skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the multiverse that this article is talking about is very different than the many worlds multiverse. The many worlds multiverse is just that the whole universe is in a quantum state. The multiverse that this article is talking about is different. Due to the expansion of space we can only see some finite region around us. If you go far enough away, then the expansion of space between that point and the earth is faster than the speed of light, so we can never reach that point, and nothing from that point can reach us. Effectively we are in a different universe than that point. The multiverse theory is that some things that appear constant in our part of the universe, such as the fine structure constant, may well be not exactly constant. Then it could be the case that the fine structure constant in that far away part of space that we can never reach is different than our fine structure constant. Then because the universe continues to expand, regions that were connected become disconnected. So one region with fine structure constant x may split into two regions one with fine structure constant x + 0.0002 and another with fine structure constant x - 0.0001. That process creates an infinite tree of regions. If a region happens to have physical "constants" that create deflation rather than inflation, that branch of the tree dies. By the anthropic principle we live in a region with properties that produce humans.

By the way, I don't get the obsession with quantum mechanics interpretations. Copenhagen and many worlds give exactly the same predictions, so if one is correct then so is the other. Who cares how you choose to interpret it. By analogy to probability theory, Copenhagen is like conditioning on an observation, many worlds is like looking at the whole probability distribution. These are just two ways of looking at the same thing. It's as silly as arguing whether the Hamiltonian or Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics is correct. Both are.
Nim perhaps? There's very little boilerplate but it is statically typed. Someone mentioned infra-ruby, which is worth checking out. Lastly, crystal-lang is pretty awesome. You could use this opportunity to create what is missing in the ecosystem and make it open source. This will encourage others to chime in, accelerating development for everyone.
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"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
- J. P. Getty
I often forget just how good BW was to watch. I used to stay up all night watching ProLeague on some Korean stream, way before Twitch was a thing.

SC2 killed it though, but it was just never anywhere near as entertaining to watch.
Would you suggest the same if they were girls, suggesting they should dress differently?
How do you feel about paid firearm registration? Required, firearm-specific taxes?
The big problem with these studies and local economies is that results are likely to depend very much on localised factors such as proximity to larger markets, not to mention what proportion of the village actually receives the handout, and how much of the existing village economy revolves around people with more wealth than the handout recipients. I think it's pretty much impossible to give a definitive yes/no answer.

It's also worth pointing out that the "minor effects" are minor because they're not statistically significant for the sample rather than because they're not necessarily there. Haushofer and Shapiro, for example, finds that whilst recipients spend $36/month more, comparably poor non-recipients in a village spend $7.5 per month less. The sample size and volatility means the latter part of result isn't statistically significant, but on the other hand it is more consistent with the effects on the poor that didn't receive handouts in these particular villages being negative, and indeed if only a fifth of the village received the subsidy it's even consistent with the benefits being entirely positional, even though the dispersal of the losses amongst a larger population makes it difficult to precisely gauge.
.4% divided by 13 is .03%

What am I missing? That's not hard to find, that's a rewording of the same number.
I know a local man, fired as an inspector, because at a concrete-culvert installation the crane dropped the casing. It broke, revealing almost no rebar in the thing. He stopped the installation and started an investigation. Result: lost his job. Everybody but him was in the deal apparently.
I thought the multiverse "theory" the article talked about was not the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, but the proposal that multiple universes are exploding like bubbles with the boundary of each expanding at the speed of light so no communication between them is possible. No?

You do bring up a valid point about occam's razor - i.e. It is a valid effort to come up with a strictly simpler theory that can explain already known observations than what is currently accepted. "Simpler" in the sense of fewer assumptions being needed. The difficulty is that we're often blind to the assumptions we're making in our theories and it can take a while for those to surface.
Ah, I remember those days. If someone made the mistake of just using CR alone in a big file they spooled to the lineprinter, it sometimes quite literally would halt and catch fire. There was a fire-extinguisher placed next to it for a reason.
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Larry and Sergei retain voting control through a special class of stock, so no, they are not held hostage by anyone.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2012/04/13/new-shar...
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Enthusiasm doesn't imply skill. - I love discussing natural philosophy, I believe I'm good at explaining these ideas, but I have no shortage of evidence that I am in fact very bad at explaining things. I am probably not special.

Either way, I can speak in a strict fashion which sort of jives with formal logic. I referenced Hilbert's program and the assumption that mathematics has a foundation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics#Fou...

I make a leap of faith here; that humans can not abandon the need to find meaning. From this I surmise that there does exists a deep rift in the mathematical community. - Both Formalism and Intuitionism remain today, and if an understanding has been reached between these schools then I must have become impervious of the fact...
And how do you plan on brute-forcing any password without knowing the encryption algorithm in use? Which was the parent's point.

You could try all possible passphrases with the wrong algorithm and you wouldn't get the plaintext, the algorithm is most certainly material.
"Amazon, Google race to get your DNA into their databases"
It may be interesting and important to note that some of the "failures" on this list may have simply been before their time. I see a few going back to ~2006 that might actually have a decent chance today if given another go.

Sometimes the fine line between failure:success hinges on nothing more than timing itself. The optimal time to enter a market is a variable that should be weighted almost as heavily as cash to burn.
Dog-like, bug-like, snake-like. Not a lot of human-like really.
Books for experienced software developers?
Are there any good books aimed towards experienced software developers? I've read through all the classic books on code quality, architecture, unit testing, domain driven design, etc. I find most of these books explain what should be common sense, I yearn for a book that goes deeper than "Don't Repeat Yourself, Write your tests first!, Isolate your dependencies and inject them! Use Composition rather than Inheritance!".

What I'm looking for is a book that offers a deeper perspective, or reveal new ways to apply core knowledge to build higher quality software. Something for a developer who is already competent and experienced.
That's a complete lie.

Most people spend most of their time working for somebody else, and most of them at the jobs they don't care for.

That's why when people win a lottery, the first thing they do is quit and do something they actually like - eat, travel, party, drive a nice car, sail, whatever. Almost none of them stay at their shitty job.
He means, it would be impossible to see a 0.03% increase in GDP or attribute it to the deal.
Specifically, 2GB. So not for huge repos, but great for personal projects.
Sounds like they're doing both.
They're known for using jokes in release notes, this is presumably one of them. (I think it's pretty unfunny.)
Tesla cars are still comparing to BMW serie 3 and AUDI serie 4, but those are cheaper and easier to refuel.

And an affordable car like the Ford Model-T in today's world market would be like a Dacia Logan at just over 31k LEI (http://www.dacia.ro/) or a FIAT Palio at just over 27k BRL (http://www.fiat.com.br/carros.html).
The coverage tool is fine. He didn't really explain the problem well. Coverage is per package, and only counts coverage from tests in that package. This makes sense because packages are independent and you can't count on another package to test yours.
Have you read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs?
...and is a slow compiler compared to for example Go :-(
Nice! Will this also be a feature of MariaDB?
No, in this day and age it makes more sense to tax production and consumption in their respective locations wherever they are on Earth.

It'd do a lot to reduce global warming by humans.
There's this strange opinion circulating that the calories don't matter. It stems from an observation that some calories 'stick' more readily than others. From that, they leap to the conclusion that calories are meaningless.

I'm with you - physics rules. No matter what calories you consume, fewer is better for weight control. But don't try to argue with these folks. They can't acknowledge even the obvious boundary cases: eating nothing inevitably leads to losing weight.
Yes. It's one of the classics, if not THE classic. Good book, but again there's nothing really novel in there for an experienced developer.
> It's interesting that still there's no decent 6502 disassembler for 2600 code.

Have you tried Stella and DiStella? 2600 oriented 6502 emulator, debugger, disassembler etc.
Hm. That argument seems to support the original line: they care about many things more than money. Once they have enough money, they turn to the things they care about. Before then, they were struggling to earn enough to accomplish any of the important things.
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I wonder if that isn't essentially 'overfitting the data'. Any bounded data set can be modeled simply. But it doesn't predict anything. A useful theory would beget testable hypotheses.
The Millionaire Next Door is a good read related to this although it is getting a bid dated.
This is misleading. The most popular competitive games: League of Legends, Dota 2, CSGO, and SC2, are all PC exclusives. The problem with RTS games isn't that they don't work on consoles, it's that they aren't that fun to play for most people. It takes a long to play a single game, and there's no progression.

With the push to make strategy games more like RPGs (heck look at all of the FPS games with "loadouts" and RPG elements), games like League and Dota really work much better, and have more people playing them than any other game ever. For example, more people played league of legends yesterday[1] than have bought the last CoD game since November[2].

Obviously only taking league into account kind of breaks everything, because it's the most popular anything that has ever existed, but I'm not sure how people don't understand that the PC gaming market is much larger than the console gaming market[3].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/01/27/riots-leag...

[2] http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=advanced+warfare

[3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2014/07/14/the-c...
True. Apparently Ford started his first car company as a luxury product (that was at the very early 20th century) and it was later purchased and renamed Cadillac. But I would argue that a convergence of event allowing Ford to become a major car manufacturer include the introduction of an affordable model early in the history of the company.

Considering the opposition to Tesla from the top 10 world car manufacturer, there will be no significant market share gain until the price can make the cheaper Tesla model an alternative to equivalent market leaders, and possibly introducing a compact car with the same aim.
Pretty first-world view. They were dying for lack of clean water, and what they needed was ... a non-profit incubator?
Nope, but it has edit-and-continue debugging on windows.

I recall having trouble with a library crashing under Linux. I looked over the build scripts for it, created a corresponding Visual Studio project for it in Windows, and got it compiling. I then stepped through it with the debugger, edit-and-continue to fix the issue, and then copying the working source code back over to Linux.

I probably could have used gdb, but the debugger in Visual Studio is so good it was worth it. Debugging in gdb is more work than it was to port the library over, and that sucks.
The farther you are in life in your job, personal life, friends, the easier it is to live enjoyably with spending less money through work trips to fabulous cities, automobile perqs, subsidized meals, work home-buying perqs, etc.

I'm not sure how much these people are struggling with their low spending.
Great that this has floated to the top of HN, far more people need to know about this
You're spot-on with the weakness.

The specific reason it is mentioned is because their recommendation is that the encryption key should be derived from both the input numbers and a secret baked into the hardware - which would then require brute-forcing the entire key rather than just the input numbers if the attacker only had the data on the drive.

With properly assembled hardware (yay, epoxy) protecting the crypto chip, extracting that key could be made very difficult, protecting against the attacker having the enclosure as well (the secure chip would need to enforce the rate limit itself).
You've given no actual information to why it's inferior, other the fact it's not "exploratory". I don't know what that means.

But personally I find working out command names in powershell much more sane, because of the Verb-Noun pair naming convention.
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If anyone has a spare Keybase.io invite code, could you please PM me? I'd like to share mine if i got in there. Thanks in advance!! :)

Update:

Thx to constantin i got in.Now i got O Invitations Available,but you can still leave your email address here, someone (maybe me) may send the code if available.
Hello Facebook Dialer is not Firefox Hello, though.
I just find it totally disturbing. Who are these people who want to eat this because it's faster so they can work more?

It's like a forum of aliens. I have nothing in common with them. It really made me feel repelled by some of the replies.

To be human is to want to eat fine food and to play.

To be inhuman is to want to consume calories so you can work longer. Yuk and yuk.
For context, Flash, with the large scar on his arm had an elo rating in brood war that may have made him the best player of any game -ever-. I think I've seen it noted somewhere that his highest elo was higher than even famous chess grandmasters.

This implies that after over a decade of hardcore professional broodwar around the world, he was more dominant at his peak than anyone else has ever been in a game with elo ratings.
This Story was submitted few days ago. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9645369
"Well paid trolls", hmm... the monthly salary of Savhuk was 37,000 roubles monthly after taxes (by her words) what equals to ~$750. This is not a lot in St. Petersburg.

And there's a lot of trolls around russian web resources (don't know, on salary or not), especially when some politic issues are being discussed. Actually, it is not possible to do a constructive discussion at any russian forum, no matter if this is pro-Russian or pro-West. So, I prefer to not visit any places where political issues are being discussed.
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Before you know it they'll be bundling in Java, ActiveX and Ask toolbar.
See also "enclosed but not encrypted" for an attack on an encrypted hard drive enclosure.

http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Enclosed-but-not-e...
Free publicity. Google has always relied heavily on using public resources for their own private good.
Is this a surprise?

People who have lots of money, are good with spending money? and knowing the value of things?

I don't think they're cheapskates, they just know what ACUTALLY brings value to their life's. They probably wouldn't mind spending, if they get more or equal value from the thing they are purchasing.

Fancy Cars in general are terrible value, for the enjoyment they bring you. Unless say its your hobby.
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By the way, you would probably also quickly encouter the schemes mentioned in the article if you study elliptic curve cryptography :)
As a person who travels regularly for work I can say you have quite a romantic view of business travel.

The reality is that I usually see (in this order) an airport, a taxi, a conference room, a hotel dining room and/or bar, a hotel room, a taxi, an airport.

The idea that there is much downtime on a business trip is a fantasy of those who don't travel for work.
Anyone with insight on what happened exactly?
If there's not much of an Asian population, Asian supermarkets aren't nearly as common and so not very convenient.
Such a strange world we live in.

NoSQL databases are adopting standard SQL interfaces and becoming more uniform.

SQL databases are adopting their own JSON interfaces and becoming more proprietary.
Thanks for the suggestions. We're looking into this. Something like "Months Alive"
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The comparison is interesting, but I'm not sure if all the implementations have the same set of features. IIRC tail-call optimization and continuations are difficult to implement efficiently.
It's funny how every single part of nutrition seems to be a major controversy.
Looks like the HN Submit script doesn't recognise the fact that $URL and $URL?$SPURIOUS_GARBAGE are actually the same URL...
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I loved E.T. but just because it was a mysterious game, and as a kid this increased my interest. Also, in E.T. you could spend a lot of time playing the game while in any other game you loose after certain level of difficulty.

Only after I got access to Internet I discovered why the game was so mysterious. Indeed it was boring.
Ask HN: What started the flat design trend?
> undermines democracy

Sorry which democracy? If these talks and their outcomes are already a secret (without discussing matters of national security), then this is one more reason for me not to consider the EU nor the US a democracy. The people have just a tiny fraction of power compared to the corps.

Let's just be fair and teach the next generations that our countries have been hijacked by corps+lobbyists, and that democracy is just a word used to make people accept their totalitarian power.
Here here! My brothers and I played this quite a bit and I never understood the hate. I don't recall all the details about the game play other than that you had to go around finding little dots that corresponded to Reese's Pieces and that it wasn't too hard to beat the game (which is a good thing for a kid who's not a serious gamer).
They should lead with this revelation:

You can... [create] indexes on values within the JSON columns

Ability to index changes everything.
You definitely should at least look into Julia. I would say it is more elegant than any other language I've seen while being faster than pretty much anything except for straight C / C++ / D / Rust (native systems languages).

It should be easy to beat Go in performance and match or exceed Ruby in elegance and simplicity.

It's Achilles heel(s) right now though are multi-threading and JIT compilation times (which should be alleviated once caching is implemented).

It sounds really close to what you want. Its package management is even based off of github. Want to get a package to write out image files? Pkg.add("Image"). Update all your libraries? Pkg.update()

Over the next 5 years I think it might eat into a lot of the territory of scripting languages.

Also the generic programming focus means you should never have to write anything more than a new comparison for your new types.
Ah. I misread the initial comment. You are correct and I was too hasty to comment.
Amazon starts to develop Pc games
Take it in context, its not so weird.

I don't like to wash my own dishes - gross. Does that mean I should stop eating entirely?

I won't build my own car either - greasy, hot and dangerous. I don't weave cloth to make my own clothes. I don't cut my own hair. I don't do my own plumbing.

All of these are unpalatable for one reason or another. I guess I'll walk naked, hairy and hungry and dump on the ground.
They're not quite the same when it comes to physics, where you have the additional characteristic of precision for theories. For a trivial example, "anything can happen anywhere at any time" certainly covers all observations and is simpler, but has no precision in what it forbids.

Any new theory in physics must have at least the same precision as the known theories. The problem in current physics-at-the-edge (raised by the article) is that these newer theories are coming up with so many ways in which universes can be formed that even though we're moving in the "simpler" direction by relinquishing fundamental some assumptions, we're losing "precision" in this sense. This is now happening to the extent that the very notion that the job of a scientific theory is to only explain the observable universe is being called into question and theories that consider our universe to be just one of many universes with different parameters are also included in the play. At that point, the working assumption that all these universes that our mathematics invents actually exist though we cannot observe them, is a simpler view of the cosmos ... until we know better. However, the practical utility of such an expansive theory ends up being limited relative to the theory that it is trying to replace, since our ability to predict things in our universe is not being improved on.

edit: What I'm trying to say is, I guess, that "precision" and "simplicity" are opposing forces that keep a check on overfitting.
No, this is by design.
This is absolutely true. Then again do you ever schedule a day or two off before or after a business trip? Mini-vacation with free airfare!
There is some anecdotal evidence that varying macronutrient levels affect hormone levels in significant ways.

Screwing with hormone levels is a great way to affect the metabolism rate and lipid storage capability of the human body. That's what bodybuilders have been doing for decades. Steroid use is the ultimate manifestation of that school of thought.

The truth is that we know very very little about nutrition because doing controlled double-blind studies on human subjects is very very difficult. Bodybuilders are probably the best population to study because of the self-experimentation angle.
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Have you already started a kickstarter campaign? The time savings alone would make me 10x more productive!
original posting from amazon:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/245102/Sponsored_Amazon_i...

Their team is totaly awesome, its made of former Portal, World of Warcraft, BioShock Half Life 2, Left for Dead, Dota 2, Halo, Infamous, Shadows of Mordor and The Last of Us creators