skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like Bitcoinica (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoinica)
Yet how many billionaires on earth do that?

I guess once you have the money you also develop a sense of responsibility about how you wish to spend it. Every thing in the universe, even if we imagine unlimited resources at one's disposal- Every project has its costs. It might be time, energy, or other manual resources. You have to continually trade one for the other based on the goals you have currently.

We are assuming that life forms will just build probes and let them wander for some remote chance of another life form to see it.
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
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Oh my... I just read 'Farewell, Dr. Boobs'. Need morning coffee urgently :)
That line of reasoning is rapidly reaching it's expiration date.
I've been watching the original Thomas the tank engine with my son and was a bit surprised to notice the theme around obeying the Fat Controller's authority.

He is a mostly benevolent authority figure who helps the engines out of their scrapes, but engines that defy him or disturb the peace are punished. In an early episode he left an engine bricked up in a tunnel. Quite a few engines have also been sent away as well.

It is slightly funny to see childhood again through adult eyes but I'm not sure what I'll do when my son is old enough to understand these things. Im sure the idea of being left alone in a tunnel would have terrified me as a child. :)
If we routinely used a base-12 number system, and converted all our units to be base-12, it would have an individually small but collectively massive positive impact on our mathematical fluency. Calculating with fractions vs. “duodecimals” would be a much less dramatic trade-off, and for many everyday calculations converting back and forth between duodecimal and fractional forms would be trivial. We could easily change our systems for time, angular measurement, etc. to the new system in a much more closely backwards-compatible way, and without sacrificing the advantages of the base-60 system. For everyday calculations using physical quantities and measurements, the new system would beat the metric system hands down.

While we’re at it, we should probably replace the written numeral graphs with ones that are easy to write a bit more quickly and as difficult to confuse (either for one another, or for alphabet graphs) as we can manage, and change the pronunciation such that all of the basic numerals are one syllable, and regularize and simplify pronunciations of multi-digit numerals. The Chinese have a big leg up on English/Spanish/French/... speakers when it comes to basic arithmetic simply by virtue of their number pronunciation which is regular and fast.
I don't know of an existing tool, but I have lots of experience with 2-D image processing. I have some ideas as to how it could be done somewhat more efficiently than brute-force.

If you're really freaking, perhaps I could flog my consulting service, and write the program for you under contract?
Metric is overrated. It's both too recent an invention and a part of the long gone movement that thought everything is to be rebuilt, you know, "rationally." It didn't turn out more rational as a result, at least not the kind of rationality that we really need.

[Edit] Disclaimer: I am from a country that went metric a century ago.
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In which case you don't want to be using jQuery at all and should instead be using a virtual DOM implementation like virtual-dom, famo.us, react or mithril.

https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom
> it's closer to a binary system, rather than decimal.

Not sure I follow. We got : 1 yard = 3 feet = 36 inches how is that closer to binary, than say: 1m = 10dm = 100cm = 1000mm
I'm not dead certain, but while an old image is out of copyright, a digitization won't be.

The image in the digital photo will be out of copyright, but the digital file is a newly created work.

My reasoning has to do with how commonly I find copyrighted scores to traditional folk songs. The notes and words are exactly the same, however the actual document is new.
| Alternatively, wait a few hundred years until you need several hundred terabytes to store the blockchain, which is required for transactions. That's going to be a problem.

It seems more likely to me that in a few hundred years, several hundred terabytes will come in your mobile implant than for hundreds of terabytes to be a storage problem.
Unless I'm reading this wrong, according to the End-to-End docs, it looks like keys are kept in a "Key Directory", and that Google will run one Key Directory, but you can use whatever Key Directory you want. I haven't seen evidence that Google will have any access to your unencrypted data.
Probably because the tutorials for beginners reach the most number of people (because advanced users are more likely to self-learn or use documentation, and because advanced topics are often specialized). Therefore there is the most value in making a good beginners tutorial.

Also, a tutorial for beginners can be written by someone who isn't an expert, but is a full or part-time professional writer or communicator. A tutorial for experts must be written by other experts, who don't have the time to learn and practice communications skills as much.
>I would argue that being limited to a single unit system is like being limited to a single language. In principle, no one needs more than one but in practice the differences in expressiveness for different purposes are interesting and useful.

After considerable reflection, I have come to the view that in fact the differences are not interesing and not useful. What is useful though is consistency and ease of application (which the metric system has) and familiarity (which just depends on the circumstances).

I work in the oil and gas industry, and I had to learn to think in terms of bizarre units like stcf/bbl, or pounds per gallon. In the end, the only driver was that once you digest enough information, you can compare things on a like-for-like basis... if you know the horsepower ratings of 10 car models, it is more immediately useful to be given the horsepower of the car you consider buying rather than its power output in kW.

But in the end I see no downsides, only upsides, if the entire industry switched to the metric system.

stcf/bbl (standard cubic feet per barrel) by the way is a customary measure of the amount of gas dissolved in the oil. After 25 years in the industry, I know for example that 1000 stcf/bbl represents a gassy oil that will take some effort to stabilise, and 100 stcf/bbl is a relatively dead crude... so inormation about new crudes is useful to me in this form. But - what a weird unit it is! The information could much better be provided as a dimensionless ratio, eg gas-to-oil ratio of 200 for gassy oil would be intuitive and better suited to use in further calculations, and once you've seen enough data expressed in this way, the familiarity issue is taken care of.

I invite you to provide counterexamples, where the customary unit has an inherent advantage (familiarity does not count). I can't think of any.
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I agree with your overall statistical/singularity argument, but that's not reason enough to call a great filter nonsense. The biology of a great filter is at play along with the overall cosmological context.

"Power, Sex, and Suicide" argues that eukaryotic (and thus multicellular) life is basically a fluke—it is the great filter. The tumblr link Lost_BiomedE gave takes a while to get to that punchline but it's worth a read.
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mutable, global variable in the middle of your program.
Act accordingly." –Marco Rogers (@polotek)

https://twitter.com/polotek/status/543590973846999040
My very favorite part of Snow Crash is that Hiro Protagonist was a software consultant.

Like me.

There's one more favorite part but I don't want to post a spoiler.
I'm not sure, but I tried to counter it with an upvote. Maybe it seemed like you were criticizing HN readers for discussing Russia (are you?).
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> It's based on 12 which is easily divisible by 2,4,3,(and 6 obviously) making it practical and easy to use for handy jobs.

Interestingly I never thought about it that way. I grew up and lived in Europe, and even after many years of living here, when I need more precision I always revert to millimeters instead of fractions of an inch.
Modi concern about women safety?
Omg, what the hell kind of dark pattern is it that waits 10 minutes to start playing an audio ad?

It's one of those "I bet someone got a nice bonus for that" ideas that destroys user trust: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/11/01/92244...
If your kid is old enough to understand the concept of breaking and entering yet still believes in Santa, then you need to have a talk to with your kid. :)
I don't understand. It's just as easy to divide by half in a decimal system as in a binary system; both share 2 as a factor.

My mathematician friends tell me that for a lot of reasons base twelve (like our clock) would be preferable, but changing makes no sense because the benefits don't come close to the costs...

In any event, like and system of measurement, decimal is ultimately founded on some arbitrary decisions. The argument in favor of decimal is that a common system of measurement has incredible advantages; nothing you mentioned in favor of the imperial system stands up to the benefits to being in lockstep with the rest of civilization.
When you're such a large country, you can afford to do things your own way

Detroit had this attitude for a long time. Which made it virtually impossible to sell their gas guzzling tanks into Asia or Europe.
Related anecdote: Neil Gaiman writes his stories with a fountain pen (well, at least during the period 1994 - 2012):

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18071830
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The Wikidata dumps are also updated weekly; see [1].

Wikidata RDF exports are made every two months or so from those dumps and are available at [2]. I imagine that frequency will pick up. You can generate your own RDF exports using the Wikidata Toolkit [3, 4].

[1] http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikidata/

[2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/rdf/

[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit

[4] https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit
While I appreciate the history lesson in the article I strongly disagree with

> Is global uniformity a good thing? Not when it comes to cultural issues, and customary measures are certainly a part of our national culture.

because you can define everything as a part of culture. I don't even want to go into examples (think "ugly things countries did and do").

So, yes, ideally there is no need for anyone to adopt anything, but it's not because it's part of culture.
That still doesn't answer how to managed to spend $4 million a year
>If baking, are you more likely to take a recipe and halve it or cut it by a factor of ten?

You are more likely to halve it. How does the "American" system help, if you have to halve say 1 lb of butter and 1 quart of milk? It just means you need to retain in your head a bunch of definitions and inconsistent conversion factors.
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Absolutely. Non-linear processes I think, is a crucial difference, your mind jumps around thoughts, perhaps even in parallel and so having a medium that lets you do that is important. It feels more natural, more free-form.

Interestingly, presenting and sharing your ideas should be done in a non linear way too. People like to drive their own learning and understanding; so when you share your idea with others you want to be able to: jump around, accept feedback and engage with their thought patterns, that are in fact non-linear.
Parachutes are hard and have their own failure modes. IIRC even emergency parachutes have taken out some test rockets when they weren't supposed to have been deployed at all.
As I said I have no idea what they did and maybe I'm just being naive, but $1 million per year seems like plenty to keep a website online.
As far as I understand, there is an option that is even simpler for application developers: all applications have the permissions to see and alter whatever they want on the phone, up to a storage quota for modifications. Most of their accesses are hellbanned, though… Hellbanning logic can be altered by applications (obviously, the user would have to allow the configuration application to access the real settings), so granularity can be added as a bolt-on.

But I guess giving users actual security and privacy is against both Google's and Apple's interest, so this can only exist on a custom ROM without Google Play Services (or with sandboxed Google Play Services, which is probably against EULA).
I think the comparison to InnoDB is apt; many of the same shortcomings/features are there, as well.

MyISAM/mongodb both have table/collection locking, no transactions, make no ACID guarantees. WiredTiger/InnoDB by contrast introduce row/document level locking, transactions, and ACID.

Incidentally, this is why we moved to TokuMX over vanilla Mongo; it provides similar benefits, and is production-ready today. The disk usage is massively improved, document locking means that I practically never have to worry about lock contention (and if I do, it's usually a sign that I have something messed up in my app, rather than something wrong in my DB), I get guarantees about durability, they've even done some heavy work to fix Mongo's election protocol which fixes a number of outstanding issues in failover scenarios. With those features in place, it's actually a decently respectable DB; if WiredTiger can deliver a similar level of improvement, it'll do very good things for Mongo as a DB and a company.
> Now commercializing those codecs may be another matter entirely, probably requiring resolving licensing issues depending on how much they rely on other patented methods. Ostensibly, pools like MPEG-LA exist to make this easier.

That would be fine. However, confusing the issue, claiming infringement by these new codecs in general, without providing any proof and otherwise trying to destroy the adoption of these new codecs is not OK. MPEG-LA and other right-holders conspiring to damage the alternative codecs uptake did cross this line.
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't think the speed of writing is overstated. I am not a touch typist, and don't type fast (without typos), but it's __still__ faster and neater than writing by hand. Nearly every time I write something, I get part-way in, and think, "Man, this would be so much faster if I were typing ...", or "This would be easier to read if I could insert a few lines here".

I still like writing, though.
They didn't verbalize clearly like that, but after talking about it and telling them Santa will come down into the house, I got back a "I don't like Santa. I don't want him to come".
>I like the american system. It's based on 12 ...

Are you sure?? I thought it is based on 2 (pints in a quart), 3 (feet in a yard), 4, 12, 16 etc and there is no rhyme or reason for which is which...
From your post I get the sense that you realise that your emotional response to impatience is out of proportion to the cause. If you would like to control that feeling of mental anguish, might I suggest you take up meditation?

I've found that regular practice of the Focussed Attention style of meditation does wonders for being able to rapidly dismantle my feelings of frustration and take control of my mental state when I'm "in the field", as it were.
Will we see the barge landing live on webcast?
This is fantastic. I hope this will catalyze the process of breaking down barriers between cultures already started by the internet.

The point is not to homogenize the world. The point is to is causally join contemporary spheres of culture and discussion and to reduce the threshold of starting communication and transactions.

If this works as it says in the box it will reduce the costs in education and trade.
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Reads like some manifesto, internal wondering monologue, ending with the sanctions compared to some huge companies' orchestrated scheme "which companies initiated the financial war and how they orchestrated their strategies".

It just doesn't seem like an insightful comment.
Previous post of the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8752171
I am really fascinated that this has only happened in the last 18 months? Why? It seems to have always been true?
Damn I can't wait for this. Its going to be great. Will be interesting to see how the grid fins go. I'm wondering if there could be any trouble from generating too much load from drag while they are in supersonic flow as opposed to high subsonic flow and hypersonic flow where they are known to work fine.

If i were to guess, I would imagine they are going to deploy the fins after or during the 2nd burn / the retro propulsion burn, so that they can only open them after the reach their target speed.

Course I'm probably wrong since I have no idea just where in the powered return flight plan they are supersonic, and they could actually be using the drag from the fins to 'slow down faster' and have engineered the fins to deal with the drag load. Which wouldn't surprise me, but will impress me if its the case.
I guess if you are super optimizing your website then getting rid of all the useless stuff is fine, but at least I don't notice big enough performance increase to get rid of jQuery even if it's just for the $('selector').
Can't you just split the question in 2 parts ?

- Is the metric system superior to the American (bastard) imperial system ?

- Is it worth the switch ?

There are a lot of other accidental situations out there that are (perceived to be) too costly to eradicate. For example, in Europe (not the UK) we drive on the right hand side while yielding the right of way to the right as well. For safety reasons, it would have been better to switch on of the two to the left. Will it happen? probably not.

Actually, cost might even be irrelevant:
The Chinese still use chop-sticks while a fork is clearly more practical.
I remember there is an equation that could get the Nth fibonacci number directly. (Maybe in the exercises of Concrete Mathematics by Knuth).
Wait this is even worse. They didn't even build any hardware at all. So just to be clear in less then a year they spent half a million and used other peoples hardware and didn't even have a real gameplay demo.

"It also doesn't sound like you've put any thought into the challenge of simulating realistic swordplay as a generic engine that supports different historically accurate fighting styles, with all the nitty physics, kinematics, and for that matter historical issues to be dealt with."

You are controlling the sword so I'm not really sure what you mean. You need to mocap a bunch of moves from someone fighting in a historic style for the AI and then have the AI randomly jump between a half dozen attack sequences. Before our kickstarter we had a great animator and a bunch of playstation eyes and were able to get good motorcycle fighting animations for a price in the thousands.

I'm sorry but this project was obviously mismanaged. The extreme detail that went into designing the arenas seemed to consume all the resources of the project. Look at the videos of what they had. It is like 100% artistic detail and 0% gameplay.
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It requires arbitrary precision arithmetic. It is known as Binet's formula.
Amazon is a bad workplace. Not because they dont innovate, but they innovate without respecting people.
>If the delivery company doesn't authorise the payment, the money is still immediately available to me.

That's not how I thought multisig works. I thought the delivery company would have to authorize giving the money back to you.
Americans occupy a big enough economic sphere that they get to define their standards

[Disclosure: US citizen here] While this is true, I don't think it's helpful to attach American economic/cultural dominance to the metric debate (at least wrt advocacy), because US and Imperial measurements and standards are almost identical. But that "almost" is an important qualifier. The root system they both share derives from the Middle Ages. Here's a helpful explanation of the differences:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_...
We have an internal pastebin, it's built into Phabricator.

There is no preset format for unixnames. Most people use their names but I've seen many pseudonyms. One intern famously broke some internal tools by requesting her initials, which were "www".
Within the CO2 atmosphere of Venus, air is a lifting gas. One could make large balloons out of air which double up as habitats for humans.
Make it large and thin enough, and a dome-city would be a balloon on Venus.
If we switch to a base 12 system, I’d recommend instead a 360 day + 5 or 6 extra day year, using either 6 or 12 day weeks, grouped into 10 36-day or 15 24-day months.

Or maybe Kodak’s 4 x 7 x 13 + {1 or 2} system would be fine, since we don’t too often need to do complicated artithmetic computations in terms of numbers of days.
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A similar comment on the other /r/science thread about this was also downvoted into oblivion; don't make cheap criticism based on stereotypes.
Metacademy (http://www.metacademy.org/) is a wonderful resource for learning anything machine learning. Especially if you don't know what you want to know, or what you need to learn first. I also really like this coursera course: https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
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Cooking units are much better suited for the task than metric units.

Typographic units are non-metric and metric units are inconvenient in typography, because millimeters are too big for character sizes and too small for page units and centimeters are both too big and too small at the same time.

French (?) shoe sizes are numbered like 38, 39, 40, 41, etc. and the difference between these sizes are 2/3 cm, because it's a practical difference to mass-produce different shoe sizes. It's not metric, obviously.

Parsecs are not metric. Heck, light years are not metric; and look at how rich the unit is, it tells you a lot about the distance. Try to express the distance to Alpha Centauri in metric units and comprehend it.
Carry what kind of lifespan? Generally I don't trust anything anymore and have a 2 local copy + one offsite policy for data I care about.

If I don't have that I don't care enough about the data generally.

As for storage and compute you mean memristors or fpga like?

Solid state has a rather huge size difference to overcome. Hard to beat spinning rust at the moment and at least near future for bulk storage.
I think that the article is sorely missing the point of the metric system. It's not about communication. For communication, the frathe of reference doesn't matter, as long as both parties agree on the same reference. In fact, I find imperial units to be somewhat more intuitive than metric units.

Instead, it's all about unit conversion. One liter of water weighs one kilogram and is a one decimeter cubmore room degrees is where water freezes, and 100 degrees is where it boils. This makes water the universal conversion constant, which makes it easy to compare different units (eg weights and volumes).

Also, it's trivial to convert meters to millimeters and kilometers. But this happens surprisingly seldom in practice compared to converting volumes to weights or lenghts.
Their propaganda is targeted mainly domestically. Despite economical difficulties, Putin's approval rating still skyrockets, so I say it does work really well.