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This may be a little off-topic, but as I was reading the article, I started wondering about something. The author uses examples of genius in art and literature, and noted how Cézanne's early works weren't "very good" and how his later one's were much better, whereas Picasso's early works were considered his best.

So I googled paintings of both artists, and I'm perplexed. I have absolutely no clue what is considered "great". Obviously this is because my work is in science and I know next to nothing about art, but I'm still kind of curious what makes a work great in art and literature.

For instance, there's thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of painters in the world right now. And if you select the top 100 and showed me their paintings, and then showed me a Picasso, I wouldn't be able to point out why Picasso's is "better".

Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is also mentioned as one of the best poems of all time. I'll admit, it's very beautiful, but I just don't understand what makes it that much more amazing than a contemporary poet's work.

Imagine if you took the world's population and wiped everyone's memories of great artists, and then asked them to reevaluate which which works are the "greatest". Would we arrive at the same conclusions? Without the bias of knowing "this is a famous artist, therefore his work must be good", would the rankings of art remain the same?

Unlike my literature teachers in high school, I don't believe in "magical qualities", so there has to be some numeric metric one could use to separate the very best from the "just good". What is it? (Perhaps it's not an easily calculable number, but it still must exist; if it didn't, then the whole field of art and literature criticism would be nonsense.)
It's interesting to compare the two approaches (and characters) of Feynman and his close colleague (with whom he shared the Nobel), Julian Schwinger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Schwinger#Schwinger_and...

You could call Schwinger "slow", but he "saw" very deeply. After all, he found and corrected problems with the Dirac equation.
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Before I get to far into a topic I'm not an expert in, I'll refer you to these:

http://matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

http://tonyarcieri.com/whats-wrong-with-webcrypto

I'd say the main issue with that is sending an encryption package over an insecure channel. While you could verify the package independently (check a hash against a publicly known one) you're already into advanced user territory and the "encryption for everyone" point of this is gone.
I believe that the British artist Francis Bacon also used Muybridge's photos as anatomy studies.
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It is good UX. For privacy concerns, it's already phoning home on every network connection for push notification registration (at the very least), so your objection is moot to me.

To handle this less centrally, you would need a distributed list of URLs to be used for captive portal checks, with servers handled by different entities, and each device selecting one at random from the list. This wouldn't change the UX though.

For your other remark, if the captive portal crashes for a standard HTTP GET to a normal URL, you can't really blame this on anybody else but the captive portal developers.
Does anyone know how do companies incentivize employees to come up with such patents? Does the patenting initiative come from the employee that "invents" or is this decision made by someone else?
Interesting. Why was this created opposed to normal Docker lifecycle?
I disagree. Statistics is not "losing image" among students. It's the other way around: more and more students and software developers have become interested in statistics, inspired by the successes achieved by machine learning and AI researchers. Because machine leaning is statistical learning. It's almost impossible to build a machine learning system without learning at least some statistics!

As evidence of the growing popularity of statistics, consider that this submission made the front page on HN.

The "losing image" meme applies, not to the discipline of statistics, but to staid academic departments who have lost power and prestige. They don't like that their subject has become popular in a different department (CS), outside their purview.

PS. I would add that many (but not all) statistics departments have brought this upon themselves. For a long time, their approach to real-world, practical applications has been to apply existing models in ways that can be readily interpreted by human beings, e.g., with "explanatory variables." Meanwhile, machine learning and AI researchers have been experimenting with, testing, and deploying new models and new ways of 'scaling up' old models, focused on making accurate predictions on previously-unseen data. Of course students find the latter more exciting.
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I would agree with and extend your remarks that it takes a certain level of competence in a field to correctly evaluate someone at a higher level in the field, and as the level of the evaluated person increases, the required level of the evaluator increases.

Someone with a BS in physics level of knowledge or maybe grad degree can possibly evaluate Feynman vs Einstein as per the debate in the comments today. However, I suspect most people can't do a useful evaluation of those two.

There are obvious HN on topic analogies with coding, system design, database design, network design.
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They would be excluded because I wrote "is," which is the present tense.

The ICC is just a great example of how hard it is to get rid of a regulatory agency, even when it is obviously no longer needed.
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Looks good! Can you help me with this dilemma? We don't have enough space for all the people we'd like to see for our upcoming launch party. Still, we want to include as many as possible in spirit.
Is RethinkDB shifting focus? I remember at the beginning it was focusing on streaming data but now it does also light analytics?
Does anyone have experience with running a public mediagoblin? I am not too experienced with Django, but I did some minor, private stuff with it.

My problem are registrations of bots (not sure about the intention). There is a recaptcha plugin and I got it running, but it uses its own routes and also has some minor bugs (always showing the required registration data in red).

Of course I could have my web server always redirect the routes, but this seems like a hack and doesn't fix the issue. For now I had to turn registrations off.

Are there better ways?

Mentioned Plugin: https://github.com/ayleph/mediagoblin-recaptcha
With USB PD, you can recharge your laptop through USB, which will now provide up to 100W. No doubt there will be USB PD - AC power inverters for other use cases when 12V ports are obsoleted.
Yes, but other people will be able to further develop the ideea in a more satisfactory manner.
Show HN: Jumble Stream (for when you've read everything on HN)
http://jumblestream.com/

Hi HN,

I was lying in bed on Sunday morning and I'd done the internet. I'd been to HN, DN, PH, TC and the few others I could remember the name of. I'd read everything that had interested me, but I wanted to lie there and read more!

And I knew there was more. I'm always being linked to interesting sites from my usual starting places, but I never remember what they are.

So I built: http://www.jumblestream.com/

The site you go to after you've been to all the sites you normally go to.

I'd really like some feedback! What you think of the idea, any suggestions for links and what you think about the design.

Thanks HN!
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My favorite for my particular use has been FedEx, because I can reroute any delivery to one of their many outlets and have it waiting for me on my way home, rather than having to go to some distribution center after an inevitably missed delivery (I work the same hours they do).
I can't speak for MS, but in most companies where I've worked the process is something like this.

- Fill in an internal form

- Have a chat with an internal lawyer / patent expert

- Receive a (small) payment if it is submitted to the patent office.

- Receive a (bigger) payment if the patent is granted.

- Receive a (huge) payment if the patent is used / sold / cross-licenced.

The exact process and payments will depend on country and company.

And, yes, it is possible to game this system. For a good study, read "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman" http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Z7g-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT170&lpg...
What Is Management? – Middle-Managers.com 
Good management skills are something that people often talk about, but not as many can put into daily practice. This is because many people have their own ideas of just what makes a good manager. However, the only universally recognized standard is the results that managers achieve with their employees.

Management is a difficult skill to master. This is why we’ve set up www.middle-managers.com – a resource for all managers looking for advice, guidance and the secrets to success.

With this in mind, just what exactly makes an effective manager and is it something that must be taught or is in inherent?
It saves to your video roll, use any number of apps to upload from your video roll. The decision is yours!
I might not like it, but I don't consider it my place to judge how others deal (or fail to deal) with their problems, how they lead their lives. What's entirely unfair, and not helping anyone, is criminalization of drugs.
I worked briefly at Orange Labs (R&D branch of France Telecoms) - they showed off how many patents they'd had approved and gave employees a bonus (~£1000 I think) if they published a patent.
128MB ram is a lot. I had a notebook with 128MB ram running Windows 2000 and Photoshop.

It's just that Java (and to lesser extend Object C) is such a resource hog. The future are apps written in C/C++, Go, Rust, Julia, Swift or JS (FirefoxOS).

As someone pointed out above, JavaScript is more memory efficient (first order function, etc.).
Cisco has been working on pushing NAT as a standard for IPv6 - Why? Sell's more boxes and training!
> Seriously? I'll put a content warning on my blog next time: "warning, may offend women's delicate sensitivities."

Wow, you don't get it at all. You are persisting a stereotype that is exclusionary and your reaction to someone bringing it up politely is to throw it in their face with explicitly sexist sarcasm. Nice job, and you have attached your real name to it all, Chris Stucchio. That alone might be reason to have a different, more professional tone.
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>If you want to make a first-class function, you need a classfile, a class, and an actual full-blown object for that function.

this isn't wholly true as of java 8. dynamic invocation is used to implement the new lambda facility.
His attitude seems to be more "slow CS down" than "speed Stats up". He talks about "let's consider the problems in CS first", but then never gets around to seriously discussing the problems of the Stats profession.

The most he seems to admit to is "Stats hasn't been awake, hasn't been present", like it's some kind of defendable excuse. It's a major problem! If you don't show up to the game, you can't say anything about the "competition" playing unfairly or not playing by the right rules or what have you.

We've seen this before in all kinds of discussions. "Them damn kids and their Rubython on Djrails think they invented everything." It paints a picture of some new, young beast hunting down and devouring the old guard bit by bit in some kind of cruel game designed to torture body and mind. Which is completely ridiculous. The new gang never "attacks" the old. They just walk away.

For all sets of tools, the reason people prefer one over another is because they are finding answers quicker and more easily with A rather than B. Nobody cares about the purity of form (or in other words, the ones who do care are statistically insignificant). They care about getting work done.

None of this is to say that working on theory is inferior or superior to working on applied use and engineering. They are all equally valid pursuits. But we all need to be able to admit when people don't share our passions, and not blame them for having their own.

Show up to the game. The game is industry. It's work. Stop focusing on academia as the only legitimate outlet for graduating mathematicians and statisticians. Talking about "adult supervision" is really just armchair quarterbacking. Sit in a meeting with a person with a 30-year-old, unused history degree with absolutely zero understanding of statistics--thinks ALL math is ivory tower bullshit not worth the paper the textbooks are printed on--and explain to him why his desired results can't be obtained from his current data. See how much your statistical models stand up to "let's turn that can't into a can" or "can't is unacceptable, we're not going to leave here until we figure it out".
I was sort of darkly amused by the messaging eBay sends out to solicit patent ideas from employees. One of the primary themes is "don't worry if it's obvious; obvious ideas are still patentable".
I could see how that would encourage every employee to try to churn as many "inventions" as possible, especially since patent deals are usually made in bulk, and not over specific patents. So even if the patent is crappy, there's a chance you can get a big payout.
I haven't worked at companies who think along these lines, but friends of mine in the private sector have received bonuses similar to those they'd get for excellent annual performance: a stock grant or cash bonus ($3-5k, although I'm sure it varies).
You can't even easily tell if they will ship to your destination without trying to complete a transaction.

Very annoying.
8. FEATURE ENGINEERING IS THE KEY

Feature engineering is more difficult because it's domain-specific, while learners can be largely general-purpose ... one of the holy grails of machine learning is to automate more and more of the feature engineering process.

This is the goal of deep learning, and more generally, representation learning: automatic discovery of explanatory features from large amounts of data. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned.
Is there a numeric metric to separate the very best from the "just good" in any field?
Not at this time, I'm afraid.
I thought I was the only one that knew about that study. I use it often when arguing that the word 'addiction' is biased and we should just use 'habit'. Addiction makes it seem it's the substance's fault, that it has something that makes people addicted to it, when in fact it is people that sometimes have a predisposition to forming habits when taking certain substances.

Crazy people can't buy guns, but guns aren't illegal for everyone. It should be the same for drugs, at least. If you have this predisposition to habit forming around drugs then you can't have them, but most of us don't.
> but acknowledging the reasons for the existing regulations will greatly limit the 'unforeseen' side effects

There was a nice quote I found the other day, known as Chesterton's fence[0]:

"In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

http://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/
How can you ignore the existing outrage and civil unrest around today's prohibition? It is just like the early 1900s. We have black markets, cultural adaptations of the criminality, and all the same corruption patterns.
It's much easier to tell a correct private RFC 1918 IP from four bytes of garbage. There are only 17,891,328 valid values.

The odds move further in your favor when you have multiple private addresses to work with -- a valid key will most likely result in addresses that are all in a single RFC 1918 block, and very possibly all in the same /24.
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Nice collection and analysis, these maps are mostly right out of wikipedia but includes a good analysis and research
Im not sure about the old RAZR specifically, but there are still a number of feature phones available that not only will provide similar battery life you are talking about, but also require a much cheaper plan.

But as a real estate agent, he is probably leveraging other uses from his smartphone that would make this an unattractive option. I guess it would either be carry a smartphone and a feature phone, or a smartphone with some spare batteries.
Yes. In athletics for instance it's very easy. Each sport has a built-in scoring system from the get-go. I would also say it's pretty easy to pick out the best scientists. Simply evaluate the improvement in predictive power that their contribution to the field elicits, and I think Einstein, Feynman, et al. would fall out pretty easily as the best.
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I just took a look at Linux's nf_conntrack_proto_udp.c to see what's happening. It looks like Linux starts the UDP timeout at 30 seconds, but extends it to 180 seconds when it sees traffic both ways, assuming it's "some kind of stream."
Having not used Meteor (beyond toys) but trying to understand how it works this sounds exactly like what I would expect to hear.

But I hope you are wrong about becoming a major platform for the web, unless it drasticly changes. These Node frameworks keep astounding me in their use of stateful servers and relying on vertical scaling.
What's interesting to me, looking at that map, is how much northern Italy is closer to the rest of Europe than the south.
The thing about a work of art being "good" is that it also largely depends on the surrounding art traditions of the time. Picasso's early works contributed most to new aesthetic thinking and the discussion of the nature of art, and within that context they are revolutionary and genius.

To give another example, in my opinion Duchamp's readymades were a genius piece of artistic trolling, great thought-provoking statements on aesthetics and the nature of art. Pretty much everyone who followed missed the point, as they did not add anything significant to the discussion - they just accepted the Fountain as art and proof that their readymades are therefore also valuable art.

Also, with many works of art you really need to see the real thing to even get the opportunity to "get" it. A real Mondrian is much better than you would expect based on pictures, because it's possible to empathise and "feel" how the artist made his brush strokes, the emotion behind it. That embodied experience of a work of art, which is essential to the readability of a painting, or any work of art, is often lost when translated to a digital JPG.

As for your last point, you fall for the mistake of believing that the external objective truth, which applies to the natural sciences, applies to art. Art is about (partially shared) subjective experiences, which can still be quantified to some degree if put in the proper context, but not in the same meaningful way we can calculate the value of Pi. For example, our eyes work mostly the same across our species, so before interpreting what we see the input should be largely similar, creating similarity in otherwise subjective experiences. But it's obvious that this similarity in perception is limited.

I suggest "Philosophy in the Flesh", by Lakoff and Johnson, if you want a nice empirically grounded discussion related to this - they apply empirical insights from the cognitive sciences to philosophy and in the process give you a good non-magical sense of how this subjective but shared experience works.
Their product doesn't do mobile, that's why. My 3G in Australia is definitely NATed (and the source address the other end sees seems to change with each cell!).
Pish. Once in a while, a drink is just the right elixer for a conversation or a mood change with a new friend. It doesn't deserve top billing, and the other drugs don't deserve to be so screwed, but it does have a deserved place in the human experience. Calling it mere 'poison' misses the mark for me.
where did they comment on the matter? Can't find said comment or was it an article?
There isn't one number.

Lets extend this to an easier subject we all have extensive experience with... evaluating the taste of the food we're eating.

If the food critic fad of the day prioritizes flavor balance, the "winner" will have an amazing balance of flavors but perhaps the texture will resemble dog food or clam chowder.

If the food critic fad of the day prioritizes texture, or heat, or visual appearance, or smell, or sweetness (well, food critics don't like corn syrup but walmart shoppers certainly do...).

Even worse, fads aren't binary either, its all a big ratio. That's at least partial explanation why some authors go in and out of favor in lit over centuries. Its actually a lot of work in lit to keep up with who is supposed to be cool and who is supposed to suck based on changing tastes.

Then dog pile a ton of groupthink on top with some politics and inevitable cultural issues (racism, nationalism, etc) and you can see how faddish some of this is.

On the other hand, if you have an agreed upon definition of impressionism, then you can evaluate who makes the best impressionist painter under that set of carefully defined rules. I think it would be hard to argue against Monet. Someone could claim Sisley but I think on long enough study that Monet beats Sisley overall. (edited to emphasize, beats Sisley at the defined rules... nothing wrong with liking a set of rules where Sisley beats Monet, just don't name that set of rules impressionistic painting)

Or, you can compare your Robert Frost to this dude named Robertson who wrote similar, yet somewhat inferior poems. I think it would be a lot of work or outright impossible to compare Frost to Kipling or to T S Elliot beyond sorta "and heres a different genre"
>Why do regulations have to be in line with market economics in the first place?

Yeah, I think this is something a lot of folks overlook - regulations exist because society has decided its interests are better served by making folks play by a certain set of rules than by hitting peak market efficiency or whatever. Now you can argue that a given regulation is not the best way to achieve a societal goal (for instance that limits on cab numbers don't reduce congestion much) or that they have worse externalities (medallion systems squeezing out the little guy in favor of big companies that can afford 6-figure medallion prices) or that the lost efficiency isn't worth society's goals, but straight up saying that they're "inefficient" isn't a case for anything.
For those who are claiming prior art, I suggest you open a question up at "Ask Patents" (StackExchange site).

"Ask Patents" has been used by the USPTO to overturn patent requests.

http://patents.stackexchange.com/
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