skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sister works for one of the intelligence agencies and says that the two biggest threats, from an intel perspective, are China and Israel.
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. (强扭的瓜不甜).
Also, kind of ironic but your site is giving me a 503 :p
Israel spies on America, America tapped Angela Merkel's phone. The job of spies is to know the internal thinking of the current administration.

Spying, tapping, hacking, etc are not acts of war. In fact, they probably prevent more conflict than they could possibly ever cause.

Had we listened to Israeli spies, we would have never gone to war with Iraq over WMDs. Spies save lives.
Where exactly did I trivialize spying?

What an excellent straw man you have constructed.

You know what's more damaging than snarkiness? Hyperbole, group think, and poor rhetoric. Hacker News, reddit, and Imgur have it in spades.
If you believe that it will be smooth and fluid, I have a bridge to sell you.

There's this pesky little thing known as the speed of light.

I mean, even if they were to do the absurd thing of "render X possible futures, send you all of them, have client pick the "best" one", that only reduces general latency, not worse-case latency - and you cannot keep increasing X as bandwidth is not infinite (and their server power is not infinite either). Worst-case latency being (RTT + render time), which is going to be at least RTT. And worse-case latency is what you tend to notice, at least at these timescales.

Will it potentially be useful for those who live close to a datacenter? Sure. (I question the economics of it from a consumer perspective. But that is another matter.) But is it a general technique? No. For example: I have a ping to Google of ~200ms at home. As such, worse-case latency is >=200ms. (Well, again, depends on where the data centers are. But I'm assuming that Google has pretty good datacenters. And almost all of that latency is coming from the "last mile" in my case, which could change.) Are you going to notice 1/5 of a second delay in a FPS? Probably enough to not consider it smooth and fluid anymore. Related: I at one point got annoyed at a projector over Super Hexagon - kept overcompensating - and measured the delay against my laptop's display and found a delay of ~5 frames over and above my laptop. Admittedly, SH is a twitch-based game - but when you're turning / etc in a FPS you want much the same same frame precision. An extra 200ms isn't exactly going to be unnoticeable.
Fudging the inflation numbers has been coming on for a while now; I call it the "screw the old people and the foreigners" strategy.

As for the issues with GAAP, I can't understand why the holes in off-balance-sheet accounting haven't been closed given the number of disasters that have occurred. Government accounting, of course, is basically indistinguishable from bald-faced lying.
Vurtun's code is probabely faster than the iod json parser since it leaves the type check and conversion to the user. Since iod knows the structure of the object you are parsing, it directly checks types and throw exceptions if the json string does not contains all the required fields of the destination object, things that you cannot do without compile-time introspection, and that vurtun's library leaves to the user.
I don't know about that link, but in general you would use a fix point combinator. The Fit library has a fix point combinator here:

http://pfultz2.github.io/Fit/doc/html/fix/

So you could implement a generic factorial like this:

auto factorial = fit::fix([](auto self, auto x) -> decltype(x)
{
return x == 0 ? 1 : x * self(x-1);
});
Do you think they didn't tell him not to wear it because they didn't deem it offensive or perhaps even because they are scientists and engineers that determined that it is merely an article of clothing and it would be prudent to wear any shirt in lieu of going on camera not wearing a shirt at all? (I hope you appreciate the humor in my response as I upvoted yours because I agree with your thoughts on the matter).
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I'm pretty sure you meant SPDY/HTTP2.
Thankfully, the term "sexy" doesn't just apply to sex as the informal definition is something exciting, appealing, interesting and/or stimulating.
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The difference is that they dropped out of ivy league colleges.

I didn't take the actions necessary to be able to attend an ivy league school and drop out of it.

>They also made the rational choice. You (probably) are not doing it.

I don't feel like spending the time it would take to explain why my choice was rational. The gist is that a lot of consideration was put into making that decision and I'm confident I made the right one.
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Interesting that Einstein's proposal with modified Malus's law for single photons produces a "local realism" explanation for the observed apparent Bell's violation in photon polarization experiments. At the Einstein's time they didn't have single-photon counters to confirm/deny, and today it seems that single-photon Malus looks like the classic one (though i didn't find articles directly confirming it, only other articles mentioning it as confirmed). Nevertheless, possibility that such reasonably looking variation of the pretty empirical law produces "local realism" explanation makes me believe that "local realism" battle is far from lost yet :)
I guess I was being generous when interpreting your statement that "all components of a quantum system are always entangled". For pure states, such a statement is trivially true in the sense any kind of interaction in the Hamiltonian will generically create entanglement.
For mixed states, your statement is of course false. It is unfortunately often the case in the real world that two subsystems are in a non-entangled quantum state.

Regarding your general theme: I understand that confusion can arise if seemingly informal language is taken verbatim as a formal statement. I do not think that the solution is to abolish the former, which can be extremely efficient to reason in and communicate with (you gave some examples in your post), but rather to educate on the interpretation. It is unfortunate that this is not always done, as your experiences suggest.
So Glass has been available to developers for close to two years, there's still no release date, and it's a surprise that no one wants to develop for it? At this rate, it's unlikely it will ever be released to consumers and even if it is, that's the assumption anyone investing time and money into developing apps for it should be thinking about. All other issues aside--and from the comments here there are quite a few--investing in Glass is essentially a horrific idea outside of possible niche commercial markets. By extension at this point, so would releasing Glass to consumers without software. Yet another bungled google product poised to join the deadpool before release.
You could just stick a random seed and tell them to meet at a place determined by that seed. What's the difference?

The closest use is probably quantum cryptography, somehow, I'd guess. But that's still not FTL communication.
My mistake, I just fixed the readme.
When the government needs to make cuts, science, education, and technology R&D should be the last to go.

Solyndra is another great example of how they demonized a R&D program designed to encourage energy independence. Instead of losing the planned $10 billion, the program has turned a profit for the government.

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/13/363572151/after-solyndra-loss-...
That's correct in the worst case, but in the best case, std::string does not allocate memory anymore (short string optimisation), e.g. libc++: http://stackoverflow.com/a/21710033

So it might be "malloc-free" for configuration files where the possible values are limited, etc. :)
It has only been like 50 years since it was introduced. The juniors are coming to terms with retirement now.
Yes, humans now have a better understanding on how the fundamental building blocks of the universe work. Has this directly affected your quality of life, no. Do you derive enjoyment from knowing that your fellow man now has a better understanding of the inner workings of every atom that make up the mass around you? I do. Could it possibly benefit you in the future, that is unknown.
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Illumina already sells a $1,000-genome machine. By the way, what's happened with the ambitious SV-based Halcyon Molecular, which was supposed to deliver a $100-genome sequencer?

P.S. Halcyon has shut down 2 years ago [1].

[1] https://gigaom.com/2012/08/19/halcyon-molecular-quietly-shut...
Disagree, Snow Crash is fun, and the intro about the Deliverator is great!

"Enough power to shoot a pound of bacon into the asteroid belt." How can you not like that!?
If Israel is #1 among our allies, France is infamously #2. You don't hear much about that either. I don't think this has much to do with antisemitism.
I doubt Israel would use an actual Israeli for espionage.
It sounds like a good "eye-dea", but its not. Reading any real amount of text on Glass gets tiring after a few minutes. It's really best for momentary use. They really did screw up the software. Why didn't it integrate more with the phone in the first place? So much wasted opportunity, even with the physical limitations like resolution, eye strain, and battery life. I've relegated it to large events and vacations, it works great for documenting that stuff!
They were kid's books, dude.
Well, now I kinda want to access my Google account from a Tor connection to see what happen. But I also kinda don’t want to have it blocked.
Consider that it may be more degrading and objectifying to treat all women as weak, fragile beings who must constantly be sheltered from things like shirts with retro tattoo art on them.

While the rest of us are busy trying to help provide opportunities for more women to get into STEM careers, there's a whole cadre of privileged, middle class noise generators doing a great deal of harm (or at the very least, not helping) with these sexist stereotypes.
Google dropped the ball. Give it 5 to 10 years and we'll see a fully polished Apple clone of Glass that doesn't suck for consumers... Which is unforunfortunate because Apple products sucks.
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Does it lead to kids changing their dietary habits? I would have to guess not. If it did, would it be justifiable? The effectiveness of the product should be discussed first then the cost effectiveness of the product can be considered. There is no point of waving and screaming look at all of this money being spent on this thing, unless you also examine the thing which the money is being spent on.
You have good points. However I'm going to be a little nitpicky here. Mixed states aren't exactly "real" in the sense that what is a pure state for Alice can be a mixed state for Bob (I can provide an example if you don't know what I mean). So in that case the "lack" of entanglement is simply due to ignorance of which pure state the system is actually in.
Of course it doesn't. But exposing and criticising France will scarcely receive the retaliation reserved for revealing Israeli spooks in the US. Much less (or zero) accusations of antisemitism.
Palin shares her hatred of Fruit Fly research with Stalinist Soviet Russia[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Sax parsers are tools that you have to use to implement a parser for a given json object. The goal of iod's json parser is to do it automatically thanks to static introspection. It also reports errors if the json string is not compatible with the structure of your object, things that you have to do manually with other json parsers.
>one is left to wonder how it is even arithmetically possible in 2014, that there isn't yet a financially lofty interest-group apparatus in Washington, advancing policies that collectively foster the cause of basic research in science & tech.

Not really. People who are interested in actually contributing to the world by scientific research and technological innovation have zero interest in a field that is overwhelmingly useless and idiotic: Politics.
OnLive does this and seems to do okay, and they do have first person shooters and other twitch games https://games.onlive.com/
Most (if not all) fish have a mucous-like slime that protects their skin from things like disease, flesh wounds, and some parasites. Primary concerns with typical angling will be in the handling of the fish, and exposure to outside elements that could dry out this layer of slime.

FWIW, Disintegrate may not be the best word here but I'm not a scientist... just a fly-fisherman.
In my world, AA batteries are all about door locks. There are a lot of card-reading door locks that depend on them.

Whenever a lock fails, step one or two or three is replace the batteries. That's 4-6 batteries per lock.

As a maintenance/security procedure, once every couple of years, every battery in every lock in the entire building is replaced. Doesn't matter if they are dead, weak or brand new. That's hundreds/thousands of batteries.

That's a lot of batteries. And Duracell has multiple levels of "pro"/"industrial grade" batteries. We buy them by the case.

I'm sure the markup on consumer batteries are huge, but I'd also think the commercial use of double-As must dwarf the consumer market. Smart buy by Warren is my guess.

What's needed in this space is a door lock that winds itself much like a "perpetual" watch. Something that takes the mechanical energy used to turn the door handle and turns it into stored energy that can be used to read the card and unbolt the door.

And there you go. Make this thing :)
Except for the very same Israeli Mosad spies who knew much more about 9/11 before it happened. That could have saved many many lives indeed.
I imagine it's either to make the date internationally unambiguous (re: interpreting yyyy.mm.dd vs yyyy/dd/mm) or to save two bytes per string. I'd bet it's to make better use of bandwidth, since these time stamps are likely sent enough to have some payoff for it.
Was the parent comment edited since you posted? It seems perfectly civil to me (in contrast to its parent, actually).
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Is there any difference between "variadic" and "polyvariadic"? The two seem to both mean "taking a variable number of arguments", but definitions of each never seem to mention the other. "Variadic" is standard C terminology...
The video++ project is still very young. It's goal is not to re-code all the image formats, but just providing nice abstraction to build fast image processing apps. You can easilly load whatever format you like and pass the buffer and its dimensions to vpp::image2d to process it. I am actually using opencv to open images or grab images from videos, and then process them with video++ via the opencv bridge.
> "Just to be absolutely clear, we don't know how most kinds of thoughts are represented in the brain."

I've spoken about this recently. It's important that we keep in our minds a particular distinction about how we teach and approach things in Machine Learning and Neural Networks: that is, we are creating computing architectures that emulate a model for how we think the brain might operate, and we've achieved some non-trivial successes in doing that. We can't forget that it is only a model that allows us to develop some intuitions about how the algorithm works, but decidedly not how the brain works.
>This reply does not seem much in the spirit of what I wrote

Mmm, I guess this is the case when they say it is somewhat hard to communicate with electronic text. Since I'm not native English speaker, it might be dry but in essence I tried to put:

1. Motivation

2. Agreement, even with the presence of Motivation

3. Wish that I could have just flagged without commenting - and the plan of doing so in the future.
The Novikov self-consistency hypothesis is pretty neat. I like the thought of the researcher travelling back in time to create the apparatus such that the result always confirms quantum entanglement. It's classical and not quantum so it's not clear to me how it relates. I'm not sure anyone (besides philosophers) takes the loopholes seriously.
I've pretty much stopped talking, with actual words through actual speech, politics with people around me. What usually happens is "damn, did you hear about the stupid shrimp treadmill." Right as I go to inhale[0], whomever said the first sentence will inevitably cut me off with "yeah, yeah, I'm sure it's not that bad and there is some reasonable explanation that I'm not gonna get, but shit, man, shrimp treadmills, what the fuck?!"

0 - I freely admit that I can also be a little overenthusiastic about political matters, mostly because I'm really starting to dislike the sigh-and-keep-quiet approach.
"we'll see a fully polished Apple clone of glass that doesn't suck..." but it sucks? What do you mean?
> Your analogy fails. Javascript is designed to be an addon to HTML / CSS.

Your analogy fails because you think the original design intent matters, it does not. What matters is how people use things, not how they were intended to be used. His analogy was correct, developers do build their sites with js capabilities assumed and if you remove those abilities you break much of the web today and you know it.
Having picked up the habit of reading docs (iBook or web site) on my iPad in relaxed mode (couch, terrace, bed, etc.), the case for an iOS version seems rather obvious.

I've admittedly never heard of Dash though. How good is their search compared to using Google on whatever site hosts the docs?
Why? Is that actually what you get paid each month or are there are issues (family, medical etc)? If not, you can definitely get a better job than that, especially in IT!
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Entanglement links 2 things together 10,000+ times the speed. There will be quantum FTL internet soon whether you like it or not. There already exists early technology for this: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/524186/quantum-internet...
I assume that photons act as waves and not particles. Though they have quantized energy (frequency), there's no reason for me to think that they have locality. If so...

The most plausible explanation I can think of is a Monty Hall paradox at the source of the emitter. Thousands of photon pairs? How are they generated? Is their emission dependent on the destination via say, pilot wave resonance? Either resonance or waves that travel backwards in time. Experiments of entanglement speed should point towards one or the other.
I don't know about #3 and #4 but the answer to #1 and #2 is absolutely YES and those who are pessimistic about it or post long scientific sounding refutations of this will look ridiculous in the future.
No, he is saying this:

'No, his shirt wont keep women away from science.
The entire fiasco is not about science, it is LITERALLY the thing that I would want to avoid if I had planned going into this field, and I assume that women also do not want long drawn out discussions about what they are wearing INSTEAD of their impressive scientific achievements.'
Yes: when someone tells me X is subsidized, I expect to hear about something the X industry gets that others don't. Because that's what the term means.

It's not enough to tell me "X makers get to deduct expenses! Clutch the pearls!"
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I bet you could handle refraction by tracking the target optically, using a camera of the same wavelength as the laser light. The refraction would be the same in both directions.
regarding eye-strain: do you think it's due to the specific display hardware Glass has at the moment, or a fundamental problem with headsup displays?
AT&T was a utility for decades. I'm not surprised that they don't want to go back.
I used to think that way too. I've met programmers who still don't write unit tests and are not test driven and remain brilliant. Carmack is one of these guys. I think the static / strong typing thing works well with them because they never developed the practices. If you're test-driven, you're basically building up your own, domain specific compiler as you go not having to play by a language-specific static type systems rules. Dynamic typing make writing code this way really easy. Static typing doesn't. In the end I want the types of my system to work they way my system needs to. I could care less about the type system of merely a language (as applied to my system). And types are just one way to enforce correctness.

Lately I find with languages in the Lisp family, these other types of tools feel much more productive, easier to reason about and flexible to me than type systems. When I believed in static typing I felt very busy, but I was mostly spending my time making the compiler happy, rather than the other way around.
The series is pretty good overall, but his endless tirades against OOP (many of which are specious) drained much of my enthusiasm for his blog. Regardless, it's still good reading and this new game project is a great idea.
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Has them. You caould watch your family home movies which you haven't uploaded to the cloud yet with mplayer and the dependencies that install when you compile it! It also has aalib and libcaca if your so inclined to geekout with seeing your flick directly in the terminal console.

~ Happy Hacking
It's not like the laser stops dead at 10 miles (or 1 mile). It's just not able to take down a rocket at that range. While I don't think it's very likely that a laser took down the plane, who's to say it wouldn't be able to burn through one layer of wing, and expose/ignite the fuel? I'd imagine the difference between hitting a rounded missile almost head on, and a flat aircraft wing from underneath, is almost like the difference of igniting paper and wood with a laser pointer...
The SSC was killed in the 103rd Congress by a Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate and a Democratic president.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/103-1993/h526
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/103/hr2445/text

The project was originally championed by Republicans (and Democrats from Texas.)

"Reagan Calls Super Collider 'Doorway to New World'"
March 31, 1988|Associated Press

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-31/news/mn-896_1_super-c...

George Bush: Remarks at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory in Waxahachie, Texas
July 30, 1992

"Now, the super collider. The super collider is one of the greatest scientific projects in the entire world. This place attracts scientific genius the way our U.S. basketball players attract autograph seekers over there in Barcelona. So for me it is an incredible honor to be among you and to hear of your dreams and accomplishments."

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=21280

But I wouldn't want actual facts to cloud your worldview. You want to know why it was cancelled? Try Google.
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I had to google "balaclava", but I think even immediate cloud backup would be ineffective against masked person and/or surprise attack from behind.

It would be really good for dealing with police officers who go around destroying phones and other similar situations, so it wouldn't be completely useless either.
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