skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think terraformed is long after we'd want GPS. Once we have any sort of Martian colony (which is usually a prerequisite for terraforming, not the other way around) and the ability to build rockets and fuel from Martian resources, it should be straightforward for Martians to set up a GPS network of their own (easier than Earth, probably, due to the lower gravity and thinner atmosphere).
Yeah, it's surprising there isn't any tools for vetting questions, and perhaps requiring accounts to have a certain age or karma... then again it kinda goes against the openness of reddit, which is nice and all but tends to break down when a site gets large enough
CircuPress
The admin in question, Victoria (/u/chooter), is still posting, and gives every indication that it was not an expected nor voluntary departure: https://www.reddit.com/user/chooter

/u/karmanaut, one of the most prolific moderators, gave some insight into why this is such a big deal: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_ha...

> We had a number of AMAs scheduled for today that Victoria was supposed to help with, and they are all left absolutely high and dry (hence taking IAMA private to figure out the situation) She was still willing to help them today (before the sub was shut down, of course) even without being paid or required to do so. Just a sign of how much she is committed to what she does.

> The admins didn't realize how much we rely on Victoria. Part of it is proof, of course: we know it's legitimate when she's sitting right there next to the person and can make them provide proof. We've had situations where agents or others have tried to do an AMA as their client, and Victoria shut that [...] down immediately. We can't do that anymore. Part of it is also that Victoria is an essential lifeline of communication. When something goes wrong in an AMA, we can call and get it fixed immediately. Otherwise, we have to resort to desperately try messaging the person via Reddit (and they may not know to check their messages or even to look for these notifications).

In fact, it seems that they actually cut off active IAmAs in progress. https://twitter.com/edfrenkel/status/616653911835807745

If there's anything to be learned here for the larger technology crowd, it's this: There are human single-points-of-failure just like there are in hardware. And if you can't avoid having a SPOF, don't kick it in the face out of nowhere and expect the world to continue chugging along like nothing happened.
I've heard it expressed this way: "A picture is worth a thousand words, but there are times when a single word will do."
> Is that a fair comparison?

I think so. Perhaps it will help if you look at it this way: you repeat some measurement multiple times, and get a sequence of results that looks random. Is the randomness because of classical chaos, or because of quantum "indeterminacy"? From the measurement results themselves, in many cases, there will be no way to tell. The only case in which there would be a way to tell would be if you specifically made measurements on entangled quantum systems in order to test the Bell inequalities; if those inequalities are violated, the measurements can't be due to classical chaos. But that just underscores my point: looking at "apparent randomness" of measurement results is not sufficient to tell whether they are due to "quantum indeterminacy.

> decoherence forbids a measurement from receiving information from a branched outcome

Once again, this is a misleading way of stating it. What is happening, again, is that the observer evolves into a superposition, corresponding to the superposition that the measured system is in. Decoherence just means the branches of the superposition don't interfere with each other. But the system is still in a single state; the "branches" are not separate states or separate entities, they're parts of a superposition.

(Note, also, that decoherence does not guarantee that the different branches will never interfere with each other. Decoherence is not a fundamental limitation; it's just a recognition of what happens in the usual case, where no special measures are taken to isolate the system or to facilitate interference. According to the MWI, there is in principle always a way to cause the different branches to interfere, i.e., decoherence is never absolute.)

> there becomes a set of information that is fundamentally off limits to the observer in a given branch

According to the MWI, the observers in different branches are not different observers; they're different terms in a superposition that the observer is in. Thinking of them as "different observers" with access to different information implicitly assumes something like the Copenhagen interpretation.
Thanks for that. I came to post this article, not by Suster but enthusiastically endorsed by him:

http://blog.eladgil.com/2015/03/career-decisions.html

Edit: typo
IPD?
My heart goes out to the athletes ruined by the scandal. There is another point of view. Something us Internet commenters don't often realize. Do you have any black friends who was at Duke during that time? Ask them to describe it.
you think? :) yah it seems either to have some immediate reason or an ignorant one.
Existing GPS satellites orient themselves by ground stations, so we'd need at least some ground presence. Said presence doesn't have to be manned, though.
True, I have seen Microsoft SQL systems like that as well.
This is just amazingly tone-deaf on Reddit's part. I don't even read IAMA regularly and I knew Victoria was well-liked. What is Ellen Pao paying attention to if not their highest-profile subreddit? Did she have no transitional plan?
Felt I should share this. There are a number of really good established alternatives with great mods and admins for those who wish to branch out and check out something new:

www.snapzu.com - Excellent content and friendly community. Has a unique XP/Leveling system and ability to post content into multiple subs.

www.empeopled.com - Gives you more influence based on the amount of up-votes you've received. Use influence to steer future of the site.

www.theneeds.com - Good content but a lot of it looks automated, possibly using bots. No discussion so you lose a lot of that community feel.

www.hubski.com - Classic alternative, been kicking it around for 4-5 years, but still little activity. Community is small but nice.

www.spreadit.it - A dark themed reddit alternative that is similar to reddit and easy to use. Content and community is lacking however.

Note: I didn't mention the voat boat because I felt they have a little too much hate/racism on there.
Original HN discussion here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9821281
Mounting Evidence the Universe Is a Hologram
Did I? Can't /r/science keep on functioning without AMAs through an intermediary in New York that's supposed to read questions and type answers for the supposedly smart scientists doing those Q&A sessions?
Yes -- but only by default! If you go to Tools -> Page Setup -> Zoom -> Sidebar -> Tweaks, and then click on [+] next to Polling Interval to expand the box, a "Bar:" property appears, where you can enter a lower number to set the bar lower. Or just use the arrow buttons next to the field to increase or decrease it. (But note that if you already typed a number, and then use the buttons, it increments from the old number that was overwritten, not from what you typed. (Bugzilla item dating back to 2006, status UNCONFIRMED.))
Artificial neurons developed in step toward replacing human brain cells
PlanGrid (YC W12) is hiring senior back end, Android and more
> I wonder if the distinctions we draw between these concepts is somewhat arbitrary.

Yes, that is a feature of all language.

But I think I was specific about the knowledge I meant. Namely, deep and specific recall of the API. Contrasted with understanding of a range of ways an API might have been structured or defined that would allow someone to program effectively in an environment they had no experience of.

Of course, one can define that as 'knowledge of a range of ways an API might have been defined', but them's language games. Beloved of undergraduate philosophy majors, but pointless beyond that, I'd say.

I wasn't making a point about words, but about the way we approach syntactic recall in programming languages as a proxy of programming competence.
People seem to hate Jesse Jackson on HN too.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jesse%20jackson&sort=byPopular...
I don't think killing motivation would be something to worry about. I can think of lots of examples of people who don't need to work but continue to do so anyway, from my own group of friends as well as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, etc etc.
Same.

When I first heard the term "shard," I thought we were talking about UO. I still think about it every time time I hear "shard."

I don't ever run into anyone who has played UO either, and so everyone looks at my like I have 3 eyes when I explain the connection. haha.
Yeah as am I. These cynical comments can be completely replaced by a downvote if they honestly don't think that this is interesting or appropriate.

On a separate note, it was great to hear that PostGIS (which is amazing btw) scaled well and can be used on a site with this much traffic!
I am not sure about Java, but in C, C++ function's stack's memory is not allocated on the heap and has much more limited space. So any elegant solution involving recursion is bound to hit memory limit pretty quickly and one has to watch out for the size of recursed data structure.
Yes, up to the boundaries of the law (for example, it's illegal to boycott Israel)
But... How do you do this?
passwordstore just (with my distro) starting shipping a dmenu (http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) script that I think is great, and personally removes the need for a browser extension. Unfortunately only available on linux.
LGPL was intended to be a standardization of "GPL with the Classpath exception".

Perhaps we need a similar license for "AGPL with the Classpath exception".

Maybe call it LAGPL or something.
I get that reddit is trying to run a successful business, but I don't think the staff is well served by assuming that the users will be happy little community-created-content worker bees no matter what they do. Users DGAF about the business.

All of the admins that were any good at interacting with the community are on the "reddit alum" section of the admin list (read: former employes). And more often than not, the staff doing the high-quality and visible community management was strangely the sysadmins and programmers.

Edit: not strange at all, I just realized that they were probably the only admins that were legit users too. Which would explain why I'd lump pre-sale spez and kn0thing in with people who actually interacted, they posted with their real usernames while also running all the sockpuppets making the site look alive.
Timestamps in Message-Passing Systems That Preserve Partial Ordering (1988) [pdf]
Communication, not literacy.
Ask HN: Can I work on my side project while working for your company?
Borrowing from this post "Ask HN: Are side projects allowed at IBM?" news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9820993, I too have several side projects I want to work on. They range from making my own game to making my own niche search engine.

Of course, all projects are going to be limited in scope to what one person, me, can do on a part time basis.

For example, let's say I want to work for Google. I also want to create my own niche search engine for myself and anyone else who cares to use it. It will probably run on three or four servers on a SQL or an easy to maintain NoSQL backend. Compare this to Google's gigantic ultra scalable Spanner database system which requires hordes of people to just maintain. Technology wise, it's night and day. Can I work for Google while keeping ownership of my engine? If not, why not?

I don't want to go beyond what I as an individual but I still want to work in whatever side project I feel like doing without the hassle of doing things like getting "approval" for every idea I come up with since they can change at any time.
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It's not even that: apparently the mods weren't notified of the organizational change because "we were busy handling the day's flow of AMAs and taking care of those AMA guests took priority."

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bwgjf/riam...
OK, got it.

Let a_n be the number of sequences of 0s and 1s of length n, that do not contain a pair of 1s, and end in 0. Let b_n be similar, except that the sequences end in 1. These satisfy the recurrences a_{n+1} = a_n + b_n, and b_{n+1} = a_n. It follows that a_n satisfies the Fibonacci recurrence a_{n+1} = a_n + a_{n-1}. Starting from a_1 = 1, and a_2 = 2, we have a_n = F_{n+1}.

The total number of sequences of length n is 2^n, so the number we want is 2^n - a_n - b_n = 2^n - F_{n+1} - F_n = 2^n - F_{n+2}.

And this time it works :-). There might be a point about confirmation bias here, in that the trick is to count sequences that _don't_ contain a pair of 1s.

One drawback of Mathematica is that it has a very poor idea of the formulae that human readers will regard as simple.
>or if it's destined to go the way of digg, etc.

Does Reddit's competition of today have as much reach/popularity as Digg's did when that exodus occurred?
Not with a bang, but with a Big Rip: how the world will end
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9822580.
Well, it's much worse than that. It is not true that 97% of scientists agree with AGW theory. That claim is a lie, based on the paper by Cook, et al. That paper was a premeditated fraud. But people are still perpetrating the lie about consensus. The media loudly announced the claim, but the media has ignored the uncovering of the conspiracy. Of course, anyone can google it, if they want to...

On top of that, the IPCC has openly encouraged scientists to deceive the public. See, e.g. http://judithcurry.com/2011/07/21/stephen-schneider-and-the-...

So, you have 1) the consensus claim shown to be a lie, and 2) the IPCC shown to be telling scientists to deceive the public.

Either of those facts alone should sink the AGW movement. But it's hard to get the truth out to people who don't care enough to look it up themselves, because the media is invested into the false narrative.
LGPL predates the classpath exception by quite a while, and doesn't serve the same purpose at all.

The classpath exception is intended to cause the target software to not have a license change just because it used a certain runtime library (classpath).

The LGPL has different aims entirely (around allowing library components for software).

Essentially, the classpath exception was written for programming language runtime libraries (and is thus the basis of what later became the gcc runtime library exception).

The LGPL was written for random library software, and started out much earlier than the classpath exception (by a decade or two).
I think the first-known matching pattern plays a huge role. The original 2,4,8 sequence, for example, locked me in immediately to doubles of the previous number (causing me to test 1,2,4 and 7,14,28 and such). Had it been a different starting sequence (like 3,9,27), I might've based my guesses differently. Same for 1,2,3.

In other words, first impressions really are important.
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Interesting tidbit about Mercury's rotation: although it's clearly visible to the naked eye and thus has been known since before the dawn of recorded history, and has been observed through telescopes since telescopes were invented, the fact that it is not tidally locked has only been known since 1965.
Yeah, and now that I think about it, culture/techlevel is going to cause huge variance in GINI anyway.
Dan, you seem like a decent guy. Please read this and tell me what you think: http://judithcurry.com/2011/07/21/stephen-schneider-and-the-...

How can you trust anything the IPCC or its associated scientists have to say when they have openly advocated deceiving the public?
I used to write scripts to chop down trees, practice healing, mine and smelt ore, cast "fireball" on myself so I could level up my magic skills...lol

I remember a specific time when I was setting up my mining operation. I took the time to figure out how long it took for ore to re-spawn, and had my character mine in an elaborate circuit several times before starting the smelting process. I was super proud of myself, haha. I think I was about 12 or 13 at the time.
Office 2003 and under won't run on Windows 10, they'd have to buy a new copy of Office. It won't work on 8.1 so 10 is out of the question:

http://www.keynotesupport.com/windows/microsoft-windows-offi...
> So Polaris would be pretty close to being a polar star for Mars as well.

Poris is only useful if you're in the northern hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere on earth we use the southern cross. It's a bit trickier if you're using a quadrant because you have to align it with a blank area of sky. Though the 17th century explorers managed it.
For those interested in the history of Haiti and learning how, as the parent indicated, slavery and the Haitian and French revolutions were intertwined, I highly recommend:

Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People 1492-1995

by Robert and Nancy Heinl

http://www.amazon.com/Written-Blood-Haitian-People-1492-1995...

It's a chilling read, in many parts, and some of the material may disturb readers who do not care for written depictions of violence – atrocious acts were committed by both slaves and slave owners during the revolutionary period. Having lived in Haiti (Cap-Haïtien) for a year (2007-08), the Heinls' book gave me a much broader perspective on how things got to be the way they are on that beautiful but desperately poor island, so very close to the shores of the wealthiest country on earth.
Also a business person. I am very into fitness and eating healthy. How can I contact you? Btw I'm not a "professional" designer, but I am pretty good and creating mock ups/wires as well.
Pao actually tried submitting a PM to a subreddit. Not a screenshot, the actual URL for the PM.

If she has an area of expertise other than "diversity", she seems to be flubbing it.
It honestly feels like it got taken over by silicon valley middle management marketing types or something, and now they just can't seem to figure out why the users keep getting pissed off at them.

I can't agree more, back in the jedberg/HueyPreist days the staff felt like reddit users, now you get the feeling the office just looks at the community as a magic box of unpaid labor. Anyone putting in real effort is better served doing things under their own brand, the handful of people who put in effort under reddit's brand are in an exploitative relationship.

This has moved beyond a reaction to the firing, this is a huge vote of "no confidence" towards the admins in general (see some of the more specific gripes in the reddit threads covering it).
AGPLv3 can be a bad idea for software that will be hosted internally only, particularly if you are modifying it.

The remote network interaction clause makes no differentiation between internal and external users.
They are all just users[1]

As such, you owe all them all source to modified versions.

Why does this matter?

A lot of companies have internal systems, and temps, vendors, and contractors who access those systems.

If those systems are (or are linked to) modified AGPL software (no matter how small the modification), they owe the temps, vendors, and contractors access to the source code to those systems.

That seems ... bad :)

[1]
"if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network ... an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version ... at no charge ..."
Nobody is forcing any views on anyone. If you don't like the license on a piece of code, don't use it.
Another example of Angler exploit kit for Wordpress pushing CryptoWall 3.0
Aaand this is how Reddit does. Because this is basically how Digg died and created Reddit.

Who out there has a reddit clone ready to take up the torch? Communities are fickle, and if you fuck with them they will abandon you quickly and en masse.
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Recommended reading :)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Starfish-Spider-Unstoppable-Organi...
Sometimes the hardware won't support it.

I always had a plan of staying behind one current version on everything and buying it used. A Windows 7 Pro PC used would cost $150 and an Office 2010 Pro license disk would cost $100 used. If they went with that plan, they'd get the free Windows 10 upgrade.

A used Windows 8 PC costs $300 and there are cheap Windows 8 tablets for $100 but limited to 32 bits.

I'm trying to convince people on XP to switch to Linux and use WINE to run their old legacy Windows apps on it. But nobody wants to do that for some reason.
n=1?

But I totally see why it would cause you to pause and rethink your original idea :).
Thanks for the link! That was an interesting read, but I don't think I understand the premise of the argument.

From the article

... It is perfectly consistent with your previous use of
'plus' that you actually meant it to mean the 'quus'
function, ...

That may be true, but only if you assume I'm not referring to the plus derived from the axioms of principa mathematica. I am. Is it then the question that when I refer to the principa mathematica that I'm actually referring to principa quus? If I then describe axiom 1 can you not know my words are referring to axiom quus?

It seems the only power of this assertion is that language provides no absolute common ground.

Am I understanding this correctly?
Meet the Julians
From the FAQ for the database which it visualizes:

"For the Voyages Database, the time frame is set by default to the period from 1514, the first year in which a slave voyage can be documented, to 1866, the year of arrival of the last three documented slave voyages."

I don't know what accounts for the 6-year discrepancy there, but I would wager that the choice of ending in 1860 is not due to the US Civil War.
> Part of it is proof, of course: we know it's legitimate when she's sitting right there next to the person and can make them provide proof. We've had situations where agents or others have tried to do an AMA as their client, and Victoria shut that [...] down immediately.

Righteous firing or not, a lot of this is a lesson in avoiding a SPOF.
do you use docker containers for pg? One thing you could do is use a separate data volume and clone it for every new spinup.
Sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing at all. Reddit is OK already, but the new management seems to want to change it more and more. These new CEO's want to always push their "vision" for what reddit should be despite what the userbase wants and the backlash for that is already showing.

The thing is, the power doesn't rest on the CEO or the company, it rests on the user base. Redditors can migrate to any other website they choose to, just like Digg users migrated to reddit some years ago. The people have the power in the end.
If the game server communicates in json why are bots limited to c#?