skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are completely missing the point. He didn't say that beliefs are disconnected from actual historical events, but that written down beliefs shouldn't be held as unquestionable truths.

For example, if the Bible says that God created the Universe as it is now in 6 days and we have lots of information confirming that it took way longer, then you have two sensible options: 1) You update the Bible so that it reflects what we know about the universe, 2) You leave the Bible as written but now you know that it doesn't reflect the truth about that at all. What you shouldn't do is leave it as it is and claim that's the truth, nobody except fanatics will take you seriously.

You know, religious texts were written a long time ago by people who didn't know many things that today we teach to kids in primary school. It's incomprehensible to take all these people said as unquestionable truth, makes us look dumb.
Um. You also stop poverty and wars. That is also your duty.
That's why we usually put the burden of proof on the person conducting the experiment that there actually was informed consent. And you don't give informed consent by stating "I give informed consent", but by demonstrating that you understand the (potential) consequences, and then consenting to what you have demonstrated to understand.
A lot of discoveries do not have immediate uses and some might indeed never have any applications. But discoveries can spurn others in unexpected ways. The most famous example of course if the WWW which came out of CERN, a pure physics research institution. Cryptography is another example that has had a profound impact on information security.
But the most compelling reason, at least to me, is we investigate because we can! That is just human nature.
Not confirmed in the sense that many in the community are denying the result, which is as it should be. Even considering many models including dust a robust result remains. I think PRL and others are being unreasonably pessimistic but the only way to settle this is for there to be more experiments at different frequencies. Then they can move from the shock and denial phase onto the grieving process. BICEP scooped Planck, big time. It doesn't matter to me but it matters a whole lot to some people and the degree of sour grapes and poor sportsmanship is really stunning. Yes, I am saying a good deal of this is motivated by the tiny team beating the much bigger team though I absolutely disagree with their hypercompetitive interpretation of the whole enterprise of experimental physics. History will tell us that BICEP got lucky, very lucky and they got there first. The dust up is happening on Earth not in space and the latter is certainly much easier to explain away and still have at least a six sigma result. I've read the dust papers with an open mind and none of them add up.

Regarding SUSY, strictly speaking no particles have been directly detected but anomalous currents abound and just about everything seen works perfectly with light SUSY and much better than with the standard model. The dilepton events alone are very compelling. http://www.science20.com/a_quantum_diaries_survivor/a_susy_e... SUSY is in plain view much the way the Higgs was in plain view for about a year before the official announcement. I have no special insider information, just a humble internet connection to download the important papers and a decent knowledge of particle physics. In hind sight, everyone will say 'of course' which always happens. From a theory point of view, SUSY is simply not an option unless there is some spectacularly new theory out there with novel concepts to replace QFT. The Coleman-Mandula theorem is extremely compelling. It basically tells us accept SUSY or find something to replace QFT. Since QFT works and there's no good reason to move on to something else (especially when something else doesn't exist presently and possibly never will), it's a safe bet SUSY must exist somewhere. It just so happens to be light SUSY and we're seeing it at the LHC right now. I think we're presently seeing the equivalent of a COBE picture of SUSY and next year it will sharpen up into a WMAP picture.
> Given the application of new primes is far less than, say, sending humans to live on the mars ...

Yes, but researching primes is way, way less expensive than sending humans to the Red Planet. It's all about cost versus benefit. As one example, some mathematicians think the Riemann Zeta function might reveal something basic about primes, and if so, it would be well worth our time spent studying it, and primes in general.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function
Kind of reminds me of a lot of ekranoplan designs.
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The problem with this is that mining isn't just about reporting hash rates, it's a critical part of the Byzantine failure tolerant consensus algorithm that was bitcoin's key contribution. If miners had a lower duty cycle as you suggest, any dishonest miner could execute a majority attack with little resistance, absent some other kind of mitigation.

While proofs of work are wasteful, the only alternative I know of is simply entrusting some third party with control of the network.
I'm still learning about Bayesian Stats myself, but so far I've really enjoyed Think Bayes[0] by Allen Downey. He's a great writer and one of his other books was recently on the front page here.

0 - http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/
I blame Satoshi for choosing the unfortunate word "mining" as the name of the technical process that confirms bitcoin transactions. I feel it is responsible for a big part of the scammy reputation Bitcoin has today.

If only it was called something like "transaction security auditing" or "ledger integrity verification" so that people would take it more seriously for what it really is.
I want to point out a few problematic components with this article:

1. For KPCB to exit, they need to find an investor that values the company more than they do. To find an investor who values an unprofitable picture sharing company at over 10B would be a difficult task. It will probably be possible to find retail investors to provide the exit strategy, but the big tech companies of the world (Google, Facebook, etc.) do not have incentives for buying out unprofitable poor performing companies with no future. They have an agenda, and their CEO's are looking for strong future revenues because they themselves are heavily vested in the companies which they work for. These are savvy people with a team dedicated to valuing M&A transactions. There is no good reason for a large tech company to acquire a snapchat unless it thinks it will contribute to the bottom line, the brand, the network, the IP, or the scale of the existing business.

2. There's this incorrect notion that VC firms are somehow not exposed to the risks of the market. Times are good right now, and if you're a VC firm, you should be making a profit right now. A typical pump and dump occurs because of timing effects, insider knowledge, and mass marketing. While you could argue that an IPO is a "mass marketing", I think that external financial institutions (hedge funds) are very much looking out for shorting opportunities. An overpriced IPO is a great opportunity for a hedge fund. Also, It's worth mentioning that the VC firms which will profit so nicely this year, are likely to lose 50-80% during a downturn. They are very much exposed.

3. If KPCB really wanted to profit, why only invest 20MM? This won't make them much money. The real reason they made this investment is because they're skeptical of snapchat, but still want the talking point if there is an upside. It will be a great story for investors, pretty much regardless of how snapchat exits.
The scale of this is impressive regardless of whether or not you're a bitcoin believer (I'm neutral, if it works long term, great, if not something better will come along).

This bit in particular is impressive:

"The mine operators told me that each warehouse took fifteen days to construct, and an additional ten days to fill up with hardware and get it all hashing away. The concrete was still drying on some of the buildings."

8 of those... I wonder who supplied the chips that do the mining and how much energy that facility uses.

"This entire facility has several petahashes of mining power, accounting for perhaps 5% of the entire bitcoin network. Damn."

I like their cooling solution as well!
I think that's literally rocket science.
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Agreed. There is no mention of it in the "Important missing stuff", although their Getting Stated page does finish with

ADDING BEHAVIOR TO YOUR CHARTS

Coming soon...

Hopefully that means enabling chart interaction. Of course, by the time they add in the basic functionality which make data visualization useful, they'll have just repro'd ChartJs, HighCharts, or any of those other libraries.
That's a pretty big if, sir or madam.
The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedi...
The article speculates that SnapChat will offer an IPO.
And yet works on cheap flip phones across the world
That is an idea I was considering, I just wasn't sure if people would find it to get in the way of normal program usage.

It would require more data to be sent backwards and forwards to the X11 server, but that shouldn't be too much of an issue.
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From what I heard previously he was responsible for pretty decent working conditions and benefits (think the level of pay and benefits that Costco is known to provider their employees). The brother of the owner was seeking to reverse many of these kinds of things in order to look at the bottom-line for the stores.
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Windows users get nice-looking fonts now (and much more)
Check out the first sentence/paragraph of this post: http://feross.org/html5-fullscreen-api-attack/

(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4629906)
I was an avid napper back at college and thoroughly employed the coffee nap technique. Now I'm in the workforce, but my body is still yearning for naps at work. I find myself drifting off here and there, but never fully commit.

I'm afraid to take a full nap at work due to how it may look. Do you find yourself being judged for taking naps at work?
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Most users don't hover
I hope someone will do that. One could imagine such satellite-recovery company to bundle several repair operations together, to minimize fuel costs of repeat orbit changes.
It gets people used to clicking URLs in emails. This is a bad habit.
Better and it doesn't have a link bait title.
Yeah but that's the funny thing about pension money going into equities. They have "seen" the 78% increase but not realized it unless they cashed out their accounts and retired right then. Wall St / US pension funds turned everyone into "investors" while mom & pop still think the funky numbers on their statements are their "savings". I mean I'm simplifying, I'm not a US subject, but that's what it seems like from afar.
So seed stage valuations should be based on the salary a founder could earn working at a large company over the course of half a decade? Show me an investor who invests on that basis and I'll show you somebody who is likely to lose his or her money.

Starting and growing a business is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it. There are tons of people who are capable of thriving and creating value as an employee of a large company but who can't run a business. That's not a knock on them, it's just reality.

We're spoiled in the Valley, especially during boom times, and it's helpful to spend some time outside of the Valley. Like I said, Shark Tank is a lot closer to reality for most people in most places. Six and seven figure valuations aren't handed out like candy on Halloween. They are earned through meaningful traction.
Virtual reality actually has nothing to do with stereo rendering. VR is the perception of being “in” a space. Stereoscopic rendering is just one (very difficult) way to trigger that perception by tricking your sense of vision.

It’s actually easier to get "VR immersion” from your ears: take a program that lets you move around a 3D space and simulates audio depth-of-field for ambient soundscapes (most modern games will do), then play it with a correctly-placed surround-sound system.

(You’ll have to play it blindfolded, or in a lightless room, though, to stop your eyes from telling you you’re still in a room playing a game. Any sense which isn’t immersed tears the others down unless it’s “switched off” like this. Trying an Oculus with plain stereo headphones has the same problem.)

Which is all to say, Minecraft has nothing whatsoever to do with VR, any more than holofoil trading cards do. The MVP for VR immersion would look nothing like Minecraft; it’d look more like a sensory depravation tank sitting on one of those 4D film† tilt-rigs, such that you could pilot yourself over a cliff and feel yourself plummet.

† http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4D_film
it was taken down, when stuff gets taken down. I always believe it.

here is the recovered cache:

The Bitcoin industry is just beginning. I know because I work on the front lines. There are no rules and there is very little awareness about what is actually happening back here. A lot of people like Bitcoin for the freedom loving circle jerk, but the real good stuff is happening in tight knit groups occupied by Bitcoin millionnaires and early-adopters.

I’m talking about a room called the BBA and its secret chat room that requires current members to vouch for you, followed by an interview with the ringleader himself. Even then candidates may not be accepted into the chatroom, as only the elite are apparently admitted which is determined by a background check into your Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter account.

It was through this group that I met one of the most infamous people in Bitcoin – without saying his name, he ran a very profitable Bitcoin business where people were able to use their credit cards to buy Bitcoin under $20. In 2014 he was arrested and indicted for money laundering – charges that have put him currently on house arrest.

There are also other people in this chatroom, many of which the public has never heard of but have played a significant role in the development, adoption, and launch of Bitcoin, Ripple, Quark, and Bluecoin.

Its through this group that a majority of businesses in Bitcoin are vetted and either a group consensus is reached about the viability of the project or its a failure waiting to happen. There are Wall St Bankers and Traders, Entrepreneurs, CEOs, Lawyers, Publishers, and Developers who are involved – together they are capable of causing a shift in the price of Bitcoin up or down, and even capable of affecting the success of a new business in this industry.

It is in this chatroom where the elite talk about things like the value of the Bitcoin Foundation, the current price of Bitcoin, the latest rumour and current gossip about an upcoming project. I tell you this not to impress you, but to impress upon you that there is a hidden community within Bitcoin – and they are interested in the price continuing upward.
Once again... bit.ly/1qnBgi3
The problem is more severe than it may seem. Satellites in the wrong orbit tend to fall to earth sooner (higher partial pressure at lower altitudes). Also, because of the satellites' purpose, they have to reach their design altitude to be of any use at all, for two reasons:

1. Their orbital velocity must agree with the design criteria, so the Special Relativity adjustment in their clock rates will correspond to reality.

2. Their altitude must agree with the General Relativity adjustment made to their clocks, same reason.

If they end up at the wrong altitude, both their velocity and altitude are wrong, and all this deep thinking unravels (and it's not likely that this error can be adjusted for after a launch), as well as the fact that orbital erosion becomes a limiting factor in their lives.
I'm well aware that there is some diversity in this community—I was just referring to the prototypical HNer who's a SV programmer in their 20s.
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Yeah, I agree it doesn't make sense for train times, where there is a meaningful, rigid timetable (all jokes about British Rail aside).
In general, the only "binding" part of the term sheet is the "no-shop clause", which doesn't let you solicit additional offers from investors, usually for 3 months. It otherwise represents a handshake on terms so that the VCs have time to perform diligence and produce the paperwork (which is substantial) while the founders find strategic investors to fill up the round.

Either party can still back out of the deal at any time, and this typically only happens when something bad emerges during the diligence process. It's important that startups can trust this fact because agreeing not to solicit investment for 3 months while (presumably) running low on cash is a pretty big risk. KPCB broke this trust in our case.

Feel free to email me at the address in my profile if you'd like to chat more.
The dilepton events are the best evidence yet IMO
How many Bitcoins does it cost to maintain the Bitcoin network?
"We know how to not cut down trees; we know how to not hunt animals to extinction; we know how to reduce our carbon emissions. The question isn’t one of possibility, but of desire and ethically arduous sacrifice."

Do we now? Ignoring the idea that it's simpler to predict the economic, political, and ecological consequences of stopping large amounts of economic activity (which, the article should recognize, is the exact damn problem they're trying to avoid solving); how DO you actually convince all 7 billion people that it's in their best interests to stop doing things that will let them put food on their family's table?

HINT: Non trivial problem.
I disagree. You are blurring 2 concepts here, and are throwing out the baby with the bath water. Decouple the "social network" junk of Google+ from the concept of validated authorship.

Authorship is valuable. Show me everything that Jane Example wrote. Yes, on her personal blog, but also in her column for Wired. And didn't she used to write for the WSJ, or the Guardian? Those too.

Cite systems like this have existed in academia for over a decade. Google's entire existence, as well as PageRank, grew from Larry and Sergey's Backrub project at Stanford which, you guessed it, ranked academic papers and authors based on which other papers/authors cited them, and in turn how those papers/authors ranked.

Authorship at the index/search level is more powerful and comprehensive that other approaches. Yes, Jane could keep a website with links to all her articles. How up-to-date is that? What happens when the WSJ redesigns and those links 404, even though her content still exists, just in a new location? The model shouldn't be "I am Jane, and I wrote this thing that's located over there." Authorship needs to be coupled to the content.

I have not liked Google+ at all. But is a step backward to abandon the concept of authorship entirely.
You can take surprisingly good naps sitting in a toilet cubicle - I did so for many months at Accenture and never had a problem. It energised me and enabled me to do better work the rest of the time.
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For the blind, space and time are identical. The reason a blind person would imagine a typewriter 100 feet away as the same size as one 1 foot away is because the only time a blind person has ever experienced a typewriter at all is when it was at arms length. The idea of perspective is totally foreign to them.

The connection between space and time comes from this extreme locality of the sensory world of the blind. If walking down a hallway, they can not perceive the end of it, and can only perceive the region they are currently in contact with. As they walk down the hallway, they learn that 2 seconds down there is a light fixture, 8 seconds down there is a bump in the carpet, and at 14 seconds the hallway ends. Intuitively, the concepts become very strongly linked. Oliver Sacks discusses this in some of his books.

I think the most informative thing about this is that it is completely consistent with a view of the brain as an associative engine - stimulus which occurs together gets associated with each other, and presence of one stimulates an expectation of the others.
Presuming you have equality.
I was looking on doing the same but ended up doing some hackish bash script, as in:

byobu new-session -d; byobu split-window -d; byobu split-window -dh; byobu

Getting it to run a command automatically on each panel got too complicated so I settled on that. (byobu is a preconfigured tmux from ubuntu)
It is a crying shame that all the CO2 is being pissed away to produce imaginary points. What hubris humans have.
It's a roadtrip away. If there were roads there.
Very pretty, but doesn't seem to be able to match the functionality of dygraphs, or the number of chart types in the google chart library (or similar).

I will definitely keep an eye on this project though.
looks like oh-my-zsh
I spent a few years supporting these from the financial end. Modern cables are built in a loop so that they automatically fail-over. For instance, most Trans-Atlantic cables have pops in New York, Florida, England, and mainland Europe. If there is a cut in one segment, traffic automatically switches to the other.

Most customers these days are also on products that mux across these cables. So, if your Trans-Atlantic cable has two simultaneous outages, your traffic would automatically route itself across the Pacific. Your latency would go up, but your service would continue.

When I was there, construction was beginning on SMW-4, which had the dubious honor of being the first billion dollar cable. They are typically incorporated via international treaties between states and companies that are roughly about 100 pages long. Each partner has to cover maintenance on the part between the main cable and their drop, while everyone chips in on the main part.

It really is fascinating; outages are typically caused by boat anchors close to shore or large earthquakes. Once a guy in Hawai'i cut the Southern Cross wire with a pair of clippers while doing yardwork.
I think it also illustrates that going into business with your family can ruin not only your business but your family relationships as well. Obviously Market Basket is an outlier case that progressed over decades but some of board meeting excerpts are pretty crazy:

http://www.boston.com/business/news/2014/08/14/the-market-ba...
As mentioned in the article, this doesn't hide processes from statically linked executables because he's using LD_PRELOAD.

And busybox is a common statically linked executable, so you can trivially discover this with /bin/busybox ps or /bin/busybox top.
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The cable repair ships send down custom ROVs that can bring up the broken cable ends. The cable cut is repaired on ship and then placed back on the sea bed. Amazing.
When I think responsive it's in a mobile first paradigm. There is no hover on mobile.
It's not secret: cables appear on navigational charts so you know where not to put down your anchor.
I think that's the part that annoyed me most about the whole thing. It's pretty obvious someone screwed up somewhere even if we don't know exactly where yet. Whitewashing the whole thing by saying there was an "anomaly" during deployment seems pretty weak. I would rather they be more upfront about it and say there was a failure of unknown origin that they're still investigating. Calling it an "anomaly" strongly implies that there was some sort of unexpected natural phenomena to blame, which although that might be the case is so incredibly unlikely as to not even be worth considering.