skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> U.S. craft beers tend to over-represent heavily hopped styles such as the IPA.

Hah, well finally I am validated. I was an anti-IPA snob when IPAs became all the rage. People would tell me how great this beer is, soooo bitter. Which to me is like drinking 80 proof vodka and claiming to taste the undertones of grains in it.

It sort of became like a badge of beer connoisseurship -- the more bitter you liked them the more you knew about beer.

Anyway, my favourite are wheat ales but also like stouts.
It's hard to see how they are substantively different without actually stating some moral principle and then observing that the two situations live on opposite sides of it.

As I said, I'm pretty sure most folks here are following knee-jerk emotional reactions, and the events I'm relating don't trigger the same emotional reactions.
I agree that the use of "photoshop" was misleading and distracting. I went into the article expecting to learn about the industry standard software application for modifying sound recordings. It wasn't until a few paragraphs in that I realized he meant "photoshop" as a verb.

Even then it doesn't really work, since Photoshop operates on a single static file, while the sound system described operates on a dynamic stream of live sound. The analogy is hurting the article more than helping it.
I'm fairly convinced that eventually there will be two and only two choices: universal income and a shortened work week, or such extreme wealth divisions that stability demands a totalitarian police state resembling the worst sort of comic book cyberpunk dystopia. Age of abundance or feudal hellhole. Your pick. There simply will not be enough economically viable work to sustain any system that demands labor to maintain cash flows. Automation will be too efficient, programmable, adaptable.

... I suppose there is a third option: an anti-technology crusade that bans automation to restore employment. But a make-work economy sucks, and is not likely to succeed in the long term.
Previous discussion; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6516114

I am amazed every time I come across this page again... such seemingly effortlessly playful exploration of math and geometry...
>Is there a reason "allowed" is in quotes? I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but I don't know what. Without that [possible] missing piece, couldn't Greece just have opted not to buy any military hardware?

One of the conditions of the bailout to Greece was essentially that the Troika should have some control over the Greek budget to ensure that it wasn't "spending irresponsibly".

The fact public sector pensions were at the top of the list of 'must-do' cuts and military hardware purchases weren't even on the list demonstrates where the Troika's priorities really lay.
Life is absurd because of our imminent death. For some reason, we have the greatest troubles in accepting that everything is transient. After pleasure comes eventually pain, after relaxation comes work, after life comes death... We live here as if our lives on Earth are eternal, while all evidence has shown that it is not.

Even more absurd is the unfairness of the whole joke of life. I'm lucky with an education and a good job giving me a chance to focus on experiencing nuanced pleasures instead of fighting to survive. Being mentally ill does give me share of anguish, but mine is nothing compare to the poor, unfed and terminally sick. Their life is even more absurd: a passage through a brief but painful passage through anguish, suffering and hopelessness.

As an ex-Muslim, I have trouble adjusting to this: meaning is just a human construct. Things don't have meaning on their own, we assign them a purpose ourselves. Religion gave me re-assurance of eternal afterlife where I get a second chance to live a life without the evil and suffering of this existence. However, it did have a fatal flaw: it was false hope.

Now, life went from a short journey into another realm to a serious emergency. Now, I have to make of what I was lucky to own; but it can all go away in a single accident. After being a pattern-seeking religionist, everything is just starting to seem so random...
My guess: the only one that has been rated in that bucket in the last year was Caruana, post-Saint Louis. At that point, he suffered (and is still going through) a big decline with several bad blunders.
Sorta disagree. The quoted paragraph seems to imply that there is something unique about laptops that make them unsuitable:

"Software is the real weak spot for laptops. If the machines were merely too expensive, especially in view of their limited display, they would still sell if they served an unbeatable function. But for that to be the case, special software would be needed. The word processing and spreadsheet packages commonly available for them are intended to accomplish tasks to which laptop computers are simply not well suited."

That said, that particular period of time was one when a lot of higher-level executives didn't use PCs--or even some sort of minicomputer-based office automation system--while the rank-and-file certainly did. In the late 80s, even at technology company, it wasn't uncommon for execs to have admins print out emails that they would write answers to by hand--which were them typed in and sent out by the admins.
I don't see the OP trying to anthromorphize it at all. It's merely looking at the universe as it is. If you or I, or hell, even the entire human race, suddenly ceased to exist, it wouldn't be felt even outside our planet. Mars' orbit wouldn't change, a nearby star wouldn't suddenly go supernova, etc. We are such an incredibly small part of the universe that we don't really affect anything outside our planet.
> We can’t try to stop technological progress.

Why? This seems like a very important claim that wasn't explored enough. It felt like a cached thought (http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Cached_thought).

What are the chances that some existential crisis happens? What are the benefits of technological progress? Why do you think that the latter outweighs the former?

Perhaps you thought it wasn't worth going into here? That's fair, but I think it's worth a quick paragraph to summarize.
I don't think its that much of a stretch to say that. There was a huge backlash to the shoegaze aesthetic, shoegaze records stopped charting and the original bands broke up or made disastrous attempts to adapt to the new trends (cough Ride's last two albums cough).

As far as the Thames Valley scene was concerned it was DEAD in 1993. The Swirlies were doing a shoegaze-type sound over in Boston and you had Curve still retaining some shoegaze sounds up until 2001 but otherwise no one was selling any shoegaze records after 1993.

Also it should be noted that only ONE of the songs on mbv was recorded in 2012 and the rest were somewhere between 5-20 years old. So its not really new shoegaze.

Finally if anyone liked this article check out music critic Chris Ott's series Shallow Rewards on youtube. He devotes two episodes to shoegaze and although they're a bit obtuse and pretentious there's lot of great info in them.
I was looking for something on r/askhistorians I saw a while back about a hot sauce bottle found in Virginia City ruins, indicating a brand that had gone national in the 1870s or so.

Haven't found it yet, but did find this- a discussion of the saloons of the city, which mentions the Irish bar in town a few times, as well as Tennent's Ale, which was a growing global brand at the time.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/285y5g/what_e...

In any case, I spend a fair amount of time browsing 19th century American magazines and newspapers (for fun, I suppose), and you can see the early national brands growing over the decades. The railroads were what made it all possible, they really did transform daily life in substantial ways. Certainly in places that were directly connected, but also even in more remote towns. Goods moved much more quickly, and growth hacking of all sorts was rewarded quite handsomely.

EDIT- here's the thread I was looking for, it was specifically the Tabasco brand we know today. There's also a subthread on cocktails of the era! http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/29tus4/compar...
My thought: there is a niche between Clerky/Legalzoom and a full blown lawyer. That niche is presently unfilled.
The algorithm behind OSRM is actually fairly new, and quite clever. By generating some expensive lookup tables up front, it's possible to do exact shortest-path route finding on huge near-planar graphs (like, say, all the roads in the USA) in a matter of milliseconds, or even microseconds.

It's a great example of how theoretical CS research can have a huge impact on practical applications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_hierarchies

http://algo2.iti.kit.edu/documents/routeplanning/geisberger_... (PDF)
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What happens if these ideas are actually correct? Is it your desire for us to never learn certain truths?

It's interesting that you openly acknowledge this, as well as what I now realize was support for shaming people who ask naughty questions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9057857). Most folks refuse to openly admit to this sort of anti-intellectualism, I'm glad to see it out in the open.
> I am advocating what we did to the Nazis and Japanese.

How is this not an equivocation with WW2? I apologize if I misinterpreted what you wrote, but it seems pretty obvious.

By "political capital" I was referring to a quote by George Bush, and the Bush doctrine in general. Mainly, that any goodwill we might have had to build a robust global coalition for anything has more or less been squandered by the debacle that was the adventure in Iraq, and the premise of the "axis of evil", and "you're either with us, or you're with the terrorists."
> If people are still drinking Coors and Budweiser and wondering if there's more to life, that's their own problem.

It is not all about taste. Marking is 50% of it. For example
Pabst Blue Ribbon is an amazing story. It went from cheap crap beer people cooked with to hipster signature within 5 years or so.

It is the same crap but marketing turned it into cool "awesome" drink that every tight-jean, flippy-hair, messenger-bag carrying self-respecting hipster would want. Or was 3 years ago and now they are drinking something else...

Anyway, a lot of it was due to very clever marketing, product placement and sponsorship.
Haskell with an FRP library may work for what you want to do.
Reactive-banana looks good, though I haven't used it.
"... indicate that the NSA used Regin to infect the partly state-owned Belgian firm Belgacom." Do you like their targets? The FBI and CIA frequently target dissent as terrorism while the NSA frequently targets economic forums and large companies. And do you not care about the effects of hoarding (and purchasing) 0-days?
Even if you have no interest in this type of music, I strongly recommend checking out the documentary "Upside Down: The Creation Records Story" ( http://www.upsidedownthemovie.com/ , also available on Netflix). There are parallels between the music industry and the tech startup scene, and the Creation Records story has lessons about everything -- strong founder personalities, dealmaking, marketing, managing costs, company culture, etc.

If you do have an interest in this type of music, or want to learn more, buy/download/listen to Swervedriver's Mezcal Head right now ...
In both this paper and word2vec, the key concept is to try and represent a high-dimensional and sparse dataset as a dense and low-dimensional continuous vector. Interestingly, the same skip-gram algorithm is used for both even though it's applied to datasets as disparate as a social graph and a sentence structure. There's a bit of cleverness here: the authors equate a sequence of social network graph visits (a random walk in DeepWalk) to a sequence of words (a sentence in word2vec.) In both cases the resulting representation is dense while still preserving many relevant properties of a social group which makes it useful as an input to other ML algorithms. Incredibly interesting.

I wonder if there's a simple but powerful example (like king-man+woman=queen for word2vec) of this technique.
yes! I've had this exact thought before. Recursing and wrapping the total recursion as fast as you can is the fastest way.

Actually, the speed would be limited by your linguistic or programmer ability to concisely state the level of recursion you want (ideally the logical maximum) given all the previous inputs up until the recursion statement -- e.g. "now recurse steps a, b, and c and call that d" is not as strong as "imagine how the slope of the exponential curve increased between a and b, and the difference between that and b and c, and raise c to the power of both of those increases combined raised to the power of a, b, and c respectively" .. but obviously the second sentence is longer and more complex as well as "bigger".
Using "number of pawns of evaluation lost" as a proxy for the severity of the blunder has some fundamental problems. The main one is that the relationship between evaluation in "pawns" and expected result (expected value of the game result, from 0 to 1) is not linear. (It couldn't be, since one of them maxes out at one.) It's actually more of a sigmoid curve.

This means that a player may easily make a horrific "3-pawn blunder" reducing his evaluation from +8 to +5, but in fact all he's done is reduce his chance of winning from 99% to 98%. Actually, the +5 move may even be better in practice, in that it might lead to a sure safe win rather than a tricky blowout.

Even if you changed the definition of blunder from "reduces the evaluation by n pawns" to "reduces the expected result by x", I would have an issue in that it ignores any of the human aspects of blunders. If someone drops a pawn outright for no reason (eval change -1), that is a blunder because it was so trivial to avoid. But if someone, even a grandmaster, makes a move that causes a large drop in eval due to allowing a sacrifice that no human could calculate all the ramifications of, because as far as he (and probably his opponent) could humanly calculate it didn't lose, it is hard to call that a blunder. (Conversely, failing to see some immensely complicated non-forcing winning move may be unfortunate but it's not a blunder.) But that's more a cavil with terminology than a methodological error; the study is still measuring something interesting, just not quite what I think it is claiming to measure.
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Nelson withdrew the claim in this paper based on a blog interaction with Terry Tao.

http://m-phi.blogspot.com/2011/10/nelson-withdraws-his-claim...

The whole episode:
- Reputed Princeton mathematician publishes paper questioning the foundations of math
- Terry Tao 'disproves' him in a series of blog comments
is one of the more interesting recent happenings in the world of math
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You've misunderstood the situation.

I was referring to earlier work by Nelson in which he explains why he thinks Peano Arithmetic may be inconsistent.

Later, in the incident you referred to, he claimed to have an actual proof. Terry Tao showed the proof was wrong, and Nelson accepted this.
OpenStreetMap genuinely amazes me. I know their data is still a bit inconsistent, but in some areas they vastly exceed other online maps, but they are lacking in other areas.

It looks as though OSM is making great inroads as far as routing and addresses go, and so the next big thing will be getting the iD editor working well on mobile devices.
What information is required to be retained, for how long and by which law?
Consuming data isn't hard. Creating a dashboard that displays the values sent down on an interval over a websocket is super easy.

Sending data isn't hard. Sending the mouse coordinates on a click to the server over a websocket is super easy.

There is, however, no easy way to consume data and send a response. To write an echo server, for example, you currently have to send the data to a javascript port and then read from the port to send it back.
The US flies drones over foreign countries and kills people with them, topples governments that it doesn't like (or that US companies don't like), invades countries on false or trivial pretexts, yada yada. Ob yeah, and funds terroriets and death squads. So claiming moral superiority over other countries is pretty difficult.
I'll echo this. Elm was a bit of a gateway drug for me getting into Haskell. Haskell itself has a lot of very powerful tools.
Many Americans are uninformed and many are apathetic. But Thucydides said the same thing about Athenians. I don't believe it's as simple as blaming American citizens.

Americans get information about the world through substandard education, uninvestigated journalism and high-fructose entertainment. The reporting on American policy outside America is far better than the reporting on it inside the country. Yes, Americans inherit this government, but as long as America is a superpower, so does the rest of the world.

"Study abroad is extremely important; just for kids to get outside this country and experience the fact there is a big world out there." http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/george-lucas-attacks-us-cult...
Worse case, imagine a GOTO at the end of each line of code.

There was no lexical scoping in BASIC [1] (and all variables were global but that's another topic) so one could literally GOTO any point in the program.

[1] I'm talking about the BASIC one found on most 80s home computers at the time.
rapind did nice experiment in comments above.
Ask HN: Too much to read on HN
I find that HN community is bringing too good articles, blogs, SHOW HN, advice, libraries, demos, etc on front page. However I am not able to cop with all this information.

I want to read all, but do not have time and end up upvoting+saving for later read which I never ever open again.

What would be your advice? How do I control my desirableness to know new things?

Should HN tag some of the stores as 'advice', 'lib/package', 'news', just like 'Show HN' and 'Ask HN'? and I can subscribe to all advice tag.
Time to shut down the NSA. They have no place in a free society.
"when from everything that I've read and experienced (12 years in the Middle East) there have been no implications of Iran in modern terrorist activities?"

- Iran does not recognize Israel.

- Iran supplies political support and weapons to Hamas,[14] an organization classified by Israel, the United States, Canada, the European Union and Japan as a terrorist organization. Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, has said "Hamas is funded by Iran. It claims it is financed by donations, but the donations are nothing like what it receives from Iran".[15] From 2000 to 2004, Hamas was responsible for killing nearly 400 Israelis and wounding more than 2,000 in 425 attacks, according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2001 through May 2008, Hamas launched more than 3,000 Qassam rockets and 2,500 mortar attacks into Israel.[16]

- Iranian proxies killed an estimated 1,100 US troops in Iraq.[35] In addition, insurgents supported by Iran reportedly committed acts of terrorism.[34][36][37]

Lots more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terror...

I am not claiming these are all fact, but I think there is little doubt that they are at least "implications" as you put it.

(edited for formatting.)
Most CMS's tend to be simple to moderately complex CRUD apps, i.e., exactly what Rails and Django excel at.

It sounds like you enjoy working in PHP, so maybe try Laravel (Rails in PHP) or Symfony (Django in PHP). Symfony even comes in a CMS-skeleton flavor called Symfony CMF.
I've got no problem with anyone inflicting damage on the NSA. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and all that.
It is just a prototype they only made 50 or 200 of them.

It is backwards compatible with the Commodore 64 but runs a different CPU that runs a 3.4Mhz that can go into 6510 mode. Then a Vic-III chip that has graphics like the Amiga but backward compatible with the Vic-II chip in the C-64.

Had they made the Commodore 65 instead of the Commodore 16 and Plus 4 it would have done well. But by 1990 the 8-bit market was bottoming out as the PC Clones took over.
No one in this thread has said they support torture. This malware has nothing g to do with torture. What was the point of that fake argument? Supporting targeted malware is not supporting torture.
What kind of evidence do you expect to find?

I'm not attacking someone just because of his opinion, nor am I advocating that. I'm calling out a shill. Look at the facts. One post before today. A pro-NSA post that reads like rhetoric. This post is voted up to the very top comment of the discussion, DESPITE the lack of "warm and fuzzy feelings about the US". Now, in a conversation where the sentiment is so anti-NSA, why do you think this has so many upvotes? That's evidence of rigged voting. That he has failed to sway opinion here does not at all mean that he isn't a shill.

That's enough evidence to convict.

Look, here's an article where you can start reading about these kind of psyops: http://ultraculture.org/blog/2014/02/26/reddit-shills-tried-... Discussion forums like this one need to be aware of this sort of thing going on. We have to talk about it. We have to try and point out people whose job it is to steer conversations to their liking. It is the right of a free people to associate and freely converse with their peers and make up their own minds free of malicious interference and cointelpro. If government agents actively manipulate public opinion in favor of them, and the public opinion is different from what it otherwise would be, then there is no democracy. That is wrong.

What can we do, when there's no proof? We can use our brains and examine the evidence. We can call out obvious shills to try and stem the tide. That is what I am advocating for. We should point out obvious shills so that discussions have more of a chance at reaching their natural conclusions. You seem to be advocating that we do nothing at all, and that is what I disagree with.
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it feels like an hour. Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour and it feels like a minute. That's relativity." --Einstein, attributed
There is nothing wrong with server side events. I even played with them already.

But for bi-directional communication we do have to use websockets and it's the good tool for the job.

If you'd like to see maybe event source is something that could be added to websocketd as additional protocol, start conversation in issues, nothing is wrong with pitching an idea. We already got cgi and static html because it's not always about websockets, sometimes you want other things handy.
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Harder to count HN support for a political side, than to count people at a rally. (Sock puppets.)
Elo ratings are on an exponential scale, at all levels.
I've usually found that more opinionated frameworks are better at making lightweight and simple applications. When working in Python, I will only reach for Flask or Bottle when I know that my problem is complex enough that Django will get in the way.
Ask HN: What popular apps will be affected when FB Graph API v1.0 goes offline?
According to my knowledge, Coffee meets Bagel uses the Facebook API to generate date recommendations based on second degree connections. Wolfram Alpha uses connection/mutualfriend info to produce a visualization and some metrics. Are these apps reliant on the functionality provided by v1.0 of the Graph API (to be deprecated in May)?

If so, what will happen to these apps when v1.0 goes dark (what workarounds are they working on?)? Will they lose some of their functionality or do they have access to a super-secret partner program?

What other popular apps do you know of that will be affected?
Would be interesting to see some specs/measurements to substantiate their proposed energy savings -- without an insulated heating vessel it's hard to believe this is more energy efficient than existing technology.