skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not entirely sure I agree with you that reality is the master and mathematics, the servant - or that it's basically a human construction like language. For a start, you don't invent new mathematics - you discover it. You can't discover language. There's a strong sense when you look at things like the Mandelbrot set that mathematics is in some sense already "out there". What constrains maths is consistency - it is the study of inevitable consequences. Assuming that the laws of reality are indeed consistent (see hackinthebochs's comment for an argument to why they must be), this makes it a branch of mathematics. At this point considering the branch of mathematics that we personally can observe somehow more "real", in some vaguely-defined cosmic sense, is multiplying entities unnecessarily.

I don't think it has "rough edges" either. If your equations don't predict the world well, it doesn't mean that they are bad mathematics, or that the world is "wrong". You're just misapplying them.

As an aside, that Chomsky poem is the most beautiful thing I've read all week.
I often reply "I don't know" when asked about things I don't know. It's invariably met with an explicit or implicit questioning of my worth. I can see why people learn never to admit ignorance.
That's what the world needs - yet another proprietary app hogging storage space on phones.
systemd is the most notable process manager that has cgroups support, and the article is talking about process managers that "fail".

It doesn't matter if it's not the PID 1 that fails. The article is saying: if the process that is supposed to receive OOM notification and kill the process fails, you will observe symptoms that are very hard to diagnose.

PID 1 dying is of course really bad, but if other processes in the init system die, your system can still be hosed, as pointed out here.
So, to put it glibly, the only people who will use Meteor for large-scale projects are those who have no choice?
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e-o, a shameless attempt at a sign-up page for fancy website monitoring.
I was curious, too, so I asked him:

>@ID_AA_Carmack Do you still write code in your day-to-day work?

>@sircmpwn yes, most of my time is spent writing code

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/527173010219102210
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I studied complexity, evolution, emergent behavior, etc. quite a bit, and I think this is a mirage.

More accurately, it's confirmation bias. Mathematics is only unreasonably effective at describing the subset of physical systems for which it's unreasonably effective.

These are systems that are deterministic (or statistically so), linear, and generally well behaved. Things like the laws of motion, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and of course basic arithmetic all qualify as well behaved systems and lend themselves to simple straightforward reductionistic mathematical reasoning.

These systems however are only a subset of the much larger set of all natural systems.

This larger set includes living systems, chaotic systems with feedback loops, and systems like those in QM that exhibit what seems to be non-deterministic behavior.

Mathematics does have some content around chaotic systems. It's possible to write equations for systems that exhibit chaotic and emergent behavior. Yet what you can't do easily with math is write equations that correctly model real instances of these systems in the same way that you can for, say, billiard balls on a table or the motion of bodies in the solar system.

You can try, but what you end up with is a system of mathematical relationships whose complexity approaches that of the source data you are trying to describe. You do not get the kind of miraculous conceptual "data compression" you achieve with inorganic physics.

I am not arguing for some kind of supernatural underlying principle or that these things could never be described mathematically. I'm just saying that this should be a fertile area for new math. The language as it stands is not up to the challenge of describing stuff like the N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^... causal interaction combinatorics of genetic regulatory networks or the behavior of real economies at scale.

I'm still very much a fan of Stephen Wolfram's core thesis in A New Kind of Science. The book as a whole is a mixed bag and I understand why some had a negative reaction to it, but what he's basically saying if you cut away some of the hype is that CS may offer new mathematical primitives that can describe some of these systems. IMHO the biggest problem with the book is the title-- it's not a "new kind of science," just a new domain of math. But Wolfram also oversells this emerging area of math a little... there is still a ton of work to be done here. In studying this subject I really got the impression that there are monumental mathematical (and possibly physical) discoveries hiding in there.
Yeah, I watched the demo video and it actually looked like a pretty cool app, but I'll keep my contacts to myself thanks.
From the linked article:

The company, founded by secretive right-wing Christian supremacist Erik Prince, pictured above, had deep ties to the Bush Administration and served as a sort of neoconservative Praetorian Guard for a borderless war launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

Yeah, I think we can pretty much discard that link.
Whatever a culture values most, the people who control that most valued thing end up being most powerful.

Our culture values money - a lot.

End of story.
Same.. I get an error (I fixed the space between ? and xt). Chrome devtools/network shows nothing suspcious, some basic ping pong between their server for small HTTP request returning 200. Weird. Thanks for the help though
If the promotion logic is wrong how would persistence have helped? Say the primary disk fails. If it's still considered primary when it's brought back up with a fresh disk, wouldn't you get the same empty-replication problem? (I know nothing about redis, just wondering.)
This announcement makes me miss Mark Pilgrim. I wish he was still publishing his blog.
The wired article, currently at HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8522381

is interesting with regards to your questions.
I don't see why you're being downvoted. What about the accumulation of nanoparticles among cells, do they traverse the cell membrane? Can they cause cell withering or dysfunction, alter gene expression, hormonal balance or cause microcuts? What about when they degenerate?
That's my main problem with the fitness app industry at large. They are much more focused on steps, running and calories than actual fitness.

And don't get me wrong, cardio works to a good extent. For most of sedentary folks, doing anything will be better than doing nothing, and their fitness level will improve.

But real fitness is about a lot more: strength training, interval training, sports, etc. Bodyweight workouts and HIIT are a much better return for your effort than "just tracking". And so will shifting your diet towards something like paleo or low-carb, instead of just tracking calories.

Part of my frustration with the fitness ecosystem is what made me start up http://8fit.com. It's a mobile app that offers HIIT do-it-at-home workouts and low-carb meal plans.

We don't track your steps. We don't integrate fancy wi-fi scales or wearables. But you know what? If eff-ing works, and our 60k-strong userbase loves the hell out of it for the results they're seeing.
Powerup shortcuts are 1, 2 and 3 on keyboard - I'll add some instructions. I drew every pixel and I'm not much of an artist, so definitely room for improvement there!
(I work at Meteor) We'll fix this soon! Thanks for the feedback.
Email the whole blog post to jeff@amazon.com for higher level support
They told me 3 gibibytes for tethering. Not that this refutes your statement at all. But I find it interesting they differ.
It'd be very interesting if you know anyone who is doing this sort of thing (fleetd for bootstrapping a more "heavyweight" scheduler) in production, and could prod them to do a write-up on their system. It might inspire some more interesting PaaS products. :)
'ps' can hang for all sorts of reasons. If you have a process on an nfs-mount that's hung, 'ps' will stat the 'exe' instead of the link itself and wait forever for stat to return. solution? read /proc/<pid>/status for the program name and lstat the exe (there's really no reason to stat it in the first place)
I haven't looked at Meteor in a while, but am really impressed with how the vision of Meteor and the code (and of course the website) have evolved.

Meteor looks extremely simple to get up and started with, and I was thoroughly impressed by the implicit modularity of it all ("meteor create" makes like 3 files, I think that's awesome)

They really try (and succeed) to rid ourselves of the duplication on server and client. And if the android/ios support is as easy as it looks, this is an insanely useful framework.

I'm going to use it in my next project for sure now, just need to see how template/module composition works
Hippocratic Oath for Scientists
> if they were that bad why did the State Department keep re-employing them?

Most people that think that Blackwater/Xe/whatever they are called today is bad also think that the government decision makers deciding to employ them are/were bad, at a minimum in the context of that decision, and quite frequently that the whole, long-term, multi-decade policy of progressively outsourcing formerly-military conflict-zone functions to civilian contractors is a bad trend driven in no small part by corrupt business-government relations in the military industrial complex.

So, saying "Well, the State Department hired them, so they must be good" is, well, kind of ignoring the entire basis of the opposition.
At this point, what percentage of web development can't/shouldn't be done with Meteor? It seems like everything else is obsolete in comparison. The only non-Meteor cases I can think of involve especially large scale.
Speak for yourself. Web access is a utility and it needs to be treated/regulated as such. Meter it at a flat rate. Telco pricing plans are confusing for a reason. It's a dark pattern so they can bleed you dry and make it hard to compare to their competition.
To find the right answers, one needs to pose the right questions. In this case, the problem is not that it is difficult to get paid for digital content, but that it is difficult to make a living by producing digital content. The question you ought to be asking, then, is how do we encourage the production of quality digital content?

To that question my answer would be a combination of basic income and crowdfunding.
That helps, but it's still well below parity.
Not just user privacy: HTTPS is also for website owners
I don't follow your use of the pronoun `this`.

Is monopoly in general a failure? Or is it AT&T in this particular instance?

Are the problems of monopolies solved by regulation in general? Or is this particular AT&T situation solved by regulation?

Is regulation the opposite of what capitalist economies should have? Or monopolies?
After reading the homepage briefly twice, I still have no idea what the service actually is. I can see what it promises, but I have no idea how. Is this a custom VPN server? If not, how is it different? Maybe as a technical person I dont like marketing speak as much as others, but here I feel like you are offering a technical product, so it should have technical language, no?
It's not secure against traffic hijacking, where a malicious server would serve plaintext to the client and the average user would be none the wiser (no broken padlock).
And you can see that strength training or HIIT are completely left out from the announcement. Strava, Withings, Runtastic, Runkeeper and Noom Coach: all of them tracking apps, with very little emphasis on the prescriptive aspect of fitness.

People need a coach, not a tracker.
Uh? I don't know how that relates to my point. Obviously torrent can be used as a content delivery service without breaking laws or ethics.
Many tests top out at 50% or less and even if the specificity is high you can't necessarily say whether you have a bad form of the disease or not. That's the problem with PSA testing for prostate cancer.
Good thing he built Unix and Windows, allowing him to make this informed comparison.
> if you're truly (1) confident about your knowledge or mastery of a particular topic and (2) actually are knowledgeable, you don't have trouble admitting things you don't know.

Absolutely on point. I started my engineering career at 19 years of age because I was so deeply involved with my love for building computers (as in, from raw chips) that I could show the VP of Engineering at this one company that I was good hire. I ended-up working there for ten years. Everyone else in the department was at least ten years older than me. One of the first things that was driven into my head by the "elders" was:

Always admit what you don't know. It's the only way you will learn anything new.

To this day I always appreciate people who are relaxed and clear about what they don't know (or are not sure about). I know I can have conversations with them. These people don't tend to get defensive and are not insecure at all.

The other side of your statement is that, in some circles, if you assert what you do know you are instantly labelled "arrogant". If you categorically know something I have no problem if you make sure I understand that to be the case. That's just the way the cookie crumbles.
In fact, the given code uses a reactive approach and does not even separate between model, view and controller.
Now it's time for a multi-player Wobble Wockets, where the only way to make it to the moonbase is for the people who come before you to set up little outposts and blast rocks for the people behind them.

Also, is there a moonbase? Or is the cake a lie?
> It astounds me how many people will just make shit up rather than profess their ignorance.

Evolution almost guarantees this. It's a valid strategy right up until modern times:

1. The world's not sophisticated enough to expose your fucktardedness.
2. You can still milk some status and social credit from it, if used in moderation.
3. Most of the time you being wrong doesn't matter (even today).

It's only in the age of Wikipedia (or large 20th century libraries) that the circumstances have changed.

The lies/bullshit aren't the worst of it though: with the correct mental habits those are exposed and discarded quickly. It's that people like it so much that it seems to be their primary intellectual tool. The people who do this cannot seem to help themselves, and they're so loud and many that even if you're disinclined to be this way they can overwhelm any correction mechanism.

> ike a little tv in their head, power up and go.

This is insightful. There does seem to be such a mental faculty. But whether it's responsible for the bullshit phenomenon isn't very clear to me.

> So the next time someone says to you they don't know something, watch out, this person is probably a genius!

The trouble is being a genius is a valuable status in many societies. So if one of the idiots learns that parroting "I don't know" in any of a few hundred variations, soon many are doing so (when convenient).

One gets the impression that everyone is dumb, and that we're all just bouncing around repeating minimally plausible bullshit.
New robot can perform brain surgery with needle through cheek
Use iptables. I know it's a glib answer, but that's how hosting always worked until AWS came along and introduced filtering from an interface outside of the control of the OS.
From the introduction of the I-D:

Key pinning is a trust-on-first-use (TOFU) mechanism. The first time
a UA connects to a host, it lacks the information necessary to
perform Pin Validation; UAs can only apply their normal cryptographic
identity validation. (In this document, it is assumed that UAs apply
X.509 certificate chain validation in accord with [RFC5280].)

The UA will not be able to detect and thwart a MITM attacking the
UA's first connection to the host. (However, the requirement that
the MITM provide an X.509 certificate chain that can pass the UA's
validation requirements, without error, mitigates this risk
somewhat.) Worse, such a MITM can inject its own PKP header into the
HTTP stream, and pin the UA to its own keys. To avoid post facto
detection, the attacker would have to be in a position to intercept
all future requests to the host from that UA.

Thus, key pinning as described in this document is not a perfect
defense against MITM attackers capable of passing certificate chain
validation procedures -- nothing short of pre-shared keys can be.

I think for most of us, this is still a big improvement. But for people under repressive regimes, isn't there a high chance that you get the MITM great-firewall-of-wherever the first time, and then you're stuck with it from then onwards even if you can tunnel out at some later time (this is assuming the government has control over at least one CA)?
No, not at all. It's the other way around, really. Those who don't use Meteor for their projects may not be able to without trashing existing codebases.
Hi meteor.com team. I've scanned the home page and even looked at some other links on the site. I still don't know what this does. Is it a javascript library? Or template maker? A project packager? I have a lot to do and very little time. Can you make a quick video that describes why I should use Meteor and what it does for me? Thanks!
> getting at the consequences if they differed subtly could be tremendously useful

Sure, but that doesn't describe "What if radiation and quantum noise stopped moving?". That's just a dumb question. We can't really derive anything interesting from its consideration. It's along the lines of "What if you dropped a rock and it didn't fall?" What if?
It won't be on your phone unless you install it, so it's only hogging space you want it to hog.
Hey folks. Thomas from IDrive Online Backup here. We actually already offer a simple mobile backup and sync solution for unlimited devices with no extra fee. And we secure your data with the strongest encryption available in the process.
really? I did, but I found the github integration lacking actually. Lots of 'coming soon' functionality on the documentation pages last time I checked.

huboard and waffle are much more tightly integrated with github from what I saw, to the extent that all data lives in github, they just display it on a kanban board (as far as I could tell).
Yeah, but: https://twitter.com/ufukaltinok/status/516602396353384448
Up and Running with Twitter Fabric Development Kit for the First Time
Basically, yes to all.

In terms of scope it's roughly as encompassing as something like Rails - it's full stack.
Mark Pilgrim wrote "Dive into HTML5" in HTML and he (his publisher) also published the paper edition. Maybe you don't need all the tools.

http://diveintohtml5.info/
Looks like graphite:

https://www.google.com/search?q=graphite+graphs&tbm=isch
From your website it doesn't tell me anything about what your app actually does. "A fitness app for people who hate fitness" I don't hate fitness, I don't exactly love it either. I think you're pushing people away from the start.
Agreed. I lived in Germany for about 9 months last year. I had cell service for about 15€/month. It really sucked to come back to the US and pay $100/month for worse service.
True, but be careful to not fall into the other extreme.

There was a time when I was lifting 3 times a week, every week, bench pressing 100kg, etc. And I tried to ride a bike uphill (pretty long ride) and nearly puked my guts out.

You need both strength and endurance. And some fine motor skills, like playing ping-pong or throwing a frizbee.

And some R&R interspersed in there, regularly, otherwise you'll collapse from stress sooner or later.

It's probably impossible to have a perfect exercise regime and live a modern busy life, but the bottom line is - diversity is good.
Iframes sort-of do this already.
Cut the shit already
It is until you realize how complex it is to quantify the costs to be balanced (early detection treatment costs, quality-adjusted life years saved, radiation exposure risks, etc.)
each particle and each subset of particles would have their own individual laws governing their interactions.

An interesting (philosophical science fiction) read on this topic is Stanislaw Lem's "The New Cosmogony" (in the book "A Perfect Vacuum").
Highscores? 607 here with no powerups. http://imgur.com/MGKeedl
The Asymmetry of Online Empathy
And the only way I can see that solution happening is some sort of full-body wearable, neck to toe.

I remember an Under Armor commercial demoing some sort of envisioned prototype of this kind of tech.

edit: They also have something called Armor39, a strap that goes around your chest. I am now curious. Anyone used this?
>Apache Mesos is a system predominatly used by large companies, to more efficiently utilize servers in their data centers.

I love Apache Mesos as much as the next person, but this isn't true. It's predominantly used by Mesos devs. It's one of the up and coming hot technologies, but it hardly has enough users to say it's predominantly used by anyone more than enthusiasts and devs.
That was my ultimate conclusion as well.

That said: There's nothing intrinsic in meteor that ties it to Mongo. No reason why, say, a Postgres or Memcache or whatever backend couldn't exist.

B: It is possible, perhaps even common, to write apps without server side storage at all - imagine API frontends or data aggregators.
We've built a huge meteor app that has scaled to 1000s of concurrent users and still growing -- there have been some sticky points along the way, but overall, we're extremely pleased. Meteor is an amazing engineering feat.
Why does it need full network access? Thought it wasn't on the internet and was #onlyintheapp.
I know intellectually it must apply to me as well...

But it's an interesting illusion. I think that philosophically the correct lesson here is that being (slightly?!?) aware of your own mind doesn't actually give you super powers... you can't change it. (Or, at least, you can't change it by shallow awareness... it would require true efforts.)
CocoaLove and CBT
maybe this will spur FitBit to get on board with GFit and Health.app
I hope they don't ban it. Certainly people can make mistakes, but being able to buy caffeine in powdered form means you can create your own capsules and combine it with other things rather than having to just accept whatever other ingredients or binders, not to mention price markup, manufacturers decide to force on customers.
Very smart to use blank text nodes to get rid of those annoying script tags!
Or fishers. Nasty things, fishers.

(We've had a lot of "missing cat" signs on the group mailboxes lately. Woods nearby. Expanding populations of fishers, coyotes, wolves, etc. Did I mention I'm 15 minutes from Parliament Hill? Bears downtown, -35 C winters (with serious wind and a whole lotta snow), +35 C summers (with 90+% humidity), wild beasties in the woods.... I really love Ottawa. I mean, I must. No rationale person would live here otherwise.)
Back about 25 years ago I wanted to build a PC card to generate better random numbers. The idea I had at the time was to build in a set of four or five FM/AM radio receivers into this card and have them hop ratio stations constantly at, well, random intervals. Then I'd use the digitized audio signals in some combination to feed a random number generator. I thought it was a good idea at the time. Well, I didn't have enough experience yet to know just how much I didn't know. Never built it.