costs not related to their performance while on the job.

Now, if a 120 lb woman was charged twice as much as a 120 lb man to fly, your analogy might be more applicable.
The worst thing you can do for your productivity
Pretty neat! I plugged in my rocksmith cable and it just works. One thing though, it needs some kind of calibration. The tiniest bit of string noise and the lessons shoot off without me, even when I have my strings muted.
It doesn't have to be global markets. Real estate speculation pushes up prices everywhere.
If anyone has used block-happy smaltalk, you know how amazing it can be to do dependency injection easily and arbitarily. Almost function you write can be generic, and only become specific when it needs to in the business code.
Bedrock Data wants to simplify data synchronization between applications
Ask HN: Looking for your input on a Docker/Dokku hosting service
I'm a general partner and advisor to one of the most respected web hosts in the industry. Recently we have been having discussions on new offerings from our standard high-end shared hosting service and custom dedicated server services.

The vision is to provide different levels of VPS containers that are pre-loaded with Docker and/or Dokku. Your control panel would have,

* automated/scheduled backups to either our off-site redundant storage or your storage option of choice; single-click restores included with varying retention rates

* scaling options (both up and down)

* one-click installs of Docker and Dokku plugins

* configuration settings for your node and its software

* standard usage graphs and metrics

* support for multiple IPv4 addresses per node (justification required) and plenty of IPv6 (and it's ready on our network)

* clone a node; share node (e.g. you want to share this environment and running software; we'll clone it and share it to the user you specify)

* community-driven plugins and addons

* simple integration with third-party services like Heroku's marketplace

* multiple users with user level permissions

* an API, of course :)

There are of course things I'm not thinking of either.

The company owns 100% of its hardware and has 10 strong years being an industry-leader. There won't be any cutting corners with hardware like some similar providers: utilizing enterprise-grade SSDs as opposed to consumer-level drives.

Is this something you would use? Why or why not? This isn't by any means validating the idea, but on behalf of the company, I'd like to gauge potential interest with the small niche that is the hacker-heavy HN before we take the next step.
This person claims to be a lawyer though...
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IPv6 breaks the 4% barrier
While I'm not familiar with the exact situation here, I suspect the real problem is that the malware domains are being automatically created en masse, and No-IP have been slow or reluctant to do anything to slow that down. Being responsive to complaints is good for small-scale problems involving individual domains, but basically useless for large-scale abuse.
I doubt that the basic income bears much resemblance to the dole-outs for the poor in India. "For the poor" is the kicker: by far the most economically appealing aspect of the basic income is that it's provided to everyone. If it's only provided to a particular type of person, that offers opportunities for corruption, administrative costs, and, most importantly, a very sharp disincentive against improving yourself and working harder, sometimes amounting to implicit marginal tax rates that are higher than 100%.

Another aspect is simplicity of administration. Providing some restrictions is a bit paternalistic, though I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand: for me the biggest issue would be how you can implement that with a minimum of cost, administrative overhead, and opportunities for corruption. And there's a bunch of areas that'd result in vindictive political debate. Sure, slot machines and vodka might be things we'd agree to restrict. But liberal arts MA programs? For-profit colleges? MLM schemes? Online class certificates via Coursera? Internet connectivity? Reddit gold? Gym memberships?

If you doubt that this kind of item by item trench warfare is what would happen, just look at the furor in the USA over something as obviously {good,bad} as providing {cost-effective,immoral} birth control to the insured.

I have difficulty imagining a system where the government picks and chooses what's good and what's bad for people to use that's not rife with corruption, sclerotic from past decisions and bureaucratic rules, and easy to use for the actual citizen it's intended to enable. The value recovered from preventing "bad spending" would almost certainly be outweighed by the cost of policing the billions of purchases that happen every day.
Just Microsoft's rebrand and restricted version of OCaml. And, imho, it is much better to use original language (since it have much more features), especially with Core library.
I witnessed a nice microcosm of this demonstrating how fast the shift occurs.

Every day I cycle commute up the London A24/A3 (CS7) corridor. On the first day of the first tube strikes early this year, the congestion was insane. I mean the worst traffic I've ever seen in my life. An ambulance was literally stuck in traffic and no one within earshot of the ambulance able to move their vehicle enough for it to get through.

But then the second day of the strike traffic was a bit on the heavy side but mostly back to normal. I think a huge number of people realized that it was actually pointless to even attempt to go to work unless they were walking or biking. This effect even carried over to the second tube strike a month or two later.
> unlike, say, CloudFlare

Care to elaborate?
Orkut, however, is a rare misfire for the survival model: because Orkut is so old and almost everything from that bygone era of Google has survived indefinitely, it gave Orkut a 95% chance of surviving to 2018. Of course, everyone knew Orkut was a dead social network walking (even before Google+ was a gleam in Page's eye), but how do you tell the model that...?

Groups is in a similar situation, at 90%. I think that's also too high, but I'm not sure what I'd personally estimate the risk at. On the one hand, it feels like Google should be loathe to kill off dozens of thousands of mailing lists and its Usenet archive and decades of history & material; on the other hand, they sure act in every way like they want Groups to die and go away.

In general, the model seems to be accurate when it predicts something is very likely to die, but not so accurate when it's predicting something's very likely to survive. It'll be interesting to followup in 2018 and see how the overall set of predictions did and what an updated model looks like.
Any alternatives for free dynamic DNS?
Was hoping to read something that would blow my mind, but didn't :(

TL;DR for those who want to read it but don't really have the time: in the future some civilization only has a few objects from our present time left, one of which is digital clocks. At some point they noticed them going forwards in spring and backwards in autumn (DST presumably, but they don't know that). They think the previous civilization (us) modified time because the clocks are out of sync with the sun clocks and the stars. So it must be that we created an hour of our own: nine thousand hours a year from gods and one hour from men. The gods noticed what we did, killed us all and that's why we're no longer.
Amazon blames screensaver bug, not ‘ASAP’ feature, for Fire TV data drain
This ^^ +10
> There isn't an obvious way to parse broken HTML, and every HTML parser does it differently

At least with HTML 5 we have both a spec (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/) and a library to parse it (https://github.com/google/gumbo-parser)
It could, but if your app is good then it'll stand head and shoulders above the copies. That's why Threes got an ADA and 2048 didn't.
Eh. That hardware $300 and requires a network connection too. If that's reasonable to do, is network access to distribute leap-second information really a problem?

(There may be cases where the answer is yes, but... we digress.)
The Standard Model is a model, not an interpretation. Whether Yudkowsky is right or wrong, anyone's interpretation is going to be text, not physics.
Yes. I tried to do my best, but I'm not a native speaker... Sorry if that annoyed you.
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As author of Gin, I like Gin(the drink) and the martini framework, it was a clear decision to me. I did not know about the existence of codegangsta/gin, I just discovered it with your comment :) You are right, definitely it was not the best choice.
365 Days of Open Source Contributions – Here’s what happened on Day 12
I use their service and am a bit concerned that I've not heard about this until now and taking a look at their blog/website I see no information about this.